The Topeka State Journal (Topeka, Kansas)
December 11, 1917

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YEATHER FORECAST for Kansas: v Untettled tonight and Wednes day. Slowly rising temiier&tures. fT,,1'SK coal shortages ore goin; to make the south mighty popular. HOME EDITION TOPEKA, KANSAS, TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1917 TEN PAGES THREE CENTS NEGRO SOLDIERS PAY WITH LIVES FOR RACE RIOT Verdict of Military Court An nounced After Execution. r HOPKINS'S WILL IN Topeka Financier Left $2,000 to Free Public Library. Money To Be Placed in Books for Children of City. ESTATE VALUED AT $125,000 It Is Divided Equally Among the Three Children. COUNTY OFFICERS IN TOPEKA FROM ALL OVER KANSAS First Big Session of Convention in Memorial Hall. 'VIC MURDOCK NOW ON TRAIL OF SPECULATORS Hoover Charges Wholesale and Retail Dealers. GUNS FOR GUARDS Federal Government Sends Ri ASSERTS WILSON WILL TAKE OVER j HOW TOUR DOLLAR HAS SHRUNK fles to Kansas Companies. I ALL RAIL LINES Units in Oil Fields To Be! Equipped at Once. I Chairman Adamson Takes Slap at R. It. Efficiency. Hanging Took Place at Fort Houston at 7:17 A. M. HANS 13 SIMULTANEOUSLY 22." Soldiers Form Hollow Square About Scaffold. Show Fortitude, Singing Hymn I'ntil Traps Are Sprung. LIFE SENTENCE TO FORTY-ONE Complicity in Bloody Kaid on City of Houston. Colored Soldiers Ran Amuck, Killing Several Whites. San Antonio. Dec. 11 Thirteen of the negroes of the Twenty-fourth in fant ry. U. S. A., found guilty or com plicity In the riot and mutiny at Hous ton on August 23. were hanged on the military reservation at Fort Sam Houston at 7:17 o'clock this morning Announcement of the carrying out of the sentence was made at headquar ters of the southern department at 9 only army officers and Sheriff John T..lin of Bexar county were present when the sentence was carried out by -oLiiers from the post. No newspaper men or civilian spectators were al lowed, the time ami place of execu tion having been kept a secret. Of the sixty-three men tried by the same court martial, forty-one were sentenced to life imprisonment. One man was sentenced to dishonorable I'i-charse from the army, forfeiture of all pay and allowances and to be confined at hard labor for two and a half vears. Three were sentenced to be dishonorably discharged from the army, forfeit all pay and allowances anil be confined at hard labor for two years. Five were acquitted. The negro soldiers who paid the death penalty were: SKKGT. WILLIAM C. NESB1TT. CClltl'. LARNON J. BROWN. CORP. JAMES WHEATLEY.' roll!'. JESSK MOORE. CORP. CHARLES W. BALTI MORE. 1T.IVATF. WILLIAM BF.ACKF.N- Y'RIVATE THOMAS C. HAWKINS. PRIVATE CARLOS SNODGBASS. PRIVATE IRA B. DA VIS. PRIVATE JAMES DIVINS. PRIVATE FRANK JOHNSON. PRIVATE RISI.EY W. YOUNG PRIVATE PAT MAC VVHORTER. P.iil Soldier Guards Goodbye. "Goodbye, boys of Company C." were the last words uttered by the condemned men of i-ie 24th United States infantry as cne traps were sp.-ung and they were dropped to their death on the scaffold which had been erected last night. Men of Com pary C, Wth infantry, have been guarding the negro nrisoners since they were Irought to San Antonio to stand trial befcre a courtmartial for complicity in the riot at Houston on Aucust 'J3 last. The execution took place in an arroyo about two miles eart of Camp Travis on a great scaf fold which had been erected during the ni;;ht by engineers from the post. A column consisting of approxi mately 1-5 cavalry men and 100 in fantry soldiers assembled at the cav alry .Tiiard hojse where the negroes were confined at 5:30 o'clock this morning. Trucks were provided to convey the prisoners to the scene of execution. Col. Millard F. Waltz, post command er, was in command of the column and led the way to the scaffold. The column arrived at the scafford at 6:20 a. m. A flood light had been arranged to give light for those in charge of the actual work of prepar ing nooses and adjusting them to the necks of the condemned men. The cavalry and infantry guard assembled in hollow square formation around the scaffold and the prisoners were given the order to march upon the death traps. Negro Minister Suys Prayer. Without a tremor they stepped out with soldierly tread and singing a hymn they walked to their ulaees. Prayers were said by a negro minister and by two army chaplains and then the men were ordered to stand upon the traps. Resuming their song they stood erect and displayed the great est fortitude while the ropes were ad justed. At 7:17 the major in charge of the execution, gave the order to spring the traps. The triggers had been arranged, one for each drop, men were assigned to each (Continued oil 1'nffe Two.l vvomenIoldiers win Report "Battalion of Death" Has De feated ltolslieviki in Battle. Petrograd. Dec. 11. A "Battalion of Death" which left Staffka is re ported to have defeated the Bolsheviki troops near the town of Shlobin. in Mohiiev. BAR CANADIAN SOLDIER TAKING JUJRINK I'l U. S. Montreal, Iec. 11. Orders have been issued by Major General E. Wilson, general officer command ing, barring any Canadian officer or soldier in uniform from drink ing intoxicating liquor in places of public refreshment in the United States. An order along this line was received from Ottawa today. Health Began To Decline After He Had Made Will. That children in the years to come might remember the name and desires of his dead wife for their welfare, the late Scott Hopkins, president of the Prudential Trust Co., for -years one of Topeka's leading citizens, be queathed a $2,000 trust fund to the Topeka Free Public library. Provi sion for the establishment of the trust fund appears in his will filed today in the Shawnee county probate court. "The income is to be used annually in purchase of books for children," reads the will. "Each book to be put into circulation thru this agency is to bear a book plate of my wife, Cora Pierson Hopkins, which shall be a fitting memorial for her constant de sire to furnish children with sound and wholesome reading." Not another bit of sentiment crept into the will, short, terse and business like in its form. Hardly a page of paper is used in outlining the division of his estate, estimated at $125,000. The petition for probate sets forth that Scott Hopkins had real property valued at $7,000 and personal prop erty valued at $118,000. Kstate to Children. The entire estate is divided equally among his three children. Warren B. of Boston: Edna and Elizabeth Hopkins, of Topeka. "I give, devise and bequeath share and share alike," reads the will. Mr. Hopkins named the Prudential Trust company and his daughter, Edna, as joint executors of the es tate. Provision is made that should he die before his other daughter, Elizabeth, reaches her legal majority, that the Prudential Trust company shall be named guardian. The will was dated July 26. 1917, which was about, the time that Mr. Hopkins's health began to decline rap idly. He left Topeka seeking treatment about this time. S. E. Cobb, vice president of the Bank of Topeka, and treasurer of the Prudential Trust company, accom panied Miss Edna Hopkins to the pro bate court. May -Malone and Mar garet Judy, witnesses to the will, also appeared at the court house. GERMANY OFFER Peace Terms Not Inviting to Russian Bolsheviki. Demands All Russian Wheat for Fifteen Years. London, Dec. 1 1. The Petrograd correspondent of the Times attributes to a responsible1 source the statement that during: the informal conversa tions between Russian and German representatives at Brest-Litovsk re garding the armistice on the eastern front the Germans indicated that the following points were likely to be in cluded in any of their peace negotia tions: Germany to hav control of the Russian wheat market for fifteen years. All German goods to be admitted to Russia duty free. No territory now occupied by the Germans to be surrendered. The correspondent says the Bolshe viki were disappointed by the reserved attitude of the German negotiators and their lack of sympathy with po litical idealism. Other causes contrib uted to their depression but it is stat ed they are determined to conclude an armistice at any cost if the- latest appeal by the Russian commissioners to the allies fails. QFHQAL WAR STATEMENTS FRENCH. Pariii. Ieo. 11. "Patrol encounters occurred north of Itpzonvaiix (Verdun front) and near Thnre (Champagne)," suys the war office statement today. "Active artillery fighting developed in some sectors of I'pper Alsace ami Lor raine. Every where else the night was calm. BRITISH. London, Te:. 11. Unusually active artillery fitrhtiup and aerial operations on the western fruit yesterdaiy are re ported in today's official communica tion. This activity was particularly noteworthy on the Ypres and Arras front. Field Marshal :i'jr"s tattle front re port today trave further emphasis to the belief that Germuny is seeking a weak spot in the western line, e reported "south of the Scarpe and north of the Lys particularly unusual aeerial and artillery activity yesterday.'.' "eavy s helling"' at a number of local ities was reported F.aat of Epehy he said the enemy at tempted to raid one post under cover of a heavy bombardment but were re pulsed. At other points on the Cam brai front there were patrol encouuters in which British forces dispersed en emy workers and took prisoners." The report was in line with the gen eral beiief here of Germany's prepara tions for a grand offensive. The areial activity indicated enerpetic attempts to seek out British positions and disposi tion of forces, the artillery showed pre liminary hunting out of weak spots and the raids were of the sort which one side employs constantly prior to an at tack to ascertaaia exactly what forces oppose them. ITALIAN'. Home, Dec. 11. 8niigHiuary and complete repulse' of enemy attempt to re-take the Agenzia and Zuliaui positions in the Cuposile region, was announced in today's official state ment. Around Agenzia and nHani the state ment said, the enemy left many dead. The victorious Italians took scores of prisoners. GERMAN. Berlin, via London, Dec. 11. Lively artillerying iu Flanders and capture of twenty-two French prisoners in a sur prise attack northeast of Craontie was reported la today's official statement. County Commissioners Fired Opening Gun This "Morning. BAD ROADS AID KAISER Markham Makes Stirring Appeal for Permanent Highways. Howe Tells Clerks More Effi cient Assessors Are Needed. "A bad road anywhere in Kansas is an aid to our enemy insofar as it is a stumbling block to the highest effic iency of those who live along its path. And the final drive that must bring us victory is not only the drive from the cannon's mouth, but also the drive from every farm home in Kansas." With those two assertions sand wiched between paragraphs, W. C. Markham, secretary, of the state high way commission, in an address this afternoon, sounded the keynote of the Topeka convention of Kansas county commissioners and county engineers who are here for a two-day session. The commissioners and engineers are meeting in connection with conven tions of Kansas county clerks, regis ters of deeds, county treasurers and clerks of the district courts in session here today and tomorrow. Hundreds of the county officials are in attend ance. The county commissioners held their first session at 9 o'clock this morning at the Memorial building and after a general discussion of everyday Droblems and routine business ad journed at noon to meet again this i afternoon at the same place. Gover- nor Capper did not address the morn- t ing session as stated in the program. Owing to a rearrangement he will talk at the general assembly of all the as sociations tonight at the auditorium. This meeting which begins at 8 o'clock tonight will be the feature one of the convention. Clarence K. Atken, Ford county commissioner, will preside, and in addition to Governor Capper, Mayor J. E. House will talk. The governor will talk on "Kansas' First Duty in a Time of Crisis." Good Roads Chief Topic. At the session of the county com-Tniseiooerw- t his "f tern oon all the speakers talked about good roads. E. R. Moses took for his subject, "The Relation between the County Com missioners and the State Highway Commission." The new national highway' law was discussed by S. N. Hawkes, assistant attorney general of Kansas. Markham's address came be tween that of Moses and Hawkes and it embraced a stirring plea for "bet ter roads and more of them." "Time is often the turning point in war," said Markham. "The whole map of Europe would have been changed could Napoleon have moved his troops over hard surfaced roads. Today more than 80 per cent of the munitions and supplies of the allies is transported by motor trucks over real roads and a motor truck on a real road means time. "But some say that it is economy to discontinue road building at the pres-. ent time, on the theory that we need our money and labor for more neces sary things. Would they discontinue the manufacture and use of candy, chewing gum, tobacco, carpets, china, jewelry, coffee, tea, electric signs, wall paper or books Would they cloe the theaters, stop gifts to foreign missions, colleges and universities? You know they would not, and yet none of the things mentioned are as essential to the efficient, speedy and economic conduct of the war as per manent roads. "The National Council of Defense is today, urging that motor trucks take over all freight to be carried a dis tance of 200 miles or less to relieve the railroads. This means that in the elements of speed, mobility and con tinuity the motor truck is destined to I be a permanent competitor of rail transportation for limited distances. Transportation is transportation, whether it be in Kansas or Belgium, and we all know that the farm near est good transportation always brings the highest price. Must Have Hard Roads. "In order that the motor truck may take up this new task it must have hard rdads, the same as a railroad must have rails. If the government sees this call to be one of necessity in war times, it is clearly evident that it will be a permanent fixture when wars shall cease. It has already been demonstrated that highway freight trains are an economic fact even be yond the government call of 200 miles. Today there are freight motor trucks plying between Akron, O., and Boston. Mass., and they cover this distance. 1,510 miles, in a week. It is said that even express companies do not deliver goods any more rapidlv and the truck rates are already compet ing with express rates. This means that where freight is hauled over a free right-of-way, the rates can easily be reduced over those obtaining on a railroad whose right-of-way must aid in bringing a dividend to :ts stock holders. As some one has said,, 'Sure ly the star cf the motor truck is onlv peeping above the economic horizon Business Sessions. Following the addresses the com missioners and engineers resolved into a business session, appointed commit tees and heard reports of officers. The registers of deeds were the only association in addition to the county commissioners to hold a session this morning. They convened at 9 o'clock in the office of J. T. Botkin. secretary of state. Their entire convention will be devoted mostly to technical prob lems of office and the handling of routine business. The county clerks fired a sort of a preliminary gun to the "Big Five" convention Monday afternoon when, as ex officio assessors, they met at the office of the state tax commission at a late hour. T. J. Kincsid, a mem ber of the state commission, urged I ioo I" V'l J I f-l";- cflTNE 1915 V -T, V 9060 Z A JUNE 1916 '-r jJUNE tQ17 -v; NOV 1917 Chart of how purchasing power of dollar has shrunk since war began in 1914. KILL 100 IN REVOLT 500 Wounded in Recent Upris ing in Lisbon. Premier Back From Peace Council Finds Home Looted. Lisbon, Dec. 11. Portugal's suc cessful revolution cost at least 100 dead and 500 wounded in clashes be tween the rebels and the old govern ment forces, according to latest esti mates today. Complete order has been restored. Colonel PaeS issued summary orders for immediate execution of all caught looting or rioting. Premier Costa and Foreign Minister Soares arrived here today, back from the Paris inter-allied council meeting to una their residences had been sacked and partly pulled down by the rioters in the disorder attendant upon the change In governing powers. MERCURY IS GOING UP Lowest Temperature Tonight Will Be 10 Above Zero. Temperature readings for the day furnished by the local office of the United States weather bureau: 7 o'clock 511 o'clock 10 8 o'clock 612 o'clock 12 9 o'clock 5l 1 o'clock 15 10 o'clock 7 2 o'clock i.r.17 The highest temperature recorded in four days was 17 above, reached at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It is not expected that the mercury will drop below 10 above zero tonight and to morrow the gradual moderation will continue. The wind was blowing at the rate of 7 miles an hour from the south at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Yet another record went glimmer ing today, according to Meteorologist Flora, in charge of the local weather office. .The low record of 1916 was broken by 10 degrees today and that as early in tne morning as l 3 o o'clock, when the mercury stood at (Continued on Page Two.) LUXBURG IN HOSPITAL Ousted (icrma n Minister of "Sink Without Trace" Fame Has Bad Nerves. Buenos Aires, Dec. 11. Count von Luxburg, the dismissed German min ister to Argentina today entered a sanitarium to undergo treatment for a nervous disorder. This probably will further delay his departure from Argentina. equalization of real estate values. S. T. Howe, head of the commission, call ed attention to the fact that more effi cient deputy assessors must be em ployed. A session similar to the one held Monday evening continued all day today. The county clerks' program proper will begin at 5 o'clock this evening with registration 'in the hear ing room of the public utilities com mission. The association will attend the general meeting at the auditor ium tonight and, at 8 o'clock tomor row morning will begin an all-day ses sion of considerable importance with addresses by prominent state authori ties. The district clerks held their first session this afternoon in the parlors of the Chamber of Commerce. After routine business was cleared awav, C. E. Moss. 'Lawrence, talked. "Some Experiences of a New Clerk" were re viewed by Mrs. Mary E. Chaoin. To peka. Ira Mahaffey. Cnncordia. was scheduled to talk on "Retention of Files in the Clerk's Office." "Clerks' Fees in Naturalization Cases" was the subject of an address scheduled to be delivered by George F. Crane. Stock ton. "Some Problems that Confront a restrict Clerk" was programmed to be handled by Joseph A. Fuller. Eu reka. Henry L. Carey, Dodge City, was scheduled to talk on "Collecting the Costs Treasurers Are Busy. Owing to the present busy period in the offices of the county treasurers, they are holding sessions one day dnly this year The sessions will be held tomorrow at the office of the state treasurer. However, several treasur ers were in the city today waiting for the association meeting to begin. All business in the five conventions will be put out of the way by the close of tomorrow afternoon. The visitors will be the guests tomorrow evening of the Chamber of Commerce at a buffet luncheon. In the evening there will be theater parties, and the grand climax will come with a spectacular and interesting initiation (such is the promise) at the Akepot Sterboo dens. RUSSIA IN CHAOS C;j m x?t j a i fr Mreet -Mgnting Already HaSj Broken Out In Moscow. Bolsheviki Station Machine Guns in City's Streets. London, Dec. 11. Street fighting has occurred in Moscow and the Swed ish consul there has advised all Swedes to leave the city, according to advices received in Haparanda, and forwarded here by a Stockholm cor respondent. It is added that starva tion seems to threaten Moscow. Most of the Swedes are said to have taken the consul's advice. Considerable forces, the dispatch adds are being detached from the west front to be sent against the Cos sacks. The situation in Moscow is reported to be grave, according to a Times dis patch from Petrograd. The Bolshe viki, according to Petrograd newspa- n hatra nUlWll TTT M h 1 Tl R STUnS in fce streets 4s they, fear an uprising of hostile parties. The garrison, cow ever shows signs of insubordination and it is reported to be disobeying the Bolsheviki commander, a private sol dier named Muranoff. Cossacks Prepare for Battle. The Cossacks are preparing to fight, says the Petrograd correspond ent of the -Daily Mail. Three train loads of Cossacks are said to bg at Bielgorod and three at Sumy, com manded by General Komiloff. Ex tremist Red Guards to the number of about 1,000 are expected at Kharkov from Moscow. The correspondent says General Kaledines, the Cossack leader, is dis banding infantry regiments in the Don territory and sending them home on account of their extremist opinions. Charge Cossacks With Violations. London, Dec. 11. Violently denun ciatory charges of terrorism were made against the Cossack rebels by h Rolsheviki today. Proclamations issued at Petrograd and reported in dispatches here declared Cossacks had -president Wilson's sudden idea that mounted guns on top of houses at j war must be declared against Austria Hostoff "for the purpose of terrifying Hungary on the ground that she is the population." Germany's vassal is the craziest of See Starvation in Petrograd. his career as war inciter. We are not t.v, cni.h.viki have mounted auick firing guns on houses. Troops in the That Mr. Wilson should think he garrison however, were reported to knows us better than we know pur have mutinied and refused obedience selves makes us laugh to the Boftheviki commander Pri- I The Fremdenblatt of Vienna, refers vate Muranoff. I to the fact that America s war decla- There was evidence today that the I ration was almost simultaneous with pinUheviki Kovernment is beginning i the armistice negotiations with Rus- .,.j.bBn rvvoi. the frrari- kih the riusarli are nf- quiring over Russia's great stores and turn of events in Russia, the danger her railroads. Thev foresee isolation of a possible peace and desires by his of Petrograd and other great Bolshe- move to prevent the old world from viki centers-and starvation if the I finding repose and to head off stop revolt continued i page of garnering of the enormous ad TWIarf War on Cossacks. i vantages obtained by America from Declare war on lowacKs. devastation of European states by jreirograa, uvc n. v m hoiuoi General K-aledine ana nis uossack re- i volters was formally declared by the KOlsneviKl loaay. .troops were ais- patched from Kazan on an armored j intm iiiru xviih.i kuh. t Foreign Minister Trotsky ordered Ensign Krytenko, Russian commander in chief, to send ss many troops- from the front as possible to crush the Cossack revolt along the Don and in Ural. Kaledine himself declared martial law in force thruout the territory of the Don today and announced his 1 Cossack forces were ready to fight. SINGER GIVES $100,000 John McConnark Will Tour United States for Red Cross. WnshiniTtntl. Dec. 11. A eift rit $160,000 to the Red Cross from John McCormack, the tenor, was an- rmtw-r min.i nounced today. Paying his own ex-: P ft fFFICES BURN penses. Mr. McCormack will make al IULJ UUIU1 patriotic concert tour from the. At- lantic to the Pacific, opening at Wash- Frisco Division Headquarters, at Sa in gton December 18 with a concert! pnlpa Has $50,000 Fire. which the President and Mrs. Wilson have announced they will attend. Sapulpa, Ofcla., Dec. 11. Fire, "I will keep on singing until I hav originating in the basement of the di-' earned $100,000 which the American vision headquarters of the Frisco rail Red Cross may use a it sees fit." said road, destroyed the building late ves Mr. McCormack in making his offer. terday afternoon, causing damage "The work will be a- privilege to me, amounting to $50,000. Train service and I will perforn.. It with an en-! was hampered until telegraphic ccm thusiasm such as I never have felt i munication could be re-established. before." Increase Utah Coal Prices. Will Deport Bomb Suspects. j Washington, Dec. 11. A general Chicago, Dec. 11. The United j increase in prices of Utah coal at the States immigration bureau here an- j mine was granted today by the fuel nounced this afternoon that two of administration. Run of mine coal was the score of Italians-arrested in Mil- increased from $2.60 to $2.80, pre waukee. In connection with the bomb pared sized from $2.85 to $3.30, slack explosion in police headquarters there j from $2.35 to $2.80. Unusual diffi probably would be deported. Their j culty in mining coal in Utah was given identity was not revealed. J as the reason for the advance. Gives Kansas Job of Making Vigorous Probe. TO BLAME FDR HIGH PRICES Needlessly Large Orders Absorb All Market Supply. Will Use a Club on Profiteer Leeches, Declares Murdock. Washington, Dec. 11. Charges by Food Administrator Hoover that some dishonest wholesale and retail mer chants and food brokers have been criminally responsible for food short- ages and rising prices were taken un-J der investigation today by the federal trade commission. Victor Murdock will be in charge of the inquiry which will be prosecuted with vigor and with all of the trade commission's broad investigative pow er behind it! Speculation in foods was declared today in a statement by Commis- sioner Murdock to have far reaching .results in causing unrest. Unprinci pled brokers and dealers are said to oraer gooas Deyona meir require- menu on a rising market, believing they can make money if prices con tinue to go up and can at least pre vent loss by rejecting the shipment. Bow They Work Ruse. A typical case -was cited of a man in Indiana ordering a carload of per ishables, say potatoes, from a Minne sota grower. By the time a delivery is made, prices have, dropped and re jection of the car on a flimsy pretext results. While a settlement is being effected, the potatoes are out of the market, transportation is delayed and by failure to unload sometimes the food deteriorates. "I am going to prosecute this in vestigation to the limit and bring any violators to the sternest payment of justice," said Commissioner Murdock. "It is hard to find words to describe profiteers who are doing business along such lines at this time when so many men are giving up their lives for their country. Such pernicious business practices which net the men who follow them a little extra blood money, must be stamped out at the start and kept stamped out. I am going to give my entire time to this Job if it is necessary to get "results and put some of these unpatriotic camp followers, leectoes, behind the bars where they rightly belong. So far as I am concerned I do not think profiteering of this character can be bettered by use of a feather duster; it requires a club. Wants Everybody's Help. "In this investigation I would like every citizen to consider himself spe cifically delegated by me to furnish any information which might be help ful in running down the type of food profiteers we are after." WILSON LAUGHS NEXT After Reading Vienna Comment on His Message to Congress. Amsterdam. Monday, Dec. 10. Commenting on America's declaration of war against Austria-Hungary, the Xeues Wiener TageDiatt, 01 Vienna,

I frightened by his declaration of war. sia and s.i vs it is a natural presump 1 tion. that President Wilson sees in the war. M'GILL TO SELL OUT? Rumor Says He Will Give Up His Indianapolis Club. Indianapolis. Ind., Dec. 11. That the Indianapolis American associa tion team would pass from the hands of James C. McGill and his uncle, William C. Smith, to an organization of local business men today was the general belief. Just who these men are has not been disclosed. Thomas Hickey, president of the as sociation, has been here several days helping to engineer the deal. It was reliably reported that in case the transfer goes thru, Charles Carr, who piloted the Indians to a pennant in 1908, will be brought back as a play ing manager and W. H. Wat kins as ,usiness 'manager. TOPEKANS TO GET RIFLES Fifty Springfields Go to Captain Hargis's Company. State May Have To Provide Other Equipment. Home guard' organizations in the oil fields and in the industrial districts will be at least partially equipped with Springfield rifles from the federal gov ernment. Charles S. Huffman, ad jutant general, will this week dis tribute 500 rifles and 10,000 rounds of ammunition from the war depart ment. Another shipment of rifles will probably come to Kansas in a few weeks. Bldorado, in the heart of the oil district and the I. W. W. uprisings. win umw iuu rmes. four nome Si-SW cirer" bT'oU j r.r.oratnm Th nncratnr. v, nt. ler county field have provided a fund I Provide some plan for proper manage of $7,000 for the home guards, and mnt and efficient operation in peace numerous towns have provided gups I an war. and uniforms. Kansans Among First Witnesses. Tonckans to Get Guns. i The committee today began heading Tnncl,. ...Ill V. 1,1.. rifles from the first shipment and J suiricient guns for Captain Hargis's I organization will probably be avail- able with the second shipment. Nearly I lou rules will go to home guard units 1 in Kansas City, Kan., with shfpments or and 6U guns to organizations in Wichita, Coffeyville, Lawrence, Salina and other large towns. For the pres ent, at least, there is slight chance that the government will be able to care for all of the home guard com panies in this state. In the general appropriation bill now before congress is an item of J4.500.000 for home guards. This fund will probably be sufficient to I meet general demands in various states. Kansas and other states, though, may be compelled to look to special state legislation for much of the desired relief. Many Towns Want Guards. Col. Jonathan D. Norton, in charge of the home guard organization work in Kansas, has received applications from more than 100 towns and coun ties desiring organizations. While a complete roster of Hie various com panies has not been available, it is probable the enrollment, of home guards in Kansas is .nearly 10,000. Practically every town and county of general industrial importance has met the danger of I. W. W. depredations thru home guard organizations. BRAVE TOMMYBAND Mere Handful in Hand to Hand Fight Holds. Back Division of Germans.. BY WILLIAM PHII,II SIMMS. "With the British Armies in the Field Dec. 11. One small group of British Tommies 'held a whole Ger man division at bay in one twist of the great Cambrai battle. The story did not come out in its full heroic details until today. In the deep dry bed of the Nord canal, east of Mouevres, this little group of British made one of the finest stands of the war. As the Ger mans poured into this miniature Culebra cut, the British surged for ward around a slight curve. They hurled bombs and closed with the enemy in a hand to hand scrimmage of bayonets, bombs, sticks, clubs and fists. The Germans were unable to stand the gruelling man-to-man fight. They retired. The British wont rloht nn Tl.uv ti-irtlr wn hoow howitzers and two 1Vb, dragging them back to a strategic point. The Tommies stuck their field pieces down fi-, trowtnrv oa KAcran fit-ino- The" target of human bodies in ne German attacking wave was too per fect to miss. Wounded British soldiers refused to be moved back of the firing line and begged to be propped up so they could continue the fight. The determined little band was finally forced to retire, in conformity with the general scheme of the British command. But when they did go, every soidi.er made it a point of honor to carry a shell or an extra rifle, or help get away machine guns. When the Germans occupied their ground, they did not find a pound of stuff left behind. FIVE ESCAPE JAIL Eighteen Others In Guthrie,. Prison Preferred to Remain Inside, Guthrie, Okla.. Dec. 11. Five pris oners who last night overpowered the jailer at the Logan county Jail were still at large today, while sheriff forces and a company of home guard troops scoured the county in this vi cinity for them. The escape was made when the Jail er was recommitting Lucius McGill. negro, after permitting him to get a drink. McGill blocked the door with his foot while four white prisoners seized the jailer and disarmed him. McGill who was held on a murder charge is a fugitive from the Arkan sas state penitentiary where he was serving time for manslaughter. Eighteen other prisoners made no effort to escape. COLD AND COAL-LESS Fuel Supply In Peoria Exhausted State Administrator on Job. Peoria, III., Dec. 11. The poor of Psoria are suffering today from the extreme cold because of their Inabil- The Females Are Carrying the "Mails" ity to obtain coal. The local coal sap- n St. Ixiols Now. ply is practically exhausted. Dealers j have from 100 to 300 unfilled orders j St. Louis, Dec. 11. Two women on their hands. J letter carriers began delivering mall Fuel Administrator William H. Co- here today. If at the end of fifteen lean is in charge of the situation and days they are considered competent, only allows th- sale of coal where it is I other women mail carriers will be em needed badly. The thermometer has j ployed by the poet office. They dehv registered 10 degrees below zero. I ered mail In a large office building. Continue Control Until Proper Management Is Secured. PHT PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Special One on Railroads nm Outline His Policy. Report McAdoo Is Leading Ad vocate, of Gov't Operation. Washington, Dec. 11. At the open, ing of the hearing today by the joint congressional committee investigating transportation problems. Chairman Adamson, of the house commerce com mittee, declared that President Wil son probably would have to take over the railroads "during the war and hold them after the war until congress can railroad commissioners from Wiscon- Indiana, Minnesota. Nevada and

consin commission was the first wit- .ness .an.d explained the workings of Pressure by Cabinet Membcra. Members of President Wilson's cabinet today were bringing pressure to bear on him to take over the rail roads and run them for the period of the war. Secretary bf the Treasury McAdoo. it was learned today on unquestion able authority, is the leading advocate of government control. He urged the president to cut the Gordian knot of tne whole transportation problem by seizing me country s railroads and doing anything necessary to insure their efficient operation to win the war. McAdoo and other cabinet members pressed their views at this afternoon cabinet meeting. Message In Few Days. The same high authority stated that the president undoubtedly will go be fore congress with a railroad message in a few days. This message is to be written after today's cabinet meeting. It was learned today that it will in clude proposals which, the, rallrojids will regard as "strong measures" in view of the railroad executives pro gram as outlined to the president yes terday. The president is declared to have flatly rejected the railroad terms of higher rates, draft exemption for em ployes, and government aid in obtain ing financial credits. As a result the railroads war board sought an appointment with the president to mke a last stand. He will receive them tomorrow afternoon at the White House. "Our consistent effort has been to be of service to the nation in time of war," said Chairman Fairfax Harri son, of the board today. "We hope that we may be able to be of assis tance to the president in respect to any action he may contemplate." It. It. Board Gets Hearing. Washington, Dec. 11. The railroads war board today asked President Wil son to receive its members for a con ference which was arranged for Wednesday afternoon. The president today has the rail roads terms a government traffic of ficer to avoid abuse of priority,, speedy delivery of ordered equipment, gov ernment aid in obtaining new capital on the railroad's own credit, higher j rates eastern territory and draft exemption for railroad workers. 1, The president, however, is said to fa vor either outright govern men t man- d-jsiuii c nm war hi djipuillllljent or a personal representative to sit with the present railroad's war board. Thru this agent, the president might .order any action he deemed necessary and seize any line which re fused to obey. The air was cleared by the railroads' disavowal of any desire to repeal the anti-trust and anti-pooling acts or seek a billion dollar loan. These pro posals faced bitter opposition in con gress. VOTE DRY BILLMON DAY National Prohibition Comes Up la House No Date on Suff Measure. Washington. Dec. 11. The national prohibition amendment to the con stitution will come up for considera tion in the house next Monday, under unanimous agreement reached by the house today. A record vote also is planned by house leaders. Passage of the amend ment by a two-thirds house majority will place the question up to the states, the senate havrng passed the resolution last session. The constitutional amendment for nation-wide woman suffrage was re ported without recommendation today by the house judiciary committee. Must Pass Them fat 1 Years. The Judiciary committee amended the suffrage resolution to provide that the amendment dies unless it is rati fied by the states within seven years from the time of its adoption In con gress. This is the same provision that fie committee included in the prohibition amendment. The suffrage resolution has not been voted upon in either house but it Is on ttie senat calendar. Ha B. JOKESMITHS!

