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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

1 am a candidate for the nomina-
ton from the Third district, which
comprises the Fifth and Sixth wards
of Topeka and the remainder of the
county south of the Kaw river. This
district is at present and has been for
years represented by citizen of To-
reka, although only a small fraction
of it lies within the city limits. Nine
tenths of the property of the district is
situated in the country and 1 believe
the people of this section are now
entitled to the commissioner.
favor a progressive administration
of the county'S affairs in every de-
partment, and as economical as the
best efficiency will permit. 1 would
take no backward step but would sup
port all reasonable and necessary inn
actual and evident needs of the coun-
ty, 1 would do my utmost to hold
down appropriations, believing that
through businesslike methods worthy
and demanded improvements may be
made and taxes be reduced.
1 think 1 may not unjuStly lay claim
to being one of the pioneer agitators
for good roads which has resulted in
such great improvements in the pub
lie roads of Shawnee county during
the past ten years.
Our automobile tax now amounts
to several thousand dollars year and
am in favor of an equal distribution
of it as it is collected and putting it on
our roads
I appeal to my many friends in To-
peka for support upon my record as a
citizen and because it is fair that the
country have the commissioner the
mainder of the district to support me
for the same reasons. If 1 am so for
tunate as to receive the nomination, l
hereby pledge myself to the interests
of all the people Of the county at all
times. Yours very truly,
H. W. McAFEE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
Meetings Held in Every County
Throughout the State.
BAN ON MONGREL CHICKENS
Increase Value of Eggs $780,
100000 a Year Is Prediction.
Kansas, Close to Markets, Has
Excellent Opportunities.
Today is ''hen day" in Kansas.


Throughout the state, meetings are
being held at which plans for devel-
oping the poultry industry of the state
are being discussed. Poultry insti-
tutes, under the auspices of the Kan
sas State Poultry Federation, were
scheduled to be held in every county
in Kansas.
Plans for the elimination of mon
grel chickens and the developing of
thoroughbred poultry were to be dis
cussed at the various meetings. Such
a movement would increase the value
of Kansas eggs $20,000.000 a year,
Ralph Searle. organizer of the Kansas
State Poultry association, said today.
kansas is ideally located to be the
foremost poultry state in the union"
he said. I'VE are close to the big
markets of the country. We have ex-
cellent transportation facilities and we
produce enormous wheat crops. This
latter is by no means a small consid-
Grafton since scientists have proved
that wheat is the best chicken feed
Mr.. Searle asserted that Kansas
farmers have paid too little attention
to the opportunities that lie before
them in the poultry field.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

the eighties. His teacher cuffed his
ears several times for marking up his
books with sketches but the habit
was not broken and he became
prominent high school artist later.
In 1898 his trip to the Chicago worlds
fair revealed to his youthful eyes some
of the most priceless paintings in the
world and young DoncysOn attributes
much of his alter ability to viewing
thu masterpieces of Europe. He
never has taken drawing lessons and
depends for the correctness of his
technique, perspective and proportion
with his eye upon judgment alone.
"A man can't do good work and do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

hour. As brevity is the soul of wit. too
many lines Will ruin a funny picture"
His Cartoon Work
He formerly did cartoon work for
the State Journal, the Santa Fe, and
two or three other Topeka concerns.
The companies hired an amateur be-
cause he was doing as good as if not
better work than professional artists
in Kansas City.
In addition to his drawing, which
takes nearly all his time, Mr. Doncy-
son is a secretary in the Scottish Rite
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
J.B. DONCYSON,
PICTURE MAKER
Topeka Citizen Who Spends
Much Time i'm Art Work.
Began to Make Drawings When
a School Boy.
HE HAS TAKEN NO LESSONS
Does the Illustrating for the
Masonic Lodges.
Has Begun to Receive Orders
From the East.

A Topeka man, an amateur, is so
good an artist that he hardly has
time to do anything else but
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
M'AFEE COMES OUT
Announces His Candidacy for Office
of County Commissioner.

