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The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
FIGHT WITH AN OCTOPUS

Attacked by an octopus a young
man Of Waimate Island, n. T., had
an exciting experience, a few days
ago. He was gathering musseis
in the SET close TO the shore on
one OF the islands in the gulf
when the young man with cries for
help attracted the notice of his father.
On arriving TO see what was the mat
ter, the father found that an octopus
had one OF its tenacles. as big as a
mans wrist wound round the boys
leg. The creature had 80 strong hold
OF the lad that it drew blood before
they could be separated.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
WHERE IS GARDEN or EDEN?

Forty miles west of old Bagdad, in
the vast level valley OF She historic
Euphrates. near Hit, of the Hittites,
lies the traditional Garden OF Eden.
Such is the interesting conclusion OF
Sir William Willcocks. the famous
Egyptian engineer and Bible student,
and many other authorities agree
with him.
"Out of Eden came a river whic,
watered a garden, and from thence
was parted and became four rivers
And these four rivers, known in Bible
days as the Pison, Gihon. Hiddekel
ard Euphrates-the ancient River OF
Babylon"-have been identified by
Sir William.
1t was while studying. surveying
and mapping Chaldea previous TO
starting work on the giant irrigation
scheme planned for Mesopotamia,
that Willcocks became convinced
that the real Garden OF Eden lay in
the region described.
The Garden Of Eden lies away over
in Turkish Arabia, too far from the
beaten tourist trail to draw many
sightseers. Probably not a dozen
white travellers see It in a whole year
To reach Chaldea the safest and sur
est route lies through the Suez. over
Pharaoh's bones in the Red Sea
through the Straits of b-el-Mandeb,
up the hot Persian Gulf, and thence
6dO miles along the winding TigriS
ADD Euphrates.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
CLOSE CALL FROM DEATH

Falling 80 feet, a five-year-old child,
Lily Keys, daughter of Band Corporal
Keys of the Lancashire Fusiliers, had
n remarkable escape from death at
Dover the other afternoon. While
picking flowers near the edge of the
cliff facing the military hospital, she
lost her balance and fell a distance OF
so feet. Drummer Jones of the Berk-
shire regiment witnessed the fall and
found the child semi-conscious. At
the military hospital it was found that
beyond cuts and bruises she was un-
injured.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
THE CORPSE PLANT

The Indian pipe. or corpse plant, Is
a strangely interesting kind OF para
SITE It has a bunch of fbrous roots
which attach themselves to the roots
OF other plants, or sometimes they
grow in decayed vegetable matter
The plant is white, and has no leaves
but little bracts instead. The flowers
have no odor and turn black as soon
as they are plucked. Many botanists
claim that the Indian pipe is au un.
pleasant plant, but we have not found
It so. Il attaches itself for life &c
one plant which 1t chooses for its
friend. Some botanists call II life IN
DEATH"
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
TAKES BATH IN PORTER

Swimming in porter at a Cork brew.
cry the other day a workman had a
narrow escape from drowning. A vat
of porter, with capacity of $50 bar
rels of SO gallons, burst, the contents
rushing like a flood through the brew
cry yard and into the cellars. The
porter which reached the roadway
was diluted with water from a fire.
hose.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
STRANGE DEEP SEA FISH

Some OF the strangest OF natures
grotesques are to be found among the
fishes, as witness this photograph of a
marine creature, which rather sug-
gests a parrakeet. 1t is denizen of
the ocean depths.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
No Facilities.

They say that Cupid strikes the
match that sets the world aglow. But
where does Cupid strike the match?-
that's what I'd like to know. "-Cornell
Widow.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15

Red Cross Ball Blue will wash double as
many clothes AZ any other blue. Don't
put your money into any other. ADV.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15

There is nothing more pitiful than
a life spent in thinking nothing but
self.-Farrar
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
THE MARKETS.
Live Stock. Grain and General Farm
Produce.

Observation-Disclosures, 1929.
Market 10d15c lower on all grades.
Choice steers, sSqS.25; good 10
choice butcher steers, 1000 to 1900
TBS. $7q775; light to good butcher
steers and heifers, 700 to 800 ms.
s6.50Q7; mixed butchers fat cows,
S5.25@6.50; Gamers, S2.25@4; COM
mon bulls, s450@5; good shippers
bulls, $6@6.5O; common feederds, So
a $50; good well bred feeders, s5.75
@6.25; light stokers, $5Q5.75.
Veal Calves-Reecipts, S1S. Market
steady; best calves, SO; others at $5Q
$50 Mich cows and springers steady.
Sheep and Lambs-Receipts l,424.
Market steady; best lambs, $3.50; fair
TO good lambs, S6.50@7; light to COM
mon lambs, $4,000; fair to goor
butcher sheep, $4.75@5.OO; culls and
common, S304.25.
Hogs-Receipts. 1924. Range Of
prices: Light to good butchers, $3.50;
pigs, $3.50; heavies, SS.25@S.30.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
What is CastOria.

