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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-11
MULE CAUSES BANK RUN
Dies and Purchaser Stops Payment on
Check.

Louisville, KY, Aug. IA mules
death was responsible for a run on
South Louisville bank. A depositor on
Monday purchased the animal. giving
IN payment check for $75. That
night the animal died Suspectinr
that he had been "stung," the mr.
chaser stopped payment
The payee presented the check inst
before the bank closed and payment
was refused. He left, spreading the
report that the bank had ceased paw
ments. 80
:. None than 100 depositors were in
when the bank opened. By noon Ire
real cause of the rum had been
learned. and it stopped -.
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moPEs WITH LEGLEss MAN.
NO One Would Marry Them So Girl
Goes 'sHome With Papa

Salina, Kan, Aug. 11.-Interrupting
an eIopement unique in the annals of
Kansas, the police took George E.
Defines, a legless man of Russell. Kan,
and Lillian Schaffer, aged 10, of Hast
ings, Neb., from an eastbound Union
Pacific train here pursuant to the re-
quest of the girls father.
Defines has large head. has no legs
and one arm is paralyzed. He is~32
wears of age. The girl met Defines in
Hastings a few days ago. Having
grown weary of the work at her home
in the beet fields of her father, Henry
Schaffer, she made herself believe she
loved Defines and ran away with him.
They left Hastings last Saturday,
stopped at several cities and tried to
get someone to marry them, but were
repeatedly refused a license.
Defines told the girl he could get a
license at his home Russell, but he
was refused there, and they started
back to Hastings, getting as far as Sa-
lima. Both are of age.
IT love Deinesy but am willing to go
home with papa said the girl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-11
TIRES OF THE STAGE.
Sick and Stranded, Vaudeville Player
Is Going Home.

Kansas City, Mo. Aug. 11.-Wedry of
the plaudits of the crowd. tired of the
twice daily stunts on the slack wire,
i'll in body from a life of broken rest
end homesick fer father, relatives and
friends. May CorDett, II years old, back
eyed, pretty and vtvacious. is stranded
at the Union depot. For three nights
she has slept or. attempted to sleep,
in the little curtained enclosure set
apart for invalids. while size has pa
tiently and hopefully waited for the
letter from her father which is to take
her back to the home she says she
never more will leave.
A year ago May Corbett, graduate
of the Junction City. Ark, high - hool.
where she was the valedictorian of the
class, Joined an opera company. she
had more than the usual local reputa-
tion as a singer and a dancer, and
great thtrgS were predicted If her by
her friends. Motherless. she had only
her father to look to. and it was not
SO hard for her to win him over. She
would run away IL he did not consent,
and he consented.
'-rhey put me in the chorus, and
just sang and sang and sang" said
Miss Corbett at the depot. Meanwhile
practiced on the slackwire. Oh. the
falls and the bumps that 1 got. Finally
mastered the wire. Then 1t was easy
hut don't like it.
"a fsw months ago I got job as
part Of a sketch company. We called
ourselves the Three Wheatons. and
there were a husband, his wife and
myself in the trio. She did soEg and
dance act. he looped the loop il. bar
rel and did the slack wire stunt. We
had some good dates at carlIivals and
then we played the vaudeville houses IN
the smaller places.
I'VE played last at Omaha, and then
went to Grand Island. There was where
took sick two weeks ago. 1t was a
long way home, but I was determined to
go there. I had some money and
bought q ticket to Kansas City and then
wrote to father asking him to send ME
the price Of a ticket home. 1 told him
mat 1 was tired of the theatrical life.
I wanted to go back home and keep
house and sow and do all of the things
a girl should do. My theatrical friends
did not want me to leave them, but l
told them that had enough ana that ii
I ever got home l was going to stay
there All of the glamour of the foot
lights has faded away, and all there
is left are a few dim spangles and my
tights and bodices. I will keep these,
and by them remember the hardest time
of my life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-11
cars Are Equipped with Fans.

