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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02
ONCE MADE $100 A DAY
Now Well Known Horse Trader Is De-
pendent Upon Charity.

Ten years ago Samuel Carl, age 81.
was a wealthy horse buyer and
trader. His activities and knowledge
of horseflesh frequently netted him
800 day A few weeks ago an aged
man with unkept clothing staggered
into the office of Miss Grace Callahan,
assistant secretary of the Topeka
Provident association, exhausted
from a climb up the creaky wooden
stairs which lead from the street to
the secretary's office.
Samuel Carl had lost in his pursuit
of fortune, and was ill. He was cared
for at the association building and
now offers to work this winter for
room and board.
Carl is not unknown in Topeka.
When the Union Pacific station was
built in North Topeka he was in
charge of gang OF teams. Later he
went into the horse business and his
activities have taken him to all parts
of the country. Carl is a lover of
horses. He is strong enough to work
now, and again he wants to handle
horses. He has never accumulated
money simply because he is a horse
man. Any kind of work will do, he
confided to Miss Callahan, but he pre-
fers to fuss with horses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02
Topeka Tailors Suffer
NOW
No More Scratching of Matches
ON TrOuSer Legs.
Box flights" Cut Down Bust
ness for Topeka Tailors.

Another old custom has gone to the
wall The art of striking matches on
ones pants is no more. When a man
does so the veteran smoker puts him
down as a beginner. The tailors are
beginning to kick and the safety match
vendors are getting rich.
1t was only a year or two ago that
the tailoring trade thrived because the
trousers that it's patrons wore were
always out of repair. A man would
get new suit of clothes and inside of
few months the many thousand
match scratches would begin to tell.
The inevitable result would be the or
der of another suit.
Even when a brick wall or tele-
phone pole was handy, constant usage
of pants would form the habit of
striking matches on the latter. The
tailor, as he worked over his table,
would smile. And the cigar, pipe and
cigarette smokers wore threadbare
pants.
Then Came Safties.
Then like a bolt out of a clear sky
came the individual match boxes. For
penny now a package of light can
be obtained and it saves many dollars
yearly in wearing apparel.
These little boxes are of convenient
size. They easily fit into the vest or
match pockets in the coat. No more
pants scratching. 1t can't be done
The matches decline to light on any
thing but the glass compound affixed
to each box. They won't even flicker
on trousers.
81 lose $500 yearly on safety
Matches said one of the best known
Topeka toilors this week, 'all because
place.
This is surely a day of reformation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02
llKANSAS READING
READ LITTLE WAR
KanSanS Are More Interested in
Things at Home.
They Read About Roads, Poll
tics and Social Legislation.
MANY READERS OF FICTION
my READERS OF FICTION
Shakespeare, Bryant and Poe
Popular Boys in Kansas.
Travelling Library Commission
Controls $4,000 Volumes.

Kansans are more interested in
their crops. their politics, their roads,
their live stock, their social legislation
and, in fact, in all of their own acti-
vities than in the European war, &C
cording to the demand for books from
the Kansas travelling library commits
sion.
Since the war began there has been
no material increase in the number
of requests from Individual readers
for books on the history and litera-
ture of the belligerent nations, accord
ing to the reports of the commission.
However, the demand for such read
ing from the study clubs of the state
has been heavy.
Patrons in Three Groups.
Patrons of the library are divided
into three groups, it has been pointed
out, the non-fiction readers, the fic-
ton readers AID the members of the
study clubs. OF these classes, the lat
manifested any great interest in the
war, it is said.
The non-fiction readers devote
themselves largely to books on agri-
culture, the trades, social and labor
activities, languages and political
economy. The class, which at present
numbers most of the patrons of the Ii
brary, clamors for popular fiction.
While the library controls approx
mately $4,000 volumes, covering every
part of the field of literature, books
of poetry and standard novels always
are in demand. Shakespeare, Bryant,
Longfellow and Whittier have many
admirers, and Dickens also is very
popular in Kansas. Thackeray's works
are asked for often, while Robert
friends in the state as have the works
of Edgar Allen Poe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02
DIDN'T WASH HIS HANDS
DIR. Wood Accused of Negligence in
Examining School Children.

