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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
KAISER GOING TO WILMA
PetrOgrad Hears He Is To Direct I'M
portant Operations There.

London, March 25.-Newspapers in
Petrograd, according to a Reuter- dis
patch from that city, publish a report
that preparations are being made for
the arrival of Emperor William in the
near future at Wilma where he is to
supervise the direction of important
operations. Detectives from Berlin, it
is added have already reached the
city to clear it of suspicious characters.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
Avoid Spring Colds.

Sudden changes. high winds, shifting
seasons cause colds and grippe, and these
spring colds are annoying and dangerous
and are likely to turn into chronic sum-
mer cough. In such cases take a treat
ment of DIR. Kings New Discovery, a
pleasant Laxative Tar Syrup. 1t soothes
the cough, checks the cold and helps
break up an attack of grippe. Its al
ready prepared no mixing or fussing. Just
ask your druggist for a bottle of DIR.
Kings New Discovery. Tested and tried
for over 40 years-Advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25
i'm NORTH topeka
Pleasant Ridge Grange Will
Give an Entertainment.
Bob Tasker Will Tell of Ex-
periences in China.

Two boys were arrested Friday aft
ernoon by Officer Anderson, charged
with stealing auto accessories. The
boys are Charles Bradley. who lives
at 923 Tyler street, and Eddie John
son of 334 Taylor Yesterday morn
ing the two boys sold the Dyal Junk
company two auto tires which were on
good rims, telling Mr.. Dyal that they
bought them from the sons of - L.
Williams, from whom the tires were
stolen. Mr.. Williams lives on a farm
north of the city and runs a barn on
Monroe street. The johnson boy was
employed to keep the barn by Will
Jams, and the tires were taken from
this barn
Suburban Club Entertained.
The East Side Suburban club was
entertained Thursday evening at the
home of Mrs. James c. Howe, 1885
Central avenue. Those present were:
Mrs. c. Bloomgren, c. w. Ackley, Min
ME Dalstrom, ]. H. Fetherstin, M. p.
Jorgenson, A. Olson, George Stratton,
H. c. Peters and Mrs. ]. Miller. The
next regular meeting of the club will
be held at the home of Mrs George
Stratton, April 10.
Bob Tasker to Speak.
An entertainment will be given at
the Pleasant Ridge Grange this eve
ming A special feature of the pro-
=
Tasker telling of his experience in
China during the Boxer insurrection-
Also musical numbers and readings
will be rendered by Miss AIDA Har-
per, Miss Isabelle Hutchinson and
Olive and Ethel Owen.
Prepares for Dress Up Week.
To be right in line with dress-up
week, the Rutter furniture store has
spent the last two months in remod-
cling the upstairs display rooms of the
building as well as papering and
painting the entire building. An
unique idea has been carried out in
the way of displaying the new stock
of furniture. Sixteen rooms have
been decorated according to their re-
spective purposes, with the draperies
A new gold embossed sign has been
placed over the front of the build
ing and the building from the street
looks as though it were new.
News of the Churches.
North Topeka Baptist church: Sun
day school, $3.50; preaching, HOO;
Junior B. Y. P. u, 800; Senior and
Intermediate at $50. The secretary
of the Y NJ. c. A. will speak at this
hour Peoples popular service at
1890.
Kansas Avenue Methodist church,
J. E. Scheer, pastor: $50 a. m. Sun
day school, H. A. French Superin-
tendent; 400 a. m, sermon, theme,
''Asbury and Methodism;" 6:15 p. m,
Epworth League, topic, What New
Work Ought Our League Undertake ?''
leader, Leon Holman; $50 p. M, In
termediate League; 1880 p. M, SER
mon, theme, THE Son of Man."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-25

We wish to express our heartfelt
thanks to our friends and neighbors,
the Mistletoe club, for their kind sym
pathy and the many beautiful flowers
in our sad hour.
MRS. and MRS. ]. c. WILSON.
DIV
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
Developing Home Products.

