The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
May 8, 1917

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XXsA9 policies In no way imply that the state is on de-fence. VTEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: Generally fair today and tomor row. Not much change In tempera ture HOME EDITION .TOPEKA, KANSAS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1917 -EIGHT PAGES THREE CENTS KANSAS FARMERS FACING SERIOUS LABOR PROBLEMS Many Precious Food Products 3Iay 'ot Be Harvested. That Is Warning Sounded by Defense Council Today. FUEL FAMINE THREATENING Transportation and Industries Have Dark Outlook. Appeals Made for More Conser vation and Economy. Kansas, which will this year produce crops for almost every tillable acre of soil, is now confronted with a labor shortage. Men in towns with former farm experience, may be enlisted in v volunteer campaign to save the crops Added to the labor crisis is a fuel shortage which threatens transp jrta-tic-ii and industrial activities. Those were alarms sounded today at a seri es, solemn faced meeting of state de fense council members in the office of Governor Cupper. Inside information right from high authority in Washington was present rd before the council by Kansans who attended important meetings and con ferences In the national capital during the last week. Conditions which today lace Kansas are confronted by the na tion, according to the men who brought news from Washington con fertnees. Appeals were made for state wide movements for conservation, economy denials of amusements, en tertainment, expensive foods and drink, modesty and simplicity in dreb and all habits of living. Face Serious Problems. Members of the council were brought face to face with "d'A.'ns yhich face the state and nation. Kan eas was told flatly and frankly that the nation is in the midst of a w.i. which demands conservation and utili zation of every resource and the serv ice of everv man, woman and child. Just now Kansas is preparing to produce crops from a record ama But there are no men to harvest the crops It is a grave and serious situa n and the league is this afternoon seeking an avenue of relief from a real crisis. During the next two weeks Kan sas will begin the cutting of a million acres of alfalfa." said Dean Jardine of the state agricultural college. Labor i- the important issue to solve f ar mers must have men to gather the c op. Kansas must have the alfalfa to feed her stock. Our meat supply depends absolutely on saving th.U Canning bees were urged by Dean Jardine in a movement to conserve the garden products. Volunteer enlist ments of men. women and children for such service were urged in the ab sence and failure of an adequate sup pW of wage labor. Loss of the garden crops. Dean Jardine declared .meant a bio w to farm interests which could not be overcome in future campaigns for added food production. l abor Is Scarce. Paul McBrlde. state labor commis sioner did not bring joy to the coun cil when he declared the state de partment had been absolutely unabU to meet demands. t this season of the year we usu ally receive 150 to 200 letters a day from persons asking for employment in the Kansas harvests," said Mc llride "This year we have received probably four or five letters Fuel conditions confronting the cities the industrial centers and the transportation companies are most serious. Statements before the coun cil told of a short coal output, in creased wages to miners In the face of their agreements for another year, and failure of operators to fill con tracts or supply demands. "Coal shortages provide a condition as critical as the shortage of labor, said Emerson Carey of Hutchinson, who attended the national council of defense meetings in Washington, in company with Chancellor r rank Strong of Kansas university, President i, i nf the State Agricul- tural college ana nemy L v. Wichita. "Unless these conomons are .A hra a Rerious situation relieved, next winter and probable suffering of hundreds of people. Many Industrial plants will be compelled to shut down unless the supply is increased." Women Do Their Bit. Kansas women will do their bit in a campaign of economy, Mrs. May Belleville Brown of Salina, told coun cil members. She urged that all Kan sas women plan the conservation of all foodstuffs, abolish expensive and extravagant menus, eliminate useless and unnecessary foods and drinks and practice economy, modesty and sim plicity in dress, entertainment and amusement. She urged a movement to reduce amusement expense thru public amusement organizations which should provide free entertainment. Henry J. Waters, president of the state agricultural college, gave Kan sas the Inside facts as he gathered them in Washington. "There Isn't a doubt but that wo are in this war all over," he said. "The outcome is still problematical. We must do more than lend some money to the Allies. We must upset much of the organization of our transpor tation companies by sending 12,000 trained men to Europe to rebuild the railroads of France and Russia. We must not only suffer many incon veniences, but many hardships. This country is short two million men to meet labor demands. Immigration has been shut off and our birth rate has been reduced. Yet conditions are better today than they will be thirty days or sixty days from now. Every state is affected and Just now Kan say is facing a demand for men to harvest her alfalfa a demand that cannot be met." President Waters urged organiza- (Continued oo Pag Two) FIRES 3 SHOTS AT KAISER BUT ALLMISS HIM Would-Be Assassin Opens Fire at Royal Motor Car. Two Bullets Hit Tonneau, Third Goes Wild. GUNMAN IS UNDER ARREST Attempt on Life While Emperor on Way to Berlin. Extreme Precautions Taken to Protect the War Lord. Rome May 8. Kaiser Wilhelm had a narrow escape from an assassin while motoring to Berlin, a Zurich dispatch to the Corriere d'ltalia as serted today. An unidentified mar. fired three shots at the kaiser's car, two of them striking the tonneau. the third going wild. He was arrested. The dispatch said the police were si lent on the incident. The greatest precautions have al ways been taken to guard tho kaiser from attack. When he is at the front, he lives in a bomb-proof house with out any insignia thereon by which hostile aviators might learn of his whereabouts. Circumstantial stories have been told of special precautions taken during his frequent automobile trips, such as an extra car made up to resemble a baggage automobile in which the kaiser actually rides, while preceding it is his gorgeous decorated automobile, with a man resembling the kaiser seated inside. The newspaper Corriere d'ltalia is the clerical organ in Rome. GIRL DECAPITATED Xegro Fiend Confesses He At tacked Her With an Axe. Death Stare Bears Photograph of Her Slayer. Memphis, May 8. L. C. Persons, negro, who late last nipht confessed to killing Antoinette Rappal, a 15-year-old school pirl and then -decapitated her body, near here several days ago, it -was said today, was en route to the penitentiary at Nashville where he will be held for safe keeping. Persons, according to a statement by Sheriff Tate, confessed that he attack ed the girl when she alighted from her bicycle near where he was work ing The first blow from his axe was a glancing one and only momentarily dazed her, according to the alleged confession, and she fought desperately until she was felled and her skull crushed by another blow. Then the negro is quoted by the sheriff as hav ing said, he beheaded his victim, and dragged the body into the underbrush where it was found two days later. On the theory advanced by some criminologists that the eyes of a per son who meets a violent death often mirror the last object viewed offi cers disinterred the body yesterday and a photograph of one of the eyes was taken. By means of a microscope, officers assert, the outline of a man's head was discovered in the photo graph. CAN PROVE' EXTORTION But Officials Hands Are Tied Without Proper Food Laws. Chicago, May 8. "The government will have no difficulty in proving the charge of price-fixing which borders on extortion," said Robert Childs, spe cial United States district attorney to day. "I believe that greater revelations have been made in the current in vestigation than any similar fight ever waged before.' he said. "What we need is the power to rei ch right out and grab every man who is guilty. It is time that our hands were untied." As indicative of what he termed the "mania for food speculation." W. F. Priebe. one of the larger produce deal ers in Chicago, said: "One man came into my office and told me he wanted to buy ten cars of poultry as a speculation. I asked him what he wanted, broilers, fowls, ducks, geese or what. He said he didn't know, anything would do; he'd de cided to take a 150,000 flier in poultry. He did not know whether he wanted old roosters, spring chickens or wood peckers." SUMMER WEATHER Time for Low Shoos and I.oud Ties, Mr. Flora Announces. Hourly temperature readings for the day reported by the 1 cal office of the United States weather bureau: 7 o'clock 44 I 11 o'clock 63 8 o'clock 4 8 12 o'clock 64 9 o'clock 52 I 1 o'clock.". .64 10 o'clock 57 I 2 o'clock 65 The mercury this afternoon reached its highest point since April 24, bein less than 7 degrees below the normal mark. The northwest wind, blowing nine miles an hour at 2 o'clock, kept ine mercury down. The weather program has been changed and now calls for sunshine and low shoes, with loud neckties and higher temperature. The predicted cloudiness has sidestepped this part of Kansas and two days of sunshine are promised. Light frosts Monday night were re ported from all over the state but no (Continued on Page Two! Craddock Defeats Eustace. Des Moines. Ia.T May 8. Earl Crad dock, heavyweight wrestling title claimant, defeated Allan M. Eustace, of Wichita, In straight falls here Mon day night- VESSELS UNDER U. S. FLAG HELP SUPPLYU-BOATS Crew Describes Operation of Three American Steamers. GoT't Holds Ships at St. Thomas for Investigation. BURIED SUPPLIES IN COAL Also Transferred Half Million in Gold From S. A. Facts Come Out After Crew Has Trouble About Wages. Washington, May 8. The govern ment is investigating the activities of the steamer Manitowoc and other ves sels of the American Trans-Atlantic company, which are said to have car ried supplies to German submarines in the Atlantic. This was disclosed at the navy department today but no details of the steps taken were given out. The American Trans-Atlantic com pany has offices in New York and Boston and its ships fly the American flag. Olhcials here will not say what had aroused their suspicions but ad mitted that the ships had been held for investigation at St. Thomas, Vir gin islands, by order of the navy de partment. Both the state and justice departments have been taking part in the investigation. 21 of Crew on Way to X. Y. San Juan, May 8. There are Ger man submarines in the Atlantic and until recently they have been supplied from the United States by ships fly ing the American flag, according to statements by members of the crew of the steamer Manitowoc, which for several weks was detained in the har bor at St. Thomas. Twenty-one of the ci ew are returning to the United States after difficulties with Captain F. Hogstead, master of the ship. The Manitowoc, Muskegon and Olaguash, all belonging to the same line, shortly before the Danish islands became the Virgin islands, IT. S. A., put into the harbor at St. Thomas bound from Buenos Aires to New York supposedly to "await orders." They were still waiting for orders when the islands were transferred to the United States. According to their manifests all three ships carried coal and other fuel sup plies. Members of trie crew oi trie Manitowoc say all the vessels were loaded with contraband for German submarines. j "When we left Now York last we were supposed to have a cargo of coal exclusively," said one of the crew. "Underneath the coal were ail sorts of fuel and food supplies. Supposed ly the cargo was destined for Buenos Aires. Between St. Thomas and -Buenos Aires, wo got rid of our car go on the high seas to German sub marines, we had no cargo when we reached Buenos Aires." Hide Chests of Gold in Coal. At Buenos Aires that ship, the Mus kegon and the Olaguash, all took on a general food cargo, oil and other fuel supplies which were covered over with several hundred tons of coal they said. On the Manitowoc, there were also placed two iron -chests filled with gold, each supposed to contain $250, 000. These, according to the men. also were hidden under the coal. While waiting in St. Thomas for or ders the Danish Islands were trans ferred to the United States and the ships were not permitted to sail. The crew of the Manitowoc tried to get some of their pay while idle in the haxbor but Captain Hogstead refused to make any payment. The men then demanded they be returned to New York and they arrived here Tuesday enroute to the United States. BILLION FOR SHIPS To Ask Fund to Build Great merchant Fleet. IT. S. to Employ All Ship Yards and Steel Mills. Washington, May S- Congress will be asked to appropriate $1,000,000,000 for the building of the great American merchant fleet which is to overcome the submarine menace. Estimates of the shipping board are that 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 tons of steel and wooden vessels will be con structed by the government during the next two years. The program evolved by the ship ping board contemplates the diversion to government uses of the products of every steel mill in the country, con cellation of existing contracts be tween those mills and private consum ers and where necessary, payment of damages by the government to the parties whose contracts are cancelled. The only manufacturers of steel to be exempted from the program will be those needed otherwise at national defense. Bills for introduction in congress have been prepared and the adminis tration hopes to get them under way so promptly that the first of the ship building operations may be in motion within two weeks. R. R. Steel Contracts Exempt. The only other exoeptio.. to the gen eral cancellations of private contracts with steel mills will be those of ra.il l roads. Steel mills, it is contemplated. will be permitted to supply them with the minimum amount of steel products with which the railroads can get along. The administration contemplates creation of a tribunal to determine the extent of private losses due to can cellation of contracts. The program contemplates the use to the maximum of every resource within the United States speedily t3 design and build the largest number of ships possible. t KANSAS HEARS THE CALL! 1 INCH OF SRouHO ylpg $4,000,000 SUNK U-Boat Destroys Greek Steamer From ew York. Down Off French Coast; Fate of Crew Unknown. Xew York. May 8. The Greek steamship Parthenon, which left New York, April 14, for Havre has been sunk by a German submarine with a loss of $4,000,000 in vessel and cargo, according to a dispatch here today by the owners. The Parthenon, a ship of 2,934 tons gross, was under charter of the Royal Belgian Lloyd. She carried Greek of ficers and crew. The cablegram did not say whether they were saved. The vessel was destroyed April 30, pre sumably off the French coast. Two Americans In Crew. London, May 8. H. K. P. Tyer of Portsmouth, Ohio, and C. H. Ed wards, of Norma, Tenn., were two Americans in the crew of the Norwe gian bark LMone sunk by gun fire of a German submarine last Wednesday, i according to announcement today, i There were no casualties- I 3 Norway Ships Sunk. j London, May 8. The Norwegian foreign office reports the Norwegian steamers Tolska, Vale and Tromp sunk by German submarines, says a Central News dispatch from Chris -tiana. Three men were lost from the Vale. The Vale, of 719 tons, was built in Christiana, in 1913; the Tromp, of 2,751 tons, built at Stockton in 1597, was last reported arriving at Gibral tar on April 6, enroute from Cardiff to Spezia. No steamer Tolska is list ed in available records. The Norwe gian steamer Tolosa of 1,833 tons, built at Frederikstad in 1915, may be the vessel alluded to. WHEAT a20 HERE Ten Cars Sold at That Figure on Board of Trade. Highest Price Ever Paid for Grain in Topeka. Cash wheat again broke all records on the Topeka board of trade this morning when the Derby Grain com pany, a Topeka firm, sold ten cars of Kansas wheat for $3.20 a bushel. I The wheat was No. 2 hard. The I price is the highest ever involved in a cash wheat deal here. The high price here on No. 1 hard was 7 cents above the Kansas City cash high on the same grade. The top mark on the latter exchange was $3.13. The low on No. 2 hard here was $3.05. Report Bulled Market. The government report out today reported the condition of the winter wheat at 70.2, and bulled the mar ket. In the report the coming crop was estimated at 366,000,000. Total acreage abandoned was placed at 12, 437.000 acres. The report was re ceived at 1:15 o'clock on the Topeka floor. Advance reports of its com ing started the bulls going earlier. May options on the Kansas City wire opened at $2.94. which was low, went as high as $3 and closed at $2.99. The high mark broke all rec ords in futures. Cash corn was in sympathy with wheat. No. 3 white here was between $1.63 to $1.64. May corn opened at $1.53, the low, and closed at $1.54, the high. t'nclo Sam Offers iVce Board, 'j Clothing, and Traveling Expenses for Healthy Young Men. The "United States navy needs thou sands of active, vigorous younc men to man its new ships. It offers the right kind of young Americans exceptional opportunity for self-advancement and patriotic service. The enlisted man has -no board bill to pay. His quarters are free, together with mattress, woolen blankets, utensils and everything he needs. His clothing is given to him, his out fit including even sweater, bathing trunks and gymnasium shoes. If he is sick he has free medical attention. The routine of life aboard ship is broken by healthful sports and inter esting entertainment. The ships cruise all the seas, and hi 3 work is relieved by visits to all the strange ports of the wcrld. Above all, he oecomes a part of the pxeat machinery of defense that stands between this country and Mts enemies. Write today for a copy of The Sail or's Book. It gives all the physical requirements, grade3 of service, rates of pay. and chances for advancement, it ic profusely illustrated with beauti ful half-tones, and even has an index so you can quickly locate any informa tion you desire. It is a book for every boy who is interested in the sea, for every father and mother, for every voter, for every citizen. Show your interest in your great country by informing yourself about the life of its defenders. This fine book IS FREE TO ALL who send a two-cent stamp for return postage. Use the coupon. Do it now. THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL INFORMATION BUREAU, FREDERIC J. RASKIN, Director Washington, D. O. Enclosed find a two cent stamp, for which you will please send me, entire ly free, The Sailor's Book. Name Street address City State OFFER T. R. ENGINEERS 3,000 Ready to Join Roosevelt Re spond to Government Call. New York, May 8. Three thousand engineers who enlisted with Colonel "toosevelt's division today offered thei services to the government as part of the first unit of Americans to go to the front in France. T. C. Desmond, who organized the engineers for Colonel Roosevelt, of fered the services of the men to Sec retary Baker after a conference with the colonel during wmcn tne latter urged him to take the shortest way to get his men to France, even tho it takes men from the volunteer division. "Our men can go into camp on a moment's notice." Desmond said. "Recruiting office for one regiment of engineers will be opened tomorrow in New York. Lieutenant Colonel C. H. McKinsley will command the First Reserve regiment, which will be re cruited. It will consist of 1,061 en listed men and 37 officers. PAPERS RAISE PRICE Chicago Dailies Will Be 2 Cents, Due to Increased Expenses. Chicago, May 8. The Chicago Her ald, morning, today announced that Monday, May 14, it would be sold on the streets at 2 cents per copy instead of 1 cent as at present. High price of paper and operating expenses is given as the reason for the increased charge. The News, afternoon, has already announced an advance to 2 cents, while other Chicago papers will raise their price before June 1, it is said. GAGS THE PRESS Lansing Adopts "Public Be D Policy on "ews. Threatens Dismissal to Anj "Who Criticise His Action. Washington, May 8. Secretary Lansing today followed up the state department gag order which forbids any other official there to give in formation to the public with a state ment that any other official who gave out information conveying a criticism of the department's policies should be dismissed. Mr. Lansing reiterated that the giving of information to the public thru the newspapers would hereafter be restricted to himself and the newly created bureau of foreign in telligence. Secretary Lansing said he had forbidden officials to talk with newspaper correspondents because he was dissatisfied with having informa tion come from many different chan nels and perhaps from contrary points of view. He intended, he said, to cen tralize all information even as to de tails, in the bureau of foreign intel ligence. Apart from what was given out by the bureau or by himself, the secretary said no information would be allowed to reach the public thru the state department. Bases Action on Fears. Secretary Lansing was pressed for an instance of where information harmful to the best interests of the country had thus been published. He said that as yet no serious cases had occurred, but he was very much afraid that they would occur shortly. Secre tary Lansing stated that the press would have to content itself with what the bureau of foreign intel ligence gives out. That bureau, he said, would handle everything in the international field, all subjects con nected with the war, in short, every thing. The bureau is manned by two offi cials. The chief of the bureau is with out newspaper experience and his as sistant has been in foreign fields. Cuba, China and Kngland for several years. The bureau has also the task of supplying American missions abroad with information. BREAD 15 CENTS NOW Chicago Bakers Prepare to Make An other Boost In Price. Chicago, May 8. The fifteen cent bread loaf has arrived. Local bakers, preparing the hungry public for the added "touch" began inserting explan atory advertisements in the papers to day. Likewise the word Is being slipped along that the six per cent loaf is to give away to the ten cent loaves- ,ust when the advance will become city-wide is a secret. Bakers, fear ing Uncle Sam may become interest ed, say they are acting individually. Threatened indictment for "price fix ing" ha? caused the Bakers' associa tion to be relegated. Reports that the master bakers forced the recent strike, during which the city was practically breadlesa for a week, in order to foist an already contemplated boost in bread prices on the public is being investigated by federal authorities. ORDER 400 TO CAMP Fort Riley, Kan., May 8. The first increment of men for the officers re serve training camp at the military post here were ordered today to report not later than Thursday. Four hun dred were summoned in the first call, notices of which were mailed out to day by Col. Tyree Rivers, post com mandant. Others will be summoned daily until the camp opens next Monday. RUSSIAN LABOR COUNCIL FAVORS AMERICAN LOAN Vote, 1,900 to 112, Shows Stand Against Separate Peace. Organize to Promote United States of Europe. SLICE WAR HJNIT TO FRANCE $100,000,000 From U. S. War Chest Delivered Today. This Is France's First Share in 5 Billion War Bonds. New York, May S. A liberty loan for the provisional government in Russia has been approved by the coun cil of workmen's and soldiers' dele gates by a vote of 1900 to 112, ac cording to a dispatch received here today from Petrograd by the Jewish dailv. Forward. The 112 who voted against the loan are of the Maximalist faction who fa vor an immediate separate peace, the message said. The dispatch adds that an "all Russian congress of trade un ions," has been called for May 20, de clared to be the first of its kind ever held in Russia; and a society for the promotion of the idea of a United States of Europe has been formed. France Shares War Loan. Washington, May 8. A loan of $100,000,000 was made today to France. 1 This is France's first share in the $5,000,000,000 war chest. Secretary McAdoo turned over a treasury war rant for the sum to French Ambassa dor Jusserand and received in return the obligation of the French govern ment for the sum. SWAT CONSUMER Rice and Salmon Poor Man's Kefuge 'ow Kiting. Report Packers and Speculators Buying. Huge Quantities. Chicago, May 8.-r-Rice an! salmon hailed as the "poor man's-- food, are kiting. When tenderloin and potatoes Jump ed out of sight, the experts told the man with the lean pocketbook to feed his family on rice and salmon. A good many did. Well, today rice has jumped to cents a pound. One month ago it was 5 cents. Salmon jumped 50 to 60 cents a dozen pound -cans and is now selling at $1.85 to $2 a dozen. A representative of the wholesalers said that special attempts had been made to keep down the prices of these staples. They were about the last to go up. Deny 60 Million round Buy. There were local denials that a big packing house had purchased larg quantities of Texas rice. A dispatch to the United Press from Orange. Tex., in the heart of the rice belt, denied there was any corner and stated that Armour Company had made only small purchases. A report from Hous ton is that Armour has purcnaseu sixty million pounds of rice. Armour Company officials today vigorously denied reports that 60, 000.000 pounds of rice had been pur chased by their Houston, Tex., office and also that a corner was being es tablished. "We have purchased a very small percentage of that amount," J. B. White, manager of the rice depart ment, said. "And there is absolutely no truth to the rumor that our offices have ceased selling rice. We are not trying to establish a corner." Reports from Texas indicated that the yield this season will be around one billion pounds. Rice now is sell ing at from 3 4 to 8 cents per pound wholesale. White said. A Chicago jobber explained that the rise in rice was due to the abnormal demand occasioned by the public turning to this staple after the prices of other foods had heen inflated. Me said that the influx of fresh vegetables shortly, however, would lower their prices and that the consumer would turn to them in preference to rice. Jobber Holds 20 Carloads. Huge government contracts for army consumption were alleged by jobbers to be responsible for the rise in salmon. It was admitted, however, that one local jobber is holding twen ty carloads of salmon as a specula tion. The "new crop" of salmon is expected to be on the market in Au gust. PRESS CLUB DINNER Farewell to Pen-Fighters at Tea Room This Evening. The Topeka Press club will enter tain local newspaper men, who have rallied to the colors before conscrip tion became effective, at a dinner at Pelletier's tea room at 6:30 o'clock this evening. There are nine "depart lug heroes" in the Topeka newspaper fraternity: E. W. Wingart. Clif J. Stratton. Don Heath. Richard 8. Blaisdell. Joe Nickel, Arthur Conklln. Charles B. Hoyt. Arch Jarrell. Sanford Jarrell. Mayor Jay E. House will be one of the speakers. Other speakers for the evening will be Prof. F. W. Blackmir of K. U-. Senator Charles S. Huffma.i of Columbus, H. J. Waters, president of the State Agricultural college and Ex-Governor K. W. Hoch of the state board of administration. Frank 1. MacLennan will preside. ALLIES STEADILY FORGE NIPPERS AB0UT6ERMANS British Closing Ring of Steel on Drocourt-Queant Line. Bullecourt, Temporary Storm Center, Being Crushed. NEWS KEPT FROM GERMANS Berlin Official Reports Don't Portray Real Situation. Activity in Macedonia Indicates Allies' Drive Under Way. (By the Associated Press.) The great human nippers which General Haig has forged around the southern end of the Drocourt-Queant switch line are steadily closing and the rolling up of this important section oi the German defenses appears to be a matter of only of a few days. The Drocourt-Queant line is the hastily im provised barrier thrown up to protect Cambrai and Douai after the more famous Hindenburg line had been smashed by the British. The1 bitter re sistance offered by the Germans to the British advance has centered In their defense of Bullecourt. two and a half miles west of Queant. Tothe south, the British have forged well beyond Queant but have been forced to mark time until Bullecourt falls. The cap ture of the village was entrusted to Australians and these hard fighting colonials have almost surrounded the German stronghold so that its surren der or fall is expected momentarily. The Drocourt-Queant line forms a broad salient in the British front eigh teen miles at its top and paralleling the Douai-Cambrai line. Drocourt la seven miles from Douai and Queant about ten miles from Cambrai. The crushing In of this salient will mean that the German grip on the great Lens coal region will be broken and the entire German line in northern France imperilled. Realize Imminent Danger. There are many signs that the Ger mans realise the menace to them in the alternate sledge hammer blows of the British and French beneath which their choicest troops are being driven from position after position. News from the western front 1m not merely suppressed in Berlin but is being doctored for the consumption of German newspa; er readers. Discrep ancies between the German and allied official versions are apparently arous ing suspicions in somo German minds and the Berlin newspapers are being bombarded with questions that their military critics find some dlfficuly In answering. There is significance also in the fact that the German emperor, in the latest of Ms congratulatory tel egrams, speaks of a "serious and de cisive time," instead of exulting over victories, real or imaginary. Apart from France, the only fight ing of significance reported from the war theatre is taking place in Ma cedonia. The reports from this front are meagre; but they indicate an In creasing activity which may presage a general offensive by the Allies. Another Deadlock Today. London, May 8. Another deadlock appeared to have been temporarilv reached today in the fighting along the Hindenburg line positions held by tho British. Field Marshal ITaig's re port omitted mention of any major fighting actions during the night and early morning, recounting a great number of raids on both sides, scat tered along a wide frontage. "The enemy artillery was active at intervals during the night at a num ber of places, particularly between Freny and Loos," the statement said. "Ours repHed. In the neighborhood of Neuve C'hapelle and Fau Quissart we made successful raids. "Northeast of Armentiers a small enemy party raided our lines yester day evening and after a hand to hand fight, were driven out, leaving a few dead. A few of our men are missing. South of Armentiers another enemy raid was repulsed-" llerc-e lighting In Bullecourt. London, May H. Germany Is mak ing herculean efforts to cement to gether the crumbling pieces of the Hindenburg line by reckless expendi ure of her troops' blood. Battle front dispatches today detailed almost con tinuous counter-attacks against both the British and French fronts at .h places where the Hindenburg uefensc have been smashed by the Haig and Nivelle offensive. On the British front the most vo- ,lent fighting centered around Bulle court. Kncircled on three sides bv Australian troops and the;r position constituting a powerful wedge driven deep into the German defense system, he village was the scene of constant hand to hand fighting. On the French front, Hurtehlse and Crannoe, held by General Neville's forces, seemed to be the particular ob jects of -the German attacks. Particu larly violent fighting was reported around Hurtebise. BIG CORPS TO FRANCE Hospital Contingent of 44 rontons First to Contain I". S. Army Men. New Tork. May An American hospital contingent of 26 surgeons. 65 women nurses and 153 enlisted men. sailed for Europe from a United States port today. It was the first corps tri go abroad with regular United Rtate army sur geons in its personnel. A surgeon of the regular army is in command. A number of the surgeons are from Lakeside hospital. Cleveland. O. ANOTHER RAIDER RUMOR Port Officials at Montevideo, Urn gun y. Keep Searchlight Bu-sy. u Montevi'leo. Uruguay, May 8. llTe mors of another German raider wrch revived here by an all night seaand light investigation of the port- vicinity. ana Pol t officials refused nn espl tion of their unusual activity.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE J0URN4LTUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1917 DON'T BELIEVE PLOT WRECKED FRENCH TRAIN "War Mission Given Shaking 1 Up, but None Hurt. Find Spread Rails; Three Coaches Ran Off the Track. TELLS OF MYSTERIOUS MAN Fanner Boy Says He Saw Him Just Before Accident. Jolting Made Hash of Fancy k Eats in Diner. With the French War Commission, (Effingham. 