The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 21, 1917

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rHK bone dry law will add to the passenger revenue of tlie Kansas railroads and the Kansas City hotels. yEATIIER FORECAST for Kansas: Partly cloudy and colder in north and east. Colder in south Thursday. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1917 TEN PAGES THREE CENTS Stringent Prohibition .Measure Is Thru Kansas Legislature. Only One Vote Against Bill iu State Senate This Morning. WILL BECOME LAW THIS WEEK Only Governor's Signature and Publication Is ecessary. Illegal to Have Booze Shipped or Even in Possession. There was just one little Impij fection that contributed by Senator Brunner of Pottawatomie-in the roadway down which the bone-dry bill rampsed to final passage in the senate today. Forty years of bone dry education and legislation had paved the way. With smiles on their faces thirty-seven senators voted to make of Kansas a veritable Sahara desert. When one senator Gulick of Republic timidly sussested by way of amendment that the day of judg ment be postponed by makins the 'aw effective upon its publication in he statute book instead of the offi- ial state paper, the senate frowned pun him. It discouraged further ef- rla by allowing him to vote alone t his amendment. The vote was 3 7 to 1. No one dged. No one begpred to be ex used from voting. The. vote cast against the measure was cast by Sen ator Brunner of .Pottawatomie, a phy sician. Two members were absent- nderson of Saline who was injured inirlay and is excused, and Ferrell f Chautauqua who was excused Sat ,l:i v- until next Friday. Xot ii single amendment was made Hie house bill. Half a dozen were frel but only one vote was record for each amendment, and that was e vote of the man who had offered Senator Price of Clark, chairman f the committee thaU reported the ill out for passage, corrected the sen te eopv to conform with the bill as assed by the house, but that was one .with consent. The' stage was t and the director put the play thru ithout a variation from the printed "gram. Argue Over Religion, 'he first real amendment offered s hv Senator Sutton of Stafford. It uik from the bill that paragraph 'mining ordained ministers to re ve or possess wine for communional rposes. I have been asked by numerous inisters to have that provision ricken out." said Senator Sutton, hat started an argument. Senator Malone hsld that the niendment would bring about an un lit' situation in that the bill still per 'itted priests that privilege. do not believe that the senate will stand for prohibiting Episcopa lians and Lutherans from having and using wine for sacramental purposes ii'id allowing those of the Catholic f tith to have it," said Senator Malone. First From Leavenworth! Senator Snyder also opposed the nendment. "I suppose no member this senate is in a more embar sssing position than 1," he said, i'here is considerable sentiment in y district against such legislation, it I am for this bill. I believe it is ,-ht. 1 am probably the first rep sentative or senator from Leaven oith county to vote for a prohibi on measure. Because I am for this ill. I am opposed to the amendment offered. The people of this state are guaranteed by the constitution certain religious rights and it would be wrong for this senate to attempt to take them away." Senator Price of Clark declared that the introduction of the proposed amendment into the bill would not only violate the letter of the federal and state constitutions, but would vio late its spirit. Senator Price a Methodist. "It would be intolerance in me he said, "if I were a Methodist and could get along without wine in religious worship to try to deprive one of an otherjaith of the wine if his form of (Continued on Page Two.) SUES K. C. H0GTRUST lmrRes Association Is Combination and Asks $75,000 Damages. Kansas City. Feb. 21 Charges that dealers are in a combine here were made in a suit asking $75 000 damages filed in the circuit court here today against the Kansas City Hay Dealers' association, by Clarence L Harleson a former hay and grain dealer. The suit names the 42 mem bers of the association as defendants and alleges that it fixes prices, deter mines margins of profits, sets the commission and regulates the busi ness dealings of its members Harle sons former firm, the Southwestern way and Grain company, was dropped from membership last fall because of non-payment of dues, the petition sets '"h; atn1 further charges that he has. not been permitted to operate either independently or as an em ploye of another firm since that time VILLAQUITSNOT YET Report He Has Sailed for Japan Em phatleally Denied. Laredo, Feb. 21. Francisco Villa has not gone to Japan on a secret mis sion but, with Manuel Pelaez. a leader operating in the Tampico district has Bone south of Mexico City to confer with Kmihano Zapata regarding a merger of forces, according to Villista adherents here, who usually are well informed on all revolutionary matters Villa is credited with the belief that a union of his forces with those of Za pata and Pelaez would result in a for midable revolutionary movement FUNSTON FUNERAL All Military Honors Possible Tribute to Dead. Body AVill Reach San Francisco Saturday Morning. GASKET ON ARMY CAISSON Thousands AVill March From Church to Presidio. AVill Lie in State 18 Hours in Frisco City Hall. San Francisco, Cal.( Feb. With all the military honors it js possible for his country to give, Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston, who droped dead at San Antonio Monday night, will be buried at the Presidio national cemetery in this city Saturday morn ing. For eighteen hours before inter ment the body will lie in state ini the big rotunda of the new city hall, where the people of San Francisco may view the last remains of the man whose work meant so much for the salvation of the city during the great fire of 1906. Maj. Gen. J. Franklin Bell, com manding the western department of the army, announced the funeral ar rangements today. The body, escort ed by Capt. Firzhugh Lee and six privates, will arrive from San Antonio Friday. It will be taken under mili tary escort to the city hall where the public will be given an opportunity to view it. A military and naval guard of thirty will be constantly on duty around the casket. Navy and Army Join. It is expected that the ceremonies Saturday morning will constitute the largest military funeral in San Fran cisco's history. AH the naval and military forces in the bay region, to gether with Civil war and Spanish war veterans and members of other patriotic societies, will march in the cortege. This will escort the body on a caisson to the First Presbyterian church where brief religious cere monies will be held. General Bell will personally command this escort. From the church the body will be taken directly to the cemetery and while interment is in progress a salute of thirteen guns will be fired at the Presidio. The honorary pall bearers will be Gen. William L. Si bert, Gen. J. P. Wisser; Gen. Oscar F. Long, Gen. R. K. Evans, Col. Ben jamin Alvord and Rear Admiral W. F. Fullam. M. F. RIGBY IS DEAD Veteran Topeka Candy Dealer Was in Business 35 Years. His Wares Are Known in Every Part of United States. M. F. Rigby, well known Topeka business man and a prominent mem ber of the Masonic lodge, died at his home, 719 Harrison street, early this morning. Apoplexy caused his death. Mr. Rigby came to Topeka thirty eight years ago and started immedi ately in the candy business. He re tired three years ago after his candies had become known' in all parts of the United States. M. F. Kiffby, veteran Topeka candy maker, who died today. He was born m Centerville, Ind., January 26, 1853. He came to To peka in 1879 and established a candy store on Kansas avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets. For fifteen years his business increased in this location and he raised three sons in the trade, associating them with him in the affairs of the store. Then he moved south on Kansas avenue to the present location of the Capital City Candy company, between Sixth ave nue and Seventh street. Three years ago he retired and sold his interests to the Capital City company. Mr. Rigby's candy orders came frcm every part of the country. To pefcans of the early days learned to pjeler his chocolates to any other ritke and even today the standing ore err. from former Topekans come from other cities and states.. He was prominent in Masonic cir cles. The burial will be in charge of No. 17. A. F. A. M., Friday after neon from the home, 7J9 Harri3on street. Burial in Topeka cemetery. Mr. Rigby is survived by three sens, a father, a brother and a sisier. One of the sons, W. O. Rigby, is post master in Topeka. Another, George E. Rigby. is conducting a candy busi ness on West Fifth street. The third son is Harry J. Rigby. His father, George Rigby, is 90 years old and lives in North Topeka. His sister, Mrs. Henry Herring, and his brother. T. H. Rigby, also live on the North side. -s S400.000 FOR A FOOD PROBE IS WILSONDEMAND Borah Wrarns Senate of Cry, "We Want Bread." No Justification for This Condi tion, He Asserts. SAY MANIPULATION THE CAUSE Congress Can't Adjourn Facing Deplorable Situation. Ready to Launch Investigations at 3f. Y. and Chicago, i Washington, Feb. 21. President 'Wilson is determined congress shall pass immediately the $400,000 appro priation which the federal trade com mission has requested for the nation wide food price proke he directed the commission- and the department of agriculture to make. It was stated officially at the White ITouse today that the president will give his personal attention toward swinging congress into line behind his food probe suggestion. He made this decision following receipt of news of the New York food j-iots. As a result administration leaders in congress today began lining up forces to compel congressional ac quiescence. Representative Borland, in the house and Senator Borah in the sen ate, arc expected to .lead the fight with the charge that there is uni versal conviction that food prices are subject to wide-spread manipulation. Cry of French Revolution. Senator Borah today demanded that Cc-igress remain in session until ade quate steps are taken to bring prices back to normal. "Congress cannot adjourn," Borah said, "so long as it is possible for us to be of any service in this deplorable, situation. 'We want bread was the cry of the French revolutionists as they marched to Versailles," Borah said. "It is the most ominous cry that can be heard in a republic and whatever is said as to the effect of the war on prices, the fact remains these people are in large measure the victims of speculators and combinations which are milching mil lions out of food. -'-'There is at the bottom of things no justification for this condition. Congress can not ignore the cries of hungry. The situation must be met at once." Bread and Meat First Targets. The federal trade commission has detailed plans completed for a sweep ing investigation into the New York and Chicago food markets, as soon as congress grants the necessary papers. Bread and meat prices and the pos sibility of their manipulation will be the first line of attack. Under present plans, grand jury in vestigations are to be carried on si multaneously. "Take Food Barons by Throat." In a debate in the senate on in creases in salary for government clerks, Senator Thomas (Democrat) of Colorado expressed the opinion that increases in salary were no cure for the increasing cost of living because, he charged, those who control food prices would raise them to keep pace with salaries. "That is not the way to remedy bread riots such as we are having In the metropolis of thts country," said Senator Thomas. "The way to deal with that is to take those who corner food supplies by the throats. I dis like to see food riots in free America, but I can see that it might be the first step toward relief." BELGIAN C0L0NYPLAN Cardinal Merrier Back of Deal to Lo cate 3,000 Families In California. San Francisco, Feb. 21. The pur chase of 50.000 acres in California and the settlement thereon of 3,000 Belgian families is the plan that has been introduced by the Vatican col onization board to James Slevin, papal knight, who lives here. In connec tion with It he has visited the Im perial valley in Southern California. Cardinal Mercier of Belgium was the originator he said, of the plan to establish Belgians in America. Be hind the Imperial valley plan, Slevin said, is a guarantee of $25,000,000 which will be enough to buy the land, bring at least 3,000 Belgian families to California, give a family 40 acres and provide support for a year and a half. PRESIDENT IS FOR IT Adherent of Universal Military Ser vice But Bills Not Satisfactory. Washington. Feb. 21. President Wilson is studying measures aimed to bring about universal military train ing and is understood to be anxious to find some plan he can ,support It was learned today that while the president has endorsed neither the senate military committee bill nor the one prepared by the war department, he believes in the general principle involved. The president will confer with Sec retary Baker late this afternoon. Both have been studying physical effects' of armyservice and are understood to' agree that some method should be adopted for extending this service to all men. TO WED RUSSIAN ATTACHE Secretary McAdoo's Daughter 'En- gaged to Embassy Secretary. Washington, Feb. 21. The engage ment of Secretary McAdoo's daugh- I ter. Miss Nona Hazlehurst McAdoo to 1 erdinand de Mohrenschildt. second secretary of the Russian embassy, was announced today. HERO SUCCEEDS HERO jf ft vv r

Gen. John THAT BONE DRY BILL The bone-dry bill, having passed both the house and the senate, goes to Governor Capper for his signature Thursday. If he signs it on that day it will probably be printed in the official state paper the State Journal 'Friday, and the moment it is published it be comes the law of Kansas. Governor Capper will sign it with the same pen used by Governor Moses of Idaho, in signing the prohibi tory law of that state. WHAT IT DOES. The bill makes it unlawful for any person, except ordained ministers and priests, to have in his possession for any reason, personal or other wise, any intoxicating liquor. Penalty: Fine of from $100 to $500 and a jail sentence of from 30 days to 6 months. The bill makes it unlawful for any common carrier or person to bring ...or hire brought into the state, even for personal use, intoxicating liquor of any description. Penalty: Fine of from $100 to $500 and a jail sen tence of from 30 days to 6 months. Wholesale houses carrying stocks worth $20,000 exclusive of alcohol may sell alcohol for medicinal, mechanical and scientific purposes to hos pitals, schools, manufacturers and to pharmacists who are actually en gaged in the retail drug business. If for any reason a court should hold any part of the act void such holding shall not invalidate any other portion of it. Another house bill passed by the senate immediately following the bone dry bill gives inquisitorial powers to all prosecuting attorneys they may call suspected individuals before them and force information re garding violations of the bone-dry law from them under threat of a jail sentence. Still another measure passed by the house and recommended for pas sage by the senate judiciary committee prohibits district judges, county commissioners and even the governor from granting paroles or pardons to violators of prohibitory laws. 400.000MOREMEN Lord of Admiralty Wants More U-Boat Fighters. 11,949 Ships Arrived and Left British Ports, Feb. 1 to IS. London, Feb. 21. "The submarine menace is grave and serious and is grdwing. It is not yet solved. buf-I am confident measures now being de vised will gradually mitigate its seri ousness," declared Sir Edward Carson, first lord of the admiralty, today. The cabinet minister made this statement in connection with his pres entation of the naval estimates to the house of commons today. One "of the provisions of the bill was for an in crease of Britain's sailors by 400,000. Ijord Fisher Restored to Staff. Sir Edward also announced that Lord Fisher, former first sea lord, had been returned to the admiralty staff. as president of a board -of inventions. This inventions board, he said, was part of an anti-submarine department which had been established, he ex plained, "with the best and most ex perienced personnel." During the period from February 1 to 18, the admiralty lord said, 6.076 vessels had arrived at ports of the United Kingdom and 5.873 had left ?nd this despite the German subma rine blockade. This was a total of 11,949 ships to and from British ports. "Since- the start of the war," Sir Edward continued, "we have examin ed either on the high seas or in har bors, 25,874 ships. This constitutes our blockade of Germany." Carson announced that the number of armed -ships had increased 47.5 per cent during the past two months. An increase in the number armed for defense against submarines is noted each week, he said. PERSHING APPOINTED Is Oflicially Informed of Promotion as Successor to Funston. El Paso, Feb. 21. Maj. Gen. John J. Pershing received a message today from Maj. Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief of staff of the United States army, an nouncing the appointment of General Pershing to be commander of the southern department, taking the place made vacant by Maj. Gen. Frederick lFunston's death. J. Pershing. I. G. C. TO BLAME Commission and Railroads Have Failed to Clear Way. Anarchy Unless Way Is Opened for Food Shipments. Chicago, Feb. 21. President J. P. Griffin of the Chicago Board of Trade today telegraphed- to "the interstate commission and to the presidents of eastern railroads, insisting that unless an immediate embargo is placed on all products eastbound out of Chicago except fuel and foodstuffs, the country will face the danger of anarchy and rioting. A meeting of directors of the board of trade, lawyers and traffic experts was held this afternoon to ascertain if legal means can be found to force the railroads an.l the interstate com merce commission to clear the situa tion, particularly as it affects Chi cago. I. C. C. and Railroads Failed. !'The commission and the railroads have failed in the crisis," said Mr. Griffin. "We are" trying to ascertain if the courts offer a solution." In his telegram to the railroad presidents, Mr. Griffin says: "Despite all your assurances no re lief has been af folded to move- grain and other food products out of Chi cago. The present scarcity of supplies borders on famine in many communi ties, with the consequent inflation of values directly chargeable to the fail ure of railroads to meet this national emergency. "I request that instructions be is sued forthwith by your prohibiting the movement of any freight at this time excepting foodstuffs, coal ana other commodities necessary to' sus tain human and animal existence." "Unless this is done, there is great danger of riot and anarchy thruout this land. The present situation is largely caused by railroads giving preference to commodities other than those necessary to maintain 'life. "Failure to meet the situation is squarely up to the railroads. In his telegram to the Interstate Commerce commission. Mr. Griffin gives a synop sis of the one sent to the railroad pres idents and asks: Puts It l"p Squarely to I. C. C. "None of the cures offered by the commission or railroads themselves have been or can be effective. It is MAYOR PROPOSES MILLION TO BUY F00DF0R POOR Moved by Kioting aiothers' Plea for Starving Children. Mass Meeting Sends Appeal for Relief to President. WILL PARADE H WALL STREET 6,000 Frantic Women in Wild est Protest Ever Held. 'In Midst of Plenty, Our Fami lies Are Starving." New Tork, Feb. 21. After Mayor Mitchel had been informed by East j side housewives today that their chil- j cbren were "starving to death by hun- dreds" because of the high cost of food, he promised to place before the j board of estimate on Friday their plea j that $1,000,000 be appropriated by the city to buy food for distribution at rea sonable prices. Mitchel said he would order the department of charities and the board of public health to make an immedi- i ate investigation, results of which would be reported to the board of in- vestigators at its meeting Friday. At this meeting the women were asked to be present. Most Dramatic Meeting. The meeting of the mayor and women was most dramatic. Poorly clad, with tears streaming down their faces, little children in their arms, they told the city's executive they would send some of their number to starve on the city hall steps until he gave them some Belief from the food prices. One by one they took their turns in telling their troubles. Some spoke in English and others in Yiddish, thru an interpreter. Mrs. Ida Harries, who led several hundred women in an assault on the city hall yesterday, started the speech making when she cried: "We want justice and mercy. We come to you because all the people elected you. We are good American citizens. Our sons would be willing and eager to fight America's battles, but they can't do it if they first starve to death. We deserve and we demand better treatment." Marie Ganz, "Sweet Marie," told the mayor that many persons are starving to death in New Tork every day. Speakers. Appeal "to Organize." New York, Feb. 21. The women of the New York tenements have taken the food situation into their own hands and planned a series of public demonstrations to convince the mayor and city officials that something must be done to reduce prices. One of the wildest protest meetings the city has ever known broke up early today, aft er making arrangements for a great parade of women and children to march all day thru Wall street and at night thru Fifth avenue; an appeal was sent to -President Wilson and a committee was appointed to demand that the city appropriate $1,000,000 to be used immediately for buying and distributing food among the poor at cost. Impassioned speakers called upon the poor of .the East side to or ganize and pledged the financial sup port of the Hebrew trades unions. Capitalists were blamed for the high cost of food on the ground that they were amassing wealth by sending food to Europe. Mass meetings and demonstrations continued today. The police were on the alert to prevent a fresh outbreak of rioting such as that of Monday and yesterday. Mayor Mitchel. who was absent when several hundred women tried to force their way into his office fContinueo on Page Twci TURN DOWN WILSON Senate Rejects His Request To Ratify Colombia Treaty. Washington, Feb. 21. The senate foreign relations committee today de- termined that the long pending treaty I to compensate Colombia for the par tition of Panama could not be ratified at this session. This decision was reached after President Wilson's let ter urging ratification had been read. Chairman Stone of the committee said he would make a formal state- I! ment later and make public the pres ident's letter. Another Powder Company Melon. New York. Feb. 21. The. Atlas Powder company toIay announced an extra dividend of three per cent on the common stock, together with the regular quarterly disbursement of two per cent. a fact beyond dispute that industrials generally are 'operating at from two to three hundred per cent above normal and securing such equipment as need ed. It is very apparent, therefore, that preference is given to freight paying the greatest revenue. i J "We are confronted with a national j emergency. I request In favor of the j people of this country that the com I mission forthwith issue an order in line with the request that I have made of eastern roads. "Failure to secure such an order as indicated is likely to result in a state of riot and anarchy, thruout this coun try and the consequences of the same will be directly chargeable to the I. C. C. and the railroads." Plenty of Grain But No Cars. Grain dealersfn Chicago have esti mated that there are now at least 30, 000,000 bushels of grain in Chicago elevators awaiting shipment, that there are at least 7,000,000 bushels in cars held in railroad yards and that, in addition tributary grain sections have an equal amount in elevators and on trains awaiting passage east. AN OLD PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON SELLS FOR $6,675 Philadelphia, Feb. 21. A portrait of George Washington by Charles Wilson Peale, brought $6.67 S at a sale here yesterday of furniture, paint j ings and colonial relics. The leather 1 trunk which Washington had thru the greater part of the revolution was sold for $400, and a portrait of James Monroe, painted by Rembrandt Peale, brought $3,500. AUCTIONMO. PAC. Railway System on Block To day at St. Louis. Kansas Lines Under Hammer in Topeka, February 23. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 21. The Mis souri Pacific railway was sold this afternoon for $16,151,000. The prop erty was bought by Robert H. Neil son and Duncan A. Holmes, both of New York, representing the re-organization committee of bondholders of the road. They were the only bid ders, bidding -just above the lowest figure set by the United States district court. To End Receivership. v St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 21. The prin cipal parts of the Missouri Pacific railway system were to be put up at auction at two sales here today. The Missouri Pacific proper was to be sold this morning at the freight station. The minimum price which the United States district court has fixed for the property is $16,150,000. That part of the system known as the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern is to be sold this afternoon the minimum price being $23, 600.000. Some of the Kansas lines of the Missouri Pacific will be sold at a separate auction at Topeka, Kan., on February 23. The three sales constitute almost the final step toward the ending of the Missouri Pacific receivership. The road went into receivership 1 in August, 1915. Plans for the reorgan ization have been approved by the Missouri Public service commission. If the sale is approved by the federal court, it is believed the receivership will end within a few weeks. SEARCH Rffl A BODY Topeka Officers Hear Man Was Mur dered ani Buried at Richland. The body of a man murdered two months ago is buried at Richland, ac cording to information in the hands of the Topeka police and Shawnee county officials. Two arrests have been made and the men arrested are being held without bonds. Bob Miler, acting sheriff: Robert D. Garver, courtv rro:eutor; Detec tive Alba and Harvey, Parsons, chief of police, left 'lo,eva at noon today in an automobile armed with spades. Upon their arrival in Richland, a number of arrests will.be made if the officers find the body of the man be lieved to have been murdered. All persons implicated are Mexicans. The information first came to De tective Alba, who has figured in a number of sensational cases. He was told thru some underground route that a Mexican laborer at Richland was murdered in a family row. The fellow's head was 'nearly served from his body, Alba was told. That same night, it is alleged, those implicated in the murder buried the dead man in a shallow grave. The next day they passed the grave and saw one of the fellow's feet sticking out of the ground. "It may be a wild goose chase." said Chief Parsons today, before leav ing, "but it behooves us to ascertain if there is any truth in the story." The names of the men arrested will not be divulged by the police. The fellows are being held on an investi gation charge and have not been tol-l that they are suspected of having Knowieage or tne alleged murder. WON'T COME HERE War Department Cannot Change Plans for Funston's Body. General Frederick Funston's body will not be brought to Kansas. Tele grams received by Governor Capper from Newton D. Baker, eecietary of war. announced that plans had been made for the Funston funeral before the Kansas legislature asked that the body lie in state in the capitol build ing in Tcpeka. Telegrams from the war department as well as from General Funston's chief of staff, stated that arrange ments had been made by Generals Bell and Pershing to take General Funston's body to San Francisco. -Bct on, Way to Frisco. San Antonio, Tex., Feb. 21 The body of General Funston is en route to San Francisco today for burial in the military cemetery at the Presidio. The special train bearing the body left here at 8:50 last night over the Southern Pacific. It is due in San Francisco at 1 o'clock Friday after noon. Captain Fitzhugh Lee, former aide to Funston, and a squad of enlisted men accompanied the body. TROOP A0FF FEB. 27 Announce Date Kansas Cavalry Leaves Border for Home. San Antonio, Feb. 21. Dates of departure for a number of national guard organization under recent orders from the war department for release of all state troops from Mex ican border- service were announced at Southern department headquarters today Troop A. Kansas cavalry at Llano Grande will leave February 27. Names Woman for Postmaster. Washington, Feb. 2 1. President Wilson today nominated a woman, Ca milla w. Adams, to be postmistress at East McKeesport, Pa- EVERY KANSAS HIGHWAY TO BE VELL GUARDED Motor Cars From Missouri Will j Be Under Inspection. Attorney General Preparing to Enforce Bone Dry Law. f GRIPS AND SUITCASES, TOO Thirsty Man in Union Station Must Be Watched. Ao Opportunity to Briag Boozo Into the State.' If reports around the state house are correct, the attorney general's of fice will make the new bone dry; liquor till mean something for the men who in former years have preached prohibition and enjoyed the comforts of a little bottle on the sideboard or in the cellar. Just at this time, it is asserted,' plans ere under consideration which will mean a detailed check on all automobiles crossing the state line into Kansas. Kansans who saw visions of avoidy ing provisions of the bone dry bill bjr bringing- home a private stock in a, motor car or in a grip when return ing from Kansas City, Mo., may be compelled to guess again. Under provisions of the bill, the state will act within the ,rov:..ons of the law by a' strict enforcement of the search and seizure provisions of the general statutes. In that case, peace officers will be permitted to inspect personal grips and suitcases and search auto mobiles for contraband wet goods. Supervision of Highways. It is believed probable that as soon as the bone dry bill becomes effective, the attorney general's office will order a strict supervision over all roads and highways leading into the state. In that case the man with a high -power automobile will find that he may be compelled to stop for inspection at the state line. A peace officer can not always determine whether the driver of an aut mobile is a lawyer, a doctor, a merchant or a minister with high regard for the law or a man with vvil intentions of fracturing some of the sacred provisions of the bone dry act. Inspection "of 'grips' fcahd suitcases' at Kansas stations is another matter which the man with a thirst must face. A suspicious peace officer may think that a man returning home from a quiet wee", end in Kansas City is bringing home too much exceRS baggage. In which event the officer will be acting within his legal rights to demand that the returning good citizen open his grip for inspection. And in case the good citizen has brought home a small private stock, he will be subject to all the unpleas ant provisions of the new bone dry liquor act. i TAKE HAND IN FiGHTj City Attorneys Now Will Assist la Running Down Bootleggers. j The bill giving all prosecuting attor neys inquisitorial rights in liquor cases which passed the legislature to day will mako the trade of the boot legger doubly precarious in Topekaj for it will enable the city attorney to get into the game. j "We have tried several times to cor. rect flagrant violations that have come under our notice," City Attorney George Hayden stated this morning. "But the offenders merely laughed at our efforts, knowing that we had r)( right to question them. The passage of the bill means the addition of new activities along this line to the city attorney. We will take an active part .in swatting the bootlegger!" iD0WN TO 10 TONIGHT Weather Man Still Insists Upon Bring ing Cold Wave. A cold wave on Washington's birth 1 day with snow, sleet or high winds has been a regular custom for many years in Topeka. Tomorrow the fatal day appears again and Meteorologist Flora predicts cold weather but he has no rain or snow hidden around his instruments for the benefit of the Kansas farmer. The forecast calls for partly cloudy and colder weather here in the north eastern part of the state tonight. It will be colder in the south sections Thursday. The shippers' forecast j (Continued on Page Two.) SHOE MEN FIGURE $10,000,000 AN INCH IN WOMEN'S SKIRTS Philadelphia. Feb. 21. Every inch added to (he length of women' dresses means a loss of f 10.000,000 s year to the shoe business, according to j A. ft. Anderson of Bosten, who last night told the delegates to tnc conven tion of the Penn9ylvi-n Retail Shoe Dealers' association vhey should co operate with the designers and keep the short skirts In fashion. J, "When we have short vkirts, we can make lovely high boots that are pleas ing to woman and giv her an added touch of beauty," said Mr. Anderson. "Such shoes are C03tlv but this is prosperous country and women who can afford expensive gewns wilt pay $20 for boots, provided they get style t and quality. This is true of the shop girl, too, in like ratio. This year the skirts are to be t, 7 and 8 Inches from the ground, which means that shoes J or boots are to be high."

