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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07

Fort Scott Farmer Tells Of His Exper
fences 1t Manhattan.

EOEt SCOGG r 0G106T lC1l3 O1 EAApCEe
fences 1t Manhattan.
Manhattan, Kan, Jan. 1.-THE
best investment a farmer can make"
That is the way B. F. Pfister Of Fort
Scott characterizes tile drainage for
eastern Kansas farms. Mr.. Pfster,
who lives near Fort Scott, has had
experience with tile drainage. In the
spring Of 1918. he tiled forty acres.
using an 8-inch tile for his main line
and finch tile for LATERAL The lat
erals were placed rods apart and
about feet deep. The summer of
1913 was an "of' year for Kansas
farmers, but Mr.. Pfister produced 80
bushels of corn per acre on his tiled
land. In 1914 he raised corn again on
his tiled land and this last fall husked
out 70 bushels per acre.
my tiled land plows easier and is
mellower and more friab1e than be-
fore drainage" says Mr.. Pflster. 1.-The
tiled field is my driest land during
wet weather and on the other hand
contains the most moisture during
pc 'iods Of drouth.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
CASCARETS CURE
HEADACHE, COLDS,
CONSTIPATION
roni8ht! Clean Your Bowels and
Stop Headache, Colds, Sour
Stomach.

Get a Decent box.
Take a Cascaret tonight to cleans
FOUR Liver. Stomach and Bowels. and
sou viii surely feel great by morning.
You men and women who have head
ache, coated tongue, bad cold. are
bilious, nervous, upset. bothered with
a sick, gassy. disordered stomach. or
have backache and feel all worn out.
Are you keeping your bowels clean
with Cascarets-0r merely forcing a
passageway every few days with salts.
cathartfc pills or castor oil?
Cascarets Immediately cleanse and
regulate the stomach, remove the sour.
undigested and fermenting food and
foul gases: take the excess bile from
the liver and carry on the constipated
waste matter and poison from the bow
els.
Remember, Cascaret tonight win
straightn you out by morning. A
1O-cent box from our druggist means
healthy bowel action: a clear head and
cheeFfulness for months. Don't forget
the chtldren.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
STOLE BIG MONEY?
A Prominent wichita Churchman Ac-
cused OF Embezzling $4,000.

Wichita, Kan. Jan. Thomas
Blodgett, former treasurer OF the de-
funct Cox-Blodgett Dry Goods COM
pany. was arrested here Wednesday
night on warrant charging embez-
Element of $84 600 from the company's
funds. o. z. Smith, trustee of the
company, made the accusation before
the count attorney in the afternoon.
Judge ]. L. Dyer set Blodgett's bond
at 5000.
The Cox Blodgett corporation went
into the hands OF receivers year ago
and is being liqufdated. The exact ma
ture Of the alleged defalcation was not
mentioned in the complaint of Mr..
Smith. B1odgett IS prominent in church
and Y. N. C. A. circles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
HAIR STOPS FALLING, DANDRUFF
DISAPPEARS---25 CENT DANDERlNE

scraggy. just moisten a cloth with
Danderine and carefully draw it
through your hair, taking one small
strand at a time. The effect is i'm
mediate and amazing-your hair will
be light, fluffy and wavy, and have an
appearance OF abundance; an incom-
parable lustre. softness and Mxurf-
ance. the beauty and simmer of true
hair health.
Get rs cent bottle Of Knowlton's
Danderine from any drug store or
toilet counter. and prove that your
hair is as pretty and soft az any-that
1t has been neglected or injured by
careles observation-disclosures an.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07

