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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30

Rev. and Mrs. Lucas of the Presby-
terrain church and Rev. and Mrs. Whit
tlesey of the Methodist. spent the day
yesterday in North Topeka attending
the Chautauqua.
Mrs. Carrouthers of Winfield avenue
or the Presbyterian church Thursday
afternoon.
Mrs. F. M Clarke of Oakland avenue
is improving after several weeks ILL
ness.
Mr.. N. LeMarr and Mr. Chas. For
man of Pawnee. Ok, spent last week
here visiting relatives and friends.
Mr.. Frank Lucas. of Frontenac, WISH
ted friends in Oakland Sunday.
Miss Maude Upper is rapidly improv-
ing after being i'll several weeks in
Bethesda hospital, where she underwent
an operation.
Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Sears of Indian
apolis, Ind, are spending this week
In WakaruSa the guests of their nieces.
Mrs. Atchison and Mrs. FoltZ. They will
come to Oakland the latter part of the
week to visit Mr.. and Mrs. Harrison
and Mr.. ]. w. Tillman of Oakland ave-
nue..
Mrs Spicklemeyer of Liberty street,
Mrs Addie Clarke of Lawrence street
and Mrs. Della Bennett of Chester ave-
nue. spent Wednesday the guests of
Mrs. F. NJ. Clark of 1877 Oakland.
There will be the regular meeting of
the Bible training class held this even
ing in the Presbyterian church. Rev.
Mr.. Lucas and. Mr.. Sam Bailey will
teach the lessons.
There was a very important meeting
OF the ladies' society of the M. E.
church held this afternoon in the
church.
of Lincoln street, spent Thursday the
guests of Mrs. F. NJ. Clarke of Oakland
avenue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
HE SHED TEARS.
But Would Not Tell What He Did
With the Dynamite.

Chicago, June 30.-Felix Sharkey,
the former convict arrested here in
connection with the mysterious
throwing of bombs of the last two
years, was taken before States Attor-
ney Wayman today by Chief of Detec-
tives O'Brien- Two detectives, and
R. Michaelson, a policeman of Nor
gan Park, where Sharkey holds the
office of constable, were present.
Sharkey's arrest followed the OBJ
tanning of information that % pounds
of dynamite had been shipped to him
at Morgan Park. Last night Capt.
O'Brien repeatedly asked him what
he did with the explosive, to which
the prisoner as often answered, at
last breaking into tears that he could
not tell.
1t was with the hope of confession
that the prisoner was taken before
Mr.. Wayman today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
WHAT A BIG DAY +!
Attendance Record at the Chau-
tauqua Broken.
Topeka Talent Gives an Inter-
esting Entertainment.
MISS GRAHAM'S TALK
Living Arithmetic" Proves
Popular Subject.
The Caveny Company Will BE
Heard Tonight.

The Chautauqua is a success. This
fact is proven by crowds that are flock
ing to the grounds. Topeka Day. saw
the record broken in respect to attend
ance, and the interest in the events is
decidedly on the increase. Many farm
ers are spendir~ the day on the
grounds and not few of the towns
people are doing likewise. There are
plenty diversions for all. Swings and
other means of amusement have been
provided for the children, and boating
on Soldier creek is becoming a popular
pastime among both the young and old.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30

