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St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-12-28

Mrs. Clara Beiknap. OF noseln.a
spept the holidays with ner parents
Mr. and Mrs. Hardy h, Smath'
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Pay your poll tax BY December
81 or Yuu. Win be disfranchased.

Messrs. Joseph and billiard Col
I'M. OF Baton Rouge, Are spending
the holidays her. the guests Of their
mUtlSex and sister. ]. Sss n !
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-12-28
mr.. Jacob jenkins. of Sun. was .
visitor to Covington, last Monday

Mr. James ConnAughton has open
I'd a fruit and vegetable market 0,
CONN BID street, and 10 CARRYING :
line of goods that Is attracting con
siderable attention for their excel
fence. Among his vegetables, ne nas
some fall grown Irish potatoes. sever
of which weigh four pounds. They
were grown by Mr.. A. ". Jones, o.
his place near Covington. and wer'
planted on the. 18th of September
Mr.. Jones says that his potatoes pre-.
duced heavily, which Is not usual,
the case with the fall crop.
Miss Ruby Anderson has return.
ed home from Meridian, Miss, where
she has been attending school.
Grace Harper, the negro girl wit
ness In a murder case to come vi
in the District Court, died in the hos
pital in New Orleans last Thursday
WEI wish to call attention to thu
professional card Of Thus- NJ. Barr rs
attorney ar law, On tho opposite page
In resuming practice Judge Burnt
adds to his legal knowledge, the ex
pef14nce gAintd by his long presi
j deney % Judge Of the district cour
tt4nd hjes 4emilisrity: With precedent
and court funnak.
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Miss Ruby Anderson has return
ed home from Meridian. Miss, where
she has. been attending school. 7
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-12-28

Dendorf Cashier OF the
above statement b true
to the bestof m knowledge aud belief
Of December1S1s
T. Public
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
HE "FOUND" THORPE.
Now Alfred Venue Will Try to Find
Stars at Haskell.

Lawrence, Kan. Sept. 21.-Physi-
cal training of the Indian school and
the athletics of the institution will
take a new lease of life with the COM
ing of Alfred Venue to fill the posi-
ton of director of physical education
october L The authorities at Haskell
announced the appointment of Nj.
Venue for the place this morning.
Venue is at present disciplinarian
and band director at ChilOcco Indian
school. He took a course in the sum
mer session at the University year
ago under Dr. Naismith. His dining
to Haskell will mean a revival Of
sports and athletic affairs, which for
a long time have been rather neglect
ed Coach Kennedy of the football
team is counting especially upon
Venues assistance with the Haskell
squad as soon as he arrives in Law
renee.
As discoverer and trainer of Jas
Thorpe, Indian athlete, who started
for the United States in the Olympic
games this year, Venue enjoys wide
reputation among physical trainers
over the country. He was assisting
in the physical education at Carlisle
when Thorpe started to school there
and was the first man to realize the
Indian boys possibilities as an athlete.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
CLARK WANTS TO KNOW
Taft Man Wants White to Be More
Specific in His Threats.

Czeorqa A. Clark of the Republican
League is not awed by William Alien
Whites threat that the Republicans
must quit harassing the Bull Moose
candidates, or they will be denied ac-
cess to the Republican column. Now
clark invites White to make plain
inst what he intends to do and urges
him to carry out his threat
s9Does he mean inquiries Mr. Clark.
that as the price of the privilege at
his hands of voting for President Iatt'
they are to be compelled to close their
mouths in this campaign as to the is
sue affecting the integrity and very
life of their party? We will pay no
such price, Who is the us to whom
he refers? Is it the national commit
teeman of the Progressive party, and
tbe Bull Moose candidate whom he sup
ports? If he means that Republican in
sistence that Republican candidates
be loyal to the Republican party must
ceases if he gives up his plan to dis
franchise Republicans, his threat VIII
be ineffective. Republicans have a
right to harass the national COM
mitteeman, and the candidates of the
Progressive party, and of every party
that opposes the Republican party
.'Au differences will be settled when
every candidate now on the Republican
ticket who is supporting Roosevelt for
president follows the electors into the
Independent column and not until
then? Why remove the electors and
leave Stubs, Capper. ct al. in the Re
publican column? All are alike in their
support of another party's candidate
for president, and in trying to get
votes under false pretenses, and Ill
must go together What has White,
the national committeeman of another
party, to do with Republican harmony,
anyhow. He is trying to destroy the
Republican party. not to promote it,
Republicans should not take advice
from him or be influenced by his in
solent threats. He may be able to boss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
BUSINESS is BRISK.
Trade Is in Excess of All But the Best
Years.

