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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1915-10-28
DURoC JERSEYS FOR SALE

Have a few Duroc Jersey boars for
sale. Can furnish pedigrees to those
who desire. Write or phone me,
Extra, Route one. T. J. Coglon .40-tf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
LIMITED TRAINS BUMP.
No One Injured When Santa Fc
Trains Collide.

Word has just been received in To-
peka of head-On collision of the east
and westbound California Limited
trains of the Santa Fee at Monrovia.
Cal, last Sunday afternoon. No one
was badly hurt and a serious accident
was timely averted.
From statement made by the SUI
perintendent's office at San Bernar-
dino, both train crews had been given
orders to pass at Monrovia. The en-
gineer on No. 8, westbound, t. N. Ed
mondson, slowed down at Monrovia
from As to 5 miles an hour Three
passengers were to be let off at that
point. The operator at Monrovia had
the stop semaphore set but Edmond
son evidently did not see it, it is said.
The engineer on No. 4, eastbound,
A. c. Long, saw the approaching train
as he was going into a side switch.
Knowing that the other locomotive
could not stop in time to prevent n
crash, he had the presence of mind to
back up and present his locomotive as
a buffer for the other. This averted
a serious wreck.
1t was officially announced at San
Bernardlno and in Topeka that no one
was hurt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
t freight handling is proper

correct freight handling Is proper
checking.
In Topeka, and other large points
the railroads are guarding against the
improper delivery to the consignee.
For instance, if one railroad received
q package of freight where there was
no Identification, the agents of all 9TH
er lines operating in the city would
be notified.
One matter of interest that shippers
should note in Mr.. Lakes talk was the
manner of shipping beans. The bean
shippers are using bags in which they
put up $50 to 165 pounds of beans,
which make it extremely difficult for
trainmen to handle without dire dis
aster. Railroads paid on 226 claims
on beans, most of them due to the
heavy sacks. The shippers, in Mr..
Lanes opinion, should adopt regula-
ton 100 pound sacks.
The containers of nowadays are not
only unsafe but are invitations for dis
honest employees and others to commit
theft. The sneak-thief can now, in a
surprisingly short space of time, open
case of valuable goods, extract a
part of the contents and replace the
package, leaving it in as good condi-
ton as before. The Santa F'e has been
conducting a long series of tests by
sealing the boxes, and this has worked
wonders with the sneak-thief problem.
Lake urges that all the shippers COM
bine and use this method, as it would
insure the packages going through I'M
molested, or at least enable the rail-
road companies to catch the thief nine
times out of ten.
In speaking of the frail boxes for
shipments. Mr.. Lake suggested that
some enterprising box manufacturer
get out a box that would be safer by
using a metal strap across each end of
the panel and by taking other precau-
tiOns in the manufacture which would
be invaluable to the shippers and the
railroads.
Mr.. Lake spoke of the handling of
freight for the United States govern
ment. The government issues strict
specifications as to how the goods
shall be packed. He asked why such
an arrangement could not be made by
the shippers if it is done for the gov
eminent
In closing his address. Mr.. Lane
pointed out the work of the Santa F'e
in the past six years in cutting down
freight losses. The losses have been
cut down gradually since 1909. The
following table illustrates that:
md OF Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Keep hardwood floors looking right
with Devoe Floor Wax.-C. NJ. Hill &
Son.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
PLAY JOKE ON "COPE"
Santa Fe Official Lost His Sunday
Silk Hat in Fire.

e. L. Copeland, secretary and
treasurer of the Santa Fe railway, lost
a high silk hat in the Palace fire this
morning. Mr.. Copeland sent the hat
down Friday afternoon to have it re-
blocked for tomorrow's wear.
When officials learned of the loss of
Mr.. Copeland's hat, they began send
ing him lids of all variety, to make
sure that the popular treasurer would
have something on his head Sunday.
He now has fifteen or eighteen hats.
ranging from the vintage of 1870 to
up-tO-date and stylish headgear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
ASK FOR POsTPoNEMENT.
Three Shareholders File Injunction
Against the Rock Island.

