The Topeka State Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 16

THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALFRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 31, 1913- This Is a Jewel in More Ways Than One. It is the newest Pattern Coal Heater nice, smooth casting's made of that Kemi-test Iron which will not burn out or crack. The doors have ground edges so that they fit true, making it one of the Best Fire Keepers on the market. It is beautiful in design and proportions heavy corrugated fire bowl and altogether the best stove for the money on the market. $18, $20, $22 STAGEJTORIES.

The Scene Painter's View Behind the Scenes He Paints. Something About the Men Who Make Scenes for Theaters. I Two dark-eyed dancers, chattering in Russian, stood in their dressing room at the Grand theater. Their hats, purses, rouge-pots and gloves were on a shelf beside them. Suddenly the shelf I began to rise.

It disappeared through the ceiling. The dancers clutched each other crossed themselves. "Magic," cried one, in the tongue of the czar. Four-Piece Fumed Oak Library Seis for 1285 II We have 5 only of this beautiful Library Set consisting of 1 Large Arm Chair, I Large Arm Rocker, 1 Small Rocker and 1-36 in. Library Table.

Exactly like illustration solid oak throughout and very strongly built, regular price $21.75. Specially priced while they last $12.85. WILSON STILL WAITS. No Action Kejrardinf; Mexico Is Probable for a Week. Washington, Oct.

31. President Wilson and Counsellor John Bassett cured ITCHING SCALP AND DANDRUFF New York, May 1, 1913. "I was troubled with itching scalp. It was accompanied with dandruff and my hair came out and got very thin. Res-inol Soap and Resinol Ointment stopped the fching at once and checked th hair from falling out.

My scalp Is now completely cured. I consider Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment a godsend to any one troubled with any skin trouble." (Signed) twight YV. Clark, 409 Canal St. Piles Cured After 15 Years Xew Haven. April 19, 1913.

"I had itching piles for fifteen years and so bad that I could not sleep at night. I tried many remedies with only temporary relief. It gives me jrreat pleasure to recommend Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment, for I got relief with the first application, and I can now say that I am completely cured." (Signed) Chas. A. Bradley, 93 Xicoll St.

Resinol positively stops itching instantly and speedily heals eczema and other skin humors, sores, burns, chaf-ings and irritations. Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap are sold by every druggist. For free trial, write to Dept. 22-R, Resinol, Baltimore, Md. Adv.

Moore of the state department discussed the Mexican situation today at length. As most of its members were away there was no session of the cabinet. I As the president will go to Princeton to vote next Tuesday, there will be no cabinet meeting then, and except for informal consideration in the in-' terval, it is not likely that any plan of action will be discussed at a cabi- i net meeting until late next week. There was nothing to indicate any prospects of earlier action. Mr.

Moore did not discuss his talk with the president, The president had no other engage- ments today, planning to devote him- i selt for the most part to the Mexican situation and the currency problem. Peace Prospects Bright. Tucson, Oct. 31. Dr.

Henry Allen Tupper was at Hermosillo, Sonora, today on a mission in connection with his official position in the international peace forum. He denied that he represented President Wilson in an official way. rr. Tupper asserted that I prospects for peace in Mexico were I brighter today than ever. He has made several trips into Mexico on peace missions since the beginning of the Madero revolution.

Hugo J. Miller, Who Paints Two Tons of Scenery a Week for the Majestic Theater. "No," wailed the other, "these crafty Americans! This is but a trick to rob us of our property!" Mesdames Valerie and Olga pranced from the room and called for the manager. He wasn't there. No one was there.

Bewildered, they returned to their room, and discussed the catastro- phe. It was Hugo J. Miller, scene painter, who pacified the irate Russians with the aid of an interpreter. Miller's can- i vas works up and down on a pulley. At its base is a shelf for his brushes.

