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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14
WIDE OPEN TOWN.
Judge WaIlace's Resignation Ends
Reign of Blue Laws in X. c.

Kansas City, Dec 14-FoIIowing
the resignation of Judge Wallace and
the discharge of the grand jury Satur-
day, there was a renewal of many lines
of business. Barber shops pool halls,
cigar stores and theaters, which Judge
Wallace, his grand jury and his spe-
ciaI prosecutors have been trying to
close on Sunday for more than a year,
We're wide open and to all appearances
making money.
1t has been. no secret for several
Sundays that before-chureh shaves
were ayailabl for those that needed
them and that Sunday pool could be
played in many places, where the click
of the balls was not too audible on the
street. AS long as the grand jury was
in session. however, and Judge Wal
at least the legal fiction of Sunday
observance.
That was all changed yesterday,
however. Cigar stores that have not
been open for year, threw wide their
doors and the merry ring of (he cash
register once more awoke the dormant
Sunday echoes all over the business
part of town. The pool halls were
tables were all occupied by players
and many more stood about awaiting
their turn Shirt sleeved attendants
moved busily about, racking balls, col
lecting money and going through all
the other motions which Judge Wal
lace, Chancellor Kent, John Marshall
and A o. Harrison all agree constitute
Sunday labor.
As early as Saturday night evidences
of joyful anticipations of the morrow
freedom from restraint were not lack
ing. At one of the theaters, the COM
edian held UP a reaSsuring hand when
a crash was heard back in the wings.
Judge wallace falling off the
BENCH he explained to the audience.
The signs Buy Your Sunday Cigars
Tonight disappeared from the cigar
stores Everywhere were heard con-
fdent prophecies that the reign of blue
laws in Kansas City was over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14
VERY BAD TASTE.
"A Fake Advertising Picture Ofends
Executive Council.

A recent advertisement of a certain
brand of bread in a Topeka newspaper
showed a picture of the Kansas state
house with this bread sign occupying
a prominent position on the roof of one
of the wings. The reading matter be-
low the picture intimated that the state
executive council had permitted the dis
play of this sign. Topeka people un-
derstand the alleged joke in this style
of advertising, but how will it appear
to people over the state and outside
the borders of Kansas?
1t is a SANDER on the state and sew
eral members of the executive council
take the matter as an affrOnt to them
selves. They have of course never for
a moment entertained such a PROPOSE
ton and one of them said today in
speaking of the matter: I do not re-
gard such advertisements as legitimate
for a great newspaper of the state to
publish. 1t is an affront to the execu-
tive council and to the state in general.
Many people over the state will be de-
ceived at this statement appearing as
it does under a picture of the state
house, and as for people outside the
state. they will crack more jokes at the
expense of Kansas. | do not blame the
bread people so much as / do the news
paper that would lend itself for money
to the exploitation of such thing at
the expense and dignity of the state"
The picture of course was a fake pho
tograph taken in such manner as to
make it appear such a sign really ex-
listed on top of the state house. The
lines beneath the picture read: "A
bread advertisement on the state house
How long before the whole building and
grounds viii be plastered over with
signs? Why should the executive coun-
Gil permit such a thing? 1t is rumor-
ed that the state board of health has
suggested it. But, however meritorious
the bread may be, the top of the state
house is certainly no place for bread
sign If there is no law to prevent such
a thing, the coming legislature certainly
has work to do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14
Rheumatism Caused
BY Dyspepsia
So Claim Many Eminent Doctors Upon
Recent SCIENTIFIC Investigation.