Chicago, April 1O.-Three stock
holders of the Chicago, Rock Island
and Pacific railroad filed a bill in
the United States district court hero
today an injunction restraining stock
holders of the road from holding the
annual meeting scheduled for April
IL. In their bill the three stockhold-
ers alleged they had been unable to
obtain a list of the stockholders until
ten days ago and that the majority
faction, headed by William H. Moore,
James H. Moore and Daniel G. Reid,
have been obtaining proxies since
January 2S
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
BLAIR & HOPKINS
MERCHANT POLICE
Man Takes His Own Medicine Is an
ODtimist
Residence ZOE East 18th St
Phone 1925 Black.

He has absolute faith in his medicine
he knows when he takes it for certain all
ments he gets relief People who take
DR. Kings New Discovery for an irritat-
ing Cold are optimists-they know this
cough remedy VIII penetrate the Innings of
the throat, kill the germs. and open the
way for Nature to act. You can't destroy
a Cold by superficial treatment-you must
go to the cause of the trouble. Be OPP
timist- Get bottle of Dr.. Kings New
Discovery to-day.-Adv-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

ment and I am not sure that I remem-
Der the road by which he was en-
ployed. The fact that did stick in my
mind was the statement that in each
minor position which he held was that
he was not afraid of the responsible
ity' and when a man was needed for
higher position he was selected be-
cause he was not afraid to assume re-
SnOnSihilitv'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Motor washers at Forbes'-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Juneau. Alaska, April 10.-The
Alaska senate passed yesterday a bill
submitting territorial prohibition to
the voters at the November election in
1915. The bill has already passed the
house. If the voters approve prohibi-
ton it will become effective January
l, 1918.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Railroads are now gathering reports
on the condition of winter wheat in
Kansas. Grain men who have inter
ested themselves in the matter recent
ly say that very few reports received
indicate any damage to the crop, while
most reports show the condition to be
the best.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

Albuquerque. April 10.-Suspected
of being one of the gang who wrecked
train No. 10, the Santa Fe's Atlantic
express, west of Gallup, about year
ago, J. n. Scott was arrested today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10

w. E. Hodges of Chicago, vice presi
dent of the Santa F'e in charge of pur.
chases and stores, is on an inspection
trip of the coast lines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
Alaska to Vote on Prohibition.

Devoe Porch Floor Plaintiffs mad,
for porches c. M. Hill & Son.-Adv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
Attention. EAGLES,

Topeka Aerie No. So, Fraternal Or
der of Eagles, will hold memorial
services at the hall, No. 615 Van
Buren, street, on Sunday, April IL, at
o'clock d. m.
All members are urged to be pres
ent and a cordial invitation is extend
ed to the families of deceased mem
bers to attend the services.
Hon A. M. Keene of Fort Scott,
Kan, will deliver the memorial adj
dress. B. F. HOLTWICK,
IAdv. Secretary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-10
RAILWAY NOTES.

An unusual record, says the Kansas
City Times, is that of ]. E. j. Lyle,
20 years old, and a train dispatcher
at Moberly. Lyle has been an oper-
ator for SIS years, has never been held
responsible for a train wreck, nor has
he been in any court on a suit based
on a railroad accident.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16
soRGHUMs ECONOMICAL FEED

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iinctIv HIGHER IN nrotoir content ,h.r
corn Tho csrhabvdrate content l.
practicable tho came On tho otho,
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16
WHAT WAR MovEs MEAN.
By ]. w. T. Mason.

