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us TO prepare to meet such an occur
renee. The battle scenes are thrilling
and the film remarkable.
PALACE-Monday, Tuesday and We'd
nesday, Still Waters with Marguerite
Clark. will be shown, and for Thursday
Friday and Saturday. bella Donna"
starring Pauline Frederick. VIII be the
feature.
VAUDEVILLE
KEITH'S-GeorEe MacFarland, Billy B,
Van and Beaumont Sisters in "Spooks';
Willard. Dorothy Toye, Mcconnell and
Simpson, Hallcn and Fuller, Delmore
and Lee, Kane and Herman, the Ioleen
Sisters.
CROSS KEYS-First half of week. 'Fe-
Mail Clerks" Harry Thomson, Owen
Drews, Lester Trio. Carrie Lille, Gorsoh
Sisters. Second half Of week, 'Fe-Mail
Clerks" Prelson and Goldie, Klauss and
Binney, Leland Carr and company, VIII
Adams, the Lelands.
GLOBE-Balalaika Orchestra, Brady and
Mahony, San Fong Lin Troupe. lie Roy,
Harvey and company, Bird and Nellie
Helm, Roattini and Shelly, Emmet and
company, Marie Stoddard Kay and Yer
non, La Petite Ouri.
GRAND-"The Furnace Fixers.'' George
Barry and Maude Wolford, Herbert's
Dogs, Lear and Stone. Clim Bailey,
Harry Rose.
At POPULAR PRICES
PEOPLES-"At the Old Cross Roads" a
rural comedy.
STOCK
RNICRERBOCKER- - THE Gamblers. F."
the Knickerbocller Players in lSlein's
famous play
BURLESQUF
UMONT'S-Dumont's Minstrels In bur
lesque and travesties OF the times.
COMING EVENTS
WEEK or DECEMBER 15.
PEOPLE'S-"A Little Girl in a Big City. "
WEEK or DECEMBER p.
BRoAD-William Gillette in Sherlock
Holmes" and Secret Service"
F0RRES1'-''Waich Your Step :"
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the organ as an accompaniment VIII Oe
demonstrated next week at the Locust.
There viii be special attractions at the
Girard next week-an amateur contest on
Tuesday night, ballroom contest On
Thursday, vaudeville surprises on Friday
and children's contest on Saturday eve
ming.
Barrist & Co. real estate brokers spe-
cialiZing in the sale Of motion picture the
atres have removed their offices from III
North Sth street. where they have 0een
conducting business for the last two
years. TO suite 6O5-O6-O7 Abbott Building,
northeast corner Broad and Race streets.
The great dancers, Mr.. and Mrs. Castle.
have made a remarkably good illm snow
ing in their new play, The Whirl OF
Life" At the Leader next week.
Metro and Paramount pictures VIII ne
shown exclusively in the Goth and Market
street section at the Globe. Geraldine
Farrar in Carmen" is booked for sat
urday the eleventh.
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CONTINUING PLAYS

CONTINUING PLAYS
BROAD-"Outcast, with Elsie Ferguson,
David Powell and Nell Compton A
drama of English life, by Henry II.
Davis. The rising young star plays the
part OF a woman of the streets, who
helps man from the down path, only
TO refuse marriage.
FORREST-"Stopl I.ooktt Iistenlt,"
with Gaby Deslys. Frank I.alor, Joseph
Stanley, marry Pilcer Doyle and Dixon,
Tempest and Sunshine. A big revue on
the latest Dillingham; model, with musi-
cal trimmings by Berlin and lyrics by
Harry b. Smith. An excellent opportu-
nifty TO view new costumes and styles.
LYRTC-"Ruggles OF Red Gap" with
Ralph Herr, Louise Hale and George
Haskell. A comedy. with music, from
the amusing stories by Henry Leon VIII
son in the Saturday Evening Post The
adventures OF an English butler in
ADEf %"A Full House." with Nav
Nokes, Herbert Corthen and George
Parsons. Three laughs and two roars
every other line over a crook, a cop and
a chorus girl.
LITTLE THEATRE-Staee Society of
Philadelphia in pantomime. THE King
of the Black Isles" and three one-act
plays. "Fifty-Fifty," by r. ]. Beamish !;
Aiit pAiAANAs4 u1 aunhlB lnOIlaH,
and miles Dixon" by Gilbert Cannan,
Friday and Saturday nights. Three
novel, entertaining plays and a dun one.
CONTINUING PHOT0PLAYS
THE GARRICE-"The Birth of a Ma
tion." with Henry b. Walthal, Mae
Marsh and Spottswood Aitken ID. w.
GTihiths mammoth photoplay of the
Civil War and Reconstruction. founded
in part on Thomas Dixons "Clansman. -
A marvellous entertainment
METROPOLTTAN - Battle Cry OF
Peace" NitagTaph's great MIN on Pre-
paTedness." f" with Charles Richmond and
all-stRr cast, II shows the invasion or
America by foreign Power and calls
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THEATRICAL BAEDEKER
With No New Plays the Feature Film Again Takes
Lead in the Theatrical Bll-o'Fare
for Philadelphia
NEW FEATURE FILMS

