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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FRIDAY EVENING JANUARY . 22,1909.
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SHOE
MEWS
We sell the Wizard Shoes,
one of the most reliable lines
of Dress Shoe3 sold today.
The styles are the best and
the prices are not prohibitive.
Our line of Work Shoes wul
intsrt vnu We sell Mule
Skin Shoes, Black and Tan
.-. . , . - i i Ton
Rnelr Shrtes.
Shoes. Grain
Leather Shoes.
Our motto is
'Better bhoes.
We have Men's Satin Calf
Shoes at $1.73
We have Men's Box Calf
Blucher Shoes at S2.00
We have Men's Gun Metal
Blucher Shoes at $3.00
We have Men's Wizard
Shoes, no better made $4.00
Ladies'Vici Kid Shoes, heavv
sole, patent tip $1.75
Ladies Felt House Slippers
with fur around top, pair 75c
Ladies' Felt House Slippers,
felt soles, a pair. 2 )C
Children's Shoes, sizes 9 tr
2, a pair $1.25
Boys' Box Ca'f School
Shoes $1.50
In fact, if Better Shoes for
less money will interest you,
we are looking for you.
Men's Overcoat just ONE
THIRD OFF the regular price.
Come in and look them over.
Ind. Tel. 1549
'aOTHNSSMSU
There is an epidemic of grip in To
peka and the noise of sneezing is
abroad in the land.
The country roads are in bad condi
tion and the visits of farmers to To
jieka are few and far between.
Here is an item that is really worth
while. After an absence of over a week
Old Sol is paying Kansas a visit today.
George Burghart has returned from
Cincinnati where he won a bushel bas
ket full of prizes at the pigeon show-.
The Saturday Night club will con
sume a barrel of oysters tonight, do
nated to the club by O. L. Clarke of
Oalveston. Texas.
" Examinations, the final ones of the
first semester at Washburn college, will
be the order next week. The second
semester will commence the first week
in February.
' The bovs gymnasium class of the
Provident Association was the guest of
tJ-.e Washburn-William Jewell basket
ball game and were shown some very
classy playing.
Twenty-four babes of the Provident
day nursery were taken through the
Midwinter exposition at the invitation
of Manager George Bainter and the
boys' gym class and the girls' sewing
classes are to have the same treat this
evening.
The smallpox scare at Washburn per
formed a charitable act and bore out
the statement that it is an ill wind
that blows nobody good. The faculty
became so frightened over the small
pox that they forgot to investigate the
scandal "Who Danced In Rice Hall?"
A peculiar incident in connection
with the recovery of lost valuables in
the Copeland fire, has just come to
light. Chief Justice W. A. Johnston
tost a diamond shirt stud, and it was
found frozen in the ice on the under
side of a table, which was in his room.
The house committee of three, which
was appointed to confer with the coun
ty attorney, the city fire marshal and
the chairman of the fire committee of
the city council failed to put in an ap
pearance at the called meeting, and an
effort will be made to get the commit
tee together again soon.
During the heavy fog it was impos
sible to see the clock on the federal
building tower and the street car head-
lights could not be seen over a block
away. All or tne street car men naa
orders to leave their searchlights burn
ing when they met each other and when
they were on Kansas avenue.
The crack bowling team of Topeka
composed of Mr. Harry Wolf. Mr. A.
p..- Kirkpatrick. Mr. Ike Barnum, and
Mr. Arthur Wo'f goes to St, Joseph,
Mo., where they will enter the Mis
souri valley tournament which lasts
for ten days to compete with the best
bowlers from all over the country .
