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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
DEFECTIVE EYESIGHT
So Common It's Appalling; Protect
Your Children With Electric Light.

Your Children With Electric Light.
These fine october school days,
the good old golden rule days of
youth. (alas for the dyspeptic that
named them melancholy thou
sands of Topeka school children
are tripping to school, porting over
books that will enable them to be
masters of their fate"
Wonder if their parents ever
stopped to think about protecting
their eyesight? They have bought
books, tablets, pencils, shoes, cloth
ing and lunch baskets, yet it never
occurred to them to give their chill
dren the very best light possible,
which is electric light Hundreds
of school children in Topeka, no
doubt, are studying their lessons
every night by totally inadequate
light that is injurious and damaging
to their eyesight. In the office or
a Topeka eye specialist the other
day, the writer was appalled, at the
number of people continually COM
ing in with defective eyes. All were
there for treatment.
: Parents, no matter how much
education you give your child, you
handicap him when you neglect his
eyesight.
Give your children the very best
light possible. They are entitled
to it. You yourself are entitled to
it, This is the age of electricity,
not pine knots. EAectr1fy your
home and use the most brilliant
light of all. Rear a family of strong
eyed, healthy children.
Sixteen homes in the eastern
part of the city and thirteen in the
west part contracted for electric
wiring and fixtures the past week
and will have better eyesight.
Those in the western part were:
Elizabeth ]. Adams, 1870 Clay; c.
E. Names, 1925 Clay; Mrs. Mary E.
Reeder, 1716 Lincoln; Mrs. E. W.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
ELECTRIC VACUUM CLEANERS
Clean Carpets and Rugs at Small
Cost Without Creating Dust.

Electricity, the silent servant, is
entering more and more into the
home life of Topeka. Electric va
cuum cleaners, which clean carpets
and rugs without creating any dust,
are growing in use, an average of
half a dozen sales a week having
been made by the Edison Company
the past month.
Seven housewives purchased cleo
trio vacuum cleaners the past week
from the Edison Company. They
were Mrs. S. Tagwell, 1929 Fill
more; Mrs. A. f. Sweet, 709 Tay-
lor; Mrs. ]. F. Haskell, 433 Lin
coin; Mrs. Flora E. Clough. 324
Quincy; Mrs. o. p. Davis, 1927 Cen
trail; Mrs. T. d. Broughton, 1245
Clay street; Mrs M H. Abrahams,
915 Western.
Electric vacuum cleaners are
economical, and will clean every
carpet and rug in the house for two
or three cents. And they will do
the work every morning of the
year, if you desire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
PRICE REMAINS SAME
Edison Company Still Offers $3.50
Electric Irons for $3.50.

The Edison Company, appreciat-
ing the great convenience and COM
fort of the Electric Iron, and the
large number of Topeka women
who still are without it, will con-
tinue to offer its standard Glib.
General Electric iron at $3.50, a re-
duction of 81 from the regular
price.
Many women have bought irons
recently, and there may be more
who desire to take advantage of
the low price. The following Ia
dies bought the past week:
Mrs A. F. Kurtz, 103 W. 18th;
Mrs. T. w Troupe. 428 Lincoln;
Mrs. L. T. Bowers, ut Linden
wood: Mrs. Otis Hill 1916 Gar
field; Mrs. l. I. Mcfarland, 800 n.
Van Buren,; Mrs. J. F. FARRELL, 1886
Fillmore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

state positively and from an authentic
source that no picture of Valeska
Suratt will ever be produced to equaI
THE Soul of Broadway" Tonight is
her last appearance in Topeka.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
Card of Thanks.

We wish to thank our friends and
relatives for their sympathy and the
beautiful floral offerings during the
illness and death of our baby.
MR. AND MRS JOHN DANEKE.
Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
Enolish Financier Dead

London Oct. 3O-Baron Welhy
(Reginald Earle We1by), who was
long prominent in financial circles,
died yesterday at Malwood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
QUICK BREAKFAST AT TRIF-
LING COST.

