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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05
Electricity as a Food.

Electricity as Food.
NJ. Bergonie is gentleman
He is also an eminent French doc
tor. This may sound slightly incon-
gruous or paradoxical, but it is a fact
nevertheless
NJ. Bergenie has solved the high
In other words, he claims to have
made electricity take the place of
food. Applications of the electric juice
will furnish the body with nourish-
ment.
M. Bergonie has tried his idea on
man weighing only 10 pounds, who
had not been receiving sufficient nu-
triton. In a short time this man
1t furnished the heat Tor the body
which is usually furnished by food
OF course, you understand this. We
don't but there is no reason why
you shouldn't. NJ. Bergonie under
stands it anyhow, which is the main
thing.
This is going to be a great thing, We
believe. The poor man who owns an
eighty horsepower Mercedes and can
not afford to buy food and gasoline
both and is slowly starving to death
can go out in his garage three times
a day and disconnecting the wires of
his storage battery, can consume all
of the electricity that he needs. This
will take the place of breakfast, din
ner and supper, or breakfast, luncheon
and dinner, depending, of course,
upon the mans station in life.
Uncle Abner.
Rem Binks. the station agent, has
run out of red oil for the switch
lights and is trying to borrow red
flannel petticoat to cut up and wrap
around 'em, but learns that they have
gone out of style.
Hank Tumms, our prominent crack
er barrel economist, says if the state
goes dry it will be an awful blow to
the saloon keepers. Hank hits it
right Onve in a blue moon.
Miss Amy Stubs, our village mil
liner, says she has followed all of Lii
RuSselPS advice for fifteen years and
amt got a real proposal yet on ac-
count of her beauty. Three travelling
gentlemen proposed to her last year,
but she found out later that they
were all married to somebody else.
Old Cap Whipple has painted his
wooden leg yaller so it will match his
Palm Beach suit.
Great Excitement
1t is stated by one of the truthful scribes
man may be cited before the probate Judge
for examination as to his sanity. 1t is said
pay for home instead of buying an auto
mobile. His case is SO unusual that it
has attracted much attention
Cheap Nowadays.
In front of moving picture theater:
Cents.
Swat EN- Now.
How doth the busy little fly :
Improve each shining minute, : s. ~.
And where he finds an apple pie
Plant micro-milliens in it.
Memory.
By gum, I kin recall the time
When was young and in my prime,
The wimmin you'd on the street
Were dressed quite modest and discreet
But that was long ago. |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

Berlin is in a joyous mood again.
over reported reverses on an extern
sive scale TO the Russian forces in
west Galicia- And it wasn't so long
ago that Berlin staged a mammoth but
premature celebration of the certain
capture of Warsaw by General Won
HindenburC
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05
On the Spur
of the Moment
BY ROY X MoULToN-

Modern Ideas.
If Father Noah lived today
And it began to rain,
He would not build the ark,
He'd build hydroaeroplane.
If wicked Nero lived today
And Rome began to burn,
He would not play violin,
A photograph he'd turn.
If Ben Hur lived with us today,
No chariot he'd ride;
He'd buy a 90-horsepower car
To win his fame and bride.
If Mot her Eve lived here today
She'd surely have to smile
She would not change her mode of dress,
And she'd be right in style.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

Billy Sunday has swung 10000 of
the men of Paterson. N. J., to seats on
the water wagon. But the question is
as to how many of them will stand
hitched to the temperance and prohi-
bition seat after Billy has packed his
trunk and gone elsewhere, and for
how long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05
AMERICANS HELPING ALL.

