The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 4, 1916

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kit y1 t,,c opening of congress, the nation's next vaudeville bill Is ostcd. WEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Fair tonight and Tuesday; cooler Tuesday. HOME EDITION TOPEKA. KANSAS. MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1916 TEN PAGES TWO CENTS SHORT SESSION OF CONGRESS IS LAUNCHED TODAY Three Months in Which to Complete Big Program. MURDERED WIFE FEARING DIVORCE STATE ARGUMENT Special Prosecutor Calls De fense Evidence Rot. ANNUAL BUDGET OF UNCLE SAM $1,654,000,000 GRAIN MEN WANT BOARD OF TRADE ORGANIZED HERE To Pat Plan Before Chamber of Commerce Tonight. SHORT CLOTHES By BRINK ERHOFF. Go. Capper Suggests Fight on High Food Costs. Systematic Stand on AH Food stuffs, He Desires. Estimates 1917-1S Compiled by Treasurer McAdoo. TAKE IT BEFORE LEGISLATURE State Executive Will Ask Prolie of Conditions. Combination of Speculators Is Cause, Capper Says. THERE MUST BE A CHANGE Lower Prices in 'ext Few Weeks Is Ultimatum. Go After Dealers Under Crimi nal Law Is Flan. One of the first demands on the state legislature by Governor Capper will be for the appointment of a joint committee of the house and senate to Investigate the high cost f food stuffs. Unless there is material re duction in living prices during: the next few weeks, the governor declared today that he would ask for a legis lative probe of conditions. In the meantime he believes that the great est defense of the consumer lies in the systematic boycott of all food stuffs that have taken the sensational increa :e in prices Governor Caliper stated today that he is personally investigating living conditions that he mayjbe prepared to submit a definite and clear-cut state ment to the legislatu He is posi tive existing conditions are due to combinations and agreements of food speculators who are compelling con sumers to pay exorbitant and unwar ranted prices. Conditions in this country do not warrant present prices, the governor believes, and defense of the man who pays the grocery bills lies in a refusal to buy meats, eggs and other provisions which have been subject to the greatest Increase In prices. If Kansas dealers are in any wr y responsible for conditions, the governor declares that the state will act on ndings by the legislature. o Reason for It. "For sometime I have been study ing conditions surrounding the high cost of liing with a view of laying the matter before the legislature. GoveT nro Capper stated. "Condiitons are most certainly abnormal. There is seemingly no reason tor present prices on many commodities and existing prices are most certainly due to one reason a combination or speculators who seek to make unwarranted and tinjusti fieri pro! its at the expense of the consumer. "t'nlfss conditions in the next few i better. I shall certainly take the mat- xer nerore me legislature, just now T am contemplating a provision in ry message asking for a joint investiga tion 1 y the house and senate o' con ditions. If Kansas dealers or specula tors are found to he in any manner responsible for conditions, the state shall certainly proceed under the criminal law." SuKsest noyoott. Governor Capper was asked con cerning his sentiments regarding an organized and genernl boycott ot pro ducts affected by alleged manipula tions of food speculators "A boycott is not pleasant sounding, but it is probably the most effective weapon in the hands of the consumer. said the governor. "I believe consum ers should refuse to purchase provis ions affected by present manipulations. The defense of consumer at this time seems to lie in such action. But if the state thru its legislature and detiart ments can do anything to relieve exist- ing conditions, such action shall cer tainly be taken. CLAIM THE HOUSE Democrats Have 216; Repub licans, 213 Members. Of the Four Independents, Only Two in Doubt. Washisntnn, Dec. 4. Congress as sembled promptly at noon today for the short session which will mark the closing of President Wilson's first term. With a crowded proerram of legis lation, foremost in which is the presi dent's plan for railroad legislation, senators and representatives settled down to work as Speaker Clark and Vice President Marshall brought down their gavels. Today's open'ng was marked by the usual flood of bills and resolutions, many of which are expected to die in committee with the congress itself on March 4. The energies of the administration leaders were at once concentrated on the pass-age of the big supply bills necessary for conduct of the govern ment and upon the program of gen er il legislation. For a Campaign Probe Law. Washington, Dec. 4. A bill for rigid Investigation of expenditures of all money by all parties during the recent presidential campaign and election, with "immunity bath" and "perjury" clauses, will be introduced by Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, probably tomor o...i..,ui:vcu tuutty. ne Diu will be introduced as a joint resolution, row ne announced today. The bill Anxious to Finish Before Re publicans Take Seats. R R. LAWS ARE FOREMOST Demand Action on Susan B. Anthony Amendment, President to Deliver Message to Congress Tomorrow. Washington, Dec. 4. Congress re assembles today with three months re maining in which to complete the leg islative plans of the first administra tion of President Wilson. With prospect of a much reduced majority in the new house, or possibly a line up so close that Democratic con trol will be In doubt, administration leaders have laid their plans to work at high speed in the hope of enact ing the most important part of their program before it is endangered in the Sixty-fifth congress. Foremost is completion of President Wilson s railroad legislation program left unfinished at the last session with the passage of the Adamson law. The remainder of the program, which the president will press, includes supple mentary legislation to prevent such a nation wide railway strike as was threatened last summer, or in fact a lockout, until the situation has been investigated. Second in importance to the railway situation comes the agitation for a re striction of shipments of foodstuffs to Europe. Thousands of petitions ask ing for an embargo have been received by members of congress and at the White House. In every case it is ar gued that the increased cost of living in the United States demands a restric tion of shipments abroad. So far as has been disclosed President Wilson and members of the cabinet have no plans for acting on the subpject, but it is known that various members of congress intend to push the subject and it may develop a fight. Chairman Fitzgerald of the appropriations com mittee already has announced his in tention of introducing a bill for a food embargo. Irys and guffs Active. Women suffragists, renewing their fightfor passage of the Susan B. An Coutimiel on Page Two.) FLY TO NEW YORK ,Phil Billard Asks Governor for Financial Aid. i iTopeka Aviator Would Adver- tise Kansas on Trip. Capt. Phil Billard has asked Gov ernor Capper to aid In financing an aeroplane trip from Topeka to New York City. Governor Capper doesn't feel that he could back such an ex cellent Kansas advertising scheme alone but has issued a statement, urg ing the people of the state to do all in their power to encourage the Topeka aviator and at the same time lauds the Longren machine and Captain Billard's flving ability. Following is the governor's statement. "Cantafn "Rillard deserves encour agement. I could not undertake the financing of such a flight to New York, but if the Chamber of Com merce and two or three other such or ganizations back the movement I see no reason why it cannot De accom- plished. Captain Billard is practical and he seems to have an excellent machine." Crowd Out Sunday, All Topeka seems afflicted 'With the aviation bug following Captain Bil lard's spectacular flight to Kansas City Thanksgiving. Sunday the avia tion field was swarming with avia tion fans, some desiring a trip in the aeroplane and others wishing to see all they could of the machine which has been soaring over their heads re cently Dan Cupid mixed in with the avia tor's plans Sunday afternoon and made it possible for Captain Billard to make $53 for a 53-minutes flight. L. F. Piper, 12 37 Tyler street, expressed a desire to fly to Hoyt and circle around the home of the lady of his choice. Captain Billard took him above the clouds where mother earth nothing but a memory. Then they dipped down over the girl's home, cir cled around two or three times and returned to Topeka. Flew Over City. All in Topeka craned their necks as Billard flew over the city. Upon his arrival at the aviation field Billard had more trouble in lighting than he did in flying, due to the enthusiasm of the fans- who swarmed over the field. It was almost impossible for him to make a landing. Ralph D. Montgomery, superintendent of the Santa Fe time service, accompanied Billard on his next flight. This was the most spectacular of the day. Bil lard flew 3.000 feet up in the air over Topeka and then made a dip of prob ably 2,000 feet. Dusk was gathering and many witnessing the dip from Topeka thought the machine had turn ed over. Wayne Horning of Grant ville, and C. P. Olander of Topeka, were others who accompanied the aviator on shprt flights. "There are others who wish to go up." said Captain Billard today. He is undecided whether he will fly any more this year. The machine will be taken in either todav or tomorrow. i accoramg to this morning. according to an announcement made Children and Parents of Ac cused Hear Arraignment. CLINGS TO SCREAM THEORY Says Prosecutor Tried to Evade Coroner's Inquest. 'They've Proven Nothing," Is McDaniel's Comment. St. Joe, Dec. 4. Fearing exposure that would result from separation with his wife, Oscar D. McDaniel, public prosecutor, murdered Harriet Moss McDaniel, according to the state's opening argument by Bart M. Lockwood, special prosecutor, In the criminal court here today. "It is the old, .old motive that has caused wife murders thruout all time," Lockwood said. "Here is a man of great reputation for honesty, who held a high office and social po sition. What greater motive could there be than for a man in such a high position suddenly to see his pin nacle about to be shattered and his life exposed because of a threatened separation with his wife?" McDaniel's story was characterized as a "frame-up." The word "rot" was used time after time by Lockwood, as he endeavored to tear down the testi mony given by i fense witnesses. The accused man, seated beside his three children, was not visibly affect ed. During a morning recess he said to friends: "I am not discouraged over the out come. Nothing has been said or shown yet that is not compatible with a theory of innocence." The accused man was the last of the actors in the trial to enter the court room. Other members of his family, his two smallest children, his father, mothej, sisters and brothers already were in their, places behind the defense counsel when McDaniel entered with Odell, his 12-year-old son. Both Families There. Mrs. Sarah Moss, Miss Aileene Moss and Hayden Moss, mother, sister and brother of the slain woman, sat in their accustomed eats besides attor neys for the prosecution. All seats in the court room were filled and many stood wherever room could be found. As Judge Ryan began reading the jury instructions. Marion, the accused man's 6-year-old, climbed on his fath er's knees and sat there thruout the reading. Helen, the 8-year-old daughter, and Odell were on either side of their grey-haired grandfather. The instructions set forth that a conviction either of first or second degree murder was the only alterna tive other than acquittal for the jury finding. The remainder were con sidered by attorneys as routine. The instruction contained eighteen provisions and the reading required almost thirty minutes. Seventeen of them were objected to by defense counsel hut the objection was over ruled by Judge Ryan. Bart M. Lockwood, special prosecu tor made the opening argument for the state, beginning af 10 o'clock. "It has been insinuated T had ulter ior motives in this case." he said. "Gentlemen of he jury, that is for you to determine, but, under the law, it is no defense. Lockwood Irofesses Regret. "No one in this court room has more sorrow than I have that Oscar Mc Daniel is charged with the crime. When I came into this case. July 20, I did not know McDaniel would be accused. "But on the same day. Judge Strop and Mr. Gabbert became attorneys for the defense. Why, I ask you, did this man obtain attorneys immediately I was appointed special prosecutor? "This de'endant is charged with one of the most horrible and atrocious crimes ever committed. Oscar, how could you do it? That was the ques tion that first entered our minds. But now it is Oscar, did you do it?" Lockwood painted a picture of Mc Daniel's early home life "Happy, successful, a brilliant man married to a wonderful woman. "It seemed that anything' he wished could be his." Lockwood. said. "The governor's chair, a seat in congress anything it seemed could be his. Then something occurred to break up his ambitions and happiness. "And he says a robber killed his wife. But, gentlemen of the jury, when McDaniel was on the stand, he failed to mention that a single thing had been stolen." Attacks McDaniel's Story. Lockwood attacked McDaniel's story of the murder night, outlining the state's view of the disposition of fur niture in the bedroom in, which Mrs. McDaniel was slain. He said she had been killed on the bed altho he quoted McDaniel as having said she was found on the floor wnen he returned home about midnight. "Was it possible for McDaniel to pick up that unconscious form, place rcontinuedon Tnge Two.) FALLS LOOPING LOOP Noted Italian Aviator Badly Injured at Buonos Aires, Buenos Aires. Dec. 4. The aviator Cattaneo fell today while looping the loop and was badly injured. His air Diane was destroyed. Cattaneo, an Italian, attained prom inence several years ago in Europe where he won prizes at a number of aviation meets. In 1910 at a meet in Scotland he defeated J. Armstrong Drexel, the American aviator, estab lishing a British record for a single flight by traveling 14 miles at an average SDeed of 44.16 miles an hour 1 In 1911 he went to South America. ORGAN IS NAMED Assistant State Auditor Gets Job Vacated by Sam Seaton. Benson Makes Appointment on Keturn From Arizona. Frank Organ, of Howard, assistant state auditor, was this afternoon ap- pointed as -commissioner of the-blue sky department in the state bank com missioner's office. The appointment Frank Oran. assistant state auditor, today appointed as commissioner of the state blue sky department, to succeed S. T. Seaton. was announced by W. F. Benson, state bank commissioner. Organ will go to his new job as soon as he can ar range to leave the state auditor's of fice. Appointment of Organ followed the recent resignation of S. T. Seaton, who left last week for Texas, where he will take charge of a large agricultural proposition. Seaton went to the bank commissioner's office in January, 1913, following two years' service as execu tive and parole clerk in the office of Governor George H. Hodges. Benson Ma Vies Announcement. Plans lor the appointment of Organ as Seaton's successor, were forecast in the State Journal a. week ago. De tails of the appointment were not made public until today when Com missioner Benson returned from a trip to Arizona. Benson stated that Organ would take over the work of the blue sky department as soon as he could arrange to leave the auditor's office. It is probable that Organ will go to his new work December 15, altho the change in positions, may be delayed until the first of the year. Organ has been assistant under W. K. Davis, state auditor, during the last five years. He came to Topeka from Howard, where he had formerly served as county attorney and clerk of the district court of Elk county. In the recent Republican primaries. Or gan was a candidate for the nomina tion of auditor, but was defeated by Fred Knapp of Beloit. BELGIANS IN REVOLT Civilians and Soldiers Slain in Upris ing Against Importations. London, Dec 4. Two Belgians who have arrived at Sluiskill, Holland, from Ghent, report that there was a revolt in Antwerp on November 30, which between 100 and 300 inhab itants and many German soldiers were killed, according to a Reuter Amster dam dispatch today, quoting a Sluis kill correspondent. The reported re volt was due to a call upon the in- habitants for work in Germany. I I mi i i" j 1F WHITE PAPER CRISIS Threatens to Put 2,000 Newspapers V Out of Business. The white paper crisis pending is so critical that, according to the Ameri can Newspaper Publishers' associa tion, thousands of daily newspapers will be crippled and 2,000 are likely to be put out of business. The situation is so clearly put in a "double-leaded" editorial under the heading "The WTiite'Paper Crisis," in the Kansas City" Star of Saturday that it is republished here, as' follows: "The White Paper Crisis." "White paper is the newspaper's raw material. It is like the leather of the shoe manufacturpr, or the lum ber of the furniture factory. The newspaper takes the white paper, stamps it with ink, divides the prod uct into packages and sells them. This blank paper is by far the biggest single item in the cost of producing a newspaper of large circulation. Con sequently the unprecedented and enormous advance in the price of white paper has made an acute crisis in the publishing business. "A newspapt. like The Star, for in stance, that uses twenty-five thousand tons of white paper a year, is now confronted with a white paper cost hundreds of thousands of dollars in excess of that of last year. "This increased expense would put virtually every newspaper in the United States out of business if it were unable to find some extraordinary means of increasing its revenue. All newspapers have been forced to ad-, vance their advertising rates. Some in addition have increased their subscrip tion price. Those that have not done this have figured that advertising, in relation to service rendered by the newspaper, is cheaper now than ever before. For with the growth of news paper circulation the advertiser in the Star, for instance, is getting more readers for every dollar he spends than ever in his whole business his tory. A general increase in advertis ing rates thruout the country was therefore normally due. It has only been somewhat hastened by the crisis in white paper. "Ordinarily newspapers do not con sider their business arrangements of any particular interest to the public, which is concerned solely with service. But the widespread acuteness of the present situation, which, according to the American Publishers' association, is likely to put perhaps two thousand newspapers out of business, gives the matter a public aspect, and is suffi cient warrant for its discussion.' MARINES IN BATTLE Cnited States Force Have Clash With Santo Domingo Natives. Washington. Dec. 4, -In an encoun ter between American marines and natives at Macoris, Santo Domingo, November 29, a number were wounded on both sides. The heaviest losses were suffered by the Dominicans.; The affair was reported to the navy de partment today by Captain Knapp, commanding the forces in Haiti and Santo Domingo. The dispatch said no Americans were killed and that only a few ma rines were injured. It did not indi cate the number of native losses. The fight occurred while the American forces were investing Macorisi, dis arming the natives and establishing themselves in accordance with the military rule recently proclaimed. GUARD'S DEATH MYSTERY Missing Since Oct. 18, Body Is Found in Rio Grande. El Paso, Dec. 4. The body of Stan ley L. Bogart, private in the Thirty second Michiga.n National Guard, who has been missing since October 18, was found yesterday in the Rio Grande opposite Juarez. The cause of his death is a mystery as there are no marks of violence on the body. Bogart enlisted at Muske gon. He left no names of relatives. MILER JJETS JOB City Detective Appointed Un dersheriff by Larimer. He Is Well Known in Law En forcement Circles. Hugh Larimer, sheriff-elect of Shawnee eounty, today announced the appointment of Robert Miler as under sheriff. Miler will take the place now held by Larimer when the. latter takes the sheriffs office. Miler has been "doped" for the place since soon after the election. He is well known in law enforcement circles and is looked upon generally as one of the most com petent officers in this section. He has done exceptional work upon several big cases. Miler came to Topeka years ago from Leoti, Kan., and was called back afterwards to serve as marshal during a period when the western town was infested by tough characters. When he returned to Topeka he joined the Topeka police de partment and served for several years as patrolman. Then he went to Kan sas City and served as a patrolman for eleven months. He was then taken into the detective branch in Kansas City and stayed there for three years. Special Santa Fe Agent. The Santa Fe Railway company took Miler away from the Kansas City department and appointed him as spe cial agent in charge of the eastern division. From that he went to the Chicago terminals and had charge of all the special agents working there. Nearly two years ago Miler suffered an attack that required a serious op eration. He was in the hospital for months and when he was released he was unable to go back to his old job. He returned to Topeka and was placed upon the local depart ment as a detective. He has held that position under Chief Harvey Parsons for about nine months and will go from it to the office of under- sheriff. Chief Parsons has stated that it was a lucky day for Topeka's department when "Bob" Miler was unable to go back to the strenuous work required by the Santa Fe. BROKE RECORD TODAY Warm Weather Is Kxpeeted to End About Wednesday. Hourly temperature readings fur nished by the weather bureau: 7 o'clock 40!ll o'clock 50 8 o'clock 4012 o'clock 58 9 o'clock 40j 1 o'clock 66 10 o'clock 44 2 o'clock 68 At 1 o'clock this afternoon the mer cury reached a point one degree above the highest temperature ever recorded here on December 4. At 2 o'clock the reading was 6 8 degrees, three above the record. The previous high mark, 65 degrees, was recorded in 1889. Tem peratures averaged 19 degrees above normal today. The wind is blowing at the rate of 15 miles an hour from the southwest. Sunday was the warmest December 3 on record in Topeka in thirty years and the temperatures last night were many degrees above normal. A heavy (Continued on Page Two.) DIES IN PRAIRIE FIRE Woman Caught In Fence Burned to Death Xcar Newton. Newton, Kan., Dec. 4. Mrs. A. J. Schmidt, wife of a farmer living near here, was burned to death today while helping fight a prairie fire. Her cloth ing caught fire and in her efforts to extinguish the flames, she became en tangled in a wire fence. Biggest Items Are Those of Army and 'avy. P. 0, DEP'T, $325,000,000 Figure $5,000,000 for Extend ing Aerial Service. $45,000,000 To Be Expended for National Guard. Washington. Dec. 4. It will take II. 654. 819. 654.03 to run the govern ment of tl.3 United States from June 30, 1917, to Jun- 30, 1918. This is the estimate of the heads of the various bi-nches of the govern ment of the country submitted to congress toda-" thru Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. Of this grand total of more than a billi-n and a half dollars the various establishments estimates are set forth .iows: 7.001.fi2fi.4.r Legislative Executive Judicial Deportment of Agriculture. Foreign intercourse Military establlshmeut Naval establishment Indian affairs Pension Pa iiH ma Cannl Public works JAii.(u.ini l,.'K,7iK.00 2T.00.. 117.00 rwMMm.iiM.rv.; ac.Ci.070.cri.;7 ij.i:).3rirt.iT l.Vvrfio.iMto.oo 2ri.i4ri.fc2.:t5 :4r.iis.:w4.4rt Postal service :vj.r!:n5.HJ0. Miscellaneous llW,914,73?i.93 Permanent annual appropria tions l-i,i,oot,rvu.o- i The total estimate of the needs ofI the government during the next fiscal year exceeds by J87.197.559.98 tne amount appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1917. Preparedness Item Largest, With the exception of the postal service the needs for defense and pre paredness as shown in the report, constitute the largest single items. For the pay of the navy $51,023, 776.15 is required, exclusive of that for the marine corps, which requires $7,133,002.78. For the ship building program for the yea r $96 9 62,200 is (Continued on Page Two.) LEAP FROM TRAIN IV oin an Plunges Thru a Win dow on Rock Island. Mrs. Anna Brooks of Pennsyl-! yania Only Slightly Injured. After leaping headforemost from the window of Rock Island train No. 2, a fast train, last night. Mrs. Anna Brooks of Ackley, Pa., reported for breakfast at a farmhouse near Alta Vista this morning, with only a brok en arm and a few scratches and bruises to show for the adventure. Mrs. Brooks has been visiting in X ...vu.. of Commerce Friday noon. In the She was being accompanied to their f evening he will speak at the Hotel home in Pennsylvania by her brother. Muehlebach at Kansas City. Severn! E. R. Leonard A short distance this j Topeka men, who have been active in side of Alta Vista she entered the aidi"e In the organization of the Kan j sas branch of the International League toilet room of the car and remained j to Enforce Peace have Deen inVited to so long that her brother became wor- 1 attend the dinner. George Sherwood ried, called the trainmen and forced Kddy, formerly of Leavenworth, who the door. She had leaped thru the j na" -ust returned from a four month window of the toilet, shattering the j ??journ nEurope will speak at the i Kansas City meeting on, "The War S r r. t11'8 Challege to America." ji me next mauon, ijwigni, me train was stopped and the section crews from there and from Alta Vista were sent out to search for what they su posed would be the mangled re mains of the woman. I -At Z o clock this morning she vaii'i 4v t? w a n found at a farm house near Alta Vista tjntllia S atson Sues Late Pack- with her arm broken. She was taken on to Alta Vista, where her arm was set With her brother she will con- tinue the journey east today. llinAO rn BARON LUCAS KILLED British Nobleman. War Flyer, Hold Prominent Public Offices. 1 London. rec. 4. Baron Lucas of Trudweli, recently re-ported missing after a flight over the German lines in France, is now officially reported dead. j Lord Lucas was attached to the royal flying corps. He was private secretary to Lord Haldane when the latter was secretary for war. and in 1908-11 was parliamentary under-sec-retary for war. He was appointed under-secretary of fitate for the col onies in 1911 and became president of the board of agriculture in 1914. i A London dispatch November 9 said that he had been forced down behind the German lines in a gale while on a reconnoitering trip. 4 U-BOATS NEAR U. S. Two at West Indies; Two on Way Across Atlantic. Providence, R. I,, Dec. 4. The Providence Journal today declared it has authoritative information that there are now two larse German eub- marines in the West Indies and that two others, having left Kiel November 5, escaped the British patrol and are on their way to the United Slates coast. The latter two were part of a 1 fleet of four, two being captured by! the British, the Journal declares, add- j ingr that the president fully advised of' the facts, has made strenuous repre- eentations to Ambassador Bernsdorff on the subject, j Help Make Topeka a Graia Center of the lVest. ALSO, A PAYING PROPOSITION Wichita Board a Success With Less to Work On. Chamber of Commerce Prepares to Entertain Taft Friday. Organization of a board of trade in Topeka. will be discussed tonight at a meeting of grain and elevator men at the Chamber of Commerce. Primarily, the grain and elevator men will as semble for the purpose of holding a group meeting to decide upon projects they would desire the Chamber of Commerce to get behind. But the board of trade idea has been fostering men for moIlths and word ha8 ,)een re oeived by J. Will ICel1y. secretary. that the proposition will come up lor consideration tonisht. Indianapolis has a hoard of trade and it doesn't produce as much flour per day as Topeka by 1,000 barrels. Wichita's board of trade has been a paying investment and while Wichita, at present produces 500 barrels more flour per day than Topeka, at the time the board of trade was established the production was 500 barrels less per day than the production of Topeka at present. Leads In Grain nusinrss. It is not only a good advertising plan to have market quotations go out of Topeka on the wire, the same as from other cities, but It also will undoubt edly draw commission men to the city. Just how far the boom will go will be determined tonight. Topeka, right fully should be placed among the leading grain and elevator cities of the middle west. Both this week and next week will witness several interesting affairs at the Chamber of Commerce. The pres ident, W. W. Webb. "Admiral" H. H. Pugh and "Majors" B. B. Eitelman and C. L. Mitchell will give a dinner tomorrow evening to the workers who in the last two weeks boosted the membership of the Chamber of Com merce to near the 1.200 mark. In the "ftftwnoon the workers will turn out for the last time and endeavor to bring the membership up to 1,200. Discuss City Manager. Wednesday, the city manager form of government will be exploited still more when D. Frank Garland of the welfare department of the city of Dayton- ,hio- wLn s,eak- hf (.manager form of government is be ing considered seriously for Topeka at this time. Invitations are being sent out to day to newspapermen in the state and to others to attend the big William Howard Taft meeting at the city audi torium at 1:30 o'clock the afternoon of Friday, December 1 5. The ex president is now president of the In ternational League to Knforce Peace and comes to Kansas for the purpose of stimulating interest in the work ami Kansas branch. It is probable that Mr. Taft wlil make a short address at the Chamber WOLFF CASE IS UP er's Son for $7,750 Damages. f

She Char&es 1Ie Put Visitor In Her Room, Then Beat Her Up. Attorneys in the second division of the district court are trying today to get a jury to try Harry Wolff, son 'of the late Charles Wolff of the Wolff Packing company, on the charge of assaulting and injuring Cynthia Wat son of Oakland, a nurse formerly em ployed in the Wolff home. Because of injuries the girl alleges she sus tained she asks for $2,750 compensa tory damages and $5,000 exemplary damages. Cynthia Watson Is 20 years of age. She is represented by I. H. Branaman and Ed Kooney. Wolff is represented by Otis Hungate and Paul Hinz. Miss Watson charges that last Jan uary when she was employed at the Wolff home, 810 West Tenth street, as a nurse for Mr. Wolff mother, Harrv Wolff brought a relative. Frank Wolff, home with him one night and assigned him to Miss Watson's bed room. Bl Row Followed. Miss Watson was night nurse and did not use the room during the night. She alleges that she complained to Mr. Wolff about the arrangement the following morning and that a big row was the result. She charges that Wolff struck her. beat her over a table and forcibly ejected her from a room. She claims a part of the damages because of an alleged mental derangement due to her treatment and to fright. The $5,000 she asks for Is merely for thtf purpose of punishing the defendent in the case. It is not likely that the case will get to the Jury before some time to morrow. It will probably take all of today to obtain a jury.

