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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
ON HER oh, WELL
Groom Finds TattOOed Name Of
Former Sweetheart.
Secret Fad of Engaged Young
Lady Is Exposed.

New York, Nov. 3.-How would
you like to be a bridegrot m and dis
cover the name m. ]. Murphy tat
tooed in vivid letters, regular Amer
lean flag effect-red. white and blue
upon your ride's-er-well-per
son, supposing all the time that your
name was not Murphy, especially M.
J. Murphy at all, but Beneficiary
Bennett?
+ You see, of course, the dramatic
possibilities in such a situation. In
this particular case they grew so trag-
ic that it required the intercession of
Magistrate Geisner.
1t was through Mrs. Benefits ap-
pearance in court tnat the world
learned the we'll known tattoo still
retains all its pristine popularity She
camc to court as complainant
against her husband, whom she &C
cused of beating her and threatening
her life. On the stand. in his own
defense, Bennett revealed the fact
that his wife wore the tattooed name
of NJ ]. Murphy upon her, er-well,
to be frank. thigh.
Mrs. Bennett insisted in rebuttal
that the name had been on her lin b
when Bennett married her and that
he knew it. She said it had been tat
tooed there by girl friend two years
ago at which time she was engaged to
the said Murphy, with whom she had
later Quarreled.
Thus we come to a new fad which
puts fur-trimmed nighties, reticule
sticks, canary birds in wrist cages and
other feminine foibleS into the limbo
of forgotten things. Young ladies'
engaged young ladieS-we learn, wear
their fiance's name tattooed in vivid
coIors on their-um-oh. call 'em
limbs
Magistrate Geisner is doing his best
to effect a reconciliation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
BLACKLEG APPEARS
Joe Mercer Does Not Regard the Sit
uation as Alarming.

Reports of cases of blackleg among
cattle have been received in increasing
numbers recently by ]. H. Mercer.
state live stock sanitary commission
er. Mr.. Mercer pointed out today.
however that there is nothing alarm
ing in the situation, since it is at this
season of the year that the disease
manifests itself most frequently.
"Blackleg is caused, in the main"
he said, 'by a change in feed. At this
time of the year many calves are being
weaned and cattle are being changed
from a summer to a winter diet"
Preventive measures known to most
veterinarian, should be able to care
stockmen, he said. and any competent
for a stricken herd or animal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
WHEN THE SOVEREIGN VOTER SPOKE

convention, of which Elihu Root
was president, and for which Mr..
Root had conducted a vigorous
speaking campaign.
Samuel w. Mccall, the Repub-
Iican who will succeed David L.
Walsh, a Democrat, as governor
of Massachusetts, won by a plu-
raIity of $685.. The Republicans
retained control of the Massachu-
cans returned to power in Phil
adeIphia, where their candidate,
Thomas b. Smith, was elected
mayor by $4,000.
In New Jersey the Republicans
gained two state senators and two
members of the assembly and
will continue in control of both
houses.
Statewide prohibition was re-
jected in Ohio by a majority of
from $4,000 to 10000. Last year
the amendment was defeated by
S4,152. The Republicans elected
mayors in Cleveland and Cincin-
matt. Charles Milroy, a Progress
sive, was chosen mayor of Toledo.
The city of Toledo voted against
a 25-year street car franchise and
will take over all lines controlled
by the Toledo railways and light
company.
A proposal that the city pur-
chase the local street railways
was rejected in Detroit after a Bit
ter fight
The election of members of the
assembly of Virginia will send a
heavy majority to the senate and
house pledged to the enactment of
prohibition legislation when the
state goes dry by constitutional
amendment November 1, 1916.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
STATE ECONOMY
BRINGS PROTEST
Veterans at Dodge City File
List of Complaints.
Say They Are Denied the Nee
essarieS of Life.
They WEAR RAGGED CLOTHES
Friends and Relations Not AL
lowed to Visit Them.
Allege That Their Pet Cats
Have Been Killed.
THEY WEAR RAGGED CLOTHES

