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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-19
Good goods. Pratt Bros.

Good goods. Pratt Bros.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Young of Man
NATHAN, came here yesterday and will
visit relatives lew weeks.
Miss Martha Murphy has returned
nome from Amarillo, Texas, where she
visited her brother for three weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. Wilson have given
the name Howard LIE Roy to their in
FAINT son
Miss Jessie Cole of Auburn, Kan. is
here visiting relatives and friends for
few days.
Mr.. Carl Wilson of Scranton came
here yesterday to spend a few days on
business.
The v. A G. S. % Victor council
No of K. L. Of s., will meet this
evening with Mrs. @. L. Saunders. 1927
North Topeka avenue
Calling cards. wedding invitations
and announcements our speciality.
The Topeka Printing Co., s33 North
Kansas avenue. Ind. phone IT.
Mr.. jeff Petro, who runs erocerv
store on the corner of St. John and
Topeka avenue, is suffering with an
attack of rheumatism
MISS Anna Case returned to her
nome in Belvue after a weeks visit
with relatives.
Mrs. Will Sheaffer has returned to
her home in Junction City after
weeks visit with relatives
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kinnard of FL
mont were in town yesterday
Miss Carrie Anderson is recovering
from an illness of several weeks.
Miss Hazel Mungee of De Soto Kan
came yesterday to visit relatives for a
| few days.
| Miss Florence Hart of Newton is the
guest of Miss Josephine Coster this
week
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank MONTGOMERY
will entertain a number of friends
Friday evening in celebration of their
| fifteenth wedding anniversary.
Mr.. Harold Leeks returned to work
today after several days illness with
| the grip.
| Little Irene Graft of 1895 Jackson
scarlet fever
Mrs. S. E. Draper, who has been Wis
| iting her daughter, Mrs. Will Baker,
| in Atchison, was called to her home in
| Topeka, last night, by the serious ILL
| ness of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Nc
| Way, who lives in North Topeka Mrs.
| McVay's husband died about three
months ago, and she was left with four
| small children to support
P Bickelhaupt and daughter of s24
| West Gordon street are enjoying visit
| from friends and relatives from Iowa
The revival services at the North To-
peka Baptist church are in progress.
/ DR.. c. A. Stewart is a giant in the
| pulpit. There are already several con-
verts. The evangelist speaks in the
| Santa Fe shops Thursday and Friday
| noon and in Shorey Sunday $3.50 D. M.
| Door company, North Topeka. Saturday
| Services at the Baptist church begins
| every night at 7:45. A mass meeting is
! called Saturday evening to be address,
! ed by the evangelist.
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w. F. Buck left last night on No.
s for Chicago after having been in
Topeka for a couple of days.
The new phone system which has
been installed in the shops and shop
offices, has been completed and is now
in working order.
Chester Moore of the bonus de-
partment is in Shopton, Ia, on a bust
ness trip.
Julian L. Sydnor, bonus demonstra-
tor of the eastern division. has re-
turned to Topeka after a trip to Chi
cago.
DR.. c. A. Stewart of Fort Scott.
addressed a large meeting in the ma
chine shops today.
Rev. E. S. Paddock will address
the meeting in the new planning mills
tomorrow noon.
Engineer w. E. Wheeler who has
been in Las Vegas for several weeks,
on account of the illness of his wife
who is at that place, has returned to
run between Topeka and Marceline in
the place of Engineer E. Connolly.
who has been running in his place.
w. G. Vlandy, a graduate of the
Haskell institute, went to work today
in the machine shops.
The B class of the Railroad Y. M.
c. A. will give a party tomorrow
night at the home Of w. J. Haggard,
436 German avenue.
DR.. q. w. White, physical director
of the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A, and Roy
Blake, assistant physical director of
the association, will go to Lawrence
tomorrow to attend a meeting of
physical directors of Kansas and Mis-
souri,. DIR. White will read a paper,
1.-THE Training of Leaders,
The arithmetic classes at the
Railroad Y. NJ. C. A. will meet to-
night.
Engineer L. A. Bowman is running
temporarily on runs Nos. II and Is
between Topeka and Argentine in the
place of Engineer William Simpson
who is laying off.
Engineer H. P. French is running
on the Marceline runs in the place of
Engineer George Lusk who is off on
account Of illness.
Engineer G. w. Hurst is running on
runs Nos. IT and Is between Topeka
and Newton in the place of Engineer
w. P. Gilpin who is laying off.
Walter Smith, news agent on the
Kansas City plug runs, laid off yes
terday on account of the death of his
grandfather at Armourdale.
Business car No. 10 was returned to
Topeka yesterday. General Superin-
tendent F. G. Fox, who uses the car
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Notes and Personal Mention.

