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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

Liverpool cables: Opening. wheat I'D
lower, corn sd lower.
Second cable: Wheat unchanged, corn
lad lower.
Kansas City car lots today: Wheat H.
corn S. oats 6.
Kansas City estimated car lots tomor-
row: Wheat S. corn IS. oats IL
Chicago car lots today: Wheat Il, corn
1s9, oats 50.
chicago estimated car lots tomorrow;
Wheat 49, corn 254, oats IS.
Northwest car lots today: minneapolis
Wheat AS. last year 1913. Duluth-Wheat
491. last year 526.
Closing cables: Wheat sd lower. corn
I'd lower
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

Chicago. Dec ESE-Marlxet
firm. Daisies, 135sc; twins, 13@l3Nc c:
Young Americas, 14c
POULTRY-Alive, steady; turkeys, 12c;
chickens and springs. &c.
BGTTER-Market steady. Creamery, %
Q31c; dairy. 2o0i27c.
EGGs-Market weak; at mark cases in
cluded, 21625c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
Cotton Market.

Galveston. Tex, Dec 1s.-COTTON-
Market steady 10 slice
New York. Dec. 13.-COTTON-Ma Market
steady. IS points advance; middling up
lands, slO.65; middling gulf, 5000. Sales
]. leo bales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

st. Paul. Mimi, Dec 13-The Cum
minis Commission company. one Of the
largest brokerage houses in st. PauI.and
Minneapolis, suspended business today.
Failing OF in business Is given as this
cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

FURNISHED BY Cope & Co. 134 Kan. Ave. /
POULTRY-Hens TIC ID; spring chick.
ems TIC ID; live turkeys: hens and yolna
gobblers. I3c; old toms, lie.
FGGS-Fresh country 29c. storage 22N24c
BUTTER-Fresh country. 1S922c-
If Grnlshed by the City Hay Market III
Quincy street,
HAY.
PRAIRIE HAY-New. 50 oo9s1o 90. baled
SO 0O61O-O0-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
Will ARREST SCOTT.
George Deal. Shot by Neighbor
Ranchman, Dies 1T Garden City.

Garden City. Kan. Dec. 13.-George
Deal. the 65-year-old ranchman. shot
Monday night by Putnam Scott in an
alteration ever some cattle. died in
the Ielwig hospital here Wednesday.
Sheriff Bogart went after Scott in a
motor car and he will be placed in jail
on a charge of murder. He has not
made any effort at evasion Scott says
that he shot In self defense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

Wichita. Kan. Dec 1s.-Mrs. A. C.
Husev. wife of A. c. Husey. representa-
tive from the Seventy second district.
died here last night after long Illness
Her husband and one daughter survive
her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
Chicago Live Stock Marker

Chicago. Dec. 15.-CATTIE-Rece
II. 900 head Market steady. Beeves, 81. i065
735; cows and heifers. S1.650l5 90; stockers
and feeders, s.. 40'd4. so; Texans SO. 1914 GO:
westerners. $3.So0S.75; calves. s.. O00S 90
HOGGS-Receipt 1900 head Market
strong to SC higher. Mixed and butchers
IS. 9Od6- 25; good heavy. S610G6.25; rough
heavy. =. I5G5- PSI; light. s5.s5I6.a0 pigs,
S. 3576. 10. bulk Of sales. SIS QgfTS 20
Receipts 5000 head Market
steady. Sheep. $3.90d575 lambs $75d
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

Furnished by J. f. Gall Commissions,
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocka
Office ITO w. Sixth ST. Phone 1856
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13
-opci<a f1idc Market.