SCltAlllHC InNcSI1RaC1On.
A large school of physicians which
is constantly increasing claims that
the eating of too much animal foods
which are composed of carbon,
hydrogen, nitrogen oxygen and sui
phur and that when such proteids are
imperfectly digested and go into the
blood they create vast Quantities of
nitrogen which the oxygen from the
lungs cannot neutralize and hence re-
suits. uric acid and rheumatism and
scores of other diseases
These proteids do not permit the
assimilation processes to take place
properly and poisoning results all
through the blood.
However. IL such proteids are per-
fectly digested they form a most val
liable part of our food and are abso-
luteIy necessary to life.
The fault then rests with the stom-
ach and the digestive apparatus.
Hence 1t is claimed by these latter
day authorities that rheumatism arises
stomach and not in the kidneys as
some medical authorities teach
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets cure
dyspepsia, reduce proteids to their
natural condition best taken up by
the system. give strength to the blood,
rest the stomach and invigorate and
renew the gastric fluids, pancreatic
Juice and the digestive organs in gen.
eral.
Forty thousand physicians use these
little digesters, and every druggist
sells them, soc per box or send us
your name and address and we will
send you a trial package by mail free.
Address F. A Stuart Co., $50 Stuart
Bldg, Marshall. Mich.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14
New -ork NIonrr Market.

New York. Dec. 14-MONEY-Money on
call ffrmer: ruling rate ~ closing bid Ok.
offered at 90. Time loans stronger; 60
days and 30 days 3l4 per cent; six months,
go per cent.
CLOSE: Prime mercantile paper 4@417
per cent.
ness in bankers bills at 81 S564. So 10 for 50
dav bills and at s4S7.1O for demand: COM
mercial bills 81. S4sl "A S45s.
SILVER-Bar silver. SAC; Mexican dol
lars. &c
BONDS-GovernmeH bonds steady:
railroad bonds. irregular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14
A $4,000 Hen on Exhibition.

Chicago. Dec. 1.-THE National
Poultry show begins here tomorrow.
Among the special attractions will be
Peggy" the $4,000 hen owned by
Ernest KellerstrasSe of Kansas City,
Prof. Armstrong; ideal hen. a cross
between a Dorking hen and silver
duckwlng game cock. and the tailless
chickens from the Isle of Man
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14
Had a Roll of $1,000 Bins.

New York. Dec. 14.-Jesse L. Liver
more, the cotton Spectator. has been
arrested, charged with exceeding the
speed limit in an automobile When
he appeared in a Harlem police court,
Livermore produced twenty $1,000
bills and after some difficulty in MAX
ing change, gave bail for 500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14

Maybe something in this list will
be manifestations Bookcase or
Filing Cabinet. Fire Proof Safe for
home, one of the new Kansas books
just out a desk or card. Call at
Cranes Book Room, 10 and 112 East
Eighth avenue
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14
Statehood Bins Go In.

Washington, Dec 14-Separate
statehood for Arizona and New Mex
leo is provided for in two bills intro
duced today by Senator Foraker
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14

Ye gods! What is coming next? There
Councilman H B. Howard will introduce
resolution at the next council meeting
barring smoking in the council chamber.
No matter what it is-cigarettes. cigars,
pipes. sage, coffee. or corn silk-eVery-
thing goes. This new piece of news fell
with thud on the councilmen yesterday
and under the leadership of Colonel J.
w. F. etc Hughes the tobacco users will
be prepared to fight the assaulting enemy
Colonel Hughes was much wrought up
over the affair when interviewed this
morning. 1t will be remembered that to-
gether with his white vest, checkerboard
trousers the colonel completes his regular
performances by neatly rolling cigarettes
during the busy council meetings. COun-
Gilman Blakely will assist Mr.. Howard in
downing the smoking habit in the council
chamber and the battle royal will be
worth the attendance at the meeting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14

Mr.. and Mrs. Bert b. Symmes of 621
Chandler street are the parents of boy
born yesterday afternoon. No other births
for three days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-14

Mayor Green has appointed J. w. Fl
Hughes as the city's representative on the
state fair promotion committee.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-25

10 Boston and New York. With better
ana cheaper facilities the markets of
the United States will soon be oneninor
up to the Pacific. .
Inc salmon fishing is now WHOLLY
uone Tor canning and in a small woy
salted' The extent to which this n "
Oh the Industry has grown is moro 70
nlnar to the world than anv otbar
During the last few years the frOSl,
llsn industry has made inroads ovon 90,
Tue cahnery supply and mild cnrod sol
mon Is now being shipped all tho ,na,r
70 Germany for smoking. Durinc +b,
iast winter buyers from Corn,aS
houses in Hamburg have apnearod ' -
Alaska towns and eagerly taken al +bo.
product they could secure. This ts L In&
a beginning, and development IN - ,t LUZ
IN the way Of improved means oe +uali i.e
portation will extend the sbtnn,nn ,'-l 10
salmon fresh from the wafer. e VI
Alaska to all parts of the world ~
citc Coast Monthly. d.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-25
COAST ABoUNDs IN FISH,
Pacific Region VIII in Time supulv
the Whole Country

