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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10

Crawford says he will present high
class attractions. Associated with Mr.
Crawford in the new syndicate are the
following members of the present Craw-
ford syndicate: F. c. Zehrung of Lin
coin, Neb.; G. U. Philley of st. Joseph.
Mo-, and o. T. Crawford of St Louis,
There are several other members, whose
names have not been announced. The
new company will be known as the
Odeon amusement syndicate and will be
incorporated.
The purchase price named was $780,
600. This figure does not include the
ground occupied by the building, which
was sold last February to the Mac
MILAN estate for $150,O00. The building
was not bought outright by the new
company, but the arrangement consists
of i lease for term of years with an
option to purchase. The deal was
closed and the initial payment made
yesterday afternoon by Mr.. Crawford
to Isaac A Hedges, president of the
Grand avenue Masonic temple and
Odeon building company, owners of the
building. This company holds a go
year lease on the ground. which will
be transferred to the new syndicate.
who will assume all leases on the
building after May 1.
The most important of these is held
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10
A CANADIAN THREAT.
Must Lower Our Tariff or She Will
Raise Hers.

Boston, Dec. 10-John Charlton, mem
Der of the Canadian parliament, deliver
ed forceful address upon the subject
of Reciprocity with Canada before the
Boston Chamber of Commerce today.
Mr.. Charlton, who is also member
of the United States and British joint
commission created in 1897 to deal with
the trade relations between the coun-
tries, is by birth an American and
owns extensive lumber interests il
Michigan. He is considered as one of
the foremost champions of reciprocity
in Canada.
The tenor of Mr. Charlton's address
was that the United States must grant
more liberal tariff provisions or Cana
dian tariff rates would be eventually
advanced. Absolute free trade between
the two countries could not yet be OBJ
tanned, he said, but the nearer it could
be approached the better.
At the present moment two great
fiscal questions We're engaging the at
tention of the Canadian and American
people. These were reciprocity between
Canada and the United States and pre-
ferential trade between Great Britain
and her colonies. Loyalty to the en-
pire and a feeling of soreness towards
the United States for alleged unfair
treatment on tariff arrangements pre-
disposed the Canadian people to look
with favor upon the preferential trade
arrangement outlined by Mr.. Chamber
lain A close investigation of the mat
ter would, however, demonstrate that
reciprocity of trade with the United
States would offer vastly greater adj
vantages to Canada than the British
preference that Mr.. Chamberlain pro-
posed, and the consideration of the
question would be one where sentiment
would be opposed to interests. It was
not to be understood that reciprocity
meant the removal of duties upon all
articles. 1t would necessarily be con-
fined mainly to natural products. Mr..
Charlton said in conclusion:
1.-The critical hour is at hand when
Canada will have arrived at the part
ing of the ways, and viii decide wheth-
er she shall cultivate the intimate and
natural relations with the United States
or whether she shall put up her tariff
wall against that country and become
a component part of a great imperial
trade federation. The United States
can decide that the latter shall be the
case by maintaining its present tariff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10
COL. KING Is DEAD.
He Was Serving Life Sentence for
Murder at Nashville.

Nashville, Tenn, Dec. 10.-Col H.
Clay King died today in the state pen
itentiarX- where since August 1, 1899,
he has been serving a life sentence for
the murder of Attorney David H. Pos
ton, in Memphis. The murder grew
out of litigation against King by Pos
ton for Mrs. Gideon ]. Pillow. wife of
the famous confederate officer. Both
the former being the author of Kings
Digest of the Laws of Tennessee Up
to the final trial and sentencing of
King, fractional feeling ran high. and
taken from Memphis to Nashville, Pos
toms friends chartered a special train
and endeavored to overtake King with
the avowed purpose of 1ynching him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10
MEMORY MENDING
What Food Alone can Do for the
Memory.

