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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-08-18
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er, Captain Pete of Puget Sound. Zol-
linger, A Boys Ride; Zollinger, Rout
of the Foreigners.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-02
ORIGIN Of OUR CALENDAR
story Of the Year and IL Days, ~
Now Constituted, Told
Once More.

The Julian year consists Of 1854
days and exceeded by II minutes 1885
seconds tho solar year OF 366 dAYAb
hours 48 minutes As seconds. In
sequence Of this, the equinox In the
eourse q . fuW centuries ton back con-
Hd0rObly. In the time q Julius Cae-
Sar, It corresponded TO March IS.
and By the sixteenth century It had
Eekrogarded to March IL. It was at
this time that = physician O. Verona
Ramed Ghlraldi proposed . plan for
amending the calendar. He died be
fore he had opportunity to carry It
forward, but his brother presepted 1t
- Pope Gregory XIII. who assembled
. number Of learned men to discuss It
1t was passed upon favorably and
adopted. and thus was given to the
world what hAs since bO0n known as
the Gregorian calendar. In 1882 Greg
DRY Issued brief. apolishing the Julian
calendar In all Catholic countries. and
Introducing the reformed one.
The reform Of the Gsrgorian VI new
on the Julian or old, consisted ia
dropping ten days after October 4.
1859. 80 that the 18th was reckonsd
Immediately after the 4th. Every one
hundredth year, which, by the Odd style
was a leap year. was to be a common
year, the fourth century. Invisible by
four, excepted; that IL, 1900 was to re-
main a leap year, but 100. 1900 and
1900 we're not to be reckoned az such.
while 1000 was to be reckoned.
In this calendar the length of the
solar year IL taken to be 265 days
hours 40 minutes and IL seconds, the
difference between which AID the true
length is immaterial.-The Christian
Herald
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-02
MYSTERY OF THE UMBRELLA
Pittsbur9 shopkeepsr Wondered About
It for Many Days-SlmpIs,
After Al.

In the midst of O driving rainstopn
one day recently the owner of a small
store on a North side street corner
was startled by the violent opening OF
the door and the sound of rushing
teet. Hastily dropping the work she
was doing In the rear room. she bur
ned toward the front Of the store iusI
In tine to see the door slammed shut
and strange man running away 1t
toy speed. When she reached the
aeoE he had disappearodI but whsa
she turned to investigate she was
astonished to behold a handsome gold
handled silk umbrella. dripping with
moisture. lying on the showcase
surprise. alarm and complete mysti-
hcation were mingled. What possible
explanation could there be Of q strap
ger dashing into her place in the
midst OF a drenchins dovnpour. leav-
Ing his fns umbrella without . 9saHd
OF explanation. and rushing forth y
The rain without It?
The more she thought about II the
deeper grew tho mystery She re-
lated the Incident 70 her customers.
Not one Of them could offer a plausi-
Die solution. She finally concluded
the man was crazy. aDA she .elt FRO.
foundly thankful THAI he bad done r,
worse.
Then one day second stranger ap-
Peareo. He was almost as mysterious
~ the first. He produced a letter
AND handed 1t to tho storekeope- It
was dated Chicago and read:
Dear Tom: left your umbrella In
the little store at the corner near
your house. Just had time to grab
q car, 80 failed to explain TO store.
Keeper. Left 1t on showcase Hore
you recover It o. K"
We'll, ! declare" was all the little
storekeeper could gasp as she pro-
oncoc the umbrella How simple II
was. after all"-Pittsburg Gazette
Times.
Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-10-02
On tho shelf,

