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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
KELLEY is NAMED.
Takes Badders' Place as Chairman
Merchants Association.

J. Will Kelley will succeed George
5 Badders as chairman of the Mer-
chants association of Topeka. The
resignation of Mr.. Bidders was ac-
cepted and the choice of a man to fill
his place was made at a meeting Of
the finance committee of the associa-
ton held at the Commercial club this
noon.
We are planning an enlargement Of
the Merchants association said Mr.
Kelley after the meeting. Every
business man in the city regardless OF
the character or volume OF his bust
ness should feel that it is his duty to
DO his part in bearing the expense in
CURED by the numerous conventions
Brought to Topeka each year through
the Commercial club and the Mer-
chants association.
The bulk OF the burden at the pres
ent time is borne by the 40 merchants
OF the association. They should not
have to bear this enormous expense.
There should be an effort made to
interest every man engaged in bust
mes no matter what the character of
that business to bear his proportion
of this expense.
By all merchants and business
men joining hands big things could
be accomplished for Topeka
"A great amount of benefit, direct
and Indirect" said George w. Crane,
who was present at the meeting,
comes from the good will of the peo-
pie when they are fittingly entertain
ed here, and not the least of the fea-
lures that make a good impression
are the automobile rides
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
HUnOR or TIE Day

How long to you expect to remain
away this summer
I'm figuring on about three engage
ments and four preposals.-Detroit Free
Press.
Hank Stubbs-Seems quite citified 70
see SO many us them auty-mobi4es tiyln
Bige Mnler-wish. they'd hof up long
enough SOS / could git this durn corn
patch hoed out-Boston Herald.
Mrs. Baker-How can you afford TO pay
81 to ioin the village card club?
Mrs Rarker-BecauSe, then don nave
to pay So for the village newspaper
Life.
whats your trade, old pal?''
"Don't can me old pail! AS to your
question, l am gentleman
oh / see. On your vacation now en-!
Cleveland Leader.
what in the world have you got that
bill framed up there for?" We asked
sOh, that" sighed the billiona1re, is
the only dollar l ever earnedi
1--WE understood. Puck
Have your" inquired the city visitor;
go moss-covered bucket about the place.
mo. sir answered the farmer All
our utensils are sterilized and strictly
ga nitary.''-Kansas City Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
WILL FIGHT RECALL.
Tho President Is Strong for an Gun
trammeled Judiciary"

Chicago, Oct. 2S.-In his talk at
the luncheon of the Chicago Bar as
ISOLATION, President Taft reiterated
his ideas against the recall of the ju-
dietary. He denied that it had re-
uuired any special courage to veto
the statehood bills of Arizona and
New Mexico as such action was only
a plain judicial duty Neither was
the veto an act of tyranny he said. for
congress had passed a provision that
virtually sustained the veto, which
was meant to apply only to the re-
call feature of the constitution.
L wrote my heart into the veto of
the statehood bill that allowed the
recall of judges and l will never fail
to fight for a free and untrammeled
judiciary" he declared with feeling
in closing.
Among those who accompanied
President Taft to North Chicago to
dedicate the naval training station at
Lake Bluff were Secretary Won L.
Meyer, Secretary of the Interior Fish
er and Senator Perkins of California.
The school cost $1,000, 900. The sta
ton, which is to be the federal train
ing base of the great lake covers 1872
acres and includes 80 buildings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
GLOBE SIGHTS.


From the Atch1SOn GlODe-1
No one seems to need new umbrella
until it rains
Prophets. generally, should look for a
better excuse for loafing.
a happy-go-lucky man isn't always
useful at supporting a family
So many great men get over it shortly
after the last sad rites
Most of the grand opera voices prob
ably are in grand opera or Italy-
Neither is a mass meeting frequently
as massive as the words might suggest
It doesn't take a baseball player long
to get old and open up pool hall
You may have observed that the de-
fensive fighter gets whipped pretty often.
Asking them to go your bail is not a
very good general rule Tor keeping
And it may be said of the statesman of
the future that he began lie as BOY
Scout.
children have a lot of luck; in many
nlaces they aren't allowed to 1--we in flats.
Killing q successful rival seems to be
about the sIowest way to regain a girls
affections.
Probably the woman with thick coat
of powder hates to sweat worse thah
There are we observe. numerous ways
of keeping cabbage, but they interest uS
not at all.
While duck hunter may get up as
early as farmer does, he doesn't make
occasionally there is man who loves
his wife we'll enough to call his mother
in-laW mother"
one can't joy ride on a manure spread
err but in many ways it is more useful
q automobile.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28

