The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
February 27, 1917

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VyiSATnER FORECAST for Kansas: Cloudy tonight and Wednesday; not much change In temperature. T' COXDITTIXti investigations, con gress f noulil not overlook what has NOT been d.me :n preparedness. TOPEKA, KANSAS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1917 EIGHT PAGES THREE CENTS HOME EDITION SEA DISASTER COST LIVES OF 8 AMERICANS Two. Women Passengers Died in Lifeboat From Exposure. Six American Sailors Reported in List of Dead. TOTAL LIVES LOST THIRTEEN Five Drowned When Great Lin- r. Tnrne.loed. Hit by Two Torpedoes l-Boat S. Embargo on Arms to Mex Refused to Rescue. j ico, but Not to Allies. London. Fob. 27. Official fis ures (if the Laconia d: stT today showed Total passengers and crow, 294. Survirors landed at Queens town, 26". Survivors landed at Ilantry. 14. Dmwnod, five. Died of exposure and buried at sen. iaht. In hospitals six. The figure; were irnislicd by the- American consul at Queen. town and sent to Ambassador Ia;c today. BY ED 1j. KFKX. j London. Feb. 27. Two American women ditd when a German U-boat j sank without warning the liner La- j eonia. on which they were traveling, forced them with nearly three hun- tired others to the boats, and then left i them to the rigors of a cold winter; nUht, adrift on the open seas. The two women Mrs. Alfred Harris i Hoy and her daughter. Miss Elizabeth Hoy with six other perished from exposure. They were buried at sea. The Mirvivors of the Cunard levia- than were Jidrift off the Irish coast under overcast skies and tossed on a 1 heavy ocean swell from about 111 o'clock Sunday night to 3 or 4 o'clock j Mundtiy morning. f Thirteen persons in all. perished in j the unwarned attack by the German submarine. Left Survivors to Their Fate. American Ambassador, Page was kept fully informed in dispatches fror i Queenstown from American Consul Frost. He transmissed this immedi ately to Washington. The American official information was that Mrs. Hoy and her daughter were the only two American passengers who per ished, but comparison if the list of survivors with the list of the Laconia's crew .?s made public by the Cunard company in New York indicates that six Americans of the crew are among the missing, believed to be lost. The German submarine which sank the Laconia fired a second torpedo at its side twenty minutes after a vital wound had been inflicted by the first explosion. The U-boat subsequently c.i me a longside one boat, inquired concerning the commander and the cargo and then steamed off. leaving The survivors to shift for themselves, after assuring them a British admir alty rescue boat would be along "soon Kiglit Ilojits Launched. Fight boats were launched. There was con i t rable difficulty casting them free of the Laconia, owing to considerable list and one boat was swamped. It was believed that Mrs. Hov and her daughter were in this lifeboat. Explosions of the o torpedoes however, caused most of the casual ties, it was believed. The conduct of both passengers and crew was generally calm, althn there was some confusion owing to the fact that the Hunts went out immediately after the first explosion. 5 Drowned: 8 Die of Fximsure. Mrs. Hoy and Miss Hoy died from exposure in an open boat. They were buried at sea. They were among eight who survived the two torpedoes launched at the Cunarder and later succumbed to their suffering while waiting eight hours in an open boat for rescue. They too were buried at sea. Five were drowned. Six others were reported by Amer ican Consul Frost to be in hospitals recovering from injuries or the -exposure which they suffered. At Queenstown 2fi7 survivors were landed. Hantry. Ireland, reported 14 arriving there. Thus the total death list is 13, two Americans and women. Survivors at Queenstown reported an admirable discipline among the officers and crew of the liner and verv fie of anything like a panic.1 The lights went out immediately after the first torpedo struck and this caused some slight confusion. A Second Lusitania. Two torpedoes found their mark in the vessel, the first exploding at the stern and the other further for ward. The weather was compara tively calm, but there was heavy swell running on the sea. Comment of the London news papers today was almost unanimous in the belief that the Laconia was "a second Lusitania." London editors professed their belief that President Wilson's "overt act" had been accom plished in this torpedoing. Tf it is ignored or condoned de clared the Chronicle, "what will in effect be admitted by the American government is the claim that Ger many has a right to prohibit Ameri can citizens under the pain of death from traveling to England on English liners. Praises Crew's Conduct. Queenstown. Feb. 27. Among the four Laconia passengers sent to hospitals here is Dr. Hawke a resident of San Francisco, who said he was playing bridge in the ship surgeon's room when he heard an aw ful crash and guessed the vessel had been attacked by a submarine He said that the first torpedo struck the liner aft on the starboard side and everyone made for the life preservers. (Continued on Page Two.) FULL REPARATION BEFORE PEACE, SAYSGERMANY 'chancellor Makes Vitriolic Speech Before Keichstag. Takes Shot at U. S. Break of Diplomatic Relations. "TO FIGHT AND GAIN VICTORY" Declares That Is Resolution of United Teutons Berlin. Feb. 27. (Via Sayville Wireless.) "Germany's peace condi tions are based on reparation for all wrongs suffered and guaranteed for the existence and future to a strong Germany." Imperial Chancellor von Beth-mann-Hollweg so outlined them in a speech before the reichstag today. "There is only one necessity of the day," he declared. "It dominates all questions of policy both foreign and domestic it is to fight and gain a victory. The Imperial Chancellor von Beth-mann-Hollweg, today addressing the reichstag on the military situation, spoke as follows: "While our soldiers on the front j-;tand in the drumfire of the trenches and our submarines, defying death, hasten thru the seas, while we at home have no other absolutely no other task but to produce cannons, am munition, food and to distribute these victuals with justice in, the midst of this struggle for the life and future of our empire, intensified to an ex treme, there is only one necessity of the day. It dominates all questions of policy both foreign and domestic and that is: Illustrates People's Loyalty. "To fight and gain a victory." The chancellor pointed out that the German nation in the reichstag's last vote granting new war credits demon strated to the whole world its readi ness to continue the struggle until its enemies were ready for peace. "Their example does not tempt me. What I could say about the aim of our conditions, I said repeatedly: "To terminate the war by a last ing peace which grants us reparation for all wrongs suffered and guaran tees the existence and future to a strong Germany. "That is our aim nothing less and nothing more." After dealing briefly with the prob lem of the inner, or domestic policy, the chancellor recalled his last speech to the reichstag in which he an nounced the central powers peace offer to the allies. "Their answer," he continued, "was n.ore rude and presumptuous than any sensible person in our country or in neutral countries could have imag ined. The effect produced by this document of barbarian hatred and of jeer is manifest to the whole world. "Our alliances and our front stand firmer, and the German nation is more united and none the less reso lute than ever." The chancellor then turned his dis cussion to the establishment of the barred zones around England, France and Italy and to the answers received from neutrals to the communication made by the central powers. Sure Neutrals Will Rejoice. "We by no means undervalue the difficulties caused to neutral ship puig." he said, "and we therefore try to alleviate them as much as pos sible." "For this purpose we made an at tempt to supply neutral states within the boundaries of our sea forces with materials needed by them, like coal and iron. "But we also know that all these dif ficulties after all are only caused by England's tyranny of the seas. "We will and shall, break this en slavement of all non-English trade. "We must meet half way all wishes of neutrals that can be complied with. But in our endeavor to do so, what ever we can we will, except we cannot go beyond the limits imposed upon us hy otir irrevocable decision to reach the aim of- the establishment of the barred zone. "I am sure that later the moment will come when neutrals themselves will thank as for our firmness. "For the freedom of the oceans which we gain by lighting is of ad vantage to them. One Step Further by V. S. "One step further than the European neutrals as has been known has been made by the United States of America. "President Wilson, after receiving our note of January 31, briskly broke off relations with us. "Authentic communication about the reasons which were given for his step have not reached me. "The former United States ambas sador here in Berlin only communi cated by spoken word to the secretary of state for foreign affairs, in break ing off relations and asked for pass ports. "This form of breaking relations between great nations living in peace is probably without precedent in his tory. "All official documents lacking, I am forced to rely upon doubtful sources that is, foreign officials, upon versions of the contents of the message sent by President Wilson on February 3 to congress. "In this version the president is re ported to have said that our note of January 3 suddenly and without pre vious indication intentionally with drew solemn promises made In the note of May, 1916. "To the United States government therefore no other choice compatible with its dignity and honor was left than the way in which she had an nounced in her note of April 20, 1916 HARNESSED WITH BOOZE, BONE DRY 'BILL'jSCAUGHT He Carried Quarts Like They Were Gun Cartridges. Apron Hade Especially for the Purpose Hid Bottles. BUT POLICE WERE WISE Silas William King First Victim of New Liquor Law. He Was Headed for the Bot toms With "Wet Load." Silas William King made a most serious strategic error early this morning when he attempted by the exercise of his single genius to evade the exceeding dryness of the bone dry law.' Silas William, more famil iarly known as "Yellow Bill" from a peculiarity of complexion, alighted from No. 169 at the Santa Fe junction at 2:40 a. m., equipped with eight quart bottles of booze. The train stops for a moment at the crossing, and it was Bill's intention to alight, walk across the Santa Fe railroad bridge and unload his cargo of joy producer upon the arid and suffering bottoms. To carry so much whisky King had devised a new and original rig. Un derneath his overcoat he wore a sort of apron, harnessed on him as se curely as kicking straps on a yearling colt. It was fastened over his shoul ders and containing eight pockets, after the manner of the loops in a cartridge belt. Each pocket contain ed a quart bottle. Yellow Bill had reckoned without Officers Billings and Gallup, who were on the lookout for just such a genius of originality as he was. They cooked his little game before he hail started to play it. The first successful run of the gauntlet of the Bone Dry law remains yet to be made. Yellow Bill is the first victim of its stringency. The plan of Officers Billings and Gallup in outwitting the enterprising bootlegger was a pretty piece of detective work. It is a good indication of the vigilance with which the local police are seek ing to keep any intruding moisture from spoiling the absolute drouthy dryness of the new law. King is an old offender. fie has been arrested dozens of times and been convicted of every crime from shooting craps to shooting an officer. TROOP A LEAVES TODAY Kansas Cavalry Scheduled to Entrain for Home State. San Antonio. Feb. 27. Troop A, Kansas cavalry, is scheduled to get away from Llano Grande before night. Its destination is Fort Kiley, Kan. Troop B. Wisconsin cavalry, left for Fort Sheridan, 111., today. 150 MILLION LBS. MEAT STORED IN CHICAGO ALONE Miles of Meat Line Aisles In Packing Houses. Grain Dealers Still Clamor in Vain for Cars.' Chicago, Feb. 27. Officials of the department of justice and the state's attorneys offices, taking the Chicago "food census" have, learned that there are approximately 150.000.000 pounds cf meats in local storage plants. Muffled to the ears, the investi gators today passed up and down miles and miles of meat-lined aisles in the packing plants, getting first hand information on the food situation. President John Fitzpatrick and Sec retary Edward Nockels of the Chicago Federation of Labor have promised to deliver to officials today evidence. unless Germany desired to give up her submarine methods." Friendship for United States. "If these arguments are correctly reported," the chancellor continued, "then I must decidely protest against them. "For more than a century friendly relations betwen Germany and Amer ica have been carefully promoted. We honored them, Bismarck once put it as an heirloom from Frederick the Great. "Both countries benefited by it; both giving and taking. "Since the beginning of the war, things ahve changed on the other side of the waters. "Old principles were overthrown. On August 27. 1913, during, the Mexi can trouble President Wilson in a solemn message to congress declared that he intended to follow the best usage of international law by the prohibition of the supplying of arms to both Mexican parties at war against each other. "One year later. 1914, these usages were apparently no more considered good. Countless war material has been supplied by America to the en tente and while the right of American citizens to travel without hindrance to the entente countries and the right to trade without hindrance with France, England even thru the midst of the battlefield of right for which we had to pay with German blood while all these rights were jealously guarded, the same right of American citizens toward the central powers did not seem to be worthy of Drotection and as valuable. i CAPPER'S BUDGET BILL FINALLY PASSES HOUSE But It's a Toothless, Boneless, Spineless Measure. It Gives Governor Sfo -More Power Than He Now Has. USE QUESTIONABLE TACTICS Administration Leaders Juggle Much to Get Votes. Several Members Switched Their Votes Back and Forth. After being held in deadlock near ly an hour, the house by a bare con stitutional two-thirds vote and by questionable legislative tactics today passed the emasculated, meaningless administration executive budget reso lution. A changed vote was whispered to a clerk, transhiitted to Speaker Keene, was unannounced and a call of the house lifted by a misleading statement of facts before opposition members had an opportunity to an nounce changes that would have prob ably beaten the measure. It was the final, desperate, dying effort of administration supporters to save something to which they might point as a record of alleged accomplishments. The reform which Governor Capper had urged for his successors, but which he declined to observe during his own administra tion, had been amended until it car ried little except a resolving clause. The hollow, meaningless proposed amendment to the constitution was explained by Speaker Keene before the roll was called in an apparent ef fort to rally votes to its support. When the roll call was completed, the measure had received 73 votes 1 1 short of the necessary two-thirds. A call of the house was demanded and held nearly an hour. During that time Speaker Keene mentioned the names of various members who could be relied upon to support the resolution. A number of absentees were called before- the house and sev eral members changed their votes. Several Sw -itched Votes. With a vote needed to put the reso lution across. Bird, of Shawnee, changed from no to yes. Three other members who had voted yes, prompt ly changed to no. Then two more votes were added for the resolution. One vote was needed to put the meas ure across. A desperate effort was made to find Bardwell, of Riley, whom Speaker Keene asserted would vote for the resolution. From the opposition came the re port that several affirmative votes were ready to go to the negative if another yea vote was registered. The opposition was merely holding the line. Both sides were in earnest, seri ous caucus in the most spectacular fight of the session. Then Kline, of Trego, a Republican, walked to the reading desk with sev eral members. He had voted against the resolution. He announced his change in a voice not heard beyond the press table, immediately below the reading clerk's desk. It was the vote needed to put the resolution across unless there were other changes. But if Kline's change va3 ever announced, no one seems to have heard it. Robert Stone, of Shawnee, working for the amendment, that he might be consistent in the introduction of his resolution earlier in the session, had forced the holding of the house call. As Kline whispered his change. Stone secured the attention of the chair. "I don't wish to hold the htuse in a call beyond a reasonable length of time and I move that the call of the house be now raised." said Stone. It was accepted by the opposition as meaning that the administration had abandoned its fight. Speaker Keene hurriedly put the motion, which was probably heard by less than half of the house members. It was declared to be carried. Then the speaker read the vote which put thru the resolu tion. riper Switched Twice. As the speaker started to put the motion to raise the call of the house. Piper, of Montgomery, sought to ad dress the chair. He had voted in the negative, changed to the affirmative and just advised his friends that he (Contioneil on Page Two.t which may help in prosecution of manipulators. Freight Congestion Co.. nues. The grocers efficiency bureau will meet tonight to evolve a system of discounts for cash which will lower prices somewhat, they say. The freight congestion situation showed little change over night. President Griffin of the board of trade was still in communication with the interstate commerce commission, appealing for relief. He urged that thousands of bushels of corn held in and near Chicago will become perish able property as the warm season ap proaches. City Buys More Food. New York, Feb. 27. The mayor's food supply committee which includes a number wealthy citizens has con tracted for large quantities of food on its own responsibility. Its latest purchase is several hundred thousand pounds of Brazilian brown beans, which will be sold at a much lower price than is now being paid for beans of ordinary varieties. Ten tons of Columbia river smelts, purchased in Tacoma. last week, will arrive on Thursday, it is expected and will be placed on sale under the same plan. Prices of some foodstuffs, today showed reductions from the figures of last week. This is attributed to a relaxation of the railroad congestion and to the arrival of heavy shipments. Large quantities of rice have been received from the south and it is said that more than 100 carloads of po tatoes have reached New York in the last five days. Food riots on the east side called out the police reserves last night and nrtii-n agitation against nrirps shows no signs of cessation. BLAME ENGINEER FOR R. R. WRECK KILLING SCORE Heavy Coal Train Plunges Thru Steel Pullmans. All. Occupants of Sleeper Killed Bodies Mangled. PASSED SIGNAL IN A FOG Passenger Train Standing on Track at Mount Union, Pa. Former Football Star's Entire Family Meets Death. Altoona, Pa., Feb. 27. At least twenty persons were killed when the east bound Mercantile express on the Pennsylvania railroad was run into shortly after midnight by a fast pref erence freight train at the little moun tain town of Mount Union, forty-three miles east of here. Several others were injured. Those most seriously hurt were taken to the Blair memorial hospital at Huntington, twelve miles west of Mount Union. The express train stopped to dis charge passengers at Mount Union and members of the crew were testing the air brakes when without warning, the heavy freight crashed into the passenger train from the rear. A dense fog prevailed. Alongside of the express train at the station was an accommodation train carrying workmen from the Mount Union Powder plant and this train had barely moved away from the station when the crash occurred. There were three sleepers attached to the Mercantile express, all of steel construction. As the freight engine plowed into the passenger train, the rear coach of the latter telescoped the second passenger coach which was snlit asunder by the impact. ine frieight engine was literally welded to the passenger car. None of the passenger coaches left the track but six of the freight cars, coal ladtn, were hurled down a forty foot embankment. Relief trains from Altoona and Huntington, bearing physicians, were hurried to the scene. An examination of the wreck showed that the Bellewood, the third sleeper, had split apart and that the car ahead was forced clear thru it, while the third car from the rear of the train had plowed into the second car. Tele scoping of the car was of such force and character that all those within the Bellewood were made prisoners. The train crew and the uninjured passengers were unable to reach them to give aid to any that might have escaped death. Following is a list of the identified dead: CHESTER A. MINDS, 25 years old, Ramey, Pa. MRS. DORIS MINDS, 28, his wife. CHESTER A. MINDS, JR., their infant son. two weeks old. MISS MAUD MINDS, 2 8, Conifer, N. Y., sister of Mr. Minds. M. A. CASLISCH. Conifer, N. Y a brother-in-law of Mr. Minds. MRS. A. SEGUR DELLING, Cleve land, O., Mrs. Minds's sister. RICHARD OWEN. 7. DOROTHY OWEN. 6. JEAN OWEN, 4, nephew and nieces of Mrs. Minds. CHARLES LEVINE, 35, New York. P. B. POLLARD, 56. New Y-rk. MILTON HYMES. 474 West 158th street. New York. N. BRIGHT, negro porter. J. S. KELLY. Brooklyn. H. A. ROFFLER, Prattsville, Wis. L. W. MONTGOMERY, Blooming ton. 111. C. M. MEDSKI, NevJ York. P. R. FANNING, Prattville. Wis. Body supposed to be that of Mrs. Fanning because of a letter congratu lating her on her marriage. On this body was a Bible bearing the name Miss Ellen P. Hayt. Denver. Blame Engineer. All of those killed were In the car Bellewood. An official of the Pennsylvania rail road here early today said the list of dead might exceed twenty, as fourteen bodies had been recovered and at least six were known to be dead in the wreck. Early today railroad officials were inclined to place the blame for the wreck on the engineer of the freight, A. T. Cook of Harrisburg, whose leg was crushed. It was his duty, said an official to get off his engine, walk ahead and look at a signal in case of fog. rather than run past it. Minds Family on Way to Funeral. Philadelphia, Feb. 27. Information from Pennsylvania railroad" sources shows that twenty persons were killed in the wreck. It has been learned that in addition to those already ac counted for, two small children were killed. As no tickets were required for them, they were overlooked when the passengers were checked up by the train crew. The four children killed with Mr. and Mrs. Chester A. Minds comprised their three weeks old infant and a nephew and two nieces, Richard Owen, 7, Dorothy Owen, 6. and Jean Owen, 4. Minds, who was a coal operator and former member of the football team of the University of Pennsylvania, was taking his family to Utica, N. Y., to attend the funeral, of Mrs. Minds's father. All of the dead were occu pants of the sleeping car Bellewood. A. T. Cook of Harrisburg, engineer of the freight train, was the only one of the freight crew injured. His en gine and six cars were wrecked and derailed, several of the cars going over an embankment into the street. A FUNSTON PENSION Senate Passes BiU to Grant Mrs. Fun ston SlOO a Month. Washington, Feb. 27. A bill grant ing a pension of $100 a month to the widow of the late Maj. Gen. Frederick Funston was passed today by tad 1 senate. FIGHT OjfSTAMPS In Senate Debate, Green Stamp Trouble Is Aired Today. A Bill Urged hy Retailers of Kansas Under Debate. CHARGES OF "BROWBEATING"! Rawlins Member Says a Little Ford Is on His Trail. Schoch of Shawnee Declares Premium Business Is Bad. Proposed child labor and public dm o in w uiKe a. i i i iv bci luuajr. The senate is passing upon the fate of the little green trading stamp, the rug, the spoon, the mission clock, the cut glass dish, the rocking chair cou pon all forms of tickets, tags, stamps, checks or coupons purporting to give the ultimate consumer something for nothing. The senate is considering the bill introduced by Senator Paulen of Wilson the bill placing a high tax upon concerns using such methods to attract and hold business. As introduced the bill does not pro hibit the giving of stamps and cou pons. But it does provide that each concern using them to attract and hold customers shall obtain a license from the county clerk of the county in which the business is located. It is the size of the annual license fee that has taken away the breath of the stamp and coupon people. For instance in Kansas counties under the bill, each concern using stamps or coupons would be required to pay an annual license of $6,000. Here's the schedule: In counties of 30.000 population or less $4,000 a year, in counties of 30.000 to 50,000. $5,000 a year, in counties of 50,000 t 7b, 000. $6,000 a year and in counties having 70,000 or more people, $7,000 a year. Violations of the provisions of the act are penalized by a fine of $500 up and a jail sentence of not less than 60 days. Amendment Starts Trouble. Senator Sutton cf Stafford started the argument by offering an amend ment, which friends of the measure said went to the very heart of the bill. His amendment provided that the act should not apply to tickets. tags or coupons attached to articles of merchandise by the wholesaler or manufacturer. It was intended to cover a multitude of things, running all the way from starch and soap to toDacco. "The amendment offered by the senator from Stafford," said Senator Snyder, of Leavenworth, "practically kills this measure." Senator Doerr of Pawnee affixed his word of approval to that state ment, and added: "And it was pre pared by a wholesaler in Salina." The debate grew hat and cold by turns. It ran from vivid pictures of what was termed the "stamp evil" in a Kansas town. To a protest that an "insidious lobby" was "attempting to browbeat" members of the senate. "The amendment proposed," de clared Senator Paulen, author of the mil. "will make the bill inoperative. There are only three wholesale houses in the state in favor of that amend ment, whereas there are eighteen against it. Eighteen want no tamps and no coupons. They want this bill. fc.verynne in this body knows right now how he wants to vote and a vote upon this amendment is a vote v.pon the bill. Let's vote." Lobby Was There. But the senate wasn't ready to vote. It wanted to talk. It wanted to ex pose to the crowded lobby all it did and did not know about the stamp and coupon business. Senator McClain of Allen, took the position that the amendment offered did not kill the bill; that there is a wide difference between the stamp or premium given by the retailer and the coupon or premium given by the wholesaler or manufacturer. "One is the advertisement of the man who makes the goods and the other is the advertisemen of the man who sells them. The premium given by the reta:ier represents an addition al cost to him and to the goods sold." Money to Big Firms. Senator Doerr of Pawnee, a retail dealer, declared the stamp and coupon business had driven from the state the small manufacturers who were un able to give premiums and compete with the big manufacturers outside of the state. "The result is," he said, "that our money, millions of it. goes to the big manufacturers and wholesalers thous ands of miles away while cities in Kansas go undeveloped." Senator Getty of Wyandotte urged the Sutton amendment, contending all the time that he, too, was opposed to the green trading stamp. "I care nothing about the green trading stamp because I realize that it is a tax placed upon every article the merchant sells, a tax upon his busi ness," said he. "There is a difference between the stamp business and the coupon business. The coupons are redeemable by the manufacturer, re deemable from his profits. Without this amendment you. shut out such concerns as the Proctor Gamble Soap company of my city but there is no way in the world for you to shut out the Larkin soap company. And this company floods the state and will conti .ue to flood the stat with goods because of the premiums it gives. If you pass this bill without the amend ment it will be disastrous to business. Under the stamp proposition the re tailer gives the premium but under the coupon business he oes not and I do not Relieve the purchaser pays a cent mor: for the product he buys." "Insidious Lobby," Says Schoch. Senator Schoch of Shawnee and Senator Getty are frequently together. They have worked in double harness on numerous occasions, but today they were in single harness, each headed a different direction. Senator Schoch favors the Paulen bill and in so stat ing brought forth all the ridicule of which the ready tongue of the Senator from Wyandotte is capable. v- "I have gone out of my way to get at the facts about this matter." said Senator Schoch, "I have talked for hours with people on both sides of the proposition. I have come to the con clusion that the green trading stamp business is bad and that we should pass this bill without amendment. "The coupon system of advertising is a bad thing, the man using it gets his advertising for nothing and the consumer pays for his premium on top of that. The thing I object to moot is the insidious lobby that has been and is being maintained here in the interest of the trading stamps. I asked one of the lobbyists if it was true the president of the green trading stamp concern receives a salary of $65,000 a year. He said, 'No, only $50,000.' We all know where that money comes from; we know who pays it. 1 believe this lobby is attempt ing to perpetrate a trick by offering this amendment. "I asked W.H. Davis, wholesaler. of the Davis Mercantile company about the matter. He told me the bill should pass; that it is good legis lation and should be enacted. I have enough confidence in Mr. Davis to vote on his judgment if 1 should leave it to any one individual." Senator Paulen offered the state ment that it is unreasonable to sup pose that the purchaser can get the same goods with a coupon at the same price he can get it without the coupon. The senator from Wyandotte waves his hands and shouts, 'Save your cou pons and get a tin spoon," said Pau len. "Better buy eoap some place else and save your clothes." Senator Getty secured the floor again and declared the whole trading stamp trouble grew out of a tight be tween two Topeka merchants and that now the whole state was asked to pay the bill. The fight started in Emnoria and evely part of Kansas, scores of retailers starting it. Senator Snyder of Leavenworth told how the stamp dealers work; how they interested one merchant to the extent that he adopted the stamp system, how his competitor across the street felt himself slipping and put in another kind of stamp, how "the dis ease spread until eventually the whole town was giving and receiving stamps with everybody working for the stamp concerns." "What good does all this do the consumer?" he demanded, "It helps nobody except the concern putting out the stamps and they are making mil lions out of it. That's the reason the wholesalers want to get away from it. And they're right." Senator Malone of Rawlins who has not been out in his northwest district since the session started picked up a sheaf of telegrams from his desk and from them traced a representative of the stamp industry thru one county after another. "These stamp people know I am op posed to anything that purports to give something for nothing," he said, "and .they have been using browbeat ing tactics. They have sent a man out into my district in a- Ford, I judge, from the rapidity with which 1 have received telegrams to beat up sentiment against this bill. By the time I answer the telegram of a mer chant in one town. I receive one from the merchant in the next town. As the Ford progresses so I receive tele grams. Such tactics will not go with me. No such browbeating methods are going to change my vote one way or the other. I am opposed to stamps, coupons, checks and all other similar devices. If the merchant real ly wants to benefit his customers let him give a discount in the form of real money." The members of the legislature have been wired, written and person ally urged to pass the pending bill and pass it without amendment, for the bill as now recommended for