111., May 8. Traveling on special train, the French war com missioners resumed their tour of the middle west today, following the wreck Which shook up members of the party 'last night. The r.ew special was to leave Effingham at 9 a. m. Its sched ule was largely kept secret. Assistant Secretary of State Long, In the chill gray hours of JuBt before dawn, announced that the new train was ready. Marshal Joffre. Former Premier Viviani and the others trans ferred their belongings and the trip was resumed. Long also announced the special -would stop ten minutes at Terra Haute, an hour and a quarter at .Indianapolis and the same length of time at Columbus, Ohio. Beyond that the new schedule is unknown. Find Rails Spread. It was learned early today that in vestigation at the scene of accident 'near Areola, 111., disclosed a broken .mil about twenty feet behind the rear end of the wrecked train. This might have been broken by the two heavy .ensines pulling the train. The French special was derailed, ex- per's decided, when tars bumped off the rails and the wheels shattered the fish-plates which join the rails, thus i, Mowing them to spread. Covernment official? pi retically de cided today that the derailment was en accident The train was composed of five steel cars drawn by two en pines and was running eastward at forty miles an hour over the Pennsyl vania line. Three cars were ditched and all aboard shaken up, but none was hurt. Escape Miraculous. After the Jolt M. Hovelacque. French inspector general of public instruction. Viviani. Admiral Chocheprat, Detausan and other members of the party re garded their escape as miraculous. If the cars had been French, or wooden construction, they agreed that many might have been killed. Some mem bers of the French commission in clined to the belief that German plot ters had spread tl o rails. TSvery member of tht French com mission Dia 'calm and collected thru otit: They were sitting in the diner, when the crash came. The luxurious ly appointed ear, bedecked with red ami white-rnsev became a scene of turbulent confusion as it banged along the ties. Joffre and the others were showered with unsolicited bouquets as the vases upset. Plates of soup., ice cream, chicken and asparagus salad flew into the laps of the distinguished Frenchmen. Marshal Joffre Not Perturbed. Amid the flying food and flowers. Marshal Joffre grasped the window ledge and remained unperturbed. When the jolting, swaying car finally ram? to. a crashing stop awry on the track the marshal cf France arose, as sured himself that there has been no casualties and quietly picked his way out of the wreckage. He plodded back to his Btate room in the observa tion car. sat in stolid calm, awaiting relief from the unpleasant situation. John Redmond, veteran engineer of the Vandalia living at Areola, 111., was the hero and savior of the French party. The front car had blocked the track and if Redmond had not jammed on his emergency brakes the moment he felt the bumping, the bal ance of the train would have piled up. A farmer boy giving the name of "Weinberg came running across the fields in the darkness just after the wreck and described having seen a mysterious man leaving the scene fif teen minutes before the crash. A bridge guard nearby had not seen him, however. Train Kills Drunken Man. The tirst harbinger of ill-luck since rthe French commission left Wash ington was at Decatur, when the spe cial train killed a drunken laborer staggering across the tracks. The smash came a few minutes later. Immediately after the jolt, secret ''service men took the underailed loco motive and ran ahead to Filson. They code-messaged Washington concern ing the wreck. Champaign, 111., sent a special train. This train was coupled with the two underailed cars of the French special and hauled them back to an unnamed point. For Thoro Investigation. Philadelphia. Pa.. May 8. The ex ecutive officers of the Pennsylvania railroad announced today that a thoro investigation has been started of the wreck of the French commission's special- train near Areola. 111. Officials announced dispatches already received indicated there is every reason to be lieve the derailment was purely acci dental, but the authorities will not stop their investigation until a definite cause is assigned. ALL S. A. TO JOIN WAR Vatican Is Advised Pope to Help Sot tie Irish Problem. Rome, May 8. Pope Benedict may throw the weight of his influence in the Irish situation, according to in formation from high Vatican authori ties today. Official expression was unobtain able but it was reiterated that the holy father "emphatically endorses tha rights of small nations." This ex pression, was given significance as ap plying; to Ireland by announcement of rthe impending selection of Mgr. Cer Aettl, long student of Irish and stanerican affairs, as papal secretary of affite for extraordinary ecclesiastical Ciirs. arotreation of the new Vatican post portaged further interest today in re viseej that the Vatican had been ad of ttl by Its South American ministers "almia pending entry into the war of oat all" Latin-American nation The pope's peace message Satur day was regarded as significant in this connection. The holy father has also been In formed, it was said, that other na tions in Europe and Asia may be drawn into the conflict. FEW REGULARS GOING But SOO Officers of Reserve Will Ac company Engineers to France. Washington, May 8 About 300 offi cers of the engineers reserve corps will be selected to accompany the nine engineer regiments soon going to France. The only drafts from the regular army to aid this expedition the first to carry the flag abroad will be a colonel and adjutant of the engineer corps to head each regiment. It is assumed that the reserve offi cers will give the men basic military instruction, and that it wil not be nec essary to call upon the regular estab lishment for training purposes. The war department anticipates that the railway brotherhoods will aid In the work of getting trained railway men who shall rebuild worn out rail way lines and create new means of communication behind the battle lines. It is understood that America will soon furnish equipment for the rail ways of France. Much rolling stock and trackage is in bad condition from the strain of constant bard usage dur ing the war, while it has been nearly impossible to give the equipment the proper care to maintain it in anything like normal condition. KANSAS FARMERS (Continued from Page One) Hon of volunteer corps in towns to aid in harvesting crops. A call for hands showed that practically every man and woman in the meeting had former farm experience. War to Last Two Years. Henry Lassen, who attended the Washington meetings, declared that information which he had received indicated that the war with Germany would continue two to four years. Ho said organization plans assured Amer ican boys an equal chance with Ger mans in the war in some instances a two to one advantage. Patriotic gatherings and holiday cel ebrations were urged by Lassen in observing conscription registrations. "Let every Kansas girl take her sweetheart's arm and walk with him to the registration stands," urged Las sen. "We must teach Kansans that con scription isn't a disgrace, even tho we might personally favor volunteer plans," said Prof. F. W. Blackmar of the state university. "Conscription is no more a disgrace than taxation. And the sense of duty to the govern ment is such that no one expects the tax problem to be met voluntarily. It is a duty and the government must say what shall be done and we must do it as good citizens." Oppose Liquor Traffic. More than 180 university and col lege heads took unequivocal stands against manufacture of liquor during the war and for the prevention of spread of disease among men in the service, according to Chancellor Frank Strong's report of the Washington college conference. The public must spite of the war. he said, educational service is a service to the public as patriotic as that in other work. In spte of the war, he said, educational work must go ahead altho the big schools would probably suffer direct ly more severely than any other branch of government. Every county in the state will meet demands for funds without outside assistance, according to reports re ceived by Governor Capper. Chau tauqua county, he saicL had raised a fund of $7,000 with which to meet de mands for funds for seed and other fai m necessities. Members of the council were urged to send at least one representative to Washington to keep in touch with work of the federal trades council, the national defense council and federal departments that Kansas may be in close touch with conditions. Publicity Men Meet. Members of the publicity commit tee met this morning in the Grey room of the State Journal building under a call by Frank P. MacLennan, chairman of the committee- Flans for the state wide publicity campaign in connection with the food drive were shown well developed and al ready actively" carried out. They also told of the thousands of columns of publicity which has been given the movement by tho Kansas press. In attendance at the publicity com mittee meeting aside from the mem bers of the committee.were: H. J. Wa ters, chairman of the Kansas Defense Council; W. M. Jardine, chairman agricultural production committee, and N. A. Crawford, who has prepared the efficient agricultural college bul letins which have been given such wide publication in the newspapers. "The publicity has been splendid," said Mr. Waters. "The co-operation of the press has been fine." Following are members of the var ious committees in charge of the big Kansas food drive. Members Defense Council. Tr. H. J. Waters, president Kansas State Agricultural college, Manhattan. J. C. Mohler, secretary state board of agriculture. W. R. Stubbs. president Kansas State Livestock association. Lawrence. M. McAullffe, president Farmers' union, Salina. B. Need ham, grand master state grange. Lane. O. F. Whitney, secretary Kansas State Horticultural society. Topeka. L. H. Wulfekuhler. president Kan sas Bankers' association, Leavenworth. Ex-Senator Edwin Taylor, truck gardener and potato grower, Bdwards- ville. D. J. Fair, wheat grower. Sterling. Prof. K. W. Black mar, University of Kansas, Lawrence. Prof. W. M. Jardine, Kansas State Agricultural college, Manhattan: Prof. Edward C. Johnson, Kansas State Agricultural college, Manhat tan. Dr. W. A. Lewis, president Hays State Normal school, Hays. Mrs. Cora Wellhouse Bullard, Ton ganoxie. Mrs. Noble Prentls, Newton. Mrs. May Belleville Brown, Salina. Mr. Theodore .Saxon, Topeka. Henry Lassen, miller, Wichita. Charles F. Scott, newspaper pub lisher, lola. Frank P. MacLennan, newspaper publisher, Topeka. Emerson Carey, salt, Hutchinson. F. C. Fox, general manager Santa Fe railway, Topeka. Charles S. Gleed, railroads, Topeka. William Allen White, newspaper publisher, Emporia. A. H. Gufler; wholesale grocer, Em poria. Robert A. Gray, coal. Weir City. E. V, Lanyon, ftic, Pittsburg. O. A. Boyle, commission merchant, Wichita. W. E. Brown, oil, Augusta. J. F- Cochrane, packer. Kansas City. The officers and committees follow: Officers. President of the defense council. Dr. Henry J. Waters, president of the Kansas State Agricultural college. Secretary, J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture. Treasurer, Walter L. Payne, state treasurer. Vice presidents First district, Mrs. Cora Wellhouse Bullard, Tonganoxio; Second district. Charles F. Scott, lola; Third district. E. V. Lanlon, Pittsburg; Fourth district, William Allen White, Empori.-rt Fifth district, M. McAuliffe, Salina: Sixth district. Dr. W. A. Lewis, Hays; Seventh district, Emerson Carey, Hutchinson: Eighth district, Henry Lassen, Wichita, Committees. Emergency committee, to take food, seed and labor census of every county Governor Capper, chairman; Presi dent Henry J. Waters, ex-Governor Walter Roscoe Stubbs, Lawrence; Dr. W. A. Lewis, president of the Fort Hays normal; Henry Lassen, Wichita. Committee on Labor A. J. Johnson. Wichita, president State Federation of Labor, chairman; Paul J. McBride, state labor commissioner, Topeka; W. M. Amos. Topeka; R. J. Hopkins, Gar den City; D. J. Fair, Sterling; C. D. Resler, Erie; M. M. Sherman, Craw ford. Publicity Frank P. MacLennan, Topeka, chairman: William Allen White. Emporia: Henry J. Allen. Wichita; Charles F. Scott, lola; Chas. J. Dillon, Topeka: George C. Wheeler. Topeka: M. F. Amrine, Council Grove: C. C. Howes, Topeka. Finance Arthur Capper. Topeka, chairman: L. H. Wulfekuhler, Leaven worth; W. R. Stubbs. Lawrence: Emerson Carey. Hutchinson; Henry Lassen, Wichita Public Defense Prof. F. W. Black mar. Lawrence, chairman; Gen. Chas. I. Martin. Topeka: H. A. Mendenhall, Kansas City; Clyde Miller, Miller: J. K. Codding, Lansing; J. N. Dolley, To peka. Agricultural Production W. M. Jardine, general farming, Manhattan, chairman; Gov. W. R. Stubbs, live stock. Lawrence: D. J. Fair, grain. Sterling; B. Needham. general farm ing. Lane: Maurice McAuliffe, general farming, Salina; O. F. Whitney, fruit. Topeka: Edwin Taylor, potatoes and truck, Edwardsville; W. A. Lewis, gen eral farming. Hays: E. C. Johnson, general farming. Manhattan; Mrs. Theo. Saxon, Topeka; Mrs. Cora Well house Bullard, Tonganoxie; F. D. Co burn, Topeka; WJ. Tod. Maple Hill; J. H. Mercer. Cottonwood Falls; Clyde Miller of Miller. Mineral Resources Robert A. Gray, coal. Weir City, chairman; W. E. Brown, oil. Augusta; Emerson Carey, salt. Hutchinson; E. V. Lanyon, zinc, Pittsburg! Utilization and Economy Mrs. May BellevilleBrown. Salina, chairman; J. F. Cochrane, packer. Kansas City, Kan.; A. H. Gufler. wholesale grocer, Emporia; O. A. Boyle, commission merchant, Wichita; Dr. F. W. Black mar, Lawrence; Mrs. Noble Prentis, Topeka; Mrs. Mary P. Van Zile, Man hattan; Miss Elizabeth Sprague, Law rence; Miss Elizabeth Bye. Emporia; Miss Elizabeth Agnew, Hays; Miss Alba Bayles. Pittsburg. Manufactures J. F. Cochrane, Kansas City, Kan., chairman; E. V. Lanyon, Pittsburg; Henry Lassen, Wichita: John Seaton, Atchison; Harry Darby, Kansas City; J. D. Bow ersock, Lawrence; H. J. Helmers. Leavenworth: H. N. Strait, Kansas City; A. W. Shulthis, Independence; J. F. Haskell, Topeka. Transportation F. C. Fox, Topeka, chairman; Charles S. Gleed, Topeka; Paul Walker, Topeka; R. W. Blair, To peka; A. De Bernard!, Atchison. Sub-Committees of Committee on Ag ricultural Resources. Field Crops T. J. Fair, Sterling, chairman; W. A. Lewis, Hays; L. B. Call, Manhattan Charles W. Weeks, Hays; B. Needham, Lane; J. M. Gil man. Leavenworth. Potato and Truck Crops Edwin Taylor, Edwardsville, chairman; Scott Kelsey. Topeka; Mrs. Theo. Saxon, To peka: E. B. Mathews, Hays; Fred Mer rill. Manhattan. Seeds L. E. Call, Manhattan, chairman; Barteldes Seed company, Lawrence; Ross Brothers Seed House, Wichita; Hayes Seed House, Topeka; Mangelsdorf Brothers, Atchison; Rude Seed House, Kansas City, Mo.; G. E. Thompson, Manhattan; Harry Umber ger, Manhattan. Livestock Gov. W. R. Stubbs, Law rence, chairman: W. A. Cochel, Man hattan; W. J. Tod, Maple Hill; J. H. Mercer, Topeka; E. C. Johnson, Man hattan; L. W. Goss, Manhattan; W. H. Murphy, Topeka; F. D. Coburn, To peka: L. E. Hobbs, Manhattan; J. F. Cochrane, Kansas City, Kan.; C. G. Cochrane, Hays. Dairying O. E. Reed, Manhattan, chairman; W. R. Stubbs, Lawrence; William Newlin, Hutchinson; E. E. Potter, Sterling; Lewis Crouse, Hays; A. S. Neale, Manhattan. Fruit O. F. Whitney. Topeka, chairman; A. Dickens, Manhattan; Geo. O. Greene, Manhattan; George H. Groh, Wathena; Geo. W. Holsinger, Rosedale; E. G. Hoover, Wichita; E. E. Yaggy, Hutchingson. Insects Geo. Dean, Manhattan, chairman; S. J. Hunter, Lawrence; O. F. Whitney, Topeka; J. H. Merrill. Manhattan ;"0. E. Kelley, Wellington; Dr. Milligan, Wichita; T. H. Parks, Manhattan. Labor, Horse and Machine Power J. C. Mohler. Topeka, chairman: P. J. McBride, Topeka: C. H. Da-nner. To peka: A. A. Potter, Manhattan; W. B. Grimes. Manhattan; Wlllard Crane, Hays: O. E. Wright, Topeka. Poultry George Bueoy, Cedarvale: Ross M. Sherwood, Manhattan; G. D. McClaskey, Topeka; Thomas Owen, Topeka; Seymour Packing company, Topeka. Gardening and Canning E. C. Johnson, Manhattan, chairman; Mrs. Hattie Moore Mitchell, Pittsburg; Otis E. Hall, Manhattan; E. B. Matthews, Hays Normal: Miss Elizabeth Bye, Emporia Normal; O. F. Whitney. Topeka, WILL TAX INCOMES Revenue Bill to Raise $1,800,000,000 Has a $1000 Minimum. Washington, May 8. Incomes of all Americans earning above J 1,000 for single men and $2,000 for married men, are to do their bit towards rais ing tl, SOO. 000, 000 of taxes included :n a revenue bill to be reported tonight or tomorrow by the house ways and, means committee. Incomes of $5,000 or more are to pay a new tax of S3 per cent, it is un derstood a total tax including normal and surtaxes of from 45 to 60 per cent. Under the old tax law all incomes under $3,000 .were exempt. Single men paid 2 per cent on $3,000 or more. Married men paid 2 per cent on $4,000 or more. Under the new law, men subject to this tax who earned less than $3,000 will pay an additional 2 per cent, a total of 4 per cent. Single men earning from $1,000 to the old taxing minimum of $3,000 will pay a new tax of 2 per cent as will married men earning from $2,000 to the old taxing minimum of $4,000. TURN GUNS ON HOLLWEG FOR MARNE DEFEAT i I. s" Blame Chancellor at Home for Longr-Tinie War. Dilatory Use of U-Boats Also Laid at His Door. MANY FACTIONS AFTER HIM Growing Bolder in Demand Premier Be Retired. ew Ruction Presaged by Con stitutional Reform Board. Copenhagen, via London, May 8. The Conservatives and Pan-Germans have now brought up their heavy artillery in the battle against Chancel lor von Bethman.i-Hollwes and boldly lay the blame for the long duration of the war at his door. The conserva tive Deutsche Tages Zeitung explains that three or four days delay in Ger man mobilization at the outset of the war. due to the chancellor's hesitant policy, caused the loss of the battle of the Marne. The paper holds that the troops that were detached to stem the Russian invasion of East Prussia would have been sufficient to change the defeat of General von Kluck's army into a victory and, in that case; the war would have ended in a decisive Ger man triumph. The Tages Zeitung de clares the chancelU- threw away a second chance of terminating the war by opposing ruthltss submarine war fare. It cites Field Marshal Conrad von Hoetzendorf, Austrian commander in chief, as having said recently: War Over Long Ago If "The war would have been over long ago if the submarine campaign had begun a year earlier." The Pan-Germans and annexation ists are also comparing the chancellor to Bismarck and demanding his re tirement because he does not measure up to Germany's "Iron Man." The agitation for the downfall of von Bethmann-Hollweg is unconcealed in press and parliament and is rein forced by mass meetings for peace, organized by imperialist leagues and the independent committee. The bitterness increases as the chances grow for a reform of political conditions in Germany. The chan-' cellor's opponents couple their attacks with far from flattering remarks about she Austro-Hungarian government for its declarations in favor of moderate peace terms. To Re-district the Empire. Copenhagen. May 8. The reich-; stag committee on constitutional re form which will take up this week the question of re-districting the Cen trists, National Liberals, and radical Socialists, who carried the previous reforms over the opposition of. the conservatives, according to a Berlin dispatch will vote for a general re districting of the empire. The proposals, long among the chief demands of the liberals and rad icals are a blow at conservative in fluence, as the present districting fa vors the country sections at the ex pense of the municipalities and in dustrial regions. The great increase in population has had no correspond ing growth in representation so that one vote in some backward district outweighs 20 or even 30 in some of the big industrial centers. The committee seems to be going forward with its reform plan con sistently and earnestly, the majority standing together with a firmness which must be the despair of the con servative obstructionists and is per haps not entirely agreeable to the gov ernment. The committee's proposals in regard to officers, strike at the root of an important source of the emperor's power. At present all ap pointments in the army and navy and even the higher civil lists are in the hands of the responsible heads of the emperor's military and civil cabinets. The celebrated "blue letters" asking for the retirement of officers eman ated from the military cabinet. ENGINEERS TO FRANCE Army Orders 0 Regiments for Duty at Earliest Possible Moment. Washington, May 8. The war de partment has announced that orders had been sent out for the raising of nine regiments of engineers for duty at the earliest possible moment on the communication lines in France. These troops will be in addition to the forces contemplated in the ad ministration's army plans. Recruiting points for the regiments will be New York City, St. Louis. Chi cago, Boston. Pittsburgh, Detroit, At lanta, San Francisco and Philadelphia. The department statement follows: "The war department has sent out orders for the raising as rapidly as possible of nine additional regiments of engineers which are destined to proceed to France at the earliest pos sible moment for work in lines of communication. It is requested of the press that no speculation or rumors regarding this force be carried other than that given out. All details re garding the force will be given out as fast as compatible with the best public interests." .Not on Regular Program. It was explained that theBe engineer forces were not in any way conneeee with the army organization planned by the department and already made known. They represent an addition to the total military preparedness pro gram upon which the country is now engaged. In effect the regiments will be additional technical units of the army which the administration bill authorizes the president to organize in whatever number and on whatever plans he deems best. The strength of an engineer regi ment is approximately 2,000 men which would make a total of IS, 000 men to be assembled in the new force. As it Is specified the troops are for use on communication lines, presum ably on railways, highways and tele phone and telegraph lines, it is as sumed that the men will be drawn as far as possible from railway employes and the forces of the telegraph and telephone companies. Additional of ficers to' supplement those detailed from active list of the army or from the offiers' reserve corps probably would be sought among the engineers now engaged with work of the same character as that which the troops will be called upon to do In France. (TodaysAmusementsI GRAND -Annette Kellermann in "A Daughter of the Gods." NOVELTY Five acts vaudeville and "Pearl of the Army." ORPHEUM "The Masque of Life," filmed in Italy. IRIS Fannie Ward in a "School for Husbands." NEW GEM Kathlyn Williams in "Into the Primitive." COZY Dorothy Dalton in "Chicken Casey." CRYSTAL Motion features. BEST Matiop features. For details, prices, etc.. see adver tisement ou page 3 of the State Journal. SUMMER WEATHER Continued from Page One damage was recorded. Topeka had a light frost, too, but the gardens came out .all right. The official forecast promised gen erally fair weather today and prob ably Wednesday with not much change in temperature. The lowest mark recorded Monday night was 40 degrees. By 2 o'clock the mercury had climbed to 65. Tonight the thermometer will fall to the pass the 60 mark this afternoon. To night the thermometer will fall to the 40 mark again and will rise Wednes day to about the same point as this afternoon. The average temperature Monday was 14 degrees below normal and today, in spite of the northwest wind, the average will be within 8 degrees of the 'season's normal mark. The highest temperature on record for this date was 93, in 1895, and the lowest, 38, in 1908. WEATHER.TABLE. Furnished by the weather bureau office. Topeka. Kaa.. for tbe twenty-four hours ending at 7 a. m. Tuesday. Stations. High. Low. Prec. Wtber. Boston. Mass 4S 42 o Cloudy ltuffalo, N. Y 54 .'IS O Cloudy Calgary, Alb 72 ::2 0 Clear Chlccgo, HI 54 42 T Cloudy Cincinnati, 0 50 40 0 Fair Corpus Christl GO Denver. Colo 42 :ui .04 Cloudv Des Moines. Ia B4 38 0 Fair Dulnth, Minn 02 30 0 Clear El Paso. Tex i!2 Ft. Worth, Tex 02 48 0 Clear Galveston, Tex (lO 54 0 Clear Havre, Mont 08 32 0 Clear Jacksonville, Fla.. 78 02 .01 Rain Little Rock. Ark.. 58 44 0 Clear Los Angeles. Cal.. 02 52 0 Cloudy New Orleans. La.. 72 54 0 Clear New York, N. Y... 00 42 0 Cloudy N. Platte. Neb 58 40 0 Clear Oklahoma City 4 3 0 Clear Omaha, Neb 02 42 0 Clear Phoenix. Ariz 80 60 0 Cloudy Pittsburg, Pa 54 40 0 Cloudv Portland. Ore in 48 0 Cloudv St. Louis. Mo 04 40 0 Clear St. Paul. Minu 04 44 0 Fair Salt Lake. l;tah... 00 48 0 Fair San Francisco K4 48 0' Clear Sauit Ste. Marie... 52 .TO 0 Cloudy Seattle, Wssli no 4( o Clear Sheridan, Vyo 54 32 0 Clear Spokane. Wash 74 40 o Clear Swift, Current, Sas. j2 Tampa, Fla 82 t!8 .00 Clear Toledo. O..' 50 44 0 Clear Washington. D. C. 50 4fi .04 Ratn Winnipeg, Man 76 32 0 Clear Kansas Weather Report. Stations High. Low. Prec. W'tner Anthony 02 ::4 0 Clear Coldwater 08 32 0 Clear Concordia 58 38 o Clear Dodge City 34 0 Clear Dresden 58 28 O Clear Kmporia 58 38 0 Clear Kuceka 58 30 0 Clear' Ft. Scott 58 34 o Clear froodland 54"- 34 0 Clear Hanover 02 34 o Clear Ha.vs 00 28 u Clear Horton HO 30 0 Clear lola 58 40 0 Clear Liberal ,00 32 O Clear MePberson 58 34 0 Clear Mscksville 08 20 0 Clear Manhattan tH 34 0 Clear l'hfllipsburg 00 3H o Clear Scott City 0 30 0 Clear Sedan !2 32 0 Clear TOPEKA 58 40 O Clear I'tica 00 32 0 Clear Wichita 58 40 0. Clear Kansas City 58 40 0 Clear St. Joseph 62 40 0 Clear Stage of river at Topeka tbis morning 5.8 feet. KEPT TAB ON STRIKES Telegrams Reveal Operations of Al leged Conspirators on Trial. New York, May 8. When the trial of Captain Franz Rintelen of the Ger man navy and seven Americans charged with conspiracy to interfere with the entente allies munition traffic was resumed here today there were indications that the prosecution would close its case tomorrow. The first di rect evidence introduced to show that Henry B. Martin, a defendent, was the connecting link between two groups of alleged conspirators, one consisting of Rintelen, David Lamar, so-called "Wolf of Wall street" and other men active in labor's national peace council was put in the record yesterday. It consisted of telegrams reporting progress in strikes at munition plants, and showing the efforts of the peace council to get the organization start ed. The messages, as the addresses and signatures showed, passed mostly between Martin and Lamar, former Representative Frank Buchanan and H. Robert Fowler, and Herman Schulteis all defendants. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago Grain Market. Chicago, May 8. WHEAT Fresh rcord breakiug upward swings took place today in the wheat market. Belief that the gov ernment report this afternoon woold sug gest a relatively small crop formed the chief bullish inflnence. Trade was of Tery small proportioDs. The opening-, which ranged from the same as yesterday's fin ish to :jc higher, with May at $'2.m and Jul v at $2.20 to $2.27 was followed bv a sharo rise all around, carry inff May to $2.90 and July to $2.30. corn as weu as wneac went to a new nign record figure. Unseasonably cold weather tended to discourage sellers. After open ing unchanged to lc higher, the market scored a moderate general advance. Subsequently further gains were brought about owing to want of selling pressure. The close was nervous, lc to net advance, Oats hardened in value with other grain. Business lacked volume. Absence of support weakened provisions. A little bulge due to firmness in the hog market failed to last. Chicago Grain and Pork Market. The range of prices for grain futures on the Chicago Board of Trade as reported by Empire Commission Co., 501 New England Building. Chicago, May 8. Close Open High Low Today Yes. WHEAT May .288 299 2S 20T 28-1 July ..227- 2W 226 232H- Sept ..191- 195 190 190V- CORN Mav ..154 157 154 15- 153 July ..1444- 145 144 145 Sept ..13tt 1378 1354 137 136 OATS May 674- 6834 67 8- 67 '4 July 63- 64 6.'! 63 Kept 1H- 55 54 54- 54- FOKK v July ..38.12 3S.12 37.02 3Vp2 38.05 LARD May ..22.00 22.00 22.00 22.00 22.25 July ..22.50 22.50 22.17 22.00 22.35 RIBS July ..20.65 20.65 20.45 20.45 22.47 t Kansas City Grain Market. The range of prices of grain futures on the Kansas City Board of Trade as re ported by Empire Commission Co., 301 'ew( England Building. Kansas City, May 8. Close Open High Low Today Yes. WHEAT May ..294 300 24 2S 300 July ..227&- 233H 2204 223 2254 Sept ..1!)2 195 1U2 104 l!Ks, 104 1!W CO K.N May ..153 154 154 15114 July ..144H 14514 144 14514 14:ig Sept ..1J 134 133 134- 133 Chicago Grain and Pork Market. Chicago. May S WHEAT Close May, $2.9 July. 2.31fti 2.32 Sept., fl.94&V. CORN May, 1.5d&4; July. Li5 Sept., 1.37U. OATS May, Oo&; July, 63; Sept., o4c55c. FORK Mav, $37.05; Julv. $37 02. LAUD May, 22.00; July, $22.11; Sept., IUBS May, $20.30; July, $2C.45; Sept., $20.5720. 6u. j Kansas City Grain Market. Kansas City. May 8. WHEAT Cash wneat -k: ro tx uigner. o. J. uaro, 3.12; No. 3, $2.97ftr:Ul; No. 2, red, $2.04tt4 3.07; No. 3, $2.95 3.02. CORN Corn lc to 1: higher. No. 2, mixed. .1.53U.gi 1.54; No. 3, $1.53ftf U, No. 2. white. $1.6tel.H4; No. 3. $i.63&V; No. 2, yellow, $1.54 to No. 3, $1.53fe. OATS Market steady to e higher. No. 2, white, 71&72c; No. 2, mixed, 70V 71c- K YE Rye. $2.05&2.0C KAFIR AND MIL.O MAIZE $3.40(3.85. HAY Hay unchanged. S HO UTS $2.0o.2.17. BRAN $1.70. Wheat receipts 69 cars. Kanttas City Grain Market. Kansas City, May 8. WHEAT Close: May, 2.9; July, $2.33; Sept., $1.94. CORN May, $1.54; July, $1.45; Sept., $1.34 a. Grain Gossip. (Furnished by Empire Commission Co., 301 New England Bldg.) Minneapolis wheat stocks have decreased million bushels the paat two days. "Weather for seeding is ideal over the entire Canadian Northwest," a wire from Winnipeg said yesterday. World's shipments of oats last week were 1,444,000 btfshels all from America. Ship ments of barley from all countries were 254.000 bushels; rye, 475,000 bushels. World s shipments of corn laBt week were 1,231,000 bushels compared with 2,978.000 bushels the previous week and 3,014,000 bushels a year ago. American shipments were 807.000.000 bushels. Exports from the United States and Can ada today i.-ere 69.000 bushela of wheat 42.000 barrels of flour, 174,000T bushels of corn, 108,000 bushels of oats; wheat and flour combined, 887,000 bushels. World's shipments of wheat last week, as reported, were 7.847.000 bushels, com pared with 6,453.000 bushels the preceediug week and 14.100.000 bushels a year ago. American shipments were 5.357,000 bushels, including 891,000 bushels of wheat as flour. India shipped 570,000 bushels, Australia 860.000 bushels and Argentina 1.044,000 bushels. The United Kingdom received 4, 015,000 bushels against 3,200,000 bushels in the preceeding week. Elevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City decreased 521,783 bushels last week and now amount to 2,07U,S8l bushels corn, 229.324 bushels, decrease 36,247 bushels: oats 880.745 bushels decreased 115,095 bushels; kafir. 31,139 bushels, decrease 8. 2,705 bushels; barley, 8,657 bushels, decrease 2,765 bushels barley, 8,657 bushels, decrease 871 bushels. A year ago stocks were 5, 540,000 bushels of wheat, 5,114,202 bushels of corn, aud 511,157 bushels of oats. New Ifork Produce Market New York. May 8. BUTTER Market steady. Creamery higher than extras, 40 41c. EGGS Eggs irregular. Fresh gathered extras. 37c. CHEESE Cheese easier. Stale fresh specials. 26c. POULTRY Alive firmer; dressed firm. Kansas City Produce Market Kansas City, May 8. BUTTEK Cream pry, 40c; firsts, IHc; seconds. 37c; packing, o0c. POULTRY Poultry unchanged. EGGS Firsts, 32c. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, May' 8.-T-BUTTEK Butter and potatoes unchanged. EGGS Market lower. Firsts. 32:f3c; ordinary firsts, 30&31 at mark cases Incl u ded oOtjj 33c. POULTRY Alive higher, fowls, 23c New York Sugar JUarket. New York, May 8. SUGAR Raw sugar steady. Centrifugal, $(i.21 molasses, $5.33; refined steady; fine granulated, $7.50(8.50. New York Stock Market Wall St., New York, May 8. STOCKS The bullish outburst of the first half hour was speedily dissipated, operations falling away to exceedingly slender pro portions for the balance of the forenoon. With the exception of I". S. Steel which surrendered about half Its gain, recessions were the rule. Canadiau Pacific losing al most all Its advantage and other important rails falling under yesterday's final quo tations. It required little pressure to effect a reaction in this group, industrials and specialties offering more resistance. Bond dealings were restricted, reflecting the fur ther indifference of investors. Opening cautiously but mainly at high er levels, today's market soon gathered momentum under lead of United States Steel and active equipments and rails. Steel was again freely taken in large in dividual lots up to l.lGMi. an overnight gain of a point with almost 2 points for Bethlehem Steel new stock. Canadian Pa cific was the outstandlug feature of the railway section, gaining two points. Dela ware and Hudson sharing to the same ex tent. Shippings. Motors and a few other prominent specialties averaged one point advances and Texas company rose more than three points. Kansas City Live Stock Sales. (The following sales were made this morn ing at the Stock Yard. Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone di rect o the State Journal by Clay Robin sou Co., live stock commission mer chants.) Kansas City, May 8. CATTLE Cattle receipts 11.000 head. Market slow steady. HOGS Hog receipts 20,000 bead. Buik of sales, $15.0015.70; top, $15.75. SHEEP Sheep receipts today "3,000 head. Market slow steady. KILLING STEERS. No. Wt. Price.JNo. Wt. Price 20 !S2 910.501 23 788 $10.50 54.. 102 10.751 COWS AND HEIFERS. 8 .1030 .50( 7 1131 10.00 4 800 8.75 5 K 0.00 I 3 690 9.25! 12 1054 7-W5 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS, 790 9.50I 53 WW5 10.30 8.23 I 3 1 180 4 200 3 1S6 1 1360 1 1110 64 201 89 217 72.. 177 10.00! 1. CALVES. 13.001 7. 10.60 22. 930 2K1 00 10 50 9.00 0 50 BULLS, 9.501 4 125 8.251 5. .....1283 HOGS. 15.40 til 14 15.H0I 1 290 15.501 9.00 9.25 14.B5 11.00 Knui City Lire Stork Hvbt Kansas City. May HOGS Hoe re ceipts 17.000: market strong to 5c bigbr. Bulk. 15.10g 15.70; heavy. $15.6015.S0; packers and butchers. S15.35(S 15.75 light. tl4.75&15.45; pigs, $11.0Cg 13.75. CATTLE Cattle receiptB 11.000 including 100 southerns. Market steady. Prime fed steers, $12.0012.75; dressed beef steers, $!.75fel2.00; western steers, $9.0012.40; southern steers. $7.75gll.0O; cows, $6.50 10.50; heifers. $9.00(811. 35; atockers and feeders, $8.00 11.00 bulla, $7.5010.25; calves. $7.50& 13.25. SHEEP Sheep receipts 5.000: market steady. Lambs. $14,00417.60: yearlings, $13.00S15.50; wethers, $12.50ai4io; ewes, $11.00(14.25; itockera and feeder!, $7.U0& 15.00. Kuna City Lt.a .Stock Sales. Kansas City Stock Yards. May 8. CAT TLE Cattle receipt of 14.0o today In cluded 2,300 beau of stock cattle that passed thru yesterday, but that left a lib era, number, attu a heavy run at Chi cago weakened buyers here, resulting in a slight decline 4n some, of tbe steers, many of the steers steady, butcher, cattle and P '-sjftit' m FritieUr Uie riLwlest Watdhion f I 1jS&23U'!&Vl& I'SSl American market. 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Free Catalog. 200.000 customers lit?: "Bl everywhere. "It pays to como up where prices are down." STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Oar Own Offices at Chicago, fio. St. Joseph, So. Omaha. Denver. Sioux City, So. St. Paul. E. Buffalo. E. St. Louis. Fort Worth and El Paso. stockers and feeders strong. Thirteen thousand hogs sold 10c lower, top $15.7o, and four thousand sheep sold stroug, Ari- zona spring lambs $10. BEEF CATTLE. The best cattle here were pulp fed steers from Colorado and western Ne- braska, 18 cars of these selling at $12 to $12.25, best natives here at $11.75 to $12, short fed natives $10.50 to $11.50. light weignt cattle wituout niuen riesn frit to io. The supply of pulp cattle was -'S5 cars, about one-half as many as on recent Mon days. Few are in sight for later this week, and the supply of that kind will be very light after this week. Butcher cattle hold their strength, the search for sub stitutes for steers at thlB season always resulting in high prices for cows, heifers 1 and bulls. iood cowa sell around $10, i bulls up to $10, heifers $11.35, veal calves up to $i.i.uO. STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. Six loads of stock steers sold at $10.30 the first thing this morning, a strong price, and fancy Btoek heifers at $10.25. Few stock steers sell under $8, and stock cows commence around $7. Feeding steers sell at $9.50 to $10.50. a few fleshy steers in the last week un to $11.25. Prices are 25e to 35c higher than u week ago, with a very good demand. HOGS. A good run at Chicago today weakened the situation, and sales here were 10c lower, top $15.75, medium weights up to $15.70, best light weights $15.40, bulk of sales $15.00 to $15.70. Supplies here ore augmented by daily arrivals of shipments of hogs from western range states, Cali fornia, Arizona. New Mexico and Colorado consignments having become regular In cidents. These hogs are generally light weight, but that class is meeting a good demand from bacon makers, aud sales of hogs 150 lbs. and upwards average 10c to 25c higher- than last week. Pigs sell at $11.50 to $13.75 in most cases. SHEEP AND LAMBS. i I Choiie wooled lambs Bold up to $17.00 1 lost week, and lambs of that grade would i bring more money today. If there were any offered. Arizona and California 1 spring lambs each reached $16.50 last week. some Arizouas not quite as good here today at $16, Texas is the. big disappoint ment. sending only very small sup idles f common sheep, and few goats. One double i deck of Angora brushera. 67 lbs. averajie. sold at $i last week. Twenty thousand brusher goats would be required to fill! orders already held here. Chicaa-o Live tock Market. Chicago, Mav 8. HOGS Hog receipts 15.000: market firm 5c higher. Bulk. tl.i.4A 15.75; light, tl4.WKnl5.ti5; mixed, $l.".lfl 15.H0: heavv, $15.1.Vo 15.80 rough, $15.15j 15.35: pit's. $.75fq"13 7i. CATTLK Cattle receipts C.OOO: market steadv. Native beef cattle. $8.90fa 13.30 stockers ami feeders, $7.15'f 10.00: cows and heifers, $0.25Vi 11.25: calves, t-75fjl3.25. SHEEP Sheep, receipts. 9,000; steady. Wethers, $11.25fel3.!10: lambs, $13.75Si 17.90. TOPEKA MARKET REPORT. Topeka Llvestork Market. ("rices tarnished by Wolff Packing Co. Topeka, Kansas, May 8. CATTLE AND HOGS. MIXED AND BUTCHERS .tiri.OOSj 15.25 HEAVY 13.0W.F 15.35 LIGHT 12.O0Crtl4.H5 PIGS 7.UU&10.UW Steers Gnorl to choice $8.50 to $n vr, Fn'r to good 7.00 to tt.ST" Co-rs Goorl to choice. anntrt rr on Fair to good fi.no to 7.R0 Common to fair 4.00 to 6.50 Heifers Good to choice .sn to Fair to good 7.00 to 2r Common fi.00 to fi.ft Hulls Fleshy 7 50 to JUW M'''nm 6 25 to T.2: or! veal Calves Prime fat no to mr Medium good 700 to t M Fair 6.00 to 850 Sheen and Lambs Fat wethera on to Jinn Fat ewes 7.r.o to 00 Fat lambs 9.0O to Y- rr' Goats 4.00 to H.ott PTGS 7 noarm Shorn lambs and sheep 3c under aborr. prices. Positively cannot use sheep or lambs no leas fat. Poultry and Kkh. tFnrnished by the Totteka racfclntr Com jPtoy. corner i.atirent and Marliaos.t Topeka. Kansas. May 8. HENS 314 lbs. and over. lc: under 314 lbs.. Mc; springs, over 2 ibs.. 17c: under ISc: old roosters. 13c: st;:gy young roost ers. 13c. 1 F.GGS 29c. Eggs are retailing In Topeka 82g34c dozen. Butter from 3RrJ45c. .Topefc... flay Market. (Karnlsned by T. -A. Pk, 212-2W K. r.ib f open. Kansas, May 8. PRAIRIE HAY tlS.00. ALFALFA tlKflo BT i B$$T j i K3 I ij j r j jfgjj

