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WASHINGTON, D. G., March 13.- One thing alone can stop the strike of the railroad men within a week, although the exact date is not given
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
TRAVELETTE
The Veldt.
BY NIKsAH

Before the Boer war, there was a
saving current among the Beers OF
South Africa that you could always
recognize a man who had spent five
wears on the veldt. This was say
ing no less true then than now, for the
veldt is a place of great silence and
loneliness, and it leaves its mark on
those who dwell in it,
The veldt is the great plain of what
is now British South Africa, the linn
itIess. featureless stretch of prairie
dotted with knobs of hills that the
Beers call kopjes. pierced and gashed
by rain-washed gullies that run their
twisting course from horizon to hori-
ION. The word "veldt" is closely al
lied to the German word for world
or universe" and the relationship is
something more than mere coinc1-
dence. To the man standing in the
midst of this plain, it seems to extend
in every direction to the uttermost
limits of space.
The veldt is without sound OF color.
without striking features to catch the
eve A days trek begins among low
hills covered with gray grass, plods
YEARLY thru mile after mile of the
same hills and ends in dry valley
as like the valley of the morning as
one pea Is like another. After few
days of this the traveller wonders If
his progress is not a mere Illusion, if
he is not returning day after day to
the same spot.
Now and again the monotony is
broken by some veldt farm, place of
exceeding loneliness for the exiles who
till it There will be a farmhouse. a
barn. a kraal, we'll and few huts
for the Kafirs. To the railroad may
be a distance of anywhere from twenty
to seventy miles. Half the year the
roads are impossible. The little COM
munity must be sufficient unto itself.
Life on a veldt farm is a severe test
of the inner resources of man or
woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

The recommendation of the inter
state commerce commission, repeated
IN its latest annual report, that the
use of stee! cars in passenger train
service be required" seems in fair
way toward being carried out without
further effort on the part CT the COM
mission. says the Railway Age Gazette
in an editorial IN its current issue. The
editorial is based upon a bulletin of
the special committee on relations of
railway operation to legislation. pub
lished in the same issue, in which it is
shown that only three wooden cars for
passenger train service were built in
1915 and only ten wooden cars for
passenger train service were under
construction on January 1, 1917.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
THE SEARCHLIGMT
Latest News from the Fields OF
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INNENTIOS
New Control for Acceptance.

An Australian inventor has perfect
ed a method by which an aeroplane
may be controlled from the ground.
This result has been achieved before
by wireless, but wireless contro! is not
practical because the enemy can in
terfere. The new method is based on
the principle of sympathetic vibra-
tons If you sound the note A on
violin, an undamped piano string
tuned to the same note will sound in
sympathy. This is the principle OF
the new control method. Air cham
bers attuned to various rates of vibra-
ton are so arranged on the airship
that their vibration will open and
close electrical circuits which control
the various levers. Air chambers on
the ground are attuned to vibrate with
the chambers on the aeroplane. BY
setting the ground chambers into Vi
bration, the corresponding chamber on
the airship vibrates,' and the machine
is comfortable from the ground.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
FREIGHT RATES AND III. c. l..

Some interesting figures, in connec-
ton with the ever present subject of
the high cost of living, have been de-
veloped by c. ]. Lane, general freight
agent of the Union Pacific railroad.
in an analysis of freight rates on the
three principal elements of food
bread. butter and meat-as they APP
ply to the city of Omaha. Based upon
the rate of bushel of wheat, these
figures show the following:
Flour milled from a bushel of
wheat will make an average of sixty
five loaves of bread which ordinarily
sell for 10 cents loaf. On this ba-
sis, the family which eats 10-cent
loaf of bread in Omaha. pays from
II to 2-5 of a cent per loaf for freight
to bring the wheat distance of from
$50 miles at Big Springs, Neb., to al
most 1000 miles from Seattle, Wash.
The family which eats a pound of
steak, pays from 1-6 of cent a
pound to AS of a cent pound in
freight charges, to bring this steak.
on the hoof, a distance of from PSI
miles at North Platte, Neb., to 100
miles at The Dalles, Ore.
The freight rate on the butter con-
sumed in Omaha runs from 1-5 of a
cent a pound. when brought dis
lance of 25 miles to Omaha, to 2-3
of a cent a pound, when brought
from a distance Of $50 miles.
1t lis apparent from these figures
that the freight charge. in connection
with the cost of the family meal, is
insignificant. and that the present
high cost of living is in no way
chargeable to freight rates. Even had
the interstate commerce commission
granted the increase of Is per cent,
asked for by the railroads. the addi-
tional cost would have been almost
impercephble.
Mr.. Lane promises a table, showing
what it costs in the way of freight
rates. to transport to Omaha pair of
shoes, a suit of clothes and a straw
hat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
SIDE TALL S