Prices paid IN Topeka this week. based
on Boston quotations.l
Topeka, Kan, Dec. 49,
GREEN SALT CURED. lie
NO. I HORSE. 5063.0
40 TAT-T-0VV-------------- ia
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

KANSAS lily Live StOC< sales Today.
1.-THE following sales were made today al
the stock yards Kansas City. Mo. and
teieEhoned to The Topeka State Journa.
by Clay. Robinson & Co.. live stock COM
mission merchants. with offices at all
Kansas City. Dec. 13-CATTLE-s.0 900
head. Market steady.
HOGS-10.0O0 head. Market steady Bulk
of sales. 81. 1906 25. Top, CITY
SHEEP-S.0o head. Market slow.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

TOPEKA LIVE STOCK MARKET
lI7urnl ed BY Charles Wolf kacklnk 90
Yards close at noon on Saturdays.l
Topeka, Kan, Dec 10
HOGS
MIXED AND BUTCHERS. $50 $3.50
HEAVY ......-....-. .....-..-... 5.ST5z9I5 90
LIGHT OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $50 05S5
stays 81 0UQL5O less than l4vss. accord
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FURNISHED by J. E. Gall. Commissions
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stocks
Onice 10 ". Sixth ST. Phone 4S61
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

You Will have to hurry If you get
those photos for Xmas. Lutes. 511.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-13

Furnished by J. Z. Gail. Commissions
Grains. Provisions. Cotton and Stock
Office ITO w. Sixth St Phone 1851
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

1t were, like the old-fashioned grand. mother, we find the wrinkles and hol- lows and settled look of those who think old thoughts!
 There is a story of a maiden whose mental development was arrested in youth, 80 that she thought she was al- ways a child. She lived to be an old woman, but her face retained it's youth full look to the last. She never thought any but youthful thoughts.
 We would not suggest that in any sense the modern grandmother negleets grandpa, but with not too reproving smile, she turns a shell pink ear to the agreeable compliments of others, not insensible to their charm.
 Grandma Is just as young in her tastes as Mahel. Both play bridge and euchre; have their clubs, go to the theatre, opera, receptions, dances and dinners. Both ride horseback and grandma is apt to ride a little better than Mabel Both can drive four-ins hand or an automobile, play tennis or golf. Both are great travellers. Grands ma does not sit in the chimney corner and knit. while Mabel has gay time! Not shel
 It is said there was something aw- fully sweet about the old fashioned grandmother. Occasionally we see one of her kind surviving today, sweet faced, soft voiced, white haired, old la- dies. meekly taking a back seat. Con- tent to be oldl Think of 1t! And seem ing to rather enjoy the privileges of old age! It is very queer! Very un- natural! Very unlike our modern gFandmal
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
MISS ALABAMA Carmingly Breezy Pen Picture of the Composite Girl
 You Know.
HmHmg MnmmMHMH mnM Mn mG @n mn @ mIwla
You Know.
BY KATHARINE HOPKINS CHAPMAN.

says but keep theN boys wake o'nights to maintain precedence m mathematics and Greek, which the lords of creation still like to think Is entailed for men only.
 Miss Alabama remembers some dark days in her childhood which impressed on her the fact that, while she is the direct descendant of Luxury, she is cer- tainly not it's legatee. She probably saw her mothers stealthy evasions of the unwritten. time-honored Southern law: NO lady shall work for sordid gold" So now. whenever necessary, she ekes out her slender income openly, but with an air that implies she IOes 1t only for self-improvement or love of oongenial company.
 She accepts the money thus earned with charming indifference; but once it is in her pocket (for girls do have pockets these tailor made days), she is new girl, so to speak: She jingles the silver musically and giving the past a defiant little flip, asserts that, notwithstanding its alluring traditions, 1t Is nothing but an old fogY.
 Time has provided her with traditions with which to fill her genealogical book, but oft-tines she herself must provide those extras which make girlhood gay crisp organdies, rose-ladened, tulle- twisted witcheries. gauzy fans, and op- portunities for displaying all these called functions or resting at seashore or mountain-side. She !nherits a love of brocades, velvets and laces, she dotes on dainty tea jackets and lovely trail- Ing evening gowns. When fortune fla vors she can select these in Paris with exquisite taste and wear them with the unconscious ease of a Duchess. Gener- ally, however, Miss Alabama takes some lawn, little lace and a few bows of ribbon, and produces frock that gives | a professional modiste pointers on style, grace and the eternal fitness of things. In statue the Alabama girl bids fair i to outgrow her brother or her sweet heart, which Is much worse. She may stand in the dark with weights on her | head to prevent this reversal Of na-
 ture's order, but give up her, beloved athletics? Neveri
 l She rides with the ease and grace
 of heredity. for during the war her
 mother could show any dragoop hAr
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