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL -TQFSDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1917 3 A Up to the Minute SportingNews From Everywhere. AT A NEW ANGLE! Dopesters Ready to Change Chalk on the Big Leagues. Interseetional Clashes Begin! Tomorrow and Thursday, j BY JACK VKIOC'K. New York, May 8. With the open ing of the first inter-sectional series in the two big1 leagues, commencing May 9 and 10, the baseball bus will get his initial chance to compare the eastern and western pennant contend ers and the comparison is bound to prove interesting. With the balance of power appar ently centered in the eastern half of the National League, with the Giants, H raves, Phillies and Iodgers com peting, Mr. A. Hug looks on with in terest while he lamps the efforts of the Cubs, Cardinals and Reds agfiinst them. The Pirates seem hopelessly out of it, though many a strange thing can happen in a long season. In the American League the fast going White Sox and the Cleveland I ndians are expected to show strong against eastern rivals, and the Krowns, If thoy can get steady pitch ing, may, prove stumbling blocks in the path of the Yankee and lied Sox. The Tigers, so far a big disappoint ment, may hit their stride at any time and start breaking the hearts of ome very good pitchers. The Best Clubs. Early seastm slants at the sixteen big league entries indicate that the best all-around clubs are the White Sox and Red Sox, in the American League, and the Giants, Braves and Cardinals in the National. The Cards arf the biggest surprise of the Nation al League season, though Matthew son's Cincinnati club has shown a ten dency to hammer the ball as no Cin cinnati club liar, hammered it in years. Rut the Reds haven't the same brand of pitching that featured the drive of the Cardinals in the arly weeks of the sen son. The Giants have proven to the base ball public, and to themselves, that they are not invincible. They have found the pitching of Boston and Philadelphia hurlers a handicap to their run-making, and altho they trampled the Dodgers they did no more than had been expected of them no more than both the Braves and Phillies accomplished. Giants Are Favored. The long at-home stay of the Giants this month is decidedly in their favor. They will play con tinuously at the Polo grounds until May 30, and John .losephus McGraw has mapped out some hard work for his battlers. He hopes to pilot them into a commanding lead, and it ap pears that h will be successful un less injuries hamper his plans. Tem porary injuries to Heinie Zimmerman and Charley Herssog hit the Giants like a cyelone. They seemed lost without a'l of the regulars in the harness. This may be a good point to remember in watching New York's National leaguers. The Braves and Phillies, like the Giants, will spend the month of May on their home lots, and Stallings and his Boston crew are out for the same thing that all of the stay-at-home managers ire after right now i lead and a chance to improve it before hitting the road. Champa Conic West. In the American league the East ern clubs which look best must spend most of this month on the road. The Red Sox and Yankees are slated to invade western territory May 10, and in the west they are going to find every club entrenched and waiting for them. It will be a supreme test, at least for the Yankees, and as the west has some good southpaws to work against Bill Donovan's athletes, the outlook for the henchman of Rup pert and Huston is none too brilliant. Non-Alcoholicc The Happy "Hoppy" ITT 'I iajaaMiMiMaMlH'tiawaaaMM0 """'"""J- M iiniw.iaxgMi i iiiDj.i .t.imnMi -T- m, u, a i i r dim I- I,,- vm-....t t m -Jf aaaauWOwaai T- W. K. Smith Son COlD yj BftlSoS- L Distributor Cs p 1 itj, i" COLD ll"- gr'auc STALLINGS MARRIES WIDOW OF FORMERFIRST SACKER Philadelphia, May 8. George Stallings, manager of the Boston National league baseball team, and Mrs. Bayard Sharpe. widow of "Bud" Sharpe, former first base man of the Braves, were married Monday in Westchester. The cera mony was performed by the Rev. M. Kunkle, pastor of the First Bap tist church. Only the immediate relatives of both families were present. After the ceremony the couple left for Boston. The Boston Sox, always a steady-going club which gets good pitching, -should at least hold its own, and the western invasion will give the White Sox a wonderful chance to jump into a commanding lead. Whether or not they will take it remains to be seen. ATHLETESJO COLORS Champion Swimmer anil Dor Rnecr to Fight for Flag. Chicago, May 8. Fred S. Hart man, hero of the dog race from Win nipeg, Man., to St. Paul, Minn., last February, reported to the central de partment. U. S. A., here today as a volunteer for the army aviation corps. Competing against the picked "mushers" of the Hudson Bay district, on the verge of collapse from frost bites, wounds and loss of sleep and with one of his dogs dead, Hartman won the plaudits of the entire north country for the determination shown in fini jfhing the race over the 570 mile snow bound trail. Mike McDermott, of the Illinois Ath letic association, holder of the Nation al American Afhletic union breast stroke swimming championship for eight years, enlisted in the navy to day, while Lester White of the Hamil ton club. National A. A. U. junior swimming champion, joined the army. BIG LAKXED SHOOT IS ON. Gross, of Kansas City, High Profes sional in Preliminary. Larned, Kan., May 8. Monday was preliminary day at the twenty-eighth annual tournament of the Kansas State Sportsman's association. D. D. Gross, of Kansas City, was high pro fessional, with 97 out of 100 blue rooks. W. E. Hugg, of Larned, was high amateur, with i6 out of 100.. About seventy-five shooters were at tho traps Monday and today, when the registered, shoot begins, about 125 are expected to be in attendance. The shoot will close tomorrow. SCOREBOARD FLASHES Monday's hero: Babe Ruth. He won his sixth straight game of the season, downing Walter Johnson, 1 to 0. Johnson bravely stuck it out. with the usual help from his teammates no runs. Frank Gilhooley went to a hospital after standing on his head to catch a line drive. Hi Myers, of Brooklyn, also tried it and he is laid up. George Stallings was busy getting married and John Evers maneuvered the Braves to a victory over the Dodgers. Tom Seaton registered a victory for himself by outpitching Grimes, Pirate sensation. Benny Ka tiffs three hits stopped the Phillies. The Giants won 2 to 1. The Cardinals laid off. While they did it the Giants took first place again. Tris Speaker's catch of a drive by Crawford saved the Indians defeat at the hands of the Tigers. Here is a real treat that you will enjoy. tie or two of PABLO, cheese, crackers and some sandwiches. PABLO added to the lunch or dinner means more happy fellow hip. Its delightf ul,"hoppy" flavor adds a snap and zest that everyone enjoys. Get PABLO, ice cold, at any place that sells drinks or by the case from your grocer. You'll like PABLO. It is healthful and refreshing. Made by Pabit STANDING OP THE TEAMS. National League. Clubs Won New York ft St. Louis 12 Chicago ......W..14 Philadelphia 8 Lost Pet. 5 .632 .fiO .53.! .45S .423 .:!85 318 i.iucinuuLl 11 Boston Brooklyn Pittsburg American Lcatae. Won Clubs Lost Pot. lioston 11 i St. Louis 11 f New York 9 IChiraco 11 .733 .579

.521 .500 .375 .375 .353 Cleveland 10 Philadelphia O Detroit 6 Washington -6 American Association. Clubs Won Indianapolis 17 Louisville 13 Kansas City 9 Columbus 10 Milwaukee 8 Minneapolis 5 St. Paul 5 Toledo 5 Western Leag-ue. Clubs Won Den Moines ft Lost Pet. 773 .591 .5IS3 .500 .444 .35 .313 .291 Lost Pet. .043 I Liucolu 9 .043 .583 .538 .538 .538 .385 .188 Denver 7 Omaha 7 St. Joseph 7 Sioux City 7 .Im.liil r, Wichita 3 NATIONAL LEACIE. I It. H. E. j Philadelphia (at N. Y.) 1 4 0 New York 2 5 2 1 Lavender, Oem-Iiger and KUlifer; Tes- reau una aic arty. Brooklyn (at Boston) 0 5 1 Boston 7 9 o 1'. Smith, Dell and Miller; Rudolph and Oowily. Pittsburg (at Chi.) 1 3 1 Chicago 4 5 0 (rimes, Cooper and Fischer: Seaton and Klliott. St. Louis at Cin. cold weather. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Boston (nt Wash.) 1 4 2 Washington 0 2 0 KutU anu Thomas Johnson and Ain smith. New York (at Phil.) 9 7 1 Philadelphia 4 6 5 Mog ridge and Nunamaker Falkenberg and hang. Cleveland (at Detroit) 4 7 1 Detroit 3 6 2 llagby and O'Neill; Boland, Cunningham anil Spencer. Chicago at St. Louis rain. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. No games scheduled. WESTERN LEAGUE. Wi-hita (at Lincoln. 2 12 5 Lincoln 4 6 0 Lyons and Yaryan; East, Halla and Kohrer. Denver (at Des M.) 3 7 4 Des Moines 2 5 4 (10 Innings.) Smithson and Bartholomew; Berger and Spabr. Joplln (at S. C.) i.8 12 2 Sioux City 6 10 4 Faeth and Collins; Hopper, Bremmerhoff and Crosby. St. Joseph (at Omaha) 1 3 5 Omaha 12 13 0 (Called account of darkness.) Ilovlik, Thomas and Fusner; Carrie and Brottem. BASEBALL TODAY. National League. Brooklvn at Boston, cloudy, 3:15 p. m. Philadelphia at New York, cloudy, 3:30 p. m. St. Lonis at Pittsburg, cloudy, 2:45 p. m. No other games scheduled. American League. New York at Philadelphia, cloudy, 3:30 p. m. Cleveland at Detroit, two games, clear, 1:45 and 3:45 p. m. Chicago at St. Louis, two games, clear, first gnme. 1:30 p. in. Boston at Washington, two games, cloudy first game, 2 p. m. American Association. Indianapolis at Minneapolis, cloudy, 3 p. m. Toledo nt St. Paul, cloudy, 3 p. m. Louisville at Kansas City, cloudy, 3 p.m. Columbus at Milwaukee, cloudy, 3 p. m. Western League. Joplln at Sioux City, clear, 3:30 p. m. Denver at Des Moines, clear, 3:30 p. m. St. Joe at Omaha, clear, 3:15 p. m. Wichita at Lincoln, clear. 3:30 p. m. Leonard Scores Knock Oat. Philadelphia, Pa., May 8. Bennie Leonard, the New York lightweight, knocked out Charlie (Kid) Thomas, of Philadelphia, in the last round of their six round bout here. Leonard clearly outclassed the local boxer in every round. A cold bot- at Milwaukee Food for Fans BY GEO. K. PHAIS. (Copyright.) An Anesthetic He had not slept for seven weeks A pallor was upon his cheeks; His joints were full of pains and squeaks Aud he was almost dead. The doctor gravely stroked his chin. "I thiuk it ia a wasteful sin To shoot more dope beneath your skin, He said. "I have a strong but certain cure A deadly one at times, but sure. 'Twill make you sleep if you endure The torture long enough." "Bring on your cure," the patient cried. "Most any pain I will abide. For tossing here from side to side Is tough!" The doctor whispered In his ear; The patient felt a pang of fear. "Them words are bitter words to hear!" He sadly said and wept. But he was game, without a doubt. That very night be ambled out And went to see a wrestling bout, And slept. Lee Fohl tells us that the White Sox play too many kinds of baseball. There are only two kinds of baseball winning and losing. Connie Mark has the edge on Clarence Rowland. If he finishes better than eighth he will be given credit for a great stra tegic victory. Fine Job. Pd hate to be in Clarence Rowland s shoes. He is the goat, no matter what ensues. He will not get the credit if they win And he will get a panning If they lose. Some person once remarked that a wom an is as old as she looks and that a man is as old as he feels. A ball team, however, is as good as it plays. 9.-"" Teamwork Is as necessary In war as It is in baseball, but a great many of our congressmen prefer to make a vocal hit when the play calls for a silent bunt. WANT THE PANS TO PAY. Baseball Magnates Say They Cannot Stand a War Tax. New York, May 8. American fans probably will have to pay baseball's share of the war tax. Magnates in all leagues are bending their energies toward the enactment of a federal law which will require the payment of a stamp tax before a fan passes the gate. They claim the requirement of a tax on a club's gross receipts, as has been suggested, would ruin many clubs. Baseball, in fact, would have to go out of business in some sections. President John K. Tener of the National league, is one supporter of the fan tax plan. Garfield Defeats I. H. Team. The Garfield school baseball team defeated the Lowman Hill school by the score of 6 to 4. Batteries Corn stock and Baner; Slicker and Shatter. ADDITIONAL SPORT WELL BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES BASEMENT A GARDEN Even Thru Winter It May Continue to Grow Mushrooms, Kansas City, Mo., May 8. There will not be a corner too dark in the city or country next winter which can not contribute its bit toward increas ing the food supply of the nation, if the suggestions of A. T. Osbron, mush room grower of Olathe, KanAn adopted generally. t Impetus to the movement to grow mushrooms in basements and cellars was given recently when a mushroom club, the first in this section of the country, was organized as a part of the National Defense league at Law rence, Kan. The idea, as explained by Mr. Osbron, was received with enthu siasm by leading citizens of Lawrence. "The cost of a mushroom bed of 100 square feet, which will furnish enough mushrooms each day during the winter season for a family of three or four persons, will be about $3 to $4 for each person in clubs of ten or more," said Mr. Osbron. "Such a bed will produce mushrooms of great er food value than the vegetables which ordinarily are obtainable during the winter months. "Atmospheric conditions In the or dinary basement during the winter are ideal for the growing of mushrooms," continued Mr. Osbron. "Manure, which previously has been cured out side the city, thus deodorizing it, Is mixed with about onefourth garden soil and spread about 12 inches deep in the corner of the basement select ed for the mushroom bed. This should be done during the first part of Sep tember. Mushroom spawn, which can be secured at any seed store, is plant ed in pieces about the size of a walnut from ten to twelve inches apart each way, and an Inch or two below the surface of the bed. In about ten days after planting, the bed should be cov ered with moist ground to a depth of two inches. Within thirty or forty days, the mushrooms will begin to push thru the surface and Uien will be available for food. They can be gathered each day thru the winter and spring until about June. A bed 100 square feet should produce about a pound of mushrooms a day for 200 days. The only care which the mush room bed will need is an occasional sprinkling. The bed should be kept uiuutL uui not wet. BIGGEST ELECTRIC SIGN New Yorkers' Offer to Advertise War Loan to Broadway Accepted. Washington, May 8. Broadway is to get the biggest electric sign in the world. It will advertise, in Broad way's own brilliant way, he biggest financial effort in the world's history the liberty loan. Robert W. Wolley, director of the loan publicity, today accepted the of fer of O. J. Gude, New York, to erect and. maintain without cost to the gov ernment, this largest of all signs at Forty-second street and Broadway. It will be approximately two hundred feet long. It was announced at the treasury department today that altho no specific appeal has been made to savings banks of the nation, scores have taken the initiative and are seeking their share in the bond allotment. HEY! QUIT THAT SHOOTIN'! Army Officer Makes Closed Season on Army Balloons aa Targets. Omaha, May 8. Captain H. J. B. McElgin of the balloon corps at Fort Omaha, has issued an appeal to farm ers and others thruout this territory to refrain from shooting: at passing bal loons, j Many balloons are being: sent tip from Fort Omaha every day to train recruits in the air service, and shooting at them has been a sport altogther too i popular. Captain McElgin says. Ser-; ious action is contemplated if neces-' sary to stop the shooting-. 1 USE BOYS HERE! CoL Mitchell Would Drill the Youngsters in Garden Tactics. State Journal Writer Outlines Work for College. BY CO!, R- W. SlrTCHELIi. President Wilson, and the governors collaborating, issued a proclamation calling for volunteers to aid in more food production. The patriotic boys and girls respond ed immediately, and were enrolled by local organizations, who immediately got in communication with the labor bureaus of their respective states, who tipped it off to the farmers and gardeners, "We are now ready to fur nish you with necessary help any time needed," but these agencies were in formed, that at this time, "this en thusiastic army of food producers I could not be used." This initiatory step was wise, essen tial'&nd patriotic in every detail up to date, but not finished. Why call upon the farmers and gardeners to use this army of food producers, when the means are at hand to utilize them ourselves? What are our agricultural colleges Wbr? The writer, who has teen a stu dent along these lines for ever twenty years, believes that her students, espe cially her graduates, should be capable of taking a company of these volunteer food producers and drill them in gar den taotics, along the lines of platting, selecting seeds, planting, tilling a plot of ground by each volunteer, direct in cultivating and marketing the prod ucts from ten acres of ground in and arottnd Topeka, Kansas. Soil Rich Here. An editorial of the Topeka State Journal stated: "Topeka is surrounded by garden land which can not be ex celled in the world." This statement is correct, verified by soil experts. This is sufficient reason why state school gardens, under proper organization and discipline should be maintained wherever environments exist. The seniors and graduates of our agricultural college should be as pro ficient along these lines drilling the garden volunteers as the West Point er is to drill volunteers for military service. If not, why not? The agricultural college or city that puts this plan into operation at this timei and gets results, will be placed on history's brightest page. The real food producer smiles when he 1 reads the suggestion from the paper farmer. The foregoing procedure will raise the standard of our agricultural colleges, and at the same time convince those, who are antagonistic to some of her instructions, that she is doing "worth while work," and when future appro priations are asked for, they can point with pride to the grand work accom plished in times of peril, and get what they want These students are available. The method and plan were fully discussed by the writer in the Topeka Daily State Journal, April 23. TERMS TO SETTLE WAR Roosevelt Says Turk Must lieavG Eu r;. rope; Ireland Must Be Freed. New York, May 8. Theodore Roosevelt in an article headed "Put the Flag on -the Firing Line" in the June Metropolitan Magazine, publish ed today, outlines what our peace terms should be. In part he says: "The Prussianized Germany of the Hohenzollerns has shown itself even more the enemy of freedom and hu manity and justice and international right than was Napoleon's France. Let us strive for the peace of justice and of international right. Did they but know it, the German people them selves would benefit by our victory -and especially the people of South Germany and of Austria, who would be free from the tyranny of Prussia and would be guaranteed in all their rights surely more than an offset for not being allowed to wrong others. Belgium and France must have all that has been taken from them re stored. "The Turk must leave Europe a democratic Russia at Constantinople will threaten no one. Armenia should be freed and autonomous- Austria is not a country but a knot of national ities, of which two tyrannize over the others. Let the Hungarians keep Magyar Hungary, and the Austrian German Austria. Let the Italians have the Trentino and Trieste. Let there be a great Servia, a great Bohemia, a great Roumania Poland should once more be a nation, which should in clude all the Polish lands, and have an outlet on the Baltic through old Polish Prussia, old West Prussia. East Prussia, which is German, would be unavoidably separated from the other German lands; but it could be kept united with them politically; and also commercially by arrangements for through railway traffic such as we have with Canada as regards our in ternational railroads The Germans would keep Germany, would lose nothing exceot the richt to oonress I others, would suffer no injustice. Ire j land should have Home Rule. Seek justice for everyone; the Dane of North Schleswig; the Finn, the Uniate, the Caucasian in Russia. Endeavor to secure a guarantee of real religious freedom and fair play, for Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Jew alike.' In his magazine article the Colonel describes his proposed expeditionary force to France and points out the im portant duties of the "private citizen" with America at war. If the Tennessee state legislature adopts a proposed men sure it will be a criminal offense for detective a;rencieg or indi viduals to eavesdrop or use a dictagraph in spying on trmle tin ions. m PLATTSBURG WTTH THE OVAL BUTTON-HOLE 60 EACH 6 FOR 0O Men's Appwd ell Kansas Ave. Wion (pilars OteT MAND m AlKMCjT iih SOLD. BT Where Will I Be Tomorrow Each year makes the chances for being accepted by the insurance companies more difficult; life is uncertain; we are here to day, where, or in what condition may we be in tomorrow? The man is a good wise father who provides for the future of his loved ones. Capital and Surplus $250,000.00 F. C. KATHS, President EARL AKERS, Cashier You can save money on Furniture and Household Goods at this Popular Store Special Prices this week on Refrigerators, Oil Stoves, Beds, Dressers, etc. We will buy your Second you new for it. North Topeka New and Second-hand Furniture, Phone 1763 602, Follow trie Crowd to the J. K. JONES PAINT CO. For the Best WALL PAPER To and from Kansas City and Chicago Leave Topeka 4.45 am 6 00 am 7.40 am 1.15 pra S.05 pin 6.00 pm 8 00 pm 8.40 pm Arrive Arrive Kansas City Chicago 7 fin mm DM 7.00 am 7.60 am 9.45 am 3.30 pm 5.05 pm 7.00 pm S.55 pm 9.00 pm f.zo am 7.43 am 7.25 am 9.15 am 11.15 am H15 am Let l a Help You Plan Through Sleepers 8ICBCES. Phone Do You Know that there are houses 2 now that are nearly as 3 good as new, yet they are second hand, that can be sold for far less than we or any one else can replace them. 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A flaperfemtarc absolutely dif ferent from anything ever pro M VIOU17 onoarn 11 Rhow 1:30 and S; 7 mod Matinee and Kvealng l&e it a Arrive Topeka 11.25 pm 11.50 pm 11.0- am 10.50 am 12.55 pm 6.40 pm 10.13 am mm 1 1 j l j Try Journal Want Ads. i THE KANSAS RESERVE STATE BANK TOPEKA KANSAS Provide yourself with a bank account to pay premiums with and saving will commence soon to be a HABIT! Headquarters Johnston's (Milwaukee) Delicious Candies 25c to $2.00 SJ-1" 607 Kansas Ave. Phone 4 1 JtV 1 d IllllUIIIjl Ererenth and Qutncy EE LAST TIMES TODAT 1 Fannie Ward 1 "The School for Huibands" Ala ISth plaod of the aerial "Ptria" 10c o Matlneea I: IB, 11:45 Mht. 7:13, 6:45, 10:15 snillllllll!lllllllll!llllillll!lllllll!ll!lillis r iocCOZYIOc j t jnnrrr iirnn-um management) "A DIME ANY TIMK" TODAY ANT) TON If If T Triangle-Kay Bee DOROTHY DALTON "CHICKEN CASEY" Also Roaring, Rollicking. Rip-snorting Comedy "THK CiKAB RAO BRIDE MCHICf Certainly I Mighty good, too! 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4 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1917 An Independent Newspaper. BY FRANK P. MAC LENNA.N. Entered aa aecoud-olass mall matter. VOLUME XXXIX .No. 110 OFFICIAL. STATE PAPER OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF TOPEKA Subaerlption Kstea By mail In advance, one year Hy mail iu ailvnnce. ail montha... 2.40 Hy mall In advance, three montha.. 1.2tJ liy mail iu advance, one month 50 Uataa by Carrier One week KM Two weeks for a quarter cents Four wee! a....'. .50 centa Telephone SMO Eastern Offices: Patil Block, '.fpreaeota. five, -'30 Fifth avenue. New York: Mailers liiilldlng, Chicago: '-'111 Devonshire street. Boston; Kresge bnlldlng. Detroit. Member: Associated Press. Aro;"n Newspaper Publishers- Association. Audit Bureau of Circulation. The very best way to assure the largest acreage, the moat careful har vesting and prompt marketing ot farm products la to devise ways and means to get a good share of the high prices of the producer, says W. E. Blackburn of the Herington Sun. Of the present high prices for wheat the western farmer probably averaged $1.25 per bushel, the rest of the advance- going to the middlemen and speculators. The proportion probably holds true in other grains. In cattle and hogs he secured a share of the higher prices but because of the scarcity and high price of feeds, his net return was proportionally less. Ko farmer could continue in business on prices of past years and hire his work done. He has a large invest ment, and yet works for wages that mean a bare living; where the de pletion of field fertility is taken into account it will be found that many farmers lose money every year at 1915 and 1916 prices and yields. It may take some time to select, quip and drill an army of 500,000 men, but it ia not unlikely that the task will be accomplished before any roads arebuilt in Kansas under the new highway law. The enlisted man not only will re ceive $30 a month while fighting for his country, but he will escape the terrors of the h. c. 1. Practical mobilization of the steel Industry, on a war footing, has been accomplished thru the putting In working trim of measures of com plete co-operation between the manu facturers and the government. Ma chinery for the purchase and distribu tion of the essential supplies now has been fully provided and is running smoothly. Enlarged facilities are be ing established or recruited rapidly under federal direction, says the Iron Trade Review, for working up raw mafefial Into heavy ordnances, shells and other instrumentalities of battle on a new scale of magnitude for this country. Historic conferences at Washington among representatives of tho great allied powers will determine the question how far manufacturers will be called upon to furnish prefer red deliveries of finished munitions, of munition steel and or other products, to England and France especially. The rush to buy the bonds of the "Liberty Loan" is greater even than the rush to enlist. The war is giving the small Ameri can nations an opportunity to get into the limelight. Haiti Is about to follow the lead of Cuba and declare war on Germany. Probably weehall hear of fewer revolutions In these countries while the minds -of their citizens are occupied with a foreign war. Thg success of the government bond Issue appears assured. There is evi dence that it will be largely over sub scribed. The ease with which the business Is being managed is attributed largely to the Federal Reserve sys tem. All this will be productive of encouragement and confidence. The proceeds of the loan will be spent, largely in this country. We may as well make up our minds to a continu ation of high prices. It is reported that fully one half of the applicants for enlistment are re jected on account of health impair ments and physical defects. When the number of those who themselves recognize their unfitness and do not attempt to enlist is taken into account, a formidable total of weaklings is in dicated. A year ago 128.E17 national! puardsmen were called to the southern border. They had already been medi cally selected under tho army regula tions by tho militia surgeons when they enlisted, but a re-examination by the regular army doctors resulted in sending home 23,721, or 18 per cent of them. Children must be better born and more cerefully reared or we shall soon develop into a nation of in valids. Bone dry laws in the South-are re ported to be putting the moonshiners out of business. But it is too early to reach a final conclusion on the subject. Whisky has as many lives as a cat. EVKItYBODY'S IKIN' IT. "Germany, Britain, France in fact, aU the belligerents have long- since adopted whole wheat flour from which to make bread. .They no longer discard the 28 per cent, of the product which it Is de clared Is usually wasted in the process uf. milling. A large part of this 28 per cent, has a food value hitherto disregarded. Whole wheat flour makes a bread which is far healthier and more sus taining than ordinary white bread and it is freely declared that people would be in far fitter condition "did they banish the white loaf from their tables entirely. To the average American, however, such action. If forced, would be con sidered a hardship. We like anaemic .bread and the housewife prides herself on the whiteness of the bread she serves to her family or guests. It is said, tho, that persons who have once tried out whole wheat bread never go back to the bleached article. Dr. Wiley, the famous pure food ex pert, advises everybody to eat whole wheat bread and urges all women to demand whole wheat flour or bread from their stores. Estimates of the saving .effected in the consumption of wheat should we adopt whole wheat flour instead of white flour are ninety million bushels. Consider that fact and what it means at this time. It means, says the Buf falo News, that the use ot whole wheat becomes a war, as well as a hygienic and economic, measure. BONDS FOB EVERYBODY. A unique partial payment plan which will put the war bonds within the reach of every wage earner Is of fered to employers by the Guaranty Trust company of New York. To assist in securing the widest possible distri bution of the Liberty Loan, this com pany has set aside a large fund -to enable the bonds to be carried by the employers for the individual subscrib ers. The trust company's plan en ables every earner, no matter how small his income, to buy these bonds and to pay for them a little at a time. A letter, which the trust company has sent to 31,000 banks thruout the United States with an outline of this plan, points out that, in soliciting subscriptions to the Liberty Loan, every effort should be made to avoid transferring bank balances from one locality to another, and that the trust company is therefore using its plan only in New York City. It further pointa out that, should any bank In the United States care to employ this method in connection with its efforts to increase subscriptions in its own locality, it is free to do so, and will be furnished all necessary information. In New York City, copies of the plan are being sent to employers especial ly. The plan provides that the em ployer subscribe for the bonds In be half of his employes. He secures