The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
March 19, 1917

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S0U "piS un III wind, etc. tlie war clouds friKhicncd away tlie impending railway strike. VyEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Fair tonight and Tuesday; cool er tomorrow HOME EDITION TOPKKA, KANSAS, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1917 TEN PAGES THREE CENTS But Four Out of Mne Justices Give Dissenting Decision. Lower Court Which Invalidated Law Is Reversed. 8-HOUR DAY THE MAIN ISSUE Congress Exercised Right to Protect Public Rights. Maintains Power to Fix Stand ard Wage and Day. Washington, March 19. The eight hour standard for lailroad wapes pro vided in the Adamson law was held constitutional today by the supreme court. The decision was five to four. Jus tices Day. Pitney and Vandevander announced their decision from the bench and later Justice McReyno'ds announced his. In announcing the opinion the chief justice reviewed the negotiations lead ing up to enactment of the law. He did not read from a prepared opinion, Kiving it apparently from memory. Hi told of the president s effcrts to avert the strike last September. "He suggested arbitration. The em ployers accepted and the employes re fused." said the chief justice. "He then suggested a basic eight-hour standard. The employers rejected that and the employes accepted." I aw Passed by Congress. How the president went to congress was then recited. Congress passed the law that is before us, and the carriers refused to recognize it. he continued. He said the agreement to expedite the case was "very laudable." In the early course of the opinion, the chief justice said that the law was both an eight-hour day act and also a wage fixing statute. He said, "It strips the parties of power to con tract" as to wages. He said the eight hour provision was the paramount feature. The chief justice cited the "hours ef xerviee act" as an instance of "hours of labor" legislation by congress and said transportation was of both pri vate mil public interests. The dividing line is so marked that the government will not destroy th private right," said the chief jus tice. "The prower to regulate rests upon both the private and public in terests involved." He then said the right of private parties to fix private wages was an inherent right and to take it away would be unconstituional, but added that considering what con gress intended to do and the failure of the railroads and employe to reach an agreement to say that the govern ment authority did not have the power "to fill the void would be to declare that the private right had destroyed th? public right." Congress Protects Public Itiglits. He said power of congress was not on "emergency power" and recited the congrcssiom.1 power to fix rates, pro hibiting rebates and a "myriad of reg ulations to protect the public inter ests." He said that power had been ex tended to employes, citing the "hours of service act," and others, and held ihere was authority of congress to act becatrse failure of the railroads and employes to reach an agreement. The railroads could not object to fix ing a standard of wages, he said, be cause in the deadlock none was fixed. The majority opinion as delivered by Chief Justice White follows: "Was there power in congress un der the circumstances existing to deal with the hours of wrork and wages of railroad employes engaged i:i inter state commerce, is the principal ques tion here to be considered. "Its solution as well as that of other questions which also arise will no clarified by a brief statement of the conditions out of which the con troversy arose. I'niler Two Systems. "Two systems controlled in March, 1916, concerning wages of railroad em ployes; one an eight-hour standard of work and wages with additional pay for overtime governing on about 15 per cent of the railroads, the other a stated mileage task of 100 miles to be performed during tn hours with ex tra pay for any excess, in force on about 85 per cent of the roads. "The organizations representing the employes of the railroads in that month made a formal demand upon the employers that, as to all engaged In the movement of trains except pas senger trains, the 100-mile task be fixed for eight hours, provided that it w:a not so done as to lower wages, and provided that an extra allowance for overtime calculated by the minute at one and one-half times the rate of the regular hours' service be estab lished. "The demand made this standard obligatory on the railroads but option al on the employes, as it left the right to the employes to retain their exist ing system on any particular road if they elected to so do. The terms of the demand were as follows except that one which reserved the option, which is in the margin, and others making article (1) applicable to yard and switching and hostling service: Terms of I'nion lK-mantls. "Article 1 (a) In all road service, 100 miles or less, eight hours or less will constitute a day except in passen ger service. Miles in excess of 100 will be paid for at the same rate per mile. "(b) On runs of 100 miles or less overtime will begin at the expiration of eight hours. "(c) On runs of over 100 miles, .ertime will begin when the time on (Continued ou Page Two) "UEEKTY md tf UNION. NOW MILLION A WEEK INCREASE AND 13 MILLION BACK PAY New York, March 19. The rail way managers agreement with the brotherhoods today to put into operation the eight-hour day, on a ten-hour pay basis with pro rata pay for overt irrfe, means approxi mately $1,000,000 a week added to the pay rolls of the railroads. Thirteen million dollars extra back pay, dating from January 1, when the Adamson law was to have be come effective, will be distributed among the four hundred thousand trainmen. GOOD: BOAT GONE! Prof. Jackson of Topeka Thot Much of the Vigilancia. Tells When She Almost Went Down With 23rd Kansas. Prof. George W. Jackson, director of a colored band in Topeka, had the sinking of the Vigilancia, one of the United States ships sent to the coffers of Davy Jones by ruthless German submarines, brought to him more vi vidly than most Kansajns because Prof. Jackson had met other dangers of the sea with the Vigilancia when he was in the service of lTncle Sam during the Spanish-American war. "It was the Vigilancia that took the Twenty-third Kansas to Cuba in 1898," Prof. Jackson said this afternoon, "and I will never forget that trip if I live to be a million years old. I was band master of the Twenty-third Kan sas and while enroute we were caught in an equinoctial storm in the Carib bean sea and were tossed about for three days, everybody on board ex pecting the old boat to go down every minute." Prof. Jackson then told how the ship was badly damaged by the storm and how the soldier boys when the angry sea was about to swallow them up every instant threw their cards and craps overboard and prayed as they never did before in their lives. "There are about forty persons liv ing in Topeka now who made that trip on the Vigilancia," Prof. Jackson asserted. MASSACRE DE FACT0S Villistas Interrupt Celebration Over Victory and Decimate Enemy. El Paso, March 19. Celebration of a partial victory over Fran- cisco Villa's forces at Rosario, Duran go, March 10, took a heavy toll in gov ernment troops according to a refugee arriving here last night from Chihua hua City. Villa, in the preliminary en J gagement ordered his men to fall back, permitting the defacto forces under j General Murguia to advance to the j outskirts of Rosario. Karly on the i morning of March 11, Villa forces sur j rounded Murguia's troops and in the ensuing battle the latter are said to have lost about 1,200 men. t "A Carranza major who escaped told me the details of the battle,' the i refugee said. He said the Carranza j command was encamped in a narrow canyon. After having defeated Nico las Fernandez at Rosario station the j previous day, the defacto troops were celebrating the victory with songs and dances around camp fires, the major I said. In the meantime Fernandez had I evidently reported his defeat and the location of our troops to Villa, who I attacked soon after daylight from both i sides of the Arroyo, while his men i poured an enfillading fire thru the j canyon. The Carranza troops were taken by surprise and there were few who escaped. All but 800 out of 2,000 j were massacred. WANT U-BOAT CHASERS Uncle Sam Appeals to Sliip Builders for 200 Bij Motor Boats. Washington, March 19. Appeals to more than 100 boat building concerns to provide the government immedi ately vith 200 or more 110 foot motor boats as submarine chasers have been sent out by the navy department, it was oflicially stated today. LOANS AT 5 PER CENT Federal Farm Board Officially An nounces Rate of Interest. Washington, March 1 9.' The farm loan board announced today that the interest rate on all loans made to farmers thruout the country by fed eral land banks would be 5 per cent. A rate of 4 per cent on bonds to be issued by the land banks also was officially announced SANTA FE LIFTS EMBARGO ON ALL FREIGHT TODAY Roads Rapidly Settling Back to Xormal Conditions. AH Parties Are Satisfied With Strike Settlement. VICTORY FOR BOTH SIDES Men Think Their Conditions Will Be Much Improved. Officials Glad Road Heads Put Patriotism First. With the railway strike cloud re ceding as rapidly as it advanced, shipping- conditions in Topeka territory began settling back to normal today. Shortly after noon the Santa Fe raised all embargo orders placed as the re sult of the threatened trainmen's walk out. Immediately after the notice was received in the office of J. R. Koontz, general freight agent, it was flashed on the wires and local shippers were notified. There is no doubt but what restrictions will be iaken off all rail roads before night. At a late hour this afternoon the Union Pacific officials here had re ceived no orders to lift embargoes. However, they are looking for a flash from Omaha every minute. Delay in such a notice being issued is due the fact the Union Pacific did not place a definite embargo but accepted all freight subject to delay and ship pers risk. The Santa Ke ordered an em bargo Wednesday on all perish able freight, livestock and ex plosives that could not reach destina tion by Sunday evening at 6 o'clock. Un perishable freight was accepted subject to delay. T,he Rock Island placed no em bargoes on its own lines and refused to accept shipments with destinations east of the Chicago gateway only. Itotli Side Satisfied. Settlement of the controversy was greeted with general satisfaction by trainmen and officials alike here; be cause of the conditions under which it was brought to a close. Under the settlement trainmen are awarded an 8-hour basic day with pro-rata over time which is equivalent to a 25 per cent increase in pay and a correspond ing increase in overtime. The settle ment is, in a way, described as "a victory for both sides' inasmuch as the additional expense to the railroads is not as large as under the original demands of the trainmen. Their de mands during the previous contro versy were for an 8-hour basic day and time and a half overtime. In short, the trainmen have won their 8 -hour day and an increase in overtime and the railroads have avoided paying as much overtime as was asked at first. Satisfaction voiced by officials here is based on the crisis which faced the country. Railway officials and men alike favor getting solidly behind Pres ident Wilson in the German crisis in preference to tying up the country for sake of personal gain or corporation gain. Fox Makes Statement. F. C. Fox. general manager for the Santa Fe railway, said this morning that official confirmation thru railroad channels of the national defense com mission's settlement had not yet been received here. He received notice from Elisha Lee this morning that the strike had been averted by the com mission being authorized to settle the dispute. It is practically unanimously taken for granted that the commission's set tlement will automatically become ef fective January 1. When the railroads filed the suit, now in the supreme court, against the Adamson law they assured the government and the train men that the court's decision would make whatever settlement it effected effective at this time. Trainmen, if such agreement be reached, will re ceive whatever additional pay is com ing to them in a reasonably short time, as all railroads have been keeping track of time so they can settle on any basis. Court Decision a Surprise. Despite the fact the strike settle ment made by the national defense commission practically duplicated the Adamson law, Topeka railway and in dustrial circles received a shock that shook their foundations today when the latter was upheld by the supreme court. The right of congress to dic tate wages under such conditions stag gered attorneys. They eliminated the effect which the outcome of the con troversy will have on the railways and turned speculation on the possi bility of other bodies ofr men gaining an increase in their already swollen pay checks in the same manner. One railway official hinted at gov ernment ownership of. railway lines when expanded prosperity collapses. His views are not scoffed at by sev eral others, deep in the councils of their interest, who fear the Adamson law is the first step in such a move on the part of the government. The fac tion, political and otherwise, which favors that step has ignored failure of government ownership in Canada and now it wouldn't surprise most any railroad man if he should sud denly find himself in the employ of the government "Some of these days." a Topeka railway official said today, "the gov ernment is going to take over rail lines and forget to give them back. One thing is sure tho, the govern ment is going to regulate and run the lines a whole lot different than it is making the present owners run them. When the present expanded prosper ity collapses one of two things will happen must happen. Either re venues must be increased thru in creased rates or expenses must cut down at the expense of employes and efficiency. If not, there will be a loss in such operation and, as usual. Air. patiently carry the burden- i NEW WAR CLOUD MOVES RAIL MEN TO AVERT STRIKE Appeal to Patriotism by Medi ators Moves Managers. Concede AH Demands of Union for 8-Hour Day. MEDIATORS PRAISE OPERATORS National Disaster ATerted by Companies' Concession. Removes All Possibility of a Xation-Wide Strike. New York, March 19. The railroad strike has been averted. Yielding to President Wilson's ap peal and facing the probability of this country's entrance into the world war, the railroads early today granted the demands of the four employes" broth erhoods for a basic 8-hour day. The telegraph wires today are carrying thruout the United States messages from the brotherhood chiefs rescind ing the orders for the great progres sive strike tonight. The decision is re garded a a complete surrender to the brotherhoods brought about after the patriotism of the railroad managers had been put to the test. The presi dent's mediators playing what they considered their last trump card were not successful until after more than fifty hours of anxious conferences all of which pointed a short time before the decision was announced to a dead lock, i Secretary of the Interior Lane and the other mediators were visibly af fected when told of the action of the railroad managers. Mr. Lane sent immediately for the committee of the railroads, and turning to Elisha Lee, their spokesman, said: Commend Managers. J "This is a magnificent thing you have done for your country. It will go down in history as a great thing." The brotherhood chiefs, who al ready had retired for the night appar ently convinced that a settlement of the differences could not be reached, were summoned next. Their faces showed the relief they felt from the strain under which they had labored since early Friday evening .with the president's committee. By the terms of the settlement the combined salary list of the railroads will be increased approximately $60. 000,000 a year, according to conser vative estimates. The number of workmen profiting by this increase will be more than 300.000. That the crisis resulting from the sinking of the three American ships by German submarines was the prime factor in clearing the situation and restoring th country to normal conditions in so far as its transportation facilities were concluded was conceded by all The railroad managers and the brotherhood chiefs had been told of the seriousness of the international situation but the warning had appar ently fallen on deaf ears. It was evi dent that the strike which originally had been set lor Saturday evening at 7 o'clock but had been postponed to permit further negotiations undoubt edly would become effective unless something more intervened than the mere suggestion that the severance of diplomatic relations with Germany might lead to open hostilities. Moved by Patriotism. The president's mediators again communicated with the railroad man agers, hawevei, with the result that they are said to have voted unani mously to yield to the demands of the brotherhoods in order, "that neither at home nor abroad should there be fear or hope that the efficient opera tions of the railroads of the country will be hampered or impaired.' The medial ion negotiations and their result are summed up in the following statement issued at 6 o'clock this morning by the committee from the Council of National defense: "We desire to express our appre ciation of the large and patriotic action of the railway managers' com mittee which has put beyond perad venture the possibility of a nation wide railroad strike. The railroads have met the full demands of the Adamson 8-hour law. This conces- sion was secured as the culmination of two days and nights of negotiation. "Our first effort was to secure a postponement of the strike which was fixed for Saturday night. This post ponement was secured by presenting to the railway managers a memoran dum agreement drafted by the broth erhoods which with some particular ity expressed the provisions of the Adamson law. We asked the railways to agree that if the Adamson law was held to be constitutional this construc tion and application would be given to t. The railways agreed to this at a Continued on Page Two) j OUST BIG CORPORATION j Utah Hydraulic Companies Ejected From Forest Reserve. Washington, March 19. In sus taining injunctions ousting Utah Hy draulic power companies from federal forest reservations the supreme court today upheld federal and limited state sovereignty in developing resources in western "public land," states. Regulations of the agriculture and interior departments conservation pol icy and decrees requiring the Utah Power companies to remove their property from the public lands unless they secure federal permits, were sus tained. The court maintained power of con gress to regulite all public lands and denied that its authority was limited to lands actually used for federal pur poses. All government regulations were not specifically upheld, but the court refused to disturb any of them. It also held the government entitled to reasonable compensation from the Utah Power concerns for use of lands occupied. OFFICERS CANNOT SEARCH GRIPS OR HOMES FOR BOOZE That Is Opinion of Assistant Att'y GenT Mongommery. He Says the Bone Dry Law Does 'ot Authorize It. PEOPLE SLEEP ON They Are Protected Until War rant Is Issued Against Them. "ew Hope Held Out to the Thirsty of Kansas. If a liquor investigator seizes your grip or suitcase while returning from a pilgrimage to wet territory, it is your own fault. If a peace officer en ters your home to look for the family' bottle, you have overlooked your rights. That was the opinion today of W. P. Montgomery, special assistant attorney general." The search and seizure act docs not apply to the bone dry law, Montgomery holds. Under the present interpretation of the law, a man is not compelled to permit an officer of the law to search his personal luggage in an effort to find liquor. Nor has a peace officer a right to enter a rr.an's home except where a warranc has been obtained charging actual tales or maintaining a nuisance. The bone dry law doesn't say a word about drinking liquor. It pro hibits its possession. But a man who possesses a. bottle of liquor, can take a drink if no one sees him and he hasn't maintained a nuisance unless persons are permitted to gather in the home for the purpose of drinking. The Montgomery opinion goes a long way toward handing back to the thirsty Kansan a few of the personal privi leges which he felt had been denied under the bone dry enactment. Since the passage of the stringent anti-liquor law, a number of peace of ficers have searched grips and suit causes of persons returning from Kan sas City. By permitting such action, Montgomery holds, the owner of the suit case waived his rights. Of course, where liquor was found, the owner was guilty of violating the law. Xo Right to Search. "There isn't a thing in the law that permits an officer to search a grip or suitcase in a man's possession," said Montgomery. "The bone dry law doesn't provide a search and seizure provision. Of course --uit cases have been searched. But the officers were simply able to get away with it. That's all. And where a battle of liquor was found, there wasn't the least doubt about a man's guilt. "Neither is an officer permitted to search a person's home to look for a bottle," continued the special assist ant attorney general. "Of course if an officer looks in the window and sees a man take a drink, he can make an arrest and the man is guilty of owning liquor. But a search and seiz ure warrant cannot be issued in liquor cases except wheie tales are charged or where it i3 charged that a nuisance is maintained and persons are permit ed io gather for the purpose of drink ing in violation of the law." Absence of the search and seizure provision of the liquor law from the bone dry act. seems to be the one thing on which the man with a trusty family bottle can rely for protection of his "personal liberties." It is con strued to mean that if a man permits an officer to search his grip or enter nis nome to look for liquor, he simply waives a right provided under the law. "Of course if a man is in possession of cases and packages which look too suspicious, the officer is probably jus tified in taking a chance," explained Montgomery, who has a record for crusading in the "bad lands" of Chero kee and Crawford counties. "But there isn't anything in the law to permit the promiscuous grabbing of grips." KIDS' BEDTIME STORIES Uncle Wiggily Joins State Journal Family to Entertain Children. Jiminy Crickets, fellers, look who's here! Uncle Wiggily, the greatest little story man alive has joined the State Journal family. Beginning today he appears every evening on the editorial page. Uncle Wiggily is the creation of Howard R. Garis, well known juvenile writer, and with his rheu matism scrutch he is going to put thflusands of the State Journal's friends to sleep at night. Now Uncle Wiggily is a rabbit gen telman. He iives in a bungalow a hollow stump, warm and comfy in the winter and well hidden and protected in the summer. He has a brand new experience a new story to tell the childern every evening. Uncle Wig gily's last name is Longears and he has oh, well, we won't tell any more. It won't take long to get acquainted. Uncle Wiggily isn't the only :story friend. There is Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy and Teddy Sharpnose, the fox hoy, and Jennie Chipmunk and Sam mie Littietail and Johnnie Bushytail and Jackie Bow-wow and Squeaky Eeky and Lulu Wibble-wobble and Aunt Flippity-flop and Jimmie Caw caw, Aker-choo-ker-snitzio-cush SPRING "HAS SPRUNG" Winter will Be Officially Over at 10 O'clock Tuesday Night. Hourly temperature readings for the day, reported by the local office of the United States weather bureau: 7 o'clock 8 o'clock. 9 o'clock. 10 o'clock. .41 .44 .50 .52 11 o'clock 57 12 o'clock 60 1 o'clock 62 2 o'clock 05 The average temperature for the day is 10 degrees above normal. The wind had gone down and was blowing'1 eighteen miles an hour from the Continued on Pagre Two) J U. P. TO OPEN UP TOPEKA GENERAL AGENTSOFFICES II. G. Kaill of Kansas City Makes Announcement. R. M. Ritchey, Also of K. C. Will Be Placed in Charge. BIG THING F0R THIS CITY Railroad Recognizes That This Is Important Center. Plans on Foot to Change North Topeka Depots. Growing importance of Topeka as a railroad and industrial center was fur ther recognized today when H. G. Kaill, general freight and passenger agent for the Union Pacific system, announced that road will open a gen eral agent's office here. Mr. Kaill. whoso office Is in Kansas City, also announced that R. M Ritchey has been appointed general agent. Mr. Ritchey comes from Kansas City where he was general agent for the St. Joseph Grand Island, a Union Pacific line, recently acquired. Prior to holding his Grand Island position he was with the Union Pacific at Leavenworth and, in all, has been connected witl- the Union Pacific for 20 year3. Mr. Kaill, well known here was in Topeka today introducing Ritchey to business men and others. He said the proposition of opening the new office here had bef n under consid eration for nearly a year. Big Business Here. "We have needed more general rep resentation in Topeka for a number of years," said Mr. Kaill. "Recently that need has been increased greatly. Mr. Ritehey's offices will be at 525 Kansas avenue and wiil be an the same building with the offices of the city passenger agent for the Union Pacific." Th appointment of Mr. Ritchey and the location of his office here does not end the recognition the railroad is planning to give this city. In the Union Pacific budget for this year Kansas receives a large appropriation. Mr. Kaill stated today that without a doubt Topeka will receive its full share. Among other things which are be ing planned by the railroad are new passenger and freight stations, with yard arrangements, more convenient to the road, shippers and the public in general. For several years the railway has been trying to avoid block ing Kansas avenue at the crossing in North Topeka with passenger trains and freight trains. Tentative plans are being worked out to switch the two depots, placing the passenger station on the west side of Kansas avenue and the freight station in the vicinity of where the passenger station now stands. This arrangement will elim inate all delay of traffic on the North side thorofare. W orking Out Plans. The plans for such improvements have not been wholly completed but are being worked out now and it is generally understood that they will be placed in operation unless found im practical, which is possible but hardly probable. It has been announced sev eral times previously in the State Jour nal that the road is planning to build new passenger and freight stations because growth in traffic and business at this point has made the old ones inadequate. HITCHING IS PROMOTED Santa Fe Agent at Atchison Made General Livestock Agent. E. C. Kitching, general agent for the Santa Fe railway at Atchison, has been appointed division freight agent at Joplin, Mo., succeeding W. T. Tre leaven. recently promoted to the posi tion of general livestock agent with offices at Kansas City. Mr. Kitching is well known in To peka. He went to Atchison. Feb ruary 1. 1916. Prior to that time he was for several years connected with the traffic department of the Santa Fe in Topeka. At the time he went to Atchison he was traveling freight agent for this division. J. R. Piper of Wichita, has been appointed genera! agent in Atchison to succeed Kitching. WILL RETIRE APRIL 1 T. J. Martindale to Leave the Santa Fe After 38 Years' Service. T. J. Martindale, clerk in the pen sion department of the Santa Fe rail way, will retire April 1 after 38 years' of service with the railway, company. Mr. Martindale is well known in the offices here. Following his retirement he will go to Baldwin, Kan., where he will run a chicken ranch. RIFLE U. S. GOWMAIL Also That Addressed to British Km bassy Ransaeted on Board Ship. New York, March 1 9. Twenty-six mail bags addressed to Washington and the British embassy at Washing ton, were found to have been rifled on board the Cunard liner Saxonia upon her arrival here today. $30,000,000 A DAY That's Cost of Conducting Gov't of Great Britain, Says Bonar Law. London, March 19. Replying to a question in the .house of commons to day Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer -said the daily average expenditure of the British government from April 1, 1916. to March SI, 1917, would work out at 6,000,000 pounds. GERMANY WAR M AlttiER GA UNION. NOW 01 KANSAS 2ND IN NUMBER OF FARM TRACTORS USED Washington, March 19. A totai of 34,371 gasoline and kerosene tractors are employed in farming operations in the United States ac cording to a census by the depart ment of agriculture. Illinois leads with 3.202 tractors: Kansas second, with 2,287, and Texas third, with 2,235. CLEAN OUT 'SUBS' More Aggressive Steps to Pro tect Shipping Planned. Immediate Calling of Congress Seems Likely. Washington, March 19. New and aggressive action to protect American shipping against German submarines appears certain as a result of Sunday's sinking of three unarmed American merchantmen with possible loss of American lives. Calling of congress in extra session before April 16 loomed as the strong est probability altho president Wilson was understood to have other courses under consideration. With American ships already being armed, the most probable step would be an active campaign to clear sub marines out of the shipping lanes. There appeared to be no plan to have the United States enter the war in the sense that the Kuropean nations have entered it. The fact that some American ships are on fhe other side of the ocean unarmed is a factor in the situation and as large warships are ineffective against submarines the problem for the government is to get small submarine chasers. Most of the American fleet is needed at home to guard against operation of German submarines in American waters. There seemed to be no doubt that steps to supplement arming of Ameri can ships would be taken and the only question -was whether the president would take such steps on his own re sponsibility or wait for congress to grant specific authority. Secretary Lansing was called to the White House by President Wilson early today and they discussed the policy of the gov ernment. SEARCH A TRAIN egroes Leave Suitcases on Car to Dodge Officers. Investigation Results in Find ing 20 Quarts of Vhi.ky. "Doc" Crawford and Fred Mack, two local negroes, became anarchists in a short minute today. One minutes they were sailing along north of Elmont, headed for the dry territory around Topeka. with the con tentment that went with the knowl edge that twenty quarts of St. Joseph whisky were riding easily in two grips. The next minute they were out on the platform at Elmont station under the surveillance of Harvey Parsons, chief of police, while Robert Garver, county attorney, and Robert Miler, deputy sheriff, were going thru the car looking for the grips. Hope lasted while the search was on but the instant the two officers ap peared at the coach door with the tamiliar grips the transformation came. The pair of negroes became anarchists. Then and there they took stands "agin the government." The two negroes and the twenty quarts of whisky were brought to To peka by automobile. Crawford and Mack were unloaded at the county jail, charged with violating the "bone dry" law, and the whisky was taken on to the court house. In one grip there were thirteen quarts. "Doc" Crawford said he knew when the bartender crowded the thir teenth quart in that they were due to have bad luck. He hadt one quart in his pocket and declared he wished he had carried two that way. In the other grip there were only six quarts; it was a small grip. When the men were arrested they maintained they owned no liquor. Robert Miler ran his hand down over Crawford's pocket and found the quart. "That's all, that's all." said Craw ford. In the coach no one could be found who would claim the two suit cases. So the officers took them. Crawford and Mack also refused to claim them at the start but they admitted later that they belonged to them. "Family whisky" was the brand they brought. FORGES Vhtual State of Hostilities Ex ists Between Nations. 20 American Lives Lost; 3' U. S. Vessels Sunk. "OVERT ACT" COMMITTED o Question Sow as to Attitude of German Government. City of Memphis, Illinois and Vigilancia Sent Down. ARE CALM AT WASHINGTON New War Shook Arouses 'o Undue Emotion at Capital. Ships Fired On and Sunk With out Yarning by U-Boats. Washington, March 1 9. The Uni ted States and Germany are on the verge of open hostilities. With a virtual state of war existing; as a result of the ruthless sinking by German submarines of three American freighters, it is now believed inevit able that the first meeting between an armed American merchant vessel and a U-boat will mark the opening of actual hostilities. Semi-official view is united that Germany's destruction of three Amer ican vessels with possible loss of twen ty American lives leaves no question that the kaiser has forced this gov ernment into a state of war. It prob ably will have been found to have ex isted since the American steamer Al gonquin was sunk last Wednesday. Xo Kffeet on Germany. The state of "armed neutrality" in which this government was placed by the president continues; altho it ap parently has failed of its object to prevent sinking of Such ships as the Laconia, Algonquin, the City of Mem phis, the Illinois and the Vigilancia. That the president, as his next step, would call congress in extra session even before its scheduled meeting date, April 16, was deemed likely by some, tho preponderant view was that he would have them assemble the sixteenth, then inform them that a state of war had existed, since March 18 and ask real war measures. It was expected Wilson would con sult his premier and other author ities during the day. And having broad war power already, according to legal experts, it is regarded prob able that he may take even stronger protective means than merely arma ment of American merchantmen. Xavy May Take Vigorous Action. The navy may be called upon to take a vigorous hand, searching out and destroying submarines. Any call for an army undoubtedly will await full authorization from congress un der a declaration of war. The president studied dispatches from abroad up to an early hour this morning and was up early to receive any further reports on the three Intmt j sinkings from Consul Frost. Queens ,town. and Consul General Skinner at London. The messages thus far at hand left but little hope that no American lives had been sacrificed. The report of "men missing" seemed to carry the doieful conviction that they had perished when the German U-boata carried out their orders. Largest American Haul Vet. Sinking of the three vessels, the largest American haul yet made, was attended by circumstances that Justi fied the administration conviction that Germany is going the limit and that' this nation can hope for no favorable exceptions, but despite the fact that the United States is nearer a call to rms today, there is unruffled calm in Washington, not only among officials 'but among the people of the capital, j Apparently Washington, thru ever- recurring experience with internation- al shocks, is no longer susceptible to emotion. mere is no war spirit la evidence. 22 Men Are Missing. London, March 19. Shortly before noon today United States consular re ports to the American embassy here declared captain's boat of torpedoed American steamer City of Memphis was still unaccounted for. There were eight men in this boat. In all twenty-two men of the crews of two of the three American ships sunk by German submarines, were missing today. The three ships were the American steamers Vigilancia. City of Memphis and Illinois. All of the crew of the last named were safely landed. The Vigilancia was struck by a tor pedo without warning. Lookouts diJ not even see the periscope of the sub marine, nor did the U-boat emerge from the sea after the ship had been struck her death blow. The City of Memphis was struck first by shell fire by the submarine and then sunk by a torpedo. f RAISED HOGTrTcES Settlement of Strike Situation A Ills K. C. Market. Kansas City. March 19. Light re ceipts and a settlement of the strik situation raised prices 25 cents a hun dred in the better grades of hogs her today. Heavy hops, quoted Saturday at $14.80. sold for $15.05 at the open ing of the market and packers and butchers, which brought $14.75 Satur day, also registered an advance of SS cents at the opening today.

