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kIIAilRIkIETS
additional late markets will be
found on another page of this paper.)

Chicago, Aug. Is. = WHEAT-Wheat
showed considerable firmness in price to-
day owing inssesne degree to a current esti-
plus would not exceed 1T5, 100000 bushels.
Announcement that Indian crop would be
more than 125,oo0 900 bushels short of last
years total was also a bullish factor. On
the other hand, advances in prices here
brought about Increased offerings. initial
quotations, which varied from AS to &c
December 1881 TO $1-26A were followed
by slight further gains and then something
subsequently, smallness Of country offer
ings had tendency 40 uphold values The
market market Saosed STEADY at the sane as sat
sraasgs 5. finish to iSe higher with septegm 1c
coRN-Largey receipts counted against
including Slaa september a SIX to seSs l5sE e.
prices hardened a trifle and then showed
disposition to sag.
little advantage later to the bulls. Prices
closed steady at a shade to &c net ad-
0ATs-oats ike corn were weakened BY
liberal arrivals. The market opened &c
off to like advance September 3ske and
touched this season by the September de-
livery.
PRoYIsIoEs-Provisio lacked sup
port
CHICAGO GRAIN AND Provisions.
Chicago. Aug. 15.-wHEAT-Cash: Sept,
81 .241s Dec, $i.26H al 26ik
cORN-Sept-, SIC; Dec. 55xc.
RYEsept.. s11iH; Dec, si-iih.
LaRD-sept.. siios; Oct. sii15; jan,
RTBs-sept. ss.51; Oct. $3.50.
KANSAS CITY GRAIN MARKEr.
Kansas City. Aug. H-WHEAT-Cash Z.
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GRAIN RECEIPTS
FURNISHED by Empire Commission Co., POI
New England Building, Topeka, Kan.
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

New York, Aug. 15.-BUTTER-Market
steady. Creamery higher than extras, 44h
@45c.
EGGS-Market irregular; fresh gathered
extra firsts, 3S641c.
CHEESE-Market irregular. State whole
milk flats, fresh specials, 2l@215c.
POULTRY-Alive, firm broilers, 25@30c.
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Breakfast in Cairo-Dinner IN Bagdad.

Cairo, July 15.-Breakfast in Cairo
and dinner in Bagdad on the same day
have been made possible thru opening
of the new Egypt-India aerial route
across the Syrian and Arabian deserts.
Sir Godfrey Salmond, air vice mar
shal. recently flew from Cairo to Bag
dad in twelve hours via the desert rail-
way, establishing a record.
( Since 1881 there have been only three
years with fewer failures than in 1920
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present margin between extra fiTsts ane
law grades emphasizes the Importance g
especial care Of eggs during the summer
Prices as follows: Hens. 1 lbs; and over.
dc per lb.; hens under lhs- 1se per 70.
rer 1b': ieghorn and black Brothers. Sc per
b. less; springs, ever lbs. &c Pep as;.
zoe ner doz.: ordinary firsts, 26c per doz. !;
seconds and checks. zoe per dez-,, case in
Guided; without case, lie per doz. less
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OMAHA.
TOPEKA HOG MARKET.
FURNISHED by Wolff Packing Co. foot
OF Quincy street, Topeka. Kansas.)
TOPEKA POULTRY MARKET.

Cannot Eses rough or unfinished hogs
Will have 70 buy at stock prices.
Killing 500 hogs; IS cattle
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KANSAS CITY PRODUCE MARKET.

Kansas City, Aug. 15.-EGGS-Market
unchanged. Firsts, 30c; seconds, 22c.
BUTTER-Market unchanged. Cream
cry, 43c; packing, 23c.
POULTRY-Hens, 1c lower, isaac !;
broilers, lie lower, 22c; ROSTERS, unchanged,
12c.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE.

