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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-17

An aeronaut is reported as claiming
that the airship has ended the battle
ship. This seems supererogatory. As
naval experts decree that battleships
OF the vintage of the COS are effete
and much scrapped It certainly ap-
pears that the battleships end them
selves rapidly enough.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-17

A Jersey justice once sapiently said
that a boy wasn't worth, In money,
more than 81. Judge Wheeler Of
Bridgeport has just refused to accept
a verdict of $500 damages for a boys
death as insufficient. The law is al
ways interesting, but its administra.
ton is not always consistent.
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THE MARKETS

Detrolt-Cattle-we quote chocs
cry fed steers. S6.25G7; good to choice
butcher steers. 1000 TO 200 lbs. s5.75
heifers. 700 to 800 lbs, s5@6: mixed
butchers fat cows, $4.25@5: Gamers,
s2.50m325; common bulls, S4m4.75;
good shippers bulls, 50 90 common
ers. S4.25@4.50; light stockers, 50
M3.75.
fair to good calves, $S@S.50; culls and
commons. $50 80; mich cows and
sheep. and lambs-Best lambs. $3.50
80 fair to good ,amSs ssaG@9 Light light
butcher sheep, $6.50@ $50; culls and
common. $S@4.5O.
Hogs-Light to good butchers. $1,000
aiO.6o: pigs. $10.25 a 1895; light york
ers. siO4OGi0.45: stays. one-third Off.
East Bumalo-Cattle. steady. Hogs.
heavy $4,000 II; workers.. $4,000
1895: pigs $1O.75. Sheep. active best
lambs. s9.75G9.S0: yearlings, s9G915;
wethers $SGS.25 ewes $7m7.5O.
Calves. S5@ 1l.25.
Grnin, Etc.
Wheat-Cash No , red S119K May
$40 to s121, declined to sl,20 and
closed at $1.20 IL; July opened at
siOs3.4. advanced to s1.O9. declined
10 S1.OS1-4, and closed at s1.0S "a;
LII
CornECash No. ., Gle: No yellow,
cars at 62c; No. yellow, | car at
soc: No. yellow, car at sec. / at
. o5ais-standard. .7l-ec asked: No ,
Rye--cash No !. sic.
Beans-cash, ss.l5; March. s217;
Pc,liooverseed--Prime spot, 100 bags at
1890. March $3.50: sample alsike, 81
bags al 1925. is at s.. 12 at 1915. y
al $3.50: prime alsike. s725 sample
aisike, Il bags at $50. at 1925, 5 at
Timothy. seed-Prime spot. Is5 bags
" Feed&In 1oo-ib. sacks. jobbiug lots:
Bran. s27; coarse middlings. t27; fine
middlings. $40; cracked corn and coarse
cornmeal. s21 corn and oat chop. SIS
peF loUT.Best Michigan patent. s6I5:
ordinary patent, $685.: straight. $3.50;
clear. $3.50; pure rye. s4.65; spring pat
ent CT 10 per bbl In wood. jobbing lots.
Aiming TO induce American philan-
thropists TO join in an English effort
TO raise S1,000.000 for the establish
ment Of an English university in Han
Row. China, Prof Arthur Lionel Smith,
OF oxford, is in New York to deliver
a series Of lectures at Columbia uni
versity and elsewhere.
The pope has officially appointed
Cardinal VincenZo Vannutelli as
legate to the Eucharistic congress.
which will be held at Montreal in
September. Cardinal vannutelli will
take this opportunity to visit the
whole of Canada and a large part of
the United States.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-17

Fifteen girls in a Massachusetts
feminine college are living on 81 a
week to secure their collegiate edu.
cation. Energy and determination like
this, with such a capacity for self-sac-
rifice, are what this age of enervation
and selfish ease needs.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-17

A woman waters her grief with her
tears and it springs into lovely flow
er; a man salts his with bitterness
and il turns to thorn.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-17

A Louisiana woman was arrested
and fined for challenging another 20
a duel with shotguns. There is some
sport that men seem determined to
keep to themselves.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-17
If You Are a Trifle Sensitive

About the size of your shoes, many people
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1t cures Tired, Swollen, Aching Feet and
gives rest and comfort. Just the thing for
breaking in new shoes. Sold everywhere, Csc.
sample sent FREE. Address, Allen S. olmsted,
lie Roy N. ".
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EFFECTS OF LIQUOR REMOVED.