II.
Miss Louise Kelly of Springfield, Ohio,
who has been the guest of her uncle,
Mr.. Armin F'assler, and her cousin,
Mrs. Guildford Dudley II, will leave for
her home Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. L. Copeland left to-
day for Chicago to spend few days.
Mrs. Willie Sells has gone to Column
bus, Ohio, to visit her mother and sister.
Mr.. Allen Sells will be here until the
end of the week when he goes out on
the vaudeville circuit.
Miss Louise Wood will return next
week from Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
Rockford and OdelI, Illinois.
Mr.. L. M Crawford has gone to st.
Louis and Memphis on a business trip.
Mr.. George G. Thompson of Kansas
City will spend Sunday with Mrs.
Thompson at the home of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward A. Herbst.
Mrs. Charles J. Marshall will go to st.
Joseph Saturday to visit her daughter,
Mrs. B. G. Voorhis. Mr.. Marshall has
cagO.
Miss Mary Meade is i'll at her home,
Crane and Western avenues.
Mrs. Harry De Coursey of Leaven-
worth is visiting Mr. and Mrs. I. N.
Towne.
Mrs. J. s. Downs and Mrs. Maynard
Mize returned today from visit in
Marion and Florence.
Mrs. Geo. w. Hunt will go to Horton
tomorrow for a visit.
Miss Ruby Smell Leeper is spend
ing the week in Lawrence visiting her
! grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Allen
Leeper.
Emporia Gazette: Miss Edna Me-
Cullough went to Topeka today for a
sh ort visit with friends.
Mrs. Willis D. Storrs has returned
from visit to Mrs. l.. H. Wulfekuhler
in Leavenworth. DIR. Storrs, who &C
conn anied her, has gone to Rochester,
Mimi, to spend several days.
Mrs. L. T. Price and children have
gone to Bur1ingame for a visit to rela-
tives
Mr.. Henry Fay Locke went to Law
renee to hear DR.. Lyman Abbott's lee
ture yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hiram Price Dillon
are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Dillon
| in Kansas City.
Mrs. George Imbrie of Kansas City,
Mo-, is the guest of Mrs. Wayland
Chapman.
Mrs. E. M. Gregory, 1870 Quincy
street, who has been seriously i'll, is
convalescent.
Mrs. I. L. Keener Stewart will have
her opening of new spring and sum-
| mer hats Friday at 1913 Kansas avenue.
The Priscilla club will meet with
Mrs. George Steen, 1908 Buchanan
street Friday afternoon.
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EXPERT SKATER Is HEaE IODAH
Prof. Hector De Silva. Australian
Champion, Will Give Exhibitions.

Manager Charles Steinberg OF the
Music hall skating rink. has an
nounced an attraction of more than
ordinary merit for the remainder or
the week, commencing this evening
Prof. Hector De Silva, the champion
skater of Australia. who has been
making tour of this country during
the past year. and who is now on his
way west to Frisco from which point
he will sail for Melbourne In a few
weeks. has been engaged and will ap-
pear tonight, Friday and saturday
nights and Saturday afternoon as wei.
prof De Silva does some very clever
fancy and trick skating and does many
feats unknown to this country until
his tour. His most difficult feat is his
"iean of DEATH He does this by
sliding with his eyes blindfolded down
a narrow inclined plank. inclined at an
angle of IS degrees. He does THIS py
balancing his weight on one toe, ana
an error of an inch or two IN MS
downward course might result fataiiy.
MarshaII's band will play at every
performance and although the appear
ance of Prof. De Silva means an extra
heavy expense, the regular prc1es VIII
prevail for the four appearances OF
Prof. De Silva.
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Items for the North Topeka column may
be left at the Petro & Woodford drug
the North Side reported at her home
Ind. phone 621.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-19

