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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12
MRS. BowsER's STORY.
She Tells Why Mr.. Bowser Left
Home.
(By NJ. Quad.)


We had just finished dinner and re-
turned to the sitting room the other
evening when the cook came upstairs
and said there was a boy at the base
mcnt door with gallon jug. Mr..
Bowser promptly went down to see
about it, and a few minutes later an
nounced to me:
49, 1T is a little something the plumber
a robber last year he has done every
But what is it?" 1 asked.
you know he has a farm out in
the country. His brother-in-law runs
it. They dig all kinds of roots and
gather all kinds of banks and make
what they call an Elixer of Life. 1t
is a jug of the last brew they have
sent me over. Come on down and
have a taste"
''I am not in need of a tonic
"You may not think you are, but
had a sort of rash for the last week.
and this is just the stuff to take it
away
II shouldn't take anything of the
kind unless ordered by the doctor.
It's funny that you haven't said any
thing about your rash up to just now"
Mrs. Bowser, don't use that tone in
speaking to me- he said, as he flush
can have a rash without shouting the
fact all over town, and in the next
was waiting to see whether it would
grow worse or go away. 1 should
have gone to the drug store this even
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About New Books and Authors


gradually been dropped in the inter
est of space, and are now to be found
along with other similar material in
the separate book called who's Who
Yearbook" The very large additions
of American names make the book in
creasingly valuable for this country.
Two new books that will delight the
booklover are fine editions of 1.-THE
Complete Angler" and 1.-THE Vicar of
Wakefield." issued by the Caradoc
Press of London, and handled in this
country by the j. B. Lippincott Co.
They are reprinted from the original
editions; printed in large and beauti-
full type on Kelmscott paper; and
decorated with wood-cut ornaments
and etchings, and headings and notes
in red. They are medium octave in
size, and handsomely bound, and such
reprints of these old classics as it is a
delight to handle and own. There
books emanating from the Caradoc
Press will ultimately attain a place in
the esteem of true booklovers fully
equal to that held by the Vale and
Dolores Bacon, the author of "Old
New England Churches" has had an ex-
tremely interesting career. She was
born in Kansas, and studied music in
Paris Subsequently, she became a
left the stage, however, to become Paris
correspondent for sthe New York World.
She has written number of plays, and
is also the author of "a Kings Divini-
ty,' Crumbs and His Times Songs
Every Child Should Know" etc. She
is now making her home at Yonkers.
Striking names for articles of mer-
chandise are constantly in demand,
and the success of a new breakfast
food tOOthpoWder or novel depends
nowadays largely upon the genius be-
hind the name. 1t appears that imita-
ton enters into commercial nomen-
clature as into other branches of bust
ness. Soon after Meredith Nicholson's
novel, 1.-THE House of Thousand
Candles was launched, a railway
paraphrased the name to suit its own
needs as THE Road of a Thousand
Wonders Two candy manufa cturers
in widely separated cities have lately
been advertising 1.-THE House of
Thousand Candies" A well known
summer resort hotel has proclaimed
itself far and wide THE House of a
Thousand Delights Mr.. Nicholson's
good luck as a maker of phrases has
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ing IL this Elixir hadn't come. All, it's
good stuff. 1t goes right to the spot.
The plumber began using this twenty
years ago, when everybody predicted
that he wouldn't live a year. Inside of
a year he had gained thirty pounds
and his yells could be heard a mile.
He has a list of over thirty people that
it has drawn back from the grave.
You won't have any, Ell? Well, if you
like to have your dry bones rattle as
you walk about that's your affair. 1
think I'll take another small sip"
Just then the front bell upstairs rang,
and 1 went up to find Mrs. Brown s
boy with a message from his mother,
who was i'll. She wanted me to come
over for awhile. and I left Mr.. Bowser
seated in his chair and reading the pa
per. 1t was three hours before 1 re-
turned and he was not to be found in
the house On the table. however, he
had left a memorandum or diary of the
events of those hours. and 1 here give
it verbatim:
plumber sends me a gallon of Elixir
to cure my rash and brace me up. Spoke
of my rash, to Mrs. Bowser and she an
swered sarcastically.
Had two doses of the Elixir before
she was unexpectedly called out. Rather
pleasant to the taste.
Desiring to get rid of this rash as
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THE PINE STREET CASE.