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11. 1917 SANTA DELIVERS FIRST CHECKS TO .I SOLDIERS' FOLKS Allowance Vouchers To Reach jr Homes for Christmas. tncle Sam Has Delivery Con U tract With "Mr. Claus." CHECKS ARE FOR $30 AND UP ()nly Small Portion of What They'll Be Next Year. Wife Gets $15 From Gov't and $15 of Husband's ray. HY GEORGE MARTIX. Washington. Dec. 11. Santa Claus will deliver Uncle Sam's first separa tion allowance checks to the wives, mothers, sisters, children and other dependents of America's fighting men, It was learned today. Down in the colossal marble ptl bult to house the new national mu seum and-turned into a war factory tver night, hundreds of pretty typists are ".lamming out the slender, precious little white vouchers for the soldierB apd sailors' folks at nome. It is something new Jn American war history. Beginning with this first Christmas check and continuing ns long as the war lasts, these monthly messengers of aid and cheer will vo ailing out from flere In their ions narrow envelopes..-.' Authority for them is contained in the war insur ance bill passed at the special session of congress. For Reindeer Delivery. Fearful that they might not get veryone's check delivered before Christmas morning, the tall old man with the red, white and blue suit and the star spangled stovepipe hat and the fat little man who drives the rein deers ordered a special night shift of clerks which will Jump into the work tonight. Beginning today the checks will go scudding out over the country in every direction. War department records show that many of them are on their way to homes where there would be talighty little-Christmas without them. The amocmra "appearing in the upper left, hand comer of these unique Christmas gifts range from $30 up and represent one month's compensation by the goernment to the dependents of fighting men. The $30 checks ?o to wives with no children and repre sent $15 from the government and $15 from the husband's $30 a month pay. Where there are youngsters, a wee nip Is added to each check for each one. Different Ktory Next Year. "The aggregate of these firsl checks," said an official of the war rink insurance bureau of the treasury tlepartaiejit, '-while large, will not run l.ito the mtiHons we will be mailing out next Christmas. "We have only a small percentage f men with dependents in the regu lar army and national guard and prac tically none in the first draft army and only a few casualties. Nineteen eighteen will be a different story." i DEAD IN EXPLOSION Omnhu- Man Killed In Accident on American Submarine. i i Washington, Dec 11. News of an explosion: on board the submarine A-2, resulting in-1' the death of Joseph Echaetfer, cniei electrician or the boat. whs received today by the navy de partment. No details were given by the depart ment's announcement. Schaeffer died trom injuries after the accident. He wis 23 years old and enlisted in the navy March 6, 1812, at Omaha. Neb.. at an apprentice seaman'. After being rtonorably discharged March 4, 1916 from the T7. S. S. Iris, he re-enlisted Slav 19, 1916, as an electrician. His sister, Mrs. Clara Amen) lives t Hastings, Neb. NOT A HAM THERE Promliwnt, American Jew Tells of Their "New Jerusalem." Chicago, Deo. 11. Max Shulman fcead of the Zionist movement in Chi cago, said today that capture of Jeru salem meant that within ten years the Jews will again occupy Palestine aa It: nation. t "Palestine, Bald he, "will support population of four million persons. It will probably be governed much the Sam as Switzerland, with the protec tion of the great allied nations. A liberty lean of. 100 million dollars will be required and our optimists predict that it will 'be oversubscribed in three days whenever the call comes." DEMANDS FREITrADE Germany Insists on Free Entry of Goods From Russia for 15 JVears. -Stockholm, Deo. 11. Financial cir cles in both Petrograd and Germany are ready for a peace "without in demnities" between Russia and Ger many, according to the newspaper Huvudstadsbladet today. Free entry of goods for fifteen years is reported one of the German demands of Russia. 2nd LIBERTY LOAN BONDS FOR SALE and Ready for DELIVERY The FORBES MTG. ami INVESTMENT CO. Tel. 1086. 11 W. 6th St, A' STANDARD LOAF Government Regulation of Bakers' Bread BorIiib Today. Washington, Dec. 10. Bakers to day began marking a standardized loaf of bread under -regulations prescribed by thsfood administration. The new loaf contains a minimum of fats and can be sold, according; to the food administration officials, at 7 cents a pound. No price, however, has been set. Licenses are required for all bakers using more than ten barrels of flour a month and for hotels and clubs uaiog that much flour when they bake their own bread. BAN ON CURIOUS Sightseers Are Barred From Razed Halifax District. Replace Thousands of Window Fanes Storm Abates. Halifax, Dec. 11. The snowstorm which hampered the relief workers yesterday was of short duration and last night was clear and cold. The snow had formed a hard' crust over the ground today, further Interfering with the traffic problems and wich the work of clearing away the ruins. All activities are now on a systematic ba sis and Halifax men joined today with men from other ports of Canada and from cities in the United States in seek! g to restore more nor. con ditions. The refusal to, admit curios ity seekers has resulted in a lessen ing of the congestion which was threatening serious impediment. Hun dreds of men were busy today about the less badly damaged Dunaings. The chief task wus to replace brok en windows and doors and to repair roofs. The supplies of (Window glass sent from other cities proved useful and a party of skilled glaziers from Boston assisted in replacing the thou sands of shattered panes. For all concerned last nignt was tne most restful since the explosion. The sinking of the munition steamer Pic- ton yesterday witn auuseiiueiii uiutmi assurance that there were r.o more explosive-laden vessels in the harbor, drove away fears of further possible disaster. American Lost Lire. Keverlv. Mass.. Dec. II. One American, John W. Morash, a resident of this city, lost his life in the Halifax disaster. Word was received here to day that his body had Deen touna. Morash went to Halifax two weeks ago to visit his father, who was ill. Nine Ships In Harbor Destroyed. The burial of the dead is being, con ducted as rapidly as possible. Volun teer grave diggers are hard at work day and night. Nine ships in the harbor were de stroyed or badly damaged by the ex- p U5iu,i ui Bia"c' t developed today,. One piece of the Mont- Blanc lies ashore near Richmond pier. The Imo, Belgian re lief ship, is beached inside- Bedford basin, lacking, a roremast- -Te c;oi lene is a torn and twisted hulk. Fun nels of the- MiddJeton Castle are gone and her superstructure battered' The Picton, munitions carrier, has been unk in the eastern channel. The Ra- use, Stella Marie and Hilford are to tal losses the-latter., being on top of a wrecked pier. Many ReUef Trains Arrive. The armed guard detailed to keep the morbid out of Halifax had their first hard work when 300 persons ar rived from -St. John. Some were passed, the others deported. A spe cial guard has been sent to Truro to halt sightseers there. Inhabitants of Halifax are on short ened rations.- The admiralty investigation, of the disaster was scheduled to start today. Relief trains from many cities, load ed with clothing and euppliej, are ar riving here. MERCURY IS GOING UP (.Continued rrom Page One.) zero. Temperatures all over the state were above zero at 7 o'clock this morning and the mercury was slowly rising. The lowest temperature recorded in the united States Monday night was 12 below at Cincinnati, and this on top of a big snow storm. The boys at Camp Doniphan are shivering and drilling in a tempera ture of 4 degrees above zero or there abouts. The State Journal receives the report of temperature for this district from Oklahoma City, the clos est point to Doniphan where govern ment reports are obtainable. Tem peratures from the two points vary very little as they are only a short distance apart. The official forecast for the dav reads, cloudy and unsettled weather tonight and Wednesday, with slowly rising temperatures. Shippers should protect 36-hour shipments north against a tempera ture of zero, east and west against 10 degrees above, and south against 15 above. The highest temperature ever re corded for December 11, was in 1896 when 69 degrees was registered. Un til today the low mark was 10 above in 1916. DAILY WK-lTIltUi TABLE. FurnlBhed by the weather bureau office lopeka, Kan., lor the tweoty-four hours euuniK at t a. m. inesua iy. Stations. High. Low. Prec. W'ther. Boston. Mass. 10 o Clear Buffalo. N. Y Calgary, Alb Chicago, 111 Cincinnati, O Concordia, Kan. Denver, Colo Dodge City, Kan... Duluth, Minn Kl Paso, Tex Fort Worth. Tel.. Galveston, Tex. IS 12 0 s 2rt 14 0 6c; .12 so 50 8 22 4U 20 10 70 U se 6 12 T Fair -14 0 -12 0 0 0 .01 Cloudy Cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear Cloudy Clear Clear Snow Italn Snow Clear Cloudy 12 6 12 44 28 4 10 30 2 12 48 44 10 3 4 84 0 42 2 2 10 20 48 42 0 32 16

24 0 12 0 12 0 0 0 T .40 .08 0 0 T 0 0 0 .01 0 0 T T 0 0 0 0 0 .01 T 0 T T O 0 T 0 T T Havre, Mont Jacksonville, Fla.. Kansas City, Mo... LltUe Kock, Ark.. Los .Angeles,, CaL. New Orleans La.. New Vork, N. Y... N. Platte Neb.... Oklahoma, -Okla. Phoenix, Arix Pittsburg, Pa Portland, Ore. Snow Clear Fair Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Suow Kain Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Clear Clear Clear Cloudy Clear Snow Cloudy M. Josepu, Mo St. Louis. Mo St. Paul, Minn Salt Lake, Utah San r'raucUco.-Cal. Sault Ste. Marie.... Seattle. Wash Sheridan, Wyo.,.,, Spokane. Wash. .V.v 42 82 (I 44 10 36 1 OS 10 Swift Current; gas. Tampa, Fla.. ToleriiOUlo TOPEW.'TCiN"; 8 Washington d. C.. 20 Wichita. Kan 14 I WluuiDUiV Manv... g KUNS LINING UP FORCES FOR BIG DRIVE IN WEST Teutons Mask Attack by Gen eral Artillery Bombardment. Belief Blow Will Fall on Sector Held by French. GRAND ENTRY AT JERUSALEM Official Occupation by Allied Troops Is Set for' Today. Invaders Suddenly Abandon At tacks Against Italy. London, Dec. 11. Over the whole of the western front today German ar tillery was roaring a challenge to the French and British armies. Some where along the gTeat battle line it was confidently believed Germany was preparing to make her heaviest attack since the days of the invasion of 1914. She is masking the location chosen for that assault by an artillery bom bardment that is impartially scatter ing shells over almost every sector of the British and French lines. Offi cial reports, however, indicated a siightly stronger fire over the French positions. From this it was deduced here that Hindenburg had chosen the poilus as opponents for his massed armies reinforced by numerous di visions recently transferred from the Russian front. (By the Associated Press.) Heavy German reinforcements have arrived in France, it is believed in al lied capitals, but where the expected blow will fall is yet to be disclosed. For the moment the infantry is inac tive along the western front, but the artillery and especially that of the Germans is very active in various sec tors. On the British front the Ger mans are bombarding heavily, the po sitions southwest of Cambrai and east and -ortheast of Ypres, the two sec tors which have seen virtually all the heavy fighting in the last few months. From St. Quentin to the Swiss border, Paris reports great enemy artillery ac tivity between the Oisne and the Aisne in Champagne northeast of Verd and in upper Alsacev The British and French cannon are replying in kind against the German positions. The heavy German artillery fire may mean that the Germans are at tempting to find a weak point and it may be only for the purpose of draw ing the allies' fire again to one spot while the troops from the Russian front are massed for a strong effort on a hitherto quiet sector. Strong local German attacks on the right bank of the Meuse nortneast eof v dun have been repulsed by the French who took prisoners. Invader Forces Scattered. Infantry fighting has stopped moi mentarily at least on the Italian front from Asia go to the Piave river. The Austro-German effort to break thru the Piace and the Brenta failed with losses. The enemy then re-formed his shattered forces and attempted to break thru between Asago and the Piave. He failed again. The Austro Germans captured some terrain but without Improving their tactical posi tions and at a heavy cost. An appa rently local attempt to cross the lower reaches of the Piave has been checked by the Italians who recaptured obser vation trenches taken by Austrian sol diers. Official entry into- Jerusalem. ih Holy City ot Christians, is planned for today. Allied troops entered the capi tal of Palestine after it was surround ed and the Turks were forced to sur render. Capture of the city was de layed thru the fear that the fighting operations might result in the damag ing oi trie religious snrines. The de liverance of Jerusalem from the hands of the Moslems marks not only the success of General Allenby's drive into Palestine, but probably ends all Turko-German hopes of cutting the Suez canal. Bolshevik! Hit Snag. Meagre reports from Russia indi cate that the Bolshevikl are meeting with -difficulty in maintaining control of Moscow. The situation there is re ported grave, with the Bolsheviki gar rison refusing to obey its commander, who has ordered machine guns placed in the streets in anticipation of an uprising. A Copenhagen dispatch says that the Bolshevikl have ordered troops from the Caucasus to put down Generals Kaledines, Korniloff and Dutoff, while from London it is re ported large forces are being sent from the Baltic-Black sea front into the Ukraine and the Cossack pro vinces. Whether clashes have oc curred between the Bolsheviki and the, counter revolutionists is not apparent. The Bolsheviki. government controls virtually all the direct means of com munication with the interior of Russia. NOW I'NDKIt BRITISH FLAG. Future Status of Jerusalem To Be De cided When War Ends. London, rec. 11. No attempt will be made to define the future position of Jerusalem until a general peace comes, the Times says. In the mean time the city will be treated as In Brit ish military occupation and will be under -martial law. Goneral Allenby will appoint a military g-overnor. While the British flag will fly over the city, the French and Italian flags will be placed over their national property, such as convents and schools. A solemn thanksgiving and te deum will be held,in St. Paul cathedral to day in celebration of the surrender. Cures Colds In India. LAXATIVE EROMO QUININE tablets re I move the cause. K, W. GKOVE'S signature on box. :w. Adv. PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS Ask Tour Doctor About TJs DRUGS AND TOILET GOODS The Modern Drug Store CUT-RATE 600 West lOUb. TeJettbone 450. Ftea DeUrer) NEGRO SOLDIERS (Continued from PagejOggj,. At tho word of command, they pulled on the triggers and the thir teen negroes dropped to their deaths. Eleven of them died almost instant lv. but the other two quivered a mo- ment or two after the rope became taut. No civilian spectators were allowed at the execution. Sheriff John Tobin and- several of hie deputies helped to adjust the nooses, they having pre-, pared the hangman's knots for the army men. Following the hanging of the IS men, the chief of staff of the south ern department gave out a written statement at the same Jtime refusing to answer any questions. The state ment follows: The announcement from headquarters-was as follows: "The proceedings, findings and sen tences of the general courtmartial which tried sixty-three members of the Twenty-fourth infantry for their implication in the riots at Houston, Tex., August 23, 1917, were approved by the commanding general, southern department. December 10, 1917." The statement then gave the list of men sentenced to be executed, ex plaining that they were sentenced "To be hung by the neck until dead." EXECUTION UNANNOUNCED. Largest in History of U. S. Army- Recalls Mexican War Mutiny. Washington, Dec 11.- The hanging of thirteen negro troopers for com plicity in the Houston riot was un known to practically all officials of the war department until it was an nounced at Fort Sam Houston. Doubt less the death sentence -of the court martial and the preparations for the execution were known to a few high officials, but so far as can be learned, the departmental commander carried out the executions as a routine af fair, as he is warranted to do in time of war, and only made the usual for mal .report which was received here after the news dispatches. were tne country at peace the exe cutions would have required the ap proval of the president. In time of war, however, all such authority -is decentralized and placed with resuon- sible commanders. No such whole sale executions in the army has oc curred within the memory of the present generation. The last of its kind was the execution of members of the so-called "St. Patrick's battalion" by General Scott during the Mexican war. Members of the battalion de serted Joined the Mexican forces. later made their homes in Mexico, marrying native women and many of their descendants now are found there, natives of that country in all respects, but bearing names quite for eign to the language they speak. A large number of them were exe cuted by General Scott at the battle of Chapultepec and their last glimpse of life was the sight of the American flag breaking out to the breeze '.as Scott's legions stormed the ramparts. Last Outbreak at Brownsville. The swift manner in which the Houston rioters were tried and exe cuted, without much publicity, was the subject of remark today at the war department. The last incident involving rioting among negro troops was the celebrat ed Brownsville affair, as the result of which President Roosevelt summarily dismissed a whole battalion from the army. v. 17 KILLED IX HOUSTON RIOT. Nine Were White Persons 150 Negro Soldiers Participated. San Antonio. Dec. 11. J-The riot which resulted in the conviction and imposition of sentence on negroes named in the above disnatch occurred at Houston, Texas, on the night of Au gust 2 3, 1917. The riot resulted In the death of seventeen persons and the wounding- of twenty-two. Among these dead were four policemen, three negro soldiers, one Mexican and nine white citizens, the latter including white soldiers. This came from an ourtbreak of about 150 negro soldiers- of the Twenty-fourth United States Infantry at 8 o'clock at night. During the day the negroes became inflamed against the white police at Houston because of the reported shooting of a negro sergeant by a police officer. Steal Company Ammunition. Stealing company ammunition, the negroes seized their rifles and left their camp, starting- toward the city ana snooting inaiscriminately. Warning was given immediately and mounted police officers sought to halt the mob, surrendering their lives in vain efforts to drive the soldiers back. Illinois guardsmen encamped at Camp Logan soon arrived on the scene, but only in time to throw a cordon be tween the negroes and great crowds of Houston citizens who armed them selves and quickly gathered to op pose the rioters. The negroes then took to the open country In flight, some returning to camp, where they were placed under guard, and others hiding in fields and ditches along nearby roads. Armed citizens assisted the military authorities in the search, and finally all the stragglers were rounded up. Excitement Ran High. Excitement ran hie-h not onlv in Houston, but thruout all Texas. Mar tial law was declared In Houston and rigorous measures taken by both civil and military authorities. The war de partment promptly conducted an in vestigation and during Its prcgress the negro Troops were transferred to the west, finally being sent to Columbua. N. M. Later there was an official in quiry at El Paso and then something over sixty negroes were taken to Fort Sam Houston where a court martial' was held. The court martial lasted all thru November. The verdict was reached November 30 but was not known pub licly until thirteen of the negro par-: ticipants were hung today. Why They Weren't Shot. Many citizens and even some sol- fdiers here were surprised that the thirteen blacks were hung instead of being shot. The reason the men were not shot to death, as explained by a military -man, was that military regu lations provide that the president of the court martial may prescribe the manner in which the death sentence may be applied. In this case the president of the court martial ordered that the men "be hung at the end ot a rope until dead." Keening TKm Quality TTn. LAXATIVE BROMO QL'ISINE. tbe ZZZ J".!; i". ,VT -.T Medicinal, Concentrated Extracts and Chein, ic-als contained LAXATIVE PROMQ iullHitjv. it was necessary to increase toe price to tbe Druggist. It has stood tba test for a Quarter of a Centnry. It is used by every CI iliired Nation. Adv. Traffic cn one of the principal streets in Mnncie, Indiana, was held np while a bird) entangled in a cord wrapped around a trolley wire, was rescued. RECOVER BANK LOOT Police Get $1700 of $10,000; One or Arrested Suspects Confesses. Chicago, Dec. 11. Seventeen hun dred dollars of the $10,000 stolen from the Stockmen's Trust and Sav ings bank by -five motor .bandits last Wednesday, had been recovered early today. rThe police have three men under arrest, one of whom is said to have j confessed. i TODAY7SMARKET REPORTS j fuhieago, Dec. 11. CORN Corn prices I hardened a little today, influenced by re- ports that but little actual relief from car scarcity had vet been witnessed. The market was virtually bare of offeriugs. Buying, however, was not of an aggressive sort traders showing a disposition to hold i off pending receipts of the government crop report. Opening prices which ranged from .ha .umn VPMtcriiilV'S fillisll to V C Oil, with January $1.201 and May $1.18 to $1.18, were followed by a slight advance all around. Opinions prevailed that there would not be sny great increase of arrivals until better weather conditions helped the effi ciency of the railroads. The close was firm. c to fcc net higher, with January $1.21Vi and May $1.10 to $1.19. OATS Scantiness of arrivals gave firm ness to oats. Business, however, lacked volume. PROVISIONS Provisions developed strength In sympathy with grain. There was no pressure to aeu. Subsequently the market underwent a sag because of realizing due to predictions of some increase in the hog movement. Chicago- Grain and Provision Market. ITha fonfre of nrices on craiu futures on Chicago Hoard of Trade as reported by Thos. J. Myers. .'01 N. E. iildg.) Chicago, Dec. 11. Closed r Today lea. 12314 120-8 124 ll!Vi 121U 124 119 120 72 72H 70 7Ha 70Vi 46.50 4G.00 47.10 24.47 24.45 24. B5 24.62 -24.65 24.65 24.02 24.77 25.17 23.02 25.25 25.05 I Kansas City Grain Market. (The range of ee on prain futures on Kansas City Board of Trade as reported by Thos. J. Myers, 301 N. E BlUg.) Kansas City, Iec. 11. Closed- Open High Low Today Yes. CORN er. May .127 127 .118 -120 127 119 127 1204 127 120 Chicago Grain and Pork Market. ChicaKoT Dec. 11. CORN Close Decem ber, 1.24ii; January, 1.21, May, fl.19 OATS December, 737:c; May, 71c March, 72. FUUK Jan., Si.0O. LAlill Jan., S24.C2; May. J24.B5. SHOUT UIBS Jau., $25.02; May, $2o.l5. Kansas City Produce Market. Kansas City, Dec. 11. CORN Cash Market steady. No 2 -mixed, Sl.flOifi l.t2 No. Rl.JVHal.ot,: z wane. i.nni.r No. :t. $1.65ftil.8: No. 2 yellow, 1.70; No. ;i. nominal. OATS Market ie to le higher. $1.65 No. 2 white. 70V-; No. 2" niixed, 4jiioc. KYI? $1.75. KAFIR AND MILO M A I Z E $3. 20Tl.o5. '.HAVi-Market unchanged. HOItT $2.2&si2..J. jIjha; siroj. WHKAT KeceijitB t cars. HH'TEK Creanierr. 42c: firsts, 40c; seeomls'. SKcf packing, 32VjC EfiliS Firsts. 4rc; seconds, 31(Bi32c. I'Ol'LTltY Ileus, l'Jc; roosters, 15c; broilers. 24(o2oc. COKN Close: December. $1.27; Janu ary, L22aL22; May.. $1.20. Chicago Prodose Maraet. Chicago, Dec. 11 HCTTBIt Market high er. Creamery, -o7(u.47V3C. EttOS Market unchanged. POTATOES Market unchanged. POULTRY Alive, unsettled fowls, 17 18c; springs, 19c. New York Produce Market. New York, Dec. 11. BUTTER Market strong. Creamery higher thau extras, 50 50V.C EGOS Market firm. Fresh gathered extras. 59(lGOc. CHEESE Mnrket steady. State fresh specials. 2:fa 2:1 Vjc. POULTKY Dressed strong. New York Smear Market New York Iw. 11. SUGAR Raw. nom inal centrifugal, 0.70; molasses. 52; re fined, steady; flue granulated, 8.15;8.o5. New fnrk Stock Market. Wall St. New Yoik. Dec. ll.STOCKS- Indications that the government intends to take over the railroads of the country for tne duratiou of the war were without ma terial effect on shares of thnt group at the dull opening of today's stock market. He actions among rails were mostly fractional with here and there a loss of a point. Equipments, specialties and utilities were under further pressure, Pullman falling .1 points and General Electric IV with a point each for American Tobacco and People's Gas. Foreign bonds continued to weaken but liberty issues were steady. The earlv steadiness of rails proved of short duration, moderate offerings later causing declines of one to two points in the active issues, while Louisville and Nash ville fell 4 points and Lackawanna ten. Pullman increased its loss to six points, Tobaccos yielded 3 to 10 and Equipments, Oils and Specialties 1 to 3. Foreign bonds reflected further liquidation, the French making new low quotations with Anglo French 5"s. Liberty 4's sold at 97.2G to 97.36, and the ZW at 98.48 to 98.52, kanwM City Ilve Stock Market. (The following sales were made this morn ing at the Stock Yards. Kansas City, and reported over long distance telephone di rect to the State Journal by Clay Robin son Co., live stock commission mer chants.) Kansas City, Dec. 11. CATTLE Receipts 13,000 head. Market steady. HOGS Receipts 11.0C0 bead. Market steady. Bulk of sales, $17.20&17.50; top, $17.rD. SHEEP Receipts 6.000 head. Market 13c to 20c higher. Lambs, S16.C0. KILLING STEERS. No. Wt Prlce.lNo. Wt. 50 $9.50 j 71 884 Price 9.10 8.50 8.95 CUWS ATS IJ ttfill- WIS. 3.. 10.. 3.. 5.. 12.. 4U. 755 G.2 1H 1041 J2 11M 2 1106 WW .1240 10.00 9.50 8.50 jK3 0.15 8 :t4 STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. 050 R.00 I lfi. 67; 7.50 8.S5 912 31.. 87-1 CALVES. 1 ISO 1 J40 S -440 on ia.no I l.. 7.00 1.. RDO I a.. 7.50 1.. HULLS. 7 VI I i. 7.25 I 2.. 270

:aw ...1410 7.00 lu.uO 1II.UO i.. i.. 1.1.TB0 500 7!K .50 17.40 ikiiO 8.0U HOGS. 17.SO 4 aw 17.40 I 88 1U7 17.35 I 2 105 .239 215 205 Chieato Live Stock Market. CMranro. Dec. 11. HOGS Ieoelnt 32.000. Market alow.. Hulk ot sale. $17.25 '817.B0; light, SltS.tl7.5u: mixed, JlTWWd 17ti5 heavy, 16.U5 17.(15 rough, $10,954(17.15; iiin. si:; ooa 15.85. f-ATTLE-RewlDts Zi.OOO. Market weak. Native stwrs. $7015.00 tern steers, f f -3013 .-0; ,k"s anil feeders. SA.HK3 lO.sof cows and heifers, $5.10tall.a5; calves. $K.0CH15.Ut!- SHEHP Receipts 17,000. Market steady. Wethers, $8.tyJ& l-.fto: lambs. $12.50ift 10.83. Kaana City Lire Stock Market. Kansas City, Dec. 11. HOGS Receipts 11.000. Market 10c to 15c lower. Bulk of sales. $17-10617.35; heavy, $17-25617.40; Open High ICORN Dec. ...124 12414 May;.- ,.11S ll"Vi Jan. :.120 121 OATS Iec. 7214 74Vi May ..-70H 71 I'OIIK- Jan. ..47.00 47.00 LARD May ..24.75 24.75 Jan. ..24.75 24.75 RIBS May ..25.35 25.37 Jau. ..25.10 25.15 GIBBS Gigantic Clearance Sale of Winter Stocks Is Now Going Full Blast 1,000 MEN'S SUITS AND OVERCOATS REDUCED lA FOR QUICK CLEARANCE All the newest styles and patterns. $12.50 Wool Suits and Overcoats, a good assortment of netf" if ft QC patterns and fabrics. .tP7.79 $16.50 all wool Suits and Overcoats, fancy style worsteds and cassimeres $12.50 $22.00 Suits and Overcoats, this sea son's newest styles, tailored by "Hazelhurst" H Q vfC manufacturers p 1 0. lrD CLEARANCE W0MEN!S and CHILDREN'S DEPT. Women's 50c Yarn Mittns, 23C Women's Yarn Cap and (71 QQ Scarf Sets, $1.26 and....... pUO Women's fl.00 Tennis Flannel 7Q Night Gowns. I 7 Women's $3.35 belt model lare G0 A Q collar Hweater Coats ipdUmHkO Children's extra heavy bear skin OQ Stockings; 10c and Heavy, large 3.50 wool-finish (JO AO Bed Blankets ......a..., tp.O Great Lots of Men's, Children's SHOES at Clearance of Ta-dles Shoes new, snappy styles, ail. leather and sixes 2.48 Z. $4.95 Clearance Boys and Girls Shoes; $1.98 np to v.. t Clearance Children's Shoes, 8c to $2.48 $1.98 Men's $1.75 extra heavy flaeced Union Salts.. $1.25 Men tientilne Roekford Sox for.. 9c- Men's extra quality 40c wool 29c Sox packers and butchers, $17.10S 17.40; light, S17.00ca?17.30: pigs, $15.00(16.00. CATTLE Receipts 13,000. Market slow, steady to a shade ighter. Prime fed steers, $14.50(g 10.00; dressed beef steers, $11.00 14.50; western steers. $9.00(12.00; southern steers. $7.00 p 10.00; cows, $5.35i10.50; heif ers, $0.50(al27oO; stockers and feeders, $7.00 fr 11.00 bulls, $6.50(8.25 calves, $6.30 13.00. SHEEP Receipts fi.000. Mnrket steady to strong. Lambs, $15.755 16 5 yearlings, $12.60(fl4.10; wethers, $11.6Ofl.V10; ewes. $10.60,12.10; stockers and feeders, $7.00& 17.00v v Kansas City Stock Yards, Dec. 10. Cattle received today 17,WW head, market slow but fully steady, short fed steers $12.50. Hogs today 7.000. market 10? fo 15c higher, too $17.55. Sheen todav 9.000. market 10c lower, lambs to killers $16.40. BEEF CATTLE. Beef steers and cows advanced 15 to 25 cents last week, and while buyers were slow getting out today, they paid steady prices for steers, and strong for cows. Some good yearlings brought $13 and two lots of heavy Christmas steers were late arriving, buyers waiting for these at one o'clock. Prices for these prime cattle will doubtless go far above $12.50, otherwise top in the heavy steer trade. Receipts of Colorado and western cattle, are smaller each week, sales of beef steers last week up to $10.75, cows $9.50. Native cows sell up to $10.50, heifers $12.50, some good fed animals now showing up. Veals are higher, best $13, STOCKERS AND FEEDERS. Soft corn continues to stimulate buying of stockers and feeders, and prices have held steady during the past week. Feeding steers sell at $9.50 to $11, stockers $7 to $10, aay White Face stockers of decent breeding bringing above $9, and good red cattle around $9. Stock cows and heifers bring $0.25 to HOGS. From a five higher opening today, the market quickly went to 10 to 15 cents high er; best heavy hogs $17.55, medium weights same price, of-st lights $17:45, bulk of sales $17.30 to $17.50. Tackers furnished the competition, tho order buyers were in to some extent. However," order buyers have been active for a week, and were the main force that caused the advance of 25 to 30 cents in price last week. Pigs sold stronger last week, and also today, sales at $15.50 to $16.25. Arrangements havfe nbout j been completed here for shipping stock nogs to tne country a i strict rroin tne puo lic stock yards, on the day purchased, nn der certain dipping and vaccinating rules. SHEEP AND LAMBS. Lamb nriees were 10 to 25 cents lower to day, best here $10.40 some heavy fed na tive lambs, around 100 lbs., at $15.60, a big string of New Mexico feeding lambs at $10, 58 lbs average. These feeding lambs are like others that sold at $16.";j two weeks ago. Best fed yearlings sell p to $14, wethers $12.50, ewes $11.75. The market is expected to acquire stronger support af ter the first of January. J. A. RICKART. Market Correspondent. Morning- Grain Goastp. (Fnrniahed by the Topeka Board of Trade.) New York. Dec 11. Financial Bulletin to absence of any 'arther unfavorable newa market is expected to display moderate rallying tendencies and should favorable developments appear tbe oversold condi tion would probably accelerate the move ment. The Kosslan news and railroad con- trol proposition outlined in New York Sun IS xavoraie. me pn-Mure ui hiui.i seems to be lifting and some of the specialties In tbe metal group may be advanced to some extent. United States Steel displays strong recovery tendencies. The same may be said of Utah Copper. Bullish gossip is noted on United States Corn Products and Pacific Mail. Chicago, Dec. 11 Tbe Herald says: Coarse grain traders, while In the main bearish, are not disposed to press short sales on breaks for the time being. Those who did it yesterday discovered that the markets become too easily oversold and show a reactionary disposition.. Itear leaders sre selling on bulges, whiie those wbo incline to the bull side, pick np a little corn and oats on tbe breaks. Both are working for a small turn, aa they do not look for big swings in prices at present. J-'resh meat prices were np lc yesterday, having advanced with hogs. Selling pres sure was not large and there was more dis position on the part of the bears, who sol4 CLOTHING CO. Men's Clearance of MEN'S All S1.S0 Pants for 98c A?.?..$1.48 All Wool Hand Tailored fg.M Pant for Men's $3.50 Cordnroy Pants for Men's Sweaters ,";:..M..8Tt'".:.. 98c Duck Coats,' Corduroy Coats ajid Pants Men's $.1.23 extra ions Dock Coats -1- 2 50 Men's extra Quality Cordnroy Pants 1 1 2 Q5 Men's Slicker lined Daek Coats, heavy material, qq q for ipOmVO Women's and Clearance Prices Men's Shoes $3.50 and $4.50 Press Shoes, al sixes and styles $2.98 $3.95 Clearance Men's Work Shoes, $2.98 up to............... $4.95 Men's $1.75 indigo blue bib q1 AK Overall. P -l.'M Men's heavy gray Sweater QQv Coats i roll collar- worth. V1.S0. IOU Men's 60c extpa quality, elastic lastl v OA Suspenders, tor.-. ....(..-yvv, i Cross River Where Water Is Deepest v Weather Report: TtTEATHE11 FORECAST for Kansas: Unsettled tonight and W (tint's- day. Slowly riaing temperatures. The -work of bulldinir a gas pipeline system In a. place where nature has been so stubborn that it has placed all sorts of mental and physical hazards in the way is not mechanical In any sertse of -the work. A hazard is a difficulty or an object placed In the way which is hard to overcome. At every turn In the present aerve-tearinar effort to complete the needed 90 miles of pipe in a stated period of time, problems seldom met in pipeline building have presented themselves for solution. Probably the two hardest problems which presented themselves were the crossing; of the Walnut and Arkansas Rivers on the 43- mile stretch from Cambridge, Kansas, to the Blackwell field. ,T The pip was laid on the bottom of the rivers. Instead of laying the pipe on the riffles where the rivers are the most shallow, it was put in the deepest holes. Why? Well, rivers go on rampaees when it rains hard,- and Jogs and other debris come charging; down stream powerful and destructive. Pipe nestling; In the deepest holes stand less chance of being torn out than If it were on the higher levels. .KANSAS NATURAL GAS CO. i STOCK SHIPPERS v-- To Insure Yourself Best Result Consign to CLAY, ROBINSON- CO. Live Stock Commission Merchants, Stock Yards, Kan. City We Also Have Our Own offices at Chlraco. So. St. Joseph, So. Omaha. Denver, Sioux City. So. St. Paul, E. Buffalo, E. St, Louis, fort Woth and El Paso. futures last week, to cover. Some of the speculators who took in provisions on de livery in October unloaded yesterday. Final report of the department of agrl culture is due in Chicago at 1 o'clock. I'revloua estimates were 650 million 1 wheat ami million bushels corn and 1.5x1 million oats, 5V million bushels rye and 22 million barley. 'He report on winter wneat and rye acreage and condition for the harvest In 1018 will be issued at ll-.ao, Chicago time, December' 19. Chicago, Dec. 11 Logan and Bryan says: Corn futures become easily oversold due to light trade, Out Wltn a siacsening casu ne mand and prospects of increased stocks at terminals, we feel that prices will seek t a lower level. oats First deliveries of oats on Decem ber contracts were made yesterdsy after noon. We believe they will be heavier by the end of tbe month Would sell tbem on .all little upturns. TOPEKA MAKKRT REPORT Tspeka Hsy Martiet. Top ka, Kan., Dec. 11. PRAIRIE 3AT $17.00 A LFA Ls'A 2Q.lw. Retail Buy. t Furnished by '.V. A liu-hrlat, 626 QalDcj Street. Topeka. Kan.. Dec. 11. PRAIRIK HAT $20.00. I ALFALFA $25.00 Poultry and Re-go. i IFurnlaiied by the Topeka I'acklng cooa j pany. corner Laurent and alsdion., j Topeka, Kan., Dec. 11 HEW !4 IMiid over., pic; antler. S ua, 15c; springs, over 2 lbs., ISc; roosters. MEN'S AND BOYS' MACKI NAWS AND WORK COATS Men's extra heavy wide belt model, large collar Mackinaws, worth $8.1 Clearance Price. 4 DsDU Boys' large roll-collar belt model Mack inaws, all wool, water- fl m a proof Ip.J Corduroy and Duck Work Coats Extra, beavy reversible dock and corduroy Work Coats. Men's large collar $3.50 Duck Coats .$4.95 $2.48 PANTS Men's CAPS All $1.00 Caps for 75c 50c 35c ..$3.95 ....$2.48 All TSe Cap for One table SOe Caps for CLEARANCE OF MEN'S and BOYS' GLOVES and MITTENS $1.50 Leather Gloves and Mittens. Men's extra heavy- $1.00 Mittens Men's Yarn Golf Glove for Mn's extra heavy Jersey Gloves $1.19 65c 39c 19c Men's Overshoes, special $1.45 W m e n'a v d Children's I VTW,noe fuuuw- Mta t-T i prices. Save n every pair joiliuj'. 0$ 12c; staggy young roosters, 13c; broilers 2 lbs. and under. 23c EOC.S Me. Ksss are retailing in Topeka, 45g4fle. liUTTElt 46fe4cT Xopeko Live Rtoek Market. Toneka. Kan.. Dec. 11. MTXF.D AND BUTCHKKS. $14.00 KiHfl 14 OOCn 18.90 L'i.50t5ltJ.70 l.luiuu liKAVY LIGHT HUB COWS Good to cbolea Fair to :ood. Common w Fair to good...., "Common TKF.RS Good to choice.. Fair to ,tood.... BULLS-. 'Fle.hy iaietltom i T enia s.o 6.00a 7 US onw t.0 o.uott a.u vi.jywa g.c. e ona 7.5 S.0k4iL5 s ooS a.ci .xa t.o fi-OOra (Vuo T.00& g.ua naer abavs uoeo of SHEEP Fat wetbrg Fat ewes Fst lambs Coat VFAL CALVES Mm fat Me,ilum gooa Fair Good to cboiea Shorn iRntit ftqd aneeo prices. Positively cannot Ianibs unless fat. Top linlii Market. Fum-hed "a'J. sndlitl. SC"" NEW CORN S1.3QL B OOffl 6.0! 4 ocxa w.ua 5 OD'S 6.1 4.U0U -LlM