A pharmaceutical station at the Uni
versity Of Wisconsin is Investigating
the raising Of medical plants, with
view to making this country less de-
pendent on Europe for its drug sup
ply. During the last spring and sum-
mer the director Of the station and his
assistants have been experimenting
with a new source Of thymol. The
source is a weed common in many
parts Of Wisconsin. Thymol, since the
beginning of the war, has become very
expensive and it's supply is limited.
The use of this oil is in fighting the
hookWorm disease In the South. Con-
sequently, because of its need. and be-
cause of the exorbitant price at which
it now sells, any native plant found
to be a good source of this oil will be
a welcome discovery. The work Of
the station is now directed toward
showing the real value of this weed
which it has claimed is valuable
source of this drug and to develop the
production of this plant so that thymol
can be obtained in Wisconsin in the
future instead of from India as in the
past.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
WILL LOOK ALMOST LIKE NEW
Furniture Polish That Is Said to Be
Invaluable to Economical
,Housekeeper.

When highly polished furniture as
sumes blush white appearance, or
the surface is injured so as to show
white marks It should be rubbed with
a mixture Of equal parts of raw linseed
oil and turpentine and then wiped Off
clean. If this does not restore the ap-
pearance of the furniture, the only
remedy is to repolish it, and though
this is a somewhat difficult operation
q fairly good job may be made of it
if the following directions are care
fully followed. The old polish must
be first removed by scrubbing it with
a paste made Of finest emery flour and
spirits of turpentine. After cleaning
and before polishing, it is a good plan
to merely moisten the face Of the work
with raw linseed oil, for this causes
the old body to unite with the new
one. Where shallow dents, scratches
and broken parts of the polish present
themselves, carefully coat them two
or three times with thick solution or
shellac, and when the last coatings
become hard, rub them with soft putty
until they become uniformly smooth
and even, then proceed to polish the
general surface. A very good polish is
made as follows: Dissolve IL ounces
of shellac and one-fourth ounce SAN
darac in half a pint Of naphtha. To
apply the polish make wad with
a long strip of flannel, rolling it round
and-r61rdi; wet t the end Of it well with
the polish, then lay a piece Of cleEn
linen rag over the moistened flannel,
and apply a drop of linseed oil to the
rag. Rub the work in circular direc.
ton, lightly at first. To finish off use
2 little naphtha, applied the same as
he polish.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
ADVANCE IN SOUTH AMERICA
Rapid Development OF Argentine Re-
public Has Equaled Anything in
the History of the World.

The difference between the Argen-
tine republic of 1880 and the same ma
ton in 1915 is ice, as Bishop Stuntz
told the Knife and Fork club the 9TH
er night.
In the IS years between those dates
the Argentine has seen the greatest
boom ever experienced by any agri-
cultural country under the sun, West
ern Canada not excepted. Agricultural
land then selling for three to five
cents an acre brings $500 an acre
now. Land in downtown Buenos
Aires that sold for 50 square meter
then sold for $4,000 a square meter
last summer. In Is years the Argen-
tine increased it's land under cultiva-
ton 255 per cent. And why?
Because back in 1855 an ingenious
North American discovered ice could
be made artifcially and by 1880 the
refrigerator ship was launched.
The Argentine is and has always
been primarily cattle country. The
foot-and-mouth disease has always
been prevalent there and as conse-
quence Europe has enforced rigid
quarantine on South American cattle
on the hoof. The meat could not be
shipped, dressed, without ice. But it
could after the refrigerator ship came.
The Argentine soon had the European
beef market cornered, and its pros
perity began.
While artificial ice has not made"
the United States, it has made life
worth living here. You who can re-
member back to 1870, when there were
but five artificial ice plants in the ma
ton, have some idea of the comforts
it has brought City Star.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
GIass-GroWn Watermeions,

Now the fruit growers are bringing
to market the glass-grown watermel.
ons.
Canadian watermelons, which have
just made their appearance, and look
for all the world like overgrown can.
taloupes, are being offered in some Of
the stores. They are literally hand,
raised.
Each plant and its fruit receive in,
dividual attention. Every night a
large glass cover is placed over each
watermelon.
The Canadian melons come origin
ally from France. The glass covers, to
retain the heat over night, are used
also in France, where travellers say 1t
Is not uncommon to see a whole field
of watermelons with their glass jars
beside them. At sunrise the covers
are removed.
The melons sweeten better through
the use of the glass, and also ripen
earlier. The meat is yellow. Those IN
the market now sell for one dollar
apiece and are rather smaller than the
ordinary watermelons--Phi
North American.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
WORK OF PERSIAN PAINTERS
Art That Is Altogether Different From
That of the Masters Eu-
rope Knows.