FURNISHED by Empire Commission Co., POI
New England Building. Topeka Kan
10 a. m, Aug. Is, 1921
English sterlingy 1864; German marks,
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FURNISHED by the Topeka Packing Co.
corner Laurent and Madison sts.. Topeka
Kaneas.e
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Hens. jbs and over, zoe; under Z lbs.
zoe; broilers. 2 lbs. and under, 25c; old
rosters, 1oc; springs. over ? lbs. 21e.
Eggs-$s.10 case, including new cases.
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Kansas City, Aug. 15-CATTBE-Re-
eeipts $500 head, heaviest run Of year and
season; corn fedr heifers, strong; others
weak to reasonably lower.
HOGS-Reeeipts $500 head. Market 10c
to 25c lower Bulk of sales, S9.oo@s.s5
top, $3.50.
SHEEP-Tseceipts $500 head. Market
steady to 25c higher; lambs, $1,000.
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Orange Of prices on grain futures on
the Chicago Board of Trade, as reported
by The Empire Commission Co.. 201 New
England Bldg)
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steady Lambs. CSC higher. Utahs, $1050;
Arizona $lO.25 native, $3.50; Texas year
lings, S6.25: feeding lambs, strong to Toe
higher; Utahs, $7.S5.
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roPEKA PoULTRY ANp EGGS.


(larket quotations by Premium Poultry
Products Co. 40 North Kansas avenue.
Topeka, kanO
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There is no word for strawberry in classic
Greek, that fruit being practically unknown
to the ancients-
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NORTH TOPEKA

Items for this column may be left
at Petro's drug store, or telephone
Eleanor KimbalI. 1881 after o'clock.
Other hours, $3.50.
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KANSAS CITY uRA1N MARKrr.

the Kansas City Board of Trade as reported
by B. c. Christopher & Co.. 226 New Eng
land Bldg.l
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KANSAS CITY LIVESTOCK SALES.
(The following sales were made this morn.
ing at the Stock Yards, Kansas City, and
reported over long distance telephone
direct to the State Journal by h. 4.
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NEW YORK. CorroN MAKKEr
NEW yoRK LIBERrY BOND MARKET

New York, Aug 1s-CoTToN-Spot.
quiet; midddng. 1905
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DAILY WEATHER REPORT.

Furnished by the weather bureau office,
Topeka, Kan. for the twenty-four hours
ending at a. m. Monday.
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New York, Aug. 15.-Liberty bonds close
$55's, sS,66; first As, $40; second IS, $3.50
AVS, 91.9o; fourth AS, Sis; Victor,
IS, 9s.T6; Victory ANS, 9S76.
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KANSAS CITY GRAIN MARKET.
Kansas City, Aug. 1B.--WHEAT-Cash.
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United States Department. of Agrlculture
Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates,
964 Livestock Exchange, Kansas City, Mo
KANSAS CITY
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LIVESTOCK Receipts.

FURNISHED by Empire Commission
New England Building, Topeka
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LIVESTOCK REPORT.

Total IL markets .72,2OO s2,4Oo
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
Modern Contestants often
Stop at Hoboken. ". 7.
tomorrow

He takes all wagers and resigns from
college the next morning. II he passes
He'll Gate on the fly. he is good for the
entire circuit. More often he comes to his
senses before reaching Hoboken and all
bets are off
The Giants and White Sox once staged
an around the world transforming tour
that broke several records that had for.
merly been regarded as sacred About the
same time the automobile industry staged
world race that gave the newspapers
running story for several weeks. AS we
remember the latter event it developed
chiefly into a snow-shovelling party through
Siberia.
The aviation industry has yet to an
Eounce the details of its first "As the Grow
Flies Contest" But this is the race that
will ultimately bring down the figures, let
the days fall where they may.
Meanwhile there is the chance for any
enterprsing citizen to locate Bagdad OF
the map and start for Yokohama. using
Mesopotamia as a pivot. 1t might work
and 1t might not. At least the venture
would provide thrilling details for a world
that never tires Of holding the stop-wstch-
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
Comparison of the Trips
Shows Few Minor Difference.

Comparing the two records, 1t may be
seen that Jaeger-Schmidt required only
fourteen days from Paris to Yokohama,
while Mears took fifteen days between Ber-
lin and Yokohama. On the other hand, the
French correspondent caught slower boat
across the Pacific and used up full week
in the trip from Vancouver to New York.
Mears came across country in four days
These discrepancies may partly be ac-
counted for by luck and partly by the vary
ing equipment for travel of the two men.
Jaeger-Schmidt spoke three or four Ian
guages, while Mears spoke only English.
This may have accelerated the formers
speed through foreign countries. but when
Mears landed back in America he fell into
a groove that shot him toward Park Row
without any unnecessary delays
Before Jaeger-Schmidt, Colonel Burnley
Campbell had held the record for four
years. In 1907 Colonel Campbell made
complete circuit Of the globe and reduced
the time to 40 days 19 hours 80 minutes
The first recordbreaker to make use of
the Trans Siberian Railway was Henry
Frederick lie made the circuit in 1903 in
81 days hours 90 minutes, thereby lower
ing the record at that time by nearly six
days.
Before the Siberian railway was in ser.
vice Charles Fitzmorris of Chicago held
the record for only two years. He was one
os the contestants in the schoolboy race in
1901. exploited by the Hearst papers. Boys
we're started both East and West from the
Chicago Examiner Office and the progress
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
Pathetic Pen Pictures Of Life in Vienna