Street Commissioner Frank Snyder
fays there is more dirt on the streets
of Topeka this week than in any other
time in the history of the city. The
long siege of snow and the sand on
the new pavements over the city com
bined with the regular dirt made the
streets almost impossible to clean. All
of the street workers, flushes, sprink
lers and sweepers are working over
time. As soon as the sun dries the ground
work can be recommenced on the To-peka-Southwestern
road. The work,
according to the officials, was delayed
on account of the ground being frozen,
and the right of way not having been
acquired within the city limits. The
right of way has probably been secured
by this time, as the officials of the road
announced that it would be within ten
Cheer Up
by a change from coffee
to well-boiled
POSTUM
"There's a Reason"
Read - The Road to Wellille " In pkgs
no
MORE
HALF
SOLEIfiG
f
at- . - PrjT
ri.-y .... it :jmr-3r
IMPERISHABLE SOLE
TRADE MARK
Imperishable Sole Shoes will
give the greatest wear. The soles
will outwear any two or more ordi
nary leather soles. This sole leath
er Is tanned by a new process that
makes it the greatest wearing
leather ever made. ' Every man
wearing working shoes should sea
these shoes. Every pair of Im
perishable Sole Shoes has the
above trade-mark stamped on the
sole. Be sure and get the genuine.
4 - a a
18 EAST SIXTH ST.
days, and it is now over two weeks
since the appraisers started work.
This has been poor weather for mar
riage licenses. Nothing doing along
this line for almost a week at the pro
bate court. It is pretty hard to start
down the path of life with overcoat
and rubber boots and with the sun an
unknown factor. But it is expected
that business will pick up now since
the weather has changed. It is the
opinion of Miss Richardson who smiles
on the brides at the probate court that
leap year has cleaned out most of the
available stock. But from the looks
of the city "bloods" who buzz around
the court house there seems to be an
other think coming.
PGM7.
Paid In Full," Eugene "Walter's
great play of contemporary American
life, which was presented at the Grand
earlier in the season, has been seen
here again with another cast, at the
theater again last night and is the
bill for tonight.
The company which was here before
was headed by Guv Bates Pnst and
Miss Clara Blandick was the leading
woman. It was undoubtedly superior to
the present one in some respects, al-
iiiuusu liiis one includes some excep
tionally good players and the produc
tion in every way is worthy and inter
esting. If you have never seen "Paid
In Full" don't put it oft any longer.
No better play has ever been written
by an American and this is not th
opinion of one snip of a reporter in
Topeka, Kansas, but the verdict of
competent criticism throughout this
country.
The London production of "Paid In
Full" was not a success. The British
ers didn't like it and it was taken
off after a short run. Its failure is
unaccountable, for although the play
begins in a Harlem flat and never gets
away from the Harlem atmosphere, Its
appeal would seem to be universal and
one would think it might have equal
application and relevancy In Blooms-
Dury ana Aiayfair, ParkdaSe . and
tcninestone avenue. "Paid In Full
is a picture from life, so vivid in its
characterizations, so true in all its es
sential details, its drama so unforced
and its situations so convincing that it
grips and thrills like a personal experi
ence. The most jaded theater-goer has
many moments in its four acts when
he forgets that he is in a playhouse
and this is surely the supreme test of
play and actors.
Mr. William L. Gibson, in the grace
less role of Joseph Brooks, gives a
strong delineation of the most master
ly character of recent American drama.
It must have been this typical grouch.
Brooks, who made the managers shy
at Mr. Walter's play the two or three
years he was hawking it around among
them unsuccessfully. Perhaps they
thought it was no use trying to force
this wholesome illustration of old
fashioned and almost forgotten prin
ciples, upon a public which had been
"eating" the half-baked political and
economical rantings of plays like The
Lion and the Mouse and The Man of
the Hour. And yet Brooks proved to
be a master stroke and the popularity
of "Paid In Full" has shown that we
still believe, as a people, in the doc
trine, undisputed in the early days of
the Republic, that success in this land
of the free and home of the brave, is
largely a question of personal ability
and endeavor and that, like happiness
it is within us. Mr. Gibson Brooks is
faithfully worked out to the last detail
with a keen sense of its dramatic val
ues and is a portrayal not soon to be
forgotten.
Mr. Walter does not believe in the
lone-man play and "Paid In Full" one
might almost say. has three leading
I roles. That picturesque old brute,
.Captain Williams, is as striking and
powerful an imaginary projection as
Brooks, and "Jimpsy" Smith is no saw
dust hero, but a flesh and blood char
acterization. Mr. Scott Siggins Is the
Captain Williams of this company and
brings to the role the repelling brutality
and the compelling vigor, the rugged
exterior and the fine flashes of splend
id generosity and reverence which it
demands. Mr. Albert Brown's Jimp
sy is a delightful study, of many fine
touches. Miss Sara Perry as Mrs.
