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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-17

confined largely to the Dosage" fine
sandy loan in the Kaw valley, al
though small areas of Usage silly clay
loan are sometimes utilized.
The Soil Survey of Shawnee Coun-
ty, Kansas government publication
says:
TT is claimed that the larger part
of the apple seedlings used in the Unit
ed States is grown in the Kansas river
bottoms, and probably onethird to
one-fourth of the output is grown in
Shawnee county.
Growing Catalpa Trees.
Ornamental shrubs and trees are
also grown. Most of the trees are cat
alpas which are used both for orna-
mental and forest paintings. A grove
of these has been set out on the sandy
soil adjacent to the river in Rossville
township, an example which is being
followed on smaller scale by other
towns in different parts of the county,
and particularly on the sandy soil next
to the river.
1.-THE county is practically free from
San Jose scale and other pests in
furious to fruit trees and nursery
stock.
LAS the growing of stock requires
clean and almost continuous cultiva-
ton, it is advisable to rotate the seed
1ings with other crops. SO that the fer
tility of the soil may be maintained.
IT is especially important to keep up
the content of organic matter. 1t is
noticed that after several years this
becomes very low, as evidenced by the
light color and the loose, sandy nature
of the SOIL
It is a common custom to rent land
for nursery purposes, and the land is
changed often because of the fact that
it becomes impoverished and for the
purpose of avoiding insect pests.
Big Nursery Business.
L. r. Taylor g. Sons ct. r. Tay-
Ior) have between 800 and 800 acres
in cultivation. a large proportion of
the land being in apple seedlings and
acres in corn. This crop is used in
feeding the horses required in the
business There are 100 persons en-
ployed in the fall and spring, the rush
seasons. This is just one of several
nursery farms and is taken as an ex-
ample to indicate the magnitude of
the business that 10 done and of which
Topeka is the center. Part of the Tay-
1or land is in and near Topeka, while
the balance is near Silver Lake.
The business is an all-the-year-
round affair. In the late fall seedlings
are dug, and grading Is done up Ia
January 1. Between that time and
April /, grating work is done.
An accompanying illustration shows
a large group of men in the Taylor
grating room. There are one million
or more gratis put up for the trade
each year in this room.
Origin of the Peaches.
Peach seed for fall planting are pro-
cured from the mountains of North
Carolina-6,000 to 1000 seeds to the
bushei. The seed from the wild peach
trees make a more uniform growth al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-17

camp. Men are wanted to join the
order of Big Brothers" 1t is hoped
to send at least fifty youngsters out
to the camp for an outing. Checks
should be made payable to John r..
Sargent, treasurer of the Central as
ISOLATION
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-17

City, March
Line Banker
Lincoln, Nebraska
Gentlemen: Your Mr. Miller handed today padup policy for
of
your Company
mad satisfactory n
Yourstr
C. SHOEMAKER
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Ernst Opper's Siberian Prisoners"

The secessionists are the rebels in
art, who put aside all which the
schools. from the classical to the
romantic, from the pre-Raphaelite to
the modernist. have laid down as the
laws or beauty or expression in art.
The secessionist is .ong past dis
cussing the ancient philosophy OF art.
where they asked the question. lis
beauty a single quality inherent in
objects Of perception like form or
COLOR" They look with disdain upon
the Journalists, who regard all beauty
as formal or residing in form. They
have hardly any more time for the
ldealist theory that beauty resides in
the ideal content or expression Tex
press onalist). They disdain the hard
and fast divisions of beauty according
to the schools into. /, beauty:
2, beauty of form: 3. beauty OF mean
ing or expression.
The secessionist is first and always
a student Of effects, and he will resort
to any medium or method to secure the
effect. The secessionists In Berlin and
Munich have long rebelled against the
exist ng schools, holding their own ex-
Editions. daring to do what they
would. no matter what others said or
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-29
Philip Gibbs Picks Anecdotes of HUI
man Interest in Work as Core.
spondent Near Front

HERE is an unusual lot Of vivid
description and human inter-
est" in Philip Gibbs's THE
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Ernst Opper's siberian Prisoners"
expresses all the hopelessness and
stolid suffering of those caught hy the
Russian u md sent to the cold
and darkness of Siberian prisons.
