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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27
STEAL FARMERS ALFALFA.
Five Bushels of Valuable Seed Held in
Separator.

Minneapolis, Kan, Oct. 27.@The
high price of alfalfa seed seems to
have made some one in the vicinity
covet the almost Invaluable article,
and as a result five bushels Of alfalfa
seed are missing on the farm of
William Carter.
Percy Tibbitts, Percy Myers and Guy
Miller are accused of the theft. The
b Us were working with a threshing
outfit, and at a given signal it is sup
posed that they shut off the seed from
the conveyors so that it was held in
the machine, and that after working
hours the seed was taken from the ma
chine and hid until it could be sold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27
CUT HAY SECOND TIME.
Farmers Have Enough Rough Feed
for Winter.

Leavenworth, Kan, Oct. 27.-Short-
age of hay forced farmers in the vicin-
ity of Lansing to NOW their hay fields
4 second time this season The rainy
period early in the fall caused timothy
and several kinds Of grasses to grow
rapidly and made a second cutting
possible.
Then came the belated rains and
grass sprang up. Farmers say that
this is the first time for years that
they have cut their hay fields a Sec
ond time.
After the failure of the first crop
farmers sowed rye for fall pasturage,
but worms destroyed it. The same
worms that reduced the wheat yield
infested the rye.
A short corn crop is responsible for
many half-filled silos in the neighbor-
hood of Lansing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27
When SIabtown Doomed.

have thought he had discovered the re-
mains of an ancient civilization-and
he would have missed it.
When Shutdown Doomed.
The abstract also shows that around
the townsite were located several sub
divisions and small tracts, showing that
there was probably, at some time,
big real estate boom in Shutdown.
What hopes, what aspirations, what
disappointments centered in this little
town during it's eXistencei
But Shutdown passed away long ago
The station has been moved twice, each
time being taken over nearer the bluffs.
and the houses of the original town
tumbled down or were moved, the last
one disappearing several years ago
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27

than II hours after the prisoners had
returned from Chicago. where they
have been witnesses before a federal
grand jury for nearly six months.
Broadwell and Driesbach entered
prison May II, 1910. to serve six years
ca Oh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27
PARDoNED FOR EVIDENCE.
Two Butterine Law VioIatOrs Will Be
Freed Today

Leavenworth, kan, Oct. 27.-William
Broadwell and Samuel Driesbach, con
victed in Chicago of violating federal
revenue laws in the manufacture Of
butterine, will be pardoned from the
federal penitentiary today. News that
they We're to be freed reached here less
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27

early in the spring. It is expected the
commissioners will advertise for bids
early in January next.
The new court house will be fire
proof and modern throughout and
will be built of stone. The outside
dimensions will be SO feet square and
three stories high.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27

Prof John Dewey of Columbia was
talking about a legislator who had
turned traitor to the suffrage cause.
"A man who could be so mean to a
woman he said. must be the original
OF the CLAYTON jail story A convict in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27

&---e- a NAN-s ASA ~ LIDS cured me.
l know of so many cases where wo-
men have been cured by lydia r. PM
hams Vegetable Compound that can
say 70 every suffering woman if that
medicine does not help her. there is
nothing that will. Mrs. JATF NETT =
1858 Arch St., Chicago, III. - --->A'
This is the age of substitution and
women who want a cure should insist
upon Lydia E. Pinkham's VepetabIs
Compound Just as this woman did nd
not accept something else on which fbe
druggist can make little more nro Ar
Women who are passing through This
critical period or who are sufferin9
from any of those distressing Ills l ~
culiar to their sex should not lose &c sid Ie+
Of the fact that for thirty years Iv ala
L. Pinkham's Vegetable Comno5rT,i5s NJ
which is made from roots and bo erb1'
has been the standard remedy for fe'
male Ills. In almost every community
you viii tiud women who have bee55
restored to health by lydia F P III
ham 5 Vegetable Compound. In
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27

and L went to the
store to get a bottle
of Lydia f. Pink
hams We ge t able
Compound, but the
clerk did not want
to let me have it
he said it was no
good and wanted me
to try something
else, but knowing
all about it | in
sisted and finally
got it, and I am SO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27
PLANS FOR LIGHT PLANT.
Work VIII Begin on Building Early
Next Spring.

