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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
GOT TWO TONS OF COAL
Court Rules Family Can Keep 1t by
Paying Regular Price

H. E. HossfieId ordered a ton of coal
placed in his basement at 1927 West
ern avenue The Capital Coay COM
pany sent two tons by mistake. The
mistake was discovered and explained
to the Hossfield family. A driver
warned the family against taking the
extra ton out of the bin, saying it
would harm the yard. Then Mrs.
Hossfield received a telephone mes
sage that the ton would have to be
purchased and paid for.
Later, a replevin suit was brought
in the court of Topeka to compel the
Hossfield's to return the coal Hoss-
field stated that he was willing to pay
for it Judge Rad Lee ruled that the
coal company should pay the costs and
decided the case in favor of Hossfield.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
WEAK KIDNEYS MEAN
A WEAK BODY

When you're fifty. your body begins to
creak a little at the hinges. Motion is
more slow and deliberate. Not so young
as 1 used to be" is a frequent and unwel-
come thought. Certain bodily functions
upon which good health and good spirits
so much depend, are impaired. The weak
symptoms show themselves. Painful and
annoying complications in other organs
arise. This is particularly true with el-
DERBY people. If you only know how, this
trouble can be Obviated.
For over 200 years GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM oil has been relieving the incon-
venience aud pain due to advancing years.
It is a standard, old-time home remedy,
and needs no introduction. 1t is now put
IN in OdOrless, tasteless capsules. These
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
CORN is KING!
Crop 66,OOO,OOO Blu. Greater
Than Ever Grown Before.
Potato Yield Is Almost Twice
That of Year Ago.

Washington, Nov. S-A corn crop
larger by more than 100000 bush
els than ever grown in the history of
American agriculture is the produc-
ton of the farmers of the United
States this year. The department of
agriculture today in its preliminary
estimate of the crop placed the guam
tity at 3,191, 0S3,OO bushels. Condi-
tions since. the October forecast caused
reduction of about 100000 BUSH
els in the indicated output.
Final estimates will be announced
december II. This years harvest sta
t1stlcs of last years final output and
the average output for the five years,
1911-'15, inclusive, in thousands nf
bushels, i. e., COOS omitted, follow:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

are easier and more pleasant to take than
the oil in bottles.
Each capsule contains about one dose Of
five drops. Take them just like you would
any pill, with small swallow of water.
the, poisons which are making you old be-
fore your time. They will quickly relieve
those stiffened joints, that backache, rheu-
matism, lumbago, sciatica, gaIl-stones.
gravel, "brick-dust," etc. They are an eff
fective remedy for all diseases of the blad-
der, kidney, liver, stomach and allied or
gans.
Go to your druggist today and get a box
of GOLD MEDAL HARLEM Oil Capsules.
Money refunded if they do not help you.
Three sizes. GOLD MEDAL are the pure,
original imported HARLEM Oil Capsules.
Accept no Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

New York, Nov Acknowledgement
paper, 51a Sterling, GO day bills, 4.71h ;
commercial, 60 day bills on banks, All
commercial, co day bills, 4.70%; demand,
475A cables, 4.76 7-16 Francs, demand,
44A cables. 44A. Lires, demand. $50;
cables, S.31. Rub1es. demand. 12h; cables,
12a4 Bar silver S6kc: Mexican dollars,
65%c. Government bonds, heavy; railroad
bonds, weak. Time loans, steady: so days
Call money. easier; high, A. low. 3: rul-
ing rate, 4; closing bid 5; offered 49, last
loan, 3h.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
T. R. IN ACCIDENT
His Auto Runs Down Man; Roosevelt
Sends Him to Hospital.

New York, Nov. 8.-Colonel Roose-
veIt's automobile, driven by his chauf-
feur, Charles H Lee and with the
colonel as a passenger, ran down John
Murphy, of Jamaica, N. Y, this after
noon. The colonel jumped from his
car and picked up the injured man,
ordering his driver to hurry to
Roosevelt hospital.
Murphy suffered several broken
ribs but his injuries are not serious.
Witnesses declared the accident
was unavoidable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
ASK R. R. RATE RAISE
Southeastern Railroads Want Passen-
gers to Pay ~ Cents a Mile.

