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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-21
GERMANS GO TO vERDUN.


PARIS, April 21.-French resist
ance In the verdun region Is compell-
ing the German general stan to
withdraw large forces from the
Teuton front in Macedonia and Ser
bia and in Russia, according to infor-
samtion obtained Thursday from the
highest military authorities here.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-21
WRIT AWARDED.


CHARLESTON, April ola writ
Of mandamus was awarded Thursday
by the supreme court Of appeals re-
quiring the county court Of Kanawha
county to name as Republican regis
trars the electors selected by P. j.
Smith, the Republican county chair
man. Judge Poffenbarger dissented.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-21
BRITISH TRENCHES TAKEN.


BERLIN. April 81. British
fora, distance Of 500 meters
between Langemarck and Ypres,
Belgium, have been occupied by Ger-
man troops, according to the official
statement given out at the army
headquarters Thursday.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-21
RUSSIANS
Arrive in France to Join Other
Allied Troops In Fighting
Germans There.

PARIS. April PA strong force Of
Russian troops disembarked at Mar
settles at noon Thursday.
The Russians are to fight beside the
Allied soldiers in France.
General Joffre welcomed the Rus
SLAMS in an order Of the day saying
their arrival was another striking
proof Of the devotion Of Russia to the
common cause.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-21
TO DIE,
In the Electric Chair Week Of May
!, 20 for Murder Of Baff.

tsy Assoc,Ayso sRssn
, NEW YORK, April 21.-Giuseppe
Arichiello and Frank Ferrara. re-
Gently convicted Of the murder OF
Barnett Baff, the poultry dealer, who
was shot to death at the alleged In
stigation OF rivals In November,
1914, were Thursday sentenced to
die in the electric chair the week Of
May 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
JAYMAW MER JOTS

1t occurs to the Marquette Tribune
that the wife who kisses her husband
every time she wants money kisses
him often enough.
A wild game hunter near Sabetha
says that everything points to the fact
that this is to be a mild winter in
Kansas, notes the Hutchinson News,
and it inquiries: What does the goose
bone say?
Occasionally. points out the Wood
son County Advocate, a man succeeds
in getting in on the ground floor only
TO find that the elevator isn't running.
When the Industrious man becomes
tired he delights in a few moments of
leisure, says the Pratt Union, but when
the indolent man gets tired there is
no place for him to rest.
Sunflowers, from the Kansas Indus
trialist: After all, the best way to
hold your age is to turn loose of f..
. A sad paradox: Flat-heade ed
people seldom have broad minds. :.
Cheer up. little giri. You will be old
enough to wear short skirts some day.
E. Somebody ought to write good,
snappy song about the other end of a
perfect day. Very little hope is
entertained for the recovery of the
young man who has his shoes and fin
ger nails shined by experts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14

AS the national campaign ap-
proaches it's eleventh hour it appears
! warming up a bit with the in
creasing activities of the candidates
and their wheel-horses and friends.
But the rank and file of the voters do
not appear to be much more interested
in il than they were when it was
launched in the early summer, and
that wasn't very much. There seems
to be less national politics being talked
on the street these days than has been
the case during any presidential cam
paign period in the history of the
country. or rather, within the memory
OF the oldest inhabitants. What's the
reasoE2 What's the answer? And as
far as the state campaign in Kansas is
concerned it seems TO be flatter than
the proverbial fritter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14

Russia the association is now main
tanning $50 graded schools and col
leges of which the instructors as well as
students are prisoners of war the
total enrolment approximates three
and a quarter million men For the
first time in it's history the Y. NJ G. A
has gained a foothold in Austria and
Russia. There is no other religious
organization that could have SO
promptly and so efficiently taken up
the opportunities for service offered
by the European war, ministering to
Jews Catholics and Protestants, all on
equal footing. Along the Texas border
where American troops have been sta
toned, the Y. NJ. c. A. has founded
stations and nearly forty schools in
which Spanish is the most popular
course Half a million dollars has
been laid out for the work in Texas.
and a million for the industrial de-
partment in various railroad centers
thruout the country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14

