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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
WHEN THE DAYS LENGTHEN.
Some Little Known Astronomical
Facts.

In a certain high school the other
day it was remarked how early in the
afternoon it was getting dark. and
the teacher made the statement that
21st of December, when the sun
would begin to set later. That
teacher had witnessed the sun set
some thousands of times no doubt,
yet she had never discovered the fact
that the afternoons begin to lengthen
from about the 9th of December. and
not the 21st. 1t is safe to say that
hardly one person in a hundred real
ICES this familiar yet little under
stood fact. and hence it will do no
harm to summarize here the condf-
tons of the case.
Owing to certain peculiarities in
the earths orbit around the sun the
length of the sun day Is not exactly
the same throughout the year. At
the time of the equinoxes the sun
day runs about 20 seconds shorter
than the average or 24-hour day,
seconds longer. These differences,
accommodating from day to day,
amount UP until at one season our
clocks are Is minutes ahead of the
sun. while at another they are Is
minutes behind. Clocks keep aver
age or mean time (some keep very
mean time. indeed. that Is not to the
point).
December 2, at Washington, the
sun rose at o'clock and set at ABB.
December 10 it rose at 1903 and set
at ABS. Already the afternoons are
beginning to grow longer, for Decem-
Der 20 the sun set at 4:40. BY the
31st It will set nine minutes later
than on the, shortest afternoon. by
January Is it will SET IA minutes
later, and by January 81, AZ minutes
later. We thus see that the shortest
afternoons were about December 10.
On the other hand the shortest
forenoors will not come until about
January 4. for at this season Old Sol
(like some others) is slow about
getting up December 20 he rose at
1:15, by December 81 he will be four
minutes later. and he will not notice.
ably turn over a new leaf till Janu-
airy IL. when he will continue to rise
earlier each morning until July IS
| next, when he will make record of
ABA At the summer season the sun
loves to stay up nights he keeps
lingering longer and longer, until
July 1, when he will not go to rest
till 1928. December Fl is the short
est day." for the sun stays up only 8
hours and % minutes. while June 81
Is the longest, as the sun shines IA
hours, Sd minutes. The length of the
afternoons keep gaining over that of
the forenoons from now until the
middle of February, when the after
moons will be hours, 33 minutes
long and the forenoons only hours.
There is therefore good reason for the
common feeling in the early part of
the year that 1.-The forenoons are so
short" and in the latter part that the
afternoons are so short-for such is
really the case, though the facts I'M
| DERIVING the subject are by no means
popularity understood.-Th Path
finder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
IT'S HER JAW BONE.
Dentist Says One Found i'm Ruins
Belonged to Guinness Woman -

Laporte. Ind, May 15.-"There is no
question but that the piece of jawbone
found in the Guinness farm yesterday is
from human being. furthermore it
bears strong resemblance to the low
er jaw of Mrs. Guinness"
This positive statement of Identified
ton was made by DR.. I. P. Norton, the
dentist, who performed a large amount
of work on the teeth of the owner of
the death farm, after he had examin-
ed the specimen brought to him by the
coroner.
There is almost no chance that the
bone came from the jaw of an ami
NAL" he said.
There only remains to be discover
ed some of the gold which I placed
upon the cuspid teeth to make the
Identification of this piece of bone posi-
tive and complete. So far as 1 myself
am concerned, / am certain as to the
origin of the bone now"
Sheriff Shutter also brought into
DR.. Norton, number of new bits of
metal found in the debris this morn
ing. They proved, however, to be
brass. Otherwise the search at the
farm was fruitlesS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
KATY FLYER WRECKED.
Six or Seven Reported Killed and
Others Injured.

