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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
GOOD-BY TO men.
No Longer Are Needed as Coun-
try School Teachers.
Only Fifteen Are ending the
County Normal.
AND LOOK AT GIRLS.
One Hundred Fifty-Three OF
Them in Attendance.
County Superintendent Eby Says
Things Have Changed.
AND LOOK AT GIRLS.

One OF the notable features of the
Shawnee county normal institute this
year, is the comparatively light at
tendance of prospective men teachers.
Of the 16S persons in attendance at
the normal, there are 15S women and
Is men.
According to John f. Eby. county
superintendent, the day of men teach
ers is passing and women viii soon
reign supreme in every school room in
Kansas. The attendance of but few
men at the institute this year is a
telling comparison Of the registration
Is years ago, when nearly one-half of
the teachers were men.
In the palmy days nf rural schools.
the local board of education thought
that It required q 200-pounc man with
an iron jaw and strength of mule to
preside in the school room. When a
dainty miss from town appeared on
the scene wearing more rings than q
cane rack and timidiy asked for the
district school, the board reminde ed
her that the district was looking for
a man who combined the strength of
Sampson with the knowledge Of a
lieved could pound knowledge into
the heads of these farmer lads with
out the generous use of a three-year-
old hickory stick.
When a nearby district ventured 70
trv a gentle town-bred fairy in their
rounding district Joined with the pat
rons in suppressing their pent-up giee.
Then when somehow that Sc pounds
. of Innocence and beauty completed the
term without carrying away a single
scar of personal conflict, the district
gasped and marvelled- Some Of the
patrons said she hypnotized those tur-
bulent boisterous youngsters. Per
haps she did But It is a matter Of
record than any number of husky
farmer boys who could whip any
teacher the district ever had, returned
home at the end Of the term with q
better understanding of history and
arithmetic than he had gathered in
! three preceding seasons Some OF
the districts have not learned to this
day just how It was done But II
! marked the transformation of the
rural school and the passing Of the
gentleman school faasan.
Each year the attendance Of male
! teachers grows less in every norma
perintendent Eby suggests, there are
other things to which the man schoo
teacher can more profitably apply his
time. Perhaps the monthly paw CHECK
is not sufficient. But there is no de-
nying the fact that somehow the Httl'
dimple-faced girls entered the rura
school rooms and made the records ot
the districts most ObstreperOus stu
dents look like a collection of can.
: celled postage stamps.
SO there appears to be a plausible
/ explanation why the normal attend.
ance this year is to the ratio of min,
( bright-eyed, smiling young ladies Il
one detected, lonesome looking man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
THE WEATHER IS HOT.
Mercury Again Mounts to Nimety-Four
Degrees.

It is hot again. with the thermom-
eter at 2 o'clock, the same as Thurs
day, and the prospect of the mercury
rising to about the SO degree mark
before evening-96 degrees is the
maximum temperature recorded on
June 16 since the government records
have been kept in Topeka. The un-
settled atmospheric conditions have
passed away and apparently there is
no chance of rain for another day or
two at least. According to the gov
ernment weather forecaster, the indi-
cations are for generally fair condf-
tions tonight and Saturday; cooler to-
night. Last night was a scorcher, the
thermometer registering nine degrees
higher than the night before The win d
is blowing IS miles an hour from the
south The hourly READINGS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
TRUST COMPANY MERGER
Bankers and Mercantile OF New York
to Become One.

New York. June IA syndicate
identified with the Bankers Trust
company will in the near future pur-
chase the 1900 shares of Mercantile
Trust company stock now owned by
the Equitable Life Assurance society,
which is forced by the Armstrong in
suTance laws to dispose of It's holdings
in this and similar corporations before
the expiration of a year. The pur-
chasing syndicate will pay $74e per
share FOR Mercantile stock, the deal
involving about $10.O00.O00 and the
transfer will include a majority inter
est in Mercantile, whose total stock
issue is 20, 600 shares.
The transaction, which has been
approved by Equitable officials. fore
shadows the merger before many
months of the Bankers Trust company
and Mercantile Trust company.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
JURORS ARE DIETED.
Court Places Them on Lettuce and
Water Until They Agree.