You Can Stop Your Husband, Son OF
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$4,000 Fine, Six Years; In oco Fraud.

Summary action was taken by
Judge X NJ. Lands in the United
States district court in Chicago in
sentencing violators of the federal
laws regulating the manufacture and
sale of oleomargarine.
The court fixed the punishment of
Samuel Driesbach, who pleaded gull
ty, to fine of $4,000 and six years
Imprisonment.
To Daniel Bortz, who also pleaded
guilty, the court meted out an eight
cen months term in the house of cor
rection in this city.
William Broadwell. who was sen
fenced some days ago. must meet like
punishment with Driesbach.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-17

There is no wrong a man can do
but is a thwarting of the living right.
Macdonald.
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-17

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup.
FOR children teething. softens the gums reduces in
allays palm cures wind collie. 25c bottle
Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1910-03-17

East Buffalc-Cattle. steady. Hogs.
heavy. $4,000 II; workers. 10000
IL. 80: pigs. S10.75. sheep active; best
lambs. s9.75G9.S0; yearlings, s9@915;
wethers. SS@S.25; ewes, $7m7.50.
calves s5011 %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24

Mrs. Leslie Carter is organizing in
New York what she calls 1.-The Nation
al Society for the Encourag cement of
American Playwrights. She says the
object is to place a boycott on for
eign plays for five years, the life of
the society.
Mrs. Carter says she has promises
of financial assistance in this move
ment from American actors, who are
being crowded out by the less expen-
sive foreign players who come here
with foreign production and stay
here to crowd the profession; from
American theater goers who have
been paying the toll, from the dra-
those loyal producing managers who
have confined their effort to the home
products. She says:
"All through the summer 1 have
been at work on this idea. 1 have
been in correspondence with the thou
sands of my many friends among the
intelligent playgoers of the United
States and have found such a ready
response that I will turn the idea into
an incorporated and well managed and
organized company and get at the
work with a vengeance
1.-The greatest drawback to the ad-
Vancement of the American drama is
the discouragement of the playwright
among our young, splendidly educated
people, by the overproduction of for
eign plays here, and the movement
is aimed directly at those American
theatrical managers who, without
nerve and patriotism enough to keep
their energies and investments at
home, spend most of their time abroad
watching the foreign producer take
the risk of original production. only
to swoop down on the cream of the re-
suits, buy it up for home consumption
and returning here demand veneration
for wonderful acumen and managerial
ability Why, they don't even pay
duty on these plays.
For twenty years the American
playwright has been butting his head
against the stone wall of the foreign
invasion. These plays have taken up
| the most lucrative time of our theaterS
With them have come the hordes of
foreign actors who work for little or
nothing and q majority of whom re-
main in golden America for the rest
their careers. The foreign authors are
living in luxury from their American
royalties, and the small American
manager who deals in homemade
into New York for hearing because
these outland products are taking up
all the time.
st think that five year boycott on
these foreign products shutting of
the door against them-will give the
American playwright a chance to grow.
The participants in this boycott 1 ex-
pect to be the American play-goer
who will refuse to go to see them, the
American actor, who will refuse to APP
pear in them, and the dramatic critic
who will refuse to notice them.
already have promises of surprising
financial assistance from Americans of
wealth who are sick of the foreign
plays. One of them offered me unlim-
| tied aid in these significant words: I
| blame all the filth, vulgarity and i'm
| morality of our fast degenerating
stage to the presence of these foreign
plays. We are a clean people and the
cIean.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
Sc TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE
CHRISTMAS"