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2 THE TOPEKA DAILT7- STATE JOURNALS-MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1916 GERMAN GUNS HAMMER GATES OF BUCHAREST Begin Bombardment Hi Range of 10 or 11 Miles. Defenders Retreat So Fast Teu tons Lose Track. BERLIN CELEBRATES VICTORY Kaiser Orders Bells Rung Vt'hen Arges Falls. Russian Drive to Save City Probably Too Late. Copenhagen, Dec. 4. German artil lery has already begun bombardment of Bucharest from a range of eleven miles, the newspaper National Tid endes declared in a dispatch from Ber lin today. Dispatches received by the United Press today from Carl W. Aekerman with Field Marshal Mackensen's army said the German force attacking Buch arest -was within ten miles of that city Friday. The Russian official state ment today located the German army at a city about eleven miles to the south of the capital. Heavy field guns, such as the Germans made use of in operations early in the war against .Liege and more lately against Verdun, are fully capable of firing a shell this distance. The dispatch asserts the German guns opened their fire on the Ruman ian capital Sunday. Expect to Take City Kasity. Headquarters of Field Marshal von Maekensen, before Bucharest, Dec. 4. Via Berlin and Sayville wireless. German troops today were within ten miles of Bucharest. The Rumanian retreat is so precipitate that German advance columns on Thursday and Friday hotly pursuing them, lost touch with the German infantry back ing them up. The slower moving in fantry was unable-to keep up with the advance column in pursuit. Officers all declare the morale of the Ruman ians is completely broken. It is not expected they will be able seriously to defend their capital. Field Marshal von Mackensen and General von Falkenhayn, however, are taking no chances. Every road leading toward Bucharest from the south, the west and the north is packed with German. Austrian, Hungarian and Turkish troops, carrying all equipment necessary for a siege of the city. The above dispatch puts the Ger man forces encircling Bucharest clos er to their mark than has been even hinted at in ofiicial statements. Church Bells King. Amsterdam. Dec. 4. Berlin dis patches today said the battle of the Arges in Rumania had been won by the Ninth German army, and that the kaiser. In celebration, had ordered all church bells rung. The Arges or Argeshu river was re ported in previous dispatches to have been the line of defense adopted by the Rumanians south and southwest of Bucharest. The lower reaches of the river are within a scant fifteen miles of the Rumanian capital, but One out of every fbw One person out of every four in New York City wears O'Sullivan's Heels of New Live Rubber. The activity and nervous tension of the world's greatest city compel these people to conserve their energy in every way they can. An average of 8,000 steps a day will jolt your spine with a total force of 1,200,000 pounds. 950,000 New Yorkers realize this. They take the strain off their spines by wearing O'Sullivan's Heels of New Live Rubber. When you buy your new shoes, buy them O'Sullivanized. Insist on O'Sullivanized shoes; the new live rubber heels give the greatest wear with the greatest resiliency. m am i iiiijjiii ii. u in i.n nriiwwrjri PERFECT AS A PIANO Kimball TOPEKA FACTORY BRANCH STORK northward of this point the river flows farther away from the city. Rumania statements have indicated the stoppage of the German assault at the most dangerous part of this river line that is at the fifteen mile point but have tacitly admitted progress of the Teutons in the upper valley. The Amsterdam dispatch may refer to this fighting along the upper river. Capture Three "Tanks. Sofia, Dec. 4. Desperate fighting on the Rumanian frontier when the Bulgarians repulsed seven attacks made by the Russians is reported in the official statement issued by the war office today. Two tanks are said to have been destroyed and a third to have fallen in to the hands of Turkish troops. The statement follows: "Macedonian front The enemy violently bombarded our positions northwest of Monestir. South of Satis keul the enemy advanced in close for mation and fighting was no less san guinary cn the remainder of the front, but everywhere the enemy was re pulsed. Three armored cars partici pated in the attack of which two were destroyed by our artillery and a third forced to retire. We took 132 prison ers. The Turks captured an armored car containing Knglish soldiers, of which two were officers." Serbs Capture Hill Fortress. Paris, Dec. 4. Serbian troops have captured a hill north of Orunishle, on the Macedonian front below the Cerna river bend, the war office announces. BROKE RECORD TODAY (Continued from Page One.) fog during the night and early morn ing prevented a rapid rise in temper ature today. Moderate weather to night and Tuesday will be followed by a return to normal Wednesday. The cold weather probably will continue from that time. Barely freezing weather prevailed in tho northwest ern part of the country last night, so nothing severe is in sight. The lowest temperature last night was 39 degrees at 3 o'clock. The mercury had reached only to 42 de grees by 9:30 o'clock and it was not expected to go above 6 5 this after noon, according to S. D. Flora, local weather observer. Tonight the min imum will be about 35 and Tuesday the temperature will climb about as high as today. The shippers' forecast reads to protect thirty six hour ship ments west against temperatures of 30; north, east and south, above freezing. The sky had cleared by noon today, and the forecast calls for fair weather tonight and Tuesday. Tomorrow will be somewhat cooler than today. The moon tonight sets at 3:38 o'clock. The highest temperature on record for this date is 65 degrees, established in 188'J. The low record, 8 degrees, occurred in 1902. BROKE SHERMAN LAW Thirty Plumbers Fined for Conspiracy to Fix Prices. Des Moines, la., Dec. 4. Thirty master plumbers, convicted of combi nation in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law, were sentenced in the federal district court here today by Judge John C. Pollock of Kansas City, the court assessing fines aggre gating $2,525, and costs totaling $1,475. The defendants were found guilty of entering into a price fixing agreement, contrary to the federal law. Prominent Oil Man Dead. Pittsburg, Pa., Dec. 2. John W. Newell, a widely known millionaire oil operator and hotel proprietor, died at his home here today from injuries received when he was run down by an automobile Wednesday ngiht. Mr. Newell was 2 years old. PERFECT AS A PLAYER ayer R2U Karma Ave. P. P. Wbiunare, Mgr. T. R. ONJLECTION Gives Post Mortem Views on Why Wilson Won. Prosperity and "Kept Us Out of War" Turns Trick. New York. Dec. 4. Col. Theodore Roosevelt gives his post mortem views of the results of the balloting Novem ber 7 in the Christmas issue of the Metropolitan Magazine, out today, in an article entitled "The Election." In holding the "He kept us out of war" cry and the wide prosperity of the na tion the decisive factors in the Demo cratic victory, the colonel says: "It would have been highly credit able to the average man if he had possessed the vision and disinterested ness to disregard such an appeal, but the fact that he did not disregard it merely means that we were not able to make the issue clear to his eyes. It does not mean that he would re main morally obtuse if he could be shown in convincing fashion where his duty lay." But that part most likely to arouse in Republican leaders the liveliest feel ings is: Voter Reflects Indifference. "We have permitted our politicians, our candidates for public office, to treat the promise made in party plat forms and on the stump with a cyni cal indifference which now reflects it self in a similar indifference on the part of the voters. When public men are readily pardoned for making any promise which they 'think will secure favor before election and for repud iating any promise which they think it inconvenient to keep after election, it is impossible to expect that the voters will not finally grow skeptical about all promises, prophecies and statements made during the course of a campaign. "Moreover, there was a real blur ring of the issues, because for the first three years of Mr. Wilson's term the leaders among his nominal party op ponents either feared to criticise him at all, or else split, half of them as sailing him because on some given policy he had gone too far, and the other half because he had not gone far enough. Where Conviction Failed. When a public man who had for ihree years praised each of Mr. Wil on's acts separately, turned around and in the campaign condemned them all collectively, he did not carry con viction. "Nor was it possible to exert the full opposition strength against him when the leadership for three years had been such that until the cam naipn opened it was not possible to foretell exactly what ground the op position would be asked to take." annual' budget (Continued From Page One.) af.ked and $5,133,000 will be neces sary for extending the aviation branch of the service. For increase of navy heretofore authorized $118, 946.155, it is estimated, will be needed. Provisions and clothing for the ma rines, it is estimated, will cost $6, 225.385 and provisions for the navy i,m.n5. for ordnance and ord nance stores $9, 402. 485 is required and for organizing the naval reserve roree and schools and camps of In struetion $160,000. .'A single item for bringing home the remains of officers and men who die abroad amounts to Needs for pay and traveling and general expenses of the army are listed at $97,794,995.66 and for signal ser vice development $16,600,000 is asked. The greater portion of this is for avi ation. The estimate for suddIv. ser vices and transportation for the army ia J A, I 1 t, I O D. A o. A total of $200,000 is asked for vn cational training in the army and for oranance, ordnance supplies and stores $14,315,000 is asked. For the manufacture of arms $6,805,000 is the estimated need; for the purchase of automatic' macnine rifles $2,085,000; for armored motor cars $1,508,000. Civilian military training camps re quire $3,591,000. These for National Guard. Among the estimates for the equip ment of the national guard are: Automatic machine rifles, $6,868. 000. Field artillery, $10,000,600. Ammunition for field artillery, $10, 200,000. Arms, uniforms, equipment, etc., $4,576,000. Supplying and exchanging infantry equipment, $800,000. And for arming, training rind equip ping the national guard $12,727,000. For quartermaster supplies, equip ment, etc., far a reserve officers' training corps $4,385,000 is asked. The war department asks for $56. 999,481.21 for fortificativiis and other works of defense and $22,136,036.96 for rivers and harbors. The interior dej'iittmc-nt wants 2S3.000 for the reclamation service e.nd the department of commerce ask 3 sz.bOd.sijo tor light nouses, beacons and fog signals. The r.eeds of tho roast guard are estimated at $6,286, 071. For maintenance of the interstate commerce commission $5,600,000 is needed. Courts Cost $7,000,000. The war department requires $352, 320 for national cemeteries and $210, 000 for artificial limbs, while the in terior department wishes $10,590, 672.09 for the construction and opera tion of the railroads in Alaska. The expenses of the United States courts are estimated at $7,769,736. To pay the salaries and mileage of senators $771,000 is required and to cover the same items for members of the house $3,479,500. The general salary account of the senate amounts to $S93,687.50, of the house $1,315,750.26. A contribution towards the expenses of the peace palace at The Hague, amounting to $1,045.25, is listed among the items needed. Milk Price Takes Drop. Oklahoma City. Okla., Dec. 2. One of the largest dairy companies in Ok lahoma City today announced a de crease in the price of quart bottles of milk from 12 cents ot 10 cents. Of ficials of the company denied that present agitation among housewives brought about the decrease, but at tributed it to increased production. Boston 17. Holy Cross 14. Boston. Dec. 2. Boston college de feated Holy Crosh in a post-season game here today by a score of 17 to 14. Coins Canse Headache and Grip. LAXATIVE RROMO QUININE remn.es tile cause. There In only one "ltromo Quinine" E. V. GKOVE'S signature is on box. 25c Adv. Weekly Bank Clearing. New York, Iec. 4. Bank cleariugs In the United States for the week ending Novem ber oO, as reported to I.radatreet aggre gate $5.315.8l,uu0, against $S.7Oi;.44,000 the previous week and $4,917,731,000 in the cor responding week last year. Following are the return a with percentages of change: Pet. Pet. Cities Amount. Inc. Iec. Inc. 11.3 .9 .3 12.0 7.5 is'.s New York ?3,44w,5f2,ono Chicago asi,:i;s,ooo Philadelphia 242.4:!2,00O Boston l!4.M:t,u00 St. Louis 101.300,000 Kansas City. W0.407.1KH 09 .044.000 65.d9x.000 11.9, '2'. 20. 3S San Francisco Pittsburg Baltimore 37,790,000 50.US2.0U0 44.219.000 37.862,000 a9.705.0OO 24.943.000 25,0411.000 32.319.000 10.:i04,(KHJ lti.304.000 23,290.000 I2.l:i.ooo 10.27U.OOO 14,530.000 11.4KS.000 2S.273.000 13.879.000 1:!.!.X5.000 9.714.000 0.507,000 4.454.000 4.i:;.ooo 3.371.000 2.5K0.00O 1.812,000 Cleveland 30.6 18.9 Detroit Cincinnati Minneapolis Los Augeles.... 2.9 19.5 14.9 Omaha New Orleans Milwaukee 3.8 8.7 Louisville Atlanta St. Paul Seattle Ituffalo T.4 Portland. Ore. Richmond Denver Houston 3.4 31.8 23.4 St. Joseph Des Moines Wichita Sioux City 15.4 2.2 7.7 33.2 Little Kock Lincoln TOPEKA SHORT SESSION (Continued From 'Page One.) thony amendment to the constitution. have laid all the lines for their cam paign, and it is possible that their de mands mav be crowded into the short time congress has to deal with an im portant budget of legislation. Prohibi tionists, no less ardent than the suf fragists, in their demand for a federal amendment, are expected to begin their fight anew. The first day of the session never sees much business ,done. Re-elected members get congratulations; defeated ones receive condolences'; majority and minority leaders receive ovations they walk down the aisle. lal- leries are crowded with wives and friends of members who join in the demonstrations of hand clapping and cheering as their favorites take their seats; except in the senate wnere a dignified calm prevails. A few for malities mixed with a few Informali ties always compose the first day's business and then the house as well as the senate adjourns until tomorrow to hear President Wilson deliver his an dress. In accordance with the custom he set at the beginning of his term. Pres ident Wilson will read his address from the clerk's desk in the hall of' the house while senators and represen tatives are assembled before him on the benches. Members of the diploma tic corps hear him from their places in the reserved galleries and mem' bers of the cabinet have specially re served seats on the floor. The presi dent's message is about 2.000 words long: is purely a discussion of domes tic issues, the "state of the union" and gives first prominence to the railway situation. i; "Tho T,ady From 3Iontana." ,v .Today's opening marks the closing of man's monopoly of membership in the house of representatives. In th4 next congress the clerks and the pages and the speaker will be calling: "Th Lady from Montana." Miss Jeanette Rankin, Republican first woman elected to congress, is expected fo be fh. her seat -then. She does not sit -in the present session altho many uninformed expected tp see her today but comes in with the new congress. When she does arrive the house will be confronted with re vising its own rules to give her a place on the floor. In the senate there were three new members to take the oath of office. James E. Watson of Indiana, Republi can, takes the unexpired term of the late Senator Shively, Democrat, who was temporarily succeeded by Thomas Taggart. Bert M. Fernald, Republican of Maine, was elected to the vacancy caused by the death of Senator Burr leigh. William F. Kirby. Democrat, of Arkansas, was elected to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator Clark. Bill to Aid Foreign Trade. While the organization fight in the house does not come until the assem.4 bling of the next congress, the senate probably will see some political gener alship in the selection of a successor to Senator Clarke as president pro tempore. Senators who have their eyes on the majority floor leadership, made vacant by the defeat of Senator Kern, are loath to take the office of pro tempore. Strangely enough the disposition seems to be to avoid art office instead of seeking it, because senators realize that the man who bet comes president pro tempore is out of the race for the floor leadership. There have been some indications that the situation might be solved by giv ing the office of president pro tempore to Senator O'Gorman, who retires with the end of the congress. This, it is pointed cue would be a compliment to the retiring senator, and would leave all the candidates for the leadership free to enter the contest.- It is generally conceded that while the important appropriation bills for the fiscal year will occupy most of the time between now and adjournment, much general legislation on the ad ministration program would be urged. Committees in charge of conservation legislation, the Webb bill to authorize domestic corporations to maintain col lective foreign selling agencies, the immigration bill an da corrupt prac tices measure to limit national cam paign expenditures are certain to be active from the beginning. Laundering of Every Conceivable Kind Dry Cleaning Clothing, Curtains, Gloves, Furs i Dyeing Fabrics of All Kinds Cleaned. Blocked and Retnrned by tho only REAL HATTER In tho city. Feathers Plumes Cleaned, Dyed. Bleached and Curled. I'ptown Office and Service Sta. 112 Y. 8th St. Phone 1214 Main Works 2nd and Quincy Phone 3053 Topeka Laundry Co. 31st Year. RUSH 8-HR. CASE Unlikely Decision Will Be Ren dered Before January 1. But Back Wages Will Be Paid if Law Is Sustained. Washington, Dec. 4. The supreme court was formally asked today to expedite hearings of the Missouri, Ok lahoma and Gulf railroad case chosen to determine constitutionality of the Adamson act, passed in September when a nation-wide railroad strike was imminent. A motion concurred in by the rail roads to set the case "For hearing upon a day as early as may suit the convenience of the court" was pre sented personally in open court by Solicitor General Davis of the depart ment of justice. Such motions usually are acted on a week after presentation. The date of December 18 was under stood to be preferred by all counsel, to enable adequate perparation for arguments and filing of briefs. It was believed certain that the court would assign the arguments before the holiday recess December 22. It was regarded as possible but very unlikely that a decision would be rendered before the law becomes effective January 1. A stipulation for suspension of all litigation over the Adamson act. and for protection of railroad employes' financial interests pending the court's decision in the test case, was included in the motion. It requires the railroad in all pending suits attacking the act to keep a record of wages due employes on the eight hour basis with provision fotf their prompt payment or enforced collection if the supreme court up- honds the statute. The stipulation also pledges the railroads to join in expediting the test case. A compact is signed by As sistant Attorneys General G. Carroll Todd and E. Marvin Underwood and Special Assistant Frank Hagerman, for the government, and by Walker D. Hines. committee chairman of the railroads' attorneys, and Arthur Miller, attorney for the Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf railroad. A recital of proceedings in which Federal Judge William C. Hook on November 22 at Kansas City in the test cape declared the Adamson act "unconstitutional, null and void" was given in the motion. The railroad brotherhoods were not represented officially in the proceed ings today, nor as signatories to the stipulation, but are entitled to have at torneys participate in the arguments, altho such action is understood not to be contemplated. In the pending case Judge Hook dismissed the bill as to the brotherhood chiefs who origin ally were made defendants, leaving as the only defendant United States Dis trict Attorney Francis M. Wilson of the western Missouri district, who was enjoined from enforcing the law. The suit was brought in the name of Alexander New and Henry C. Ferris, receivers for the Missouri, Oklahoma Gulf railroad. t Postpone Eight-Hour Cases. naChicago. Dec. 4. All cases involv ing the Adamson eight-hour law in theChicago district came before Fed eral Judge Landis here today and were postponed, pending action of the United States supreme court on the Hook decision. Orders were issued to the railroads to keep their books carefully with a view of complying with any orders of me supreme court. MURDERED WIFE (Cnntinnerl from Pngs Ons. it on the bed without getting a drop of blood on his clothes," Lockwood went on. "According to the evidence he was as careful of that as he was in fram ing his alibi. The three wounds which crushed Mrs. McDaniel's skull were described, reference was made to the testimony of police sergeant that the blows were left handed, struck from the front and that McDaniel has been declared to be left handed. He cited several murder cases in which testimony had caused the conviction of left handed men. "The man who struck her down was a man in whom she had confi dence, whom she allowed to come into her room without causing her to shriek from fear," he said. "Oh, how that confidence was betrayed. She screamed only once and it was choked off, ending in a sob." Who Came In Cellar Window? "The evidence shows no one entered the house thru that cellar window," Lockwood said. "Some shrewd, cun ning man was inventing evidence that's what all the testimony shows. That's why the room was mussed up and the furniture thrown around. No robber ever entered a home, mur dered a woman and left without loot. That's the rot of his defense." The special prosecutor went into McDaniel's version of his whereabouts before the murder was committed. "You would not pay any attention to an alibi like his from any other de fendant," Lockwood said. "Are you going to believe that such rot?" The speaker used the word "rot" again in saying McDaniel'9 attorneys probably would declare an enemy of the accused man caused by his active ties as prosecutor committed the crime. "Then he tried to put such a chunk under the coroner's inquest that none would be held. He tried to use his in fluence as agent of the law to prevent it. What about the hurried funeral?". St ream Fixed Time of Murder. "Do you doubt there was a scream at 10:30 o'clock that night?" Lockwood asked the jury. Then he attacked the defense theory that the noise had been made by a cat or by. a woman streaming while in a swing. He de clared the scream testimony fixed the time of the crime's commission before 11 o'clock. "Just so surely as you believe that was Mrs. McDaniel's scream, you must convict this man of the murder of his wife," the speaker declared. "And McDaniel tells you he got Home 'about 11 o'clock.' Why does not he give us the exact time?" Lockwood laughed at the story of E. E. Gard that he saw Mrs. McDan iel cross her bedroom window at 11:30 o'clock. Opens for Defense. St. Joe, Mo.. Dee. 4- Lockwood ended at 11:45 o'clock and L. C. Gab bert began for the defense speaking until noon when court adjourned. "Would you visit another tragedy I upon these three little children "and these aged parents?" he asked the jury. "I want to call your attention to the fact that the star witness of the state this detective who sits here today with his sinster face was not placed upon the stand. And again, as the strongest evidence for this man Mc Daniel, Mrs, Sarah Moss, the gray haired mother of Mrs. McDaniel. did not testify against her daughter's hus band. "There is a story in the Bible about the crucifixion of Christ. All they had against him was that he called himself the King of the Jews. Seek Only to Convict Him. x "For very envy of the unprecedented success o ft hi s man McDaniel, they are crucifying him. AH their detectives have not sought Barabas, the murder er, but they have sought to convict only the man McDaniel. "The state has some of the most foolish theories ever heard or thought of." Gabbert went on ridiculing state ments made by Lockwood. LOOT ENORMOUS Villa Horde Leaves Chihuahua City to De Factos. $200,000 in Coin, 7,000 Rifles, Cannons and, Supplies. El Paso, Tex., Dec. 4. After sys tematically looting and evacuating Chihuahua City, Villa is today march ing westward toward the mountains j of western Chihuahua, carriyng four trainloads of loot and supplies. At .7 o'clock. Saturday night, Mexican gov ernment troops reoccupied the north ern capital without bloodshed. In the first message exchanged after the wires were reopened between Chi huahua City and the border, nothing was said of, the fate of the six Ameri cans who were known to have been in Chihuahua City when it was attacked and captured by Villistas a week ago. Relatives of the missing men. and United States department agents here at once dispatched telegrams to the American residents of Chihuahua City, but early today no reply to these mes sages had reached the border. Send '8.000 De Factos to City. In Juarez today troop trains with fresh supplies of ammunition were .preparing to start south. Un-official advices stated tnat tne reuer columns of General Murgia and the remnants of General Trevino's command had marched into Chihuahua City from the south and that the new artillery brought up by Murgia is being em placed on the dominating hills of San ta Rosa. Every preparation Is being made to garrison the city more heav ily than heretofore. A conservative estimate by Carranza military authori ties place the number of government troops now in the northern capital at 8.000. From unofficial sources it was learned that the loot gathered by the Villistas was enormous. The bandits carried everything in wagons to trains at the Mexica.n Northwestern station. Automobiles were commandeered to Villa officers about the streets while the sacking of the city was in progress. Seize Federal's Heavy Artillery. More than $200,000 worth of coin and bullion was part of the booty taken by the bandits, one account states. So great was the terror of the natives that some even helped the bandits to loot their town homes and helped carry away the loot. From Tuesday until Saturday the robbery went on. Five modern guns of 75 and 80-mil limeter caliber were pulled down from Santa Rosa hill by Villistas and taken along, while the remaining were dis abled. Mining men here declare they have information that Villa captured seven thousand rifles, sixty machine guns and quantities of ammunition. GIVEN NO AUTHORITY Supposed Russian Agents Not Given Right to Sell Bonds. "Washington, Dec. 4. The following statement was given out at the Rus sian embassy tonight: "The Russian ambassador has been instructed to inform officially all those whom it may concern, that the American-Russian corporation and Lord Rotherham have no authority what ever fro mthe imperial government to place Russian five per cent bonds on the American market." At the Majestic. The remarkable and continued success "In Old Kentucky" announced for an en gagement at the Majestic Fridav and Saturday. Dec. ft and lO is an astonishing fact In the annals of the Amer ican stage. No other play, possibly ex cepting "The Old Homestead' can measure up to the continuance of popularity attain ed by Charles T. Dazey's extremely enter taining and ever-interesting story of Ken tucky life. With the coming and going of plays of all kinds, with the growth of the motion picture idea, and with the opposition of countless other forms of amusement, the dunce craze and the cab arets, it takes a play possessing unusual qualities to hold Its own clientele, but "In Old Kentucky" is as strong In public favor today as ever. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS h Chicago, Dec. 4 WHEAT Heaviness developed in the wheat market today large ly because of the absence of any sign of immediate relief from the scarcity of ocean vessels and from the congestion of rail way facitiies. In this connection the fact was pointed out that exports of wheat from the United States and Canada last week were only about half as large as dur ing the corresponding period a year ago. An embargo gossip from Washington counted also against the bulls. Opening prices, which ranged from one cent decline to c advance with May at $1.72 to $1.74 and July at $1.41 to $1.41, were fol lowed by a material set back all around. The close was nervous. 3ic lower to c advance with May at $1.72 to $1.72 and and July. $1.41. CORN Reports of large supplies In sight at conntrv stations had a bearish effect on com. Selling was of an unusually per sistent character. After opening off to V4e up the market underwent a general sag. defineIK2-flfor0d -R-U L taoinaoinaoin A bulge in prices later with wheat was not well maintained. Rains in Argentine acted as something of an offset. The close was unsettled at a gain of c to c. OATS Oats weakened with corn and wlip.it. Trade, however, was well divided. PROVISIONS Provisions like grain tended o ease off. Large receipts of hogs formed a depressing influence. Liverpool Grain Market Liverpool. Dec. 4. WHEAT Closing spot, steadv; No. 2 hard wiuter, ICs 7d No. 1 Manitoba, old. 17s 3d. CORN Spot, steady; American mixed, new. l:is Jd. FLOUR Winter patents, 47s. Chicago Produce Market Chicngo. Dec. 4. BUTTER Market low- CTfamery. S-'Wi 38c. EGGS Market steady. Firsts. 3St4U3c; j SZt ta POTATOES Market steady. Michijran. Wisconsin. Minnesota and jmkota. wnlte. $1.50&l.tM; Minnesota sod Dakota Ouioa, DAVID J. December Clearance 448 Pairs Ladies' $5.00, T d f r $6.00 and $7.00 Colored, J ID Black and Two-Tone Top Boots 700 pair Men's all-leather, guaranteed Shoes; lace or button; $4.00 and $5.00 values Men's $20 Suits, Men's $20 Overcoats; pinch and plain backs; snappy models n 50 Ladies' White Chinchilo la Coats; some fur trim- med; latest full swing M JJ from the shoulder style (J z $15.00 value ...J DAVID J. 620-622 KANSAS AVENUE STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Lire Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have On Own Offices at Chicago. So. St. Joseph. So. Omaha. Denver, Sioux City. So. St. Paul, U. Buffalo, E. St. Ixraia, Fort Worth and El Paso. $1.50iSl.0; Idaho and Washington white, $1.4'5(a 1.75. POULTRY Alive, lower; fowls, 1315c; springs, 15c. Chicago Grain Market Chicago, Dec. 4. WHEAT December, $162 May, fl.721.72 July, $1.4134. CORN December, 87; May,-90(&90c July. 90,c. OATS December, 51c May, 55 51 c: July, PORK Jan., $16.75; May, $20.0. LARD Dec., $10.72; Jan., $10.10; May, $15.85. SHORT RIBS Jan., 13.97; May. $14.22. Grain Gossip. By special wire to T. J. Myers. Columbian Bufldinsr.l Elevator stocks of vheat in Kansas City have decreased 175,018 bushels last 'week and corn stocks increased 15.44 bushels. Exports from the TJnited States and Can ada Saturday were 201,000 bushels of wheat. 18.000 barrels of flour,' no corn. 7,000 bush- els of oats: wheat and flour combined, 342.000 bushels. The Dutch government bought 4 cargoes of domestic wheat Friday, a bout SOO.OW bushels, at the seaboard for January, Feb ruary and March shipment. A large uum ber of bids for corn were reported, but no sales were made, due to the car shortage. About 350.000 bushels of oats were sold. Total deliveries on the Chicago market Friday were K50.000 bushels of wheat. 10. 000 bushels of corn and 2.400,000 bushels of oats. New York Produce Market New York, Dec. 4. