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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
WAGNER NOW LAST OF
THE OLD TIMERS LEFT

Release of.Tommy Leach by the
Cincinnati Reds leaves Hans Wag-
ner the only player still in the ma
jors of the great aggregation trans
ferred from Louisville to Pittsburg
in 1900. Fred Clark, manager, quit
at the close of last season. Pitts
burg, in the old days. had a great
infield with Bransfield at first,
Ritchey at second, Leach at third
and Wagner at short. They played
together until 1904.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
Plank Fails to Get Release.

Cincinnati. Ohio, Feb. S.-The ma
tional ba seball commission Monday
denied the application of Pitcher Ed
die Plank to be declared a free agent
Plank based his request on a para
graph in the players fraternity agree
ment which relates to an uncondi-
tional release after a player has serv-
ed ten years on one team and because
The Federal league no longer has a
claim to his services
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
Burns Licks Ad Wolgast.

Kansas City. Mo-, Feb. S.-Frankie
Burns of Oakland, Cal. and Ad VOL
CAST, former lightweight champion,
fought a ten round, no decision bout
here Monday night. The match was
advertised to be a decision affair but
Wolgast refused to enter the ring if
Il verdict was to be given. Newspa-
per men gave Burns the match on
points.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
X. INFORMAL Meet Today.

Emporia, Kan. Feb. S.-Fifteen
athletes, accompanied by Coach Bill
Hargiss, left Emporia this morning
for Lawrence, where they will meet
the Jayhawkers today in an indoor
track meet. The meet was to have
been held Monday, but was POSTPONED
day because of the Normal-Baker
basketball game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
Anderson Wins From Roach.

In the pocket billiard tournament at
the Dome billiard parlors Carl Ander-
son defeated Mark Roach by the score
of 100 to SO Monday night. Ray
Holstrom and Jack Evans will meet
tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
Disapprove the "Antis. -

Cologne, Feb. Sat general
meeting of the Socialists of Cologne
City and the surrounding districts q
vote of disapproval of the attitude of
minority Socialists in the Reichstag
was passed by a large majority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

Portland, Ore, Feb. S.-Harry
Krause. a pitcher with the Portland
team of the Pacific Coast league club
has been sold to the Omaha team of
the Western league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

The Missouri Valley race remains
a gentry affair with the Kansas Ag-
gies and the Missouri Tigers the prin-
cipals in the fray. All critics concede
that the race is between these two
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

The assertion made last week by the
K. L. coaches that their men were JUS
getting into their stride was borne out
to some extent by the easy manner in
which they won from Washington.
And if the Jayhawks should win this
weeks games from Missouri and then
take a double victory from the Aggie
men, the dope pot would be pretty
badly cracked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

be shuffling out of the spotlight and
giving way to the baseball activities
that will be stirring the sport world
from coast to coast But between now
and the end, basketball teams with
championship prospects will be going
at top speed and furnishing some real
contests to the followers of the goal
tossing amusement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

The Aggies will go against the Hus<-
ers Friday and Saturday of this week,
and, inasmuch as the Huskers will be
on their own court, they ought to put
up good fight. But the Aggie coaches
and dopesters do not concede a chance
to the Northern leaders. Tomorrow
and Thursday K. U. will play Missouri
at Colum bia and next week the Aggies
and Jayhawkers will meet again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

fives despite the fact that Nebraska
has clean record thus far.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

However, it is generally understood
that the season will begin shortly after
the middle of April, and inasmuch as
it has been the custom to give most of
the teams an opening date every other
year. it is supposed that Topeka will
be given one this season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

Another question a number of fans
are anxious to know about is what
club will make the first visit here. A
great many would like to see Wichita
take the first defeat the SavageS have
to hand out, but there is nothing to
indicate that this distinction will be
given to the Beerless Princess
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