Twas the night before Christmas when
all through the house
NOT a creature was stirring, not even a
mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney
with care
In hopes that ST. Nicholas soon would be
there;
The children were nestled all snug in
their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in
their heads;
And mama in her kerchief, and I in my
Had just settled our brains for a long
winters nap
When out on the lawn there arose such
a clatter,
1 sprang from my bed to see what was
the matter
Away to the window flew like flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the
sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen
Gave a luster of midday to objects below /;
When what to my wondering eye should
appear
But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny
reindeer,
With a little old driver, SO lively and
knew in a moment it must be st. Nick
More rapid than eagles his coursers they
And he whistled and shouted, and called
them by name:
Now, Dasher. now, Dancer! now Prancer
On. Comet! on. Cupid. on, Donder and
Blitzeni
To the top of the porch, to the top of the
Now dash away dash away. dash away
allI''
AS dry leaves that before the wild hur-
When they meet with an obstacle mount
to the sky,
So up to the housetop the coursers they
flew,
With the sleigh full of toys-and ST.
Nicholas too.
And then in a twinkling I heard on the
roof
The prancing and paving of each little
hOOf.
AS drew in my head, and was turning
around,
Down the chimney st. Nicholas came with
bound.
He was dressed all in fur from his head
to his foot,
And his clothes were all furnished with
ashes and SCOT;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his
back,
And he looked like a pedler just opening
his pack.
His eyes how they twinkled! his dimples
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like
cherry;
His droll little mouth was drawn up like
a bow,
And the beard on his chin was as white
the snow
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his
teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like
a wreath.
He had a broad face and little round
belly
That shook when he laughed, like bowl
full of jelly
He was chubby and plump-a right jolly
old elf;
And I laughed, when saw him, in spite
of myself
A wink of his eye and a twist of his
head
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to
dread.
He spoke not a word, but went straight
to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned
with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving nod, up the chimney he rose.
He sprang to his sleigh, TO his team gave
a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of
thistle;
But 1 heard him exclaim. ere he drove
out of sight:
Happy Christmas to all. and to all a
CLEMENT c. MOORE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
ssThe Cgimax., New Years.

When 1.-THE Climax was presented
here last season with Miss Leona
Watson in the leading role, the play
charmed by it's fresh simplicity, its
pathetic interest and it's novelty. Now
it is to return and this season it will
be the New Years offering at the
Grand opera house. Miss Watson this
year is starring in 'eThe Golden Girl, .
the Christmas offering.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
NOTES OF PLAYS AND PLAYERS

Mrs. Patrick Campbell appeared in
Philadelphia in '"The Foolish Virgin,
by Henry Bataille.
1.-THE Seventh Daughter has closed
its season. 1t was a play offered pre-
viously as 'Vera the Medium"
J. NJ. Barrie has sent Maude Adams
as a Christmas present the manuscript
of one act play called youth"
Clara Lipman, it is said, will not
act for the remainder of the season,
plays
George Probert, who is now playing
the supposed young father in BABY
Nine in New York, is to become one
of the w. A. Brady stars.
Fay Courtenay will be among the
stars next season under the manage
ment of Vaughan Chaser. if suitable
play can be found for her
William A. Brady testified in a suit
in New York last week that he got
as much as 100000 a week for stag
| ing and rehearsing a play
In the revival of "Old Heidelberg,
to be produced by the New theater,
Frank Gilmore will appear in the role
formerly played by Richard Mansfield
Dustin Farnum is to appear in a
dramatization of 'eThe Silent Call" by
Edwin Milton Royle. This play is a
sequel to the authors other play, rThe
Squaw Man"
Elsie Ferguson is to appear as Dolly
Madison in new play OF IhaI famous
mistress of the White House by
Charles F. Nirdlinger.
FRITZ Scheff's tour in ''The Mikado'
has been prolonged. She will not be-
gin rehearsals of her new opera until
the first of the year.
Edmond Rostand is writing for
Sarah Bernhard play on Faust
in which the great actress will play
| role of MeDhistopheles.
| The friends and admirers of Clara
Morris are pleased to hear that she
| is out of danger and that the reports
| of her total blindness are not true.
1t is reported that Mary Garden
disguised with the treatment of her
| self and her Salome in Chicago and
other cities, is going to leave grand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
At the Novelty.

The bill booked to open Christmas
at the Novelty will be featured by the
Tetsuwari troupe of Japanese in foot
juggling, tumbling and posturing. This
troupe is composed of seven people.
The next act will be Steely and Ed
wards, a comedy, musical and talking
act, composed of two men, one doing
straight and the other black face-com-
edy. Then will come Coogan & Parks.
q singing, talking and eccentric dane
ing act.
There will also be some grand OPP
era, musical comedy and popular bal
ads by Stassio Berini and Louise Toz-
Ter Berini. Carl Fletcher will sing the
illustrated song, and new moving pic
lures will close the bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
At the Majestic.

