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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08
After American Dollars.

American visitors to French health
resorts have hitherto been exempt
from the impost called a cure tax,
which is levied in Germany, Austria
and Switzerland. There is every prob
ability, however, that such tax will
be levied in France before the sum-
mer rush of Americans to France
begins.
During the postal strike a bill was
put through the French senate i'm
posing a special "cure tax on every
visitor to French health resorts. The
bill now goes to the chamber of depu-
ties for approval, but it is not likely
to encounter much opposition there.
BY the provisions of this measure
the "cure tax may be imposed during
any period of the year, but never for
more than four consecutive weeks as
regards one visitor. Permanent resi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

edy. One of the best acts. however, is
that of the Three Demaristo Brothers,
who are instrumentalfsts and novelty
entertainer. This bill is bound to be a
popular one. Every seat in the house
next Tuesday night has been sold to
the Efks and it will be impossible to
secure seat for that night.
At the Novelty.
The North brothers will present at
the Novelty next week "A Daughter of
the South" AS might be expected from
the title, this is a southern production
with a strictly southern setting. 1t is
a military drama, the time being the
spring of 1866, when Sherman made his
famous march to the sea. The play be-
ing a military one, will serve as a
criterion by which Topeka folk can
judge the merits of the company as to
variety of repertoire. This will be an
entirely different sort Of a production
than the company has yet attempted
Frank M. Thomas will appear as Cap
tain Gray of the Northern forces, Tay-
lor Bennett as Lieutenant Gordon of
the Confederate army, while Miss
Mabel Cullen will be seen in the title
role. The comedy will be furnished by
Frank Carter, Jack Connolly and Ivy
Bowman.
The production is nicely mounted
and staged, and the cast will be cor
rectly costumed with wardrobes fur
nished by Lieben & Company of kan
Sas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08
At the Majestic.

Vaudeville.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

North Brothers in "A Daughter of
the South"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

troduced to PauPS parents and the
bluff, honest Captain Gribsby. In fact
all the most interesting characters of
the book are seen in the play.
Harry Beresford.
who's Your Friend?'' the comedy
success of the season in New York and
London, will appear here next Friday
night with that odd comedian, Mr..
Harry BereSford, in this city.
Although the authors, Messrs. Harry
and Edward Paulton were we'll known
as authors and actors in every English
speaking country, it was the unusual
pronounced success of "Erminie" and
"Niobe" that placed them on the top
rung of the dramatic ladder.
This season their latest contribution
to the stage is the American comedy
Who's Your Friend?'' When the cur
tain was lowered on the last act of its
initial appearance in New York, press
and public were of one mind that an
other International success had been
launched by these clever dramatists.
More than that, it has served to give
that odd comedian. Mr.. Harry Beres-
ford. full scope for the exploitation OF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

The subsenior class of the Topeka
musical comedy Way Up East" at the
Grand next Friday night. There Is
cast of forty in the production of the
play. Fifteen big song hits are prom
ised- The production Is under the d.
rection of Miss Nellie Lincoln.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

the South"
A popular price concert, a sort of
holdover from the May Musical festi-
val Will be given at the Auditorium
Monday night The school children's
chorus under the direction of Miss
Mildred Hazelrigg. which was so popu-
lar feature of the festival, will sing
again, and Mr.. Harry H. Barnhart, the
New York tenor, will repeat his group
of American folk songs, Mrs. George
w. Parkhurst, soprano, and Mrs. ARA
Clark, organist, will be the soloists.
Mr.. Barnhart and Mrs. Parkhurst will
also sing in duet. The price of the
tickets is twenty-five cents. Every seat
in the Auditorium should be filled
Reserved seats at Stansfield, without
extra charge.
The musical festival was not a
money maker. The sale of tickets
barely paid the expenses of bringing
singers to town and there was nothing
left to apply on the pipe organ debt.
1t is hoped that the concert Monday
night will raise considerable sum for
the organ fund There will be prac
tically no expense and the price of the
tickets is so small that a record break
ing crowd should be assured.
The program is of much interest.
People who missed the school chill
dren's chorus last Monday night
should take advantage of another OPP
portunity of seeing and hearing this
living terrace of girls and boys, 700
count them-700, surely the most in
spring sight in many a day. This is
no idle, press agents dream, but the
concensus of opinion of everybody who
attended the concert last Monday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