did not return however. He is in
Chicago for a few days on business.
Harry Shields, travelling passenger
agent of the Wabash, was in Topeka
yesterday on business.
Will Miller was on the Kansas City
plug yesterday as news agent in the
place of Walter Smith
Mrs. Harry Hayford of the eating
house and Miss Clara Fry of the news
stand are spending today in ST.
Joseph, Mo.
Jesse Howes who has been working
as an extra conductor, has returned
to work as brakeman on runs Nos. 81
and 81 between Topeka and Argen-
tine.
Brakeman Frank Holloway and
Fireman Walter Tennyson, of the L.
& I. runs were in charge of a work
train on this branch yesterday, as
conductor and engineer.
Engineer Cappy Sharp who has
been laying off for several days, has
returned to work on the runs be-
tween Topeka and Marceline.
j. H. Golf, mechanical superintend-
ent Of the eastern grand division, has
left for the west on business trip.
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several shades of pink, with soft gray
green foliage, and at one side of the
front was large black velvet poppy,
under which a full heron aigrette was
fastened.
An informal subscription dance at the
by Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. McClintock, Miss
Frances ConneH Miss Maud Grimes,
Miss Gala Cuttell, Miss Helen John
stone, Miss Louise Kelly, Miss Leta
Rice Miss Ethel Estberg, Mr.. David
Lakfn. Mr.. Charles Guibor, Mr. Joe
Wilson, Mr. Ed Curry, Mr.. Bert Reid,
Mr.. Kurtz KeIlam and Mr.. Jerry John
stone.
A Leavenworth man and woman
who had been going together for
forty-seven years were married yes
terday at the ages of 80 and g. Lor',
Lor'! what good time the neigh
bors must have had talking about
them and predicting that he would
never marry her in the world!
X
It's bad enough for the girl who
| hasn't any to see another girl wear
| ing bunch of violets as big as her
head without being told "this isn't
| half of them. I have a wash tub full
| of them at home"
X
| Mr.. F. H Abercrombie of New
York, a nonresident member of the
Topeka club, will give a beefsteak
supper for the other members of the
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/, DIR. and Mrs S. S. Estey. Mrs. c. F.
Monninger and her son Carl, Mrs. T. w.
Harrison, Mrs. R. s. Magee and Mrs.
F. s. Savage were in Lawrence yeSter-
day for DIR. Lyman Abbott's lecture and
to see the art exhibit at the university.
xx x
Il am not surprised said the Con-
firmed Crouch, ''to note the popularity
of the barn dance with the silly set
For two or three seasons Society with
big 50 has been tending more and
more to dwelling idiocy. A smart
gathering nowadays reminds one of
recreation hour at the foolish factory
and the antics of fashionable folk try
ing to amuse themselves would furnish
fit subject for the study of an alienist.
The barn dance is a good dance for
children but ridiculous for grown-ups,
no more SO, however, than the silly
games the silly set have had a fad for
playing the past few seaSons-'Truth,'
'Predicament and Remedy and SO forth.
To be extremely silly is the latest fad
of smart society, and it is amazing how
little practice such people require to be-
come experts at it-probably because
they have a natural as well as a culti-
waited taste for brainless diversions
Not long ago I dropped in at a certain
house to pay an afternoon visit and
found a company of young men and
women, some of them married and all
old enough to be, playing 'Menagerie.'
Do you know the game? Everybody
plays the part of some animal. For in
stance one pretty girl was acting the
role of cat. She did 1t very well, too,
but most women are decidedly catty so
it wasn't astonishing. She Tapped her
tea out of her saucer. She smoothed
her hair with the movements of a cat
washing its face. To show affection
she brushed up against the others and
purred. Her conversation was limited
to mee-ows' and finally she gave one
loud 'mee-ow' to embrace the whole
room and tripped out of the house and
ran along the edge of the pavement IN
til she was out of sight. One rattle
Drained youth impersonated the rooster
and crowed Justify all afternoon. An
other was a bow-wow and barked loud
ly. fat blonde played the part of a
hen, another role for which women are
peculiarly adapted. But the best imi-
tation was done by a young man who
proclaimed his asfnine proclfvities by
braying in a fashion that would have
deceived a donkey. l voted him the
prize not because he deserved especial
credit for playing a role so perfectly
natural, but because I recognized the
peculiar fitness Of such an impersona-
ton in such a company. Now, do you
wonder. that after seeing a game of
menagerie I find the barn dance Sc
date and dignified?"
WOW! Amt His Grouchlets getting
awful severe?
The attractive spring hat shown in
the cut was sketched from model of
blush gray Milan straw in one Of the
smartest of the new shapes. The
rather narrow brim was rolled up at
the right side, and the crown was
high and straight. The trimming
consisted of large double peoples in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-19