H. W. McAfee announces his can
didacy for commissioner from the
Third district in the following card:
To the People of Shawnee County:
I hereby announce myself as can
didate for the office of county COM
missioner of Shawnee county, subject
to the Republican primaries in Au-
gust, 1916.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

it fast h a t is
outside of cartoon
work" he said to-
day at the Scottish
Rite temple. II
work an avera ge of
twelve to fourteen
hours on a picture
that amounts to
anything, but can
dash off a comic
sketch in half an
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
BEST FOR LIVER,
BOWELS, STOMACH,
HEADACHE, COLDS
They liven the liver and bowels
and straighten you
right up.
Don't be bilious, constipated,
sick, with breath bad and
stomach sour.

Tonight surel Take Cascarets and
enjoy the incest, gentlest liver and
bowel cleasing you ever experienced
Wake up with your head clear, stonl-
ach sweet, breath right and feeling
fine. Get rid of sick headache, bilious
ness, constipation. furred tongue, sour
stomach, bad colds. Clear your skin,
brighten your eyes, quicken your step
and feel like doing a full days work.
Cascarets are better than salts, pills or
calomel because they don't shock the
liver or grippe the bowels or cause in
convenience all the next day.
Mothers should give cross, sick,
bilious, feverish children a whole Cas-
caret any time as they can not injure
the thirty feet of tender bowels.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

make drawings. J. b.
Doncyson, 900 West
Tenth street, of the
Scottish Rite temple,
has been doing art
work for the past ten
years and now makes
all the drawings used
by the Masonic orders
and other lodges of
Topeka, to say moth
ing of a large amount
of work done for his
friends.
He started drawing
while a boy in the To-
peka schools, back in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

temple. That is a mans
job also as it necessitates
taking care of $4,000
worth of costumes, feed
ing four or five hundred
people every week or so
at a banquet, and han
ding the i m m e n e
amount of mail that
comes in and goes out on
regular business.
I'VE have so much
mail that we have to use
as complicated system of
N, ling rs the Snfnr6 a "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30

Mr.. Snapperly (reading)-''Man commits
suicide by jumping off ferryboat." Mrs.
Snapperly-.."Just like a man. Why didn't
Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-30
Domestic Tragedy in St. Joseph.

St Joseph, Mo-, Oct. 30.-Harry
Fowler, a confectioner. shot and killed
his wife last night. He made an I'M
successful attempt at suicide Icy
shooting himself and lay beside the
woman's corpse until this morning.
when he fired another bullet into his
head and is expected to die.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27

Through American generosity,
thousands of suffering European
soldiers are, fguratively, to be put on
their feet again. The need for arti-
fetal limbs in Europe is appalling,
writes A. S. Hanger, of Washington,
now in Europe assisting in the move
ment to supply substitutes for the
1inobs soldiers have lost. The need
of limbs is greater than any one can
imagine. he declares. He believes
This is due to the terrific artillery
bombardment the trenches are con-
stantly undergoing. ~
Poverty stricken Serbia, little VIC
tim of three successive wars-and
now engaged in another = five
wears of constant ighting-is to be
the first beneficiary of the new
American movement. The appeal Is
to buy artificial limbs for those
whose legs have been torn away.
The plan is backed by Madame
Slavko Grouitch, wife of the perma-
merit Under Secretary Of Foreign At
fairs of-Serbia. A former American
girl, she has only recently returned
to Serbia, following a visit to this
country in the interest of Serbian re
lief work. In message, just received,
she says, 81 will give every help to
efforts here to see that artificial
limbs are properly received, applied
and appreciated"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27

they know just what he has had to
go through to make himself ready
for instant service at any time. If
some of our law makers, state and
national, could take advantage of
such a training camp IS this one,
there could not help but be a clearer
understanding of what military
training demands. The effect could
not help but be salutary to our whole
national body of citizens. 49,
Personalities have been forgotten
there as they could be nowhere else
in the world. Men of such pressing,
affairs that, in their Offices, it is
difficult for the average caller to see
them; men accustomed by word to
summon or dismiss masses of men;
men who have held even the destiny
of nations in their hands as high
officers of our government; men now
in power over millions of people,
as is Mayor Mitchell, of New York,
all are at Plattsburg, or have been
there, as privates, terminates and
"bunkies," each learning for himself
the long and tedious process of MAX
ing an effective soldier. But there,
these men are all merged into one
common body. In no other place
have ever observed the absolute
shedding of the personal element as
have at Plattsburg. It is one for all
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27
MAlcTNo LEGS Lat SEae1ANs