Muskogee, Okla. May 15.-South-
bound Missouri. Kansas & Texas pas
senger No. 8, known as the flyer,
which left ST. Louis last night for
Texas points, collided nead-on one
mile east of Muskogee at noon today
with a freight train. Several cars
were badly wrecked and caught fire.
Six or seven persons are reported
killed and several others injured.
The known dead:
ENGINEER HOTCHKISS, Parsons,
Kan, of flyer.
BUDIE WEST, Parsons, Kan, ex-
press messenger on flyer.
JAMES LANHAN. Parsons, Kan,
freight engineer.
TWO EXPRESS MESSENGERS,
names unknown.
The injured include two mail clerks
and several passengers, among them
Samuel Sonheimer of Muskogee. The
names are not obtainable now. The
mail clerks were seriously hurt, but
it is believed none of the passengers
was dangerously injured. The pas
senger train left Kansas City 80 min
utes late and met the freight train on
passenger coaches and several freight
coaches caught fire and burned
furiously, being practically destroyed
Engineer Hotchkiss, who was killed
outright, was one of the oldest en-
gineers on the road. Sonheimer was
in the smoker and was thrown
through window. He sustained only
slight hurts. The freight train was
in charge of Conductor Day, who es-
CAPPED uninjured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
THAW IS DANGEROUS.
Jerome Experts Declare Would Not
Be Safe to Turn Him Loose.

Poughkeepsie, N. Y, May 15-Harry
x. Thaw who is seeking by habeas cor
pus proceedings to obtain his freedom
from the state asylum for the criminal
INSANE at Matteawan, was declared by
TWO OF District Attorney Jerome's ex-
perts today to be insane. DR.. Carlos
r. Macdonald testified that Thaw is an
ineurable paranomiac, whose confine-
ment Is demanded by considerations OF
pubic safety. DIR. Amos T. Baker,
acting superintendent of the asylum,
asserted on the witness stand that from
MS observations made in the asylum he
was OF the opinion that to free ThaW
would endanger public safety.
Dr. Baker was the first witness to
take the stand today. He was called by
District Attorney Jerome, not as an ex-
pert. but to give the court statement
OF Thaw's conduct during the three
months he was in the institution be-
ginning February 1. DIR. Baker relat-
ed conversations with Thaw on which
the latter told of epilepsy or nervous
ailments suffered by a sister and uncle
Thaw, the witness said also told of the
oesultory way in which his education
was acquired. At years of age he said
ne had Saint iVtus dance. He descr1b-
ed an attack of pneumonia at Monte
Carlo concerning which he did not
agree with the diagnosis of his ply
sciians. Thaw told DR.. Baker, the lat
ter said, that he used tobacco at 10.
ever using drugs. The witness said
Thaw described his movements before
the ShoOting-his return from Europe
and his marriage to Miss Nesbit. He
gave his age as 81, though he was "a
when he entered the hospital. Thaw
told the witness that at his trial some
of the doctors had greatly exaggerated
their estimates of his condition; that
they had in mind a nephew of his whom
they had examined and who was often
taken for him. He said that his law
yers and doctors did very clever work
in his defense DIR. Baker said ThaW
said to him:
eff / was ever insane in my life the
attack began one minute before shot
White and ended half a minute after
ward"
The doctor repeated a description
that Thaw gave him of the house al
legged to have been maintained by stan
ford White and others. He said that
these men plotted to put him In an
asylum to prevent him from exposing
their alleged misdeeds.
He told me that he appealed to Miss
Helen Gould and was referred by her
to Anthony Comstock," said DR.. Baker:
'Thaw said that detectives employed
by. him to watch White and the latter s
house informed him that he was in
danger"
When the witness asked him to give
the substance of the detectives reports
he refused to answer, by advice OF
counsel" He said that his physicians
and lawyers had advised him not to
discuss what had occurred on the Mad
4son Square roof garden the night he
shot White. He volunteered, however,
this much:
He compared his situation at that
moment to that of a man standing on
the brink of a precipice, seized with an
Irresistible impulse to jump"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15

person who could not talk intelligent
ly about it had no standing in polite
society.
Records kept at the Mammoth Cave
hotel from the time it was opened in
1897 show that while the place was be-
ing advertised in various ways the
number Of visitors was many times
what it Is now, when the publicity pro-
moter knows it not. In 1874. for in
stance, when the population was less
than twenty millions, instead of the
eighty-odd- millions OF today. those who
came to see the natural curiosity num-
bered on an average ninety-three day.
They Travelled hundreds and thousands
Of miles-for many crossed the Atlantic
to behold Il. Sixty-one years later-in
1sos-the average waa aess than . dozen
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
LOCAL MENTION.