Faciho Region VIII in Time SUNNY
the Whole Country.
The extensive coast line of the terrI-
tory seems everywhere abundant with
hallbut, which has become almost q
luxury In the East. There the FISHING
Is done at great hazard and at long
distances from markets, while in Alas
ka the fisherman leaves his home in
the morning and returns in the even
Ing with the fruits of his labor.
A little off the coast of Alaska and
In many places among the numerous
islands along the shores there ex,s+s
great cod banks. These are LITTLE
known and while they are now nsbnd
to some extent it might be said the in
dustry is wholly in its infancy. Whom
we consider the enormous extent or
these banks as compared with those off
the New England coast and the very
few fish now taken on them al com
pared with the large numbers taken on
the Atlantic 1t can readily be seen n
what an extent this fishery can also
be expanded. Here also the element os
safety is greatly in favor of the In
dustry on the Pacific coast. At present
In small way, both halibut and cod
are shipped clear across the continent
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-25
killing Harmful BaciI1i.

Sewage must either putrefy or nitri-
fly. That is, 1t must either decompose
with results unfavorable in the ex-
treme), or such chemical action must
take place as will change the harmful
organic ingredients to harmless inOr-
ganic matters, result really effected
through bringing them somehow into
contact with the air, the oxygen Of
which will consume them, says the At
lantic Monthly.
The problem before US, then, really
resolves itself into this: How may
we so oXidize or nitrify sewage as to
change the nOxious organic matter into
harmless mineral substances? To do
this the sanitary engineer, instead Of
removing the germs, as in water filtra-
ton, cultivates myriads of helpful bac-
terra. Whether we consider such sew
age-disposal as carried on by natural
or by artificial means, on the irrigated
farm or the trickling filter, we find this
startling and remarkable fact-the oxi-
dizing of the sewage Is done by mil
lions of living organisms. The sewage
filter is in its essentials, nothing more
than a pile of rock upon which the good
bacteria may grow. These bacilli take
in, the organic wastes and turn them
into safe and harmless inorganic mat
tiers. To cultivate such bacteria and
to use their destructive powers on dan
gerous elements has been the effort Of
all recent sewage researches.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-25
MOUNTED NURSES.
They May Become a Feature of the
English Army.

They May Become q Feature of the
English Army.
Army nursing may be revolutionized
as the result Of a course of training
Instituted at the North London Riding
School, where the Islington Drill Bri-
gade Girls Yeomanry, twenty-five
strong, Is showing what mounted horses
could do in the field.
The innovation will be brought I'M
officially to the notice of the British
military department at the next annual
show of the navy and army, and it is
believed the army medical corps will
give the idea more than passing con-
sideration. The work of the girls bri-
gade is a revelation to every army Off
Ger who witnesses 1t.
They are trained to all the arts of
nursing before being advanced to the
brigade service. In this their work is
to bind up the wounds of any soldier
found helpless in the field, hoist him
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-25