New York, Aug livery car in
the New York subway is to be equip
ped with battery of electric fans to
keep passengers comforta BILE These
fans adopted by the Interborough Rap
id Transit company, are SO inches in
diameter, and have four paddle blades
of sheet steel each about four inches
WIDE They revolve at the rate of ESQ
revolutions per minute Four of the
fans are to be attached to the ceiling
of each car where they will be pro-
PEELED by individual motors of one
twelfth horseDover each. The current
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is drawn from the regular feed wire.
which supplies the wheel motors. The
blades are set at an angle of as degrees
and will keep all the air in the. car in
motion. The cost of the equipment il
estimated at $125,0O0.
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July Inlmigrants 70 To-

New York. Aug. lin the month
OF July 52,127 citizens of foreign lands
e enter the port Of New York and of
class 1885 as illiterate. The nun1h er
paired was 1,127. The inmigranfs
brought $1,537,794 in money. - = :.
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Killed by a Policeman.

st. Louis, Aug. 11.-Peter Boyd of
St. Louis was killed by a st. Charles,
Mo- policeman last night, while he
and Cecil Herzog, also of st. Louis,
were making their third holdup in the
suburban town.. Herzog after his ar
rest confessed Boyd was 10 years old
and Herzog is II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-11

Hair Pins-SheH and amber;
good lengths; Csc quality; doz 1Oc
Ironing Wax-Cloth covered.
with neat wood handle; regular
price, 2 for sc: sale price, each. .1c
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VeEicIcs to cost Nore.

Louisville, Aug. 1.-THE Carriage
Manufacturers association of the
United States in session here has re-
solved to advance the price of vehicles
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for the season of 1911, explaining that
the increase was necessary because of
greater cost of labor and material. The
exact percentage of increase will be
announced later
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-11
Notes and Personal Mention.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Capper have
gone for a trip to Georgian Bay, Can
ada.
Mr.. Harry Curtis will leave in Sep
TENDER to enter Michigan college.
Miss Verna Worley and Miss Enid
Stricken went to Omaha today to
spend ten days with the w. M. David
son family.
Mr.. ". w. Crittenden left for KAN
sas City and Carrollton, Mo-, this
morning on a business trip. His
daughter Ruth accompanied him.
Mrs. A. B. Ruthven and her daugh-
ters, Grace and Evaline, and her
grandson, Lewis Ruthven. have gone
to st. Louis to spend a month. Mrs.
Ruthven will meet her son Alfred in
st. Louis, and the party will go to
Montreal Canada, by way of the laks,
for an extended visit.
Pierce and Mr.. Leslie Ulrich went to
Lawrence Wednesday night to attend
the drill of the Lawrence K. N. G.
company.
Colonel J. w. F. Hughes has return
ed from Ludington, Mich, where he
for the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. H. 1. Allen of Dayton,
Ohio, formerly of Topeka, are the pa
rents of daughter, born last week.
They have named her Charlotte.
Rev. Francis Hayes has returned
from Chicago, where he spent the past
month.
Mrs. George Metzker and her three
Frances, will leave Saturday for Den
yer to spend a month the guests OF
friends.
Mrs. H. L. Parish of Kansas City
and Mrs. Jack Goodman of Holden.
Mo-. are guests of Mrs. L. NJ Couch
man.
Mrs. C. G. Schilling and her son of
ST. Louis are visiting relatives here
They will be with Mrs. D. H. Martin
the latter part of the week
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. West of Kan
sas City. who are making an auto
mobile trip to Denver, stopped in To-
peka today.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh McPhee and
their daughter, Eliza beth, of Emporia,
have gone to San Francisco, after a
visit to Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Strickland.
Miss Ethelyn Harrison left today for
a visit to Ottawa, Kansas City and
Forest Lake.
Miss Margaret Brown of Guthrie,
Ok, is the guest of Miss Jessie Mihlei-
sen.
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie E. McLeon
have gone to spend two weeks with
relatives in Kenosha. Wis, and Evans
ton. Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Snyder re-
turned Wednesday from two weeks
trip to Michigan.
MISS EdlLn CODD1nSOn. WHO was inc
guest of Miss Dorothy Porter has re-
turned to her home in Kansas City.
Miss Gladys Cav, who spent the
winter studying music in Scotland, is
now in Calais. France.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Scott Davis
and Mr.. and Mrs. George NJ. Craw-
ford left today for Georgian Bay,
Canada, to spend the rest of the sum-
mer.
Mrs Frank Hobart is visiting
friends in Salina and will be gone the
rest of the month.
DIR. S. A. Johnson has gone for a
tril to the Pacific coast.
Mr.. Arthur Gray is spending few
days in Lawrence.
Mr.. Galen Nichols of Oklahoma is
here to attend the funeral of Mrs.
G. G.. Gage.
Miss Edna Gafford is expected home
next week from Minneapolis. where
she is visiting friends.
Mr.. Harold Bozelle of Norman, Ok,
will arrive this week to visit Mr.. Will
lam Miller.
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with frined
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-11