Beginning Monday matinee, the
management of the North Bros. Stock
company announce the most success
full American play of recent years,
THE Great John Canton as the at
traction for the Christmas holidays at
the Majestic. The play is a story of
the worlds greatest center of the live
stock and packing interests-Chicago
The characters are types of men and
women met daily in that great business
whirl, the operators, the confidential
men and women, in fact everyone con-
nected with the stock exchange and
packing interests are faithfully por-
trayed in the wonderful play of a. truly
American nature. The central figure
of the play is a character drawn from
the life of the one-time king of the
packing industry, P. D. Armour, sr.
The character portrays all the ster-
ling merits of this great operator, his
business methods, his wonderful in
sight into human nature, his handling
of men, his hard stern nature, as well
as the softer side of the man, his
rough awkward tenderness, his love,
his charity.
The part of John Canton will be
played by Harry North. The part of
May Heating will be played by Miss
Russell, while Mr.. Spurrier will appear
as the son, Will Canton. The balance
of the company are in congenial roles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24

parlor piano, that won't want to hear
Howard.
In millions of parlors in America,
may be found Howard's songs; when
ever a worried business man begins
to hum an air: whenever country
boy whistles home along the dark
road: whenever an orchestra, in a
cafe, a ball room or an ocean liner
answers an encore, the chances are,
the tune will be born in the tune
filled brain of Howard. Never a one
of his musical comedies has been a
failure: one of the songs, 81 Wonder
Who's kissing Her Now" reached the
pianos in half a million American
homes, not counting the ones that were
loaned among the neighbors.
Here are some of the songs with the
names of musical comedies, written by
Howard, that are likely to take the
lead in the list of requests:
''I'n Be Your Honey When It's
Moonlight from Miss Nobody From
Starland;' "Honeymoon HONEYMOON,
from 1.-The Time, The Place and The
Kid from 1.-THE Girl Question: You
Look Awfu1ly Good to Father" from
1.-The Umpire;'' 81 Think I Hear a
Woodpecker Knocking at My Family
Tree from 1.-THE Golden Girl" IT'S
AwfulIv Lonesome from THE Isle of
Bong;'' you're My Jolly Old Jack
O'Lantern,'' from The Flirting Prin-
cess" 81 Don't Want a Million Dol
lars" from Honeymoon Trail" IF
All Moons Were Honeymoons." from
''The Goddess of Liberty and whats
the Use of Dreaming ?" from 1.-THE
District Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
Crawford EMPLOYEES to Have Dinner.

Crawford Employees to Have Dinner.
L. NJ. and Roy Crawford will give
a dinner for the employees of their
three Topeka theaters at $50 o'clock
this afternoon upon the stage at the
Grand opera house. Members of the
North Brothers Stock company and
the vaudeville performers at the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24

opera and go on a Russian concert
tour.
Charles Cherry will make his debut
in musical comedy in 1.-THE Balkan
Princess" playing the role of Duke
Sergius when the Shuberts produce the
new work in New York in January.
Hanlon's "Superba" viii be one OF
the January attractions at the Acad-
envy. Another old favorite to be seen
early in the new year will be Rose
Melville in her well known character
ization of isis Hopkins
Homer Lind's tabloid version OF
'"Tales of Hoffman has proved so sue
cessful that the actor has been en-
gagged for England and the continent
for term of two years following his
American engagements.
Rose Stahl will play her farewell
performance of Patricia O'Brien in
''The Chorus Lady, at Jersey City
January Z. Rehearsals for her new
play, Maggie Pepper" will begin the
first week of January.
Mrs. John T. Craven, widow of the
well known comedian, died last week
in New York Mrs. Craven had re-
turned to the stage after her husbands
death. but had been i'll for some
months. AS an actress Mrs Cravens
did exceptional character work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
One Mdy
Overcome

constipation permanently by proper
personal cooperation with the bene-
fetal effects of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of SIENNA, when required. The
forming of regular habits is most i'm
portant and while endeavoring to
form them the assistance of Syrup of
Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is most val
liable, as it is the only laxative which
acts without disturbing the natural
functions and without facilitating and
it is the one laxative which leaves the
internal organs in naturally healthy
condition, thereby really aiding one in
that way. To get its beneficial effects,
buy the genuine manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only, and for
sale by all leading druggists. Syrup
of Figs and Elixir of SIENNA is never
Slassed by the well-informed with
medicines which make extravagant
and unfounded claims to cure habitual
constipation without personal coop
Grafton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
At the Majestic.
At the Novelty.