Written for the United Press.
NEW YORK, Sept, 13.-The con.
slant fluctuation in the struggle fol-
the Dwina river and the road tc
Petrograd, IS evidence of the APP
preaching fatigue that must inevitably
overtake the unprecedented often.
sive which the Austro- Germans have
developed since last May.
Not only in their northern part OF
the eastern fighting erea, but also
along the entire battle front, the same
spasmodic character of the warfare Ia
apparent. Won Hindenburg one day
is about to capture Riga, and the
next day he has been checked. Gen.
Mackensen one day is dividing the re-
treating Russians, the next day he is
compelled to halt his advance; the
eastern Galician initiative is resumed
one day, only to return to inaction
the next.
Nowhere is visible the resistless
progress of the western Galician cam
paign that carried the Teutons to
Przymsl and Lemberg. The climax of
irresistible might was reached with
the fall of Lemberg. After the Ga
lician capital was captured, the leu
tons began to slow down. The sub
lection of the Warsaw defenses re-
quired more obvious effort than was
visible in Galicia; and the occupation
of Brest-Litovsk, Kovno and Grodno
have been followed in each case by
constantly decreasing vigor of at
tack. There can be no doubt but
that the Teutonic drive has passed its
maximum of efficiency f,- the pres
emit. To maintain for four months the
intense effort that carried the Aus
tro-Germans from the Danajec to
Lemberg is not possible un'ler modern
conditions of warfare. 1t is the usual
experience Of army commanders that
after an exhausting drive such as
that which eliminated in Lemberg's
capture, a period of three months is
required for recuperation. The feeb-
ly effort Won Mackensen made to PEEL
citrate the Russian line between Brest-
Litovsk and the Vistula after he nov
ed northward from Lemberg is evil
dence Of the rest his armies needed.
He could not have advanced at all,
had it not been for the assault on
the Russian line further north by
Fresh German troops. If the theory
Of three months rest holds good,
winter will have arrived before the
Teutons are abe to recover their lost
speed.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16

can be removed by skimming. The
remainder floats about in the juice
forming red particles which gather
near the top. Toward the last of the
boiling the syrup must be watched
constantly. If the housewife has 4
candy thermometer she should take
the syrup from the fire as soon as
it reached a temperature of 200 de-
grees Fahrenheit, otherwise she should
let it cook until a small sample on
cooling is about as thick as maple
syrup:
When the boiling has finished the
syrup can be set aside to cool in COW
cred vessels or can be poured while
hot into cans or glass containers and
sealed.
Where a cider press is available the
melons can be cut into pieces ana
arranged on the press so that the
pressure will extract the juice of the
pulp before it presses the rind. The
juice of the rind is not so rich in
sugar, and experiments with rind
juice alone indicate that it is not
suitable for syrup.
If it is desired to make syrup free
from red particles, start the syrup
boiling and when some of the co
agulated matter has been removed
by sllimming, transfer the juice to
tall glass jars or other tall con-
tainers and allow it to settle and cool
for few hours. This allows the red
particles to settle to the bottom. The
upper part of the juice can then be
poured off and boiled into syrup.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16
PAGE rs SOME BUSY
OWING TO THE WAR
By Wilbur S. Forrest.


Omitted Press Staff Correspondent. }
LONDON, Sept, 3.-(By Mail.)
The name of the busiest American
in Europe today is Walter Hines
Page.
To average Americans who may
think that an American ambassador
in London is delegated in wartime to
drink cups of afternoon tea with itin-
eran. countrymen, to hand out faith
erly advice when they are in trouble
to hand out money when they are
broke, and perform myrid other duties
of a social nature, they have got an
other think coming.
For the busiest American institution
in Europe today is located at No. 4
Grosvenor Gardens-the American
embassy.
pocket must be the source of new
er ending supply,
In addition to being in constant
closest touch with the state depart
ment, at Washington, the American
embassy in London, is also in daily
communication with the embassies al
Berlin, Vienna, Constantinople, Rome
and Petrograd, which causes the cost
ly interchange of photographic cor
respondence at least ten times the
volume OF peace times. Occasionally
kilograms cost the government $1,000
each.
An amusing episode was the out
come of series of such telegraphic
interchanges with the American en-
bassy at Constantinople, it has just
been learned. Ambassador Morgen-
THAI reported to London that the
Turks had imprisoned many British
citizens whom they were holding for
ransom, the sum of $4,000 being re-
quired in each case. The American
Here the enemy allan peoples in
Great Britain, of three warning ma
tons, look for money to buy their
daily food; look for advice when they
need it and will look for protection
when protection is necessary.
From an authoritative source, Che
United Press learns today that hun
dreds of thousands of American dol
lars have been necessary and will in
future be expended to care for the
alien charges of Ambassador Page,
He is the sole representative in Great
Britain not only Of America, but
Germany, Austria and Turkey. Near
ly 20 buildings in London, property
of these countries, are in direct charge
of the ambassador and he not only
has voluminous diplomatic cores
pondence of his own nation to handle
but the veritable "bsles" Of mail and
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16
new USE
DISCOVERED

