The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
August 9, 1917

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XVEATHKR FORECAST for Kansas: Generally fair tonight and Fri day. Cooler tonight and wanner Fri day. JAXSAs apologizes for not aiding the nation's record corn crop this jreur but wait until 1918! THREE CENTS HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1917 EIGHT PAGES GIRl. POSES AS A F. A. RAY IS FIRST ACCEPTED IN CO. FOR DRAFT ARMY NOW READY TO CLAMP LAW ON FOPD RMS WHITE SLAVERY LAW IN KANSAS MAY BE A FARCE Irregularities in Passage of Bill Have Been Found. NO FEAR FROM LEGAL ASSAULT ON DRAFT LAW Emma Goldman, "Anarchist Queen," Going Into Courts. TOPEKA'S FIRST CORPS TO FORT SILL BOY AND SELLS 1 STATE JOURNALS Barefooted and Clad in Rom-j pers, She Made a Hit. I Shawnee Board Gets a Slow I Immediate Action by Chicago Start This Morning. Grand Jury Planned. j Little Tot Hid Curls Under Cap 'Only One Man Taken From Food Law, Passed by Congress, Would Make 1913 Act Inopera tive and Unconstitutional. Constitutionality of Foreign Service Already Settled. To Conceal Sex. First Eleven Examined. in Force Friday. I 8 YEARS OLD BUT WORKED MEN I Trick Discovered "When She Ap- j pealed to Officer Brush. I "ewsies Jealous Got a Sickel a Paper. Barefooted and clad in romper, a chubby little piece of humanity with half a dozen State Journals under one arm appealed to Officer Brush, the bis traffic policeman at Eighth and Kan sas avenue. "I wish you'd come over here to the transfer station and make the hoys quit ktddin' me." said a small voice "What's the matter. buddy, why don't yon lick 'era?" laughingly s.ig ested the officer. "I ain't no 'buddy' and I can't t'ck 'em," the youngster retorted. "I'm a girl,' and to prove it she pulled off her hat and let her hair full down the back of her neck in curls. Thai is the way the police depart ment. Miss Kva Cuming, welfare worker, and Mrs. H. I. Burns, of 5US East Fourth street, mother of the 9-irl, learned she ws selling papers with the ooys on Kansas avenue. And that's the way Vera, that's her name. lost her Job. Mrs. Burns and Miss littln tot I put one uver but that it must not be i repeated. Tucked Her llair duler Cap. When Miss Corning learned that an 8-year-old girl who is so little that she looks more like a 5-year-old was competing with boys in selling papers she planned a little tour of her own. She 'rtUtched the little girl slip her hair under her hat, step up to the and with just her eyes showing over I lift counter ask for papers. he watched her take them out on the street and peddle them. 'Hello, little girl, what are you do ins.'" asked Mips Corning. ".ellirf papers. "1 think 1 know where you could sell a lot of papers," j-aid Miss C'orn in. "Have you ever been at the court house?" The little pirl had never been there and tftfe didn't know Miss Corning, but sn? oju.i t hesiutte about gdinti lm" the "f.nue they went, little,,. Miss Burns selling papers as they went. once they pas.ed a squad of newsboy busily counting pnnis. "H!Io. Alike." yelled little Miss tlurnp -to on of the boys. "Aw," said Mike to Miss Corning, "sin 's a sirl and she ain't got no right to ::eli pnpers." "1 believe you're Jealous of her," said Mis Cornins. "Sure 1 am." ?aid Mike, "she wo k Vrn V'i'js i'ornin5J didn't know jvist what M:e nicant but a moment later light iln wneti. "WVmt ro buy a pajier. mister?" OIF: i'i LAKE GALE

12 of 14 on Ship Succumb on Lake Ontario. Head Include Captain, His Wife and Five Children. Kingston, Ont., Aug. 9.- Twelve out of fourteen oersons aboard the

schooner tieorge A. Marsh perished when the vessel was destroyed in a 3;-mile gale which swept Lake On taiio Tuesday night, it w,s learned today. Tho dead include Captain Smith, his wife and five children: Mr. and Mrs. McClennan and one child Wil liam Waikins. mate, and George Cous ins, deck hand. All were drowned except one child, who died from ex posure, while McClennan, jr.. one of the survivors, was rowing for land in a small boat. The only other person aboard the vessel saved, was William Smith. 10, son of the captain. Mc- Clennan. jr., and the boy were picked up by fishermen. The schooner was laden with coal, having sailed from Oswego. BOMB EDlfOR7SHOiVlE Summer Home of Montreal Star Kdl tor Damaged by IV last Montreal. Aug. The summer home at Cartierville. of Lord Athei stan. publisher of the Mortreal Star, was dynamited last night urrlAthel stan was in his residence at the time but was not injured. Th? house was badly damaged. The Montreal Star has been h warm advocate of con scription. Threats From C. S. The evident attempt to take T.ord helstan's life followed the receipt A th by him of numerous threatening let- t.i-s nosten In the TTnited Stares warning him that the passage ot the Canadian conscription bill would re- milt in iii rientb within ten rfnvs nnrf of other prominent persons in Mon trenl and Ottawa. The explosion, which occurred about reichstag pursue their decision in the i Paris, Aug. J. The impending 4 a. m. ripped off the balcony of the i Interest of humanity. The Socialist bread cards, which will be introduced sleeping quartets and filled the lower organ Vorwaerts says the lact that the in Paris probably in October, will be room with wreckage. It blew a large i demonstration occurred at Essen, the necessitated in part by the unprece hole in the lawn. Police investigators j center of pan-German propaganda, in- dented bad weather prevailing during suspect the explosion is connected creases its importance. the last several weeks. According to with a recent threat to kill Senator! an official announcement the "deficit Beaublen. if he voted for conscription, Intern St. Paul Kditor.. in the crop," which the weather we conveyed in a no e attached to a stick I St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 9 F. W. have been having has augmented, does of dynamite dropped near his house. Bergmeier. editor of the St. Paul not permit France, any more than any The Athelstan residence is six miles j Volks Zeitung, a German language other country, to fail to take the most from Montreal, where the detonation I newspaper, was Interned as an alien minute precautions if the year 1917 was plainly beard. enemy today. 1818 is to be passed without a crisis. MANY ARE PHYSICALLY UNFIT Large Number Claim Exemp- tlon Because of Dependents. Because Slie!'Ork May Aot Be Completed Before Next Week. Accepted For Service. llsf Frank A. Ilttv. Ht. 6. N'ortii Tnppka. 1-T.7 Albert Coitello, lit. 3. North Topeka. Accepted Claim Kxemptlnn. N.i Itnfph Kastumn. lit. 1, Toekn. 73 Hurry Lee Kennedy, lit. 13, Tecllin- Si'lt. .r.i orcht Clayton Hummer. lit. 10. El- J mom. i ilTiV John Frederick Sibert. lit. 27. Topeka. trict attorney, said that evidence ac--73 Jack Urant Welch. 407 Artcr. To-1 cumulated during the past six months reka. sou Klnier Willinm Forbes, lit. 5. Topeka. i 43N Kdwnni Isvl.l Seitz. Clearfield 14115 Hoy Sliidlcr. Ht. S. North Toiieka. Iirhuritrl nlnabllitiea. -Juuu'S 11. Tulila, Oaklmifl. -Krucst Tsrlinlltz. Uossvillc. 11195 14. -Harry D. McClelland. lit. 7, Topeka. 1117 William Nelson Medley, Silver Lake. 1 WH Herman 1). Weutwortb, Stute Hospi- tal. (MS tleore Carl Richard. lit. Ill, Teciunseh. Harris Calmer, Sharon Springs. 5;lt John Iteese Nauiuau, Ht. 0, North Topeka. 12 Wilbur ltruce Woolpert, Kossville. MS Otis F. Snyder, Ht. 6, Topeka, in Red Cross. Frank A. Ray, who lives on Route northwef,t ot Topeka, was the first I sound man found by the county draft j hoard who did not claim an exemp tion. He is the first potential soldier obtained by the board in Shawnee county under the draft. He was the eleventh man examined by the board. After having examined eleven men the members of the board and the physicians appeared to be actually Stae?, t0 ,ind the real thll?s' wn u c hv a ,.iHi0r TW T C. Biddie, stepping back "and giving control c-'t Ray the once over. on the food bul Ray expressed neither pleasure nor j Revenue Bill t p Friday. j disappointment., He took it as a mat- Congress was resting today prepara- I ter of course. j tory to starting out on the last lap of "It's all right -with nrve," he said, tbia esfllon tomorrow when'the senate -Several of the people in the room begins its discussion of the $2,006. ..v...,. ..-.j ;.v. 000,000 revenue bill. m.ou. gratulations. the board began work soon after o P i i- j i.i i h I, it had found one soldier. Seven men examined were discharged because of physical disabilities which the board held disqualified them for service. Six men passed the physical examination in good shape but they announced im mediately that they claimed exemp tion from service because of dependent i families. Tubbs First Called. .James B. Tubbs of Oakland, the first man drawn in Shawnee countv in the Washington drawing, was the first man examined by the board. He pass ed a good physical examination and physicians began to think they were going to ring the bell with their first trial. Then one of the attendants stuck up a chart in front of Tubbs and told him to call off the Iet'ers. He went down and out completely. His i eyesight failed and he couldn't read me letters or tne woras. ine taces of the examiners registered disappoint- j ment. Tubbs did not seem to mind it. He was discharged as physically u'ifit 1 oeiective vision. The board has 100 men to examine; if it works up to its schedule It luuily, lne Km!lhj, ,or .rmv service. number tomorrow and an equal mim- ber Saturdav. At the rat ,,f th. mint,n, Z l "IV. 1V iiuay iiic iisL i- .-v. unuic buhic mil- er's ruling tnat wnen tne wire is aa- next week. ot all of the men called sured "reasonably adequate support," for today answered when their names i the husband should not be exempted were called, but they have until niht on the ground of dependents. t- i I i Officials would not define "reason- Jrariy In the morning there was ably adequate." They said it varied more or less conRestion and some ex- j with conditions and that the local oitement at the court house where the 'exemption boards would have to de men, some with wives and children cide Individual cases on their merits, and others with sweethearts, were a wife with young children, unable gathered. But when they discovered to support herself or without ade the lack of sneed thev ririftH nwnv n..oA cimnrtrt from relatives, would from the building to return later in the day. i .ah Matter of I-art. Appeals to Relatives. There was a total lack of display of General Crowder's ruling was an xo::timent among the women who ac- open appeal to relatives to support uuinpanied men. They sat around the the wife so that the husband ca.n go corridors holding thfer children and to war. talking about everyday affairs. j This will strike the rich particu- The examinations are being held in larly. the jury room on the third floor. The The drafted men in the first call will hoard is composed of Dr. T. C. Biddle, be ordered to proceed to the canton Bi.yd Pollom iind Scott Kelsey At rr.ent camps in their civilian clothes, different times todav several physl- It is still doubtful whether uniforms cians donated their services. Dr. C. and other jquipment will be ready by E. Joss spent a lame nnrt nf tha. ,iav September 1, the date of the first call. working with the hnrad. MINERS URGE PEACE i (Jermans Kack i n linfrhvtiurB otion and Demand It Be Carried Out. Amsterdam, Aug. 9. Eight thou- i -r-. rt I meetln a' Essen, Germany, for the u'scussion 01 coai production, rood and Br. me ineeiing aeveiopea into an impressive demonstration in favor of Peace by agreement and democratic reforms. The miners declared in fa- .1 vor of the reichstag majority peace resolution and demanded that the ALSO PASS 'FOOD SURVEY' BILL; Evidence Already in Hand Hoover Appointment Next. Only 7 Senators Oppose Bill So Long Delayed by Them. Chicago, Aug. 9. Immediate action I by the federal grand jury against food i speculators and hoarders in Chicago was planned today in federal circles following the receipt of news last night of the passage of the food bill. Joseph B. Fleming, first assistant dis- wlil De Prepared immediately. In the past, according to Mr. r ieming, the government in addition to proving speculation and hoarding had to prove restraint of trade. Situations were frequently found, he said, where men were undeniably speculators, but "i,

Appoint Hoover, First Stop. j Washington, Aug. 9. All is in readi ness today for putting the adminis tration's food control and food survey bills into effect as soon as they become I law, with President Wilson's signa-1 ture. The president will sign the bills tomorrow after the presiding officers of tne senate and house affix their signatures to the measures. This i could not be done today because neither house was In session. j The first step In putting the new j legislation into operation probably will be the appointment by the presi dent of Herbert C. Hoover as food administrator. Meantime Hoover was on the job early today prepared to launch out on j the greatest food conservation pro gram ever attempted in a republic 1 To set the eiant wheels or his xooa Passes. 66 to 7. I The food bill was finally adopted v... t v, oannto in form nreviouslv ao- nroved bv the house. The vote was 66 to 7. Those voting against the conference report were: Democrats -Hardwick Hollis and Reed. Republicans France, Gronna, La follette and Penrose. Approve Food Survey. Immediately after the final vote on the control bill the senate, by a viva voce vote. (Continued on Page Two.) HITS NEWLYWEDS j Wives Back to Job To Let II ab- j by Go to War. raii Ralativos In Piirtnilins i taU on Relumes in curtailing. FvemotlOU Tauses. F j Washington, Aug. 9. Wives who m it. r,fffce and factories before should seek employment in "ar in releasing their hus- xn,a ""1 i n ..P i I t. i i i nf provost mars.ia. entitle the husband to exemption, it was stated. camps at intervals up to October 1; With draft allowances decreased for married, officials here say that the next week or two will see the quotas filled all over the country. Authorities here say that probably the bulk of men will not be ready for actual fighting duty before September, 1918, tho part of the national guard and gular army will be thoroly fitted inner hfnre then long before then rjnr Pk PADI4C IM DADIC n UrtllUO ll I H 1 1 Kl i ITnfavorable Crop Weather Makes French Conserve Supplies. The twenty-six members of the quartermasters' corps waved f arewt 11 to Topeka friends Wednesday night. Their immediate destination is Fort Sill, Okla., where they will assist in preparing a military post for the re ception of other national guard units who probably will arrive there about September 1 for intensive drilling be fore going to France. Before leaving the men were mus tered into the federal service. Fir.ger DAMAGED BY HAIL Crops and Property Near Silver Lake Hit by Storm. Big Rain Here Cool Weather Is To Continue. Ideal October weather prevailed to- day. Temperatures ranged 10 degrees below normal. The readings, as re- ported by the weather bureau follow: I 7 o'clock 64111 o'clock 69) g o'clock 6612 o'clock 70' 9 o'clock 67 1 o'clock 70; 10 o'clock. .68 2 o'clock. ,71; Accompanied by a 60-mile gale, j lasting one minute, and hail, a terrific i k.orm of wind and rain swept over Topeka shortly before 10 o clock Wednesday night. The hail extended west to Silver Lake and norm. Silver Lake and northwest of Topeka growing corn was stripped and some fields are almost a total loss. The tel ephone circuits between Topeka and Willard were out this morning. All the windows facing the n rth on Main street in Silver Lake, with the exception of two plate glass ones, were" 'hlTf mife o" TeiephSn. poies wesj from Silver Lake are flat on tne ground. No damage from hail was j suffered at Grantville. Dover. Bur- I lingame, Rossville or Carbondale. The j most of those communities were doused by rains and experienced a light touch of wind. Hail Big as Walnuts. The rainfall in Topeka Wednesday night totaled .69 of an inch, according to S. I. Flora, meteorologist. Half 9:25 for one minute the wind reached j Camp Funston by the war department a velocity of 60 miles an hour, accord- to take care of all the horses cur ing to the federal weather bureau rec- chased in this section of the country, ords. The hail here was as large as The capacity of the depot will be ten walnuts and increased in size to the thousand horses and mu'.es. west and northwest. At Silver Lake th Ice loms were as lare as hen Captain Fred J. Herman construct eggs. The wind in Topeka, which came in a sudden, crashing puff, did consid erable damage to window lights and trees in different parts of the city. Thi big plate glass window in the (Continued on Pape Two.) REVISE REGULATIONS Make Technicalities on Weight and Height More Klastic for Army. Washington, Aug. 9. Revised regulations to govern phys'cal examination of men registered under the selective draft were issted today 1 C Hanaral OnriTQa f tin army and communicated to the gnver- nors Tof the states for information of local boards. The changes deal for j the most part with questions of pro portionate weight and height but n ay i result in the recall or some men re- jected heretofore, on physical grounds. t The new regulations grant an an- i j derweight allowance of from 5 to 6 i pounds for men between 64 and 67 r inches in height; seven to eight pounds j ueiweni v iiu u j iiitiicri, ium- i nine to ten pounds between 70 and 72 inches and tmlve pounds above 7S lhes. The effect of the instructions is to reduce the normal weight requirements for tall men. An additional half inch al lowance on chest expansion also is al- lowed to men above 68 inches in height where there is no sign of dis ease. Men with poor teeth also will be 1 more closely scrutinized hereafter. r Where dental work will restore the teeth they will either be enrolled and the work done by army dentists or al- lowed time to have the work done for themselves. A punctured ear drum is found to be no barrier provided the hearing is half i If normal. Modifications are made also in the sight require ments which will allow physicians to accept men despite some defects of vision. STRAY SHOTS KILL 4 J Investigation by Army Officers Over J Artillery Practice Accidents. i Atlanta, Aug. 9. Army officers are I today investigating the killing of four! civilians yesterday during rield artll- j der secretary of foreign affairs, to lery practice at Little Kenosaw moun- main headquarters of the army where tain about thirty miles frjm Atlanta. he will be joined by Vice Chancellor They also, are looking Into a story Helfferich. After leaving headquar that another shell was aiverted far i ters Dr. Michaelis will visit the grand from Its course and injured a negro. dukes of Baden and Darmstadt. prints of each man were taken, and each man underwent a physical ex amination. The men who posed for the State Journal in this picture taken by J. C. Wolcott are: Sergeants, first class Donald D. Wilson, Walter R. Fritz, Carl E Thoren, Harold D. Shadinger, James W. Hesse and Victor K. Blakely. Sergeants Morris D. Milam, Ed ward C. Nash, Donald D. Weltv, Wal EPAULETTE INSIGNIA TELL RANK IN THE NAVY Washington, Aug. 9. Tou can recognize the rank of an American naval officer by knowing that A naval ensign has one gold bar on his epaulette. A junior lieutenant has one and one-half of a gold bar thereon A senior lieutenant has two pold bare thereon. A lieutenant commander has 2 gold bars. A commander has three rold bars. A captain has four gold bars. A rear admiral has a star, a nar row and a broad gold band. A vice admiral has a star two narrow and a broad gold band. An admiral of the navy has three, narrow and a broad gold band, pre ceded by a star, as in the case cf a rear and a vice admiral. The late Admiral Dewey is the only admiral of the navy on record. ENLARGE FT. RILEY To Build Remount Station for 10,000 Horses, at Once. Big ew Bakery Will Make Bread for 50,000 Men. Fort Riley, Kan., Aug 9. One of the largest government remount de pots in the country will be built at ing quartermaster, received the plans and specifications today from Wash ington. The plan calls fur ten large corrals, innumerable small ones, sta bles, sheds, hospitals and quarantine sections, barracks for four hundred enlisted men of the officers' quarters, loading and unloading docks. Flans for a bakery also came today. TViia moana nnnnp-h hrpp A will hp made each day for the fifty thousand j men of the national army Barracks will be built for four hun dred bakers and their helpers and the officers for the contingent. The bak ery will be located east of the center of the camp on the raiircad tracks. The refrigeration plant. wih a capac ity of fifty tons of ice a&ily, with Plenty of r?n? for mfata vegeta Wps also vM be constructed. AUSTRIA SHIFTS'ARiyiY Reorganizes Italian Front to Carry On Campahm Against Russia. Rome, Aug. 8. Military circles re- w, 4Vir- ('an mn HfkotvariflAi'f Alia-

l i "fnTm the TrenUno to has ordered huge artll to the llery concentrations, has withdrawn a ma jority of the troops from the first lines to spare them irom bombard- ment and has taken other measures t,UPnPircnamyplUPreParati0n Thaoo mnvoa ut -a trio trtaft r.n! tionale, have been provoked by activ- j .K,u... i,v, ity on the Russian front, altho they hflvp hen slow in romincr. because riT- ,.D;;fo ollrh; t in defiance of the Herman sunreme i command?ave thelr mistake of a vear ago when thev weakened their Italian line to m-oceed .gainst General Brussiloff. KUEHLMANN ON JOB New oFreign Secretary Begins Duties by Official Visits. Copenhagen, Aug. 9. An official Kuehlmann began his duties as for eign minister Wednesday. He has gone with Chancellor Mion- aelis and Dr. William von Stumm tin lace J. Brockett, Courtland W. Shep ard and George W. Weber. Privates, first class Herbert D. Bowman, WiJbur D. Cole, Otto M. Reinbach. Glen M. Willard, Von C. Baker, Clifford C. Briory, Frank L. Fellows, James F. Lawn, Lloyd C. Rowell and John E. Samuelson. Cooks Marion S. Chapman and Clarence D. Jasperson. Privates Charles M. Gustafson and Lester H. Hall. K. C. GARSTIED UP Every Line on Both Sides of River at Standstill. Report of Strikebreakers' Ar rival Is Xot Confirmed. Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 9. The rush j hour of the morning found Kansas j City today still in the midst of the i street car strike that has tie? up every i line both here and ut Kar.sas City, Kan. To complicate the situation, further, about 460 of the 500 em ployes of the shops and barns of the Kansas City Railways company, which Trrperates the cars, went out in sympa thy today with the striking conduc tors and motormen. Interurban lines still were running but only one of fered service within the city. It was reported but not confirmed. that severar hundred strike breakers from Chicago were being unloaded from special trains at Shetfield a sub urb. No violence has ben reported and' police officials have offered to place patrolmen on about 100 cars if an attempt is to be made later In the day to resume service. Tnjusands of motor cars were on the streets this mnrnlmr pnrrvinp nrnrlrnra Trupka j taxicabs, pleasure vehicles in fact I every character or vehicle were pressed into service. Regular lines, paralleling the deserted car tracks were established by enterprising mo torists and Kansas Citians either rode in motor cars or walked to work. Claim 2,100 on Strike. The morning passed without an at tempt being made to operate the cars. Officials of the company refused to forecast when the service would be re sumed. Representatives of the men were to confer with Mayor Edward this after noon and Mayor Edwards said he hoped overtures looking to a settle ment might result. Figures given out at Labor Temple, the strike headquarters, placed the number of workers who had walked out at 2,100. This included conduc tors, motormen and shop employes. Extra traffic patrolmen had to be placed today thruout the business dis trict to handle the huge traffic of motor cars. At some street intersections, auto mobiles were jammed from one side of the street to the other. The side walks likewise were filled with pedes trians who unabl to find room in the motor cars, were forced to walk to their destinations. i Cars Run Again at Butte. j Butte, Mont., Aug. 9. The first street cars to run, since the local street railway strike was called $at- i urday, moved at six o'clock this morn- j ing. The demand of the men for a flat wage of 56 cents an hour was ,T &lmoHZ-ln2SZ the abolition of the transfer privilege would net sufficient increase in reve- nue to meet the demand. According ly no more transfers will be granted on Hutte lines. ODESSA, TEUTON GOAL German Irive in So nth we t Russia ,,0rt" London. Aug 9. Recent reports I that the present German offensive in southwes1rRu8sia ia aimed at the cap-

1 re or Odessa, are sirengtnenea oy an odessa dispatch to the Times from there that the port is Germany s main objective ana tnat Bessarabia soon will become the principal feature of oper- ations, as the enemy presses toward Odessa. The correspondent adds that I the harvest now 13 being reape In southern Russia and the enemy doubt less will try to secure it before It can j be removed FOR STATE FARM LOAN California Council To I-ml $1,000,000 To Cultivate Vntilled Acres. San Francisco, Aug. 9. The state council of defense announced today a plan to establish a state farm loan de partment to lend 11,000.000 to Cali fornia farmers to cultivate acres now unproductive because of lack of funds. iMQRE THAN 100 PROSECUTED At Least 50 Have Drawn Fines and Imprisonment. Charge That Law Was Juggled To Please the Ladies. The Kansas white slavery law may be a mere scrap of paper. Irregularities in the passage of the bill were today alleged to make the act unconstitutional and inoperative. Mw. than 100 men and women have been prosecuted under the act since its passage in 1912. More than fifty men have drawn heavy fines or im prisonment for violations of some phase of the law. More than a score of men have been sent to the peniten tiary for terms of one to five years for violating a law which may be declared invalid. Claims concerning the irregularity or the law were made In Topeka today by I. M. Mahin, prominent Smith Cen ter lawyer and state senator at the time the white slavery law was en acted. Mahin declared the law was "Juggled" in order to please the ladies' lobby. After the original bill had been passed with safeguards against extortion, blackmail and malicious prosecutions, the Democrat legisla ture is alleged by Mahin to have sent an imaginary bill to a conference com mittee and adopted a measure which said and did things entirely different ly from the original plans of the law makers. Threat of a suit to test the history and validity of the law recent ly resulted in dismissal of a white slavery case by the county attorney of Decatur county, Mahin stated. Pet of I ron jaw Brown. The Kansas white slavey' 'act was the particular pet and-Sfyhim and hobby of Speaker W. .L.'' 4 Iron jaw) Brown. He waxed eloquent in, his defense of. bis bill, which was intro duced withvlhe approval of the ladies' lobby during the session preceding Brown's candidacy for the Democrat nomination for United States senator. So enthusiastic and eloquent did Brown become in his appeals for the protection of daughters of the state, that the Hodge following insisted on a division of honor and the bill was labeled an administration mpiuiir. Senator James Malone introduced the Brown bill in the sen te. The senate suDstitutea tne house bill for the sen I fa?e"!!Jh"B Brow" w.as,.a- I ,T IZ X. J, ,1 iu iiuiiic ami ueiense ui womanhood. But in the passage of the bill sev- eral things slipped. The lawyers In the legislature didn't like the loose, slip-shod terms which the women had used in drafting the Brown bilL .So (Continued on PageTwoT IN MEN'S PANTS! Up to Date Women Will Be Real Sporty This Winter. And They Will Make Barber v Poles Look Tame. Chicago, 111., Aug. 9. The edict has gone forth that women are to wear trousers this winter. The decree was signed, sealed and solemnized when the garment manufacturers opened their semi-annual exhibit and showed milady in what had been man's per sonal and paraphernal nether limb at tire. Xo imitation trousers are these that are to be sported by the t-Air sex, but the real thing with pockets and per haps even suspender buttc -is. And to make sure that they'll be noticed, they'll have a flashy gold braid down the seams. Light colors will predominate dur ing the next six months, and sport skirts that are being shown would make a barber's pole turn green with envy. 1 '""Jh milady',' hk v...nk or cneca pook. rnrilAM Ol 1 1 Of Jl"lf 4 intNlH bHIrb

