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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
HID in CONFESSIONAL.
EIeven-Year-Old Girl in That Manner
Escaped Abductors.

New York, Feb. IAN 11-year-old
girls story of her escape from kidnap-
ers by hiding behind the curtains of
the confessional in a Brooklyn Catholic
church, set dozen New York detectives
early today on a hunt for the head
quarters of a gang of Italians who are
believed to have tried to abduct her.
The girl, Marie Coleman, is the daugh-
ter of a well to do Brooklyn manufac-
turer. She was found in one of the
confessional boxes of the st. MichaePs
Roman Catholic church shortly before
midnight by the pastor, The Rev. Faith
er William McGuirl.
Between hysterical sobs, the little girl
told the priest that she had hidden in
the confessional at 6 o'clock in the ev-
ening, after having run away from two
men who had tried to kidnap her and
that she had not dared to come out
of her place of refuge.
After Father Meg uirl had quieted the
little girl, she told a very clear story
of how. when she had come out OF
school man had lured her to dis
tant section by telling her that her
mother was i'll and in a strange house.
Subsequently this man had been join
ed by another and they had taken
Marie over a route which she remem-
bered so perfectly that the police be-
lieved they can locate the place.
The men stopped at a yellow house,
DuC almost before she WdS 11lS100 Tic
door, Marie became suspicious. She
ran screaming down the street, and al
though the pair caught her and started
back with her, she struggled loose
again and ran several blocks to the
church. With the man close behind,
she lodged in through the open door
and hid in the darkened interior.
The priests discovery of the hidden
girl was by accident. At 10 o'clock
Father McGuirl entered the dark church
alone to pray. During the course of
his devotions, he thought he heard Sob
bling. He made a casual search of the
church, but found nothing and went
back to the rectory. But after he went
to bed, he could not sleep. The con-
viction that somebody in distress was
locked in the church persisted and he
arose about midnight and dressed him
self. A second time he went into the
church.
After some minutes spent in search,
he pushed aside the curtains of one OF
the confessional boxes and there IN
the dim light cast by the lantern, saw
a little girl lying with her head on
bundle of school books. She was dazed
and sobbed Historically. The priest took
her into the rectory and after he had
comforted her to some extent, got her
story and reported it to the police.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
POST OF HONOR
Is Assigned to Sir Martin in Handbags
of the City and Suburban.

New York, Feb. Sir Martin is the
best horse in training on the British
turf, according to the estimates of the
English handicappers They have as
signed him the post of honor in the
handicaps, for which weights were an
nounced January g. He is the top
weight in the City and Suburban, Vic
toria cup, and Great Jubilee. In the
City and Suburban. one mile and a
quarter, his impost is 1872 pounds and
he gives six pounds to Bachelors
Double, and nine to that veteran per-
former Dean Swift. Eis stable COM
panion, Dalmatian, the best of the
American 3-year-olds of 1910, is equally
weighted with Mustapha and Bronzino
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
OWEN VISITS new YORK
Says He Is Trying to Sow Seeds of
Good Government.

New York, Feb. limited States
Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma
is in New York. 'for the purpose as
he says, "of trying to sow a few seeds
of good government" His opening
effort in this direction, an attack on
Senator Lorimer of Illinois. and de-
tense of the initiative and referendum,
was an address at the West Side Y.
M. c. A. last night.
eff places can be bought on the
floor of the senate" said Senator
Owen, cit is obvious that the govern
ing powers can be bought for money,
and we will then have a government
of money over men. The humanitar-
ian interests are overriden and the
commercial and special interests pre-
vail
1.-The doctrines of progressive gov
eminent, of popular rule with the
power of government in the hands of
the people, of which the three cardi-
nal elements are the initiative and
referendum and the recall, have swept
the states west of the Mississippi riv-
err, and will prevail in the other states.
We are confronted with conditions
which mean either governmental con-
troll of monopolies and a restoration of
competition or a reign of socialism.
We can restore the power of govern
ment to the hands of the people only
by doing away with the machine poll
ticians in both parties
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
KNEW HIM AFTER 40 YEARS.
Topekan Met School-boy Friend al
Ottawa, Recognizing Him.