Isador Loewy. formerly "a rabbi but
in late years employed as police court
interpreter hurried into high court In
a state of perplcxity.
Does anybody here know how 20
feed a carp2" he asked a court attend
ant.
What's a carp?" asked the attend
ant
IT'S a fish," answered Loewy, land It's
fine. Three pounds IL weight. My wife
she bought three carp at the market
and brought them home. One was alive
and I put it in the bath tub. The
other two 1 ate.
Il don't want that fish to die. In
eight days I viii eat him. but not be-
fore, and l want him to live and grow
fat"
Where are you going to keep IL al
this timer" was asked.
I'm the bath tub. sure. Where elsef"
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LOCAL MENTION.


The committee OF 1907 OF the Men ana
Religion movement VIII hold seven meet
ings sunday DR.. E, S. Pettyiohn. Prof.
ming and Tom Williamson will speak at
Holton. Irwin Keller and F. NJ. Bowman
d. o. Coe J. X Wiley and W. -. Wood
ward win be the team TO speak at the
Evangelical Lutheran church. Jesse
Shaw and S. Z. Cobb will talk at hta
Oakland Presbyterian church. ID. H.
Brannaman. Robert Heinsleman and Dr.
W. W. Yates viii go TO the Oakland Al.
+. church.
Crystal theater Sunday p. m. lecture
on Socialism, free TO everyone, by $.
NJ. S.allard
The jury in the case of J. II. Barge
this afternoon returned verdict for the
plaintiff for $50 II was the second time
the case mas been tried IN the Shawnee
county courts
J. NJ. Galloway Is selling choice shrubs
and peonas for fall planting. The stock
Is very good and the prices low. Ind.
2732-tsing 2.
Commercial club" said George S. Bad
ders today, AN entirely new spirit has
been created which has been felt all over
the state as shown by the feeling at the
banquet given by the club TO the mem
bers of the legislature. OF course 1
don't mean to take the credit for this.
bttf in my mind the creation Of this snirit
is one OF the big things the club has
done There is a different feeling ex-
is now in better shape to handle big
things"
Lowest prices on framing. Coe Bros.
cut Rate Art Co, SzS Kansas avenue.
Price Payton, an express messenger. was
arrested on a state warrant today. charged
with the robbery Of G. ". Dreamer, a
resident of Oklahoma, who lost 500 while
stopping in Topeka to hunt a few drinks
OF whisky. Payton was official guide for
Creamer on the scouting expedition and
somewhere along the route Creamer lost
his roll of currency.
Il have great expectations Tor the fu-
ture of the Commercial club" said re-
firing secretary. Ceorge S. Baddcrs. today.
Il have plan in mind which I win sug-
gest the first Of the week which II adopt
ed. feel will put the organization ON q
lasting basis
Homeopathic physician wanted NJ
Dodge City. Kan. to take Office OF Dr.
II. WhitWorth. who wishes to retire
Office equipment at terms 70 suit pur-
chaser.
A. A. Hyde Of Wichita, the "Menthoia-
turn king" was in Topeka at "a meeting
v. M. C. A. held Friday night and asked
the committee to plan a publicity cam
paign in the interests Of the association
In Kansas, stating that he would defray
the expenses OF the same.
Rollo w. White. lately with the Clipper
Windmill company and at one time super
intendent OF the loss department OF the
Shawnee Fire Insurance company, has
purchased the Auto Tire & Nulcanizing
Works. 1916 East Tenth avenue. white
has purchased big new line of materials
and win open up for business Monday
morning
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
KANSAS COMAENT
AZ TEE REGINNING

