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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

Because of the o'clock luncheon
served Saturday afternoon, the pris-
oners in the cell houses went without
their supper. Sunday morning, how
ever, there was a cheer from the 900
men as they walked into the dining
room and were served with a break
fast of steaming beefsteak, brown
gravy, sweet potatoes, cakes, bread,
butter and coffee with cream and
sugar in 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

No Need for Special Session.
Until after 10 o'clock Warden Cod
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

burned at the prison plant for the new
buildings. New machines for the Irvine
plant and shops will be ordered this
week and it is believed that the de-
partments destroyed in Saturdays
blaze will again be operating full force
in ten or twelve weeks.
One of the greatest losses to the state
Generally was in the burning of two
million pounds of manufactured binder
twine At the present time binder
Irvine is worth nine cents a pound. With
the prison plant out of business. it is
believed that Irvine trust agents will
make material advances in prices to
Kansas farmers. A supply of a little
less than a half million pounds of manu-
featured Irvine. stored in building out
side the prison walls was saved. This
supply will be sold direct to the farm
ers.
Buildings and departments destroyed
in Saturdays fire included: Irvine
plant, light plant, print shop, tin shop,
carpenter shop band house, tailor shop,
shop, gymnasium, machine shops, por-
tions of store houses together with en-
tire supply of tobacco, clothing, grain
and leather. While the property loss
is at least a half million dollars, War
den Codding and Governor Hodges be-
lieve that with materials manufac-
tured at the building and the use OF
prison labor, that all departments can
he replaced with an expenditure or
from 500 900 to $125,000. Plans for pro-
yiding this money have already been ar
ranged by Attorney General John $
Dawson, who reached the prison snort
ly after the fire started.
Bravery of Prisoners.
IT wasn't the property loss of Sat
urday that fingered in the mlnos OF
the men who talked to the 500 con-
1nI Sun n
ing. 1t was the thought of individual
bravery and loyalty on the part OF
men whose first natural incentive I'M
der such circumstances was TO es-
cape. 1t was three hours from the
time the fire started until the flames
were under control
In three hours the 900 men forgot |
that they were under surveillance.
From the prison shops and PRISON |
mines new heroes came as suddenly |
as the spark from the electric motor
which in an instant spread fire the |
length of the east prison walls. For |
the time the prisoners were free men,
risking life and limb for the sake CT
saving the states property or drag
ging from the burning buildings
some fellow prisoner. For three
hours these men stood in the very
midst of flame and smoke or Ia
bored under tottering walls with no
promise and little hope for reward
Within the little ten-acre enclosure
new leaders of men developed in an
instant These leaders came from the
ranks of prisoners convicted of al
most every crime on the statute
books, men who have long years yet
to serve for bank robbery, or a life
sentence over their heads for murder.
Yet the murderer and the bank robber
and the sneak thief worked shoulder
to shoulder and obeyed every order
from the lips of Warden Codding and
his assistants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

Journal Ads Get Results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

Lantern in hand, Warden Codding
left his bedroom a half dozen times
Saturday night and went out into the
prison yards where he visited with the
guards and prisoners and directed the
fighting of the dyingt flames. At 5
o'clock Sunday morning, Codding was
out for the day. With his son acting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

Until new supplies are purchased
the men in the penitentiary must do
without their daily supply of tobacco
In Saturdays fire 1900 pounds of
Kentucky natural leaf was burned and
the entire supply of prison grown to-
bacco was lost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

as lieutenant, the two men seemed to
be everywhere. Hardly a move was
made during the day that was not per-
sonally directed by the two men either
to the convicts or to the prison
guards.
1T was the greatest display of dis
cipline I ever saw or heard off, de-
clared Governor Hodges, as he stood
saturday night in the glare of the
Irvine plant fire and listened to the
praises of prison officials for their
chieftain, Codding. Every detail of
the work was wonderful. 1t was a
display of courage that the entire state
is proud of. Too much praise cannot
be given Mr.. Codding for the great
work"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

Both menlwere slightly burned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

For the fight which they made
against Saturdays blaze, members of
the prison fire department receive
from the state pay of three and one
half cents a day. Yet no Drawer or
more determined fight was ever made
by high salaried and trained firemen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14

Source of funds for the prison ball
team were destroyed by the fire A
car load of old papers, which the
prisoners were to have sold to pro-
vide funds for new equipment, was
lost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
Hale Saved Band Instruments.