ottawa, Kan, Feb. Joe, you
old rapscallion, how are you, and
how's the old swimmin' hole?"
The man addressed as joe" turned
from a desk window of a local bank.
this morning, to see a waving hand ex-
tended in a friendly manner.
"Curley, by ginger!" he calculated;
there was a spasmodic clutch of two
hands and a warm shake.
j. N. Harrison of Topeka and JOS
eph Miller. late OF Pittsburg, Pa. had
not met in forty years. They had
been school boy chums back yon-
der"
''How did I know him? '' said Cur
ley explaining, why the critter quit
CROWN old a hundred years ago.
Mr. Miller has located at LeLoup
and will make a home with his sister,
Mrs. ]. T. Kyle of that place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
WHAT MARTLING SAYS.
Why Manager of Wichita Theater
Brought Dancers Suit Here.

Wichita, Kan, Feb. Manager E.
L. Martling of the Crawford theater
when he returned from Kansas City
and when seen at his Office said:
'I see that in my absence it has
been stated that Mr.. Crawford and L
We're trying to stop the performance
of the Russian dancers at the Forum;
that I went to Topeka to get an injunc-
tion to stop them.
This is absolutely untrue. We had
no idea or intention of interfering with
the performance or marring the pleas
ure of Wichita people in the opening
of the Forum. In fact, I went to To-
peka at extra expense and brought suit
against the management of the Rus
sian dancers, especially to avoid caus-
ing any trouble at their performance
in Wichita. Had we intended to inter-
fere in the opening of the Forum we
should have done so when the city, by
giving the Walker WhiteEide company
a big guarantee, induced them TO
break their contract with us for their
appearance at the Crawford, and for
which the Whiteside company settled
with us.
US was made in New York on October
IL for their appearance at the Craw-
ford January 27. They broke their
contract with US and refused to settle.
''They owed us damages for doing so
and we were compelled to bring suit
against them. The papers in this suit
were out and served before the injunc-
ton papers were served in Topeka,
which shows for itself that we had no
idea of applying for an injunction.
''There is not a bigger booster for
Wichita nor a person who likes Wich-
tia people better than 1 do, but if the
city having put $4,000 into equipping
stage is going into the show bust
ness in competition with the $4,000
modern theater we are building, the
city will find the show business is not
all fun and amusement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
KANSAS CREW WON A REGATTA
A Wireless Message From Admiral
Schroeder Gave News of Fleet.

Washington, Feb. IA wireless
message has been received here from
Admiral Schroeder, commanding the
Atlantic fleet at the Guantanamo bat
tie practice.
The victors in the fleet regatta were
the Kansas, which won the jamestown
cup; the Mississippi, which won the
Havana cup, the San Pedro cup, the
Dunlap cup and the Pensacola cup !;
the Georgia. which won the Batten-
burg cup; the Kansas, which won the
Belmont cup and the Drexel cup and
the Louisiana, which won the Duncan
cup.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
SCIENCE PREVENTS Badness
The Fatal Germ and It's Remedy Nov
Facts of Science.

The Fatal Germ and It's Remedy Now
Facts of Science.
It Is the rarest thing in the world
for a man to be necessarily bald. No
man whose hair is not dead at the
roots. need be bald if he will use
Newbro's Herpicide, the new scalp an
tiseptic. Herpicide destroys the germ
that cuts tho hair off at the root; and
cleans the scalp of dandruff and leaves
it in perfectly healthy condition. Mr..
Mannett, in thu Maryland Block, Butte,
Mont. was entirely bald. In less than
a month Hsrpicide had removed the
enemies of hair growth and nature did
its work by covering his head with
thick hair an inch long, and in six
weeks he had a normal suit of hair.
Sold by leading druggists. Send Zoe
In stamps for sample to The Herpfcide
Co., Detroit. Mich.
One Dollar Bottles Guaranteed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
GIVES UP r. A. Y. e. CARS.
Toronto Street Railway Company Sur
renders to Popular Clamor.

Toronto, Feb. 7-After having gone
through a riot and faced continued
criticism aimed at it's pay as you en-
ter cars, the Toronto Street Railway
company has surrendered and con-
scented to give up it's attempt OF enforce
the "pay as you enter plan during the
rest of the winter.
The cars in use were a number OF old
cars, remodeled into pay as you enter
cars, which did not have many of the
features of the cars adopted in the
larger cities in the United States. No
provision was made to permit smoking
on the cars These inconvenience,
combined with some aversion to the
pay as you enter principle. caused tho
popular outcry against the new cars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
Illegal Stamp Sale Charged.