Other Kansas conference teams that
are certain to put up stiff opposition
in every contest from now on are
Bethany, Baker. the c. of E and Fair
mount. However, if Bethany can win
from Baker and c. of E., Baker and
the Normals can butcher each other in
their remaining contests. it appears
that the flag will go to Lindsborg
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

Shooters


l.. c. Bell shooting 1872 out of a poselbis
POO. holds the record for high targets in a
single match
The official score for match No.
shows Topeka lost to Bedford, Ohio. the
leaders of the league. The score of the
mn til fnllnNNs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

In the Kansas conference several
teams will battle with championship
hopes to the bitter end, and the pros
poets of a pretty middle at the wind
p are bright enough tc insure argu-
ments and contentious among a num-
Der of the leaders. In an effort to
keep his team in the running, "Bilr'
Hargiss has cancelled all of his out
side games and is driving his men as
hard as they can sc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

In less than a month basketball will
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
Up to $500 corsets-25c

Sizes Is and 10, only You see
the sample lines we buy are long on
these two sizes and as a. result we
have an over supply. The very best
of styles; medium bust, long hip
models; many of them of finest
brocades. None worth less than
S100 and there are lots of $500
ones ones, to9myOur choice 25c
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

John Savage. owner of the Topeka
team, states that he is unable to say
just when the season will open, or
where his club will take the plunge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
B ;;E3I!I3Il|.1
Any white
sport coat
in the Basement
So. SO
-Ap to sig. so Udlates

A variety of styles of Sport coats
of Chinchillas, corduroys Ind dag
onal weaves-coatS that you can
wear right through the Spring: and
they'll be good for next Fall too. In
cluded are coats that were made to
sell for $12. every
white Sport coat in the Basement
" will be on sale S2.9S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

Bands
Sport Wheezes
BY CLUG-

Next week the Western league club
owners will meet in Lincoln to arrange
the playing schedule for the coming
season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08
MUTT EFF-Cetainy! Fellow Has Got to Get Some Sleep Drawn


lCopyriCht. 1915. by Il. c. Fisher,
Trade Mark Reg. L. S. Pat OFF,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

25-ft. rolls of McEntire Tree
Banding, the kind recon-
mended by Professor Scott,
and a can of the best ''Tangle
Foot''-enough for b gu t
ON sale in the Basement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

Mems ST 30 union suits of natural
gray cotton with warm fleece lin
ing ard carefully bound seams;
full, standard 100
sizes. ...........
15c canvas gloves: gauntlet style,
of heavy Canton flannel; fine for
work around the 1Oc
Mems up To $500 sweaters; coat
style with wide roll collars;
warm and serviceable; good
range of colorS and CT NJ
sizes-choice. ....
bargain Basement)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-02-08

Here is a great Chance Tor stout
women to secure a good substantial
corset at a remarkably low price
These corsets are of heavy coCtil.
fashioned in the very latest style,
neatly trimmed and finished with
good. strong reducing straps that
hold the figure in shape-all sizes
on special sale 02P
Wednesday -
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19
CHAPTER vi
Syrnptomatic

For some few minutes the two on
the cabin porch made no attempt to
talk. bat when the rumbling thunder
OF the ore-ear which the elder Mas
singale was pushing ahead Of him into
the mine had died away in the sub
terranean distances Brouillard began
again.
4 do get your point of view-some-
times" be said. Civilization, or what
stands for it. does haYe a way OF
shrinking into littlenessS not to say
eheaDness. when one Gan get the
proper perspective. And your fife up
here on Chigringo has given you TIE
needful detached point OF view"
The trouble shadows in the eyes Of
the young woman who was sitting in
the dshnet hammock gave place to a
smile Of gentle derision.
DO you call that civilization % she
demanded. indicating the struggling
new town spreading itself. maplike. in
the valley below.
Il suppose It is-one form Of It. At
least it is civilization in the making
Everything has to have some sort of a
beginning"
Miss Massingale acquiesced in a
little uptilt Of her perfectly rounded
chin.
Just the same. you don't pretend to
say you are enjoying it" she said in
manifest depreciation.
"Oh don't know. My work is down
there. A few weeks ago / was right
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19
EE!S CHAPTER VII ASl
A Tum in the Trail