l-Itoafs Toll of Week Also Dostroy 2 Italian Steamer. Paris, Aug. 9. The weekly official report of French shipping losses is sued tonight, shows that four vessels of 1,600 tons or more were sunk .nd two vessels of less than that tonnage. 31jc merchantmen were attacked unsuc cessfully by submarines. During the week 948 vessels of all nationalities entered French ports and 934 left such ports. Rome, Aug. 8. During the wvek I ending August S says the official ship report issued tonight, Italian shipping losses comprised two steamers and one small sailing vessel. In the weekly period 487 vesseli ot a gross tonnage of 355,175 entered Italian ports and 442 vessels of 337,1 30 tons sailed. U. P. EXTRA DIVIDEND Half Per Cent 'Melon' Cut by Railroad- Payable September I. New York, Aug. 9. An extra divi dend of per cent was declared to day by the Union Pacific Railway company. It is payable to the stock record of September 1. FIRST CALL SEPTEMBER T First Increment 200,000 of Xew Army Into Service. Board Tightens Up Exemptions for Married Men. Washington, Aug. S. With the first draft of America's citizen soldiers only three weeks off, the government today prepared to resist any legal assaults on the selective service law. Assured that the point of uncon stitutionality Is to be raised against the measure by Emma Goldman and others. Solicitor General Davla 1 at work to prove that drafted men may be sent to service overseas. Both legal and military authorities say the law will stand any assault. "The courts will approve senSim) drafted men to Europe." General Crowder said today. "The entire question was settled by the suprems court In the civil war draft. Service anywhere was approved by those de cisions." Authorities of the Justice department hold likewise. Quick action will ba necessary In case of test because llttls time now remains before the troop movements are under way. Decision of the provutt mi Mhal general to have the finnt iittiUI) men entrained for cantowwieiff taiupTDy September 5 has necessitated tremen dous activity also in all supply depart ments of the government. V ast amounts of supplies are yet to be mob- llized. Notified of First Call. j Washington, Aug. 9. Governors of the various states today received no- tice from Provost Marshal General i Crowder that the first one-third of the quota of 687,000 men drafted for i service in the national army will be called to the rnlnra KfrttAmlA 1 a i.if sent to training cauwyuawiMttM September 5. More than 200.000 will be called Into service in the first in crement, bringing the country total military forces up to one million man. exemption boards were instructed to day to deny immunity to married reg istrants in cases where the parents or other relatives of the wife volunteer to assume her support during the husband's absence. Third Are Accepted In X. Y. New Tork, Aug. 9. With the an nouncement today that the two dis tricts had obtained the quotas re quired by the selective draft law It was estimated by Roscoe 8. Conkling, deputy attorney general in charge of the work In this city, that one-third of the men called for examination have been accepted for the new na tional army. As the revised returns for the var ious districts were being tabulated to day it was said that the percentage of men rejected and claiming exempt ion was decreasing daily. SCHOOL BOARD BALKY Doesn't Order Kaiser Page From SMller but Kid Tear It Out. Chicago, Aug. 9. Notwithstanding Mayor Thompson's new school board declined to remove a page laudaory of the kaiser, from the eighth grad speller the page is being strafed Any way by the youngsters themselves. Ev ery mail brings mutilated pages torn from the speller to the newspapers. Often they are accompanied by child ish letters. Writes one: "My brother is a first class yeoman in the navy so you see how I feel about the speller." The author of the spelling boor. Ia of German extraction and the eulogr of the kaiser is the only biographical sketch in the entire book. The school board has ordered a new set or Dellers with the kaiser page omitted, i-ax thev will not be ready by the time school reconvenes next month. URGE HORSEFLESH MaMr IuUliers Itexroninu-nd It to Fill I'p Table Menu. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 9. Use of horse flesh instead of beef was advo cated at the master hutchers conven tion here today by Charles Grismer, of Brooklyn. X. Y.f president. "Horse flesh is as good as steer flesh and will he recognized as a legitimate article of food in this coun try soon, I hope," said tirimser. "I have never tasted the meat but it is used in different countries of Kurope and ought to be good because hor&a are clean animals. "If horse meat is sold, it should b examined first by a board so that unfit horses will not be used. The government ought to control the meat supply." DID KAISER WHITE KING Correspondence With Pretddent Wil son Arouses Question In KnglandL Lrondon, Aug. 9. Inquiry Is to b made in the hnue of commons as to whether the government has any rec ord of correspondence between King1 George and the kaiser, thru Princ Henry of Prussia, relating to Eng land's intention of keeping out of the war. Publication of the kaiser's telegram to President Wilson by former Am bassador Cerard stating uch assur ances had been tdVn bv King Ceorg, resulted in Shrift M Neil. M. P.. serv ing notice today thi't he would ask Premier Lloyd Ceorge as to the ex istence of records of the elleged correspondence.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1917 WILL GRAB MINES! Eight Western Governors A p I prove Conference. Scheme Has Approval of Offici I al Washington, Said. f Chicago, Aug. S.'- Altho the fom.al .Invitations to a conference -f gover nors cf sixteen coal producing states have not been issued as yet governors bt eight of the states already have "signified their sympathy with the movement to take drastic steps to re duce coal prices to a reasonable level. ,end to attend the confoience here 'August 16. Word has been receive 3 from the governors of Missouri. Iowa, Wiscon sin. South Dakota, Kansas. Michigan, -Indiana and Illinois. Govetr.or Low ilen of Illinois, -assured tre Illinois state council of defense of his ap proval in advance and had a voice In J the action taken at the meeting of the council here yesterday. The plan, briefly, is to seize the mines unless i the operators themselves reduce prices at once. It is said further that the move has the approval 01 official Washington. KANSANS WIN PLUMS Three Nnmcfl for CommiioiM in4 Army i I t. ISrnjnmln Harrison. Washington, Aug. 0. Announce ment was made from the adjutant general's effice today that the follow ing were among students at the offi cer training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, who had been Riv commissions: Missouri Paul R. Thompson, Springfield, second lieutenant; Harry P. Schienberg, St. Louis, second lieu tenant; Walter F. Siegmund, S. Louis., major. Kansas John P. Henson, jr., Gi rard, second lieutenant; Lee M. Pick ett, Leavenworth, first lieutenant; Harry H. Martin, Emporia, second lieutenant. TORNADO DAMAGE BIG Six Persons Were Injured by Twister That Hit Cimarron, Kan. Cimarron, Kan., Aug. 9. A tornado that swept down from 18 miles north of Cimarron Tuesday evening injured six persons and did a great deal of damage In this part of Gray county. Hardly a barn was left standing here and much damage was done to other buildings. The Presbyterian church was demolished and the school house partly destroyed. The tornado was accompanied by a five-inch rain and a damaging hall storm. More than 100 people had taken refuge In two large garages, which were partly destroyed. The property loss is estimated at $200,000. I. V. VV. STIR IN' OKLA. Appeal to 17. S. Marshal Report Dynamiting Railroad Cars. Muskogee, Aug. 9. An appeal for help -was received at the United States marshal's office this morning from the county attorney of Ottawa county, In the extreme northeastern part of the state, who reported thai. I. W. W. workers had dynamited several rail road cars and were otherwise causing trouble. Find Dynamite Under Bridge. Poplar Bluff, Mo., Aug. 9. Fifteen pounds of dynamite were found by section men on the St. Louis and San Francisco railroad bridge here yesterday.-. They reported the matter to the United States deputy marshal. The dynamite was on a rock at the base of a pter. ANTI-DRAFTS IN RIOT Two Outbreaks 'n Chicago Quelled by Police Last Night. Chicago Aug. 9. Three youths were being examined today by the de partment of justice as the result of a riot last night in which several were injured, when one of the trio is al leged to have denounced the draft and ridiculed a soldier's uniform. Bricks and stones flew thick and fast wher Private Thomas Keough clashed with Martin M. Kahin. 19, who was addressing a street gather ing. The police were finally obliged to charge the crowd with drawn pis tols to restore order. DRUGS EXEMPT MANY Federal Sleuths Search Physicians Who Iopcd Army Candidates. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 9. Arrest of physicians who have aided men to evade the draft is expected here to day following; an investigation started by federal agents last night after dis covery that men drafted had evaded the call by use of drugs which caused them to be rejected by physicians ex amining. Scores of men appearing before examining boards were found to have heart trouble and defective eyes. In turveral wards examiners found that thru use of digitalis and strophine, physicians had "doped" the men so that they were tempor arily unable to pass examinations. Ladies' r Every pair of Ladies' Oxfords will be greatly reduced for quick selling. Here's a few of the bargains $2.50 and $3.50 Oxfords $1.98 $4.00 and Oxfords $2.48 614 Kansas Ave. Russ "offensive Drive Austro-Gernians f rom Two Towni on Galiclan Frontier. Petrograd, Aug. 9. Russian troo;s are on the offensive in tha Chotin re gion, near the southeasterr frontier of Galicia. Yesterday they drove tne Austro-German forces fro.m two vil lages, captured a heigl't and .took morethar 300 prisoners and four ma chine guns, the war offica announced today. A Teutonic attack in the region of Drody where the Russians an still on Galician soil was only ?mporarily successful. Counter attacks restored the Russian positions thit nad been penetrated, Flanders Battle Fla-es Vp. Berlin, Aug. 9. Via London Brit ish forces after artillery bombard ment of drumfire intensity last night pressed forward from Nieuport, on the coastal sector of re Belgian front, but were driven back after hand to hand fighting. U official-, ly announced today by tiie German army headquarters staff. The artil lery activity in Flanderj. the state ment adds increased during; the night to greater Intensity. HOLD GERMAN CLERKS Consulate Employes May Know About Fomenting India Revolt. Chicago, Aug. 9. T wo former clerks of the German consulate in Chicago were being held bv federal authorities today, as witnesses against Gustav Jacobsen. Albert Wende and Baron Kurt von Reiswitz, former act ing German consul her who are charged with fomenting a revolution against the British in India. The clerks Richard Kulke and Herman Neidinger were detained on the eve of their departure to Ger many. They had been employed in the Swiss consul's office here until the government asked that tney be dis missed. That the government attaches much Importance in the holding of the two men was indicated when orders were given to keep them separated. SUSPEND KAfYRATES I. C. C. Holds Up Propose.1 Increase on Cement From lola. Washington, Aug. 9. IToposed In creased rates of the M. K. T. rail road on cement, from lola and other Kansas points and Dewey, Okla., to points located on the Chicago Northwestern railway were ordered suspended until February 28. 1918. by the interstate commerce commission today. NOW READY TO (Continued from rnge One. ence report on the first administrailon food bill, providing for a food survey and appropriating funds to stimulate production. This bill also will become a law Friday with the president's approval. The senate recessed last night until Friday, so that after Speaker Clark signs the bills upon reconvening of the house, that they may then be sign ed by the senate's presiding officer and immediately sent to the White House. In addition to its comprehensive provisions for control of food, fuel. fertilizer and farm equipment, the control bill carries drastic prohibition features. Thirty days after it is ap proved it will be unlawful to use food-. stuffs in the manufacture of distilled spirits for beverage purposes, and the president will be empowered to com mandeer for military purposes distill ed liquors now held in bond and to regulate and restrict the use of foods in the manufacture of wine and beer. Gore Didn't Vote. The final vote in the senate was obtained by unanimous agreement after four days' discussion of the con ference report. In addition to the seven senators voting against the bill, Senator Gore, chairman of the senate agriculture committee, and Senator Sherman, Republican, were paired and did not vote. Both announced that had they been at liberty to vote they would have been registered in the negative. Absent and paired senators' an nouncement was made in behalf of virtually all that they favored the draft. The senate's action virtually con cludes work of congress upon admin istration legislative program initiated last May. It puts into the president's nands for personal use or delegation the most unusual and comprehensive powers and, according to many mem bers or congress, marks the innova tion of national socialistic experiment. Consummation of the nrosram fol lowed the most bitter opposition and acrimonious debate in many years, centered in the senate, after the presi dent had prevailed upon congress to lay aside virtually all work and urged conclusion of the legislation by July 1 to aeai witn this year s crops. Passed by House Jane 23. The conference report on the food bill had been before the senate since last Saturday, and the bill itself since Jane 18. The house passed the meas ure June 23, 365 to 5, after a week's aeDate. Opposition led by Senators Reed and others and the fight over the prohibi uon provisions delayed the senate vote, 81 to t. until July 21, further conferences requiring a week during whijh the president caused elimina tion of senate amendments for a food board of tK"j members and a con gressional committee to supervise war expenditures. Oxfords $5.00 $6.00 and $7.00 Oxfords $3.48 FIX -FOOD PRICES Tentative Control Will Ga On in Two More Weeks. Chairman of Federal Commis sion. Will Take Action. Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 9. The United States government, thru the new food commission, will fix food prices tentatively within two weeks, without waiting for the report of the federal trade commission on costs of production, according to Dr. E. J. Merchant, chairman of a federal com mission, which is here today, investi gating flour and bread production costs. CALL 1000 CARPENTERS Fuller Construction Co. at Riley Wants Army of Workers. Fort Riley, Kan., Aug. 9. The Full er Construction company, which has the contract for building the army cantonment, today issued a call for 1,000 carpenters. The men are asked to bring their own tools and report at once. They will be paid 65 cents an hour, time and half for overtime and double on Sunday, it was announced. Forty-three hundred men are now employed on the new building which the construction company hopes, to nave completed by September 15. WHITE SLAVERY (Continued from rage Oot) they injected a few safeguards. For instance they provided that men should be punished for leading only women of good reputation and stand ing astray. They provided further that statutory safeguards for virgin ity should extend only to women SO years old. When a woman passed the AO post, she was expected to be able to make her own deductions as to the wiles and sins and snares and pitfalls urovided by sinful man. And when a woman under the 30-year provision complained that a man had lured her from one place to another within the state or thru two states, the woman must establish her own character he- fore securing a conviction on white slavery charges. Protest From Toadies. That original law was passed late In February and was published in the State Journal February 27, 1913. As soon as that law was published so the legislative gossip goes the members of the ladies' lobby let forth loud and emphatic protest. They went right to speaker Brown with their trouble. They read him the riot act and said things that made him squirm and dodge and explain and of fer new promises so the gossips ten. And then, it is reported. Brown offer ed to fix the whole matter to the satisfaction of everyone. Whereupon it appears that a con ference committee was suddenly and unexpectedly appointed on the white slavery bill altho the measure was already passed by both houses and had been published ana became a law. 'sut the conference committee sat on the seemingly imaginary measure for its consideration, removed the safeguards injected by the lawyer members of the house, provided that a woman could not secure conviction on uncorroborat ed testimony, and sent the bill back to the house and senate for concur rence. And that day Brown was hap py. He had won the plaudits of the women in the galleries and received a large box of American Beauty roses as evidence of appreciation. The new bill the one which seems to have come from no place at all was published March 4, 1918 just five days after the publication of the orig inal law. Yet the new bill, Mahin declares, had a most questionable rec ord, while the bill published February 27, shows a clear record thru the two houses. N Another charge against the law af fects its constitutionality in seeking to regulate interstate traffic. The in terstate question is covered by the Mann act and the legislature is claim ed to have left a serious defect in the I law by seeking to restrict not only traffic within the state, but also the taking of women from one state to another. Man Xjost, 17 to 30. One of the first prosecutions under the new law in- Kansas was in a northwestern Kansas county where a 17-year-old boy was charged with leading a 30 year old woman astray. Many other prosecutions have been brought in the state and many keepers of hotels and rooming houses have been called upon to atone for the law because an impetous man took a wo man to the placefor immoral pur poses. It is asserted that more than 100 prosecutions have been brought in the state for violations of the provisions of the law. Persons convicted of vio lation of the law are subject to im prisonment for terms of one to five years. Nearly 25 men have been sent to Lansing to serve sentences for vio lation of the act. "I know the record of the law now on the statute book is not clear and that cannot be defended in the courts," said Mahin. "None the less a number of men have been convicted and are" serving sentence under its provisions. The law as it stands to day leaving out the question of ir regularities in legislative procedure is an open invitation to blackmail and the use of our courts for purposes of extortion. The original bill passed by the legislature afforded a certain protection, but there is no manner of estimating the number of cases of blackmail committed in Kansas be cause of the present law." Recently Mahin threatened to pre sent the record of the measure in an appeal to the supreme court from Decatur county. As a result of the claims of irregularities tn the passage of the measure, the prosecution was dismissed by- the Decatur county at torney. Close German Hotels Amsterdam, Aug. 8. pour of the principal hotels in the Harz moun- tains in northwest Germany have been j closed by the authorities in connee f tion with clandestine dealings in meat, according to a dispatch received here. 1 The closing of several more hotels and i food stores is expected. For War to the Finish. Wellington, N. Z., Aug. 8. Amid the greatest enthusiasm the New Zealand parliament today adopted a i resolution in favor of "carrying on the war until Germany has been van- auished." To Renew the Appetite TAKE HORSFORD'S ACID PHOS PHATE. Renews healthy activity of the stomach, promotes digestion and gives an appetite for food. Buy a bottle, i Adv. o HOLY LAND STARVING Poorer Classes Wiped Out 8,000 Cases of Typhus In Beirut. New York, Aug. 9. Conditions iu Syria and Palestine are declared to be "the worst possible" by a refugee who fled from there and by circuitous routes has Just reached New York and reported to the American com mittee for Armenian and Syrian re lief. The committee's informant, whose name is withheld, said there were 8.000 cases of typhus in Beirut when he left, owing mainly to a lack of medicine and scarcity of doctors. The poorer classes have been wiped out by starvation, he said. In Leba non, he saw many villages and towns without a single inhabitant. Relief work in Beirut is being carried out in behalf of the American committee by Americans there. GIRL POSES AS BOY IContinned from Vage Onet cried Vera, dancing away to meet a man. "Sure, what are they worth?" "Three cents." Worked a Man. The man handed her a nickel. She looked puzzled for a minute then look ed up and smiled at the man. I haven t any change, she sal a. 'That's all rigmt, keep the change." said the man. auss uorning smiiea ana waiKea on with her charge. The little girl looked up with her engaging smile and let Miss Corning In on the secret. "You know." she said, "I never carry any change." That was all, but It explained why her funds were all nickels and why she had excited the envy of all the newsboys on the street. Once at the court house, Vera sold papers to Judge Ralph Gaw, juvenile magistrate, to whom Miss Corning was taking her. She sold papers to everyone else who would look at her. Later Miss Corning took the girl' home to her mother and explained the situation. The mother stated that it was not at all necessary for her little daughter to sell papers and that she didn't dream she was up on the ave nue selling them. "Most of the children down here," she said, "sell papers at the Santa Fe station just for the fun of it and Vera wanted to do what the others did, I permitted that just for her pleasure, but I did not know she was going up town, posing as a boy and selling the papers all over town." She added" that while she hated to do it, she would have to end Vera's business career for the present. damaged' byhail fContlnned from Page One! Voiland clothing store was blown in and a motor car in front of the Cozy meater was twisted around on the pavement considerably. Flora, at the weather bureau this morning, declared there will Be no more rain tonight or tomorrow. Continued Cool Weather. The forecast calls for generally fair weather tonight and Friday with con tinuing low temperatures tonight and warmer Friday. The lowest temper ature Wednesday night was 63, which was four degrees below, normal. At 9:30 o'clock this morning the mer cury stood at 68 and indications were that it would not go above 80 today Tonight it will go back down to around the 60 mark. Tomorrow 85 or 90 is promised. On the whole. To peka is going to get a slice of "mile high" weather. Sleeping tonight. Flora says, Is going to be a real pleas ure. Railroad reports show good rains over the eastern half of the state. The Santa Fe reports one-fojrth to one and one-haif inches between Kansas City and Emporia. South of Ottawa a heavy wind accompanied the precip itation. One-half inch o rain was recorded at Moline and one and one half Inches at Independence and to Ottawa and on the Girard district. The Santa Fe reports said there was no rain between Emporia and Newton. Big Rains This Month. Rainfall in Topeka since August 1, has been 2.46 Inches or four times the amount for the entire month of July. The high temperature on record at the Topeka weather bureau was in 1911 when the mercury stood at 104. The lowest was-62 in IMS. 1.27 in. Rain at Atchison. Atchison, Kan., Aug. 9. Rainfall amounting to one and twenty-seven one hundredths fell here last night. The rain was accompanied by a high wind. WEATHER TABLE. Furnished by tbe weather bureau office. Topeka. Kan., for tn.. twenty-four boura ending at 7 a. m. Thursday. Stations. High. Low. Free. Wther Boston, Mass 82 26 .26 Clondy Buffalo, N. Y 78 60 .02 Cloudy Calgary, Alb 61 33 0 Clear Chicago, 111 72 60 0 Clebr Cincinnati, 0 86 60 0 Clear Corpus Christ! 86 78 0 Clear Henver. Colo 82 60 O Clondy Ies Moines, la.... 80 5H .20 Clear Dulutu. Minn. 70 .50 .16 Clear El Paso, Tex 100 72 0 Cleir Fort Worth, Tex., m 78 0 Clear Galveston, Tex 88 SO 0 Clear Havre, Mont 68 42 0 Clear Jacksonville, Fla.. 00 74 .40 Fair Little Rock, Ark.. 94 68 .06 Rain Los Angeles, Cal.. 80 62 0 Clear New Orleans, La,. 90 76 .98 Clear New York, N. IV. "78 72 0 Cloudy N. Platte, Neb 76 SO 0 Clear Oklahoma, Okla... 04 72 .02 Cloudy Phoenix. Ariz. 104 i 80' o Vnlr Pittsburg, Pa 80 62 .42 Cloudy Portland. Ore. 02 56 0 Fa'r St. Louis, Mo 86 68 o Cloudy x bui, jMuiu.... .yt i iear Salt Lake, Utah.. 92 68 0 Fair San Francisco, Cal. 61 50 0 Cloudy .-.nun eie. :ubiic.. n ii ,uo tIOH0y Seattle. Wash 76 M 0 Cloudy Sheridan, Wyo. ..64 SS .08 Clear Spokane, Wash. ..80 5S 0 Fair Swift Current, Sas. 66 36 -I 0 Clear Tampa, Fla. 1M 76 0 Clear Toledo. Ohio 84 60 T Rain Washington. D. C. 86 68 JSO Fair Winnepeg. Man. ..66 46 0 Clear Kmnama Weather Report. Anthony 94 66 O Cloudy Coldwater 02 62 0 Clondy Concordia 88 58 0 Clear Coolidtse 94 58 0 Cloudy Dodge City 92 60 o Cloudy Dresden 86 50 T Mist Emporia 90 62 0 Clear Eurt-ka 94 04 0 Fair Ft. Scott 92 66 .40 Clondy Garden City 96 60 0 Clear Goodland 80 52 .64 Clondy Hayt 90 56 .04 Clondy Rortoo 86 56 .66 Clear lola 90 64 .42 Clondr Liberal 98 60 0 Clondy Mcl'herson 92 no o Cloudy Mackarllle 2 60 o Cloudy Manhattan 90 60 0 Clear PhillipsburK 92 58 0 Clondy Scott City 94 58 0 Clondy Sedan 96 tiS 1.10 Clondy TOPEKA 90 64 .69 Clear rtica 90 52 J4 Rain Wichita 92 6 .44 Cloudy Kansas City 86 OS .42 Clear St. Joseph 86. 60 .32 Clear FLASH FOR PEACE Scbeidemann Denounces Gor't of Chancellor Michaelis. Demands Jfew Bale Represent ing Will of the People. Amsterdam, Aug. 8. Phllipp Scheidemann, Socialist member of the German reichstag, in a speech deliv ered at Mannheim, Baden, before 6. 000 people, demanded in the interest of peace the speedy substitution for the present government of Chancellor Michaelis, a government really repre senting the will of the German people. TEARS AND LAUGHTER Happiness Mixed With Sorrow In Court House Drama-Tragedy. Happiness and sorrow, sunshine and shadow, frequently rub shoulders in the office of the probate Judge. The melody of laughter mingles with the discords of weeping; tsarj fall un marked by happy hearts. mother, was making the fight of her J life for Isabel Connors, he- aaugnier; while she was making a plea that touched the heart of evei. Judge Ralph Gaw who must pass upon her case; while the little girl, fcr the pres ent merely a diminutive human dere lict, sat sobbing in a corner, a bride and groom and their party in another part of the office, were making merry. Harry L. Craig of Belvu and Jen nie S. Fleck of Wamego. with the aid of the probate judge, were launching their ship. Mrs. Dyer who once sailed proudly and happily from the same port, was trying to save the wreckage of hers. T Ttaa a Nt.ln m nv-A than A VRfir t tTO that the probate court took a hand in the present Mrs. Dyer's affairs and separated her from her little girL The i court held at the time tnat motner love must give way to the well-being of the child. It held that while in Mrs. Dyer's care and custody the lit tle girl did not have the proper sur roundings nor the opportunities a girl should have. The little girl was turned over to people living in -Colorado and has been there since. However, financial diffi culties have overtaken them and they turned her back upon Shawnee coun ty and the mother now wants her. The mother has remarried and lives on West Gordon street In North To peka. She produced witnesses from her neighborhood who testified as to her good conduct and that the child could have proper opportunities with her. Judge Gaw took the matter under advisement. PREFER NAT'L GUARD Two Kansans at Ft. Riley Accept Com missions From Gen. Martin. After being listed for government commissions at the Fort Riley train ing' camp, two Kansans today accepted national guard commissions instead of appointments by the federal depart ment. The two men are John B. Sharp, Topeka, and J. W. McManigal, Horton. Both have received commissions as first lieutenants of the Third Kansas infantry. Sharp had been listed for appoint ment as second lieutenant in a cavalry company and was due to leave the Fort Riley school with high hon ors. McManigal was also Jisted for federal appointment. Charles I. Martin, brigadier general in charge of the Kansas troops, offer ed guard commissions to four Kansans at the fort. All accepted. In addlcion to Sharp and McManigal, a first lieu tenancy in the signal corps went to Kenneth Lewis, -of Topeka, son of I. E. Lewis, former superintendent of insurance. A commission as second lieutenant in the Third infantry was given Ralph W. Martin, of Fort Scott. WILL FAVOR TOPEKA City To Get Favorable Recognition in Road Fund Distribution. Topeka will receive extensive recog nition by the federal government in the distribution of funds for road building, if recommendations of the state highway- commission are ap proved. Under plans approved by the state commission Topeka will become the pivotal point in a series of road building projects. In addition to action already taken the state commission approved the plan for a permanent road from To peka to Horton thru Holton. Ap proval was also given for federal aid for a permanent road from Topeka to Scranton, connecting with the Old Santa Fe trail. Other routes approved by the com mission included a road from Ottawa thru Baldwin to Lawrence, connect ing the K. T. highway with the road to Fort Scott. A road from Fort Scott to Kansas City, thru Pleasanton, from Eskridge to Council Grove, from St. Marys to the state road south of the Kaw river at Wamego, and the old military road thru Crawford coun ty, were approved. HORTICULTURAL MEET Shawnee County Society Holds All IJay Session at Gage Park. Horticultural and orchard problems were discussed at the all-day meeting of the Shawnee County Horticultural society, at Gage park today. The meeting took the form of picnic. D. Debacker was jon the program for a discussion of root crops for winter use, and W. L. Lux on the preparation of strawberry beds for fall planting. E. F. A. Reinisch, superintendent of parks, and H. B. Folker. county agent, also were on the program. Heavy Storm in Missouri. Carthage, Mo., Aug. 9. A severe wind storm in this vicinity early today resulted in many fields being levelled and small houses blown .down. No casualties have been reported. "GOLD FEET" NOT A CAUSE FOR MILITARY EXEMPTION New York, Aug. 9. "Tours looks like a case of cold fee." said an examining physician to Morris Frank today -when the latter said it was useless to examine him for the draft. "I suffered with "err ever since I was a boy," said Frank. "Right now I should be In bed." HEART ON RIGHT SIDE BUT HE PASSES EXAMINATION South Bend, Ind., Aug. 9. A man with his heart on his right side was discovered ..ere today during the physical examination of men for the selective draft. He is Fred Mummey, of R:verpark. Despite the abnormal position of the organ, it was pronounced nor mal by the physicians and Mum mey passed the examination with flying colors. 15 INJURED IN CRASH Head-on Collision on Intemrban Line Near Manhattan, Kan. Manhattan, Kan., Aug. 9. Fifteen persons were injured, none of them seriously, when two cars on the Man hattan City Interurban Railway company line crashed head-on on a curve at the west outskirts of this city last night. A soldier from Fori Riley and Dr. T. E. Mackeden. of the medical corps. were among the injured. The in bound car was late and an outbound car was attempting to make a siding 1 when the two crashed on a curve. 34 KILLED IN WRECK 100 More Injured When Train Is De railed in Genoa, Italy. Alexandria, Italy. Aug. 9. Thirty four persons were killed and 100 in jured Tuesday night in the derailing of the Genoa-Milan express at Ar quata. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chicago, Aug. 9. WHEAT Altho ensid erable interest was manifested today as to what influence the final passage of the food control bill would have on the wheat market, observers found that the chief development in the trade was onlv a dis position to await some announcement of the policy of the administrator to be ap- pointed under the law. Without any ap parent relation to the sweeping federal en actment, wheat opened 2- higher at $2.27 September and in later transactions held steady at half cent reaction. The strength shown was attributed to the fact that the government estimate of the prob able domestic yield of wheat this season was much under what had been generally expected. Subsequently, the advance was more than wiped out owing to reports that Dutch vessels in American waters had been or dered to stop loading and as a result of sharp down turn in corn values. The clone was unsettled, 3c net lower at $2.22. CORN Corn like wheat advanced as a result of the government crop estimate be ing somewhat less favorable than the ma jority of the dealers had been looking for. After opening 6c to c higher with De cember at $1.17 to $1.18, and Mav at $1.1456 to $1.14 the market sagged a little, and then rose higher than before. The ban on using corn to manufacture distilled liquors led afterward to a selling movement wnicn caused a decided set back in prices. Gossip was current also that Dutch holdings at the seaboard might be offered for resale. The close was steady at c to lc net decline. OATS Unfavorable weather had a bull ish effect on oats. Shorts were the nrin- cipal buyers. provisions Fresh high record quota tions on hogs made the provision market firm in the face of realizing sales by hold ers. Clilrftro Grain mnd rork Mnrfcrt. Tbe run tre of prices on grain fatnres on the Chicago Board of Traile as reported by the Topeka Board of-Trarie.l Chicago. Aug. 9. Cloied Open High low Today Yes. WHEAT Sept ..227 227 221 222 225 CORN Dec. ..117- llBiA' 11B U7t oat! 114'4 115Vi 113v U4 Sept S!) 50H S9 Iec. 594 S! f B-HV fxtlA pokk 6214 62 61 Sept ..42.60 42.75 42.60 42.60 42.60 LARD Sept ..22.45 22. C5 22.42 22.50 22.47- Oct. ..22.60-2 22.77 22.60 22.62 22.52 RIBS Sept ..23.00 23.30 22.70 23.17 23.92 Oct. ..22.77- 22.95 22.72 22.80 22.90 Kansas City Orals Pntnres. Kansas City, Aug. 9. Closed Open High Low Today Yea CORN Pec. ..1204 121 llfl 119. 12054 May ..117- 118$ 116- 110- 117. Kaneas City Grain Market. Kansaa City, Ang. 8. WHHAT Cash wheat: Market 2c to 3c lower. No. 2 hard $2MW2.SS; No. 3, 2.7fi(i?2.R4 No. 2 red $2.50(S2.54: No. 3. $2.42(52.50. CORN Nominally 2c to 3c lower No- 2 mixed, $2.19T2.1; No. 3. $2.1R(52.19; No. 2 white, I2..TMT2.34: No. 3, nominal; No. 2 yellow. $2.22(92.24: No. 3, nominal. OATS Market steariv. No. 2 white. 70 71c: No. 2 mixed, 6869c. RYE $2.05. KAFIR AND MTLA MAIZE $4.5004.65. HAY Market Kteany all unchanged SHORTS $2.40(3 2.50. BRAN $1.9R(ff 2.03. Receipts wheat. 145 cars. CLOSE WHEAT Not quoted. CORN Dec., $1.1914; May, $1.17 Chicago Grain and Pork Market. Chicago. Ang. 9. WHEAT Close wheat: Sept.. $2.22. CORN Dec., l.lfl4: Mav. $1 13U. OATS Septi 59c; Dec., 5854c; May, 019ic. PORK Sept., $42.0. LARD Sent.. $22.50; Oct.. $22.62. SHORT RIBS Sept.. $23.17; Oct., $22.80. Kaftans City Pradnre Market. Kansas City. Aug. BFTTER Cream ery. 37c; firsts, 3oc; seconds, 34c; packing, 33HC E7?R Firsts. 30c; seconds. 24c. POCLTRY Hens, 16c; roosters, 12c: Broilers, 1621c. Chicago Prmtaf Market. L Chicago, Ang. 9 BUTTER Market Arm. Creamerv. 35V,39c. EGGS Receipts 15.16T esses. Market un changed. POTATOES Market higher. Receipts 15 csrs. Virginia barrels. $5.255.50; Minne sota bulk. Ohios, $1.50611.60; home grown. $1 5fl?1.6t. POULTRY Alive higher. Fowls, 18 2H4c; springs, 22(g27c New York Produr. Market. New York. Aug. BCTTER Market firm. Creamery higher than extras, 4114 ?42c. EGGS Market firm.-: Fresh gathered ex tras. 41?42c. CHEESE Market firm. Stale fresh spe cials. 22V,23We. POCLTHY Live conltry firm. Chick ens, 2Sc; fowls, 22Vi23c: turkeys. 16e. Unr York "frkt. New York. Ane. 9. SfOAR Raw sugar strong, t'entnrngai. Si.ftti.fe: molapses. $6 64(56 77:' refined, strong; fine gran l nlated. $8.4009.15. w York Stock Market. Wall St., New York. Ang. 9. STOCKS Virtually all grMns were cancelled before the end of the first hour on heavy selling which strongly suggested renewal nf bear ish pressnre. The movement v,nrenrrntd upon tbe motors later embracing t coTMers and various eonipmiirs. imMnrting leathers end sugars. In several instances nrlces fll nmler mtntmtim onotatlons of the previons. d,y. The reaction w.ts oon halted snpnorttng orders csrrvtnar lr:tiing stocks no to or above wrly levels. Trad ing qnleted at noon bnt most recoveries were beld. Liberty bonds sold at 99.54 to JK.6. Sharp recoveries from yesterday final I N I m ass. DRESS SHIRTS 65c, 79c, $1.15 II SILK HOSE SUMMER CAPS 25c, 35c ,50c 50c, 75c, $1.00 PALM BEACH SUITS $5.95, $7.75 i. s. gai.itzk y. fir STOCK To Insure Yourself Best Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchant. Stock Yards. Kan. City W Alan nn Our Own Offices Omaha. DcnvvT. Blonz City. So. Fort Worth and E3 Fmsax quotations were registered at the outset of Until the Bethlehem steel liquidation runs today's operations, the short Interest re- Its course the Industrial group Is expected treating very generally. Steels and equip- to be unsettled and Irregular with senti ments, the weak features of the preceding tlveness to the prh-e fixing rumors. Pres sesslon were lifted 1 to 2 points on free ident (iraoe of tbe Bethlehem company absorption and shippings, tobaccos and denies refusal of government orders be snecialties were in further demand at av- cause of low prices fixed. This may induce erage advances of a point, industrial al- a sharp recovery on retirement of shorts, cohol rising 3 points. Rails made frac- Good buying opportunities are presented tional gains but coppers and motors re- acted moderately. Kansas City Live Stock Sale. (Tbe following sales were made this morn ing at the Stock Yard, KatuaflrClryy and reported orer iong distance telephone dt ta n trio tit ota Innrnai h pin Rnhtn. son Co- live stock commission mer- chants Kansas City, Aug. 0. CATTLE Receipts toaay o.uuu neaa. juaritPt strong, oc metier. HOGS Receipts 5.000 head. Market steady, 5c higher. Bulk of salea,t.ltltd0i$. 16.50. Top, J16.65. SHEEP Receipts todsy 1,000 head. Mar ket strong, 25c higher. Lambs, $13.50. No. Wt Price No. Wt Prlca 36 5t5 $5.35 41 1149 $11.25 10 1211 12.00 20 1200 12.75 44 983 10.00 43 Ml 10.85 48 1198 10.90 42 11S8 11.00 HOGS. 6 215 16.60 50 1!6 16.45 88 202 16.60 84 202 16.60 17 132 13.25 25.... 173 15.65 162 15.50 J COWS A NI 1 940 $9.25 7 641 2 71 3 900 7 750 5.40 8.50 6.55 3.1 -7 5ft 6,,. 860..- S.50 7.65 CALVES. 8.45 5. 10. 21. 267 .230 103 135 7.75 10.00 10.50 7.IH) 6.00 7.00 6.35 I 21. BULLS. 1 1130 2 110 2 715 1 830 7.00 4 5.50 1 .1030 .1340 7.35 6.00 1 1250 5 1440 Kansas City Uve Stock Market. Kansas City, Aug. 9. HOOS Receipts 5.000. Market 5c to 10c higher. Hulk. $15.50(gl6.00; heavy. $16.2316.80; packers and butchers, $16.00ta 16.00; light. $13.50 16.40: nigs. $12.50(S 14.50. CATTLE Receipts 5.000; Including 200 southerns. Market strong to 10c higher. Prime fed steers. $13.00(14.00 dressed beef steers, $10.0012.50; western steers. $S.5ofa 12.50: southern steers. $7.00(11.00: cows, $550'810.00; heifers. $7.00(911.09: Blockers ana reeaers, so.oo(gxj.au; ouiis. $u.uu(g.ou; calves. $6.00(3:11.00. SHEEP Receipts 1.000. Market stesdy. Lambs, $13 25(814.25: vearlings. fft.Oxvi 11.00; wetbera. $8.5010.00: ewes. tsMMtii 9.50; stockers and feeders, $6.00(14.50. Chicago Lin Stock Market.- Chicago. Aug. 9. HOGSRrWlpts 17.000. Market slow. 5c above yesterdav's sverage. Bnlk, 15.70(ft 16.60; light, $15.001 16.60; mixed. $15. 204t 16.65: beavv. 115.001(1.70: a new high price record rough, $15.00(8 15.20: pigs. $11.25(gl4.30. CAT ILK Receipts ;;.(Kio. Market strong. steers. $7.0O12.25; stockers and feeders, $5.80j-9.25 cows and heifers, .40fa l-'.OO calves, $8.50(fiLl3.00. SHEEP Receipts 8.000. Market firm.. Wethers, $7.5CXgl0.80 lsmbs. $9.25(&14.70.

