The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
September 18, 1917

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wiutt SKY Is indeed a brave man to ran Russia and a woman vyEATHF-R FORECAST for Kansas: Partly cloudy toniclit and Wednesday. Cooler Wednesday. to tr 01 the 1 inc time. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917 EIGHT PAGES THREE CENTS (tut URGE 60MPERS STOP STRIKES Ijl SHIPYARDS Federal (Shipping Board Puts It I'm to Labor Leader. GovVS-uts Marine Guards Over SEE RESTORATION OF BELGIUM IN GERMANY MOVE War Governor and Assistant Vacate Positions. TWO GIRLS FACE MOTHER CHARGE LURING BOY, 17 May Buck and May Baker Were In Court Today. LONE SENTRY GUAKDS THROUGH THE NIGHT AS COMRADES SIRE FIGHT UNTIL THE WORLD NO MORE FEARS KAISERISM 70,000 FRENCH WOMEN SERVING FOR RED GROSS STATE RUNNING SHORT OF FUNDS AGAIN THIS YEAR High Explosives and Low In-j Nurses in France, Algeria, Mo-! Additional 10 Per Cent of trigue, Germanjr's Weapons. rocco and the Orient. Year's Taxes Drawn Upon. Idle Shipyards. GOV'T ACTING AS MEDIATOR Strike Most Serious In History Along Pacific Coast. Ships Under Construction Are for U. S. Emergency Fleet. Washington, Sept. 18. Chairman Hurley of the shipping board today ap pealed to President Gompers. presi dent of the American federation of labor, to stop the strikes which are holding up government shipbuilding on the l'acific coast. A conference will be held today be tween Mr. Hurley and Mr. Gompers. Chairman Hurley also conferred today with Secretary Daniels on the navy's settlement of wage demands in gov ernment shipyards. Kxtension of the strike to mills pro ducing lumber for the government phi.- is feared by shipping board of fii nils. From Portland and Astoria, fire., ciime reports that striking car penters were trying to persuade other wi rkmen to walk out and that lumber mills mtht be affected. The trovernment here awaits the ar rival Wednesday or Thursday of offi cials of a Seattie company which has Kraut...! a high wage scale. On Cost Plus System. William Klackmon. of the depart-ni-nt of labor, has studied the de mam's of the men. but will take no ot lit r action for several days. Ship pint; board officials favor asubstantial wasi increase with a sliding scale for Kiiwrnmpnl participation. The pro portion of wage raises to be paid by the government should depend. Chair man Hurley of the board believes, on the profits of ship builders. Some officials have urnecl that the govern ment pay 50 per cent of the increases for companies making 10 per cent profit or' less and require profits of more than that amount to go into the va e ueraaniis. .Navy col-tracts Involved in the strike virtually all are of the cost plus a percentae of profit type adopted to meet precisely the situation that has arisen. When bids for destroyers ciui.ei'i and battleships were opened private builders said they could not make flat contracts except at an ex traordinary advance in price since they had no assurance as to what la b..r mi::M cost them before the work was completed. Cnder the cost plus conrrafts the government would ab sorb at least some increased wage scales. So far however, no suggestion that the navy department authorize increase at the San Francisco plants has been received. Presumably, the builders are not willing to grant in creases demanded by the men on their commercial work in hand and are hopeful that an adjustment can be reached rithout setting the precedent ot" an atlvar.ee. scale on the navy work. Order Mediator Act, Washington, Sept. IS. Secretary Wilson has telegraphed V. T. Boyce, essistant commissioner of immigra tion at San Francisco, to tender his offices us mediator fir conciliator in settlement of the strike of iron work ers and shipbuilders there. Mr. Hoyce has been intruded to keep in close touch with developments iCorittnueil on tire Tirol A LIBRARY RIOT! Reading Room Scene Between lilucks and Whites. 250 Reformatory Inmates 3Iix In Five in Hospital. Pontiac. 111.. Sept. 18. Five in mates of the state reformatory were in the hospital today as a result of a race riot which broke out in the read ing room of the institution last night. Three of the Injured men are ne groes and two ore white men. One of the latter was perhaps fatally stabbed. The others were beaten with chairs and Improvised clubs. The trouble is said to have been the outgrowth of an attempt by negro waiteis to poison white inmates by pbicinjr lye on bread about a week ago. A number of inmates were se verely burned. The riotins was started by a score of whites and blacks and involved 1'bout 250 before armed guaids re stored order by threatening to srioot to kill. KERENSKYTO FRONT Itiissiitn Iromler With Army and Navy Chiefs, leaves Petrograd. TetroKi ad. Sept. 18. Premier Ker enaky. accompanied by General Verk-hov-Nky. minister of war and Admiral Verdervski. minister of marine, left 1'etrograd Inst night for the Russian general army headquarters in the rr, j.i jdf 'S CUTE LITTLE TRSGK OST DiYOaCE AND $2,000 hirigo. Sept. 1 S. Mrs. Arthur v. toi.-aH Arthur had the cutest little trick of inviting her to pnfi allowing: her lse where. Divorce and $2,00 alimony jcu nei. Foreshadows Return of Quasi Authority to People. DENY TENDER MADE TO U. S. Hasn't Sent Peace Terms to Washington, Asserts Official. Rumor Peace Balloons To Sound Sentiment in America. BY J. W. T. MASOX New York. Sept. 18. Early restora tion of civil authority in Belgium to the Belgian people is foreshadowed by the German government's failure to fill the vacant posts of civil governor and assistant civil governor of Bel gium, previously held by German of ficials. German newspapers have been quick to find significance in the fact that two important offices are now without incumbents; and it is prob able the kaiser's cabinet is now sound ing public opinion at home, concern ing the abandonment of German civil control of Belgium. A move of this character would be a natural prelimin ary step by the kaiser to an eventual ly complete restoration of Belgium. It would prepare the pan-Germans for the failure of their imperialistic am bitions and would be a plea for peace. Retain Military Strength There. Belgium would still be subservient to the military fiats of the German army chiefs, and no harm would be worked to German tactics and strategy if in purely local affairs, the Belgians were allowed to exercise the powers of the civil governor and his assistant. The Belgian government, itself could of course, accept no such compromise with Germany, but the Belgians at home might find it possible to do so. The kaiser's principal purpose in granting a concession of this nature would be to save his own skin. If the allies were to accept the restoration of Belgium as a sufficient peace of- tContinued oo t'aee Twoi SPIES TO COVER Germany, However, Still Main tains System in IT. S. But Recent Expose by GoT't Makes Them Timid. Washington, Sept. 18. Germany's spy system and her international in trigues are being rapidly uprooted by governmental disclosures. While a spy system still flourishes in this country, officials declared today that the exposures of the Argentina, Mex ico and Philippine plots have made Germany's workers more cautious than ever before. Aa for the Philippines, authorities said that the detention of German Vice Consul Conrad Andre of Cebu, on a charge of trying to incite an in surrection had proven quite effective. Since that time there have been no evidences of any German attempt to stir up the natives and to cause trou ble for the United States. In addition to the Andre revelation, it is known that the Germans have pursued their intriguing methods in the far east extensively. China was a hotbed of activity, but this has been stamped out by Chinese governmental action in rounding up plotters. There was talk today that with the break between Costa Rica and Ger many, German activities to create ill feeling and trouble in the Americas will be found to have .developed in that little country. DRAFT FRESH "100,000 May Be Xecossary to Fill Quota for Aviation and Signal Corps. Washington, Sept. 18. To fill the army signal corps, the war depart ment may decide to draft an addi tional 100.000 men. The signal service has asked for a j decision on the method o pursue in rilling up gaps, existing in the avia tion and telegraph branches, and the general staff is expected to answer in a few days. The draft law permits the filling of units which are now below strength, but it is held that an added 100,000 instead of any of the 687,000 of the original draft would be necessary for the signal corps Men who join the aviation section will have a chance to train either in American schools or in England, France or Italy. Kngland, it is learned, has estab lished a flying school in Egypt which is used chiefly by the Canadian corps. 21 SAILORS LOSE LIVES Victims of I'-Boats 'When Two Nor wegian Ships Are Sunk. Christiania, Norway, Sept. 18. The Norwegian foreign office announced today that the Norwegian steamship Askelad of 2.823 tons gross had been sunk by a German submarine. One boat with eleven men was lost and the captain and ten men were aved. It was also announced that the Nor wegian steamship Rein of 1.175 tons gross had been su n k by a German submarine off Cape St. Vincent. Ten men lost their lives and the captain and nine others of the crew were saved. Left New York ."ith Cargo. New York, Sept. 18. The Askelad was under charter to the French gov ernment and left here August 23 with cargo for a French port. She Has Them Arrested for In juring His Health. TRIAL WAS FOR "MEN ONLY" Lad Tells of Paying the Wages of His Sin. Girls Are Bound Oyer to the District Court. A Kansas mother today won her first battle of revenge on two girls charged with aiding and abetting her 17-year-old son in sowing some mighty painful wild oats. As a result May Buck and May Baker were bound over to the district court from the court of Topeka on a $500 bond charged with keeping and maintaining disorderly house. If the mother's prosecution of the girls proves as successful in the district court as in the court of To peka the girls will land in state orison. according to Hugh Fisher, assistant county attorney. While the "for men only" case was being tried in the court of Topeka to day the mother walked up and down the corridor of the court house. Her cheeks reddened and her eyes flashed as loud masculine phouts of laughter floated thru the doorway as some bit of so-called hot" testimony was in troduced. The 17-year-old country lad didn't flinch an inch as he told of his first and. no doubt, last side trip from the straight and narrow path. He testi fied first to a visit at the house of the girls on North Kansas avenue. Eating of a watermelon was his only indiscretion at that time. Made a Second Trip. The lad testified to a second trip and to improper conduct while at the house. Next he told the court ot weeks of suffering caused by his in discretion, of a mother's solicitation as to his health and of a final, tearful confession of his trip on the crimson path. The mothers' tears and forgiveness were described. Also her determina tion to exact the law's toll to the hilt. A warrant charging the girls with keeping and maintaining a disorderly house was issued. The lad went with officers to pick out the house and the girls. He hesitated, he admitted, in locating the place and his first idea of the

location of the house was 1 faulty. But his identification of the two girls, one of them especially was positive on the witness stand this morning. The girls both denied the charges, altho one admitted the lad had eaten some watermelon with other boys at her home at a previous date. The other girl denied ever casting eyes on the boy. Police Sergeant Strum told the court that the house had never been known to the police as a dis orderly place. Neither were the girls looked upon as disorderly by the police, he stated. The failure of the lad to identify the house at first and the testimony of the police, together with the de nial of the allegations of both girls demanded that the case be dismissed, their attorney told the court. But the court held differentlv. 3 MORE SOLDIERS This Number Accepted Out of Twelve Examined Today. Only One Takes Appeal to the Higher Board. Uncle Sam was successful in ob taining two soldiers in Shawnee coun ty this morning. Twelve men ap peared before the county exemption board, nine were exempted, three were accepted and one of the three accepted appealed, to the district ap peal board. Following is a list of those exempted and accepted: Exempted and Discharged. Frank Karl Parr, Rossvile, depen dent wife. Perry Grover Helen, R. R. 7, To peka, dependent wife and child. Hunter Bair, 1115 Duane street, To peka, dependent wife and two chil dren. Charles W. Snodgrass. Eighth and Warren. Topeka; dependent wife and two children. Dwight Patton, Valencia, dependent wife, mother-in-law and sister with four children. Thomas Glidwell, Valencia, depen dent wife and two small children. Richard "Edward Lane, Willard, de pendent wife and child. Charles Leroy Bayless, wife and three children. Accepted for Service. Lester Lawrence Foltz, Wakarusa. Lavern Lamaz Bannawitz, R. R. 3, Topeka, Accepted and Appealed. Sydney Blaine Stambaugh, Waka rusa. FREE TALK, ANARCHY "Quickest Way Out of War Is Straight as gunners. The contest proved their Chicago. Sept. 18. The citizen who;worth- P5 average battery is fortu insists at this time upon exercising his nae f thirty men are able to handle right of "free speech in criticising the government is a "promoter of an archy. That was the definition given by William Jennings Bryan last night in an address before delegates to the convention of the International Ly- ceum association. "I don't know how long the war will last," he said, "but I know that the quickest way out is straight thru. Any diversion or discussion now would .simply prolong the war and make it 1 more costly in lives and treasure." &x&? fir A camp sentry silhouttcd In the evening dusk. Sentry duty is not greatly welcomed in the training camps, but it is prob ably a very mild foretaste of the sentry duty in France. The photograph shows the outline of a sentry against the sky in the fading light of evening, where he must guard till he is relieved and while his comrades are getting an early start to bed. SECTI0N4W0N IT Crack Battery "17" Took State Journal Contest Honors. Section 8 Fought Winners to Xerve Racking Finish. "Set!" That was the word given by a gun ner of Battery A, Kansas field artil lery, at the fair grounds this morn ing. This same word has been spoken thousands of times over the field pieces, but today it brought rounds of cheers from Section No. 4 of the bat tery. It was spoken by one of the last men in a nerve-racking contest for the State Journal winners' dinner this evening, "Set indicated that a gU- -i haJ Vtn nlsvna In n ri f.r, t i iici iiau ilia uicc 111 u- wtsi ucicauii anth t sinn -v thereby clinching the prize. "The contest has been worth thou sands of doMars to the men," Captain MacLeao announced after the event. "It has put them on edge and has trained them in an invaluable manner in serving the piece." The contest was arranged among the nine sections of the entire bat tery. It was conducted during the free state fair and was completed this morning. The section making the most points in the finals was declared winner. Kvery section has made an extraordinary showing and the losers were defeated by a close margin. The events narrowed down this morning to Sections 4 and 8. The men were gathered about the pieces and after every point was awarded by Captain MacLean the supporters cheered wildly. The men worked with precision and accuracy and quickly. ne iirsi man tnru with the piece yell- 1 ed "set" and if the apparatus was ac- j curate he was given the point. I Altho the rivalry was keen be- tween the remaining contestants, the 1 losing section gave three cheers for the winners upon the award. The op posing sergeants were especially anx ious that their sections win as will be indicated, it is whispered, next pay day. State Journal Dinner Tonight. The winners will be given a dinner tonight in the Grey room of the State Journal by the editor and publisher, Mr. Frank P. MacLennan. The fol lowing officers of the battery and members of the victorious section will be guests: Maj. William Pattison, First bat talion. First regiment, Kansas field artillery. Capt. W. P. MaiLean, Battery A, Kansas field artillery. Sergeant Kennady. Corporal Beals. Corporal Carnahan. Corporal Woods. Private Adams. Private Gillette. Private Engle. Private French. Private Hastings. Private Holland. Private Hopper. Private Kauffman. Private Lyons. Private Morgan. Private Newman. Private Torrence. Private Zellars. The Losing "Good Sports. The members of Section 8, runners up in the finals today, are: Sergeant Brantingham, Corporal Bracy, Cor poral Irwin. Privates Rowley, Irish, Lang, Austin, Brubaker, Rains. War ner, Kirby, Gehrt, McMurtry, Saun ders, Conklin, Libbey and Price. In the semi-finals of the contest Section No. 4 defeated Sections 8, 1, 2 and 3. Section No. 8 defeated sec tions 5, 6, 7 and 9. The score in the final this morning was Section 4, 39 and Section 8, 36. Battery A is especially fortunate in that probably 150 men are able to act vi v"''OLUJ X earing Heads People's Council. New York, Sept. 18. Scott Nearing, educator, whose Toledo home was re- cently raided by federal detectives, "will take charge of the People's coun- cil work in ew i ork it was an nounced today. Nearing will transfer his residence here. The council, which is under an official ban, has succeed ed in holding three quiet meetings here since Saturday, its members dis closed today. STILL RILED UP Argentina Public Presses Gov't To Break With Germany. Only Formal Apology Can Clear Up Luxburg Insult. BY CHARLES P. STEWART. Buenos Aires, Sept. 18. Argentina expects Germany to forward a formal explanation of the Luxburg incident. Until such a disavowal is received, thru the ordinary channels of diplo matic intercourse, the German minis terial post b.ere will be considered va cant. iOiTficials in thus Indicating Argen tina's viewpoint today, intimated that such formal apology from Germany might satisfactorily close the inci dent. Not all of the public today is ac cepting such a view, however. Nu merous meetings are being held urg ing that Argentina formally break relations with Germany. The strong est pressure -is being brought to bear on President Irigoyen to this end. The anti-German element is caustically commenting on the fact that Germany is seeking to clear up the bald phrases of Luxburg's communications by the explanation of an under-segretary ex pressing regret and Germany's "abso lute disapproval" of the minister's phrases. Luxburg Finds a Refuge. Count Luxburg remained closely in his place of refuge in the Austrian legation today. The Argentine gov ernment, it was understood, was en- d ea von ng to a r ra n ge for his depart ure on a Spanish steamer either, the Leon XIII, leaving September 28, or the Reina Victoria, departing October 2. The Spanish minister was believed to have taken up the matter of a safe conduct with the allies. TYPHUS RAVAGES CAMP 3,700 French and 1,500 Russian Sol diers Die in German Prison. Paris, Sept. 18. Albert Champion, a French soldier, who on his third at tempt has just escaped from Germany, brings the information according to the Paris edition of the New York Herald, that 3,700 French and British soldiers and 1,500 Russians have died of typhus at the German concentra tion camp at Cassel, 90 miles north east of' Frankfort-on-the-Main. ARREST REBEL STAFF Score of Generals and Officers Cap tured With Korniloff. Petrograd, Sept. 17. (Delayed) Twenty generals and other officers ar rested on Friday with General Korni loff, leader of the revolution against the provisional government, are being closely guarded. General Korniloff is imprisoned in a hotel at Mohilev, where he is writing a statement which is expected to be finished today. GASOLINE ON GRASS PLOT OF BIG NOISE' WORRIED AMERICAN! London, Sept.. 18. "Those bally American flying chaps are a coolish lot," said a lieutenant of the Royal Flying corps, back with about a pint of German shrapnel in, his body. "The other day one of those Lafay ette boys ran afoul of a 'Fritz Archie' and had to get to the ground in a hurry. He dropped near one of our aerodomes and mussed things up a bit. After untangling himself from his machine he limped up to our com manding officer. "Are you the big noise around this joint?' he asked our brass hat. "No, sir, but X am the command ing officer here. our chief countered. 'Well,' said the American, 'I've just dropped In to tell you that I've sprinkled gasoline all over your grass plot.' "With These She Seeks To Mas- j 10,000 Women of Other Xation ter'the World" Sec. Lane, t alities Are Aiding Them. DUTY? ASK FIGURE IN KHAKI Opportunity Rather Than Duty, He Tells Business Men. S. War Record of a Months Out-Rivals Any Nation. Atlantic City, N. J., Sept. 18. In a scathing indictment of a Germany that seeks to master the world "with high explosives and low intrigue," Secretary of Interior Lane today de clared that America was making "full steam ahead in the war" and would continue fighting until the world had no cause to fear kaiserism. Lane spoke at the opening session of the war convention of the Cham- j ber of Commerce of the United States, j "We are deteamined on war. That j is settled," he said. "The American people have determined to resist the j aggression of a Germany that broke her word with us, a Germany that ought to start revolution inside our i own borders, a Germany that sought to bring enemies upon us from the outside while we were at peace with her, a Germany that in violation of her own word sank the ships that we sent to feed the starving Belgians, a Germany, whose national policy was to teach each nation to distrust every other nation, whose military policy was to spread terror, whose naval policy was to prey upon neutrals." Hostile to World Peace. He declared Germany is "an organ ized ambition that is hostile to the world peace," and that s the enemy of the world. "If there is a better Germany inside of her and she will show it, she can again be restored to he family of nations as a friend, but we have determined that we will fight the Ger many that is revealed, the spying, in triguing, terrorizing Germany." He predicted war would end when Germany knows that she must "give hostages to keep peace in the future." "It was the ancient and barbaric custom," he said, "to take princes and high men as hostages and this custom Germany followed when she entered-'Belgium. But the world does not ask such hostages today.t It is the problem of world statesmenship to discover what kind of hostage Ger many can give when she has been con vinced that her dream of world mas tery cannot come true. Under civili zation we all give hostages to each other. We place in the Germans hands something sacred which we for feit if we break the common law. It is the price we pay for life among our fellows. Germany must do the same. Germans Taught to Fear. "The people of Germany have been taught to fear. The world should teach them that they have no reason for fear and give hostage against fear. We fear Germany. The world has had horrible reason to fear her. Our vic tory will come when Germany removes the reason for that fear. "Germany can live on common terms with all other nations when Ger- many gives over the hope of mastering (.oDiiauea oo r ag two) RUSS FIGHTING! In Offensive Sloves at Riga and in Rumania. After Germans Capture Treneh French Eject Them. Petrograd, Sept. 18. R u s s i a n troops were successfully essaying an offensive on two battle fronts today, according to war office statements. On the Riga front, it was officially announced that a wood had been oc cupied south of the village of Bideg, northeast of Friederichstadfr. Tester- day's official statement, delayed, like wise mentioned progress at several points by Russian troops. On the Rumanian line, the war of fice announced occupation of a sector of the enemies fortified position in the region of Varnitza. Left Prisoners Behind. Paris, Sept. 1. German troops, af ter a violent bombardment south of the Miette river, last night, launched an attack and reached the French lines towards the Neufchatel road. The French official statement issued this afternoon says that after a sharp fight, the Teutons were ejected from j the positions, losing heavily and leav I ing prisoners in the hands of the 1 French. The artillery was active on j uui.i "7 iuc it glUll VS 1. i VJEKTJ TT "VJ. I ACT flAY flF SIIMMFR t Fall Weather Is Scheduled to Reach Kansas by Tomorrow. Hourly temperature readings for the day reported by the local office of T::o":rau:.73 8 o'clock 64jl2 o'clock 80 it S2::::::?5 I ?25::::::S.i The wind was blowine 11 miles an hour from the south at 2 o'clock this afternoon. The temperature averaged 3 degrees above normal. Fall is officially here, according to S. D. Flora, local meteorologist. Sum mer is just over and the weather Is now of the Indian summer variety that Is sure to usher in the cooler fall temperatures. Today will probably be the last real warm day of the year, ine mercery in is aixernoon win go-io Canadian casualty list: Kilted In ac 85 for the last time of the season, it tion A- J. Schoemperlen, Omaha; ICootinued ea fag Twaj WORK LIKE MEN IN FIRE ZONE Scores of Heroines Have Re- j ceived High Military Awards. System Grown From 80 Red Cross urses Before War. BY HENRY WOOD. With the French Armies in the Field, Sept. 18. Seventy thousand French women are now serving in Red Cross ambulances and hospitals with French armies in France, Al geria, Morocco and the Orient. Ten thousand additional women of various foreign nationalities are aiding them. The eighty thousand are beyond all dreams of woman's part in the war which any army chiefs of feminists entertained back in 1914. There were just eighty permanent French women nurses before the war. Such a tre mendous growth as this illustrates aptly the part in the war which France s womanhood is bearing. Xew Series of Medals. In recognition of the devotion of these women, France has just created a series of medals in gold, silver and bronze which will indicate service from one to three years. Scores of nurses and hospital workers have re ceived the highest military decorations which France has to bestow. Their deeds of heroism have paralleled those of her men. Six thousand French nurses, it was estimated today, serve constantly in the fire zone where they are subject to constant risk of death and wounds from shells. A: SHOT WAS FATAL John P. Dressier Accidentally Killed Himself Today.' He Was Cleaning Revolver When It Went Off. John P. Dremler. 48, a Santa FI machinist, accidentally shot and killed himself with his own revolver at 7:30 oclock this morning. The shooting occurred at the Dressier home, 356 Oakland avenue. Dressier told his wife that he in tended to clean his revolver, and went into the kitchen. The children had started to school while Mrs. Dressier went to the McCoy home next door. Both Mrs. McCoy and Mrs. Dresselr heard a shot. W. R. Liggitt, a neigh bor, also heard the shot. Liggitt en tered the house and as he approached the body Dressier drew his last breath. The revolver lay at his side. A bottle of oil used to clean the revolver was on a chair near to the chair on which it is presumed Dressier was seated. The bullet penetrated the left chest near the fifth rib. Dr. A. F. Marcotte. county coroner, was called. After an investigation he announced j death was caused by accidental shoot I ing. One of the children is a girl, 1 1 j years old; the other a boy. 9 years old. Funeral arrangements will be an- J nounced later KEEP REPLIES SECRET j Pope -Wi.l X, Make Teutonic Answer Public Vntil After Jte treat. T" 4. Rome. Sept. 18. The Vatican will not make the central powers' reply to Pope Benedicts peace suggestions public until the pope and all the vati- can clergy begin their annual re- treat the latter part of September. In making this statement today vat ican authorities laid stress on the fact that during tnis retreat special pray ers will be said for the just Christian peace, which the holy father has implored of the bellige rents. All the Teutonic replies to the peace note have not yet been received by the papal 'secretary of state, but are expected within the next few days, Announeement was made todav that the Vatican expects to publish its dip lomatic papers in full after the clone of the war. nRAFT IIMfil F MPIM llini I VII1ULU IIILIl Canada to Conscript 100,000 fi 'tween I nrooaing. He was to have appeared before a referee on Thursday for ex Ages of 20 to 84. on Urst Call. lamination as to the charges made by 1 I. t- two of his daughters, Muriel and Olga. Ottawa. Ont., Sept. 18. Unmarried that ho 1.71 ;nreu uo .J? ..Y v. i t .to a years om win oe caueo io me. colors under the military service act during the first week of October, it is believed here today. One hundred i thousand will be selected from those reporting and of these, io.000 will go into training immediately The re- i 8 ?iM i r u p nt 1 I, ll Mlt t r. IIAA a 1 neejed m kill Russian officers 2 I OBictels Are Slain. Helsingfors. Finland, Sept. 18. In i the course of disorders at the Finn- ish fortified seaport of Viborg. 74 f hiiles northwest of Petrograd, in which soldiers were involved, twenty j officers were killed and sixty others were missing. 1 American Killed; 1 Missing. Ottawa. Ont., S-pt. 18. The follow- ing American names appear in today's missing S. Whin, San Francisco. This Is Required To Pay the September Expenses. 'ONLY 15 PER CENT REMAINING This 3Iust Run Institutions Un- til First of Year. Effort Already Being 3Iade To Pass the Buck. With the drawing today of ten per cent of the year's taxes to meet Sep tember expenses. Just fifteen per cent of the funds on hand for the pay ment of 1917 expenses are available. In other words, the fifteen per cent remainine in the hands of county treasurers must meet all bills until the new taxes are available Decem ber 20. Kansas is facing: another serious financial squeeze because of the de pleted condition of the state lunds. When the AuRust bills were paid the state had exhausted 75 per cent of the taxes levied for this year. In or der to meet the September pay rolls and make payment on building esti mates, the state was compelled to draw an additional 10 per cent. This means that with the Issuance of state warrants next week, 85 per cent of the year's taxes will have been spent. The state must then care for October and November bills and meet expenses un til December 20 without overdrawing the fifteen per cent balance. Try to Pass Buck. Frantic efforts are being made in state departments to meet conditions. The task of passing the buck to the succeeding state administration has al ready begun. Efforts to sidetrack payment of bills until the new taxes are available are giving state depart ments serious concern. One evidence of the efforts or the state to prevent use of the "not paid for want of funds" stamp became ap parent this week. The state board of administration served notice that pri vate charities would not be designated until January 1. It was stated that the board desired to make indepen dent inspection of charities before dis-' tributing funds. Maybe it was a care fully concealed attempt to evade the granting of state aid to private chari ties until the new taxes can be draws upon. The drafts Issued today by Fed Knapp,. state 'auditor, and vvaner 1. Payne, state treasurer, are for 516.40, or ten per'cent of the taxes for this year. The 85 per cent of state taxes spent to this time brings the to tal expenses from the tax fund to Oc tober 1 to $3,203,889.40. Fifteen per cent remaining for the payment of the state's bills until December 20 totals 581.274.60. No Relief In Sight. Not only is the state treasury run ning low in available taxes in the hands of county treasurers, but the revenues from other sources are rap idly being depleted. There are no heavy fees coming this fall from the corporation tax or the inheritance tax. The oil Inspection fee is cut to 30 per cent of the former fee and the de partment is making a desperate ef fort to maintain a minimum balance in order to evade further legal at tacks thru accumulation of anything like a revenue producing fund. Suc cess in this undertaking has denied to the state new outside funds. Changes in the automobile license law docs not encourage accumulation of a healthy balance. And such a condi tion U being safeguarded. War prices for supplies and provisions for state nstitutions, backed by a threatened theend5't8lg he'statramrnisTrTt: Ian opportunity for long hours of hg- Mn ing in meeting the financial prob- iem. i ril I o Allfir-n j TMLL IMLLO LA W T til