No dramatic, no passionate motive
ever so grips and possesses a Persian
artist as to absorb his whole imagina
ton. His sensuous love of beauty can.
not resist filling in the accessories OF
the scene with just as much care and
attention to every detail as he devotes
to the central figures. In the great
works of Chinese and Japanese paint
ers, as in masters like Rembrandt, ac-
cessories are subdued or suppressed,
the color is limited. and the figures
which create the motive of the design
are so emphasized, so dominant in the
eye, that they seem to transcend the
limits of the framing space, they seem
alive with all the latent energies OF
actual men and women. No Persian
painting imposes itself thus on the
imagination. Everything remains with
in the frame, inlaid as in lustrous
mosaic. The Persian method has, 1t
is true, it's own compensations. Just
as in the early pictures of Rossetti and
Millais, everything is realized with
dreamlike vision; and this is always
a real achievement for the painter.
The freshness and glory thus brought
to the eye, as of world washed clean,
with every object magically distinct
and burning with clear color. make a
vivid impression OF strangeness.
Strangeness, remoteness from the rou-
tine of every day-that is the essence
of romance; and no art in the world is
more stepped in romance than the
painting of Persia.-Laurence Binyon,
in the Atlantic.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
PUT BELGIAN LACES OIL SALE
These Were Made by Women Who
Were Unable to Escape From
the Conquered Country.

While many lacemakers are found
among the Belgian refugees here there
are thousands still in Belgium, who,
unable to effect their escape, were
forced to remain and endure all the
horrors Of conquest and the sore pri-
vations that followed the first acute
anguish and suffering and that still
continue. But, with characteristic pa
tience and tenacity of purpose, these
truly heroic woman resumed their
daily task as soon as possible, under
heart-rending circumstances, working
in cellars, in ruins, surrounded by dam
ger and tragedy, in the hope that, by
this means they might earn their
bread at least, as they are now en-
abled to do through the activities Of
the powerful Belgian relief committee,
which has managed to buy the lace
and bring it over here, where several
thousand pounds worth is being sold
at one of the shops. Naturally most
of the lace made under these piteous
circumstances is in small pieces, tiny
motifs costing few pence each, thou
sands of filmy little lace-trimmed hand
kerchiefs sold at four shillings six
pence the dozen and upwards each
dozen of these, and some of the more
expensive pieces, bearing the seal Of
the committee as guaranty that
they were actually made in Belgium
during the German occupation, and
therefore are of intrinsic value do SOU
venirs. The sale was opened by Nine.
Paul Hymans, wife of the Belgian
Enthusiastically Chronicle, London.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
New Life Preserver,

Every man his own lifeboat" seems
to be the motto of Paul Simon Of
Perth Amboy, N. j., whose union suit
of seamless rubber with thick soles
leaves only the head, neck and part of
the arms exposed, and is fitted with
alright pockets on the breast and
back and beneath the knees, all con-
nected by air tubing and inflated by
a feed-tube located on the front pocket
which is shaped narrowest at the
front, and inflated by the wearer as
needed. 1t would seem that man
thus protected could survive the sink
ing of vessel for twenty-four hours
or more at least in fairly moderate
weather. Wonders of Today" in Ma
tional Magazine.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
First Use of Ribbon Medals.

The use of medal ribbons dates
back only 100 years. Military med
ais used to be hung round the neck
by means of chain or cord until the
issue of the Waterloo medal, which
was attached to a red ribbon with a
blue edge. In 1886 similar ribbon
was adopted for the Distinguished
Service order, thus perpetuating the
identification of the old colors with
conspicuous gallant actions. The cor
responding decoration for noncommis-
stoned ranks, the medal for Distin-
guished Conduct in the Field, re-
verses the colors of the Waterloo RID
Don, the central stripe being blue.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
minis ia very irresuiaI,H she Said.