Proof is inexhaustible that
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound carries women safely
through the Change of Life.
Read the letter Mrs. E. Hanson,
Boa E. Long ST., Columbus, Ohio,
writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
81 was passing through the Change
of Life, and suffered from nervous
ness, headaches, and other annoying
symptoms. My doctor told me that
Lydia e. Pnkham's Vegetable Com
pound was good for me, and since tax
ing it feel so much better, and can
again do my own work. never forget
to tell my friends what Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound did for me
during this trying period"
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.
For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
and has positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, Inflammation, ulcera-
Eion. fibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
Eng-down feeling, fatulency, indiges-
ton, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn Mass.
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FIX UP WEST SIXTH ROAD.
Contractor John Maxwell Begins the
Work This Morning.

: The West Sixth avenue macadam
which has been in a frightful condition
all winter will be repaired and work
was commenced this morning by Con-
tractor John Maxwell. The road from
Topeka to Gage park was badly cut
I'D by the brick hau1ers and it looked
as if one of the best highways near
Topeka had been ruined. The county
commissioners have given Mr.. Maxwell
the contract for giving the macadam
a top dressing of broken stone and the
deep ruts which have been worn in
the road will be filled. Frank Har-
rison, county commissioner, is superfn-
tending the work.
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L M. PENWELL
Undertaken and Embalmae
6li QDincy Street.
Beth Phones tol
FOUGHT ON STEEL BEAM.
Duel on Sixteenth Story of an I'm.
finished Building.

st. Louis. March 1s.-Charles Havi-
land and Albert Hale, iron workers
fought on the iron gfrders on the six,
teenth story of the new National Bank
of Commerce building, at Pine street.
and Broadway. The interference ~
others saved them from falling to the
street. For five minutes the battle We
waged on steel beam Is inches wide
Haviland was badly cut about the
face and had to be treated at the dis
pensary.
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Lays Off 500 Men.

Nashville, Tenn, March 19-Five
hundred men who were employed in the
locomotive department of the Nashville
Chattanooga & St. Louis railway shops
here, have been laid off in the last few
days. Orders were issued to the effect
that on account of decrease in business
and the intention of the road to de-
crease expenses on every hand the ac-
ton was necessary.
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Opening College Bali Dates.

New York, March 19.-Provisiona
contracts were signed yesterday for the
occupany of the polo grounds by Har-
ward and Princeton on May 81; by Yale
and Princeton on June 16 and by Har-
ward and Yale on either June q or 80.
Games will be played by the baseball
teams of the colleges named on the Polo
grounds On those dates should ties re-
suit from the series of the college dia-
mondS.
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For Topeka people who desire 3 r,,n
business day in Kansas City il thn
Union Pacific No. 102 which ieavas
Topeka every day at 7:05 a. M. ar
irving in Kansas City at $3.50 q n
You can get breakfast in the dfner -.
this train and dinner on No. 1o1 wh,SSn
leaves Kansas City at D. M. rcacS
ing Topeka at 7:s6 p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-19

25 guests at camp fire on the Shun-
ganunga southwest Of Washburn last
night. Mr.. and Mrs. Mccall and Mr.
people. There was bonfire as big as
a house and the picnic supper was
served.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-19

The Prudential Trust company offers
for sale high class. carefully selected
and inspected Kansas municipal bonds
nontaxable.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-22
POLITICAL MALARIA.