a woman is the first to enter the train
at the beginning of the trip. They will
resort to ruse or diplomacy to avert
such an invitation of accident. They
will stop a woman with slow inquiries
about her ticket or destination in order
that masculine foot will be the first
to ascend the steps. 1t is also consid-
cred bad luck for the train to permit
cripple or hunchback to enter first.
A one-armed man among passengers
upon a train is also viewed with sus-
p1cion as an omen Of accident.
Sometimes n careless fireman will let
the engine bell toll. Such an untoward
accident means that some member Of
the engineers family will soon die Old
time engineers will not count the num-
Der Of cars in a train as it rounds a
curve. 1t Is considered bad luck.
AS would naturally be expected from
the wide prevalence of the number 8
superstition, it occupies an important
place among railroad mems omens. It
is the firm conviction Of almost all
railroad men that when one man is
killed or injured in railroad work two
other fatalities or accidents will follow
In rapid succession. 1t Is considered
unlucky, before two or three days have
elapsed, for railroad man to take the
place OF another who has been killed
in an accident.
Engineers sec an omen of death upon
the trip If the headlight of their en-
CINE accidentally goes out as the en-
CINE Is leaving the roundhouse.
A left-handed engineer is viewed as
hoodoo by many rainmen. 1t is be-
lieved his presence In the cab invites
disaster, and old-time fremen and
brakemen seek transfer to other trains
as soon as left-handed engineer is put
on their run.
Trainmen dislike the presence of a
corpse in the baggage or express cars,
Just as sailors object to carrying a
corpse on board ship. But It is consid-
cred particularly threatening to load
the coffin on train with the feet of
the dead person toward the engine, In
a recent wreck In North Carolina q
corpse was almost moderated and
many persons were killed. It is the
firm belief Of trainmen on the south.
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-25

Perhaps the most superstitious class
of people in the United Stntes are the
otherwise hard-headed, keen-witted
railroad men. They are fatalists by
circumstances of a life of constant dan
ger. Death is a commonplace acct
dent and injury all in the days work
and line Of duty. Contempt Of death,
akin to that of the fanatic Mussulman,
but without the allurement of the
black-eyed houri paradise. is bred by
familiarity, the never-ending risk of
life and limb, as told in the grim sta
tistics of railroad fatalities. Many
bloody campaigns Of great wars show
fewer casualties than the annual death
and accident report of the Interstate
Commerce Commission. This makes
life cheap and it's risk and sacrifice
for so much per diem an incident. The
railroad man lives in an atmosphere Of
the fatal chance and nerve-teasing IN
certainty Death may be speeding to-
ward him and around the curve ahead :;
the next pounding Of the massive driv-
ers may strike a broken rail; the
tower signal man makes his awful err
rors in an almost unvarying average :;
the landslide and the tempered switch
are entirely beyond provision. And it
Is this dominancy Of chance, Of the I'M
prevised, the unexpected, the unfore-
seen, utterly battling human ingenuity,
that makes the average railroad man
as superstitiously fatalistic as a whirl-
Ing dervish or warrior Of the Mad
Nullah.
This environment Of the fatal
chance, emphasizing human futility and
powerlessness, creates a rich soil for
omen, charm and fetch, and few rail-
road men can be found who are not in
oculated with the virus of protecting
superstition. Press them closely, and
seven out Of ten will confess 1t In a
half shame-faced, half defiant way.
For instance, 1t is considered most
unlucky among engineers to take an
engine out for Its first run Friday or
on that fatal day to put the finishing
touches to 1t in the shop.
Trainmen, particularly brakemen of
the old school, believe it is bad luck If
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-25
CHAPTER XVIII