The influence of food upon the brain
and memory is SO little understood that
people are inclined to marvel at it.
Take a person who has been living
on improperly selected food and put
him upon a scientific diet in which
him upon a scientific diet in which
and the increase of the mental power
that follows is truly remarkable.
A Canadian who was sent to Colo
RADIO for his health illustrates this
point in a. most convincing manner:
zone year ago I came from Canada a
nervous wreck, SO my physician said,
and reduced in weight to almost a
skeleton and my memory was SO poor
that conversation had to be repeated
that had taken place only a. few hours
before. I was unable to rest day or
night for my nervous system was shat
tered.
little but it was soon seen that this was
not all that I needed. I required the
proper selection of food although / did
not realize it until a. friend recommended
Grape-Nuts to me and gave this food
a thorough trial Then I realized what
the right food could do and l began
to change in my feelings and bodily
condition. This kept up until now after
months use of Grape-Nuts all my
nervous trouble has entirely disappear
ed, I have gained in flesh all that I
had lost and what is more wonderful
to me than anything else my memory
is as good as it ever was Truly Grape
Nuts has re-made me all over. mind
be well and happy again. Name given
by Postum Co. Battle Creek Mich
There's a reason.
Look at each package for a copy of
the famous little book, The Road to
Melville" -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10
GETS ONE MORE.
L. u. Crawford Buys Big st.
Louis Theater.
Odeon Music Temple and Lee
ture Hall the Latest.
WILL TRANSFORM 1T.
It Is to Be Made Into High
Glass Theater.
Second House That Topeka Man
Now Has There.

L. M. Crawford has bought another
st. Louis theater. The Globe-Demoerat
says:
The Odeon and Masonic temple build
ing, on Grand, near Finney avenue, was
sold yesterday to syndicate headed
by Lester NJ. Crawford, proprietor of
the Crawford theater and general man
ager of the Crawford syndicate, owners
and lessees of a number of playhouses
in Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska cities.
The purchasers will assume control of
the building May 1, after which the
Odeon will be converted into a theater.
A Worlds Fair attraction will hold the
boards during the summer and fall
months. F'irst-class prices will rule.
For the regular season of 1904-05 Mr..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10

by the Masonic bodies which have the
third. fourth and fifth floors, under a
lease, which has sixteen years to run.
The leases of the Apollo club and the
Choral-Symphony society on the Odeon
auditorium expire before May 1, 1eav-
ing no outstanding contracts to inter-
fere with its conversion into a theater
1t IS the plan of Mr.. Crawford to in
stall large cafe and restaurant in
what is now Recital hall. This leaves
only the small lecture hall untouched
by the present arrangements.
Mr.. Crawford said yesterday: ST
have been negotiating for some time
for the building. as I believe it to be,
IN many respects, the best arranged
and best located auditorium in the city.
There is no other stage here SO well
adapted for large productions. it being
55x10o feet. with a height Of over so
feet.
1T will be no longer conducted as a
music and lecture hall but will be run
as f1rst-c1ass theater. I am not pre-
pared to say just what our Worlds fair
production will be. but several big pro
ducers are after it. We will proceed
without delay to book the highest class
attractions for 1904-5, and st. Louis will
have a first-class West End theater.
The Odeon seats 1000, and this can be
increased to $780,"
The making of a playhouse out of the
Odeon marks the passing of what has
been endearingly called 1.-The home of
music and opera in St. Louis" This
was the conception of the owners when
the house was opened in November,
1899. 1t was designed that it should re-
place the old music hall in the exposi-
ton building, and become the perman-
ent abode of opera and concerts.
At the end of the first season the
Odeon had gained national reputation
musically. It was predicted that it's
beauty and perfect acoustic properties
would make it a source of pride to St.
Louis as a hall of music for many years
to come. Nordica, Kubelfk, Paderew-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10

New York. Dec. 10.-A ball given by
the German Cooks society was brought
to a sudden conclusion early today by
the death of Christopher Hauck, one of
the clubs leading members. Hauck
was sitting in a box watching the
masked dancers, among whom were
his two daughters. He became in
volved in a dispute with waiter who
had attempted to overcharge for re-
fresnments and became SO angry that
he fell dead from an apoplectic stroke.
The dancing Immediately ceased.
Tbs Peaberry coffee Csc. Whittelsey
Mer. Co., grocers.
Buy 10c Bachelor cigar for SC.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10
Police Give It Up.

