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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1913-03-17

ScT1OuSly HurI Wnen SCIeeL Car SlTuck
his wagon.
Thos. WindeIe, s2z E. 45th ST., ser
iously injured by State st. car.
Railroads in Illinois, during year
ending June 80, 1912, killed 965 per-
sons.
% men arrested in gambling raid
on Turkish Coffee House, SOC N
Green st. Charged with disorderly
conduct.
Local parcel postoffice leads all Of
fees during month of February.
Frank Yanker, 1917 Crosby ST.,
dead from injuries received when he
was beaten unconscious at his home
Saturday. Police looking for Stanley
Sardis, who according to Julia Yam
ker, II, did the beating. o.
Small loss in fire which broke out
in Verdi Theater, w. 35th st. and S.
Seeley av. Alice Peters, pianist, play
ed Wearing of the Green" which
stopped panic.<
John Chapman, crane operator at
Illinois Steel. Co., killed when iron
mold fell on him.
chas. WeizeI, 1924 HegeIand av.,
painter, killed when scaffold at Wolff
Mnfg. Co., COL W. Lake st., fell.
Mrs. j. G. Rice, 5134 Indiana av.,
victim of burglars. Wedding jewelry
and silverware worth $500 stolen.
Mrs. Katherine McGrath, 5242 S.
Morgan ST., dropped dead in st. John
the Baptist Roman Church yesterday.
Louis Satkus, 2010 RubIe ST., seri-
ously stabbed during fight in front of
saloon at 18th and Union SITS. Frank
Arlossh, q, 1855: Canalport av., ar
rested.
chas. Potter, Racine, Wis.,, gave
stranger $45 to keep for him. Wants
police to find stranger.
Man entered saloon of Carl Eng
quist, 500 w. North av., as Gus
toner was handing bartender a SIS
bill. Pointed gun at them and took
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOYS.
Wizard Burbank Compares Field of
Agriculture With Professions.

Luther Burbank by experience and &C
complfshn1ent doubtless the best qualified
man in the world today to make such a.
statement, says the great opportunity for
our boys and young men is in agricul-
ture- He points out that after the young
man has spent eight years at hard study
or medicine, the law engineering he
mas not made a success; he is only pre-
pared to commence the battle for it
whereas, to add but one kernel of corn
to each ear grown in this country in a
single year would increase the supply
5.oOO,OO bushels. One Improvement in the
potato is already paying back $17.OOO,OOO a
year Everything we eat and wear comes
out of the ground. With less than half
our population raising things, should there
be any wonder that the cost of living has
increased IS per cent in fifteen years? To
quote from Mr.. Burbank:
What the world needs, urgently and
now, is men who can increase the forage
from our present acreage so that Is cents
VIII buy a pound of the choicest sirloin
now.
What the world needs is not theory, or
agitation, or college lore; there are plenty
of these. and at a cost of $3.50, 900. 600 per
annu.n in money and who knows how
much time, they have succeeded in in
creasing our crop yield only bare per
cent
What the world needs is men who can
do to agriculture and to horticulture
what Edison did to electricity Carnegie
to steel, and the Nanderbilts, Hills and
Harr1nans to transportation - develop
their efficiency Mechanics
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SOME REMARKABLE TREES.
Trees That Kill, That Rain and Pro-
duce Milk and Butter.