the apparatus The film is to be called
"Viennesc Life" and is intended to show
to rich. strange countries the glarng CON
trast between luxury and misery that exists
in postwar Vienna.
The promenade stops Everybody stands
and stares. The ladies smile and wave their
fine little goved hands. All arc laughing
The streets, the people. the shop windows
all Nienna's most fashionable quar-
ter In the outskirts of the town. i'm the
streets of misery. where only very seldom a
friendly sunbeam shines. one sunless morn
ing the scarlet motor car drives up.
There is 20 be found the real Niennesc
misery and dreadful distress!
All those men in dingy. torn clothes and
gaping boots. with gnawing hunger and
wasting illness tormenting their thin bodies
all those women. with their staring sad
eyes all those faded little plants out of the
marshy ground Of the large city, with their
bent thin fleshless limbs their big, un-
natural stomachs and sad. questioning COM
plaining look they can tell OF the
terrible cold. of the awful darkness. of the
long prowls in the streets and in the tor
mented hearts, OF hunger. of the daily
deaths OF the ravages caused by tubercu-
loss. They can tell Of the struggle for the
poor. bare life Of hunger
Rags are there the newest fashions Lux
ury is a sack of wet wood which father has
carried from the Vienncsc forest. or a piece
Of horse flesh!
Bitter misery, hunger illness. hatred
against destiny are to be found outside Of
the first noble district.
pictures Of misery and luxury Of dying
town" the film should be called
The film company has the contrast IL re-
quires ready to hand
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
Record of 1873 UnchaIIenged
As War Prevented InteresI

This record has stood unchallenged since
1913 World touring as sport was aban
doned during the conflict at arms. After
the filing of the peace treaties world tour
ing continued to lag behind in the renais
sance of other sports. Conditions in Rus
sia and the Soviet schedule of running
trains on the Siberian railway probably
have had much to do with the lack of en-
thusiasm among the sporting globe trot
ters.
Last spring three Brooklynites set out to
row themselves around the world in an
open boat. but this was not regarded as
serious attempt to lower the time record
for the complete circuit.
Recent reports from England indicate
that the Siberian hazard may be eim-
rated, that hitherto scorned route may
come into favor with those who would take
off few more days-not to mention few
more hours minutes and seconds-from
Fogg.
A British officer of the Royal Air Force
proceeding home from Mesopotamia in the
ordinary course of duty, travelled from Bag
dad to London in six days. He used two
days in flying from Mesopotamia to Egypt
over a route which has been opened by the
Royal Air Force for the carriage of official
mails The rest of the journey to England
he made by sea and rail.
Starting from Bagdad at A. NJ. on Sep
tember Is, he flew across the Syrian Desert
70 Amman. a distance of 515 miles. in
eight and three-quarters hours On the
second day, after an early getaway. he
reached Helopolis by o'clock, jump Of
s25 miles. From Heliopolis all speed was
nut on towards Aboukir making total
distance for the second day Of 440 miles
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
George Francis Trains Trip
Cut Time of Nellie BIy

No other record-breaking tours are regis.
tered until back in 1890, when George
Francis Train made the trip in 81 days IL
hours minutes. A few months previous
Nellie bly, had accomplished the journey in
72 days 6 hours IL minutes IA seconds
She left New York on November IA 1889
and completed the circuit January %, 1890
And that takes the story back to Phileds
Fogg. the man who started the argument
and defied the world
Daniel r. Bidwell is the only tourist to
claim the championship by the westward
route In 1911 he made the trip in AZ days
% hours, via Montreal, Vancouver, Yoko-
hama. Viadivostok, Moscow Dover and
back to New York
Besides these followers of the demon
Speed, there are many others whose one
claim to fame is a successful journey
around the world using some freak method
of transportation. Only last winter a
Dutch painter passed through New York.
painting his way around the world He
was two years out from port and still had
three more years in which to finish his
stint and earn a large prize. He was
handicapped by certain restrictions which
required that he could pay his way only by
money gained from selling his canvases
On July %. 1911, n bicyclist named Pank-
ratow started on a trip around the world
from Harbin. Manchura. He finished the
trip on August 1C 1913. having ridden
around the world in years and Is days.
The number Of professional and amateur
vagabonds who have worked their way
around the world would probably reach an
astounding total. The amateurs are by far
the more interesting brand of the species.
Generally they arc college students who
are given to making hasty wagers. Sitting
around with a group Of fellows some quiet
evening. when there isn't much to talk
about. one of them breaks out with.
well. | guess I'll start around the world
tomorrow"
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
Present Mark of Thirty five Days Set by John
Henry Mears in 1913 Could Be Bettered
by Using Aerial Links

