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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06
BEER Is BEER.
Brewers Say Lager Beer. Ale and Por-
ter Mean the Same.

Brewers Say Lager Beer. Ale and Por-
ter Mean the Same.
Chicago, Feb. Gust call it beer and
let it go at that, was the advice given
by representatives of the National
Brewers association to the government
food experts in conference here.
The brewers could not see a bit of
reason in various classif1cations of the
hot weather beverage, as beer, lager
beer, ale and porter. Beer is beer, they
told the food men, so they would like
to have the government ease UP a lit
tie on it's requirements.
also kindly admit sugar and glucose
as raw materials to be used as the
manufacturer pleases," pleaded John
Schram of New York, for the brew
ers.
The government experts said they
would think it over
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06
Dr.. Caaruth Back to X. u.

Lawrence, Kan, Feb. 6-After
spending six months in Germany. DR..
w H. Carruth, head of the depart
ment of German in the University of
Kansas, has returned to Lawrence
and will take up his work at the be-
ginning of the second semester DR.
Carruth went to Europe to gather ma
terial for a new textbook on the Ger
man historical novel
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06

More proof that Lydia e. Pink
hams Vegetab Compound saves
woman from surgical operations.
Mrs. S. A. Williams, of Gardiner,
Maine, writes:
al was great sufferer from female
troubles, and Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound restored me to health
in three months, after my physician
declared that an operation was abso-
aute1y necessary"
Mrs. Alvina Sperling, of 154 Cley-
bourne Ave-, Chicago, Ill, writes:
IL suffered from female troubles, a
4umor and much Inflammation. Two
Of the best doctors in Chicago decided
Ahat an operation was necessary to save
my life. Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound entirely cured me without
an operation"
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-
ton, f1broid tumors, irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
1ng-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.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06
HWlS-S1NGEBINDER
sR.'sm5fasAa You pay 10:
for-Ciears not SO GOOD

Tigers last night by score of "a to Is.
Both squads showed the effects of the
fast game of Tuesday night and tho
contest last night was much slower and
not nearly so spectacular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06
Notes and Personal Mention.

the guest of Mrs. De Witt G. Nellis.
Mrs. Nat Black returned this morn
ing from Chicago called on account
of the illness of her mother, Mrs G.
C. Corning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Bruce Walker
of Kansas City will come to town for
the Fassler-Dudley wedding next
week
Emporia Gazette: Mrs. Frank r.
MiIlspaugh of Topeka, is in EN-
poria, the guest of Rev and Mrs. r.
H. Mize, at whose home she made an
address to the women Of St. Andrews
church this afternoon at o'clock.
DIR. and Mrs. Garfield w. Weede
whose marriage took place yesterday
in Geneseo will return to Topeka to-
night and will be at home at 1241 Clay
street
Miss Ethel Frizzell has been pledged
to the Beta sorority, Washburn.
DR.. L. M. Powell and DIR. Schoelle
and Mr.. Robert Scheloske are attend
ing the automobile show in Kansas
City.
Mr.. and Mrs. James B. Hayden have
returned from a visit to their daugh-
ter. Mrs. Harry B. Walker in Kansas
CITY.
Glib and Mrs. Blanche Wilson Nc
Dowell of the Mills company left to-
day for business trip to New York.
Major Alvarado M. Fuller has gone
to FIT. Leavenworth to join Mrs. Fuller
who has been visiting there for week
and who will return the last of the
week with Major Fuller.
Chief Justice and Mrs. w. A. john
ston are at home at 1920 Van Buren,
street, for the rest of the winter.
Mr.. Irwin Cook, of Oberlin, is the
guest Of Washburn college friends. He
will leave in a few days for the Mich
igan School of Forestry.
Mrs. NJ. E. Dowding has gone to
Muskogee to spend two weeks with
Mrs S. E. Brett
Mrs. Franklin Hunt has returned to
her home in Kansas City after a visit
to her father, Mr.. Copeland Gordon.
Mr.. Edwin Dales, of Eureka. is the
guest of Washburn friends and Will at
night at the First M. E. church par
lors.
Mrs. D. P. Paxton, of Kansas City,
is is the guest of her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. B. Ismond.
Mrs. William Taylor is i'll at her
house, 521 West Tenth avenue
OrviIle and Harold Brent, accom-
panied by their mother, Mrs. H. W.
Brent, returned last night from visit
in Topeka.-Atchison Globe.
Miss Ruby Gage will be up from
the university to attend the graduation
exercises Of the Topeka high school, her
sister Miss Carol Gage, being one of
the graduates
psychology and ethics at Parsons col
Iege, who visited his uncle, Mr.. L. 7.
Gage and family while on a lecture
tour, is now in Fairfield, Iowa.
Mrs. Disco will entertain the Pris-
ella club at her home in Oakland to-
morrow.
DR.. S. E. Johnston Of Leavenworth
is in town, a guest of George A. Root.
The w. C. T. U. will meet Friday
afternoon with Mrs. F. A Thompson,
211 The Drive.
Mrs. F. A. Yeo and Miss Addie Yeo
of Junction City are visiting the fami-
lies of Mr.. G. w. Feurt, 221 Harrison
street, and Mr.. T. E. Armstrong. 219
Harrison street.
Mrs. M. L. McNeely left today for
Moberly, Mo-, called there by the sert-
Gus illness of a relative
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06
Il. o. "a. Missouri IS.

