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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15

late Wednesday afternoon. A short
circuit caused a fire alarm from the
store of D. o.. Coe, seed merchant, at
1920 O'Clock At the corner of Kansas
and West Euclid avenues. a motor
cycle caught fire from a short circuit.
twenty-five members of the Shaw
nee County Pharmaceutical society at
tended a dinner meeting of the society
at the Eiks club Wednesday night The
speaker was DIR. John B. Wood, of
Kansas City, who lectured on the eff
fects of the lack of vitamines in food
His lecture was illustrated with Ian
tern slides.
One of the extra cars on the Wash
burn-Twelfth street line blew a fuse at
the corner of Tenth and Kansas ave-
nueS at 8 O'Clock this morning. The
car was damned with office workers
on their way down town. We're
blowed up" the motorman called back
to the conductor after he had juggled
with the fuse box a moment. The
office workers piled off the car,
hastily = too near their offices to
worry about transfers. A regular car
pulled up behind the stalled extra.
and it looked like the makings of a
traffic jam But before the deserving
passengers had proceeded half block
down Kansas avenue, the motorman
did some esoteric and successful thing
to the fuse box. AS the empty car
waved hand at the crowd which had
been riding with him.
When her 1S-year-old daughter,
Helen, who had been visiting at the
home of A. ]. Mackey, Eleventh street
and Frazier avenue, failed to meet her
at Seventh street and Kansas avenue
at 1880 o'clock Wednesday night, Mrs.
Harry z. Pitt, the girls mother, sos
North Quincy street, waited for an
hour, then called the Mackey home.
Assured that her daughter had left
the house on time. Mrs. Pitt notified
the police and for three hours officers
searched the city for her. Shortly be-
fore IL o'clock the parents received a
telephone call from the girl herself to
the effect that she was at a house in
the country west of the city. She had
missed the Gage park car line in the
darkness. wandered into the country
and, her sense of direction gone, had
searched for more than three hours
in vain. She then arrived at house
from which she could telephone to her
parents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
AT JUDGE lands
Bill in House Would Prevent
Double Job Holding.
Gives Supreme Court Power to
Enforce Provisions.

Washington, Dec. 15.-Seeking to
force Federal Judge Lands of Illinois
to give up his position as baseball
commissioner, Representative Lee,
r -pu- -ican, Of New York, introduced
a bill in the house which would forbid
any federal judge from holding any
salaried office other than a judgeship.
The bill provides that the Offend
ing Judge shall be called before the
supreme court of the United States on
the petition of any bar association, if
found guilty, censured and ordered to
desist from the outside occupation. A
refusal to desist would be judged a
contempt of court
The federal courts are so longest
ed with work that congress has just
been compelled to increase by twenty
two the number of United States
judges" said Lee, in explaining his
bill
Despite the crying and increasing
need of his undivided attention to the
duties Of his busy judicial office,
Judge Lands, in an unparalleled ex-
hibition of contempt for the lofty ira
ditiOns of the bench, has contracted
to devote $42.500 worth of his time
each year to the needs of baseball,
propriety, audacity and gall hitherto
the courts"
Passage of his bill, Lee declared,
will prevent Judge Lands from do
ing in the future that which Judge
Lands has recently decreed it is i'm
proper for Babe Ruth to do now
that is to defy prescribed duties to
co b9r0St OrT1ing'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
GET FREEDOM BEFORE XMAS
Attorney General Indicates Many
Political Prisoners To Be Released.

Washington, Dec. 15.-Attorney
General Daugherty today indicated
that a large number of so-called polit-
zeal prisoners will be released from
prison before Christmas.
The attorney general said he had
completed digests of the cases of 1877
political prisoners and that within
few days, where the facts justify" it
is probable many of these prisoners
will be released
The attorney general said he would
discuss the cases with the president
In a few days and would make his
recommendations. He pointed out
that the release of the prisoners would
not necessarily entail presidential
pardon and he was emphatic in stat
ing that it was probable that many
OF the prisoners would not get full
pardonS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
PHILADELPHIA Is q
Real Hea0en for
the Shck-up Man

Philadelphia, Dec. 15.-This city is
gasping at a total of 100 holdups in
the last thirty nine days. in which
bandits obtained nearly $500. 900 from
the victims.
Altho the average has been five
hoIdups a day few suspects have been
arrested and little OF the loot recov-
cred
With a population of over two mill
lion, Phil .delphia has only four thou
sand policemen. A recent move to in
crease the force by 1000 men was cut
to 125 by the city council.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
ILLINOIS HAS OIL FIELD
Fifty Barrel Well Is Brought in Near
Centralia-May Increase.

