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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
PURSE SNATCHER HELD
He Is Captured by Citizens and
Police After a Rough and
Tumble Fight.

on charge of snatching a purse
from the hands of Miss NJ. L. Adds a
JeWelry store owner at SIT Kansas
avenue, Charles Anderson is booked at
the police station. The alleged theft
occurred about o'clock Friday even
ing at Eighth and Kansas avenue
when Anderson grabbed Miss Addis's
purse and ran. Miss Adds screamed
and chased him to the Annex rooming
house, next door to the Eagle cigar
factory, where Anderson crawIed un-
der the porch.
Ed Speer, manager of the National
Refining company, and W. w. Walk
ley, an employee of the company, who
were passing heard the woman's caH
and stopped to help recover the purse
Walkley mounted to the porch An
derson stuck his head out for air
Walkley slid astride his neck When
the cops arrived the three men were
engaged in a windmill fight The
purse was recovered and Anderson was
loaded into the police car and taken
to the police station.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
WITH THE SPOOKS
Voices From the Dead Utter
Peculiar Sentences.
They Talk Under the PrOtec-
ton of Darkness.
SPIRITUALISTS HOLD MEETING
Old Man Finds Daughter Who
Was Dead Ten Years.
A Pot Bubbling in Corner OF
Room Added to Session.

The ancient oracle at De1phos had
nothing on the spook at a spiritualist
meeting when it comes to being am
biguous. Sunday night two Topeka
men attended a spiritualist meeting in
Topeka to listen to the uncanny mes
sa ges from the departed and look over
into the other world.
A search revealed a half concealed
flight of stairs on a side street and
the two men went up, telling their way
in the darkness. Down the hall a weak
light showed through a glazed pane
and inside, beneath the weakly CLEANS
of a gas light, sat some two dozen peo-
pie.
II read a Bible of $50 years ago and
one of today and L tell you they don't
compare" one old man was quietly
saying to another
The crowd was a curious medley of
humanity.
Senile old age sat beside youth and
all strata of society mixed. To the
right was little woman in black with
sunken eyes and a prOtruding chin; to
the left sat a handsome brown-eyed
mother and son, and behind were three
police court characters. All it seemed,
awaited a message from the other
side.
The faint murmur of conversation
was broken only by the bubbling of a
pot in a corner of the room. People
We're satisfied to sit in the dim light
and await the coming. Following a
be, Little icy fingers reaching from
beyond" a short address was made
by a gray old man wearing a narrow
string tie.
Then messages were awaited while
the wheezy organ played, Nearer My
God to Thee"
Mediums in the Audience.
The mediums were in the audience
and could only be told by their nod
ding heads as the music carried their
consciousness away. The little wo-
man in black with the sunken eyes and
big chin slid down in her chair with
eyes closed. One medium stood up
quickly rubbing her cheeks with her
hands. Going across the room she
stood in front of boy of 81 years.
There is a little girl standing be-
hind you,'' she muttered, the little girl
is blowing a horn, trying to scare you.
You seem to be about eight years old.
1 don't know what she is saying. The
light and darkness mix and 1 see no
more. Ah-h-h."
Found His Daughter
She darted to an old man with long
white hair. "A woman stands before
you with her arms around a man. He
has been much longer in the spirit
world than she has. She says, BE of
good cheer; We will be together soon
She calls you father"
The medium went off into mutter-
lngs and sat back in her chair.
That must be my daughter said
the old man, she has been dead ten
years. 1 thank you
None of the remaining mediums |
awakened and the trance of the old |
was broken. The meeting ad- |
lourned.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

