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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-28
Prot. Nicholson Discovers Cause
of Metallic Co!ors.
erilliance of Piumage, as Well as In,
sects' Luster, Is Due to Light
Absorption-Prof. Cutler on
Arid Problem.

Chicago.-Peacocks and pigeons, but
textiles and beetles the gayest of tn,
bird and insect tribes-have yielded
he secret OF their brilliant attire t
Prof. Albert A. Nicholson, head Of tn
department of physics of the Univer
city of Chicago, who has discovered il
his laboratory the real cause of tt,
metallic colors observed in his feath
cred and buggy" specimens.
Prof. Nicholson. who won the No
bel prize in 1909 for his achievement!
IN optics, announced his latest find IL
a paper read at the annual conference
OF the Illinois State Academy of Sci
ence. in the botany building of the Uni
Vefslty or Chicago. The professors
experiments prove that the colors stud
led are the result Of light absorption
u to the shape of the surfaces and
are not caused by the pigment cells OF
an means that the amateur naturalist
might imagine.
The discovery, according to the sci
entists at the meeting, furnishes schol
ars with a new theory for important
color phenomena. 1t overturns the
position held by many distinguished
investigators that the ir%ridescent gilt
ter of beetles and the tints of the
hummlng birds are the result Of or
binary interference" n "diffrac-
ton"
The total number of specimens
which have been examined" said the
investigator, lis perhaps not SO large
as 1t should be to draw general con-
clusions, and it is clearly desirable
thai 1t should be extended, but so far
as the evidence for surface films as
the effecting source of the metallic col
ors In birds and insects is entirely con-
elusive"
Prof. John M. Coulter. head of the
University of Chicago botany depart
ment, said:
Practical plant breeding is now on
a practical basis and botany has at
last attacked the fundamental prob
lens and may be of some practical
service. FOR 1t includes plant breed
ing"
or the possibilities of converting arid
land into wheat and corn lands Prof.
Coulter said:
Attempts are being made to ecure
a combination of hardness to drought
which We desire and quality of grain
which we possess. | see no reason
why the vision should not be realized.
but you need not invest in arid land
Tor immediate use as wheat fields. In
the case OF corn, rs Of wheat, we are
not breeding 1t for drought resistance
alone, and 1t will take many plant gem
erations Of the highest type of scien-
tlnc plant breeding to determine
whether we a combine this drought
structure with the high-grade
quality and yield we have already OBJ.
tanned in our cultures"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-28
Lake Erie IN CaIa,e c.:.

Cleveland, Ohio. - Lake Erie wax
IN he grip of a gale and fear is fe,t
for several vessels which have mo-
teen heard from. "
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-28

Congress has much before it, but 1t
Is thought adjournment can be had
by August 18th.
Councilman Franek of South Oma-
ha, killed a man whom he caught RI
fling his saloon.
The story Of Edward Hines activl.
ty In the election of Lorimer was re.
told at the senate inquiry.
Colonel Sydney w. Taylor, Second
Field artillery, the commander of the
Department of the Columbia, has
been placed on the retired list.
At Washington ]. B. Johnson OF
New York. recently appointed solic-
itor Of the navy department, was
struck by lightning and instantly
killed.
The Portuguese minister of finance
asked the cortes for credits of ST.
100000 for the national defense and
$5O0,0OO for the work of foreign Of
flce.
The house bill amending the tariff
law to permit the return free of duty
of domestic animals temporarily ex-
ported including pet dogs, was IA
vorably reported to the senate by the
committee on finance.
Senator Smoot has proposed a SUBJ
stitute for the wool revision bill OF
the house.
"Slot machines are worse than faro
bank. ! would rather stand faro
bank than slot machines, for in faro
q a. has some little chance for his
money" Mayor Harrison made this
statement in announcing that he
would drive the slot machine out of
Chicago.
The removal of Canadian recipro-
city from the congressional stage has
left things at the capitol in a decid-
edly mixed condition. The senate will
launch into the wool tariff fight at
once; but it is anticipated the dis
cussi0n will not stick closely to wool,
but will run the whole gamut of tar
III revision.
To spend three hours with his
mother on her birthday after he had
been separated from her for more
than . year, George Frelick, a 49,
year-0ld Denver boy, risked his life |
0AA NOHAaAAAlICO ILL OucuSo against the |
United States government by desert
ing from the navy. After the few
hours With his mother, he gave him
self up to federal officers and was
taken to New York a prisoner.
To aid the women Of California
who hope to win when the issue Of
Suffrage for women is presented to
the voters there on October 10. it has
been decided that New York women
s~u1fragfsts shall observe a weeks
fast merit month.
The Belgian aviator, Oiiesagers, in
= monoplane. made = flight OF 626
kilometers (3SS miles).
The investigation into the affairs Of
the American Smelling and Refining
cOmpany TO determine whether the
eo~called 'smelter trust" Is In viola
4ion AZ the Sherman antitrust law,
has been Dropped.
MAE" M&NZ - +W Il
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-28
Missing Yacht Reported Stranded.