Chicago, Dec. 10-The police today
ceased their search for little Georgiana
Andres, the 7-year-old child taken
from the Goethe school by her father
Lewis Andres, yesterday. It developed
today that the child was taken by the
advice and help of an attorney It is
are now outside of the state and speed
1ng to California
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10

Buy a 1Oc Bachelor cigar for Sc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10
MRS. SOFFEL is FREE.
Rejects Offers to Go on the Stage and
Goes Home.

Pittsburg, Pa, Dec. 10.-Mrs. Kath-
crime Soffel, wife of the warden of
Allegheny county jail at the time of
the escape of the notorious Bidd1e
brothers from the institution. was lib
Grated from the western penitentiary
today, having served 20 months for the
part she played in that sensational af-
fair. During the incarceration in the
penitentiary Mrs. Soffe1's husband was
granted a divorce. She has rejected
offers to go on the stage and says she
will live in retirement at her fathers
home
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10
Guantanamo Formally Occupied.

Guantanamo. Cuba. Dec. 10.-Four
hundred u s. marines and 800 blue
Jackets were landed here today and
participated in the simple proceedings
marking the formal occupancy Of this
islands as a u. S. naval station and the
installing of the station shiD- The
Cuban and American flags were salut-
ed with q guns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10

ski, Shumann-Heink and other artists
of equal fame have stated that it was
the most perfect hall in which they
have ever appeared. Last season every
first-class band and orchestra touring
the country was heard there, including
Sousa, Strauss, Innes, Theodore Thorn
as, EIlery, Creatore and Well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-12-10
Billions Collie Prauantad.

Take a double dose of Chamberlain
Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy as
soon as the first indication of the disease
appears and a threatened attack may be
warded off. Hundreds of people use the
remedy in this way with perfect success.
For sale by all druggists.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28
Ing cod. In such cases It Is weightet
and set on the bottom.
Laying the Trawl.

ing cod. In such cases 1t is weighted down
and set on the bottom.
Laying the Trawl.
The trawi Is a long line with hooks set
at intervals of few feet-three feet for
paddock and twelve to fifteen feet for hall
but. The trawl lines are baited on board
of the smack and then coiled carefully
into tubs SO that they viii pay out with
out entangling.
When the dories go out each takes its
quota of tubs of trawl lines and sets them
at various distances from the smack. The
trawl is sunk by being weighted at one
end with an anchor. which has long line
with a buoy attached to 1t, so that after
the line is on the bottom. the fishermen
can find 1t. After the anchor is down one
doryman rows slowly along. while the
other pays out the trawl, and when the
end of the line is reached IL. too, Is fast
ened to a buoyed anchor and dropped over
board
Travis run from 5000 feet to 10000 feet
in length and carry from 1900 to 500
hooks.
A trawling vessel carries from three to
nine dories and two men go in each dory
In fair weather in hand-line fishing each
dory often carries only one man.
The dories are supposed to be fitted out
with water and food every time they are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28
"Health Day."
From American Me


We are not of those who cynically laugh
at all the experiments in sociology and
legislation made by our American repub-
les Some of them may appear absurd to
pessimist1c old age, but future philosophers
will perhaps find the way of life and think
ing OF the self-satisfied as ridiculous, or
even more so. as that of the unsatisfied
occidental experimental. From Salt Lake
City (absit omenD comes the report of a
bill introduced into the Utah legislature
creating new legal holiday to be called
Health day. By its provisions the first
Monday in October Is created a holiday
throughout the state. On this day 1t is
MADE compulsory for every person in the
state to clean and disinfect thoroughly
dwelling houses, stores, theaters, public
mans or all kinds. and, in fact, every build
Ing OF the kind used by the people. The
councils, town boards and commission
ers are Instructed to enforce the law and
there Is a penalty of $50 for failure on the
part of any person to clean up and disin-
feet as provided. go:
Or course the scornful will at once ask
What new kind of cleaning and disinfection
is that which occurs but once year? But
also or course, there is mouth-closing
answer to that in the counter that it is far
better TO wash up once a year than not
even once in any year. 1t would certainly
be or advantage to health and longevity if a
rlg'diy enforced health day were forced
upon the Sums of New York and Philadel-
pnla as often as once a year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28