tain circumstances and conditions they
may even outrank in Importance the
other two. AS the American farmer
learns to make of agriculture more
strictly a science. and to eliminate
as far as possible, the element of
chance, he will doubtless insist on the
further development of all the kinds
of insurance here enumerated. ami
perhaps of still others.
Few farmers are so rich that they
can wisely go without insurance. Hap
PLY few are so poor that they are
compelled to go without safeguard
that to the average farmer may be
classed as a necessity. The very
farmer who has but few buildings and
little personal property. and is per-
haps least able to pay for insurance
protection, is really the one who can
least afford to go without it. Hence
the importance of making insurance
as cheap as it is possible to make it
and yet have it efficient and depend
able.
About two-fifths of the farmers in
the United States have found a meth
cd of providing themselves with fire
insurance at greatly reduced cost thru
mutual or cooperative insurance as
sociations, mbracing a single county
or some such limited territory. De-
pendable and cheap windstorm insur-
ance has similarly been provided by
means of larger mutual companies,
often operating in close relationship.
with the local fire insurance mutuals.
Local windstorm insurance companies
have, however, in several instances,
been taught by experience, and to
their own sorrow, that while each
group Of farm buildings and to a con-
siderable extent each building within
the group constitutes a separate and
distinct risk so far as the fire hazard
is concerned, the same is not true with
reference to the windstorm hazard
Safety and stability in windstorm in
surance demand that the amount of
insurance be large and the risks wide
ly scattered. The same is true of hail
insurance.
A smaller number of farmers have
also provided themselves with hail and
livestock insurance by means of mu-
tual associations. While a number of
these associations have 4 successful
record covering many years, com
panies representing these kinds of in
surance have been less generally sue
cessful than have farmers mutual
fire insurance and windstorm insur-
ance companies. Some of the reasons
for this difference in success have all
ready been suggested.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14

Greece seems to be the China of
Europe. At any rate. she is just as
prompt as is the Celestial Republic
in meeting any and all sorts of un-
usual demands that may be made
upon her. This is evidenced by her
ready acquiescence to the ultimatum
of the Entente Allies that she sur
render to them the control of prac-
ticany all OF her navy and the control,
= well. of the Piraeus Larissa rail-
road. And Greece continues to look
III the glass and declare herself neu-
trail to the European conflict. How
much longer is this Grecian neutrality
joke going to run on? Why doesn't
Greece Join forces with the Allies in
an open and above board manner
or is she. or her king. actually too
scared to fight2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
SALT INDUSTRY, A BIG ONE.

In the production of that indispen-
States is happily independent of all
other countries.
The 3S,231,496 barrels of salt pro-
duced in 1915 by fourteen states,
Porto Rico and Hawaii constituted 80
per cent of the salt consumed in the
United States, and much more could
easily have been supplied had the de-
mand required it, according to the
United States geological survey
Salt occurs naturally in two dis
tinct ways-as rock salt, in beds or as
ISOLATED with bedded or sedimentary
deposits, and in natural brires.
The larger part of our salt is OBJ
tanned by converting rock salt that
lies deep below the earth's surface into
artificial brines, which are pumped to
the surface and there evaporeted
Some idea of the salt evaporated
from natural brines may he gained
from statistics of the output of New
York. Michigan and Kansas alone,
three large salt-producing states, for
the calendar year 1915.
In Michigan. 6,70S,261 barrels OF
evaporated salt. having a value OF
$685. 92, were produced; in New
York, 3,443,464 barrels, valued at
$1,720,4 34; and in Kansas, 1,901,756
barrels, valued at S696,O60.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
MEMBER:
Associated Press
Audit Bureau of CALCULATIONS
American Newspaper Publishers
Association.