Inspector Jackson, who had charge
of the Pine street case, said that its
solving was the easiest problem he had
had in detective work for fifteen years.
At No. II Pine street. on the third
floor, was the office of Samuel Cold
stein. the money-lender. All sorts of
people came to him, including many
young men who had gone the pace and
found themselves dead-broke. Mr.
Goldstein had the reputation of being
man without pity. When his pound
of flesh was due he wanted 1t and
would have 1t or ruin his debtor. In
ten years he was the cause of more
than a dozen designations from the
British army and navy. During the
same time he broke" almost a score
of young men who might have pulled
through had he but been a bit lenient
One afternoon a three o'clock
customer called at the office to find
the noneylender dead in his chair. He
had been shot through the head. The
office boy had been given a half holf-
day, and the Jew was alone in his of
fee: The case was given to Inspector
Jackson, and it began to unfold from
the first first 1t was not a case of
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did not claim to be an innocent man.
when he came to talk with the chap
lain he made no such claim. When he
fell Ill and the prison doctor spoke
kindly to him he made no protesta-
tons. He fell into the routine of pri-
! son life and made no sign. The state
| ment was made by Goldstein's son that
+ a score of notes were missing from his
new note was among them, it was be-
| ieved that he had grabbed up the
package after shooting the money
lender 1t was asked why he should
Kali and rob the man after things had
| been fixed to his satisfa ction, but the
! answer was that he lied. No note had
been given. No pity had been shown.
When two years had passed Inspec-
tor jackson resigned from the yard
and set up a private agency. Perhaps
1t was z coincidence" that he took
rooms at No. Is Pine street, directly
opposite the scene of murder He fur
nished Offices on the third floor He
could look right across the street and
sitting when shot. The inspector had
the reputation of always having his
eyes about him. but he had occupied
his rooms six weeks before he saw
som ething that he should have seen in
side of five minutes 1t was a bullet
hole in ore of the front windows
When he had inspected it and won
dered over it he looked across the
street with d grass, ana saw a cOrre-
spending hole in a window in Gold
STEMS former Offices. 1t was exac city
on line with the hole in his own. When
he had climbed to the other Offices
the new tenant of the rooms let him sit
| in a certain place. He found the bull
let holes on line with his head, and he
looked still more troubled as he went
downstairs.
Then, first thing was to hunt up the
former occupants of the inspectors
nfHnaC 10 he
pie of stage machinists. On a certain
day a revolver had been accidentally
fired from a front window, and the
bullet had penetrated the pane, but
its further flight had not worried
them. The inspector was still think
ing matters over when there came to
him from paper mill in a distant
town, as the man who had had charge
promissory notes-twenty-thr in all.
Among them was Harburger's It was
the new note he said he had given,
and had told the truth about. The
others had belonged to young men who
had been very careful not to notify the
police that they were indebted to the
mOney-lender.
With the information at hand, the
inspector did the manly thing. It was
plain that Hamburger had called and
adjusted the affair. He had been seen
going out. A few minutes later the ac-
cidental shot from No. 8 had killed
the money-lender. Another caller ap-
peared and found him dead and took
the package of notes from his hand and
descended the stairs unseen. He had
perhaps found his own among them
and destroyed it. The others had been
thrown away to find themselves in
some ragbag at last. 1t took a year
to accomplish it. but Inspector Jack
son finally brought the convicted muir
derer out of prison and rehabilitated
him. and though he may live many
years he will look back upon it as the
best deed of his life. When he found
himself in the wrong he admitted it,
and set about doing the right thing
Copyright, 1907, by j. w. Muller.)
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suicide. No pistol was found in the
room. A fellow-tenant had seen a
young man leave the office ten min
utes before the murder was discovered
and was able to give a good description