CHESTNUT STREET war
s1ANLEMonday
and will
be screened
THE REGENT-Mondy
The DANCE
tn
Mantel
Cal Kane
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Along Film Avenue

This is the time of the year when JOY
and entertainment make the spirit of the
season and the new idea of having pro-
fessional talent take the place OF the old
fashioned home entertainment is keeping
Abe L. Einstein busy arranging shows for
the Stanley Entertainment Bureau.
The fans should not miss the opportu-
nifty to see their screen idols in the flesh
next Wednesday night at the Movie Ball
TO he held in TurnEemeindc Hall. Broad
and Columbia avenue. Representatives
from al the film organizations have signi-
fed their intention 10 be present.
Sid OlcOtt. who directed Madam But
terily," in which Mary Pickford is seen
in the title role at the Alhambra next
week, had 10 make the story from mate
rial which had not been used in either
the play or in the opera. Just how well
, he succeeded can be judged by the excel
J lent film which he made.
The tendency to use n orchestra with
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The tendency to use IN orchestra with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-01

torrid zone, and be scarce in or absent
from the higher ATTITUDES of the earth.
Such differential effects do not exist,
and it seems to follow that changes in
the earth's rotation period and in it's
form could have been only slight while
the stratification of our rocks was in
progress. Biologists estimate from
the deposition of salt in the oceans, and
from the rates of denudation and sed-
imentation, that the formation of the
rock strata has consumed from Co.
100000 to 100, 100000 years. If the
earth had substantially it's present
form SO,0O0.00O years ago we are safe
in saying that the period CT time rep
resented in building up the earth from
a small nucleus to it's present dimen-
sions has been vastly longer, probably
reckoned in the thousands of millions
of wears
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TO BETTER WORK
Evolution in Sunday Schools in
This County.
I'll. w. BOmgardner Named
President of Organization.

That primary Sunday school work
is undergoing as much evolution as
has taken place in the school room is
the theme of several talks made be-
fore the Shawnee county Sunday
school convention. The sessions will
close this evening at the First English
Lutheran church.
An exhibit from IA Sunday schools
in the city and county is the feature
of the convention. All sorts of work
done by the children is on exhibition
and the display is made up of the
color, paper and woodwork of kinder
gartenS.
THE object of the teaching is to
help the young mind grasp concrete
moral truth-which it cannot visua-
lie" said the Rev. NJ. f. TrOxen to-
day. Children cannot imagine things
they know nothing of and Sunday
schools are becoming scientific in their
methods of teaching -
H. w. Bomgardner of Topeka was
elected president, r. n. McEntire first
vice president, w. A. Forbes second
vice president, George E. Dougherty
secretary, and A. A. Knapp treasurer,
at the meeting Tuesday afternoon. Be
tween two and three hundred people
are attending the meetings and the
ladies of the First English Lutheran
church are serving lunch and dinner.
The Sunday school exhibit is under
the supervision. of Mrs. D. o. -Coe.
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EIGHT COLUMNS NOW.

The State Journal today enlarges its
pages from seven to eight columns to
enable it to better serve it's readers
and advertisers.
The increased width of the page
gives the paper a square appearance,
like that of the New York Times. The
State Journal wants to be square, to
be the squarest paper in Kansas-to
the people and to the parties.
1t wants to be true and fair and
present all the worth while news in
careful, concise, conscientious. com
prehenslve and complete manner and
to be both enlightening and entertain
ing.
AS Polonius says: ITO thine own
self be true and it must follow, as
the night the day, thou canst not then
be false to any man"
The new form will help to these
ends. the hope is expressed that the
reader will take to it: the advertiser
must follow.
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BALANCE.
Fate of the Weir School of
Mines Is Trembling.
Board Meets to
Decide Its Future.