Local talent supplied the entertain
ment for this afternoon. Mr.. Carlton
Wood played some violin solos much to
the satisfaction of his hearers, and
Mr. E. W. Thompson, who has gained
considerable reputation in Topeka as
an entertainer, made an excellent i'm
preston with his Interpretation of
Drummond's poems.
Last night novel lecture was given
by Miss Effie Graham of Topeka who
put life into a subject which many
people imagined would be dry indeed.
Her lecture On Living Arithmetic"
was illustrated by lantern slides, and
the bits of humor with which the
speaker garnished her talk added con-
siderable spice. Miss Graham began
with the period when men counted on
their fingers and toes, and gave the
origin of the terms now found in the
arithmetic. Even at the present time
she asserted there are tribes in Africa
which use their fingers and toes for
counting and when these become ex-
hausted they resort to cutting notches
on sticks.
The Orphean Musical Co., which ap-
peared on the programme for the third
time, is deserving of much praise.
Their opening number was Dudley
Bucks I'm Absence" Mr.. E. w. Crum-
baker then gave in a delightful man
ner a monologue, 80 Memory" The
closing number was Breeze of the
Night by the Moth
The Caveny Co., which will give q
performance tonight, the management
of the Chautauqua predict will prove
one of the best attractions of the entire
Chautauqua season. Mr.. Caveny will
give representations, and show his skill
work Fred Emerson Brooke says of
Mr. Caveny:
He makes birds fly
He makes chalk fly
He makes his tongue fly
And his fingers fly
flies.
You are surprised to see how time
fies''
Mrs. Caveny has a high clear soprano
voice. A number of her solos will be
illustrated by the rapid work of Mr..
Caveny in crayon drawing.
Tomorrow is Washburn day and
everybody will wear blue and white.
The alumni of Topeka will turn out in
full force to hear DIR. Frank K.
Sanders address. The programme fol-
lows:
Everybody wears Washburn blue today
MORNING.
$50 Devotional Hour, Y. w. c. A, Miss
Solo, Miss Eva Currie.
900 Normal Bible Study, Rev. J, E. Ing
Typography. Geography
| $50 Natural Study, Prof. John E. Cam
eron.
1000 Shakespeare's Royal Portrait Gallery
Prof. F: H. Lane.
| king Henry VI: The Reign of Law
leSsness.
HOO Korea in Transition Mrs. ]. P
White.
| Missions to Korea.
| Reading Miss Irene Welshaus
AFTERNOON AND EVENING.
2:30 Music, Washburn College Talent.
| Reading Prof F. III. Lane.
Gas Reading Miss Elizabeth NJ Barr.
800 Dr. Frank Knight Sanders. Address
Music Washburn College Talent.
/ 90 Domestic Science Hour, Miss Morton
| Miss Fleming.
500 W. 6. T. u Hour. Franchise. Mis-
| Olive Bray.
TOO Sunset Hour with the Club Women
| Mrs. a. H. Horton.
| Good Government Club"
7:30 Marshall's Band.
$50 Wherahiko Rawei: Music Story ant
| Picture.
From Cannibalism to Culture
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
To Remove
Superfluous Hair.

saws: II can truly say that I consider De
Miracle the only reliable preparation on
the market for the removal of superfluous
hair I have used many preparations for
that purpose, but none gave me satisfac-
ton until tried De MIRACLE, but in 1t
find preparation that will do all that is
which gives perfect satisfaction in all
cases. Better take q doctors advice:
don't be deceived with fake free treat
ments.
. Poisonous worthless connections are
dangerous, , pesi6es aI t yoo n4 te USE hseo
De Miracle is sold by The Mills Co and
all other good stores. Booklet free in
plain sealed envelope by De Miracle Chem.
Co.. Desk H. 10, 1903 Park Ave, New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
zeppelin Airship in a Storm.

Biberach. Germany, June 30.-The
airship Zeppelin I, which came down
near here yesterday on its way from
Friedrichshafen to Metz, because of
trouble with the machinery, is today
exposed to a gale of wind on an open
plain. A battalion of soldiers has
been called out and the men are hold
ing down the huge swaying craft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30

Pittsburg. June 3o.-An eight year
old newsboy, an eleven year old office
boy and 4s year old crippled man
were probably all fatally injured last
night by being run down by automo-
biles. Only in one instance, that OF
the newsboy did the drivers of the
machines stop to find out how badly
their victims had been hurt. The
police made no arrests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-30
f0AKLAW GOSSIP |
| H ,I
IN u y5y5EI5 dnn|

Items for the Oakland notes may be left
at the Iowa Grocery or telephone to Ind.
phone IT'LL
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
MARQUIS sHRoPE DIGS.
Good Injun in Easton, Pa, Gives Labor
Temple Boost.

The Wageworker's good old friend,
Marquis de Lafayette Shrope, he of
the Easton, Pa, Journal, knows good
thing when he sees it, and when he
sees it he can no more help boosting
than he can help biting the end off of
good cigar falling into his hands.
The Marquis has been watching the
progress of the Labor Temple project
in Lincoln, and when he saw the psy
Geological moment had arrived he
seized his trenchant typewriter and
dashed off the following:
"Easton, Pa, Oct. a.
will NJ Maupin, Deputy Commission
er of Labor, Lincoln, Neb.
Dear Old Man Bill see you are
Lincoln to subscribe for stock in your
Labor Temple association, and as you
are constantly begging it looks to me
as if your town is afflicted with the
demic in the east. l am always with
the under dog and as l have a few
plunks left over after paying the ex-
rcnses of a new hat for Mrs. Shrope,
and not wishing to die millionaire, I
herewith send you my check for five
dollars as a contribution to the Lin
coin gang to assist them in building
the Labor Temple. On this stock l
presume you will guarantee a divi-
dend, and l would suggest that you
send me your personal check, endorsed
by BILL Bryan, to cover the dividend.
"Fraternally yours,
m. D. l.. SHROPE."
Now don't that sound good? And
don't it sound just like the Marquis i?
BY the time this letter is in print the
Marquis will have his stock and the
Labor Temple association will have
the Marquis money. Well guarantee
the dividend, too. The Marquis will
get dividends in the way of satisfac-
ton from the knowledge of a good
deed done at the right time, and he's
the kind of an OIL injun that would
rather have that kind Of dividend
than to have dollars. And he'll get
financial returns, too.
Now, if any others among the good
injuns in the east want to come across,
following the example of Marquis de
Lafayette Shrope, The -Wageworker
will acknowledge all subscriptions
And we'd like to be kept busy doing
it, too.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06