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V TVT?. TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL-TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1917 n- Up to the Minute t r Christmas as Usual Christmas. 1017. will be the first b if? teat on the tem per of the American peo ple. How will It prove them? Of course some of them are worrying about the war. they just can't help it, for they are people that have Just pot Co worry, and If it wasn't about the war it would be about something else. Hut In the majority the same spleniHi unselfish spirit that has dominated them from the beginning will guide them now. Christmas nns pone for ward to the boys in the trenches, Christmas will keep in pood cheer those at home. And hundreds of people who intended to cut down their pift 'ists this season, nre finding that, right here in the stores of Topeka, they can spend their money so advantageously that everybody can be reniem be red. It's to be n new a differ ent sort of Christmas as suredly but it's to be Christmas just the same. Bogle Printing Co. "Good Printing Plus" 5th and Jacknon Phnnt 77 L.. M. PenwaP Presiden Phone 775 K. bi. Johnson 6ecv-Treis. Phone 3U9 THE L M. PENWELL I'NIIEKTAKI.MU t06-50ft-SIO Oulnrr Ktrret CO. PhoM 19? Your Support We Desire! Our Country Has Our Support Let's work together to the be.t interests of our country. Serve and save. Write or call for booklet. Capitol Building Loan Ass'n 531 Kansas Ave. FROM EVERYWHERE. BVCl-UG' TENER MAY QUIT National League President In sists on Having Own Way. He and Herrmann Fight It Out Today in Y. New York. Dec. 11. Who's who in the National league probably will be decided today. At least some prog ress in that direction will be made when Garry Herrmann, chairman of the national commission and John K. Tener, president of the National league begin exchanging glares across the green tables in the state room at the Waldorf. Garry is merely a club owner so far as his connection wit! the National league is concerned Hermann had what home folks have called bad taste enought to call a Joint meeting of the American and National club owners, to follow annual meet ings of the two big leagues. Tener feels that the president of the league should have something to say about it Tener Makes Threats. There have been rumors that Tener would declare to the world his inten tion of leaving baseball unless Garry withdraws his summons to a joint talking contest. If he does that, i is believed Herrmann will back down and take next best. Tener has shown himself to be a most powerful figure in baseball. He said last summer he would not be a candidate for re election, but a short time later the league magnates unanimously request ed him to again accept the presi dency and Tener said he would. So far as is known, that still is his in tention. It has been an accepted fact that the procedure would be only a mat ter of form, with congratulations al ready prepared for Tener. However, disquieting rumors were bandying Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists refund money if it fails. 25c about today. They had it that Tener is through unless he can have his own way completely. International In Session. The International league was to be in simultaneous session with its big brother today. The session of the big minor had been adjourned to await the arrival of a pair of delaye club owners. Jack Hendricks, manager of the In dianapolis club, is expected to reach the city today for a conference with Branch Rickey, president of the Cardi nals, over Hendricks signing a con tract to manage the Cards. FULTON "WINS AGAIN Minnesota Southpaw Knocks Ont Porky Flynn in Columbus Bout. Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 11. With a short left jab, flush to the point of the jaw, Fred Fulton, Rochester, Minn., heavyweight, knocked out Porky Flynn, of Boston, after two minutes and eighteen seconds of fight ing in the second round of what was to have been a twelve-round fight here. Fulton was on his man from the start, using short, blows to the body, while Flynn endeavored to cover up. In the opening round Fulton landed hard with his left hand and Flynn seemed dazed. Several times he was knocked against the ropes so hard that, he had to be helped off. The end came after Fulton rushed his man around the ring in the second. Flynn missed long swings repeatedly, and did not land half a dozen blows. After rushing his man from a neutral corner to his own, Fulton caught Flynn squarely on the jaw with a hard smash that sent Flynn to the ropes. It was the third meeting between the two. Fulton said after the fight that if Jesse Willard. present heavy weight title holder, continued to ig nore this challenge after December 20, he would claim the title and would be willing to meet all comers. VEIOCK'S ALL-AMERICAN TEAM FIRST ELEVEN. POSITION. SECOND ELEVEN. Miller. Pennsylvania End Robeson, Rutgers Carlson. Pittsburgh End Bolen, Ohio State Cobb, Syracuse Tackle.. Hubka, Nebraska Ilauser, Minnesota Tackle Williams, Oregon Neeley, Dartmonth Guard .Culver, Michigan Sutherland, Pittsburgh Guard Lane. California Rvdewski, Notre Dame Centre Bailey, West Virginia Boynton, Williams Quarter Hill, Georgia Tech. Hurley, Ohio State Halfback Strapper, Georgia Tech. Olipbant, Army Halfback Ingraham, Navy McLaren, Pittsburgh ..Fullback Berry, Pennsylvania BIG GRID. SEASON Yeiock Picks Football Stars of the Nation. without' him. He is awarded a half back position. Chick Harley, outstanding star of the champion Ohio State eleven, who earned a position on last year's Ail American, was, like Oliphant, the same great player this year as in 1916. He is given the other halfback job on the first team. Strupper. star of Georgia Tech's champion aggrega tion, will be awarded a first team position by many critics," but on ac count of the fact that he has not had the experience of Oliphant and Har ley, we have placed him on the sec ond team. Without a doubt, Strupper is one of the greatest backs ever de veloped in the South, and in another j jrai n ne is noi ratten into xne na- of discouraging predictions made for Uona army he wjn nQ douM earn All Sections Represented All-American Eleven. on BY JACK VEIOCK. New York, Dec. 11. War-time foot ball was successful this year In spite it in advance of the season. The grand old grid game lost some of its glamour in the east thru the in activity of the big threes Harvard, Yale and Princeton but elsewhere in his Ail-American laurels. Ingraham, of Coach Gilmour Dobie's successful Navy eleven, is awarded the other halfback position on the second team. As a ground gainer I Ingraham rankpH with (ha Knot halr- omer nem men of the season. His total the snort thrived, and years, it developed its stars. points for the season were 162, and A great many football critics nave ran up -JLf"? ,t.mntin- the selec- I?Apo'nta. n 191- only other but we in me east who has amassed tion of All-American elevens, but we a Breater t t th f years can see no good reason why outstand- Gnrova nrlr th. ing players should not receive mention as they have in the past, and for this C. White to Battle Creek. Camp Grant. Rockford, 111., Dec. 11. Charley White, Chicago lightweight, has agreed to his transfer to Camp Custer as boxing instructor and will ljave shortly to take up his work in Battle Creek. Cares Cold In China. b LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets re move the rause. K. V. GllOVE'S signature on box. 30c. Adv. W Thousands Smmmm'"'a wjp will receive our "e Jfjffi ml Christmas Club Checks this week IV .-.As Do You Know How You Can Get One Next Year If you want to save for a purpose make up your mind to lay aside a part of your income and be prepared for meeting your fixed charges Join Our 1918 Christmas Club Which Starts December 19, 1917 REMEMBER You pay no fees nor dues in this club stid all the money you pay in is paid back to you. It is a most satisfactory way of knowing that your big, certain annual expenses are being provided for. The Best Christmas Present Yon Can Make Is the Gift of a Membership in The Christmas Club. Ask Cs for Particulars. The State Savings Bank SOUTHWEST CORNER SIXTH AND KANSAS AVENUE Your Club Membership Is Guaranteed by the Kansas State Guaranty Fund We Have Moved .Our Office to 1 1 8 EAST SEVENTH STREET Where we will be pleased to have you call and leave your coal order The Jackson -Walker Coal and Mining Co. H. M. FELLOWS, Manager Our Telephone Numbers Remain the Same, 550 and 3982 reason have made selections based on the performances of those players whose work all season stamped them a3 the topnotchers of 1917. Many followers or lootDau coniena there is no sure method of selecting the best players for an All-American pipvon. even in times of Deace. and In a manner this is true. Yet the fame of a football star Is far-reaching, and the nlavers who have broken into print consistently week after week deserve to share the laurels dispersed eacn fall. Fame Far-Reaching. Such players have oeen selected by the x.riter for 1917 honors, and a glance at the first and second elevens as set forth on this page will show that football fame, as we have ob served it this year. Is Indeed far reaching. The great Pittsburg university eleven, considered by many critics as the strongest, smoothest working foot ball machine of the season, is awarded three positions on our first elevens. Players representing Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Notre Dame, Syracuse, Minresota, Williams, Ohio State and the Army fill up tie remaining positions. The ends have been awarded to Miller, of Pennsylvania, and Carlson, of Pittsburgh. The work of these two wing men received consistent praise throughout the season and they broke into print time after time. Both are speedy, aggressive players, who have mastered all the tricks of playing their positions. At smashing interference, getting down under punts, tackling runners and handling the forward pass both are past mas ters. On the second eleven the wing positions nave been awarded to Bolen, of Ohio State, and Robeson, of Rut gers, who, like Miller and Carlson, have made great reputations for themselves as wing men. Cobb, of Syracuse, and Hauser, of Minnesota, are given the tackle Jobs. Both players are powerfully built. Both are thoroughly experienced and both are demons in the line. Cobb is perhaps the greater of the two, yet there seems little to choose between them. At opening holes for their backs, smashing the enemy attacks through the line and carrying the ball when called upon to do so, these two powerful tackles are the last word in efficiency. The second eleven tackle positions are given to Hubka, of Nebraska, and Williams, of Ore gon, who were mountains of strength to their respective teams this year and whose work was continually praised. Guards Great Players, Sutherland, of Pittsburgh, and Nee ley, of Dartmouth, have received so much favorable comment for their playing at guard that they are the first players for these positions to come to mind as we glance back over the season. Like Cobb and Hauser, they are powerful linemen and un usually fast for big men. Few gains were made thru either of them by opposing backs during the season, and both showed remarkable ability in piling up the offense of the opposition and breaking thru the line to block kicks and break up plays before they could be fairly started. Two western players who built up like reputations are awarded the guard jobs on the second eleven. They are Lane, of California, and Culver, the big Michigan lineman. The center position on the first eleven is given to Rydzewski. of No tre Dame. Coach Harper uncovered a diamond in the rough several years ago when he found Rydzewski, and his playing for the past two years has placed him in a class with the great Peck, of Pittsburg's 1916 eleven, and McEwan, of last year's Army team. Rydzewski is a shark in his place in the line. On offense he can more than hold his own against the most power ful opponent and his accuracy in passing the ball was marvelled at in Notre Dame's victorious attack against the Army this year. On defense the big center is equally efficient. Bailey, of West Virginia, Is another perform er of Rydzewski's type, and is award ed the center position on the second eleven. Wray, of Pennsylvania, de serves honorable mention. One of the most dashing, spectacu lar and all-around players of the sea son was Boynton, quarterback of the undefeated Williams eleven. Bovn- ton's work thruout the season was so consistently brilliant that he was men tioned many times as All-American timber before the season was half over, and he is awarded the quarter back position because he has quali fied for it in every department of the game. A great field general, an adept in passing the ball, a great open field runner and a kicker of ability as well, Boynton stands at the head of list. Hill, of the wonderful Geor gia Tech eleven, is a close match for Boynton and is awarded the pivotal berth on the second eleven. Oliphant Backfirfd Star. Ask any football fan to name the greatest backfield player in the game today and the chances are that he will blurt out "Oliphant!" without so much as batting an eye. Oliphant was the backbone of the Army teams again this year. He was the same great all-around star that he has been in other years and no All-American eleven for 1917 would be complete tiiiroy s work this year was highly sensational and he is deserving of honorable mention. The fullback position on the first team goes to the great McLaren, of Pittsburgh. McLaren is not yet twenty-one years of age. but he ranks as one of the best fullbacks ever devel oped in the east, and his work with the Panthers all season was consis tent, if not highly sensational. Mc Laren kept Pitt's slate clean by prac tically defeating Pennsylvania single handed. Howard Berry, Penn star, is given the fullback berth on the second team. He distinguished him self in the Michigan game when he x A.hree drPWck for Penn and paved the way to victory over Coach Yost s powerful Wolverines. Eckersall Is Recovering. Chicago, III., Dec. 11. Walter Eck ersall, sport writer and former foot ball star, expected to leave St. Luke's hospital today, where he was -taken a week ago, critically ill from a general breakdown. Cleveland Catcher to Navy. Cleveland, O., Dec. 11. Herman De Berry, second string catcher for the Cleveland Indians, wired friends here today that he has enlisted in the navy at Memphis. De Berry's home is in Savannah, Tenn. QUITS PEACELEAGUE Too Warlike and Seeks to Crush Ger many, Gardiner Asserts. New York, Dec. 11. Lack of sym pathy with the war policy of the League to Enforce Peace, of which former President W. H. Taft is pres ident, has caused Robert H. Gardiner of Gardiner, Me., to resign as state chairman of the Maine branch of the organization, it was announced today. In a letter accepting Mr. uarmners resignation, Wm. E. Short, secretary of the league, wrote: "The league has so often both de clared and demonstrated that it is not a pacifist organization that we are somewhat surprised that one of our state chairmen should only now have discovered the fact." Cites Ijaasdowne Letter. Mr. Gardiner, in his letter, charged that the league "Seems to have now no policy except to join officially in the effort to crush Germany. It may be that it is necessary that Germany should be crushed, but I cannot see it that any reason why the league should abandon its original object. "The recent appeal of Lord Lans downe, whether it succeeds or fails, is one example of what the league might have done in an effort to remain true to its original principles." Secretary Short, in his letter, said the league does not share with Lord Lansdowne s views. "We feel bound. on the contrary," he wrote, "to use our entire influence against the Ger man scheme for a premature peace, believing that peace made with an unrepentant Germany would be Dpr- manently fatal to the world's liberties and tranquillity." TO REST IN NATIVE SOIL Exhumes 400 Chinese to Send Bodies from N. Y. to Orient. New York, Dec. 11. The bodies of 400 Chinese buried in the Chinese res ervation in Cypress Hill cemetery, Brooklyn during the past thirteen years are being exhumed, preparatory to shipment to the Orient that they may rest finally in the soil of their ancestors. The "six companies" made or religious, partriotic and fraterna Chinese organization are financing the work, it was said today. Cores Colds In Bnssla. LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets re move the cause. E. W. GROVE'S signature on Dor. juc. Aav. Christmas Cigars Do not chase a rainbow when you have decided to buy, the best gift for a smoker. Visit our store and we will help you choose what you are looking lor. Our cigars have that quality found only in the very best cigars, which is satisfaction, when that after-dinner smoke is finished. Give him a box of cigars of our selection and you will please him. Cigars by the Package $1 and up "The Busy Drag Store." 1 729 Kansas Ave. Phone 528 CIHIH1SYR2AS On it goes and grows this wonderful M with its messages of good cheer and savings offering Christmas presents at bed-rock prices and staple Winter merchandise of all kinds at prices decidedly less than usual. New lots, new bargains, each day A big sample Sine of towels 3,000 of them, on sale Wednesday at 1-3 to 1-2 less than regular What rare good fortune to get this fine, big sample line of Towels right at this time for what is more acceptable as a Christmas gift than half a dozen nice bath or huck towels Included are Towels of all kinds, all sizes and all qualities; from little individual Huck Towels up to fine big Bath Towels with handsome Jacquard borders all on sale at from Va to Yi less .than regular. Lot 1 8 1-Sc, 10c and 12 1-Ze Huck Towels for Lot 2 19c to 25c Huck and Turkish Towels for Lot 3 Regular 25c, 35c and 40c Towels for Lot 4 Regular 50c, 60c and 75c Turkish Towels 6c 12c 19c ":37c IT t-r aA IT.. i ry 1 Thar. ota Hfa- flnaelv Tn tTlia 1 i"i ci rt ovt r"i tpi, ah.' nr. a Taw. of most all kinds; hun dreds and hundreds of them; plain white ones and with colored bor ders; fine, firm weave and coarse absorbent weave. Lay in a big supply for everyday use it's a certainty that you'll not have such a money-saving opportun ity as this again very There are big, closely woven Huck Towels, lots and lots of them, and there are plain white and unbleached Bath Towels of good size and weight. While there are quite a few regular 19c ones in the lot, still the most of them are regular 25c ones and here we are offering them at ex actly half price. OX SAT.K IN PELLKTIFK More damaged plush coats here's your chance The styles are the very newest and the damaged places are very slight and hard to find, but be cause of them the prices are very low. In this lot are extra large, extra "heavy Huck Towels, plain white ones, and with red and jac quard borders, and a fine lot of big Turkish Towcld with a soft, firm nap; more than a thousand Towels In this one lot and some of the best bar gains, too. Come early and get first choice. S BARGAIN DASEMFXT There's not a Towel in this lot worth less than 50c, and there ar hun dreds and hundreds of regular 75c ones; big, heavy, firmly woven Bath Towels: plain white ones and with the hand--somest of colored bord ers. If you want some of these, come early for they won't last very long at this price. r Damaged Plush Coats that. If pr-fec-t, would bo 25.00 for only Iama.grrd Plaih Coats that, if per fect, would would be 935.00 for only 14 98 17 69 Damagred Plash Coats that. If per fect, would be S37.50 for only Damaged Plush Coats that, if per fect, would be 940.00 for only 1969 21 69 New, full cut models; many of silk seal plush with big fur collars, and some with fur collars and fur bands at the foot; some are sol satin lined and some are fancy lined. The cold snap has made scores and scores of women realize how wise they were to secure Plush Coats at the wonderfully low Base ment prices. Here's another chance and it may be the last. Here in Pelletier's Bargain Base ment you can buy Plush Coats at practically half price! Pelletier's Bargain Basement Flannelette Wear Boys Sleeping Garments of good weight flannelette; the drop seat, footed style; in pink and blue stripes ex cellent CO r values 0 Little girls' and boys' fl.OO Sleeping Garments of light gray color, medium weight of flannelette, soft and warm; plenty of all sixes from 2 to .1itwhi.le.th.ey.:....87c Women's 75c Petticoats of heavy weight striped flannelette with a long, fleecy jiap. very warm and serviceable regular and extra sizes spe cially priced Children's Petticoats of heavy flannelette, made on a muslin underwaist; fine and warm all sizes 10 to 16 Ck a very special values Women's $1.00 Night Gowns of good weight Flannelette; round or V-neck style; full length, wide and warm on special ClI 4 sale O O C Men's N igh t SI 1 1 rts of e xtra heavy flannelette; cut extra full size, wide and long very special values Peiletler's Barg-sln Basement 67 c 1.19 The yard goods most in demand now at money-saving prices 13c White Shaker Flannel; a very fine, firm, closely woven quality, snow-white bleached, with a soft warm nap in this great Christmas Sale, yd. 121- 0 32-Inch Striped Outing Ilannel; a quality you can well afford to spend your time in.making up; very firm, closely woven with a long, soft nap yard 19J Bath Robing) a fine variety of Indian, floral and con ventional patterns on gray, brown, tan and brown grounds; fine quality, soft and fleecy yard Pelletier Bargain Basement Women's warm Winter wear at very low orices i rnlnn Rutra rhrtlitmoi Women's 91.00 Colon Suits the medium weight ootton, neck styles in this OOm Christmas Sale......' Women 3.50 Wool Vnlon Suits me'linm weipht, but very warm and comfortnhi? specially O 3Q priced Women's S3.S0 Bath Robes of warm, fleecy "Heacon" blan keting: an excellent line of Iiatterns and colors to se ed from in this great Christmas Sale 2.49 91.00 Dresftinir 8aeques; warm, comfortable, serviceable ones of soft, fleecy flannelette the fitted waist, loup sl'-eve style specially 7Qr priced -Roekford" Hose; fashioned, perfect fitting, knit to fit; medium weipht black, in sizes 8V4 to 10 extra (rood "seconds" of regu- O C lar 50c ones wi. Bar sal n Basement Peiletler's Warm flannelette wear at bargain prices Women's $1.25 and Si. 50 Gowns: samples and small' lots; full size, well made Gowns of soft, warm, pink and blue striped outing flannel on special sale $1.19 Chdrcns 75c Night Gowns; heavy, warm, serviceable ones of very superior quality flannelette specially priced for the Christmas Sale -590 Women's Knit Pettlcoiats, warm and comfortable: an sizes In all colors. Because of a slight defect here and there we are able to offer these slight "seconds of 75c and SI. 00 Knit Skirts for 48e Pelletier's Bargain Basement Here are four fine lots of blankets at special prices 91.ZA Single Bed Blankets; 9S.OO Large sice cotton Blaa- medium weight gray or tan with a soft, warm nap on special Cfi sale Big, heavy, wool-nap, plaid Blankets; blue, ptiik. tan and gray: were It not for slight irregularities In the binding or the striping, they would sell for 94. no us they are, O O t they're bets; closely woven ones with long, sort Dap; extra good values at the full regular price- anil O J T here they are for..- Extra large, extra heavy 95.00 to ss.oo Hiankets la hand some plaid and big square Co item s gra y ping and Ine most excep- J9 tional values at Pelletier's Bargain Basement and a fine lot of bargains in men s and boys' furnishings Uni?n Suits-Sl.&U 3.57 Men's $4.75-$6.O0 Sweaters- Warm, serviceable Sweaters for men. They have enough wool in them to insure unusual warmth and service; good range of sizes in gray, oxblood and navy a special lot of Sweaters worth rrom d to $6.00, specially priced Men's S2.50-S3.OG Hats-$1.69 A fine new lot of men's Hats; newest styles and shapes of plain felt and velour-nnished material in green, gray, navy, brown and black; plenty of all sizes to begin with men's Hats worth $2.50 and $3.00 on special sale Men's heavy ribbed Union Suits of white or ecru color cotton with a light fleece lining; of the weight and the warmth most men prefer for Winter wear very special values 1.50 Nightshirts 95c A sample line of men's Night Shirts; slightly soiled, but as warm and serviceable as ever. They are of good weight, pink or blue striped flannelette, cut full width and length regular $1.50 ones for 95c Socks 25c Union Suits 1.69 $1.19 Men's part wool Socks; warm and heavy, for real Winter wear; all sizes in gray and blue very special values. 25c 1: Warm, heavy Union Suits for men who work out of doors; of plain gray cotton with extra heavy. soft, warm neece comfortable, durable and very low priced Pelletier's Bargain Basement 1.19 Men's S?rn Pejam as 1 .69 Men's Pajamas of the very best quality of outing flannel; extra heavy, extra warm and extra serv iceable a special lot of .regular i.uv ones on m sale JL .07 Men's $5.50-87.50 Bath Kobes $4.95 If you intend to rive some man a Bath Robe (or Christmas, here is a most excellent chance to save! Men's Bath Robes of heavy, warm. soft, fleecy blanketing; h&ndsom. Indian designs in rich coloring up to $7.50 ones on A f sale $5.50 Corduroy fauits $4.87 These are good weight dark brown Cordaroy Suits, carefully made in latest styles; Suits that are not to be equalled for school aod general wear; sizes to 1 6 years boys' regular 15.50 Corduroy Suits on special M Cs'V sale Hh.O Pelletier. Bargain BMnKn

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THE TOPFKA DAILY STATF JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING. DECEMBER f. lPlY An Independent Newspaper BY FRANK P. MACLFNNAN. Kntered a second-class mall matter. volu::e xxxix. No. 295 OFFICIAL STATE PAI'EIl. "OFFICIAL PAPER CITY OF TOPEKA. 8iibrrlptloa Rate. Pv mull in advance, one year $4. SO Py mail In atlvance. six months.. 2.40 tty mnil in artvnnt-e. throe months 1.20 By mail In ailvanre, one montb.. .30 Rates by farrier. One week 1214 cents Two weeks for a quarter 2." cents Four weeks 50 eenta Telephone .Vi-TO. Knstern offices- Pnul Flock, representa- 't1e. 2.V Fifth avenue. New York: Mailers J'irli'line. rhicapo: 201 Iievonsblre street. Boston; Kresgp bnUiling. Detroit. Memiter: Associated Press, American "Newspaper Publishers' Association. Audit r.nreau of Circulation. MKMBKK OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Associated Press is exclusively en titled to the use for republication of all news dispat'-hes credited to it or not o iier wlse credited in this patter and also tlie local news published herein. tVHATKVF.lt YOti WANT TO KNOW." The Topeka State Journal Information Purean at Washington furnishes readers, free of charare. att-urate and authoritative answers to questions on any and all sub Jects coiH-emlnff which information can be had from the unparalleled resources of the "various federal eovernment departments and the great library of congress. A 3 eent stamp for return postage must ac company each inquiry. State clearly the Information wanted, write plainly and sd dress ..TUB TOPEKA STATE .TOFRNAIj IN FORMATION BUREAU. Washington, P. C. N. B. Inquirers should be careful to ob serve two points: Enclose a 3-cent stamp nd address their letters to Washington, as above, and not to Topeka. otherwise de lay and needless expense are incurred. Jerusalem has fallen. The Holy City, after being subjected to Turkish rule for a period approximating 800 'ears, is once more in the hands of the Christians, by whom it is planned that it shall be turned over to the Jews, its ancient inhabitants. Jeru salem came under the domination of the Turks in the eleventh century. It was rescued from the grip of the Cres cent during the crusades and subse- quently changed hands a number of times, but it has been held, with one slight interval, by the Moslems since the year 1187. It is improbable that :tne Crescent ever again will wave above its walls. The capture of the city by the British under General Al ienby will bring a feeling of joy and satisfaction to Jews and Christians alike thruout the civilized world. This :ls the second of the cities celebrated In history and story to fall before the "tide set in motion by the war. Bag dad came into possession of General Maude's army some months ago. If congress shall decide on govern itnent operation or government owner ship of railroads, members and their -families probably will expect to ride jn .pauses. The postal service is the '"Only public utility carried on exclu sively by Uncle Sam and every mem ber of congress is given free use of it. This promises to be a hard winter for the Huns in Italy unless they can succeed in breaking thru the Italian lines and reaching the lower lands. Fartl er progress for their armies now seems improbable. The postmaster general wants to "call a halt in the erection of new .postoffice buildings until after the war. Does this mean that all the towns in the south have been sup plied? v Deaths resulting from accidents in 1916 numbered 60,071, corresponding to a rate of 83.9 per 100.000 popula tion. This rate is considerably in ex cess of that for 1015. The most marked increases appear for deaths due to railroad and to automobile ac cidents and for those resulting from the effects of heat. The rate for deaths from railroad accidents in 1916. It. 3, exceeds the corresponding rates for 1914 and 19)5, but, with these ex ceptions, is the lowest one recorded since 1906, the first year for which deaths' from this cause were reported separately. Deaths from automobile accidents and Injuries in 1916 totaled 5,193, or 7.3 per 100,000 population. As might be expected, in view of the enormous increase in the number of automobiles in use, the death rate due to these causes has advanced contin uously since 1906 the first year for which they were reported separately When it stood at 0.4 per 100.000 popu lation. 1 It appears that Rumania has been forced to join in the armistice on the eastern front. The Rumanian army was dependent upon the Slavs for pro tection to Its flank any attempt o hold out would have rendered it liable to utter annihilation. The time is coming when "do your bit" must give place to "do your best." In the meantime you can do your two bits by buying a war savings stamp. -I1. Tlie maintenance and improvement of highways and the building of new highways, says the Manufacturers' Record, are absolutely essential to the welfare of the country. The railroads are broken down. Not in ten years, with the utmost stretch of -ctivity, will they be able adequately to meas ure up to the traffic of this country. Highways and water transportation must, therefore, supplement, and In many cases supplant, railroad work. It would be inconceivable folly for th i nation not to recognize this. With' the almost unanimous consent of congress Uncle Sam has taken on ancther antagonist. It is not even re corded that Representative Rankin shed any tears. We are now at war "with Austria diplomatically as well as in fact. If the war continue mud. longer we probably shall include Tur-k-y and Bulgaria in the list of fight ing enemies. The open declaration of hostilities makes little difference in the situation. Germany is the head and front of the opposing force and the other countries named are merely vassals and assistants. They will atop fighting whenever Germany does, probably not sooner, however much they would like to do so. FEAtt AND FACTS. For some time past the market has been sufferng quite as much from fear as from facts, says Henry Clews in his Financial Review. The war created a general feeling of depression, which, if not resisted, undermines confidence, checks buying power and renders it difficult to measure events at their real value. Literally the business world today, he continues, is looking thru blue glasses. There is no doubt that the war means incalculable loss and sacrifice, which it is unwise and hazardous to underestimate. Yet it is time to realize that even pessimism i may be overdone, leading astray those who yield to fear. The rate of fall in securities since we entered the war is greater than the rate of fall in Great Britain for the entire three and a half years during which she has been actually fighting. There is a disposition also to forget that this errantry as a whole is high ly prosperous; that we are much the most favorably situated of all the bel ligerents; that we are practically safe from attack; that all our great indus tries with few exceptions are intensely active; that our western farmers and southern planters are enjoying extra ordinary prosperity, and that wages are rising to meet the increased cost of food and clothing, which would have risen far higher had it not been for government restraint. Moreover, there is no occasion for unreasonable fear regarding govern ment regulation and price fixing; ex perience thus far proving that the pol icy of the administration has been to allow liberal profits on all necessary service, at the same time checking un patriotic profiteering. Any other pol icy would be suicidal, for where else can the enormous amount of taxes necessary be obtained except from current profits; to destroy which would be to lose the war. It is reported that it has been nec essary for the bureau of internal rev enue to invoke the assistance of busi ness men and lawyers to frame the regulations for the collection of taxes under the new revenue law. This is not entirely new, but in the present case it seems to have been absolutely necessary that the advice and coun sel of business men should be obtained- and that attorneys should be employed to make the regulations fit the bill. In view of the situation it might have been better if these ad visers and counsellors had been called in while the bill was In the committees of congress. SEEING THE LIGHT. The interstate commerce commis sion has for many years regarded it self as a punitive body and has always based its action and its rulings upon that conception. It has thus followed that our great system of transporta tion, thru this narrow construction, has been steadily crippled so that when the war came it was manifestly unfit for the great task required of it. It has taken the commission a long time to comprehend this, but now sud denly, as far as its members are con cerned, the facts have burst upon them. We are in a great war. One of the most important energies for winning it is the railroad system, and this, because of the rate policy which has hampered it for years, is not now fit to carry it on. From an entity existing only to be pounded into submission for the bene fit of the shippers, it has become, in the eyes of the commissioners, a great national engine for public use and it is not ready. The problem is an overwhelming one for the interstate commerce commission, and it. has passed the responsibility to congress. For the first time In its history the commission has recognized the real condition of-the railroad's, and also for the first time has taken a step which is broadly constructive and will be widely helpful if acted upon promptly. The commission's proposal, briefly, is that the railroads be operated as a unit either by the carriers themselves, with suspension of the anti-trust laws and with sufficient Increase in rates, presumably under the war beard cre ated early this year, and which has been doing effective work, altho re stricted by state and federal law, or by the president during the period of the war, as a war measure, under the war powers vested in him by the con stitution and conf erred by congress. Under either of the two plans, the government would come to the assist ance of the roads and funds would be provided for immediate betterment.- Either plan lifts the reads out of their dilemma. The movement Is highly encourag ing, says the Bache Review, because it Indicates that the commission has been jolted out of its persistently ob structive practices, and, for the first time in its history has become con structive. Congress has been in session a week and nothng has been done in the di rection of making congressmen's sal aries subject to the operation of the excess profit tax law. Other persons must pay an excess tax on all income over. $6. 000 a year in addition to the regular income tax. THE TOPEKA 8TATK JOURNAL By FBKDEBIC J. HA8K.IN. DlreetM. WaofalaCtoB. O. C. AMERICAN IjEGION OF HUNTERS. Washington, Dec. 8. Despite the fact that war has boosted the price of ammunition to unheard of heights, and that many young sportsmen are sDending the season in training camps, the legion of hunters seems to have tour, tho field this vear in almost un- diminished numbers. I Early returns made by the New Tork state conserva tion commission show that ten thou sand sportsmen went deer hunting in four New York counties, ana mat tney