passage by both houses is a dupli cate of the Washington act and has stood the test of the supreme court of the United States. The efforts of the opponents of the bill are to amend it thereby possibly making it unconstitutional. The friends of the measure, includ ing the majority of the retail mer chants in Topeka and the various cities of Kansas want no amendment. The bill is fathered by the retail dealers and a half dozen ether organ izations of Kansas with headquarters at Emporia and other cities. At 3 o'clock this afternoon a motion was made in the state senate to strike out the enacting clause of the anti green trading stamp bill. It was the first test vote since the fight began this morning. The mo tion lost 12 to 20 indicating a favor able opinion toward the ultimate pas sage of the measure. A few minutes later Sutton of Staf ford demanded a vote on his amend ment which' excluded coupons. ta?s. etc., attached to goods by wholesalers and manufacturers. This amendment carried by a vote of 18 to 17. A Slap at Crosby Bros. Doerr of Pawnee, read a letter to the senate early this afternoon alleged to have been written to him by the Crosby Brothers company of Topeka, in which it was' stated that the To peka customers of that store received $20,000 in merchandise thru green trading stamps last year. "If this is true." said Doerr, "this store has been robbing the consumers in this city because this is the amount over and above legitimate profit. If these figures are correct t'. is store is a slave of the green trading stamp and is too cowardly to get away from it." Representative Doerr is, of course very unjust to the Crosby Bros, com pany, than which there is no more honorable or upright concern in the state of Kansas. We eay this differ ing from Crosby Brothers company on j the premium stamp giving, but they f have adopted the method and be lieve in it. Their integrity is abso lutely unquestioned. Editor State 'journal. ROOSEVELT IS SILENT He Refuses to Comment on Wilson's Sieech Before Congress. Oyster Bay, N. T.. Feb. 27. Col. Theodore Roosevelt declined to com ment todoy on President Wilson's speech before congress, thus adhering !to his intention expressed at the time i of the diplomatic breach with Ger many to maintain silence until a defi nite situation had been reached in the relations between the two nations. LACONIA CASE PLAIN OVERT ACT SAYSJPRESIDENT "o Further Investigation Con sidered .Necessary by Him. Adds Weight to Wilson Quest for Power to Act. MAY LIMIT EXECUTIVE QUEST Congress for Arming Ships and an Appropriation. But Question Propriety of "Un limited Power." Washington, Feb. 27. The sinking: of the Laconia with the loss of Amer ican lives is looked upon by the Amer ican government as a clear cut viola tion of the American rights, according to an authoritative expression of opin ion obtained after a conference be tween President Wilson and Secretary Lansing. No further investigation is consid ered necessary. Cost Lives of 10 Americans. Washington, Feb. 27. While de tails of the deaths of ten Americans in the unwarned destruction of the Laconia began coming in today, the opposition in congress to giving Pres ident Wilson the broad authority to deal with the submarine menace began taking definite form and showed considerable strength. At the White House, it was made known authoritatively that the de struction of the Laconia was a clear cut and ruthless violation of Ameri can rights and life, a demonstration of what might be expected in the fu ture, of sufficient force to hurry con gress into clothing the president with full authority to meet the peril. Nevertheless, the house foreign af fairs committee after debating the Flood bill, which has the backing of the president, decided that the broad powers to be conferred by the use of the phrase "other instrumentalities" should be modified and that the pres ident should be limited to "using the naval forces of the United States in cluding the naval militia." Iemocrats Join Opposition. In the senate foreign relations com mittee Republicans voted solidly against giving the president blanket authority, and it was reported they drew support from three Democrats, Senators Stone, Hitchcock and O'Qor- man. No formal action was taken in either committee. Chairman Flood of the house committee took to the White House proposed amendments, including one to prohibit arming, of ships carrying munitions or contra band and the other to limit the presi dent's authority. Administration officials considered the attitude of congress in the fact of the Laconia case, of sufficient im portance to discuss sending an official report on the killing of the Ameri cans to congress in some official way. There are only five days remaining for this present -congress to give the president the powers he asked yester day when he told a joint session that this nation has found it necessary to take drastic measures to protect American lives and American prop erty against the depredations of a ruthless, internationally illegal sub marine sea warfare. Many congress heads, including even those who do not agree alto gether with the president in- his course, pointed to the fact that "Wil son had opposition before and he has always got what he asked." i Some Opposition Apparent. Congress generally plainly showed early today it does not like the presi dent's request for "other instrumen talities" than guns for American craft, gunners and money mainly for insur ance, wherewith to meet international possibilities. That the house foreign affairs com mittee would report today seemed very likely. At the same time, the rules committee was r?ady to report out a rule to smooth the way and shorten the time to the minimum re quired for considering the bill. To Redraft Whole Bill. Later the senate, committee an nounced the decision to re-draft the whole bill to make it more explicit. The right to arm ships, it was said would take the form of authorizing owners of all American ships to arm and defend them and authorizing the government to supply guns and gun ners for this purpose. BE COLDER TONIGHT No Rain In Sight for Kansas, Meteor, olugist Announces. Hourly temperature readings for day, reported by the local office of the United States weather bureau: 7 o'clock .22 8 o'clock ....22 9 o'clock 24 10 o'clock .26 1 1 o'clock SI 12 o'clock I 1 o'clock ....36 2 o'clock M 'I'he wind was still from the north- ef st at two o'clock this afternoon and was blowing with a velocity of 12 miles an hour. The average tempera ture for the day is 6 degrees below ucrmal. Thirty-eight days without notice able precipitation is now the dry weather recorjl for Topeka. It is th longest dry weather spell in the laat thirty years, since the local weather bureau was established.. Cloudy and colder tonight and to morrow is the forecast given by Mr. Flora this morning. There will be no rain, however. Rain is scheduled for Oklahoma. Texas and Arkansas, but xs usual Kansas will get nothing but t clouds. The mercury will not go above 40 this afternoon. The shippers' forecast reads to pro tect 36-hourshipments against 2 ICoDtioueU ob Tasa Two.i

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THE TOPFT". DAILY STATE JOURNAL -TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1917 LONG. HARD GRIND s. The Senate Worked Until 11 O'clock Monday Sight. o Hot Air Permitted by Getty, Who Presided. MANY BILLS DISPOSED OF Committee Oil Tax Measure Is Tassed Without Delay. Agricultural Department Grant ed a ew Assistant. The biggest day's work of the ses sion was transacted by the senate Monday after the Ftate oil inspection bill had been disposed of. From 2 o'clock until 11 o'clock at night that Uody acted upon more bills than any tnr day since the session began. V, ,tli Senator Getty, of Wyandotte, In the chair no tim was lost on the floor. He refused to stand for a;m Itcs meandering argument and after a time Kenntors quit trying- They sim ply voted. Just before the senate went into committee of the whole it passed 'in pit taxation bill introduced by the committee on oil and sas. At the be ginning of the session two such bills were introduced, one by Senator MoiK te, of Crawford, placing a straight tax of 3 cents per barrel on crude oil. and one by Senator Wark, of Mont gomery county, declaring oil leases and wells personal property. Roth bills went to the oil and gas committee. f which Senator Wark s chairman, and a committee bill i3 brought mt following very closely the lines of the Wark bill. That is the measure passed by the senate Mon day. It provides that for the purpose of valuation and taxation all oil an J gas leases and wells. producing or capable of producing in paying quan tities, atl casing and other equipment hiill bp assessed as personal property. The county assessor is given authority to lake the production, possible pro duction, age of the field, quality of the product and various other mutters into consideration in rixing She valuation. The bill was passed by the senate with very little opposi tion. Once in the committee of the whole with Getty in the chair the senate did not hesitate, except for KUpper. until 1 1 o'clock last night. The Garage Kill. One measure taken up was the bill introduced by Senator Kimball, of .Jabette. giving a garage owner a Hen on any car stored with him. for which he furnished supplies or upon which he made repairs. He had a lien if the owner of the car failed to pay his bill. The bill was recommended for passage but it yas not the same creature Senator Kimball had cod died along thru committee and on the calendar. In the beginning it was imed at the car owner. In the end, with the assistance of an amendment offered by Senator Sutton, of Staf ford, it was aimed at the garage own er. Sutton offered an amendment rhaking garage men responsible under penalty of a heavy fine and jail sen tence for every car stored with them. Then the senate proceeded to put to death the bill of Senator I'omeroy, of Jacl: Jon, exempting rural credit association stock from taxation. Sen ator I'omeroy made a hard fight for his measure, telling of the great value of rural credit to tenant farmers. But Senator Snyder, of Leavenworth, and Senator Delaney of, Doniphan, sound- I ed Its death knell when they pointed out that two weeks ago a bill was Figned by the governor making all "building and loan," and "savings and loan associations" rural credit asso ciations. That, with Fomeroy's bill following, would ?:-?mpt the stock of all building and loan associations from taxation. And the two banker sena tors held that just before the first of March every vear there would be a grand rush by depositors in banks to get their money outj and invest it in rural credit stock in order to es cape taxation. The Pomeroy bill was, K m. -t member would be named by the sen- A Big Slaughter. j atPt one by tne house and one by the Halt a dozen taxation bills for j governor. The resolution limits the which Senator Kerrell of Chautauqua, j expense for the investigation to $1,000. chairman of the taxation committee, stood sponsor were on the calendar! A bill repealing all poll tax laws under the head of special order, j of the state, brought out by the corn While the senate was in the blood- mlttee on assessment and taxation, thirsty mood it fell upon this special j has been killed in the senate on final order anil the slaughter was great. roll call. Onn nf t liom rm t i n cr tVi nffiA nf i county assessor and fixing a four-year term in all counties was killed. Still another prohibiting the county I commissioners from compromising Then the senate fell upon Senator1 Ferrell's resolution calling for the creatinB of a commission to revise all in tne HHnKmein aim taxation laws 01 uir mate anu put u to ueain. j tiastside, police reserves were called One taxation bill, extendinpr the out to disperse the several hundred time in which county commissioners i women w ho attacked a vegetable may correct errors in taxation matters wagon and started to dump barre's until February, was passed. Also a j of potatoes and onions into the street, bill repealing the law requiring theTe women were resisted by the owner county clerk to send out detailed tax i who drew a revolver and threatened notices. t to shoot. He was arrested and was In 'spite of a vieorous fight con- followed to the police station by a ducted by Senator Malone, of Rawlins, menacing crowd of women. The Quinine That Does Not Cause Nervousness or Ringing in Head Because of its Tonic and Laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININK can be taken by anyone without causing nervousness or ringing in the head. It removes the cause of Colds, Grip ana Headache. Used whenever Quinine is needed. but remember- there is Only One romo m That is the Original Laxative ijromo Quinine This Signature on Every Box and Senator Laing, of Russell, who i live where there are cattle, the sen- I ators from the eastern part of the' state, forced through the committee of the whole a bill making it im possible for a man to drive his own cattle across a county line without having them inspected by the sheriff. Malone was able later to prevent the senate from concurring in that fea ture of the committee report and he may yet kill the measure. liaise City IcvU-s. The committee also recommended for passage a bill raising the possible levy in cities of the second class to 3 mills for the general revenue fund to 7H mills. The bill by Senator Carroll of Wa baunsee, appropriating $89,762 for the purpose of duplicating federal funds for co-operative extension work in agriculture and home economics was recommended for passage. Ten thousand dollars was appro priated to the state insurance depart ment to be used in investigating fire insurance rates in Kansas. The bill by Senator Montee of Crawford creating a board of mining examiners to pass upon the qualifica tions of miners handling explosives, was recommended for passage, also a bill by Montee regulating the use of explosives and safety appliances in mines. A bill was recommended for pas sage giving the state agricultural de partment one new -assistant at $2,000 a year and two new stenographers at $1,00 0 a year each. Other bills recommended for passage during the late afternoon and evening are as fol lows: Substitute for senate bill No. 279, by committee on federal and state af fairs, providing for cities to work prisoners on roads or public work, to pay off fines at the rate of $1 a day. Senate bill Xo. 643, by Senator -Price, regulating surety companies. Senate bill No. 577, by Senator Hil- key, provides that secretary of state hereafter be responsible for engross ing and enrolling bills and resolutions of the legislature. Senate bill No. 513. by Senator An derson, makes it a felony to remove journal brass from locomotive or cars. Protect JJrtdge Workers. Senate bill No. 686, .by judiciary committee, authorizes boards of coun ty commissioners and cities to guar antee ta protect persons and com panies constructing bridges and cul verts, from liability to holders of patents. Senate bill No. 529, by Senator Nix on regulates notices by county clerk before elections. Senate bill No. 512, by Senator Iaing, authorizes counties between 10,000 and 65,000 to levy tax for county jail and sheriff's residence. Senate oill No. 4 60, by Senator Ma lone. enables heirs to prove right to estate without delay. Senate bill No. 286, by Senator Schoch, requires stated times for pay ment of wages. Senate bill No. 641, by Senator De laney, authorizing cities of the second class and third class to build public buildings including auditorium and library combined. Senate bill No. 588, regulating pe titions for pavement and sewers in cities. Senate bill No. 668, by Senator Doerr, originally proposed to allow election of school superintendents for tw-year terms, but amended so as to authorize this to one year. Senate bill No. 570. by Senator Doerr, provides procedure for exten sion of limits of second and third class cities. Senate bill No. 656, by Senator An derson, authorizes cities of the second class with more than 10.000 popula tion to open and widen streets as is done by cities of the first class. Senate bill No. 583. by Senator Wil son, authorizing cities of the third class to levy taxes for a light fund, was ordered stricken from the cal endar. Senate bill No. 104. by Senator oviiuun, proviamg ior increased pay for county clerks who also are ex officio county assessors was killed. INSURANCE PROBE Senate Resolution provides $1,000 To Investigate Kansas Fire Companies. Senator Kimball of Labette has of fered a resolution in the state senate callong for the appointment of a com'mittee of three to make an in vestigation into the matter of "state fire inRiirnncp" j.nt rann .1 legislature. Under the resolution one N.Y.RIOT CONTINUES vegetable .Man Draws Revolver When Hiinsrry Women. Attack Him. New York. Feb. 27. Food rioting tiroKe out again here today on the 99 oumine m UmmH thm World Owmm tm BACK UP PRESIDENT Taft anrt Other Prominent Men Offset Campaign by Pacifists. New York, Feb. 27. The pacifists of the nation have heen making them selves heard out of proportion to their numbers therefore, it behooves the vast majority of Americans who fa vor a vigorous policy, but who have heretofore kept silent because of fear of embarrassing the president, strong ly to make their views known at present. Such an explanation was vouch safed today by a group of nearly half a hundred prominent men for an appeal issued thruout the country Among the signers were Former President Taft, Joseph H. Choate, Elihu Root, James R. Garfield. Henry L. Stimson, Alton H. Parker, W Uliani Jay Schieffelin, John B. Stanchfield and Julius Sachs. "The call" urges that the need or the hour is to take effectual measures to safeguard our citizens and our shipping, rather than to wait for Americans to be murdered and then go to war to punish the offender." SEA DISASTER Coju-nudf romnge One. t The passengers had previously been instructed in boat drill and -got into the boats without panic. Er. Hawke said that all behaved well and that discipline was truly good. He con tinued: "The submarine returned after we were m the boats and fired another tnmorir. This nut out the lights and was followed by a terrific explosion. The ship must nave cum. The second torpedo mind you was fired altho the lifeboats were close to the vessel and the crew of the sub marine could not have failed to see us. as it was moonlight. It was about 9:30 p. m. on Sunday when we took to the boats and about 3 o'clock on the following morning when we were picked up." Dr. Hawke gave the highest praise to the behavior of the women and children and said that the captain and crew were marvelous. It appears that two boats reached Bantry with 22 people, eight of the occupants having died from exposure. Among those saved, was the singer. Miss Mitsie Siklosi of Paris. The bodies of the eight persons who died were consigned to the deep. Among the Iaconia's firemen were six teen American negroes. Refused to Help Victims. London, Feb. 27. After the La conia's survivors had taken to the boats, 'the German submarine which apparently sank the Cunarder ap proached one lifeboat, inquired cap tain and asked the nature of the cargo. Receiving information in tre ply to these queries from the second officer of the laconia, the German offi cer remarked that a British admiralty boat would reach the survivors short ly and then departed without offering assistance. American Consul Frost at Queens- town reported the incidents to A m- bassador Page today. Confirms "Without Warning. London, Feb. 27. American Con sul Frost at Queenstown officially re ported to the American embassy to day that the Laconia was sink with out warning and by explosion of two torpedaes. The second torpedo was fired twen ty minutes after the first had struck. In this interval of twenty minutes the first thirteen lifeboats were launched from the Laconia. The weather was cloudy and there was a heavy swell on the ocean. Women Died of Exposure. London. Feb. 27. Mrs. Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy, two American women on the Laconia, perished in an open lifebotit after leaving that sinking vessel. Their deaths were due to exposure. They were both buried in the open sea. American Consul Frost forwarded this word to the American embassy here today. Consul Frost reported that the La conia sank in one hour after the tor pedoing. Another report says Mrs. Hoy and daughter were believed to have been thrown into the sea when a lifeboat capsized. Consul Frost's report in dicates they were picked up from the water and died from exposure to cold, clad only in wet clothing. Theatrical Manager a Victim. Queenstown. Feb. 27. Cedric P. I vat, a theatrical manager, who was a passenger on the Laconia. died of exposure. Mr. Ivat was a resident of London. V. S. Army Officer's Wife Heroine. Queenstown, Feb. 27. After being landed here rather Wareing and Mr. Gibbons said the voyage was a very pleasant one up to the time of its fatal termination. It was at about 9:30 o'clock Sunday night, they said, when they were startled by the explosion of the first torpedo which struck the ship on the starboard eide of the stem. The vessel kept steady and the crew with magnificent discipline, got out the boats and provided the passengers with life belts. All hands took to the boast, the passengers first. It was very shortly afterwards that the second torpedo was fired striking the Laconia amidships. The vessel then quickly settled down, sinking in about 12 minutes. The wireless on the iaconia sent out a call for help and rescuing steamers were soon on the way to the scene. After about six hours, the boats were picked up. In addition to the survivors brought to queenstown, rirteen were landed at .tsantry. Last Woman to Leave Ship. Everything possible was done to re lieve the suffering of the American women, but the shock and the hard ships of exposure to the cold proved fatal to Mrs. Hoy and her daughter. Mrs. F. E. Harris, wife of an Ameri can army officer, was cheered loudly by the other survivors on landing. She was the last woman to leave the ship, getting into the captain's boat and dis played so much bravery that she was accorded the honor of being the first to land. Those who were injured afre receiving every attention, also the other survivors. The agents of the steamship company are being assisted by naval and military nurses. Doctor Hoy Stricken. London, Feb. 27. Dr. Albert Harris Hoy. who lost his wife and daughter In the Laconia sinking, was stricken down with grief over his loss as he talked over the telephone to the United Press office today. He was removed to his room and put under physicians care. Check Vp the Missing. New York, Feb. 27. Six Americans of the twenty Americans listed in the crew of the Laconia lost their lives when the big Cunarder was sunk Sunday, according to the best figures available today. The Cunard line list named twenty American seamen and trimmer signed when the ship left this port 8nd the company said one or two others may have been signed. Con sul Frost names fifteen American sea men saved. A checkup of the Cunard list :f Americana signed and the Frost list of survivors gives the following as missing: H. Shepherd, foreman. New Tork; Tj. Donneli, trimmer. New Tork; A. Dwyer, trimmer, New York: P. Cleve land, trimmer, Brooklyn: F. Coffey, trimmer, Brooklyn: William Hughes, sailor. Astoria, N. Y. May Have Been I". S. Citizen. Racine. Feb. 27. Representatives of local manufacturing establishments for whom Cedric B. I vans, a victim of the Laconia disaster, acted as for eign representative asserted today that Ivatts, altho born in Kngland, was a citizen of the United States havin-f taken out his citizenship papers. Washington. Feb. 27. A supple mental dispatch from Consul Frost received at noon said: "Ivatts was a British subject. Sur vivors from boat No. 8 from which Mrs. Mary Hoy and daughter were buried include Father Dur.ston Sar subjects landed at Bantry." subjects landed at Bantry. WEKE PROMINENT CHICAGOANS. Mrs. Hoy and Daughter, Lacrmta V tims, on Way Rejoin Family. Chicago, Feb. 27. Mrs. Albert H. Hoy, wife of Ir. Albert H. Hoy, of London and daughter, Elizabeth, who are reported to have been drowned when the Cunarder Laconia was tor- pedoed, were prominent in Chicago scciety; They first moved to Chicago from Racine, Wis., about 17 y xrs ago. They lived here twelve years before going abroad. They still maintained their social connections here and vis ited friends and relatives frequently. Dr. Hoy and his son, Austin, are in London and Mrs Hoy and her daughter were on their way to rejoin them after spending several months here. They were guests at the Con gress hotel and were entertained at Christmas time at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Blossom of Hub L d Woods. When they left Chicago they in formed friends that they intended to SI.-1 on an American liner and much surprise was evidence when it was learned that they had been on the ill-fated Laconia. Austin Hoy, a son, is London rep resentative of the Sullivan Machinery company. The elder Hoy is about 70 years old. Miss Elizabeth Hoy. believed to have drowned, was 25 vears old. Dr. Hoy is a practicing physician hprp. desoite his advanced age. He was formerly a resident of Chicago. Talking to a reporter over tne tele phone, he said: "'I am an old man eighty-four years of age and it is a terrible blow to know my own dear wue ana my daughter have gone At this juncture ur. tioy s voice broke and there was silence. Efforts to obtain further answer from the telephone were futile. Subsequently one of the servants in the Hoy home said Dr. Hoy had been overcome and removed to his bed, ill. CAPPER'S BUDGET (Continued from page one) was preparing1 to change to his orig inal vote in the negative. But there was seemingly no desire to take chances. Piper was not recognized. For those fleeting; seconds the ad ministration held in its hands the necessary votes and there was seem ingly no desire to let slip the chance to put thru one resolution for a con stitutional change. Action on the budgret resolution completed a double back somersault by the house. The executive budget had been urged by Governor Capper in his campaign, in his inaugural ad dress and in his message to the legis lature. A few days later Stone, of Shawnee, offered a resolution inviting the governor to submit an appropria tion budget. The resolution was adopted. Then came a message from the gov ernor. He was. glad to comply. But the resolution didn't affect both the house and senate and wasn't binding. So Stone amended his resolution to meet all of the governor's wishes. In the meantime a reconsideration was moved. Governor Capper's supporters and-ardent house members seeking appointment at the close of the ses sion, received word that the Stone resolution should be beaten. They were told that Stone was merely play ing politics. So the house backed up. It went on record emphatically against the bud get plan, laid the Stone resolution on the table and declared it was through with the measure for the session. An Empty Victory. in tne house committee of th.e wnoie mis week the Mack resolution for an executive budget was amended until it was a budget system in name only. It was repaired to read that the governor should appear before the legislature and submit a budget which Liiw legiamiure mignt approve, or mignt increase or reduce anv item in the bill. The same system is in effect at this time. Through messages the governor may send such recommenda tions to the legislature as he desires. Under the resolution, the budget is a name only. But the house leaders de sired to offer it to the public in spite of the pure food and drug laws. The resolution is now up to tie sen ate. If the upper house can rally a two-thirds vote to its support, if will go before the voters for ratification in the 191 8 election. McDougall's proposed amendment providing for a three-fourths jury ver- aict, nmsnea nauiy after receiving a strong start. The Sumner county man rallied sixty-eight votes to his meas ure sixteen short of a constitutional two-thirds while forty-four members voted against the measure. Mack's resolution to increase the pay of legislators also went under for a third and last time. On final roll call, the resolution collected fifty-five votes, while fifty-two voted in the negative. PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS Ask Your Doctor About Cs DRUGS AND TOILET GOODS The Modern Drue Store CUT-KATE 500 Wet 10th. Telephone 450. Free Delivery SPECIAL HIRTH LUNCH Expert Will Talk on Government Ownership of Kailroads at C. of C. A special noon luncheon will be held for the talk by William Hirth on "Government Ownership of Rail roads" at the Chamber of Commerce tomorrow noon. Hirth is widely known as an authority on transporta tion problems and his talk promises to be of great interest. All those ex pecting to attend the luncheon are asked to make their reservations by tomorrow morning at the latest, with J. Will Kelley, secretary of the Cham ber of Commerce. Hirth" is an ex-president of the Mis souri Federation of Commercial clubs and at present is editor of the Mis souri Farmer. SENATE TRIES AGAIN Kffort Made Today to Dispose of Con stitutional Amendments. The senate was prepare! to take another stab at proposed constitution al amendments at 2 o'clock this after noon. Several attempts have been made to establish a field day for th amendments and each time the cele bration has been a failure, due to some unforeseen contingency. Th2 rpfcrtlntlnnq were on ftnrinl order for 9 r'rlrflr fhia a ft prnnnn I Notice has been served by several senate leaders that they are opposed to devoting any time to the resolu tions already killed by the house. Here are the resolutions cn the sen ate calendar calling for action today. Resolution calling for home rule ior cities. Resolution calling for tax levy for the support of the state educational institutions. Resolution providing for submitting to the vote of the people any report adopted by a constitutional conven tion. Kesolution permitting more than three proposed constitutional amend ments to be submitted to the voters at one election. Resolution providing for executive budget system. Resolution providing official meth ods of education for voters upon pro posed constitutional amendments. Resolution to permit the state to engage in internal improvements. FARM HANDS STRIKE 25,000 in Porto Rico Quit Governor Tackles Food Problem. San Juan, Feb. 27. So serious is the question of the food supply in Porto Rico that Governor Yager, this week called together the sugar and other large planters of the island and urged them to devote a portion of their lands to the raising of beans and other vege tables and fruits for home consump tion. He made the appeal because, he i.,.n 1" "V7" o.,T food would be demoralized and a seri ous situation would result- Today, one week after the calling of the first agricultural strike of the sea son, there are 25,000 cane field em ployes out according to the police who report that five sugar centrals most of them in the eastern part of the island, are now closed. So far there have been no disorders, according to the police. The strikers are demanding $1 and an eight-hour day, the same de mand made last year. Last year they compromised after an increase had been granted them. CANT GET FREIGHT CARS Topeka Hour Mills Forced to Shut Down Temporarily. The Topeka Flour mills "are tem porarily closed down as a result of the embargo placed upon all freight east of Chicago by the Santa Ke last week. H. D. Yoder, secretary and treasurer of the company, said that it was impossible to get enough cars on any road out of Topeka to supply the demand in the east. The Union Pacific has not declared an embargo but it is able to furnish but few cars on account of the short age. The Rock Island has been, able to supply enough cars to take care of all orders from points on its lines, according to Mr. Yoder. He claims to have all the available storage rooms filled and no place to put more flour until the car shortage problem is solved. The mill employs sixty men. BE COLDER TONIGHT (Continued from pa jfe one) degrees in the north, west and east; and against 25 in the south. The cold wave which has covered Montana for the last two days is mov ing cist. The temperature in Min nesota Monday night was reported 20 below. The northeast wind will prob ably give Kansas a slight touch of this cold snap. The highest temperature on record for this date is 65 in 1896 and the lowest 1 below in 1890. The wind is blowing twenty miles an hour from the northeast. DAILY WEAT1IKK REPORT. Furnished by the weather bureau office, Topeka, Kan., for the twenty-four hour ending at 7 m. Tuesday. V Stations. nigu. fin;. enfr. Boston. Mass 48 .00. Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Buffalo, N. Y Calgary, Alb Chicago, 111 Cincinnati, O Concordia, Kan... Corpus Christi Denver. Colo Ies Moines, la Dodge City, Kan.. Duluth, Minn EI Paso, Tex Ft. Worth. Tex Galveston. Tex Havre, Mont Jacksonville, Fla.. Kansas City, Mo.. Little Rock, Ark.. Los Angeles, Cal.. New Orleans, La.. New York, N. Y N. Platte, Neb Oklahoma City Phoenix, Aris Pittsburg, Pa Portland. Ore St. Joseph, Mo. St. Louts, Mo St. Paul. Minn Sait Lake, Utah... San Francisco Sult Ste. Marie... Seattle. Wsh Sheridan, Wyo Spokane. Wssb.... Swift Current, Sas. Tampa, Fla Toledo, O TOPEKA. KAN... Washington, I. C. Wichita, Kan Winnipeg, Man 4S 20 44' 70 3 78 48 28 40 10 70 90 74 4 78 40 82 58 SO 54 38 7S 70 C4 4S 34 60 12 28 10 Hi :to 5 2 12 18 8 4 41 08 o 6 20 50 40 6S 4i 22 M 40 34 00 ai 2 24 44 4 34 4 2 0 HO 24 22 54 22 .00 0 T T 0 0 0 0 0 .01 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 T 0 0 0 .02 0 0 n .02 Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Fair Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Clear Foggy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Foggy Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Cloudy Fair Clondy Clear Cloudy Clear Fair Cloudy Clear Cloudy Fair Foggy Fair Fair ltaln Cloudy Faii 32 4 78 58 37 68 48 Piles Cured In to 14 Day. Druggist refund money If PAZO OINT MENT fails to cure Itching. Blind, Bleed ing or Protruding Piles. First application give relief. 50c. Adv. Garden tools at Forbes Hdw. Co. Adv. ITodaysAmusemewtsI IRIS Mrs. Vernon Castle in sec ond installment of the remark able movie-serial "Patria" and Robert Warwick and Doris Ken yon in "A Girl's Folly ORPHEUM First appearance of Mary Pickford in kilts in her Scotch feature-play. "The Pride of the Clan." NOVELTY Five acts of vaudeville and "Pearl of the Army." COZY Franklyn Farnum in "The Man Who Took a Chance." For Oetails. prlcem. etc see adver tineuients oa another page of the State Journal. CAUGHT IN THE ACT Sheriff Larimer Captures Man Who Broke Into Drug Store. Two drug store robbers were caught in the act about inidnight Monday night by Sheriff Hugh Larimer when they were breaking into the store of N., G. Edelblute, at BOB West street, and today "Swede" Anderson, one of them, is behind the bars while the apprehension of the other is expected at any minute Sheriff Larimer was passing by the drug store when he heard a noise at the rear of the building. JHe investi gated and feaw a man in the act of tearing a screen off the window. The man entered the store and. Larimer waited. When the man came out there was a companion with him and Larimer drew his gun and ordered both to throw up their hands. But, instead of doing so, they ran. Ander son waa caught but his companion es caped. Larimer fired four times and the fourth shot was too much for An derson's nerves. He stopped. It is believed the robbers were after drugs. Anderson, it is said, .now has a brother in the reformatory TODAY'S MARXETIePORTS Chicago Grain Markets Ontcafto. Feb. IT. The board of trude was closed today because of the primary elections. Kew York Sugar Market New York. Feb. 27. SUGAR Raw. nom inal: centrifugal. 5.02; molasses. 4.15: re fined, steady; fine granulated, 5.00 to 8.00. Kansas City Produce Market Kansas City, Feb. 27. BUTTER Market unchanged. POI'LTRY Market unchanged. EGGS Firsts 29o. Chlcaffo Produce Market. Chicago. Feb. 27. BUTTEIt Market un cnunjred. EGGS Market lower. Receipts 4 573 !'.?sel!;,, Firsts. :i2Vi$32V6c ordinary firsts. .tlfn.UUc; at mark, cases included, 30B j2Vic. POTATOES Market taiprtaer. Receipts 25 cars. Idaho. Oregon. Washington and Col orado. $2.S54i3.00: Wisconsin and Michi gan white, J2.75fa2.85. l'OILTRV-Alive firm: fowls, ISlic; springs, lSc. New York Produce Market New York. Feb. 27. BUTTER Market Unsettled. rrpuin.rv liirl, t. 40W41e. E(tGS Market weak. Fresh gathered extra firsts. 3fiUc CHEESE Market firm. State held spe cials. 2GV&C. POULTRY Dressed, dull. New York Stock Market. (Closing prices for the leading stocks on The New York Stock Exchange as re ported by Empire Commission Co., 301 New England BIdg.) I Am. Beet Sugar Anaconda Mining A., T. S. F., c Baltimore Ohio... Central Leather Chesaieake Ohio C, M. St. P., c It. I. P Chiuo Copper Col. Fuel oV Iron...... Great Northern, p... Inspiration Kenn Copper Miami Copper Missouri Pacific Penn. Railroad Heading, c Studebiiker Southern Pacific Union Pacific, c..., U. SSteel. c Utah Copper Western Union New York, Feb. 27. Close Today Yes 88"-i 7-- 102 V, so 102'i 87"vJi 58 2si4 55 1.'. 114 58 44-V, 38 30 54 9T.'X 1(11 Vt MV. i:is' 109 58 81 2714 55 44 39 ..29T4 54 in- .lOlf, 94. ....low 'llOlfc. J12 93 93T4 New York Stock Market Wall St.. New York Feb. 27. STOCKS The narrow scope and lower trend of to day's operations after a period of irreg ular strength, were again ascribed to the tension in the foreign situation. Sales were estimated at 4:i5.000 shares. Kails, steel and minor shares, central leather and motors were at lowest Quota tions in the last hour. The closing was heavy. Rallies fully offset early declines, especial ly in the metal group equipments and United States Steel, the latter being again freely taken by representative brokerage houses. Fresh irregularity developed he fore the end of the first hour on publica tion of additional details connected with the sinking of the Laconia and renewal of recent pressure against New Haven which H.nlarl nnlnt. i If Iipp mil mw nnlv occasionaify quoted and the entire list drifted idly with tne approaf-n or minoay. Foreign exchange was marked by another break In Lires to the low record of 7.49. Bonds were steady. Latest reports of the International situa tlan were plainly reflected in the lower prices and general uncertainty which at tended today's early trading. Recession of 1 to 2V& points were made by United States Steel, Utah Copper. Marine pre ferred. Atlantic Gulf and West Indies. In dustrial Alcohol and Cuba Cane Sugar with fractional declines In other active Is sues. Support was met on the decline and the market soon readjusted itself with com plete recovery In Steel and actual gains in other industries, notably Coppers and Texas Company. Kun City Live Stock Sale. (The following sales were mad this morn ing at the Stock Yard. Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Jonrnal by Clay Robin son Sl Co.. live stock commission mer chant. Kansas Citv. Feb. 27 CATTLE Re- 1 celpts 9.000 head. Market steady to strong. I HOGS Receipts 14,000 head. Market 10c I to 15c higher. Bulk of sales, $12.S5(ai3.1j: IOP. X-.C. SHEEP Receipts 6.000 head, steady. Lambs. $14.44. 1 KILLING STEERS. Market No. 18. 21.. 18.. 1.. 1.. 12.. Wt. Prlce.lNo. wt .1310 $11 00 68 1293 .1154 10.50 Prl.-e. $10.73 COWS AND HEIFER? RS3 7.75 !2 1021 6.05 alO 5.70 I 12 lift 8.23 .loyo fc.lio I 12 vqM 7.15 orv o. ta STOCKEKS AND FEEPKBS. 3 1D20 20 S44 10 r201 9.50 9.00 ...1120 9.73 705 1250 7.95 7.25 11.50 8.00 7.25 CALVES. 12.00 I 3.. 10.00 i 7.. 1 190 293 ISO 300 BULLS 7.00 3 1090 7.05 J .1100 MM HOGS. T7 223 13.10 I m 245 13.10 81 -r 107 12X0 76 199 12.85 R4 201 12.0 I10S 173 12.90 7 130 11.85 92 194 12.85 Chicago f.ive Stock Market Chicspo, Feb. 27. HtXiS Receipt 20, 000. Market strong. Bulk of sales, 1.1. 00 frtl.fO- light, S12.4O4J1-1.20; mixed, f 12.90 besvT. f 12.88$ 13.30; rough Sl&OBsi 12 95- pies. 10.UOi 11.75. CATTLE Keeeipts H.UOn. Market steady. Native beef cattle. $7.9012.13; tocker and feeder, $6.35 9.20: cons and heifers. t5.23( 10.25; calves 12.50. Mlhhr Kft-ei in ia.mn;. AinrKet wenK. Wethers, $10.85 12.10; lambs, $12.1014.50. Kansas City Lin Stork Market. Kansas City, Feb. 27. HOGS Kei-etDta 14.000. Market l.V to 25c lusher. Itiilk of I sales. 2.SOfu I I .20 heavv. Jl:!.05to 13.25 packers and butcher. $12 flfltft 13.20; light, t A I I L.K Keceinta H.tKKl .MiirRpr .t.nilv Prime feil steer. $11.25i 11.75 :i1respd beef; steers, uw'su.wi; western steers. .uiKi $5.rif!.50: heifers. $7.0011.00: storker j U ftTlMlAf W., t SHKEP lteeeint C.000. M:irket stesilv. 1 Lambs. ir7fel4.iO: yearlings. $l:l.(K,iai 1-.50; wethers. $11.50(312.30; .we. $10.75 12.0- stocker, and feeders. $7.00((j 14.40. Kansas Citv Stock Yard Feb. 57 Tnttlo finished last week with flourish and niwned stron? to 15c hlfrher fmlnv t,.i Sll but closed with less spirit, 'receipt 1-.00O. Hogs sold 10c to 15c higher tods v. on toD of fffKMl cruin l&st week ton l.in& eiirht or ten loads at the nrit-e. receipts l:: lino. Sheep sold firm, medium ewes. 1 1 Uil lomK. n.k t 8 1 1 no u u neau. BEKF CATTLE Six loads of prime Kansas cattle weigh- Ing 1415 U.S. brought S11.50. other gSort cattle at M0.80 and upwards and wme big weight rebraaka steers liuug fire sronud $11.50 at noon. Short fed steerr sell nt !l.75 to $10.50. butcher steers s.50 to $9.50, good pulp steer today, not extra finished. at lo.o to sio.w, nine load of them I weighing 1X00 lbs at $10.80. Cows anil heifers are in good deinnnd and prices hold firm, cows $fi..r,0 to $0.50, hcifi-rs $f to $11, bulls $.75 to $8.75, veals off 50 cents from a week ago, best $12.75. Receipts at all points show signs of shortage, and under normal conditions the market will hold up strong. STOCKEKS AND FEEBERS. Feeder buyers were outbid by packers on the fleshy steers last week and the best price for cattle to go to the country was $10.25. a good many sales around $10. thin feeders $S.50 to $9.50. stock steers $7.00 to $0.00. Prices arc firm today, the yards having been well cleared last week, and today's supply running more to beef than usual. HOGS. A string of eight cars of choice heavy hogs from a Central Nebraska shipper at tracted attention, six loads of theiu going at the ton price. $13.05, and two loads at $13.00. flood heavy hoira sold at $13 to $13.05, and medium welgms. an low as 220 lbs., brought $13. bulk of sales $12.U5 to $13.00. Lrfcal prices have beeu high as compared with other markets. because packers cotlnue to run short, notwithstand ing the fact that they are shipping in a good many hogs from Sioux City, Omaha. Fort Worth and St. Paul. Local receipts are far below normal, altho prices here are drawing hogs from distant points. string of 11 loads here from Southern low last week, also hogs from Colorado. Vtah and Arizona, and from Central Nebraska today. Light hog sell up to $12.85, and pis $10 t" $11.50. SHKEP AND LAMBS. Ewes erhers and yearlings made new high 're -onls last week at $12. $12.35 and $13.25 respectively, but lambs fluctuate inlully mime.iiateiy neiow ineir niguest price record, $14.75 made two weeks ago. Top lambs today brought $14.00. medium kinds $13.75 to $14.40. market on them slow and weak, no choice ewes here, market stronger on them, some at $11.80. Feeding Tax Statements Must be made as of March 1, 1917. We have on hand ready for immediate delivery a large 1 list of TAX EXEMPT Kansas Municipal Bonds w Including City of Topeka Bonds. The Shawnee Investment Co 534 Kansas Ave. gig AN OPPORTUNITY TO ECONOMIZE Cut Prices based on purchases before the big advance. Cadet Fancy Rolled Oats 25c pkB lc 10c pkg IViC Every Item quoted here is as low or lower in price than the price of a year ago. We are featur ing goods which have not ad vanced. Fancv Evaporated Peaches tb 1" Large bars Yellow Laundry Soao -1 0 for 30c Mrs. Stewart's Extra Strength Laundry Blueing 20c bottle 15c vm We Give and Redeem Premium Stamps Cottage Breakfast Wheat 18c pkg 12c Navy Blue the Coffee value su preme; 3-tb tin cans; regularly 95c: Bpecial, each 83c Fancy Table Prunes in 5-It tin cans- Griffin's, per can 5c 'F. F. O. per can. .85c Fancy Red Beans. No. 2 cans: 15c value, per can 10c via Fancy Snowhite Hominy Large cans .10c Fancy Head Rice the economi cal food 5 lb a 35c Pearl White World' Finest White Laundry Soap 7-5c bars. 25c Snrehum. finest Quality Xo! 14 tins 10c No. 10 tins ,.eo iYrr rirrt a 1 1 s:i STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own Offk-as at Chicago. So. St. Joseph, So. Omaha. Denver. Hlox City, So. St. Paul, Buffalo. E. St. Lontm Fort Worth and fcl Paso. lambs bring. $13.50 to $14. shearing Iamb up to $14.25. J. A. RK'KART. j Market Correindent. TOPTI MARK-KT fterORT. Oattl ad Bos i Prices fnrulalMMi hr Wolff Pack'.nf vo-t Topeka, Kan,, Feb. 2T. Ifu. MTXK.O AND BUTCHERS $10.0O(J? 12.65 HKAVY loof1?!" LI(;HT W.lMKg 7.00 8.011 tO cholc. ....S0 to T S.BO to .00 to !W .T.. 4.50 to 8.M 3.50 to 4.25 food... d V I -rSa Common fa"! Heifer Vod to -ho!c ...i $.n to 7. i rlr to rood 6.00 to .0O 'Comm. n"H I f 'esliy i Medium to V 6.00 to 5.2S ...ffio to loo" Veal cIt I "me fat M Illtll mWM H.M1 to e.w" n neop ann inmDs Fat ewes fr on to ton iZ, ,"J7k no a. on E! OfS in 1000 i F"V '".m!' k'. -ILV "i'-l- 'il' "JVhoi. ,i

I Shorn Inroba. and hesp 2e under sbovs le. Positive! canot dm sheep or lafb 'inleas fat.) PI utter n4 Re;. (Furnished by the Besrrlce Creamery Co Topeka. Kan. I Topeka, Kan.. Feb. 27. CHIOAfSO EfJfiS 39c. NEW VOHK EGOS 40r41c. CHEAMERY BCTTER Chicago, 40c; New York, 42c; Elgin. 40c; Topeka whole sale. 39c. Trr',r- M.rfcet. iFnrnlshed by r t Topeka, Kan., Feb. 27. PR A RTF H.V ALFALFA $17.00. Tonefca Omln Market, (l urnlsbcd (it T. J. Btllard. corner rtansss Are. and Curtis SLt Topek. WHFAT $1.65 1.70. CORN $1.00. OATS 60a 55c. Kan.. Feb. 27. ponltrv. t'r il Bntter. t Knrnlsbcd by the Topeka Packing Com pany, corner Laurent and Madison. I Topek. Kan., Feb. 27. HENS 3V lbs. and ot-m-. 17c: under lbs.. 14c; spring, over 2 lbs.l7t dncka, 10c; geese. 8c; broilers. 2 lb, and under. lic: old roosters. 9c; stagg young roosters. 1 .-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. Topeka, Kansas. Phone 5050. Sugar Always the lowest at Dibble's 14 lbs. for S1.00 Aunt Jemima's Pancake Flour 3 pkgrs. for 2So Jet Oil Shoe Polish 10c bottle 6c Fancy Dry Onions Yellow ones, tb 12c Swift's Premium Oleomargarine 1-IT cartons.. 2Hc Log Cabin Byrup yt -gallon cans Fresh Vanilla Marsh mallows lb 13c Hopper Fancy Maine Corn 18c value. 3 cans for. ...45c Holland Fancy Tomato Catsup 25c bottle 19c Solar Fancy Hawaiian Pineapple No. 2 hi cans, 3 f or 55c Crimp Top Crystal Glass No. 2 Lamp Chimneys each So Wolverine Extra Fancy Straw berries, Raspberries, Blackber ries an. Red Cherries In heavy syrup 3-30c cans 75c Largest Grocery Business In Kansas There's a Reason v

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THE TOPKA DAITV STATE JOURTTAL TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1917 HUMOR JN HOUSE Listens to Loud Praise of Ad ministration Proposals. Then Removes Their Meaning and Passes Them. BUT FUN DIDN'T STOP HERE In Spirit of Childish Ulee, Raised Own Salaries. o Response to Mack and Wil son's "Tom-Toms." The Kansas house has a keen sense of humor. It spent an entire (lay and part of a nieht listening to the loud praise of administration proposals for constitutional repairs. Then it deftly removed the cog wheels and beurinsis from the resolutions and when finally convinced that the measures were overhauled to mean nothins? at all. recommended them for passage. After which the house in a spirit of childish Klee voted to submit an amendment raising its own salary. It was a sad. sad day for JlacK of Harvey and Wilson of Pawnee. Mack has spent the entire session m an effort to organize something that resembled a definite following. When he beat the torn toms for his follow ers most of them were either absent or were suffering from defective hear ing. The house toyed with Macks executive budget system until the wheels wouldn't run. Then the house recommended passage of the measure. Salary Increase. Mack was also author of a proposed amendment increasing the salary of legislative members. He has also in troduced many other bills and reso lutions during the session. Possibly the house members forgot the partic ular measure which Mack wanted then to support. It was this appar ent absent mindedness regarding num bers, possibly, which caused the mem bers completely to ruin the working parts of the executive budget model. Then the house yelled for joy as it passed a measure which wouid pro vide $."00 a session for legislators in stead of a maximum of $1;0 every second winter. Wilson of Pawnee and Stone of Shawnee also suffered because of the ALGOHOL-3 PER CENT. similatinlheFood by Regula ting theStomachs andBgwebrf Thereby Prcmiotin$Dteestion Cheerfulness and RestContams x i klm rCT neither upiam, Morumu Mini Not Narcotic ....r-r nrrrUFO nam Clarrfiid Sugar AhelpfulRemedyfor Constipation and Diarrhoea i and Feverishness autt i Loss of Sleep roultirrttiercf raaammj j fac-Simile Sijnjrtareof The CcNTAtmCoMPwr. NEWWHjV Exact Copy of Wrapper, 11 ct Contents 15 Fluid Drachm II I AStQg The operator, in repeating the number vnn rail "one two-six it helps her number more Why not quicken your service by calling your num ber with a pause between the hundreds and tens? Southwestern Bell Telephone Company wayward, rambling spirit of the house leaders. They looked over the Stone resolution for a tax reform and in jected a few amendments which les sened the scope of the proposed re form After a sixty minute circus outing. Stone contended he was able to recognize the resolving clause and a few paragraph markers on his measure which was recommended for passage in its nude and mangled form. Winter's Work Lost. It was Wilson of Pawnee who left I the legislature with a trouble song i arld a sad heart. He had spent the winter fighting for municipal owner ship of ice plants. He had directed new deals on his bill until it had made the rounds 01 a numoer ol ine more important committees. Then Wilson secured a place on the calen dar for his city home rule resolution. The member from Pawnee county wore out a perlectiy gooa inroai ana much energy in his defense of the hump rule nlan. House lawyers worked on the Wil-j son resolution with cold cniseis, jim j mies and sledge hammers. For an i hour Wilson was under a cross fire by the lawyers. Then Long of Wyan dotte came to the rescue. But ten j minutes later Moore of Cowley read an indictment against a half dozen i prominent Wyandotte citizens and j Long spent the remainder of the even ing establishing an alibi for his con- stituents. At the close of the battle, I Wilson left the hall with his resolu- tion in one hand and its resolving clause in his pistol pocket. The meas i ure was as dead as a mackerel. The action of the house committee of the whole was regarded as a practi cal joke at the expense of the state administration's program. All of the i proposed constitutional measures I recommended for passage, were amended in such a manner as to make their operation practically impossible i and to afford no relief from present conditions should they be written in j the constitution. TURN DOWN DOHERTY Kansas House Doesn't Care to Hear of (ins Situation. The Kansas house of representatives j does not wish to hear another ehap i ter of the gas troubles. It turned j down an opportunity to hear Henry I L. Doherty tell about the sorrows of trying to operate a giant gas corpor ation and earn a profit in spite of rates by a political commission. Sparks of Cherokee county offered !a resolution extending floor privileges j to Doherty The resolution asked Do I herty to tell Kansas lawmakers of i needed legislation as affecting the gas j situation in this state. The resolu tion was voted down and Doherty will j not appear before the legislators dur ing the present session. For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature. of In Use For Over Thirty Years TM OtMTMIR teMMMT, MCW VOffK OITT. three" because to locate quickly. the MX w r l 1 V 0 TALK ONBURBANK Professor Harshbarger Will Speak at H. S. Auditorium. Practical Plant Breeder Is "Wizard" Himself. William Asbury Harshbarger, B. S., professor of mathematics at Wash burn college, will lecture upon "Luth er Burbank, His Life and Work," in the auditorium of the high school Friday evening, March 2, at 8 o'clock. The lecture is given under the auspices of the Academy of Science and is free to the public. This is the eleventh lecture given by the academy this season. Prof. W. A. Harshbarger of Wash burn, who speaks at H. S. 'auditor ium Friday evening on. "lather Burbank.' Professor Harshbarger will explain and illustrate the application of the laws of heredity to plant breeding. and the principles of biology involved in this work. He will review the life and work of Luther Burbank, whose remarkable array of 1,300 new or im proved plants pronounce him the plant wizard of the world, and tell how Mr. Burbank performs his miracles, and the scientific principles exercised in his work. Professor Harshbarger is himself a practical plant breeder, having at his home many remarkable specimens of Mr. Burbank's genius. He will illus trate his lecture with series of beauti ful and expensive slides which he had made for this purpose. Professor Harshbarger and Mr. Burbank have been close friends for more than twenty years, and every now and then they spend a few weeks together in Mr. Burbank's wonderful Santa Rosa srarden in California, where for forty- two years Mr. i3urbank has carried on his patient and systematic re search. Remarkable Accomplishments. When asked to name some of Mr. Burbank's more remarkable accom plishments. Professor Harshbarger re plied; "Well, he has taken a small, unpalatable fruit, for example, insig nificant in size, with little nutrition. and made it over into another fruit, large, rich, luscious and beautiful. An imperfect little daisy appealed to him one day, and he developed the insignificant flower into one several inches in diameter. He has taken flower with a large, showy bloom. j handsome creature, but with an offen sive uuur, anu given ii a ueiicitte lrag- rant scent. He changed the hue of the yellow poppy into silver and ruby. He banished the pit from the plum and filled its place with sweet and juicy meat. He created a walnut with a very thin skin so thin, in fact, that the birds could perch upon the branches and drive their bills through it. This would not do, so he versed the process and bred back until he had a nut of just the right shell thickness. He also drove the tannin from the walnut and has left the meat almost as white as snow. "More remarkable still, he created a white blackberry, large, and luscious in flavor. He has developed rhubarb to a giant stalk, and made it yield all the year round. He developed better plum in flavor and flesh and gave it the taste of the Bartlett near. In his lecture, Professor Harshbar ger promises to tell the secret of this accomplishment Which he describes so enthusiastically. He has been a mem ber of the Academy of Science for twenty-seven years, and during all of this time has lived and taught in Kansas most of the time in Topeka. 'MOTHER JONES THERE 'Lot of Rot," Her Comment on Court's Anti-Picket Injunction., Chicago, Feb. 27. Officials antici pated activities of "Mother" Jones, 83-year old labor leader. When she arrived here to participate in the gar ment workers' strike, she was served with a copy of the injunction prohib iting picketing. "What a lot of rot," she said. "Imagine an old judge issuing a thing like that in the Tventieth century! "I shall speak in Chicago if I am asked, and attend meetings, too," she declared. "All strikes are alike; they are a protest against charity, ignor ance, misery, hunger, industrial slav ery and jails." She eame from New York, where she saw the food riots in city hall square last week. Miss Gertrude Barnum, who with Theodore Roosevelt, helped settle the Kimono Workers' strike in 1913 has also arrived to help the strikers. Her first word was a protest against the injunction. WILLIAMS IN RACE? Columbus Lawyer Slay lie Candidate for Attorney General. Al F. Williams of Columbus, may be a candidate for the Republican nomination for attorney general. His candidacy has been urged by a num ber of prominent Republican leaders and it is believed Williams will enter the race. Williams was a member of the Big Four delegation to the Republican national convention in Chicago in 1916. He led the Root cheering among convention delegates when he stood on his chair, shook his head of long hair and waved his arms to pro mote the cheering. In southeastern Kansas, Williams is recognized -as a most able lawyer. He has been active in the practice of law in Cherokee county for a number of years and has been a prominent character in state and Third district politics. $14,000 STOCK SALE Cheyenne County Ranchman Has Faith In Western Kansas. St. Francis, Kan., Feb. 27. Josiah Crosby, a prominent Cheyenne county citizen, an honest believer in western Kansas for more than thirty years, a man whom it can truly be said of, "is self-made" demonstrated most vividly to the more than 1,000 persons who journeyed from far, and near to attend his large stock sale, at what was until a month ago the Crosby ranch situated on the south fork of the Republican river nine miles north of Saint Francis how wisely he had believed. Mr. Crosby sold his ranch to G. M. Howard df Red Cloud, Neb., some time ago for the consideration of $34,000. A ranch on which Mr. Crosby spent a great deal of money to fur ther his belief in this section of the state and the improvements are monuments to his efforts. His ex penditures bore fruit from the very start, and after the effort of but a few short years his home was trans formed from the bleak and unsightly to 'one of the show places of the northwest part of Kansas. The sale was advertised judiciously all over the country all preparations were made to take care of the crowd. Mr. Crosby's stock showed fine, as no expense had been spared in preparing the stuff, every thing was convenient ly situated, so the crowd moved from one ring to another without confusion. A large number of Mr. Crosby s white face stuff went to Denver buy ers, who had come solely on the strength of the reputation that the ranch bears. Three auctioneers took care of the bidding in fine shape, run ning the total of the sale to $14,000. Col. C. E. Burnham, an auctioneer widely known all over the state, as sisted by the Gettle Brothers, cried the sale. BIRD CITY BOOMING Old Ex-County Seat Is Enjoying Ileal Prosperity These Days. Bird City, Kan., Feb. 27. The prog ress in building here reminds the old settlers of the days when Bird City was the county seat of Cheyenne county. The Chicago Lumber com pany is putting in a large yard, other new business buildings have been erected, and several residences have been built. The new opera house is creditable to a town much larger than Bird City. The bank deposits show a fine business, and the two lumber yards will draw a handsome trade. Every business house appears prosperous. Bird City has a fine electric light system. The two hotels are usually crowded. It is a dull day when new comers are not seen in town. The real estate firms report of many sales of lands in the neighborhood of Bird City. The town today is more sub stantial and permanent than it was in the days of the county seat. And most of the people who stayed here, are on easy street. Pharmacists Marry at Jctmore. Jetmore, Kan., Feb. 27. Miss Neva Irving, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jno. Irving of Jetmore, was married at her home here, to Arthur Allen Hill of Wichita. Both bride and groom are registered pharmacists. CATHEDRAL IS DONE Consecration of $155,000 Episcopal Edifice Next Sunday. By sundown today the Grace ca thedral will be completed and every thing will be ready for the consecra tion of the $155,000 edifice next Sun day. The cathedral will not only see com pletion today, but also there is not a penny of debt upon the building. The structure is today entirely paid for. The cathedral could not be con secrated"until paid for. Tonight the tuning of the organ will be completed and the choir will practice this evening with organ ac companiment their part in the dedi catory services Sunday. Following is the order of the serv ices Sunday: 8 a. '"1! sermon by the Rt. kev. sidnev c. par- tridge, bishop of west Missouri; 4 p. m., musical service with cantata "Gloria Domini," by Tertius Noble, sung by the choir of sixty voices; 8 p. m., evening prayer, sermon by the Rt. Rev. James Wise, bishop of Kan sas. Itaise Export Freight Rate. Washington, Feb. 27. Increased freight rates on iron and steel from Chicago, Pittsburg and other points in the east to Pacific coast terminals for export were authorized by the in terstate commerce commission. DON'T BE BILIOUS, HEADACHY, SICK OR CONSTIPATED Enjoy life! Liven your liver and bowels tonight and feel great. Wake up with head clear, stom ach sweet, breath right, cold gone Take one or two cascarets tonight and enjoy the nicest, gentlest liver and bowel cleansing you ever experienced. Wake up feeling tand, your head wiil be clear, your tongue clean, breath sweet, stomach r gulated and your liv er and thirty feet of bowels active. Get a box at any drug store now and get straightened up by morning. Stop the headache, biliousness, bad colds and bad days. Feel fit and ready for Tiork or play Cascarets do not gripe, sicr en or inconvenience you the next day like salts, pills or calorrri. They're fine! Mothers should, give a whole Cas caret any time to cross, sick, bilious or feverish children because it will act thoroughly and can not injure. EwORk' WHILE YOU SLEEPf PROBLEMTO FACE When War Is Over We Must Be Awake, Says II- A. Wheeler. Union Trust Co., Chicago, Offi cial Talks to C. of C. "When the war ceases the United States will be face to face with some of the most vital problems in its his tory," Harry A. Wheeler, vice presi dent of the Union Trust company of Chicago and ta foremost authority on irade conditions, said in his talk be fore 350 members of the Chamber of Commerce at the dinner given last night. "The country has never seen such an era of prosperity as it has in the last two and a half years," Wheeler said. "Gold has poured into the cof fers of our country. We are con fronted with abnormal situations in regard to money conditions, labor and business. "Within the last thirty months the United States has changed from a 'borrowing nation' to one of the greatest 'credit nations' on earth. More than half of all the American securities held in Europe have been returned to this country as credit col lateral for munitions and for food stuffs. "And when the war ends all this colossal amount will naturally flow back to Europe again and a tremend ous upheaval in financial circles will result unless the wisest business pol icy, is adhered to. j Remedies to Be Used. j Mr. Wheeler then proceeded to out line the nature of remedies which must be employed to prevent the up heaval. The federal reserve board should retain at least 40 per cent of the gold that comes in to meet the outstanding notes, and thus offset the recession of gold which will naturally follow the war, according to Mr. Wheeler. A new efficiency in our manufacturing must be discovered to offset the com petition of foreign manufactories fol lowing the war. We must handle the abnormal conditions under which labor is now living, when the high prices now paid are reduced. Just what the effect on labor the close of the war will make, Mr. Wheeler professed himself unable to answer. "However," he said, "there must be an end to the condition of affairs which would have permitted the four railroad brotherhoods to almost com pletely tie up the transportation of the entire country." The problem of the reconciliation of the labor unions to a necessary system of lower prices, is one of the greatest problems to be met. A complete reorganization of the industrial system will probably be Physicians Explain Why Women Need More Iron j in Their Blood Today Than 20 Years Ago Say Anaemia Lack of Iron is Greatest Curse to the Health, Strength, Vitality and Beauty of the Modern American Woman. Dr. Howard James, late of the United States Public Health Ser vice, says physicians should pre scribe more organic iron Nux ated Iron to correct the great drain nature has placed upon wo men at certain periods and to supply the iron deficiency re sulting from a demineralized diet now being served in thousands of homes. Opinions of Dr. Schuyler C. Jaaues. Visiting Surgeon. St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Dr. Ferdin- and King, and other physicians who have thorOUffhlv tested the value of Nuxated Iron. Any woman who tires easily, is nerv ous or irritable, or looks pale, hag sard and worn should at once have her blood examined for iron deficiency administration of simple Nuxated Iron will often increase the strength and endurance of weak, nervous, care worn women 1 00 per ent in two weeks time. "There can be no strong, healthy, beau tiful, rosy-cheeked women without iron," says Ir. Ferdinand King, "a New York physician nufl author. "In my recent talks to physicians on thp grave and serious consequences of iron deficiency in the blood of American women, I have strongly emphasized the fact that doctors should prescribe more organic iron nuxated iron for their nervous, run-down, weak, haggard-looking women patients. Pallor means anaemia. The skin of an anaemic woman is pale, the flesh flabby. The muscles lack tone, the brain fags, and the memory fails, and often they become weak, nervous, irritable, despondent 'and melan choly. When the iron goes from the blood of women the roses go from their cheeks. "In the most common foods of America, tile starches, sugars, table syrups, candies, polished rice, white bread, soda crackers, biscuits, macaroni, spaghetti, tapioca, sago, farina, degerminated corn meal, no longer is iron to be found. Refining processes have removed the i ron of Mother Ea rth from these impoverished foods, and silly methods of home cookery, by throwing down the waste pipe the water in which our vegetables are cooked are responsible for another grave iron loss. Therefore, if you wish to preserve your youthful vim and vigor to a ripe old age you must sup ply the iron deficiency in your food by using some form of organic iron, jnst as you would use salt when your food has not enougu salt. Dr. Howard James, late of the United States Public Health Service, says: "In my opinion, organic iron is beyond ques- tion the greatest of all strencth builders, If people would only take Nuxated Iron when they feel weak or rundown instead of dosing themselves with habit-formmg drugs, stimulants and alcoholic beverages. I am convinced that in this way the lives of thousands might be save who now die every year from pneumonia, grippe, con- sumption, kidney, liver, heart trouble and other dangerous maladies. l he real, true cause which started their dis eases was nothing more nor less than lack of iron in the blood. Iron is absolutely necessary to enable your blood to'ehange food into living tissue. Without it, no matter how much or what you eat, your food merely parses through yon without doing you any good. You don't get the strength out of it, and-as a consequence you become weak, pale and sickly looking, just like a plant trying to grow iu a soil deficient in iron. A patient of mine re marked to me (after having been on a six weeks course of Nnxated Iron). 