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2 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1917 85 AMERICANS jCrew of Memphis Given 15 Min I utes to Take to Boats. Other Two Ships Reported Tor rpedoed Without Warning. New York. March 19. Eighty-five Americans, comprising a large major ity of the crews were aboard the three American steamers Vigilancia, City of Memphis and Illinois, sunk by German submarines on Saturday and Sunday Jn the blockaded zone. The last in formation here is that fourteen men are missing from the Yigilancia and eight from the City of Memphis. The crew of the Illinois was landed safely. The City of Memphis left Cardiff. Wales, Friday in ballast for New York. She encountered the submarine Sat urday evening and the crew was given ;15 minutes to take to the boats. The ship was owned by the Ocean Steam ship company and valued at $600,000. She left New York. January 23 with a cargo of cotton, which was delivered' at Havre. France. There were 57 men In her crew. Ship Worth Million; Car so $760,000. The Vipilancia was torpedoed with out warning. Hccording to the sur vivors' story. The submarine did not appear. She carried a crew of forty fiv men, twenty-one of horn were Americans. Thirty-one have been landed at the Scilly Islands. The Vig ilancia called from New York, Febru ary 28. with a cargo consisting in part i f provisions, and was valued at near ly $760,000. The ship, herself, was said to l.e worth $1,000,000. Beyond the fact that the crew was raved, no details had been received I ere early today regarding the de struction of Illinois. She was re ported merely as having been sunk. The Illinois was a tank ship, owned ly ine I exiis 'Ml company. it-il Port Arthur. Texas, on February 17. lor London with a full cargo. There were sixteen Americans on board, in cluding all the officers and eight mem bers of the crew. Her entire crew consisted of thirtyvfive men. STRIKE (Continued from Page One.) joint session between the brotherhood chiefs and the manasTs .me! with much difficulty t;ie chiefs stayed the strike, an act vital to the success of our cffoits at further mediation. I .cave It To Mediators. 'Ve now sought some adjustment that would be effective should .the law be held to be unconstitutional. Many propositions were made to both sides until the raijroad expressed a willingness to place the whole matter with the committee. This action pro ceeded, as the letter of the railway managers states, from a desire to de monstrate to the country that the railroads would not allow their own conception of policy to stand in the way of the fullest use" of the roads at, a time of severe natior.al strain. The committee decided- in view of the action of congress in passing the Ad aniKon law and the necessity foi; im mediate acti that it was best to adopt at once the memorandum agreement1 df the previous day as ap plicable under all conditions. Then tKj provisions of the 8-hour law by agreement between the roads and the men uctaine me uao.o w. rfjent and whether the supreme court holds for the validity of the law or against it. there will be no strike. Signed 3" "FltANKLlN K. LANE. J "V. B. WILSON. "DANIEL, W1LLARD. "SAMUEL GOMPERS." The committee sent the following letter to Elisha Lee. chairman of the railway committee: j- "We are in receipt of your favor of ttiis date, placing in our hands for immediate adjustment ine manei oi the differences between your com mittee and the railroad brotherhoods. ."We have brought this letter before the brotherhoods with the statement that in our judgment, it was advisable to put into effect the provisions of the Adamson law, whether if be held valid or otherwise. This was acceptable to them. Thus, by your action urged thereto by the highest reasons of na tional -concern, you have avoided a national calamity. "We would be delinquent in a true sense of gratitude if we failed to ex press our sincere appreciation of the action you have taken, we trust that i promises a long period of hearty co-operation between the railroad ifianagements'and their employes." Settlement (amo Unexpectedly. "When the railroad managers left the conference room at 11 o'clock last night without having arrived at an sijrreement it was set faces which showed the strain tney were under. When the heads of the brotherhood left an hour earlier, they, too, ap peared to be depressed. Secretary Lane plainly indicated thit the mediators had all but reach ed the limit of their appeals, appar ently without result, the strike seem ingly would go on as announced. .The first intimation that the tie-up had been averted came unexpectedly Kt 12:45 o'clock this morning when a representative of the railoard mana gers conference committee telephoned to the Associated Press and announc ed: "The strike is off." Several hours elapsed before the settlement agree ment was signed. Labor's Greatest Victory. .W. G. Lee. head of the trainmen and spokesman for the brotherhood chiefs, declared today that the set tlemen of the controversy was "the grivatest victory over won for labor." i "Nearly 400,000 men, he said, "have .won the eight hour day with out sacrificing a cent of their money for it. We are now ir. a position to go back to our men with the greatest thing ever put over for labor." Mr. Lee said the brotherhood chiefs Would remain in New York until to morrow. tAdvices from Baltimore, where trtembers of the brotherhoods already had struck and refused to return to Work, had been received giving assur ances that the differences had been settled. Sign Agreement at 5:15 A. M. -'The agreement which averted the strike was signed in Secretary Lane's room at 5:15 this morning just a few hours after the managers had agreed tS abandon the long and bitter fight tjiey have made against the brotherhoods-demands. With the last signa ture, the tension in the little gremp re laxed. The managers and the chiefs shook hands with one another and with each of the Washington medi ators. Th sun was just touching the front oJ..ihe neighboring skyscrapers. Then TodaysAmusementsI GR4jT "Hit the Trail Holliday" psented by Cohan and Harris Wnes from Kansas City, where it. has spent a most successful week. Frank Otto an,d Lola Mer rill are the stars of the musical comedy. COZY Max Linder in "Max Comes Across," is on the program for to day and tomorrow, "Mutiny," a Blue Bird production is also, part of the entertainment. GEM William A. Srady presents Kthel Clayton in "A Man's Wom an," also a comedy film. IRIS "Great Expectations," adapt ed from one of Dickens's famous novels, featuring Louise Huff and Jack Pickford The fifth episode of "Patria." with Mrs. Vernon Castle. NOVELTY Five acts of vaudeville and the fifth episode of "Pearl of the Army." OIIPHEL'M Clara Kimball Young in "The Foolish Virgin," also a new Mack'Sennett comedy, "The Nick of Time." featuring "Teddy," the famous dance dog. For details, prices, etc., see adver tisement on page 3 of tlie State Journal. W. H. Carter of the firemen and en gineers, said: "Why, look out there! It's the dawn of a new day." Most of those present thought he had expressed the feeling of all, for it was the first time in many years that there has been such evidence of friendly feeling between the men who run the trains and the men who man age them. Deaf to Patriotic Appeal. At the bottom of it all it was. the pirit of patriotism- that tarred the day. Mr. Lane on Sunday afternoon began to appeal again to the patriot ism of both sides. He called in the brotherhood chiefs late in the after noon and proposed they agree to ac cept a nine-hour day for the period of one year, with an assurance that after that they would be given an eight hour day. He pointed out the vast advantage that would accrue to the brotherhoods with the people of the nation if in the face of the existing in ternational situation they should show a willingness to yield. Their refusal was steadfast and arguments failed to move them, altho Mr. Gompers and. Mr. Wilson both urged them to agree to this proposal. When Mr. Lane saw that it was useless to talk further with the chiefs, he turned to the railroad managers again and this time he talk ed only on the theme of patriotism. He pictured uncle Sam with his hands tied behind his back facing a foe across the Atlantic. He said the time had come in the nation's history for an interlocking of its industries, that there might be a united front to a for eign foe. Pictured 1 Dire Disaster. "I don't want you to have tomorrow come," he said, and find the 100,000, 000 peopie tot the United States face to face with two horrors; one the destruction- of our ships by any enemy and the other the possible starvation of our people and the certain, paralysis of our industries." It was this speech that won the day. The managers went back to their con- ference and voted unanimously to yield. SPRING "HAS SPRUNG" (Continued from Page One.) southwest at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Soring has sprung maybe. Spring is officially scheduled for tomorrow night at ten o'clock, thtt is, the semi annual equinox is scheduled for that time, but Kansas is ahead of the other parts of the country and will enjoy the best of spring weather today and tomorrow. In fact, Sunday night with a low. temperature of 36, above freez ing, was a typical 3pring night. The forecast is fair today and Tues day, slightly cooler Tuesday. The lowest temperatuie was thirty-six de grees last night at three o clock. By 9 o'clock the mercury was panting around the 50 mark in its upward climb. Mr. Flora says that there is enough wind left to push It past the 65 mark this afternoon. The shippers' forecast reads to pro tect 36 hour shipments from 32 in the north and west, and from above freezing in the east and south. This is the second time this year that the shipments have been protected against a temperature of more than freezing. The highest temperature on record for this date is 82 in 1907, and the lowest, 15, in 1906. The night tem perature was 4 degrees above normal. The wind was blowing 2 5 miles an hour from the southwest this morn ing at nine o'clock and indications are that there will be no marked change in i he direction nor in the velocity for today or tomorrow. t DAILY WEATHER REPORT. Furnished by the weather burenn office Toneka. Kan- for the twentv.fnur hmiM ending at 7 a. m. Monday. stations. Hhru. Lov. Pree. w'ther. noHTnn, :iasn Buffalo. N. Y 4-2 IX n near ;s -to" .12 Clear 40 ai o Clear 0' Clear .'12 22 0 Clear fin 2 02 n. Cloudy 4H o clear .to 24 o Clear 2 34 O Clear 22 4 0 Cloudy fis. 4ft 0 Clear lit r.0 0 Cloudy 4 no o Cloudy 40 24 O Fair 04 44 O Clear 44 a4 0 Clear B4 40 0 Cloudv !8 4H 0 Cloudy B4 48 o Clear 40 20 0 Clear 44 0 Cloudy SO 42 0 Clear 32 30 .04 Clear .r2 42 .ul Cloudy 42 SO 0 Fair IS 8 0 Cloudy 42 22 O Fair 58 44 O Clear 48 40 T Rain 4 IK O Clear 40 .10 0 Fair 30 20 0 Fair 8 48 o Cleats :t2 20 .02 Cloudy 48 Mi o Clear '24 0 Clear r4 42 0 Clear 18 10 0 Cloudy 42 34 0 Clear 1 4 .04 Cloudy C2 28 0 Clear Calgary, Alb mcngo. in Cincinnati, O Concordln. Kan Corpus Christl Denver, l olo Ilea Moines, la Dodge Citv, Kan.. Puluth. Minn El Paso. Tex Kort Worth. Tex.. Galveston, Tex Havre. Vont Jacksonville. FIa.. Kansas City, Mo.. Little Rm-k. Ark.. Los Angeles,. Cal., New Orleans, La,. New York, N. Y Oklahoma, Okla... Phoenix, Aria Pittsburg, I'a Portland, Ore St. Louis, Mo St. Paul, Minn Salt Lake. Utah... San Francisco. Cal. Seattle. "Wash Sheridan, Vyo Spokane, Wash. Swift Current. Ras.N Tampa, Fla Toledo. Ohio TOPEKA. Kan Washington. D. C. Wichita. Kan Winnipeg, Man St. Joseph. Mo Sault ste. Marie Ii. Platte, Neb.... Chlcaso Produce Market Chicago. March 39. BETTER Market steady. Creamerv. 3;t(rj40c. KtitiS Market lower. Firsts. 2Cc: or dinary firsts. 252Uc; at mark, cases In cluded. 2.Va 2Vjc. POTATOKS Market lower. Wisconsin and Michigan white. 2.25S2.S5: Idaho, Colorado, Washington and Oregon, $2.40 "i-OCLTItV Alive, lower; fowls, 21c; springs, 21ic. To Prevent the Grip. Colds Cause Grip Laxative Hrouio Quinine removes cause. There is ouly one "BKOMO QL'ININK." E. W, Grove's signature on box. 25c Adv. FREE RUSS JEWS Political Prisoners of Czar Also Are Liberated. Red Flag Adorns Ajl Buildings and Order Kestored. Petrograd. March 19. Full right of citizenship to Jews and abolition of pale was the further progressive step which democratic Russia took today. Jews thruout Russia hailed the new order with great rejoicing Petrograd is astir with enthusiasm: its streets ore packed with orderly crowds. Public utilities are now run ning as of old. Today all newspapers were republishing and with entire freedom of editorial power. Many or the newspapers which resumed yester day commemorated the event by spe cial editions full of eulogies of the new 'free Russia"including poems and .one analytical articles. All nublic buildings in the capital have been draped with the red flag of the revolutionists. Prince and Grand Duke Return. Prince Yousupoff and the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavoluyitch, who were banished by the old imperial govern ment iiecmise of suspicion that they were connected with the removal of the Monk Rasputin, were permittea to return to Petrograa toaay oy special order of the minister of Justice. Disnatchos from Moscow toaay sain all workmen had resumed their occu pations. The deposed jzar fticnoias was enroute to one of his imperial palaces in Crimea today. Meanwhile his children were all ill, except the Grand Duchess Mane. l ne young Grand Duke Alexis, who was neir to the throne, and was reported dead Sat urday, today is reported in a critical condition. He is not only suffering from the measles, like the other four children of the royal family, but is reported to have suffered a reopening of an old-wour.d on his foot. The Grand Duke Nicholas, now commander in chief of Russia's war forces at Tiflis today ordered the re lease of all political prisoners at Baku and exhorted his soldiers to continue to obey their lawful chiefs. He ursed they "defend their coun try and support Russia's allies in this .unprecedented struggle." HUYCKE CAN GO HOME Lumberman and Wife Reach Tem porary Agreement The business affairs of Mr. and Mrs. Paui HuycJ? "were patched up tem porarily in the district court late Sat urday by Judge G. H. Whitcomb. With Mrs. Huycke asking for sep arate maintenance and a restraining orfler and Mr. Tuycke asking for a di vorce and a restraining order Judge Whitcomb sat as arbiterv Mrs. Huyckke beat her husband .in the race to court and obtained a temporary restraining, order first. It enjoined Huycke from disposing of any of his property pending the siut, from entering upon the premises at 828 Buchanan street and from molesting her in any way. After a hearing Judge Whitcomb issued an order. It lifts the original order insofar as the conduct of Mr. Huycke's business is concerned. How ever, he cannot dispose of any of his property. 4 Mrs. Huycke must give up the Huy cke. home and she t must vacate by 6 O'clock this evening." Pending the final hearing Mr. Huy cke must pay his wife $75 a month alimony and also pay her attorney's fee. Weekly- Bank Clearing. New York, March 10. Bank clearings in the United States for the week ending March 15. as reported to Bradtsreet's. ag gregate $u..1S7,709,000, against S..T:u), 408.000 the previous week and 4,U.'!2,.rS4,000 in the corresponding week last year. Following are the returns with percentages of change Pet. Pet. Cities Amount. New York $3,108,924,000 Inc. 9.0 24.7 39.5 ii.h 52.7 30.5 29.4 55.1 25.4 3.0 11.9 1C.1 40.1 20.1 46.5 24.2 24.2 9.9 45.8 19.8 37. 7 7.5 21.7 6.5 10.2 36.8 62.1 45.4 15.8 "22.6 36.8 23.0 41.2 30.3 33. 44.7 102.0 40.5 26.1 52.25 Dec. Chicago 483.200.000 S0,278,000 212.081,000 137.031 .000 Philadelphia Boston St. Louis Kansas City.. San Francisco. Pittsburg Cleveland Detroit Baltimore Cincinnati Minneapolis New- Orleans.. Los Angeles Omaha .3 127.162.00O 80.154.000 70.1WS.000 59.830.000 49.940.000 38,919.000 .".6.941,0110 29.005.00O 31.9W0.00O .10.214.000 37.30H.000 25.(144.000 24.:WO,000 20.4liS.0O0 21.128.000 15.975.000 19.49C.0IIO 15.lli2.O0O 14,175.000 14.50ti.0OO 31.344,000 12.478.tKK) 10.671.000 ll.26ti,(KM 10.481.000 10.418.000 13.957.000 12,347.000 10.!(54.0(K) .l5.00O 5.755.0H) 0.997.(KK) .4.!1.(KK) 4.225.000 3.300.000 "2.392.000 Milwaukee Atlanta Louisville Richmond Buffalo Seattle St. Paul Denver Portland, Ore.. Boston rndianapolis St. Joseph Salt Lake City. Providence Columbus Fort Worth Toledo Memphis Oes Moines Wichita Sioux City Oklahoma Lincoln Little Rock TOPLKA SUPREME COURT ADAMSON LAW j Kntinued from Page One) duty exceeds the miles run, divided by 12i,2 miles per hour. "(d) All overtime to be computed on the minute basis and paid for at time and one-half times the pro rata rate. "(e) No one shall receive less for eight hours or 100 miles than they now receive for a minimum day or 100 rr.lles for the class of engine used or for service performed. "(O Time will be computed con tinuously from time required for duty until release from duty and responsi bility at end of day or run. Kmployers Refused Demand. The employers refused the demand and the employes thru their organiza tion by concert of action took the steps to call a general strike of all railroad employes thruout the whole country. "The president of the United States invited a conference between the parties. He proposed arbitration. The employers agreed to it and the em ployes rejected it. The president then suggested the eight-hour standard of work and wages. The employers re jected this and the employes accepted it. Before the disagreement was re solved the representativs of the em ployes abruptly called a general strike thruout the whole country fixed for an early day. The president, stating nis ertorts to relieve the situation and pointing out that no resources at law were, at his disposal for compulsory arbitration to save the commercial dis- GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS LOOMS LARGE IN THE REORGANIZATION OF RUSSIA Grand Duke Grand Duke Nicholas, idol of the Russian army and Tanked as Russia's master strategist, looms up as the big military figure of the hour in the empire which has just witnessed a successful and almost bloodless revolu tion, and the abdication of its emperor. aster, the property injury and the per sonal suffering of all, not to say the people if the strike was riot prevented, asked congress first that the eight hour standard of work and wages be fixed by law, and second, that an of ficial body be created to observe dur ing a reasonable time the operation of the legislation and that an explicit as surance be given that if the result of such observation established such an increased cost to the employers as justified an increased rate, the power would be given to the Interstate Com merce commission to authorize it. Congress responded by enacting tht statute whose validity we are called upon to consider. In Effect January 1. "The duty to do so arises from the fact that the employers, unwilling to accept the act and challenging the con stitutional powers of congress to enact it, began this typical suit against offi cers of certain labor unions and the United States district attorney to en join the enforcement of the statute. "The law was made to take effect only on the first of January,' 1917. To expedite the final decision before that date, the representatives of the labor unions were dropped out, agreements essential to hasten it were made and it was stipulated that pending the final disposition of the cause the carriers would keep accounts bf the wages which would have been earned if the statute was enforced so as to enable their payment if the law was finally upheld. "Stating its iesire to co-operate with the parties in their purpose to expt .ite the cause, the court Below, briefly announcing that it was of the I opinion that congress had no constitu tional power to enact the statute en joined its enforcements and as the re bult of the direct appeal which fol lowed we comer- after elaborate oral and printed arguments, to dispose of ine controversy. Sift It Down to Two Questions. All the propositions reviewed unon and arguments advanced ultimately come to two questions: "First, the entire want of constituyf tional power to deal with'the subjects emoracea oy tne statute, and, second, such abuse of the power if possessed, as rendered its exercise unconstitu tional. We will consider these sub jects under distinct propositions sepa rately. (1) The entire want of constitu tional power to deal with the subjects embraced by the statute. Question ItiRlit to Enact Law. Railroads attacked te Adamson measure as "not a regulation -erf com merce," "not the result of legislative judgment but an experiment," whose success -vitould be determined by fu ture Investigation, and as depriving the railroad of its liberty to make con tracts and its property without due process of law. They held it to be a wage measure, which congress "had no right to enact" under the consti tution. The government contended the law- was not a wage law but an hours-of-service act; and that, even if it was a wage measure, congress had the right to pass it under the commerce clause cf the constitution. The case had its inception whsn congress passed a law late last Au gust, when railroad brotherhoods threatened to tie up the nation's rail roads, declaring eight hours to be standard day's work and providing tnat pro rata overtime should be paid for work done after the first eight hours. This section formed the real basis of attack for the railroads. Big Four Makes Demand. On March 29. 1916, the four rail road brotherhoods the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, the Order, of Railway Conductors, the Brotherhood of Locomotive -Firemen and the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen demanded-of the railroads of the coun try an eight-hour day with time and a half overtime, overtime to be com puted on the minute basis and regular time to begin -when a railroad man was required to report for duty. This was to replace the old mileage basis, by wjbich the men were paid for a trip 100 miles constituting a day's run, usually of ten hours. Railroads refused this and other concessions, and in return askedV arbi tration by the federal board of media tion or the interstate commerce com mission. This the brotherhoods re fused flatly. The brotherhoods held out for the eight-hour day and tb,e time-and-a-half overtime; the rail roads contended granting these would nMWI I II "1"' r''"T V Nicholas. have meant material increases in pay and should be arbitrated. President Calls Union Heads. Little attention was paid to the dia pute until late in the spring, it be came apparent neither, side would yield without a struggle. Both sides claim ed the other was bluffing. When neith er side would concede anything, and the negotiations at New York seemed about to endIn a strike. President Wilson asked leaders for the broth erhoods and railroads to go to Wash ington for a conference. They did first a big delegation of the brother hoods and the conference committee of managers representing the. roads. Then, when the president was unable to make a settlement, he called in 100 railroad executives, representing every railroad and billions of dollars of capital. The brotherhoods were represented only by their presidents. Again his efforts failed. One night the executives announced they would not yield. Later they showed printed copies of a strike order effective at 7 a. m. Labor Day, September 4. Brotherhood leaders admitted the strike had been called for that day by a 98 per cent vote of the railroad men. Faced by possibility of paralysis of commerce, 'President Wilson prepared a message to congress, asking imme diate passage of an eight-hour law. Strike Culled Off. Adamson introduced his bill in the house on August 31. The house pass ed it next day. The senate passed it September 2. The president approved it September 3. The strike was called off. The bill provided a commission to investigate the Working of the law which was effective January 1, 1917 within six or nine months, and report thirty days after that to the president and congress. The country settled back. Then came rumors the railroads would -fight the law, and on Novem ber 20, Alexander New and Henry C. Kerris, receivers for the Missouri, Oklahoma Gulf railroad. Hied com plaint in the federal court at Kansas City, attacking the constitutionality of tne law- Invalid Says Lower Court. -Judge William C. Hook of Kansas City, considered the case November 22d and declared the act "unconstitu tional, null and void," and the "judg ment of the court is, the law cannot be sustained." That brought it before the supreme court on appeal. Railroad attorneys argued the law is a wage measure and is invalid. Gov ernment attorneys held it to be an hours-of-service law primarily, but held that congress could legislate wages for railroads, anyway, under the commerce clause of the constitution. Both sides had rather a rocky time of it in court, as the justices, palpably interested, interrupted frequently with questions. There must be knowledge of the power exerted before determining whether as exercised it was constitu tional and we must hence settle a dispute on that question before going further. Both Sides Right. "Only ah eight-hour standard for work and wages was provided, is the contention on the one side and in substance only a scale of wages was provided, is the argument of the oth er, we are of the opinion that both ajrare right, in a sense both wrong in so far as It is assumed that the one excludes the "other. Both provisions are equally mandatory. "How-pVer. there is this very broad difference between the two powers exerted. The first, the eight-hour standard, is permanently fixed. The second the fixing of the wage stand ard resulted from the prohibition against paying lower wages is ex pressly limited to the time specificed in section two (of the law). "It is therefore not permanent but temporary, leaving the employers and employes free as to the subject of wages to govern their relations by thei rown agreement after the speci fied time. Chicago 1,1 1 e stork Market. Chicago. March 19. HODS Receipts C5. 000. Market strong. 0c above Saturday's average. Bulk of sales. (14.75(d 15.10; light. (14.35GJ 15.05 mixed. (14.00(a 15.10: heavy. (14.00fel5.20; rough, (14.G0 14.75 pigs. (10.85lil 13.40. CATTLE Receipts 2.000. Market strong. Native beef cattle. (9.15I&12.S5 stockers and feeders. (,.i0ft9.80: cows and heifers. (5.75i IO.SD calves. (30.25fe 34.25. SHEEP Receipts 9.000. Market strong. Wethers, (U.lu12.CDi lambs. (12.w0m.14.iw. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, March 19. WHEAT Moderate srrengtn ueveloped. in the wneat marKeij today as a result of the railway strike sit-uition. Bullish vaentinient-was restrain- i ed by the continuance of traffic embargo to congested freight facilities. Trading was checked aTso by uncertainty over I possible outcomes of the increasing des- truction of American shipping in the sub- marine war zone. Opening piieea, which I ranged from the same as Saturday's fin- I ish to liie higher with May at $1.M to Sl.Kjiyg am jv at $1.55 to tl.ooV.; were followed by limited general gains and then a slight reaetii. eBarish crop reports from the southwest acted later as a weakening influence and so. too, diil a renewal of peace talk. The effect on prices, however, was only tern- i porary. 'notations closed strong. 2M;c to 4'.-c net higher, with May at $1.88 to $l.S8is j anil .Inly at $1.58 to $1.58i. j t'OKN In corn, as in wheat, firmness resulted from the strike settlement but advaucea were not radical. After oeniug '4c to M,& ?sc higher, the market coutlnued to uardeu. Active demand from industries led sub sequently to a new high price record for May. The close was strong at lc to net aflvance. OATS Oats sympathized with the up ward tendency of other cereals. PROVISIONS Provisions advanced on account of the disappearance of the strike uunger. Chlcaeo Grain and Pork Market (The range of prlLes for grain futures on The Chicago Board of Trade as re- i ported by Empire Commission i-o.. 01 New Kuulano l',ltg.t Chicago, March 19. Close Own. Ifiirh Low Tdy Sat. WHKAT May ..ls."1 18SH 182":.in 18 .184-14 July ..355',i 358H 134'4 15ifc 155'i Sept. ..H;l; 140 W0- UM COK.N Mav ..1W-, 312 !'.KH 132. 109 .Inly ..108 130 107 330 107-. Sept. ..MM!,- y laoTi 1U8!4 lOU'S OATS May 5Si-WV.l- 57 58- 57 till v SOU j'j 55'. 57-1,4 0Vi PORK May ..33.50 34. 4(1 33.50 34.40 33.75 Jtllv ..32.00 :i3.50 32.00 33.50 33.55 LAUD May ..19.(K 39.55 39.25 39.55 19.20 .Inly ..19.25 19.55 19.25 19.55 19.20 RIBS May ..17.85 17.97 17.67 17.97 17.67- uJly ..17.17 18.02 17.75 18.02 17.75 Ranma Ctty Grain Market. (The range of prices for grain futures on The Kansas City Board of Trade as re ported by Empire Commission Co.. 301 ivew England Bldg.) Kansas City, March 19. Close Open WHEAT May .,182 July ..152 Sept. -.140 CO mi May ..107 July ..ltMiS Sept. ..103'i High Low Today Sat. 18514 isoh 130 139 185 U. 154 142 109 108 105- 181 Vi 151 Y 140 100- 105V- 103- 142J8 109 108 105- 107 106 103& Chicago Grain and Pork Market Chicago. March 19. WHEAT Close: Mav, $1.88iai.88; July, Jl.SSiigl.SSVi Sept., $1.4l',(ctl.4tii. CORN May, (1.11 1.12; July, 1.0T& &1.10; September, (1.0614. OATS May, 58c July, 5757'sC. POltlv May, (34.40; July, (33.00. LAKI May, (19.55; July, (19.55. UlliS May, (17.97; July, (18.02. Kansas City Produce Market Kansas Cltv March 19. WHEAT Cash Market steady to lc higher. No. 2 hard. (1.90'i(nl.95: No. 3. (1.87ff 1.94 No. 2 red. 1.895 1.93; No. 3. (1.84tl-91. CO UN Market. V.fel'ic higher. No. 2 mixed, (1.10V.&1.11V. No. 3. (Lldgl lOMr No. 2 white. (1.1131.1114 No. 3, (l.loro) 30U,: No. 2 yellow, S1.13&1.M; No. 3, (1.12 a 1.1314. OA1& MarKet sieauy. io. wune, 0-3 o3c; No. 2 -mixed, 01.01 ic. It Y E (l.EWfo 1.54, KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE (2.51O2.70. HA V Prairie. (14.00; others unchanged. P. KAN (1.84fa 1.MB. SHORTS (1.USAI3.03. WHEAT Receipts 131 cars. -BITTER Creamery, 42c; firsts, 40c; seconds, ,s8c: packing, 28V2C ESiS Firsts. 2ic. I'OL'LTUY Hens. 20c; roosters. 15c; turkeva. 25c. CLOSE: WHEAT May. (1.8514: July. (1.54 September. (1.42. CORN May. $1.091.09 July,(1.08 September, (1.061.05Vs. New York Produce Market New York. March 19 BUTTER Market easier. Creamery higher than extras, 42V& a43c. EGOS Market irregular. Fresh gather ed extra first, 28Vjc. CHEESE Market irregular, state held specials, 27tt-7i2C. m 1-ULl.ilfi uressea, nrra. New York Stock Market Wall St.. New York, March 19. STOCKS Activiey increased on a more broad volume or Dusinees uurtnj; tue lorenoon. tbe market gathering fresh strength on MiblicatioD of tne railway wage agreement, tail a were only moderately active, but United States Steel made an extreme ad vance of 2 ooints and other industrials arose variably. Bethlehem Steel, new stock, Crucible Steel and Central Leather were the main feature or the war and semi-war divisions at gains of 2 to 4 jxdnts and EauiDinents rose an average of 1 to 'J points, with T'nited States Rubber, Western Union and Philadelphia Company. Ship nines retrieved a greater part of their early log;i. The entire list developed fur- tner strengin at muiaay. jtonus were uoeaaugeu. Kansas City Live Stock Market Kansas City, March 10. HOUS Receiots 4.(XK. Market KK to 17x .higher. Hulk of sales, 14.41X 14 W heavy. 14.O(4l.j.00; packers and butchers. S14.70d 14.9o light. 14.:i0fa 14.70; pigs. $10.3(Vgl.50. cattle Keceints ojsou. including loo -southerns. Market strong to 10c higher. Prime fed steers, $11. itwijl2.2o dressed beef steers, $S.50f 11.50: western steers, $9.(KXJ 11.75: southern steers. SN.OOCa 10.50 cows. $ti.HKa 10.00; heifers. $H.OOC 11.00 stockers and feeders, $7.10.75 bills, $7.0095; calves. S7.00ft 12.00. SHEEP Receipts 0.000. Market strong to 10c higher. Lambs. $12.0flC 14.75: yearlings. fi:t.onf(i:t.ti5; wethers. $11.50a 12.50; ewea. $10.;j0(u12.2o stockers and feeders, f .09jr 14.UU. Kanaaa City Live Stock Salea. (Tbe following a&i0 were made this inorn log at tbe htock Yard. Kansas. City, auri reported orer long distance telephone di rect to tbe State Journal by Clay Kohln son Co. lire stock connnssioD nier chants.) Khiishb Citv, March 19. TATTLE Re ceipts fl.500 head. Market 10igl5c higher. HOGS Receipts 4,000 head. Market 10 a 15c higher. Bulk of sales, $14.4014.83; top, 14.SHJ. SHKK1 Receipts 8,000 head. Market 15 (U-m: lilfiher. No. Wt. Frice.lNo. Wt Prh's. 47 M J10.-J5 23 1170 $11.00 a wa lo.yo 25 1053 lo.so 24. 10a 11.25 t ll:S Sl.UO IS 1:540 11.23 2!..... 0K4 9..15 112 1157 10.00 as..,.. 1107 10.50 44 1(191 10.: 09 11(17 11.0i 41 USD 10.90 1.! 9.75 COWS AND HK1FEK. 13 880 7.50 I 4 990 6.50 2 1410. 9.00 I 5 12iO 950 50. 882 10.50 1 64 9:;l 10.75 STOCKEKS AND fc'KEI'KKS. 42 773 B.75 3 930 M7. 6 880 9.50 13 910 8.50 7 7I2 8.50- 13 848 9.20 49 1035 10.10 f!7. 1080 S.40 I CALVES. 18 244 11.00 1 0 120 10.90 8 130 11.25 4 300 10.90 17 350 8.00 I 3 tHO 7.00 HULLS. 1 1200 8.25 I 4 11.10 7.50 C 1090 0.75 3 11X0 8.00 2 690 B.50 I 22 1205 9.10 HOGS. 78 253 14.90 I 77 210 14.80 19 215 14.75 I 00 241 14.80 TOPEKA MARKET REPORT Topeka Grain Market v (Furnished by J. B. Blllard. corner Kanss re.- and Curtis St) Tnpekji. Kan., March IB. WHEAT $1.751.80. CO R S" $1 .05. OAIS 5O446OC OFFICIAL STATEMENT OF OP THE Kansas Reserve State Bank at Topeka, State of Kansas, at the close -of business on the, 15th day of March, 1917, RESOURCES Loan3 and discounts $455,988.46 Loans on real estate 21,300.00 Furniture and Fixtures 13,224.08 Other bonds and warrants 1,800.00 Cash items and clearing-house item3 2,697.20 Cash and sight exchange, legal reserve. 511,827.60 Total $1,006,337.34 LIABILITIES Capital stock paid in. 200,000.00 Surplus fqnd 50,000.00 Less current expenses, -interest and taxes paid 572.76 Individual deposits, subject to check $300,895.26 Cashier'3 checks outstanding..'.......,: 3,905.84 Banks' and bankers' deposits. 435,217.06 Certificates of deposit due on or-af ter 30 days 15,746.42 Total Deposits 755,764.58 Total $1,006,337.34 f-'tate of Kansas, County bf Shawrtee, ss. I. Karl Akers, Cashier, of said hank, do solemnly swear that the above statement Is true; that said bank has no liabilities, and is not Indorser onany note or obliga tion, other than shown on the above statement, to the best of my knowledge and belief. So help me God. EARL AKERS, Cashier. (Seal) Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 19th day of March, 1917 F. C. THOMPSON, Notary Public, (Commission expires on. the 11th day of October, 1920.) Correct Attest TO. W. F. BENSON. Bank Commissioner. Topeka, Kan. 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 Offices at Chicago. So. St. Joseph. So. Omaha. Denver. Sioux City, So. St. Paul. K. Buffalo. E. St. Louis. Fort Worth and EI Paso. Cr i i w The Letter Shop for Results Our letters put your personal appeal right in the mind3 of" the people you want to reach. PERFECT PER SONAL LETTERS 100 or 10,000 each as personal as a typewrit-: ten letter but at a small cost. PHIL EASTMAN PUBLICITY- I 41-2-414 Central National Bank Building TOPEKA- KAN SAS MAIN SHINE PARLOR, HHOKM FIXED Tacked Holes 75r Rubber Heels 4m- Leather Heels 25c Colored Ntioes Cleaned 10c Colored Stioen Dyed 25c 8hine every day 5c .V. ',4 KANSAS AVEXI R I Cattle and Hoga I (Prices furnished by Wolff Packing Co. 1 .oncks. Kfln.. March 19. MIXED AND BUTCHERS 12.00Ca 14.50 iZ.Wa 14.B0 11.00(414.20 T. 7.004s .U0 HKAVV LNJHT I PIGS Steers Good t4 choice Fair to good Cows Good to choice Fair to good Common to fair. Heifers Good to choice Fair to good I Common ....$7.50 to ?.50 6.S0 to 7.23 ....$6 50 to 7.50 i 5.50 to 6.50 1 4.00 to S.30 j I ....$7.00 to 8.50 6.00 to 7.00 4.50 to 5.00 $6.50 to 7.75 6.00 to 6.75 ....$8.50 to 8 50 6.50 to 8.00 4.00 to 8.00 ....$8 00 to 9.09 7.00 to 8.00 9.00 to ll.Oll $4.00 to S.OU 2c uuder abovs Bulls Fleshy Medium Veal calves v Prime fat Medium good Fuir Sheep and lambs Fat wethers Fat ewes Fat lambs Goats Shorn lambs and sheep prlcej. (Posit'rely cannot use abeep or lambs unless fat- Poultry and Eggs. (Famished by tlie Topeka Packing Com pany, corner Laurent and Madison.) Topeka, Kan., March 19. HENS sy- lbs. snd orer. lie: under 3 lbs.. 14c: springs. oer S lbs.. 17e; anrks, 10c; geese, be: broilers, S lbs. and Retail Hay. I'll ARIK $10,004 12.00. ALFALFA tl5.U04U7.50. THE FINANCIAL CONDITION V. C. KATHS. F. A. ANTON, J. A. STEINMEYER. FRANK P. MAC LENNAN, GEO. GODFREY MOORE, C. E. ELDRIDGE, E. C. WINTERS, Directors. I Sugar Best fine granulated, 10 lbs. for 77c Pink Salmon, tall cans, 2 for 25u Fancy New Potatoes, lb.. 10c Choice Seeded Raisins, 3-10c pkgs. i-. j .35c Fancy Evaporated Peaches,, the 15c kind, lb -.10c Premium Stamps Free Keg Herring, each.. .$1.13 Best bulk Macaroni, lb..lOc B Fancy Shredded Cocoanut, jara lb 19c Blue Ribbon Brick Cheese, n lb -SOc Iten's Harvest Mixed Cookies, assorted, box, $1.10 I,arxest Grocery Busineos In Kunsa.s There's a Reason. ECONOMY CASH MARKETS I STORAGE BATTERYa -v r Service Station. ALL MAKES OF BATTERIES RECHARGKJJ Machinists Electric Co. 10S W. 8th Phone 6 $4 under, 18c: old roosters, lie. outers. 9c; staggy young EiOS 25 tec. Eggs are retailing In dozen. Butter from 35c to 40c. Topeka 2528e flatter and Eggs. (Furnished by the Beatrice Creamery Co Topeka. Kan.) Topeka. Kan., March 19. CniCAGO KGGK 20V4c. NEW YORK EGOS 28lj28tie. CREAMERY BUTTER Chicago. 40c; New York, 41(g41Kc; Elgin, 40c; Topeka wholesale. 39c Topeka Hay Market. (Furnished by T. A. Beck 212-211 Eth. Topeka, Kau PRARIE HAY $11.00. ALFALFA $17.00. March IB. llliljl