AST0RIA is harmless substitute for Castor OIL Paego Drops and
Soothing Syu pleasant. 1t contains neither OPIUM Morphine
Narcotic substance It's guarantee destroys Worms and aays
Fevehns For than thirty years has been constant the relief
of Constipation Elauny Wind CO all Teeng Troubles and Narrhaa.
regulates the Stomach and Bowels aaes the Food giving healthy and
Sleep The Chldren's Panacea-The Mothers Friend.
The Kind You Have Always Bought and which has been for
80 years. borne the signature Ca Fletcher and has been made under
his personal supervision since It's infancy Allow to deceive you this
All ouner limitations and uasgood" but Experiments that te with
and endnger the health Of Infants and CEperenoe against Experiment
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o.
which
a hunting
from the cheas the mind Of the ~ became enlightened and
what mann the wiekedly
n
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15

Perhaps it will surprise you,
but it is fact that Oil as a fuel
in the cook-stove is not only
much cleaner and safer than
any other fuel-it is far cheaper,
as well.
Over a half million New Per-
lection Oil c ook-Stoves are now
in use in the middle west and
every one is giving satisfaction.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15

butcher sheep, $4.75Q 800; culls and
common, S3@4.25.
Hogs-Receipts, 1924. Range of
prices: Light to good butchers, $3.50;
pigs, $3.50; heavies, SS.25QS.3O.
EAST BUFFALO: Cattle-Receipts
149 cars; all grades weighing 1,150
lbs and upward sold 15d2 zoe lower,
other grades 1Oc lower; best 1850 to
1,5O0ib steers, $S4OGS.6O; good to
prime 1000 to 1,3OO-lb steers, $8a8.25;
good TO prime 100 to 1,20O-ib steers,
$1754S; coarse, plainish, LOO TO l.
200-lb steers, $725@775; medium
butcher steers, 1000 to 1,100-fbs, $3.50
@G75; butcher steers, $50 to / ZOO fOs,
S7.25Q7S5; light butcher steers, S70
1925; best fat cows, $6m7; butcher
COWS, $5d5.75; light butcher cows,
$4,000; trimmers, $1,000; best fat
heifers, $725@S; medium butcher
heifers, $6.75@750; light butcher
heifers, $625Q650; stock heifers, 60
$50; best feeding steers, $75O@Z75;
light common stockers, S6d6.5O;
prime export bulls, S725@75O; best
butcher bulls, $6759725: bologna
bulls, $6.756725; stock bulls, $500
8; best mixers and springers, $3.50
100; common kind, $4OG6O. Hogs
Receipts, 80 carsf market 10c lower;
heavy. $S.75; mixed, SS75@S0; york
ers. $s.75GsS5; pigs, sS.sOGS.9O;
roughs, $740@76O. Sheep and lambs
Receipts, 80 cars; market slow; top
lambs. $790qS; culls TO fair, $49775;
yearlings, s6.5OG7; wethers, s5.75a6;
ewes, s5G5.25. Calves, $3.50.
Whest-Cash No. . red, $1.O5 IA;
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15

Whest-Cash No. . red, S1.05 IA:
May opened at $1O5 IL and declined
to $1.05 Ia; July opened at 81 lac and
declined to Ole; September opened at
80 SAC and declined to 30 1-2c; No.
l white, $1.04 IA
Corn-Cash No. 3, SEC; No. yellow,
5Sc; No. 4 yellow, sec.
Oats-Standard, SO 1-2c; No. white.
81 lie; No. white, SO 1-2c.
Rye-Cash No. ., Ga lie.
Beans-Immediate prompt and May
shipment, S2.05.
Glover Seed-Prime spot and alsike,
1925.
Timothy Seed-Prime spot, $1.75.
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15

Cook on the New Perfection
and save half the cost of gaso-
line and one-third the cost Of
gas. Your task will be simpli-
fed and your dishes improved
All the discomforts of the
coal range and the dangers Of
gas and gasoline are now hap
PLY substituted by the efficien-
cy and absolute safety of the
The Yale expositor., 1913-05-15
Letters from Prominent Physician
addressed to ChaS. H. Fletcher.