New York, Feb. IA c. Montrose,
the wealthy postmaster at Larchmont,
a fashionable New York suburb, is I'M
der suspension today pending action
by the postal authorities on complaints
alleging the improper sale of stamps
1t is a second class office. and the post
masters pay is governed by the gross
sale of stamps there. It is charged
that Montrose sold large quantities of
stamps to friends who used them in
their business in New York. This is
contrary to a departm ent regulation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
We wish to thank many friends an

We wish to thank many friends and
neighbors, also sisters and brothers of
the K. L. of s., the Royal Neighbors
and the Boilermakers of Marmath, N.
D.. for the beautiful floral offerings in
our sorrow and sad loss of our dear
sister, wife and daughter.-Mr. John
Neiswender, Mrs. T. J. Neiswender,
Mr.. Walter Mitts and family, Mrs
William Diehl and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Graft, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Vatterlin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
I.a1nv sets a New Mark.

saranac Lake, N. Y, Feb. Ed
mund Lamy, the amateur skating
champion, made a broad jump on the
ice here yesterday % feet 2 inches.
breaking the worlds record by 3 feet Z
inches. The worlds record, held by e.
McDaniels until now, was made at
Minneapolis December %, 1897, when
he made a broad jump of II feet 7
inches. Lamy and his brother start
for Rochester today to participate in
skating contests.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07

Gross III left for Metz at sos o'clock
this morning and at noon passed over
Hanau, heading in the direction OF
Frankfort n-the- Main. The airship
is being transferred from the Berlin
balloon sheds to Metz to make room in
the former for the dirigible Gross ~
which has just been completed and is
awaiting trial. The new air craft IS
344 feet in length and is expected to be
the speediest dirigible yet constructed,
being capable of making 40 miles an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
Carnso Gets New Contract.

New York, Feb. 1.-THE Metropoli-
tan Opera company announces that its
three-year contract with Enrico Ca
russo, the tenor, which expires this
spring, will be renewed On a basis of
81, 200 for each of approximately 100
performances a year. This is an adj
vance of $500 a performance over the
present contract.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
Marshall WiIder's Father Dead.

New York, Feb. DIR. Louis De
Valois Wilder, father of Marshall P.
Wilder, the humorist, is dead at his
home here of heart disease. He was rs
years old and had been actively en-
gagged in the practice of medicine in
this city for more than half a century
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
Life Saved Ar Deatb,s nc,r

s; W. Bends. of Coal city, Ala. has
gustlflable grievance. Two thieves stole
hds health for twelve years They were
q liver and kidney trouble. Then DR..
4King's New Life Pills throttled them.
hes hes vel now: Unrivaled for Constipa-
ton, Malaria, Headache Dyspensia sc.
Campbell Drug Co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
Council Grove votes Today.

Council Grove, kan, Feb. Council
Grove votes today on commission form
of government and will carry, probably
by a large majority. The new electric
light plant started here today and will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07

De an ali night system. The mower is
furnished by the Council Grove Light
q Ice company and the city has put
IN large number of new street lights
so that now every crossing in the main
part OF the city will be well lighted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07

In behalf of our dear sister. Della
Neiswender, we sincerely wish to thank
the brothers and sisters of the Chris
tan church and the many friends of
Topeka, Kan, who willingly showed
as their kindness and sympathy in the
hours of our great sorrow--Stella
Diehl, Springfield, ILL.,; j. W. Mitts,
Chicago. Ill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
School supt. Burned to Death.