las &c FSl hISSu1t13 DhS E6CANs
"But it will be ane,'' answered
Jimmy.
1t was, indeed, the beginning Of an
ideal vacation. The girls name was
Mary Bancroft; she was teacher in
the city, and, oddly enough, Jimmy
had been expecting to meet her
through some mutual friends for quite
a period of time. They fshed to-
gether, they rowed upon the lake, and
laughed the quarantine to scorn. And
before the second day was over Jimmy
was sure that he was in love with her.
On the third day he was surer of it.
He told her so that night.
81 don't know how it u.s." he said,
"but l feel as if l had always loved
you
Mary Bancroft looked at him in her
quick way. 81 think you are very
chivalrous young man." she said.
What do you mean?" cried Jimmy,
blushing.
you think-you think it is your
duty to love me because-well, be-
cause Of this"
Jimmy's only answer was to clasp
her III his arms. And with that he
succeeded in persuading her.
Next morning, seated patiently at
her door, he was rudely disturbed by
the excited individual, this time wear
ing friendly grin.
"Quarantine's up!" he yelled. "You
amt neither of you got smallpox, has
you? Well, you're free. That's all.
My names Josh Jennings, and I'm
pleased to know you"
He shook hands with Jimmy, and
with Mary, who emerged from her
camp as radiant as tho dew, and
winlsed Guess there's a justice or
the peace over to Kew" he vouch-
safed as he trudgcd homeward.
The outcasts looked at each other.
Jimmy sighed. Mary and he stood side
by side watching the sunbeams On the
lake. Their paradise seemed an Eden,
the thought of leaving it unbearable.
"How would two weeks more of this
suit you, dear?" asked Jimmy, as his
arm stole round her waist.
Next summer" asked the girl in
nocently.
NO" answered Jimmy. Fright now.
| At least, as soon as we can get back
| from Kew"
81 think it will be our real quaran-
tine" said Mary softly.
Copyright, 1915, by W. G. Chapman
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07

leaving until today. But when I
reached Bridgeport they had gone yes
terday.
There was woman there who had
known Marvin. She happened to be
at the station, and we recognized each
other Immediately. And she told me
the most terrible things about my
husband. She said there was a girl in
Bridgeport whom he was always seen
with, and it was suspected that she
wasn't all she ought to be. And you
can guess how that hurt me-"
YES" said Alison, looking at the
woman as if in a dream. Yes, it
must have"
$50 l was afraid something was in
the wind. Once Marvin did something
terrible. He ran away with a girl
that was before I married him. She
proved to have been married, later,
and it saved him. But he has the ar
tistic temperament, and he can't resist
a pretty face"
"Why don't you get a divorce" de-
manded Alison.
The woman looked at her indignant
Iy. "Divorce?" she exclaimed angrily.
What for? Aren't all men who have
his temperament the same? Isn't it a
case Of soon in love, soon over? All
that's troubling me is whether Marvin
got my wire to meet me at the ter
minal station"
Alison leaned forward and looked
earnestly at the little woman. She
felt at that moment that she hated her
not less, but now, added to that, was
an Unreasonable hatred of Marvin, Of
herself, of this love that had tricked
her.
II think he'll meet you," said Ali.
son.
The little woman looked at her hope
fully.
"Do you think 500" she asked. May
be, then, all that talk about his plan.
ming to elope with that girl up at
Bridgeport was just a jealous woman's
spite" -
81 guess So" saiG Alison.
you going on to New Yerk?
Why, you look quite tired out, my
dear. l hope the long journey won't
be too much for you"
NO." answered Alison. I'm get.
ting out here. This is Newton, isn't
it," she continued, as the train began
to slow down. "Yes-this is my des.
tination. But I feel that you'll meet
Marvin at New York. Just see if you
don't And tell him about our meet
ing. Say Miss Clements was on the
train. You see, I know your husband
slightly, and l heard all about that
gossip at Bridgeport, and there isn't
a word of truth in it,
Copyright. 1915, by W. G. Chapman)
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
TEMPERAMENT
BY FRANK FiLSON.
"And we can't Waiti"

"And we can't Wait!"
Those words of Marvin's rang in
Alison's ears and seemed to set
themselves to the CHASTITY tune that
the train wheels made in their revolu-
ton. "And we can't wait!" The
wheels hummed it and screeched it,
end every sound of nature seemed to
play an internal treble to that unend-
ing bass.
They were the last words that Mar
vim had said to Alison when he bade
her au revoir upon the platform OF
the station at the edge of the sleepy
little country town.
She knew that he was a married
man. So much she had been told by
a woman of the company, jealous of
Marvin, the simple girl imagined. Ali
son had Leen horror-stricken, and all
her friends advice against actors had
required to her.
Marvin admitted it. He pleaded his
great love for her. His wife had left
him years before, he said. She had
lived life unknown to him, and he
could only guess at some of its cpl
sodes. Recently she had become in
sane and had been confined in an
asylum. There was no chance that
she would ever recover her mind. In
a year, or two at most, he would be
free. Then they could marry.
And we can't wait!" he ended, as
the train came in.
Alison was running away. She was
to meet Marvin at the metropolis ter
minus of the line. Thenceforward
their lives would always be together
Alison knew that Marvin's last words
had been true. She loved him with
every breath of her being. She could
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
Detects Approach of Storms.