Professor Stevens, an Australian nat
uralist, recently gave some interest
ing facts concerning the really mar
velous eccentricitieS of different trees
in distant lands: in the West Indies,
the Canary Islands, in Arabia and in
the Island of Madagascar.
On one of the Canary Islands there
is a tree which NdiSpelS. from its
branches actual rain to such an extent
that cistern placed at its base is
never untitled. This tree grows in one
of the driest islands, through which
no water ever flows. The branches
of the trees are a cloud that changes
into moisture frequently and sheds
clear water.
In Arabia there is the insane
hysterica1 tree. so named from the
fact that all who eat it's seeds are at
fected as if they had taken an over
dose of laughing gas. 1t is not a large
agascar. 1t is from seven to ten feet
high. The seeds have a sweet, sick
ish taste and a decidedly unpleasant
Odor. AS soon, however, as they have
been pounded up and swallowed the
user shows an extreme hilarity along
with wild dancing, singing, and utter
extravaganCe of language and mo-
ton. 1t is claimed no other drug in
the world has a similar effect
In contrast with this silly tree is
the ferocious man eating tree of Mad
agascar. 1t is from sevent to ten feet
high and something like a grapefruit
in shape. with rough, ugly tendrils
stretching out in all directions. The
trunk is black and as hard as stone.
At the top of the tree are six palpi,
six feet high. that rear straight up
and Irvine and twirl about necessarily.
There is a cup also at the top which
contains a clear, appetiZing looking
fluid But alas for him who drinks it.
He becomes peculiarly crazed and I'M
able to get down. Then it is that the
whirling palpi Irvine themselves slow
1y but surely about the helpless man
until all life is gone. This species of
tree is naturally avoided as a deadly
serpent would be, and the natives
consider that it is actually alive and
possessed of an evil and terrible spirit.
In South America there is a most
convenient milk producing tree, which
the natives take advantage of for the
feeding of their children. By boring
a hole in its trunk a clear sweet
stream of milk energies. which is both
hea1thful and delicious.
In the same class with this prac-
teal tree is one in Africa which pro-
duces an excellent butter and another
in Ceylon which gives forth bread.
This bread is in the form of fruit.
which, when it is baked. is cut and
eaten like our own bread. It has a
somewhat similar taste.
A little different in variety of
product, but just as useful. is one in
the West Indies, the bark of which re
sembles an exquisite fi1my lace. It
can be stretched out and is worn by
the native women of fashion and po-
sition.
In Guinea there is another tree
which yields a peculiar kind of fruit
= huge fruit resembling in size u
cannonball and which makes ire
I71endous noise when it pops
Perhaps the most productive of all
trees is the carnamba tree, similar to
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BOWSER, HE CHOPS.
He Does 1t to Exercise His Shoulder
Muscles.

When Mr. Bowser came down to his
breakfast the other morning Mrs. Bow
ser noted that he had old suit on,
and as he made no explanation she
queried:
Aren't you going to the Office to-
day?'
MOT this forenoon was the reply.
You didn't say anything about it
last night
mo? Must a husband tell every
thing he knows?'
But you are not going to stay home
to do any tinkering. 1 have just got
everything in fine order. and I don't
want you prowling around. AS the flies
have disappeared, you might take the
screen doors off,
At that moment a boy rang the base
ment bell and left a new axe for Mr..
BowSer.
What possessed you to buy an axe?'
demanded Mrs. BoWSer.
please speak a little more gently
when you address me-" he reproved
But we have got three or four old
axes lying around the house"
81 know it"
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up to seventy or eighty miles, or even
higher.
The wreck is a most regrettab1e af-
fair. If we are going to have trains
wrecked every time there is a fog we
had getter get some anti-fog. The
commission owes it to the travelling
public to make a most searching in
quiry into this wreck. and no stone will
be left unturned in the effort to ascer-
tain the facts and fix the responsible
ity'
The commerce commissions probe Is
expected to reveal the fact that the
cars of the wrecked train We're rotten
wooden ones and went into powder;
that some had iron sheathing and
looked like steel constructed Pullmans
but were in reality very flimsy.
The investigation also is expected to
show that Engineer Miller, who is
blamed for the disaster had been over
worked for a week, and had had only
an hours sleep during the twenty-four
hours preceding the wreck.
Public FEELING throughout New Eng
land is very high against the New Ha-
ven. that system has had more
wrecks than any other road in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
MARRIED 8 TIMES IN WEEK
George Witzoff Held World Record
With More Than 100 Wives.