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept, 10
A new use for surplus watermelons
has been found by specialists in the
United States department of agricul-
ture. With the aid of utensils found
IN every household a syrup can be
easily extracted from the fruit and
preserved in sterilized jars. This
product will serve most of the pur-
poses for which ordinary syrup is
used in the home.
It is reddish brown in color, very
sweet and well flovared. 1t has
been found especially satisfactory in
making ginger cake, homemade candy
and in sweetening and flovaring ice
cream. The method recommended by
the department Of agriculture for the
home manufacture of this product is
As follows.
Remove the pink flesh and seeds
from the rind of sweet, fully ripe
melons. Crush the flesh with pota-
to nnasher or by running it through
. meat chopper. Place the crushed
pulp and seeds in cloth bags, and
squeeze out the juice. About 10
gallons Of the juice will make one
gallon Of the syrup. This amount of
juice can ordinarily be secured from
10 watermelons weighing from % to
Is pounds each.
The juice is then boiled down into
. syrup in an ordinary preserving
kettle. The Juice boils without much
Farming until it begins to thicken,
vixen the fire should be slackened to
prevent foaming and burning. The
rSd coloring matter in the juice CO.
aeulatss during the boiling and part
4 II asss b tAs surface WHORE II
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16
WAR NEWS OF ONE
YEAR AGO TO-DAY

German forces in France reported
strongly reinforced and have taken
up favorable defensive positions.
Severe fighting for several days
around Scissors.
Maubeuge, reported captured by
Germans some days ago, still in the
Allies hands.
Russian official sources give Aus
TRAN losses since fall of Lemberg
as 100000 killed and wounded, 10O,-
900 prisoners and 400 guns.
Emperor William reported at East
Prussian front.
John Redmond calls ali IRISH to
support Englands cause.
President Wilson, answering the
kaiser's note alleging use Of dunn
dunn bullets by English and French
troops, says it would be unwise, pre-
mature and inconsistent for . neu~
tral government 70 pass Judgment
neM
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16

it will meet again in few weeks
The threat is obvious. Prof. Milu-
koff unquestionably has in mind the
history of the French national as
sembly in the tennis court at Yer
sailles, which was the first act of
the French revolution. If the Duma
is prorouged, the car may have to
put down civil revolution, as well
as oppose the Teutonic advance. 1t
will be improbable that the Duma will
be cast aside. The car shows signs
of sensing the danger that threatens
him from within and his fate in the
Bureaucracy that surrounds him
must have been sadly weakened dur
ing the past four months. The Ger
mans have long counted on revo-
lutionary outbreak in Russia to help
them conquer the Slavs and compel
Russia to make a desperate and dis
asterous peace. The revolution Is
now at hand,
The car, whose mysticism caused
him to do unexpected things at a
moments notice, has not retired to
the background at the approach of
the revolution. Instead, he has gone
forward to meet it. He has assumed
open and personal responsibility be-
fore his people. This may mean that
reforms will be granted to Russia by
the car as a matter of right. If so
Russia will raise from her defeat
more powerful than she could be in
battlefield of victory. Western lib
eralism is knocking at Russia's door
and the car seems to be reaching
forward to throw back the bolts.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16
GUARD AGAINST TYPHOID.