The bottom of the frame rests in the dressing rooms. When he had finished tinting a sunset, he raised the frame and began painting a prairie. Trouble began. I This is only one of the stories a re- porter picked up when he was visiting Miller's airy platform at the top of the high cirand stage. The reporter started out with the express purpose of seeing the work it requires to pro- duce a six-day play at the Majestic.

Take Miller's work, for instance. He paints two tons of scenery a week paints everlasting flowers, wells, rocks, sunsets and drawing rooms. There are ten tons of scenery on, above, and be- neath the stage at the Grand. "You have to know everything to be a scene painter," observed Mr. Miller, daubing "high lights" Jn a cactus field to be used in this week's production at the Majestic, "you have to" be a nature fakir, an interior decorator, and an arcniiect.

Man of Many Pockets. W. E. Wilcox, carpenter, was busy moving "returns," "wings," "Jogs," "cycles" and other technicalities assisted by "Soldier," one of the oldest stage employees, distinguished for having more pockets than any man in, the state. Nobody knows "Soldier's" real name but everybody knows him.

The actors all like him he's known from New York to San Francisco. "I sketch my outlines on a separate canvas," said Mr. Miller, in explaining his work, "then transfer them with a tracing wheel. I suppose we spend J150 in preparing each week's scenery at the Majestic. People don't realize what a lot of trouble it takes to produce a play that only runs for eight performances." "You bet they don't," agreed Wilcox, who was building a lonesome pine.

"Say, Mr. Truitt," broke off Miller, to the manager, "can't we have some heat in this place?" "You ought to be able to keep warm," grinned Jack Truitt, "paint an open fire." While the painter, carpenters, and assistants are hustling at the Grand, the members of the stock company are rehearsing at the Majestic. J. G. Stutz-man, who directs the performances, sits at a small table with pencil, play and wrinkled brow.

Two chairs form a doorway. A broken bench is a fireplace. It's cold and dark. Everybody wears his hat and coat. "Not just that way," shouts Mr.

Stutzman, "put a little more life in your part. Get some pep. All right. Once more. Now, Mr.

Wellington It's no joke to play to a critical audience every night, and an empty house every morning. Actors, painters, and prop men work with a will and get some fun out of it, which shows how clever they are. A L. THE POLICE FORCE. IIm Sura at Uw1alH Maienaatfls Iba Star BMwaakl Mirtml Saturday's Inducements for First of the Month Shopping $1.50 American Lady Corsets for $1.00 This is a special lot of American Lady Corsets which we secured from the factory as a special offer.

They are of good quality batiste, trimmed at top with dainty ribbon run lace and draw string in bust, and are in the long hip, medium bust model. Fitted with four suspender elastic hose supporters. One of this season's models in the regular $1.50 value. Offered for special selling Saturday, each. $1.00 Good Nainsook Brassieres 25c One lot Brassieres made of good quality nainsook; square back, front; double under arm section yoke of all over embroidery arm eyes finished with convent edge; trimmed with dainty ribbon bows in colors rust proof boned.

An excellent value on sale to- morrow, each OC Bargains New ThingsSeasonable Offerings Tomorrow will be the first day of November, and November is the month that always witnesses a "speeding up" of buying in all lines. The warmer things in wearables have now become a necessity. Many delayed purchases, must now be attended to. With Thanksgiving close upon us, linens will be receiving a good share of attention. And with the approach of the holiday season the foresighted person is beginning to prepare for it.

All this increased activity makes the matter of saving here and there an important one, and you will find that, dollar for dollar, The Warren M. Crosby Co. Store is indeed the "Store of Dependable Merchandise" most economically priced. For tomorrow's selling, we have gathered at random the accompanying list of offerings for your consideration. Every Woman Needs a Pair of Warm Boots There is an immense amount of satisfaction in knowing that you are the possessor of footwear that will give you utmost protection, no matter what the weather may be.