Smoke the La Rosa 5 cent cigar.
Owing to the fact that the band
stand at the new South Topeka park
was not completed in time, the open
ing which was to have taken place
was delayed and will be held this eve
ming. A number of speakers will be
present tonight and plenty of band
music furnished.
If there is any particular kind of
smoking tobacco you find dificult TO
get at your dealers. drop in at Eagles.
This store carries the largest line of
smoking tobacco in Topeka.
Ice cream in all designs. Topeka
Pure Milk Co.
R. H. Bradley of Corning, Califor-
mia, is hunting for his son Frank c.
Bradley. who is presumably in To-
peka- Bradley has written to the
mayor requesting information con-
corning his son, who is a sheet metal
worker.
A. X. Rodgers. has secured the con-
sent of the postofffce department for
an enlargement of the facilities at the
general delivery window at the gen
eral postoffice. A new case with 70
compartments.
Nothing harmful in Ideal Washing
Flakes. At your grocers.
The ways and means committee
will meet Saturday and take up the
question of the issuance of the s75,-
900 worth of improvement bonds. The
mayor stated today that the offer of
the Prudential Trust company to pre-
sent the bonds for popular subscrip-
ton would be accepted though bids
for the whole issue from banks and
investment companies would also be
considered.
Claude Sherburne, a driver at No.
2 fire station, who was badly burned
while on duty at fire on West Tenth
is recovering and will probably not
retain any permanent Disagreement
considerable complaint has come
to me because the street railway COM
pany is employing Greek laborers,
importing them, when there are resi-
dents In this town who want work"
said the mayor today. He will take
the matter up with the officers of the
company.
1t will please you. The Big Tromp 5
cent cigar.
The Topeka Gun club will hold a
shoot Saturday afternoon at o'clock
on the grounds east of Oakland.
T. E. Leuenberger has purchased
two lots on Harrison street, where he
will erect a modern house at once
The deal was made through Maxwell
q Co., LOS w. Eishth-s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
NATIONS SCALP.
Stubbs Managers Think He Is Too
Friendly With Leland.

The hackers of the Stubs guber-
material boom are planning to bring
out man as candidate for state
auditor against James Nation.
The claim is made that certain en-
ployes in Mr.. Nations office have been
putting in their time sending out lit
erature for Cyrus Leland. The same
charge is made against employees in
the office Of the state bank commits
sioner, but the bank commissioner Is
not an elective office.
The man to run for auditor against
nation has not been selected. I'VE
will find somebody" said J. N. Dol
ley, Mr.. Stubs manager, this after
noon. 1--WE won't stand for inter-
ference by other state officers in this
gubernatorial fight"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15

q day.
The public simply has been permitted
to forget that Kentucky's Mammoth
Cave exists. The man who owned 1t
died in 1869, and his thirteen heirs.
scattered all over the country, simply
devoted themselves to spending the in
come that they derived from the 81
a head admission fee. They thought the
financial stream would keep on running
without any expenditure on their part
for advertising. They have been dis
appointed, Of course.
AS soon as the advertising was aban-
doned the people became Indifferent
about the cave, and finally 1T figured
no longer az one OF the great sho"
places OF the world
In the language oe the Philistine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15

caves are not necessary to human hap
piness until some man by astute adver-
Using fills men and women with a de-
sire to see them. and when the adver-
Using ceases the desire ceases also.
Liberal advertising is essential to
success. The story of the Mammoth
Cave of Kentucky is only one Of thou
sands that prove the truth Of this.
And do not forget, also. that when
there is q let-up in business the man
who advertises his wares more than
his competitors is going to get the or
ders and make money.-The Paper Mill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
NATURE AND ADVERTISING.
What Publicity Did for Mammoth
Caves a Half Century Ago.

What happens when advertising stops
is well shown in an article recently
printed in the Philistine. the monthly
publication that made Elbert Hubbard
and his Roycroft printing shop famous.
The writer takes up the Mammoth
Gave of Kentucky as an example Of
what publicity does for even a wonder
of nature.
Up to about 1870 the cave was well
advertised. As the Philistine remarks,
y visit to 1t was considered q sort of
finishing touch to ones education. and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15