Brooks. Miss Rose Snvder as Mrs.
'Harris and Miss Pauline Darling as
.Beth complete a cast of much strength
and merit. A. F. J.
CLEAN THE PHONE
City May Install a System of Inspection.
Claimed That Disease Is Spread
by Telephone Mouthpieces.
FOR NEW WATER MAIN
Mayor Green's Plan for Bnsi-
ness District FaTored.
System Followed in "New York
and Philadelphia.
The city health department is in
terested in the sanitary condition of
the telephones over the city. In some
cities it is required of everyone using
telephones to cleanse the mouthpiece
at least once a day with some dis
infectant. It has been found that
hydrogen. It has been found that
many diseases have been spread by a
telephone which is used by different
people every day. The city officials
think that it would be advisable for
an inspector to make an examination
of telephone mouthpieces in the of
fices, especially, over the city and re
port to what extent they harbor dis
ease bacteria and whether they con
stitute a danger to public health. It
can be easily seen that the telephone
can be a meaAs of spreading con
tagion and the matter, though new,
would be a profitable one for the city
of Topeka to look into. Topeka is
constantly "at home" to conventions
and meetings of all kinds and in the
last month there have been on an
average of one convention here a day.
This constant throng of people and
the public use of the telephone forms
anample chance for the gathering of
the bacteria in the telephone mouth
pieces. The telephones in the down
town stores and on the larger offices
especially would bear a strict exam
ination by the city.
Since the high pressure water mains
suggested by Mayor Green have been
discussed there has been considerable
comment going over the city as to the
advisability of the plan and every
person interviewed has given an
unanimous aye" to the proposition
Not only have the local men been in
terviewed but the conditions in other
cities have been solicited. It has been
found that New York city and Phlla
delphta are conducting their fire pro
tection in the business districts on the
high pressure system. On the other
hand Indianapolis has decided that
they do not need it. In the Indiana
city they have 110 pounds of pressure
at the hydrant and they feel that this
Is sufficient. Topeka can acquire a
110 pound pressure at the average
hydrant but it takes a steamer to do
anything with It. There are several
cities in the country sending special
representatives to the two high pres
sure cities New York and Philadel
phia and In a few years the high
pressure system will be adopted all
over the United States. Topeka has
an excellent chance to build her new
up town district water main at once
cohsidering the location and ad
vantages of the Harrison street sta
tion and action should not be delayed.
Mayor Green hit a responsive chord
when he mentioned the high pressure
water main and while the irons are
hot It is time for the city to act. It is
a well known fact that when the mem
ory of the . disastrous Copeland fire
dies down the matter will receive lit
tie attention from the general public
and at the present time when the peo
ple are heartily In favor of the plan is
the time for the hammer to ian. iiere
is an example of the work done this
week by the fire department of New
York city under the high pressure
system:
"Three fires on a cold night, with a
wind blowing, demonstrated the
efficiency of the high pressure fire sys
tem. Seven of the ten pumps in the
stations were brought into action at
one time, throwing a volume of 21,000
gallons of water a minute, and over
six hundred nremen were on auiy.
Fortv-seven engines which responded
seventeen at one fire, ten at another
and twenty at a third, were or no use
after the high pressure was turned
on. The first fire alarm, on Hudson
street, was turned in at 7:22, the sec
ond, on the Bowery, at 7:45, and the
third at 8:17. Chief Croker said that
never in his twenty-five years' exper
ience as a fireman had he known of
such a severe test of the capacity or
the department." " .
in a fitv in Massachusetts the
superintendent of the waterworks
satisfied the angry mob of water users
who claimed that tneir meters were
running too fast by taking a meter
apart and exhibiting the parts to the
public and explaining the warking ac
tions. Meters run all right on paper
and in the factory but when they are
placed down in the depths of the cel
lar they have a peculiar tendency to
run Just a little faster. But it is an
ill wind that blows nobody good who
would get the big plumbers fees if the
meters did not nave to oe iesiea :
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neigui ui mewl - .- - ........ ... - -
t h e law by some clever scheme or
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trick at tne sacrnit-e ui uic iiuuut
. a
Hie uiii,a . ...............