Washington, Nov. S.-Permission to
increase interchangeable passenger
mileage book rates from to 2 Il cents
a mile was asked of the interstate
commerce commission today by south
eastern railroads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
TO WRECK TROOP TRAIN
Ties Piled on Track But Engineer
Saw Them in Time.

Freeport,, I'LL, Nov. SIT is report
ed here that an attempt was made
yesterday afternoon to wreck the Illi-
nois Central train carrying 500 SOL
dlers from Camp Grant to Houston,
Tex
1t is said the engine crew discoy-
cred pile of ties on the track about
three miles out from Rockford but
had time to stop the train.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
BUILDING COLLAPSES
Five Women and Two Men Caught in
Death Trap-Fire Follows.

New York, Nov s.-Five women
and two men are believed to have
been killed in the collapse of three
floors of a building in Brooklyn, oc-
cupied by a concern supplying pro-
visions to the United States govern
ment.
An explosion and fire followed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

A former clerk who looted the postoffice
of Tucson, Arizona, vowed he would give
81 900 to charity if he got away with the
trick. He kept his word, but was later
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

AmiIIion and a quarter horses and mules
have been exported for war purposes
since the fall of 1914.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

Now IOTh STUCK NMHFNet
Wall St, New York. Nov. S-STOCKS-
Rallies of to points followed the more
severe decline of the mid season. The
close was weak.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

l. NJ. PenwelI r. NJ johnson
President Sec'y-Treas.
& Phone 775 Phone 3619
! THE l. M. PENWELL
UNDERTAKING co.
sOs-5Os-5lO Quincy Street Phone 1ss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

The funeral of Katherine Martin will be
held at O'Clock Friday afternoon from
Madison streets. Burial in Topeka Gem
etery,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

A Yale professor is using hundreds of
stray dogs which to try experiments
with new poisonous war gas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
New YORK MONEY Mnrket

Lords Flowers Satisfy. Tel s27.-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

s. New York, Nov. S.-COTTON-Spot
I. quiet; middling uplands, 1855; sales 1O5
e. hnIRa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

New York cotton NIarket-

New Orleans, Nov. S-COTTON-Spo
firm, % points up; middling, 27.63.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
New York, Nov. s.

New York Stock Market.
FURNISHED by T. J. Myers. 3o1 N. E. Bldg
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08

W. E. HAGY died this morning at hi
home at Thirteenth and California avenue
Funeral arrangements have not been com
pleted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-08
DEATHS AND FUNERALS

VIRGIL FORD, age %, died Wednesday
at Camp Funston, The funeral will be
held at 10 30 O'Clock Saturday morning
from Penwelrs chapel Burial in Mt. Hope
cemetery.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
Old Apple Sill Fresh.

Apples may come and apples may
20, but this one goes on forever. This
may be said of an apple belonging to
George NJ. Reade, of st. Paul, Mimi,
which he picked from a tree in New
York in 1868.
Mr.. Reade lived on farm in Cort-
land county, n. Y, when boy. One
day, just for amusement, he climbed
one Of his fathers apple trees, picked
the largest apple he could find and
stuck cloves in it, says al exchange.
1t was merely an experiment, he
said. He had heard of preserving ap-
PIES by by putting qptg cloves in them, hut
thought 1t only a joke.
He gave the apple to his mother, and
when she died and some goods were
shipped to him in Minnesota, the apple
was found among them, sound and still
fragrant from the spice.
"This apple" Mr.. Reade said, has
been from New York to Dakota, and
from Tennessee to Minnesota. 1t has
always been exposed to the air. 1t Will
Is as shiny and wholesome looking as
when I pulled it from the tree. Fifty
years old. it still is fit for sale"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
AMERICANS GO THE LIMIT
Speed of Motorcycles Used by United
States Soldiers Attracts Atten-
ton In Paris.