Home iselicveu bulciual. New York, Sept. 18. The body of Alfred It. Conkling, lawyer, geologist and author, was found in the court yard of his East 70th street home ear ly today. lie either fell or jumped from the fourth floor during the night. j The police reported his death as sul- 1 cine. KMtranged From Family, j Mr. Conkling who was 67 years old had been for three years separated ;from his wife, according to his rela- !ves here, and estranged from hi. .three daughters, circumstances over which, it was said, he had been charge as guardian and trustee. A graduate of Sheffield Scientific gchooi at Yale. Mr. Conkling gained tt reputation as a publicist on matters dealing with city government and with geology. As a young man he crossed the American plains three times on geological surveys for the government '".and traveled extensively in Egypt "City government in the United States," "Life and Letters of Roacoe Conkling.", "Handbooks for Voters" and "Guide to Mexico," were some of the works from his pen in addition to numerous articles on geology. NEW STYLE AUTO BANDITS DIG AND STEAL SPUD CROP Chicago. Sept 18. Introducing the latest type of "motor bandit." Some time between sunset last night and sunrise this morning, thieves bscked a motor truck up to Mrs. Willism Casselberry's po tato patch, wielded shovel and hoe and sped away with forty bushels of spuds. r-

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18. 1917, r AIR WAR KICKS

Northern Farmers Campaign To Wipe Out War Profits. At Same Time Demanding Higher Price for Wheat. St. Paul, Minn., Bept. 18. With the Opening of a three-day conference on Stlie hish coat of living, the 'Farmers National Non-Partisan league today began its big national fight to wipe out war profits and distribute the bur flen of the war equally on all econo mic classes. Kvery train brought hundreds of farmers to attend the session. Sen ators La Follctte and Qronna headed the list of speakers. J'rewident Townley answered critics when he announced that seditious or Hisloyal utterances would cause ejec tion of the speakers; the meetings ere to he pat-iotic. he and other league 'officials declare. Karly arriving del egates, however, expressed frank dis satisfaction at the food administra tions price fixing program. Farmers had expected $3 wheat. They are pre- narBil n figures thflt the iinnin cost of production. Want Other Prices Fixed. w... "We are Willing to Carry our share of the war. and are willing to "ccepl $2.20 for our wheat, only provided the j government fixes the price of flour, farm machinery, fuel and other corn- tnoditiPH.1 one delegate said. Officials expect 6,000 delegates. These wili represent three million pro ducers, making it. President Townley .clttimn, the largest consumers and pro taut meeting ever held in the United btaten. Among organizations sending dele pates are the American Society of Kquity, National Orange, American federation of Labor. National Market tint? association and the Non-Partisan U-ftue, k SEE RESTORATION (rontl:iiied from Pnge One) fprinK and were to permit the kaiser fto retain his irresponsible, autocratic powen. all the advantage of the ex change would rest with the Hohenzol lerns. This is the stake for which the kaiser is now playing. But the pian is unworkable. With America In the war the Hohenzollerns won't be allowed to beg off simply by return ihip the loot. I lHffdcs U Abandon All Claims. Amsterdam, Sept. 1 8.- In connec tion with the report published in the Tafies Zeitung that Germany had de rided to abandon all claims to Bel gium, the Koelnische Volks Zeitung 'nays: "We too have received similar information, from which it may be concluded that last week a decision wbout Belgium was reported in con formity with the English views. Mathias Erzberger, a clerical center member of the reichstag speaking at Biberach on Sunday, said: f "The foundation of peace must be fo conquests of any kind. We are ad vancing with long strides toward such a peace peace built upon the basis of the reichstag peace resolution." Foreign Office Makes Denial. I Berlin, Sept. 18. The German for eign office in a statement given to the Associated press today denies stories appearing in Danish and other foreign newspapers to the effect that the Ger man government has indirectly com municated its peace terms to Wash ington or that Wilhelmstrasse even had sent out trial balloons for the pur pose of sounding sentiment in the United States. The German foreign office further informed the Associated Press that the rumors were promptly discredited on the strength of the peace terms ascrib ed to Germany and further by the fact that there was no occasion for Germany to address the Washington government in this respect. The assertion made by Mathias Erzberger, the clerical leader In the reichstag, that Germany's note in re ply to Pope Benedict's peace proposals already was on its way to Home also was denied in official quarters. The Centre leader informed his electors to this effect in the course of two meet ings which he addressed in Wurtt em berg on Sunday. Don't Consider It Seriously. London, Sept. 18. Even if the Ger man note to the Vatican, as German conservative newspapers seem to fear, indicates a relinquishment to Pope Benedict of the claims of supremacy in Belgium heretofore held, the Brit ish government w!U not regard that action as paving the way to peace. A high official who declared this view today remarked such action would be a very small paving stone. Fails to Name Successors. Amsterdam, Sept. 18. G e r m a n newspapers received here today attach significance to the German govern ment's failure so far to appoint suc cessors to Civil Governor Von Saudt and the Assistant Civil Governor Baron Von Lutz. of Belgium. None of the newspapers here attempt to speculate on what the delay signifies, however. TO FREE BUIfcGOMASTER? King of Spain Intercedes in Behalf of Imprisoned Belgian. London, Sept. IS. Germany at the request of King Alfonso of Spain, is r 15-20-25-30-35 XjiimaiAmiffotujs artr. J i. s. GAirrzKY. about to. restore to liberty Adolphe Max. the burgomaster of Brussels, ac cording to report received by the Amsterdam correspondent of the Ex change Telegraph company from Ber lin. A Recent dispatches from Germany have said that Burgomaster Max was seriously ill in prison at. Colic a Prus sian town twenty-three miles north of Hanover, and that King Alfonso of Spain was intervening in his behalf. The burgomaster was arrested at Brussels on September 28, 1914, for "his irreconcilable-attitude," according to an announcement made by the Ger man military governor of Belgium. MYSJERY DEEPENS Disappearance of Registered Mail Sack Pnzzles Officials. Thoro Search Being Made Here for It Today. i A registered mail sack was stolen from the mail car of Rock Island i train No. 2 at 8:50 o'clock Monday j night while the train was standing at i the Rock Island depot in Topeka. j That is the theory advanced by In- gpecior jonnston oi Kansas uny, neaa ,,f o.wfrnment nnBrntlv whn in cn- junction with the local police depart