Neither are the Belgians the only
European war sufferers who are be-
ing aided by their friends in these
United States. The American Jewish
Relief Committee. which is concerned
with extending succor to the Jews who
are so sorely pressed in some of the
war zones, especially in Poland, has
received cash contributions that to-
tai close to S653.0o0, and from peo-
pie and organizations in all sections
of the country This isn't as large
a sum. by any means, as the one that
the American people have contributed
to the relief of the Belgians, but it
shows that the folk in this country
are not playing favorites in the mat
ter of aiding European war sufferers
They have also contributed generous
ly to funds to aid the people of Eng
land and France, who have been hard
est hit by the war. and are dependent
for their existence. almost, on char
ity. And the end of none of these
worthy enterprises is yet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

England, apparently isn't among
those who believe that the war will
end before the summer is over. The
new budget that the British ca6inet
has framed makes appropriations for
war purposes for the period that runs
until March 81. 1916
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

All hail to the Chicago judge who
favors furnishings for the fathers of
the children that find their way into
the Juvenile courts. And the same
dosage of medicine should be pre-
scribed for some of their naethersa z
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

Who says that the Turks are with
out sense of humor? The present
elderly sultan, who was placed on the
job by the Young Turks revolution,
has assumed the title of Mohammed
the VictoriOuS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05
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D1sAGREEABIE NEIGHB oRs SETTLE NEAR BILLY.
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Indeed / was mott" said Billy
Robin, and then when he saw how
hurt and surprised Tommy Sparrow
was, he said politely, "of course L like
to play hide with you, you know that,
Tommy, but it wasn't you 1 was hid
ing from just them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05
From Other Pens

THOSE HELPFUL PROFESSORS.
We could hardly get along without
the painstaking professor who finds
out for us things that no one else has
time to look for. A while ago one of
them calculated the amount of energy
that the office boy wastes by scuffing
his feet along the floor. when he
thinks he is saving himself the labor
now computed the energy wasted in
chewing gum, and the inevitable ex-
haustion of gum chewers when they
reach the classroom. 1t is important
to have public attention directed
to these things 1t is only by stopping
these leaks of energy that the human
race can hope to rise to that high
level of intellectual life where profess
sors life their feet clear of the floor.
and use their mouths for the restfuI
occupation of talking instead of the
exhausting labor of chewing gum
Philadelphia Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

And the hailstones of proverbial
hen's-egg size have finally been forced
into a back seat by some as large as
baseballs which fell in eastern Mis-
souri, recently. Pictures of the latter
would help out some, though.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

Here's a pretty kettle of fish, Mrs
Guernsey, Kansas defeated candidate
for the president-generaley of the D.
A. r., confides to her home friends
that it was the practice of corrupt
politics. which beat her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

An announcement that the Kansas
City, Kaw Valley & Western railway
will be operating its interurban line
from Kansas City into Topeka by the
summer of 1916 sounds good. And
here's hoping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05
MEMBER:
Associaeed Press. +~
Audif Bureau of Calculations.
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

At any rate, Jack Frost will have to
be given credit for making a most
strenuous effort to get on the job
again in these parts. But he might
well be up to better business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05
SUGAR BEET SITUATION.

Eighteen months ago Colorado was
talking about gong out of the sugar
beet business, but has reconsidered.
The best beet fields of Belgium, Ger
many and France will not be produce
ing this year, and so the Centennial
state finds her opportunity. The fed
eral department of agriculture is at
tempting to raise beet seed in Colo
RADIO this year. with every prospect of
success, and it is expected that this
will make the United States independ-
ent of the seed supply hitherto fur
nished by Germany and. Russia. 1t
must be some time before the CONT
nent of Europe and Russia will be in
position to supply sugar on a great
scale, and meantime our sugar beet
states will have nothing to complain
of. colorado is setting out to raise a
record sugar beet crop this year.
Springfield Republican. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

Nodd-"How is the music in the
Bingbang restaurant p Tom-"Won-
derful! I was iii there with my wife
for an hour the other evening and
couldn't hear a word she said. Life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal fs member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganfzat ton, for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
poS4
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-05

( Maybe the jackrabbit that raced
down Kansas avenue at an early hour
of a recent morning had been fooled
into believing that the city had been
beautified with a strip of delectable
grass between the street car tracks.
And that, by the way, was the greenest
idea that has ever been projected
across the local horizon. The only
saving feature about it is that it was
made by an outsider It's regrettabl
though, that he frisked the town for
some money for the suggestion.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
LINERS OFF FOR WAR ZONE
Steamship ST. Paul Sails With Amer
lean Flags Painted on Hull.