The fate of the state school of
mines, which has for several years
hung in the balance, will be decided
Friday by the state board of admin
isstra tion.[> The state board Will come
to Topeka this week and will hold an
autopsy over the little school at Weir.
The school will either be closed or
placed on the school map of the state.
Several times during the last few
years it has seemed that the school of
mines was making its last stand. Once
or twice the legislature has threaten
ed to sew up an Appropriation for the
institution. At other times the politi
clans walked on the school with hob
nail shoes. Now the state board of
administration will determine whether
the school is an asset or a liability.
1t was in 1911 that the legislature
set aside money for the school of
mines. Senator c. S. Huffman of
Cherokee county made the fight for
the establishment of the school and
institution at Weir. But for four years
the school has travelled a stormy sea.
In both 1913 and 1915, legislative
members who were unfriendly to the
school threatened to hold up an APP
preparation for its support.
According to announcement in To-
peka today, the state board will come
to Topeka Friday for a fond and final
educational infant The report is to
the effect that the board may decree
to close the school All of which will
most likely raise a howl of protest
from the mining district in south
eastern Kansas. Senator Huffman
will come to Topeka to defend the
school and he will tell the board of
the good the school might do if given
proper encouragement.
Appropriations for the school have
been small. In fact, they have been
so small that virtually no progress has
been possible. The dream which Sena-
tor Huffman believed had come true
when he won his fight in 1911, has
many times been shattered. On
dozen occasions it has been necessary
to fight to keep the school on the map.
Now, according to reports current in
state house circles, the BOARD of ad-
will vote to either drop
the little school from the list to
make it a real live. going concern.
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OAKLAND TO LIGHT UP
Planning to Enter Into Contract
With the Edison Company for
Extension of Service.

Oakland is planning to brighten up.
At the next regular meeting of the
city council of Oakland a committee
of citizens will report the wishes of
the large majority concerning the
electric illumination of every street in
tersection of that city, and also the
desire to secure electric current for
household consumption.
Oakland has been negotiating with
the Edison company for the last two
months, for street lamps and electric
service for the homes of its citizens,
also for the stores and for power.
The light company has agreed to
extend its lines to Oakland to serve
the residences and stores and to fur
nfsh power where needed, and has
further agreed to sell electricity for
eight cents per kilowatt hour. The
Edison company has agreed to build
a complete street lighting system and
maintain all the poles and wires in.
first class condition, renew the lamps
and furnish adequate supply of cleo
trioitv TO hnrn the lights all ni1ht and
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FOR MISS GRIFFITH
tional Girls Work Secretary by
the Y. w. c. A.

Miss Gertrude E Griffith, national
girls work secretary of the Y. w. c.
A will be entertained at the local as
ISOLATION Thursday and Friday of this
week. Girls of the sixth, Seventh
and eighth grades of the Branner and
Quincy schools will meet Miss Crit
fifth Friday morning. Friday she will
meet the Y. w. c. a. secretaries and
Miss Lima Bresette of the state in
dustrial welfare association. Follow
ing is the program that has been pre-
pared for her:
Thursday at o'clock. meeting with
the Domestic circle club; Friday at
10, conference with secretaries at
HAS, girls of Branner schools: at
1890 lunch at building with Miss
Clare Armstrong, Miss Marguerite
Dice, and Miss Lima Bresette, factory
inspector fer the state of Kansas: at
4, talks with girls of Quincy school;
at $50 supper with the Silver Link
club. Saturday at IL, meeting of
girls work committee; at $50, lunch
with girls work committee; at >,
meeting of Polly Anna and Girl
Guardians; at o'clock a light supper
will be given for Miss Griffith and
fifty members of the girls clubs.
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THE AGE OF THE EARTH.

n The earth's form is that which its
rotation period demands, writes w. w.
Campbell in the Scientific Monthly
Undoubtedly If the period has
changed, the form has changed. Civ
en- a little time, solids under great
pressure flow quite readily into new
forms. Now any great slowing-down
Of the earths rotation period within
geological times would be expected to
show in the surface features. The
Strata should have wrinlxled, SO to
speak. in the equatorial regions and
stretched III the polar regions. if the
Earth changed from a spheroid that
was considerably flatter than it now
il. to its present form. Mountains. as
Evidence of the folding of the rock
strata, should exist in profusion in the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-01
LAND DRAWING BEGINS
Kansas Forest Reserve Open Today
Only $50 Applications Under
New Homestead Act.