Denver, June I'D. F. Lemasters,
head of the Lenasters Brokerage COM
pany, was found guilty today of lar
ceny and embezzlemcnt of the sum Of
50, 200 by jury before Judge Shattuck,
of the district court Sentence was de
ferred pending a motion for new
trial
Lemasters, it was asserted, had vic
timized numbers OF farmers in Missouri
and Kansas.
The jury lad been out since yester-
day. Yesterday afternoon they report
ed to the court that they were unable
to agree, whereupon the court sent
them back and placed them upon a diet
of lettuce, sandwiches and water until
they could reach an agreement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
China Never Thought of 1t.

Washington, June 16.-The state de-
partment announced officially today
that it has been assured that the Chi
nese government never contemplated
the dispatch Of a warship to Mexico
to assist in the collection of indemnity
for the killing of several hundred Chi
nese by Mexicans insurgents during the
revolution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
ADVERTISING TALKS
WRITTEN BY
WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

MRS. FRANK NATHAN is
the president Of the Consumers
League, of New York the OBJ
ject of which is to get all OF the
REPUTABLE stores in the
United States TO refuse to sell
the product of manufacturers
who employ CHILD LABOR-a
very worthy cause.
| wonder If Mrs. Nathan has
ever thought how the work of
her organization could be made
more EFFICIENT and FAR
REACHING THROUGH TIE
AID OF NEWSPAPER PUB
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
BOTH Will DIE.
Detective and Tramp Exchange shOes
In Railroad Yards.

Dunkirk, n. z. June 1e.-A man giving
his name as Harry Brown. aged 23, of
New York City, was found by the police
in a field two miles east OF Dunkirk early
today with bullet hole through his stoTn-
ach and another through his head. He
was brought to a hospital here where he
admitted to the police that he was the
man who shot and fatally wounded De-
tective Martin Peters of the Lake Shore
railroad last night.
Peters was in the railroad yards look
ing for car thieves. Brown was stealing
a ride on a freight train and Peters at
tempted to arrest him. Brown resisted
and shots were exchanged. At the hos
pitai It IS said both men will die
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16

Balbino DavaIIo. the Mexican charge
d d'affaires at Lisbon. and Senior Dau-
den, Mexican consul hero, went out to
see the vessel and greeted tho general.
Diaz told them that his health was not
satisfactory and he had suffered great
ly during the voyage from an abscess
on the jaw bone, which had become
troublesome before his departure from
Mexico
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
BASEBALL WEATHER
National League.


Boston at Pittsburg. clear, $3.50 p. m.
Brooklyn at Cincinnati, cloudy, $50
p. m.
Philadelphia at Chicago. rain, p. m
New York at ST. Louis. cloudy, $3.50
p. II.
American League.
Detroit at New York. clear. 4 D. m.
Cleveland at Boston. clear, $3.50 p. m
Chicago at Philadelphia, clear, 3:4l
p. m
st. Louis at washington, cloudy, 4
p m.
American Association.
Louisville at Milwaukee. cloudy. g
p. m
Columbus at Kansas City. cloudy,
3:15 p m.
Indianapolis at Minneapolis, rain. :
p m
Toledo at St Paul. ram. p. m.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
CONDUIT IS BLOWN UP.
Explosion Skaters Windows in a
Whole Block.

Chicago, June 16.-For the third
time within a month an explosion &C.
CURED today in q cal le conduit of the
Commonwealth Edison company nm
der the subway of a railroad track
The blast shattered windows in build
ings within a radius of a block and
threw several families from their beds
The police believe the explosion was
caused by a bomb set off by labor
agitators. Officials OF the Edison COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16

pany, however, say they have had 70
recent trouble with their employees and
are unable to solve the cause of the
mysterious explosions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16
American Association.


Chicago. June 16.-Forecast for kan
sas: Generally fair tonight and Satur-
day; cooler tonight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-16

CcOntinusd on PAGE Two-s
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
"Sevcn DAYS."