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THE TOPEK-A DAILY STATE JOURNALr WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1917 VERDUN SIEGE. WORLD GREATEST, YEAR OLD TODAY Failure Sounded Death Knell to y German Hopes. i;00,00U of Her Best Soldiers 1 IMed on Gory Field. NO GAIN APPARENT NOW Both Annies Hold Positions They. Did a Year Ago. fTerdun "Defense Brilliant Page I in French History. j,BY HKXRY WCOD.) 1 With the French Armies at Ver dun, Feb. '21. One year aso today started the German ansa tilt on Verdun. -Twelve months of the must gigantic fsicge operations l-i the history of man j kind have passed and today the French occupy almost precisely the same positions they did at 7:15 a. m.. February 21, 191, when the German cuns befian their roar of artillery preparation. -Within one year Verdun has sound er the death knell of German's hopea .t of capture. Seven hundred thousand ijf her choicest soldiers have gone tro death in vain efforts to realize the fTrrman crown prince's fondest hopes. The quantity of war material utilized and destroyed in this titanic ..twelve months has been greater than ever so utilized in any preceding battle. FrciM-h Turn cm Besiegers. For the first time in history also, the defenders oC a beleaguered fort hs have withstood the maximum ef fort of their assailants and then, taking the offensive, fiemselves have completely liberated their citadel. This pa&e In French history has not be.t written, however, without tracing n mother earth marks that 'rcY take as many years to efface will bfe required to wipe out from ttoe rr.lnds of soi rowing thousands the memory of loved ones who went down in the glorious defense. 1 The battle field of Verdun breathes from every square inch of its surface the ineffaceable marks of the titanic smuggle that is still convulsing the erttlre soil. Some marks may be ob literated in time, but others, includ ing complete sterility of soil, may last forever. 2,600 Cannons Opened Attack. $.The roar of German artillery began arly in the morning on February 21, and before long resulted in a massing of pieces of all calibers that 'ftnally reached 2,600 in number, the! greatest artillery concentration in tne world's history. j r Verdun then was pastoral. Altho ranking as one of the world's great est fortresses, the whole aspect of the country was peaceful. 1 ts fortifica tions were hidden beneath rolling green hills. liut now a terrible mark stretches across what were these fair lands. It extends on both sides of the Meuse, marking on the north the line where the Germans began their assault and on the south by the line nearest Ver dun which they attained, tiraveyartl or Crown Prince's Hopes. It i.i a deep, black, blood soaked gash. It begins on the west bank of the, Meuse-at about Avourcourt and crossing the river, run to near Abau court. It-is between twelve and fif teen miles In .length. In width it varies from a few hundred yards at those points where the Germans made least headway to a maximum depth of three 'miles, where in their six months of struggling on the offensive the Germans made their greatest ap proach. Within the limits of this narrow, crooked strip of land are found Morthomme, Hill 304, f'row's wood, 'Oimieres, Douaumont, Thiau monL, Vaux. FJeury, Chenois and a score of other w-jods. Froideterre, I'epper hill and. a dozen other spots fought over for days and weeks and months. This fs the graveyard of the crown prince's hopes, too. There is nothing in this strip to meet the eye but shell churned mud and mud of such impalpable frag ments of earth, stone, timber and hu man bodies that n chemical analysis would be necessary to determine what He fracmpnts are. The strip is one vast pockmarked area. It is imp' nated with the decay in; flesh of its dead and with sltnipy, putrid water in the craters. A Million Dead Here. Those who died on this strip and the -number mounts to more than a million had little, if any chance of ever finding another grave. Any ef fort to carry off the dead meant tiirielv an additional sacrifice "of life. Before any human being could arrive I to carry off a dead soldier, it was far j more probable that the body would be i struck by a shell and driven deep into j the muddy, bloodstained earth. A lit- tfcv later another shell, close by, might j bring it again to the surface. Others! might scatter the human fragments I everywhere. lne elements of human flesh now Impregnate every cubic inch of this soil. Authorities doubt wheth er the strip will every again regain its fertility. They think for years to come it will show the horrors of the days that are past by its monstrous glaring lack of verdure, by its black shrivelled soil and its hideousness across the face of fields that will later i r Just 6 More Days to Join the Santa Fe Watch Co.'s GOLD NOTE SAVINGS CLUB Closes March 1 Pays 10 SaivtaTWafch(b. bloom and blossom. All the horror of Verdun is centered there. But if this tragedy and ghastliness is written broad on the strip, there are other portions of the field in gen eral where one might even be proud of what human genius and human will can accomplish if it were possible to forget the hideousness of the black gash. Gigantic Military Depot There. For miles back of the battle front the hills and valleys of the Meuse and of Verdun have been transformed into one gigantic military depot- To ap preciate what now exists back of Ver dun, it must be remembered that this great establishment did not exist at 7:15 a. m. one year ago. Instead of the scores of railway lines that now cross-check the whole contributory territory for twenty miles back, there was only one winding railway that led into Verdun. It must be remembered in place of the many bridges now spanning the Meuse, and scores of them the entire Meuse valley, there existed only the half dozen structures necessary to supply the needs of a peaceful, rural population. It must be remembered in place of the half dozen great railway military depots, many with scores of tracks, there formerly existed none. Nor were there hospitals, aviation camps, artillery parks, engineering depots, staff headquarters, troop barracks, cavalry sheds, munitions depots, garages and all the multitudinous services that make up the great army organization of today. Man Who Saved Verdun. Last, but not least, the battlefield of Verdun, as it stands today and above all those unending miles of perfected organization, bring sharply to mind the man who created it all. the man who built up the machinery to save Verdun. As a just recom pense, he now heads the French arm ies. He is building up the entire French front for a final victory, as he built up- Verdun. That man is General Nivelle. BONE DRY (Continued from Page One.) worship required it. It is his religious right to have it. It is de.aagoguery of the highest type to intimate that any church has encouraged intemperance. To drag the church and the commun ion table into this matter is to take a step in the dark and if we take it it will be at the behest of people of sec tarian prejudice or religious intoler ance. Senator Hilkey of Osage followed up with an argument along the same lines. Senator McCIain of Allen read the state constitution to prove that the legislature has no authority to, in fact i prohibited from, enacting any law that will interfere with religious free dom. After all the argument the Sutton motion to adopt the amendment was put and there was just one vote cast for it. Sutton cast it. Recognizing the attitude of the senate, but wishing to be on record as having tried. Sen ator Sutton offered the same amend ment all thru the bill and finally even he ceased voting for It. Tried to Belay It, Senator Gulick created a stir and considerable amusement when he of fered an amendment providing that the law shall become effective after its publication in the statute book in stead of the official state paper. That would delay bone-dry conditions for at least sixty or ninety days. But again the maker of a motion was the only senator who voted for it. Sen ator Price suggested in a spirit of lev ity that a secret ballot be taken on that motion. With the failure to make a single amendment the bill was placed on final roll calL Thirty-seven to one was the verdict There was a total absence of cheer ing or other demonstration. MAYOR PROPOSES (Continuel from page one) yesterday, promised to receive a com mittee today if it came quietly. Fight for Admission. A thousand or more women attend ed last night's mass meeting and at least 6.000 more fought to get into the hall. Two hours elapsed before there was order enough for the transaction of business. The following appeal to the president was carried with a shout: "We, housewives of the city of New York, mothers and wives of workmen, desire to call your, atten tion, Mr. President, to the fact that, in the midst of plenty, we and our families are facing starvation. "The rise in the cost of living has been so great and uncalled for that even now we are compelled to deny ourselves and our children the ne cessities of life. "We pay for our needs out of the wages of our husbands and the American standard of living cannot be maintained when potatoes are 7 cents a pound, bread 6 cents, Cab bage 20 cents, onions 18 cents, and so forth. "We call to you, Mr. President in this crisis, to recommend to con gress, or other authority measures for relief." Will Parade Wall Street. No date has been set for the pa rade on Wall street and Fifth avenue. The organizers say they expect to have several hundred thousand wo men and children in line. A move ment has been started to call a strike of school children living in the tene ments, on the ground that the high cost of living makes it necessary for all children old enough, to go to work. Germany Renews Threat. Berlin. Feb. 21. (via Sayville wire less) "It must be repeated again that whoever dares penetrate the barred zone, perishes," declared the official government press bureau to day in a statement, discussing the British claims that the submarine war has failed. CONSULSTESCAPP Score of U. S. Diplomats Finally Leave Germany. Party of 46 Cross Into Switzer land on "Way Home. Zurich, via Paris. Feb. 21. A score of United States consuls and govern ment agents with their families reached Zurich last :.ight after hav ing spent a more or1 less anxious week awaiting permission to leave Ger many. The arrivals consisted of i forty-six persons who had gradually assembled In Munich from which town they departed yesterday morn ing after the bulk of their baggage and papers had been examined. The party arrived in two sections, the firt warmly praising their treat ment by the Germans and the second containing members who complained bitterly over the enforced delay in their departure and also of having had to leave behind them papers, which the German authorities desire to submit to a more rigid censorship. The majority of the travelers, how ever, reported that they had received studiously courteous treatment and declared that the stringent resolu tions enforced were to be expected in view of the situation. Consul General Very Sick. In several instances the arrivals told of special favors that had been shown them during the last week. As far as could be learned, none of the party had any information about the fate of the Yarrowdale prisoners and knew only of contradictor;- German press reports. Left behind in Munich or elsewhere are Consul General Heaton W. Harris ct Frankfort, who is ill with infamma tion of the lungs and has been given a special assurance by the German au thorities that he can go to Copenhagen when he is able, and four other con suls and vice consuls. The majority of the consuls who have arrived here will go to Berne tomorrow or soon there after to await Instructions from Washington. Wants Consuls To Travel "In Cog." Washington, Feb. 21. Germany is Informing the United States thru the Swiss government that it will give every assistance possible to American consuls in Germany transferred to other posts. At the same time Ger many is understood to expect that the United States will help German con suls in the United States to proceed to new posts to which they have been assigned. Some time ago a number of German consuls in the United States were in structed to proceed to points in South and Central America. The names of the consuls or the places to which they had been transferred were not disclosed on the ground that they would have to travel secretly In order to avoid capture by British forces. Whether the German expectations refer to them is unknown here, the British and French government hav ing indicated that German officials in the United States would be permitted to go only to Germany. NO H. C. L PROBE Congress lialks on a $400,000 Appro priation for Investigation. Washington, Feb. 21. In the face of serious food rioting in New York City and despite grave food shortages thruout the country, congress has given "every evidence of balking at an appropriation for government investi gation of soaring prices. Unless the president personally ex erts pressure, the bill asking an ap propriation of $400,000 for the federal trade commission and department of agriculture to carry out the investiga tion urged two weeks ago by the president seems doomed for the scrap heap. Altho most members would say nothing for publication several who were questioned today declined to be Impressed, apparently, by the soaring cost of living. Their arguments gen erally are: "Why have another investigation? We just got thru with a $100,000 leak probe: we're threatened with another investigation to see if anybody is in fluencing newspapers to be pro-ally or pro-German. Why start another?" DOWN TO 10 TONIGHT Continued from page one) calls for protection of 36-hour ship ments against 5 degrees in the north, 10 degrees in the west and east and 20 degrees in the south. There is something doing in the Medicine Hat country. Flora says. It is 28 degrees below, zero there today. It went to 2 in Wyoming and 6 in South Dakota. That is the cold wave scheduled for Kansas but of course it will be superheated before it reaches us on Washington's birthday. Last year on George's anniversary we -had a drop of 25 degrees from 56 to 31 in a few hours. In 1915 ice, snow and sleet paralyzed telegraph and tele phone service. In 1914 the same con ditions prevailed on February 22. The wind will not blow thru the cracks tonight and the cold wave will be of a mild nature. The lowest tem perature last night was 27 degrees at 8 o'clock or 5 degrees above normal. UAILY WEATHEK REPORT. Furnished by the weather bureau office, Topeka. Kan., for the twenty-four hours enrtinp at 7 a. m. Wednesday. Stations. High. Low. Free. W'ther. Boston, Mass 40 22 0 Clear Buffalo, N. Y 2 14 0 Clear Chicago. Ill 24 22 T Clear Cincinnati, 44 2(5 0 Cloudy Concordia, Kan 34 '20 0 Clear Corpus Cnrlsti RO Tifi 0 Foggy Oenvor. Colo 44 40 0 Ciear Des Moines, la 24 20 o Cloudy Doilaji- Citv. Kan.. 50 30 0 Clear Puluth. Minn s 2 .04 Snow El Paso. Tex 02 34 0 Ciear Ft. Worth, Tex 70 52 0 Clear Galveston. Tex. ...'74 00 0 Cloudy Havre, Mont 2 12 .06 Cloudy Jacksonville, Fla.. 7S 64 .30 Cloudy Kansas city. Mo.. 32 20 .01 Clear Little Koek. Ark.. 70 44 0 Clear Log Angeles. Cal.. 54 "no .44 Rain New Orleans, La.. S2 04 .62 Cloudy Hew York, N. Y... 42 24 0 Clear X. Platte. Neb 42 2(i 0 Clear Oklahoma City W 40 0 Clear Phoenix, Ariz 2 38 0 Clear Pittsburg, Pa 32 22 0 Fnir Portland. Ore 40 BO .28 Rain St. Joseph. Mo 28 22 0 Clear St. Louis, Mo 3 30 0 Fair St. Paul. Minn 12 S T Cloudy Salt Lake. Utah... .18 24 .02 Cloudy San Francisco 52 48 1.00 Kain Sanlt Ste. Marie... 12 14 O-Clear Seattle, Wash 40 S4 .12 Clear Sheridan, Wyo 42 2 .02 Clear Spokane. Wash 3 21 T Clondy Swift Current, Sas. 10 28 04 Clear Tampa, Fla 7S i 0 Clondy Toledo, 0 32 10 0 Clear TOPEKA, KAN... 35 27 0 Clear Washington. 1. C. 4S .".0 .20 Clear Wichita. Kan 44 32 0 Clear Winnipeg, Man..., 2 10 -IS Cloudy HOGS SMASH RECORDS K. C. Market Opens With $12.95 Offer for Porkers Today. Chicago, Feb. 21. Hogs smashed all previous high prices by nearly a quarter of a dollar today, when the market opened at (12.95 per hundred pounds. Pigs sold at $11 per hun dredweight. The prices are the high est since the Civil war. Jumps 30 Cents at St. Louis. East St. Louis, 111., Feb. 21. The local hog market jumped 30 cents to day for a new high record in porkers. The top on second sales was $12.95 a hundred, the highest in fifty years. Pigs sold at $11.50. 500 DIEjN WRECK Fire and Explosions Follow Terrific Railroad Crash. Frenzied Var Refugees Fight in Rumania Catastrophe. Berlin, Feb. 21. There were ap proximately 2,000 persons killed or injured in the recent railroad acci dent near Chirurcha in northern Ru mania, according to the Moscow newspaper Russkoye Slovo, as quoted by the Overseas News agency. "Five hundred persons were in stantly killed. The train Jumped the track and the cars were telescoped," read the summarized account. "Fire broke out at once in several places and a panic ensued. Fathers and mothers pushed their children aside in effort to save themselves." says the Russkoye Slovo. "Men push ed women into Ihe fire, women and men attacked each other with teeth and finger nails. Others lost their minds and ran into the burning cars. Then ammunition on board the train began exploding, killing many per sons." An Overseas News agency state ment on January 28, based on ac counts in the Russkoye Slovo, report ed more than 100 Rumanians of high rank killed in the Chirurcha train wreck. The train was carrying Ru manian refugees to Russia. BIG LINER RISKS IT First American Passengers Ship to Europe Since Feb. 1. All Other U. S. Vessels Cancel Sailing Dates. New York, Feb. 21. The first American line steamship to leave this port since the "German submarine warning was issued the Mongolia today is past Sandy Hook and on her way to Eu rope. She was followed closely by the American freighter Al gonquin. Both are bound for London and are the first American vessels to sail from here for a British port since Germany's warning. Officials of the American line, were 'reticent over the sailing of the Mon golia, refusing even after she had been seen to pass out of the harbor, to ad mit her sailing. She is a vessel of 13, 639 tons, and is an out and out Ameri can vessel, having been built in this country and never having flown any flag except the American. No at tempt was made to disguise her. She is painted in regular colors with her name an d registry painted on her sides in huge letters. The captain of the Mongolia is Edward Rice, an American. Remove Freight From the St. Louis. All sailings of passenger vessels have been cancelled by the American line. Shippers have been notified to take freight out of the hold of the St. Louis, where It has been lying since February 3. when her sailing was postponed. The Philadelphia is expected to take her place alongside the St. Louis, New York and St. Paul when she arrives here tomorrow from Liverpool. Speculation today as to the prob able cause of the cancellation of American line sailings, was along two different lines. One was that it might mean the final decision of the govern ment not to aid in arming ships fly ing the American flag. The other was that the present international crisis had caused the government to notify the ship owners that they might be needed for auxiliary work. The Phil adelphia and the New York, under the names 'Harvard and Yale, were so used in the Spanish-American war. hold Practice shoot Battery A Boys Will Train Guns on Targets Tomorrow Morning. Weather permitting, a detachment of Battery A. Topeka's military or ganization, will hike out to the re form school tomorrow morning for sub-caliber practice. Superintendent Charles has volunteered the use of the school rifle range and the big field pieces will be placed on the range for firing. The guns will be laid out and han dled exactly the same as in regular service firing by means of a small at tachment placed in the bore of the pieces. A service 30-caliber cartridge is fired instead of the regular 3-inch shell. All members of the battery who can arrange it should be present. Lieut. James C. Hughes, -who will conduct the firing, has requested that visitors stay at least fifty feet from the guns while practice is in progress. The non-commissioned officers will have an opportunity to display their ability to act as officers. The firing will begin at 10:30 o'clock in the morning. WON'T DROP CHARGE Federal Grand Jury to Probe Paper Makers, Despite Concession. New York, Feb. 21. The federal grand jury investigation of the price of newsprint paper, it wan announced to day, will be resumed here next Mon day, irrespective of the arrangements being made in Washington for an amicable settlement of the dispute between publishers and manufac turers. Pass New York Suffrage Amendment. Albany, N. T., Feb. 20. The wom an suffrage amendment bill was pass ed by the essembly today, without de bate by a vote of 124 to 10. Colds tHN MdwhM and Crip. LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE remove, cause. There is only one "Kromo Quinine." K. W. GROVE'S signature ou box. 25c A U-BOAT BOAST Transport "Crowded With Men" Sent to Bottom. Sereral Others Sunk in Mediter ranean, Declares Berlin. Berlin. Feb. 21. A large number of hostile vessels, among them an Italian transport crowded with men, have been sunk in the barred zone in the Mediterranean within the past few days, the Overseas News agency an nounces Other ships sunk by submarines are enumerated by the news agency as follows: Two armed steamers of 3,000 and 4,500 tons, respectively, with Impor tant cargoes for Saloniki. Italian Oceania, 4.200 tons. French steamer Montventoux, 3,200 tons. j i i ciii.ii Bxiiiii veaaei Apuruune, 600 tons, with iron for Italy. "The newspapers," observed the agency, "note that the real submarine successes undoubtedly have been much larger, as the majority of the submarines have not yet reported. The paralysis of neutral navigation also rnust be taken into consideration." Oceania Was From New York. The Italian steamer. Oceania, of 4,217 tons gross. left New York on January 27 for Gibraltar. The French steamer, Montventoux of 3,233 tons, probably the vessel mentioned by Berlin was last reported leaving Car diff on December 8 for a port not stated. British Ship Sunk. London, Feb. 21. Lloyds announces that the British sailing ship, Cen turion, has been sunk. Her crew was landed. The Centurion was a vessel of 1,828 tons. Captain Reports Dorothea Lost. St. Johns, Feb- 21. Captain Brad bury, of the Newfoundland schooner. Rose Dorothea, reported to the own ers here today .that the vessel had been sunk by u German submarine and the crew landed at Lisbon. The message sent from Lisbon, gave no other details. London dispatches yesterday gave the schooner's name as Dorothy. The Rose Dorothea which was returning from Oporto, Portugal, with fishery salt, formerly was owned at Prince town, Mass., but was bought last year by Campbell and McCay of this city to engage in tne lish-carrying trade between St. Johns and European ports. Paris Reports 5 Sunk. Paris, Feb. 21. The sinking of the following vessels was announced offi cially today:, "Minas, on February 16; Skogland, on February 18; Giuseppi, on Febru ary 18; Guido, on February 19; Ros alie, on February 20. MARRIED FOR 28TEARS Now Mrs. Hat tie Carson Wants a Di vorce From Husband. After twenty-eight years of married life and after her two children had become of age, Mrs. Hattie Carson, 1134 North Jackson street, has decid ed to return to a life of single bliss. Today, she filed a petition for a di vorce from her husband, David L. Carson, a clerk in the postoffice. Car son is making a salary of $100 a month, according to the petition. In her petition, Mrs. Carson charges that Carson has threatened her and hasn't treated her daughter, Enid Carson, in a loving manner. They were married May 9, 1889. Mrs. Carson figured In a sensa tional sanity hearing in the probate court a number of years ago- Dozens of witnesses were dragged into court by the Harleys, who swore to the lunacy complaint, and by Mrs. Carson, who established her sanity to the sat isfaction of the jury. The Harleys have left the country since. They lived near the Carsons, who at that time, resided north of Topeka. Dur ing the trial it was shown that guns and knives had been brandished by the two families during the time a feud existed between them. Lioise Dell Mack filed a petition for divorce from her husband, James W. Mack. Gross neglect of duty and abandonment are charged irv the pe tition. Mrs. Mack asks for the cus tody of her three children. The Macks were married May 9, 1899. GRAPHOPHONES SPIES? British Inspectors Seize Stock or Rec ords on l-mbassy Ship. Halifax. Feb. 21. On the double grounds that talking machine records might carry code messages containing valuable information for the German military authorities while the material of which they are made might be used to help relieve Germany's hard rubber scarcity, a large quantity of such records found in possession of the German officials returning horn from the United Stat, s on the Fred erik VIII will be confiscated by the British authorities, it was learned here today. In searching the belongings of the Germans, it was taid the immigration officers noted the stock of records included. The Germans contended they had them simply for their love of music, but the British ruled that they constituted contraband. BUD FISHER IN COURT Wife Has Complaint Against Him Trouble Kept a Secret. New York, Feb. 21. Mrs. Margaret Pauline Fisher, who in 1912 eloped and married Harry C. (Bud) Fisher, cartoonist, has filed a summons against him in the supreme court. Her complaint has not yet been drawn up. There is nothing in the paper filed which indicates the na ture of the action. The summons was served on Fisher. Before her sudden marriage Mrs. Fisher was a dancer in vaudeville. In June. 1913, her throat was cut so that twenty stitches had to be taken in it at an Atlantic City hotel. She said she had fallen in the bath room on a pitcher and cut herself. In 1914 she received internal injuries in an automobile accident. Sisters Burned to Death. New Rork, Feb. 20. Mrs. Ad'die Craver. 3., and her sister, Mrs. Eliza beth Graves, 42, were burned to death. Miss Delia Farley, 62 and Herbert Kelly, are believed to be dying and six other persons had narrow escapes when fire swept a three-story apart ment house here today. A defective furnace is blamed. C0NV1CTSF0R PRINTERS Missouri Bill For Prison To Do All State Printing Passes House. Jefferson City, Mo., FeU. 21. The house today passed the Gardner pris on reform bill which includes the pro vision for all state printing by con victs which the senate Monday re fused to insert in its prison bill. House sent to engrossment the cor poration franchise tax bill, placing a tax of $1 per $1,000 of capital and surplus of Missouri, corporations. The administration hopes to raise more than $1,000,000 thru this levy. The senate also sent the bill to engrossment. AFTER BRITISH CONSUL Cliarge A. Carnegie Ross Conspired to Violate American Neutrality. San Francisco. Feb. 21. That an indictment against A. Carnegie Ross, British consul-general here, on charge of conspiracy to violate American 1!.. i. in .A 2t 1 1 fVl t hv T T Tl 1 1 lieu u aui, ra j a.o.ao Tiatriit Aitnrnp.v Preston soon was reported authoritatively this aft ernoon. Preston nimseu reiusea w nnnlirnl n r H?!V thft rfiDOrt but Said that "an ;mportant defendant is soon to be added to tne list ot tnose an nounced." WON'T BE "BONE DRY" Proposed Prohibition Bill Up Before Nebraska Legislature Next Tuesday. Lincoln, Neb.. Feb. .31.- The Ne braska prohibition bill was read in the lower house today and was made a special order of business to be taken up Tuesday, February 27. Supporters of the bill are confident that it will be adopted. The bill now before the house is drastic, but it Is not consid ered bone dry. Provisions are made allowing citi zens to keep a limited amount of li quor in their homes, comb, .shrdletaoshrdl shrdl cmfw h TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, Feb. 21. WHEAT Bearish sentiment developed in the wneat market today largely as a result of assertions that improvement in the railway situation would not meet the hopes which had re cently prevailed and that the roads would be again overcrowded. Unwillingness to hold risks open over a holiday tended also to curtail buying. In addition yesterday's bulge, had reduced the short interest and left the market in a position to respond readily to pressure. Opening quotations, which ranged from the same as yesterday's finish to l'A cent lower, with Mav at 1.7i to $1.80, and July at $L0O to $1.51, were followed by a decided general setback. Prices closed unsettled c to lc net lower, with May at $1.78 to $1.7S, and July at $1.51 to $1.51i. Prospects of enlarged shipments from the country tended to weaken corn. Buy ers were scarce. After opening unchanged to c lower, prices underwent a moderate sag all around. Oats gave way with other cereals. A big elevator company led the selling. Sharp advances in the hog mar ket lifted provisions. Demand, however, was not urgent. The depressing outlook for rail ship ments from 'hleago prevented the market from recovering. Prices closed nervous at M(dc to c net decline. Chicaco CnUa Market. (The range of prices for grain futures on The Chicago Board of Trade as re ported by Empire Commission Co 301 New England Bids.) Chicago, Keb. 21. Close Open High Low Today Vest. WHEAT-- Mav ..17!! ISO 177 Vi 178 ISO July ..ino 55114 1S014 IMM, 102 Sept. ..laOVi 139 138 139 U0K COKN May ..101 102 101 10H4 102' .In Iv -.10014 10014 99 lOOVs 10014 OATS May 57 57T4- B7H 57 57 July 05 581.J 54 55s 50, PORK May ..30.75 30. S5 30.63 30.B5 30.50 July ..30.10 30.25 30.05 30.07 30.00 Kansas City Grain Market. (The range of prices for grain futures on The Kansas City Board of Trade as re ported by Empire Commission Co 301 New England Bldg.) Kansas City, Feb. 21. Open High Low Today Yes. WHEAT Mav ..178 178H 176 17714 17814- July ..14S 148 147 147 J4K Sept. ..130 13014 13014 130! 130 CO UN May 9!!4 9'4 9r W July 9814 9K4 97 SVi 9 Sept, 93-- 95.- 94 95 95- Chicago Produce Market Chicago. Feb. 21. BUTTER Market lower. Creamery 32(&41c. EOS Market firm. Firsts. 41Vjc: ordi nary firsts, 39g40c; at mark, cases in cluded. :!9i,fti41c. POTATOES Market higher. Wisconsin and Michigan whites. S2.50&2.(i3; Idaho, Colorado and Washington and Oregon whites. $2.7.Vft2.0. POULTRY Alive unsettled. Fowls, 21c; springs. 20c. Grain GBlp. (Furnished bv Empire Coinmisiion Co., 301 New England Uldg.) Minneapolis wheat stocks have decreased 90,000 bushels the past three days. Australian exports of wheat in Kansas City decreased 112.5K4 bushels Monday and corn stocks increased 4,000 bushels. Thursday, February 22, Washington's birthday, will be observed as a holiday by all American grain, cotton and stock mar kets, v. Exports from the United States anil Can ada yesterdav were 255.000 bnsbels of wheat, 12,000 barrels of flour. 78.000 bush els of corn, 305,000 bushels of oats, wheat and flour combined, 309,000 bushels. Stocks of wheat in Chicago elevators decreased 105,000 bushels last week and how amount to 3.754.000 bushels; corn. 4.55H.000 bushels, increase 33H.O00 bushels; oats 20,379,000 bushels, decrease 7O.1.000 bushels. A year ago stocks were 3.H59.0U0 bushels of wheat. 0.273,000 bushels of corn and 6.479.000 bushels of oats. Kaasaa City Produce Market Kansas lity, Feb. 21. WHEAT Tash Market lc to 2e lower. No. 2 uarU, $1.85r l.M; No. 3, l.S3il.sr; No. 2 red, L87; No. 3, Sl.Sl&l.iiS. CORN Market Kteadv to Ve lower. No. 2 mixed, SVj(S''; No. OwftVi'-; No. 2 white, 9U; No. 3, 7&i9titec.; No. 2 yellow. 9ai4e; No. 3, 99-. OATSMarliet steady. No. 2 white, 5,H4 tii.TOe: No. 2 mixed, Si&ibc. KYB $1.42r 1.43. KAFIR A.VO MILO MAIZE $2.37(2.50. HAY Urn-hanged. BHAN tl.7lxhl.73. SHORTS 1.K05 1.(3. WHEAT Receipts. 50 ears CLOSE: WHEAT May, L77V4; July, $1 47"H September. $l.:tL X)RN May. c; July, 8M14c: Sentem- hber. Kir. r!i TTr. t( Mantel uncnanjreo. POULTRY Market unchanged. F.tiGS Firsts 37c. Chicago- Grain Market ChiraBO, Feb. 21. WHEAT Close May, M Thfl 4 1.01foV.; Sept. S139VS. CORNMaT.-L0H4: Julr- l OATS 57SIS"1-'': July. 5Bt V. PORK Mjri:.3B: July. W.0T. LARI May. S17.H0; July. 17.:. SHORT RIBS May. $10.27; July, $10,10. Xn York Bazar Market New York, Feb. 21. SI'OAR Raw. easy; centrifusal, 5.27: molasses. 4.40" refined, steady: fiue granulated, $7.257J0. New York Stock Market Wall St.. New York. I-Vh. -1 STOCKS Additional early gains included Reading and other coalers at advances of one to two points. New Haven, meanwhile, in creasing its gain of points. Montana is strongest or the utilities, rising six points, and National Enameling gained 2 on resumption of the dividend. In ottier parts of the list movements were contrary. United States steel and crucible steel yielding one to'two oiiits, with Bald win locomotive, industrial alcohol, and diKtlllers' secuuities. Gulf states steel fell five points. Shippings also were reaction ary, marine preterred and Atlantic gulf and West Indies losing between 2 and 3 point,. Bonds were irregular. Early prices in the stock market today indicated underlying firmness, tho th more substantial gains were confined to specialties. Gains of one to two points were made by continental can. general motors, national enameling. American sug ar, Mexlcun petroleum and New Haven, the latter being most active of the rails. Fractional advances were scored by t-cntral leather and the coppers, while United States steel reacted slightly ou an btttiul sale of 5,000 shares. Marine preferred de clined lVa points and Texas company 114. with fractional recessions in crucible steel aud American smelting. Kansas City Live Stock Sales. (The following sales were made this morn ing at the Stock Yard. Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal bv Clav Robin- Bon Co live stock commission mer chants.) Kansas City, Feh. 21. CATTLE Re ceipts 5.500 head.--Market steady. HOGS Receipts 11.000 head. Market, 10j 20V higher. Bulk of sales $12.25(312.BO. Top. $12.90. SHEEP Receipts 10.000 head. Market 10(B.15c higher. Lambs. $14.!5. KILLINO STEERS. No. wt. Prtce.lNo. Wt. Price. 12 1059 $10.25 1( 1401 $11.35 '-'4 1249 10.90 82 1157 10.K0 39 1KB 10.55 03 1105 10.53 25 874 8.85 19 1014 8.30 COWS AND HEIFERS. 1 1130 10.50 20 tif,2 9.50 1 1010 5.50 4 930 6.00 2..I.. S30 5.40 1 1410 9.00 1 900 0.2.S 1 910 fi.75 2 S5 7.25 7 1051 s.l 10 700 8.00 4 1(127 0.75 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 23 883 8.30 I 40 597 7.00 11 770 7.40 f BULLS 1 1210 8.00 4 800 5.75 3 1130 5.00 HOGS. 9.1 110 12.25 I 40 274 12.70 2 90 10.25 Kansas City Live Stork Market Kansas City, Feb. 21. HOGS Receipts 11.000. Market 15c to 23c higher. Bulk, $12.3512-80. Heavy, f 12.75ft 12.85. Pack ers and butchers, $12.40(S.i2.80. Light, $12.00a 12.55. Pigs, $10.0011.50. CATTLE Receipts 5.500, including 200 southerns Market steady to strong. Prime fed steers. $11.00(Vfll.75. Dressed beef steers, $!l.0C?T11.00. Western steers, $.00gll.35. Southern steers, 7.00(ii 9.75. tows, $5.50(39.50. Heifers. $7.00 11.00. Stackers and feeders. $7.2.""(3 10.25. Bulla. $6.50(39.00. Calves $7.00(13.25. SHEEP Receipts 8.000 Market steady to strong. Lambs, $13.25(S14.H0. Yearlings $13.00(S 13.60. Wethers. $11.00012.25. Ewes. $10.75(0.12.00. Stockerj and feeders, $7.00 fel4.25. Chicago Live Stock Market. Chicago, Feb 21. HOGS Receipts 38.000. Market strong, 20c to 25c above yesterday's average. Bulk. $12.00(ft 12.80. Light, $12.10 J2.75. Mixed, $12.40(S 12 95. Heavv, $12.40 ft 12.95. Rough, $12.4012.50. Pigs, $9.00 fell.OO. CATTLE RecVipts 15.000. Market, strong. Native beef cattle, $7.85,11.85. Stockers and feeders, $0.25(89.00. Cows and heifers, $5.15ft,10.20. Calves, $9.25yi SHEEP Receipts 10.000. Market, strong. Wethers, $10.8512.25. Lambs. $12.40(g 14.80. TOPra MARKET REPORT. Topeka Grain Marks.' (Furnished by T. J. Blllard. corner 'Kansas Ave. and Curtia St.! Topeka. Kan., Feb. 21, 1917. WHEAT $1.65ai.70. CORN $1.00. OATS 50ft,5Sa Poultry, Err" and Butter. (Furnished by the Topeka Pat-king Cow pany, corner Laurent and Madison. I Topeka, Kan., Feb. 21, 1017. HENS 3 Iba. and over, 17c;. under PEARL T .Today at 3 M iff ht 7 :46- :U k Where They Hare the Best VAUDEVILL And the First Episode of PEARL of a iniv fcaa-r ntB GRAND pa Children 5c Any seat 10c ORPHEUM TODAY AND TONIGHT WILFRED LUCAS "JIM BLUDSO" Fin''MtrlL,SpSrH COMEDY "MALE GOVERNESS" TOMORROW, FRIDAY AXD SATURDAY THELMA SALTER and FRANK KEEN AN "The Crab in STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Result Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Lire Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yarda. Kan. City We Also Hare Oar Owm Offloea Port Worth and E3 Paao.. S4 lbs.. 14c: springs, over 2 Ib TTe: ducks. 10c; geeae. 8c: broilers. 2 lbs. and under. lSc; old rooBters. 9c: staggy young rooster. 1 Cattt aad Hoes I Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co.! Topeka. Kan., Feb. 21, 1917. Hoirs MIXEI AND BUTCHERS $10.00f 12.0O HEAVY lorn i.o. 900(511714 7.00(0 8.00 LIGHT PIGS Steers Good to choice... Fair to good;.... 50 to 7.25 fiXO to 6.0U Cows Gncwt n HaIm ICR fiO to 4130 Fair to good 4.50 to B.50 Common to fair 3.50 to 4.25 Ilelfera Good to choice to on to 7 tw hair to good o'w to o.uu Common 4.00 to 4.f J nulls Fleshy $5.50 to .2S Medium 6.00 to 5.23 Veal cslvca Prime fat as w to 10 on Medium good 50 to 8.00 Fair 4.00 to d.00 Sheen snn Inmbi Fat ewes .$7. no to Fnt wetherB 8 00 to s no 9.00 Fat lambs 9.00 to lO.on Shorn lambs and rheep 2c under above prices. (Positively canot use Bheep or lambs unless fat.) Flutter "fid Kris. (Furnished by the Beatrice Creamery Cow Totteka, Kun.) Topeka. Kan., Feb. 21, 1917. CHICAGO EGOS 42c. NEW YORK EGOS 45Wlfne. CKF.AMKRY BUTTER Chicago. 41-e; New- York. 45c: Elgin. 42c; Topeka whole sale, 39c Topeka Hsy Market. iFuruisbed by T. A. 1'vck. 112-14 East 6th.l Topeka, Kan., Feb. 21, 1017. PPARir HAY S0.00. AI.FALFA $17.00. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage proves it, 25c at all druggists. ipniil R. I Siiiiniij TT Seventh and Qulncy Sta .WLii.iLi..i. 11 i TODAY TOMORROW E2 E William Duncan and Mary Anderson, in EE j THE LAST MAN A Story of the Outpost of S-J Civilization 771 "Movie Fans will r?memfer ZZZ ZZZ Wm. It-iinc-an as the man who 1 fought Wm. Farnum In the nev- SSI er-to-le-forgot ten fight In the "Spoilers." r 7- Also tv Funny Luke Comedy US Z Hrhrdule CS 2:13, S:43, 7:15, 8:43. 10:15 iill!liillllllIlllll!illlil!ilHIiili)lllil!lin1 CCY7W -today VVZ-i 1 TOMORROW An tnusual Photo-Play with" V" KTHRIj IAYTOV "THE MAIJN ESS OK H ELEN" Kmmett Campbell Hall wrote thin wonderful nUry ho ur pattMintcly beautiful, so amas. air ly mysterious and so full of thrills that, to tell any part of It would he rob bin g you of some bis moment whirh must come as a surprise. 3? ARMY" TODAY Grand n,ua, Feb. 26 DADDY LONG LEGS l"TWtSUS-tW KMC OHM SLAVMm OSCACO PRICES 60e to 1.50. Mall Now. Heats Friday. lrs Feb. 23-24 31 ATI N KR SATV'll DA Y Tho Kmlm-nt Aelor JOHN.E. KELLERD, in SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS Ith Cliarlra 15. lfanfortl. Cicorsfana Wilson and an l.xccllrnt Cast SKATS NOW AT ROWLEY'S Night. Floor SI.50-S1, .Mat., Floor tl-75e; Bal. Hal. 7!o-ft0p, ftO ial. !5c Children So Any Heat 10c The 7-year old artrem a decided suorew with the Fa mous player, Kecnan. at Chacaco. Ho. 8. Joaepl h. So. tenia,