10 the married woman and IN tbo
spinster alike II Ia always a SHOCK 70
find that parties are being given To-
a younger set to which they are M,
oidden' Tor the realization that these
younger members OF society are clas.,
Ing them as "old" ia not aIto1ethar
pleasing. To the married woman Mi.
experience usually comes later than
to the unmarried, for she will bo
asked to young gatherings when a
splnster several years her Junior will
be omitted. Whether this ia becausa
hor husband Is still reckoned attroc.
Two, though married, or because q,
her utility as a chaperon, IA An oman
question. but the fact remaina ono
sp1nster lately confessed that for sev.
eral days after her first experience AZ
being left out OF a party she almost
pincheu herself, saying, Can this he
] that am go slight ed?" for she dearIv
loved to dance and never had been a
wal HOVER Now she says she hos
slowly but surely been relocated Do
the dinner set, and there she cuta M,
the debutantes at every chance ana
gets In revenge.
.o Tho First "covyboysr
COWBOY was once a sinister word
La American politics. In tho p.voI,,
t'onary war the cowboys" were
set o, tories In Westchester county
I'VE" YORK. popularity so-called because
Oh tne brutal roughness with wb,ch
ICY treated their Wing or rebeI
n It was, no doubt. IN
memory memory OF Thorn that tho name n,
cowboys" was given in 1851 10 or.
.",a people In Connecticut and o,ha-
most secessionists. "''' Al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
NEWL YWEDS ARE LIKED.
In the Company Three Characters
Have Especial Interest.

Three especially interesting charac-
ters are to be found in the company
presenting 1.-THE Newlyweds and Their
Baby" They are Master Earl Knapp,
his brother Mack Knapp and D. L.
Don, a comedian of the DAILY school.
Mack Knapp is a sort of understudy
to his brother, who doubles in the
bill as Napoleon Newlywed and Major
Not-Much. Both are appearing in the
bill as presented in Topeka.
That "the baby" gets everything out
of the first act is conceded but that it
is left to Don, the comedian, to "get
next" with the audience in the sec
ond act is apparent. Don is said to be
one of the cleverest comedians that
have worked in Daly's stock in New
York, where he has been an actor for
years. Some say that Don is the best
German comedian in America. AS the
bucolic waiter in the 'Newlyweds'' it is
conceded he has a showing of strength.
Assisting are William Clifton and
Emsy Alton in the respective roles of
Mr.. and Mrs. Newlywed. Both are
made up to approach as closely as
possible the picture presentments Of
the couple who have provided amuse-
ment for newspaper readers since the
George McManus cartoons became a
feature of newspaper comic sections
Monte Arbo plays the part of Dolly
and is entrusted with the song hit of
the piece 1.-THE Boogie Boo Man" Her
singing and dancing are specially
plea sing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
CALLED TO CHICAGO.
Rev. NJ. Rowena Morse VIII Give Up
Passionate at Kenosha.

Chicago. Jan. 21-The Rev. NJ. Row
ena Morse. for the last four months
pastor of the Henry M. Simmons Me-
mortal church in Kenosha, Wis, has &C
cepted a call to the pastorate of Third
Unitarian society in Chicago.
Dr. Morse was the first woman ad-
mitted as a candidate for the doctor S
degree at the University Of Jena, in
Germany. She applied for the degree
at the University of Berlin, which she
attended a year, but the university
would not grant the degree to a wo-
man.
Then she went to the University OF
Leipsic and received the same answer.
Next she appeared in person before the
governors of the University of Jena and
demanded for women the right to earn
the highest degree conferred. The gov
errors of the university finally yielded
She is an ardent SUPPORTER of woman s
suffrage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
RELIGIOUS APPENDICITIS.
The Name Given to Popular Supersti-
lions by Dean Mathews.

Chicago, Jan. 21.-If you have religious
appendicitis" the only cure for it is
surgery, according to Dean Smaller
Mathews, o. the University of Chicago
Divinity school.
Here are the symptoms of the new or
newly discovered disease, as described by
Professor Mathews in the January num-
Der OF the American Journal of Theology
under the title 1.-The Evolution of Re
ligion:'
knocking on wood three times after
you have congratulated yourself.
refusing to be one of a party of thir-
teen at table.
Throwing rice a a wedding.
Regarding mascot as a desirble adj
junct to a baseball team.
All those simple minded praetic IS
which presumably intelligently religious
people practice are the survivals of some
ancient religious customs of our far away
ancestors" Dean Mathews says.
In fact, a superstition may fairly be
described az a vestige of some element
of religious experience which has come
ever from stage in which 1t was essen
tial to religion. One might almost saw
that to be superstitious is to suffer re
Ilg1ous appendicitis. There is no cure for
It but surgery"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
TWO FUNERAL SERVICES.
One at the Paul Morton Home and
One at the Church.