Hugo Krayn matches this picture
by the drawing Travelling Fourth
Glass" depicting the horrors OF travel
fourth class under war conditions. and
the suffering of the poor and driven
ome and children.
Hans Ge:son's Belgian Village"
illustrates in sharp strokes the oe.o-
latlon and the suffering.
Bruno Paul strikes the high note OF
patriotism in that line of forward
marching men going Against the
Enemy"
Some may try TO find fault with the
secessionists and call them names,
but II must be admitted that they
know how 10 draw and to ge, effects
In the most simple and direct way.
They may be a law unto them.
selves. but their laws are higher laws,
of strength and force, and though tho
appeal OF beauty may not always be
there. We may be sure of the more
powerful appeal OF truth-and is IL
not after all the office OF art TO bring
truth home to the hearts Of men?
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killed quite soon, perhaps at the first
shot.
But do you know | shall not be
sorry to die shall be gla0,
monsieur. And why glad. you ask?
Because | love France and hate the
Germans who have put this war on
us. am going to ight-I. a Socialis;
and a Syndicalist-so thai we shall
make an end of war. so that the little
ones OF France shall sleep in peace
ana the women GO without fear. This
war vii! have to be the last war.
II Is a war Of justice against injus-
tice. When they have finished this
time the people will have no more of
H. we who go out to die shall be Re.
membered because we gave the world
peace. That will be our reward, though
we shall know nothing of it bu. lie
rotting in the earth-dead! 1t is sac
n a tomorrow, or the next day |
shall be dead. | see my corpse
there
He saw his corpse again, and yept
a little at the sight of II.
"A neurotic type-a poor weed OF
LIFE who had been reared in the dark
lairs Of civilization. Yet had n,
contempt for him as he gibbered with
self-pity. The tragedy of the future
of civilization was in the soul OF that
paid, sharp featured. Ill nourished
man who had lived in misery within
the glitter of n rich city and VIII
was now being taken to his DEATH
feel sure he died in the trenches even
though no bullet may have reached
him-at the command OF great Powers
who knew nothing of this poor ant.
What did his individual life matter?
| stared into the SOU Of a soldier OF
France and wondered at the thing. !
saw in lat the spiritual faith which
made a patriot of that a~paches'."
a picturesque hit in Mr.. Gibbs book
is that which shows how 20 1000 men
went to the rescue Of the French army
IN taXicabs:
'one OF the most dramatic incidents
OF the war was the transport of the
army or Paris to the fighting line
IN iaNicabs. Their were 1000 of these
cabs in Paris, and on September they
disappeared as though the earth had
swallowed them, just as the earth had
swallowed n Of them not long before
wheh the Hoods had sapped the streets.
y 'udden order from Gen. Gallieni the
Military Governor Of Paris, had been
issued To each driver. who Immediately
ignored the upra.sed hands OF would he
passengers and the shouts OF peonle
desperate +" get to one OF the railway
stations with household goods and n
OPP OF escape. At the depots the
drivers knew hat upon the strength
OF thelr tires and the power of their
engines depended the safety OF Paris
ana perhaps the life of France. II was
an Extraordinary incident I'm tho his
tory or modern wa, Five soldiers
were loaded into each cab. four inside
ana II next to the driver, with their
rifles ana kits ,rammod in between
them, In on journey 90. 900 men were
taken on the road to MeauX. II was
a irlnmnh Of mobility. and when in
future the Partisan Is tempted to curse
those red vehicles which dash about
the streets TO the danger Of all ned q
TRANS who forget hat death has To be
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Emil Pottner's "On the Precipice."

how severely they were criticised.
1t Is held that this, like all of the
modern art movements, began in
France. but while the Germans find
many kindred spirits in France and
elsewhere. they deny emphatically
that they borrow or copy from any
one. They claim as their own any
and every man who oversteps the
ordinary canons Of art, and among
the prominent foreign secessionists
they hold that Rodln is one. They
Rave been dra wn together. as all
rebels are. and forming their clubs and
societies continue to paint and to
draw, to model and to engrave, just
Is the spirit moves them.
The war has brought together a
large number of the secessionists in
Berlin. who are now issuing cartoons
and dra wings under the general head
Of War and Art" and they are GER
tainly producing some interesting and
striking as well as powerful pictures.
Take Emil Pottner's "On the Preci-
pice." In which the bear, typifying
Russia of course, stands at the brink
Of q rocky height. driven thither by
her Teuton foes. There has hardly
been a stronger picture during the
year Of war.