Centralia, Ill Dec. 15.-With the
opening of a fifty barrel well today,
today.
Drilling operations on the farm of
John Kinsey, south Of here, brought in
the new well late yesterday afternoon.
The first flow was estimated at fifty
barrels, but today oil experts predicted
that the flow would increase to 100
The new we'll came in at 40 feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
DENY EGG MARKET CORNERED
Chicago Exchange Files Answer to
Bill of Injunction

Chicago, Dec. 15.-An answer to the
bill of injunction granted, Temporal
rily hating speculation on eggs and
tying up trading operations on the
chicago mercantile exchange was
MED IN the circuit court this morning
Dy counsel for the exchange asking
that the injunction be dissolved.
S. Edward Davis, executive secre-
tary of the exchange, denied that a.
corner in eggs existed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
TOPEKA BANK CLEARINGs.
Total This Week Was 50, 5S4,7O9.94-
Decrease From Last Week

week, as announced today by Theo-
dore- c. Mueller, manager of the To-
peka Clearing House association. Were
S2.534.709.94. The amount for a
week ago was $2,862, 314.95, and for
the same week a year ago, $2.S38,-
140.15
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
Says Germany Cannot Pay.

Paris, Dec 15.-The interallied
reparations commission today re-
ceived a note from Germany stating
that Germany could not pay the in
demnity installment due January Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses were issued in the pro
pate court during the last twenty-four
hours to the following:
1 SIy don H. Frazier, Granville. ....... 81
Wilma Chapman, Bartlesville, Okla. 20
Harold D. Dewey, Topeka. p
Gladys Gordon, Topeka. IS
Evening journal., 1921-04-08
YOUR LAST NAME
BY MARY MARSHALL DUFFEE.
Copyright 1890 by The Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate

from the village OF Bohon In St 10.
Daniel Boon is OF course the best
known OF the name in this country
and was the grandson of George
Boone OF Exeter. England, who came
to this country with his wife and IL
children and bought land near Bris-
tol, Bucks county. Pennsylvania. In
this country the Boones became
Quakers. George Boone had son
Squire Boon, who married Sarah
Morgan and Daniel Boone was their
son. Daniel Boone was the father of
the first male white child born In
Kentucky.
This family increased rapidly and
spread through the middle and
southern States. One OF them was
Thomas Jones Boone, colonial gov
ernor OF New Jersey and South Car
olina, and William Jones Boone, a
native of South Carolina was first
Episcopal bishop appointed by his
church in the United States to China.
His son. william Jones Boone. was
also a bishop to China.
(Capyright. 1921. by The Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
Evening journal., 1921-04-08
BALDHEADS Want
MORE MEMBERS
Bene6cent Beaming Fellows
Seek to Extend Their
Club
EDITOR TELLS
OF ADVANTAGES

HARTFORD, Conn, April t.
Members Of the Bald Head Club OF
America. Inc. wishing their be-
nignant beams 70 shine afar IN a
naughty world, have applied to the
Legislature for a charter which will
enable them to form branches in
other States. and their bill came up
for a hearing before the Corpora
tons Committee OF the General AS
sembly.
John Rodemeyer, Of Greenwich,
veteran editor. poet and bald head
and first president OF the club. pic
tured to the committee the benefits
to be derived from a nationwide
association OF baldheaded men. Such
an organization, he said, would unity
for beneficient purposes and brains
and optimisms OF the country.
Isolated as they were at present,
surrounded and hemmed in by vul-
gar, hairy heads, said Mr.. Rode
meyer, the bald-headed men still
were noted. each in his little circle,
for brilliancy, polish and cheerful
ness. When these lustrous little cen
ters OF cheer and light are united
in a single refulgent body, Mr.. Rode
meyer went on, the most brilliant
results are to be expected.
With all the bald-head men unit
ed. all their brilliancy concentrated
all their ardent optimism combined
asserted Mr.. Rodemeyer, his scalp
glowing with thought and enthu-
siasm, there would be all the differ
ence to America that exists between
a moonless night, family luminous
with multitudes Of stars and a mid
summers day, warmed and bright
ened by the glorious sun.
It was his purpose, he said, mere
ly to lay the case before the com
mittee and leave its members to dea.
with the details. He didn't care tc
advise them as to whether the club
should be Incorporated as a frater.
nal. or a social body. though h'
Evening journal., 1921-04-08