All Paris Is familiar now with the
sight of huge motorcycles ridden by
big fellows in campaign hats and guild
ed through the streets at alarming
speeds by sure and steady hands, says
a war correspondent. 1t seems that
the ordinary French motorcycle has
something like three horsepower, while
these American military motorcycles
develop II horsepower. This leads the
French to observe that Americans love
power and a lot of it. In their ma
chimes they must have 1t.
pains to look up a record made In
24-hour race on the Sheepshead Bay
track not long ago. Somebody on a
mechanical red devil with two wheels
maintained during that period, 1t
seems, an average speed of hundred
miles an hour. The French common.
tator notes the figures, and hopes that
the American staff motorcyclists who
carry dispatches between American Of
ficers and the various bureaus OF the
French war department will not make
1t a point of national honor to equal
the Sheepshead Bay record on the
Boulevard Saint-Germain. One fan
cies that the Frenchman who makes
the uggestion-mildly, as he says
really thinks that the mad Americans
are quite capable Of going anywhere as
last as their machines will Let than.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
Too Hot For Him.

Arthus Feust, consulting engineer
from Utah, breezed into New York and
attended banquet at the Engineers
club. Several of the guests were the
Mclean Kilties of Canada.
A feature of the menu was SQUAD on
toast, and one of the Scotch veterans
after asking what it was, proceeded
to cover it well with tabasco sauce.
He ate couple of bites of the burn
Ing liquid and then with low cry put
down his knife and fork.
clay thaur an bu-r-r-n," he said.
Then turning to the waiter called !:
ave mon, I've had eneuch O. this.
Gie's a shellin's warth o. ham vie ye?
An say, laddie, bring a bucket OF Ice
water"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
WOMEN RUN OWN EXCHANGES
Much Expense Is Attached to Conduct
ing These Praisewortly Enter
prises in Many Cities.

The general management of eX-
changes is about the same, wherever
situated, says q writer in the WomanS
Home Companion. A room or shop is
provided for the reception and display
of women's work, with paid saleswoln-
en- to conduct the exchange on q bust
ness basis, competent bookkeeperS reg
iStering goods received and keeping ac-
curate accounts of sales and moneys
due to cOnsignors.
1t is obvious that such an organiZa-
ton, even on a small scale, is an ex-
penSive undertaking and the items of
rent, salaries, coal, lights, stationery,
wrappings, telephone and postage COM
prise a formidable expense account,
which should justly be borne by those
who benefit from its maintenance. The
revenues to meet expenses are OBJ
tanned in three ways. First, by a small
annual fee of from So to So from each
consignOr whose work is accepted; sec
ond, by a stipulated commission of
from 10 per cent to % per cent, &C.
cording to the size and location of the
exchange, which is deducted from all
sales; and third, from the dues of the
board of managers and their personal
donations.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
Bluff of Foreman Failed.

Two of the nocturnal hOSemen of the
street cleaning department were en-
gagged in wetting down the pavement
near New York's busy corner at 45th
street and 9Th avenue. They were en-
joying their work as usual, wetting no
one and soaring everyone, when the
foreman came strolling along and
looked them over. A small group
waiting for a bus hoped that the hap
py soakers were about to be scolded
and the hope was gratified. well,
WELL" called the foreman, testify,
'you'se guys ought to be up to 46th
street. What about yea" Jaw, we
got to wet it down, amt WEI" called
the younger of the hosemen. 1--WE
amt lingering around for the love Of
it." The foreman walked over to the
speaker as his companion turned off
the water. Don't get answering me
back" said the foreman. IF you
want to get anywhere In this depart
ment, just do what you're told to do
and say nothing" Jaw, forget it," an
swered the young hOseman again. Il
amt trying to get nowhere in this de-
partment. I been drafted. BY the
time you get to be a superintendent I'll
be a general in the army. Roll your
hoop, boss, you're talking like hero"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
MALE OSTRICH BUILDS NEST
Sets on Eggs at Night During the In
cubation Which Lasts Forty to
Fifty Days.