tributed along the way and the money paid
as a straight bribe to a pirate crew on an
engine of the Siberian railway.
Mears bettered the old record of Andre
Jaeger-Schmidt by days % hours 81
seconds.
Andre Jaeger-Schmidt a correspondent
of the Paris Excelsior. made his record.
breaking trip in 1911. He travelled 1890
miles in 80 days 10 hours AZ minutes
81 As seconds. He averaged 4S0 miles day,
or twenty miles an hour Except for d
few minor changes his route was much
the same as followed by Mears.
Jaeper-Schmidt's record roads.
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

From London to Bagdad in Six Days Suggests
Possible Lowering Of Time for Journey
Made Classic by Jules Verne
By TORREY FORD.

September 2l. days and IA hours after
leaving Bagdad.
The ordinary passage from Bagdad to
London has previously taken from sixteen
days to three weeks.
The air route linking Palestine with
Mesopotamia was surveyed and organized
by the Royal Air Force in June of this
year. regular fortnightly service by
air for the carriage of official correspond
ence was started on August l.
Several more links in the chain will have
to be established before speedy around
the world trip can be made via the Orient
Bagdad is hardly at the back door of Yoko-
hama, but it is on the way. With Bagdad
only six days from London, it seems en-.
tirely conceivable that the rest of the trip
to Yokohama can be crowded into a week
The best time that has been made between
London and Yokohama is fifteen days.
Mears, the record holder. took sixteen days
for that part of his journey.
So in spite Of the rampant Reds in Rus
sia and the defunct Siberian transporta-
tion system it doesn't appear necessary to
call an indefinite halt in the race to beat
the old records. With the aid promised by
modern aviation in all parts of the world
il should be comparatively simple matter
to make the thirty-five days of John Henry
Mears appear a ridiculously high figure.
Mears used the airplane only once dur
ing his record breaking trip. He made
fifteen mile flight in a hydroplane over
Puget Sound to Seattle from a yacht off
Victoria. After completing his trip he
said that he thought in order to break his
record 1t would be necessary to resort to
the use of an airplane from Fishguard to
London and from Dover to Moscow.
Mears serving as special correspondent
of THE New YORK Sun. left New York July
2. 1913. at 12:45 P. NJ He sailed on the
Mauretania, carrying with him light suit
case camera and light overcoat. He
arrived back in New York on August at
1920 P NJ.
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

at the very end of his Journey, when he
made an eight minute taxcab ride from
the Grand Central Terminal down to THE
SuN office. on Park Row.
The financial accounting of the trip was
even more astounding than the time sched
ule. The entire cost was less than $500
including tips described as ''liberal") dis
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

plenty of time for sightseeing and recon-
mended the schedule for other tourists.
Except for a washout in Siberia that de-
layed his train some eighteen hours and
close call at Seattle. where the train was
held fifteen minutes for him. he had no
cause for rush or worry.
The most perilous part of his trip came
The New York herald., 1921-11-13


in a dark veil there stands block. Children
are playing in front of it. They are jumping
about in the mud and enjoying themselves
on the rubbish heap.
Before the house sits old blind man
Among the noisy playing children is also his
grandchild She was two years old. this
pale faced little Viennese girl, when tubercu-
losis took away her mother her father she
has never known,
Now she is older in knowledge and misery.
but still young in years. Never in her life
has any one stroked the pale girl. combed
her fair, entanged hair. or understood how
to look into the love hungry little heart.
At the midday hour she stands, where
ladies. wrapped in precious furs and rustling
silk, promenade and glance down with scorn
when her rags touch by chance their fine
dresses.
From II till 2 o'clock every day she runs
UP and down the "Karntnerstrasse" calling
out with thin clear voice Midday news
papers" one day she is no longer at her
place and n dirty limping boy, her comrade,
relates: Yesterday. when the great storm
ragged a gust Of wind tore the newspapers
out of poor little Anne's hand. AS she
chased after the papers and caught a part of
them she ran straight into a motorcar and
all was overt"
They carried her into house but the doc
tor of the ambulance said: There is no
more help for her!"
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