night. The chorus was a signal fea-
ture of the festival. It was a surprise
and a revelation to every one.
''The Girl Question,
Pretty girls and catchy songs
dances which are marveIs of grace and
action, a cast of sterling PLAYERS, and
above all, play with a plot of intense
human interest are found in THE Girl
Question" the enhancing musical play
which. comes to the Grand tonight
This play is along the lines and is in
fact a successor to THE Time. the
Place and the Girl the musical
comedy which has damned every thea
ter in which it has played since its
run of 463 performances in Chicago.
The fifty prettiest chorus girls who
have ever been seen in one show are
said to be found in THE Girl Cues
tion," as are also the famous $1,000
Beauty Brothers, the latter being the
abandon of emotion and enthusiasm
and an amount of ginger which has
never been eQualed.
The cast includes Paul Nicholson.
Henrietta Tedro, Marguerite De Won,
Nina Collins. Carl George. Russell
Lennon and others, while the songs
include Goodbye Pal 81 Have to
Work OR Monday" 20 Gee, Be Sweet
to Me. Kid" waltz Me Round TIL
m Dreamy, When Eyes Like Yours
Look Into Eyes Like Mime The Old
Buck and Wing and DO Something -
NThree Weeks
Those who revel in Elinor Glyn's
story, Three Weeks" will have an
opportunity at the Grand next We'd
nesday night to see the book drama
tized-and by the talented authoress
herself Miss Beryle Hope, who first
made "Sapho" known in the west. and
is an actress of charm and ability, will
interpret the character of the queen.
and the big and handsome Harry @
Browne will appear as Paul. Other
important members of the cast viii he
Miss Lillian Rhodes, Miss Caroline
Lamar and the Messrs. Frank J Kirk.
sydney Price, William c. Chatterton
w. T. Hayes w. ]. Mcconnell. r. Fl,
Thomas, Charles Moncrief, William
Casey and Albert Quail. The play will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

night The chorus was a signal fea-
ture of the festival. 1t was a surprise
and a revelation to every one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

dents ID persons owning property in
tie resort are exempt.
A simple means has been devised
of collecting the tax. 1t will merely
be tackled on to the bill presented by
the hotelkeeper or pension owner, and
the hotelkeeper will be responsible to
the authorities for the payment of the
tax. In the case of visitors renting a
furnished villa or fiat for the season
the owner of the building will be held
liable for the collection of the tax, the
proceeds of which go exclusively to
local establishment or sanitary i'm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-08

At the Grand.
Tonight-"The Girl Question"
Wednesday. May 12'- Three
Weeks
Friday, May 14-Harry Beresford.
Saturday, May 15-High School
Play.
Saturday May 22-Mrs. Fiske.
Thursday and Friday, May 27-28-
1.-The Blue Mouse"
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1909-04-24

All hunters licenses, whether resident
or nonresident. expire on the first day
of June of each year.
You must not use or attempt to use
the license of another person, or In any
manner make any change in any license
for the purpose of transferring the same
under the penalty OF prosecution Tor
forgery.
Owners of farm lands, their children
or tenants, may hunt and kill game on
their own farms during the open season
when 1t is lawful to Kill game, without
procuring a hunters license, but they
must not hunt beyond the lines OF their
own farms without hunters license.
Tie State Game Commissioner, his
wardens or deputies, may hunt ensnare
or entrap game birds and animals and
transport them to sections of the State
where scarcity of these game birds or
animals exists for the purpose propagat-
ing and restocking said sections Of the
State.
You must procure license before
Had
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NO E e q:

I wish every Pythian brave man"
would take a copy of the Pythian
Monitor. There is an article in the
December number on Reclaim Your
Suspended Members" which is worthy
of attention. In the January issue E.
L. Rogers will have an article on
and Our Duty and other
matter pertaining to our Springfield
lodges. All who desire this PythiaH
paper can secure a copy at J. e.
Thompson's grocery store or Neal &
Browns restaurant.
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USE HoAGLANp's OIL OF GLAD
NESS,

Hoagland's Oil of Gladness has prov
en- to be the greatest furniture pre-
server in the world, owned and con-
trolled exclusively by Negroes. All
colored agents should become interest
ed in this enterprise. Have we any
colored sympathizers? If SO, send 81
and get special terms for 30 days.
Send $1.O0 and get $500 worth of oil.
George Hoagland, s03 w. Jefferson St.,
Bloomington, Ill.
You may give news matter or mo-
ney you have for the Forum to Miss
Daisy Donaldson; also all kinds OF
typewriting; orders for colored papers.
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Synopsis of Illinois Game Law