i ment, sheriff's office and Rock Is land detectives, is investigating the j mysterious robbery today. t A registered, sack of mail destined for New York was made up by Jhe mail clerks just before the train pull ed into Topeka, according to the story toM to Johnston by the clerks upon their arrival in Kansas City. When the train reached the Rock Island de pot at Topeka one of the mail clerks left the car to aid in loading mall. The other remained in the car. At no time was the car unoccupied, the clerks told Johnston, No Clue Found. Shortly after the rain had pulled out of Topeka the sack was missing, they declared. Absolutely no clue to the mysterious robbery had been ob tained at a late hour this afternoon, Johnston announced. A theory was advanced that the sack might have faMen from the train en route from Topeka to Kansas City Johnston sqoffed at the idea, saying such a thing was impossible under the circumstances. "There id only one theory held at this time," he said. "The sack was stolen at the depot at Topeka." The valuables contained in the sack will remain a mystery until claims are filed by those sending the registered letters from hundreds of different town and cities west of Topeka. The fact that after the Rock Island train leaves Topeka it makes no stop until it pulls into Kansas City would make it impossible for the sack to be stolen anywhere excepting at Topeka, John ston affirms. KAISER OFFERS PRIZE 0 Kniperor Wilhelm Also Promises Re ward for First American Captured. Paris, Sept. 18. The American headquarters' staff in France has just been informed by the French author ities that Emperor William has prom ised a prize of 300 marks and three weeks' leave to the first German who captures an American soldier. This Information came from a Ger man prisoner recently taken who de clared that the offer was contained in an order issued thruout the army. a cusnatcn telegraphed from the British headquarters in France and Belgium on September 15. said that the German general commanding the Eleventh reserve division, has nromis- ed to the men who brought in the first American dead or alive, to head quarters, the iron cross of the firBt class, 400 marks and two weeks leave. That this offer has been made was disclosed by the diary of a captured Prussian sergeant of the 23rd reserve infantry regiment. RE-FORM SPAIN ARMY Also Plan Industrial Mobilization From Military Standpoint. Madrid. Sept. 18. At a cabinet meeting held last night It was decided to create two new regiments of field artillery, seven battalions of garrison artillery and seven battalions of heavy artillery. It was decided also to appoint a special committee to draft a plan of industrial mobilization from a mili tary point of view. Eduardo Dato, the premier ex plained that these reforms were not undertaken in any military spirit. They were, he said, only a part of the army reorganization scheme which was one of the principal features In the government policy of reforms. VILLA CONDUCTS RAID Report Loot Taken From V. S. Ranches Given to Huugry Mexicans. El Paso, Tex., Sept. 17. Francisco Villa and his bandits raided ,a few small hamlets along the Durango line Sunday, according to reports received here today. Most of the booty was given to the poor, the reports said. No Raise In Price We are still selling our hose at the same old price and will continue to do so as long as our present stock lasts. Buy now. and 50 Cents BRIDE'S TRAGEDY Police Believe Girl Murdered in Vacant Apartment. Her Trunk Contained an Ex pensive Trousseau of Satin. Chicago, Sept. 1 8. Police today were seeking the slayer of Miss Jose phine Parker, whose body was found lasc night in the bath room of the flat she had occupied alone for more than a month. The girl's wrists, had been slashed and" she had bled to death. The walls and floors of the parlor and bath room were stained wi.h blood and a razor lay on the window still. She evidently had been dead about ten days. The police were willing to accept a suicide theory at first but later-Tlis-covered a bucket of bloody water and a sponge which had been used in an effort to wipe up the blood stains. After losing so much blood, she would not have had the strength to attempt to erase it, the police believe. They also pointed out that anyone about to die would not worry about a few blood stains. The flat was bare of furniture. A trunk contained a bridal trousseau complete, with white satin gown, tulle veil and white slippers. t Miss Parker evidently had slept on a pile of newspapers in a corner. The girl is believed to have come here from Decatur, 111. U. S. GUNNER PRISONER Locate Another of Campana Gun Crew in German War Prison. Washington, Sept. 18. William Al bert Miller, Chicago, member of the gun crew of the Campana, sunk by a submarine August 11, has been locat ed in a German prison camp at Blan densburg, it was officially announced today. Four other members of the gun crew, including Captain Oliver, of the Campana had been previously located in German camps- Miller's mother is Elizabeth Grebeck, 8845 Burley ave nue, Chicago. The Campana was sunk August 6 after a gallant fight in which she en tirely exhausted her ammunition and had to give up. As a result of that experience the &jpply of ammunition on all armed ships was doubled. BISHOP TO LIQUOR MEN Qttayle Long Has Desired to Address Saloonmen, He Asserts. St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 18. Bishop Quayle was informed by telegraph at Baldwin, Kansas, this afternoon of the invitation to address the St. Louis li quor dealers which Mr. Pensay, pres ident of the association, said he would extend to him. and was asked if he would accept. The bishop replied that he could not say definitely whether he would accept until he received the invita tion, but the opportunity to address a liquor dealers convention was one he long had desired. FIGHT UNTIL (Con tinned from TTigg Onet the world with high explosives and low Intrigue. Concerning America's part In the war. Lane said: "We are bent upon making war with American vigor. If any one doubts that, let him look at the rec ord of congress, which has come In for so much of derision and reproach. I presume to say that no other parlia mentary body in so short a time has passed so great a volume of well con sidered and prophetic legislation as has our present congress in the last five months. We have supplied money for our friends, raised an army of a million and a quarter, inaugurated a new industry that of makins: 'aero planes revived a dead industry, that of building ships, placed powers over exports and prices, over industries and placed resources in the hands of the president, made laws to punish do mestic enemies, courageously placed the burden of taxation on those who can best bear up under it this is a record that no nation has excelled. Military Caste Enemy of IJbe.rty. "We shall make war In earnest for we know that if Germany wins the world will turn aside from the system of law and liberty which we know, and exalt that military caste and sys tem which is the historic enemy of personal liberty. We make wa in France that we may not be compelled to do battle here. Let Germany have Canada or Mexico, or even Cuba and we would go to our dally work- like the pilgrim father? with our guns In our hands. "You have asked ?ne to say a word about your duty as business men. Let me change that world, from duty to opportunity. If any American man, business man, farmer, or official, wants to know his duty let him ask one of those stalwart fieurea in khaki, square-jawed heroes of a new crusade. An appeal to him will an swer all doubts as to what any of us snouia ao. Represents Business Men. President Rhett of the chamber of commerce, opened the session with an explanation of its purposes. He said it was called primarily that American business have an opportunity of ex pressing it sentiments with respect to the war and of declaring what it Intends to do in aiding to bring the war to a successful conclusion The delegates, he said, represented 400,000 individuals, firms and corpor ations. He pleaded for a complete crushing of military autocracy. BUSINESS GROWS UNEASY. Banker Demands Government Make Known Its War Price Policy. Atlantic City, Sept 18. George M. Reynolds, president of the Continental and Commercial National bank of Chicago, in a speech at the convention of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States here today urging; that the government make known Immed iately its war price policy, declared business would be injured by harsh legislative measures. Talk of too strict a regulation of business, he said, was causing uncertainty and un easiness in industrial circles. "Stability and fairness in law and regulation," he said, "will enable busi ness to get its bearings and put its en tire strength back of the president. Uncertainty, the mother of fear, breeds timidity, halts business and if not removed, results in depression.". Big Business a Safeguard. 1 He'pleaded with the people to aban don -their, prejudice against big busi ness and asserted thatno nation could withstand he shocks of threats, of all manner of regulations and of con scription of property and income-. H.e urged that partisan politics be stopped. "If it were not for the big business organization of transportation, mining, steel and lumber we would be at the mercy of the enemy," he asserted. The rise in prices and wages, he said, was automatic, a characteristic of every wa. "With government financing con centrating money in the east," he said, "the government should equalize conditions by distributing war orders to the west." Reynolds, said he, believed Prus sianism was making its last fight and that the war would be finished in much less time than has been con sumed thus far. CANADIAN LOSS SMALL In Fierce Liens Battles, Colonials Ixmt 7,586 Including; 907 Killed. Ottawa, Ont., Sept. 18. During the last two weeks of August In the ter rific fighting around Lens, Canadian casualties were astonishingly small, according to figures made public to day by Sir Edward Kemp In the house of commons. The total was only 7,586 of dead, wounded and missing 907 killed; 313 died of wounds; 6,183 wounded: 11 taken prisoner; i died as prisoners; 145 missing and 25 died of disease. The small casualty list attests strikingly the excellence of the British barrage and preparatory fire In pro tecting its troopa In an effort to minimize her own heavy losses at Lens, Germany report ed the British .loss there as 250,000 dead, wounded and missing. URGE GOMPERS (Continued from l'a On and to advise the department of labor here promptly concerning them. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, has an engagement to confer with President Wilson lata today. San Francisco, Calif., Sept. United States marines stood guard to day in the Union Iron Works plant. where construction of government ships valued at millions of dollars has been completely, stopped by the strike of shipbuilders In the San Francisco bay cities. Two companies of marines were hurried to this city from Mare Island during the night, at the request of Capt. Harry G. Leopold, U. S. N-, in charge of naval construction at the plant. Early today Captain Leopold ordered the closing of all saloons within a half mile of the big San Francisco plant, fearing the loitering men, inflamed by liquor, might create trouble there. Gov't Into Breach. It was reported that additional com panies of marines might be stationed at the Oakland and Alameda yards of the big shipbuilding companies and that saloons might be closed there also. Simultaneously with this report came evidences from many quarters that the government is taking further steps to bring a settlement of the dis pute which has preclpitatea tne great- i est strike in the history of the Pacific coast and completely tied up all ship building for Uncle Sam a war emer gency fleet. The first move In this direction was the' sending of instructions to the fed eral adjustment board, now engaged in mediating the Seattle and Portland strikes, to expedite their work as much as possible, in order that the adjustment reached at these points may serve as a basis of settlement of the San Francisco bay district con troversy. No Kloangr Today. So far as rioting and violence are concerned, the situation was quiet to day. Officials of the Iron Trades coun cil, whr are directing the ship strike, asserted today that the violence which marked the opening of the strike yes terday was the work of Irresponsible individual strikers or sympathizers. At no time did the violence take the form of activity against shipbuilding plants, but was rather an effer vescence of feeling against the im ported motormen and cnoductors in the United Railroads car strike. Should rioting be renewed and get beyond the control of the local police. Major General Murray, commanding the western department of the army, is amply prepared to handle the situa tion by using troops of the infantry brigade at the presidio. More Than 25,000 Out. A review of the situation today in dicated that between 25,000 and 30,000 members of the iron trades are on strike in the bay cities. One hundred and twenty establishments, including shipyards, foundries, factories and ma chine shops, have refused to accept the demands of the men for a mini mum wage of $6 a day for journey fnen in the iron trades' crafts. A new appeal was issued today by the employers for arbitration. As the result of the sudden renewal of violence yesterday, President Lilien thal of the United Railroads issued a statement t.day announcing that his company bad abandoned its plan of resuming night car service. End Virginia Freight Strike. Richmond, Va., Sept. 18. The Sea board air line freight clerks' strike in progress ten days, ended today when the men returned to work under an agreement to accept a contract to be drawn up by G. M. McWade of the de partment or labor, xne railroad will grant concessions on special points at issue, principally the wage question. New Bishop at Denver. Washington, Sept. 18. The papal legation here today announced ap- Dointment of the following bishops Rt. Rev. J. Henry Tihen, Lincoln, Neb., to le bishop at .Denver, Colo., and Rev. John J. Cantwell, Ban Fran cico. to be bishop at I.o Angeles. J5oap Special Bars 8 Ben Hur Soap Bars Lenox Soap 8 With 54)e purchase of Merchan dise. Nyat Quality Drug Store 607 Kansas Ave. FT one 44 HOLD WHEAT CROP Farmers Wait for Higher Prices, Bakers Assert. Sam F. McDonald Makes This Charge Against Them. Chicago, 111.. Sept. 18. That the farmers of the country are holding their wheat in the hope that they may yet receive higher prices is the charge made by Sam F. McDonald, president of the National Association of Bakers, which is In convention here. Mr. McDonald's assertion is backed by the war emergency council of that organization. In this council are many of the leaders In tne baking lnaustry, including Frank Shepard. of Boston: George S. Ward of New York; Robert Corby of Washington; B. Howard Smith of Kansas City and others. They assert also that they are doing every thing in their power to bring about a reduction of prices but that the farm er, by his reluctance to part with his grain at the price fixed by the govern ment is making this impossible. Flour $13 a Barrel. Even at the price fixed the bakers assert that flour will be at -least $12 a barrel, which will place the con sumer at the mercy of the farmer, who under the present law may with hold the sale of his crop. Mr. Mc Donald voiced the general opinion of the bakers when he said: "When we give the farmer a guar anteed price for wheat and also per mit him to hoard wheat, we are en couraging high -prices. A guaranteed minimum ought to be accompanied by a mixed maximum price so that stock win oe marketed quickly and not held for higher prices." It was suggested during the day that the food adminis tration would be asked to authorize a nationwide fifteen cent loaf of bread, the size of which would "be uniform inruout tne country. Farmers Have a Kick. From the farmers the complaint is made that the country grain dealers are grading No. 1 wheat as No. 3 and that they are only getting $1.80 for tneir product. Mr. Howard B. Jack son said that no complaint had been made to the food administration be cause of improper grading. He called the miller and grain men into his of fice today for a long conference but refused to divulge the nature of it Railroad men. led by Hale Holden, president of the Burlington railroad, are clamoring for the immediate movement of wheat. They assert that transportation soon will be tied up with the movement of coal and point out that the eastern seaboard is al most free of wheat and that the ship ment of wheat so far this year is far below the normal amount. If the condition continues along these lines, they assert, our allies and our own na tion will be asking for the movement of wheat when coal will be wanted as badly. LAST DAY OF SUMMER (Continued "rqm Puge Ooe) was predicted, and tomorrow will be much cooler with a maximum temper ature mark around the 75 stage. The official forecast promises part ly cloudy weather tonight and Wed nesday with .lower temperatures Wed nfesaay. The predicted lower temper atures will come from the northwest where morning reports showed tem peratures below freezing. The lowest record was sent from Edmunton, Canada, and according to Mc Flora will arrive in the United States to night and by tomorrow it will reach Topeka. The lowest temperature recorded Monday night was 56 and the ther mometer started on its climb early this morning, registering 69 at nine o'clock. At 2 o'clock it had reached 84. Tonight the mercury will fall to 55 again and tomorrow the mercury will stay below 75. No rains were recorded In the state in the last twenty-four hours with the exception of a few local showers. The wind was blowing 6 -miles an hour from the south this morning but promised to switch to the northwest before night. The river was still falling this morn ing, reading 4.1 feet. The highest temperature on record for this date was 94, in 1895, and the lowest, 39, in 1901. WEATHER TABLB. Furnished by the weather bnreau office, Topeka, Kan., for the twenty-four bours enrtlng at T m. Tuesday. Stations. High. Low. Pree. Wrber Poston, Mass 61 W 1.12 Rain Buffalo, N. Y 58 0 Clear Calgary, Alb. ....Aft 0 Clondy OhieaRO. Ill 70 2 0 Clear Cincinnati. 0 74 52 0 Clear Corpus Christ! 74 .04 Cloudy Denver. Colo. 7S 46 0 Clear Pes Moines, la SO 54 0 Clear Dulnth, Minn 7S 5H 0 Clear Kl Paso. Tex 72 00 .32 Cloudy Fort Worth, Tex.. 82 74 0 Haln Havre. Mont. 72 BO 0 Clear Jacksonville, Fla 70 .00 Clondy Little Rock, Ark.. 7S fit) .01 Clondy Los Angeles, Cal.. 84 5fl 0 Clear New Orleans, La.. 82 W 0 Clear New York, N. Y.. lOT 0 Clondy N. Platte Neb 72 50 .64 Clear Oklahoma, Okla SS 64 0 Clear Phoenix. Arls. 9S 70 0 Clear Pittsburg, Pa 74-50 0 Clear Portlnnd. Ore 1 54 0 Clear St. Lonis. Mo 78 02 0 Clear Rt. Panl. Minn 84 5S 0 Clear Snlt Lake. Utah.. 78 54 0 Clear Ran Francisco. CaL S2 50 0 Clear Sault Sfe Marie.. 64 58 0 Clondy Seattle, Wash 68 52 0 Clear Sheridan, Wyo. ..70 44 0 Clear Spokane, Wash 80 52 0 Fair Swift Current, Sas. 70 Tampa, Fla so 70 .04 Clondy Toledo. Ohio 72- 56 0 Clear Washington. I. C. 70 48 0 Clear Winnipeg. Man. 80 58 0 Cloudy Kansas Weather Report Station. High. Low. Free. Wther. Anthonv 86 0 Fair Coldwa'ter 82 BO 0 Clear 0 Fair 1.00 Clear 0 Clear 0 Clear 0 Clear .40 Clondy .40 Clear 0 Clear 0 Cloudy 0 Clear I Concordia S 50 Iprearten 80 .12 l Fmporia 84 54 ifcnreka 88 52 Ft. Scott 88 52 Garden City 80 54 (Goodland 78 48 Hanover 88 56 Hays 84 58 I Horton 80 54 llnla 86 54 'Liberal SO 58 iMcPherson 88 60 0 Clear 0 Clear 0 Clear Vacksville 86 54 Manhattan 86 54 Ihilllpsburg 82 56 Scott OltT 82 62 0 Clear 0 Clondy .04 .62 Fair Fair Sedan 92 54 .TOPEKA 84 56 Ittca 80 54 Wichita 86 62 l Kansas City 82 60 0 Clear 0 Clear .48 Cloudy T Fair 0 Clear St. Joseph 84 5U 0 Fair River ataa-e at Topeka, 4.1 feet. GOMPERS IN WARNING Organized Labor Should Not Abuse Powers. Says Union Head. Washington, Sept. 17. Warning that organized labor must not take advantage of the present crisis to abuse its powers, was sounded by president bamuel Uompers, or the American Federation of Labor, todav at a' meeting of federal employes unions. Lack of wisdom in directing: its forces might result in the collapse of the great labor structure, Gompers said, "just as the great military Prus sia must fall and as the czar already nas been rum Died from his throne." Miss Jeanette Rankin, member of congress from Montana, and Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor, also addressed the convention. HENSON FATE TO JURY Arguments In Kansas Murder Trial Will Be Concluded Today. Wichita, Sept. 18. Both the state and the defense rested in the B. W. A. Henson murder trial here this morn ing. The court spent 45 minutes in structing the jurors and six hours, three to a side will be given to the argument by the attorneys. The case will go to the Jury tonight. The defense offered testimony this morning to prove Henson had a good reputation in Barber county, where he formerly lived. It is his third trial for the alleged murder of his wife by shooting her in this city two years ago. A case is pending against him for the alleged death of his stepson at the same time. The boy was clubbed to death. COLLISION AT SEA Tank Steamer Sinks After Crashing into Liner Latter Beaches Port. Paris, Sept. 18. The tank steam ship Bouvet was sunk in the Mediter ranean on September 12, being in col lision with the French passenger liner Orenoque of 3,33 tons gross. There were no victims. After colliding with the Orenoque fire broke out on the Bouvet followed by an explosion, the ship sinking with in a quarter of an hour. The Orenoque managed to reach the Algerian coast. Available shipping records do not contain the name of the Bouvet. Pre sumably she was a French tank steamer. TODAY'S MARKET REPORTS Chlcnsro, Sept. 18. CORN Predictions ot rroat orougut a material upturn today in corn values. The government forecast definitely indicated frost tonight in North Dakota and there were unofficial prophesies to which considerable attention was given. Recent declines on account of an annarent- 1 y ideal crop on tlook seemed to render the marfcet unusually susceptible to a ate lihood of adverse developments. Opening; quotations which ranged from the same as vesterdav's finish to e lower at $1.1514 1.15 December and $1.12 to $1.12 May, were followed by an advance oi l cent or more a ousnei an arouna. Res u motion of work at the two bit in dustriul plants grinding a total of 45,000 bushel a dav tended later to cause an ad ditional advance: The close was strong1, 2e to 3c net higher, at le cember. and S1.15"(S May. OATS Free buying on the part of a big elevator company pave sireugm to me oats market. A falling off in receipts here tended further to lift prices. WHEAT Commission rates for handling wheat received considerable notice, confer ences were in progress looking to a restora tion of old figures at places where the rates naa recently neen aavanceu some what. Offerings of wheat here were much small er than yesterday and not one quarter enough to supply current requisition rrom inent was much heavier. PROVISIONS Provisions hardened In price with corn and hogs. The chief up turn was in pork. Chicago Grata and Park Market. (The range of prices on grain futures on tne tmcaea xoaru oi iraua reyuritsu by tne xupeKa uoutq or iraae.i Chicago, Sept. 18. Closed- Open High Low Today Yea. COR! Dec. ..115- 11 May ..112- 115 OAXS Kept 58 50 llec. 57 58 May 00- 61 115 118 11514 112 115 58 57 60 59 5-Mi ul 57 5 60 I'OUJi Oct. ..42.70 42.70 42.50 42.50 42.50 Jan. ..43.00 43.17 43.00 43.02. LARD Oct. ..23.80 23.82 2S.62 23.62 23.75 Jan. ..22. TO 22.77 22.57 22.62 22.67 RIBS O.-t. ..24.07 24.10 21.00 24.00 24.07 Jau. ..22.00 22.07 21.95 21.D7 22.00 Kansas City Grain Futures. rThe tancre of prices on arraiD futures the Kansas City Hoard of Trade as re ported by the xoieja uoara oi xraae.j Kansas City, Sept. 18. Closed Open High Low Today Xea. CORN Dec. -.113 117 H H7 U3 May ..110 113 110 113 110 Kansas City Grain Market. ICinana Oitv. Sent. 18. CASH CORN- Market steady at Monday's full decline. No. 2 mixed. $1.8001.90: No. 3. 1.S8&1. No. 2 white, 2.02fri 2.03 No. 3, nominal No. 1 v.llnw at. 921.93: No. 3. nominal. OATS-Market c to lc higher. No. 2 white, 60c; No. 2 mixed, 58&59c.. vr sl.7Berl.80. KAFIR AND MILO MAIZE $4.204.30. HAY Market unchanged. SHORTS S2.10S2.25. BRAN $1.4561-50. itpwinta wheat. 6fi eara. CLOSE CORN Dec., $1.17; Sept $1.13. Chicago Grain anO PravlsioB Market. Chicaro. Sent 18. CLOSE CORN Dec., tf-W May. $1.15S. UATM Sept., ovgc; uec, aiay, tlM,ft! MhC. PORK Sept., $42.33; Oct.. $42.50; Jan, S4.T05. LARD Sept., $23.77; Oct., $23.62; Jan. $2.(2. KHUltT Kia ept., j.iu; wet, j.w Jan., $21.97. Kansas City Prodnce Market. Kansas City, Sept 18 BUTTER Market uncnangeo. Et(JS Firsta, S7c; seconds. 31c. POULTRY Market unchanged. Chicago Produce Market. Chicago, Sept. 18. BUTTER AND EGGS Market unchanged. POTATOES Market lower. Minnesota and Dakota, $1.10i&1-23 Wisconsin, $1.00 1.20. POULTRY Alive, firm. Fowls, 22c; springs, 21c. New York Produce Market New York, Sept. 18. BUTTER Market barely steady. Creamery higher than ex tras. 44fcr45U.e. EGGS Market unsettled. Fresh gather ed extras. 4ir. CHEESE Market strong. State fresh specials, 25c. POULTRY Pressed. Arm. POULTRY Live, uncertain. No prices quoted. New Tbrk Sugar Market New York. Sept. 18. SUGAR Raw sn?ar quiet Centrifugal. $0.90; molasses. 4i.o2; refined, steady line grauuiaceu, a3.a,.oo. New Orleans Cottaa Market. New Orleans. Sept. 18. COTTON Spot cotton quiet 19 points higher. Middling, $20.38. New York Money Market. New York, Sent, IS .MONKY-Mercantile paper. Sr. Sterling 60 dav biils. 4 i2;j commercial ou tin T uiiis on dbvu, i commercial otl dav Bills, -f.i; oemauu, 4.75; cables, 4.7i 7-Ui. Francs, demand, 5.79; cables, 5.7$- Guilders, demand, 4115-M; cables, 423-10. Lirea. demand. I cables. 7.05. Rubles, demand. 1UU bles. ldTta. I'mr silver-. Mexican dollars, SB. Government bonds steady. Kail- road boufls ess v. Time loans, firm: 00 days. '90 days and six ninntbs, Stiiti. tii inouey. easier; Uii;l.. a; low, a; rul ing rate, 5; close, 3 offered at 3; last ioun, Maw York Stock Market. Wall St. New York. Sent 1H STOCKS Attempts by bears to uncover weak siots and brio? about a renewal of general liqui dation were responsible for a auarp DxeaK m prices, a it u inner ox snares hohi ax the lowest on the current downward move ment. Evidences of an oversold condition subsequently caused short covering which pushed np pricea 1 to 3 points from the! lowest level. Steel rallied from 104 to 103v a. J I The bond market was easier. Liberty 1 on ii u a spirt at W.Ufc to ltw. J Many of the active stocks moved within a narrow ranpe in the early trading today. Bearish feeling was less evident in some shares which have been under heavy pres sure recently, nut in other qnarters sell ing was renewed and the general move ment was Irregular. Bethlehem Steel sell ing ex-rights or i per ceut was again depressed. United States Steel opened at a fractional gain but failed to maintain its advantage. Heaviness appeared In the punnc utilities. The Marine. St. Paul. Mexican Petroleum and Distillers Securities were strong. A j oiovk oi rtu.uuu iiDeriv doqui nam at par.