11OSInS lIHuSS.
Is there anything in the world more
exasperating than to crop some little
thing, thimble. a dime or the classic
collar button, stoop to recover it, and
find it inexplicably vanished?
Usually, of course, the disappear
ance is temporary. After doing sac
rifice to the evil spirit of inanimate
objects by getting down on your hands
and knees, wriggling about on your
stomach and humping your head
against the table, you find the lost
article hiding under the corner of the
rug or cleverly playing peekaboo from
behind a chair leg.
But 1 remember darkly, that there
have been occasions when some small
article never did reappear. How do L
account for it? I don't. Some things.
even in this day and generation, can
not be explained. For which I'm not
altogether sorry. Are you?
Some one has a very clever essay
about the general cussedness of in
animate objects, such as the affinity
of chair rockers for ankles, and this
same devilish ingenuity of small OBJ
jects about secreting themselves. Her
eraser and her pencil were particular
ly gifted in this respect, until she q
think it was Agnes Repplier) discov-
cred a clever way of getting around
them. She supplied herself with two
of each article, and then when one
disappeared, she refused to hunt for
it but simply used the other. Where
at, finding that it could not plague
her, the article soon came to light.
There is nothing I dislike in the
world more than hunting for things.
There is something peculiarly para
lying to me in the thought of con-
centrating my attention on the floor
or the ground. Barrie tells of a man
who hated explanations so much, that
when he rang for the morning paper
and his servant brought him the Goals,
he took the Goals rather than explain.
I am that way about losing things.
That is. 1 would rather lose a thing
of considerable value than do any ex-
tended hunting for it.
But 1 like to watch other people
hunt.
The way in which people hunt for
lost articles is an interesting key to
character.
Some people go about it in a vague,
uncertain way. They pull up a rug
here or move a chair there Others
go over the ground SO hastily and i'm
patiently that they are not sure the
| article wasn't there after all, and pres
emily have to go over it again. Others
are systematic; they cover one defi-
mite unit of space thoroly, and then
| move on to the next.
The latter, needless to say, are the
people who find what they are look
| ing for.
And not only in the line of collar
buttons, either. - Copyright by
| George Matthew Adams)
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why so many men are rejected for
military service is partially explained
by the weekly report of Recruiting
officer Sergt. C. C. Wright, compiled
after the recent drive for recruits in
The United States marine corps. Out
of 1872 applications for enlistment dur
ing the week only "a were accepted.
Others were rejected for the follow
ing causes: Under age, 81; under
weight. 80; defective vision, 26; de-
fective hearing. d; flat feet. 10.
SiNty-one others were rejected as "un-
desirable" thru failure to meet the
exacting mental. moral and physical
requirements.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

meat and money. He requires less la
bor, less equipment. less capital,
makes greater gains per hundred
pounds of concentrates and reprOduces
himself faster and in greater num-
bers than any other domestic animal.
AS a consumer of by-prcducts the hog
has no rival. No other animal equals
the lard hog in its fat-storinG ten
dency. The most satisfactory meat for
shipping long distances on train. boat
or wagon, and for long storage after
reaching its destination is mess pork.
There is nc animal which produces
more meat and meat products thai.
The hog.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