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3 LEE FOHL THINKS THESE I. ADS VVTI J. "T 8-HOUR TREATY Up to the 141 mile 5portingNewS( BE INDIANS' WINNERS NEXT SUMMER Eilit-Hour Bay at 10-Hour Fay Established. THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1917 CAN HEJEPEAT? Golfers Wonder What Evans Will Do This Season. Last Does ot Regard Chick as Highly as the West. Y JACK YKIOCK. New York, March 19. The golfer who is in the habit of making mental bets with himself has probably been looking forward to the national ama teur championship to be held at Oak mont this year. And. very likely the golfer has turned over in his mind the chances of the present national amateur cham pion, Charles ("Chick") Evans, of Chicago, for the winning of the 1917 event. The verdict and there seems to be only one from this distance is that Evans's chances are brilliant. Today the chances of the Chica goan to annex the 1917 amateur golf ing skypiece are about 25 or 30 per cent better than they were before the United States Golf association held its annual meeting in January. Otiimct Out or It. You will remember, if you are at all interested in the Scotch game, that the a uster-. old golf association voted to continue the classification of one i "rands uimet as a professional. Well, that one act on the part of the 1". S. ii A. enhanced Kvans's chances, for in the field of golfers who are expected to compete lor the big title Evans stands out in bold relief. The critivs who write golf back east see-ri pretty well satisfied that Jerry Travprs is about the only golfer who stands seriously in the path of 'Chick" Evans. They admit there are plsnty of goo 1 golfers in the run ning, bi:t Evans will enter the tourna ment thi ye;ir with the memory of his 1016 victories when he won both the amateur and opsn golf titles, to bolster his nerves. A id the confidence he will derive trom those memories will so a long way toward improving liis game. In the open tournament it may be different for it is believed that Jerry T ravers will compete, as will 'all the best amateur and professional golfers, and Evans will find himself up against a much classier field than in the ama teur event at Pittsburg. Iat Eciatlos Him. 1 hntout the west Evans is rated as a world beater. The golf writers i f the v.e;-t can see no other star, be caiis" the brilliancy of the Windy City I layer hides others from view. On the prairie he is a wonder, but hack cast ammiEr the trrps eastern critics believe (hat Evans will find many iif fictiltifs that he has not been accus tomed to. However, eastern writers are not overlooking the fact thai Evans plays as be iutif ul a mashie as any player in the country, and his ability to han dle this club may pave the way for :'niit;ur victory for him in the .pen lout n-tnient. His playing at Philadel phia Id st year was brilliant. .At any rvtr, the golfing world will it up.and take notice during the play in;; of the two Hg events this year, for if Evans can repeat his 1916 achievement and annex both the open and Pinateur titles for a second time l.e will have set a mark that will prob ably stand for years. TO HAVE NO BALL TEAM Washburn Authorities Will Not Put Tram In Kansas Conference ISace. Inter-fraternity baseball is the only kind that Washburn students will be able to boast this season, according to an announcement made by the ath letic' authorities. Despite the fact that the Ichabods never had a more propitious time for making a success of a real college baseball team and despite the efforts of a number of students to organize a team to rep resent the college in the Kansas con ference title race, the authorities have thrown cold water on the proposition and have given as their excuse the fact that they are devoting all their energies to track work. "Hank" Sullivan and a number of other Washburn students were work ing hard on a proposition to organize 408 residents of Kansas registered at Hotel Astor during the past year. Sinsle Room, without bath. $2.50 nnd $3.00 Double: $3.50 and $4.00 Single Rooms, with bath. $3.50 to $6.00 Double $4.50 to $7.00 Parlor, Bedroom and bath. $10,00 to $14.00 Times Square At Broadway, 44th to 45th Streets the center of New York's social and business activities. In close proximity to all railway terminals. COLLARS At the Old Price Fred Voiland Till and Kansas' Ave. i a college team and Dale Gear, former big leaguer and Western league man ager, had offered his services as coach. But there will be no Washburn team and the students who prefer baseball to track or tennis will, if they be long to a fraternity, have to depend upon inter-frat games for their sport. If they are not fraternity men thay will have to go the sand lots unless inter-class games are arranged. NEW FOOTBALL RULES Further Steps Taken by Committee to Stop Sideline Coaching. New York, March 19. The football rules committee at its annual meeting here took steps to prevent illegal in terference with the forward pass by passing a- rule to give the' ball to the sider offended against when a player receiving a pass is illegally interfered with instead of putting the ball back in play at the point where the foul was committed as has been done in the past. If this should happen be hind a goal line the ball goes to the other team on the 1-yard line. Another important step taken by the committee was the passing of a. rule which prohibits a substitute who goes into a game communicating with any of his teammates until after o. play has been made following his entry into the game. Tis rule, it is thought, will check coaching from the sideline and stop coaches from run ning their teams at critical moments by sending instructions with the sub stitutes. The committee also granted more authority to the officials in the mat ter of inflicting penalties. A penalty of five yards will be inflicted in the future for running into a kicker and disqualification for roughing. TOURNEY BIG SUCCESS Newton H. S. Quintet Again Wins the Championship of the State. Iawrence. Kan., March 19. Ath letic officials of the University of Kan sas declared today that the high school basketball tournament which closed here Saturday night in which Newton won the state title for the second time was the most successful ever staged. Both the boys' and the girls' teams showed an unusual proficiency in goal shooting and the playing of all contestants was of a high order. Newton won the boys' title after de feating Wichita by the decisive score of 58 to 27. Wichita worked thru to the finals by defeating Atchison and Newton by defeating Winfield. Klsmore won the girls' champion ship by defeating Rosedale, 41 to 27. Overton Hancs X'p New Mark. New York. March 19. John W. Overton of Yale, made a new indoor record for the 1,000-yard run at the Senior National Amateur Athletic union indoor championship at the Twenty-second regiment armory Sat urday night. His time was 2 minutes and 14 seconds, one and two-fifths seconds better than the former rec ord. Ray. of the Illinois A. C, Qhi caso, finished second. AT BIG LEAGUE CAMPS Corpus Christi, Tex. The Browns after two weeks work at Palestine opened training quarters here today and hopped into the military drill. Rooks and regulars combined Sunday trimmed Denison, 11 to 0. Hot Wells, Tex. Looks like first di vision. One Cardinal gang walloped the St. Paul American association out fit at Beaumont and the other battled the San Antonio Bronchos to a 3 all tie. Dallas, Tex. Doc White's Dallas Submarines took advantage of Dan forth's wildness and cleaned up the White Sox to the tune of 3 to 1. A silver trophy bat presented to Owner Comiskey by Jack Art, Woodland Bard, couldn't even stop the slaughter. San Francisco. After taking a drubbing from the Oakland aggrega tion in the morning, 9 to 7, Mitchell's Cubs sought revenge by defeating the Friscoans in the afternoon, 7 to 2. And for the first time in a week Mitchell actually smiled today. Houston, Tex. A home run by Davey Robertson and some good work by Catcher George Gibson left a 3 to 2 gloom here today in the wake of Giant regulars. Galveston, Tex. Ferdie Schupp re vived only after the Giant seconds had nailed Galveston with seven runs in the final three innings, winning 7 to 3. Macon, Ga. The Braves loom in the future for the Yankees this week devoted to preparation for the SDrirur I series. i New Orleans. Indications point to ward the following Indian lineup for the opening game with Detroit, April i 11 Graney, If; Chapman, ss; Speaker, cf; Roth, rf Guisto, lb; Waumby, 2b; Turner or Leber, 3b; O'Neill, c; Bagby or Coombe, p. ADDITIOXAL SPORT WILL BE FOl'XD ON OTHER PAGES CHARTER TO THE MO. P. Name Is Chanfrcd From "Railway To "Railroad." The state charter board has granted a permit to the Missouri Pacific rail road company. The road is chartered under the laws of Missouri. Under the reorganization program of the road, the charter name was changed from Missouri Pacific railway to rail road. The road is capitalized at 300 mil lion dollars. Of this amount $49,175, 341 will be invested in Kansas A n application for permission to issue 250 million dollars worth of bonds is now pending1 before the state public utili ties commission. 2 for Fred Coumbe (left) and Joe Boehling. WIFE BOOTED HER Girl Acted as Housekeeper of a Former Topekan. Police Called In J. A. Beverly Hattie Bowlby Affair. James A. Beverly who, in 1915, was Kansas manager of a Kansas City insurance company with headquarters in Topeka, and Miss Hattie A. Bowlby who was his stenographer, bookkeep er and business manager while in To peka, were principals in a domestic tangle which took the police of Kan sas City to the Beverly home twice Saturday. Beverly is sixty-six years of age and lives at 511 Benton Boulevard, Kansas City. A Kansas City news paper says Miss Bowlby has served as his housekeeper for seven years. She is no longer serving in that capacity. Following Saturday's trouble Mrs. Beverly and" her daughter, who had come from Omaha, routed Miss Bowl by and took charge of the household, after an absence of ten years. Twenty years ago Beverly1 was a factor in Nebraska politics. He was one of the lieutenants of David E. Thompson who dominated the affairs of that state. Suddenly he left Ne braska and located in Texas and years later turned up in Topeka as the Kansas manager of an insurance com pany. He employed Miss Bowlby as stenographer, office manager and sec retary and eventually, according to the development of affairs in Kansas City, became his housekeeper. She was serving in that capacity in Kan sas City when things happened Sat urday. Two weeks ago Dr. J. G. Poole was called to attend Beverly at his Benton Boulevard home. He found him sub ject to periods of dementia. Last week Mrs. Beverly and her daughter arrived and Miss Bowlby was evicted. Friday she had returned. Mrs. Bev erly returned also and Miss Bowlby was again evicted. Saturday she re turned and was ordered out. Later in the day Miss Bowlby obtained the! services of an attbrney and a police- man and went to the Beverly home for her personal effects and got them, It was due to a Jetter she wrote said Miss Bowlby, that Mrs. Beverly learned about her husband's mental condition. While in Topeka Miss Bowlby lived at the Glen-Wood hotel. Tr.rt DELEGATES ARE NAMED i j Governor Picks Knnsans to Attend Xa- i tlonal Conservation. Congress. Governor Capper has announced ap- pointment of the following delegates i to the National Conservation congress in New Orleans, April 3-5: R. O. Deming. Oswego: R. A. Rut ledge, Topeka; S. C. Landis, North To peka: T. J. Striskler, Topeka; J. C. Mohler, Topeka: Prof. H. A. Rice, Lawrence; Prof. H. B. Walker, Man hattan; A. A. Robinson Topeka; Hon. Charles W. Green," Kansas City; Hon. George Plumb. Emporia; Hon. J. G. Strong, Blue Rapids; Hon. Charles T. Estes, Abilene; Hon. Charles E. Hall, Russell; D. W. Nail!, Herington; Hon. Pcott Hopkins. Topeka; Hon. J. r. Bowersock, Lawrence; Hon. P. W. Goebel, Kansas City; Hon. W. A. S. Bird; Hon. Samuel A. Bard well, Man hattan: Hon. Frank W. Sponable, Pa ola; Hon. A. L. Wilmoth. Concordia: Hon. F. O. Stone. Emporia: Hon. Wil liam Campbell, Bronson: Hon. Cyrus D. White, Salina; Hon. B. M. Brown, Fall River; Hon. Nick Johnson, Otta wa: Hon. G. Nelson, Chanute: Hon. George R. Long, Kansas City: Hon. W. A. Layton, Osborne: Hon. R. M. Noble, Bartlett: Hon. K. M. Geddes. El Do rado; Hon. S. A. Kent, Peabody; Hon. G. T. Sellards, Solomon: V. R. Park hurst. Topeka; Charles Wanzer, Oma- I v Lea Fofcl. Cleveland Indian boss, declares that his two young south paws, Fred Coumbe and Joe Boehl mg, are going to eat up the league next season. The American league's best sluggers are left-handed and southpaw hurlers are highly valued by any American league cltib. Boehl ing was with the team too short a while last year to help a lot and Coumbe after a grand start suffered a kink in his wing BIG CHURCH MEET Methodist Episcopal Conference Convenes Here Tomorrow. Ministers Will Pay Trip Ex penses Out of Own Pockets. The fourth annual meeting of the Kansas conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will convene here Tuesday evening. Four hundred min isters and three hundred- laymen are expected, according to Dn E. J. Kulp, of the First Methodist .church. The main business before the meeting will be the disposition of the ministers among the many churches. Examina tions of the character of eachuminis terial member will also be part of the business. The missionary and miscel laneous benevclences of the churches, amounting to $160,000, will be turned over to the conference treasurer. All meetings of the ministerial con ference will be held at the First Metho dist Episcopal church. The confer ence of the laymen will be held in the parlors of the First Congregational church. Seventh and Harrison streets. Pay Own Expenses. Each minister and layman will pay the expenses of the trip from his own pocket. This is the first time that the members of the conference have at tempted to be independent of their "flock" in the way of finances. The committee on lodgings has compiled a list of available locations. This conference will be the first to be held in Topeka since the consolida tion of the two eastern Kansas con ferences, five years ago. The organi zation embraces 568 churches and 402 ministers. Its area extends over the eastern half of Kansas. Bishop W. O. Shepard, of Wichita, will preside and a reception in his honor has been scheduled as the first event on the program. COME BEFOIJP BUSINESS Boys and tiirls More Important Than j i i

"The boys and girls of America need our attention more than 'the grind- stone of business. Bishop Wise said Sunday to an audience of 300 persons Ht the high school auditorium. "America must wake to the spiritual life. We must have a different system of human valuation. For the boy who in early life is deeply impressed that no -worry of the spiritual estate he will have left behind him." The meeting was presided over by Governor Capper. Next Sunday irieeting will be held at the Orpheum theater. Rev. Alonzo Bright of Albu- o.uerq.ue, N. M., will be the speaker. e 1O0 Matinee ORPHEU CLARA KliB In a Film Story of Romance and Reality "The Foolish Virgin" TODAY TOMORROW WEDNESDAY Also New Mack Sennett Comedy "The Nick of Time' Baby" With 'Teddy" the Great Dane Dog as Principal Feature rrui7'TTic noruroTn v Applies to Train and Engine Men Thruout U. S. New York, March 19. The follow ing agreement was signed' today by the railway managers' committee and the brotherhood chiefs, formally set tling questions over which they have been at odds: "New York, March 19. Settlement awarded by the committee of the Council of National Defense: In all road service except passenger where schedules now read: One hundred miles or less, nine or ten hours or less, over time at ten or eleven miles per hour, insert 'eight hours or less for a basic day and twelve and a half miles per hour for a speed basis for the purpose of computing over time to be paid for at not less than one eighth of a daily rate per hour.' In all yards, switching and hostling ser vice, where schedules now read 'ten, eleven or twelve hours or less shall constitute a day's work, insert 'eight hours or less shall constitute a day's work at present ten hours pay. "Over time to be paid for at not less than one-eighth of the daily rato per hour. "In yards now working on an eight hour basis, the daily rate shall be the present ten hours standard rate with over time at ore-eighth of the present standard daily rate. 8 Hours For Hostlers. "In the event the law is held to be constitutional, if the foregoing settle ment is inconsistent with the deci sion of the court the application will be adjusted to the decision; if de clared unconstitutional, the above stands with all the provisions as written. "In passenger service the present mileage basis will be maintained. On roads now having a flat ten hour day in passenger service the rule will be amended to read 'eight within ten hours.' "For all classes of employes in short turn around passenger service, where the rule now reads 'eight within twelve hours,' it will be amended to read 'eight within ten hours." "For such territory as has no num ber of hours for a day's work in short turn around passenger service the eight within ten-hour rule applies. Full Time for Overtime. "Overtime to be paid for at not less than one-eighth of the daily rate per hour. "The general committees on indivi dual roads may elect to retain pres ent over time rules in short turn around passenger service or the fore going provisions, but may not make a combination of both to produce greater compensation than is provided in either basis. "In the event the law is held to be constitutional, if the foregoing settle ment is inconsistent with the decision of the court, the application will be adjusted to the decision. If declared constitutional the above stands with all the provisions as written. "The foregoing to govern for such roads, classes of employes and classes of service represented by the national conference committee of the railways. "The schedule except as modified by the above changes remain as at present. (Signed) "FRANKLIN K. LANE, "DANIEL WILLARD, "W. B. WILSON. "SAMUEL GOMPERS. "Accepted by: W. G. Lee, L. E. Shephard, W. S. Stone, W. S. Carter; The National Conference Committee of Railways, by Elisha Lee, chair- AGED PERISH IN FIRE Four, All Past 70, Burn to Death in Scottish Old People's Home. Chicago, March 19.- Four persona, all past 70 years of age, perished yes terday when fire destroyed the Scot tish Old People's home at Riverside, a suburb. Six others, the youngest 65 years, are in a serious condition on account of exposure and are not ex pected to recover. The four who died In the ruins pre sumably had re-entered the burning building to recover valuables, after escaping. The fire, which was of unknown origin, was discovered by "Topsy," a collie dog. The frantic barkings of the canine, which was confined to the basement, aroused Mrs. Cora J. Cum mings, superintendent. The dead are: Mrs. Janet Greenock, 70; William McPherson. 91; Thomas Louttit. 76, and William Robertson. 80. AT THE1 m.m Seventh and Quincy TOD A Y T O M i H T. Z-rZ g Famous Players Present E2 5 LOUISE HUFF and JACK PICKFORD s in "Great Expectations" E5 i An. Adaptation of the Cele- TS 7- brated Novel by Charles ZZl Olckens. And Also the 5th Episode of ITS "Patria," with Mrs. Vernon ZZSi Castle, America's Most Popular ZZf Woman. SS5 SCHEDULE ZT SS 3:15-3:45, 7:15-8:45-10:15 siliiiiininniimiiHninniimHiiiiniiini 15 Evenings ALL YOUNG Spring and I could be Harry Lauder says "There is as much pleasure in reading a good Bank Book as a novel." Let Not Tomorrow's Independence Be thwarted by today's good time, but get the above Scotchman's habit of THRIFT and start that Bank Account with The Kansas Reserve State Bank 824 Kansas Ave. Superior Service All-Steel Trains To KANSAS CITY OOTJBU.E TRACK Lit. Tope ha Ar. Kan. City 4:13 a. m. 8:35 a.m. 5 a. m. 7 :4ft a. on. 7 :40a.m. 9:35 a.m. 3:15 p.m. 5:10 p.m. 3:2 p.m. 5:15 p.m. 5-JtS p. m. 7:S p. m. 7:45 p.m. 9:33 p.m. 8 :.M p. m. 1(1:40 p. m. C. E. BASCOM, C. P. A. Phone 403 GRAND Monday Night, Mar. 26 Mail Orders Now. Cohan and Harris present Geo. M. Cohan's Latest Laugh Sensation, "HIT-THE-TRAIL H0LLIDAY With FRANK OTTO and LOLA MERRILL. PRICES S1.50 to SOc TODAY mmi TOMORtOW "A DIME ALWAYS.' MAX L.INDER "The Funniest Man in the World" in "Max Comes Across" 1,000 Hearty Lauffha 1,000 30 minute of clean cut hilarity EXTRA Tha Bine Bird Photoplays Present "MUTINY" A wonderful tale adventure by land and Ms in five- reels Tha beat film offering thia jrear WEDCSESDAY THIK8DAT CLARA KIMBALL VOISC la THE BIHE OF SUSAN" Journal Ads Get Results her beautiful companions' her fashions, her glowing new millinery, her lingerie, her accessories of every sort have taken full possession of the whole store, and so we announce the Opening Displays of Spring Fashions Today, Tuesday, Wednesday featuring authoritative interpretations of Fashion's newest and best modes for Spring and Summer; everything to wear, everything to wear with it and everything to make them of. When the new things were taken from their boxes and all lined up for a pre-view by those who have been thinking and talking and planning fashions for this most important event of the season, it eemed a3 if no display ever had been or ever more daring in novelties. more wonderful fu coloring. more elaborate in every cf 'eVt than this an Opening Display that again accents Pelletier's position as KANSAS' FASHION CENTER; as Kansas' chief exponent of the practical and the beautiful in dress. And so accept this as an invitation to view tlicsd displays wliilc the charm o a first freshness Ss upon tlicni. See thi3 Opening Display, whether you are ready to make your selection now or not. You will not have another such op portunity to view the season's approved fashions in one com plete, all-inclusive display everything to wear. NO STOPS Lt. Kan. City Ar. Topfka 1 :55 a. m. 10:0 a. m. 10:85 a. m. 11:00 a. m. 6:30 p. m. 7 :4.1 p. in. 10:00 p. m. 1 1 :40 p. m. 0 :45 a. im. 13:20 p. m. 12 40 p. m. 12:50 p. to. 8 15 p. m. :ft p. m. 11:53 p. m. 1 :50 a. m. Seat Sale Friday. SEE KANSAS CITY PAPERS The Entire Face of the Earth Obliterated!! THE END OF THE WORLD GRAND MARCH 23-24 GRAND MARCH 21 AL. G. FIELD a GREATER MINSTRELS SI YEARS OF PROGRESS XI MINSTRELSY ap-to-tbe-minata Prices 25e to SI. 00 Seats Tsdar S ACTS OF REAL VAUDEVILLE- And the Fitta Epiaade "Pearl of the Army" m Todar S a. aau lae Ktnht 7 :S-: IS Mr. and S i g L. M. PENWELL Funeral Director ROBERT STEELE. Assistant Phono 102 508-510 Qulncy St. Announcement BETTER PICTURES BETTER MUSIC BETTER SHOWS AT GEM THEATER 508 Kansas Avenue TODAY and TOMORROW Wm. A. Brady Associated with World Films Presents ETHEL CLAYTON "MAN'S WO MAN" A Storr af Modem Life Sbawm in Five Acts. ALSO A COMEDY Wednesday and Thursday American Film Co. Inc. Presents RICHARD BENNETT Star In "Damased tJoads" "HMD THE,UW SAYS" A Powerful Theme. Well Handled Depicted la S Acts. Alan BEN Tl'RPIN In Cerklnf Twa-RcU Csaiedr. Special Orchestra Music Adult. lc Children Sc. Grand Opening This Evening Sbaws S:1S, :4S LAHT WORDS IN VAUDEVILLE

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1917 Au Independent Newspaper. BY FRANK P. MACI.EXNAN. Entered ma seconri-clHss mall matter. VOLUME XXXIX. ..No. nl OFFICIAL STATE PAPER. OFFICIAL. PAl'EH CITY OF TOPEKA. baiMcripiien nnte. By mnll In silvance. one yenr 4J By niHil lu advance, six months... Uy uiuil in advance, three nvmtbs. 1.-U tuail in advance, one montii-. Kate by Carrier. One week 12 'n Two weeks for a quurter i Four weeks 00 ceDts Telephones: 3530. Eastern of fi.-es Paul Kloefc. representa- i ci. vaw Vnrk Mailers Ibull'ilhiB. Cbimgo: il Devonshire street ronton; Kresice building. Detroit. I Mfmher: Associated Press. Airierl.-iin Newspaper Publishers- Association. a" Ltureau of Circulation. ihn.nra are tottering. The ..n h. nmnanofl dynasty will make the Mohenzollerns and the taapsburgs take notice. The ease and ieele.:ty with which Russia has been fr..m an autocracy to a republic is certain to make its appeal to the oppressed peoples of Germany, Austria and Hungary. The government of Italy may stand for a time, net king is almost as powerless as George of Knland. The Grecian monarchy probably is on its last legs. When the war is ended the king business will be In so bad repute that it is unlikely that any one will be willing to under take the job of ruling the Hellenic people. War is a terrible thing but much of the progress of the world has resulted from it The capture of liupautne by tho British is the culmination of a move ment begun nearly a year ago for the purpose of relieving German pressure on Verdun. The primary object of the campaign was accomplished months ago. The end was renchrtl list week when the Teutonic forces set fi'-o lo the town and fled. Why. asks the Atchison Globe, does the singer performing exclusively among K.glish-;;peikins people, se lect German, French. Spanish and Italian numbers? The answer is' simple. All t;ie world's best music is written in" those languages. The words fit the music and cannot be rendered into English j without serious los3 e compoai j tion. The Italian excels all other lan j guages. from the standpoint of the j singer because it is so full of vowels. I'robably we shall know soon wheth er Germany considers the arming of American ships, an evert act. The extent to which high prices have influenced the value of the for- eian trade of the United States is shown in a compilation of the New York Annalist. For the thirty months of war exports from August 1, 1914, to- January 31, 1917 the invoiced value, as given by the federal depart ment of agriculture was $10,562,177, 344. If these had been sold at the prices prevailing before the war started, the total value would have been only $9,121,100,000, a difference of $1,441,077,344. The sale value of the exports for January, 1917 was $C 13.440.000, but if they had been sold at the prices prevailing in July, 1914, they would have been worth only about J 1 30,000,000. High prices have, therefore, added about 30 per cent to the value of exports, anft like wise to the balance of trade. The city manager plan is not faring well in Kansas. Elkhart has joined the list cf towns which have defeated it. For displaying extraordinary hero ism in a battle with rebels in Santo Domingo, Perjreant Major Roswell Winans. U. S. Marine Corps, has been decorated with the "Medal of Honor," the highest award of merit attainable by the American military or naval man. Winans operated a machine gun against the enemy, only 150 yards away, in the face of a heavy fire to which he was fully exposed. When a jam put the gun temporarily out of commission, he stood up-"and coolly repaired it, maintaining his perilous position and resumed firing until the bandits deserted their trenches. The "Medal of Honor" is given to very few persons, and only in cases of ex traordinary valor. Unlike the "Iron Cross," "Victoria Cross," and similar European decorations, this American medal is worn pendant from -the neck. ,ew York authorities are continuing their fight to get Harry Thaw back Into the state. After all the trouble he has given them one would think they would be glad to be rid of him. The most plausible explanation of their action is that he still has money. The German plot in Russia has gone awry. It might not be amiss for the kaiser to take a lesson from the ex perience of the czar. A German re public seems much nearer possibility since the events at Petrograd. The fate that has befallen horse drawn apparatus in the fire service, ays the Fireman's Herald, is again shown by this year's census of pos sible purchases. Of the automobiles, 1,045 are listed, while of the horse drawn the total stands at 18, of which 8 are listed from Canadian cities. When it is considered that for obvious reasons the enumeration of possible purchases is not and cannot be any where near complete so far as motor apparatus is concerned, while the de partments that are condemned to .horsed vehicles are not likeiy to in crease their purchases, it is plain that In a year or two future purchases will not mention the horse at alL BARBAROUS, RUTHMiSS GKR- MANY. The last savage, barbarous, ruthless act of Germany in sinking without warn ing at least one of the three Ameri can merchantmen Vigilancia, Illinois and Memphis, with the attendant mur der of innocent American citizens, fixes the German emperor in blood red letters as an international outlaw and assassin. His uncivilized conduct with his murderous actions in the Lusitania, the Laconia ami other tor pedoed ships, killing and imperiling lives of citizens of the United States and destroying its property, his treat ment of the agreement of solemn in ternational compacts, disavowing them as scraps of paper in the invasion of innocent and neutral Belgium, with all their attendant horrors, should bar the kaiser from- association with all decent self-respecting and fellow-re specting civilized nations of the world. Today's three 'cases are the most flagrant because two of the -vessels were returning to America laden only with ballast. It would be a godsend to God-fearing and the man-respecting nations if the body and mind of Emperor Wilhelm should be put out of commission and the masses of the German people, than whom there are no better on earth, take over the gov ernment of Germany and form a re public. The German people, versed in science, arts, literature and craft skill, are in every way equipped t conduct a government of their own and repudiate the claims to sovereign ty of a kaiser who brought on this and is causing the slaughter of mil lions of his own people and untold misery to millions more and all to no Lpurpose. With Germany a republic, the war betweeji the nations of Eu rope would cease, peace would prevail and international leagues bring about honorable peace and lead to the aboli tion of war as an arbiter or adjustor of disputes between world powers. (The above editorial was wired to the Kini Jnurmil this morning from Tulsa, Okla.. by Mr. Mac Eeuuan.) STRIKE AVOIDKI. In. the face of the crisis confront ing our nation the fortunate aversion of the threatened and until this morn ing impending nation-wide paralysis of traffic the country over, with all the loss and suffering which would fol low brings a deep sigh of relief and a sense of dominant patriotism that will add strength and courage to Pres ident Wilson and others to whom the nation's honor and safety and the lives and property of her people are entrusted. It will give new hope and visions of faith to our people. The brotherhoods of the railways have patriotically conceded certain points of contention such as the waiv ing of extra rates of pay for two extra daily hours but the railway companies in a spirit of enlivening patriotism, which will cost millions of money waived and conceded more. Railway management and oper ation and control must now adjust all the responsible, vital and necessary business of traffic to the eight-hour rule which already prevails in print ing and newspaper mechanical depart ments, in the conduct of many rail roads themselves and in many more of the industrial pursuits of the country. (The above editorial was wired to the State Journal this onorning from Tulsa, Okla,, by Mr. Mac Lennan.) CHICAGO'S BON'D STORK. The time soon' will be here for the annual Issuance of city bonds to pay for this year's paving. The attention of the city commissioners is called to the fact that Chicago is marketing her municipal bonds, at aa interest rate of but 4 per cent. Possibly this could be done here. When the annual tax rate is taken into consideration a 4 per cent bond is practically as good an investment as a S per cent real estate mortgage. In Chicago a bond market is main tained in the city hall. For two years the city has financed her needs in this way. During the last twelve months, about $7,000,000 of the city'- 4 per cent bonds have been sold to buyers, either over the counter or, by mall, to customers In widely separated parts of the country. Chicago's need for borrowed money is limited, and its bond store has found it necessary to restrict the amount of bonds sold to one customer to $1,000. All sorts and conditions of men and women come to the bond counter, hand over their money and go out with the engraved paper, which is the city's promise to pay interest on the face amount of the bond at 4 per cent, and to return the money at a specified time. The bonds are sold in denomina tions of $100, $500 and $1,000. They are "serial" In character that is, a buyer may choose rne Cue in one year, due in two, three, five or ten years, according to his desire. At any time the city will buy back bonds at Par the price paid by the customer. Topeka's credit is as good as that ot Chicago, and there probably Is as much idle money here in proportion to population. For those who own small bun? lows or cottages which lack guest rooms, some form of disappearing bed usually is convenient when emergen cies arise. Certain advantages are apparently to be found .in one' de scribed in the Popular Mechanics Magazine, which is hidden in the ceil ing of a room when it is not in actual use This arrangement does not usurp wall, closet, or floor space. Two false panels are employed, so that Lhe place of concealment is always covered. When the bed is lowered to the floor one of these panels descends and seals the opening. The other one, which is held below the bed, fits into place when the latter Is raised. The bed is held in a box Installed between the ceiling and the floor above. Cables .attached to its four corners pass around pulleys mounted in the retain ing box, extend thru channels cut in the joists, and are made fast to a winding drum fitted in one of the side wails. Access to this is given by a small, neat door and by turning a crank the bed is raised or lowered. BIRTH OF A NATION. While the European countries have been, clutching at one. another's throats. In a life and death struggle, a new nation has been born in Asia. It is the Kingdom of Hejaz, formerly Arabia, and for hundreds of years, under the dominion of the sultan of Turkey. The ruler of the new