Safety Pins-All sizes, dozen on
a card; sc value: for. card. &c
Paper Pins-4O0 brass pins to
the package; SC quality; 2 pkgs sc
Blasting Cotton-4c spool for. &c
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and the whole fabric is accordion
plated very closely. the lower edge of
the hem being pressed out fat to give
pretty flare to the feet. The plating,
sleeve and beneath appears the cream
lace sleeve of the guimp. Cream
Nenise insertion, run with fine gold
threads. finishes the top of the bodice
where 1T meets the lace yoke. The
leghorn hat is faced with black velvet
and trimmed in front with wheat and
clustered violets and tea roses.
= Z
a yong man who has been away for
| ms health just returned home Wednes-
DAY. bringing with him bottle of
tonic to strengthen his nerves and give
MIN an appetite. The family group lis
tened to his story of the wonders the
medicine worked for the improvement
OF his health, and how the same COM
pany manu-: acture.i a nair invigora: or
that was guaranteed to grow a crop of
down on shiniest of bald heads and
would also make the hair glossy, fluffy,
and restore the natural color If it had
faded or become gray. The different
medicines of the manufacturing con-
Germ are given number; thus the hair
medicine is "R 99.'' The
young mans fair sister Joined the cir
Gle just as her brother finished his dis
course on the magic powers of the 90,
and having seen a bottle OF patent r.lcd-
icine in his room, she decided that she
had found the lotion that would d;i
the needful for her thinning locks. She
FASTENED upstairs, laid violent hands on
the bottle, poured cut a handful of the
contents and dashed it onto her head,
then another and another, until lie hair
was saturated. Then she rubbed it
thoroughly and massaged it patiently,
The tonic was that sugary. syrupy kind
that is pleasing to the sweet tooth, and
made for people whose remedies must
conform to their epicurean palates.
Anyone who ever had the bad luck to
get a bottle of mucilage spilled on his
head or has ever seen a cat that had
made the mistake of cuddling down for
a hap on sheet of sticky fly paper,
knows how the girls head felt and look
ed The stuff won't wash out, and 1t
now seems that it VIII just have to
grow out. until inch Dv inch the streak
ed color and the 'goozlurn' paste creeps
away from her head.
" X
Miss Lucille Shafer entertained in
formally Wednesday afternoon for
Miss Ruth Tandy, who will leave in a
short time to make her home in Sylvia,
Kansas. The guests were: Miss Tan
dy, Miss Marie DeArmond, Miss Nit
tie Vair. Miss Ruth Crittenden, Miss
Pearl Beard and Miss Mildred Ferry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-11
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Sale of Rough Silks

We have 8 pieces of Silk and
Linen Pongee, colors are lavender,
rose, plum, pink, light blue, copen,
brown and black. Our regular SOC
quality. We offer these Friday to
clese out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-11
Drapery Remnants 1s Off

A cleanup sale of remnants of Nets,
Swisses, Printed Scrims Examines, Silko-
lines, Cretons, etc., lengths range from II to
yards. You save one-third.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01