Praise is freely extended to the Women's
christian Temperance Union of this state
end; the marrying end. Trouble and evil
must have a beginning. and the trouble
Mnicn causes divorces too often begins
with lIl-Judged marriages 1t is no sacril-
eye to say that God hasn't anything to
90 with some of the unions sanctioned by
some preachers and justices of peace.
mere Is nothing divine in romance
winch breaks up the honeymoon in a row,
and there are plenty of marriages which
shouid nave been prevented by law or an
elm club. Not all such end in divorce. al
though divorce may be the best thing that
can happen to them, and seems, therefore,
less an evil than the marriage which
STARTED IT, and in which the bride never
looked more beautiful and the groom wore
conventional black in front of a bank of
ferns.
Therefore most people will agree that
marriage laws should be more strict that
1ne oepraved and unfit may not wed.
some states have passed good laws, but
tney cannot become as effective as they
should until they are uniform throughout
the country 1t is such an easy matter to
cross the state line that such laws are
now eHectlVe largely in increasing the
revenue of the railroad company, and
teachlng neWlyWedS the bad system of
spending their money away from home.
but no law even good law, is entirely
effectiye, as Hon. Dawson will admit Re
form, IN great measure is like CHARITY
and has to begin at home If it would get
good start and be effective. Prudish
parents who allow children to grow up in
ignorance of simple facts of sex. to gain
their knowledge from the gutter or other
unWhoiesone sources, should answer for
a good deal of the divorce evil. Mothers
anxious to marry off, their daughters
ana not too particular about who's who or
why, also help some to make bad matter
worse.
In our complicated civilization, few
other problems are so readily tackled In
blissful ignorance as this matter of mar
riage, and the wonder is that not more of
them go wrong and to Reno or other
marts OF lightning change. Education has
always had something on law in this mat
lead.-Atchison Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
FEARED FOR BROTHER.
Mrs. August IxIinge Warned Krietcr to
Guard His Life.

Aberdeen, S. D., Oct. est was 10
O'Clock this morning when both sides
in the Kreiter case finally concluded
the introduction of evidence and the
arguments of the attorneys began. L.
7. Vanslyke, formerly states attorney.
made the first argument which was
concluded just before court adjourned
for noon recess. The case probably
will go to the jury late this evening.
A startling bit of evidence intro
duced late yesterday was the reading
OF letter from Mrs. August Klinge Of
Topeka, sister of Philip krieter. writ
ten the day before he was killed. and
reaching Hecla after the murder, in
which she warned him to be on his
guard as she believed Eva May had
married him for his money and would
do him harm, if opportunity occurred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
Wanted-Onc Germ seed.

II Mr. Burbank or any other horti-
cultural wizard has a "one germ beet
seed" concealed on his premises or
person he can exchange If for stacks
OF yellow dollars by applying TO the
American Beet Sugar Association.
Thousands of farmer investigators
throughout the country and scores OF
scientific students in the Department
OF Agriculture are now on a hunt for
the. cius.ve seed and. although 81 "a
freely predicted that lit will be found
some me- the hour seems as Instant
now as VIXEN the first beet was sliced
up end it's juice converted into sugar.
1T may surprise the average reader
to know that the sugar beet raisers are
obliged to plant something like 1000
beet seeds to bring "a single plant TO
maturity said one of the scientists In
the bureau OF plant industry OF the De
partment of Agriculture. 1T is de-
pic rabIe fact. however. and because of
the great waste Of time and seed that
is thereby made necessary. the cost Of
producing sugar beets is largely in
creased. If we could find the one
germ seed. nearly half the work ia
raising sugar beets could be saved.
When the farmer plants almost any
other standard seed ia soil fitted for
It's cultivation, he is moderately GER
tain OF welcoming plant OF the
species desired within q reasonable
time. Not so with the sugar beet seed.
In handful of seed there may be one
or TWO germs that viii produce first
class plants. a dozen or so that will
bring forth passabie beets. and another
dozen that VIII be responsible Tor
weaker plants. The other 800 or more
seeds do not come up at all. So. ir
order to make certain OF "A crop, ths
beet farmer sows his seed thickly in
rows
After the beets come up. men &c
through the field with hoes and destroy
about half the plants by ruthlessly
digging out spaces the width OF "a hoe
blade every or 10 inches. leaving. 10y
this process. little clumps Of plants az
regular intervals. These remaining
plants are left to grow for a few days.
and then. when they have reached
size sufficient to allow the men to dis
tinguish between the sturdy and the
weak, all are pulled up except the
strongest individual in a bunch This
Is left to come to maturity. being care
fully cultivated and weeded from time
to time only by resorting to this ex-
pensive and labOrious process can the
farmer assure himself OF a good crop;
so it Is little wonder that every one in
terested in the sugar beet-farmer.
factoryman. and consumer-wouid
welcome the discovery OF the one-rerm
seed. Washington dispatch to Brook
Ign Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
DEATHS AND FUNERALS.