The Chinese republic has failed
Probably not many persons expected
that it would survive. 1t will not be
surprising to learn, when the history
OF China's effort in the direction Of
democracy shall be written. that
Japan had much 20 do with its fail
lre. While the government OF Nip
pdn is not nearly so autocratic as that
Of Germany, it is doubtful that she
would want republic for so near
neighbur The mikados empire has
given abundant evidence of IS de-
sire to WELD a dominating Influence
III Chinese affairs. 1t is probable that
Japanese Statesmen feel that their
ends can be accomplished much more
readily by dealing with a monarchy
than with a republic. one man can
he handled more easily than a whole
people. But republican China mag
be only delayed. The tendency of the
world is toward democracy and the
movement is certain to receive an inn
lnense impetus after the war. Japan
IS having comparatively a free hand
while the world is engaged in war,
but is likely to receive a check to her
ambitions after peace has been. won.
Another Germany must not be per-
mitted to grow up in the Orient.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
BUSINESS METHODS.

The splendid success of the Red
Cross subscription, under the MASTER
ly generalship of Henry Z. Dawson, is
a demonstration of the value of bust
ness methods ard expert business
leaders in any great public undertake
ing. A further demonstration is the
success of the Liberty loan, when
hating by the wayside with evidence
of exhaustion and possible failure
it was taken up by the bankers and
driven to a splendid over-subscription
of more than $1,000, 100000. The
enemy of business success is politics.
If politics could be eliminated from
war operations at Washington, says
the Bache Review, and the best bust
ness leadership put in the saddle and
given a free hand, the war-race would
be won much sooner.
The work of the railroads war
board is a further illustration. Here
is special committee on national de.
Tense, with every man a railroad ex-
pert. 1t is doing its work smoothly
and effectively. Its last official bull
letin. just issued, states that the grain
transportation situation shows marked
improvement. Reports to this board
by twenty-three principal grain
carrying railroads, conveys the infor-
nation that there is comparatively lit
tie car shortage affecting the move
ment of grain and practically nc dis
position on the part of farmers or
country elevators to hold back on
grain shipments.
One of the problems taken up by
this board is to secure heavier loaded
cars. AS a war measure, the board
has directed the railroads of the coun-
try to enlist the cooperation of ship
pers in this move. The average ca
pacity of all box cars, for instance, is
S9.7 tons. but the average load per
car is only 15.5 tons-just 43 per cent
of the capacity.
This underload aiding of cars is and
has been for a long time one of the
most serious causes of loss in the
| transportation business All railroads
handle what is known as 'Iess-than-
carload-freight." This tonnage con-
sists principally of smaller shipments.
of which there is an enormous GUAM
tity. On an average it is safe tc say
that there are over 200 separate con-
sisnments in each car. and on account
of the loading to the smaller and in
termediate stations OF such shipments
| tie average tonnage loaded in cars
carrying this business is about five
tons per car. When we reflect that
the average capacity is nearly forty
tons, the enormous waste is evident.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

eyes, found an echo of her words in
his heart.
Three months later Mr.. and Mrs.
John Holway were returning from
their wedding trip and, passing thru
Berrydale. John turned the runabout
toward the circus grounds. Slowing
up, he observed. Here is the spot
where I first saw you.''
Rosalie shuddered, and then, TT is
the spot of my misfortune, and my
greatest good fortune she said, smil-
ing up at him, and John returned
gravely, 1T was a glorious Fourth for
me, all ght."--(Copyright. 1917, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
Some Good Recipes.