After pairing, the ostrich begins to
make his nest. 1t is the male alone
that performs this duty. To do it, he
SGuatS upon the ground. and, balanc-
ing himself upon his breaStbone,
scratches up the earth with his legs
and throws it behind him. When he
has dug out enough on one side to suit
him he turns round and begins to dig
on another side. and continues this
operation until he has made a hole
large enough for him to sit In comfort
ably. A few days after the nest is
finished the female begins to lay one
egg every alternate day for eighteen
or twenty days. She then rests for a
while, which time varies from four to
ten days. and then lays more. A pair
of ostriches yield about forty eggs,
though it is not unusual for well-fed
well-kept pair to yield fifty to sixty
eggs. The eggs are placed so as to
leave no space between them. The
male and the female brood alternate
". At night the male is always on
the nest, as it possesses greater
warmth than the female.
These birds perform their duties
with the greatest skill, without any
noise or breakage of the eggs. The
incubation lasts forty-five days on an
average. sometimes fifty days, but new
er continues beyond that. When the
chicklings hatch out they can be heard
trying to break the shell Of the egg.
Sometimes they succeed in doing so,
but usually the father breaks the egg
under the breast bone, tears the inside
skin with his bill, and frees the chick
ling. Upon first reaching the air the
chickling remains limp and weak. But
the warmth of the parent soon revives
it, and a few hours afterward it be-
gins to run about, exercising its long
legs, topping over at each step, and
recommending again its stumbling
journey. Four days after their hatch
ing the chicklings begin to eat. They
run after insects and swallow small
pebbles. The father and mother do
not help their little ones to find food.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
Canaries Are Hardy.

The canary is very adaptable lit
tie bird, and their biographer says
that they seem to thrive in any climate
where not exposed to too severe wealth
er conditions, and, in spite Of the long
period they have been protected and
I.ei5 I. :ts q
enduring a surprising degree of cold
when hardened to it. In England 1t Is
not unusual to find them in outdoor
aviaries throughout the year. They
also seem, he says, to be able to re-
establish themselves in wild state I'M
der favorable conditions. In 1909 a
brood of domestic canaries was re-
leased on Midway island, a small,
sandy islet in the Hawaiian group.
By 1914 they had increased until 1t
was estimated that they numbered
about 1000.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
ORANGE Industry,

The interior of any one of the big
orange packing houses in either Flor
ida or California shows a wonderfully
systematic arrangement for grading
and sizing the fruit. There are a
dozen different sizes of oranges and
so automatic is the grading that every
box of oranges comes out with every
orange almost the exact size of its
companions. The result Is oranges
which sell in the far Eastern markets
as low as one cent apiece-from this
to 80 or 60 cents a dozen. The only
things which must be left to human
Judgment is the throwing out Of culls
imperfect, too ripe or too green
specimens.
Nowadays in both Of the big orange
growing states the orange business Is
divided into two distinct and separate
industries-that Of orange growing
and that of orange packing and ship
ping. The latter is handled by CO.
operative associations and very few
oranges are packed and shipped direct
by the orange growers themselves.
The same conditions apply to lemons
2ad grapefruit.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
MISSING VEST HUNG IN TREE
Farmers Raiment, Containing Money,
Disappeared From Bush-Crows
Blamed as Guilty Cuiprits.

Spooky things happen and some
times puzzle people. Occasionally they
can be accounted for, as In this case,
notes Copper's Magazine. One morn
ing early in August Sayles Turner. an
Eastern farmer, went TO work in his
hay field. AS the morning was warm,
Turner removed his vest and hung it
on small bush. When he quit work
late in the afternoon he went for his
vest, but it was gone. In the pocket
of the vest was $50 in bills. Turner
decided 1t had been stolen.
A few days ago Turner and his hired
man went to the woods, five miles
from his house, to cut wood. The first
tree cut was large hemlock. On
limb near the top of the tree they
saw an object fluttering in the breeze.
The tree was felled and the men went
to the object. 1t was Turner's lost
vest. Nineteen of the twenty dollars
were in the vest pockets. The vest
was badly torn, which may account
for the missing dollar. Turner be-
lieves that crows carried the vest from
the hay field and deposited it in the
top Of the tree.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
EnqIand's Hungry Birds.

