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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06

official announcement was made
yesterday by the German naval gen
eral staff that the German commerce
raider Moewe returned to German
port. She had on board 1873 prisoners
and 1000, 900 marks III gold bars.
Sinks IS Ships, Sows Mines.
The announcement says fifteen yes
sells were sunk by the Moewe, which
also laid mines at several points. One
of these mines, At IS said, sank the
British battleship King Edward VII.
The statement is: 1.-The naval gem
eraI staff .ates that H. M $. MoeWe.
commander Captain Burgrave Count
Won Dohna-Scholdien after success
full cruise lasting several months, ar
rived today at some home port with
four British officers, twenty-nine Brit
ish marines and sailors, 100 men OF
crews of enemy steamers, among them
103 Indians. IS prisoners, and 1,OOO,-
600 marks in gold bars.
THE vessel captured the following
enemy steamers, the greater part OF
which were sunk and a small part of
which were sent as prizes to neutral
ports:
Takes IS British Ships.
1.-THE British steamers Corbridge,
1857 tons; Author. 3,49e tons; Trader
3,60S tons; Ariadne, 3,035 tons, Dro-
monty, 3,627 tons; Farringford. 3,461
tons: Clan Mac lavish, 5, S16 tons; APP
pam, q Gol IOHSi WeStDulH' low IOilS'
Horace, 1896 tons; Flamenco, 4,629
tons: Saxon Prince, 3,471 tons.
''The British sailing vessel. Edin-
burgh, 1.47S tons.
1.-The French steamer Maroni, 100
tons
"The Belgian steamer Luxembourg,
4,3e2 tons.
"At several points on enemy coast
the Moewe also laid out mines to
which. among other. the battleshtp
King Edward VII fell victim"
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Chicago Grain Market.
1.-The range of prices for grain futures on
The Chicago Board of Trade as reported
by Thos J. Myers. Broker. Columbian
Bldg.f
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Poultry. Eggs and Butter.
Furnished ~ the Topeka Packing Com.
pant corner Laurent and Madison.t
Topeka. Kan, March 9.
POULTRY-Hens. all sizes he: EnrinOn
over 2 lbs, 12c: ducks, DC; geese. 7e.
springs over lbs. lie; stays lie
HENS AND YOUNG TOM TURKEYS
l4c. old toms 12c.
EGGS-16c.
INDIAN RUNNER DUCKS-Sc
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Tree primers at Forbes-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-06
Butter and Eggs.
I Furnis. ed by the Beatrice Creamery ca
Topeka. Han.J


Topeka. Han.l
Topeka, Kan, March g.
CHICAGO EGGS-209z 6I21c.
NEW YORK EGGS-24h@25c.
CREAMERY BUTTER-Jhicago, 33ISc:
New Yrk, 351z @36c; Elgin. &c; Topeka
wholesale, 35c.
Topeka Grain Market.
Furnished by J. r. Billiard corner Kar.
sas Ave and Curtis ST.
Topeka, Kan, March q
DATS-3O4L32c
WHEAT-90c6$1O
CORN-65c.
Topeka Hay Market.
@rElsheu ~ I A. Beck 212-14 r. 6thl
Topeka. Kan, March Q.
Wheat Markee.
Furnished by Shawnee Milling Co ,hird
and Kansas Ave.l
Topeka, Kan, March a
WHEAT-No 2 81 90
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Topeka, Kan, March 9.
PRAIRIE HAl sSO6
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Topeka, Kan, March a
wHEAT-No 2 81 n0
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13

head. wore an importation that must
have been particularly smart three sea-
sons ago on Lake Shore drive.
That was the old method of relieving
Belgium. and it died when the last OF
Americas old clothes were used up
toward the end of 1915. A year and q
half ago, when Belgium's need was
megaphoned to the four winds, the
world emptied its old clothes into ex-
pensive liners and hurried them to Gu
rope. Up to the end of last June the
commission for relief had acknowI.
edged the receipt of $l25.000.00o OF
these goods. The stream Of relief was
an unheard-of outpouring: 1t earned
unheard-of gratitude: it was touching.
funny. dramatic-but it will never be
repeated.
the expense. For 1t cost money to
transport each garment from American
doorsteps to Belgian backs; the fumi-
cation in Belgium required by the mil.
itary authorities cost more money. 1t
was possible to raise these sums before
the world realized that the business OF
keeping Belgium alive will be q sober
necessity for some time to come. This
winter. with three. million people
wanting clothes again-for q certain
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Zoo

whole settlement, and is small in COM
parison with the twelve-room guest
house nearby, which he has put up for
those who come to see him and his
flock. 1 knocked on the door, and a
moment later Father Duncan stood be-
fore me.