Lawrence. Kan, Feb. 6.-The Jay
hawkers won the second game of the
basketball series with the Missouri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06
At the play Last Night.

For four years has 1.-THE Land of
Nod which was presented yesterday
afternoon and last night at the grand,
been on the stage. It's high time
that 1t was taken Off If it is not going
to be placed In the hands of a better
company than the one which is now
numbering the piece. There's just
one redeemfng feature to the present
production. It Is the gorgeousness
with which the chorus girls are cloth
ed and the sitting Of the show. 1t Is
not remembered of any musical show
which has been here this year In which
the chorus girls wore more numerous
or prettier costumes than in THE Land
of Nod" But that was the extent to
which the production was worth seeing.
The girls were not much in the way of
singers and neither were the principals
of the cast.
Knox Wilson is supposed to be the
chief funny man. He has something
of a reputation as a comedian and has
been seen in couple of eccentric parts
to good advantage. Except when he
plays the concertina and the saxaphOne
in his present part, he is anything but
funny. He lis silly. Lawrence Coe-
yer, as 1.-THE Man in the Moon,"is far
and away the best singer in the COM
pany and his work last night was a
good deal better than that of any one
else. The efforts of Miss Luel1a Drew,
as Bonnie" were also acceptable. But
the show as whole was anything but
a pleasing entertainment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06

P1aygoers of all ages, and people who
have never before entered a theater,
will find in Bud Hicks. the Yankee
Doodle Boy" entertainment of a whole
some, mirthful and enjoyable type. No
one can help but admire Bud Hicks
a manly little fellow, who has his own
way to make in the world and is per-
fectly capable of making it. 1t is true
he dresses fastidiously and uses slang,
but underneath it all is an honest heart
and a determination to succeed. Incl
dentally he can sing and dance to beat
the band" The melodfous and catchy
music the side splitting comedy situa-
lions, the sweet pathos and unusual
dramatic interest, all enter into max
ing 1.-THE Yankee Doodle Boy an eff
fective entertainment. The scenery is
ell The big show will be at the Grand
on Sunday afternoon and evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06

the All-star Kansas team by Coach
Quigley.
In your reports of a local continu-
on the boards writes an anonymous
correspondent to the 8. R., please
state whether the gowns come from
Paris Texas, or Paris. Illinois"
You're not SO wise,.'' said one chap
to another. You make me think of
the fnsulators on top of a
telegraph pole: you're up there with
lots going on around you but none of
1t gets to you"
Mrs. A. w. Bronson was the hostess
at afternoon five hundred today for her
sister, Miss Bridenstine of New York.
Eight tables played. The rooms were
adoprned with smilax and
roses. red predominating in the decor
ations and refreshments.
The WashbIrn banquet tomorrow
night will be given in the parlors of
the First M. E. church instead Of at
Music hall as first arranged.
A prospective bride was showing
her trousseau. did you get that
Perfectly Good party cloak in PARISH
asked one girl indicating gorgeous
kfmona-shaped garment. Eyes, I got
~ III drS, the prloe repHeo. But
it's not a party cloak: it's my bath
robe"
The senior class of Washburn will
have party tonight at the home of
Dean and Mrs. D. L. McEa chron. The
juniors will also have a class party to-
night.
Mrs. Rosseau A. Burch and Mrs. T.
j. Myers entertained the Wedn esday
Evening Whist club last night at the
home of the former.
=
Mrs. John Brunt gave Valentine
luncheon yesterday for the members
of the Eureka Luncheon club.
e
Mrs. W. W. Strickland will enter
tain the Friday Bridge-Luncheon club
tomorrow at the Virginia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06
1.-THE College Widow"