Government health experts esti-
mate that within the year 100000
people in the United States will con-
tract typhoid fever. OF those who
contract the disease, $4,000 it is stat
ed will succumb. Fifty per cent of
those who die will be between the
ages Of Is and 35.
This gloomy picture is supple
'mented by brighter one, one of pre-
yention.
Typhoid fever is disease of filth.
1t can only be contracted by taking
into the system waste products of
one previously III with the disease.
Such waste matter is usually convey
ed by third object, such as flies,
water or milk.
! 1t is upon ourselves that much Of
the blame rests and the following
warning is sent out by the govern
ment health officials.
"The eradication of filth is in part
the duty of every citizen, and each
should see that his own surroundings
are in a satisfactory condition. He
should guard against carelessness in
the maintenance and preparation Of
food and withhold his patronage
from those who disregard the rules
of cleanliness, remembering that the
foods which are most subject to con-
tamination are milk and its products
and oysters and vegetables. The
elimination Of such fly breeding plac-
es as garbage, manure and fifth ID
most essential"
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16

UPRISING
By j. W. T. Mason.

Written for the United Press.
NEW YORK, Sept, 15.-Russia is
on the verge Of the most momentous
reform in her history. The Teutonic
victories are discrediting the bureau
Gratis who have guided Russia's des-
tiny since the beginning Of the war
and liberalism is now making its voice
heard in tones that echo the i'm
perative demands of the French revo-
luton.
Gar Nicholas, tempermental and
instinctively dramatic, may soon add
to the vodka prohibition of last year,
palitical and social reforms of far
more Importance. For the first time
since the abhortive revolution that
followed the defeats of the Russo
japanese war, the Duma has become
menacing. The reformers in the
Duma have united. This union gives
the new party and the progressives
a numerical majority over the re-
actionariec
The reactionaries are now trying to
persuade the government to dissolve
the Duma. Prof, Milukoff, the real
leader Of the progressives, has re-
piled that Il the Durna IL dissolved
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16

United PrssA,
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept, 15.-
Assurances that the administration
considers the proposed billion dollar
loan or credit is within the limits of
neutrality and won't interfere, came
unoff.cially from the White house.
The administration considers the
loan as merely necessary detail
IN transactions whereby the allies
can purchase supplies from America.
The administration sees no differ
ence between billion dollar loan and
ten millions OF security that Ger
many floated here recently except
in its size.
After Analysing the German note
concerning the Arabic, President Will
son has decided that it constitutes an
endorsement of German Ambassador
RernstOrff's assurance that liners will
no. lie attacked ~Ithou. warning, and
be hopes to Secure disavowal OF
the submarine commanders mistake
He believes that all the evidence
utterly controverts any claim that the
Arabic attempted to ram the sub
marine.
II Germany disavow. - there will
be no difficulty IN settling the Who'll,
affair.
America will then consent to arbi
tration Of the mere question of dam
ages for the two Americans lost.
Semi-weekly herald. [volume] (Durango, Colo.) 1907-1917, 1915-09-16
AMERICAN LOAN
PRACTICALLY ASSURED
Administration Does not Consider Loan to Allies
Violates Neutrality Expect Peaceful Set
Element Of Arabic Summarizing

mage was approximately 1900, 900
tons. Compared with the Suez canal
for the calendar year of 1914 had a
net tonnage of 100000 and total
receipts of s25, 100000.
The comparison on the whole is a
gratifying one. 1t will take some
time for steamship lines to change
their routes via the Panama canal.
The advantages of using the short
route are so many and so important
as to make It's universal use certain.
But Uncle Sam has not quite con-
quered the earth slides and until he
does traffic is bound to come slow
ly.
1t must be remembered the Suez
canal has been in constant use since
1853. In fact history tells us the
Mediterranean and Red seas were
connected as far back as 900 wears
Is. C.
A passageway which will reudce
the time of travel from New York
to San Francisco by more than half ia
bound to be a tremendous factor in
the shipping world. Government
officials, in the meantime, are anx-
iously awaiting the cost of operation
for the first year to see what the
! profits have been.