Saginaw, Michigan. After be-
ing missing a day in the widest storm
OF the year on Saginaw bay, tidings
were brought in from members of the
party OF IA men on State Salt inspect
or John Baird's yacht that the craft
is on a reef at Ncamquam Point. ana
out of danger.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-28
Personal.

There is talk that James r. Gar
field will be presidential candidate OF
republican insurgents"
President de la Barra Is charged
with responsibility for the recent out
break at Puebla. Mexico.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-28
Seek to Prevent INSANITY

New York.-New York's first free
clinic Tor mental diseases opened the
other day at the Long Island state
hospital for the insane. The purpose
IS to cases Of incipient insan.
lty In time to prevent development
into incurable mental disease.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-28
Limit Fixing Barred.

Limit Fixing Barred.
h commission also lays down the
important principle that hereafter rail
roads will not be permitted TO fix ar
bitrary market limits and that here
after commercial conditions rather
than the will of the railway traffic
managers shall control rates on trans
continental transportation.
The decisions are of far-reaching
character. They affect directly ali
rates between the Atlantic ocean and
the Pacific coast. Particularly they
affect the rates in the territory lying
between Denver and Pacific coast
points. Hereafter the rates paid by
shippers will be governed by a strict
Interpretation of the long-and-short-
haul clause.
The commission holds in the social
ed Reno case that traffic originating
at Chicago and in Chicago territory
moving under commodity rates may
have a rate Z per cent higher to in
termediate points than tina imposed
in freight originating in Chicago and
Chicago territory destined to the Pa
clfic coast terminals. From Buffalo
Pittsburg territory the rates NAV rise
above those demanded from the same
points to Pacific coast terminals tn
the extent OF 13 per cent, while from
New York and trunk line territory
the rates charged shall not exceed %
per cent over Pacific coast terminal
rates.
ThnCn oyn tho Gp-{ loxt..
nounced by the commission in which
a definite principle in respect to the
long-and-short-haul provision is laid
down. While the opinions fully rec
ognize the influence of water competi.
ton, to a marked extent they draw a
line upon indiscriminate market"
competition.
The cases involved are those of the
city of Spokane against the Northere
Pacific Railway Company, known pop
ularly as the Spokane rate case
the Commercial club of Salt Lake
City against the Atchison, Topeka &c
Santa Re Railway Company and 9th
ers; the railroad commission of Ne
vada against the Southern Pacific
Company and others, and the Mari
copa County Commercial club against
the Santa Fe, Prescott & Phoenix
hallway Company and other carriers.
lnasmuch as the cases generally
into one another the commits.
sion it's decisions in two
opinions. In brief, the commission
takes the view which it took in its
OF the same cases announced
a year ago last June. At that time
the commission said it would make
order respecting the rates which
1T suggested might be put into effect
until it had had opportunity to deter
from reports made to it by the
OF the probable effect of tho
suggested rates.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-28
DAILY MARKET REPORTS.
Twin City Markets.

Minneapolis, July. 25.-Wheat, Sep
tember. s5$sc; Dee. s6Ac; No. north
ern, 9sAc; No. 2 northern. $3.50; No. 4
durum, 89c; No. 3 corn, 64c; No. 8 white
oats, 40c; barley. mating, $107; No. I
rye, soc: No. l flax. $2.10.
Duluth. July 25.-Wheat, Septembsy.
rum, soc.
out St. Paul. July 25.-Catlte-
Steers, $325@3.50; cows, SO. . ais.
$2.75M6.5e.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1911-07-28
.fRT. RATES CUT
EREiGHT CHARGES FROM EAST
TO POINTS IN ROCKY MT.
DISTRICT AFFECTED.
BY DECISION OF |. c. c.
Carriers in Spokane-Reno Cases Given
Till Oct. IS to Fix Tariffs
Bars Roads From Fixing
Market Limits.