Nearly rs veterans and their wives,
inmates of the state soldiers home
at Dodge City, have signed a COM
plant against the methods used in
the handling of the work of the insti-
tuition and especially regarding the So
called economy policy. In the ef
fort to save a few dollars, veterans
have been denied necessaries of life
and the institution has been permitted
to suffer that the state treasury may
not be depleted. That is the story as
told in a lengthy protest from the
broken men and women who are COM
PEELED to make their home as state
wards.
According to the report from Dodge
City, inmates of the state home have
been deprived of the necessaries of life
that the state might show a cash bal
ance in the handling of the affairs
(COutinued ON PaRe p
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Elections in ten states yeSter-
day emphaticaIly defeated woman
suffrage amendments in New
York. Massachusetts and Penn
sylvania, and gave the Republi-
cans an additional representative
in congress and a new governor in
Massachusetts.
The Democrats apparently
elected a governor In Maryland
and the entire state ticket, besides
majority in the state legislature.
In Kentucky both parties claim
victory in the gubernatorial
contest, but incomplete returns
from III of the 12O counties gave
former Congressman Augustus o.
Stanley, Democrat, lead of
1929 over Edwin p. Morrow, his
Republican opponent.
Mississippi, the only other state
TO elect Il governor, went, as usual,
Democratic.
In New York, former Congress-
man William 5. Bennett was elect
ed in the Twenty third district, to
succeed the late Democratic con-
gresham, Jacob Golden. Repub-
hcanS will succeed Republicans
in the Thirty first and Thirty
sixth congressional districts of
New York and the Twenty-fourth
district of Pennsylvania.
In New York the Republicans
retained their control of the low
er house of the legislature, al
though they lost one assembly
man. They also elected a major
ity of the mayors chosen I'm cities
of the state. In addition to de-
feating the suffrage amendment
by about 100000 votes, the people
of New York repudiated the new
state constitution drafted by a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

war department contains the names
of American soldiers not mentioned
in news dispatches. The complete
list fellows:
Harry ]. Jones. private, 11th In
fantry; died of wound in stomach.
Steve Macy, private, 18th Infantry;
flesh wound in left hip.
Edward Tank, private, 11th IN
fantry; wounded in thigh.
Michael Burger, private, 7th Infan-
try; slight wound in left knee.
Ollie E. Whidden, private, 9TH In
fantry; slight wound in neck.
Frank Dudley, cook, 7th Infantry;
wound in right hand.
Walter Mays, sergeant, 7th Infan-
try wound in right hand.
Two civilians, names unknown, also
were reported to have been wounded.
General Funston reported today
that General Urbalejo, with about
1900 Yaqui Indians, We said to have
ioined the Villa forces
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
DENY PEACE MISSION
OF PRINCE BUELOW

Madrid, Nov. 3.-Formal de-
NAL is made in a statement is
sued in the German embassy
that Prince Won Buelow in
tends to discuss possible peace
terms here and in Washing
ton. A dispatch from Corun-
ma, says the former imperial
chancellor of Germany who is
now in Switzerland where he
was reported to have been sent
by his government to initiate
peace negotiations is expected
to arrive there aboard the
Dutch steamer Tubantia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
new WEATHER RECORD
Longest Period of Clear Skies in %
Years at This Season.

cessive fair day for Kansas, making
the longest period of clear weather at
this time of the year in the twenty
nine years that the records have been
kept at Topeka. And still more fair
weather is promised. The end is not
yet in sight. The forecast calls for
fair weather with moderate tempera-
lures tonight and Thursday.
The wind increased to twenty-five
miles an hour this afternoon. The
temperature, brought up rapidly by
the south wind, averaged ten degrees
above normal No weather so cold as
freezing was reported at any place in
the entire United States. Following
are the hourly temperature readings
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
BOY TRUSTEES ESCAPE
Broke Lock and Climbed Reformatory
Wall to Freedom at Midnight

Hutchinson, Kan, Nov. 3-wiIl
Mullen, aged "a, sent from Crawford
county for grand larceny a year ago,
and Arthur Heddleston, aged Is, sent
from johnson county for the same of
fense last May. escaped from the state
reformatory just after midnight by
breaking a lock. They were boiler
room TRUSTEES, working at night They
scaled the wall and are still at large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
RIOTING IN STRIKE
Attempt to Run Trolley Cars at
Wilkesbarre Causes Trouble.