For Brouillard Ii had seemed the
most natural thing In the world to fall
under the spell, Of enchantment. He
knew next 10 nothing of the young
woman's life story; he had not cared
TO know. !; had not occurred to him
to wonder how the daughter of man
who drilled and shot the holes in his
own mine should have the gifts and
belongings-when she chose to display
them-of a woman of much wider
world 1t was enough for him that she
was piquantly attractive In any char
acter and that he found her marvel
ously stimulating and uplifting. On
the days when the devil of moroseness
and irritability possessed and mad
dened him he could climb to the cabin
on high Chigringo and find sanity. 1t
was keen Joy to be with her, and up
to the present this had sufficed,
"Egoism is merely another name for
the expression of a vital need" he
said after the divagating pause. de.
fining the word more for his own sat
isfaction than in seif-defsnse.
You may put It in that way II you
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19
lTo BE CoNTINUEDJ
rrIbuIatIons Of q Volunteer.

Richard de Gunpowder was an en-
thusiast. He was so enthusiastic that
he enlisted in the Harvard Hundreds.
Moreover. he was so very enthusiastic
that he enlisted twice. Then matters
became confused. for he was assigned
to two different regiments. In some
way. however, he managed to per
suade his superior officers that he
would rather be wholly and entirely in
one company than partly in two. So
one of his enlisted selves joined the
other in the same squad But now he
was absolutely beside himself; every
time he turned around he hit himself
in the back: whenever he was out of
step he trod on his own heels; every
time he--what should-what could he
do? What would you have done?
But the captain was eleverer than
you. He selected one of Richards en-
listed selves and made him an officer
So now Sergeant de Gunpowder once
more has complete command Of him
self.--Harvard Lampoon.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19
hire Woman petective.

woman detective has received an
appointment from the Bristol authori-
ties. There is nothing amateurish
about the Bristol appointment. The
new officer has received special train
ing in police work, and although her
duties will chiefly concern women and
children her services will be utilized
in solving all classes of crime and
mystery. Women" an authority ex-
planned, "are particularly adapted for
work which comes outside the scope
of the ordinary detective, but unfor-
tunately it is sometimes unsafe to
trust a woman with an important in
vestigation where young men are con-
cerned. They are swayed by emotion.
They can't help it; it is their nature,
and they have been known to fall in
love with the man they have been set
to watch"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19
Morning Forever.

"As it began to dawn" is the begin
ming of the story of the greatest mira
Gle of all ages. The life beautiful
had ended in a tragedy The story so
full of charm and attractiveness was
without an adequate conclusion. The
multitudes that had hung upon his
words and warmed their love In the
atmosphere of his matchless person
atty were either lingering about Jeru-
salem or on their homeward journey
with sad hearts and blighted faith.
What was needed? A mighty miracle
that would bring that matches per
sonality again into touch with human
life. To the women that miracle was
declared. He is not here; for he is
risen as he said" Ahead of the slum-
bering hosts of the city, ahead of the
expectation of anxious hearts. ahead
OF natural sun. the great Son OF Right
eousness is risen. and it is morning.
morning forever"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19
Helen Elizabeth Coolidge.