king dom is a lineal descendant of the Prophet. It has been recognized by alt of the Entente allies. The Arabic papers say that the formation of the Kingdom of Hejaz, with the Grand Sherif as its king, together with its recognition by all the Allied powers, has a twofold im portance. First, from the political point of view, it means the resurrec tion of an Arab state and the inde pendence of the Arab nat'on after centuries of -subordination to tne Turks. Next, from the religious point of view, it possibly, if not probably, means a new orientation for the 200 -000,000 souls professing the Islamic faith. The Hejaz is the birthplace of Is lam; in it are found its two most sacred cities, Medina and Mekka, to ward which millions of people direct their faces in their daily prayers. Its population is estimated at 1,500,000, of which 250,000 are city-dwellers, while the rest lead a nomadic life. There are four important cities in the Hejaz; Mekka, which gave birth to the prophet, has 150,000 inhabi tants; Jidda, the port of Mekka, is the most important port of the coun try; Medina,, the city to which the Prophet fled and Yanbo" El Bahr, the port of Medina. The "sick man of Europe" has also become the sick man of Asia. OUR SWEET TOOTH. To meet the American consumption of sweetmeats last year required be tween $175,000,000 and $200,000,000 worth of factory-made confectionery and this in addition to the vast amounts of cocoa and chocolate other than confectionery that were con sumed and tq the home production of taffy, fudge and other bonbons. The confectionery industry of the United States has expanded with great rapidity. Sixty-five years ago fewer than 400 establishments were needed to supply the American demand for factory-made sweets. Their aggregate capital was little more than $1,000,000, the value of their products not much over $3,000,000. On the basis of a population of 23, 200,000 this meant an annual per cap ita expenditure of only 13 cents (there being practically no foreign trade in confectionery then). Today, assuming that the industry has maintained dur ing the last two years the same rate of growth as in the five-year period 1909-1914, the industry embraces over 2,500 establishments, represents the investment of $110,000,000 capital, and turns out confections of various sorts having a total value of $185,- 000,000. On the basis of a population of 102, 000,000, this means a net expenditure of $1.80 a year for every man, wom an, and child in continental United States. BABY WEEK. State-wide plans for Baby Week are already under way in at least 34 states representing every section of the country, according to an announce ment by the United States depart ment of Labor. Several state com mittees have selected some one phase of infant-welfare work for special emphasis in this year's campaign. In the state of Washington, for example, many communities are testing the completeness of their birth records in advance of Baby Week. The import ance of complete records is to be em phasized also in Illinois, in Iowa, in New Hampshire and in Ohio. The Delaware campaign is to be de voted to the prevention of infantile paralysis. North Dakota calls atten tion to the needs of children under school age. Kansas, which held the record among all the states for the largest number of local baby weeks in 1916, is emphasizing three needs in this year's plans: Complete birth registration thruout the state; instruc tion of mothers in the principles of baby caie; and better 'understanding of the care that expectant mothers ought to have. The details of local plans develop later than the state plans, and these are just beginning to come to the Children's bureau. It seems that local committees are commonly choosing one or more specific purposes in order that the campaign may have perma nent results, even In states for which no specific program is suggested. The Children's Bureau has a bulle tin on the planning and carrying out of Baby Week campaigns and other material of assistance to lecal com mittees, which it is glad to send upon request. I EVEMUHG STORY Martha's Menu. (By Dorothy Douglas.) Martha was sitting in the small res taurant on upper Broadway having luncheon when a plot registered itself in her conscious mind. It was not an extraordinarily good plot, yet, since she had so many stories to write, each one was worth remembering for fu ture use. It was seldom that Martha found herself without her notebook. This, however, proved to be one of those rare occasions. "This is unj. reparedness with a ven geance,'' she scolded herself when dil igent search thru her pocketbook and small change purse failed to produce either pau or pencil. "You've no right to be a scribe," she added to herself. However, Martha soon supplied her her lack by asking for a pencil from the waiter and by making use of the menu card. She wrote very swittly for a moment or two. The plot de veloped rather easily and she had cov ered halt the card with tine writing before she ceased. The waiter brought in a savory crab meat concoction and set it before Martha and so delicious was its flavor that plots and the writing of plots were entirely forgotten. Martha never lingered over meals, because she seldom had any time to spare. Consequently, she ate quickly, paid the waiter hurriedly and went swiftly out of the restaurant and along Broadway. the rather serious-looking young man who took the chair vacated by Martha was interested sufficiently in his menu card to glance at both front and back of it. On the front he saw names of dainty edibles from which he made a selection and on the back he found Martha's hurriedly written plot for a story. "This is more than I prayed for," murmured the young man, and pro ceeded to read all that he could of Martha's almost illegible writing; "a story to read and a good lunch all for 40i cents." He had scarcely finished the story and decided that it wasn't bad, but it could be wonderfully improved, when a stormy-eyed girl came into the res taurant and stood beside him. Look ing, up, John Durant questioned with his eyes. "May I please have the menu card you Just put in your pocket?" Martha demanded. "I left here but a moment ago." "Sit down," suggested Durant and stood up as if welcoming a friend. He saw a gatherins cloud on Martha's face and added swiftly, "Don't make a scene I hate scenes and besides I want to talk to you about the story if it really belongs to you." Durant felt that he might anger her suffi ciently to make her forget convention. His theory proved correct. Martha sat down angrily opposite him after a quick glance at the approaching waiter. "I could never come in here again for my lunch if I made a scene," she argued to herself, "and they do make such excellent salads." She glanced swiftly at the young man who was car rying off the situation with such cool deliberation and a color crept into her cheeks. "Now if we try to look pleasant and like old friends," said Durant, "our waiter won't think we are quarreling horribly. I hate to quarrel." Martha summoned a smile. It was not difficult. "Yes, thank you," she said in an swer to his request that she join him in a cup of coffee. "Now," Durant said, when he had Martha comfortably established be hind the coffee and a small sherbet, "I want to tell you that while the story written on this menu is rather well conceived I can give you far bet ter material for the ending." He pro ceeded to outline the story, but brought a wonderful climax into it that quite astonished Martha. "Oh!. That is heaps better," she ejtclaimed enthusiasically and sent a brilliant glance straight into Durant'a eyes. "Rather good," assented Durant, thinking of the eyes. "Now if you write that story as I have outlined it and send It to the 'Sunlight Magazine' I feel reasonably sure that you will get a nice check In return. It looks to me as if that story is just in their line." Martha was delighted. "It is very good of you to suggest the 'Sunlight.' I hadn't quite hoped to land a story there. Do you know who the editor is?" "His name is Durant pondered a moment, "Durant. Jonn Durant, Send it to him personally. You 11 get better attention." Martha had arisen and her hand was extended to him. "If I sell the story I should like to know my collaborator's name," sho said. Durant smiled and shook his head. "I prefer my name to remain a se cret. You mlpht be tempted to hurl me into the limelight of fame along with yourself. I will watch the 'Sun light Magazine,' however, and take great interest In seeing the story there. He dismissed Martha with a slight inclination of the head. Martha was torn between pique and elation over the story. She went di rectly td her studio and worked the rest of the day. She was inspired. When the story was finished Martha was pleased with the result, but as was her custom, she laid it aside for a fortnight. At the end of that time she reread and polished it, made an extra copy and sent it to the editor of "Sunlight." Another ten days passed before Mar tha heard from her story. Then she received a note saying the editor want ed to speak with her about a few changes in the story, and she went to the office of the "Sunlight Maga zine." John Durant arose from the editor ial chair to greet her. Martha was so taken aback when she recognized the young man of the restaurant that a quick color sprang into her cheeks. "Oh!" she exclaimed. "So you are John Durant!" She felt intensely fool ish after that remark, and found her self smiling as if to an old friend. Martha wondered at herself for being so fearless in the presence of a great editor. "I knew I would meet you sooner or later." said Durant, with deliberate meaning behind his serious eyes. "That was my reason for withholding my name from you." He looked long and frankly into Martha's eyes. "And now for business," he said with a smile that she found delightful; "this story is worth $200 to me, if you are willing to. make some slight changes. Are you? "Indeed, I am," she said brightly. "I never had a story in one of the very best magazines. I will work desperately hard to please you your magazine readers." she added quickly. "You won't have to do much ty please me," said Durant, and was de lighted xthat Martha did not misun derstand his meaning, "but you will have to do just a little to please my readers." He went over the story with her. giving her careful detail as to the changes. When he Had finished he said softly, "You know I have watch ed you for a couple of months in that restaurant, hoping for a meeting in some way, at some time. Now -1 im not 4King to be contented to watch." "Well," said Martha, "you have been so good to me already that I hardly see how I can do anything but like you." "I hope your writer's brain contains another word in place of like," laugh ed Durant. "Before long we will In augurate a searching party you aid I." (Copyright, 1917, by the Mc Clure Newspaper Syndicate.) Bedtime Stories BY HOWARD K. G.VRI8 Uncle Wiggily and the Spoon. There came a knock on the door of the hollow stump bungalow where in Woodland, underneath the shadow of the Orange Mountains, Uncle Wiggily Longears lived with his muskrat lady housekeeper. Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy. "Come in!" called the bunny uncle. "Oh, you shouldn't speak so quick ly said Nurse Jane, who was mend ing a hole in Uncle Wiggily's rheu matism crutch. "Why not?" asked the bunny gen tleman. "Because it might be the bad skil-lery-scalery alligator and "Nonesense!" iaughed Uncle Wig gily. "All those used-to-be-bad chaps are friends of mine now. Come In!" he called again, and in came Mr.. Sharpnose, the fox gentleman. "How d' do!" cried Uncle Wiggily, jolly like. "Glad to see you!" "And I'm glad to see you," spoke Mr. Sharpnose. "I came over to find when you were going to give my boy, Teddy, his next lesson in polite table manners." "I'll come right away," spoke Uncle Wiggily. "I think you'd better," said the papa fox. "Because Teddy, at breakfast to day, used his spoon to eat pie with. Is that right?" "Most decidedly not!" cried Uncle Wiggily. "A fork for pie, but not for soup. If you eat in the kitchen or on the front stoop." "I'm glad to mow that," said Mr. Sharpnose. So while he ran back to his burrow, or underground house, to say that Uncle Wiggily was coming, the bunny gentleman, taking a spoon from the cupboard to use in giving Teddy his lesson, set out from the hol low stump bungalow. "Don't you think you ought to take a knife or fork, also?" asked Nurse Jane. "Why?" Uncle Wiggily asked. "I gave Teddy his knife and fork lessons last week." "Well, you might need a fork to tickle some of the foxes in-4.he ribs, if they try to bite you," spoke the musk rat lady. "Nonsensicalness!" laughed the bunny. "A spoon is all I need to get me out of trouble!" And just you wait and see how true it all happened, just as I'll tell you. Over the fields and thru the woods went the bunny uncle with the spoon which he was to use in giving Teddy Sharpnose, the little boy fox, his politeness talk. And when the bunny reached the burrow he found many other little fox boys and girls there, all anxious to learn Teddy's lesson also. So Mr. Longears taught them how to eat from the side of the spoon nearest them, instead of turning it to get at the end, and he told them they must never polish their spoons with their tongues. "And now we will have a lesson in eating soup," went on the bunny. "You must make no noise taking it from your spoons, remember!" Mrs. Sharpnose set plates of cab bage and lettuce soup before the foxes and Uncle Wiggily. The bunny made no noise at all taking his from the side of his spoon, but some of the fox boys were not quite so lucky. "Why, I can hear that soup as well as see it!" laughed Uncle Wiggily. Then Teddy and the others did bet ter. They were so busy eating, listen ing to Uncle Wiggily and learning the polite way to use a spoon, that none of them thought of looking out xt the window of the underground house. But just as the rabbit gentleman, when the soup was all gone, suddenly called: "Present spoons!" Teddy happened to glance "up and he cried: "Oh, dear!" "What's the matter?" asked Uncle Wiggily quickly. "Did you cut your self on your spoon, Teddy, as you used to on your knife?" "No. But look at the snow!" cried the fox boy. And surely enough it was snowing very hard outside. The white flakes were sifting down from the sky and the wind was blowing them into Ceep drifts. The ground was covered more than a foot deep and the flakes were still falling. It was like a blizzard. "Oh. what fun we'll have sleigh riding!" cried TedWy. And just then his mother came running ii,to the dining room. "Oh!" she cried, "something terrible has happened! Oh!" "What?" asked Uncle Wiggily. "What is it?" "The snow has drifted in front of the front door and I can't get out, and Mr. Sharpnose can't get in to eat his dinner when he comes from the egg factory," said lady fox. "Oh, such a big drift is in front of the door." "Ha! Trouble! We must see to this!" cried Uncle Wiggily. He went to look at the drift. When he came back to the dining room he called to the fox boys and girls: "All ready! Shoulder spoons! For ward, march! And with our spoons we'll dig a way thru the snowdrift so Mr. Sharpnose can get in." Uncle Wiggily began shoveling away the snow with his big tablespoon and the fox boys and girls tossed the white flakes aside with their dessert spoons and soon the front door was cleared so the papa fox could get in. And all the while it snowed Teddy and his friends kept the front door clear of snow with their spoons. Weren't they clever And Mrs. Sharpnose was very glad of the spoon lesson which the bunny gentleman had given, and in the next story, if the curtain cord doesn't tie itself in a knot so hard that the clock can't wind Itself up. I'll tell you about Uncle Wiggily and the platter. (Copyright, 1917, by McClure News paper Syndicate.) Availing herself of her ecclesiastical privileges the clergyman's wife askel questions which, coming from anybody else, would have been thought im pertinent. "I presume you carry a memento of some kind In that locket you wear?" she said. "Yes. ma'am," said the parishioner "It is a lock of my husband's hair." "But your husband is still alive," the lady exclaimed, i "Yes. ma'am, but his hair is gone." n BFUR OF THE MOMIEOT BY ROT K. MOILTON. The One Worst. He who believes all he may read, Is very gullible indeed. i And he who credits all hell hear. Is really quite a a -bad, we fear. How very credulous is he, That man, whoever he may be. Who tbinls his son and heir, in sooth. Forever speaks the very truth. Yet quite the worst is he. we hope, Who swallows early baseball dope. Today's Sneer. There's no one so exasperating: as the man who thinks he should value his advice. Except the one who doesn't value ours. r his old fir Iv Simon MfeR Is a. cleala- m. "Lpa.-Uiev-.s- &rA Aral the Laud yoy might say, THovgR tn not (Re same way, and n Veils! r- You Know Him. A lazy man is Oswald Keed, The slowest ever met; But. ray, how be can get up speed When ru lining' Into debt! Cincinnati Enquirer. Unequal is the pace of Pence, He'll either drag or sprint: He's very quick .to take offense, Uut slow to take a hint. New York Advocate. Tho lazy na the dickens, still He's speedy, too. is Itend, i I He's always running up a bill Or running down a frleud It takes all pots of people to anake up the world, tnJuJ'ng the newspaper; wits who write paragraphs begin-: ning. "It takes all sorts of people to make up the world Poor Wretch. There at the banquet board he sits And seems to suffer silent fits, Observe, he pales and shvera now. A trembling band Is at his brow. And from the flutter of hts eye 'Twould seem he is about to die, Alas! how very sad to see A wretch so miserable as he. Perhaps yon think some food be ate Has made him writhe at such a rate. Or that he's seated on a tack. But no, it's none of these, alack! It's this that makes btm faint and weak. He's going to be the next to speak! Oh! The mover took the large hall clock Right thru the door,' "My goodness lands!" Said little Dot "you've surely pot A lot of time upon your bands." To Any Wife. Don't mind if the burly Big brute Is real surlv And scolds late and early Because of the price: Don't mind all his raving And frightful behaving, The gown fs a saving If You think it's nice. Don't mind his fits, madam. Why even old Adnm. He up and he had m When Eve years ago. With twisted-grass sash on Went by. Ia a passion. He cried. "What a fashion They like to, yon kuow! Old King Coal. Old King Coal was a costly old soul. An expensive old soul was he. But he's left for a spell and upon the whole It's time be should, say we. How to Enjoy Rain Iays Indoors. Play monkey. To do this put two chairs on the table in the parlor. Then catch hold of the chandeliers THE PIED PIPER By BRINKERHOFF. .Sa-BoDV .STOP jgszS and swing like a monkey. See if you can swing your little feet up and kick some of the wall paper off the ceil ing. A nice game for rainy afternoons indoors is called "Squeezing the Kit-, tens." It is played in this way. Take the kittens, one at a time, and run them thru mother's clothes wringer. You can make them look all r'ght again with a bicycle pump. Try and see if there is anything the baby will not eat. Lots of babies put everything in their mouth. Give the baby the ketsup bottle. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Recipes for the Sick Room. Beef or Chicken Jelly Two-thirds cup tea or broth, .heated, and pour on one-eighth box gelatin soaked in a third of a cup of cold water. Pour in a mold or cup garnished with egg or parsley leaf. Oatmeal Jelly Cook rolled oats one hour. Strain in mold, turn out, gar nish with whipped cream. Eggs With Cream Sauce-Poach eggs in boiling milk; to half a cup of milk add half a teaspoon cornstarch, rubbed with one teaspoon butter, salt and pepper; pour over egg alone on round of toast. Serve hot. Beef Tea or Lamb Broth Put a tablespoon of cream in cup. Fill with hot beef tea or broth. Bouillon With Egg Put boiling bouillon in soup plate, add fresh eggs carefully broken. Let stand until it sets. Hygienic Soup Use the stock in which a fowl has been cooked; there should be five cups. Add one-quarter cup of fine oatmeal and cook one hour. Rub thru a strainer, add one pint of milk and thicken with one tablespoon each of butter and flour cooked together. Add salt and pepper to taste. Serve with inch cubes cf bread browned in oven. For Invalids Place a small knuckle of veal in a dish, cover it with a plate closely, adding a pint of water, and set in oven four hours. Strain the water and add a little salt. It will keep some time and has only to be diluted with a little water when required. Oyster Toast Wash six large oys ters and dry on a towel, tiip in melted butter, seasoned cracker crumbs and broilover a clear fire until the juice flows. Place the oystera t n small pieces of toast. The Table. Noodle Soup Take piece of soup meat, let cook until almost done, then add one can tomatoes and let cook thirty minutes. Add one can corn, let cook fifteen minutes more, then put in noodles and cook fifteen min utes. It is now ready to secve. This is easily made and will serve five peo ple. Corn and omatoes may be re duced to half the above amount for a small family. With a dessert of some kind this makes a very good meal. Sweet Potato Custard Pie To one and one-half cups boiled and mashed sweet potato allow one egg. two table spoons butter, three-fourths cup milk, half cup sugar, nutmeg to taste. Beat egg well, cream butter with sugar, ?tir in egg. then milk and Wist the po tato, beating all until it is a very light, smooth custard. Turn into pastry-lined pie plate and bake until top is rich brown. The pastry may be baked on the outside of the plate first, then filled with the custard and that baked afterward, as it takes only a short time. Pie made by this recipe tastes much like pumpkin, but is even nicer. Chocolate Pi Two cups milk, two egg yolks beaten, four tablespoons (rounding) sugar, one-half teaspoon salted butter. Put one tablespoon cornstarch In one-half cup of the milk. Heat the rest of milk and add remain der of above ingredients. Add one block melted bitter chocolate; vanilla, one teaspoon, then cook. Put In baked crust. Butteness, Egglesa, Milkless Fruit Cake Put into sauce pan the follow ing articles and boil three minutes: One large cup brown sugar, one cup water (cold), one cup seeded raisins, one-half cup nut meats, one-third cup lard, one-fourth grated nutmeg, one half teaspoon salt, one-half teaspoon cloves, one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon cocoa. When cool add two SEliVV cups flour into which one-half tea spoon baking powder has been added, and one teaspoon of soda dissolved in a little hot water. Bake in slow oven about one hour. rf Table for the Bride. Here is a table of measures and weights to help make the new house keeper's task of following a recipe easier: Three teaspoonfuls equal one table spoonful. Half a cupful equals a gill. 1 A cupful, or two gills, equals half a pint. Two cupfuls equal a pint, four equal a quart. Two cupfuls of butter equal a pound. A pint of milk or water two cup fuls equal a pound. Ten eggs, with shells, equal a pound, approximately. Two tablespoonfuls of butter equal an ounce. DINNER STORIES '"Mother," said little Evelyn, "may I go out and play with the other children now?"' "You may play with the little girls, sweetheart, but not with the boys; the little boys are too rough." "But, mother," rejoined the little miss, "if I find a nice, smooth little boy, can I play with him?" There is a police magistrate In a j western city who is a native of Bing- hamton, Y. Once a culprit, ha lea j into court for drunkenness, told his honor that he had played in a brass band in Binghamton. The judge dis j charged the prisoner. Now, this incident was published In the newspapers, and during the j next six months at least five prison ers orougnt oeiore tne judge ex plained that they had played in the aforesaid band. The 'judge tele graphed to a friend back in Bing hamton asking how many pieces were in the band. The reply came back: "Nine." f Accordingly his honor announced himself in court as follows: "Hereafter no prisoners will be dis charged on account of former mem bership in the Binghamton band. The limit has been reached." i From the Atchison Globe.J A man who cculd complain but won't, is a real man. If a woman is cheated out of a dime she will never forget jt. Most friendships are of the matter f fact kind, and will not stand strain. jvn uniorxunaie pan 01 lire is that i the blue pencil doesn't operate against i talk. i iiunuiig iui jiair ui clean socks certainly can wreck the interior of hiB home. Xo woman can understand why a man might want to get away from her for a little while. Much of the research work is da voted to finding things which har been carefully put away. There is such utter disregard for the truth that the "oldest man" dies several timea every day in the news papers. One satisfaction In hunting for trou ble is the probability of finding It. in which it differs from other hunting, more or less. Conservatism is a fine thing, even If it does occasionally block the road. To be overly conservative Is to be stub born, and that's another thing. GLOBE SEGEITS

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TUESDAY SPECIALS Link Sausage, lb 16c 2 lbs. Ginger Snaps ...15c 25c bottle Snider's Catsup.. I5c Nice White Evaporated Apples, lb 11c 2 lbs. nice Evaporated Bartlett Pears 25c Big loaf Kaisin Bread. (P. m.) llc Our fine Bread, 3 for 10; Sc. 9c 6 bars Bob White Soap 20c Pound can White House Baking Powder He 4 lbs. fine Whole Rice 25c Fine comb Honey 15c 250 size fancy Navel Oranges 15c Dozen 25c Lemons 16c Scores of Cut Prices every day in the week. Deliveries (5c per order.) Highland Park, Wed. afternoon. Gai;e Park, Thurs. afternoon. Shorey. Friday afternoon. m m m m 10 STORES Journal Ads Get Results :Q --r- m--J?Glr Water Come in Six Sizes. 36 inch length S2.00 42 inch length S2.50 48 inch length 3.0O DELIVKKY Phone 1323 NOSE CLOGGED FROM A COLD OR CATARRH t Apply Cream in Nostrils X Open Up Air Passages. To aVi What relief! Your flogged noj?trils open nght up, the air pass ages of your head are clear and you can breathe freely. No more hawking, snuffling, mucous discharge, head ache, dryness no struggling tor breath at night, your cold or catarrh lb gone. Don't stay staffed up Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm from your druggist now. Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic cream in your nostrils, let it penetrate through every air passage of the head; soothe and heal the swollen, inflamed mucous membrane, giving you instant relief. Kly's Cream Balm is just what every cold and catarrh sufferer has been seeking. It's Just splendid. Adver tisement. PERFECT HEALTH HOW GAINED? (By Dr. L. W. Bowers.) The late S. Weir Mitchell, M. IX, in his book entitled "Wear and Tear" I iiaa wen huiu. a u m&ui e pti it?ji health, every tissue, bone, nerve, ten don or muscle should take from the blood certain materials and return to it certain others. This process in perfect health is a system of mutual assurance, and is probably essential to a condition of entire vigor of both mind and body." Man in a millionaire many times over in the possession of blood cells. Woman is not quite so rich, for scien tists have proved that the normal number of red blood cells 1h adult men is five million; in women four and one-half million to the square millimeter. The normal cell is not absolutely round in health but in disease be comes extremely irregular in shape. Every one can be in perfect health and possess the millions of rich red blood corpuscles if he only knows how to go about it. Dr. Pierce, of the Surgi cal Institute, Buffalo, N. T., advises every man and woman to purify the blood by observing nature's laws. In the first place, if your digestion is faulty, and the food you eat is not properly assimilated and taken up by the blood, you need a tonic and diges tive corrector, something that will in crease the red blood corpuscles; he believes In going about this in nature's own way. Years ago. in his active practice. Dr. Pierce found that an alterative extract of certain Herbs and roots put up without alcohol, or in tablet form, would put the liver, lungs and heart into more ccmplete action. This medicine he called Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. By pro moting assimilation It nourishes the blood, and instead of the ill-shaped corpuscles, the person s blood takes on a rich red color and the corpuscles are more nearly round. Advertise rftent. QUALITY PRODUCTS Banquet Ham Banquet Breakfast Bacon O. K. Lard Kaw Valley Mince Meat WE ARE PREPARED TO TAKE CARE OF ALL ORDERS FOR MEATS The Purest Food Products in the World Made in the cleanest packing house In America. Chas. Wolff Packing Co. Topcka, Kansas. a o Market ability is an element whirh ahoulr le always con sidered in purchasing an in. vetiiient. You secure thi element In first mortgage farm loan when negotiated by a reputable farm mortn-age banker. THK Y KM MORTGAGE CO. Tupeka Kanua. an HOPE IN GERMANY i Berlin Pretends to See Advan j tages in Russian Revolt. Authorities Believe Czar Has Enough Followers to Fight. CLERGY TO BACK HIM UP? Xew Government Already Di vided, Many Believe.' Czar's Abdication Was Neither Valid nor Voluntary I BY WILLIAM BAYARD HALE. Berlin. March 19. Delayed The new Russian government will not be able to give the people the bread for which they cry but it may be able tD give them the peace which they ar-? demanding with equal eagerness. The above is the consensus of oo'n ion obtained in the most thoughtful quarters in Berlin, including the So cial Democrats who are especially in terested in news from Petrograd. There is no evidence that the morale of Germany is affected in the slightest degree except for the better. While it was recognized from the first that the revolution probably had its original inspiration from English influence, it is believed that the results are bound to operate to the advantage of the central powers and this in any possible event. Reports in the English press adver tising the revolution as an "anti-German victory' are received with de rision by all classes here, but it is generally felt that the events now pro ceeding in Russia are bound to prove among the most dramatic and most important events of modern history. At the present moment the whole fate of Europe hangs in the balance with the decision which the Russian people will eventually reach. Bread Riots Continue. Thus far, according to details reach ing Berlin, there has been no relief in the food situation. Bread riots con tinued. From Budapest comes reports that Russian troops at the front hailed the revolution, but it is not known whether this is due to democratic inspirations or to the hope of relief from war. "Undoubtedly the former czar is in prison in the Taurie Palace and his reported abdication can not be re garded as voluntary or valid. "What determination the army will finally make, what decision the clergy and the moujiks (peasants) will take lies in the lap of the gods. "Immensely dramatic events still portending will exercise a tremendous influence upon France. Whatever turn events may take, only the hap piest possible result is likely to ac crue to the interests of Germany and humanity." Such were some of the leading points which positively expressed the conviction of Professor Theodor Schiemann, instructor of Eastern European history and Ethnological Geography at the University of Berlin, and Europe's most distinguished au thority on Russia. Professor Schiemann talked to your correspondent at his home in the Tauentzienstrasse, in his library lined with thousands of volumes and dig nified by all the paraphernalia of a famous scholar. Czar Has Following;. The conversation was so interesting. and Professor Schiemann so ready to speak out his views that it was con tinued through the streets on the way to the professor's lecture room at the University. "The czar has still Innumerable fol lowers among the 'conservatives and the high clergy," he said. "While the Petrograd garrison submitted it ap pears that the Moscow military au thorities refused to abandon its loy alty to the czar. "Unquestionably the yearnings of the common soldier are for an early peace and it is a question whether Brusiloff. Evert and Ruzzeky are strong enough to maintain the al ready tottering dynasty. "The probabilities speak against this. "The association of revolutionary executive committee, and its creature, the new ministry, is absolutely im possible a thing opposed to all rea son. It is inconceivable that Tsche idze and Kerenski, representing the social democrats and the radical working men, will be permanently able to co-operate with the liberal type of TschingarofT. "Rodzlanko is merely a huge speci men of vanity, pride and conceit. Gutchkoff as minister of war and navy is an absurdity. j "Characteristic is the fact that Minister of Justice Kerenski comes trom the most extreme left and began his activities with the proclamation of freedom for political prisoners. "There is no question that the mass of the people stands nearer to the social revolutionists than to the so called liberal group headed by Mily ukoff and Rodzianko who ostensibly headed the original movement. "Whether the traditional blind de votion of the moujiks to the czar can be relied upon is doubtful. So far as the clergy, always heretofore a trem endous factor in politics in Russia, is concerned, it is impossible to deny the possibility of a counter revolution in favor of the old regime. "Only the future days can bring certain light on these points." STUDENTS OFFER Alt) Washburn Men Ready With Money To Back Her Ball Team. Washburn students held mass meet ing of this noon after their regular chapel exercises for the purpose of discussing the baseball question. The athletic board of control recently stated that the funds of the depart ment were so low that Washburn could not have a ball team this year. The fellows offered all the help fi nancial and otherwise that was in the school. A system of student en terprises was advanced but Coach Kenedy thinks hat such a scheme is to indefinite and too general for an athletic board to sanction. The schedules for the season are now being made and if definite ac tion is not taken soon, it will be too late for Washburn to enter in, the baseball contests of this season. Last week the men of the school petitioned the board for a team and an allow ance for the expense that were to be incurred but the board turned the proposition down. SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS George Boeger has opened a photo shop at 621 Kansas avenue, over Kresge's 10c store. Commissioner Porter quit giving out seed potatoes several months ago as the money available for that purpose ran out. Many people are still re questing se?d potatoes and because of lack of funds he is obliged to turn them down. The Dunn-Lace Oil and Gas syn dicate is coming to territory adjacent to Topeka. Their headquarters are lo the Commerce building at Kansas City. Large leases have been secured in Osage county, about twenty miles southwest of Topeka. Cats are undoubtedly more valu able than dogs, according to the deci sion of the Gamma Sigma literary so ciety at Washburn. The proposition was before the meeting Saturday and was thoroly discussed. Of course, if you own a dog and not a cat, this society is mistaken. The files of the Kansas State His torical society reveals that Albert L. father was the late Dr. Josiah Bart lett Land Trust Company of St. Joseph, Mo., was the first page em ployed by the Kansas legislature. His father was the Late Dr. Josiah Bart lett of Big Springs. He served as page five successive sessions. Henry C. Heider, a minor, obtained judgment for $100 against the Santa Fe Railway company in the court of Topeka today for the loss of a little finger while working at the pumping plant at Wakarusa. Because of the fact that he is a minor he was repre sented in court by his father, Wil liam Heider, as his next friend. J. F. Roose. proprietor of a grocery store at 1907 West Tenth street, thought his store had been robbed but was unable to find what was miss ing. Sunday night he saw a negro coming from the back door of his store, which is below his living apart ments. He seized his gun and scared the negro nearly to death, but appar ently missed him with the five shots he tired. The incident was reported to the police. Ike Gilberg delivered an address at a political meeting at the Cozy theater Sunday afternoon. He expressed his views on municipal ownership of utili ties and suggested a municipally own ed storage plant, a general market bureau and a municipal coal yard. Dr. Eva Harding talked briefly on suf frage problems and endorsed Gilberg's candidacy for commissioner of parks and public properties. The Sunday school classes of the Lowman Methodist church furnished a continuous program Sunday in cele bration of "Community Sunday." Six hundred Sunday school members were present, 457 more members than have ever been present at any former meet ing. Music by the church orchestra, solo by Miss Winifred Nash, Miss Sil verthorn. and an address by J. H. Engle, of Abilene, were the features of the program. The First Presbyterian church won the championship In Class C of the church basketball league Saturday night when they defeated the team from the Central Congregational by a score of 40 to 30. Two other final games are scheduled for next Satur day, Central Congregational vs. Sec ond Presbyterian of the B class. Cups that are to be given to the champions of each class are now on exhibit in the windows of the Howard Electric and Athletic Supply company. If applicants appear, additional ex aminations for civil service employ ment will be given in Topeka. The following table was given out by Le Roy Powell, who is representing the civil service commission in Topeka: April 4, junior petroleum engineer, bureau of mines, $1,200 to $1,500: electricians' helpers, secretary of agri culture, $720: April 10, mechanical draftsmen, navy torpedo station, $3.52 to $6 per day; pathologist in charge of forage crop disease investigation, $1,800 to $2,000: April 18-19, assistant chemist, in forestry department, for est service, $900 to $1,500. The first series of the annual Pen tar.gular debating contests will start Friday evening. The question debated is the famous "Minimum Wage." Ot tawa is scheduled to meet Washburn here and another team from Wash burn win go to Emporia. The home team takes the negative side and the visiting team, the affirmative Wash burn will be represtnted in Emporia by Roscce Graves, John Mahaffy and Clifford Hope. Arthur Beattie, Lowell Berry and Albert Reed will defend the home title. The next round of the series will be held April 13, when Baker will meet Washburn here, and Washburn will meet Manhattan at Manhattan. Marriage licenses have been issued from the office of the probate judge since Saturday to the following per sons: William R. Quigley, Topeka, age 24. and Susan B. Evans, Topeka, age 24; Harold E. Sanderson, Lyndon, age 23. and Vera E. Booten, Equality, 111., age 21; Desmond J. Rose, Wich ita, age 25. and Iva A. Block. Marys ville, age 23; Arnold F. Heiman, Wet more, age 30, and Reba P. Jones, To peka. age 17; Maxie A. Moore, Ar gentine, age 24, and Helen M. George, Argentine, age 18; Nathan Sudduth. Topeka, age 22. and Lila Hickman. To peka. age 21; Walter C. Reich. Topeka, age 26. and Margaret L. Oberer, To peka. age 34. and Henry Rogers, Den ver, age 33, and Frances Hart, Kansas City, Kansas, age 28. To Continue "as Planned." Washington. March 19. It was au thoritatively stated today at the war department that demobilization of the national guard would continue- as planned and that delays in the mus tering out of troops in -certain districts resulted from local conditions and did not reflect any change in the attitude of the government. GIRLS IN SCHOOL OR Af BUSINESS who are delicately constituted, who have thin blood or pale cheeks, will find in SCOTT'S EMULSION a true tonic and a rich food to overcome tiredness, nourish their nerves and feed their blood. Start with SCOTTS to-day and say "NO" to substitutes. Scott BowDc.3Ioorancid.il. J. 16-CS WICHITAJS WET! Two Cars of Beer Stolen in the "Beerless Princess." Every Drop Taken While Cars Were on Switch Siding. BREWSTER IS ON THE TRAIL Will Kun Down Biggest Booze Theft State Ever Had, Thirsty Provide Themselves Against Long, Hot Summer. There is an oasis on the Kansas desert. Wichita is the cool, damp spot. Someone stole, two cars of beer there last week. News of the big" wholesale theft of liquor reached the office of S. M. Brewster, attorney .general, today and it is probable an investigation will be made, altho there may be much doubt as to the actual crime committed thru the theft of contraband goods. The two cars both loaded with beer fresh from a big eastern brewery was taken from the yards of the Missouri Pacific railroad, according to reports received in Topeka. Suffering under the pangs and pen alties of the bone dry law, thirsty men in the windy Kansas town re fused to permit beer in carload lots to stay on the railroad sidings. Some where in "Wichita the two cars of beer were stored away for use during the hot sultry evenings next summer. It is probable that theft is the biggest of the kind in this state. According to the information received by the at torney general's office thru a repre sentative of the railroad, the two cars were broken into while standing on sidings in the Missouri Pacific yards. Was Billed Thru. The big shipment of liquors had not been billed to Kansas. Such shipments would have been in absolute violation of the state laws. The liquor stored in the private freight cars of the brewery and with bright letters and glaring announcements of the con tents was on its way to another western state. In the congestion of freight traffic, the two cars of beer tiad been set on the sidings in the Wichita yards. When the freight crews sought to move the shipment, they found that the cars had been opened and the beer taken. An investigation of the theft is being conducted by the rail road company. No formal complaint has been received in Topeka. Nor does Attorney General Brewster know whether the railroad company has fil ed complaint with Sedgwick county officials. BEARS LOSE BIG Xo Decline Is Looked For in May Wheat Futures. British and Belgian Buying Help to Boost the Price. BY JOSEPH F. T'RITCH ARI. Chicago, 111., March 19. Shorts in May wheat face big losses. The open interest is still large, altho it has been greatly reduced during the last two weeks. Foreigners are the principal hold ers of the May wheat future. It may be said without fear of contradiction that the light grip of the longs will be released only when the cash article is exchanged for it. While the holdings of the May fu ture are concentrated, iraking the po sition of the longs almost impregnable, the slitrts are scattered from one end of the country to the other. Those who bought large quantities of the May future accumulated it be cause they will have a place for the cash wheat. Those who put out the short lines were bearish in their ideas and some of them have secured profits on the recent declines. Conditions now surrounding the May futures are expected to continue in favor of the bulls and the tightness in that month will more than likely prove a steady ing help to the new ere;- months. Distant Futures. Eastern speculators have led in the sales of July and September wheat. They are short those months and are "on velvet" in board of trade par lance and have secured handsome profits on all th price bulges to de velop of late. Total clearances for export July 1 last to March 1 wre lSS.f.uu.OOO oush els astainst lfi3,0M.OOO bushels for the corresponding period last year. The British and Belgian commis sions have known all along that their chances for the exportation of bread-! stuffs and hog products would im prove and their purchase of cash and future wheat have been on a larger! scaic man it otnerwise would have been. Cable advices show that a goodly number of vessels have left Great Britain for United States ports and that they will be hurriedly loaded and returned to importing nations. Condition of Crops. While there has been a fortnight of growing weather in some sections of the southwest and fields are re ported as "greening" up, there are other sections where the ton crrowth as well as the roots are said to be in poor snape tor even a moderate crop. The range of prices in rtiir-srn wheat pit were of considerable breadth last week. May sold between SI. 75 3-5 and 1.86Vi. closing Satur day at $1.84i compared with a rest ing spot of J1.S6H on Saturday, March 10. July sold between II 51 14 and $1.57, and September between i.4t and $1.46. All the futures dis played great nervousness lareelv on account of the uncertainties surround ing me strike as well as the alreadv congested condition on the railways of Corn and oats are likelv to be more or less influenced by the price changes in wheat, altho corn has continued strong, independent of other grains. KILLS MINISTER'S WIFE He Also Seriously Hurt When Train Strikes Their Carriage. Freeport. 111., March 19. Mrs. Henry Baum. 64, of Shannon, 111., was killed, and her husband, a Dunkard minister, was seriouslv injured when a train struck a carriage in which tney were riding near Shannon, Sun day evening. TOPEKANSJN 'HIT' Local Rotarians Are the Sensa tion in Tulsa. Their Green Makeup the Fea ture of Convention. STONE BRINGS 'EM TO FEET His Tribute to Flag Started Xearly Sever Ending Cheer. Frank P. MacLennan Spoke at Soon on "White Paper." Tulsa, Okla., March 19. (Special.) Trains of Pullmans with all berths taken were this morning pulled into this enterprising city of sixty thousand decorated and prepared for the warm welcome given to the district conven tion delegates of the Rotary Clubs of Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma. Twenty-two Rotarians from Topeka weie uniformed with green caps, green neckties, green gloves and green spats. Thev attracted mjeh attention. Their I yell brought instant applause in the hotel corridors, on the streets ana at today's meeting." "TO, TO, PB, PE, KA, KAW, Topeka, Topeka, Topeka," brought -nthusiasm and cheers. The address of welcome by Repre sentative Glenn Condon, on the staff of the Tulsa World till chosen to the legislature, was unique, inspiring, and out of the ordinary. The response by Robert Stone, governor of the district and presiding, brought the Topekan an ovation from the crowded opera house. Stone's Tribute To Flag. His recitation of a tribute to the American flog set the audience on its feet, cheering and waving the redt whUe and blue. A recess was taken at noon today, the Topekans being guests of the Ro tary club at the Ketchum hotel. At this luncheon Frank P. MacLennan of Topeka was asked to respond to a "Toast on White Paper." Ho said in part: "Toast is no longer served on white paper at the beautiful cafe of your magnificent Hotel Tulsa, or at other hotels or cafes. White paper comes too high. The little scalloped white paper doilies are lacking. The cost is prohibitive and the greatest of these sufferers are the newspapers, whose publishers go in debt or cant cut out the 'bone dry bread and have gone to corn bread and gruel with spuds, cab bage and beans for luxurious desserts. "The federal trade commission In its report issued last week to the gov ernment shows no real shortage of white paper, necessary to publishers, but shows greed of certain paper mills has put profit away from publishers, who are merely holding their organi zation together hoping for better times promised thru some paper mills who hava not with greed and grasp held up publishers who were tempo rarily at their mercy." Addresses by Topekans. Big entertainments are planned for tonight. Tomorrow, President Voiland of Topeka speaks and tomorrow night the convention closes with a banquet at which International President Klumpy and Gov. Robert Stone de liver the principal addresses. The Topeka Rotarians were hand somely entertained at Independence yesterday by Mayor Bittman, F. P. Clark, John M. Landon and other. There were auto rides, dinner at Country club and a night vsiit to the illuminated beautiful office building of the Prairie Oil. Gas Pipe com pany, a half-million-dollar structure. DELAY MUSTERING OUT Disbandment of Troops Held TTp in Central Department. Chicago. March 19. Orders were issued today by Major General Thomas H. Barry, commander of the Central department. United States of America, suspending all mustering out of troops in the central department "subject to further notice." All Fat People Should Know This The world owes a debt of gratitude to the author of the now fauioun Mnrmnla Prescription, and is still more Indebted for the reduction of tbl harmless, effective obesity remedy to tablet form. Marmola Prescription Tablets can now be obtained at all drug stores, or by writing direct to Msirmola Co.. fHA Woodward Ave., Ietrolt. Mich., and their reasonable price (75 centa for a large case) leaves no excuse for diet ing or violent exercise for the reduction of the overfat body to normal proportions. Advertisement. For All Pain "The efficiency of any drne" says Dr. CP. Bobbins la known to ns by the result we a are aoie to con trol pain and disease by means of any prep, a ration, we certainly are warranted In its use. One of the principal symptoms of all diseases Is pain, and this is what the patient moat often applies to os for, i. e 10016(11102 to relieve his pain. If we can arreat this promptly the patient Is moat liable to traat in us for the other remedies which win effect a permanent cure. One remedy which I have uaed largely In my practice la antl kamnla tablets. Many and varied are their naea. I have put them to the teat on many occasions, and have never been disappoint ed. I found them especially valuable for headaches of malarial origin, where quinine being takers They appear to prevent the bad after-effects of the quinine. Antl lamnla tablets are alio excellent for tha peadaches from Improper digestion; also lor headaches of a neuralgic origin, and es pecially lor women subject to pains at certain times. Two antl-kamnla tableta gtva prompt relief. and in a ahorttlme the patient, is able to go about aa usual. (Advertisement.! For Skin Blotches There is one remedy that seldom fails to dear away all pimples, blotches and other skin eruptions and that makes the skin soft, clear and healthy. Any druggist can supply you with zemo, which generally overcomes all skin diseases. Acne, eczema, itch, pim ples, rashes, black heads in most cases give way to zemo. Frequently, minor blemishes disappear overnight. Itching usually stops instantly. Zemo is a safe, antiseptic liquid, clean, easy to use and dependable- It costs only 25c an extra large bottle, $1.00. It will not stain, is not greasy or sticky and is positively safe for tender, sensitive skins. Tha E. W. Rose Co., Cleveland. Of (Advertisement.) Home of Hart Schaffner Marx Clothes Regardless of the increased cost of jjoods, we're maintaining our policy of more than 25 years of clearing stocks at the season's end. Unequalled!' This Wonderful Sale of Hart Schaffner Marx Suits and Overcoats Now at $17 Every Suit and Overcoat Guaranteed to fit and Satisfy You as Fully as if You Paid the Regular Price IN the face of a rising mar ket, you are certainly for tunate in being able to buy a HART SCHAFFNER MARX suit or overcoat at a redueed price, and only $17 at that. It will be splendid investment for you to buy BOTH a suit and an overcoat for future use, as such clothes as these will be selling next fall at $25 and $27.60 or even $30. Choice now for Spring Is Here and Your' Spring Oxfords Cherry Calf One of Our Many New Styles Banister's "Gotham" $9 Don't pay too much attention to big talk. It doesn't amount to anything. Pretty nearly everybody is for a municipal farm. But no mayor can buy one. To get a municipal farm a spe cial election to vote bonds to pay for it must be called. If a majority of the voters want it the mayor and city commission ers must issue the bonds. Jay E. House Candidate for Another Term P. S. It is true the city jail is in bad condition, but a proposition to build a new one was voted down )ess than a year ago. (Advertisement.) TAKE A GLASS OF SALTS TO FLUSH THE KIDNEYS IF YOUR BACK HURTS: Advises folks to overcome Kid ney and Bladder trouble while it is only trouble. Kating meat regularly eventually produces kidney trouble in some form or other, says a well-known authority, because the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked: get sluggish: clog up and cause all sorts of distress particularly backache and misery in the kidney region; rheu matic twinges, severe headaches, acid stomach, constipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder and urinary ir ritation. The moment your back hurts or kid neys aren't acting right, or if bladder Internal Pataing's Rapid Growth It is bat natural to expert that a relief from Coastiratlon and the many Ills which It causes which la so effectual and so nat ural as Internal Itathiuff should quickly make iLany converts. But Urn general use has increased so tre mendously in the past few years as to aug great other reason and theae are found in the statements of users that they feel aa iz "made over ew ine morning alter au lurerual Bath. The elimination of the pernlefoua and poisonous waste whi-h la ever present in the Lower Intestine gives Nature a chance to work nnhainnered. And one arises in the mornlngr clear-headed, able, bright, confluent and eager for the dar'a duties. E. Kichards, M. U, of Kauaa i'lty, Kan., write "I have a patient In jiiftt about the same conditions as I waa before I uned your hygienic method. J never got a passage except when I used the water. 1 am feel iUK well and have no ueed of taking cath artic!. Yours with best wishe' The "J. R. I... Cascade." the moat ef f icien t device for Interna I Hat h i n g. ia being si -in and explained In detail at '1 u..y-McKarland JUrnsr Store, Topeka. Ask for i.ee booklet. "Why Mau of Today is Only DO Per Cent Efficient." A dr. X7e're ready to show you new spring styles in Hart Sclia ffner Marx suits and overcoats new models, new colors, new patterns for men and young men $20.00 to $50.00. Auerbach S Guette -5C j CLOTHING CC bothers you. get about four, ounoss of Jad Salts from any good pharmacy;: take a tablespoon! ul in a glass of wat er before breakfast for a tew days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with, lithia. and has been used for genera tions to Hush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity; also, to neutralize the acids in tha urine so It no longer Irritates, thuav ending bladder disorders. -ad Salts cannot Injure anyone; makes a delightful effervescent lithla water drink which millions of men. and women take now and then to keep the kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease. Advertisement. ."I DEAD ON HIS FEET GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Cap sules wiil bring new life and quickly relieve that stopped-up congested feeling. 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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19, 1917 The fortnightly dance of the Lame I'uck club will be held next Monday night at the Chocolate Shop. A number of Topeka people were i'l Kansas City to hear Miss Sara Kouns anil Miss Nelle Kouns in their opening performance of their week's engage ment in that city. The Birla were warmly creeled, and even the orches tra applauded them. A Kansas City paper says of them: "Misses Nelle and Para Kouns head the bill at the Orpheum this week in a Kong recital. Bihh these young wom en have exceptionally fine lyric so ralio voices and proved to be immense ly' popular with the audience. They have done considerable concert work. They were called back repeatedly, and the audience was most enthusiastic in it reception of the two singers." One of the Kansas City papers gave un account of the work of the two Topeka girls and their photographs. i "Mrs. Mary Kodgers of Xorth Har rision street, announces the marriage of her daughter, Marie, to Mr. Clyde Parrish, of this city, which took place Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in Kansas City, at the home of Miss Mar Jorie Carrell. a friend of the bride. The Jlev. Mr. Corwine. of Kansas City, read the marriage service. iMr. I'arrish was formerly a Wash biirn college student, and spent a year studying in the Washburn law school. He is u members of the lhi Delta Theta fraternity, and is ouite well known in college circles and in some of the younger dancing clubs. Mr. and Mrs. Parrish are spending a few days at the Kodgers home, and a little later they will move on Har rision street, where they will make thieir home. Mr. and Mrs. William Collinson en tertained the following guests at bridge at their home in West Thir teenth street: Mr. and Mrs. Russell Frost. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wolf, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Close, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Southwick, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Dibble, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce McFar land, Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McKirahan, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes Meade, Mrs. Wttllace Crutcher, Miss June Mitchell, Miss Hazel Xelson. Mr. Jack Loveless, Mr." Nelson Meade and Mr. James Waddell. The Ideal Bridge Luncheon club will meet Tuesd-iy with Mrs. X. B. Burge. Miss Mildred Warring gave ft. St. Patrick's party for some of the young people of her class in high school. Those present were: Miss Dorothy Christian, Miss Lucile Ccmpbell, Miss Ktizabeth Manson, Miss Lillian Lar son, Miss Frances Olander. Miss Anna Manson, Miss Mildred Warring, Mr. Lester Lemon. Mr. Edwin Scotton, Mr. Donald McHugh. Mr. Bernard Kenney, Mr. Wayland Dunham. Mr. John Zerker and Mr. William Schick.

.Miss Ferris Close, who is a student In Raker iiniversitv. will -i' tier rjiano graduating recital Tnesdav nisht in Centenary hall, Baldwin. Her parents. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Close, will 25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From the columns of THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL A subscription pnrtv was given lit Hurt son's lull) last evening. Those who at tended were: Miss Nnunie Hopkins. Miss j M:irrhi ltniilshiiw. Miss Willa Tomliiison. Miss (ioiluril. Miss .Norma Smith, Miss I geons. Martini Whiilev. Miss Margaret Hell. Miss Lee Itoilil Miss Kniily Allen. Miss May l.ange. Miss l'earl McK.irland, Miss Lleunor Work. Miss Orin-e Jilson, Miss AIM? Walker. Miss l.lilil liergen. Miss Mary Walker, Miss Alice 1'rescotr, Miss Susie Wilder. Miss lialsy Sampson, Miss Hillis, Mr. Lou irii liti ill, Mr. Frank Heck, lr. Henry llogebooiu, l'rofessor Heycock. Mr. liii-K Allien. Mr. Hen Criswell, Mr. Lnrle Williams. Mr. Charles Laeerstrom. Mr. Kilwanl Dennis. Mr. Fred tiillett. Mr. Jack announces that there is to be slngme by a quartet, "made up of three men and one tenor." Of interest to Topeka people who are or have been students in K. S. A. C is the announcement of the mar riage of Miss Henrietta M. Hofer to Mr. Ronald Ross, at Westlield, N. J., March 10. Both are graduates of the Agricultural college at Manhattan. The bride is a daughter of Professor Wr. L. Hofer of Manhattan, and has recently been at the head of the music department of Hamilton col lege, Lexington. Mo. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. Arthur Capper and Mrs. David W. Mulvane are spending today in Kansas City Dr. Robert B. Stewart left today for Rochester. Minn., to attend clinics under the famous Mayo brothers, sur- Newuian. Mr. Frank Cain. Mr. Otis Allen, t returned .Mr. l.inner1: iNetlis. Mr. an ieuis, .nr. F.rnest Medrirott. Ir. Moreiand. Mr. Will Itowi ii. Mr K. Stlllman. Mr. Jake Falls, Mr. Fred Gordou, Mr. Karl McDowell. The Derthlck Music club met with Mrs. Charles S. tileert Wednesday afternoon. Those on the program were: Miss Matoon. Mrs. Gleed, Mrs. Homer ltowinau. Miss Tracy. Mrs. J. W. F. Hughes. Miss Camp bell. Miss Tipton. Mrs. Frank Wear. I go to Baldwin to attend the recital. On the program with Miss Close will be Miss Ruth Kubicheck, violinist, and Mr. Fred Rettig, tenor. air. and Mrs. 'It. C. Reed gave a dinner bridge party Saturday night for the members of a club to which Mrs. Reed belongs, the husbands of I the members being honor guests. The decorations were in keeping with St. Patrick's day. Covers were laid for Mr. anil Mrs. Payne. Mr. and Mrs. Iloush. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Suther land. Mr. and Mrs. Krnest Tucker, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Coleman, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Stanley, Mr. and Mrs. S. M. Brewster, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Bridges and Mr. and Mrs. Reed. The Spalding Reading circle will meet tonight at the Knights of Colum bus hall. Mrs. William Allen will have charge of the program, which will be as follows: Itoll Call Irish Wit Instrumental Music Miss Josephine O'Meara Irish Music Mrs. Dun Shannon Song, A Little Hit of Heaven Miss Clark and Miss O'Meara Immigration Miss Mary Hannigan Sketch of the Life of Klennor C. Donnelly Miss Isabel Howe Come Hack to F.rin Miss Agues Haunlgan

THERK'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN Whose home is in another city, and who, they say, is sort of waiting around for the time?" when she can conveniently sever the marriage tie, which for some reason, has become unbearably irksome to her. Mrs. M. K. Urie of 1516 West Sixth avenue, will entertain her bridge club Wednesday of this week. -K-Referring to the Modoc entertain ment to be given at the Orpheum theater, one of the young smartelecs Mr. Gale Morgan, the son of Mr. and Mrs ,T. K Morgan, has gone to Leavenworth to prepare for his ex aminations preparatory to taking his appointment at the United States na val school, Annapolis, Md. Mr. Herman Greenbaum has left for a trip to New York, to be gone until next Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Mulvane nave from Kansas City, where they spent a few days at the Meuhle bach. Mrs. Lutie Embleton spent Sunday in lawrence with Mrs. C. E. Decker. Miss Genevieve Herrick, who teaches in the high school at Horton, was a weekend guest at the Pi Phi house of the State university. Miss Ramona Kirkpatrick and Miss Edna Anton have returned from Lawrence, where they visited Miss Violet Matthews at the Sigma Kappa house. Mr. 13. P. Bartlett has been called to Chicago on account of the illness of his father. Mr. J. S. Bartlett. Miss Ruth Kelly, who teaches at Silver Lake, has been called home by the illness of her father, Mr. M. L. Kelly. Mrs. M. T. Seltzer of Ilolton was the week-end guest of Mrs. T. R. Paxton. The Alpha Phi girls of Washburn college initiated the following pledges Saturday night: Miss Edna Beck, Miss Helen Bennett, Miss Marjorie Blank, Miss Rheva Bonjour, Miss Es ther Graham, Miss Virginia Kitchell, Miss Ethel Case, Miss Esther Thomas, Miss Glee Iden and Miss Alice Griffin. Miss Merle Beeman, a niece' of Mr. and Mrs. D. O. Coe, and a student in the Kansas State Agricultural college, was awarded second honors in the beauty contest conducted by the sen ior annual, "The Royal Purple," of the college. Miss Beeman makes her home in Topeka with the Coe family. Prof. E. D. Schonberger of Wash burn college, will leave early in the summer for Boulder. Colo., to teach MERMAID BREAKS SWIMMING RECORD A v Y KWv-: -:xaL r Miss Gertrude Artelt in .readiness for a spring. Miss Gertrude Artelt, the fourteen-year-old swimming prodigy of Philadelphia Pa., created a sensa tion recently when she lowered the national figure for sixty yards, do ing the distance in thirty-six and one-half seconds. She also covered the fifty yard distance in twenty eight and one-half seconds. Miss Artelt is to meet champions of different states in the coming months, and it is the opinion of swimming experts thai, this youth ful -Inermaid will be the "national woman's swimming champion by tha end of the season. CZAR MAY FIGHT Two Fortresses Still Hold Out Against Revolutionists. Many Wild Rumors in Circula tion in Copenhagen. BY KAHL II. VOX WEIGAXD. Copenhagen. March 19. The gar risons of the Russian fortresses of Sveaborg and Viborg are still holding out against the provisional govern ment. According to advices reccivt-d here the former czar is in Pskoff and the cztvina at her palace at Petrogrid. It is felt here that there was a dou ble revolution in Russia, a hunger revolution by the people and a parlia mentary revolution by the duma. Only such news as the severe pro visional censorship permits to pass 1 46 cases at Berlin last week with eleven deaths. The epidemic is said to have been brought from the east by returning soldiers. A dispatch from Berne under yes terday date said Austrian newspapers and papers of other countri-s repor: ed there were thousands of cases of smallpox in Germany. Two weeks ago a dispatch from The Hague said Ger man military authorities had ordered compulsory vaccination. BACK TO FRENCtTrULE Proviiu-e Held by Invading Germans Reconquered by Freuch. Paris, March 19. Tomorrow or the day after, two French departments, those of the Oise and Aisne, will be liberated from the German invader. according to" reports trom the lighting front. The' total territory now re gained is roughly calculated at 620 square miles. The nature of the j ground over which the Germans re treated was almost all against them and they weie harried by cavalry. If your skin itches and burnsjust use Resinol foreign diplomats to their respc Hive which is now being used in force for governments are coming out of Russia. fist time since the battle of the Xothing reliable is at hand ns to what Marne. At a -ew points the Germans is actually transpiring. jxneu 10 stana ana reu DacK oniy arier cuusiueinuie iigimiig. jne principal What Wiil Czar Do? Summing up the situation a high diplomat said to nie today: 4'The immediate motive of the Rus sian parliamentary revolution was the prevention of a separate peace witn Germany. Two ways are open to the of these were the forest of Oursuamp and the village and part of the wood of Carlepont, south of Xoyon. Retreat Mystifies French. There was also a sharp struggle for tne important trouy plateau, across Czar he can recognize the provisional the river from Soissons. the capture nml hostess at on informnl -anl party Sat urdiiv eveuinir. at tlieir home. l'2Vi Locust in the summer school of the Colorado street. university. He will present three The Goltlcn liod Card club will be enter courses in itublic speaking. taiued by Mrs. Harry MrNair. Wetlnt's- M;a Pfripl Clnnn onto-fn'rarl a f0m 1.V afterilOOU Ut lier hUIUC, 013 LOCUSt girls at a St. Patrick party at her home, followed by a Hue party to the IT: Yf 1 r Orpheum theater. XThe guests were Miss Kt'zabeth Stevens, Jliss Ruth Hope, Miss Helen Thomas. Miss Mar garet Kerry and Miss Helen Shafer. See the beautiful window display of Lamp Shades at the Art Lamp Store. Adv. Half-Price Sale on Lamp Shades starts at the Art Lamp Store next Monday. Adv. SANTA FE NOTES Notes anl personals from Smitn Ke by Frances Jones, llll (irattan street. Telephone bteween J. and 10 a. m., i&oO; other hours, 4751 K-2. In Thousands of Families X II. Seott of Kansas City. Mo., will give the next practical talk, Wednesday even ing at the Railroad 'V." He will talk ou "The Handling and I'se of KxploHives. M. K. Fannon, traveling accountant for the dinbursing department has resigned to accept a position with the Prairie Line Company nt Independence. Kans. Mrs; C. W. Krallier. of Amarillo. wife of Machinist Braller. has arrived and spend the next month visiting her par ents. Engineer and Mrs. George Furmau. Walter Wombles has returned to his work in the test department after spend ing the week end in Kansns City. Mrs. Wombles and small daughter Margaret will spend the entire week visiting rela tives in ivansas lty. A. Mulstrom, chief scale inspector has returned from a business trip to Okla homa City. Foster Hradfield of the telegraph de partment spent the week end in St. Louis. Mo. Word has been received from Mrs. Marie Iff, formerly of the general claim de partment who is now secretary of the foreign branch of the Y. W. C. A. in Cleveland, Ohio. One of Mrs. Leffs duties is to trace all girls coming from Ellis Island to the factories and shops in Cleve land. As the country is strange and most of the girls are ignorant and very suspic ious of the intentions of any stranger it is a hard task to convince them that the V. W. C. A. is there to help them. A. Jj. Thorson, stenographer in the tel egrauh department has returned after spending three weeks ou the coast with the superintendent of telegraph Mr. Chase. street The annual congregational meeting of the Third Presbyterian church will be held at the church, Thursday evening, March J(. The following persons were guests, Sun day evening nt the E. ltodgers home, iHM Lime street, the occasion being the com luenioraticu of Mrs. lindger's birthday anniversary: Mr. and Mrs. Hoy Nelson ,iiul daughter Genevieve; Mr. ami Mrs. I. K. Lawis, Mr. and Mrs. .1. I. Lewis and children. iEavmond and Harold; Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lewis and daughter, Creola. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Fisher and three children- of Colorado, will spend a fw weeks with Mrs. Fisher's parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Lewis. Lime street. Mrs. T. S. Ieavri of Topeka is a week end gnest at the home of Mrs. Mary C. IJr-nti'al. Leland street. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Itedenhangh and daughter Faye, were Sunday guests at the .1. H. Weaver home. Mr. and Mrs. Weaver id so had as a guest Mrs. George Maxwell of Kansas City. Mrs. Maxwell has .iust returned fro'm" a visit to relatives in Vaughn. N. Mex.' Mrs. George .Patterson who underwent an operation at u local hospital last week is improving. Mr. and Mrs. ciaml Clary spent Sunday will I as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Willard lnkerson. or leciimseh. Mrs. Anna Evans who is ill at the home of her daughter Mrs. Will Hunker, Seward avenue, is improving. Mrs. Evans is suf fering from the effects of a fall which occurred a number of months ago. North Side News government and adapt himself to its requirements and approve a parlia mentarian ministry, or he can oppose the constitutional government with the army. To do that he might prefer making separate peace with Germany in order to use his army to prevent the revolt from spreading." The long prophesied revolution is the senation of the day here. Russian exchange took a tumble immediately upon the first news. For several days wild rumors were in circulation. The Danish govern ment, however, determined that P enhagfn should no longer be the center for "fake" news, saw to it that the censorship prevented these reports from being sent broadcast. Details reaching here are meager, even at the Russian legation. The Petrograd revolt is not looked upon as offering prospects for peace. It is be lieved, however that its immediate ef fect on the armies on the front will be to tend to distract their attention from fighting the condition at home. of which is believed likely by critics to be followed by highly favorable de velopments. In this district the French have restored the line which existed before the battle of Crouy, fought In the spring of 1915, by Gen eral Berthelot. The newspapers are overjoyed at the liberation of so much territory. The comment is moderate and even cautious. Le Petit Parisien believes that the rapid retreat of the Germans probably conceals some design, but that there can be no doubt that the German public will learn with stupe faction of the evacuation of a region where so many Germans have fallen. If you are suffering from eczema, ringworm or similar itching, burn- ing, unsightly skin affection, bathe the sore places with Resinol Soap and hot water, then gently apply a little Resinol Ointment. You will probably be astonished how in stantly the itching stops and heal ing begins. In most cases the sick skin quickly becomes clear and healthy again, t very little cost. Resinol Ointment and Resinol- Soap, also clear away pimples, redness, roughness and dandrufi. Sold by all druggists. t TO REMOVE DANDRUFF i URGES RECALL VOTE Nebraska Senator, One of "Kaiser's Dozen" Will Quit If People Say So. Washington, March 19. Senator Xorris, of Nebraska, one of the twelve senators who defeated the armed neu trality bill, made public tonight a letter he wrote yesterday to Governor Neville, of Nebraska, asking that the state legislature pass a law providing for a referendum on whether the sen ator should be recalled. He promised, if the verdict went against him in such an election held before May, un der a law to punish illegal voting, to hand the governor his resignation. OAKLAND NOTES AREA UNLIMITED i i

