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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
BLESSINGS NEVER
COME S|NGLY
Herpicide and Beautiful
Hair.

Having a head of nice hair is
blessing within the reach of anyone
who will use Newbro's Herpicide be-
fore the dandruff germ has denuded
the scalp and left a condition of
chronic badness.
Herpicide imparts that snap and
luster to the hair which are so attrac-
tive.
Having a subtle fragrance Herpicide
appeals directly to persons of refine
ment. 1t has been sold for years, and
boasts of more satisfied users than all
other hair dressings combined.
Newbro's Herpicide is recommended
and used by the best BARRIERS and hair
dreSsers.
Send 10c in postage or silver for
sample and booklet to The Herpicide
Co., Dept R., Detroit, Mich.
Newbro's Herpicide in soc and
500 sizes is sold by all dealers who
guarantee it to do all that is claimed.
If you are not satisfied your money
will be refunded. Geo. w. Stansfield,
Special Agent, 632 Kansas Ave.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
LISTEN, BACHELOR
Death Rate Among Married
Men Is Much Lower.
Single Fellows Throw Up
Sponge at Early Age.
Topeka DOCTORS PROVE IT
OF Course Most of Them Have
Family Firesides.
"WhOOps, My Dear" Yelled One
And He Flew to a Florist.

Beware. bachelors of Topeka. If you
wish to follow the tuneful advice of
Kelly-"a short life, but a gay one
well and good. If you wish to live long
and prosper, marry at once. Govern
ment statisticians are at work again,
sounding a warning to those unreason-
able males who SILVER at the strains
of Here Comes the Bride" Married
men live longer than bachelors.
There are lots of bachelors in To-
peka-bachelors who have machines,
bungalows, bank accounts and-lonely
firesides; who don't know the meaning
of the hanging of the crane" Heed
the advice in the federal medical re-
ports, put on your new fall cap, brush
your coat, crank your car and sally
forth in search of wife.
Topeka doctors admit the truth of
the report. Most of the Topeka doc
tors are married. "Of course it's true"
they say, and hustle home to a waiting
wife and kiddies.
One Topekan who has attained the
age of discretion but not the dignity of
a better half read the article in the
Journal of the American Medical asso-
citation with pensive eyes He whis-
tied ''Whoops, My Dear" when he had
finished. Then he said he guessed he
stroll down to the club. But he went
to a florist.
Bachelors all over the country are
labelling the report, Things worth
knowing and sticking the clipping in
their vest pocket.
The tabulation of deaths by sex, age
and marital conditions was commenced
in 1900 by the state department of
health in New York. When the federal
census for 1910 tabulated similar sta
tistics it became possible to study
mortality by marital conditions. Wal
ter F. Wilcox of Cornell university
worked out the figures for the New
York state department of health. The
Journal of the American Medical AS
ISOLATION comments on his report as
follows:
Here Is the Proof.
1.-THE most obvious fact indicated by
the figures is that the death rate for
married men is much lower than that
for single men at each age group from
twenty to eighty-plus. except the high
est and even there it is about the
same. From twenty to thirty the
death rate among married men is AZ,
while among single men it is Sc. From
thirty to forty the death rate among
the married men is slightly under 6,
while among single men it is nearly
13. From forty to fifty there is an even
greater difference. The death rate
among married men is 9.5. whereas
among single men it is 1913 From
fifty to sixty there is less divergence in
the death rates. but there is a differ
ence in favor of the married of nearly
eleven deaths per year per thousand.
Even from sixty to seventy the death
rate of married men is less than 80,
while that of the single men is 81
Undoubtedly the lower death rate
among married men is partly due to
the fact that as rule those who are
in good health are reader to marry;
those with more delicate health, es-
pecially if suffering from any definite
ailment, are not willing to assume the
burden and responsibility of family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