Jloralna uram letter. Chicago, Aug. 9. The government eati- mates on grain were about as expected. Distilleries will have thirty days more to run and we therefore look to." an urgent cash demand from that quarter. Uulua are plentiful but a wire from 3 lm luglls thia mflrulnff savs thev csuie'too late to do much goo Id the outhw?st. Morning opinions as to the probable market action differ widely. We feel friendly to the long side. arly Morning; Gossip. (Furnished by tbe Topeka Board of Trade.! traders were somewhat disappointed over the snowing made by th; government crop report, i. ne corn crop is tne largest on record but the trade looked for over 3.200 million. On its face, however, it was generally regarded as bearish. The show ing tn oats v.as contrary to what most of the private statisticians estimated, there being an Increase of 3 million bushels. Tbe trade la disposed, to look for much larger crop In the final returns, probably In ex cess of 1.550 million bushels. Threshing will not be given antll the October report The decrease of 23 million bnshejs from tbe est i ma ties on winter wheat was a surprise but the loss of 40 million spring wheat was expected. It was the belief In certain quarters last night that the short interest 'In coarse 6 rains bad been so extended that it would e no surprise to see s covering movement last probably a day more, and muke some what higher prices. There were also s number of close students who predicted that an increased selling movement won Id be on today as one generally fniiov.s a government report and they looked for lower prices tn corn and oats. It was said that the covering on corn and oats by Patten was responsible for Absorbing the pit surplus on tbe decline wh'h left the esrly sellers tn an uncomfortable position and in evening up for tbe government re port they had to pay advanced prices, i fiew York, Ang. 9. Financial bulletin: Glean-Up The time has arrived when we must move all summer goods to make room for early fall shipments. Prices such as the ones below should effect a speedy and complete clearance. Athletic-Union Suits 50c, 75c, $1.00 Sport Shirts 50c, 65c, 95c Odd Trousers... $1.25, $2.50, $3.45 STRAW HATS $1.00, $1.50 ,$2.50 SHIPPERS a CWcaro. So. Joseph, So. St, Ful E. Buffalo. K. St. UomlM by these breaks, especially In equipment and rails. The buying of Marine preferred, Sugar issues and Tobacco Is excellent. The good government crop report when di gested, is expected to have a beneficial influence on the rails. American tnterr p nfl",n" J destined Hr Higher levels ac cording to our Information. Pendintr nn adjustment of price fixing active traders 1 are likely to get the best results from a bull trading position which does not Ignore v Horning Grain Gossip. (Furnished by the Topeka Board of Trad.) Minneapolis wheat stocks hare decreased 90.OH0 bushels thus far this week. Klevator stocks of wheat in Kansas City have increased 41,786 bushels thus far this week ami corn stocks decreased 2,325 bush els. Exports from the Cnltert States and Can ada yesterday were 52.000 bushels of wheat, no flour. 222,000 bushels of corn, and 139,000 bushels of oat a. The wheat condition In France has Im proved materially, an official report says, but there is still a big decrease In acreage, namely 24 million acres. Harvest is is full swing. The St. Paul rallroail crop bulletin, anva early threshing returns from Iowa, indi cate that the oats yield will average 62 bushels to tbe acre. Barley Is averaging 38 bushels. The following threshing returns were re- Corted yesterday; Huron, S. Wheat 17 ushels per acre; weight 62 pounds. Comle. K. 1. 165 acrea average 15 bushels: weight, 59 pounds. Clement, Minn. Harley. 32 bushels: rye, 30 bushels. Marshall, Minn. Barley 40 bushels. Clark, 8. U. Barley, 47 bunhels. The Iowa corn crop Is estlmsted at 442 million bushels in tne atate.crop bulletin, compared with 367 million. 4ishels laat compared with 367 million; tushels yea r. The condition la 92, an improver ment of 5 points since, last Jjiuntli. and 8 -better than a year ago, r Jdflfll went her pre. vailed over the greater part of the stats for harvesting and threshing .last week, Several coploua showera occurred In the northeast and the southwest counties while sections received some rain. Corn Is hold- ing iib owu even iu tne unesi secrions and is in excellent condition in districts that have had rain. TOPEKA MARKET REPORT. Toneka livestock Market. (Prices furnished by "olff Packing Co.l 11 L Topeka, Kan.. Aug. 0. MIXED AND BUTCHKKS...$13.0fl16.1 L-,)HTS ".'.H PltJH nr. ay i 13.01 lih 16.20 12.00tl5.K5 STEERS 7.00411 9.00 7 Orya B OO 6.00a 7.00 fl Stum 7.5 B.mxii 6.00 4.0062 6.00 Good to choice.. Fair to good.... COWS J",, Condon to fair""::"::":"' IlF.lt KHS Good to choice. Rood to choice Fair to aood l.nnirt on e .008 o.75 4.U0 00 I Common RCLL8 Eleshy Medium VEAI, CALVES t,. ri onrf 7. no 0.00(3 6.00 s ooiif no Medium good"!!!!"!"!"""" KOtm 7 00 Fair sVvwa a'oa sttpi:pRl'nV.'"9nnn' 'vtV.vr. .Z.J.. Fnt wethers s so c oo Fat ewes 6 OOtii 7.50 Fat lambs S.00(ail.50 Goats a.ootfj 6.00 ouuiw iniinJ. nun 1 in" I ,C uOOCr S DOVS) PrtcjB- Positive!' cannot use sheep or Iambs nn,cun fat. Topeka. Oral. M At-tret. (FnrnUbed by J. B. BUlara. corns Kassu Ave, and c'urtu 8u) Topeka. Kan,, Aug. ft. COMN K.15. OATS 78c. Ponltrr m4 trrs. Furnished by tbe Toiieka Pa.-king Caw pauy. corner Laurent and Madison. HENS 3H lbs. andPover ?4c'',ntdfr 3U lbs.. 11c: springs over 2 lbs.. 10c; roosters. 11c: stuggy young roosters, 13c: broilers. 2 lbs. and nnder. 18c. EUG8 Tie. f f- -Befall Bay. tKnrnlshrd Of w. A oiichrlat. 038 Qatar Street. PRAIRIE IIAV-5Sa- K"- An' ALKAFA J20.00. "g Market. (Furnished bv T A liet a. 21-214 ft r.t PRAIK1E HAr-ISLa'K"-An'-9-AJ LFA 418.00. i iX

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9. 1917 V Up to FROM EVERYWHERE. BY-CUUG HEARS RING CALL Topeka Jack Johnson To He come Carl Morris Trainer. Good Offer .Made Local Heaiy by Oklahoma Fighter. Topeka Jack Johnson, the beat known heavyweight Topeka ever turned out. has heard the call of the padded mitts and is about to asain re turn to the squared circle not as a fighter, but as a maker of fighters. The first of this week Topeka Jack received a letter from Car' Morris, stating that Morris will go into train ing next week for his fight with Fred Fulton. Labor Day and offering Jack the place of head trainer. Again to day Jack received a telegram from the Oklahoman and the offer sound ed so good that he immediately took tip the matter of a leave of absence from the fire department force with Chief Han Inn and Was told that he would be allowed to go and hold Ms job. He expects to leave Topeka about Sunday morning if the offer is accepted. C'lirlrjr Hacking .Morris. According to the dope given .Tack by Morris, Jack Curley. the eastern promoter whose money enabled Jess "Willard to win his crown, is backing him and has assured him he will con tinue to do so until Willard is un crowned. This seems very probable as Curley and Willard had a big "bust up" when Jess went into the show bus iness and are now battling each other In the courts of New York. The letter Wi-itlen to Jack Johnson was on Jack Curley stationery. The Morris-Fulton tight will be held at Canton, Ohio, Labor Day, and Mor ris says in his letter and telegram that a number of other fights are be ing booked and a big tour arranged and that Topeka Jack Johnson can have the place of chief trainer if he desires it. It is hinted In the letter that a match with Willard may be ar ranged for this winter and that an Australian tour will be begun just as soon as the war is over. Knows Morris Well. Three years ago Topeka Jack Johnson and Carl Morris made a tour of the United States and Canada to- Straw Price in 1917 AUGUST SUN. M0N. I TUE. WED. fclectrW'ity, en every hy servant far every home. 3 A" ONLY ONE DAY Friday last day $4.50 Electric The Topeka 808 Kansas Ave. EH To and from Kansas City and Chicago l.eavo Topeka 45 mm m 7 40 sis 1.16 po 05 pa S .00 pm s 00 pm R.4U pm Arrive Arrive Kansas City Chicago r nil Mm o m r nn a.i T 60 am 0.45 am 8 30 pm 6.0ft pm T OO pm .65 pm 0u pm 7.25 am i.43 am T.zn mm 15 am 11.15 am 11.13 am I jet Ca Help Toil (Man Through r. u stcroes. Sleepers eh... the Minute STANDING OF THE TEAMS. Katlooal Lmciw. Won. Lost. Club" Nw York riilla.Jelpliia Sr. Louis Cincinnati i'hU'Bgo Brooklyn Itontfin Pittsburg Pet. .070 .544 .5:; I .514 .500 Si 4! 54 47 42 31 .4!H i .4:is o2i Americas league. Chicairo llostn'l Iwtrolt t"levelanl New York Washington i'hlln.lelliula St. Louis CA fit r5 40 40 49 01 4 57 in 07 42 4." 49 r.i 51

3!t 7 4 .IfeKI .H04 .59 .5'JK .020 .42:; .:;-4 .002 53 4 :w OS American Association. Indianapolis St. Paul Louisville Kansafl City Columbus Minneapolis Milwaukee Toledo OS r9 (14 h'l 4fi 40 42 41 .507 .5t0 .5115 .47 1 .42:; 410 .oS0 Western League. Wichita 12 Huti'hinsou 10 Omaha 0 .lopliii 9 Sioux City ..........t. 7 Lincoln 7 lienver li Ires Moins 4 .025 .5K .5T.:. .4ns .4:h 9 10 12 I gether and the local colored heavy -j weight is well acquainted with the Oklahoman. He says Morris ought I to be able to lick Fulton without trouble and that if he does it should be easv for him to brush aside the other aspirants who may have to be disposed of before Willard will consent to a title go. I After retiring from the fight game, Topeka Jack Johnson went on the po lice force here at the beginning of I Mayor House's administration and J later went on the fire department jforce. He says he is in good physical condition and' that, if he goes to Canton, will be able to take up stren uous training at once. Ball Players Join Army. Philadelphia, Pa., Aug. 9. Ray Bates, third baseman, and W. Noyes, a young pitcher of the Philadelphia Americans, have notified Alanager t Mack they will next Saturday join the new national army. Both passed the physical test and decided not to wait for the call to the colors. WESTERN LEAGUE. No games played Wednesday. 1917 THU. FRI. SAT. Jk ft low- to buy Irons for Edison Co. Telephone 40S0 Leave Chicago 9.50 am 9.50 am .00 pm 8.05 pm 10.30 pm 2 15 am ft 00 pm 11.00 4.90 pm 7.45 am Tour Next Trip c. p. t. a. Free reclining ssn. Chair cars Leave Arrive Kansaa City Topeka 1 40 Pm 11.25 pm 17.00 pm 11.50 pm 9.19 am 11.05 am 10.50 am am 12 55 pm 0.40 pm 10J5 am VALUE OF STARS Rating Individual Ball Flayers Is a Hard Job. Few Stand Out Like Ty Cobb and Alexander. BY .JACK VKIOCK. Xew York, Aug. 9. Hating the members of a ball club according to their value is a tough problem for anyone to t ckle, because the value of a player often fluctuates. There have been several vivid ex amples of this during the present sea son, for a number of pastimers who were not expected to shine with par ticular brilliancy have come to the front. The question of who is the most valuable ball player on a club, if ap plied to Detroit, would be simple. The answer is Cobb. But whether they be pitchers, catchers, infielders or out fielders, the iact remains that there are few Cobbs. or near-Cobbs. Take the five leading c"ubs in the two big leagues this year and apply the elimination tests to individual 1 players. The problem is a brain twister to say the least, but it is prob ably a safe bet that if the matter was left to a vote by the fans, the players who would stand out brightest would probably be the following; The Best Picks. American League Kddie Cicotte, Chicago; Babe Ruth, Boston: Ty Cobb, Detroit; Tris Speaker, Cleve land, and Frank Baker, New York. National League Ferdie Schupp, New York; Fred Tonpy, Cincinnati; Grover Alexander. Philadelphia; Wal ton Cruise, St. Louis; Jim Vaughn, Chicago. The fact that a winning pitcher always stands out brighter in the limelight than any other player, if he is really a star, accounts for the nam ing of so many pitchers here. And the work of the aforementioned pitchers this season has been really wonderful. There are other players on each of thi above named clubs who would come in for a lot of sup port if the fans were given a vote. Swede Risberg has won his way into the hearts of White Sox fans. They attribute much of the success of the Sox infield to the little short stopper. Carl Mays, another pitcher, has been a pillar on the Boston team; Bernle Boland has helped keep the Tigers going when it seemed that they must surely rank with the weakest of American league teams, while Wallie Pipp, Yankee first baseman, and Jim Bagby, Indian pitcher, are bright stars. These Valuable Men. In the National league Eddie Roush, Heinie Zimmerman. Kppe Rixey, Pep Hornsby and Fred Merkle have proven of great value to their respective clubs. Roush has been a bright star with the Reds; Zimmerman is bidding ror rani: as tne greatest or third base men; Rixey's work on the mound, with that of the Great Alex, helped keep the Phillies fighting until mid season, while Hornsby has become an idol in St. Louis. It is not the idea here to name the most valuable players by any, means. But the players mentioned are those who have stood out prominently in the winning drives made by their clubs. And the player who succeeds in keeping his name before the pub lic is the one who takes the cake with the bugs.. Furthermore, he has to be good in order to keep his moniker under the lime. BASEBALL TO DAT. National JLcagrne, r.rooklyn at Chlrairn. clear. ;t p. m Philadelphia at Pittsburg. Hear, :;::.p. m. New York at St. Louis, cloudy, 3:30 p. m. Boston at Cincinnati, clear. 3. in. American League. Cleveland at New York, clnudv, 3:30 p. m. St. Louis at Philadelphia, cloud v, 3:30 p. in. Chicago at Washington, clear. 3:30 p. m. Detroit at Boston, cloudy. 3:15 p. in. American Association. Toledo at Columbus, 2, clear, first, 1:30 p. m. Indianapolis at Louisville, clear. 3:15 p. m. Milwaukee at Minneapolis, clear, 3 p. m. Kansas City at St. Paul, 2, clear, first, 2 p. in. Western League. .Topi in at Lincoln, clear. 3:."(0 p. m. Wichita at St. .loe. clear. 3 p. in. Hutchinson at Ies Moines, clear, 3:30 p. m. Ienvep at Omaha, clear. 3:30 p. m. Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. One package proves it 25c at all druggists. uium TOPEKA AUTO LIVERY 698PHOKb3737 OPEN DAY AND NIGHT PROMPT SERVICE EXPECT A COMEBACK Knights of (lumbus Ieny Klks Have Tbem Outclassed. The following communication haa been received from Tommy Brenhan, manager 'of the Knights of Columbus baseball team: To Sporting Kditor, Topeka State Journal: Dear Sir: You must pardon my taking exception to the statement made by you in Monday's edition of Topeka State Journal, "That the fol lowers of the Knights of Columbus must admit that the iSIks club have the best team." Now in the first place do not consider that this cones from a hard-losing standpoint, but all who saw last Sunday's game frankly admit that they got their money's worth and that it was, the best exhi bition of amateur ball that they have seen for some time; also that the score should have been 4 to 2 in our favor, one of our men making a "bobble" at a critical time, with two men on bases, when there should have been three out instead of letting in two scores that beat us. We admit that the Klks have a good ball team, having the pick of the town, but as their manager frankly admits, they have had the "breaks" of the game every game they have played two games going into extra innings, and in last Sunday's performance they only secured two earned run to our four. The season is yet young, and we are going to give them a lu.rd battle for the city championship, as I think we have one of the best teams in the city. And you must remember that we have had the honor this season of de feating St. Marys college the first time in history St. Marys was ever defeated by an amateur team, and 1s hold the distinction of being the only team that has defeated the Horton Feds this season, they having won .six teen straight games. We are willing to show the public the rest of the season some classy brand of ball and Sipes, Neville and Dougherty, three of the best amateur pitchers in the state, are ready to de fend our reputation, and if we only get that 50 per cent of baseball luck, we will take the Klks to a "fare-you-well." NEW ATHLETIC FIELD Pittsburg Normal School Will Soon Have Handsome Sport field. Pittsburg:, Kan., Aug. 9. Work was begun last week on the new athletic field and grounds which are to be the permanent athletic home of the Pitts burg normal. The new field, which Is to be located across the street east of the old field, is made necessary by the construction of a new building at the school which will occupy the site of the former athletic field. One of the first things to be done will be to get the new gridiron in shape for fall football schedule, ac cording to J- W. Fuhrer, director of athletics at the normal school and chairman of the committee which has charge of the work of constructing the field. The field will be packed and smoothed off and especial atten tion will be given to the drainage of the new gridiron. The field will be equipped with a quarter mile track, to be curbed with concrete. Plans ateo call for a ITU 0 -yard straightaway. Bleachers will be erected m-'-tbe west side rf the field, it has been an nounced. Xo attempt will be made at this time, it was said, to construct a grandstand. BACK IN W. L. TODAY St. Joe Gets Sioux City Team First Game Tbis Afternoon. St. Joe, JIo., Aug. 9. This is a gala day in St. Joseph, marking the city's return to the Western league, as a re sult of the transfer of the Sioux City team. Bands paraded the streets dur ing the forenoon and Mayor Marshall was to formally welcome Owner E. L Hanlon and his club at the ball park preceding the opening of a series of games with the Wichita team this af ternoon. The weather is clear and cool end a large attendance was assured at the opening when Owner Hanlon pitched the first ball and E. W. Dickeron, president of the league, attempted to catch it. Four weeks ago the St. Joseph Western league team was transferred to Hutchinson, Kan., be cause of differences between Owner Jack Holland and local men. NATIONAL LE1GCK. R. H. E. Itrooklyn (at Chicago) 0 2 1 Chif-ago 2 7 0 Marquard and Meyers; Vaughn and El liott". New York (at St. Louis) 4 9 0 St. Louis 2 8 1 Saline, Perritt and Rarldeu loak ami Snyder. Boston (at Cincinnati) 2 S O Cincinnati 0 5 3 Karnes and Tragesaer; Kegan and Wtugo. Second game Boston 0 .1 1 Cincinnati a 6 I Xenf and IMco; Toney and Wingo. No other games played. AMKB1CAX ASSOCIATION. St. Paul (at St. Paul) 6 11 2' Knnsiiii City 1 3 Williams and Glenn; Sanders and Har- I grave. Seond game i Kansas City 0.6- Si St. Paul 4 61 Humphries. McConnell and Berry: Haeer- 1 man and Glenn. Milwaukee (at Minneapolis) 4 7 1 Minneapolis 2 7 I Slapnlcka and Murphy; Thomas, Hum phrey and Owens. Second game Milwaukee (J 14 Minneapolis 7 12 3 Kerr and Livingstone: Boardman, Hum phrey, Thomas and Bacbant. Toledo (at Columbus)... 4 8 0 Columbus 3 8 3 Sohultz. Keatinff and Sweeney; Krbardt, Curtis and Blackburn. Indianapolis (at Louisville) 0 6 0 Louisville 1 4 2 Fillingim and Gossett, Sehang; Middle ton. Shackelford and Kocher. AMERICAN LEAGrE. Cleveland (at New York) 2 S 2 New York 8 13 0 Gould. Wood. Baffby and Billings; Fin cber and Nuuamaker. Second game Cleveland 2 5 1 New Yjrk 1 6 0 Covelskie and O'Neill Caldwell and Waltera. Detroit at Boston)...... 6 7 1 Boston i ..2 6 lJauss and Spencer Leonard, Pennock and Thomas. St. Louis (at Philadelphia) 5 12 5 Philadelphia j .6 9 0 (10 inning) Sothoron and Severeid; Myers and Schanff. Chicago (at Washington).... 0 3 3 Washington 2 7 0 Cicotte and Lynn; Harper and Ainsmitb. ADWTIOXAIi SPORT WILL BE FOCXB OJT OTHER PAGES. PIKES PEAK RACE Annual Climbing Contest IV ill Be Held on September 8. Winning Drlyer "Will Receive $1,000 and Trophy Cup. Colorado Springs, Colo Aug. 9.- The second annual Pikes Peak Hil! Climbing Contest, the biggest sport ing event in the west and the biggest competition ot the kind in the entire United States, will be held under the auspices of the Pikes Peak Auto I Highway company over the world's highest highway to the summit of I Pike'a Peak on the 8th of September. I The contest will be held w'th the sanc tion of the A. A. A. and is open only to stock cars manufactured by com- I panies which produced 100 or more j cars last year. To the car making the best time, regardless of class or event in which it is entered, goes the Pen- rose trophy, for one year, and J1.000 in cash. Cash prizes for the contest total $2,500. The Penrose cup, of-1 fered by Spencer Penrose, president of the Pikes Peak Highway company, i is the most valuable trophy ever of- 1 fered for a motor car competition. The annual Hill Climbing contest Over the Pikes Peak auto highway not only is the most severe hill climb- ing test to which automobiles are sub- i mitted in competition bu: it is the i most spectacular event of the racing season. The course is 12 miles and 2.000 feet in length and the roadway. despite the fact that it leads to the summit of Pikes Peak. 1,109 feet; above sea level, is one of the finest in the world. The average grade is six degrees and the maximum is 10. The average curvatureis 40 degrees with a maximum in a few places of 96. The roadbed is from 20 to 50 feet wide and at any point two cars may run abreast or pass in perfect safety. It is surfaced with disint3?rated gran ite and is very easy on tires. Altho the race course is only a liitle over 12 miles the entire road is 18 miles in length and has a perpendicular rise of 6,694 feet. It is the highest, and Ex perts in road building have pro nounced it the most wonderful of all motor roads. CITY BALKS ON PRICES St. Louis Will Operate Mine to Fur nish Public Institutions. St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 9. Rather than pay what they term "outrageous prices" for this winter's supply of coal for city institutions, officials here are considering taking over several coal mines which will be operated by the city. A committee from the city adminis tration will go to Belleville, III., today to inspect mines there with an eye to contracting their entire output for city use. ESCAPED LEAVENWORTH Two Federal Penitentiary Prisoners Are Captured to Chicago. Chicago, 111., Aug. 9. William Bar nett and John Kurash. fugitives from the federal penitentiary at Leaven worth, were arrested here Wednesday. Barnett was sentenced from New York after a military cutting affray and Ktrrash was sentenced from Scrantoh, Pa.i for automobile theft. They escaped from the prison Au .gust 1 and stole soldiers' uniforms and an automobile in St. Louis. D There's never a slip Ttwixt yonr expectRtiouB and our execution of your orders. Personal Service Bogle Printing Co. "Good friatiug Plus" Sth and Jackson Phone 778 OVER 30 YEARS Of. Experience in Successfully Compounding PRESCRIPTIONS is at your service at this drug store. When your prescription is filled here you can feel sure you're taking "Just what the doctor ordered." Geo. W. Stansfield DRUGGIST 632 Kansas Avenue ATTHETDf O lOc 2JJIIli:ill! SS SeTenth jtnd Ijnjgry 2S EE TODAY AND TONIGHT S 2 ONE TOUCH ON N ATI" RE WWW C-Starring SS S3 Joha Drew 1 BennetT i VIOLA CAIN and -MIUOSV HdiKAff ES Maliani.. !:15 and !:30 Nitrhls 1:15. 8:45. 10:15 snim ifiHMiiiimiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirre sc BEST sc TODAY ASiD IOMGHT Charlie Chaplin la a Mntaal Chaplin Special "akhind the Screen" aim A Three-Keel Westers heVanmirey BARGAINS-BARGAINS Closing Oat Entire Stock at HERRON'S OLD STAND CLOSING OUT ALL Furnishings Men's $1.50 Fitz or King Brand Overalls, fast color, all sizes $1.15 Men's 35c Shirts and Drawers 23 Men's 50c Union Suits. .,29 Men's Soft Shirts 39 Boys' 35c Union Suits 19 Men's Heavy Work Sox. .7 Men's $1.25 Expressman Stripe Bib Overalls 98 Men's 35c Suspenders 19 Boys' 50c Waists 39 Men's 65c Dress Shirts.. 45 Men's $1.50 Laundered or Soft Dress Shirts .89 Men's 15c Dress Hose. 7 Men's 15c Rubber Collars. 9 Men's 15c Triangle Linen Collars. lO mtt.laTa..ir..a m 5 4 tm or I m m i I -r mmmmmmm Today Tonlaht WILFRED LUCAS ELD A MILLAR "THE FOOd'gAMBLERS" The mo who shrinks from seeta: ibis drmnut I conscience strtrkeo afraid of the farts. The woman who fails to see this play will fully realize the trade eoadittoa co nf roa ins America today. A Comedy is Sbowa Orplienm Orchestra -118 East Sixth Street CLOSING OUT ALL Men's Suits One lot Men's Suits, ts, values $7.95 up to $15.00, for. One lot of Men's All-Wool Suits, from high grade manufacturers. $12.45 values up to $20 One lot of Men's and Young Men's Suits, choicest pat terns, worth up to $22.00 and $25.00 (MlyfC choice. J)lxciJ CLOSING OUT Men's Hats Men's $1.50 Felt Hats. .95 Choice of any Men's Straw Hat, values up to $3.. $1.25 Choice of any' Men's $2.50 and $3 Felt Hat $1.79 Is the Popular Beverage Recently introduced, it was instantly classified as "superior." It is recommended by alL The reason is its delightful flavor, full of zest and appetizingly mellow, combined with its extraordinary health-giving properties. As an addition to your dinner it has no equal nourishing invigor ating refreshing it is the bever age you have always desired. Try it today, then order a case for table use. You will find it "a rare treat." Ask for it wherever soft drinks are sold. R. F. Hollingsworth Distributor TOPEKA, Schoenhofen Company Chicago, 10. i 0 c Friday Hatnrday THELMA SALTER GEORGIE STONE la a Fairy Tale "IN SLUMBERLANO" The Lsal of Tomorrow -e Brio the Kiddles Mark Senaett Comtrdy "WHO'S BABY" Starrlac GLORIA HWAKMON" and BOBBIE VKKNOX Fel tens toil). Director. I. CLOSING OUT ALL SHOES n r I.' t M e a On lot I-atHrti W r ?t filmes. fin Tmr?. np 1.95 to S2.00 Talue. $1.95 Oa let Men's lms than. S nnd K3.50 vh1u. O 1 t fin PnmpM, up -to WOO P9 JC Wmnrn'a i'omfo- Shoes. rubber m.sa eo 1 Q fur. air. ..$2.45 Men's S3 and M Work or r shoes. e,i 1(1 pal. r value. twm ft. J CLOSING OUT Men's Pants AH Mens $1.50 Pants. .95 All Men's $2.25 Pants. .$1.45 Men's $3.50 and $4.00 All-Wool Pants. ..$2.95 Men's Hand Tailored $6.00 Pants ..$4.45 2 1 s 3 2 S KANSAS GEM Sc-lOc TODAY AND TOXKilfT William Fox presents ThedaBara in a tlirilllnz tnry of a wo man's redemption 'HerDoubleLife' This picture clvex Thla Rnra, a different miujeet. -It In not a vampire prodm'tinn. It hIiow a poor eirl f tlie slum wlto riM-H, thruush det-eit. to tom porarjr weallta aiul sorlul posi tion. Journal Ads Get Results I I J i J J