'Say, Ooctor, that there ptuff 1 like maitip.' "Previous to using Nuxated Iron, I had Veen prescribing the various mineral salts i iron tor years, oniy to meet complaints if discolored teeth, disturbed digestion, necessary to meet all conditions aris ing out cf the war." "The experience of the war, how ever," Wheeler said, has taugnt us some much needed lessons. A new vision of our shortcomings is the most important item. Then we found out we could exist without financial aid from other countries. We learned it was still possible to exist without im porting some of the immediate neces sities of life. We .awoke to the im portance of our export trade. Under previously existing laws, it was almost impossible to get our goods to market when the foreign ships were with drawn from the sea. Shipping condi tions were worse in 1915 than wtih us in 1790- Toda we have a shipping board making an investigation of con ditions which have led to the death of our merchant marine, and we may expect a flee of merchant ships which will carry our products to every port in the world Hearty applause followed Wheeler's recommendation of adequate national defense and universal military train ing. "FLOCK" FORGIVES HIM Church Receives Back Heretic Pastor It Rejected 27 Years Ago. St. Louis, Mo., Feb. 27. Exiled from his church as a heretic for more than twenty-seven years. Dr. "R. C. Cave has been taken back into the Union Christian church, the same congregation he preached to more than a score of years ago. In 1889, Doctor Cave preached a sermon in which he alluded to Colonel "Pape's Cold Compound" is the Surest, Quickest Relief Known It's Fine! Relief comes instantly. A dose taken every two hours until three doses are taken will end grippe misery and break up a severe co!d, either in the head, chest, body or limbs. v It promptly vopens clogged-up nos trils and air passages in the head, stops nasty discharge or nose running. BREAKS A COLD IN A FEW HOURS THE CHILD'S APPEAL !M.other.vwh.y dorit you take NUXATED IRON and be strong and well and have nice rosy cheeks instead of being so neryous and irritable all the time and looking so haggard and old-The doctor gave some to Susie Smiths mother and she was worse off than you are and now she looks years younger and feels just fine. tied-up hardened secretions, etc.. and I had about reached the conclusion that the only way to supply iron was to get the patient to eat large quantities of spinach, ivin a. mi icuuiB, ueu rame across Nuxated Iron, an elegant ingenious prep' aration contain in onranin iron w-hi-i im no destructive action on the teeth no corrosive effects on the stomach and which is readily assimilated into the blood and qnlckly makes its presence felt by in- creased vigor, snap and staying power, n On account of the peculiar nature of woman, and the great drain placed upon her system at certain periods, she requires iron much more than men to help make up for the loss. "Also, organic iron Nxated Iron should in my opinion, be used occasion ally by both men and women to supply ine iron aericieucy resulting iroin a ue- luiueiaiiACU Uicu ivici 1 w uuuve, vy King. Tf you are not strong or well you owe it to yourself to make the following test: See how long you can work or how far yon can walk without becoming tired. Next take two five-grain tablets of nux ated iron, three times per day alter meats for two weeks. Then, test your strength markable and wonderfully effective reni again and see how much you have gained, edy." From my own experience with Nuxated Iron, I feel it is such a valuable remedy Dr. T. Afpbonsns "Wallace, a physician that it should be kept In every hospital of many years experience in this country and prescribed by every physician iu this and who has been given many honorary country. lngersoH's talks on God as repre sented in the Old Testament stories and asserted that these old stones did not represent God truly that the church of this age could not attempt to uphold them without antagonizing the moral sense of the present time, and that the church ought to reject these Old Testament stories and call man to the acceptance of no God other than the infinitely loving Fath er manifested by Jesus. His congregation endorsed his stand but under pressure from church lead ers and editors in i-ll parts of the country. Doctor Cave was .ousted. Doctor Abbott, present pastor, in re ceiving him, said Doctor Cave had not changed his views and that the church had not accepted them. FATE PURSUED THEM Train Bearing Wounded Russian Sol diers Wrecked 48 Killed. London, Feb. 27. A train carrying 228 invalided Russian soldiers who were on the way home from Germany thru Sweden, went off the track lata last night between Gefle and Soder hamn, says a dispatch from Stock holm. The first car, carrying twenty three insane Russian soldiers, was demolished and all its passengers were killed. About twenty-five per sons in other cars were killed. The work of rescue was made diffi cult by the condition aof the passen gers, most of whom were blind, had lost arms or legs, or were otherwise crippled. Their hardships were in creased by the fact that the wreck occurred in darkness at a distance from any important town. relieves sick headache, dullness, fever- ishness. sore throat, sneezing, soreness and stiffness. Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blow- ing and snuffling! Ease your throb- bing head! Nothing else in the world (r 1 1-n i- oiink li.ii ii. lit i-aliaf i i. Cold Compound," which costs only 25 cents at any drug store. It acts wi!h- out assistance, tastes nice, causes no inconvenience. Be sure you get the SjeunsUtinas DS-CCZihTht "jpUaSpe-saSCo,d0CdompounnT STyoSVtZS to stop your cold quickly. Advertise- ment, r WHAT IS wants to V Ir. E. Sauer, a Boston physician, wh lias studied both in this country and great European Medical Institutions, says: "1 am a great believer in Nuxated Iron, it of- ten acts almost like magic. Not long ago a man came to ine who was nearly half a century oiu anu asKea me to give ul iu a preliminary examination ror lire insurance. I was astonished to find him with the blood pressure of a boy of 'JO and as full of vigor, vim and vitality as a young man; iu fact, a young man he really was, not withstanding his age. The secret, he said, was taking iron nuxated iron had filled him with renewed life. At 30 be was iu bad health at 46 he was careworn and nearly all in now at 50, after taking nuxated iron, a miracle of vitality and his i ace oeaining witu me Duoyancy or youth. Dr. Schuyler C. Jaqnes, Visiting Surgeon, St. Elizabeth's Hospital, New York, says: "I have never before given out anv inedi- cal information or advice for publication, aa I ai-, nar v tin KaTUva t,..i. iu luc ibc vi. ouAnieu Jnu 1 leel i WOUHJ be remiss in my duty not to mention it I have taken it myself and given it to my patients with most surprising and satis- lactory results. And those who wish quickly to regain their strength, power and endurance will find it a most re- titles lu England, says "I do not make RUB RHEUMATIC, i ACHING JOINTS AND STOP PAIN Instant Relief With Small Trial Bottle of Old, Penetrating "St. Jacob's Oil." Rheumatism Is "pain" 'only. Not one case in fifty requires inter nal treament. Stop drugging! Rub soothing, penetrating "St. Jacobs Oil" right into your sore. stiff, aching joints and relief comes lnptantly. "St. Jacobs Oil" is a harmless rheumatism i;' liniment which never disappoints and can not burn the, skin. f Limber up! Quit complaining! Get a small trial bottle of old, honest "St. Jacobs Oil" at any drug store, and in fi rheumatic pain, soreness ana stirinoKii. Don't suffer! Relief awaits you. "St. Jacobs Oil" is just as good for sci atica, neuralgia, lumbago, backache, sprains. Advertisement. Prepare This for a Bad Cough It's Fine Cheaply and Eaafly Made, Does the Work Quickly. The finest cough syrnp that moner can buy, ousting only about one-fifth as much as -ready-made' preparations, can easily be made up at home. The way it takes hold and conquers distressing i coughs, throat and chest colds will really make you enthusiastic about ic Any druggist can supply you with 2 ounces of Pinex (50 cents worth I Pour this into a pint bottle and fill tha bottle with plain granulated sugar svruD. Shake thoroughly and it is ready for use. The total cost is about 54 cents and gives you a full pint a. family supply of a most effectual, pleasant tasting remedy. It keeps per- It's truly astonishing how quickly it i acts, penetrating through every air i passage of the throat and lungs loosens and raises the phlegm, soothes and heals the inflamed or swollen throat mem- branes, and gradually but surely the 'annoying throat tickle and dreaded 3 i cough will disappear entirely. Nothing better for bronchitis, spasmodic croup, jwhooping cough or bronchial asthma. I Pinex is a special and highly coneen- -Watett compound of genuine .Norway i ""e comoineu w im guaiacoi anu to Known uie woriu uvcr lur lis :prom.pt h(limJ effect on the throat j membI:anes. j Avoid disappointment by asking your i? 2 unf8 f P,next ,th V-U"r-t aSU ThisTeparSVl Pinel g Ft WayneIni I l Advertisement.) 1QUR.ANSWER? 'Yon can tell the women with plenty of iron in their blood beautiful healthyTosy cheeked women full of Life,, Vim and Vitality while thosewho lack iron are often cross, nervous, irritable, weak, tired, complain ing creatures whom nobody; have around. a practice -of recommending advertised medicinal products, but I have found Nnx ated Iron so potent in nervous, run-down conditions, that I believe all should know of it. The men and women of today aced more Iron in their blood than was the case twenty or thirty years ago. Thfs becaufte of the demineralized diet which now is served daily in thousands of homes and a 1 so beca u se of the dem and for g rea tr resistance necessary to offset the greater number of health hazards ta be met at every turn." NOTE Nuxated Iron, which la orescrlb- ed aud recommended above by physicians in such a great variety of cases, is not a patent niedh-ine nor secret remedy, but one which is well known to druggists and whose iron const ituents are widely pre- scribed by eminent physicians both ia Kiimno ntitl Aiiifi-lt-n I nliko th siilf In. orcMJiic iron nroducts. it is easilv assimil' ated, does not injure the teeth, make them black, nor upset the stomach; on the con- trary. It is a most potent remedy Jn nearly all forms of indigestion as wei- as -nu -n.nnn Tl, inttnuiHClurn env nurn jfrem iiDilUffD'lf In nnxated Iron, that they offer to forfeit $100.00 to any charitable institntion if they cannot take ony iaaa or woman under OU who lacks irou, an increase their strengtn '200 per cent or over in four weeks' time, 1 pi U 1'icu yntc wiiwhh wignui: money if it does not at least double yonr strength anu endurance in ten days tune. Ok, Brunt-Martin JUrug Co., Geo. W; Stan field. A. C Klingaman Co., aud all good druggists. Adv,

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4 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURT AT TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1917 STtrprha tat Stromal An Independent Newspaper. BY FRANK P. MAC liENNAN. Entered as second-class mall matter. VOLUME XXXIX No. 50 i OFFICIAL STATE PAPER. OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF TOPEKA. Subscription Rates. By mall. In advance, effective January 15. 1UV7. from January 1. 1917.J i- My malt, one year By mail, six months j By mull, three months By mail, one month Kates by Carrier. (Effective January IS, J91;. One week Two weeks for a quarter 25 cents Four weeks 50 cents Telephones 3530. Eastern offices: Paul Block. "Presenta tlve, 250 Fifth avenue New lork Mailers 1 building. Chicago: 201 Devonshire street. i:OStOn: rkresge uumim. imaririn i ember: Associated indit Y- Newspaper Publishers- Association. Audit 1 Bureau K.L Circulation. The trade commission and the De partment of Agriculture have esti mated that they will require an ap propriation of $400,000 and six months' time with which to investigate and re nort upon the reasons for the high cost of living. At the same time, says the Oakland Tribune, they fall to promise that they will be able to devise any remedy. In the meantime the people will continue to pay from 10 to 100 per cent more for their food staples than they did in 1916. Sirloin steak is now costing 11 per cent more.than last year; ham 21 per cent; lard 29 per cent; flour 11 per cent: eggs 18 per cent; butter 1 per cent; potatoes 100 per cent: sugar 25 per cent; milk 4 per cent; onions still go ing up. And the Federal g vernment 1 to consume $400,000 in fix months to fi .J the reason. The American people will spend more than $100, 000,000 on account of the Increases while the investigate n is going on. Hobson of Alabama, had an evep chance with Funston for becoming a popular hero, but he ruined his future, by becoming a grandstander. It is said that there are thousands of bushels of potatoes in storage in Topeka. Consumers are paying 85 cents a peck. Potatoes are not a nec- i easitv. There are other things to eat. There is no article of food on which a refusal to buy would operate more readily. Potatoes on hand must be disposed of before warm weather or they will become worthless. New po tatoes will be coming from the south in a short time and the local dealer must dispose of his stock. Bank clearings in Topeka continue to show a gain of approximately 50 per cent over the corresponding period one year ago. Wall street has offered a billion dol lars to the government for the pro- :i secution of the prospective war with Germany. Unlike Henry Ford the fi nanciers did not say this would be supplied without charge. La Follette is opposed to any action which may lead to a clash with Ger many. But La Follette lives in a state which has a large German population. Strenuous measures are being taken 1 by both England and France for the conservation of public necessaries. !;The British war office takes posses- sion of all leather, finished or unfin ished, and intends to take possession of all such as can be produced prior to March 31. It gives notice that it Stakes possession of all unsold stocks of raw jute in the United Kingdom and intends to take possession of any unsold stocks arriving. All dealings in raw jute on spot, in transit, or in course of shipment, are prohibited, s The consul general at Paris reports by cable that preserved tomatoes, canned fish, canned vegetables, and preserved food products with meat basis may no longer be exported without special authorization. The gts in Harlem are said to be suffering from the high price of food i stuffs. Canned goods are so expen 1 sive that empty cans are scarce on the rubbish heaps. i "Forewarned, forearmed." does not 'apply to American ships, at least not yet. I In America, when any condition be- comes intolerable, says the Louisville i Courier-Journal, we agitate, riot, j probe and then forget about it. The sinking of the Laconia indicates I that the German submarines are out j for "big game. RECONSTRUCTION DAYS. The European war isjnot expected to last much longer. The probable business relations of the United States toward the belligerents following its close are discussed by Henry Clews in the latest issue of his Financial Re view. He says: Then will follow the stimulating period of reconstruction in Europe which will make heavy de mands upon American Industry simply because we are in a better position to furnish Europe with immediate supplies than any other nation. It has been estimated that $6,000,000,000 will- be necessary to restore the dev astated regions into habitable and woikable conditions. Railroads and highways will have to be rebuilt; likewise cities, towns and farms. Mary industrial establishments will also have to be rebuilt; calling for large quantities of machinery and fabricated materials. The amount just named apparently c'oes not cover vast sums required to replace and repair worn out shipping and railroads of the belligerents. All means of transportation have been tremendously overtaxed outside of the war zone, and there has been neither time nor money to maintain equip ment in proper condition. For several years to come Europe will need our money and the products of out. In dustries beyond all precedent Doubtless we shall continue export ing raw materials and agricultural products upon a large scale, but the striking feature In our export trade for months after the war will be thi great expansion in shipments of manufactures. We shall, therefore, have to lend Europe when her peo ple cannot pay. And this we may do generously, tor such a policy will bring its ow reward In maintaining prosperity within the United States. WAR A STEP NEARER. President Wilson still fights shy of leading the country into actual war, althoj the provocation to do so is such that the people are ready to endorse him, if he should go the limit. "Armed neutrality" is little short of open hostilities. In his address to congress Monday afternoon the president could hardly have said less. He might have said much more and been fully justified by the situation. That congress will con fer upon him the authority asked for cannot be doubted. Rumors of op position have been heard but It is in conceivable that any member of con gress will attempt to play politics in such a time as this. The situation as regards the rights of Americans to traverse the seas un molested is intolerable and must be altered at any cost. Probably no other nation, uninfluenced by fear, would have shown so much patience as the United States has done. No man in the coun try could have shown greater reluct ance to do anything that might bring on a war than has the president. Now that every form of protest has proven unavailing, there remains no other course but to defend American rights by force of arms. If this bring war, let it come. We shall be justi fied in the eyes of the world and the president will' receive the support of the people. THE FOOD SITUATION. The riots against high prices of foods are inciting our legislators to drastic measures for control of prices, etc., but these, says the Bache Review, are rarely efficacious. Abuses, and there are some, may be cured by in vestigation and action, but the most effectual method In the long run is conservation of food supply. The car shortage situation is responsible for much of the scarcity. The Interstate commerce commis sion claims to have the problem near solution. We look with some scep ticism upon what that means. The tie-up at our ports caused by the German sea warfare is halting many thousand cars. The American Rail way association, working with the commerce commission, has instituted arrangements by which food and fuel will be rushed to many cities by spe cial shipment. The association of ficials declare the danger of inade quate supply of living necessities be cause of the transportation problems, 1-as lessened greatly within the last two weeks and that the possibility of a general shortage through the east is slight. They claim the dearth of freight cars is less than a year ago. A part of the work of the railroads and the commission has been the gathering together of empty cars in the east, and for the last day or two hundreds of empty cars have been rushed at high speed from congested points to places where needed. Good weather has helped on this movement in the last two or three days. That the high cost of food and the sudden increase in prices as compared with the situation in the winter of 1916 is not due to exports of food stuffs is shown in figures compiled by the Journal of Commerce. Ship ments of foodstuffs from this country in the calendar year 19 16 were act ually smaller in amount 'than in the preceding year. "The recent rise ap pears to be due to Internal causes, such as the shortage in last season's crop and the congestion of railroad traffic rather than to sales to Europe." This is proved by a large decrease in bulk shipments in 1916, notwithstand ing that the money value on account of higher prices was greater. PROGRESS OF SUFFRAGE. Woman suffrage has made rapid progress in the past few days." The legislature of Ohio and Indiana have both extended the vote for president and members of Congress to women, pn j-irtually the same terms as those on which the women of Illinois vote. Thfl Maine lp-islatiiT-A tine en Km t 4 (he question of full suffrage to a spe cial referendum of the people on Sep tember 10 next. The lower house of the legislature of Vermont rejected a bill for such a referendum in that state by a vote of 114 to 111, which is closef to a vote in favor of the project than the Vermont legislature has ever come before, and was taken after a two-to-one adverse report on the bill. The Minnesota House has passed a bill submitting the question of full suffrage to the people, in the form of a constitutional amendment, at the next regular election in November, and the bill is now before the state senate. Suffrage measures are before other state legislatures and seem to be mak ing progress in spite of the frequent rejections of suffrage constitutional amendments by the people of the states. The development of the idea of a vote for women for presidential elec tors and congressmen, says the Bos ton Transcript, while participation in the election of state and local officers may be denied to them, is an interest ing matter. The advocates of woman suffrage may submit to this partial ar rangement with a good grace, for it contributes directly to the advance ment of the .national constitutional amendment project. The women of Indiana have the promise of more power than those of Illinois and Ohio possibly because of the nature of their constitution. At any rate, they may vote for the dele gates to the new constitutional con vention and they may vote upon all amendments, including the ratification of a new constitution. With these privileges they are reasonably sure of full enfranchisement when the basic law is changed. For delegates elected by women's votes are hardly likely to be opposed to woman suffrage. And if they do cherish such prejudices the knowledgs that women will have the chance to vote against the constitution will act as a deterrent. 5WE TALIS I BI ACT si CAJUBOH. How People Spend Their Money. The response to my question. "How much do you give?" has been most gratifying. Apparently I touched a chord of popular interest Several readers have gone further than the answer and supplied me with their whole budget. I wish I had this whole page. I could fill it with these interesting human documents. As it is, I'm go ing to give you some this week and more a week from today. Watch for them if you are interested in knowing how people of various incomes ap portion their money, especially their gift money. "For a wedding present for some one I know well," writes a letter friend who says her income averages about ten vdollars a week, "I spend from three to five dollars. For any casual friend, one to three dollars." "I have a drawer in which I place anything I see during the year that I tVrlnk would make a good present and which I can get for a reasonable figure or can make. "We have the duplex system of envelopes in church. I give fifteen cents for the support of the church, and ten cents for benevolences. For Sunday school and other church col lections I give five cents at ordinary services, and ten to twenty-five at special services. "For collections for purses for post man, gifts, Red Cross, etc., I generally give from ten cents to one dollar ac cording to circumstances." "Perhaps the way I divide my in come," writes a friend who receives forty dollars a month, room and board included, "would be of interest. "Savings bank $20.00; Clothes (I make most of them myself) $7.00; church and charity $4.00; upkeep of room at home- 2.00; higher life (such as magazines, theatre, etc.) $2.00; other expenses (carfares, cos metics, etc.) $3.00. Christmas gifts $2.00. If I need the doctor I take that money out of savings." "I am a "business woman." writes another, (by the way all these an swers appear to come from women, we'd like to hear from some men, too), "I get $14.00 per week. I am a church member and give twenty cents each Sunday for support of the church and missions. Christmas usually costs me from $26.00 to $28.00 and for wed ding presents I never give less than $5.00. I might add that I board and it costs me about $9.00 per week, in cluding carfares. I will be grateful to have you write something on this subject, as if I give too much or not enough I would like to know it." Here is an extraordinarily generous person "I have an income of about $900 per year. I gave wedding gifts $45.00; Christmas $10.00; charity $140.00: church $50.00; little gifts $5.00; showers for brides $5.00." 25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From the columns of THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL February 2$, 1892. Colorado Springs. Arrangements have been made bere to ooen the Printers' Tinm May li The St. Ananias club is growing. It has moved to more ltrxwrioua and com modious quarters on the first floor of the Stormont building on West Sixth street. Tonight the rooms will be informnllv onen- ed. New members will be admitted as fol lows tonight A. J. Huntoon. John U. Kodgers, Furman Baker. T. It. Stringham, J. C. Clark, It. L. Higgins, M. Bosworth, I. B. Snow and G. G. Gage. Harry Valentine, W. A. Smith, Howel Jones and W. P. Doutbitt have gone to New Orleans to attend the Mardi Gras. Several small boys were arrested in North Topeka this morning for selling the Sunday Sun. Chas. Cagerstrom entertained tne Ninth Street Tennis club at high five Thursday evening. Those present were Misses Min nie lavis, Jessie Pmtzman Florence HoJ lister. Emily Black, Gussie Manning, Lulu t'ordyce. Myrtle Fordyce, Maude Kanney, Mollie Crane. Sophie Hintou, Fannie Mc Caslta and the Misses Iennis. Messrs. Gene Yates. Harry CaidwelK Will Smith, Wallace Hynerson, Robt. Frampton. Ed. Iennis, Will Kadcliff, Guy Hagar, Chas. Gllfillan, J. Trull, Geo. Loring. Chas. Payton. WHATCHAMA COLUMN By MGM." READING. We are a nation of readers. Father reads stock tickers, bet ting odds, sign posts, speedometers, barometers, billboards, car cards and box scores. Mother reads price tags, movie captions, household hints and the riot act to Father. Rich college students read wine lists and theater programs. Poor ones read Egyptian inscriptions and gas meters. Then there are those who read palms and horoscopes, time tables,' mnu cards, each other out of the party, weather reports, murder trials, divorce suits and cartoons. No question about it, we are a nation of readers. "We read everything but books. TEE MOMENT 1 ftOT fc. MOCLTOM. Uncle liem. Old Uncle Lem is very poor. His bank account is slim. And yet I often find, I'm sure. I rather envy him. He is indeed the wise old boy He never frets a bit; Whatever be his little joy. He makes the most of it. Tho he is very old. in truth, Tho fortune passed him by. Yet always there's the light of youth A-shining in his eye. Tho grief he's suffered more than some And not a few of woes. He looks for any joys that come And makes the most of those. And so bis eyes are always bright. I envy Uncle Lem. Who tho his joys are few and slight. He makes the most of them. Happy Thought. Have a little push and you won't need pull. Pedestrians. There are pedestrians so rude and inconsiderate as to brush thru the crowded traffic hurling the motorists to either side and injuring their cars. Others are more good-humored and curteous and are thoughtful enough to ask the motorist's pardon if they entangle their necks in his gears. At such a time it is only decent to say, "This is very regrettable, or "I am very sorry this occurred." Be kind to the motorist. Consider his many wor ries. Consider the price he must pay for tho tire that embosses your Adam's apple. The few people now living who do not own automobiles and who de mand their right to walk are very often a bit too selfish. Many of them if they meet their just deserts will buy automobiles and some day be knocked about by pedestrians themselves. Health Hint. If you wear a toupee And It should blow off Always put It on again Or you'll get a cough. In Praise of Pops. The world has a lot of a number of things That always are pleasant to see. Of pretty girls' eyes and blackberry pies iiiu ruses uuu payuays ana giee And waffles and movies and blue china cups And bargains and full dinner pails. But pleasautest far are the nice little pupa That wiggle and waggle their tails! A nice little, brown little puppy, who seems Just brimming with wiggles and wags. His damp little nose, as pink as a rose, Two ears that are pert little rags; And half of him shrinking in fear of a spank. And half of him wiggling a plea. And all of him ready for any old prank, There's nothing so pleasant as he! And how can they say that a creature Is dumb That's wise In its .own sort of way? Altho we suppose there's little he knows. Yet oh, how he knows how to play I He knows bow to find all the fun as he goes Thru his lif in this sorrowing vale. And especially we're glad that each little pup Knows How to wiggle and waggle his tail! Saving Coupons. "With a knowledge of the few sim pliest rules of arithmetic, such as four and six are ten, the average person can spend a pleasant lifetime saving coupons. Many persons starting in a modest way and saving up for an egg-cup are inspired to greater ambi tion and start saving up for an egg. There is something noble about the way some people save, coupons. A Wisconsin rrfan saved coupons ten years to get a pair of military brushes and when he finally had enough he happened to realize that, be had grown bald invthe meantime. He died in a convulsion of grief. Fortunately his wife was able to add her coupons to his and get a casket. So the coupons were not wasted after all- Equally fortunate was the St. Louis man whose baby ate ten of his coupons. He didn't have enough coupons left to get a stomach pump for the baby, so he got a shotgun for, it instead. Today's Sneer. It's only human to be only human. -The Denver man who refused to save a drowning man had probably recognized him as the party who sold him his second-hand car. Lines to a Lady In a Magazine Ad, Lady, tho your smile is charming, Tho your face is quite refined, Your appearance is alarming To a chaste anil modest mind. To be plain and blunt, and such. You're not wearing very much! Lady, we-are loath to flout you. But you're showing horrid taste. There "is something now, about you (And it's not about your waist!) That compels us for to sob, "Lady, get another job!" Advertise say. three or four sets Of new doilies, or a hat. But this advertising corsets! Lady, you're too nice for that! You have sueha cultured face. Lady, get another place GLOBE S1GOTS j From the Atchison Globe. Many joy rides have a sad ending. There are so many arguments that it appears that nothing is known for certain. Some women enjoy themselves the most when thy are hysterical or very nervous. A man with a fertile Imagination can read a patent medicine ad and develop a lct of alarming symptoms. If any man isn't afraid of his wife, the chances are his wife is afraid of him. and there are few women like that. When a man doesn't care for ex penses, that may be taken as an in dication that some one else is paying them. Ab Adkins says "he never tries to fool the children by telling them that their school days are the happiest days of their lives. You may have observed that the sort of play you wouldn't want your daughter to see, usually plays to a pretty good business. Don't be so earnest that other peo ple will regard you as a joke; mar tyr's crowns aren't being shown in the new spring millinery displays. The discovery of the hook worm may have -been an important scien tific achievement, but it didn't seem to go very far toward eliminating shift lessness from this home of the brave. Tou are so smart, you may be able to figure out how two men in exactly similar circumstances, with identical interests and the same early training, will belong to different political par ties, and tear their shirts for their re spective leaders- LOVE'S TAPESTRY. If yon could weave at will that wondrous. rare. Ethereal fabric. Love's rich taDestry. What threads of Life would yon select most lair. What color and what texture would they be? Not sudden Fancy's gleaming scarlet flash. Not evanescent Passion's purple shade. Should there in hideous combination clash If I the woof and warp with shuttle made. But umber-tones of Earth's brown every- days Should show a path where two had up ward cone A far, blue mountain, wrapped In sapphire haze. Should symbol where their Hope had met the Dawn. The amber of old memories should glow Reside the rosv shimmer of desires Ah, had I such bright yardage here to snow. Think ye I'd have to advertise for buy ers? Lannie Haynes Martin. i Opium, and Olivia. (By Dorothy Douglas.) As young Dr. Rylance stepped swiftly out of his office, a shining bauble caught his eye with its glisten in the bright morning sunshine. He stooped and picked it up. He thrust it in his pocket. He was far too in tent on catching the next train in at the 110th street elevated station to examine the bauble he had found. Havingcaught the train and seated himself he unfolded the morning pa per. This quarter hour on the train was the only time during the day that the doctor allowed himself for the perusal of the war-filled papers. But this morning be dropped his paper before he had read five min utes. He had remembered his glitter ing find and an unusual feeling of curiosity impelled -m- to examine the peni!ant. He whistled softly as he looked at it. In the bright light from the read ing lamp the bauble assumed decided value. Even to his .eyes, ignorant as to the price of feminine adornment, the locket fairly screamed aloud its worth from the costly mass of jewels in the gold frame. 