About one-ha1f the meals of the
average family can be cooked by
electricity on electric toaster stoves
at trifling cost. Don't burn so much
coal and waste so much time cook
ing breakfast on the old-style heat
ing cook stoves. Cook on an cleo
trio toaster. Mrs. A. NJ. Harvey,
1405 Polk and Mrs. r. E. Lewis,
1894 Taylor, bought electric toast
ers the past week from the Edison
company, and Miss F. Hopper, in
the Gordon building bought an Ell
Grilstovo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
SEWING MACHINE MoTORs

SEWING MACHINE MOTORS.
No man should ask wife or sis
ter to peddle a sewing machine all
day when he can buy a little cleo
trio sewing machine motor that will
do the work. Mrs. II. l.. Hail, of
S24 Tyler, is now running ner ma
chine with an electric motor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

The Electric theater has changed
it's name back to the Orpheum and
vaudeville goes in Monday. The name
"Orpheum" seems a little more nat
ural than Electric"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

Censoring so or more reels of pic
lures a day is no sweet joke. The
average person-even a movie fan
seldom sees more than rs or 80 reels
a week Miss Carrie Simpson, who
looks after the Paramount pictures,
censors more feet of film in day than
many people see in a month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

George Kleine announces Edward
ButterfieId in 1.-The Magic Skin" TAX
en- from Faust Butterfield may be
remembered by Topeka theater goers
as a Kansas City, Mo-, matinee idol
He was leading man in stock at the
Auditorium theater and the ladies of
the Missouri city were his friends
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

Lew Williamson has booked that
monster feature, Damaged Goods"
for the Cozy, Monday and Tuesday,
the state censors with the secretary of
the board of agriculture and the head
of the child hygiene department sit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

Mary Pickford will be seen her,
soon in Madame Butterfly" Film
critics say that the famous little
actress never appeared to better ad
vantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

Dallas Anderson made his first ap-
pearance in the role of John Shand
with Maude Adams in what Every
Woman Knows" at the Teck theater,
Buffalo, last week Cleveland and
Cincinnati are the first important
cities to witness this interesting re-
vival.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-23

forced to make a concession repeated
ly urged and argued for by the older
men among the strikers, namely. that
the guarding of the company's prop
erty be entrusted to picked squad of
the ex-employees themselves.
During these days of turmoil and
rioting the transformed idealist passed
through many stages of the journey
down a certain dark and mephitic val
ley not of amelioration. Fairness was
gone, and in it's place stood angry re-
sentiment, ready to rend and tear Pity
and truth were going; the daily re-
port from Margery told of the lessen
ing chance of life for Andrew Gal
braith. and the STRINGS evoked were
neither regretful nor compassionate
On the contrary. he knew very well
that the news of Galbraith's death
would be a relief for which. in his
heart of hearts, he. was secretly thirst
ing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-23

gle word of it. Do you suppose /
should have dared to embroider it the
least little bit-with you sitting right
there at my back?"
Broffin got up and took a half-burned
cigar from the ledge of the summer
house where he had carefully laid it
at the beginning of the interview.
You've got me down. he confessed
with a good-natured grin. The man
that plays a winnin' hand against you
morning and hold all trumps. Miss
mighty good buffer. on the side" Then
he switched suddenly. -How's Mr..
Galbraith this morning?"
He is very low. but he is conscious
again He has asked us to wire for the
cashier of his bank to come up"
Brofin's eyes narrowed
THE cashier is sick and can't come. >
he said.
Well. someone in authority will
come. l suppose"
Once more Broffin was thinking in
terms of speed. johnson, the paying
teller, was next in rank to the cashier
IL he should be the one to come to
Wahaska
IF you haven't anything else for me
to do. reckon I'll be going" he said
hastily, and forthwith made his es
cape. The telegraph office was a good
ten minutes walk from the lake 'front.'
and in the light of what Miss Griersou
had just told him. the minutes were
precious
Something less than a haIf-hour aft
er Broffin,s hurried departure. Miss
Grierson drove by Quieter thorough
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-23
SWISS HOTELS WoNDRous
Stand In Solitary Grandeur. But Lack
Nothing That Makes for Comfort
of Traveller.