The parks which completely surround
the buildings are always kept in the
best of condition. The trees are al
ways trimmed the year round. In the
eastern part of the parks is a large
concrete fountain artistically modelled,
which gives the institution a home-like
air of refinement. The latter is one of
the principal policies of the school.
When a boy is admitted to the institu-
ton he is given a lesson in cleanliness;
mental, moral and physical 1t is sim
ply combination of public school,
Sunday school and physical training
for the boy.
He is then taught the value of a
good home. To do this his surround
ings at the school are made as home
like as possible. 1t would be safe to
say that there is not a private home
in the state that is kept more sanitary
than this home for boys. For a home
it can safely be called.
The old idea that the school is a penal
institution is growing more and more
extinct. The old grind, Spare the rod
and spoil the child" does not exist in
superintendent Charles mode of cor
rection. When the boy is received he
is shown how to be respectable and
clean and the natural boy does the rest.
This shows" says DR.. Charles,
''how much a boy will do if he is only
given a chance
Bit OF History.
The legislature of 1879 passed an act
creating the state reform school and
locating the same al a distance of not
more than five miles from the state
capitol at Topeka.
At the same session of the legislature
an appropriation of $35, 900 was made
to erect what is now the main building
of the school. The county of Shawnee
was authorized to purchase the 100
acres of land on which the school is
now located, at a cost not exceeding
SIS an acre. Later, fifty acres more
were purchased, making the total
amount of land now owned by the
school 21O acres. In June 6, 1881, the
Boys Industrial school was started.
with J.. G. Eckles superintendent and
two inmates. Mr.. Eckles remained in
charge as superintendent until March
1, 1882, when J. F. Buck was appointed
superintendent.
The number of inmates had increased
in the meantime to forty-one. An APP
preparation for the erection of a kitchen
building, two cottages, boiler house
and for the completion of sewerage and
heating system. in the sum of S21 500
for the year 1886. and the further sum
of $21, 500 for the year 1887 was made
by the legislature in the session of
1885.
In 1887 a further appropriation was
made to E. S. w. Drought as an addi-
tional allowance for the erection of
buildings in the form of 5000, and the
further sum of s11, 1852 for steam heat
ing. plumbing for the fitting up of a
laundry and for the purchase of furnf-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
AID Reading
Economies.

Among your friends and
neighbors do you know of one
who does not avail himself or
herself of the helpful hints
and the many economies con-
stantly set forth in the adver-
Using columns of The State
Journal
We like to feel, and as
matter of fact, it is almost
true, that everyone reads the
advertisements nowadays"
But if you know of one who
shops carelessly or runs his
affairs Independent of the
helpful and economical sug-
gestions found in the advertis-
ing of this or other good
newspapers, tell him what you
have found to be a fact-that
the best way to practice econ
omy in our day-in and LAYOUT
expenditures, whether large
or small, is to cultivate the
helpful habit of ad-reading.
Induce him to read
thoughtfully the advertise
ments in today's newspaper
and he can not help being con-
WINGED.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
"CASCARETS" THE
BEST LAXATIVE
If Constipated, Bilious. Headachy.
Stomach Sour, Clean Your Slug
gish Bowels Tonight Sure
Get a Decent box now.

Get a 10-cent box now.
You men and women who can't get
feeling right-who have headache
coated tongue. foul taste and foul
breath, dizziness, can't sleep, are bill
ious, nervous and upset. bothered with
a sick, gassy, disordered stomach. or
have backache and feel worn out
Are you keeping your bowels clean
with Cascarets, or merely forcing a
passageway every few days with salts,
cathartic pills or castor oil?
CaScarets work while you sleep:
cleanse the stomach, remove the sour,
undigested, fermenting food and foul
gases; take the excess bile from the
liver and carry out of the system all
the constipated waste matter and poi
son in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will straighten
you out by morning. 1O-cent box
from any drug store will keep your
stomach sweet; liver and bowels reg
ular. and head clear for months Don't
forget the children They love Casca-
rets because they taste good-never
grippe or sicken.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

plant. which has a capacity OF 100
pounds every "a hours, besides max
ing a cold storage room possible in
which can be stored 5000 bushels of
vegetables.
The cannery, another industry.
makes it possible for the school to put
up all the canned goods for its own
use and in a good year a large guam
THY is sold. Last year 1872 quarts
of fruit were put up.
The Farm.
On the farm. which consists of 210
acres of exceptionally good land.
nearly all the feed used at the school
is grown This year the new silo,
which has a capacity of $50 tons, was
filed. The school owns a fine herd
of thoroughbred Holstein cattle, of
Also the farm boasts of a herd of 80
Duroc-Jersey hogs, all thoroughbreds.
DR.. Charles is now working to es-
tabish a herd of Shropshire sheep
and when this is accomplished the
school will be one of the best equipped
stock farms in the state.
The superintendent.
Perhaps the most important factor
is the superintendent-Dr. H. w.
Charles. He has been in charge of
the institution for more than ten
school been a higher success and
been run more successfully. His
friends practically give him the credit
of building up the institution and
making it what it is today. In his
position he is in his gIory-the care
and guardian of boys. No bet
ter recommendation can be given him
than to say he is liked by every boy
at the institution-and he is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
BRIDAL CHAMBER A Cell
HoneymOoners Spend Wedding Night
in the Calaboose.