New York, Sept. 21.-Bradstreet's
says:
All in all, business, despite this or
that irregularity, is certainly in excess
of all but the best of previous years,
and the fact that there is no DISPOSE
ton to rush things indicates healthy
conservatism that tends to make the
absence of speculation conspicuous.
Marked activity is still in evidence
throughout the west, southwest and
northwest, the last named section be-
ing probably more favorably circum-
s+anced in relative sense than in any
other part of the country. On the
other hand, the south, taken as a
whole, is hardly satisfied with the way
trade is developing.
In the dry goods line duplicate orders
from jobbers going to mill agents are
large in the aggregate, but small in
the individual cases. Cotton dress
goods, worsted, silk mixtures and
woolens for mems wear are in excep-
tionally good request. Industrial ac-
tivity continues, labor is scarce and
the steel trade strongly entrenched.
Business failures in the United
States for the week ending September
10 were 279, against 236 in the like
week of 1911.
Wheat, including -four, exports from
the United States and Canada for the
week ending September 10 aggregate
3,SO1,477 bushels, against 3SO8771
this week last year.
Corn exports for the week are 1920
bushels, against $3.50 in 1911.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
WOMEN'S CLUBS.

The Chaldean club will open its ses-
sions for the season with social meet
ing Monday, September 80, at the
home of Mrs o. E. Walker. Each
member has a paper during the club
year, choosing her own subject me
programs for the season are out. sum
mer vacation stories will be given at
the first meeting. The officers are:
Mrs. Silas Porter, president; Mrs. John
Sargent, ST., vice president, and Mrs
w F. Bowen, secretary and treasurer
The Portia club will meet Thursday
of next week with Mrs. E. q. roster
at her home on Topeka avenue. The
officers this year are: Mrs. ]. b
Gardner, president; Mrs. Frank
Daugherty vice president; Mrs. w. T.
Coolidge, secretary. The club antlc1-
pates Interesting year, as they have
an up to date program, dealing with
the issues of the times, touching on
subjects of economics, social reform,
and industrial problems The topic
for the first meetings paper will be
'Eugenics,'' and Mr.. Charles, superin-
tendent of the reform school, has been
asked to make the address SubJects
for subsequent meetings viii Pc
among others, organized charities,
schools of the future, women in INDUS
Try, the juvenile court, pure food and
drugs, etc.
The Monday Tourist club will hold
its first meeting of the year Monday,
September %, with Mrs. ]. P Carna-
han. 1t will be a guest day meeting,
and special program will be given.
The club will continue it's study of
various countries, and the territory
chosen for this year will include Cam
ada Mexico, Siberia, China and Corea.
The officers of the society are: Mrs.
c. L Martin, president; Mrs. c. l. Full
Ter. vice president, and Mrs A J. Car
ruth, secretary The office of treas
urer is vacant and will be filled at the
next business meeting.
The women of the West Side Fores-
Try club will have an evening meeting
at which their husbands will be guests,
Thursday, September &c, at the home
of Mrs. Thomas Page, 1000 West
Sixth avenue. Professor w. A. Harsh
barger, who is one of the most success
full flower gardeners in Topeka, will
give an address on roses. The PRO-
gram will begin at o'clock
The Clio club met last Monday
with Mrs. J. P. Wahle, 1903 Clay
street.
The first meeting of the Sorosis
club will be held Saturday, Septem-
Der %. Miss Ethel AIdrich will have
the paper for the afternoon, and those
who will take part in the discussion
are Mrs. Frank Doster, Mrs. D. c.
Nellis and Miss Lola Graham.
The Thursday Study club will have
its first meeting of the year Thursday,
October 10, at the home of Mrs. S.
l.. Nelson, west of town. The club
will study Shakespeare this year.
The First District Federation will
meet the first week in October in
Centralia, Kan.
The Good Government club will
hold "A meeting Thursday of each
week at the Y. W. c. a. up to the first
of November. At the meeting last
Thursday, a program of readings and
music was given by Miss Vera Benja-
min, Miss Hazel Bennett and Mrs. G.
@ Henley of Oakland. Encoura ging
reports of the work during fair week
were given, and plans for the future
were begun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
JUDGE TWISS IS DEAD.
Was at One Time on Federal Bench
in Utah.