There are real engagements. secret
engagements, summer engagements
broken engagements and a popular
an engagement" Seven Days" has q
new onc-a trial engagement
Bubbles Wilson has wearied of liv.
ing alone. His yearns for the white
mans burden-a wife. He asks Xii
McNair to become the load. Kit isn't
quite sure whether she loves Bubbles
or just wants to be a sister to him. sc
she says, with sudden inspiration. and
sparring for time:
Let's have trial engagement"
ANY kissing in trial engage
ment?" asks Bubbles, hitching closer
No" replies Kit, that's one of the
trials"
That isn't funny to Bubbles. Moth
ing in "Seven Days" is funny to the
persons in II. That's what makes j,
so excruciatingly funny to others. The
predicaments and complications tina,
swirl about the persons in the play
the week of misadventures and mix
ups that start in a drawing room, de
scend to the kitchen. climb to the
roof and involve everybody. create the
snappiest, wittiest. drollest comedy OF
decade.
1t is the most amusing comedy that
has been seen in New York i'm years
said the Metropolitan magazine. III
you like comedy YOU must see this
one. and be sure YOU see the beginning
because the laughs start with the frs,
curtain"
Seven Days direct from two years
in New York. with q Broadway cast
and production, will he presented by
Messrs. Wagenhals and Kemper al
the Gennett Friday night
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
BOY SCOUTS WILL
WAR ON YEGGMEN
Dan Beard Is Teaching Them
the Secret Signs of
These Crooks.
Palladium SpeciaD

New York, March 21.-DanieI C.
Beard, national scout commissioner of
the Boy Scouts of America, and the
originator OF the Boy Pioneers and
the Sons of Daniel Boone which help
ed clear the way for the development
of the boy scout movement, has devils
ed means by which the boys
throughout the country can make IA
systematic war upon yeggmen and no.
boes who modest housewives and rob
homes. He is doing this by teachine
the boys the secret signs of the yegg
! fraternity, SO that the boys may know
them and tell what the mystical mark
on fences, houses and other buildings
| mean. By making the secrets of the
tramps common knowledge. Beard
| hopes to destroy the communication
! between the tramps and thus pre-
vent them from doing so much harm
Beard not only studied the signs OF
! the hoboes, but has has gone back
through the ages tracing the signs OF
different nations and studying their
meaning even to the hieroglyphics Of
the Egyptians. He took special inter
est in this work when preparing to il
! lustrate Mark Twain's book named "A
| Yankee in King Arthur's Court.
| Beard says that many OF the yegg
| signs can be traced back to ancient
Egypt. He has learned the meaning
of the majority Of those signs which
can be found on gate posts, barns and
fences. By those signs the yesgmen
communicates information about the
house marked to their fellow men
who follow along the same path
! Beard says that there are signs indi
eating whether there is dog in the
house, whether the housewife is kind
and whether it is easy to rob the
! house.
| AS Beard has learned these signs
and can decipher them, he has ar
ranged 10 teach them TO the boys and
it is probable that in the new Man
ual OF the Boy Scouts of America he
will have several pages devoted to
these symbols and their meanings. II
the boys learn them they can read
the messages of the hohoes along the
public highways If the signs are
dangerous to people the boys can rub
them off and warn the police. All this
means that the secrecy Of the hOboes
will be destroyed, thanks to Beard
and the energy of the Boy Scouts OF
America. 1t means that if the hoboes
wish to continue their symbolstit
communication, they must work Out
new signs and this would take years
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
AN ANCIENT CUSTOM.
Wassaiiins Of Apple Trees Still OBJ
served In Parts Of England.

Wassaiiins Of Apple Trees Still OBJ
served In Parts Of England.
What is the wassailing of apple
trees?
This is an old custom. fast dying
out. but still observed in parts of
Somerset and Devon. At Wooton,
Basset. near Minehead, the ceremony
takes place on old Twelfth eve All
assemble at the farmhouse and after
hearty meal form a procession to
the nearest orchard. the master in
front with light and men with old
guns. blunderbusses and anything that
makes noise in the rear Plenty of
cider is taken and some pieces of
toast.
When the orchard is reached n ring
is formed. and the master. in the cen
ter. seizes a branch and sings a verse
beginning "Ch. apple tree, | wassail
thee. in hopes that thou wilt blow
Then all shout in chorus:
Hatfuls, capfuls three bushel bagfuls,
Barn foorfuls. tullet holefuls
And little heap under the stairs.
Then follow cheers. drinking OF
heaIths. shouts Of Now. Tom Pod. we
wassail thee" and the placing of the
pieces Of toast. soaked in cider. among
the branches for the robins.-London
Answers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
USUALLY ONE DOSE
ENDS INDIGESTION