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery, higher, extras, ;S9M:& 40c. EGGS Market unsettled. Fresh gathered ex t ra f i tie, 4S(a 50c. CHEESE Market steady. State whole milk, flats, held specials, 4((t'25c. POULTRY Dressed, irregular. Kansas City Produce Market Kansas City, llec. 4. WHEAT Market unchanged to lc hiplier. No. 2 nurd, $l.u9($ 1.76; No. 3, J1.C741 1.75 No. 2 red, $l.fl4t 1.73: No. 3. $l(l.U5fll.71. CORN Market unchanged to ic higher. No. 2 mixed. S7fjNSc: No. 3, xl$rM7c; No. 2 white, 88BK9c; No. 3, RTI&Silsc; No. 2 yellow, 8CaH8c; No. 3, 87i4c. OATS Market o higher. No. 2 white, 55c No. 2 mixed, 52ft53c. RYE $1.83. KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE $2.23(82.30. HAY Market weak. Choice timothv, $14.00CslJ00; choice prairie, $11.50; choice alfalfa. $20.00(320.50. SHORTS $l.r0&1.60. II RAN $1.30. WHEAT Receipts 250 cars. BUTTER Creamery, 42c; first, 39c; seconds, 37c: packing, 20c. EOS Firsts. 37c. POULTRY Hens, 14c; roosters, llc; live turkeys, 21c. CLOSE: W H EAT December, $1.66; May. $1.08401.61; JulT. $1.WH. CORN December, 8U&80c; May, 87Vic; July, SbMc. New Orleans Cotton Market New Orleans, Dec. 4. COTTON Spot, quiet and unchanged. rw York Cotton Market New Xork Dec. 4. COTTON Spot, quiet; middling upland, 20.1. Sales 1,700 bales. New York buc-ar Market New York, Dec. 4 SUGAR Raw, steady; centrifugal, 5.04; molasses, 4.77; refined, steady; cut loaf. 865; crushed, 8.50: Mould A, 8.00: Cubes. 8.00; powdered. 7.65; pow dered. 7.60; fine granulated. 7.50; Diamond A, 7.50; Confectioners', 7.49; No. 1, 7.30. New York Stock Market Wall St.. New York, Dec. 4. STOCKS Gains of the first half hour were generally extended before profit taking exercised Its usual effect.' Philadelphia Company, Western Union and North America were added to the list of strong utilities with high levels for Zinc shares, Utah Copper and Petroleums. Recessions occurred on comparatively small offerings, wiping out a considerable 6 art of the rise In rsils. with heaviness In aldwln. Locomotive. Gulf States. Cuban Cane Sugar, Pittsburg Coal and Interna tional Paper. A demand for munitions and euuipineuts effected a partial readjustment of prices before noon. Bonds were irregular. The week oiiened with a resumption of ac tivity lu rails, inslnlv those of the mlnoi tivlty In rails, mainly those Zr, .r. .r. tending from materia! fractions to over point, juexicans aso improved snosran tially in response to latest developments across the border. Utilities were again In demand with a new record for Columbia Gas :.ud a 2 point gain for Ohio gas. Metnls were strong with the Leather issues ami United States Steel rose almost a point on the customary large transactions, together with Lackawanua SteeL Republic Iron aud Colorado Fuel. Kansas City Live Stork Market Kanscs City. Dec. 4. HOGS Receipts 8.000. Msrket 10c to 15c higher. Bulk of sales. $9.46619.85: beavv. $9,7069.65; packi'l S aud butchers. $9.3019.90; light, $9.2049.75; pigs, $1018.50. AUGUST Hi AUGUST, 1 CATTLE Receipts 1.200. including 1.00O southerns. Market steady. Prime fed steers, $10.5U& 12.00; dressed beef steers, $7.50(& 10.25; western steers, 0."04i 10.2fl smtbem steers, $5 ".V-ri H.25 cows. $4.75Vii 8.00; heifers, $0.00(4l0.25 ;sto krs and feed ers $5.25(7.50; bulls, $5.25(,0.75: calves. $0.50Yri 11.00. S H E K 1' Recei pt s 8,000. Market stea d y to 10c hisrher. Lambs, $11,504 12. 40: year lings. $.O0fo;10.M wethers. $7.5CttH.75 wethers, $7.50Ya.S.7."i ewes, $7.00(6.00 tuck ers and feeders, $5.5011.00. Kansas City Live Stork Kales. The following sales were made this morn Insr at the Stock Yards. Kansas City nnd reportel over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin son ft Co., live stock commission mer chants.) Kansas City, Dee. 4. CATTLK Re ceipts 12,000 bead. Market steady quaran tine j to lWbeV PBulk of sales lS 1 1 1 JDer' tu,K or 8a,es too. SI1F.EI' Receipts 8,000 head. Market 10c to loc higher. KILLING STEERS. No. Wt. I'rlce.lNo. Wt. Price. 44 948 $10.85 33 1232 $8.90 70 12:12 8.90 roVS AND HEIFERS 15 842 4.R5 I 3 M 5.00 li 782 5.45 26 1HI4 6.25 10 840 6.00 3 1240 6.75 STDCKEIlS AND FEKDKRS. 8 74.1 4 040 6.25 I II 5.75 J If CALVE 10 020 6.65 5.90 18... 831 8. 104 160 .1120 540 254 210 84 10.55 1.55 1 3 1.00 4 HILLS. 220 240 965 6.75 8. 4.2r 12 830 5.50 HOGS. 78... 71... 100... 9.85 I 38 9.60 98 243 164 .7S 9.3U 8.00 Chlcaso I.lve Stock Chicago, Dec. 4. IlllllS Receipts 6.000. Market slow at Saturday's average. Bulk of sales. S.10,9.9I light. H."a 9.63 mix ed, $9.(KXa 10.00 heavv. $9.404jlO.OO; rouall, $9.40(39.55: pigs. $6.2.1(S8.35. CATTLE Receipts 12.000. Market wlr. Native beef cattle, $6.90(S 12.00 western steers. $6.90fa 1050 stockers and feeders, $4.60(&7.75: cows and heifers, $.'1,854 10.00 calves. $0.75(S 13.50. SHEEP Receipts 30.000 Market weak. Wethers, 8.259.00; lambs. $9.70U,12.0O. TOPEKA MARKETS. Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co l Topeka, Kan., Dec 4. Itnra MIXED AND BUTCHERS HEAVY LIGHT PlliS (under 150 lbs.) Heifers fiiA tr choice .$8.00(39.40 8.00(fr.M 8.00ffj!l.3o o.00.u0 .$6.no to T on Flr to gocd 5.00 to 6 00 Common 4.00 to 4.50 Fair to good n.00 to a.uo nulls Fleshy $5 00 to B. Medium 4.00 to 4.75 Prime fat 7.75 to 8 oo M '.Hum good fl.oo, to 7.50 Fair 4.00 to 6.00 Sheen and lambs Fath wethers $6 00 to 7.00 Fat ewes 5 00 to 0.00 Fat Iambs 7.oo to w.uw Cows Good to choice Good to choice 1. Fair to good C" rjmon to fair Shorn lambs and sheep .$'...V) to oo .$5.50 to 6 00 4.50 to S.Ofl r50 t .25 under above prices. (Positively cannot use sheep or lambs t less faL) Batter and RgR-s. (Furnished by the Beatrice Creamery Cfi. Topeka. Kan.) Topeka, Kan., Dec. 4. CHICAGO EGGS 3914c NEW YORK EGOS 4i34c. CREAMERY BUTTER Chicago. 42c: New York. 4242c: Elgin. 40c: Topeka wholesale. 41c. Ponltry. anil fritter (Furnished by the Toeka Packing Com. pany. corner Laurent and Madison.) Tojteka, Kan., Dec. 4. IIENS- I'A lbs. aim over un('er SH lbs. 12c: springs, over 2 lbs., 15c: ii1;"' oroiiers. ion. ana Topeka Hay Market. I Furnished by T. Keck. 12-14 East th. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 4. PBARIF. HAY ftt.00 ALFALFA $17.00. Topeka Grain Market. Furnished by T 4. Billard. corner Kansas Ave and 'nrtls St.) Toiieka, Kau.. Dec 4. CORN OATS IS 50c. W H E A T $L701JSOL .$.45 $10 J

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4. 1916 3 Universal Electric Round Radiant Grill $6.50 Nickel plated frame, ebon ized handles, fibre feet, dia meter of top 8 in., height over all 614 in.; three pans, lour heats. The Universal Electric Grill will cook a complete breakfast for two or three persons right at the table. Broils, Fries, Boils and Toasts in a very short time, thereby hav ing a warm meal with very little inconvenience. Universal Electric Rectangular Grill $5.50 Nickel plated frame, ebonized handles, fibre feet, heating surface, 74 by 4 In. depth of frying pan. 1 in., also boiling pan and griddle. Universal Electric Curling Iron and Hair Dryer, $4.50 Mahogany handle; detachable swivel connecting plug prevents binding of the cord. Nickel plated iron aluminum comb. Community Silver Four Patterns Community Silver Four Patterns PRIMARYON GRILL Saturday Wight Club Singes Old Reform Election. Most Able Political Observers Toast the Law. BEGINNING OF BIG FIGHT Morton Albaugh Led Battle Be fore Organization. IN 5 G00DJ0VNS Chance for Xew Organizations of National Guard. War Department Authorizes Companies in Kansas. Five new organizations of the Kan Fas National Guard have been author ized by rhe war department and C. I. Martin, adjutant general, is seeking Mils from five good towns of the state that might want military organiza tion.3. such as General Martin has to organize. The new organizations will be two batteries of field artillery, two ambulance corps and one company of engineers. The Kansas guard now has one battery and a medical corps but "no ambulance corps or engineers, ex cepting those in the signal corps. The two new batteries probably will have to be organized in the larger towns of the state. The battery re quirements are for 126 enlisted men and five officers on a peace footing. This is twice the size of any infantry company and while it might be easy to organize an infantry company in almost any county seat, it would be practically impossible to get a full battory organization. The two ambulance companies will be sent to small towns as there is not a large number of men required in these companies. The company of engineers is made up of sixty-five men and three officers, the same as a com pany of infantry. It may be difficult to get this company organized except in some of the larger towns as the three officers must be real engineers bffore they can get a commission. The j mr-n are not required to be engineers, i Kansas already has more than ful- j filled the requirements of the new j militia law enacted by congress. The: requirement was that Kansas should have -wo thousand men by June 30, 1917. Nearly 2.400 men are enlisted now. Each year after June there is an additional one thousand men to be enlisted until the state has a total mili tia strength of eight thousand men and officers, probahiy three regiments of iafantry. one of cavalry, one of field artillery with the complete engineer, signal corps, medical and ambulance corps that would be required for these organizations. NEW LAUNDRY BOARD Two Topeka Women Represent Em ployes in Kansas. Members of the new state laundry board have been announced from the office of the state welfare commis sion. A recent session of the former board resulted in a discharge of the vr.aY-A t.Vi or the mpmhcrs refused to approve hour and wage regulations as i recommended Dy tne state moor ue-1 partment. Recommendations for a 54-hour week, with eleven hours as the maxi mum to be worked in any one day of the week, were filed with the former laundry board. The board refused to adopt the report and was discharged. The new board members are: Wil liam Hyman. Kansas City; J. B. Mc Mullen, Great Bend; John Martin, Emporia, representing the laundry men; Mrs. Kate E. Pierson, Topeka; Miss Mary Hannigan, Topeka; Miss Laura French. Emporia, representing the employes; and Mrs. Margaret Crandle, p"ittsbug, representing the public. HERE'S H. C. L. TRAGEDY Health Inspectors Find "Sick Chil dren" Not 111 But Starving. Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 4. Many children in Milwaukee are slowly starving, according to physicians and nurses who have been investigating living conditions here. t Wae-es tin id to the workers in many families will not buy enough food to meet even the absolute needs of the children, they claim. The discovery was made following the sending of children to clinics by nurses, who thought the wan and emaciated youngsters were suffering from tuberculosis. Physicians de clared that lack of food alone was the cause for the loss of flesh. "They were short possibly forty per cent of their normal need of food," said Rev. W. F. Greenman, who is urging the city to act. "A good many families cannot live on their incomes. They never appeal for charity and they will not now. It is necessary to find them." PACIFIES CABINET Believe Asqnith Has Restored Peace in Ministry. either Lloyd-George nor the Unionists to Quit. McXeal, Mason, West and Evans Come to Rescue. London, Dec. 4. Whether the cabi net crisis had been definitely passed, was still uncertain today but there were indications that Premier As quith was maintaining: his reputation as one of the greatest political "pla caters" in British history. The best information today was that David Lloyd George, minister of war did not resign his place, as rumored Sunday nor did he actually threaten to step down. But he did firmly ex press his belief in the absolute neces sity of a small, compact council wli full authority to conduct the war. Apparently Asquith acceded in this belief. Unionists and Premier at Outs. It was circumstantially reported to day that the unionist cabinet members had advised the premier to resign, in timating if he did not take this step, the whole unionist representation in the cabinet ten of the twenty-three members would. The nature of As quith's reply was not revealed, but it is understood the unionists "have now decided to remain. Sir Edward Carson to whom reports attribute a place on the new "war council" of four or five members sup posed to be in the making, said today he had not been offered a place so far, but indicated he would accept such a proffer. "The man who will not serve now in whatever way he can, is a traitor," he declared. Asquith was supposed to be sched uled for a conference with King George today and was expected later in commons to make a formal state ment revealing the situation. "Poe left only one or two unpublished poems." "I exrel there, anyhow," said Rhyinster. "What a bunch I'll leave." Louisville Courier-Journal. JONES sometimes wakes up feeling cross and in consequence the family know it without his telling them in so many words. Mrs. Jones attributes it to biliousness and if it doesn't wear off during the day she gives him a dose of liver medicine at night. The next morning he feels better and she gives him coffee for breakfast, and the next morning and the next morning. And in a few days Jones has another spell. Dear Mrs. Jones means all right, but she doesn't seem to realize that if she didn't give Jones his morning coffee she wouldn't have to give him the liver medicine and Jones would feel all right without both. Housewives everywhere have found out that Instant Postum takes the place of break fast coffee perfectly. And that is only one of the reasons why Instant Postum has wholly supplanted the use of coffee on thousands upon thousands of American breakfast tables. I 1 That alleged panacea of all political ills the Kansas state-wide primary law spent three hours on the grill at the session of the Saturday Night club and came from the toaster singed and smoking. Some of Kansas's most able and prominent political observers took free running kicks at the reform elec tion system, while friends of the law rushed to its rescue and sought to beat back the bombardment. The de bate was an occasion for one of the liveliest sessions staged by the famous club in months. The Saturday Night club lives under a rule which provides for discussion of real live issues. One session may consider the war in Europe, another the Mexican situation, the labor question, the high cost of living, short skirts or safety zones for politicians. Always the meeting is worth while. The membership of the club is re stricted. Always, the men who talk say things that count and go to the bottom of an issue. Included in the limited membership are state and fed eral officials, supreme court and dis trict judges, lawyers, doctors, news paper men, bankers, merchants big men who meet big questions with big ideas. But the Saturday night gathering was something unusual even for the spectacular Saturday Night club. Mem bers combed the primary system with bitter indictments. Then the defense turned in an alibi that would dazzle the lawyers in the McDaniel case they told the anti-primary crowd that the primary had come to stay and asked them how they felt about it. A Live Issue. In the next legislative session the primary election law will probably fur nish the one big, sensational fight. Just at this time the primary is a real, live issue. Both sides admitted it. And it is most probable that the ora tory which flowed Saturday night will be repeated in the legislative halls this winter. Morton Albaugh led the fight on the primary in a paper that seemingly carried every indictment ever returned against the election system. That pa per was one of the prize documents before the club, in many moons. Right at the start Albaugh declared he was not leading a propaganda, that the argument of expense was not a matter for consideration if the system had reformed politics, elevated better men to office, established greater public efficiency or provided better govern ment. Thm for twenty minutes Albaugh simply laid the primary system out cold. He scoffed at many sugges tions of amendments and reforms in the primary law. He declared they were mere admissions of the weakness of the system. "Having first given us smallpox, now they .would make us forget it by inoculating us with typhoid," was Albaugh's sarcastic reference to pri mary promoters. Then he told club members that bossism in politics never disturbed Kansas; that conditions such as faced large cities which often dic tated state politics, were not found here and that for Kansas the conven tion system was the ideal system. He declared men Just as able, honorable and efficient were chosen by conven tions as by primaries, while five Kan sas primaries have cost the state $800, 000 without improving conditions. Party Principles Lost. Added to these facts, Albaugh charged that the primary has destroy ed party organization in Kansas, that party principles are lost and forgotten in personal campaigns and that the voter knows nothing of most state candidates except their own personal endorsements. He suggested such ad vertisements be submitted to the blue sky department with literature of mining and oil companies. He urged, also, that the system is bunglesome and complicated, that voters of one party enter primaries of another party to control nominations, that the sys tem is a rich man's game and con trolled by men with money and pub licity. He pointed to the fact that the men most prominently mentioned for United States senator and governor two years hence are newspaper men. He -criticised the system which permits candidates to write party principles aner i ney nave Deen nominated and are looking for votes. "Under our present system," he said, "it is not what a party shall stand for. nor its ideals, but who' shall draw the sal aries." Charles H. Sessions was listed to di rect the defense for the primary. Sessions arrived after Albaugh had concluded nis taiK. uut Sessions drove fcome the arguments of the men who are supporting the primary plan. "The law probably needs some amendments,' said Session. "I think a primary in May would give more time for healing the wounds that are ap parent after the nominations aTe made and would remove many of the pres ent complaints. A law compelling state-wide registration of party affilia tions should be provided. Probably a shorter ballot would help. But you put this down in your book the pri mary has come to stay and you can make the most of it. Any change in the law will be to strengthen it, not to destroy it." McXpal to the Rescue. T. A. McNeal came to Sessions's rescue in the defense of the primary, as did Justice Henry Mason, Justice J. S. West and C. J. Evans. McNeal com bined wit and sarcasm in his reference to the men who opposed the primary. He mentioned the old convention plan and recalled the time when Frank Ryan went to bed thinking he was a candidate for secretary of state and awoke to find he was a candidate for railroad commissioner. He said the men against the primary were related to or were servants of corporations for which statement he later had cause to repent. T. F. Doran, L. S. Ferry, Judge A. W. Dana. Judge S. M. Hawks, William E. Connelley, J. S. Dean and other mem bers of the club walked on the pri mary with hob nail shoes. Doran de clared the primary had created an aire This store opens at 8:80 and doses at 6:00 Order by Phone Call 3500 Order by Mail Delivery Prepaid Free Art Needlework Classes Every Day 2nd Floor The joys of Christmas shopping are made doubly joyful by shopping early in the month and early in the day! With tomorrow there are 17 shop ping days to Christmas. Remember that when our exclusive novelties are sold out they will not be duplicated again this year. Shop early! This month of Decmber will pass swiftly by and Christmas Day will be here before you know it. Do your gift selecting early early in the day and early in the month. k A success a great success, this Apparel Discount W at Pelletier s It started with a rush this morning; with a rush and an enthusiasm that promises to make it exactly what we intended it should be the greatest value-giving, money-saving, apparel-selling week of the season. Dozens of women took advantage of the special on Coats today and we hope that you were among them; we hope that you took advantage of the opportunity to buy a Winter Coat at a saving of 10 Read the schedule for the week, and please bear in mind that the reductions are for the day stated, only. Decide on the garments you want to saye on and plan to be here that day Sure! r Schedule for the week Please bear in mind that these reductions are for the days stated, only. Monday 10 off on all Winter Coats. Tuesday 10 off on all silk and serge Dresses for street or afternoon wear and 20 off on all evening and party Dresses. Wednesday 10 off on all Waists choice of the stock. Thursday Suit3 40 2, off on all choice of the stock. Friday 20 off on all Furs sets, scarfs, muffs and coats. Saturday 10 off on all children's Coats and Dresses, wom en's separate Skirts, women's Raincoats, Pet- tirnsits. .J Tuesday will be DRESS DAY and every Dress in stock will be included. All 7.50 Irenws 8.50 Dresaea 10. OO Irsnen 12.50 Drmnri 15.00 DreotM 16.00 D reuse 17.50 Ureases serge dresses 10 off C.7B (20.00 DrtUM ...(18.00 7.05 22.50 Dreaaea 20.25 9.00 25.00 Drnm 22.50 11.25 27.60 Dreaaea 24.75 1S.50 SO.OO Dreaaea 27.00 14.55 82.60 Urease 28.25 15.75 S5.00 Dreaaea 31.50 All velvet dresses 10 off 920.00 Dreaaea 22.50 Dreaaea 25.00 Dreaaea 27.60 DreaMi SO OO Dreaaea 32.50 Ureases .(18.00 20.26 22.50 24.76 27.O0 28.25 985.00 Dreaaeo 87.60 Dreaaea 40.00 Dreaaea 42.60 nreaaea 45.00 Iresee 65.00 Ireaeca ..531. 50 18.75 80.00 88.26 ,.i 40.50 48.50 Choice of the very newest styles and effects in Serge Dresses lor street and general wear; both the plalted-from-the-yoke and the plain waist styles; some with Georgette collars and some with white broadcloth collars: some plain, some bead embroid ered and some wool embroidered: some trimmed with fur and some with beaver plush. Tuesday every Serge Dress in stock will be on sale at a discount of 10 from the plainly marked regular price and right at the very height of a season that sees Serge Dresses prettier and more popular than they ever were before more in style, more in evidence! The silk dresses at 10 off The Velvets are newcomers to the stock, having bee here less than three weeks, and include' everything? that the manufacturers are showing for. Winter wear. Inasmuch as the season for Velvets has just barely opened, this is a most important offering, indeed There are blacks, navys, browns and- greens; furf, braid, silk and wool trimmed. Tuesday all the Veil vet Dresses in stock will be on sale at a discount of 10 from the plainly marked regular prices. i AH evening party $12.50 Dreaaea ...(11.25 (32.60 Dreaaea ...(29.25 15.00 Dreaaea IS. -VI 85.00 Dreaaea 81.50 17.50 Dreaaea 15.75 37.50 Dreaaea 83.75 20.00 Dreaaea 16.00 40.00 Dreaaea 36.00 82.60 Dreaaea 20.25 42.50 Dreaaea 86.25 25.00 Dreaaea 22.50 46.0O Dreaaea 40.50 27.50 Dreaaea 24.75 50.00 Dreaaea 45.00 SO.OO Dreaaea 27.00 and on up.. (15.00 Dreaaea ...(12.00 (37.50 Dreaaea ...S30.0 17.60 Dreaaea 14.00 40.00 Dreaaea 82.00 20.00 Dreaaea... 10.00 45.00 Dreaaea 86.0O 22.50 Dreaaea 18.00 50.00 Dreaaea 40.00 25.00 Dreaaea 20.00 66.00 Dreaaea 44.00 27.50 Dreaaea 22.00 06.00 Dreaaea 62.00 SO.OO Dreaaea 24.00 75.00 Dreaaea SO.OO 82.50 Dreaaea 20.00 05.O0 Dreaaea 06.O0 85.00 Dreaaea 28.00 100.00 Dreaaea 60.00 These are the SiVk Dresses- for street and afternoon wear; taffetas, messalines. Georgettes, crepe meteors, gros de londres, etc., in very wanted color and in ev ery style that is good. Some with Georgette sleeves; some with bead trimming, some with wool embroid ering, some with gold trimming, some with fur trim ming and some distinctively plain and simple. Tues day all the Silk Dresses for street and afternoon wear will be on sale at a discount of 10 from the plainly marked regular price the discount being deducted at the time the sale is made. Every Party and every Evening Dress Is Included; There are many modes that are absolutely exclusive; There are Dresses of black net and jet relieved by at touch of blue; there's a copy of Mrs. Vernon Castle's "Silhouette" Dress; a dress of cloth of gold; there's a wonderful Frock of taupe Georgette; and all thai pretty little Party and Dancing Frocks, including th widely advertised "Betty Wales 'Social Frocks." whicfi are exclusive with us. The Wedding Dresses, ot which there is a large selection, are included, too; Colors include everything that could be desired; eveii the shades that are so difiicult to procure this sea son. Tuesday all the Evening, Party and Wedding; Dresses will be on saleat a reduction of 20 from tho plainly marked regular prices. L Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. for personal propaganda, personal platforms and personal nostrums that were miles from party principles. Fer ry flayed the plan and mentioned the recent candidacy of Frank Brown for the Republican nomination for secre tary of state, who after his defeat sup ported President Wilson, the Democrat nominee for congress and led the fight on Republican nominees for supreme court justices. Dean made scathing reference to the personal element re sulting from the primary which he said resulted in tne nansas slump 10 Wilson. Judge Hawks and Judge Dana also took hot shots at the personal campaign plan following adoption of Superior Service-AH-Steel Trains To KANSAS CITY DOUBLE TRACK $!s$fP&!f9Yf XO STOPS L, Topeka Ar. Ran. City I I I.T. Kan. City Ar. Topeka. 4:13a.m. (:25a.m. J M faCtiM I 7:55a.m. 8:45a.m. 6:65a.m. 7:45 a.m. CJ J I B I 5' 10:2Oam. 12:20p.m. 7:40 a.m. 8:25 a. m. I SSaJateSnlMaWr i I 10:85 a.m. 12:40 p.m. 3:15 p.m. 6:10 p.m. $?J 11:00 a.m. 12:58 p.m. 2:25p.m. 6:15 p.m. 0:30p.m. 8:15 p.m. 5:35p.m. 7:25p.m. C. E. BASCOM. C. P. A. -2 :15 .V 1' 7 :5 p. m. 8 :SS p. m. 10 :00 p. m. 11:55 p. m. 8:50p.m. 10:40p.m. Phone 403C 11:40p.m. 1:50 a.m. the primary law and lamented the slump in interest in party principles. Thomas Lillard. a Democrat. told members that the primary destroyed party organization and favored the minority party. The primary argument held the stage three hours. In that time it was rolled and kicked and hammered by members who declared they had learned a lesson from eight years of experience, while friends of the system nursed and bandaged and coddled the law and talked of betterments that might be made thru legislative amend- M m m a: WHY NOT BK A ROOSTER OF YOl'K OWN FINAXCKS There 1b no better way than to own your own borne. Money to Loan nn Rett I estate repayable monthly. THE CAPITOL BUILDING. LOAN ASSOCIATION 534 KantM Ave. L M. PENWELL Funeral Director ROBERT STEELE. Assistant Phone SOS-SI Qnlacy St

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALMOND AY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1916 &rprka Sftatp Journal An Independent Newspaper. Bjr KRA.Vk H. MAC I.KNNAN. IF.nterd July X, 1S75. as second-rlnss matter at tli i ontnffl.-e nt Topcka. Uau.. idler h t of on K reus VOLUME XXXVIII .No. 230 'nl Slate Paper. OfflWal Paper City of Topekn. TEltMS OK BUHHCIMI'TION. IMIly e.lltlmi. dellrereil by nrr1c. to vntn n week to Rnr part of Tnnekn or ttibnrh or at the nnme rk In any Kin m town whr e tUe pder has a carrier Twn P.v mtttl. one rear t'Crt Hy mall. pIt month I'.v mail. HM calendar lays... l.w TRI.Kl'llONKS. Private hran. h exehanire. Call S8.W n1 auk the State Jnnrnal operator for pereon r department desired. Topeka State Journal btilliltnff. RIXI. R02 and mm Kanaoa arenlia. corner Elgntn. New York Office. 250 Fifth ovenm. 