A day or two ago while little Ruth
Sheehan. daughter of John Sheean,
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slice of bread cut from a loaf pur
HEMTISftl
I want every chronic rheumatic to throw
way all -medicines, all liniments, all
d asters, and rive SiUNYON'S RHKIiMA
TISM REMEDY a trial. No matter what
yonr doctor may say, no matter wbat
yonr friends may say, - no matter how
prejudiced yon may be against all adver
tised remedies, go fit once to yonr dme-
e-ist ana get a uottie or tne kmeuma
TISM HEM EOT. If It fails to trive latls-
faction. I will refund yonr money. Mnnyoa
Remember this remedy contains no sal-
levllp ncld. no onmm cocaine, mornhine or
other harmful drues. It Is put up tinder
the guarantee of the Pure Food and Drua;
For sale by all druggists. Price. 25c
chased the day before at the Royal
bakery, she, bit into an old rusty
shingle nail and only bv a miieir
nd an extraction from the mnntii u
she able to keep from swallowing the
poisonous and dangerous piece of
etal. The nail and bread is on
hlhition at thp nfflpp f r .1 j
spector at the city hall this afternoon
ana aiso anoiner- piece irom the loaf
of the bread on which Is pasted the
union label and the - stamj of the
Royal bakery.
The births 11 n to . date aa taai1
from the city health department make
the following showing: To Mr. and
Mrs. C. E. Scott, S3 5 Tavlor. a. e-irl:
Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Carrier. 203
Hawthorne, girl: Mr. and Mrs. George
Miller. 724 Jefferson, boy; Mr. and
Mrs. John W. Thomas. 504 East
Fourth, a girl.
In spite of the bad weather and the
soaked and soaking roads, the auto
mobile fever has not shown any signs
or cropping on. xoaay w. H. Mor
ton procured a license number 217
for a Maxwell car, 20 horsepower. H.
W. Seery took out license number 218
for a Maxwell Thirty.
Sanitary Sergeant Patterson is con
stantly on the lookout for the pre
vention of disease in the city of To
peka ana ne is talking with the city
officials today concerning . the ad
visability of fumigating the school
buildings over the city once In every
two weeks. This would be a mighty
good plan ror tne public health es
pecially since the smallpox scare of a
few weeks ago, when all of the con
tagion over the eity came from the
association of school children. The
question Is shall the city pay for the
fumigation or is it up to the school
board to stand the expense? But this
is a minor matter when the public
health is concerned. The advisability
of such a plan will . undoubtedly go
before the council at their next meet
ing, on the first Monday in February.
Companies from No. 2 were called
to the two-story frame dwelling oc
cupied by M. F. Rlgby at 928 Monroe
last night at eight minutes of elght-
The cause of the blaze was unknown
and the loss was trifling.
'And he gave it for his opinion, that
whoever could make two ears of corn.
or two blades of grass, to grow upon a
spot of ground where only one grew
before, would deserve better of man
kind, and do more essential service to
his country, than the whole race of
politicians put together." Swift's Gul
liver s Travels.
The- above observation became a
classic only by reason of its sound
logic, and because it was the one ray
of truth in the biggest hot air etory
every printed. It was chosen for to
day s quotation because It has a close
application to the subject of this sketch
a farmer who made his money farm
ing his farm instead of farming the
public.
Mr. Cline, of Montgomery county.
owns and operates one of the finest
farms in that section. His domain is
situated a few miles from Coffeyville
and under his management has netted
him a comfortable fortune. This- trip
to the Kansas legislature, is his first
shy in state politics. He has served
the interests of his own county as com
missioner for several very satisfactory
Cline of Montgomery. Who Made His
Money I-arming.
years, and in that manner secured the
confidence of his constituents.
When this surface map of Mr. Cline
was manufactured, the gentleman was
carefully perusing the anti-lob" bill
line by line. A thin mark of disgust
showed around the corner of his
moustache, and he said nothing. Per
haps the Gentleman from Montgomery
thinks that one who is so blamed
afraid of being "approached" by a lob
byist that he must wall himself about
with an anti-temptation bill, would
better stav at home.