Phillipsburg Kan. Oct. e7-Phil-
lips county voted some months ago
$4,000 for a court house. The money
viii be raised by levies. a levy each
year for three years. Work will begin
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27
GOT
WHAT SHE
WANTED
This Woman Had to Insist
Strongly, but it Paid

Chicago. Ill.-"I suffered from A fe-
male Weakness and stomach frn1lIle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27
The Only way.

On one occasion Gov. Dick Ogles-
by went down to Joliet to inspect the
state prison, and in one of the cells
he found very ugly man.
How did you get in here - asked
Oglesby. sI,e
Abduction was the reply: ssI tried
to run off with a girl. and they caught
me-"
I'll pardon you as soon as get
back to Springfield said the governor.
Il don't see how you could expect to
get a wife in any other way Ar
fr0f7aut
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27

the Clayton Jail, you know, managed
to do a little flirting over the wall. He
hlrted for some weeks with a girl who
mhked the COWS in a field adjoining
the Jail. and one evening he called to
her, and they struck up a conversation.
Every day after that, for a year or
more, the girl came to the wall. Then
the convict, getting tired of her, told
her 1t was no use waiting for him, as
See second and third pages of State
Journal this evening and every evening.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-27
What you S 1E
can buy for ~

We claim to sell the best suits and
overcoats at this price that the money
ever bought. We realize that a large
percent of men pay about this much,
so we've specialized on them. We can
show you all the newest effects in
all wool, tailored suits and overcoats;
well made; well lined; good or
looking and dependable at. eP 1C
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
visit in the Empire state must

of lobbyist in the Empire state must
be an active one.
The intelligent money lender who takes
high risks and exacts high interest
should know that the continuation or
his business depends on proper resula-
ton. The ten-percenter or the fifty<per-
center faces obliteration or regulation.
He may take his choice. The defeat OF
a pending regulative measure would be
a temporary triumph and would make
the ultimate regulation of his occupa-
ton the more drastic. The tide IS
against this form of usury; the handwrit-
ing Is on the wall.
There are evidently men in the So
called loan shark business who conduct
their business in a legitimate way. that
is, the borrower at the time or getting
the loan knows exactly what interest ne
will have to pay and exactly the amount
he must repay at the maturity of the
loan. One of these money lenders said
in the New York Globe the other day:
although / am I'm the business | will
saw ro Won that everything the Globe haS
printed about the operations OF the loan
shark is true. We do not consider our
selves in that class, since we DO our
business legitmately. We are not trying
to coax our clients to remain In our debt
We want to help Them out. knowing
that if they need money again they VIII
come to us.
A number of anti-loan Shark bills have
been introduced at Albany One of them
the Grady bill. most obstinately opposed
py the loan sharks. would make IT op-
tional with an employer whether or not
ne should accept notice of an assign
ment of pay. =
In the news columns of The Star it
has been reported that Senator PCmerene
of Ohio will make an effort to have the
rate of interest provided in the proposed
loan shark law for the District of CO.
lumba set at per cent year. The loan
shark bill which the Senate District COM
mittee has favorably reported would le-
galize rate of IL per cent a month, or
Is per cent a year. Senator Pomerene IS
reported as saying that
Il do not believe that the United States
government should coUntenance an eX-
cessjye charge of interest such as the
bill now proposes. Men who lend money
on goods and chattelS in the District of
Columbia say that they cannot do bust
ness, owing to the risk they incur and
the expense 10 which they are put to
Investigate before the loans are made
and sometimes tc collect the money
loaned. and claim they cannot do bust
ness unless they are allowed to charge
even more. l say. let them go out of
business. then"
The loan agency has become an insti
tuition Regulated. it need not be an
unmixed evil. The pawnbroker has
tong been a fixture in the life of the
race, and is widely looked on as con-
venience, even though the rate he is al
flowed to charge Is 3 per cent a month.
The money lender stands between the
man who needs money and cannot get
il from a bank and the man with money
who is willing to lend it.
II some wise legislator could legislate
all men into such prosperity or thrift
that they would not occasionally have to
borrow a small sum of money without
the usual security the question would
be solved.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
Boy Scouts Active.