TIME world has two great passions.
One is seeing records made and the
other is seeing them broken. From
pie eating contests to parachute jumping,
the world loves anything that has a favor
of sport
II we should announce boldly in the pub
lie prints that we were the champion sub
way rider of Manhattan. that we had
sunrise and sunset all for the same nickel,
the following day would see score or
more Of aspirants hot after the under
ground championship. There is no such
phrase in the language as letting well
enough alone.
When Jules Verne conceived his purely
fictional venture. Around the World in
Eighty Days" he established what he con-
sidered an international record. Others
might vie with the figures, but the accom-
plishment of Phileas Fogg was calculated
to stand firmly throughout the ages.
But NJ. Verne reckoned without the con-
trivance of Man or the spirit of his sports
manship. Merely seeing a record hung on
the wall is not enough for most persons.
Immediately it has to be broken. And by
to-day PhiIeas Foggs record has been
broken so many times that only a few per-
sons remember $50 days" as anything more
than an abbreviated Jail sentence
Back in 1889 Nellie Bly, started the op.
position by clipping Z days, II hours, As
the redoubtable Phileds Others kept plug
ging at the mark until 1913, when John
Henry Mears set up new figure of 80 days,
second for his round the world excursion.
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
Regular Air Service Used
To Garry Official Letters

The fight was arranged to make quick
connection with the steamship Vienna, sail
ing from the Alexandria dock. Within
forty minutes of the officers arrival at
Aboukir he was on board the Vienna, sail
ing out of the harbor. He arrived In
London at 5 o'clock on the evening OF
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

Fitzmorris experienced most of his diff
Guilty in the land of the busy consonant
After using up ten days between Moscow
and Irkutsk he took another seventeen
days to reach the Manchurian seaport and
eight more days to get booked for an Amer.
lean passage.
Looking over the record. the Chicago
schoolboy seems to be the only world tour
ist who passed through Blagoveschensk
and had the nerve to write home about it,
Unbiased judges are of the opinion that
this should deduct at least ten days from
his record
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

hag wrapped the baby in her gray cloak and
took it with her
Where the child's mother had come from
or her name. nobody knew. and the midwife
called the little one "Franzl."
Little "Franzl" lived on sugar water and
very watery condensed milk which a good
hearted neighbor gave him.
But the midwife could not provide for the
baby. So she put an advertisement in the
newspaper: Little boy. born on both of De-
Gerber. is TO be given away. Information
al Mrs Sor. Vienna. MI district Y street
Poor little boy
Nowadays horses. oxen. poultry, food. an
uquities and Jewels are sold at the highest
prices.
Little "Franzl" YOU have not even the
,al luc of an Austrian crown in Zurich! Not
even O.52 centime!
This sad story happened. according 70 n
advertisement i'm Niennese newspaper OF
January IA. 1921
= man was to be- given away.
TN the "Kartnerstrasse" film is to be
taken up by film company From
mouth 10 mouth the news spreads.
10 is summer' Summer it is on the rosy
faces in the shop windows and in the hearts
of the flirting. laughing. well nourished
idlers And the gay and varied colors of the
newest summer fashions. the glittering,
pretty stones in the ears and on the necks
Of the elegant ladies are sparkling in the
warm. golden sun.
In a scarlet red motor car which flies the
form and one of them turns the wheel of
The New York herald., 1921-11-13
Average of s4a Miles Hourly
For Round the World TriE

He had made the world trip of 21,066
miles in the official time of 35 days 81
hours 30 minutes and four-fifths seconds.
He had travelled at an average speed of 5S7
miles a day, or 241a miles an hour
His itinerary follows.
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

of their journeys was recorded in the news
papers
Charles Fitzmorris came under the wire
first in the elapsed time of so days 13
hours 29 minutes AZ 2-5 seconds. His
schedule ran:
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

The trip cost s1.42s. OF this amount
only 1896 was spent for railroad fare and
transportation, while $500 went in tips and
gratuities.
The New York herald., 1921-11-13

During the entire trip Mr.. Mears slept
in hotel only once, and that was only for
two-hour snooze in London. He had