It is killed 1,755 deer and b Dear. interesting to note that less than one man out of every five got his buck; so that every deer killed furnished an ex cuse for at least five men to take a vacation in the woods. The experts of the Biological sur vey, who make a careful study of the hunting habits of Homo Americanus, have some startling figures to offer as to the predilection of Americans for field sports. They estimate that no less than five million persons go hunt ing in the United States every year. When you reflect that this means one person out of every twenty in the country, and that a majority of the twenty are women and children who never hunt, you realize that Americans are a nation of hunters, and that they are remarkably persistent about fol lowing their favorite sport in the face of a steadily decreasing supply of game, and a rapid growth of large cities. A New Spirit Manifest. x few venrs 320 it 'looked as tho 'the hunters would put an end to their own sport by destroying an oi i game. Now a new spirit is manifest. The federal government and the states are co-operating in works of con servation. The federal migratory game law is given credit by leading conservationist for having saved the wild fowl from extinction for another century at least. Upland game birds are still dwindling in numbers, but their protection on governme nt reser vations ana large ijii" the enactment of rigid state laws of fers a reasonablo hope that they, too, will pass the danger point, and begin i .j.. hefnr-e thev ha vo been re duced to the point where recovery of abundance is dimcuit n nui h..k" sible. Te thing most needed now is federal action to save the big game of the west. An excellent bill has been lntrdouced in congress providing for game refuges on national forests, which would definitely settle the dif ficulty. It has, of course, been for gotten In the rush of war legislation. But sportsmen and all others who have the slightest Interest in wild things, should not forget it. It will come up again. Its passage means that protected "reservoirs" of wild life would be established on many of the national forests, and that they would serve to stock the surrounding mountains. Unless some such action is taken, the Americans that are now growing up will never see an elk or a mountain sheep or a black tail deer outside of a zoo or a park. Just now the American sportsman has some special claim to considera tion because of his usefulness as a sol dier. A man who knows how to take care of himself outdoors, shoot a gun. and ride a horse, is distinctly rartner along toward becoming a soldier than the one who does not know any of these things. This has been often pointed out. It is not the only side of the case, however. In the present mobilization, city men are often faring somewhat better than those from the country because they are more ac customed to collective effort, more adaptable, and more of them have some acquaintance with technical ap pliances other than guns which play such a large part in modern warfare. WamlorinR Traits of Character. The fact of the matter is that the hunter, and the predatory and wan rierine traits of character which hunt ing engender, which make a man like hunting, have not much of a place in our modem machine-made civiliza tion. Devotion to routine work and ability toward co-operation are what count for progress these days; not love of excitement and destruction. In some sense the man who goes hunting is archaic; he belongs to another age. A good many modern thinkers and writers have sensed and expressed this fact. Bernard Shaw has written an essay in which he attacks as barbaric all 'killing for fun." The late Jack London took much the same viewpoint in an interview not long before his dea,th. Professor Vebien, an acute critic of modern institutions, says that hunting is an archaic, occupation, and that the love for excitement, depreda tion and wandering which motivates it are traits that do not fit into the modern scheme of things. Of course, no sportsman concurs in these criticisms. His annual taste of primitive excitement holds a place tn his heart from which no amount of theorizing could oust it. He knows that it seems good to him, and be lieves that it is good for him. And yet among the five million hunters in America, no philosopher has arisen to set forth the theory of his sport, to defend its rights to a place in so ciety. Orre factor which all the critics of hunting seem to overlook is that man remains necessarily an animal of preyr snd that If he did not eat other animals, they Would eat him, or at least, his sustenance. This is tirettv clearly shown by the depredations of animals tnat are not regularly hunted for sport. The government has just stated that rats and mice eat 1200,000.- uuo worth or rood every year in the United States. The wolves, coyotes and panthers in the west have become so bold and destructive in their depre dations that the federal government has been compelled to make an appro priation and hire men to hunt them. Thus we may be said to have a small standing army to defend us from the depredations of wild animals. And tn some sense, the amateur sportsman is In the same position as the citizen sol dier. If it were not for his services, 4L larger professional force would be necessary. Abundance of Wild Gccse. Of course, it wiio be objected that the amateur sportsman largely over looks the harmful animals and hunts the harmless ones. But the hannless ness of most species to agriculture and other human activities, depends large ly on proper control. Thus in Cali fornia wild geese have within recent years been so abundant that men armed with rifles have been necessary to keep them off the spring wheat. One valuable American game bird that us near extinction Is the sage grouse. And yet reports from certain Darts of Nevada, published by Mr. William T. Hornaday, show that the sage grouse is destroying the alfalfa crops. Rabbits and squirrels, which are usual game of the amateur hunter, if allowed to increase without limit, soon reach a state of abundance such that thev menana crops. Certain counties in the long settled state of Maryland have had to repeal laws protecting squirrels because they were destroying corn crops. In the District of Columbia, only ten miles square, and mostly occupied by a large city, where no hunting is allowed, rab bits are committing depredations on suburban property. The Philosophy of Field Sports. Of course, in most sections all of these latter Bpecles and related ones, need protection rather than prosecu tion. And many species useful to ag riculture have been destroyed in all J parts of the country. The amateur hunter seems to have overdone his runction in some quarters and neg lected it in others. Yet these facts seem to establish 'a presumption that he has a legitimate function, that all he needs is more control and direc- uvu hi aii'i muLauvii. x i dimiuiu be possible, for example, to conn. larize the hunting of pests. Fox hunt ing, now a favorite amusement of ele gant gentlemen, was doubtless orig inally a desperate effort on the part of farmers to destroy a pest. Why could not the coyote of the west be made cn object of sport for hound and horseman, as the fox is in the east? If the western ranchmen would"! give the deer a rest, and maintain instead community packs of hounds to hunt coyotes, the intelligent con trol of wild life, which Is the proper function of hunting, would be admir ably served. The future philosopher of field sports might also observe that the predatory and wandering traits, the love of excitement and hardship are not wholly disserviceable to industry. Scientists who collect data in far countries, explorers, foresters and prospectors are all of this type and have need to be. Would civilization ever extend Its frontiers if the unad venturous Industrial type of man were the only one that survived T On the whole, sport seems to have a strong case. Questions on the above or any sub ject upon which the reader desires In formation, should be addressed the iopeka btate Journal Information Bu reau, Frederic J. Haskin, Director, Washington,' D. C, with a 3 -cent stamp enclosed for leply. the m-wm&n ii BY ROY K, MOtLTOX The party who tells how, in the summer, he can-get more miles per gallon than any of his neighbors is wuw uus, iemng now ne can neat nis "it uve ions per winter. By the way, while we are rattling the skeleton, is there any objection to our asking what has become of the old-fashioned Harry Thaw? This war certainly has raised hades with a lot of personal publicity departments. A Pittsburg attorney admitted this week that there is such a thing as having a Jury which is of too high an order of intelligence. Yes, indeed, a wise gink on a jury certainly can raise hob with the lawyers oc casionally. Let's see. Didn't a certain official party come back from Russia a few months ago and Bay that everything was all right over there? We don't ask this to be mean, but Just for In formation. THE SEARCHOGHT Latest wa from the Field of BCIK.VCB, EIU'CATION, INTENTION Luminous Buoy. An electric-lighted buoy which generates its own electricity is the latest invention in the field of aid to navigation. The buoy is devised to utilize its own swaying motion in a seaway, to generate the electricity which lights its marking lamp. The rougher the sea, the more power is generated, and consequently the buoy will shine brighter in stormy weather. Apparently a dead calm would leave it dark, but there is practically never i enure ansence oi swell in openv Aumruing to tne mventor, the slightest -motion would produce enough current for a faint gleam, which could be seen far at night. W1SAT EOOVEE SATS XIX. "Gloucester is the leading fishing port of the country, and Is especially tuLc-ii iur ils traue in cured fish, chiefly cod, haddock, and other 'ground fish." which are ca.ua-hr nn the banks lying off the New Eng- anu wuaBis ana me .British provinces. GLOBE 2OT From the Atchison Globe. There is a type of woman who Is constantly seeing resemblances. The littlest man in Atchison carries around the biggest mustache. There wouldn't be so many follies of youth if we didn't excuse youth so much. The only help some people receive is irom an occasional person who says. jl ill sorry. People are roasted more than thev are toasted because a roast is always mute mieresunif. An Atchison colored man: "This wintah all the big fishes is eatin' all the little fishes." If you have enterprise and grit you needn't worry about what is going to happen alter the war. The world war has at least dona this; it has knocked out all the discus sion about the tariff. Those who never give much except when they can head the list are not giving; they; are siQiply advertising. The young girl pawed over by the boys in the park is so often the mar ried woman talked about in later life. What has become of the old-fashioned father who was cranky about his 16-year-old daughter's "having young men callers? A retired gambler: "I never knew a professional gambler who wouldn't cheat if he thought he could get away with it." There Is a type of man who never buys anything to eat without making a remark about how much money the farmers are making. The trouble with too many of our young men Is that they feel prouder over winning $10 at cards than mak ing 350 by working. When a young girl Is given too much liberty a common expression of the neighbors is: "I can't understand what her mother is thinking of." DOKOTHT H2EX TALKS BY DOROTHY DIX World's Highest Paid Wsu Wrlwr. Forget It. If I could choose a motto for my sex a motto that should be illumi nated on the walls of every house and pasted on every woman's mirror, where she would see it a thousand times a day it would be the slang phrase ofthe day, FOKUm n. The main trouble with women is that they have too good memories. They remember things too long, too much and too often. The chiei od- stftrlA that stands in their way to hap piness U that they are carrying sucn excess oaggage oi recuuetiiuiiK Li"J K t thaw w hi,ndM.niuA hv It No matter what a woman's expert- ences in the past have been, whether i j am adding a postscript. May dear, good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant, tQ my ietter ot thi8 evening, in order uptnThehTVsurnrn0! that you may understand FauT, atti them over in her mind, dwelling upon tude In this matter of my meeting C them, talking about them, living them over again in her imagination until, she makes herself nothing but a per ambulating back number, and a bore to everyone she meets. This coddling of happy memories of the past gives us that almost un bearable affliction, the woman who has seen better days. We all know her. You have not been two minutes in her company before she begins to tell you of the almost regal splendor in which she w&i reared; of the palace her home was; of the multitude of servants; ofthe perennial gaiety that went on; of what a belle she was. and how many ranks of suitors all rich and handsome were sighing at her feet; of the magnificence of her trous seau; of what a grand wedding she had, and bo oft and on, and on, and on, until she comes to the place where she begins to weep ana says sne never expected to come to this, and wants t- know if you won't help her with the rent. Of course rt may teem a harmless thing for those ..'ho in the present have only bread and water to eat, to feast upon the memories of the cakes and ale that they used to have In the past, but in reality it is a most de moralizing thing to do. A woman can make a dope dream of her former grandeur that will Just as much in capacitate her for dealing with pres ent conditions as if she was drugged with opium. When you find a woman who lives n the memories of her golden past you will invariably find one who Is a slacker, who is shiftless, lazy, untidy and inefficient. She Is the kind of a woman, who. If she takes boarders. will expect her reminiscences of her great uncle who was a senator to atone for the fabt that her rooms are dirty and her meals never on time; or, if she takes In sewing, will expect her pedigree to make up for hooks and eyes never fitting and skirts hang ing in points around the bottom. All the energy ahe nwda to use in her business she exhausts in remembering the past. It is a great blessing to have been well born, to have had a childhood and youth full of sunshine and happi ness ana plenty, but when they are over, they are over. They are done, finished, past beyond recall, and the wise woman is she who puts them be hind her, who forgets them and lets other people forget them, and who wastes no time In dreaming of halcyon days that are gone, but who rolls up her sleeves and grapples with today and wrings something out of It that Is better and more substantial than a vague memory. If. however, the woman who la sloshing over with happy memories of the past is a pest, the woman who has unhappy memories is a scourge from which the boldest of us flee. She is an incarnate wet blanket, a human kill Joy, a tear Jug whose contents are being continually spilled over us. At her approach every smile packs up its kittle kit bag and beats It for the tall timber. She has hardly taken her seat before she commences the Iliad of her woes. She Is a poor, per secuted creature whom nobody -loves or wants about, and whom everybody slights. If she's poor she complains that her employer doesn't appreciate her, and shows favoritism to others in the office. If she's rich, the peo ple she does things for are not grate ful enough. If she has children she worries over them. If she has a hus band, he fails to come -up to her ideals. If some one she loves has died, she never gets over If. Naturally you are expected to join in with this dreary drizzle and mingle your sobs with the lady's lamenta tions, but what you want to do is to give her a good shake and say, "Vot heaven's sake, FORGET IT." Suppose things have gone wrong with you. does It make them right to orood over your grievance? Suppose you have suffered in the past, does It I make the day any cheerier 'to recall i that pain? Suppose people have dis appointed .you, is It any comfort to keep it fresh in your mind? Why not forget It? Put the whole! thing outside of your mind. Cast into oblivion the things that worry vou. You can do it if you will, and for a woaian to keep herself sick, miserable and nervous, feasting on the memories' of past misery is as hideous and neu rotic a thing to do as It would be for her to spend her time clawing over the festering bones in a graveyard. If women would only make up their minds to do a little sensible forgetting it would go a long ways toward pro moting domestic felicity. There are a great many women who are unhap pily married and who have husbands who fall far short of being models of domestic virtue. Also there are many men who are unhappily married and whose wives will never qualify in the household aftgel class. But men do not make a bad mat ter worse by making a mental cata logue of their wives' faults and re peating them over and over as if they were a litany. Women do, and the more they dwell upon the memories of their husband's shortcomings, the bigger they grow until they get so large they blot out all the sunshine of the world. lr wives would only forget it when their husbands are Irritable, or stay out late, or are stingy, and especially if they could forget it when their hus bands have made a mistake, or side stepped a little. It would go a long way towards making marriage a success Instead of a failure. It Is often asked whether the wom an who has done wrong can come back, if she can rehabilitate herself and make whole the life she has maimed. The greatest difficulty in the way Is not her reformation but her feminine inability to forget it. She's always remembering it and letting it poison her life. She's always letting her tnougnts dwell on it until she imagines that even strangers read her story in her face, and she thinks about it so much that her memory be comes an obsession that forces her to tell her secret to other people. It the woman who has taken the wrong turn in the road would only forget her past" as a man does his, she could wipe off the slate and take a fresh start as easily as he does. Life is concerned only with today. The past is valuable only as it teaches us how to live today. Learn how to forget.

(Copyright. 1017. by the Wheeler 8naleata. Inc.) LETTE15 OF TWO WOMEN BY ZOK B.eCKLBY. ..,,a Kate Adds Postscript, New York. Friday night late J. For Paul knows. "Kate," he said tonight, "why are. you letting this man worry you so?" "Why what man?" I answered, surprised into banality by his sudden opening of the subject. "As if you didn't know," said Paul. "Now listen, my girl; send him about his business. He's doing you no good. He's showing himself up for an awful cad. Why does he insist upon staying In the picture?" Mind you, May, Paul said all this without the least bad feeling. Quite in a casual way, as tho he were talk ing of some undesirable woman friend who wasted my time but was otner wise harmless. I was silent, not knowing what to say, and feeling an awful shyness about the whole situa tion. I felt it was not a thing that could be discussed and disposed of like family accounts or going out for dinner. "Come,, dear," urged Paul. "Why this reticence I know you have been seeing him, and I shouldn't speak of it at all If it weren't playing havoc with you. I saw C. J. myself one night at the International club moon ing about a grouch on and half a jag. I don't know how he ever wan dered to the International. The fel lows there aren't his sort at all. I believe, my girl, that he's just uneas ily prowling about in our lives, yours and mine, 'hoping to find us unhappy, trying to see his predictions come true. I should have spoken to him if well, if I hadn't felt I had so' much, dear. and he so little." There was no resentment, May, in Paul's voice. Nothing but curiosity, pity and a little contempt. Not a par ticle of jealousy! Don't you think that is strange? In his place, I con fess I should feel jealous. I should be afraidgthere might bd a dangerous situation developing. In some vague way, Paul makes me feel like a rather silly child. Rather as ITI had wanted to steal and eat a whole pie and was gently urged not to do it, because it might be bad for me, not because pies were forbidden! "Kate," Paul went on, seeing I was not inclined to discuss the matter I simply could not. Malzle "Kate. what do you talk about when you meet?" "Oh, Paul, I can't I don't know how to answer I begged. "It all makes me so unhappy his loneliness, his helplessness- "Then he tells yoH that he Is un happy, lonely? 1 don't like that, Kate. It's rottenly weak and selfish of him. He does i to undermine your happiness. It's cheap and cowardly. If he were a real man he would either get out of the way altogether or he'd be frank and friendly, a game loser, and willing to add to your peace by making a show of his own! For your own sake and his, Kate, play in the open. Either send him about his busi ness or or invite him here to dine." Did you ever hear of a husband, May, saying a thing like that? Some times Paul's ways are beyond me. There's something positively coarse In the suggestion. Write Instantly, and answer both my letters. Yours in a blue mood, KATE. "I can," said the bashful young manlo the director of the firm com pany, "swim, dive, run an auto, fly an airplane, fence, box, shoot, ride a horse, run a motorboat, play golf. fight, make love, fall off cliffs, rescue heroines, play football, die naturally and kiss a girl." "But," interrupted the famous di rector, "can you act?" "Alas!" muttered the would-be screen hero, "I never thought of that." "Engaged," growled the director, and another screen hero was born. The fortune teller was sending cold streams of horror down her victim's back, as she predicted the bad things in store for him in the Immediate fu ture. "You will die In a year!" she hissed at last. "That line on your palm tells me so." "Help'" gasped the victim, "it sure ly can't be as bad as that?" "As I said." continued the seer, ."you will die in a year, but In what year I can't exactly make out." Carl, aged three, and his baby sister of eighteen months slept In the same room as their parents. Carl woke up early and tormented his still sleepy father with questions. "Father, can a cow speak?" "No. my child." "Father, can a dog speak?" The father, thinking Carl was going thru the entire list of animals that he knew, said severely: "No animal can speak. And you must now keep quiet, for father wants to sleep." For a long time the child remained, quiet:- then being no longer able to restrain his curiosity, he asked timidly: "Father, what kind of an animal Is baby?" Anna was drawin pa picture of 'the visiting gentleman. She worked very earnestly, stopping every few minutes to compare her work with the origi nal. Finally she -shook her head sad ly. "I don't like it much." she said. "'Tisn't much like you. I ruen I'll put a tail on it and call it a dog." Cinderella's Rubber. (By Peter Gregg.) For the- twentieth time that morn ing Eric Spencer looked up expect antly as someone entered his private office, and for the twentieth time he sank back in hia chair with a sigh. All -morning he had been expecting someone, but as the hour reached noon he almost gave up In despair. With each new arrival at his office came disappointment. There seemed to be more coming ill than usual, and their business was so trivial it irritat ed him. He would have gone to the club to e-et awnv from it all if it hadn't been for the chance of missing ner. ii would never do for him not to be there when she arrived. Kor the fiftieth time he pulled open the top drawer of his desk and took out a rubber for a woman's left shoe. What a very small rubber it was, he thought as he placed it beside his own big foot. Carefully he placed the rub ber back in the drawer and took out a folded, mud-besmirched paper, opened it and read the typewritten words on it, his face lighting up with pleasure as he read and re-read It. "If I could only find her," he ejac ulated, as he put the paper back in the drawer with the rubber. A newspaper was the next to take his attention. He pulled it from his pocket, opened it at the classified col umns and found the advertisement h was looking for under "Lost and Found." There was no mistake In the insertion. It was printed Just as hi had given it to them, for a wonder. He read it aloud to make sure. "Found A lady's rubber, for a -left high-heeled shoe. Picked up Just as lady boarded Belt car yesterday. The o-vner can have same by making per sonal application to Eric Spencer, Spencer's Limited." The office door opened again. It was just "Oeordle" Grant. Oeordie was bubbling over with a Joke, as usual but for once Eric wasn't in the humor to hear it. His welcome was curt and business-like, but that didn't dampen Geordie's ardor. "Well, have you found her?" Geordie asked, as he sat on a corner of Eric's desk. "Whom?" asked Eric, assuming in nocence and hiding his annoyance. "Why, Miss Cinderella, the lady who lost her slipper or, pardon me rub ber. It's a rubber this time: isn't it?" Geordie's laugh was altogether too loud, but Eric would not let him see he was angry. "Don't be an ass! I don't see the joke. Can't I advertise the- thing I lind?" "Sure thing; but people don't usu ally spend more money advertising in every paper in the city than the arti cle they find is worth, do they? Come on, now, loosen up on the romance. Did Miss Cinderella leave her rubber in your car, or did she throw It at you, or what? Th boys all want to hear about it. It's the joke of the club, and yoj'U have to offer some ex planation." Eric's anger had about reached the boiling point, but he was sensible enough to know it would be wasted on Geordie Grants He thought it over for a minute. There was nothing In it but to explain to Grant. That was the best way to get the talk stopped at the club. "If you'll sit down like a sensible creature, I'll explain to you, Geordie," he began. "You know what a terribly wet day yesterday was. Well, my chauffer skld-ied my car snd broke an axle, and I had to walk. I was crossing the road In front of Wtller's when a young lady ran out In front of me to catch a Belt line car. The car had commenced to move, but she risked catching It. She struck a slip pery mud spot in the road and fell backward. But I was Just behind her and managed to catch her and keep her from falling Into the mud. The conductor had seen her and stopped the car, and I helped her on. As the door closed after her I noticed she had only one rubber' on. I lnoU back where she had slipped, and there siicKing in tne mud was her rubber. I stooped to pick It up, and beside It was a loioea piece of writine naner ini sue must .nave dropped. I picked them both up and here thav-ara." r-nc punen out the drawer of his aesK ana brought out the rubber and paper for inspection. "Yes. but what was written on the paper?" Grant asked, still on the scent of a romance. I m coming to that." Eric con tinued. "I opened the paper to see If It was valuable, and. say. there is some of the most brilliant little adver tising writing on that paper that you ever read. If that girl wrote them she is Just the woman we want for ad. writer for our specialty department. I've been looking for a competent per son ever since we opened it one who can write a little different from the average and in this person I think I've found one." "You haven't found her yet," Geordie muttered thoughtfully. "I know I haven't, tat I'm going to keep on advertising until I do, and you can tell that to the boys of the club, too!" Erie emphasized the fact by bringing his feet down on his desk with a bang. Grant tried to talk a little longer, but he saw that Eric wanted to get rid of him. "I'll bet you marry her If you do find her. Eric, old boy!" he remarked as he was leaving. But Eric pre tended not to have heard. Just after five that evening, after th last of the office staff had gone. Eric heard a timid knock on his door. It sounded as If It m.ght be the girl he was waiting for, and he opened the door teagerly. Sure enough, the young woman of the day before was before him. "You are Mr. Spencer, are you not?" she asked somewhat shyly. "Yes; and you are the young woman who lost your rubber." he answered with a smile. ."I have been expecting you. After the rubber had been restored to hr pretty foot, she hesitated a moment then asked: "You did not see anything of a piece of paper with typewriting on it, when you picked up the rubber, did you VI "Is this it?"- he asked, as he took it from his desk. "Oh. yes!" she said eagerly, taking it from him. "I am so glad I have not lost it for good, for there are some things here that I don't think could remember to write again." "I read them." he said. "Did you write them yourself? Are they orig inal "Yes. all of them." she replied. "I am practicing writing small advertise ments that are different. I am try ing to secure a position as ad. writer for some firm. I am taking these as samples of my work, but I have been unsuccessful so far. Do you think they show promise?" "Yes, very great promise," he an swered in a tone that she knew was !not flattering. "And It was because 1 t ham that t Inserted that ad. in the papers. Would you accept a P I sition as advertisement writer In our I specialty department. If the salary suits you? "Do you mean It?" sne asisea, ly able to credit her ears. "I would be so glad to accept it." It was some weeks later that Eric met Geordie Grant "Did vou find Miss Cinderella yet, and did the rubber fit?" Geordie asked with the same old laugh. "You bet I did, Geordie," Eric laughed back. "And don't be a bit surprised if your prophecy about my marrying her comes true. She is just as fine a girl as she is an ad. writer, and that's saying a lot." (Copyright, 1917. by the McClure Newspaper Syn dicate.) War Buildings. Washington, city of white marble and magnificent distances, metropolis of tree-lined avenues, possessor of more parks per person than any city in the world, capital built with a na tion's money and an eye to high art, nowadays looks in many quarters like a western mining camp two weeks aft er Prospecting Pete struck it rich. The capital is a boom town now. and boom buildings are rising like magic on every hand. Some of them are pe culiar, some of them are unlonrely, but all of them are going up with a speed that causes the oldest inhabitant to lose his way. Facing the Mall near tha White House is Washington's most artistic row of buildings the white marble palaces of the Red Cross, the Pan American Union, and the D. A. R. And Just back of this imposing trio there has sprouted, overnight almost, one solid block after another of one story, featureless gray stucco, flimsy and unadorned, like monster barracks or laoorers quarters In some tempo rary industrial town. These blocks of stucco house some of the nation's most important agencies the Council of National Defense and the Food Ad- luiiusirauon. One man, after a glance at the food administration quarters, remarked that it looked as If Mr. Hoover Intend ed to raise the necessary vegetables right here in Washington. The build ing does bear some resemblance to a greenhouse, with its walls of big glass window, and its great central chimney of yellow brick rising out of the ground of an interior court. All this represents some ,of the latest ideas in light and heat for modern office buildings, however, and the food ad ministration is scientifically if not lux uriously housed. The Council of National Defense la in an exactly similar building on the next block, so that the infrequent vis itor cannot tell the difierence without asking an office boy and three guards. All this emergency construction to shelter thousands of experts, assist ants and clerks, was built in eight weeks. The buildings are said to be quite satisfactory, and a great im provement over some of the queer quarters where the same people found themselves on answertng the first call to service. !cnn"Hint. (Wheatleas Day)". BREAKFAST,' Stewed Prunes. Cocnmeal Musk. Egg Omelet Toast. Coffee or Cocoa. LUNCHEON. Vegetable Soup. Croutons. Rice Pudding. Tea or Milk. DINNER. Meat Loaf. "Baked Potatoes. Creamed Onions. Banana and Nut Salad. Cornbread. Sponge Cake Pudding. Peach Sauce. Vegetable Soup Once each wpek have a meat stew; with this boil a large bone and reserve enough of the liquor for soup stock. To this add water in which vegetables, such as cauliflower, onions or carrots are boiled, since t ese contain some of the most valuable food elements of the vegetables. (Do not use too much water In cooking.) Also add any left over vegetable or cold rice. Season well. Meat Loaf To one pound of ground beef add one-half pound lean pork. Mix with an equal amount of bread crumbs. Season well with salt, pep per and onion. Add two beaten eggs and enough water or stock to moisten. Bake slowly and serve with tomato sauce. Reserve enough to slice cold for luncheon next day. Apple Cornbread Scald one and one-half cupfuls of skim milk and pour It Into one cupful of fine corn meal. Let it cool, add one tablespoon ful of melted iiiiii-rfarine, half a tea spoonful of salt, the yolks of two eggs lightly beaten, half a cupful of finely chopped, peeled apples, two ta blespoonfuls of honey and one tea spoonful of baking powder. Beat well, fold In the stiffly whipped egg whites snd spread In a flat, greased pan. Bake in a hot oven for thirty minutes. Cut In wedge-shaped pieces before serving. Heart and Beauty Problems BY MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON Dear Mrs. Thompson: My friend takes care of the postoffice. Does it show bad training for me to g i down and talk to her during office hours? (2) Do you think that a girl who Insists on a fellow getting an auto is the girl that will make him a happy home? (3) Sometimes we fuss simply awful oyer some foolish things that amount to nothing. Does this show that we don't love each other or la it so that the true course of love can not run smoothly? 4) Do you suppose that anvone would aay anything If a fellow wore spats with his summer slippers this winter'' c. C. C. (1) Your friend is employed by the government and should give to her employer all of her time dnrln4 business hours. It Is very question able practice for anyone to hinder any employed person in the dispatch of his duties, and as the postoffice department is quite rushed. now. It la all the j more reason why postal em ployees should be left alone to a. ftheir work. (2) No. It shows that she a selfish and probably always will bo so. (3) It doe not signify anything except, perhaps, that they are spend ing too much time in each other's company. (4) No, I don't think so. TIHAVELETTE BY KIKSAII.