a bank loan sufficient to pay for the bonds subscribed for by his employes. The subscriptions are made thru the bank which lends the money, the bank retaining the bonds as collateral, and crediting the prrchaser with interest on the bonds. The employes pay a small amount each week on their subscriptions. These sums are deposited with the bank making the loan, and are credit ed against the total subscription. As- fast as payments are completed, the bonds are delivered. A printed schedule of payments for those receiving weekly wages or in come varying from $10 up is enclosed. On the reverse side of this card, the employe is urged to take. advantage of this opportunity to show his patriot ism. The plan makes it as convenient as possible for earners to save and subscribe. TWO VIEWS OF IT. The Federal Trade commission which has been investigating the coal situation announces that there is suf ficient to supply all demands and "no apparent reason why there should be an advance J.n prices, unless the pub lic gets into a panic and by buying ahead, gives speculators a chance to boost the marcet. But the Black Diamond, the organ of the coal trade, says: The concrete facts of the situation are these: Based on last year's con sumption, the nation has enough coal east of the Rocky mountains to last it upwards of 3,000 years. Mines have been sunk into this coal area and developed to a productive capacity now vastly in excess of 700,000,000 tons of bituminous coal a year. The indicated demand for bituminous coal in 1917 is about 550,000,000 tons. Ap parently the mines have, therefore, a productive capacity of far more than 150,000,000 tons per year in excess of what the people are going to need. The apparent necessity is to get miners to work the developed mines and cars to carry away the produced coal. The question of the moment is whether either miners or cars or both can be supplied. To indicate, estimates are that in the last fifteen months Illinois and In diana have lost from fifteen to twenty per cent of their miners to other in dustries. Ohio and eastern Kentucky have lost from twenty-five to thirty per cent. According to reports, Penn sylvania and West Virginia, outside the anthracite field, have lost thirty to thirty-five per cent. The reason for the loss is that wage and earning ca pacity of the miners is not so great in the coal mines as in other industries. The operators have not been able to work them steadily because the mines have been closed down for lack of cars. The miners, therefore having the op portunity to earn more per week or per month in other industries than in coal have gone there instead of re maining In the mines. If in addition to this loss the miners decide to Join the army, the situation in the coal mines is going to be well nigh impossible. "Keep the cars moving, and settle differences of opinion afterwards," is the order that has gone out to the railroads thraouB the country. Coal and iron are to: be given preference over all other traffic. Both orders are due to the ws Dorothy Dix Says BY DOROTHY DIX, World' HichMt Paid Woman WriUr Which Do You Prefer Boy or Girl? Here is a strange thing: When the stork begins to hover over a house hold, in nine, cases out. of ten, the beneficent bird is besought to bring to it a boy baby. And when the man child is born great is the rejoicing and fervent the congratulations tendered the happy parents, while, when the doctor says, "It's a girl," all the welcome th.t the little stranger receives is a perfunc tory oh-well-lets-try-to-be-thankful-for-whal-we-have-got sort of greeting into this vale of tears. That is why blue is the color for a girl baby and riotous pink the color for a boy. Strangely enough, however, when people decide to adopt a child and are free to pick out the kind they prefer, instead of taking a chance on the whim of the stork in the matter of sex, they almost always choose a girl baby. The managers of orphan asy lums and children's homes say that they are simply swamped with appli cations for golden haired little girls, but that nobody wants a little boy, no matter how fair his hair or how blue his eyes. Whatever they may be in the family circle, boy babies are a drug in the market in public institu tions. Of course, several explanations may be offered for this contradictory va gary of the human fancy. One is that girls are a preferred risk in child rearing. They are more liable to turn out right than boys are. Nat ural vanity makes us believe that our own son would be bound to be a par agon of virtue. He couldn't help be ing remarkable vith such parents, but we are filled with dark misgiv ings about assuming responsibility for a boy of whose heredity we know lit-, tie or nothing. Another reason why people prefer to adopt girl babies is because girls are quieter than boys. Nothing but the grace of God gives us the strength and endurance to stand the dirt and noise and racket of our own small boy, and there are few souls intrepid enough to- voluntarily bring pande monium on their peaceful households by injecting into them a boy at the drum and whistle and cat-call stage of evolution. But the chief reason that girl ba bies are adopted oftener than boy ba bies is because women do the adopt ing. It is the wife, and not the hus band, whose empty arms cry out for something little and warm and soft to fill them, and what the childless woman wants is something she can tie ribbons on, end curl, and perfume, and fuss over, and fix up. Every woman's fingers just natural ly itch to sew on little garments, and to embroider, and make lacey do-dab3 for a human doll that she can amuse herself dressing and undressing. iShe can't do this with a boy, there, she chooses a little fairy for her home. So the girl baby is Queen of the Orphanage Nursery, even if she does have to take a back seat in private iife. If parents were actuated by an altruistic desire for the welfare of their offspring, it is easy to see why ihey should want all of their children to be boys instead of girls, for life is certainly easier on men than it is on women. There is nothing that a wom an has to do between the cradle and the grave that it isn't harder for her to do. Just simply because she is a woman. Her-sex is a handicap to her at every step, and unlucky, indeed, are the poor creatures who have woman hood wished upon them. Of course, it can't be helped. Wom en there are, and women there are bound to be, whether we lik' it or not, and so it is cheering for those of us who belong 10 the feminine persuasion to learn that the girl baby has come into her own. As a matter of fact, there has never been any reason who boys should have been preferred to girls, for, as a rule, daughters are far more devoted to their parents, far more loyal, and more r,f a comfort than boys ace. It is the daughters who remember the old folks rt home long after the sons have for gotten them. It is a common and a shameful thing to meet a man who has got out into the world to make his fortune, and who has been so succecsful that he has let his own interest crowd out of his mind every thought of his father and mother. Such a man will often tell you that he has not been back home in twenty or thirty years. He does not even write to his mother ex cept semi-occasionally, and then it is a cold, colorless, dictated missive that tells her nothing except that he is still alive. A daughter never goes so far but what somehow she can scrape u p the money to go lack home now and then. She is nevor so successful that the does not find time to write to those bhe has left behind the story of her struggles and triumphs, the warm hu- j man things that the old parents, who live only in their children, yearn to know. A man takes his whole heart with him when he leaves home. A woman leaves part of hers behind her. One of the theories of why boy babies were more desirable than girl babies was that sons could take cara of the parents in time of need, while girls couldn't. If that were ver true in the past, it Is not so in the present. When there are sons and daughters in a family where there are dependent parents, you will find the daughters taking care of the old people far often er than the sons. It is the girls in poor families who bring home their pay envelopes and turn them over to their mother. Never the sons. It is the girls who spend their earnings making a comfortable home for the family while the boys spend theirs on having a good time. And when the home is broken up, it Mary that mother goes to live with instead of John. Indeed, so almost invariably is this the case that when you find a man supporting old people you will nearly always find that they are his wife's father and mother in stead of his own. A man will let a mean and jealous and high tempered wife separate him from his family, altho he knows that his wife la in. the wrong and that it breaks his parents' hearts not to see him and hear him. But, to save him self a few disagreeable scenes at home, he will forsake even the moth er who bore him. and who has adored him, and sacrificed herself for him ever since he was born. This is a piece of cruel and coward ly disloyalty of which few women are ever guilty. No human being can 1 alienate a daughter's heart from her J parents, from that first love that J cherished and protected her, and that j she knows .will go down unchanged I to the grave with her. She may wor ishlp her -husband, she may be the I slave of his opinion in every other j respect, but she will not 'give up her own people at his bidding or because he does not happen to fancy them. "My son's my son until he gets him a wife, but my daughter is my daughter all of her life," says the old proverb, and it is true. If you have your son after he marries, you owe eternal gratitude to his wife. But your daugh ter is nature's own benefaction to you. Parents formerly wanted a son be cause they hoped to glory in his achievements. Daughters are even the one best bet in that line now, since quite as many girls have successful careers nowadays as boys, and there is always the chance that if Mary doesn't do something to bring her in the spotlight herself, she may marry a man who has the center, of the stage. AU of which simply goes to show that the poor little girl baby is en titled to hold up her head, and that parents need no longer regard her as merely a consolation prize. (Copyrighted, 1917. by The Wheeler Syndi cate, Joe.) raAVELETTIE BY MKHAH KAXDY. The old-time capital of Ceylon is a city rich with the usual picturesque ness of the East, and having two or three unusual points about it as well. In Kandy you will find the Kodaya caste, one of the few Buddhist castes whose origin is a matter of history. Kandy too contains the most sacred object in the Orient, no less a relic than a tooth of Buddha. These two features are Kandy's principal claims to fame and-interest. It is written that the Rodaya had their origin in the sentence pro nounced by an old-time king, who charged that they served his table with the flesh of pigs instead of the flesh of deer. For this crime he made them the lowest of all castes, and their lot has not been a happy one. There are perhaps 500 of them left today; they may be seen tily around the outskirts of Kandy. They are- not al lowed to live in houses, but inhabit miserable lean-tos. They have no recourse to native courts of Justice, altho under the English law they are not discriminated against. They may not use a bridge, but have to swim all streams. They must kneel when addressing the higher castes. Wrhen the shadow of one of them falls upon food, the food cannot be eaten. Generations of this organized out castery have naturally enough driven the Rodaya into all manner, of object ionable habits. They are not nice about their bill of fare, nor over-particular about the ten commandments. The men are an unlovely crew, but the women, strangely enough, are among the comeliest in Ceylon. Men and women, they are incurable wan derers and vagabonds. The Rodaya are a pretty clear case of people who have been made what they are by persecution. There is something ironical in their worship outside the great temple they are not admitted within fc?r it stands for the system that cast them down. The temple shields what is believed to be a tooth of the Buddha himself. The fact that the tooth in question is two inches long and an inch in diameter casts a certain amount of doubt upon the authenticity of this belief. DINNER STORIES Two Irishmen, long enemies, met one day. Said one: "What's the sinse of two intilligint min goin' along:, year after year, like a couple of wildcats spittin' at each other? Here we live in the same tini mint, and 'tis a burnin' shame that we do be actin like a couple of boobies. Come along wid yer and shake hands, and we'll make up and be friends." Which they did, and went to an ad jacent saloon to cement the friendship with a glass of grog. Both stood at the bar in silence. One looked at the other and said: "What are you thinkin' about?" "Oi'm thinkin' the same thing that you are." "Oh, so ye're startin.' again, are ye?" The sympathetic visitor to the jail rw that one of the orisoners had a rat in his possession. "Ah, you have a rat, I rce," he said blandly. "Yes, sir," said the prisoner. "i feeds him every day. I think more of that rat than any other living creature. ,fc That reply pleased the visitor im mensely. "In every man," he said, "there is something of the r.ngel left if one can only find it. How came you to take such a fancy to tne rat 'Cos he bit the jailer." LOBE SKHHiTS Personally, we can eat without music. There are more reputations than characters. There is a little mooching done by every family. Some men don't get any worse and no better. t It is easy to run a newspaper after one's back1 has become calloused. Being agreeable so often means letting other people have their way about it. When a woman thinks a man is abused, that settles it: She's crazy over him. You may have observed that a good deal of the inside information finally gets outside. Life is so short that the most sur prising thing in the world is that some people want to kill time. Taking the world into consideration, the Bray family is much larger than the Smith, Jones or Brown family. What has become of the old-fashioned man who came down town after supper to get a bucket of beer? If you are going to be a braggart, brag on your home town. That's the only kind of bragging that is decent. X Several Atchison girls are. now wearing flag stickers, on. thatts bare chests, and no doubt would become very indignant should any patriotic men kiss those flags. Council of National Defense By. JFrederle i. Hankln, Director THE TOPKKA STATE JOURNAL INFORMATION BUREAU Washington, I. C. Washington, D. C?.. May 8. The offices of the Council for National De fense here in Washington are the real heart and brain of America preparing for war. Great things are going for ward in the war and navy depart ments, and almost every government bureau is contributing some of its energy and knowledge to the cause; but these are government agencies that function as a matter of course. The Council for National Defense Is the creation of the hour, and In a real sense it is an expression of the country's patriotic consciousness; for many of the men and organizations that make it were already enlisted in the cause of preparedness before the council was created. So Howard E. Coffin was chairman of the Industrial preparedness committee when he was called to his present work; Dr. Martin already had organized the committee of American physicians'. The council is largely a co-ordination of those ef forts to organize the nation for war which h ive sprung up spontaneously all over tiie country. Industrial Preparedness. Industrial preparedness against war appeals strongly to the American im agination. Military service has lost its glamour for a people who have watched three years of useless butch ery in Europe; they are ready to fight, but they have no illusions about fight ing: the war fervor of 1898 is not in evidence. But a co-ordination of the powers and resources of the nation so that it may be prepared to act as a unit, a gathering of the national powers for a national blow, is a pro ject of which both the magnitude and the permanent value are-apparent to every American. That is why the Council of. National Defense has grown from a committee appointed by the president to an organization with an office force of over a hundred, and field activities that are spreading like a strawberry vine in May. The Council of National Defense, strictly so-called, is merely the bu reaucratic figurehead 6f this organiza tion. "It consists of six cabinet offi cers, who still have all of their usual duties. Accordingly an advisory com mission has been appointed to assist them, and this advisory commission is the lobe of the national brain which is really thinking out the war prob lem. Its personnel is the best possible proof that the country is in earnest about organizing its industrial forces, for this movement has drawn to its aid the veiy best type of men in the United States the type that has al ways heretofore devoted itself ex clusively to business and left politics alone, to the great detriment of poli ties. Daniel Willard, Howard E. Cof fin, Hollis Godfrey, Julius Itosenwald, B-jrnard M. Barueh, Samuel Gompers and Franklin H. Martin are men who have already made their reputations or fortunes or both. W. S. Gifford, the director and Grosvenor B. Clark son, the secretary of the organization arenlso men who have not been iden tified with politics. A Big Deal for Good. These men have little to gain in their present work except the satis faction of putting thru a big deal for the good of the country. They are as different from the average "commis siop appointed by the president," with its lame ducks and pompous pro nouncements, as a modern fire engine is different from the village bucket brigade. Altho these gentlemen serve without pay, they also serve without stint. Everyone of them is in his of fice in the Munsey building directing his share of the work. The Council for National Defense is American business, science and labor preparing America to play a power's part in the world. But it is more than that. It is the basis of the organization that will di rect America in the field of battle. This commission as it stands has none but advisory powers. It can suggest to the president and the cabinet what to do, and it can collect ii 'ormation. At present that is -a.11. Moreover, that is the trouble. All the inertia of our unwieldly congress must be overcome, all the political and bureaucratic red tape of the departments unwound be fore any of the measures recommend ed by the advisory commission can be put into effect. But in this advisory commission the war executive power which we must have if we are to fight is already or ganized, and constantly perfecting its organization. It is generally accepted that the administration had Lloyd George's council of business man in mind when it formed this advisory commission, and that if the nation takes an active part in the war, it will be made an executive board. This could be done either by creating a new cabinet position for Mr. Willard, or by an informal extension of power to the commission. It may be observed that the advisory commission is constantly extending its organization, so that if it should be endowed with executive pjwers, its executive' machinery will be complete. Thus a-few days ago a munitions board was appointed with a membership of scientific experts. It was announced that this board would prepare muni tions standards to be distributed to manufacturers who accept government contracts. In case the United States should put a force in the field, this standards committee could be convert ed at once into a munitions board with power to make contracts. A Council of Significance. So that the Council for i National Defense has even greater significance for the future than for the present. And in fact, oil of its work is directed toward a much more remote future than the average citizen realizes. With congress pieparing for the universal service bill, and war declared, we are apt to make the mistake of thinking we are about to fight. As a matter of fact, unless somebody, by invading our home or possessions, knocks off the chip which we have placed upon our national shoulder, we will not do any considerable amount of fighting for some time to come. We can draft a million men and train them in less than a year, but it will take eighteen months to arm them with rifles. It will require a couple of years to pro duce enougil uifi 6"iw 1.1a nc ""1 own coast defenses complete. Such a. little detail as optical glass, for which we have long been dependent upon Germany, would retard our prepara tions many months, for periscopes and binoculars and range finders are the eyes of modern fighting forces. .State Defense Organization. Following the lines of the National Council for Defense, variou states have organized their State Defense Councils. The Kansas Defense Council has been appointed by the governor of that state. This commission works without compensation and numbers thirty members representing different callings, the chairman of the council being the president of the State Agri cultural college. In Minnesota the council is called THE FATHER. We were such friends, such loTers, she nd I, No door closed ever between mind and mind And Barely I shall love him by and by, Tbis tiniest rival of all humankind. Perhaps no man may ever understand The woman's brooding o'er the child she bore Yet strange it is that such a little hand Should close so great a door. Ttieodosia Garrison. Angela's Departure. (By Louise Oliver.) Angela had had a most terrific right with Bobby, and as a result packed up all of her belongings, including the pearls he had given her for Christ mas, and departed far distant, where sympathetic relatives would be sure to call Bobby names that would soothe her injured feelings. The cook had heard the rumpus, and seeing Mrs. Bobby pack had given notice. This gave the cue to the oth ers, from Sadie, the upstairs girl, to Adam, the chauffeur, so they all left bag and baggage, and what Bobby was to do when he came home that night but I'm getting ahead of my story. The general exodus had taken place in the morning. Angela, still furious over the way things had turned out she had expected Bobby to give in as he usually did and come up with the price of two new evening dresses, which she didn't need Angela, furi ous, had got as far as the Grand Cen tral station before she thought of AH Bi, her new pet Persian cat, probably asleep at that minute in the sun par- lD1Bobby never had liked cats, and with the girls gone the poor thing would starve. She must go back im mediately. So she checked her be longings and took a taxicab, but, re flecting that luncheon in a hotel would be much more attractive than on a dining car, she drove to the Colonial. There, as she had expected, and more than half hoped, she met a few people whom she knew also Anne Forsythe, to whom she told everything. Angela craved sympathy! "I think it's a shame," declared An gela, "that girls give up their liberty and tie themselves down to one man, and then have to get down on their bended knees for every little atten tion. If more women had a little spirit there would be more equality in this world and men wouldn't ride ever them roughshod." "But," protested Anne, "we always thought Bobby was rather generous that is She didn't finish, for there was war in Angela's eye. "Well he isn't," she asseverated. "Don't think it!" There were some things she wanted to get after lunch. She was glad now that she had decided to stay over a few hours, for in the first heat of her wrath she had forgotten her intended shopping. An hour or two more or less wouldn't matter, and she could get the cat any time before 6, when Bobby came home. Mo it was quite 5 o'clock when she drove up to her own curb and let her self into the house. Ali Bi was not in the sun parlor. Having had no lunch, he had gone foraging. So Angela hunted him up. But in the butler's pantry she heard a voice coming from the kitchen. It was Irish. "How many are you laying places for, Thomas, at the party?" "Mrs. Carter told men ten, Nora It's mighty hard findin" things in a strange house." "That it is! The whole business is queer! Given' a party in a person's house the minute her back's turned. There that's done and it's the pret tiest birthday cake I ever turned out." Angelia tiptoed out. What did it all mean? Nanette Carter's cook and butler in her house! And a birthday paity! Whose..birthday was it? Then it flashed on her suddenly that it was Bobby's. So Bobby had decided to celebrate in her absence and to call in his friends to help him out. That was how he was taking her departure from his- hearth and home! Well she'd show him that she was still mistress in her own house and she'd have a hand in the celebration herself. Just how she didn't know, but she didn't propose to have the reins taken out of her hand in this manner. Suddenly she heard voices coming from the library and she has tily retreated into a telephone t:loset under the stairs as they approached. Nanette Carter herself and Anne For sythe, to whom she had been talking1 in Liits .oioniaii "Well, it wasn't my idea," Mrs. Car ter was pr-etesting. "Dick's wanted to have something on Bobby's birthday all along. They were always friends until Bobby and Angela were married, you know." "But it doesn't seem right with An gela hundreds of miles away by this time. It's almost ghastly if she does as she says and never comes back." "Oh, don't fool. yourself. I told Dick what she's told you and he just howl ed. 'She'll be back in two days." he said. 'Bobby is too good a thing to let go. Why, he's given her everything in the world. Look at this house! I'd give my front teeth and ten years of my life for it." Angela gasped. So this was Nanette's honest-to-goodness opinion of her! Her first impulse was to rush out and tell these horrid people to leave, but pride held her back. "Dick wants to give the poor fel low a decent time for once in his life. It's a shame the way he's hod to give everything up. He does everything she wants, but I've never known her to do one blessed thing for him. In the summer if he wants to go to Can ada she picks the seashore, and in the winter if he wants to go to the thea ter she chooses a dance. I'll bet she never even remembered that this was his birthday. In our hoirse it's the Eleventh commandment to j have a birthday cake and someone to help eat it. And speaking of eating do you know Dick says Bobby has actual ly done without lunches, to his knowl the war commission and the legislature has appropriated $1,000,000 for the commission. (Tbe new information bureau Just estab lished by the Topefca State Journal at Washington, i. C, ia ia a position to send any reader who makes the request, and sends a 2-eent stamp for postage, each book desired, any one or all of the fol lowing: "The United States Army." s beantifnl booklet profusely Illustrated, sev eral pages lu colors, showing the uniforms in colors of different officers, prepared nnder the direction of the adjutant gen eral of the United States army; "The United States Navy." enliatmenc instruc tions; "United fttates Marinea, soldiers of tbe sea, duties, experiences, opportu nities, pay. iaaued by the United Ktatea Marine Corps publicity bureau, numerous illustrationa. two pages in colors. Remember, those booklets are free to any reader- of tbe State Journal he need not even be a regular aubacrioer. Addreas onr Washing-ton Bureau.l edge, to-onake up for some fool extrav agance of Angela's. And they passed on. The voices died away in the direc tion of the dining room.- Angela, seething; with wrath, rushed to her own room. "I'll show them if I'll ever come back!" she stormed. "I'm go ing away forever." But she locked the door of her bou doir and threw herself face down on a couch. Every word she had heard had burned a hole in her heart. Over and over she heard, "He's done every thing she wants, but I've never known ber to do one blessed thing for him." Time passed slowly. She heard voices and laughter down stairs, and from the darkness of her own room she heard Bobby's door open and close and then his footsteps in the nan. Suddenly she sprang up and flew to her own door flinging it open. Booby: she almost wnisperea. "Forgive me." He turned and took her in his arms. Dear love!" was all he said, as he stroked her hair. I 1 11 never go away again, she said, half pleading. "I want to do things for you and make you happy. I've been awfully selfish. I never even thought of your birthday until I. neara some one say this was the day." "And I've been wishing every one else had forgotten it, too. This blamed party nas been a nightmare, but Dick wouldn't have it any other way. But now, dear, we'll turn it jnto a cele bration. We'll tell them you remem bered nd came back." "We'll tell them the truth, dear mat l ve Deen a silly goose, but won t be any more." (Cotivrieht. 1K17. bv the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) T1SE SEAKCEiHGHT .Latent Kewa from the Fields of SCIENCE, EDUCATION, INVENTION $200,000 for Diplomatic- Headquarters. For many years the foreign head quarters of the United Stales diplo matic corps have been exceedingly in adequate. Any residence was consid ered good enough for consular and diplomatic duties until the war began, when the importance of such duties had occasion to be emphasised. Now a bill has been Introduced into con gress, providing' an appropriation of $200,000 a year for the rent of suit able buildings in foreign countries for the use of the diplomatic service, both as res-idences of diplomatic officials and as offices of the diplomatic estab lishments. The bill has been referred to the committee on foreign affairs, from which many Americans who have suffered painful shocks at the sight of the habitats of the Stars and Stripes in Europe are eagerly waiting to see it emerge with a favorable committee endorsement. on pra of TOE MOMENT OT EOT K. HOCLTOM. The Wretch, wretch who Cried noe. i suffered all despair, "Roll ou. tiiou Years, thou cruel relent less Years. Unheeding' of my misery and csre.v My tears! "For tho indeed, my cup la filled with call And I am filled with ills and nervous fears, lon't let theae thlnga unsettle you at sll. Oh, Years! "Roll on. and eive no heed fo nil my rue. Little you care that all my hopes are gone Tbo 1 despair don't let tbat worry you Roll on!" The cruel relentless years, oh strange to state. Appesred to bear the wretched mortal scoui And bid them roll, roll on At any rate. They rolled. Our Remnant Sale. The man who thinks he is a big Kun is usually shootine off his mouth A good many men with firm china have infirm ideas. We all admire the man who admits he's wrong in an argument, but we don't want to be him. Most anyone will froth at the mouth when he is stirred up. The bygone youth who hoped to make his mark now has a son who hopes to make his wad. The small boy who nicks his moth, er's piano grows up to nick his fath er's roll. We all pity the woman who sticks to a man who won't stick to ,a job. Some men ne-er- see the best of others though they are always try ing to get it. Risht! Oh. he was fighting mad sltlio He was a pacifist. But he didn't want to hurt one so lie cuffed him on tbe wrist Today's Sneer. People who can't best themselves seldom better themselves- HOUSEHOLD HINTS Recipes to Aid in H. C. Ia Fight. Rice, Codfish and Kf-Ss Two cups rice, one and one-half cups boiled or creamed codfish, one tablespoon but ter and three or four eggs. Mix melt ed butter with rice and arrange al ternate layers of rice 'and fish in a buttered baking dish, quart size, fin ishing with rice. Carefully break the eggs on top. Season the whites with salt and dot with butter or sprinkle with cream if desired. Bake until well heated. This dish may be prepared in individual baking cups, with an egsr on each. Rice With Ham, Beef or Liver Cubes-Three cups of left over or freshly boiled rice, one cup cooked eold ham. beef or liver, chopped ortou ,ome coo, jce mato Juice or milk. First heat rice in juice or milk in double boiler, then add meat and mix lightly. Leave to heat twenty or thirty minutes. Sea son with salt, pepper or paprika to taste. This preparation may also be baked. Left over fish may be- used lnsteaa or meat. aieau ui meal. Puddings For a plain bread nud- ding use one quart of stale bits of bread, a half cup of molasses, a half pint of milk, a teaspoonfui of cinna mon and two eggs. Break the bread, cover with milk and let it soak a half hour. Add molasses, milk, cinnamon and the well beaten eggs. Bake in a welt greased dish and moderate oven until the substance becomes Jelly like. Serve with milk. Steamed Bread Puddinar Mix one pint bread crumbs, one cup cold wa ter, one cup molasses, one teasnoonfui soda, dissolved in hot water; one beat en egg, one cup flour, one teaspoonfui cinnamon, one cup cleaned raisins. half teaspoonfui salt and one tea. spoonful cloves, if desired. Steam three hours. Nuts may be substituted for parts of raisins. Toast Pudding Take six illru .t.i bread a half inch thick. Mix one beat n g" with one cup milk; add one- iouriu icupwn salt and soak bread in thia fifteen minutes. Brown in hot Bedtime Stories BY SOWARO B. GAB.I9 Uncle Wlggily and the Dainty Man. Well, well! But I certainly am glad to see you!" laughed jolly Uncle Wlggily in his Jolliest voice as he open ed the door of hia hollow stump bun galow one morning and saw Mrs. Oriole, the Baltimore bird lady, and her little girl Nan. "Come risht in and make yourselves at home! Did you have a nice trip up from the Southland?" "Very nice indeed," said Mrs. Oriole. "And we are very glad to get here. It was aweet of you to ask us to stay with you until we could get our nest home built." "Oh, but I am delighted to have you," said Uncle Wiggily. Oh, Nurse Jane!" he cried. "Here's Mrs. Oriole and Nan! They have come to stay with us until Mr. Oriole gets here and can make a hanging nest for them in the elm tree. You'll build there again this summer, I suppose?" he asked the bird lady. "Oh, yes," she said. "Flitter, my husband, will be along soon I guess, though he had to fly down to Palm Beach to eee some friends of his, so he said Nan "and I might as well come on. So we did, after we got your birch bark letter inviting us here. We had a very pleasant trip." "Yes, and now you must have some thing to eat," said Nurse Jane. "Din ner is all ready." "I really can't eat much." said Mrs Oriole. "Just a morsel of a rose-leaf sanawicti and a drop of honey dew. As for Nan, she doesn't feel very well, so she had better not take more than a half a grain of rice." "What's the matter, Nan?" asked Uncle Wiggily of the little girl birdie. "Oh, we flew thru some smoke from a tall factory chimney on our way here." said Mrs. Oriole. "Nan swal lowed a little which went down her Sunday throat. But if she lies down and rests I think she will be all right." But poor Nan was not. That night she was taken quite ill in Uncle Wig gily's hollow stump bungalow and even Doctor Possum, who was-called in, coud not make her feel better. "Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" said Nan over and over again in her little bird talk. "My throat is so hot and dry! If only 1 could have some of the nico things the Dainiy Man sells I would I5el better." "There now. go to sleep." her moth er would say, trilling out a little song such as the oriole birds sing. "You'll feel better in the morning." "Will the Dainty Man be here then?" asked Nan. "Yes maybe," said Mrs. Oriole, softly. "Who does she mean by the Dainty Man?" asked Uncle Wiggily in a whis per, for Nan had closed her eyes, and he did not want to awakati her. "Oh, down Aouth, where we came from," said the mother bird, "there Is a man who goes about the streets with a little red cart on wheels. He rings a silver bell and sells to the boys and girs dainty cakes, enndy, ice cream and lollypops. Every one loves the Dainty Man, and we birds do, too. for he gives us crumbs left over from the children's cakes. That's what Xan means. She wants the Dainty Man." And in the morning Nan was no bet ter, and she wanted the Dainty Man more than ever, and cried for him. "Where is the Dainty Man? Where Is the Dainty Man?" she asked over and over again, for she had a sort of fever and really did not know what she was saying. "Ha! We must do something about this," said Dr. Possum, shaking his tall. '"If we don't soon find the Dain ty Man for her she won't rest, and the fever won't go down until she does. Uncle Wiggily, can't you fix up a Dainty Man in some way?" "He ought to," said Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzzy, the muskrat lady house keeper. "He once made a scarecrow man for our cornfield." I'll try." said the old gentleman rabbit. "Tell me how the Dainty Man' looks." said Mr. Longears to Mrs. Oriole. "Well, he wears a white cap and apron, and he has a red cart with dainties in it." "Hum," said Uncle Wiggily. "Just wait here a while," and he went out. He was gone some little time, and during it poor Nan Oriole tossed on the bungalow bed of sweet, dried grass and cried: "I want the Dainty Man!" "Hark!" suddenly whispered Dr. Possum. Then, outside the hollow stump bungalow sounded a voice singing this Bong: "Io you know the Imlntr Man"? He brines eakea for Utile Nan 1 ereaui drops for Oiloe and Ned In bis jolly cart of red. "Do you know the Pnlnty Man H.? !r,1":!'1' 'ro"d where e'er he can. Tinkle!' goes hia allrery bell. All tlie children know it well. "lo you know the Dainty Man? Klumber aoiiga lie aliiga to Sua leaves, wuere, soon u ahe awakes Hue may find ttiem patty-eakea "Oh, look!" whispered Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuxzy. "There h there, surely enough, was Uncle Wig gily himself, dressed up in a white cap and apron, and he was nuihinir h express wagon .,t Billie Wasta.il th. little SOBt bOV. The wninn ed red. and out of it Uncle Wiggily was ual,,i, rases, candies and nuts, as well as ice cream drops, and givinK them to the animal children who we-e crowded all about him "Oh, Is that the Dalntv Mar.'" Di, i poor. little, ill Nan. I"' Haid Doctor Possum, "and III have him come up here and pjv cream anrl to sleep." ho up came Uncle Wienilir t Dainty Man, and the little ow.i. v.-j girl, In her feverish dream, thought he was the real one from down south So she ate some of the cool ice cream he gave her and he sung her to sleep with a "Glory-Glory" sone- anrt whr. i hCL8""8 er fever waa 8" and i tti- t J nan to play the Jolly Danity Man lots of times after ini, out ne aio not mind, and the ani- mal r,h'.,dren Ioved him- And then Mr. Flitter Oriole came up and helped his wife build the nest in the elm tree and from eggs they hatched out little brothers and sisters for Nan. And If the fur overcoat doesn't tump out of the moth bag and go off rjy Itself to the ice cream store to see the lollypops dance, I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and the colored (Copyright, 1917, by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) butter in frying pan or griddle. Serve with a sauce made of one-half cup raisins, boiled fifteen minutes in two cup water and one tablespoon brown ?rThlt on teaspoon flour to thicken and one teaspoon butter sprinkling of salt and nutmeg to sea- -v