You may climb up the heights by
the aid of railways. funiculars. racks
and-pinions. diligences and sledges.
and when nothing but your own feet
will take you any further you win see
In Switzerland a grand hotel. magic
ally and incredibly raised aloft in the
mountains
1t is solitary-no town. no houses.
nothing but this hotel hemmed in on
all sides by snowy crags and made
impregnable by preeipices and treach-
erous snow and ice.
At the great redrawing OF the map
of Europe. when the lesser national
tiles are to disappear. the Switzers
will take armed refuge in their far
thest grand hotels and there defy the
mandates of the concert,
For the hotel. no matter how remote
1t be, lacks nothing that is mentioned
in the dictionary of comfort Beyond
it's wallis your life is not worth twelve
hours purchase
You would not die of hunger. be-
cause you would perish of cold
At best you might hit on some
peasants cottage in which the stand
ards of existence had not changed for
a century.
But once pass within the portals of
the grand hotel. and you become the
spoiled darling of an intricate organi-
cation that laughs at mountains. ava
lanches and frost
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-23
CHAPTER XVI.
The GRAY Wolf,

AS it ehanced. Jasper Grierson was
in the act of concluding a long and ap-
parently satisfactory telephone CONVEX
sation with his agent in Duluth at the
moment when the door of his private
room opened and his daughter en-
tered.
He hung the receiver on its hook
and was pushing the bracketed tele
phone set aside when Margery crossed
the room swiftly and placed an en-
velope, the counterpart of the one left
with Raymer. on the desk
There is your notice to quit" she
said calmly. You threw me down
and gave me the double-cross the other
day. and now I've come back at you
Another man might have FASTENED
to meet the crisis But the gray wolf
was of a different mettle. He let the
envelope lie untouched until after he
had pulled out a drawer in the desk
found his box of cigars, and had lei
surely selected and lighted one of the
fat black monstrosities. When he tore
the envelope across. the Photographic
print fell out, and he studied it care
fully for many seconds before he read
the accompanying documents For a lit
tie time after he had tossed the pa
pers aside there was a silence that
bit Then he said. slowly:
$50 that's your raise. is it7 Where
does the game stand. right now?-
You stand to lose"
Again the biting silence, and then:
You don't think I'm fool enough to
give you back your ammunition SO
that you can use it on me. do your
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-23

him In the very act, didn't your" she
sid coolly. What did he hope to ac-
complish by setting fire to the works ?"
1T was q frameup to capture public
sympathy. There's been a report cir
culating round that Raymer. ard Girls
void was goin' to put some o. the ring
leaders in jail If they had to make a
case against 'em- Clancy had it fig
ured out that the fred be charged up
to the owners. themselves"
Miss Grierson was still examining
the picture. You made two of these
prints ?" she asked
Yes; here's the other one-and the
film"
And you have the papers to make
them effective?"
Brofin handed her a large envelope.
unsealed. You'll find 'em in there.
That part of it was cinch- Your gov
ernor ought to fire that man Murray
He was payin' Clancy in checks!"
Again Miss Grierson nodded.
About the other matter?" she in
quired. Have you heard from your
messenger"
BrofTin produced another envelope.
1t had been through the mails and bore
the Duluth postmark.
"Affidavits was the best we could
do there" he said. MY man worked
it to go with MacFarland as the driver
of the rig They saw some mighty
fine timber. but it happened to be on
the wrong side of the St. Louis county
line. He's a tolerably careful man.
and he verified the landmarks"
"Afidavits will do" was the even
toned rejoinder Then: These pa
pers are all in duplicate?"
Everything in pairs just as you or
dered.''
Miss Grierson took an embroidered
chamois-skin money book from her
bosom and began to open it. Brofin
raised his hand
Not any more" he objected. You
overpaid me that first evening in front
of the Winnebago."
You needn't hesitate" she urged.
Its my own money"
I've had a-plenty."
Then l can only thank you." she
said, rising.
He knew that he was being dis
missed, but the one chance in a thou
sand had yet to be tested.
Just a minute. Miss Grierson." he
begged. I've done you right in this
business. haven't II"
You have"
81 said l didn't want any more
money. and don't. But there's one
other thing. Do you know what I'm
here in this little jay town of yours
for?"
yes; 1 have known it for long
time"
Il thought so. You knew it that day
out at the De Soto, when you was
tellin' Mr.. Raymer a little story that
was partly true and partly made up
what?"
Every word of the story about Mr.
Griswold-the story that you over
heard, you know-was true; every sin
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-23