There are so many good points
about George AIDES splendid comedy,
'"The College Widow which will be
given at the Grand on Friday night,
that one can keep on recalling new
ones for days afterwards. 1t is
bright, sparkling, and rolltcking. 1t
is a satire ON college life, but it is all
so good-natured that there is nothing
at which anyone can take offence. Mr..
AIDE is a mastery hand at exposing
the foIlies and foibles of the people,
and in this play has done his best.
The plot of 1.-The College Widow" is
a little episode in college athletics
showing how Atwater College,
through the witchery of the widow,
lures a famous football player away
from a rival college, and thereby wins
victory in the annual gridiron con-
test. Mr.. Ade has most skil1fully
drawn his college characters, and
there are almost a score of them. each
so striking, as to win individual praise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06

Mr. Wilson Mcvey of Sterling. who
was a student at Cooper college last
term, has enrolled at Washburn for the
spring term Mr.. McVey was the
quarterback on Cooper college team
who made such a brilliant record last
football season and was selected for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06

'"Thorns and Orange Blossoms" will
be the attraction at the Grand on Sat
urday afternoon and evening.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-21
H0sTLER, BURNED
IN STABLE FIRE,
DIES OF WOUNDS
Robert Williams Latest Victim
of Blaze That Killed
Twenty-seyen Horses.

Robert williams, the hostler who was
found partly suffocated by the police
and firemen in the fire that burned the
stable of Andrew Nicoll and twenty
seven valuable horses Wednesday
morning, died shortly after 4 O'clock
this morning at the City Hospital.
Annie Williams, a sister of the de-
ceased, who is employed by a family
in Day street, Orange. as a servant,
claimed the body, and will take charge
of the funeral. When the news of
Williams's death reached Mr.. Nicoll he
Immediately set out to find a relative,
and, with the aid of others, located the
sister.
Williams was AZ years old, and was
known throughout the race track Sec
ton of the country as Bob. He came
to his city from Detroit, Mich, about
ten years ago, and lived in various fur
nished room houses in Augusta and
Commerce streets, and frequently ate
his meals at 81 Arlington street.
Williams complained to two Of his
colleagues who managed to escape by
jumping from the windows of the sta
Bile that he was tired about II O'clock
Tuesday night and they told him to
lake a rest He Immediately went to
the hay loft on the second floor and
was found there unconscious by the
police and fremen while the fire was
burning hercely on the ground floor.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-21
GLEN RIDGE TAR
BRAVES DEATH IN
WARSH|P TARGET
TascOe One of the Two Lone
Volunteers in Whole
Navy.

X. A. rascoe. Of Glen Ridge, enc of
the nearby surburbs of this city, is one
of but two sailors in the United States
Navy who have volunteered to take
positions in the turret of the United
States monitor Florida, when the $50
pound shells are fired from the 12-incll
Cotton gun of the monitor Arkansas in
the new ordnance tests.
That a high order of courage is
shown by Tascoe and d. II. Mills, of
Belleview, KY, in volunteering for this
hazardous feat is indicated in the fail
ure of other jacktars to step forword.
Both men will risk their lives, and at
least may become permanently injured
from the shock Of the terrific impact
of the great projectiles.
Because other sailors will not volun-
teer. the Navy Department at Wash
ington has decided to place ten sheep
in the turret with the two intrepid
sailors. 1t was the original intention
to have a gun crew of twelve men
In the turret.
As the experiment is entirely a new
ore, the experts are unable to say what
effect the collision of the enormous
shell and the steel-clad turrett will have
on the men and sheep. Some officers
think that they will be instantly killed.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-21
TAYLORS SON
BEGS BONDSMEN
NOT TwOPROSECUTE
Public Service Officers Put
MontcIair Mans Shortage
at $1,000.
CASH ACCOUNTS CHARGED
TO DELINQUENTS IN BOOKS
Company Is Not Yet Decided
Whether to Sue B0okkeeper
or Accept Restitution.