Spinich that is in prime condition
for greens should be prepared by care
full washing and removing the leaves
on trays to dry thoroiy. They will dry
much more promptly if sliced or chop
ped
Beets-Select young, quickly grown,
tender beets, which should be washed.
peeled, sliced about an eighth of an
inch thick and dried.
Turnips should be treated in the
same way as beets.
varieties having a large, woody core
should be avoided. Wash, peel and
slice crosswise into pieces about an
eighth of an inch thick
Parsnips should be treated in the
same way as carrots.
Onions-Remove the outside papery
covering. Cut off tops and roots. Slice
into one-eighth inch pieces and dry.
Cabbage - Select well-developed
heads of cabbage and remove all loose
outside leaves. Split the cabbage
remove the hard, woody core and slice
the remainder of the head with a
machine.
Beet Tops-Tops of young beets in
suitable condition for green's should be
selected and washed carefully Both
the leaf, stalk and blade should be
cut in sections about one-fourth inch
long and spread on screens.
Swiss Chard and Celery should he
prepared in the same way as beet tops
Rhubarb-Choose young and succu-
lent growth. Prepare as for stewing
by s1inning the stalks and cutting into
pieces about e-fourth inch to one
half inch in length and dry on trays.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

The southerners kill negro coca
EQUALLY but they do not murder him
D.. wholesale nor burn his houses.
either do they harm the women and
. hildren. If the negro know when
/ q Is well off he will stay in the south.
, e may not he permitted to vote but
Lila chance of being allowed to live is
much better than it is north of the
line
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

Both the vets and the "drys"
are charging each other with respon-
sibility in delaying the passage of the
food control bill. One thing IS GER
tain: the "drys" started it by lacking
ON the prohibition amendment Re-
sponsibility OF the other side began
when it refused to accept the rider"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
GLOBE SIGHTS
fFrom the Atchison Globe.I

From the Atch1Son GLOBE.
Flattery Is the fashion
Distrust usually develops into hos
tility.
To say a woman is languid is po-
lite way of saying she's lazy.
An optirlist is so good at seeing the
silver lining OF the other fellows
cloud.
There is a difference between the
friend who praises you and the friend
who flatters you.
Old but so true: When a man loses
he thinks he's unluclky; when he wins
he thinks he's smart.
Your enemies in abusing you prob
ably tell more of the truth than your
friends in praising you.
Was there ever man who some
time in his life didn't make a fool of
himself over woman? If there is
such man he's sickly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
WE WANT HOOVER.

Every one together now
We want Hoover,
Let the powers know just how
We want Hoover,
Each one pass the word along;
Do 1t now and make 1t strong
We want Hoover,
He's the man the nation needs.
We want Hooveri
Read the record of his deeds
We want Hoover.
Here and now we take our stand
And in unison demand
We want Hoover.
All together now as one
We want Hoover
He can do what must be done,
We want Hoover
Down with politics and greed,
Give us now the man we need
We want Hoover
Thornton W.Burgess of the Nigilan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

Woman suffrage in England is
hollow mockery. No woman may
vote until she has attained the age of
80 years. What woman would pay
the price of confessing to 80 years in
order to exercise the franchise?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
How to Make Trays.

Homemade trays may be made of
side and end boards three-fourths of
an inch thick and two inches wide.
and bottom boards of lathing spaced
one-fourth of an inch. If desired.
one-fourth inch galvanized wire mesh
may be tackled to the side and end
boards to form the bottoms of the
trays. Frames for use Lefore fans
may be made of wood of convenient
size. Frames for use with artificial
heat should be made of non-inflam
mable material to as great an extent
as possible.
AS many as six trays may be plac-
ed one above the other when artificial
heat is used. In drying before a fan
the number of trays that may be plac-
to a large extent, upon the diameter
of the fan. In drying in the sun. trays
as described may be used or the pro-
ducts to be dried may be spread on
sheets of paper or muslin held in place
by weights.
Vegetables and fruit will dry better
if sliced. They should be cut into
slices one-eighth to one-fourth of an
inch thick. If thicker, they may not
dry thoroly. While drying, the pro-
ducts should be turned or stirred from
time to time. Dried products should
be packed temporarily for three or
four days and poured each day from
one box to another to bring about
thoro mixing, SO that the whole mass
will have a uniform degree of mois-
ture.
If during this conditioning any
pieces of the products are found to
be too moist, they should be returned
to the trays and dried further. When
in condition. the products may be
packed permanently in tight paper
bags, insect-proof paper boxes or car
tons, or glass or tin containers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

The woman suffragists overlooked
an opportunity when they failed to get
a nation wide franchise clause at
tached to the food control bill. Why
should anybody hesitate to take a6-
vantage of the country's necessity in
time of war? The pending bill may as
well be made to carry every reform"
sought while we are about it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BY ROY x. MOULTON.
ROY K. MOULTON.