they used to be and the work is more
interesting" says Miss Blanche NJ.
Carnahan of the sixth grade. Il guess
the modern methods help the most.
The children can whisper if they have
a good reason TO do so and are not
required to sit like mummies all the
time IS they did in former days. The
work is principally finger work while
they are in ctheSwigsly age and when
children are interested there is no
Miss Jean w. Koontz. primary
teacher, is the author of the primary
reading chart used by the state or
Kansas. She has n model primary
room and the children are now work
ing on a Christmas house with real
istic cotton snow.
The reading chart is made up of
several cards With simple Anglo Saxon
words printed upon them Pictures
and drawings are scattered ABOUT ah0
the child gets to know what the word
looks like before he knows the let
tiers of the alphabet. By means OF
pointer, stories can be read from the
chart. Miss Koontz has another sys-
tenn of teaching which she has pat
ented and it is used by the Topeka
school. The word font" is modelled
after a printers font of type and con-
sists of many words printed upon
the words and pieces them together to
make a story The entire system of
teaching the children is through play
and not work.
Since the first Harrison street school
was built in 1865 children and mem
bers of many prominent Topeka fam
lilies have received their schooAnS
there. Mrs. Capper, Henry Lautz,
Mrs Will Macferran, the Sweet chill
dren, Mobiles, Thomases. and many
other prominent Topeka families have
been represented at Harrison school,
Miss KOOntZ A present the
second and in some cases the third
generation is attending the school OF
its fathers and mothers.
More teachers have taught longer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

at the school than in any other in
Topeka. Minnie J. Price taught &c
years in the primary grade. Mrs. j.
NJ. Sturgis taught 33 years in the
ct Mitchell and Miss Elizabeth Samp-
son have been in the service more
than 80 years. E. G. Foster, author
of the history used in the state schools
was principal for 16 years
Last summer the building was en-
tirely repainted and finished inside
and out The way the repairs which
had been needed for years happened
to be made was through a little Swear
old boy, John Dillon
John Dlllon's grandfather. Chief
Justice Dillon bought an expensive
painting, THE Aurora" some so yeara
ago a copy of the masterpiece at
Rome. Last summer John Dillon III
was back in New Jersey with his
mother and the grandmother offered
little Johnny the choice of several
paintings for his school room The
boy chose THE Aurora" a painting
worth $3.50 and his grandmother sent
it West When the picture was hung
in the school room the shabby. dirty
building presented such contrast
that the children wrote letters to Su
perintendent Wilson asking that ne
tint the walls and repaper the school
room. The superintendent had it
done and had to refinish the entire
school to keep peace in the family so
he painted the outside also.
An interesting department is the
"ungraded" room. Here are sent
children who are not making the
progress in the work that they should
and a special instructor has them in
charge. The desks vary in size and
each child does work that is best
suited for himself. Miss Ellen NJ.
Heartburg is the teacher.
on the second floor the teachers
have a rest room, with a lounge and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
"CASCARETS" FOR
YOUR BOWELS If
HEADACHY, SICK
For biliousness, bad breath
colds, indigestion and
constipation.
Eniov life! Liven your liver
and bowels tonight
and feel fine.

Your tongue is coated. Look inside
your watch cover and seel That's bad
business What have you been eat
ing? What were you drinking? what
kind of a lazy chair did you take eXer-
else in? Now don't think 1t doesn
matter because. it's your bowels that
talk now every time you open your
mouth That doesn't help your popu-
larity, nor your earning capacity. Be
sides a person with bad bowels is in
a bad way and a coated tongue or
bad breath are sure signs of bad baw-
els and poor digestion
Why don't you get a 10-cent box of
CaScaretS at any drug store and give
your liver and thirty feet of bowels
the incest, gentleSt cleansing they ever
experienced. Take one or two Cas-
carets tonight and wake up feeling
fine and fit. All Headache, Dizziness,
Biliousness. Bad Breath. stomach
Sourness. Cold and Constipation gone
wake up with your head clear.
tongue clean, stomach sweet liver and
bowels active, step elastic and COM
plexion rosy
Cascarets work while you sleep
never grippe or sicken. CaScarets act
so gently that You hardly realize you
have taken thorough cathartic- They
don't bother you all next day like salts.
pills. oil or acknowledgement being
perfectly harmless is best children's
iaxativc.-A
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
WOMEN SHOULD
GET THIS HABIT
AS WELL AS MEN
Don't eat bite of breakfast until
you drink glass of
hot water