1'ani nimk. manager. Chicago Office. Mailers bnildlng. Paul Detroit Office. Kreage building. Paul rilnck. manager. Bo-'"n Offie 201 DsTonnblre street I'-tn p.tnrk manager. Jl'U, LEASED WIRE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal la a member of tbe Associated Press and recelyea th full e.ay telegraph report of that great news or ganization, for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The D2wa la received In The Ste .Tonrnal building over wirea for thla sole purpose. MEMBER: Associated Press. Audit liureau of Circulation. American Newspaper Publishers' Association. Opinions differ as to the probable effect of having a divided national government, a Republican house with a Democratic senate and president. By many the view is taken that this con dition will serve as a check on parti san legislation, while others perceive In it only an opportunity to shift the blame for unwholesome legislation. But, inasmuch as the past has demon strated that neither side has been free from party bias nor guiltless of un wise acts, why not consider that the country is the gainer to the extent that party politics be, eliminated from the national legislature? Since the can didates of both the leading parties de clared themselves for "Americanism" and "America for Americans" it should be inferred that the best inter ests of the nation will be consulted without reference to party expediency. Most of the remarks made about the talkative barber are inspired by the fact that the customer can't talk at the time the barber does. If it be really none of his business, the average man will be deeply In terested in it. After'all, there wasn't much econ omy in going out with a gun after the Thanksgiving dinner. The appetite developed made the dinner cost more than the saving. Naturally, if the government owned the railroads, the public would be ex horted to do its Christmas shipping and traveling early. "When I was in Topeka," will be the subject for most of the conversation of some 1,200 boys in every county of the state and in practically every high school, when the Kansas Older Boys conference adjourns and the boys go home. Here is a chance for the To peka boosters. It begins to look as if General Per shing's "punitive expedition" might have to be hastily withdrawn for its own safety. Tho denied the pleasure of seeing the Stars and Stripes hauled down at Ills command, that Austrian submarine commander may have enjoyed seeing It sink. The "Topeka Idea" in charity has proven to be unusually efficient. It is doubtful if in any other city of equal or larger size, every hungry mouth was fed Thanksgiving Day, as It was in the capital of Kansas. Al most as remarkable as the generosity and thoroness of the charity was the fact that duplication and graft were .kept entirely out of the giving this year. The Confidential Exchange is -unquestionably the reason for the sue .cess of charity this year. Topeka is getting too large for the old hit-or- miss method. The Confidential Ex change fuses the forty or more or ganizations working thru it into a formidable weapon against poverty and distress. Much credit goes to Wiss Mabel Adams, the self-sacrificing secretary of the Exchange. Miss Adams has worked almost night and day for weeks. Her services are al most as much a donation as any that the Kxchange .gets. She started In ast year on a pittance of a salary; her wages were cut this year, making her labors very largely those of love. There isn't any likelihood that Mr. Hushes, as soon as he resumes the practice of law in New York, will suf- fer for the want of automobiles and other necessaries of life. WHAT AILS THE LAW? The ghost of little Edna Dinsmore has ceased to worry Fred Bissel, de (renerate, pervert and her confessed murderer. From the shrinking, whimpering wreck he was when Shawnee county officers possibly risk ed their lives to save his, he has, be come a defiant prisoner. Kindness has been wasted utterly upon him. Bissell confessed to the murder of tBe little Dinsmore girl and described it in detail in the presence of such Hjen as Warden J. K. Codding, L. L. Kiene. Frank Lindsey and Robert Mller. He told his story without coercion. Once talking he could not tel! enough, and after the formal con fession, when others were present, he piled one horror upon another in his minute description at the crime. Now he says he. is Innocent of the murder. He says he will not plead guilty. He has served notice upon county officers that he will demand a trial. Under the law he is entitled to trial by jury if he demands it. After all the trouble he has made he still has it within his power to compel Shawnee county taxpayers to spend another IE00 or $1,000 to put him in the penitentiary permanently. LEGISLATURE CONTESTS. Kansas legislatures have apparently written so much law regarding elec tion contests that several disappointed job hunters will this winter encounter difficulty in taking their troubles be fore the legislature, in contest pro ceedings, without evading or sidestep ping some sacred legal provision. The dispute concerning the method of proceeding and date of final action in legislative contests is mighty uncer tain. 8. M. Brewster, attorney gen eral, has looked into the matter. Ap parently, the legislature will be per mitted to work out Its own solution. Since the Kansas legislature is the Judge of its own official acts and set tles disputes and rights of its own members, there is really little need of an immediate decision from the attor ney general's office except And right there is the beginning of trouble. The matter of exception means .pro tection of the rights of several men who will go before the legislature with contests in January. They might lose a contest case on some legislative enactment of former days. Again, the former act of the legisla ture might be made a haven of rest, world without end. Under the law the final date for starting legislative contests is thirty days after the meeting of the can vassing board, or rather after the de cision of the board. But the con testant before the legislature must de cide whether the legislature meant the county or state canvassing board. In the fights before the legislature, Brewster holds that in senatorial con tests from districts comprising more than one county, the law means state canvassing board. In one county sen atorial districts and In representative districts, the law means county boards. The state canvassing board met last Monday. So the date for filing sena torial contests from districts of more than one county, expires December 26, 27, or 28 depending on whether Thanksgiving and Christmas are to be held as legal holidays. But troubles don't stop there. In districts of one county, where a com pany of national guards is stationed, there is more trouble. There the con testants will be compelled to do the impossible in filing contests. In counties in which guards are sta tioned, the records will be held open until December 18 In order to re ceive and count the soldier vote. Now suppose the county board is the one that does the counting. That means a further delay. The contestant would have thirty days after December 18 m which to file notice of a contest. That would mean he could file as late as January 17. Then the same law requires the sec retary of state to file contest notices with the legislature between the sixth and tenth days of the session. The legislature meets January 9. Using these dates and legal provisions as a basis, the legislative candidate who needed a few votes to win on the face of returns, can make his own plans for a successful contest before the legisla ture in January. Two and probably three contests are slated before the 1917 legislative session. HIGH COST OF FOOD. The "Editorial" In Its edit inn thl week discusses the high cost of food products and the cost thereof in the following vigorous language:. High prices for foodstuffs. by scarcity or determined by supply and demand, may as well be submitted to without murmur or protest. THe laws of supply and demand are Inex orable. From them there is no appeal. But prices much higher than those nxea Dy natural law prices exact ed by manipulation of markets and cornering of the necessities of life are indefensible from anv point that mav be chosen fnr cnr,. it eration or discussion of the subject. When resort is had to the wanton de struction of foodstuffs for the purpose of intensifying the scarcity complained of, the offense becomes so rank, so Inhuman, so diabolical, as to render fitting characterization difficult and commensurate condemnation impossi ble. If the hurling of anathemas mal ever be deemed Justifiable, provoca tion tnereror is assuredly afforded by the information sent out frnm rhi. cago, from the office of United States uistnct Attorney Charles F. Clyne who. we are told, is going to turn over to the federal grand Jury, now in session, the names of 150 ware housemen, produce raisers, dealers, and shippers from which may be se lected those desired for investigation The suspected conspiracy in regard to deliberate limiting of the food sup ply received a startling bit of con crete corroboration recently in the 'n formation of B. L. Brundage. a farmer livingjive miles east of Oary. who as serted that early in the season a man came through and contracted for his seven acres of pumpkins, which would make about ten car loads, and paid for them. But he never ordered them delivered, and he gave a fictitious name and address. Bo the pumpkins lay wasting in the fields. Thruout that region potatoes, apples, cabbages, and other produce was bought up j cheaply and left uncalled for, being, of course, out of further market for the growers. Hinton O. Clabaugh, chief of the bureau of investigation, sent a man down to Peoria to look Into the report that twenty-eight carloads of potatoes had been dumped into the river. Had this quantity of the popular tubers been brought into Chicago it would have seriously discommoded the pres ent sky-high prices. There is the re port about town, tco, that carloads of produce, cabbages, beets, potatoes, turnips, and the like in the locality have been treated with a solution causing rapid decay, which renders them worthless. A complaint was reg istered with government officials that there is a combination to raise the price of beans. It Is charged that large quantities, both In bulk and in cans, are being held in Norfolk, Va., Philadelphia and Saginaw, Mich. When the warehouse books are turned over the grand Jury will look into the contents of the storage house and the date of admission of the arti cles. In one, it has been learned, there are fish four years old. and in anothet eggs two years old. There is the pros pect that eggs held more than ninety days may be ordered Into circulation. There Is no law limiting the storage period. l In cases like these there is but one comment that on a memorable occa sion uttered by General Grant, "Let No Guilty Man Escape!" JIM IMNKER JJOTS As the Erie Record says: Most any woman will beliave the good things told her by a fortune teller. One or two of the small town may ors of Kansas also took it upon them selves to issue Thanksgiving procla mations. A young mr.n who was incarcerated in the Chautauqua county jail for 160 days made life rather miserable for his Jaiiers by spending all that time learning to play the fiddle. It is difficult to convince the aver age family man, says the Emporia Ga zette, that Sherman, speaking of war, was not talking about last month's bills. Who says there is nothing in a name? demands the Jewell County Monitor, and it reports: Eight pairs of twins have been born on Twin street. It is a good thing women do not have a chance to choose between brains and beauty, insists the Jewell County Republican. It would be hard on posterity. Harry Stock of the Hays Free Press cans attention to the fact that the people who turn in jokes to a news paper have one consolation. They can see tne point II tne editor cannot. A man Just elected to congress flew to Washington the other day by tho high air route, notes the Marion Rec ord, and it adds: And now he will probably depend upon the hot air sys tem to stay there. There Is more or less? comment on some German having invented a meat less sausage, notes Mrs. Tom Thomp son in the Howard Courant, and she adds: Which is old stuff. But lots of people who have given up calling ii meat would like to know what really is in it. anyway. Observations by Fred Cook in hU Jamestown Optimist: A successful man may also be one whose sharp practices do not get into print. Politicians are "brought out" by their friends and retired by their enemies. Once there was an old-fashioned man who was honest and never brag ged about it. The man who can't make a speech and doesn't try is clearly entitled to a harp and a crown. No man ever sues for di vorce as long as his wife waits on him as a woman should. Observations by Oscar Stauffer in his Peabody Gazette-Herald: One grouch can freeze a room full of smiles. A woman's conception of a tnotlsand dollars is so many new dresses. If it would just occur to the soldiers in Europe to strike for an eight-hour day the war might soon be over. Once in a while it does a mar. good to find himself among strange faces and learn that his check isn't legal tender. If you would spend less time wondering how your neighbors manage to get along on their income you might be able to get along better on your own income. Some of the Potpourri served by Tom Thompson to the readers of his Howard Courant: And Samson wasn't the only one who has used the jawbone of an ass to the great discomfort of his neighbors. Watch the young folks on the street and you will Bee twice as many girls running after boys as you wui see Doys running after girls. The man who hasn't the capacity to sin, hasn't the capacity to do much good. Ever think o' that? The time Used to be when riches took wines and flew awav. Now thev more" frequently transport themselves In automobiles.' How sharper than a serpent's tooth It is to have a thankless parent. From the Atchison Globe. What a woman forgives is not what she forgets. If a woman sees a broom handy, the chances -are she will sweep. If a man is educated some one is sure to say he isn't practical. Wounded pride heals more slowly than most of the sore spots. Hope, however, doesn't amount to much if that Is all you have in stock. There are also occasions when ex planations don't help matters a great deal. Lots of people discuss Shakespeare, and a few read his able literary ef forts. Neither do we ever care much for the person who is described as a hu man dynamo. There are also cases in which there is no such word as work in the bright lexicon of youth. Neither is the government's extrav agance likely to cut into your savings account like your own will. Most of the economy Is based on an effort to get even, altho a few try to get ahead In that way. GLOBE SHGHTS" i OH'SPHJR OF "ME M BY BOY K. HOCLTOM. Moot of th Purple Cow. (After O. Bnrrws.i I never missed a fuzzy Chow, I think I'll never miss one; v But I assure you, anyhow, I'd rather miss than kiss one. 1 never praised a Mormon's fam ily, nor will I praise one; But I am sure of this, I am, I'd ratber praise than raise one. 1 never passed a Superman, I never hoite to pass one; But take it from your Uncle Dan, 1 I'd father pass than suss oue! So Many of Ts Do, I know how cowboys rope the steera; I know how butlers buttle, too; I've seen the natives of Algiers; I know what wealthy people do when they are bored as they can be and almost every night I see a man hunt walrus near the poles; a villain choke a helpless maid and see him shot quite full of holes when forty cops begin a raid; and it is often too that I see cops besmeared with custard pie. 1 think that it is quite a treat to Bee the llamas at the zoo; to see what rich folks have to eat; to fish for sharks in gay Peru; to see a man wivh funny leet knock people over in the street; to hear the beat of horses hoofs the while an auto shoots the chute; to see a man dash o'er the roofs with forty cops in hot pursuit; to seo upon the western plain the days of redskin raids again; to see the bad man, roused with rum, run up an un dertaker's bill; to see a torn and weary bum steal pies from off a win dow sill; to take a ride below the sea and have queer monsters look at me; to see a burglar burgle flats; to, laugh until my ribs do ache at funny men with funny hats the funny laces that they make! So almost every night I go and dee a moving picture show. We Can't Either. "And do you keep a cat?" asked Prue Politely of Miss Mitt; Who then replied, "Indeed I do! I can't get rid of it!" Charlie Chaplin. For lonr I scorned to see thee, merry sprite. Soy In jr. "8urh hoodlum pranks should be unlawful. The low of brow he charms but me, goodnipht 111 bet he's awful! 'jr r "Aye, soethly is the rnsenl but a boor?o. To smear with custard pie a fellow mor tal Thnt is a very stupid thing, I'm sure. Whereat to chortle i" And thus I snake till lately did I see (Perforce, a lady took me) all thy capers; You're just ns funny as they say you be. The daily papers.. The, walk, the tone, are very well, but say, I most Reclaim, I'm most diverted under The comic looks that o'er thy features play. Hey, you're n wonder! I have a hunch thnt when you come to po (Jove stiiy the hour!) to your reward hereof ter. The deathless Shades will chuckle at you, so They'll die of laughter: TAD BV RUTH CAMERON. Live Folks and Dead Folks. It is Stevenson, isn't It, who felici tously speaks of people whose en trance into a room makes one feal as if another candle had been lighted? There are also people who some. times come into my life who make me feel as if a window had been opened, letting in lots of fresh air and givina; me a clearer and better outlook on thu world. That's what I mean by "live folks." And the people who never have that effect, who make the atmosphere a little stuffier than it already is, who chloroform the spirit of conversation by their presence, whose departure gives one the sense of a weight lifted, I call the dead -folks. All "Gaul is divided into three parts. All people are divided into three di visions, live folks, dead folks and the folks between. Most of us, of course, belong to the latter class. My sham pools t came to see me the other morning. One. of my house mates came into the room during the drying process. In tnree minutes we were engaged in an animated con versation. Now this housemate had been in a low state of mind, and had depressed us all by his lack-luster manner the last few days. Before the conversation was over he became an other man. "Well. Miss Wheeler," he said, "you certainly are a vitalizing person." And that is -just what she is. And that also is why she soon be comes a welcomed friend in every family which she first enters as the shampoo lady. Kverybody loves the live folks; everybody is galvanised, by them' into new vitality, and finds himself and tact with them. Whether one can raise one's self from the neutral class to the class of live folks is a question which natur ally presents itself. It is difficult to answer, isn't it? In the first place it is so hard to tell what makes people live. It isn't physical vitality. I have known people in perfect health who were as dead as doornails, as far as any vitalizing influence on others was concerned. And It Isn't mere sprlghtllness of manner; that's the base counterfeit of real aliveness. Now you all have live folku and dead folks in your circle of acquaint ance.' So maybe somebody can help me find out what this elusive quality is, and whether it can be cultivated or it? Just a gift. (Copyright by Ueorge Matthew Adams.) .Whwia rrre. ypvr fityjihe fient ti&ve ipaae& me.you Knew s irYe,HAtce wpjeg but Qfi, I SEDE i THE REASON. Yon ask me what's the matter And why I look so sad? Why the sonjrs of the lark and robin. Or the flowers don't make me glad? Therefore I'll tell you the reason For my anguish, my grief and pain The reason tbe Joys of springtime Don't make me happy again. We parted (I can't keep from weeping) Just one little hour ago And my path is drear and barren And my spirit Is filled with woe; I loved her, ah me how I loved her. My darling, my pride and my all, Hut now she has left me desolate And life is bitter as gall. Her beauty? I cannot express It, "Tis beyond the power of rhyme, She'd the face of a lovely Goddess With features grand and sublime. How I worshiped her and adored her. To me she was divine. But now I am forsaken by That little, old Dollar of mine. 1 Howard F. Johnson, EVENING STORl' The Boat Man Wins. (By Susan E. Clagett.) "You have heard of the place paved with good intentions, Pauline, dear. I am afrtCd many bricka are laid 10 my credit, for my intentions are always good but fail of accom plishment. I mean to write, but some how never do. This time you must forgive me, for I am most unhappy. And my unhappiness came from out a clear skv. Since then I have sounded the depths. BlueneBs! Despair better describes my feelings, earner is od durate.. Mother sides with him. "It Is nothing but pigheaded ob stinacy in father. Any one looking at Howard would know he is a gentle man. He certainly is good to look at, ann. of course. I think the sun rises ana sets in him. But father will not listen when I tell him we are en gaged. He merely Bays: 'When you care ror a man, Jane, you can marry mm as soon as he asks you. but so long as I live a make-believe one shall never have you." "What do you think he means? Howard is a perfect escort. He dances beautifully, sings divinely and sends me tne loveliest flowers. 1 will wait tor a little while to aee if father comes around, and if he won t I'll run away." "July 10th I thought my letter had reached you but have just found it in my portfolio. When 1 wrote a month ago I thought myself encompassed by misery, but my feelings were as noth ing to what they have been the past few days. "Father told me I must break off my engagement; that I should not see Howard again. I stormed. He said very little just sat in his morris chair and looked at me. I broke down and cried. I thought I had won him over then, for he looked as if he was going to cry with me. He didn't. He mere ly said, 'Jane, put on your hat and take a drive with your mother and me.' That was all. "I told myself I wouldn't. But I have never disobeyed father in my life, and wo started on that drive. It was a long one. It took us three days to reach this place; a little farm at the end of nowhere, thirty miles from the nearest railroad station! There 1s no postofflce, no telephone, no car. "I didn't find this out at first, not until after father and mother had gone. They wouldn't lock me in my room at home, but, Pauline, they have one' worse. They have left me here with two old people who lived with my grandfather when Dad was a little boy. 'As we were leaving home I re ceived such a dear letter from How ard and it. set my heart to singing in spile of my clash with father. But now everything is black again. I do not know tho name of the railroad station so many miles away, nor the name or the village postofflce, which is almost as far. No one will tell me and Howard's letter has- been a month unanswered. What can he think of me?" July 20 Pauline, dear, it Is a comfort to chat with you, even if my letter has to wait forever and forever to reach the office. I do get so hun gry for home news. Mother has writ ten once, but not a word from Did, which shows plainly that I am still in disrrrace. Today Peter told me he mignt go to tne station for mall. If he didn't, he thought Dan Isham would take my letters. Whoever is Dan Isham? I haven't seen a man, except Pettr, since father left me here. I wonder, if he is as old and wrinkled as Peter." "July 21 He came before I had finished my letter. Just an ordinary, farmer sort of person with overalls tucked into high boots, a coarse, fad ed blue gingham shirt and an old hat that looked as if it had come out of the Ark. He took my letters without a word, but as ho saw Howard's name on tne nrst or tne bunch he gave a little start and looked straight at me. He has nice eyes. I saw that, altho he turned them away at once. I won der what made him look at me so queerly when he saw Howard's name. I wonder what he thought of me. I had on that green sprigged voile you say is so becoming. It must be, for Howard told me I looked like a pic ture in it." "August loth I am seeing a good deal of Dan Isham. He lives on the next place, wherever that Is. "He isn't a bit like Howard, but he knows where to find the loveliest wood flowers, and this morning showed me the cutest little open-mouthed baby birds; mocking birds, he said they were. Tomorrow he is going to bring a horse and teach me to ride. No. I can not quarrel with him." "August 20th That is just what I have done. I told him I had received no letters because I could not send mv address and asked him the name of the postofflce. "He refused to tell me. He said if my father had wanted me to know he would have told me himself. "I glared. Then I flew Into a pas sion. That didn't move him In the least. He merely said: 'I think I will let yon have It out by yourself. When you are in a good humor let me know," and off he walked. "Lt him know! I'll talk to the dog and cat and chickens first. Oh! if could' only see Howard. I am so un happy." "August 24th Dan didn't wait for m. He came this morning and asked me to walk to King's Creek with him. T don't know what got into me, b felt I must talk of Howard. I told of our engagement, and how determined father is that it shall be broken off. but that I was determined to marry him when I came of age. 'And when will that he?' he asked. 'Tour appearance this morning sug gests nothing so much as that of a pretty, spoiled child of It.' "Spoiled child!" I gasped. I bit my lip until the blood came to keep back the words. But I had had three days of my own society. It was not enjoy able. I could not control my voice, however, so I turned my back on him. As I did so X caught sight of some thing that turned me cold with fright. Coming toward us with lowered head was a great black bull. "Something in my terrified silence. must have made Itself felt, for Dan said quickly, "What is it? What is the matter, Jane?' "His voice broke the tension. With a shuddering sob I caught hold of him and hid my face against his shoulder. "Why. child!' Then the low mut ter of that awful animal made him turn suddenly. Will you believe me. Pauline, Dan Isham laughed, but he didnt let me go. He put his hand under my chin and made me look at him. What he saw In my eyes I do not know. What I saw In his made me again hide my face against that old, faded, blue shirt. Even thru my fear I was glad father had told How ard Chandler I should not marry him. "1 did not mind Dan's laughing. there was such comfort in feeling his arms about me, but for propriety's sake I tried to slip from them, when he said "Jane, that steer Is one of Peter's ox team and Is as gentle as a lamb. Truly, I am thankful he put in an ap pearance Just now for I have been wondering ever since you began talk ing of Chandler, how long I would have to wait before you found out you loved me Instead. For you do love me. There Is no question about my feeling for you. I surrendered tho first time I saw you.' "I giggled. Pauline. That green sprigged voile did make make an im pression. "When we at last reached the house who should we find but father, and he shook Dan's hand as if he had known him all his life. It seems Dan had studied law in the office and had been associated more or less with Dad ever since. I don't know why I had never met him. It just happened so. I suppose. "Of course, Dan didn't rest until he had told father abovit ourselves. When he finished. Dad looked at me with a twinkle in his eyes that made me sus picious, but he said very solemnly; 'You can have her, Dan. You sure ly are a man after my own heart.' "I wonder, Pauline. I wonder. Do you think Dad could have had this in mind when he left me thirty miles from a postoffce?" (Copyright, 1914, by ths MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.) DINNER STORIES The farmer wanted an almanac. The peddler who had those veracious chronicles for sale was very obligini; in explaining their virtues. I have here two different almanacs from which you may choose," he said. "One of them contains the most holi days, but the other contains the most good weather." "I have come here," said the angry man to the superintendent of the street car line, "to get justice; jus tice, sir. xesieraay as my wife was getting off one of your cars the con ductor stepped on her L dress and tore a yard of frilling off the skirt" The superintendent remained cool. "Well, sir," he said, "I don't know that we are to blame for that. What do you expect me to do? Get her a new dress?" "No, sir, I do not Intend to let you off so easily as that," the other man replied gruffly. He brandished in his right hand a small piece of silk. "What I propose to have you do," he said, "is to match this silk." "Why don't you have your wife ex amined by an alienist "Rather have a good native Amer ican doctor any time." UNRECOGNIZED By BRINK ERHOFF. HOUSEHOLD HINTS The Table. Fluffy Fried Eggs Have the fat hot. Break in eggs, one at a time, us fast as possible; sprinkle with salt and pepper, then add a dash of boiling water. Cover with tight lid and let fry a few seconds. In this way eggs are free from grease or fat when served, and the whites are not leath ery. This method of cooking will re quire a little time to be well mastered, as one must move rather fast. Nourishing Veal Soup Boil a piece of veal suitable for a fricassee, pie or hash. When tender take meat up and slip out the bones; put bones back In kettle and boil two hours; then strain the liquor and stand away until next day. When wanted, take of the fat, put the soup into a clean pot, add pepper, salt and onions, half teacup rice, tablespoon flour mixed in cold water, and slice of potatoes; boll thirty minutes and serve hot. Pork Cake (for Thanksgiving) Fat salt pork, one pound, chopped fine or ground; boiling water, one pint, two cups brown sugar, one cup dark molasses, one teaspoon soda dis solved in molasses, one pound raisins, five cups flour, one tablespoon each of cinnamoir and nutmeg, one-half ta blespoon cloves. Bake slowly. This makes a small milk pan cake and will keep two months or longer. Carrots Mashed carrots; Boil car rots Jn salted water to which a tea spoonful of sugar has been added. When tender drain, add a large lump of butter and mash. Carrots cut lengthwise and fried in butter until a delicate brown are very good. Scrape and cut carrots in rounds, slice c small onion. Boil in salted wa ter until tender. Drain and keep warm while making the sauce as fol lows: Apple and Onion Salad Peel and slice apples, sprinkle over them a very little sugar. Slice onions and let stand in cold water (about two onions to six apples). When ready to serve, mince onion very fine, stir in with apple, serve on lettuce with mayonnaise dressing. One-Egg Three-Layer Cake Two riin brown suerar (for one and one- half cups granulated sugar), one-half cud butter and lard mixed (or lara substitute), one-half cup buttermilk or sour milk, one-half cup boiling water. r El CLARA Be f iwe Tales ME HELPS BEST WHO HELPS HIMSELF. If you would your courage double. Help yourself In cv'ry trouble. Nothing is more stupid than waitin for something to happen. And the longer you have to wait the stupider the waiting becomes. After Toppy left in dicgrace and Mr. Jim Crow hal departed with his sneering laugh, Mr. Turkey became very bored with his own society. He pretended to scratch a little but it was only pretending he didn't fool himself one bit. He pretended that help was coming in a minute or two, but that didn't work, either. I tell you, when you can't fool yourself, you're in a bad fix; Mr. Turkey realized that. And tor the first time since th? farmer had shut him up he began to use his own had. "Those stupid folk will never get me out of here, I can see that," he said, positively. "If I'm to get out. I'll have to do It myself." And when a person or a tu.-key begins depend ing on himself, trouble is as good as eone. Proud in his budding self-confidence. Mr. Turkey started struttinc; and immediately felt the pull of the rope on his leg. Ke looked down at that rope; he studied it carefully. Tt did look strong, there was no doubt about that. "Gnawing wonli be good," thought Mr. Turkey, "but I can't gnaw. Pecking may be good and I 'can peck." So he beaan at the knot. He pecked and he pulled; he worked with all his mlg'it. And (you'll have j to believe this, because this is a true j story) it wasn't five minutes before t he had that tlsrht knot packed apart i and the rope off his leg! That shows what working will do! Once the rope was off, Mr. Turkey felt more like a citizen and tbe fence didn't discourage him nearly no much. He looked at the high, back fence where Mr. Jim Crow had perched. one egg, one-half cup cocoa, one tea spoon vanilla two and one-quarter cups flour (before it is sifted), one teaspoon soda, one teaspoon baking powder, Stir both baking powder and soda in flour. If white cake is desired use white sugar and leavo out cocoa. This makes a cheap cake and a large one. Things Worth Knowing. To clean upholstered furniture make -a paste of fuller's earth and clean water. Spread it on the clotn with a brush and allow to get thoroly dry. Brush out the powder with a stiff furniture brush. The dirt will" disappear with the powder. This must on no account be until the ful ler's earth is dry. To mend broken china or fine earthenware the white of an egg, beaten and mixed with plaster of par is and powdered quicklime, will be found satisfactory, but it must be mixed just before use. When a piece or pieces have been cemented and placed in position they must be tied to prevent movement until the cement dries. Tape is the best material. To prevent table oilcloth from slip ping turn the old oilcloth face down ward, shiny side next the board, and place a tack in each corner. Trim the edges so they will not hang below the new cloth. Place the new clotb on top, and It will stick without any thing to hold it. Overhead lights, commonly called domes, are entirely out of style, praise be, for they were usually hideous monstrosities In green and glaring orange and red so-called art glass; now the side lights with shield-shaped shades are in use with candle on the table. Hold hot stovo lid or flatlron over that white spot on furniture caused from dampness. In making pie crust add a little baking powder tq prevent soaking. Make two --small funnels out of white paper and place them in the top of pies which are likely to run out while baking, and you will have no more trouble. Peas and Asparagus One can peas, one can asparagus tips. Cut aspara gus in one and one-half Inch lengths, heat each in their own liquor, strain. Mix two tablespoons butter, one tea spoon flour, one-fourth cup boiling water. Add to this the peas and asparagus. Mix and let simmer a few minutes. EJJGHSAM JIIUIDSON He looked at the right side; he looked at the front. And he didn't need to look any further. That front side of the fence was low; much lower than the back; plenty low to be sailed over by a turkey who had lots of courasa He simply spread his wings rnd sailed over the fence. and no rope on his leg. Mr. Turkey didn't stop to get ready for flight. He simply spread his wings, sailed over the fence and strut ted back into the farmyard. The roosters and the hens, the ducks and the geese who had given him up for lost stared in amazement. Mr. Turkey didn't notice them. He strutted up and down, up and down the yard, crowing proudly, "If that farmer thinks he's going to eat me for his holiday dinner, he's mistaken. I'm able to take care of myself!" And the next to the biggest turkey was served for the farmer's holiday dinner. (Copyright Clara Ingram Judson.)