New York, March Five passen-
ger liners bound for ports in the war
zone set by Germany around the Brit
ish Isles were included in the days
sailings from this port. Hundreds OF
passengers were aboard.
The Lusitania, now the largest as
well as the fastest passenger ship
travelling the Atlantic, had many
cabin passengers booked for Liver
pool. The American liner st. Paul,
for Liverpool, the Holland-American
steamer Rotterdam, for Rotterdam,
the Touraine, for Havre, and the
Kristianfjord, for Bergen, were the
other sailings.
American flags and the words
American line" in letters four feet
high were painted on both sides OF
the ST. Pauls hull. Two more
American flags were painted on its
bows.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
ENGLAND APPROVES
RUSSIA'S INTENTION

London, Feb. 2s-Sir Edward Grey,
the foreign secretary, announced in
the house of commons that Great
Britain is in entire accord with Rus
sis's desire for access to the sea. The
foreign secretary said this in response
to a question from Frederick w
Jowett, whether England knew OF
and approved the statement of the
Russian foreign minister, NJ. Sazanoff,
to the duma that Russia intended
permanently TO occupy CONSTANT.
nople."
The foreign secretary responded
that he was unaware that Nj. Sazanoff
had made any such statement, but he
added "the statement | have seen was
that Nj. Sazanoff had said that the
events on the Russo-Turkish frontier
would bring Russia nearer realization
of the political and economic prob
lem bound up with Russia's access to
the sea
with these aspirations, he con
tinued, England is in sympathy
What form their realization will take
will no doubt be settled in the terms
OF peace"
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
NO SPECIAL TREATY SESSION
President Has Practically Decided
Against Calling Senate.

Washington. March President
Wilson has practically decided not to
call a special session of the senate to
consider the Colombian and Nicara-
guam treaties. AT the White House IL
was said that while the question still
is under consideration there is little
prospects of a special session being
called.
The opposition of some Republican
senators makes IL improbable that
any action on the treaties can be tax.
en- during the present session. The
president expects, however, that at
least some of his nominees for the
federal trade commission will be con
frmed before March 4.
Any not confirmed are expected to
get recess appointments.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
ALLIES AGAINST PROPOSAL
Not Likely to Accept American Sue-
gestions.

Washington, March While ad-
ministration officials still cloak their
European diplomatic negotiations
with extreme secrecy some admit that
published English opinions do not
lend optimism to the situation.
Newspaper reports indicate that
while Germany is amenable to most
of the American suggestions Great
Britain and her allies are determined
to wage unrelenting war on Germany.
The latest trend of events indicates
that the American proposals will be
partially successful.
The administration is now convinc-
ed that mines constitute an even
greater danger to American com
merce than do German submarines.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
BILL DISCUSSED WITH MANY
Shipping Agent Admits Seeing Sen.
1tors.

Washington, March Claude N.
Bennett, who told the senate commit
tee investigating charges of lobbying
against the administration ship bill
he represented most of the trans.
atlantic lines" in an information bu.
reau' here, testified that he had dis.
cussed the bill with many senators,
had furnished Senator Burton with
information of the shipping activities
of the British board of trade, but nev.
er had attempted to influence any sen
ator.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
SEVERAL GENERALS TAKEN
Germany Emphasizes Her Victory Over
the Russians

Berlin, March 1.-The following Off
cial communication was issued:
In the Russian Official bulletins the
Importance of the Russian defeat in
the Mazurian winter battle either has
been suppressed or obscured. 1t is
useless to refute those denials. To
illustrate the Importance of the de-
feat the following list of Russian gen.
erals made prisoners is given:
The commanding general of the
Twentieth army corps, also the com
mander of artillery, and the COM
manders of the Twenty eighth and
Twenty-ninth division of infantry, al
so the commander of the First bri-
gade of infantry The commander of
the Twenty-ninth died."
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
POSSIBLE RESULTS OF PROBE
Price of Bread in New York to Be
Restored to Former Figure.