quality nainsook finished muslin; " neck;
tucked yoke; a splendid SOC A2~
value; Saturday. Observation-Disclosures. 10~
$500 Petticoats, $1.75-These are beauti-
fully trimmed garments and extra full;
made OF very soft nainsook finished muslin
We have just few of these garment-6e1 IL
to close at this price; Saturday. .. A.lO
Children's Bingham Aprons; made with
sleeves, ruffled collar and ties; button in
back; ages up to 10 years; o.
worth 35c; Saturday. E0~
soc Women's Hose, a5c-we know of
stores that consider these values very special
at soc; they are full seamless Isle stockings;
lace boot; silk embroidered and fancy check.
and dot patterns; Saturday, 0E~
cholce. SOS
Csc Union Suit, 19c-Women's GAUGE I'm
ion Suit; low neck; sleeveless; knee length;
lace trimming; splendid value at To-
regular price; Saturday, per suit. Il ~
sec Embroidery, 25c-Corset Cover and all
over embroidery, not piece in the lot worth
less than 39c; choice o.
Saturday. es>SS
25c Bonnets, 15c-Women's and Children's
Bingham and Percale Bonnets; assorted col
ors; Saturday, 35c values 25c; H.
Csc values. -........... -
15c Wash Belts 1Oc-women's White EN-
broidered and plain tailored wash belts,
have round, large size pearl buckle; some
credit stores sell these at 26c; IN.
choice Saturday. -.
$500 Silk Gloves, $1.25-Full 16-button
lengths; black. white, brown. tan and two
vaad in this Gn oi iot e satuTday pair $1Z5
soc Long AIitts, 25c-Women's 16-button
length, lace mitts, black OF white, good ones
for summer SUM wear; Saturday 25c
per ESQ o"I Handkerchiefs, i5c.Momen's dainty
!. Swiss Handkerchief; hemstttched and seal
loped edges; daintily embroidered: 10~
very rare bargain. ~
35c Hose Supporters 25c-Womens Satin
Pad Supporters; plain or frilled elastic: four
heavily cushioned clasps that will positively
not tear the hose; splendid 35c DC
values; this SALE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
SHOE BARGAINS

Mems Vfci and Box Calf leather SHOES;
Goodyear welt oak sewed soles: made over
good fitting lasts; every pair worth &2 m
$3.50; all sizes at Y0eVV
women's Oxfords made up in Gun Metal
Stock Extension Goodyear Welt sewed soles,
military heels, over the latest style lasts, all
sizes, sell regularly at $3.50: &0 QE
women's Oxfords, pat. colt stock, dull kid
quarters; Butcher style, heavy sewed soles.
made over broad comfortable lasts, military
heels; sell for $500; special to- 60 IN
Little Gents Shoes. vici Kid leather, ex-
tension sewed soles, strictly solid through
out, sizes 10 to 10; extra good &1 IN
Children's Oxfords, Vici Kid stock, light
turn sewed soles; Butcher cut, made with
broad cap toes, sizes " to IL 00-
sell for SLIPS; special at. ............ OO~
women's house slippers, made with three
straps, plain opera toe. turn soles, medium
heels; all sizes; good values &1 Ok
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
Senate Passes AIdrich Bin.

Washington, Nav 15.-The senate
today passed the .Aldrich CURRENCY as
a substitute for the Vreeland bill, after
considering it for about half an hour
The vote was At to 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
House Passes .sPork. Rin

Washington, No. 15.-The house to-
day passed the omnibus public build
ings bill. 1t carries total of $23,1OO,-
900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15

Mrs. Geo., Goddard forrar,,- =,
Topeka. died at her home in Argentine
last night. Mr.. Goddard is a son of
Mrs; ID. e. Goddard Of Topeka, and a
protner OF Mrs. Frank p. GacLennan
and Mas Caroline Goddard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
LOVE AS A HOME MAKER.

A good home IL whore there are two
loving hearts, An old Jewish scholar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

Charles F. Carothers, the ten
Carothers, 1913 Winfield avenue OaL,
land, died Thursday of membraneous
Group. The funeral was held this
afternoon at o'clock from the family
home followed by interment in Ro-
chester cemetery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
s ess :s' PAXTON & PAXTON ss eas ss'
TOO LATE To CLASSIFY

TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
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If hard to please you win like Satin
skin cream and Satin skin powder 80
AGENT, one more proposition for our
peanut machine Apply. at Chesterfield
once said. 81 no longer call my Wife
wife, but home" He was q wanderer
on earth. but wife made his home any
where. It is love makes home The
house decorator cannot. with ali his
art, keep q home from degenerating
into hell II love L. not there.-Rev.
DR.. Charles Bayard Mitchell. l6e4ho>
dist. Cleveland O.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-15
Notions at Special Price,