1 "Hump! I'd like to get the value of that locket for every appendix I expect to cut out," he ruminated: "I would soon have my own shingle hanging out wherever I'wanted it." There was a mysterious catch that gave the doctor no little amusement and trouble before he could open the tightly closed locket. When his fin gers discovered' the secret and the locket flew open "his eyes expanded, then contracted, in professional scru tiny. The locket was filled with tiny opium pills! "Dope!" muttered the doctor. In voluntarily he sighed. There was so much wreckage floating about the world. Here was startling evidence of human tragedy. Some wretched woman was no doubt suffering the tortures of the condemned because she had lost her opium. The doctor longed for means whereby he could drag that bit of social wreckage back to power and control and self-respect. His inner conviction was that the woman, whoever she might be, would never claim the locket for fear -her ghastly skeleton should become public property. She would shrink from see ing it stalk about in the set to which she belonged. The doctor slept little that night. The personality of the opium fiend kept rising vividly before him. In his mind she was a pitiable bit of woman hood trying desperately to escape the degradation of vice and resorting to every form of deception in order to secure the means of forgetfulness. He felt her tragedy keenly, for he was a sympathetic man..-. Skeptical tho he was as to results, he inserted a well-worded advertise ment in the daily papers. He felt reasonably certain that no one would claim the tell-tale locket. There was the chance, however, that the owner, in abject need of the opium, would immerse her pride or employ ian elab orate fabric of lies in order to redeem the drug-filled bauble. Rylance smiled dryly as he pictured himself being fooled in his profes sional capacity. He had, in his advertisement, hint ed at secrecy. He wanted to protect the woman from needless suffering following fear of exposure and strict est confidence was promised. When Olivia Westin found the ad vertisement she had been seeking, her eyes lighted in triumph until they twitched with excitement. She glanced with tender expression at the type writer standing forlornly on the table beside the window. Its white keys had not known the touch of Olivia's fingers for ten days. The truth was that Olivia's brain was fagged. Con sequently her typewriter suffered a neglect that, had it been of masculine gender, would have troubled it great ly, for Olivia's fingers were woryder f ully soft and gentle. She aros.. and took up the tele phone. The number she called was the one given in the advertisement. Dr. Rylance was in his office. When he took up the telephone receiver a little snatch of song was wafted along the wire. After that delightful sound Olivia's voice reached him. "I am most anxious about my lock et," she said. "I am sorry I opened it," Rylance said to her. "But as you may know, a man'scuriosity is a thing quite be yond his power to control." He ap preciated the little laugh that bound ed along the wires. "When can you call for the locket?" He was con-, scious of keen desire to study this opium fiend at close range. He de Fired .to determine the exact amount of damage already accomplished by the habit. "There is aflways hope." He did not know that his taintly voiced thought would travel along the wire. The noise at the other end was more like the twittering of birds than the haunting wail of a lost soul. The doctor marveled. "I Tvill call this afternoon," Olivia said eagerly. The glowing tone in her voice caused the doctor to sigh as he hung up the receiver. It was evident that she was joyous over the prospect of regaining her lost property. During the afternoon it was diffi cult for Doctor Rylance to give full attention to the suffering humanity that trooped into his office. If the girl coming in the late afternoon proved to be the victim of opium then she would be the young doctor's first experience with the drug fiend in feminine form. He shuddered uncon sciously. To him there seemed noth ing so pitiable as feminine flotsam drifting helplessly in world of vice. When the neat little nurse who act ed as office attendant ushered in Olivia it was nearing the twilight hour. The doctor was forced swiftly r to his feet. Having expected human wreckage in one of its most terrifying forms, the sight of Olivia was fright fully upsetting. She smiled with charming candor when she looked into the serious eyes of the young professional man who was so fatteringly amazed at her ap pearance. "It was silly of me to lose my pre-! cious locket," she said. "I don't know how it happened. It is usually so se cure." She gazed calmly, if admiring ly, at Rylance. "You you don't look like an opium fiend," was his startled comment. Olivia laughed gleefully. "Neither am I." she told him. "I am only a poor, harmless writer whose brain has been squeezed dry of every plot that it ever possessed". I hadn't written a story for ten whole days." She turned tragic eyes full upon Dr. Rylance without heeding the effect on his masculine senses. "I de liberately lost my locket just to see who would find it and Incredulity and relief in the doctor's eyes stopped the swift confession on Olivia's lips. Also there was some thing more disconcerting in his eyes. Olivia felt that she was going to get more out of her adventure than she had bargained for. "But what thieves are you associat ed with from whom you obtain opium?" he questioned. "It's a crime, you know." "My brother." said Olivia loftily with flaming cheeks, "is a chemist." "And a fool if he gives you opium to make plots for stories out of." "He he didn't give it to me. I knew where it was kept." She glanced up swiftly in defense of her brother. "He thinks me all kinds of a foolish person because of the things I do to get atmosphere for stories." Dr. Rylance was looking at her in a way entirely uncalled for, considering the newness of the acquaintance. Olivia feared, from the manner in which her heart, had taken to beat ing, that something other than a short story was going to be the out come of her act. Never had it acted in this unusual way in the search for material. "You may be silly," Rylance finally voiced some of the thoughts running riot in his brain during that long meeting with Olivia's eyes, "but you are also many other tilings of much nicer order." He rejoiced at the swift rush of color into Olivia's cheeks, fehe had also made a quick movement totrard the door. He checked her exit with a gesture. "I don't get much time to read the mag azines, but I suppose they occasionally take a story of love at first sight. If you want any facts or suggestions regarding the emotions of a man who has fallen suddenly, unexpectedly and completely in love at first sight Just you come to me will you?" There was a hint of pleading below the laughter in the doctor's voice. "My imagination is rather good." Olivia told him, "so I think it will not be difficult to weave some kind of story out of this situation." The "doctor smiled knowingly and Olivia made good her escape. It would be rather curious, even in a story, should both the hero and hero ine capitulate to love in the first par agraph. (Copyright. 1917. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) DINNER STORIES "Habit." remarked Blinkers, "is a strange thing. Last night I was awak ened by a blind which kept banging against the side of the. house. Jump ing out of bed, I ran over to the win dow and raised the sash, only to learn that the fastening was broken. There was no twine handy, but I managed, after a while, to secure the shutter with my necktie. This morning when I went to get my tie to put on, blamed if I hadn't tied it into a four-in-land!" Nora had asked for a letter of recommendation, which the circum stances of her leaving and the qual ity of her work made it very awk ward for the manager to write. Eventually, after much fruitless scrib bling and waste of paper, he produced tnls: "To whom it may concern: This to to certify that Nora Foley has worked for u for a week, and we are satisfied." LAST MINUTE REPAIRS By BRINK ERHOFF. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Washing Curtains. To wash lace curtains well it is necessary to soak them first. Put them, after a good shake, in a tub of cold water, with a tablespoonful of ammonia to each gallon, and if this becomes very black have a fresh supply. Then wash in the usual way in hot soapsuds, and again in a sec ond lot. If a very bad color, boil ing will do them good. The best plan for this is to put them in a linen bag and boil for twenty min utes. Rinse out in two lots of luke warm water, and starch. The Table. Sweet Potato Waffles Nearly every body likes sweet potatoes and this way of preparing them will be new to those who know them only in their plain form. Take leftover boiled sweet potatoes and mash; to one cup mashed potatoes and two level table spoons teach of butter and sugar, one and one-half cups milk and scant tea spoon salt. Mix together, add two eggs (well beaten), press thru a sieve and bake in hot waffle Iron or griddle pan. Serve with whipped cream fla vored with tablespoon of honey added before whipping. Drop .Biscuits One and one-haff cups flour, three and one-half tea until done. Drain all water from both, put them together, mash well, add salt and pepper to taste, pinch of sugar, piece of butter and one-half cup milk. Beat well and serve hot Will serve six to eight people. Creamed Tomatoes (serves four people) Take quart of tomatoes, cook till tender, run thru sieve to re move seed. Reheat pulp, season with salt, pepper, sugar and butter to suit taste, then shave small onion into pulp and simmer till it cooks; then add one cup cream or good milk nd pour over crackers or light bread. Tango Salad Use either canned pears or pineapple. Place half a pear or slice of pineapple on heart leaves cf lettuce, set a ball of cream in cen ter, and pour a seasoned dressing over the whole. Dressing: One-half cup mayonnaise dressing, one-fourth cup Dep Time Tales BY CLARA INGRAM JUDSON INDIAN Did you know that Indians have always believed in fairies and that they think the fairies have wonderful power for magic? Of course Indians do not call them fairies they say pukwudjinnies, or sometimes they merely say "the little people." They think the pukwudjinnies live in the trees and they say that the whispering murmur of the leaves, is really the talk of the "little people." Kach tribe has its own favorite leg end about the "little people." A leg end from the Ojibway Indians tells of a girl who became a iiine tree. By the shores of Gitchee Gannee, the shining Big Sea Water stood the sacred grove of pine trees. Nearby were the many teepees of an Indian village, where, with her father and mother, lived the maiden Seelinaw. She was very fond of the trees and came often to whisper-to the leaves j find to listen to the stories the puk wudjinnies told her. One day after a visit to the forest, she returned home to find in her father's teepee a big war chief from a neighboring tribe. He had bought lovely gifts, and he wished to take Seelinaw home as his bride. As you may imagine, that made Seelinaw very ead, aa she did not like the old chief. But an Indian maiden must do exactly as her father com mands, so she had no choice but to obey. But she begged them to wait one day, that she might spend a day with her much loved trees and they con sented. So she spent the whole day talking to the trees, telling them the sadness In her heart. In the evening she re turned tor her father's teepee strangely comforted. olive oil, one treaspoon vinegar, one fourth teaspoon mustard, one-half teaspoon paprika cut in cubes. This will serve six people. Dark Steamed Pudding One cup granulated sugar, two-thirds cup but ter, one-half cup raisins, one-half cup currants, one scant teaspoon ground cloves, two teaspoons cinnamon, a lit tle nutmeg, one teaspoon soda, one tablespoon cocoa, one cup boiling wa ter,, one-fourth teaspoon salt, three cups flour. Dissolve soda in hot wa- ter. Mix butter and) sugar. then spices, then fruits, hot water, then flour. Mix all as for a cake. Steam two hours. Serve with cream. Swedish Rolls Scald one cup milk, add one-fourth cup sugar, one teaspoon salt; two tablespoons butter; let this cool, then add one-half yeast cake which has been dissolved in one fourth cup lukewarm water. Mix in this three cups flour or enough to knead good. Let rise to double It? bulk, then roll out on floured board until one-fourth inch thick, spread with melted butter, one tablespoon cinnamon, one-half cup currants, one fourth cup chopped citron (citron may be omitted). Roll up like Jelly roll, cut in one-half inch slices, stand slices on end in buttered pan, let rise again until bulk is doubled. Bake from twenty to thirty minutes in hot oven. Lemon Creams. There will be lots of lemon rinds about; fresh or dry it may be used, and it gives quite distinct flavorings. Grate the rind of one into a basin. Add the juice, together with a pinc-n of tartaric acid, and then enough sugar to make the cream stiff. Mo'd into balls and press into flat cakes, then leave on greased paper to harden. Mush of Itaspbcrries. To make this simple and delicious dessert use one pint of canned rasp berries, Vne pint of water and a small cup of sugar. Place these ingredients in a sauce pan and let boil for sev eral minutes. Thicken with three tablespoons of corn starch and aftr taking from fire add one teaspoon of vanilla. Let cool and serve with whipped or ice cream. FAIItltlS. Early the next morning she rose, dressed in the oridal dress of white deer skin her mother had made, and slipped out to bid the trees a final good-bye. Seelinaw spent the whole ay tcllinc the trees of her sadness. And she never returned. Tho the old chief stormed and raved and took back his beautiful gifts: tho her father and- mother searched for days, they never saw See linaw again! But the Indians say that the "little people" knew she was unhappy, so they stole her away and chanjred her into a pine tree and that to. this day she stands by the shining Hig Water! (Copyright Clara Ingram Judson.) i V -4, 1

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THE TOPEKyV DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1917 i m 11 if. (Berk&cn(Src. 707 KANSAS AVENUE Kansas City, Kansas Kansas City Mo. Any Store Can Duplicate Oar Prices-But Not Our Values The House of Lourtesy C3"? rjt I We Are Selling All Winter Coats at Ridiculous Prices A great many people wonder how we dispose of every single garment in the same Season in which it arrived, and the following Sale Prices illustrate how we do it $10.00 Choice of any Winter Coat in the house, formerly up to $25 Choice of any othervVinter Coat in the House (no matter how great the former selling 00 TRY IT FOR LUCK FLOUR If your bread, biscuits and cakes are not your ideal, give yourself the benefit of the doubt and change to I-H flour. This change ha3 been an improvement in countless homes. Ismert-Hincke Milling Co. Topeka, Kans. MARY PICKFORD in her Latest ami Greatest Artcraft offering, entitled "THE PRIDE OF THE CLAN" AT THE QRPHEUM TODAY TOMORROW Special Added Attraction "THE VAGABOND" A One-Act Comedy-Drama Tab-Show, Featuring an AU-Star Home Talent fast ot Seven People. (Evenings Only) HOIKS: I PRICES: Mntinre :15 and 3:30 I Matinees 10c Kriiii!K 7 an a Kveniom 20c N Special Music Orphcum, Orchestra, Every Performance Mr. and Mrs. Robert Garver will entertain at bridge tonight, at their home in Tyler street. The decorations for the party will be in pink, and the flowers used will be sweet peas and roses. Out of town guests at the party will be Mrs. Albert Jones of Columbus, Ohio-; Miss Louise Graves of San Diego, Cal., and Miss Helen Collins of Meyersdale, Pa. Mrs. S. S. Beggs expects to entertain at a luncheon Thursday for Miss Edna, Noble White, head of the home eco nomics department of the Ohio State university, Columbus. Ohio. Miss White will make an address before the Woman's club Thursday after noon. She will probably arrive in Topeka in the forenoon, and will re turn to Kansas City in the late after noon. Cards have been received in Topeka announcing the marriage of Miss Edith lone Johnson, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas S. Johnson of .Salina, to Mr. Merton Clyde French, Friday, February 23. The ,-iarriage took place at the Johnson home in Salina. Mr. French was brought up in To peka, and his brother. Mr. S. S. French, makes his home here. He was graduated from the Topeka high school,, and later took his degree from Baker university. He and his bride will go to North Yakimi, Washington, to make their home. l Mr. and Mrs. George Stone. Miss Marie Witwer and Mrs. Helen I. Francis will entertain their friendi at a tea at the Art Guild rooms Wednesday afternoon. No formal in vitations are issued, and all friends of the hosts are asked to call. The Potwin Mothers club will meet Thursday afternoon at the Potwin school house. At the last meeting of the club, the following officers wene chosen: Mrs. Otis S. Allen, president; Mrs. June Chapman, first vice presi dent; Mrs. Marion Van Sant, .second vice president; Mrs. E. D. Benner, recording secretary; Mrs. Roy L. Bone, corresponding secretary and Mrs. G. J. Swan, treasurer. Mrs. M. O. Lock will entertain at thimbles Thursday in compliment to Mrs. Stillwell, of Kansas City, who is visiting Mrs. E. C. Winters. Mrs. Fernley dinger will be hostess at a meeting of her bridge club Wednesday. X Miss Edna Noble White of Colum bus, Ohio, will be a distinguished vis itor in Topeka Thursday. She will be the speaker of the day at the Wom an's club meeting to be held Thurs day afternoon at the Y. W. A. The meeting is held under the auspices of the Home Economics department, of which Mrs. D. O. Coe is chairman. Miss White is at the head of the department of Home Economics of the Ohio State university at Columbus, and she is also in charge of its ex tension work. One of the large new buildings at the university is the quar ters of the Home Economics depart ment. Miss White is to be in Kansas City this week to appear as one of the speakers on the program of the national convention of school super intendents. She is a niece of Mrs. George Noble of Topeka, who is spending this winter in Kansas City, and she will be her guest while she is in Kansas City. It was chiefly through Mrs. Noble's efforts that Miss White was engaged to speak in Topeka. Thursday afternoon's meeting is the event of chief importance in the win ter's program of the Home Economics department of the Woman's club. Miss White has about 23 people working under her in her position at the Ohio Looking Backward In State Journal Society Column TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Mrs. J. S. Collins and Mrs. I. W. Doo little gave a large reception yesterday at the boine of Mrs. Iooltttle. The receiving party included the two hostesses, Mrs. Craut Mead of Horton, Mm. C. H. Whit lock, Mrs. Ed Lange and Mrs. Charles Nel son who wore reception frocks and re ceived in the parlor which was decorated in green and pink. In the sitting room, which wa decorated iu yellow. Miss Grace Collins and Miss May Lange, served the guests with punch. The dining room was beautifully decorated with ferns and white roses. Strands of smilax and white rib bon were caught in the chandelier and brought to the sides of the table. In the center of the table stood a cut glass bowl of white roses. Mrs. George M. Eagle. Mrs. C. S. Sutton, Mrs. Charles Lowry, Mrs. M. O'Brien and Mrs. Genevieve Collins assisted thru the rooms. In the evening Mr. and Mrs. Collins and Mr. and Mrs. loo!ittle entertained at high five. The guests were Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Morris, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Guild, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Eagle, Mr. and Mrs. Court Flower. Mr. and Mrs. 1. L. Lakiu, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lange, Mr, and Mrs. C. H. Whltlock, Mr. and Mrs. tieorge Eagle, Mr. and Mrs. William Hod son, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Martin, Mr. uud Mrs. Charles Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Knowles. Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Campbell, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Freeman, Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Handy, Mrs. Genevieve Collins, Mrs. F. Sutton. Mrs. O'lirien, Mrs. Mead and Mr. C. F. Jilson. sJ Seventh and Qulnry lOe Afiultft; 5- Children TO 11 A V Trt V Ii: u T i ROBERT WARWICK and DORIS KENYON in "A Girl's Folly" y I'n-iure muaios. a picture witn- in picture. Also the ttecond K pi node of the Sei-l-1 HnrMn. BE3 I L 'P ATRIA" star on lib Mrs. Vernon Castle, the most attractive and cleverest TOMORROW PEGGY HYLAND in "Rose of the South" Matinees :1,1 and S:4J. Niehts 7:15. 11:4.1 u. tm, mtm, ma f mtm. jffa gfa fa Jg. JSC -3 JSL Ja GRAND ONK WEI-K COM. 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PETERSON A "THE MELTING POT" read by Prof. Ralph Dennis of Northwestern University Auspices Washburn Dramatic Club Colleee Cfaapel, 8:15 Friday Evening:, March 2 35 university, and she is one of the leading women or. tier profession in the country. The morning meeting will be held at the high school auditorium, and will be a joint meeting of the Music and Educational departments. The social hour will follow the luncheon at the Y. W. C. A., and those in charge of that hour are: Mrs. John T. Chaney, Mrs. George Stone and Mrs. John R. Shelton.

A weddins of interest occurred Saturday evening at 7:30 o'clock when Miss Tvellie Weidlein and Mr. Fred Harris were united in marriage at the home of the bride s parents, Mr. ana Mrs. J. V. Weidlein. 721 Rhode Is land street" The ceremony was performed by the Rev. H. W. Hargett of the Metho dist church, only the immdeiate family being present. Tho bride wore ner traveling suit of dark blue cloth tailored, carried bride's bouquet of roses. After the ceremony x a dinner was served. Places were laid for twenty-five guests. Mr. and Mrs Harris left on an evening train for Kansas City. Mr. Ted Terril of To peka, was an out of town guests, Mr. Harris is a son of Mrs. Ella Harris and is employed with the Santa Fe railway in the government valuation department. Lawrence Journal World. The annual meeting of the Minerva club will be held next Monday with Mrs. A. B. Jeffrey. The business meeting will be followed by luncheon at 1 o'clock, and a program will be given jn the afternoon. The Elwell club will be entertained Tuesday of next week by Mrs. Rome Colvin, at her home in North Topeka The Topeka Avenue Bridge club will meet Wednesday with Mrs. F. E. Parr, of Harrison street. A meeting of Western Sorosis was held for the election of officers. The newly chosen officers are: Miss' Ethel Aldrich, president; Mrs. J. F. Jarrell, first vice president; Mrs. O. L. Moore, second vice president; Mrs. Helen But- terfield, secretary, and Mrs. L,. L,. Kiene, treasurer. Mrs, Albrecht Marburg entertained her whist club Monday afternoon. Mrs. James L. King substituted for Mrs. J. D. Miller Hamilton, who is on her return from a trip to California, ana Mrs. o. L,. Moore played for Mrs. E. A. Herbst. Miss Virginia Siegel of Kansas Cityr who has occasionally visited Mrs. E. A. Campbell and other Topeka so ciety girls, is to be -married soon Mr. Hyden J. Eaton, also of Kansas City. Miss Siegel is the daughter of air. and Mrs. .Frank Siegel. The Musical Art society will have a meeting this evening at 7:30 o clock in tne Presbyterian church. Mrs. Bert Green will entertain at a bridge-luncheon Thursday after noon of this week. The girls of the First Congrega tional Sunday school will give a free entertainment tonight at 8 o'clock at the church. They will sing a cantata, "Garden of Roses." and will- give a farce, "Mrs. Oakley's Telephone," and "Just a Wee Song" will be given by four or. five little girls. The solo singers for the cantata will be Mrs. Arthur Henderson, Miss Fay Inskeet, Miss Florenee Wilson, Mrs. J. R. Hess and Mrs. Elliott. What was that song hit in Katinka j "I want to marry a male quar tette?" One heard it quoted a good deal yesterday at the musicale. the program for which was contributed by the newly organized Sunflower Quartet, the members of which are: Mr. Waldo Heywood, Mr. Hugh A. Smith, Mr. Howard S. Searle and Mr. Frank A. Ripley. The Minerva club gave their mu sicale Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. G. Foster, West Sixth ave nue, and the guests' of honor were the members of the Ladies' Music club of Topeka. the wives of the leg islators and the wives of the state of ficers. 1 The quartet is a new musical or ganization, which is coming into prominent notice. There is distinctly a place for the group of singers in the musical life of the town, for they furnish, both in solo and quartet work, the greatest variety in song selections of any programs that the public is privileged to hear. The four voices of the group are well blended, and all the men of the quartet hold positions of importance in various church choirs of the city. Their or ganization is separate from heir church singing. Every number on the program yesterday received an encore. Mrs. Foster was assisted by mem bers of the club. In the dining room the serving was done by Mrs. F. I. Richards Mrs. W. E. Atchison, and Mrs. George Mays. Mrs. A. B. Jeffrey, acting president, received with Mrs. Foster, and the ushers were: Mrs. Don Wellman, Miss Ethel Grant, Miss Carolyn Lovewell. Miss Flof ence Crav ens, Miss Lulu McCabe, Mrs. W. I. Waynick and Miss Marjorie Glasgow. Miss Jennie Blinn played the ac companiments for Mr. Frank Ripley's solos, and Mrs. Fred Munson played the other accompaniments. Some of the quartet numbers were given en tirely without piano accompaniment, ana for some of the other numbers. the singers got their initial notes from the opening chord at the piano. ine program in full was as follows: Hunting Song Mendelssohn Maid of the Valley... Her beck Quartet Death and the Maiden Rchiihprt Zuminerzetzlilre OKI English Mr. Kipiey MiRR .Tennla Till,,,, A,nnntB Scissors Grinder Jungst Spin, Spin Jnngst Jig-a-room King Quartet Sylvia Speaks Mr. Smith Secret Love 18th Century Lullaby V.rnhnm Annie Laurie Arr. Buck Quartet Danny Denver .Damrosch Mr. Searle De CoDnah Moon Shell v Kentucky Babe Uelbel Irom Monte Pincio Bjornaon.Crieg Mr. Heywood Stars and Strides Sousa I'm A Lonein'ler Fnr Yrtn Hathavnv Swing Along Cook Quartet The annual meeting and banouet of the Kansas Authors club will be held Saturday night at the First Methodist church. The dinner will be served by the women of the Methodist so ciety. Mr. W. T. Morgan, lieutenant governor of Kansas, and president of the club will preside. The other offi cers are: Secretary, Geo. P. More house of Topeka; treasurer, Lumina C. R. Smythe; district vice-presidents, Willard Wattles, Lawrence; Mrs. Jen nie C. Graves, Pittsburg; John Daw son, Topeka; Jo.in E. Hinshaw, Em poria; John W. Searson, Manhattan; Mrs. Eva Morley Murphyf Goodland; Mrs. Margaret Perkins Briggs. Hutch inson; and C. M. Ware, Wellington. The department leaders of the club are as tollows: Historical, W. E. Connelley, of Topeka; poetical, J. E. Hilkey, of Lyndon; fiction. Judge J. G. Wood, of Topeka; science and philosophy. Dr. E. S. Pettyjohn, of Topeka; ancient literature. Professor W. C. Wheeler, of Wstehburn college; dramatic art and literature. Professor R. E. Graham, of Pittsburg. Mr. Hilkey, who is in the state sen ate this year, will make an address entitled. "Our-Country's Flag." Last year he was on the program for the reading of some of his own verse. Carl Everett Knox, formerly of Em poria, now of Kansas City, will speak from the subject, "rinymes irom me Road." He has published a volume entitled. "Day Dreams by One Who Loves His Fellow-men." Dr. Henry C. Fellow, of the faculty of Friends University. Wichita, will have for his subject, "Western Dialect Poetry." His latest book is "Rhymes of Yesteryear." John W. .Searson of the Agricultural college'department of English, will speak, and Mrs. May Belleville Brown, of Salina, will have an address. The "Future of Kansas Literature," is the subject assigned to Willard Wattles of Lawrence. Miss Ona May Miller, of Topeka, who is giving concerts this season from Kansas City, will furnish harp music for the party.

A Topeka woman with a sense of humor that allows her to enjoy a joke even when it is at her own ex pense, is telling this one: She was oft on a little trip recently, and as the train stood on the track waiting to leave, another Topeka woman, whom she knew, entered with her two young daughters. The girls were going away, too, and the mother asked the other woman to look, after them a bit. She readily promised to do this, 'understanding tha their berth was just above hers, where it would be easy enough to keep an eye on thenr. The three of them went to the dressing room at bedtime and the girls returned to the car and entered their Pullman first. Presently the woman came -in and crawled into her berth. In a few minutes a bare foot was thrust over the side of the upper berth, and to tease the girls, the woman reached up and tickled the protruding member. It was hastily withdrawn, whereupon a suppressed giggle burst from the bed across the The woman looked across and saw her two protegees peeping at her thru the curtains. The next morning, a pair of square-toed, heavy soled shoes stepped from the upper berth, fol lowed by a pair of neat grey trousers; the back of a short business coat next came down the ladder. Our heroine waited for no more, but turned her face to the wiiniow and groaned un der her breath. As soon as the great horried man was well down the aisle, ishe shied out to the dressing room. and from there she sneaked into the diner when she thought everyone else had had time to finish breakfast, and then back to her lair in the dressing room until her own getting oft place was reached. The Modern Lace club entertained friends at a thimble party Monday afternoon at the home of Mrs. C. E. Bascom, of Harrison street. A pro gram of music and readings was given by Miss Lois Strickler and Miss Mary Rice. About thirty-five women were present.