In fact, no woman's wardrobe is now considered complete without a pair of comfortable, serviceable boots for outdoor We would like to show you how well we have anticipated your needs and requirements in our two excellent brands Dorothy Dodd and Gold Medal. In these two lines we can suit every whim in style, fit and price range. Ask us to show you this heavier footwear tomorrow. Mountain, English Walking, Storm and Knockabout Boots each have hosts of admirers. Some prefer the new Spanish Louis heel, others the Cuban but whatever may be your choice of last leather or style, you are sure to find it to best advantage among Dorothy Dodds or Gold Medals.

The Mountain Boot Women's Footwear $2.50 to $6.00 Toilet Goods Sample Military Brushes Being samples, these are all half pairs, but are made of hand drawn bristles set in ebony and hardwood solid backs. The lot contains various sizes in values up to $1.25 each. Your choice, each 50 Perfume Special Regular 50c perfumes in Lily of the Valley and Wisteria odors. Per oz. Saturday 25 Sempre Giovine (always young) the excellent beaUtifier and skin food.

Regular 50c size tomorrow for 39 Dr. Smith's Beauty Masques Regular $1.00 values, special each. .69 Toilet Paper "Blue Ribbon" brand, 1,000 sheets to roll. Saturday, seven of the 5c rolls 25 Hair Goods Be sure and call on Miss Mitchell tomorrow. She is demonstrating fine human hair goods at our notion section.

3 Spools Thread 5c Six-cord spool cotton, sizes 40 and 50 in black only 200 yards to spool. Saturday 3 five-cent spools, 5 $2.50 Canton Crepes $1.50 Saturday morning we will offer 250 yards of Printed Canton Crepes, 27 inches wide, in rose, navy, leather, taupe, Copenhagen and lavender. A quality that has heretofore sold at $2.50 the yard. While it lasts, per yard $1.50 New Silk Vestings Beautiful Fabric We've Just Received Yesterday's express brought us a very handsome lot of the new Silk Vestings which will be very much used for collars, cuffs and fancy vests. We put them on display for the first time yesterday afternoon, and the quality and designs are superb.

Priced at $2.50 and $3.00 per yard 35c Stamped Table Runners 25c Tomorrow, in the Art Needlework Section in the Annex, we offer Natural Crash Table Runners, stamped for embroidery and tinted in conventional designs, 18x50 inches in size. We are showing a finished piece in one of the designs. A new lot just received a regular 35c value. Your choice tomorrow, each 25 New Marabou Pieces In the south aisle, street floor, we are showing muffs and neck pieces of marabou in black and natural. The neckpieces are in stole and cape effects.

Pieces are matched for sets or will be sold separately. Priced per piece $4.50 to $10.00 Pleating, Ruffling, Ruching Tomorrow we will show a new shipment of this popular neckwear material in white, cream and black, and in the narrow medium and wider widths. Priced, yard 25 to $1.25 New Lace Collars 25c Values Up to $1.00 These collars of Plauen and Venise lace are perhaps some of the best values we have ever offered. They are in the newest shapes in cream and white. Some values up to a dollar.

Extra special for Saturday selling, each 25 TOMORROW THE LAST DAY OF THE Linen Handkerchief Sale And this third annual event we consider the best of our handkerchief sales. We never offered better values. Everything of interest in value and quality is being shown. $1.50 Gauntlets $1.19 Soft cuff kid Gauntlets with clasp strap at wrist. One lot of broken sizes in black, tan, brown and gray.

An excellent glove for street wear. Regular $1.50 value for, pair $1.19 16-But. White Gloves $2.25 One lot 16-button length white glace kid gloves in a regular $3.00 value. All sizes from 5V to 7 12- Per pair tomorrow $2.25 At Jewelry Section Photo Frames We are showing-these in Colonial Silver, and Parisian Ivory. The Silver are in oval shapes, 42 and 6 inches high, will not tarnish, and have plush easel backs in hunter's green, dark red, blue and purple.