State Schools Ne1ghbOr1y.
Lawrence, Kan, Jan. Ito inter-
change faculty members and students
between one Kansas educational In
stitution and another is a plan recon-
mended by the board of administra-
ton in its biennial report to Governor
George H. Hodges.
II the plans made by the board are
carried out, students from the univer-
sity, for example. may go to the Agr1-
cultural college or to any of the Nor
NAL schools and take work applying II
on their degree from the university.
Already faculty advice has been sent
from one school to another over the
state. The board plans to make the
system even more serviceable.
Experts along all lines cannot be
employed in all the schools and ar
rangements have been made for. an
interchange of expert advice and as
sistance among the schools" reads the
report.
Engineers and architects from one
school have been sent into other
schools to help solve problems. The
employees of each institution stand
ready at all times to give assistance
to the other institutions either by
personal service. loan of books. mater
ial or equipment. Thus it is that each
institution has at it's command prac-
ticaIly all the resources of the eight
schools.
Sending Students from one school
to another for q part of their course
will make the system more economi-
cal and effective. 1t is our expecta-
ton to have a plan worked out by next
year that will allow q student to take
work under some specialist in another
school and to use those grades on his
degree from the institution in which
he has done most of his work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
PAROLE BOARD TO MEET.
me Hundred and Fifty Federal Pris
Oners VIII Seek Freedom Friday.

OnOtS Will SOCK FF0cUOm r 1UAys
Leavenworth, Kan, Jan. THE
federal board OF paroles will meet at
the United States prison here on FRI
day, when H. r. Duehay, superintend
ent of federal prisons and chairman
Of the board, will arrive. About $50
prisoners have made applications for
paroles. The session is expected to
require about three days
Herbert S. Hockin and others con-
victed in the dynamite conspiracy
cases at Indianapolis, will appear be-
fore the board. Mrs. HOckin has been
in Washington for some time endeav
oring to get executive clemency for
her husband. Although Hockin was
eligible to appear before the board at
its last session. he declined in the hope
that Mrs. Hockin's efforts would be
successful before the January meet
ing. Hockin has been a model pris-
oner, prison authorities say.
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Self Government for Prisoners
: at Lansing State Prison.
Convicts Will Sit as q Jury in
Their Own Courts.
Effect OF THE PAROLE Law
Prisoners Realize Conduct Has
Bearing ON Freedom.
Fear of Cigarette Smoking and
Violation of Rules.

Self government for the prisoners
At the state penttentiary at Lansing
10 a reform contemplated for early
adoption by ]. D. Botkin, prison ward
en-. The plan has progressed to the
point where details have been consid
cred and Warden Botkin believes that
within a short time q prison form OF
eelf government will be established
which will permit the convfcts to
make their own laws. prescribe their
own punishments and act as court and
jury in cases Of infringement of rules.
Warden Botkin's theory that self
government may prove successful at
the state prison IL based largely on the
attitude of the convicts toward the pa
role law. Since the adoption OF the
parole system in Kansas, viOlators of
the parole law have been subject to
contempt and most severe criticism at
the hands Of fellow prisoners. They
realise that every violation lessons the
chance for clemency in cases of men
who are determined to make good out
side prison walls. Botkin says. On the
same theory. Botlkin urges. a prisoner
would hesitate to violate a law enacted
even by q prison body, fearing the eff
feet on opportunity for early liberty.
Make Demerit Marks.
The plan outlined by the state pris
on warden would mean not only pun
ishment by the self governing prison
body for violation Of rules and laws,
but would mean demerit marks on
prison records for violators Of local
laws.
THE plan is more practical than it
might at first SEEM" said Botkin. For
instance. the average prisoner has
most wholesome respect for the parole
law. He locks down on the man who
violates a parole and there is gen.
eral realization that such violation Is
q reflection on every other prisoner. So
If the prison board ordered dement,
marks for each man or woman who
violated a prison rule or law, l. believe
the effect would be most wholesome and
that prison discipline would show
marked Improvement"
To just what extent the. prisoners
could be allowed to govern themselves.
IL somewhat a matter Of speculation.
It is probable that the prison rule
would provide punishments for any at
tempts to escape. for fighting, for vio-
lation of any Of the set prison rules
established by the official board. A
number Of prisoners have expressed q
desire for a local law against cigarette
smoking, for failure to attend chapel
and church services, for swearing or
gambling in any form:ssl kso4FsA
1t il the belief Of Warden Botkin that
some system of prison self government
will be undertaken at an early date. To
what extent tht sybtem will extend will
depend entirely on the ruling of the Of
fetal prison board.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
Save Your Hair! Make It Soft, Fluffy,
Lustxous and Beautiful.