Women as a rule, are more given to
the marrying habit than men. though
no woman has reached the worlds
marrying record made by George Wit
zoff. the notorious bigamist, whose
maria ges totaled over 100 In one
week he went through eight cere-
monies.
Almost s strange a case was that of
a Russian woman condemned not long
age to Siberia. She had been married
to twenty husbands and had treated
them all alike. running away from each
in turn and taking all their portable
property with her. She was most at
tractive woman and highly educated.
A woman named Schmeyer, of Penn
sylvania, was sent to prison not long
ago for bigamy. Though she was only
81 years old, she had married twelve
men in ten years. Her only comment
in court was that she had liked them
ALL
A Boer woman named De Beers,
whose sixth husband died recently, is
the proud mother and stepmother of
40 children, while her grandchildren
number go. Four of her six husbands
were widowers. all with fairly large
families when she married them.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
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was finally ready to deliver telling blow.
He didn't deliver it, however, until he had
made three four false motions and
found the tree firmly rooted in place.
Then he set his teeth. got a firmer hold
of the and struck with all his might.
He had forgotten about distance, and the
blow was too far over. The AK handle
struck the tree, and the flew away
the end of the handle hit Mr.. Bowser in
the pit of the stomach. The whole world,
including Alaska and the Sandwich
Islan.s went whirling around with him
for a few seconds. and then he seemed
to be falling through space Ten minutes
later he opened his eyes and knew that he
had not been buried alive. Sounding soft
and low and far away he heard Mrs.
Bowser's voice saying to a boy:
No. my son, he is not dead. but merely
resting
viii he cut the tree down after he gets
rested?' asked the boy.
Il do not think he will-not today. He
may try to milk the cow-build a rail
fence-c1ean out the well or use a scythe
but he won't tackle that tree again for
several days. How do you feel Mr..
BOWSer?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04
TAME OSTRICHES INCREASE
Small Number of PIumes Now Come
From Wild Birds

"A very small proportion of our ostrich
ieatherS comes from the wild birds now
adayS- twenty years ago there were but
lew ostrich farms. and the great ma iority
OF ostrich feathers came from wild birds
Africa. "
OF course. after the ostriches were kill
ed the feathers were pulled out but now
mat the ostrich farms thrive and the
plrds are stripped of their plume feathers
and turned loose to grow more greater
care has TO be taken.
The white ostrich feathers are not fully
developed. There are also black and drab
feathers on the same bird, but when the
white feathers are fully developed they
lose a great deal of their whiteness and
IN the olden days had to be bleached.
Now the Ostriches are bIindfolded with
a hood on the farms and led into a sort
OF crate-like coop, where the black and
but the white feathers are never pulled
out, as this would damage tie great
sockets in which the large duills grow
that no more would be forthcoming so
the quilts of the white feathers are care
fully cut off and the quilts allowed to re-
main for several months, when they come
out naturally and the new feathers start.
t1fty years ago there were only 50 tame
oStrlcheS known in all South Africa. And
in that year only sixteen pounds of feath-
eTs were exported, and they came for the
most part from wild birds. brought down
by the hunters. Last year there were
about 10000 domesticated ostriches III
South Africa. and nearly 900, 600 pounds of
feathers Were exported at value of more
than ESQ, 000--London Chronicle.
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New Haven, Conn, Oct Ave
purpose to find out this time what is
wrong with the New York, New Haven
& Hartford railroad. We will go to the
bottom of the disastrous wreck with a
searching probe. Evidently there is
something radically wrong that our
previous inquiries have not disclosed. -
This was the statement of Charles
c. McChord of the interstate COM
merce commission. who is in charge of
the investigation now being made by
the government into the causes of the
latest New Haven wreck
1T appears to me that the New Ha-
ven officials have the speed mania
highly developed, just as officials of
other railroads have. In the case of
the New Haven, however, there is lit
tie ground for it, inasmuch as nobody
is after them. they having a monopoly
of transportation in New England.
IF they want to run their trains
sixty miles an hour of course they can
do so, but the trouble is that when a
train is late the engineer does not stop
a t sixty miles. but may run the speed
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SOME REAL SCOTCH THRIFT
Canny Inventor HarnesSed Mice and
Made Them Spin Thread.