DIR. Eva Harding, recognized as
sponsor for the welfare of children in
the schools of Topeka, has received
reports from parents of children and
from the children themselves at the
Polk school that DR.. Harold B. Wood
was guilty of great negligence ana
careIessness in examining the children
at the school for throat infection and
disorders of the mouth
Several people told DR.. Harding that
DR.. Wood used the same instrument
in examining all the pupils without
washing it between examinations
They also stated that he did not wash
his hands when he finished the ex-
animation of each pupil. One child
said: ssHe took that instrument out
of Mary's mouth and put in mine
without cleaning it at all"
DIR. Wood could not be found this
afternoon to confirm or deny the
story.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02
STAY IN TOPEKA
Local Greeks Have No Inten-
ton of Going to War.
Rain of Steel Has No FaScina-
ton for Them.

The Greeks of Topeka are not hy-
phenated. OF course, they are inter-
ested in the affairs of their mother
country, but as to going back across
the waters to fight in the great Eu-
ropean war instead Of enjoying peace
and prosperity in America-weH, that
is a different matter. All this in the
face of a call for all Greek reserv-
lists to be ready for military duty, sent
out by the Greek minister at Wash
ington.
Constantine Maura gavis, foreman
of the shine parlor at Eighth nd Kan
sas avenue, estimated that there are
about fifty Greeks in Topeka One
third of this number have taken out
American citizenship papers. OF the
remaining number, about twenty will
be affected by the call. However, To-
peka Greeks explain that there is
nothing compulsory about the service
so long Al they stay in America.
Would any of them return to fight
for their country? A. dozen of them
grouped around q. visitor who held
a press dispatch telling of the call.
They would not They were proud of
the history that Greece made in an
cient and medieval times. But this
war would be different. In times past
Greece was fighting for Independence.
But this time-well, Topeka Greeks
do not relish the idea of facing a rain
of steel bullets, poisonous gases and
liquid fire just to please the ruler of
their country.
So far, it has been impossible to To-
cate a Topeka Greek who says he in
tends to answer the call.
FIashIieht Batteries at Forbes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02
NEWWIRELESS TRIUMPH
w. F. Kercher Tells of Talk From
Washington TO Hawaii.

w. r. Kercher of Topeka, publicity
agent for the M. and K. Telephone
company, has the following to say
about the recent wireless telephone
achievements:
Wireless telephony from the At
lantic coast to Hawaii. 4,G00 miles
apart, is an accomplished reality. The
night before last speech was trans
mitted from Washington to the wire
less station at Honolulu by means of
the special wireless telephone appar-
atus and developments which have
been made by the engineers of the
American Telephone and Telegraph
company.
''If anything further was needed to
show the wonderful capacity of these
new discoveries, this last triumph,
coming only a few hours after the
transcontinental wireless telephone
achievement, is conclusive. The dis
lance over which the wireless commu-
nication was held is greater than the
distance from New York to Lon
don, New York to Paris or from New
York to many other important points,
such as Rome, Vienna or Berlin.
This marvellous wireless telephone
message from Washington to Hawaii
had to pass over the whole Of the
United States, distance OF 2,5OO miles
before it encountered the more simple
wireless conditions which exist when
sending over large bodies of water. For
the purpose of this test the sending
was done from the navy wireless sta
ton at Arlington, just outside Wash
ington-
1.-The receiving was done on small
wireless antenna specially erected FOR
the purpose by the engineers of the
telephone company, which, by per-
mission of the naval authorities, was
located at the United States naval sta
ton at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The
message at Honolulu was received by
an engineer of the Bell Telephone
company, who had been sent there to
take charge of the observations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02
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49, OF MY LIFE.
AZ Asrelaied bywell knownIoPekdns.

treasurer, the most thrilling moment
of his life.
1.-TWO cyclones once visited my home
the sa me afternoon said AkerS- 'One
Travelled in west of Stafford, about a
mile, and the other moved a swain
first one struck in west of town my
brother and l got a team at the livery
barn and followed its wake to see what
damage it had done. We were gone
from town 1 should judge about two
hours and were headed home when
we saw another twister dip down into
the town. We couldn't see what
damage it was doing, but were sure
the old town was getting a good shak-
ing up. The roads were awfully mud
dy and heavy, and ours was the usual
livery barn team-Slow and pOkey be-
cause they had been in the service too
long. Just the same, we were pretty
badly frightened and booted that pair
of crow-baits into a mighty sharp gait.
farmer friend who Informed us that
the twister had travelled down the first
street east of Main, had injured some
people and torn a dozen or more
houses to pieces. That was the street
both of US lived on and CT course we
were both reasonably certain misfor-
tune must be ours, and that in all
among the injured-maybe dead The
horses were well nigh done up, but
for all of it, they put up another mara
thon worthy the name over the last
lap of the journey. Our folks were
not hurt, the twister had gone down
was not destroyed, but my brother
was born on Friday, the 18th of July,
and we had a right to expect some
sort of a calamity"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02