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALS TUESDAY EVENING. MAY 8, 1C17 "BASE" IN TOPEKA I Count; Officials Believe They'ie Found a 'Nest." Say It Harbors Safe Blowers and Auto Thieves. FORDS ARE THEIR SPECIALTY Kansas City Police Capture Branch of Gansr. Arrests .Made at East Side 1 House in Topeka. Tiimn on the East Side is a house which. Shawnee county and Kansas City ofn-ial.-i believe, has been harbor ing .safe blowers, automobile thieves ar.i robbers since about Christmas t.nie. Two men. alleged to be mem bers of a irang. fe arrested Monday mght by Sheriff Hugh Larimer and hi .lermrifo nrf rw.t nrhers have arrested in Kansas City. Two 1 T?,JiU',r TViilY-T 0,Sr'- them" i located in Topeka and on of them I trot away during the night. J.imes X. .Miller and M. J. Martin are the two men undfr a-rest in To-iwul mainmnea ai narriauu. .iaas; neka WarJnTJ Thave ne"n Sued for 'tor students who failed to pass this i them l" KanSS h&Z..2y' will be opened at Polk. Qmncy j them with stealing automobiles be- lonzinir -o J. C. Stephens and "John "Doe." Miller was arretted at the Kant Side house where he has been living with a woman said to be his! wife. Martin was arrested at the Rexjcall of the farmers. hnr-M. I Elmer Bearg. football coach of th Husrh Larimer and Robert Miler. j hisrh school this year, was named di lindersherirT, have been watching the j recto'r of the Topeka public play plat'e for a weelc or more and were grounds for the summer. Capt. W. P. waiting until there waa more of a j Mac Lean, of Battery A, is the rearing crowd. But when the Kansas City director. Under the present conditions police picked up two of the gang it in the face of war and with a mabiliza was necessary for Shawnee officials uon call in sitfht. Mr. Bearg was to move quickly. Last Sunday they named as his successor. Miss Clara were seen in the alley back of the Johnson, a teacher in Central Park house where Miller has been Uving. &chool, who took charge of the work working on a Kord car. The car was jast summer during MacLean's border traced to the Tenth street garage and auty .was named assistant this year. w:i! removea rruni tnere oy r.uwi t t Miler today. It was identified Monday night by Kansas City officials as be-f longing to J. C. nhn4 fit that place. i They Driwe in Fnnto. According to the information th shrifrs f..rce ha dug up half a doz en men known to the underworld have I been hanging around the Miller place since the firt of the year. Xone of 1 them has stayed any length of time1 but they have driven in and out of j Topeka in Ford cars, believed to have been stolen. i "Some of the men working n th-? case." said Larimer today. "believe Th;tt men who have been visiting the-j Miller place this winter and spring have been the fellows who have pull--ed off bank and postoffice robberi-- j in this secri-m of the state. We know Tniit several of them have records is; wife blowers. C. J. Fitzgerald, under i arrest in Kansas -'ity. has a dozen i a I iases and i long ciiminal record. Th same is true of H. B. Carroll, his mil ;i rrsted in Kansas City. The pres ent, charge asainst them there is that of stealing automobiles. We are sal- t.-.fled there are several other mem bers of the gang. We were waiting for them to gather in here so we could make a bigger haul." Admitted Acquaintance. When Miller was arrested Monday Mi run was not with '.um. Sheriff Larimer and Umi rheriff Miler brought him up town and were stand ing with him at the corner of Fifth and Kansas avnue wondering whete to look for Martin when they saw hi i coming up the street. Miler step re.'. to one side and Larimer walked several steps away. Martin saw Mil ler and started to sDeak to him bu and he started away. Miler followed j l o h..i r..i amr..i h m t'ach denied knowing the other I for a time but la mjrht acche county I j.iii vJ T.,h ru. Two car, at the Tenth street wpre S' mi,,firtr-nfri I espionage. Thru a misunderstanding of orders at the garage one car was j taken out during the night. It may have been taken by the rightful own- out it tri nu 3iri ir utcusr. Ail it carried was a Kansas City driv er's license. The car taken by local officers wns a new Ford. In a trunk at t he M tiler place on th Eat side the officers found Kansas state li cen.se tags hidden away. They also found papers and Utters relating to several othrr cars. Miller and Martin will probably be taken to Kansas City late today. Thrn the efforts of the British min Hrr hi nor. who will endeavor to elim inate women drivers. ft threatened strike rhe it rivers of Vm.-ises. renins and taxis in Lnilia Un betn everted. Save Your CARPETS AND RUGS Don't throw them away. Call Mi-Tonnli t W e Clean. Itefit. sew. Sise. Sronr, Lay Tliera. or Make Them Into ltu. It Isn't expensive and it's better done by McCormick Rug Factory A ND Carpet Clean ing Works 1'ltone 421. 522 Van Buren St. MAIN SHINE PARLOR SHOES REPAtKtI Tacked Soles 75? Rubber Heels, Cats Paw or Panther 40 Leather Heels 25C Shoes Cleaned, all colors lOe Shine every day 5 524 KANSAS AVOCE BU,LD D0CKS 0N M,ss Kiver Impmemnt ieagaea to Coo- aolleato Tbeir Itaas. St. Louis. Mo.. May 8.-Doct ami river improvement enthusiasts, and engineers frm a "dozen Mississippi river towns met her at 10 ovlwk this morniay ti perfect aa org-anixattoa to enrourajre the building 1 ,.f t nil MiMtsiooi river aorta. The main obje-. t of th on fere nee, whirta prnmlm to be the lar-rest ia point of at-rentian-e anil ti.wmpU3umnt ever held in the Mississippi valley, will be to brina about a iuerjt;er of all the orsraniMtions wbi'-h have riwr improvement as their ob ject. It is planned to form one bis oruran ization. wuih wlil iikelj have Its head quarters in Sr. Louis RUN THIS SUMMER Four Topeka Schools to Offer Work to Students. Elmer Bear? Elected Director of Playgrounds. The summer school program for To peka public schools was announced Monday night at the regular meetin of the board of education, rour schools will carry an eight weeks' term bSinnin June 4. For the students J Iwho wish to enroll next fall a school ear aneao oi niir f. and J-atayette scnoois. The advanced school, for pupils who j desire summer advancement. will j probably prove more popular this year than ever before in spue ot ine war Employ Garden Director. x n oora w.u r-" reuii.n n resolution adopted at their meeting Monday night. 'o' appointment has been made. The move was adopted in an effort to increase garden sup nUes. The duty of this officer will bw to inspect the children's gardens and to report on them each month. He j will also serve as an adviser in case ment of historv and of God. When of backward conditions or of negEi- j Areamica really learn European con gence on the part of the pupil. j ditions, she will regret the partial role A committee appeared before the 8he has played in the war.' board asking for a new school build-j o7th; phreS?nrtkoorrtct on the SHOOT DOWN BALLOONS A petition for higher salaries for j Topeka teachers was referred to a mmittee which advised that a spe- cial board meeting be called next wjek to consider the matter. Indivi dual members of the board seem in fa vor of the advance, but in view of the financial conditions of the school sys- tern, the advance is doubtful. Defi- ciencies have been recorded in the building fund and the general fund has no surplus. In order to raise the debt which could not be paid off un- til January 1. 1518, when the new taxes come in. S William H. Conry was re-elected sunervisor of buildines and grounds, RECAPTURE FRESNOY Rerlin Official Rponrt San Germans Recovered Arras Position. Vio, ctash Bnltecourt. Fighting was still going on violent Berlin, via London. May 8. -Ger- ly today around Bullecourt. At the man forces stormed and recaptured same time this dispatch is sent, the Fresnoy from the British, taking more Germans were vigorously assaulting than 200 prisoners and six machine that portion of the Hindenburg Una Sns- today, official statement said The war office said the Germ The war office said the German trooPa hela their new positions around j fresnoy against all counter attacks, j battles the statement said the enemy d possesaion of the aoutn. eastern boundary ot the village., m 9 Fresnoy is a town on the Arras frotlti ftve milM BOuthwest of Lens and was captured bv the Canadians on May 3. Since the taking of the town by the British forces the Germans have made desperate efforts to recap ture it and the fighting has been HSuenbT "me"" 00 tlult T j ARMY BILL DEADLOCK Can't Reach Agreement on Roosevelt's Request to Organize Army. Washington. May 8. Conferees on the army bill today fell into such deadlock over the amendment to per I mil sending Colone! Roosevelt's di 1 vision to France that they suspended work and considered returning the bill to house and senate and asking for I instructions. j The conferees professed to be incom- plrte ijmorance of the administration' wishes and some of the members said a few words from the White Hons j would clarify the situation. The aro- hibiti-swi amendment, the age limit for the selective conscription and the amendments tor raisins volunteer pa- troi regiments ror the Mexican border also are stumblinsr blocks. CANCEL BIG PROGRAM Wreck Delays French Envoys So They Didn't Reach Philadelphia, Philadelphia. Pa., May 8. Plans for the reception in this city today to the French mission, headed by Rene Vivian! and Marshal Joffre, were can celled upon receipt of the news of the accident to the special train bringing the distinguished vujitora from the west. An elaborate program amid scenes resplendent in historical tra ditions had been arranged in honor of the distinguished Frenchmen, but Mayor Smith announced that the party would arrive too late to carry it out. It was hoped. Mayor Smith an nounced that some of the events plan ned for today could b crowded in tomorrow's program which included visits to points of interest bearing a prominent place in American history. PLAY TOO REALISTIC In Battle Scene splodin Shell Ignites Actress Dress. New York. May 8. Kitty Gordon, the actress, ia BHlfferinsr frnin th t hi- eybrws n ml f rani burna ttwi:iy. ail because a v a r mime ia uicu aue wns posiog. vu to realistic. Mias 4iordoa. Had in Red Cross nnrae costume, was. running across a "Belgian battlefield" In New Jersey wUen a a lie 11 exploded, igniting her areaa. VILS0NWR0NG? Reichstag Leader Says GotI and People Are One. No Intention to Injure Ameri cans With Submarines(I) BT JOHX GRAND ENS. Berlin, via London, ..May 8. Presi dent Wilson is at error if he thinks there is a line of distinction between ltht German people and the German leaders, according to Ernest Stresse raan, liberal reichstasr leader. "A world war," with two million German volunteers, would have been impossible if there had been any dif ference between our people and our government," he told the United Press today. "The breach with America is the natural result of an English propa ganda operated for a score or more years. When I visited the United I niiies in iau t saw wnat a caricature can eyes. Kaiser Limited In Power. "The German parliament ia based on the freest electoral system in the world. The kaiser is more limited in his acts of imperial power than the president of the United States. "America has already fought us ."11 cuemj. u, cm,. jumi..ii:uuj nuunsaeu uetauae iwju- stuffs have not been received from America, while hundreds of thousand of our men have been torn by Ameri- can shells and murdered in American poison gas. American neutrality de- manaea rree passage from America to Liverpool, but allowed England to hinder American travel between Hair -burg. Bremen and the United States. "Despite America's attitude, the German people do not wish to injure American commerce or American lives thru our submarines. We have a right to define a war zone on the seas, as England does. Germans Sure of Victory. "We are sure of victory and hope that universal cultural and commer cial ties will be renewed after peace which we hope is near. "The American people will not per mit their government delaying peace one day, if peace is possible. Our aims are only toward securing freedom for development of Germany, pared with 44).0!M).(XH Mre sown last au We claim the right to free Deoole tuma and a4.x.lMX)U acres harvested last closely connected with -like -he I gressive people has done during i history, last but not least, America. "The German attitude in the world war will f,tan(j teM: before the judg- Seven British Aeroplanes Iestroy Seven German Gas Bas. With the British Armies in the Field, T-iir fl Aavnn Mi-ir i siW aaronlanPS tO- day shot down seven German balloons resumption of a vigorous aerial I offensive by British flyers. The weather was clear and especially i favorable for fighting in the clouds. Three of the German balloons were t set afire by incendiary shells while far aloft and fell flaming to the ground. Two more were struck down by British planes while hovering close over the German Hues. In the case of the other two. the British airmen. careless of anti-aircraft gun fire, slip i ped up to hangers and dropped ex- plosives on the "sausages' not yet loosed for flight. held by British troops on the south- west border of the village itself. Big bodies of German trooops were massed in the southwest part of the village for this attack, but it has been so far proven fruitless. During last night a violent German counter thrust at a British sector northeast of Fresney succeeded in gaining the enemy a little jrround. but despite the superiority of the attackers in numbers they did not attain their evident objective ousting of the Brit ish from their trenches. m-irwf air" a r. rr ith M ELROY NEAR DEATH IJtUe VZ'ZZrZZ R""T"r There ia Tittle hope for the re covery of William McElroy. negro r borer, who was struck over the head with a cant hook in the hands of at the Union Pacific material yards Monday afternoon. iictiroy is at Stormont hospital with a fractured j jrroundins the motor on tire. A po skull. He is a married man and lives Uceman discovered the blase and at 81T North Lincoln street. Wilson turned in tne alarm, has been in Topeka but a short urn i chemica,3 extinguished the fire snenil nun lxi unci mum i hi -i Garver. county attorney, arrested Wil ann Wtnrftiv n r h r anil nhtained a. i 9tatcm-nt from him. He told a story j i an rvumnt between him and Mc-i jrroy over their work. He stated "hat j McElrovpolted" a cant hook at him i nrst then he struct JIcElroy over the head. WIRT, OKLA., AFLAME i Wipe Out Two Blocks of Buildings on Main Street: Loss S75,0OO. Rirnrlinar. Okla.. May 8. Two blocks of buildings alons the south side of .Main street at Wirt, an oir field vil Ite near here, were destroyed by tire eartv today. Thirty-nve structures. si including several important business houses and ten dwellings, were swept by the flames, the total loss bein? es timated at $75,000. The lira started in a restaurant from unknown causes. This is the fourth destructive tire in Wirt in eighteen months. r POST TOASTIES MAKE A BIG HIT WITH ME SAYS THE BEST IN CORR FLAKES t 3L FAITH IN INVENTION That It Will Overcome 17-Boat Men ace Reiterated Today. Washington, May 8. That an act ual solution of the submarine menace is close at hand was the view express ed officially by a competent navy de partment authority today. His opinion was given while W. L Saundera and other members of the naval consulting board were at the department to confer with Secretary of Navy Daniels on anti-submarine inventions- recently considered by the board. CROP IN SLUMP Winter Wheat Drops 94 Million Bushels in Month. w Hand educational program prepared by .Lowest L On ilt ion Since T5, the officers a unique feature for entef- Despite World Shortage. Washington. May 8. In the face of a threatened world food shortage the American winter wheat crop shows the lowest condition recordedj since 18S3 and promised a smaller yield than any other since 1904. Agricultural conditions otherwise are good, the department announced and it recalled that altho the winter wheat crop of 1912 showed an equally discouraging outlook the total produc tion of crops that year was the great est on record. The winter wheat crop, planted last autumn on one of the largest, acre ages ever sown to that grain but which met disaster in several import ant producing states from severe win ter conditions, now promises a harvest of 33ri.ua. 00D bushels this year. That quantity was forecast today by the department of agriculture which based its estimate on the condition of the crop May 1 as reported by the thou sands of agents thruout the grain belt. A month ago a crop of 430.000.00t) bushels was forecast. Production last year was 431.744,000 bushels and in 1915 it was 673,947.000 bushels. Many Acre Ahewfioiied. On May t tlie area of winter wheat to be harvested was about irr.ti.".(MK a res. yr- i i.: oer vent of a normal, rooipared Ith ILfc on April 1: Ki.4 no May 1 last year nud .ti the average of the last ten years on May I. Iroln'tion of W,7.",00O bushels of rye is torernsf frnm the May 1 condition, rom pared with a forei-ast of ijO.OOO.lXM bushels haI on the April t rondition. 4T.:ts:,rtM) btirthHs proined last year, and 34,050.000 bushels In 11 '15. Rye condition on May 1 was SS.8 per rent of a normal, compared with H.0 on AprH 1; HJi.7 on May 1 laat year; and the ten year averaure on May L. Hay Crop Good Average. Meadow (Hay- Lands: Condition ler i -eat of a normal, compared with Ste.4 on Miyr 1 laat year and JsT.U, the ten year May lr average. riay Mok of hay on farms May l tZF,ZtZTil&$& ton, or 1.1.5 per eut on May 1 last year; and lO.xrr.f tons, or 1.. per cent, the five year average on May 1. Pastures: Condition M.0 per rent of a normal. atf:iint o.'2 on May 1 last year 1 Spring Plowing: Was 7i4 per cent com pleted up to May 1. -ompared with 70.4 on May L liirtt year ana tue ten year May 1 average. Spring Planting: Was .TK.7 per rent com pleted up to May 1. compared with 3t.7 on May 1 last year, and oti-.l, the ten year May I average. ontlmoDi ani entimatwi wnear prwinc tion in important proaucing scares 101- lows Condition Per Cent Production Forei-ast Bnshels 2.i:t.()i :;:.(t.oi 19.:r!.ij H.47t.l)iW 4iom).oK :a,7!M.iwo Ohl Indiana Illia.HH MiHgouK Nebraska K;iniii; .tat

..TU Oklahoma f lour Vp 1 a Barrel. Chicago. May 8. Flour is at a new high level here today after scoring an advance of $1 a barrel yesterday. The price on family brands reached $15.60 and on bakers $15. Red" win ter wheat sold in the Chicago market yesterday up to $3.10. the highest ever known, it is said, while three thou sand bushels of No. 1 hard Duluth. spring wheat sod for seed at $3-25. NATIONAL HOTEL FIRE! w t.. Short Circuit Caused Small Blaxe tate Monday Evening. The National hotel was endangered by fire t :30 o'clock Monday evening. A short circuit in an electric motor. located en the roof and which fur .ii-5 luu' W11- ,a I feet in the district court today. She SJ ft f?JL m !eha.es him with -extreme drunken eloped. Setting the cage j n mmrttinUv Stnrdnv hr, r,hes power kitchen, dev I after a few minuter. EXPLOSION KILLS 50

4,000 Residences, 30 Factories Be stroyed in Japan by Big Blast. San Francisco, May 3. Fifty per sona were killed and many injured. 4,000 residences were destroyed and j over thirty factories, warehouses and public buildings demolished as a re sult of a powder explosion at Osaka, Japan, on Sunday, according' to pri vate cables today to the Japanese American News of San Francis:. PHIL BILLARD LEAVES? Topefcan May Be Instructor of Student Alia tors in Vnited States. Word way received today in Topeka that Phil Billard. aviator, and son -fj J. B. Billard. a former mayor of this city, may be used by the government as an instructor of student aviators in United States schools. Billard is now in Chicago conferring with military authorities. He is at the head of ths. Kansas air corps which was recently organised .in connection with the na tional guard. FOR ABSOLUTE CONTROL Hoover RevtMnmenda Separate Food Department of Government. Washington, May Herbert C. Hoover urgently recommended to the senate agricultural committee today a separate department of the govern ment to deal with the food 4uestion and absolute control of certain sta ples, particularly wheat and sugar. STATE DRUG MEET Annual Convention Will Be Held Here xt Week. One Thousand Members Are Expected to Attend. One thousand druggists will be In Topeka Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday of next week to attend the thirty-eighth annual convention of the Kansas pharmaceutical association and the Kansas Pharmaceutical Travel ers' association, according toannounce ment made today by George W. Stans fleld. local secretary of the association1 All meetings of the associations will be held at the Chamber of Commerce. In addition to the regular business tain men t Tuesday evening? has been planned by the entertainment commit tee. Kirkpatrick's hall at Seventh and Quincy streets has been engaged for that evening and a dance will be given the music to be furnished by Ray Hall's orchestra. Bigr Entertainment Planned. Vaudeville entertainers have been engaged and songs and aesthetic danc- 1 ing will be enjoyed at intervala during the evening. Card tables will be placed on the platform overlooking the dance hall and those not wishing to dance may play cards. A big banquet will be held at 7 o'clock Wednesday even ing at the Chamber of Commerce. The convention will open at 1ft i o'clock Tuesday morning with prayer by the Rev. Stephen S. Estey of the First Presbyterian church. Mayor Jay E. House will deliver the address of welcome and Harry Dick of Lawrence, nrst vice president of the association. will respond. Sessions will be held j cil table and not arise again until they every morning and afternoon during j have written on the firmament the the three days. j legend, I shine only for the wise and Well known Kansas druggists will ithey are not wise who are not just." read papers on various subjects, in- Mr. Balfour declared that Germany eluding "Trade Interests by H. W. .blundered when she counted that Eng Mehl of Leavenworth; Necrology. by land and America were afraid to enter W. J. Frazier of Wichita; "Adultera-! the war and estimated the effect ad tions." by J. F. Ttlford of Wichita; "Pharmacy and New Remedies," by W. S. Wilson of Burlington; "Mi croscopy," by L. D. Havenhill of Law rence. Officers of Association. Officers of the association are: J. W. Giesburg. Kansas Citv. Kan., nresh- dent; Harry Dick, Lawrence, first vice! prawaent; t-K von tteisen, Marysvllie, i secretary; J. M. Brunt, oTpeka. assist ant secretary; j. Schmitter, Gypsum, treasurer. DOWN TOWN LOCATION Red Cross and Two Leagues at 814 Kansas Avenue Is Plan. The Topeka chapter of the Ameri can Red Cross society, the Men's Navy league, the Women's Navy league and all other patriotic organizations work ing in the city at the present time will have .central headquarters in a build ing at 814 Kansas avenue, if a plan proposed by Senator James L. Trout man is accepted by heads of the pa triotic organizations. Senator Trout man, Charles Blood Smith and T. W. Mulvane form a committee appointed by the chairman of the .Navy league to locate suitable downtown headquar ters for a recruiting station for the league. Mrs. A. A. Hurd volunteered the use of the first floor of her building -it 814 Kansas avenue, free of charge, for the patriotic organization. R. F. Hod gins also has volunteered the use of his building at 90 Kansas avenue. At a meeting of the Navy league to morrow evening Senator Troutman will recommend that Mrs. Hurd's building be pressed into service as a recruiting station and as central headquarters for all patriotic organi sations while the war is in progress. A uniformed government recruiting officer will be stationed iii" the build ing to receive recruits for the navy. Arrangements are to be made for mu sicians to play in front of the building during the day to attract crowds and an effort will be made to get the gov ernment to. furnish the room to make it attractive. LOCAL MHTI0U Social dance at Moose hall Wednes- day evening 1Iay 9 Admission 25c. -Adv. Besides coming home drunk when he did live with her, Emma Fisher says Givens Fisher ceased coming home at alL and now she wants a di vorce. She filed a petition to that ef- She alo states that he is an able-bod-1 ied man and works every day. In this J instance that is no recommendation, it rs merely laying the foundation for j an application for alimony which shows up in the latter part of the pe- t;n- Mrs. r isher asks tor a divorce, alimony, her attorney fee and her -.uuiniisnaiB. Safety razor blades sharpened bet ter than new. 25c-35 duz. Brunt Martin Dnt Co. Adv "We wish to thank our friends and relatives for their kindness and flowers i t the death of our son. Alphonso. MR. AND MRS. JERRY REYNOLDS, t Advertisement. DEATHS AND FUNERALS The funeral of Mrs. Mary Brabaker. who died Monday at her home m S?abroik, will be held at 2 lvk Wednesday afternoon from the residenee. Barial in Mr. Hope cemetery. Won I has been weirefi in TopHea of the near a or AiesnBuer r-rsinne. or tviiham. VT in.. m of Mr. and Mrs. James ELrakine of Topeka. Funeral arm o?e menu aav mil' laaaaari r-fklTI l lri Lord's Flowers fcatisfv Aflv reL ;7 i rejected when offered before the for !mer board in Topeka more than a year J ago- PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS the" forme? brdT aSVaS Ask Tour Doctor A boat I s DRUGS AND TOILET GOODS The Modern Drna; Store CUT-RATE &OQ West loth. Telephone 4M. Free Delivery MAY WHEAT HITS $3 Sensational Advances on Chicago Market Tue to Crop Outlook. Chicago. May 8. May wheat sold at $3.00 a bushel today, the highest price on record. It was an advance of 17 cents. The cloee was at $2. 9 7. July wheat rose IVz cents to $-.33 S.- Additional strength developed aa a result of scarcity of offerings and be cause of continued scattered buying on the part of commission houses. May ascended to $3.00, an over night climo of 17 cents. July made an extreme jump of about cents. v The close was unsettled, 3" 5k cents to 14 cents net higher with May at $2.97 and July at $2.31 to $3.32. WRECK THEIR HOPE England and America Shattered Germany's Ideas. Great Demonstration in Senate for Mission. Washington. May 8. Foreign Min ister Balfour. Lieutenant General Bndgea and Admiral De Chair, of the British mission, were received today in the senate with a demonstration which rivalled the enthusiasm and ac claim of their reception recently in the house. After the reception on the senate floor the party was entertained at luncheon by Vice President Mar shall. Mr. Balfour, escorted into the chamber by a committee of senators, occupied a seat with Vice President Marshall on the rostrum. Introduc ing Mr. Balfour. Vice President Max shall expressed the hope that when the war was ended the free peoples of tlhe earth would sit down at the coun negligible if they did. That will be the wrecking of all their hopes." he said. "That is the blunder that will rave civilixation." 'I speak with confidence about the i ssu e. said Mr. Ba 1 f o u r. "A co n f i -dence redoubled since you have thrown in your lot." Senators LaFollette ana Gronna. who voted against the war resolution and who had refrained from applause before that statement, applauded t and smiled. "I see a suggestion, continued the British secretary, "that Germany, in capable of winning with arms, is go ing to win by illegitimate submarine warfare. I believe it not. I do not minimize the gravity of the submarine menace; I do not wish to minimize it. but after all, in two and one-half years of war. mora than one danger of like magnitude has been met and overcome." Mr. Balfour declared the miseipns of the French and British marked a new epoch in the history of the free countries of the world and in the "alliance thus cemented." "In it," he continued, "lies some of the greatest hopes, some of the proud est expectations we dare entertain for civilization. The war Is not going to be settled by the sinking of helpless neutrals or of sending women and children to the bottom of the ocean, bat by hard fight ing." he said, adding that it would re quire the combined efforts of every man and woman on both aides of the Atlantic. READY RJR TRIAL Officials Get Out Evidence in the Fred Bissell Case. Clothes of Little Edna Dies more Recall Horrors of Crime. The little plaid dress, the drabbled coat, the pathetic looking little shoes j and stockings worn by nine-year-old j Edna Dinsmore the morning, a little more than a year ago, when she j danced away from her mother on her i way to school, never to return were scattered over the floor of the county attorney's office today. Robert Gar ver was looking them over prepara tory to taking them to Kansas City for the trial of the child's confessed murderer. Fred Bissell. Since the day of the attack and murder they have been kept in the sheriff's office against the final trial of Biseell. He confessed, once, to the moat cruel and cold blooded murder of which Topeka has record, but officers had no faith in his con fession. Ever since, they have feared he would deny his confession and de mand trial. He has done that and the clothing will be used for the purpose for which it has bfn held, as evi dence. The childish garments recalled to everyone who saw them that day when Topeka saw red. They recalled tne flay when, after learning all the shocking details of the crime, of the duplicity of the grown friend to the child, how she was made a victim of a spirit of revenge, ordinarily calm men lost their heads and sought to take the law into their own hands. Biasell's trial is set for Thursday in the district court of Wyandotte coun ty before Judge McCamish. There is still a chance that Bissell will plead guilty and save Shawnee county S4UU or 50o. FINALLY PASS FILMS t Kansas Will Be Able to See "The Birth of a Nation.