Kansas City Live Stock Sales, (The following sales were made this morn- lng at the stock lards, Kansas City, and action oi tne seanoarn exporters in senrt re ported over long distance telephone di- ing messages early Monday thst they were rect to the State Jonrnal by Clay, Robin- j not interested in oats and then suddenly sou 4t Co., live stock commiasion mar j buy 54HMXK) bushels in all position put chants.) many of the local traders In bad ns they got short on the break and covered on &.anas vity. &epc i. tA i r.K He- ceipts 21,000 head. Best steady; others weaa, luc lower. HOGS Receipts 6.000 head. Market steady to strong. Hulk of sales, $17.50 18.60: top, $18.70. sh Er. r Hecelnts T.tHio head. Market 20c to 40c higher. Lninbe. fls.40. O.H,L,INt4 SIKEKB. No. wt PrleelNo. vt. Prlet 61 1477 J17.00 32.....115 $12.75 34 1131 11.75 30 1210 12.50 13 900 7.40 COWS AND HEIFERS. 1 0S0 11.00 I 8 742 S 990 775 I 2 Brtt 5 1020 6.75 3 880 1 900 5.25 1 C70 10 6B7 7.25 I 8 801 9 50 T.50 5.B0 6.00 7.48 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 73 804 61 508 9.75 I 24... 800 B.25 7.73 7.15 I 9.... 0 R0 CALVES. 1S.0O I 1..., 10.00 7 BULLS. 7.00 1..., 601 32..... 780 000 120 150 290 12.50 8.50 1 1420 1 1320 .1090 7.00 7.25 i HOGS. 18.70 I 00 258 18.00 73 74... 264 250 18.65 Chicago Un tock Market. Chicago, Sept. 18. HOGS Receipts 7,000. Market strong, 10c above yester- day's average. Bulk of Bales, fl7.eoAlH.S5; light. $17.10(ft I8.S.): mixed, f l7.iwj, t8.ori heavy, $17.00! 1H.U0; rough. 17.004s.17.20; pigs, l.i.lKa. 1 1

Native beef cattle, $i.50 li.85; western steers, $6.7015.50; atockers and feeders, $a.5011.00; cows and heifers, $5.1512.90; calves, $12.501 !lti.25. SHEEP Receipts 15,000. Market firm. Wethers, $9.00(B 12.75 luinhs, $12.5018.40. Northwest receipts Minneapolis 211 Duluth 812; Winnipeg S58. Kansas City Live Stork Market. Kansas City, Sept. 18. HOGS Receipts 6,000. Market steady to strong. Bulk of sales, $17.50 18.00; heavy 18.001K 75 packers and butchers. tU.SOfclK.OO light, $17.40(ii, 18.30; pigs, 1600fel7.25. CATTLE) Receipts 21,000, Including 800 southern. Market steady. Prime fed steers, $16.0(ai6.80;. dressed beef steers, $11.30 15.50; western steers, $!.00 13.25 south ern steers, $.75g 11.00; cows, $5.50f5 10.00 heifers. $7.00(13.00: stockera aud feeders, $(i.738 13.00;- bulls, $6.00&8.00; calves, $J.OO 6113.00. SHEEP Receipts 7,000. Market steady. Lambs, $17.25(818.25 yearlings, $12.00 13.50; wethers, $11.0012.50 ewes. $10.00ji 11.50; atockers and feeders, $8.00(sj.l8.35. Kansas City Stock Yards, Sept. 18. Cattle receipts were moderate at 2o,000 head, and there was a good market, strong to 25c higher, top steers, S10.25. Hogs re ceived were 5,000 head, market 5c to 10c higher, top $18.76. Sheep and lambs 6,000 head, market strong, no good klllne lambs offered, feeding lambs at $18.35. BEEF CATTLE. There was a keen market on everything, but no extra high class fed steers were offered, the right kind being worth $17.00. Gran steers sold higher, straight grassers up to $13.00, some 1100 pound steers Uo feeder buyers at $12.75, bought away from the packers. The presence of a large num ber of country buyers helped out on kill ing cattle. Oklahonias sold at $8.75 to $11.85, some common light steers down to $7. Butcher grades were 11c to to 25c higher, some heavy cows up to $10. Threat ened trouble with switchmen yesterday caused many Kansas cattle to be turned back to pastures, but the demand today could have taken good care of many more cattle than arrived. STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. More than 35,000 cattle were bought for the country last week, with prices strong at the close, and this week 10 to 25 cent higher today, stock steers $7 to $9.00. a few fancy light weights up to $10.35, feeding steers at $9 to $11.00, fleshy steers at $11.50 to $13.25, stock cows and heifers $5.50 to $9.00. HOGS. There was some decline the last days of last week but It had disappeared large ly In the sales made today, choice heavy hogs selling at $18.75, medium weights at $18.00,- lights $18.20, bulk of sales $17.50 to $18.60. Light receipts continue, and there Is a wide variety in quality, very few choice hogs included. Average weight for last week was 189 lbs, two pounds lighter than corrected average weight for previous week. Receipts are so far below requirements here that local prices are out of, line with other market, sunning above St. Louis and Chicago a good part of the time. SHBRp AND T,AMB8. Conntrv buyers get the largest share of 4i. tutlnv the westerns today at $18 mostly, with some ewe lambs at $18.35. Choice fat lambs to killers are worth $18 to $18.25, plain natives around $17.50. Breeding ewes are selling at $13 to $17.25, feeding wether, and yearlings $12.50 to $14. i A fair amount of breeding and feeding stock is available, especially since country buyers take a large share of the re- CelptS. J- A. KICKAKl, Market Correspondent. Morning drain nasals. I (Furnished by the Topeka Board of Trade. I World's shipments of oats last week were 4,321,000 bnshels. mcinoing ,uti,uju duib- i els from America. Exports from the United States and Can- j ada yesterday were 234,000 bushels of wheat, 20,000 barrels of flour, no corn, 195,- I U00 bushels of oats; wheat and flour com- j blued, T.B.OOO bushels. i World's shipments of corn last week were 805,000 busheis, compared with 990.000 bushels the pre-ediug week and 3,723,000 bushels a year ago. American shipments were 459.0IO bnshels. j World's shipments of wheat last week, as reported at Liverpool were 7.005.000 bnshels, compared with 6,137.000 bnshels I in the preceding week and 10.730,000 bush els a year ago. Shipments from America j STOCK SHIPPERS To Insure Yourself B?st Results Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants. Stock Yards. Kan. City Wr Ale Have Our Own OT'kt-. at JTilrwco. w. St. Jovnh, Sa. Onialta. IH-nvcr. Slos City. Kol St. Paul. E. Buffalo. E. St. louls. Fort Worth and El Vase ill were 4,922,000 bushels. Including 2.489.000 nnshels ns floor. Argentina exported 42-,- 000 bnshels. India 470.0(10 buatoels ana Australia 1.100.000 bushels. I Elevator stocks of wheat in Khnsas City decreased 22.401 lmsselx last week and now amount to 512.000 bnsliela: .eojrn, 12.503 bushels, decrease 8,359 bushels: i ents. 70.. 322 bushels. Increase 1S2,44 biiKhels no kafir; rye, 27,767 bushels, increase 1.392 bushels; barley, .39,233 bushels, I increase 20.:t1K bushels. A vear ago stl-icks were 11.314.972 bnshels of wheat. SS4.4(H4 bushels of corn and 8(,029 bushels of oUtB. 4 Karly Mnrslsa OsMi.) (Furnished by the Topeka Board ht Trads. Chicnjro Sept. 1R. Th Her klit ay: harifth anil Mont of the corn traders -ire reeard the market a sale on biilrrH from this 'ah corn in off 22 ko :iT cents from the top of the I nut weelk and th country is more disposed to it old corn. Conservative people raj the mar- ket's action depends lararelv (in weather conditions of the next two weekii. The late bulga or lyc to rjO from the inside yes terday was due to profit taking Iby num ber of local traders who were be largest sellers on last week's bulge. Sima "f the sharp traders said at th clost that the bulge was enough and .predict .another weak spell. j country holders or cash oats are Xwork- 1 ing caremuy ana snow a sunt off In s4.- iiiir on nil shunt hresks rho iwt- get around fiO cents at leading stations anu are mow to accent less, mere were tie i nvenes or i.tnai Bushel on .September snles yesterday which were a part of tha j :so,iO bushels sold to go to store. The tne rauy at tne last. New York. Sept. Dow Jones sum mary: t hairman Hurley of the l ulled States shipping board to visit San Fran cisco to act as mediator In ship building strike. Couferee on far revenue bill to repoec war profits tax scledule based on house exemption of 8 per ceVt of capital Invested instesd of fl to 10 per cent provided In bill as passed by the senate. Germans driven hack 7 miles In Riga sec tion last five days. Germany's reply fails to satisfy Argen tina and break in relations may follow. Twenty industrials. 81.55, decline 1.49. 20 rails 85.93: off 1.15. TOl'FKA HARKS-T REPOH f. Tapeka f,lvrnteli Market. (Pricea t uru-'aiitd by U olfr Packing Cat Topeka Kan.. Sept. IS MIXED AND PUTCHEItS SM.CPIffilft.lO I HEAVY 14.00W1X.20 LIGHT 13.MIOT17.7U I PIGS 7.00u)10.UO j COWS Good to choice A.50M i.M 1 Fair to good 6.0CM2 1.00 Common to fair.... 4.omfj 5.uu i Good to choice 1 ("(it 8 o ",r gooa Co1S,r"5S,H oAV'ti Solea 6 Olxft 6.73 4.00(0! 0.1W S?r A .J1 T Ona 8 0S 6.00(i 7.0 rirjLi S j rl..h 6 0tya7.o .f M.. RAM HI. VKAL t ALVKS- tTtmr fat oris a.oe Medium good 6-00 7 o Fair SHEEP Fat wethers Fat ewea 6.50(a on e.noia 7 sn Fat lambs S.OOiftll 50 Ooata 3.004X 6.00 Rhnrn l.mha and sheen Se nnner than prices. Positively cannot use sneep er lambs nnloas. fat. Poultry and Erse. (Furnished by the Topeka Tacking Co pauy. corner Laurent and Madlaon.1 Topeka, Kan., Sept. 18. HENS 3U lbs. and over. 19c finder 3 lbs.. 10c: springs over 2 lbs.. 19c; roosters. 11c; ataggy young rooatera. 13c; bruuei-a. 2 lbs. nnd under. 21c. KGGS 3a40c. Eggs are retailing tn Topeka, 373Sc BL'TTEU 4347c. detail Ba. (Furnished by W. A. Gilchrist. 620 Qatar Street.! Topeka, Kan., Sept. IS. PRAIRIE HAT $1600. A' "LJTA $20.00. Totteka Oratn Market. iFurnllbed ht J. B. Blllara. corner Kniu Ave. and Curtla 8t-i Topeka, Kan., Sept. 18. OATS RSlSflOc. CORN $2.ic Tflpekit Hny M.rfcet. Furnlshad by T. A Beck. 12-214 R t Topeka, Kan., Sept. 18. PRAIRIE HAY $17.00. A t.FA $20 00. BahAMal" Experience mattes ns certain. Contact with various problems in Direct by Mail Advertising enables ua to speak witb authority w h e t h e r en couraging the application of a plan or discouraging Its adoption. 18 years of "Know How Bogle Printing Co. -Good Printing Plus" f (ft and Jackson Phonm 778 Experience and Reputation Count For more than a third of a century we've given satisfactory service to Topekans in the drug business, we've maintained the quality of our goods and the es teem of the public for fair deal ing and absolute correctness In all details. We believe you ap preciate such things If you do, the logical place for your drug trading is at ROWLEY'S Topcka's Best Known Drag; Store Sixth and Kansas Ave.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917 BY "CLUQ Up to the Minute FKOM EVERYWHERE, FIRST TO HUTCH, Joplin Loses Jump in Big Play Off Series. STANDING OF THE TEAMS. Fans Anxious To See Sanders in Box Again. Joplin. Mo., Sept. 18. Hutchinson ffol the jump in the get away of the five fiame series the Salt Packers be f;;in here Monday with the Miners for the championship of the last half of the Wentern league season and today Joplin fans were anxious to have Pitcher Sanders sent against the Hol land team so that honors might be even when the third game is played in Hutchinson tomorrow. However, it was thought that Sav age would save his Pittsburg star for the latter part of the week in order to give him the rest he earned Sunday when he pitched his double shutout and in order to have him for the more difficult task of winning away from home. The team that takes three eames out of this series will meet Des Moines for the pennant. Ton Inning iiaiiic. Monday's game was a close one, the score being 4 to 2 in favor of Hutch inson. Oscar Graham. Joplin s pitch er, was blamed for the defeat by local fans, despite the fact that he held his opponents to six scattered hits. Gra ham, it is asserted, did not use his head in running the bases and cost his team one run when he loafed go ing to first and another when he failed to go into the home plate on a bad throw by McCabe from behind sec ond base. The game went ten innings as it was. Joplin got a run in the second, Hutchinson two in the fourth and the Miners ied the count in the sixth. Then., In the first half of the tenth, three hits by the Salt Packers, along with two errors by the Miners, allowed Hutchinson to score twice. The score: R.H.E. Hutchinson ...000 200 000 24 6 0 Joplin 010 001 000 0 2 11 3 liatteries F. Graham an'l O'Brien; CI. Grahfim and Monro. National League. Clubs Won New Vork W Philadelphia 77 St. Louis 70 Clin innati 72 Chirac 71 Mronklyn t J tow ton CO Pittsburg 4ti American League. Chicago H Itnxtnu 4 Cleveland 77 Ierroit 71 New York "5 Washington U St. Louis r2 Philadelphia 50 American Association. Imlfanttpolts SO St. Paul 7 Louisville 87 (olninhus Milwaukee 70 Minneapolis 7 Kunsas City Toledo i4 Lost Tct. 51 .vti ro ."Miti 71 71 .500 71 .470 75 .441 IKS .:i 47 JKl 4 71 7:t 72 IX) 87 12 5 (15 t 7 .07 .01 .t .540 .500 .471 .471 ..".07 .305 .580 .470 .447 3C7 HERZOG IS THRU Injury Received Last Ends His Career. April He Is One of Greatest Fielders in National League. MAKING LAST STAND I Hal Sox Arc at Home for Balance of Season Now. ELL-ANS Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Onepackage proves it 25c at all druggists. New York, Sept. 18. The World's champion for a few weeks Red Sox begin the last battle against a for lorn hope today. standing at the gateway to their personal bailiwick, otherwise Fenway park, Liostun, they open a series that will see them thru the 1917 season. Today they meet Detroit, a discourag ing, blue-tinted outlook. Jn spite of the fact that they have been playing pennant winning base ball of late, the future holds little for them, for the cocky White Sox are riding high, far out in the lead and will open today against what is gen erally suspected of being one of the easiest marks in either of the big leagues Connie Mack's Athletics. Finishing with the Tigers, all that remains for the Red Sox to do is beat the White Sox, who will pay their final visit of the season to Boston be ginning Friday and holdiug oVer Mon day. There is no reason to suspect that when this clash reaches the stage of gore that the Red Sox will turn over and play dead, but the paler kind of fciox are too far out to have anything like a few defeats cut them out of the world's series melon. About Developing When you tjike h ph-tnre von want it devt jnpe.l tin-1 prints! ii KJHT. And you ilou't want to wait a wcrk to ste it. BRING YOUR FILMS TO US They will have the tii refill atten tion of experts, ami you'll pet prompt wrvl'-e. Leave tliem before N:im ii. in. 4 Jet them nt :.!0 p. in. We -nrry a full line of A nam inenis ami mi p piles uml a fresh stork of films. 5 607 Kansas Ave. Phone 44 PENN. STAR TO COACH Noil Matthews Joins the Staff of Northwestern University Today. Chicago, Sept. 18. Neil Matthews, captain of last year's University of Pennsylvania football team and con sidered one of the best linesmen in the east, has joined the coaching staff of Northvestern and when practice was called today appeared on the line. Twenty-one men reported for the first practice. SADIE SILVER WINNER CocU Horse Takes Futurity at the Hutchinson Fair. Hutchinson, Kan., Sept. 18. Sadie Silver, owned by H. J. Covell, of To peka, won the Kansas-Oklahoma fu turity here at the opening of the fair races Monday in straight heats, her time being 2:24, 2:2614 and 2:2114. Woodville Lad won the 2:17 pace and the 2-year-old trot went to Alta Donovan. Oteola, another Topeka horse.owned by W. C. Wegele, was second In the 2-year-old trot. Way Behind took the six furlongs running event and the half mile went to Jack Hays. 'As Near as the Nearest Phone' Hurry Up Baggage Transfer BY JACK VEIOCK. New York, Sept IS. Buck Herzog may be forced to wind up his career as a regular with the Giants when the world's series is over this fall. The scrappy second baseman has gone thru the season under the handi cap of playing with an Injured spine, and during the Giants-Dodgers series in Brooklyn, late in August, he fainted on the bench after making a slide to the home plate, and was forced to remain out of the lineup for some time. Herzog was hurt last April In a fall at the Pennsylvania station in New York, and during the early weeks of the season he was unable to fill his place in the Giant lineup. Luckily, McGraw had Pete Kilduff at the time, and Peterkin held down the job admirably well. Injury Is Permanent. When Herzog returned to the line up for keeps he appeared to be as spry and peppery as ever, and his playing has been a factor in both the defense and offense of the club. But the injury is evidently of a nature which will not permit him to take chances on the field, and a false step in running the bases or fielding a batted ball may force him to retire at any time. Because of. his value to the Giants at second base he will be played there in the world's series, but next spring, unless his injury has entirely disap peared, it is believed he will be una ble to tackle the task of filling the keystone position day in and day out. If Herzog is forced to retire as a regular the Giants will lose one of the most valuable players in the National League. Always a great fielder and lightning thinker, Herzog has built up a name for himself as one of the best all-around players in the game. He has never been a terrific hitter, but his hitting from year to year has been valuable because he is always danger ous in the pinches, and hits best when there are runners on the bags. BAKER LEAVES YANKEES He Quits Team Because He Was Put Under Suspension. New York, Sept. 18. Temperament among ball players is coming back in fashion. Following the lead of Charley Her zog of the Giants, Frank Baker, Yan kee third baseman, is among the miss ing today. He left following his sus pension by Manager Donovan for fail ing to show up for a Sunday exhibition game. JOHNSON NOT ON MARKET. Griffith Denies He Will Dispose of His Kansas Star. "Washington, Sept. 18. The question of a contract between Walter Johnson and the Washington club for next sea son has not even been thought of and will not be until next spring, Manager Clark Oriffith said today, denying re ports that Johnson had refused to sign a contract and would be sold to Cleveland. "Whenever things are slack, some one sells either my club or my play ers," Griffith complained today. NATIONAL LEAGUE. New York (at Chicago) 5 6 1 ChloBgo 0 6 2 Schupp and McCarty; Douglas, Walker, Prendergast and IMlhoefer. Philadelphia (at Cincinnati) 4 10 1 Cincinnati 1 8 3 Alexander and Killifer; Mitchell, Reu ther and Wingo. Boston (at Pittsburg) 4 12 0 Pittsburg 1 9 2 Hughes and Meyers; Miller and Schmidt. (15 innings.) No other games. AMERICAN LEAGl'E. STATE OF KANSAS. Notice of Examinations of Barbers Holding Permits You are hereby notified to appear at one of the fol lowing places ,'in 1917 for examination before Kansas State Barber Board, according to section 6 of chapter 292, Session Laws of 1913. Bring tools and permits. All permits are void after examination. Topeka, Kan., Oct. 1 and 2. Manhattan, Kan., Oct. 3. Junction City, Kan., Oct. 4. Salina, Kan., Oct. 5. Concordia, Kan., Oct. 8. Hutchinson, Kan., Oct. 10. Wichita, Kan., Oct. 11-12. Emporia, Kan., Oct. 15. Iola, Kan., Oct. 17. Pittsburg, Kan., Oct. 19. Kansas City, Kan Oct. 22-23. Atchison, Kan., Oct. 25. Members of Kansas State Barber Board of Examination and Inspection: CLARENCE H. MATHEWS, President. D. P. MILLS, Secretary. L. B. HUFF, Treasurer. Boston (at New York) 6 2 New York 1 5 0 Leonard and Cady Fisher, Shocker, Mogridge and Xunamaker. No other games played. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. fll...l.u T ,1 1 o VK 1 I Indianapolis .5 7 1 t Sherdell and Livingston Northrop and NchuDg. Minneapolis (at Toledo) 5 10 5 Toledo 4 10 1 Thiejuan and Hut'hant; Plercey, Schnltz and Alexander. St. Paul fat Columbus) 4 6 6 Columbus 8 0 0 (10 innings.) Leifleld and Hoffman George and Cole man. Kansas City (at Louisville)..., 3 10 2 Louisville 4 10 3 (10 innings. McQuillan and Berry Shackelford and Kocher. BASEBALL TODAY. National Lentat. New York at Chicago, clear, 3 p. m. Boston at Pittsburg, 2, clear, first 1:30 p. m. Phlladelph' at Cincinnati, clear, 3 p. m. Brooklyn at St. Louis, 2, clear, first 1:30 p. m. American Learne. Chicago at Philadelphia, clear, 3 p. m. Detroit at Boston, rain, 3 p. m. St. Louis at Washington, clear, 3:30 p. m. Cleveland at New York, cloudy, 3 p. m. American Association. St. Panl at Columbus, clear, 3 p. m. Minneapolis at Toledo, 2, clear, first 2 p. m. Milwaukee at Indianapolis, cloudy, 3:1a p. m. Kansas City at Louisville, clear, 3 p. m. Herman Outfights Eggers. Philadelphia. Sept. 18. Peter Her man, bantamweight champion, easily defeated "K. O." Kggers of New York, in a six-round bout here Monday night. The New Yorker was bleeding freely from the nose and mouth at the end of the bout. Eggers weighed un der 118 pounds, while Herman was a fraction over weight. AjrrnoNAii sport wtxxi BE FOUND OX OTHER PAGES QUALITY SERVICE Modern Laundering Dry Cleaning Hat Renovating Experts in charge of each de partment. Out of town work solicited- TOPEKA LAUNDRY CO. Established In 1880. Phone 3653 Y. M. C. A. WORKER KILLED; German Airman's Bomb Struck Hut He Was in Near War Front. Behind British Lines in France, Sept 18. The Young Men's Christian Association has just sustained its first fatal casualty in France. One of the workers in a hut a few miles behind the lines was killed this week by a bemb dropped from a German air plane. WAR RIDER TROUBLES Insurance Companies Face Problem in Old Policies. CAN'T GET WHEAT Question of Requisitioning Grain on Farms Comes Up. Producer Loses From Shrink age by Hoarding Grain. The war rider is still causing no end of troubles to insurance compan ies. The question that is just now of first importance and can only be set tled by the superintendents in the various states is the reinstatement of policy holders whose premiums have lapsed. War riders provision is now sitting on the fences looking for a nice soft place to light in these rein statements. Until the entrance of America into the war it was the cus tom of nearly all insurance companies to permit a policy holder who could meet the physical test necessary to be reinstated when he had paid up such premiums as would put the policy up to date. But the number of such holders who sought to be reinstated after war was declared has influenced the companies to protect themselves if possible. Carey E. Wilson, state superintendent fpr Kansas is of the opinion that this cannot be done if no such provision is contained in the original policy. If the statement is clear that only a physical test and a payment of back premium is neces sary, then no additional penalty can be added as Superintendent Wilson sees it. GUNS WEARING OUT Shortens Range of German Cannon; Shells Fall In Own Trenches. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS. With the British Armies in the Field, Sept. 18. German guns are be coming tb worn, at least in certain sectors, that the kaiser's troops are frequently killed by their own shells, according to prisoners' statements to day. Worn guns and lack of sufficient aid plants are causing the armies un der Crown Prince Rupprecht consid erable trouble. The story has been told and amply verified by prisoners today that the German guns firing by chart, fire short as a rule, and there being no plants to observe the errors, the shells have frequently been burst ing in German trenches. A gun in good condition can be fired fairly accurately by tabulation. Un der given conditions a shell will go exactly so many yards. When the rifling becomes worn, however, the shells do not travel as far as they should algebraically. Hence the Ger man trouble. German prisoners complain of the shelling. Some see in it the usual callousness of the higher command, who haven't any regard for lives of their men- MACHINES ARE BUSY; This Year 21,500,000 16-Page Signa tures Were Handled by State. There are no busier sewing, ma chines in the city, even since the fall rush began, than those in the bindery department of the state printing plant. Seven machines are working full ca pacity. During the present year in all 21,22,000 sixteen page signatures have been handled by this depart ment. This work was necessitated by de mands from many sources. Text book production reached the highest point since the adoption of state school book publication. Approximately one and a half million volumes have been issued during this fiscal year. The general statutes, a volume -of 2,700 pages and the session laws and bien nial reports of various state depart ments have all contributed to the work of the sewing machines. "We have had an unprecedented year in school book production," said State Printer W. R. Smith. "But this has not interfered in the least with the work for the departments and in stitutions. More of this class of work has been done than in any year of the plant's history." Y.W.C. A. WORK BEGINS Winter Activities Open With Party at Building October 5. The winter's work at the Young Women's Christian association build ing will begin October 8. During the week following all the classes, includ ing those in aesthetic dancing and gymnasium, will be organized. On the evening of October S the annual "Fall Opening" will occur, when supper will be served at 7 o'clock to the mem bers, their guests and other friends of the association. Plates will be 25 cents and should be reserved in ad vance. After supper the guests will have an opportunity to meet the new general secretary. Miss Allena Graf ton, and to hear the plans for the win ter in a program of toasts. The public will be shown thru the building dur ing the evening. The following Sunday afternoon the first of the regular weekly Vesper services will be held, when Miss An nie B. Sweet, president of the Topeka association, will speak. An especially interesting series of vespers has been planned for this fall. OGDEX CAX HAVE SEWER BONDS Attorney General Approves Bonds in Order to Aid Army City. John L. Hunt, assistant attorney general, has given an opinion upon the issuance of bonds by a third class city which will expedite the installing of the new sewer system by the city of Ogden, near the big cantonment camp of Kansas. Sanitary conditions at Ogden have been unusually bad owing to the enormous increase in popula tion within the last few months. For merly a little town of two hundred and some odd Inhabitants, Ogden must house and feed about twenty-five thousand people and more coming all the time. An elaborate new sewage system is necessary to safeguard the health of Ogdenites and it was feared that to issue bonds the question must be submitted to a vote of the people which would cause a dangerous delay in getting at the work. Hunt, how ever, interprets the law to allow the cities of the third class to issue bonds without this regulation and so has ad vised C. A. Haskins, of Lawrence, state sanitary engineer- bv caiil nrnoLP. (Of the Drovers' Telegram.) Kat s City, Mo., Sept. 18. Meager receipts of wheat in Kansas City of late have caused suspicion that farm ers of the southwest are holding the 1917 crop thru u b.lief that eventually they may be able to receive more for it than the J2.20 basis established by the Garfield committee. This sus picion raises the question, has the farmer th legal right to hold his wheat any length of time he desires, or must he sell it immediately? The recc. tly enacted food control laws stipulate that the government will seize the wheat of any party or parties guilty of hoarding and inflict other punishment, but exempts the grower and his co-operative elevator from this provision. This gives the producer the right to dispose of or hold his grain to suit his convenience. The basis price of $2.20 was fixed mainly to safeguard the consumer against 'exorbitant bread prices, and not to force the producer to sell at any particular time. With the neces sity of selling at the specified price when he does sell, there is no reason for the farmer to hold and run the hazard of deterioration in storage un less he cares to take the chance of a higher price later. Farmers Busy Planting Crops. The extremely light movement of wheat the past week in Kansas City was inadequate to meet the needs of millers here. An important influence in the light of rivals is the fact that farmers are busy plowing and seeding to help attain the 1,000,000,000 bushel wheat crop desired by the government in 1918. Objections to the fixed price is another factor. It is also recog nized that the temporary commission given mills this week to purchase wheat at the fixed price a usual inter ior supply stations has kept the grain from coming to Kansas City, ihe mills in the interior paying the fixed price without adding expenses incidental to shipping to the primary market. This factor may be removed beginning Monday, when A. J. Hunt, head of the southwestern milling division of the Hoover administration in Kansas City, plans to inaugurate the distribution of wheat to all licensed mills as contem plated under the control program. Some millers are reported to have paid more than the fixed price this week, owing to pressing needs. It is reported in J lilling trade circles that demand f r flour is so strong that the mills would be glad to pay higher than the fixed price just now if permitted. It is understood that the Kansas Cit- office of the Hoover administra tion made inquiry at the attitude of farmers in the southwest toward the 1917 fixed price. While much dis satisfaction was found, the belief pre vails among Hoover officials here that there will be gradual reconciliation. This is expected to be followed by sales from farms when fall seeding is com pleted. White and Morriscy in Draw. Salt Lake, Utah, Sept. 18. Eddie White of San Francisco and Leo Mor rjsey of Idaho Falls, Idaho, light weights, fought six rounds to a draw here Monday night. GIBBS CLOTHING Co. 431-433 KANSAS AVE. Opposite Postoffice All departments join with great bargains for this great val- ue-giving week. Come to this store, pay cash and save precious money in your buying of all winter goods. Store of Cash Values Suits and Our cash prices this week will save, you dollars on a new winter Suit or Overcoat. We offer this week 500 new Suits and Overcoats, bought at a special cash price from one of the leading manufacturers. All the new winter styles of 1916-17. They're in English, semi-English and conservative models in stripes, plaids and plain colors. Fabrics are serges, worsteds, cassimeres and imported tweeds. Sizes to fit stouts, regulars and slims. Choice in this sale $7.50 $14.75 $10.50 $16.50 Hundreds of Pairs of Men's PANTS Priced for this week 98c, $1.48, $1.98, $2.48 and $3.95 Fifty Bargain Tables Piled high with Men's and Boys' Winter Underwear, Sweaters, Caps, Wool Shirts, Hosiery and Furnishings of all kinds, specially priced. Fall ffc Hats Sib Styles S 95c, $1.50, $1.95 Shoe Bargains MEN'S SHOES A special purchase of Men's $3.50 and $4.00 Shoes. All styles and sizes $2.48 up to $3.48 WOMEN'S SHOES A special purchase of new. snappy styles, $2.48 up to. $2.98 BOYS' and GIRLS' SCHOOL shoes Bedding Sale $1.98, $2.98 New Bargain Department Sale: BLANKETS 98 up to $4.95 COMFORTS 98 up to $3.48 Children's 15c Hose 10 Children's Sweaters.,. .50, $1.00, $1.48 Women's and Children's Underwear 49 up to 98f L. M. Pen well President Phone 773 ft- M. Johnson eieo'v-Treiia. Phone 3G1 THE L. M. PENWELL CX1)ERTAKLU CO. 506-508-510 Qulnry Street Phone 193 mi.LEGE OfthesiSTERS Or EPISCOPAL CiRi,a SCHOOL Academic, College Prenaratory Junior Collepe Kindergarten. Pii mary. Intermediate. Kinderpartea Training.. Conservator? of Music. Expression, Art, 5itb Year. Rt. Rev. James Wise, President. Address M. Alice H'orswlck. Principal, Topeka. To and from Kansas City and Chicago Leave Topeka 4.45 am 6.00 am' 7.40 am 1.15 pin S.06 pin 6.00 pm 8.00 pm 8.40 pm ArrlYe Arrive Kansas City Clilrago Q mi nm 7 25 am 7 Oil i 7.60 am 0.43 am 8.30 pm G.05 pm 7.00 pro t.&6 pm 7 43 ain 7.z am 9.15 am 11.15 am 11.15 nm Lrave Chicago 9.50 am 0 50 am 8.00 pm X pm 10.30 pm 2 15 am 0.00 pm Ixave Kansas City 0 40 pm ifi.00 pm S.K mm li'oo'am 4 SO pm 7.45 am Arrive Topeka) 11.29 pa. 11.50 pm 11.05 am 10.50 am 12.55 pm 8.W pm 10.10 am Through Sleepers Vet Ca Help Yos Plan Your Next Trip BTtinOF.fi. C. P. Fboae Mat. Free reclinlnz Chair cars KaJiaaa 1 1 J V a. vL$l pa ranio uistriDutmg o. sgg "S SlwHw Eli Uarriperl, Mgr. iE Joy Maker You can't beat PABLO for pic nics, parties, or outings of any kind. PABLO is so well liked by everybody it fits into any occasion with joy and good spirit. This pure, healthful, non-alcoholic beverage is the real joy maker. Everybody calls for The Happ DRINK They like iU food, old, "boppy tang. The flavor that invigorate and satisfies. Drink as much PABLO as you wish be cause PABLO is pure and healthful. Order PABLO by the case from your gro cer, or ice cold at any good drink stand. You'll enjoy PABLO we know it. Made by PABST at Milwaukee Pablo Distributing Co. t