Notes and Personal Mention. Miss Louise Graves of San Diego, Cal., arrived today to Visit Mrs. J. R. Burrow. Miss Esther Connelley of Kansas City, has returned home, after a visit to Miss Helen Yoder. Miss Connelley belongs to the G. Connelley family who formerly lived In Topeka. Mr. and Mrs. George Stansfield are making a trip through the south, and are now in Florida. Miss Frances Perry has returned from Manhattan, where she spent a few days visiting her sister, Mi3s Josephine Perry, who is a teacher in the Kansas State Agricultural college. Miss Day Monroe, who teaches in Columbia university, New York, has arrived for a visit to her parents. Judge and Mrs. Lee Monroe. Mrs. F. E. Grimes returned today from a trip to Excelsior Springs, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Sherman, who are on a trip to Texas, are expected to return Hast of this week. Mrs. -Frank Montgomery has re turned from Lawrence, where she visited her sister, Mrs. Ella-Harris. Mr. George Strickland f Huniie well, and Mr. Charles Strickland of Oranoke, are in Topeka today visit ing their cousin. Miss Kate Thomen. Mrs. A. F. Gibb and Miss Caroline Vesper have returned from a trip to Xew York. Mrs. George Port Ash ton is recover ing from an attack of grip. Mrs. Thomas Creary has 5ft for a trip to Florida, to remain a, few weeks. Mrs. James 'Williams and her son. Jimmie, have returned from Horton, where they spent two weeks with Mrs. Williams's parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Hobbs. The Richardson Art Embroidery club will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. A. T. Wolff, 929 Madison street. Mr. and Mrs. William Buzzard of Fort Scott, are making a short visit to Mrs. Buzzard's parents. Mr. an1 Mrs. A. M. Keene of Fort Scott, who are living at the Swallow this winter. Mr. and Mrs. Buzzard were marrici just after the opening of the present legislative session. Mrs. Buzzard was formerly Miss Ruth Keene. Mrs. Thomas Laing King has gone to Chicago -for a visit to her parents. Mrs. Noble Prentis and her daugh ter, Mrs. Gilbert Lawson of Chicago, have returned from a visit to friends in Lawrence and at -the State univer sity. 1 Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Miller are visit ing friends in Wichita this week. Mr. H. H. -Welty, .who was injured in an automobile accident in Abilene last week, was brought to his home today, accompanied by Mrs. Welty. who was called to Abilene at the time of the injury. Justice J. S. West will return this week from an eastern trip. He at tended a meeting of the Baptist's Publication association, and visited his son, Mr. Arch West, and Mrs. West, of Chicago, and also Mr. Roland West and Mrs. Wes,t. In Kansas City he will visit his son, Mr. Vernon West. The Rev. G. M. Geisel left for Beloit this morning to conduct a funeral for an old parishioner, Mrs. Max Ander son, who was well known in lopeka as Miss Findley before her marriage. He returned from Wamego yesterday and will go to Overbrook Thursday. Our Spring Hats Are Here We're downright proud of thern this Spring". We show every new idea in color, block and trim ming; also the best makes. Knox Stetson Mallory It See our Windows, then come in and see the hat. Come any time this week the earlier the better. We'll make a special effort to please you. Anerbach Guettel The Carlton 33.00 For the economical buyer a special lot of Sample Hats, 8ra7esr.?.4:!V... 85 TODAY'S BEAUTY TALK GET THE WAR SPIRIT Kansas Spanish War Veterans Will Organize Cavalry. The breaking off of diplomatic re lations with Germany has aroused the veterans of the Spanish-American war. They are laying plans to organize a squadron of cavalry among the citi zens of the state, similar to the re cently formed "Military League" of Oklahoma. The proposition is in- the hands of the United Spanish War Vet eyins of Kansas. The idea was suggested by J. W. Kelso, editor of the Dodge City Jour nal, who Is an ex-soldier. These troops, according to Kelso's plans will be raised but will not be affiliated with the government troops in any way nor controlled by government of ficers unless there should be a call to arms. The command will be officered by veterans of the Spanish-American war and the troops will be made up of men who have already been under fire. The plans will be placed before the Kansas organization for consideration soon. The veterans have already re ceived notice from the Okla"!roma league that they would support such a plan and would help the proposition in any way they could. Iron pumps at Forbes Hdw. Co. Adv. You can enjoy a delightful shampoo with very little effort and for a very rtrlfling cost, If you get from your druggist a package s of canthrox and dissolve a teaspoonful in a cup of hot water. This makes a full cup of shampoo liquid, enough so it is easy to apply it to all the hair instead of just the top of the head. Your sham poo is now ready. Just pour a little at a time on the scalp and hair until both are entirely covered by the dain tily perfumed preparation that thoroly dissolves and removes every bit of dandruff, excess oil and dirt. After .rinsing, the hair dries -ntckly, with a fluffiness that makes it seem heavier than it is, and takes on a rich luster and a softness that makes arranging It a pleasure. Adv.. OLD-TIME COLD CURE-DRINK TEAI Get a small package of Hamburg Breast Tea, or as the German folkf call it, "Hamburger Brust Thee," at any pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful of the tea, put a cup of boiling water upon it. pour through a sieve and drink a teacup full at any time. It is the most effective way to break a cold and cure grip, a it opens the pores, relieving congestion. Also loosens the bowels, thus breaking a cold at once. It is Inexpensive and entirely vege table, therefore harmless. Advertisement. m m n n liii YES! MAGICALLY! CORNS LIFT OUT WITH FINGERS You simply say to' the drug store j man, "Give me a quarter of an ounce of freezone." This will cost very little j but is sufficient to remove every hard j or soft corn from one's feet. A few drops of this new ether com-, pouhd applied directly upon a tender, aching corn should relieve the pore- j ness instantly, and soon the entire corn, root and all, dries up and can be lifted out with the .fingers. This new way to rid one's feet of corns was introduced by a Cincinnati man, who says that, while freezone is sticky, it dries in a moment, and simply shrivels up the corn without inflaming or even irritating the sur rounding tissue or skin. Don't let father die of infection or lockjaw from whittling at his corns, but clip this out and make him try it. Advertisement. Extra Inducements Before 11 o'clock Tomorrow Morning. Best grade 30c Butterine 25c 10c grade Upright Mantles.. 3o 1314 lbs. Sugar $1.00 Nice Yellow Onions, lb ,.10c Large pail Syrup, 50c size.. 44c 15c Life O'Wheat, 2 for.... 23c 12 He Xew .Evaporated Peaches- 10c Blue Grass Seed, 20c value, Ih 1.1c (This Is everyday price on Blue Grass.) r rKMTi Mf ft lO STORES m ft Journal Ads Get Resulti Anderson Beauty Shop A place where discriminat ing ladies are, rendered the most perfect service. Hair Dressing, Shampoos, M anictrming. Faded Massage Skilled Operators Phone for Appointment v Phone 1525 R. 5 Orphettm Bldg. Fire- John L. White Contracts made will be completed at pres ent prices. An advance In prices will soon be in effect. Start a Pile Red Hot Coals on ELABORATED ROOFING A paper beneath the roofing will not be scorched, regardless of the length of time the coak remain. That's the protection your home or building has that is cover ed by Elaborated Roofing. Elaborated Roofing Is ELABORATED Roofing Is Fully Guaranteed and I firmly believe It will last untouched on roofa from twenty to twen-ty-fiTe years. Such has been the case with thous ands of bouses in Chicago covered with Elaborated Roofing. Chicago being the home of 1-2 a bora ted whore It was first made and nsed. Completely Waterproof A Perfect Fire Prevention Absolutely Acid Proof Rust ProofDecay' Proof Dust Proof. How It Is Put On Elaborated is laid right over your present shingle roof Makes house warmer, saves the litter and trash of removing old roof, eliminates possibility of damage from inclement weather. Most Beautiful Roofs Think of having your home re-roofed with red tile print, green slate, or fancy designs that will wear twice as long as our present day shingles, and cost even less. In the eastern cities where Elaborated Roofing Is laid extensively, many of the best homes have no other. Many fine homes In Topeka are now covered with Elaborated. Let, me show you these homes.. Examine Elab orated Roofing. Estimates cheerfully given. Call Me, Phone 4937 Black JOHN L. WHITE 720 Polk Street, Topeka, Kan.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1917 A NINE JOUR LAW Bill Introduced in House to Regulate Women Workers. It Makes 54 Hours Jlaximum for a Week's Work. DOMESTICS NOT AFFECTED Only Women More Than 18 Come Under the Measure. Enforcement To Be in Hands of the Welfare Commission. The Kansas legislature will be asked to write a nine hour law for women. K. M. Geddes of Butler county, today introduced a bill prepared by the house committee of health and hy giene which will provide a maximum 54 hour week for all women over 18 years. Industrial pursuits only are covered by terms of the bill, which places power for revision, regulation, supervision and enforcement in the hands of the state welfare commis sion. Action by the house committee in presenting a nine hour bill is in con formity with action by a recent Re publican caucus which voted to sup port The nine hour dity for women. No bill covering the subject had been introduced. So the committee on pub lic health and hygiene drafted a measure which meets the require ments of the caucus agreement and is perfectly satisfactory to the state wel fare commission. Whenever the state commission shall establish provisions and regulations for hours for women, the authority will pass entirely into the hands of the commission. lonicstk! Not Affwtcil. Domestics are not affected by pro visions of the bill which went to the house hopper. t defines only occupa tions in the process of manufacturing and specifically includes laundries. The law is made applicable only pend ing such times as the state commis sion may act under a law of 1915 and establish final rules. Women engaged in day labor shall work not more than nine hours a day not more than fifty-four ho tars a week under terms of the house measure. Women employed in night work are restricted to an eipht-hour rule with a maximum of forty-eight hours a week. For the purpose of the act, the committee defines day laborers as persons working between the hour3 of 6 a. m. and 8 p. m.; while night workers are employed between the hours of 8 p. m. and 6 a. m. A wom an engaged in day work may be em ployed after 8 o'clock i.t night one night each week without coming un der the night classification. The new measure is proposed to be made im mediately effective upon its publica tion in the official state paper and will serve until further action is taken by the welfare commission. Leave Some Workers Out. Doubt exists in the minds of a num-be- of house members as to whether the new committee bill will cover the gap between the regulations of the child labor, law and the act affecting work for women. The child labor act is declared by certain members to af fect only persons under 16 years old. The hour for women bill affects women 1 8 years old and is believed to leave a gap of two years. Under the house bills persons, firms and corporations employing female help in industrial pursuits shall post in the office, shop or factory a print ed schedule of the names of all em ployes and hours which they are com pelled to work. A notice must also be posted showing hours allowed each person for meals, rest or recreation. One hour a day must be allowed for lunch under the bill. The measure provides a fine of $15 to $250 for each violation. Kach woman compelled to work more than nine hours a day and each day the law is violated is de clared a separate and specific viola tion of the act. FOR UNIVERSAL TRAINING 27 t'liicasn Organizations Send llcso- Intion to President. Chicago, Feb. 27. Resolutions adopted by 27 Chicago organizations, headed by the Association of Com merce, are today on their way to Washington to be presented to Presi dent Wilson, the Illinois congression al delegations and the house and senate committees on military affairs asking for immediate universal ser vice. The resolutions were adopted fsieruav. DANDRUFF GOES! HAIR GETS THICK, j WAVY, BEAUTIFUL Save your hair! Double its beauty in a few moments. Try this! Hair stops coming out and every particle of dandruff disappears. Try as you will, after an application of Danderine, you can not find a sin gle trace of dandruff or falling hair and your scalp will not itch, but what will please you most, will be after a few week's use, when you see new hair, fine and downy at first yes but really new hair growing all over the scalp. A little Danderine Immediately dou bles the beauty of your hair. No dif ference how dull, faded, brittle and scraggy. Just moisten a cloth with Danderine and carefully draw it through your hair, taking one small strand at a time. The effeot Is Im mediate and amazing your hair will be light, fluffy and wavy, and have an appearance of abundance; an incom parable lustre, softness and luxuriance, the beauty and shimmer of true hair health. Get a 25-cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any drug store or toil et counter, and prove that your hair Is as pretty and soft aa any that it has been neglected or injured by careless treatment that's all. Danderine is to the hair what fresh showers of rain and sunshine are to vegetation. It goes right to the roots, invigorates and strengthens them. Its exhilarating, stimulating and life-producing properties cause the Jiair to grow long, strong and beautiful Adv. 5nap5hots HOME. NEW 5' The Why's of Life. Why is it? when I make a speech Such things of wit and laugbter. Come crowding in my mind to say A day or two Just after. Nels Yingle. F. D. Pierce, field secretary of the state Y. M. C. A., returned last night from Arkansas City where he spoke Sunday. The Musical Art society will meet at the First Presbyterian church at 7:30 o'clock this evening. The society is working on a new program to be given in April. A. R. Elliott and Alfred H. Tibben, of the state Y. M. C. A. employed force, went to Hutchinson Monday where they will spend three days in a high school association campaign. Leo Llndenhall and Peter Mack, negro proprietors of the Silver Moon pool hall, at 310 Kansas avenue, were arrested Monday on a charge of oper ating a gambling house. They were accused of operating a Kelly pool game in their house. Clarence Dennis, a farmer who lives all alone on a farm five miles from Topeka on the Berryton road, was adjudged insane in the probate court after an examination Monday after noon. He will be sent to the hospital for epileptics at Parsons. F. C. Workman, who has been em ployed by the firm of Stephenson Webb for the last two years, has re signed and will go to Kansas City where he has accepted a position with the Standard Motors company. He will move his family to Kansas City next week. A meeting of the Topeka Poultry Fanciers' association was held last night in the council chamber of the city hall. It was decMed to initiate a membership campaign. The discus sion of the proposed poultry show for next winter occupied a large share of the time of the meeting. A championship basket ball game between the Shamrocks ana ine u. TVs. two girls teams, will be played Thnrsdav evening at 7:30 at the Y. W. C. A. gymnasium. The D. D.'s have lost but one game this season and the Shamrocks have lost two. It is understood that a silver cup will be awarded the winning team. The desire of Vernon Simms, a 20 year old negro, to make some "easy money" has landed him In the city jail on a charge of petty larceny. Simms is accused of having stolen a baby buggy, a pitchfork, a rake, shovels and a small table. After a close questioning Simms admitted he had taken the things. He has been unable to secure bond. A working model of the famous Gebhart clock, which divides days into twenty hours instead of twenty four and making them 100 minutes in length, will be one of the features of the C. W. Parker shows at the Big Free fair this fall. Mr. Parker was in Topeka Monday conferring with Big Free fair officials in regard to an other booking for this year. He an nounced that he had obtained the services of a German, G. M. Gebhart, who spent seventeen years in perfect ing the clock. The clock is now in use in Paris and is attracting a great deal of attention. There' would be no leap year if this time system were adopted. Kvery year would contain 365 days. The local talent comedy tabloid "The Vagabond," which is being shown at the Orpheum the first half of the week was given hearty approval by the two houses last night. The cast is as fol lows: Tony, "The Vagabond," J. F. Doniphant; Philip Warburton, "In Love With Lena," Kenneth Nelson; James Barclay. "A Scheming Suitor," Ray Knoll; Judge Van Kruger, "A Veteran of the Bench." Dewey Gregg; Lena Van Kruger, Miss Wilhelmina Hammerli, Mrs. Van Kruger, Miss Lu cile L. Hardy; "Nanny, Only a Kid," Miss Florence Gregg. The tabloid is an, added attraction to the Orpheum program, the principal feature being the Mary Pickford production, "The Pride of the Clan." Plans for a three story brick and cut stone apartment house to cost 115,000 hnve been completed by Charles D. Cuthbert, architect. The new apartment house will stand on the southwest corner of Eleventh street and Kansas avenue and will be built by Mrs. Carrie S. Whittaker. It will be finished in hard wood, with tile-floored vestibules and bath rooms, and marble wainscoting in the vesti bules. The building will be equipped with vacuum vapor heating apparatus, intercommunicating telephones and Murphy-in-a-door beds. Janitor's quarters and laundry will he in the basement. The interior finishing and floors will be of hard wood. The frame building now upon the site will be torn down to make room for the apartment. NO COMPROMISE Wilson Refuses to Accept Limitations to His Request. Washington. Feb. 27. After today's cabinet meeting it became known that the administration will oppose any vital change in the proposed legislar tion to authorize President Wilson to protect American lives and rights. The administration expects that while a number of changes may be suggested, the bill as now framed will be adopt ed by both houses without material alteration. REFUGEES MAY RETURN Carranza Also Offers Protection to Americans in Mexico Now. Xogales, Ariz., Feb. 27. Mexico has thrown open her gates to 100,600 political exiles residing in the United States She also announces that Americans, forced to flee from Mex ico because they were considered en emies of first chief, Carranza, may return without fear of molestation. The Carranza ban against Roman Catholic priests and nuns, however, still stands. The announcement of Carranza's new ruling was made here by Mexican Consul Jose Delgado. He said he had been directed by Candido Aguilar. minister of foreign relations in the de facto cabinet, to do all in his power to facilitate the granting of passports to exiled Mexicans who de sired to return to their native land. During the last six years of revolu tions in Mexico it is estimated by prominent Mexicans here, at least 100.000 fled to the United States to escape the displeasure of Carranza or the bullet3 of executioners. IN FRENZIED ACT Three Topeka Grain Firms in Financial Row Growing Out of Bills of Lading and Grain Drafts. Finance of three Topeka grain firms truly became frenzied this morning when two Topeka grain dealers found themselves stretched out on an unattached limb with two turned down drafts in their posses sion, one for $1,062.45, the other for approximately, $1,500. M. W. Card well of the II. W. Cardwell Grain company, engaged in a hand-to-hand struggle with Edward F. Huckstep, representative of the Miller Ste phenson Grain .company of Hutchin son and Topeka. Cardwell is one of two Topeka grain men holding the sack, and his Jack Johnson stunt w staged for the pur pose of wresting from Huckstep's pos session a bill of lading. Cardwell seemed to be laboring under the be lief that possession of the bill of lad ing would protect his apparent loss of $1,500 on a d-aft for the sale of a car of grain to the Miller Stephen so i Grain comp:.iy. The men were all at the front of fice of the Kansas Reserve State bank endeavoring to adjust their grain transactions. Huckstep had a bill of lading in his pocket which he believed he should retain in his possession. Card well unable to secure it by persuasion, forcibly seized the bill, jerked it out of Huckstep's pocket and ran for the door. The young janitor of the bank near by was told to keep the door shut and Cardwell from leaving. Mr. Kaths. president of the bank, believing that the bill should not have been forcibly taken from Huckstep, went up to Cardwell and with a sim Huckstep. Cardwell stormed about the bill of lading and returned it to Huckstep. Caldwell stormed about considerably and the officials of the bank sent in a hurry call to police headquarters. By the time the police had arrived Cardwell had given up in despair and had left the bank. Filed Suit in 10 Minutes. F. A. Derby of the Derby Grain company, found himself in a similar plight to Cardwell. Derby had a draft for $1,062.4 5 turned down. He didn't pursue a strenuous course for financial recuperation as did the six foot, 200-pound Cardwell. Yet, he moved anything but slowly when he heard the draft was turned down. Derby met George McDermott of Stone McDermott on the street, and took the attorney t j the court house' and in ten minutes had filed a suit against the Miller Stephenson Grain company for the amount, pay ment of which had been refused. Both Derby and McDermott were out of breath when they arrived at the court house. For a time it seemed that the chief bit of testimony needed had disappeared. Derby had lost the draft. He telephoned to three or four offices and while asking over the telephone if he had left the draft there, pulled it out of his coat pocket. The Miller Stephenson Grain company has been in Topeka only a short time. The firm has offices in the New England building. Huckstep stated that the Cardwell draft drawn on the Topeka office would be made good. "The other draft is drawn on our Hutchinson office." said Huckstep. "I don't know what will be done about it." The hill of lading for the car of grain which caused the fight is locked securely in a deposit box rented by Huckstep. FETE SHIP'S "ARRIVAL Schools and Factories Close; 30,000 at Dock in Bordeaux. Bordeaux, Feb. 27. Thirty thou sand persons stood on the water front heretoday and cheered the American freight ship Orleans as she docked. Schools and factories closed and their workers and students swelled the welcoming throng. The crew and officers of the boat were taken thru the streets in a parade to the city hall. Later a lunch was given them. Captain Tucker, commander of the American ship, was greeted by the mayor of Bordeaux and the president of the Chamber of Commerce. HAD $2,000,900 CARGO Laconia Carried Roth Munitions and Passengers When Sunk. New York, Feb. 27. The Laconia, when she left New York for Liverpool on February 18' carried twenty-six Americans, six of whom were cabin passengers and twenty members of the crew. Her cargo, roughly valued at $2,000,000 included structural steel, cotton, provisions and 2,000 cases of e. ipty brass rifle cartridges. Mrs. Hoy and her daughter were spending the Christmas holidays with friends at and near Chicago. Mrs. Hoy is the wife of Dr. Albert Hoy who with his son Austin, is at London. The Hoy family lived at Chicago for many years. BROWN TR.ALFRiDAY Alleged Slayer of Sidney Zinn Ready To Leave the Hospital. The preliminary hearing of Clvde M. Brown, alleged slayer of Sidney m. Ainn, fetate Journal reporter, will be held in the court of Topeka Fri day morning. Brown will be able to leave St. Francis hospital by that time, according to information re ceived by Robert D. Carver, county attorney. Brown was shot in the fight at his home at 160 Twiss avenue. E. D. McKeever will defend Brown. No better food for growing kiddies can be found than. Grape-Nuts Therrt aRaasorf WIRELESS HEROES FLASHED S. O. S. UNTIL SHIP SUNK Queenstown, Feb. ,27. Wireless operators, Donnes and Taylor, were heroes of the Laconia disaster. They were the two last survivors to leave the sinking1 Cunarder. They stuck to their apparatus, sending out "S. O. S." calls until a British warship responded and then jumped overboard. The lifeboat commanded by Captain Ir vine picked the two men up, little the worse for their experience. All survivors' stories today united in eulogy of the splendid conduct and discipline of the Laconia's officers and crew. PARIS HOLOCAUST 200 Killed in Munition Explo sion, Says Berlin Report. 80,000 Tons Ammunition "Let Go"; 700 Wounded. Berlin, Feb. 27. (via Sayville wire less) '-"On February 2 a terrible ex plosion took place in the large am munition depots at Paris which ruined more r.han 80,000 tons of ammunition and kilied 20u persons," declared the Official Press agency today, auoting a Frankfurter Zeitung, "report via Switzerland from a private source in Paris." Seven hundred were wound ed it was said. NEGROES ARE HEALTHY Only Eight Were Sick in Topeka J)ur- Ing Month of January. Out of approximately 324 cases of sickness reported to the city health bureau during January only 8 were found among the colored people of the city. In fact out of nine diseases which attacked Topeka's health dur ing January the colored citizens ap peared to be immune from all except smallpox and pneumonia. Six col ored cases were among the 15 cases of smallpox reported during the month and two out of the eight cases of pneumonia. January was a month of measles. Two hundred and forty-seven little folk were tagged by this malignant playmate. The measles epidemic has continued into February, for about 200 cases have been reported to date during the month, according to Dr. H L. Clark, city physician. Following is the tabulation of other diseases reported during January: Smairpox, 10 cases; chickenpox, 27 cases; diphtheria, 11; whooping cough. 10: pneumonia, o; scarlet rever, a; typhoid, 2; and erysipelas, 1. U-BOATS ONJOB TODAY British Steamships and a Transport Reported Sunk. London, Feb. 27. The British steamers Headley and Aries have been sunk. The Headley was a eteel screw steamship of 4,953 tons, owned by the Mitre Shipping company, limited, and registered at London. She was built in 1914. The Aries was a steel screw steam ship of 3,071 tons, owned by the Rein deer Steamship company, limited, and registered at "West Hartlepool. She was built in 1895. Report a Transport Sunk. Berlin, Feb. 27. by wireless to Say ville. The sinking of the British transport A-19 was announced by the admiralty today. MAY DEFEAT DEFENSE LaFollettefs Filibustering Threatens 500 Million Naval Measure. "Washington, Feb. 27. The admin istration's great $500,000,000 naval bill the largest single national de fense measure ever framed is threat ened with delay and possible defeat thru a one-man filibuster by Senator LaFollette, it was learned this after-noon- KILLS HIS 3 CHILDREN Father Completed Tragedy by Suicide Brooded Over Idleness. Indianapolis, Feb. 27- Frank Stad er, 38t a laborer, shot and killed his three children as they lay asleep in bed here early today and later shot himself in the head. He died in a local hospital. Brooding over failure to find work is said to have been the cause of his act. AFTER CHANCELLOR'S JOB Von Tirpitx Supporters launch Cam paign to Oust Bethmann-Hollweg. Amsterdam. Feb. 27. According to a telegram from Berlin, thirty support ers of Admiral von Tirpitz, former minister of the naval, including Count von Hoensbroech have held a meeting to, discuss "a change in the office of imperial chancellor." V It is said to be the purpose of the promoters of this movement to hold meetings in all the large towns of Germany and also to obtain the sup port of newspapers for the purpose of forcing a change In the head of the government. Socialist and Liberal newspapers condemn1 this action Card or Thanks. We wish to thank our many friends for their sympathy and kindness, also for the many floral offerings during the illness and since the death of our fother, George Atckinson. MRS. GEORGE ATKINSON, MRS. A. F. NICHOLS, MRS. J. P. LONG. MR. R. A. ATKINSON, MR. E. J. ATKINSON. MR. C. J. ATKINSON, MR. DANIEL ATKINSON. (Advertisement. New York Money Market New Tork. Feb. 27. MONEY Mercantile Eaper, 4G4-44 per cent. Sterling, t day ills. 4.72: commercial. tiO day bills on banks, 4.N2: commercial. 50 day bills, de maQd. 4.7134 demand, 4.7i cables. 4.7G. Francs, demand. 5.S5; cables. 5.H4. Marks, demand, 7 cables. 7 1-lu. kronen, de mand, 11 cables, 11.03. Guilders, de mand, 405 cables, 40 7-11. Lires. demand, C.54: cables, 7.53. Knblea. demand. 2S cables. 2S. Bar silver. 77c; Mexican dol lars. 59. Government bonds. steady; railroad bonds, irregular. Time loans, steady; 60 days, S 90 days. 3a.i; 6 months. 4(aAyt. Call money, steady; high, 21; low. 2; ruling rate. 24: last loan, dosing bid 2; offered at 2. TO AVENGE THEM Son of Laconia Victims Cables President Wilson. If U. S. Won't Fight He Will Join British Army. London, Feb. 27. A quiet voiced, determined mannered, successful American business man, Austin Hoy, 36 years of age, urged his right upon President Wilson today to avenge the killing of his mother and his sister. There was no suggestion of mock heroics in his manner. He was dead ly calm, despite the fury of his feel ings against thosewhom he charged with their death. Austin Hoy cabled President Wilson today demanding that the death of Mrs. Mary Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy be avenged, and requesting the privilege of being the first volunteer if citizen army was raised in America. Otherwise he declared he would en list in the British army. Consulted the Ambassador. Hoy's cable to the chief executive of the United States followed a consul tation which he held today with American Ambassador Walter Hines Page and Consul General Skinner which he said convinced him he had the right thus to act. "I am an American business man," Hoy explained. "I have been in Lon don in business for four years, rep resenting the Sullivan Machinery com pany of Chicago. Father is now too old, and it de- i-olves uoon me as the active head of the family to see that this outrage does not go unavenged. "I beg that you won t consioer me in a mock heroic role but I intend to enlist because I could not expect that other Americans would offer their lives in avenging this wrong unless I did likewise. Father, 84, a Civil War Veteran. My 84-year-old father is a veteran of the Union army. He enlisted in the Nineteenth Wisconsin regiment in 1861 and served thruout the Civil war, becoming an assistant surgeon. "When the war was over he prac ticed several years at Racine, Wis. "Father was born at New Haven, Ohio, and my mother at Galena, Ohio. My mother was a sister of William A. Young of Breton hall. New York City, and an aunt of George Young of 114 Wall street, New York. 'When at home our Chicago resi dence was 4 61 North State street." Young Hoy said his mother was 6 51 years or age ana nis sister 4U. SHE RESPECTS FLAG So Kansas City Anti-War School Teaeher Goes Back to Work. Kansas City, Feb. 27. A substi tute continued today to teach the class in the James school here before which Miss Leonora Warneson, a young teacher wrote an anti-enlistment motto recently on the school room blackboard. Hale H. Cook, presi dent of the board, however, announced today that he had instructed Miss Warneson to return to her work to morrow. He also said she probably bad misunderstood him when she ap peared before him and she believed she had been suspended. "Miss Warneson told me today she had every respect for the American flag," Mr. Cook said. "She promised not to repeat such mottoes as the one written last week." Relatives of Miss Warneson said today that she had been given to understand yesterday that she had been suspended pending a report con cerning her case to the board of edu cation Thursday night. school authorities called her todav and asked why she had not returned to her school. They also reported that petitions asking for her return were circulated today among the families of the pupils of her class. I shall report the incident to the board," Mr. Cook said today. -'But I consider it unlikely that any action will be taken or that she will be asked to explain it further than she did before me yesterday." OLD LANDMARK TO GO Rain Residence on West Sixth To Be Made Into Office Building. Another of Torteka'n in nma.