Howard Hale, doing life sentence
for the murder of a neighbor, plays
in the band. When the music hall
caught fire Hale rushed into the
burning building and carried the in
struments to safety. He started back
after one remaining instrument-his
own. But the flames drove him back.
The horn which Hale took to prison
with him was lost. But the man had
saved the remainder of the equipment
and the excellent 20 piece band played
as usual for Sunday morning chapel
service.
Bale Waggener's Offer of Funds.
While the officials were debating
the question of finance for the new
buildings, a telephone call came from
Senator Bale p. Waggener Sunday
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
Brine Baths for Horses,

A bath in which four horses can
stand in hot brine, has just been fit
ted up at Droitwich, England The
bath has been built so that the horses
can walk into four stalls, where they
will find themselves in about feet 6
inches of warm brine. After standing
in this for the number of hours or.
dered by a veterinary surgeon, they
will be brought out. dried and proper
ly bandaged, to avoid all risk of catch.
ing cold
Droitwicll brine is twelve times as
strong as ordinary sea-water, and the
cure is intended for racehorses, polo
ponies and hunters The proprietor
says that he has for years used the
brine, made hot on lame horses by
dipping bandages in it and applying
them to the legs. He has found the
cure successful for strains, bangs and
rheumatism.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
When Men Carried Muffs.

We would call men effeminate il
they carried muffs, but for nearly a
century, beginning in the reign of
George III. they were as much used
by men as by women. We see them
still on the stage when old plays like
School for Scandal" are revived and
the sight of them is curious in our
eyes. Quaint conceits there were in
those times and earlier with regard to
muffs, many of which have been re-
peated to please modern women. AS
long ago as 1908 there are records, in
the wardrobe accounts of Prince Hen
ry, of two embroidered NUTS, one of
cloth Of silver embroidered with
"purles. plates and Venice twists of
silver and gold, the other of black
sateen embroidered with black silk
and bugles."
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
TROUBLE WITH THE FAT MAN
vIsed How to Put Him OF the
Street Car.

A large man, weighing about 200
pounds, who had imbibed freely
enough to be somewhat unsteady on
his legs, boarded Brooklyn car the
other evening The sudden starting of
The car caused him to fall against the
iron railing, and in so doing he ripped
his coat This unfortunate circum-
stance, combined with the laughter of
the passengers, angered him, and he
sullenly seated himself somewhere
about the center of the car.
Upon being asked by the conductor
for Fare, please" he refused to pay.
"If you don't pay / will put you
off," said the conductor.
Go Rheadl" said the man.
The conductor attempted to make
good his threat, but as he was a small
man. found 1t impossible to bulge
the two-hundred-odd pounds before
him. Then he called on the motor
man for assistance.
The motorman took hold on one
side, the conductor on the other. They
half dragged. half lifted, the man
toward the door. All this time he did
not utter a word. Suddenly, however,
he conyulsed the other passengers
with the remark:
BE careful. now. No more force
than absolutely necessary"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
DIDN'T FORGET THEIR MOTHER
Boys Who Struck Oil Decided They
Would Buy the Old Woman
New Ak.

: Oil had Just been struck on the
rough quarter section of Oklahoma
farm land which for ten years had
yielded only scant living for the
rugged settler, bis wife and their four
boys, now just about grown. While
the mother busted herself with the
dinner'for the drillers the farmer and
his sons stood near the flowing well
and INDUCED In discussion as to how
they should spend their newly-acquir.
ed wealth.
I'm a-going to take trip to Chi
cago and Niagara Falls" the Oldest
boy declared.
"Reckon I kin afford that horse and
buggy Jason was Offering for 5000 last
week" The speaker doubtless hadn't
forgotten the pink-cheeked daughter
cor the nearest neighbor.
Now, boys" the father expostu.
lated. Boys, don't be forgettin' your
NAV. Jes' you remember how she's
shaved for all of US these years. We
mustn't forgit to provide for her"
"'Course we won't fergit maw," re-
piled the youngest lad We'll provide
for her-we'll git her a new AK
Kansas City Journal
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
HIsToRY's MOST FAMOUS roy
Bright Stone With Which Boer Chill
dren Were Playing Led to Ola
mond Field Discovery.