North Brothers Stock company in
'The Great John Canton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24

Novelty theater will be present as in
vited guests. About one hundred will
be present in all.
New Theater Has Anniversary.
The founders of the New theater,
which is just a year old, were the hosts
at an anniversary banquet in New
York Thursday night. The list of
diners included such names as Rev.
Lyman Abbott, J. P. Morgan, Judge
E1bert H. Gary, John Jacob Aston,
Henry w Taft, George AIDE, Daniel
F'rohman, Lee Schubert, A. l.. Erlang-
er, John Luther Long, Henry Arthur
Jones, Paul Morton, Walter Dam
rosch, Richard Davis, George M. Co
han. Colonel George w. Harvey, Ben
Greet, John Corbin and Frank Mum
sey.
Henry w Taft. brother OF the presi-
dent, was the principal speaker.
Like many other New Workers, "
he said. 81 used to feel a sort of i'm
patience in going to theater expect
ing to enjoy some form of dramatic
art, only to find that it was all red
lights or business of one kind or an
other.
"Going to a theater, I felt at times
like a 12-year-old nephew of mine
when he went to his fathers Inaugural
ton. He took a copy of Stevenson s
Treasure Island with him because he
qualify as a nexpert, but I think that
should be to give pleasure in clean,
dignified manner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24

In speaking of Miss Leona Wat
son, who comes here Monday,
matinee and night, in "The Col
den Girl Madame Qui Vive, the
beauty doctor and we'll known writer
for the Chicago Record-Herald wom-
ans section. said:
''At the first sight one says she is
not pretty. but as you watch her
move about, as you hear her speak,
as you notice the slender grace of a
frail little figure and when, later on
you hear wonderfully sweet voice.
then develops an exquisite beauty
that grows and charms one. Miss Wat
son is delightful study. She has the
beauty that is fascinating, that is
filed with the delicacy and spirit, that
belongs to another world"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
THEATRICAL ne VS.
Mrs. Leslie Carter Organizing to
Boycott Foreign Play.
Has Been at Work on Idea All
Through Summer.
DON'T EVEN PAY DUTY.
Managers Look Abroad, SWOOp-
ina Down on Best Product.
Imported Offerings Are Blamed
for Showing of Vulgarity.
DON'T EVEN PAY DUTY,
COMING ATTRACTIONS.
At the Grand

December 26-"The Golden Girl. -
December 31-''The Goddess of Lib
erty.''
January 2-"The Climax"
January 6-"Beverly of Graustark.' -
January Margaret Ellington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24

Mile BronisIawa Pajitzkaia. first solo
danseuse of the Imperial Russian Ballet,
brought to this country by Anna Paw
.owa and MikaI Mordkin, is a splendid
ype Of the graduate of the Marinsky
institute, Russia's famous national acad-
envy of choreography,. which, for nearly
\ century, has educated the greatest
dancers of the world.
Her ready wit and charming person
atty have proved no small factor In
bringing about her success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
Howard to Sing own Songs.

Joseph E. Howard, the former Law
renee, Kan, boy now starring in 1.-THE
Goddess of Liberty" is going to sing
his own songs this year. Maybe the
old folks of Listen to the Mocking-
Bird days won't appreciate this an
nouncement, but there isn't Il youth
or maiden. who ever sang around a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24

Novelty theater will be present as in
vited guests. About one hundred will
be present in ALL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-24
Dr.. Pierce'S FaVOrite Prescription

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THE ONE REMEDY which contains alcohol
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get it. Don't take substitute of unknown composition
No counterfeit is good as the gen
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