The Boy Scouts are working. To their
varied activities tree planting has been
added. Following q suggestion from Gif-
ford Pinchot. former United States for
ester, who is q member of the National
Council of the Boy Scouts OF America,
troops in several cities. among which are
Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Chi
cago, Cincinnati and JOhnstown. Pa.
are setting out trees in public places
and giving them, as we'll as other trees.
the benefit of their protection.
Boy Scouts are now leading the blind
in Denver. The city librarian OF that
city has established daily readings In the
library for the Denver blind and the
scouts have been detailed to escort these
infirm people from their homes to the
library and back.
The young scouts. besides stalking. sig
mailing, starting fires with no more than
two matches. and In some cases light
ing a fire by the friction OF two pieces
Of wood and a bit Of tow. giving first
aid to the injured and studying birds.
plants, trees and signs. are learning to
perform many good deeds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
"The Enemy's Country"

Fifteen wears ago Mr.: Bryan elected
much praise by invading the enemy
country" Pressing free silver colhase
at Is 70 I he visited New YORK anu
New Jersey. and bearded the goiu
standard lions in their dens-sald y
to their faces" He made no votes bu'
did make a reputation for nerve whlch
added To the interest in his personality.
Here was a man not "afeared
Two Of his friends and admirers. with
their ewes. as his then were. .nxed on
the White House. are copying MIN
Sneaker Clark and Gov. Wilson nave
COME into PENNSYLVANIA and addressed
the peoDle on Issues as little associated
with keystone sentiment as free COIN
ace was with New York and New Jer-
GOV sentiment when Mr.. Bryan hrst
rap for President Mr.. Clark talked
tariff on anti-protection lines. and Gov.
Wilson gave a new explanation or the
danger Of the money power There
was applause. but did II bear any
promising relation to votes"
TIE democratic House has. so far
held together on the tariff question
ord members of the party are much
ancoura ged. But it has not gone very
EAR r. has but nibbled at the Payne
law II has not as vet tackled any
schedule in which Pennsylvania Is
iirectlv interested. The farmers free
list bill is not in point. and no fiocks
~ any consequence range In Pennsyl-
vania valleys The sum of the demo-
cratic accomplishment. therefore. is
small so far as the Pennsylvanians are
concerned.
nd
wood offer them later? What have they
in reserve as TO coal and iron and steer
which will cause the people educated
on the tariff in the past half century
by republicans like Pig Iron Kelly and
democrats like Samuel J. Randall TO
turn from those who prepared the
Payne law to those who are seeking
power to repeal 1t? They have bene-
flied or think they have. greatly by
the operations of protection, and as
thrifty men of affairs are not likely
to abandon a good thing for the bare
promise of a better.
AS for the money power. Pennsyl-
vania has seen that In many of its
manifestations. 1t Is the home or
colossal corporations, and of many
colossal private fortunes. Philadelphia
and Pittsburg have long been centers
Of great wealth, and its millionaires
are known the world over. So that If
Gov. Wilson has discovered a new
peril in wealth and its concentration
and manipulation he must describe 1t
with great force and clearness If his
words are to raise any goosefiesh and
produce any results in that common
wealth.
1t may be. however in Pennsylvania
as elsewhere. that things political are
so very much mixed old guide marks
are disappearing, and new aliSnments
are forshadowed. Mr.. Clark and Gov
Wilson may have tips as yet unshared
by the public. The Keystone state may
he good missionary ground for men OF
heir views and activities. But il it is
we are on the eve of the greatest over
turning the country has ever known
FOR if Pennsylvania weakens on pro-
lection then will affairs be chaotic in
Iced.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
GROWING KING AND QUEEN.