What is the most famous toy In his
tory? We would give the palm not to
any elaborate mechanical continuance
or lifeIike doll. but to the simple,
bright stone that in 1857 a Dutch far
mer found some Boer children using
as a plaything.
For the farmer sent the stone to
the Cape for examination and the re-
suit was the discovery of the diamond
fields of South Africa And the child S
plaything found it's way to the Paris
exhibition, where 1t sold for $500.
According to Japanese belief. dolls
sometimes come alive, acquiring a
soul in process Of being played with
by successive generations Of children.
Food ID provided for them and they
are treated with great care. lest neg
lect should bring trouble upon the
household. One pretty story tells how
q childless husband and wife borrowed
9 doll that had gained q soul, fed and
clothed it, and deservedly prospered
thereafter
All his 10 In utter contrast with the
unpleasant theory Of Varro about
dolls. He held that the dolls given to
little Romans at Christmas-that is to
say. at the acknowledgements
original sacrifices of human beings to
the Internal god.-London Chronicle.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
WHY THE MULEr
M. p. Jarnagin, Professor Animal
Husbandry.

A mules work in ten years is
worth about $780, A farm draft mare
and her progeny are worth in ten
years more than $1,S00. Then why
the mule?
You pay 5000 and more for mule.
Raise a horse from your own mare,
and you will have netted saving of
1925 to start with. Then why the
mule?
The value of the mare and her prog
eny in ten years as given above, Is
estimated on the basis that she will
produce half horses and half mares,
and will foal the average number of
times, and furthermore that her work
will be only two-thirds that of the
mule-liberal enough allowance, 1t
will be admitted, in favor of the
mule.
The draft horse, home grown, is
the solution of the question of eco
nomical farm power in Georgia.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
1T WAS BLOT ON HIS LIFE
Horrible Use to Which the GuiIIotine
Was Put Greatly Saddened Its
inventor.

The man whose name has ACQUIRED
so painful celebrity by being assim-
Hated to his invention, was NJ. Guillo-
tin, learned physician, who had in
vented, two years before, the instru-
ment of death which he deemed best
calculated to abridge the sufferings of
the culprits condemned to forfeit their
lives by the sentence of the laws. The
invention was laid hold of for the pur-
pose of "expediting" a greater num-
Der of victims. Such was the express
sion used by member Of the conven.
ton,
ID. Guillotin was inconsolable for
what he considered "a an involuntary
blemish in his existence. His venera
able contenance bore the impress OF
settled gloom, and his hair. of a
snowy Wilderness, afforded q clear In.
oication of his mental sufferings. He
had aimed at relieving the sorrows of
human nature, and he Internationally
contributed to the destruction of a
greater number of human beings. Had
they been put to death In less expe-
ditious manner, the people might have
soon grown weary of those executions.
which they showed the same eager.
ness to behold as they would have
done theatrical representation.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
WISE JUDGMENT IN TURKEY
How seutarl Magistrate Determined
Ownership Of Cow That Had
Been Stolen.

All readers of the Arabian Nights
are familiar with the manner in which
the Oriental magistrates dispensed
justice. with more regard to equity
than to law. Instances of the same
kind are not wanting in modern Tur-
key.
A judgment worthy of Solomon, as
homely and almost as wise, was pro-
nounced by a magistrate in Scutari.
1t came about in this way:
peasant living near that place
lost his cow. About two months later
he happened to be standing at q rail
way station. watching trainload of
cattle about to be sent across the IRON
tier. Suddenly he gave shout. He
mad seen his COW among those cattle.
The trainmen only laughed at him.
however. when he demanded that COW,
The good man thereupon sought out q
magistrate, who listened patiently to
his story. Then he pronounced this
Judgments THE COW shall be taken
to the public square and MIXED. Then.
II It goes OF Its own accord to the
plaintiffs stable, It shall belong to
him"
The order of the court was execut.
ed. The cow, In spite of its two
months absence, took without hest
tation the lane which brought 1t, a few
minutes later. into the peasants
stable.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
The Difference in Men.