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY -EvTDNING, DECEMBER 11, 1917 TO SEND APPLES 100 Carloads Are To Be Ship ped to French Front. They Will Be for the American Soldiers. TO RAISE A CAR IN TOPEXA W. O. Anderson Chairman of Campaign In Kansas. Three Carloads To Be Solicited in the State. Applies for the United States sol diers in France is the next thins Kan sans are to be asked to contribute to. A campaign to raise 100 car loads of apples has been undertaken by the International Apple Shippers' association, the National League of Commission Merchants and the West ern Fruit Jobbers' association, and the United States government and English steamship lines have endorsed the movement to such an extent that they have promised to furnish the transportation facilities for all apples raised. Those who know the desires and appetites of the soldiers realize that nothing they want in the way of ed ibles that can be sent across the ocean will give them so much satisfaction as apples. They are easily packed, are rot hard to handle and do not perisli like other kinds of fruit. W. O. Anderson, of the A-A com pany, of Topeka, has been appointed campaign chairman for Kansas and the minimum contribution for this slate to the national campaign has been set at two, car loads. However, the workers announce they will try to raise enough to send .at least three car loads from Kansas. The state has been divided into three districts, with S. K. Lux in charge of the south western district, T. C. Whiteker in charge of the northeastern and "VV. O. Anderson in charge of the western district. Raise Carload Here. It is the plan of the workers to raise at least one carload in Topeka, leaving the rest of the state to con tribute the other two carloads. Esti mates that have been made show that it will take about $1,090 to get a car of apples to the soldiers. Both money and fruit donations will be gla'dly re ceived and in the apple raising dis tricts it is expected that fruit will make up the contributions in large measure. Those who give apples are asked to see that the fruit is sound and well packed. Such varieties as Roman I tea u ties, Stay man Winesaps and Newton Pippins are especia lly de sirable, are recommended as the va rieties the committees that W. O. An derson has appointed will be pleased to receive. As soon as a sufficient number of apples have been collected, they will be forwarded to a seaport where either the United States government or ships of the Cunard line will take them over and transport them to France. Apples destined f or the boys in the trenches, .will be billed to the V. M. C. A. organizations and distrib uted by them.' Also, the fruit will be sent to the concentration camps and to ihe hospitals. Denver Gives Three Cars. All money and apples collected in Kansas, as in every other state, .will be sent to the International Apple Shippers' association at New York. W. O. Anderson, state chairman, an nounces that the campaign in Kansas will be begun at once and will be pushed until the quota for the state has been raised. In Denver three carloads were pledged in thirty minutes and in many large cities the campaign is now un der way. 29,000 WOULD STRIKE Will Tie Vp All Industries t'nlcss Con ference Knits Satisfactorily. Minneapolis, Minn., Dec. 11. While member of the Minnesota public safety commission. President Gomp rs of the American "Federation of La oor. local labor leaders and federal authorities conferred at Washington :oday, 29,000 union men. representing ivery craft in the Twin Cities here, today were all set to walk out on re ceipt of unfavorable news from the conference. The union men are pre pared to strike in sympathy with one ;housand locked-out street car men. The protest mass meeting, sched aled to have been held here today and postponed, will probably be held to morrow, unless the strike is settled, labor leaders said. Children Cry rrd 'Ml M mm In The Kind You Hare Always Bought has borne the stgna ture.of Chas. II. Fletcher, and has been made under his Iersonal supervision for over 3U years. Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and 'Just as-pood" are but experiments, and endanger the health oi Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare proric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. i It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. For more than thirty years it has been In constant use for the relict of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea allaying; Feverishness arising therefrom, and, by regulating- the Stomach and Bowels, aids the as similation of Food i giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend, The fllnd You Have Always Bought Beaib the T0 W 4 In Us& For Over 30 Years THC wYffTSSHICOMKUSV, HCWTOAK CTTV. COUNTY OFFICIALS' PROGRAM Complete and Corrected for the Meeting of County Clerks, County Com miseioners. County Treasurers, Registers off Deeds, and Clerks of the District Court in Topeka, Today and Tomorrow. COUNTY TREASURERS. (Meeting in State Treasurer's Office.) President. Chas. H. Gove. Junction City. Vice President. Martin Ahlstedt, Null lift. Sccfetary, Nettie M. Popkins, Greeusburg. Treasurer, Florence M. Hardest', Con cordia. Wednesday, December 12. 9 n. tn. Registration at State Treasurer s ofi'Ue. 10:-10 a m. Address of welcome, Chas. L. Mitchell, president of the Chamber of Commerce. Kewponse by Chas. H. Gove. 11 a. in. Social hour, i 2:00 p in. Address, "Suggestions and Instructions," Walter i-. Payne, state treasurer. "Kfficiencv," I. C. Stevenson, Lawrence, 'legislation That Will Permit Hiring Efficient deputies," W. E. Brown, lxlce City. "Suggestions for New Treasurers," H. lticfendorf. Manhattan. "Handling the Mall During the Rush," K. A. Campbell, Topeka. General discussions. 4 :OU p. m. ieneral meeting of all asso ciations at the Auditorium. Selection of meeting place for T.1S. G:0O p. m. Ruffet luncheon at Chamber of Commerce. 7:15 p. m Entertainment. Theaters for the visitors and a special initiatory cere mony by the Akepot Sterboos. DISTRICT CLERKS. (Meeting at the Chamber of Commerce.) President. Chas. E. Mobs. Lawrence. Vice President. W. It. Smirh, Atchison. Secretary-trey surer, Bertha Kempton, Goodland. Tuenday, December II. 1:30 p. in. Registration at the. Chamber of Commerce. 2 -tM p. in. Call to order by Pres. Chas. E. Moss. Roll Call. Heading of Minutes. Iteport of Officer. Iteport of Committees. Opening address, Chas. E. Moss, Law rence. "Some Experiences of n New Clerk Mrs. Mary E. Cbapin, Topeka. "Iietentiou of Files In the Clerk's Of fice." Ira Mahaffey, Concordia., "Clerk's Fees in Naturalization Cases," Gen. F. Crane, Stockton. "Some Problems That Confront a District Clerk." Joseph A. Fuller, Eureka. 8:00 p. in. General meeting of all asso ciations at the auditorium. Address, Mayor J. E. House, Topeka. Address. Gov. Arthur Capper, Topeka. Wednesday, December It. 0 :00 a. m. Business session. Exhibit of Records. Election of Officers. Appointment of Committees. 4 :O0 p. in. General meeting of all associa tions at city auditorium. Selection of meeting place for 1918. 7 :15 p. m. Entertainment. Theaters. Akepot Sterboo initiation. k COUNTY CLERKH' ASSOCIATION. (Meetings in Hearing Room of Utilities Commission.) President, L. It. Burt, Alma. Vice President. C. A. Young, Newton. Secretary, A. J. Valentlue. Independence. Treasurer, Geo. W. Lee, Hutchinson. Tuesday, December 11. 5:00 p. m. Registration, Immediately after adjournment of Assessors' meeting. 8:00 p. m. General meeting, all Associa tions, at Auditorium, Clarence A ten. Com missioner Ford County, presiding. Address Mayor Jay E. House. Topeka. Address Governor Arthur Capper. Wednesday, December 12. 8:00 a. m. Call to order by President L. U. Burt. Roll Call. Reading of Minutes. Report of Officers. Reports of Standing Committees. Appointment of Committees. "Problems in the County Clerk's Of fice," W. E. Craig Erie. "Shortening the Way," Katie Harris, 'St. John. t "New Legislation, W. E. Itostlne, Mc pherson. "The Ideal and the Real," G. B. Norris, Garden City. "Adopting the New," A. C. Anderson, Sa lina. "The Selective Irnft," discussion by Captain Raymond Montgomery, To peka. "Co-operation Among Cnnnty Officials," W. R. Yenawlne, Manhattan. 12:00 noon. Adjournment for dinner. 1 :'10 p. m. "The Kansas Official Its Mission." O. K. Swayze, editor. "New Road and Bridge Laws," W. S. Genrhart, State Highway Engineer, Topeka. Question box, directed by A. J. Valen tine. Independence. Report of Nominating Committee. Election of Officers. 4 :00 p. m. General meeting, all associa tions, at Auditorium. Selection of meeting, place for 101ft. G:0O p. m. Buffet luncheon at Chamber of Commerce. 7 :1" p. m. Entertainment, Theaters for the visitors, and a specially prepared initiatory ceremonial by the Akepot Sterboos for the men, at the Den. ASSOCIATION OF COCXTY COMMIS SIONERS. (Meetings in'Assemblv Rooms, Memorial Building.) President, J. P. Swonger, jr.. Kincaid. Secretary-treasurer, Clarence Aten, iodge City. Tnewday, December 11. 9:00 a. m. Registration and payment of dues at Memorial hall. 10 :W a. m. Call to order by President J. F. Swonger, jr. for Fletcher's Signature of rVmU'V Reading of minutes. Address. "Kansas' First Duty in Time of Crisis,' Governor Arthur Capper, chairman Kansas highway commission. 12:00 Noon Adjournment for dinner. a:00 p. nv Address "The Relation Between the County Commissioners," and the State Highway Commission," K. It. Moses, highway commissioner. Address, "Educational Publicity and Ele ments in Community Progress," W. C. Markham, secretary Kansas highway commission. Audresa. "The New Highway Law," S. N. Hawkes, assistant attorney general of Kansa s. 4:00 p ai. Business session. Appointment of eouiiiilttees. Iteport of officers. Report of committees. 8:00 p. m. General meeting, all associa tions, at Auditorium. Clarence K. Aten, commissioner Ford county, presiding. AridreMS, Mayor J. E. House, Topeka. Address, Governor Arthur Capper, To peka. Wednesday, lecember 13. 0 :O0 a. m.-By Invitation, the State and County Highway Commissioners and En gineers will be tendered the forenoon ses sion of the Commissioners meeting, and State Highway Commissioner K. S. Tier nan will preside. Address "The New System of Highway Administration," W. S. Gearhart, State Highway Engineer. Address "County Road Construction and Maintenance." M. W. Watson, State Road Engineer. Address "It ridge Construction and Maintenance," C. I. Kelps, State Bridge Engineer. Address "The New Highway Account ing System," M. W. Watson, State Road Engineer. 11 :00 a. m. Action on reports of commit tees. Election of Association officers. 12:00 Noon Adjournment for dinner. 2 '00 p. m. Unfinished business. 4:00 p. m. General meeting, all Associa tions, at Auditorium. Selection of meeting place for 1918. 0:00 p. m. Buffet luncheon at Chamber of Commerce. 7:15 p. m. Entertainment. Theaters for the visitors, and a specially prepared initiatory ceremonial by the Akepot Sterboos for the men at the Den. REGISTERS OF DEEDS' ASSOCIATION. (Meetings in the Office of the Secretary of State.) President, Ralph W. Squires, Topeka. Vice President, Nellie M. Evans, Emporia.' Secretary-treasurer, Mrs. L. H. l'effer, Eureka. Tuesday, December 11. 9:00 a. m. Registration at office of Sec retary of State. 10:30 a. m. Call to order by President Ralph W. Squires. Roll Call. Reading of Minutes. Reports of Officers. Reports of Committees. Address "Record Books," Paul Deam, Wichita. Discussion. 12:oo Noon Adjournment for dinner. 2:00 p. m. Business session. Address "Practicability. Not Precedent Nor Polities, in the Register's Office," Miss Nellie M. Evans, Emporia. Discussion. Report of Committees. Miscellaneous Discussion. S :00 p. m. General meeting, all assoeia tidns, at auditorium. Clarence E. Aten, commissioner Fort county, presiding. Address, Jay E. House, Topeka. Address, Governor Arthur Capper. Wednesday, December 12. 9:00 a. m. Address, "Legal Questions of Interest to the Registers of Deeds," S. N. Hawkes, Assistant Attorney-General of Kansas. 110 a. m. Election of Officers. Appointment of Committee. 12:00 noon. Adjournment for dinner. 2:00 p. m. Unfinished business. General discussion. 4 :00 p. m. General meeting all associa tions, at auditorium. Selection of place of meeting for 1918. 6 :00 p. in. Buffet luncheon at Chamber of Commerce. 7 :15 p. m. Entertainment. Theaters for the visitors and a specially prepared Initiatory ceremonial by the Akepot Sterboos for the men, at the Den. RIGOLETTO The lyric beauties of Verdi's old, familiar opera, "Rigoletto," were set forth in a sympathetic and able way by a cast of Italian singers and or chestra, forming the San Carlo Opera company, Monday nisht at the Grand theater. There have been many pres entations in the past that have made this favorite of Verdi's scores sub servient to a vulgar display of vocal prowess, but it is to be recorded to the credit of the rather small audience as sembled last night, that it displayed an understanding of the musicianly Interpretation of the opera accom plished by Conductor Carlo Peronl and the several principals of the cast. The melodious performances had charms that the more stressful and os tentatious presentation lacks. The or chestra sang with beautiful feeling for Peroni; the choruses sang with a qual ity of tone that was never augmented to strident volume, and the principals all sans with a genuine regard for the refinement of the melodic line, rather than with any display of eagerness to seize all opportunities for show and glitter. The libretto of the play, like most of the old time operas, is unspeakable as to plot, but is redeemed by the beauty of its musical themes, and there are few operas which can claim so many arias and choruses that are known and loved both by profession al musicians ana the plug citizen whose innate sense of beauty responds to the appeal of true art. The title role was taken' by Angelo Antola, a baritone. His voice has re markable resonance and carrying power, warmth and a good variety of color even in its softest notes. The tenor, Manuel Salazar, sings somewhat more flamboyantly, but with a good command of the essentials of vocal art, and with considerable fullness and beauty of tone in its sustained moments. The partof the leading woman, Oilda, was taken by Vaecari, a good looking and capable artist. Her voice is one of rather significant quality which combines the purity commonly found in Rood American voices, with something of the Italian insistent intensity of tone. Stella Deihette was the Maddalena of the cast. She developed a really beautiful study in vocal mezzo shades, but her acting was even better than her sing ing. The artists, though not stars of the first magnitude, gave a gratifying performance of the opera; for they are real musicians of substantial ability. Among the best liked of the songs of the opera last night were the favorite "Caro Nome" Dearest Name), a coloratura soprano aria; "Piangi Fanciulla" (Weep My Child), baritone; the ever popular tenor solo, the theme of which runs recurrently thruout the last two acts, "La Donna e Mobile" (Woman is Fickle), and the stirring quartet, "Bella Figlia dell' amore," which was repeated in re sponse to (he continued applause. Two short operas are being given this afternoon, "Cavalleria Rnsticana" and I Pagliacci, and tonight the offer ing will be "Faust." Cures Cold. In Mexico. LAXATIVE BROMO QUI NINE tablets re move the cause. E. W. GROVE'S aignature on box. 30c. Adv. QUAKER TO FRONT Kansas Congregation Contrib utes to the Bible Fnnd. Friends Church of Kiowa Gives- $27 for the Testaments. IT'S UP TO YOU NEXT SUNDAY Final Day To Complete $7,500 Quota for Kansas. Meanwhile Contributions Can Be Sent to State Journal. Register the Quakers. They don't believe in war. They even dodge all the ordinary, common, fashionable and neighborly rows. They are for peace in large slices. But they want a real, genuine, 18 karat, decent, honorable American peace on a bedrock basis. Now that the United States is in the war and a holy war, too the Quakers are in it with both feet. That is the reason the little Friends church at Kiowa, away down in Bar ber county, passea the contribution box to put the church behind the army in France and the men at the canton ments. The little church at Kowa is in a rather sparsely settled district. Its membership doesn't rank with the big churches on Harrison street and Topeka avenue, and the paved street district. But the little church didn't hide behind its limited membership or its simple, modest, unpretentious meeting house. Not a bit of it. In stead, the church membership dug down in its pocket, forgot the short wheat crop in Barber county, breathed a -little prayer and gave i27 to the cause. Kansas Quota $7,500. If the churches in Kansas registered in the Bible and New Testament cam paign in the same proportion as the Friends church, Kansas would today be far over the top with her J 7,500 quota for the MOO, 000 fund which will give a khaki clad Testament to every American soldier. It is because a blizzard hit Kansas Sunday and a blanket of snow covered the nine and a half million acre wheat area that thousands of Kansas church-goers stayed at home last Sunday. And be cause the attendance was slim and the weather rough, the campaign was ex tended a week. Next Sunday every church which has not appealed for a special collec tion for the Bible fund, will pass the contribution box that Kansas may not be listed as a slacker In this cam paign. The Kansas churches will wind up their campaign to give the soldiers the word of hope and cheer the only book which they may earn; to the trenches and in the drives against the Hun. Contributions from many of the churches are being sent directly to the American Bible society, New York City, while others are being forward ed to David Bowie, of Topeka, state treasurer. Funds are also being re ceived by the State Journal and by a number of newspapers in the state. Thru this plan of organization, it is not necessary to be an active church goer or to wait until next Sunday to boost the fund. A subscription sent to the State Journal will be given proper credit. HOME GUARD CAPS Ixcal Heroes Receive Stylish Military Equipment Today. Capt. Arthur Hargis reports the ar rival of a consignment of forage caps ordered ten days ago for the mem bers of the Topeka Home Guards company. They will be distributed at the drill hour this evening. These caps are of the same model as those worn by the soldiers of the regnlar army except that the visors and chin straps are of black patent leather instead of tan leader. Khaki covers also go with the caps. These covers are partly for the purpose of keeping the caps clean, and partly to make them agree in material with either a woolen or a khaki uniform. When a woolen uniform is worn the cover is removed from the cap. The company is now provided with a considerable number of 45-calibre breech loading Springfield rifles which are in good serviceable condition, and also with a quantity of suitable am munition. Should a disturbance oc cur which the civil authorities co not handle alone, the company is now prepared to render effective assist ance, tho to do continuous and ef fective guard duty the membership will have to be considerably increased. WANT BRICKLAYERS IT. S. to Send Them to France to Work on Airdromes. "Washington, Dec. 11. Instruction f to enlist In the army as many brick- layers as possible have been sent to i recruiting offices thruout the country. These men will be sent to a concen tration camp in the south for a short time and then to France for work on the American airdromes. Attention tv:is callet? to the advisa bility of getting thes men into ser vice before Friday when the law pre venting men within the draft age of volunteering becomes effective. MUNITION TRAIN HIT Disaster In Germany While Rushing Troops to West Front. London, Monday, Dec. 10. The correspondent at Amsterdam of the Daily Express, reports that the Ger mans are rushing troops to the west- em front with the- idea of smashinc the entente allies before American is; able to act, and adds: I "One of the results of this is that two German munition trains collided on Thursday. JKotn were blown up and several hundred soldiers were killed or wounded." SETTLE W1RESTR1KE Federal Mediation Prevents Walkout of 2,300 B. O. Telegraphers. Washington, Dec. xl. Difficulties which threatened a strike of 2,300 tel egraphers employed by the Baltimore Ohio railroad and a tie-up of traf fic on one of the country's most im portant munitions and coat carrying roads, were settled today by the fed eral board of mediation and concilia tion under the direction of Commis sioner X3. W. Hanger. HENRY TELLS 'EM! Ford Analyzes Troubles of Railroad Efficiency. R. R. Magnates Too .Busy Fig uring Profits To Find Out! LIGHT EQUIPMENT SOLUTION Freight Cars Weigh as Much as Loads They Carry. Need One Unified Railroad Sys tem Covering AH Nation. New York, Dec 11. Lighter rail road equipment and a unified trans portation system will solve America's railroad problem, Henry Ford declared today in a statement to the New York Evening Mail. Ford asserted that steel of great strength, but much less weight could be used by the roads to reduce oper ating costs. i "The freight car weighs as much as the load it carries," said Ford. "Generally, it travels two-thirds full and comes back empty. Passenger trains weigh fifty to one hundred and i fifty times as much as the passengers' in them." Ford declared the banking interests that control railroads are so busy fig- uring on profits that they don't know wnai aiis tneir own transportation systems. Model Xow Out of Date. "Railroad management requires technically trained men who know how to run engines, machines, dig tunnels and design better equipment," he Raid. "The railroad situation is like a man who has been so busily engaged for thirty years in working on the model of a new invention, that he does not see what is going on. Now he looks up only to find that his model is out of date and not good enough. "The United States needs one uni fied railway system, tying together all parts of the country. "Thru the proxy system, control of our railroads has passed largely to bankers living in New York and other large cities." loss In Hani of Dead Weight. Ford said that four-fifths of a rail road's work today is hauling the dead weight of its own equopment and that frequent rate increases, to protect stocks and bonds would not relieve the situation. He declared that concrete highways should be built so trucks and automobiles can take over the short haul route work which now congests railways, that superfluous rail lines be eliminated, all parts of the country tapped by railroads and both passenger and freight rates re duced. "America is a land of great dis tances and cheap, easy traveling and efficient, inexpensive freight service are necessities," he said. Alloy steel of high tensile strength can be made to reduce railroad weights, Ford declared. THEY HEAR DR. JEFFREY Square Circle Club listens to Cap. talft'in Experience Talk. Pr. A. B. Jeffrey, a captain in H. M. R. M. C, and who served for several months in a British war hospital as a member of the Harvard unit, told of his experiences in England before the Square Circle club last evening. The dinner was held at the Elks club. Earl Akers and Harry Coe were initiated as new members. Imri Zum walt, assistant state fire marshal, was a guest. Care. Cold, in Australia. LAXATIVE BROMO QUININBtabletsre move the cause. K. W. GROVE'S signature on box. 30c. Adv. I KWW TV J Vlctrola IV, 20 H He knows ax Victrola is ideal for Christmas that it is sure to be appreciated, that ts music is a delight to every one. And he has left a full line of Victrolas here so that every one can see the different styles and select the one best adapted to his home. 833 TOPEKA, KANSAS Kansas Attention! New Officers WE can fit you from head to foot with the right kind of apparel. Prices typical of the American soldier fair and square Military Clothing Olive Drab Wool Overcoats Olive Drab Serge Suits Raincoats, Mackinaws Caps and Service Hats Insignia and Bars Army Raincoats, Puttees Army Shoes, Hat Cords Army Sweaters $5 to $8.50 Army Blankets $6.50 Army Flannel Shirts $3.50 Gillette Service Razors. .$5.00 Knitted Caps .$1.00" Heavy Khaki Shirts $2.25 Shirts and Drawers. .$1.50 Natural Wool Socks. .25-50c Swagger Sticks. 75c to $5.00 Gem Razors .$1.00 Army Trunks.. $10 Army Belts 50c Stock Collars. .25c No Advance in Prices on Rowley's Own Standard Preparations In spite of the fact that war conditions have forced up practically all drug prices, Rowley's own well selling at the same prices aa in former years without any lowering of quality or lessening or quantity. Toothache Irops (Japanese) 10c Cold Tablets 25c Cold Cream 25c Menthol Cream 25c Compound Carbolic Salve. ...25c Compound Witch Haaol Salve 25c Compound Arnica Salve 25c Little Liver nils.., 23C ROWLEY'S "DRUGS EXCX.tJSrVELiY" UIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlllllllfllllllllllllllllllllllllU I HAND CARVED FRAMES For All Kinds of Photographs at Very Special Prices J. C. WOLCOTT I E 825 Kansas' Ave. E Siinn'iiiiniiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiihiiiiiiiiiiiir; Tell Santa Claus WHICH STYLE o $20, $30, $45, $57.50, $85, $110, $165, $215, $265, $325 and it's wise to make your selection now to' be sure of getting the style you want. ComeinTOMORROW SofsTlOsic Co. Avenue TELEPHONE 1448 Buy m Olove Bond or Merrh an di Certificate 1 I Auerbach S Guettel J CLOTHING CC known, tested remedies are still Campbell's Kins of Pain 25c Santonin Worm Lozenges 25c Kidney Pilla .v....50e Forest's Sarsapartlla .$1.0( Quinine Hair Tonic 50c Compound Hypophosphites (clear), full pint $1.00 FORESTS COIGH SYRUP.. 25c Topeka's Best Known Drug Store ESTABLISHED 1869. SIXTH AND KANSAS AVE. Tl :otoi YOU WANT Thin In the letrota XVII, SXSS Everybody's Store for Useful Christmas Gifts O Headquarters; for Sweaters Largest Stocks Best Assortments Lowest Prices Jersey Sweaters Plain colors or fancy stripes, all the school col ors specially priced at $1.50, $2, $2.50 and $3. Heavy Knit Sweaters Made in the Jumbo weaves, large shawl collars, silver gray color, $4 values, specially price4 at $2.95 Sample Sweaters -Mostly only one coat of a kind all colors and stylos in the rot values up to $8.60 specially priced at $5.00 "Marinette" Sweaters The finest ladies' coats made... Buy her one for Christmas. $10 to $25 Auerbach Guettel v iCLOfTHISG CC ,f: GLASSES? V t Emery i-i7J Eye Specialist V V Orer Krenge's s. y 10c Store Read State Journal Wants.- "Be sure to bring me a Victrola ff That's the Christmas mes sage to Santa Claus, from thou sands of little hearts. And with Victrolas from $20 to $380.00 it's aasjr to gratify the wish. A Victrola not only pleases the children, but helps to educate them to an appreciation of all that is best in music. Stop an and get acquainted with the wonderful Victrola. Easy terms can be arranged if dewed. w.mmam J Sc&MdsicGx; 833 Kansas Ave. Phono 144S s riti vi, sse

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNALTUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1917 BpinFSALE IS ON Afjive "Baljy Certificate'' Cairn I paiarn Begins Today. W C Rigby, Postmaster, in Charge for the State. IKtESTfflFR CHILDREN Jyius" Can Take Real Fart in tlhe War Thru Purchase. Sotdiers in Trenches Set Exam ple by Putting Up Money.

Ve are ready to show our enemy th.-J our soldiers are not only ready to ncrifiee their lives, but are willing to flfcive their money as well to the enje of freedom." his in th-! attitude the men of the American expeditionary rorce in FrJtice take when they are called upiipi to subscribe to a liberty loan. Thi miotation la taken from a letter of iipt. S. H. Guthrie, of the Seventh Cogt Artillery regiment, now on de tained service in France. Captain GiHhire is the brother of H. F. Ciuth rlwof Topeka. treasurer of the Mor rtsiPIan bank. He is a fjraduate of Wt Point, and was sent to France at th. head of his company when his refrtment went overseas with Pershing. "Baby Bond" on Sale.v S'ar-savines certificates "baby koS" can be bought at any bank or financial Institution in the city, at th postoffice. from city or rural mail carriers, or from any of a number of initutions and persons. During the ninths of December. 1917, and Jan-Uii1K- 1918. the baby bonds can be purchased for $4.12. After that time thl maximum price will he reacn edTn December. 1 922, when each ef.ifnp will sell for $4.71. Baby bonds ar non-transfi rrable and on the first day of January. 1923. the bond repre sew a par value of J5. payable by government check at any money or det postoffice in the United States. 2or the individual investor who Is eaonestly trying to lay by a nest egg fofcthe proverbial rainy day the "baby bowl" is the safest an. most profitable Investment ever offered to the man of extaremely limited income. Children May Help. 35he thrift stamps are on sale thru thfc same agencies that handle the war-savings stamps, and in addition may be purchased thru the teachers lnhe various schools. Thrift-stamps ar. especially designed for the chil drn, as they sell for but 25 cents eah; their purchase by children be ing" educational as it gives the child a fee-ling of participation in the greatest of'the wars of men. This is the only wat in which a child can be of direct benefit to the war department in car rying on the war in a financial way. Secretary McAdoo, in his message to that children of the United States, says, '"lru saving your pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters and buying thrift stamps and then war-savings certifi cates, you will help your country and its-gallant armies to win the war. I kiw you will help." Even the chil-di-n are included in the old saw, "LTtuted we stand, divided we fall." AriB the nation is united in this crisis as' never before in its history. Carriers Are Solicitors. Postmaster Rigby, In charge of the distribution and sale of Baby Bonds for" the state of Kansas, says in a let ter to his carriers: "Carriers are re quired by law, and are hereby directed to "Solicit the sale of these stamps, both orT'and off their routes and shall make evry effort consistent with the prop er, performance of their regular duties toencourage the sale of these (and hgtf lies the point) obligations of the government." The active campaign for the saU ofVBaby Bonds" opened today and evwry mail carrier and financial insti tution in the city was on the "qui vive" tomeet tile demand. The greatest advantage of the "Baby liofid" is B..t it is In reach of the smallest VaVie eartier thru the thrift stibip feature. The thrift stamp is is-sud in 25 cent denominations and is usecl a great deal in the fashion of the green trading stamps which have p:h&ved from the annals of the city. Haiy bonds are purchased via the thiaft stamp route in this way. First yuw go to some local bank or to the postoffice where you state your de sires and the number of thrift stamps yolj want to purchase. The clerk is sue you a card laid off in sixteen spaces, each one numbered consecu tively. If you purchase, say one dol lar s worth of thrift starr-. you get four stamps which are pasted in the spaces numbered 1, 2, 3 and 4. The card then becomes your property, bears your name, and can be cashed by no one but yourself and only by you over your signature. Hfly you buy one dollar's worth of thrift stamps each week; at the end of every fourth week you add to the sum represented by your thrift stamp card a Hum ranging between 12 cents in January. 1918, to 71 cents in De ceq&'er 1922. and receive in return on "Baby Bond or war savings starujx The "Bany Bond bears in terest from the time it is pasted on your "Faby Bond Card'' until you cash it in. The "Baby Bonds' reach their highest value in January, 1923, when they are worth S3 cash in any monev-orrier postorrice. 1 Q. R. S. j Quality Real Service Player rolls with words from the new Dwcmber list: l Silent Night Siewirt ftOr E3 Ilue P.ird Grunt SOe The Dixie Volunteers Uuby Rftr For Vao- Webster fuc Atnerji-ii f .v My Sunshine Jane-Hall .Hoc EE?-- Say Prayer for the Hoys Out There luarr 80c AH I Npi! Is-a tlirl Lite g You Olman ROer Storv Hook Ball Moufgom- -S ery Oc e Star Spangled Hanner Key 80c These? ami many other bits s demonstrated daily. 1MUS1C CO.I m 630 KANSAS AVE. g UNCLE i i If 1 hff iliv- 'v Jri yjhLjr ?4 III Jvtmmm i,ii,iiiniiti(HwwiiliYiimniwiifiafiiittyrt jf .O All of our soldier boys away from Home are thinking of Christmas these days and Uncle Sam is poing to cee to it that their longings are ryt in vain. Something useful will be given to every soldier in the service. CROPS, 21 BILLION Value of 1917 Production Far Exceeds Any Previous Year. Reduce Cotton a Million Bales Since Last Estimate. Washington, Dec. 11. -Many crops this year exceed the production of other years while the value of the country's farm products, with a total estimated unofficially at $21,0011.000,- 000 far exceeds any other year In history. Final estimates of predje tion of the principal farm crops were announced today by the department of agriculture. The production estimates are: Corn (buahelB) 3,1."U.4!M.OOO 41S.070.(KI0 j;ij.7rn.tioo W)U.S2H.(I00 15W.-JSB.0IIO 20X.n75.000 00. 1 45.000 17,4110,000 8.47:(.IHM) r.li,7K.llIO 44-J.Kili.OOO S7.141.01IO 15.701.000 75.siMi.0O0 1. '!,5r4.0O0 Vl.JKl.OOO 7!l,5-JS.0O0 15.4O-J.0O0 l,19.4r1.0i)O 0.'j:i7.0lH) 5II-J.70O 27.7SS.0H0 J45.IXI0 5S.JC.1X)0 45.(Hi(i.l)00 12,.S3J,000 Winter wheat Sprinjr wheat All wheat Outs Barley uye Bui-kwheat Flaxseed Hice Potatoes Sweet potatoes Uejins Knfirs Onions I'enrs Hay, tiime (tons) Hay. wild Tobncco SuKsir beets Cubbajre Hops (pollmlfl) Cranberries (barrels) Apples Peaches Oranges (boxes) Reduce Cotton Kstimate. Washington, Dec. 11. Reduction of more than a million bales in the cot ton crop of the country from the last estimate made was shown final esti mate of production issued today by the department of agriculture. Cotton production this year is es timated at 10,949.000 equivalent five hundred pdund bales, the department of agriculture announced today in its final report. The average weipht per running-bale in estimated at 501.5 pounds gross. 1 Production by states follows: Tex as, 3,115.000; Arkansas. 895.000; Ten nessee, 206,000; Missouri, 51,000; Ok lahoma, 890,000. REED GETS QUALMS Former Pacifist Senators Wants Only War1 Bills Considered. Washington, Dec. 11. In the first general discussion of the war in the senate since congress re-convened, Senator Reed, of Missouri, opposing the Webb export trade bill, of which President Wilson in his recent ad dress urged enactment, recounted re cent reverses of the allies and called upon congress to devote itself exclu sively to urgent problems of the con flict. "Russia out of the conflict," said Senator Reed, "has cost the loss of 15.000,000 fighting men and at the present time Germany and her allies have a. preponderance of fighting forces. "Unless something fortunate hap-" pens the time will speedily come when we must make new levies on our cit izens. We should begin training our young men between 18 and 21 if not to send into the war at least to del'end our coast. Suppose other nations fall like Russia, like Rumania has gone, like Siberia has disappeared. It is not beyond the realms of possibility that we may need to guard the coasts of North. America. Senator Reed declared It was no time to discuss legislation dealing with future foreign trade. COAL PLEA TO WILSON Ohio Governor lets No Reply to Ur gent Request to Garfield. Columbus, O., Iec. .11. Failing to hear from a similar request made to Dr. Harry A. Garfield, federal fuel administrator, yesterday and again to day. Governor Cox of Ohio this after noon appealed directly to President Wilson for authority for the Ohio tuel administration to commandeer coal in transit thru Ohio for domestic use. PANAPIA ANTI-AUSTRIA Little Nation Also Declares War Clear Canal Zones of Aliens. Panama, Dec. 11. Panama de clared war on Austria yesterday. The government in co-operation with the Canal Zone authorities, is interning Austrians. The zone has now been cleared of Germans and Austrians in accordance with President Wilson's recent order. SAM WILL PLAY SANTA FAUST TONIGHTS BILL San Carlo Opera Company Attraction At The Grand. Topeka will be given another chance tonight to view the San Carlo opera company, the largest traveling oper atic organization in America, with its twenty distinguished American and European singers. The company will appear at the Grand in "Faust." The entire cast in cludes 100 people and a large sing ing chorus. The programs are being given under auspices of the Rotary club. GEO. WEEDE DEAD Was One of Topeka's First Set tlers Here 60 Years. Figured in "AVestport Days" In First Col. Legislature. Word of the death of George W. Weede, one of the first pioneers of To peka, at the -Leavenworth Soldiers home at 10 o'clock Monday night, was received in Topeka today. Mr. Weede was a resident of TIw peka for between fifty and sixty years. He was a veteran of the Civil war and helped organize the G. A. R. in Kansas. He was commander of the state's first post. In Topeka Weede was employed by the "overnment and the state at dif ferent times. He left here for the sol diers" home in September, 1915. He was a member, also, of the first Colo rado legislature, and took a promi nent part in Kansas City affairs dur the old "Westport days." He Is sur vived by one Topeka relative, Frank E. Whitney, a nephew. The funeral announcements will be made later. Mr. Weede was 82 years old. CARRIERS DOING BIT Mail Delivery Men Have Sold Many Baby Bonds Here. j The city and rural mail carriers of! the Topeka postoffice have already i sold $960 worth of the baby bonds according to a statement of Post master Rigby at the Chamber of i Commerce this noon. A bulletin -has been posted in the carriers room and the carriers vie with each other in the sale of the war-certificates. The standing of the various carriers is posted from day to day. Every carrier is supplied with stamps before he starts out from the office on his daily trips, and the spirit of rivalry engendered by the depart ment keeps every postal employe on the keen edge to lead the list of stamp sales. CUT TRAIN SCHEDULE Rock Island Shortens Run to Save Short Coal Supply. Hutchinson, Kan., Dec. 1 1. Be cause of fuel shortage the Rock Island railroad has changed passenger train numbers 33 and 34 and will end their runs at Liberal, Kan., instead of Dal hart, Texas. Freight "traffic is being delayed, as many of the coal chutes along the line are empty. Several small towns are out of coal. In Hutchinson only one dealer is sell ing coal and he will not deliver it. INNES ON THE JOB New Kansas Food Administrator Orders Car of Potatoes Sold. Wichita, Kan., Dec. 11. Walter P. Innes, the newly appointed food com missioner of Karvas, arrived home from Washington Monday and took his first official step. A car of potatoes belonging to an out of town firm that had been on the tracks for three weeks was order ed pommprrdnpred by TTir" ar pfr Furs and Plushes Scientifically Cleaned DYEING Military Drab and Other Colors Topeka Laundry Co. Phone 3653 CLAUS MAKE WAR PROBE v Senate Military Committee for Thoro Investigation. "Tot To Criticise but To Get Information," Says Leader.1 Washington, Dec. 11. A .general inquiry into, the operations of the war department in arming and equipping the American forces was decided upon today by the senate military affairs committee. Secretary Baker and oth i er department heads will be called to explain various features of the activi ties. Senator Chamberlain, chairman of the committee, announced it would probably cover a wide range. Ques tions of shortages of clothing for the national army, health, deficiencies in rifles and field ordnance and army contracts, he said, would be inquired into. "The purpose of the committee is not to criticise, but to secure informa tion," said Senator Chamberlain. "There have been some complaints, covering many army matters and we desire to look into them particularly regarding reported shortage of cloth ing, ordnance and other equipment." WETS GROW HOPEFUL Recent Gain in Mass. Adds Zest to 6 City Elections Held Today. Boston, Dec. 11. The gain made by the license forces in Massachusetts city elections last week lent an added interest to the elections held in six teen more municipalities today. In twelve of these cities mayors were to be elected. The cities voting were Attleboro, Beverly, Chelsea, Everett, Lawrence, Lowell, Lynn, Maiden, Medford, Mel rose, Newbury Port, Newton, Revere, Somerville, Woburn and Worcester. PREACHER A SLACKER? M. K. District Sup't Loses His Job for Vnpatxiotlo Attitude, Los Angeles, Dec. 11. Rev. Dr. E. P. Ryland, a district superintendent of the Methodist Episcopal church, will be removed from his post Mon day and assigned to some other duty, because of his unwillingness to sup port the church's patriotic attitude, it became known her today. Bishop Adna W. Leonard, D. D. who announced the change said the decision was made when Dr. Ryland found himself unable to assist in a proposed series of patriotic addresses. Dr. Ryland concurred in the step. DINNER STORIES It was a dull day in the trenches and a bunch of Tommies had gather ed and were discussing events. After a while the talk turned on a big boche who had been captured the night before. "He was scared stiff," said one Tommy. "Did he run?" asked another. "Run?" replied the first. "Why, if that boche had had just one feather in his hand he'd a flew." DEATHS AND FUNERALS P. V. MILLISON. 55 years old. died Snn dy night t tils home, 4(K) Shawnee avenue; fie is survived dv ma wire, two ciiiUlren, Oren and Orene; two brothers. A. A. and C. V. Millison of iUishong. Kansns: ami by one sintpr, Mrs. li. K. Atlmr.s of Los Anjreles, Calif. The funeral will be held from ltnm ganlner's chapel at 2 o'clock Wednesday af ternoon. Jiurloi in ml Hope cemetery. A. C. ROWLE died suddenly nt Wntts. i aiir. tie i survived iy ms wire, a sou, C. W. Kowle of KI Paso. Texas, and by a daughter, Mrs. F. K. Jordan of 70S To peka avenue, Topeka. Funeral arrangements nave uoi peeu compieiea. The funeral of Auirnsta Bnnersfleld. 75 years old. will be held tomorrow morning at lu:vto o etocK from ienwen s cnapei. Burial will take plae In Manhattan, Kan. JAMES MeALlSTFR. M years old. died Monday at the home of his son. D. F. Mo- AMster. in Sea brook. The body will be shipped to Manhattan for itinera! service a una ouri j i. Lord's Flowers Satisfy. Adv Tel. 82 7.- LOCAL MiEHTIOH t J Safety razor blades sharpened bet ter than new. 25c-35c doz. Brunt- Martin Drug Co. Adv. Core Colds In South Afrfrm. more the cause. K. W. signature oil box. oOc. Auv. ARE BOUND OVER E. antf Emma Johnson Must Face Forgery Trial. Walter Henderson Given Six Months' Jail Sentence. Criminal cases ocupied the entire morning in the court of Topeka. E. and Emma Johnson charged with forging numerous checks in Topeka and who were chased relentlessly over the country by a detective agency em ployed by bankers to protect them selves agams such people, were bound over to the district court. The John sons worked a smooth game while in Topeka, according to the police ver sion. With them was a girl who posea as their daughter. The daughter obtained employment n a Topeka hotel. Upon the receipt of her pay check, many duplicates for It were cashed. Those cashing the checks would call the hotel, and were assured that a check for that amount had been issued to the girl. Johnson worked for a motor car company and worked a similar game with his pay check, the police say. The detective agency located the couple at Okla homa City where they were arrested and turned over to Shawnee county officials. Henderson Convicted. Walter Henderson, the man with a wife and eight children, who admitted stealing hams and selling them to negroes, received a six months jail sentence. Considerable pity was arved for Henderson when he told the sheriff he had stolen, to provide for his family. Later, the sheriff learned that John Barleycorn and not love of family caused the thefts. Carl Linder and Frank Gelizson, two youths, charged with forging and passing bad checks were bound over to the district court. Linder has an other charge facing him. He was ar rested several weeks ago charged with stealing two automobile tires. Linder maintained he had merely sold them for "another fellow" and his case was continued for two weeks to give him an opportunity to find the lad he claimed gave him the tires to sell. WARN LLOYD GEORGE Press Opposing Premier Asserts Ixy- alty to Him "Wearing Away." London. Dec. 11. The Daily Ex press presents in its biceest type what it describes as "Lloyd George's dan ger." It represents the premier's po sition as threatened by the growing strength of his enemies In the house of commons, adding: Parliament is weary and worn out and the last rags of its representative character have dropped away. The war has driven a plowed dyke across all the old boundaries and cut broad, deep new furrows of public opinion and policy. The pacifists seem to be growing in numbers. Time is wearing away the loyalty of the liberal Llod Georgeites. It only requires an occa sion and an old parliamentary hand to throw down the government." The Express urges a speedy appeal to the country. It exhorts the pre mier to realize his danger in time, to come forward and lead the masses against the pacifists and inefficients. It expresses confidence that he would be victorious obtaining a decisive mandate and a long period of un questioned power. In this connection it is worthy of note that the Tory Post and the radi cal Daily News made vehement at tacks on Lioyd George last week on the occasion of the anniversary of his premiership, declaring he had lost the confidence of the public. MINERS ELECT 3HIEF Ho wars Stand on Penalty Clause, Be fore Kansas Coal Diggers. Pittsburg, Kan.. Dec. 11. Whether the coal miners of Kansas approve the course of Alexander Howat in oppos ing the penalty clause which Dr. H. A. Garfield, federal fuel administra tor, insisted on writing into the recent contract with the operators, will be known tonight. Howat, for -thirteen years the leader of the Kansas miners, today submitted his case to the rank and file of the United Mine workers of America of district No. 14. Eleven tnousand miners are balloting in 125 local unions polling places. Howat is opposed by Alexander Mc- Allister of Ringo. McAllister has used scathing language in his attacks on Howat for his penalty clause stand. CATCH A SPY PIGEON Message in German Under Its Wing Injured by Halifax Blast. Halifax, Dec. 11. The capture of a carrier pigeon under whose wing was a message in German, was reported to the police today. The pigeon, probably wounded in the explosion Thursday, entered the window of a home- near the burned area. Its number was "New York Number 29." The pigeon was turned over to the chief of police of Dartmouth who de clined to make any statement pending the delivery of the message to the mil itary authorities. The woman who captured it said the bird was suffer ing intensely from the cold and seem ed to have come in for shelter. HOPKINS'S SUCCESSOR Prudential Trust Co. Will Elect Now President January 8. A successor ot the late Scott Hop kins, president of. the Prudential Trust company, probably will be elect ed January 8. At that time th board of directors of the trust company will hold their annual meeting. "Up until this time the matter hasn't even been discussed' said S. E. Cobb, vice president of the Hank of Topeka and treasurer of the trust company. Nw York Money Market. New York. Tec. 11. MONKV Mercantile paper. i&;5Si. Sterling. GO Iny bills. 4 71; couinien-ial, 50 rtny bills on bnnks. 4.71 4 commercial, CO day bills. 4.704 demand, 4."ri4 cables. 4.7fi 7-lti. Francs, demand, 5.7-Hi tables. 5.714 Guilders, demand, 4:t; cables, 4."t1t. Li res. ilemand. ca bles, H.Ti Itubles. demand. IS: cabbs. 134. Ha r sil ver. Xrv Me xica n dol la rs, CI 4. (Joverument bonds, firm railroad bonds, weak. Time loans, firm: fiO days, 55; 00 days and 6 months. 545. Call money, strong: b'.frh. 6; low. 5: rul ing rate, closing btd 5; offered at last loan, New York HtoHc Market. Wall St.. New York. Iec. 11. STOCK! Liquidation again overtook tue stuck mar ket today, leaders breaking 3 to 6 points. At Our Gigantic ecember Clearance Sale No Need To Wait Until After Xmas You Can Get January Prices Now Come Here Tomorrow Morning Every Garment at Below Wholesale Cost! $12.50 Silk Poplin Dresses l!!llllll!IIII!lllll!!!llll!lll!lllllllllll!llllllll!!il!llllllllllllllllllllll!IIillll!llllllllllllll!l!H Is Your s: ss I I Beatrice Creamery Company Topeka Kansas FOR RENT 720 Buchanan, strictly mod ern, polished floors: Itcst furnace, easily heated. K. I. Parr, 1013 West Mb. Tele phone 5Tvt5 J. Rails displayed general weakness on prob ability of federal control. Sales approx imated VHf.OOO shares. Trading became very active in the final hour wh-in the entire list recorded lowest prices. The closing was weak. Liberty 4 s sold fit 97.20 to 97.00 and the 3Vj at 98.48 to 98.52. New Orleans Cotton Market. New Orleans, lec. 11. COTTON Spot, firm, 25 points up. Middling, 28.75. New York Cttoa Market. x New York, Iec 11. COTTON Spot, steady; middling, ;tl.00. New York Stock Market. (Furnished by T. J. Myers. 301 N. E. Cldg.j New York, Iec. 11. Today Am. Beet Sugar JO A Anaconda Mining A. T. &-S. F-, c NO Baltimore Ohio -o4 Central Leather Chesapeake Ohio 44 C. M. Ac St. P c... 30 C. K. I. P 1' Chino Copper Colorado FuW Iron S2Vj (Jreat Northern, p frTM Inspiration 41 Keun. Copper r11? Missouri Pacific 21 Miami Copper 2i-j iVun. Railroad 44 Heading, c 04 Stndebaker 41 Southern Pacific 7 I'niou Pacific, c 10 t. S. Steel, c Ctah Co.per White Motors WabLih r H Ci 4-" j 41 '4 -I '.4 44 '-j 41! N W4 S7'4 7T 'PPM!1 W? Coats at Reductions That You Will Wonder Why We Sell Them So Che p! Up to $17.50 Coats Up to $22.50 Coats $10.00 $13.90 $19.75 Every Suit An Extraordinary Sacrifice $22.50 d19 QA. Suits at..pl.3U French Serge and Burella Ma terials are nsed with Velvet are osea wun velvet $12.90 and Fnr Trims at Your Choice of lOO Suits that formerly sold to $55.00 at PROPER APPAREL FOR JPOAfm Refunded t05 Kansas Avenue 'tjiTfiWlrftl Assurance of Good Butter! Scientifically' handled from the time the cream is thoroughly pasteurized until the butter is wrapped and sealed in our own patented, sanitary package, gives to Mea dow Gold Blatter quality and uniformity which is unequaled. Plenty of it in Topeka your Grocery can supply you. DON'T POLLY OF M AT THE mm Tonight and Tomorrow Starring MAE MARSH Every Rebekah will be interested in this world famed play as the Rebekah s were founded on this story. Matinee, 2:30 Xlchts, 7:15 and p. m. FELTEVSTEIN'S ORCHKSTKA A Bijg Feature $32.50 Silk Plush Coats Up to $3S.OO Suits at $18.50 Suits That Are Out of the Ordinary ailvertones and foiret 1 wills are advan foiret 1 wills are advan- $18.50 tageously used in making these Suits. Clearance Price fJiMJ Railroad Fares MISS THE CIRCUS