for children"
Dr. Gustave Engraeb of ST. Paul. Mimi 81 have used
mend excellent harmless children
DR. T. j. Dennis of ST. Mo, II have used prescribed
and find it to be excellent remedy children"
Buchanan Philadelphia 81 have
baby find pleasant take and have
obtained excellent results from its USE"
Simpson Chicago your
of its kind
market"
Esdson, Omaha, find Casora to be
the thing infants children
1
Robinson of Casora certainly
through all these
It, Recommendations
What a physician add? Leave it to the mothers
City
shall continue has
invariably produced beneficial results"
N. B. Sizer, Brooklyn N "I object called
Of
N o.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-28
Man of Same Name Searching
for Four Children.
MRS. HOTCHKISS WONDERS
Shot Him to Gain Possession of
Son He Claimed.
EllinwoOd Merchant Says Man
She Shot Is Dead.

Great Berd, Kan, Oct 2S.-Unable to
decide whether James A. Duffy, for
whose murder she served term in
the Kansas penitentiary, really is dead,
whether the man she shot was Duffy S
twin brother George, or whether a man
in ST. Marys, Ohio, is posing as James
A. Duffy for reason unexplained, Mrs.
Belle Hotchkiss of this city today ap-
piled to county authorities for aid in
the solution of the mystery.
According to Mrs. Hotchkiss' story,
she shot James A. Duffy at his shoe
store in Ellinwood, Kan, in 1901. She
was told later that Duffy died and was
buried. She was convicted of man
slaughter and served 21a years in the
prison.
Saturday in a newspaper she read
the following communications:
Il ask your assistance in finding my
four children. They are James E.
Duffy, % years old; Mary Catherine
Duffy, q years; Alice E. Duffy, 19
years, and William c. Duffy IT. They
were taken from our home in Dayton
by their mother in 1899. 1 understand
she placed them in a home in Wichita,
Kan. (Signed)
JAMES A. DUFFY.
"St. Marys, Ohio
Those are the names of the four
children of the man I shot" Mrs
Hotchkiss said, land the letter rings
true. The children are my nephews
and nieces and are now all in good
homes in western Kansas
My sister married James A Duffy.
She left him in Ohio after a quarrel
I in 1899 and brought her children to
wichita. Later she married again
and went to Mexico, deserting her
children. 1 took William, the Young
est, into my home and saw that the
others were placed in good homes
insured my life in favor of the four
children for $4,000
several years later a man I sun
posed to be James A. Duffy came to
wichita where 1 was living and at
tempted to get possession of the boy.
William. 1 refused to give him nm.
One night the man I had reason to
| believe to be Duffy, stole the child I
! traced the boy to Ellinwood, where
the man had opened a shoe store.
In company with county officials
| went to Ellinwood to get back the
child. While in Duffy's shop there
was quarrel. Duffy threw a last
at me and I shot him.
Duffy had a brother George so like
him in looks that they often were
mistaken for each other. Did 7 shoot
James brother, believing him to be
James? Did 1 shoot James and he
afterward escaped with his life, or is
some one in st. Marys, O., masuuer-
aiding as James,"
Edward Isern, an Ellinwood mer-
chant, witness in the trial of Mrs.
Hotchkiss, said today there was no
, DOUBT about the death of the man
supposed to be James A. Duffy. Isern
said he died the day he was shot and
was buried in a cemetery at Ellin-
wood.
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BILLY MORGAN BACK.
Return From Europe-Saw Marjorie
Brown Sink.

Hutchinson, Kan, Oct. 2S.-Mr- ana
Mrs w. Y. Morgan, who arrived home
Saturday evening from a European
trip, were eye-witnesses, the day be-
fore their arrival in port at New YORK
of a remarkable rescue of ship
wrecked crew.
The North German Lloyd 5. ). Ber-
lin on which the Morgans were pas
sengers, was plowing its way through
raging seas. There had been a heavy
storm, an 80 mile gale. and the sea
was running mountain high.
About 10 O'Clock in the morning the
day before their arrival in port, when
they were 200 miles outside of Sandy
Hook, they witnessed a sailing vessel
apparently in distress The big liner
swerved out of her way to approach
the crippled ship, and it was plain to
be seen that it was about to founder.
The wrecked schooner proved to be
the four-masted sailing vessel Mar
gerry Brown" Captain Joseph Walker
and his crew of five men who were
picked up from the small boat by the
Berlin were all that were aboard.
"The f1oundering of the sailing YES
sci and the saving of the crew in the
storm in midocean was a dramatic
spectacle said Mr.. Morgan. 1T was
one of the most thrilling things 1 ever
witnessed. It was regarded as miracu-
lous that the ship sank just as we
were at hand to rescue the crew, who
had almost given up all hope"
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WINS FIRST PRIZE.
Marion Fitch Gets No. 1 in the Ne
braska Land Lottery.