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IT HERE is an unusual lot Of vivid
description and human inter-
est" in Philip Gibbs's THE
Soul of the War" just published
by . Mcbride, Mast and Company.
Mr. Gibbs went to France and to the
ron as IA special correspondent Of the
London Daily Chronicle. and has had a
pretty thrilling time of it, to Judge
from his book.
Describing a trip on a troop train
during the first mobilization the au-
thor shows how even the apache sud
denly became a patriot:
In the corner opposite my own seat
was a thin, pallid young man. also a
little drunk, but with an excited brain
In which a multitude of strange and
tragic thoughts chased each other.
lie recognized me as an Englishman at
once and with a shout Of "Camarade,"
shook hands with me not once but
scores of times during the first part
OF our journey.
he entered upon a monologue that
seemed in~terminable, his voice rising
n "A shrll excitement and then sink
ing into a hoarse whisper. He be-
iohsed to the apache type, and had
come out OF "a of those foul lairs
which lie hidden behind the white
beauty OF Paris. Yet he spoke with n
terrific al4nttanna uhgal -
c'hated' | remember some of his
words, though | cannot give them his
white heat OF passion, nor the mini
pathos of his self-pity.
~ have left n wife behind tho
woman who loves me and sees some
thlng more in me than vileness. Shall
! tell you how ! left her, monsieur,
Dying In n hospital at Charenton. :
shal never see her again, shall
never again take her thin white face
In my dirty hands and say, "You and
i nave tasted the goodness of life NV
little one, while we have starved to-
gether!" For life is good, monsieur.
put IN a little while I shall be dead In
one place n my wOman in another.
That is certain.
1 ieIt a milo behind me-a iittlc
girl. What will happen to her when :
am Killed? ! left her with the con-
cierge, who promised to take care o,
her-no for money, you understand
because I had mons 20 give. MY little
glrl will never see me again, and I
snail never see her grow into a
woman. because ! am going to h.
Killed. Perhaps I'm a day or two there
will be no more life for me. TIL .
hand OF mine-you see ! can gras
things with It, 1t this way and
that, shake hands with y~ou-cama-
rade'-sa.ute the spirit OF France
with it-comme ca But tomorrow
or the mex day II VIII he quite still. A
dead t~hing-like my dead hoGy. 1t T.
queer. Here | sit talking to You alive
But morn or the next day my
corpse VIII lie out on the battlefield
like q hit of earth, can see that
corpse of mine, with Its white face and
staring eyes. Ugh! II Is "A dirty sight
"A mans corpse, Here In my heart
something SIS ne ;tat ] shau be
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passion. Their logic : ems To- me flaw
iesS' though II Is diabolical. II d; !
permissible to hurl millions uf mon
against each other with machinery
which makes u wholesale massacre Z
life. tearing up trenches. Blowing pr.,,
bodies OF men to bits with IN, S.lg'.
shot OF a great gun. strewius lu,,',-
iields with death and destroying uud,-
iehGed towns 50 that nothing may Nv.
III 'helr ruins, then II Is foolish to
make distinctions between one way .,
death and another or t. au,lylo dec
grees of horror. AsphyXIat!us "a. =
no worse than a storm of shells or IL
worse, then the more effective
The lives of non-CumhatlntS are nn,
To be respected any more than tho lives
or men in uniform. for modern war Il,
NOT n military game between small
bodies of professional soldiers. as in
the Ola days. but a struggle TO tho
death etwcen one people and another.
The blockading Of the enemy's ports or
the slow starvation of a besieged citv.
which Is allowed by military purists
of the old and sentimental school. does
not spare the non-comhatart. The
"'''ai "''H a pdbN AT ntE breast IS
drained of her mothers milk. There
is a massacre Of %innocents by poison
u microbes. So why be Illogical and
pander 70 false sentiment? WHY not
sink the Lusirania and set the waves
MOI with the little corpses OF chill
dTen and the beauty OF dead women
II Is but one non incident OF horror
IN n war which is all horror. Its logic
Is unanswerable IN the Euclid Of hell.