WiIburton, Okla, Feb. Miss
Alice Fleming, superintendent of pub
lie schools of Latimore county was
burned to death here early today in a
fire which destroyed her home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
comedies one pound t

at 121. and comedies one pound to
Greenback.
In the Victoria Cup, seven furlongs
straight, Sir Martins weight is 1873.
Christmas Daisy, winner of last years
Cambridgeshire and a winner perform
er over the jumps, is rated next with
128. Dalmatian ranks next with 122
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
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New Dress I trimming
For Your New Spring Wea

VX 7HN the Dress Trimmings we have brought
w all selling you'll
unueness of patterns and coors striking than
have before
of
the Styles the
Oriental is markedly
Fashion strongly advocates beading and embroidery cob
different Brilliant
and other materials of like character of 6lminess.
Ball crocheted considered
rabe Beaded
Tailored Suit Made Entirely of Braid and Satin
Wide bads black white all
worlds designer
produced entire Tailored
tcular suit You cordially invited
o. to
of these Neo Trimmings that being displayed Window
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07

Gotha III Leaves for Metz.
Gotha, Duchy of xe-Coburg-G otha,
Germany Feb. THE dirigle balloon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07
state savings Bank.

Checking and commercial accounts
solicited. S. w. Cor. 9Th and Kan. ave.
The Irish standard., 1911-06-03
Definition Of. a Lady.

A little while ago an English paper
offered a prize for the best definition
of a lady. This lis the answer that
took the prize: ''To be lady means,
rightly, to be a gentlewoman who
shows by her every word and action
a sweet and gentle dignity, with a
gracious charm of manner; woman
whose heart is pure and true; who is
tender toward all suffering, who SYM
pathizes with those in trouble and is
every ready to give than which costs
her some effort and self-denial. A
lady thinks no work derogatory, and
no one is deemed too low to receive
courtesy and kindness. She is pure
and good in every detail in life, true
friend, and 'ministering angel in
sorrow and in sickness" Could any.
one give better answer?
The Irish standard., 1911-06-03
A Priest Inventor.

The celebrated Italian savant. Mgr.
Cerebotan, has presented to the
French scientific world three new in
ventions Of the create interest.
Among the numerous scientific per-
sonages who listened to explanations
OF the pontitical prelate and examined
the apparatuscs in the lecture hall of
the civil engineers, Rue Blanche, Par
is, were the representatives of the
French Ministers of posts and tele-
graphs, war and the marine. The most
important of the inventions concerns
wireless telpgraphy. Till now wireless
messages have always been received
by sound-that is to say, by the ear.
But Mgr. Cerebotani has invented an
apparatus like little writing machine
which prints wireless messages on
condition those messages are trans
mitted by similar little writing ma
chine. These, transmitting and re-
cclving apparatuses for wireless tele
grams can also be used on telephone
wires so that subscribers to the tele-
phone will be able to use the prelates
writing machines to receive and trans
NIT printed messages. The second ap-
, paratus shown by Mgr. Cerebotani is
contrived to enable the operator of a
The Irish standard., 1911-06-03
Tho Comic Supplement.

+ "One is glad to observe the growth
Sof sentiment in opposition to these
monstrosities. Men ana women every
where appear to be awakening to the
pernicious influence the comic sheet
section of Sunday newspapers must
necessarily exercise, says America.
One is especially gratifed to find
that the objections raised have to do
principally with its demoralizing ef-
feet upon children. Somehow. too
many parents pay no heed to the fact
that the child mind is easily impress
ed. They are careless, nay, Indifferent,
concerning what child reads so long
az It amused and interested. The
comic section does amuse, and unhap-
Il PLY. it does interest the child, feeding
sits imagination with conceits which it
would never think Of otherwise. But
B doing this, 1t unfortuna tely does more.
sIt vulsarizes thought, life and litera-
8ssture and it's influence upon the child
mind lis regularly such as to create a
\ peryerted taste for all that makes for
Refinement. Why do not the editors
spf sfhsse8 supplements recognize this
The Irish standard., 1911-06-03
ION TO RENO"
Special Divorce Car Carries Candi.
dates to Western City.

We find in the New York World.
under the headline Special Divorce
Car, New York to Reno" a descrip-
ton of the special accommodations de-
vised for men and women, who, after
treading 1.-The primrose path of dalli-
ance," are now bound Renoward to rid
themselves of the marital impediments
standing between them and their de-
sire Of taking a partner in life's Jour-
ney until they reach the next turn in
the road, when they may again put off
the old love to crafty some new
fancy, says New York F'reeman's
Journal.
AS one reads the special provisions
made by railroad company to ac-
commodate these contemners of the
sacredness of the marriage tie, one
finds himself repeating those opening
words of Cicero in his speech against
Catiline.
In contemplating the moral degen-
The Irish standard., 1911-06-03
WORST GOVERNMENT
And Vet the Costliest in the World Is
to Be Found in Ireland.