President Wilson is quite right IN
his suggestion that only by developing
e network of highways thruout the
country can the United States be prop
erly developed. But it is exceedingly
doubtful { the federal government
will be able to do its share in the
construction of such good roads thru
any such highway legislation as that
enacted at the recent session of con-
sress. 1t is well within the proba-
bnities to suggest that the bulk OF
the huge sums in the aggregate that
this legislation appropriates will be
little better than dissipated on road
work that will come far from deliver
ing the goods in the permanent high
way line: just as enormous sums have
been little better than wasted on road
work in Kansas during the past score
Of years. If Uncle Sam is sincere In
his intentions to go into the business
Of building good roads. why doesn't
he undertake the construction of some
real national highways, running east
and west and north and south?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
CHILD LABOR LAW AFFECTS
EOTRTY STATES

Reports recently circulated to the
effect that the new federal child lator
law will My affect two or three
southern states are emphatically de-
MED at the headquarters of the ma
tional child labor committee, and de-
nounced, as well, as only another eff
fort to discredit a law which will be-
far more effective than its enemies
care to have it.
sit is true that there are only three
states that have not yet adopted the
14-year limit provided for in the fed
eral bill,'' states and explains owen r.
Lovejoy of the national @hild labor
committee, in an announcement on
this score that he makes for the COM
mittee, but it is also true that of
the forty-six states which have adopt
ed the 14-year limit (including the
District of Colu.1bia) there are nine
teen which have exemptions to it for
cases of poverty, employment in can
neries, employment with special per
NIT, etc. Such exemptions will not be
permitted under the federal law.
There are other provisions in the
=
The eight-hour day clause for chill
dren under 16 will affect twenty-eight
states which still permit such children
to be employed nine, ten and eleven
hours a day. The prohibition of night
work will prevent children under 16
from working at night in fourteen
states, and the 16-year limit for mines
and quarries will eliminate young chill
dren from the mines in nineteen min
ing states.
"Only two states-New Mexico and
Wyoming-have none of the provi-
sions of the federal law, but on the
other hand only nine states have
adopted all of the standards. This
means that thirty-nine states and the
District of Columbia, instead of three
states as some of the newspapers have
reported, are below the standards of
the federal law, and some of these will
be affected not Only on one count but
on several"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
Y. NJ. c. AS WONDERFUL WORK

The Y. NJ. c. A. is one of the big
gest and most efficient religious I'M
dertakings in the world, says Leslie's.
So practical is the nature of its work
and so carefully are it's finances adj
ministered by competent business men
that ii is easier to raise money for
Y. N. c. A. than for any other relig-
ious work. Plans for its worldwide
activities next year cali for the ex-
penditure of s4.5OO,0 900. The war has
enlarged its European field. and 50,
eco, 900 of the budget will be spent
there. From Switzerland to central
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14

called old tender memories by peepinS
out just then. AT any rate, from that
time on he found himself constantly
seeking her companionshipf the more
ardently that she persistently avoid
ed him Elsa had learned a thing or
two not taught in books.
Paul was at his wits end. When
he thought of Beatrice he felt that he
would never meet her equal as COM
panion and congenial mate. But as
the weeks went by he came to know
with a surenesS that filled him with
miserable despair that it was Elsa he
wanted and always should want. The
new alluring, unattainable Elsa whom
he had lost by his foolish egotism.
One day a detected and humble
Paul followed her into the garden,
white dress here and there among the
tall bushes. With the sunlight
on her hair, among the waving ten
drills of which she had tucked dark
red rose, she looked so dear and alto
gether desirable to him that. suddenly
catching her wrists, he blurted it all
out then and there-how he loved her
and wanted her and must have her
and that it was just that they had
drifted apart and everything else was
mistake. Had she entirely forgot
ten the old, sweet days? And did
she truly love this other nan whom
she had never since mentioned?
Every, very dearly" she told him
gravely. Pauls heart sank.
You have never told me his
name,'' he said gloomily.
Then Unexpectedly, she reached up
and whispered Dante in f1iG ear.
Paul grasped her shoulders, staring
, down at her in amaZement-
YES, I am Beatrice she laughed,
"but we can never be anything more
to each other because we believe only
in platonic friendship"
"Oh-do we?' he chuckled, taking
her in his arms.-tCopyright, 1916,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
FARM INSURANCE.

