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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
COW INSURES IT
Wealth Guaranteed If Her
Earnings Be Saved.
German Farmer Tells "Dry
Congress- of His Methods.

Hays, Kan, Aug. 30.-"It Just takes
one cow DR.. ]. H. Worst of Fargo,
/ n. D., declared in his lecture in the
| Normal auditorium here, ''to give or
| insure you of a competence for old age.
| Take a boy at the age of 20 years of
age. let him set aside all the earnings
of one COW and keep on for so years
and at 20 he has $4,000 to $55,OOO.
OF course he must dedicate that money
religiously for that purpose and ct
the money draw interest continu-
ously."
DR.. worst's subject was Methods or
Systems of Getting on Well on the
Farm He demonstrated from his
tory that We are a squandering ma
ton, both as TO natural resources and
of money.
He Rests Half His Land
In the afternoon a very interesting
brief talk was given by Conrad Krue-
ger who lives on the Smoky river
near Pfeifer. His talk in part was as
follows:
This is the first time I have ever
made a speech about my way of farm
ing. What I practice learned in the
agricultural college in Germany so
years ago. When have cut the wheat
1 do not plow the ground but let it
lay all winter. In the spring when the
snow is all gone | burn all the stub
BILE and thrash-then / let the weeds
get about six inches of growth and
then the ploW turns them down. Then
right before harvest the ground gets
another turning over and another crop
of weeds helps to enrich the ground.
Again before 1t is time to drill the
ground gets another round of stirring
and it is worked down hard or solid
for the seed to be planted. Half of my
land is resting each year and half
produces crops. Last year raised
So bushels to the acre and many years
I have raised as high as As bushels to
acre"
For 80 years Mr.. Kruger has been
raising wheat. en- his farm when there
was total failure of wheat west of the
Saline county line.
In the evening Professor Ten Eyck
spoke for 20 minutes on the results of
the Listing Methods" He had
number OF well prepared charts, show
ing every method followed in the
short grass and compared with the
system he advocated.
The forenoon of the Dry Farming
association is employed in watching
the operations on the experiment sta
ton. Several large eastern concerns
are here demonstrating their mach1n-
ery and autos take visitors out and |
give them a seven mile drive around
the station to the different fields.
Quite a number of newspapers are
represented and their men are taking
notes and pictures
The large cement barn is used to
display exhibits of the products of the
experiment station and it looks like |
diSDlay at the county fairs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
WILSON LIKES 1T.
The Governor Finds Campaign Work
Enjoyable.

Seagirt, N. =, Aug. 30.-Tired wrists
and aching fingers reminded Governor
Wilson today that he had spent the
most strenuous day of his life in his
trip through Pennsylvania. He esti-
mated thai he had spoken iH his i'm
promptu tour of 210 miles to nearly
49, 900 people and that he had shaken
hands in one day with about 5000 indi-
viduals.
The most interesting revelation to
Governor Wilson was the fact that he
found himself making seven speeches
instead of one he had planned; that he
was just as busy on the back platform
of his train as presidential candidates
always have been and that he was
almost converted to the old fashioned
idea of campaigning which at first he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
PARCELS POST JAN. l..
Hitchcock Expects to Have System i'm
Operation on THAT Date.

washington, Aug. 3O.-Announce-
ment is made by Postmaster General
Hitchcock that the postoff1ce depart
ment will be in readiness on January
1, 1918, to put into general operation
the recently authorized parcels post
system.
The postal express business, which
must be organized within the next four
months, will extend ever more than a
million miles of rural delivery and
star routes and will cover IN it's vari-
Gus ramif1cations. all systems of trans
DortatiOn of parcels now utilized by
private express companies
First of ALL" said Mr.. Hitchcock,
"rnust be prepared a classification of
the articles that can be accepted for
transportation by parcels post. The
law admits to the mails practically all
kinds of merchandise that can be
transported safely, including products
of the farm and garden as Well as
factory products, provided such arti-
cles 90 not weigh more than IL
pourds, nor exceed II inches in COM
bined length and girth. The mode of
TShe present equipment of the mail SER
vice is not adapted to the carriage of
such merchandise and, therefore, new
eouiprnent must be provided 1t is
likely we shall employ, extensively,
hampers similar to those used in for
eigU countries in handling parcels
post mail.
.'The law provides that postage on all
parcels snail De PASPe]A0
distinctive stamps. This VIII necessi-
tate the designing and printing of at
least a dozen denominations of special
stamps. Provision for the collection
on delivery of the price of the parcel
must be made.
The law provides indemnification
for lost or damaged articles and since
many of the articles to be carried viii
be fragile or perishable, the question
of indemnity is one for careful regu-
lation.
'-The system of distance zones REL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
A MONDAY FIRE
Store of III. B. How
ard Was Mass of Flames.
Loss Estimated at $S,OOO-Fire-
men Stopped Bad Blaze.