Happy, bright, alert-Vigorous, and
vivacious=a good clear skin; nat
ural, rosy complexion and freedom
from Illness are assured only by clean,
healthy blood. If only every woman
and likewise every man could realize
the wonders of the morning inside
bath, what a gratifying change would
take place.
Instead of the thousands of sickly,
notwithstanding men, women and girls
with pasty or muddy compilations; in
stead of the multitudes of nerve
wrecks" arundowns," brain fags''
and pessimists we should see a virile,
optimistic throng of rosy-cheeked
people everywhere.
An inside bath is had by drinking,
each morning before breakfast, a glass
of real hot water with a teaspoonful of
limestone phosphate in it to wash from
the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten
yards of bowels the previous days in
digestible waste, sour lamentations
and poisons. thus cleansing, sweeten-
ing and freshening the entire alimen-
tary canal before putting more food
into tine stomach
Those subject to sick headache, bill
iousness. nasty breath. rheumatism.
colds; and particularly those who have
a pallid, saHow complexion and who
are constipated very often. are urged
to obtain a quarter pound of lime
stone phosphate at the drug store
which will cost but a trif1e but is suf-
ficient to demonstrate the quick and
remarkable change in both health and
appearance awaiting those who prac-
tice internal sanitation. We must re-
member that inside cleanliness is
more important than outside, because
the skin does not absorb impurities to
in the thirty fet OF bowels do.-Adver-
tiSement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

shipped. This is known as the to
l test, which means that before any
oranges can be shipped they must
contain eight parts of soluble solids
to one part of acid in the juice. This
insures the public early fruit that is
fine in color. and good to eat
Mr.. A. K Hayes, the resident Sun
kist representative states that Califor-
MIA has a large crop of the deservedly
popular Sunkist Navels, which, on ac-
count of being held on the trees until
full maturity, has made average very
large in size, and attained sufficient
color to be recognized as ripe fruit
I'VE are fortunate in securing one of
the very first shipments of the new
crop of Navels, which are California;
very best oranges, and from now on
can be had for very reasonable prices
from practically every grocery and
fruit store in Topeka, who are sup
piled through our jobbers," says Mr..
Hayes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
CLOSE ON BANDIT HEELS
Two Posses Race Hard After Robbers
Who Tried TO Hold up Iron
Mountain Passenger Train

Little Rock, Ark. Dec. 1.-Two
posses today were close on the heels
of a gang of bandits who last night
attempted to hold up southbound Iron
Mountain passenger train number 8
near Malvern, Ark. The holdup was
foiIed through the GOODNESS of Theo-
dore P. Homard, the engineer, and so
quickly were officers and citizens on
the trail Of the would-be robbers
that a pitched battle was fought
with them less than three hours later.
Sheriff J. E. Stanley, of Malvern,
was wounded in the foot during the
shooting, the only known casualty.
The bandits esca ped in the darkness.
Sheriff Stanley continued in pursuit
with his deputies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Melvin Mcpherson went to Kansas
City Monday to take a position in the
Ticket office of the A. T. & s. F.
Miss Martz is doing temporary work
for the Kansas Farmer. Miss Lang
for the Washburn Review.
Miss Rodebush has been doing stem
ographic work for The Mills Store Co.
A number of students have been do
ing temporary office work for The
Gibbs Clothing Co., Famous Clothing
Co. and F. E. Grimes.
The new time clock which has re-
Gently been added to our equipment is
attracting the attention of business
men, especially when in need of office
help. BY the use of the clock each
student has his own time record.
New students have recently enrolled
from Colorado. Nebraska. Oklahoma
and Missouri, besides many from our
own state
VIM Swanson has taken a position
in the Freight Auditors Dept of the
A. T. & s. F.
Alvin Groom resigned his position
with the A. T. & s. F. to take a place
in THE Bank OF Topeka
ADVERTISEMENT
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