The Gentleman from Montgomery is
an Elk. He is also branded as a "good
Indian," and that helps some.
The reapportionment legislation now
before the legislature, win go througn
without a doubt. The persons who
drew these bills, were clever enough to
make the changes in only a few coun
ties. Any legislator will gladly vote to
knock out a representative in some
other district, and the dismal howls
of the losers will be as sweet music in
their ears.
(Now that paragraph deserves a
prize. It looks like Nick Chiles' ex
planation of the Joe Dolley incident.
But the Spectator feels about as bril
liant as an old rubber boot today, and
it will have to pass).
One vast improvement made by rea
son of the "save-a-cent-and-spend-a-dollar"
policy, is the absence of enorm
ous horse-blanket badges On the legis
lative employes. Two years ago the
workers (word used with reservation)
were concealed behind gorgeous crea
tions of silk and brass, the bill for
which was a strong item in the ex-
ci Q.nnnnt TVlit KfX Sfn t hfrf are
no marks of rank in the legislative
Attend our rJTriJXfTFSHl Attend our
Embroidery pffiVA ffl 1 (1 lkjj tiOypIg Embroidery
SaIg Sale
Our Annual Sale ot Muslin Underwear Will Commence
MONDAY, FEBRUARY FIRST :: GET READY
Fifteen Fur '
Coats As follows:
5 $25.00 Sable Coney Coats
2 27. 50 Sable Coney Coats
3 30.00 Sable Coney Coats
1 22.50 Electric Seal Coat
4 25.00 Pony Skin Coats...
Your choice of these tomorrow
y
O-MORROW is going to be a big Saturday
for us. We can see it coming. All week the attendance
at our Odds and Ends Sale has been increased from day to
day. We want you to get in on this sale, because it is the
best thing that ever struck Topeka, so far 'as we know.
Here are big reasons: .
One Hundred Colored Long Coats
For street and evening wear, in sensible models that combine warmth and com
fort with the most up to-date styles, will be divided into two lots and sold at
the following
Coats worth up to $15.00
Your choice
Colors: Navy, Brown, Tan, Ked, Green, bmoke and Mixtures.
All Our Black Coats (Except Fur Coats) Now Offered at Half Regular Price.
No reflection on the quality of the coats assembled here because of the low prices at which
we now offer them. .
Weather conditions alone are responsible for the extreme measures we have resorted to in
the matter of prices, in order to move these goods out at once, as our policy is not to carry stock
over from season to season. ;
Corset Cover Embroideries in Our Sale
Over 300 Styles to Show You at 25c, 35c, 39c, 50c, 59c, 65c, 75c, 85c, 98c, $1.25, $1.50, $1.75 Yd.
The Corset Cover, buying people have long since learned that "this store
carries dozens of patterns to most stores' one. We have been told we show
too many we don't think so.
800 Yards of 35c and 39c
Corset Cover Embroidery in this
sale at 29c a yard You just
must share in these special sale
values we bought them for you
and this is your invitation.
A Corset Cover Pattern Free
During this sale you may ask us
for this excellent paper pattern
it will be given with your-corset
cover embroidery purchase.
Short Ends of 5c,
army. This is also a handy airange
mont r-r t V. . pmnlnws themselves.
They can stand around unmolested un
til the members learn their faces,
whereas, if they wore badges, a mem
ber mieht snot them and call upon
them for some service.
If Billy Westcott looked as bad as he
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justified in buying flowers and shaking
the moth-Dans out 01 ineir DiacK. builo.
But Westcott does show the results of
1 the Cooeland
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.., -nritvi rne fnnt in a. slinc and a
pair of crutches in hand, he is back on
the 300. ne is lar irom weu, aim .u.
not be permitted to discard his props
for quite a wniie. i is a sums.
that Westcott of Cherokee win oc
Westcott Doesn't Ixxk as Bad as TWs.
,3 ; t-i r rv a n v rpfl ;rnii h1o fire
vuiib .7 -
Vvi 1 1 ixf Vi i H rm k Ytff (r( the
legislature. With even a clothesline
he migtit nave escapea irum me uun-
ing hotel without injury.