Try as you will, after an applica-
ton of Danderine, you can not find q
single trace of dandrun or falling hair
and your scalp will not itch, but what
will please you most, will be after a
few weeks use, when you see new
hair. fine and downy at first-yes-
but really new hair-growing all over
the scalp.
A little Danderine Immediately
doubles the beauty OF your hair. No
difference how dull. faded, brittle and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
SPEAK TO WIFE.
Wichita Man Has Trouble Heaped
Upon Him by Court.

Wichita, Kan, Jan. 7-Cyrus l..
Whitaker, of this city. has been en-
joined from speaking to his wife. Cecile
Whitaker. If Mr.. Whitaker should meet
Mrs. Whitaker on the street he must
pass her by without so much as a nod
or a pleasant word. That is the order
Of Judge Thornton Sargent
Mrs. Whitaker is suing for a divorce
and alimony. Since the filing of the
suit her husband has been annoying
her, she states in her. motion for an
injunction. Judge Sargent,s order for
bids Whitaker from going to her home
or molesting her in any way pending
the divorce suit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07

the work this week The building IL
completed except the inside work. and
this is being rushed. The interior fur
nishfngs are all Of steel.
This structure, which has been build
ing for several months, is one Of the
most up to date in the state. 1t il az
nearly fireproof as It is possible to make
a building
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07

Father Of Leavenvv0rth Jurist Dies a
OskalO0ea Wednesday.

OskalOO6o WedneSday.
Leavenworth, Kan, Jan. Levi
Wendorff, resident OF Kansas
since 1858, died at his home in Os-
kaloosa, Wednesday. Mr.. Wendorn
was born in Prussia in 1892 and came
to America with his parents when 10
years old. af..
Besides other children he is sur
vived by Judge J. H. Wendorff Of the
Leavenworth district court and John
Wendorff Of Kansas City. Burial will
be in Oskaloosa Friday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
NEW KANSAS PosTs1AsTERs.

F. w. Winter at Dover and G. b. Scott
NJ Carbonda1e Among Appointments.
Washington, d. c., Jan. kansas
post -ster appointments just an
nounced are: Reuben H. Funk at
Charles RUSSO, Winning; Greenbury B.
Scott. Carbondale; Charles S. Wiser,
Cedar Point: Alfred N. Mattson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
PEACE LEAGUERs ORGANIZE.

Sal1nA Takes the Lead IN New move
ment in Fifth District.
Salina, Kan, Jan. &c. L. Schwartz
was elected vice president Of the Saline
County Peace league at the meeting at
the Chamber of Commerce here. A
committee was appointed to formulate
a constitution. It will report next Mon
day night. Another committee was ap-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-07
THE WAR ENRIcHEs HIM.

WICHITA Man Makes $1S,UOU IN On6
Day on Wheat.
Wichita, Kan. Jan. IAN advance
of three and a half cents in the price
Of wheat Tuesday was a mint to Ar
thur Pauline, a Wichita investor. Mr..
Pauline, who has been holding big in
vestments in wheat for rises, probably
cleaned up $4,000.
His previous winnings have been re-
ported at $4,000.
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Bridgeport: Frederick W. Winter. Do
yer; william Finn, Elmo; Lee E.
Moore. Richfield; David H. Pugh.
Tampa.
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A GLIMPSE OF KING STREET, LEESBURG.

