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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
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The peach canning season IS at It's
height in Topeka.
The country roads are again in ex-
cellent shape for auto driving.
A force of men is at work at the
fair grounds moving down the weeds.
The first band concert by Marshall
in Chesney park Saturday night was
decided success.
That warming" sign at the entrance
to the Country club is the most limos
pitable thing in Topeka
Fighting Bob" Stewart, coach OF
the Washburn team, expects to de-
velop a victorious team next season.
Carl A. Shoemaker, former state
Y. NJ. c. A. secretary was visitor al
the Central association building today.
The High School club of the Y. w.
c. A. is planning to hold a reception
for new students at the high school.
A ride up the Kaw valley will con-
vince the skeptics that this years corn
crop in this locality will be a record
breaker.
The office of the Kansas State Fair
association on West Seventh street is
one of the busiest places in the city
nowadays.
There was an unusually large at
tendance at the city parks Sunday.
The heat drove the people to the
shady spots.
Rev. Thomas S. Young will preach
his last sermon at the First Baptist
church next Sunday before taking up
educational work.
The State Poultry association has
entire charge of the poultry exhibits of
the state fair. Thomas Owen is super
intendent of the department.
A small fire at 1411 Quincy street
destroyed bed clothes stored away in
a closet near the rear of the one-story
frame house. Damage very small
Heron & Middaugh have leased the
new Guilford Dudley store between
Eighth avenue and Ninth street, 1t
will be devoted to furnishing goods.
Miss Ella Cowgirl, associate secre-
tary of the Y. W. c. A.. has returned
from the association camp at Wa
karusa to attend to the Office work.
officers of the Shawnee County
Dairymen's association were reelected
for another year as follows: Presi-
dent, c. c. Witwer; secretary, c. w.
Spreng-
Basketball will be made one of the
chief features of the athletic course
at the Y. w. C. A. this fall. Teams
representing the various "centers'
will be formed and games scheduled.
The airship man who is coming to
tract that he will fly around the state
house dome on Sunday, September 10.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
famous dry land bridge. 1t is quite
a job digging a we'll in the ground and
then filling 1t up with concrete for
pillars.
The weeds grow uninterruptedly
along the car tracks adjacent to Cen
trail park. The city railway ought to
see that the park and its surroundings
harmonic.
Marshall's band will give concert
this evening at the City park. The
State Journal march is among the Sc
lections to be played. This was COM
posed by John Marshall.
l. Gilberg will speak in Hutchinson
at a meeting of men representing the
labor interests in September on why
Working Men Should Work in Har-
mony With the Churches
The dairymen of Shawnee county
are protesting against the tax of a
mill gallon levied by the city. AL
though two judgments have been rem
dered against them in the lower
courts, they plan to test the city law
in higher court. ]. w. Bigger. c.
z. Cline and NJ. L. Holloway, COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
Board of Health PuhIioations.

The Kansas state board Of health has
published bulletins on number OF the
more important contagious and iufec-
tious diseases which will be sent free
to any citizen in the state upon request
The following publications are avail
able: Prevention Of tuberculosis, ty-
rhoid fever, its prevalence, cause, re-
stric.ion and prevention. Dipntheria, its
prevention and suppression. Scarlet fe-
yer, smallpox, whooping cough and
measles, their prevention and suppress
sion. Anterior poliomyelitis (nfantiIe
spinal paralysisl. simple kitchen tests
to prevent adulteration Of foods. Swsk
the f1Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
Advance for Engineers.

Toledo, o., Aug. 22.-William T.
Coulter, chairman of the general COM
mittee representing the engineers. to-
day announced that wage increase
to 1900 engineers on the Lake Shore
railway between Chicago and Buffalo
aggregating $150.000 annually had
been granted following conference
in Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
Heinze to wed an Actress.