the smaller vessels often run out with the
dories and help to set or haul travis.
These big Grand Banks schooners carry
immense cargoes. The Flaherty carries
ZOO barrels for herring, and her first
trip she loaded 100000 pounds of Goldfish.
The Gloucester "Knock-About."
The other leading type of Gloucester boat
is the market fishing schooner. She is of
the ''knock-about' FORM a model that is
comparatively new, having been used first
only about ten years ago. 1t was viewed
bit skeptically at first and the arrival of
the early "knock-about' boat at the banks
was the signal for a good deal Of pretended
surprise at her safe arrival, and the life Of
her crew was made miserable by offers of
assistance in case the water got rough or
the winds began to blow. But the clever
fishermen did not fail to see her fine points,
and before long most of the new vessels
were built on her lines.
The typical market fishing schooner Is
such craft as the Rob Roy, with ITO feet
length over all, SO feet on the water line,
q feet BEAM and masts almost as long as
those of the bigger Grand Banks schooners,
those of the Rob Roy, for instance, being
the big Flaherty.
Different from both types in detail, but
similar to them in seaworthiness, swiftness
and beauty Of outline. is the mackerel SEM
ing schooner, which usually is built to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28

beautiful Gloucester beet A Gloucester
man will maintain at any time that no
boat affoat can outsail a fisherman, and he
has abundant reason for his faith. Men
will point out half dozen craft In Glou-
cester any time that they are ready to
back against the fastest yachts that ever
flew In an ocean race, in a run. say from
Gloucester harbor to the North sea- or a
similar little jaunt in the worst Of seasons.
The typical Gloucester fisherman is not
only as fast as a yacht; in weather so
wicked that a yacht Is as useless as a
stick Of wood the Gloucester vessel will
spread an appalling area of sail and stand
out for the Banks in perfectly matter-of-
fact way.
A true Grand Banks schooner, built for
cod fishing and in the winter frozen-h herring
trade, Is from 100 to 125 feet long. A
craft like the John J. Flaherty, one of
Gloucester's best which Is 122 feet over all,
will have beam of % feet She draws
from liz to 121s feet of water and carries
a mainmast IS feet high with a foremost
6S to 65 feet. The foretopmast will be 80
or 40 feet and the maintopmast is AZ to As
feet long.
Such a vessel is built with especial view
to being easy to anchor In heavy sea.
This is one of the important qualities of
Gloucester fishing craft, for practically all
their fishing Is done from dories and the
smacks lie at anchor throughout, except
when they are shifting ground, although
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28

the smacks at the other end are faring
Keen as the race to the grounds is the
race to load first with fish and run for
home The men watch one another like
hawks and IL a smack gets It's dories over
a particularly good ground the others
move in on her silently. cunningly in the
night to share her luck
So. too. when the smacks return to port
The crews that get home first are ex-
pected to bring back the news Of all the
rest. 'Win the Mary Lancaster be in
soon?" asks part owner. when we left
'er on the twelfth OF March she was three
quarters full and dom well. She ought to
be in in four days." answers the skipper.
Jack sends his love and says to tell you
they'll be In before the weeks out" shouts
a fisherman to woman waiting on the end
OF the wharf.
Racing for the Market.
But the first question that the returning
fishermen ask IL as to the condition of the
market. Gloucester is a Jealous town and
there is bitter lighting between Its dealers
and the sharp dealers on the long wharf
in Boston. Nowhere in New England are
there more amusing and sometimes dramat-
ic instances OF typical Yankee shrewdness
than in the fight for the best prices In the
fish market.
It is this fight for the cream of the mar
ket that has done the most to evolve the
present type Of fiers that distinguishes the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28
The Code in Ancient Babylon.