and these are as much entitled to a
rest day as any other class of work
ers All men are entitled to a rest
day, and no man who takes thought
for others will want others to labor
on that day for his own pleasure
merely. whatsoever We would that
men should do unto you, even SO do
we unto them" This is good social
doctrine and applies to Sunday sports
as we'll as to other things.
Then the moment we begin to. break
down the rest day for one class of
people, we find that there is a danger
lest the day be broken down for all
classes of men. If we may have Sun
day baseball, why not Sunday thea
ters? If we may have these things.
why not Sunday stores and factories !?
Resist beginnings" is saying that
has come down from the past filed
with the wisdom of the races expert
ence.
Finally, workingmen SHOULD be the
last people IN the world to break down
the Sunday rest day at any point.
We sometimes forget that the old
commandment was benefcent provi-
sion and had at heart the welfare of
the people. 1t secured for men a brief
breathing spell in the mad rush Of
life. In Deuteronomy, Chap. 5, we are
told the reason for keeping the day;
men are to remember the hard bond
age of Egype when they were driven
under the lash to their unceasing !oil.
The rest day is most merciful pro-
vision, and every man who loves MS
fellows should resist everything that
tends in any way to break down the
quiet of the day. AS John Stuart Mill
long ago pointed out: Workingmen
ought to know that if the Sunday rest
day is taken from them they will be
compelled to do seven days work for
six days wages.
For these reasons, if for no others,
1 am opposed to breaking down the
rest day at any point. And that the
rest day may be preserved l am ready
to do anything in my power to help
secure the Saturday half holiday.
Yours most truly,
SAMUEL 2. BATTEN.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06

continue paying $40 a day to motor
men and conductors. Not much! The
men who go that enormous pay are go
ing to help pay back what they re-
ceived as brides and they are going to
do it out of an average weeks wage
less than one and one-half what they
receive daily for sixteen days Never
mind these men. For more than thir-
ty-five years I worked with their kind.
They are human, but is there not some
way to stop an autocrat from bribsng
needy men in the name of corpora
ton and escaping punishment for his
criminal act?
G. E. HATHAWAY
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06

the credit for seniority to the men
who rcll our smokes.
Now comes Henry Wiggenjost, sec
rotary of Division No. SO, Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, with
the proof that the Locomotive Engi-
neers are entitled to that honor Mr..
Wiggenjost writes as follows:
"a recent issue of The Wageworker
contained the statement that the CT
garmakers boosted of the oldest union
organization in Lincoln, having been
chartered in June, 1888. l wish to cor
rect this statement and claim for Di-
vision No. 49, Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers this honor by fully
year and half. Division No. SO was
chartered on January 3, 1892 and or
ganized on January 30, 1882, and has
been in active existence ever since"
Mr.. Wiggenjost certainly ought to
know what he is talking about. He
has been on the ground all the time,
and actively connected with the or
ganization. His figures show that the
Locomotive Engineers are entitled to
the honor heretofore accorded the CT
garmakers, and The Wageworker will
so hold-until some other organiza-
ton comes to the front with the proof
that the Engineers are not the first.
Come on, boys! Let's get the, history
of Lincoln unionism on straight!
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
THE SATURDAY HALF HOLIDAY.
Rev. Samuel Zane Batten Gives the
Reason for His Position.