Instant Postum is regarded as one of the regular staples of the pantry, along with flour, sugar and other "necessities" of life. Instant Postum looks and tastes much like cof fee, but causes none of the discomforts of coffee. It is a pure food-drink, rich in the nourishing goodness of choice wheat, including the mineral elements of the grain so essential for perfect health. Here is a beverage that children as well as the older ones can safely enjoy. It is ideal in it3 convenience (made instantly in the cup) and de licious flavor. A ten days' trial shows "There's a Reason9' for nstant Jfostum Notes and personals from Oakland, by Frances .Tones, 211 Grattau street. Telephone between 8 and 10 a. iu., o&0; other bourB, 451 K-2. Kny Courtney is ill at his home. Strait street. Mrs. J. G. Welch will entertain her Croehet ehib Tuesday afternoon at her home, 407 Arter avenue. Mr. and M rs. -T. A. R ieha rrt son and daughter Sadie have been called to Mel vern, Kan., by the death of Mr. and Mrs. liiehard son's little grandson. Charles, jr. The boys of the iood Samaritan class of the Oakland Methodist church enter tained the girls of the King's Teachers with a party Saturday evening. The affair, a St. Patrick's party, was held at the home f Miss Mary Shtiler. The guests of the evening included Miss Aileen and Miss Beatrice Peak, Miss Ktbel Nagle. Miss Bessie Kffie tiallaway. Miss Anna Mogarth, Miss Mildred Haworth, Miss Knth Sund, Miss Valda Johnson, Miss Kesselring. Mtss Minnie Ihde, Miss Lois Puett. Miss Gladys Wingert, Miss Grace Campbell ami Miss Mary Shuler. Mr. Ielbert Uruennemer. Mr. lialnli and Mr. Kollo Campbell. Mr. Frank lin Hamilton, Mr. Karl Clayton, Mr. Koy I.inu. Mr. Arthur Snider. Mr. Iavid Main, Mr. lioren lorige. Mr. Kmmett Johnson. M r. M y ro n W ri g h t, Mr. and M rs. John .tones. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bechtel. Mr. and Mrs. William Benton. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lepper and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Shuer. Mrs. John Hester, who has been ill of rheumatism, is recovering. The Ladies Aid society of the Oakland Methodist church will give a box supper and bazaar at the I. O. O. F. hall Tuesday I evening. A program has been arranged consisting or music ami readings. Mrs. T. J. Nichols has returned to her home after being called to Denver. Colo., by the illness of her brother. S. A. Geiger. who has been very ill for several weeks and still remains in a critical condition. 'You Oan Find Tanlac World Over," Little Assetrs. Leavenworth Man Tells of Re lief Wife Gained Through It. EAST SIDE NOTES Notes and personals from Hast Side by Frances Jones. 1 Grattan street. Telephone between S and 10 a. in., 3&M); other hours, 4iol K-2. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goodrich have been called to Melvern, Kans., by tbe death of a relative. The Mizpab society of the Third Pres byterian clnu ch will hold an afternoon quilting at the church, Weduesday. Mr. and Mrs. K. L.. Jones and family were dinner guests Sunday, of Mr. and Mrs. John McCarter, Highland park. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Williams were host Leavenworth, Kan., March 19. "You can find Tanlac the world over it seems," said L. M. Little, a pipe fitter of 903 South Fourth street, this city, as he walked into the Javis Haden Pharmacy recently and saw the Master Medicine on the counter. "I just moved here from Johnsqn City, Tenn., a few days ago and they had Tanlac there. My wife started taking the medicine while we lived in Johnson City and. I never saw such a change in any woman. "My wife was all run down gener ally and had suffered from stomach trouble for years. She began taking Tanlac last April and it certainly brought about a wonderful improve ment. From 112 pounds she gained rapidly until she tipped the scales at 130, and ever since that time she has seemed like a new women. She used to.be almost lifeless, taking no Dr. H. L. Clark, city physician, re ports today that North Topeka is en tirely free from smallpox for the first time sine the early part of January. The "scare" which hardly reached the proportions of an epidemic, started with a colored man, who, it is though'., caught the disease from a Kansas City man visiting in Topeka. This colored man was ill for two weeks before the city discovered that he had the smallpox. In the mean time many persons had visited him and two of his family had contracted the disease. A total of eleven cases in North Topeka was the result of the carelessness or ignorance of someone in fail?ng to report the presence of the disease to the city health depart ment. No deaths have occurred, and only two white persons were taken ill. Prompt and effective quarantine by health officers has blotted out an in cipient epidemic. At present Doctor Clark has one case under observation, which may develop into smallpox later. But today the last case was pronounced cured and the North Side is free from the disease. There are a few cases on the South side, these be ing traceable to the same original source, but it is hoped that with the aid of an effective isolation, the smiii pox will end its visit to a not over cordial community. Social and Personal. Mrs. C. O. Henderson, of Meriden, spent Sunday with the O. A. McClure family. she left today for Indepen dence where she will attend a conven tion of the Royal Neighbor lodge. Albert Mize spent Sunday in Hoyt. Shawnee Council No. 3 K. and L. of S. meets Tuesday evening at the hall, 1000 North Kansas. Refreshments will be served. Lawrence Caldwell, Mert Forbes and Henry Dcitrich, of Kiro, were in town today on business. Mrs. H. E. Browness who has been visiting with her sister, Mrs. C. T. Robinson of 120 E. Laurent will go to Memphis, Tenn., Tuesday. She will take an extended trip thro the south west. A. K. .Taquay of Atchison visited with the C. Maze family Sunday. W. B. Whitehead and son, Floyd, have gone to Iowa, where they were called by the death of an uncle of Mr. Whitehead. The Taka Hasha Sewing club meets Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Arthur Miller, 1526 Van Buren Street. Mr. and Mrs. C. Woodruff of Hoyt drove to Topeka today. Ray DeeveF spent Sunday in Hoyt visiting friends. KAISER, THINEEAR! Freedom for Russians Prompts le mand for a Free Prussia. LOST MEN CAPTURED? Consul Believers Germans Hold Mem phis Captain and Crew Prisoners. Washington. March 19. Fear that Captain Borum and nine missing sea men of the City of Memphis, American freighter, are now possibly prisoners aboard the German submarine which sank the ship was conveyed in the second of two dispatches received to day from Consul Frost at Queenstown. The captain's boat was found at 11 o'clock with indications of hasty abandonment, the captain's papers be ing found in a biscuit tin in the boat. The following is Frost's message: "No news yet of Captain Borum. City of Memphis. Ship's papers found today in biscuit tin in caDtain's boat. which was picked up 11 a. m. 18th. Boat shows signs hasty abandonment, discarded overcoats, etc., with white j silk handkerchief at masthead as flag. snowing boat not abandoned until after dajtight. "It is barely possible that all nine in boat were taken by German sub marine, but more probably by some friendly craft having no wireless. Signed.) "FROST." FINLAND HOME RULE i This Is the Policy of the Xew Russian I government. London, March 19. Home rule for j Finland is the policy of the new Rus- sian government, according to Reu- i ter's correspondent at- Tammerfors, j Finland s greatest manufacturing city. The correspondent says the Finnish uiet will be convened shortly and asked to establish a government pos sessing the full confidence of the peo ple. People thruout the country are jubilant over the change and the situ ation everywhere is peaceful. The Russian cabinet will shortly issue iv1 mamiesto dealing with Finnish lib erty, according to a Petrograd dis patch to Reuter's. -Negotiations are proceeding with Baron Rosen, former ambassador to Washington, with a view to his appointment as governor general of Finland. POPESUPPORTSWILSON Kxpcctcd That Vatican Will Affirm Small Nation's Rights Uet a 25-cent bottle of Danaenne it any drug store, pour a little into your hand and rub well into the scaip with the finger tips. By morning most, if not all, of this awful scurf will have disappeared. Two or three appli .a tions will destroy every bit of dand ruff; stop scalp itching and falling hair. Advertisement. Sunkist uniformly good Oranges are fresh from California today and every day. Phone now for a supply. Every first class dealer sells them. Sunniest Uniformly Good Oranges California Fssf:wwF.lrnr Sport Shoes for Spring Will Be Exceptionally Popular With Smartest Dressed Young Girls. These Values Can Not Be Duplicated Style as pictured above in either Patent or 1 Dull Calfskin with Wh4Je Neolin Rubber So'es 1 $4.00 Fine Imported Ivid .with Patent Trim ami White Stitched $5.00 Beautiful Brown Calf at $5.50 to $8.00 r We Urge Early Shopping as there will be no more at these prices when sold. THE BiG&StlOE STORE 715 KANSAS AVE. Rome, March 19. An important political and religious papal allocu tion is expected at Thursday's con sistory. In certain Vatican quarters today it was said that the Hoiy Fath er would probably President Wilson's declaration in affirminir the Hunts of small nations and of neutrals to work j out their destinies unhampered. Amsterdam. March r9. The Berlin Vorwaerts, comparing the situation in Russia with that in Germany, asks: "Shall the world say that all the nations on earth are tfree except Ger many?" The newspaper compares the dec laration of the Russian provisional government with the declaration of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg iij the Prussian diet to discredit of the latter. It comments: How much longer? The king should straightway give back to the interest in what was going on about j Prussian people their franchise, which her. She didn't even enjoy a play at the tneater. 4 "But since taking Tanlac she's just full of life and takes a keen en joyment in everything. Her appe-. tite is hearty now and the food she eats digests properly. My wife had tried medicine after medicine but none of them helped her except Tanlac. I'm certainly glad to make this statement if it will be the means of someone else being helped." Tanlac, the Master Medicine is especially beneficial for stomach, liver and kidney troublue. catarrhal complaints, nervousness, sleeplessness, loss of appetite and the like. Tanlac is now being specially intro duced and explained in Topeka at Tully and McFarland's Drug Store. Advertisement. m was taken in 1848.' SMALLPOX SPREADING Germany Has Trouble at Home From Disease Epidemic London, March 19. Reports reach ing from Scandinavia and Holland say that smallpox is increasingly prev alent in Germany with numerous fatalities, owing to the decreased pow fft'of resistance of the people. Many case3 are reported from North German?- Official reports admit there were DETECTIVE KILLS COP Shot by Mistake When Both Are Hunt ing Holdups. Kansas City. Mo.. March 19. While attempting to make an arrest here to- j day, Harry J. Keating, a policeman, was shot and killed by William B. Leahy, a private detective, who mis took Keating for a holdup man, ac cording to a statement made by the police. As Leahy was not in uniform, j it is thought by the police thai Keating j suspected him of being an accomplice j of the man he was attempting to ar rest, as Keating is said to have pointed his gun toward Leahy. 1 It Is War Get a picture of the family now while you are all together FHOH& SOTO ez KAKJA3WI-' -Wm. Connors Furniture Co. Fresh Air For the Baby in Carriage or Cart We are showing the best makes in the country, splen didly finished embodying comfort and beauty entire ly satisfying. 1 Carriages in the grey, brown and white enamel Wicker Some lined with velours. $19.50 values $16.50 $24.50 values $19.50 $27.50 values $23.50 J $35.00 values $27.00 Think of these money saving reductions right now at the beginning of Springtime.. Carts Folding carts in wicker and steel frame. Many different colors and finishes ($5.00 up Drapery, Rug and Furniture Sale Still Continues Select Your Draperies and CurtahiM Now. Choose from the many new materials Veltours. Veltons, Khedive .Silk. 1-ions Kep. Linenden. Beauvias cloths and other rich fabrics, beautiful and durable. Priced yd. 75c up. Cretonnes yd. 14c up Time to give serious thought to the Refrigerator problem New line just in. All sizes all prices.

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V THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY' EVENING; MARCH 19, 1917 SING SHOPS ACTIVELY MANAGED BY CLEVER TOPEKA BUSINESS WOMEN New Spring Millinery We announce a special showing: of New Trimmed Hats in early Spring styles. Special for Tuesday and Wednesday All Satin Hats that formerly sold for $3.00 and $5.00. $1.00 and $2.50 We Invite Inspection Kahr Phillips 823 Kansas Ave. Phone 167 Something Really New In Millinery The buying public of Topeka is continuously looking for something new, and out-of-the-ordinary. Yet they want practical ideas combined with smartness. You get this in two ways in the Two-Style Hat. The lUSTYLc Jft. Two Style A large hat or a small hat as the oc casion demands or "Milady" wishes. The brim is on or off in the twinkling of an eye. l The above picture shows a small hat for the auto mobile, traveling or gusty days. -The picture below shows the same hat made into a large hat for afternoon or evening functions. I am now showing a very smart display of these two style Hats, and invite your inspection. Maude C. Brickley Second Floor Warren M. Crosby Co. i it mm GET ACQUAINTED WITH THE MARINELLO Method of Carina tor Scalb and Hair Safe. deDnda.hlp RTlrt nvinfTftrfnll,- AffActivA in retarding hair loss and promoting hair health and growth. Gives absolute freedom from irritation. itching or dandruff, insuring complete, pleas ing scaip comrort. j ChiropodyOur Specialty J7IJ7I IVC HAIR' MARINELLO AND r 1jL,LJ O DOLL REPAIR SHOP A V 833 Kansas Avenue. Phone 1293 WOMEN IX THE WORLD Of BUSINESS. A woman who ventured into busi ness not many years ago was looked upon with curiosity. Some men scorned the idea as impossible. Praclically al men doubted her ability. And not a few said, "She can't stand the knocks of a business life. The home is the place for her." And woman, what did she To? She just smiled, set her shoulder to the wheel, and went ahead with far great er speed than man had advanced. Be- 1 cause, wasn't she hampered in every way'f Few indeed were they who enr couraged her. It was a fight for ex istence. But she made good." And then when man saw the results of her effort, and recognized that by force- of will, by keenness, cleverness, pluck, resourcefulness and diplomacy, she had outwitted man, beat him on his own grounds, at ,his own game, and won an enviable position in the big world of Business, he recognized her as the victor But before man knew it, woman was working with him, and for him, in such an able manner, that she was most thankfully accepted, and ac knowledged as a great success. So today, w see her fi-ling every kind of a position known, and each r.nd every day creating now positions. Whether she is in business for her self, or in the employ of another, wo man is a success.. She 4s in. the busi ness world to stay, and the. business man will tell you he is in favor of her as a business companion. Topeka, not at all different from all other cities, has many representative business women. They are successful womon, and well patronized by both men and women. They are represent ed in various linos of business. Some of them have very interesting news to tell on this page. You'll like to transact business with them. If you aren't sure, now is the time to find out. 1906 f miss A 9gMADDIS:m ftfe. JEWELER SHV' r 1917 Where Gems and Gold: Are Fairly Sold M Jrfc isLAJN tore SAS AVE TOPEKA KANSAS Flowers for all occasions mm n FLORIST TOPEKA, KAN S A3 ft JSt" Always a Pleasure It's always a pleasure to dine at the Chocolate Shop the service is exceptionally good the best of. home-cooking is constantly featured, and the surroundings lend additjonal charm. A la Carte From 7:00 A.M. to 10:30 P.M. Invite your friends to join you It will appeal to refined people with discriminating' taste. Beautiful Dance Room on Second Floor Special Attention to Parties. After Theatre Parties by Special Arrangement. Delicious Beverages Properly Dispensed. 811 Kansas Ave. Phone 685 Home-made Pastry Orders for Parties The Roto Club Exchange Eliminates Worry and Saves You Money Deserves Your Support from the Standpoint of Economy Phone 1195 825 Kansas Ave. Phone 1848 817 Kansas Ave. Anna M. Fenton Ladies' Improvement Parlors Shampooing, Hair Dressing, Manicuring, Facial Massage, Weaving, Dyeing, Bleaching Presents- for Spring 1917 Eastern Models- A complete selection of hats from the best Designers.. Pickens Models Created in our own workrooms .are at once distinctive and exclusive. We Teach You Cutting, Designing, Fitting, Reproducing and Tailoring in fact, give you a complete course in the Art of Dressmaking Correspondence is solicited from Out-of-Town Ladies. 10 Years of Satisfactory Service Marston's College of Dressmaking' i J and Tailoring 835 Kansas Ave. upstair. Topeka, Kansas. i Hi i I r.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19. 1917 THEIR FIRST ROW i hty Politicians Clash, at City Hall Meeting Today. I'andy and Ha den Shake Their Fists at II. C. Root. BAD FAITH IS CHARGED Uoot Filed Claim Based on a REPAIREDNESS" IS SLOGAN OF CHICAGO WOMEN WHO WANT TO HELP IF WAR COMES Contractor's Letter. U'arin Reception for "Intruder" i' at Commission. Mayor Jay E. House and the city commissioners this morning announc ed to Hiram C. Hoot, a Topeka attor ney, that they are ready and wilUng to lace an alleged political frame-up sprung at the eleventh hour in an ef fort to defeat them. Shaking his fist tin ier Hoot's nose. George P. Hayden. city attorney, cried "Get into court with your claim you coward and see how far you get with It." and Hayden held his fist about two inches from the nose of the To-p-ka attorney. "But don't come around hre just before election .and file a claim for nothing excepting po litical purposes V G Tandy, commissioner or streets, who early in the controversy had missed Hoofs nose by as narrow a margin as Hayden. gave the partins, shot at the retreating attorney. "Before he cn get into court said Tandy, "election will be over and he 11 drThe"filinK of the claim is asserted to tie for the purpose of bringing to light a recent confession of M. G. Torson of Torson Son. contractors, who bid on the Kast side sewer. The younger Torson recently "got religion Mill. formed the city commissioners that his futher had been "bought off for J3 000 by J. A. Pringle. cesRful bidder for the contract to construct tl.e sewer. I Xot Hc-revc Story. The citv commissioners do not be lieve Torson's story. Torson s bid was $200(1 less than that M'lcai. HoolN claim represents the difference the J20.000 would have made in his assessment if it had been possible for the city commissioners to accept me Tors. I bid. Acceptance of the Torson bid would have been next to impossible the com missioners declare because Torson ad mitted in an open meeung that he was unable to furnish bond, that he had bid too low and acceptance of a con tract would means a ioss to him. He wrote a letter asking to withdraw his bid and at a meeting of the city com missioners re-iterated the statement that he had bid too low and again asked that he be permitted to with draw his bid. With Torson unable to produce bond, asking that he be permitted to withdraw his bid and ad mitting that he had estimated too low. the commissioners declare there was nothing else for them to do. No sooner had Miss Ktta Covell. city clerk, read the Hoot claim than Mayor House spoke up: "That claim will be placed on file, he said. "It is made for no other pur pose than to make political capital and will not be considered for one minute by the city commissioners. You have the courts for recourse but you can get no recourse from the commission ers." "May I speak a few minutes? asked Hoot. 1 don't know whether I want to hear anything from a person who will use such political methods, or not, taid the mayor, "but go ahead." "1 didn't understand until just re cently that there had been a lower hid. began Root. "Came inside and sit down anu i n tell you all about it." said House. Hoot stood outside the railing "Come in and sit down and you 11 hear all about it." exclaimed Tandy as he arose and pointed to a chair inside the railing. Hoot took the chair. House Explains. "There were three bidders for the Kast side sewer contract,' said Mayor House. "Torson, Pringle and the Mer-. chants" Construction company. '1 he Torson bid was about $2U.U00 lower than the Pringle bid. He apparently had paid no attention to the engineer's estimates and the commissioners al ways had great confidence in the en gineer in our employ at that time. "Po Mr. Tandy, Mr. Hayden and my sel! went to Kansas City to investi gate the Torsons. We fou,nd nothing in particular against them, excepting that they had never hat' a job of such magnitude. Then at a meeting of the city com missioners Torson arose, stated he had under estimated the cost of the work and would like to withdraw his bid. "Mi. Hayden asked him it ne were able to secure bond. "Torson replied that he was not. "Hecer.tly," continued the mayor, "we received a letter from the younger Torson. His letter was filled with religious stuff, and" after asking.all of us to 'Get Hight with God' he told us Uiat Pringle had paid his father $3,000." Mayor House pansid. "Now. Mr. Hoot," he said. "I ask you as a citizen, if you occupied the posi tion of a commis-iotier, whether with Torson unable to secure bond, with his estimates not agreeing in any de-' tail with that of the engineer, with his confession that he he had bid too low and with our knowledge that he had never tackled a job of such pro oortions, would you have given him tho bid I'iimod Root lown. Root evaded the question. "That is not. answering my ques tion," said House. Root did not answer it. "Why come up here arid play poli tics," shouted Commissioner Tandy, as he sprang to his feet and shook his fist under Root's nose. "Why don't you go to the courts, if you believe you have any recourse. That is the worst kind of political buncome. cap nble of a plaster paris monkey or a long tailed rat. "You know- you are coming up here to make politics out of this business, r'urther, you know that I am bonded for $40,000 as is every other commis sioner. Those bonds don't expire af ter we leave office but continue, and you know that at any time a court pets judgment against us, the bonding companies must pay the amount of that judgment. Now why don't you go to the courts Simply because you know, you couldn't get recourse there or anywhere else and because you, are merely playing politics.-' George Hayden relieved Tandy and the latter sat down. Hayden's fist &ik w kf JH uh 8 Pil 'hi Pi! I M !Sf y 7 THRILL ALLIES WITH BIG GAINS AGAINST KAISER Greatest Occupancy of Territory Since Battle of Marne. German Line Appears to Have 'ow Given Away. Miss Marian Keehn. Chicago women who drive motor cars are getting ready to be of ser vice in the event of war. They have organized the "Women's Reserve JJotor corps" and are taking lessons in auto repairing to fij themselves for active servicfi. One of the leading women in this movement is Miss Marian Keehn. TAKE 500 SQUARE MILES LAND Teuton Retreat May Be to De fenses Better Prepared. Unexpected Superiority of Brit ish Gunfire Is Responsible. This Store Sells Garments made by Young Wwnen's Coat and Suit Makers besan pla ying a tattoo dangerously near Root's nose. "Now I'll auk you." shouted "Hay den, "if you filed that claim for a grood purpose? Didn't you laugh about it on the streets and tell how you were going: to raise h with the city commissioners?" "I didn't say h corrected Root. "Get into court you coward," shouted Hayden. as Root retreated, "and see how far you get with it. But don't come around here just be fore election and file a claim for nothing excepting political purposes." DRINK HAIR DYEN0W Bor.c Dry Sufferers in Topcka Find New "Joy Iroluccr. When boozer fighters spent fifty cents a half-pint for hair dye and drinlt it, how dry is Topeka? That's what they are doing. Offi cers on night beats picked up half a dozen empty bottles and cartons in alleys Sunday night after familiar characters had passed that way. The collection was taken to the police station. There is a hair dye. manufactured by a chemical company in the east and sold by Topeka druggists contain ing not only 5 per cent of alcohol but a lot of other poison. Then it con tains a quantity of sulphur and sage. It is guaranteed to darken "gray and faded hair." That is what the old "white horse fiends" are using as a substitute for alcohol. Unless some of the other ingredients contain something with a kick there is scarcely enough alcohol in a gallon of the mixture to produce a respectable jag. A physician said today that a week's continued use of the compound ought to kill the sturdiest alcohol fiend in town. SINK BRITISH WARSHIP German Destroyers Make Desperate Coast Tiaid. London, March 19. German des troyers sank a British destroyer in the straits of Dover yesterday morning and torpedoed a second British des troyer, according to an admiralty statement issued this afternoon. The latter British warship was not serious ly damaged. A merchant vessel also was sunk in the German naval raid at Ramsgrate the admiralty announced today. BRITISH TO NEW RUSSIA Will Send Congratulations Red Flag Waves at Moscow. London, March 19. Characterizing the Russian revolution as "one of the landmarks in the history of the world," Premier Lloyd George an nounced in the house of commons that the form of the resolution which England shoul send to the duma of the new government would be dis cussed Thursday. The prime minister, however, said that information does not indicate that all danger in Russia is passed. Troops March Under Red Flag. Moscow, March 19. Troops and the populace united under the red flag that formerly stood for anarchy and violence, was the strange spec tacle here today. Most of the soldiers wore bits of red ribbon. Jet Message From C S. Envoy. Washington, March 1 9. Petrograd is quiet and a similar condition is apparent in other parts of Russia, ac cording to the first cablegram receiv ed from Ambassador Francis at Petro grad, since early last week to the state department today. MILLIONS TO DEFENSE Discuss National Kniergcney Bonds. Mass. to Float Defense Bonds. Washington, March 19. President Wilson conferred with Secretary Dan iels this afternoon, it was understood, abcut the issue of $150,000,000 in bonds for hurrying naval construction because of national emergency. There was no official announcement how ever, to confirm this. Court Decision Bulls Market. Chicago, March 1 9. -The decision handed down by the supreme court which declared the Adamson 8-hour law constitutional was a bullish factor in the Chicago grain pits. During the last hour and a half of trading grain futures moved sharply upward. May wheat closed at $1.88, 3c over the opening. July closed up 3 hi $1.58 and September up ti$1.464. Corn had advances of approximately 2c and oats showed good increases. We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to our many friends and neighbors for the many kindnesses and floral offerings during our re cent bereavement. MRS. ANTHONY NICELY. Advertisement. London, March 19. The greatest occupancy of territory by any bellig-J erent since the German sweep toward the Marne thrilled England today. Allied forces this time, are the gainers. It is the German line that has given away. Nearly five hundred square miles of territory between the Arras sector and the river Oise have been added to the allies holding. Altho there was general rejoicing today over the success of the allies "pushing," experts were inclined to put the soft pedal on the popular tendency toward over-optimism. They pointed out that the German retreat was not a headlong flight, but a methodical, systematic turning back from untenable positions to others, doubtless long and carefully prepared. The retreat has undoubtedly been accelerated by the allies' unexpected superiority unexpected to the Ger mans. They have surprised the enemy with the vigor of their pursuit. German Retreat Orderly. "Rut the lack of reports of any con siderable losses of men and materials i by the Germans indicate the with drawal was far from a disorderly re treat. There was much guessing heie to day as to the new line to which the Germans aie retreating. The one most favored by military experts was from Donai to Cambrai, St. Quentin, La Fere and Soissons. Observers here do not think the Germans will permit the allies to gain the approaches to the valleys of the Sambre, Scheldt and Scarpe without strenuously contesting their advance. Today the allies were systematical ly consolidating their lines and still pressing steadily against the Germans. On the whole front of seventy miles along which the great push developed gains, the British and French forces have taken seventy cities, towns and villages. At some places the thrust forward has carried the allied troops ten miles into territory formerly occu pied by the Germans. Berlin Reports Retreat. Eerlin, March 19. Evacuation of territory over a wider sector on the I French front extending from Arras to the" Aisne river is announced by the German war office. Several lines of French trenches over an extent of 500 metres in one sector and 800 metres in another on J the Verdun front were stormed yes- terday by the Germans. Nearly 500 j French prisoners were taken. Claim All Zeps Returned. Berlin, March 19. An attack on London 4y Zeppelins lasting one and one-half hours, has been made, the j war ottice announced today. Bombs were dropped successfully and the air ships returned safely. This probably refers to the raid re ported in Saturday's dispatches. One Zeppelin was shot down in France. KILLING AT CHANUTE The-W Advance Style Book of a Brilliant Fashion Season HT WENTY-TWO young women's coat and suit 1 styles for spring are illustrated in rich colors in this latest Wooltex Style Book. What many a woman wants before she goes shopping is to be able to tell at a glance whether a coat or suit is correct in style. You could ask for no better authority on the spring styles than The H. Black Company, makers of the famous Wooltex garments for young wom en. With designing studios, not only in Cleveland, but also in New York where styles originate day by day"j these famous makers are equipped to give you in this Style Book just the information a dis criminating woman needs. You will be surprised to find how many style points are illustrated in this little book. A complimentary copy will he mailed you on request or we shall be pleased to give it to you personally at the store. ills Company For (entlewozn e 12 815 Kansas Avenue 815 Mcx i ca n Crushes One Man's Sit u 11, Shoots Another and Hills Self. Chanute, Ivan., March 19. Pascuel Martinez, a Mexican section worker, crushed the skull of another section hand during a quarrel and later shot to death Philip Lockard, section fore man, who had attempted to assist the wounded man, near here. A posse was organized a few hours after the fight and several shots ex changed, but Martinez ended the battle by killing himself. Calls Legislature Together. Boston, Mass., March 19. Governor McCaU this afternoon sent a message to the legislature calling for an appro priation of $1,000,000 for emergency defense measures. In the message the governor assured the legislators he had no alarming inside information, but that he considered it wise to be prepared for possible emergencies. MACHINE GUNS IN READINESS TO PROTECT NEW YORK HARBOR I'atrolmao operating aac-pound Hot ch kiss gun mounted on deck of police bast "PatroL CHILD-CRYJN VAIN Chubby Boy Pleaded To Be Kept With His Mother. Court Takes Him From Parent, Possibly Foreyer. TOO MUCH FOR THE OFFICERS They Did Their Duty and Then Turned Their Backs. Trouble Grows Out of a "White Slave" Charge. Perhaps Lottie Parker isn't the ideal mother; perhaps she lias- done the things her husband charges in his di vorce petition. But she is a mother and possesses that quality which holds the love of her child. And when Hugh Larimer, sheriff, obeying a court or der, took the chubby little hand of the boy from her and placed it in the hand of the boy's grandmother, Mrs. I. W. Parker, today, he turned his back. iBig "Bob" Miler listened to the boy's screams for a half a minute and dis appeared. Clarence Parker says his wife is ev erything but a model mother. She does wear her skirts a trifle short, her lips may be a little too red and her name does adorn some of the pages of Shawnee county court records. Yet she once kidnapped the child, took it to western Kansas, followed it to Topeka Sunday when the sheriff brought it back, and remained with it constantly until the law stepped in and separated her from it. Even then she followed beside the boy and his grandmother until they went into an attorney's office in which the mother had no business. "Mamma, mamma don't lt her take me," screamed the little fellow while the mother stood helplessly by. She Could Do Nothing. She could do nothing. The sheriff could do nothing for her. The grand mother held an order from Judge Dana upon which the ink was scarcely dry, instructing the sheriff to turn the child over to his grandmother. Lottie Parker, the mother, was not even given a chance to attend the hearing at which her child was taken from her. "What can I do now?" she asked Sheriff Larimer as the grandmother and the screaming child started out the courthouse door. "There's only one thing I know of," said Larimer, "and that is to go to an attorney and have him bring an action to set aside the order." He Called "Mamma!"' Everyone except the small boy thought the party was over but at the door he balked. He's small but he pitted his strength against that of his grandmother and she was unable to take him thru the door. He braced bis little feet against the sill and with one hand against the jam stood his ground and call for his "mamma." The mother glanced at Sheriff Lari mer, he nodded, and she hurried to the child's side. He released his grip on the door and took her hand. To gether the three went down the steps and down the street, mother and grandmother not speaking to each other but doing their utmost to sooth the child. There was another parting but it was accomplished with out so much display upon the boy's part. He was whisked into a door by his grand mother, his mother brushed his cheek with a kiss, and hurried on up the street, her handkerchief to her eyes. Nickels, promises of candy and the prospect of seeing "Grandpa Parker" did not shake little "Dick'' Parker's resolution to stay with his mother. When she left him he stood with tears streaming down his cheeks, his baby arms outstretched, crying "Mamma. But her back was turned and she was going out of his life forever, perhaps. The separation today is just an in cident in the Parker divorce case. Clarence and Lottie Parker, the parents, are probably thirty years old, or thereabout now, and have been married for years. Their married life BRITISH BOMBS, EXPLODING THIRTY FEET BELOW WATER'S SURFACE, SINK U-BOATS DEATHS AND FUNERALS. v V v &J&Z'? MARY Ct NNIXGHAM. ;ige T.7, died Sun day at litr boiue, jit -JOlt Iaiirent strwt I-'unerjiI will be !ilI Tuesilny aftermKii at 2 :-"i0 o'clock from the North Topeka ltaptist church. Sen ices wil .b in charge of Myra chapter No. o. Kastprn Star. Chap ters No. 7 and 8 have been asked to attend. Burial iu Alt. Auburn cemetery. The funeral of I. I. Fnrbwfc will be held front IViiweU's chapel at 2 o'clock this afternooy. SILINA SAMPSON, ne R, died Sunday at the home of her daughter,' Mrs. J. A. Limgren, t .!9 Western avenue. Funeral announcements will be made later. MRS. PKNNY WOUTHIN41TON, age 4!t, died at her home, at "rj; Kast Tenth street, Saturday. Funeral will bo hld from the residence at '2 :IM o'clock lturial in ML Auburn cemetery. The body of eorge Mcl'herson. who died March 14. In DaHas, will be sent to Topeka for burial. Funeral arrangement! have not been completed. WILLIAM H. KKKI, age S7? died at his home, -at y'4 Qnincy street, Sunday. Funer al arrangements have not been completed. JOHN W. 1!FAIY, age SO. died at the home of his daughter, ueiir Willard, Sun day. Funeral will 1m heid from 'onvell's chapel at oVUx-k Tuesday aftertiotm. Burial in 1'ochester (emctery. Lord'fe Flowers Satisfy. Tel. 82 7. Adv. New York Mtmey Market. New York. March lt. MliNKY Menau til paper. 