While auditors today examined the
books of Charles d. Taylor, formerly
head bookkesper of the Public Service
Corporation at Montclair. to ascertain
the mount of his alleged d~efalcation,
the son of the accused man spent the
morning in New York at the Office of
the Metropolitan Surety Company,
'Taylor's bondsmen, in an effort to pre-
vent the prosecution of his father. The
outcome of the conversation was not
made public, but 1t is said that an
offer was made to refund the mis-
appropriated money.
Officials of the Public Service Cor
poration said today that the amount of
Taylor's alleged d~efalcations would not
exceed $1,000. While auditors are still
working on Taylor's books, it is said
that he examination of his accounts
has been nearly completed. The al
legged p~eculations extended over a
period of about a year. They are said
to have been discovered by accident,
although suspicion was aroused by re-
ports which had been made by Taylor
to officials of the company for several
1t vas said at the Offices of the Pub
lie Service Corporation that Taylor's
method was to collect accounts from
customers and keep the money In
stead of entering the money received
on his cash book, It Is said that Taylor
posted the amount to the Delinquent
account of the ledger.
Taylor had been in the employ of the
company about three years. He is
about SO years old. and has a wife and
two grown children in East Orange.
Whether he will be prosecuted or a re-
of the missing funds will be ac-
cepted n the case dropped, has not
been decided. The question rests with
the bonding company. Taylor's wife
said yesterday that every penny of the
money would be refunded.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-21
FUNERAL OF WOODEN MERCHANT.

The funeral of Thomas Ould, a WE'LL
TODD New York wooden merchant, who
died at his home, SO East Park street,
East Orange, yesterday, will be held
at the home Sunday afternoon at 8
O'Clock. Carriages will meet New York
friends at the Brick Church station Of
the Lackawanna Railroad upon the ar
rival of the train leaving New York
at 2 o'clock. Mr.. Ould was S. years
old, and is survived by his widow, a
son and a daughter. Heart disease
caused his death
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-21
SOCIETY GIRLS
LOVE NOTE TRAPS
POSTAL Thief
Baker Arraigned for Murder
After 7,OOO-Mil Chase
by Detective.
TELLS POLICE HOW HE
SHOT POSTMASTER DOWN
COnfesses Looting Garfield,
Bound Brook and Other
State POstOfices.

NEW YORK, Feb, 21.-Police learned
today that the arrest Of 22-year-old
James A. Baker. confessed murderer.
and robber of nan new Jersey and
other postofflces drought the Eastern
States, was due to a love letter from
one of the most prominent society girls
in P~ittsburg.
When the police told him that they
knew him to be a married man with n
wife and young child in Pittsburg,
and that under the name of r.. c. Noel
he had promised to marry a prominent
young woman in Pittsburg he pleaded.
You are not going to mention that
girls name. She doesn't know any
thing about this. She is innocent"
Detective Rigor, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad secret service. who arrested
Baker, after a 7,00o-mile chase, said
today. He has been prominent in
Pittsburg society and in society in CO.
lumbus since he began his career Of
crime. No matter what of this
case, l shall not reveal the girls name:
and / don't think 1t can be squeezed
from HIM"
Baker RECALLED detectives st po-
lice headquarters today with a story
postoffice robberies and murder that
might nave aroused the envy of a
Dick desperate. Before his
arraignment before United States Com
Shields this morning he con-
fessed that he had robbed a chain of
postof1ices and railroad stations in the
Eastern States, among them the sta
lions at Fairview, Garfield, Carlton
Hill and Bound Brook in New Jersey.
Baker, who is % years old and comes
from Columbus, O., was arrested as
he was about to receive his mail. He
tried to escape, but vas caught.
Boys, you've got me-" he said, $50
I'll tell you a story that Will make you
sit up and take notice"
In half an hour he dictated a state
which he signed, admitting the
robberieS. He said that he entered the
postoffice and railroad station at Clar-
w. Va, and after shooting E.
Y. Hutchinson, the station agent and
postmaster. robbed and fired the sta
The stations robbed in New Jersey are
deserted at night. Baker said he gained
entrance to them by means of a jimmy
and secured a fair share of plumber,
Including cash, money orders and rail
road tickets.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-21
STATE SUPPLIES
AUDITING BOARD
URGED BY WIGHT
Charities Commissioner Says
Present Law Has Proved TO
Be Too Costly and Foolish.
fFron a staff Correspondent