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1Q17 3 OPPOSEPREilUMS Retail Clothiers Want Legisla ture to Abolish Stamp EtH. Fred Voiland Elected Vice President of Association. Emporia. Kan., Feb. 21. Premium schemes and trading stamp entice ments were hammered from all sides at the annual meeting of the Kansas Clothiers' association which closed here Tuesday and the organization went on record as being unanimously opposed to all trading schemes. It went further than this and every member in attendance at the meeting wired his representative in the legis lature to vote for the bill that will tax the evil out of the state if it is passed. Speeches were made against in! trading stamp evil by a number of delegates and William Allen White gave his views on the subject to the clothiers, explaining why all premium schemes should be avoided both by the public and by business concerns. One speaker asserted that only one wholesale grocery house in Kansas is now giving premiums. Prices To Stay II iff h. The meeting of the association was one'of the most successful ever held. Initial steps were taken towards adopting a code of ethics which every member will be expected to live up to in dealing with his trade and a Men's Apparel clab, composed of rep resentatives of wholesale concerns doing business in Kansas was organ ized. The clothiers discussed the styles and prices for the future and it was the general opinion that prices will re main about stationary for the next year but that they may fio higher aft er that. Textile representative.-; who. discussed the dye situation srate-1 tnnt within a year and a half American manufacturers are confident they v-ill be able to produce fast dyes just as cheaply as Germany ever produced thtm. Already the manufacturers are making dyes enual in quality to those produced by Go many, but so far it has not been possible to turn them out as cheaply. The New Officers. The following officers were elected for the coming year: Edward H. Johnson of Atchison, president; Fred Voiland of Topeka, first vice presi dent; Richard Auer. Goodland,' second vice president; L. W. Lawson of Mc pherson, secretary and treasurer; di rectors, Robert MacVicar of Wichita; Philip Hostettler of Hutchinson; Sam uel Holden of Cherryvale; delegate to national convention to be held in June at Chicago, Lafayette Jones of Ottawa. The next convention will be held at Hutchinson. ATHOL 0IL BOOM Company Has Been Formed to Develop Smith Co. Prospects. the town with electricity, and gives first class service. Traces of Oil Have Been Found at Depth of 25 Feet. HOLD XEAV (OlIST HOUSE. Slicriilan County Commissioners Em- j loy loiicica Architect. i Hoxie, Kan., Feb. 21. The county f commissioners of Sheridan county I made a contract with Williamson Co., architects, of Topeka. to prepare plans for the court house which the voters of Sheridan county authorized at the November election. The commissioners have decided1 i that the plans shall be for a fireproof! i building of modern design and ar- rangenient, and with sufficient stor- j ase vault room to last the county for i a generation. They will have $60,000 I I to spend on the building, if necessary, .and the architects think a suitable .court house can be built for that sum. KILLED BY A THEE LIMB. Man Who Escaped Death in Trenches Meets It mopping Wood. j Lyndon, Kan., Feb. 21. A falling limb from a tree on the Harnie farm, southwest of here, has done what German shelis sweeping the English i front in France for. eighteen months i failed to do. As a result, James Mur- i phy. former Irish infantryman, and j more recently a woodchopper em- i ployed here, is dead. j A limb from a walnut tree crashed forty feet to the ground, crushing I Murphy's skull. The tree was to have I been worked up for gun stocks. Athol, Kan., Feb. 21. A dozen or more representative business men and citizens of this Smith county town have organized a home company for the purpose of prospecting for oil and gas. An organization has been effect ed with Geo. W. Douglass, president; L. N. Rowe, vice president; J. G. Al bright, secretary, and C. G. Hutchin son, treasurer. Several- thousand acres of land have already been leased in the vicinity of Athol. Experts have been here and made tests and report favorably. There is considerable excitement over the finding of traces of oil and the samples are already on exhibition. Traces of oil were found at a depth of 2 5 feet. Douglass Prominent Man. Mr. Douglass, the president of the organization, is at the head of the ele vator of Douglass Rice. For many years he was at the head of the Athol Co-operative Grain company. Athol bids fair to enjoy a business and building activity this year. O. H. Munger, druggist, is getting ready to put up a business building, 25 by 80 feet. L. N. Rowe, for several years a prominent hardware and implement dealer, has made extensive invest ments in Louisiana. He also owns several hundred acres of Smith county lands. Since the oil excitement has broken out here he will stay and help develop the recently discovered oil traces A. C. Mead is among the newcom ers to Athol. He owns a larpe garage, and furnishes the power fon lighting Mjrgk. VT -Wf W!&S T5'c HE man or woman that "puts on airs" ain't half as attractive as one that's natural, an' what's true of folks is true of tobacco. t-1 US mm ma era A GREAT many pipe smokers believe with us that no method of curing and mellowing tobacco is quite so good as Nature's own ageing. As one smoker an ardent disciple of Velvet Joe puts it: "I don't like tobaccos that have had things done to 'em." It ties up money and it takes a lot of patience to store away hundreds of thousands of pounds of the very pick of Kentucky's best Burley crops for two long years. mm m mm HPfl m K3 mm 5! ft But your i?idividual 'verdict to day, after you have smoked a pipe of Velvet, is one of the things that repays us for the verdict of one is the verdict of many. That's the big reason for Velvet's tremendous popularity. 10c Tins 5c Metal-lined Bass One Pound Glass Humidors FAlIi TO GET BODIES. Miners Killed at Franklin Are Still Entombed in Shaft. Pittsburg, Kan., Feb. 21. The bod ies of Roscoe Harvey and Lorenz Be dola, shot firers in Western No. 15 mine, northeast of Franklin, wrecked by an explosion Monday evening, have not yet been recovered. Carl Poncha, the third shot firer in the mine, was rescued a few hours after the ex plosion occurred. Examination of Harvey's room showed that all the shots in his room had been fired and his body is probably buried beneath the rock in some other part of the mine. If Harvey and Bedola are dead, and hope that they escaped has long since been abandoned, this accident brings the death list of shot firers, who have lost their lives in this mine, to seven teen. The explosion wrecked the Lip pie and Fan house and tore out ten or twelve sections of cribbing in the main shaft. Timbers were torn down and enormous rock falls occurred thruout the mine, and it is thought that the bodies of the shot firers may be buried under countless tons of rock and dirt. COMPLETE LIGHT PLANT. Hoxie to Have Light System That Will Cost $18,000. Hoxie, Kan., Feb. 21. The electric light plant which the city of Hoxie is building is nearing completion, and is expected to be in operation within a month. It is of the best and most efficient construction thruout, and the motive power is a double unit system of the highest grade of oil engines. The cost of the plant complete will be about $18,000. BRITISH SEX PROBLEM English Preacher Astounds Public AVitli Theory on Unmarried AVomen. GRIEF FOR JUDGES Judicial Reapportionment in Kansas Hangs in Balance. Order by Phone T- ll Order by Mail I i Abolish a Number of Districts Is the Present Plan. TOO ACTIVE IN LEGISLATURE? Lawmakers Say Judges Direct Too Much Politics. Contended That There Is Not Enough Work for Salary. London, Feb. 21. "England has a surplus of more than a "million un married women. The flower of the empire's manhood are crippled or dead. 'What are you single men going to do about it?' Around this blunt Ques tion, with its complex moral issues, the Rev. A. J. Waldron has built a vaudeville play, acting the leading role himself. Waldron is the only British clergyman who has tackled the great post-war problem of re population in full view of the people. Standing toe-to-toe with the issues. Waldron deals in olain words a.nd leaves his audience wondering wheth er the old social order cannot stand drastic revision for the national good. In his dressing room Waldron lit a cigaret and poured himself a lass of whisky. "Forty-three per cent of the Rritish clergymen, young, lusty and of mental standard are unmarried," he :aia. This is trouble day for Kansas dis trict judges. The house Judiciary committee has under consideration a new bill for the judicial reapportion ment of the state and today began consideration of its provisions. It is the purpose of Frank L. Martin, chair man of the commutes, to report the bill some time during the week pi ob ably Thursday or Friday and the measure will be rushed to early con sideration on the floor. That conditions in the various judi cial districts may be aiven fair tonsid eration, Chairman Marti ,i last week notified all of the judges of the plans of the committee to originate a bill which will abolish a number of dis tricts. It is probable that the bill will reduce the number of judicial districts from 34 to 25. At nresent j there are 38 district judges on the pay rou or tne state. The proposed bill will probably reduce the number of judges to 28 and will cat about $15,000 a year from the state's expenses. New trouble for Kansas dstrict judges -was outlined last week when the Rouse voted to instruct the judi ciary committee to originate a judi cial reapportionment bill. This action was taken after the house judicial ap portionment committee had killed the Brooks bill. Judges Without Work? It is contended that in a 'number of districts of the state the judges spend most of their time drawing their pay checks. In other districts the judges work overtime for thtir money. Rec ords produced during the present leg islative session showed that in 1916 Judge Flannelly, who recently re signed as judge of the Montgomery county district court, worked 312 davs during 1916. Judges in Shawnee, Wyandotte, Sedgwick and other coun ties worked overtime in an effort to clean up their dockets. In several of the larger counties two and three di visions of the district court are kept WAR HITS PRESS HARD 1,-130 German Publications Have Quit Since War Started. w iiat win mey ao lo restore hncv i a z, me national vigor in litigation. It is in The smnllF-i- die- nut they couldn t wipe out the'ir;.i. i, .v. .i.. 111 J "?m-am5d TSm.e1: JrCZuld 1 is mde that the judges do not earn not." I rw,r v, s i iuuiuib in me legisla tive halls concerns the efforts of law makers to even accounts with dis trict judges who have sought to direct legislation. It is asserted by several members of the legislature that the efforts of district judges to tell the legislature what to do and how to do it, are largely responsible for the agi tation for a new judiciary bill. Getting Into Legislature. Two years ago Judge Ruppenthal, who presides over a number of west ern counties, recommended a number of new laws. Reports are to the effect that Judge Ruppenthal's bills numbered nearly 100 and that all ex- cept one or two of the proposed stat utory provisions were killed. Dur ing the last few months a number of the district judges have made sug gestion as to the things the legislature should do or should forget to do. All of which seems to have added to the desire for a judicial reapportionment. The bill which will probably come from the judiciary committee in a couple of da: -i will provide for the abolition of a number of districts Some of the judges' affected by the agitation will probably find that under the new bill they will be com pelled to try cases in a number of extra counties or will be legislated out of office. In a number of in stances, it is asserted, the district judges work less than 100 days a year, while in a few cases the court work occupies the attention of the trial judge from 50 to 75 days a year. Berlin, Feb. 21. It has reauired a 32-page booklet for the imperial postoffice to enumerate the list of newspapers and periodical publica tions in Germany of recognized stand ing which "temporarily will not ap pear during the course of the war." The list includes 1,430 publications. but of course does not include the hundreds if not thousands of "fly-by- night" papers and magazines which, many instances, have come into being since the oeginning of the war and have died a natural death within a. short time. The 1.4 30 which are enumerated constitute just about one-eighth of the publications that flourished before the war but that have had to cease issue since then because of the in creased shortage of paper, high prices, scarcity of labor, dropping circula tion and other things. The postoffice cites them all as having suspended 'temporarily, but their more fortu nate contemporaries insist on enclos ing the word temporary in. quotation marks. A POTATO BOYCOTT Ixs Angeles Housewives Kebel Against High Cost of Spuds. Los Angeles, Feb. 21. The House wives league of Los Angeles today declared a boycott against potatoes. As long as potatoes are being held at the present price of 5 cents a pound, the membership of the organization will refuse to buy them, according .o Mrs. S. B. T. Wascht, president. As lima beans are today quoted it 11 cents a 'pound wholesale, onions are retailing at 12 Vz cents a pound nd other staple vegetables are com manding similar prices, the boycott may extend to other commodities. Tonight the league will hold a mass meeting to discuss the situation. MOVE ART TREASURES Germany Makes Sore of Valuables in Alsace-Lorraine. The Hague. Feb. 21. Many art treasures in Alsace and Lorraine have suddenly been removed to the Ger man cities of Stuttgart and Munich, on orders from German army head quarters, according to German news papers received here today. The rea sons were not stated. Promote Military in Schools. Chicago, Feb. 21. Universities, col leges and high schools thruout the country have been asked to send rep resentatives to the "rookie" confer ence to be held here March 24. The purpose is to promote military train ing in schools and interest in the gov ernment's summer training camps. President Kdmucd J. James, of the University of Illinois, will preside at the conference. TodaysAmusements IRIS Wm. Duncan and Mary An derson in "The Last Alan." OKPHETJM "Wilfred Lucas in "Jim Bludso." dramatization of John Hay's famous poem. Also a comedy- NOVELTY Five acts of vaudeville and first episode of '"Pearl of the Army." COZY Ethel Clayton in "The Madness of Helen." For details, prices, etc.. see ndver semen ts on a u other page of the State Jouruul. For Young and Old Keep Your Digestion Perfect. Nothing Is Quite So Safe and Pleasant as Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Free Triaf Mailed on Request. Thousands of men and women have found Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets the safest and most reliable preparation for any form of indigestion or stom- Health dws ach trouble. But the Tablets are just as good for little folks as for their elders. Little children who are pale, thin and have no appetite should use the Tablets after' eating and derive great benefit from them. Full sized boes are sold by all druggists for 50 cents, and no parent. should neglect the use of this safe J remedy for all stomach and bowel i troubles if the child is ailing in any j way. Mail coupon for trial. Free Trial Coupon F. A. Stuart Co.. 253 Stuart Building, Marshall. Murh., send me at once a free trial package of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. Name Street City State New Spring Goods Throughout the store the new spring ideas are making their bow in ready-to-wear; yard goods; homefurnishings. The Maude Russell System School of Sewing is now open and running. It Is absolutely free to all who pur chase a Maude Russell System of Designing and Cutting the new est, the simplest, the easiest and the most practical of alL Come and make your own clothes. Miss Russell's assistant will help you with the cutting, she will fit the garments for you, and she'll help you in every way pos sible and there's not a cent extra to pay! Full details explained by a spe cial representatire in the Silks and Dress Goods Section. Main Floor Pclletler-s Bib Aprons Band Aprons Middy Aprons Cover-All Aprons Bungalow Aprons House-Dress Aprons Aprons of every kind for every purpose hundreds and hundreds of them; every conceivable style and color. A great sale next Monday a value-giving event the like of which Topeka has not known in years. Watch for further details. Oh, so dainty, so chic. so altogether alluring are these Blouses of a new Spring just here by fast express from New York Such smartness. Such wonderful creations of sheer Georgettes, Crepe de Chines and wash satins. All In the very lateat modes the prettiest styles of the Clad Spring- time. Every fashionable new shade; tea rose, bisque, maize, citron, chartreuse, flesh and white. Included are Blouses displaying wonderful examples of the new Egyptian beading. $6.75-$7.48-$9.48-$15 Very, very new are these wash satin Sport Blouses with collars and cuffs in Khaki Kool pattern there's a dash and verve to them that makes them very swagger $9.98 Apparel 3rd Floor Pellctier'a Vop89c white enamelware 69c A special lot of extra heavy grade white and-white Enamelware; Coffee Pota 10-qt. Water Palla Deep Dish Fans Covered Berlin Sance Pans 6 and 8-qt. covered Berlin Kettles pieces worth up to 89c: on special sale Thursday OilC Kitchen Cabinets on easy terms $1.00 down; $1.00 a week On special sale Thursday will be a full size Kitchen Cabinet with sliding alum inum top, glass doors, flour bin. glass cereal sets, etc. a regular $30.00 value on special sale Thursday 25.00 other specials ruckle plated Crumb Tray ana Scraper with ebony handles 39ft Aluminum Percolators; the full size on sale Thursday $1.39 Wash Boilers of heavy galvanized iron special values $1.35 and i $1,49 25c Silver Cream Silver Polish 19 All-willow Clothes Hampers: the full size with covers $1.89 and $2.25 "Universal" Cake Mixers. .$1.75 "Universal" Bread Mixers. $1.75 China and Honaewarea tth Floor Pelletier'a See the full-page advertisement in the March Ladies' Home Journal IODIRT CQORSSTtS Front L aced We carry a full line of these corsets famous for their style, fit and comfort qualities. They have not advanced in price Have a trial fitting THEN you can SEE the style and FEEL the comfort Modart Corsets are sold in Topeka only here at Pelletier's Corsets and Accessories 2nd Floor Pelletier'a In the basement-serviceable, dependable shoes for the whole family at the very lowest possible prices Shoes of all kinds; house shoes and work shoes, every-day shoes and dress shoes; shoes for misses and boys, for children and for tiny tot3 as the headlines -say, serviceable, dependable shoes for the whole family at the lowest possible prices. Men's shoes A Women s shoes vt omen s ss.uu siiocs; button arid Men's Work Shoes; lace style of heavy tan leather with extension soles; will stand the very hard est of service Shoes well worth J3.00, here in the Basement for Men's Dress Shoes; English lace style, of gunmetal with Good year welt soles; Shoes of style and service well worth $4.50, for only...... 2.45 3.45 Children's school shoes and boys School Shoes superior quality, medium genuine box calf; made with tipped toes and heavy, full leather soles; sizes up to flf X.7U Girls' of very weight. 11 are priced. Sizes 11' to 2 are $2.25 Children's Coats $2.19 A special lot Jnst -here from New York Very smart, very dainty little Coats of shepherd checked material with blue poplin collar and cuffs; sizes 2 to 1 4 years very O 1Q special values aW.19 Other new Spring Coats for chil dren; silk poplins, pongees, taf fetas, serges and checks: sizes 2 to 16 years $2.95. S3.43-S4.95 lace styles or patent, vtci, gun metal and velvet; most all sizes in the lot. as a whole a num ber of broken lines out on a bar gain table, your J M f" choice LtmO Hich-top -J.acc Shoes of Havana brown kid; very stylish, very comfortable and very serviceable Shoes well worth $4.50, O ?Q here for only..: O.Xj 3-tone Lace Boots; brown, (rray or black kid vamps with white kid tops and New Yorker heels: equal in style to any M A p -J6. 00 Shoes our price. 4.&D Misses shoes English walking Shoes; lace style of prun metal with mat kid tops, Neolin soles and low heels rear niar $5.00 values J 9 Footwear for the Family Bargain Baaement PelletLer'a

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE J OURN AT L WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1917 (Ztrptha 0tntt 3Jcnmtal v. An Independent Newspaper. i- BY FRAXK P. MAC LENNAJf. t Entered as second-class mall matter I'OLUME XXXIX No. 43 OFFIcfALSTATE PAPER. OFFICIAL PAPF.K CITE OF i TOPKKA. Bjf mall. Id advance, effective January 13. l'.uj, iroro January i Al',.Qn By mail, one year ivH Hy mall, six montlis Hy moll, three mouths l-jJ Hy mall, one montli Kates by Carrier. TF.ffectire January 15. J7-! one week 1? Two weeks for a quarter ceax Four weeka Telephones 3o.10. I IJostcrn office.: Paul Block. P"!!: five. 230 Fifth avenue New ork inildlus. Chicago: ail Devonshire street, roatou: Kreage build in jrptrolt. I ,"mbe71 Ablated re. A Newspaper Publishers' Aaaoclation. Audit Itureau -C Circulation. The country editor no longer com plains that his subscriptions aro paid In potatoes. The tubers are not yet fcotth their weight in sold, but they ire sellinc for 75 cents a peck. The thirteenth national conference Su'-child labor will be held in Balti Snure March 23. 24 and 25. according to 'announcements just sent out by the National Child Labor committee. Aliens the topics tor discussion are Safeguarding Children in Peace and War- Problems of Education; and flow to Make Child Labor Laws Effec tive Governors of all the states have ,een asked to appoint delegates and hit members of the National Child La W committee have been invited to i. Lie ml. the death 'of Governor de Bca of "cw Mexico has brought about an un tftual political situation. The dead governor who was a Democrat will succeeded by a Republican. This "tact calls to mind an interesting story FSrcuUted during the campaign. This is in effect, that the former governor, blso a Democrat, realizing that he was jto unpopular as to render his re-election uncertain, refused a renomlna jion. Instead, ho is said to have brought about the nomination of De Baca for governor and himself for lieutenant governor, with private knowledge that the now dead gover nor was ruffering from an incurable disease and could not live long. Ap parently, a sufficient number of the voters believed the story to defeat him and elect his Republican opponent who now becomes governor. It looks as tho Uncle Sam may be come the pinch hitter in the war go me. The Cubans should not delude themselves into the belief that Uncle Sam is too busy to attend to their case. We have too many would-be re formers, says the Los Angeles Times, each bent on remodeling the universe out of his own head, and each expect ing to do so by material agencies alone. If only every one of them w.ould read the gospels and so find out how the leader of Christian thought proposed to cure evil on earth we should have less lawmaking ftnd more Christianity in our modern civilized life. Christ never preached righteousness by city ordinance or state commission. owing to the high cost of paper tho New York World has announced that it will limit its issue. This course will afford some excuse for the man who borrows his neighbor's paper. The Iowa legislature has repealed the presidential preference primary law, which it adopted two years ago and which cost the state $225,000. This and other legislative "reforms' have caused a treasury deficit of Jl. 600. 000, and, as Governor Clark said, the presidential preference prl niary was "a farce." Hence there Was not a dissenting voice when the yote to repeal was called. Again last week, Topeka scored a bit? increase in her bank clearings. Tho total, $2,172,000, represented a gain of t2.2 per cent. China is so far away that she feels safe in joining the United States In protest against Germany's marine pro pram. The other neutrals can't af ford it. LOWER FREIGHT RATES. Tlie average freight rate per ton on the railways of the United States was lower in 1916 than it ever was before and the average wage per employe for the year was greater than ever before, says the Railway Age Gazette in an editorial in its cur rent issue. The Gazette says; The preliminary summary of returns for the roads earning over $1,000,000 a year, just Issued by the Bureau of Railway Economics, for the fiscal year end ing June 10. 1916, shows that the av erage receipts per ton mile were 7.07 mills, as compared with 7.22 mills for the million-dollar roads for 1915, and that the average compensation per employe, excluding officers, was $840.62 as compared with $813.17 in 1915. The returns, which are compiled from the annual reports of the roads to the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, represent roads having approxi mately 89 per cent of the entire rail Way mileage of the country and 97 per cent of the operating revenues. The average receipts per ton mile for all of the roads in the country will slightly exceed the figure of the larger roads, but the complete figures can hardly fail to show an approxi- mately similar reduction. In 1915 the average for all roads was 7.32 mills, which was lower than for any other recent year except 1913, when the av erage was 7.29 mills. In 1906 the average was 7.48 mills. The decrease is probably to be ac counted for by a greater proportion of low-rated commodities, because there was an increase in the tonnage of products from mines from 507.000.000 in 1915 to 646,000.000 in 1916. while the increase in other classes of ton nage was far less in proportion. This doubtless represents the increased movement of coal. The average wage per employe has, of course, been steadily increasing for several years. READY FOR ANYTHING. In these days fraught with uncer tainty regarding the future, the lead ers in the business world are keeping in close touch with the situation. The views of this class probably are set forth approximately as they exist by Henry Clews in his Financial Review. Unsettling as the general situation may be, he says, there is one fact to be borne in mind, and that is we can face war with perfect equanim ity. Our conscience will be clear, for we have tried to avoid war almost to the point of humiliation. In this hour of crisis let us not forget that there is a silver lining to every cloud. We are seeing today an exhibition n patriotism that has not been equaled since the Civil war. It is well to remember one thing, that is, that our country can take care of itself, come what will, better than any other nation on earth in time of peace or in time of war. Thanks be to Almighty God for giving us a su perabundance of everything for self support, even though we were walled in. The entire nation views the situa tion with composure, confident in the wisdom and strength of our govern ment, as well as in the resources and patriotism of the American people. Our banking system is in unusual ly good position, and soft spots such as might be expected after recent ex periences are remarkably few. More over, there has been a greater degree of preparedness for this contingency than generally supposed, and our bankers cannot he taken by surprise. The same is true of our industrial plants. Many- of these are upon or nearly upon a war basis, and not a few could take on big war orders at once without further preparations. The shock of war will, therefore be relatively light if it come and easily borne; a fact that has already been partly discounted. As for mili tary preparations, these, too, have been perfected more thoroly than usually realized, the government hav ing wisely kept such movements as quiet as possible. There is no reason why this country should not do as other countries have done; take this crisis calmly and suppress all unneces sary excitement. SEXATOU OWEN'S REMEDY. The United States is not governed by congress or the president or both as many may suppose, but by nine men constituting the supreme court. The people may want certain legislation enacted. They may indicate their will at the polls in the choice of congress men. The congress may act in obed ience to the mandate of the people. Then the whole proceeding ,may be nullified by the supreme court thru a declaration that the action of the voters and their representative is un constitutional. Senator Robert L. Owen of Okla homa would stop all this. He pro poses that congress shall take from the court the power to declare legis lation unconstitutional. Senator., Owen points out that the Constitution reads: "In all cases -affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be a party, the supreme court shall have original jurisdiction. In all other cases before mentioned the supreme court shall have appellate jurisdiction both as to law and to fact, with such exceptions and under such regulations as con gress shall make." In 128 years only about 23 cases have come! before thejCourt on origi nal jurisdiction. The vast bulk of the cases and practically all of any im portance to the people are "appel late" that is, they must first be tried in the lower federal or state courts and come up on appeal to the supreme court. But observe such cases may only come up "with such exceptions and under such regulations as the con gress shall make." Then, says the senator, since the powers and duties of the lower federal courts are wholly fixed by congress and not by the Constitution, congress may simply forbid them to declare laws unconstitutional. The lower courts can not then veto a law passed by congress, the supreme court will never have a chance, and the legisla tion of the people will prevail, with out any changes in the Constitution whatever. All this is provided for in the reso lution he introduced in the United States senate on January 11, 1917, which reads as follows: "That from and after the passage of this act federal judges are forbid den to declare any act of congress un constitutional. No appeal shall be permitted in any case in which the constitutionality of an act of con gress is challenged, the passage of an act by congress being deemed con clusive presumption of the constitu tionality of such act. Any federal judge who declares any act passed by the congress of the United States to be unconstitutional Is hereby- deemed to be guilty of violating the constitu tional requirement of -good behavior' upon which his terAire of office rests, and shall be held by such decision ipsoVacto to have vacated his office. "That the president of the United States is hereby, authorized to nomi nate a successor to fill the position vacated by such judicial "officer.". Let it be clearly understood, he says, that this in no way interferes with the courts in the proper exercise of their judicial functions. But it does take from them their power to legislate. Trade of the United States with the Pacific frontage of South America shows large gains in 1916 due to facili ties offered by Panama Canal and shortages of ships for South American trade with Europe. Imports from Chile total 82 million dollars against 37 millions in 1915, and 24 millions in 1914, and exports to Chile, 33 millions against 18 millions in 1915, and 14 millions in 1914. From Peru the im ports are 28 million dollars against 15 millions in 1915, and from Ecuador 8 tnillions against 5 millions in the pre ceding year. Xot Eavesdropping. There are few things I enjoy mors in the line "of entertainment than listening to a conversation on a trol ley car. I love these little authentic glimpses into people's lives, these little visits behind the scenes. They inter est me more than the magazine that lies unopened on my lap. I suppose that will seem a r tartling statement to some people. They will say, "What terribly bad taste to eaves drop like that and then to tell about it so frankly as if it were nothing to be ashamed of!" That's just why 1 tell about .t frankly because I don't think it is any thing to blush for. I've had it out with myself and I think it is permis sible to listen to what people say in perfectly audible tones in public places. It's just like glancing in a window as you pass by when the curtaina have been left up in the evening. Of course if you went up to that window and peered in, that would be unforgivable. And so it would if you eavesdropped to conversations. 