.He has gomez" she said
..T.e.d better be- II he shows him
self round here again. there's goin 90
be a mix-up-
Miss Grierson drove on, ana az tue
iron works there were more OF sa0
peaceful Indications The gates
open. and switching engine from tue
railroad yards was pushing IN a car
load of furnace coal By ali the signs
the trouble flood was abating
Raymer saw her when she drove IN
der his window and calmly mace
bitching post of the clerk who went
out to see what she wanted A NO
ment later she came down the corri-
dor to stand in the open doorway oi
the managers room.
.You are still alone?" she asked
Yes; Griswold hasn't shown up
since morning. 1 don't know what has
become of him."
land the labor trouble. is that going
to be settled?"
He looked away and ran his fingers
through his hair as one still puzzled
and bewildercd. "Some sort OF a mir
acIe has been wrought" he said
little while ago a committee came TO
talk over terms of surrender IL
seems that the whole thing was the
result of a-os a mistake"
Yes" she returned quietly. 1T was
| just that-a mistake" And then- You
are going to take them back?"
Certainly. The plant win start up
again in the morning" Then his GU
riosity broke bounds. 81 can't under
stand it. How did you work the mir
acle?'
Perhaps 1 didn't work it"
.T know well enough you did. in
| some way"
She dismissed the matter with a
toss of the pretty head. What diff
ference does it make so long as yeu
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-23

are out of the deep water and in a
place where you can wade ashore?
You can wade ashore now, can't you7"
He nodded. This morning / should
have said that we couldn't; but
now" he reached over to his desk
and handed her a letter to which was
pinned telegram less than an hour
old.
She read the letter first. It was
curt announcement of the withdrawal
of the Pineboro railroads repair work
The telegram was still briefer: Dis
regard my letter of yesterday" this.
and the signature. 'Atherton-" The
smaller plotter returned the CORE
spondence with a little sigh of relief.
1t had been worse than she had
thought, and it was now better than
she had dared hope
(TO BE CONTINUED
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-10-23
Tent for the Children.

A tent in the back yard is a great
joy to children. it helps to keep house
and yard looking neat for the children
can be expected and required to keep
their pIaythin $ in the tent when they
are told that it is their exclusive
playroom and that they must confine
any untidiness to that particular Epot
TODAY
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13
BALL TEAM ORGANIZES

The Gilpin Mir es ball team organ
lied for the sc son last Friday mig 4
and will give picture show on
Wednesday everirg, May 10Th. at
the opera house. Tickets 10 and 10
cents. Five films will be shown in
stead of the customary four and TIE
pictures will be Of an unusually high
class. Everyone is urged to atterd
next Wednesdays entertainment as
the proceeds will be used to finance
the club.
During the sesson teams from Den
yer, Nederland, Idaho Springs and
other outside towns will be played
The Gilpin Mines team this year
will be composed of top-notch play
ers as some of the members, recent
arrivals in the comm unity, are above
the average of amateur players.
! The officers selected at last Friday
nights meeting, who will have charge
of the team are, H. ]. stahl, man
ager: Will Semmens, captain; Georgt
Parsons, secrets ry; James Powers
treasurer.
The afternoon trains on SUNDAY
this summer will not leave Central un
til 4:3O O'Clock, which will make II
convenient for Denver teams te
come.
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13
BLACK HAWK NEWS

Thomas Ducstore was in Denver
tire lore part OF tie week. He is
an applicant for the appointment OF
deputy mine insl ectcr and his cfanc'
es of landing the plum are most
hopeful.
G. Z. Fritz was a passenger to
Denver Tuesday, t. king his valuable
setter for a change of surroundings
and other things.
Misses Mary and Anne Rafferty, re-
turned to Denver Tuesday morning
after viist with their mother.
John Stroehle went to Idaho
Springs yesterday with some mach
inery
Miss Hanna Paril returned from 8
visit to Denver Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Yeager was an arrival Tues
day evening from California.
Mrs. j. A. Richmond was up from
Denver Sunday and Monday, visiting
the Borroughs family.
ly notified of the resumption of TIE
regular summer passenger service be
ginning Saturday. This will NEAR
two passenger trains a day each way
between Black Hawk and Denver.
Otto Blake was in Denver Monday
on business.
Harry Mehrlick was 'an arriva'
from Denver Wednesday morning to
look after mining interests.
Albert Heppberger takes over tie
Gilpin hotel on the 18th of this mortl
and will conduct the business in
the future. The O'Tooles go to Cen
trail the first of the month.
The Sunday school will meet II
inst at 10 a. m. The pastor will not
be present to preach on account OF
the baccalaureate sermon at the llifl
School OF Theology, Denver.
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13
Special Orders Taken for ANY
Article in the Meat Line
AT WHOLESALE PRICES
FOR CASH
Prices Include Express