I had expected to meet giant with a
called Abraham or Moses. Instead I
saw short. stocky, roughly clad little
old man. Father Duncan is of less
than medium height, and he weighs
not more than $50 pounds. He has a
large head, bit bald at the crown,
but beyond that matched with silvery
white hair. His face is as rosy as that
of a baby when exposed to the winds
of the winter, and his eyes are as blue
as the skies that cover his island. He
has a heavy white beard, and his face
is a benediction. His eyes radiate kind
Illness, and l was impressed with his
sincerity and his honesty. AS 1 looked
at him l could not realize that he was
eighty-four years of age, and when he
spoke his voice was like that of a man
in his prime.
as he found them when he came to
British Columbia. The old mans eyes
flashed as he told of his fights with
the officers of the Hudson Bay Com
pany, and they grew sad as he spoke
of the savages. l asked him whether
the Indians were really cannibals
when he found them, and whether he
had actually seen them eating each
other. He replied that he had seen a
woman killed, and had seen the saw
ages eating boy who had died on the
beach. That was almost sixty years
ago. He tells me that many of the
tribes along the coast of British Co
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day They are chanting the folk songs
Of old Flanders, which are legion, and
which have been rehearsed oftener in
Flanders this year than ever since the
time of the present singers ancestors.
who invented them. A famous Belgian
choirmaster has compiled a book of
them for this particular ouvoir. and
each worker has a copy. Once a week
the master comes to lead the singing.
AS to the effect Of it all on the Bel
gian people, no one will forget the
days when countesses worked harder
than peasants and when the wives of
millionaires learned the hearts of the
poor at first hand. AS a nation Bel
GUM was perhaps in need of just such
a lesson In democracy, in spite of it's
relatively equal distribution of wealth.
Today hundreds of Belgians, from
every stage in the social scale, say
they are grateful for this aspect of the
discipline that comes from disaster. In
Antwerp the wife of one titled million
aire. set as far apart from toll as her
inherited millions could place her, has
for a year raked from the impoverished
city material for her ouvoir under diff
ficulties that would have amazed a
very extraordinary business man. The
wife of another has superintended the
daily work and health of 5000 people
on the roll call of the same ouvoir
Both of these women are at their desks
at $40 in the morning and leave at 6.
Their pay is. of course. nothing. And
in Brussels, Namur, Client and Malines
the bearers of historic names have
come to know the meaning of work as
the poor understand 1t.
incidentally, the number of citizens
who are now serving without pay in
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Christ to me is the pole. hold to Him
and am safe"
1 might cite other quotations to show
the civilization. intelligence and piety
Of the Metlakahtlans: They are far
above the average of their race and
they are now aspiring to higher edu-
cation and to full United States citi-
zenship in which they shall own their
land in severalty. 1t is in connection
with this that the goveIament has es-
tablished here the large public school
OF which l have spoken. and 1t is also
giving them a greater voice in their
own government and in the administra-
ton Of their own business Much of
this has been done in opposition to and
against the protests of Father Duncan.
who thinks the Indians should be
treated more like children, and that
their education should be almost alto
gether a religious and industrial one.
There is a division of opinion among
the Metlakahtlans as to which theory
is the right one. and the friction at
present existing is not good for the
that a great deal Of consideration
should be shown Father Duncan, and II
Is hoped that the matter can be SO
handled as to give the Indians all civic
cilities without destroying the Chris
tian spirit of brotherly love that has
existed between them and Father Dun.
can from the beginning.