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALS-TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 191V CtrpeUa State Joimtjsl An Independent Newspaper. BY kKA.Mi I MAOLKNSAM. Entered na. e-oril-i-laas itnii matter. VOLL'MK XXXIX No. 223 OFFICIAL. STATU I'AI'EK OFFICIAL. PAI'F.H C1T- OF TOPKKA ttiibM-rlptlofl Rate Pt mnlt In advance, orie ynr. f4.0 Rt nintl in ao'vaiire. nix nionrha.... 2 40 Ity mull In alv:im-e. thre montha.. 1.20 hy mill In advance, one month.... -5 Kale b.T CarritT One week.. rent Two wopki for quortel .25 Wtl Four weeka 50 ceota Telephone a.YlO F-infern neflees- Pnlll Itlm-lt. r..neenti t'w. F'fth avenue. New Vork Mfillera bnlMlnir. ftiireiro ?01 pcronn'ilre street. l'.oN.n Kre,7e htillilinj: Ietrott. Meinher A mo-! a fed Press. American S'"wpnip rtihMlinr Aaaocintton. Audit Pt.ro,.)! nj r-ircnlptlon. MfMr.FH or THE ASSOC'IA I rt PRCTH. The As.ciutoii ln nn Is .i-.-'nslvelv en titled to tip- nse for ri'piib:''ntlon of all Rriri re.ll'nf! to It or not oth -rwise crprl-lte-1 In this nsier and nlsn tn local news rubiiehpil herein. "H It A fKVK.R VOf WANT TO KNOW." The Topeki SfMte .foiirnnl Information firenn nt Wflshlitpton furnishes riu!pra. fwe of oh.nrire, nwnrnfp nn authnrKif'va snewera to neetlora itnt anil nil aiin 1"cr cn-v-c -ittii Men Information ran be ,n'l 'r"ft M,c nnpnrnt'e'ed reaonrrea of the varlotia feHernl irovernmeot rteprirt rprta end the irrctit l'rrir of conff'caa. A 2-c-Mt atnmn for return poafj'ffe nmef acornonnr ench Imiuirv. Statr- clearly the I'tformi. Hon wanted, write plainly and td itrera. TTfR Tn'TT, flT(TW .TortTNAL IN FORM itiov nrtiFAO. Wnph'liB-lon. T. C. S. It Inquirers should be careful to ob serve two points- F.n.loae a 2-i-eut e'nmn an-: ndilreas their letters to Washington, ss above, and not to Topekn. otherwise Us lay and needless expense are Incurred. Workers in the shipyards of the Pa cific coast are demanding a 50 per cent increase in wages. Tire, situation probably will call for governmental action of some sort. The country must have ships and cannot afford to liave their construction interfered with. When certain railroad employes, last year threatened to tie up the trans portation business of the United States, congress promptly took action and forced the railroads to meet the de mands made upon them. Will it meet the present emergency in the same way? The added expense such action would entail, must of course be borne by the treasury which in turn would take it out of the people by taxation. But the railroads were shown no such consideration.' They were left to get the additional millions made necessary by congressional ac tion any way they could. Every plea for an increase in rates has been de nied. The government's price fixing activities seem destined to lead it as well as others into endless trouble. President Ripley would relieve the labor needs of railroads by letting down the bars and admitting Chinese. More laborers are needed in many other branches of industry besides railroading. There Is no more in dustrious and law-abiding class of citizens in the world than the Chinese. They do not attempt to interfere with our nrllglon nor our politics. They would not strike or organize to burn the crops or try to interfere with the prosecution of the war. They merely work. It is no longer proper to refer to German civilization. There is no such thing. The country of the kaiser has carried barbarism to a point hitherto unchronicied in the world's history. Instances are recorded where the wounded have been slain on the field of battle, when the fighting blood was up. but never before have hospitals been attacked. In urging the more general use of corn meal for making bread Mr. Hoover does not stop with pointing out that there are four bushels of corn raised in this country to every one of wheat. He tells the country that there is twice as much nutritive value in $1 worth of corn as In $1 worth of wheat bread at present prices. But he can scarcely hope to bring about a general use of cornbread as long as the housewife must do the baking and the prejudice against hot bread remains. Cornbread, to be palatable, must be fresh baked and served hot. The rea son it is popular In the South Is found in the fact that almost every family has a negro cook. An organization that calls itself the" American Union Against Militarism has issued a statement announcing that it Is "tired of being defamed as pro-German' or 'seditious,' and will sue for libel any newspaper or press association which ventures to charac terize it ln such terms." The state ment further says: "Since war was declared we have not sought to ob struct thegovernment in the conduct of the war, though we have done our best to protect American democracy from the attacks of some of its new found friends." If the organization really deHire to escape criticism it should change its name and the char acter of its propaganda. In other words, it should take in its sign. The only peace terms which can bring about an immediate cessation of hostilities can be expressed in the two words unconditional surrender. Germany, olearly enough, is living today under the doom of fear. Her temper, her expedients, her gestures. all of them proclaim tne state that has lost Its moral balance. There should be, says the New Republic, no ground for that attitude. None of us wants the destruction of Germany. The peace for which we are working should promise that which will make her the partner in the prospects of our common civilizaton if she is willing to accept the conditions upon which. that life is lived. To realize that, she must be in a, mood to reason calmiy. Let us ensure her what common prudence demands and she can awaken from her evil -dream. But she will then see that the economic background of peace must be based upon territorial rearrangement. If domination has failed, co-operation mu-it follow. If she cannot defeat the world, she must accept the world. In that mood it is possible to make effective settlernen: of our problems. THE COAL PB.OBLKM. The government's plan for regulat ing coal prices appears up to this time to have done little more than make a mess of the fuel situation. Over half the production of Illinois has been shut ff by labor difficul ties. Alabama is threatened by a min strike. About half of the east- ern Kentucky production Is wiped out i. mm ....i.. t i ninio. ore t u, a aw.r-c. producing fields. In the east, says The Black Dia mond, official organ of the coal in dustry, the railroads are running short of cars because the lines are congested and coal is moving more slowly than at any time since midwinter eight months ago. The movement in fact is as slow as at any time of record. At the same time steam consump tion is expanding or wants to expand just when the householders are com ing into the market. The demand for coal is overwhelming at the very mo ment when production is recording its sharpest declines for the reasons given. The result is that those who cannot get shipments regularly and easily are securing relief thru the priority board or thru Dr. Garfield's office. The trembles of the trade have been trans ferred from the local coal offices to two offices in Washington and it is now becoming a struggle between sec tions, to get coal for themselves in competition with all districts by se curing the aid of the priority shipment board. This scramble in some respects is undignified and is giving Washing ton a new opinion of the selfishness of coal users. Through all of this strife and con tention the fact stands out that the nation is in the grip of a fuel famine, before effective consumption by householders is really started and be fore the grain movement is really tax ing the railroads to capacity. What will develop wl en both things are in full swing is something which Is not pleasant to contemplate. The belief has been popular that extension of the franchise to women in a state would be followed by a pro hibitory legislative enactment. If that be regarded as a rule, it does not work both ways. This is shown by the vote in Maine.. The oldest prohibition state in the Union has rejected woman suf frage by a 2 to 1 vote. THE WAR'S BENEFITS. We are very apt, and not unnatur ally so, to overlook because of our sympathies and the personal dangers of our loved ones, says Henry Clews in his Financial Review, the material advantages that must inevitably re sult from a war that we tried so hard to avoid. America has attained and will maintain a new financial position among the nations of the world; It will be restored to the seas as an im portant maritime nation; it will have become associated in a practical way wit- many new export markets, and, finally, it will moreover have the last ing reputation of being the nation that at the crucial moment stepped in to decide the war in favor of demo cracy. This is a position that cannot fail to mean much in the material sense. It will mean a post-war con tinuance of our national activities on a remarkable scale and a continuing prosperity for the great corporations that so clearly are responsible for those activities. Our country has yet far to go be- fore it reaches the peak of its develop ment. For our farms and mines we have had a series of wonderfully pros perous years. High prices have been paid for our products by foreign coun tries, thus increasing our wealth. This year we have in sight a corn crop of S, 248,000, 000 bushels, for which the farmer will receive extreme ly lucrative prices, a volume and a price that have not been nearly equal ed before. The average yield of corn for the five-year period 1911-15 ws only 2,7 54,000,000 bushels. Winter wheat crop is below the average, but spring wheat promises about an aver age outturn. Meanwhile virtually all the minor crops are well In excess of

average yields. These facta, indicate experienced in the agricultural sec tions of the country. Industry is presenting a similar po sition. Labor is so actively employed at high wages that its spending power can hardly be overestimated. The in crease in the price of silver to virtual ly $1.00 per ounce is an indication of the increasing value of the products of our mines. This, too. means a cor responding increase in. our wealth especially if, asseems not improbable, advantage can be taken of the current opportunity to export a considerable part of the huge volume of silver that we have on hand. The editor of the Hoxie Sentinel asks the State Journal to tell' "just how much of this dope about world democracy and no economic war, after this great war is over, is really meant for the average ptug citizen to ab sorb It is believed that the sincerity of this country cannot be questioned, but we are unable to speak for Japan or any other nation, for that matter. CLOTHES, ARE. SCARCE TUB TorEKA STATE JOTJRSAl INFORMATION BCREAC By Frederic J. Huakin, Director, Washington. O. C. Washington. Sept. 17. Cotton la selling at a little mo- e than half its normal value, silk the same, linen as a fabric is slowly passing out of exist ence owing to the chaos in Russia, which produces 80 per cent of the world's flax, and wool well, if we were not an ally, fabric experts tell us. we would not get any imported wool at all, and as it is we are getting little enough. Indeed, if the war keeps up much longer it is quite likely we will be wear ing burlap and jute as people did dur ing the Civil war. Then wool was scarce as it is now, and so was cot ton. The south had plenty of cotton but no factories to make the cloth, wnereus i nt iiuim i.ou inc i v. i. fci i i but no cotton. T day there is also olentv of cotton, but It Is needed as an ,xpu sive Eyery a French ..sev. ty-five" is fired, we are told, it means one bale of cotton destroyed. They are shooting oi r shirts at the Ger mans. Moreover, you may know that the world is really alarmed over a fabric shortage when P..ris for once in its history as fashion dictator has modeled womtn's clothes to their needs, and not in spite of them. The Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture of Paris recently announced that in or der to help the government it would cut down the amount of material to be used in women's clothes this season. Hereiifter, they said, no costume made of wool should exceed -four and one half meters, r. -ne made of cotton should exceed five and one-half meters, and silk should be used as much as possible. Deplore Wearing of Mourning. In this country the shortage of fabrics is referred to as little as pos sible by American garment makers. Their supply is large enough for this year, and they certainly do not an- ticlnate banki-UDtcv at present prices. Their one fear now is that during the j next few years many women will be j wearing mourning. unis mey ae nounce as deplorable ostentation. The duty of the women is to keep the country's courage u. by wearing bright colors, and to make it forget the horrors of war, which are fortu nately some distance away from us, they assert. Besides which, it would be very disastrous to business. What would happen to all the colored stock, and the new American dye business? Others condemn tl.e wearing of mourning for the reason that it would bring about a great waste of material. Women who went into morning would have to discard their colored clothes. or pack them away to be eaten by moths, and thus many more yards of wool would be taken from the market. Meantime, the price of. rags has gone up. Not since the paper scarcity of a year ago have we heard much concerning rags, but again they appear on the popular horizon. This time you must save your rags and sell them to the textile industry. For just as old paper and rags can be reduced to pulp and made over Into paper, so can an old woolen sweater or skirt be torn to pieces and shredded and made over into woolen cloth. The wool obtained in this way is known as "shoddy." It cannot be used alone, but is combined with new wool when it really makes a very fair material. Of course, it is never as fine as materials made from new wool, and one should not have to pay as much for It, but in an extremity it might save us from wearing jute. Shoddy If the War Continues. Mr. H. L. Dewey, fabric expert of the department of agriculture believes that we shall all be wearing "shoddy cloth" if the war keeps up much long er. A shoddy industry has long ex isted in England. For years Ameri can rags have been collected and ship ped to that country -whose factories turned thern into shoddy cloth, which in turn is shipped back to this country. Thus if the manufacture of shoddy is undertaken to any great extent in this country as a result of the wool shortage, we may at last find a pro litable use for our old clothes. We may wear a suit a year, sell it to a ragman, and the next year buy it back in the form of an overcoat. Of course, we should not have to pay so much for the overcoat as we do now, and to insure this there would doubt less have to be 'some congressional legislation on the fubject of "pure clothes." But they would be quite useful and warm and soft much bet ter than jute. Wearing Lart Winter's Coata. If you don't like the idea of "shoddy cloth," there is something else you can do with your old clothes. You can clean them or dye them another rrlnr-tanrl wr thpm nVpr nvajn. For the flrst time ln many years lots of people are getting out their last win ter's coats and suits to wear again this season. Usually, they look much worse than you remembered them, but it is surprising what can be done with a little ammonia, alcohol or dye. Women can save a great deal in cleaning and dyeing bills if they will only learn to do it themselves. Sup pose last winter's woolen afternoon frock has escaped the summer plague of moths, but is not clean. Here is a recipe guaranteed to clean it: Take four ounces of soft soap, four ounces of honey, the white of an" egg, and four tablespoonfuls of gin and mix them together, adding just enough water to have it work well with a brush. Then lay the dress on a flat table and scour it well with a stiff brush, after which rinse It thoroly in I cold water and hang it up to dry. Do 'not wring it out, but let it drain to- i warci the narrowest point. When it is still damp, iron with a piece of muslin laid over it. H a dress or suit is only slightly soiled it may be cleaned with a sponge dipped in a mixture of one ounce of sulphurio acid, one ounce of ammonia and one quart of water. How to Clean the Spot. Grease spots may be removed by the use of any number of solvents such as benzine, petroleum Lpirit. gasoline, naphtha, chloroform, ether and fresh ly distilled turpentine spirits, inas much a all of these are extremely in flammable, with the exception of chlo roform, they should never be used near a light or great heat. Do not apply the solvent directly on the spot, but make a ring around the spot and work toward it from the ring, until that part of the fabric is saturated with the liquid. A pad should be held un der the spot or a plate to catch the drip. If, instead of using this method, you work from the spot outward you are apt to leave a ring around it which will be equally as objectionable aa the spot itself. Home dyeing is very easy nd ex ceedingly interesting Inasmuch as there is always ,an element of sus pense in it. You are never quite eu re what shade the garment will ultimate ly be. Dyes of all shades may be pur chased at local drug stores. The usual directions are to mix the dye in cold I water, then boil it for five or ten miri- j nutes in. a. pint of water, and add 4tjj slowly to a hot water bath In a kettle or dishpan which has been put on the stove in the .meantime. It is n cessary to have some piece of cloth or the same substance as the garment to be dyed with which to test the color of the dye, and the garment itself should not be put in until the color is satis factory. It' is better to have a long immersion in a weak dye bath than a short immersion in a strong one. Restoring snd Cliansln? Colors. White good, of course, will take any coldr very well, but it is hard to change' one color to another. Put a red dress in a black dye and it will turn a "rusty" black or dark brown, or dip a yellow dress in a blue dye and it will turn green. Even light tana will sometimes surprise you when dipped Tin another color, so the J best way to do is to boil the garment until all the color has left it. hi tBotr siiw shirtwaists in dye to restore the color lost thru