not referring to any particular spe-
cies, but to a large class of flowers
growing in Palestine, and resembling
the lily, as the tulip, iris, gladiolus
and the like. Thompson, for instance,
in his Land of the Book" describes
magnificent iris, which he calls the
Hutch lily, view of which gives sa-
lient point to the passage: Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like
one of these"
This Huleh lily" says the writer,
lis very large, and three of the inner
petals meet above and form a gor-
geous canopy such as art never ap-
preached and the king never sat under
even in his utmost glory. When met
this Incompatible flower in all its
loneliness, among the oak woods
around the north base of Tabor and
on the hills of Nazareth where our
Lord spent his youth, felt assured
that it was to this he referred
That the lily must have been a con-
spicuous plant along the shores of
the Lake of Gennesaret is indicated
in Matthew. CPS: consider the lilies
of the field, how they grow and Luke
1927, which bears the same admoni-
ton. 1t fiourished in the broad, deep
valleys of Palestine The Song of
Songs tells: Il am the rose of Sharon
and the lily of the valley" and also
among the thorny shrubs, for the
same book has it, GAS the lily among
the thorns, so is my love among the
daughters" and among the pastures
of the desert, as is shown by this pas
sage from the inspiration of Solomon:
MY beloved is mine. and / am his;
he feedeth among the lilies" In many
other passages of the Bible the flower
is mentioned.
And that the lily must have been
remarkable for it's rapid and luxuriant
growth is evidenced in Hosea 14:5,
Il will be as the dew unto Israel; he
shall grow as the lily and cast forth
his roots as Lebanon" And that the
flower was brilliant in color is indi-
Gated in Matthew, where it has ia
miliar comparison with the gorgeous
robes of Solomon. And that the col
ors of the royal investiture were pur-
pie and scarlet is also implied in the
Songs of Songs.
There were many species Of lila
ceous blosso ms in Palestine, some ex-
ceedingly gorgeous in color and some
exceedingly fragrant 1t is DR.. Isaac
Hall who noted the late winter carpet
ing of Christ's way by this widespread
color and enhancing fragrance.
Most conspicuous. perhaps, are the
great red and blue flowers of the order
Ranunculaceae, where the anemone
and the ranunculus grow together"
says he. "They are not small things,
like our buttercups, but great wide
flowers of two inches or more in d.
ameter, carpeting' the ground with
patches as gorgeous as masses of our
brilliant verbenas. They grow every
where; ant, like the other herbs, are
glorious one day and the next day
literally cast into the oven to bake
the peasants bread"
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19

TIME lily is the Easter flower be-
cause 1t ia the glorious bloom
of Christ's country. 1t is abun-
dant on the hills of Nazareth,
and in the later winter the regions
over which he walked glowed and
radiated with enhancing color, while
the air was fragrant with perfume.
The Hebrew word for the flower is
shushan, shoshan or shoshannah, and
though there is little doubt the word
denotes some plant of the lily species,
it is by no means certain what class
it specially designates. In the Holy
Land there are lilies that hold the
purpIing blue OF eastern skies; that
glow with the blood-red fire of the
deserts dusty sunset; that have the
pure white Of spiritual appeal and the
grace in curve and line that touch
the senses like a strain of exquisite
music.
AS we of the West know the lily,
the more cultivated species are the
white or Madonna lily. the tiger or
tiger-spotted lily, and the golden lily.
A white lily in art and heraldry sym
bolizes purity, and in the pictures of
the Annunciation is often placed in
the hands of the Angel Gabriel. Lilies
choir the golden way to Paradise"
says a medieval writer; which. in the
values of the present, is given in the
appreciation of a Canadian woman on
first beholding the soul-stirring bloom
of a Bermuda field-"This is simply
heavenly"
1t is very probable that the term lily
as used in the Holy Land was general,
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19
Glass of Hot Water
Before Breakfast
a Splendid Habit
Open sIuIees of the system each
morning and wash away the
poisonous, stagnant matter.