One thing that almost invariably
impresses the city man who goes to
the country for a visit is the fine
flavor of the meat found on the
farmers table. 1t il SD unlike the urdi-
nary packing house product that it
is hard tn realize that such a differ
ence is possible in meat coming from
the same kind Of animals. Take an
old ccuntry-cured ham, for instance,
can you imagine snything finer 10
flavor? 1t smells good and tastes
better. Such meat, once eaten H.
never forgotten. M wonder that
the olj-ti,ue country dnrkiss had ~
saying: "Swert asham bone" Now
that "hog-kilIing tim~" Is again mt
hand, the following from George B.
Ellis, Secretary Of the Missouri State
Board Of Agricult ure. will bs Of inter-
est to every farmer who likes sugar
cured meat. Says the National Farm
er and Stock Grower. Mr.. Fills
writes:
"rsr thirsv v.a~s have usad "
method oi rait,ng and curing meat
that has been very Satisfactory, and
our meat has been complimentrd by
a great many people who have eaten
at our table. l don't say this il the
only way. but It il surely n good
way, and l will give It to you for
what it is worth. Some people pre-
fer dry sailing, but prefer the brine
method, and it keeps the meat clean
er, and / think safer in very warm
spell of weather.
st is necessary to have good,
healthy and well fattened hogs to
start with, and to know how to prop
erly divide and trim the carcass. bot
that phase Of the question | will not
take up. wauld prefer to butcher
when the weather il only moderately
cold, and when it is just a little below
freezing. If the meat is allowed to
become frozen hard before it is put
into the brine, it will not take salt
readily. After the carcasses are
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can policy should be permitted to
operate for the perpetuation of ir-
responsible government, the es-
cape of Just obligations, or the in
siduous allegation of dominating
ambitions on the part of the Unit
ed States"
That expression has excited con-
siderable remark, as it has been
interpreted to mean that the Mon
roe Doctrine is ceasing to be Of
Importance, because '"the appre-
hension which gave rise to it may
be said to have nearly disappear.
ed"
Lest serious error be commit
ted, it is well to consider what was
the apprehension that gave rise to
this important expression of our
Republics foreign policy.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01

The Monroe Doctrine was Off
cially set forth by President Mon
roe in message to Congress, Dec.
2, 1923. There had been general
revolutions in 1922 in the Cen
trail American States and Mexico
by which they had won their indie
pendence of Spain, and there was
talk of an alliance of several of the
continental nations of Europe to
assist in retaking these American
states and restoring them to Spain.
At that time the United States had
about ten millions of population,
and was little able to make much
Roadway in war against coalition
of continental European powers.
Nevertheless, President Monroe
thought the danger sufficient to
warrant him in placing the situa-
ton before Congress, and to declare
that:
with the governments who have
declared their independence, and
whose independence We have on
great consideration, and on just
principles acknowledged, We could
not view any interposition for the
purpose of expressing them, or
controlling in any other manner
their destiny, by any European
power, in any other light than as
the manifestation of an unfriend-
ly disposition towards the Uuited
States"
1t may be possible that the dan
ger of foreign interference for the
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01

The good housewife gets the meals,
dresses the children, sweeps, bakes,
mends, does the washing. and when
the shades of evening ga ther she finds
that human possibilities and sndur-
ance have reached. the limit. The
banker, after the morning meal, goes
to the counting room, delves 10 iacts
aud figures all day, and when he goes
home it IL with u feeling akin to ner-
vous prostration. The doctor. deu-
tist, dry goods man, grocer, pewspa-
per man, implement dealer, druggist
-all Of these, after displaying lib
eral amount Of strenuosity oil day,
and many times until after the bats
hove gone to roost = well, they feel
that life at best ismade up Of toll.
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purpose of expressing South Amer
lean and Central American coun-
tries by European powers is small
err, but there is greater danger
that some such American nation
may enter into combination with
some European power to prevent
or resent any attempt on our part
to discipline such country and re-
duce it to order and decent behav-
Tor. The rich and sparsely settled
countries on our hemisphere south
of US offer great temptation to
some of the powerful and populous
nations that need colonies and an
outlet for their surplus popula-
ton.
Whatever may be the obligation
the Latin American countries owe
us, the fact exists that they do not
like US as people, and their SYM
pathies and race affiliations draw
them towards Europe. Therefore
it is that the Monroe Doctrine is
just important as ever it was, and
it would be dangerous policy to
allow the idea to become establish
ed abroad that we have no longer
any interest in it. On the Monroe
Doctrine is founded the system of
democratic-republicau liberty in
America, aud while that grand in
stitution lasts, President Monroe's
utterance made in 1923 is the basis
of a public policy that must be
maintained with all the might of
this great nation.-New Orleans
Picayune.
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Soils Longest Titled Best
Government Expert Declares Productivity is Increasing
Even in Rock Ribbed New England---An
Interesting Statement.