New York, Aug. 22-Fritz Augustus
Heinze, at his office today confirmed the
report 1het he is to marry Miss Bernice
Henderson an actress. Mr. Heinze
said the ceremony would take place
about September 1. and that he and
his wife would go to Europe and then
visit his copper mine In Butte. Ment,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
ToPEKANs WED IN COLORADO.
Carl A.. Hollendars and Miss Reda
johnson Are United.

Colorado Springs, Col, Aug. 2z.-CarI
A. Hollandars and Miss Reda johnson.
notn OF Iopeka, KAN were married at
the Ell Paso county court house by tfie
Rev. r. Sanderson, Of this city.
After their honeymoon, which will be
spent here. they will return to their
Kansas home -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
MRS N. Lux IS HURT.
Automobile Runs Into Hole and In
Wrecked Badly.

Mrs. N. Lux, 313 Chandler street. had
her left shoulder injured Sunday when
the automobile, in which she was rid
ing with her husband, ran into a hole
at sixteenth and Polk streets 1t was
necessary to call physician today to
attend her injuries
All OF the wheels of the machine were
broken and the car damaged otherwise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
Notes and Personals.

Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Heather of
Carmel. Ind, who have been visiting
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
and Mrs. Zarker and Miss Mamie Ear
ker. Ralph Zarker and Russell Zarker
and Mrs. j. NJ. Poronoto and daugh-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22

SEQ ]. THOMAS LUMBER co. for
lumber and DEWEY PORTLAND CE-
MENT. Guaranteed the best manu-.
Enctured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22

Eagles ........ooo0 1908
Paxico ..-...--.0 0 o o 0 0 OIL 6 1
Batteries-Curtis anil Curtis: Magic
end Richey.
The Eagles will play the National
Blocmer girls at the League park Sum
day, August q.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
EapIes Defeat paxico

The team from the Eagles lodge
played the Paxfco team at Paxico Sun
day with the following result:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22

A recently wed Topeka man now tells
that he once invested his last four bits
in carnations for his adored one, but he
received the best returns for his in
vestment POSSIBLE. Such are the fiowery
speeches of the honeymoon period.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22

What has become of the old-fashioned
girl who used to ask her sweetheart If
She was the only girl he ever loved?
P. S. This will be the last reference in
this column to old-fashioned individuals
for some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22

And a man will glory in white trous-
crs whether the weather is warm
enough or not.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22

Reports from the summer resorts say
that women wear furs now and many
think that indicates chilly west saet
a summer reaort will sport her furs
before she leaves, even if she swelters
while SO doing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22
Community Comment.

The Emporia Gazette gives a long
piece of advice as to how to eat a
Watermelon. However, the best way Is
to first get a really good melon.
my son. observed a Topeka near
agriculturist when one sheep jumps
over a fence the rest of the sheep will
follow" But. papa" queried the youth,
what makes that first sheep jump"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-22

A woman may stand a little chatting
about things in which she is not much
interested. But make light of any
thing in which she is really SERIOUS
and then!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
Old CABINETS AND Wk2ppUrE5
q -.JGulzED EuR PAYERS =