the houses around town, such as are
common on circus days.
Picked Up F1oaters.
But maybe the fellows that follow
a circus to pick up an easy living IN
this fashion didn't have much of a
chance to work out in Topeka. Some
of them didn't, anyhow. You know
the circus got in Sunday and 1 gave
instructions to every man on the force
that he was to pick up every 'hoater
who happened to cross his path, every
suspicious looking stranger in town.
And if any of this gentry as prac-
tically all of them did, insisted that he
was connected with the circus, the
cop who got in touch with him was
instructed to take him to a circus boss
for the purposes of Identification. If
the circus boss said the man did not
belong to the show or circus gangs,
why, he was brought to the station
and tossed in the bull pen for investi-
cation.
You know the law permits us to
hold suspicious characters for twenty
four hours for investigation. "A VERY
convenient little law as Samuel Well
er would say, from the standpoint of
a chief of police. And we picked up
a few 'foaters,' too. In fact, the bull
pen was full of them. We must have
had forty or. fifty of them.
Told EN- to Beat 1t.
'And when it was time for the circus
to leave town I opened the bull pen
door and told our guests to beat 1T out
of town as silently and Gs swiftly as
they had come in. And I guess they
all did. At any rate, we haven't seen
anything of them. And perhaps the
picking up of these floaters' on Sun
day made our police work on circus
day a little easier and reasonably sue
cessful.'
Perhaps it did. The suggestion has
a reasonable ring to it. And so the
peace and quiet that prevailed in To-
peka on circus day didn't just happen.
1t actually resulted from clever and
most thorough police work. That
seems to be the kind of work Chief
Parsons and his men are doing all the
time. They appear to be working dill
gently on the admirable theory that an
ounce of police prevention is worth
several tons of police cure.
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Continued from Page one.)
FACTIONS LIBERAL

favor in the national fight is as un-
certain today as in the early discussion
of six months ago. The one thing that
points to an agreement. however. is
the disposition of leaders in both fac
tions to accept a compromise.
Left Handed Compliment.
When William Howard Taft visited
Kansas this week, Governor Capper's
paper paid the former president a left
handed compliment. The governors
paper indicated that Taft had really
performed some service worthy of
praise, although it could not overlook
mentioning 4 few sins. But the edi-
torial was, in the judgment OF the
politicians, at least a concession to
the conservatives that few of their
leaders are deserving of consideration.
In this connection, 1t is not difficult
to observe in Kansas there is grow
ing sentiment for man of the Weeks
type. Weeks is a friend of business
He believes there is too much restric-
ton and regulation of organized in
dustry. He has the New England
viewpoint. He demands that cor
poration-once the imagined demon
of destruction in every Kansas cam
paign-shan have a fair deal and be
turn on its investment. Now Kansans
are beginning to applaud Weeks-not
especially Weeks as a candidate-but
the Weeks doctrine.
AkerS FavOrs Weeks.
Such a defined Progressive as Earl
Akers, state treasurer, remarked this
week that he could accept Weeks or
a man of the Weeks type with Hughes
out of it. And Akers has personal
letter from Hughes that he is out
of 1t.
PERSONALLY, I prefer Hughes" said
Akers, while the people out in my
country are for Borah, because he is a
former western Kansas man. I would
gladly accept Borah over everyone If
he were a real factor. But 1 could
also make a conscientious second
choice in Weeks or a man of the
Weeks type"
AS for the Kansas conservatives,
they could probably agree on a man
of the Weeks convictions without diff
Guilty Curtis and Scott and other
prominent conservatives are strong
admirers of the Massachusetts, candi-
date and their approval of his work
in the national legislature would carry
weight in Kansas.
Divide the Delegation.
Both the conservative and progress
sive Republicans have expressed de-
sire to divide the delegation In the
big four Capper and Bristow may
represent the forward wing of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02
CONVENTION TO LAWRENCE.
Kansas Christian Church Holds State
Meet Next Week.