would suggest that 1t should not be
Incorporated as a commercial insti-
tuition, being purely altruistic in its
aims and, indeed. numbering one of
the most prominent wig-makers Of
Hartford among its charter mem
bers.
At this point one OF the commit
tee members interrupted to ask IL
the club had a cradle roll, his infor-
nation being that most men we're
born bald. Mr.. Rodemeyer replied
that II did not. nor did It enroll as
junior members young men who had
become prematurely bald. Only the
true type OF bald head--the man Of
thought and sympathy-was eligible,
he said. He suggested that the COM
mittee decide upon a suitable en-
blem for the club.
A legislator who proposed that the
entire matter be referred to the
Committee on Agriculture was re-
bulxed severely by Senator Kenealy,
the chairman, who said that this
was not a crop-raising project, but
rather the reverse. 10 was not a
matter to be treated with levity, said
Chairman Kenealy, but one which
concerned hundreds OF thousands,
and perhaps MILLIONS, OF men.
As several members of the COM
mittee were absent, among them
some who were eligible. or soon
would be, to become members Of the
club. action on the bill was post
poned.
Evening journal., 1921-04-08
ONE-LEGGED ROBIN
BACK THIRD YEAR

COLUMBUS. Kansas, April s.
The little crippled robin which has
made its home at the Dan Bliss and
Colvin residences the past two sum
mers returned again this week and
took up his abode with them, much
to their delight. This little bird
was unfortunately crippled by being
caught in a trap set by some boy
and one leg was severed entirely
from its body the first summer the
family noticed him. They fed him
while his wound healed and that fall
he left for the South with other
migratory birds. Last spring about
this time he returned and spent the
summer with his friends here, but
when the cool days of winter came
he again flew South. Wednesday
Miss Nora Colvin stepped out in the
back yard and there sat Master Rob
in on his one leg blinking his black
eyes at her and as evidently happy
to be back as she was to have him.
She called Mr.. Bliss to come over.
and a regular family reunion was
Evening journal., 1921-04-08
PrOStrate Gland
Troubles Should Have
Immediate Attention

Watch the symptoms was Dr. Carey's
advice The tiniest signals often indicate
that the kidneys are ailing and need at
tention. Dry skin. for instance, and lit.
tie specks floating before the eyes. Some.
times the feet feel heavy as II your shoes
were full Of lead. Often the Joints ache
or you have quick. dartirg pains shoot
ing through the back or side. Then again
that frequent desire 20 empty the blad-
der, cold. clammy feet and just a little
pufhness under the eyes. Occasionally the
hands or feet swell slightly and the
palms or the hands are moist Don't ne
g.ect them-you cannot AFFORD TO take any
chances with your kidneys.
II you ever have the faintest suspicion
that your kidneys are weak or your olnd-
der Is irritated the wisest thirg you can
do Is to get a bottle Of DR.. Carey's
MarshroOt Prescription, No. III, at once
Many thousands OF cases could have been
conquered by Marshroot II taken in ume.
Hereafter you can always get this ef.
fective prescription at n. b. Danforth's
and J. NJ. Ekerd. and all reliable phar-
macists the country over. Keep in mipd
the name, DR.. Careys Marshroot pre-,
scription No. III. No other medicine
can take Its place.
Evening journal., 1921-04-08
CONQUERS RHEUMATISM

II IS an established fact that one tea
spoonful Of Rheuma taken once a day for
a very short time has driven all the pain
ard agony from thousands OF racked,
crippled and despairing rheumatics.
While powerful, gratifying and quick
acting, Rheuma contains no narcotics Is
absolutely harmless and must give last
ing and blessed relief or Its cost, small
as it is, will be refunded The magic
name has reached nearly every hamlet,
and there are hundreds Of druggists who
can tell you Of the good IL has done in
some OF the very worst cases.
If you are tortured with rheumatism
or sciatica You can get a bottle Of Rheu-
ma from y. B. Danforth for not more
than 70 cents, with the understanding
that II Il does not rid you Of all rheu-
matte suffering your money will be
cheerfuny returned.
Evening journal., 1921-04-08
is 1T BOOM