him to dig out and climb down with
half dozen.
It has been only within the past year
or so that patent filing cabinets have
been put into use.
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Passing through the lower floor, a tour
list would be excusable in thinking in
ventors had all turned their talents in
other directions than that of improving
indoor atmospheric. conditions. The pat
ent Office has records cf chilled air ma
chimes by the use of which the most in
tense heat OF summer can be outWitted.
During the last hot season a New York
millionaire adopted .one most successfully
In his home. and several expensive hotels
now employ II. With refrigerating plant
in the basement pipes are run up to vari-
Gus halls and rooms. just as is done with
those used for heating purposes. From
them a draft opens to the outside air
enabling their regulation according to
the temperature desired. This. however,
would be luxury personiffed. But q sys-
tenn of ventilation has already been in
stalled in the printing Office. where dou-
BILE doors and hollow columns, which are
really ventilating shafts. provide the
proper sort Of air on the most humid of
dog days"
Formerly it was the custom to display
working models of any device patented
that was especially appropriate for of
flee use, and one of the most exquisite
ironies of the place is a certain pair of
scales, brought out under a now-famous
name and placed right near the entrance
through which pass the daily quota of
sightseers who count their trip to Wash
ington failure If they did not go to
the patent Office. The model was as COM
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lean and foreign inventors and all that
have been issued since the international
patent law passed are involved. Stored
away in highly combustible wooden cases
on wooden shelves and In rooms in no.
wise impervious to fire are nearly a mill
lion bundles of copies of patents. One
can imagine the vast store when he
learns that about 500 patents are granted
each week. and 100 copies of each of
Last year $4,000 applications were filed.
and it is only necessary to go mentally
back over the years to picture what an
assortment must be contained In the
crampeu spaces. Only personal visit
could possibly give one an idea of the
present arrangement Of these papers.
the loss of which would be a real catas-
trophe.
Realizing the constant danger to pat
ents under the present plan, Commits
sioner Moore has suggested prominently
in his appeal for funds new steel stacks
for all such papers and non-combustible
shelves in which to store them.
When an attorney desires copy of a
patent-and that means every min
ute the building is opera boy scrambles
up from tier to tier and reaches down
the desired bundle. or else places reg
ulation oid-time stepladder against the
shelves and hunts about until he locates
it. Yet in that heterogeneous assort-
ment are perfected ideas for library slid
ing ladders. such as are used in any well
equipped public reading room today. and
which move swiftly along the shelves.
The library dumbwaiter also commends
itself as practical device. Even the
most insignificant small libraries are now
equipped with them. These can be raised
and lowered the ladder moves along,
nabling a boy to obtain several dozen
specifications in the time it now takes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

lating cleaned-out-from- under-Once-a-
year sort still remain de rigueur in the
Offices of the commissioner and clerks.
Windows are washed, slowly and labori-
ously-by hand. Down in that already
mentioned sarcophagus of inventions are
practical plans for getting through this
job in few minutes. Using patented
water rake, provided with a long hollow
handle and a hose attachment. renders
a window immaculate by merely passing
it quickly over the surface. Taking up
one of similar design, but covered with
the window is wiped dry with a single
sweep and without any resultant smears.
There are now telephones with glass
mouth pieces and caps containing some
porous substance. usually felt. on which
some disinfecting liquid has been pour
ed telephones provided with flat. round
mouthpieces encircled by rubber pneu-
matte cushion, alright and into which
one may speak in an ordinary tone of
voice without the nearest standerby being
able to hear a word that is being said;
helpophone attachment for the tele-
phone, which, placed to the car not
covered by the receiver. completely shuts
out all foreign noises during a converse
ton
Then there is an affair, boX-like in
shape with an opening in the middle Tor
the voice to pass through. BY pressing
four plugs at the ends four distant Of
fees at once come into communication
with the speaker. These plugs may be
SO manipulated as to shut off instantly
a listener who is no longer necessary.
One need not stand directly in front Oh
this telephone either. Placed anywhere
in room near speaker 1T receives ms
voice. and magnifies the impression In
transmission. None Of these devices APP
pear in the patent Office equipment. The
"shoemakers children POSSIBLY go
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