North Platte, Neb., Oct. 2S.-Marion
Fitch, Kirksville, Mo-, drew No. 1 in
the drawing for government lands in
the North Platte and Niobrara reser-
vations.
A thousand shivering persons who
had stood several hours at the doors
of the opera house today waiting for
Judge Witten to open the structure
for the drawing were admitted at $50
a. m. During the night a mild tenn
perature had turned to ten degrees
weather, accompanied by bowling
wind. This however, did not deter the
crowds and morning trains augment
ed them.
The drawing for appraised and un-
appraised lands was combined, the
fortunate persons being permitted to
choose appraised or unappraised lands
in the order in which their names
were drawn. Filing on Niobrara land
will commence on April L, 1914, and
on the forest reserve November II,
1913. The appraised lands are all in
the Niobrara reservation.
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that $4,000 SUIT.
Miss Nicholas VS.. Street Railway in
Court Again.

Ascending to the witness box with the
aid of crutches, Gertrude Nicholas, aged
q, of 401 East Eighth street testified to-
day in the rehearing of the SIS 900 damage
suit filed several years ago against the
Topeka Street Railway company. Miss
Nicholas was awarded $40, 600 term before
last in the district court. The decision
was reversed upon a technicality, and
new trial granted upon application of the
defendants. The case is being heard be-
fore Judge A. w. Dana of the first di-
vision.
The accident through which, it is alleged,
the plaintiff became a permanent cripple
occurred the evening of November 10,
1911, at the intersection of Green street
and Sardou avenue in Oakland Miss
Nicholas stumbled over the tracks which
cross the sidewalk. The evening was
snowy and dark. She alleges in her petit
ton that the tracks were an illegal OBJ
struction: that she is able to walk only
with difficulty; that her right leg is short
ened between one and two inches; and
that she sustained loss of $50 a month
by being forced to resign her position as
operator for a telephone company.
- Ispent nine weeks in bed" she testf-
fled this morning on the stand, then
went to the home of my twin sister in
Marysville, travelling a stretcher. 1
was in bed ten weeks at her house"
Waters &c Waters represent Miss Mich
olas. The attorneys for the railway,
Ferry, Doran and Dean, are making the
plea for the defense.
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RATES MUST GO UP.
Chairman of the L. C. C. Says Roads
Must Have Money.

Washington, Oct. 2S.-In an address to
the twenty-fifth annual convention of the
National Association of Railway Commits
sioners TO-DAY Chairman E. E. Clark of the
interstate commerce commission declared
that ideal transportation conditions could
not be attained without an increase IN
rates.
IN ideal transportation situation can
be attained only by large additions to the
facilities and great improvement in meth
ods' said Chairman Clark. The added
facilities can be secured only through ex-
penditures from surplus earnings or from
expansion of credit In either way the
total cost to purchasers of transportation
would be increased.
Even if it be true that the present
financial condition of transporta ton
agencies is due to reckless, improv1dent
or even dishonest financing in the past
ii would be a mistake to undertake to cor
rect it by a policy of reprisal, which
would impair the usefulness or efficiency
of the carriers upon which the welfare
the very nfe-of the commerce of the
country depends.
s'It seems to me that the travelling pub
lie is Justly entitled to greater degree OF
safety while patroniZing railroads
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Be Asked to Respond to the
Toast "KansaS."
.ESTABROOK GUEST OF HONOR
New York Man Invited to Come
Kansas Day.
Pittsburg Editor Who Appreci-
ated Governors Appointment.

For the first time since the organi-
zation of the Kansas Day club twenty
years ago, that political organization
will next January place women on
their program and the officers are SER
iously considering extending to a ma
tive daughter the unusual privilege of
responding to the toast of honor,
kansas" President Charles L. Kagy
admits that the club is planning to
give the toast of honor to a native
born Kansas woman, but refuses at
this time to divulge her name:
officers of the club have invited
Henry D. Estabrook of New York to
address the Kansas Republicans at
their 1914 dinner. Assurances re-
ceived by Kagy that Estabrook will
come to Topeka for the banquet have
completed the final arrangement for
this visiting speaker much earlier
than in former years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-28
THAW WINS DELAY,
Granted Until Nov. to File SuppIe-
mcntary Brief.