constant washing, but have been afraid to attempt anything so valu able as a dress. On the other hand. many women have thrown away per fectly good garments, which, if dyed another color would look as good as new. Even rugs and carpets submit well to these cleaning and dyeing processes, if the work is done care fully a fact that it is well to bear in mind this year when American carpet looms are making cotton duck for the army and very few carpets. So far, of course, there are plenty of fabrics to be had this season for those who can afford to buy them, but if the war keeps up there is no telling how soon the world will be reduced to trie sartorial condition of our famous forebears in the garden of Eden. Un der these circumstances, women will have to do without mourning, they will be glad to wear shoddy cloth, and there will be a brand new home industry in the cleaning and dyeing of old clothes. Questions .on the above or any sub ject upon which the reader desires In formation should be addressed the To- peka State Journal Information Bu reau. Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington. D. C. with 2 -cent stamp enclosed for reply. On the MOMEMT BY MORRIS MII.LKB. Vou Know Who. He s'riubl(s and cLuises thru liaxardous nlfK-en, lie leaps on a train a it speeds. And when in a craii he is never so bnppy, ThTf's Httie of Juiifcer he lieeus. Our blood simply curilies each time that he hurdles A wall r 1umi)8 into n wrpct We re gasping, ily thunder, it s really a woiiurr He never is breaking his neck!" Tho others are .bigger how few have his vigor. How trw have li is euato and vprvp. He's roujfh and as ready and ranid as Teddy, With iilwuri a tilentv nf iiiv The plot every minute he's seen to be in it Is sure to have plenty of snap, And if it seems liik'b'y or starting to drag Will pot on a neat little scrap. His manners are funny and wholesome and sunny. We chlK-kle for nil W itr. n-nrtli And while we are screecumir he's buailv IC-Jit-fl.tlg The gospel of health and of mirth, We cheer tilt wen frantic eaoh violent antie As over the screen he will rhne And not to be screening the party we'iy e, 11 mention the grin on his face! Notions.. There may be greater demands for husbands after the war than ever. But husbands are used to demands. No one ever flew very high by fly ing oft the handle. Some people's only ambition is not to need any ambition. If half the people don't know hpw the other half live, it isn't because they don't watch them moving in. The best way of getting a thing is to "go after it and the worst way is to go after it too late. Determination and application will accomplish anything in life except opening a car window. When things have reached the point where friend wife is packing up to go home to mother, friend husband is usuall yglad to agree to a "status quo ante helium." DINNER STORIES An old negro was riding on the train and fell asleep with mouth wide open. A mischievous drummer came along, and, having a convenient capsule of quinine ln his pocket, he uncorked it and affted it well on the old negro's palate and the root of his tongue. The old darkey, awaken ing, became mucn disturoea. j-ie called for the conductor and asked: "Hobs, Is there a doctor on this here train?" "I don't know," said -the conductor. "Are you sick?" "Yes, sir, I sure am sick. I sure am sick v "What's the matter with you?' "T dunno sir; but it tastes like I busted my gall." He was a rackety young man, and kept very late hours, but had now Joined the national guard and was ordered to the training camp. On bid ding farewell to his beloved he said to her: "Darling, when I am far away wilt thou gaze at yon star every night and think of me?" "I will, indeed, dearest," she replied. "If I needed anything to remind me of yuu, I should choose that very star." "Why?" he asked. "Because it is out so late at night and looks so pale in the morning." r- i NOTHING BETTER THAN KANSAS. Bark east they boaat of wonders great. Of cities big anil prand, -Of mountains white and mountains green. Of drives on Jersey sand. Of hotels high, that pierce the sky Where there la nothing .free Yet my heart turns biu-k to Knnaas, Which is good enough for me. The summers east are always short. The fields are rongh and small; I wonder with such winters fierce. That folk can live at all. E'en far away in Old Vermont, The state where I wsa born, Their maple srrap makes a sea For cakes of Kansua corn. For limpid lakes and landscapes green. That state ia hard to beat. Yet folk would hunger there and starve Hut for oar Kansas wheat. Then back to plaina of Kansas, 1 soon will hit tbe trail; The land of purple sunaeta. Where harvests never fail. I'll return to sunny Kansas, Whose crops can feed the world. Where our glorions atarry banner la forever seen unfurled Whose golden corn and bearded wheat Are worth their weight in gold, TIB thers I'll live contentedly. UoUljiiy hours are told. F. M. KIMBALL. Pawling, New York. Dorothy Dix Says I BY DOROTHY DIX World's Hlchest raid Womu Wrttor THE REWARD. j They are talking in Washington of j having a special medal struck to pre- sent to such of the men in our' army as perform deeds of signal valor, even as Germany and England and France pin decorations on the breasts of their j heroes, so that all wno see mem may know of their bravery. I When this medal is struck, another j one should be struck as a companion piece to it. This other medal should j be in the design of a bleeding heart .1 These bars should be in letters of gold" j the words PATRIOTISM and COUR AGE, and this insignia of the highest order of merit should be pinned on the breast of every woman who has willingly given husband or son to the service of her country. Hers is a love of country greater than the love of life because she of fers up on the altar of her patriotism that which is far dearer to her than life itself. Hera is a courage greater than that of the man who goes into battle, because he can only die once while she dies a thousand deaths of anxiety every day, imagining the hor rors that may be happening to nira. The man has the stranee. thrilling excitement of wan to-.keep his pulses tuned to concert pitch. He has the rush and press of work to occupy his thoughts; new scenes and experiences to divert him; the support, mental and bodily, of doing things in large crowds; the touch of spiritual and physical i shoulders to hearten him up. The woman must make her fight alone in the silence of the empty home, with nothing but monotonous household dutie3 to fill her days, often with a new necessity for pinching economy now that the bread winner Hs gone, and always with too much time in which to think the thoughts in which madness lies. It takes courage i to face a prospect like that, and the woman who does it gladly and cheer- fully for her country's sake is Just as j u-uiy a patriot anu a nero wj who ever led a forlorn hope in battle. I should like to see that badge of the bleeding heart dominated by the white bars of patriotism and courage on the breast .of every true American I w-jiiia.ii nuu 11 t' 1 ed, nor tried to lkeep her men folks from doing their duty to their coun try. I should like to take off my hat every time I see such a decoration, as a Frenchman salutes tne cross oi me I suggeut ai when our overnment strikes medals for Its he; roes, it also strikes who have given these heroes to tneir country No one would minimize the sacri-1 fice that a mother makes when she j sends her son forth to war, but this is to be said to comfort her war 13 not wholly evil. It is not even as dan gerous as her morbid fancies, paint it, and if many a woman will lose her son in battle, many another woman will get back a son who has been re born in that fiery furnace, one who went forth a weakling and came back a man. Those who know what the training of an army camp "will do for a'youth physically declare that as many of our young men wiji-save their lives thru thenar as will be killed by it. Thin chested, aenemic, stoop shouldered lads, who have .never -done, any man ual -Tabor harder than" pushing a pen across a -sheet of paper or up and down a ledKerv and whose only exer cise has beefv confined to fox trotting in a crowded restaurant, will come back from the "wai broad of shoulder, straight as an arrow, big muscled. Five more years of office work would have landed theee boys In the graves of consumptives. Soldiering will save them. Hard work in the open air, sleeping out oi ooors, regu.ar nours, plenty oi plain nourishing food, these will drive the angel with the scythe back into the shadow for a quarter of a century or more for unnumbered thousands of young men whose days, but for this war, would be numbered. The big in- demnity that fate is going to pay us in this war is to turn a lot of sickly j little flabby manikins into husky he men, j Another bright spot In this war is i that it is doing more in one minute to stamp out intemperance than has been done in all the balance of the history of the human race. And the mother who sends her boy forth to serve his country may count on get ting him back cured of the drink habit, if he had it, or wes acquiring it. That alone almost atones for the sacrifice of war, for while it may wring a woman's heart to watcn and wait for her son to come home from war, and she may shed many tears picturing him in the trenches, her heart is not so desolate nor her tears so bitter as if she sat watching and waiting for the stumbling steps of a drunken son, or if her fancy pictured him lying in the gutter. For ln one case she has the comfort of knowing that he Is doing the part of a man, and ln the other she has the sorrow of knowing that he has descended be low the level of the brute. No man in the uniform of the United States army can touch a drop of intoxicating liquor. That ruling Is going to save from the curse of drunkenness tens of thousands of boys who were Just beginning to acquire a taste for liquor. At the risk of their skins their souls will be saved. Building up their bodies is going to keep the neurotic from having their nerves cry out for stimulants. The cold hard fact that drink diminishes a man's efficiency to such an extent that it cannot be risked in war times is the biggest temperance argument that could possibly be offered to a man with any intelligence in his head. Keep a boy away from drinking dur ing the silly years in which he thinks it shows how much of a man he is to make a swine out of himself, and he's not likely to ever become a drunkard. All of these are factors in the great reformation in drinking that the war is bringing about, and that will almost justify it in the eyes of women who have found King Alcohol as deadly an enemy as ever the kaiser is. Another good thing that this war Is going to do for the youth of the coun try is to give it the discipline that it needs. American parents are too soft, they have too little backbone and nerve to stand up and fight their self willed children to a finish. It is a common thing to hear parents say that they don't know what Is going to become of their twelve and fourteen year old boys that they ean't do a thing with Johnnie who .is running around at night with Heaven knows whom and who does as he pleases. And the result is that Johnnie grows up to be a loafer and a hoodlum, and becomes one of the men who are fail ures, who are always changing busi ness, because they haven't the grit to stick to anything after it gets hard. The iron hand of the army will do for these spoiled boys what their par- ents failed to do. It will take no heed of their likes or dislikes, their dispo sitions or their tempers. It will teach them for the first time the meaning of duty. It will hold them to a hard task until it breeds In them determination and endurance. It will develop what is worth while in them, and many a man who will make a big success in life after the war is over will owe his achievement to the discipline he got in the army. Let mothers everywhere consider this golden side of the shield of war. For it is Just as real as the leaden side over which they weep. CPrrl.at. 1917. htbe Wheels, Syndic.. .TIE SOLMEES (Issued by the War Department and i rlffbta to reprint reei-ved. XI Insignia of Rank. Above the noncommissioned officers. rank is shown by various insignia on the shoulder loops of coats, on the j sleeves of coats and overcoats, on the collars of shirts, and by hat cords. The most important are t se- made of metal and sewn on shoulder loops and shirt ct liars. A major general has two silver stars, A brigi.dier general, one silver star. A colonel, a silver eagle. A lieutenant colonel a silver oak leaf. A major, a gold oak leaf. A captain, two silver bars. A first lieutenant, one -silver bar. A second lHutenant has no shoulder insignia. You can readily te l the rank of any officer by glancing at the metal insignia. it is 0ften quite necessary, however, to recognize that some one at a little d'3tanco a commissioned officer in thot mm, treat him with the courtesy alie to all officers; in this case vou jook for the marlts indicating ing t"hat a man holds a commission without waiting to observe his exact rank Untu recently commissioned officers custornari,y wore leather leggings. while nil enllateri men wore canvas leggings. However, leather laggings may now be worn by mounted men. The hat cord is another mark of rank which is easily bserved; the hat cords of generals are go! Id; those of t"er officers are of gold and black ""L" oi Drown oraiu uliuul mier inches j"" ,V1'' cers ot the seneral staff corps wear black braid instead of brown On overcoats the braid is sewn i n in loops except that of general officers, who wear two oiaca Danus ui ui. TTomorrow's article: Cc lors which dicate branch's of the service. Pride and a Fall. One bright, sunny day a pompous green and black beetle decided to go for a walk. He cleaned his feet, he cleaned his head, he brusnea nis Doay ana pol ished his wings He prepared the most careful toilet a beetle can pos sibly make. Then he looked himself over thoughtfully. "There simply is no doubt about it," he decided judicially, "I am the handsomest beetle that ever was made!" He started to walk off. "And look hnv Hnaiitifnllv T walk Rn atntelv and w there ever sucn a wonder- ul beetle in all the world?" I ..,,h v. lots of them." said 1 sparrow, who happened to hear his question "They all think themselves j WOnderful." "Too bad, poor creatures, said tne beetle pityingly. "I'm sorry for thsir ignorance. You see, they have never seen me." And he waddled off ln his grandest style. The sparrow watched till he was out of sight, then he laughed and laughed, so hard he could hardly fly and telt his mates the joke. "That old beetle's going to come to i grief one of these days," he said. "They always do when they brag like that." The beetle didn't think anything could happen to him tho; he felt him self superior to any accident. He waddled along, thinking of his lovely velvet fur and his beautiful blECk wings and his fine manners and never for one minute thought of any danger. Till, all of a sudden, he saw before him a big glossy blackbird. "You look fat and Juicy; I think I'll eat you up." said the blackbird. The beetle looked around to see who he was talking to "I mean you," added the blackbird. "Me," said the scandalized beetle. "I'm not to eat; I'm a grand creature made to walk around and be ad mired." Well, well," laughed the blackbird, as if he was very amused at some thing, "as I've Just had a big dinner I guess I'll not eat you after all. I'll just show you what happens to con ceited people like you." "You look fat and Juicy: I think III eat you up," said the blackbird. And with one peck of his big sharp bill he tipped the amazed beetle. over on his back The beetle kicked and squirmed and begged and pleaded, but in vain. Off to his nest the blackbird had flown and the beetle simply couldn't turn over by himself. In shame and distress he worked for hours in a frantic effort to regain his feet. When he finally righted himself. very subdued and humble beetle crawled in silence back to his home. And hs never again boasted. L EVEKTC STORY The Man of tbe Mountain. (By Louise Oliver. Elinor drew back involuntarily when she saw the man, for she bad supposed she was alone midst the grandeur of the mountains. It was the time of day she loved, the long, rrstful twilight, when the lake and pines looked like great splotches of ink on a canvas of silver white. The stillness and majesty of the place rested her, and she needed rest, lor she had worked feverishly all day en the first chapters of her new book. There had been a party in the after noon. The girls had asked some peo ple to the lodge for tennis, and Elinor had expected to p lay, but at 3 o'clock repeated rappings at her door had failed to get any response, and they I knew that Elinor was having one of her days. One couldn't get her out of i her study with anything short of dyna mite. "You'll be sorry, sis," Betty had I called tnru the keyhole. "The Pais leys sent word they were coming over ana the Garretts. and what do you think Weldon Berg is coming. Surely you don't want to miss him. He's only coming on your account, because you are an author. Mrs. Garrett told me BO herself." Go way. Bet!" was all the answer this had elicited Elinor knew later, from the sounds outside, that the guests had arrived, but it was rather her subconscious self that sensed it. She knew vaguely that she wanted to go out and play tennis and to know Weldon Berg, but even the best-known writer of his time must be neglected until her precious book was started. Now the day was nearly done. After dinner she had changed to some out ing things and gone out alone. She took her favorite path down to the edge of the lake where a cunoe was tied. It was then she saw the man. He was sitting in a rather dejected at titude on the narrow strip of beach facing the water. His knees were drawn up, his arms embracing them. and his head was drooping forward inertly. Evidently he had not heard her coming, for he sat immovable as tho carved out of one of the giant bowlders oi the mountain. There was some thing oddly familiar about him. A thrill of mixed sensations shot thru her' as memory came rushing back, leaving her hot and cold, wildly happy and furiously angry in turn. hhe hesitated, not knowing whether to go forward or back. To go farther meant discovery, to go back without his knowledge meant she caught her lip between her teeth and tried to think. But the thing was decided for her, for the man lifted his head and looked at her. "Please' don't go away," he said. 'I wasn't sure .t was you, John," she replied as evenly as she could. coming the rest of the way down to the bech. He rose and held out his hand. She put hers in it and he shook it gravely, looking deep into her eyes yith the old searching smile that always made her feel so uncomfortable, especially when there was something she was trying to conceal. His eyes seemed to hav. a way of discovering one's thoughts, and she dropped her own now in vexed confusion. She had meant to be so dignified, so poised, .to keep things in her own hands and to let him know that in the few years since she had seen him she had be come quit a woman of affairs. "Won't you tit down ar.d talk to me, Nora, or were you going boating? Maybe you'll let me be your gondolier. I'll promise not to rock the boat." "I'm really out for exercise," she said hastily. "Suppose we walk in stead." "Just as you like. It really doesn't matter, just so I'm with you, Elinor." She reddened hotly. "Don't talk that way, John." "Why." "Why! Do I have to tell you? Be cause you've been four years deciding whether or not you do like to be with me. It's flattering to have you decide in the affirmative, but too late to be appreciated." "Nora, what do you mean four years deciding? Didn't we agree? It was ,your own suggestion to wait. I told you I loved you. I know it was all over for me the minute you came into the 'Tribune' office that day and asked to be put on the staff. And afterward when you said you wanted to devote all your time to your work until you'd made a name for your self and asked me to come to you then I did. You've made your name. Here I .am." "After four years!" she said bitter ly. "But I've tried before! he remind ed her. You tried before? I don't under stand. You've never written." No. I've come as I promised. I tried to-day; I tried last summer. I tried two years ago. And. when you refused to see me, .what was I to think?" "Refused "It amounted to that." "I never refused to see you. This is the first tlrpe I've heard of you since I left the 'Tribune' to take up my other work." "Nora! The first you've do you honestly mean that ycu didn't avoid me purposely? Look at me, dear." "Of course not, John." The name enlightened him. "Listen, Nora; don't you remember that I used to write editorials under another name?" 'Yes I believe you did; but I never remembered it. You were too modest to use your own name. I had forgot ten." "And the name grew until I lost my Identity. When my editorial wander ings grew to the size of pocket phil osophies my publishers wouldn't let me abandon the name. I'm Weldon Berg. I thought you knew it, Nora." "Weldon Berg!" she gasped. "John, are you Weldon Berg?" "Yes. dear." "And you did come today, and last year, and the year before, and I wouldn't see you. I remember now." "Tell me you love me, dear. We'll forget the rest." "Yes, I love you, John, better than anything in the world." (Copyright. 1917, by the McClure Newspaper Syn dicate.) GLOBE SHG1TS From the Atchison Globe The promised land so often breaks Its promises. So many people who deplore gossip also repeat it. Anyway, the conceited man isn't talking about his neighbors. You are not so thoughtful of others that you forget yourself. If the Russians get to fighting one another there will be some foot race. Some people think an event is a success if the attendance ia good. HOUSEHOLD HINTS Tlic Table. Curried Salmon One-half onion, one tablespoon butter, one teaspoon curry powder, one cup hot water, one level tablespoon flour, salt and pepper to taste, one cup cold salmon. Fry the onion brown in the butter, rift in the curry until smooth. Add the) sea soning and last the salmon. Plum Potpie Sift two teaspoons baking powder with two cups Hour and half teaspoon of salt; add to this one large tablespoon butter. Break egg Into a cup and beat until yolk and white are well mixed; add to this half cup milk and turn Into a dough with the finger tips. Sprinkle board with flour, roll out crust about an inch thick and cut round, as for top of pie. Put in deep stewpan one quart plums, three cups water, one and one-half cups sugar. Let this come to a boil, then put on the crust and cover stewpan. Have pan deep enough so it will not boil over. Boil over slow fire one-half hour. Apples may be used in place of plums or canned fruit. Macaroni Balls One tablespoon butter, two tablespoons flour, two tablespoons sugar, few drops vanilla, one and one-half cups cold cooked macaroni, two-thirds cup -nilk, one egg. Egg and bread crumbs for coating. Cook together flour and hut- ter, then add milk, stirring until It Dons. A a (1 sugar and mAMonni coarsely chopped, flavoring and egg. aV When cool divide in portions ami' with the hands slightly floured, roll into small balls. Dip each of these into beaten egg, then into bread crumbs and fry a golden 1 rown in deep fat. Serve with a custard sauce. Mock Strawberries Ripe peaches cut in small pieces, with soft, mild eating apples in proportion of three peaches to one apple. Mix with sugar, stand two hours. HUSEilSSS OF LEVEHG BY MBS. EVA UCXUD Patty Tells the Folk at Hom or War Time Scenes In Par!.. "Dear Absent Loved Ones: "Twenty-four hours have passed since I left my letter unfinished to go on duty. I was just introducing my two godsons. Jack Douba was from the farming country near Marseilles and had lived with an old mother and an aunt. They raised fruit and vege tables ln the days before the war. He was very quiet and seemed much interested ln my halting attempts to to tell him about America. The other was Francis Poindexter. He had been a carpenter in a town In southern France and had a wlti and three-year-old eon. He told me many things about his home and fam ily and it seemed to do him good to talk about them. I In turn told him that my husband was an officer train ing with the 'Sammies' for the trench er and that I was a Hud Cross nurse. I did enjoy the aften.oon with them so much. They were grate ful for everything (and easily pleased. They were such perfect gentlemen too, tho you could see that they were from the peasant class. We enjoyed a dinner at one of the fashionable restaurants and then We wit lo tho. show which was good. But what I enjoyed mostwas the walk about the streets of the city; lovely in spite of the sights and sounds of war. "They showed such sympathy with the soldiers, the 'permlsslonaires' with whom the streets were filled. It must have been hard to see he other men with their families while they were only having a physical rest, but they made no sign of discontent. I shall never forget that walk. Tho war has made the people ko uncon scious of everybody about them. They are enjoying their soldier with such complete abandon. "The cafe where we dined was near one of the big railway stations and there were many affecting movinK pictures to be seen from our outdoor table. "First I noticed a fine bronzed man of about thirty-five walking between a gray-haired old gentleman and lady. He was going to the station. You could have told that, even if he had not worn a soldier's uniform by the way the old woman clung to his arm and walked with uneven, almost tot tering step. She was leaning heavily on the arm of,the young num. The look of patient resignation oi: the old man's face was almost as pathetic Jack followed the trio with sympa thetic eyes, thinking no doubt if. his own old mother. "The next group that attracted my attention was a working woman and her husband In faded blue. The man was carrying a crowing baby close up to his thin, tanned face. The wife's face was red with weeping and, she hung despairingly on his arm. th. the tragedy ot It all! But not all ..f the sights are sad. I saw one bronzed young fellow coming out of the sta tion, his clothes still covered with the trepch mud, while close Veslde him walked his pretty wife stylishly dreas-- ed. Their hands were clasped: they looked steadily Into each other's eyes as they walked along. It was a mo ment never to be forgotten. I hope it was not their last meeting. My god sons and I sat talking in the friendliest manner about the people we saw. Everything was so interesting. "Suddenly a closed cab stopped In front of the place where we were sil ting. The traffic had become con gested, and it could not feo on for a time. Inside a woman dnsMrd in heavy mourning sat with her arms clasped around the neck of a ydtang officer. Her head was resting on his shoulder and her face so deadly pale was wet with tears. His face was rigid and desperate. They were not in the world in which we were living. He was on his way to the station. None of us spoke as we rose from our table, witnesses of such grief. "I told my godsons that I would like to go to the door of their six-day home and bid them goodbye, so we started off. When we were cronsinaT a street on which the street cars run they call them tram cars I saw ft curly brown dog running along after the car barking furiously. Wln the car halted at the corner he caught up with it and tried to climb aboard. Then I noticed a 'poilu' standing In the door of the car, pack, gun and all. He was telling the dog to go home, but the faithful fellow would not be deterred from seeing his master off to the war. "'I have a dog like that at home.' said Francois gently. "We walked along In silence for a few minutes, then the pleasant chat was resumed. I bade them goodbye at the door, shaking hands and .wishing them good luck. "I have strong this letter out of all bounds, but you are patient people; besides, I know you are interested in what concerns "YOUR PAlTT.- (To be continued.) i .-4