From the Omaha Bee
Frederick Townsend Martin denies that
attending coronations makes Americans
snobs We cannot make a snob-they are
born.
From the Chicago News.
If England We're the United States II
would have its coronation on March 4.
thereby risking pneumonia and missing
lot of fun.
From the New York World.
The American Georges have contributed
lust S13 for the coronation Of George V.
This is probably s13 more than the Eng
lish Williams would contribute for q
birthday gift to President Taft.
From the Syracuse Post-Standard.
In the coronation dispatches we read
most about John Hays Hammond Queen
Mary, Whitelaw Reid and Jack Johnson.
but we presume that as a matter OF fact
the king is not being wholly forgotten.
From the Nashville Banner.
II will cost lots of money TO go to
London and see King Georges coronation
paseantry Just wait at home and youH
get moving picture view for B cent?.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
SEASON OF GRADUATES.

From the Los Angeles Express.
The tramp, tramp, tramp of the sweet
girl graduate now browns out about every
other noise of traffic.
From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
So many public questions are being set
tied in commencement orations this week
that Congress and the legislatures should
have an easy time for while.
From the Detroit Journal.
Graduation time is here and Phoebe.
with four callers a week, talks Of school
teaching as her life work.
From the Toledo Blade.
What shall We do with the girl grad
uates?" asks an exchange. The question
Is respectfully referred to the boy grad
yates.
From the Los Angeles Herald
Between the June bride, the sweet girl
graduate and the barefoot boy, the month
certainly looks most promising.
From the Chicago News
This is also the glorious season when
honorary degrees are scattered broad
cast by institutions of learning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
There Was a Foss Boom.

What has become of the Foss boom?
Reference, of course, is to the movement
to include Massachusetts among the
states possessing available presidential
timber.
We hurry so, and change our favorites
and themes so rapidly, half a year Is
quite spell with us politically. But
those capable of spanning that much time
will recall the fact that last November
a gentleman of the name of Foss was
elected governor of the Bay state. and
shortly afterward entered upon the duties
of the office. His achievement was the
second of the kind to his credit. Less
than year before he had carried in
race for Congress a district normally re-
publican, and on the strength of that
had become a state quantity. Now, on
the strength of his state victory, his
friends thought he had become ma
tional quantity. and they set about BOOM
ing him for the highest place within the
peoples gift.
Foss it was. He represented New Eng
land in all the speculation. Mr.. Dix was
at that time much in the talk, and Mr.
Wilson was considered promising, but
they were so close together, the Foss
boomers hoped they would injure each
other. Their man had no near rival
Mr.. Olney was too old. George Fred
Williams did not carry guns enough. Mr..
Johnson of Maine, soon to enter the Sem
ate, was too new to the nation. He
would have to wait until his beard grew.
For a brief season the Foss men were
most Industrious. They were striking
| while the iron was hot. Then came a
aho hoy cnnlad the iron
did. and the ring of their hammers is
heard no more. Are they through! And,
if so. what explains 1t?
Upon assuming office Mr.. Foss showed
| a desire to run things. Not only did he
take his commission seriously, but mag
nified it, He served notice on Mr.. Lodge
that he could not return to the Senate.
and to prepare for private life. He did
not announce Mr. Lodges successor, but
intimated that the new man would be &C
ceptable TO him, Foss. and be in accord
with his, Foss', tariff views.
| The Bay staters like pluck, and can
stand reasonable amount of assurance.
but this was going some beyond the local
| record 1t injured the governor. 1t
| helped the senator. Mr.. Lodge was in a
warm corner. and a way out was not
| visible to the naked eye. But when the
| governor undertook to be the senator
| maker and relieve the legislature of its
duties, republicans and not few demo-
| Gratis raised their eyebrows and looked
at one another.
Was 1t this performance that checked
the Foss tide? Something did. and the
tide seems to have run out. The name of
| Dix also has all but disappeared. But
| the name of Wilson Is on many tongues,
that OF Harmon on many, that of Clark
on an increasing number, and that of
Bryan on a surprising number when the
| repeated defeats of it's owner are consid-
cred But who are shouting for Foss
now? If any. their voices are thin, and.
not carrying far.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
A Not Impossible Colloquy.