In gardens where no bird-table at
tracts its feathered pensioners the sill
ent absence of bird-life is almost OPP
pressive; but the birds did not depart
before necessity compelled, observes
the London Times. Sometimes grim
fate stalked In the thin shrubbery
whence now and again the household
cat has emerged; but more often your
garden birds have migrated afield be-
cause they had exhausted the posi-
bilities of their home. See down the
length of the garden wall a footwide
space had been absolutely cleared of
dead leaves by blackbird and thrush,
who had tossed them to one side in
their search for wintering insect life.
Look closer and you will see that prob
ing bills have worked little crevice
all the way between the earth and the
wall. See, every square inch of I'M
covered frozen ground is dusty from
the innumerable pecks of hungry little
beaks.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
Children andthe Wac

Agnes Repplier says in the Woman
Home Companion: 1--WE cannot AFFORD
to have young people feel that they
have no part TO play in the nations
heroic struggle, that they may go on
amusing themselves in the old careless
fashion, while men are dying for their
safety. The rites and ceremonies OF
coming out may well be omitted, or
at least simplified. We have grown
to attach a tremendous but wholly
mythical importance to girls first
season, to regard it as something Sa-
cred and inviolable, with which no
cataclysm should be permitted to in
terfere, and for which no sacrifice Is
too great. 1t is not an uncommon
thing to hear the death of Il distin-
guished citizen regretted because II
inrerferes with the coming out OF an
1S-year-old niece If the war helps TO
moderate this point of view it will
have done us one good turn. If girl
decides TO take a hospital course in
stead of deyoting her winter TO gayety,
she chooses wisely. Her health will
be conserved, her heart and mind ex-
banded"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
EXCITEMENT ON THE BOWERY
Eubbub Caused by Cry of Stop
Thief" on New Works. Noted High
way Friehtens Habitues.

A thief chase on the BowerY was a
daily occurrence when that famous
song was popular. Then the dips and
others who infested that thOroughfare
would hold up any paSSerby who they
thought had anything that looked like
money concealed ON his person. But
the light-fngered gentry and strong
armed fellows have found other fields
more lucrative, according to New
York correspondent of the Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
The big street is now the stamping
grounds of weary Willies' and buns
whose only vocation is to panhandle
the price of drink. So one day re-
Gently, when the old familiar cry of
"Stop thief" was heard the Bowery
was almost paralyzed; everybody
stood still and watched for the culprit.
Soon they saw a tall, lean and hungry
looking youth daMing under the ele-
waited pillars, but they made no effort
to catch him. When the cops arrived
on the scene the man had disappeared.
"Where did he go?" beloved one with
a club, who held it threateningly over
several men who stood in doorway.
did you see that guy running this
way? Where did he go? Come on,
now" But no one had seen the thief.
While the cops were making their
search apathetic, cringing men came
from the different doorways to learn
what the excitement was all about.
my God" remarked one frowsy look
ing individual as the cops departed,
Il was scared it was some guy offering
a job" And appreciative chuckles
went up along the line.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
HELPMEETS ARE NEEDED YET
That Mere Man Cannot Do
Without Them.

There is no use denying 1t, mister
man cannot exist without a helpmeet,
a New York correspondent of the
Pittsburgh Dispatch writes. The wom-
en- themselves admit this much, but
they deny emphatically that they are
dependent upon the sterner sex. No,
indeed. 1t was over at the votes for
women headquarters recently that the
well-known and oft accepted theory
of the dependency of women upon
mere man was attacked.
Someone had volunteered the fear
that women will always be regarded
as weak and dependent as long as it
is necessary for friend wife to call
upon hubby to button up her waist in
the back or see if the hooks are all
tight or if her hat is on straight, and
if her hair is all over her head. The
very fact that man is at all times able
to care for his sartorial self alone was
cited as an example of the varying in
dependence of the two. 'But that isn't
always So" replied one Of the state
campaigners. 'My husband went away
on a campaign trip this summer for
two weeks and every single night he
had to wire me to ask where he would
4 -.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-12-14
No GIadness Among Them.

Nearly a thousand years had passed
since the birth of Christ before the
Russian Slavs were converted to Chris
tianity. Already the English, the
Franks and the Germans had been
Christians for some centuries, when,
In 9S7, Prince Vladimir sent ENJOYS to
study the religions of the various
neighboring nations whose represent
atives had been urging him to EN-
brace their respective faiths. Nestor
describes their report in amusing
terms. OF the Mussulmans they re
ported, "There Is no gladness among
them, only sorrow and a great stencil
their religion is not good one" AT
Constantinople they said, I'VE no
longer knew whether we were In heaV-
en- or on earth, nor such beauty, and
we know not how to tell Of 1t"