Four kinds of property insurance
are written in which the farmer is
particularly interested, points out
bull tin on farm insurance that has
just been issued by the federal de
partment of agriculture. These are,
insurance of buildings and personal
property against loss by fire or light
ming, insurance of the same objects
against loss by windstcrm, insurance
of growing crops against hail, and in
surance of livestock against death by
disease or accident
To the average farmer the first two,
kinds of insurance usually make the
strongest appeal One reason for this
is doubtless the feeling that fire and
windstorm are the destructive agen-
cies that most frequently, at single
stroke. deprive their victims of the ac-
cumulated earnings of many years.
Perhaps a second reason why farm
ers usually first provide themselves
with fire and windstorm Insurance is
the fact that these are, as a rule, rel
atively less expensive than the other
two kinds of insurance here consid-
cred BY this is meant that a larger
percentage of the money collected
from the insured can be used to com
pensate the sufferers of loss than is
the case with hail or livestock insur-
ance. A simpler organization is pos
sible. and fraudulent claims are more
easily guarded against.
The fact that hail and live stock in
surance are less generally carried by
the farmers of the United States does
not signify that these forms of pro-
| lection are not important. Under GER
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.l

From the Atchison Globe.1
There are people as lifeless as a de-
coy duck.
A soft answer won't turn away the
wrath of a bull dog.
If a clairvoyant can fool you, you
won't stand any chance with a book
agent.
Don't let your straw voting inter-
fere with doing your Christmas shop
ping early.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned musician who had to be coaxed
to perform?
Occasionally one encounters a ge-
MUS who seems to have trouble MAX
ing a living at it.
Much of the procrastination in this
of writing letters.
Some men who can afford a herd
of automobiles would enjoy life bet
ter if they would walk more.
Mind reading is a difficult per-
Torrance. as anyone who ever took
out a stack of chips will tell you.
Some women wear fine clothes to
please the men, while others please
the men in order to wear fine
clothes.
1t takes quite awhile to learn not
to take a political lie seriously. par
ticularly when it's a lie against your
own party
1t is all right to believe your cause
is just, but it will also be necessary
to convince other people; few men are
big enough to go it alone
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explained

Dressed or undressed ?" asked the
butcher.
Dressed, of course" she said. MY
husband is very fond of chicken dress
ing"
And the butcher never laughed till
after she left.
The newly elected mayor of small
town was fond of show, so he did his
best to be indicted into office in
weather favorable to gay professions.
At his suggestion this notice was put
into the local papers three days be-
fore his installation:
"On the occasion of the installation
of the new mayor the fire brigade will
be reviewed in the afternoon if it
rains in the morning and in the morn
ing if it rains in the afternoon"
A Chicago woman who had received
legal summons to appear in a GER
tain court at certain period was
much put out thereby:
ct have certainly received the cita-
ton. but shall not appear-could not,
in fact Not only am I not socially
acquainted with Judge Jones. but the
whole tone of his communication is SO
impossible that I absolutely refuse to
know him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14

THAT BOY.
You've got to have faith in that boy.
And to show him the faith that you feel,
That you know beneath all his alloy
Is the metal that's honest and real
You've got to let him trust in you
AS you trust in him day by day
You've got to have faith in that boy
If you want him to go the right way.
You hear them cry out now and then
That their boy won't amount to a thing;
And he don't-in this wide world of men
You've got to give faith the right ring;
You've got to make him feel that you
Feel firmly and truly his worth,
That you know he will put things right
thru,
That he showed the right will at his birth.
You can't trust a boy to do right
If you don't let him that you trust;
You can't be to him like light
If you hide all your faith in the dust.
He needs such a faith as will shine.
AS will glow and make plain DER his path
That he'll win, that he's starting out fine,
That he'll triumph DER evil and wrath.
Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
SIDE TAIL KS