coy furnishings. Here they can rest
during noon hours and the mirror
and public powder can lead the Wis
itor to think that even the peda-
logically inclined are not neglectful
of fashions whims.
List of Teachers.
The first Harrison school was built
in 1865. In those days it was pointed
to with pride as a model building.
When it was torn down to make way
for the new building in 1886, people
in the neighborhood wondered how
such dark, awkward school house
ever happened to be built. The pres
ent school was rapidly gaining the
out-of-date class when it was refin-
ished last summer.
Members of the teaching force at
present are: o. P. NJ McClintock,
principal; Clara Z. Sparkling, assistant
principal, eighth grade; Miss Blanche
NJ Carnahan, sixth grade; Miss Rachel
McGiffert, fifth grade; Miss Edith
Cole, fourth grade; Miss Edith Shep-
herd, third grade; Mrs. Permelia w.
Cone, second grade; Miss Jean w.
Koontz, first grade; Miss Ellen NJ
Heartburg, ungraded school; Stephen
d. Holmes, ianitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
House Speaker Predicts Col
OneI Will Lead Republicans.
Young Bucks of the Party Are
for Him, He Says.
HUGHES MAY Be LINED UP
Republican Senators Strong for
Supreme Court Justice.
Senator Burton Not Sufficiently
Known as a Leader.

Washington, Dec. 4.-Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt has been predicted by
Speaker Champ Clark as the nominee
of the Republican convention next
year.
Mr.. Clark bases his opinion on the
observations he made on a lecture tour
of the country. Speaker Clark, when
asked whether he mentioned the name
of William Jennings Bryan for the
preferred not to mention the name of
his political enemy curing his speeches
he made on this trip.
Personally, L think that Roosevelt
cannot be beaten fol the nomination. -
said the speaker. THE young bucks
of the Republican party are for him
everywhere. They are enthusiastic in
their support. The presidential pri-
mary system will give him great ad-
vantage.
Il purposely put statement about
Roosevelt in my speeches to sound out
sentiment. His name always brought
a response in the way of cheers when
the name of other members of his
party would not accomplish that re-
suit
Hughes the Man.
Political leaders VINO have can
vassed the Republican members of
congress here for the session opening
Monday say that the consensus of
OP@iiAOiA 10 Aiie1b NOuTI
Charles E. Hughes is the likeliest Re
publican nominee for the presidency,
despite his refusal to become a candi-
date.
In this connection it was learned to-
day that a number or Republicans are
known to favor a plan in the event of
an opposition candidate to deadlock
the national convention and then flash
the name of Justice Hughes as the
only candidate upon whom they can
agree.
Commenting this plan, a Repub-
lican leader said:
mo man will refuse the presidency
if it is offered him, and it is shown
to him that he is truly needed for the
service of his country"
Largely because of Justice Hughes
opposition to the use of his name as
a presidential possibility and because
OF their being committed to sectional
no one favoring Justice
hughes would permit his name to be
used in that connection.
The political leaders who sounded
out the Republicans said that the be- |
lief is general among them that OBJ |
toned for the Republican nomination |
would prove insurmountable They
said that Elihu Root is held to be not /
popular enough in the west, that SEN !
atOr Burton is not sufficiently well |
known in the east and that former i
President Roosevelt has taken too de- /
-ermined q stand in the war
Politicians say that the Republicans /
ere keenly aware that the voters with /
German sympathies must be taken |
nto consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
A WOMAN'S APPEAL

To all known sufferers Of rheumatism.
whether muscular or of the joints sci
atica, lumagos, backache, pains in the
kidneys or neuralgia pains, to write to
her for a home treatment which has re-
peatedly cured all of these fortunes. She
feels II her duty to send It to all sufferers
FREE. You cure yourself at home as
thousands will testify-no change of
climate being necessary This simple dis
coyery banishes uric acid from the blood
looscrs the stihened joints. puIifies tine
blood and brighteEs the eyes. giving elias
ITCHY and tone to the whole system If
the above interests you, for proof address
Mrs NJ Summers Box R, South Bend
nd-Advertisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
A wonderful Antiseptic.

Germs and infection aggravate ailments
and retard healing Stop that Infection
at once Kill the germs and get rid OF the
poisons- For this purpose a single appli-
cation of Sloan's Eminent not ouly kills
tine pain but destroys the germs This
neutralizes Infection and gives nature
assistance by overcoming congestion and
gives n chance for the free and normal
flow of the blood. Sloans Llnifnent Is
an emergency doctor and should be kept
ADV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
IN SELF DEFENSE
Then Only Do Harrison School
Teachers Strike Pupils.
Spanking Is Now a Thing of
the Past.
HAS MODEL PRIMARY ROOM
Miss KOOntz Is Author of State
Primary Chart.
Painting Causes Refinishing of
School Building.