of him. The inspectors theory was
that someone whom Goldstein was
squeezing had called in reference to
his Indebtedness, and, being refused
longer time, had become desperate and
resorted to murder. He went among
the clubs with the description he had
secured, and within three days he had
his man. John Hamburger, son of
wealthy widow, but who had become
estranged from his mother on account
of his eNtrayagapees, was the party ar
rested. He was known to be hard up.
He was known 70 have borrowed
money from the Jew and it was sus-
pected that he had forged an accept.
ance and was in danger of being sent
to prison. 1t was known that he in
tended to see Goldstein the day of the
murder, and that he was armed and
desperate. In fact, when arrested, he
did not deny that he had visited No. 7.
the heart of London, Harshburger was
found and arrested in town hun
dred miles away
The first steps were easy for the in
spector. The second bothered him
some. Hamburger admitted that he had
called. He admitted that he was armed.
He had paid a portion of his indebted
ness, and the money-lender had taken
his note without endorsement for the
balance. He had the old one with him
as proof. After leaving Pine street he
had received a letter from a man in
rested, and had accepted the offer of
a place He had had to sell his re-
volver to raise the money to pay his
fare down. He had not seen a London
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whom he comes in contact. The plot
is unfolded with a skill that endows the
story in a peculiar degree with the ele-
ments which make a popular success.
Indeed, for sheer interest and faSci-
nation THE Malefactor'' surpasses any
thing Mr.. Oppenheim has hitherto writ
ten.
A work likely to become practically
national textbook on all matters relat-
ing to American flags is Peleg D. Har-
rison's 1.-THE Stars and Stripes and Other
American Flags just published by
Little, Brown & Co. Mr.. Harrison has
brought together in his large octave
volume a vast amount Of valuable in
formation.
A sequel to "Mr. Barnes of New
York. by Archibald Clavering Gunter.
is announced by Dodd, Mead & Co.
1t bears the title Mr.. Barnes, Ameri-
cam and will be illustrated by B. Mar
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produced in New York next fall In a
recent interview she told a reporter that
she wrote 100000 words in the first
year she composed for publication, and
she claimed ability to write in legible
longhand 1000 words an hour. Her
claim on public recognition as a writer
of humorous future stories, however,
rests on Susan Clegg and Her Friend
Clegg'' stories. OF these stories the
New York Times says, Her Susan
Clegg' stories, rich in pungent humor
and extremely clever in their portrayal
of quaint and amusing character, de-
serve place among the choice Speci-
mems of American humorous literature
which means the best humorous liter
allure in the world
The January Bookman contains the
opening chapters of the new Maurice
Hewlett serial, 1.-The STOPPING Lady"
Dodd, Mead & Co. will issue II in book
form in the fall.
Ernest IngersolPs new story. Eight
Secrets published by Macmillan, is
dedicated ITO the Ninth Secret" The
delightful story throws no light on this
cryptic reference, and Mr.. Ingersoll is
already receiving letters demanding
that he write another book to elucidate
the mystery.
"Sea Power in Its Relations to the
w dF VI 1o11, the WOTk ny (dpl
A T. Mahan, U. S. N (retired), was
commended by President Roosevelt in
his message to congress. Although the
president refrained from mentioning the
title of the book, in speaking of the
value of a navy as guarantor of peace,
he urged the study of our countrys
failures. adding: For this purpose,
nothing could be more instructive than
a rational study of the War of 1872, as
it is told for instance by Capt. Mahan."
1t will be remembered that President
Roosevelt's own history of the War
of 1912 appears in it's rewritten and
definite form in volume VII of Sir Will
liam Laird Cloves history of THE
Royal Navy" Capt. Mahan has been
urged to undertake the task of writing
an authentic history of the American
navy.
''who's who" for 1907 has just ap-
peared. bigger and better in many
ways than ever before. There are
nearly two thousand pages in this edi-
ton, an increase of nearly hundred
pages over that of 1906. The tables
which were formerly included have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