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBFP 4. 1916 LAME DUCKS BY SCORE BACK FOR FAREWELL TURN 17 Senators and 70-Odd Con gressman Winding up Terms. Senator Kern Most Conspicuous i Keiiogg and Johnson there is talk that they won't line up with the hard "Laille DUCK" in ClOCk. shelled Republicans unless the lining I Up is done on their side of the street. 1 The other senators now in their last OLD WHEEL HORSES OUSTED aezlnTot eZTt. 'publican: O Gorman of New x one, Many Careers Into. Political Democrat, not a candidate, succeeded hy Calder. Republican; Catron of New Eclipse 'ext March 4. Mexico, Republican, not a candidate. succeeded by Andreus A. Jones, Demo- crat, present assistant secretary of the Tniririiri Lnnv Kfril. Clarke, i interior, and Sutherland of Utah. Re laggart, KnOX, JVeril, iarhrt nuhlimn. defeated bv William H. King, et aL, to Say Valedictories. ins favor of the country, lost it? two WMshinsrton Dec 4. Seventeen I most picturesque members and gained va.shington i.ec. ft another who bids fair to surpass in members of the senate and 70-odd popu,ar interest and on record, "lame-duck" members of the house "Alfalfa" Both Out. today began he,r f.na leg.slatlve lone Davia, foe of rum ad duties. When the spotlight fades preparedneas and frjeni of prohibition March 4 on the Sixty-fourth congress, j and flannel shirts, will make room for they will gather up their .ogas and anotner Democrat from Texas Daniel start for home and private citizen- E Garrett. Davis, with flowing whiff ship. I kers and conversation, gained a meas These "lame ducks" are those the ure of fame when in the Congressional populace turned tnumos aown upon the last election. Their service ranges anywhere from a little less than a year, in the case of Senator Tom Taguart of Indiana, to twenty two years in the cases of Senator Clarence D. Clark of Wyoming and. Representative Sparkman of Florida. Clark ranking third in point of service in the senate and Sparkman fourth in continuous service in the house. Perhaps the most conspicuous fig ure in the line-up of the prospective has-beens is Senator John W. Kern, one-time candidate for vice president and senate Democratic floor leader and chairman of the powerful com mittee on privileges. He went to make way for Harry S. New. senator elect from Indiana, with James K. (Jim) Watson, former whip of a re cently Republican house, who brought to an untimely end the senatorial ser vice of "Torn" Taggart. W. F. Kirby of Arkansas will suc ceed the late Senator Clarke, who died during the summer. Senator Chilton of West Virginia, well known here for his interest in blooded horses as well as for his legislative activities, will make way for Hep. Howard Suther land. Republican, who fought his way from the house to the senate in two sessions. Father of PartT-l Post Loses. Senator Johnson of Maine, carried to the senate on the Democratic tide of 10 Hi, will be succeeded next con gress by Frederick Hale, son of the late senator from Maine. L ne aereai ox oenaior mair iee or Maryland sealed two political fates for the present He was defeated in the primaries by Rep. David J. Lewis "Father" Lewis of the parcel post. Lewis in turn was defeated by a Re publican Dr. Joseph I. F'rance. Another of the old-timers listed amons the missing at the next ses sion will be Senator Du Pont of Dela ware. Du Pont is succeeded by J. O. Wolcott. Democrat. Four men amnns the new ones are of particular interest. Philander C. Knox, former secretary of state and $25 DOLL FREE Miss 1-lorailora will be given BUU.' Tlilirsiluy. leeember 21 8 o'clock P. M. 713 Kansas Ave. Get the Round Package Used for Vi Century. brDiaofiii in viWwpnlr- former senator, will replace Senator Oliver, P.epublican also in the lime light last session when he was ac cused of having big war bride hold ings. He was not a candidate for re election. Peter Goelet Gerry, of the upper Htrata of Newport, and a Demo crat, will succeed Senator Lippitt of Rhode Island, Republican. Two Trust Busters There. Political interest will center on Frank B. Kellogg trust busting Kel logg of some years back former gov ernor and senator-elect from Minne sota to succeed Senator Clapp, also Republican; and Senator-elect Hiram Johni-on of California, succeeding Senator Works, likewise Republican. .1 i .i f fnr T-P 1 -l f i n Of succeeded by J. S. Frelinghuysen. Re-i Democrat. The house, bv grace of the chang- RKrj j,e Btated he was not a "collar Democrat and when in the house proper he later confessed he had fallen a victim to the say and festive neck tie. He says "booze and boodle de feated him. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray of Oklahoma, who jumped lightly into the gallery of immortals when at the Baltimore con vention, aked how the Oklahoma delegation stood, he replied: "We stand a a unit: separately," will be succeeded by T. D. McKeown, Demo crat. But the house's taste for the pic turesque wiil he appeased with Miss Jeanette Rankin of Montana, Repub lican, who succeeds Lame Duck Stout, Democrat. Representative Buchanan of Illi nois, Democrat, indicted in the labor's peace council probe in New York dur ing the hyphen activities last year, will fade into the west in favor of Xiela Jull. Republican. Clyde Tavenner, Democrat, of the same state, who ex changed insults with the Xavy league all lat sprina:. is succeeded by William J. Graham, Reoublican. Charles H. Randall of Los Angeles, will continue to represent the Prohi bitionist party in congress, despite a tendency "repeatedly to call him a Democrat and in some cases an inde pendent." The political history of the next ses sion depends on how the members having the balance of power a Pro hibitionist, a Socialist, a couple of in dependents and several members, who mav vote anv way at aH-Shape up i heir nartv preferences w, tv0 i, ..t,, w tion of a speaker, the country will find whether the house really is Demo cratic or Republican. Justify Raise in Fares. Washington, Dec. 4. The interstate commerce commission today ruled that the Illinois Traction system is justified in raising its fares 100 per cent be tween St. Lotlis, Mo., Venice, Madison and Granite City, 111. You Don't Have to Buy Anything Think of It, girls! How would you like to own a big doll, 30 inches tall, all dressed in 91 Iks and satins, hat, shoes, etc. Her Name Is Miss Floradora .lust Come in After School Tomorrow or any day. until December 21, and let us explain how you can gel this Beautiful Big Doll FREE. See the Doll in Our South Window t'ome in. We want yon to See Our New Toy Department. Toy for Girls and Boy Imported Dolls Tn spite of the war we have dolls made in Germany. They were shipped by Parcel Post to Switzerland and re packed to America, Priced from SI. 2.1 to S10. American Dolls, from 50 to $5 Phone 1325 Ask For and GET THE ORIGINAL HALTED PfliLfC Made from clean, rich milk with the ex tract of select malted grain, malted in our own Malt Houses under sanitary conditions. Infanta and children thrive en it Agrees with the weakest atomach c," the invalid or thm aged Need no cooking nor addition o milk. Nourishes and sustains more than tea, coffee, etc Should be kept at home or when traveling. A nu tritious food-drink may be pr pared in a moment. A glassful hot before retiring induces refreshing; sleep. Also in lunch tablet torm toi business men. Substitutes Cost YOU Sam Price Take Package Home DON'T PAY GIRLS Five and Ten Cent Stores In dicted In State Report. Seventy-Five Per Cent on Less Than $6 a Week. ONLY $3 WEEKLY TO SOME Impossible to Live and Eat on Such a Wage. Only One Girl Given Than $2 a Day. More "Wages inadequate to provide a girl a comfortable living,' is the indict ment which Miss Linna Bresette has returned against Kansas five and ten cent stores, in a biennial report to be sent this week to Governor Capper. As state factory inspector and secre tary of the welfare commission, Miss Bresette declares that 75 per cent of the girls working in five and ten cent stores in this state receive less than $6 a week. In view of the present high cost of living. Miss Bresette is con fident the present scale is not a liv ing wage. It is probable the report on five and ten cent stores will be used as the basis for some drastic wage legisla tion. Copies of the report covering wages to women in all classes of work will-be sent to members of th legislature some time during the cur rent month. Investigation of five and ten cent stores by Miss Bresette revealed the fact that in nearly every instance man agers of the stores refused to accept applicants for positions who did not live at home. A majority of the girls working in these stores live at home. Miss Bresette reports. Pointing to the demands of store owners for girls who do not pay their own way. Miss Bresette declares the rule is "a frank confession that these stores do not pay a living wage." Investigations in three stores showed that thirteen girls were on the pay rolls who did not live at home. These girls were forced to pay their own room rent, buy clothes, eat and provide themselves with rec reation money at a wage of less than $6 a week. Less Than $3 a Week. Records gathered by Miss Bresette show that forty-eight girls working in 5 and 10 cent stores- receive less than $3 a week. A majority of these girls work less than forty-eight hours a week. Such hours are mentioned in the report as "partial time." In addi tion to the record of forty-eight girls receiving less than 3 a week. Miss Bresette found sixteen girls working full time who received more than $3 a week and less than $4 a week. Wages of more than $4 and less than $5 a week affect 126 girls in 10 cent stores, while 161 girls receive more than $5 and less than $6 a week. Wage scales of more than $6 and less- than $7 a week affect seventy-five girls. The record reports- wages paid 47) girls in 5 and 10 cent stores. Of this number 351 receive less than $6 a week. Fourteen girls are shown to receive between $S and $9 a week, while twenty receive more than $7 and less than $8. Five girls are paid more than $9 and less than $10 a week, while four girls? draw pay checks of between $10 and $12 a week. Just one girl was found whose pay check was in excess of $12 and it was less than $15 a week. Miss Bresette reports that ventila tion in these stores is poor and that complaints have brought few changes in conditions1. Wage scales in the various stores are based on sales, the report recites. Nearly all of the 5 and 10 cent stores of the state are links in chains of stores. Managers of these stores are allowed a stipulated per cent of grops sales to be paid for clerk hire and store help. NYGREN IS RE-ELECTED Swedish Tonne People's Cnlon Closes Conference Here. JohnW. Nygren was re-elected pres ident of the Kansas Swedish Young People's Union for another year at the opening session of the Young Peo ple's conference held Saturday morn ing at the Swedish Bethel Mission church. Nygren was one of the found ers of the Kansas and Missouri organi zation of the Young People's socie- l ties, in the Swedish Mission churches. The other officers elected were: Gust Peterson, of Salina, vice-president; Miss Kdith Johnson, of Topeka. secretary; Miss Hedvig Beckstrom, of Lindsborg, vice -secretary and Ed An derson of Salina. treasurer. Reports were heard on the progress of the work of the union in the state. The Rev. O. E. Almstrom. Brandtford, gave a report of the missionary work carried on by the societies during the past yar. Resolutions were passed condemning the dime novel and other spurious forms of literature. A com munion service was held Saturday I evening, at which the Rev. A. H. Ja I cobson of Marquette spoke on "The i Value of Communion." The Sunday Meetings. The Sunday meetings began at 6 o'clock in th morning with a prayer service led by Gust H. Peterson of Sa lina. At the 10 o'clock meeting ad d resses were delivered by the Rev. Nels Heiner of Lindsnorg and the Rev. O. E. Almstrom of Brandtford. Sunday afternon was given over to a song service, followed by a talk on "Christian Citizenship" by Governor Capper. Miss Edith Johnson gave a review of the twenty-five years' his tory of the society. The conference closed with a short service Sunday evening at which Will Swedenborg of Salina. the Rev. A. E. Swenson of Leonardville, and the Rev. Claus Pearson of Ottawa were the speakers. The next conference will be held at Lindsborg in September, 1917. FOOFmLUJP FIRST- Congressman Fitzgerald Will Intro duce Embargo Measure at Once. Washington. De- 4. A bill calling for an embargo oti foodstuffs prob ably wi 11 be introd u ced in con gress immediately thit body convenes to day. Representative Fitzgerald of New York, it was learned at his office, ex pects to introduced his resolution call ing for an embargo at noon. Definite decision will be reached by Fitzscrald before the house convenes. !rottledby allies Greece Apologizes to Germany Sending Ministers Home, for Berlin, Dec. 4 (via Sayvillo wire less). The Greek minister in Berlin has expressed to Secretary for For eign Affairs Zimmerman regrets for the enforced departure of ministers of the central powers from Athens, Zim merman announced to the reichstas today. Th ministers were forced to leave because of allied demands on Greece. The Greek minister asked that Ger man consider Greece's plight. Secretary Zimmerman assailed the allies for their use of force in Greece 'and referred to their claims of "inde pendence for sm-'.U nations" as "mock- DON'T GIVE A HANG That's Mayor House's Attitude on City Manager Plan. Tandy Thinks It Might Be a Good Thing for City. Mayor House doesn't give a whether Topeka adopts a city manager form of government or not. Commis sioner Wasson doesn't wish to be quoted on the proposition, while Com missioner Tandy is in favor of it so far as he knows, altho he hasn't been in a city where the' new style of govern ment is in operation. Commissioner Newland wasn't present and Commis sioner Porter already has expressed himself on the subject.. "You can nay I Just don't give a said Mayor House. "I thought commission government would be a panacea of municipal ills in Topeka." "I haven't been in a city where the plan is being worked out," said Com missioner Tandy. "But on the face of it the new plan is a good one." "I never saw it in operation," said Commissioner Wasson, "and wouldn't like to be quoted on the subject." Vp to Legislature First. From conversation between the commissioners at a meeting this morn ing, it is considered almost certain that a bill for the city manager form of government will be introduced in the legislature this winter by Wichita and Kansas City, Kan., interests- Also it is expected that a hard fight will be made in both cities on the bills per mitting cities to initiate the new form of government, if they desire. Henry Allen is conducting a fight for the city manager plan in Wichita. All members of the city commission have been invited to attend the Gar land dinner at the Chamber of Com merce Wednesday noon. Mr. Garland is a member of the welfare department of the city of Dayton. That city has the city manager plan of government. THEIR "H0'MET0WN" Novelty Vaudeville Stars Here This Week, Lived In Topeka. In addition to producing several movie stars and Fred Stone, of musical comedy fame, Topeka is the hom,e town of the "Spanish Goldinis," the top line act at the Novelty this week. The "Spanish Goldinis" off stage will be recognized as Stephen Losh. Alwil ad Hupp and Goldie Losh, all of whom have lived in Topeka and Richland. The trio left Kansas some sixteen years ago and have had a remarkable success in vaudeville, many of their engagements having been in Europe. Among the foreign countries in which they have performed are Germany, Austria, Russia, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal. Argentina. Bra zil, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The war termi nated their foreign engagements and they have returned to a series of suc cessful appearances jon the American vaudeville stages. COUNCIL OF CHURCHES Delegates Represent 30 Denominations and 18 Million Members. St. Louis, Dec. 4. Delegates began to arrive here today for the quadren nial convention or the federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. The sessions of the convention will begin on Wednesday but today and tomor row preliminary conferences will be held. imriy aenominations, with a com bined membership of eighteen million, are represented in the council. Poisoned by Thousands (By L. H. Smith, M. D.) The victims of auto-intoxication are many thousand every day. By reason of the toxins, or poisons, bred in the intestines, these poisonous bacteria are sent all thru the blood channels and the victim feels tired, sleepy and headachy, or the brain doesn't work as usual. The best treatment for this is to drink hot water before breakfast plenty of water all day and procure a supply of Dr. Pierce's Pleasatft Pel lets, made of Mayapple, leaves of aloes, etc., with no calomel, entirely vegetable, which can be obtained at drug stores for 25 cents. Kqually important is it to cleanse kidneys and bladder, and drinking plentifully of pure water will cleanse them to a certain extent. Then obtain at the drug store a little Anuric, which was first discovered by Dr. Pierce of Surgical Institute In Buf falo. Anuric should be taken before meals. It is many times more potent than lithia in throwing off the poi sonous accumulations of uric acid. Dr. Weir Mitchell once said: "What we call diseases are only symptoms of conditions. Allow the man's vitality to be reduced to a certain point, and he is ripe for any of these weaknesses, or certain conditions which we call disease." Through failure of kidneys to act, through congestion, inflammation, any person's condition is ripe for dis ease to fasten its hold upon the sys tem. Anuric has been tested for the past few years for kidney, bladder, uric acid troubles, rheumatism, gout and such ailments as follow, and so many cases both acute and stubborn have yielded to this wonderful remedy that I do not hesitate to recommend it. Advertisement HIT COSTOF FOOD Four Bills Introduced Today by Representatiye Fitzgerald. One Resolution to Put Embargo on Foodstuffs. Washington.Dec. 4. Four bills de signed to touch the high cost of food were introduced today by Representa tive Fitzgerald of New York. Two propose a food embargo. One would regulate the cold storage of foods and another would regulate the admission of farm products and manufactured foodstuffs to the parcel post and re duce the rates on food. "The enactment of either of the bills," said Representative Fitzgerald, "will bring immediate relief to the country. The people want action; they are heartily tried of talk and investi gations." A mass of petitions was filed in fa vor of the legislation. One embargo resolution would prohibit exportation of any farm product or manufactured foodstuffs for one year. The other would empower the president to sus pend exportations whenever prices be came extortionate and public interests requires. The bills would provide for ship ment of food to Americans abroad or to peoples made destitute by the war, pestilence or other extraordinary events. Interstate transportation of cold storage foods, unless the date of stor age is distinictly marked, would be prohibited, together with an arbitrary prohibition of interstate transportation of any product in cold storage more than ten months, except butter, which might be held longer. A bill for free transportation of wheat for seed was introduced by Representative Steener- son of Minnesota. It is intended to supply seed far the Red River valley which has been drawing on Caoada, Russia, Hungary and Rumania. Secretary Redfield to day sent a report on food prices to the White House which is understood to show "wide differences between the prices paid to producers and those paid by consumers. For the time being the report is considered confidential and will be held with many othersa being made for the president. GREEK ENVOY RESIGNS Incensed by Allies' Policy at Athens, He Leaves London. London, Dec. 4. The Greek minis ter in London resigned today announc ing his inability to agree with the pol icy of his government as indicated in recent events at Athens in connection with King Constantino's refusal to sur render arms requested by the allies. Censure King Constantine. London, Dec. 4. In the house of commons today Lord Robert Cecil, trade minister, said the British gov ernment considered King Constantine and his government to have been in volved in the events at Athens and that the British government in con junction with its allies, would take steps to bring about a radical solution of the question which had arisen. Announce Withdrawal. London, Dec. 4. Withdrawal of the proposed issue of British treasury notes was announced in commons to day by Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna. TAKE IN TOY DISPLAYS Parkdale Kindergarten Down to See Santa Clnns on Kansas Avenue. Hitched to a rope, twenty odd youncsters from the Parkdale kinder Karten inspected the toy-filled win dows on Kansas avenue this morning, chaperoned by five young women who held both ends of the rope. The tots, ranging from 4 to 7 years of age. marched two abreast, each one clutching the "life line" with one hand.J while one of the teachers, at the head of the procession, led the way and directed the line of march. Another teacher held the rear end of the rope, while three more patrolled the entire "chain-gang" and watched out for the etragglers. The kinder garten wound about thru the traffic in perfect safety and under proper di rection, while motorists slowed down and watched the line extra cloeely. "Just out seeing the toys," explained the young woman at the rear end of the line, "and this is the easiest and safest way to handle a bunch of youngsters on the street." MILITARY BOARD MEETS Important Changes Will Be Made In tbc Kansas National Guard. Plans for changing various phases in the discipline and disposition of the Kansas National Guard are being discussed today at a meeting of the Kansas military board at the state house. Members of the board pres ent at the meeting are: Col. Percy Hoisington, Newton; Col. Wilder S. Metcalfe, Lawrence: Senator Charles E. Huffman, Columbus, and Adjutant General C. I. Martin. General Martin entertained members of the board at luncheon at the new Chamber of Commerce this noon. "There will be a" few changes neces sary within the year to conform with the new military law passed at the last session of congress," said General Martin at the Chamber of Commerce today. BUY YOUR COAL NOW Topeka, Dealer Says Don't Walt I ntil Zero Weather Arrives. J. W. Fisher, for 36 years a dealer in coal, thinks the people of Topeka who burn coal in the winter would do well to order it now. The coal haulers need the work now more than at the time when business is rushing in the cold weather, he says, and If the fuel is arranged for now, there will be no trouble at all in .procuring it. He declares it to be impossible to store all the coal that will be used this win ter. "Why a man couldn't buy sufficient ground for the storage of all the coal that Topeka would use," he asserts. "You can't sell coal if people don't buy it." Preparedness in. other than military matters, is his slogan. Two Drowned While Skating. Duluth, Dee. 4. Margaret Swendby of Duluth and Rudolph Korgrin o; Decorah, Iowa, guests at a week-end house party at Pike Lake, near Du luth, were drowned last night while skating. DAILY WEATHER REPORT. Furnished by tbe weather bnrean orlce tt Topeka, Kan., for the twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. Monday. Stations. High. Low. Prec W ther. Buffalo, N. Y 44 40 O Cloudy Itostnn, Mass. 44 30 T Kain Calirarv, Alb 40 18 0 Clear Chicago, 111 5ii 5J 0 Cloudy Cincinnati, O V2 .16 0 Cloudy Concordia. Kan... flu 34 0 Clear Corpus Christ! 74 ftfl 0 Clear Denver, Colo 58 40 0 Clear Ilea Moinea, Ia...'SS 42 0 Fair Ioilge Citv. Kan.. OA 28 0 Fair Duluth, Minn 2S 0 Foej-y Kl Paso. Tex til! 44 0 Clear Ft. Worth, Tex... 83 54 0 Clear Oxlvrston. Tex 70 OB 0 Cloudy Havre. Mont 52 SO T Rain Jacktonville Fl... tw 54 0 Clear Kansas City, Mo... 0 38 0 Foggy Little Rook, Ark.. 58 04 0 Clear Loa Angeles, Cal.. 58 134 .32 Cloudy New Orleans. La.. 72 4 .04 Fair New York, N. Y... 44 40 .01 Cloudy N. Platte, Neb 00 !M 0 Clear Oklahoma City 70 42 0 Clear Phoenix, Ariz 08 40 0 Clear Pittsburg, Pa .VI 48 0 Cloudy Portland. Ore 50 40 5 Cloudy St. .Toavph, Mo 04 44 0 Fopgy St. Louis, Mo 18 50 T Cloudy St. Paul, Minn 4(1 if 0 Clear Salt Lake, Utah... 48 40 0 Cloudy Han Francisco 58 02 .50 Rain Sanlt St. Marie 44 RS .0.5 Cloudy Seattle. Wash 48 38 .18 Fair Sheridan, Wyo 54 34 .01 ,Cloudy Spokane. Wash 42 32 .12 Clear Swift Current, Sua. 40 32 0 Clear Tampa. Fla 74 DO 0 Fair Toledo. 0 54 44 .02 Cloudy TOPEKA. KAN 02 30 0 Clear Washington. 1). C. 50 30 0 Cloudy Wichita .Kan 34 0 Clear Winnipeg, Man .It) 30 0 Cloudy TICKET CLERKS BUSY j Railroads Are Preparing Their Traf fic Reports for November. ""It's just one thing after another," said one of the local railroad ticket clerks today. He referred to the fact that after the Thanksgiving crowds were about finished, the end of the month called for a lot of extra work in the monthly reports. Every ticket clerk In the city is working on the November statements. It will require several days to finish them. Passenger traffic in November of this year will be shown as approxi mately equal to that of 1915, it is be lieved, when the reports are finished. The reports of the months are com pared with -the reports of the same months in the previous year, fio spe cial increase or decrease is expected to appear in this year's statements. FEW ARE GOING SOUTH Continued Warm Weather Is Cutting Down Traffic of Railroads. Railroad men are between two fires on the weather proposition. They don't know whether they want the pleasant weather to continue or whether they don't. They stand to lose and win both ways. A sudden cold spell would empha size the car shortage when the coal begins to get shy. Dealers have al ready blamed them for the lack of transportation facilities for coal shortage, and made dire and gloomy prophecies as to what would happen if a real cold spell come along. On the other hand, as long as it is like tnis in Kansas, why go to Flor ida or California? It's an unanswer able question for a great many Kan sas people, who are content to remain at home as long as the October sun shine continues to slop over into De cember. Traffic to southern points Is slower tnan usual at this time of vear. and the passenger men blame the fact .on the warm weather which persists nere. "Traffic to the south usually picks up right away in the fall, when a real cold spell comes on," said one of them today. TOPEKANS RE-ELECTED Dr. Foy President, J. II. Gabriel Sec retary of Kansas' CUIropi actors. Emporia, Kan., Dec. 4. Nearly hundred chiropractors from all over Kansas attended the sixth annual convention of the Kansas Chiroprac- tnm' niMnftijitinn T" Vi nnnvuntinn opened with a business meeting in the Commercial club rooms. Officers elected are A. C. Foy, Topeka, re-elected president; E. J Boorne, Parsons, first vice president: W. F. Lipphardt, Great Bend, second vice president; J. H. Gabriel, Topeka, secretary -treasurer; Charles Green, Stafford; H. A. Post. Winfield; J. W. Johnson. Hutchinson; M. A. Jones. Emporia: V. L. S nod grass, Independ ence, directors. EXECUTE TWO SLAYERS Foreigners Pay Penalty by Electrocu tion at Pennsylvania Prison. Bellefont, Pa.. Dec. 4. Two mur derers, one of them a youth, were electrocuted today in the penitentiary at Rockview. They were Dominick Digisco, 18 years old," of Pottsville, Pa., who killed an ice cream vender, and Stanislaus Woceskoake of Beaver county, who murdered a fellow coun tryman. esino first aid for skin troubles "Will Resinol Ointment really stop this dreadful itching and clear my eczema away Madam', if you only knew as much about Resinol as doctors do how safe it is to use, liow promptly it acts you would not doubt, you would use it at once. Usually it stops itching immediately and soon removes every bit of eruption." Rerinol OiataMnt is M iMrlr SaKolorcd that it an be OMd on expand luriaees with oat attracting undue attention. Sold br all drarrsts. For sample free, write to Dept. 37-R, Resinol, Baltimore, Mi ii i til The Great Store is Ready for Xmas Shoppers II mi Real Money Savings LJ ART Schaffner Marx fine .clothes cost you very little the way we're selling them now the necessity for quick clearance of our broken lines requires a disrecardinir 6f nrecedents you get the benefit. Hart Schaffner Marx 1916 Sur- plus best suits and overcoats newest stvles. colora. oat from' 35 to 50 H. S. M. regular $30, $25 and $22.50 I from 35 to 50 H. S. M. V-.VV 1 I regular $30, $25 and $22.50 fX fw'W: vA I clothes as sold by all H. S. f-fii j M. dealers yours now. at W'ffj Auerbach Guettel iff Washburn Dramatic Club PRESENTS ii Green Stockings Grand Opera House Saturday, December Nine Matinee, 25c Evening, 50c, 25c 17 SC MS? I BUYING DAY5M until 1 uarnLum V and 10c Mon. -Tncs.- Wed i WILFRED LUtAS and CONSTANCE TALMADGE In a thrilllntr detective drama: The Microscope Mystery Also another of those real laugh producers, m Keystone Comedy Majestic FRI DEC 8 Em Th Grit Horse Rtw Ml I Beautiful "Queen Ben' J Wl The Funny I'trkmninnlei OLD KENTUCKY Bin- Novel Parade Kvrrr Itmr Nov. Nnt. Prices JS-SO-75C i Boxes l: Matinee Nat. tSc; Children lftc Fntlr K. for 'lnrd TVorle TUB VODEVILLK SHOP "SHIELDING SHADOW The 5th Edltloa and 5 VAUDEVILLE ACTS TODAY p. m. lOe (TONIGHT 7i45. iw-te-soc Journal Ads Get Results I 16 J jTav?": ill fl n tjn I n Christmas Shoppers Will find our stocks complete with all the novelties of 'the season. By far the largest assortment, choicest novelties and newest ideas In Men's Furnishings. We help you select "his" gift and save you time. Patient and efficient salespeople. We invite your Inspection. on Finest Clothing L'". ttfyP2 fA j I AJl In SAVE Realizing that economy is the order of the day we suggest bigger orders of common eatables and supplies $5 Orders for Instance 12Ib.Ham$2.04 1 lb. 17c with $4 order of other grocerlss. Your choice. Perfection, Big 4, Banquet, White Loaf Flours. 16 lbs. Sugar $1 OR 48 lbs. Flour $220 Specials and Regular Items for Tomorrow FSENH TIBS IPS. peck Me Pt'MPKiNS, HOMIXT, lnrire esna, PEAS and No. 2 size TOMATOE. can IS 8KEDKI) RAISINS, 5 pkgl 4e APPLES, fancy Jonathan, pk 00s CREAMERY BUTTER, frelb, best quality, lb tie DIl.l. PICKLES, new. Urge size dozen Ian APPLE BETTER Full quart jars. each 38e DRIED SWEET COR, lb ..I5e PINK SALMON.tall can, 2 for Me SAL SODA 10 .lbs for tS BAKING POWDER K. C. 23c can. .le COFFEE. frb roasted, lb Ur MATCHES Be packages. 4 for zSe TOILET PAPER 10c rolls. 4 for..Xte tin. Fancy Whale Grain. 4 lb. for.Ua I.IWA ar PINK BEANS, lb.... 10c FLOI B The Kegal 48-lb. sack, .S!.M MEATS COMPorND Best quality 10-lb. lots ..a. SI.CJ BREAKFAST BACON SQUARES lb. too SMOKED SHOULDERS, lb..... IS DRV SALT PORK lb lie BREAKFAST BACONr-Ruftar cured, by tbe atrip or Vi strip, lb Me -v.1 r i W uiiiftM Corner Nscni k-I Sc milium IRIS lOc ..minis TODAY TOMORROW S3 Wallace Reid and C!eo Ridgeley "The Yellow Pawn" 1 AMo Path Kews rs. stlllll .11111111111 nilinHlIilllllllllHIimig tick1 1 Vt UaM-A 5 r