One man will settle down into the
routine of his calling, digging the
ruts deeper each day, until he loses
power to see out from them. Anoth.
er, in the same vocation, shows an
ability to make each days work a
source of new growth in power and
in appreciation. So, one person will
rest passively on the fact of some
wel[established love or friendship.
and thus lose, after a time, the beau
ty of the relationship and the mean
ing it once possessed for his life;
while another actively woos the love
of his friend every day, and so finds
deep, ever opening below deep in
the relationship, with an ever fresh
realization of the truth and wonder
of life.-Edward Howard Griggs.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
USES OF LIME IN GEORGIA.
John r. Fain, Professor of Asronomy

Query-How much lime, general
ly speaking, is needed for sour soil,
in what form is it best applied. when
would you apply?
A sour soil means a deficiency of
lime. To supply the need, lime may
be applied in either the ground rock
form or the burned lime form. If
ground lime Is applied, from one to
two tons will be required depending
upon the acidity of the soil, and
from 1000 to 1,500 pounds of burned
lime.
Ground lime is slower in action,
but easier handled and when it can be
had at less cost it is preferable to
burned lime.
Burned lime should be applied a
few weeks before planting, but ground
lime can be applied at any time.
1t has been determined that the fol-
lowing crops are benefited by lime {:
cantaloupes, peas, peanuts, tobacco,
sorghum, alfalfa, clover, barley,
wheat. oats, most of the grasses and
a majority of the fruits. Crops class
ed as Indifferent to lime are rye, po-
tatoes, millet, red top grass, corn and
cotton. Experiments prove that wa
termelons are injured by it. Corn,
While classed as Indifferent, has,, how
ever, shown in a majority of cases, to
be helped by it. At the college farm
an acre treated with lime produced
53.2 bushel Of corn, while an acre
not treated with lime produced 37.1
bushels per acre. The soil is a Cecil
sandy loan and clay.
Where lime is used, special atten-
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
TRUE SECRET or POPULARITY
Girl Must Have Some Beauty, Grace
and intelligence, and Especially
Radiance.

What can young girl, who is nef.
Their q great beauty nor a great heir
ess. nor one to whom the gods stood
sponsor at birth. do to make herself
popular?
Let us sit down and take our chins
in our hands and think about it.
A girl must have, at least in some
small degree, four qualities. There
are children of fortune who have them
all. and In abundance, but as from a
small palette of primary colors q great
picture may be painted, just 30 out
OF few elementary attributes quite
wonderful results are possible. The
four qualities Of personality are:
Beauty, grace. intelligence. radt-
ance.
Beauty may be that Of face or fg.
ure. or it may be merely an effort of
beauty through style. charm. or even
one of the other three qualities fol-
iowiugt
Grace includes not alone symmetry
Of movement but 40 accomplish
ments In activity, such as dancinG.
skating. swimming riding, and also
any especial gifts. such as talent for
music or acting. In other words, the
girl who has the gift OF grace" is the
girl who does things we'll.
By intelligence is meant the sympa-
thetic, adaptable quality of mind. rath-
er than that of the brilliant order. But
the one great attribute that crowns
them all-granting, of course, some
gift of the other three-but without
I which beauty, grace, cleverness are
all as apples Of Sodom-is the sense
of enjoyment. the gift of happiness.
don't think can better define it
than by the word radiance And best
of all, radiance is quality that can
he cultivated.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
Suited Him All Riuht.