The body of Mrs. L. c. Hodge, who
died yesterday, will lie in state Sun
day until the hour of the funeral at
the home at 1401 Lincoln street. The
funeral viii be held at 2:3O o'clock.
Burial in Mount Hope cemetery.
The funeral of Albert Kistler. who
shot himself last night, viii be held
from the home of his mother. Mrs.
street. Monday at o'clock. The body
will lie in state at the Shellabrager
establishment from 1 to 3 o'clock sun
day. Burial in Rochester cemetery.
Ernest Nyquist, aged 3 months, the
son of Fred Nyquist, First and Buch-
anan streets, died of Group last even
months ago. The funeral was held
from the Shellabarger establishment
at 1880 o'clock this afternoon. Burial
in Topeka cemetery
John William, colored. aged 46,
died of apoplexy Thursday afternoon
at his home at 1902 Fillmore street.
The body will be sent to Perry to-
morrow morning for burial.
The body of Mrs. Jennie p. Baird.
who died Friday at Manhattan. is to
be taken to Valencia for burial The
Baird family moved from Valencia
only a year ago for the purpose Of
educating the young members at K. $.
A. c. Mrs. Baird was s. years old
and is survived by several grown chill
dren Short funeral services were held
at Manhattan. The surviving husband,
B. w. Baird. is one of the old citizens
of Dover township and is a wealthy
farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
Dead on tIle IlIoor.

Chicago, Oct. 2S.-What the p5iice
say was a murder with many features
which they were unable to explain was
revealed today when the nude body If
Blanche Dow was found on the floor
of her room in a downtown hotel. The
room was upset, furniture broken and
the young Woman's hair torn down.
giving evidence of a struggle. There
were wounds on the body and both
doors and windows of the room were
locked. The police believe Miss Dow.
who was about &c years old. was an
actress. Several valuable jewels on
her fingers were not disturhed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28

Don't be gutter. We know a young
man who finds it extremely difficult to
get JOB. 1t is all because he has the
reputation of being a f'quitter." So long
as his job is new novel to him he works
bithely and well. But as soon as the new
ness has worked off he thinks that some
thing else would suit him better quits
and goes job hunting. There are two
things that are beginning to surprise him.
One is that so many fellows he knows are
no smarter than he, always find work.
the other is that there are so many who
do not care to hire him. He has yet to
learn that the sticlSer is in demand, while
the gutter is taken as Jack in pinch"
Sterling Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
REFLECTIONS or a BACHELOR.
prom the New York Press.I

TFrom the New York Press.I
Cold reason is a poor stimulant for ar
lection.
man can lie to people without ever
realizing they are doing it to him.
The reason a girl is so sure to be able
to fool a man is he's so sure she can't.
All women have faith enough for long
endurance; few men have endurance
enough for long faith
The time a man begins to fear for the
future of his country is when he fears
he is going to lose job in the election
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
WILL GIRLS NEVER GET wIsEq

Not long since young wife was seen
leading her husband along one of the
streets of Parsons. He was so soused
that he could not navigate alone. Before
she was married, the young woman had
good position and was earning very
comfortable living which she gave up to
become the wife of the booze fighter. She
knew that he was a booze fighter before
she married him, but had the fool notion
that she could reform him. It seems that
there will always be women who cannot
understand the self evident fact that if a
fellow won't reform in order to get the
game he certainly viii not after he has
it trapped. -Muscotah Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
CASHIER RELEASED.
Henry c. Coll of Milwaukee Is Out
on Parole.

Leavenworth. Kan. Oct. 2S.-Hen-
~ G. Coll, former cashier of the Mil
waukee National bank wrecked by
Frank G Bigeiow, was released from
the federal prison here today on pa
role.
He entered the prison on May 10.
1906 to serve a sentence of ten years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28
FROM OTHER PENS
PLENTY OF LAND