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1916 DID NOTDREAM IT Girl Won't Be Shaken by "egro Attorney's Grill. He Tries to Make Myth of "Attempted Assault." SAW HIM IN HER BEDROOM Lottie Bivens Insists She Was "ot Mistaken. Admits She Has Nightmares, hut ot This Time. Klisha Scott, young negro attorney, is trying to convince 14-year-old Lottie Bivens that she only dreamed t-a Archie Porter, a negro, slipped Into her bedroom one moonlight night In October and attempted a criminal as sault upon her. The case is on trial in the first di vision of the district court and the courtroom is crowded. Scott has been delving into all the lore about dreams and nightmares and is working them hard, but Lottie Bivens. while admititng she dreams, that she has nightmares and that she lometimes talks in her sleep, refuses to budge from the stand taken at the preliminary that she was wide awake on the night in question. In some manner Scott has secured the inside dope about some of Lottie's dreams. "Did you ever dream that you were on a high hill and fell off then wake up when you hit the ground in the val ley?" he asked. .."Yes, I had a dream like that,' said Lottie. "Sure you did." said Scott, "You have dreams and nightmares rieht along and you know you talk in your Bleep." "I don't know that I talk in my Bleep," came back the girl. "If I was asleep how would I know whether I talked or not?" "I'm asking questions, not answer ing them." said Scott. The girl states that she was sleep ing alone upstairs on a cot at their home at 1801 Van Buren street the night of October 7 and that she awak ened when some person put their hands upon her. Climbed In With Her. "He was at my back." she said, "and climbed into the cot with me be fore I was fully awake. I raised up and started to push him away, then he grabbed my hands. I pushed him back and he left the cot." "What alarm did you give?" was aslc fcl "I called to my mother. I said, 'Help mama, there's a nigger in my bed.' Did she answer?" "Yes, she said I was surely dream ing." The man left then and went out thru a window, according to the girl, and as he passed thru a strip of moonlight she recognized him as Ar chie Porter. Porter ras arrested the following morning by the police and the girl Identified him at that time. Attorney Scott attempted to show that Archie Porter was the only ne gro Lottie Bivens knew well enough to speak to and that if her experience was merely a dream it was only nat ural to think of Archie Porter. "You don't know any other negro well enough .to speak to, do you?" he asked. "I know several of them well enough to speak to but I don't speak to them," said the girl. "I don't think I ever spoke to Archie Porter more than once. I knew nim because I saw him pass the house three or four times a day. But I didn't know what his last name was." Various efforts were made to shake the girl's story but they were futile. She told .practically the same story she told at the preliminary hearing. The case is of a serious character but tilts between Attorney Scott and wit nesses have caused more than one grin to flicker over the courtroom crowd. CANT FINE' RAILROADS Supremo Court Curtails Power of Commerce Commission t Washington, Dec. 4. The supreme court today denied the right of the In terstate Commerce Commission to as sess damages against railroads in cases other than those involving rate overcharges, without sending the case to a jury. Tn thus ruling the court reversed the- Pennsylvania commission which awarded $21,000 damages to the F. W. Jacoby company against the Pennsyl vania railroad for failure to supply requested coal cars. BEWARE OF SQUIRRELS High School Principal Tells Students J to lie Careful. '"Go back to your classes boys. And be careful when you go from one building to another for there are lots of squirrels loose around here." were the words used by Principal A J. Btout. And fifty high school boys who had baen attempting to incite the high nchool students to take a holiday in honor of the Thanksgiving football Virtory confessed themselves vanquish ed and returned to their class rooms. RHEUMATiSK usually yields to the purer blood and greater strength which creates. Its rich oil-food enliven: the whole system and strengthen the organs to throw oft the injuriou ac?as. iwany doctors tnem- tja selves take Scott's Emulsion C'Jffi and you must stand h: against substitutes. Scott Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. SCOTT 1 DEATHS AND FUNERALS PEARL CRIST, age 27, died this morning In a local hospital. The body will be taken to Kansas City, Kan., for interment. JESSIE DODERICK, age 32. died Saturday night in a local hospitiL The body was taken to Wichita Falls, Tex., for Interment. MRS. CELIA FORDTCE, 1100 Taylor street, died Sunday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. T. C. Ball, in Waveland, Ind. One daugh ter. Miss Lulu Fordyce. lives in To peka. The funeral will be held in IVaveland. MRS. V. F. PARKHURST. age 8S, died this morning at her home, the Devon, Twelfth and Taylor streets. She is survived by two sons. Frank H. and George W. Parkhurst, and ope daughter. Miss Ellen G. Parkhurst. The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning In Penwell's chapel. Srvices will be private and friends are requested to send no flowers. BUTTERJHEAPER! One Table Necessity Comes Down at Last in Topeka. Eggs, However, Continue to Re main in Jewelry Class. Butter dropped 3 cents a pound to day, an almost unprecedented fall, ac cording to local grocerymen. "The daily variations in butter rarely amount to more than 1 or 2 cents a day," explained a local produce buyer. And indications are good that there may be other drops due this week. Eggs are still priced as jewelry, local dealers insisting that it is impossible to get them in any quantity. MRS. WILDER IS DEAD Manhattan Woman Wrote Extensively for Church Publications. Manhattan, Kan., Dec. 4. Charlotte Frances Wilder author of many reli gious books, died at her home here today. She also contributed stories and editorial work to church papers and magazines and other publications. She was a member of the Authors' league of America and a director of the Kansas State Historical Society. Mrs. Wilder was widely known by church workers in this state and had been active in religious affairs, both as a writer and worker. Through her writings, she became t member of the Author's League of America. The bulk of her writings were for church and religious publications. For a number of years she had been active in the affairs of the state historical society. oi wntcn organization sTie was a direc tor. LIKE GREEN STOCKINGS Xortonvllle Critics Praise Play Pre sented by Washburn Club. Nortonville, Kan., Dec. 4. The third number of the Nortonville lecture course was filled Saturday evening by a presentation of "Green Stockings," an uproarious comedy by A. E. W. Mason, produced by the Washburn College Dramatic club to a packed house. The play as presented by the college actors was one long laugh and was the best receive r y lrcal theatei -goers of any production in years, professional or otherwise. Washburn college has certainly made a "hit" with Norton viile people as a result of the efforts of their students. The club was accompanied by a fine orcnestra and male quartet. Miss Hel en Griffin, a Nortonville girl now on the Washburn faculty, coached the Play. JINX HAS GOT HIM Misfortunes, Like Bananas, Come to J. A. Usher, In Bunches. That misfortunes come like bananas is asserted by J. A. Fisher, a traveling man living at 523 Lincoln street. The first of the bunch occurred three weeks ago when he was taken sick and had to leave the road. Sunday his mother, Mrs. C. D. Fisher, 85 years old fell downstairs and broke her wrist, while waiting on the invalid. Last night Fisher wase notified of the death of his father-in-law, S. A Beeler of Osawatomie. Then to trump it all his 16-year-old son. Charles, in a hurry to get down town to secure a means of conveyance for the body of Mr. Beeler, broke his arm while cranking the family Ford. Mrs. J. A. Fisher is as yet un harmed. BOMBS FROM U. S. Steamships Blown I'p in Russian liar ber Were In Cargo From N. Y. New York, Dec. 4. The steamships blown up in the Russian harbor of Archangel several weeks ago with the loss of millions of dollars in munitions and other war supplies, were destroyed by bombs placed in the cargoes of the ships at their piers of the Bush Ter minal company in this city, it was charged today at police headquarters by the commercial agent here of the imperial Russian embassy. SHIP HAS SPRUNG LEAK Lake Steamer Sinking Passengers and Crew All Taken Off. Sturgeon Bay's Wis.. Dec. 4. The Goodrich lake steamer Carolina. ashore off Stony Reef, has sprung a leak in her hold and is sinking, ac cording to members of the life saving crew here which rescued six passen gers ana ine crew or the Carolina. The ooat went asnore last night in a fog. RAISE FOR 50,000 Bethlehem Steel Company to Pay Wage Increase of 10 Per Cent. Bethlehem. Pa.. Dec. 4. The Beth lehem Steel company announced today an increase oi i per cent in wages for an Its employes to date from Decern ber 16. Nearly 50,000 employes at the local plant and the Maryland and bteelton plants will be affected. Lincoln Circle No. 1, Ladies of the U. A. K., will meet Tuesday afternoon at iiiu lor tne election of officers. Adv. IN SHADOW OF "Y" Poffenberger Sajs He Bought Beer at 810 Quincy St. "Mother" Seal Is Charged With Selling It to Him. When Major Poffenberger finally did break down and tell county offi cers where he purchased beer he had to tell it twice before they believed him. Then he had to put it in the form of an affidavit, sign it and swear to it. He declared ne bought it within a block of the Central Y. M. C. A., within a block of the transfer sta tion, and that he had bought it there half a dozen times in the last few months at the rate of three bottles for $1. Poffenberger made an affidavit that he purchased beer last week of "Mother" Neal at 810 Quincy street, the brick building back of the Knighta of Columbus building ana in wnai used to be a part of the Blower house. Poffenhersrer waited a long time to tell what he knew. He and Earl Mc- Quilken were arrested last week loi lowins the telling of a story by Mrs. Arnie Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell went to the countv attorney s office witn a big gash over her left eye and a Winchester with a crookea Darrei. one declared that Arnie Mitchell bent the barrel of the Winchester over her head. She was angry and told all she knew about her husband. Among other things she told about Poffen berger and McQuilken coming to her house with beer a few nights before. They Refused to Squeal. The two men were called in for an inquisition. They refused to taiK. They were arrested under the inquisi tion statute but they stood pat. P. C. Wilson, as Judge of the court of T.o- Deka. sentenced them to thirty days in jail. They tried the jail for several days and McQuilken is quoted by Marie Roaney as stating that ne wouia Tot in jail before he would tell. Ana he hasn't told yet. And he's still in jail. But Poffenberger agreed to ten wnax he knew today. "I've got .a wife who has to live," he said, "and I can't spend any more time in jail protecting a woman who wouldn't even send me something to eat while I was doing time. Arrest Mother Neal. The officers do not know just who Mother" Neal is but the information they have to date is that she runs a rooming house patronized by theatri cal people at 810 Quincy street. A warrant was sworn out for her today and will be served this afternoon. McQuilken told a little of wjiat the officers wanted to know. He stated that- one night he hauled a passenger, a man, in his taxi to 810 Quincy street. The man, he said, carried two suit cases and told him if he ever wanted anything to drink he could find it there at 810 Quincy. HAVE A BIG AMBITION That Is Advice Ir. W. T. Galloway Gives High School Students. Br. W. T. Galloway of Beloit college. who wag one of the principal speakers of the Older Boys conference, length ened his stay one day in order to ad dress the high school students and Washburn students this morning, and the teachers and the educational de partment of the Women's federation this afternoon. "Character Building" was his subject in his address at high school this morning. "Attention, appreciation, discrimination, pelf-direction and a sense of humor are the pure elements of character, Doctor Galloway told his high school audience. He follow ed with a rapid analysis of mental growth, tracing from the instinctive reactions of the infant to controlled impulses of the mature person, show ing the increasing control of thought and purpose, and how this control may be achieved. "You must have a big ambition be fore you," he told his hearers, "or your life will he one of tragic disap pointments, vision the kind of man that you would like to be fifty years from now and work unceasingly to ward tnat end." ELKS HOLD MEMORIAL A. W. Kopke and E. L. Copeland Principal Speakers at Service. The assembly room of the Elks home was filled with members and relatives of members who have died within the year, at the annual mem orial service of the lodge Sunday aft ernoon. A. W. Kopke of Kmporia, a past grand exalted ruler of the Kan sas Elks, gave the principal address, while E. L. Copeland, treasurer of the Santa Fe, gave the eulogies of the lives of the departed members. The members who have died since the last memorial service are Charles E. Buhre, Byron D. Mize, Algernon S. Rankin, John F. Stanton, Augustus O. Wellman, Karl K. Doerries and Charles W. Kouns. Mr. Kopke, In his address, dealt with the theme of death as a rest and a haven for the worthy life. Mr. Copeland closed his series of eulogies of the lives of the departed members with a tribute to C. W. Kouns. Special music was provided for the occasion. Gordon's orchestra played, and Miss Marguerite Gohlke sang two solos. The invocation was given by Chaplain William Henderson and the ritual service was read by the officers of the lodge. TO ADDRESS LAWYERS Henry D. Estabrook W ill Speak Before State Bar Association. Henry. T. Estabrook of New York. one of the most able after dinner speakers in the country, will be the guest of honor of the Kansas State Bar association at its annual meeting in Topeka in January. Estabrook will speak at the annual banquet of the association and is regarded as one of the most able speakers to address the Kansas lawwers. Last spring Estabrook was for a time a candidate for the Republican nomination for president, but with drew from the race before presidential nominations were made. In the cam paign the Xew York lawyer was one of the most able speakers sent to t tvest by the Republican, national committee He spoke in Topeka and in a number or other towns of the state. Estabrook is a western man. He went to Chicago from Omaha a num ber of years ago. After a few years in t. nicago. ne went to isew York, where he has for several years heen retained as chief counsel for the West em Union Telegraph company. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS The Courage of Conviction. YonVe struggled all your life, dear, To be like folks you know, Ami you've made a miserable failure; lou d better nave beeu just you. Youve had yonr own ideals. Hut vou've Dut them all away.- And followed along in the beaten path. J? or rear of what routs wouiu say. If you don't have the courage, dear. To speak your thoughts out loud. You'll always be just tagrsin' along- just auxin with the crowd. Nels Yingle. J. C. C rummer, steward at the state prison at Lansing, is convalescing in a Topeka hospital, following an opera tion for appendicitis. Dr. A. B. Jeffrey will leave Topeka Dec. 23, to enter a hospital in London. England: where he will work as a surgeon for the British government. M rs. A. E. Lowe. 307 East 10 th street, was operated on for appendici tis last Friday at the St. Francis hos pital. She is recovering rapidly. Preston B. Coleman, assistant at torney general, is the happiest man in the state house today.- It's a girl. Coleman demonstrated his joy in the distribution of a box of real 10-cent cigars. Minnie Burns, deserted wife, secur ed a warrant today charging J. H. Burns, her husband, with wife and child desertion. She charges that he abandoned them while they were in necessitous circumstances. The regular meeting of the Topeka Ministerial association this morning included a lecture by Dr. D. J. Crum bine of the state board of health, on "Health." The lecture was given in Dr. Crumbine's office in the state house. 1 Two thousand Kansas automobile dealers have been invited to attend a meeting in Topeka. Dec. 12. for the purpose of organizing a state asso ciation. 1 W. H. Imes, secretary of the local association, has issued the in vitations and 500 have answered, stat ing that they will be present. W. F. Benson, state bank commis sioner, returned home today from Ari zona, where he inspected a mining project. Promoters of the company wanted to sell stock in Kansas under the blue sky law. J. T. Botkin, secre tary of state, accompanied Benson on the trip and will return to Topeka some time Tuesday. The supreme court today began the hearing of cases on the December docket. The ouster suits against Kan sas City brewing companies were not called for this session, but on motion of attorneys the case was- continued until the March term. Supreme court decisions, covering cases presented in November, will be handed down Sat urday. The longed for picking up In ticket sales at the railroads manifested itself lightly beginning Sunday when the ad vance guard of the urder boys started home. Some of them left in the after noon, but most remained for the even ing meeting. They left Topeka on every road and in every direction. Only a few remained in town at noon today. Workmen doing the excavating for the new steel turntable in the Union Pacific yards are hampered by the fact that they have struck sand, and the basin for the. turntable is having to be shored up with timbers while the excavating progresses. It will prob ably be a month before the turntable is completed. The basin will have to be concreted. Ray Smith, ticket clerk at the Rock Island station several years ago, re visited Topeka today for the first time in more than eight years. He met and talked with C. E. Bascom, now city passenger agent, for the first time in more than 17 years. Smith has been in business for himself In Colorado, and was on his way to Chicago, where he will open a business soon. Elmer E. Myers of Lawrence, for mer sheriff of Douglas county, visited the state house today. He is a candi date for sergeant at arms of the house during the next legislative session and will probably show a strong following among legislative members when bouse officials are named. Myers is popular in Douglas county and made an excellent record as sheriff. Hugh Kiene, 14-year-old son of. L. L. Kiene. sheriff, went hunting with a little 3 6-calibre shotgun. Sheriff Kiene walked alone in a cornfield chasing the rabbits out while the son sent a fusillade down the corn rows. The sheriff flushed two rabbits and they hit Hugh's corn row at the same instant. He fired one shell and killed both rabbits. The shell in a 36-calibre shotgun doesn't carry more than 12 or 13 shot. Young Kiene Is a hero among his fellows this week. More than 500 persons attended the eighth municipal organ recital given by Dean Horace Whitehouse in the Auditorium Sunday afternoon. The program was entirely made up of re quest numbers which the audience ap pladed heartily. Recent repairs on the organ have greatly imc-oved its tones. The program included (by request) two wedding marches, evidently af fording several brides-to-be the op portunity to decide which tune they would use to time their march to the altar. i Three hundred persons attended the semi-annual Sunday school con vention of Soldier Creek Township held in Indian Creek grange hall Sun day. At the meeting resolutions were passed looking toward standardization of Sunday school work. Among the speakers on the program were J. H. Engle, president of the Kansas State Sunday school association. H. E. Bomgardner, president of the Shaw nee County Sunday school association; Rev. J. H. Fazel and Mrs. J. R. McCaf ferty of Topeka. Three members of the Kansas City Girls Campfire club spent their Thanksgiving vacation in a three-days' walking tour from Kansas City. They arrived in Topeka Saturday afternoon The trip was taken leisurely, altho the actual walking time was only twenty three hours and a half. The girls in the party were Hulda Wren, Harriet Fowler and Martha Fowler, all high school girls-. They were chaperoned by Mrs. George Fowler. The girls insist that they all gained rather than lost weight on the trip. H. A Richards .of Manhattan, passed thru Topeka Saturday night on his way to Manhattan, from where he will go on December 9 on his way to the Philippine Islands. He has been appointed a lieutenant in the native constabulary service of the islands. Richards is a graduate of the State Agricultural college, and thruout his course there was a member of the college cadet corps. He was also ser geant major of the Third battalion of the First regiment. Kansas National Guard, and was with the regiment during its tour of duty on the bor der. Richards is a nephew of H. R. Richards of Topeka. SUES FORS40.000 Bert Rucker, Topeka Real Es tate Man, Asks Damages. Claims K. C. Men Unloaded Fraudulent Deed on Him. SAYS HE LOST EVERYTHING Had Titles to Land in Several Farts of Kansas. Innocently Turned Deed to An other in Trade. Bert Rucker, a local real estate man, filed a forty thousand dollar damage suit in the district court today against C. W. Allendorph, MarWia B. Allendorph and H. A. Miller, alleging that they unloaded upon him a fraud ulent deed to Missouri land and that he innocently turned it to another man in a trade. The other man, M. A. Tatlow of Council Grove, brought suit against Rucker last winter because of the deed and obtained judgment for $3,570. But Rucker alleges that was only a Bmall part of his loss. In his petition Rucker alleges that the defendants conspired together and executed to W. F. Nine a deed to a half section of land in Crawford county, Missouri. The contract, he says, shows they secured the land from Timothy Hill, when as a matter of fact Hill deeded the land to W. A. Whitney back In 1856. Rucker says he got the deed from H. A. Miller in 1911 when Miller traded the Missouri land to M. A. Tat low for Morris county :and. He made the trade for the two parties. He al leges that the deed he transferred had the words "Warranty Deed" printed upon it and that he did not know for a long time that the Allendorphs had had no title in the land to deed away. Lost His Liaiicl. Tatlow lost his Morris county land because of the deal and brought suit in the district court of Shawnee coun ty against Rucker and his partner. Bacon, and obtained judgment for $3,570. In the list of damages he alleges he has sustained because of the deal Rucker mentions the $3,750 judgment then lists other items bringing the to tal up to $40,850. He mentions about $1,000 he spent for attorney's fees and damage due to the trial and the publicity given by the newspapers amounting to $6,000. Then, says Rucker, he owned a quarter section of land in Franklin county in which he had an equity of $5,000. He states that because of the alleged bogus deed and the trial he obtained only $50 out of the Franklin county land. Lost Mill', Too. Rucker says he 'owned a quarter section of land in Finney county wor'.-i $7,000 and that he lost title to the whole thing because of the case brought by Tatlow. He states also that he owned a mill turd elevator property at Leotl, Kan., worth $10,000 upon which there was a mortgage for $2,000, and that be cause of the "bogus deed" he was un able to pay on the mortgage and lost all of his $8,000 equity. His actual damages he gives at $30,850, and then asks for $10,000 as punishment for the defendants in the case. Allendorph lives in Kansas City. Rucker stated today that he had at tached a section of land in Texas be longing to the defendants to hold pending the outcome of the case filed today. He also stated that he had no- tuiea Aiiendorph's attorneys that un less he put up a bond double the amount of damages asked for he, Al lendorph, would be arrested as soon as he reached Topeka for the trial. KANSAN IS KILLED Preacher, Confessed Slayer, Claims He Fired In Self Defense. Stockton. Kan., Dec. 4. Edward Paxton. a laborer, was shot and killed on the main street or Plainville. B. L. Goen, a preacher of a religious sect, and Henry Nethercutt and P. L. Blaze, harvest hands, are accused of the shooting, to which Goen confesses on a plea of self defense. He and Nethercutt gave themselves up to the police at Stockton. It is alleged that earlier in the night Paxton had tried to borrow a vweapon. declaring the three men were out to "get" him. Paxton is survived by two children. His wife left him a year ago, and gossip has brought-her name Into the ill feeling that resulted in last night's affray. Goen is married and also has two children. SOMETHING ISIN MNP Mysterious Promises to German Peo ple About Happy Christmas. London. Dec. 4. Mysterious prom ises are being made to the Germans about glad tidings to be received by them before Christmas, according to an Amsterdam dispatch to the Daily Mail. The dispatch says the recent hint of the Bulgarian premier regard ing acceptable news for the Germanic powers is supported by a statement by the president of the reichstag. that that body may meet earlier than the date arranged. The Dusseldorf General Anzeiger says that Colonial Minister Salf stated on Friday that very gratifying events were about to happen and that the German people would be able to have a happy Christmas. WELCOMEHOME, JACK Johnson Back In U. S. Is Sought on Old Charge of Jumping Bond. Chicago, Dec. 4. Federal officials stated today that Jack Johnson, the negro ex-champion, is in the United States and taht his arrest is expected soon. He is wanted for jumping his bond after a white slave conviction. BAN BUTTEH AND EGGS "Women of Cleveland Start Six Weeks Boycott Today. Cleveland, Ohio.. Dec. 4. Cleveland housewives today began a six weeks boycott of butter and eggs in an effort to bring down the prices. The cam paign was fostered by the woman's civic association. SaitfaTfeXVatcftfo. 8-1 jvauMas Ave, Topeka, Kansas. King George Favors Lloyd George War Council. a TTi i ww w i Resignations of Members. London, Dec. 4. England is pre paring a "reconst ruction." Premier Asquith made formal an nouncement in the house of commons today that King George had rendered his assent to the "reconstruction of the government," which a statement yes terday had announced was in contem plation. What course that "recon struetion,f will take was not made clear by the premier. He suggested that all questions from members re garding the cabinet personnel be de ferred and concluded with the request that when the house adjourned today, it not meet again until Thursday. Current reports late today were that the "reconstruction" meant a general change in the entire cabinet, rather than the mere formation of an authoritative council. This "small, compast body" for handling of the problems of the war was the sugges tion first advanced V-y those known to be in sympathy with David Lloyd George, who apparently precipitated the cabinet crisis. SHOOTS UP "COURT Demonstrates Grudge by Wounding Judge, Bailiff and Juror. Hammond, Ind., Dec. 4. Judge Charles B. Greenwald of the superior court here was shot in the right arm and side; Louis Debour, his bailiff, was fatally wounded, and George Robbjns, a juror in a case before the judge, was shot in the head here to day by Michael Innik, said to have harbored a grudge against the court for many years. WANT IN ON 8-HR. LAW 400,000 Members of Maintenance Dcp't of Railroads Petition Congress. Washington, D. C, Dec 4. Declar- ing their work is "dirty, laborious and underpaid," four hundred thousand members of the maintenance depart ment of American railways today filed a petition with congress asking to be included in "any eight-hour railroad legislation." SEIZE GREEKSHIPS Credit Britain Declares Embargo, Pre venting Their Sailing. London, Dec. 4. An embargo on the departure of all Greek ships from all British ports was announced by the government today. Card of Thanks. We wish to extend our thanks and appreciation to our friends for the t&-e..Prl i&SAV55 NEW DIAMOND V X"? tiyZi Q&U CATALOG. FREE. ASelecV the r5 O I TV 1 A CHARMING little sparkler is our I r I I special $25 diamond, sold usually I y bv retail jewelers at $30 yours for... A NEW CABINET many deeds of kindness shown us dur- ing the sickness and loss of our son and brother, Jacque, also for the beautiful floral offerings. MRS. 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Yours now for LOCAL MENTION A dinner was given y 5Ir and Mrs. William Peterson Saturday at their home at 514 Monroe street. Eighteen persons attended, representing four generations. Among those present were: Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Eaton, Mrs. Carrie Peterson, William Law son and daughter Lucil. Rev. and Mrs. G. A. Strouse of Oklahoma, and Mr. and Mrs. William Lawson of To peka. Dancing school and social dance to night at Kellam hall. Adv. The Sleepy Hollowites will give an entertainment under the auspices of Naomi Rebekah Lodge Monday even j ing, December 4. Something New. All are invited. Admission 15c. Adv. Paul Walker, general attorney of the Rock Island, is recovering at his home 1 in Topeka after a week's illness. H. H. O'Bryhim swore to a com plaint in the court of Topeka today charging A. C. Longren and F. E. Kuhlman with selling a Ford automo bile for him and holding up the pro ceeds. O'Bryhim states that he em ployed the defendants to sell the Ford car last July for $200; that he owed them a repair bill of $27.50 and ex- i pected only $172.50 when they sold he car but didn't get that. He alleges that they really sold the car for $250 and have failed and refused to pay him anything. A warrant was issued charging a criminal offense. Thomas Dunn, the negro who was charged with murdering Andrew Pow ell over a horseshoe game in South j Topeka early in the fall, pleaded guuxy ioaay 10 mansiaugnter ana will be sentenced to the penitentiary on that charge. BRIGGS LOSES APPEAL v V. S. Supreme Court Has o Juris diction in Liquor Case. Washington, Dec. 4. rln the appeal of iWIliam Briggs of Topeka, from conviction of violating a Kansas law punishing persistent violators of pro hibition statutes by making felonies out of second offenses, the supreme court today left the law undisturbed by dismissing Briggs appeal for lack of jurisdiction, but without deciding its constitutionality. Briggs was convicted in Topeka nearly three years ago. The state su preme court upheld the decision of the trial court and Briggs went to the United States supreme court. He did not, however, raise the question of constitutionality within the time pro vided under rules of the court. Briggs must serve his sentence, because the court denies jurisdiction in the case. The supreme court, however, does not settle the issiie as to the con stitutionality of the Kansas act which provides a prison sentence for persist ent violators of the liquor law. MARRIAGE LICENSES The following marriage licenses were issued today from the office of i the probate judge: Charles F. Fox. Manhattan, age 37. and Lenora Young, Manhattan, age 28. Guy E. Mallory, Des Moines, age 22, and Lillian Pearl Prunty, Topeka, age "20. Do YOUR. V XMA9 SrTOPPING J-H EARLY ft 50c .100 or 1 Now That's all that' necessary of love. No other cift can mm. $24M i $3 $.00 $75i oo S $98 Jg: double in EASY PAYMENTS SantaTfeWatchfo. 821 Kansas Ave. Topeka, Kansas. Chicago Grain Market. IThe rnnsre of prlt-es for grain future on The Chicago Board of Traile as re ported by Thus. J. Myers, Broker Colum btau Bldff.) Chicago, Dec. 4. Cioae Open nigh Low Today Sat WrtRAT- Ieo. Mhv July COHN Iec. May July OATS Per. Mav July POltK Dec.. Jan. May lfiTivi imv, ir,2V4 162H lfi6 17:1 175 171M,, 172 173 141 143 140 141?4 Ul 87 RS (MH4 RVH, RB R05fc Sl Kl 90 BO 89 00 8tt SOis 89 m B2 51 51 11H 55 5fi4 5ny. 55 55T4 51' 53 02 53 2A.70 20.72 20.80 2R.0O 2fi:75 21!. 75 20.00 20.25 26.00 20.00 20.70 Kansas City Grain Market The range of prices for grain futures ot The Kansns City Board of Trade as r Eorted by Thos J. Myers. Broker, Colum iau Bldg. Kansas City, Dec. 4. Close Open High Uw Today Sat. WHEAT Hec. ..lflB 10S 105 lm 100 May ..109 171 1HK KSx 109 July ..13SV4 1404 137 13814 1385 CORN Pec. 86 87 RT. 804 8614 May 87'4 88 87V, 88Vi 875 July 87i4 88 87"j SSft 8714 New York Stock Market. TCTostng price for the leadinr stocks on The New York Stnfk Kxchonge as re Sorted bv Thos. J. Myers. Broker. Colum Ian Bldg. New York, Dec. 4. Today Sat Am Beet Sugar l'4 1"5 Am Can, c 02 Am Car Fndy 78 75 Am Locomotive 8914 91 ..Am S. It. c 110 I1H Am. S. Sc It., p 110 Am. Tel. T 127 1274 Am. Tobacco, c l' 100 A. T. S. P.. p 100 Baldwin Locomotive 78 70 Brooklyn K. T 85 Canadian Pacific 10014 lOSty Central Leather KI9V4 110 Chesapeake Ohio 9 MVa Chicago Northwestern... .125 120 C. M St. P., c 9414 93 C. It. I. ft P 38 3M Chino Copper 68 70 Colorado Fuel Iron 50 5714 Crucible Steel 85 8W F.rie c 37 38 General Klectrlc 180 Great Northern.- p 118 118 Orcnt Northern Ore 434 J 'splration 09 71". K C. Southern, c 2714 27 Kenn. Copper 57 h Lackawanna Steel 13 103 Lehigh Vallev 83 83-V, Maxwell Motors 73 7114 Miami Copper 014 47 M. K. T c 10 Missouri nPclflc 09 'i Nct. Con ropper 3o ::114 N. Y Central 108 109 N. Y.. N. II. H W. 58 Norfolk 4 Western 1 1014 141 Northern Pacific 111 11114 Penn. ltailroad 50 5714 Rav on Copier 33 33 Heading, c 110 Southern Pacific 101 Southern Railway, c 29' .'SO Stndebnker 120 1211 Tenn Copper 24 24 Colon Pacific, c 140 147 I- S. Steel, c 124 126 T". S. Steel, p 121 121 1'tnh oCpoer 125 120 Western Colon 102 101 Westinghonse F.lectrlc 03 (Cjlj FOR TRAPKrOO onitT In new horntP In On k land for po1 automobile. Adtlress K. M.,care Journal. LOST Pair of eye glasses on Santa" Fo car. Call 5&41 W.