CASTOR I A
Tor Infants and Children.
fli3 Kind Yen Hare Always Bough!
Bears the
Signature of
now
ridiculously low prices: .
ea. CJK Hffc Coats worth up to $19.50 ea.
ijJU-tlU Your choice....
Remnants o! Corset
Cover Embroidery
This is but one of the
many drawing cards tor
this sale. You can buy any
remnant at half price, and
in many instances even for
less than half.
NOTICE These are
soiled and mussed from
handling.
6c and 7c Embroideries,
FROM NEW YORK WORLD, JUNE 10, 0S.J
IRUGGIST SAYS GOOPE
WOKE
Westerner Claims Everybody Will Have To Take
His Medicine Eventually.
New York has never before witnessed
such a spectacle as may be seen every
day tA Broadway and Ninth street. It
is here that T. Cooper, the Western
stomac'iologist, whe claims that stom
ach trouble is at the bottom of all
chronic ill health, is meeting the pub
lic.
It "would be difficult to estimate Just
how many people call to talk wUh
Cooper during a single da The store
where he is holding forth seems to
have become the Mecca for ailing peo
ple in New York, and the amount of
medicine he is disposing is enormous.
In addition to what he sells, hlms -T.
druggists generally throughout New
York are handling his preparations out
In unlimited quantities.
A leading druggist said recently: "The
public seems to have lost its mind over
this man Cooper. Personally. I ilon't
know anything about his medicine. We
-had nothing to do with his con.ing to
New York and he has until recentiy
sold his preparation entirely through
one company. I suppose he thought
New York was like one of his Western
towns and everybody could be supplied
from a corner drug store. He woke up
about a week ago and put it on sale
everywhere. Since then we have been
selling it. I don't know how Ions this
demand will last, but I have never be
fore seen anything like it."
In an interview Monday afternoon
Cooper said: "I am not making any
wild claims for my medicine. , All it does
is to stimulate the gastric Juices and
regulate the digestive organs, but peo
ple do not realize how splendid their
health would be if only their stomachs
Lots of bargains in tonight's
All our Misses'
and Children' Coats
offered at exactly
Original Price
$9.50
$1.00 Corset Coverings for
75c Yard One of our regular
embroidery houses has sent us
for this sale about fifteen pieces
of this very dainty Swiss Corset
Cover Embroidery with exquisite
Filet designs.
500 yards of 35c Corset
Cover Embroidery in this sale
at 25c yard.
Tomorrow 3c Yd.
UP RECENTLY
were not languid and enfeebled by years
of abuse. . -
"Nine out of ten people who have call-,
ed today have been sent here by others.
Sooner- or" later every tired, half-si ls
man and woman in New York is fcoinl
to try my medicine. They can't help It.
After I leave New York I shall take two
months" rest and then go to London to
introduce Cooper's New Discovery ia
England."
Among New Yorkers who have re
cently become enthusiasts on the sub
ject of Cooper's medicine, is Oeorge J.
Scott, of No. 274 West Nineteenth
street, who said Monday afternoon: "It
is hard to realize that any medicine will
do all that Is claimed for it.
"I have taken all ktnds of medicine
for ten years and this is the first I
have ever found that was worth two
cents. I have had rheumatism constant
ly for ten years and have spent a quar
ter of what I made, for doctors and
medicines. I might have taken so much
rain water for all the good they did
me. . Before I had taken this Cooper's
New Discovery a week, I realized it
was worth something. I have taken It
a month and I am as well as I ever
was in my life. I have no rheumatism
and eat like a horse. 1 feei like doing
something now, where a month ago I
hated to walk a block. When I first
bought it I thought it was another fako.
but now I know better. All the other
stuff I have taken was worth nothing;
this is worth ten, yes, twenty tinvs
what they ask for it." t . .
. Cooper's New Discovery is now on
sale at leading druggists the country
over. We will send a booklet in whici
Mr. Cooper tells the reason for most ill.
health, to anyone upon request. ' Th
Cooper Medicine Co., Dayton.. Ohio.
State Journal.