Members Of the Board Of Estimate continue
10 suffer from political malaria, disease re-
sembling ordinary malaria in that 1t afflicts
nersons who are In a bog and causes them TO
alternate between chills and fever at terrify-
ing rate At last Fridays session few mem
bers Of the board were burning hot, while the
majority sbivered rniserably. Borough Presi-
dent Ahearn was all afame, and when the
fever slnote his brain he clamored for the i'm
mediate extension Of Riverside Drive TO the
proposed Henry Hudson Memorial Bridge and
the creation of chain of parks fringing the
drive But lust as Mr.. Ahearn ended his pero-
ration his coIleag CUES were sInitten with an ague
of economy and hOoted the plan to spend ST.
100000 for such a luxury. Controller Metz,
whose spine has been persistently frigid. uneX-
pectedIy ignited. Having long warned the city
that il was removed by only 50 cents or 50
from the debt limit our malarial 1nancier rec
commended the appropriation of S7,226OoO for
various purposes But even his fever was not
bot enough TO burn much money in the pres
ence of several icy gentlemen who were stiff
fened as he spoke by the febrile rigor of econ
omy.
The same fate befell nearly all the other at
teIupts to spend the city's dwindling fortune
The fevers were many and hot, but very short
and thoroughly cooled before the moment Of
voting came. Less than S3O00G00 was apprO-
priated-a mere triie, things go in New
York's municipal fnancierlng. Blessed be cold
shivers that keep the board busy saying mo-"
But of what avail are they, after all, if more
fevers are to follow: Why eXuit over the
refusal to build the Riker's Island Penitentiary
and to help out the Charities Department if Il
coterie Of members has agreed to have grand
high fever together some early date? TO
make Fridays parsmony truly profitable the
T1Iya for no
political malaria in dry and bracng climate,
say the Canadian Northwest or South Africa.
otherwise they and their fellow citizens may
have to take some nasty medicine ere long.
New-York tribune., 1908-06-22
PENSIONS PR0LoNGING LIFE.

Al important and noteworthy fact which is to
be taken into account by English economists IN
the administration of their OLD age pension sys-
TEN Is that pensioners live long. That fact,
often stated in a satiric vein, is TO be taken
seriously. as demonstrated by statistics and as
having an essential bearing on both the amount
of pensions to be paid and the effect of them
upon society.
a striking demonstration Of this is to be oh
served in the records of the Friendly Society of
Ironfounders in England That organization
has for many years been paying pensions TO its
superannuated members. In 1SS3-S5 it was
found that the average age Of these pensioners
at death was siXty-eigbt years and six months
In 19o6-i07 it was seventy-one years and three
months Thus tie average life of a pensioner
had been heightened by two years and nine
months
II does not appear that the general average
of human life in England has been heightened
to so great an extent, wherefore we must CON
clude that the pensions are important factor
in the promotion of longevity. That is quite
natural of course, for the enjoyment Of pen
sion means better food and generally better
cCnditons of life than the superannuatcd
worker would have without il. as well as greater
freedom from anxiety. and those improved cir
cumstances prOi0ng life. If the same rule oper-
ates under the national pension system, it
probably Will. though perhaps not 10 marked
an extent, the national treasury Will have more
10 pay on that account than is estimated under
the present expectancy Of life.
This increase in the length of life Of pension
ers. while il VIII add to the cost of the system.
is Of course 10 be regarded with qualification
a beneficent and desirable result and argU-
lnent in favor Of the system. II suggests, how
ever. the unfortunate feature Of the system in
fixing an arbitrary age at which pensions shall
begin: for under the Ironfounders' system
which we have cited the age at which super
annuation begins has also been increased. though
not as much as duration Of life. Thus in 1888
1885 the age at superannuation, when pensions
began averaged slxty-one years and nine
months, and in 1906-'07 II was sixty-two years
and nine months or just year more. Thus the
period Of activity and selfsupporr was length
,.ned as well as the period Of dependence upon
the pension fund a result which may also in
some measure be indirectly attributed TO the
pension or the mutual benefit system.
In the friendly societies the pensions begin
nj the time Of actual need. regardless Of any
arbitrary age II might not toe possible 10 estab-
lish such q system Tor 10 state pensions Al
amy rate 10 country has ever yet done S1. But
that viii be 2 minor consideration 50 long as
the arbitrary pensonable age is kept. rs now
proposed at seventy years for the great ma
jority of workmen regarded as superannu-
eted at that age Thus in the great Amagam-
ated Society Of Engineers in England more than
% per cent are superannuated at less than
sixty years, more than 30 per cent between
biXty and sixty.fge, 20 per cent between sixty