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7-..- THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 4, 1916 Mrs. Allen Lauck entertained her bridge club, La nouisaine, this after noon, at her home In Western avenue. Those who played for absent members were Mrs. Torrence Ewart, Mrs. Ray Bacon and Misa Alice Meade. Mrs. F. E. Parr entertained her bridge club this afternoon. The guests and substitutes were Mrs. A. W. Hron son. Mrs. C. B. Keed. Mrs. T. J. Myers and Mrs. N. B. Burge. The Crochet club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. D. W. Nellis, 816 Buchanan street. A musical prosram has been ar ranged by Mrs. It. Parks Bennett, lor the silver tea to be given Tuesday af ternoon by the Good Government club at the home of Mrs. Hattie Horning. Vocal numbers will be given by -Mrs. Herman Greenbaum and Miss Myrtle Radclifl'e will furnish a piano solo, and will also play Mrs. Greenbaum's accompaniments. The party is given for the benefit of the tuberculosis hospital conducted in connection with the Topeka Public Health Nursing association. In addition to the musical program, there will be pome dancing numbers by little Miss Feltenstein, who has re cently come to Topeka with her par ent. The receiving and assisting people will be the executive board,; the mem bers of which are: Mrs. Frank P. Lindsay, Mrs. P. J. Clevenger. Mrs. R. F. Cofran. Mrs. H. W. Bomgardner. Mrs. Xorman P. Keller, Mrs. W. C. Collins. Mrs. Emma t-'ells Marshall and Looking Backward In State Journal Society Column TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Miss Vt'eiM and Miss Grace Wein enter tained n number of ladiea at a thlnible unrtv yesterday afternoon at their home on Tvier street. It was complimentary to Miss Albert Kwllig of F.l Ior:lilo, and Miss ls:itlor MertBheitner of Kansas City. Miss Kdna Crane, Miss Mabel Kuowles, Miss Nellie Small and Miss (Jraee Curtia assisted the boBteaaea in aerviug tlie guests with refreshments. The invited guests were: Mrs. Frank Crane. Mra. Ed Small. Mrs. Arthur Murphy, Mrs. f. Conkle Mrs. H. O. Harvey, Mrs. Chnrles Spencer. Mra. Frank Thomas, Mrs. C. .1. I'reaeott. Mrs. Kilirar M. Smith. Mrs. It. Merrlam. Mrs. Frank Jarrell, Mrs. W. T. Noble, Mrs. Arthur Lingnfelt, Mrs. Will Wlmtou, Mrs. Charles Holmnn. Mra. F. P. Kilsnn, Mrs. V. C. Smith, Mra. Homer, Mrs. Fred Cole, Miss Eugene Qulntou, Mrs. "Will Eastman. Mrs, Arthur Capper, Mrs. w. N. West, Mra. Tom Pounds. Mrs. L. L. Pounds, Mrs. James A. Troutman, Mrs. II. E. Overholt, Mrs. Uorge I'nrk hurst. Miss Flora Mayer. Miss Madge Johnson. Miss Hainhletou, Miss Siidie Ilam bleton, Miss Helen Scott. Miss Minnie Ilam bleton. Miss Kate (iunther. Miss Mnry Lukin, Miss Frost. Miss Jean Frost. Miss lnlsy Sampson, Miss 5eorci;inn Wasson. Miss Grace Vn Ilouton, Miss Edna Car penter. Miss Allen. Miss Moon. Miss Fran ces Moon, Miss Marv Moon, Miss Martha White of Junction Cttv. Miss Glenna Cross. MIsb Elliott, Miss Mnrv Whitten. Miss Mury lioberts. Miss Alice I'reaeott. Miss Morton, Miss Itfse Horton, Miss Margjiret IMidlev, Miss Grace Weaver. Miss ullie O llrlen. Mis Emily Tewksbury. Miss Wil son, Miss Mabel Wilson. Miss Mabel Mar tin. Miss Anna Jones. Miss Anna Itartholo- mew. Alts Mhl I'lian, IIb liirv Thomn- son. Miss Franc Llttlefteld. Miss Llda Iter Mrs. H. W. Foster, assisted by Mrs. j gen, Miss Irene Homer, Miss Jennie Clark- A. H. Horton Mrs. ward Burlingame. i son, ans a-uuu tacey. Mrs. nora Orgnn. Or. Deborah Long- n shore, Mrs. G. H. Fair. Mrs. H. L. snn.lav from Sterling. Quail. Dr. Clara Hazelrigg. Mrs. J. P. I Miss Carrie Tltns of Kansas City arrived Ka.ster and Miss Maud Mary Kline. I today and is the gueat of Mrs. Will H. j Thompson. w. ,....v toficber of matbe- aims amy ivenam or itioniann arnvea matics In the State Agricultural school, Htillwnter. Okla.. Is visiting in Topeka She formerly lived in Topeka. She young woman who gave her strength t today to visit Mrs. Will Maeferran. Kansas City, Mrs. Lily Insley Carr and her daughter, Miss Carr of Lawrence, were their visitors. Mrs. Andrews will return to Kansas City Tuesday and Mrs. Carr returned home Sunday. Miss Carr spent Thanksgiving day with Mr. and Mrs. Godard ana left for Law rence Thursday night. One of the Topeka candidates for a divorce was seen Sunday night at the station in Kansas City, carrying a suit case, in one hand, and supporting on the other arm a young peach of the cling variety. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Miller and their family have come back to Topeka to remain for the winter, and have open ed their house in Buchanan street. During the summer and fall and for a good deal of the time In the spring and the late winter they were at their home in Miller, Kansas. Mrs. Miller, not being a politician, has no difficulty in seeing the bright side of her hus band's defeat In his race for congress in the late election, since she likes To peka and enjoys making her home here: and Mr. Miller, having sat in the game before, knows its chances and is no spoil sport. So the family will take its accustomed place in the social life of the town. In which it takes a prominent part, with no Ir reparable regrets. Mrs. DeWitte C. Nellis had as her guest for the week-end, Mrs. Kather. ine Hoffman of Enterprise. Mrs. Nel lis and Mrs. Hoffman went to Lansing today to attend a meeting of the Ex ecutive Board of the Kansas State Federation of Women's' clubs. Mrs. Hoffman is secretary of the Federa tion, and Mrs. Nellis is auditor. Last year the board meeting wag held in Enterprise at Mrs. Hoffman's' home, when she gave a house party for the members of the board. Mrs, Codding invited the noard to be her guests this year. Besides attending to the business that is to come before the session, the board members will have an opportunity to look thru the state prison, with a view to extending their Information on our penal instl tutions, which is especially desirabla-in view of some bills the women will probably ask for in the coming legis lature. Mrs. Hoffman, besides being sec retary of the state federation is the secretary for Kansas of the national federation. Each state has such secretary, whose duty it is to keep tne state federation in touch with na came to spend the Thanksgiving hnli- i to the cause until she had no more to ?"a, 10 .....v. ,..t.. 1 di.,..i, arrangements for the states repre- Mn.,io wo;d' of t.-, cuv moiin vr collet nt the same tim- n sentatives at biennial meetings of the has been visiting Miss Hushep. She is I Kansas woman. Mrs. Robert D. Clapp, a daughter of Col. J. S. Mclndoe, U. S. of Wichita, was there. Mrs. Rpissevain, A., who is in charge of the government j then Miss Mllholland, entered the col hlp which plies between Kansas City lege later than most girls and had and St. Louis, she and Miss Hughes j been presented at the English court were schoolmates at Wellesley. She 1 before that time. Mrs. Clapp says that accompanied the Washburn Dramatic physically and mentally Miss Milhol club players to Norton to give "Green 1 land outshone any of the other girls at Stockings." college. She broke more records in Miss Casey and Miss Mclndoe were athletics than any girl who ever at- guests at a sewing party at which Miss j tended the school, starred in drama tics, and her exceptional speaking voice won her many offers to go on the stage. She was 30 years old at the time of her death. Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Godard had Thanksgiving holiday guests at their .Marguerite Dolan entertained her club. The young women left today for their homes. The death of Inez Mllholland Bois sevain last week in California was a keen blow to the cause of national mif- iirtKe. r.ven ine antia could not hut hnm In Rnan-All avenue r nA admire that beautiful and brilliant I ard's sister, Mrs. John Andrews of DoctorTells HowTo Strengthen Eyesight 50 per cent In One Week's Time In Many Instances A Free Prescription You Can Have Filled mid I'se nt Home. Philadelphia. Pa. Do ynu wear glasses? Are you a victim of eye strain or other eye weaknesses? If so. you will he glad to know that according to I'r. Lewis there is real hope for you. Many whose eyes were failing say they have had their eyes restored through the principle of this wonderful free prescription, line man says, after try ing it: "I was almost blind; could not see to read at all. Xow I can read everything without any glasses and my eyes do not water any more. At night they would pain dreadfully: now they teel fine all the time. It was like a miracle to me." A lady who used it r-nys: "The atmosrihere seemed hazy with or without glasses, hut after us ing this prescription for fifteen days everything seems clear. I can even read fine print without glasses." It is believed that thousands v ho wear glasses can now discard them in a reasonable time ind multitudes more will lie able to strengthen their eyes so as to be spared the trouble and ex- WHITE FOR WINTER fOx North Side News SEND GIFTS EARLY Postmaster Fuller Advises on Mailing Christmas Presents. Last Minute Packages Will Xot Arrive on Time. MORROW CONDUCTS SERVICE Quincy School Principal Lec tures at Presbyterian Church. White is no longer reserved ex clusively for .summer wear. This white broadcloth suit, designed by Paul Poiret, who gave the model the name "Conqueror," is a serviceable and popular piece of winter wearing apparel. pense of ever getting glasses. Eye troubles of many descriptions may be wonderfully benefited by following the simple rules. Here is tne prescription Go to any active drug store and get a bottle of Bon-Opto tablets. Drop one Bon-Opto tablet in a fourth of a glass of water and allow to dissolve. With this liquid bathe the eyes two to four times daily. You should notice your eyes clear up perceptibly right from the start and inflammation will quick ly disappear. If your eyes are bother ing you, even a little, take steps to save them now before it is too late. Many hopelessly blind might have been saved if they had cared for their eyes in time. Note: Another prominent rhyflioinn to whom the above Article was mibmittetl, siiid: "Bon-Opto in a very remarkable i remedy. Ita congtittient ingredients nre I vrcU known to eminent eye snoHnlists nl widely prescribed by tbem. The mjinnfac- titrers pniirantee it to strengthen eyesight 50 ppr cent in one week's time In mnny in- stnnrea or refund the money. It can be obtained from any good druggist and is one of the very few preparations I feel should be kept on hand for regular use In nl most everv family." Advertisement. r Th ree Good Reasons For Giving FURNITURE 1. Furniture is distinctly a home gift, with features of beauty and com fort, 2. Furniture is a really sensible gift, therefore a good investment. S. A f;ift of furniture from our splen did new stocks are certain to please and inspire kindly thoughts of the t donor. Visit the Gift Department national. Mrs. Hoffman Is also the Kansas member of the National Fed eration board. At the last biennial. the national decided to give each state a member on the general board. Pre viously only a few members were chosen thruout the United States giv ing some special advantages to the few states from which those representa tives were chosen. The regular meeting of the Spald ing Reading Circle, which was to have Deen held tonight, has been post poned. The next regular meeting will be held December 18. Father Mc- Inerney was to have charge of the meeting for tonight, but Is unable to attend to it. as he has been ordered away for his health. He will go to Las Vegas, N. M., to remain until De cember 23, returning in time to take charge of Christmas affairs in his parish. The Spalding Reading Circle Is of fering as a special entertainment, a Shakespearian evening Wednesday night, December 6, at 8 o'clock. At the Christmas shop, which will be conducted Tuesday and Wednes day by the women of the First Metho dist church, a dinner will be served Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. The menu arranged by those In charge will include roast turkey, dressing, gravy, mashed potatoes, perfection salad, cranberry jelly, hot rolls, pine apple ice. cake and coffee, and for the meal the women will charge 50 cents. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. Fred B. Gillett have returned to their home in Kansas City after a visit to Mrs. Gillett's people in Topeka. Miss Helen Yoder has returned home from Kansas City, where she visited Miss Margaret Glover. She will go to Kansas City again the mid dle of December to visit Miss Claudia Gaylord until after the holidays. Mr. and Mr?. George Sharitt will go to Leavenworth tonight to visit Dr. and Mrs. C. C. Goddard. Mr. R. T. Buchanan, mar.aging edi tor of the Ledger, Tacoma. Wash., is visiting his cousin, S. E. Cobb, vice president of the Bank of Topeka. Dr. and Mrs. Willis Coston returned Sunday from Hastings, Neb., where they spent the Thanksgiving season with their daughter, Mrs. Frank Theis, and Mr. Theis and their fam ily. They were accompanied to To peka on their return by their little granddaughter, Mary Louise, who will be with them until Christmas time. Miss Elisabeth Edson hase returned to attend the funeral of Mr. Veale'a grandfather, the late Col. George W. Veale. Mrs. Frank Brown of Independence, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Otis Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Denton have returned to Wichita, after a visit to relatives in Topeka. Mrs. W. B, Rhodes of Manhattan has returned to her home. She was in Topeka with her son, Mr. Howard Rhodes, at the time of his death. Mra. Howard Rhodes and her children have left for Baltimore, Md., where they will remain this winter, and per haps longer. Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Morgan are the parents of a daughter, born Sun day at their home In The Drive. The Elmhurst Needlecraft club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. T. C. Roe, 834 Clay street. Dr. and Mrs. Roy O. Smith are vis iting Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Smith of Tyler street before going to Riple, Col., where they will make, their home. Miss Mary Huggins of Emporia re turned to her home this morning, after spending the Thanksgiving va cation with her cousin. Miss Louise Smith. Christmas Bazaar First Trebyterian church all day Vednesaay, Dec. 6 Cafeteria luncheon at noon. Six o'clock turkey dinner. 50 cents. Adv. Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Swayxe are en tertaining Mrs. J. M. Sturgis of Wash ington, D. C who is on her return east after a trip to Garden City. Mary E. Conwell will leave Tuesday to spend the winter in Florida. HOLD ANNUAL REUNION Old Settlers of Kansas Will Meet In Toppka Tomorrow. Large Onion Business Handled by Produce Dealer. of flying for the benefit of north aid ers Sunday. Miss Gertrude Breitenstein nas re turned to her work In the Kuehne Pre serving works after a week's illness. Mrs. T. M. t orbe nas returned from a trip to Manhattan and Eureka lake. SANTA FE Notvs and personal! from Santa F. fey France Jonea, 211 G rattan at reft, telepboaa between 8 and 10 a. 3539; other Honra, 4751 K-2 (Main Moor) Yon will be pleasantly w hen you learn how far a two will ko. I t iik siiyacst ilutl Vnso. Mahogany 1 nn:pK, in Mahoffar.v 'mifllot i Is, Mahoffpny l'o'k l:!fi(K. )ak, Mahogany Smoking Sets. Mahogany Magazine Stands. Oak. lfMUstals, Oak, Mahogany Tjihorottcs. Oak, Mahogany. 1 il-rary Tables. Oak. Mahogany. Kims, all sizes, all grades. nret Sweepers Yartifim lenners tinte Left Table. Mahogany surprised dollar or Teals Served M o rp en sil y con -vpiiipntly and prettily if you serve It from one of our Tea Wagons in onk ami niBhnpnny and wicker. See them on the Main Floor. Kmekeze, Mahoirany The new popular Nut Cracker. Tip Table. Oak, Mahogany Murr.n Stand. Mahogany Musle Cabinets, Oak, Mahogany l'iano Renches, Oak, Mahogany Iressinp Tables Sectional ttookeases Writing Oesks Sew. lip Tables A11 Vseful CJifts. Select Them Karly. s We Will Slake "Delivery as Desired. Wm. Connors Furniture Co. The annual reunion of the Old Set tlers' association will be hela at the First Presbyterian church Tuesday. All persons who came to Kansas not later than 1877 are invited to attend and a ppeclal effort is to be made to secure the attendance of those who arrived before I860. Stereopticon views of early day scenes in Topeka will be shown in the north class rooms of the church. The views come from the collection of H. O. Garvey, Frank Crane, Miss Belle Ward, J. M. Meade, Dr. Clement Smith and Mrs. Julia Stimeon. The officers of the association are Henry W. Mc Afee, president; H. O. Garvey, vice president; Emma Wallace, secretary George A. Huron, treasurer; Mrs. A from Emporia, where she spent the I A. Godard and Robert Steele, members 7 (Hi Kansas Ave. Topeka. j week-end with friends. Mrs. Eileen Kochrane of Shawnee, Okla.. is visiting her sister, Mrs. ft. Parks Bennett, and her family. Dr. and Mrs. L. A. Powell of Su perior, Neb., are visitine their son, Mr. P. C. Powell. From Topeka they will go to Florida to spend the win ter. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Sherman left today for a trip to Chicago. Mrs. William Maeferran is in Kan sas City visiting her sister. Mrs. Albert Qreef Miss Lillian Guthrie, who is a stu dent in the State Agricultural college, returned to Manhattan today, after .a vacation visit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Guthrie. Miss Ruth Foster has returned to school at the State university, Law rence, after spending a few days In Topeka with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. rj. G. r oster. Christmas Bazaar First Presbyterian church all day Wednesday, Dec. -5. Cafeteria luncheon at noon. Bix o'clock turkey dinner. 50 cents. Adv. Mrs. Bayard Whitney and her chil dren will return this week from Kan sas City, where they have been visit ing Mrs. Whitney's mother, Mrs. T. W. Abernathy. Mrs. A. H. Bennett of Potwin has left for Duquion, 111., called by the serious illness of her mother. Mrs. C. C. Winsler and her two sons of Lawrence, have returned home aft er a week-end visit to Judge and Mrs. Mrs. O. L. Moore. Miss Elizabeth Moore of Chicago, has arrived to visit her sister, Mrs. Roland Perkins. Mrs. Norman Wear returned today from a six weeks' visit in New York and other eastern cities. Mr. Wear met her In Chicago and accompanied her home. Miss Oatwood Wagner, who has been ill with typhoid fever, is recov ering, and is able to be about the house. Mr. George Veale III and his daughter. Betty, of Detroit. Mich., "re turned today, after coming to Topeka of the executive committee. A CHILD DOESN'T LAUGH AND PLAY IF CONSTIPATED Look, Mother! Is tongue coated, breath feverish and stomach sour? "California Syrup of Figs" can't harm tender stomach, liver, bowels. Mother! Tour child isn't naturall; cross and peevish. See if tongue is coated; this is a sure sign its little stomach, liver and bowels need a cleansing at once. When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath naa, throat sore, doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally, has stomach-ache, diarrhoea, remember, a gen tle liver and bowel cleansing should always be the first treatment given. Nothing equals "California Syrup of Figs" for children's ills; give a tea spoonful, and In a few hours all the foul waste, sour bile and fermenting food which is clogged in the bowels passes out of the system, and you have a, well and playful child again. All children love this harmless, delicious fruit laxative," and It never falls to effect good "Inside" cleansing. Di rections for babies, children of all age end grown-up are plainly on the bottle. Keep it handy In your home. A lit tle given today caves a sick child to morrow, but get the genuine. Ask your druggist for a 80-eent bottle of "Cali fornia Syrup of Figs." then look and see that it is made by the "California Fig Syruo Company." Advertisement. Do your Christmas mailing early," is the slogan A. M. Fuller, superin tendent of the North Topeka branch postofflce wishes every one would nnnt pirf.tnifi comes on jyionaay, December 25," says Mr. Fuller. "In order to insure tneir arrival n packages to distant points should be mailed a week earlier, on Monday, December 18. If the sender cares to, it is permissible to Indorse on the back, 'Don't open until Christmas." If a parcel post package goes to a large city and arrives even three or four days ahead of time, it is likely to be held on account 'of the Inability of the carriers to handle it. The local rusn is greatest on Christmas day. Last year this branch handled $1,200 worth or Christmas maiu 11. coming about December 20 but it should have started about Decem ber 18." School Head Conducts service. The evening service in the Second Presbyterian church Sunday was in charge of Clay Morrow, principal of the Quincy school. He lectured on some slides or ancient ome sent uuv by the extension division of Kansas university. Preceding the lecture, a chorus and a Quartet from the Ninth grade sang several selections under the leadership of L. F. Reynolds, instruc tor in music. Announcement was made of a bazaar to be held Wednes day afternoon, beginning at 2 o'clock, in the basement of the church. A chicken dinner will be served between B o'clock and 8 o'clock. A musical and literary program will follow. Starts Anto Hospital. William Kopseker has started a new garage in reality a sort or rora nos- pital in tne OUU DIOCK on.lurtIl rvan- sas avenue. He already nas tnree pa tients. They're sure to get well, for he's doctored everytning irum biuiv u carts to drooping aeroplanes. Onions is one of the strongest crops dealt In by E. U. Hayes, produce deal er One grower alone supplied him with five carloads in 1916. Almost as many onions as Bweet potatoes are handled. This year the amount has been cut down because of the high price called for. A club there was so regular i -"II met once In September Its resolutions noised afar. But has It now a member? m th words, more plain, ask we, in interest of society, where can the Civic club now be? A. Nixon and Osborne Small shot more than 60 rabbits near Hoyt in one afternoon recently, every ousn nau its bunny. Miua Lillian Prunty and Guy Mai lory were married this morning in the parsonage of the First Methodist church by the Rev. Edmond Janes Kulp. They leave this afternoon for Des Moines, la., where the groom is working for an 'automobile establish- Amity lodge No. 231. Knights of PvthiRK will confer first rank upon five candidates this evening at their meeting in their nan at uu iortn iTanMR avenue. The revival services which closed Sunday were some of the most suc cessful In the history of the North Topeka Baptjst church. Fred Berry will continue preaching in tle First Baptist church every evening except Saturday from 8 to 9 o'clock. A basaar will be held Saturday aft ernoon by the women of the Kansas Avenue Methodist church in Barrett hall. A chicken dinner and a musical entertainment will be furnished in the evening. A decrease of 2 cents in the price of 'butter, effective today, was declared by Miss lona Carver, ctem in tne ot fice of the Topeka Creamery company. Every Monday for some weeks past has seen the announcement of a raise of 1 to 2 cents. The Embroidery club will meet from 2 to 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in the home of Mrs. T. M. Forbes, 1001 North Monroe street. E. E. Peyton was telling of a trip last August to Texarkana, Arkansas. "Turtles were thick in the Red river as far as one could see. I bet there were 10,000 heads sticking out above the water where I could see them at one time. Whenever the train would whistle, they'd appear. In that re spect, they'were Just like the Arkansas people. Everybody was always down to meet the train. Going over to the railroad, I ran across some Arkansas live stock. I would have given 5 for a camera. There were goats and run down hogs and several typical old fashioned Arkansas cowr 1 Just said. Boo!' and they scattered In all direc tions." Enforcement of the law and court eous efficiency. The biggest whiskey '"pull" of the city in months. Cutting down of bootlegging. Strange these little things should conduce to make people think the past month's shift of day police is one of the best in a long time! The Pestiferous Philosopher meaning, of course, the State-Journal's "scoop" who prowls around the offices of the Topexa creamery company chanced in recently when C. A. Mark er's pet bull pup and pussy kitty were having a confab. On first notice, they appeared to be acting very rude to one another, to say the least. Pussy was spitting In violation of all the rules of public health and Pup had an alto gether un gentlemanly grouch. Wheth er Pup's disregard of table etiquet or Puss's ticklish long whisker, had caused all the trouble, no rank out sider has any right to Judge. The quarrel surely wasn't serious. It was of the long-distance variety, with not even a scratch sustained. But it left its wound where It always does in the heart. Pussy disappeared th fol lowing day. Pup sorrows sullenly be side the base-burner. The office force goes about its work stolidly, heart lessly, oblivious and satisfied. 