II In war, and when millions
or men set OF to xii, each other, 10
strange the enemy's industries. TO ruin,
starve and annihilate him, so that
the women may not breed more chit.
den- and 50 that the children shall
perish OF widespread epidemics. then a
few laws Of ch!valry, a little pity
here and there, the recognition Of a
Hague treaty are but foolishness. and
the weak jugglings OF men who try
TO soothe their conscience with n few
drugged tabloids. That at least is tho
philosophy OF the German war lords.
and granted the premises that war
be waged by me people against
another, It seems TO me- sound and
in its abomination."
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h TONE a escape the effects OF
the great word war. Even
the artists are feeling its
thrill and sending out paintings and
drawings dealing with all sides of the
awful conflict.
War subjects are especially grateful
to the secessionist school, II 1t may
be termed a school, the men in Berlin
n Munich who have been called the
anarchists in art" who have cast
aside al. traditions and are a law unto
themselves. They are beyond dis
cussing realism, imperialism. or deal
Ism In aesthetics, for nothing that is
conventional has any appeal TO them.
They are the lineal descendants of the
luminists, neo-impressionists, indie
pendents-all who decline to be limited
by the canons OF art and draw or paint
what they believe to be the truth and
In such a way as to bring 1t home to
the beholder.
The Simply pretty does not exist for
them. They want the idea most OF
all. and they care not how their effects
are secured so long as the idea is
brought home to the onlooker with the
greatest possible force.
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at this trophy. Of which he was i'm
mensely proud.
For four days previous 10 Mon
day, September T. he said. we were
engaged In clearing out the German
"boches" from all the villages on the
left bank OF the Ourcq. which they
had occupied in order to protect the
flank OF their right wing.
unfortunately for us the English
heavy artillery. which would have
smashed the beggars to bits, had not
yet come up To help us, although we
expected them with some anxiety, as
ne big business events began as soon
as we drove the outposts back to
their main lines.
However. we were quite equal to
the preliminary task, and heartened
by the news OF the ammunition CON
voy which had been turned into a
very pretty fireworks display by
"Soixante-dix Pau" My zouaves-as
you see l belong to the First d.
vision, which has a reputation to keep
up-n'est-ce-pas-were in splendid
form.
They were just like athletes who
want to be first of the mark, or rather
perhaps ! should say like bloodhounds
on the scent.
Still, just to encourage them a lit
tie, don't you know. l pulled out my
revolver. showed II to my little ones,
and said very gently that the first
mar who hesitated to advance under
the fire of the German guns would be
a dead man before he took a step to
the Fnar In t.ar r,.i,.. 49,
are one or two men who want en-
couraging In this way.) OF course
they all laughed at me. They wanted
to get near those German guns. and
nearer still to the gunners. That was
before they knew the exact meaning
of shell fire, Well. they did good
things. those of mine. But Il
wasn't pleasant work. We fought
from village to village. very close
fighting, 50 that sometimes we could
look into u enemy's eyes. The
Moroccans were with us, the native
troops, unlike my boys who are
frenchmen, and they were like de-
mons with their bayonet work.
Several of the villages were set
on fire by the Germans before they
from them, and soon great
columns of smoke with pillars of
dame and clouds of flying sparks rose
up into the blue sky and made a pic
ure OF hell there. For really 1t was
hell on earth.
cur gunners were shel'ing the
Germans from pillar to post, as IL
were, and strewing the ground with
heir dead. 1t vas across and among
these dead bodies that we infantry had
20 charge. They lay about In heaps,
masses or bleeding flesh. 1t made me
even in the excitement of IL
ali.
THE enemy's quick hrers were mar
NelIcus' ] am bound To say we did not
1t all our W way, They always
idannuvre them in the same style. and
very clever it Is. FIRST of all they
them with infantry. Then when
the French charge they reveal them
ana put us to the test under the most
whitening fire 1t is almost impossible
tn stand against it, and in this case
had to retire after each rush for
about $50 meters.
Then quick as lightning the Ger
ct their mitrailleuses across
tn ground which we had yielded IN
them and waited for ms to come on
when they repeated the same
operation.
can tell you II was pretty trying
the nerves, but my zouaves were
very steady In spite of fairly heavy
~
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Strange Adventures Of Stragglers in
the German Retreat After Failure
of Paris Drive

break in his spirit and his face quiv-
cred.
lis there any woman to embrace
me?' he asked. Out of the crowd
came a pretty French oma and.
understa nding the man. though she
had not met him before. she held out
her arms to him n raised her face.