No longer the thwack of the barrel
stave and lugubrious yowl of an ag-
grieved urchin raise the housetops
near the Harrison school house. Whip
p1ng-corporal punishment-has be-
come q thing of the past ard when
the ancient practice was revived last
winter for an exceptional case the
wide eyed youngsters would not have
been more alarmed at an electrocu-
ton.
Children are lots better now than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
KISSED BY The SUN
California ''Sunkist" Oranges Has
Reached Topeka for Distribution.

The first car of California Sunkist
navel oranges arrived in Topeka to-
day. The California Fruit Growers
Exchange which controls about so
per cent of the California citrus fruit
crop, has made a ruling which pro-
vides that all Sunkist oranges must
pass a maturity test before being
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

De Goosby-"I am utterly ruined-I've
lost every cent of my money What shall
| do:" Reggy-"Never mind. old chap
brace up and be a man." De Goosby-
What. And brush some other fellows
boots and clothe IS Nevah Puck
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Kansas State Fair as
ISOLATION, of Topeka. will be held in
the parlors of the Commercial club on
the 14th day of December, 1915, 1880
p. m-"-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04
A FRANK FARRELL TAI
BROKE UP SHOW
Topeka Man Was Knocked
r Through a Bass Drum.
How Liquor Brought Theatrical
Career to an End.

A dramatic career that might have
shorn Sothern and Marlowe of much
of their glory was eclipsed some years
j. F. farrell. publicity agent for the
santa t'e, was an embryo Thespian in
his twenties and occasionally received
real money for carrying a spear He
was cast in "A Night in Ten Bar
Rooms"-no, Ten Nights in a Bar
Room" as the villainous bartender
who polished off the painted marble
and stopped thimblefuls of cold tea
across the counter. The company was
on the verge of financial shipwreck in
a small Iowa town.
In the second act it was JarreIPs
job to throw out wee Willie Hammond
when he became insulting about the
state of his credit or something
Wee Willie had taken the remnants
of his salary and got gloriously drunk
unknown to farrell. AS Willie 'wob-
bled on to the stage in response to
his cue and suffered out the harsh
lines. FARRELL seized him to throw him
out as usual The audience awaited
suspending judgment on the play
FARRELL pinched Willie's leg to heave
him out; Willie took FARRELL by the
slack of the trousers and swung The
unhappy bartender poised a moment
on the footlights and tumbled back
wards onto the little man in the tin
shop. going through the bass drum.
Members of the audience helped
farrell out of town and broke up the
show He's been working ever since.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Special communication of Golden
Rule lodge No. 80, A. F. & A. NJ, will
be held Sunday. December 5, 1915, at
1880 p. M, to attend the funeral of
Brother Charles F. Coe. All Master
MasonS requested to attend.
ALBERT E. ANDREWS, Master.
H L. SHERBURNE, Secretary.
advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-12-04

Coal oil heaters at Forbes.-Adv.
Proletarec. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1906-19??, 1915-02-23

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spodaril V BOsni, kakor da JIG no
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Je Ii Guido, da so ljudje bezali
I'm Srbija je bila najblizja. Kan
maj hi drugam bczali!
Zbelali so - to je vse, kar Jim
jc dokazano. Avstrijski vladi "a
dostuje to, da konfiScira n.jihovo
premozcnjc. In nihGe ne pravi,
da je to nemogoce.
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viSjcm Interest,". Oropanim lju-
dem ne da pray nobcnc odSkod-
nine IA to, kar jim vzamc. Kvec-
jemu da jih Sc same obcSi ali IL.
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Socialism hocc ckSpropriirati
Y lmtereSu vSc druZbc, intcrcsu
sploSnoSti. In nikogar uoGc de
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socialistitni obsojcri ma strada-
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