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day approved the thrillmz war Dicture jwhen it was presented at the offices in Kansas City, Kan. The picture waa upheld by the appeal board. The ap peal board at that time was composed of the governor, secretary of state and attorney general. With, a special orchestra of twenty pieces, a carload of trappings and settings, the picture was brought to Topeka by special train from Lincoln. Neb. It was shown at a special Sunday afternoon per formance before a select audience of state house officials and employes, newspaper men. lawyers and ministers. Wives of practically all state officials openly and avowedly approved the pic ture, altho it wSs rejected by the officials. TIE FiLICB starts Economy Day sj at a.m. 1 Tomorrow M owv An Introduction to ECONOMY DAY will make your purse smile You Save $5 ?roy 5: nesday by purchasing a fine all srlk lined Blue Serge Suit to fit Men and Young Men of all sizes. Including stout Men and tall 15 Men. 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6 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1917 The many friends in Topeka of Miss Florence M. Dice, of Cincinnati, Ohio, formerly of Topeka, will be interested in the news of her engagement to Mr. Ford Cannan, of Berkeley Spring3, West Virginia. The marriage will take place in the very near future. -Miss Dice is the daughter of Mrs. S. St. Dice, -nd a sister of Miss Mar guerite Dice, who was for some years secretary of the Topeka V. W. C. A. Mrs. Dice and her daughters made their home in Topeka, and they have Htwide acquaintance here. Miss Flor ence Dice is a graduate of Goucher college, Maryland, and also of DePauw university in Indiana, where she was a- member of the Kappa Kappa iTumma sorority. She has long been active as a volunteer worker in the Y. W. C. A., and gave valuable service to the local association while she lived in Topeka. She spent several seasons traveling abroad after she finished school. Mr. Cannan is a university man and Is now engaged in civil ergineerins work. He has volunteered for service in the engineering corps of the United Wates navy, and his marriage to Miss Dice will take place before he is called out. Mrs. James Hurley and her daugh ter. Miss Hildegarde Hurley, received their friends very informally Monday afternoon and evening in the parlor of the National hotel. The affairs were as simple as they could be made, as Mrs. Hurley, while wishing to see her friends while she is in Topeka visiting her son. Mr. Harlow Hurley, did not wish to distract by any elabor ate social function, the work that the Topeka women are doing in prepara tion tor war relief. Masses of lark spur, bouquets of lilacs and a cluster of roses were sent to the hostess by friends, and decorated the room for the "at home." Mrs. Hurley wore an afternoon sown of black satin, with a long, loosely belted jacket bodice of satin and chiffon, embroidered in large dots of gold beading. She wore a bouquet of lilies of the valley and a single white rose. Miss Hurley, who came late in the afternoon with a par ty of friends with whom she had had luncheon, wore 'in afternoon suit of dark cloth. Among the callers was Mrs. New comer of Albuquerque, X. M., who is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. P. Kaster. She wore a smart tailored suit of black and white check, with a small, round hat of black lacquer straw. Mrs. Frank Burrow looked very well in a natty suit of dark brown, with jacket made in long points at the side front, and with a circular collar which ended in long points at the front. Her hat was a small black straw. Miss Irene Horner appeared in a good look ing suit of light grey, with an invisi ble check, and made on severely tail ored lines. Mrs. David Mulvane wore a black satin suit in the jacket-cape style. Mrs. Hurley and Miss Hurley will remain in Topeka a few days longer. The Sunflower male quartette which furnished the program at a concert Monday night at the high school, "got a hand" Buch as few local talent en tertainers are able to do. There are a number of reasons for their pop ularity with their audiences. In the first place, they are not amateur sing ers at all. In fact, all of them hold singing positions that pay them good, cold cash. They have voices that have been trained, and they have been sing ling for year, tho their present or ganization is a comparatively new one. Two or three of them sang for a long while in the Washburn Glee club, and all of them have had a good deal of experience both in solo and chorus work as well as quartette singing. Also, these men sing so as to be understood, and they put a big variety of music into their programs. They shade their selections from the accepted classics to the lighter comedy tone, and they put the thrill of life and enthusiasm into their singing. They are good looking, well groomed young men, and they get from their audiences the response they deserve. The program they prepared for last night was extended to about twice its original length by the en eores the singers received. They began their program with a Hunting Song by Mendelssohn, ami closed it with a negro melody, "Swing Along." Mr. Howard Searle gave an excellent rendering of Gounod's "Vul can Song." as a solo. Mr. Hugh Smith sang "Sing to Me. Sing," a number written by Sidney Homer and dedicated to his wife, Louise Homer. For an encore he gave the song, "The Old Boatman." Mr. Waldo Heywood's nolo number was "Mavourneen Itoam in. and in response to an encore he sang "When the Roses Bloom." Mr. Frank Ripley gave a solo, "The Ship of State," and for an encore, a negro MY TIRED FEET ACHED FOR "TIZ" Let your sore, swollen, aching .feet spread out in a bath of "Tiz." Just take your shoes off and then put those weary, shoe-crinkled, ach ing, burning, corn-pestered, bunion tortured feet of yours in a "Tiz" bath. Your toes will wriggle with joy; they'll look up at you and almost talk and then thev'U take another dive in that "Tiz" bath. When your feet feel like lumps of lead all tired out just try "Tiz." It's grand it's glorious. Your feet will dance with joy; also you will find all pain gone from corns, callouses and bunions. There's nothing like "Tiz.'" It's the only remedy that draws out all the poisonous exudations which puff up your feet and cause foot torture. Get a 25-cent box of "Tiz" at any drug or department store don't wait. Ah! how glad your feet get; how com fortable your shoes feel. You can wear shoes a size smaller if you desire. Adv. MUTT JEFF Jeff Believes in Obeyirg Orders as Given- r I r"ON'r "V I I I TH CAPTAIN'S COMPt-lrwetHTV f WHfVT'S "HE MATTER. rWD He SV. FOCL YOU TO I "THAT--S "T"He I R.T VjrTH TH& LITTLE EOCB- U V). 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i Looking Backward In State j Journal Society Column TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY 'Mr. Albert Patten and Mr. kT Martin bail iharge of a subscription party given at Hudson's hall last evening. The new two-step composed by Mr. Martin was pluyed and received an encore. Those who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Ilavden, Mr. and Mrs. V. F. Koehr. Mr. 1'hiirles Etiffle. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. King, Mrs. Ueorge Sharitt, Miss Kellnin of New Haven. Conn.. Miss Julia Wikidnl, Miss Susie Wilder, Miss Lillian Whlteloi k. Miss Kdna Crane. Miss Grace Weiss, Miss May Lauge, Miss Blanche .Toeger. Miss Pearl Powleson. Miss Jewell. Miss ltessle Hayden. Miss Lois left, Miss Lord, Miss Anna Junes, Miss Harriet Jones, Miss I'earl .limes, Miss Susie Sharitt. Miss Einily King. Miss Stiiltz, Mr. llrad Johnson, Mr. Joe Wilson, Mr. Torreme Kwart, Mr. (ieorge Noble, Mr. McDowell. Mr. Joe Mor gan, Mr. H. S. Morgan, Mr. Ed Kellain, Dr. Mnrehead, Mr. KJwarcl Dennis, Mr. Walter Smith, Mr. Tom Clements, Mr. Will Speer. Mr. Earl Williams. Mr. Fay Howell, Mr. Jack Dillon. Mr. Will Trapp, Mr. Henry Seabrook. Mr. Will Wikidal. comedy song which he was obliged to repeat to quiet his audience. Mr. Rip ley, it seems, is the comedian of the quartette. Substituting for the "Tar's Song," announced on the program, the young men sang Sousa's famous number. "The Stars and Stripes Forever." i Some of the quartet numbers were given with hummed or other vocal accompaniment, with one or two members singing the words. The Redman's Death Chant was one of these. The baritone, Mr. Searle, san; the words of the song, and the tenors and bass furnished the peculiar tom tom accompaniment that character izes Indian music. Kearly all of the quartet numbers were given without the piano accom paniment. Mrs. Howard Searle play ed the piano accompaniment for tha solos and for such of the quartet num bers as required the piano. The concert was given under thj auspices of the Social Service "lub, and the proceeds will go for the bene fit of the club's special charity. Red den Chapel. Tickets to the amount of $95 were sold last night, and as the expenses for rent and some incidentals will be moderate, a good sum will be cleared for the chapel fund. Mrs. O. F. Marcotte, of 438 Wood lawn avenue, was hostess at a meet ing of her bridge club Monday aft ernoon. Mrs. K. K. Carpenter and Mrs. Ed Arnold played for absent members. Mrs. Marcotte will entertain the Music Study club Thursday, at its last meeting of the season. During the afternoon yesterday at Mrs- Hurley's at home, the conversa tion turned upon the subject of wo man's help in a national way in war time, as the conversation always docs turn in these days, sooner or later. A good deal was said on the subject of economy to be practiced by women in renouncing parties and gowns and simplifying refreshments and service. As with every other question, it has its two sides. Mrs. Hurley spoke of the agitation in Washington for great er economy in gowning, for example, encouraged by society leaders, includ ing cabinet members' wives and oth ers. She learned from her dress maker that as soon as that gospel began to be preached, she was obliged to dismiss five of her ten sewing wo men on account of the falling off in demand for their work. Those five sewing women have to live, and if they cannot get work on account of the agitation over economy, they will have to be taken care of some other way. And the same thing is true in every department of the social life. Caterers are in business Just as they always were; so are merchants, gro cer and decorators. And anyhow. If parties put a little heart and cheerful ness Into a situation of gloom and dread, they are playing no unimport ant part. Wherefore, on with the par ties! Why mope until we have to? I Mrs. N. H. Christian of Galveston, Texas, who has been in Topeka this winter with her son. Mr. Francis Christian, gave a dinner Sundav nisrht at the lies bungalow in Highland Park. -ne guests were Mr. and Mrs. A. W. t-arks, Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Roby, Mrs. Adrian Greene, Miss Winifred Greene ud Mr. Francis Christian. Mrs. Christian and her son. who has been in the engineering department of the Santa Fe, will leave soon for Galves ton. The Kappa Kappa Chi sorority girls will have a lawn party Friday night at the home of Mrs. Howard Searle and her sister. Miss Allison Shaver. Miss Marian Lerrigo is in charge of the arrangements. The annual business meeting of the Ladies' Music club will be held Wed nesday with Mrs. Karl Rankin, 1239 West street. The officers for the com ing year will be elected, and a plan for next year's work formulated. Mrs. W. F. Bowen is visiting her sister. Mrs; Thomas Gray, Kennedy of Junction City. She was guest of hon or at a bridge party given by Mrs. Kennedy. The party was also a fare well by Mrs. Kennedy before she and her family go to the country for the summer. The hostess was assisted by Mrs. J. Vance Humphrey, Mrs. Thomas B. Kennedy and Mrs. Fred Hemenway. Miss Dorothy Miller of Topeka, who is a student in the Kansas State uni versity, Lawrence, will have part in a dancing recital to be given May 22 at the Bowersock theater in Lawrence. A;.. trUn Tnnnini, un.l Vl nnnilq IK) "Ff'b furn iuVi tVi tirnirrnnl Miss Miller! has been studying Greek, character, classic and interpretative dances in K. U. this winter and has taken part on a number of programs. She will have a solo on the program at the Bower sock. Mrs. W. P. Snyder will be hostess at a meeting of her bridge club Wed nesday afternoon.. Mrs. Roland West of Chicago will be an out of town guest. The members of Topeka chapter of the D. A. R. have been invited as spe cial guests to a reception to be given in Independence tonight, in honor of Mrs. George Thacher Guernsey, new ly elected president general of the national D. A. R. The chapter has just sold two ap plique quilts, made after an old Colonial pattern, and realized enough from the sales to pay the amount nec essary for the support of two of the French orphans the chapter has agreed to adopt. The next meeting of the local order will be held Saturday at the home of Mrs. Eugene B. Stotts. The first of the "war bridge" par ties to be given in Topeka was held this afternoon, with Mrs. Holmes Meade as hostess. The fashion of giv ing war bridges has traveled west and has just reached our town. A series of three of them will be given this week. The first one is held today, and Thursday and Friday Mrs. Ivar. Dibble will entertain at her apart ments in the' Congleton. The guests attending each party pay 25 cents apiece, and the proceeds are used for the Red Cross. The guests at the party today were: Mrs. Paul Walker, Mrs. Wallace Crutcher, Mrs. Russell Frost, Mrs. Frank Southwick, Mrs. Charles Wolff, jr., Mrs. Edwin Kistler, Mrs. Charles McKirahan, Airs. Roy Thompson, Mrs. Leslie Guild, Mrs. Walter Weidling, Mrs. Warrick Updesraff, Mrs. Harry Wolfe, Miss Kdna Hopkins, Miss Grace Koontz, Miss Marguerite Koontz, Miss Bernice Emahizer and Miss Hazel Howe. TOPEKA TROLLEY TALK. This morning on an early car com ing down town, a trim looking youns woman, in smart business costume, sat in one end of the car absorbed in the occupation of knitting. She knew how to knit, too: for her needles flew fast, and she made all kinds of head way on the muffler or the wristlets that will protect some poor sailor against the cold blasts of next July, which is about the time the article will be ready for the firing line. A tea was given this .afternoon at the T. B. Sweet home by the Mission- j ary society of the First Methodist I church, for the young women of the church. Mrs. H. E. Wolfe was in charge of the arrangements, and the guests were received by Misses Susie, Mary and Anne Sweet. 4t "If THElilTS A WOMAX IX OCR TOWX But gather round close and let's gossip about her. She is so solicitous over the comings and goings of her husband that he accounts for about fveiy minute of his time to her, and never yet has he had a "fling" un known to her. One day he concocted the prettiest little, honest-to-goodness scheme that showed no seams in the weaving, and would, to all appear ances, hold weather on every side. This was the way he planned: He tele phoned his wife to pack up a few necessary articles in his grip, and meet him at the train, as he had a business call to Chicago. Just put in a clean collar, his pajamas and his tooth brush, and meet him with them at the station. This she did, and kissed him good by when he boarded his train. Thorough, Artistic Dry Cleaning Hat Renovating Laundering O Practical Experts in charge of each department. Uptown Office and Hat Works 111 West 8th St. Phone 1214 Main Office and Works 2nd and tuincy. Phone 3653 Topeka Laundry Co. Established in 1S80. Alas, that one must admit the du plicity of men in general, and this man in particular. Well, he didn't go to Chicago, but he got off at a near. sta tion, took the next train back to town, and under the friendly cover of twi iiiihl. he met a "friend and took her oui to supper. Of subsequent events thf story is a little hazy, except that in some way in the settling for the acct unt at the tavern, a mistake was mrde in the sum paid, and the book keeper, discovering the error, and m.t wishing to have to square it out of his own pocket, wrote a little note to the ciif.tcmer, all innocent of the fact that it was not the dear wife who liad dined with him. The tragedy of it is that he sent the letter to the house in stead of to the office, and the watch ful wife opened the note, of course, and But why prolong the agony? The St. Elizabeth club will be en tertained "Wednesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. George Metzger. 501 East Sixth street. The proceeds will be used for charity. The clubs which have subscribed for tables at the Day Nursery club party Thursday at the Elks club, are: The Westlawn Bridge, T. P. M.. two Wed nesday afternoon clubs, the T. G. F., the Congenial, the C: K. Auction Bridge, the Ideal Card club, the R. D. club, the Thursday Luncheon, the H. H. Birthday club, the North Topeka club and the Mutual Improvement club. All clubs which have not sent in their names and who desire reserva tions, may telephone Mrs. G. P. Whit eker, 2991 black, or Mrs. W. O. Ander son, 1181.

The women and girls of the Square and Compass club will give a dancing party Friday night at Kellam hall. Mrs. IV. G. Edelblute is in charge of the arrangements, and those who wish information regarding the dance may call her at 2705 blue. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. H. C. Mulroy of Denver, Colo., is visiting her mother, Mrs. A. B. Jet more, and her sister, Mrs. Albrecht Marburg. Mrs. David Page went to Emporia today to visit her brother, Mr. Willis Kerr, and Mrs. Kerr. She will attend the music festival which is to be given jointly by the Emporia Normal school and the Emporia college. The New York Symphony orchestra will furnish the programs, under the leadership of Walter Damrosch. Mrs. Newcomer of Albuquerque, N. M.. is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. P. Kaster, and her family. Miss Bertha Keesee of Potwin Place, has returned from Lawrence, where she was the guest of Miss Marie Gib bons. Mrs. Harold Rankin went to Em poria today to attend the musical fes tival given by the Normal school and the Emporia college, and to be the guest of her parents, Judge and Mrs. W. T. McCarthy. Mrs. William Middleton has been called to Kansas City on account of the serious illness of her sister, Mrs. L. E. Groves. Dr. and Mrs. Warren Jeffrey have returned from a visit to friends in Osp.ge City. Miss Eleanor Blakey of Pleasanton Kan., will visit Miss Edna Hopkins Wednesday and Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Britton and their sons, have returned from Kan sas City, where they attended the celebration in honor of the French envoys. They also visited Mrs. Brit ton's sister, Mrs. Kit Wilson, and Mr Wrilson. Mrs. Frank Manspeaker and Mrs. C. W. Jewell have returned from Cali fornia, where they spent the winter. They visited Mrs. R. P. Kepley in El Centro, Calif., on their wav home Governor and Mrs. Arthur" Capper will be guests tonight at a reception in Independence given by the Esther Lowrey chapter of the D. A. R., in honor of Mrs. George Thatcher Guern sey of Independence, who has been elected president general of the na tion D. A. R. Word has been received from Mr. Donald Jansen of Chicago, formerly of Topeka, that he has received a commission as lieutenant in Minnea polis. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Jansen. Mrs. Mi E. Hopper and her daugh ter, Mr. George E. Bennett of San Diego, Calif., arrived in Topeka last Saturday for a visit to friends. They came by way of New Orleans, where Frank Hopper, and Mrs. Hopper. Mrs. they visited Mrs. Hopper's son, Mr. Bennett, who was formerly Miss Louise Hopper, has left on her return to San Diego, and Mrs. Hopper will remain in Topeka all summer, and will be at the home of Dr. Eva. Hard ing. Mrs. Elijah Sweet of Chicago, is spending the day at the T. B. Sweet home. She is on her return from a trip west. Miss Carolyn Lovewell, Instructor in voice, room 14, Orpheum Bldg. Adv. Mrs. Ernest Biene of Joplin, Mo., is visiting at the E. J. Shakeshaft home. Mrs. Biene was formerly Miss Gladys Boyle of Topeka. Mr. Paul Huycke is spending the. day in Kansas City on business. Mr. Clarkson Millspaugh, of Okla homa, is in Topeka taking his exam inations for application for entrance to the officers' school at Fort Riley. He is visiting his mother, Mrs. Frank R. Millspaugh. Mrs. A- P. Jones of 1224 Garfield avenue, entertained the Elmhurst Needlecraft club this afternoon. The Richardson Art Embroidery club will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. W. H. Corning, 1641 Clay street. OAKLAND NOTES Notes and persouals from Oaktnml, By Frances Jones, lill tirattan atreet. Teiephone between 8 and 10 a.'nat., 3530; other hours, 4701 K-2. Mr. and Mrs. T V. Robertson TV in -field a veil tie, buve given the name Maxine, to their daughter, born April 27. A. 11. liowera, of Topeka, has taken charge of the music at the Oakland Metho dist church. The chorus will practice Thursday evening following the mid-week prayer service. J. Q. Grubbs, who is 111 at liis borne, Oakland aveuue, is not improving. Mrs. Walter Ha mill is slowly recovering from a severe attack of tonsilitis, from which she hus been suffering since last week. The Oakland Veterans club beld their regular business meeting Monday evening at the home of Comrade and Mrs. George Hake. Arter avenue. The members pres ent were: Comrade and Mrs. Perry, Com rade and Mrs. 1'otter, Comrade and Mrs. Cole. Comrade and Mrs. Baumgardner, Comrade aud Mrs. Moore. Comrade and Mrs. Hanks, Com ra tie and Mrs. Rake, Mrs. Min ii i Dolstrom, Comrade Harris and Comrade Scott Kelsey. The next business meetiug will be held at the home of Com rade and Mrs. William Cooper. The mem bers of the club will meet Sunday morn ing. May 'J7 at the postoffice corner and will march in a body to one of the churches in Oakland, where Memorial day services will be beld. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Cole have received word that their granddaugltter. Miss Ethel Pate of Walnut. Kaii will finish her school work at the Walnut high school this year. Comrade- and Mrs. Haistin will entertain the Oakland Veterans club, and their fam ilies at a party Saturday evening, at their home. Winfleld avenue. The occasion is the commemoratiou of Mr. Kalstin's birth day anniversary A. Fox, is very ill at the borne of bis sou, Ben Fox, of Michigan avenue. EAST SIDE NOTES Notes and personals from East Side, by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street. Telephone between 8 and 10 a. to., 3530 other hours, 4751 K-2. Mrs. Philip Meinhardt will be hostess. Wednesday afternoon, to the members of the Fleur-de-Lls Art club, at her home, D09 Madison street. O. A. Keene has returned from Kansas City, where be went Sunday, to see Gen eral Joffre. Miss Myrtle Varner, daughter of Mrs. Maude Varner, 148 Twiss aveuue, aud Mr. Ceylo White, son of Mrs. A. Vester, Wa bash o venue, were married Sunday after noon at the home of the bride. The cere mony was read by the Rev. A. E. Peterson, pastor at the Oakland Methodist church. The guests were relatives and close friends of the young people. Mr. and Mrs. White will be at home to their friends at 151 Twiss aveuue. A business meetiug of the members of tbe Christian Endeavor society of the Third Presbyterian church, will be beld Tuesday evening at tbe G. H. Fllutham borne, 200 Klein street. At this time the final ar rangements will be made for the banquet to be given Friday evening in the church parlors. Mrs. M. A. Heffner will entertain the Tulip club, Wednesday afternoon, at her liome. 805 Brainier street. Charles Price has returned to bis home, in AVilliamsburg. Kan., after spending a few days as a guest at the borne of his aunt, Mrs. C. E. Cox and Mr. Cox, Free man avenue. Tbe Missionary society of the Third Presbyterian church will meet Wednes day afternoon, with Mrs. James Haggart, 1032 Buchanan street. Mrs. William Brantinghnm has returned to her borne iu Junction City, after spend ing the week-end as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J. Brantingham, German avenue. The meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of the Seward Avenue Methodist church, to have been held Thursday afternoon, has been fiostponed one week. Thursday and Friday at the Seward Avenue Methedist church, the tenth anhiversary of the found ing of the church will be celebrated by special services both days. Mrs. Mary Blair, Reno avenue, has gone to Carbondale, Kan., to visit her daugh ter, Mrs. Vernon Simpson and Mr. Simpson. A meeting of the Ladies' Aid society of the Third Christian church, will be held Wednesday afternoon at tbe church. Mr. and Mrs. John Ryan are changing their residence this week from Red Rock, Okla., to the city. They will reside at Third and Liberty streets. Mrs. Ryan be fore her marriage was Miss Florence Coul ter of Grattan street. A special meeting of the Gleaners class will be held Wednesday afternoon at the Second United Brethren church. All mem bers are asked to be present. BALL FOR RED CROSS Chicago Fete to Rival Annual Charity Ball Co-eds Hustle Recruits. Chicago, May 8. In a hig Red Cross benefit ball which will be held in May, Chicago society women will re enact many scenes in American his tory. Plans for the affain have al ready been adopted, which promise to make it rival the charity balls of the past. It will be held intime to help in the movement to enlist 250,000 Chicago people in the Red Cross. University of Chicago girls dressed in the garb of Red Cross nurses ob tained several hundred memberships on the elevated trains during yester day and booths in department stores also helped materially to swell the days total. The United States leads the world In tbe production of corn known abroad as maize producing more tban two-thirds of tbe world's snpply- "1 North Side News About ten boys of the Junior high school and the higher grades f Quincy school have made application and have gone to the country to take part in the movement to increase the Tood supply. Most of the boys are working near to town. Others may be expected to depart for the farms and truck gardens soon. Boys of the North side are keeping step with those other schools in the back to the farm movement, which is spreading thru the country. Quite a few North side young men have enrolled in the officers' training camp at Fort Riley, and a number of others are in the battery, the aviation and the engineers corps. Several Washburn students who live in North Topeka have joined the colors in one branch or another. The North Topeka postoffice reports that since the bone dry law went into effect, there has been a marked fail ing off in the number of mail orders sent to Kansas City and similar points east. What this fact signifies, the authorities do not venture to say. Indeed, they do not attempt to at tribute this scarcity of mail orders to any particular cause. They merely record a fact, and the wise ones draw their own conclusions. The Joke is on some one, -but no one volunteers to indicate who. Postmaster W. O. Rigby has re ceived specifications and measure ments for the standard branch postof fice, of the type to be erected in North Topeka. The postmaster will suggest to the supervising architect of the treasury department changes to ber made to suit local conditions, and which will adapt the building to the site prepared for it. The theory has been advanced that the unwinding of all the official red tape of the department, necessary be fore anything can be done, takes a good deal longer than the actual erec tion rtt the building, which will com mence, it is thought, about the end of next summer. Social and Personal. The Sunday school cabinet of the Second Presbyterian church will meet Wednesday evening with Mrs. Allen, of 1008 North Jackson street. Shawnee Council No. 3 meets to night at 1000 North Kansas avenue. T. N. McClure has returned to To peka after spending the winter in Leavenworth. Mrs. C. O. Henderson of Meriden visited friends in North Topeka today. The Ladies' Aid society of the Pres byterian church meets today at the j church. The members of the North Topeka Baptist church will hold a business f meeting Thursday evening at the I church. A. Pe';o, druggist, Adv. The first quarterly conference of the Kansas Avenue Methodist church I will be held Friday evening at the church. The members of the official j board, the pastor, and the district l superintendent. Dr. H. E. Wolfe, will i meet together. i The Ladies' Aid society of the North j Topeka Baptist church meets this af j ternoon with Mrs. Frank Williams of 909 North Harrison street. The Missionary society of the Pres byterian church meets with Mrs. E. G. Conkling of 1203 North Harrison street. Golden Rule lodge No. 90 A- F. and A. M. holds its bi-weekly session Thursday evening at the hall, 911 Kan sas avenue. Let me give you an estimate on your next Job of printing. Marvin Bogi'. phone 1278. Fiftn and Jackson. Adv. Rebecca lodge will give a ten cent social Wednesday evening at the home of Mrs. George Finch. The Merry Matrons will hold an all day meeting Thursday at the home of Raymond LMffenderfer of 1519 North Monroe street. Cocoanut Oil Fine For Washing Haii' If you want to keep your hair in good condition, be careful what you wash it with. Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali. This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and is very harmful. Just plain mulstfied cocoanut oiL (which is pure and en tirely greaseless). is much better than the most expensive soap or anything else you can use for shampooing, as this can't possibly injure the hair. Simply moisten your hair with wa ter nd rub it in. One or two tea spoonfuls will make an abundance of rich, creamy lather, and clvansea the hair and scalp thoroly. The lather rinses out easily, and removes ever particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and ex cessive oiL The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves it fine and silky, bright, fluffy and easy to man age. Tou can get mulsifled cocoanut oil at most any drug store. It is very cheap, and a few ounces is enough to last every one in the family for months. Advertisement. Drawn for the Topeka State Journal (Opyrlclit. 1MB. by H. C. Fisher. T-nie Mark lie. I'. S Pit. SANTA FE NOTES Notes and personals from Santa Fe by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street.. I TAlinl.onii --cm S 'inH 111 11 m. I-klG other hours. 4701 K-2. Mrs. Clarence B. Rex has been called to Washington by the serious illness of her father. Mrs. Rex is the wife of C. B. Kex, traveling accountant. Frank Martin, guide gang fnreman in the machine shops expects to leave soon for Philadelphia, Pa., on his vacation. J-'red Itechtol has returned to Ids work in the drafting department after spending There's a Difference in Vacuum Sweepers Exactly the same as there is in a watch, a piano, or an automobile i up fNj( The Electric Torrlnffton shows In V. S. government tent SA fcreater suction pow er than actually required. Used 1A minutes onre a week upstairs, and 15 min utes twice a week downstairs. It keeps your house dean and sanitary and the cost for current wilt not be over S cents. Wm. Connors Furniture Co. 706fe. New Location. 419 WEDNESDAY SPECIALS I BANANAS Medium size cboice sound fruit. tlve price of 10c a do. 200 votes In HOPE MUSLIN 5 yds. for 59c When you realize that 5 yards will make one sheet or four pil low cusfB, this 8jetial price sbou.d make a strong apiteal. Hope mus lin is ulso excellent for under wear anil is one of tbe most de pendable brand on the market. Limit of 5 yards to a customer. We le and redeem Snrety Coupeaa. MOTOR BAGGAGE TRANSFER 711 Phone 711 "SERVICE FIRST" By BUD FISHER two days in Kansas City, Mo., visiting relatives. Mrs. Becbtol and small son, Vic tor, will return Wednesday. Mrs. A. I. Watts has returned to her home after spending the past four weeks in Valley Mills, Ind., aud Chicago. L. G. Kerle of the ticket auditing de partment, spent the week-end in Kansas City. The Ladies' society of the B. of I. F. and E. will meet Wednesday afternoon at the I home of Mrs. Carl Magnuson, 301 Madison street. A meeting of the committee of manage meut of the Railroad Y" will bo held at the association building Wednesday eve ning at u :tu o ciocK. We cannot afford to sell an Electric Vacuum short of the BEST e Electric Uc Mechanically perfect dependable to the last degree. The machine to which we gave our preference after carefully examining, testing and after years of experience in handling all the leading makes. The results it has accomplished, the satisfaction the Torrington has given in the homes where they have been in use, have fully convinced us that we made no mistake. 30 oo The "Torrington" is a Vacuum Cleaner of marvelous efficiency and extremely durable construction. In the lightest work and the heaviest, it is equally satisfactory. Once in a home, it Is there to stay a conven ience and time-saver that cannot be spared. Now that houseeleaninif time is at hand, the demand for the "TorrinRton" is increasing1 at a rapid rate, L-et us show it to you, or demonstrate It In your own home. Phone 3461. 421 Kansas Avenue lOc Dozen A new Ciwkett Hperlal at the attruc. tbe Automobile Contest with each dox. Ladies' Nainsook Gowns, 55c The material (a verv soft, finely woven nainsook) and the work uinnahlp nut thla garment in the 1.(10 class. I'allitlly trimmed with narrow tinny la with ribbon beading, rrlml t leas than the coat of the material whbh sella la our own stock at 22c yard. They -elp cut tbe Hick Coat of Living. u

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Our price for best grades: T 'ok. i -jul 75c Quarts 55c Pints 5K: Jar Tops, doz 25c 3n r Rubbers, doz 7 -;C Ki( hclicu Teas Importers of this tea have a rea 1 y a d v a n ced the p ri ce 1 ic lb. our price remains the same. Pounds SOr: U pounds 30e pounds. 15 They are packed in air tight canisters and will keep indefinitely. Stock because of the true merit and 1'AV price of this excellent tea. We are now selling ten times as much tea as we sold one year ago. (racket's Flour has advanced about one h u nd red and f i f ty per cent. Lard a hundred per cent. Wouldn't you think crackers would advance as much'.' Compare these prices with others. Premium .Sodas, in original 7 to 8 lb. cans V.lc (iiiiham Crackers, pkg...l0c Nabiscos. pkpr I0c Saratoga Flakes 15c t'needa Biscuit 5c War UrUlp Hour 4 lb. sack KtS.14 24 ll. sack WI.75 Tt makes a good light, wholesome bread. War Bride C "or fee 1 lb. pkg 20c Bourbon Santos Blend, sound clean berry. It's got the body and the flavor. The only grocery in the city that closes Saturday nightat 7 o'clock. tt tt tt tt tt O tt o tt QVAUTy- CA H GROCER (9 0M& fcSt Kl 23 SPECIAL TOMORROW Bulk Elbow Macaroni Now worth 15c tb lie Fresh Country Eggs No. 1 quality, dozen 32c Good Standard Corn 15c can 124o Fancy Country Butter Pound 37c Topeka Maid Coffee Delicious in the cup, 18 ox., 30c pkg 25c 9 STORES Read State Journal Wants. H OH NO -MpTHlN Ur?PR'bE ME ANV MORE.! n "II LOSE LIQUOR CASE County Officials Unable to Con vict Johanna Adams. 'o Evidence She Imported Wet Goods in Freight Car. Shawnee county thfs morning lost In the first felony case to come to trial under the bone dry law here when Otis Hungate, sitting as judge pro teni of the court of Topeka. dismissed a charge of importing liquor brought y the county attorney against Johanna Adams, notorious violator of ;?nsas prohibitory laws in Topeka of i' her days, and wife of the famous Kee" Adams. Several months ago Johanna and i;ce'' left Topeka for Kansas City, hi Ing permitted to do so after prom sins the county attorney and police that they '-would never come back no more." About a month ago the two returned, bringing with them a car of household goods. The sheriff and police became interested immediately in the furniture and just before it waa unloaded Hugh Larimer, sheriff, and Officer Cook of the police department made a minute inspection of the car and contents. Wet Goods in Car. Six quarts of whisky and a half bot tle of champagne were discovered in liifferent places among chairs, tables and carpets. The contraband was confiscated. Local units of the law. who. in times oast, have had consid erable trouble with the two. tightened their belts and planned a. decisive blow against Johanna especially. The coun ty attorney issued a complaint cnarg ing her with being a "persistent vio lator" and importing liquor. This morning when the case came to trial Hungate was on the bench in tlTi place of Judge Rad Ree who, it was declared by attorneys, knew too much about the case to again hear evidence according to law. She Denied tiuilt- Johanna took the witness stand. Hor testimony in her own defense con sisted mostly of one straight denial. She didn't deny ownership of the goods, but did deny any knowledge of their being in the car. She declar ed the liquor had been placed there presumably by the ms who packed the furniture as "an act of friendship" for her without her knowing anything about it. She didn't remember the man's name. V. I. Jamison, her attorney, moved the court to dismiss the case. "The state has no evidence, in the face of the defendant's story, to the effect that she imported the liquor, or had any knowledge of its being in the car." said Hungate. "The case is dismissed." CO. HUNTS BARGAINS McAfee Buys Big Supply or Flour at Santa Fe Auction. Shawnee county is officially taking advantage of bargain prices and food stuff sales to cut down the high cost of living. This -morning four and one-half tons of flour, purchased recently at the Santa Fe railway's unclaimed freight sale by H. W. McAfee, county commissioner, were being delivered to the county. McAfee purchased the flour for $5.50 a hundred pounds, $2.20 cents under today's retail price of $7.70 a hundred. The total saving was $108. The flour was made in Topeka and of a well known brand. It was in a wreck and both consignee and con signer, refused to accept it, altho it was not damaged. Three tons of the flour was sent to the county farm. The remainder waa divided among various other county institutions including the county Jail and the poor commissioner's office. While at the sale. McAfee also pur chased three barrels of soft soap at less than market price. He also ob tained a number of office fixtures. Cuods sold at the Santa Fe sale SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES Allen's Koot-Ease, the antiseptic powdpr to be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled In the foot-bath. It relieves painful, swollen, smarting feet and takes the sting out of corns and bunions. Vse it when you put on rubbers or heavy stoekincrs. Allen', Foot. Ease is a certain relief for sweating, cal. lous, tired, aching feet. Sold by Druggists everywhere, Always use It to Break in new shoes. Trial package FREE. Ad. dress, Allen S. Olmsted. Le Koy, N. Y. Adv. Topeka Auto Livery J I 698 Phones 3737 1 s s OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Prompt Service. S 116 West Fifth St.