Defective wiring was responsible Tor
an $4,000 fire that blazed merrily this
noon at 10 Kansas avenue. The store
belongs to H B. Howard, dealer in
s2orting goods and electrical supplies
The alarm rang in at noon when most
of the firemen were at dinner. Chlef
WiImarth was first on the spot; the
terrific heat and dense smoke hamper
ed. the fremen in their battle, and new
relays were constantly called in. The
fire. which started in the basement,
had been blazing for a quarter Of an
hour before it was discovered DR.. Eva
Harding, who has rooms above the
Howard store, noticed clouds of smoke
rolling in.
81 was in the front of the house.
she said, when suddenly I smelled fire.
1 rushed back, was almost choked, and
ran downstairs screaming"
H B. Howard was at lunch when the
and deserted.
sI was up at the Cremerie," said
he, ''when 1 heard the cry of fire.
ran like everybody else, and found
my own store in flames.
Howard was in the middle of moving
to 716 Kansas avenue T surplus
stock had already been removed Piles
o. sporting goods, sweaters, etc, were
in the cellar ready to be carted away;
they are absolutely ruined, either soak
Ell or burned.
"I carried about $4,000 insurance, and
lost at least half my stock" said he, cit
will probably be taken care of. I'll get
so per cent of the loss, anyway"
Chief Wilmarth booted, helmeted,
and grimy, fought fire, water and
smoke.
We've done pretty good work on
this" he observed, wiping a sooty hand
over a hot face, Company 1 got the
first alarm, and called our hose and 3,
chemical 9 and truck 2. When I saw
how serious the fire was 1 called out
another company. They worked against
odds-the fire had head start and the
heat was awful-but they handled the
thing we'll"
you bet they did, agreed Mr.. How
ard.
The shoe store of A. M Leach on the
left of Howard's establishment, was
che ked with smoke. The alley in the
lack of the store was crowded with en-
gine and hose; four streams of water
played in the basement. Men, women
and children abandoned their lunch to
watch the conflagration.
The building itself was the property
of George Hanley. The interior of the
store is a mass of broken glass, dam
aged goods, ard dirty water. Practical
ly nothing from the first floor can he
saved The fire was one of the largest
that has occurred in Topeka this sum-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
MERCURY CLIMBS.
After Cool Night 1t Gets Hot Again
Relief Promised.

a delightfully."- cool night was follow
ed by rapidly rising temperatures to-
day. The thermometer reading at 1870
O'Clock this afternoon was 90 degrees.
but by o'clock the mercury had
dropped a half degree.
This is probably the end of the hot
weather. Cool temperatures are due
tonight. 1.-The wind is blowing twenty
miles an hour from the southwest and
that is a favorable wind direction" :"
said sunny Flora, the weather man.
"a southwest wind is usually the fore
runner of cooler weather. The cool
weather is coming all right. In fact
it is in sight. 1t will arrive in Kansas
tonight, and Saturday the conditions
should be considerably more bear
able
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
VITAL STATISTICS.
Show Many Deaths From Violence in
Kansas for July.