Dodge City, Kan, Dec. Draw
ings for the one hundred and thirty
eight thousand acres of land in the
Kansas National Forest Reserve in
Finney, Hamilton, Kearney, Grant and
Haskell counties. which have been
thrown open to settlement under the
supervision of representatives of the
United States land bureau, begun here
today. Only five hundred and fifty
persons had filed on the land, but
since the majority of these filed on
what are generally accepted as the
best claims, drawings were held to be
necessary. 1t has been announced that
losers in today's drawings will be al
lowed to file later on land not already
claimed.
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Die OF PELLACRA
Three Fatal Cases of the South
ern Disease in Topeka.
Two of Them Reported From
the State Hospital.

Three persons died of pellagra dur
ing the month of November in the
city of Topeka. Pellagra, which is
more common in Europe and certain
parts of the southern states, is not a
contagious disease and, according to
experiments and Investigations con-
Quoted in the state of Mississippi by
the United States government, is due
to improper diet. and if treated in
time, can be cured by proper dieting
One of the person dying in Topeka had
been an inmate of the state hospital
seventeen years.
This circumstance, however, does
not necessarily reflect upon the state
institution, according to DIR. Harold
B. Wood, city health officer.
'Pellagra is more prevalent among
insane persons than Others" said DIR.
Wood. The disease is caused by a
lack of protein either in the food or in
that part of the food which is assim-
Hated in the system. With insane per-
sons disease of the nervous system
frequently causes a lack of aSSim-
ilation of protein even when that ele-
ment is present in the food in quaint
ties sufficient for normal persons"
The Records.
The three cases of pellagra, fatal
in Topeka, are shown by the official
records of deaths for the month of
Chandler street, died of the disease
November IL. She was So years old.
DR.. C. f. Menninger was the attending
physician, but was not called until a
week prior to her death. The disease
is of such a nature that little can be
done when it has reached such an ad-
vanced stage.
Ida S. Smith, SIS years old, who had
been an inmate of the State Hospital
seventeen years, died November 5.
According to the death certificate,
DR.. T. P. Scott had been attending her
since November %, 1903.
Alma Martinson was the other VIC
TIM of the disease who died in the
State Hospital She was so years old
and died November IL According to
the death certificate DR.. NJ. L. De
Land was the attending physician and
had been treating her since November
IT, 1914. He gives on the death GER
tificate as a contributory cause of
death involuntary melancholia. -
This particular kind of melancholia
caused DIR. Wood, city health officer,
to pucker his brow.
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NEARLY so YEARS OLD
Kansas State Horticultural Society Is
Meeting in Annual Session in
Topeka Today.

Raising of small fruits is the chief
subject of concern before Kansas
horticulturists at their forty ninth an
nual meeting today in Topeka. More
than fifty fruit growers from all sec
tons of Kansas are attending the
gathering in the offices of the State
Horticultural society in the state
house. Final meetings of the socity
will BE held Friday afternoon.
Raising of strawberries, raspberries,
blackberries and gooSeberries was dis
cussed this afternoon by members of
the society. At the meetings Thurs
day the apple, the peach-eVen the
Quince-the melon and a few sundry
vegetables such as the cabbage, tomato
ard potato will have an inning.
At today's session fruit growers
from the various sections of the state
read reports concerning the 1915 fruit
crop. From almost every fruit grow
ing district of the state favorable re-
port was received and in many in
stances the reports showed almost rec
ord apple crops and high quality of
fruit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-01

every night from dark to dayiis
for $50 a lamp per year. 1t is esti-
mat that seventy-five lamps will be
required to light the city streets
The majority of Oakland citizens
seem to be heartily in favor of the
Improvement and many of them state
emphatically that Oakland will not
tolerate any contract with a moon
light schedule in it,
The citizens committee named at
a mass meeting held in the new Oak
land high school building, in october,
with c. c. Vandeventer as chairman.
have made exhaustive study of the
lighting system in cities of similar
size and will take the Edison COM
pany's proposition before the city
council Friday night. The other
member of the committee are: F. E.
Smith John Poort, Ira Orner and L.
H. Poland.
A canvass of the sentiment in oak
land discloses that 80 per cent of the
taxpayers are ready to stand their
share of the cost of the improvement.
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DEATHS and FUNERALS.