Washington. July 25.-In what are
known as the Observation-Disclosures
coast cases the interstate commerce
commission ordered material reduC-
ton in freight rates from the Eass
to points between Denver and West
ern terminals of the great transcon-
tlnental railroads.
For many years the railroads have
exacted from shippers to intermediate
points, such as Spokane and Reno.
higher rates on Eastern freights than
were charged for the much longer
hauls to Seattle, San Francisco and
other Pacific coast points.
The theory has been that the rail-
roads must meet water competition to
the Pacific coast. The higher rates
to intermediate points, arbitrarily
fixed, have been defended by a com
parlson with the coast rates, plus &
theoretical back-haul from the coast
to the inland stations along the line.
The commission recognizes the
right of a railway to meet water COM
petition to Pacific coast points. but
practically wipes out the back-hauJ
rates to inter-Rocky mountain terri
tory. 1t lays down what it considers
would be fair and just rates to vari-
Gus freight zones in the West and
gives until October - to adjust the
tariffs accordingly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
ROBs sEATMATE ON TRAIN.
johnson Receivers Money and Lands
Some Good Blows.

Emporia, Kan, Sept. 16-w. J.
Johnston, who says he is a real estate
man from Joplin. Mo-, was taken off
a Santa Fe train by Special Officer Ell
Raymond, and is held at the county
Jail. Johnston is charged with having
stolen $40 from w. 0. johnson OF
kansas City, with whom he was trav-
cling to Bazaar, Kansas, on an alleged
real estate excursion.
The story of the Santa. FNe trafnmen
IS that between Lawrence and Topeka
W. o. johnson fell asleep and while he
was snoring peacefully W. J. Johnston
touched" him for his roll. 1t is said
that passengers saw the touch and
that W. o. Johnson was informed of
the theft. He went through his coat,
found that his money was gone. and
hoped on his seatmate, and not only
recovered his money but landed few
well deserved punches as interest and
good measure.
1t was thought that Johnston had
more stolen money on his person, and
while his personal property was being
searched in the Office of County Attor-
ney Owen Samuel, ne was taken to the
county Jail, put in overalls and given a
thorough search. No money was
found. He told Mr.. Samuel that his
seatmate on the train had given him
the $110 to keep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
TO PROVE ALIBI FOR BROWN.
Early Day Kansan Not at Massacre, Is
Their Contention.

Ottawa. Kan, Sept. 16.@John
Brown is having his character looked
into. The looking in is being done
by Dr. Frank K Sanders, president of
Washburn college; DR.. Hiram B. Har-
rison, the vice president of the same
institution; Rev. Walter Burr, pastor
of an Olathe church, and Charles F.
Pettyjohn, a business man of OIathe.
The party is out after vindication
of the Hon. Brown, who for a long
time has been thought to have a hand
in a rather discreditable affair down
on Pottawatomie river, when some
pioneer Kansans, differing from Mr..
Brown in regard to slavery ideas,
were masSacred.
The men who were in Ottawa last
week think they can provide an aIibi
for the Hon. Brown.
While the members of the investi-
eating party disclosed to no one the
entire result of their trip, it was in
timated that facts tending to change
the generally accepted statement Of
John Browns participation in the
were conclusively estab-
lished
It is the intention of Dr. H. B. Har-
rison, the vice president of Washburn
college, to write an article setting
forth the result of the investigation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
NOT SALTS, OIL OR
PILLSBUTCASCARETS
No odds how sick your stomach; how
hard your head aches or how
BiIious-Cascarets make
you feel great.

You men and women who somehow
can't get feeling right-who have an
almost daily headache, coated tongue,
foul taste and foul breath, dizziness,
can't sleep, are bilious, nervous and
upset, bothered with a sick, gassy, dis
ordered stomach, or have backache
and feel all worn out.
Are you keeping clean inside with
Cascaretes, or merely forcing a pass
ageway every few days with salts,
cathartic pills or castor oil? This is
important
Cascarets work while you sleep;
cleanse and regulate the stomach. re-
move the sour, undigested and fer
menting food and foul gases; take the
excess bile from the liver and carry
out of the system all the decomposed
waste matter and poison in the intes-
tines and bowels
a Cascaret tonight lWiIl straighten
you out by morning 10-cent box
from any drug store VIII keep your en-
tire family feeling good for months.
Don't forget the children They love
Cascarets because they taste good
d0 good-never grippe or sscken~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
A HEALTHY.
HAPPY OLD ACE