-!... j to go. The property at 215 and 217 West Sixth street was sold this morn ing to Walter Ashtbn Smith. Smith will spend several thousand dollars in remodeling the building which will be used as an office building. Work will begin at once and the remodeling will be completed within sixty days. This property was occupied by Silas Rain, one of the pioneers of Topeka, fifty-two years ago.. Mrs. Rain, his widow, from whom the title comes, still resides there and enjoys good health at the age of eighty-five. PETTIT IS VERYLOW Beatrice Creamery Man Near Death, Albuquerque Report Says. S. C. Pettit, who suffered an attack of apoplexy while in Albuquerque, New Mexico is very low today, accord ing to reports received here late this afternoon. Mr. Pettit has been connected with the Beatrice Creamery company for the last twelve years and is now secre tary and treasurer of the company. He left Topeka three weeks ago and was then in the finest of health. Mrs. Pettit is now in Albuquerque with her husband. PHONE 44 607 Kansas Ave. ITtEE DELIVERY ALWAYS Price and Qual ity of every arti cle, delivered by us guaranteed satisfactory o r money refunded. Try Our -Phone Service We appreciate the smallest of orders. DEATHS ANp FUNERALS. MOLlIB BOMGARTNER, age 1, died at the home of her parents,, Mr. and Mrs. John Bomgartner, at Jv'W Larch street. The funeral was held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from The St. Joseph Catholic church.. Burial in Mt. Calvary cemetery. J. D. HINES, age 62, died Monday night at his home, 1515 Topeka avenue. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. PRINCIPALS ORGANIZE Chicago School Man Heads New Sub sidiary of the N. JE. A. Kansas City, Feb. 27. Organiza tion of the Association of Principals of Secondary schools, as ah" affiliated body of the National Education asso ciation marked today's developments here of the annual gathering of the superintendency division of the asso ciation. The new organization, com posed of the heads of high school and institutions of a similar standard, is headed by B. F. Brown, of the Lake View high school of Chicago, who was named president.- Speakers emphasized that the schools embraced in the plan have enrollment ranging as high as 1,800 to 2,000 students and that they ?orm one of the most important links in the educational system of this country. The national conference of deans of women was addressed by Paul Mon roe of Columbia university. New York, and Miss Josephine Corliss Preston, state superintendent of pub lic instruction, Olympia, Washington. They spoke- of the need of advisers for women and girl students in high s Iiools and colleges, saying that the result of such appointments, would be higher moral and intellectual train ing. Plans for the enrolling of great er number of teachers in the National Education association will be dis cussed and made at the meeting this afternoon of the National Federation of State Education associations. Sev eral other affiliated organizations held business meetings preparatory to the first open session tonight of the su perintendency division of the parent association. A FLAGMAN FOR CARS House Bill Would Make Interurbans Employ an Extra Man. One method of maintaining a high wage standard is to create more soft jobs. The house labor committee nas decided the nicest, softest job in the world would be flagman n an elec tric or interurban train. Down in southern Kansas, an in terurban line sometimes operates an electric freight train which carries three or four cars, bo Coad, or i-rft-bette, chairman of the labor commit ter, has decided the trains are not properly equipped without a flagman to shoo the cows and chickens away. A bill which the Ubor committee has offered in the house provides that every electric or interurban train of three or more cars must employ a motorman, a conductor and a flag man. "There was an accident down our way once last summer," Coad ex plained in outlining the features of his bill, "and I thought this bill probably would provide against future trou ble." INJURED AT NOVELTY Mrs. Winifred Cutbirth Brings Suit for $3,000 Damages Today. For alleged injuries sustained in the Novelty theater, February 28, 1915, Mrs. Winifred Cutbirth today filed suit for $3,000 against the Amusement Syndicate company. Peoples' Amuse ment company, L. M. Crawford, W. W. Hooper and Roy Crawford. Mrs. Cutbirth lives at 208 Washburn ave nue. Mrs- Cutbirth alleges that a portion of ceiling fell on her, cut her head, bruised her face and cut muscles and ligaments. For doctor and hospital bills and pain suffered she asks $3, 000. She declares the management knew that materials used in the con struction of the theater were "out of repair, cracked, loose, decayed and not securely fastened." J. D. HINES IS DEAD He Was One of Best Known Real Estate Men in Topeka. J. D. Hines, one of the best known real estate men in eastern Kansas, died suddenly Monday night at his home, 1515 Topeka avenue. Death resulted from an attack of acute in digestion combined with heart fail ure. Mr. Hines had just finished his supper and had sat down at his desk to look over some papers when he was stricken. He fell forward in his chair and died within an hour. Mr. Hines was born in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1855 and came to Kansas in 1875. He lived in Leavenworth and Jefferson counties until fifteen years ago when he came to Topeka. He started a business of buying, selling and trading real estate and had inter ests in every part of the state. He is survived by his wife and two children, Eleanor and Paul Hines, all of Topeka. Arrangements for the funeral have not been completed. Manhattan Cleaners. Phone 1769 Adv. Topeka Auto I.ivery. Phone 698 or 3737, 116 W. 6th. Open day and nignt. Aav. The Topeka Ohio club will meet Wednesday evening at g o'clock with L. Smith. 21 a Pact T.h o-oot The club now has a membership of 1UU. Dr. S. T. Millard has removed his oince to iij jvansas avenue, over Ful terton Bros. Adv. Social dance, Kirknatrick's hall Saturday night. Saunders Union orchestra. Admission 35c. Adv. Mrs. A. A. Hennessy, 109 Jones street, who has been seriously ill for some time, was operated on this morning tor an aoscess. Spiritual temple tonight. Free class in theosophy. Fourth and Mon- 1 T. 1 A F. A. Koester. D. D. S.. 710 Mills Bldg. Special attention given to pyor rhea and oral propnyiaxia Aav. "Safety razor blades sharpened bet ter than new. zsc-c a ox. Brunt Martin Drue Co. -Adv. Lawn fencing at Forbes Hdw. Co. Adv. LQCALBERflON AFTER THESOFT JOBS Senate Wants State Institutions to Dis miss "Unnecessary Employes." There's woe in the numerous state institutions of Kansas today. There's tear and trembling among the em ployes. Each fears he may be asked to admit that he is "unnecessary and use less" and therefore eligible to dis missal. After getting by lor years the blow has fallen. The Kansas state senate has slapped the wrist of the boards and governing bodies of the va rious institutions. And they are ex pected to pass it on to the employes. The senate adopted a Joint resolu tion today, one introduce! by Sena tor Laing, of Russell, "hereby direct- ng and requiring the governing boards of the various institutions to dispense with all unnecessary and useless help in their repective Institu tions. The adoption of the resolution rais ed M p a mirage showing the members of the dif .erent boards hurrying to ad mit that they have "unnecessary and useless employes" in the institutions under them. Of course they don't have to admit it now; they may go out to the institutions and ask ques tions of the employes. Maybe, a couple of the employes will make the admission, then the board members mav act surprised, and come back and announce the dismissal of the whole crowd. The followine bills were recom mended for passage in the senate com mittee of the whole today. Local bills -under a general alias permitting job plants instead of news papers to print election ballots in counties having a population of 100, 000 or more. Bill allowing all honorably dis charged soldiers, sailors and marines who served during the civil war, who are without means of support and who have been residents of Kansas for two years, to enter the State Soldiers' home. Bill providing bath houses at coal mines. Bill providing double election boards in voting precincts where two hundred or more ballots were cast at the last general election for secretary of state. Bill requiring statements of receipts and disbursements and probable fu ture expenditures and receipts to be filed with the governor for the mak ing of a budget for the legislature nn or before the fifth of January, 1919. N. E. A. MEETS IN K. C. Better School Methods Advanced Hotels Are Jammed. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 27. Better methods and better teachers in rural schools will be demanded in many ad dresses, committee reports and round table discussions incidental to the con vention of the department of super indence of the National Education association, which will open with to night's program,. The fight to better country schools will be led by the National association of state supervisors and inspectors of rural schools, whose meetings' will be gin tomorrow morning, but the sub ject will be accorded greater empha sis than ever before by all other of the twenty odd organizations making up the National Education association, here for its annual meeting. Educators believed by tonight nearly five thousand teachers from every corner of the United States will have registered for the meeting. Kansas City hotels are taxed to capacity which includes the last sanitary couch. BEAT CIVIL WAR PRICE Hogs Hit $13.30 In Chicago Today Highest Ever Known. Chicago, Feb. 27. Hog prices at the Union Stock yards which have been moving up from day to day reached a new high point this morn ing when heavy swine sold at $13.30. Several days ago the $13.00 hog eclipsed all Civil war prices and es tablished a new record for the market. Tops Bring $13.35 In St. Louis. East St. Louis, 111., Feb. 27. The hog market continued skyrocketing today. The top- was $13.35 for first sales, on mixed and butchers with the entire market twenty to thirty cents higher. The firsf sneeze is the danger signal. Time to take tV CASCARAgQUININE The old family remedy In tablet form safe, sura, easy to take. No opiates, no unpleasant after effects. Cures colds in 24 hours Grip in 3 days. Money back if It fails. Get the genuine box with Red Top and Mr. Hill's picture on it 25 cents. As Aay Draw Star PURE DISTILLED WATER 5-g-aIlon bottle and cooler for the office. 2-galIoa bottle and cooler for the home. H -ffallon bottle. Just the liarbt else for tbe refrigerator. TOPEKA PURE WATER CO. I WANT A HOME! But How Can I Get One! The Capitol Building and Loan Ass'n E34 Kanpas Ave. Has a plan- and will gladly ex plain it. Just waik in you're welcome. QRflFT j Management of Uniyersity At tacked by Legislature. Bath Robes, Anto Supplies, Watches Charged to State. Jefferson City. Feb. 27. A special house committee, appointed to con sider the state's financial committee, reported today to Governor Gardner, a recommendation for the abolition of about forty clerkships in various departments and criticized expendi tures of several departments. Includ ing the state university. Representa tive Correll, of Randolph county, the committee chairman, estimated that $90,000 would be saved the state yearly by carrying out the report. Abolishment of the immigration board and the commission of immigration and several clerks of the public ser vice commission is recommended. Two positions paying $1,800 a year and two paying $1,200, two clerkships each in the beer inspection depart- I ment and under the board of health and one in the hotel inspection depart ment should be done away with, the report sets forth. Other clerkship recommendations are not dealt with specifically. Concerning a review of expenses of the state university the report states: $25,000 a Month for Travel. We find many items for the repairs lot automobiles, for the purchase of tool boxes and supplies for automo biles, for the repairing and engraving of watches, for the purchases of trav eling bags, bath robes, all of which total several hundred dollars. 'In the list of accounts on file, we find that in eleven months this insti tution spent more than $25,000 for traveling expenses. "Your committee has no right to doubt these claims but we do reserve the right to criticise the management of any institution for the expenditure of that amount of money that the professors may tour this and other states." The report also recommends that claims totalling $22,413 charged against the general contingent fund, be refused payment. GOLF TOURNEYIs ON 260 Players Start In the nig Plne liurst Spring Matches. Pinehurst, N. C., Feb. 27. Tho spring golf tournament opened Mon day at Pinehurst, 260 players finish ing the first eighteen holes of the thirty-six hole qualifying round. Norman Maxwell, the 19-year-old Aronimink club player who has been winning everything in sight for some months past, led the great field with a remarkably fine 75. Robert Hun ter, of the Weeburn club, followed in 76. These two were the only players to do better than 83, so between them they are practically assured of win ning the medal today. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1917 BRINGING UP FATHER Copyright. International New Service..- DRAWN FOR THE STATE JOURNAL BY GEORGE M'MANUS f Tun-. -rue r I I NOV ALU of voo folk? WAIT II 1 DErSR DO TOO f 11 H IT OtEOTOBE VAW S IN-rviENEVTRoOMANO VHEN KNOW WHM" OAX I IMPC DM FERXOU- DOTOU ANN.VERSARX g HE OVS COVER what OAXTHU ThV! U D 1 Sk REMEMQER HOvl'DT g Jj Ladies' Hose That you would expect to pay $1.00 to $1.25 per pair are be ing sold at this store 50c 'i 1 These Mesco Hose are gruaran ted with a new pair If they don't wear. v. THEY. VVILL AGREE Newspaper Publishers to Staud by Trade Commission. A crept Proposal of .News Print Men if Price Is Fixed. Washington. Feb. 7. .Newspaper publishers from thruout the Tinted States, meeting here today with the federal trade commission voted unan imously to co-operate with the coin mission if it decided to accept the proposal by news print manufactur ers that the commission fix a price i n- their product. The publishers agree to reduce their requirements if necessary to make the plan successful. The publishers' assent -to the pro posal removes virtually all doubt of its acceptance by the trade commis sion and after manufacturers are seen aaain Wednesday it is believed the commission will announce it is ready to (jo ahead with the plan. Most of the publishers present buy from the oaoer mills whose representatives .signed the proposal. The trade commission believes enough manufacturers are participat ing to insure a general price break. The publishers made it clear that in accepting the proposal they will not accept any plan carrying with it a promise that manufacturers guilty of violating the anti-trust laws escape I jnishment. At a meeting held before they saw the commission a resolution was adopted sayinfj: "It is the sense of those assembled t'.tat whatever may be the outcome of these pending conferences, there should in the judgment of this meet ing, be no suspension or interruption f the investigation into the causes lending to the conditions now existing in tl e news print paper trade now proceeding thru the agency of the department of .lust ice." When this declaration was reaa. Mr. Henry, who is conducting the commission's news print investigation, declared the department of justice has no intention of stopping the investi gation. Publishers have insisted that they want free competition restored in print paper manufacture and thruout conferences here within the last few davs have demanded action either by the trade commission or the depart ment of justice that will bring per manent relief. After the meeting to day most of the publishers signed an agreement submitted by the commis sion, in which they pledged themselves to cut their requirements nt least 5 per cent below their 1 i) 1 6 supply of pa tier. The final consent of the publishers to the plan came after a day of con ferences at which many of the large newspaper owners objected strongly to any condition that wouid take from them any paper they have con tracted for. Small publishers and members of the trade commission. however, pointed out that success of the pro posal depended entirely on such a con cession and when a votpwas taken iHt a publisher voted in' the nega tive. Itc'soliilioii 1'p. This resolution was as follows: "Resolved that the newspaper pub lishers present at this meeting, agree to use less news print paper in 1917 than they used in 1 f) 1 6 with thought in mind that this will create a sur plus which will insure a supply to all newspapers particularly the small er papers, who have difficulty in se curing an adequate supply; and we recommend to all newspaper pub lishers that they do likewise in our common interest." Members of the commission had TO DARKEN HAIR APPLY SAGE TEA A ft-w applications or Sage Tea and Sulphur brings back its vigor, color, gloss and yotithfulness. "omrnon garden sage brewed into a heavy tea with sulphur added, will turn frray. streaked and faded hair beautifully dark and luxuriant. Just a few applications will prove a revela tion if your hair i. fading, streaked or gray. Mixing the Sage Tea and Sulphur recipe at home, though is troublesome. An easier way is to get a 50-oent bottle of Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound at any drug store :,11 ready for use. This is the old-time recipe improved by the ad dition of other ingredients. While wispy, gray, faded hair is not s.nful we all desire to retain our youthful appearance and attractive new By darkening your hair with Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound no one can tell, because it does it so naturally, so eventy. You just damp en a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair taking one small strand at a time; by morn ing all gray hairs have disappeared and. after another application or two' your hair becomes beautifully dark' glowy, soft and luxuriant. This preparation is a delightful toilet retiuisite and is not intended for the cure, mitigation, or prevention of disease. Advertisement declared positively that no price arbi I tration plan could be taken up unless i publishers would co-operate to the extent of reducing tonnage if it be came necessary. They said, however, that it might not become necessary j for any publisher to se less than he needs. The danger as they saw it, j was that publishers would take ad vantage of the lower price to go into the market for large quantities of i paper and bring about a shortage, i The statement was made that the commission's investigation had shown that there was no shortage but that the margin tietween production and (consumption was close. It was made clear the commission would enter into no arbitration plan with the price .alone as the factor and with no ar rangement as to distribution. Ques tions put to Mr. Henc-y by publishers brought out that the department of justice is considering charges that manufacturers limited their produc tion as a phase of the criminal- in vestigation now in progress in the fNew York federal court. I Francis J. Heney, speaking for the commission, told the publishers that any of their number who would not agree to hold paper requirements to the minimum would be kept from j benefiting by the price reduction if ithe commission could accomplish that. More than 100 publishers, represent ing both large and small newspapers, were present at the meeting. East Side. 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. Mr. 'and Mrs. II. Fuller have returned to iheir home after spending a day m Kansas City. The Phikithcn class of "the Swnrd Ave nue ItaptiVt church will Sneet for their reg ular monthly meeting Tuesday evening at the home of Miss Prudence Jury, Twiss avenue. Mr. and Mrs. It. A. Marker and family of lzawkie spent a few days with their -usin. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Root and fam ily, 1205 East Fourth avenue. Mrs. Root accompanied them to their home for a short visit. The Oiieen Esther class of the Third Christ tan church will give a food sale March 10 st the arren M. Crosby Dry Goods store. Mrs. Howard Clark is Improving after a serious illness at her home, 422 Lafay- I ette street. J The Kansas Sunflower club was enter- i tained Monday evening by the Misses Nellie, Susie and Laura White at their I home. Poplar street. The guests of the evening were: Miss Willetta Parker, Miss Rachel O'Harrn. Miss ittauche Watts, Miss Lola Vaughn. Miss Edna Cox and Miss Prudence .Jury. Next Monday eveiiimr Miss Rachel i l'Harra will be hostess to the club members. A Christian Endeavor business meeting will be held Tuesday evening, March tt, at the home of Mias Floy liiggius, 1108 East Light U avenue. Mr. and :irn. W. I. Rogers at Route are the parents of a daughter, born Tuesday morning. The e'cuti ve committee of the Mis sionary society of the Third Presbyterian church held a business meetiug Monday afternoon with Mrs. J. It. Norton. Elliott avenue. Those who attended were: Mrs. I. II. Ellenbergcr. Mrs. Sarah Brown, Mrs. John Alexander, Mrs. i. H. Fliiitham, Mrs, Ellen Tichnnr and Miss Floy Higgins. The PH view Literary society will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. C. P.. Shaefer. Eleventh and Republican avenue. Mrs. It. Horne. South Kansas avenue, will be hostess Wednesday afternoon to the L. n. c. Card club. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Keith of East Seward avenue are moving to Oklahoma, whf re they will remain permanently. The Golilon Rod Card club will be en tertained Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. C E. Pyle at her home, 1215 West Fifth Street. Mrs. Albert Tweedy and daughters Ada and Iiirdena, of Oskaloosa, have left for their home, after visiting Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Fnirchlld. Lime street. The Domestic Sewing Circle will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. P. Miller, Grattan strict. Mrs. E. C. Campbell will be hostess ednesday afternoon to the Tulip club at her home. HO Fillmore street. M 5FdcsbuiFEh Y taoin taoin taoinaoin LQaklawd Notes and personals from Oakland, by Frauces Jones. 211 Grattan street. Telephoue between 8 and 10 a. m., 3530; other hours, 4751 K-2. Rev. Oliver Austin, of McPhereon, is conducting evangeHstical services at the Church of the Brethren, Michigan avenue. 1 he meetings will be continued until Ihnrsday. The Ladies Aid society of the Oakland f hristian church will give a mitten social U ednesday evening at the church. The money secured in this wav will be used to equip the church with electricity. Mr and Mrs. Jeorge Carotbers, Kellam avenue, had as dinner guests Sunday. Mr. and-Mrs. James Ilortoti and little (laugh ter Dorothy and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Jes sop and little daughter Marie. Lois, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P.. Harris, Kelhrni avenue, is improving after being quite 111 at her home. The Ladies' Missionary society of the Oakland Presbyterian church will enter tain with a silver tea Thursday afternoon at the church. A musical and literary prog rum will be given at 2:30 o'clock. Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Messenger, of Hor ton are the parents of a daughter, born Sunday. Mrs. Messenger is staving at. the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. J, Neiswinter, Winfleld avenue. The condition of C. R. Cole, who is ill at his home-, Is Tin proving. Mrs. G. G. Horne. wile of Rev. G. O. Ilorne. pastor at the Oakland Christian ciiurch. who is suffering with an injured arm shows no improvement. Mr. and Mrs. James Nicholson have re turned to their home in Fort Madison, iow-a after visiting Mrs. Nicholson's par ents. Mr and Mrs. F. Horst, Poplar street. iL 5.ll'J?,lBon nas ben the city a week. N.lrho118b came Saturday to accom pany her home. fill Mm LOSCELLAKiSOOS ADS ADVERTISING RATES: The rate for inserting Want Ada la The Topeka Stat Journal is ouc cent a word each insertion, minimum 10 cents; by the week 5 cents a word minimum 50 cents. OUT OF TOWN advertisements must he accompanied with cash or check In full payment of the same. Note the foregoing Instructions about counting the words and the rate per word for The Topefca State Journal. COUNT THK WORTS of yonr ad Includ ing; four words for State Journal address when address la used count each "initial" letter and each o umber or combination of figures as one word. CLOSING HOUR Want Ads to be classified properly must be In The State Journal office before 12:20 o'clock. Want ads received after 12:20 till 1:15 p. m. will be inserted under the bead: "Too Late to Classify." North Side News W. L. Kirk is organizing a move ment among the colored people of North Topeka whose purpose it is to lower the cost of living. The plan in volves the forming of garden clubs under the auspices of the United States department of agriculture and the State Agricultural college at Man hattan. Kirk explained the plan Mon day evening at a meeting at the St. Marks A. M. K. church. The aim is to encourage the intensive cultivation of common market products on vacant lots and other available spaces that would otherwise, go to waste. The scheme has been tried in var ious of the southern states with much suecessr -Cjorrwnisstorier "Porter has promised his co-operation to make the plan a success. Vacant lots will be allotted where practicable. Mother daughter canning clubs are also con templated in the project. Five teams each consisting of a mother and daughter will be furnished with seed by the United States department of agriculture, and prizes will be awarded to the team producing the finest gar den. The trustees of the East Indianola church have been authorized to take steps looking toward the erection of a new church building. At present the members meet in the East Indianola school house. Several months ago the organization moved from its North To peka Congregational church to East Indianola. The trustees contemplate disposing of the old building and erect ing a new one at their present home. No definite action has been determined on however. When the resignation of Charles Gerteisen as agent at the Santa Fe junction, takes effect March 1. George Sorrenson of the general offices will act as joint agent at both stations, that north and that south of the river. Sorrenson will maintain his present office. Harvey Eversole, assistant agent and chief clerk, will have im mediate charge of the junction office. Social and Personal. Shawnee council No. 3, K. and L. of S., will meet tonight at its hall, 1000 North Kansas ajvenue. Initiation will be held and refreshments served. Golden Rule lodge No. 90 confers the third degree cn seven candidates today. The ceremony began at 1 o'clock at the hall, 911-913 North Kansas avenue. A supper will be served at 6 o'clock, and the affair concluded in the evening. The Senior B. Y. P. U. will give a party this evening at the home of Miss Ruth Button, 919 North Van Buren street. Jack Huffy of Elmont.i one. of the well known farmers north of town, is critically ill with pneumonia at a local hospital. Lonnie Shore has accepted a posi tion with the Campbell Drug com pany. 1 A. M. Petro, Druggist Adv. Charley Kruger, of Menoken, was in town this morning on business. The ladies of the Central Avenue Christian church will give a tea Wed nesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. W. B. Whitehead of 1414 North Quincy street. Step ladders at Forbes Hdw. Co Adv. "TIZ" FOR TIRED, PUFFED-UP FEET Instant relief for sore, aching, tender, calloused feet and corns. You're footsick! Your feet feel tired, puffed up, chafed, aching, swjeaty, and they need "Tiz." "Tiz" makes feet remarkably fresh and sore-proof. "Tiz" takes the- pain and burn right out of corns, callouses and bunions. "Tiz" is the grandest foot-gladdener the world has ever known. Get a 25-cent box of "Tiz" at any drug store and end foot torture for a whole year. Never have tired, ach ing, sweaty, smelly feet; your shoes will fit fine and you'll only wish you had tried "Tiz" sooner. Accept no sub stitute. Advertisement. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. O. Sbultice and wife to T. P. Oliver, nw. 20-11-15 28,000 To W. M. Forbes and others: M. u. Hunt, lot 249 Eaat Gth St., Shutt's add 300 Smne, lots 40 to 00 Ueacon at., Dan iels' sub, lot pt. 35-31 Gordon sr.: also lot 282 Taylor at.; also 25-7 pt. 2S3 Polk St., Pacific Place add. also 1S-20 Madison st. Crane's add. and 4:tT Lane, King's add., lot 4!1 s. Sft Monroe St., also lots 49 to 73 iordon St., E. J. Lon gren $1. lot 1 n. of se. V and 8. V- of ne. 13-11-13 1.250 J. W. Waddell. lots 13-15-17-19-21-3 Redden ave., Euclid Park add II. Rit-bie and wife to C. Iavis. lots 481-3 yuincy St.. Kitchies add.... 1,250 P. M. Nciswender and wife to C. O. Shuttle?, pt. se. Vi 13-11-15 4,000 O. A. Scevers and wife to J. S. Oreene and others, pt. lots 14G-148 Bu chanan St.. Home's add 2.400 LOST AND FOUND. LOST The party who picked up small leather purse containing currency be tween th and 9th on Kansas ave., Satur day afternoon was seen and will avoid trouble by returning same to 1620 Van Ituren. Phone 4421 Blue. LOST Fox Terrier, black and white, tan collar, right foreleg claw off. Answers to Muggins. Reward. Finder please bring to Little Harold. Phone 300U 1305 Buch anan. LOST Leather wallet containing Dodge Bros, literature, on lower Silver Lake road. Reward for return to Mr. Wolfe, lines Motor Car Co. WANTED MALK HFXP. WANTED 25 farm and dairy hands: farm couples stone quarry men, south for eign laborers, pipe line, south: bridge car penters ami helpers; laundry boy. pan washer: combination cook and waiter: fry cook; 2nd cook; man and wife cooks; res taurant and hotel help; hotel cooks. Fur man Employment Office, 100 West Sth FIREMEN. BliAKEMEN, beginners paid S12.J $150 monthly; no strike. Railway, care State Journal. "WANTED Live wire representative for Shawnee county, exclusive. See Mr. Pack, Fifth Avenue hotel. STRONG boy in wash room. Mutual Lamuiry, WAN T KD-A1 1 round Laundry. mechanic. Mutual WAXT7J) FEMAJLE HELP. WANTED1 25 dining room and lunch counter girls experienced family help women cooks, $-!5 mo., helper, $20 mo. hotel jjooks chambermaids women for. country homes kitchen help laundry help. etc. Furman's Employment Office, 100 West 8th. STOCK GML WANTED A stock girl. Apply at once. BERK SON BROS. 707 Kansas Ave. WANTED Girls for dining room and lum-h room work. Harvey House, Santa Fe station WANTED Competent, agreeable house keeper. Two grown-up laundry out. Phone HVt5 WANTKD (iirl on rought dry esper-- ieneed preferred; Mutual Laundry Co. WA.NTKD Half day help. 5048 Blue. 1151 Mulvane. WANTKI) Woman cook at German hotel. '2:2.1 Kansas ave. WANTED Competent experienced wh girl. Apply 401Toeka ave HELP WANTED at the Gem Laundry. WANT ED SALESMEN WANTED Salesmen: wide awake clerks and salesmen to sell health and accident Insurauce In Kansas. Good commissioo pa'd. Addrepn Insurance, care Journal. WANTED TO RENT WANTED TO RENT 1 or 5' room mod ern furnished house or apartment. A 0, care Journal. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. HEMflCnTnpTNKTNGr mailings of all kinds. Buttons made. Mail orders receive prompt, careful atten tion. Mrs. Mercer, BOO ropena. WANTED Watch repairing. Main springs, 75c: cleaned, 75c. All work guaranteed. Armstrong Jewelry Co.. 429 Kan saa ave. CiKPET and rug weaving. 1030 Garfield. Phone 25S8 Blue. GOOD milk cows, fat cattle and veal calves W C. A. Leltzow Tel. zo. "10K2 HASTY AUTO EXPRESS. BUSINESS CHANCES WANT to hear from parties owning proven or unproven acreage. Will provide money for oil and gas development. Will give preference to large acreage but will con sider property 100 acres and upward. Quick development. Submit sketch map and full particulars. Ralph Development Company.. Box 9!H1. Tulsa, tkla. FOR SALE Rooming house of 16 rooms full of regular roomers, close in and well furnished. Big bargain, $1,000. A. L. Furman. 100 West 8th, Topeka, Kan. SACRIFICE 100.000 shares Uncle Sam oil stock for $105 to help drill a well in Miami county. Kansas, the best shallow sand oil territory in the world. T. J. Coughliu. Edgerton. Kan. FOR RENT FURNISHED ROOMS. FOR GENTLEMAN One furnished room with or without board. Phone 3734. 124S Lane. A BEAUTIFUL large furnished sleeping room, modern, walking distance. Phone v 5es t i u. NEATLY furnished modern room, near Santa Fe offices, vacant March 1st. Phone 27:K Black. TWO furnished downstairs housekeeping rooms eo suite. Bath, electric lights. No children. 1217 West 5th ONE modern furnished room, Orpheum Bldg. Gordon Bros. 107!). 2 STRICTL? tODKRN furnished rooms, tSUT Toueka Ave. Phone 3138 Blue. INSURANCE, 1MB EH PROMPT AND UN OUR KEW LOCATION AT Fire. Tornado. Automobile. COMPANIES, German American of New York, First Association of Philadelphia. Hanover of New York, (ilens Falls of New York, Northwestern F. M. of Minneapolis, R. BOWE11S. Pbone 405. FOE. SALE REAL ESTATE. COMMTMY One acre on the west side, one-half mile west of Washburn campus, close to graded school, new, neyer occupied, 5-room tiouse, basement, force pump, on macadam road, ground all iu alfalfa. Price $3,500. Terms. One acre river bottom, one-half mile to car line, 5-room house with pan try and bathroom, good cellar and well, chicken houses and outbuild ings. Terms, $2,500. 534 KANSAS AVE. FOR SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS. 1U8WE0 BE3UEVE EM SA3IH MOMEY When buying new and second-hand furniture and stoves, should by them here. A trial will convince you. STALONS FEJMT EJ1EE 0. 315 KANSAS AVE. PHONE 3955. FOR RENT HOUSES FIVE-ROOM house, new bath, newly pa pered, cement basement, 1S30 Kansas avenue. Key first door north, Phone 3145. E. E. Itoiidebush, tea Kansas ave. STRICTLY modern six-room house, laundry.-, cistern, sleeping porch. Inquire lua i- niniore. FOR RENT House 3 large rooms, $'1.50. 1004 East Kth. FOR RENT Nice cottage and apartment, modern except furnace. Phone 2525 Red. FOR RENT New ft room house, strictly modern on West 7th St. Phone 1705 Red. FOR RENT 920 West 5th. Four-room house. Phone 4758 Blue. FOR RENT House, 5 rooms, bath, electric lights. gas. 1011 West 12th. Phone 1307. FOR RENT 1 room house, city water, gas, 9. 