See that man pacing back and forth.
with his hands clasped behind him."
asked the old member of the House oe
the new.
Looks unhappy"
els unhappy"
What's the matter?'
He isn't a member of any of the in
vestigating committees. and his constit-
uents don't understand it. This is be-
tween ourselves. He has shown me sew
eral letters from home, and the impress
sion there is that he's a poor boy at a
frolic here Photographs of investiga-
ting committees are circulating freely.
and his phiz is absent
Are the committees taken so seriously
out there?"
You bet, His folks think they have
the world by the tail. and are swinging
il. He's beginning to feel uneasy about
denomination"
Does he know anything that would
make him prominent in such work?
Not a thing on the green earth. Hes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18

| very frank about that But he thinks
it might operate to his advantage. His
idea seems to be that in his ignorance
| and eagerness he might ask O question
which would betray a witness into re-
vealing a point Of Importance. AS nerve
! is the wear. he wants to show his"
rs there no help for him? Is II i'm
possible to get him into the picture-one
of the pict nres?"
1--WE made suggestion. but he's afraid
of it,"
What Is it?'
Il want him to propose q committee
| to investigate why he is not an investi-
gator"
What is he afraid Off"
"Of his ability to carry such q prcpo-
sition off properly. He says he is al
ready in bad with the powers. and that
might get him In worse. Besides. even
if he succeeded. his pose as q joker
might injuTe him at home His constit-
uents he says. are solemn minded about
Congress. and might resent an attempt
at humor by him in the open House,
WHY, IL advertisement is his object,
that's the very thing. He would not
only get into the picture, but into pic
ture all by himself. He would play a
lone and eminent hand His picture. for
time at least would monopolize atten-
ton. He would be the Poor Jo' Of the
House, who didn't know nothink about
nothink, and had no chance to ask no.
body no questions about nothink 10.
YOU know, wasn't lovely. but he'll live
as long as any character Dickens ever
drew, and longer than many. If your
friend wants to rise and shine and live
long, you have given him the tip. Let
him draw his resolution with care, speak
to it with JUNCTION. and his jack will be
made"
MAY I mention your suggestion to
him."
Certainly. And you may pledge my
attention when he speaks and my vote
for the resolution. My heart goes out to
a fellow in his fix. And, by the way. I'm
not a member of any Of those commit
tees myself"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
POLITICAL SOCIETY.
From the Houston Post

From the Houston Post.
Six days ago Col Roosevelt denied that
he had pledged himself to Taft for 1912
Is 1t not about time for him to deny the
denial?
From the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Col. Roosevelt Is for peace. but he is
not ready to say that he wants all chance
for fight eliminated.
From the Kansas City. Times.
Yet If ex-Boss Smith of New Jersey can
induce all of the other Smiths to oppose
Woodrow Wilson for President, 1t will
put considerable crimp In the Prince
ton mans candidacy.
From the Albany Journal.
Why doesn't somebody mention Gov.
Foss as q presidential possibility? He is
as well entitled to such mention as some
others who have received It,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-06-18
After the Loan Sharks.

The anti-loan shark campaign has be-
come nation wide. and one of the great
services which the press is performing
for its vast constituency is in giving pub
licity to and thus promoting the fight
for the proper regulation of this form
Of usury.
story has gained currency in New
York that the high-interest money lend
ers or New York city ara the state have
raised a fund 10 defeat any legislation
which would interfere with their busi-
ness This may be true. 1t seems al
most impossible to enact any form or
legislation in New York without an ac-
compartment OF stories of corruption
funds either for the promotion or the
defeat of measures. If there IS IRE
Hhere there Is so much smoke, the ira .e