Those of us who are accustomed to
feel dull and heavy when we arise;
splitting headache. stuffy from cold.
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stom-
aeh, lame back, can, instead, both
look and feel as fresh as daisy always
by washing the poisons and toxins
from the body with phosphated hot
water each morning.
We should drink, before breakfast
a glass of real hot water with tea
spoonful Of limestone phosphate in
It to flush from the stomach, liver.
kidneys and ten yards OF bowels the
previous days indigestible waste, sour
bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans
ing, sweetening and purifying the en-
tire alimentary canal before putting
more food into the stomach.
The action of limestone phosphate
and hot water on an empty stomach
is wonderfully invigorating. II cleans
out all the sour fermentati)ns, gases,
waste and acidity and gives one a
splendid appetite for breakfast and it
is said to be but a little while until
the roses begin to appear in the
cheeks. A quarter pound of lime
stone phosphate will cost very little at
your druggist or from the store, but
is sufficient to make anyone who is
bothered with biliousness, constipa-
ton, stomach trouble or rheumatism
a real enthusiast on the subject of in
ternal sanitation. Try it and you are
assured that you will look better and
feel better in every way shortly
Adv.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19

valley level. the tall chimney stacks
Of the new cement plant were rising,
and from the CARRIES beyond the
plant the duh thunder of the blasts
dr,fted up.
This was not Brouillard's first visit
to the cabin on the Massingale claim
by many. In the earliest stages Of the
valley activities Smith, the B1ckskin
cattleman. had been Amy Massingale's
escort to the reclamation camp-"tust
a couple o. lockers" in Smiths phrase
and the unconventional attitudes
had done the rest. From that day for
ward the young woman had Hospitality
opened her door to Brouillard and his
assistants, and any member of the
corps. from Leshington the morose.
who commonly came to sit In solemn
silence on the porch step. to Griffith,
who had lost his youthful heart to
Miss Massingale on his first visit. was
welcome.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19

nesses. putting your finger on them as
accurately as If you could read mis-
soul, holding them up to your ridicule
and-what's much worse-to his own.
At such times your insight. or what
ever you choose to call it, is enough
to give a man a fit of seeing things. "
Her laugh was like a schoolgirls.
light-hearted. ringing. deliciously unre-
strained.
What a pictured" she commented.
And then; 4 can draw a better one
Of you. Monsieur Victor de Brouil.
lard
DO IT," he dared.
Very well, then: Once upon a time
1t was a good while ago. I'm afraid
you were a very upright young man.
You would cheerfully have died for a
principle in those days, and you would
have allowed the enemy TO cut you up
into cunning little inch cubes before
you would have admitted that any pig
con was ever made TO be plucked."
He was smiling mirthlessly, with the
black mustaches taking the sardonic
upcurve
Then what happened?"
"One Of Two things, or maybe both
of them. You were pushed out into
the life race with some sort of a
handicap. don't know what it was
or is. Is that true?"
He nodded gravely. 1T is all true
enough. You haven't added anything
more than graceful little touch here
and there. Who has been telling you
all these things about me? Not
Grizzy?"
mo, not Murray Grislow: It was the
c,an you think you know best in all
the worldwide is also probably the
one you know the least-yourself"
Good heavens. Am l really such a
transparent egoist as all that?"
All men are egoists," she answered
calmly. I'm some the ego is sound
and clear-eyed and strong; in others
it Is weak-in the same way that pas
sion is weak; it will sacrifice all it has
or hopes to have in some sudden fury
OF self-assertion."
She sat up and put her hands to her
hair. and he was free to look away,
down upon the great ditch where the
endless chain Of concrete buckets
added to the deep and widespread
foundations Of the dam. Across the
river a group of hidden sawmilIs sang
their raucous song. In the middle dis
lance the camp-town city spread
it's roughly indicated streets over the
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1916-04-19
Easter Sermon.

Love your enemies. Understand
them. See their burdens, their be-
wilderment, their perplexities, their
obstacles and handicaps and thwart-
ings. Let the Christ of you strike
with pity upon the locked gates of the
vaults of their ignorance, and cry
Lazarus, come forth! to the sleeping
souls of them within. Let the Moses
in you, the Pioneer. the Darer, the Ad-
venturer, the All-Believer, strike with
love upon the rock Of their hardness
and asperity: let him win that living
water. kindness. shall gush forth. crys.
talline. sparkling. And this day, so
shall it be.-Nautilus.