New York, Feb 26.-The wholesale
price of bread, which recently was
raised to cents a loaf, is to be re.
tored to cents
The fact that there was much agi
tation when the cost of bread was
raised, followed by Investigations into
the bread industry. is one reason
given for the plan to restore the old
prices.
Another reason is that most of the
smaller baking companies, instead o.
following the lead of the big con
Germs, continued to sell bread at
cents to their retail trade.
The attorney generals inquiry into
the increased cost of wheat and bread
continues
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
VOTING DRY MADE EASIER
Majority Of All Votes Necessary to
License Saloons.

Pierre, s. D., March There will
be many more dry towns in South Da-
kota as the result OF the bill which
passed the senate striking out the
words voting on the proposition
from the liquor license law of 1913
With these words In the law IL has
not been necessary to get majority
of all votes in a town or city tc
license saloons, but majority only
of the vote cast on the license ques
tion.
Many towns of the state are evenly
divided on the saloon question anc
will go dry under the new law. The
bill has passed both houses.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
TO OPERATE IN ADRIATIC
German Submarines Reach Austrian
Naval Station at Poa.

Geneva, Feb. 26.-Three new Ger
man submarines have arrived by rail-
road at Pola tthe chief naval station
of Austria-Hungary), according to a
telegram to the Tribune, and will
soon begin operations not only In
the Adriatic but in the Mediterra-
mean.
A dispatch from Munich says that
Germany is arranging to send several
other submarines to Austria.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
Favors Four Nominations.

Washington. March Favorable
reports on the nominations of Joseph
Il. Davies. Edward N. Hurley, w. j..
Harris and w. II. Parry as members
of the federal trade commission were
voted by the senate interstate COM
merce committee, but action on the
nomination of George Rublee OF Cor
nish. N. H., was deferred.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01

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London, March IA fleet of Brit
ISL and French warships continues to
hammer away at the door of the
Dardanelles, the straits which close
Russias rich granary. The necessity
of releasing the supply of wheat on
the shores of the Black sea causes
the general belief that the naval at
tack is more than mere demonstra-
ton.
Official announcements declare that
after the reduction of the four outer
Dardanelles forts mine sweepers went
to work within the straits under the
protection OF the guns of the fleet.
Unoficial dispatches from Athens and
Rome assert that at least one French
warship actually has penetrated the
passage.
Germany remains silent regarding
her share in the military operations
tria Hungary declares that Austrian
and German forces are holding their
own in the Carpathians and in East
ern Galicia.
Petrograd announces repulse OF
German attacks in North Poland, with
heavy losses. As a result of the des
perate fighting of the past few days
the Russian general staff maintains
that the Germans have been forced
back along a front of twenty-five
miles In the Przasnysz region.
In the west the French continue
to claim advances in the Champagne
district, with quiet prevailing alons
the rest of the line.
The prompt action of the British
government in ordering the resump
ticn OF work during arbitration is ex
9ected to end the shipbuilding strike
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
CHICAGO HIRES MEN TO
BATTLE LIQUOR.

Chicago, Feb. 26.-Temper-
ance workers who led the fight
in making Arizona a prohibition
state last fall have been en-
gagged to manage a similar
campaign in Chicago. Head
quarters has been engaged and
the work of raising prelimi-
nary campaign fund of $4,000
will be started Immediately.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
WORK ON SUBWAY HALTED
Court Decision on Alien Labor Law
10 the Cause.