Census figures show great increase in
value of farm lands. Current reports as
sert reduced supply of farm products COM
pared with increased demand resulting
from growth of population. Pessimists
prophesy the coming of a time when our
country Will be unable to feed its own
people These seerS of disaster tell us
that the supply of land for productive
purposes is being exhausted.
A ready answer to such gloomy proDhe-
cies is found in conditions in the south
Indeed, all over the country anything
like proper conservation of land resources
will result in plentiful supplies of the
needs of many times the population we
now have. The adequate cultivation of
the vacant lots in our large cities would
furnish enormous supply of garden
truck But the south furnishes facts and
conditions to upset the widest and most
gloomy prophecies of the pessimists.
Take the case of the state-Louisiana-
for illustration. Louisiana has an area
of approximately %. O00 coo acres Only
about 100000 of those acres are under
cultivation Farmers on those 5000, 600
acres prosperous; the planters are
wealthy. With proper clearing. draining
and cultivation, the remaining millions of
acres would produce crops. acre for acre,
as plentiful and valuable as those grown
the comparatively small area now Gull
tivated- And the state government and
people of Louisiana are ready to welcome
farmers and farmers families.-Chicago
Journal.
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A FLOOD TIDE IN BOOKS.

There is a stir in the world of books
According to some Of the publishers, the
long drouth in the production of readable
fiction is broken at last, and, beginning
with the present fall, a good book is being
born every minute A spirit is brooding
over the world of letters. A Bay of
Fundy tide of literary activity, it is said,
is coming in, and with it newborn public
interest in books of fiction, thirst for
romance and intrigue, society and politics,
agreeably mixed by a master mixer.
Whatever the reason, it is a fact that
for the last four years very few novels of
Importance have been produced. The most
popular, and presumably, therefore. the
ablest, novelists in the country have been
conspicuously idle in these years. Whether
they stopped writing after 1907 because
the people stopped reading, or whether
they just got tired, ran out of ideas and
industry at the same time and quit. leav-
ing a literary public literally furnishing
for something to read, it is difficult to
say.
But, what is more to the purpose this
first year in the second decade of the new
century is seeing, according to the pub
fishers, most promising revival of let
tiers. The long sluggish story weavers
have returned to the spindle and are turn
ing out their most attractive patterns.-f
New York Times.
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DIED IN THE LINE or DUTY.

Admiral Murdoch, commander of the
Philippine station, has reported to the
War Department, that Ensign e. c. Ho-
vey, who was killed by natives September
"a .sdied in the line of duty
There is no nobler epitah. More famous
may die more noble deaths. Their
going hence may move the world more
greatly. They may leave a void more DIFF
ficult to fill But of them and their whole
careers no finer thing can be thought or
said or cut in lasting marble than this
that was said of Ensign Hovey-that has
been said of thousands of American Off
GERS and soldiers and sailors-that will be
said of thousands in the days to come:
He died in the line of duty
All the idle talk of peace sentimental
lists, all the attempted depreciation of the
sailors and the soldiers task. all the
froth of foolish minds about the lust and
excitement of battle, seem cheap and
tawdry beside that single line Men who
were willing to die in the line of duty
made this republic free. Men who were
willing to die in the line of duty kept il
united. Men who are willing to die in the
line of duty must keep 1t great. There is
no other way. And whether they give the
last full measure of devotion" on wars
red field or in camp and hospital or in
the jungle where the savage Moro waits
his victim, the sacrifice remains the same
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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,ies,hWnlie' the young proprietor.
without Knowing whether he was %,
Ing to get the paper or not, was call,.d
TO Kansas City to preside over a NEE
ing Of Associated Press papers in Kan
Sas ana Missouri. He had been 1-i..c
President of the organization. as ~
president George W. Reed. had g
signed when the paper was sold lasS--
Ing the vice president the nr,siS5j,',-
onicer. The writer was hardly eligifis
70 re-eIeetlon as vice president or an
other office unless he was connaC4sgl
with some newspaper. ~
50, he had arranged with Mr. f.laaa
70 transfer the property to him Me-
Lehman by telephone to kansas CO
me ASSOCIATED Press meeting was fin
ed Tor 2 o'clock and the appoinfne11+
over the telephone at 1:S0. III eie
Here is the little telephone oor-
versation OF thai day: CON
Gleed. in Topeka: rs this vo,,
Frank ," you,
MacLennan. in Kansas City: Yes.
Gleed in Topeka: For 81 90 sna
other valuable consideration I here re-
hT transfer and set over to vo,, ~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28

The editor of this paper is not
candidate for any political office. APP
pointive or elective. He will say, how
ever, he was recently chosen to the