From the Federal Reporter
legal code that is nearly 1000 years
oder than Moses has been unearthed otter
any In Susa, the ancient capital of Alias
uerus.- 1t is in the form of a column of
stone, some five feet high, and sets forth
IN some 800 paragraphs certain of the rules
OF law governing Babylon 300 B. c. The
Literary Digest says:
IN general the Ola Testament principle
OF. an eye for an eye and tooth for a
tooth is consistently carried out in this
Bapylonian code. Among other things it
says: II man knock out the eye of a
freeman, his own eye shall be forfeited. If
ne preak one of the members of a man, his
own member shalI5be removed. But this
RUE applied only IN tfthe case of freemen.
Ii the suffering partyf were Slave, pay
ment Of money eoufd make good the wrong.
Inc same was true of a freedman. On the
other hand, II an inferior struck q superior,
ne was punished with fifty lashes, and If he
was slave his ear was cut off. The lex
talionis was carried SO Tar that If sur
geon was unsuccessful In performing an
operation he was mot entitled to any pay.
II the patient died ander the hand Of the
surgeon the lattero1ost his hands, in case
the patient was a freeman. II slave died
under his hand hesnust buy another. In
case builder made "a failure of a structure
ne was also punished with death. Whether
imprisonment was voneitmethod OF punish
Ing Wrongdoers doesV not appear, but EVIL
IDENTITY. If at all appliedpit was Of compare
lively small tmpoftancern Money fines were,
however. very common5 and were proper
tionate to the .wrope!dene He who false
~ claimed that another was indebted to
him must pay one-thtrd Of nina. Free
men lighting were fined one NINA. Theft
Of an animal was punishable by fine Of
thirty times its value. Hammurabi was
much concerned for the safety of his high
ways. A robber who attacked q person on
the public road was killed. or II he could
not be found then the community in which
the crime had taken place was fined a nina
in case the life Of a human being had been
1naf $50
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28

follow the business Of seining mackerel in
the summer and the frozen herring trade in
the winter. Her deck Is so designed that,
In addition to nested dories. she can carry
a forty-foOt seine boat on deck and stow thu
seine away there also.
Methods of Fishing.
The three methods of fishing among the
Gloucester men are with nets. with travis
and with hand lines.
Gill nets are set at the surface to catch
mackerel. herring and other fish that swim
on the surface. The meshes are just large
enough to admit the heads of the fish. and
as the Irvine is very thin. they swim into
them blindly and entangle their gills SO
that they cannot escape.
The seine used mostly for catching mack
ere1 and herring. however. Is the purse
seine also used for taking menhaden The
purse seine Is an immense and complicated
net, running abour 100 to- 1,400 feet in
length and with depth of from 90 to $50
feet. The cost Of such net Is from EGO
to $1,000. and 1t Is lowered around q school
of ash by tackles. After the prey has been
surrounded 1t Is closed automatically at
the bottom. forming purse from which
the fish cannot possibly escape except III the
occasional instances when the catch is SO
huge that the net breaks from the exccs-
sive weight.
The gill net il used sometimes Tor CATCH
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28
Across the Street.
n the Boston Journa

Dean Rice In the Boston Journal.
Across the street the bright lights flashed -
cleaned
And fortunes 9avored ones were gathered there.
The merry music of the dance outstreamed
Upon the afr.
Across the street-it seemed far away,
That Joyous world from my unhappy sphere,
Made up Of weary toll. day after day.
And year by year.
turned me from my window, with sign.
Thou mak'st Hfe's differences, Q God, % VIDA"
could not conquer that ungrateful cry,
Though hard tried
Across the street. next night. across the street
Deafhsg grim insignia from the dor was hung.
4 heard the passersby, lew-vciced. repeat
$50 fair 90 young. "
Across the street--ah, surely twas not %.
That they were mourning who last night wsss
That yopaer mansion was house OF woe,
4 Where death held swsyf
Across the street. beside single light,
. cherries company sad watch kept
And she the hon,aged Of yesteruight,
Forever SLEPT.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-28
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

The following Is list Of advertised letters re.
naming In tie Washington Cd. CO. Post Office Sat-
urday, March 2S 1908.
10 obtain any Of these letters the applicant should
rail- for Advertised Letters" -
II not called for within two (2) weeks they VIII
be sent TO the Dead Letter Office.