A new Oppenheim book has just been
published by Little. Brown & Co In
this striking story of singular originality
elected to face a sentence of penal
Bervitude, rather than defend himself
at the expense of a woman's reputation
Embittered by his terrible punishment,
Sir Wingrave Seton comes out of prison
with a fixed resolve to revenge himself,
not only on the woman who has wrong
ed him, but on all human beings with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12
HOW to Cure chiIblains.

ITO enjoy freedom from chilblains,"
writes John Kemp, East Otisheld, Me.
Il apply Bucklen's Arnica Salve. Have
also used 1t for salt rheum with excellent
results" Guaranteed to cure fever sores.
indoIent ulcers, piles, burns, wounds, frost
bites and skin diseases. CSC at Arnold
Drug Co. drug store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

carpenter, had the misfortune to tread
on an axe with her bare foot while
tripping Ger the lawn few evenings
since, and she will have to hopole Ior
q month or so to come. Doctor James
SAYS that if she had fallen she might
have cut her throat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

During a dog fight in front of this
office one day last week Mr.. Sherman
Johnson SO far forgot himself as to
call US a liar and hit US on the nose.
Scores of people have said that we
ought to have him arrested for assault
and battery. but we shall not do so.
We shall let his own conscience pun
ish him.
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In his sermon last Sunday evening
the Rev. John Meeker referred to the
tremendous strain put on the brains Of
editors to keep up with the times
There is hardly a night that we don't
go home with our head in a whirl and
our mind in a state of chaos, and yet
how many people think of this when
they pick up copy Of the Banner and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

We had to do the family washing on
Monday and the ironing on Tuesday,
and if the Banner is one day late in
reaching its readers they will know the
cause. Our wife is not at all well this
season, ands-we are not able to hire
help in the house. We have often been
complimented on our washing and
ironing, and have had some thought of
running a laundry in connection with
the Off1ce-M Quad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

Little Hiram Birdsall, son of Joseph
and Nancy Birdsall, is no more He
was eight years old. and fall from a
cherry tree the other day ended his
young and blithesome life. His par
ents intended to make a minister Of
him, and he could already repeat sew
eral chapters of the Bible
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

We are under great obligations to
farmer Thomas Smith for a dozen eggs
left at this office last Saturday as a
free gift. The shells were as white
and pure as an infants soul, and the
yolks will keep US alive until some one
brings us in few early vegetables.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12
HOMETOWN HAPPENINGS.

We understand that the Widow
Scott is seriously thinking of painting
her front fence a beautiful yellow.
is the home of art.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12
"a editor OF Ye Banner fell

Ye editor of We Banner fell over a
COW lying down on the sidewalk as he
was returning from church Sunday
evening. and the result was a skinned
nose and several bruises Cows have
their rights as well as human beings,
but we think it behooves the village
council to take some steps in the mat
ter.
Mrs. John Walsh, wife of the village
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

Mr.. Ebenezer Davis, our justly pop
ular hardware merchant, says that
there is more business in New York
city than in Hometown, but that there
is not that neighborly feeling between
citizens to keep the heart warm.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

glance over it? Our brain may give
way under the tremendous pressure
any day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

In all the legislation and litigation
brought about by the trusts, the need
has been strongly felt of concise and
accurate definition of monopoly. Pro-
badly the accepted legal definition for
some time to come will be that recently
adopted by the United States supreme
court, in an opinion rendered by Mr..
Justice McKenna. and first enunciated
by Professor Richard T. Ely in his book
on 'Monopolies and Trusts" published
by Macmillan. 1t is not often that a
theoretical book comes so soon to have
such a marked influence upon the in
depreciation of the most fundamental
ideas of our law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12