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-4 Ctrprka Stat Jlaurtud An Independent Newspaper. BY fKAAK. H MAC Lt.A!(. Kntered as aecoud-claae uiaii matter. VOLUME XXXIX. No. 1S OFFICIAL STATE PAi'EK OFFICIAL. PAI'EK CITT OF TOI'F.KA Subacrlpties Rate fly mat! In advitm-e. one year 14. o Ny mail In advauce. atx months. --40 By matt In advance, three tnoniba. t.'JU by mall Id advance, one month 30 Ratee by Carrier One week 1?tj cents Two weeka for a quarter c nta Four weeks Ou eenta Telephone 85:',o. Kaatern offlcea: Paul Work, represents Mve. Fifth avenue. New York: Matlere oiitldlng. Chicago: L'lll Devnnahlre street. Koaton: Kresge building. UetrolL Member: Aaaociared Preaa. Amerlcar Nea-annper Pnbliahera Asaoclatlou. Audit Kureau or circuiattoa. "WUATKVEB IOP WANT TO KNOW." The Toneka Strata Jnnrnal Information nnrenn at Waahlnirton furnlahca readere. free of charge, accurate and authoritative anawera to queationa on any and all sub iccts concerning which Information run be bail from the nnparallclerl reaoiines of the variona federal government depart- niBnn ana me greni iinrarv or conpresa. A 2 cent fltamD for return noatare mnat a'-enmpany each Inquiry. State clearly the information wanted, write plainly ana an dreia. THE TOPF.KA STATE JDITKNAL IN FORMATION BI'REAO. r Waahlngton. T. O. yllermany permitted Austria to take the lead in inaugurating the war. Now she seems- entirely willing that her "wicked partner' shall take the initiative in an attempt to bring abou peace. From time to time "informa tion communicated from Kurope to diplomatic establishments in Wash ington." is darkly hinted at as indi cating the pendency of negotiations between Vienna, London and Parla calculated to bring the war to an end. The Balkan policy of Austria-Hungary was the immediate cause of the war; the most that Germany now expects to make out of the war is the recog nition of a position in central Kurope contingent on the preservation of the territorial integrity of the dual mon archy, the unimpaired sovereignty of Hulgarta and the domination of the Straits by Turkey. Peace on these terms, and they are the only terms on which the Austrian emperor could possibly treat, would mean a German victory; the abandonment of every principle in whose defense the allies have waged war. and the creation of a new Teutonic confederacy Middle Kurope carrying with it a graver menace to the peace of the world than the unstable system that preceded it. derma ll leaders are so well trained in the art of making a lie appear like the truth that they cannot be watched too closely. If Kerensky succeed in rounding up the slackers in Russia and making loyal citizens of them, his formula should be obtained for use on certain members of congress. There is but one way to deal with avowed traitors. The per capita of money in circula tion in the L'nitcd States has reached J46.53. If this were evenly distrib uted; if every man. woman and child liad his share. It would be but a short time until the bulk of it would be back ihhe same hands that it now is. No outsider is to be permitted to get into the game at Fort Riley. It is planned that the boys' money shall re main in the camp. Apparently the Chinese never will be satisfied until they have engaged in a war with Germany. If China en ter the war against the kaiser and he find it out it is difficult to guess what will happen. It has become the fash ion to fight the Teutons either in the field or on paper. "Everybody's do- in' it." For a number of nations, no-J table among which is Japan, it is a harmless pastime. The efforts that are being made by Representative Joseph Walsh of Mas sachusetts to exclude from the Con gressional Record matter that has not been spoken In debate leads to some amusing requests. The other day a member asked Mr. Walsh if he would object to the publication of an article 1 on the "diatomicity of elementary bodies, which is not volatile but hypo thetical." Congressman Walsh re fused to be moved by his colleagues appeal, and the country has been de niea tne privilege of reading the learned treatise referred to. The Canadian soldiers appear to be winning Lens a street at a time. The town is one of the most important links in the Hindenburg chain. LESSONS OF THE WAR. A certain amount cf state socialism, in the form of government control of utilities and industries: an acquies cence in state interference with privi leges of its citizens, recognized as their individual rights: a closer espionage of cables and sources of public informa tion tighter trade regulations and the iwue of government licenses; the sub stitution of force for persuasion, where persuasion alone proves insuf ficient; these are part of the price all sorts and conditions of people are called upon to pay when the national defense demands the mustering of its manhood and the conservation of its supplies. How much of all this will remain when the war has closed? The placing by government edict of the 25 largest ship yards of the United States under the control of the federal government, with the commandeering of about "0"J vessels now in process of construction, might be dismissed as merely a welcome step in speeding up .hip-building against Germany's sub marine war on commerce. But who -nn av that the nation will return t- the old and wasteful competitive tys- tem of every man for himself wmcn i i.i In ih0 fflrrvine of Amer- n. in fi,rt' I l'ii nhins. The railroad managers of the United States are amazing themselves by the things they can accomplish when they are permitted to work in complete harmony for an unselfish yet definite end. Under the stress of war, govern ment control of munitions and food ana luei inamincs iihs I luc necessity had astonishing results abroad and much the same results will be seen here if the struggle last long enough to force upon us the co-ordination of many competitive and hith erto mutually destructive agencies. From all this may not the country learn a lesson which will, be of lasting benefit in time of peace? DOING THEIR BF.ST. Railroads used to be one of the most profitable fields of investment, yet during the past year practically not one dollar was put into railroad in vestments, altho over $400,000,000 wai put into new industrial enterprises. Construction has been halted. In the last two years, during which time the public has constantly felt the need of greater transportation facilities, there was less railroad construction than in any similar period since the close o? the Civil War. In 1916 the country needed 300.000 new freight cars, but the railroads were able to build only 60.000. K. C. Simmons, founder of the Sim mons Hardware Company of St. Louie, estimates that the loss to business dur ing the past year from freight embar goes and closed factories, due to the shortage of cars and locomotives and inadequate terminal facilities, amount ed to hundreds of millions of dollars. One of the most serious problems has been congestion at terminal points, which, because located at large cities, will cost immense sums to be enlarged. Nearly all of these things are due to unfriendly legislation and the attempts of forty-nine different commissions to manage and direct the transportation business of the country. Increased earnings due to the war have enabled the roads recently to make some nec essary additions to rolling stock. On April 11, the railroads of the United States announced that during the present war they would co-ordinate their operations in a continental railway system, merging all their merely individual and competitive ac tivities in the effort to produce a max imum of national transportation effi ciency. To that end they created what has come to be known as the Railroads' War board. This board has general authority to formulate in de tail and from time to time a policy of operation of all or any of the railways. Among the efforts to save fuel, man power and motive -power undertaken by the war board is included the elim ination of passenger trains aggregat ing 16,267,028 miles of train service per year. The war board also brought about a pooling arrangement both at tide wat.r ports and tne lake port that has resulted in great saving of avall- able car capacity and the quicker movement of cars. Since November 1, 1916. 989 new engines have been placed in service and 44,063 cars. Orders have been given for 2,209 engines and 104,917 freight car. These orders indicate that the railroads are fully aware of the necessity of increasing their ca pacity for doing the business of the country. Reports made to the Railroads' War board for April from roads operating 51 per cent of all mileage showed that they produced more than 3,000.000, 000 ton-miles of freight than they did in April, 1916. The roads in the same month showed an increase of 66 tons. or 10.4 per cent per train and 2.4 tons or 10 per cent per loading of cars. This is equivalent to the addition of 126,000 cars to the equipment of the roads reporting. The roads have carried on a cam paign with the object of making every car do the work of two. Shippers are being urged to load cars 10 per cent in excess of marked capacity. The roads are reducing the percentage of cars and locomotives under repairs, they are attempting to improve meth ods of firing locomotives, they are de ferring the scrapping of light loco motives, they are speeding up the handling of cars in transit and they are enlisting the aid of shippers for the more prompt loading and unload ing of cirs. If the roads be given a fair chance, the end of the war probably will see a revival of railway building. They are by their patriotic course, earning a kindly consideration on the part of the public. Nearly one-half of the world's pro duction of silver prior to the war was used in the arts and industries, the di rector of the mint having' estimated the consumption for arts and indus tries in 1912, 97.000,000 ounces, out of a total production in that year of 224.000,000 ounces. At present, ac cording to current reports, the coun tries at war are increasing materially their coinage of silver, partly to take the place of gold being withdrawn from circulation for other purposes, and in part to accompany the issues of non-metallic currency which have been made necessary by the demands of the war. Meantime, however, the demands of the Orient are also appa rently increasing, since our own ex ports of silver to the Orient in the fiscal year 1917 will probably aggre gate f 16.000.000 against approximate ly 19.000,000 in 1916 and 16.000,000 in 1916. THE TOPEKA DAILY FIGHTING NEW YORK'S FIRES THE TOrtA STATE OTtBXAl IXrORMATIOM BCSEAO Bt Frederic t. Haskla. Dtractar. VYaahinstoB, D. C. New York. Aug. 9. The recent na tional embargo on exports has thrown New York harbor into unkempt dis order. Long rows of tramp steamers, freighters and ocean liners crowd the docks and block the channel. The ..ji.j nth irtl carenes the t.ity warehouses are bulging with merchandise that was to have gone to Europe, and every hour or two an other line of freight cars arrives bringing many more tons of goods. This crowding of the harbor has in creased the city's fire risk about per cent. Much of the cargo is ex tremely inflammable stuff, some of it is munitions, and shipments are arriv ing so fast that there is no time to Mrt the goods. Furthermore, several small fires have occurred on the upper river as the result of collisions, it be ing difficult to navigate thru the mass of craft. The city has nine fire boats for the control of fires in the harbor, but these are now inadequate, and the railroad and steamship companies have had to form their own fire bri gades along the wharves, as well as to appropriate 143 tug boats to guard their cargoes. New York itself, of course, also shares this new fire risk. Its safety depends more or less upon the wind. If a large fire broke out upon the wharves and the wind hap pened to be blowing landward, the hazard would be great, especially since numerous munition plants and high explosive factories would lie in its path. In normal times New Tork is one of the greatest fire risks in the world. On an average of thirty-five fires a day, or 12.700 fires a year occur. The greatest accumulation of wealth in the world must be protected, the high eat sky-scrapers and the lowest slums. Hence, the New York fire department is one of the most efficient, in spite of being the most overworked fire de partment in existence. There are three hundred and ten fire companies, employing five thou aand men. They are distributed thru thirteen fire districts, with a chief at the head of each district, who is re sponsible to one chief executive in charge of the whole organization. Fire-fighting is a different problem in each district, some of which lie in suburbs cf clean detached houses, others in crowded business districts and congested foreign quarters. The new physically fit recruit, after suffi cient training. is placed In a company in tne worst section of toe city, for here tne work Is so strenuous that only the men in best physical trim and with the greatest enthusiasm for their work can make good. An.l even these cannot stand the pace very long. Af ter three or four years they ha.ve to be removed to easier districts New York has recently made some Important improvements in its fire equipment. It is replacing its horses with motor apparatus, for one thing a change that has brough. benefit not only to the city but to the firemen themselves. Housing conditions are much better. The fireman no longer has to live in a stable and spend the greater part of his time in performing the duties of a groom. A Tirage does not require nearly so much room, and in all the stations having the new ap paratus, the extra space ha3 been used for a handball court. Firemen are re quired to do a certain amount of gym nasium work every day. Handball is extremely popular. The men do not have to be coaxed into playing it. and it appears to do them more physical good than anything else. From the city's standpoint the up keep of horses Is a financial loss, in these days of high food prices, it costs l,6o a year to maintain the horses of one station while the maintenance of motor apparatus for the same sta tion costs just $400. There does not seem to be any difference in regard to wear and tear. The fire department thinks that horse-drawn apparatus breaks down on its way to a fire as often as. if not oftener, than the motor-drawn. The motor-drawn apparatus typifies the fire department of today. It is thoroly modern and up to date in every respect. Moreover, the fireman himself has changed. No longer do you find him, large-waisted and dou' ble-chinned, lounging on the outdoor benches or playing' pinochle in the upstairs corridor In a blue atmosphere or cigaret smoke. At least, not In New York. Instead he is usually to be found bending over a set of maps and a wad of white paper, laboriously marking various facts and directions with a blue pencil. For the modern fireman is not only a fire-fightei- he Is a fire-preventer. livery day certain firemen are re lieved of their duty in answering fire calls to make fire inspections: that is, they make the rounds of all the stores. theaters, garages, factories and public buildings in their district to inspect their qualifications for resisting lire. There are certain laws concerning fire escapes, doors leading to the outside and the storing or inflammable goods. as well as very stringent regulations regarding smoking In garages and fac tories, and ft is up to the firemen to see that they are complied with. This inspection serves a double purpose. It not only educates the fireman with respect to the city's requirements, but it makes him familiar with the phys ical features of his district. He knows the exits, trapdoors and stairways of every building private residences ex cepted, of course ne Knows wnere there are pitfalls that would prove dangerous at a night fire: he knows how many tccupants are in each building, ana wnere ine cnemicai sprinklers and other fire apparatus are located. All of this is very important, for fire-flghtlng is not an unskilled pro fession, but a very scientific one. A fire is a disaster which requires iust as much cool-headed thinking, cour age and executive ability as a battle, and perhaps even more technique. For example, there is a fire in a tene ment house. The first response to the alarm is a hook-and-ladder com pany which finds the building filled with smoke from a fire which is rag ing In the cellar. Now the first orler of the chief of this company, before the ladder apparatus has been touched at all. is to open the scuttle on the roof of the tenement. This allows the fire to go up instead of spreading out like a mushroom and imperilling the buildings on each side. Or suppose the fire is in one of those innumerable stores which have side stairways that lead to apartments above. Instead of attacking from the front or back entrance of the store, the firemen start their fire-figh'ing from the side hallway. In order that the fire may be kept from ascending to the apartments above. Various factors such as these must be taken into account. A fire chief has the lives of his men to think of. as well as the course of the fire, :ind hia DoaiUim la not always enviable, a. STATE JOURNAL for Instance, when it is the life oi trapped child against the life of one of his lieutenants. So far as courage is concerned, however, it must be -aid with all possible due credit to New York firemen that they usually do not have to be urged to endanger their lives for others. In the fire tralr-.ng school the recruit la taught how to save his own life, and he is taught many other things besides which would astonish the average layman. He must know building construction. and he must learn certain special things about chemicals. Some fires are only made worse by the applica- tion of water and instead must be chemically treated. To this technique of fire-fighting the fireman also adds his physical strength, mental agility and courage. Sometimes a life may be saved by the fraction of a second, so that it is abso lutely essential that the firemen should think quickly. A few months ago, for example, Richard Mangels of Hook-and-Ladder Company No. 3 sav ed the lives of two men by his quick thinking and sheer nerve. Scaling ladders had not been brought to the scene when Mangels, looking over the roof of the burning building, beheld two men clinging precariously to the top of the fifth-floor window shutter, immediately beneath him. Standing on the coping of the roof, the fireman braced a short wooden ladder found on the roof against his legs and ex tended it out so that it rested against the shutter and wall of the building. Then with ether firemen holding him, he held the ladder in this position by main strength long enough for 'he rescued men to ascend to the roof. The physical strain of this act of en durance was so severe that the fire man afterwards fainted and for many days carried the imprint of the ladder on his body. Mangeis received a medal of honor for this act of bravery a distinction which is a great incentive to reckless merit among the firemen. There are thirteen medals of honor distributed by the mayor each year. Now that the harbor has been add ed to the list of bad fire risks in New York the number of volunteer fire men has increased enormously. They train just as the others do and per form the same sort of work, but they receive no remuneration and if they are killed their families inherit noth- ing out nonor. it is rumorea, now- ever, that the New York philanthro plsts of which there are an over whelming number are on the trail of these volunteers with additional medals of honor. Questions on the abovs or any sub ject upon which the reader desires in formation should be addressed the To neka State Journal Information Bu reau, Frederic J. Haskin. Director. Washington. E. C with 2-cent stamp closed for reply. OH SPUR OF THE MOMENT BT BOX BY. MOCXTON. Oh! Moat every day I see her paaa. A very dream, a Joy rorever. She seems ao gay a little lata. o orlgnt ana clever. ace her and T murmur thua. "Her aort moat, everyone la emit with. Goah, what a lovely girl to fuaa, To make a bit witn And would I lore her if I might? OS. not at all: My gooaneas uie. no! Tho she's a darling, a delight, A peaenerino. Tho my attentions pleased her and Tho I discovered that ane knew ine, I wouldn't even preaa her band Or draw her to me. v You'll think me queer. I know, or cold, Vet 1 ve no w ah to De ner ateaay. The little girl, my wife wa told, la wed already. Happy Thought. Very often we prefer our best ene mies to pur worst menus. Celebrated Screams. Help! The Eagle's. Mice. Charlie Chaplin. Tenors. Lives of famous men remind us that few of them did it by just getting by. Well Known Partnerships. .lot and tittle. Pro and con. Hook and Crook. Flotsam and Jetsam. Probably a bounder can't live with out bounds, but neither can he live within them. Xew Version. The world is so full of a number of dubs. That I'm sure we should all sell our hammers and clubs. Today's Sneer. The man who looks for easy work seldom finds It easy. An American Monarchy. Once a year the Pueblo Indians of Taos, N. M., hold an election, at which they choose a governor. The method of voting is for each Indian to give to his candidate a stick. The man with the most sticks is elected. After ward a foot race and other games are held to celebrate the event. By reason of this annual election, the Taos Pueblos have been generally given credit for maintaining a repub lican form of government. As a mat ter of fact, the real power back of the governor is the cacique, who is an hereditary monarch. He and the chiefs appointed by him really rule the Pueblo with a rod of iron. The Indians have absolute control of quite an area of rich valley land, and also one wild timbered canyon. These lands constitute in effect a tiny mon archy on American soil. The amount of land each Indian may cultivate is determined by the administration. Every evening the governor shouts from the roof of the Pueblo instruc tions for the whole tribe. Not a stick of timber may be cut, not even a root dug. without his permission. Not long ago a lady living in the nearby village of Taos asked a Pueblo squaw to get her some "amole." This is the root of the Spanish bayonet plant, and is greatly prised by women as a hair wash. The squaw explained that the time for digging amole had not yet been announced, but that she would try to get it. It was ten days later when she re turned, and she did not bring the amole. She was pale and her face showed the effects of suffering. She explained that Bhe had been given thirty lashes and ten days in Jail for digging amole root without the per mission of the governor. I ikAVELETTE BT MKSAB THURSDAY EVENING, Dorothy Dix Says j BT DOROTHY DIX j Warld's Highest Paid Waaaaa Writer j Cinderella and Her Mamma. The same mail brings me two let ters showing different angles of the same subject. In one a girl asks: "Should a girl who has worked hard all day in a store and who turns over most of the money she makes to her mother, be expected to wash the dishes and help with the housework at night after she gets home?" In the other letter a mother says: "What shall I do about my daughter who is employed as a stenographer in an office all day, and who thinks that because she gives me ten dollars a week to help run the house on that she should be treated like a lady boarder and not help with the house work at all? She thinks that all she ought to do of an evening is to amuse herself, going to the movies or to see; some of her friends, or having her friends come to see her." The problem of the working girl and her mother is one of the com plications in domestic life that is causing much friction in the family circle, because it is so new that we have not had time yet for either par ents or children to adjust themselves to It. With parents the old idea still holds that prevailed when they were young that it is a girl's duty to help mother with the housework and the sewing and the care of the younger children, and to make herself gen erally useful in fetching and carrying. This was a perfectly good code of conduct as long as the girl was a de pendent supported by her parents. In helping mother with the housework she earned her board and keep. But the business girl who has be come a money earner and who con tributes her quota, of cash towards the upkeep of the household is in an en tirely different status. If she pays in good hard money what is the equiva lent or ner board, she is a boarder Just as much as any stranger would be and is entitled to be treated on the same jjkiiic. wuaiever ne aoes towaras helping her mother is a matter of af fection and not the performance of a duty. Mothers are often singularly unjust in the way in which thev treat their daughters who work outside of the home. No mother would expect her son to clear up the table after dinner. or do the chores she had left undone, or put in the evening nursing the baby. If by any chance a mother did have a boy who would do such things for her she would chant his praises to high Heaven and never be done telling what a paragon of a son ne was. Yet she expects her daughter to come home from work and do all of these things, and if the girl rebels mother considers her a most undutiful. cold hearted and selfish girl, and com plains to the neighbors about how her Mamie treats her. Yet if either son or daughter is going to be burdened with domestic labor on top of a hard day's work in office or store, goodness knows it should be the bov. He's physically ten times as strong and bet ter able to do it. To the everlasting honor and credit of the working girl it must be said that she is generosity itself and help fulness personified when It comes to her pwn home. The majority of busi ness' girls turn over their pay en velopes to their mothers and get out of their hard labor only what their mothers choose to give them. Go Into any family where the girls work and you will see how unselfishly they spend their money. The families move to a decent neighborhood. The food is better. There are nice pieces of furniture. The younger children are being kept longer at school so that they may have a better chance than the older girls had. The girls have spent their earnings on their .families instead of in saloons as the boys have. Mother isn't satisfied, however: neither is father, because they have still somehow got it In the backs of their heads that a girl ought to do housework no matter what else she does. Of course, if the mother is an in valid and the girl cannot earn enough to pay for a servant, it is her duty to help her mother with the housework, no matter how tired she is when she gets home from her work. It is a case of dire necessity in which one can only do the best one can. But in cases where the mother is strong and able- bodied, and the girl contributes to the househoid expenses, her mother has no right to callon her for any extra assistance. Jt is making an additional drain on the girl's vitality and strength that should not be made she Is not often able to endure it. One of the main reasons that women break down so often in business is because they su perimpose thework of a woman on top of the work of a man and nobody has got the physique to stand that sort of a strain. When a man gets home at night after his day s labor he find a com fortable meal ready for him to eat, and after he has eaten it he sits down in quiet and comfort and reads the paper and rests until he is ready to o to bed or to go out for an hour or two's diversion. Noboflv expects him to rush and help cook the dinner and then wash the dishes, and then trim a new hat for little Sally or run a sewing ma chine till bed time making father 1 shirt. But that's exactly what three- fourths of the mothers of working girls demand of their daughters. No wonder the girls have nervous col lapses: no wonder they come to work tired and listless; no wonder they are not as bright and energetic and don't go as far as boys. Theyare trying to climb with a family on their backs. And so it's up to the mother who wants her daugh ter to get on in business and arrive at the place that has a worth while salary attached to it, to relieve the girl of every possible domestic burden so that she may have all of her strength and vitality to give to her job- She can't use up her strength in the dish pan and still have it to give to the store. There are very very few mothers who are intentionally selfish towards their daughters. It is Just that they feel that their daughters belong -to them so completely that everything taat the girl, has and can do,, be longs to them too. Mothers must revise this point of view. They must realize, for one thing, that they are killing the goes that 1r.vb "the arolden egg when -they over work their daughter by forcfug- her to add domestic drudgery to her daily labor in the outside world. They are handicapping her earning capacity and breaking down her health.- Also mothers must realize that girls who earn their ow n living hare bought their freedom, and are -entitled to more liberties in the way of going out in the evening than are home keeping girls who have all day in which to amuse themselves- -?-.t g 11 the mother of the working girl AUGUST 9, 1917 wanta to solve the problem- of how to treat her daughter she has got a ready formula at hand. Let her treat her daughter with the same consider ation that she does her son, and ex pect no more of her. c)v -zzj Jshl (Copyright. 1917. by the Wheeler Syndicate. IDC.) Bedtime Stories BT HUIVAID K. CAIH Uncle Wiggily and Heckle's Feather Boa. "Oh, dear! I don't see why I &.n't have one!" exclaimed Beckie Stubtatl, the little bear girl, as she was walking past Uncle Wiggily's hollow stump bungalow in the woods one day. "I want one very awful much!" Ho! Ha! What is It you war.7 asked the bunny rabbit gentleman from his porch where he was sitting ana eating tne last or a carrot .ce cream cone Nurse Jane Fuzzy Wuzy. his muskrat lady housekeeper had just ?-2. S,.h.i,n..--M Recvi. "All the other girls down on theboird- I -.iu h.v t h-, i i can-ti" i ter carried the sleeping child to the "But why in the world do vou want I liht of the solitary lamp that smoked a feather boa in summer?" asked the f.nd nickered in the draught on the bunny. "And what is a feather boa, "ving-room table, the sister's weather anyhow?" i beaten, hard-set features softened and "It is a furry sort of thing to go a smile broke over her face. "Hadn't around your neck" exolatned Beckie, 1 "ou better set her down?" she asked, "only it is made of feathers. It's like sh was pulling at the ruttled white a scarf or muffler." I Petticoats which had become crushed "It seems to me that you have fur in the strong man's arms. "We must enough," spoke the rabbit gentleman, wake her up and ask her who she is. "As for keeping warm, it is hot with- I Her mother must be worried almost out something around your neck!" 'sick. Peter, isn't she pretty?" "But it's so stylish," went on Beetle, j Peter made no comment, but from "All the other girls have them. Lulu the tenderness with which he brushed and Alice Wibblewobble, the ducks; with his big clumsy hands a golden Arabella Chick and all. I'm the only 1 curl that had fallen across Frieda's one without a feather boa!" And face Miranda needed not to be told tears came into her eyes and she wag- that the big brother of hers had lost gled her little stubby tail (after which 1 his heart to the child he had found oh WfJ'.,'!"m d) r' orro'ful !ke. "I ll set her down." he said, and -w2fl thiJ ..7erhtd,." v- wake her because she must be Well, this is too bad!" said Cncle bnnm ht .v,, Wiggily. "Here, Beckie, you come up on the porch and sit down, and I'll see if 1 can't rind a feather boa for you. Here. Nurse Jane," called the rabbit gentleman, "bake another carrot ice cream cone for Beckie and have It cooked good and brown!" "Oh, you are so good. Uncle Wig gily! And so is the carrot ice cream cone," Beckie said, as she ate it. "I love to bite it." "Well, don't bite me; that's all I ask," said Uncle Wiggily wi'h a laugh. "Now 1 11 go look for a feather boa for you. But I don't exactly promise for sure to get one. I'll do my best, tho." So away he went, over the fields and thru the woods looking for a feather boa for Beckie. Naturally the first place he looked was at the coop of Mrs. Cluck-Cluck, the hen lady. reamer boas?" exclaimed Mrs. Cluck-Cluck. "Well. now. I did have some, but I've none left. Arabella. my little girl, used up at: the loose feathers making boas for her friends. They're so stylish this year at the board walk, boas are." "That's too bad." said Uncle Wig gily. "I'll try over at the pen "of Mrs. Wibble-wobble. the duck lady." But tnere the story was the same. All Mrs. Wibblewobble's ocse feath ers had gone into boas for Lulu and Alice, her two girls. Well, I flin t know what I'm going to do!" said the bunny uncle, as he hopped on thru the woods. "I'd like to get a feather boa for Beckie to wrap around her neck. She doesn't exactly need it, but since the other animal girls are stylish with them. I don't like Beckie to be disappointed. "Still, I don't know where I am to get her one. But I'll go on thru the woods a little farther and see what luck I have." "Ho! Ho! Uncle Wiggily. What luck do you wish to have, and for what are you looking?" asked a voice, and a green pine tree no J led at the bunny gentleman. "I am looking for a feather boa for Beckie Stubtall, a friend of mine," explained Uncle Wiggily. "But 1 can't find any." "Ha! Perhaps I can make you one," said the pine tree. "What? You?" cried the bunny in surprise. "Yes. Let me see now. Have you any chewing gum?" "Chewing gum? I never use it," laughed Uncle Wiggily. "Well, then, we 11 have to use some of the gum that runs out of my trunk," went on the pine tree. Take some of it ln your paws. Don't worry, butter or any grease will peal it off afterward." So Uncle Wiggily took some of the sticky gum from the pine tree. Then the tree told him to roll the gum around a long piece of ribbon-grass, and Uncle Wiggily did that. "Now roll the sticky piece of ribbon-grass in a lot of my loose needles." said the pine tree. "They look exactly like the feathers in a boa." So Uncle Wiggily did that, and soon the sticky ribbon-grass was all covered with long pine needles. "There's your feather boa for Beckie!" said the pine tree, and, sure-, ly enough, it was, as stylish as could' be wished. The pine needles stuck to the gum-covered ribbon-grass, and when it was tied on the little bear girl's neck she walked the board walk very happy like indeed. So everything came out all right, and if the hammock doesn't go to sleep in the porch sw-ing and for1 to wake up in time for the moving pictures I'll tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and the sunflower. (Copy right, 1917. by McC'lure Newspaper Syndicate.) I From the Atchison Globe. Every woman thinks she is patient. In a dry town it is hard to locate a missing man. A chicken in the United States is a flapper in England. Why is it loafers like to gather around to watch a busy man work? One who is going thru life on nerve should avoid a nervous breakdown. If you find fault with everybody It is probable your own engine is dirty and is missing. Don't be one of those jealous per sons who regard the other fellow's fame as cheap notoriety. About five minutes after a man brags about his tires he has a punc ture. However, life was- that way before the automobile was invented. Several Atchison girls, who dance the new dances, have organized an I. W. W. of their own. In -their case those letters stand for "I Will Wig gle GLOBE SIGHS, j I it EVENING STOET Adopting Frieda. (By Jane Osborn.) "Oh Miranda, will you hold the door open there? I've got a little girl In my arms. You haven't heard of any one that -has lost a little girl, have you With these Words Peter Hobson broke the news of his discovery late that memorable night in midsummer. He had been on his weekly trip to the nearest settlement, twenty miles down the valley. Usually on such nights in summer Miranda dozed in her chair with the screen on the front door un hooked; for Miranda had lived alone with her stalwart young brother too many years to fear tramps or thieves on their desolate side of the moun tain. And usually Miranda would not wake till her brother had put up his wagon and horses and had let himself in at the screen door. But this night his arms were too full of Frieda Frieda fast asleep, with her golden curls close and warm against his face. nna email w.fr KanH j-!,if,'V-i,-ir .r.n ln to hj. snoulder and two Kracefu, littIe leg9 wnlte Bt0ckings ,rt ,-,rt m. danK)inB in his arma "Where in the land of the living did you And her?" was Miranda's not too hospitable comment. But, as Pe- who she is or wh-r. .hl.? x asKea ner that when T fnnnrt h.,- out it didn t do any good. Her name is Frieda, and that is all she will tell yOU." And While Mlrnnrla flenr tmm kitchen to living room preparing the lavish supper of doughnuts and milk and cold ham that she thought suita ble for a child of Frieda's age her brother told her, the details of the discovery. He had heard a cry in the thicket of the woods as he was coming home about fifteen miles down the road It was just turning dark at the time.- He stopped his horses and followed thru the pathless woods for a few rods and then came upon the little girl. She was crouching under the side of a large bowlder, and at first seemed too startled to speak. She hadn't had I anything to eat for a day or so. one siariea to ten me about her self." Peter explained to his sister. "Did tell me her name was Frieda and then she fainted away in my arms and I had to bring her around with water from the stream. Then I held her in my arms so she wouldn't be scared. and when she was feeling better I put ner in the wagon on the seat at my side with the robes tucked around her. Later I stopped to give her one or two of those crackers you asked me to bring back from the store, and then after a while she went tn sleep again tnere at my aide. Maybe when she wakes up she will remember who she is and how she came to be lost." "Maybe." commented Miranda. "Seems as if she is big enough to remember." "How old should you judge she Is?" Miranda cast a calculating glance toward the drooping figure of the child in the sleepy hollow chair. "From the way she is dressed she is a sizable child of 9 or 10 can't be any more." Then Miranda got down the Silver mug that had been Peter's many years before and that had hung in state on the sideboard ever since he outgrew it. "I suppose, Peter, if we were not able to find her folks, it would be our solemn duty to adopt her?" 'T was Just thinking about that my self," agreed Peter. "Perhaps it is the nearest I'll ever come to having a kid of my own." Just then the little girl waked up, and Peter and Miranda hurried to at tention. With a little milk and some of Miranda's good bread Peter had thought that more suitable than the doughnuts Frieda regained strength ana oe.ore many minutes naa pasaea Uctlv at ease5 with hergenerou, Kost and hostess. "You are so good to me." she said j to m. in thVwoVld brfoVe' ATerr;' very import.ntt.il me what your came to Miranda's eves and Peter hus!),l"d very last words wer wh'n 11,,,. i i he left. sob. thouarh he would not have d. mltted that fact "Now. do you want to try ,tnd tell us whose little girl you are?" Peter asked patiently, kneeling down, before her. "No. no, no." she shook, her head., "Maybe to-morrow.. But -this, i so nice." A few minutes later Miranda had shown the little girl to the "spare room." and she and Peter stood o;: side her door waiting. "Are you sure she 'can mat age alone Peter asked. "I guess so. She asked me to leave her alone. When she calls out I am to go ln and get the lamp. I told he- I would." i Then came the little treble call and Miranda stole silently in. "Peter, Just look," she 'whispered back a second later and Peter tip toed into the room.-' Apparently the child was- extremely weary, for her eyes were already closed and the dis heveled ringlets of golden hair were tossed over the face, pillow and white counterpane that was tuaked neatly up to her graceful chin. Peter looked wonderingly for a minute and then tiptoed to his own room. He was very happy, but there was a cloud even in his great hsp plnesa. Why. he wondered, had she kissed Miranda good night and then when he stooped down for his good night kiss had she hidden her face In her arm and turned her lips away? Could it b that the feeling of unhap piness hs- had was jealousy of Mi randa The morning brought no news of the lost child s identity. Miranda and her brother had thought she would be able to explain or give some clew as to who she was. But to all their quer ies she had but one rep'y "I don't know 1 am so happy. Let me stay." By the end pf ten days it seemed so apparent that' her identity would never be discovered that brother an-I sister were making plans for legally adopting her. It -was two weeks after Frieda hsd first crept into Peter's arms and his heart dowh there on the mountainside when be opened a New York paper to read this heading: "Movie actress Eiill missing. Film company now planning -to make search of mountainside. And then Peter read the article that told that two weeks before a cinema com pany had been taking piciura. i big feature play along the mountain side. A company of twenty-nvo juve nile actresses was inciuaea in in. scenes. Somewhere one of these girls, who on the day of her disappearance was dressed to impersonate a girl of ten or twelve, had been lost. No one had missed her till the company liad been carried back to their headquar ters and no search was made for ner till they had all returned to New York. As her part was over It -was thought that perhaps she ha 1 K'-ne home before the rest. The fact that her street clothes had Just been found in the country hotel, from which the company started out on the day of her disappearance showed that vhe had never apparently returned from the mountainside. The real meaning of this did not dawn on Peter all at once, and even after he began to realise that Frieda was the lost child he did jiot tell her immediately of his discovery. He watt- ed till he found her alone merrily shelling peas In Miranda's woodsned while Miranda was visiting her near est neighbor. Peter opened the paper and let the girl read the account. Meantime he watched hr face. A glance at the newspaper account was enough to assure Frieda that her -secret was known. She dropped her small hands on the checked gingham pinafore that Miranda had made her and opened her blue eyes and looked at Peter very wistfully. "I didn't tell you before because it was like heaven here with you :ind Miranda. I got lost that day with thj company before you found me. Ther -was a thunder storm and every ne ran to shelter and when it was over I was alone. I walked thru the woods for an age and then you found me. T was going to tell you but I must have fainted and after that I liked you so much I didn't want to leave you I tried to make myself believe that I -was Just the little girl you thought 1 was. I'm seventeen really. But T never had a chance to be a little girl so I wanted to stay here." J Peter was sitting beside Frieda rnfl had taken the large pan of green peas from her lap. "Is that why- why you haven't been willing to kiss me good night?" he asked. The girl in the pinafore shook her head up and down in the affirmative. "It wasn't because you liked Miranda so much better than rr?" Peter stopped short fofr two little hands were vclinging convulsively to his arm and a sobbing head was laid on his shoulder. "Don't make me go away, please. There is no one in the world I care for the way I do you und Miranda. Please let me stay.", Peter had raised the fair head from his arm. If the little girl in the woods he had first seen had seemed exquisite, now that she had suddenly grown to be a little woman, she was a hundred times more so. If holding her small body against his arm had thrilled him then, now to feel her head sobling on his shoulder was a thousand times more delicious. "I have been thinking," he beaan very awkwardly, "that maybe I'd have a chance to to marry you when you grow up. But now you are almost grown up already I won't have to wait so long." Frieda's tears had stopped. She looked up at him with the happines that had shone in her face the f'rat night when he had found her. "Oh, Peter, I am so happy," she whispered. And when, Miranda came back from the neighbor's an hour later she found her brother and Frieda still shelling the peas in the woodshed. (Copy right. 1917, by the McClure News paper Syndicate.) TEE SEA1CEOGHT f,atet News fraaa tha Plalda eff SCIKNCE. EDUCATION. INVENTION Cheap Uranium. The chief chemist of the federal bureau of mines. Dr. Charles M. Par sons, has Just taken out public service patents covering a new process for producing uranium oxide. This step is particularly significant at the pres ent moment, because in the last three years uranium has taken on a new im portance as an ingredient used for hardening steel. Uranium steel is dis placing many of the standard alloys in big guns. The new process is said tc give a very pure yield of the oside of uranium more cheaply than was pos sible in the past. DINNEK STORIES "I remember a case the other day." I said a detective, "which is interesting )n its revelation of woman's truthful Reared" f hUSb"nd questioning the wife, t said to her: And now, madam, tell me thu 'His last words,' the truthful crea- tiire answered with a blush, 'were: "Pop?" "Well, Waldos "What is a centipede? "A centipede has a hundred legs." "Has anything else more legs, tha centipede?" "Yes." "What?" "A musical extravaganza." HOUSEHOLD HINTS Mean Hints, -BREAKFAST. Apples. Rolled Oats. Buttered Toast- Coffee. LUNCHEON, Hot Potato Salad. Ginger Bread. Tea. DINNER. Meat Cakes. String Bean a. Bread. Butter. Sliced Bananas. Peaches In Dainty Dlahea. Peach Snowballs Allow one large juicy peach to each guest. Pare and remove stone: nil center with pre served cherries; pin halves with a toothpick, then dip in soft icing and roll in fresh grated cocoanut. When ready to serve remove toothpick. Peach Fluff Press four pared peaches thru sieve; beat the white of one egg very stiff and add to peach pulp with enough sugar to suit taste: beat until light and fluffy then chill, when it will be ready to serve. The Table. Economy Wedding Cake Two eggs, two cups sugar, one and one half cups milk, two teaspoons bak ing powder, three cups flour. This makes a good but Inexpensive cake. Pot Pie Take sausage meat (as much as desired) and put in a pot. Add about one-fourth pint water. When sausage begins to cook put in dumplings snd cook until done. Cook i juat as any other pot pis. 4