William E. Benner age Z, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy S. Benner, died to-
day at the family home in Tecumseh.
The funeral will be held at 2 o'clock
Mrs. w. NJ. Welcome, 1921 Fillmore
street. Interment in Mount Hope
cemetery.
Thomas Cartwell, age 60, died at
1870 o'clock Tuesday evening at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Bertha
Wilson, Tenth and Duane streets. He
is survived by his wife, six children
and one step-chi!d. The funeral will
be held at 2 o'clock Thursday after
noon at SheIlabarger's chapel. Inter-
ment in Topeka cemetery.
Mary Getty, infant daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. George Getty, died Tuesday
evening at the family nome, 416 Ash
street The funeral was held this aft
ernoon at St Joseph's German Catho-
lie church. Intarment in Mount CAL
vary cemetery.
Adlona Frank. infant daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Frank, died Tues
day night at the family home, 240
was held this afternoon at st. Joseph
German Catholic church. Interment
in Mount Calvary cemetery.
John N. Hodges, age IS. died Tues
DAY at Pittsburg, Kan. He was a
brother of E. w. Hodges of Topeka.
The body will be brought to Topeka.
Arrangements for the funeral will be
made later.
Mrs. Chester f. Huff, formerly Miss
Emily Altman of Topeka, died Tues
day at her home in Quenemo, Kan.
Mrs. Huff was for a number of wears
a teacher at Dcugherty's business col
lego She is survived by her husband,
her mother, two brothers and a sister.
The funeral will be held at Lyons,
Kan.
Emerson NJ. Chesney, formerly an
employee in the Santa Fe offices here.
died Friday in Kansas City. The fun
eral was held in Kansas City.
James Thompson, coIored. aged As.
died Tuesday night at a local hospital.
Private funeral services will be held
at l o'clock Thursday afternoon at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Thompson, 1919 Monroe
street Interment IN Mount Auburn
cemetery.
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All of the wheat in the Canadian
elevators having been Communicated
NV the Canadian government. the
-,,beat-speculators of Canada will have
70 transfer their operations to the
wheat marts in this country, or else
go into retirement for the time being.
In the meantime, the wheat specula-
tors here will wax exceedingly pussy
as was evidenced by the activity IN
the wheat pits on Monday. But II
isn't likely that the move OF the Ca
madam government will permanently
boost the price of wheat in this coun-
try in any material manner. as the
wheat seized in Canada involves only
some 2O,OOO,OOO bushels.
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Kaiser Attempts to Stop Nego-
tiatiOns Through Vatican.
This Is the Object of His Visit
to Vienna.
RUMANIA WANTS TERRITORY
Germans Ask Austria to Give
Up Pennsylvania.
Central Powers Hold Different
Views on Peace Plans.

Rome, Dec 1-(Via Paris. 1.-THE
real object of Emperor Williams visit
to Vienna was to put a stop to efforts
Austria is making, by means of nego-
tiations through Madrid with the
vatican, to obtain a separate peace
with the quadruple entente" says the
Tribuna. Vienna and Berlin disagree
on the question of peace. Berlin de-
slreS to treat separately with each of
the allies, so as to break up the quad
ripple entente and then to crush Eng
land, but Vienna desires a real and
lasting peace to end the tension, which
rapidly is becoming too great for Aus
tria to bear"
Rumania Troubles.
Paris, Dec. diplomatic circles
at Rome believe, says the correspond
ent of the Journal, that the visit of
Emperor William to Vienna was mad e
to reconcile, if possible, divergent
views of Germany and Austria, and
obtain pledge of territorial sacrifices
from Hungary in the hope of assuring
the neutrality of Rumania
Alexander Marghiloman and p IL
Carp, leader of the Rumanian con-
sentative party, are reported to nave
assured the Duke of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin, when he was in Bucharest,
that the benevolent neutrality of Ru-
mania could be counted upon by the
Teutonic allies, if Germany could in
duce Austria to cede Pennsylvania and
part of Bukowina to Rumania
NJ. Carp is said to have promised
also to bring about changes in the
Rumanian cabinet. Negotiations be-
tween Berlin and Vienna, the journal
says, were unsuccessful owing to the
opposition Of Hungary and it is as
serted the German ruler is endeayor-
ing to induce Emperor Francis Joseph
to consent to the sacrifice of Tran
sylvania, upon the understanding that
Germany will return TO Austria two
provinces of Silesia annexed to Prus-
STA in 1866