II your meals don't fit comfortably,
or you feel bloated after eating and
you believe II Is the food which fills
you; IL what little you eat lies like a
lump of lead on your stomach: IL there
Is difficulty In breathing after eating,
cructations of sour. undigested food
and acid. heartburn, brash or a belch
Ing OF gas, you can make up your mind
that you need something tn stop food
fermentation and cure Indigestion.
To make every bite of food you eat
aid In the nourishment ard strength
OF your body. you must rid your stom-
ach OF poisons, excessive acid and
stomach gas which sours your entire
meal-interfercs with digestion and
causes so many sufferers of Dyspepsia
Sick Headache. Billiousness, Consti.
patton, Gripping. etc. Your case is no
different-you are stomach sufferer,
though you may call II by some other
name: your real and only trouble Is
that which you eat does not digest, but
quickly ferments and sours. producing
almost any unhealthy condition.
A case OF Pape's Diapepsin will cos.
fifty cents Mt any Pharmacy here. ana
will convince any stomach suffere,'
five minutes after taking a single dose
that Fermentation and Sour Stomach
Is causing the misery of indigestion.
No matter II Won call your troubles
Catarrh OF the stomach, Nervousness
or Gastritis. or by any other name
always remember that a certain cure
is waiting at any drugstore the mo.
ment you decide to begin its use.
Pape's Diapepsin will regulate any
out Of order stomach within five min.
n,cs. and digest promptly, without any
fuss or discomfort all Of any kind Of
food you cat.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
RAINFALL IN TEXAS
Has Been Exceptional SO Far
This Year.

San Antonio, Tex. March e1.-Raiu-
fall in Texas has been unusual for the
past three months and one of the pc
culiar things is heavy downpour in
those sections where rain has been
very light for number of years. The
Pecos valley country has received the
heaviest fall of rain SO far known III
the history of that section, the entire
area having been drenched Il number
OF times in the past sixty days and the
rain OF the past twenty-fcur nourS
breaking all records. This valley has
long been known as one of the dry
belts and while the fertility Of the soil
is unparalleled almost in the country
the main obstacle to agricultural de
velopment has been the lack of mois
ture. In spite of the fact that the
section has been dry. considerable de
velopment has cen carried on and
much of the soil haruessed for cultiva
ton. 1t is believed by those who have
had wide experience in the work that
the cultivation of tracts in various
places in the valley and unusual evapo
ration caused by small irrigation
plants is responsible for change il
moisture conditions. Very naturally
those who are interested are elated
over the unusual rainfall and the
promises of prosperity which are the
result While there has been create.
precipitation in a number qf localities
rains have been general over the en-
tire Southwest. Cattlemen here from
the panhandle report an unusua
growth of grass as the result of recent
rainfalls. One ranger who has been
twenty-five years in that section de
cares that the paSteurage outlook Is
the most promising ever seen. In tht
Neuces valley. where great irrigation
plants have been built. one of these
that of the Holland-TeXas company
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
Quickly Cures Coughs,
Colds and Catarrh

If you, dear reader, could spend an
hour looking over a few of the thou
sands OF testimonials that we have on
file. you would not go suffering from
catarrh, that disgusting disease that
will surely sap your vitality and weak
en- your entire system If allowed to
continue.
You would have just as much faith
in HYOMll as We have, and We have
so much confidence in its wonderful
curative virtue that ii is sold the coun.
try over under positive guarantee to
cure catarrh. Group, sore throat, coughs
and colds or money back.
No stomach dosing when you breathe
HYOMEI. Just pour few drops of
the liquid into the inhaler, and breathe
IL in.
II Is mighty pleasant to use: it opens
up those stuffed-up nostrils in two
minutes, and makes your head feel as
clear as bell in short time.
Breathe HYOMF,I and kill the catar-
rh germs. It's the only way to cure
catarrh. It's the only way to get rid
OF that constant hawking, snuffling
and splitting.
A complete HYOMEI outfit, which
includes a bottle of HYOMEI and a
hard rubber pocket inhaler, costs 81 90.
If you already own Hyomei inhaler
you can get an extra bottle of HYO'
Mel for 80 cents. Sold by Leo II
Fine.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
heIpino Him Out.

