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LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT,
By s. w. STRAUS Pye,idtnf Ame,iean Soeiety fsr Thrih

selling at 7 cents pound and bet ter grade at 9 cents. With potatoes 60 cents a peck, quite little sum of money can be saved in a months time by the more liberal indulgence in rice, without sacrificing anything in palatability or food value.
 A great many housewives declare that they are able to save from 2O per cent to 30 per cent by purchasing their supplies from stores that do not deliver merchandise.
 There are many devices available for keeping down expenses. For ex- ample, the water ill which vegetables are cooked can be used to make soup. This contains valuable mineral salts, which will perform important func- tions for the body. The water in which potatoes ere cooked can be used for making bread. Cook the tops of beets instead of buying spln- ach. Use all your sour milk for making griddle cakes and cottage cheese. Saute your cereals left over from breakfast, make croquettes from your leftover meats, fish and vegetables, and use your stale bread for toast, buildings and dressing.
 Study closely the advertisements in the daily newspapers, watch your weights carefully, and ask questions continually concerning prices. Fami- lies should remember also that all Americans have tendency to over- eat, which is alike bad for the purse and the health.
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Evolution and Immortality.

There is an element in evolution which endears it to me and to every man: I think it throws bright gleams on the question of immortality. l see that the unfolding series in this world are all the time from lower to high CT, that the dea is not reached at any point, that the leaf works toward the bud and the bud toward the blossom, and the blossom toward the tree, and that in the whole experience of hu- man nature, and in the whole economy of the providence of God in regard to the physical world, everything is on the march upward and onward. And one thing is very certain, that neither in the individual nor in the collective mass has the intimation of God in the human conscience verified and fulfilled itself. The imperfection shows that we are not much further than the bud; somewhere we have right to pre- science of the blOsSOm.-Henry Ward Beecher.
 Monkey No Longer Boasted.
 The monkey was forever blowing uUouC WltiC AANo ''This descendant of mine," he would say, "is the most enlightened animal on earth" He told of all that man has done. and told it so often that the other animals were sick of listening. Finally some of them induced him to go to theater. After each act he would say to the other animals: :: "Those people are my descendants and am very proud of them. None of the balance of you can point with pride to such descendants" At last q man came on the stage alone. He danced on the floor; then he jumped up in the air and danced; he sat down and danced; he got himself in all kinds of shapes; he danced things that no one had ever danced before, and a few , things that no one would ever dance again. Before the man had finished the monkey got up and left the house. and from that day until this he has never once mentioned his descendants. Claude Callan, in Fort Worth Star Telegram.
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When the Tongue Is Coated.

Tine was when q coated tongue was associated only with impaired diges. tive organs, but science has now found that many other things beside diges. changes in the appearance of the songue. If the base of the skull is fractured, the tongue will acquire q heavy coating. This fact leads to the belief that various disturbances of the nerves affect the appearance of the tongue. Therefore, if your tongue is furred, don't jump to the conclusion that your stomach is upset; it is just as likely that your nerves are upset by overwork. eye-strain. lack of sleep or the multitude of ether causes that et- feet the nerves.
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 Effect of Language.

Few people have ever dreamed how great is the effect of the employment of language upon mankind. Now and then we are face to face with persons who suffer from color-blindness, and we recognize that the affairs of life trade generally, travel and warfare particularly-could never be left to persons who suffer from this abnor- mality. Yet the whole of human life in communities seems to be conducted by persons who have no language sense, who have no understanding of the words they employ or who are en- slaved by meanings that have been at- tached falsely to words for genera.
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wife has worked out splendid plan for holding down family expenses that is very effective. She has seven envelopes, one for each day of the week. She places a dollar bill in each of these at the beginning of the week and then she makes this dollar meet the demands of the day. Of course, she purchases enough supplies on Saturday to carry over to Monday. Whatever small change is left from day to day she puts back in the envelope. At the end of the week she places this in a savings ac- count.
 Many housewives are finding that rice is good food and serves as an inexpensive substitute for potatoes or bread. It is cheap and plentiful. In 'nnanv stores broken rice has been
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PR0. COMMITTEE MEETS TUESDAY
 ID MAKE PLANS
Chairman Hinshaw Declares Effort Be Made to Eject
 "Dry" Congress in 1918.

Chicago, Jan. 1S.--Cnairman Virgil G. Hinshaw today issued a call for q meeting of tho national committee of the Prohibition party, 10 be held in Chicago January 16, 17 and IS, to plan a campaign for the election of a dry congress in 1918.
 "Both houses of congress, like the people as a whole. are I believe, op- roscd to the liquor traffic. said Mr. Hinshaw. "The national committee will strive, with the cooperation of the Prohibition party, to chrystalllze and focus this sentiment and embody it into a while militant force. We ex re2t to make national prohibition the issre of the congressional campaign Of 191S."
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Absurd Old Laws.

An article in the Revue des Tradi- lions Popularies in 1890 told how q count of the damage it did to life and property in the valley. In English law there was for many years a statute compelling owners of personal chattels which had caused the death of a mar to give them to God. This was accom- plished Ivy turning them over to the crown to be sold and the proceeds ap- piled to piouS uses.
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I. N. SHELLY,
Not Hurt by Use.