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1917 I 10c Jar Rubbers Extra thick. Per rr dozen Be value medium thick are on sale. per 1 Xe dozen Z w Friday and Saturday Specials on Preserving Season Needs Fruit Jars Cheaper than ever. Mason quarts are on sale, per CQ dozen 0U Pints are on sale per dozen 49c Prom ium I h -To p a r s T h e real jar; wide mouth. The writer haa used over a hundred of them for personal use and never lost a single jar of fruit. If you want a real jar. Investigate them. They are worth $1.10 per dozen. But we bought then, last year and have them on sale, per Q" dozen Otls 73r iran w. 1M.mIi Pans. 21 -quart 49c size, on sale, special Wux-0-Fiiu Finest quality Par ifine Wax, 10c package on sale at the Fair Store for pi BY DAISY NEIL- Phonn From 8:30 a. m. to 1 Air. and Airs. J. M. Meade announce! the marriage of their daughter, Vir- Kinla, to Dr. UuksoII Cave, of Manhat- tan. The marriage took ?lae?e Wed-1 nemlay morning, August 8, in "Wash-1 ington. 1). C The Reverend Tl. Cot toiiHntith. of the Kpiscopal church, of Washington, performed the ceremony. Thia -wedding is of a great deal of interest to Topeka society on account f the prominence of the Meade fam ily and the personal popularity of the bride. Mrs. Cave is one of four charm- in; daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Meade, i her sisters being Mrs. Torrence Kwurt, j Mrs. Walter Roy Kanney, cf Arkansas City, and Miss Alice Meade. There isn't a more hospitably home In the city than the Meade residence, w hich overlooks the river at. Crane and Western avenue, nor have there been four more iypular sisters than the Mies Meade. Mrs. Cave graduated from the To peka hiyh school and from the State Agricultural college at Manhattan, where she specialized in domestic sci ence. She was a popular member of th Pi Phi sorority. Since her grad uation., she has been at 'he head of t he domestic science department of t he agricultural college and dietician in a large girla' school at Denton. Tex. She gave up the latter position to be ma rried. Dr. Cave received his education at Manhattan college and in Kansas City, where he took his meJical train ing. He has been practicing medicine in Manhattan for several years. Dr. Cave will leave soon for France, where he will be a surgeon in a medi cal corps, with rank of first lieutenant. Thia marriage ia the culmination of n. romance which started during their college days at Manhattan. Whether or not Mrs. Cave will accompany her husband to France is not known. She has offered her assistance as army dietician and may be called upon to The newwhole wheat food with its delicious flavor and its high food value at a low price. Children like KRUM BLES and it builds them up because of the extra nutrition of Durum wheat, which is rich in protein and mineral salts. KRUMBLES is ap petizing with cream or milk, and a special treat with berries, sliced peaches or bananas. OAc Cent a D Originated and developed by Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake Company ol Battle Creek, Mich., makers of Kellogg's the original Toasted Com Flakes. f in m tmmmmmmmumMMmm turn. ,i I Prpame Kettles Genuine Cream City Ware: every piece of it is guaranteed. The extra large QQ size is on sale this week IOU The 10-quart size, $1.00 value, ia on sale this AQ.t week Aetna Ware A pretty gray, ex tra large size, almost as large as a wash tub, priced special for this week 4c. 12-quart size is QQp priced, special J&j Stone Warp. all size jars and cookers, on sale, per gallon 10c Galvanized Wash Tubs, the heavy quality ware, on 7Qn sale $5.00 Law n Hose. 50 feet long, com plete with couplings. On sale Friday and Saturday $3.50 $5.00 Iawn Mower, fully guar anteed, to close out, so flJO QQ on sale J4i.0 35c Wa.sli Board, full size, are priced special, Friday and 1 Cn Saturday JLnJVj p. m., 3S30; other hours, 1160. Looking Backward In State Journal Society Column TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY Mr. hihI Mrt. H. A. Heatn gave an !n formui party last evening in honor of their guests, Minn I wis of diicapn. and Miss l;euile and Misa Hamtltou of Bloomingron. 1 11. The evening whs sftent in dancing and other sochil amusements, refreshments were arred on the porch at a lute hour. Besides the visiting young ladies the guests were Mr. and Mia. H. L. Koblnsou. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Noble, Mian Kmma lennla. Mian Alice Atwood, Mr. Karl Williams. Mr. Luther Nellm, Mr. .lohn Waters, Mr. Fred Gillette and Mr. Cnrtis Bailey. Mm. V. J. Black went to Leavenworth today for a few days' visit. Mrs. George Crawford and baby lert to day for a few days visit with Mrs. Craw ford's sister, Mrs. Ike Lewis of Kuiporia. M iss Jane N ye ha returned from a month's visit In Cincinnati. go to France. Otherwise, she may come to Topeka to be with her parents during the absence of Doctor Cave. Mrs. Merrill Mills entertained a few guests informally for Mrs. Glen MilUcc of Clinton, Ia., who with her two cHl dren, were guests for the day at the Mills home in Potwin Place. Those present were a few close friends of Mrs. Millice, who as Miss Agnes Fisk, formerly lived here. Dr. and Mrs. Millice and their children left yester day in their car for their home. A Topeka man was taking: his small daughter for a boat ride at Lake View last week, when the young lady re marked. "Daddy after you get t:red may I stir for a while?" Misa Bernice Fuller will leave .his fall for Boston, Mass., where she "will AinVkeat KeadytoEat SIS iskfor mar es'- MM 5e Oranlte Col asder on sale at tbe Fair Store, -I fl special. Granite Drinking Cups. Pint Q size ou sale Ov 1-Vuit Jar Rack for steaming Fruit; holds 8 Jars. 80c value, but on sale at the Crt Fair Stores, Friday and Saturday 9UC 10c Toilet Paper. Genuine Pomisso fin ish quality crepe, on sale at the Fair Stores, per roll 8 Cents HAMMOCKS. Now is the time to save on them, and enjoy their comfort thru the hot part of the summer. Double Strength Hammocks, guaranteed to hold 1.000 pounds; $4.00 value, on sale $1.98. The $2.00 Pillow Ham mocks are now $1.25: Picnic CQ and Outing Hammocks U5C Ice Cream JVeezers The famous Arctic; extra quality thruout, heavy Virginia cedar tubs and extra heavy anti-rust can and mixer; all sizes. The 1 -quart size are, special, this week.. $1.39 be engaged In T. W. C. A. work. She expects to have charge of all the Red Cruss work of the Boston association. An exceedingly attractive suit worn on the street yesterday afternoon was made of wool Jersey in a bright purple shade. It had an effective trimming of white buttons and white collar and cuffs. Completing the costume were white shoes and a soft white hat. There is a club of five little girls which has been meeting every week this summer for the purpose of snip rung rags to make fracture pillows for the injured soldiers. They are known as the snipping club. One member of the club is spending a few weeks in Manhattan and while there has form ed a snipping club in that town. She expects to bring these rags home with her to add to the twelve pounds wrich the club has snipped this summer. THERE'S A WOMAN IX OCR TOWN Who a few weeks ago went to the countrv for a short stay and hoped to just sit around and read. So she se lected Edith Wharton's latest novel, "Summer." as something which would be a good hammock book and would not require much mental effort, feut she had Judged only by the title and says she would just as soon while away the summer hours reading "Faust." Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burrow and Mr. and Mrs. Warwick Updegraff mo tored to St. Marys today to attend the races. They expect to return home this evening. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel E. Lux, jr.. and their small son, Samuel Edward 111, expect to leave soon for Junction City, where Mr. Lux will manage a branch mercantile company, of which he is president. A terrible calamity has befallen the doll soldiers and the toy soldiers of the cabarets and musical comedies. Thev are no longer to be allowed to appear on the stage in the uniform of the army and navy. Neither are tne dressmaking establishments, depart ment stores and those who have fos tered the wearing of khaki uniforms by their attendants, chauffeurs and others any longer allowed this free dom. A United States attorney Is re sponsible for this order and he says it is to be rigorously enforced. Speaking of the "rube propaganda" a Topeka. newspaper is trying to force on elevator riding patrons, insisting that the men remove their hats when women are in the car, the Kansas City Star suggests: "Ought he not to kneel, too, and, as the elevator passes each floor, bump his forehead once on the floor of the car, aa a further mark of rev erence T" Word was received in Topeka this morning of the death of Mrs. C. R. Hudson of Mexico City, formerly of this city, while motoring on a pleasure trip thru Vermont. Mrs. Hudson has many friends in Topeka who will be shocked by her sudden death. She Is survived by her hus band and one daughter, Alias Mary Margaret Hudsor.. Mr. Hudson has recently been made president of a Cuban railroad. He and his family were touring the east in their car at the time of Mrs. Hud son's unexpected death. Mr. Louis Hall, son of Mr. Horace L. Hall, is another Topeka young man to receive a. commission that counts. Mr. Hall haa been made a captain in the ordnance department of, the United States army. The members of the Pi Phi sorority from Manhattan, who are in town. had a picnic at the Updegraff home north of town last evening. Those present were Miss Mary Churchward cf Wichita, Miss Sarella Herrick. Miss Genevieve Herrick, Miss Margaret Fuller, Miss Marjorie Whitney, Miss Lillian Guthrie. Miss Gladvs Guild, Miss Ernestine Biby and Miss Edith Updegraff. Miss Ruby May, Miss Ethel May and Miss Eva May are three talented sisters who will give an entertainment of readings and music at Menoken Saturday evening. They furnish the enure program. Miss Julia Larimer wIK be In Kan sas City this winter where she will be connected with Miss Baratow'a private school for girls. Miss Baratow has had a day school for some time but is Just starting a hoarding school which is to be very exclusive. There will not be more than eight pupils. Miss Larimer is to have charge of the boarding school and probably teach one subject. Miss Larimer went to Kansas City yesterday to visit her sis ter, Mrs. Herbert Lininger. 1 Notes and Personal Mention. Miss Charlotte West is in Wamego visiting Miss Moore. Mr. Wilbur Cole arrived home from Colorado, where he has been visiting his aunt, yesterday. He left immedi ately to join the quartermaster' corps, of which he is a member. Miss Anna Shay of Toledo. O., will arrive tomorrow for a visit with her sister. Mrs. George Staebler. Mr. and Mrs. Archibald Morison and their son, Mr. William Morison, of Chicago, came to attend the funeral of Mr. J. A. Campbell. Mr. Morison is a brother to Mrs. Campbell. Miss Julia Kerr of Omaha, Neb., is the guest of her sister, Mrs. David Page, for the day. Miss Kerr is on her way to Emporia to visit. Miss Nelle W'etherholt and Miss Mil dred Berry are in New York on a business trip. Miss Hester Irene Leslie of Atchi son is visiting Miss Ruth Knox. Mr. and Mrs. James B. Doncyson are spending a few days at Rose Mont. Mr. Ed -Davis of Leavenworth is here to attend the funeral of Mrs. -Davis's father. Mr. J. A. Campbell. I Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Hoagland are spending two weeks in Michigan. air. -c-. is. .Neil will leave Saturday to Join his family at Ludington, Mich. juage ana Mrs. T. r Garver leave this morning for Pryor Lake. Minn., wnere they will stay until about the tirst of September. Mrs. E. G. Foster and IMf T.illian F oster of Lawrence, who have been pending the past week in Topeka, left last nignt ior Harbor Springs, Mich where they will spend the rest of the summer. They will be joined in the north by Mrs. Georee and her daughters, Lillian and Janet; Mr. and Mrs Charles Wni .nt leave the last of the week for Yellow stone park in their car. Mr. and Mrs. John Lagerstrom and Mr. and Mrs. James Haves ;mv re turned from a two weeks' trip to Chi cago, Milwaukee and Beaver Lake, v is. Mrs. J. P. Mitchell and her rtsit-srh. ter. Miss Maxlne Mitchell, are spend ing a lew aays in Galena with Mrs. Mitchell's mother, Mrs. J. M. Pickett. Dr. and Mrs. W. D. Storra will re turn the last of the week from a trip to Centennial, Wyo., and Estes Park, Colo. Mrs. George Hayden will go to St. Joseph today to spend a week with her father. Mr. Cyrus Leland. Miss Ruby Sinell has returnei from a fortnight's visit to relatives in Kan sas City. Mr. Byron Davis has returned from a business trip to Dickinson county. Miss Edna Gall, of Philippi, W. Va., who has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Hovatter, left for her home today. Dr. and Mrs. Chester Davidson, of Garden City, are the parents of a daughter, born Sunday. Both Mr. and Mrs. Davidson are well known in Washburn circles. Mrs. Davidson was formerly Miss Jean Watts. Mrs. Diller Witwer, of Salina, is the guest of Miss Marie Witwer. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman Bell and their son, Willard, left yesterdav for I'sies Park, Colo.) to spend the rest cf i ho summer. Mi. and Mrs. C. E. Eldridgo hj.v gene to their bungalow at Lake-cf-the-Forest, near Lawrence, to spend two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Nat A. 31ack will leave tomorrow evening for a tri'p.Jy-i and Mrs. S. C. Strain, of Osage City, who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bollard, have returned to their home. Mrs. Rachel Decker has gone to Colorado Springs to spend the rest of the summer. Miss Eleanor Hazen lefl Tuesday for a few days' visit with the Misses Hazen, of Emporia. Mrs. A. C. Woodcock of Philadel phia, Pa., will arrive Saturday for a short visit to Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Bol lard. She is on her way home from a visit in California. Mrs. J. S. Slie, of Newcastle, Wyo.,. is spending the week with Mrs. II. N. Pond. Mrs. C. I. Martin is sperding a few days in Wichita. Mrs. E. E. Thomas, of Kansas City, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. R. IC. Pierson. Miss Alice Lyman will go to Colo rado soon, where she will Join Miss Mary Burnett, who is spending the summer there. Mr. Fred Rigby has returned from a trip to Ohio, Detroit and St. Louis. Miss Edith Connell will leave soon for a visit to friends in Chicago. Mr. George McCoy left Sunday for New Mexico to spend six weeks. Mr. David Gray has left for Wash ington, D. C. After a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Gray. Mr. Robert Mackey, of Wichita, spent yesterday in Topeka. INDIANS CALiyTDOWN Become Peace Loving Upon Arrival of Armed Posse. Globe, Ariz., Aug. 9. Without a shot beiny fired, the Apache-Cique Indian and Mexican uprising: and strike was quelled here early today when an armed posse of rangers and cowboys drove the disturbers from mine property in the Sierra Anches and arrested two of the leaders. The Indians and Mexicans, employes of the United States Asbestos Mine company, struck for higher wages and better working: conditions. They went on the war path for a while and be sieged nine white men in a dugout, but permitted them to escape. SEND POLES TOTrISON German Court Martial Sentences Offi cials for Inciting Revolt. Copenhagen, Au. 9. Several mem bers of the Polish radical Left have been tried by a German court martial for attempting to incite the populace of Poland to disturbance, according to a dispatch to Berlin to the Extra bladet. Among the Poles court mar tialed were two councillors of a mili tary commission. They were sentenced to three and five years imprisonment respectively. GOOD-BYE GERMS! Topeka Soldier Boys Vaccinat ed and Inoculated Today. One Fainted and Several Oth ers Became 111. STORM HIT BATTERY A GAMP Cook Tent Blown Down and Torn by the Wind. Concert To Be Given at East Side Camp To night. Toneka'fl "KannYrite-" BnfnmnaA In the city shed their first blood for their country today. i Half a hundred lads with arms I Dared stood in line in motor hall at the fair grounds this morning. Two army surgeons and a corps of assist ants took one left arm after another. Iodine was rubbed on the arms, none too gently. A surgeon with a hypodermic needle in his hand, jabbed it into each arm. A tiny stream of blood spurted. Good-bye typhoid." the lads shout- ed as the needle went in. The victim advanced two paces for ward. There stood a second surgeon also armed with a germ defying tool. This scratched the lad's arm a second time. "Good-bye smallpox." the boys shouted again. The inoculated man then gave his name to a man who wrote it down on a typewriter. Then he went to an other table where a bandage fastened on by adhesive plaster was placed over tne wound. One Man fainted. It was fun until William Anderson of the headquarters company saw the blood spurting from the arm of the man in front of him. Anderson grew white and a man standing behind him caught the youth from Osage City. That made about half a dozen others ill, and they were taken from the line and placed in chairs under shade trees. "What'll they do when .hey get to France where blood runs knee deep?" asked one of the youths. The entire morning was spent by the army surgeons at the fair grounds. The radio company mer. were vac cinated Wednesday night. AT. Topeka "Sammies" will be vaccinated in the next two days. In vaccinating the men before they are mustered in. the ordinary proced ure has been turned around. Usually the men are mustered in first. Then, if any fail to pass the physical exam ination, the vaccinations are not nec essary. "Everyone should be vaccinated, anyway," said an ofricer today. Storm Hit Camp. The big cook tent of BaUery A was blown down during the torm Wed nesday night. A number of other tents suffered similar a.ccidents while their occupants, in B. V. D.'s. crawled out from under the canvas and in the driving hail and rain, put the tents on their feet again. The canvas of the cook tent was lorn anu men frem the battery are patching It today. At Ripley park where another camp is situated. Capt James. Going of the supply company, declared not a tent was blown down during the storm. e put 'em up to stay ui4 out here," he said today. The east siders will enjov a band concert at the park at 7:15 o'clock this evening. Vocal solos by Paul H. tiamstine. a member of the Third regiment band, will be an added feat ure to the concert. There are a num ber of singers in the band and they are planning an exceptionally good program for Sunday. Hamstine to night will sing. "A Perfect Day" and "The Holy City" to the accompani ment of band music. Every man. not busy at some special duty, was drilling at all camps today. The battery men were going thru mounted practice this morning. GOMPERS AGAINST IT No. A. F. Li. Delegates to Stockholm Socialist Convention. Washington. Aug:. 9. President Gompers, of the American Kedera.-on of Labor, ia strongly opposed to the Socialist conference at Stockholm. He has no sympathy with any conference of delegates from enemy countries "at this time," he said. "No delegates from the organized labor movement of the United State will attend the Stockholmconference," Gompers declared today. "A meeting of labor leaders from allied countries will be held In Lon.lon September 10 and to this ennfererce the American Federation of Labor will send representatives." VETERAN BISHOP" DIES Had lleen Head or Catholic Diocese of Denver Since 1889. Denver, Aug. 9- The Right Rev. Nicholas Matz, bishop of the Catholic diocese of Denver, died at a local hos pital today after an illness of little more than a week. Since a fall four years ago his health has been poor. He was a na tive of Alsace-Lorraine and 87 years old. He was consecrated bishop In 1887 and was the second bishop- of Denver, which office he assumed in 1889. TAFT STILL LAID UP Condition Favorable But Xot Yet Able to Resume Tour. Clay Center, Kan., Aug. 9. Attend ing physicians today announced that former President W. H. Taft. Who was taken ill here after a speaking engagement recently, had passed a comfortable night and was making satisfactory progress. However, they declared it might be necessary for him to take a longer rest than was con templated and that he would not leave here today to resume his speak ing trip as had been expected. CHAIR CAR TURNSOVER K. C. Southern Dkcbed and Seven Injured Sonth of Joplin. Joplin, Mo., Aug. Kansas City Southern train Xo. 3, southbound, was wrecked fifteen miles south of Joplin at 7 o'clock this morning. One bag gage car and one ehair car were turn ed completely over. The inuredt William F. Little, tiiloam Springs, "All Sizes "All Sizes," $15, $17.50, $20 Fine Summer Friday .yJUl Friday is a good day to close out odd lots. It is the big bargain day. It is the big money saving day, that's why we offer our extra fine suits odd lots best makes to fit men of all sizes light or dark colors extra well tailored, all wool. You ought to buy an extra to buy an extra $13.75 suit at this special reduction Sale Fri day at, only Men's Trousers Cheap Men's odd trousers in light and colors for business, outing and dress wear odd lots of all kinds of trousers that sold at up to S3.90- $2.95 your choice Friday in the economy basement Palm Beach Suits Cheap OJ'T A T" buys choice from lot of 2h ZlrJ Beach Suits. They are t lwand ends light and colors mostly all sizes formerly at $8.50, 9.00 and $10.00. Also cloths among them. Choice b n- $7.45 day, second floor. Khaki Riding Breeches Cheap For horseback riding motorcycle- and camp use nicely tailored with a large peg. worth S3.00 Friday in economy basement $1.95 Young Men's Suits Cheap $5.95 ys your choice from a extra well tailored, mmed young men's l Mostly light colors, but good values, merly sold up to $5.95 S.00 Corns Lift Off Doesn't hurt a bit to lift any corn or callus off with fingers. Xo humbug! You truly car. lift off every hard corn, soft ovrn or corn be tween the toes, as well as .hardened calluses on bot tom of feet without one bit of pain. A -genius in Cincinnati discovered freezone. It is an ether compound and tiny bottles of this magic fluid can now be had at any drug store for a few cents. Apply sevcim ui tjpa ui jgfe this freezone upon a ten- C" J der, aching corn or a cal- 1 fll lus. Instantly all soreness Jl 1L disappears and shortly you will find the corn or cal lus so shriveled and loose ;hat you lift it off witii the fingers. You feel no pain while applying free zone or afterwards. Just think! No more corns or calluses to torture i you and they go without causing one twinge of pain or soreness. Ladies! Keep a tiny bot tle ot freezone on the dresser and nev- er let a corn or callus ache twice. Advertisement. I "REALLY, NOW I can't take ihat. I must have Red Cross Ball Blue. I have used it for more than ten years. My white dresses, linens and lace curtains are snowy white. 1 simply can't do without Red Cross Ball Blue. You will get it? All right, I'll wait." Adv. Ark.: C. J. Quesnoy, Pittsburg. Kan.; R Heri-ine Oosbv. N'eb. MlSS Anna Morse, Des Moines. Ia.; L. Mil ler, New Orleans; J. B. Finley, color ed, Kansas City: Fred Jackson, color ed. Ashtown. Ark. Xone was injured seriously. xnei injured were taken to Neosho for j treatment. Railroad men say the i wreck was caused by spreading rails, j WRECKS MINE PLANTS! i Wind Storm Damages Score of Prop erties in Joplin District. Joplin, Mo., Aug. 9. A wind storm north and east of Joplin early this morning caused damage estimated at $25,000 to lead and zinc concentrating plants in the vicinity of Oronogo, Neck City. Alba and Purcell. Klec tric railway traffic was stopped and all telephone wires leading Into these camps are down. There are approximately twenty mining plants in the territory visited by the storm many of them being damaged. The greatest damage was done to a new concentrating mill un der construction at Oronogo. The damage to this mill is estimated at A COLONY PERISHES Last Snrvivors Brought From Island Ty American Steamer. Mexico City, Aug. Arrivals from the Isthmus of Tehauntepee say that an American steamer has brought to Vera Cruz ten more survivors of the abandoned colony on Clipperton is ltnd. 650 miles off the Mexican coast. An American gunboat landed at Ra lina Cruz last Tuesday eleven Mexican women and children, survivors ot more than 100 colonists who settled on the island in February, 1914. The rest of the colonists died from scurvy or were drowned. It is believed here that those brought to Vera Cruz by the American steamer are refugees i from other islands in the same region. 11 on Their Way" To Save Money Friday Suits Boys' Bargains Friday, Too! Final Clearance Boys' $7.50 Suits now $4.95 4n nnnnrtmiitV to fit VOOr DOT in School Clothes lit a big Bavin. lots of nil $7.00 lines now go in ulo Mnar Siiitn hnvff naln full Gld this rut. dark full lined Knickers to mutch. Good sUuni-u wenriug fnbrirs in plain and mixed colors, sizes u to is ?$4.95 vrs. Parents don t miss this bargain Friday At. Boys' Knickers, summer mnterials, palm beach, crash and linens, full cut; watch pockets and belt straps. QC Values to 1.25 Boys Hummer ttport Blonse. plain blue cham brays and light striped Off percales. 35c values. Special. Boys' K. 4t K.. Mothers Friend and Cadet Brand Shlrta and Blouse, all sixes, li?ht and dark colors, AKf C5c values xv Children's K. K. Romper, plain blue and fancy colors. JUuttou iu front or back 1 to 8 years. ECY Special OUk, Boys Khaki Knickers, m'l Sizes to 18; government shade, full cut, fgy 70c and S5c .values vOv Palm odds dark sold cool AuerbachgGtiettel lot nicely Suits. for Our Fountain is one of the finest in the city. We have completely remodeled our store and every thing will be kept spic and span clean and sanitary. Ladies, when you're shopping come in and have cool ing:, refreshing, drinks served at our tables. A dish of cream or an ice-cold soft drink will make shopping more pleasant. Luncheons Busy business men tired shoppers or oth ers who enjoy a well served, dainty lunch will be pleased with our service. Liggett and Johnston's Candies, Rexall Remedies and Toilet Requi sites. Rexall Store Ninth and Kan. Ave. Phone 457 OLD AGE A CRIME! Knmi people are yonnj at fift rd chwkH. ruddy nnd Timorous. Others an old at 40 joints bfsitti.iiijr to stiffen up m bit: ftfpp besinuiiiff to lug aud its springiness; w-rasionsl tmiclirs of pain In the back, feel tire I without cause, aud pos sibly s twinge of rbetiranttc pain. Ia most cases these are the Annger sis: nals to warn yon that the kidneys are not promptly doing their work of throw ing rff tbe poisons that arc always form ing In tbe body. To neglect tbese natural warning's la s crime opalnst yourself. If yon bare These symptoms tow cud find prompt relief In GOLD MEDAL Hasriem OU Capsules. For mom than 2t years this has been tbe recognised remedy for kid ney and blmlder ailments. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules are imported f 1 i rect from t be 1 a bo ra to riea a t Haarlem. Holland. Get them at yonr druar irtsts. Do not take a substitute, iu boxes, Uirttt sizca.-Advertisement. J Basement Friday Specials! $1.50 Shirts Friday 75c Tahle full of extm fine Shirts. sUKUtly soiled from handling high grade makes all sizes, Friday 50c I'ntlcrwear 35c Thin Halbrtgfran Uhlrts sod Drawers kuoU quality O (11 sices OiH, $1.00 Porous Knit I'nlon suits OHc Athletic styles, genuine Porous Knit some are sei-uuda among tbciu. but good fiQf values..- VliV $2.00 to $3.00 Straw Hats 50c Odd lots Htraw Hats, formerly old to $.-1.0(1, Kfn ei-onomy buaemeut c9W 75c Sport Shirts 88c Sport Shirts all tbe go now. They are ooo'l and comfortable plain and fancy colors O all siics OOC FOB I.ADIES Patent Pump, and Strap Hllppera, with welt olea: also with turn flolea. Tbe remaining sizes of the season's $:t..rm and $4 U0 best 4 r sellers. Friday, 1st floorJ 2 OVALITy- CIA. S H OHOC Vt We are saving hun- i) J dreds of dollars to the if b grocery consumers of O tij Topeka. Are you one g of them? O Q Best Cane Gran. Sugar j 100 lb. sack for S9.40 0 0 10 lb. sack for .-.c 5 lt. sack lor ISC Tr 24 lb. sack for 25c O 0 1 lb. sack for. 10c Of Head Rice.Lb 10- M Very best quality. Navy Beans. 3 lbs. for. .SOc l?C Blrdseye Matches jf 7c box for 5c C'J M Ripe Olives fTJf 20c value for "..13c r J5 Richelieu Catsup M 3C zc botile for 20c JjJ Palm Olive Soap 3 bars for 25c Fresh Milk Jif J?a Pint 5c J Quart. Be Topeka Club Coffee, lb. ..27e t We guarantee this coffee to be the equal of any cof- jf 0 fee sold In the city for 35c CT pound. Jello, 2-10c pkgs. for 13c O Horlick s Malted Milk W 0c bottle 43c !a jf $1.00 bottle attc ?!T Hospital size S3.23 0 7 Rlchlieu Teas, lb 80c Qf 0 This Is the last week we v will be able to sell you this VC high grade tea at this price, jl M Fresh Fruit and Vegetables ti 0 at Cut Prices. SYSTEMATIC SAVINGS ACCOUNTS Every dollar saved begins to work for you day and night. OPEX AX ACCOUNT NOW It will be like receiving a raise in salary. Tet it will be worth mora to you. CAPITOL BUILDING LOAN ASSOCIATION 534 Kansas Avenue. AcsXemie, College Preparatory. Junior College Kiodergarten. Pri mary. Intermediate. Klndergartaa Training. Conservatory of Muaia xprefliQn. Art, COtli Yeai. Kt. Rt, James IVlM, Prel4t. Address. M. Alle Wonwlek. Principal. Toseka.- Kansas Try Journal Want Ads. Pl3to"oTHrsHOOLi

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6 THE .TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1917 DESERT MASTER 10,000 Serbs Quit Austria To Join Ranks of Allies. Slavs of Captured Provinces Forced To Fight Brothers. KEY SURRENDER VOLUNTARILY Serbian States Hotbed of Agita tion Before War Broke Out. Includes Sarajevo Where Crown Prinee Was Assassinated. Corfu, Island of Corfu, Aug 9. Tnt-re are two whole Serbian divisions 40, 00" men which entered the war wmier the Austrian flag fighting