New York, March 1.-Work on New
York city's new subway was halted in
some instances and proceeded with
diminished forces of workmen in 9TH
ers because of the decision of the
state court of appeals upholding the
labor law forbidding the employment
of aliens on public work.
1t Is considered doubtful il Ameri-
cans can be obtained to replace alien
w0rkmen, although there are thou.
sands of unemployed persons In the
city.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
German Leaders Decorated.

London, March IA wireless from
Berlin says that Generals Won linden
burg and Ludendorff have been deco
rated with the order Pour lie Merite,
which was also recently bestowed by
the kaiser upon General Won Buelow
for his victory over the Russians in
the Mazurian lake region.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
Probe Neutrality Violations.

New York, March 1.-The federal
grand jury has began an investigation
of alleged violations of customs laws
by which shipping interests are
charged with having attempted to
send out of this country chartered
neutral ships with supplies destined
for German war vessels plying i'm the
Atlantic ocean.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
Teachers and Pupils in Army.

Berlin, March 1.-The budget COM
mission announces that out of 1900
Male high school teachers in the
country 1000 are serving in the army
while nearly half the high school
pupils over seventeen years of age
have entered the military service
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01

New York, March Charles III
Griffiths, attorney for Richard P. Steg-
Ter, the German naval reservist in the
Tombs on the charge of fraudulently
obtaining an American passport, indi
Gated that If his client should be in
dicted for conspiracy he would In
struct him to plead guilty and throw
himself on the mercy Of the court.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
Eioht Americans Missins.

washington, March Although
Minister Van Dyke had reported the
American steamer Eyelyn's crew as
"unofgicially reported SAFE" he later
cabled the state department rumor
that eight men are missing. Ambas-
sador Gerard furnished a report on
thn Oarib, confirming the loss Of three
6ea.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
MAKES GERMAN TRIP SAFELY

american oteAner rsseeS 6oth ways
Between New York and Brennan.
New York, March 1.-The American
steamer City of Memphis reached
New York from Bremen with a cargo
Of 900 tons of assorted German mer-
chandise.
The steamer sailed on the outward
voyage from Norfolk with a cargo of
nearly 5000 bales of cotton and reach
ed Bremen Jan. 27 without incident
throughout the voyage.
On the return voyage the steamer
was delayed by gales and heavy seas.
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
Sister Of Turkish Ruler Dead.

Amsterdam, March IA dispatch
received here from Constantinople re-
lates the death of the eldest sister of
the present sultan of Turkey. She
vas born in 184S
The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1915-03-01
EVELYN IS LOST
IN Salty ZONE
American Steamer Not Off
Course When Sunk.
NAVAL OFFICER REPORTS
United States Attsche at Berlin Fur.
nishes information Regarding De-
struction Of vesseI-Flosting Mine
May Have Caused Disaster.

struetion Of vessel-Flosting Mine
May Have Caused Disaster.
Washington, March 1.-The first re-
port of Commander Gherardi. naval
attache at Berlin, on the sinking OF
the American cotton steamer Evelyn
by a mine in the North sea, indicates
that the ship was not OF her course
as was suggested and was, in fact, in
waters where she should have been
safe
BY comparing the Evelyn's position
with the German admiralty's direc-
tions naval officers are of the opinion
that the Evelyn was about twenty
miles of the north coast OF Holland
and twenty-five miles northwest OF
BorkuL island The German war
zone decree placed a strip OF thirty
miles along the Dutch coast in the
safety zone. The German embassy
several days ago. giving directions for
shipping, announced that merchant
vessels bound for the Ems should
make directly for its mouth.
The Evelyn apparently was only a
short distance TO the northwest of ths
mouth OF the river when she sank IN
about seventeen fathoms of water
In the opinion of naval officers here
the Evelyn probably struck a mine
which had broken loose and had float
ed from its moorings.