horses heels, and in pioneer days her grandmother often rode twenty miles to church and thought it no hardship; but those dinners on the ground" would have obliterated any hardship.
 Miss Alabama up-to- date plays ten- his and baslSet-ball with the comfort of partial dress reform and golf with the calm assurance of an arched lnstep and a neat ankle; nor would she ask her Northern sister any odds on the wheel or automobile if only her State could boast the good roads she hopes to have in the near future.
 However Miss Alabama, in common with all Southern girls, has an innate love of rest which sometimes receives a harsher name from those who live in a more bracing climate. This lazi- ness CD enables her to loll about with a drowsy content that is as contagious as yawning. but when pleasure or duty calls she is usually up and doing. Swaying to and fro in a hammock, she will lie dreaming of the past when her grandfather dictated the politics of his country and his wife inaugurated the fashions: or she will glance through closed lids, into the future, when her father shall have developed the coal, iron or phosphates that lie in the hills beyond his cotton fields, or of the hus- band who may be at the head of one of the many corporations which liter ally possess the land.
 Finding the stigma of reproach has been removed from spinsterhood, she says she looks forward to the life of an old-maid with equanimity, but she wishes it distinctly understood she makes this assertion with "all rights reserved" to change her mind at any time and at any place; for if the man of her choice be found, she says ."yes" even if he be poor, for she is conscious of being a helpmeet for man.
 But whether guided by hef head or heart in taking her chance in the lot tery of life, she has the womanly grace of caring for those who belong to her. or to whom she belongs as the case may turn out If she marries an old man for his wealth and position, rarely does she seek companionship among men of her own age; if she joins poor sweetheart in his struggles for fame and fortune, as a rule she bravely shoulders her share Of the. burden.
 Intellectually Miss Alabama is also inconsistent tending toward a broad general culture rather than specialize ing in one branch till it commands commercial recognition. She is close reader of the newspaper and maga- zines and keeps in touch with the trend of national opinion the world over. In her grandfather's library, which was selected while he was mak- ing the foreign tour deemed necessary l for every educated man in his day she
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
THE MODERN GRANDMOTHER. Being Some Reflections on the Old and New Woman.
 HUDSON
Hn wT wN V1KR RmN WWMl Ml a VII aaRa m Q N M ME hN4
LULA HUDSON MOODY.

settled, these women, still on the sunny side of middle age. The modern wo- man refuses to settle.
 was reading somewhere the other day that some body of wise persons had recently decided that an old maid isn't one until she is forty. which must be good news to the large army of bachelor girlsS This gives them an advantage of fifteen years over the unA married woman of the last generation. who, at 25, was considered hopelesSly on the shelf. No man, unless 1t be a very ineligible old widower with house full of children, was supposed to
 wish to marry so aged person as this. Now, our girls of 25 are in the very prime of their attractiveness. At
 30. they look scarcely any older, and at 40 they are stln slender, sprightly,' full of high spirits. and If little the worse for wear, still good to look upon
 But notwithstanding the extremely
 liberal view of the boundaries of old maidhood, it is no very remarkable thing for a modern, woman to be wife and mother at IS and a grandmother at
 S6. Our women love and marry in the blush of youth, just as they always did. But somehow years and responsibilities
 sit lightly upon them. For one thing,
 they refnse to grow fat. Exercise,
 gymnastics, and good corsets, aid them in this laudable determination. They hold themselves religiously erect, Care
 ful attention, under the direction of
 various specialists, to their complex ', ions, hair, teeth, and finger
 nails. helps along wonderfully in
 this maintaining of youthlul appearance. They rub out the wrink- les. We need not dwell on what they do to the gray hairs We know that if these tell-tale forerunners of old age appear, they disappear even more rapidly, and it is not our business to enquire further Then the clothes these youthful grandmothers wear! who could help looking young in them Reception gowns, dinner gowns, ball gown. Fairy like, diaphanons crea- tions in delicate blues an5 pinksa and yenows, cut to show Grandma's round arms ana smooth white neck and throat! When Grandma leads the ger r1ian in such a frock, when her laugh ings out merrily, and her small feet keeps time to the music as lightly as any ones, who would dare call this radiant creature old or suggest that she sit in a corner garbed in back silk and hair brooch!
 But as fine feathers do not make fine birds, 1t is not alone the pretty clothes and beauty specialists that keen. Grandma young The Christian Scientists say that we are each a type of thought, by which, as I understand It. they mean that one mentality shines through our physical king. so that we can usually look into a mans face and if he is stingy or open hearted, Ill., tempered or good humored, cruel or kind it is reflected there, and we read i it like an open book So, in the face l of the woman who worries, who feels the weight of her years, who allows herself to drop out of the running, as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