Kansas City. Sept. 21.-Stephen p.
Twiss, formerly a federal court Judge
in Utah, died mere today after a I'm
gering illness. He was IS years old.
Mr.. Twiss was appointed associate jus
tice of the supreme court of the ter
ritory of Utah by President Hayes IN
1880 and served until 1885 in which
year he retired. He had lived in Kan
sas City since While on the Utah
bench his Interpretation of the Ed
widespread notice. Mr.. TWiss was borL
in Charlestown. Mass, in 1927. III
served as i member of the Massa-
chusetts legislature in 1856. From
1872 until 1876 he was a member OF
the Missouri legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
COUNTRY
KanSan Furnishes Finances for
SantO Domingo.
Former Winfield Man Builds
Roads and Phone Lines.

Winfield, Kan, Sept. 21--Local in
terest in the turmoil at Santo Domir-
go has increased since it became
known that a former Winfield man is
vitality interested in the outcome.
Samuel M. Jarvis, brother of J. F..
Jarvis of this city, is the Interested
party. Not long ago S. NJ. Jarvis built
a telephone line into Sauto DominSo
and financed a railroad across the
island. He had previously handl ii
large financial deals in Cuba and was
very successful. He was the hacker
of the bank of the country and IL =
terested in many affairs in the devel-
opment of the country lie was tne
American representative of bankers
who loaned money to the government
The government also was one of the
parties in the construction of the rail
road.
DefauIted Their Payments
Because of the turmoil in the island
country the government and the local
borrowers 1efaulted in the payments
when they became due. BY appeal TO
the. state department an arrangement.
was made whereby the government
put agents in the consular offices ara
collected the revenue. A portion Of
the revenues was given the American
bankers and the remainder was g1Ver
the island government A peculiar
feature of the case was the fact that
was more money turned over to the
government OF Santo Domingo after
the American bankers had received
their share than formerly when they
supposed they received it all. The dif-
ference was that the graft which the
Domingans had received for collecting
revenues was off.
Banker at Winfield.
Mr.. Jarvis, the leader of the finan-
ciers interested in this arrangement
came to Cow1ey county in All
early day and homesteaded. He was
in the banking and money loaninS
business for many years here and had
a wide acquaintance in the county. He
has visited Winfield many times since
leaving here, the last time was about
q vaaT or so ago. The story of Mr..
Jarvis interests in Cuba is told in the
New York story of his suit against
Mr. Roland R. Conklin, another VIM
4a1d man who with Mr.. Jarvis, LAID
the foundation of a fortune while liV-
ing in Cowley county
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
ASKS $4,000 FOR HER
Wichita Man Says Wife's Affections
Were AIienated.

Wichita, Kan, Sept. 21.-Fonowing
the visit to Wichita, the first of the
week, of Mrs. Bertha M. Adams, wife
of the station agent for the Santa Fe
at Ewell and her daughter, Helen. /
aged IS, w. A Adams reached this
city Wednesday night and after some
detective work filed suit against c. S.
Brown, this city, for $4,000, alleging
that Mr.. Brown had alienated the al :
fections of his wife.
Mr.. Adams, who also owns a fine
farm near Ewell, claims that for the
past two years Mr.. Brown, a widower
has been "unduly attentive" to bis
wife and has carried on a correspon-
dence with her regularly. But he
complains most specifically about
what he alleges occurred in this city
on September 1 and II.
According to his attorneys, his
daughter, Helen, who accompanied her
mother to Wichita, told her father
that Mr.. Brown and her mother were
in compromising circumstances at the
Montezun2a rOoming house.
For alleged alienation of the affee-
lions of Mrs. Adams, the husband asks
$500 actual and prays the court to
give him $4,000 punitive damages. The
suit was filed in the local district
court Thursday morning.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
BOOK NOTES.