ANOSAOAAA ~ otSSSA0A "a ASSS
1 spool of thread .............-...1 c
1 cake of ironing wax &c
paper OF pms -. lie
1 box of mourning pins a.. 49,. 1c
1 dozen pants buttons ...............1c
1 card Of hooks and eyes. ..... 49,. 90. .. .1c
1 tape measure Sc
1 cabinet hair pins. &c value. ........ Sc
doz. safety pf9A =. -. >. -. &c
1 bottle of machinS OIL 1oc size. Sc
1bc Dfasss Bingham, 1oc-some of these
come in short lengths. suitable for children's
dresses, .but there are many lengths that will
make very desirable dress patterns; worth
15c In all stores; this IN
Special Prices on White Goods-we- have
assorted az special purchase OF white goods
ed swiss; also sheer embroidered and mercer
lied fabrics; in the first lot there are values
up to soc, take your choice at 19c; in the
second lot are values up to 35c: IL
take your choice at. A~
TIC Standard Print, 5c-You will find all
the staple patterns and colors here and you
can take your choice, per r.
15c Wash Goods, 9c-The very best grades
of batiste. organdy and lawn that are known
to the consumer are in this lot, and the sea-
sons very best styles are here; take o.
your choice Saturday. ~
15c Bleached Turk Towel, 10c-Double
thread: full bleached and hemned; a splen-
did 15c value; 10c
Saturday. ................ AOS
CSC sheets, 47c-we have these sheets
marked to sell at csc. and If yon viii figure
up the sheeting in these you cannot possibly
buy IN yds, at the price we are going to
sell these ready-made sheets; Az~
Saturday, eacn. - =. =. ''' .''''
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-02-08

Extra size and quality
Bleached Huck Towels,
worth 15c.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-02-08
Noted Feudist Dies With
His Boots On At
Last
PARRICIDE WAS DRUNK
Now Claims That He Has
No Recollection of the
Trouble.

Jackson, KY. Feb. .6.-Beech Hargis
this evening shot and almost instant
lykilled his father, Judge James Har-
gis. in the latter's store here.
Some few nights ago Judge Hargis
forcibly demonstrated with shis son
on account of the latter's hayward
ness, and high and impassioned
words are said to have passed be-
tween them.
Today Beech was drunk and walk
ed into his fathers store, and in few
moments his father lay on the floor,
pierced by five bullets from his sons
pistol.
No one seems to know the particu-
la" rs Of the tragedy. He was crazed
with drink and claims he remembers
nothi Q of the affair.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian., 1908-02-08
Norrcr TO sUBsca1BERs
: -ssa-ssass-a--a.aa. 'e-s
M FEB. 8, 1908.
HERE AND THERE.

Listyo real estate for sale with
J. f. ELLIS.
Drs. Oldham, Osteopaths, 705 S.
Clay St., HOpkinsville, Ky.
''The kind your grandfather used"
and he was Of rare Judgment. Profit
by his experience and use Old l. w.
Harper whiskey. Sold by w. R.
Long, Hopkinsville, KY,
The Newark journal., 1908-09-18

Mayor. E. K. Ration
Recorder. f. w. MagneSs,
Treasurer, r. X. McHenry
49, Marshal, w C. Crowell
Aldermen, f. c. Hoyt, J. w. sisk,
c. NJ. Edwards, E. II. Williamson
and ]. II. Holderby.
Council meets first Monday night in
each month.
The Newark journal., 1908-09-18
Recipe for OratorY.

Representative Hobson. at the end
of brilliant speech on naval arma-
ment, was congratulated on his ora
tory.
what is your recipe for good ora
tory?' reporter asked
4 am afraid oratory comes natural. =
was the reply There is, though one
recipe for it, old Job Walmsbys, but
it is hardly satisfactory.
"'Tha wants to be public speyker
dos tha, lad lob in his Yorkshire
dialect would say. An tina thenks
AVN the chep to put tina up a
wrinkle ABBOTT it? Tha,s right, | avn.
Now, bark thai When tina rises to
meek thy speych hit TABLE, and
Open thy mawth If nowt comes, TAX
a sup O. water an hit TABLE again.
Then open thy mawth wider than
afoor Then, if nowt comes, TAX
thysen off, and leave public speakin'
to such as me. =