Lincoln, Nebr., Nov Ito the Edi-
tor of The Wageworker: In the adj
dress given by Miss Mcdowell of Chi
cago in my church We were told:
until the Christian people of this
community assist in securing half
holiday for the toilers on Saturday,
they have no right to seriously object
to Sunday amusements." l most fully
and unreservedly subscribe to this
statement and believe that it should
be made even stronger. 1t is perhaps
needless for me to say that l have
been opposed to such Sunday sports
as professional baseball, and what is
more, l have done everything in my
power to prevent any legislation that
might legalize such things. And one
or two reasons for this action may be
given.
l believe in the Saturday half holt
day, and l know that if Sunday base
ball and other sports are permitted
that we are never likely to secure this
half holiday. One of the best ways,
as l believe, to secure this holiday is
to oppose Sunday sports. Then l be-
lieve in equality for all men. There
is no reason why some men should
make Sunday day of gain under the
guise of sport and then deny the same
privilege to any other man who may
want to make gain on that day. If
the baseball men may make Sunday a
day Of gain, SO may the merchants and
the builders. If these latter should
be required to cease their usual labors
on that day, all other men should sub
NIT to the same requirement.
Then, Sunday sports mean labor for
many people, for car men, especially,
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
CHARGED WITH BRIBERY.
Curt Comment on President Wattles
Little "Bonus" Deal.

Curt Comment on President Wattles'
Little "Bonus" Deal.
Lincoln, Nebr., Oct. 25-To the Edi-
tor of The Wageworker:-I see that
Mr.. Wattles of the Omaha public-per-
tsonal transportation company, has de-
cided to pay 100 men who did not
strike SO day for sixteen days. OF
this we are told that half is to equal
the regularly employed strike-breakers
and the other half bonus" He also
let's the men who came back into a
bonus AS l am back number in ac-
tive union labor circles have no way
of knowing what the ordinary union
worker thinks about it, but it
looks to me as though the
Omaha Street Railway company
won the fight by deliberate bribery,
and that Mr.. Wattles now expects the
stockholders of that company to con-
done the crime and the public to pay
the bill. Mr.. Wattles is not going to
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06

had been none too particular about
the appearance of the house or it's
occupants, but in the daughter devel-
oped love of cleanliness contracted,
Heaven knows where-unless, per-
chance, at the country school, A rev.
olrsion not entirely peaceable, as far
as the youngsters were concerned,
wat brought about, wher. ut the age
of IS, she found herself the quasi.
mother of a good-sized brood. Reforms
did not trouble Olaf, SO long as ex
penses were not increased.
Then came Lars. He was straight
haired and high-cheek-boned, with
irregular features and big, freckled
hands. He came at threshing time.
and having no other place to go,
accepted Olafs offer to remain
throughout the winter.
For time the hired mans acquisi-
ton wrought no change in the Olafson
home; the dreary routine of farm-life
continued as before. Only for a time,
however. Within two months-long
before the arrival of the New Year
a pretty. red-cheeked girl of IS in
formed herself that she had found the
man she loved. while thickset, I'M
prepossessing little man made up his
mind in his stolid fashion that he
knew she would make a desirable
wife. At
The counting of Lars possessed lit
tie that lends itself to descriptive
writing or simple narrative. Like the
frozen prairies. 1t was colorless and
unpicturesQue. Each evening, after
Lena had put away the dishes and
tucked the children in bed-after Lars
and Olaf had done the chores and the
days work was over-the hired man
would join the family in the living
room. Sometimes he and Olaf, with
Lena sewing nearby, would devote the
evening to discussion OF the price
of hogs and kindred themes; some
times he and Lena would talk inter-
mittently while Olaf read his Norsk
weekly from st. Paul. Their CONVEX
sat!on was commonplace and uninter-
esting; sentiment was wholly lacking.
Within doors. old Olaf always was
near at home; without, the bleak prai-
RE otfered no trysting-place, even had
enc been thought necessary. The up
Shc4 Ct several weeks of mild devo-
ton was q suggestion from Lars that
ssenA become his wife. and the offer
eas accepto; 20 sswSly ~ 1t WAS
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
CARPENTER susTA,ns INJURY.

Peter S. Johnson, carpenter, sus-
tanned broken leg while working on
a dwelling at Twenty fourth and Dud
ley streets Tuesday afternoon. Mr..
Johnson, who is fifty-five years old,
stepped on joist which gave way
and he fell distance of ten feet. His
right leg was broken near the thigh.
He was taken to local hospital. Mr..
Johnson lives with his daughter at
1144 street.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
THE FRESHMEN.