The word boon is now practically
obsolete save In connection with
boon companion" And many per
sons have no very definite idea Of
what boon signifies there, OF II they
have an idea II is wrong. For boon
simply means gay and It was former
ly used commonly. The Boons or
Boones OF old liked to think that
their name was the same as this word
that meant gay. but It is actually not
derived from II. The supposiuon Is
that the name was originally Bohun
and that It is contraction OF that
just as Moon Is a contraction Of
Mohun.
The founder OF the family is sup
posed then to have been Humphrey
de Bohun, who went to England in
company with William the Con-
queror of Normandy, and was made
by the conqueror tenant 'in capite"
In Norfolk. From him sprang ba-
ronial race OF Bohuns.
Tracing the name back to Nor
mandy it is said to have been derived
Evening journal., 1921-04-08

chairman, to promote the movement.
At meeting Wednesday favorable
action was taken on the recon
mendation Of the civic department
that six waste receptacles be pur-
chased and presented to the city.
The receptacle committee comprises
Mrs. Laird Todd, chairman; Mrs.
James Taylor, Miss Minnie Adkins,
Mrs. Fulton Allen. Mrs. Frank VI
man, Miss Sadie Ulman. Mrs. Alex
ander Toadvine.
Evening journal., 1921-04-08

SALISBURY, Wd.. April s.-The
first week in May has been chosen
by the Womans Club for cleanup
week" in Salisbury.
The club has named a committee,
Of which Mrs. Fred p. Adkins is
Evening journal., 1921-04-08

Metal workers should seek posi-
tions on this date through the med
ium Of the Want Ads Engineers
are under favorable ruling.
Evening journal., 1921-04-08
sAIIsRITRY NO aCIlEAN ma =

held with Master Bobin as the guest
of honor.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-04
Editorials For
Women Folks

Did you pass her quickly by. with
just q short. gruff answer-that lit
tie old woman, who seemed so shah
by and so helpless, and asked you a
direction?
You were in a hurry to get your
shopping finished, so you had tried
to fly by without eve seeing her
let someone else who had more time
be attentive to her, you thought.
But-the other day, a man, sew
enty-eight years old, Alfred Dispe-
nett, drowned himself because he
felt that he wasn't of any more use
to anyone-and that no one cared
very much any way, and no one had
time.
Perhaps that woman, whom you
rushed past and neglected, will feel
very much the same way. She
knows that the world has been
speeding along, and that she hasn't
been able to keep up with it, of late
and think what a desolate feeling
1t is to know that there is not one
little corner in which n Is useful
and wanted.
Consider your own responsibility
in the fate of that man or that
woman who vas nearing the even
tide of life and fastened the end
because nobody cared.
True enough, your philosophy,
that they should have provided for
their old age, but generosity of heart
questions not the past; 1t strives,
from its goodness. to build q better
thing.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-04
Waters Take Toll

Can it be-she 2" I could not
shape my rivals name.
l did not need to. The same
dread was in my husbands mind.
But she never loses her head in
emergencies" l insisted, unless
there's man around to be impress
ai by her helplessness!"
Bob, regarding my remark as in
bad taste, shrugged his shoulders.
Yesterday Katherine called me
on the phone several times. l evad-
ed her." he said. Il tried to keep
my promise to you. dear. Finally
she sent word that the affair was
one of life or death. l talked with
her.
katherine phoned that she had
read the confession of the men who
mailed the German gems to South
America. Jane, you remember that
their confession duplicates a wom-
an? Well, Katherine feared that
our visits to the cellar had been OBJ
served by the plotters. Now that
the gems are lost to them forever,
Katherine was afraid that, as part
of their revenge, her name would be
dragged into the AFFAIR.""
Il think she feared more than
that, Bob"
What, then?"
Bob, 1 firmly believe that she
unlocked the closet and released the
taxi-chauffeur!"
My husbands establishment ex-
ploded in a prolonged whistle. He
shook his head with decision.
Bob, you said yourself that you
believe she wanted the jewels for
her own, that she was wild about
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-04
CONFESSIONS Or A
HUSBAND!
Edith Talks to Dot But Looks at Me
The Mans Side of Married Lift,