To an ingenious Scotchman goes the
credit of being the first person to har-
ness mouse and make him a mon
ey-earning factor. He was David
Hutton, a native of DunfermIine, and
his unexpected death alone prevented
him from carrying out his expert
ments on much larger scale.
Hutton erected a small mill at Dun
fermline in 1920 and began the spin
ming of thread. Just how he made
use of the small rodents is set forth
in a pamphlet called Curiosity Cof-
fee Room
Il had occasion to be in Perth, and,
when inspecting the toys and trim
kets that were manufactured by the
French prisoners in the depot there
tracted by a little toy house with a
wheel in the gable of it that was run
ming rapidly around, impelled by the
gravity of a common house mouse.
For one shilling l purchased the
house, mouse and wheel. Inclosing
it in a handkerchief, on my journey
homeward l was compelled to con-
template its favorite amusement.
But how to apply half-ounce pow
CT (Which is the weight of a mouSe)
to a useful purpose was the difficulty.
At length the manufacture of sewing
thread seemed the most practicable"
Though Mr.. Hutton proved that an
ordinary mouse would average a run
of 10 y miles day. he had one mouse
which ran the remarkable distance
of is miles in that time.
A half-penny's worth of oatmeal
was sufficient for its food for 35 days.
during which time it ran 362 miles.
He kept two mice constantly engaged
in the making of sewing thread for
more than a year.
This thread-mill was so constructed
that the mouse was able to twist
Irvine and reel from 100 to 200
threads day, Sundays not excepted.
To perform this task it had to run
10 Il miles a day. which it did with
perfect ease every other day.
On the half-pennys worth of oat-
meal, which lasted for five weeks,
one of these little mice made $3.50
threads % inches long, and as a penny
was paid to women for every hank
made in the ordinary way, the mouse
at that rate earned IS cents every six
weeks.
Allowing for board and for ma
chinery there was a clear yearly prof
it from each mouse of $3.50.
1t was Mr.. Hutton's intention to
apply for the loan of the Dunfermline
cathedral, which was empty. where
he planned to set up 10000 mouse
mills and still leave room for the
keepers and several hundreds of spec
tators: but this wonderful project was
never carried out because of the in
ventor's student death.-New York Press.
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United States during the past two
years.
New Haven Wrecks.
New Haven train wrecks during last
two years:
July r. 1911. Bridgeport, Conn,
twelve killed, 100 injured.
Aug. IS. 1911. Middletown, Conn, go
injured.
Oct Is. 1911, Berlin Junction, Conn,
two killed, five injured
June IL. 1912. Clinton, Mass, eight in
jured.
July %. 1912. Stonington Junction.
Conn.,, three killed. four injured.
Aug s. 1912 Dorchester, Mass, five
killed, sixteen injured.
Oct. 8. 1912. Westport, Conn, nine
killed, fifty injured.
Nov. 16. 1912. Greens Farms. Conn.,.
thirty-five injured.
Nov. IT, 1912. Putnam, Conn, one
killed, two injured
Feb. %. 1918. Waterbury, Conn,
twenty-one injured.
June II, 1913. Stamford. Conn.,, five
killed, twenty injured.
Sept. ,. 1913. New Haven, Conn,
twenty-three killed. two score injured.
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isis that tree still there?' he family
asked.
oh yes-right there
And it didn't kick me in the stomach?''
No"
Then you did. You were determined L
should make a failure of it. and while 1
was busy you sneaked up and
Mr.. Bowser. are you convinced?'' she
Interrupted
You betcher life I am he shouted as
he sat up.
And can't you recall that 1T was a fur
niture van that turned in here and ran
over you?"
Mr.. Bowser looked at her suspiciously,
and then got up and threw the ak over
the fence and followed her home Iimping
in all his legs and arms and stomach
Copyright. 1913, by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate.)
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the palm which f1ourishes along the
Rio Grande. When it is young it
produces vinegar. while the roots have
a taste similar to sarsaparilla- The
trunk gives out a fiber and also d
flower. The branches give forth nuts
which, when roasted, can be used as
coffee. The trees wood is serviceab BILE
to make musical instruments. Lastly,
there is a wax extracted from it that
is used to make candles.-Chicago
ri
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

WANTED will teach several young
men the automobile business in ten
weeks by mail and assist them to good
positions. No charge for tuition until
position is secured. Write today. R. S.
Price, Automobile Expert, Box 463, Los
Angeles Calf.
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Tramp-"Yes. lady. loved girl SIZE
wouldn't heV me. and I became wander
err Woman-"Poor chapl If she had
married you, al would have been WE'LL
Hampton, ] dunno. Me friend, out in
de road dere, is de Teller wot got herr'--
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-04