absorbed enough Gibbon, Gulzot, and NIacauiey to give her a keen interest in. and firm mental footing among, the changing empires of today. She prop ably took up these ponderous tonnes as a last resort when a steady rain pre- vented her procuring the latest mover, but once rocked upon those rolling swelling periods, she Required mu- tual boise that stands her in good stead these wishywashys days. She may not be able to buy every book that comes out now, when of the making of books there Is no end" but she usually has some admirer Who panders to her intellectual taste
 Sometimes a bracing day and se- were tailor suit combine to make her feel independent she immerses herself in business, mods curtly to quondam lovers and plans a systematic course in--er something; most anything will do. She may even go so far as 10 imagine herself new woman, put fortunately few agree with her for several reasons:
 cite; she would lose her self-respect, and much else, probably.
 ?. She never takes advkntage of leap year it isn't necessary.
 g. She always powders her face and sometimes paints at night if her
 4. She has never known a girl who was plaintiff in a breach of -pro- mise suit, and never wants to.
 5. In spite of her masculine shirtwaist and the mannish walking boots that look SO incongruous. on her dainty little feet, she has demure confiding, delicate air which gains hev a seat in every street-car, no matter how crowded.
 G. In elevators, in fact every where, it's hats off to Miss Alabama!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
A Correspondents Embarrassment.

There Is one young newspaper man in Washington who Is not anxious to see Secretary Moody-for a time at least On one of his horseback rides outside the capital recently the secre- tary was joined by young fellow, and as the two galloped along they en- gagged in conversation. The stranger said he was a correspondent recently arrived and he expressed delightfully."- frank opinions regarding some men of note In public life. There's the post master general" he said. That mans a worker. and so is Taft. Moody's big fellow but the laziest man In the cabinet" When the equestrians were about to part tlfe secretary said: T have had a very pleasant ride with you. I hope we shall meet again" The news paper man took out a card and handed it to Moody, who in turn handed him one of his own, But he did not wait 10 witness the correspondents embar' rassTuent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

As a feminine given name Alabama was much in vogue with those sturdy pioneers who emigrated to this glo- rlous strip of land even before 1t was freed from the Indians or eased with the parliamentary conveniences or civ nization. On many family trees, trans planted to new ground" and blazed Here we rest" the first feminine bud to blossom forth was christened Ala bama Blank and 1t Blank were trans lated 1t would probably be found to have risen high in the nomenclature of the State.
 But Miss Alabama of the present day is a composite girl, standing for many minds when taken individually; merg- ing into a charming type when viewed collectively. She stands amid the en- thraIling traditions of the past and the thrilling possibilities of the future the result is a piquant mixture Of incon- sIstencies and vain would be the man who would attempt to predict her next move. ,-
 Years ago she was taught in giving the State of her nativity to add the State from which her parents or grand noreuts came as Miss Alabama Carter --the Carters from Virginia, you know" but that is entirely unneces- sa7y new for Alabama mas eSolNeu s a., individuality of her own and so has Miss Alabama. The daughter is proud of her mother-State from the blue hills In the north where those worldwide putentatcs, iron and coal. hold Joint sway. 10 the wave-washed shores where foreign vessels ride and the Spanish mackerel disports itself
 She has a reasonable faith thar this grand Commonwealth with It's fertile soil. its majestic rivers, mild climate and inexhaustible mineral wealth will before long rank among the foremost States of the Union, even if the boil weevil should decimate King Cotton annual income.
 when the Alabama sweet -girl-graduats was congratulated on her essay. she would naively admit; "I am glad you like it. My brother who Is at the Uni- versity of Virginia wrote 1t and we are very proud of him."
 But now, Alabama's sons and daugh' ters attend her own University where tha girls not only write their own es-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