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 18, 1917 The 1'hil Delta Theta men ofWw,. burn college, announce the following new pledges: Mr. Norman Bloom, of Hiawatha- Mr. Charles C. Calvert, of Muscotah. Mr. Charles K'. Currey, of Topeka. Mr. Ned Fleming, of Topekn. Mr. HonaUl T. Finney, of Kmporia. Mr. John C. .Tone, of Topeka. Mr. Floyd CnsHrnan, of St. John. Mr. f3eorse Gerek. of St- John. Mr. Armin Weiskirch, of Topeka. Mr. I,eo. C. Wyman. of Hutchinson.

A party of students from Topeka ill leave soon to attend college. They will travel together a far bs Chicago. Miss Grace Dana, the daughter of Judc and Mrs. A W. Dana, will ko to Ann Arbor, to he .1 Ktudent in the Michigan university. Miss Anita Weis Uiroh. the daughter nf Mr. and Mrs. A. A. W'olskirch. and Miss Virginia ICitcr.ell. the daughter of Mr. nnil Mrs. V.'. W. Kitchell. will go to Madison. Wm.. A'" enter the Wisconsin univer sity. Mr. Kdwin Menniimer will go to New York to r. sumo his work In Col Uinhiit univtfi-bity. M:k Dana, Miss Kitchell and Miss Weifckirch were all nr.uc.ents in Wash burn last year. Wisconsin is the old home of Miss Welskirch's father, and Miss KitcheH's two older nUters are lic:h graduates of the Wisconsin uni versity. That Hchotil is a sort ot fam ily tradition in both household.

The Kapta Alpha Theta arl fit Washhura collcpe pa"v a picnic party Monda itifcht for s.-im of the new i-lrN They had- ii steak roust on the Shuntfa nimcH hank and were joined In th evening by the men friends of the numbers and thtiv fcU';ts. Mrs. i. K. Alarcotte, of 4SS Wood iawr. avenue, will entertain h-r thim ble flub Thursday at her home. The members, this year, instead of doins heir own needlework at the Hub meetings, will brim? Red Cross sowing, r The Alpha Delta fraternity of Wash burn college, today announces the following new pledges: j Mr. I.yman Kiner, of Topeka. Mr. Dan Culler, of Woodbine. Mr. Donald McIIrath, of Hutchin son. Mr. Ray Donald Mclvar, of Hutch inson. Mr. Rav Gomel, of Lincolnville. Mr. Albert Reed. A party of Topeka people spent the v.eek-end at Lakeview. Among those vho were there Sunday were: Mr. r r d Mis. Horace Hall, Dr. and Mrs. I IT. Scholle and their daughter, Virginia, and a guest, Mrs. Johnston; ,'udjre and Mrs. JL.. S. Kerry and their ues.s. Miss Mary Alexander and Miss 1 '.etty lionebrake; Mr. and Mrs. K. Cr. roster and their son, Mitchell; Mr. Krank Kdson, Mi. George A. Clark. Mr. Charles Karnes and his sons, Charles and Jack; Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Leonard and Mr. Charles War din. Mr. Leonard and Mr. Ward in ;re charter members of the club, and have been going to Lakeview for fish ing trips together for many years. The Kappa Kappa Chi girls of Washburn roltege will give a recep t on next Saturday afternoon at. the .chapter house for all the Freshman girls of the rollerre. The Kappa Chi flrls give sm-h a party as an annual event in the opening days of the school yar. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Lukens of Sun ny Slope, Announce the marriage of t heir daughtet Grace May, to Lieut. K trek C. Cecil, of Portland. Oregon. The marriage was quietly solemnized Monday afternoon at three o'clock, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Scotten. of Portland, Ore., by the Rev. W. G. Handley, formerly pastor of the North Topeka Baptist church. The bride wore a smart traveling suit of dark blue broadcloth, with velvet hat to match. The bridegroom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Cecil of North To peka. He has recently received his commission as first lieutenant in the coast artillery and is stationed at Fort Stevens, Oregon. Miss Sara Hazel Slaughter is in Kan sas City visiting Miss Mary Lowry. Mrs. K. H. Lowry entertained Satur day night t the Coates house for her daughter and for Miss Slaughter. About forty quests attended. Mi.tH Kuth Foster, who graduated l ist June from the Kansas State uni- IF YOUR EARS RING WITH HEAD NOISES If you Iwvf 'ntnrrlutl DpiifnpflA nr heiiil uitifM9 iro to your tlrujiK-Ht nml u't 1 oihut of I'linnlnt lmille gtrtiirtlo. nml nl4o It i4 pint of hot water 11ml 4 omu-en nf t-'rniiulatril miir;ir. Tiike 1 tnhlvsiioonf ill four thiM'g h tiny. Till will often lirltiK quU-k relief from the tlUtrewalntf lieild milses. Cloeil nos trlln flhoulrl oeu. hretithintr be'oiue e;iy nml the mucus stop dropping into the thront. It in euy to prepare, cost, little unit Ih pleanHiit to take. Any one who ha t'atarrlntl lenfnes nr head noitten should Kive this prescription a trial. Alv Auto Strop Razors in All Styles Ullicers Set $6.a0 Gillette Service Sets the new model $5.00 All Standard Dollar Razor sets and Extra Blades. Steel Trench 713 Kunsas Ave. Looking Backward In State i Journal bocsety Commit V TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY j Mrs. J. J. Blower is entertaining a num ber fif In lles ut cards this afternoon at her home on Tyler street, iu honor of her mother, Mrs. J. M. Cust, of Jnltet, 111. The guest are Mrs. Clarence Kowmau, Mrs. S. J, Hear, Miss Margaret Hear, Miss Agnes Hniisen of Lawrence, Miss Myrtle .Ii'tinore, Miss Ifesnie West, MWh Rlower, Miss Anna Wbiteloi-k and Miss Mabel Unowles. Mrs. Charles Blood Smith and Mrs. Arthur Murphy have goue to Chicago to KpemI a few ilnys. Miss ollie O'Brien went to Lawrence this evening to attend a party, aud will return home Monday. Or. and Mrs. V. N. West are coins to Atchison to attend the Korn Knarnival. verslty, is spending the week in Law rence assisting at the rushing parties given by the Kappa Kappa Oamma. girls. Miss Foster was one of the popular tirls of that sorority while she was in K. U., and made her home at the chapter house. Miss Muna Clair Huffman, of Co lumbus. Kan., is one of the graduates at the Sigma Kappa house for rushing week. Mr. I'liil Urey and Mr. Wendell Ly man are guests at the Phil Delt house for a few clays during rush week. Mr. Willis Bramwell and Mr. Houaliton Albuugh are at the Sigma. Chi house to assist, in rushing the new students. Mi. Verne Minor is a guest at the Delta Tau chapter house. The bride of un army officer, who is with her soldier husband at the militarv pti, writes home that the figures of officers" wives are greatly itnpi overt since the beginning of the war. because the cost of rations has yone ballooning and has now reached that altitude where the erstwhile well fed, stout dames have to exercise a lot to reach it on officers' pay, espe cially that of second lieutenant, for instance. Rolling on attic floors is no longer necessary for these women. A necessarily simple diet is going to do 'the work for them, and spare their aching bones and flesh the sacrifice that they have, for years, been offer ing upon the altar of beauty. The following is from the Lawrence Journal-World of Monday Tomorrow afternoon the Lawrence Federation of Women's Clubs will open the new year with a reception a Windmill Hill, the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Stubbs. The w:iien will gather early in the afternoon and guests will be greeted by the old and new officers and will assemble in the auditorium, where a short program will be given at 3:30 o'clock. Mrs. Garvey of Topeka, presi dent of tie state federation, will be a guest cf the Lawrence federation. And wi.'l open the program with a brief talk. Miss Carter will tell of conditions In Germany as she saw thenr a short time ago, and will also take part in the musical program. Mrs. II. L. Butler will give a reading. After the program a social time will take place. Punch will be served in the dining room. Mr. and Mrs. James A. Troutman will be at home informally Wednes day evening to meet Mr. and Mrs. Donald Netswanger, whose marriage took place Saturday in Pasadena, Cal ifornia. All friends of the guests of honor are invited to call. No formal invitations are issued. The bride was formerly Miss Mary Overholt of Pasadena. She is the daughter of Mrs. Anna Overholt and the family formerly lived in Topeka. Mr. Neiswanger is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Neiswanger. He and his bride are stopping in Topeka to visit his parents, and the bride's uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Troutman and her cousins, Mrs. Merrill Mills and Mrs. Warrick Updegraff. They are on their way to New York where they will make their home.

Mr. William Macferran, jr., who will leave in a few days for Philadel phia, Penn., to resume his work as a student in the Pennsylvania univer sity, had a few guests at dinner Mon day night at the Chocolate Shop. Cov ers were placed for: Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Paine, Miss Madeline Whitney, Miss Marjorie Whitney, Mr. Glen Pratt and Mr. Macferran. The girls of the high school T. W. C. A. cabinet had a dinner party at tile association building, attended by the following young women: Miss Isabel Whitcomb, Miss Renna Rosen thal, Miss Lois Ferguson, Miss Helen Thomas, Miss Ruth Lerrigo, Miss Mar ian Ross, Miss Jeannette Dooley, Miss Annie Laurie Close, Miss Aletta Fish er, Miss Louise Jury, Miss Dorothy Kinney, Miss Hazel Flannigan, Miss Ulara Armstrong. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Sibert, whose marriage took place last Saturday night, are now in Colorado Springs. Colo., on a honeymoon trip. They win return soon, and Mr. Sibert will await orders from Fort Riley, where he is stationed. H- will be called to the fort as soon as the T. M. C. A. ShavingSupplies tor Military Men Everything necessary for comfort and convenience. All Standard Sets $5.00 Leather Cases for Straight Razors 25c and 50c Collapsible Shaving Brushes. 65c and 75c All makes of Shaving Sticks, Shaving Cream and Shaving Powder. Mirroi !5c Phono 1325 buildings, now being constructed, are ready for use. Mrs. Sibert will be with her parents. Judge and Mrs. Ralph Gaw, while her husband Is away in the government service, ad she- will resume her work as instruc tor in violin. There was a good deal of the senti ment of association In the arrange ments for the wedding of- Miss Gaw and Mr. Sibert. The words for the music of the Grieg march were writ ten by Mrs. Gaw and sung at her wed ding, and the material of the drapery of her gown was lace that had formed one of the gowns of her own trous eau. THERE'S A WOMAN IN OV15 TOWN Who is absolutely wise to her hus band's methods of enjoying life, tho he thinks he fools her. One day her young son asked. "Mamma, do fairy tales always start out, 'Once upon a time? No, child," she answered. "quite often they start. 'My dear, I had tire trouble coming home from the office, and it detained me on the road all this time.'