The fullness of anecdote which marks
Frederick Trevor HilIs Lincoln the
Lawyer" published by the Century
company, is being noted with favora BILE
comment by many reviewers. They
are anecdotes which help to show the
human side of the great man and how
he reached fame through hard work
and conscientious service. One of many
stories in the book relates how Lincoln
used for probably the first time a phrase
that afterward became famous. Lincoln
was attending court on the circuit when
the news of the repeal of the Missouri
compromise reached him. Judge
Dickey, one of his fellow practitioners,
was sharing his room at local tavern.
He stated that Lincoln sat on the edge
of his bed and discussed the political
situation far into the night. At last
Dickey fell asleep, but when he awoke
in the morning Lincoln was sitting up
in bed deeply absorbed in thought. II
tell you. Dickey," he observed, as if
continuing the argument of the previous
evening, this nation cannot exist half
slave and half free
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followed him in the title of his new
romance now running as a serial in
the Reader Magazine and announced
for publication in the spring, 1.-The
Port of Missing Men" He recently
received in good faith a check for a
handsome sum from a great canning
factory in western New York asking
him to name a new Zine" of fancy
pfckles,-an offer which he declined
for the reason. as he wrote the presi-
dent of the company, that he was
afraid of making himself liable under
the pure food law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

The Harpers have just published
new editions of The Call of the Blood
and Sophy of Kravonia, and also an
other edition of The Awakening of
Helena Richie, which is in steady de-
mand.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-06
Breach Of Promise Case Is
TO Be flashed Over Again
in WASHINGTON co. COURT
Marie Massucco Has Already Got Two
yerdiets from Dominica Tomasi
Of Montpelier-Supreme Court
Reversed Decisions.

Montpelier, Aug 6.--The oft.tried
breach of promise suit Of Marie Mas
succo VS.. D. Tomasi Of Montpelier, which
has numbered the court for several years,
must be tried again, according to an
entry Just made by the Supreme court.
The woman has twice got verdict against
Mr.. Tomasi and the case has been twice
taken to Supreme court on exceptions
and each time sent back for retrial.
The order for the third trial by Wash
ington county court has just been made
through the entry with the county clerk.
The result of the first trial in county
court was a verdict of $4,000 for the
AIassueco woman. When the cause was
Ireinanded by Supreme court, the second
trial resulted in verdict for $500. The
last trial was held at the March, 1907,
term, following which the attorneys for
the defendant entered the case in Su-
preme court on exceptions. The attor
Ineys for the defendant are A. NJ. Sar-
torelli OF New York and George w. Wing
and Harry G. Shurtlef of Montpelier,
while the three lawyers for the plaintiff
are w. A. Lord, +. p. Carleton and Hale
Tx. Darling, the last.named of Chelsea.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-08-06
WOMEN TAINTED
AT SIGHT OF FIRE
Financial Damage in New York's Down
town District Was Not Large, but
Excitement Was,

New York, Aug. GA spectacular fire
which did not do great financial damage
but which for time threatened to
spread to two large Office buildings in
which thousands of persons were em-
|ployed, threw lower broadway into great
turmoil and excitement yesterday after
noon. The fire started in o paint shop
on Fulton street and owing to the in
flammable nature of the materials soon
spread to other floors of the structure.
There was an explosion and then great
sheets of flame leaped out and threat
ened the big buildings of the Western
Union company and the Evening Mail.
Thousands Of persons, many of them
women, were employed in the upper por-
tion Of the Western Union building, and
as soon as it appeared that they were
in danger they were directed to leave
the building as rapidly as possible. This
they did in good order, despite the great
excitement that prevailed. Several young
women tainted and were carried out by
their comrades.
Great crowds around the threatened
area became much excited as they saw
the hatless women and hurrying men
leave the nearby structure. All traffic
on Broadway and in neighboring side
streets was completely interrupted and
business generally in the downtown part
Of the city came to a standstill Mount
ed police rode along the lines pressing
back the excited people and making
lanes through which the fleeing persons
from the Western Union and Evening
Mail buildings were taken to places of
safety. The offices of the Associated
Press are situated in the Western Union
building, but the Associated Press ser.
vice was not interrupted. The firemen
cut away a number OF the Western Tn.
ion cables, but fortunately none Of them
contained any Associated Press leased
wires. The presses of the Evening Mail
were soaked with water and put out of
commission temporarily. ~.