''Ah! I'm glad to get this sonnet,'' ex-
claimed the editor. HAS IT any merit?''
asked his assistant. Not at all; but
stamp was just what 1 needed The poet
sends two. birmingham Age-Herald.
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REAL ESTATE MAN wants position WITH
live concern where energy and aDlnly
will be appreciated. Address T. b. w.,
cara
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NURSING ard general Homework in con-
finement SLIGO day. GA Western ave. Mrs.
Addie Ream.
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WANTED-M HELP.

MEN WANTED to learn the barber trade.
No limit to terms; best and latest meth
DDS: position secured; commission paid
while learning; tools given absolutely free
with the lowest tuition ever offered. Call
or write Topeka Barber College, 327 Kan
saS ave. Topeka, Kan.
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work. private family or
janitor. Address A. A, care Journal.
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LOCAL REPRESENTATIVE WANTED
No canvassing or soliciting required.
Good income assured. Address National
COOPERATIVE Realty Co., V 726, Marden
Building. " aShlr gton. D. c.
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PHONE 1888 for help and call at 532 Kan
sas ave. FOR employment.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

MRS D. F. LEISENRING. dressmahng.
Prices reasonable; work guaranteed l9iO
w. 14th st. Phone 2745 Red.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

REAII ESTATE ITfANSF EiAeS.
S. c. Hagerty to NJ. Loop, pit res.
and lots in Maple Grove and in
F1reyS add ---..--......:.'-.: oVV
IS sooeka ave 200
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GOVERNMENT positions are good. Why
mer United States civil service secretary
examiner. Write now for free booklet
L 50 Patterson Civil Service School, Ro-
chester, N Y
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Statesmen to call upon banks only in
every city. High class. legitimate prop
ositon. Established responsible firm.
Large commission. Repeat orders, per-
manent. Security Home Bank Co, Chi
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WANTED-SALESMEN.

SAL SMAN-Experienced In any line to
sell general trade in Kansas. UneXcelled
speciality proposition. Commission CON
tract. $500 weekly for expenses. Con-
tinental Jewellery Co, 323-40 Continental
Bldg. Cleveland, Ohio.
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WANTED-Men at once to learn barber
trade. Jobs always waiting. Better
wages than you earn without trade.
Tools given. No limit to terms. Drop a
card for particulars. Moler Barber Col
lege. Kansas City. Mo.
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SALESMEN-Make $3.50 month selling
dealers highly advertised goods,
elusive or side line. $500 commission every
order No samples to carry. Mammoth
Cigar Co. St Louis, Mo.
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WANTED-Salesman at once TO handle
tea and coffee Dodge City, Kan. Trade
esta blished. Call or write l.. c. Branson,
61O Kansas ave. Topeka. Kan.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-08-20
RABUN NEWS.

Rabun, Aug. 1S.--Dr. Martin, OF
Simpsonville. has located in the Hick.
ory Tavern section, and is with Mr.
j. l.. Baldwin. Hickory Tavern.
We are glad he has located in this
section and hope he'll be pleased with
his field
Mr.. II. f. Babb and daughter, Miss
Mae. attended the Mahatfey- Bennett
wedding in Towmvile Thursday.
Miss Mamie Kate Hudgens OF Lau-
rens is visiting Miss Rucia Wolff this
week
Mr.. Clarence Nichols and family OF
Fountain Inn were visiting In this
Friendship and Eden communities last
week
Mr.. VIII Bolt purchased a Ford
touring autimobile last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Houston Babb are all
smies-its little girl
Mrs. Rebecca Owens and Mrs. Nancy
Owens spent Friday with Mrs. T. f,
Babb.
Mrs. John Mahon, and son Frank
of Greenville, are visiting in this com
munity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archie Beam Of Easley
after continued visit Of several days
returned to their home Monday
Mrs. Emma Brooks and Mrs. Kate
Owens of Eden spent Friday with
Mrs. II. III. Babb.