Lawrence, Kan, Oct. 1.-THE state
convention of the Christian church
will be held at Lawrence October Al.
The organization represents sixty
thousand people in Kansas. all of
whom are included in four hundred
congregations. There will be about
fifty visitors to the convention besides
the delegates, who will number about
five hundred.
Among the speakers are DIR. Ada
Mcneil of India; Miss Nora Siler of
Porto Rico; Stephen ]. Corey and F.
W. Durham of Cincinnati, Ohio; C.
c. Garrigues and Mrs. K E. Hodge
don of st. Louis, Mo-: President Tralle,
Secretary Bert Wilson, F. L. Bowen,
w. E. Rafferty, and John Booth OF
Kansas City, Mo,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-02

Both the conservative and progress
sive Republicans have expressed a de-
sire to divide the delegation In the
big four Capper and Bristow may
represent the forward wing of the
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27
LIGHTNING
Plays Queer Prank, Resulting
in the Death of Six Cows
and a Bull

EASTON, Pa, June 26.-SN cows
and a bull. fancy stock on the farm
OF George Buss. near Newburg, were
killed by lightning under peculiar cir
cunustances during heavy storm that
passed over this region recently
A bolt OF lightning struck tree
500 yards away from an apple tree
unders which the cattle were Standing.
ne Jumped from the tree to wire
fence. followed 1t to a point Opposite
nsre apple tree, and then darted from
thewire. plowed up the ground for
forty-hye feet and struck the cows
The animals fell in a perfect CIR
Gle about the tree Not a mark could
Sc found on the apple tree or on the
cattle
Mrs. Buss had gone TO the field to
drive the cows into the barn, and
!: was only a few feet away vixen they
dropped dead. she was sIn .ea
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27
AMERICA TO
SAVE SERBIA
Declares Nine. SIanko Kronitcil
Wife of Under Secretary OF
Serbian Foreign Affairs.


WASHINGTON. June 26.-'e America
VIII save Serbia American dollars,
American courage, American medical
skill have all united 50 far in the
binding of that countrys gaping
wounds. They will cooperate to the
end. until Serbia, devastated, shall be
come Serbia, rehabilitated. with us
people happy and contented once
more"
This Is the statement OF Mime. Saw
ko Grouitch, whose husband is per
fairs of Serbia, and who has Just re-
turned from an extended tour o.
American cities reaching to the Pa
cific coast. Her story Of the hsht
American physicians are making
against the ravages OF typhuS contains
the finest tribute to the heroism Oh
Americans
THE whole OF this great life say
ing expedition IS due to Henry James
Jr-. of he Rockefeller institute, and
Ernest Bicknel1. of the American Red
C-oss- saws Mime. Grouitch. at was
only by dint OF American grit and de-
Termination that they forced their
way through the Austrian lines, got
into Serbia and took up the work OF
rescue.
.Dr. Richard p. Strong. OF Harvard,
has worked wonders It was he: who
organized the international board OF
physicians there and who system
atized and directed the work OF saliva
ton. Ny husband writes me that he
combines the tact OF statesman with
the skill of a scientist. The Serbian
police have been placed under his or
ders. He has been given carte blanc
by the government His word is law
He is an American
ct is the American. men Of science
who are at work trying to discover
vaccine that Will combat typhus. All
these men have taken their lives in
their hands, laying themselves open
to death by exposure and disease. II
they find the vaccine. the glory that
viii accrue to America viii be great
er than any that can come to any ma
ton from armed conflict
Mime. Grouitch, on behalf OF the
Serbian Agricultural Relief Commit
tee of America, with headquarters at
20. Fifth avenue, New York CITY, an
nounces that bedding for 100000
people will be needed in Serbia for
the coming winter.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27
SUICIDE REQUESTS
That His Widow Be Given 4
Good Home and Treated
Nice.