Topeka people who have been de-
lighted with Joel Chandler Harris
negro dialect stories will be surprised
to learn that right here in Topeka is
a woman who writes the language Of
the lowly with quite as much realism
and pathos as the creator of Brer
Rabbit She is Miss Effie Graham
who is a teacher in the high school
and who has long been known as one
of the most brilliant woman of Kan
sas. She has just given the world her
first book The Passin' On Party
and to say that it is delightful is pu--
ting it mildly.
Miss Graham has devoted herself 20
the study of a type, the before the
war negro and she has evolved from
her study and experiences a book that
deserves a place with Mrs. Wigs Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21

the Cabbage Patch" Every sentence
is filled with what might be termed
heart felt "reminiscences" 1t tells
the story of just such a couple as
every one knows or has known and It
sounds the depths of human sympathy
and feeling.
The story is built around Uncle
Jerry Ferguson and his wife Juny. IT
begins with a description of their rude
home which bears the unique number
0O4& Yam avenue. AS may be con-
jectured the figures originally formed
part of the numbers of a box car
which ''Unk'' Jerry had rescued from
a wreck. The house was built of 9TH
er nOndeScript material gathered here
and there and the roof was of tin,
made from tin cans which the aged
but industrious negro had obtained in
rubbish piles in back yards.
The title of the book is taken from
one of the concluding chapters. Aunt
Juny who had helped at many of the
functions" among the white people
had long desired to give a reception of
her own. When her life had almost
run it's course and she was confined to
her bed her great desire was that she
might have a ''Passin On Party in
her humble home and her physician
advised her solicitous white friends
that it would do no harm to give one
and so it was arranged just as the
negro woman desired. The descrip-
ton of this party which was attended
W
grades of colored people, is a gem.
Aunt Juny from her sick bed directed
the arrang ements and throughout the
day dispensed her philosophy for the
benefit of her guests 1t was happy
elimination for her years of toll and
hardship and her life went out in a
veritable blaze of glory with the de-
parture of the last guest.
One of the excellent features of the
book is the illustrations. They are by
Dorothy Dulin and are we'll drawn and
worthy the text they embellish. The
book is published by A. c. McC1urg &
Co. of Chicago. and is well printed
and tastefully bound. It is made to
sell for 81 and is on sale in the TOpe-
ka book stores.
Mrs. Clara Louise Burnham's novel
1.-THE Right Princess, published by
Hcughton Mifflin Co., has been drama
tised and recently played its first week
successfully in Denver. The real her
oine in Mary Agnes Hamilton's new
story Less Than the Dust CHoughton
Mifflin Coz is the narrator, the locker
on. She it is who saves her too i'm
passioned sister and her too reserved
brother-in-law from making wreck
of their lives. Many readers will not
approve her method but none may
doubt her sincerity, nor yet her gift
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21

of storytelling. LESS Than the Dust
is a good book to read, good book to
look back upon.
"Cheiro'' has a most striking person
atty and equally striking is the origi-
nality of his thought, which reveals
itself in most convincing exposition
of the essential truth underlying the
study of disposition and of character
reading by means of the period of birth.
This forms the subject matter of an
alluring book published by Rand Nc
Nally & Company, entitled when
Were You Born?'' 1t gives consider
able attention, also, to the meaning of
the number of each day. By the study
of this sO-called occult science, in ac-
cordance with such methods as are
indicated in this work. is the unmistak-
able influence of time and seasons on
human life discovered, and there IS
demonstrated the perfection of the
mechanism of the universe.
The characteristics of persons born
IN the various months of the year he
Spec1heS with absolute definitenesS and
glimpses of 1ife's natural affinities
are thus afforded. The author enter
ta1nS a firm conviction that knowIedga
OF ones own character and tendencies.
and wisdom to discern the disposition
OF others, leads to success in the various
relations of man to man. He likewise
belleVes that those who weigh carefully
and act on such information as has
been culled in an unprecedented expe-
r1ence along these lines, and set forth
IN the pages of this book I1nouestjon
ably will reap happiness for ali davs RI
ccme. ~
On September IS, D. Appleton &
Company published Robert W. cham
pers new society novel 1.-The StrecTs
OF AscaIon.' 1t is expected that this
new story will exceed in popularity
any of the previous books of this mr..
l1f1c but always satisfying writer, The
DOCK is illustrated oy a large
number of page and double mage rIc-
lures by Charles Dana Gibson.
Williams Literature, published in
seven volumes, by the American Book
Co. is a series that provides a com
plete course of supplementary reading
for the first eight school years book
seven being intended for the seventh
and eighth years The material has
been selected and arranged with great
care, and viii train children to love
good literature. Each selection is not
only school room classic, but is wei
worth reading for its own sake. and
will interest the pupil. Much space is
devoted to poetry, especially in the
lower books. Many of the selections
are particularly suitable for memoriz-
ing, while others are especially adapt
ed for the cultivation of INSTALLATION
and of expressive reading. Others re
useful in connection with language
work. The illustrations are unusually
attractive. Foot notes are given in
connection with many of the authors,
calling attention to some of their hest
works.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
LADDIE is DEAD
Scotch Collie Who Was Favor
tie at WaShburn
Killed by Auto at His New
Home in San Diego.