The Ivory are in oblong and oval shapes. Very special values at 25 and 50 New La Vallieres Dainty gold plated chains with pendants of filigree set" Awii rhinestones and with cameo, amethyst, garnet, sapphire and emerald centers. See fhem. Choice, 50 Sample Jewelry Cuff Links, Bar Pins, Beauty Pins, Belt Pins, Buckles and Brooches in 25c and 50c values. Special Saturday, each 10 Off on All Room and Small Rugs and All Stair Carpets This includes all the new fall patterns, some of which were just recently received.

We are going to need all the room we can get, hence the reduction. It will be to your advantage to come here before you buy. The Poriet Pictures Will Be a Fashion Show Long Remembered by Women New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago all went wild over the pictures which you will see here next week. We are fixing up quite a motion picture theater of our own In our Anjiex, and you will be able to see the actual motion photographs of the wonderfully beautiful creations of that master artist M. Paul Poriet The stunning French Mondaines were posed for these pictures on the grounds of Poriefs charming villa, and it is said of him that he is as artistic in poiing and arrangement as he is In styles.

This Poriet is the same one spoken of by Corinne Lowe in her article on "The Grand Strategy of Style" in this week's Saturday Evening Post. As we expect to have as our guests hundreds of women next week, we suggest that you watch carefully for the announcements of the details regarding admissions, which will be free. $3.90 A'uminum Sets $3.50 As a special inducement for you to avail yourself of the advantages of the famous "Wear-Ever" Aluminum Ware, we have arranged combintion of four pieces which we will offer Saturday. The set consists of One 10-inch Frying Pan One 6-hole Muffin Pan One l'i-qt. Lipped Sauce Pan One IVi-qt.

Double Boiler all with a total value of $3.90. You may have these sets Saturday, as long as they last, for COUPE SOUP DISHES Of Royal Munich Bavarian China, decorated with narrow and wide hand painted tan and coin gold borders 7-inch size. A limited number of 25c and 35c values, each xic It Is Very Small for a City of 50,000 Population. Woman on Industrial Commission. Washington, Oct.

31. Women in governmental affairs scored another victory today when Mrs. Crystal Eastman Benedict, a leading suffragist of Wisconsin and New Tork, was added to the staff of the new federal industrial commission, which is about to take up a study of the causes for unrest in the United States. Mrs. Benedict was engaged because of her knowledge of the legal side of industrial disputes.

Mileage Books Upheld. Washington, Oct. 31. The sale of interchangeable mileage books with the requirement that the coupons be exchanged for tickets before the Journey is begun, was held by the interstate commerce commission today to be neither discriminatory nor in violation of the law. The Topeka police force has been gradually dwindling during the month of October and at the present time is much pmaner than any period within the past few years.

Last were only 11 officers patrolin? Topeka: 11 men to keen law ard order in a city of This is onlv aoout one-half the number of night patrolmen last summer. The day force is larger, due to the fact that five men who left the department this month were nieht men. The city officials have not appointed a successor to Sergeant Josian Ross, now chief. The place form-trl- held bv Chief Ross is being temporarily Sbv Officer Walker oss has been chief of police for exactly a month Snd thSsitloS cf first servant has been held by several officers during that Jme. ELIMINATES CHICAGO MAX.

Wrecks Coach Stagg's Machine Causes Shift In Team. LOOK OUT FOR THE Santa Fe Special IT'S JUST ABOUT DUE Chicago. Oct. 31. Considered one of the most important cogs in the execution of Coach Stagg's new forward passes the disbarment yesterday from conference football of John Vruwink, left end, was a severe blow to the football team of the University of Chicago.

Elimination of the fast left end is said to rave resulted from the first important protest that has troubled the conference since Wisconsin protested Earl Pickering, the Minnesota captain on the eve of the 1911 Gopher-Badger game. barment was caused by the protests of Illinois that he had been in college athletics the allotted four years. Debs Pays an Old Debt. Estes Park, CuU, Oct. 31.

Eugene V. Debs told friends here that he has Just paid off the last of a debt of J22.000 n-Viiv, tvi lmnrii' an Railway union owed when that organization went out of existence three years ago. Mr. Debs is spending a vacation here recuperating. His condition is not considered serious.