Declaring that the worlds soils are
to-day greater storehouse of fertili-
ty than they ever were, Prof. Milton
Whitney, chief OF the soils bureau in
the department of agriculture, in a
bulletin, issued from Washington,
takes stand in direct opposition to
the view of many writer's that soils
are gradually wearing out.
Prof. Whitney states that study
of the record for the past forty years
will show that the average of crops
is increasing. particularly in the old
er states, where the soil has been
worked the longest. There has been
he states, an increase of two bushels
in the average yield OF wheat per
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1910-01-01
To Make Sugared Hams
Farmer Gives Recipe for Making Sugar Cured Hams
at Home---Healthy and Fat Hogs
are Essential

cut up, spread the hams. shoulders
nnd sides upon a table ar boards in
the smoke house, but where they will
not freeze. DO not pile them mp. Rub
Al little salt on each piece, particular
ly the hams and shoulders, ard let
meat cool out for twent y-four to
thirty-six hours. Then pack closely
In a clean Darrell. and cover with n
brine made as follows: Soft water,
three gallons; good salt, twopounsls;
brown sugar or n good quaIity of sor-
ghum syrup, one pound; make in
this proportion sufficient smount
of brine to cover the meat we'll. Toe
brine should I've boiled and skimm,d
and put Om the meat after il is thor
ougnly cooled. 1t win require from
four to six weeks in the brine. owing
to the size of the hams. for the meat
to be ss.sed properly. The sides re-
qu,re less time-usually four weeks
is sufficient Tor them, but the proper
time to take the meat out Of the
brins c,sn i've dessrained nv sampling
sone III the meat.
For curing | use clean corn cobs
or hickory and maple wood. l hang
the meat IN u dark. tight closet made
10 the coolest corner Of the smoke
house. put the fire for the smoke
IN stove and conduct the smoke
into the closet through pipe, thus
avoiding too much heat under the
meat. 1t is best to take plenty Of
time to allow the meat to cure, and
l like to have smoke under the meat
about hall the time each day. 1t re-
quires about three weeks. and then
the meat should have nice straw
color. and be sufficiently cured TINT
it may be immediately sacksd and
hung back in the same place.
1.-THE butchering should be done
early. so that the meat may be salte,l
before the warm weather 10 March
sets in. Iprefer meat cured in this
manner to any Of the packing house
products on the market"
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COLFAx GRANT PARISH, La, SATURDAY, JANUARY l. 1910
Crop Demonstration Work
Special Agent Brian Gives Some Interesting Information
About Government Crop Demonstrators in
Grant and VIM Parishes.

e. the iruiting stage, no deduction
Was meds for il in estimat ting the
yield. unless il amounted to 25 per
crnt or more. Again, we allowed
some demonstrations to go In where
the demonstrators carried out only
one or two points OF the instructions
and got very low yield, clearly be-
cause of such failure; this cut the NV
ernge correspondingiy lower.
But, notwithstanding all these
drawbacks, and one OF the most I'M
favorable seasons We have had Tor
many years, the general average
yields are highly encouraging and
show great promise Of what may be
done under more favorable condi-
tons, aud even under the same, or
worse. seasons, by paying proper Mt
tention to ''better seed, better prep
nration Of seed bed and more inten.
sive cultivation" the threegreat fun
damental principles Of the demon
slration work.
tiity-nve demonstrations with
244k acres in corn made an average
yield Of 30.3 bushels per acre, and
thirty-five demonstrations In cotton,
with 240k acres in cultivation, made
an average yield Of 600.06 pounds
Of seed cotton per acre.
The largest individual yield Of corn
on bottom land was 63 bushels per
acre, and Of cotton 1890 pounds of
seed cotton per acre.
l hope to get some OF the demon
strators to furnish individual reports
of their methods, yields and cost of
crop. which will be Of greater interest
to your readers.
H. L. BRIAN,
Special Agent.
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other parishes in the State have or
ganized corn clubs and the work is
being pushed rapidly.
This work was begun last year in
four parishes, East Baton Rouge,
Avoyelles, Natchitoches and Clai-
borne, and the results were excellent.
The best exhibits Of corn at the State
Fair at Shreveport we're from crops
grown by these school boys, and the
great interest worked up on hegrow-
ing Of corn in our State, and the de-
mand for agriculture in the schools
and special agricultural schools is
due largely to the work OF these boys
corn clubs.
No better movement could be start
ed in Grant parish, and we hope that
pare It's and teachers will see to it
that all their boys have an oppor-
tuni,y to join these clubs. Only one
or two meetings will be held, and as
tbe boys will be expected to do their
y .rk ON Saturdays, no time need be
! " from other studies, and great
e. will be accomplished by this
NJ, ,tudy of the Oldest question with
which man has had to do.
n T. RprAu