Rochester. n. H, Oct. 2S.-Govern-
or Fell~er, after hearing both sides
granted the request of Harry K. Thaw
for a further continuance in the ex-
tradition proceedings, setting Nov. 4
as the final date on which his attor-
neys may file a supplementary brief
bearing on the conspiracy indictment
returned against their client bv the
New York county grand jury. A con-
tinuance of two weeks had been re-
queSted. William Travers Jerome
who opposed the delay, will be al
lowed two days to answer the new
brief.
personalities were woven into the
argument. Jerome declared that
Thaw's counsel, from Governor Stone
down, wished to keep Thaw in New
Hampshire as long as possible. as
long even as the Thaw open coal and
coke mines hold out to burn" Mr.
Stone likened Jerome to the 'shound
of the Baskervilles'
Jerome described Thaw as a "da
generate insane criminal" and said
that Thaw's money had ATTEMPTED TO
br1be a grand juror and two iurymen
during the first trial of Thaw for the
murder of Stanford White
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SHIPPER MUST STAND IT
Can't Hold Railroads Responsible for
Low Prices Says L. C. c.

Washington, Oct 2S-In holding today
that proposed increase of freight rates
on potatoes averaging about two cents a
hundred pounds. from Oklahoma points to
the Rocky Mountain territory was justified
the interstate commerce commission laid
down this significant general principle:
IF, when viewed in the light of those
considerations which enter into proper
rate maSing, a particular rate is fair and
just for the service performed the price at
which the shipper markets his produce
cannot be accepted as the controlling fac
tor in fixing the rate"
1t is explained that if, on account of an
over supply or for any other reason the
price falls to low figure in particular
market. that cannot be considered as con-
trolling the freight to that market.
lie commission holds that railroads are
entitled to fair return for the transpor-
tatiOn service.
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lack of wire communication no ac-
curate information was available at
noon An official company report
says a guard named Angus Alexander
was killed.
Greeks ON War Path.
Denver, Oct. 2S.-Telephone ad-
vices from Sheriff J. S. Grisham at
Trinidad to the governors Office this
morning state that a large force of
Greek strikers started at six o'clock
this morning for the coal camps at
Tobasco, Berwind, Hastings and Del
aqua, announcing that they would at
tempt to take the camps, and if sue
cessful would hold them against the
state troops.
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LUCKY To Be ALIVE.
Fifty Rounds of Powder ExpIodes
Within Arms Reach.

Pittsburg, Kan, Oct. 2S.-Lester Adams,
a mine driver, is in a hospital recovering
from severe burns and congratulating
himself that he is alive. Two kegs of
black powder-fifty pounds - exploded
within arms reach of Adams in Western
consciousness he told how the explosion
took place when his cap, which carried
his lighted lamp, dropped off his head.
Old mine workers say the explosion was
4 freak or Adams would have been blown
into small pieces.
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Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Unsettled tonight and Wednesday
snow and cold wave tonight.
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Wichita, Oct. 2S.-Snow is falling
in southern Kansas today. The tenn
perature has dropped to "a degrees
above zero.
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Heavy Fall at Hutchinson.

At noon a heavy snow driven be-
fore a northwest wind was falling at
Atchison and over most of northeast
Kansas. A light snow fell here this
afternoon.
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Pittsburg. Oct 2S.-At 1880 this
afternoon the temperature began tC
drop here an da mild blizzard is threa-
tened.
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Lincoln, Neb., Oct. 2S.-The first
snow of the year fel To-day Reports
over central Nebraska indicate light
snow fall. The storm here was ac-
companied by a high wind with low
ering temperatures. The snow melted
almost as fast as it fell.
Sioux City, Oct 2S.-First touch of
real winter in this section came today.
over an inch of snow has fallen
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To Suppress Disorder Connect
ed With the Miners Strike.
In A STATE OF INSURRECTION
Instructions Are Issued to Dis
arm Both Sides.
No More StrikebreakerS Will
Be Allowed to Enter.

Denver, Oct. 2S.-Mobilized in ap-
proximately six hours the commands of
the Colorado National guard began
moving toward the southern Colorado
coal fields today where martial law
Will be established, in compliance with
proclamation.
Adjutant General John Chase an
nounced he expected the first troop
trains to leave Denver before 10 o'clock
this morning.