The movement is expected to sup
ply thousands of artificial limbs for
manned soldiers still in hospitals, be-
cause, without legs, it is impossible
for them to be taken away. If they
were taken away without artificial
limbs, those on the scene say, they
probably would starve to death, be-
cause many a Serbian soldier has left
the hospital only to find his entire
family wiped out by the terrible ty-
plus scourge, which American aid
finally conquered. If artificial limbs
can be supplied, those behind the
plan say, the wounded soldiers will
become self-supporting again.
Checks to purchase artificial limbs
must be marked Artificial Limb Ac-
count" and sent direct to Murray H.
Coggeshall, treasurer of the Serbian
Committee, 128 Broadway, New York
City. Each limb will bear a tag
giving the name Of the donor so that
the soldier recipient may know of
his benefactor. Seven dollars and
half will purchase an artificial leg
where the leg has been amputated
below the knee, and ten dollars will
buy substitute for leg, amputated
above the knee.
Madame Grouitch, well known in
America, viii herself receive the
shipments Of artificial limbs in Ser
bia and viii see that they are proper
| ~ distributed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27

ing things about wild life and finds
beautiful pictures of birds and helps
publish magazine called Bird
Lore" He is the author of two bird
books and many magazine articles.
He also writes interesting life his
tories. of birds of which the Associa-
ton sends out over two million every
year. One of his latest publications
is a little story on robin Red
Breast"
eve want to see the sale of game
stopped throughout the United
States, absolutely" said he. eve
want to break up completely the
game market, except that we are
strongly encouraging the raising of
certain game birds in captivity, and
we want to get every one to attract
birds about his home.
can. important part of our work"
said Mr.. Pearson, 'is bird-study in
the schools, especially the value of
birds in agriculture. For that rea-
son, we have encouraged the Bird
Days in the schools. Every man,
woman or child who wants to help
save the birds may start to work at
once by joining the National Asso-
citation of Audubon Societies"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27

you, look well to your personal ap-
pearance. Wives to whom life has
become a humdrum monotony, turn
to studying beauty within yourself
and seek to express it outwardly;
put on a becoming gown, massage
the lines out of your face, dress your
hair becomingly, make it silky, CLOS
sy and abundant; make the hands
soft, manicure the nails afresh;
make the very most of yourself and
watch the silent influence.
LET US save more of the time we
spend in shopping, in the reading of
inferior books, in idle conversation
and gossip, in unnecessary features of
household work, in modifying and
non-intellectual social functions and
devote it to the dignifed work of
caring for the body and keeping it
wholesome, pure, healthful and at
tractive.
"The lack of grace ard symmetry
in the figures of many women is due
to a combination of luxurious living
with lack of some definite, animal
ing purpose. There are so many wo-
men who are sitting down even when
they are standing up. Their figures
show the same lassitude, the same
limpness of muscle, exhibited by a
tired person leaning back in a low,
deep soft chair. The person who
stands or walks in this fashion can
not have the curves or lines of the
perfect figure. The first thing she
needs is a bracing interest in life.
"Many women eat too much and
many girls eat too little. A girl
should not start off to school or to
work on cup of coffee. She should
not lunch sweets between meals and
then come to the table with no ap-
petite for wholesome food. On the
other hand, mature women, especi-
ally if they are we'll to do, eat too
much for the small amount of ex-
cercise they take. If they would do
more work, the food they consume
wouldn't injure them. Often tell
my rich women patients in Chicago
to scrub their own floors. The mod
ern dances are also good exercise.
All feminine angles can be well
rounded into symmetrical curves BY
intelligent attention to the right ex-
ercise to rest the nerves and
strengthen the digestion and assimi-
latlon. Any woman can round out
these curves for herself, or remove
a burden of fat, if she will correct
the cause. A small portion of the
time spent upon unnecessaries or up
on the study of art in the abstract
would bring the artistic expression
home to herself, where it is an ever
present source of satisfaction"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27