today have turned squarely around and are fighting under the tntnte colors against the central powers. This fighting under two flags is one of the queer romances of the bly; war related by Prof. Yanitch, private chaplain of King Peter of Serbia, as illustrating how the conglomerate Slav population of Southern Austria-Hungary is retidy to break away from the Hapsbu; master. These two divisions originally A is triun, were forced into the ranks eprly in th. war from Hosnia, Crutia -ind i H-Tzegovtna, tlie luv states for ibly etine.ed by Austria,. It is a great ot bed ff Slav agitation. The popula tion is overwhelmingly rilav but is btld in subjection by tlie iron mili- tary lule of the dual monarchy. It tvun here at the central point of Sara- gave short curtain talks Prior to jt vo. that the Austrian crown prii.ee Travers's appearance, pictures and wrs assassinated and the European cartoons 'of him were thrown on the war unchained. Althu the work -f a I screen. He gave the audience inti funatic. it was only one of the evi 'mate touches of life behind the Es oenc. s or the intense feeling of ihis'sanay screens and told funny inci Wtv section against its masters. dents occurring while big productions l'di 1'itl Serbs Would Desert. I were in the making. The Austrian staff held the Slav Joseph Hanlon, chairman of the forces in reserve for a time well know- secon 1 district exemption board of To liirf the bitterness in the ranks. :'.ut i P"ka, has been authorized to examine y.'hen General Brussiloffs great rl;-ive i Charles J. Smithort. of Frankfort, Ut j;an a year ago in Galicia the Aus- Kan., and John A. Haslinger of Minne ti .aiK iia-.l need of every man. This j apolis. Neither has reported for ex bioulit tlie Slav divisions into line animation. Chairman Hanlon is in and lor the first time Slav was facing I receipt of letters from their registra Hav, the southern "element being i tion boards authorizing him to exnm thrusr forward to meet the rush of j ins the two men. their brothers from the north. It was I Resolutions against the payment of lit-rally a fight of brother against j the poll tax were adopted Wednesday brother. I njsn. at a mass meeting of Topeka cit- A tier one engagement a young Serb izena at Riplev park. All men op officer went among the enemy wound- posed to the tax were urged to refr nn ed and there found two of his broth-I (r(,m paving it until the iast minute. ?rs latally shot by his own men and 1 Meantime, attornevs employed by the Ui his ow n orders. But the ties of anti-poll taxers are busy and an in race were stronger than flags. In junction preventing the city from col one fight a machine fcun battery at- ).cting the tax until the case is settled tached to one of the Slav divisions in courts mav be granted. Speakers opyed by firing against the advanc- at the meeting included James B. Mul- ..Nra ana men swinging tneir pieces about ended the day by pour- i ins their battery fire into the Aus- r man. As the two sides came to gether the Slavs with the Austrian forces would call out "Mi smo Srbi." meaning. "We, are Serbs" which was the signal for steady streams of desertion from the Austrian to the Russian ranks. There was much surprise a year ago at the reports or great numbers of prisoners taken by Brussiloff and it is said this is largely accounted for by the great number of southern Slavs, who forced to fight in the Austrian ranks, volun tarily gave themselves up as pri.on ?rs wheu they met their Slav brothers from the north. Made Iing Trios to SaloniUi. These two Serbian divisions, made up oi rlav prisoners rrom the Aus trian ranks, have been placed under the defender of Belgrade, with head quarters at Saloniki. Recently a thou sand of them, assembled at Odessa ifter voluntarily being made prisoners L-arried out a remarkable trip from Odessa. Petrograd, London, Paris, Marseilles to Saloniki, in ninty-two lays, thus completing within about three months the transfer of service from the Austrian front in Galicia to the allied front at Saloniki. NORTH LIGHTS FLARE! Aurora llorralis Vlakrs Record l)iplay Interfere With Telegraph. Chicago. Aug. The aurora boreal Is or northern light interrupted wire communication over the northern half of the United States and all of Canada from the Rocky mountains to the At iHntic ocean, and was felt even in southern latitudes last night and for several hours early today. The phe nomenon became visible and began to affect telephone and telegraph wires shortly before midnight, and for several hours before daylight this morning many trunk line circuits were useless most of the time. The display of the aurora in Colo rado was described as particularly brilliant, many persons believing the bold red appearance of the northern sky was caused by forest fires. A dispatch from Denver quoted Prof. II. A. Howe of the department of astronomy of Denver university as saying that such a display had never been observed before in Colorado, to his knowledge. Reports here state that the earth currents did not affect wires south of St. Louis in the west, but in the east circuits as far south as Atlanta. Ga., were disturbed. Tele graph officials said the disturbance was more widespread than for many years, the phenomenon usually being confined to northern latitudes. CONVICTS NOT EXEMPT tf They Can't iirt Release, They Must KnteY ,rmy When Term Is I p. Washington, Aug. 9. A supple mental ruling issued today by Adjut ant General Crowdtr states that men serving prison terms for misdemenn ors are not exempt by reason of that fat t. If the peace authorities will iot please them for military service, they will be required to present themselves for examination when their prior. terms have been completed. Ik-h1 boards art ured not to itop cNaminlng men when the quota has b?en reached but to be certain hat enough men have been certified. ATTENTION, WHTS TEMPLAR The Knights w:l. assemble at :he asylum at 1:45 p. m. sharp tomorrow Friday, to conduct the Templar service over the remains of Knight C. 1. Hudson, at the family resilience. Con veyances furnished. Bv order of W.M. XKI.SOW W. M CLKLLANl). Adv. Recorder. fsiiAPsiots"! AT HOME NEWS In ill-Inking of "near-beer." It svcins Most mt'ii now have a hunch That, like kiasiiis one's own siater;' I It aoiueuuw lacks tlie pum-o. ir-tingie. i Tliey are not khaki suits these uniforms the soldier boys are near- J ing. They are "olive drab." j 1 r Alllenn unrl A I. Hlirton fare! -,..,4! .i,- .ioai.i'.a ihe f-. n.t.nv f i vi vnr't whi-h ia heini? held in I I Uenver Colo- i The hail Wednesday night did good job of hitting every piece j m the Gage park greenhouse V, n. k- I men there today are busy iathering up broken glass and it will cost consider able money to repair the damage. Commissioner Porter's little boy has fallen in love with the elevator in the city hall and is nursing an ambition to run one of them all his life. To day he issued tickets to an omens, permitting them to ride the elevator. .-n C'lmkcr will deliver an ad- I dress Sunuav evening at tne we?., ciuc Christian church where a patriotic service will be held. The boy scouts i will assist in the program. Mrs. Clara II. Hazelrigg, the pastor, will preside. and recitations and songs will be ren- dered by the girls chorus ana tne i Junior choir. The Topeka police aren't wasting any more time in telling automobile owners to put on new license tags. Eight owners were booked at police headquarters Wednesday night for this offense, including H. B. Wilson, super intendent of schools: It. N. Harris. H. M. Guv. O. W. Dietrich. C. F. Helt, J. I 11. Kamors, M. Pattello and il. V. j Curry. Richard Travers. Kssanay movie star, drew large crowds to the Cozy theater Wednesday night where he lin- assistant foreman in the Santa Fe hlncksmith shoos and a member of l,r,Q1-,l f .HtipaHitn T.nther C Rai- ley and J. O. Stevie. The relay motor car dispatch will pass thru Topeka late today on its way from Washington to California, via the Midland trail. B. P. Bartlett. official observer of the courier thru Kansas, will meet the driver at Kan sas City and present him with a mes sage from Governor Capper to the governor of California, which will be added to the packet of dispatches. Robert Greenlease. who will drive the car from Kansas City to Topeka. will turn the packet over to J. R. Cowdrey, who will carry it to Manhattan. Al bert Nagle of Topeka has been han- dling the details of the trip. W. L. Porter, commissioner of parks and playgrounds, has asked the tional this yoar, to build a swimming pool in the city park, improve the pool and build more lockers at Gage park. The total estimates for park expenses, placed in Porter's budget, is $36,440, against $30,434 last year. 'The health department needs $45,526, Porter states in his budget. This is about the same amount appropriated last year. There is an increase of $2,000 for the tuberculosis hospital. This increase is offset by the taking of tu berculin tests in the city laboratory and by other economies that will be practiced during the year. UNDERESTIMATE CORN Chicago Crop Expert Figures Crop S80 Million Bushels Larger. Chicago. Aug. 9. The corn crop was underestimated in yesterday's government crop report more than 380,000.000 bushels, B. W. Snow, Chi cago crop expert, whose forecast Tuesday of other grains agrreed with the official report almost figure for figure, stated today. The government report estimated the corn yield at 3. 191.000,000 bushels. The government report covers only that period to July 28. he said. It was about this date that the drought in many important corn growing sec tions was broken by heavy rains. In suring a much larger yield. The government report had little effect on grain prices today. Most of the estimates had been anticipated. ADVANCE IN BELGIUM French Make Gain Artillery Duel Rages Thruont Night. London. Aug. 9. New gains by the French forces to the northwest of Rixschoote, on the Belgian front, were reported in the official statement for warded by Field Marshal Haig today. Artillery Duels on Aisne. Paris, Aug. 9. Artillery duels again raged in the Aisne sector of the French front during last night. The war office today reported ac tive artillery exchanges in the region? of Pantheon ridge and Chevregny. In the region of Kparges and north of Vauv les Palameix detachments clean ed up an enemy trench, inflicted losses on the Germans and returned to their own lines unhurt. DOGS TRAIL THIEVES oTx-atc (;ardcn Robber and Food T.an Violators In Germany. Berlin, Aug. 9. Germany (amoui trained police dogs are now proving valuable sleuths in running down vio lators of the food laws. Near Berlin the dogs located a man who had ben pilfering from vegetable patches of cruck gardeners.leading officials to. th house where the stolen vegetables were hidden. The fishing industry is being sub jected to governmental control is a result of smuggling and speculation. NEW WAR TRICK Germans Combat Aviators With Clouds of Smoke. use Fake Explosions To Hide Withdraxval of Cannons. With the r'rench Armies Afield. An? ft tireat masKts of smoke i clouds hu over the German lines today as the Krench and the enemy I exchange blows along various sections l 1 of the front. Unable to wrest from the French 'n,aerV .f the air and thus pre- French aviatora from flying ovei. the German lines, the-enemy is now taking recourse on a larger scale than ever before to smoke clouds which conceal the location of their guns. The moment a French aviator ap pears over the German lines, huge clouds of smoke immediately rise and are continued unti the aviator dis- appears. n.,inHV it smoke ciouas to mask their batteries on tne Kianders f,ont. They soon brought it into general use. A slnoie generator has now been developed by the Germans and is part of evei y battery. The smoke gen erators are known as "nebeltoepfe among the Germans. Orders found on recently captured Germans show that they are placed at least 250 meters from a battery in the direction from which the wind is blowing and at in tervals of eight meters apart. Em placements are prepared around each battery so that the generators can be changed rapidly with any shifts in the wind. Blast Capsules Latent. Paris. Aug. 9. The French war of fice announces that the German have invented a new ruse to lull their op ponents into the belief that artillery batteries are still in position for action when actually they have been with drawn, and by it to prevent untimely advances. The device consists of a mechanism fitted with half a dozen globular capsules filled with an ex plosive which is placed on the site of the battery to be or being withdrawn. The capsules explode every 30 or 40 seconds with a sound exactly like that of a field gun heard from a dis tance. TAKE OVER COAL MINES Thai's What Federal Trade Commis sion Expects to Do at Once. Washington. Aug. 9. Armed with authority to fix coal prices from the mouth of the mines to the consumer. the federal trade commission today is preparing to take charge of the fuel situation, hoping: to solve much of the industrial troubles of the country. under the Pomerene amendment to the food bill the president may fix prices and rules of practice of all coal men miner and middleman and if he sees fit, take over the business. The amendment establishes absolute government control of what experts believe is the biggest factor in war preparation. Federal trade commission officials, expecting the president immediately to turn over to them the task of coal control, are speeding their investiga tion to fix costs from the mine to the consumer. A report of the commission to be published shortly ia expected to put the blame for a coal "shortage" de clared to be artificial jointly on coal producers and railroads. Huge ex ports of coal are being made to Can ada, it is claimed, in order to create a shortage that will result in higher prices here. PROOF OF BARBARISM State Iep;t Gets Official Report on Drowning of Belgium Prince Crew. Washington, Aug. 9. Official con firmation of barbarism by a U-boat commander was received by the state department today in a report on the sinking of the British steamer Belgian Prince. The state department announcement says: "A consular telegram to the depart ment of state says that the British steamer Belgian Prince was torpedoed without warning. 200 miles at sea on the evening of July 31. She wa Douna irom n.ngianci ror.an American port. The crew of forty-four entered the life boats. The submarine emerged and took the captain of the vessel prisoner. Only One Survivor. "The officers of the submarine?ask ed whether there were any gunners left on board and ordered the crew of the Belgian Prince on the sub marine. "The men of the submarine searched them for weapons, threw away the oars of the life boats and ordered the crew to remove their life preservers. The submarine proceeded for 14 miles and then submerged, drowning the crew except William Snell, colored of Jacksonville, Fla., the chief engineer and a Russian." '113 INDICTED FOR RIOTi Grand Jnry Acts In Cprisiiig Ag;alnst i Foreigners at Flat River, Mo. Farmington. Mo., Aug. 9. The grand jury of this county today re turned 119 indictments ngalnst 113 men in connection with recent anti foreign riots at Flat river. Deny Seliwab Said It. Bethlehem. Pa.. Aug. 9. Officials of the Bethlehem Steel company here today denied that Charles M. Schwab, head of the concern, hnd made the statement attributed to him, that the Bethlehem interests would not f u r- nish steel rails for the allies at the prices fixed by the government. They said Schwab had been on a vacation all week, not occupying himself with business. Schwab's whereabouts were said to be unknown here. LOCAL MENTION Kellam hall will be closed until Sat urday on account of the death of Prof. C. D. Hudson. Safety razor blades sharpened bet ter than new. 2&c-35c dx. Brunt Mumt Drus Co. Adv Members of the family of Mrs. E. E. Mc Fad den, who committed suicide at her home, 1322 Buchanan street, Wednesday, today asked that a correc tion be made. They stated that while in her earlier life Mrs, McFadden was somewhat interested in spiritualism, in recent years she has been devoted to i Christian Science. DEATHS AND FUNERALh II K I, K.N l.OlISK DAISUITZ. the hire-months-oM tlauchter of Mr. ami Mrs. Claud liHrgit.. ilieil at tlie home of tier parents Hi04 Polk street Wednesday. Tlie funeral will be fwm th" resi-.ieu-e n (uraay at m. i. rr i ti:'-iO. Burial iu Topeka t-eiiietery. ALMA T. MFAIIEX. asre 44. died Wed nesday at her liotne VYS2 Bm-uaaan street The funeral will be liehf Friday afternoon at 4::;o from Peuwell's chapel and will be. private, li u rial ia Mt. Hope cemetery. KANDALL KEKblNU, the infant m.n of Mr. and Mm. C. E. Hooding, died Wednes day eveuing at the home of bis grand- parents. Mr. and Mrs. tf. V. Heeding. asou XV. Tenth street. Toe boUj was tent to Madison, Kan., for interment today. The funeral of Charles I. Hudson, ape 77, who died at his home 14J7 Van Hureu street Uiestlny, wiil be held at 2 o'clock. Friday afternoon from tlie residence. Bu-. riul in Topeka cemetery. t Lord's Flowers Satisfy. Adv. Tel. 827. TO RAISE $2,500 Topeka Rotary Club Will Help Care for Soldiers. Will Contribute Money Building at Manhattan. for Raising $2,500 in Topeka by Sat urday night to aid in erecting a recre ation building at Manhattan for sol diers- stationed at the Ft. Riley reser vation is a task the Topeka Rotary club will undertake this summer. A decision to join other clubs of Kansas, Afissouri. Colorado and Oklahoma was reached today at noon at a meeting of the club at the Chamber of Com merce. Kvery club in Kansas will raise money for this purpose in accordance with the size of the club. Topeka's apportionment is $2,500. The need of such. a building for the men at Fort Riley was explained both by Henry Bennett, president of i he club, and Cecil Howes, secretary. Howes has visited the ground per sonally, has called upon army officers and has heard the plan vouched for by them as a mighty good one. The money will be raised among he club members, it is hoped, and George Godfrey Moore was appointed chair man of a committee to obtain the funds. He will select his own mem bers. The funds will be placed in the hands of an executive, committee ap pointed by the district president. ATTACK WILSON N'ervy Pacifists Stage Meeting in U. S. Capitol. Radicals Assail Draft Law; Threaten Impeachment. Washington, Aug. 9. Pacifists held i a meeting under the dome of the cap itol today, demanded that congress I stay in session until it had repealed the draft law and voiced threats of an attempt to impeach President Wil son unless that, was done. Senators and congressmen, invited to attend the meeting, under the auspices of the people's council of America for democracy and peace, dropped into the room and then drop ped out again as the speeches proceed ed. The meeting was held in the sen-, ate mililtary committee room where a few weeks ago the draft law was drawn and perfected. Chairman Chamberlain of tho military commit tee said he had permitted the use of the room when Isaac McBride, for merly secretary to the late Senator Lane of Oregon, asked him for it, "To have some friends meet some con gressmen." Senator Chamberlain said he had no idea the place was to be used for an attack on the president. Ford Delegate Presides. Louis P. Lophner of New York, a member of the Ford Peace party, pre sided. The burden of the speeches was that a majority of the people were opposed to the draft law and that it should be repealed. H. Lemke, Republican state chairman of North Iakota. declared that the views of Senator Gronna of that state and the views of Senator Lafollette of Wiscon sin agreed with the sentiments of the people of North Dakota. Gronna and Lafollette both voted against the war resolution. Senator Gronna and Rep resentative Keating of Colorado were the only congressmen to remain dur ing the entire meeting. Speakers included Frank Steppehns of Arden, Del.; Daniel Kiefer, chair man of the National Single Tax league; T. H. Lundy. Chicago; Prof. Paul R. Dana of Columbia university: Max Kastman of New York, editor of The Masses, barred from the mails, and a number of representatives of la bor unions in Philadelphia and New York. CAPPER SEES BATTLE Stage Sham Fray at Fort Riley Today in His Honor. Fort Riley, Kan., Aug, 9. Sounds of rifle and artillery firing falling unon the ears of Governor Artnur Capper of Kansas and Lieut. Gov. Wallace Crossley of Missouri, broufht the reality of war close home to trem here today. The firing was part of the sham battle being waged by rfu dents of the officers reserve camp here as part of the review being saed for the two men. The armies called the Red and the Blue left camp early this morning but did not become engaged until noon. The maneuvers will continue until Saturday or Sunday. A. F. A. M. NOTICE The members of Orient Lodge. Xo. 51, A. F. A. M., are requested to I meet at Masonic .Temple Friday, Au gust 10. at 1:30 p. m. sharp to attend the funeral of our late Brother C. r. Hudson. JVJaster Masons invitied. H. R. BLANCH A RD, Master. EVAX DAVIS. Secretary. i Advertisement.) MARRIAGE LICENSES Marriaee 1b-enes were Issued from th offit-e of Kalpb tiaw. probate judge, today t the following persons: Hnrrv L. Craig, Belvne i Jennie S. Fleck. Wamego ............IS Claude M. Ru bottom. Topeka. .....2? Oro Edna Brady. Burlington i Orrille C. Jax-kson. Topeka..., Mary Alh-e fate. Alma. Ark M Wedding rings, 18-K gold, $4 up. Harris-Goar Co.. 102-4 E. 6th. Adv. FAIR TO MINERS Q -JV Walker GIT6S Operators

Side of Osage Controversy. gaVS Mines in District Operate at Disadvantage, VOLUNTARY INCREASE IN PAY The Raise Granted Last May Was A'ot Demanded. Idle Men Said To Be Going to Pittsburg Fields. Following reports brought to Bur Hngame today from the southern Kan sas coal fields to the effect that the Jackson-Walker Coal company, also an Osage operator, is envnoying men who have quit at Scran-.on, Burlin- j game and Osage City, in the com pany's Cherokee and Pittsburg mines, dissension that may mean a settle ment of the labor troubles, was re ported among the operators. The miners about 500 of them quit work in the Osage fielos several weeks ago because the operators re fused to allow a wage increase. Men coming to Burlingame today from the southern Kansas fields, said the miners who were leaving the Osage district were being employed by the Jackson-Walker company on their arrival in Pittsburg, at a scale that allows them to make more. The miners walked out because they said the Southwestern operatoi s schedule of pay allowed men in other fields, including southern Kansas, where coal veins are thicker to make more money daily. The mining of more than a ton a day in the Osage fields is im- possible, the miners say. because of the thinness of the veins. In other fields the veins are thicker and one man may mine more tons. The Southwestern operators sched ule provided that the miners be paid by the ton. The schedule iv the Osage field is $1.80 and $1.86 a ton. The miners, in order that they might make as much as miners in other fields, asked for the increase of 50 cents a ton. Operators holding out against the men, it is said, are not approving the Jackson-Walker policy of giving the striking miners employment else where and taking them out of the Osage field. Walker Writes Letter. In reply to articles dealing with the Osage strike as printed in the State Journal July 28 and 20, G. T. Walker, president and treasurer of the Ja-ck-son-Walker Coal Mining companv, today sent the following letter to the editor of the State- Journal: "Several of your recent articles on the mining situation as it now exists in the Osage, Kan., field, have recertly come to our attention. These articles are so plainly biased and contain so many inaccuracies, if not actual misstatements of fact, that I im prompted to write you on the subject I am doing this believing that you and your paper would not intentionally publish articles which are misleading. '"There has been no coal produced in the- Osage district at a cost of any thing like the figures you quote, for the last several years, nor has anyone operating in that district been able to do so with any profit as a general thing for that period. In your state ment that the operators gave the miner only ten cents per ton advance the first of last May and increased their selling price 50 cents per '.on, you lose sight entirely of the fact that the day men were advanced 20 per cent, which means approximately 60 cents per day. All kinds of supplies and equipment which enter into the cost of producing the coal are costing today anywhere from one hundred to five hundred per cent more than they did a year or two ago. These items must be reckoned with jus as much as the wages paid to the miner and if these are all taken into account the prices which the Osage operaijrs are now asking for their coal, and in fact must get if they sell it, will be found fully justified. "There has never been any dispo sition on the -part of the operator to treat the miners any way but fairly. The advance which we gate them last May 1 was identically the same as was accorded the miners in the East ern districts and so far as the opera tor was concerned, was voluntary for the reason that we had only last Au gust given them an advance and re- newed their contract for two years, and notwithstanding that that contract was in effect until July 31. 1918 we met the condition which had been es tablished when the Eastern competi tive district negotiated their new con tract last April on the increased basis. Mines Under Handicap. "It is a well known fact that Osage district coal, for the last eight or ten years, has been at serious disadvan tage in meeting competitive conditons i with all other coals by reason of the fact that its cost has been arbitrarily and unjustifiably increased as compar ed with all other coals with which it must compete. Very little of it can be l marketed at this time and practically j none of it is sold except during the j fall and winter months when i.irket; conditons and the demand for all! i kinds of coal are such as to let it i 1 move, and its territory in which it can be sold is becoming- more and more j restricted each year on account of its non-competitive cost. To add any more to tnat Disproportion is abso lute I y impossible in any case, and It would operate to the detriment of the miner who depends upon that district for his work just as seriously as against the operator. "If necessary to substantiate the statements I have made in this com munication, I will say that our pay rolls, cost and earning statements for that district, for the last five years, are open for your inspection, as 1 have no doubt would also be the case with reference to ether operators in that field. I have sufficiently good opinion of your sense of fairness to believe that you will take advantage of this offer as a means of getting at the actual facts. "G, T. WALKER, President." The State Journal published Mr. i Walker's letter, because the paper's policy is to print the news of the day i and set forth both sides of every issue. f Mr. Walker declares the articles on the Osage situation as printed in this newspaper are biased and "contain many inaccuracies, if not actual mis statements of facts." The stories appearing fn the State Journal July 28 and SO were not biased. The information contained in the articles was obtained from both miners and operators, to say nothing i ,1 ,j i It is not the Intention of the State j Journal to try any controversy in its J columns. The State Journal is not

iMnir a-hn la -l r t anil u.-hh 1st deciding 'who is .right and who is wrong in the Osage mine trouble. It simply gave the facts to the public! The public should it care to arrive at any decision, is at liberty to do so. Mr. Walker in his letter today says: "In your statement that the oper ators gave the miner only 10 cents per ton advance first of last May and increased their selling price 50 cents per ton. you lose sight entire ly of the fact that the day men were advanced 20 per cent, which meant approximately 60 cents a day." The State Journal, before submit ting its stories to the public on July 28 and SO, made a careful study of the wage scale to the Osage miners j as set forth in information issued by j the Southwestern Operators' assocla- tion. No 20 per cent increase was shown. The State Journal today called correspondents at Burlingame and they declared positively lhat the min- ers had not received this increase. A statement issued today by the J miners' press committee takes issue with statements of operating officials to the effect that the miners quit be- I cause "a man had been discriminated i against." The press committee de- j elates there is not truth in the state- ment put out by operators that the i mn are asking a 50 per cent increase. They declare again the request is for a flat-rate increase of 50 cents a ton. The statement of Fred Lukins, presi dent of the Southwestern coal opera tors, to the effect Alexander Howat, the labor leader, called the men out is also denied. The committee Howatt advised the miners "to do all in their power to have the wj;ong or injustice made right, notwithstanding the remark made by Mr. Richardson, southwestern operating official, that 'Justice is not a thing to be consid ered.' The statement, signed by A. W. Meggison, chairman; Win. McMurdo. secretary; John Billings, Thomas Mur- ty and Phil Rooney, says: "The article appearing in the To peka State Journal, July 28, 1917. which fully sets forth and explains the reason why Osage miners are not working should be read by all who are interested in the welfare of the producer and the consumer." morFfrightfulness Terrible Gas Causing Slow Death Hurled on Town by Germans. Hazebrouck, France. Aug. 9. Brit ish medical officers are trying to de termine the nature of a new noison used it is believed for the first time by the Germans on the French in of Armentieres,- near the Belgian: frontier. The poison bore a certain resemblance to the gas which tempo rarily blinded a large number of Brit ish troops a fortnight ago, but its ef fects are infinitely more serious. A number of persons taken from Armentieres are in a grave condition. Many have died in hospitals. The first time the new poison was observed it coincided with the firing into the town of a hail of small shells of a calibre insufficient to break the paving. These contain a colorless liquid which spread over the soil. In the streets and in courtyards and gardens, where the shells burst, traces of the noxious liquids may be founds hours after wards. As the liquid evaporates it produces a heavy gas which penetrates from room to room and descends into cellars. It is tenacious In character and seems to make more victims among' women than men, closing about their hair. No Effect for Hours. The fumes of tobacco seem to act as an antidote in the case of men. The odor :s variously described as resem bling that of acetylene, mignonette or pungent mustard. Its effects are not immediate. Some inhabitants of Ar mentieres who inhaled the emanations in the forenoon returned home with out experiencing any ill effects and took luncheon, but five or six hours later they were obliged to take to their bed and tbeir condition became rapid ly worse. The victims at first were affected in the bronchial tubes, then their eyes swelled and eventually they lost their sight. These symptoms were accom panied by a burning inside and an in cessant cough and fever. The skin turned an earthy color and in several cases death followed rapidly. Occa sionally, in addition to the symptoms mentioned, the victims were affected by terrible hallucinations and delirious laughter. THIRD TRAINING CAMP i i Will Comprise Men Selected I-Yom En- listed Army. Fort Rilev. Kan.. Aug. 9. A third officeis training camp, to follow the camp that will open August Z7, was announced here today by Capt. I. P. Swift, head of the examining board fur Iv'nnua V rivtlinn will hm n H i rrtif tH tr it fa nt a ill Swife r1prlflrfd as it will be conducted only for men cabinet, it is believed the entire mili I selected from the regular army, the i tarv and foreign policies of the em- national guard, and the draft forces, Release German Carpenter. Fort Riley. Kan., Aug. 9.-43ustave Richter. a German carpenter who has t been held here about two weeks by military authorities, was released tO- day but denied the right to return to the military reservation. Speeches 1 alleged to have been made by him while he was at work on army can tonment buildings here were investi gated. Call Off Spain Strike. Madrid, Aug. 9. Danger of a rail road strike in northern Spain has been averted. At a meeting last night the leaders of the men -oted to call in the strike notices expressing the hope that by doing so the Spanish govern ment would be enabled to, obtain sat isfaction of their claims from the railroad companies. Hogs Climb Higher. Chicago, Aug. 9. A new high rec ord for hogs was set here today when they sold at $16.75 a hundred pounds. The previous high record was $16.65 set May 14. The new tcp is $6.15 higher than a year ago and double that five years ago. gt. W GREAT ludd& Davis Sale The greatest sale ever staged in Topeka -is August's Budd Davis Sale For no other reason than it's a sale in every sense of the word. It's a Sale in Which You Save Money We of f er wearables that yon need, for less than any store in the world and you'll be sorry if you don't come quick Tomorrow. All Derby Ribbed Bathing Suits sold up to $4 TCf choice. DUC We can't mention the maker's name as they have agents in Topeka no, we are not agents. We can do as we see tit as to price. Men's Verv Finest Suits See (1 A them up to $30.00 NOW plU Men's $3.50 Khaki Color Rain Coats, .warranted choice. Men's $8 and $10 Palm One lot Men's Wool Top Beach Suits. Now we say Suits, Budd Davis for- Budd Davis sold only merly sold at $7.50. All the best still you can buy sires. Men, dQ P( these Suits your choice. )J.uU Budd Davis Silky Flan One lot of Men's Trousers, nel Trousers, $7.00 values, values up to ff Choice, J1 fQ $2.50. Choice. P 1 .UU men. J 1 .JjO Lots of Other Bargains too busy to mention, but come. You'll see the values of your life. Men Suit Buyer? Lock in our South Window and see the sight of your lives opening sale of Fall Suits from B. D. You'll never again buy for $10 such Suits as these. "iVii m wirtl im I M "l 620 AND 622 &4 it HEAP BIG POWWOW" Kaiser Summons All His Military and Foreign Office Chiefs. Amsterdam. Aug. 9. One of the most important conference in months has been called by the kah.cr at grand headquarters. 0 Chancellor Michaelis ha left Ber lin for headquarters in response to a summons from the kaiser reports re ceived here, today stated. Participaoingvn the conference will be military, governmental and diplo matic leaders of the empire. Those attending furnish on nf tho' most imnosine arrays of German lead ers that have come together since the outbreak of the war. In the conference with he kaiwer will be the crown prince- Field Mar shal von Hindenburg. chief of staff: Ouartermaster General Ludendorff, V.n,,A ,.ma tncrothor iniB I h Hindenburg's risht hand man: Chan cellor Michaelis: Dr. Kueh!mann. the new foreign secretary: ire-t'hancel-1 j tor and Minister of Interi Helfferich 'and Dr. von Stumm permanent sec re-i j n Va ..psifrn fir-m I t .-faw rf tho rppnt rhnneM in the iiires are to be discussed and a defin- i ite program outlined. Teuton Allies in Conference. Basel. Switzerland. Aus. 9- Xego- n flC tN and arr-nirin n ina-.mm..latif.n .rill begin at Vienna tomorrow between representatives of Germany, Austria Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey. WHEW! A HOT SHOT! I aiiy Politicians lAimhaM Congicv and Wilson Kansan Ilurns 'Em I" p. Washington, Aug. oiiKress wan dubbed "Impotent" and President WlilSroJi" ton an "autocrat" by seven speakers J c m. St. P.'.'i" fur 4he National Woman's party be- rmi.. Kuei A imo..l fore a sub-committee of the senate lpi1rjitl julic:ary committee today. The worn-' nn- '"rper en demanded adverse action on Senn- lor uulDfrsiin ammumem 10 in espionage act. legalizing arrest of per- sons found within prescriled zones in war times. They contended thi jro- vision is an attempt to prevent pi ket- 1 ing at the White Houfe. "We would picket cnare-s. eaid Miss Doris Stevens. Nebraska, "ex All Wool Jersey Bathing Suits sold up to 1 OA $6.50 choice. ?1.U $1.98 KANSAS AVE. cept that it is so Impotent under the autocratic man in the White House." Miss Iris Calderhead, Kansas, urged the committee not to "put upon :h presiuerrt s shoulders the burden of this bill. He already bears the bur den of dishonoring. In the capital, the liberty for which he is asking the na tion's young men to give up their Uvea abtoad!" York Money market. .New York. Aug. M i.N'KY-M"rrntlla pa(ier 44. Sterling W day bills. 4.7ti; eom-mcr.-inl W dny Mils on batik. .71 torn mervial day bill. 4.71; demand, 4.VI 9-16: cab!", 4.70 7-10. Frnnrsj. demand, 5.77f cables. 5.70'. 4uI1der. demand. 41' -nme. 4lh. Iirea. demand. 7..T; hie. t.'.'M. HlihlfH. demand. rahtea. 'l P.'i tlur Ivor M"T Movt.-am HnlUpa 04i 4. iveniment bonds afroo. itatlrond OOnHll ITP rreirular. Tlmp loana wteadv: aixtv Ihts. (ai; ninety days, AaHIH.'. sfx uioiithti, 4U5. 'all money firmer: tiijrhv 4; low. 24. ruling rate. 4: laat loan, vloaiu? bid, 'li offered at 3. Sew York Stork Market. Wall St., New YnrU. Ang. P.STOCK Trader -oreriMi nhort -nntrata very ex tennively today In tlie absence of expeet4 nnfavornhle developments from Washing ton. Sales approximated 5'Jft.OOu shares. Shipping sssnmed first plaee in the final dealings, km in in ft 1 to si most 3 polnta. Other active i untie Im-ludtns; steels were at best prices of the day. The closing was strong. Liberty boods 00.54 to 99.00. -"ew ni vvtiob marie. Orleans Aug 'TTOX-JW t fot.n steady, S (trims up. Middlinr. jj,:.-. New York Cottoa Market. av Y,rW Anr COTTON Snot fa. OH Middling. New York Htoek Market. Furnished by the Topeka Board of Trsda.) HTork. roaaj :r. Sis Am. B-rt Xug:ir.. Ami'-onlla Mining A.. T. 4 8. K.. i U::lfimnre Ohio Central I-atriT i;.. r 5," ia ifV. J,. IVtm. i:aiinad !?e. IhiK. Kt;.h"ra lwlfl Simlebjiker I'uimt fl, e. T. S. He-I. rir.b 0pfrs hle Mul'in tWauasu Ana. t. r -u. Bl "'IU, 8!4 1 U'i fU'Z 49 57-4 5.V, M -I.-.' t 37 V.-W14 .TtV, S.tiZ 5---. S2jZ 4 IM IH 5:si 5--. ..1W. ,.U'4S I-.-.-? ..im, lin'J 431.'. 11 V