"'Allons, done. mon vieux.' she said.
The man put his arms about her
and kissed her, while tears streamed
Gown his face. covered in sweat and
lust. He was comforted like a boy
who had hurt himself. in his mothers
arms. II was a queer little episode
utterly impossible in the Imagination
OF al Englishman-but a natural thing
in France.
so when a Frenchman lies dying,
almost unconscious before the last
breath. IL Is always a woman's name
that he cries out or whispers. although
not always the name of his wife or
mistress, n word Is heard again
and again in the hospital wards, where
the poilus lie. those bearded fellows,
so strong when they went out TO the
war, but now so weak INC helpless
before death.
"Maman! Maman!'
1T is TO the bosom Of motherhood
that the spirit OF the Frenchman
goes In that last hour. Yet
il the English reader imagines that
because this thread of sentiment runs
through 'he character OF france there
10 'ot'i'ess VI 'he quail'les OF french
so'u'ers ne ooes not know the ruth
THE risk OF death is taken lightly
by all these men. II is curious. In
deed that almost every French soldier
has II conviction that he will die In
battle sooner or later. In moments of
imagination he sees his own corpse
lying out In the field, and is full OF
pity Tor MS wife and children. But II
does not destroy his courage or his
gift OF gayety or his desire to fight for
France or his sublime endurance of
pain.
The wounded men who pour down
from the battlefields are incredibly
patient, ! have seen them stand on
a wounded leg to give their places In n
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And nothing could bulge your men,
though the German shell IRE was
very hot.
THAT Is the way with your British
gunners. They are different from the
French. who are always best when
they are moving forward, but do not
like to stay in n position. But when
your men have taken up their ground
nothing car move them. Nothing on
earth!
And yet the German shells were
terrifying. | confess TO you that there
were times when my nerves were alb
~solutely gone. I crouched down with
my men--we were in open formation
and ducked my head at the sound Of
the bursting ''obus" and trembled in
every limb as though I had a At Of
ague. God rebuked me for the bonn
bast with which / had spoken to my
men.
One hears the zip. zip of the bull
lets, the boom Of the great guns. the
tang OF our sharp French artillery
n in all this Internal experience OF
noise and stencil the screams OF dying
horses and men Joined with the fury of
the gunfire n rose shrill above Il.
No man may boast OF his courage.
Dear God. there were moments when
was a coward with all of them.
But n gets used to II, as to all
things My ague did not last long.
Soon l was cheering and shouting
again. We cleared the enemy out of
the village OF Breezy, n that was
where | fell wounded in the arm
pretty badly by a bit OF shell. | bed
ike n stuck pig. as you can see, but
when / came to myself again a brother
officer told me that things We're going
on we'll and that we had rolled back
the German right, That was better
than a bandage to me | felt very
well again in spite of my weakness"
Mr., Gibbs relates how the French
soldier requires feminine sympathy:
The French soldier. whatever his
coarseness or his delicacy. needs fem
mime consolation. and all his ideals
and his warnings and his self pity
are intimately associated with the love
of womcn n especially OF one woman
his mother, When Napoleon, In the
island Of st, Helena. used to talk about
the glories of his victorious years, and
then brooded over the tragedy OF his
overthrow SO that all his soul was
clouded with despair, he Used to rouse
himself after the silence which fol-
owed those hours OF self-analysis and
say, Let us talk about ZEN
love" Always 1t issthe feminine spirit
N which IA Frenchman bathes his
wounds One small incident saw
a year or two x gave me the clue
to this quality in the French charac-
ter II was when Vedrines, the IA
nous airman, was beaten by only a
Few minutes In the flight round Eng
II Capitaine Conneau-Beaumont
as he called himself-had OUTRAGED his
rival n waited with French gal
lantry TO shake The hand of the nd
versary he had defeated on untirtnp
wings A great GROVE OF smar men
and women waited also at Brooklands
10 cheer the second In the race who
IN England Is Always more popula
imam the prize winner. But when We
Crimes came to earth out Of a blue sky
ne was savage and bitter. The loss
OF the prize money was a great tragedy
TO this mechanic who had take nil
his ambition on the flight, He shouted
out marsh words to those who came
o cheer him n shook them Off VIC
lently when they tried to clan him on
tne hack. He was savagely angry.
Ihen suddenly something seemed to