You may hunt and kill quail only from.
November 10th to December 20. of each
year.
You must not kill any prairie chicken
or grouse for period of four years from
the first day of July 1907 or any wild
turkey, pheasant or partridge for a
period of six years from July I, 1907.
You must not mel, trap or ensnare
quail, prairie chicken. pheasants or
partrdges at any time or under any
circumstances, unless authorized to do so
by the State Game Commissioner.
You may kill wookcocks and mourning
doves only from August ,st to Novem-
Der goth, of each year.
You may kill grey. red fox or black
squirrels from July Ist to November 18th
of each year.
You may kill all kinds of snipe and
plover from September Ist to May Ist
of each year.
You may kill wild geese, ducks, brant
coots, rail or other water fowl from
September Ist to April l. th OF each year.
You must not kill wild geese, ducks,
brant, coots, rail or othe. water fowl
after shutdown or before sunrise of each
succeeding day.
You must not kill wild geese, ducks.
brant. coots, rail or other Water fowl
from any steamboat, sailb ,at. electric or
gasoline launch, or from any sinkboat,
box or sneakboat. or artificial blind IN
the open waters of this State.
You mas, not kill wild geese, ducks.
brant quail, pheasants cartridges, prai-
Il: al n a r.
ket or commercial purposes.
You must not sell. buy or have in
possession for the purpose OF selling. or
trans port for the purpose OF sale, any
wild geese. ducks, brant. quail. prairie
chickens. grouse or squirrels that have
been killed the State of llineis.
Yon must not at any time kill more
than twenty wild ducks. geese, brant,
coots. rail or other water fowl. or more
than ffteen quail or other game birds in
one day.
You must not kill, catch or have in
possession living or dead any wild bird
or part of bird other than game bird,
except English sparrow, crow. crow
black-bird or chicken hawk. and you
must not purchase or expose such birds
for sale.
You must not destroy or remove from
their nest, the eggs of any prairie chick
en-. grouse. quail, wild turkey. pheasant,
partridge, duck, goose, brant or song
bird.
You may kill for commercial purpose
and transport for sale or market all kinds
of snpe, plover, mourning doves and
rabbits.
You must not offer for sale or trans
port for the purpose of selling any snipe
or plover or mourning dove after the
expiration of five days next succeeding
the first day of the closed season; nor
can you sci the same during the first
two days of the open season.
Inhabitants of his State may receive
game coming from other states where il
is l-wful to kill and ship out Of such
states. and expose and sell on thu mar
ket such game between the first day Of
October and the first day of February Of
the following year.
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Lodges and their meeting nights
and place of meeting will be carried
for 25c the month. We have all man
ner of lodges here.
If you desire special write-ups OF
social or church affairs, with all details.
no condensation. etc., see the manager.
as there will be some charges.
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sons of the year.
You must not at any time use ferret
for the purpose of hunting, capturing or
killing any game, animals or rabbits.
The title to and ownership Of all song
birds, game birds, and animals protected
under the game law is declared to be in
the State.
JOHN A. WHEELER,
State Game Commissioner.
SPRINGFIELD. ILLS.
June I, 1908.
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The Negro Business Mems League
meets every two weeks. We have ex-
tended an invitation to all manner of
business people and you have no ex-
cuse.
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PRICES FOR POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
State and National offices. $1,000
County offices ........ 500
Mayor of Springfield .......... BOO
Regular write-ups, 10 cents per
line. Ten-line notice one time.
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Parties will please enter into ne
busir ess transactions for this paper
with anyone save authorized agents
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Please don't put the collectors Off
When the collectors come, pay them,
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We will run the cards, announcing
the place and meeting nights OF all
Lodges, for Csc per month.
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You can always depend on The
Forum to stand for principle above all
else.
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How to Talk"-for sale at Thomp-
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TIME TABLE

ILLINOIS TRACTION SYsTEM-cARs
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hunting rabbits but they may be killed
and sold in any number and in all sea-
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The Forums Staff.
E. L. Rogers, Editor-in-Chief and
Business Mgr.
Will H. Barbour, Asst. Editor.
MISS DAISY DONALDSON,
Proof Reader and Stenographer.
~ .. Office Clerk, Book
keeper siA~
MISS BLANCHE HOAGLAND,
Bloomington Agent and Correspondent.
Address matter for the paper to The
Forum, 305h So. Sixth st.
Matters of business or information
to E. l.. Rogers, Mgr.
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Partial Contents.

ParUlal COnUenUS.
Queries and answers.
The Art of Conversation.
Shall and Will: Should and Would:
How to Use them.
Pronunciatious( Century Dictionary.
Correct English in the Home.
Correct English in the School
What to Say and What not to Say
Course In Grammar.
Course in Letter Writing and
Punctuation.
Business English for the Business
Compound Words: How to Write
Them.
Studies in English Literature.
Agents wanted.
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pie copy
Department e.
CORRECT ENGLISH. evanston; I'll.
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Open till 8 p. m.
The Clubs, Social and Otherwise.
go N. 9th ST.