barefoot because of their dislike OF
Shoes through constant association
with them.
Just off the scientific library is a small
room whose faint light comes sullenly
through two three-quarter-siZed windows
Piled high on a long central table is
confusion of what looks like the rem
nants of an overnight literary spread"
not yet cleared away. These are the
foreign patent specifications. on which
employees have to work. Along the side
walls are ranged wooden shelves contain
ing more of these papers and drawings.
They are piled one on another with card
boards bearing blackened numerals of
conspicuous size hung By each pigeon
hole. 1t is used as a filing cabinet
Going down the crowded hall overhung
with Tapping dilapidated green cambria
awnings, curtains, meant to shut oft
the sun, which GENES too brightly through
the glass roof, one sees an assortment
of wardrobes Of every size and color.
washstands, decrepit little desks and
stools. They are all there for a pur-
pose
Way up under the caves is 1.-The aban-
doned file gallery of United States
turned from the mere grind of existence
anu began to dream applications for
patents have been coming into the office.
With them have usually come an initia-
ton fee of s15 to file drawings and speci-
fications and so often that a whole
vast gallery is cluttered with their ghosts.
The patents have not been developed fur
Their. possibly because the inventor
could not afford it, possibly because some
one else in the interim improved upon the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
CROWDED CORNER WITH PLAIN BOARDS, OLD DRE55ERS, AND
1-A CANVAS AIMING TO SOFTEN THE LIGHT-s

others idea and rendered il worthless.
Whatever the cause. these patents. to the
hundreds of thousands. now clutter up a
goodly section of the overcrowded patent
office. In the most primitive WAY "A
solitary individual was set to work some
years back to bring some sort of order
from out this gigantic chaos-and
single shovel might just as well have
been expected to hollow out the great
canal
At this Juncture three men are strug
CLING with the task. With every kind ol
invention to aid in the labelling and UNI
tangling and proper future arrangement.
the plan in vogue is simplicity personi-
fed.
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In tne last two years Congress has seen
the great needs of the patent Office and
has been very liberal in increasing the
force and raising the salaries of the ex
aiming corps. which had not been In
creased for sixty years, with the result
that about % per cent of these technl-
cally educated young men resigned. But
now, with the raising of the salaries.
much larger percentage remain lii the
office for longer periods. So that two
of the recommendations made for many
years, namely, greater force and better
salaries. have been granted. The emhar-
rassihg situation. in so far as the patent
office is concerned, is the lack of room
for transa citing business of a bureau COM
prising a force of nearly LOCO persons.
which handles the patent business COM
ing to this bureau from nearly all the
nations of the world. Commissioners
Moore is not only asking for the addi-
ton made to the present building. but
also a bill is under consideration for
the erection of an entirely new building
for the exclusive use of the patenr-ofnce.
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plete as the invention had been made to
that time. The plan. now almost Obso-
lete. of regulating the weights by the
use of shot clumsily fastened beneath
them and concealed by slips of pasted pa
per was then considered very adroit.
The machine was supposed TO he alb
solutely accurate. and so it was-at first.
But innumerable self-weighe-s gradually
dislodged this shot in picking up and
setting down the weights-and of course,
entirely changed the system of measur-
ing. Employees tell with tears in their
eyes how women tourists always inquire
first for those perfect scales on which
some preceding relation was weighed
and how their eagerness has often chang
ed to fury or charmed anazement, just
according to VIII Their they had been too
scantily or generously endowed as to
pounds
Nearly every we'll equipped building now
contains mail chutes. down which letters
may be dropped for quick mailing, or
the pneumatic kind, along which papers in
tubs are carried at rapid pace and
dropped out directly the designated
desk. This carrier system is to be seen in
most up-to-date department stores, and
Commissioner Moore, in speaking of 1t.
referred to the ones in newspaper offices,
comparing them to the sure, but slow,
two-footed messengers, who are still the
quickest means at hand in the patent Of.
flee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
CULLENS WEEKLY NEW YORK LETTER.