and all for one-and that one thing
is the good of the nation.
81 should like to see similar train
ing camps established in every sec
ton of the country" said General
Leonard Wood. "These men will
form third battalion" he continued,
referring to the men of the second
camp, "and will give US about two
thousand men who have gone
through the training camps this sum-
mer at Plat5sburg, not including the
six hundred college men who attend
ed the first camp held there in july"
1t is possible that the Plattsburg
camps will result in system which
will fit in exactly with the students
camps which have been going on sew
eral years. It has been suggested
that men at the Plattsburg camps
and other men of proper age and
qualifications may in future qualify
as reserve officers by going through
the following course satisfactorily:
First, eight weeks training in in
struction camps; second, taking a
prescribed course of study by cor
respendence or lectures; third, by
passing an examination. The eight
weeks training would probably be
broken up into four weeks the first
year and four weeks within the fol-
lowing three years.
The big idea behind the Plattsburg
camp is beyond that of the mere mill
tary training it affords. The idea
contemplates a volunteer federal re-
serve on some plan practical both
from military and a civil stand
point. With some such plan, it will
be simple matter, regular army
officers believe, to recruit from year
to year q large number of picked
men and train them in sectional
camps. The college constituency
alone numbers almost $4,000 avail
able men, coming along each year.
If only five per cent of these could
be obtained, this would, in a few
! years, lead to the creation of great
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27

Investigation by United States At
torney General Gregory of the al
legged smuggling Of aigrette plumes
through the mails has given great
impetus to the cause of bird pro-
lection in the United States. The
man who set Uncle Sans sleuths af-
ter the plume pirates is T. Gilbert
Pearson, of New York City, Secre-
tary of the National Association of
Audubon Societies.
Pearson is the man behind bird
conservation in America. AS DIR.
Wiley is to pure food and Clifford
Pinchot is to forestry, Gilbert Pear
son is to bird protection. It is his
life's work. He is a modest man.
He slipped quietly into Washington
and out again but not until he had
put the greatest detective agency in
America-the Department of Justice
on the trail of the head hunters
The magnitude of the bird protection
movement and his recent swift moves
have forced him into the spotlight
of public interest.
He has been interested in birds
since his boyhood. He paid his first
year in college with rare collection
of birds eggs which he had gathered
and which he priced more highly
than anything else-except an edu-
cation. He worked his way through
college by collecting and mounting
birds for the University of North
Carolina.
The punch" he showed as first
game commissioner of North Caro-
lima has since supplied the backbone
that has put rd-protecting laws on
the statute books of New York,
Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, Louisiana,
Florida and other states, as well as
much important federal legislation
In the work of getting the state
legislatures to pass laws protecting
the birds he has encountered bitter
opposition from 'lobbies," but he is
a resourceful fighter and is never
more at home than when debating
with lawyers before a Legislative
committee. He is trying to have leg
islatures make it illegal to destroy
non-game birds, or their nests, or tc
sell their feathers-even to block the
sale of any feathers from a native
bird in the state or a bird of the
same family.
Prior to the organization of tht
National Association of Aubudor
Societies, eleven years ago, the sep
arate bird societies lacked power t.
accomplish much. Interest Jagged
Societies and largely raised tn,
money himself to carry on theil
work. Then he put out field agent
L L IL.
sixteen guards to protect the eyre
against plume pirates. He also sen
wardens to guard the breeding colon
les of sea birds all along the Atlanti
Then came Pearson. They made hin
coast. He began educating schoo
children in bird-study and, last year
he enrolled 1872, 164 Junior members
of the National Association of Audi
bon Societies and gave them course
in bird study. He collects interest
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27