West Salem, Wis. Sept O.-"Direct US
to the best hotel,'' said a youthful bride
groom, George Evans of Chicago, as he
shook the rice from his hat and hailed
the night constable here last night. Can
do it, mister said the constable THE
boarding house is already chuck full.
Only place I can put you is in the Gala
boose.''
There was no other accommodations in
town to be had so the couple was escorted
to the town Jail where they spent the
night in one cell with a tipsy wayfarer
lodged in the other. This morning the
constable unlocked the door and the
honeymooners went to the home of friends
in the country.
Embarrassed by this occurrence the
town board is preparing to pass an ordi-
nance requiring villagers to open their
homes to travellers in similar cases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

Another factor quite as surely is that
married men live much more regular
lives as rule and consequently avoid
many OF the dangers of irregular liv-
ing. Besides feeling their responsible
ty to others they do not take such
risks of life or illness. and, as a rule,
avoid VentureSome expeditions and
dangerous occupations.
Among married men who have lost
their wives either by death or divorce.
the death rate is considerably higher
than that of husbands of the same age
From SO to 60, however, it is slightly
higher once more. At all these ages
the mortality rate among widowers
and the divorced is at least nearly and
sometimes quite double that of mar
r1ed men of the same age. If husbands
lose their wives, then they lose much
or the ch@nce of longevity which mar
rage secured them; and in general the
younger they are the more they lose.
Little Differences Among Women.
Among women the differences in
the death rates between married and
single are not so striking" continues
the journal of the American Medical
association. In one ten-year period,
that from 20 to 80. married women
have a higher death rate than single
women in the proportion of about 5
10 a. This is probably due to the in
fuence of child bearing at this period:
but there is another factor in the sta
tistics for this ten-year period that
must not be forgotten. From 20 to
80 the married women have a much
higher average age than the single wo-
men-that is, every year beyond 20 in
creases the liability to marriage, but
also increases the normal death rate.
The single women are largely grouped
from 20 to % at this time and the
married women from 25 to 30, particu-
larly now that marriages are so fire.
quently delayed. This compels us to
discount not a little of what might
otherwise seem to be a very unfavor-
able influence of matrimony in increas-
ing the death. rate among married
women at this period. From 80 to 40
the death rate among the married is
lower than among the single, and so
on for every period up to So
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
DROUTH OF 1918
sunny" Flora Tells of Its Eff.
feet on Kansas.
Summer Was Driest on Record
in Entire State.
CROP FIGURES ARE GIVEN
Damage Was Most Severe to
Corn and Hay.
Health of the People Has Been
Unusually Good.

s. D. Sunny Flora, the local govern
ment weather observer, has completed
a report on the Kansas drouth of 1918
for the central weather station at
Washington which gives some interest
ing facts that have not previously been
published. The government will use
the information in compiling a report
on the drouth in Kansas, Oklahoma,
Nebraska and Missouri.
The report shows that the summer
months of 1913 were the driest on rec
ord for the entire state and that they
came within a fraction of a degree of
being the hottest. The report states
that the damage done the corn crop
was greater than that done by the
orouth of any previous year, and that
the damage done the hay crop has been
unusually severe.
The report goes on to say that never
before at this time of year was stock
feed so scarce. Water for stock was
never so short. However, the report
states that the people of Kansas were
never in as good a shape to face a fail
ure of the corn and some other crops.
The health of the people, too, has been
good, and that is one of the encour-
aging elements of the report.
The treatise follows:
Drouth of 1913.
The drouth of the summer of 1913
was one of the most damaging drouths
that Kansas has experienced since au-
thentic weather records were begun in
the state The three summer months,
June, July and August, were drier than
the summer months of any other year
since statewide weather records were
begun in 1887, and came within a frac-
ton of a degree of averaging warmer
than the summer months of 1901, which
is the warmest summer on record in
the state. AT some places in the south
central part of the state the average
for these months was higher than for
the corresponding months of 1901.
Prior to 1887 reliable records of pre-
cipitation were kept at comparatively
Few places in the state, but a study of
the available records indicates that
even the famous drouth years of 1860
and 1854 were favored with a greater
summer rainfall than that of 1913, and
that, with the possible exception of the
summer of 1874, the summer of 1913
stands alone as the driest the state has
experienced since the early ffties,
when there were only few settlements
in the state.
Some Interesting COMPARISONS
The following table gives a COMPARE
son OF the mean temperatures and to-
tai precipitation over Kansas during
June. July and August, 1913. with those
of the corresponding months of 1901
and 1911, the two previous driest and
Warmest summers since complete
record of weather was begun over the
state in 1887:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
One of Best Managed Depart
mentS i'm State.
YOUNGSTERS ARE MADE men
Superintendent Charles Has
Done Wonders.
Interesting Features Are Pride
of TOpekans.