Kansas tabliShed a record for viO-
lent deaths in July, according to the
report for the month compiled by DR..
S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the board
of health. The report shows an even
100 violent deaths in the state in
July.
In the report it is shown that there
were nine murders, 26 deaths from
drowning, 19 suicides, five from acci-
dental discharge of firearms. 3 from
falls, 16 deaths from runaways or by
injury from animals, seven deaths
from heat and five struck by light
ming. Of the suicides, eight were by
poisoning and six by shooting.
Reports for the month show Last
deaths as compared with 1855 births.
Fully 25 per cent. of the deaths oc-
CURED among children under school
age. But that is not all. People who
fear smallpox and scarlet fever and
scoff at whooping cough, will find the
surprise of their life in the July re-
port 1t shows no deaths from either
scarlet fever or smallpox and two
deaths from measles, three from diph-
liberia and 23 from whooping cough.
There we're 80 deaths ascribed to tu-
berculosis, while deaths from cancer
took a big jump and showed total
of 93 for the month.
1.-THE birth rate as compared with
the death rate is not entirely satisfac-
tory as yet" said w. J. Deacon in dis
cussing the July report. From the
death rate there should have been a
record of $500 or $500 births. This
fact, however, is due somewhat to the
neglect of physicians to make reports
as required by law. Each month
shows an Improvement, but there al
still a good many physicians who fail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
TWO BAD WRECKS.
Five Persons Killed and a Large Num-
Der Injured.

Pittsburg. Aug 30.-Four men were
killed, one fatally injured and a number
slightly hurt when the Pennsylvania
Railroad train which left Pittsburg this
morning for Cleveland over the Cleve-
land & Pittsburg division ran into a
work train engaged in clearing up a
freight wreck that had occurred a short
time before near Conway, west of this
city. The dead:
A. l. COUGHENOUR, of Cleveland.
engineer of passenger train and three
la borers.
Railroad officials say a fagman had
warned the passenger but for some un-
known reason it was disregarded.
Wreck on the Katy.
Temple, Tex, Aug. 30.-One man was
killed, two seriously hurt and fifteen
slightly injured today when a north
bound Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail-
way train jumped the track three miles
north of Temple and the mail car and
two coaches plunged from a trestle into
raU vine
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30

quires the employment by postmasters
of a distinctive postal map on which
the zones are represented. Such a
map already has been prepared by the
ing made for the printing of about
10000, in order that each postoffice
and postal station in the United States
may be supplied with two copies. A
directory of all offices is being COM
piled for use in applying the pre-
scr;bed rates of portage to the dis
tances shown on the zone maps.
THE question of adequate tranSpor-
tation and terminal facilities for the
parcels post mail en- railway and
eaElship lines and in the city wagon
service will have to be worked out
with such care as to insure prompt
movement of such mail and to prevent
a possible congestion of the ordinary
mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
A Mother and Six Children
Burn to Death
In the Flames Which Destroy
Their Home.
THE FATHER AND ONE SON
Make Their Escape by Jumping
From Window.
Five Bodies Are Found in a
Heap in Ruins.

Rutherford n. J.. Aug. 3O.-Ars.
Emilio De Baro and six of her seven
children ranging from months to IL
years of age, met death early today in
fire which destroyed their home. DE
Baro, the husband and father, and the
seventh child, boy of 13, escaped py
jumping from % second story window.
De Baro and his family made their
home on the second floor of a frame
house. Mrs. De Baro and the SIX
younger children slept in a rear room
and the father and the Oldest boy in
the front. De Baro and the boy tried
to rescue the woman and children but
a wall of flames checked them. With
their night clothes blazing they
jumped from the windows.
Five bodies were found in a heap
near the center of the building. The
woman with the baby in her arms. lay
near the window. Firemen believe a
spark from a passing locomotive may
have started ,he fire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
TO CHECK DISEASE.
Governor VIII Give $4,000 to stop
Disease of Live Stock.