8ui listening to conversation carried on in a public place is not eavesdropping to my way of thinking. Xor to the thinking of so distin guished a person as Mr. Webster. "To eavesdrop," he says, "means to lurk under the eaves of a house near a window, or door, to overhear private conversation, hence to listen secretly." Now people must know they can be overheard on the cars and accept li-it risk. And such interesting things as they do say! One day I heard a conversation be tween two girls that gave me almost as splendid thrills as any fine deed on the stage. One told the other about a third girl who worked where she did, and how this girl took care of her mother nights thru a siege of. pneu monia and came to work days and was so cheerful and bright that no one ever knew anything was the matter until it came out some time after wards. Talk about consuming your own smoke. Was ever a finer ex ample? Then I particularly love to hear the young folks at the everlasting game. And just the other day two boys be guiled a most tedious ride for me by discussing the propriety of dancing. Actually there have been times when I have been almost willing to ride past mystop to hear the end of some particularly interesting conver sation. Perhaps I am lacking in some sense of shame I ought to have. I wonder. GLOBE SIGHTS From the Atchison Globe. The rule is that a man gets home on time when dinner is late. The jury sometimes, agrees in or der to get a little much needed rest. Are you one of thse who are sure of a number of things that aren't true? A true fan is one who is interested in news from the spring training camps. A lot of foolishness is based on the theory that the youngsters are only young once. Your nerves are steady if you can write while some one is reading ove.: your shoulder. The theory that a boil is worth five dollars, didn't originate with a man who is entertaining one. A K u h lid ge man is so anarchistic he is always anxious to find what the rules are so he can break them. Men find a lot of fault with femi nine fashions, but manage to admire most of the women who wear them. When a man, who is naturally dis agreeable makes up his mind to run for office, and gets out to mae friends his efforts to be Sunny Jim make the people'who know him want to laugh one minute and cry the next. His efforts to be agreeable are so funny, and yet so pitiful. DINNER STORIES "You were something of a fighter," remarked the shade of General Bur goyne. "I just had to be." replied the shade of George Washington. "There were circulating so many stories about my being so good and truthful and so far above all human foibles that I had to do something to show 1 wasn't a mollycoddle." Barry Sullivan, the tragedian, was playing Richard III on one occasion. When an actor came to the words. "A horse, a horse! My kingdom for a horse!" some one from the gallery called out, "Wouldn't a donkey do as well. Mr. Sullivan?" "Yes." replied the tragedian, turning quickly to the interrupter, "please come around to the stage door." j SIBE TALES BY RUTH C AMI ROM. SPOjR of TIEIIE FOMENT 'mi ROT R. MOULTOIU Th Bashful Beaa. A timid suitor went to woo A young and charming creature. Tho greatly mashed be was abashed. She was so fair of feature. Thruout the eve he'd twist his sleeve And only blush iOirt wiggle; He was to shy he'd only sigh A little bit and giggle. He never trlpd to sit beside Her nor to hold her band, he Was such a stick he made her sick; He never brought her candy. And yet the ass a doted the lass He loved her like the deuce. He At last came thru and cried, "Pray do Become my wifie, Lucy And e would add site spurned the lad And straightwa forsook him. Exceot that Lmy loved him too. And so, of course, she took him! This Day In History. Eighteen years ago today an op tician in Toledo toVd a customer that he didn't need glasses. The Crowds of a Grouch. The kindest thing you can do for some people is to interrupt them. Experience stems to sweeten some people's natures and others it gives common sense. Another difference between the op timist and the pessimist is that the one is cordial iml the other is cor rect. A politician hopes, when he dies to go to a land of bilk and money. One-half the world doesn't know how the other half lies. The skillful lawyer can make three words grow where one grew before. The Irovcrbs of a Husband. First be sure you're right and then go ahead and agree with your wife. Where there's a bill there's a fray. Neat are her uses of Perversity. Jaws show which way the din goes. Her Spend is mightier than my Hoard. Wdh a. laroe, biuret -Lrtm,fJpr "Bfcad. ipxleecik fits sister Prv. not rt Very poinied HhmcJ ido!'Vo How to Kntcrtain Young Women. Very often young men say, "How can I ;learn to converse with young women in such a way as to win their affection? How can I Fascinate them V. It is important that all of your re marks are full of tender meaning. Suppose the two of you are sitting to gether somewhere. On a sofa, pre sumably. You say, "I could do this forever!" Meaning to infer, "With you!" If she doesn't seem to get the inference, say it over again all to gether like this, "I could sit here for ever with you!" Modulate your tones', nicely. You may wish to speak in a soft, tender tone and only produce a gruff whis per. Always clear your throat first. If this occurs at a little social gath ering where others are present keep a sharp lookout for lulls in the gen eral conversation. It is embarrassing to find that everyone else has stopped talking. And that your little gallan tries are being considered critically by all about. VA-llie, kicked, and hoM. HKe fbsl.raa.Vi. When. te-toouaM. No-le Ho Sue. And -to Sue rue Vosbnan. snickered, "TWce yourM-Ue, 3tlltedo!' The Kent City Correspondent. (In the Casnovia, Mich., Herald.) Conrad Swenson and Lowell Kelly went out buggy riding one fine night last week in a cutter with two young ladies. Conrad says that there is al ways room for another when he goes out riding. Yes, Conrad, there natur ally would be the way you folks were sitting the night in question. Ralph Soles we believe would like to have a lady barber come to town. He seems to enjoy having the young ladies comb his hair. Xext time why don't you suggest that she pull the window shade? Kent City bowled with Sparta here Friday night. Our boys carried off the honors. Bob Wamsley won a dollar and Al Carlson fifty cents on bets. That's almost as easy as work ing for it. Leon Peavy was here Sunday. Leon is firing on the G. R. I. now. Tut! Tut! Leon, this isn't Mexico! Buty Hint. For a nice complexion Kat a poisoned cruller, Very often that will Uive yon lota of color. WHATCHAMA COLUMN By "GM." IRELAND. Ireland is a garden spot whose people grow cops, politicians, con tractors, shamrock and rebel lions. The funniest thing about Ire land is George Bernard Shaw. Shaw is proud of the fact that he comes from Ireland Most Irish are. They say Ireland is a grand place to come from, and the sooner the better.' Folks wonder what, if the Irish think Ireland is such a wonderful country, they leave it for. The answer is simple; almost Idiotic The principal thing the Irish leave Ireland for is America. OCT OF THE SILENCE.' And what can you say when the day is done. And you've gone to your bed of rest? When the shadows come and the light has gone O'er the rim of the golden west. And a silvery beam of the moon creeps in As if in an aimless quest? What do you say When a kindly voice that yoH seem to know Out of the shadows speaks soft and low, "Well, what did you do today?" O, what can you say when you're all alone With the master of all the tasks? How much of a sin do you have to own When the voice of the master asks How many things have you left undone Your studied answer makes? What do you say When out of the shadows of the silent night The master sieaks with the master" right: "Well, what did yon do today?" Thrice blest Is he of the humble way, Who sinks to his bed of rest The rest he earned with a toiling day With love of his labor blest Who hears the voice of his master ask and truthfully say "My best!" The man who can say I've trod the way of my best intend, -I've helped a friend and I've made a friend To "What did you do todav?" John D. Wells in Buffalo News. "The Dootor Isn't In. (By Olive Gray.) Dr. Charles Morse walked thought fully to his office. The verb was not unusual, the adverb was, for altho he always walked he was seldom thoughtful. Could his thoughts have been pho tographed the picture would have been of a breakfast table with a per- suasive sister on one side, himself on the other. And could a dictagraph have absorbed the conversation the 1 -cord would have been as follows: "But, Charles dear, we girls have counted so much on our clubhouse! Suffragists need a headquarters as much as any other society, and how are we to get it if every man refuses a donation as you do. We were count ing on a hundred dollars from you anyway." "Good heavens, sis, I wori. days for that much. Besides I don't approve of suffrage, and why dc you expect the men to cough up money for you to beat them at their own game?" "You're horrid, Charlie, and I won't talk to you any more. But never mind, we'll get it yet. I'll send Jane Gregory after you. There isn't a man in the city who can resist her and I am morally certain that if she asks you for a hundred dollars you'll give one long look into her lovely eyes and dig down in your jeans for dou ble the amount. There! That will be my revenge and you will wish you had handed over the hundred to me now." "Not if I see her first!" her brother answered with heat. "I don't care how pretty she is, I won't give a cent for any fool thing like that. If she can get anything out ol me 1 m saie in promising you the same amount toward buying the furs you want." "I'll just take that bet, brother mine. And now for Jane." Dr. Charlie reached his office and "opened up" himself, for Mary, his office girl, was away on a vacation. He sterilized instruments, put bottles within easy reach and addressed a set of teeth for mailing, for Charlie was a dentist. Then he opened the paper to see it he could get a girl for two weeks to take Mary's place. He needed some one in the waiting room, while he was busy, to keep things go ing and jolly along tempers born of toothache. He also felt an extra need today, for with a sentinel on the outer wall ho need not fear the threatened enemy, Jane. But not a soul wanted work. In stead, factories, stores, dressmakers and business men had ads an inch high for help of all kinds. Dr. Charlie lit a cigaret and threw the match im patiently out of the window. "I was a fool to let Mary go just now, when I need her." And then a happy thought struck him. "I'll put a card on the office door, 'Girl wanted." Maybe that will catch somebody." It did. About 10 o'clock, while he was ad justing some bridge work, the outside office door opened and some one came in. Dr. Charlie went out to see, and there was. a young girl, demure, shy and wide eyed. "I saw your card," she began diffi dently. "Good! I need an office girl for two weeks. Would you like to try it at $10 a week?" He rather hoped she would. He thought it would be pleas ant to have her around. "I can stay right now if you want me." "All right; that's fine. Put your things in that closet and I'll give you instructions as soon as I'm thru. And, by the way, if anybody, a lady comes to see me tell her I'm not in. She has gray eyes well, I can't describe her exactly, and I rather think you'll know. She's after money and I'd rather not see her. After you've been here a while, you'll get to know the patients from other ones." "I understand," said the girl, quiet ly, unpinning her hat. And again Dr. Charlie had the sensation of being glad she was there. The morning wore on, patients came and went and the new girl seemed to be doing very well- About noon he distinctly heard her say to some one who came in, "The doctor is not in." He breathed more easily when the door closed and he winked at old Mr. Smith in the chair. "That girl is a jewel," he said positively. "Well," asked his sister at lunch, "did Jane call this morning?" "I think she did," answered Dr. Charlie. "You think! Why, didn't you see her?" "No. I've a new office girl and she shoved her, off. Anyway, it wouldn't have done her any good; I've steeled my heart. Were she as beautiful as Venus and as wise as Minerva herself it would do her no good. I tell you, sis. you'll have to think up some other way if you want my money." "But you don't know Jane," she said mysteriously. About 2 o'clock, in the silence o"? the office he again heard the outer door open and the girl say distinctly, "No, the doctor is not in!" Dr. Charlie was indignant. "The idea. Sis is rather overdoing it, or else that girl she's sending has more brass than I gave her credit for to come twice in a day." But what was his surprise when for a third time he heard the new girl telling some one that the doctor was not in. "If this keeps up I'll have to call in the state police for protection!' he de clared, "and it that's the stuff suf fragettes are made of I'm going to see that sis keeps away from the bunch, especially this Jane. Three times in one day! Ridiculous." At 5 o'clock the last patient had de parted and Dr. Charlie at last had "YOU ISP ft "v-? time to give his assistant some in structions. 4 1 wanted to compliment you," be began, "on- the way you got rid of that girl. Her name's Gregory." "That girl she asked, her wide eyes opening still wider. Her mouth, with its wistful little droop, was get ting a gripping hold on the young dentist's heart. Certainly he'd been devilishly lucky to land a prize like this. Mary was loud-voiced and mas terful, with about as many attrac tions as a grandfather's clock. "Yes. I heard you tell her "three times that I wasnv't in." "Oh, but. they were different peo ple." "What do you mean?" "The first was Mrs. Arnfeld. She's out canvassing for the new minister's home. I thought you wouldn't want to be disturbed. "Right O' "And then there was Mrs. McArdle. She's determined to have a new Y. W. C. A., and before the campaign starts she's out seeing a few prominent peo ple for what she calls preliminary gifts. About a hundred dollars apiece she wants. r "Good heavens! And you got rid of her!' cried the doctor with a mixture of gratitude and admiration. She nodded. "And the last was from your church. They are going to burn the mortgage if the members will contribute generously, and be sides they want to "That's plenty," gasped Dr. Charlie, "but what's happened to Jane, I won der?" "I'm Jane," said the girl. "You see we're all tryins to earn money for the new clubhouse, and when I saw your sign I thought I'd like to try it tiere. And don't you think when I've side tracked so many people today you might give us a little donation? Just a small one would do 10u or so." Dr. Charlie dropped limply into a chair. "I lose," he said weakly. "Sis was right when she said I didn't know you." And, after the suffragettes had their building and Dr. Charlie and Jane were married, she told him how she did it. "There wasn't a soul there to see you that day for subscriptions," she confessed. "I made it all up." (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate 25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From the column of THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL February 21, 1892. P. H. Butler, tbe Silver Lake horseman has sold bis running horse Van S. which won several races in Topeka to St. Iiouis parties for $1,000. .St. Louis. Feb. 21. Acres of reformers are gathered In Exposition hall here for the purpose of bringing into existence a new party. The organizations represented are: The People's party, the Farmers' Alliance and Industrial anion, the Farmers' Mutual Renefit association, the Knights of Labor, the Patrons of Industry, the lie formed Press association, the Citizens' Al liance, and the Order of Hallway Con ductors, Trainmen, Kngineers and Firemen and Telegraph ojrerators. There were pres ent the SOU member, of the Kansas dele pation headed by J. F. Willitts, president of the state alliance. John MacDonald. editor of the Western School Journal will lecture on "Robert Burns" at the Second Presbyterian church February 29. An institute foT the cure of the liquor, opium and tobacco habits hy the famous Keeley system has been oed at the Adams house in North Topeka. Dr. J. B. Hibben, physician in charge. Bester O. Brown of Topeka was elected deuuty grand hieh priest of the eraml chapter of Masons at Leavenworth. The Orand opera house was filled with an audience of representative Tnpeka peo- I pie last evening. The attraction was the seventh annual concert of Marshall's band, the organization in which every citizen takes a pardonable pride. VERY MUCH PREMATURE. The ftlnnT i old "Capital anaonuces a baby two days before ita arrival. CorrpesondeBce i being carried on be tween Mr. K. B. Merrian and his brother-in-law. Mr. IS. K. Bnrnbam of Newark. N. V.. whicb is likely to result in the estab lishment of a canning factory here with a capital of tlOO.OOU MAY COUNT ON ME, HOUSEHOLD HINTS Cold Weather IMslics. Cold Weather Dish (serves six to eight people) One pound beef thinly sliced, three potatoes, two carrots, two onions, one rutabaga. All vegetables sliced and put to boil at the same time, 'except potatoes, which should be added to stew half hour before serving. When all vegetables are lender thicken with tablespoon of flour. Mix with little cold water first.) Salt and pepper to taste. Have plenty of water added for gravy. Creole Pork Chops One pound loin pork chops, half can tomatoes, four J onions, red pepper, salt. Fry chops l till golden brown, pour over tomatoes, j sliced onions over, season with pepper j and salt. Simmer one hour, j Left-Over Fried Pork Chops or i Ham Chop very fine, season to taste, i mix salad dressing with it and make sandwiches for tea. S Lima Beans and Steak Soak one pint Lima beans over night. Then cut one pound round steak into inch cubes, brown with two sliced onions (small) in three tablespoons lard, stir in two tablespoons dry flour; salt and pepper. Place in casserole a layer of beans, one of meat and so on; lastly pour over all one and one-half cups tomatoes. Cover well with boil ing water and bake in slow oven three hours. Will serve six people gener ously. Dutch Hutspot Boil six carrots with six medium-sized onions one hour or until tender. In another kettle boil six medium-sized potatoes flour. Serve with plain boiled rice or potatoes. Hot Breads. Corn Breads Half cup butter or lard, half cup sugar, one .and one-half cup flour, one and one-half cups cornmeal, one cup sweet milk, two eggs, three teaspoons baking powder, one-quarter teaspoon salt. .Excellent. One-Egg Muffins Sift together two cups flour, four teaspoons bak- Bed Time Tales m CLAKA e?GEA.E JUIBSOH THE SCAltLET S1XGKJI.' Once there was a very beautiful red cardinal, who was all shiny and crim son from the tip of his brilliant crest to the ends of his pretty toes. He loved the wurm sunshine, the bright flowers and the rosey sunsets, but most of all he loved the shy little cardinal he wished to make his mate. He sang out his whole joyous soul for her, and she answered back very happily. So at the early morning, he sprans up with the dawn and sang and sang from the topmost post of the higii back fence. The next morning the blackbirds squawked at the fence and the spar rows quarreled beside it altogether it didn't seem half good enough a place for a joyous cardinal to pour forth hie- song. So he flew around back and forth in search cf a better place. After testing two or threclocations he decided to try the topmost limb of an osage orange tree. Perched high on the swaying branch, he rocked in the breeze and sang of all the joy in his warm young heart. The next morning as he flew to his perch he found it occupied by two blue jays who were quarreling in a most ungentlemanly fashion, over a worm. "Just as tho they couldn't find plenty of other worms," said the Car dinal, disgusted. I'll not ctng where there is quarreling!" So he searched again and finally decided upon the tip of an old apple tree, which stood close by a house. There, for three mornings, he sang to his heart's content, undisturbed by ahv bird. But on the fourth morning, he had hardly started his song, till a big woodpecker flew to the apple tree and began tapping the trunk for food. At first the Cardinal paid no atten tion to the newcomer, but the wood pecker pounded louder and louder till SIR' ins powder, one-half teaspoon salt, two tablespoons sugar. Add to this one cup milk. Beat one egg with two tablespoons melted butter; add to first mixture. Bake twenty minutes in moderate oven. Makes one dozen large fluffy muffins. Leg of Lamb With Sauerkraut (new) Place leg of lamb in a cover ed roasting pan. Wash two pounds sauerkraut, completely cover meat with it. Add a sliced onion, one fourth teaspoon pepper and enough water to cover. Cover roaster and cook in hot oven two and one-half hours. Remove meat to a large plat ter, thicken remaining liquid with spoons baking powder, three-quarter teaspoon rait, three level tablespoons lard, one-third cup milk, one-third cup water. Irop in hot muffin pans. This makes twelve delicious biscuits. Home-Made Hunger. A handy clothes hanger for chil dren can be made of a broom handle. Make a cross of two pieces of wood fourteen inches long, three inches wide and or.e or one-half inch thick for a standard. Fasten together, bore a hole in tr.e center and insert the handle. Screw half a dozen hooks in the handle, paint or enamel any de sired shade, and the hanger is fin ished. Small children will enjoy hanging their dresses on this hanger, thus teaching them to be neat and tidy. v When Slink Is Toush. Pounding steak is a great mistake. To make tough steak tender, take one teaspoon saiad oil, two teaspoons vinegar and a very little cayenne pep per. Lay the steak upon it and let it remain one hour; then turn it over and let it lie another hour. Then fry or broil as usual. The vinegar softens the fiber, the oil keeps it soft. Steak may stand over night this way if turned about 10 o'clock. When you pound steak it breaks up the fiber, but drives out the juice and destroys much of its nutriment. tho noise could not be ignored, and fthe scarlet singer flirted his tail in di- gust and Hew away. Then for several He sang oat his whole Joyous soul for Iicr. days there was no ong only an oc casional flash of a red or a chirp told hat the Cardinal was still cheer! Finally there came a day so warm anl sunny that the Cardinal felt the lonft simply must come. .After preliminary flurries he decid ed on a tall concrete telegraph pole aa the best place. There he perched, a spot of vivid color against the blue sky,' and filled the air with his joyous song of good cheer. So all thru the summer he sang 'n the early mronlng from the top of the dull gray pole. And the people who lived nearby felt better and happier when thy heard, in the early morning, his triad eong "Good cheer Good cheer?" (Copyright Clara Ingram Jodson.) r

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THE TOPTV DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1917 RALLY TO DRYS' COLORS SWEEPS ENTIRECOUNTRY ext State Election Will Finish Booze in IT. S. A. Prohibitionists Pin Faith on w Congress. 90 PER CENT AREA DRY NOW 65 Per Cent of Population Sow in Dry Territory. Present Legislatures in Scram ble to KU". "King Al." Chicaso, Feb, 21. The advent of nntlrinwlde Drohibition merely question of waitins now until the time of elections in various states comes, in the o, .ion of E. J Davis, superin tendent of the Anti-Saloor. league. Chicago. The real work of eliminating booze from the nation has already been ac r,.i national uronioltmn. !)me thru Davis said. the state by state process, or thru an amendment to the federal const u tion. The latter method will un doubtedly be attempted at the ti.st wlnn of the new cunpress and i ro iiibitionists feel certain that the amendment will be submitted. "The new consiess will undoubted ly be prohibition by a larse majority. Davis said. "Kr instance eleven con gressmen from Indiana who are antis will be succeeded by dry advocates when the new congress convenes. Dry Atlantic to Pacific. The drv propasanda. Davis says, has met with sweepir.s success during the past fail and winter. Summariz ing the results, he explained how it is now possible to travel from the At lantic coast to the Pacific coast by several different routes without once enterliiR "wet" territory It is also possible." he said. to travel from the Mexican border to the Arctic circle thru absolutely dry ter- "The states are all falling into line. 1 venture the prediction that by the end of next year there will be only two states south of the Mason and Dixon line and east of the Mississippi in which drink may be legally pur chased in Kentucky and Louisiana. "The legislatures of Wisconsin. South Dakota. Wyoming, Nevada. Minnesota and New Mexico have passed submission bills during their Dresjnt session; Indiana and Utah have enacted statutory prohibition measures; the federal government, after submitting the question to the people of Alaska, lias added that terri tory to the long dry list, after the peo ple declared in favor of it by a big ma jorit SO Trr Cent V. S. Area Dry. According to figures of the Illinois Anti-Saloon league. SO per cent of the area of the United States is dry; 66; 110(1.000 people live in dry territory; 65 per cent of the total population of the country cannot buy a drink, and 25 slates are already fully elry. A survey of pro-activities reveals a slow but certain encroachment upon the territory in "black" on the antis maps. Nebraska has voted dry. effective May first. The prohibition bill with stringent regulations is now up in the house. Arkansas has substituted a bone dry measure for one which permited ship ments. Kansas, dry, today passed a bill which makes it an offense to even have booze in one's possession. Iowa is dry by legislative enactment and the legislature v.-ill submit the question of making It a constitutional provision to voters. Oklahoma, already dry, probably will vote on a bill already passed by "You're and I believe Postum is appearance." iil iT -1 ,i&

in place of coffee, relieves nerves from the harmful effects of caffeine. Even a short 10-day trial often works a wonderful change in a person. both branches of the legislature, pro hibiting shipment. Minnesota has adopted a submis sion bill, which if carried at the 1918 election, will make the state dry July 1, 190. North Dakota, altho dry since ad- i mission, has adopted iurtner snip inent regulation. v I Michigan has voted dry, effective i May first. 1918. and is now enacting j necessary legislation. Texas Fight Promising, i The South Dakota legislature has I adopted a referendum measure, to be I voted on in 1918. i Wisconsin is considering a dry I referendum bill during the present I legislative session. It will come up 'February 28. I Texas prohibitionists, lacking only one vote in the senate to pass a pro- hibition amendment are strong in the house, and threaten to block all oth- er legislation by keeping the amend ment constantly Derore tne lower branch, unles it is passed. California saloons are. being more stringently regulated and drys are lin ing up for a smashing drive on booze two years hence. Oregon is bone dry. Both houses of the Washington state legislature have adopted a bone dry measure which now awaits the governor's sig nature. The Illinois senate has passed a state-wide prohibition referendum. The Inaiana legislature has enact ed legislation to close the state's sa loons April 1, 191S. 50,lFlDOWS Also 100,000 Orphans Already Dependent on England. Civil War List Meager in Com parison With Britain's. London, Feb. 21. America's entire Civil war pensions problem could never compare with the colossal task which the British government has just begun to face after, perhaps, half the greatest war in history. The most up-to-date figures avail able today show that 50,000 widows already are dependent on the govern ment for aid. This figure does not include the results of some of the recent great battles on the Somme. There are also 100,000 war orphans on the pension lists and 70,000 dis abled soldiers have been judged eli gible to pension while 50,000 cases are pending. Large temporary buildings have been erected in St. James's park, just behind the Foreign Office, in which British pensions will be administered during the war. After peace comes, permanent buildings will no doubt be erected in which hundreds of offi cials will tackle the task of providing for the hundreds of thousands whose lives have been directly altered by the European war. MONKEY PLAYS A UKULELE; SNAKE DANCES! READ IT! New York, Feb. 21. This is the story of a dancing bull snake and a ukulele-playing monkey. The facts were gathered by teetotalers, and writ ten by a man from a prohibition state. Fannie, a turbulent tailed chimpan zee at the Bronx Zoo, fell heir to a demoralized ukulele, gotten from somewhere by Keeper Bill Snyder. Bill says Fannie has learned to play two bars of "Home Sweet Home." keeping time by swinging herself, pendulum-wise from her tail rack. George McCoy spread consternation and the bull snake all over the Fifty first street police station when he left it there because somebody left it with him and he didn't want it. He told the panic-stricken police to whistle and the snake would dance instead of following them. The did. Now the plan is to present the dancing snake to the ukulele-playing j monkey and let them stage a "perpet- ual concert and ball among them selves. V U 'ill II Looking Better, largely responsible for your sound sleep and improved The Reas re s on BAG H0WMANY? British Public Anxious to Learn U-Boats Fate. Anti-Submarine Campaign Con ducted "on the Quiet." FAIL TO STARVE ENGLAND British Declare Ruthlessness j Proves a Failure. i Only One of Each Hundred TShips Has Been Sunk. London, Feb. 21. Germany's hope of starving out England by her subma rine "ruthlessness" has gone glimmer ing, in the view of the British. The "relentless" U-boat war is declared hardly to have made a dent in the vast commerce of the United Kingdom. On the other hand, the public im plicitly believes British defense mea sures have caused numerous German losses. There was great hope ex pressed that some statement of these losses by the Germans in capture or destruction of their subsurface boats by the British would be made by Sir Kdward Carson today. The first lord of the admiralty was due to make his first detailed speech as a minister in presenting the naval budget to the house of commons. Sir Edward is known personally to favor greater publicity for the opera tions of the anti-submarine guards, but any revelations of captures or sinkings of U-boats would be contrary to the policy of silence -to which the British government has adhered since the start of the war. Something "Up His Sleeve. But if the admiralty lord does not bare these facts he is at least expected formally to announce the official fig ures of shipping clearances and of losses by submarines and mines. London newspapers during the past few days have reflected a sentiment fostered by a certain group of Britons u:ig that Admiral Lord Fisher again be given a voice in admiralty councils and granted free hand to cope with the submarine problem. The former sea lord is known to have cer tain plans to this end, but is quoted by his advocates as being unwilling to put them into operation unless given a free rein. The Northcllffe newspapers are bitterly combating such a change, whereby Fisher, who is now 76 years old, would be put in charge of work now carried on by younger and more energetic men. From February 1 to 14, inclusive, the following are the figures of ships which have arrived and sailed from ports in the United Kingdom: "Date February 1 to 14. Arrivals British, 4,053; allied, 227; neutral, 497: total, 4.777. Sailings British, 3.928; allied, 225; neutral, 361; total, 4,514. "Daily average. Arrivals British, 290; allied, 16; neutral, 35; total, 341. Sailings British, 280; allied, 16; neu tral. 26; total. 322. "It should be remembered, how ever, that totals of arrivals and de partures do not include fishing ves sels, coastwise and local coastwise traffic, nor craft of under 100 tons' burden." WASHINGTON DINNER Sons of American Revolution in An nual Banquet This Evening. "With a program .of twelve short speeches the Sons of the American Revolution will give the annual Wash ington birthday dinner at the First Methodist church beginning at 6:30 o'clock this evening. The organization comprises nearly fifty members here. The dinner will be served by the ladies of the First Methodist church. The officers of the Sons of the American Revolution are: J. M. Meade, president; A. H. Bennett, sec retary; Col. J. D. Norton, treasurer. VST. E2YX.' IT John 99 mm v n m M f I ODDITIES CULLED FROM DAY'S NEWS NEW YORK Pacifist propaganda cost $2,000 a day in New York, an unnamed peacer said; and 12,000,000 annually nationally. KEARNEY, N. J. One hundred of the 600 old soldiers In the home here announced they are ready "for a call to fight." NEW YORK Francis Tagliavia, duke of Alagona, Sicily, renounced allegiance to Victor mmanuel and his title to become an American citi zen. The duke is a shipping clerK. NEW HAVEN, CONN. Former President Taft said :-e could ride a horse, but "it would be hard on the horse," when he was enrolled here in the Connecticut military census. BUCTRL'S. O. Evan Williams sang Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar" at the runeral of Antone Zalesky but the funeral was at the county's expensa and the requiem was on a record. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Carl Johnson, arrested for fighting, was released by Judge Montgomery, when Johnson said the men he licked spoke slightingly of the Stars and Stripes. CHICAGO Mrs. Mary A. Candler, St. Marys, Ohio, can be of real serv ice to her country in case of war. She is one of three persons who passed the naval wireless examinations here. The other two were men. ENLIST M FARM Mobilize America to Aid Crop Production, Her Flea. Head of HousewiTes' League Grapples With H. C. of L. New York, Feb. 21. Mobilize the young men of America for work on the farms during the coming summer. If necessary, to meet the needs of New Tork and combat the rapidly soaring food prices, dig up Central park and make it a huge truck garden. These were the suggestions of Mrs. Julian Heath, head of the National Housewives' league, today. With the serious situation brought sharply to the fore by food riots in tenement dis tricts here yesterday, Mrs. Heath de clared every effort to meet the pre vailing food conditions was now a pa triotic duty. "Every young man in America seeking summer eritployment should go to the farms, just as some are en listing in the militia, as a matter of patriotism," said Mrs. Heath in an in terview today. "I am preparing an appeal to the colleges of the country, urging that college students, especially, volunteer for farm service. Farm Work, Patriotic Service. "One of the causes of the food shortage and high prices is said to be lack of farm labor and consequent sub-normal production. If that is the case, we should see that the farmer is given assistance. When the entire country is in the grip of a food situa- tion such as now prevails, work on the farms would be patriotic service. If thru a movement such as this ade quate labor is furnished, then the gov ernment should see that transporta tion facilities are furnished and that the marketing of the products is made possible at reasonable prices. "If there is no other relief from a situation which makes a dollar worth only about 25 cents when it comes to buying food in New York, why not dig up Central park, and produce food stuffs there for the city. If there is a corner, such competition would cer tainly bring prices down and if the shortage is real, the effort will be more than justified." PROVIDE FOR LIVINQ Miss Bresettc Thinks That More Im portant Than Preserving Relics. "Money is being appropriated -by all the legislatures to preserve relics all dead. I'd rather have it to help people live," so reads a part of a letter that Linna Bresette of the state welfare commission has written to the legisla ture. The commission has been get ting $5,000 a year, which was suffi cient at the time of its establishment. The work has expanded and now the commission is asking for double that amount annually. A lot of people desire to know why the women workers of Kansas do not speak for themselves. The answer is, according to Miss Bresette, that they aro financially unable to maintain a lobby at the legislature, and they are too busy to come to Topeka to lobby for themselves, and besides they don't know how and they would be afraid of their Jobs if they tried It. "One wo man worker, afraid of losing her job, wrote to a .representative protesting against a nine-hour law. She said she j liked to work long hours and that any I girl who didn't was lazy and trifling. But there are dozens of other letters asking for relief and protection." "Some employers." Miss Bresette says, "say that since some of the girls live at home they can get along on $4 I a week. Any right minded employer I would blush to make such an asser- tion and would be ashamed to allow I others to pay the bills for the girls whose time he uses for his own finan cial advancement. The commission has brought to light some interesting phases of the industrial situation in Kansas and has opened the eyes of the people of the state to the good as well as the evil In our conduct of the industries of Kansas. Most of the em ployes and employers of this state consider the commission offers the best way for both classes to meet and settle their differences. We consider that the conservation of womanhood and childhobd is one of the most im portant functions of the state." R. R. ELECTS NEW HEAD Edward L.I.omis of Lackawanna Be comes President of Lehigh Valley. PhiladelpMia, Feb. 21. Edward' E. Loomis, vice president of the Dela ware, Lackawanna Western rail road, was today elected president of the Lehigh Valley railway system, succeeding E. B. Thomas, who was made chairman of the board of di rectors and who will also act as chairman of the executive and finance committee. E. S. Moore resigned as a director of the Lehigh Valley and Mr. Thomas was elected to succeed him. BACK TO GARDEN Every Man to Raise His Own Vegetables in K. New "Sell by the Pound Ordi nance Helps Consumers. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 21. "Every man his own gardener!" It was apparent here today that this was Kansas City's new slogan in the fight to bring down high food prices. "Put idle hands to work on every vacant lot in Kansas City and every householder at a bit of gardening in his own backyard, and we'll forget about high prices," one H. C. of L. pugilist declared today. Real estate men, relief commissions, charity organizations, the city council and property owners are pledging sup port in the new effort to bring down prices. This move has foliowed' quickly the city ordinance compelling grocers to sell eggs, fruit and vegetables by weight instead of by the dozen. Gro cers complained today that the new system was cumbersome and that it would be difficult adjusting prices to the new scheme. They admitted, however, that the "weight buying" will be a big aid to the small purchaser. "Unscrupulous grocers," it was ex plained, "separate the small eggs, veg etables and fruits from the large, and sell the inferior to the small purchaser at a somewhat reduced price. How ever," it was said, "the price is not enough lower to compensate for the inferiority in size." Squash to Rescue at Cent a Pound. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 21. With the price of potatoes at seventy cents a peck or 5 3-4 cents per pound, eggs bringing an average of 52 cents a dozen, St. Louis today was feeling the Weight of high food prices but not as heavy as those in eastern cities. Butter prices ranged from 48 to 63 cents a pound. There was some reduction in a few farm products but they were in the commodities that are not in great demand here. Squash, for instance, was retailing for 1 cent a pound for the yellow, with no white on tine mar ket. Onions were quoted as high as 15 cents a pound. String beans were an unknown quantity today together with lima beans. Future bids on string beans brought as high at $12 a bushel. Last sales last week were at $6. Other prices: Cauliflower 15 and 20 cents each, cabbage 10 and 15 cents per pound, spinach $2.75 per bushel. Dealers along Produce Row said prices today in many cases more than doubled those of last year. None would say just what was expected of fhe market within the next week or two. FAVOR ROAD BILLS Senate Acts Favorably on Four High way Measures. Four measures relating to roads were acted upon favorably by the senate Tuesday. The bill creating the state highway commission and the bill providing for the improvement of country roads by the creation of benefit districts, were passed on third reading. The automobile license bill and the bridge and culvert measure were passed thru the committee of the whole and are now ready for final passage. The matter of good roads legislation is practically completed for this session so far as the senate is concerned. "I think my troubles are about over," said Senator Barr of Bourbon, chairman of the road and bridge committee, today. "My bills, or the ones in which I was chiefly interest ed, are well on their way and I'm gor ing to take it easy the rest of the session." The counties in which automobiles are owned benefit more under the new automobile law than under the old. The annual license fee is fixed at $5 as heretofore but only fifty cents instead of seventy-five goes to the state. The $4.50 remains in the county in which the automobile li censed is located and besides if any money remains in the state fund at the end of the year it is to be pro portioned among the counties accord ing to the number of automobiles all to bo used for the improvement of the roads- The automobile bill makes no radical changes in speeds permit ted. Before the bill goes on roll call an amendment will be offered by Schoch of Shawnee regulating the lights and providing for dimmers under certain conditions. An Antidote for Uric Acid Poison (BY DR. L. C. BABCOCK.) There is a process going on within the body which often poisons us. It something like ihe story of the snake being about to kill itself with its own poisons. This is the rormation of uric acid In excess within the body. It is a waste product which takes place in the liver. -This poisonous uric acid is then passed on to the kidneys, which act as a filter to pass off and excrete this poison. If the kidneys are clogged up, inactive, the poison degen erates these organs and causes kidney disease. If it is deposited in the tis sues, around the joints of the body, it causes rheumatism or gout. Consequently we must do everything: to throw off this uric acid poison, and simple methods are best. Flush the kidneys by drinking plenty of water between meals ,a pint of hot water, morning and night is splended. Take Anuric (double-strength) three times a day for awhile, and get the kidneys to working by flushing out this poison. That painful affliction, known as gout, as well as muscular rheumatism, is caused by the uric acid crystals be ing deposited in the big toes or tissues. The man who uses his brain, perhaps over-taxing his nervous energy will suffer fits of "blues," depression, headache, sleeplessness, loss of mem ory, all due to the posion of uric acid. The man who does physical work, using his muscles, occasionally com plains of sluggishness, muscular tired feeling, muscular stiffness or aches, neuralgic twinges symptoms all due to this uric acid accumulation. In every case I advise hot water, and Anuric taken three times daily a simple, safe remedy, which is to be had at almost every drug store. Advertisement That Big Sale Fine Shirts Si 35 Choice or limiilreds of men's fine Shirts, procured through special purchases, to which have been added broken lines from our own stock, including well known makes. 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For Quick Returns Try Auerbachf Guettd IctomuNG cc Most Well $17.50 $21.75 $27.50 $32.50 Kenilworth $17.30 and $30 f-nits ami Overcoats, re duced to. $14.50 AUT0LITE 1 SERVICE STATIOPf Every Winter Day Is An Outdoor Day in California teas a Journal Want Ad. A 1