Wilkesbarre, Nov. 3.-There was
rioting here today when a trolley car
was run for the first time since the
beginning of the strike three weeks
ago The Wilkesbarre Railway COM
pany is trying strike breakers.
The first car was met by mob on
the outskirts of the city.
Bricks were thrown through the
window A number of officials who
were on the car narrowly escaped in
irr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
KATY MAN ALLIES AIDE
Ex-President Allen, Director of Traf-
fic on West Front.

st. Louis, Nov. 3.-St. Louis friends
of Andrew A. Allen. former president
of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railroad, learned today that he is act
ing as director of traffic for the allied
powers in the western theater of the
European war.
According to information received
here Mr.. Allen is on the personal staff
of Lord Kitchener, with headquarters
in London, but spends much of his
time in France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
TYPHOON ON WAY
Death and Property Damage in Wake
of LuZon Storm.

Manila, Nov. "a typhoon, which
sweeping the section of the south
ern Luzon, which was devastated
southern Luzon, which was devastated
last month at the loss of nearly 200
lives and property damage estimated
at S. 100000.
The storm is headed toward Manila.
Two coasting vessels have foundered
but the crews were saved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
18 Die IN SEA TRAGEDY
List of Victims in Ship Santa Clara
Sinking Grows.

Marshfield, Ore, Nov. 3.-Eighteen
persons are believed to have lost their
lives late yesterday when the passen-
ger steamer Santa Clara, from Port
land to San Francisco, went aground
on the south spit near the entrance
to Coos Bay. bodies have been
recovered and nine other persons are
missing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
Aged Atchison Farmer Shot.

Atchison, Kan, Nov. 3.-With
shotgun wound in his head and the
gun lying by his side. the body of
Henry Myers. an aged farmer was
found in his home near Atchison last
night. AS no cause for suicide is
known, 1T is believed the shooting was
accidental. Myers was alone in his
home when the shooting occurred.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
BetbIehern stin Declines.

New York, Nov. 3.-Further weak
ness in Bethlehem steel was feature
of today's early market. The stock
opened at 465, gain of four points
over Monday, but soon declined to
AL and the next sales were at 4251z
and 425 On October 22 last Beth
lehem steel touched it's record price
of 500.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
TO SAVE BALKANS.
London Thinks 1t Sees Naturalization
of Asquith's Promise

London, Nov. 3.-The landing of
French troops at Kavala on the Greek
coast is reported in a Sofia telegram
to Berlin, and although this news is
unconfirmed it seems likely sequel
to yesterdays information that British
and French transports had been sight
ed off this Greek port.
Can They Connect in Time?
Whether these troops will be able
to connect speedily enough with the
(COntfnued on PaRa 21
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
FIRES SWEEP FORESTS
West Virginia farmers Battle With
Flames Raging In Mountains.

Charleston, w. Va, Nov. 3.-Forest
fires of unusual severity were today
reported from the mountains around
Martinsburg and in the hills not far
from Parkersburg.
Scores of farmers were out fighting
the flames.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
WHITE HOUSE is SILENT
ON ELECTION OUTCOME

Washington Nov. 3.-No COM
ment was made at the White
House on the elections nor on the
result of the suffrage amendment.
and il was announced that there
would be none.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

Weather Forecast for Kansas.
Fair with moderate temperatures
tonight and Thursday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

The retirement of Field Marshal
Won Hindenburg forces from the line
between Lakes Swenton and Ilsen ap-
parentIy means that the German COM
mander is abandoning his attacks
from the west and southwest on the
Russian stronghold of Dvinsk. which
town he has been making a deter
mined effort to capture in the opera
tlonS of the last few weeks. Lake
Ilsen lies ten miles west of Dvinsk
while Lake Swenton is situated twelve
miles to the south of Lake Ilsen. The
Germans evidently are now withdraw
ing to positions along a line to the
west of Novo Alexandrovsk
TeutOns Take Serbian Town.
Berlin, Nov. 3.-The City of JJsitee
(Uzice), in northwestern Serbia, has
been captured by the Germans This
announcement was made by the war
office today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03
Tide of Battle Again Turns to
the Russians.
TEUTONS MARCH OVER SERBIA
Nish Near Fall; Serbian Hosts
May Be Hemmed In.
More Troops Rushed by Allies
to Save Little Nation.