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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1917 DELEGATES HERE Biz Red Cross Conference 1VIU, Convene Tomorrow. Home Service Workers Have Elaborate Program. NEED FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE 3Iiss Tandy Will Tell of St. Louis Institute. WARNING OF CONTAGIOUS KISS DOOMS MISTLETOE London. Dec 11. Gloom has been cast over the approaching mistletoe season. Sir Arthur Newsholme. chief medical officer of the local govern ment board, has issued a warning against danger of contagion of spotted fever from kissing.. Fred Strudell Will Explain In surance Bill. Delegates from 34 chapters and auxiliaries are already beginning to arrive in Topeka to be inreadiness for the conference of representatives of the Home Service section of the Red Cross to be held in the assembly room at the Memorial building tomorrow. Thursday and Friday. The features of the conference will be the addresses on home service work by Miss Kitty Tandv, of Topeka, and the lecture by Fred Strudell, of St. Louis, Mo., ex plaining the War Risk Insurance bill in regard to its provisions concern ing allotments and allowances. .Mips Tandy has just returned to Topeka, after a course in Red Cross home service work at the Hed Cross institute at St. Louis. She gives an interesting outline of the different kinds of relief offered by the Red Cross to the families of soldiers. Miss Tanily says: 'The principal work of the Red Cross in this crisis is the maintenance of the standards of health and morality and of education and industry which often become too lax upon the departure of the bread winner to take part in the war. It Is the object of the Home Sen-ice sec tion to obviate these evils and to fur nish direct financial aid to families wh are not sufficiently provided for bv the government allotment of pay. And this work won't be confined to mre financial aid either, it will also provide competent advice on questions (f health, sanitation, legal matters, and will endeavor to help the wife and children of the absent soldier in every possible way. Have Financial Problems. "Of course, the chief work will be to tide over the temporary financial stress caused by the delay in receiv ing allotments, and in looking after the children and seeing to the proper health and working conditions of the Wives and mothers of the soldiers." The complete program for the three day conference of the Home Service section of the Red Cross as announced th:s morning by Miss Tandy: Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock, Mrs. David Palmer on the American He I Cross; Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, Miss Ward on "Budgets and Diets." and at 3 o'clock. Dean Tuiss of Washburn college, on "Health l roblems." Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. Miss Tandy will expound the "Different Methods of Home Service" and in the afternoon at 2 o'clock, Mrs. Myrtle Callahan on "Community Re sources." then at 3 o'clock. Miss Tandy auain, on "First Interviews, Recrea tions and Relief." Friday morning Fred.Strudellj will speak or "The War Risk Insurance Hill in Respect to Al lotments and Allowances." Friday afternoon there will be a general dis- c;.-ion and answering of questions. All of these meetings will be open to the public. ORDER ATT,YST0 JAIL ItrfiiM to io Atioail With Trial After t'liaiiKC of Venue Is Denied. RED GROSS LUNCH Fifth Campaign Division Holds Pep Sleeting Here. E. C. Quigley of St. Marys Prim, cipal Speaker. At a noon luncheon at the Chamber o Commerce over fiiteen men of the Fifth Campaign division of the -Red Cross imbibed a surplus amount of pep for use in the organization of the campaigns in their home counties, i The first pep speech was driven j home l y W. A. Biby in a strong ad i dre: s on "Over the Top." Among many 'other things he said, "Any man who i would stand on a street corner and i listen to anyone accuse the Red Cross I of graft or ulterior motive or false pretense has a string for a back i bone." He went on to a comparison of the east and the west in their atti j tude to the war. and told of women i whose hands were calloused and tat j tooed from using knitting needles, i Earl Akers also gave an excellent j pep speech covering some of the points j brought up in the previous discussion. I Quigley a Speaker, i The feature of the luncheon was the 1 stirring address of C. Quigley of St. Marys. In short terse fashion he gave a comprehensive description oi tne way the ground work of the Red Cross campaign is being carried on in Wa baunsee county. And he t illustrated his lecture with the posters and liter ature used by the Red Cross in the j campaign, gave data backed by letters instructing the workers wnere to oo tain the materials and information necessary to carry the campaign to yte successful accomplishment of "a mem I ber in every family." He covered ev ery conceivable phase of the work in j hand and sent the delegates out from the meeting with a good idea of what can be done by intelligent and force ful campaigning. j Shawnee, Wabaunsee, Osage, Riley, j Jackson and Pottawatomie counties I were all represented at the meeting I precided over by George Godfrey j Moore, of Topeka. Among those pres ent at the meeting were: Mrs. L. j Kendall, Valley Falls; Miss Ruby B. i Davis, Nortonville; J. E. Everett, Overbrook; Harry Peery, Osage City; I C. A. Deardorff. Lyndon; C. F. Zarr j ner. Burlingame; Mrs. W. M. Pringle, Alma: Mrs. Grace M. Bowman. Ksk- ridge; Mrs. Martha M. Beck, Holton; E. C. Quigley, St. Maryg; C. W. Lord, Wamego; Judge W. W. Potter. Marvs ville: Mrs. C. D. Paul, Blue Rapids; J. L. Coons. Manhattan, and Dr. C. K. Raber, Junction City. MEANSDEFENSE ENDS Wife of Attorney Charged With Mar. I dering Rich Widow Testifies. Jefferson C ty, rec. Ml. Virgil W. Huff of Marshall, Mo., today was ap pointed special commissioner by the supreme court to take testimony in the contempt case against Assistant Attorney General Howell, and Special fcr.i te Counsel Ewing. The two attorneys were ordered to jail by Circuit Judee Slate for refus ing to proceed with the trial of John V. Scott, former commissioner of permanent seat of government who was charged with selling state coai. The. attorneys refused to proceed with the trial, after Judge Slate had refused their petition for a change of Vtnue. Judge Slate ruled that the prosecu tion could not ask for 'a change of venue The two attorneys kept out of prison by getting a temporary writ of habeas corpus in the supreme court. The final hearing was set for Decem ber 21. The commissioner appointed today will report at that time. Concord, N. C. Dec. 11.- The de fense in the Means case rested this aft ernoon after closing testimony with Mrs. Gaston B. Means, wife of the man charged with murdering Mrs. Maude A. King. Prepared for rebuttal, the state planned to introduce Capt. W. A. Jones, New York City police pistol ex pert. Mrs. Means corroborated her hus band's testimony. She appeared to be nervous on the stand and eave hr an swers in a weak voice. MINERS ELECTION TODAY Alexander Howat Running for District President Again. Pittsburg, Kan., Dec. 11. Alexan der Howat's leadership of the Kansas coal miners is beiore the miners at the polls today. Howat is a candi date for i-election as president of district No. 14, United Mine Workers of America, comprising all of the Kansas miners and a few in Missouri along the Kansas border. Opposing Howat is Alexander Mc Allister of Ringo, long an opponent of Howat and chief spokesman of the opposition to the union president among the miners. TRYING GAS SHELL American Troops Go Into Ac tion Behind Lines. At Proper Moment Sammies Go Orer Top in Drilling. AIRPLANES CORRECT THE FIRE Circling Above They Make the Barrage Fire Effective. Xewly Arrived Regiment Is Put Thru the Gas Test. BY J. W. PEGIER. With the American Expeditionary Army, France. Dec 11. American artillery tried out gas shells for the first time today. The experiment was in connection with a complete rehear sal of an assault, from preliminary preparatory fire down to aerial "lia son work" and the final charge. The artillery was that attached to a newly arrived contingent of American fighting men. Under conditions as nearly approx imating those of the battle line as it was possible to make them, this ar tillery hurled a big gas barrage, delug ing a triple line of "enemy trenches." In with the asphyxiating shells the American guns mixed a rain of shrap nel and high explosive projectiles. During all this fire, Sammies crouched in their trenches. Exactly at the "zero' hour, with the American aeroplanes soaring high overhead, above the shell trajectory and wire lessing beck proper ranges, the Ameri can troops "went over." American aeroplanes circled and wheeled above them, sending back word and correct ing the barrage fire of the American guns so that it slowly swept ahead of- the advancing waves. Precisely at "zero" the aeroplanes had reported the "enemy" trenches reduced by pre liminary bombardment. When the Sammies charged they took three the oretical lines of these defenses. Wore Gas Masks. Incidentally, every Sammy who went "over the top" wore his gas mask. After the infantry had followed the curtain of fire and seized the three trench lines, American aviators sig naled back "victory," and the show was over. The Sammies who participated in this realistic practics work were all members of a certain newly arrived contingent. It was their first advance under actual barrage fire. They wore so busy advancing that they had scant time to comment on man-made vol canoes erupting on the opposite sido of the Valley, throwing ap spouts of smoke and earth and frequently send ing a spatter of water drops when projectiles from the American guns landed in a pond in the valley. The American artillerymen worked like mad. Despite the bitter cold they were perspiring when they finished their job. The guns they fired were of a type obtainable only at the front. Moreover, these particular field pieces had just been shifted hack from a period of work against the enemy. ASKS $6,000 DAMAGES Mover, Stone Mason, Snes Contractors Following Fall From Scaffold. E. D. Mover, an Oakland stone mason, today filed a suit for $6,000 damages against Henry Bennett Sons, Topeka contractors. Moyer states that he was employed by the Bennetts in July, 1917, and was work ing at the colored industrial school. He claims that a hole existed on the floor of a scaffold on which he was working. While on this scaffold, he asserts. that he fell thru the hole onto the wall, permanently injuring his breast and body. Since that time, he claims, he has been unable to perform heavy work. SHAF SHOTS j MANY ZERO FIRES i AT HOMJs NBWl The Why of Ufe, VThy is it, it's the fellow Who will Dot take his pills. Who always has a remedy For other fellow s ill. Nels lUgle. Soclal dance tonight Kellam Hall. Adv. The Knights of Siege Perilous are giving their ritual in reception ot ten new members at Central church this evening. Arrangements are being made to secure the Oberlin College Glee club for a concert in this city the day after Christmas. The Ladies" Bible class of the Swed ish Bethel church meets Thursday afternoon at i:30 o'clock at the home of Mrs. CUius Carlson, 109 Fillmore street. The annual election of officers of the Central Congregational church will be held Thursday evening. Sup per will be served by Mrs. Wise's di vision to those who make reservation. Do you want to know how to save from 10 to 15 per cent of coal and receive the same amount of heat? I will tell you in a booklet for $1.00 and 3-cent stamp. Olof Ekberg, Topeka, Kan. -Adv. Exceptional ability as a stoker caused A. E. Morgan to so overheat his furnace that it ignited the house he occupies at 512 Taylor street. No damage was done. The house is owned by Dr. Charles B. Lyon. Ralph R. Peterson presented the Chamber of Commerce with two clocks Monday afternoon. The clocks wtre placed in the office and the bil liard room. There is already one in the dining room presented by W. J. Lewis. The Ladies' Aid of the North To peka Baptist church will meet with Mrs. G. T. Crosswhite. 1404 North Quincyw Wednesday afternoon, to fin ish the Red Cross work of the society. The outgoing officers will be guests of honor. Deputy Sheriff Oscar Carlson could not have created any more excitement if he had marched to the marriage altar than he did Monday when he went to the recruiting office and en listed in the engineer corps. Carl son didn't tell anyone of his purpose. He is well liked" by everyone, is a hard worker, polite and efficient. Sheriff Larimer will not attempt to fill Carl son's place until he- has passed the final test and his army service is as sured. Deputies in the sheriffs office today served a restraining order on John O. Craft, owner of the New Home hotel in Topeka, formerly the Mid land hotel. The restraining order was issued by. the Wyandotte district court awaiting the settlement of a separate maintenance suit filed in Wyandotte county by Craft's wife, Ida Crafty Craft is forbidden to dispose of his property until the suit is set tled. Mrs. Craft states the hotel prop erty is worth 1 10,000. The regular monthly evening meet ing of the Co-operative club will be held tonight at the Elks' club at 6:30 o'clock. Double features are on the bill for the after-dinner delecta tion of the members. Lieut. George McDermott will address the club on the different phases of life in a train ing camp, especially Fort Sheridan. Music for the dinner will be furnished by artists from the Daniel A. Muller School of Music. The members have been asked to invite their wives and womenfolk to take a trip thru Estes Blame Cold Wave for $300,000 Loss in Chicago. Numerous Deaths and Injuries Coal Shortage Acute. 1 Chicago, Dec. 11. The entire coun try was still blanketed by the cold wave today and the end was not sight. There was some relief from zero weather west of the Mississippi river, but the weather bureau stated that subnormal temperatures continued to prevail thruout the United States and Canada, and that relief from this con dition probably was a matter of sev eral days. The cold wave centered over the Ohio river valley early today, and Cincinnati reported a record low tem perature of 12 below aero. Jackson ville, Fla.. again reported 82 above. 400 Fires in Chicago. The four-day cold snap and accom panying gales have resulted in at least thirty deaths, scores of injuries and millions of dollars in property damage in the middle west alone. Eighteen persons are dead in Ohio, 1 1 in Chicago and one in Lincoln, Neb. More than fifty persons were injured in this city. The property damage has resulted trnm fnwvintr frtAtnff. Minnntn? (if telegraph and telephone wires and j hundreds of fires. In Chicago there have been more than 400 fires directly attributable to the cold weather, with a loss of $300,000. Milwaukee re ported seventy-five fires and other cities in proportion. Close Saloons In Cleveland. The pcor were being cared for thru charity organizations and municipal aid. Most cities have a sufficient coal surplus to meet the enormous demand, j altho several factories and schools have been closed in Cleveland thru lack of fuel and Battle Creek, Mich.; j reported practically the entire supply I exhausted with actual suffering re- n Li Ohio Pleads for Relief. Columbus. O., Dec. 11. With be- j Jow zero weather prevailing the coal shortage was so acute in Ohio today that Governor James M. Cox tele graphed Dr. Harry Garfield,' federal fuel administrator at Washington, that unless Ohio people get immediate re- lief they will "lose confidence in the government Above In New York. New Tork, Deo. II. New Tork's cold snap touched bottom at 9 de- grees above zero at 4:10 a. m. today, i the weather bureau announced, but the end is not yet. Tonight the mer- cury will hover around 10 or 12 above. it is predicted. Forty thousand tons of coal are at New Jersey terminals ready for delivery in New Tork when the gale subsides sufficiently to per- i mit bringing across the fuel in barges. Many schools, apartment houses and puoiic buildings face a serious coal shortage. SENTENCED TO LIFE I I suiting Further Action Against Xegroee in August Houston Mutiny. in German Professor Under Fire. Peoria, 111., Dee. 11. After a thoro investigation of the United States rec ords from the year 1837 to the pres ent time, the United States officials investigating tile case of C. H. Kam mann, president of the local German American alliance and principal of the Lincoln school here, announced that 1 he had not taken out his naturaliza I tion papers. The Peoria school board has refused to oust Kammann from his position until some of the charges preferred against him are proven, despite, the protests of citizens in gen j eral. San Antonio, Pec ll.-In a state ment of those sentenced to life as a result of the riot and mutiny at Hous ton,. August 23, the life sentences fol low: "In the cases of Cook William Fra zier. Cook Xathan Humnhries 1r. Fri- Park-Rocky Mountain National Park vates. first class, John M. Hudson jr., via the silver tongue of Co-op Ritchey. f JamejJ Johnson, Ben McDanieis. This part of the entertainment starts and sewrt w- Phillip all of Com promptly at S o'clock. Pan? Privates Douglas T. Bolden, Horses especially army horses lcUrGerabSSn formed the principal subject of a Henry Green James R Hawkins discourse by George McDermott for j alow HobhX C D. Holland the edification of the members of the i Rlchard Lewis! Leroy PinkettTjoseph Monday Lunch club at their luncheon j Wardlow. William S. Kane, Harry at the Chamber of Commerce Mon- Richardson. Luther Rucker. Roy Ty day noon. McDermott is now a lieu- ier, Joseph William, jr.. all of Corn tenant, by virtue of the commission pany 1; Privates Ernest Adams. John given him at the close of the offi- i Adams, Wash Adams. Douglass K cers- training camp at Fort Sheridan. Lumpkins, Richard Brown all of According to McDermott, horses and I Company K; Privates Allie C Butler he were complete strangers until his Abner Davis, and George H Parham' arrival at tne camp, ana tne mutual of Company L; Bugler Ruben W antipathy has never been overcome Baxter. Company M Privates Walter I in spite of numerous profane efforts j Burket, James Coker, Callie Glenn on the -part of army sergeants to William J. Hough, Thomas Jackson I bring them to an understanding, if j Walter T. Johnson, Dean New, Jesse not a basis of friendship. Sullivan, all of Company M. all of the 1 24th United States infantry in each IN RUSH TO REGISTER "em' th."".! i and allowances due and to be confined in Fn..m iu n.i, t... at hard labor at such place as the re- liin. uuwv 1U1 me Select Any Kimball Piano or Player at Practically Terms and Price in this GREAT Closing Out Sale of Kimball Pianos At 822 Kansas Avenue If we were to take these pianos to the homes of you folks who want and need pianos we could close out the whole, stock of nearly 100 pianos, within a day's time. They are every one, wonderful values. You'd realize the fact the minute you saw an instrument in your own home. ji But to take them around would cost $25 to $50 apiece, if we added that expense to the present low prices. But we want to save you that expense. So COME TO 822 KANSAS AVE., while we are closing out this splendid stock of KIMBALL PIANOS. Buy NEW PIANOS HERE at $1394169-$198 Competitors pianos are $210-$Z50-$300 JUST THINK OF SUCH A BARGAIN AS THIS A BRAND NEW PIANO FROM KIMBALL STOCK ONLY $139 Used Pianos at $65, $75, $98, $125, $129, $145, $165. A fine Square Piano for only $10. A splendid practicepiano. A Kimball Organ at $10. Think of these BARGAIN OFFERINGS If you intend to buy a piano any time within the next few months or even within a year or two it will pay you BIG to come and make your selection NOW, while this SALE is in progress. This stock must be closed out. We must give possession of the building January 1. Marshal's office Today Mufflers! Scarves! Reefers Hundreds of fabrics and color combinations $1.00 to $10.00 COME AND SEE THIS CASCADE of CHRIST MAS CRAVATS!!! Windows full of them, counters piled high with them. This Store is simply overflowing with beautiful Christ mas Neckwear. Never has been Never will bex such a stupendous showing of silks for your selection. 50c, $1, $1.50, $2, $2.50, $3 Topeka photographers did a land office business today in taking pic tures of alien enemies who rushed into the office of the United States mar shal to register. All during the morn ing the marshals office with unnaturalized German citizens, willing to register and receive per mits to enter the forbidden tones which take in nearly the entire city. Every alien enemy is obliged to have his picture taken and six prints are turned over to the government. One of the pictures is attached to the permit issued, other are filed in Wash- tngton and one kept in the marshal's term of his -natural life. Gets 2 Years in Prison. I "In the case of Private Oliver Fletcher, Company M, Twenty-fourth tnuea states lniantry to be dishon orably discharged from the service. iraVfilledit0 forfeit a11 Pa and allowances due such place as the reviewing authority may direct for two years and six months. "In the cases of Private Henry T. Walls, Company I; Private First Class Alvin Pugh, Company I. and Private Walter B. Tucker, Company I, all of the Twenty-fourth United States in fantry, and each of them to be dis honorably discharged from the serv ice, to forfeit all pay and allowances due and to be confined at hard labor Only 10 Days Until Christmas. Order Your Christmas Piano NOW. Sale Being Conducted at 822 Kansas Ave. t ti.. tin- Don t forget the location. Store Open Evenings. COME. EMAHIZER SPIELMAN FURNITURE CO. CASHING COMPANY? J office. Each of the "enemies' bad a good i execuse for not registering, according "t ,,TAVr 1" "1 to Otho M. Woods, United States mar- Ph Jfi?? l,he viewm au ehal. August J. Johns, the Santa Fe I r. K; rt J employe, arrested for not registering Monday is still in the custody of of ficers. Information" concerning his case has been forwarded to the United States attorney's' office. John spent the night at his home. 1107 Buchanan street, in charge of a guard he was obliged to employ him self. Until disposition is made of his case by the government, Johns mus continue to "wear a guard" at all times. Alien enemy zones are being estab lished in every city in Kansas by depu ties from the marshal's office. CLOSE K. C. SALOONS Capper Would Uke to Be Czar Co Io It, He Says. To be acquitted: Privates William B. Beacoat, Grover Burns, Company I; Grant H. Mems, Company K: Burch I- Smith, Campany and Terry ?mith. Company M, all of the Twenty fourth infantry. "The forty-sixth article of war au thorizes department commanders in time of war to carry into execution sentence of death without reference to higher authorities. Prisoners to Fort Leavenworth. Thoe named above as sentenced Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 11. The United States will sit at the head of the table when peace terms are -discussed. Gov- Arthur Capper of Kansas told the members of the Kansas City Implement, Vehicle and Hardware club, who held their monthly dinner at the Hotel Muehlebach last evening. Special reference to the liquor ques tion was made by Governor Capper. "If I were czar for two or three days," he said, "I would move the boundary line of Kansas over so as to include Kansas City, and thus clean up the saloons." Cares Cold in Great Britain. LAXATIVE BKOMO QUININE tablets re mover the canst K. V. tiUOVE'S signature oa box. oc. Adv. "ANTI-FREEZE" is a sure preventive against freezing for auto radiators used and indorsed by hosts of autoists. Now's the time to guard against future radiator trouble and expense. Get seme of this compound to day. Made and So'.d By Geo. W. Stansfield URIGGIST 632 Kansas Avenue &4 to death were hanged on the military leservation at Fort Sam Houston at :17 o'clock a. m., December 11, 1917. "The execution was carried out un der charge of a guard furnished bF the troops at Fort Sam Houston. "The remains were interred near the place ot execution. "Those named above sentenced to confinement for life will be sent to the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Those sentenced to confinement for a number of years will be sent to the United States dis ciplinary barracks at Fort Leaven worth. Kan. Those acquitted will be released from confinement and seitf to join their regiment." CLEAR TEX. GOVERNOR District Attorney Has Cases Against State Officials Quashed. Austin. Dec. 11. Judge James Ft. Hamilton on motion of District At torney John E. Shelton today dis missed all of the state cases with the exception of those pending against C W. Woodman, former labor commis sioner. The cases dismissed are against former Governor Ferguson, diversion of a special fund; Charles O. Austin, commissioner of insurance and bank ing; John Q. McKay, former Secretary Churchill J. Bartlett, former Secre- j tarv of state and CHarles L. Stowe. former superintendent of buildings f and grounds. 1 The charges against Woodman were passed for the present and probably will be continued to next term. The district attorney In making the mo tion to dismiss, stated that the in- dictments were insufficient to war- rant or sustain a conviction. j Want a Wilson Street in Rome. Rome. Dec. 11. Strong support is being given by the press to a proposal made by several organisations to name a street of Rome after President Wil son. WHY NOT PRESENTS? Manhattan and Junction City Woold Spend SI 0,000 for Fireworks. Manhattan. Kan., Dec 11. A cam paign to raise funds for the entertain ment of the soldiers at Camp Funston who will not be able to spend Christ mas with their folks at home, is soon to be started in Manhattan and Junc tion City. These two towns are not to carry the entire campaign, as Kansas City, St. Louis and other large cities will help in the campaign. The fund has been set for $10,000. which will go to furnish fireworks. The campaign will be started by a sale of firecracker tags, on which will be printed the let ters. "P. F. -P.," or "Funston Fire works Fund." 4 It seems to the State Journal and undoubtedly to a majority of the peo ple of Kansas that this Is a waste of money that could be used to a much greater advantage if diverted thru oth er channels. It seems out of keeping with the conservation campaigns carried- on at this time thruout the nation by the government. The government has planned a big all-day all-feature program for the soldiers at Camp Funston for Christ mas. In addition, 10 per cent of the mfen will be given a furlough. Far be it from any one or the State Journal to attempt to discour- age any act to the interest of the en- i listed men, but this one feature ap pears wasteful!. I It the f 10.000 must be spent, let it be devoted to Christmas presents for the troops. Ten thousand dollars i would mean 35 cents in value to each man at Funston. 1 Do YOU want 1 Clothes that Dazzle? mVIIiJS, i i i f i ii ft It's SO easy! K single trial paclaga of Hed Cross Ball Blui will eonvince yon that never be- fore have yon known trrts happi ness st the end of the day. White why it give yonf cloth's a whitennts that even, the fleeciest clouds cannot rival, DMit Watt, Oof Doubt Csi U Vo Homd KHOW: ji&ipRgf$4k. will make '7 c7 r loA, f A THE -1 rrt It l toe k. Oh t, I

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8 MUTT JEFF Jeff May Be Short on jefvWps. a 1 Ri& pi 1 5J,ts tN vr' nine,:: hat- rr 6 erTHe FACTS' Vll JVC- Y.W TAEFUL.- felA 1 Vi" M- TtoTI VOW TKVJN 1 lq. L ONe Mo!tt chance. sEevoHAr of fact-. ti S V.lllV. I &orr tWfcfcv r6T'r 9V f A TERIoa and J V Be wwnV? X Voo caw -THAT- VNV ,1 Iff S BrXcfc rNl lfb -fJj r I'm TOKvoGH, pfiS. PVTR.oT.C MASVME6TIM6 LiV,.6 fklS I OV)TlVMASS- I' MUTT.' LA :-TW A W An engagement of much interest in Washburn College circles, is that of M iss Ernia Zutavern, of Great liend, and Mr. Oscar Hull, of Detroit, Mich. Miss Zutavern was graduated from Vashburn in 1916 and is a popular member of the Kappa Alpha Theta Borority. She belongs to the Kred Zutavern family of (Jreat Bend, and her father is one of the weaJthy and itttluentiitl men of that part of the state. Miss Zutavern is now visiting friends at the Theta house. Mr. Hull was instructor in the Great Bend high school when Miss Zutavern was a student there, before she entered college. He is now mak ing' his home in Detroit. The marriage will take place this month. w Mr. nd Mrs. Thomas Lyle, of Glen Klder, announce the marriage of their daughter, Marjorie, to Lieut. Lewis A. Hasty, which took place Sunday, De cember 9, at 2:30 o'clock, at the home of the bride's sister, Mr. H. B. Val lette, of Jewell City, Kan. The wedding was very simple, with only a few relatives as guests. There were no attendants and no wedding music. The da'e for the wedding was set onl-" a few days in advance, as the time of Lieutenant Hasty's leave of absence from the army was uncertain. The marriage is one of much local interest, especially in college circles as both the bride and the bridegroom a re grad u a t es of Wa shburn. M rs. Hasty finishej V'ushLurn in 1916. She was a number of the Kappa Alpha Theta snrority. This year shf' took a Abort course in domestic science in the State Agricultural college, Man hattan. Lieutenant Hasty was a student in the Washburn law school, finishing in the class of 1915. He is a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity. He has been f the training camp at Fort Sheridan, and is assigned to duty at Camp Grant, Rockford, 111., where he and his bride will make their home temporarily.