1 close my letter with the Lords
prayer in Tsimpsean:
dunn koo tsim lachah.
yah. Nclootiksh ali Noo-wahnt Shaha-
ksheAh ntsabbany. Shah-koad-kan tum
wahl alb halletsohamee, Ne-wahItksh
tsim lachah-gah. Kinnam klahgam all
chah quah ahm shkabboo wenayah.
kamkoadan all naht -ahtackamee, new
ahl-dah dee willah ham hoadamum all
haht-ach- ah- deah gam; Killohmdxah
tahtaink unit shpiet tin shpahlt koad-
unit: addah nah al tillahmantkum All
haht-achahdat: Ahwill n'tsabbaniat. ad.
dab nahkat kettandat, filth n'cloadant.
addah tum clah-willah wahl. Amen"
FRANK G. CARPENTER,
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Special Correspondence Of The Star
oNDoN Tel

LONDON, February 3.
a MEXICAN eyes would have been
A held by a certain comedy on
N the streets Of Liege this fall
q 4 Liege, the first city in the
world war to resist and the first to
fall, and where there has been precious
little comedy for eighteen months.
The writer was there during the
early chill of the autumn. when the
war had already passed into its second
year. 1t was cold day and the poor
had made a rush on Americas stocks
of old clothes. These castoffs were
stored in an improvised warehouse,
once a Belgian armory. long line
of idle workers stood at the door,
nipped by the frost while they waited.
The people looked cowed. No one
talked. Their clothing was small pro-
lection against the advancing cold.
Slowly the big structure swallowed
them up. Steadily what was left In
side of the great terminal moraine OF
American charity melted away. gar
ment by garment
Then people with bundles began to
emerge from a side door. and the
change came. Suddenly the streets
were full of sound; you could hear the
noise in the next street. A dumb. inert
mass had gone in. but living individu-
ais came out, flushed with excitement.
talking, human again.
The uproar came from old people
gathered about a bundle they had Just
hier
man who was measuring himself with
by the vision of flannel petticoats. from
small boys with new muffiers.
Ca. c'est magnihaue-mais droll"
"Voila! Je suis maintenant une petite
actueIIement de laine." "vive Lam
erique!'
There were humor and Joy and
amazement-perhaps more humor than
anything else. Not alone the clothes
caused II all: il was partly the kind of
clothes, which were spacious as only
Yankee workshops make them, and OF
a design new and wonderful to
the crowd moved. straggling-bent
backs and strong young ones. thin
women and fat. boys and sallow girls
and babies. their sabots gathering on
the hard stones.
AS they went they changed, pulling
on the new garments over the old.
women who had been shawled and
aproned a moment before. and men in
sleezy. factory made garments, became
strange caricatures of American fash
ions of 1914, 1912, of 1905 and 1900-as
far back as 1880. Bodies squirmed into
sweaters that still kept the stripes Of
American universities; chapped necks
and thin chests were covered with other
forms of wool; arms dangled from
faded coats that had done duty I'm To-
ledo or Seattle or Atlanta. Buffalo
coats from the Dakotas were there;
caps with ear-haps such as they wear
up near the Canada line in snowy
weather: wristlets and socks and chest
protectors: Fauntleroy suits and split
skirts: feece-lined underwear. and
tennis shoes. and pink bath robes. and
corduroy trousers. and silk shirt
waists, ana linen vests.
1t was a strange by-product Of war.
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land and the English on the sea. The
neutral commission for relief which
has obtained permission from both of
the warning giants to import a min
imum ration of grain, are the only pos
sible saviors. And along with the nee
essary figures on the clothing situa-
ton the Belgians have communicated
to their American friends their des-
perate mood. for as the winter length
ems the mortality rate among the un-
derclad members of the population has
risen as it might in typhus camp.
Most of the supply of cheer in Bel
GUM nowadays Is generated, however,
in these very ouvoirs whose existence
is threatened from week to week. They
are only huge sewing circles, of course,
and from propinquity and warmth and
work and chatter somehow comfort
comes. In the Brussels ouvoir $1,000
people report for work regularly, few
taking their sewing home, but the bulk
of them stitching side by side daily.
The discipline is not rigorous, the spir-
1t Of voluntary partnership in a COM
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together. is that Belgian hands can
devise two or three garments for them
selves out Of the capacious originals.