THE TOPEKA iCopyripht. I9t7 irnatlonal News Service. Tin JubT TWENTY 1 i are put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder. This is probably trt first time in history that Shawnet county has officially been a bidden at such a sale or taken part in barter ing to obtain supplies. Usually dif ferent Topeka Arms are asked to sub mit bids. USE BRITISH RIFLES V. S. Can't Equip Army With Spring field Models Fast Enough. Washington. May 8. The govern ment cannot provide enough rifles of the American army issue to equip the contemplated army. The only alternative is use of the British army standard. Funcs were appropriated to make large quantities of American rifles, but since the war began only 66,000 hav l.een made. There are only 690,000 service rifles on hand. These facts were disclosed to the astonishment of the house by Repre sentative Tllson of Connecticut, mem ber of the committee on military af fairs. Asked if his disclosures would not be of benefit to the enemy, he said: "Oh, they all know it." Regulations require that there should be two rifles to a man. The 690,000 Springfield rifles on hand, therefore, would not go far in equip ping an American army for France. Mr. TUson .said the factories here could not turn out enough Springfield rifles to fill the demand in a reason able time. He said, however, that they could produce the British standard, the Lee-Enfield arm. This, he said, would have the advantage that the British and American troops would use the same type of ammunition. Ameri can factories are better equipped to make the British rifle because ,they have been making them in large num bers for the British army. Mr. Tilson said also that there was a "tragedy" In the cost of the rifle3. The government now must pay $23 for a rifle as against $14 or $15 when the war began. In addition to the Springfields. there are about 360,000 Krags, the Spanish war issue, on hand. STARVATION IN GREECE Allies Bloekadc Brings Dire Dist May Be Raised Soon. Washington, May 8 An official d'ispatch from the Greek government communicated to the state department by the Greek legation, says the block ade of the allied Greek coast has re sulted in many deaths from starvation. In January there were 25 deaths; in February, 26: in March, 49; and in the first third of April, 10. These figures do not include deaths within the area occupied by the French and English armies, and they cover only such cases as were certified to by a physician as having been due to star vation. The legation assumes that many cases must have occurred with out being reported. The greatest distress appears to ex ist in Epirus where forty deaths oc curred. In Thessaly there were sev en while in other provinces and is lands the cases range only between one and four. As the organization of the new Zaimis cabinet was under taken in harmony with the wishes of the Allies, the legation assumes the blockade now will be raised. 0 ENTERTAIN "BOYS" Westminster Church Will Give Recep tion for Soldiers. A reception for young: men who have enlisted In the army, national guard and training camps and who are subject to being called away from home any minute, will be given to night at the Westminster Presbyterian church. Eight young men, members of the congregation, have enlisted. Preceding a program comprised of patriotic mu sical numbers, addresses and readings, a dinner will be served in the boys' honor. Rev. S. D. Alderson will make an address. AWARDED IRON CROSS Wisconsin Man, Captain In Kaiser's Army Sends Message Home. Berlin, via. London, May 8. Cap tain Oswald Sapper of Mayville, Wis., was awarded the iron cross today. He called at the Berlin office of the United Press to ask that his wife and friends at Mayville be told he was in good healthy ASKS $300 FROM CITY Negro Claims Damages as Result of Runaway Accident. Reuben H. Wade, negro, 1100 Col lege avenue, today filed a claim against the city of Topeka for J300. Wade asserts that on April 17 he was driving a horse' and wagon on Eleventh street at Garfield. A front wheel dropped into a rut. The wheel was wrenched from the wagon letting the shafts fall and j causing the horse to run away. The animal was so badly injured that it j had to be killed. Wade says. The wagon was also badly damaged. "f' 1 DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENT j .YES-"J I IT. CROPS LOOK GOOD Generally Optimistic in Mid west Since Recent Rains. Wheat Does Comeback in Illi nois; Kansas Hopeful. Chicago, May 8. While congress has been talking about the war, the western farmer has been doing his bit, sometimes helped and sometimes hin dered by the late spring and May snowstorms. A canvass of the agricultural centers of the middle west, showed these con ditions: Minnesota, North and South Dako ta Continued cold, rains and seed shortage threaten to cut down acreage. Seeding in the Red river valley is a week to ten days late. Acreage will be about ten per cent less than first planned. Minnesota acreage increas ed, however, 10 to 30 per cent. In the central Missouri valley only 10 per cent of the usual small grain planting is in. Iowa Considerable increase in acreage reported from 10 to 15 per cent in grains and from 15 to 20 per cent in potatoes, beans, sweet corn and other canning vegetables. Farm labor shortage felt but not acute. 60 Per Cent W heat in Nebraska. Nebraska About 60 per cent of the winter wheat and 50 per cent of the winter alfalfa has been ruined by cold, wet weather. Many farmers plowing wet wheat and alfalfa under and put ting in potatoes. Indications point toward a fine spring crop, especially oats. Wet weather had delayed corn plowing but if the weather continues warm, soil will be in best condition in years. Texas wheat is 70 per cent nor mal and oats 60 per cent. Corn not all planted but outlook good. Cotton shows an increased acreage with prospects for four million bales. Missouri and Kansas Crop outlook much more favorable since recent rains. Corn crop especially good and much of winter wheat will do better than expected. Colorado Crop prospects favorable. especially since recent enow fall. Must Replant Oats. Illinois All mrops, with possible exception of wheat, are in fine shape. Wheat apparently was practically all dead, but recent two weeks wet weather helped and fields are again green. Two weeks of mild weather will make it safe. Wisconsin Planting is well under way, with normal acreage. About 70 per cent of cat crop in before recent rains. As a result, 25 per cent of this must be replanted. Winter wheat con dition is fair. Spring wheat is good. Potatoes, beans, etc., have smaller acreage. salesman'a suspect Man Arrested in Omaha Predicted Death of French Envoys. Omaha, Neb.. May 8. Harry C. Hacker, a traveling salesman was ar rested here by federal officials, who declared here Marshal Joffre and ex Premier Viviani "will never get back to France alive." Papers found on Hacker indicate that he was held in Montreal nine weeks, suspected of being a spy. He told the police he is a former 'in structor in the University of Minne sota and the son of a Minnesota uni versity professor. Mm mSCELLAKZCOS AIDS ADVERTISING RATER: The rate for Inserting Want Ads in The Topeka Stat Journal is 1 cent a word each insertion, minimum 10 cents; by tUa week 5 cents a word, minimum 50 cents. COUNT THE WORDS of yonr ad includ ing four words for State Journal address, when address Is useo. count esch "loitlal" letter and each number combination of figures as one word. OUT OF TOWN advertisements munt be accompanied with cash or check in full fayueut of the same. Note the forego! ug nstructlons about counting the words and the rate per word for Tha Topeka Stata Journal CLOSING HOUR Want Ads to be classi fied properly must be in The State Journal office before 12:20 o'clock. Want Ads re ceived after 12:20 till 1 :IRp. m. will be In serted under the head: "Too Lata to Clas sify." REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. E. E. Miller and wife to H. E. Fletcher, lota 445-7 West street and 42S to 448. Winter street. Cross addition $1,000 E. J. Wilcox to H. E. Gavitt, lota 176-8 Plass avenue. College Place... 600 J. Estes aud wife to E. B. Snilzer and wife, southwest of south west M 16-12-ltt 5,125 F. C. Downey and wife to C. Hayden lots 236-238-40 Harrison street 6,750 O. N. Bray and wife to L. Smith, lot 8 Kth street west 1 A- M. Greenwood to M. A. Deaver. lota 446 south 44 College avenue Kim hurst 3,650 E. J. Longren to L. Smith, north y section 11-14 1 A. S. Bennett and husband to 9. Hess, lots 175-77 Paramore street. Para- mores second addition 1 i fca-K.v I v i W A His DRAWN FOR THE' STATE AND fOU CANT I iUEb WHO r- I'M CLD TO HEM$ IT- IS ITt HKAIi KSTATE TRANSFERS. P. Nnrris and wife to W. M. Forbes Co.. tract in Res. 2 1 F. Hess And wife to M. Mairs, part lot 77 QliiDcy Btreet; North Topeka. 500 LOST AND FOVND. LOST Sat. night, ladies black purse con taining watch, money and other valuables. Liberal reward. Finder please phone 1781 N-l. LOST Daughters of American Revolution pin, with owner's name and No. 120502 on bark. Reward. Phone 757. BUSfVKSS CHANCES FOR SALE Stock of general mdse. for sale for cash establish since 1910, now doing about $15,000.00; can be increased; located in small town surrounded by good agriculture country, close to Topeka on railread; stock and fixtures will invoice about S1.70O.0O; small competition. This business is a moneymaker. Must be seen to be appreciated. Cheap rent. Address S-24, care Journal. WAMED MALE HELP, WANTED Bridge carpenters; farm and dairy bands; farm couples; laborers for cement plants; young men ship to hotel work, weat; blacksmith; colored men to ship quarry work $2.23 day; experienced railway office help; 1st cooks, 2nd cooks; fry cooks, arm waiters, kitchen help, dish washers, porters, etc. Furman Employ ment office, loo west tn. WANTED Two neat appearing young men for city and road work to travel with manager, expenses advanced. Call this evening or before ten a. m. Tuesday, Mr. Boyer, Fifth Avenue hotel. WANTED--FIrst class carpenters or fin ish work. Write The Frank Blanch Eng. Const. Co., at Norton. Kan. BOY wanted for magazine circular work, to travel. Call after 5, 210 Kaat 5th St. WANTED -Washerman. Sanitary Laundry, 1723 Kansas ave. WANTED FEMALE HELP. WANTED 50 dining room and Mineh coun ter girls for t states. $20 to $:0 mo., board, room and transportation; women cnnkit. SIO wk. irirls for familv work in eity and country homes: kitcheu help; hotel laundry women, .it mo., cnamoertnains. Furman Employment office. 10 West Sth WANTED Bright and Intelligent yonng ladies for telephone operating between ages 16 to 25. Permanent employment, paid while learning, and chance for rapid advancement. Apply 812 Jackson between S a. m. and 5 p. m. Gini wanted who can set type, dive age. full particulars, experience, address and phone number. Address X-802, care Jour nal. WANTED Experienced girl for housework in small family, good wages, permaneut employment. Apply 500 Topeka avenue. GIRLS WANTED Zercber "Postcard Co., 521Kansas aye., 3rd floor. WANTED Dishwasher, also girl for silver ware. 212 West Rth. WANTEI -AGENTS WANTED Two experienced solicitors, can make five dollars per day. Call this eve ning or before 10 a. m. Hoom 27 Fifth Ave. hotel. WANTED SALESMEN OPENING for good salesman in local in dustry. Must have ability and some cash. For details call Phone 16Ti6. WANTED M1SCELLAN EOVS. HEMSTITCin NG, PINKING, rialtinira of ti kinds. Buttons made. Mail orders receive prompt, careful atten tion. Mrs. Mercer, .suuropeka. GOOD milk cows, fat cattle and veal calves. W. c. A. Lltzov. xei. -joi. IPS? HASTY AT'TO EXPRESS WANTED TO BUY WE PAY the highest cash price for caatoff clothing, shoes, hats and overcoats. Drop us a card or call Gordon uroa. loan oince. -too Kansas ve.Pnoue lOTO SECOND-HAND furniture bought and sold; best grade of furniture prices reasonable. Kent B. Logan. 322 Kansas ave. Phone 31R2. WANTED TO RENT WATDSyrellale couple, 4 or 5 rooms modern furnished house. Call 2799 Black. FOR RENT APARTMENTS. 4-ROOM apartment, 813 Tyler, sleeping porch, large living room, heat and water furnished, walking distance of town, rent g3o.Q0. Phone 44 &-ROOM modern flat at 109 East 4th. Uordon Bros. luiv. FOR RENT HOUSES FOR RENT 5-room brick house, almost new. strictly modern, sdults. Reference required, lease for year, $25.00 mouth. Half block E- on 13th st. Modern 5-room Bungalow with privilege of buying on reasonable terms. Clarence Skinner, pbone 432. FOR RENT Subnrban. 6 lots, garden and 6-room house, $7.50 mo. Smith Agency, 523 Kan. ave. FOR RENT 4S-room house and barn, mod ern except furnace. 1265 Clay. Fbone 2299 Blue. TO FAMILY without children, mouera four-room cottage. $17.00. 1214 W. 5th. 1111 TAYLOR, 4-roora cottage, partly mod ern$12. CD. Skinner. Phone 432. FOR RENT 130 Lime. 515 East 3rd- Also modern room s.P hone 2525 Red. 918 WEST 5TH, four room house, electric light. Phone 4758 Blue. MODERN 6-room bouse, 205 Western ave. 217 Blue $20. FOR RENT ROOMS TWO STRICTLY modern unfurnished rooms, convenient to business section, references. M. C, care Journal. FOR RENT 2 unfurnished light house beeping rooms with kitchenette. 710 Bu- chana.: st. 2 OH 3 UNFURNISHED rooms. 114 East 4th. Phone 2301 K-2. UNFURNISHED single rooms. 929 and 935 .Kansas ave. NG, MAY 8, 1917 JOURNAL BY CEORGE M'MANUS 1 HATE FOIt RENT FURNISHED ROOMS. MODERN light housekeeping single room ana suite, 1st and 2nd story, tront, elec tricity, bath. yard, reasonable, close in. Phone 26. 2 MODERN furnished housekeeping rooms. l large unrurntslied with aloove. b2tj Mon roe. 2228 White. V 1242 POLK- -Nice strictly modern reasonable. Phone 4881 Blue. PLEASANT front room, strictly modern. Phone 5149 W. 623 West 8th. 1119 WEST 10TH housekeeping rooms, lower rioor, garden, siu. LARGE modern furnished rooms $2 per week. 217 W. 5th St. MODEUN furnish' tront room. 314 Run toon. 1974 evenings. FOR RENT STORE BUILDINGS. FOR RENT Store room at 109 East 4th with grocery fixtures, lee boxes, etc Gordon Tiros.. 400 Kansas. 1079. FOR RENT MISCELLANEOUS HOOVER Suction Sweeper. 98 cent'ef- ficieut. Paul Younger. one 2400 V- tine. FOR RENT Electric Hoover Sweeper. Phone 4758 Blue. FOR SAH3 PIANOS KIMBALL piano, nice as new, must sell at once, $150.00, also good Weber, $100.00. Phone 2259. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS WANTED Watch repairing. Main springs, 75c; cleaned, 75c. All work guaranteed. Armstrong Jewelry Co.. 429 Kansas ave. GERANIUMS $1.00 per doz., by malt; $1716; salvia 50c, by mail, 60c. Galloway's green house. Sta. B.. Topeka. Phone 27.12 K-2. FOR SALE 1 open wagon. 1 covered wagon, 1 horse about 1,000 lbs. Phone 34e FOR SALE Bicycle with motor wheel at tached, $50. la good condition. 72.1 Clay. VIOLIN Paolo Maggini make. Will sacri fice to sell. Call evenings. Phone 2554 Red NO. 1 PRAIRIE HAY. 15 tons at $13 ton. Grantville, Box 15. X'houe 12. 1082 HASTY AT'TO EXPRESS. FOR SALE HOCSFJIOLD GOO Da FOR SALE Bed room suit, folding bed, parlor stands, chairs, ruff. King Acorn kitchen range. 812 Tyler St., Phone 2477 Ked. FOR SALE LIVESTOCK FOR SALE, delivery team, serviceable. sound and in good condition. Weight about 2.000 lbs. People's Market. SOU Kau nas Ave. FOR SALE A very fine Hoi stein cow, 3 years old, just, fresh, giving 40 pounds milk daily. Weight 1,250. Call :28. FOR SALE AUTOMOBILES. 1914 CASE CAR for sale or trade for east side property, A No. 1 condition. 810 East 4th street. Phone 1752 or 494. FOR SALE MOTORCYCLES. TWIN EXCELSIOR in good shape. Just overhauled. Call 50 Silver Lake garage. VACANT LOTS. PLASS AVE. Corner of 14th street, two southeast corner lots, fine building site. New residences going tip in all directions. One block north, off West 15th St., pave ment, 3 blocks to street car, 3 blocks Washburn college campus, sewer and city water. Great bargain if sold at once. Small cash payment, balance monthly like rent. Call at 601 East 4th ave., or pbone 610 or HH1. FOR EXCHANGE. HAVE FARM In Oklahoma which I will trade for good car. Mnst be in first class condition. 327 Kansas ave. WANTED Use-of ""milk cow for pa sture and feed or will trade 6-year-old mare for good cow. 203 Hawthorne st. Pbone 2:4. OIL STOCKS. UNCLE SAM OIL, 10,000 shares, at sacri fice price T. J. Cougbiln, Edgerton, Kan. MONEY FARM LOANS WANTED. This company has an unlimited amount of funds to lend on Eastern and Central Kansas Farms at 5 with a reasonable commission. Our representative Is st your service if you want information. THE FARM MORTGAGE CO. Crawford Building, Topeka, Kansas. Phone 3338. $500,000 READY TO LOAN On improved farms at 5 per cent and on Topeka real estate at 0 per cent. No de lay. If you have a maturing loan or wish to change or increase vour loan, call or write. BET2ER REALT Y AND LOAN COMPANY MONKx TO LOAN OS AlX .KIM'b of PERSONAL PROPERTV. Horses, cattle, pianos, diamonds, house hold goods, libraries, typewriters. autos, carriages, machinery, and to salaried peo ple. F. S. Thomas, 519 Kansas avenue. Tel. 298. MONET TO LOAN on city and fsrm properry. any amount, low interest rares and most liberal terms. Call or write for our plun. W. M.Forbes Co. LOANS msde on sny kind of personal se curity. L. Biscoe, 523 Kansas ave. FARM LOANS FARM LOANS. 5 and l per cent. See Nichols HealtT Co.. 529 Kan. Ave. Tel. 44U. HOTELS. HOTEL VICTORIA European, special sum mer monthly rates. 11a Weat 6th. The LAWN MOWERS. LAWf? (SECOND We call for and deliver. TOPEKA SPOUTING GOODS CO. Phonel.'ll;t. 125 V.7tli St LAWN MOWERS sharpened." fnctory process, by a mechanic Tel. 1377. H. B. Howard company. LAWN MOWERS ground factory process. Sheldon's Shoo. 10th and College. Phoue 2446 Red. FLORISTS EAYJES lFLtfWia SffiiOlP EASTER plants and cut flowers, freah from our ownpreenhounea. Phone 377. BASS G KEEN HOUSES. Tt is now that flower sardens, baskets and boxes are being inane. We run fill your orders, great or smalt. 8U9 East Seventeenth street. Phone 3000, ATTCTTOXFKRS. C. O. ANSEL. General Auctioneer. Res. Phone, 2251 Red. Office 4G. At your service at all times. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 2061 Lincoln street. Topeka, Kan. POOI AND BILLIARD TABLES FOU SALE Milliard tables, new, csrrom and nocket. with complete outfit, $1.10.00 second hand tables at reduced prices; bowl ing alley supplies; easy payments. Clear store fixtures, a i ecia!ty. Send for cata logne. THE BRTTNSVICK-BALKK-COi,-LENDEIt CO.. 1.129-1331 Main St.. Kansas City. Mo. MOVING FENIMORE MOVING AND STORAGE. Your furnlt-re wrapped for storagw KKKK PTiwrr pflokpr. Phone 4341. UNDERTAKING L. M. PEN WELL, funeral director and em b Timer. First class service. G08-51Q Qulncy St. Telephone 192. PICTURE FRAMING FRAMING, regilding, mat making, mount ing done by J. P. Sullivan. 122-124 W. Sth. WATCH MAKERS. W. WHEELER, scientific watch maker. 101 East Sth nt. Phone frn. PASTURE. WANTED Cattle to pasture, bold. Phone 4405 K-l. F. L. Key- FOR SALE: REAL ESTATE. YOUR CHANCE IS IN CANADA RICH lands and buninenn opportunities offer yon independence. Farm lands. $11 to :0 acre; Irrigated lands, $.'15 to 50; twenty years to pay; $2,000 loan in Improvements, or ready made farms. Loan of live stock. Taxes average under twenty cents ati acre; no taxes on Improvements, personal property, or live stock. Good markets, churches, schools, roads, telephones ex cellent climate crops and live stock prove it. Special homeseekera1 fare certificates. Write for free booklets. Allan Cameron, tJeneral Superintendent Land Branch, Canadian Pacific Ry., ISO Ninth ave., Cal gary. Alberta. GUTHRIE AVE., 1514 6-rooin cottage, comparatively new, fiue condition, barn, chicken bouse, two lots, eood neighborhood. 1 5 blocks to street car, 1 blocks from went euu ui aoiii airtri Htciiiifui, jtnrurii, already in. some fruit, good well, two blocks of school, 3 blocks north Washburn college campus. Great bargain If sold at once. Small cash payment, balance month ly like rent. Call at 601 East 4th ave., or phone 610 or1001. FOR SALF Two lots on Guthrie ave. be- 1 tween 14rh and lotn sts., goon well on lots, Topeka, Kansas. Owner. Dr. Swift, J 824 Kansas ave., N. Topeka, Kansas, Tel. 3339. in 1 mile of station on Union Pacific Ry. in Logan county, Kansas, for sale at $12.50 per acre. Can use a good automobile as part payment. AB., care Journal. I HAVE FINE laying hslf section In Sheridan county which is nearly all In rop that I will sell for $7,000 upon receipt of $2,500 cash and will carry balance at 6 per cent to suit the purchaser. E. 8. Smith,. Phone 1656. Two lota, on the West side, close to csr, owner out of town and wants to sell, prop erty not 2 years old, 5-room buniralow cit tagre. 3-plece bath, large cement floored basement, furnace connected to gas and range boiler, chicken house, back yard In fruit, property ised for a home and In splendid condition. -Price $2,650. small cash payment, easy monthly terms. SSI AWNEE mVESTMEHT CO. 534 Kansas Ave. Phone 5000. SALE Pratt Co.. Kan., quarter, half eult, balf pasture (no buildings) anil S-room modern Topeka residence with 3 lots, fine location. no encumbrance. Cash pries) $s,00t. Trade for well improved tract, near good county seat town. Pottawatomie To., Kan., SO acres, tillable upland, sod pasture. House fi rooms, mt. barn, srranary, well, spring, etc. A well-kept and productive farm. Trade for a modeat Topeka borne. 109 West Sixth. J. E. TOR KINGTON. not. too Ljyn To mske garden and cut down yonr living expenses. New. 5 large roomed cottage, bsthmoraand basement. 4 lots of excellent garden ground, fiue well, only four blocks to car line, yet outside city limits, a delight--fui place In the summer time. Price $1,850. Can be bought on terms Just like rent. Also new 5-room cottsge. good well and basement, papered and wired. In Wash born college district, garden aet out now and growing nicely. Yon can bny as muck ground as you want with this boase. Price $2,250 with 56x170 feet of ground small cash payment, balauce on easy terms. TEE SHAWHEE IHVESTMEHf CO. I 534 Kansas Ave, PICK YOUR Summer Underwear From My Wide Selection Tou will then have) the) leading brands and best styles of summer underwear made to choose from. Whether you prefer the athletic or any other style garment, and no matter what your size, there is a guaran tee of satisfaction here. Union Suits made with the Richmond Closed Crotch or any way you like. Best $1 Union Suits in Topeka Others From 50c to 92.50. TYPEWRITERS ALL MAKES for sale or rent. Best m-' chai'lcal department In the country. CRANE CO. .i Topeka, Kan. 47 Years in Business. LEGAL- First Publinhfd in The Topeka Stat Journal, Tuesday, May 8, 1017.J NOTICE OF EXAMINATION. Kansas State Civil Service Commlasion will hold an examination for DEPUTY" BANK COMMISSIONERS, Tuesday. May 2W. beginning at 9:30 a. ra. Senate Chamber, State House, Topeka, Kat. Thin examination will be held for the FurpOHe of providing a new eligible list roiu which names may be selected to fill vacancies an they occur la the Department, of State Bank Commissioner for the ptml-, tion of Deputy Bank Commissioner. (a) T ruining aud experience to count 50. b) Written examlnntion to count 50. In grading on the basin of training ami experience, consideration will be given to: 1 Practical experience along the lines of employment nought by applicant. 2 Personality and general fitness a .determined by oral examination or other wise. Written examination will Include practi-j cal questions covering the cnsntlal point in the duties devolving upon the holder of the position. In addition to the written exarninatiou all candidates will he retuirJ ed to meet with the board of examiners for oral interview. INSTRUCTIONS. Examination will be open to applicants, having resided In Kansas at leant nix months aud who are over 25 yearn of ago All applications must lie made on forma prescribed by the Commission, wht'-h will be suit plied by request and mimt be re turned to the offl-e of (Uf Civil Service Commission before Saturday noon. May 2i, 1017. A fee of $1 must accompany eai h appli cation. No application for this examination will be mailed from the office of the Comuiin-. sion after Thursday. May 24, 1MT. Auswers to all question upon applica tion blanks must be plainly filled out by the applicant In his own handwriting aud verified by affidavit. Training ami Exper ience will be graded from the application paper. Applications will remain on file In the office of the Commission, ami under no circumstances, except for correction, will they be returned to applicant. Applicants will bring with them Ink, penn, pencils and erasers, but all examin ation paper, scratch paper, etc., will be furnished by the t'omuiinnlon. For further information pertslnlng t examination see rules nnd regulations fnr nlxhed by the Civil Servi-e Commission, upon request. .1. L. KING. President. .T. E. CATON, Secretary. W. L. BUItDICK, Chief Examiner. Coin ml an loner. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE SALE OR EXCHANGE A good bouse on west Bide, will take car as 1st payment, or exchange for smaller property. Pbone 222S Red. WANT $1,350 on perfectly safe second" moVt" gage, will pay good rate of Interest and small bonus. A. T., care Journal. HOTEL at Fmmett, Kan., for sale of trade. J. B. Herrington, Ex., Silver Lake, Ksnsas. $200 B Y 8 $350 eq u 1 ty In new modern bungalow, west side. Phone 5560 W. WAMM FOE SALE 80 a. good bottom land, 7-room bouse, barn 2Sxx.V ft., never falling spring, 1 ml. eant Topeka, on macadam road. Phone 2:150 K-l. Almost new .rro. bungalow, built for s home, fireplace, electric light, fnrasce. basement, attic, 350 ft. of porch, delightful scenic location in Highland Park overlook ing Shawnee golf links and about half of Shawnee county. y block of car line, build ing suitable for garage, all with 6 east front lots for $3,000; or 12 lots at higher price. Want quick sale, make offer. COTTRELL CO. 107 E. 7th Tel. 556, MOH IIAE CLOSE W Most desirable location for close In prop erty in town, 6 rooms, atrlctly modern, newly papered and woodwork all reflnlsh ed. In excellent shape, also newly painted. 7 blocks from Pel letter's store, block to 7 minute car service, two good rooms available for renting. Tske the time to get more- facts about this place. Easy payments. SHAWKES ENVE3TMENTCQ. 634 Kansas Are. Pbone 5030. TRADE colt., orchard, alfalfa, hmj crib, chicken honse. shade. Price $4,000 Mortgage $1,800 Telephone 23L Fbone 505& JflKMNB I- 8. CALITZK Y HBiHBB