A young man stood on a corner wait ing for car. Nearby little girl played withM White-capped nurse. Pres ently the d65Fu of a aehandsome residence opened and a lady ripped down the steps to a carriage which stood wait ing at the curb. She was slender, gold en-haired, and bewilderingly pretty and dressed in white from her tiny feet to her beplumed hat and fluffy parasoL
 70. Kitty, take me too! Take me too" cried the child,. rapturously, but with a smiling Not today. dear," the beauty entered the carriage and was driven away, followed by the fascinated gaze of the youth.
 Hello. little grill" he called, for he was a modern young man, was that your sister,"
 The child gazed at him with round eyes and shook her head
 "she wasn't your mother, was sheE he demanded. incredulously.
 But here the severe Vlsage or the
 That was my granddaughter" she said, succinctly
 It was a case of a grandmother being sweeter by another name!
 The fact is, the race of grandmothers as we once knew them is gradually be- coming extinct. Whereas, there was a time when each stage of life was sup posed to have it's charm from infancy to old age, now it Is only charming to be young. In this day,~gray hairs, wrinkles, empty gums and bowed backs are regarded as faults to be deFided not misfortunes to be pitied. It is a disgrace to grow old!
 The old-fashioned grandomther was proud of the fact. The modern grand mother doesn't want to be one! | It seems incredible to us of the pres ent generation that there was ever q | time when 3 woman of 30 was consid- cred old. Yet. one hundred years ago l in the ordinary walks of life, black WAS considered the only fitting color for a woman of this age-a genteel black silk, pinned at the throat-with de- mure brooch containing the hair Of a 1 departed relative!
 l Her own smooth tresses were parted 1 in the middle and gathered into a knot l or braidS, neat to severity. Her time 1 was devoted to domestic pursuits. with l @ rare church gathering of a social na- l ture for diversion. If she were still
 unmarried at this advanced age, SC l much the worse for her It was recog-
 nized that no one of her years could | possibly care for any but a quiet, se- | cluded existence!
 The daguerreotypes of women past
 thirty to be found in every well-or- | dered family look old. Their coun- l tenances are worn and unsmiling. They 1 seem to have faced the camera as they l did all of the other issues of life | with grim endurance, There is nc echo of youth about them. They look
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
rn Rerive Inc ConcertIna.

The threatened revival of the concer- tina as q serious musical instrument would be a return to an old fashion no doubt, but not to very old one, since the concertina is considerably less than a hundred years old. Its invention was an early indiscretion of Sir Charles Wheatstone, of telegraph fame, who took out a patent for 1t in lS29, the verv wear in which somebody in Vienna invented that similar Instrument, the aecordion. The concertina was popu- larlzed by signor Regondi, who had come befores the public as Juvenile m London concert was really complete without him and his concertina, and he astounded the Germans with the music he could get out of it. They took to making concertinas themselves. but the German instrument is inferior to ours. such as it Is, of knowing that in the matter of coneertinas we lead the world.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
aIivinr-Inn Evil.

Shop assistants and clerks in retail and wholesale houses and similar es- establishments in England often endure great hardships on accounts of the sur vival of the medieval '1iving-in" rules. by which they eat. sleep and work all under the same roof. determined 'ef- fort is now being made to do away with the evils of the system. An em- ployer boards and feeds a staff of 5OO assistants. He decides to reduce the cost of breakfast to the extent of one penny a head per diem. This economy in housekeeping gives him an addi- cheeseparing of one meal alone. The unfortunate assistant, ''who can leave if he doesn't like ,Ae food provided" must deplete his meager wage to buy extra food to satisfy his hunger. or to tempt the palate to swallow the unap- petizing fare provided by the firm
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
w,II Pay Prlaoners Wages.

tralia. has appropriated s25.O0O for the making of roads by prisoners through the bush" in unsettled parts of the state. Each prisoner who does his work well will be paid a regular daily wage the amount to accumulate until his release, when, as the premier says, he will have a respectable sum with
 which to make a new start in life. {" The labor party is expected to oppose inc substitution of bond for. free labor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16
The Reason

"Wbat makes Jones look so sour2"
 "Oh' somebody handed him lemon