At a recent Home Rule demonstra-
ton in Edinburgh under the auspices
OF the Young Scots John Redmond was
the principal speaker. Referring to
the way Ireland is governed he said:
1--WE have had the worst and at the
same time the most costly Govern
ment in the world. Just think for
moment of the history of this ques-
ton. In 1900 our Parliament was
robbed from us by means which all
your historians and all political par
ties describe as mean-in Leckys
words: "Of the deepest turpitude."
That Parliament was six hundred
years old. 1t was coeval with the
Parliament of England, and during the
last years of that Parliament it had
established its absolute independence
under Grattan. We are told by Lecky
that these years of that Parliament
were the most prosperous in the his
tory of Ireland. Lord Grey, of that
SAaS, AsAA. l. iuaAASt, fhAANA q "ioAS AiSSS VI
the leading men of the time of all par
ties and both countries declared that
Ireland's revenue, trade and manufac-
lures during those years thrived be-
You'd any other country Of her extent
in the whole world. These words 1
read are the words of Lord Grey.
Y,Hs. ;o In
ruin of Ireland commenced. In sixty
years under that Union the people Of
Ireland went down by half. To-
day in the newspapers the statistics of
Ireland for the present year are pub
lished.
They show still that emigration Is
going on, that in the last year emigra-
ton has been bigger than in the year
before, and it is pointed out that from
May, 1851, to the end OF December,
1910, the emisrants from Ireland num-
bsa' A,l87,44S. So that in SIXTY years
Of rule from Westminster as many
people emigratsd from Ireland as the
entire present population of the land.
And what sort was the emigration ?
The figures published today show
that $50 of that emigration was Of
people between the ages Of fifteen and
thirty five. Do you wonder now that
there are more old people compare
lively to the population for Old Age
Pensions in Ireland than in England
But did these people who emigrated 20
to swell the power and glory Of the
Empire? No; 26.1 per cent of them
went to the United States and were
lost to the Empire.
The Irish standard., 1911-06-03
eracy produced by the divorce evil, we

eracy produced by the divorce evil, We
are justified in cxclaimng, What
times do we live in, and what corrup
ton of morals do we behold" Here
is a'picture painted for us that must
make even the most thoughtless stop
and consider. We quote from the New
York World:
Reno, Newt had been expected
that under the new 'time-lock' divorce
law, by which simply a physical resi-
dence of six months is required, Reno
would witness the arrival of divorce
seekers in punches, and that time has
come TO the Overland Limited on
the Southern Pacific Sunday morning
was attached an elegantly equipped
special private Pullman, occupied by
New York women, several OF whom
were accompanied by servants. The
limited was compelled to wait consid-
erably over the allotted time while the
large amount of baggage was unload
ed.
THE women had the car to them
selves all the way from New York. A
travelling man who arrived on the
same train says they lived high on
their trip across the continent.
II just came to Nevada to enjoy the
climate and see Reno is all any OF
them will say"
AS we fasten our gaze upon that
palatial car speeding its way west
ward, our thoughts revert to the ruin
ed homes from which it's occupants
are fleeing. The blow aimed at those
homes is likewise directed against the
welfare of our common country. One
divorce in every twelve marriages, is
the sickening record of marital inf
deity in the United States that stares
us in the face. The moral cancer, in
dicated by this proportion of divorces
to marriages, is sapping the real
strength of the country. Our material
wealth, even if it should be increased
thousand-f fold, will lie no offset to
the divorce evil that is destroying the
home, which is the very buwark of
the Nation.
The Irish standard., 1911-06-03
Songs Of Tonic.

Eet was an Irish Maggie
Dat catch my hearta rrst.
An max Get jomp eensida me
So like Get COMA burst.
Dough cen my breast was seengir
birds
My domba tongue was STEEL,
Baycause | had not Anglaice words
For tai her how | feel.
She's gon', for dat had not words
For tai her how | feel.
Now CONS Italian Rosa
For max me love her more.
Da leetla birds eensida me.
Seeing louder dan bayfore.
But O! l am so sadda man!
My domba tongue ees STEEL;
I have no words Italian
For tai her how I feel.
Not even words Italian
For tai her how I feel.
Tom Oaly