Governor Stubbs took another hand
in the effort to block the spread of dis
ease among horses in western Kansas
when he sent a letter to Joe Mercer,
stock sanitary commissioner pledging
him $1,000 from the governors conting-
ent fund and urged on President Taft
the urgent need of government aid in
the trouble in the short grass district.
Two days ago Governor Stubbs sent
a telegram to Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson urging him to send help. Sec
retary Wilson has not answered that
telegram. So Stubbs followed his ap-
peal to Wilson with a telegram to
President Taft, in which he appealed
for assistance. Now the governor Of
fers Mercer $1,000 from the contingent
fund and additional money If neces-
sary.
Mercer and a number of officers of
the state veterinary board left today
for Ness, Hodgeman, 'Kiowa and other
counties in the infected district. They
will endeavor to learn the cause of the
death of hundreds of horses and to
suggest a remedy to the farmers and
stock raisers in the district.
This morning Governor Stubs sent
this letter to Mercer:
Mr.. Joe Mercer, State Live Stock Sanitary
Commissioner, State House. Topeka
Dear sir:-I hereby place at your df,-
posal 5000 of my contingent fund. or as
much of it as you may deem necessary, to
reinforce your own fund. for the purpose
of combating the disease among horses
in western Kansas. Spare no pains to
meet this disease effectively by placing az
the disposal of the sufferers, in the entiro
eight counties affected, as many good and
capable veterinary surgeons as you believe
can work to the best advantage
If, in your judgment, more money IS
needed, will give you further assistance
from the fund.
have telegraphed to the president to
urge the department of agriculture to re-
spond to my request for assistance.
thank you for the energy you have al
ready shown In this matter, and trust
tnat you continue 1t.
Very truly. yours.
W. r. STUBBS. Governor.
Shortly before noon today. Governor
Stubbs sent the following request to Presi-
dent Taft:
Topeka. Kansas. August 20, 1872
President William H. Taft, Washington,
D. c.:
Thousands of horses are dying from
strange disease in eight counties. We are
in urgent need of the ablest and best
veterinarians in the government service
Telegraphea Secretary of Agriculture w :
son two days ago for assistance from fed
era1 government cannot hear from him
Kindly urge him to send hds best men at
once in compliance with my request. Sit,
uatfon Is grave w. r. STUBBS.
Governor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
HE DIES AS HE PLAYS.
Retired Mine owner Succumbs to In
digestion in Gymnasium.

New York, Aug. 30.-Ezra Crawford
Bartlett, retired mine owner, is dead
here of acute indigestion, aged 40
years. He was suddenly stricken
while playing basketball in the gymna-
sium of the New York Athletic club
and died a few minutes later. He
had suffered from indigestion and his
physicians had advised him to take
light exercise. His father is a grain
broker in Kansas City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
BEAT ST. JOE AGAIN.

Des Moines, Aug. sO.-
Des Moines.- .. s13
st. Joseph ..-.- 8 13
Batteries Houston and Hansons
Bell and Gossett.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30

is suffering from a slight cold and
that his condition is not grave as was
at first thought. 1t was stated that
when he contracted the cold it was
thought best to have physicians with
him and the fact that physicians left
this city hurriedly4 caused the report
that the senator's condition was seri-
n11S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
DIES IN DINING CAR.
Wife of H. H. Rogers Expires at Grand
Central Station.

New York, Aug. 30.-Mrs. Henry H.
Rogers, wife of the late vice president
of the Standard Oil company died
suddenly today in a dining car in the
Grand Central station, at the conclu-
sion of journey from Brettonwoo1s.
N. H, to her home here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30

By John T. McCutcheon.

smell the smoke of burning leaves
The air is strangely cool;
A vague depression sickens me
think it must be school.
smell the musty slate rag, too;
It makes me ache with woe,
For something seems to say to me
To school soon must go.
smell the newly vanished desk,
Ihear the whispered buzz,
! dread the bell that sounds the kneT
Of happy days that was.
hate to go-for mothers sake
Pm sure that she will cry;
And yet-she doesn't seem to fret
One-haIf as much as L
But that's the way with mothers.
They're braver far than us.
1hey bear their SOfroWS silently
And seldom make fuss.
My mother seems to stand it well.
But waiti You bet she'll see;
Her spank and kiss she soon will miss
Also my company.
And yet can't help wondering
How she can hide her grief.
She smiles and laughs exactly like
She felt great relief.
It hurts my feelings very much
To see her act so glad;
] wish that she would cry bit
To show that she is sad.
But o, alasl Alas once more,
No sorrow seems to reach her.
She hands me over to some un-
Appreciative teacher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
STEPHENSON is ILL.
Wisconsin senator Is Suffering From
a Severe Cold.