The camp is not pleasant vaca-
ton or fad. Never were men more
serious in an undertaking. Those
undergoing the caIlousing and hard
ening experiences are striving with
the earnest conviction that they are
giving the best service they can offer
the country. It is with a solemn
purpose they are working. 1t is with
. definite object in view that they
drill and dig and march. That object
Is to show by actual example not
only what proper training will do to
make an effective citizen-soldier, but
also to record their protest against
the lack Of any systematic military
organization which could be called
on in the event of grave emergency.
That is the feeling of the men in the
second camp. It seems to soften the
work, shorten the marches and
tighten the burdens of the hard camp
life.
The men of affairs at Plattsburg
will have more respect than ever
hereafter for the private in khaki
whom they pass in the street, for
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27

training is fundamental to the
physical and mental growth of the
child. She defines eurythmics as the
study of the bodily movements for
the expression of all the rhythms
known to music. ''It furnishes the
means for externalizing all the emo
tons aroused in US by musical COM
position" she says. "Steps, gestures
and attitudes or poses are utilized for
this purpose"
Naturalness, she declares, is the
basis of everything in art. Accord
ingly, she conducts her summer work
in the woods at Peterboro where,
free from restraints of convention,
the girls of her school, clad in
Grecian costumes, fit in and out
among the trees in the practice of
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27
LISTEN! BEAUTY AND CHARM CAN
BE ACQUIRED BY EVERY WOMAN

Everything is possible to the wo-
man of beauty and CHARM" declares
Miss Susanna Cocroft, of Chicago,
popular woman's author who has a
following of $4,000 women in the
United States. Further" says Miss
Cocroft, beauty and charm can be
acquired by every woman.
every woman can be attractive
and charming in some particular, and
she can be we'll groomed and pleas
ing in all. Every woman may be the
most artistic expression in her home
She may care for her skin and keep it
delicate as coral; she may keep the
lines and curves of her figure as
beautiful and symmetrical as those
of any Venus and Diana.
Unhappy, lonely wives, who have
let your husbands drift away from
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27
PETER BoR0 -

Miss Laughton. "Most of the read
ing taught in the public schools now
is in the form of, drama, and all play
ground and settlement workers are
finding in the acting of plays an out
let for the nervous energy of youth
and an opportunity to direct them to
higher modes of living and thinking.
"Both in the formation of dramatic
literature and in the acting, teachers
are being required who can guide and
direct this work and place it upon a
proper basis. They must be trained
to do this. They must not only
analyze the play, but they must be
producers, and be able to coach, ar
range, even paint the scenery and at
tend to the lighting and costumes"
Miss Laughton believes eurythmic
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27
PEACE SOCIETY GETS FUNDS.

The American Peace Society is in
favor of adequate Defense" said Ar
thur Deerin Call, in executive charge
"0ur program has consistently
maintained that war will be abolished
only by supplanting it by better
and more sensible method. This sub
stitute must take the form of an in
ternaticnal legislature and an inter-
national judiciary.
George w White, president of the
National Metropolitan bank, Wash
ington, who, as treasurer of the
Peace Society, is receiving money for
the big peace movement, says the
contributions indicate nationwide
interest.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-10-27

eurythmics and the presentation of
dramas. 1t is not until the cold
weather forced her to her studios in
Copley Square, Boston, that she for
sock the New Hampshire woods.
These studios are the workshops,
she says, where teachers may obtain
the requisite knowledge and expert
ence to be producers in the broad
sense Of the term for their classes,
settlements or Fairgrounds. Miss
Laughton's school was one of the
first of its kind in the country teach
ing the rhythmic principles of the
famous French master, Dalcroze. In
quiries she is receiving from all over
the country indicate that young wom-
en- expecting to teach are deeply in
terested in the new system.