Berlin, Nov. 3.-The war of
flee announced today that Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg had
been forced to withdraw his lines
between Swenton and Ilsen
lakes, on the northern end of the
Russian front,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-03

A BUSINESS block in the main
street is a better monument to-
man than huge stone in the
cemetery.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-30
Boring Clam Is Odd.

One Of the strangest creatures
known to science is the pholas, or
boring clam. When still very minute
the animal bores into the sandstone
lodges at extreme low water. by
means of its sharp shell. which is re-
placed by secretion as it is worn
away. 1t penetrates the rock to a
depth of six or eight inches, and hol-
lows out its burrow as it increases in
size.
Shaped roughly like top. 1t could
not leave it's rock dwelling even if it
wished to do SO. For food it depends
on the animalcules that float in sea
water, which it seizes by its long
siphon, or tongue. The pholas is in
great demand at the seaside resorts
along the Pacific coast. for its meat
Is very tender and makes excellent
soup.-Youth's Companion.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-30

always after that, wherever he had
known her to be where there were lit.
tie children, they gravitated to her as
naturally as q flower lifts its face to
the sun.
The Man decided that he had been a
fool not to have expressed his regret
more often and forcibly that no babies
had come to bless her life in his own
home. knowing what 1t had meant to
her In the first years of their marriage,
and he decided to make amends.
That night when they sat together
on the broad porch of their home The
Man reached over and took The Won.
ans nand in his.
Il am sorry, dear, for the great void
In our marriage" he told her, more
sorry than ! can ever tell You about
the children"
THE children!" she echoed, and the
note in her voice was one which told
The Man. as nothing else could have
done, that the change in The Woman
was not one born of mis- imagination.
1t was real. 1t was of graver conse
queuce than even his heart had sug.
gested. 1t went down to the we'll
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-30

springs of The Womans life ana l,
was not born of the fact that they hau
had no children. for the quality IN the
tone with which she had echoed hls
words had been one OF horror.
The Man SAID no more, but ne maze
an excuse to get away, and "heh ne
was alone he walked the city streetS
in the summer moonlight with single
question staggering his mind ana ue'
pressing his heart
He cursed himself for cad TO DOUBT
tho woman he loved, and even as ne
cursed the sense of the justice or MS
doubts grew upon him. 1t swept over
him like the great unbidden torrent OF
q raging sea that the thing she had Of
fered him for several years in the
Mace of love was dead sea fruit, ana
the taste of it suddenly filled his soul
with bitterness.
In the days that followed, the ques-
ton which had come to dwell IN Inc
Mans mind ate into his vitals like
cankerous sore and he could md no
cure for it. The Woman was as pune
tilious in the performance of her WIFE,
" duties as ever The Mans nome
lacked nothing of care, and IN the
manner of his wife toward him ne
could find no fault save that It's per-
lection sickened his very soul.
He thought much of the time when
he had first met her and the natural
gravitation of little children to her. He
thought of her passion for them and OF
how he had counted it as sign OF the
very great purity Of her heart He
thought of the grief with which she
had first learned that her marriage
could never be blessed with the happy
prattle of children in her own home,
and of how she had mothered every
tot in the neighborhood, making The
Mans home and yard veritable play
ground for them.
But it had been many months since
he had seen child IN his house or
about the premises. Somehow the fact
had not struck him before as being sig.
nificant. But now he remembered the
saying of very wise man that the
touch of a little child will invariably
bring an expression Of fear into the
eyes of a faithless woman, and the re-
membrance gave The Man an inspira
ton.
The next day when he went home he
held in his own the dimpled hand OF .
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-30
CALLED PARADISE OF BIRDS
Great Lake Region Abounds In Rare
songsters - Attracted by the
Many Lakes.