46r4Vt er cent. Sterling, dii day bilis. 4.71: conimprciiil, !0 day bills oil banks, 4.71; couimercinl, day "bills. 4.70 demand. 4.751.' cables, 4.7(i1.. Francs, de mand. S.N5: cables. i..s:i. Marks, demand, (il; cables, i!t. Kronen, demand. ca bles, HVi- tiuildera, demand. 40 Vi cables, 40. Lires. demniid, 7.S4 cables, 7.X!. Uu bles. demand, li cibles. lnr silver, 72n Mexican dollars, (ovcriiment bonds, steady: railroad bonds, steady. Time loans, steady; Ui days, 'jffi ItO days, VM:ct: ii months, :;C4 per cent. f'all monev. stead v: hich. 2(i low. 211-1: ruling rate, 'jy..; last loan, 24 offered at 21.. closing bid Destruction of a German submarine by explosion of special type of bomb thirty feet below water's surface. The British have invented several methods of destroying German sub marines, but the one shown has been the most effective. The photo was taken at the moment when a special type of bomb, used by patrol-boats and seaplanes, exploded thirty feet under water, at a spot wh-re a German U-boat had been located. has been one of turmoil. Tt is said gave the custody of the child to the that the wife was merely a child when grandmother "until further order of they were married. j the court." The father did not appear White Slave Charge. j in the case Last summer she visited the county attorney's office and filed a complaint against her husband, charging him Sunflower (amp. M. W. A. Twentj'-ninth anniversary, Tuesday New York Htock Market Wall St., New York. March lit. STOCKS Settlement of the railway problem anil the decision affecting the Adamson law fully neutralized less favorable develop- ments today, the general list registering many material advances. Sales approxi mated 1,250,000 shares. New'ork ftugrar Market New York. March 10. SUGAR -Ilnw. steady; centrifugal, 5..J9; molasses, 4.52: re fined, steady; cut loaf. 8.1S; crushed. 8.00; Mould A and Cubes, 7.50; 4 X powdered. 7:15; powdered. 7.10; fine granulated, 7-00; Ioamoud A, 7.00; Coufecttous A, ti.UO; No. 1, UN5. New York Cotton Market New York, March 19. COTTON steady; middling, 18.45. -Spot, with "white slavery.' the charged after conferral of degrees. Neighbors, make no other engagement for Tues- t hat he had forced her to submit to unseemiy relations wun omer men iui I ay evening. Adv .iicuiaiciy anu rai Ktr was uiuuu pasa- w ing the court house. He was arrested i d the matter was talked over in the i unty attorney's office. Some way J other it was patched up and she cou or agreed to dismiss the case. Then Parker filed suit for divorce and asked for custody of the child. Pending the hearing of the case the boy was placed in his care and he in turn turned him over to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. W. Parker. Alon, New Orleans Cotton Market New Orleans, March 11. COTTON Spot, firm, ol points up. Middling, 17.1H. New York Stock Market. Closing prices for the leading stocks on the New York Stock Kxcliunge as re- ported by Km pi re Commission Co., 301 New England lildg.) New York, March lft. C lose- Today Sst. IK ts 104 7HA mik W-i Manhattan Cleaners. -Adv. Am. Beet Sugar Anaconda Mining j A. T. S. V., c Baltimore Ohio Central Ieather" Chesapeake Ohio C. M. it St. P., c i 'hino Copper 'Colorado Fuel Iron.. Phone 1769. -Northern, p j Inspiration Keun. Copper Miami Copier Stags All members of Topeka fdissouri Pacific 3rove No. 146, requested to attend j'enn. ftailroad meeting Tuesday, March 20. Busi- j Heading, c ness of imnortance. C. C. AlcCarter. Studebaker in January, Mrs. Parker, the I Recorder. Adv. Southern Pacific mother found the boy out playing with other children and it is said that she kidnaped him. Anyway, she and her child disappeared and there has been a constant search on ever since. The latter part of the week information was received to the effect that mother and child were at Wakeeney, Kan., with Mrs. Parker's brother, BenOlson. Judge Dana issued an order instruct intr Sheriff Larimer to bring the child i back into the jurisdiction of his court. Mrs. Parker followed her boy to Topeka, in fact she cared for him on the trip and when the sheriff took him to the eounty detention home she went there with him and stayed last night. Without notice to her, a hear ing was held in Judge lana's cham bers today and the judge signea the order prepared by the grandmother's attorney, Tom Humphrey. The order l uion Pacific, Topeka Auto Lavery. Phone 638 or -3737, li6 W. 5th. Open day and -ttah ooper night. Adv. A new service station built in the j rear of 1005 Kansas avenue by the j Topeka Buick company makes the third addition to the building in the j last year. he building is absolutely fireproof. j S4 5.i,4 4!tV n:s m 45 41 WWW 54" i im w4 ikV4 11414 114 V, D2 M 70 '4 5H'j 58.--I 4S14 t,l 4 41 11 V3 m mi l.-i7 ll'j-li CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over SO Years 4iways oeara the Signature of 11 "Service First" Hurry-Up Co. Baggage and Transfer 226 Phones 711

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALMONDAY- EVENING, MARCH 19, 1917 BRINGING UP FATHER (Copyright, 1917, International News Service. DRAWN FOR THE STATE JOURNAL BY GEORGE M'MANUS 11 11 i i b THE BOt I I 1 O r I'M THE 1 a You Are Sure of Comfort If You Wear IDEAL Shirts If you have never worn an Ideal Shirt you can"t imagine the comfort of it neither can you appreciate the snappy patterns and styles in which they are made. I want you to see this shirt before you buy next time. You'll like it. Some specially priced at- $1.15 THE MEW TO HOT- SEnatMfnctiAitDtsiivniuinontr. m I. S. GAUTZKY. PACIFIST IS STIRRED No l,oii-cr Pacific, He Would Resign and Kislit Kaiser Himself. Washington, March 19. General Isaac Sherwood of Ohio, paciilst mem ber of congress and one of the few members of the house to oppose the armed neutrality bill, today urged President Wilson to call congress in an immediate extra session for the purpose of declaring war on Ger many and declared his willingness to resign his seat in congress and take up arms against the kaiser. FIRE CRUSH IN CHURCH Choir Hoys Gown Catches: Fire and Congregation Stampedes. Kansas City, March 1 9. Dozens Of persons, according to police estimates, were injured, some perhaps severely in a stampede from the Holy Rosary Catholic church in the Northside for eign district here today when the gown of a choir boy serving at special mass caught fire from an altar candle. The injuries were received in the rush of the panic stricken worshippers from the church. WAIT AKJB MISCELLAMEOOS ADS ADVERTISING RATES: The rate for inserting Want Ads la The Topeka State Journal ts oue cent a word each Insertion, minimum lo cents; dv the week 5 cent a wor.) m'liiiiiuni 50 cents. OCT OF TOWA advertisements roast be accompanied wit it cash cr cbeck in full Iinyment of the seme. Note the foregoing ns' ructions about countirg th- wortla and the rate per word for The Topeka State Jon nisi. roiiXT THE WORPS of your ad Includ ing four words for State Journal address when address is used count each 'initial" Wtei and A eh number or combination of figures hb cme 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 inrted under the head: "Too La te to Classify." KAI ESTATE TRANSFERS. D. S. Logan and wife to W. J. David son ud others, lots 470-47- Nor ton's add 1 II. K. Hell and wife to W. M. Forbes jim I others, lot 4, 11th at., Maple ton's sub 1 J. Lutz and wife to H. Lutas and oth ers, sw. V4 of s- V unfl sw. of 9-1:1-17: also H, of uw. y and w. V of ne. i lrt-l.T-17. See rec 10,500 M. A. Kopp to G. Kopp $1, K'1( of NEVi 25-10-15. I. Morstorf.et iix to D. E. Mjssraan, et ux $10,000 SWH 5-10-15. Shawnee Agency Realty Co., to A. If. Dickson lots 07-9-71 Arter ave., Morris add. See Her. G. M. Noble, Jr., ex ux to H. E. Cassity, $:too, lots 40-4S Maryland :ive., H. P. add. E. li. Noble to H. G. Schlichter $900, tots 62 to 72 I'onn. ave.. Highland Park adil. M. A. Kopp to P. C. Kopp $1, 2 tracts 25-10 10. Alexander et us to M. C. Matchett, $!00. hit M Beaubin ave.. Silver Lake. LOST AND FOUND. ItKWAKl $25 for Information leading to the address or whereabouts of one little girl, lo yearn old; name Ethel Habcoek. Think she Is In or near Atchison. Write W. W. Hill. Emporia, Kan., Route 4. LOST Lap robe early Saturday evening between avenue and Hue hanan. nearly new; one side brown, other dark blue. Gurvey. Phones 1011 or :ilK:i. TWO pairs of white silk gloves. Return to Crosby Itros. Reward. WANTED SITUATIONS BEE IN ED young married woman, wants general office work. Experienced. Ad dress H, care Journal. GIRL 17, wants job collecting; references. Phone 4147. WANTED MALE HELP. WANTED 100 white and colored laborers for Topeka, 20 cents per hour; 30 farm and dairy hands, $25 ami $30 mo.; H mar ried farm couples bridge carpenters to alitp out: stone quarry laborers; arm wait ers; cooks; man and wife, hotel work; nent young men to ship out for railway eating houses kitchen help clerk. Fur man Employment Office. 100 West 8th. MEN our illustrated catalogue explains how we teach the barber trade quickly, mailed free. Moler Barber College, Kansas City, Mo. J WHITE MAN ami wife to live In building. care for furnace, porches, etc. Phone 313 Black. GENTLEMAN wants young man to share strictly modern room. Call after 0 this evening. Itoom 3, 731 Kansas Ave. FIREMEN, PRAKEMEN, beginners $125 monthly permanent positions guaran teed Railway, care Journal. YOUNG MAN WANTS room mate of good' clean habits. 1018 Topeka ave. WANTED Night fireman. Apply Engi neer. National hotel. WANTED Man and wife without children to work on farm. Call 3851 K-l. WANTED au experienced deliverymau. Dib- nle Grocery Co., South Bide. MAN wanted to work in livery barn, single man preferred. 715 luincy. WANTED A first class job pressman. Vesper Printing Co., OU5 Jackson St. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED 25 lunch counter and dining room girls, $20 to $30 month, board and room; chambermaid, $25 mo., board and room; 10 women cooks. $7 to $10 week; housekeepers; experienced family help: women tor country homes; arm waiters. $8 week; pantry women; maids; kitchen help. Furman Employment Office, lOG West 8th. WANTED Bright and intelligent young ladies for office work. Permanent em ployment with chance for advancement. Apply iu own hand writing A 1, State Jour nal. WASTE! Middle-aged woman to help with house work on farm. Address Mrs. P. F. Neler. Mullinvllle, Kan. WANTED TO BUY WANTED Old false -teeth. Don't matter if broken. I pay $1.00 to $5.00 per set. Mail to L. MAZER. 2007 S. Fifth Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Will send cash by re turn mail. WANTED TO BnYoodfloorcHse Tlnust he in good order and cheap. Call 2445 nfter 0 p. m. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. EtEMSTTTES Flattings of all kinds. Buttons made. Mail orders receive prompt, careful atten tion. Mrs. MercerSOO Topeka. J WANTED Watch repairing. Main springs, 75c cleaned, 75c. All work guaranteed. Armstrong Jewelry Co., 429Jvansas ave. GOOD milk cows, fat cfcttte and veal ealvesT W. C. A. Leitzow. Tel. 257. CARPET and rug" weaving 1030' Garfield. Phone 2588 Blue. CARPET and rug weaviug also pillow covers, portiers, etc. 221 Lake. 2208 Whit. 1082 HASTY AUTO EXPRESS. BUSINESS CHANCES FOH SALE Electric shoe repairhofTat 402V6 East Fourth avenue. All nearly new and modern machinery. Good business and location. A great bargain if sold at once. Part cash, balance small monthly payments. Call at 001 East 4th avenue orphone010. SACRIFICE 100,000 shares Uncle Sam Oil for $2tT, to help drill a well in Miami county. Kansas, the best shallow sand oil- territory in the world. T. J. Coughlin, Eil pre rt i n Kans t WANTED Partner f4r good pacing busi ness. with $1,000, $1,500. Can show big profits. W. Y. C. Journal. UNCLE SAM OIL 10.000 shares at sacrifice price. Coughlin. Edgerton, Kan. T. J. FOR RENT HOUSES 303 Fosest ave., Oakland, 5 room house, all newly papered, cement cellar, 3 lots, barn, chicken houce, fine fruit and garden, T5 ft. from Sardou, macadam road, 1 block car, 2 blocks church, 4 blocks fine school, walking distance S. P.-' shops. See it then call at G01 East Fourth orpbone 010 or 1601, FOR RENT E. Seward ave., 8 room houseT close to car line, 7 acre tract with good barn and poultry house. Phone 2300 N-l. FOCR room house, 3 lots, barnT'hicken house $7; 23d and Adams street on car, phone 1170. King 2. FOR RENT Tioiise, 5 rooms, bath, mod" ern except furnace. 1011 West 12th. Phone 1307. 6-ROOM modern except furnace, house and barn lii5 Clay. Telephone 2299 Blue. FIVE room strictly modern houseT large sleeping porch. Inquire 501 Taylor. MODERN 6 room house, 205 Western -ave. Phone 2417 Blue, $20. FOC R -room cottage, cistern, gas,, welU good repair. Call 301 Klein.. FOR RENT 0-room house; reasonable 2:Su Taylor St. F ti R E N T 4 room h o u se and barn, water. 720 Lake. Phone 524. FOR RENT STORE BUILDINGS. TU story building, all new, first floor i9 feet deep with cement floor, upper floor u0 feet deep; suitable for garage or machine shop. Inquire 000 Jackson. Phone 3313. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. FOE SALE 1 TEADE 8 room modern house on Lineoln Street, not far from Uovernor's Mansion, 2 east front lots, 4 nice large rooms and recep tion hall downstairs, 4 large bed rooms and sleeping porch second floor, large cloKet In each room. Fire place in parlor and dining room. Oak finish first floor. Cellar is divided into three apartment. Fine new garage with drivewav from front. Nice chicken house and yard. This home is in firsr class condition. If you are looking for a nice home let us show you this. The price: is right and we can trade it for a smaller house on the West side reasonably close in and take a mort gage on the balance. C 13LA1ELY a CO. 102 MULVANB BLDG. Phone No. 738. 12T MULVAH1S ST. Three splendid east-front lots and 8 room modern house. Porches on east and south and large glassed-in sleeping porch. Four bedrooms and bath on sec ond floor and room finished on third floor. Electricity, gas, cistern, butlu House painted recently. Jood barn and fenced bacK yard. Price cut to $3,j0. See it. .WILSON Puone SMS. NEISWANG1ER 111 West 6th St. FIVE room modern hnnso, nice cement cel lar; full two story. Facing Central Park. REAL ESTATE CO. Phone 1812. N 433 Kansas Ave. FOR RENT FURNISHED HOUSES. A FCRNISHEO 5-roora modern house for rent. Call Carson. 03K1 ,T. CEIEAP lBIUIILIIMMCi SnTES 3-1 ft. Lot on Wood St.. ten minutes walk from 10th and Kansas Ave. Cement walks, $130.00. 2(Mt feet on Woodward Ave., near Tenth, paved street, sewer, cement walks, $150.00. E. MOBILE C Phone 444 or iSG Red. 435 Kansas Are. FOR SAMS WE WANT TEE CASH 70 Acres, "flood Improvements, 2 miles from town, 0 miles from Topeka, Kansas. Here is a nice Jittfce home for some oue and the price is right. See me personally. ii. W. BRADLEY. i 032 Kans. Ave., Topeka, Kans. COTTRELT, CO., 107 E.7th. 1307 W. 11TH ST. Very attractive bung alow, almost new 7 rooms, strictly mod ern, oak finish and flooors, beam ceiling, mirror door, sleeping porch, handsome new wall decorations, full cement basement, paved street, good location at a bargain ifsold this week. Phone 3408. KANSAS AVE., SQTJTH, 1515 Modern 8 rooms, fine condition, barn and garage, cement driveway, newly painted, close in, good neighborhood. Great bargain if sold at oiu-e. This should be a fine investment. Part cash, balance time or small monthly payments. Call at 001 E. 4th ave., or plume 010. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. Addition. 12 blocks west of Kansas Arenue, within walking .distance of the Rock Island Offices, W. H. Davis Co.,. Seymou 'i and the business north of 5th and Kansas Avenue, has all the city conveniences, adjoins Potwin on the east, is in the Potwin school district, located on high ground overlooking the city. Look over the addition and the new homes that are being built. For salesmen and automobile to show you over the addition call mMMEE INVESTMENT CO. 534 KANSAS AVE. PHONE 5030. SELL OS FOR SALK HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR S.VLE HOUSEHOLD GOODS. YOUR SKCOSD-HANP "FUBNITUKK AND STOVES Higbest cash paid for the above. Call up and we will come out and see your stuff. STAL0MS nmNHTmJKE 0. Auction 5th and Quincy, every Saturday, 1:30. Bring your goodd, we sell them for 10. 313 Kansas Avenue. Phone 3055. FOR SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Highest Prices paid for your lfOOTTUIEE Anf we sell it right too. Topeka's Bargain Store CHEAP JAC1S rhone 3749. 109 East Otta. FOB SALE JARAGES. UA1SA1JK l'Olt SALE. This Is a county seat, cement building, 4uxG0, onlv jrnrage in town. KH BIBLE Y KLAGES, Kussell Springs, Kansas. FOR SALE PIANOS FLORISTS HAY-S FLOWER SIBIOIP for fresh flowers, wedding and funerals a specialty. Our stocks always fresh. Grown in our own greenhouses. 819 Kan 8ft ave. Phone 377. TYPEWRITERS ALL MAKES for sale or rent. Best me chancai department In the country. CRAKE CO. Topeka. Kan. 47 Years In Business. 200 NEW and second hand tvpewriters, $15.00 up. Sale or rent. Toueka- Type writer Exchange, 507 Kansas ave. POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES l'Olt SALE miliar- tables, new. carrom FOK SAIjK Will sacrifice genuine. Hobart and pocket, with complete outfit, $150.00 M. ('able piano, cheap, used 4 months, second nand tables at reduced prices: bowl- Address H. MC, care Journal. j ing alley supplies; easy payments. Cigar $5TrfrpLAYEK PIANO.' 25 rolls, bench and ftore fixnV8' J1, TVl'!VSBnAfV S f&' scarf; must aell within the next week. teP J yi51IcuK-,BAK5;COL- Address P. P., care Journal. i City Mo Main St.. Kansas FOR SALE Piano at 4ia Kansas ave. FOR SALE -MISCELLANEOUS HAVE good half section in wheat belt for sale at $0 per acre. Near market. Good water. $1,200 cash and plenty time on bal ance J. K Lea de r. To p e k FOR KALK 40YM5Tarden. building lotT. facing on Elm wood avenue, adjoining Potwin school, $750. Tlhodes. Tel. M2i:;. FOR RENT ROOMS 1 FOK RENT Three unfurnished light housekeeping rooms, close in. Phone 21S2 Black after 5 ONE OU TWO rooms for rent. 1251 To- peka ave. 1 or if UN FURNISHED room sfl "ltT ETtBT Phone 2:101 K 2. TWO unfurnished rooms, first floor 6VI0 Madison. No children. FOR KENT Nice large modern rooinT close in. Phone 4NTK Blue. 1240 Polk. FOE. rX CHANGE. FOR RENT FURNISHED ROOMS. TWO furnished housekeeping rooms with basement for washing and garden ground. House modern. Furnace heat. HUMl 73: Garfield Ave. FOR ONE or two gentlemen, nice large modern room vith good board. 1018 To pe ka ave. NICE modern f u rnished room in private family, with or without board. 124S Lane. Phone o7:t4. ONE modern furnished room, Orpheum Bldg. Gordon Bros. 1079. MODERNfurniflhc- front room, 314 Hun- to.m. 1074 evenings. 420 MONROE Furnished, modern house- keeping rooms. Also large baru. LARGE front room, modern house, close in. Phone 4740 White. 1HOT6L VICTORIA, 118 West Gth. 50c. 75c, 71.UU. European, special montuiy rates. COTraELL CO. 107 K. 7th. Telf 55G. .1408. Six rm. house, (inrfield ave.. $l.f(10, lnc trane equity lor car or vacant, lots. IV2 a- bottom. H rm. bimpalow, for oity. (lose in rtns. and bath, elec. Trade $SU0 equity for nts. FOll EXCHANGE Will ex-chance my equity in "YVeftt side home for a car. Phone 324!. FOlt SALE AUTOMOBILES. 1017 MODEL. Run 2.500 miles. A real valne if you care for something better. 101 Overland. Thoroughly overhauled, goo! condition as to finish and running; fair tires. This car has Bosch high-tension magneto and Westinghouse starter. 1915 Baby Grand Chevrolet, cost $1,075 new. Good condition. WE GIVE THE SAME MONTHLY IN SPECTION SERVICE WITH OCR USED CARS AS WITH NEW CARS. C- G. BJAEEL8 JR. FOR RNT OFFICE ROOMS SUITE of modern offices for rent, 'i Kansas avenue. Phone 10. BOARD AND ROOMS MODERN rooms with board, $1 day, $3 per week. Topeka Hotel. 122 Wei 6th. WANTT.D FEMALE HELP. WANTED Inexperienced sewing girl to learn dressmaking. One who means bus ncss. MrsCora K Smith. 011 West Mh. WANTED Girl "to stay nights for room; will give breakfutit. Apply to 217 West 17tn nt. FOR RENT- cyLRAGES. GARAGE. 1270 Topeka ave., cement floor, paved alley, easily entered. Call phone lfii l. FOR RENT FARMS FoT?Tk13NTHo iTaresTalso house an 5 acres. James Murphy, Te- cumseh. FOR RENT ac re t ractTwel 1 i nip ro ved", close to Gage park. Chas. T. Nichols. Phone 2U02. FOR RENT 25 acres in Highland Parh 1-3 corn iu crib. Phone 4400 White. 202 W. 6th. Phones S-'ll or 738. FOR SALE Great Smitb 5 passenger tour ing car, good condition. Exceptional bar gain for one who wants quality instead of style. 514 Kansas. FOR SALE Metz adstefroo"druuning order. 1014 Kansas ave. MUSICAL IXTRUMENTS. FOR SALE Violin. Paolo Magglni make. Will sacrifice to sell. Phone 2554 Red. FOR SALE LIVESTOCK FOR SALE Cheap, two driving ponies. Phone 9i. 2:)rd and Lincoln. H. A Moege. FOR SALE Good horse cheap. M. Schelle. 127 North Q.uincy. FOR SALE A verv good all purpose horse, cheap. lOS East 0th. x FOR SALE POULTRY KGGS For sale, pure bred Barred Itock, 75c per setting. Phone 38S1K2. FOR SALE Good cement blocks, 24x8xS inches; some corner blocks. Five sections cement pavement, 5x5 feet, 1305 West 15th St. FOR SALE Gas and oil tank, suitable for grocery store. Thompson Son, 100 E. 4th. $150 OF FURNITI'RE, wagon. garden tools, plow at half price. East Hill, 707 Highland avenue. FOR SALE Brass steam boiler fittings, cheap. Write for prices and description. 522 Home St.. Topeka. FOR SALE One buggy, new wheels, good condition.$15. Phoue1246. FOR SALE Roller top writing desk or trade for goodjtype writer. Phone 1240. FOR SALE Good mare; set of single har ness. "OU West 8th. LEGAL. First Published in the Topeka Journal, March 16, 1917. State jrffiee of the Citv Clerk. peka, Kansas, March 10, 1017. 1 H A ST V A I J T K ?C P K ESS. MONEY FARM LOANS WANTED. This company has an nnlimited amount of funds to lend on Eastern and Central Kansas Jj'arms at 5 with a reasonable commission. Our representative is at your -service if you want information. THE FARM MORTGAGE COMPANY. Crawford Building. Topeka, Kansas. Thone 33:!S. MONEY TO LOAN on FARMS AND CITY PROPERTY. WALTEE ASETON SMTIEI 501-2 N. E. Bldg. Phone 403. In the market for notes and mort- gages. MON R I'll LOAN on ctty anil iru property, any amount, low interest rates and most liberal terms. Call or write for our plan. W. M- Forbes Co. LOANS made on any kind of personal se curity, u. Biscoe, oj- i.ansas Ave. AUCTIONEERS. C. O. ANSEL, General Auctioneer. Res. Phone. 2251 Red. Office 46. At tou r service at all times. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 2001 Lincoln Street. Topeka, Kans. MOVING FENIMORE MOVING AND STORAGE. Your furniture wrapped for storagM FREE, expert packers. Phone 4.4'L UNDERTAKING L. M. PENTELL, funeral director and embalmer. First class service. 50S-51W Quincy st. Telephone 102. C E HAWLEY CO.. undertakers, em halmln. IIS E th Ave. Phone 27 'To C A N I I DA TES F O R MA Y O It COMM I S SIONEKS AND MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION". I, Ettn M. Covel!, City Clerk of the City of Topeka, Kansas, do hereby certify that the following named persons have filed petitions in my office, according to law, as candidates for Mayor, City Commis sioners and Members of the Board of Edu cation, to be voted upon at the Primary Election to be held in the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, Monday. March 20. 1017. FOR MAYOR" J. B. Billard Herbert J. Corwine Jay E. House L. L. Kiene FOR COMMISSIONER OF FINANCE AND REVENUE: Jonathan D. Norton W. H. Wasson FOR COMMISSIONER OF WATER WORKS AND STREET LIGHTING: George E. Burnam F. M. Ncwland s FOR COMMISSIONER OF STREETS AND IUH LIC IMPROVEMENTS: L. R. Lane H. C. Stevens W. G. Tandy FOR COMMISSIONER OP PARKS AND PUBLIC PROPERTY: Isaac Gifberg ,W. H. Kerle W. L. Porter f j J. A. Ramsey .lames O. Stevlc FOR MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION Frank B. Brown Frank Curry I. W. Griggs George Hughes L. M. Jones James B. Mullin S. A. S wend son Witness my hand and official seal of the City of Topeka, Kansas, this 10th day of March, 1917. ETTA M. COVELL, (Seal) v city Clerk. LEGAL tide 9. chapter &3 of the General Statutes of 1915. Sec. 4. This aet shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication iu the official state paper. 1 hereby certify that the above Bill origi nated in the House, and passed that body February 28, 1017, House concurred in Senate Amendments March S, 1917, A. M. KEENE. Speaker of the House. CLARENCE W. MILLER; Chief Clerk of the House. Passed the Senate March 5, 1917, W. Y. MORGAN, President of the Senate. E. D. GEORGE, Secretary of the Senate. Approved March 12. 1917. ARTHUR CAPPER, Governor. State of Kansas Office of Secretary of State. I, J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file In my office. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my official seal, Seal. this 14th day of March, 1917. T. T. BOTKIN. Secretary of State. CORNELL. Ajst. Secretary of State. Published in The Topeka State oJu'rual .Marcu iu, iyi.j By E. A. HOUSE BILL No. SRS. AN ACT making a impropriations for the state printing plant for the fiscal years ending June 30, 1917, June 30, 1918, and June 30, 1919. Be. it enacted by the Legislature of the State -of Kansas Section 1. That the following snms, or so much, thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury not otherwise ap propriated to pay the salary of state printer and for labor, incidental expenses, printing and biudiug material, and equip ment for the ulatit: 1917 1918 Salary of state printer For foreman, print ing and binding mechanics, proof readers, press men, office help, and other labor. Jicidentals, repairs, traveling e x penses, premium on surety boud, contingent ex penses and ink. Printing and bind ing material Purchase of addi tional equipment and renewal of equipment and building Labor and material for accumulated binding 1910 $2,500 $2,500 62,400 69,600 7,500 69,000 7,500 70,500 $5,000 15,000 15,000 10.000 10.000 FARM LOANS FARM LOANS, 5 and 6 per cent- See Nichol Realty Co., 529 Kan. Ave. Telw PICTURE FRAMING FRAMiT.iV resrlldlns. mat making, mount ing done vJ. D. Sullivan. 122-124 W. 8th. UPHOLSTERING J. F. PET RICK SONS, upholstering and manufacturers of parlor furniture. 190 Kansas avenue. Phone 842. ELECTRICAL WIRING. LET ME figure your electric wiring and fixtures. Chas. H. Klussinaa. 2445 Blue, after 6 o'clock. Published in The Topeka State Journal, March 19, 1917. HOUSE BILL NO. 604. AN ACT supplementary to article 9, chapter 53 of the General Statutes of 1915. author izing the superintendent of insurance to investigate fire insurance -rates und rat ing bu reaus a ud making appropriation therefor. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. The superintendent of insur ance, upon written complaint of any citizen or upon his own. motion, is hereby em powered to investigate all fire insurance rates. In making an investigation the superintendent of insurance, or any of his assistants, shall have the power to visit, inspect or examine all rating or actuarial bureaus maintained or used by any fire insurance company authorized to do busi ness in this state' whenever he deems It expedient. In case any rating or actuarial bureau shall refuse to permit visitation, in spection, investigation or examination as herein provided, the superintendent of in surance may refuse to permit any schedule of rates made by such bureau to be filed by any fire insurance company in this state. A special assistant shall be appointed by the governor to assist the superintendent of insurance in carrying out the provisions of this act. Sec. 2. For the nurpose of carrying out the provisions of this act there is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the balance of the fiscal year ending June 30. 1917, twenty-five hundred dollars; for the fiscal year ending June SO. 1918, ten thousand dollars: and for the fiscal year ending June -H), 191U. ten 'thousand dollars; said appropriations to be in addition to all other appropriations made for the superin tendent of insurance, to be paid by the state treasurer upon vouchers approved by the superintendent of Insurance and audit ed by tb state auditor. Sec. This act la supplementary to ar Any balance remaining in anv of these funds at the end of the fiscal year ending June 30. 1917, is hereby reappropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30. 191 H, and anv balance remaining in any of these fund's at the end of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, is hereby reappropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919. All un expended fees paid into the state treasurv under the provisions of section 4. chapter 2S, of the Session Laws of 1915, known as the 4eneral Statutes Revolving Fund, and all other fees which may be paid into said fund for the fiscal years ending June 30. 1917. June 30, 191S, and June 30, 1919, are hereby reappropriated for the purposes expressed in said act. Sec. 2. The auditor of state shall draw bis warrants on the treasurer of state from the items hereinbefore mentioned for the amounts found to be due on itemized vouchers dly verified and approved by the state printer; provided, that all vouch ers for the purchase of printing and bind ing: material, or purchase of additional equipment, shall be approved by a majority of the State Prjniting Commission. Sec. X This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its publication in the official state paper. I hereby certify that the above Bill origi nated in the House, and oassed that bodv February 27. 1917, nuuat: uujmu cumereuce report alarcn o. 1917, n A. M. KEENE, "Speaker of the Honse. CLARENCE W. MILLER. Chief Clerk of the House Passed the Senate March 6, 1917. Senate adopted conference report March 8, 1917, W. Y. MORGAN, President of the Senate. E. D. GEORGE, Secretary of the Senate. Approved March 12. 1917. ARTHUR CAPPER, Governor. State of Kans.-)-. Office of Secretary of State. I. J. T. BOTKIN. Secretary of State of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a correct copy of the original enrolled bill now on file in my office. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF. I have here unto subscribed my name 1 tSeal.) and affixed my official nl this 14th day of March. 1917 J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State. By E. A. CORNELL, Asst.!erreTary or Mate. LKGAL Published in The Topeka State Journal, March 19. 1917.1 LEGAL. SENATE BILL NO. 20. AN ACT amending section 419 of the Gen eral Statutes of 1915; and amending chap ter 224 of the Session Lawn o 1915, re lating to fees and salaries of register of deeds and clerks of the district court and common pleas court, and repealing said original section and chapter. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Kansas: Section 1. That section 4719 of the Gen eral Statutes of 1915 be and the same is tion 471! Ut-istrr of deeds. The register ..timn OO.OOO nf ilowls f tht vorMl i-nintHes .f i More than state shall receive the following salaries per i.nnum to be paid by the board of county commissioners of their respective counties for all services required of them by anv law of the state: lu counties hav ing a population of 2000 and under. $00.00; provided, however, that in counties having a population of $2000 or less, the county commissioners may in their discretion pay in addition to the sum of $000.00 an addi tional sum not to exceed $300.00 for the services of such register of deeds. Iu coun ties having a population of Per annum more than 2.000 and not more than 3.000 $900.00 more than 3,000 and not more than 5,000 more than 5,000 and not more than 10.000 more than 10,000 aud not more than 15.000 When the fees in anv one quarter exceed $350.00. the register of deeds may retain one-half of such v excess fees. more than 15,000 and notVmore than 20.000 $1,500.00 more thtut 20,000 and not more than 25.000 1,000.00 more than 25.000 and not more i.nuu.w monthly Installments: a population of (More than 6,000 and man lo.wo More than 15.000 and than 20,000 More fliun 20,000 and than 30.O00 More than 30,000 and than 35.000 More than 35,000 and than 40.000 More than 40,000 and than 50,000 More than 50,000 and less 1.100.00 1,200.00 1.400.00 In counties bavin.' Per annum. f 250.00 450.00 500. 00 -600.00 j 750.00 1,500.00 5 2.000.00 f 2,400.00 2.800.00 J not more not more not more not more not more not more -not more not more not more not more not more not more not more not more 2,000.00 2.200.00 2,400.00 2.8060 3.000.00 $300.00 600.00 600.00 720.00 800.00 900.00 1,200.00 2.000.00 First published -in The Topeka .tate Journal. Wednesday, Feb. 28. 1917. J ELECTION PROCLAMATION. Mayor's Office, Oakland Kansas. February 27, 1917. I. F. A. Brigham. mayor of the city oft Oakland, Shawnee county, Kansas, do here by proclaim, give notice and make known that the regular city election in the etty of Oakland, will be held on Mondav, April 2nd. 1917, for the purpose of electing the following officers, to wit: Mayor. Police judge. Five councillors. Said election will be held and conducted under the general election laws of the State of Kansas. The polls will be opened at eight (8) o'clock a. m. of said day, and will be closed at six (0) o'clock p. m. of said day. The voting place will be the east room on the first floar in the Odd Fellows hall building In said city of Oakland. The following electors are designated ss judges at said election, viz.: Robert 3. Cliugan. O. M. Keats and Robert Keene. Iu witness whereof. I have hereunto set my hand aud the official seal of the City of Oakland, Kansas, this 27th day of Feb ruary. 