ST LOUIS, June 9s.-Be good to
Insurance. Alexander w. INDIAN. a
restaurant proprietor, who committed
suicide requested IN letter TO his
mother. MIS-. E Il. LuhIam, of Oak
Lane, Philadelphia, which was found
among his effects Ludlam sfashed
his throat and wrists with razor.
Another letter TO his wife stated that
If he had received certain sum OF
money last week ne would have been
saved financially
Ludlam formerly had been manager
for large St. Louis restaurant, and
started IN business ON his own ac-
count several months ago.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27
PUBLIC DRINKING
CUP IAB00ED
BY z|EGLER
Director of Health Also Warns
against The Use of Pub
lie Towels

PHILADELPHIA, June 26.-Di-
rector Ziegler, of the department OF
health and charities, intends to Wig
orously enforce the law prohibiting
the use Of common drinking cups IN
work places or other points OF CON
regation. In the weekly health bull
letin. he advises every one to avoid
the common drinking cup and says
that those who patroniZe saloons,
soda fountains or restaurants, should
insist that the drinking receptacles
be washed IN boiling water before
they use them
An examination OF common drink
ing cups said Doctor Ziegler. by
the meteorological laboratory OF thus
department, frequently has shown
the presence of pneumonia and diph-
iberia germs, and occasionally re-
yeaIs those that form pus and orig
mate blood poisoning Healthy white
mice inoculated with the germs de-
rived from these cups promptly died
This proves that harm may re-
suit from the ingestfon of such
germs through the use of the com
mon drinking cup In like manner
the germs OF consumption and social
disease may be convened from mouth
to mouth with serious results
He also warns against the use OF
the common towel. Regarding its
use. he SAYS: <eyirulent eye infections
causing more or less permanent
blindness, have resulted from their
use A united resentment by the
public against this dangerous source.
OF disease viii wipe out the existence
or the common towel"
The director urges that business
mems organizations request their
members to bar both the common
drinking cup and towel. for he
points out that In the event the mem
hers get caught IN the crusade against
these two menaces. 1t VIII do them
harm In the eyes OF their patrons.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-27
NEW STEPS APPROVED
BY DANCING MASTERS
They Are the s1Smooth One
Step,v the ssVenus Waltz
and the Balboa.

SAN FRANCISCO. June 26.-The
smooth one STEP. the Venus waltz
and the Balboa are the three new
dances that are to be presented to
TerpSichorean enthusiasts by the In
ternational Dancing Masters Associa-
ton when they scatter to their var
ious fields Of endeavor. Such was
the decision Of the twenty-second an
nual convention, in session ait Puck
cts hall
The smooth one step is designed
to be the deadly enemy OF the rag.
1t aims 20 drive all yulgarity from
the dance floors of America, and elm
mate all suggestion OF the once pop
ular dip" and ''whirl" It has al
ready found its way in an undevel-
oped condition into certain New York
cafes The dancing masters say they
have added fnesse and polish
Plans and Specifications
In the smooth one step" four
the fan step" which is a smooth
step to the right lfor the MANI eS-
ecuted twice. This given way to a
progressive turn which involves
one complete turn IN four even moves
The twinkle" step, measure ia
11iltar to dancers as quick step, be-
comes q smooth movement OF com
placted execution, ending with the
.tcorte." a slight eccentric double step
forward and back, which completes
the dance.
The Venus waltz IS the creation
of George R. Pickett. the Sam Fran
| cisco dancing master This waltz Is
combination of four BoStonS, one
step and a hop Of the Spanish draw
class and one Spanish Draw back
<Balboa- the Very Latest
The -sBaIboa- is the very latest
tensichorean whirl. officially 50 dess-
fsnated by the dancing masters It
cbyiates the vulgar 1t eradicates the
rag. It proposed to appeal to all
classes of dance enthusiasts in the
United States.
Fnnk II. Norman. of Montreal Cam
ada. former president OF the associaS
ton, and dancing master par excel
lence. who danced before the king OF
England six years ago. He Wanted
to call his dance The Frisco. OUT
local dancing masters made h1m ac-
ouaiated with the fact that tT1seo
as a nickname for San Francisco is
frowned upon in the eSpoSICon caty-
Wherefore Balboa
The Balboa" Is epitamized as fol-
lows by its creator:
| at Is dance designed to comone
the old idea Of straight dancing with
the modern ideas of new steps It
| 1arnonizes the best OF the old and
! the now into a combination OF the
one step with the two step. It starts
With a one step with an arch turn,
followed by make two step and
EIGHT waltz steps