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-8 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING,, MAY 8, 1917 DAUGHTER OF GODS NEW COURT HOUSE 25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From Am columns of THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL SNAP SHOTS AT BOMB NEWS Just See What 85c Buys Wednes day at David J. August's 85c 85c 85c 85c 85c 85c 85c 85c Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys Buys 620 ANL 622 USE ALL STALE BREAD Jeft-Over" Biscuit Make Good Cakes and Cookies. lawrence. Kan., May 8. Leftover biscuits and muffins make a good partial substitute for flour, the home economic department of the Universi ty of Kansas has proved with cakes and cookies made from dry bread. The biscuits are put thru a food chop per, being ground with the chopper knife that is used when nuts are ground. The finer crumbs are used for cake and the coarser for drop cookies. For a plain cake one-third of the usual amount of flour is left out and the crumbs used in its place. The coarser crumbs are used for drop cookies and no flour is required. The cookies have the appearance of nut cookies and are very pleasing in taste. The cookie recipe is: One egg, cup sugar, 1 1-3 cups coarse, dried biscuit crumbs, 1-3 tea spoon salt, Ji teaspoon vanilla and 6 tablespoons cocoanut. If one pre fers to have spice or nut cookies, these ingredients may be substituted foR the cocoanut. Four and one-half tablespoons of chopped nuts should be uxed for the nut cookies and Vz tea spoon cloves, 4 teaspoon ginger and 1 teaspoons cinnamon for the spice cnrkies. Raisins or currants might al?b be substituted, but the cookies are very good when made without the cocoanut, spices, nuts, currants or raisins. The recipe given makes about forty-five small-sized cookies, about an ij&ch and one-quarter across. 4 A spice cake made with biscuit crumbs proved very good. The fol lowing proportons were used. One cup of liquid milk or water), cup dried, sifted biscuit crumbs, 1 uis pastry flour. 1 V cups sugar, V2 up fat, 4 eggs, S'i teaspoons baking IMwder, teaspoon salt, 1 teaspoon ves, 2 teaspoons cinnamon, 1 tea flwon ginger. All measures are level. NOT SLOW THIS TIME gyers of Lawrence, 1'lned $200 and Costs, Possessed Forbidden Fruit. Lawrence, Kan., May 8. The old phrase "the law is too slow" is likely t.be thrown into the discard as far lUthe bone dry 'law is concerned. In the case of the State of Kansas against Monroe Meyers it took just twelve minutes to convince the court that Children Cry The Kind -Yon nave Always Bought has borne the signa- ture of CJias. 11. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision for over 30 years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and Ju8t-as-grood" are but experiments, and endanger the health of Children Experience against Experiment. F What is CASTORIA r Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare- poric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It contains neither fc. Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. For i. more than thirty years it ban been In constant use forthe relief of Constipation, Flatulency, "Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, r and. by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the as T slmilation of Food giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea. The Mother's Friend, The Kind You Have Always Bought S7 Bears the In Oss For Over 30 Years thc cciitmmi eoMMsnr, mw rosm crrr. Ladies' $1.50 Silk Waists. 4 pairs Ladies' Silk Hose. Boys' Juvenile Suits up to 8 years old. $2.00 Men's Shirts. Ladies' White Canvas Button Boots. Men's B. V. D. Style Union Suits. Ladies' Silk Underskirts. Two Ladies' Bungalow Aprons. Men's $2.50 Manhattan Shirts. 1 dozen pair Men's Black Hose. 4 Ladies' Summer Union Suits. Two Men's Muslin Night Gowns. 3-50c Silk Ties. Two Ladies' Muslin Night Gowns, small size Ladies' $3.50 House Dresses. 2 pairs Boys' Knickerbocker Pants. Boys' up to $2.50 Knickerbocker Suits. Opening Sale up to $2.50 Straw Hats. Boys' up to $3.50 Spring Top Coats. Four Boys' Waists. KANSAS AVE. mui.ssipbjii ill mmirimtnvilinr' "r:i twin "frtrti Meyers had broken the law by bring ing twenty-three pints of forbidden "fruit" into Kansas and to assess a fine of $200 and costs and sixty days in jail against Mr. Meyers. Meyers admitted he, had brought the liquor into the city, but he did not ad mit he had broken the law, for he wanted the liquor for his own use, he said. Justice John W, Clark heard the case. HASKELL WANTS CAVALRY Indians Would Like to Be Represent ed at Front by Troops. Lawrence, Kan., May 8. Haskell institute may be represented at the front by a troop of cavalry if the ad jutant general of Kansas is permitted to accept additional units of guards when the draft arx-angements are finally settled upon. The Indans are more than anxious to serve the country in a military way. Not long ago 125 names of students willing to serve were obtained. J. O. Milligan, disciplinarian of the Indian school and commander of the Haskell battalion in a conversation with the adjutant general learned that the state would be glad to accept the Indian volunteers if the proper au thority could be gained. Until the draft law takes its final shape the state is powerless to accept the organ ization. General Martin is personally aesirous or navmg trie Indians serve with Kansas troops, preferably as a troop of cavalry. TO TAKE ONLY 2,350 Fort Riley Will Not Be Able to Ac commodate 2,500. Fort Riley, Kan., May 8. The number of men to be chosen for in struction in the officers' training camp here has been reduced from 2,500 to 2.350, it was announced today by Col. Tyree Rivers, commandant. The number of applicants has passed the 3,500 mark. Sixty officers and men were today sorting out the ap plications and sending the first no tices to report for enrollment to those accepted. Captain Jesse Gaston, infantry, Brownsville, and Capt. Clifton Ken ney, infantry. Fort Sam Houston, have arrived to take up duties as instruc tors. for Fletcher's 1 m Signature of CO); MI Fox Masterpiece One of Screen's Greatest Productions. Annette Kellermann at Her Best in Big Pageant. Modern photography, under guid ance of master hands, has in the last two years produced for the moving picture world a premier triumvirate which, for years to come, will set a oace for the efforts of producers. David Wark Griffith produced iie first of the trio in "The Biith of a Nation," a stupendous thine of sim plicity and power. Because of the state censors it was shown only to a private audience in Topeka-several months ago. Then came William Fox with "A Daughter of the Gods." cost ing a million dollars, a mm 01 ian tastic beauty, telling a story of en chantment. Not to be outdone, Grif fith made another supreme effort ann niifwrt hefore the world "Intolerance, the master reproduction Of barbaric splendor and power, telling the sim ple but gripping story of love's strug gle thru the ages. "Intolerance" wai feeon here last weeK. At the Grand this week, William Fox's contribution to world master pieces is being shown. True to ad vance notices it stands shoulder to shoulder with the results of any other production. It tells a story of the long ago when fairies, gnomes, elves and witches ruled the world and mor tals were but things that obeyed their will. Made in Jamaica. Scenes are photographed on the Island of Jamaica and in the trans parent blue waters surrounding. Fox, in making his picture, chose for the leading part Annette Kellermann, the world's most perfect woman, and sur rounded her with a countless cast and went to Jamaica where the cast was further added to by thousands of na tives. In a long sandy stretch by the south sea he builded an oriental city, and placed therein more than SO. 000 inhabitants, ruled by a sultan whose harem was filled with beauties from the four corners of the earth. To play opposite Miss Kellermann, he selected William Shay. The first caption on the film asks grown-up to make believe they are again children. First, of course, comes the prologue woven around two birds, Anita, a captive and a Blue bird of the open- One meets a violent death, the other throws itself into the sea. Then the gods take a hand and Anita is turned into "A Daughter of the Gods," borne by mermaids in a great ivory shell. The Blue bird of the open becomes the prince of the story and thus begins the play. Anita is a Slave. Anita is captured and sold on the slave market into the harem of the sultan where she again meets the prince, and falls in love. Their af fection is championed by the good fairies and opposed by the witches. In scenes that ensue. Miss Kellermann is afforded much opportunity to show her swimming abilities. She is swept thru rapids and angry seas with hands and feet bound by rope. Another time she dives from a great tower over a high cliff into the sea to es cape the sultan. The Oriental city which Fox built was erected to be destroyed. This comes about in a battle between the prince's men and gnomes, changed by faries into men of valor, and led by Miss Kellermann. With visors down, the two meet on the city wall and Anita, who believes she is fighting for deliverance of the prince, is hurled, armor, horse and all into the sea. An ambitious ht.rem favorite kills the prince after the city has been burned and the gods again take a hand. Anita and her prince are decreed immortals, never again to part. "A Daughter of the Gods" has no particular aim, it teaches no lesson, it has no moral, has no particular theme, but simply is a three-hour film of beauty and enchantment. A special orchestra furnishes music which is one of the features of the picture. H. E. C. FALL KILLS BANKER Aged Financier's Ieals Recently Came Under Federal Scrutiny. Chicago, May 8. Robert L. Pitte, 55, president of the defunct Robert L. Pitte private bank, was found dead today underneath the elevated tracks at Adams and Wabash. An arm and leg were broken, the result, police believe, of the banker's successful at tempt at suicide. Pitte was being held for the grand jury on a charge of wrecking the pri vate bank of which he was president. Several weeks ago, after a mysterious disappearance, he made an attempt to take his life by poison. He was found unconscious in Washington park, but revived. A son, Hugh Pitte, is a member of the civil service board. CHECK ON GUARD" MEN They Must Get Discharge Before Get ting O. T. C. Commissioners. Under directions from officers in charge of the officers' training camp at Fort Riley twenty-five men from each of the Kansas regiments will be detailed for service. The men to be selected will be noncommissioned of ficers. It is probable that some of the noncommissioned men in the Kansas service will be detailed for service at Riley. Orders sent to Topeka also direct that members of the national guard who attend the officers' school must secure discharges before receiving commissions. Under a former order members of the guard' might secure furloughs during the stay at the school. The new order, however, takes the men from the guard service in the state. COLLEGE MEN TO COLORS Nearly TO K. S. A. C. Students Have Applied for Commissions. Manhattan, Kan., May 8. Nearly 70 students, graduates and professors of the Kansas State Agricultural col lege are now awaiting orders to re port to Fort Riley training camp, that many persons having passed the phy sical examination. Response to the call has exceeded the expectations of the local officers. When orders were first received to take applications, a minimum of 60 was set as the goal for the agricultural college by Captain L. O. Matthews, commandant of the. ca det corps- May 8, 1893. Topeka 1b to have the Btate convention of tne Toliiuiuon party. The military company drills Monday and Thursday mornings at 8 o'clock. Prof. V. A. Harshbarger is captain. Father Hayden of the Church of the As sumption had an accident while driving in North Topeka yesterday. W. S. Bergundthul has gone to Indian apolis on an extended visit. W. A. S. Bird will speak .it Seabrook tonight. Major J. K. Hudson was on the wrecked train at Kevere, but was not hurt David J. August of St. Joseph, is in the city visiting bis folks. ARMY TECRNIOUE How Uncle Sam's Fighting Strength Is Organized. Here's First of a Series of Arti cles the Journal Will Publish. (NOTE This is the first of a series of articles setting forth in A. B. C. language tiie fundamentals unit or ganization of the United States army, navy and allied services. It will be confined strictly to elemental facts. This one deals with the company the smallest army unit.) Washington, May 8. The infantry company is the basis army unit the smallest unit having administrative powers over its men, and the smallest unit for messing, quartering and sup plying equipment. The peace strength of an infantry company is: The captain, first lieuten ant, second lieutenant, first sergeant, mess sergeant, supply sergeant, 6 sergeants, 11 corporals, 2 cooks, 2 buglers, 1 mechanic, 19 privates (first class), and 56 privates a total per sonnel of 103. War strength adds 2 sergeants, 6 corporals, 1 cook, 1 mechanic, 9 first class privates, and 31 privates a total war strength of 153 men. The cavalry troop equivalent of the infantry company peace strength, includes: A captain, first lieutenant, first sergeant, mess sergeant, supply sergeant, stable sergeant, 5 sergeants, 8 corporals, 2 cooks, 2 horse-shoers, 1 saddler, 2 buglers, 10 first class pri vates and 36 privates 73 men. Ten privates (first class) and 25 privates are added for war strength a troop total of 10S. The field artillery company (in a regiment of two battalions) consists of; Captain, first lieutenants, regimen tal sergeant-major, two battalion sergeants-major, first sergeant, two color sergeants, mess sergeant, supply ser geant, stable- sergeant, two sergeants, nine corporals, horse-shoer, saddler, mechanic, three buglers, two cooks, five privates first class), fifteen pri vates, band leader, assistant band leader, sergeant bugler, two band ser geants, four band corporals, two mu sicians first class), four musicians (first class), four musicians (second class), thirteen musicians (third class.) When a regiment consists of three battalions, there is added: One bat talion sergeant-major, one sergeant, three corporals, one bugler, one pri vate first class and five privates. There are six guns or howitzers to each field artillery regiment in peace times. In war, the number may be in creased to meet the exigencies of the occasion. Each battery, at peace strength, carries two machine-gun caissons with 4200 rounds of ammuni tion. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS Topekans Asked to Serve on Conscrip tion Registration Boards. An urgent call for volunteers to serve as members of the precinct reg istration boards on "conscription day" was issued today by Jay E. House, mayor. The mayor also called for property owners to volunteer the use of their property "as a patriotic duty." In a recent letter from the war de partment Mayor House was informed that volunteers could be obtained to serve as members of the precinct boards on conscription day and that property would be 'olunteered for use in each' precinct.- Since the mayor's first call for volunteers fifty-nine Topekans have offered their services. Nine property owners have offered their places. Ninety-six volunteers for clerks on the precinct boards are needed, and a board in each precinct will neces sitate the use of thirty-two locations. Call Gen. Pershing to Washington. Sun Antonio. May 8. Maj. Gen. John J Pershinp, commander of the southern de partment, left last nifrlit for Washington in response to a message from the war de partment. He is expected to take an active part in plans for training the new army. I Thousands Praise in ii TTPHTTm im Enormous irmy of Stomach Sufferers Led to Health By iingie Dose. Stomach Trouble causes a multitude of ailments, and often results in Gall Stones, Yellow Jaundice. Acute and Chronic Indigestion. Appendicitis, Con, siipation. Auto-intoxication, Gas Pressure, Fear of Heart Disease. Can cer and Ulcers of the Stomach and Intestines, etc, etc. One dose of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy has proven successful in thousands of cases of Stomach Trouble. This explains its enormous sale. Has been taken and is recommended by Physicians, Jus tice of the Supreme Court, Congress men, Lawyers. Nurses, Ministers, Farmers, Educators, Mechanics prob ably your own neighbor. Many owe their lives to Mayr's Wonderful Rem edy. Thousands say it has saved them from the knife. Contains no alcohol or habit-forming drugs. FREE book let on Stomach Ailments. Address Geo. H. Mayr. Mfg. Chemist, Chicago. Better yet obtain a bottle of Mayr's Wonderful Remedy from Tully Mc Farland Drug Co., or any reliable druggist, who will refund your money if it fails. Adv. A marriage license was issued from the office of the probate court today to William A. Crites, Meriden, age 24, and Golda M. Landon, Meriden, age 20. Dr. William S. Norton, of Musca tine, Iowa, and his daughter, Ruth, are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan D. Norton, at 618 West Eighth avenue. W. F. Robey left Monday for Springfield, Mo., where he will attend the Kansas-Missouri convention of the Loyal Order of Moose. Mr. Robey is vice-past-dictator of the local lodge. Samuel Clark, of Hutchinson, has come to Topeka to stay with his fath er. Rev. G. H. Clark, who is seriously ill at his home, at 379 Arter avenue. There was no change reported in Rev. Clark's condition this morning. A May Fete festival will be given Wednesday evening by the pupils of the Wanamaker school, at the school building. The program will be under the direction of Miss Eva Millard and will consist of"a- series of folk dances and the crowning of the May queen. Clifford Pierce, state secretary of the Y. M. C. A., is attending a district conference of the association in Chi cago. Definite plans for the western associations will be- adopted. The meeting there is similar to the confer ence of the state branches recently held in Topeka. Inez Herner, pianist, and Roy Nay lorj vocalist, were chosen Monday to represent the Topeka high school at the state musical contest to be held at Emporia May 11. The high school or chestra. Glee lub and girls' chorus will compete In the contest for honors in their departments. Rev. G. K. Hartman will attend the three days' conference of the United Brethren church which will be held in Wichita, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. A special train of eastern delegates will arrive in Topeka to morrow noon and Rev. Hartman will accompany them to the conference. Announcement cards were sent to all members of the Chamber of Com merce today, of the address Saturday noon by Sidney L. Gulick of New York on "The Oriental Problem and Its Solution." Mr. Gulick lived for twenty-seven years in Tokio, is a writer of renown and thoroly understands the Oriental problem. A special patriotic program will be given this evening at the Westmin ster Presbyterian church in honor of the Topeka soldiers, including men who are about to enlist and those'who are eligible to conscription. Special music, consisting of a ladies' quartet and orchestra selections, will be the feature of the evening. The Rev. Dr. S. B. Alderson will have charge of the program. The Associated Alliance of the Uni tarian churches of Kansas City, Law rence and Topeka will meet in Topeka Friday morning, May 1 1. for an all day session. Meetings will be held in the Unity church with dinner serv ed at the Virginia- Among the fea tures of the program will be lectures by Dr. Sara Greenfield and Mrs. Mary Newson, of Washburn. Vocal selec tions will be sung by Miss Carolyn Lovewell and readings will be given by Miss Effie Graham from her book, "Aunt Liza's Praisin' Gate." The annual debate at the Assump tion high school will be held at the high school tonight. The question un der debate is, "Resolved, That the legal profession has done more for humanity than the medical." The af firmative team is composed of Helen Bretten, John Flynn and John Fentl more. John Hartley Mary McAn drews and William Oderman will take the negative. Judges of the contest are Scott Hopkins, Tom McNeal and Miss Ina M. Harkins. The winning team will be awarded a gold medal. Twenty Topeka Shriners will go to the national Shrine- convention at Minneapolis next month and wage an other fight for separation from Ab dallah Shrine at Leavenworth. A like fight was made at the national con vention at Buffalo last summer and while the Topekans were turned down, they came back fully satisfied that another year of string pulling would win them the coveted prize, another Shrine in Kansas, with Topeka as headquarters. Leavenworth Shriners are expected to fight as hard this year as they did last to make a sep aration impossible. Topekans who in tend to make the trip are: L. L. Kiene, Frank Sturges, Henry Beuchner, George Hart, Fred Voiland, Dr. J. A. Steinmeyer, J. B. Roncyson, James Cuthbert, S. M. Spencer, George Stans- field and L. M. Penwell. SALOON KEEPERS QUIT Prospects of "Dry" America Induce 200 to Close Bars in Chicago. Chicago, May 8. Two hundred Chi cago saloonkeeepers voluntarily are preparing to allow their licenses to lapse and will withdraw from the bus iness because of the prospects of a dry America during the w .r, according to a report today to the city council finance committee from the comp troller's office. Under the ordinances, these licenses once allowed to lapse, may not be renewed. The annual revenue loss to the city will be $200,000, the report said. ON SOCIABILITY TOUR 32 Colorado Springs Boosters Thru 4 States on 12 Day Auto Jaunt. Colorado Springs, Colo., May 8. Eight automobiles carrying a total of 32 passengers left here today for a 12 day sociability tour over the Albert Pike highway to Tulsa, Okla,, and back to Colorado Springs via JopUn, Mo. The tourists will cover a total of 1,809 miles and will travel by way of Lamar, Colo., Dodge City, Kan., Enid, Oklahoma City and Tulsa, Okla., Jop Un, Mo., and Independence and Wich ita, Kan. WOMEN RECRUIT FAST Join "Home Army" in England at Rate of 1,500 a Day. London, May 8. Women recruits for the "home army" are enrolling thruout England at the rate of 1,500 a day, according to estimates today. Already more than 10,000 of the 50, 000 urgently needed are at work on the land. There is still a widespread demand for milkmaids. Free training, an outfit, mainte nance during instruction, eighteen shillings a week about $4.50 and good food are offered to strong, healthy girl for all sorts of "home army" service. Contract Awarded for $25,000 Structure in St. Francis. Cheyenne County Witnessing a Big Period of Prosperity. Saint Francis, Kan-, May 9. The contract for the new high school building here has been let to A. G. Gibson, of Sherbert, Neb. The con tract price calls for a $25,000 building to be completed in time for occupancy next fall. A site of ground of 10 acres has been secured for the building. Six inches more of snow has fallen in Cheyenne county. Wheat and oth er growing crops have been revived, and the general crop conditions have wonderfully improved. 1.36 inches of moisture was recorded by the govern ment gauge. The Herald Publishing Co., St. Francis, have just installed a model No. 19 linotype for their office. The Herald is the only paper printed in Cheyenne county. Mrs. Minnie A. Lawless is the editor and publisher. She is the only woman editor in the Sixth district, and she keeps her pa per at the head of the procession of progress. Now that Sheridan county is going to have a modern court house to take tha place of the old shack that has been an .eye sore to her people many years, and the county commissioners of Decatur county are circulating pe titions to vote on a modern court house proposition in Decatur county, a move is talked of that Cheyenne county can well afford to replace their frame building for a new fireproof, modern county building. If success ful there will only be one frame court house remaining in the Sixth district, and that in Sherman county. "Keep to the Right" signs are being put up on the main business street in Saint Francis by Mayor Uplinger. GETS NEW HUE TRUCK. Clay Center" Will 3Vow Have Regular Paid lire Department Clay Center, Kan., May 8. The new motor fire truck recently bought by the mayor and city council arrived in Clay Center Monday afternoon. Tha truck is a Jeffrey make and is equip ped with a rotary pump, fire hose and chemical apparatus. It cost the city $5,825, and was made specially for Clay Center, and bears the name of the fire department. The Clay Center champion volun teer fire laddies are now a thing of the past and their places wTill be taken by a paid department. It is expected the better equipment for fire protec tion will lessen the fire insurance rate. CITY IS GAILY ATTIRED New York a Riot of Color to Receive French and British Envoys. New Tork, May S. New Tork ap peared today in a blaze of color in anticipation of the visit tomorrow of the French war commission and of the British commission, which will ar rive in the city early Friday. Work men were busy completing the elab orate decorations at various points where the visiting envoys will be re ceived and from private buildings the tri-color of France, the Union Jack and the American flag hung side by side. In addition, municipal employes and many citizens were installing elec tric lights for the illuminating display of the principal buildings at night. It is planned to make the banquet to the joint commissions on Friday night the greatest event of the visit. Hundreds of requests from distin guished persons in "Washington and other parts of the country have been refused because the seating capacity of the banquet hall, which is one thou sand, already has been alloted to members of the mayor's committee and officials. ASK WAR PROHIBITION 30,000 Kansans Appeal to Congress to Suspend Liquor Traffic." Petitions from 30,000 men, women and children who urge nation wide prohibition of the liquor traffic during the war with Germany, have been sent to President Wilson by Governor Cap per. The petitions were signed by residents of Kansas and other states. In addition to the petitions numer ous letters from men and women who favor prohibition both during and af ter the war were sent. The petitions will be offered in congress in support of measures now pending which seek abolition of the liquor traffic during the war period. CITY HAS WARB0ARD Chicago Organizes to Co-ordinate Ef forts and Measure Resources. Chicaog, May 8. The task of meas uring every source and energy of Chi cago for national service and of co ordinating all war activities was begun today by the Citizens' War Board of Chicago, organized by 300 representa tive men and women. Thr its direc tors it was announced the organization will act as a clearing house of men. material, wealth and relief, co-operating with the state and national coun- Lemons Beautify! Make Quarter Pint of Lotion, Cheap What girl or woman hasn't heard of lemon juice to remove complexion blemishes; to bleach the skin and to bring out the roses, the freshness and the hidden beauty? But lemon juice alone is acid, therefore irritating, and should be mixed with orchard white ihis way. Strain through a fine cloth the juice of two fresh lemons into a bottle containing about three ounces Of orchard white, then shake well and you have a whole quarter pint of skin and complexion lotion at about the cost one usually pays for a small jar of ordinary cold cream. Be sure to strain the lemon juice so no pulp gets into the bottle, then this lotion will re main pure and fresh for months. When applied daily to the face, neck, a cms and hands it should help to bleach. clear, smoothen and beautify the skin. Any druggist will supply three ounces of orchard white at very little cost and the grocer has the lemons. Advertisement. You Should Wear Justrite Corsets You Ad mire Put yourself in the hands of our corsetieres who know G-D Justrite corsets thoroughly, and see what they will do for your figure. Tou'll be amazed and delighted to see the lines G-D Justrites impart to your figure. Being designed over living models with perfect figures, they lend the same lines to you, smoothing over any irregularities, and bring ing out the better lines. Why not wear a G-D Justrite and see what it will do for your figure? Women everywhere are wearing G-D Justrites. ciack raced G-D Justrites are R V S T L E S S and guaranteed to give satisfac tory wear. We can fit every type of figure with Justrites at the price you usually pay, too. Few Drops When Corns Hurt, Pain Stops! 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