By Ruth CAMERON,

by the streets of By-and-By one
arrives at the House of Never.
vantes.
When it was time to pack our
trunks and come home this summer,
we could scarcely believe Gas usua)
that the summer was past
I've felt all the time as if I were
just waiting for it to begin" said one
And think of the nice things that
we planned to do and now it's too
late!' said another.
And then we chronicled them.
We were going to take a twenty
mile walking trip to D. and come
back on the train, some day.
We were going to paddle up the riv-
er to that place where honey was
sold, some day.
We were going to havesat least half
dozen sunset suppers at the point.
We did have one and enthusiastically
even with the impetus of experienced
enjoyment, that some day didn't come
again.
We were going to take the machine
and surprise a certain dear old lady
way back in the country by calling on
her, some day.
When We planned these things it
months and half stretched before us,
there was plenty of time, no need to
hurry about anything. no need to set
any definite date.
And so we didn't hurry and we
didn't set any definite dates
And now the summer had gone
without our having done any of these
good things.
1t seemed inconceivable But it was
true
Then someone suggested a plan for
that happy comforter of this years
miStakes-next year.
The reason we had not done any of
these things, said she, was that we had
had too much time. If we had only
been down for two weeks we would
have done all of them. To try to find
a day in the whole summer to do any
special thing was like trying to find a
needle in a haystack 1t was easier
next summer we would try to do some
one special thing each week And
then when the summer has passed we
shall have surely done some of these
happy things we mean to do.
wonder how that plan will work.
1t sounds plausible, doesn't it?
Well. maybe I'll tell you at the end
of next summer.
You see. 1t never occurred to me
that might put it into practice now,
for winter. Plans are never for now
They are always for next something
Copyright by George Matthew
AdamsO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
BED T IMlE TALES
BIZ CLARA INGRAM JUDsON
THE MAGIC CIRCLE

If you make a wish and it don't como
true,
What in the world do you think you'll
do?
Father Reaver locked around the
magic circle; he even poked a bit
among the bushes to see If perchance
the raft might be there. There wasn't
a thing but grass-pice. smooth. green
grass: Just the same grass that had
been there before he had made his
wish.
FUNNY" said he. and he scratched
his head. Maybe the wfsh-people
didn't hear me. I'll wish again" So
he turned to the left, he turned to tn
right, he shook his front paw and said.
''Saookens, snookens. bookins. 1 want
a raft" And again he looked around
and nothing was there!
That's a great how t do" he ex-
claimed, and he was getting pretty
cross by now, tell you! Get crea-
lures hopes all up and then nothing
happens. / wish that Redhead would
turn up now! I'd talk to him.
And just then, Father Beaver heard
the rap. rap. rap, rap-ap-ap of Red
heads bill on the tree overhead. Say.
Redhead." called Father Beaver
(tko 1 must say his voice wasn't near
ly as fierce as he had thought he
would rake it,, something's the
matter with your wishing circle. 1t
won't work."
Wont work." asked Redhead in
surprise. why yes it will, tried it
only little while ago.
well, it won't work for me, know
that" replied Father Beaver. az tried
it twice.
You don't say SOP" exclaimed Red
head. What did you wish for?"
"a raft" replied Father Beaver
proudly.
"A raft?" asked Redhead- why
you can make raft yourself"
.-Of course / could" answered
Father Beaver. but that takes too
long. I'm going to wish for one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News
After man came woman-and she is
still in the race.
Some men drop a lot of money try
ing to pick up more
Hush money unusually speaks for
both parties in the transaction.
An enemy knocks a man down, then
friend proceeds to kick him.
Some men invest in hair tonic as
soon as they begin to come out on
top.
might not interfere in so many cases.
Much of the experience that a man
acquires comes too late to benefit him.
1t is a mans longing for better
things that gives birth to his love for
woman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Inc pest that is in man is fire.
quently long time in coming to the
surface.
Most of the English that is spoken
would look mighty crude and coarse
in print.
X x X
There is at least one pursuit that IS
common to most foik-the pursuit of
praise.
X X X
As rule, the man who has an I'M
usually good opinion of himself doesn't
deserve it.
X x X
Buying the best of everything is
usually the cheapest way out in the
long run.