OI1h1 L NM A ILL
This event gave me no little anxiety
at first, but It wore of when l came to
consider It calmly. could not believe
in the mans statement respecting a GRIM
Inal charge In reserve. It was not likely
he would keep back the stronger induce
ment In leading to q compromise. As for
his witness to prove that Audrey had
been instrumental to my delay, that was
nothing; he could get as many witnesses
of that kind as he chose at a pound q
head. No; 1t seemed to me nothing but
y mere attempt at extortion, got up,
probably, by Yeames, his mother and
Bax, who thought, very likely, that
should be rascal enough to stand in with
them.
l hattered myself that had shown
Bax the folly of his proceedings" and
that should neither see nor hear any
more Of him or his criminal charges. And
this belief was strengthened when two
days later Lynn Yeames appeared in
Coneyford, and his'mother returned to her
cottage.
He went the very morning of his ar
rival to DR.. Audrey, and in the after
n6on 1 saw them going along the High
Street together, Lynn with his arm linked
IN Awdrey's. They were going towards
the farm to see about some alterations
and improvements that had occurred to
the doctor In the others absence. felt
sure then that the intimidation scheme
was abandoned.
Nothing occurred for several days; but
on Friday, the Goth of March, Miss Dali
Fymple called upon me. She was as pale
as a ghost. Her hand trembled In mine.
"Oh, Mr.. Keene ~ she exclaimed, what
Is the meaning Of these rumors?"
''Sit down, my dear" said l, guessing
what she meant. 'Sit down; now tell me
what it is you have heard"
''They say that DR.. Awdrey prevented
you from arriving at the house in time for
Mr.. FlekmOre to sign his will. A man
has confessed to being employed by him."
II have heard nothing about that. Have
you heard anything else?"
'Oh, yes, yes! They say that the med
icine he gave me to administer to Mr.
Flexmore was'-she hesitated a moment
and dropping her voice so that 1t was
scarcely audible, said-"poisoned ~
l started. This, then, was the criminal
charge Bax had limited at.
WHO told you this?" I asked, when I
had overcome the first dash of astonish-
ment.
MRS. Caseby came to tell me. She
thought that ought to know"
IT know what is in your mind" said
1. "You do not wish Audrey to know
what you have told me. Be under no
apprehension a lawyer knows how to
keep a secret when it suits him. Leave
the matter in my hands, and by tomorrow
morning you shall have news of some
kind-good news, 1 feel pretty sure"
lost no time in seeing DIR. Awdrey /;
on my way to his house settled how to
act
well, Awdrey," said when we met,
''how is the world using you?"
"Pretty much the same as usual-only
more So" he said with laugh; and then
In a tone of perplexity ne continued: 81
can't quite make it out. 1 have received
three letters to-day asking for my 40
Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-09-25

ern that the body was Loaded III 'n0
fate defying way.
Rut the railroad man Is not alone
in his belief in omens and charns' AnU
passenger also has pet lot OF super
sttions that defy logic and the peleu"
sion IF common sense. The bellef thaI
ithe wearing Of white flower or WHITE
ribbon protects travellers from acclueht
Is fairly widespread. Some believe thak
burning coffee just before leaving OH i"
Journey is better than an accident pol-
lev. and in certain sections of the South
some very pious people will not under-
take a railroad trip without first tying
CODY Of the sixteenth psalm under inc
left armpit. Putting a wisp OF stra"
In the bottom of the trunk Is DelleVeU
not only to protect the baggage from
loss, but also insure the safety OF the
owner. Women sometimes pack their
stockings in the trunk in mystic cir
Gle, as a protection from accident
There is superstition that 1T Is un-
lucky to lock the trunk before 1t leaves
the house, and with more apparent rea-
son, It is particularly portentous If the
trunk lid falls upon you while you are
packing.
If a traveller loses his hat out of q
car window there is compensation In
the knowledge that 1t means good news
from home. If a passenger happens to-
pass a derailed or wrecked locomotive
1t is the sign that he soon is to come
into possession Of hidden wealth. To
see crow feeding on a carcass Is an
other lucky omen for a traveller.
If dust blows in a persons eye while
on his way to catch a train 1t Is Sign
Of accident on the trip. 1t Is consid-
cred an ominous encounter for person
hurrying to a train to meet a spectacle
wearing negro. 1t is also unlucky for
traveller to cut his finger nails just
before starting on a journey; disgrace
will overtake him, and If a traveller
leaves home in a carriage for the station
1t is simply inviting disaster for his
family or friends to watch him out OF
sight To insure the safe return of
nervous traveller 1t is only necessary
to tie an Irish knot In his handker-
chief, but If he loses the knotted piece
Of linen he had better end his misery
by immediate suicide.
Here is an Incarnation which Pullman
conductors declare will insure slumber
on sleeping car to even chronic in
somnlacs, If repeated several times With
the eyes focused on the tip of the nose
"A sleeper is that on which the
sleeper which carries the sleeper runs
therefore, while the sleeper sleeps In
the sleeper the sleeper carries the sleep
er over the sleeper into the sleeper
which carries the sleeper, and jumps
off the sleeper by striking the sleeper
in the sleeper. and there is 10 sleeper
in the sleeper"