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ii RINGING UP FATHER TOU OOLINC -TJ O" VOO TO LRT ME W TO NEWPORT- North Side News The Kaw Valley Canning company which last spring erected a new fac tory in Garfield I'lace, north of North Topeka, will open for business Fri 'ay morning. All farmers and truck gardeners who have tomatoes to tell ntny tlispose of them to the cannns company, according to J. L.. lleisch, manager of the-plant. 'i'he severe drouth for a time threat ened the business of the concern w'th totul annihilation. The crop of beans which the factory planned to accom modate earlier in the season was de stroyed by the dry weather. The to mato crop has been threatened, but the recent rains have so far revived the prospects' of a heavy yield, that it is predicted that with the continu ance of favorable weather a bumper crop will be produced. The canning factory, which is equip ped tu. handle 1000 quarts a day, will buy ui the surplus crop of all farmers who have tomatoes to sell, and will market the canned product locally. While the company had contracted with a tew gardeners for their tomato crops, the contracts were merely for thftv purpose of assuring the factory the 'material on which to operate. it was not the intention of the plan, as some gardeners have thought, to depend upon contracts made in ad vance. The principal reliance of the concern Is the surplus crop of neigh boring farmers and gardeners with whom no agreement had been reached. Anyone having tomatoes to sell can dispose of them at the canning factory beginning Friday morning. A real sure enough "stew" was ap prehended by the officers this morn i if-ii t..7 ooioek- The inebriated" CTnr was gracefully reclining against the rear wall of the American Express company's building near the tracks, and time or tide had long since ce?ifeed to cause him worry. What his in terior contained no one knows, but his hip pocket was blessed by the odiriferous preserice of a half pint whisky bottle, part of the contents of which still remained intact. The n an did not know his name. Social and Personal. Mrs. W. E. Cowdry will return this evening from a visit of several days in Hort m, Kan. J. C. Snertiker went to Kansas City today for a short business trip. Mrs. E F. Hamilton and her daugh ter Celeste have gone to Carrollton, Mo., for a week's stay with friends. Marjorie Cole left this morning for Salietha, Kan. Miss Cole, whose en gagement to Mr. Paul Van N'ess- was announced some time ago. was- given a linen shower Tuesday afternoon at the J. H. Kincaid home on North Kan sas avenue by the Camp girls. William Sherwood has accepted a position -with the Morns Myers Gro cery company. The Sherwood cafe at 107 Railroad street is closed at the present time from an inability, it is said, to obtain waiters and competent help, A. M. Petro, the Druggist. Adv. Erl Hansford, of Silver Lake, was In North Topeka today and asserted that very heavy damage was done there by the hail. D. TV Gabriel went frog hunting Wednesday at Perry. He found that while the ponds in the neighborhood had reappeared owing to the recent rains, the former frog inhabitants had dried Into mummies during the pro tracted drouth of July. These new fishing poles were abandoned in the vicinity or Perry. The North Topeka Civic club will hold a meeting Friday evening at 8 o'clock at fire station No. 1, according to the president, Frank Simms. The Ladies' Aid society of the Prairie Home Community church will give an ice cream social Saturday night. August 11, at the Ruse Kinnett home. The music will be furnished by the May Girls' orchestra. The pro ceeds of the entertainment will go to ward the rebuilding of the Prairie Home church destroyed by the Elmont twister. SANTA FE NOTES Note and persons Is from Santa Fe br Frances Jones. 211 Grattan street. Telephone between 8 and 10 a. m- 3530; other hours. 4751 K-2. John Armstrong, general erecting fore man in the machine shops, has returned to his work after a week spent in Den ver and Colorado Snrlnes. Colo. Mrs. Armstrong who spent a short vacation in St. Joseph, Mo., with relatives baa returned to her home also. Mr. and Mrs. John Nelson will return Friday from Chicago where Mr. Nelson has been three weeks on business for the S. TT. of N. A. Mrs. Nelson Joined her hunband the first of the week. .Mrs. Mattie Jolley and daughter Mary, have returned home after spending a few weeks in Mexico. Mo., with Mrs. Jolley '8 son. Dr. Frank Jolley and Mrs. Jolley. Mrs. Arthur Lanulrig, wife of Switchman Lanning has gone to Ohio on a visit to relatives. Mrs. Edson McKee and little son George, wife and son of Fireman McKee are visit ing at Grover, Kan. Lois Conrad, of the freight auditra office, is slowly convalescing at the com pany hospital. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Borst and daughter, ire spending their vacation in Clear Lake, "Vis. Mr. Itorst is employed in the freight editor's office. Thomas I'rout, secretary of the railroad Y" is spending his vacation at Clear .i ke. Wis. Friday noon a meeting will be held in rlie new mill, it will be in charge of the Williams-Robinson party. Dr. Williams will talk. ARE. M-L OF VOU -I'M OOIW IT JOVT TO PLEA'bE. Tqu- OODLES PAPER CASH Russian Government Grinding Out 55 Million Rubles of It Pally. Petrograd Aug. 9. M. Shingareff, former minister of finance, speaking, today at a constitutional democratic congress, said fifty-five million ruMes in paper money are being printed daily. Eight thousand men were en gaged in the work as compared wUh seven hundred in normal times, -he added. HAVE LIBERTY LOAN First of 3-day Sale In Russia Indicates Great Success. Petrograd, Aug. 9. Wednesday, the first of the three "liberty loan" days in Russia, proved a great success. Automobiles paraded the streets of the capital and decorated booths were installed in the principal thorofares for the sales of war bond. EAST SIDE NOTES Notes and personals from East Side by Frances Joues, 211 Urattan street. Telephone between S and 10 a. m., 3530; other hours. 4751 K-2. A meeting of the teachers and officers of the Third 1'resbyterian church will be held in the parlors of the church. Thursday evening. The i nnstfau .Endeavor society or the" Third Christian church held a business and social meeting recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. lurkee, 715 Brainier street. About fifty guests were present. Mrs. Oeorge Grosch and daughters, Bran ner street accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles G. Sheets of Perry. Ia., who are euests at the wroscn uouie, lert weunesuay foe Law ton, Gkla. The trip will be made Sirs. K.. Jones, Grattan street, spent) ueauay as cue guest or Airs, tiarriei T knvoii rf Tuvlnr str(t !Mr Inven crni uiemoratpd her eichtv-thlrd birthdav anni- versary, Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. S. Creraer. Mrs. Harvey Johnson, Mrs. Poston, Mrs. Edward Camp, Miss Mae Cremer and Mr. Towuie Poston, were guests Wednesday of Mr. and Mrs. Georpe Patterson. East Seward avenue. Miss Ethel Sloan has returned from Kansas City after spending a six weeks' vacation at that point with relatives. A. llitts, Itranuer street, has gone kto Pittsburg, Pa., on a vacation trip. A meeting of the board of the Kast Side Methodist church will be held Thursday evening. An election of officers will be held there being several vacancies at the present time. The Loyal Daughters of the Third Chris tian church will hold a. food sale at the Warren M. Crosby store, Saturday, August 11. Mrs. Harry McNair entertained the Gold en Hod Card club Wednesday afternoon. Those who played were: Mrs. G. H. Gross, Mrs. C. K. Hammond. Mrs. J. J. Williams, Mrs. Clarence Fairchild. Mrs. Henry Huber. Mrs. Fred Prosser, Mrs. James Nininger, Mrs. Frank Morris, Mrs. Roy Bunds and airs. Mcisair. Tne honors were awarded Mrs. Huber and Mrs. McNair. Next Wed nesday sn alt-day picnic will be held with Mrs. J. J. "Williams. 515 Bast Locust street. Mrs. Myrtle Smith aud two children will leave Sunday for Ienver, Colo., to spend three weeks with relatives aud friends. MiBs Mary Cunningham has returned home after spending the week-entj in Junc tion City, Kan. Mrs. Edward Miller of Albuquerque, N. M., who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frantz, 1033 Lawrence street, was removed to Christ's hospital, where she will undergo an operation. Her little, son Lee. is suffering with a broken arm. Mr. and Mrs. Clarke Pavls have returned to their home. East Eighth avenue after a few days spent in Harrison, Kan. They were guests of Mr. C. W. Dress h a former Topeka resident. Mr. and Mrs. J. Will mot East Eighth avenue have as their guest, Mrs. A. J. Will mot of Danville, 111. OAKLAND NOTES Notes and personals from Oakland, By Frances Jones. 211 Grattan street. Telephone between S and 10 a. m., 3530; other hours. 4751 K-2. Mrs. Renharger assisted by Mrs. Ray Brewer, entertained the Loval Women's class of the Oakland Christian church, Wednesday afternoon. The guests of the afternoon included: Mrs. C. M. Reaugh, Mrs. William Gooden. Mrs. S. Rook, Mrs. O. C. WUlsy, Mrs. Frank Langstaff, Mrs. D. M. Uathbun, Mrs. George Anderson, Mrs. H. C. Smith, Mrs. R. Leeson and Miss Mabel Anderson. Next month Mrs. Wlll sey. Forest avenue will be hostess. Mrs. J. B. Fnrlee has returned to her home, Oakland avenue, after spending a week in Havensvllle, Kan. She was accom panied home by .Mrs. E. Olson, who will stend the remainder of the week here. Miss Edna Welk has returned to ber no me in oodviiie, Wis., after spending eight months with her aunt and nncle, Mr. and Mrs. C Foorr. Mirhffrnn nvfniie Miss Ruth Van Orsdol entertained Thurs day morning with a porch party and lunch eon. The invited guests included: Miss DollU Morris. Miss Fsv Hwter Miss Lnclle Jones, Miss Lucile Cortrell, Miss Ruth Conwell. Miss Pearl Poort, Miss Ruby Poort. Miss Helen Jessop, Miss Mar jorie Mohler, Miss Esther Taylor, Miss Olathe Miller. Miss Florence Tavlor. Miss Donna Lvnn and Mr. Charleii Ivnn. Miss Van Orsdol was assisted during the morn ing by her mother, Mrs. William Van Orsdol and her aunt. Mrs. Charles Lynn. An- ice cream social will be given Fri day evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Lepper, under the auspices of the Oakland Odd Fellows lodge. The Oak land Methodist church orchestra will fur nish music. Mrs. J. W. Loper snd Mrs. George Loper have returned to their homes after visit iug relatives in Davenport, Ja., for two weeks. Mrs. Will Glover, Reno avenue, has been called to Circleville, Kan., by the death of her nncle. Mr. Heaton. Mr. and Mrs. Philip Stachelbeck and. daughters, expect to leave next week to spend a vacation with relatives in Bloom field. Ind. Mrs. Freeman Bell and small son will accompany Mrs. Bell's sister, Mrs. N. E. Copeland and Mr. Copeland to Estes Park, Colo., where they will remain during August. 1 E I M II r -MJiJir im I I LUnr .Natl v 1 I I W I -i:.: r S .V'-l.. I V r n:-. I':::; .J II W u t j I THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALS-THURSDAY (Copyright. 1917. International News Service.) WANT AHB MISCELLANEOUS ADS REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS. H. U. Kinne and wife to K. S. Butner, lots l9-71-;i-5-7-l Kentucky ave., Highland Park snb 380 A. K. Van Patten and wife to W. T. Johnsnieyer. I1WV4 15-12-14 1 P. H. Morse and others to W. II. lines lot Wfl Locust St.. 1'srkclHle add 100 F. E. Ve:ir ami wife to l'rud. Tr. Co. lot 3U Kansas ave 1 L. F. GHFtingbouse and wife to M. K. Graham, pt. lot 14, Elmwood ave., Potwin sub 1 L. F. Uarliughouse aad wife to E. L. Collins, lot 29 nMi 27, Wilmington Conrt. Pinenurst 1 N. V. Long to E. W. Cleland, lot 48, Taylor St., Watson's add 1 C. E. Fritz and wife to M. need, lot 60, Fritz add to Kossville Cemetery 25 M. Manshardt aud wife to G. Maus hardt, lots 22s, 2241 Virginia ave., frystal Springs add -too LO!: T AM FOUND. LOST Gold stag pin on' East 8th or 8th and Kansas. Keepsake. Liberal reward. 40H K. 8th. WANTED SITUATIONS WANTED By woman stenographer, posi tion where correct spelling and construc tion are preferred to speed. Address CZ, care Journal SITUATION WANTED -Nursing or house work. 510 West 8th. WANTED SALESMEN SALESMEN WANTED Capable salesman and collector. Married. 35 to 45 years.. Permanent position. Good salary, commis sion extra. Address McC. 1000, care Jour nal. WANTED MALE, FEMALE HELP. WANTED A cook at the Hotel Thome. WANTED MALE HELP. abmyISeds baJGTkks Earn from $75 to $100 a month. With the rihlalng of a larger army there Is a great demand for barbers. We teach you in 5 weeks under our new system. Get In now before the fall term. Low tuition. TOPEKA SANITARY BARBER COLLEGE. 327 Kansas Ave. WANTED Young man hotel clerk. $30 mo.. board, room and laundry young man dairy work in Texas. mo., board and room, free transportation man and wife hotel cooks. $80 month young mau store $12 wk. farm hands; farm couples; laborers for railroads ship out; cooks. Furinan Employ mentjOffice. lOO West Stb. WANTED Experienced man to run steam drill, good wages. Man for hot house work; man anil wife cooks; Jarm couples; dairy hands; farm hands; cooks. Fur man Employment Office, 106 W 8th. WANTED Teams for hauling lumber at Fort Uiley. Kate 70 cents per hour, ten hour day. Double time Sunday. Report at Camp Funston with team. George A. f uller t:onstrucrion ko. WANTED Teamsters and laborers to ship to Wyoming Friday. August 1. at noon. Wages $2.75 day Free transportation. Furman Employment Office, ig6 West 8th. BOOKKEEPER Experienced, must hare excellent references as to ability, in tegrity and character. Apply to Mr. White, ornce, zna iioor, reueuer W A NTR D B room maker. A. J. Little, 17KI K-l. WAXTKD- F F.MALE HELP. W4NTED. FTeart waitress for hotel: dining room a-lrl. S.i0 month: women cooks; ou waitress, good wages, steady work; girls for family help; chamber maids; etc. rur man Employment Office, 106 West 8th. BOOKKEEPER Experienced, must have excellent references as to ability, in tegrity and character. Apply to Mr. White, offh. 2nd floor. Pelletler s. WANTED Experienced comptometer oper ators, salary to w per moiun, ac cording to efficiency. Address XI Z, care Journal. GIRLS wanted for dining and lunch room. Ap pi v M a rve y f i o u se, a an i a r e suiuou. WANTED Experienced hand ironer and flat wnrs: ironer. Muruai ijauimry. WASTED TO RENT. WANTED TO RENT Small barn for storage. Must be in good condition. 3i6, care Journal. WANTED TO BITS WANTED to buy for cash; a good auto, roadster preferred, must be late model nnri in first class cdtidltion. Address giv ing price and model. Roadster, care Jour nal. WANTED Old false teeth. Don't iratter if broken. I pay 2.00 to $15 per set. Send by pprsel post and receive check by return mail. L. Mazer, 2007 S. Fifth sU Philadelphia. Pa. !T AlHlTTF Highest price paid for 2nd uwtuiwucmw nana ciotnes. laaies or gents. NOVACK. 404 B. 4TH. TEL. 3660. WANTED To buy from owner, modern five or six-room cottage. West Side pre ferred. Aonress xuij, journal. WANTED Fat cattle and calves. Will send buyer to look at cattle. The Chas. Wolff Packing Co. WANTED MISCELLANEOUS. HEMTTTIPfGTTLNINS Plaltlngs of all kinds. Buttons made. Mail orders receive prompt, careful atten tion. Mrs, Mercer, 800 Topeka. GOOD milk cows, fat cattle and veal calv W. C. A. Leltso Tel. 257. 1082 HASTY AUTO. EXPRESS. FOR RENT HOUSES TOR EENT 408 Buchanan, 6 rooms strictly modern house, finished in oak. Rental. $25. Can be leased Tor 6 months. Call 5050. FOR RENT 3 modern houses close in. F. S. Thomas. 519 Kansas ave. Phone 298. FOR RENT HOUSES FOR KENT Five-room cottage, city water, well, cistern, barn, and corner lot, 1214 West 2nd. Inquire 431 Lane. Phones 154; house, 4M30Ked. .1 nan oiock r. on i.tn sr. ruoiier u-rouiu Bunealow with ..rivileir. of having on reasonable terms. Clarence Skinner, phone 4T.2. FOK RENT 7-rooni modern house, with lot and half ground. 1033 Morris avenue. Call Mrs. Marshall. Phone 1006, 8 a. m. to &-H OM modern cottage, sleeping porch. t09 West &th. Inquire 5oi Taylor si. FOR KENT 6 rooms modern house except furnace. Monroe St. I HOUSE for rent. 1540 Kan. ave., 7 roma. Inquire 1021 Qulncy St. MODERN 5-rooin house. 315 West 12tnT Grown ups only, $10. 7-ROOM house, strictly modern, new fur" nace. f'2 Monroe FOi KENT FURNISHED R'KJM FOR RENT1 1221 Kansas ave. Strictly modern furnished room. Call 2811 Blue after 6 p. m. L NICE modern room, close in; private fnm ily, reasonable. Gentlemen. Phone 2739 Black. FOK riKNT Large south room, strictly modern. 314 Huutoon. Phone 1074 after fl p. m, 1 FURNISHED sleeping room in new mod ern in u li t in'j. ivujtumm. 13 im. i in r; cooi iigni nouseiteepmg rooms, xuxo Topeka ave. FOR RENT STORE BUILDINGS. KANSAS AVE., 131, for rent, after August lhth, store room or whole building, 28 x 140 feet, frwnt 80 feet 2 stories, baJf blovk south R. I. depot center of wholesale, commission aud manufacturing district Call W. W. Gavitt Co., 4th and Adams sts FOR SAL.E HOUSEHOLD GOODS. BEST "PKnCES TAlO) For second hand furniture. "We buy ev erything you have. Call F. Lafferty, aee ond hand buyer. Phone 3317W. FOR SALE American bed room suite and other furniture In d rooms: used leas than a year. Call 2933 White, evenings. ALL. KINDS of furniture for sale at mon ey saving prices. Kent t. JUogan. oz Kansas Ave., Tel. 3182. FOR SALE LIVESTOCK FOR SALE Stylish driving horse, buggy and narness. zKtM Lincoln. FOR SALE AUTOMOBILES. MJ FORD For cash, 5-passenger 19TT model never used, immediate delivery. Aaaress G, care Journal. FOR SALE Good National speedster. cheap. Motor Service Co.. HS-lio w. lutn. GOOD Ruick automobile, not a self starter, owner going to California. Phone 1d4 FOK SALE Speedster. $175. Call Sunday or evenings, iiooin ix, oao ivhubhb ave. FOR SALE New Bui-k Four roadster. Mrs. i. Li. s.eney. leiepnone os-v&w FOR SALE: MOTORCYCLES. SOME CEIOUCE BAKGAHNS IN USED EltbTORCTCLES 1914 Sinele HarleT-Davidaon I 75.00 1!)1J Twin Excelsior 100.00 115 Twin Harley-Davidson 100.00 1014 Twin Harley-Davldson 150.00 lal6 Twin Harley-DavldBon 175.00 SHAWNEE CYCLE CO. Phone4400 114 East 7th St. FOR SALE Harley-Davidson motorcycle" Free inch clutch. Good condition. SoO. 2504 Buchanan. FOR SALE POUITRT FOR SALE Hens, dressed aal drawn, 23c lb. Broilers, alive, 2oc lb. 210 Stephens. Phone 25S0 N-l. FOR SALE Baby chicks. Barred Rocks. Keas ana wnue. Legnorn. rnone lo Bine. FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS WANTED Watch repairing;. Main springs, 75c; cleaned. 75e. All work guaranteed. Armstrong Jewelry Co., 429 Kansas ave. MAKE YOCR WAY THROUGH SCHOOT invest in a good paper route. Fnoue WW King WORK TEAr. wagon and harness. Phone 1933 K-l. 1(182 HASTY ATTTO EXPRESS. FOR SALE COAL COAL FOR CASI3 Hiawatha-Franklin Co- 111- ton t 9 00 Ouita Grate, ton 12.00 Ouita, bsseburner size, ton 14.00 Fancy Seml-Antnracite Lamp, ton... 10.00 Cherokee Lnmp, ton 6-75 Cherokee Nut. ton 6.25 Osage City Lump, ton 6.23 Burllngame Lump, ton 8.U0 CAPITAL COAL CO. Phone 10SS. Railroad and Qniney Rta. UNDERTAKING Lc M. PEN WELL, funeral director aad embalmer. First class service. 508-5111 Quiney st. Telephone 192. ELECTRIC WIRING LET ME figure yonr electric" wiring and fixtures. Chas. F. Klussman, Phone 5omL PICTCRE FRAMING FRAMING, jee tiding, mat making, mount. lug done by 1. D. Sullivan, lia-lii W. tub. EVENING, DAWN FOR THE STATE FOR SALE REAL ESTATE OWMI