New York, Jan. 21.-The funeral Of
PAUL Morton, president of the Euuit-
able Life Assurance society, who died
under such tragic circumstances. takes
place at o'clock this Afternoon in st.
Thomas Episcopal church on Fifth
avenue.
Prior to this public service there
VIII be brief private services in the
Morton residence.
The pail bearers are made I'D of
those who were actively associated
with Mr.. Morton in his various bust
ness enterprises. The honorary pail
bearers are: Thomas F. Ryan. T. p,
Shonts, E. Berwind, A. J. Harris,
Thomas SDratt, E. B. Thomas, F. S.
Wftherbee, James Mcmahon, c.. H.
Zehnder and Valentine P Snyder,
representing the close personal friends
and many of the large enterprises with
which Mr.. Morton was connected.
Comment concerning the successor
of Mr.. Morton as head of the Equit-
able company continues to be active
but those chiefly interested show no
disposition to hasten conclusion at
this time. Among the names most
mentioned are those of w. A. Day,
vice president of the company, Charles
D. Norton, who is about to surrender
his position as secretary to President
Taft: George w. Perkins and Gage E.
Tarbel the latter of whom retired
from the company after several years
service as vice president and as organ
lzer OF the agency force.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
PRICE TREND UPWARD.
Paradoxfcal Conditions Prevailed in
the Stock Market

New York, Jan. alphabetical condi-
lions prevailed in the stock market the
greater part of the week in that the trend
of prices was upward, while the under
tone was often irregular.
Trading was of moderate proportions,
save in bonds, for which inquiry was
again broad, with the biggest total of
operations in many months but demand
for stocks was no less professional than
in the preceding weeks of the year. Some
speculative issues made high records for
the present movement and activity at
higher levels was manifested by various
specialties, including such public utilities
as telephone and gas shares, but the mar
ket as a whole lacked popular support.
Apart from next weeks New York city
bond issue. the success of which seems
assured. and some new financing by rail-
roads and industrial corporations, there is
little change is the financial situation
Money is now so abundant here and de-
mand so light that it no longer consti-
tutes market factor.
Conditions in steel and cooper trades
are unaltered with indications of better
ment ere long in the former industry
Mercantile conditions are mixed, with inn
provement in some sections, and contin-
uance of dullness elsewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
WOULD PREVENT CRIME.
Judge Carver Pleads for Laws Having
Such an Object.

Kansas City, Mo-, Jan. 21.-The Kan
Missouri division of the Society for
the Friendless opened its eleventh an
nual meeting in Kansas City. Kan, last
night. Judge T. F. Carver, of Topeka,
was the principal speaker. He said
that the laws should be so framed as
to prevent crime by surrounding those
inclined to crime with better environ
ment. He favored a change in the law
so only the worst criminals would be
confined in penitentiaries.
No one is made better by being
shut up in a steel cage he said. The
laws are made to fit the crime and not
the criminal. If those who leave prison
are to return to the surroundings from
which they came to the prison they
will return to crime. The way to lessen
crime is to take steps to prevent it.
just as the physician now seeks to lessen
disease by taking steps to prevent it. !"
Among the other speakers were ].
L. Dawson of ST. Louis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
PLAN IS tn RNED DOWN.
There Will Be No Joint State Encamp-
ment at st. Joe.

washington, Jan. 21.-The war de-
partment does not view with favor the
prospect for a joint encampment OF the
national guards of Nebraska, Kansas
Missouri and Oklahoma and possibly OF
Iowa in September next at Lake Con-
trary near ST. Joseph. 1t is believed
that no material benefit would be de-
rived SO far as field instruction is con-
cerned by assembling in one camp the
militia of several states.
There would be no commander OF the
whole force, it is argued, and conse-
quently it would be impracticable to
have systematic and co-ordinated in
struetlons. Furthermore the transpor-
tation charges would be unnecessarily
large and the full time of the troops
could not be spent in legitimate mill
tary work. 1t is not thought proper
either that such encampments should
be held in conjunction with any other
enterprise. Therefore it is now an n.
sanction. or cooperate in any way in
such encampment, or tournaments.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
PANAMA FREIGHT INCREASED.
Declared to Be Necessary to Extend
Terminal Facilities.