ESQ anaba, Mich, Aug. 30.-Reports
received here today from United States
Senator Isaac Stephenson's fishing
camp in the woods state the senator
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30
le hourly readings:


Fond du Lac, Aug. 3O.-Bishop G. c. |
Grafton Of the Fond du Lac Episcopal
diocese died today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-30

Weather Forecast for Kansas
Fair and cooler tonight and Satur-
day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17

The talk about dishonor and the viola ton of treaty obligations, unless am much mistaken, is far from being flap doodle"
 But let us first know what we are talk ing about. Here is the text Of the third article of the -Pauncefote treaty of 1901:
 "The United States adopts as the basis of the naturalization of such ship canal the following rules, substantially as em- bodied in the convention of Constauti- nople. signed the 18th of October, 1888, for the free navigation of the Suez canal, that is to say. l. The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or It's citizens ar subjects in respect of the conditions ar charges of traffic or otherwise
 Now there is really very good ground for debate here. 'tis true. "All nations. as used in the treaty, is limited by the words s.observing these rules Yet it is hard to see how the rules could be observed at all if the United States were not to observe them. Furthermore, these are the rules upon which all nations agree to maintain and observe the neu- trality of the canal. Naturally enough the United States, in order to obtain such a guaranty. had, to sign away cer- tain privileges TO gain the guaranty of neutrality it conceded rights of which otherwise it might avail itself. The treaty was an agreement based upon cer- tain concessions in exchange for certain covenants and pledges.
 The treaty also uses these words, .so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation n'-that is. against any nation ''observing these rules Now any as used here. does not necessarily imply just one or few. A discrmina- ton by the United States against all na- tions except itself would be a violation of an agreement not to discriminate against any nation. guaranty that ex- cessive tolls would not be charged any nation would most assuredly he broken many times over if we were to charge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Words of Encouragement
ne Editor of The Age-Herald |:

To the Editor or The Age-Heralu.
 The papers from the pen of John Witherspoon DuBose that are being pub llshed in your paper are among the ablest and best of his productions, and that is saying d great deal Everybody should be glad to read what this gentleman has to say about our government and state institutions and what they mean. and what they cost in suffering and sacri- flee
 Mir DuBose Is well informed about re- construction acts. and the great multi tude of carpet baggers and scalawags that swooped down on the south after the surrender of the Confederate army. These were trying and stirring times, and the history of them should be read, and known both north and south. Let me beg that the younger people read them that they may know of the patriot ism, forbearance and liberality or the Confederate soldiers returning to deso- lated homes and to still suffer more humiliation and loss.
 Daughters and sons of the south, dc you know that your fathers have lef you a rich heritage; a noble manhood Can YOU ever forget them? No never and will you neglect them in their de clining years? No.
 Look upon them coming out rom un- der the dark shadow of oppression lks a cloud that has fallen upon beautiful sunset the sun shows its power ano sends the cloud far up into the heavens Can | say a word about the sketches being written by Mir. B. F. Riley, anc published In The Ase-Herald, and those of MT. George Cruikshank, editor of the Birmingham Ledger We all recognize the ability of these gentlemen. and the great worth of their letters. And what shall I say of your Dolly. who knows more of the weaknesses, and folly of men and women and who can tell them bet ter? There are many others of both sexes laboring faithfully on our daily papers sending comfort, and good cheer into our homes that l should be glad to mention, but now l can only send them word of encouragement and good wishes.
 J. LAWLER DARBY.
 Birmingham, August 16. 1912
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-17
The Honorary Degrees

The college commencements are no"
 practically over. and thousands Of young
 men and women must set about proving
 the value to themselves and the world
 of their degrees in course. The honor ary bestowments have an interest of their own and we know the best and worst results of these ceremonies for another year at least. We look to the colleges and universities for a discriminating se- lection of names to add to the scroll or contemporary fame if not to the list of immortals. but they frequently show a tendency to disappoint Us. It is their as- stunned responsibility not only to recognize " orthiness in those whose achievements are patent to all, but to act the part of discoyerers and focus public attention