1 James Dillon of Kiro Is in on busi ness today. Phil Billard gave several exhibitions The nlgbt school classes which were postponed last Thursday on account of j Thanksgiving will be held Tuesday even- lug In the it. it. i- m. i". a. nrnming. Classes in penmanship, spelling, mechanl chl drawing, machine design, Spanish and air brake will 'meet. Mrs. Kobert Keene, wife of Robert Keene, has returned from a trip to Indianapolis and Chicago where she visited relatives a few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. George Hopkins had as week end guests. Miss Hasel Martin, who Is attending the Suite Normal at Emporia and Mr. Harry Adell, principal of the high school at Herlngton. Mra. Alviu Kessinger and little son Jack have gone to their home in Horton after visiting Mrs. Nessinger's parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Neiawinter. Kngineer and Mrs. W. H. Jones have re turned from a vacation of several weeks spent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Fort Mmlison. In. Mrs. Will Watkins and Miss Kmma An derson have returned from three weeks spent on the Pacific coast. Mlsa Anderson is telephone operator at the general oflfce exchange. Merl Hntton. government inspector of engines was a recent guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bostic. Mrs. Sam Urossnickle has returned from Onaga, Kan., where she spent last week. Mrs. J. A. Itostic was a recent guest at the home of Mrs. Harry Fritz, North Topeka. OAKLAND Note and pvraona.a from Oakland, by Frances Tonae, 211 O rattan street, telephone between 8 and 10 a. m 3530; Uer aoarm, 4701 K-X The members of the Onklnnd Veterans Club will hold their monthly business uieetinir Afoiidnr evenlnir at the home of Comrade and Mrs. Thomas Halstiu, Win field avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Martin. On k lit ml avenue, had as visitors the itast few dnys Mrs. Martin's sister, and husbflnd. Mr. nnd Mrs. F. I. Iresbaeh. Mr. and Mrs. Ires- bach were called here by the death of Mr. Dresbarh's father, in Thayer, Kan. They will leave this evenlnff for Kansas City to spend a few days, from there re turning to their borne In Grand Island, Mrs. H. Mrttiker will entertain the Kim. flower Art club Wednesday afternoon at her home, 133 WInfieid avenue. Miss Edith Brown has returned to her home in Hutchinson nfter visiting a few days witii her sister Mrs. C. M, Iteaugh and family of Winfield avenue. xne jrieuusnin ciun was entertained nt an all day meeting Friday by Mrs. Philip 8tachelbeck at her home, Wabash avenue. in two weeRS tne club will be entertained by Mrs. Freda Montffomery of 019 Clay street. Professor and Mrs. Is. McGarrah hare re turned from Manhattan where they went last week to spend Thanksgiving holldavs. Mitts Gertrude Running. West Liberty street, spent Sunday evening with her sis ter, Mrs. John Lawhun, Wabash avenue. Miss Bunnlng and Mrs. Lawhun gave a duette. "In the T'nner Garden." Sundav evening at the Oakland Methodist church. The Ladles1 Aid society of the Oakland Christian church will give a bazaar and sun uer Tuesday eveninsr in the church. a ue tvera i.hu nury win give you a daily service. Call 798 Adv. Mr. and Mrs. M. T. Clemens. Alter ave nue, had as dinner guests Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. Charles McCurdy and children. John and Charles, of Lawrence, and Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Wasaou and small son Clyde, Jr. EAST SIDE Notes and personals from Fast Ride, by Frances Jonea. 211 Grattan atreet, telephone between 0 and 10 a. saw M0l other boars. 4751 K-l. Miss Josephine Weaver. Jefferson street, has returned to her School in NortonvlUe. after spending the Thanksgiving holidays with her parents, Mr. auu Mrs. A. F. Weaver. The Olive club will be entertained Friday evening by Frances Jones. Grattan street. The Armada club will give a "kid" party Tuesday evening at the home of Miss lJorls McAlister, 017 ltranner atreet. responding week last year. Following are A service whlcb was rather unusual but which was very interesting, was held Irst evening at the Seward Avenue Methodist church. A contest hud been held among the children of the sixth, seventh and eighth grade of the State Street school nnd the best stories which were on "The Origin and Meaning of Thanksgiving," wer read by the pastor. Key. II. S. Wise. In the sixth grade thr first place was given to Miss Fern Burgess,, second place to liussell Cluff and the third to Itobert McGaffin and Wil liam Burhank. Miss Irene McCarron and Milton Iealy were given first honors In the seventh grade essays, the second place being given to Miss Kdna Lip per. In the eighth grade, J. K. Bobo was awarded first honors. Miss Bertha I'uett, second, aud Miss Mamie McDonald the third place. These essays were written thru the efforts of Itev. Wise, who is of the opinion that the children of today cannot express them selves adequately even upon simple sub jects. The results were very gratifying, i convincing Mr. Wise that the children of the school can express themselves on the subject of Thanksgiving any how. 1 The Lotus club will be entertained by Mrs. James Brisendine, Tuesday afternoon, in her home. Taylor street. Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Chalmers nnd small daughter Kuth. who spent the week end visiting Mrs. Chalmers parents. Mr. and 1 Mrs. Louis Peterson. Grattan street, have i returned to their home In Mavetta. Mrs. J. B. Butler of Shawnee. Okla., Mrs. 1 J. W. Stevenson and Miss Stevenson sient Saturday as guests of Mr. aud Mrs. II. 1. Derby, Seward avenue. Fix Crons-Contlnental Rate. Washington,- Dec. 4. Interstate! commerce commission orders permit ting railroads to give lower transcon- tinental freight rates to San Francis coT Oakland, Portland. Seattle and other ocean ports, while denying them i to the inland cities of Sacramento. Stockton. San Jose and Santa Clara. Cal., were sustained today by the su preme court. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always oears Signatui of Dr.RAYMOND The Dependable Foot Specialist Orpheum Building Phone 3960 Room 4 ANNOUNCING Our Readiness With a Complete Line of Novelties In French Ivory Despite the shortaie of stocks due to the war. we fore saw the conditions and bought our stocks early every thing; has arrived anl is now on display. We advise earlv selection as a lot of this merchandise cannot be duplicated. You Can Make Your Choice and We Will l4iy Aniile Your Gift Vntll Christmas. Brunt-Martin Drug. Co. "THE BCSY DRCG STORE" 729 Kansas Ave. Phones 528 S777 a, 1 1 1 Jk 1 1 possible. V llvill givjno)rtTnl io?Ul Vfie would be hJetksed lb demonsJreJc Jnc Sf Majjojoryoui aw WV4 I on ouf i,' .-m L JX!.S 1 is Tz X'-t Jlaj 1 j if st is 1 c -I'm i vt f I li i i .B.Guild MUSIC CO. 722 Kansas Ave. JrTwt? it) During the past year more than 1,800 people have taken advantage of The Edison Easy Pay ment Plan to wire their homes. I Be Ready For a Bright and Cheery Christmas Your house can be wired quickly and without disturbing the da'ly routine of the family and your home will bs brighter and the family hap- pier during the II oliday season. Telephone 4180 and Ask for an Illumination Engineer to Call and Mr ke a FREE Plan and estimate without obligating you in any way. THE TOPEKA EDISON CO. 808 Kansas Ave. Telephone 4080 a

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8 MUTT JEFF Maybe Mutt Didn't Up to the Minute SportingNews From Everywhere-, RECORD OF THE TOPEKA II. S. TEAM REFLECTS ABILITY OF ITS COACH In Spite of Handicaps and Criticisms, Bearg Developed an Eleven of Real Merit. That Topeka has another gridiron mentor on the road to fame is indicated by the showing the high school football team made under the masterful direction of Elmer Bearg, the all-Kansa3 fullback from Washburn who made his debut as a coach this sea Bon. Working under handicaps and facing a heavy fire of criticism from the start, Bearg proved the soundness of his policies and the w isdom of his ways by actual results, and to him and his undaunted pluck is due a great deal ot credit whrn Bears: took cnarge at the hiKh school at the beginning of the season conditions were in a chaotic state: practically all of the men he had were green in a football way and the outlook was anything but bright. The clouds gathered, the gloom thick ened and when the Ottawa Hii?hs came to Topeka and carried off a 45 to 0 victory it appeared that Bearg had more on hln nanas man n tu.u manage successfully. i Then a little bit later in the season trouble arose in the ranks of his men j over cigaret smoking and before this was ironed out he had lost the captain j of his team and his quarterback, who was considered one of the most valu- able of his players. However. Bear? buckled down to his problems and mashed into them just like he used to smash into an opposing one nui It was the fourth down and goal to go. And he scored a triumph just like he usually scored touchdowns in the sit uation above referred to. The first real results rewarding his labors and his persistency came in the name with the St. Joe team. The MiSSoUrlanS invaaeO lopeia wii.ii a regular beef trust, outweighing the lo- cals by a big margin, but they were sent hack to the other side of the Big i Muddv with the short e nd of a 14 to 12 score as their only boo y or tne battle. Then came the 1 3 to 6 victory over Holton and the season was closed Thanksgiving day with a 17 to 13 win over Emporia. The Atchison high school also was defeated 39 to 0. And when those who contend that Bearg tries to put too .nu"v' Sunday school Into his gridiron endeavors look over his accomplishments in his first effort at coaching they cannot help admit ting his team did remarkably well, all tilings considered. Hurshbargcr a Comer. One of the most valuable assets Bearg had ln the way of material was Harshbarger, the plunging backfield man who got into the limelight Just before the Thanksgiving day game by letting his appetite get the best of him to such an extent that he almost de serted his team in order to go horns to. eat turkey. Those who watched Harshbarger's playing are convinced that he is one of the coming stars of Kansas and it is said that he did more brilliant work than a great many college backfield men in the Kansas conference. He has the gridiron in stinct, the fighting spirit and is a pow erful line smasher with an extraor dinary amount of endurance. Speaking of high school football, those who make it a business to keep a line on such things assert that the high schools of Kansas t have more high class teams than those of any of the states in the Missouri Vallev. To peka. Ottawa. Manhattan. Hutcuinson Wichita. Holton and many other places had teams this year that played a ba ijt ur game from the beginning of th season to the close, and almost every town in the state of any import ance boasted a team. The Ottawa Hisihs had an unusually well balanced team and they played a stiff game every time they went against an oppo nent. APPS WINNERS AGAIN Strong Santa Fe Team Defeats Au huriuiule by Score 21 to O. The Santa Fe Apprentice football team lays claim to the non-college football championship of Topeka to day after having taken the fast Au- burndale tpam to a 21 to 0 cleaning i at Santa Fe park Sunday afternoon. Krskins. the App rtsht end. was one of the individual stars of the game, and his long run for a touchdown in the last quarter was the most spec tacular feature of the contest. The Apprentice team has not been scored against this season, which is a record that few teams can boast. fiunfl to Majiage K. C. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. Ganzel, widely known as s Blues. 4. John baseball f V.T Sltfc. MOT L vi t VAlN'T 60TT FUrweg 150 "fO CHEER H" vjp 7 5A, MUTT, I j THf t5 ftNO P25 ;5jM i i B-rCLTJC"l lor tne showing his team made WILLIAMS COACH HAS BEEN ON JOB MORE THAN 20 YRS. Charles F. Seeley at Williams col lpge.and Richard Nellingan at Am herst have held their places as coaches probably longer than any other two coaches in the east. When Seeley recently entered his twenty-third year of service the students and faculty at Williams presented to him a gold stop watch suitably inscribed. During his re gime Williams three times won the New England intercollegiate track and field championship. manager, will manage the Kansas City team in the American association the coming season, it has been announced here by George Tebeau, owner of tho club. Ganzel was idle last year but in 1915 he managed the Brooklyn team in u0 Perioral ontnio T-Tia v.nma i l Rochester. N .Y.. where he managed a team ln tne international league, for many seasons. COLORED GRIDIRON HERO IS STAR BACK Pollard, tr.e colored nalfback ol fc-rown University's world- eating eleven, looks almost ur of AH American choice and has shown him stlf to be one oi the fev? leading star all-round players of Che east j f 51 j x Ji ll 1 T-W Mrt tiK jMjU I'oli&rd THE TOPEKA DAILY. STATE JOURNAL Have the Price to Buy BILLIARD STARS START TOUR, COVERING Willie Hoppe Cleft) and Charles C Peterson. In company with Champion William F. Hoppe, Charles C. Peterson of St. Louis, Chick Wright of San Francisco and young Jake Schaefer of Chicago are starting a tour of the northwest, opening at Minneapolis, that will ex tend over six months. Noodles and Nuggets r ,S rrnm the DODfi Pot Ri f 111- The following all -Missouri Valley confer ence ten in hns been picked by Edward W. 1 1 ten ra ue, or rne ivausns city journal: Handles. Kan. Ac tries. 1. e. Uroves. Mo.. 1. t. t'ameron. Neb., 1. g. Snroncr. Lrake. c. McAnaw, Mo., r. g. Corey. Neb., r. t. I'acker, Ames. r. e. Stankowski, Mo., q. Lindsey, K. I'.. 1. Ii. Tucker, Ames, r. h. Wells, Kan. Aggies, f. b. HenreBPtitatives of the cnlleflrps and uni versities in the Kansas conferenre are be ginning to turn their attention totheannual meeting tbat will be held In Toneka Satur day, and it is likely that some important issues win tome up ror oiscussiou. The freshman rule which nnnlien to Wnh- burn and Baker only and which was pass ed for the purpose of giving the smaller colleges a more even show against the larger ones, like the protective tariff from a I'eniocratic viewpoint, seems to have out lived its usefulness and to have done more for the weaklings than merely protect them. Therefore, this freshman rule is pretty apt to be given more than passing con sideration. Hut even should Washburn be ftermitted to use freshmen it is doubtful f this would be done, as they could not be played in the games the I eh a bods have with the Missouri Valley conference teams, and it would be of little benefit to Wash burn to have men available for use in the smaller games only to have to play with out them against the big schools. However, an extension of the rule to take in more schools is likely to be urged, as it Is argued that this rule does away with the playing of ineligible men, as has been charged was done this season. Many con ference members believe that the Emporia Normal school should be put in the so called A classification with teams that are not permitted to play first year men. There seems to be nothing to the rumor that Washburn college expects to withdraw from the conference nor to the report that an attempt will be made to force the school to withdraw. So far as can be learned the Washburn faculty plans to continue the same relations that have been maintained iu the past. It is reported, however, that the Icha bods may not play so many conference games nest season as they did in the one Just closed. Coach Kennedy's idea being that it will be much better to plav teams that have enough reputation to make them a drawing card in themselves. It has been proposed that an effort be made to schedule contests with lrake, Washington and several schools out of the state, bringing these teams here for big Saturday games which undoubtedly would draw bigger crowds than any games play ed this year except the one with K. U. If the Chicago Cubs would only settle upon a manager for next season affairs iu the sport world might again assume nor mal proportions, and the winter bugs would have more of a chance to devote their attention to the threatened strike. As the weeks wear on indications that the players are really in earnest nhnnt their strike plans for next season become! more apparent. a ne aosoiute refusal of both the major and minor leagues to grant their demands is said to be peeving the leaders of the fraternity greatly and causing them to do their best to "bring on the fight. It Is reported that only about 10 per cent of the players in both the big show and the bushes are now uoder contract and that fully 90 per cent of the balance have agreed not to sign up until their contract is approved by the fraternity. 1m. fraternity now claims to have 1.2.V) members, many of whom are big leaguers of such caliber that their clubs would be badly crippled by losing them. Were baseball In n more prosperous con dition, the magnates undoubtedly would be keen for the fight and would make i mighty effort to crush, the fraternity a Stack of Blues SIX MONTHS ALL OF NORTHWEST i at any cost. But with the game hanging I on the ragged edge in many places, the 1 idavers are mure ant to get considerations they otherwise would not get. and the knowledge of this ts liable to induce them to stand pat ou their demands. A war between the magnates and players at this time would be a bad thing for baseball. It would have a tendency to disgust the public and to mar the sports manship of the game more by airing the commercial side. All baseball men know this, and those who have the good of the game at heart rather than profits of the moment are pretty certain to advocate whatever sacrifices .are necessary to keep the family ske.eton hidden in the closets. ADDITIONAL SPORT WILL BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES MISKE NOW LOOMS AS GIBBONS' RIVAL Billy .Uioke. Billy Miske of St. Paul is making a great hit in the east, where he' cleaning up on ..11 the light heavy weights. Some eastern critics de clare that Miske is the superior of Mike Gibbons. Mike says ie doesn't want to meet tlilly because iBUJy isn't in his class. I I fly 1 1! MONDAY EVENING, Drawn for the Topeka State Journr (Copyright. 10W. by U. C. Fisher. Trade Mark Keg. U. 8. Pat. Off.1 SCENES SHIFTING Winter Sports Are Coming Into Their Own 3fow. Baseball Hot Air Winds Also Begin to Blow Anew. BY KRAXK O. MEXKE. So cometh now the Winter time With snow and icy dew, When outdoor sports no longer reign And all the world's askew. The baseball fields, and football's, too, And tennis court and such. Are bleak and drear and so must stay Within Ol Winter's clutch. However, there's little solace for the northern folks in the thoughts of hockey. The game is rushing forward into popular favor. In every big city indoor ice palaces have been built, hockey teams are springing up and many big inter-city matches will be played during the frosty period of 1916-17. Bascballers "In Again. And now that the footballers are preparing to fold up their helmets and steal away, the spotlight shifts once more to the baseball folks. It dis closes quite a bit of squabbling among rival factions in the big and the little leagues, a war brewing between mag nates and players and many other sor did conditions which can not but hurt the national pastime. Fifty thousand dollars has been of fered for a Jess Willard-Fred Fulton fight by some western promoters. Was Barnum right? Have a Care, Carl! Meanwhile. Carl Morris, who is an awfully good railroad fireman, is trail- ing Jess with the hope of catching up to him and picking a quarrel. Carl, altho fifty pounds heavier than Bat tling Levinsky, couldn't knock him out. He won the decision from his small foe, not so much that he out fought him, but because he "leaned" him weary. And Carlos thinks that this entitles him to another whirl at Jess! Hal Chase is ranked as the most brilliant fir.t baseman in the game. Hal led the National league in batting in 1916, yet when some folks make up their ATI-American baseball selections they slipped the initial bag job to Jake Daubert. BIG NINE FREEZE OUT Northwestern University Snubbed at Annual Meeting of Conference. Chicago, 111., Dec. 4. Fred J. Mur phy, head coach of Northwestern uni versity football eleven, is quoted here today as charging that Northwestern was snubbed Saturday when the repre sentatives of the "Big Nine" schools met to draw up their tentative foot ball schedules for 1917. He is credited with, asserting that Coaches Ktagg of Chicago, Jones of Wisconsin, Williams of Minnesota and Zuppke of Illinois stepped into a corridor artd arranged their games before offering or receiv ing any offers for other contests. It is asserted he is particularly hurt because Illinois and Wisconsin did not consider the purple. VIOLATE AGREEMENT? Three Baseball Clubs Accused of Keeping Players Out of "Frat." New York. Dec. 4. Charges that three baseball clubs have violated the agreement between organized baseball and the baseball players fraternity in forbidding their players to become members of the fraternity, are con tained in the report of President David Fultz of the fraternity, made public today. The clubs spoken of are the Philadelphia Americans, the Indianap olis American Association club and the Denver Western League club. Denials that such Is the case, have been received from James C. McGill, president of the Indianapolis club and formerly president of the Denver club, and from Connie Mack, manager of the Athletics. FIRST "EARTH" IS OUT Initial Number of Santa Fe Magazine in Topeka. The first copy of "The Earth," a publication put out by the Santa Fe. to be published ln Topeka. is in the mails. The paper, a monthly, is in its thirteenth year, and has formerly been published at Chicago. Its head quarters were moved to Topeka on account of the fact that Topeka is more centrally located as regards the activities of the road. The paper is chiefly devoted to the agricultural interests of the country which the road serves. It contains sixteen pages of news concerning the developments now under way, and the possibilities of the southwest. DECEMBER 4. 1916 NO MORE CLEAN COLLARS, PARIS LAUNDRIES' THREAT Paris, Dec. 4. Proprietors of laundries in Paris and the neigh boring districts have decided to close their establishments on De cember 20 unless the government guarantees them an adequate sup ply of coal. DISMISS BIG SUITS Anti-Trust Case Against Steamship Lines Dissolved by War. Washington, Dec. 4. The depart ment of justice today asked the su preme court to dismiss anti-trust prosecutions instituted before the European war against British and German steamship lines for alleged combinations in trans-Atlantic and South American shipping. now dis solved by the war. New York federal courts held that the suits Drought against the American-Asiatic Steam ship company, the Prince Line, Ltd., Paul F. Gehard, Francis J. Zimmer man and others had been transformed by the war "into an autopsy instead of a determination of live issues." The government reserved the right to re new prosecutions should the alleged combinations be resumed when peace comes. The court aUo was asked to set an early date for prompt determination of government cases against the In surance company of North America and the Illinois Central railroad, test ing respectively income taxes, reduc tions allowable to insurance companies and intedstate commerce commission authority to require railroads to fur nish an adequate supply of coal for shippers. In the former case the question whether millions of dollars already collected from insurance com panies shall be refunded by the gov ernment will be decided. Smashing precedent in the clothing business, we come forward at this time with a most re markable offer in Young Men's Suits. Nearly 1,000 "Society Brand" Suits, 1916 models. In plain and Pinch Back models, a wide range of fabrics at the slashing price of $15.50. Included in this show ing are $22.50. $25, $2S, $30 suits. Reasonable alterations will be made without extra charge In the order in which sales are made. This sale will continue until the entire oifering Is exhausted at the price of Barker Brand Collars Two for Twenty-five Cents We are not ln the Collar trust. Our price is unchanged at 2 for 25c for genuine Barker Collars. By BUD FISHER ALL QUIET IN ATHENS Normal Relations Succeed Near-War With Entente. London, Dec. 4. The Greek govern ment has announced the fullest pro tection would be given to the nationals of the entente, according to an Athens dispatch to Reuters. The government also guarantees that all legal rights of the arrested venizelists .will be re spected. In palace circles it is said that normal relations with the allies are re-established. Athens, Dec. 3 (Sunday). The city was calm today. A meeting of the cabinet was called for this evening. DON'T MISS THE CHRISTMAS SHOP AT THE First Methodist Church SUNDAY SCHOOL TEMPLE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY, DECT 5th and 6th Special Business Men's Luncheon Tuesday and Wednesday Noons, 25c Turkey Dinner With All the Trimmings. 50 Tuesday Evening at 6 O'clock. Fred 7h and RUSS DENY IT AGAIN German Chancellor's Intimation Sep arate Peace an Illusion. Paris, Dec. 4. The statement of Premier Trepoff before the Duma Sunday is regarded here as the most outspoken and powerful utterance pronounced in Petrograd since the outbreak of the war and a complete and crushing answer to German peace intrigues. "In hia last speech," says the Matin, "Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg was careful not to say anything against Russia. In a semi-official statement he tlattered her transparently and hinted that, contrary to all appear ances, there might be an honorable understanding in the east. Premier Trepoffs speech equally disposes of the chancellor's illusions." 'Onilllbly's son is a vounir man, I think. of great promise." "Have yon been lend ing him money, too?" Baltimore Ameri can. -408 residents of Kansas registered at Hotel Astor during the past year. Single Room, without bath, $2.50 to $3.00 Double $3.50 to $4.00 Single Rooms, with bath. $3.50 to $6.00 Double $4.50 to $7.00 Parlor, Bedroom and bath, $10.00 to $14.00 Times Square At Broadway, 44th to 45th Streets the center of New York's social and business activities, la close proximity to all railway terminals. Voiland Kansas Ave. 5 52 1 i

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