Washington, Jan. 21.-A decided increase
in the amount of through freight handled
by the Panama railroad is reported by the
canal commission. So great has the
traffic between New York and San Fran
cisco by this route become that the com
mission declares it necessary to extend
terminal facilities at both terminals of
The road.
In November. 1909, westbound freight
aggregated 21,5n tons, while in the same
month of 1910 the railroad handled 26,5i3
tons. Eastbound freight amounted to r. :
049 tons in November, 1909, while in No
vember, 1910, it reached total of q, 734
tons.
Improved steamship service between the
isthmus and San Francisco, and the
isthmus and New York is said to have
caused the increased traffic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
HOLDS NIGHT SESSION.
The Court Endeayers to Expedite the
Schenk Trial.

Wheeling, W. Va, Jan. 21.-The de-
Tense in the trial of Mrs. Laura Farms
worth Schenk Friday afternoon intro
duced testimony to show that her hus-
band, John O. Schenk, whom she is
charged with poisoning, had been III
long before the time the state alleges
she administered poison to him. In sup
port. the lawyers for Mrs. Schenk put
on the stand Charles B. Hughes, a rail-
road man, and DR.. A. B. Best, the
Schenk family physician.
The session was enlivened by tits be-
tween the attorneys. The defense sought
to put on tie stand DIR. Robert E.
Sloppy, OF Pittsburg to impeach the
testimony of Miss Eleanor Zoeckler, or
Mrs. Klein" the detective-nurse.
/ Attorney Boyce said he wished to
show that she was addicted to the use
of morphine. The state objected and
was sustained.
Z! The defense then put Charles B.
Hughes, a railroad man. on the stand.
Hughes testified that long before Mr.
| Schenk's trip to Europe he had told
him of suffering from nausea, vomit-
ing and abdominal pains, the same
symptoms the physicians had testified
Schenk had been suffering from when
they attributed the cause to poisoning
DIR. Best testified he had treated
Schenk for tonsilitis in September
1909, and also had attended him on 9TH
err occasions. The doctor answering the
! Hypothetical question for the state,
was of the opinion that symptoms de-
scribed were those of lead and arsenic
poisoning.
DR.. ]. J. Osborn, the first witness for
the defense. was under the fire of cross
examination. His testimony was chiefly
regarding his experience in lead and ar
senic poisoning and the prosecutor sue
ceeded in bringing out the fact that the
symptoms as told by the physicians
who attended Mr.. Schenk in the early
part of his last illness, indicated lead
and arsenic poisoning.
Scenes between the attorneys mark
ed the night session. The defense in
troduced witnesses to impeach DIR. J.
w. Myers, who testified Mrs. Schenk
had procured sugar of lead from him
and who also said he refused to sell her
Fowlers solution of arsenic when she
applied. The states attorney protest
ed against several questions and this
brought on lively tits.
The defense has decided to place Mrs.
Schenk on the stand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
GOODWIN'S TRUST DEED.
Pre-NuptiaI Document Figures in Di-
vorce Suit Against Actor.

New York, Jan. 21.-Justice Golf in
the supreme court has named j.
Campbell Thompson a lawyer, referee
to take testimony in the suit for d.
vorce brought by Edna Goodrlch
Goodwin. the actress. against Nat {.
Goodwin. The suit promises TO be
productive of interesting developments,
not the least among which Will be the
bringing out of the story of an alleged
$1,7OO,0OO pre-nuptial trust deed by
which Goodwin turned a big share OF
his wealth into a trust fund, the reve-
nue. of which, it is provided. should be
equally divided between the pair dur
ing their lives and the principal to go
to the survivor on the death OF either
Hermann L. Roth, counsel for Mrs
Goodwin, said that the property en-
braced in the trust deed included real
estate in California. a big amount of
government bonds. many New YORK
state and city bonds and lot Of equal
ly valuable staple and other securf-
ties The San Francisco real estate
was the s25O,0OO Lafayette apartmen
house, for which the actor paid cash:
other San Francisco residences and
business property and number of
orange groves.
Several choice pieces of Los Angeles
realty also figured in the list. Mr..
Roth declared that the agreement by
which all this was converted into a
trust fund for the benefit Of Miss
Goodrich was drawn IN and signed
while Goodwin still was the husband
of his third wife, Maxine Elliott.
at is an ironclad document" con-
tinued Mr. Roth. land it will be i'm
possible for Goodwin to break it. 1t is
not a pre-nuptial agreement as such
agreements usually are considered. for
Mr. Goodwin, being then the husband
of Miss Elliott. was not in a position
to make a pre-nuptial agreement with
Miss Goodrich. The transfer of the
property was a gift, pure and simple. ="
The lawyer incidentally declared
that the actor had plenty of other re-
sources aside from the sum tied up in
the trust fund
Mrs Goodwin is in New York await
ing the trial, but her attorneys would
not disclose her address.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
"AUNT ISABELLE" DEAD
Lawrence Centenarian Worked for
Senator Jim Lane.