1.120 East 6th. EIGHT room modern residence, oak floor. sleeping porch. 1273 Harrison. FOlt UE'r-j-room house, electric lights, corner 4th and Tyler. Phone 2018 White. 6-ROOM modern house and barn. 1265 Clay. Telephone 22!H nine. FOR RENT 5-room bouse at 1709 Kansas avenue. Phone 5502.T. FOR RENT APARTMENTS. STRICTLY modern apartment, 5 ioomi, bath, sleeping porch, 517 and 519 West 5th. Phone 218. BOARD AND ROOMS SoDERN rooms with fieardV cT day, $5 per week. Topeka Hotel, 122 West 6th. FOR RENT ROOMS TWO large unfurnished connecting rooms, $g, walking distance. 806 West 8th. Phone 5543 W. FOR RENT OFFICE ROOMS FO RENT 2 office rooms $12 mo., 3 office rooms $22.50 mo., steam heat, all near transfer station houses. A. L. Furman, 106 West Uth. Phone 602. SFTTE of modern offices for rent. 731 Kansas avenue. Phone 1V FOR RENT FARMS 80 IMPROVED, 7 or 8 miles west of city, 4-room bouse, barn, some fruit, 20 alfalfa,30 pasture, good dairy farm. Living spring in pasture. Only $200. COTTHELL CO.. 107 E. 7th. Tel. 556. 340S. FOR RENT MISCELLANEOUS FOR RENT 515 Quincy street 25 by 150. one-story, suitable for garage, shop or storage. Garvey, Central Bank Blddg. Phones 111 or 3183. PUBLIC SALES CLEAN SWEEP PI'BLIC SALE. THURSDAY. MARCH 1, 1917. One and one-half mile south of Topeka on Topeka avenue, mile south of Avon dale school bouse, all farm machinery, choice Hoi stein heifers, Duroc brood sows, shoats and one male hog; chickens; every thing aeils. T. PORTER, C O. ANSEL, Auctioneer. Kansas Reserve State Bank Clerk?. C. O. ANSEL, General Auctioneer. Res. Phone, 2251 Red. Office 40. At your service at alt times. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 2061 Lincoln Street. Topeka, Kana. MONTANA 640-ACRE HOMESTEADS New town, business opoprtunities. Send 25c for maps and information. Address U. 3. Co minis a loner. Outlook, Mont. INSURANCE. EFFICIENT. 5U NEW ENGLAND BLEds. Burplar. Liability. Plate Glass, Life. Health. Accident, REPRESENTED Hamburg-Bremen of Hamburg, Franklin of Philadelphia, Orient of Hartford, British America of Toronto, Continental of N. Y. CO. W. A. fSMITH, 501 New England Bldg. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. HOI PHONE 8030. FOR SAKE HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. DO YOU WANT A BARGAIN? TEEN BOY FKO U PEOPLE WHO NEED MONEY 120 aCreS. 5 mllea from a n-nnn tnn-n good land, well located, and a bargain for G. W. BKADLEY 632 Kansas Ave., Topeka. QAlLfOT LOTS Raise your own potatoes. Oakland lots can t be beat. We have several groups of lots that can be sold for $65.00 to $100.00 each. All close to enr Hn. Knino I on easy terms. Geo. M. Noble Ik Co. Phone i FOR SALE 100 acres revel land, mile irom station on main line of U. P., Logan Co. Priced at $17.50 per acre for immediate sale. Terms on part. J. E. LEADER Co., 606 K. A., Topeka. TO?EEA AVE. LOTS Just south of 13th, a choice, close-in home site. Old shaiie, shrubbery, every modern convenience available. Beautiful homes surrounding. This is one of the few really choice, close-In locations on the mar ket and the price has been cut to a low figure for quick sale. -Call Wilson Neiswanger, 111 West 8th. Phone 48. CtNTTlSAL PAM, 4,00 Choice 8 lots, 8 mi., hot water heat, fireplace, batb. sleeping porch, barn, to sell at once. COTTRELL CO., 107 E. 7th. TeL KS6, 3408. 723 VAN BIL&EN, SSSJ See J. T. Bell, 725 Fill more. FOR SALE OR RENT 80-acre farm near Hoyt, Kan. Write M. Cole, N. Topeka, R.5. FOR SALE Six room cottage, barn, well ana cistern, one acre ground, five min utes' walk to new Santa Fe shnna r-i $1,700. $500 down, balance payments, John Coyne, owner, 412 Monroe street. $12 CASH and $12 monthly or other easy terms to suit. 706 Chandler. One lot, five rooms, fair condition. See It and make offer. Will take lots, auto or other iraue ior pari, uwner. iti HAVE improved quarter section rn Logan county with 100 acres in cultivation, for aale at $2,0OO. Want good automobile and will take one in on this land. Address F. E.t care State Journal. 1154 CLAY ST., cottage, 6 rooms and bath, great bargain if sold at once, cash or on payments. Call 601 East 4th avenie or phone rtlp or lfiOl. NEARLY new 6 room modern house; just what you want, close In leaving city. Phone 4351 Red, afternoons. i r rw oALr o iuie iuisi iiue ioib at a L. Furman, 106 West 8th, Topeka. FOR SALE Good 4 room bouse and 4 lots one block of car line in Oakland, $1,200. A. L. Furman.JOG West trth.TopekA Kan. NICE 3-ROOM COTTAGE for sale' cheap; to be moved off. Fhone 5129 Black. 4 TO 24 LOTSPinehurst addition. West 6th Pt.. at a bargain. Phone 1104. FOR EXCHANGE. EXCHANGE for Topeka or Manhattan residences, a 160-acre farm. Addresa Owner, Route 3. Box 4, Mankato, Kan. FOR SALE MOTORCYCLES. FOR SALE Hurley-Davidson Motorcycle with side car, 11)16 model, 3 speed, elec tric. Cost new, with all equipment $400. Good as new now will sell complete $250. See Bob- Brown at Brunt-Martin Drug Co. FOR SALE: HOUSEHOLD GOODS. NEARLY" new leather seated dining room chairs, mission rocker, settee and duofold. Apartment 1 The Neil. 214 West 11th. FOR SALE Furniture at 1417 West 10th. Phone 1005. J FOR SAI.E-Coal heater and gas cook stove. Phone 30B7 White. t FOR SALE POULTRY BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK roosters, $1.50 each. F. J. Bartel, Route 8, To peka. FOR SALE Davis Acetylene Gas Gener ator and fixtures. Practically new. Uedabout 4 months: Phone 2456 N-4. FOR SALE 390 egg Cyphers iucubatoT Price $10. Phone 1K77 K-2. FOR SALE COAL ORDER COAL E. C. MUS21IIM Any kind, any quantity. Phone 3209. FOR SAL, MISCEULANEOUS GOOD sound work horse, double set work harness. Good as new. 113 East 12th. Phone H209. FOlt SALE Office desk and table. 725 Kaunas ave. W. T. Dawson. 10K HASTY A1TTU KXPKES8. LEGAL. L Published in The Topeka State Journal. Tuesday, February 27, 1917. J SENATE BILL NO. 595. AN ACT relating to the changing of court house sites. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas; Section 1. In any county having a popu lation of not less than IKKM) and uot more than 13,000, in which the board of county commissioners have the power to build county buildings, such commissi oners, on petition to them for that purpose, by one fourth of the bona fide resident taxpayers of said county, may change the court house site of such county to any place within the corporate limits of the city in which Is located the county seat of sut b county. For the purposes of this act, the population of such county shall be deter mined from the returns of the assessors next preceding 'the date of the presenta tion of su h petition. 8ec. 2. This act shall take effect and be In force from and after Its publication la the official state paper. I hereby certify that the above Bill origi nated in the Srnate, and passed that body February 23, VJ17. XV. Y. MORGAN, President of the Senate. K. D. GEORGE, Secretary of the Senate. Passed the House February 24, 1917. A. M. KEKNE. Speaker of the House. CLARENCE. W. MILLKU, Chief Clerk of the House. Approved February 20. 1917. ARTHUR CAPPER. Governor. State of Kansas, office of Secretary of State. I. J. T. BOTK1N. Secretary of State of the State of Kansas, lo hereby certify that the above and foregoing is s correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my offl-e. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal, Seal. hi 20th day of February, 1917. J. T. BOTKIV. Secretary of State. By E. A. CORNELL. A at. Secretary of State. First published in The Topeka State Journal, February 20, 1917.J Office of County Treasurer of Wabaun-ee County, Kan. To whom it may concern Whereas. The refunding railroad bonds issued by Alma and Newbury Townships, iu the county of Wabaunsee and State of Kan sas, on August 28, 1M99, for the purpose of refunding bonds Issued by said townships to the Chicago, Kansss Nebraska Kail way Co. a railroad corporation of the State of Kansas, on May 1st, 1H7T. said bonds are redeemable at the pleasure of the town ship Tjoards of said townships at any time after ten years after the date of the issuance of the same. Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that the following bonds will be redeemed by said township as follows:: Bond No. 13, amount $1,000.00, Issued by Alma township. Bond No. 13. amount $1,000.00. and Bond No. 14, amount $1,000.00, issued by New bury township, all of said bonds being issued on August 2S, 199. .Now then said bonds herein described win he naid at the Fiscal AuencT. in the City of New York, State of New York, at tne expiration oi .u iiayn i nmi iue msi publication of this notice, said bonds shall cease to bear interest at flint date. J. L. KM'PKTOE, Treasurer of Wabaunsee County. FRED HEVTKK, Treasurer of Alma Township. GEO. LESLIVIE. Treasurer ofs'ewbury Township, I First published in The Topeka. State Journal, February 17, 1917.J City Clerk's Notice of PRIMARY ELECTION. Office of City Clerk. Topeka, Kanaas. February 1G. 1017. Notice Is hereby given that a Primary Election will be held on the 2tttb day of MArcb. 1917, being the second Monday preceding the Jeneral City Election of April 3, 1017. at which time candidates will be nominated, according to the pro visions of law, for the following offices, in said city, to wit: Mayor Commissioner of Finance and Revenue Commissioner of Water Worka and Street Lighting Commissioner of Streets and Public Im provements Commissioner of Parka and. Public Property Tt-ee Members of the Board of Educa tion from the City at large. Tb Polls will be open from o'clock a. m. until 7 o'clock p. m. in the City of Topeka, Kansss. (Seal.) ETTA M. COVELL, City Clerk. tgrmtttmaiMUiffotua omt I. S. GALITZKY LEGAL. Published in The Topeka State Journal, February 27, 1917. SENATE BILL No. 5. AN ACT relating to the compulsory em ployment of a male prisoner committed, to the Jail of any couuty in the state of Kansas for falling to pay a fine, or costs, or both fine and costs. i r Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansus: Section 1. That whenever any male per-, son, convicted of a misdemeanor, Bball be adjudged to pay the costs of the pro-' ceedings by which he was convicted, or a fine or both costs and fine, and for failure to so do shall be committed to the county jail, the board of county commissioners of the county in which such prisoner is con fined shall compel such prisoner to work on any street, highway, poor farm or pub-, lie works under Its direction and control. For each day's work so performed by him, such prisoner shall receive a credit of one dollar upon the amount of costs, or fine; or fine and costs, and when his credit thus obtained shall be equal to th amount of such costs, or fine, or fine and. costs, he shall be released and set at lib-'" erty and such judgment of conviction shall be receipted in full by the board of coun ty commissioners. Sec. 2. That the board of county com missioners employing such prisoner upon a. street, highway, poor farm or any pnblie works shall furnish the necessary guard under the absolute command of the sheriff, of the county to manage and control Bach I prisoner and to return him to the countv t jail at the close of each day's work-ami. also shall furnish all expenses of convey-" ing prisoners to inn rrom the place or em ployment, all cost of Kuardn, all ueceasarv material, tools, implements, plows, teams, engines, wagons, rock crushers or other equipment of whatever kind or character which said board may deem necessary for working such prisoner to advantage "upon such street, highway, poor farm or public work provided, that no prisoner shall be worked more than eight hours la any twenty-four consecutive hours. Sec 3. That this set shall take effect and be in force from nnd after its publics tion in the official Btate paper. I hereby certify that the above Bill origi nated in the Senate, and passed that body -January 2(1, 1917, Senate concurred In House Amendment February 21, 1917. W. Y. MORGAN. President of the Senate. E. 1. GEORGE, Secretary of tire Senate. Passed the House February 21, 1917, A. M. KEENE, ,r Speaker of the House. CLARENCE W MILLER. Chief Clerk of the House. Approved February 2. 191", ARTHUR CAPPER. Governor. State of Kansas, j Office of Secretary of State.. 1, J. T. HOT KIN, 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 on fii In ray office. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. I have hereunto subscribed my nama and affixed ray official seal Seal. thU 24th day of February, J. T. HOT KIN. Secretary of State. By E. A. CORNELL, -f-Asst. Secretsry of State. ,r MONEY HOME money loans, best rates. Pay here and get coupons. Money ready whea abstrict complete. Write me. R. P. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1917 8 Up to the Minute SportingNews From Everywhere. FOUL HAS HOPES t Cleveland May Be Factor in A. L. Race Aeain This Year. Much Will Depend on Stick Work of Tris Speaker. 1"Y JACK VEJOCK. New York, Frn. 2 7. I-ee Fohl hail he Cleveland Indians very much in the nice fnr the American league 1 CJ PLATTSBURG MADE WITH THE NEW REINFORCED EDGO. 16 g? EACH 6FOR90J? Von Collars OLDEST BAAC in AMERICA SOLD BY Men s Apparel 611 Kansas Ave. pennant from the first of May until the middle of August last summer. Then the spell was broken and the Indians began to suae until mey unai ly landed and finished in sixth place. But the Indians made themselves felt, and they caused the first big sensation of the major league season by their quick rush to the. top oi the ladder. No one had expected to see them climb so fast. No one thought t was in the "downtrodden Indians. Many have said that Tris Speaker was the inspiration which uau those Indians to come to life with a jerk. No doubt the advent of the sreat Tristram in a iieveianu uni form had a lot to do with it. Whole Club Good. But no one ball player can keep n club In first place from the first of May until the middle of August at least, no ball player who Is not a super-ball player, and Speaker, tho a star, cannot be rated as superhu man. T)ue credit for the work he did must be given "Spoke." Far be it from us to take the slightest sort of any eds;e from his wonderful per formances which led him to a batting championship. But it is a certainty that Lee Fohl and his club as a whole were resnonsible. Not any one man, for the Indians were a wrecking ma chine while they held their gait. And now this same team of bat tling ball players is going to make a new start. It is going after the bunt ing in Big Ban Johnson's loop, and it is going to be a factor, if we are to take tha opinions of a big majority of writers and "just plain" baseball men for it. No one. at least o-tside of Cleve land, is making bold predictions for the Indians. But everyone who has taken time to size them up is con vinced that they will make themselves felt. They will be factors In tne race and their fortunes or misfortunes will count heavily. They will make a trnnn- fieht for a first division finish. This is the unanimous opinion of the majority. Can Tris Repeat? Spurred on to duplicate his feat of grabbing the batting honors, Tris Speaker may be expected to play his head off. And the other batsmen of the Cleveland club will start the sea- nn Txith an incentive to keen close on Speaker's heels in the business of slamming the ball around. Lee Fohl has a well seasoned and clenendable infield, with son.e good looking recruits, who may break in on some of the regulars. With Gan dil, Chapman, Wambsganns, Turner, Evans and Howard or last year s in field, he will take Mart Kavanaugh secured from Detroit; Louis Guisto, s sensational player from fortland Rav Miller, formerly with Columbus, :;nd Joe Harris, from Chattanooga, to Waxahaehie, for the training season. L M. PENWELL Funeral Director ROBERT STEELE, Assistant 508-510 Qulncy St. Phono 192 Guisto finished the season with the ndians last year ana ne was a. hitter with Portland. Miller, who is a. clean-cut Derformer, hit .344, ac cording to his last minor league aver age, and Joe Harris was strong with the stick in tne Bouuictu ting .309. In the pitching line roni win uj out three newcomers in Smith, Petty and Dickerson. Smith was with New Orleans last season and worked in forty-tw games, winning twenty- three and losing tnirteen. x-eny. ijum San Antonio, was a newcomer to that club when taken up by Cleveland, but is heralded as rea, pitching timber. Dickerson, secured from Columbus; won three and lost two games in the American association, but his Dixie loatrna rfnnrA of eleven straight ViC- tories and no oeteats spea.ua wen his chances. Joe Boehling, secured from Washington, and Al Gould, tne diminutive hurler from Davenport, are looked upon as valuable bolster ing strength for the Indian stall. Lambeth on the Stafr. Rnehlinsr should win regular berth and pitch in his turn for Fohl and if Guy Morton's arm has rounded into shape again, as reports say, he will be good for many victories. Bag- bv, Coumbe, Klepfer, Coveleskie ana Lambeth complete the staff. Allison, from New Orleans, finished the 1916 season with the Indians and will play the utility outfield role this year, with Speaker, Roth and Graney doing regular duty. In O Neill. Lee Fohl has one or tne best catchers in either major league, and Billings and Daly in reserve. All in all, the Indians look like an entry that will bear watching, fr there is no telling what such a club may do, as they proved last season. They look like factors from this distance. SQUARED CIRCLE NEWS Hot Springs, Ark., Feb. 27. Joe Mandot of New Orleans defeated Willie Mangrum of Memphis here In a ten round bout. Mangrum floored Mandot in the sixth, but during the rest of the fight took a terrible lacing. Racine. Wis.. Feb. 27. Spike Kelly of Chicago defeated Reb Russell of the same city here, winning six out of ten rounds easily. Three were even. Joe Dory. Racine, was given the decision over Joe Hernck, Kewa nee, in the semi-windup. New Orleans, La., Feb. 27. Bobby Hughes won a decision over Jimmy Curtis here, after twenty rounds of fierce fighting. TO PLAY OX THE COAST. Miss Bjurstedt Goes West for Bij Tennis Matches. New York, Feb. 27. Miss Molla Bjurstedt, woman national lawn tennis champion, will go to California with the eastern team which will play the East vs. West matches at Los Angeles, beginning March 7. Miss Bjurstedt will play in a series of round robin matches against Mrs. Bundy, formerly May Sutton, who won the woman's national champion ship as well as the British title, against Miss Mary Browne, three times holder of the title and Miss Florence Sutton. Monday Basketball Scores. Haskell, 81; Pittsburg Normal, 28. Emporia Normals, 42; Baker, 21 MB LET US TRY FOR ONE LIKE THAT March 7th Ends the Race!! If the people fully reali zed what their dollars MIGHT Bring to Topeka They would "Line Up" before the Banks like embryo armies and Subscribe to the Test Well Fund We have been offered capital to put down a test well in Topeka if the organization of a close corporation, instead of a municipal fund, be formed, but citizens should not allow this to be done. If YOU will do YOUR part The Municipal Test Well Will Be Drilled! Will You Help? Several men men who have substantially contributed finan cially to the upgrowth of Topeka, and freely given their time and personal effort to all projects which meant benefit to the city have subscribed several hundred dollars, EACH, to this commendable undertaking. A dollar or two from the majority of citizens (all they can afford) will indicate the same spirit of enterprise. Since springing the proposition to bore a test well by popular subscription, a half dozen land owners around Topeka have become interested and want the originator of the enterprise to sink holes on their land. This arousal of interest may result in wide-spread prospecting. In the future we may possibly look in any direction from the city and see derricks in profusion monuments to the energy of the people, and perhaps wealth producing factoi which have heretofore not been in evidence, merely for lack of an initial step That initial step is now be ing taken by the foremost citizens, men of broad public spirit whose names are the motive power of Topeka. Letters are coming daily from interested people, and many are from distant parts of the state, and even adjoining states. Do not wait until March 7th, but make it a point to visit your bank tomorrow, for instance, and subscribe to the fund. Bank of Topeka. Kansas State Reserve Eank, Central-National Bank, Merchants National Bank, Farmers National Bank, State Savings Bank, German American State Bank, Topeka State Bank. Or to Mr. J. W. Kelley, Secretary-Chamber of Commerce. AMERICAN FIGHTER JOINS THE ARMY OF AUSTRALIA The latest boxing news from Snowy Baker, the Australian pro moter, contains the news that Matty Smith, an American light weight, has decided to enlist in the European war and cast his lot with the allies. Smith applied for a place in the Australian air corps, but after passing in every thing else,- was rejected because he was not a naturalized Brit ish subject. Jack Coyne, another American boxer performing in Australia, also attempted to enlist for war service, but Re, too, was turned down for the same reason. Both boxers are expected to make another attempt after engaging in several bouts for which they shave contracted. BUSH AND STlllXK SIGN. Wbittcd, However, Refuses to Accept Terms Offered by Athletics. Philadelphia, Feb. 27. Joe Bush, star pitcher, and Amos Strunk, the fleet outfielder of the Philadelphia American league baseball team, both of whom had been holdouts, today signed contracts, it has been an nounced by Manager Mack. The terms were not made public. George Whitted. outfielder of the Philadelphia Nationals, refused an of fer of $4,000 a year and announced that unless he was given a contract tor $5,500 he will not report at The training camp. President Baker, of tne club, said Whitted s demands would not be considered. OTTAWA FOOTBALL CROWD. The Baptist Eleven Will Play Nine Games'Nezt Season. Ottawa, Kan., Feb. 27. The follow ing football schedule has been an nounced from Ottawa university by Coach A. A. Schabinger: Haskell at Lawrence. September 29: Bethany at Ottawa, October 5; Wash burn at Topeka, October 13: Fair- mount at Ottawa, October 19; Friends at Ottawa, October 26; Emporia col lege at Emporia, November 2; Pitts burg Normal at Ottawa, November 9; St. Mary's at St. Marys, Novem ber 17; Baker at Baldwin, Novem ber 24. DRILL SERGEANT FOR SOX. Old Roman Takes Steps to Prepare Players for War. Chicago, Feb. 27. Upon the re quest of Owner Comiskey, President Ban Johnson of the American league, today applied to Captain Kenny of the government recruiting station for a sergeant to act as drillmaster for the White Sox their Mineral Wells, Tex., training camp. Red Sex Want an Officer. Boston, Mass., Feb. 27. Harry H. Frazee, president of the Boston Amer ican league baseball club, announced that he will request Adjt. Gen. G. W. Pearson to designate an officer of the national guard to accompany the Red Sox plad'ers to their spring training camp at Hot Springs, Ark., and teach them military tactics. Blues Go South March 11. Kansas City, Feb. 27. John Gan zel, manager of the Kansas City team of the American association, an nounces that the signed contracts of Beals, Jack Lelivelt and Claude Berry have been received by the club. George Simmons also has signed. The team will report for spring training at Arkadelphia, Ark., March 11. Young Walter Johnson III. Walter Johnson's young son is re ported to be seriously ill at the home of his parents, in Coffeyville, Kan., and unless the youngster rapidly im proves the big pitcher may not go to Washington for the inauguration, as he had intended. nrvt!- Whcu7ae 111 BY CIAJG The most remarkable thing has just happened in St. Louis. The Star has an nounced that it does not expect either the Browns or the Cardinals to win a pen nant. A bill has been passed br the Missouri legislature which will permit the holding of a 20-day raring meet at Kansas City and St. Louis every year. There is no doubt that Topekans will take more interest in the big league races this season than ever before. Already the bugs are beginning to get a line on the clubs and to pick out their favorites. Which is the most valuable asset to a ball club a great pitcher or a great hit ter? This is a question that fans are wont to argue from season to season and tuanv reasons can be advanced for both ends of tne argument. But the men who make baseball, the magnates, never sem to arerue about this. The best hitter on a club always stands out to them as its most valuable asset ami to get their views on the subject it is only necessary to look at the salary lists. The highest paid men in the big leagues today are Speaker, Cobb. Chase Wagner and Jackson. There are no four pitchers whose aggregate salaries can come up to the amount these sluggers get and this is a pretty good indication that the magnates value tneir swatters more highly than their twirlers. But cold reasoning indicates that a good defense in the pitcher's box is more valu able than a powerful offense at the plate. It profiteth a club nothing if it pile up a hundred runs thru slugging if its best pitcher can't hold the opposition to a less number. But probably the only way to settle the argument is to agree that a Henry Clay compromise is the ideal situation in baseball. A team's strenerth lies not In the prowess of individual members but in its completeness and competency In all lines, and a club that has both fair hit ters and fair pitchers will get higher in the table than one that boasts stars in only one or two positions. For this reason all club owners strive for "balance" and they realize that a valu able hitter is more valuable if aided by effective pitching, and for this reason it mav be said that neither a star hitter nor a star pitcher is able to do his club the maximum amount or gooa alone. Therefore, in picking yonr favorites In the big league races this season, it may be well to look to the "balance" of the clubs rather than to the number of stars they possess. If Lambeth and some of the others come up to expectations. Cleveland with Tris Speaker may be a big factor in the A. L. If the White Sox get pitch I ne- comparable with their hittine- nhiHtw they certainly will. But Detroit with her Coon nas noc own ante to get very far in the past ana Washington with her Walter jonnson mm neen in the same fix, However, either club with a combination of Cobb and Johnson would give cold shivers to a a its opponents. Acorn Day Bargains Und erwear Bargains Women's Cotton Union Suits in B9c and 69o qualities for Acorn Day at 4 or and 55c. Women's high-.grade Union Suits that sell regularly for $1.35 and $1."60, Acorn Day at $1.10 and $1.35. Women's Part-wool Union Suits: $1.75 and $2.00 qualities at $1.50 and $1.75. Children's part-wool Vests and Pants, 50c, 60c and 75c qualities at OXE-FOCRTH OFF. Men's Union Suits in size 38 only; $1.25 quality for 98c H Losiery Jjargains Women's 65c Black Silk Boot Hose, fine quality at pair 59c. Women's 50c Black Lisle Hose for Acorn Day only at pair 39c. Children's Black Cotton Hose in two weights; 19c quality at pair 15c. Men's 25c Black Cotton Hose at 19c. Stationery Specials 60c Gift Books, Birthday Books and Birth Records for Acorn Day at 19c. Boxed Paper and envelopes; one quire of paper; 25c value for 19c. Notion Specials $1.50 Nickel plated Alarm Clocks, bell on back, special at $1.19. 25c Whisk Brooms-:-19c. 25c Sanitary Aprons 19c. 25c Sanitary Belts 19c. 35c Sanitary Napkins, 1 dozen in package for 25c. 25c Imported Stickeri Braid, 6-yd.. bolt for 19c. 10c card of Peet's Hooks and Eyes 5c Toilet Goods 50c Locust Blossom and-Wistaria Perfume, 25c oz. Piver's Azurea, LeTrefla, Flor amye and Safranor Toilet Wa ters, $1.00 value for 89c. 60c Rose Talcum Powder at 39c. 25c Peroxide for 19c 50c Hind's Honey and Al mmd Cream 39c. 25c, 35c, 50c and 85c Daggett Ramsdell's Cold Cream at 19c, 29c 39c and 69c. 25c Woodbury's Facial Soap 19c or Three Cakes for 55c. 25c, 50c and $1.00 Listerine at 19c, 39c and 78c 60c and $1.00 Pinaud's Hair Tonic at 39c and 79c. "50c Non-Spl for 39c. 60c Pebeco Tooth Paste -39c. 50c Mme. Ise'bell's Face Pow der 39c. $1.00 Hair Brushes 79c $2.00 Hughes' 66 Waterproof Hair Brushes $1.50. Embroid eries 27 and 40 In. Embroidered Crepe Voile Flouncings in 2 to 4 yard lengths; 50c and 59c val ues at yard 35c Embroidered Baby Yokes with sleeves in neat designs, neck and sleeves trimmed with lace; 50c values 35c each. Lace and Embroidery Remnants At Half Price ADDITION SPORTS WILL BE FOCJfD ON OTBTKR PAGKR. 40 in. All Silk Nets in brown. Burgundy, Green, Purple and Blue: regular $1.25 and $1.50 qualities at yard 05c. Swiss and Cambric Embroid ery Insertions in open and closed patterns; 14 to Ii6 inches wide; 80 values O at yard Silk B argams at 75c Yd. S5c 24 in. Showerproof Fou lards at yard 75c. $1.00 36 In. Plain Petticoat Satins at yard 75c. $1.00 27 in. Striped Silk 75c Sijks at $1.00 $1.50 36 in. Striped Satins at yard $1.0O. $1.50 36 in. Striped Taffetas at yard $1.00. $1.50 36 in. Printed Taffetas at yard $1.00. $1.50 36-in. Moire Silks at yard $1.00. $1.60 36 in. Checked Taffetas at yard $1.00. $1.25 S3 in. Jap Corded Tub Silks, good color assortment at $1.00. $1.50 36 in. Striped Shantung Silks at yard $1.25. 8 Double G reen St amps On All Purchases Tomorrow And Ten (10) Stamps Free The Double Stamps will be given with each pur chase of ten (10) cents or more, in the regular way at the Stamp Booth on the Main Floor. You can get Ten (10) ZrC Green Stamps by taking your stamp book to the Premium Parlor on the Third Floor. Start NOW to be an Stamp saver during 1917. Coat and Suit Bargains For Acorn Day Winter Coats in good styles and choice J r fabrics, worth up to $25.00 each, for j) AU.UU Choice of All Children's Winter Coats a Less Than Half Price. 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It embraces every piece of furniture and all of our stocks of floor coverings and draperies with the ex ception of Gunn Sectional Bookcases, Sealy Mat tresses, Whittall Rugs, Hoover Vacuum Cleaners and Bissell Carpet Sweeper3 at Reductions of 10 to 33 Per Cent. That means that you can add to any room or fur nish a complete house at savings of great importance. Visit these Sections tomorrow! L Convenient Terms Granted Worthy People $4 to $6 Snoes $2.95 The assortment to be offered at this price and for this one day only is made up of Wright Peters, Julian Kokeng'e and other well known makes broken lines and odd pairs in patent, tan, kid and gunmetal, lace and button styles. The size range as a whole runs from 2 A to 8 D," but not every size in each style. The woman who has need for a pair of high shoes can profit by attending this $2.95 shoe sale tomorrow. Bargains In Domestics 30 in. Trooper and Kindergar ten Suitings, fine for children's wear and house dresses; 0c and 25c grades 14c. 28 in. Tennis Flannels In checks and stripes, qualities worth 15o the yard at 10c 28 In. 19c Tennis Flannels, best quality in stripes and checks at yard 12J4C-. 27 In. New Spring Dress Ging hams, large assortment of plaids, checks and stripes; good 15c grade One Day at 12 He. 60 pes. Fine Sheer Nainsooks, extra soft finish for underwear. Best 25c quality In 12 yard bolts at $2.50. Bed Spread? 76x86 Hemmed Honeycomb Bed Spreads, firm luality worth $1.95 each for $1.65. 78x88 Fringed, cut corner Honeycomb Bed Spreads, soft finish and worth $2.95 each for $2.45. 84x96 Scalloped, cut corner Honeycomb Bed Spreads; extra large size, worth regular $3.50 at each $2.89. J Goods irancy Uoods 18x50 Stamped Scarf and Pin Cushion in simple designs to be embroidered in colors, 35c val ues. Acorn Day 25c, 75c Stamped Pillow Cases, 36x42 In. best quality tubing. m stamped in good daylight and night designs. Acorn Day only 59e Pair. 60c Stamped Turkish Bath Towels, 20x42 inch size, with white and colored borders. Only 18 of these to sell Acorn Day at each 39c. Letters for marking handker chiefs, tea napkins and under wear. 24 letters on a Bpool. A hot Iron does the stamping. 10c value per spool 5c. Stamped Waists voile and sheer lawn, stamped in simple designs. Only 18 of these 50c waists to offer Acorn Day at each 25c. Basement Store News For Acorn Day One lot of Mahogany finished Serving Trays, embroidered or wood covered with glass, felt bottom and rubber feet. Spe cial at each $1.00. Cut Glass Water Sets, large pitcher arid six glasses to match In grape pattern. Special at $2.00 the set. Decorated China Coffee Sets, Celery Sets, Oval Nut Sets- and Bureau Sets, dainty patterns at $1.00 the set. Hand painted china Salad or' Berry Bowls, worth 50c each at 35c. Thin Decorated China Tea Cups and Saucers. Set of six 75c. Guernsey white lined 3 -piece Cooking Set, 40c value 25c. One lot of Hand Painted Bud Vases. Each 19c. Decorated Fern Dishes with lining. 75c values 35c. Guaranteed Electric Irons complete with cord, slip-easy plug and stand $2.45. Cast Iron Waffle Irons, special at each 89c. Sample line of Pan Cake Grid dles. Choice at 35c. White Porcelain Dinner Plates each 7e. Mrs. Potts' Laundry Irons, 3 to set with handle and stand at Sc. $1.75 Willow Clothes Baskets, special $1.39. Heavy Tin Wash Boilers with stationary handles and metallic bottom, large size at $1.50. SNOW FLAKE LAUN DRY SOAP 15-5c BARS JAPANESE C R B P E TOILET PAPER 9 ROLLS PARLOR BROOMS ACn five sewed kind.. 43 C 50c 50c Triangle Mop for Floor and quart bottle of Golden Star pol ish. A $2.00 combination value for $1.0O. Guaranteed Clothes Wringers 75. Potato Ricer, very strong' at 23c. SanI Flush, special 22c. 50c Folding Doll Carts 85c.