Miss Karolyn B. Whittelsey will present her pupil. Miss Florence Frit ton, in a certificate recital on Wed nesday evening at 8 o'clock, at her studio, 107 West Sixth street. Miss Fritton will be assisted by Mrs. Fred Munson and the Misses Dorothy Dur ham and Maeanna Bridge at the piano; Miss Ruth Tandy, vocal, and Miss Mary Sands, harp. Notes and Personal Mention. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thompson have bought the Robert B. Austin house, at 315 Woodlawn avenue, and expect to move to their new home at the end of this month. Mrs. George Myers and her daugh ter. Miss Helen Myers of Kansas City, will come to Topeka Wednesday to spend the rest of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Myers. The Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Sibert left today for their home in Grand Rapids, Mich. They came to Topeka to at tend the marriage of their son, Mr. Roland Sibert and Miss Gladys Gaw, and have been guests at the home of Judge and Mrs. Ralph H. Gaw. Mrs. Ralph Van Houten, who has been a guest at the Gaw home, and attended the wedding, has gone to her home in St. Joseph, Mo. Dr. and Mrs. Henry B. Miller of Rossville, are visiting their DeoDle in Topeka. They have returned to their home after an extended wedding trip to California. Mrs. Miller was for merly Miss Gertrude Reed. Miss Jeanette Gleed, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Willis Oleed of Kan sas City, formerly of Topeka, will leave the latter part of this month for Washington, D. C, to enter Miss Ma deira's school. Mrs. M. P. Hillyer and her son, Mr. Justin Hillyer. have returned from Kansas City. Justin has been in Mass achusetts visiting his sister, Mrs. Ben jamin Armstrong, and her family, and Mrs. Hillyer met him in Kansas City on his return. During his stay in the east he visited Boston, Concord, Lex ington and other historic places, and he and Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong ana their baby motored thru Connecticut and Rhode Island to Cape Cod. Mrs. Hillyer visited her sister, Mrs. Frank lin Hudson of Kansas City, and her niece, Mrs. Howard Allen, formerly Miss Isabel Hudson, whose husband is quite seriously ill. Mr. Allen is somewhat improved in health. Justice and Mrs. William A. John ston have returned from Oxford. O where they visitea their daughter, Mrs. S. J. Brandenburg and family. spent two weeas at .Battle Creek, Michigan, before going to Oxford. Mrs. F. M. Bonebrake, who under went an operation at Christ hospital Monday, is recovering. Mr. William Tomlinson of Fort Ri ley, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Tomlinson. Miss Marjorie Whitney will go to Kansas City Wednesday. Miss Made line Whitney will leave Wednesday for New Tork to resume her work at the Parsons school. The young women will go as far as Kansas City togeth er. Miss Southard of Paola, Is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. R. Koontz. Mr. and Mrs. DeVere Rafter and their children and Miss Rose Plaxton of Holton, have returned from a mo tor trip to western Kansas. They spent Sunday In Topeka with Mrs Rafter's mother, Mrs. David Overmy er. Miss Fa ye Friedburg, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Friedburg, has gone to Lawrence to resume her work as a student in the Kansas State uni versity. She will enter her senior year this fall. Miss Ellen Anderson is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Charles .C. Rossman of Kansas City. The Woman's Home Missionary so ciety of the First Methodist church will meet Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock with Mrs. R. T. Herrick and Mrs. C. G. Colburn, at 1034 Topeka avenue. Mrs. Emma Heivly has moved from her home in Potwin Place and will spend the winter with Mr. and Mrs. James W. Campbell, in Elmhurst. Henry H. Hall, New York Life. Adv. The Ladies' Aid society of Lowman Memorial church will hold its regular monthly social and business meeting Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the H. O. Holter home, 1124 Gar field avenue. The assisting hostesses will be: Mrs. S. D. Colvln, Mrs. E. K. Hell. Mrs. Elmer Stahl, Mrs. Mary Nelson and Miss Effle Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Cooper. 220 the Drive, announce the engagement of their daughter, Anna Marie, to Henry Holft of Cedar Bluff, Neb., the wedding to take place September 25. EAST SIDE NOTES Notes and personal from Oakland, by Fraacra Jones, 211 Grattan street, telephone between 8 aud 10 a. ni 3330 other boors. 4751 K-2. Owing to the too aealous efforts of a would bff humorist the marriage of Mr Harold t'orbiu, East Fourth avenue, and Slisa Ly.iia Brawn was auaouneed Monday evening. The statement coucerniug the we-lding is not true. Mrs. II. T. Mabrey has been ill several days at her boule. Kast Sixth arenue. O. A. Keene, Heward arenue, who is ill of typhoid fever at Stormont hospital, is improving very nlowly. The watermelon social to have been held Wednesday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Webb. Jreen street, by the members of the Vesta club, has been Indefinitely postponed. The Iter. Harry S. Wise spent Tuesday fin Scraotna, attending a district confer ence. Mrs. Mine and son Wayne Mize. Chan dler street, who are both ill of typhoid fever at a local hospital are not im proving. The Ladles' Aid society of the Seward Avenue Methodist hnrch will meet Thurs day afternoon with Mrs. Edward Pearson, Woodruff avenne. Mrs. Orant Cehhflrt and mother-in-law, Mrs. A. Gebhart. both of Ohio, are visitors at the home of Mrs. L. Wood, 635 Chandler street. Two cottage prayer meetings will be held weanesoay evening, one will De at the home of Mr. and Mrs. William lea!v. J-or, S4-otand avenue, and the other at the home of Miss Frances Taylor, 1008 Monroe street. The Plus Ultra class of the Third Pres byterian ehnreh will meet Friday evening with Miss Lola McUrew, 012 Lawrence street. Little Erma Northnp has returned to Topeka to remain with her aunt, Mrs. Ira Treadwell. Little Miss Northup has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Anna Nortbup of Holton. SANTA FE NOTES Notes and persons fa from Santa F by Kraiicea Jones. 211 Orattan tr-t. Telephone between -fl and 10 a. m 350. other hull re 47Z1 K-2. W. T. Jennings has resigned his jtosition in the auditor of disbursements office and has gone to Kansas City. I Mrs. William Brown has returned to Osage City after sending last week with Mr. and Mrs. William rkert. J. W. (ribbons, sr., foreman of the paint shops spent Suiulay in Wk-hita. Mrs. Gib bons spent the lnv in Kansas City. John Aahtou of the bapc:i(i:e department at the depot is absent from work on ac count of the death of his son. Kdward A slit on. John Ashton was formerly a brakeman on trains 14 and IPC running between Toneka and St. Joseph. Mo. It. C. I'ribble of the auditor of disburse ments office has resigned his position. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Chabb hae return ed after a vacation spent in St. Paul. Minn., r.ud Cbiciijro. Mr. Chubb Is connected with the freijrlit anditor's office. The Ladies' Auxiliary to the B. of K. T. will meet with Mrs. S. (iropsntckle. Thurs day afternoon ut her borne, 411 Kast Eighth avenue. Josephine Whipple, little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jiuncs Whipple is recovering. Little Miss Josephine underwent an opera tion last week at Stormont hospital for al jreudlcitis. r K. V. Kranka of the auditor of disburse ments office has accepted a position in the office of the ticket auditor. OAKLAND NOTES Notej and pergonals from (Cast Sid by Frances Jones. 211 Urutuiu street. Telephone between S aud 10 a. ui., oJO; uther hours. 47ril K-2. Mrs. Clarence Iteaugh will entertain the members of the Nautilus club Thursday afternoon at her home, 'J'Xt Kellam avenue. Mrs. W. G. liarker will be hostess to the Pins Ultra class of the On k laud Presby terian church, Tuesday evening. The meet ing wit be held at Mrs. llarker's mother's home. 202 Michigan avenue. Mrs. Uoy Nelson Is s; ending the week with her mother. Mrs. 1 K. Lewis. 41S Lime street. Mrs. Nelson has been ill several weeks suffering; from the effects of a fall. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Worley have returned to Formosa, Kau., after visiting Mrs. Wor ley s sister. Mrs. I). M. Kathbun. Mr. and Mrs. Ituthhun accompanied them to For mosa to be ttieir guests for a short while. Mrs. Italnh Swlntr and two dituirhters. Leiah and Oleta, former! y' of Washington r.ave gone to Khiishs City, Mo., to make their home. They spent several days as guests of Mrs. Swing's sister-in-law, Mrs. J. Michael aud family, Kast Sardou ave nue. Miss Lilv IEichardson has gone to her home in Melvern after spending the sum mer with her grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kichardsoii, W infield avenne. Mrs. F. W. Foster will arrive Wednesday from Kllsworth, Kan., to visit at the Jo seph Michael home, Sardon avenue. Mrs. C. A. Hummer will entertain the C. C. club Friday afteruoou at her home, Chester avenue. The anniversary of the Rebeknh lodge will be celebrated Friday evening at the Oakland lodge. A program will be given. EVEKVDAYrt Etiquette Husbands and wives should respect each other's privacy. Married people, like other people, should knock be fore they enter a closed door. Even the most devoted wife may not always wish her husband to burst unan nounced into her room, and the most adoring husband, may prefer that his wife tap at the door of his den before she walks in. Questions Answered by Alicia Hoyt. (Miss Hoyt will answer in .this col umn all questions on matters of eti quette addressed to her in care of this paper. If a personal answer is desired enclose a two-cent stamp.) PUZZLED: It is a serious breach of crood form for a guest to take sides in a family discussion in the home where she is visitinff, however decided her opinion may be. Even if asked to express her ideas, she must refuse to be drawn into the controversy. In the -first place, such discussions, in volving strong argument, should never be allowed to take place in the pres ence of a guest. After returning from a visit, one should never gossip about the intimate home life of the house hold one has just left. Any incident not strictly creditable should be for gotten. MRS. 1-: Corn on the cob is eaten from the fingers. Small silver or nickel handles which are thrust into the ends of the cob are in more or less common use, and should be universal, as they make it possible to eat this wholesome food in a daintier and less messy manner. 4cR 771 iff kwdjnyrrf TWO GRADES POTATO ESdhvoM aSa j the engineers in charge said this Food Administrator Recommends Classification Due to Huge Crop. Washington, Sept. 18. Two hun-; dred standard grades for potatoes are recommended by the food adminis-1 tration and the department of agri- culture. The necessity for their adoption is emphasized in a depart-: ment statement today because or tne xld it ever occur to you that every prospect for a large crop, the f opd supply situation, overtaxed transporta- movle actress you have seen has Iove tion facilities and the ruling that fed- ly hair, while the most popular count eral reserve banks may make loans j their curls as their chief beauty In against potatoes properly stored in appoved warehouses. fact- many are leadiS Iadies Juat be- In the first grade the minimum diameter of the round variety is fixed at one and seven-eighths inches and of the long variety one and three quarters inches. The minimum diam eter of the second grade is one and one-half inches. YEOWOMAN A BRIDE Cupid Gets Busy Soon After Women Are Admitted to Xavy. Newport, R. I Sept. 18. Alice Kingtield, a chief yeowoman of the navy, and Clarke D. Stephens, petty officer, are married today. Their wed ding was a "first time in history' event it being the first instance of two branches of the naval service be ing joined in matrimonial bonds. FEARS A SCANDAL Socialist Congressman Issues Warning to Democrats. lie Says Munition Factories Should Be Taken Over. UNCLE JOE IN HOT DEBATE He and London Clash Over Matter of Patriotism. Sherley of Kentucky Calls N. Y. Representative. Washington, Sept. lg. "The people will be confronted at the end of the war, justly or unjustly, with the great est scandal in the history of this re public." This declaration in the house of representatives came as a climax to a bitter debate of an hour over profits to which rifle makers are entitled. Representative Meyer London, New York Socialist, made the prediction after he had sat thru a Republican Democrat wrangle over giving the ride makers 6 per cent on invest ment, 10 per cent profit and an al lowance for depreciation. Chairman Fitzgerald of the appro priations committee in charge of the $7,755,000,000 urgent deficiency bill tried to shut off debate and push the bill to passage. He complained that the house should pay no attention to scandal mongers' unless the scandal mongers could make a case. Rumors should not affect the house, he said. Rumors Will Not Down. "These idle rumors," declared Lon don, "of which ihe distinguished chairman has complained, "will come back again and again to pester and annoy the administration. The diffi culty with the situation seems to be that the business world has inter preted the slogan of the president that profits and patriotism should not be mentioned together in its own way. The business world says that wherever patriotism and profits come in contact patriotism must give way. Business exists for profits and the business men in most cases will be selfish." "Uncle Joe" Cannon interrupted: "Many persons in the country are engaged in striking for better wages, many of them engaged in striking tor recognition of the union. Does the gentleman call these persons business men or patriotic men 7" London answered that the man who strikes for a living wage cannot be compared with the man who, making a million dollars profit, strikes for two million. He then went on to predict that tbe government will be forced to seize and, operate munition plants. Commandeer Factories. "If there are but three factories in the entire country that can manufac ture rifles," he said, "the only solu tion is to seize those three factories and to put their superintendents and every member of their board of di rectors and their foremen and every worker upon the same basis on which yoo put your army irrthe field. Seize those factories, take possession of them and squeeze out the element of profit. But this is a solution that the business men, chairmen of the ad visory committees, will never suggest, you may rest assured." Sherley, of Kentucky, engaged Lon don in a tilt over commandeering la bor when commandeering property. London replied he would not com mandeer human beings until inspira tion and other means had failed. Sher ley retorted that it was possible to inspire and persuade organizations doing work for the government in the same manner as economically and as cheaply as ever. This London de murred. "The people and we who represent inem nere, tie declared, "will be con fronted at the end of the war. Justly or unjustly, with the greatest scandal in the history of this republic" PAYING MANY CLAIMS Miss Covell Refundinj;$12,799 Sewer Fund to Property Owners. There is no slowing down now in the office of Miss Etta M. Covell. in regard to the refunding of the $12,799 on sewers in district No. 24. which runs from Monroe street to Western avenue and from the Douthitt street line to the Shunganunga creek. All claims of property owners in that district must be made by Septem ber 27, and according to Miss Covell, they will probably all be in by that time, too. Refunds to date total J2, 803.23, and the the claims are still coming in fast. Payment on the claims will be made by the city October 6. UP GOES 640 FT. SPAN liaising Huge Structure Into Position 150 Feet Above River. Quebec. Sept. 18. Lifting opera tions to put into place the 640-foot central span of the Quebec bridxe were renewed here early today. I morning they expected to add 68 feet f today which would bring it within 54 j feet of its final resting place. MOVIE ACTRESSES AND THEIR HAIR cause of their attractive locks. In quiry amdng them discloses the fact that they bring out all the natural beauty of their hair by careful sham pooing, not with any soap or make shift, but with a simple mixture by putting a teaspoonful of canthrox (which they get from the druggist) in a cup of hot water and applying this instead of soap. This full cup of ahampoo liquid is enough so it is easy to apply it to all the hair instead of just the top of the head. After its use. the hair dries rapidly. with uni form color. Dandruff, excess oil and dirt are dissolved and entirely disap pear. The hair is so fluffy that it looks much heavier than it is, while its lustre and softness is delightful. Advertisement. CUT DOWN MAIL SERVICE Many clerks Takes Off Kansas Rail. roads in Last Two Years. A glance at the mail service fur nished in Kansas todav and two and three years ago indicates a dropping j off of mail clerks. Following are I branch lines in Kansas where mail service has been suspended: Arkansas City to Anthony; Havana to Cedarvale; Pittsburg to Chanute; Leavenworth to Lawrence; Leaven worth to Topeka; Atchison to Rulo; Jamestown to Burr Oak; Garrison to Miltonvale; Manchester to Barnard: Salina to McFherson and Salina to i lierington. In addition mail clerks have been taken off from Santa Fe trains No. 17 and No. 114 on the main line from; Kansas City west, from two trains between Lawrence and Gridley, from one between Chanute and Ottawa, and from the local train from Hutchinson I to Kinsley. USE JUDGMENT FUND That Is the Way Street Department Is Making Ends Meet. The "Judgment fund" of the city has proved a life saver to the street department. It was announced this morning that the department was far from "easy street" in its finances. Economies in every branch of the street work have been made during the last six months. And now in the face of increased .wages of workers, with no increase in the budget of that department, the streets are still to be repaired and resurfaced- It is thru the "Judgment fund" that the work has been made possible. In addition to the 28 blocks of pav ing that has been contracted for by the Kaw Paving company on West Eighth street to Buchanan street, on Fifteenth from College to Lane, on Lane from Fifteenth to Thirteenth, on Thirteenth from College to Fillmore, on Fillmore from Thirteenth to Hun toon, and on Huntoon from Western to Topeka, work on the East side has started. Five blocks of paving will be laid this month on the East side. The first contract,, let to the Security Paving company, calls for 16 foot strip pav ing on Third street from Quincy to Madison street; from Fourth to Fifth street on Holiday street; and from Branner to Lake street on Fourth street. No special taxes will be made for the later contract but the stripping will be paid for partly from the gen eral paving fund of the city and part ly from the "Judgment fund." TIIK SOVELTV. A slender blonde girl in white, who apparently walks, flies and glides thru the air without support, is the head line act at the Novelty this week. No audience, of course, will believe that the law of gravitation can be violated without some sort of aid but her per formance she is booked as the "Fly ing Venus" is of the kind that sends witnesses away not quite satisfied as to how it Is done. Dead black cur tains serve as a background in the act and add considerable beauty to it. Hopkins and Axtell occupy the fourth spot with a comedy singing and talking act. the first half staged in a street car and the last part in a sleeping car. The street car skit made the audience think of its ride home, and, lives there a man so sophisti cated who has not contemplated sleep ing in a Pullman clothes net thinking it a hammock the first time he ever traveled at night. Morgan and Gray present a skit thv ca.ll "Every Day id tho Tear," which has a few rough spots but for the most part holds true to life. Kod way and Edwards put on a comedy i.ivini. anH Rtnelne act that is com mendable insofar that they don't pull mnr than one historic joke at a time. Altho there is nothing new unaer tne sun In comedy the duo injects a mile originality in'to their offerings. The Delmoti duo, hoop and boomerang hat throwers, who open the vaudeville program, are preceded by an episode of "The Neglected Wife." v H. E. C. THE MAJESTIC. Those wno visited the Majestic Monday expecting to see the same brand of musical tabloid that was of fered at the house the first two weeks of the season's run were pleasantly surprised. Herbert R. Seeman's 1917 Vode Review may be compared to the "Irish" Ed Lucas aggregation as a musical comedy to an old-time melo drama. Here, it may be said for the benefit of the audience of tomorrow which is liable to ask questions, that the Lucas type of offerings are de ceased insofar as Topeka Is con cerned. The company would have been good in its day, but this wasn't its day. The Seeman company bids fair to find an interested clientele in Topeka. The chorus girls are graceful and not bad looking. Their costumes are new and bright. The principals in the cast are strong enough to stand out from the main theme of the offerings sufficiently. Joe Van and Raymond Justice, comedians, would help out by modernizing their efforts a little, but at that their comedy is not by any means prehistoric. Mae McKennis adds considerable to sthe attractive ness of the' company as does Edith A. Wilms, who, besides being an excel-, lent actress, has an attractive voice. George Crump, the tenor, has a voice that is as good as any that can be found in the class of attraction of fered. Fred Ketch, character and specialty man. puts a vaudeville stunt into the bill for the first half of the week that amuses. The music is pleasing and reasonably new. The Seeman players open their run here in "The Candy Ship." H. E. C. MAJESTIC Musical tabloid. The 1917 Vode Review in "The Candy Ship." NOVELTY Five acts of vaudeville and an episode of "The Neglected Wife." ORPHETJM Mary Pickford in "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm." COZY Louise Glaum in "Idola-, ters." GEM Bessie Barriseale and Charles Ray in "The Painted Soul." IRIS Gladys Hulette in "The Last of the Carnabys." BEST Motion feature CRYSTAL Motion features. KELLAM'8 Dancing tonight. For details, prif-es, etr.. rlver Uaemeut on pug s of Ule Stat 1 ournaL HAS A DEFENSE

Gen. Korniloffs Statement Ex plains Alleged Treason. Question Whether Civil or Mill-! tary Court Will Try Him. Petrograd, Sept. 18. General Korni loffs fate was in the hai.ds of the provisional government today. He completed his defense lrfst night before the special governmental com mission appointed to investigate the causes of the general's revolt, submit ting a full statement in writing. Ex amination of other officers involved with the former commander-in-chief in the rebellion was continuing today, but a full report from the commis sion, making rccomn.endation as to future action, is expected shortly. Meanwhile Korniloff continues in strictest custody of the provisional government. He and twenty-three of his officers are confined in a hotel at Mohilev, guarded carefully. Public Demand) for Execution. All Russia is anxious to learn what defense the former generalissimo has made to the treason charges against him. The demand on the part of the public that he be executed as the best possible example to all Russia's troops that discipline is to be enforced with out fear or favor, showed little abate ment today. In the streets the great est interest was manifest in whether the investigating commission would recommend a civil trial or a military court martial for Korniloff. Premier Kerensky's proclamation specifically branding Korniloff as a traitor, it was recalled, ordered that he and his ac complices be delivered to "civil tri bunals of Justice. DEFLECTS TORPEDOES? But Muni's the Word on Edison Invcn- tion Cite Vessel's jKucapc. New Tork, Sept. 18. Inquiries at the plant of Thumas A. Edison, in East Orange, as to a published report that Edison had invented a contriv ance to deflect torpedoes were greeted with silence today. William Maxwell, vice president or the Edison corporation, merely pointed to a sign over the entrance to tne laboratories stating that any employe giving information as to work being done for the government would be arrested and prosecuted in accordance with previsions of the espionage act. William Meadowcraft, secretary to Edison, declared the inventor was' not in his laboratories today and said he did not know where he was. Publication of the reported inven tion by Edison followed reports brought here by passengers of an American liner who said that a tor pedo fired at their ship, suddenly leaped out of the water and turned aside as it drew near to the vessel. The report published in a New York paper said the deflecting device had been tried on several destroyers and mer chantmen with success. PROTESTS VALUATION Brotherhoods Intervene In Appraise ment Case for First Time. Washington, Sept. 1 8. Protests against the valuation fixed tentatively by the interstate commerce commis sion on several small railroads were Joined today by the four chief railroad brotherhoods. In a brief filed In the Texas Midland railroad valuation proceedings the brotherhoods SBsert that without a reports showing the original cost to date, "all the labors of the commis sion will have been in vain and the great expense of the undertaking will have been idly wasted. Public con fidence in the result of the investiga tion will be destroyed." The brief is the first appearance of organized labor in the valuation cases. QUAKERS DISCUSS WAR Largest" Division of Friends in the World Convenes at Richmond, Ind. Richmond, Ind., Sept. 1 8. The ninety-seventh session of the Indiana yearly meeting of Friends the larg est body of Quakers in the world opened today with 100 delegates from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and the state of Washington in attendance. Im portant questions in connection with the Quaker attitude toward war work will be discussed and decided. Next Saturday a meeting of men of conscription age will be held to learn just what steps the church is taking to have the conscripted members as signed to war relief work, connected in no way with the army. PREVENT OILY SKIN AND SHINY NOSE With new, effective and pleasant MARINELLO ASTRINGENT TREATMENT Used in 3,000 Marinello Shops, gives quick relief from these mbarrassing conditions. Use Astringent Cream at night and As tringent Lotion during the day to improve the texture of your skin. Free Explanation o f Treatment, and Booklet "Care of The Skin." Peiletier's Mezzanine Floor Phone 354)0 t Save 20 V at King's Studio Pay 20 And engage time now for your fitting, 60 Dec. 1 and get your photographs then. Saving 20 and lot of worry. Your fiifuds ran bny anythlnfr-you give tbem excpt your ihotoifraph um A D 2 Pants Suits for School Sunday an BESSEMER suits are the best school suits money can buy stanch wearing fabrics, guar anteed against seam rips and loose buttons, yet there's no sacrifice of style and beauty. You'll find a wonderful assort ment here; new. arrivals are coming all the time many dif ferent colors and patterns. -Newest Norfolk models, sizes 6 to 18 vears and with every suit WE INCLUDE AN EX TRA PAIR OF PANTS TO J15 1U $5 MATCH FREE. Same price as always no advance; wonder ful values at. Wednesday Specials Bovh Shirts fast colors. French cuffs 12 to 14 H neck Q Special wi CIilldrrn'H Wash Suits all styles, fast color materials, newet trimmed sample lines of hijrh grade makes. Values to $4. Special II Boys' Kiizoo Supporters sold ev- erywhere at 60c. Qa Special OIU BoyH Full Sweaters shawl collara all siKes to 34 chest. fl-! Special V Boys fast color Blotic! light and dark madras, percales and cha ro omys, 5 to i6 sie. rri Special OUC Boys Hose fast black. Ironclad, Black Cat and Cadet brands. Guaranteed, 35c. 1 3 for 3I Boys' Knickers full cut, watch pockets and belt straps. Best wearing Jefferson materials. 6 to IS years. (P Off Special ..Pl) Boys Fall Caps with leather sweats all colors and CO sizes OUC Raincoats For the Family Attend this sale of Rain coats for Men, Women and Boys surplus stock of a Chicago maker, whose rain coats are known the world over for their quality and style. The reduced prices now on are $2.95, $3.95, $5.95 $6.95, $8.95, $9.95 Avierbach Guettel m im m Blue Pliim Special Fancy Blue Plums in Peach Boxes, hold within 3 lbs. of 4 basket crate. Special Tomorrow, per box :$1.23 We will have 2SH hoxfs and that is all we will have at this trice. Prl'-e AVH1 Be Wither. 3L n u lO STORES Some one wants that which you do not. A small ad in tht State Journal want columns sat I isf ies both. BESSEMER CJ JCIXJTHING CQS

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