Il hope Toms business appoint
ment last night turned out success
fully
l shot a quick glance al Edith,
but l could have saved myself the
trouble, as she was staring me full
in the face. She had done that dur
Ing most of the evening.
/ wondered whether she had
heard about the card game at Sid's.
1t would have been just like her to
refer to it that way. AS she herself
put it, she "wiggled an ugly tongue"
Yes, it was rather important, but
Tom hasn't told me any Of the de-
tails" Dorothy returned evenly. l
felt my wife was a match for the
other at her own game. 1 couldn't
help a feeling of pride at this. Dot
mad behaved very decently to me at
breakfast and throughout the even
ing; evidently my revolt was a thing
of the past and we were as good
friends as yer.
There was a turn in the CONVEX
sation and then Edith again put a
question to Dorothy, but kept her
eyes on me.
However do you manage to keep
your husband in love with you?' she
demanded out of a clear sky.
George is getting tired of ME; l
can notice it more every day."
My dear, / was born tired" inter-
posed George, and a glance at his
thin, sallow face, his listless eyes,
his weak, timid mouth seemed to
confirm this.
Just the same" declared Edith,
"it is every woman's business to see
that her husband doesn't get too far
from her apron strings. What do
you say to that, Dorothy? 2"
Il keep Tom working so hard to
make money for me to spend that
he hasn't time for anything else"
My wife had very successfully adopt
ed the hard, woman-of-the-world air
affected by Edith. But what she said
brought back my thoughts to the
office. and / groaned inwardly.
How does he like that?" Edith
persisted.
MY letters rest very lightly upon
me-" 1 tried to speak easily, but l
was f1dgetting under Edith's steady
gaze.
1t vas like that all evening. Every
one of her questions-and she was
a human Interrogation point even at
cards-was addressed to Dot, but
they were all meant for me. And
She kept looking right at me.
1t was as though l had been made
the subject of a public inquisition.
Did Tom like music? Did he care
for dancing? Was he any good at
golf? Was he very fond of the baby?
Had he any interest in politics? Was
he lucky at cards?
1 didn't know whether she really
was interested in me or whether she
was merely trying to make me I'M
comfortable. In the latter case she
was fairly successful. l felt as if l
had been dragged from bed and
placed on exhibition without the
chance to throw even a bathrobe
over my pajamas.
Still, there was something attrac-
tive about Edith. She vas a good
looking woman, decidedly so. She
was as vivacious and spirited as her
husband was dull and lifeless.
I couldn't help plying him, and
wondering what a hard time he had
keeping up with her mentally. She
had the humming-bir kind of mind
that darts from one thing to another.
Tonight the humming-bird was
! Iecking at me from every side.
There was something fattering
about It.
Go be continued)
Copyright, 1921, by the Newspaper
Enterprise Association)
Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-04
OMANS INTERESTS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR HONENAKER9
THE BOOK OF Jk-.lE
BY JANE LORINfER

them-like a child. ! think she de-
cided that since she couldn't have
the entire loot she'd take any piece
she could get, and SO she bargained
with the taxi-thief. But the scheme
failed. She only succeeded in set
ting in motion the power which
caused the bombing of your chemi-
cal plant"
Bob did not reply. 1 made my
point clearer:
"She was terrifed-she believed
you'd discover the truth, Bob"
You're crazy, Janie!"
There was no sense in arguing
but to myself l said that Katherine
had been crazy about Bob; that she
would be .disgraced in his eyes If
her name were connected with the
escape from the closet; also, she
perceived from Bob's attitude to-
ward her, his refusal to call on her,
that she would have to give him UP
to me. Apparently. he had. given
her up. A woman has no power 10
recall a man who has decided to dc
that.
Katherine was not a clever girl.
She was a beauty with the mind OF
a twelve-year-old, she was a moron,
n of the brainless type which has
always ruled man to his harm.
We'll, it's easy to find out the
truth" Bob. exclaimed. "Ill call
her up-you can talk to her, Jane"
Daddy came in and interrupted
the phone call.
Bob, go over to the Millers and
see what's happened" he said.
They're in trouble. Find out what
it is"
Ito be c%ontinued)
copyright, 1921, N. E. Az