1t was early in the history of the
new household. What have we got
for breakfast, dear?" asked Mr.. Just
married. His wife looked at him with
troubled eyes. 1T was to have been
bacon" she said, but poor cooks
burnt it." Poor cook! should
thing so, indeed" exclaimed Mr. Just
married. "Confound herl Have you
given her notice." ooh. no; we
mustn't be too cross with her. dar-
ling" said his wife "Shes so young
and inexperienced. Won't you be sat
isfied with kiss for breakfast" she
coaxed archly. "All right, dear" re-
piled Mr.. Justmarried, suddenly paci.
fed. Call her I'M"
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07

An amusing scene was witnessed in
a Birmingham, England, street, the
other day. An ingenious person tied
the reel of a fishing rod to a lamp
post near the bottom of the street and
fixed the hook in the back of friends
overcoat near the neck. The result
was that the person walked up. the
street gradually unwinding the line
and causing the many people wishing
to cross the much frequented thor
oughfare either to go under the line
or to wait until the fun was finished
The man hearing the hook and unroll-
ing the line walked up the street with
great dignity and contentment until
he reached the next cross street where
he was informed OF the inconvenience
he was causing.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
Not Excise Stamns.

The gum on the backs of stamps
and stamp waste was once the sub
ject of a question in the House of
Commons by the late Sir Wilfrid
Lawson. Did it contain alcoholic"
anxiously asked the teetotal baronet
and was there any danger of it caus-
ing blood-poisoning il applied to a
cut t1nger?' The reassuring answer
came from the acknowledgement
that the gum was absolutely free
from spirit and that the stamp waste
could be used as first-ald for a cut fin
ger with impunity.-London Chron.
icle
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
From the Alpharetta Free Press:

From the Alpharetta Free Press:
The Marietta Journal asserts that
cobb County alone could make an ex-
Aibit that would surpass by far the
exhibit of the seven Northwestern
states recently shown from a railroad
train in Marietta That's blowing
some. And the Free Press half way
believes it's so. If Cobb County need
sd any help We know where she could
get it by going Eastward fifteen or
twenty miles.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
Doctors Fees of Old.

Doctors nowadays don't get SO
much more than they used to get.
AT the beginning of the eighteenth
century the usual fee to a graduate
in physic was about $3.50, though he
usually asked twice that amount. Old
Sawbones, who was only a licensed
physician. couldn't very we'll expect
more than S1.66, though he usually
had hopes of getting $3.50 visit. A
surgeons fee was a quarter a mile,
whether the journey were far or near,
and to that charge he added a quarter
for blood-letting, and il the patient
wanted his arm or leg cut off it cost
him $25.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
BY STAFF OF GA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
What Cas- Greatest Single Step
In Agriculture in 1913 Should Be
President Andrew M. Soule.

If the farmers of Georgia will di-
versify their crops and start rota-
zion system, they will have made the
greatest single step forward possible
to take during the year 1913.
Our country can never be made
permanently prosperous until it pro.
duces its own food supplies. Georgia
can easily grow grain in the foam
OF winter oats to be followed by a
hay crop such as COW peas and soy
beans for the enrichment of the soil
and for the nutrition of livestock. Ev-
cry farmer should devote a portion of
his farm for the grazing of hogs.
Some of the crops which should be
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07

used for this purpose are winter
oats, spring sown oats, COW peas and
soy beans planted in succession and
peanuts and artichokes.
The Georgia farmer should not have
to purchase as much fertilizer aszhe
is now buying. By growing legupes.
nitrogen is taken from the air And
conveyed to the soil and by turning
under a green leguminous crop eVery
three years sufficient humus will@be
obtained. Then If the Georgia faSm-
err will feed all of the rough Il sr
produced on his farm, he will haSe 4
considerable store Of manure to ZAP
ply to his land.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07
CORRECTION.

] wish TO SO cali attention to little
mistake in last weeks Journal. 1t
stated that l had Is pupils at Olive
Springs. l have 125 pupils and need a
second assistant and another room
badly. Teachers, trustees, patrons and
pupils are enthusiastic about their
school and are having a most successful
term. Sincerely,
Clara Mae Jones.
The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1913-02-07

w. A. Worsham, professor Of Agri.
cultural Chemistry, has been honor
ed by being chosen secretary of the
Council for the Advancement of Sci.
ence, the greatest scientific organiza.
ton of this country.