their value. $4,000: the number of
horses was 11.157 and their value. ST.
277,7S7. There was also in the county
more than 1900 swine, $1,000 sheep
and 100000 head of poultry.
The value of Loudoun's crops in the
last census year was $1,S29,590, the
value of the cereals being over $780,
600. The value of the hay and forage
was $225,000, and the value of fruits
and nuts, $4,000. Corn was the prin-
cipal crop. the county producing L.
roo bushels on 4 . 900 acres of land.
The wheat crop amounted TO approXi
nlately half million bushels. Hay and
forage to the weight of $500 tons was
harvested from 1850 acres. and 10000
bushels of potatoes We're taken from
something over 400 acres of land The
figures for the dairy products of Lou
doun are large, but they do not equal
the figures of the neighbor counties of
Washington that abut on the District
of Columbia
AS already said, the woodland in the
farms covers an area OF 80, 900 acres,
and there is quite area of wood
land in the county which is not in
Guided in farms. \ great variety of
trees and shrubs grow on this land
Among the trees are numerous vare-
ties of oak, such as white oak, black
oak, red oak, Spanish oak, chestnut oak
willow oak, pin oak. and hickory, black
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1851; was concurred in by the council
and was signed by the governor on
June 8. 1851. In the preamble of the
act II is set forth that Whereas many
itants of the county of Fairfax by rea-
son of the large extent OF the said
county and their remote situation from
the courthouse. and the said inhabit-
ants have petitioned this present gem
eral ASSEMBLY that TIC said county
may be divided, be 1t therefore en-
The third para grTph of the act ere
<tfng Loudoun lsRpity provides THAT
nothings herein obtained shall be con-
1trued TO hinder the sheriff or col
lector of the said county OF Fairfax. as
the same now staAds entire and un-
divided. from collecting and making
distress for any public dues, or Office
fees. which shall remain unpaid by the
Inhabitants of the said county Of Lou
doun at the time of its taking place
but such sheriff or collector shall have
the same power to collect or distrain
for such dues and fees. and shall be
answerab BILE for them in the same man
ner ash this act had never been made
any law, usageeor custom to the con
trary in any wise notwithstanding"
The preceding indicates that the divi-
sion Of a county and the establish
ment of new county were matters NOT
to be entered upon lightly, and that
the creation of new county was
based on reasons that were convincing
at the time
As showing the extent of tobacco
culture in that part of Virginia when
Loudoun came into existence ii is in
teresting to read the fifth and final
paragraph of the act creating the coun-
~. II follows:
And be 1t farther enacted by the authority
aforesaid that out of every hundred pounds OF
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LOUDoUN COUNTY COURTHOUSE.

thriving business. The tourist trade In
considerable, a large number of auto
mobiles passing through the town daily
bearing the license tags of many states
The court building is one of the best
IN the agricultural counties of the state
and occupies the site of the original
court building of Loudoun. The clerks
office, in the court square. is A noble
building in the colonial style of archi-
lecture. In the court square is also
Confederate monument. and there are
few counties in the region of Wash
ington without memorial to its sons
who fought in the cause of the Con-
federacy
The battle of Balls bluff. one of the
early and sanguinary engagements OF
the civil war. was fought only about
two and d half miles from Lecsburg.
On the bluff above the Potomac ,yher-
the fighting took place IS n solemn
and lonely little national cemetery
where number of the Union soldiers
killed there lie buried. \ small monti-
ment marks the spot where Col +. D.
Baker was killed. In the Union ceme-
terry at Leesburg-called Union ceme-
terry because it was established and is
nadntained by union of the Christian
churches of the town-there stands a
white marble shaft TO the memory of
many Confederate soldiers. killed at
Balls bluff. who lie under and around
the monument.
Leesburg. like many other old towns,
has a small and time-worn building
which was Washington's headuua rters
Among the many interesting things
in Leesburg is the site of the Old stone
Church. in which the first Methodist
conference in the United States was
held. The church was the property of
tie Northern Methodists. and the con-
sresation dwindled until the edifce
could not be maintained. The building
came to be sadly out of repair and
ten or twelve years ago it was torn
down. but its foundation, surrounded
by the old burying grounds and many
ancient tombstones, may be seen
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Queer Gifts to Royalty.