court here Of having violated the federal
banking laws. But as they" are telling
it, and as there's no particular harm In
il, here goeth
Heinze is said to be hypochondriac
In spite of the fact that he is q big man
physically, with huge muscles and theWs
and slnews, he fell into the habit, espe-
cially after the trouble with the federal
law came upon him, of imagining that
all sorts of ailments or downright NAL
aides afflicted him.
One night, or rather. morning. few
months ago, he imagined that he was
feeling pretty i'll and collapsible be-
fore turning in His bedtime happened
So he rang up his doctor.
His doctor is one Of the most prom
inent medical men in New York, and
also one of the most grouchy; doctor
the sharpness OF his answers and the
bite of his advice when patients mar
rate unto him tales of trivial ailments.
The doctor answered the phone him
self and told Heinze to go to bed and
forget it, The Butte man insisted that
he was a dangerously, not to say des-
perately. i'll man, and begged the doc
tor to hike down to the hotel to look
him over.
Which the medical man with the
barbed tongue did. gruntfully and petu-
lantly.
Heinze. receiving him in pajamas.
was delighted when the doctor. giving
him the merest cursory inspection, as
sumed an expression of alarm. He
vas even more pleased when the doctor
shook his head gloomily.
You see. 1 told you l was an i'll
man." said Heinze.
I'm" said the crabbish medical
man. his expression very grave indeed
How are your affairs? Pretty trig?"
.'Why-er-yes. they're in fairly good
shane Heinze stammered, the doctors
gloomy countenance beginning to get
on his nerves why do you ask? As
there any immediate. danger"
Dye think you could get your law
yer down here?" the doctor asked the
Butte man.
why. yes. I guess he'd come down
if phoned him. replied Heinze, quake
fully Look here. doctor, am IN
such bad shape as all that would :.
Better telephone for your lawyer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

by honest words of commentator. AS
rule it calls them to do their best in
order to live up to the standard which
you have set. Another thing, don't wait
to have your good times together until
by and by" Have them now. In the
days to come the family circle may be
broken and though you may have more
time and money then there will be ach-
ing hearts when you think how father
or sister or brother would have enjoyed
this Make more of the holidays. While
Decoration day is not a time for fast
and furious frolicking, it is good OPP
portunity for the family picnic, the long
thing that will take you all together
into the open. 1t is a lovely thing when a
family can enjoy its outings together
father. mother and children There are
seldom tragedies in family that
makes a practice Of taking its pleasures
together.
For the Picnic Basket.
If the picnic basket has not been out
yet this season and the list of picnic
edibles has grown a little cloudy in your
mind, oh mother, let me suggest some
OF the sandwiches and other eatableS
that will be suitable just now.
Brown Bread and Baked Bean Sand
witches.
Butter slices of brown bread, spread
on one crisp lettuce leaf and on top
of the leaf a layer of baked beans
mashed and moistened with oil and
vinegar, just the merest suspicion OF
these. Now spread with q thin layer
OF mayornaise, to which a little minced
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-05-22

endeavorS and hopes and realized dreams
of so many generations of inventors seems
to have been intended first show
place, second as a workshop. Running
the length and breadth of it are dreary
Railways of great width. Because of this
the room spaces above prove insufficient
for an ever-increaSing staff of clerks.
Vauting these rooms are brick arches
from ten to fifteen feet thick. which were
once useful. but now merely cause an
enormous amount of waste. Specification
papers are fairly crammed into the long
cell-like corridors given over to them,
and patent attorneys searching for rec
ords find their work greatly hampered
every hour of the day by the crowded
conditions. There are, too, among these
very records numerous ones having to do
with methods of eliminating crowded. dis
orderly arrangement of documents.
Every time an official has daringly VEN
tured to suggest that an appropriation be
made to relieve the congested situation,
or suggested some device which specially
commended itself by reason of space time
and labor saving qualities, he has been
told to wait. Commissioner Moore, en-
courag ed by the recent drastic attack CT
a certain western congressman. who as
serted that it would be extremely practl-
cal to improve local government buildings.
has presented plans and estimates, APP
proved by Secretary Ballinger. and now
before the appropriation committees, set
ting forth the improvements needed to
make the patent Office modern struc-
ture. One item in plea was for the
erection of fireproof building IN the
courtyard for the preservation of inval-
liable patent papers and furnishing adj
ditional space for the force.
All the patents ever granted to Amer