The Clubs, Social and Otherwise.
Ladies' Sunlight Social, meets every
Wednesday at the residences of its
members, discusses art, culinary, and
home circle questions.
st. Paul Sewing Circle meets every
Thursday at Lecture room Of st. Paul
church, discusses all important home
circle questions.
Mothers Literary, meets every
month, auxiliary to St. Paul Sewing
Circle.
The Woman's Club, meets every
week, is the oldest club--has been and
is a rescue club for the fallen, a
philanthropic agency, this club has a
social and juvenile section, Mrs. G.
H. Morgan is president, Mrs. Higgin-
botham is chairman, of the social Sec
ton; Miss Clara Blackwell is press
reporter for this club.
The None-Such, is social club
among the younger society folk
meets every Thursday.
'Don'tWorry Twelve" 1. composed
of the elderly married ladies-meets
weekly.
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CORRECT ENGLISH-HOW TO
USE IT"

A Monthly Magazine devoted to the
use of English.
Josephine Turck Baker, Editor.
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THIN BILE CLUB.

Meets every two weeks on Friday.
Besides needle work social and lit
erary program Is rendered.
GERTRUDE WADE, Pres.
MARTHA CHANDLER, Secy.
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DEAR SIRs:--T have used only one bottle of
your pomade and now I would not be without 1t,
for it makes my hair soft and straight and
easy to comb aud also starts a new growth.
MRS. w. r. WALKER, Sta. 1-Harriman. Tenn.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-28
BIG RETENTE TAXES.
Increase of SO, 6,673,599 an Fiue
Months.
From The Tribune Bureau. ]

From The Tribune Bureau
Washington, Dec. 27-Indications point 10
a record breaking year in the amount Of
internal revenue taxes collected by the gov
ernment The internal revenue receipts
have been climbing steadily, to the sur
prise and delight of the Treasury officials.
The increases cover nearly everything that
comes within the taxing power Of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau. except process. or
renovated butter A compilation made to-
day shows that the internal revenue re-
ceipts for the first Eve months of the pres
eIlt fiscal year amounted 10 sllS,35Si62 06, as
compared to Sios. .ss4.5 SCI IS for the same
period last year. an increase Of ss.573.599 IS.
officials Of the Treasury Department are
at loss 10 account for the striking in
crease in the receipts on playing cards In
the five months of the present fiscal year
these receipts show an increase of nearly
81, 900 over the same period last year. The
revenue on playing cards in November
1908 was $40 go 70. against s6l,3s1 e6 last
popularity of bridge whist may have some
thing TO do with this increase in receipts.
Internal revenue recSeipts for November
of this year show an increase of s2,695. 716 9S
over the same month last year. The in
crease on spirits 81 .22a, 740; on tobacco.
oleornarg garine 80, ,S73 and adulterated
butter, s.972. On process, or renovated
butter there was a decrease of $3.50.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-28
MERCY OF TWO PRESIDENTS.
Cleveland Saved Man from Gallows
and Taft Commutes Sentence.

Washington. Dec. 27.-Executive clemen-
cy again his been exercised in the case OF
Thomas WestmoreIand, now undergoing life
imprisonment following his conviction in the
Circuit Court for the Eastern District of
Texas for murder committed in the Indian
Territory in June, 1893
Westmoreland was sentenced 20 be hanged
and the United States Supreme Court af-
frned the sentence. Then President Cleve-
land. on October % 1855. commuted the
sentence TO Imprisonment for life. Presi
dent Taft to-day directed that the sentence
should be commuted 70 twenty-five years
with the usual allowances for good conduct
The President also commuted. 70 expire
Immediately, the sentence Of five years i'm
pTisonment imposed on Philip Sango
negro citizen Of the Creek or Muskogee ma
ton. who pleaded guilty TO forgery. In his
report on the case the Attorney General
said Sango had been the tool of others and
already had been imprisoned longer than
the equivalent Of 4 four years sentence.
New-York tribune., 1909-12-28
MAY LOSE POLICE OFFICIAL.
Lieutenant Sheridan Expected to Re-
sign from Department.

The word was passed i'm an unofficial
way at Police Headquarters last night that
Lieutenant William p Sheridan. the man
with the camera eve" was about to resign
from the department. Lieutenant Sheri-
dan is in charge Of the criminal records AZ
Iolice Headquarters. as well as the Rogues'
Gallery. ard has won recognition by his
wonderful memory for faces and personal
detail.
Rumor had it that the Lieutenant. now
in his forty-ninth year, contemplated re-
signing and that it was probable that he
would then be placed in charge OF the
William j. Burns National Defective
Agencys office, in this city. The agency
Is the one with which the American
Bankers Association has recently made a
contract for its work in place OF the
PinkeryOns
Lieutenant Sheridan was appointed 10
the department on December Is. 1855. In
July. 1857 he was sent TO the detective
bureau, and he has remained at Police
Headquarters ever since.