May Be promoted BY those who
gently cleanse the system. now and
then. when in need of a laxative
remedy, by taking a desertspoonful
OF the ever refreshing, wholesome
and truly beneficial Syrup Of FIGS
and Elixir of SIENNA, which is the
only family laxative generally ap-
proved by the most eminent phy.
slcians. because it acts in a natural.
Strengthening way and warns and
tones up the internal organs without
weakening them. tits equally bene6-
hcialfor the very young and the mid
aae aged, as tits always efficient and
Tree from all harmful ingredients. To
get its beneficial effects it is always
necessary to buy the genuine. bear
ing the name of the Company
California Fig Syrup Co.-pIainIy
printed Onthe trontOf everypackage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
MARRIED SIXTY YEARS AGO.
Kansas Couple Celebrates Anniversary
at Clearwater

Wichita, Kan, Sept. 16.-Seldon.
indeed, are there cases where a mar
ried couple lives to celebrate the six
tleth wedding anniversary. but William
cooper and Mrs. Eliza Cooper have
JUST celebrated their sixtieth wedding
anniversary at Clearwater.
Children, grandchildren and great
grandchildren met at the home of this
aged couple. Sixty years ago, Septem-
Der IA, William Cooper and Eliza aar-
rls were married in Pike county. Illf-
nois. He was &c then and she 20.
Five of their ten children are still
living. They have eighteen grandchiI-
dren and twelve great grandchildren.
The children, no longer known by 9TH
ers than the fond parents as such are:
Mrs. Z. f. Keller. Clearwater; Mrs.
Frank Murphy, Clearwater; Frank
Cooper, Clearwater; Mrs. J. A. Webb,
Viola, and Thompson Cooper, Moneta,
Cal.
One Of the sons died about ten years
ago in Wichita. This was John J..
Cooper, who was struck by lighting.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper came to Kan
saS in 1879
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16

citizens have tried to. get him to ask
for a franchise The city council
stands ready to grant it any time he
( asks for it. He has been taking up
/ some of the smaller pipe during the
past year and laying 4-inch pipe be-
| tween his wells and town, and will be
In shape some day to branch out with
| the service and TAX on town cuStomrS.
The Anthony farms in Peoria town
ship include $50 acres. His wells have
| been so distributed that he practically
pates no trouble in finding other pro-
ducing wells whenever the pressure
weakens.
If the gas wells play out Mr.. An
thony will still have plenty to do look
ing after his land. He has three hun
dred cattle and the same number of
hogs on his places About half of
these cattle are on full feed. The dry
weather practically ruined the pas
lures and he has been feeding the thin
haul out twenty-five thousand pounds
of alfalfa, caddo cake and cotton seed
and hulls, and from forty-five to fifty
bushels of corn.
John Anthony, his father, came to
Franklin county in 1855, where Henry
was born in 1860. Mr. Anthony, senior,
was q German and somewhat of
plodder. When he found his son was
somewhat inclined to branch out he
was worried He often urged the boy
to get back to the old methods and to
take a hoe and go down to the creeI
and grub out the underbrush But
Henry thought that too slow and the
results seem to have justified his
'plunging." Today he has more than
one thousand acres Of land, his gas
system, a big comfortable house. two
big barns in the lots at the house; a
double feeder 100xS0, with hunks for
one hundred and fifty head of cattle
and NOV room for ninety tons of hay;
and another feeder, 10Qx56, just COM
pleted this month. made from native
lumber. sawed by his own mill, on his
own place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
PESTS ARE HERE
Fall Crop of Mosquitoes Hits
Kansas With Full Force.
People of Many Towns Find
Screens Are Useless.
HOW THEY MULTIPLY!
Pair of Insects Parents OF Ten
Billion Young Ones Monthly.
Remedies Sought by Towns Suf-
feriEg From Invasion.