President George L. Berry OF the
Printing Pressmen and Assistants In
ternational Union has issued pham-
phlet under the caption Tuberculosis
Printer in which he reviews various
pose the workers of his craft to be-
coming inoculated with the white
plague. Sanitation and ventilation
are explained fully and in manner
to be easily understood.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
From Different
VIEWPOINTS
Copyright, by Short Stories Co., Ltd)
By JOHN HARDWOOD BACON


Little Mrs. Whitney told the story
at dinner which Browne and Walk
err were giving for Miss Loomis of
Baltimore. There were several other
guests, members of a congenial CO.
terie often entertained in that snug
fat. where the care of two bachelors
devolved upon Lena-cook, house
keeper and maid Of all work.
You see," explained Mrs. Whitney,
before the rest of you arrived, l
stepped into the kitchen to assure our
hosts that everything would be as de-
hcious as we've found it. AS usual. l
stopped to exchange condolences with
Lena. She was bustling about-she's
the neatest, most useful thing l know
of-and she gave me several bits of
information to prove the advantages
of a position in this happy household.
Don't you just love Mr.. Browne and
Mr.. Walker?' l exclaimed, in my en-
thusiasm. For a moment she ap-
peared embarrassed, then said, hest
tatingly: Nom, l like them both very
much, but-but never loved anybody
but once, and he was a man my folks
wouldn't let me marry Isn't that
beautiful"
"Ha, hal" roared Browne. Great"
THAT explains her choice of litera-
ture," suggested Walker. "She was
absorbed in Fair Victorine's Enchant-
ment' when l stepped into the kitchen
yesterday. And So" with an amused
smile, Lena has had a love-affair!"
It's too perfectly delicious!" de-
clared Miss Loomis.
And the others agreed.
The gray rolling prairies of south
ern Minnesota would hardly be
selected for purposes of romance had
one the choice of locale. Nor would
Olaf Olafsons farmhouse, blackened,
where paint should have been, by the
rain and snow of years, seem to favor
the development of true love.
II was not an attractive nome. In
the three rooms-two for sleeping, the
other for cooking, eating and living
the odors of garlic and dried fish were
unpleasantly mingled, while the COM
bined bathing and clothing area of
seven little Olafsons provided Lena
with a problem altogether appalling.
Mrs. Olafson, whose death left the
household responsibilities on Lena,
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
MR.. wiceENJosr OBJECTS.
Submits Proof That Locomotive En-
gineers Organized First.

A couple of years ago The Wage
worker stated-and it thought it had
Typographical Union was the oldest
trades union in Lincoln. But the CT
garmakers came to the front with the
proof that they received their char
ter three or four months before the
printers received theirs, and since
then The Wageworker has been giving
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
nR,srow EoR UNION LABOR.

II am in favor of union labor, know.
ing it has done much for the work
ing men of the country, insuring them
a fair wage scale" This Is what Sena-
tor Joseph L. Bristow of Kansas told
the members of the Citizens Indus
trial Association in st. Louis, Mo-. in
an address on "The Responsibility of
Citizenship
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
PROSPERITY ITEM.
Right From the Heart Of the Protec-
tive Tariff District.

tive Tariff District.
Pittsburg, Pa, Nov. driven to
distraction over his inability to bury
a member of his family If he paid the
house rent, Enson Johnston manufac-
tured a nitroglycerine bomb and wait
ed for the appearance of John Nc
Inerney, son of local alderman, the
collector.
Before Johnston could explode the
bomb, however, McInerney, after
struggle, took it away from him and
fed. Later Johnston was arrested, but
was discharged when he told of the
sad state of affairs existing at his
home.
The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1909-11-06
CAPITAL AND LABOR.

"CapitM is the fruit Of labor, and
could not exist if labor had not first
existed. Labor, therefore, deserves
much the higher consideration
Abraham Lincoln.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-05-27
SEIZED DOGI MENTS
MAY BE INSPECTED

san Francisco. May 26.-Superior
Judge Sewoll granted today the petit
ton Of the district attorney TOR "a mod
incation Of the writ prohibiting the
opening of the package of documents
tnkcn from the safe aud ia the office
of tho legal department ocdM sHnited
railroads several weeks ago dbring a
raid by agents or tho district attruey
under authority Of search warrant.
Judge Scwcll decided that the seals on
the package, which IL is alleged con-
tainu reports on jurors ia the graft
cases stolen from the office OF " !.
Burna and sold hy ono Of his employees,
may be- broken. n is the Intention of
'hc district attorney ~ put police
Judge Dtaay. who issued thu search
warrant at tho request of Burns. oy
the stand M the trial of Patrick cal
houn and have him testify regarding
the documents