Lawrence, Kan, Jan. 21.-For a
score of years Aunt Isabelle" Whit
aker, Lawrence's one centenarian has
been the connecting link between the
few remaining old families in Law
renee and those aristocratic days fol-
lowing the war, which were so rich
in caste even in far away Kansas. For
Aunt Isabelle was a freed slave and
had worked in the families of Senator
Jim Lane, DR.. Alonzo Fuller, and 9TH
err aristocratic pioneers whose names
are so intimately interviewer with the
early history of Bleeding Kansas"
Aunt Isabelle" died last night in
the tiny home at 100 Locust which she
has owned for years. and which she
steadfastly refused to relinguish and
go to the county farm. For more than
century-for Aunt Isabelle" was
very. very old. just how old she her
self did not know-the old negro wo-
man never forgot for a moment that
she had been house maid in one of
the finest colonial homes in Kentucky,
and that for house servant of the
old south to go to the poor house
would be an eternal disgrace.
Would you like to go free?" a
plainly CARRIED. whiskered individual
queried one day in the early SOS of
Aunt isabelle as she stood in the
sunny back yard of DR.. Twyman in a
Missouri town.
The woman, then nearly fifty years
old and homesick for the blue grass
hills of Kentucky, from whence she
had recently been brought by DR..
Twyman. responded that she would.
A few whispered pass words were eau
tiously exchanged, a tiny paper show
ing the route to follow, and week
later Aunt Isabelle" was being con-
veyed to Kansas under the protection
of a squad of John Browns men
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
new MEXICO is VOTING.
Adoption of the Constitution Is Meet
ing With Opposition.

Albuquerque, N. NJ, Jan. 21.-Elec-
tions for the ratification of the con-
stitution for the proposed state of
New Mexico are being held through
out the territory today. Indications
are that a heavy vote will be pclIed
The constitution was framed by a
convention overwhelmingly Republi-
can and that party is united in its sup
port. The Democracy is divided, one
wing of the party supporting the con-
stitution while the other is opposing it.
The most bitter opposition comes from
the temperance people who made an
unsuccessful attempt to have a pro-
hibition clause incorporated in the
constitution. Leaders of the anti-sa-
loon league assert that they will never
permit New Mexico to enter the union
otherwise than as a prohibition state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
SAVED THEIR BABIES.
But Two Indian Mothers Froze to
Death at Same Time.

Deadwood. s. D.. Jan. n.-In order to
save the lives of their babies two Yank-
ton Indian women caught in a STORM on
the prairie near Roseland, Trip county,
this state, stripped off their blankets and
wrapped the little. ones in them and then
crooned them to sleep while they them
selves were frozen to death.
The women, with their husbands. had
been visiting on Bow Creek and were
driving across the country from a church
when the wagon broke down. The men
went to town for help. When they re-
turned with rescue party one of the
women was dead from the cold, the other
died in a few minutes. Both Indian babies
were unframed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
TIE Important
Problem

confronting anyone in need of a Taxa.
tive is not question of single &C.
ton only, but of permanently bene-
fetal effects, which will follow proper
efforts to live in a healthful way, with
the assistance of Syrup of Figs and
Elixir of Sienna, whenever it is re-
qlired, as it cleanses the system
gently yet promptly, without irritation
and will therefore always have the
preference Of all who wish the best of
family laxatives.
The combination has the approval
of physicians because it is known to
be truly beneficial, and because it has
given satisfaction to the millions of
well-informed families who have used
1t for many years past.
To get its beneficial effects, always
buy the genuine manufactured by the
California Fig Syrup Co. only.