The pittance that pays the workers Is
provided by the government, which ul-
timately. OF course, will re-collect from
the people. Yet. once gathered IN
warm halls. once really at work again,
once earning even a little money. and
It has become next to impossible TO
drive the people away
The work-spirit, even under par,
alysis lasting eighteen months. Is still
strong in Belgium.
For months past, with practically no
more gift clothes to make over and
with what new cloth existed in Bel
GUM at the outbreak of the war ex-.
hausted. the search of the Belgian
committees for material to keep the
ouvoirs open has had an air Of des-
peration. New cloth only is wanted,
for that alone Is economical, and econ
omy. with three million dependents to
look after. is essential Yet the Bel
gians alone can import nothing. Once
they were a weaving nation. import
ing their raw material. but not a loom
has turned within their borders since
the war began. The little country 10
Dramatically sealed from the world by
a double blockade, the Germans on
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A Surgical Magnet.

A ingenious surgical instrument 10
N intended to extract particles Of
iron and steel from the human eye.
1t consists Of a powerful electro-mag-
net mounted on a stand running on
casters. When an operation is to be
performed one end of the magnet Is
cautiously brought near the patients
eye. If a piece of steel or iron is i'm
bedded in the eyeball the patient ex-
periences a sharp pain as the metallic
silver forces its way through the tis-
sues and flies to the magnet. The in
that caused by using a knife.
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this masquerade on the streets OF con-
quered Liege. But it happened every
day during that early cold spell.
1t was not so startling after that. as
the automobile of the commission for
relief went through the wind-swept
countrysides to find gaunt peasant
sociable. diligent, extremely ignorant
and extremely likable being that he Is
who has frequently never been twice
in his life beyond the limits of his own
parish-emerging from a patch of su-
gar beets with Harvard" or Stan
ford" sewn into the front of his sweat
er. Or to note that the young woman
behind, balancing a huge basket on her
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pinr the fish. At times as many as
10 salmon have been handled in a
single day, and altogether a great
many million cans have been shipped
to the markets.
One of the striking buildings of the
new Metlakahtla is the library and Jail.
This is painted in the colors of the
American flag.
The first story is bright red; it is the
Jail. The second story is snow white !;
it is the library. The cupola on the
top is bright blue.
Close to the beach and running back
from 1t toward these public buildings
are the homes Of the people. They are
several hundred in number. and they
money which they have earned in con-
nection with Father Duncan. The
houses are cottages of one and two
stories. They have glass windows.
porches and comfortable surroundings.
Each has a lot about eighty feet front
and ninety feet deep, and each faces
upon one of the wide boardwalks that
form the highways and streets of the
settlement. Each house has its garden.
Some have patches of potatoes, others
have flowers of various colors. Wher-
ever there is an uncultivated spot sal
monberry and elderberry bushes and
fire weed have grown to the height of
your waist. The whole country about
is clad in perennial green.
Landing, I walked from the wharf
over the long boardwalk to the Offices
of Father Duncan. He has one build
ing which is his combined study and
home. 1t is one of the plainest of the
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Belgium and northern France is, all
told. between 10000 and 10000. Theo-
retically they come from the "well-to.
do" classes and can afford to make a
gift OF their services. But actually
the only well-to-do people left are a
handful of the very rich in each city,
who have refused to join the general
exodus of their class to England and
France. Most of the volunteer helpers
come from those who are barely able
one-third OF the nation which is in the
bread line.
Yet all that these unpaid helpers ask
is that the food distribution and the
ouvoirs be continued.
In northern France, that rich indus
trial slice of the larger nation occu-
pied by the Germans. rhe work of the
commission for relief is newer and the
need is stark. For weeks during the
current cloth famine the ouvoirs in
Lille, Valenciennes and ST. Quentin
have been turning the flour bags in
which the early supplies from America
came into Undertaking and waists.
Thousands of. school children and
young girls have gone about in these
fantastic garments. Sacking is a poor
covering In climate where wool. and
plenty of 1t, is a stern necessity from
November to April. For five months
of the year the clammy chill which
clings to the wet soil of the low coun-
tries Is somewhat more penetrating
than the cold of Massachusetts win
ter.
What will America do with the s.