A revival Of the long-abandoned fl.
ings coherer used so extensively in
the pioneer days of radio communica'
ton is presented in the novel form OF
an electric storm detector used at the
Waterside station of the New York
Edison company. Briefly, the equip
ment comprises filings coherer, a
sensitive relay, decoherer for restor.
ing the filings to their normal, loose
state, and an alarm bell. Long before
a thunderstorm is within hearing dis.
lance the sensitive coherer operates
the alarm bell and gives warning to
the power station attendants of the
increase in load that is to follow. II
Is said that during some storms when
1t becomes quite dark the load is in
creased over $4,000 kilowatts in the
course of five minutes time. It is OBJ
viously necessary for the attendants to
have ample warning so as to be pre-.
pared to take care OF the sudden load
that is thrown on the generators
Scientific American 7
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07
TRAINED TO DEFEND COUNTRY
Every Swiss SchooIboy, at the Age Of
Eight, Receives Military Instruc-
ton of Value.

On August Of last year the call for
Swiss mobilization was issued. Two
lays later the nations army was ready
an army of about 100000 men. This
efficiency was due to the Swiss system
Of universal military training, which
is of particular interest at this time
n the discussion Of preparedness.
At the age of eight every Swiss
schoolboy begins course of physical
training in the school, This training
Is under the supervision of the federal
war department. At the same time the
Schoolboy is given instruction in a
cadet corps, in which he has rifle prac-
tice.
From sixteen to twenty every boy
gets weekly training under the direc-
ton of army officers. When he is
twenty years old he serves for 81
days in a school for recruits, and after
that serves a fortnight each year until
he is twenty-eight. For the next four
years he belongs to the first line, al
though he need not report for service.
From thirty-two to forty-two he be-
longs to the second line. Members Of
this line are inspected annually and
are called to the colors for week
every other year. Rifle contests are
held to keep up the interest and eff
cheney of the men.
T. By means of this system Switzer-
I'll has been able to present formid-
snough front to insure the re-
hpf her neutrality without re-
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07

Jimmy Leigh got out Of the train at
the little station and shouldered his
suitcase. Declining the approaches or
the solitary porter, he stepped out
briskly along the five-mile trail that
led to the Trudgeon camps beside
Lake Yellowhammer. 1t was a fad OF
his to travel lightly, and in the rea-
sonably heavy suitcase he had an ak,
a fishing rod and accessories, five or
six days provisions, and the minimum
of clothing that he would need for the
very brief vacation that he had al
lowed himself.
He was hardly out of sight of the
station when lie perceived an excited
looking individual yelling and gesticu-
lating at him from the high road,
which here turned from its parallel
course along the trail and wound
away beside the line.
Jimmy, who had constitutional OBJ
lection to being shouted at, stepped
off at pace that defied pursuit. He
heard the shouts grow more and more
distant; then he was alone in the
heart of the wilderness. Presently
the lake came into sight. Jimmy sat
down his bag and rested.
The air was very still. A thrush
was singing in the underbrush. In a
little pool he saw a trout leap. His
heart leaped too. He rose, Shout
dered his bag again, and stepped
briskly forward.
His cottage was the second of the
six. He had occupied it for two or
three years. Trudgeon had fixed it up
for him. He anticipated pleasant COM
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-01-07

ated with drab coats and broad hat
brims.
1t was a member of that family, a
century or more ago, that found him
self by chance in carriage with a
very fine lady attired in the low.
necked, short-sleeyed muslin dress
then in the height of fashion, adorned
by profus;on CT jewels and trinkets,
and protected only by lace shawl as
light as coJweb. A chilly wind blew
up suddenly, and she exclaimed, shiv.
ering, What shall do to get warm?"
II really don't know" said the
Quaker, sympathetically, unless thee
put on another breastpin. "-Youth's
Companion.