NYEW Year in the fifteenth century was
IN not an occasion which was welcomed
without some regrets. for many were
taxed TO meet the requirements of royalty
on that day. Each titled gentleman had
the form and value Of his gift to the
king prescribed. Regulations provided
that an earl should appear at the royai
presence chamber at o'clock New Year
morning to deliver fve-shilling purse
containing twenty twenty shilling coins
to the lord chamberlain for the king
Next the earl visited the Jewel house
where he received a ticket which entitled
him to gift of eighteen shillings six.
pence, the siXpence of which he was re.
auired to give for box for the ticket.
The same morning he went to another
office to select "a piece of silverplats
weighing about thirty ounces, but left il
until afternoon, when he returned for it.
AT that time he gave the man who
handed 1t to him forty shillings In gold,
two shillings for the box and sixpence to
the porter.
A young prince ten years old is said
to have given great pleasure to his father
in 1904 by presenting him with a volume
of short Latin poems There is record
that in 1910 a dainty little eight year-old
princess, having special liking for
sweets, received New Year present Of a
pair Of fat oxen from the corporation Of
Coventry.
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small quantities of silver ore have also
been found. Marbles of great beauty
have been quarred in the county, and
in the Handbook on the Minerals and
Mineral Resources of Virginia" which
was compiled and edited by the Nir
ginia commission to the st. Louis eX-
position. there may be examined num-
Der of references to mineral deposits in
Loudoun county.
The soils of Loudoun county are of
many kinds and some are much more
productive than Others There are
limestone soils. heavy clay soils, loamy
soils and alluvial lands.
The approximate land area of Lou
doun county is 332,16O acres; the area
of land included in farms is 309,T34,
and the amount of improved land in
farms, 251,61I. The amount of wood
land in farms is 52,535 acres. The value
of all the farm property in the county
under the census of 1910 was $17,6S1.
S14. The value of the land in farms
was S1O,O00,0O0. The value of the
buildings. s4,716.S7S: the value of the
implements and machinery, s514,941,
and the value of the domestic animals,
poultry and bees was $2,395,911. All
these figures showed a big increase
over the figures for 1900.
The number of cattle was 22,597 and
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lowing Bull run up to its source in the
buil Kun mountain near Coal Spring
gap. Passing to the summit of this
mountain. the line leads to the Blue
Ridge at Ashbys gap and, turning
north, follows the crest of the ridge to
the Potomac at a point half mile be-
low, or east of Harpers Ferry. The
Blue Ridge shuts in the county on the
west. and through the western part of
the county run two ranges in a north
and south direction-the Short hills
and the Catoctin range. The elevation
OF the Blue Ridge in the county is from
1000 to 1900 feet above tide water.
from 300 to 900 feet above the country
at its base at the elevation at Ashbys
gap. and at Smokers gap is HOO feet
above tide water
The view from points in the Blue
Ridge. in Loudoun county is known to
thousands of Washington people.
James w. Head. in his Loudoun coun-
ty history. writes.
From many vantage points along the Blue
Ridge may he obtained magnificent views OF
eye travels entirely the fertile expanse of
chany and North mountains their wooded
crests. \ few of tn" SUBMITS offer more
cStensiv" prospects. From some. nearly all of
Loudoun. with considerable of Fairfax and
fauquier is in full view. Other more distant
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areas within visionary range are portions of
Prince william. Kappa hammock and Culpeper
counties in Virginia. Frederick and Montgomery
counties in Maryland. and even some of Prince
Georges county east of Washington city. West
ward the view embraces SHENANDOAH. Frederick
Clarke and Warren counties in Virginia. Berke-
ley and jefferson counties in West Virginia
Washington county III Maryland and some of the
mountain submits Of Penpsy isania.
The main water courses of Lou
doun county are Goose creek, which
derives it's name from the fact that
the indians called il the River Of
Swans. Catoctiu creek. North Fork Of
Catoctin creek. South Fork of Ca
toctiu creek. Sugarland run. Elk Lick,
Tuscarora creek, Bull run, Broad run,
Horse Pen run, Sycoline creek. Hun
cry run. Cromwelrs run, Piney run,
Jeffries branch, Beaverdam creek. Lit
tie river, Dutchman creek, Quarter
branch, Cabin branch and little brooks
without name and without number that
water the beautiful land.
I-oudoun county. like nearly all. per-
haps all, counties in the older section
of the United States, has been the sub
ject of geological and soil surveys and
on this county are two exhaustive gov
eminent works, one, Arthur keith's
Geology of the Catoctin Belt" pre-
pared under the direction and auspices
OF the United States geological survey,
and the other, Soil Survey of the
Leesburs Area" by Carter and Lyman,