191. F. A. BRIGHAM. Mayor. SeaLI Attest: H. A. LEPPED, City Clerk. than 30.000 more than 30,000 and not more than :i5,000 more than 30,000 and not more than 45.000 more than 45,000 and not more than 60,000 more than 60,000 and not more thau 70.000 more than 70,000 and not more tlmn OO.OOO The register of deetls may be allowed for clerk hire in their respective counties: In counties having Per annum more than 6,000 and not more than 15.000 more than 15,000 and than 20.000 r? more than 20,000 aud than 25.000 more than 25,000 and than 30.000 more than 30,000 and thau 25.000 more than 15,000 and than 45.000 more than 45,000 and than 60,000 more than 00,000 und not more thfin 9O00O Provided, that whenever the fees collected by the register of deeds and paid over to tlie countv treasurer for any quarter ex ceed the anount of salary and clerk hire paid to such register of deeds for the quarter, said register of deeds shall re ceive as clerk hire in addition to the clerk hire heretofore provided an amount equal to one-half of such excess; aud provided, that when in counties having more than 15.000 and not more than 20,000 inhabitants the fees ollected in any one quarter shall exceed the sum of $525.00: and in counties having more than 2O.000 and not more than 25 000 the fees collected in any one quarter shall exceed the sum of $550.00; and in counties having more thau 25.000 and not more than 30.000 the fees collected in any one quarter shall ex-eed the sum of $630.00; and in counties having more than 3O.000 and not more than 35.000 the fees collected in anv one quarter shall exceed the sum of $700.00; and in counties having more than 35,000 aud less than 45.000 the fees collected in any one quarter shall exceed the sum of $775.00; and in countieshavingmorethau 45.0O0 and not more than 50,000 the fees collected in anv one qniarter shall exceed the sum of $900.00; then in any of such counties the register of deeds is hereby authorized by and with the consent of the board of countv commissioners to expend as additional clerk hire so much of the money actually received by him in excess of the sums herein set forth as may be necessary to properly transact the business of his office in such county. Sec. 2. That Kection 1 of chapter 224 of the Session Laws of 1915 le and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Section 1. That section 7 of chapter 197 of the Session Laws of 1913 be and the same is herebv-amended to read as fol lows Sec. 7. Clerk district court. Common pleas court. The clerk of the district court of the several counties of the state shall be allowed by the board of county commissioners in their respective counties the following salaries per annum, as eom lensatlon for all services performed, to be paid out of the county treasury quarterly: Iu counties having a population of Per annum. 2.000 and under More than 2,000 and than 4,000 More than 4,000 and than -6.000 More than 6.000 and than 8.000 More than 8,000 and than 12.000 More than 12,000 and than 20,000 More than 20.000 and than 25.000 More than 25,000 and than 30.000 More than 30,000 and than 35.000 More than 35,000 and than 40.000 More than -40,000 and than 50.000 More than 50,000 and than 60.000 More than 60,000 and than 90.000 rt.oooon That In counties bsvlng a population of more than 35.000 and not more thau 40,0m in which is located two divisions of the district court, the clerk of the district court shall receive 92.200.00: provided that iu counties having a population of more than 30,000 and not more than 35-000. in which is located two divi!oos of the district court, the clerk $t said district court shall re-e!vp At'.OOO.OO, And in counties of more than 40,000 inhabitants, having a court of common pleas, the clerk of said conrt shall receive the same fees as the clerk of the district court. The clerk of the district conrt may be allowed by the cotinty com missioners, in addition to his salaiy, not to exceed the following sums as clerk hire, to be ps4! oat of the county treasury in OO.OOO and than 70,000 More than 70.000 aud than 90,000 Provided, that in counties of more than 3o,000 and not more than .0,000. in which there are two di- r h vtnlons of tlie dtHtrict court, there shall be allowed by the county commissioners of said county for deputy hire, the sum of not to exceed 1.500.00 Provided, that in counties of more 'than 30.0(H) and not more thau 1 35,000, in which there are two ill visions of the district court, there shall be nUowed by th county commissioners of" said county, for deputy hire, the sum no? to exceed 1.200.00 The clerks of the district court, in their respective counties In this state, shall cha rge for services rendered by t hem a s required by law to be performed by clerk of the district court the fees as herein-i after provided For filing each paper, five cents $0.03 Docketing each action 011 upjteur- mice docket or execution docket, each fifteen cents l. Docketing action on trial and bur i docket, each ten cents .iff j Each entry made 011 iipjM-aram-e docket other than docketing ac tion, five cents OS Entering every order, motion, rule, i I plea, verdict or arraign men t, ten -cents .10 i Entering judgment riot exceeding t; J five folios, forty cents 44 Z Each additional folio, ten cents tt Entering satisfaction of judgment, -j twenty cents .20 lEach entry on Index, five cents .Oy J Issuing any other writ, except as L otherwise provided,,,-, twenty-five j cents .25 4 j Issuing subpoena, all the names con- f tallied on one praecipe to' be con-" tained in one subpoena; twenty f cents 2Q- Entering summons and subpoera on npjiea ranee docket when returned, including copy f sheriff's return, thirty ents 0 Issuing any order of attachment, re- l plevln, urrest, execution sale or or der to carry sentence of criminal -r into execution, fifty cents .CO Issuing commission to take deposi- tfons, twenty-five cents 29" Ail ministering oath in open court, five cents .611 Impaneling aud a wearing a jury, 1 i fifty cents .00 Taking and certifying witness, juror :.r cents 2$ bond, Justification, fifty judgment. twenty-five fee .2$ .10 .01 z. 1 l.or 1.00 -a) .05- .R9. .10 .80 t .25 JM .or 1 no $500.00 not more 800.00 not more A 000.00 not more 900.00 not more 1.000.00 not more 1.200.00 not more 1,450.00 not more 1,700.00 not more 100.00 not more 1.900.00 not more 2,000.00 not more 2.4O0.00 not. more Approving cents. Docketing cents. Taxing costs and making bin, per 10110. ten cents Making any record or copying any paper required to be co 1 ded, I e r folio, seven cents Certifying fees of Jurors aud wit nesses to county board, each name, five cents Entering derla ration of alien to become a citizen aud certified copy of same, one dollar Entering final admission of alien and certified copy of same, one dollar Taking and recording recognUairce or bond, fifty cents.... Ma King fee bill in state cases, per folio, five cents Entering indictment or Information in indictment record, fifty cents for first count For each additional count, ten cents.. Entering abstract of mechanic lien in mechanic's lien docket fifty cents Certificate and seal, twenty-five cents Releasing mortgage on real estate sold under foreclosure, fifty cents.. For holding an election In assign ment case, including making record and reporting same to district court, two dollars and fifty cents For preparing and sending to each creditor a notice required by sec tion 2 of chapter 101 of the Laws of 1H70, seven cents per folio Re-ordlng com in) km Ion, bond and oatb of notary public, oue dollar. The fees for such entries, certificate and other paiers as may be required In naturalization cases shall be such as arf prescribed by the federal government. All such fees shall, when collected by th clerk of the district court, le paid Into the county treasury aud becnine a portion,, of the general fund of the county. Sec. 3. That said section 4719 of the Gen eral Statutes of 1915, aud chapter 224 of the Session Laws of Kansas of 1915, be and the frame are hereby repealed. See. 4. This act shall take effect und b In force from and after Its publication la the offlclnl state pii-r. I hereby certify that the above BUI orig inated In the Senate, and paused that body February 13. 1917. Senate adopted conference committee re port March 8, 1917. W. V. MORGAN, President of the Senate. E. D. ;eouge. Secretary of the Senate. Passed the Huse March 1, 1917.. Hou adopted conference committee re port Mitten 7, 1917. A. M. K EE-NIC, t Speaker of the Hoe. CLARENCE W. M1LLEII. Chief Clerk of the House. Approved March 13, 1917. Alt'JHl K CAPPER, Governor. STATK OF KANSAS ttffir of Secretary of tnt. I, J. T. BOTKIN, Secretary of State of the State of Kansas, do hereby certify ht the above and foregoing is a correct copv of the original enrolled bill now oh file 'in my office. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have' bcretinto subscribed mv nam I Heal. J and nffixed lur official -a1 -this 15th day of March. 1917. J. T. TtOTKlN. Secretary of State. By E. A. COllXELL, Asst. Secretary of State

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And onr guaranteed rupture holder the famous riuthe Is the only thiug of any kind whatever for rupture that you can jrer on sixty days' trial, the only thing ViOO! enough to STAND such a long and thorough test. Something Nothing Klse loos The Clothe Is so ntterly different from iDT'Mnir else for rupture that it has re ceived EIGHTEEN SEPAKATE PATENTS. Tt provides the ONLY WAY TCVKR DIS TOVKRED for overcoming WEA KNKS3 which is the real CAUSE OF RUPTURE. just how it does that entirely auto maticallyis all explained in the free I took. Will Save You From Operation The C'"the RO thoroughly proved Its merits that physicians in nil parts of tb world and surgeons in the V. S. Array and Navy now recommend it instead of advis ing operation. It has brought complete recovery In hundreds of eases after olc ra tio a baa proved a failure. TABLE TELLS TALE Comparison of Food Prices in Topeka 1912 and Today. Every Household Expense Up From 18 to 110 Per Cent. FANCY FOODS NEARER NORMAL But -Meats and Fish and Pota toes and Beans O-o-ohl Blame Is Passed on Down One Dealer to Another. Household expenses have increased from 18 to 110 per cent within the last five ytrs. This fact is shown by a comparative table of the prices of foods and household supplies in To peka for the years of 1912 and 1917. Heat has increased more than 60 per cent and fish more than 70. The fan cier foods have stayed nearer their normal price with an increase of only 40 per cant. The most remarkable flight in prices has occurred in the common supplies, brooms, potatoes, beans, butter and flour. Following is a table of the most staple products, compiled by a local merchant: I'ri'-e Prloe T-.wl,...f 11112 Now Nnvy bPHiiR. wr pound .1 (IiWn Itcnns, per pound Hurley, per pound "i Sh(tp. per pound...' t -"i l-'l.iiir nr fvt A'' 4...0 itnttiT, per pouud -ft Kirjrs, dozen rheesf. YVtHronsin. 1T lb.. .IS V....- V..-L- t..r lit.. .20 Stiinda'rii Hum. per lb IS .28 S:i nerk r:i lit ner noliml 1- 72 O ('(trued Ueef. per eau 17 Ii..L- i.op ..mini 12'-1 l, it, -l,es V, hovpa 4 bxs 1 in... llunnu lull- till II 11 1 .0.! .18 Outineal. per pound lti...L'fat fonil. iter ItklT 10 .10 0.1)1x111 Kloiir. tier itouud.. .04 Itiii'fcwheat, per pound 05 U .alli Ilollllli.. 10 .1 Miic nronl.' per pound JO J3 K.ilBins (seeded), lier lb J;. I i.itna tier itollllll .10 .1-1 Soup, per chu J0 -1 Uromns. ea"li ASK FOR and GET or lick's The Original EVIalted EV2ilk Substitutes Cost YOU Same Price. To Strengthen tions may be wonderfully benefited by fol lowing the simple rules. Here is the pre scription iio to any active drug store and get a bottle of Bon-Opto taL'ets. Drop one Kon-Opto tablet iu a fourth of a glass of water and allow to dissolve." With this liquid but he the eyes two to four times daily. Yon should notice your eyes clear up perceptibly right from the start and in flammation will quickly disappear. If your eyes are bothering yon. even a little, take steps t save them now before it is too late.- Many hopelessly blind might have been saved if they had cared for their eyes In time. Note: Another prominent Physlrlan to whom the above article was submitted. jsuid: "Wnn-Opto fs very remarkable 1 remedy. Its constituent Ingredients are well known to eminent eye specialists and wide ly prescribed by them. The manufacturers guarantee tt to strengthen eyesight R0 per rent in one week's time In many Instances or refund the money. It can be obtained from any good druggist and Is one of the very few preparations I feel should be kept on hnnri for regular nse in almost every family." It- is sold in this city by 5. Stansfleld, and other druggists. -Adv. Xo Belts or i.es straps to Annoy You That's why people who have tried it say It is us comfortable as their clothing, it is water-proof will hold iu the bath. EaBily kept clean. Get World's Greatest Rupture Book Don't Fend any money Just write for our free book and find out everything you want to know, j Full of facts never before put in print. Cloth-bound 96 pages separate articles and 23 photographic illustrations. Will save you from being fooled and save you from wasting money. Explains why elastic and spring trusses aiv a wicked crime why thev are the ruptured man's worst enemy why the law should stop their sale. Exposes the humbug "appliances." "methods." "plasters," etc. Shows whv operation is often a needless gamble with death, andwhv. if a man manages to get well from the operation, he often has to keep on wearing a truss. And It tells all about the Cluthe and how you can try it sixty days and how little it costB if you keep it Gives endorsements of over 5.000 people. Better write for the book to-dav it tells th.ngs you could never find out by going to doctors or drug stores. Simply use the coi pon or say in a letter or postal "Send me the book." -THIS BRINGS IT Box 769 CLVTHF COMPANY 125 Hast 23rd St., New York City Send me your Free Book and Trial Offer. Name.... Address. Inundrr Soan. box 2.95 3.00 .1(1 .40 .12 .25 .(US .15 .09 .15 .12 .IS .15 '6 .12 .1H .00 .15 .20 .50 .09 .15 .15 .IS .20 .:mi .10 .25 .:jo .80 .2:1 .2:! .12 .18 1.05 :s.oo .45 15c lb. .15 .25 .85 LOO .IS .20 .12 .10 .15 .08 .10 .25 7 bars .(15 2 lbs. .05 5 lbs. Stitudard Bacon, per lb.... Tomatoes, van Corn. No. 2 can Crackers, per pound Apricots, ier cm evaporated Apricota, per id, Baked Heans, can Pens, caii Mushrooms, can Salmon, can Catsup, pint iiiaK i'epper, uounu Lard, per pouiiTt.. Swiss Cheese, per pound.... Cornineal, ieck lioloua feausage, per 10. Potatoes, bushel Hed Onions, peck Codfish, per pound Holland Herrinjf. keg Smoked Fish, per lb Loose Currauts, ier lb.... Beets, can Hominy, can Soap, ten bars Washing Soda, 4 lbs Salt, b pounds Canned Cioods Increases. Canned goods have risen only 18 per cent in spite of the high price of the product and of the recent jump in the price of tin. Soups have become more popular than at any previous time, and canned vegetables are looked upon as the daily brtad of winter meals. A can of beans, a can of corn, a can of tomatoes, a quart of soup and then some fruit, from a little tin can, is on nearly every grocery bill in a week. Of the canned fruit, apricots and pears seem to be the most pop ular. The price was explained by a sales man of the west. He stated that in canning produce, the factories had made special effoits to be located near the source of production. Thus the fresh commodity is taken to the can nery and without any great delay is prepared for consumption. While, lie points out, if the fr?sh fruit were shipped from the fields to the east, the waste would be enormous. Hot would set in and from 20 to 50 per cent of the stuff would be ruined. Shipped in a can, there is no loss and thru this method of economy the little tin can has become the master of the kitchen cabinet. Meats and Fisli. Meats and fish rank next, with an increase of 60 to 70 per cent. The butcher blames it on the packer, the packer blames the cattlemen and they in turn shove it off onto the grain growers. A complete cycle of blame less dealers is formed and as a result no one of them enjoys the complete condemnation of the public. The most startling increase in ex penses is not in groceries themselves, but in the household supplies. Soap, washing powder, and brooms rank in the first class of scare prices. Brooms have advanced 300 per cent in the last five years. Broom corn was $3.85 a ton and now the market price is 540. The vacuum cleaner, of the cheaper varieties has taken the place of the hardy broom. The price of laundry soap has driven many Topeka house wives to the parlor and the clothes to the laundry. The flight of toilet soap, from 3 cents to 15, has not injured the sales much. Potatoes have become outcast and should not be mentioned. WILL NOT MOVE BODY .Mrs. Tunston Tells Governor General Wanted to Be Buried In California. In response to a letter asking that the body of the late Gen. Frederick Funston be brought to Kansas and buried on Mt. Oread, on the campus or the state university at Lawrence, Governor Capper has received a letter body would not be moved from San Francisco. General and Mrs. Funston have a son buried at San Francisco' and Mrs. Funston stated in her letter to he governor that it was the general's wish that his remains lie by the side of his son. Both Governor Capper and the legislature asked that the body be brought to Kansas. KILLED IN AUTO WRECK Young Man of Pratt County Pinned Under Overturned Car. Pratt, Kan., March 19. Clint Nor by, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Nor by, wealthy farmers living near Culli son, ten miles west of this city, was almost instantly killed when the car he was driving skidded and upset, pinning young Norby beneath the car. Physicians were rushed to a nearby farm house, where the unfortunate man was first taken, but the serious ness of the injury caused friends to move him to Cullison, where he died a few hours after the accident. The mother and sister of the deceased were in California for their health and the father was ill at home when the acci dent occurred. Clint NorDy was well known in Pratt. He was a pupil of the Pratt high school. He was single. The mother and sister are on their way home for the funeral. Clianute Man Drowns in Neosha. Chanute, Kan., March 19. James Larue, aged 20, was drowned in the Neosha river, near here,v Sunday. About two years ago, Larue saved his aunt and an infant cousin Irom drown ing in this stream. EVEN CROSS, SICK CHILDREN LOVE SYRUP OF FIGS Look at tongue! If feverish, bilious, constipated, take no chances. "California Syrup of Figs" can't harm tender stomach, liver, bowels. Don't scold your fretful, peevish child. See if tongue is coated; this is a sure sign its little stomach, liver and bowels are clogged with sour waste When listless, pale, feverish, full of cold, breath bad, throat sore, doesn't eat, sleep or act naturally, has stomach-ache, indigestion, diarrhoea, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs," and in a few hours all the foul waste, the sour bile and fermenting food passes out of the bowels, and you have a well and playful child agnin. Children love this harmless "fruit lax ative," and mothers can rest easy after giving it, because it never fails "to make their little insides" clean and sweet. Keep ft handy. Mother! A little e-.v-en today saves a sick cjjild tomorrow, but get the genuine. Ask your drug gist for a 50-cent of "California Syrup of Figs," wnich has directions for ba bies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on the bottle. Re member there are counterfeits sold here, so surely look and see that yours is made by the "California Fig Syrup company." Hand back with contempt any other fig syrup. Advertise menu 'IF YOU'D KEEP YOUR BRIGHT EYES LEAVE WINE ALONE," WARNS "BEAUTY vif ',y t h fe' by i f jCtow in Miss Mae Burns. Miss Mae Burns of Chicago, model of exceptional beauty, whose face has cost advertisers more than $5,000,000. is a teetotaler. .That's to keep her eyes bright and her complexion clear, she says. She walks not less than four miles every day and eats very little candy. One more thing she does to keep her beauty: night and morning she messages the skin of her pretty face. IN TELEPHONE PROBE? t State May Investigate Anti-Pass Loop hole in Bill. Unless the supreme court holds that error was committed or question able and illegal tactics pursued, em ployes of telephone companies in Kansas may receive railway passes. The provision in the anti-pass law permitting 'phone employees to ride on passes, was removed by a confer ence committee, but found its way into the enrolled bill and was signed by Governor Capper. It was S. J. Bear who told the secret of the tele phone company's coup.' Bear is an employe of the Bell Telephone com pany. Somewhere in the provision permit ting telephone employes to ride on passes, plippedinto the anti-pass bill It was Bear who is said to have made known the fact that the telephone companies "put something over." This led to an investigation and the joker was found in the bill. State officials are now anxious to learn the extent of Bear's knowledge of the joker and the part which various persons played in "putting something over." Under the new law the railroads may give passes, in telephone employes and op portunities for political activity are multiplied. Governor Capper has stated that he will investigate the course of the bill when it passed thru the hands of the enrolling clerks and reach his desk with the joker neatly f overed. Ijnder the law, it is claimed, Bear might be n the rarnet bv state officials to tell just what he really knows of the inside move to give telephone em ployes railroad passes. ENTERTAIN ROTARIANS First Lap of Journey to Tulsa a Pleas ure lO 1UHH"1. Tnsiwnilenra. Kan.. March 19. Ex cellent entertainment by the Indepen dence Rotary ciud irom until near midnight made up the first lap of the trip to Tulsa by Rotanans from Topeka, Kansas City. Leaven worth St. Joseph and other cities to attend the district convention. Upon their arrival, ine nuianauj went to the city hall where two Ro tarians from Kansas City wece de fendants in a mock trial for breaking the bone dry law. They were sen tenced to thirty days in Coffeyville, the worst punishment Independence folks can impose. ine crowa was men taken to the plant ol tne western States Cement company where some blasts were set off for the entertain ment of the visitors. Automobiles then took the Rotarians for a drive over the city, ending at the Country club, where dinner was served. In the evening, the visitors enjoyed a ser mon by Dr. Floyd Foe. Independence Rotary member. The Kansas City and Leavenworth delegations were garbed in red, white and blue, and the To pekans wore green spats, gloves and other decorations. The Rotarians lefl late at night for the convention at Tulsa. RUSS GENERAL KILLED Opened Fire With Machine Gun on Soldiers Coming to Arrest llini. Petrograd, March 19. (via London) The renunciation of the Grand Duke Michael was signed at his private residence, whither he went with a large ,part of the duma committee headed by Prince Lvoff, Professor Milukoff and President Rodzianko. The grand duke addressed the com mittee and declared the responsibility devolving upon him found him unde cided because of the existing differ ences of opinion. He added that since the happiness of Russia was the only consideration he believed it would be best assured by his abdication, and therefore surrendered his authority One of the few men of prominence who were killed daring the revolution was General Stokelburg, who won notoriety in the Japanese war by transporting a cow to the front on a special train to supply himself and family with milk at a time when his army was starving. His house was entered by soldiers who were sent to arrest him. The general asked for j leave to retire to his private apart ment, from where he opened fire with a maphina enm VI wax latp nuor. I powered and killed. 1 REAL GOLD MONEY! Kiddies Count 43 live Dollar Gold Iieccs in Pelletler's Window. Five dollar gold pieces forty-three of them, all in plain sight. Kiddies pointed their dirty little fingers at them and with their "one, two, three" attracted half the Santa Fe office force to the north window of Pelle tier's store. It all happened just at noon. Three dirty little boys had counted the gold pieces and disagreed in their results. A recounting was in order and another, until everyone found himself following in their one, two, three." Old whiskers moved up and down to the swing of "one. two." Pretty pointed chins were moving in unison. All but the kiddies agreed that there were forty-three. One said it was forty-two and the other forty. The coins are to be awarded as prizes in the sewing contest given un der the auspices of Pelletier's store. The contest is open to every woman in Topeka with the exception of profes sional dressmakers and employes of the company. NEW MITCHELL CHURCH Cornerstone for $10,000 Methodist Kdifice I-aid With Ceremonies. Mitchell. Kan., March 19. The cor nerstone for the new $10,000 Metho dist church at Mitchell. Kan., has been laid. Three visiting ministers and the district superintendent were present at the ceremony, and each made an appropriate address. In the corner stone were placed the names of the charter members of this church, the names o all the Sunday school pupils, teachers and officers, also church of ficers, Bible, discipline and some 50 cents in money and a picture of the present minister, "VV. B. Summers. This church will make one of the nicest churches in the state for a town of 100 people, and will add to the al ready fine homes which are the best in the state for its size. Mitchell is a wideawake progressive little town. The oldest resident of the town, Simeon G. Hubbard and one of the five minutes how needless it is to suT last of the Mexican war veterans was fer from indigestion, dyspepsia or any buried tms weet.. tie attained the age of 92 lacking only a few days. Master James L. Hyman, of Chamfersburg, Pa., and his Bodyguard." PHOTO BY This Little Chap Is Never "Dosed" For Colds The Hymans Now Use the "External" Treat ment for Croup and Cold Troubles MR. PAUL S. HYMAN, of 438 E. Washington Street, Chambersburg, Pa., is the father of this fine baby boy. Sometime ago Mr. Hyman tried the South ern method of treating colds exter nally Vick's VapoRub Salve, and was so delighted with the results that he has given us permission to reprint his letter as follows: "I had a very bad cold on my chest, and coughed very hard. I rubbed Vick's VapoRub on my chest for about five or six times and the results were wonderful. Also, I have a fifteen months old baby .boy who had a very bad cold in his head. My wife simply Keep aiirH eics FARMER INNOCENT He's Not to Blame for the High Cost of Living. He Is Entitled to the Prices He Now Receives. Manhattan. Kan., March 19. The farmer is not to blame for the high cost of living. The average price re ceived for farm products for the past two or three years is no greater than the farmer has been entitled to, ac cording to L. E. Call, professor of agronomy in the Kansas State Agricul tural oniioir. increased cost of equipment and labor and the necessity for maintaining the fertility of the soil must be considered. Professor Call pointed out, and these have added greatly to the cost of agricultural pro duction. On the other hand the farmer should not be excused if he fails to stop the leaks in the farm business, in the opinion of Mr. Call. The waste brought about in burning corn stalks, straw, and other organic matter is close to criminal. There are three ways to increase the production of grain crops by increas ing the acreages of crops under culti vation, by more thorough and Inten sive cultivation, and by growing only crop varieties adapted to local condi tions. Prepare Ground Well. It would not be advisable, however, Mr. Call believes, to follow the English plan and place under the plow a larger proportion of meadow and pas ture land in Kansas. The ground now under cultivation should be prepared for spring crops in the best possible way. With reason ble assurance of high prices for corn and kafir, more than the customary amount of work can be expended profitably in preparing a seedbed for these crops. Ground that is to be listed to corn or kafir should be blank listed or disked as soon as possible this spring and if weather is favora ble and time will permit a second disking at right angles to the first would prove beneficial. After the crop is planted as much time as possible should be spent with a cultivator in the fields during the early growth of the crop. Weeds can be most easily killed at this season and an extra cul tivation at this time of the year may increase the yield greatly. "Sorghums in the average season are, with the exception of alfalfa, the most profitable crops grown on the average Kansas farm," said Mr. Call. "A good seedbed for kafir is even more important than a good seedbed for AT ONCE! STOPS. STOMACH MISERY AND INDIGESTION "Pape's Diapepsin" makes sick, sour, gassy Stomachs feel fine. Do some foods you eat hit back taste good, but work badly: ferment into acids and cause a sick, sour, gassy stomach? Now, Mr. or Mrs. Dyspeptic, jot this down: Pape's Diapepsin helps neutralize' the exces sive acids in the stomach so your food won't sour and upset you. There nev er was anything so safely quick, so certainly effective. No difference how badly your stomach is upset you usual ly get happy relief in five minutes, but what pleases you most is that it helps to regulate your stomach so you can eat your favorite foods without fear. Most remedies g-ive you relief some times they are slow, but not sure. "Pape's Diapepsin" is positive in neu tralizing the acidity, so the misery won't come back very quickly. You feet different as soon as "Pape's Diapepsin" comes in contact with the stomach distress just vanishes your stomach gets sweet, no gases, no belching, no eructations of undigested food, your head clears and you feel fine. Go now, make the best investment you ever made, by getting a large fifty-cent case of Pape's Diapepsin from any drug store. You realize stomach disorder due to acid fermen I tation. Advertisement. QlBBONg rubbed some on his nose and fore head, and the cold was loosened in no time at all. We have used a great many other remedies, but yours Is best so far." Vick's VapoRub is quicker and better than internal medicines for cold troubles and is particularly recommended for children, as it does not disturb their digestion. The heat of the body releases a soothing pine tar vapor that is in haled with each breath, and, in addition, VapoRub absorbs thru the skin, taking out the tightness and soreness. Mothers will find it a "true Bodyguard for the home". Three sizes, 25c, 50c or $1.00. mmmmmrnmmmm e Boov-Ouabp in VOUR home" "JJ Hear the Edison W GiM JtC Diamond Disc t Green Stamps $37.50 Auto Front Cabinets, March Sale Buy Linens Now A Week's Selling of Linens, Napkins, Craslies, and Towels At Prices Much Less Than They Will Be A Little Later On 50c 60 In. Heavy Mercerized Bleached Damask at 390 60c 64 in, Heavy Mercerized Bleached Damask at 48 65c 60 in. Imported Irish Merc. Bleached Damask 550 90c 68 in. Heavy Mercerized Bleached Damask 7O0 85c 64 in. Irish Union Bleached Damask 650 $1.25 70 in. Bleached All Linen Irish Damask 950 1.50 70 in. Bleached All Linen Irish Damask $1.25 1.7572 in. Bleached All Linen Irish Damask 1.45 2.2572 in. Bleached All Linen Irish Damask 2.00 2.50 72 in. Bleached All Linen Irish Damask 2.00 2.7572 in. Bleached All Linen Irish Damask 2.25 22-inch Napkins to match the last five mentioned items at Special Prices. Also many extra special values in bleached and half-bleached napkins: 18x18 to 27x27 in. sizes at 1.25 to $6.75 lcr dozen. Short lengths of bleached and cream color table linens 2V4, 2 and 3 yard lengths at Very l ow Prices. Towels At Bargain Prices 18x36 in. Hemmed Huck Towels, good weight with red or white border at, each 9c or by the dozen for. y .95c 19x37 heavy- weight Hem med Huck Towels, worth 18c each. Red border, at.. 12 He 17x33 in. Hemmed Crash Linen Towels with fancy red borders; 22c values, at, each .18c And other excellent values in Huck Towels at 25c, 35c and 59c each. EXTRA SPECIAL 20x39 in. Fine Hemstitched Huck Towels in plain white. Towels that would ordinarily sell at 25c each, special for 17c. Bath Towel Specials 19x38 In. Hemmed Bleach ed Bath Towels, good weight, special at, each 18c 22x4 4 in. Heavy weight Hemmed Bleached Bath Towels, at, each 25c 23x44 in. Heavy weight Bath Towels, at 35c If you will need bath tow els before the end of the pres ent year, you will save by buying these. Glass or Disk Towels 24x30 in. blue border, hem med ready-for-use towels, fine weave, worth 20c each, at 15c 24x30 in. red border towels, nothing nicer for glassware or dishes; each 29c values. at, 23c A CLEAR COMPLEXION Ruddy Cheeks Sparkling Byes Most Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a Well-Known Ohio Physician Dr. F. M. Edwards for 17 years treated scores of women for liver and bowel ailments. During these years he gave to his patients a prescription made of a few well-known vegetable ingredi ents mixed with olive oil, naming them Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, you will know them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-workers on the liver apd bowels, which cause a nor mal action, carrying off the waste and poisonous matter in one's system. If you have a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, head aches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out of sorts, inactive bowels, you take one of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets nightly for a time and note the pleasing results. Thousands of women as well as men take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets the successful substitute for calomel now and then Just to keep in the pink of con- dition. 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. lAdverUsemenO McDougaU Kitchen Price $29.95 Buy Towels Now -1, Towelmgs Bleach and Brown Crash 17 in. good weight bleached and unbleached Crash, special at. yard lOc 3 8 In. Bleached or Unbleached Crash, good weight, speciafat, yard 10 '2c 16 in. Unbleached All Linen Crash at, yard 15c 17 and 18 in. Bleached and Unbleached All Linen Crashes; qualities worth today 22c to 25c the yard, for 18c Similar grades in the 18 and 20 inch widths at, yard 20c Bordered Mercerized Table Cloths These are in attractive, good looking designs and qualities that will render good service. $1.39 values in the 64x64 inch size for $1.19 $1.50 values in the 64x72 inch size for .;.$1.2 $1.75 values in the 64x90 Inch size for $1.45 We will also have spread out on a table ready for your inspec tion a lot of odd Pattern Cloths in 2, 2 Vi and 3 yard sizes, hem med, hemstitched, scalloped and plain, at Specially Reduced Prices. A Word of Advice If you will take the trouble to look over your linen supply and anticipate your wants, you will save money. Prices cannot pos sibly be again as low for at least another yea'or two. OUCH! LUMBAGO? Try Musterole. See How Quickly It Relieves You just rub Musterole in briskly, and usually the pain is gone a delicious, soothing comfort comes to take its place. Musterole is a clean, white ointment, made with oil of mustard. Use it instead of mustard plaster. Will not blister. Many doctors and nurses use Muster ole and recommend it to their patients. They will'gladly tell you what relief it gives from sore throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscies, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of the chest (it often prevent pneumonia). Always dependable. Read State Journal Hants. t