Il HAl0 gbAVGWtd4N u
BY ROY K. MOULToN.
Discomfort.
on; Discomfort Word OF praise
To you we owe forever,
You spur us on TO better ways
And worthier endeavor.
You are at times a blessed gift,
a gladstone one and GOLDEN,
And often for little lift
To you We are beholden.
You save us from the blight of sloth.
When needful you will make US wroth
And stir US into action.
A mans as lazy as a pup,
He doesn't seem to rue it.
And nothing else can stir him up
But Discomfort will do it.
Oh Discomfort, things were amiss
Had you ne'er been invented.
The only kick we have is this
You make us discontinued.
Notions.
hypocrite is a man who won't
admit he does the same as we'd do il
we had his chance.
The average mans strong point is
his weak spot.
There are lots more people who
can find objections than there are who
can overcome them.
The world owes lot to the Kicker
but it doesn't repay him with popu-
larity.
If women had written most of the
joke books the husband before
breakfast might have had what was
coming to him.
Perhaps the young girls of twenty
years ago didn't dress immodestly
then. But lot of them do now.
Another conscientious obtector' is
the wife of one whose friends on the
phone are making up "a little party"
Doesn't He. Though.
oh. what very pleasant lad is he
The subtle charm or yet the hidden grace
In all he meets in every human face.
If we should cry of one, But amt he fat"
Or What nose! ia hate to live with
He too will look and see bit to prize,
What pretty hair or Note his pleasant
eyes,
He goes happy way. a way of ease,
For everything he sees appears to please.
If we should tattle tales to him while,
With gossping the moments to beguile,
He turns away nor will he give us ear,
These idle words he does not wish to hear,
And looks of pain upon his features dwell,
That seem to say, Have you no Good to
teIl:"
You've seen perhaps the lad we mean and
Tie rare lOTSOolu, LIS llhtS are Seiuohu
In this sad vale indeed it's only true
He's seldom SEEM the likes of him are few !:
Still on the whole, We don't complain of
that.
Though he is few. we do not sigh thereat.
He'll get, we hope, the blessing he de-
serves,
But Gosh. he surely gets upon our nerves.
Today's Sheer.
There is usually a trap lying open
for the man who can't KEEP his own
shut.
Don't scowl at folks or they'll scowl back,
And they are only right.
For when your looks at them are black
You hardly trent them white
Well.
Cried he That hair of goldt
And feeling rather bold
He kissed the pretty lass.
Cried she, That nerve of brass..'
Famous Nuts.
Pea.
Baseball.
Barbara F'ritchie's.
Dough.
Harry Thaw.
Remember?
1--WE scarcely need to mention where)!
A balm or vet n soothing salve
To ease the pains we used to have,
lotion to allay the woe
The smarting pangs We used TO Know!
Some cooling balm to lay the heat
OF (what, we scarcely need repeaD
When in our boyhood hours we'd had
A sort of interview with dad.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

The quickest and surest way of aug
menting the meat supply next to the
raising of poultry is by raising hogs,
the United States department OF ag-
iiculture points out. The hog is the
most important animal to raise for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04

Woodrow Wilson is giving evidence
that he is president of the whole PEG
pie. He proposes to treat Milwaukee
and California alike in relation to
their output of alcoholic beverages
The Golden state is not to be espec-
tally favored because it made him
president
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-04
DINNER STORIES

The train was held UP by robbers,
and all the passengers were told to
come out. line up together and hold
their hands above their heads. Moses
and key stood together with their
hands up, when one of the robbers