Mrs. E. S. Marshall has returned from a trip of three weeks to New York and Washington. In New York she visited her daughter, Mrs. Don Thompson, and Mr. Thompson. Mr. Thompson has lately returned from Russia and the Far Bast, and is preparing some motion pictures of war scenes which he photographed luring his last trip abroad. The pic tures are being shown at the Strand, one of the most Important Broadway picture house of New York, beginning Monday of this week. W h i le M is. Ma rwha II was In New York she visited the far-famed "Hero Land" bazaar being conducted in the Grand Central Palace. There articles all sorts are sold for the war relief V The Gift Shop's I J Quality Silver in Reed J Barton Sterling Sheffield. ff Well worthy of admira- tion is the harmony of de- Vrt V. C"A sign and fine workmanship &n M, represented in our silver- iLsk ware- In our unusual and attrac tive holiday display you can readily find a gift that will keep your thoughtf ulness and taste ever in mind. Ralph R. Peterson "The Gift Shop" 106 West 8th Street m Looking Backward In State Journal Society Column TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY The Informal club hail a dance last even ing at HmUou's ball. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Leon Tuttle. Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Schubert, Mr. and Mrs. William Mac fcrrnn, Mr. and Mrs C. S. Kagle, Mr. and Mrs V. A. Lewis. Mr. and Mrs. A. It. Ling afc.lt. Mr. and Mrs. Uobert Frampton, Mr. hikI Mrs. T. O. Wear, Mr and Mrs. L. S. Ferry. Mr. and Mm. Harry Overhnlt. Mr. and Mrs. F. t. Merrium, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wear, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Haiikla, Mr. mid Mrs. W. L. New uuer. Mr. aud Mrs. Frank Crane, Mr. and Mm. H. K. Jamison, Mr. and Mrs. W. II. Kastinan. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wear. Mr. aud Mrs II. G. Lesclier. Mr. and Mrs. Len Korn, Mr. and Mm. J. It. Furrv. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Iladcliff. Mr. and Mrs. C. T. MK'ahe, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hobart, Mr. and Mrs. James L. King. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Noble. Mies Mary Moon. iMIbs Spencer, Mr. Charles Bonn's. Mr. M. w. Marrerran, air. is. j. nue, jar. i. loo)ittle, Mr. S. C. Nichols and Mr. Hal Hnzlett. fund. There is a vaudeville show in connection with it, and various other theatrical attractions, a tea room, an exhibition of the operation of the new British tank guns, ice skating, and every sort of a sale. It cost $2 a look," Mrs. Marshall says, "and you can buy a chance on anything in this work from a dog to an automobile." Mrs. Marshall .visited Mrs! E. C. Fox iri Montclair, N. J., formerly of Topeka, also Miss Daisy Monroe and Miss Cynthia Monroe, who are in the east this year, and other former To peka people. In Washington she saw Senator Curtis, the O. B. Martins, formerly of Topeka. Mrs. Tallman Bailey, and other old friends. Mrs. G. C. Bowman will be hostess at a meeting of the Topeka Avenue club Friday of this weok. Guests of the club were: Mrs. Aaron L- I Breck, Mrs. C. J. Wilson. Mrs. C. E. j Heer. Mrs. J. D. Bradfield, Mrs. S. H. Bridges and Mrs. Bennett. The Co-operative club will have a 1 meetine tonight at the Elks' hall. Miss Ann Myers will furnish the musical i program, which will be as follows: j Revolutionary Etude Chopin Prelude, Op. 28, No. 21 Chopin If I Were a Bird Hanselt I Prelude Bach j j Mr. William Bunsen of the Muller I School of Music, head of the violin de partment, will give a concert In Kan I sas City tonight. His accompaniments will be played by Ms. Daniel Muller of Topeka. She will pxay as solos a TOPFKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL Judgment, But He's Long on Details I Chopin Etude, Op. 15, No. 12, and I Chopin's Ballade in A Flat. Mrs. Bunsen will sing "Kest Laaa," a new composition by Mr. Muller, honoring the American soldiers who have been killed in France. The Minerva club was entertained Monday by Mrs. T. H. Paxton and Miss Marjorie Glasgow, at Mrs. Pax ton's home. The program was as fol lows: Heview, "Notre Dame de Paris" Victor Hugo. Mrs. Charles Dillon. Paper, "Hugo as a Lyric Poet," Mrs. P. P. Womer. March. Air de Ballet Massenet. Mrs. Morton Albaugb and Etbel Grant. Bonue Nuit Maasquet. -Mrs. It. Parks Bennett. Open Thy Blue Eyes Massenet. Mrs. C D. Wei I man. Airgonalse Massenet. Miss Marjorie Glasgow. Meditation from Thais Massenet. Mrs. W. S. Axtell. t Mrs. Byrle Johnson. Valse in E Minor Chopin. Miss Marjorie Irwin. Hast Thou Heard the News? HartUng. The East Wing Hurtling. Mrs. U. Parka Beuuett. The Foreign Missionary society of the First Methodist church will meet Wednesday afternoon at three o'clock with Mrs. B. M. Davies, and all the f members of the congregation are in j vited for a supper which will be served i in the evening. A free will offering will be taken The Rev. and Mrs. Joseph Hicks will entertain the Congressional de partment of the local C. E. Union at their home, 1517 Harrison street, Wed nesday evening. The guests will be officers, superintendents of various departments and presidents of all lo cal societies. f Announcement is made of the mar- riage of Miss Nettie Croyle and Mr. I Mr. N. BBurge has left for a busi i Chester W. Ei:;ler, which took place ness trip efet. He is in Kansas City I Thanksgiving Day at 7:30 o'clock at today. the home of the bride's parents. Mr. Miss Betty Bonebrake has returned and Mrs. A. S. Croyle, near Auburn, i from Osage City, where she visited The Rev. A. E. Hughes, pastor of Miss Dorothy Craig and Miss Mary I the Auburn Methodist church officiat- j Clampitt. Miss Craig and Miss Clam j ed. The wedding music was furnished pitt will be Miss Bonebrake s guests 1 oy ivirs. freston croyle at tne piano i and Rev. A. E. Hughes, who sang 'Memories." The room where the 1 ceremony was read was decorated in; 1472. Adv. golden yellow and white. The bride j Capt. Jerome Johnstone, who has wore a gown of white radium silk and been in Washington, D. C, for a few Georgette, trimmed with pearl beads, j weeks, has been transferred to Water and carried bride's roses. The brides- vliet Arsenal, New York. maid was Miss Edith Fletcher, who j wore yellow crepe de chine and car- i ried large yellow chrysanthemums. The best man was the bride's brother, Mr. Roy Croyle. A wedding supper was served after the ceremony. Out or town guests were: Mr. and Mrs. w. vv. Samson, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. E. Marsh and Mrs. W. H. Reed, and her granddaughter, Juanita Dignon, all of Topeka; Mr. Claude Carlat and daugh- ter, Anna May, of Ellensburg, Wash, j About fifty guests were present. Mrs. E. D. Clithero will have no more Tuesday evening recitals until December 2 6, when she will give a student's recital, to which the public is invited. The Thursday afternoon meeting of the educational department of the Woman s club will not be held planned this week, but instead of eo- ing to the regular session, the mem- bers are all asked to go to the Red Cross work rooms to spend the time j they would otherwise have given to) the meeting. Mrs. C. J. Evans, who was to have made the address of the day, was called to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, by the illness of her son, who is in the training camp, and is suffering an attack of measles. The meeting, therefore, will be turned into a Red Cross work afternoon. Mrs. E. C. Fox, of New York, for merly of Topeka, anJ author of the clever Nels Yingle rhymes that used to appear in the State Journal, has written me, in verse, in line with a prosy sort of preachment recently published in th.s column, on the sub ject of men taking up the knitting fad. She says: Please tell "The Woman in Our Town" That New York men are knitting: They do not sit anil hold their hands While precious time is flitting. The high sehool boys haTe learned to knit, And older men of leisure Sit calmly by the fire and knit. Instead of seeking pleasure. The pocket of the smaller boy Has bails of knitting in it. The firemen knit for soldier s kit Ja every leisure minute. So be they yonng or be they old. They do not mind the teasing. For if they fear some fellow's jeer. Some Sammy may be freezing. Our Kansas men could knit I know. But an. I am not joking. I'd rather see them by the fire. A reading and a smoking. Nels Yingle. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Ewers of Win field. Kan., formerly of Topeka, an nounce the marriage of tlreir daugh ter, Mariret, to Mr. James Koons ol Cdall. Saturday afternoon, at the Ewers home. The bride was gradu- s ted from the Topeka high school in j 1914, and afterward attended Drake university, ues ivioines. lowa. sne met Mr. Koons in Des Moines, his former home. The young couple have gone on a wedding trip to Des Moine and after their return they will be at home in Udall. where Mr. Koons has a position in the bank. Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Hite, of 1315 Topeka avenue, announce the mar riage of their daughter. Rose, to Lieut. Donald Patterson Pierce, of Cleveland, Ohio, which took place Monday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock, De cember 10, at the First Methodist Episcopal church, Kansas City, Mo. Lieutenant and Mrs. Pierce will make their home, temporarily at least, at Montgomery, Ala., where Lieuten ant Pierce is stationed with Ohio troops,

Lots of people have been fooled on the proper age to get married. The only ones that know what it is are those who have missed it and those who haven't reached it. Manhattan Industrialist. The Kappa Sigma fraternity of Washburn college celebrated founders' day Monday night with a srroker and banquet at the chapter house. A part of the evening was spent in writing letters to members who are in the government military service. All the letters were signed by each member present. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Little of 1324 Monroe street announce the marriage of their daughter, Beulah Louise, to Sergt. Harry E. Robbins, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Robbins of Cimarrcn, N. M The wedding occurred at Raton, N. M. Notes and Personal Mention. Mrs. Latimer, of Portland, Ore., who has been visiting Mrs. Matt Wrightman, jr., has left on her re- turn home. I this week-end. Shampooing, hair dressing and manicuriner. 734 Kansas avenue. Phone Lieut. Wallace Casey is spending a few days with friends in Topeka. He was a reporter on the Kansas City Star and left his work to take the of- fleers' training at Fort Sheridan. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Green are the parents of a son born Sunday at their home, 201 Edge wood avenue. They will name the babv Hprman Rnrm Jr. Mrs. Green is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Slaughter, Mrs. Ray Sparks of Champaign. 111.. rwhn na rrm in Tnnolra tr nttaml V wedding of her sister. Miss Lois Lind say, and Dr. Clare Stahl, will remain until after Christmas. Shampooing grey hair our specialty. 734 Kansas avenue. Phone 1472. -Adv. Miss Helen Yoder, who has been In Kansas City for the past two weeks, will return home the last of the week. She was one of the Junior league girls v ho gave the "Follies of 1917 Kansas City. Mrs. H. D. Yoder, who went to Kansas City to see the play. returned home Monday, Mrs. S. L. Fanning of St Joseph left for her home Monday. She came to attend the funeral of Mr. Pcott Make Your Oum Cough Syrup and Save Money Better than the redy-nmd kind. aUy prepared a -home. The finest coupli syrup that money can buy, costing only a!out one-fifth as much as ready-made preparations, can easily be made tip at home. The way it takes hold and conquers distressing coughs, throat and chest colds will really make you enthusiastic about it. t Any drujsrist can supply you with. 21 ounces of Pinex (60 cents worth). Pour this into a pint bottle and fill! lue noi&ie im pia.ui gra.nuia.icu. sugar syrup. Shake thoroughly and it is rrady for use. The total cost is about C5 ccnta and gives you a full pint a family supply of a most effectual,! pleasant tasting remedy. It keeps per-i fcctlv. I H'a truly astonishing how quickly it acts, penetrating through every air j passage of the throat and lungs loosens and raises the phlegm, soothes and heals I tiie inliamcd or swollen throat mem-1 nranea, and gradually but surely the j anno vine throat tickle and dreaded j coujrh will disappear entirely. Nothing; better for bronchitis, spasmodic croup,; whooping couh or bronchial asthma. Pinex is s special and highly concen trated compound of genuine Norway pine extract, and is known the world over for its prompt healing effect on the throat m -mbrancs. Avoid disappointment bv asking your dmjrist fr ounces of Pinex with full directions and don't accept any thing else. A guarantee of absolute sat isfaction or money promptly refunded, roes with this preparation. The Pinex to.. Ft Vav Advertisement-1 TUESDAY EVENING, Drawn for the rCoprrlcht. Trade Mark Hopkins. Miss Margaret Pierson of Kansas City has returned home, after spending a short time with Miss Edna Hopkins and Miss Elizabeth Hopkins, he cousins. Mrs. A. B. Cole of Streator. 111., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Fred H. Wilson. Miss Shinn, chiropodist. Special at tention given arch troubles. 734 Kan sas avenue. Phone 1472. Adv. The Woman's C. E. society of the First Presbyterian ;nurch will meet with Mrs. F. A. McEwen, 307 West Thirteenth street. Henry H. Hall, New York Life. Adv. The regular monthly social and business meeting of the Ladies Aid society of Lowman Memorial church will be held with Mrs. Fred Lynn. 973 Lindenwood avenue, Wednesday after noon. Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. N. D. Metzger, Mrs. A. C. Henslee, Mrs. J. N. Kepple, Mrs. Cal Zinn and Mrs. T. J. Ream. SANTA FE NOTES Notes and personals from Santa Fe by Frances Jones, 21 l Grattau street. Telephone between 8 an 1 10 a. m., 3530; other hours. 4751 K-2. The Ladies Society of the B of L. F. and K. will meet Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. W. C. Keiser. Flection of offi.-ers will be held and the Christmas exchange will be bad. Fireman Harry McForland expects to leave Wednesday for Camp Funaton. Mr. McParlund was called lu the first draft. Kngineer Koy Pardee of Kansas City spent Sunday and Monday visiting his sister, Mrs. Charles Laird, and family. Miss Pearl Main has returned to her work in Hie ticket auditor's office after a vacation spent in Illinois. Mrs. C. W. Main who accompanied her daughter to Illi nois will remain several days longer. Mrs. James NicholBou anil little daughter exiect to return to their home in Fort Mad ison soon. Mrs. Nicholson is the guest of her parents, Mr. pud Mrs. F. Borst. Mr. and Mm. F. G. Lndington will go to Fort Sill. Okla.. the latter part of the week to spend the week end with their sou Fred Lmlingtou who is a member of Kan sas Field Hospital i:!9. Mr. and Mrs. Milford Anderson of Kansas City are visitors at the home of Switchman and Mrs. William Watkius. Miss Isabelle Howe of the auditor of disbursements office has been called to Galesburg, 111., by the death of her uncle. EAST SIDE NOTES Notes and perronais from East Side by Frances Jones. 211 Grattau street. Telephone between 8 aud 10 a. ni., &0; other hours, 4731 K-2. i .T. G. Jack is expected to come soon from St. Louis to visit his daughter. Mrs. George Christopher, 510 Fast Locust street. Mrs. It. W. Brewer entertained with a surprise party recently for her son Van's fourteenth birthday anniversary. The boy friends of Mr. Brewer who were guests include Mr. Robert Spencer, Mr. Henry Carrotbers. Mr. .7 Heller, Mr. (ieorge Watts. Mr. Carl Weber. Mr. Itobert Flor ence, Mr. Maurice Heller. Mr. Charles Webber and Mr. Max Simon. Mr. and Mrs. J. Stolzman, 4rt2 Emmett street, are the parents of a daughter, boru Monday morning. Miss Irene Bunds has returned to her home in West Topeka after spending sev eral days with her brother aud wife, Mr. and Mrs. Koy Bunds. 47 Larch street. Miss Bunds has Just returned from a visit to friends at Winchester, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Estel Large are the parents of a son. born December 1, whom they have named Clarence Leroy. The Violet Club will meet Friday after noon with Mrs. William McMahou, Chandler street, as hostess. Miss Myrta Haiprht, Morris avenue, will have us ber guests Friday evening, the members of the VHive club. Mr. Leslie Guin baa gone to bis home in Hennessey, Okla., after spending several days with the S. Creuier family, Grattau Bt reet. Eunice Cary, Norton street, who has been ill of a severe cold, is recovering. Mr. and Mrs. David Carle are expected to arrive soou from Arkans.is f'ity. Kau to spend the holidays with Mr. Carle's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Carle. OAKLAND NOTES K., ab ami nunnnuli fm rt Clnblar.A by Frances Jouca. 21' Urattan street. Telephone between s and a. ui., wilier hours, 4701 K-2. j The L. V. B. A. rlass of the Methodist chureb will be entertained Tuesiiay even- iug with Miss Naomi Kay, o9 Forest avenue, as hosteps. The guests invite! are Miss MiWlre.l House, MifcB Elizabeth lbile, M.ss Mildred Wright. Miss Dorothy Shuler. Miss Helen Mewbobl, Miss Hess.e i:ice. Miss Ali-e Stacnelbeck. Mifcs Doilie Smelser, Miss Marguerite Hower, Mr. Huil tiuuson, Mr. John Hanson, Mr. William Crouch, Mr. William llnton, Mr. Floyd Nii-cuin. Mr. I'uul Edmond and Mr. Paul Wright. Mrs. W. J. Williams and two children, Stanlev and Ogdeu. 271 Forest avenue, have gone to ie Soto, Kan., called there by the illness of Mrs. William's brother, Mr. Augnst Miller. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Phillips. V.1S Win field avenue, have given the name Alverta to their little daughter, boru several mouths ago. H. V. Clayton has returned to his work as one of the llbrurians at Camp Fans too after spending several days with his family. Mrs. P- J- Herryman has returned to Chicago. Mrs. Iter ry man was accompanied home by her little n tighter Jeau. who spent several days with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Lndingtou. Mrs. J. Gregory has returned to Kansas City after visiting her sister. Mrs. F. K. Ford and Mr. Ford. :tC5 Strait street. W. K. Worthington and bis son C C. Worthington. who visited Mr. V. K. Worthington'a sister. Mrs. Ira Orner and family. Chester avenue, have returned to their borne at Worthington. Mo. The Win One da as of rhe Oakland Metho dist church will meet Thursday afternoon DECEMBER 17. 1917 Tr.ty-k Stat- .Journal t!H7. b n C Klher. Ke- V. S. Pat. oft.) at 2 o'clock with Mrs. Mamie Fobs. 3K Wabash avenue. The Christmas exchange will be postponed until the meeting to be helil in Juuuarv. Mildred, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Hooper, Wabash avenue, who has been quite ill, is improving. Mrs. C. J. Hooper, Wabash avenue, will leave Thursday to visit her daughter, Mrs. ij. a. Starnes. In Kansas city. Mrs. R. K. S-holes has come from Kan sas City to visit her daughter, Mrs. Clar ence Hooper and Mr. Hooper. Guy Black, of Omaha, Neb., is visiting his uncle. G. B. Black and Mrs. Black, ol5 Strait Ptreet. The Nautilus club will have as hostess Thursday afternoon, Mrs. J. H. Armstrong, Sumner street. An election of officers is to be held. Everyday Etiquette When asked to call upon a woman to whom you have just been intro duced, do not reply by saying, "Won't you call upon me?" Instead, accept the invitatton in as few words as pos sible. 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 de sired enclose a three-cent stamp.) MRS. JONES: Ordinarily it is very bad form for a woman to sew or knit when entertaining visitors, unless they are spending an afternoon informally, and are similarly occupied. But the Red Cross work is an exception, and it may properly be carried on at any time, and in any place where it is possible to do it. It is our duty and it certainly should be our pleasure, to make our soldier boys as comfort able as possible; so let us never sit for a minute with idle hands. They need a great many things and we can not do enough for them. Therefore, always have a bit of knitting at hand to pick up when you have callers; and for such work, you need not apologize. In some cities, women even take their knitting to church and very appropriately according to my ideas. JANET: You may still use your visiting cards which have your ad dress engraved on them, if you will cross out the address, and write your present one above it with a lead pencil. "52.1 IP THE GIFT STORE j I Of All Years This Is the Year to Give Gifts I j EE Let's help to keep things normal and our loved ones sweet and happy. Our 3 1 J boys would want it that way. Our display of Jewelry and kindred lines will f help you solve the problem of what to give for Christmas. Here you will find 3 S1"3 to suit evsry taste and purse, pleasing and lasting remembrances. We S3 EE buy direct from the manufacturers this means highest quality and lowest S3 prices. s EE DisDlav i!ii!!iiiiiiiii!i!n;tH!i;i HI By BUD FISHER Currs Colda In Franre. LAXATI VK It HOMO gt'l.MXKt.-ibletsrp- 1 move the cause. K. V. UKQVK'8 slitiiature on box. :tOc. Ailv. So many bogus collectors of moneys for 1 charities In New York have apiieuriMi. It ts ..w. iiiuiut-mteu unit, state or leuerul I licenses be required for the work. j A Timely Sale of Women's Shoes $1.85 Values up to $6.00 pair 255 pairs in the lot, past season's styles, patent, dull leath er and fabric boots low, medium and high heels. If you need shoes for winter wear and your size is here, we advise an early selection. Sizes AA !2V3J3M, 4 4 "I I I I 3i A I I 1 2 13j 7 11 18 29 J12 18J 17 20j I 121 91 51 Rubbers 39c One lot of Rubbers, last season's styles A pair To and from Kansas City and Chicago Arrive Arrive Kansas City Chicago 7.00 am oii piu 9.00 pm 7."i0 am 9.45 am :i.:i pin 0.05 pm 7.00 pm 9.55 pm 7.2 aio 7 4.'l a in 7.L'5 am 9.15 am 11.15 am 11.15 am Let Is Help You Plan Through Sleepers P. L. MTt KliF.S. SAS I cave Topeka 4.4J1 am .IX) am 7.40 am l.l.j pin 8.05 pill 5.00 ini 6 00 im 8.40 vm TOPEKA KANSAS Permanent Sachets provide a lasting fragrance for lingerie, veils, gloves ana handkerchiefs. Made by incorporating natural flower oils into a waxy suosiantc Renewed indefinitely Dy scraping surface lightly and thus releas ing fresti gioouies ei pc' fumed oil. Always an acceptable gift. Prica Twenty- Cants Each.' MA HI XF. LLC SHOP WAKE UP We clean and reblock any Hat for 50c All Wwr-k Gnaranted. Mail Orders Solltiled. CAPITAL HAT WORKS R2!4 Kansas Ave 515Vi 6 7 8 II III I I I 3 12 11 11 5 II 4j 51 2 If 1 1 "FI 2t i 3P U-h tdf k-. women's, misses' and children's to close out. 39c if ESTeiiM.os7. Leave Chicaeo 9.50 am 9 50 am 6.00 pm S05 pm 10.10 pm 2.15 am l.eave Kansas City 9.tif pm IO.iki pm 8.10 am v 11.00 am 4.30 pm 7.45 am Arrive Topeka 11.25-pm 11.50 pm 11 05 am 10.50 am 12 55 pm 6.40 pm 10.12 am ll oo pm Your Ncit Trip t. a. Free reclining Fhou HM2. Chair cars tore Our Cameos Speak Their Value AVE

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GOOD SEALS SALE Christinas "Sticker Campaign Will Break All Records, Nearly as Many Sold 'ow as for Whole Season Before. The Topeka Public Health Nursing association has been conducting a sell Ins fttmpaiKn for the Red Cross Christmas seals and like the other money raising campaigns of the year this .too. has gone far "over the top." 'Heretofore it was an exceptional year, indeed, when more than $500 ii Christmas seals were sold during the campaign, but in the '17 campaign the sales have already reached that mark. The sales will continue up until Christmas day. Mrs. Chester Woodward, secretary of the Topeka Public Health Nursing association, says: "I feel certain that the people will continue to respond to X, ;.he appeal with the utmost gener osity, especially as our boys are go ing to war, and this war .is terrible in Its holocaust of deaths from tu berci; losis. We must be prepared to care for the boys when they come home to the best of our ability and so relic, p fhe hospitals at the front." Far GRAY HXISl THE GOLD BOND TREATMENT 4 XTO matter how irray. streaked or faded your hair may bo. one to three appliea- tions will make it Hirht brown, dark brown or black, whichever shade you desire. Yon Can Make It Yourself Ot a ttmn.1 1 box of Ortat Powder at any dro store ltf(.amTily25cndaoejttratobay. Dissoiveitin onc omiH of wattr. and cumb it throairb the hair. I pull dirwtioniromeineaeh box. It riot's not rub off im not sticky or greasy, and leaves the hair fluffy. A $100.00 Gold Bond Yoo nee'l not hesitate to use Orlex. aa a 1100 Gold Bond wienn each box ruaranteetnir that Or I ex Pow.irrHr.ps not tror.txin silver, lead, sulphur, mer cury, aniline, coal-tar products or their derivatives. B"r9 irr" Get .5 box ofOrlex Powder trd ay FAmiCC ,at nyirtiB- tore. or write uastat fn you have nerer used Orlex, r.n-i frre sample will be sent i n plain package ORLEX MFG. Ik XJZSr?g5ri-. pv' ceo eeo gggggo goggcq Help Win the War v o o in o v XSt