Oh for a real fall wind to blow away
the hundreds of thousands of Okla
homa mosquitoes which have invaded
and which now infest Kansas. Drug.
gists are thriving and delivery boys
Wearied from filling orders for penny
royal oil, citronela and Chinese Joss
sucks. kanSanS are covered with
pumps caused by bites, and filled with
ltch1ngS and unutterable curses.
Inc mosquito pest is a product of
the late summer which has come llpon
Kansas The pest came presumably
from oklahoma, being carried north by
the wind. A mosquito will fly Is miles
With the wind, the bug sharks say, but
he can not fly against it.
Inc wind is declared to have brought
the pest which in this case is a full
cousin to the meanest of the 600 varie-
ties in Arkansas. About this time #
rained. Then the weather turned hot.
The mosquitoes recently imported Iaid
eggs, bringing on a fresh crop.
Lady mosquitoes are industrious as
Wei as prolific When the notion
strikes her one of them laws 400 eggs
at sitting. Scientific computation by
K u professors show that a pair of
mosquitoes is capable of being the
parents of 10 billion mosquitoes within a
month. This leads to the BELIEF thas
the first of the summers crop reached
Kansas about two months ago 1t is
just nine days from the egg to the
mosquito.
There isn't any remedy for the mos
quito except to catch them, tie them
carefully to a log and then hit them in
The head with an ak. The insects are
declared not to fancy the smell of
the drugs above named. A cloth
soaked in kerosene and hung on the
foot of the bed is recommended in some
cases.
Another good remedy is your Pipe.
but many who can not smoke and sleep
at the same time feel the need of an
other remedy.
Lawrence, Wichita, Ell Dorado. Sa-
lima, Emporia and other Kansas towns
are now frantically asking what they
they must do to get away from the
mosquito pest. There is nothing they
can do but wait until the wind blows
real hard some night and then open up
the house. The wind will blow them
away.
To be sure it will probably blow an
other crop to take the place of the de-
parted ones, but you may get change
In breed and beside it passes the thing
around for the mosquitoes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
MILLER's VICTIM FROM KANSAS.
Mabel Cakes and Parents Lived in
Ottawa Several Years.

Ottawa, Kan, Sept. 16-Mabel
Cakes, for whose murder N. L. Mil
Ter has been sentenced to life impris-
onment at Alva, Okla, is well known
here. With her parents she lived in
Ottawa several years
She was in the employ of a lawyer,
N. L. Miller as a Stenographer in his
office in the opera house building
which Miller owned.
On the afternoon of November g.
last year Miller called her father and
told him that he had found her dead
in his private office, off the business
office. The father found her lying
dead on the floor where she had APP
parently died in peace. But a closer
examination disclosed finger marks
upon her neck and Miller was arrest
ed. The officers had difficulty in
keeping a mob from lynching Miller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
USE DYNAMITE IN FEUD.
Italians Bring Foreign Methods OF
Warfare Into Kansas Row.

West Mineral, Kan, Sept. 16.-The
home of James Restivo, brother of the
Italian who cut the throat of Joe
Perero with a razor here to avenge the
death of his brother, was partly de-
stroyed by an explosion of dynamite
No one was injured.
"Of course, it was some of the other
fellows who are in sympathy with the
Pereros," said James Restivo. "They
knew the dog and of course he would
not bark or make any noise.''
The side of the house under which
the dynamite was placed was COM
pletely demolished and the explosion
was so great that a number of the
windows in the houses for blocks
around were broken. The bed upon
which Restfvo and his cousin claim
that they had slept, was completely
covered with broken glass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-09-16
AGAIN OLD LAWRENCE LIVES.
Reunion of $50 Old Timers Who
Helped Defeat Invaders.

Lawrence, Kan, Sept. 16.-Memory
made one hundred and fifty gray
haired men. and women young again
for few hours, and the fire and dash
and courage that won freedom for
Kansas q half century ago Shone again
from the wrinkled faces and dimming
eyes of those bent old pioneers. 1t was
a gathering of the men and women
who had lived in Lawrence in the days
before the war; when men looked to
their rifles before going to sleep at
night, becausue a running fight in the
streets with a band of marauders from
over the Missouri line was always a
possibility before morning
The particular occasion of the re-
union was the celebration of the de-
tense OF Lawrence. when an invading
force of $500 southerners was driven
away by the men of Lawrence.
A glee club Of "Old Settlers made
the days of '56'' seem very real by
singing songs which were popular be-
fore the war. Songs they were that
breathe still the fierceness of the early
conflict for Kansas, the burning parti-
sanship and the savage earnestness
that made the early settlers stay and
fight for their homes and finally win.
The men of the veteran glee club
were L ]. Gray, G. H. Hoyt, Prof. T. J.
Todd, o. B. Lee, Edward Monk and S.
J. Churchill. All of them came to Law
renee before 1856.
G. L. Edwards, who came to Kansas
with Amos Lawrence, for whom the
town was named, attended the meeting.
In the same party with Edward was
Governor Charles Robinson, who came
from Massa chusetts.
Henry Albaugh, a merchant of Law
renee, who was born two weeks after
the Quantrell raid, told the experiences
of his father and mother. His father,
Phillip A1baugh, was living on a farm
east of Lawrence. He saw the raiders
coming over a hill and jumped on the
back of a pony and fled before them.
He escaped by forcing his pony to
jump a high fence while the bushmen
were forced to go around. Henry's
brother was IN bed sick with typhoid
fever. The Quantrell men killed him,
but did not harm Mrs. AIbaugh.