Leaving for the west on aceonnt of change in business location makes bargain iri-e for 6-room bungalow cottage, 3-plece bath, fine sleeping 4or-h. cement floored base ment under entire house, Peninsular fur- nace, finished in oak. beamed ceilings, built-in kitchen cnbltiKts. house eleeautlv decorated with high class light fixtures, iu good neighborhood, close to car and school, walking distance of Kansas avenne. 2 lots. young fruit, yard graded, sidewalks all in. a imisueu nonie hi a nargam. SAWHiIEI"MVESTMEMTCOJ u r-.. a va PhnM 505ft 1 ww, Two beautiful, shady, east front lots. 5- j room bouse, strictly modern. Bargain, $1,000 cash, balance like rent. (SAIRILMOTOIQSE REALTY CO. Y 10 SEE IT What? Why those 20 lots, 6-rm. house. barn, chickeu house, smitll fruit, rpmeuted cellar, V, In alfalfa. Where? Highland Park, and all for K.SOO. S500 to $K00 down. 1 The improvements rost nearly $'J,2(I0. COTTRELL CO., 107 E. 7th. Tel. 558, 3408. .110 MJLVANE STREET In Elmhurst, six rooms,, modern, fire place, good bath, furnace, full basement. This propertv is splendidly located and in nice condition. Price $3,350. Terms. W. A. KEOTAKGER Ik CO. Successors to Wilson Neiswanger. Phone 948. Ill W. 6th. ON 'EASY. TEEMS MODERN HOME 711 Polk st. 219 Tyler. 1305 Buchanan. 124ft Lane.. J. T. BELL, ATVISOR OS REAL ESTATE. 735 FILLMORE. PHONE 914. SALE f R&m Farm, 80 acres, close to large By. town in Franklin Co., Kan., good land, all tillable, some bottom,!-r. house, barn, etc. Price $8,000. No encumbrance. Sell easy terms or take 0- or 7-r. modern Topeka dwelling for part. J. E. TORR1NGTON, 109 W. 6th. Tel. 228. SOIBTOEAN Five-room cottage, outbuildings, cistern, well, shade, fruit, east front; 12 lots, 5 blocks car. JL W3LS0H PHONE R!6 COLUMBIAN BLDG. WILL" SELL or swap for Kansas land, six lots, five houses. Harrison, corner Twelfth. Clenr. Ir. Hyatt. MONEY FARM LOANS WANTED. This company has an nnlimited amount of funds to lend on Eastern and Central Kansas Farms at 5 with a reasonable commission. Our representative Is at your service if you want information. THE FARM MORTGAGE CO. Crawford Bu. lng, Topeka, Kansas. Phone 3338. K00.0n6 READY TO LOAN. On Improved farms at 5 per cent and os, Topeka real estate at 6 per cent. No de lay. If you have a maturing loan or wish to change or Incrense your loan, call or write Topeka Representatives. United States Mortgage Trnst Co. Capital Surplus $6,000,000. MONEY TOtnA' ON .'LL KINPS OF PERSONAL PROPERTY. Horses, cattle, pianos, diamonds, honee- hold goods, hbrariea. typev riters. antos. carriages, machinery, and to sslarled peo ple. F. S. Thomas. 519 Kansas avenus. Tel. 298. LOANS made on any kind of personal se curity. Li. Htsfnp. Knnsas sve. MOVING Phone 4186 for MOVING AND PACKING Goods stored in modern warehouse. MERCHANTS TRANSFER STORAGE CO. FENIMORE MO VI N G ANDSTORAGK. Ynnr furniture w rarne1 for storazs PREK expert r-akers. Phone 4341. BATTERIES. Batteries Made, Sold, Renewed, Rented. Locates electric troubles: battery, motor, generator. Demonstration Free. Henry Peers. Mgr., 706 Jackson St. Phone 818. AUCTIONEERS a O. ANSEL, General Auctioneer. Res. Phone, 2251 Red. Office 4ft, At your service wt all times. Satisfaction Guaranteed. gOftl HnMv!n Street. JTopefca. Kaa. FLORISTS HATES' FLOWER SHOP Stocks always fresh. Grown in oar own greenhouses. 819 Kansas ave.. Phone 377. TYPEWRITERS ALL MAKES for sale or rent. Best me chanical department In the country. CRANE A CO. Topeka, Kan. 47 Tears In Business. AUGUST 9, 1917 JOURNAL BY GEORGE M'MANUS INSURANCE. L. W. WILSON Fire, tornado, plate glass insurance. Phone 836, 2ti Columbian Bldg. FARM LOANS fARM LOANS. 5 and ft per cent. See Nichols liealty Co.. 529 Knn Ave Tel. 440 NOTICE NOTICE To Building Contractors. After September 15. the price of wood lathing and metal lathing where centers are tied will be lc per yard higher. LEGAL-. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN My wife. Ljixzie Ntramei. navinir left mT nert and board and refused to return, you are there- fore hereby notified that 1 will not stand responsible for any debts made by her. i0i,n strnmel fiii vh17;raj -.H g. Thursday, July 20, 1917.J State of Kansas, Shawnee County, as. In the Matter of the Estate of Wesley Samuel Miller late of Shawnee County, Kausas. NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. Notice is hereby given that on the 23d day of July, A. D. 1917, the undersigned was, by the Probate Court of Shawnee County. Kansas, duly appointed Adminis trator of the eBtate of Wesley Samuel Mil ler late of Shawnee County, deceased. All parties- interested in said estate will take notice and govern themselves accordingly. LKLA CLARINDA MILLER, Administrator. First published In The Topeka State Jour nal, August L 1917. NOTICE TO BIDDERS. Sealed proposals will be received by the Board of Administration at- their office in the State House In the city of Topeka, tin til 2 P. M. August 14, 1917, for the furnish ing of coal to be delivered to the Institu tions noted below, as ordered by the chief executive officer of the institutions. The roiiowing amounts are approximate only, and may vary, but the quantity ordered must be furnished at the contract price from the date of award to June 30, 1018. Number ;r of Institutions Tons nodeH Topeka State Hospital. Topeka 9,500 Osawatomle State Hospital, Osawm- tomie 8.000 Lamed State Hospital. learned 1,100 State Hospital for Epileptics, Par sons 4,304 State Home for Feeble-Minded. Win field State Orphans Home, Atchison 1,060 State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, Norton 400 State Afrricuitural College, Manhattan. 6,500 mare Aianuai -j. raining Normal, .puts burg I'niversity of Kansas, Lawrence l.OKO 7,200 State Normal School. Emporia 1.30 rcnooi ror tn uenr. Uiathe..7 WH School for the Blind, Kansas City, Kan R00 Bell Memorial Hospital. Rosedale.... 600 Mate Fish Hatchery, Pratt... 140 Ft. Hays Kansas Normal School, Hays 1,200 Ft. Havs Exleriment Station. Hays.. 300 Boys Industrial School. Topeka 416 Girls Industrial School, Beloit 2.100 State Industrial Iteformatory, Hutch- j wav Company, Express Company, Electric Inson 2.700 1 Railways, Coaches, public or Private Con Western University. Qulndaro, Kan. .1.200 I veyances. 8hall transport, receive or offer nirts should be made upon the basts of Southern Kansas coal f. o. b. onrn at the mines, and may be made upon Mine Run, j has been embalmed twelve (12) hours and Mill Run, Lump, domestic Nut and Slack, j is accompanied by a Yellow Paster, proper Domestic Nut to be run over a screen jy filled out and signed bv a Kannas L1 of not less than inches. .censed Embalmer In accordance with this Owing to the fact that the mines are rule located on different railroads, bidders will i The sale of embalming fluids, hardening be permitted to bid separately for each compounds and preservatives containing institution, an 1 the contract will be award- mineral poisons, to be used for the prep ed to the lowest responsible bidder on the aration of dead human bodies, is strictly above kinds of coal only. forbidden in the State of Kansas; also the No bids will be sccepted on coal other use. In the preparation of dead human than specifiec' above. j bodies, of any such embalming fluid, hard- t-acn niuuer win rnrnisn tne rreignt rate nm th mint tn nrh nf tha a Knro.n a mo1 from the mine to each of the above-named institutions upon each of the srradea of coal unon which he bids. AH proposals shall be made In writing, sealed, and marked "Proposals for furnish ing coal," and shall he addressed to tht Business Manager of the Board of Admin istr: tion. Topeka, Kansns. accompanied by a certified check for $iV0 on some respon sible bank, payable to the Board of Admin istration, as a guarantee for the faithful performance of the contract awarded. In case no award Is made to the party, the chei-k will be at once returned to him. and the check of the successful bidder will be T7ithheld nntil such successful bidder has entered Into bond and contract and the same approved and accepted by the Board of Administration. Bids will be opened In pnblic at the office of the Board of Administration on the above date and rime specified for the pnrnose of tabulation. Contract for the same will be awarded at 2 P. M. on the 16th day of August. 1917. The Business Manager and Board of Administration reserve the right to reject any and all bids. By order of the Board of Administration. JAS. A. KIMBALL,, Business Manager. Attest: LKB HARTSON, Secy. First published in The Topeka State Journal. August 1. 1917. NOTICT5 TO BIDDERS.- Sealed Bids will be received at the office of the Board of Administration, at the state house in the city offTjpeka, for the furnlshine: of electric lamns for the dif ferent Institutions under the supervision of the Board of Administration, the State Board of Managers and Executive Council bids to be filed until 2 o'clock p. m.. Aug ust 1-. 191(. Contracts will be taken up for award at 2 o'clock p. m.. August 15, 1917. Said contract will be awarded upon the basis of $5,000 worth of lamps, delivered as ordered by the rbief executive officer or superintendent of the institutions un der the supervision of the Board of Ad ministration, State Board Managers. Execu tive Council, or any oth-r Institution or department where lamps are purchased by Incandescent lamps will be furnished nnder tnia contract snail o new lamps. and shall be guaranteed to b-. In accord ance with the- United- States standard specifications as set forth In eircular No. 13. and from date of award until June 30. 191. Bidders will make one price covering Mazda, as per price schedule of National Lamp Association. Prices to include packing and packages, freight, delivered to the towes In which the institutions are located. A bill in detail must be sent to the in stitutions whFD the lamps rr shipped. Payment will be made the month follow ing delivery of goods provi. m! vouchers In triplicate avre made oat and receipted in 2 LEGAL nroper form and forwarded th nnn. sentative institutions in time to reach them before the 30th of the mon'h In which goods are delivered. All proposals shall be in w. 'ting, sealed, and marked "proposals for furnishing elec tric lamps." and shall be stidressed to the Business Manager of the Board of Ad ministration, Topeka, Kansas. All pro posals must be accompanied by a certified check on some responsible bank payable to the Board of Administration, equal In amount to five per cent of tae amount of the proposal, as a guarantee for the faith ful performance of the contract awarded. In case no award Is made check will be returned at once to the unsuccessful bid ders; and the check of the successful Jbid der will be returned to htm when contract has been duly signed and botd approved. Each proposal shill be accompanied by a sample of the lamp proposed to be fur nished, and original label n-.ust be left upon the same. Bidders must attach to each sample a card or tag on which must be plainly marked the name of the sender, the gride and the price of the lamjs, and all charges must be prepaid. The lJoard will not be responsible for samples sub mitted. Unsuccessful bidders can remove their samples. The Boards and Business Managers re serve the right to reject any and all bids. Where both the bids and the quality of the lamps are the same, preference will be given to resident dealers of the state. By order of the Board of Administration, JAS. A. KIMBALL, Business Manager. Attest: LEE HARRISON, Secretary. First published in The Topeka State Jour nal, August 8, 1917. RULES AND REGULATIONS GOVERN ING THE PREPARATION AND TRANSPORTATION OF DEAD HUMAN BODIES IN THE STATE OF KANSAS. USE OF YELLOW SHIPPING PASTER. ETC. Rule 1. Yellow pasters used for the transportation of dead human bodies, must contain Registrar's Removal Permit. Li censed Embalmer's Certificates Nob. 1 and 1 2, Railway, Express and Public or Private conveyance Transit Form. Paster must be approved by tbe Kansas State Board of I Health. Said Pasters to be furnished by the State Board of Embalming, of the State or Kansas, and issued only to emhalmers hold in a valid license from said Board, r The embalmer who prepares a body for transportation, (except to local or adjacent cemeteries must fill out Licensed Em -balmer's Certificates Nos. 1 and 2, also secure Registrar's Removal Permit, all Eroperly filled out and signed. Said em aimer shall detach Original Licensed Em balmer's Certificate No. 2 and immediately forward same to the Secretary of the State Board of Embalming of the State of Kan sas. The person, agent or owner of any Rail way Comoanv. KxDress Comnanv. Electric Railway. Coaches. Public or Private Con- veyance, who receives a dead human body for transportation, must fill out Railway. t Express. Public or Private Conveyance Transit Form and sign as person, agent or owner, and securely fasten Original Paster containing Registrar's Removal Permit, Ll- rt: censed Embalmer s Certificate No. 1 and Transit Form on the shipping box or case J ao that the same may be read) sold Yel- ln Pnitr must awnmnnnv hnrlv to des- tinatlon. i No oerson. a Brent or owner of ibt Rail- for transportation any dead human body nrnn riUiTtterrori hnriv. miipi hM twiriv ening Compound or preservative, containing 1 i 1 t i 1 Ak,i,t. I ineral poison. Is strictly forbidden in thisi"111" hnetleally sealed or soldered, and i afiflann in a BittnsT Anfsilnft Vfsftnsiii av nil State, aed labels on container shall read: "No Mineral Poison." All embalming fluids sold, offered for sale or used for embalming in the State of Kansas, shall have the per cent of for maldehyde gas ss contained In the orig inal package, and also the per cent of formaldehyde gas as used according to di rectlonsr plainly and correctly stated on the label. All adult shipping boxes, or esses, must have at least six (B) bandies. (Two bandies on each side six Inches from the bottom snd each end handle six Inches from the top of box.) COMMT-NICARLE DISEASES. Rnle 2. The bodies of those who have died of measles, erysipelas, diphtheria (or any diphtheritic disease. Including heart failure, croup, membranous croup, angina malignant, putrid sore throat, malignant sore threat), scarlet fever, (sometimes eall- ed scarlatina, scarlet rash, scarlatinal neph- body has been prepared according to the ritls. canker rnsh), glanders, anthrax, rules governing the preparation and trans-small-pox. (variola, varioloid), (varicella, portatlon of dead human bodies in tba chicken-pox). Asiatic cholera, yellow fevr, j Stati of Kansas. typhus fever, bubonic plague, epidemic Shipping box or outer case may he die cerebral, spinal meningitis, anterior polio- I pensed witb, if body Is conveyed in bearse' myelitis (infantile pnralvsis). or leprosy, 1 or other conveyance .used exclusively fof shall not be transported, offered or ac- j moving the dead. cepted for transportation by any person, DEAD BODIES IN TRANSIT. "V agent or owner of any Railway Company, Rule 8. It Is further ordered by the UtaNt Express company, EWtric Railway, Board of Embalming that all dead human Coaches, Public or Private Conveyan'-es, 1 bodies coming into the State of Kansas vie unless prepared by being thoroughly dis-1 any Railway Company, Express Company, infected by (a) arterial and cavity In- j Electric Railway, Coaches, Public or Prtv Jection with an approved disinfecting fluid! ate Conveyance shall be accompanied by containing not less than fourteen (14) Physician's, Coroner's, Health Officer's per cent of forty per cent formaldehyde f Certificate or Registrar's Removal Permit, solution and the amount of fluid injected stating cause wf death, etc., also by a cer-' must not be less than one-thirteenth (1-13) tlflcate of a licensed embalmer stating thaf" of the body weight; (b) dlstlnfectlng and the body has been embalmed according tar stopping all orifices with dry cotton; (c) the transportation rules of the State from, washing the body with a disinfectant, i. e., I where said body was shipped. r a solntlon of bl--hlorlde of men-nry 1 to j PROVIDED, where shipment Is metis 1000 (7Mi grains of the bl-chlorbl of mer- i from any state 1nr province having no Board., cury to 1 pint of water. After being pre- or statutes regulating the practice of ctn pared and disinfected as above .-ti-h body j ba lining and the transportation of dead shall be enclosed In an air-tight metallic, human bodies, such body must be a ceo no -sine, tin, copper or lead lined coffin or I panted by documentary evidence that such casket all joints and sesms hermetically t body has been prepared In accordance with sealed or soldered, and all encased in a the rules herewith promulgated, strong outsldo wooden or metal box. Or. f Anv person, aeent or owner of any RaH- the body being prepared and disinfected afl T be enclosed in a coffin or casket, and the coffin or casket encased in veyance having In charge and transit aojr an air-tight metallic, xinc. tin. copper or dead bnman body that lias not been pr lead lined wooden shipping box, or all- j perly prepared or embalmed and has be metal shipping case or vault, all joints and come offensive or dangerous to public senms hermetically scaled and soldered, t health, shall refnse to continue transporta The embalmer must adhere strictly to tion until said body has been properly modern sanitary .methods In regard to dis- prepared, embalmed, so that pnblic health infection, in preparing dead human bodies I is not endangered. for shipment under this rule. j The foregoing rules -have been adopt Provided the body is In an air-tight. by the State Board of Kmbalmlug of tus sealed cssket. the snipping or rough box State of Kansas. may be dispensed with if body Is conveyed R. M. JOHNROX. In hoarse or other conveyance used ex-! Secretary, Topeka. Kan. clnsively for conveying the dead. j This Yellow Paster was approved bv the "EXCEPTION" when bodies dead of anv I State Board of Health on June 13. 1917. msease named in ttnie z are to be miried tin local cemeteries near place of death and I Panamas All $8, 7 and $6 Panamas reduced to P3 All $5.00 Panamas re- f O QC duced to 9Uw All $3.50 Panamas re- &f Qt duced to p0) We can fit jroo. LEGAIi. not be necessary to embalm the body it the body is buried within, twenty -tw hours of death. Bodies dead of any disease named in Rnla 3 to be moved from hospital or place of a earn to morgue, must in aui case wrm wrapped In a sheet saturated in bl-h!oc tde of mercurv 1 to 1000 and then out In a metal transfer case, or wrapped ia rob urr BueeLiug sua piacea in drskx or con tainer and moved only in conveyance nswl exclusively for conveying the dead. Con, ve.v niii-r auu pirBpnoruiuii anaai ow umir feezed after each body is removed.) NON-COMMTJNICABLB DI8EASB&. Rule 3. Bodies dead from any cans not stated In Rule 2, shall not be transported, offered or accepted for transportation (ex cept to local or adjacent cemeteries) by any person, agent or owner of any Railway Company, Express Company, Electric Rail way. Coaches, Public or Private Conyu ance, unless prepared by being thoroughly disinfected by (a) arterial and eavity In jection with an approved disinfecting fluid containing not less than ten 10&) per cent of forty (40) per cent formaldehyde sola tion (b disinfecting and stopping aU orifices with dry cotton; c) washing body with a disinfectant. After being prepared and disinfected as above, ancb bodies shall be enclosed In a coffin or casket, en cased in a strong outside wooden box or metal shipping case. The shipping box or oeter case may be dispensed with. If body Is conveyed in bearse or other convajanoe used exclusively for moving the dead MANGLED, BURNED, ETC. Rule 4. Bodies dead from any cause not stated in Rule 2, such as bodies badly nsaew giea or ournea mac cannot ne pieparea under Rule 8, shall not be transported, of fered or accepted for transportation (ex cept to local or adjacent cemeteries), by any person, agent or owner of any Railway Company, Express Company, Electric Raif-' way. Coaches, Public or Private Convey ance unless prepared by being thoroughly disinfected by an approved disinfecting compound or preservative, and by using air-tight sealing as required in Rule 2. The shipping box or outer case may be dispensed with, if body ia conveyed In hearse or other conveyance used exclusively for moving the dead. MEDICAL SCHOOLS, ANATOMY, ETC... Rule 5. The bodlea of those dead from any cause EXCEPT Puerperal fever, ami those stated in Rule 2, to be used for dem onstration of Anatomy, In medical college and schools of embalming, or for the use of the State Board of Embalming, shall ut be transported, offered or received fwr transportation by any person, agent at owner of any Railway Company, Express Company. Electric Railway, Coaches, Pub lie or Private Conveyance unless prepared by being thoroughly disinfected by arterial Injection with an approved disinfecting fluid. After being prepared as above, such bodies shall be enclosed In s tin, copper, or metal lined box, or metallic shipping DISINTERRED BODIES. Rule 6. Before bodies can be disinterred, a Disinterment Permit must be obtained from the Secretary of the State Board of Health. The Disinterment Permit must be tacked or fastened (do not paste or put in an envelope), on top of shipping box same as Yellow Paster, and must accompany the body to destination. Local Registrars will issue Removal and Burial Permits for dis interred bodies upon presentation or a Dis. Interment Permit, properly signed by the Secretary of the State Board of Health. No disinterred body dead from any dtaj ease or cause named In Rule 2, shall bs transported, offered or accepted for trans portation by any person, agent or owner of any Railway Company. Express Conv puny, Electric Railway, Coaches, Public or Private Conveyance until after dead for at least two years. All disinterred bodies shall be treated as infectious or dangerous to pnblic health, and shall not be trans ported, offered or accepted for transporta tion unless said removal has been ap proved by the authorities having Jurisdic tion where such body Is disinterred. Ali such disinterred remains shall be enclose t In an air -tight metallic, sine, tin, copper or' lean unea comn or casaec, sn joints ana- encased in a strong outside wooden or metal box or casket, encased in an air tight metallic, sine, tin, copper, or metal lined box, vault or metal snipping case. All Joints or seams hemetically sealed os soldered. RE-SHIPMENT. Rule 7. Bodies that bave been embalmed and transported and are in good condition shall not be received for re -shipment or transportation by any person, agent or owner of any Railway Company, Express. Company, Electric Railway, Coaches, Pub lic or Private Conveyance, unless re-sipped by Kansas licensed embalmer, using Yel low Paster, filling out Llncensed Em balmer's Certificates Nos. 1 snd 2, and copying Original Physician's, Coroner's, Health Officer's Certificates or Registrar's Removal Permit. Bodies not in good condition shall not oe re-snippea or transported until sal a j way Company, Express Company, Electrt I Railway, Coaches, Pnblic or Private Con o.J. ki suiak, m. u.. Secretary, Topeka. Kan.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1917 BUMPER CROPS IN MO. AU Told Tli-y AveraK Ht Per Cenl With Corn ut 86 Per Cent. Columbia, Mo.. Aur. 9. Cr.op con ditions in Missouri on August 1 were 81 per cent normal, aycordinjf to the monthlv report issued by the state board of agriculture. Wheat is thresh ing out at an average of 14.9 bushels to the acre. The wheat acreage in prospect for 1918 is 103.9 per cent. The report says in part: '"Corn condition, was reduced to 86 by continued hot and dry weather with leaden skies; by districts. 86 northeast, 81 northwest, T8 centra, 89 southwest, 94 southeast. In por tions of two rows of counties on each side of the Missouri river corn has been in critical situation, but consider able areas have had rain during the past few days. Few 'white flags' aie found in most fields, and moisture can inusre a war crop. Most of south Missouri is in fine shape. For the eight mission acres of corn the advance estimate of acre yield is 28.9 bushels, based on normal season; in sections, 34 northeast. 27.5 northwest, 27.8 central, 20.3 southwest, 35 south east. Wllt Crop Worth 50 Millions. "Wheat- is threshing out in good quality generally, and the acre yield is better than advance estimate. With 29 per cent still in shock and 35 in stack the gurrent records suggest 14.9 bushels as the acre average and $2.21 as the average selling price. On this advance threshing estimate the state yield is 22,935.670 bushels on 1.539, 800 acres, worth $50,7S7.fi09.10. Wheat acre yield in dollars. J3.2.93. "The cost of producing an acre of wheat, as estimated by several hun dred Missouri farmers, is J9.98 by sections, $10-00 northeast, $10.88 northwest, $9.27 central, $9.53 south west, $10.21 southeast. Asked if 1917 wheat price were fixed what should be, average figure was $2.09 and for 1818 crop $2.16. $2V7 15,000 Worth of Oats. "1,115,920 acres of oats, 26 per cent threshed, are estimated as averaging 4.9 bushels per acre, and selling price locally 66 cents. Acre yields by sec tions, 37.3 northeast, 39.6 northwest, 2.9 central, 35 southwest, 29.8 south east. Highest acre yields reported for single fields, 105 northeast, 90 north west, 90 central, 58.4 southwest, 80 southeast. Wonderful oats crop to help win the war, yielding $25,715, 096.00, based on 38,945.000 bushels." CALLS IT INJUSTICE Alma Citizen Denies Wnbaunsee County Is Opposed to the Draft. E. P. Dallas, of Alma, Kan., who says he has talked to hundreds of farmers in Wabaunsee county who did not sign the anti-draft petitions that were circulated there, says that a gross injustice was done the county and its citizens by those who circu lated and grave publicity to the peti tions and asserts that Wabaunsee county is as loyal as any county in the state. "I have talked to hundreds of far mers from all parts of the county," Mr. Dallas says, "and I have not found one who signed the petitions. The people of Wabaunsee country are loyal and patriotic, and, we thank God it is our privilege to give of our treasure and our manhood to defend the righteous cause of the United Honest Advertising. 'J'HIS is a topic we all hear now-a-days because so many people are inclined to ex aggerate. Yet has any physician told you that we claimed unreasonable remedial properties for Fletcher's Castoria? Just ask them. WewonM; answer it ourselves, we know what the answer will be. That it has all the virtues to-day that was claimed for it in its early days is to be found in its increased use, the recommendation by prominent physicians, and our assurance that its standard will be maintained. Imitations are to be found in some stores and only because of the Castoria that Mr. Fletcher created. But it is not the genuine Castoria that Mr. Fletcher Honestly advertised, Honestly placed before the public and from which he Honestly expects to receive his reward. Set Contents 15Tluid Drachm L1 9 u t! til Him Ssimilatin$thePbodbyKeguU- untheStomaAs and Bowels a Thereby Promotin4Bi5es1ia,l3 S j Drt returns 1 H uiccnumcssan" HI I U no ntF H neither Upiam,iioH"'""- If -v.: 1CVr 'NAHCOTIC r- mwa a, i' I 9 AhelpfulRcmedyfor Constipation and Duirrlw" and Feverishness and facsimile SignstT.01. NEWW i-xact Copy of Wrapper. JbaUUM I J I 25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From the column m-i THE TOFZKA STATE JOURNAL AuKUBt 192. The MimIoc ciub han a repertoire of about fifty songs, im-luiling selections from pop ular coinir operjis. ballads, choruses, min strels, topi'' ami comic which they will sing in Ieuver at. the Knights Xemplars convention. E. W. Hoch. editor of the Marlon liecord, has been nominated for representative by the liepublicans of Marion, eouuty. Mrs. T. I. King left for Colorado last night. It. H. Osw st a meeting of the Young Men's Republican club last night gave a synopsis of a recent political article by Tom ICeeti. Nick Chiles has obtained an interest in the barber shop at 112 W. SevAth street. The new baths at the new Y. M. C. A. rooms are the finest shower baths in the city. The personnel of the Moiloc club as it will appear in Denver Is as follows: First tenors: C. II. Powell, H. L. Shlrer, II. K. Overholt. Joe Griley second tenors, T. .T. Anderson, A. I.. Van Antwerp, C. K. Cobl rcn. A. S. Howies. J. N. Goolman. F. V. Kailf'v; second bases, C. P. lonuell, S. A. Mrt'nT, E. S. Perry. J. G. Kodemeyer, li. M. Wood; mandolins, II. S. Lawrence, J. M. Shellabarger, .1. YV. Kraemer, F. W. Itonobrake; mandolin, W. T. Noble, P. K. Sheldon; guitars, C. II. Tipton, II. Arm strong; director, M. C. Holtnan; accom panist, II. S. Wilder. States. We feel that we have been grossly misrepresented by those who were responsible for these petitions and those who gave publicity to the statement that a large percentage of the population of the county had sign ed them." BLOOD RIOT IN LISBON Eye Witness Says 85 Civilians and Several Police Were Killed. An Atlantic Port, Aug. 9. A de scription of a. labor upheaval in Lis bon, Portugal, on July 11, only briefly hinted at in cable dispatches, which seems to threaten a revolution and re sulted in the suspension of constitu tional guarantees, was brought here today from Europe by Gilbert L. Robinson, representative of a shipping firm. He said troops were called out and when a number of them were killed by bombs thrown among them, they charged the crowds, killing eighty-five civilians and arresting 1,500. This broke the backbone of the uprising. Mr. Robinson, who spent some time in Portugal, said the trouble was pre cipitated by the demand by all classes of workmen for a 70 per cent wage increase to meet the high cost of liv ing, with a threat of a general strike if denied. The government refused to allow the enforcement of their de mands, Mr. Robinson said, and when rioting began called out the military. The clash with the rioters occurred in front of the Lisbon opera house. Use Cardboard Coffins. Amsterdam, Aug. 9. Coffins of wa terproofed cardboard are now being made in Germany, according to the Taglische- Rundschau of Berlin. The lids are glued instead of being nailed down. Children Extracts from Letters by Grateful Parents to Chas. H. Fletcher. Mrs. John W. Derrick, of Lexington, S.-C, says "My children cry for Castoria, I could not do without it." Mr. and Mrs. J. A- Gaines, of Ripley, Tenn., say.: "We enclose our baby's picture hoping it will induce some poor tired mothers to give your Castoria a trial. We have used it since baby was two weeks old." Mrs. J. G. Parman, of Nashville, Tenn., says "The perfect health of my baby is due to your Castoria the first and only medicine he has taken. He is never satisfied with one dose, he always cries for more." Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Johnson, of Stevens Point, Wis., say "When our baby was two weeks old he cried so much we did everything for him, then got some Castoria and he is now strong and fat. We would not be without it, and are very thankful to you." GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS BEARS the Signature of 9 TMI CtCMTAUH COMPANY. MKW WMK CITV GUARD EDISON CLOSELY Working: Doand Xfght on W ar De vice Sleuths at'sKie. Orange, f. J., Aug. 9. Thomas A. Edison versus Germany. This is the battle that is being silently fought here. A little red brick building cov ered with ivy. is the famous inventor's laboratory. "1 have no right to talk about it ask the secretary of the navy,' was the message that came from the close ly guarded sanctum today, in response to an inquiry on Edison's work. Edison is guarded like the presi dent. An iron fence, crowned with menacing barbed wire, separates his laboratory from the rest of the plant. When Edison appears, a secret service agent dogs him. "The old man," as he is known to his associates, has started out to beat the kaiser just as methodically as he started out to perfect electric lights and phonographs. Today when he climbed from his dusty "flivver" and punched his time card No.' 1 it reg istered 8:30 a. m. Yesterday he plug ged in at 8:45 and out at 12:30 a. m. nearly sixteen hours later. 5,500 Kmployes Mum. War seemed distant from the little red brick building today. It is sur rounded by fifty modern industrial structures, crowded with 5,500 men and women, making such peaceful devices as motion picture machines and storage batteries. But quiet men with sharp eyes stood in every door way. Signs glared from every side, warning employes against "leaking." Inside the barbed rail with Edison were a few confidential assistants roughly dressed, unshaven men, with deeply lined faces. Outsiders had fleeting glimpses of them as they dart ed past windows all in a tearing hur ry. The kaiser would probably give an army division for what these men know. Edison was in the greatest rush of all. The detective at his heels had to half trot at times to keep pace with the man he was set to watch. STORING DRIED FOODS Paper Bags Will Do Or Glass and Tin Containers Keep in Dry Place. BY GEORGE MARTIX. Washington, Aug. 9. Now we come to the packing and storing of the fruits and vegetables you have dried. Altho not necessary, tin cans or I glass jars mane gooa receptacles lor storing anea proaucts. Pastebcerd boxes with tight covers, stout paper bags, and patented par affin paper cartons also afford am ple protection for dried fruits and things, when protected from insects and rodents. The products must be protected from the outside moisture and will keep best in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place. In humid regions, air tight containers should be used. If you pack Just enough for a meal in each container, it will not be neces sary to open a container the contents of which cannot be consumed in a short time. it a paper bag is used the upper part should be twisted intc a neck, bent over and tied tightly with twine. You might also paint it with a brush dipped in melted paraffin. You might take an added precau- Cry For BUT KE BETTER NOT TELL WIFE WHAT HE CALLED HER Columbus, Ind., Aug. 9. "Have you any physical defects?' inquired exemption board officials here of a man called for examination under the selection service act. "Yes, a wife and two children," replie the candidate. tion by putting the bags in a tin con tainer with a tight fitting cover, such as a lard can or pail. Label all bags to show what they contain If fruits or vegetables ai packed In tight containers immediately upon be ing thoroly dried they will remain Just as brittle as -when taken from the drier. If not thoroly dried they will soon mold. To prevent tliis the ma terial should be examine 1 within 24 hours after packing and it It appears moist it must be dried turner. JOIN THE HOME GUARDS Mr. Citizen and Patriot: Do you realize that the United States Is at war? That there are in our midst hundreds of thousands of alien enemies, some of them danger ous spies, and that in addition to alien enemies there are aative persons who for monetary considerations or other reasons arc traitors -to the land of their birth? Our nation is at war with a strong and crafty enemy, one full or re sources, and possessing powerful en gines of destruction. It will not do for us to underestimate the magnitude of the conflict in which this country is now enEaeed. The struggle will not be confined to the battlefields of Eu rope alone. It behooves us to be ever watchful at home, to guard against the hidden dangers in our midst. We have traitors amongst us who will at tempt to wreck and burn property, de stroy food stuffs, and pollute tne wa ter supplies. Our nation has called its young manhood to service, to give their lives, if necessary, to make the world safe for democracy. The Topeka home guards have been organized under a plan outlined by the national council of defense and in dorsed by the Kansas council of de fer.se and approved by the adjutant general and by the governor of the state; to enlist our citizenship in ef fective strength to protect our city from any menace lurking within Its borders, and to assist the city and county officers in protecting the per sons and property of our citizens. I make a special appeal to those who are not going to the front, especially to tne young men who are exempted by the draft boards, to join us, and "do their bit." In so doing they will fulfill in a most important sense, both a civic and a national duty. He who is enrolled therein should esteem membership in the home guards a most important and dignified privi lege. Let us who have enrolled be among the first to respond to every need of our city, state and nation, let us be first in relief work for the unfortunate and first in the protection and defense of society. We have many of the first people of the city already enrolled. Five full squads turned out to drill Tuesday eve ning in the state house grounds under the instruction of Art Hargis, recently from the officers training camp at Fort Riley. Men from all classes of. society were there to do their bit. Business men, newspaper men, artists, county officials, machinists, clerks, students, lawyers, laborers, retired farmers, ex-city officials, among them J. B. Billard, and others. Topeka and Shawnee county should have a thousand members in their home guard. There should be eight or ten companies. Just realize the protec tion afforded by one thousand men well drilled, ready to protect our com munity and uphold the ideas of our land. Should It be necessary to call out the home guard to do guard duty, if we were a thousand strong, no one man would have to sacrifice from his business or calling more than four hours a week for such duty, or more than twenty-four hours a month. We drill twice a week Tuesday and Thursday evenings. We assemble at the north steps of the state house at 7:30 p. m. Our next drill will be on Thursday. Every male citizen of Shawnee county of good character and over 16 years of age is eligible for membership. We have no maximum age limit. Come and join us. Aside from the benefits to be ob tained from the drills, the physical exercises that we have for about pal' an hour at each meeting will be found to be beneficial to all men, regardless of their age. Enrollments may be made at the following places: Art Hargis, 935 Kansas'Ave. Tom Powell, 532 Kansas Ave. E. A. Firner, 112 East Sixth" St Harry A. Hardy, 114 East Fifth St. T. D. Humphreys, 501 Jackson St. T. D. HUMPHREYS. President Topeka Home Guards. Crawford Building, 501 Jackson street. PEASANTS UPSET CZAR Eliliu Root Tells How Kusy Com munity Organizations lid It. Washington, Aug. 9. A Russian re public is certain in the opinion of Elihu Koot. the head of the Ameri can mission, which returned here to day from its three months' visit to report to President Wilson. In Mr. Root's opinion, only the overwhelm ing of the country by German armies can prevent the erection of the Rus sian republic. Internal difficulties are being overcome and the process of crystallization is going on rapidly. The extreme elements which threat ened, serious trouble have been brought under control and given due opportunity and time and such assist ance as Americans can render in ma terial and moral support, in Mr. Root's opinion, the Russian republic is a certainty. In explanation of the apparent ease with which the Russian people have thrown off the forms of a despotic monarchy and turned so readily to the idea cf representative government Mr. Root referred to the fact that the pop ulation is nearly eighty per cent agri cultural. The peasant farmers had long been accustomed to the idea of local self government thru their mayors in their little communities and in a larger way thru the Zemstvos which gathered in every district and exercised large measure of conrrol over local affairs. It was compara tively easy with their foundation to expand the idea of local self govern ment to national self government. The Russian people were accustomed to council among themselves, making representative gatherings easy. TO FIGHT OWN BLOOD Son' of Madame Soli umann-1 lei nek. Drafted, Appeals for Aid. Phoenix, Ariz.. Aug. 9. If I can possibly avoid it I don't want to fight against Germany," said Ferdinand Heine k, son of the noted singer. Madame Schumann-Heinck, to Gover nor Campbell in the course of a visit to the executive chambers. "AH of my people and friends are in the Ger man Ijne, said young Schumann, "and I simply do not know what to do. I am a naturalized American citizen and have been drafted." Governor Campbell inrormed the young man that he was powerless to intercede for him in the matter.. The governor said that when Mme. Schumann-Heinck was in Phoenix last win ter she told him that one of her sons had not been heard from since early in the war. She said that when last heard from this son was serving aboard a German submarine. Ferdinand Helnck has been on a ranch in the Wenden mining district for some time and when he became aware of the fact that he had been drawn for the Arizona Quota, he realized that ties of relationship were such that if drafted he might be call ed upon to fight his own flesh and blood. He resented any inference that he was a "slacker" and said that the situation to him was hard to recon cile especially as he wished to be known as a true American altho by adoption and naturalization. $5,000 RACE PURSES Pratt County Fair Promises to Draw Record Crowds This Year. Pratt, Kan., Aug. 8. The annual Pratt county fair will be held Aug. 14, 15. 16 and 17th' and promises to be one of the best county fairs ever held in Kansas, v There are no other fairs being held -in this section of Kansas this year and the adjoining counties have combined with Pratt to make a district fair and make it a rousing one. Excursion trains are to be run to the fair and will bring hundreds from miles around. The races should be fast as a hun dred fast horses have been booked which will appear on the Pratt track. $5,000 has been hung in purses for the races and this amount will cause much interest in the races thruout the week. The track is being put In a first class condition. The stables have been rebuilt and everything is in readiness for the racing event. The entire grounds have been ren ovated. A storm recently damaged several of the buildings but they have all been rebuilt and are bigger and better than ever before. KNIT FOR THEALLIES French Thank V. S. Women for Offer of Warm, Woolen Sweaters. Washington, Aug. 9. The gratitude of the French minister of marine for the offer of American women enlisted with tho comforts committee of the Navy league to supply French sailors with woolen garmens to protect them aeainst the onlH nnrl Hamn 4 submarine patrol duty in the war zone i expresaeu in a letter rrom the French naval attache. Commander de BJanpre, to Mrs. James Carroll Fraser, chairman of the comforts committee, made publie here today. Organization of the worli of making these woolen garments for French, British and Russian sailors is row proceeding rapidly. The clothing sup plied the allied sailors will be :he same as that made for American sail ors under official regulations of the navy department; consisting of woolen sweaters, helmets that can be drawn down to the shoulders, mufflers end wristlets. All articles intended for shipment to France or other allied countries, the Navy league announces, should be sent to the comforts com mittee headquarters in Washington, marked for the forces for which they are intended. Hair Often Ruined By Washing With Soap Soap should be used very carefully, if you want to keep your hair looking its best. Most soaps and prepared shampoos contain too much alkali This dries the scalp, makes the hair brittle, and ruins it. The best thing for steady use is just ordinary mulsified cocoanut oil (which is pure and greaseless), and is better than the most expensive soap or any thing else you can use. One or two teaspoonfuls will cleanse the hair and sc.lp thoroughly. Simply moisten the hair with water and rub it in. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excessive oil. The hair dries quickly and evenly, and it leaves the scalp soft, and the hair fine and silky, bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy to manage. You can get mulsified cocoanut oil at any pharmacy, it's rery cheap, and a few ounces will supply every mem ber, of the family for months. Adv. (Translation of Low Jung's Letter.) Ginseng Is the Best Medicine In the Whole World Mr. McDowell, JopUn, Missouri. You grow Ginseng and dig it when it is six years old. You make Ginseng Bitter3 and make it of old dry clean gingseng, and made very little profit on it. The Gingseng Bitters I have used a whole lot of it. It keeps me well. It is goood for old, young, ladies, men, children. It is good for stomach. Drink Gingsen tea makes you hungry. The Ginseng Bitters is the same as if you boil old roots for four hours or more. Will make all welL Good for appetite. Good to cure all fevers all hot fevers. Will take grease out of stomach. Yours truly, low ot;xg. Canton City,China. Ginseng Bitters on sale exclusively in Topeka by the Arnold Drug Co. Every bottle guaranteed to cure any stomach trouble (except cancer) or money refunded. Adv. MASTER BUTCHERS URGE PEOPLE TO EAT MORE FISH Minneapolis, Minn., Aug. 9. The American people ought to eat fish and spare meat two days a. week, accord ing to the recommendation of the United Master Butchers of America in convention here. If the suggestion be adopted retail meat dealers are tc sell fish on these two days in ques tion. The butchers also urged the people to agitate for lower prices of fresh and frozen fish. HE ASKS EXEMPTION Man Found Fit for the Army Claims j Impendent Parents. J His lungs, his heart, his eyes," his j ears, his nose, his feet, his throat all satisfactory for Uncle Sam's draft army, Charles G. Dicks, first man ex amined in Topeka for the army, has entered a claim for exemption on the grounds of dependent parents. Dicks was examined Tuesday by Dr. H. L. Clark, city physician. Commissioner Tandy, chairman of the first district exemption board of Topeka, asked Dicks to fill out blank affidavit papers which will be sent to Cheyenne county, Colorado. Wheth er Dicks is exempted, or not, will be decided by the first district board upon receipt of the affidavits. Dicks was the third man drafted in his home county and received authority from the Colorado board to be examined in Topeka. 1 1 TAFT IS RECOVERING Ex-President, However, Is Unable to Leave Clay Center. Clay Center, Kn., Aug. 9. The con dition of ex-President William H. Taft, who Is ill at a hqtel here, was j aescriDea Dy nis pnysician loaay as slightly improved. The physician would make no state ment, however, as to when Mr. Taft would be ready to resume his speak ing tour. Lemon Juice For Freckles Girls! Make beauty lotion at home for a few cents. Try It! Squeeze the juice of two lemons Into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint 'of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complexion beautifier, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will sup ply three -ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, nurk, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disappear and how clear, soft and white the skin be comes. Tes! It Is harmless. Adv. City Physicians Explain Why They Prescribe Nuxated Iron To Make Beautiful, Healthy Women and Strong Vigorous Men NOW BEING USED BY OVER THREE MILLION Quickly Transforms the flabby flesh, toneless tissues, and pallid cheeks of weak, anaemic men and women Into a perfect glow of health and beauty Often increases the strength of delicate, nervous, v run-down folks 100 per cent In two weeks' time. New York, N. Y. It is conservatively estimated that over three million people annually in thi country alone are taking Nnxnted Iron. Such astonishing results have been reported from Its use both by doctors and laymen, that a number of pbysit-iaDS in various parts of the eonutry have been asked to explain why they pre scribe it so extensively, and why it ap parently produces so much better results than were obtained from the old forms of Inorganic iron. Kxtracts from some of the letters re ceived are given below Ir. Ferdinand King, a New York Physi cian and Medical Author, says: "There can be no vigorous iron men without iron. Pallor means anaemia. Anaemia means iron deficiency. The skin of anaemic men and women is pale. The flesh flbby. The muscles lack toue, the brain fags and the memory fails and they often become weak, nervous,1 irritable, despondent and melan choly. When the iron goes rrom the blood of women, the roses go from their cheeks. In the most eontmon fooJs t America, the starchesl sugars, table syrups, candies, Iiollnhed rice, white bread, soda crackers, isoults. macaronL spaghetti, tarioea, stigo, furina, degerminoted cornmeal, no longer is iron to be found. Refining processes have removed the iron of Mother Earth I from these impoverished foods, and silly I methods of home cookery, by throwing i down the waste-pipe the witr in which i our vegetables are cooked are pesponslble I for another grave iron loss. Therefore, if you wish to preserve your voutbful vim and vigor to a rifte old age, yon must sup pi y the I ron deficiency in i vour food by using some form of organic iron just as you would use salt when your food has not enough salt. ir. A. J. Newman. late Poll Surireon of the City of Chicago an 1 former House Surgeon. Jefferson 1'ask Hospital, Chicago, iu commenting on Nuxated Iron, says: "It has been my particular duty during the past six years to assist in keeping Chi cago's five thousand hlneeoats in good health and perfect fighting irlin so that thev would be physically equipped to with stand alt manner of storms ;-ut' the rav ages of nature's elements. Recently I was prompted through an endorsement of Nuxated irn by Dr. Schuvler C. Jaques, Visiting Surgeon of St. Kiizabetb's Hospital, New i'ork, to give It a trial. This remedy as proven through mv tests of It to exce any prep aration I have ever used fo creating red blood, building op the nerves, strengthen ing the muscles and correcting digestive disorders. I"r. E. Bauer, a Boston pnysician who has studied widely both in this country and in great European Medical Institutions says; "As I have said a hundred times over, organic iron is .the greatest of all strength builders. If people 1 would only take N u xa ted I ron when they feel wea k or rundown, instead of dosing themselves with ha bit-forming drugs, atimulants and alcoholic beverafres I am -ouvinred that in this way they could ward off disease, preventing it becoming organic in thou sands of cases and thereby th lives of thousands might be saved who now die every year from pneumonia, grippe, kid ney, liver, heart trouble sad oher danger ous maladies. The real an j true cause which started their diseases was nothing more nor ess than a weakened condition brought on by iuck of iron n the blood. MMwiaiiTOh.iMiiiaiiiaMiiiBiii Hear the Edison 1 Diamond Disc Wo mens Wright Peters and Julian Kokenge Qualities At Very Tempting Prices II

(J This offering means your unrestricted choice of our entire stock of women's oxfords, pumps and strap slippers. On a;, regular $2.50 shoe you can save 55 cents; on a $7.00 shoe you can save $1.55 and a proportionate amount on every quality In between. Because the values and the styles are so extraordinary, we suggest that you make your selection without delay. $6.60 and $7.00 Shoes for $5.45 5.60 and 6.00 Shoes for 4.75 4.50 and 5.00 Shoes for S.85 3.50 and 4.00 Shoes for 2.05 3.00 Shoes for 3.20 2.50 Shoes for. l.5 We also offer a table assortment of good quality Low Shoes in sizes for women and misses at, pair $1.95. Our entire stock of Low Shoes for boys and children is your, to select from at 20 Per Cent Discount. We Am Agents For tte Original Boy Scout Shoes wmmmmmmm L. M. PENWELL Funeral Director ROBERT STEELE. Assistant. Pbone 194 508-510 Qulncy St. gfotz- &cv Not long ago a man came to me who was nearly half a century old and asked me to give him a preliminary examination for life insurance. I was astonished to find klm with the blood pressure of a bov of 2a and as full of vigor, vim and vitality as a young man: in fact a yonug man he really was notwithstanding his age.. The secret, he said, was taking Iron- nuxated Iron had fiiied him with renewed life. At 30 he was ta bad health at 4d he was careworn and nearly all in now at f. after taking Nuxated Iron, a miracle of vitality and his face beaming with the buoyancy of youth. I ron I s a osol u tel y necessa ry to enable your blood to change food Into living tis sue. Without it. no matter how mui-h or what you eat, yonr food merely passfs through you without doing yon any good, and as a consequence you become weak, pale and sickly-looking, just like a plant trying to grow In a soil deficient in iron. If you are not strong or well yon owe it to yourself to make the following test: see bow long you can work or how far vou can walk without becoming tired. Next take two five-grain tablets of ordinary nuxated iron three times per day after meals for two weeks. Then test your ireunui njeitin inq see now mucn you have gained. I have seen dosens of ner- 1 Tout, rnn-down people wbo were ailing all the while double their strength nnd endur a nee and en tire! y rid them selves of s 1 1 symptoms of dyspepsia, liver and other troubles In from ten to fourteen days' time -simply by taking iron In the proper form. I And this after they had In some cases been doctoring for months without obtaining any benefit. But don't take the old forms of red need iron, iron acetate or tincture of Iron simply to save a few cents. The iron demanded by Mother Nature for the red coloring matter in the blood of her chil dren is. alas! not that kind of iron Vnn must take Iron In a form that can be ens- Uy absorbed and assimilated to do you any good, otherwise H may prove worse i than useless. Many an athlete and prise- fighter has won the day simply because he knew the secret of great strength and en durance and filled his blood with Iron be- fore be went Into the affray; while many, another ha a gone down In Inglorious de- j feat simply for the lack of iron." j Dr. HchUTler C Jaones. Vlsitinr Rnrveon i of St. Elizabeth's Hospital. New York City, j said; 1 nave never before given out any Off. HOwm Dtt.PtRfftH1 yTN M SsJ II I IT We Give ZVC Green Stamps iOW oes it n M i i Our Annual August Sale of Furniture t Now In Progress m m I wmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmummmmA Some .one wants that which you do not. A small ad in the State Journal want columns sat isfies both. PEOPLE ANNUALLY. medical Information or advice for publication as 1 ordinar ily do not bellev in it. Rut in the case of Nuxated Iron I feel I would be remiss in my duty not to mention It, I have taken it myself and given it to my patients with most surprising and satisfac tory results. And those who wish quickly to Inciease thnir strength, power5 sod endur ance will find ft a most reran rk- b 1 e a n 1 wonder folly ef fective rem edy." f)r. N. M. Hornstlne, for lo years in the le partnient of Pnttlfc Health and Charities of Philadelphia, aald: "Af ter carcfulW examlnlnir he formula of Nuxated Iron I realized that here at last was or ganic Iron the only kind I could con scientiously recommend, prepared In such a way with other ingredients aa to b easily ssslmllnted and calculated to act as a quick revltallser of the btood and a true strength builder. Its admtnlstratloa a a umber f stab bora eM where other toaU'n hd utterly failed only aerved ts eoavtafe me abaoitttely of the remark a bl Md smaaniU power of Nnxatei Iroa. Vl'bftt 1 personally took It I found the rmptwt;v with which say energy and endurance ia eroaoed moot surprising-. Iu uir opinion the widespread uae of Nuxated Iron la bound to make a nation of stronger men. lovlier women and healthier children." NOTE Nuxated Iron, which la Drxmrih. ed and recommended atove by physicians In such a great varWy of- cases. Is not a patent medh-ine nor secret rrmedv, bnt o which Is well known to druggists atd whose iron constituents sre widely pre scribed by eminent physicians both In Eu roe and America. T'lilike the older Inor ganic Iron products It Is easlW assimilated, does not Injure the teeth, make them blnck, nor upset the stoma -h on tiie contrary. It Is a most potent remedy in nearly all forms of indigestion as well as for ner vous, ma-down conditions. The tnannf4 tnrers have such great renftden-e In nux ated iron, that they offer to forfeit $10O.fK to any charitable Institntlon If they can not take any man or women under 00 who lacaa iron, ami in'Tnw rtt-(r 'r nirth 10 per cent or over In four reek time, pro vided they linve no aerions org:in'; trou ble They alvo offer to refund vonr money If It does not st least double vour strength and endurane In ten dava t!ne It la) dispensed in this city by Arnold !rug Co. Brunt-Martin lmg Co Geo. w. RtiinsfleM, A. C. Kllngaman Co., all good druggists, Adv.