SKINNED HAMS, 14-16, Id - 15c
BELLIES, per Ib from 14f to 17c
HOG HEADS, per Id Sc
PIGS FEET Uresh) per Id &c
NECK BONES, per Ib. - &c
LEAN PORK TRIMMINGS, Ito make
homemade sausase) per Id 13c
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13

The Pythian order, originated from
the true friendship of Damon and
Pythias in the ancient city of Syra-
cuse. Wonder if Teddy and Boss
Barnes will form the same alliance
in the modern city of Syracuse, N. Y.
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13

results.
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13

d Advertise in the Observer and get
results.
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13

Read tie war news in the Obser
YER. 1t is authentic.
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13

Facetious Customer-You ought to
sell lot of your consumption cure
to that Chinese laundryman next
door
Druggist-Why so?
Facetious misunderstanding to
his sign, he's Wun Lung.
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13

Patronize the merchants who ad
Artise in the Observer.
Gilpin observer., 1915-05-13
Dressed Hogs

SHIPPER PIGS, 1890 lbs, head on,
leaf lard in, per lb. - - - 1Zc
SHIPPER HOGS, 1oo-150 lbs, head
on, leaf lard in, per lb. - = 12C
SHIPPER HOGS, 175-25o lbs, head
on, leaf lard in, per Ib. - --12Rc
PACKER HOGS, 125-175 lbs, head
off, leaf lard out, per lb. - 12RC
PACKER HOGS, 175-250 lbs, head
off, leaf lard out, per lib. - 12Ac
Evening star., 1915-04-07
A Death Mystery.

An interesting issue of judgment
has arisen between the coroner and
police on the subject of the manner
in which woman met her death IN
a vacant house in this city the other
day. The coroner thinks that she was
the victim of foul play, while the po-
lice believe she met her death as the
result of an accident or took her own
life. She died from suffocation. In
her throat were found teeth that had
been broken from their places, while
into her mouth was stuffed hand
kerchief. Either of these circum-
stances would fit into one or another
theory of deaths held by the police,
but jointly they seem to conflict with
the suicide or accident suggestion.
Together they indicate violence, and
the weight of probability would seem
to lie with the coroner's hypothesis
of crime rather than with the idea
Of an accidental fall or a suicidal
ramming of handkerchief into the
throat. In any case, diligent search
for further information is required,
and no effort should be spared to
solve this mystery. and no differ
ence of opinion between the police
and the coroner should operate to
slacken the quest for clues.
Evening star., 1915-04-07

circuit bench occasioned by the death
of Judge Grosscup. The President is
fond of Mr.. Kern, and if the latter
stands for a second term in the Sen
ate he will have the Presidents sup
port.
Mr.. Marshall affords his party
much comfort. His popularity at home
is undiminished, and he is booked for
denomination. He will supply what
ever strength the democratic ticket
may show in Indiana next year.
Without him Mr.. Wilson would be
weak there.
On the republican side there is so
much hope candidates are develop
ing. Lightning rods are shooting up
in every direction. The republican
exclamation is, Next year will be
our year" And the adjuration fol-
lows, Get ready!"
The main point is to meet the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Marshall; and the re-
publicans claim that the only eff
fective way will be to choose an In
diana man for either first or second
place on the national ticket. As Mr..
Fairbanks is the best known and the
best trusted of the Hoosier republi-
cans, there is much talk of him. His
admirers believe he would fill either
bill. He has filled the vice presi-
dency most acceptably, and in way
to show capacity for the White
House. He was regular and active
in 1912 without mourning the dislike
Of the bull moosers. His pleasant
personal relations with Mr. Roose-
welt have never been interrupted.
Thus it is that his name is being
tried both ways. Fairbanks and
Weeks, Fairbanks and Wadsworth,
Fairbanks and Whitman, are sug-
gested. Or Weeks and Fairbanks,
Whitman and Fairbanks, Root and
Fairbanks, if the east crowds In
diana out for first place. 1t is nearly
twenty years since Mr.. Fairbanks
came to the front in Indiana politics,
and he is still there-not an easy ac-
complishment in a state where po-
litical changes, owing to political
strenuosity, are frequent.