TRENTON, Feb. 21.-The Rev. DR..
: George B. Wight, State commissioner
of charities and corrections. al a meet
ing of the heads Of the penal corree-
tional and charitable Institutions of
the State today, strongly condemned
the law passed by the last Legislature
upon the recommendation of the Hahn
Investigating committee, providing
that all supplies for State institutions
In excess of $500 shall be awarded by
contract after competitive bidding.
He said this "frenzied legislation
should be repealed, and tho purchasing
of supplies should be left with the
boards of managers. He believes the
proper check on expenditures is a
State auditing board, such as is pro-
vided for in a bin now pending. DIR.
Wight said that Governor Fort was in
hearty accord with the bill.
DIR. Wight said hat in almost every
institution in the State the cost of
maintenance has increased since the
passage of the act. He points out that
at the Jamesburg Reform School the
cost has Increased 61a per cent, while
in other institutions the Increase has
been from 6 to 10 per cent.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-21
MRS. De ANDERSON
PLEADS NON VULT
ON TWO CHARGES
Aged Swind!er Answers lndict=
ments for Offenses at
Nutiey.

Apparently much overcome by her
emotions, Mrs. Mary De Anderson,
alias MacCarton, the self-confessed
swindler, also known as "the countess"
who last flourished in Nutley, was
brought into the Court of Quarter SEES
sions before Judge Ten Eyck today,
and pleaded non vult to two indict-
ments for obtaining goods under false
~pretepses and one for larceny.
The woman had been brought down
from the county Jail early in the day.
and as soon as she had put in her
triple pleas she was returned there in
the vulgar yan.
She was kept in the court room for
several hours awaiting the arrival of
Lawyer Jarvis N. Atkinson, her coun-
sci, who lives in Jersey City, and
seemed to be much disguised with her
surroundings.
She wore the same gray veil over her
somewhat antique face and hat that
she had on ever since she got into
trouble.
After Clerk of the Grand Jury Tim
othy e. Scales, in the presence of her
~ , ~ hANN1 i(tIA AA1 SAAtA SNO IN
had put in the triple plated pleas, she
placed both hands over her eyes and
appeared to be prepared to weep. but
didn't.
The last time she was brought into
court sh raised such a fuss that it
became necessary to lake her back.
Today she was as mild as a summers
day.
Her daughters, with whom she lived
SO long and so well on other peoples
money, We're not with her.
II is likely that sentence will be i'm
posed upon the dumpy-fgured little
countess March 2 next, when the or
binary accumulation of a months
criminal grist will be threshed out
finally.
One Of the indictments to which she
pleaded today is founded ON the COM
plant of Frederick Seidler. Of 1874
Franklin avenue. Nutley, who was her
good butcher, to the extent of .$15.
which he never rot. The date of his
bill is November IS, 1907.
The other false pretense Indictment
covers the case of Charles r. Bell, of
472 Franklin venue, Nutley, who was
her good grocer, to the extent of $15.
which he never got. The date of his
bin is November %, 1907.
The larceny charge was made by
Give Newcome Elliott, the owner of
the house where the DeAndersons
flourished and from whom the
countess stole $50 worth Of kindling'
wood. The date of the complaint is
October % last.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-21
OPPOSED
BY DEMOCRATIC
LEADERS IN UNION
Chairman Collins Declares for
the Nomination of
Judge Gray.
Especial 10 The evening star.j

ELIZABETH, Feb. IA big sur
prise was sprung at the meeting of the
Elizabeth Democratic Club last night
when several of the towns most promi-
nent Democrats declared against the
nomination of William Jennings Bryan.
Among them was Alderman Edward
Nugent, who said that he believed that
Bryan had had his chance and should
not be loaded on the party another
year.
General D. f. Collins. chairman of
the Union County Democratic Commit
tee, president of City Council. and AN
didate for the mayoralty nomination,
came out for Judge Gray.
1t was generally supposed. that the
Union County Democracy was for
Bryan. but today that opinion is
changed.