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21. 1917 MANY GIRLS IN TOPEKA ON THE i: ROAD TO RUIN! Miss Eva, Corning: says xnai the Number Is Appalling. n4P Girl Juvenile Of- c- Offi MAN IS NEAR TROUBLE He Is Accused of Keeping a Girl in His Business Place. Affidavit Also Asserts That He Took Men to Her Room. In a sleeping clean-up or girl ju venile offenders in Topeka conducted hy Miss Eva Corning, juvenile officer, nnd Miss Kffie Loader, probation of ficer from the Kills' industrial school nt Beloit. information has been ob tained which bodes no Rood for a cer tain Topeka business institution. Only the fact that Robert T. Ciaiver. coun ty attorney, didn't believe the unsub stantiated affidavit of a juvenile of fender would clinch a conviction has kept him from brincinK a serious charge against the proprietor of this instHution. The Bill is now at lllf I'.oloit school. Before leaving Topeka. she signed an affidavit statin that she had remain ed in a certain place for three weeks, that the proprietor brought men to her room and she obtained money from these men. Many Cilrts Reckless. "The number of Rirl offenders from IS to 18 years of iwe that I find In Topeka is appalling." said Miss Corn ing 1 "It has taken nearly all my time chairing down these girls and attempt ing y one -means or another to safe guard -them against further degrada tion." Miss Loader arrived in Topeka this morning and three juvenile offenders were immediately takan to the pro bate ludge's office. Others will he KEEP URIC ACID I OUT OF JOINTS 4 Tells Rheumatism Sufferers to Eat Less Meat and Take Salts. Rheumatism is easier to avoid than toture, says a well-known authority. wi are advised to dress warmly; keep th feet dry; avoid exposure; eat less mat, and drink plenty of good water flheumatism is a direct result of easing too much meat and other rich fowls that produce uric acid which is absorbed into the blood. It is the function of the kidneys to filter this uric acid from the blood and cast it out in the urine; the pores of the skin ar also a means of freeing the blood of' this impurity. In damp and chilly cold weather the skin pores are closed thfls forcing the kidneys to do double work, they become weak and sluggish an fail to eliminate the uric acid wliich keeps accumulating and cir cuaating through the system, eventual lysettling in the joints and muscles causing stiffness, soreness and pain called rheumatism. At the first twinge of rheumatism get from any pharmacy about four oiftices of Jad Salts; put a tablespoon firl in a glass of water and drink be fore breakfast each morning for a week. This is said to eliminate uria acid by stimulating the kidneys to nor mal action, thus ridding the blood of thse impurities. ajad Salts is inexpensive, harmless an is made from the acid of grapes a.ifl lemon juice, combined with lithia ami is used with excellent results by thousands of folks who are subject to rheumatism. Here you have a pleas ant, effervescent lithia-water drink wrtfch hf lps overcome uric acid and is beneficial to your kidneys as well. J.ingcriim Coughs Are Oangerous. 5et rid of that tli'kllng cough that keeps yarn awake at night and drains your vital-lt-and energy. Dr. King's New Discovery is i pleasant balsam remedy, antiseptic, laxative and promptly effective. It soothes thj" Irritated membrane and kills the cold ffeitiis; your cough is soon relieved. Delay la vlaiigeroiiB get Ir. King's New Ils covev at once, l-'or nearly fifty years it bas 4jomi the favorite remedy for grippe. crop. coughs and colds. Get a bottle to dnsr.at yonr Druggist; SOr. Adr DICE G&RS1Y DISEASE KM Ttaeae Pnti Br UiloC STEARNS1 ELECTRIC PASTE f U. S. Government Bay It JtOLD EVXSTWKBRI -35c Dd IU0 Most thinjrs can be any body's gift. Iaur Portrait is Distinct- lively, inclusively Yours. Make that appointment T'; Today. Snyder 722 Kansas Ave. Jfo More Full Ones Ship Back the Empties 7 We Haul Them Hurry -Up Transfer Company 226 PHONES 71 1 X called before her today. One is a girl, who disappeared several weeks ago, when she learned Miss Loader was searching for her. But she appeared in Topeka again Tuesday. She is the girl in whom Miss Loader has been greatly interested and she described her condition to Miss Loader, thusly: "I have a father, a mother, a step father and a stepmother, but no place to go." She was in the reformatory once before, but was released. Now the authorities hope to get her back into1 the school lor "aiding and abetting another juvenile offender, It'is prob able Miss Loader will take a number of girls to Beloit. One was sent back to the school last week. A GALL FOR CUPID! Beloit School Girl Must Marry or Go Back to Institution. Her Sweetheart Is Willing, but His Father Objects. Altho Mildred Duncan. IS, is pro vided with a father and mother, step father and step-:nother, she had no home. Which explains why a few years ago sh-j landed in the Girls' In dustrial school at Beloit. And when at last it seemed that she was to get the haven she has needed for so long by marrying Glenn Man uel, moving picture operator, the move was blockvd by Jesse Manuel, father of Glenn, who refuses to give his consent to the marriage. His son is under age. And unless Glenn is able to obtain his father's consent as he has his mother's. Mildred Duncan will be taken back to Beloit by Miss Bffie Loader, juvenile officer of the indus trial school. At a late hour :t seemed that the girl must go back to Beloit. Mildred was sent to Beloit three years ago. She appeared bright and willing and was released recently and came to Topeka. She had a good job here but bad reports reached the of ficers of the institution. Miss Kffie Loader, juvenile officer, was sent for. but Mildred hearing of her intentions fled. Tuesday she re turned and was apprehended by Miss Eva Corning, welfare worker, and taken to the Detention Home- Miss Loader arrived this morning. She spent the morning arguing with her to get her to return. "You are too intelligent to be lost." Finally the girl asked her. "If I get married, will everything be all right." "Yes," answered the surprised ju venile officer. She telephoned Glenn Manuel. He needed no second invitation, but came on the run. with his mother follow ing. He told Miss Loader he had a good Job in sight out of town and would take his wife with him. And then the opposition of the father spoiled the romance. So the anxious girl waits with Miss Loader in the juvenile probate court room, while young Manuel is trying to convert an obdurate father. ENTERTAIN DAVIDSON Topeka Schools Will Honor Former Superintendent on His Visit Here. Teachers in Topeka schools will join with Superintendent H. B. Wil son in giving a reception in honor of William W. Davidson, former super intendent of schools here, on his visit to Topeka, March 3. Davidson was one of the most popular school men that Topeka has ever had. He is at present superintendent of the schools of Pittsburg, Pa., and nationally prom inent in educational matters. Davidson's visit to Topeka is the first in several years and is made pos sible by the occurrence of the annual convention of school superintendents at Kansas City next week. He will arrive here Saturday, March 3, and will stay- with his sister, Mrs. Eliza beth Lowry, 1201 Fillmore street. The following Monday morning he will speak at the high school. At the noon luncheon he will address mem bers of the Chamber of Commerce on "The Old Order Changeth." In the afternoon he will speak to the public school teachers and general public at the high school auditorium. His sub ject will be "The Human Touch in Teaching." Monday evening a reception in his honor will be held at the home of H. B. t Wilson, superintendent of eity schools. DEATHS AND FUNERALS WILLIAM HILL, nee SI, died last nieht I at his home, 112 Biich.'inan street. The funeral will he n-m Thursday at 1 ::t0 octork from the Qulnton Heights Baptists church, liurlal at Mr. Hope cemetery. EOOAFl A. ISOWK.V. nee 73. riipd this morning nt hfn home, .".2n polk street. The funeral will be held at -i o'clock Friday afternoon. JOHN RICK, ape 23. died at a local hospital last night. The body will be sent to Chanute, Kau., for burial. M. F. TtlGTtY. died this morning at his home, "lit Harrison. Funeral services will be In ehnrge of No. 17, A. F. nnd A. M. Friday afternoon from his home. Burial In Topeka cemetery. -t Representative William Haley of Ottawa county, Kansas, who was ex cused from his duties and who went to Florida at the order of his physi cian, is now at Hot Springs, Ark., dan gerously ill. Manhattan Cleaners. -Adv. Phone 1769. 1917 wall paper. Advertisement. Jones Paint Co. Memorial hall will contain a statue of Gen. Frederick Funston it the bill introduced in the senate this after noon by the committee on military af fairs goes thru. The bill provides for the appropriation of 2,504 for the erection of a statue of the Kansas hero. The money is to be expended under the direction of the Memorial hall commission. Wall paper at lower prices. J. K. Jones Paint Co. Advertisement. Branch No. 10 of the National As sociation of Letter Carriers and Indies' Auxiliary No. 82 will give their annual banquet and entertain ment Thursday evening at the I. O. O. F. hall, 119 West Sixth street. Weekly Saturday night dance at Kirkpatrick hall. Saunder's Union orchestra. Admission, 35 cents. Adv. Topeka Auto Livery. Phone 6 98 oc 3737, 116 W. 5th. Open day and night. Adv. T CAPPERJTEPS IN Governor Says State Manager Will Save $300,000 a Year. He. Sends Message to Senate in Behalf of Pending Measure. THE VOTE WILL BE CLOSE Poll Shows Upper House Mem bers Aout Equally Divided. ew Amendment Provides for 4 Managers Instead of Whether or not the institutions of Kansas are to be turned over to the management of a board of five mem bers is being determined- by the sen ate today. The "state manager" bill passed by the house the bill intro duced by Representative Martin, of lie no, is under consideration. Polls of the senate- made by half a dozen people indicate a very close vote when the voting stage is reached. It takes twenty-one votes to pass the bill. One poll shows the bill with only eighteen friends. Another gives it an even iwcnty-one. Still another gives it a majority of two. As amended by consent just before noon today the bill provides for a board of managers composed of four instead of five electors, as passed by the house." Senator Kanavel, of Har vey, offered that amendment and it was accepted. Another amendment that promised a fight but which was eventually ac cepted by Senator Carroll, of Wabaun see, who is engineering the bill thru the senate, provides that the mana gers shall be selected by the governor without reference to their political faith, the selection to be based wholly upon fitness for the places. To diet Xo Salaries. As the bill stands it provides no salaries for the state managers altho they are required to put up a bond of $10,000 each. The board would have jurisdiction over the educational, benevolent and penal institutions of the state and the law would wipe out the present boards and commissions having jurisdiction over such insti tutions. The bill provides the position of general manager. The board is to employ such a person at a salary of $5,000 a year and the general mana ge:' will have authority to manage and control all of the institutions with th-i advice of the board. The board is also authorized to employ a secre tary at a salary of $2,000 a year. Just before the bill came up for consideration in the senate Governor Capper sent up a message in which he urged the importance of the enact ment of such a law. Save State $300,000. "The state accountant estimates," reads the message, "this bill will save Kansas $300,000 every year in salaries and operating expenses. It begins by cutting off eight of, the fattest, highest-salaried political "jobs in the state. Naturally, these office-seekers, the clerks under them, and their friends, are opposing the bill. Its passage will absolutely cut out politics in the man agement of the state institutions. I believe I correctly voice public opin ion in expressing the earnest hope that the senate will join with the house in giving the state this much needed legislation." MORE GOLD FLOWS IN $28,500,000 British Coin to Morgan Making $130,000,000 This Year. New York. Feb. 21. Gold to the amount of $28,500,000 arriving: by way to Canada and consigned to j. P. Morgan Co., was deposited to day at the assay office here. This makes a total of $66,000,000 received within a week and $130,000,000 thus far this year. QUEER THINGS ARE SEEN IN 'FLORIDA .-JSSr f ZJ v x 3X Miss Gretehen Clay wearing her new costume. Miss Gretehen Clay, whose name is said to be ensrraved on the social register of Philadelphia, is happy be cause she has some new wearing ap parel which is "different." In the picture she is shown taking her morning walk at Palm Beach, clad in a sweater and muffler of wool clever ly woven into strange designs. White collar and cuffs and a black belt add the convent innal touch. 3L IV i 1 I.TlBf TvtiTiJfliT' Snapshots iHnMNFXXC,!1 Th Why's of life. Whv In it? Ttao we know time's fleet- We find that it is fleeter. When we've a note we have to meet And time is set to meet-er. Nels 1'lngle. Dr. Eva Harding has moved office to 728 Kansas avenue. Adv. Dr. O'. L. Cook and Mrs. Cook will entertain their Bible classes this eve n;ng at their home, 337 Woodlawn avenue. An all day meeting of the Federa tion of Missions wil be held at the Y. W. C. A. Thursday. Lunch will be served at noon. Mrs. Julie Seaton, M. D., of Chicago will preside at a three days' conference of the New Thought Alliance, to be held at the Unity church, Friday, Sat urday and Sunday. Adv. The Ladies' union of Seabrook will give a Washington social in costume February 23 at the church. A pro gram has been prepared. Mrs. J. Hal Smith of Buffalo, N. Y.. will speak at the First United Breth ren church next Sunday morning. Mrs. Smith is a talented woman with a great message, who for years la bored with her deceased husband in Kono Land, Africa. The protest against the paving of Euclid avenue from Kansas avenue to Monroe street was declared effective today by Commissioner Tandy as it contained the signatures of more than half the property owners interested. The street will not be paved this year. A patriotic program appropriate to Washington's birthday will be given at Central Congregational church, Thurs day evening at 7:30 o'clock. W. D. Ross and K. D. Schonberger will speak. The Washburn Glee club will sing and some of the Central Park school children will take part. George R. Sherretts. 22, Dover, and Helen Vance, 17, Burlingame, were married this morning by Probate Judge Gaw. About a dozen friends of the young couple crowded into the 2x4 marriage room while the cere mony was in progress. It was imr possible for all to get inside the room. Plans for the initiation of the legis lators who were unable to attend the initiation lost Thursday night were completed by the Ake-Pot Sterboos in a meeting at the Chamber of Com merce this noon. The initiation of one hundred or more lawmakers last week was voted such a success by all con cerned that members of the legisla ture who could not attend have been clamoring for a chance to ride the goat. Such a large crowd attended the funeral .of John F. Switzer that not nearly all of thrm were able to get into the home. The Topeka Bar asso ciation of which Mr. Switzer had been a member, attended in a body. B'loral offerings were received from the var ious organizations of which he was a member. The services were in charge of Dr. S. S. Estey. pastor of the First Presbyterian church. Waldo Heywood sang a solo. The burial was in Mt. Hope cemetery. D. F. Shirk, superintendent of the Kansas Children's Home society, has been in Louisiana in the last ten days gathering data for a report on child welfare conditions in that state, which he will make at the annual con vention of the National Children s Home society to be held in Pittsburg, Pa., in June. Mr. Shirk is president of the national organization. His trip was made at the request of the offi cers of the lliouisiana Child's Home society. He will return to Topeka the last of th week. A formal complaint was issued from the county attorney's office charging George Adams, 17 years old. with a statutory crime. He is accused of tak ing Hattie Blanger, 16 years old, to Silver Lake. Saturday night and re maining with her at the Silver Lake hotel, where they passed as brother and sisteT. When Charles Blanger, tatner or tne girl, round them Sun day morning in the village, he had no trouble in catching his daughter, but young Adams escaped. The officers of nearby towns have been notified. Seven Topeka people appear before the footlights, some of them in their initial performance, when "The Vaga- Dona is given at the Orpheum. be ginning next Monday night. In this comedy drama tabloid J. F. Doni- phant, Kenneth Nelson, Ray Knoll, Dewey Gregg, Wilhelmina Hammerli. T. Lucile, L. Hardy, and Florence Gregg form the cast. It is to be a one-act affair and will be given in connection with the presentation of Mary Picktord s second big feature, "The Pride of the Clan." Fred Harrison, a negro laborer who has been working on the excavation for the new Dibble grocery store, at Sixth and Quincy streets, was arrested Tuesday for selling a piece of lead pipe which he and several other work men dug out of the ground there. Harrison was arrested on complaint of F. M. Spencer, the contractor who is making the excavation, but was later released at Spencer's request. Harri son told the police that it was custom ary for the laborers to dispose of junk which they found in such places and that in no case that he knew of had any one ever been arrested for it. The work of making an $8,000 ex tension to the Topeka .Woolworth store, 625-7 Kansas avenue, began the first of this week under the direction of J. L. Holden. construction super intendent for the Woolworth syndi cate. The partition between the pres ent rooms and that at 629 Kansas avenue is to be torn out and the Wool worth store will occupy this room. R. E. Steinkamp, manager of the local branch, said there would be three entrances and twelve display windows when the Remodeling was complete. The interior will be overhauled and ne fixtures and furnishings installed. A luncheon was served at noon to day in the Grey room of the State Journal in honor of Robert Lynn Cox, vice president of the Metro politan Life Insurance company, of New York City, who is in Kansas taking a survey of the field in connec tion with the new farm mortgage loan department of his company. There were present: Robert Lynn Cox, Gov ernor Arthur Capper, C. B. Merriam, C. J. Wilson, insurance commissioner; F. C. Kaths. president of the Kansas Reserve State bank; Robert Stone, at torney for the Metropolitan company: John McCarry. the new superintend ent of the Metropolitan company at Topeka, and Frank P. MacLennan. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Wways Dears the Sioture of ETERNAL TRIANGLE" BARED WH EN HOUSEKEEPER, 71, SUES AGED MILLIONAIRE AFTER HIS MARRIAGE TO KANSAS CITY BEAUTY Mrs. Tabitha Taylor (left), Mrs. Zoe Wilkins Cunningham and Thomas W. Cunningham. When Thomas W. Cunningham, 72-year-old millionaire of Joplin, Mo., married Miss Zoe Wilkins, 25, a Kansas City beauty, he got himself into a peck of trouble. Mrs. Tabitha Taylor. 71, his housekeeper for eigh teen years, immediately sued him for f 500.IMI0. declaring thatshe wr; his iMW wife nd a urh was "BONE DRY" WINS Walkaway for Anti-Booze in National House. Drastic Postal Regulation Is Aid to Dry States. Washington. Feb. 21. The senate bone-dry amendment to the postal bill, prohibiting shipment of liquor in to states which have prohibition laws was accepted today by the house 321 to 72. It is counted as one of the most far-reaching prohibition measures in years, because it will make absolutely dry states which now permit ship ments in limited quantities. There was a long and heated debate over the amendment. Representative Sherley told the house forty per cent of the whisky manufactured in Ken tucky was sent into states from which the Reed amendment would shut it out. 'Representative Cox of Indiana, and Representative Cannon of Illinois supported Sherley. Within twenty minutes after the roll call began in the house today on the adoption of the Reed amendment to the postal bill to make prohibition states bone dry, enough votes had been recorded in its favor to assure its adoption in the bill. Announce ment of its passage could' not be made however, until all the votes were polled. L0SEH0PE FOR" BILL "Father of T'ni versa 1 Military Ser vice Measure Says It Will Fail. Washington, Feb. 21. Universal military service legislation will fail of passage at the present session of con gress. Senator Chamberlain, father of the measure now before congress, admitted today. "I now have no hopes whatever," Chamberlain said -today, "of getting action on my bill. However, I shall again ask my committee to add it on the pending military appropriation bill." As a single objection on the senate floor, however, would defeat this at tempt and as strong opposition exists in the house. Senator Chamberlain considers his effort will be hopeless. A great d rive, h owever. will be started, he said, earlv in the tip-- sion, to put the measure thru. Iespite the hopeless blockade of such legislation, the army general staff has announced it would send to congress its detailed plans for putting the system into operation. TODAY'S TEMPER ATI; RES. Hourly temperature readings as re ported by the local office of the Unit ed States weather bureau: 7 o'clock 8 o'clock 9 o'clock .28 11 o'clock 12 o'clock .47 .46 .44 .45 .27 .32 .43 1 o'clock 2 o'clock 10 o'clock The average temperature of today was five degrees below normal. Wind velocity at 2 p. m- was twenty miles an hour from the north. w York Money Market New York, Feb. 21. M NEY Mercantile paper 4B Vt. Sterling day hills, 4.72; commeriial fiO-day bills, on banks. 4.72; commercial 00-day bills, 4.71; demand, 4 75 cables, 4 i7-l. Francs, demand, 5S5H' cables, 3.n44. Marks, demand. O; rabies, flSHi- Kronen, demand, 11 11-Ki: cables, 11. illders, demand. 40 9-16: cables 40. I.ires. demand, 7.:t2: cables, 7.11. 'Rubles, demand, '2S cables, '2s. Bar' silver. 775i. Mexican dollars, 00. Gov ernment bonds steady. Railroad bonds Irregular. Time loans steady, 00 and 90 days. S(S4: six months. 4fa ,V4. t'ail monev steady, high. "Vt lo. 2V ruling rate, 2& last loan, 24; closing bid, 24; offered at 2'4- Km Orleans Cotton Market New Orleans, Feb. 21. COTTON Spot cotton nominal and unchanged. Middling $17.19. New I'ork Stork Market. (Closing prices for the leading stocks on The New York Stock Exchange as re ported by Empire Commission Co., 301 New England Bldg.) Aew iofk, reo. -i. 4 'lose Today Yes. Wi4 .S9-4 7H 7M4 ...ion 103Vi 77 77 8tis K7T, 00 5t M 81 i, 23Vi 27?-, 5i! 5l 1 47V4 4Vi i ...111 in r.7v i 45 434 ....".-4 38; :in i 5Vi a-,J KSK 1 ...102 104H W-i 'MVt ...lns-ri jas.: ..in"" iwT4 ...110.' 111 I T24i I Am. Beet Sngar. Anaconda Mining A.. T. S. V., c Baltimore Ohio. (Central Leather Chesa. Ohio...,.-. C, M. St. I'., c. C, R. I. I' Chin Copper Colo. Fuel Iron.. .reat Northern, p.. inspiration Ken n. Copper Miami Copier Missouri Pacific l'eun. Railroad Heading, c Studebaker Southern Pacific I'nion Pacific, c V. S. Steel, c rtali Copper --vvV'--'- PIGS SMOTHER TO DEATH IN HOUSE DURING STORM Sheldon, N. D., Feb. 21. Jens Anderson drove several of his pips into the house to protect them from a snowstorm. The dwelling wa drifted in during the night and four of the swine smothered to death. DRYS WIN ROUND! By Vote of 206 to 81 Congressmen Sustain "Bone Dry" Bill. Washington, Feb. 21. Supporters of the Reed "bone dry" amendment to the postal bill won the first round of the wet and dry fight in the house today when a proposed amendment by Representative Saunders of Virginia which would have nullified the Reed proposal, was defeated 206 to 81. Defeat of the proposal was greeted with wilci cheering and cries of "Bone dry!" "Rone dry!" Representativ0 Webber of North Carolina, father of the nationwide prohibition resolution, voted for the Saunders proposal. The Saunders amendment would have made the Reed amendment ap ply only in states that now are "bone dry" in effect, then, this would not change the present situation in any state. An amendment by Mr. Sherley to postpone opeiation of the provision for one year was rejected on an aye and nay vote, after friends of the bill had warned the house that any change of the senate amendment would kill it in conference. ""TiHrmiB!Nl fTgJt''' x-rwmmgxfjw line is the onlv store in the world advertising or selling Men's Suits of the quality I am offer ing in my opening Suit Sale To morrow for Think of it! This is a broad statement to make, but I ask you to verify yourself, with your eyes, with your own judgment, then if you don't buy one of those D. L. Suits I 1H WKv sale for $10.00, I will be badly mistaken. Want A Top Coat Buy It Tomorrow! We want every man who is in need of a Top Coat to come in and see the $15.00 and $12.00 Coats we now Cf offer you for PO.OU One lot of Men's $15.00 Suits, mostly small sizes, Ie Oft mostly $15.00 Suits, Thursday. Your choice Pf.UU One Lot Men's Pep per and Salt Rain coats, choice $1.25 entitled to a share of his property. Some of his friends entered the game and started proceedings to have him declared insane, it being charged that a conspiracy was afoot to get his money away from him. All this happened while Cunningham was on his honeymoon. Leaving his wife ill in Chicago he hurried back to Joplin, where ne was thrust into jail. Mrs. Taylor calleo on him there, and they fell on each other's shoul ders and went. THROWN FROM A CAR J. C. Cirossor Sustains Broken Icgs and Internal Injuries in Accident. J. C. Gresser of 924 Lincoln street was seriously injured this morning when he was hurled from the rear platform of a southbound Low man street car at the south end of the Me lan bridge. The car makes a sharp turn near the corner of Crane street. Gresser was thrown to the pavement from the car. He was carried into Dyal Brothers' shop and an ambulance took him to Christ's hospital. It was found that Grei;sor had sus tained a fractured arm. both legs were broken and he was injured inter nally. His condition is very serious. Until recently Gresser was assistant cashier of the Citizens' State bank. WANTS SIX ChMLDREN Mother Sues Husband for Divorce After Suicidal Attempts. Mary K. Rrown, 80 8 North Jackson street, filed application for divorc j from Thomas J. Brown this after noon. Her petition unfolded a tale of 1 tragedy in which her three attempts jat suicide caused by the alleged treat j ment by her husband was the chief I item. In her petition she gives non-sup-1 port, extreme cruelty and her hus- J band's appetite for booze as grounds for divorce. She states that he stolo her earnings to buy liquor. She asks 1 the custody of her six children. am going to sell in my opening i c n TO STANDJY SON Parents of Clyde Brown Will Finance His Defense. They Think He Had Good Rea son for Killing Zinn. "We are going to stay here until Clyde is freed of the charge against him. We will back his defense until he is acquitted. And then I am going to take my boy back to Canada with me.' The above are the words of James Brown, father of Clyde Brown, who faces a first degree murder charge for the killing of Sidney M. Zinn, Topeka newspaper man. Brown and his wife arrived .here this afternoon from their home in Alberta. Can. They made the long trip, knowing nothing of the details of the tragedy. They had received a telegram from Sheriff Hugh Larimer merely stating that Clyde had been shot in a strug gle with an assailant. Until they got off the train at Topeka they had not heard that he faced.trial for murder. Will Finance Defense. "I l:now nothing of the case." Brown said, "But I do know Clyde. And I know that he would not do such a thing unless the provocation justifide him. "It is ar terrible affair. But Mrs. Brown and myself are going to stay here until our son is freed of the charge. We will back his defense) until he is acquitted if it takes every penny we have. "And then we want Clyde to go back to Canada with us." Brown was a resident of Topeka for many years, living at 1252 Lincoln street. Five years ago he bought land in Canada and now owns a large stock farm near Alberta. He was a. carpenter while in Topeka. Late this afternoon County Attor ney Robert Garver issued a complaint against Brown charging him with first degree murder. REPORT 12 SHIPS SUNK Total of 23,000 Tons but All Weren't Destroyed Today. London. Feb. 21. The British steamer Brigade has been sunk. The Brigade was a steel screw steamer of 4 25 tons, registered at Glasgow, and the property f the Ma son Shipping company. Dispatches from various cources to day added a dozen ships to the list of those sunk as the result of the re cent Teutonic submarine operations. Most of these were sent to. the bottom several days ago. The longest list came from a Ger man source claimed the sinking of six vessels in the Mediterranean with in the last few days. Paris officially reports' the sinking of five vessels in the period from Feb ruary 16 to Feb. 20. In addition, from the Lloyds agency the sinking of a British steamer, 1,828 tons, is an nounced. The tonnage of the vessels named in the report will aggregate nearly 23.000 tons. War operations on the various fronts were of minor impor tance. New York Stock Market The npproarhiMK liolUlay nl fresh ln ternMtionnl uncertainties invited profit tnk inir in various narts of the list today, lead ers yielding 1 to S points. Sates were e- Ste and other prominent industrial were .'under further pressure in the last hour with more moderate recessions in rails. The closing was heavy. A Grand Opening Sale The most beautiful Suits for men in the world, are now on sale at August's for Suit Snaps for 25c Tomorrow SAe Ladies' Waists, regu lar SI.OW values. tSe Painters' White Overalls. SSe Udtn' Hllfc moves. Sftc ldiea' Bilk Hose. Z&e Ladies' TrtmmeU Hat a. ZSe Ladiea' Hhlrts and Drawer. 25c Ladies, Aarora Hearts. I5e Men'a l.inen Collars. one doaea. tte Mea'a White Dreas Hhlrts. ZSe Children's Wash Huits. tSe Ladles' I'nion Helta. ISe Boys' Kara Pants. tSe Bo,,' Hats and Caps. S5e Ladiea' Low Mhoes. Zoe Ladles' Fancy JU9 Collars. tSe MasTa Mended Kid (ilovea. ISe Ladles' Storm Rob bers. 26e afen'a Storm Rub. bera. I5e Children's 811k So. pair. t5e Men's Felt Hat. 5e Men's Dreas Vesta. tSe President Haspenders ZSe Ladlea, Mannish Waists, toe Children's Wash Dreaaea.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21. 1917 NO STOMACH PAIN, GAS, INDIGESTION IN FIVE MINUTES Tape's Diapepsin" is the best antacid and stomach regu lator known. "Keallv does" put upset stomachs in order "reallv does" overcome incn ftestiou. dvspepsia. pas. heartburn ami sourness due to acid fermentation in five minutes that just that makes Pape's Diapepsin the larsest selling stomach antacid and regulator in the world. It what you eat ferments anil turns sour, you belch pas and eruc tate undigested food or water: head is diizv and aches; breath foul; tonsue coated: your insides tilled with indi gestible waste, remember the moment 1'ape's Diapepsin" comes in contact with the stomach all such distress vanishes. It's truly astonishing al most marvelous, and the joy is its harmlessness. A large fifty-cent case of Pape s Diapepsin is worth its weight in Bold to men and women who can't pet their stomachs regulated. It belongs in your home should always be kept handy in cesc of a sick, sour, upset stomach during the day or at night. It's the quickest, surest antacid for the stomach in the world. Adv. HAVE ROSY CHEEKS AND FEEL FRESH AS A DAISY TRY THIS! Says glass of hot water with phosphate befcre breakfast washes out poisons. To "p the tintje Healthy bloom in your face, to see your skin set clearer and clearer, to wake up with out a headache, backache, coated tongue or a nasty breath, in fact, to feel your best, day in and day out, just ry Inside-bathing evry morning for one week. Before breakfast each day drink a rlass of real hot water with a ea spoonful of limestone phosphate in it ms a harmless means of washing from the stomach, liver, k'dneys and bowels the previous day's indigestible waste, sour hilt- and toxins; thus cleansing, -weetenin? and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of hot water and limestone phosphate an empty stomach is wonderfully in-vitioratins-. It cleans out alt -he tour fermentations, gases and acidity and qives ore a f plendid appetite for brea k fast. A quarter pound of limestone phos phate wfl rost vry little at the dru. store, but is sufficient to demonstrate that lust as r-oap and hot wate: olefins", sweetens and freshens the skin, ffo hot water and limestone phos phate net on ie blood and internal r.rernns. Those wV are subject to constipation, niliims attacks, aci3 storr.ath. rheu natic twinges. also those wbn skin is sallow and com plexion pallid, "re assured that one week -f inide-MHiinT viU have them both looking and feeling heter tn AD BREATH Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets Get at the Cause and Remove It Dr. KdwardV Olive Tablets, the sub stitute for calomel, act gently on the bowels ami positively do the work. People afflicted with bad breath find quick relief through Dr. Edwards' Olii-A Tlflf, TU. -.1 t ""'via, i i'v picdcuii, sujjar coated tablets are taken for bad breath by all who know them. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets act gen tly but firmly on the bowels and liver, stimulating them to natural action, ilearinff the blood and gently purifying the entire system. They do that which dangerous calomel does without any of the bad after effects. All the benefits of nasty, sickening, griping cathartics are derived from Dr. hdwards' Olive Tablets without grip nig, pain or any disagreeable effects. Dr. F. M. Edwards discovered the formula after seventeen years of prac tice among patients afflicted with bowel and liver complaint with the attendant bad breath. Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets are pure ly a vegetable compound mixed with olive oil you will know them by their olive color. Take one or two every night fora week and note the effect. 10c and 2Sc prr box. All druggists. (AlvertlWMnint. DON'T FUSS WITH MUSTARD PLASTERS! Musterole Works Easier, Quicker and Without the Blister There's no sense in mixing a mess of mustard, flour and water when you can easily relieve pain, soreness or stiffness with a little clean, white Musterole. Musterole is made of pure oil of mus tard and other helpful ingredients, com bined in the form of a pleasant white ointment. It takes the place of out-of-date mustard plasters, and will not blister. Musterole usually gives prompt relief from sore throat, bronchitis, tonsilitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, head ache, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of the Jiest (it often prevents pneumonia). t'oiistipalio-i Mukcs Yon Dull. That drnssy. listless, oppressed feeling ironerally results from onstiputirin. The intestines are clogged and tuc blood be comes poisoned, lieliere this condition at once with Dr. King's New Life Pills: this I-ntle. non-driplns laxative Is quickly ef fective. A ilnse at bedtime will make you trtl brighter in the morring. ;,.t a bottle today at yaur Drusgist, 'Joe. Adv. TIGHTEN BLOCKADE Britain Takes Turn Treading on 'eutrals' Toes. Warns "ot to Attempt to Evade British Inspection. London. Feb. 21. The Official Ga zette today contains an order in coun cil dated February 16, for tightening the blockade of the countries with which Great Britain is at war, as a result of the German blockade mem orandum of January 31, and similar enactments of other hostile countries. "Whereas; These enemy orders are in flagrant contradiction, me oraer reads, "of the rules of international law. the dictates of humanity and treaty obligations of the enemy, and j render it necessary lor rurtner meas j ures to be adopted in order to main I tain the efficiency of those previously taken to prevent commodities reach ing or leaving enemy countries. His majesty has ordered that the follow ing declarations shall be observed re specting all vessels which sail from their port of departure after the date of this order." Text of the Kdict. The following official proclamation modifying the terms of the British naval blockade was issued: '"1 A vessel which is encountered at sea on the wny to or from a port in any neutral country nffordiuff means of access to eueuiy territory without calling at a port in British or allied territory, shall, until the contrary is established, be deemed to be carrying goods with enemy destina tion or of enemy origin and shall be broucht In for examination and If neces sary for adjudication before a priae court. V2 Any vessel carrying goods with enemy destination or of enemy origin shall be liable to capture and condemnation in respect of the carriage of siicb goods pro vided that in the case of any vessel which calls at an appointed British or allied port for exflininatloii of her cargo no sentence of condemnation shall be pronounced ex cept on carriage of goods of enemy origin or destination and no such presumption as laid down in Article 1 shall arise. ".'I (roods which are found on examina tion of any vessel to" be goods of enemy origin or destination shall be liable to con demnation." Is Jirwted at Scandinavians. The blockade of Germany is appar ently made complete by the order in council which is evidently directed at shipping; in the Baltic sea and the North sea, where commerce between Scandinavian nations and Germany has been more or less unrestricted in the past. From now on such ship ping must put into British or Russian ports for examination. SELL EGGS BYPOUND K. C. Council Passes Law Compelling New Market Measure. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 21. A pound of eggs please." Beginning March 1 this is the way the Kansas City housewife will order not only eggs, but fruit and vegetables from her grocer. The city council last night adopted the new standard of measure on the insistence of the Consumer's League and other asso ciations fighting the high cost of liv ing. The ordinance provides that on and after March 1 all fruits, fresh and dried, all vegetables, fresh and dried, eggs and other foodstuffs except ber ries, currants, cherries and other small fruits usually sold in boxes of specific measurement, shall be sold by avoirdupois standard. Tho InvMtipatnrs who nronnsed the ordinance revealed the fact that "con- i I sumers of small means were victims j of the present system of selling by the j dozen." HE CALLS ON WILSON j Recently Deposed President of Costa RJea Still Claims Job. Washington, Feb. 21. President i Wilson today received Alfredo Gon- zales, who was deposed recently as president of Costa Rica. It was the first time in his adminis tration that Mr. Wilson had enter tained a man in theory but not in fact an executive of another nation. The Costa Rican minister to the United States, Manuel Queseda, introduced President Gonzales to Mr. Wilson. The present provisional president in Costa Rica will not be recognized by the American government. TOWN FIREKILLS FOUR Mother and Two Children Victims Gasoline Explosion Starts Blaze. Muskogee, Feb. 21. John Miller, who was badly burned in the gasoline explosion which destroyed the busi ness district of the village "of Keefeton, Okla., twenty miles south of this city, yesterday, died today. Miller's death makes the fourth victim of the fire, the others being Mrs. Will Davis and her two children, Bessie, aged 5, and Ken. a sod 2 months. Valued Home Remedies g (Clip Out and Save.) g How To Relieve Rheumatism After each meal and at bedtime take a tableaitoonful of the following home made medicine used all over the TToited States and noted for its remarkable re sults. Keller begins after first dose. Syrup of Saraaparilla 1 ounce Toria Compound lounce Simple Elixir pint To End Coughs The fololwing formnla. easily mixed at home. akea one of the quickest congh remedies obtainable, after curing the worst cough in a day. Take a teaspoonfnl as often as necessary. 51reerine 2 ounces Sugar S. up pint Globe Tine Comp'd Aromntic 4 ounce ("Concentrated Pine.") The sugar syrnp is made by dissolving six heaping tablenpoonfuls of granulated sugar in cup of water. Be sure to use Globe Pine Compound which Is sold only lu Vi-oz. screw top cases with Aromatic printed in red sn outside. Frost-bites, Corns, Sore Feet Bathe the feet in warm water to which naa beeu added two tablespoonfuls of Cnlocide compound. This gives instant re lief for aching, burning or perspiring feet: corns, callouses, sore bunions:' also for frost-bites or chilblains. The Caloclde acts through the pores, reroovl' the cause of the trouble. Its use also keeps the feet in a firm, healthy condition, free from welling and puffing. These formulas are published by the Medical Formula Laborlties. Dayton. Ohio. The ingredle:it. specified can be procured from any cootl drug store. Advertisement. STRIKE AT KRUPP'S Higher Wages and Increased Rations Demand of 17,000 Workmen. Amsterdam, Feb. 21. The frontier correspondent of the Telegraf says that a strike in the Krupp works at Essen involving 17,000 workmen has been in progress for a fortnight. The men, the correspondent de clares, are demanding higher wages and increased food rations. Many of the strikers, he adds, have been sent to the front. TURKEYGRAKTS IT Willing U. S. Ships Take on Americans at Beirut. Also That Relief Cargo Can Be Landed, Fully Protected. Washington, Feb. 21. Turkey has assured Ambassador Elkus of its will ingness to waive all restrictions of quarantine and otherwise upon the immediate departure of the thousand Americans gathered in the neighbor hood of Beirut. It also has guaran teed the American relief ships against any interference by the Turkish sub marines. The state department before direct ing the collier Caesar and the cruiser Des Moines to proceed from Alexan dria to Beirut to land relief stores and embark the Americans has called upon the Turkish government for further information as to the measure of se curity 'that will be afforded the ves sels by Austrian and German subma rines in the war area. Turks Reaffirm Pledge. Washington, Feb. 21. The Turkish government has reaffirmed its pledge of alliance with Germany and Austria Hungary in a successful prosecution of the war. Ambassador F.lkus cabled the state department from Constanti nople today. While the Ottoman chamber of dep uties expresses the greatest desire to "strengthen our good relations In neutral countries," the "foreign policy will consist in remaining entirely faithful to our treaties with our al lies," the Elkus cable stated. This action was taken by the new cabinet. Oakland Notes and personals from Oakland, by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street. Telephone between 8 and 10 a. m.. 3530; other hours, 4751 K-2. Mrs. J. E. Shaeffer and her house guest, Mrs. M. Wrist of Phoenix. Ariz., were din ner guests of Mrs. Albert Shoaf. ItilC Buchanan street. Mrs. Shoaf will change her residence Thursday from Buchanun street to a farm near Holton. Au every-memner canvass will be held next Sunday afternoon at the Oakland Methodist church. Seventeen teams com posed of thirty-four people will endeavor to call upon every member in the church. Sunday, Febrnary 23 will be the last day in the conference year.. Mrs. William Vauorsdol has been called to Washington county by the illness of Professor Vauorsdol, who has been ill since last Friday. It. P. Williams and daughter. Mrs. Har old Lepper have been called to Fayettevllle, Ark., by he death of Mr. Williams's broth er. T. L. Williams. Mrs. F. B. White is ill of rheumatism at her home. 2S3 Winfield avenue. The Ladies' Aid society of the Oakland Presbvterian church will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. W. G. Greer, Michigan avenue. It. P. Tavlor is recovering from a three weeks' illness at his home, ISO Chester avenue. C. W. Main is ill at his home,. 266 Green street. Comrade and Mrs. L. Bradley entertained the Oakland Veterans club at party Tues day evening. The affair was given by Comrrtde Bradley in commemoration of his seventy-third birthday anniversary. Mr. Bradley was born in Medina, O.. in 1S44. He served three years in Company B, Twelfth Volunteer Ohio infantry and has been a resident of Kansas since '71. ltev. ii. i. Home and Comrade Banks gave short talks. Mrs. Busby gave a reading. The guests were Comrade and Mrs. Reattgh, Comrade and Mrs. Bumgardner, Comrade and Mrs. Perry. Comrade and Mrs. Banks. Comrade and Mrs. Busby. Comrade and Mrs. Harris. Comrade and Mrs. Kake. Comrades Kelsey, Ualstin and Sprague, Mr. and Mrs. I. Poland, Mrs. Minnie Dolstrom, Mrs.- A. Griggs, Mrs. Lorinda, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bradley and children. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradley. Mr. and Mrs. George Dunham and chil dren. Mrs. Anderson and daughter. Aurira. Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Atwood entertained their card club Tuesday evening. The honors of the evening were awarded Mr. Arthur Malone and Mr. Ira Orner. The club will give a dinner Tuesday evening. Februarv 27 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. V. M'illiman. The social evening to have been given Thursday by the Oakland Forestry club has been postponed indefinitely. Mrs. Mary K. Willis and won Edward, of Tndlannpolis. Ind.. who Have been visiting Mrs. N. J. Montgomery. 274 Oakland ave nue, expect to leave Thursday morning for their home. Mrs. O. M. Keats has returned after spending a week with her daughter. Mrs. Ii. K. Weckmnn and Mr. Weckman In Plnttsbitrg. Mo. The Helping Hand society of the Oak land Christian church was entertained Tnesdav afternoon by Mrs. -T. I,. Heller and Mrs. Al Gittings at Mrs. Gittings home. The guests of the afternoon were Mrs. John Harmon, Mrs. A. Black, Mrs. Blankenship. Mrs. John Hester, Mrs. I). A. Starr. Mrs. Sarah Lemley. Mrs. E. S. Wal lace, Mrs. M. J. Clemens, Mrs. 1. M. Itath bnn, Mrs. Keckley and Mrs. John Hines. The next place of meeting will be an nounced later. Walter Fate has returned to his home. Walnut, Kan., after visiting Mr. and Mra. C. K. Cole. Oakland avenue. Before coming to the city. Mr. Pate attended a meeting of superintendents of schools In Emporia. The Wednesday afternoon cottage prayer meeting was held at Mrs. Clyde Slaw son's home. 4f7 Sumner street. Mrs. G. It. Finley has gone to her home tn Pueblo, Colo., nfter visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. I,. Wood, Forest avenue, the last three weeks. Mrs. Captain Tripp has returned to her home in Hoyt, after visiting friends of forty years standing. Iter, and Mrs. George Clark, Arten avenue. Mrs. Clark is very slowly improving from an illness of two months. Mrs. R. M. Griste of Kansas City, will arrive this week to visit her sister Mrs. William Fisk. Kellam avenne and her brother. S. Kearney and family of Madi son street. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Wettllng and chil dren. George. Dolores and Eleanor, were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Bake. Arter avenne. Mr. and Mrs. A. Fisk of Lowmsn Hill, were Sunday dinner guests of their son, William Fisk and Mrs. Fisk, Kellam ave nne. Mrs. F. T. Deal and little danghter Beth, of Coryrton, la., Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Vaudeventer of Council Bluffs, la., and Mr. and Mrs. IV. H. Cottrel of Hnmboldt, Kan., aro visiting at the C. C. Vandeventer home. Indiana avenne. The Epworth league of the Oakland Methodist church will hold their monthly business and social meeting Friday eve ning at Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bechtel's home, Chester avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hammil are re modeling their home at :!00 Wabash ave nne making several improvements thruout the house KILL 'PHONE BILL House Members Do Jfot Favor Ownership by Counties. Poker Flayers Who Iose Money Cannot Recover It. Kansas counties cannot engage in the telephone business. The house public utilities committee today killed the Carson bill which would permit counties of the state to take over or establish telephone lines for the convenience-of residents of the county. Carson's bill was one of the most drastic public ownership measures in troduced in several legislative ses sions. It meant that counties of the state might engage in the telephone business and that independent or competitive systems would be com pelled tt furnish physical connections and grant concessions as to rates and service. The Carson measure enabled a county to buy a telephone plant at a price to be agreed upon by a board of appraisers. But the bill provided further that in no case should the price paid be in excess of the actual physical valuation of the property. Once a county had acquired its own telephone system it might make ex tensions or improvements and might furnish free county service. Where a free patron desired to talk to a tele phone renter in another county, a competitive system would be com pelled to furnish physical connections and the county owned plant would share in the distribution of tolls. Members of the house committee did not display a friendly spirit to ward the drastic Carson measure. Following a meeting of the commit tee, George Allen, of TVyandotte county, as chairman of the commit tee, recommended to the l.ouse that the bill be killed. This action puts the county ownership plan out of business for this session. Must Pay Poker losses. When a man plays poker or other games of chance in Kansas ar.d loses his money, the loss is complete and final. Thompson, of Morton, came to town with an idea that a man who loses money in a game of chance should have recourse in the courts. So he offered a bill for the relief )t the welchers. Under his bill a man who lost four- dollars and six bits in a game of chance might recover the loss by merely stating his case to the court. It wasn't so much as neces sary to establish his loss. A mere statment was the only requirement. The house Judiciary committee de cided that the rummy and penochle sharks should pay or stay out of the game. So they killed Thompson's pet. Jolt for Salary Bill. The house fees and salaries com mittee has killed a bill which would have provided increased salaries for probate judges and registers of deeds in a number of Kansas counties. The measure was offered early in the ses sion and carried a new salary scale for a number of men in the court houses. But the house committee decided to stand on the present law and deny in creases. Benefit Bill Under Suspicion. A bill in the house would enable cities to buy bridges and viaducts, es tablish benefit districts and tax the expense to property owners in the dis trict. Apparently the bill affects Kan sas City, Kan., only. In the last few days, however, house members have grown more or less suspicious of the benefit plan and there is a rather def inite opinion that property owners in an established benefit district really might share in benefits where bridges and other property are purchased by a city or county. All of which may oc casion trouble for the bill when called up for consideration on the floor. Breaks Arm in Boxing Bout. Cleveland, O.. Keb. 21. Pal Moore of Memphis broke his arm in the sec ond round of a schedultd ten-round bout with Kid Wolfe, a local boy, at the Tuxedo club here. Pal continued to fight during the third round but the referee stopped the fight when he learned the seriousness of the acci dent. Heals Skin Diseases i It is unnecessary for you to suffer with eczema, blotches, ringworm, rashes and similar skin troubles. A little zemov obtained at any drug store for 25c, or t $1.00 for extra large bottle, and promptly applied will usually give instant relief i from itching torture. It cleanses and i soothes the skin and heals quickly and j effectively most skin diseases. Zemo is a wonderful, penetrating, dis appearing liquid and is soothing to the most delicate skin. It is not greasy, is easily applied and costs little. Get it today and save all turtner aistress. Th E. W. Bon Co., Cleveland, O. Advertisement.) jocoiL joco qil Q O TOPEKA OIL 'o o o o -II o OS 121 W. C. MAXEY In Charge of Deliveries South of River. jOCO o'Lj6CO oil 8QCO CAPPER WILL USE IDAHO PEN IN SIGNING BILL When Governor Capper signs the bone dry bill this week he will use the same pen which Governor Moses Alexander of Idaho used two years ago when he signed the prohibitory liquor amendment in that state. W. J. Her wig, superintendent of the Kansas hranch of the Anti-Saloon League of America, secured Governor Capper's consent today to use the Idaho pen, now in possession of the Topeka man. Temperance advocates will make a prominent feature of the official sign ing of the Kansas bone dry bill. A score of men and women prominent in temperance work in the state hav been invited to be present when the governor attaches his signature to the bill this week. Officers of the State Temperance union, Anti-Saloon league and church worRers of prominence in Topeka and in the state will witness the signing of the bill. RAISE AN EMBARGO Pennsylvania Lines First to Renew s Shipments Held TTp. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb. 21. Announce ment was made today at the general offices of the Pennsylvania lines that the first of the many embargoes against eastern freight thru Pittsburg west had been lifted and beginning this morning agents had been instruct ed to accept for forwarding thru to Chicago over the Panhandle railroad carload shipments of commodities from affiliated lines in the district. This will permit of the acceptance of large quantities of freight brought in from the east and accumulated here, together with the vast amount of steel products which have been held at the mills. Efficiency Experts at Work. New York, Feb. 21. According to railroad officials efficiency experts are at work on behalf of virtually all the trunk lines particularly at Chicago. Detroit, Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburg and other points where the freight congestion is most serious, endeavor ing to make it possible for food trains to be rushed to New York. Indications were, they asserted, that shipments of perishable foodstuffs were now peaching here in greater volume than at any time during the past few weeks. Weather conditions were considered more favorable for moving freight. CONFERENCE APUZZLE Germany's Curiosity Aroused Over IT. S.-Austria Consultation. Amsterdam, Feb. 21. German of ficialdom is intensely interested and puzzled by the conferences at Vienna between American Ambassador Pen field and the Austrian foreign minis ter, according to Berlin advices today. Astonishment is expressed that there should be any doubt in the United States that Austro-Hungary does not fully approve and support Germany's declaration of relentless submarine warfare. On the contrary, it is semi-officially declared that Emperor Carl's deter mination is to accord the most em phatic support of his ally. Semi-official Vienna dispatches re ceived today in detailing the text of the note presented by American Am bassador Penfiel.1, holds the Ameri can inquiry whether Austria still af firms her promises in the Ancona and Persia cases as "vague Officials take the position that the statements made in the notes mentioned were in tended to cover those specific cases only and not to mark out a future course. PUT CREAM IN NOSE AND STOP CATARRH. Tells How To Open Clogged Nos trils and End Head-Colds. You feel fine in a few moments. Your cold in head or catarrh will be gone. Your clogged nostrils' will open. The air passages of your head will clear ,ind you can breathe freely. Xo more dullness, headache: no hawking, snuffling, mucous discharges or dry ness: no struggling for breath at night. Tell your druggist you want a small bottle of Kly's Cream Balm. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic cream in your nostrils, let it penetrate through every air passage of the head; soothe and heal the swollen, inflamed mucous membrane, and relief comes instantly. It is just what every cold and ca tarrh sufferer needs. Don't stay ftuffed-up and miserable. Advertisement. oil joco oil toco oil boco oil loco Q'tToco o.i'i Make Prompt Delivery PHONE YOUR ORDERS TO 3030 For Kerosene, Gasoline and Lubricating Oil oil lOCO oil lOCO oil lOCO qilToCO oil". tOCO qilToCO oiLTbCQ oil lOCO DENY SUBS FAIL German Official Is Sure of U-Boat Success. Declares England's Imports Hare Been Reduced Half. Berlin, Feb. 21. Via Sayville Wireless.) "We are sure of success and shall allow nothing and nobody to wrest this success from us," de clared Secretary of Agriculture Hel forich to the German agricultural council. discussing the submarine war. "Already the navigation which links British isles with the rest of the world, has been depressed to the danger point," he continued, accord ing to the official press agency re port. "The tonnage which arrived in British ports," Helfertch continued, "was in December last, only 2.200. 000,000 tons net, while the monthly averages of the last year of peace was 4,200,000,000 tons. Brings Peace Nearer. "Already England's reserve stocks of most important things needed for life and warfare, are exhausted to such a point that England more than ever before relies upon the assurance of plentiful importations. "The British world empire, which has already .been shaken to its foundations, is now the object of the powerful, merciless strokes of our submarine navy, which has been in creased in members and efficiency. "And this will continue until the day will have dawned for which every German heart ardently awaits. "But already today we are close to Delightful New Wash Fabrics For Her Spring and Summer Wardrobe The Initial Showing of Fine Colored Wash Fabrics began this week, February 19th. The 1917 fabrics are here in all colors. Voiles are offered printed in quaintly unusual patterns, skirtings boast checks and stripes and many original designs are shown in embroidered voiles and organdies. Woven yarn voiles appear in various multi-colored effects silk and cotton fabrics are here which embrace much of the beauty of color and design which are to be found in the all-silk materials, at one-half the cost. There are many novelties in weaves which come in all weights of materials from the sheer fabrics so well adapted to the fashioning of party frocks to the heavier pieces des tined for outing and separate skirts. For the indispensible one-piece dresses ther ar lin ens, woven tissues and zephyr ginghams. The most pleasing of the new ideas of all the leading designers find place in this Initial Exhibit of Colored Wash Fabrics. Prices range from 18c up to $1.25 per yd. CO. by Motor Truck Within 20 Miles of Topeka knowledge that England more than ever has to rely upon her bwn soil. German soil is now fighting English soil." SPUDS DOLLAR A PECK Chicago Merchants Expect Them to Go to $R a Bushel Soon. Chicago, 111., Feb. 21, Housewives will have to pay $5 a bushel for pota toes In Chicago in the next few days. according to commission men, who predict that the staple will be selling for $1 a peck in forty-eight hours. New prices are being made in the commission district almost hourly on all kinds of food products. The prediction of $5 potatoes is based upon a report from the depart ment of agriculture which says the crop is 45,000,000 bushels short Maine, a potato growing state, has sold its crop and is now buying in the western market as is New York. Michigan upon which Chicago usually draws heavily, is now buying from Chicago commission men, while the other potato growing states in the middle west are 60 per cent short in their crops. RAISE IT $12,000,000 Senate Naval Committee Increases House Bili Nearly Half Billion. "Washington, Feb. 21. Increased by $12,000,00 since it passed the house, the administration's naval bill the big erest in the history of the country was reported to the senate this afternoon by Senator Tillman, chairman of the naval committee. The bill, as revised, carries a total of nearly a half billion dollars and authorizes the president to comman deer private shipyards and munitions plants in time of war. loco oil loco oilT.l ioco oil loco oinToco oh. i h S.E.KELLEY In Charge of Deliveries North of River. Watch for Mr, Toco POLICEr.lEfl Us LETTER CARRIERS DRIVERS i and other workers who tntzsl have enduring strength, take ransom to build up and keep up their, health. Surely it will do as much for you, but insist on SCOTTS. Scott Bowne, BtoomiSeld, N. J. I4-tf. PURE DISTILLED WATER 8-gilton bottl sna cooler for the offlea, 2-gsllon bottlo SB 4 coolor for the hnu, V,. gallon bottle, last the rlrkt sis for the refrigerator. TOPEKA PURE WATER CO. Phono Mt L M. PENWELL Funeral Director ROBERT STEELE. Assistant Phone 1!2 608-510 Quincy St. tiEi M n rv Mid-Week List Taken from Our Every-day Prices 3 pkgs. Faust Macaroni. .25c 3 pkgs. None-Such Mince Meat, for 25c Golden Egg Macaroni 8c 25c jar Pure Sugar and Fruit Jam 20c Large jar Manhattan Jam 23c 20c can finest Pineapple. .15c Large Family pkg. Oatflake 20c Large Crisco $1.20 Medium Crisco 8 Do Small Crisco 30o Best plain wrap Creamery. -39c Bob White Soap, 6 bars. .20c 2 boxes Matches 5c 6 boxes Searchlight 25c Big fancy new Prunes 12V45 25c fancy Lemons, dos 20c Morning Glory Vanilla Extract, for 8C Morning Glory Lemon Extract 8c 25c bottle Dr. Price's Vanilla 20c 25c bottle Van Duze'n's Lemon 18c Our fine Bread, 3 for 10c, 6o and c So-called gallon Apples, fine 25c Pure Country Sorghum, large pail 2o Pure Country Sorghum, .small can c Large pail Table Syrup.... 45c No. 2 size can Table Syrup.. 10c Send in your order to your nearest Owl. Mall Orders Promptly Filled. Pakro Seed Tape, finest thins out, for sale at the Owl stores. o o o 2i r""1 fit If-, o o o 9 r o o o o, r- o o o oil lOCO oil lOCO oh. 1 1 Joe rj 2. 54 i 3

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THE TOPKA DAITV STATE T0UR?7AL WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1917 MUTT JEFF A Chauffeur Can Certainly Cross the Street Alone- Drawn for the Topeka State Jonf (CoprrtRht. 1MB. b H. C. Fisher. Trail Mj-rk Keg H S Tat orr By BUD FISHER I Y00M6 KlO ACRp5i THE. I STRficr With rtDiMG ro But UHVY'5 TUttT J I VM (Got to "Do with SI C tLUN OVeS- V THe CNAtJPPe'-'S. Secxr A f WHAT'S "THAT I fvMGLLTHGKlU fTZZZ A HAkcl C-l V00M6 KlO ACROSS THE 1 GOT To "Do WITH S I CAMe BACK. AMt JE.FF, I 5flW E J ?"lbUf-. I STRecr WITH fiDlMG r0 BUf lng UFPR. lSAlD THE OF THE 5TKW4fiir VHAT tAiHeyo'w CHim om Cifc RG tte Runninc,uaxj-TN"T Sen.) J "iCClDGNTS T0DftY V tR-ANK,. TH. CAP-WITH OU 1 j OVR Hi Aisr X SA A CHAUFFEUR ,mt -TTX jJ'Vh.nkwJ H?wtJ I I 50 TH CHfOFF"COe- j KMi TO R.OC OVER. CROSS, FEVERISH CHILD IS BILIOUS OR CONSTIPATED Look, Mother! See if tongue is coated, breath hot or stomach sour. "California Syrup of Figs" can't harm tender stomach, liver, bowels. Judge ami Mrs. Robert Ciarver will give a bridiru party, Tuesday night of next wi'Pk at thin- home in Tyler street. They are -asking guests for about fourteen tables. Mrs. W. Filthier entertained a half dozen guests at luncheon today at the Pelletier tea room for Mrs. Francos' Price of Ashland and her two nieces. Miss Mary Whitworth and Miss Mili cent Whitworth of Pasadena. Cal., who are here to visit Senator and Mrs. Price. Covers were placed for Mrs. Price, the Misses Whitworth, Mrs. Paul Walker, Mrs. Ueorge H. Allen and Mrs. Flagler. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dillon gave a dancing party Tuesday night at the Dillon home in Harrison street, in honor of Mrs. Albert K. Jones of Co lumbus. O.. who is the guest of Mrs. Guilford Dudley. In tribute to the approaching anniversary of George Washington's birthday, the decora tions in the dining room were suggest ive of the observance of that da. The table reproduced in miniature the Bcene of Mount Vernon in Colonial days. The lawn, made of moss and grasses, was dotted with trees, and blossoming rose trees lined the walks and drives to the mansion in the cen ter. Two tiny figures in the Colonial dress of wide skirts, close fitting bodices and kerchiefs, stood in the verandah, and miniature furniture whs used. On the lawn was a little lake, and there were flower beds here and there, and cherry trees in bloom. In the reception hall were palms and ferns, and the mantel, banked with green, was adorned with Kaizer kroon tulips. In the library the man tel was decorated with yellow acacia and orchids. In the French parlor, which is finished in ivory and gold, a pink iridescent basket was filled with pink carnations. The sun parlor was used as the smoking room. The alabaster foun tain was bordered with tulips and daf fodils. About sixty guests were asked. An event of interest tonight is a dinner party to be given at the First Methodist church by the Kansas so ciety or tne Sons of the American Revolution. The banquet is an an nual affair in celebration of Wash ington's birthday. The dinner wi'l be served at B:30 o'clock, and wi'l bo followed by some short speeches uy members or the socoety. Mr; J. M. Meade, president of the Kansa.; branch of the national society 01 nuns or tne American Revolution, win preside at the dinner and intro duce the speakers. Among those who will respend are Mr. J. I). Norton. Dr. S. O. Stewart, the Rev. Mr. J. K. Ing ham and Mr. A. H. Bennett, who is tak'ng the place as secretary of the society of Mr. I). W. Nellis. who ;S unable to attend to the duties of the office on account of illness. The gavel to be used by the presi dent of the society is a cherry wood hatchet that has just been received by Mr. Meade from Mr. R. C. Ballard Thurston, of Iouisville. Ky president Looking Backward In State Journal Society Column TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY W. A. Harris. Mrs. W. F. Logan. Dr. Lillian Malone, Mrs. Frank L. Brit ton. Mrs. S. H. Allen. Mrs. L, Bishop, Mrs. F. E. Whitney, Mrs. W. O. Rigby, Miss Overmyer. The following women will be guests of honoi: Mrs. Geo. Hodges. Olathe; Mrs. David Overmyer. Topeka; Mrs. A. A. Doerr. Larned Mrs. H. F. Sut ton. St. John; Mrs. W. S. Lansdon. Sa lina; Mrs. Hubert Lardner. Fort Scott; Mrs. Rodman, Ottawa; Mrs. Frank Cron. Eldorado; Mrs. Jos. Drennen, Arkansas City; Mrs. J. M. McGown, Emporia; Mrs. Phoebe Van Vleit. Frankfort: Mrs. Sadie Grisham. 1 Cottonwood Falls; Mrs. R. C. Layman. Hutchinson; Mrs. Elizabeth Warning, Holton; Mrs. L. L. Taylor, Dodge City. The hostesses will be assisted by Mrs. H. E. Ray, Mrs. C. M. Hill, Mrs. Mips Ollie O'Brien is entertnining her bridge club this afternoon couinliinentarv to Miss l'erk of Chicago and Miss Jones W. E. Atchison. Mrs. W. Lyman, Mrs. r Leavenworth, who are uer guests, r nose t. H. Scholle, Mrs. E. Trout and the at the guest tables are Mrs. Charles Blood Smith. Mrs. Frank Jarrell. Mrs. Walter Horner. Mrs. 'larpn-e Itowman. Mrs. Fred Freeman. Mips Tewsbury. MiHS Barthol omew. Miss tJreer. Miss Wells. Miss Itan nev. Miss Cross. Miss Lakin, Miss tiibsou, Mies Wilder. Miss Irene Horner. Miss Me Fadilen. Miss .lores, and Miss Peek. Miss Gunther is substituting for the- hostess. Mrs. Eugene Quinton gave a high five party yesterday afternoon complimentary to Miss Quinton and Miss Margaret Quin ton of Denmark, Iowa. Mirs Norma Smith and Miss Knilly King cut for the first prize, in favor of Miss Smith. Mrs. Quin ton'a guests were Miss Peek of Chicago. Miss Tewksbury. Miss Ollie O'Brien. Miss Margaret Mitlvane, Miss Kilns McClintock. Miss Prisrilla Alexander. Miss Lids Ber gen. Miss Lee Kedden. Miss Willn Itodgers. Miss Edna Seer, Miss Pearl McFarland, Miss Mabel Knowtes. Miss Norma Smith, Miss Emilv King. Miss Hila Hinklev. members of both clubs. There will be music and refresh ments will be served. All of the hostesses are extending a general in vitation to Topeka friends, the wives or the legislators and their guests. The young women who will assist in serving are:: Miss Harriet Hill, Miss Constance Adamson of Beloit, Miss Pauline and Miss Isabel Doerr of Larned, Miss Georgia Neese, Miss Margaret Ray. Miss Mary Lowry and Miss Edith Barrett. The following little girls will con duct the guests to the different rooms Katherine and Josephine Allen. Ger trude coolidge and Ruth Bunnell. The Art Guild will have a meeting oaiuraay evening in the guild rooms. 114 West Eighth avenue. Mr. Albert T. Reid will give an illustrated lecture on drawing. All members of the guild are urged to be present. Mrs. H. E. Seeds entertained crochet club Tuesday. Guests. the be general of the national society. Mr. Thurston is sending one of the hatchets to each of the state branches of the organization. The wood from which the hatchets were made was on the estate at Wakefield. West- tn memb?,rs- f.ere M- W. I. moreland county. Virginia, which was i rrurn. Philip Lmgenfelter and the birthplace of George Washington. I Ivlrs' balls. .Smithsonian Institute information adl A,. nean literary so- wasnuurn college, will give to the size and design of hatchets the time of Washington, and these that he has had made are of the cor rect size and shape. They are notice ably different from those of the pres ent day. On one side of the hatchet is set in a bronze plate inscribed with, the emblem of the society and a fhort description of the obtaining of the material in the hatchet. Mr. Conway Holmes of Kansas City, has announced the engagement of his daughter, Miss Mary Floweree Holmes, to Mr. James Milton Free land. Miss Holmes is a close friend of Miss Helen Yoder of Topeka, and Miss Yoder went down to Kansas City last week to be her guest. Miss Holmes was an attendant at the wed ding of Miss Elizabeth Abernathy of Leavenworth and Captain Oscar Sohl berg, last year, and Mrs. Sohlberg will come to Kansas City from West Point to attend the Holmes-Freeland marriage. A pretty spring tea was given Tues day afternoon at the home of Mrs. Ilef Felix by the members of the Chancel Chapter, complimentary to the Women's Guild of Grace Cathe dral. The guests were received by WFXLESLEY HAS INFALLIBLE METHOD OF PICKING THE "FEMALE FORM DIVINE' 1 '$3& M'ih iff Don't Rub It On Bruises or Sore Muscles O loan's Liniment quickly pene- trates and soothes 'without rubbing. Cleaner than mussy plasters or ointments, does not (tain the skin. iiitve a bottle handy for emergency, le'imstic scbea and paint, neuralgia, lum bago, gout, attains, sprain, and lame back, yield to Sloan a Liniment. At all druggists, 25c. 50c. end $1.00. a Washington birthday party Satur day night in the college Professor and Mrs. W. A. Harshbarger will be chaperons. i Miss Mary Hall of Topeka and Miss Alice Gordon of Mankato. will be in itiated by the Kappa Kappa Chi soro rity Monday night. Mrs. J. P. W;.hle entertained a few friends this afternoon for Mrs. Charles Borg of Minneapolis, Minn., who is visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bowlby. Mrs. Borg is Mr. Bowlby's sister. Mrs. Antoinette Smith and her aaugnier, miss Kutn smith, gave a party Monday night at their home. 1010 West Tenth avenue. Nearly all the guests were former Russell. Kan sas, people. The affair was a George Washington birthday party. Those present were: Senator and Mrs. H. M. Laing. Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Turner, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Walbridge. Rep resentative and Mrs. G. W. Holland, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Heym. Mrs. Lewis Greenwood, Miss Walbridge, George Greenwood, Mrs. Smith and Miss Smith. i i Mr. George M. Stone is at work -1 tort T Si North Side News KC- s-'ff&s fff-f Taaiwm-iinitfflii-yTBaT--fc ,rfi hmih 'firmrfriV How the thoracimeter works. Th physical training department of Wellesley College has taken op the whole question of (female beauty in a serious way and is rapidly reduc ing the measurement and classification of the female form divine to an exact science. The latest step forward in the science is the invention by Henry M. Austin of Wellesley of the thoracimeter. The machine in opera tion is shown above This evening at 8 o'clock the Grant Quincy Parent-Teachers' association will present an historical pageant, de picting in eleven scenes the early his tory of Kansas. The performance will be given in Grant school. C. M. Mor row is the organizer and director of the affair. Between 75 and 100 peo ple take part in the pageant, and many of the scenes have quite an elab orate stage setting. It i3 the intention of the organizers to present in a form more vivid than any printed history, a view of the gradual development of the state; the difficulties that were overcome, the dangers met, and the rude and inade quate machinery employed in creating a commonwealth from a trackless prairie. It has been thought that Kansans appreciate too remotely what present day civilization cost the pio neers in hardship. They fail to give them due credit for having created the infinite gap between the "bleeding Kansas' of Charles Sumner's day and the Kansas of our great industrial era. The proceeds from the pageant will go to the Grant-Quincy Parent-Teacher's association. Admission is 10 cents for adults, 5 cents for children. A complete program of the scenes in the order of presentation may be found in the State ruary 10. Champion Corn Kaiser. John A. Ostrand, well known farm er living northwest of town, has con firmed his reputation as the grower of the finest corn in Shawnee county. At the recent State Corn Show, held at Manhattan, Mr. Ostrand won the blue ribbon for his exhibit of ten ears of "Shawnee White." He has 100 acres of "first" bottom land seven miles southwest of Elmont and makes a spe cialty of fine seed corn. His land is so low that it seldom suffers from the drouth which is the bane of farmers on higher ground. Social and Personal. An informal party was given Tues day evening at the home of Mr. Wm. Oliver of North Tyler street, for Miss t or jumiure, joi., are vimiing air. uuu airs. a. r. raer, fi'iit-riu aiitrtr. Miss Net tit M-CallHii Is ill at her home, 1114 Kast Eitrhth avenue. Miss Cecelia Fitrhner linn returned home after Httemlinp the iititmuobile show in Kansas City. While there she visited hpr auut and uncle, Mr. aud Mrs. Henry Knit tle. II. H. Andrews has returned to Monta Vista. Colo., after sendinir ten days with his niece. Mrs. 11. H. French and Mr. French, Kast Tenth street. The Women's Foreign Missionary soci ety of the Free Methodist church nift at the borne of Mrs. A. H. Winnnt. Tl(t Madi son street, Wednesday afternoon nt 2 o'clock. Mrs. C. C. Hardy has returned to her home In McFarland. Kan., after visit injr her daughter, Mrs. G. F. Freden, 1101 East Fifth street. Mr. and Mrs. Karl Bickell have changed their residence from Norton street, to 1'21'J Seward avenue. Mrs. Felix, Mrs. James Wise, the wife I of Bishop Wise. Mrs. J. P. DeB. Kaye. upon a portrait of the late Justice and Miss Hazel Risteen. The assist- Alfred W. Benson of the state su ing women were Mrs. George Thomp- preme court, whose death occurred son, Mrs. T. D. Alden, Mrs. Richard last year. The portrait is being made F. Hayden, and Mrs. Frank Scott J for Justice Benson's daughter, Mrs. H. Davis. Two women, Mrs. J. Wharton I Ward Page, and Mr. Page. Barthelow and Mrs. W. W. Woolford. Jr.. sat at the table and poured tea. i Among the little boys of our town the hero worship goes pretty unani mously to Phil Billard, the airman. When just ordinary pedestrian, street IDONT USE DYES FOR GRAY HAIR Safe, Healthful and Guaranteed to Restore Natural Color. ifM, The dining table had a decoration of a low bowl of pink sweet peas. Mrs. Wallace Crutcher was hostess at a meeting of her sewing club this afternoon. Mrs. Jay Franklin Close, who has come back to Topeka from Greenleaf, Kansas, to make her home here, was one of the guests. She is a former member of the club. Miss Louise McGoff, whose mar- 4 f -y f- O 1 riage to Mr. Bruce McFarland will Apply iJ-rSail OlITiple, at a smaii tea given lor ner Tuesday afternoon by her mother, Mrs. J. H McGof f. Mrs. Holmes Meade, Mrs. Wallace Crutcher and Mrs. Ivan Dib ble were asked to assist. Mrs. Ralph Moore and Mrs. A. B. Jeffrey sat at the table and poured tea. The guests were close friends of the bride elect.