Save on the little things and buy Liberty Bonds with the pennies you may -save by buying at Green's Grocery. Birdseyc Matches 7c box 5c J.llo 10c pkg 9c Bread 1 0c loaf. Sc Suit 6c sack 4c Ron Ami 10c bar 8c Sn polio 10c cake 8c Snni-Flusli 2 5c can .22c Old Dutch Cleanser 1 0c can Sc 2 In 1 Blacking 1 0c can. 9c Jet Oil Blacking 10c can 9c Gilt Edge Polish 25c bottle 20c Silver Cream Polish 2 5c jar. 20c Sliinola 10c can 9c Bilker's Cocoa n lit 1 lie can 10c Dromedary Cnroanut 10c can. i 9c Yeast Foam 5c rkg 4c A. and H. Soda 3 0c pl'.g. 9o Faultless Starch 10c pkg 8c Dust bane 25c can 20c QWvLITy- Cy SH- GROCERS' (Copyright, The principal means of solicitation this year is thru the mail order let ter. Already nearly 5,000 of these have been sent out and more are be ing mailed every day. A fair per centage of the letters are bearing fruit in the form of dollar bills and checks, but there should be a much larger percentage of check bearing answers. When the letter comes to you read it carefully and heed its appeal. The money raised this year will be kept at home and used in making the To p'eka tuberculosis sanitarium east of the city more efficient. Extracts from some of the money bearing letters received by Mrs. Woodward are: This one evidently from some poor, rheumatic old lady who has painfully written her appreciation of the work of the P. H. N. "Topek, kansas, De cember 5th, 1917. Inclosed find one doiar to pay for The read cros Stamps sent Dont have Mutch Money cant doe Any beter yours truly." The other letters are evidently from people much better able to meet the demands placed on them by the P. H. N. Extracts from some of these are: "Enclosed please find check for $2 for the stamps and your work. I am in hearty sympathy with the work of the association and regret I cannot, at the time, assist to any greater extent." Another one says, "Received Red Cross stamps. Pleased find one dollar bill enclosed for same. It is a great work. Keep it up." And yet another: "Dear Friend: Enclosed find one dollar William for the Red Cross stamps you mailed 'me. I wish I could help more, but just can't. Want, to say, tho, that your plan is a splendid one for I think that there are thousands of people who could help in a small way if giv en a chance. Hoping you success and the Red Choss, and" etc. And Mrs. Woodward asks for the Public Health Nursing association and in the name of the sufferers from tu berculosis and the boys who will come home from France afflicted with this dread disease she asks this that "Go thou and do likewise." DOUBLE-BARREL VOTE Both Wets and Drys, Will Submit Amendments Next Election. Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 11. Ohio will have a double barrelled prohibition election next fall. v Wets will try to submit an amend ment to the voters legalizing sale of light beer and wines. The drys will try again for a bone-dry amendment. The drys meet here next month. a o o o o a a o 9 o o o 8 o 9 2 In 1 Oil 10c bottle 9c Solarine Polish 40c can 30c 25c can. 20c Johnson's Cleaner 35c can .28c Johnson's Liquid Wax 35c bottle. .30c Johnson's Wax 35c can 2c 70c can 60c Llqnld Veneer 50e bottle 40c 25c bottle 20c O'Oedar Oil tl.00 can 84c Nujol 7 5c bottle 5e Stanollnd 50c bottle 40o Pocketbook Rolls Piping hot, from our own sanitary kitchen. On sale every day at 5 o'clock in the evening. Surprise Coffee Pound ,20c One pound sample free for trial with order, for $5.00 or more. FIXJUR Buy a supply of Flour on Wednesday. On that day only we will sell "Country Club" at $2.68 for 48-lb. sack. "No Better Flour Made." That's our guarantee on ev ery sack. Save. THE TOPFKA PILY STATE TQURNAL 1917, International News Service.) MET HEROIC DEATH Italian Mountaineers Held Height Until AH Are Killed. Reinforcements Arrive Too Late Only to Enter Trap. Italian Headquarters In Northern Italy, Dec. 10. (By the Associated Press). A visit today to the head quarters of a major general com manding a division of" heroic Alpini and Bersaglieri, disclosed the story of the manner this division held the heights 'back of the Asia go plateau until it was cut to pieces and the rem nant was compelled to back to its present new line. The general is now engaged in re forming his shattered forces which were seen in long lines along the roads preparing to go back into the fight. A major of the general s staff who j toward the close of the fight collected j the remainder of the men of the divi i sion and led them in the final charges l until the order for retirement came, gave a first hand, description of the i struggle. He said there were three Bersaglieri regiments, some Alpini battalions and one infantry regiment j in the division in addition to the i usual quota of batteries of field and i middle calibre guns. These were ranged back of Asiago when the enemy's drive reached its maximum intensity last "Wednesday. For twenty-four hours one Bersaglieri regiment had held Monte Ton dare car j until its platoons had been reduced j from-thirty met six. It was then that the battalion offl j cers of the Alpini were sent to their I relief. Colonel Sends Last Message. The Alpini fought their way up the hill, gaining the summit against heavy odds, only to find their corrt rades cut to pieces. Most of them were lying dead from stab wounds. Now the Alpini battalions found them selves in the center of a concentra tion of enemy forces which gradually encircled them. Some of the battalions maneuvered and were carried back and forth in the fury of the fighting along the slopes. Other remained on the summit with the enemy surround- j ,iing them. I I At 9 o'clock on Wednesday morning the colonel of thege battalions sent his last report to the general. It said laconically: "The enemy is on all sides and I am abruit to charge." j That was the last which was ever heard of him or of any of his men. The enveloping enemy masses grew denser, and the gallant Alpini band which had gone to the rescue of the Bersaglieri was wiped out of Exist ence. Defend Mountain Passes. Fighting continued along other points of the line until the forces were decimated and it became clear that the enemy greatly outnumbered the Ital ians. The general himself who was directing operations from a point just back of the line, narrowly escaped a shrapnel shell which burst near his automobile. It was then that the major who recounted these events gathered the remnant of the division and foujrht out the remainder of the day until the new Italian lines of de fense were formed across the Fran zella and Gadena passes leading to the Brenta valley and the plain. It is hre the lines are now resting, with good prospects of holding. The correspondent visited a number pf points on the present line and talk ed with officers and menT All were confident of being able to hold when the new attack which they expect in a few days is made SENTENCED TO "PEN" Topeka n, Charged With Assault, Is Now Digging Coal. Thomas Owens, sheriff of Lyon county, is in Topeka filled with indig nation, caused by reports published in Topeka newspapers that would tend, he savs. to make a Cloud county jury blush with shame. Several weeks ago, i Topeka papers published a story to the effect that Henry Hamilton a Topekan, has received only a six months' jail sentence at the hands of a Cloud county jury. Hamilton was accused of knocking Charlie Vogt, a Topekan, on the head. That done, Hamilton was charged with leaving Vogt on a Lyon county road to die, after robbing him of his money and an automobile. Hamilton was caught at Parsons, with the car in his possession. i Owens denies that the jury treated Hamilton in the kid gloved manner described in the newspapers. Instead of giving Hamilton a jail sentence the jury sentenced him to the penitentiary and Hamilton is aiding Garfielft in increasing the country's coal supply at this time. Newspapermen who wrote the story concerning the six months jail sen tence say it "was given to them by Ed Rooney, a Tpeka attorney, who de fended Tamilton at his trial. Com Cold In Sooth America. LAXATIVE BltOMO QT'ININEtabletsre move the canee. E. w. GItOVK'S signature ou box. 30c Adv. MRS. J. B. CASE DEAD Her Father Founded Abilene, Her Home Nearly 60 Years. Kansas City, Dec. 11. Mrs., J. B. Case 60 years did, of Abilene, Kan., died last night at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Clara Case Roberts, in this city. Her death was sudden and was due to heart disease, physicians said. Mrs. Case was the wife of J. B. Case, many years a prominent Abi lene merchant, one of the leading Re publicans of Kansas and former presi dent of the Transmississippi congress. He now is president of a loan and trust company of Kansas City. The family home, however, still is at Abi lene. Mrs. Case is a Kansas pioneer, hav ing lived at Abilene practically all her life. Her father was Jacob Augustine, who founded the town. Besides her husband and Mrs. Roberts she leaves one son, C. A. Case, of Abilene. Fu neral and burial will be there Thurs "day. DREAMS ARE TRUE Cherished Vision of Jewish Re public Near Realization. Zangwill Glories Oyer British Capture of Holy City. BY LOWEIJi MEIXETT. London, Dec. 11. Israel Zangwill saw his dream of a Jewish republic coming true today. Such a separate, independent state, in Palestine, is the great Jewish lead er's hope for the future, as he ex pressed it today, while exulting in the reclamation from infidel hands of the Holy City of Jerusalem. "I would call it the republic of Judea or of Israel," he said. "It would be an autonomous, separate na tion. But I would have It temporarily under protection of some great world power England, the United States or. perhapsr all the allies combined. Haven for Jew Farmers. "This protectorate would continue only long enough to make ertain that the Jewish nation was solidly estab lished. "None of us who hope for such a nation expect or believe that all Jews wherever now located will come to Palestine and live under the new coun try. It Is my belief, however, that Jewish farmers who are finding it hard to make a living in many places of the world would do so. Moreover, these are the sort of men who would form the most solid basis for the re public They should be given some aid to permit their return 'home.' "Jerusalem now once again re stored to us from Turkey's ruthless grasp of centuries is an ideal spot for a capital. It could be the site for a great commercial or trading city. "But my plan would not be to bring Jerusalem to the Jews who have pros pered thruout the world. Rather I would have drawn to, the new capital and the new nation the oppressed of other nations. "Most important of all, with a Jew ish nation established Jews thruout the world woujd feel tney had a home once more and this, even If their condition and circumstances did not enable them to emigrate, to Palestine. "My suggestion for a temporary protectorate is based on a desire that the Jewish nation and the interests of its people should be permitted to grow under the fostering care of some great power which has no self-interest in Palestine. "Thirteen million Jews thruout the world look today to Jerusalem the Holy City. What could be more fit ting than a Jewish, nation reborn after centuries of Jewish travail." MUSTEROLE QUICK REUEFjJO BUSIER! It Soothes and Relieves Like a Mustard Plaster Without v the Burn or Sting Musterole is clean, white ointment, made with the oil of mustard. It does ail the work of the old-fashioned mustard plaster does it better and does not blis ter. You do not have to bother witfi a doth. You simply rub it on and usually the pain is gone 1 Many doctors and nurses use Muster, ole and recommend it to their patients. They will gladly tell you what relief it gives from sore throat, bronchitis, croup, stiff neck, asthma, neuralgia, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles, bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds of the chest (it often pre. Tents pneumonia). Cjc and 60c jars; hospital size $250, TUESDAY EVENING, DRAWN FOR THE STATE WAIT S AKD MISCELLANEOUS ADS ADVERTISING RATES: The rate for inserting Want Ada in The Topeka State Journal Is 1 cent a word each insertion, minimum 10 cents; by the week 5 centa a word, minimum 50 centa. COI'NT THE WORT1S of vonr ad rnHurt ina; four words for State Journal adrtreaa, when address is used count each "initial" letter an" each number or combination of figures aa one word. OUT OF TOWN advertisements must be accompanied with cash or check in fnll liayment of the same. Note th- foregoing 'instructions about counting the words and the rate per word for The Topeka State Journal. CLOSING HOUR: Want Ada to be classi fied properly must :e in The State Journal office before 12 20 o'clock. Want Ads re ceived after 12:20 till 1:15 p. m. will be In serted under the bead: "Too Late to Claa- KEAIi ESTATE TRANSFERS EGhrt IxTjTIGet) rC lot 322 Cun- ningham Heighta add 9 DO L. S. Guy and husband to H. T. Wil- kle and others, pt res 8 4,600 L. Bledsoe to U. P. K. R. Co., lots, 37-9-41-3 blk. 5 W.. Norris St., E. C. Evans' 1st add 325 A. W. Bartlett and wife to E. Reedy, lots 18-40-42-44 Taylor St., Arm strong's add 200 K. Kniser and others to L. Fowler, lot 50 Hancock St., Crane's add 1 B. Cohen to A. Cohen, lota C2-63 Col- lege ave., Melrose add BUSINESS CHANCES FOR SALE Small grocery stock, small competition. Call J. J. Main, phone 1479 Topeka, Kansas. GOOD Woodson county oil leases near pro duction. Box IRS Yates Center, Kansas. North Side News Items for this olumn may be left at Petro's Drug Store, or pnoneu 3331 after 2 p. m.; other hours pUoue 333a The Silver Lake Red Cross society has the following articles ready to be sent to Topeka: Mrs. Thompson, sweater; Mrs. Eels, sweater; Mrs. Kel ley, one pair wristlets; Mrs. Scrimsher, muffler; Mrs. Ammon Deitrieh, sweater. The class of Loyal Sons and Daugh ters of the Central Avenue Christian church will hold their regular month ly meeting at the home of Mrs. W. B. Cowdrey, 1003 Central avenue. Many of the boys of this class have Joined the army, the last one being Roy Basye, who left Saturday for Jeffer son barracks, St. Louis. The Parent-Teachers' association meeting of Lyman school was not held laFt Friday evening on account of the severe weather. The meeting was postponed a week. Dr. H. L. Alkire and Miss Louise Duncan Shaffer, su pervisor of nurses of the Public Health Nursing association, will make talks at the meeting. Notes and Personals. Miss Nellie Otney of Barnes, Kan., has returned home after a visit to her sister, Mrs. C. J. Campbell. 1101 Van Buren street. Mrs. M. E. Cof field of San Diego, Cal., has returned home after a visit to her brother, George E. Myers, of Lyman district. H. P. Hargis of 820 Monroe street is preparing to move to Arkansas on a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fraser of La Junta. Col., who have oeen visiting Mr. Fraser's fathsr, L. E. Fraser. 1621 Madison street, since Thanksgiving, have returned to their home. George Clark, of 122 West Gordon street, who is suffering from an at tack of pleurisy, has been taken to Stormont hospital. Mr. Clark is a fireman at No. 1 station. Robert Rickerts, of the engineering corps at Jefferson barracks, St. Louis, is visiting his father, Mr. Rickerts of the Eagle clothing store. Mr. Weigelt is very sick with pneu monia at his home, 1404 Harrison street. Mrs. Paul Hurd and infant daugh ter, of Broken Arrow, Okla., have come to make an indefinite visit to Mrs. Hurd's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Burroughs, of Grantville. Mr.- Hurd is in the army. v Mrs. Flo Jones, of Rochester, is ex pecting a visit from her son, David Seigg, who is in the navy. Sunday night Mrs. Jones's daughter from Iowa arrived for a visit to her mother. Alfred Hodge, formerly of Company C, 160th infantry, at Camp Kearney, San Diego, Cal., has been discharged from the national army and has re turned to his home. A. M. Petro. the Druggist. Adv. Mrs. Charles Honey, who has been visiting in Junction City, has returned to her home, 1014 Quincy street. Charles D. Martin, of Silver Lake, has gone to Jefferson barracks, St. Louis, where he will enter an aviation section of the radio corps." Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Jones, of Gar field Place, have left for Ohio, having received word of the death of Mr. Jones's brother. Ike Hays, of Silver Lake district, was in town on business yesterday. E. S. Meade, cashier at the postof fice, is suffering from a sprained left arm. caused by falling on theicy pavement. s DECEMBER 11, 1917 JOURNAL BY GEORGE LOST AND FOUND LOST Friday afternoo between 525 Kan sas ave. and Pelletier's store, small sealed package addressed Mrs. F. B. Hummell. lie ward for return American Express Co. FOUND Pair" "of glasses at Pelletier' Tea Room Saturday. Owner may have same by identifying and paying for ad. LOST -Tii louse bine-geese from Rose Acres, 8th and Grand, since last Friday, Reward for information. Phone 1377. LbRT--Cameo pin Saturday! Return to room 16, Columbian building. Liberal reward. Phone 141. WANTED SITUATIONS MALE WANTED A position as furnace tender. Address J 444, care Journal. WANTED MALE HELP PELLETHER'S require the services of two experienced salesmen In men's furnishings, and a young man to assist in window decorating. Apply Mr. Lewis, Pelletier' s. WANTED An A-l experienced clothing and Bboe salesman. We want a man that can sell the goods. None other need apply. Good salary. Apply at once to 520 Kansas ave. LIFE INSURANCE MEN Salary and commission to right mau any where in Kansas. Will help yov get aarted. Call or write. Geo. Godfrey Moore, New England Ltidg,, ropeKa WANTED Man to do general work around garage. Do not apply nnless you want to work. Cowdrey Motor Co., 514 Jackson. WANTED Boys at least 16 years of age to learn good trades. The Hall Litho graph l n g IJoJia y a e K sonet BOY with wheel for special delivery; must be over 16. Bring references. Apply to Mr. eLwi s,Pelletier 8- WANTED-Several men to sell papers on streets. See Albert Miller at State Jour nal office. WANTED Delivery man at 'once. Ex change Grocery. WANTED FEMALE HELP j WANTED A neat energetic girl or woman i for general house work. Laundress kept, j Work from 7 a. m. to 7 m. Live at home but must arrive on time each morning. Must furnish good references. Address l:t8 Woodlawn. Phone 5364 W. I WANTED Girl to assist with house work j afternoons. Tel. 2173 Black. EXPERIENCED waitress wanted at To nekafe. 114 W. Sth. LOLOltED GIRL WANTED for light house work. 208 East Sth st WANTED Rough dry checker at City Hand Lanndry. WANTED TO RENT. WANTED TO RENT strictly modern fur nished liat or housekeeping rooms; must have beat give full details in answer. Ad dress M. W:, care Journal. I WANTED MISCELLANEOUS j WA??TED7)LirL?E'TEETH! DoiPt matter if broken. I pay $1!.U0 to $15.U0 ner set. Send by parcel post and re-eive check by return mail. L. Mazer, 2007 3. rlttu otreet, i-miaueipuia, i'a. WE PAY the highest price cash for cast off clothing, shoes,hats and orercoata. Drop ns a card or call Gordon Bros.' loan office. 400 Kansas t-ve. Phone 1079. y H EM STITCHING. PINKING, rtaitlngs of all kinds. Buttons mad Mall orders receive prompt, careful attea tion Mrs. Mercer, "on Topeka. WANTED Extra stenographic work. Phone 2038 Black. 10S2 HASTY Al'TO KTPKKSS MISCELLANEOUS MONEY TO LOAN ON DIAMONDS exceeding $50.00 or $100.00 in value, owner to retain possession and transaction confi dential. F. S. Thomas, 519 Kausas avenue, Topeka, Kansas. FREE CINDEUS-White Star Laundry. WANTED TO BUY WANTED furniture of all kinds. I buy stoves. Call me before you Bell. K. B. Logan. 322 Kausas avenue, phone 31S2. ITTniiifTEr Phone 200 for highest price DYAL BROS. WANTED TO BUY iand that the river is cutting on, any place. Write the Patent Steel Jetty Co.. Silver Lake, Kansas. A FIRE PROOF SAKE. AddresB, with de scrip rt o n432cflrej on rn r 1 FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS RIVERSIDE steel range cook stove, in fairly good rep.-.lr. Will burn wood or coal. 1047 Lawrence. Phone 2231 Black. J. H. Frantz. WANTED Watch repairing. Main springs. 75c; cleaned. 73c. AU work guaranteed. Armstrong Jewelry Co.. 429 Kansas Ave. SALE OF unclaimed rngs. widths from j eighteen inches to twelve feet. Prices $1.00 up. ji'-v.iiun. njg i ni ii-i i j SAFES New and used. 'Sfe list. Mer chants Safe Exchange, 611 Quincy street, Topeka. FOR SALE J125 untley vaccuum cleaner as good as new ov $50.723 Clay at. 52 HASTY Al'TO FY j FOR SALE-i-LIVESTOCK' 1 4-YEAR-OLD horse, well broke. 124 To- peka ave. 2414 Blue. I FOR SALB Two young fresh cows'. Call ZMi US. M'MANUS FOR SALF. REAL ESTATE West aide, new 6 room house, three fine bed rooms, east front, oak floors, built in cupboards, screened In back porch. Full cement basement, furnace, hot and cold water. Cement sidewalks. The house is worth the price we are asking for the prop erty $3,1)00. It can be bought on easy monthly payments. SHAWNEE INVESTMENT CO. 534 Kansas Are. Phone 5050 COTTAGE?'' New 5 rooms, 3 piece bath gaa. electrici ty; city water, full cemented basement, l1 east front lots, H block to good car, close to fine school, shout 10 or 12 minutes' walk to Santa Fe shops. An ideal home for the shop man. Price 2,500. Term like rent. SHAWNEE Hfl VESTMENT CO. 534 KansasATe. Phone 5050. LIME ST. 1 lot, ctg., 5 rooms, porches, gas, well and pump, sewer connection, stable, garden, hade rents $K. Price (H50. It's very cheap. Make au offer. Cash or terms. J. E. Torrtngton, 109 W. 6th. Tel. 22S. CASH BUYER for a modern 5 or 6 room house. Phone 8SS2 White. J. B. Gibson. FOR SALE HOUSEHOLD GOODS WE CAM WAEE- ST MOT OF ALL KINDS, COAL STOVES. WOOD STOVES, OIL STOVES, HEATERS. COOK STOVES, STOVE PIPE. AND FURNITURE SEE OI K NEW P1PELESS FURNACE 109 EAST TH ST. TEL. 3749. FOR RENT HOUSES FOR RENT 211 TykT, 7 rooms, partly furnished. (20.00 1276 College, 7 rooms, modern 25.00 l;Kio Garfield, f8 rooms, modern... 25 00 l:i8 Lincoln, 7 rooms, modern... 25.00 13 West 15th, 5 rooms, electric light, bath 12.50 L. W. OTLSON I'hone 8S6. CLAY ST., 1175 Lower floor Dnplex, 6 large rooms, all oak finish, fireplace, boilt-in features, splendid fnrnace, fJ7.H0 per mouth. W. A. Neiswanger Co. Phone 4. FOR RENT Modern B-room new house. f5 to small family, flak fininh in re stricted district. Phone 1377 or 5522W. 1020 GARFIELD, 8 rooms, brick, modern, newly decorated, very desirable. $25. Phone 4S9S Blue. SIX-ROOM house, 3 lots, barn, well, cis tern, 2:trd and Adams. Highland Park. W. E Seguine. FOR RENT 12'4 Topeka avenue, strictly modern. $40. Phone 323 or 1424 Black. FOR RENT 5-rooms anil sleeping porch. Modern. 517 W. 8th. Jnqulre. FOt'R room cottage on large lawn. Dr. Ropy. Phone 1118- FOR RENT- FURNISHED HOUSES FOB RENT Fu -Dished close in. Phone 4oT. 5 room cottage. FOR RENT APARTMENTS FIVE room modern apartment, $18.00 month. 63V Kansas ave Pbooe 513 or S7)0 Black. FURNISHED APARTMENTS 1014 T YLfK, new apartment, beat and wa ter furnished. Disappearing beds. Fhon 27 Black. STOES tod i HEADQUARTERS Christmas Gifts For men 'who are particular. We will save- yon money on practical gifts. Our Holiday line will sole your gift problem. FOR RENT ROOMS FOR RENT Unfurnished rooms. 933 and 929 Kn sve. Phone 2!H Blue. FOR RENT FURNISHED ROOMS FrtTTlSHJ-DHRtioM for renTptrictiy modern, good heat, one block capitol.' Phone 1424 Black. FOR RENT Furnished front room, all modern convenlenc'S. 723 Clay St. STRICTLY modern ftiruiahed f runt rooms, 819 Lane. Phone 1211. TWO close in, connecting rooms, furnncs) heat. 212 K. th. j STRICTLY modern furnished roemi. 410 E. 7th. Phone S3S7 W. FOR RENT STORE BUILDINGS- KANSAS AVE. 131 Store room or whole building, half block south K. I. deppt. switch track in rear. Special price LUU week. Call phone JilO or HSoL FOURTH AVE. EAST MK!, store I-rFm? gas and electric lights, city water rnr nished. Living room iu rear. Special pru this week. Call -ahoue 610. FOR RENT 930 Monroe street, ailitilbJe for bakery or milk deimt. Rent reto-r' able. Phone 323 or 144 Black. MOAliY FARM LOANS WANTED. This company has an unlimited" amount of funria to lend on East ern and Central Knnsas Farms st B'?). with a reasonable commission. Our representative is at your serv- Ice If you want information. THE FARM MORTGAGE CO. Crawford Building. Topeka, Kan.'rl'' Phoua &65 WMST TO EOtCT.. Loan of $000 for five years desired o farm land security will pay K. Loan of $1,000 for one yesr desired oh Topeka residence seenritv; will pay 8. J. K. LEADER. 606 Kansas Ave. Phone 1C29. 8 PER CENT MONEY To loan on fsrms and inside nnslnors prop erty In any amount from $l.ono.oo to $inrtV 000.00. 6 per cent money to loan on resi dences. If you wish a new loan, or -to change or increase your loan, write or cail BETZER REALTY LOAN CO New England Blrlg. Established IRSfl. MONEY TO LOAN ON ALL KINDS Of PERSONAL PROPERTY. Horses, 'attle, pianos, diamonds, bontee hold goods, libraries, tyjfewrlters. awtoa, carriages, mscbfnery. and to salaried peo ple. F. S. Thomas. G19 Kansas avenue. Tel. 288. SERVICES OFFERED EAJ-SAS STATE B1E AND CLEAKKNG WOMS Phone 253. 317 KANSAS AVE.. TOPEKA. SAN. FOR SLEIGH RIDES phone 8257. GUNS and Bicycles repaired. Topeka Sport Ing Gooda Co. Phone 1313. 125 Weat Tth. PICTURE FRAMING FRAMING, rcgildiog, mat making, mount. Irj dons by J. D. Sullivan. 122-1-4 W. Sth. FURRIERS John Petrzllek, the only practical furrier In Kansas. 127 W 7th St.. Topeka. FLORISTS HATES IF LOWES. SEIOP Stocks always fresh. Grown in out ow greenhouses. S19 Kansas ave. Phone 377. MOVING If ErtlMOHiS MO VING CALL PHOB 4?Al. UNDERTAKING I HE L. M. 1'h.NWfc.LL Undertaking Co, 50tt-50-510 Quincy ctreet. Telepnoue ltttL a. W. BOMGAKONKK, undertaker. 1,t sonal service. Masonic Bldg. Phone 146. INSURANCE L. W. WILSON Fire, tornado, plate glass insurance. Phone 2i Columbian Bitlg. FARM LOANS FAHM LOANS. 6 and C per cent. N to ho Is Keaf'y Co f'J Ksn Art Tel. First published In The Topeka; Stat Journal, December U llU7., NOTICE OF APPLICATION OF BUSI NESS COLL KG K KOIt A PKItMIT TO CANVASS IN THE STATE OF KANSAS Notice la hereby fflven that the Saima Business College of Sallna, Kausas, har made application to me for a permit to canvass in the state of Kansas for the pur pose of selling tuition In adrance. or to contract, or to secure uotea for tuition from students before their rrKlntration in the business code (re herein named, If satis factory proof la furnished that the above named business coiiege is inxm patent to furnish such a course of tnntm.-tfon as n advertises, or that the moral surrounding f the institution are not aood or lht th premises are kept In an unhealthy eoudi- iion nr u. me ueum oi snia liinritntlon use misrepresentative or fraudulent methods in securing contracts, notes or casn from prospective, ti dents. In auch cms, a nermif I win uu. we j.iuieu w -au-u unfitness coi i lege. V. I. KOSS. i s State SuperinteoUeat.

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10 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL TUESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1917 HUNS POISON ALL Germany Even Dictates Senti ment In Russian Newspapers. Slar Press Sow Says "England Is Russia's Enemy." DID NOT CONSULT THE ALLIES Petrograd Planned Armistice With Berlin. Breach of London Council of 1914 But Slav Doesn't Care. London, Dec. 11. Further details of the statement made to Russian Journalists by Sir George Buchanan, British ambassador at Petroftrad. as forwarded in a Reuter dispatch, show that the ambassador declared the Rus sian commissaries were mistaken in thinking that a durable peace could be obtained by asking the Germans for an armistice to be followed by an agreement. The allies, he said, wished first to arrive at a general agreement In har mony with their declared war aims and then to arrange an armistice. Hitherto not one word had been said by any German statesman to show that the ideals of the Russian democ racy were shared by Emperor Wil liam and his government, the ambas sador said. It was with the German autocracy not with the German peo ple that the armistice negotiations were being conducted. He asked whether it was likely that the em peror, when once he knew the Russian army had ceased to exist as a fight ing force, would be disposed to sub scribe to a democratic and durable peace. On the contrary, the peace contemplated by the emperor was a German imperialistic peace. Altfio the allies could not send rep resentatives to take part In the armis tice negctiations they were ready, said Sir George, as soon as a stable gov ern, recognized by the Russian peo ple, had been constituted, to examine with that government the aims of the war and the possible conditions of a Just and durable peace. In the mean time the allies were giving the Rus sians the most effective assistance by holding the bulk of the German armies on their respective fronts. The ambassador reiterated Great Britain's desire to stand by Russia in this critical hour and asked whether the same could be said of Russian feelings toward Great Britain. He remarked that hardly a day passed that did not witness a bitter attack on Great Britain in the official newspa pers, giving the impression that Brit ain, not Germany, was Russia's enemy and the provoker of the war. Bore Slavs No Grudge. Great Britain bore the Russians no grudge, realizing they "were wornout by the sacrifices of war and the gen eral disorganization inseparable from a great political revolution, the am bassador said. Denying reports of contemplated coercive or punitive action in the event that Russia shoull make a separate peace, Sir George nevertheless asserted the allies were entitled to complain that the council of people's commissaries had boen negotiating with the enemy without previously consulting the allies, which was a breach of the London agree ment of 1914. It could not be admit ted for a moment that a treaty con cluded by the autocracy was replaced. Nevertheless Great Britain did not wish to induce an unwilling ally to continue to share in the common ef fort by appealing to treaty rights: but there were higher principles to which appeal might be made. These, he said, were principles recognized by the commissaries; namely, those of a democratic peace, a peace which ac corded with the wishes of the smaller nationalities, which repudiated the idea of exacting plunder from a con quered enemy under the name of in demnity or of Incorporating reluctant populations in great empires. Such broadly speaking, was the peace Great Britain equally with the Russian democracy desired to see obtained. $5,000 TO HAUFAX Kansas City Chambers of Commerce AVI res Sum to Stricken City. Kansas City, Dec. 11. A committee was appointed to raise $50,000 to be sent to Halifax to relieve suffering, resulting from the explosion Thurs day, at a meeting of business men in the office of Mayor George H. Ed wards today. Five thousand dollars, funds of the Chamber of Commerce, will be wired immediately and letters will be sent out asking subscriptions to the relief fund. The action followed receipt of a telegram from Halifax which said money was the city's great est need. Cnrea Colds The World Over. LAX ATI VK lUEOMOQUININE.the World Famous Cure for Colds and Grip, ia used by every Civillaed Nation and has a larger sale in tlie United States than the combined sales of nil other Cold and Grip tablets. It has stood the test for a Quarter of a Cen tury. There ia only one Jiromo Quinine." E. W. GltOVE S signature is on box. 30c. Adv. TO SUPPORT U. S. Appeal to Reason Backs Presi dent in World War. Socialist Paper Gets in Line Opposing Prnssianism. Girard, Kan., Dec. 11. The Appeal to Reason, pioneer Socialist organ In the United States, has espoused the "war of defense" of the United States and the allies against Prussian mili tarism, according to a statement here by Louis Kopelin, editor of the paper. "President Wilson's clear and defi nite statement of war aims before con gress last Tuesday is mainly responsi ble for the Appeal to Reason's es pousal of the war," the statement said. Beginning with the Issue of Decem ber 22, the name of the paper will be changed to "The New Appeal," "to more distinctly conform to its broad er national and international policy." the statement said. "Socialists are vigorously opposed to Imperialism," continued Mr. Kope lin's statement, "and while they never suspected the motive of America, they were not so sure of some of the in fluential elements in the allied gov ernments. Until the president made his address, there was no specific statement as to the purposes of the allies after Prussian militarism had been crushed. Statement Was Timely. "We contend such a statement was timely, even though the war was not yet decisively won. The fact that the Prussians were silent on the terms of peace was no argument that we also should sidestep that question. In dealing with enlightened peoples, frankness is required. The old school of diplomacy, however, forbade dis cussion of this subject and in spite of the entreaties for a statement on the part of the world's liberals and So cialists, no statement was forthcom ing. "It was this refusal to state the aims of the war that complicated the situa tion in Russia. It gave the German agents a chance to slander the cause of the allies. But, fortunately. Presi dent Wilson does not follow prece dents and he realized that a restate ment of the aims of the war was desirable. The result has been that the cause of the allies is greatly strengthened. Fight for Democracy. "There is even yet hope that this splendid statement is not too late to influence the Russian situation. Not that there is no longer suspicion against the cause of the allies and Germany is still silent as to Belgium and the other territory she has in- vaded and devastated. A Socialist can- j not do anything else but vigorously support the side which stands for right and justice. "The Appeal to Reason stands for democracy and to be consistent it must uphold the present world battle for democracy. I cannot understand what excuse there remains for the German Socialists tu support the kai ser, now that the 'defense of the fath erland' argument has been so neatly disposed of by President Wilson. The only nations that are fighting a war of defense are the allies. A glance at the military map will easily prove that" The Appeal to Reason was founded in 1895 and long has been one of the strongest mouthpieces of Socialist sentiment. i HUNT JACKRABBITS Garden City Citizens Give Proceeds to the Red Cross. Garden City, Karl.. Dec. 11. The Industrial club of Garden City has re cently organized a Hoover Jack Rab bit club for the purpose of the con servation of food. In order to keep up an interest the club is divided into two teams, and the team .naking the largest score during a day's hunt is to be treated to an oyster supper by the losing team. Every few weeks during the winter a raid is to be made on jack rabbits, coyotes, prairie dogs and other varmints that destroy crops or food of any kind. The jack rabbits are sold for 8 cents per head and the county pays a bounty of 4 cents for each pair of jack ears, and $1 for each coyote. The money that the club receives from the sSUe of the jacks and coy otes is to be turned over to the Red Cross society. The first drive of the Rabbit club was made on Thanksgiv ing day. When the final report was made a check of $33.60 was handed to the Red Cross. Teh club members contend that the fun they have am ply repays them for the ammunition, and by ridding the county of these pests that they are doing their bit to wards protecting the crops and the conservation of food. BUILD MODEL BARN Agricultural College Structure Will Have Self-supporting Roof. Manhattan, Kan., Dec 11. A strict ly up to date barn to be used in feed ing experiments by the animal hus bandry department of the Kansas State Agricultural college is nearing completion. The building will take Following the Government's plan of Conservation, and in order to counteract as much as possible the continual rise in prices, we have placed our plant in opera tion both N IGHT and DAY thereby reducing our fixed over head expenses, and offering you an unequalled printing service Kelley Pub. Co. 631 Jackson Street Topeka, Kansas Telephone 3220 m m Si 5S 'm m m m m ?s&? teat -smisssaL ?a&s& s&a as? ?s SUIT SALE Extraordinary Begins Wednes Jay Morning I I I Hav Music in Your Horn Buy An Ediion YOUR CHRISTMAS GIFT I MpHteilS J til I I I I the place of the barn destroyed by fire last spring. The main building Is 43 by 50 feet. It has a self-supporting gambrel roof, which does away with all supports in the loft. As the top of the loft is thirty feet from the floor, the barn will have an unusually large storage capacity. Outside the main section tnere are two partly inclosed wings, each seventy-five feet in length, which make a total length for the building of 195 feet. These wings will nave lioors of cement. A cement runway out side will be a feature. The wings will be used for sheltering the cattle in experiments, while the barn proper will be devoted almost entirely to storage for hay and grain. Q. 1w. TIUJIb n.o. MmnniL Th. Lr r.ay. nt (he hum in hi nff I f i especially constructed to inclose two j. y pat.k, i:5 North Monroe street. silos. All the storage space in ine Mr. tfiuiue aas a nigu lever, ana ir. It, Vi Kont nf the harn. the lntire. tlie attending Diivsictan. says he rrx.r.i.xr thn. which the hav is to be i not venture out for at least two weeks. 25 YEARS AGO IN TOPEKA From thm column of THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL Dee. 11, 1893. Thos. Ingrea new mill, the Mid-Continent, will commeuce to grind wheat Wednesday. At the regular meeting of the Waifs Aid society, Wednesday at i p. m., at Knights hall, 4AX Kansas avenue, the question of In corporating the Waifs' home will be decided by vote. By incorporating the home, its managers will be able to secure control thru the courts of children who are being neglected or are being reared to evil ways. lifted being on one side. This makes possible a greater storage capacity. BEES SALVAGE HONEY Collecting Hon! Scattered by Storm They Make Widow Big Money. Rorierwick. Kan.. Dec. 11. Mrs. S. J. Krack, whose house was torn down In the tornado last spring, had a swarm of bees that had collected a supply o honey, worth several hundred dollars before the coming of the storm. Th" wind wrecked the hives and scattered honey over the yard and throughout the wreckage, the rugs and -furniture catching a major portion of it. It was believed the product was ruined. But the bees got busy and after the storm was over began to assemble as they would have had a man with a tin pan and rubber gloves been behind them. They settled over the lost sweetness and when a workman showed up to make a clearing of the tornado debris, they attacked him and made life miserable. Cold weather did not deter the honey collectors. Through the wreckage they flew an "busier than bees was no misnomer for them. From dilapidated rugs and weather- boarding they collected the remaips of what the tornado left and today Mrs. Krack has a collection of honey that will nearly compensate her for the loss she sustained when the Kansas wind tore her house to pieces. Honej by the cases has been brought to towr and sold and it was all due to the thrift and energy of her bees, that while they were made homeless by the storm, they have done a lot of help to their mistress in her endeavor to make good. OPEN OSAGE MINES Belief Now That Operators Will Pay Attention to Garfield. He was removed to Mr. Pack's home to escape from the horde of office seekers. Col. A. G. Stacey, one of the oldest and best known newspaper men in Kansas, will leave about the first of February for Southern California. He has been engaged as an editorial writer on a Kepublicun pa per published at San liernardino, of which Claus Snreckels, the "sugar king," Is the principal stockholder. CAR SMASHES TRUCK Street Railway Traffic Tied Up as Re sult of East Sixtli Accident. A Topeka transfer motor truck, be ing backed out of the company's gar age, 406 Kast Sixth street, and an Oakland street car, east bound, col lided shortly before 6 o'clock this morning at Sixth and Madison streets. Both the street car and the motor truck were damaged. The truck was caught between the car and a trolley pole and the trolley pole was twist ed sufficiently to tie up traffic for an hour or more. "W. F. Axtell, of the transfer com pany, stated this morning that there were no casualties. He asserted the accident was due to slippery rails and ice and snow on the streets. NEGRO FARMERS HERE Sunflower Agricultural Association Meeting in. Topeka. Emmett Page, of Eskridge, Kan. The principal colored speaker is Prof. F. W. Kirk, United Stares government extension worker among the colored farmers of Kansas. There will be various sectional con ferences. Exhibits for the fair and poultry show have already begun to arrive. The officers of the association are William R. Carter, president; J. G. Carson, vice president; Mrs. M. Bo lin. second vice president; T. W. Gana way, third vice president; J. G. Groves, treasurer; J. R. Rogers. chairman executive committee: Mrs. Ida M. Woods, director women's department; Arthur Emery, secretary. STORY OF A HOLDUP Topckan Relates Details of Robbery on Avenue at 7 O'clock. A GUNN Sectional Bookcase Combines Utility and Beauty, which tend to make the ideal Christmas Gift It is a practical grift and can be started with a single section at a small cost, or it can be built up to fill an entire library. Always complete, yet never reaching its limit pf capacity. Select a few sections today and start a library for some friend. You 11 be delighted with the beautiful styles and finishes in which Gunn Sections fixe made. A story of a hold-up about 7 o'clock Monday night at Fourth street and Kansas avenue was told to the police three hours later by Edwin Hedrick, a salesman for the Beatrice Creamery company. Hedrick told the police he had crossed Kansas avenue to the east when he met a white man and a ne gro. "We're going this way, keep quiet," they told him. Hedrick was marched to an alley on Fourth street between Kansas avenue and Quincy street. There the two men relieved him of $28, according to his story. He says they returned a little loose change and warned him to keep quiet. He told the clerk at the Fifth Avenue hotel about the robbery an hour later. j uu rnrr It's this way. Everybodr wi rILi .omethim extra FREE The IS mlnnte concert at the be ginning of each evening perform ances tonight and tomorrow night la XTKA FREG mo to apeak. Regular Admission Pine fmr Tax Under pressure brought to bear by H. A. Garfield, national fuel director, conditions which have kept mines in the Osage district, which have a mem bership in the Southwestern Opera tors' association, closed are dissolv- The Sunflower Agricultural associa tion, an organization composed of the colored farmers of the state, will hold its annual session at the Industrial and Educational institute, east of the city. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week. At thi3 meeting the farmers tell of their experiences in home-setting and discuss the general farming problems of Kansas. Talks are made by ex-. perts, which are followed by questions and general discussion. ine oiaie Agricultural college always co-operates in the helpfulness of the meetings. Thursday. Prof. L. W. Burdy will speak on government emergency work in Doultrv raising. Prof. L. C. Wil liams will speak on truck gardening. Lungs Are yaw. mg, according to advices received to- j Friday, December 14, Prof. C. P. day from Osage City. Garfield has Thompson will talk on swine; Prof. J. cauea a meeting oi representatives or Osage miners and operators at Wash ington the middle of next week. The order, by Emerson Carey rais ing the price of coal at the mine SO cents a ton and granting miners a corresponding increase will be re viewed. When Carey made this or der, the operators objected to It. Now they intimate that they will abide by Uarneld s decision in the review of the order and open the mines imme diately after the Washington conference. Alexander Howat Will represent the miners at the meeting and C. W. Lu- kens. tne operators. Carey will also attend the meeting. Opening of the Osage mines, now idle, would mean a daily increase of between 300 and BOO tons in the Kan- coal output. Had these mines been in operation for the last four months, there would have been no material coal shortage in Topeka. Osage City, Burlingame and other ci ties adjacent to the district. SHE VISITS SAMMIES Mrs. August Belmont Brings Bit of Snnshine in Her Message. With the American Army in France, Dec. 11 (By the Associated Press. Mrs. August Belmont of New York, won the applause of several hundred soldiers who crowded the Y. M. C. A. building in the American field head quarters to hear her relate her experi ences while visiting the soldiers near British and French fronts. She urged the soldiers to carry the American fighting spirit throughout the war. The automobile in which Mrs. Bel mont was traveling was several hours behind its schedule in arriving at headquarters. Instead of stopping for dinner, Mrs. Belmont went directly to the building where the soldiers had been waiting patiently. She was given a rousing cheer when she quoted the line from a play in which she ap peared when she was Eleanor Robson: "If things are not cheerful, folks must be." Mrs. Belmont later returned to Paris. W. Jardtne on conservation of frod. The state livestock commission fur nishes a speaker on Hog Cholera ana Its Cure. A number or the most progressive colored farmers thruout the state are on the program. The swine symposium will be directed by Weakened By Hard Colds CASCARAM QUININE The old family remedy in tablet form safe, sure, eaay to take. No opiates no unpleasant after effects. Cures colds in 24 hours Grip in 3 days. Money back if it fails. Get the genuine pox witn Red Top and Mr. Hilt's picture on it 24 Tablets for 25c. 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