If by any chance you should ever
visit the Boys Industrial school, which
is located on the banks of Soldier creek
about two and one-half miles northwest
of North Topeka, the first thing you
notice will be the we'll kept lawns
which surround the buildings and the
air of discipline and cleanliness which
hovers about the place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

fOurtn successive Year.
Though the year, 1913, is the fourth
successive one of deficient precipita-
ton in Kansas, weather conditions the
first five months were favorable in
all parts of the state, except the south
central and southwestern portions and
a few counties in the extreme west
central part, where there was con-
siderable need of more moisture. Be
tween the middle of June and Sept
10 there were no rains of consequence
anywhere in the state, except in some
southeastern counties and a few scat
tered stations in the lower Kansas
river valley, and in the northwestern
portion. For the entire three months,
June. July and August, the average
precipitation over the eastern division
of the state was 4.42 inches. a def
cheney of S.67 inches; for the middle
division. 3.S1 inches, a deficiency of
7.06 inches; and for the western di-
vision of the state, 4.51 inches, a de-
ficiency of 4.64 inches
There was no part of the state
where the drought was not felt great
ly, but it was most severe in the CEN
trail portion, and the ill effects of it
were least felt in the east-central por-
ton. the lower Kansas river valley,
and some northwestern counties.
In the most severe drouths of re-
cent years, 1901 and 1911, soaking
rains fell the latter part of July and
the first of August, but this year the
rains were delayed until Sept. 10th
too late to benefit even late corn or
vegetables. and almost too late to
start fall pastures, or produce another
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Some Interesting Comparisons.

The following table compares the
total rainfall during June, July and
August, 1913, in Kansas, with that of
the corresponding months of 1860
1864 and 1874, the three most severe
drouths experienced in the state prior
to the beginning of the statewide
weather observations in 1897 Only
stations at which weather records for
the earlier years were available have
been 1Sed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

Yes said the fugitive, Il understand.
You have five kinds of law that apply to
my case" True" they told. him. And
We have ten ways eyading them
Good" said the fugitive. Give me
about seven of them at the usual market
price. cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

Oars gold in de land eff you'll dig fer
it; but what's de use ter exercise yo'Sef
eff yo minds made up ter throw de gold
dust ter de winds-''-Atlanta Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

Borrow money on your city proper
ty. The Prudential Trust Co.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Damage to vegetables.

The vegetable crop. with the excep
ton of early potatoes and a few othe
early vegetables. was practically :
failure except in the few places wher,
it was irrigated. Early potatoes mad
about half q crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
Fourth Successive Year.

*No record at Fort Riley in 1915, intel
pola1ton from surrounding stations ind
Gates about $50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20

The Industries of the school are
many. The boy is able to learn almost
any kind of trade while at the insti-
tuition. If he and the officials think
his calling is that of the shoemaker he
is put to work in the we'll equipped
shoe shop. Here the shoes are made
which are worn by the boys at the
school. When the boy finishes his
course here he is an expert shoemaker
and well equipped to earn a living in
the world by following his trade.
In the tailor shop the boys are
taught this trade and the uniforms and
clothing worn by the inmates of the
school are all made here. The officials
of the institution are proud of the
fact that they have turned out some of
the best tailors in the state.
Another room which is very interest
ing is the printing room, where the
school paper is published and most of
the printed matter used by the school
is turned out. The Boys Chronicle"
which is the school paper. is a very in
teresting little monthly publication be-
ing entirely made up by the boys and
concerns doings about the school. 1t
has a regular staff of officers consist
ing of an editor, associate editor, man
ager and other officials. Each COM
pany at the school has reporter
whose duty is to interest himself in the
happenings of his company and turn
them in to the editor. The paper is
very we'll laid out and contains some
very interesting and clean reading as
we'll as the news about the institu
ton. 1t would take an unlimited
amount of space to describe in de-
tail the industries of the institution.
Just to give a general idea, how
ever, everything worn or used by the
boys at the school is made by them,
with the exception of hats.
The ice which is used is manufac-
tured at the school by a small ice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-20
The Wheat Crop.

Over the eastern half of the state
the drouth began too late to dam
age wheat In the western and espec-
tally the southwestern portion, wheat
was badly damaged. In some coun-
ties there was less than so per cent of
a crop, and a few counties along the
line raised no wheat at all.
Norwich bulletin., 1913-01-31

Papers in three new suits, return able before the superior court on the first Tuesday in February, were filed on Thursday with Clerk George E. Parsons One is a divorce suit, an- other is the suit of chauffeur for a broken arm while cranking a car and the third is for damages in trolley accident.
 John H. Buell. of Waterford, a chauf- feur. brings suit against Edward c. Hammond of the same town, for $10,- 00o damages for an arm broken in two places while Buell. was cranking the automobile belonging to Hammond. In the information it is stated that the car was stalled in Stato street. New London. while Hammond was driving 1t on Dec. 2s, 1911, and that Buell. who was crossing the street at the time, complied with Hammends re- quest to crank the oar. It Is charged that Hammond negligently slid the spark control past center while Buell. was in the act of cranking the ear, causing the motor to baek-fire and throw the crank back so that it struck and broke Buelfs arm in two places, The plaintiff claims permanent injuries through nlisshapen. deformed and crippled arm Before the accident he