SANTA FE NOTES. Items for this column may be telephoned to 3315 or this State Journal office. Rev. R. G.

Gross of Osage City, pastor of the largest English speaking church in Calcutta, India, and twice missionary to China, will give a lecture "The Land of the.Mugha.8," this evening at the R. R. Y. M. C.

A. as the third number ot the series of entertainments. Rev. Mr. Gross is very humorous and his lectures are full of stories and anecdotes and he is in great demand as a Chautauqua lecturer.

Special music has been arranged which wil. precede the lectures. Admission by ticket only. Ash, wife of Engineer Ed Ash, returned last night from Kansas City, where she spent a few days with friends. Rev.

M. L. Robey conducted the noon hour dole class todav in the new mill with twenty-two members present. iiclac Division No. 152 of rgentine, engineers' wives, have invited Division No.

of 'opeka. engineers' wives to attend an all day celebration at Argentine Monday. November 17, in celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Argentine division. About twenty members from Topeka will go to attend the affair on tne Kansas City plug the morning of the 17th and will be entertained at the home of the president, Mrs Chas. Hearick.

Miss Frances Mitchell, daughter of J. R. Mitchell, ticket auditor, and Mrs. Mitchell, will leave next week for New York city, where she will spend the winter studying art. Dr.

Lull will soeak to the junior boys of the R. Y. M. C. A.

Saturday morning at 9 o'clock at the association building tm Rest. Labor, and Recreation." Fish industries will be illustrated by moving pictures. Ali boys not over 16 years of age are cordially invited, whether members of the association or not. John McKiernan of the passenger department, who is in the company hospital, suffering with an attack of pneumonia, remains about the same. Word has been received here from the doctors at Temple, stating the improved condition of Mike Clohessy of the electrical department, who is ill with an attack of appendicitis.

Mrs. W. J. Puett and Mrs. O.

W. Roff of Newton, are guests of General Superintendent R. R. Parker and Mrs. Parker a few davs.

Miss lorence "Cooper, stenographer to E. L. Copeland. wiu entertain her club and their friends Saturday evening at her home in Potwtn. modebnTbench hermit.

M. Paul Lefebvre, of 106 Boulevard de Jourdan, is "un type" only thinkable in Paris where "types" flourish. For several days now he has been keeping neighbors in that outlying quarter in a state of pleasant ferment. He is a Parisian hermit a St. Simon Stylites de nos jours.

His hermitage is a wooden hut built with his own hands, and his pillar a ladder some 15 feet high, from which he surveys, silent and solitary, the battling crowd beneath. Immovable, he perches there for hours, answering not a word to question and Jeers. Of course, tTe police would like to something, bv what can they do? M. Paul Lefebvre is within his rights in taking his ease where he pleases, and In his own property, for which he has paid Charles Edward Hubach Head of the Vocal Department at the University of Kansas will give a course of vocal lessons In Topeka during the summer. Studio at Bell Bros.

Music store. 904 Kansas Mondays. over 3,000. For the "savage as th. call him in the Boulevard de Jourdan 2 it Is rumored, a millionaire-at all eventT hl.TX"1 and 8tandln- Does noi his mother drive up every day in a Kreat motor car, "with a footman." as with thty me when I visited the hermitage this afternoon? In spite of a downpour there was a tolerable crowd in front of No.

106. The building Is a mere hut. some 10 feet high, with a frontage almost entirely of (class, reminding one of a photographer's studio. It is cut off from the road by a 6-foot wooden paling, surmounted by a wide meshed wire netting as many feet high again. Against the netting were propped two ladders, and from it at Intervals were hung placards In the hermit's writing One requested spectators "not to smash the windows or throw bottles at my head.

Another begged the Journal a morning paper which has been featuring he hermit, "not to obiect tn r.nr.,-. third was dedicated "to my unfinished tckiii. runs corresponaence of London Telegraph. the 1.