George White, former Washburn
football star and reporter on the State
Journal, writes from San Diego, where
he is now working on a newspaper, to
tell of the death of Laddie, the Scotch
collie dog of Washburn fame
Mr. White says:
Laddie. the intimate friend of two
generations of Washburn college stu
dents, idol of the College Hill district
in Topeka and faithful guardian escort
OF a hundred fair co-eds is dead. He
noon under the wheels of an auto
mobile in this city on upper Fifth
street near Palm avenue
Blue blooded Scotch collie though he
was, his remains were denied respect
able burial and were assigned to a
desiccating plant. F'iremen from a
nearby station had dragged the body
off the street and from the number on
his collar notified his master W. E.
Sterne- He was busy perfecting the
machinery of municiual dredge built
by the Sterne Brothers Engine COM
pany for work in connection with the
million dollar harbor improvements
and could not leave.
He telephoned the news to his home
Miss Grace Sterne and Mrs. Helen
Whitcomb, nee Sterne. Ladies' chief
companions, were heartbroken and sent
for Walter Whitcomb to rescue the
remains but his efforts were of nr
avail. Nv
Ladd1e achieved his greatest distfnc-
ton as the property of Norman Plass
ex-presldent of Washburn college. He
grew up with the presidents daughter
Helen, and was her constant guardian
during her girlhood. In vacation times
I4aod1e invariably was a party to the
vacation trip. In the summer of 1907
whlIe the family were at Manitou. Col.
large signs appeared in a number of
shop windows and at hotels that Lad
die was lost After several days. when
search had been abandoned he return
ed oVerJoyed to the door of the PIass
cottage.
In the summer of 1908 when Norman
Plass resigned to venture into the bust
ness world, the family decided they
would have to leave Laddie behind
w. E. Sterne purchased him for his
daughters. Until the Plass family
moved, one or the other of the Sterne
sisters made daily trips to the college
campus to reclaim their pet
Their removal to San Diego COM
pletely broke Ladies' old ties to his
campus home, the college and it's stud
ents, faculty and functions. He made
friends quickly in his California home
and many will miss his companionship
but his chief mourners will be found
among the hundreds of men and women
scattered throughout the United States
and abroad who were girls and boys at
WaShburn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
Chronic Eczema

Sufferers from eczema of many years
standing have good reasons to renew
hopes of a permanent cure. They may
have tried many remedies without sat
isfactory results, but that should not
keep them from buying Brinkley San
ador, which is guaranteed to satisfy
and has stood the test of eight years
use having thousands of cures to its
credit. 1t is known, used and highly
recommended by many prominent
people who have had occasion to USE
Il. Your druggist sells it. ask him.
For sale and guaranteed by Chas w.
Kohl, Rex Pharmacy, Tenth and KAN
SaA avenues.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21

out openly for suffrage. Here SEN
ator LaFollette, who is the biggest
power in Wisconsin politics, has come
out strongly for the proposed amend
ment, while many other big men have
placed their o. K upon it. The liquor
interests. too, are less hostile to the
movement here than they were iii
Ohio.
The big fight here began with tire
opening of the county fairs early in
Septem Der. Men and women of note
from other states have been called
in. and every fair in the state has It's
suffrage speakers. At the state fair
which was held in Milwaukee Septem-
Der 10 to IA, there was much speak