For years Squire Latham. of whom
many amusing stories are told. was a
resident of Rridgewater. Mass. and ii
was while he was living there that the
incident occurred which is related be-
low. 1t illustrates his habitual GOODNESS
and whimsical temper.
He was awakened one night by his
wife. who told him she thought there
were burglars in the house. The squire
put on his dressing gown and went
downstairs. In the back hall he found
rough looking man trying to open
door that led into the back yard.
The burglar had unlocked the door
and was pulling il with all his might.
1T doesn't open that way. You IDIOT
shouted the squire. taking in the man
predicamen, instantly. ut slides back!7
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
Seen In a Dream.

Mr.. Hilprecht. professor Of Assyriol-
.ogy in the University of Pennsylvania
in 1893. when puzZling over sketches
Of objects excavated at Babylon. learn
ed in dream the solution to the diff
Guilty that confronted him. Two draw
lngs represented fragments Of agate in
scribed with characters. They were
supposed to be bits of finger rings and.
being apparently OF different colors.
wese not closely associated together by
the professor. But in a dream he 50 wv
an Assyrian priest. who told him how
the priests OF the Temple of Bel. hav-
ing received votive cylinder of agate
from their king. We're ordered to make
earrings for their god. They made
three by cutting up the cylinder and
the professor would find by fitting the
fragments together that these were
two OF them. He did this and found
that they gave continuous descrip-
ton.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
THE FOG BUOY.
D Safeguard to Fleets Of Warships In
Thick Weather.

Thick Weather.
Probably the greatest menace to the
safety OF navigation at sea Is the fog.
Modern steamships are seldom erdan
gered by the most severe weather. but
when the impenetrable envelope OF
mist incloses a ship she is exposed to
the most terrible OF perils. 4 collision
at sea. A single ship may be compar
atively safe even In a fog. but where
is greatly multiplied. There is always
considerable danger. too. on account of
the fact that many of the ship lines
have what could be termed a beaten
path across the ocean. and they al
ways follow this route when possible.
In addition to the customary fog
horns and sirens. Il fleet Of warShips
often keep informed of their relative
positions by the firing Of signal guns
at intervals only 4 few minutes apart
Another method used is the fog buoy.
Each vessel in the fleet. especially If it
is Il warship feet carries fog buoy.
a large cask painted q vivid red. This
is cast overheard at the first sign Of
fog, and it tioats from the stern Of the
vessel. attached to rope of grass
fiber. which does not sink beneath the
surface of the water. BY this means
the exact location Of the individual
ships of the fleet is maintained. even
though proceeding at n moderate rate
Of speed. Eagle.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-03-27
TO EMPLOY SHEEP
TO EAT TH|STLES
Government Will Use Them
on Irrigation Project in
Washington.
palladium Specially

Spokane, Wash, March 27.-Five
hundred head of sheep and an expe-
rienced herder will be employed this
season in an endeayor to eradicate
Sunnyside canal, federal govern
ment irrigation project in central
Washington. The animals will go ov-
er the ground three times during the
growing period. Afterward the banks
will be seeded with white clover and
blue grass, rye being used in the drier
portions to bind the soil.
Stephen o. Jayne of Spokane whose
Investigations for the United States
department of agriculture include the
maintenance and operation of irriga-
ton canals in this district, said in
making the foregoing announcement
that it cost the management of the
Sunnyside project several thousand
dollars last year TO destroy weeds and
growths along the canal and right-of-
way.
Railroad officials, municipal organ
izations and farmers and orchardists
all over the United States and Cana
da. as we'll as ditch owners and grow
ers in the irrigated districts, will
watch the outcome of this experiment
with keen interest, as the solution of
the weed problem in America will
mean the saving of hundreds of thou
sands of dollars expended annually in
controlling the rank growths.
The uncultivated banks of irriga-
ton canals afford the most inviting
propogating ground for thistles, wild
mustard. saltbush and other noXious
weeds. the seeds of which, carried by
the wind and the water laterals, are
scattered far and wide. In many in
stances the growth becomes SO dense
that it is difficult to pass through on
foot or on horseback, and when occur
ring on large fills hiding places are af-
forded to burrowing animals, which
are menaces to banks and often the
cause of disastrous breaks in canals.