The Music Study club met Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. F. A. Derby, 835 Western avenue. Program follows: Leinminkahien's Home Faring (Opus Ko. 4) Sibelius Mrs. Leiand McAfee and Miss KIMe Chiuian. From the Land of the Thousand Lakes No. 1 Air Castles Sibelius No. 2 Kvenlng Cal in No. 3 Nocturne Mrs. J. F. Kaho. Lyrical Pieces (KylliM Opus 41) .Sibelius Jills 1 unpruau. The Harper and His Sm Sibelius Miss Lula M-"ale. (Harp accompaniment) Mrs. F. A. Perby. Meln Lieb i h bin pebundeu Kjerulf Mrs. Frank Wilson. A Washington Tea will be given by the Democratic women Thursday aft ernoon from 3 to 5 o'clock, at the Don't use dyes. They are not only sticky, disagreeable and In bad taste, but actually dangerous. A good many reputable drug stores won't sell them. Vse Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer. This will accomplish wonderful results. Sim ply wet your hair with Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer. Back will come the natural, I dark shade, evenly, gradually and per manently. This .s the right way. the j healthful one. Q-Ban claims no Instant miracles It leaves that claim to dyes and the like. Hut it does restore the original color correctly and helps your hair in growth, helps it to be glossy, lustrous. sore. Deautuui, cnarming. Q-Ban is all ready, to use. Tt in guar anted to be harmless and sold under the makers' warranty of satisfaction or your money back. At Brunt-Martin Drug Co., 721 Kansas ave., Topeka, Kan. Tel. 52H, and all good drug stores, a large bot tle for 50c, or send direct to Hessig-Ellls Drug Co., Memphis, Tenn. Hair tuuure. illustrates, interesting Throop hotel. The officers of the booklet, sent free. write for it today. Women's Shawnee Democratic club iry W",V,, ,T i?nii.: u Han ,loiet o t i Soap: Q-Ban Liquid Shampoo; also Q- and of the Wilson League of Kansas n... 1-11., Mn-, .A..4n.,,... will act as hostesses. They are: Mrs. hair. Adv. car or automobile transported people call to visit the family, the boys are too bashful to appear at all, but j let Phil Billard drop in for a chat with dad or big brother and the boys 1 swoop down upon him, with a fa miliar greeting as tho they had known him for twenty years, and you can't pry them avay with a crowbar as long as Phil Billard is in sight. The honor being privileged to yell "Hello Phil" to him is worth a dozen nods from the president of the United States. The Portia club will meet Friday of this week, instead of Thursday, the regular meeting day, at the home of Mrs. L. M. Powell. Mrs. Katherine Hand began her meetings with her downtown class in interior decoration this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the studio of Miss Marie Witwer.

The Taka Art Embroidery club will meet with Mrs. J. M. Hanlon, 1308 North Quincy street, Thursday after noon. A patriotic program and social will be held Thursday evening at the par sonage of the First M. E. church. Friends of the congregation are in vited and members are expected to be present. Xotcs and Personal .Mention. Mrs. Harold T. Chase and her sis ter, Mrs. A D. Lundy of Chicago, will go to Los, Angeles, Cal., this week to visit their sister, Mrs. J. C. GafTord, who is in the west for an indefinite stay. Miss Henrietta Alexander and Miss Mary MacLennan will go to Great Bend Thursday for a weekend visit to Mrs. Clark Zugg, formerly Miss Ruth Bauer. Mrs. Fred Davis and Miss Louise McGoff are spending the day in Kan sas City. Mrs. Asa Moler of Des Moines, la., has returned home, after a visit of several weeks to her daughter, Mrs. George H. Allen. Mr. H. E. Lyman has left for a business trip to Florida, to be gone a few days. Mrs. LaRue Royce has returned to Salina, after a visit to her parents. Justice and Mrs. R. A. Burch. The fiftn division of the Ladies Aid society of the First Methodist church will meet Friday afternoon, February 23, at the home of Mrs. R. N. Mc Entire, 211 Topeka avenue. The as- SantaFe Notes and personals from Santa Fe. by Frances Jones. 211 tinman street. Telephone between H aud 10 a m-itTa-tO: other hours. 4751 K-2. Roy Bechtel of the general claim de partment, and Cecil Hoseley, machinist, have returned from Kansas City, Kan., j where they spent a few days visiting Mr. and Mrs. Minor Bechtel. G. J. Zwaschka, storekeeper at Argen tine, was a business visitor in the city Monday. Arrangements are being made for the reception to the general manager, F. C. Fox, and the general superintendent, K. Raymond, to be given Friday evening. March 2, at 8 o'clock nt the railroad "Y." liev. M. L. Rohey will conduct the meet ing at 10:45 o'clock Friday morning In the telegraph school. Rev. F. W. Wit ten bra ker will npeak at the noon meeting held in the new mill, Friday. J. MacIonougb, master mechanic at Fort MadiHon, spent tho week-end in Topeka. L. Mathesmler, chief clerk to Thomas Scully, local storekeeper, has returned af ter snendlng a few days in Kaunas City, on buMinehs. H. C. Pribble, general claim agent who has been 111 at his home, has returned to his desk in the claim department. W. N. Rhodes, who Is receiving treat ment in the company hospital. Is slowly improving. Mr. Rhodes Is connected with the patternmaking department. Ivan Gregory has returned to his desk in the motor power building after spend ing the week end in Kansas City. Homer Allison and A. t;. snider who Every mother realizes, after giving her children "California Syrup of Figs," that this is their ideal laxative, because they love its pleasant taste and it thoroughly cleanses the tender little stomach, liver and bowels with out griping. When cross, irritable, feverish, or breath is bad, stomach sour look at the tongue, mother! If coated, give a teaspoonful of this harmless "fruit laxative." and in a few hours all the foul, constipated waste, sour bile and undigested food passes out of the how els, and you have a well, playful child again- When the little system is full of cold, throat sore. hns stomach ache, diarrhoea, indigestion, colic remember, a good "inside cleansing should always be the first treatment given. Millions of mothers keep "California Syrup of Figs' handy; they know a teaspoonful today saves a sick child tomorrow. Ask your druggist for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs." which has directions for babies, children of all ages and grown-ups printed on the bottle. Beware of coun terfeits sold here, so don't be fooled. Get the genuine, made by "California Fig .Syrup Company." Adv. Minnie Pontius of Elkhart, Kan. Miss spent tbe week end in the city with their Pontius is a niece of Mr. Oliver and families have returned to their work in the is visiting friends in North Topeka. stores department at Chicago. The guests were Miss Pontius, Maggie I tF-t father of Knglneer Glade Packard. Edith Williams, Maggie Mc- Bil?if '"Provin after undergoing an D I operation at a local hospital. If Mr. Cain Dolhe Wells Ruth Dibble. Grace jjird-a condition continues to Improve he Snodgrass, Miss Prout, Mr. and Mrs. I wm return to his home the latter part of Pontius, Okay AVilliams, Albert Leav- j the week. itt, Roy Basye, William Oliver, Ells- j II. N. Sweeney, general chairman of the worth Adams, Clifton Rowe, Holland spent luesuay in tne city on sisting hostesses will be Mrs. John Hersh, Mrs. Frank faturges and Mrs. Edmund Janes Kulp. All young mar ried women of the church are invited. Miss Katherine Harrison will visit friends in Lincoln, Neb., this week end. Miss Harriet Cobb of Martinsville, Tnd., will return home this week. She has been visiting the S. E. Cobb fam ily of Potwin Place. Miss Frances Strickland of Hunne well. Kan., formerly of Topeka, has been pledged to Kappa Alpha Theta at the Kansas State university. Miss Ona May Miller, who has been on a concert trip to Miltonvale, Delia and Newman, has returned to her studio in Kansas City. Miss Anna Hawley of Herington has been pledged to the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority at Washburn college. Mrs. Florence Burge left today for Dallas. Tex., to visit her daughter, Mrs. Glen Pricer. Blanchard, Cleo Pontius and Edward Turner. Fred Beuchner was taken to Stor mont hospital this morning where he is to undergo an, operation for appen dicitis. He was taken ill Monday morning, but it was not determined until today that he was suffering from appendicitis. F. H. Root of route 3, was in town today. Shawnee council No. 3 initiated a class of eight candidates Tuesday evening. Paddy Betts came to town this morning on business. C. E. Houghton, cashier at the TJ. P. business. Conductor William Lattlmer. of Chanute. has reported for duty at Joplln, Mo., after spending rive weeks in the company hos pital at Topeka. Miss Ann Haynes. of the general claim department, has returned from Charlotte, North Carolina, where she went a week ago to attend the funeral of her father. Conductor Frank Roath who is receiving treatment at the company hospital is not improving. Herman Outpoints Kabakoff. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 21. Pete Her man, of New Orleans, claimant of the world's bantamweight championship, won over Harry Kabakoff, of St. freight depot,, who formerly lived at ?Touis in a ten-round boxing contest 1210 Van Buren. has moved with his j bfTf- ,n the ?P"' newspaper men family to the south side. "l ""b,uc' East Side, Im going to prescribe .esmoi for that eczema I might give you a formal prescrip tion, but what's the use It would cost you more than a jar of Resinol and shouldn't benearlyassureofihe results! You see, I have been using Resinol Ointment for over twenty years. During that time I have tried out dozens of new ways of treating skin-troubles, but I have always come back to Resinol I ineym that it stops itching at once, generally heala the erup tion, and that it contains nothing which could irri te the skin. You can get a jar at any drug store. Notes and personals from East Side by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street. Telephone between 8 and 10 a. in., 3530; other hours, 4751 K-2. Mrs. Edward fcongstrom will be hostess Thursday afternoon, to the Kewpie club at her home, Swygart avenue. The Golden Sunbeam class of the Sec ond United Brethren Sunday school will meet for Bible study. Friday evening at the home of Miss Goldie Osborne, Kast Third street. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Grops will be host and hostess Thursday evening at their home. Reno avenue to the Jolly Twelve card club. Mrs. Pan Sayler has returned to her home. German avenue, after siending the week-end with relatives in Carbondale. Mrs. Sayler was called to that point by the Illness of her father. Miss Helen Etzel. who Is seriouslv ill at her home, Branner street, suffering with an attack of appendicitis is reported im proving. Mrs. Howard Beach, who was called to Hartford. Kan., last week by the illness of her sister, who is now recovering, has returned home. Mrs. Joseph Hayek will entertain the Dorcas society at dinner Thnrsdp.v. J. C. Wise has returned to Baldwin afte visiting his son. Rev. H. S. Wise and Mrs. Wis. Mrs. S. A It inn n is recovering from a two weeks' illness at her home, Branner street. The T'nlonp club will be entertained Thursday afternoon, by Mrs. Frank Mag nuson. at her home, 1310 East Eighth avenue. Mm. William Dutton Is slowly recover ing from a serious illness of two weeks, at her home. Chestnut street. Mrs. Frank Holmes and children have re turned to Virginia, Nebraska after visiting Mrs. Holmes' sister, Mrs. P. Linn, Scotland avenue. Mr and Mrs. Walter Zimmerman. 1110 East Fifth street are the parents of a eon. born Sunday. Mrs. A. Yonnsr. who has been ill at her home. 2 Kilifn avenue is recovering Little M'i be! McGui re. 21 Cbs ndler street hs been ill at her home with an attT-k of apTend!citis since last week. Mr and Mrs. M. Henry and little son ASZ FOR and GET HORLICK'S THE ORIGINAL MALTED K1ILK Cheap anbstitotes cost TOO urn price Dandruff Soon Ruins The Hair Girls if you want plenty of thick. beautiful, glossy, silky hair, do by all means cet rid of dandruff, for it win starve your hair and ruin it if you don't. It doesn't do much (rood to try to brush or wash it out. The only sure wav to sret rid of dandruff is to dis solve it, the.i you destroy tt entirely. To do this, get about four ounces of or dinary liquid arvon; apply tt at nicht when retiring; nee enough to moisten the scalp and rub it in gently with the finger tips. By morning, most if not all, of your dandruff will be gone, and three or four more applications will complete ly dissolve and entirely destroy every single sign and trace of it. You will find, too. that all itching and digging of the scalp will stop, and your hair, will look and feel a hun dred times better. You can get liquid arvon at any drug store. It is in expensive and four ounces is all you will need, no matter how much dan druff you have. This simple remedy nevef fails. Advertisement. Sunkiat uniformly good Oranges ara f reahf ram California today and every day. Phone now for a aupply. Every first claws dealer sells them. Sumkist Uniformly Good Oranges Very Newest Boot Styles for Spring $9M Fine Imported Kid Vamps Tops of BUCK Cloth Colors of Ivory, Chamois and Gray Our Price Only $9.00. Milady should see these most beautiful boots they are exclusively featured by thi3 big Shoe Store and many other equally smart styles are now ready TffC SG&WOC STOftC TI3 KANSAS AVE. 'V

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r:RINPT" UP FATHER ILL WE YOU TEN IF YOU'LL SHUT OFF THE ELECTRIC LKHT& Its MY FLAT AT El HT OCLOC tSS&KS!?fM.jA The winltl nw a rffbt 'r pratitinn' i Hie :nitlMir of the now f:ilil"iis M;irni";i l'rescriptioti, nntl Is still ni'irc i inlttfl tr tlit ri'tlni-tioii of this lin riu ffnntive nbpsitv rMiMtv to tahlt-t form. Mnnii"lji Prest-riptioii '1'nbletM nn ittw l obtamcit at nil tlruy Rlnrcs, ir hv writing tlirfft To Marmohi 'o.. Mi4 Wmiilwanl Avi'.. Hetrolt, Mii-h.. ainl tlifir rpasonablc pri.c (75 .puts for a lanr t-ast') b-avf-a no cvnsi' !r Miot iii or violent 'xtTrijH for the r.-ilin floii of rlic ovM-fat body to normal proportions. Ailvi'rtif nifiir. LITTLE LILLIAN ROMAINE FISHER CAN TALK AGAIN This attractive little lady is the two year old daughter o Jlr. and Mrs. 0. M. Fisher. 23S North St., Harris burg, Pa. Last winter she had an at tack of measles, together with a very severe cold. Just at that time Drug Kist S. J. Wilhelm presented Mr. Kisher with a jar of the Southern "outside" treatment Vick's VapoRub Salve, which was just then being in troduced in Harrisburg, and requested that he Rive this preparation a thor ough trial. Mr. Fisher writes "I must say that our baby had such a cold on her chest and in her throat that she could hardly talk, and we could not get her to take anything internally. After we used Vick's VapoRub Salve on her breast and throat at night before coins to lied she was entirely relieved." No family should be without this preparation. It is externally applied, and so can be used freely it is ab sorbed through and penetrates the skin, and. In addition, is inhaled as a vapor. It has a hundred uses for the many minor ailments for which every "other is the doctor. Three sizes. oOc or J1.00. (Advertisement 1 Dr. Ferdinand King saic: EVERY WOMAN EVERY MOTHER EVERY DAUGHTER NEEDS IRON AT TIMES To put strength in her nerves and color in her cheeks. There ran be no benuti ful. healthy, rosy chfekou women with out iron. The trouble in tin past hns been that when wo men needed iron they Ken era I 1 y loot; ordinary nie tullie Iron, which often .'nrroded the stnmiu'h and 1"! far more iiarni rritable. r.,,n, i;. nervpun -Ml per cent Ktwoweeks- 'time in m"'uv ui.tan.-e.. I Lave use.l it in my own 1 1-, uxHtxl Iron ret-ommen.it. t viii.,Ta "htaine.l from ISSB v JK I SURE! 1 TOO -TO LIKE V I 1M I biin F- King. M.a than irood. Tmiov 'rpanie iron Kuxnted Iron. This nnrtl.- Polyclinic h u -tnVheDls" t'o1: ?,i'or .i:iJ".r,1;. e. were itreiiEth an,i rndnni.,. i.u .eons or se i-.. ivfiitaaj' TS.'1; S0" the crowJed lobby of the theater, mil Ray k.m.u .lru'i.-Rist."viitu or withom Eusene Johnson, the elevator oper v t.liyni. ian preaeriDtiou. on lu abBolme Jtor' said ne did not know what Ad" "ucce,s or money refunded, caused the elevator to drop. He said he bad about twenty-live passengers. SIM 1 i. 1 W DOLLARS TONIGHT NEW ALLIANCE? Washington Fears Russia, Ger many, Japan May Join Hands. IJiir Jlove on Foot for Czar and Kaiser to Make Peace. ficisiun. Mass.. Feb. 21. The Bos ton Herald today prints the following dispatch from its Washington corre spondent: "Forthcoming sensational moves on the part .of Ryssia and Japan, it is autnoruauveiy siaiea. are senous.y complicating the international prob- lems now before President Wilson. "(lormany's every effort at present. it is said, is bent toward effecting a j separate peace with Russia. This ex- I plains the delay on the part of Ger- man naval commanders in forcing a rupture with the United States, ac- cording to reliable information. "Japan, it. :s known, has already I negotiated an agreement with Russia. The next develonment. it is stated. will be a triple alliance of the Teu tonic powers. Russia and Japan, for the partition and control of the far east. v "Germany, under the terms of this agreemert, will exercise suzerainty over the Balkans and near east. Rus sia will be permitted to dominate In dia. Japan will be given free sway in China. The phase of the coup said to be giving greatest concern to offi cial Washington is the possibility of a warlike move onthe part of Japan against the Philippines, if not against continental America. Release Austrian Forces. "With the release of the Austro German forces now holding the east ern frontier against Russia, it is pointed out. the central powers would be free to launch a gigantic of fensive against France and England. The Japanese threat would prove a sufficient distraction for the United States to preclude any immediate ac tion against Germany or any co-operation with England and France. "It is understood that great pres sure is being brought to bear on the president to take additional decisive steps against Germany at once in or der to prevent Russia's defection from the allied lines and the subsequent alarming international developments mentioned. "It is known that the United States military forces in the Philippines are so disposed that they can be mobilized at Corresridor. in Manila, hav on an hour's notice, and that the island for- Licsa ia completely provisxonea ror a year's siege." NAB IjONFlDENCrT MAN Detectives Think They Have Crook Who Defrauded Eight Banks. Chicago, Feb., 21. While waiting In an outer office to see Frederick W. Upham, millionaire president of the Consumers' company, "H. L. Her rick," an alleged international confi dence man, was arrested by Pinkerton detectives. The swindler, whose operations in Chicago began in January, has de frauded eight banks, J. S. Runnells, president of the Pullman company, and more than a fc'core of wealthy in dividuals and business institutions. In each instance the confidence man represented himself to be a nepnew or Aiyron T. riernck, am bassador to France and former gov ernor of Ohio. He would tell a story ft temporary embarrassment because of a delay in checks while on his way to visit nis brother. Pery G. Her rick, of No. 1321 Stoney avenue. Den ver, and obtain money either in tna form of a draft on Perry Herrick or as a personal loan. According to J. W. Xorcutt, hand writing expert of the Pinkerton agency. Herrick is the same man who worked a similar frame in the east last summer, swindling sixty bankti and more than 100 individuals while posing as "H. L,. Francis," nephew D. R. Francis of St. Louis, ambassa dor to Russia and former governor of Missouri. The handwriting of "Her rick" and "Francis" according to Mr. NTorcutt is the work of the same man. DROPS SIX STORIES New York Elevator FuIIh to Base ment; More Than Score Injured. New York. Feb. 21. One of the large elevators in the New York theater buildins;, packed with patrons from the roof garden, fell from the sixth floor to the basement at 11:30 Tuesday night. Every person in the car was in jured. Six were removed to the ospital. Thirteen others. es are not known to the treated by ambulance sur- nt oft in motor cars and rivate ambulances to be cared for ;lsewhere. The thunderous crash of the car as it rebounded at the bottom, together w,ln me cries or pain and terror irom lts occupants, created a sensation in 3 iON, TO TAKE I VWT- fc I rCr. i Ll I 1 MY EYE OFF I V 6 1 sWLi's'ivsk. i m if k i.. --7 THE TOPFKA DAILY Copyriffht. 191. International Service. New

WAIT Mm MUSCELLAI-5E00S ADS &DVRRTI8INO RATES: The rate for inserting Want Ads la The Topeka State JourimJ is oue cent a word each insertion, minimum 10 cents; by the week 5 cents a word, minimum 50 cents. OTT OK TOWN advertisements mnst be accompanied with cash or check in full pnyment of the same. Note the foreffoing Instructions about counting1 the words and the rate per word for The Topeka State Journal. COUNT THK WORDS of yonr ad includ ing four words for State Journal address when address Is used, count each "Initial" letter and each number or combination of figures na oue word. LLOSlNti HOT It; Want. AOS to ne t ,flej pr0pVriv must he in The Mat. journal office before 12:20 oVlock. Want a, is rei-eived after 12:20 till 1:15 p. m. will tie inserted nuder the head: "Too Late to nasmry. HEAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. "Xi 1 .7 7XSZtt. k J,!. n: 1400 r. Oswald and wife to J. W. Wnddell, lots 13-15-17-19-111-23 Keddeu ave., Kudld Park add... 1 w. Adntn and wife to A. 1. unrx. lots Hanson St.. Curtis add K. B. Woodruff and wife to J. W. Oilbert. pt. swV, :i-12-ltl 5000 J. W. Ullhert anil wife to E. B. Wood ruff, lot 225 Jeffer.son St., Holliday add 2500 Q. l'uxson and wife to O. B. Hughes, pt. lot 71 Van lluren st. N. Topeka 2000 H. B. Smith and husband to J. F. Crozier. lots 10-12 Buchanan St., Harvev s add 2700 .1. V. rozicr to II. B. Smith, lots 117-19-21. Quintou Boulevard, Ken wood 4000 M. E. H.lie to F. Hale, see rec... 1 M. C Shall and others to H. Tnvlor. lots :f09 to :',21 Norris St., Fritz Wards sub 1C3 J. Taylor to J. II. H. Taylor, lots 202-4 College ave.. Spruce St., West Park a.ld 1 II. Pickett to S. R. Jackson and husband, lots :i53-0-7 ltiley St., Boyn ton's add 1 STOCKS AXD BONDS. LOST A Breast Pin. set with rubies. name on back. Suitable reward. I'hone 112:t. 221 West Tenth st. WANTED SITUATIONS 1VANTKI) A position by house wife. I'hone 1G8S. competent CHIMNEYS and flues built and repaired, phone 4wi itia-k. WAATED MM.K HEL.P. PERMANENT POSITION flood salary. commission extra: man. 2S-.'IT years, mar ried. Apply by letter stating previous ex perience and giviug reference. Box M. '20. WANTED Farm and dairy hands: farm couples; b rid (re carpenters; stone quarry raon; restaurant and hotel help, cooks; hotel cfcTk procery clerk arm waiter. Furman Einpioynient Office. 100 West Wh. MEN Our illustrated catalogue explains how we teach the bnrber trade 'in a short time, mailed free. Moler Barber Col- lepp. Kansas t'ity. Mo. TOPEKA government" clerk examinations March 20. $75 to $1:20 month. Sample questions free. Write Franklin Institute, Iep't. i:W Rochester, N. Y. FIKEMEN. RKAKEMEN, hpginners paid $125 $150 monthly; uo strike. Railway, care State Journal. A WANTED TO TRADE- $0O equity in 4- room cottage, close in. for pood paint ing or cement work. ti072 Black. WANTED Bo-v with wheel; must be over 36. Hall I,ltuo. Co., 628 Jackson s SWAMKU strong noy lor wasnroom. TLt, 1 .1 WANTED FEMALE HELP. HEAD SALESWOMAN AND FLOOR MANAGER for our down-stairs Ready-to-Wear department. Must be enerpetic and able to get results. Excellent oppor tunity for tie rifffit woman. Apply to the Manager Apparel Section, ;trd Floor Pel letier's. WANTED 25 dining room and lunch counter jflrls; house help for eottntry and city homes; women cooks; hotel and restaurant help housekeepers, etc. Fur man Employment Office. IPG West Sth. WANT KD Competent, agreeable house keeper; two grownups; laundry out Phone 16.tr. WANTED White girl for general house work. 1U1S Clay st. WANTED A cook, 212 West StlT" WANTED SALESMEN WANTED Salesmen; wide awake clerta and salesmen to sell health and accident Insurance in Kansas. Good commission paid. Address Insurance, care Journal. WANTED TO BUY THE STATE JOURNAL wishes a few copies of Saturday, January 27, home edi tion. Five cents will be paid for good papers of thatdate. WANTE1 0 1 db u 1 1 d i n gb r2 n d-hand-! urn" ber. lMmne 171. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. HEMSTITCHING. PINKING, Plaltings of all kinds. Buttons made. Mail orders receive prompt, careful atten tion. Mrs. Mercer 800 Topeka. WANTED Watch repairing! Main springs, 75c; cleaned. 75c. All work guaranteed. Armstrong Jewelry Co., 429 Ivansas ave. CM K PET and rug weaving. 1030 Garfield, fhone 2588 Blue. GOOD milk cows, fat cattle and veal calves J. A, Leitzow. Tel. 57. 1K2 HASTY AUTO EXPRESS. BUSINESS CHANCES BUY Uncle Sam Oil, 10.000 shares $50. J. Cougulin, Edgertou. Kan STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, WANTED TO RENT WANT TO RENT from the owner, 80 acre farm prefer North Knnsas. Write me. A. L. Kurman. Topeka, Kaiu, 106VeBt 8th. WA.TK1 Apartment. 4 or 5 rooms. Steam heat preferred. Call Hamilton Cooke. Jr., Notional Hotel. 3 FUKNISHKO housekeeping rooms, west, by couple with bit by. I'hone Si:t9 lied. FOR RENT HOUSES MODERN Duplex, 1201 Tyler, vacant in few days. r. cottage, bath. $18. 7 r. house, frns. toilet, $15. 8 r. house, gas, eleetrie lights, bath, $15 Carson, S-'WIJ. TEN T II A NO TO PEKA AVE. 3 roonis and bath, steam heat, furnished, $20. Geo. M. Noble &Co. Phone 444. VOn RENT OR SALE Cottape, 1322 Col lege, li. N. Downle, care of State Sav ings Ba n k. STRICTlAMODEKN"six room bouse, cis tern, laundry, sleeping porch. Inquire liKi lillmore FOR RENT 6-Vnom house, electric lttrhts. Corner 4th and Tyler. Phone20lS White. FOR RENT 5 room house at 1709 Kansas avenue. Phone 5o02 J. GOOD 7-mom house, 1010 Kansas ae.t $15. i'hone FOR RENT ROOMS FOR RENT Two unfurnished rooms. Prefer elderly lady, or husband and wife. 1521 X. Van Buren St. FOR ''F.NT Fnfurnlstied rooms near the transfer station in suits of 2 and X A, L. Furman. lot! West 8th. Phone 082. TWO light housekeeping roonis, 1215 Kan sas ave, $.'t week. 10:10. TWO or" four rooms, 120 East 4th street. I'hone K-2. FOR RENT FURNISHED ROOMS. STItJCTLY modern furnished sleeping rooms, furnace heat. ol5 West 5th. Phone 3144. FOR GENTLEMAN One furnished room with or without board. Phone o74. 124H Lane. MODERN furnished room with board, down stairs. 30:;0 Jackson. FOR RENT FARMS FOE KENT Farm .T-" aeres, 17 miles -southwest. 4- room house, bam. some fruit. J. K. TORUINiTON. 109 W. Jth. Tel. 22S. 1 l 1 Iv-1 V TV 1 oAPna hect r.i nlon Inml adjoining Oakland, all broken for spring t planting, growl improvements, car one i blot--k. l c. Moore, Jul wau&sn ave., uas land. SMALL FA KM for rent. Phone BOARD AND KOOMS MODERN rooms with board. $1 day, $5 per week. Topeka Hotel. Vl W es but. PUBLIC SALKS FEBRUARY 27 Public sale on the Mul- vane Ranch, 44 miles southwest or Maple Hill, KS head of hiirb-grade Short Horn cattle, 2G cows, some fresh ami heavy springers; 4 yearling heifers. All the ows pre a to goou registered nort riorn bull and is a good bunch of stuff; 20 shouts, weight 40 to (SO pounds each. Sale to be held under cover in case of bad weather. Free transportations to and from nil trains. Olinger Keed. C. O. Ansel, auctioneer. CLEAN SWEEP PUBLIC; SALE. FEBRUARY 2G, 1917. On P. JU Adams farm, 4 miles northwest of Topeka on lower Silver Lake road, mile west of brickyard bridge, all machinery, choice dairy cows, fresh. Extra good mules and horses. Pure bred hogs, one auto. J. F. BUCHANAN. C. O. Ansel, Auctioneer. Kansas Reserve State Bsnk. Clerk. FOR SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS. CHEAP 'JACK IS SOMIS POET They BMt mon the Davenport Thut served in mother's day. While the happy old folks listened To hear what he might say. Anil he told her thnt his love for her Whs the gooti obl-fashioned sort. Just like father had told mother Ou the same old Davenport. They may talk of love in motor ears; Futi as in days of yore. There's nothing like a Davenport, .And there's plenty at .ray store. There's also oodles of other kinds of furniture and every piece a BARGAIN. ciEjyp JACK New and Used Goods of all Kinds. Phone S740. 109 East 6th. FOR SLE Furniture from 6 room house, niostlv all new: leaving the city. Call any time. 509 Polk st. FOR SALE-Organ. 2 gas, Bicycle, other furniture. ll.'W Orand avenue. 3 coal stoves. Leaving city. FOR SALE Double be. pedestal. 1201 Tyler up stairs Tel. 2K4 White. FOH SALE LIVESTOCK FOR SALE Very fine milk cow. just fresh, giving 4 gal. milk a day. Phone 3128. FOR SALE High grade young Holstein cow, just fresh, giving 5 gallons milk daily ail31-H. TEAM and wagon. Phone 3C31 King 2. DRAWN FOR THE JICCiS-WHATb THE MATTER WITH THE LlHTt AttbWER ME WHERE ARF Yrui? FOR SALE- REAL ESTATE 0E1 One acre, river bottom, 5-room house, bath room and pantry, cellar, chicken and out houses, good school. Price, $2,500. Three and three-quarters acres of Kaw valley bottom, ail under fence, 20 minutes walk to car, 3-room cottase, good well, cave, barn and chicken house. Owner wants to move this before March 1 and makes bargain price of $2,250. Easy terms. One-half mile west of Washburn college campus, on West 17th, macadam road, new, never occupied, 5-room house, basement, good well, wired for electricity, light fixtures, over 1 acre of ground, all in alfalfa, house has two extra large bed rooms. Ideal for chicken ranch. Price, $:t,500. On easy terms. 534 KANSAS AVE. FOR SALE HOiSEHOIJ) GOODS. WANTED TWO CAES IF SECOND HI AND FEJ1NHTTOE To ship to oil belt In Oklahoma. Will pay good price for good quality of furniture. STALONS F01NETOEE CO. PHONE 3955. 315 KANSAS AVE. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. POTATOES HC A LB. ClMiENS mc WE. EGGS. Why not a suburban home where you raise your own products? Sell instead of buy. r 7-1Q acres, 3-room house, barn, chicken bouse and iens. You can make money here. Let us show you. SSAWHEE INVESTMENT CO. 534 Kansas Ave. Phoue 5000. THE BIG $1,000 6 rms barn, gas, paved. Snap. $1,219 6 rms., gas, elec, choice 1 E. frt. lots. $1,5997 rms., gas. elee., full bath. Terms. $2,750 7 rms., bath, barn, 3 L. and- 1 a. First one East Side other 3 West Side. All snaps. COTTR ELL CO., 107 K. 7th. Tel. 550-340R. YOUR CHANCE IS IN CANADA RICH lands and business opportunities offer vou independence. Farm lands, $11 to $:i0 acre: irrigated lands, $.t5 to $T0; twenty years to pay; $2,000 loan In improvements, or ready made farms. Loan of live stock. Taxes "average under twenty cents an acre; no taxes on improvements, personal property, or live stock. Good markets, churches, schools, roads, telephones; ex cellent climate crops end live stock prove it. Speeial homeseekers' fare certificates. Writ, for free booklets. Allan Cameron, General Superintendent Land Branch, Canadian Pacific Ky., 180 Ninth ave., Cal gary. Alberta. Pot win school district, adjoins Pot win immediately on the. east, paved streets, sewer, sidewalks, city water, electric lights 6 rooms, :i-piece bfttn, entire base ment cemented, furnace, 3 bedrooms, glass ed, heated and plastered sleeping porch, oak finished, fireplace, bookcases, built-in side board, oak floors over entire bouse. Let us show you. SSAWKEE INVESTMENT CO. 54 Kansas Ave. Phone 5000. COTTAGF. BARGAIN ONLY $50 CASH DOWN 1 lot, large 4-room cottage, space for two rooms above, gas, city water, sewer, close MARION SHELDEN 501 Jackson. Phone 1278. HAVE purchaser for cheap half section of umtnproveci western ivansas land. Po not answer unless you are willing to sell for low price. J. E. Leader, Topeka. 1154 CLAY ST., cottage, 6 rooms and bath, great bargain if sold at one, cash or on payments. Call 601 East 4th avenue or phoiif 010 or 1601 $1.;Uj0. $14 per month, good 4-room cot tage, close in: or trade equity for lots or work. Vd, care Journal. 4TO 24 LOTS Plnehurst addition. West Uh st., at a bargain. Phone 1104. MONTANA LANDS. MONTANA 640-ACRE HOMESTEADS New town, business opoprtunities. Send 20 for maps and information. Address U. S. Commissioner. Outlook. Mont. FOR EXCHANGE. SCaTTsE Proved, onnTeurt7 half north of Reform school, want 5 or 6 room house. 1S0 Ellis county, want SO nearTopeka. HO near Garnett, want western land. 10-acre tract, want 80. 1. C. EIELY 500 TYLER ST. TOPEKA. KAN. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS FOR SALE Good bicycle, organ, coal and gas stoves and other furniture. 1138 Graud ave. TEAM FOR SALE Weight 1.200, harness and wagon. 1 cow, 2 calves and chickens. Phone 2420N2. 10K2 HASTY ACTTO KXPKESS. FOR SALE: MOTORCYCLES. MOTORCYCLE-Twin "cylinder Iudlm first class condition. 1011 East 0th. FEBRUARY 21, 1917 STATE JOURNAL BY Ue-: FOR S REAL ESTATE IT CO. PHONE 5050. FOR SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS. LEGAL. Published in Topeka State Journal, Feb ruary 21, iwiT.j SENATE BILL NO. 278. AN ACT appropriating money for the payment of a portion or the bonded in debtedness of the Maple Grove Drain age District in Douglas county, Kansas, but for legal exemption assessable as a general tax against real estate owned by the state of Kansas, in said drainace district and benefited by the improve ments constructed by said drainage dis trict for which said bonded indebtedness was ineiirred. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the rotate or ivansas: Section 1. That there is hereby appro priated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, to me mapie wrove iraiuae l district or Douglas county. Kansas, the sum of one thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars ($1,210.00) for the payment of a portion of the bonded indebtedness of the said Maple Grove Drainage District, incurred by said district for improvements in drain ing the inundated land of said district. said sum being the pro rata portion of said ao0fDTn.:.rC V' sas. within the hoiindaHM of .ild iHsti-ii and benefited by the imorovements hereto- fore constructed by said district: provided, 1 that the above and within amount shall be m inn oi an claims of every Kind and haraeter against the state of Kansas or its proportion of the original cost of the original construction of said drainage ditch, and that said drainage-district board shall file a full receipt with the auditor of state for the state's proportiou of said expenses. See. 2. The auditor of the state of Kan sas is hereby authorized to draw his war rants upon the state treasurer in favor of the treasurer of the Maple Grove Drainage District, Douglas county. Kansas, for said sum upon the duly certified voucher exe cuted by the said drainage district. Sec. X This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. I hereby certify thnt the above Bill originated In thp Senate, and passed that body Febv. S. 1!17. W. Y. MORGAN. President of the Senate. E. D. GEORGE, Secretary of the Senate. Passed the House Febv. 19 117. A. M. KEENE. Sneaker of the House. CLARENCE W. MILLER, Chief Clerk of the House. Approved IV-nmrv 20. 117. ARTHUR CAPPER. Governor. State of Knnsas. Office of Secretary of State. I, J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a correct copy of the original enrolled bill now ou file in my office. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have here unto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal. I Seal. J t h 20t h day of February 1017. J. T. BOTKTN. Secretary of State. By E. A. CORNELL. Asst. Secretary of State. Published in Topeka State Journal, Feb ruary 21. 1917. SENATE BILL NO. 241 AN ACT authorizing the placing of the dairy herds of .a'l the state institutiona of the state of Kansas under the super vision of the profesKor of dairy hus bandry of the State Agricultural College at Manhattan. Kansas. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. That th department of dairy ing of the Kansas State Agricultural Col lege, at Manhattan. Kansas, shall Inspect the dairy herds of all the state institutions having dniry herds, or that may hereafter have dairy herds. Such Inspection shall be for the purpose of advising with and assist ing the several superintendents. In the building up and maintaining the dairy herds of these institutions to a high stand ard. Sec. 2. In these Inspections, the professor of dairying, or his assistant, shall make a thorough Investigation and inspection of these herds, and report to the -superintendent in charge of an institution, any cattle that may be infected with any dlease. It shall also be the duty of the professor of dairying to inspect the registration books kept by each institution, and to se that all cattle that are eligible are registered, and upon the recommendation of such professor of dairying, the superintendent shall make such disposition of these diseased, unde sirable or condemned cattle as he shall deem best. It shall also be tbe duty of the nperin ten dent to see that proper registra tion is made of all cattle eligible. Sec. 3. The professor of dairying Khali Inspect the herds at each of the Institu tions at least once in three months, and shall consult and advise with the superin tendent in charge as to the best method of improving the herd, handling the milk, the method of feeding, and the kinds of feed. I'LL. RAE. 1 GEORGE M'MANUS LEGAL. See. 4. The professor of dairying, or liis assistants, shall be paid their actual ex penses for these inspections, and shall be paid in the same manner as they are now paid for uf-h work, the same coming from the funds so appropriated for that purpose to the State Agricultural College. Sec. 5. This act shall be in force and ef fect from and after its publication in the official state paper, I hereby certify that the above Bill origi nated in the Senate, and passed that body Feby. 8, lyi7. W. Y. MORGAN President of the Senate. E. 1). GEORGE Secretary of the Senate. Passed the House Febv. 19, 11)17. A. M. KEENE Speaker of the House. CLARENCE V. MILLER Chief Clerk of the House. Approved Februarv 'Jtt, li17. ARTHUR CAPPER, Governor. STATE OF KANSAS OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE. I, J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State of me acate or ivansas, no nereoy certiry tuat the above and foregoing is a correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my oftice. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name Seal. and affixed my official seal tins utn oay ol ebruary, 1917. J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State. By E. A. CORNELL, Asst. Secretary of State. .Published in Topeka State Journal, Feb ruary zi, lyn.j HOUSE BILL NO. 241. EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION. AN ACT lnakrng an appropriation of $20, 000.00 for the purchuse of coal for the state institutions under charge of the ataie isoara oi uontroi or state cnari table Institutions. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the riaie oi ivansas: SECTION 1. That the sum of $20,000.00. or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any money in tne state treasury not otherwise anpro priated, for the purchase of coal for the state institutions under charge of the Board of Control of State Charitable In stitutiona. as on erne men cy aoDronriation. S11C. 2. The freight on said coal Is to be paid out of maintenance appropriations of said institutions in case the amounts herein appropriated are not sufficient to pay for the purchase of the coal and the freight. SEC. 3. The auditor of state shall draw his warrants on the treasurer of state for the sum proposed and specif ed in this act upon duly verified vouchers approved by the Board of Control of State Charitable Institutiona. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in tue ornciai state paper. I hereby certify that the above Bill orig Inated In the House, and passed that body January 23. 1917. I House concurred In Senate Amendments January Ayiarr. M. KEENE Speaker of the House. CLARENCE W. MILLER Chief Clerk of the House. Passed the Senate January 24, 1W17. W. Y. MORGAN President of the Senate. E. 1. GEORGE Secretary of the Senate. Approved January :t0, li17. ARTHUR CAPPER, Governor. State of Kansas, Office of SECRETARY OF STATE. I, J. T. BOTKIN. Secretary of State of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a correct copy or tne original enrolled bill now on file In mv office. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name Seal. and affixed my official seal tins l'Jth day or b ebruary I'.M i. J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State. By E. A. CORNELL. Asst. Secretary of State. Published in Topeka State Journal, Feb ruary zi, SENATE BILL NO. 3S. AN ACT relating to the construction of sewers and drains and sewage ourlfiea tion nlants by cities of the second and third classes and amending section of chapter 90 of the Session Laws of 1909, and repealing said original section. Be it enacted by tbe Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. That section 8 of chapter 90 of the Session Laws of 1909 be and is amended so as to read as follows: Sec. That all costs and expenses occasioned by the procurement of a right of way either by purchase or condemnation and by the construction of sewers and drains and disposal works beyond the corjnjrste limits of said city shall be borne by the city as a whole and shall be paid out of the general revenue fund or by the issue of improvement bonds of the city as the mayor and council or board of commis sioners may determine in the manner de scribed and with the privileges and exemp tions stipulated in section 5 of this act provided bonds to pay the costs of right of way and the constrnctton of sewers and drains beyond the corporate limits of the city may be issued in addition to the $30,000 authorized by section 5 for the construction of disposal works. Sec. 2. That original section 8 of chap ter 90 of the Session Laws- of 1909 ia hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. I hereby certify that the nhove Bill origi nated in the Senate, and passed that body January 24, 1917. 1 Senate concurred in House amendment Feb. 10, 1917. W- Y. MORGAN. v Presidpnt of tbe Senate. E. D. GEORGE, Secretary of the Senate. Passed the House Feb. 9, 1917. A. M. KEENE, Speaker of the House, CLARENCE W. MILLER. Chief Clerk of the House. Approved February lt. 1917. ARTHUR CAPPER. Governor. State of Kansas. Offl'-e of Secretary of StHte. I. J. T. BOTKIN. Secretary of Hft of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a correct ropy of the original enrolled bill now on file iu my office. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, f have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seel, Seal. this 20th day of February, 1917. J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State. By E. A. CORNELL, Asst. Secretary of State. Handsome SCARFS Moderately priced Tr- this sale. A Ihxkc bunch of inappy, 3 3 Meco Tie. 50c vlut8vr.t'JV I. S. GAL1TZKY LEGAIj. First published in Topeka State Journal, Saturday, February iu, auh.j NOTICE. Topeka, Kansas, Feb. 10, 1917. Notice is hereby elven that, the Stat School Book Commission invite proposi tions for furnishing for a term of five years to the schools of Kansas, as provided by law, the folloRvlng high school text books: A Physical Geography and- a text book In Algebra covering three teruis- of high school Algebra. The School Book Commission will consider propositions for rurtusmng manuscripts or pi aces ior-DWH to be published by the state, or proposi tions from book publishers to furnish these books ror the schools or the state, ah propositions should be in the bands of W. R. Smith, chairman of the School Book4 Commission, not later than 9:00 a. m., k March 13, 1317. The Commission reserves the right to reject any or all bkls. State Supt. of Public Instruction. First published in The Topeka State journal, vveanesasy, jccd. x-, xvk.j State of Kansas, Shawnee County, ss. n the Matter or the Kstajte' or Charlotte Abbott Hapgood, deceased, late of Shaw- nee County. Kansas. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice Is hereby alven that on the 9tH day of February. A. D. 1917. the underi'' signed was, by the Probate Court of ShawV' nee county, ivansas, nuiy appointen An-., minlstrator of the estate of Charlotte Abbott Hapgood. late of Shawnee County, deceased. All parties interested in said estate will take notice and govern them-; selves accordingly. Ml.NMl'J nAnHKH, Administrator, .w First published in The Topeka State- journal, n eunesuay i eo. j., iuii.j State of Kansas, Shawnee County, as. In the Mater of the Estate of Caroline1' Charlson, late of Shawnee County, Kansas. NOTICE Of ArrUI 1 M KM Notice is hereby given that on the 11Uh. day of February, A. D. 1917, the under-" signed was, by the Probate Court of Shaw-'' nee County, Kansas, duly a pointed Execu-' tor of the estate of Caroline Charlson, late, of Shawnee County, deceased. All partle interested in said estate will take notice, and govern themselves accordingly. c w. LHAKLsun, executor. First published In The Topeka State Journal, Wednesday, F'eb. 7, 1917.) P State of Kansas, Shawnee County, as. -tr In the Matter of the Estata of Ellen,, Smith, late of Shawnee County, Kansas. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice Is hereby given that on the 19th day of December, A. D. 1910, the under- -signed was, by the Probate Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, duly appointed Administrator of the estate of Ellen Smith, late of Shawnee County, deceased. All parties interested in said estate will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. -r P. J. SMITH, Administrator. CURTAIN CLEANING. PHONE 2777 WHITE Mrs. Sue Engle for curtain cleaning. MONEY HOME money loans, best rates. Pay her and get coupons. Money ready wbea,.' abstract complete. Write me. R. P. March, loans and insurance. 107 W. 7th. Topeka. El lO LOAM- ON REAL ESTATE Repayable Monthly CAPITOL OTMLBUNG AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 534 Kansas Avenue MONEY TO LOAN on city and TifnT property, any amount, low interest rate and most liberal terms. Call or write f n i our plan. W. M, Forbes A Co. UPHOLSTERING J. F. PETRICK SONS, upholstering; an manuiacicrera ot pa nor inrniture, xjUW' Kansas avenue. Phone 842. MOVING FENIMORE MOVING AND STORAGE Your furniture wrapped 1 for storage-: FREE, expert psekers. Phone 4341. FLORISTS MATES FLOWEK SEOB for tmh flowers, wedding n1 funeral, A Hpectalty. Our stocks always freab. Grown In our own greeabousea. 819 Kaa ss a,. Phone 377. POOL AND BIIXIAR0 TABLES FOR SALE Bltltari tables, new, rarrom and pocket, with complete outfit. 1oO.u0? aecou1 ham! tablea at reduced prices; bowl." lng alley supplies; eaar payments. Cigar ators fixtures, a apevfalty. Pend for cata logue. THE BKT'NftWirK-HALKK-COLr LENDER CO.. 1329-1331 Main it, Kansas Pity. Mo. TYPEWRITERS ALL MARKS for sale or rant- Best chaDcal department In the country. CKANE CO Topeka. Ksn 47 Years In Rnstneas. FARM LOANS CA1H LOANS. 0 and per cent. eI Nli hol Realty Co.. 52 Kan. Ato. Tel. PICTURE FRAMING FRAMING, regllding, mat making, mount-. lng ilone j. ii. r.nuirnn. l-iz w. eru.. UNDERTAKING U. M. PENTELL. funeral director snd smbaltner.' Firat clnen ssevtcs. 60ft-&lJi' Qulncjr at. Telephone 102. 0. K HAtVLKY CO., undet'akersTenT? balmlug. 118 E. t bth At. 1'uous 3t7.

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10 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1917 Everything New In PRINTING Of course you want the latest See or Telephone Jones Birch Advertisement by wv ntYl&T anc children form a large proportion of the passen gers of the Pullman Company. The safety of the cars, due to their unusually sturdy construction; the sanitary condition in which they are main tained; the numerous conveniences which their equipment affords, and the courtesy of the Pullman employes are all factors contributing to the increased comfort and enjoyment of railroad travel. In the Pullman car only a limited number of passengers are accommodated; there is no crowding. Operating over practically every railroad in the country, it is rarely necessary for ihe passengers to change cars from departure to destina tion. Both of these conditions contribute to the safety and comfort of unescorted women and children. For fifty years the Pullman Company has directed its efforts to the determination of the needs of the traveling public, and the development of a service to meet these requirements. That twenty-nine per cent of Pullman con ductors and twenty-five per cent of Pullman porters have been in the continuous service of the Company for over ten years indicates the high personnel of the employes by whom the service is rendered. HOIUrtftUC DAI I LnT Service Station AIX MAKES OF BATTERIES RECHAKGED Machinists Electric Co. 108 W. 8th Phone 83-S Shellabarger Son UNDERTAKERS Parlor 110-2 W. Bth St. Prions ST1 MDNEY to loan on our popular semi annual payment plan upon which interest grows less every six months." State Savings Bank 601 Kansas Ave. THE POOP lIUDCE SEES A HQ6 ON TWO LEGS WHY MAN! THAIS A WASTE OF I GOOD TOBACCO. CT w-B is Rich tobacco and a SMALL. CHEW IS ENOUGH FOR AN V MAN. t DON'T HAVE PEOPLE CALLING! YOU A HOG, t JUO&, THERE'S THE BIGGEST TOBACCO HOG ON EARTH. ALWAYS I ASKING FOR A CHEW OF WS CUT f AND PUTS HALF A POUCH IN HIS FACE THEN SAYS IT'fl TOO f" amp g. 1 SOME call these face-stuffers hogs, some call them gophers. But they are getting scarcer and scarcersince gentlemen found out about W-B CUT Chewing. Thereis no excuse for a man making a monkey of himself today. The fine rich tobacco flavor was put into W-B by nature, the touch of salt brings it out nice and tranquil, like, without your worrying your jaw around continually. W-B is getting to be pretty nearly as popular as sun shine these happy days. Made j YETMAN-BRUTON COMPART, 59 Uioa Sfun, New York Cry Superior Service Al!-Steel Trains To KANSAS CITY DOUBLE TRACK Lt. Tnpekm 4:13 a. m. ft :IM m. 7:40 a. m. S:1S p. m. S :t. p. m. 5:!W p. m. 7 :4ft p. m. S :50 p. au r. Kan. City 6 :S5 a. m. t :45 m. :S a. m. ft 10 p. m. ft :1& p. m. 7 :S5 p. m. 9:35 p. m. 10 :40 p. m. NO STOPS C. E. BASCOM. C. T. A. Lt. Em. City 7 :55 m. m. 10:10 a. m. 10:3s a- m. 11 :M a. m. C :30 p. m. 1 :4S p. m. 1:00 p.m. lt: p. m. Ar. Toprka :45 a. m. lt 20 p. m. 1! :4 p. m. 12 :IW p. m. t:U p. m. 9:3S p. m. 11 :S5 p. ro. 1 :M a. m. Up to the Minute SpoirriNGNEWs from Everywhere. IPfCl-UG" SOX LOOK STRONG Comiskey Has Best Looking Club in American League. Chicago South Side Fans Feel Sure They'll Cop the Flag. BY JACK VI.IOCK. New York, Feb. 21. There is no spot on the baseball map where the loyalty of the) fans runs more truly to form every year than Chicago's great South Side. Mere mention of the South Side of Chicago brings the thought of that grand old Roman, Charles A. Comis key and his battling White Sox, to the mind of every follower of the game. It has often been said there is more of genuine baseball spirit and loyalty to the square feot in the neighbor hood and environs of Comiskey park than anywhere else in the whole swatting universe. The season of 1917 is not afar off, and with its coming comes also the "hunch" that the South Side of the Windy City will be heard from with greater frequency this year than for several seasons past. Last year Comiskey's Pale Hose were -very much in the running for premier honors in the American league. They finished second to the Boston Sox, and a good second, too. Waahb'n G FT FI nnn. if 1 li 0 But the driving power of Carrigan's Dean.' rf 2 5 0 TEXAS LEAGUE MOGULS DO NOT LIKE "HAM'S" BACKERS Tho the Texas league has rati fied the sale of the Dallas club to Ham Patterson, Doc White and their backers, among whom is said to be Ed Maier of. Los Angeles, there still are rumblings heard in Texas circles against Maier's con nection with the club. After the strictures of the former Vernon owner against the honesty of base ball it does not set well with a lot of Texans that he should be per mitted to have any connection whatever with baseball in their circuit. f boys was just strong enough to carry them over, and the Windy City Sox Had to be content with a finish that placed them two full games behind Boston. Out for First Honor But 1917 is another season, and Co miskey has decided to give Clarence Rowland another chance to show the baseballing public that he has the goods. The Sox stack up as a great outfit on .paper. And in the mean time those terrible Bostonese will be without the guiding hand and the fighting influence of Bill Carrigan. That they will feel the loss of Car rigan keenly is the honest belief of baseball critics all over the country, and this opinion is given with due re spect for Jack Barry, who is a grand ball player and acknowledged to be one of the smartest men in the game. It is only logic to figure the Red Sox on the decline. They will have greater opposition than ever before, and as the teams of the American league stack up against them it ap pears that the White Sox. Yankees. Tigers, Browns and Cleveland Indians are sure to crowd those Red Hose for the first division berths. A glance over the field fails to re veal a better looking team than Co miskey s. nowland will start the training season with an even stronger array of talent than he had last year, and if the White Sox pitchers can avoid the hospital it looks from this distance that the South siders will be off to a flying start. j Strong Squad of Yet The seasoned vets of the Sox Col lins, Weaver, Schalk, Fournter, Felsh, Jackson, Leibold, Ness and Lapp represent a world of driving and de fensive power. The pitchers for the most part are seasoned men, and the youngsters who will be tried out come from their respective leagues with good records. A peculiar feature of the Sox spring trip will be the trying out of three new first basemen. They are Bob Hasbrook, from Muscatine; Theo. Jourdan, from St. Joseph, in the Western league, and Frank Henry, who comes from the Petersburg club. Jourdan bumped the ball for an aver nge of .314, Henry hit .254 and Hans brook .272. Jourdan is the best field er of the trio, according to the figures. Ross Eldred. from Seattle, will bat tle for an outfield berth. In the line up of the Seattle club Eldred slapped the pill for a .332 average last year and fielded .955 in ninety-two games. Two New Catchers. Two new catchers, Gray, from Wichita, and Jenkins, from Houston, both hit better than .300 in 1916. Swede Risberg can be counted upon to show better form as a second base man this year and Bruno Haas, a utility man, with rjtwooo: Martin, Oakland hurler, will complete the Rowland kindergarten, according to the latest list of players sent out by the Old Roman from Chicago. With this array of rookies on hand, it appears that Rowland and Comis key have preparea to meet emergen gencies in the way of injuries to play ers. Without the recruits the White Sox look strong enough to give a strictly first class account of them selves and White Sox fans are justi fied if they indulge in sweet dreams of a pennant for the South side next fall. ICHABODS LOSE AGAIN Ottawa Defeats Washburn Quintet by the Score of 57 to 21. Ottawa, Kan., Feb. 21. The Ottawa university basketball team defeated the Washburn college team here Tues day night by the score of 57 to 21. Altho the Washburn men played hard thruout the contest, they were unable to locate the baskets and there was never much doubt as to the outcome of the game. Trull was the big point maker for Washburn, getting four of the eight field goals and scoring on two free throws. Fogleman and Cassidy were the stars for Ottawa- The score: Ottawa G FT F Fogleman. lf.10 0 3 Wynne, rf 6 0 1 Cassidv. c ...10 3 u Trull, c 4 0 Nelson, rg 1 0 1 Irake. lg 0 0 K McCoah 0 0 1 Whitehead ..0 0 2 Totals 8 5 91 Heiken. re ..101 Stallard. IB 0 0 1 Conell 0 0 0 Reeves o o l Powell 0 0 0 Totals 27 3 7 START RACING AUG. 6 Great Western Trotting Association Announces Its Dates for Season. Chicago, Feb. 21. At the annual meeting of the Great Western Trot ting association, .E. J. Curtin of De corah, Iowa, was elected president and W. H. Smollinger of Iron Mountain, Mo., secretary. Some changes were made in the rules and racing dates were assigned. The dates allotted are as follows: Peoria, 111., week of August 6. Burlington, la., week of August 13. Omaha, Neb., week August 20. Des Moines. Ia., week August 27. Hamline, Minn., week September 1. Milwaukee, week September 7. Peoria, 111. (second meet), week September 24. WON'T GO TO CARDINALS. Hovlik of St. Joe Would Rather Stay Witb Holland's Drummers. Cleveland, O.. Feb. 21.- Eddie Hov lik, a former Cleveland amateur pitch er, prefers playing with the St. Joseph club of the Western league to per forming with the St. Louis Nationals. The St. Louis club purchased Hov lik's release last fall. The salary des ignated in the contract sent him this spring was so "ridiculously low" that Hovlik declined to sign. St. Louis finally turned him back. "I'd rather play in St. Joe for less money than was offered me by St. Louis," he explained. Tliree-I Is Having Trouble. Peoria, 111., Feb. 21. After a con ference of the Three-I league officials here today. President Ryon of the t-eoria ciuo, cnairman of the special committee to complete the circuit nnd adopt a schedule, announced that the committee win re-convene in Rock ford, March 1. .SnOTt WhOOTnn 111 BY CXATG ARCHER STILL HOLDOUT. Cub Catcher Refuses to Sign anil Is Ift Behind by Mitchell. Chicago, Feb. 2 1 Minus Jimmy The nearness of the 1917 baseball sea-! son is brought home by the realization that the Chicago Cubs are speeding towards their training: camp on the Coast today. There is just a good breathing; spell between now and the raising of the curtains in April. If Grover Cleveland Alexander receives a guarantee that a circus will pay him $1,000 a week for 35 weeks, he will be a fool to play baseball for any club for $15,000 a year. And G. C. is no fool, that's a. cinch. His Topeka friends are glad to know that Otis Iambeth, former Savage pitch er, is in solid with the boss of the Cleve land Indians and they hope -he will per form in such a way as to remain solid. Fob I expects him to prove his leading t wirier this season. Lambeth is not onlv a good pitcher, but he is a deserving lad and a gentleman from his socks up. In the eyes of Aggie basketball fol lowers the season has not been a bad one, even tho the M. V. championship was not cinched. Clevengers men woo every .imA than T1 .1 i-iwi ut hnTFIA altH rK1T Archer, the Cub special pulled out forjght have won a few more away from Pasadena. CaL, Tuesday nignx oeanng home it tue valley omciais nau a runng about thirty ball players and some requiring all courts to be of the same three score "hangers on," mere stock- dimensions. holders, sporting writers and ''bugs." j ShouM Br Kennedy succeed in bis Archer was at the station lor an i -fforts to revive baseball at Washburn eleventh hour conference with college. Dale Gear, one of Topeka's most Weeghraan and Manager Mitchell, famous baseball sons and former manager but was unable to agree to their terms, of the Topeka Western league ciuo, win A flattering offer, as a battery mate probably be engaged to coach the team. tor rJerKA,e""' aVAw retired permanently from base- team." has been tendeied him. Archer baU nnd -s QOW enafred ln boosting Kan hinted, j sas-niade flour, but he lives near Wash Five other Cub players are expected hum n.l ha asserted that he will eladlv to join the special at Kansas City and give whatever time he can spare to the Newton, Kan., while several will re port at Pasadena. TENNIS IS ON THE RUN. Ciolf Is Putting Net Game Out of Busi ness in Omaha. Omaha, Neb., Feb. 21. Golf has almost supplanted tennis in this city and in an effort to revive interest in the latter sport a plan has been pro jected to organize an Omaha Tenni3 club, with a paid up stock of $5,000. It is. proposed to build six clay courts and an effort will be made to bring at least "three Missouri valley tournaments to this city during the season. Omaha has several experts who last year were forced to invade other fields because of the lack of lo cal interest. Will Adams captured the Iowa state championship at Des Moines and Ralph Powell won the in terstate title at Sioux City. ADDITION SPORTS WTLL BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES. -ollofr. tpnm If it In orttfen together. As a judge of young baseball players, the Western league probably never bad a bet ter man tnan LftLie ivear. v. fi. AVilIrd. of Tooeka. whose son. Francis, is a student and football fl&yer at the University of Michigan and who is one of Topeka's most ardent gridiron en thusiasts is of the opinion that Fielding H. Yost will soon sever relations wicn the Ann Arbor school. Yflst ban become the most famous coach in the West since going to Ann Arbor a number of years ago, but the university papers and students think he has out lived his usefulness. Mr. Willard asserts, and they are insistently demanding that he step down and out and give tbe head coach's job to younger and more .pro gressive man. Yost is well known thruout Kansas and is an old friend of Dr. Kennedy, of Washburn. Before going to Michigan the famous mentor was connected with the University of Kansas nnd he now has ex tensive oil interests in this state. It is hinted by some of his Kansas friends that infatuation for oil has made Yost think less of football during recent years. Get Your Z.-9C Stamps Another Saving-2.-9C Stamps Dale iruary ox Home Needs IN OUR BASEMENT Here we offer a chance to select the necessities and handy helps about the home at savings well worth considering, especially in view of present advancing prices. Women Will Do Well to Anticipate Their Needs Along the Lines Mentioned Here and Stock Up for Future Use White Enamel fare About 500, pieces consisting of large Dish Pans, Berlin Kettles, Preserving Ket tles, Sauce Pans, Water Pails, values to 90c. February q Sale Price DZC Cel. Gray Enamel fare About 500 pieces, all large. 17 qt. Dish Pans. 3 qt. Coffee Pots. 6 qt. Berlin Kettles. 10 qt. Water Pails. Values to 65c, your choice, this sale Aluminum Berlin Kettle with cover, $1.50 value, each $1.25 $2.25 value, each. $1.65 Aluminum Oval Covered Roaster, $2.75 value, at .$1.98 Aluminum Tea Kettle, $3.00 value in this sale at $2.50 39, 'C EACH Grey Enamel Tea Kettles, large size while they last; each. 590 One Lot Aluminum Ware, small pie pans, stew pans, ladles, pudding pans, your choice in this sale 1O0 10 qt. Aluminum Cooking Kettle, while they last, each $1.29 Laundry Needs Rock Bottom Prices P'ipi 14 regular 5c cake Snow Flake Laundry j Q Q Wash Boiler, No. 8, stationary handles, all copper bottom, advise early selection at the price $1.39 Other boilers $1.98 and $2.50. Washboards, each 29 and up. Warranted Wringers, $2.98 and up Wash Benqh, hardwood, folds up, extends large enough for two tubs, $1.79. Mrs. Potts Sad Irons, complete set of three irons and handles 980 Asbestos Sad Irons, patent hood, wood han dle, repairs FREE for postage for period of two years, the set .$2.00 Wall and Ceiling Dusters, all wool, long and short handles, the washable kind, the regular $1.00 size, in this sale for 790 Triangle Floor Mop, adjustable handle, 1 qt. can Golden Star Cedar Oil Polish. The outfit complete, in this sale $1.00 Willow Clothes Baskets, $1.75 value. .$1.39 Garbage Cans, galvanized iron, tight fitting cover, prices range 690 up. Stem Glass Syrups with slip on nickel tops, 290 up. Water Pitchers, large size, cut grape pattern, each $1.00 Table Tumblers, set of six, cut grape pattern, for 750 Decorated Cottage Dinner Sets, for six per sons, special $2.75 One lot Decorated Dinner Plates and soup plates, your choice .90 Waffle Irons, faniily size 890 Clothes Wall Racks, fold up, ea. 450 Ammonia, 3 lOc-bottles, 230 Washing Powders; 6 5c-bottles, 250 Wire Clothes Line, "l00 feet, this sale, 390. Special Bon Ami 90 Abolition Paint Cleaner 90 3 10c bottles Ammonia 230 O'Cedar Oil, can 190 Sani-FIush, can 230 Japanese Crepe Toilet Pa per, 9 large rolls for 50fe Electric Iron, $2.50 ful ly guaranteed, 6-pound size, complete with slip on sock et and six foot cord $2.50 Hyacinth and Narcissus Bulbs, another lot direct from Holland, plant now for Easter season, doz 250 Winter Brings Colds to Children. A child rarely goes through the ..-lMjle winter without a cold, and every mother should haTe a reliable remedy handy. Fever. aore throat, tight cnest ana cropy cougos are sure avmptoms. A dose of Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey will loosen the phlegm, relieve the congested lungs and stop the cough. Its antiseptic pine balsams heal and soothe. For croup, whooping cough and chronic bronchial troubles try Dr. Bell's Pine Tar Honey. At all Druggists. 25c. Adv. MARLEY 2yi IN. DEVON 2 IN. ARROW COLLARS 1 S cts. each, 6 for 90 eta. CLUETT. PEB0PY CO., INC. 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