100000 Belgians and Frenchmen who
are thrown on her conscienceo The
United States is the only great nation
on the face of the globe at peace.
which means. among other things, that
while Europe faces economic ruin. our
pockets are filling. And for twelve
months one-third Of a brave people
have been slowly, in the matter OF
clothes, approaching restitution.
to a marvellous organization of
relief. managed by Americans and par
TALLY supported by American money,
food moves into Belgium across the
Dutch border in just-adequate
stream. Shelter and a minimum of
bread there are, but disease and death
may easily creep in by the other open
door.
Four million dollars worth of new
cloth is wanted, or preferably the
money to buy that amount, for the
has exact knowledge as to
the sort needed and exact information
As to the cheapest markets. Winter
trebled the need. and the winter 10
more than half gone by. When will
The money come, and where from?
Copyright. 1915. by Curtis Brown)
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A Visit With Tsimpsean Indians of Annet

CRANK c. CARPENTER His Wo-onay Tells
They Kill Him
eta-owt the Were
Having Gone There From British Columbia Thirty
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proportion Of the gifts were useless,
another freezing winter Is upon the
stricken people and there are far too
few of the first lot to go around. any
way -no one who understands the
problem will consent to the importa-
ton of worn clothing.
Besides. there are the idle hands to
think of. Today Belgium and northern
France are darkened workshops,
where twenty months ago nine million
people toiled - toiled with an intellt-
gent doggedness that within a genera
ton had made that section Of Europe
the richest, per capita, in the world
Right after the necessity for food and
shelter comes the necessity for finding
these people something. anything
Already great ouvoirs (workshops)
have come into being in Brussels, Ant
werp. Liege and half dozen OF the
smaller cities. Here, for many months.
men and women have been making
over Americas old clothes. 1t Is te-
dious labor; its only advantage. aside
from keeping the people at work and
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mon undertaking Is kept up, there are
no restrictions of class or religion, all
but children of school age may attend,
while the pay-from to francs a
week. which Is from so cents to $3.50
in our money-suff1ces for existence
when it is eked out by any of the vari-
Gus sorts of help offered elsewhere by
the authorities.
The Antwerp ouvoir, which is a model
in the quality of it's output and in its
social organization, not only looks like
titanic sewing circle. but sounds like
one. What you hear as you enter the
great hall seems to be the buzz of loud
conversation. Then you perceive it is
song. coming from more than a thou
sand bent heads in view on the main
floor. Regularly. with admirable mel
ody and rhythm, it rises and falls all
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hted. 1915. by Frank G. Carpenter.)

Copyrighted. 1915. by Frank G. Carpenter.)
ANNETTE ISLAND, Alaska.
- HAVE come to Annette Island to
visit Metlakahtla. This is the seat
III of the Indian colony brought here
q from British Columbia by Father
Duncan, now almost thirty years ago.
Every one has heard of Father Duncan's
wonderful work with the Indians. He
is now eighty-four years of age and is
still strong and full of vigor. He is
sometimes called the apostle Of Alaska.
and his work with these Indians gives
him right to the title. Mr.. Duncan
began life as a commercial traveller in
England, and at twenty-one he was
well on his way toward a salary of
$1,000 a year. He was naturally re-
ligious, and he decided to give up his
work and become a missionary. He
went to college expecting to be sent
out to India, but instead he was order
ed to go to the western coast of British
Columbia to work with tribe of In
dams, known as the Tsimpsean.
r r
These Tsimpsean Indians were then
among the most barbarous of any on
the North American continent. They
believed in witch doctors and were CIV
en- over to cannibalism. They were
hunters and fishers and clothed them
selves in the skins of bears and wolves.
They had weird dances. during
which they wore the skulls of
bears on their heads. They had
medicine men who wore masks and
who tried to brighten of disease with
hideous noises. II the demon Of dis
ease did not leave, the witch doctors
would hack away the sore places on
the body Of the patient with their
knives, or suck or burn away the ailing
flesh. They pointed out children and
others as possessed Of evil spirits and
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NE Hundred and Million Dollars Worth
~ tbuted Among the f4omes-ANew Distribution
Needs Amenca-ee Million
Make