The lake region Of Michigan and
Wisconsin has been described as the
paradise of birds"
In Michigan alone 300 species Of
birds have been identified. The great
lakes and the thousands Of lesser
lakes add to the bird life by calling to
these waters the aquatic birds. Mich
igan has many birds whose habitat Is
in the far north around Hudson bay
and others that live in the states
south of Michigan, even along and be.
yond the Gulf of Mexico. The first
are illustrated by the Bohemian wax
wing, spruce partridge, Canadian f..
and others, while the summert 3D.!
bird, the mockfng BIRD and atne care
inal red bird illustrate the second
group.
The great lakes attract many birds
that are usually maritime, such as
gulls and terms.
Michigan abounds in lakes-there
are 425, for instance, within 25-mile
radius of Battle Creek-and there are
the nesting places for many interesting
birds not found elsewhere.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-30
THE EXPERIMENT

The change III The Woman was
subtle. The Man recognized 1t but ne
could not define it. Her manner to-
ward him was fawlesS, and no one
could say truthfully that she did not
make him a good wife.
After thinking the matter over for
long time The Man decided that the
change existed only in his magma
tion--a thing born OF his too great love
for The WOman-but even as he thus
assured himself he knew that the solu-
ton was not true.
He spent deal Of his time IN trou'
bled mental questioning when he was
absent from her, but when he went
home her ready smile dispelled his
fear, and he was able to believe, as
long as he felt the sense of her near
ness, that the love she bore him was
the same that it had been when he
chose her from among all other women
to be his wife.
She left nothing undone to make his
home comfortable. When be returned
to it after busy day in his downtown
office she was seldom absent. In fact,
she attended her wifely duties with
such punctiliousness that it sometimes
occurred to The Man that she made
business OF his comforts; studied them
and made them certain with care
that suggested motives other than
love.
He told himself that he was getting
finicky and exactlng, and declared him
self a maudlin sentimentalist. All this,
however, was in the privacy OF his
thoughts, which he took good care The
Woman should know nothing about
And all the while the consciousness
of a barrier between them grew upon
the man, until one day it dawned upon
him that the reason OF it was that God
had blessed his marriage with no chill
dren.
The Mans mind leapt at the sugges.
ton. Yes; that was it. Children had
been The Woman's absorbing passion.
He remembered the day he had first
met her. 1t was on a picnic at harvest
time. She was sitting out under a
spreading oak. surrounded by a large
group of children whom she loved with
her eyes even as she told them tales,
and they, in their turn. gave her the
alteration of their young hearts. And
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-30
Uses Of Coke GROWING.

The tremendously increased impor-
lance of by-products of coke ovens
and gas works since the war started
has led to efforts to increase the use
of coke by concerns that heretofore
have used only coal. The government
has led the way by mixing certain
proportions of coke with other fuel
on its railways and in its buildings
and the manufacturers are following
this example The coke ovens and
gas works are now depended on to
furnish three vitality important prod.
ucts-e&plosive material, motor fuel
and heterogeneous fertilizer-and it IL
deemed imperative that the productions
Of these by-products be stimulated BY
an increased demand for the coke.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-07-30

Leaving out the flowers of the field
we must pass on to those Of the palm
garden and conservatory to find paral-
lels for the splendors of new ribbons.
These latest blossoms of the looms,
especially the lovely monotone rib
bOns, leave US marvelng at their color
and texture and amazed at the re-
suits OF intricate weaving. 1t is no
wonder that they inspire the artists
Of apparel to think out such happy
coQuetries OF dress as picturedhere
The ribbons used for these pieces
are shell.pink in color with a satin sur.
face broken by figures woven ill.,,
which play hide and seek as the light
strikes them. One catches waver-
ing water line which is lost, while a
rose leaps into notice or dots spring
out like stars 1t is all the trickery
Of light. Truly mankind has gone
very far in the weaving of silk.
The girdle and buoyant hair bow
shown are made Tor a half-grown girl,
and the slippers to add one more
charm to lead to the story of the
boudoir. They are OF pink brocaded
satin ribbon trimmed with narrow
satin ribbon of the same color.
The girdle requires ribbon six inches
wide, or about that. There are many
patterns In the monotone ribbons to
choose from, but those showing small
dots scattered over the surface are
beautifully suited to young girls. A
Ngirdle like that shown In the picture
4 hstens at ei.~ I~s. ' seu ~-s~~ si,v,t
yscanding loops. and one longer hang
ing loop over two ends. These are
trimmed in 8 curve instead OF the
usual diagonal.
A buckle is made Of buckram and