During his vacation San Fran cisco lawyer met an old friend in the village, and their conversation drlfted to a discussion of the natives. A young farmer came under his view. He's a fine-looking young fellow said the lawyer. "Y-e-s," assented his friend dubiously. "Well, any way, he has mighty good head" Tt ought to be good" was the re- ply. "That mans head is brand uew-hes never used it any,"
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The Nearest Duty.

Let us, so far as we can, bring wider interests to our little world. There is no more potent charm to ban ish the petty and unworthy from it. Wider interests open the doors into a wider world into which some day we may step. Let us work ceaselessly, patiently. No success we may win in any calling will be worth anything if we have not cultivated the power to keep all around us bright and orderly and attractive. if the light of divine love, and peace, and power, and wis dom does not radiate from us into the world and help md inspire others.- Nancy Freeman.
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Her Idea About Golf.

Many anecdotes are told of some of the curious ideas held abou. golf by people to whom it was a new and strange gaine before it's modern pop ularity had set in. One woman who had evidently had a near view of the game said: ''lt is played by two men. One is gentleman and the other is common man. The common man sticks q ball on a lump of dirt, and the gentleman knocks it off"
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Testing Diamonds.

In order to determine accurately tho nature of diamonds, it is we'll to breathe on them: then they lose for moment their luster, and the eye is then better enabled, says the Scien- tific American Supplement, to exam. inc them and distinguish their faults. The real diamond becomes clear much sooner than the false.
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Lts Pointer for Lawyers.

Dad" asked the son of a Philadel~ phia lawyer, "just what is test case?" "A test case my son." replied the fa- ther, "is case brought to decide whether there's enough in it to justify the lawyers in working up similar cases."-Kansas City Journal.
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In the pres C n t era of high costs, the housewife has it within her power to ef- feet a consid- erable saving o f m on ey without sacri- hcing a Il y- thing in the W h o1 esome- uesc If food served at the family table.
 One hOi1se.
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HOBO HELPS ORPHANS

The Hobo Medicine Manufacturing Company of Singer, La, has favored the orphanage with several casHi ol Hobo Kidney and Bladder hcmedy, and it is with delight that We record the cure of several children from scil ing their beds at night. We thanh you.
 I, N. SHELLY,
 Supt. La. Baptist Orphanage. If your cEild is suffering why wall. Get a bottle today f"o,n your dru5gls' or send direct to us for t--$l.O0. SIX ao:tles, $500.
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-.tf DROPSY SPECIALIST

OnV1 D \ 0I EO1AAA0
 Usually gives quick re lief, have entirely reliev ed many seemingly hope less cases. Swelling and short breath soon gone Often giveS entire relic in 15 tn z6 days. Tria treatment sent by mail FREE.
 DR. THOMAS E. GREEN Successor to Dr. H. II
 Greens Sons.
 Box n. ChAtswcrth. C.
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Try 355 for Tire Service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-12
GERMANY is FAR

Continued From Page One)
seif-restraint and politeness of the
German people with the resultant
good effect was being jeojardized.
Delay followed delay and one ex-
cuse was made after another, until
Friday night, when the foreign office
sudden My announced it's Willingness to
permit Mr.. Gerard to depart on the
following day. The names of CORE
sppndents and of other persons were
added to the list, but even then petty
delays aad uncertainties followed un-
til shortly before the train was
boarded.
Gerard on Train to Border.
Mr.. Gerard's farewells were said
in a friendly tho formal manner.
Many Germans were in the throng at
the station, which consisted partly of
Americans who had not received per
mission TO depart on the embassy
train and who must await the police
routine before being allowed to leave.
The fact that it was not generally
known that Mr.. Gerard was depa rting
reduced these demonstrations at the
south German stations to a minimum
of curious crowds
The older women and the children
were assigned to the sleeping cars on
the train The younger persons rode
in the day coaches and made the trip
of twenty-four hours to the border
with no serious discomforts. The
sentatives of the foreign office and
guarded carefully by men from the
secret service. The customs inspector
and other examinations at the border
were relaxed to a mers formality
Thought e. S. Seized Interned Ships.
Copenhagen dispatches today insist
ed that when Gerard firmly refused
to sign such a protocol German Off
Gals retaliated with a barely con-
cealed hint that certain Americans
might be held in Berlin, presumably
as hostages. At the same time Gerard
was prevented from communicating
with Washington by his code, plain
messages only being permitted to pass.
With these dispatches today came
also reports indicating Germany's re-
al.zation that she acted too quickly in
certain moves in the recent diplomatic
game. Wireless dispatches from Ber-
! lin intercepted here today carried
lengthy near-apologies from German
officials over their mistaken assumD-
ton that the United States had seized
German ships in American ports.
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MINNEAPOLIS FIRE


Sullivan, of engine company No:
was struck over the head with club
| and his scalp cut.
More than a score of the injured
who were rushed to adjacent hospitals
and private homes may die. Confu-
sion prevailed and definite estimates
of the dead were difficult early today,
police said. The police claimed to
have seen one woman, dressed in
flimsy nightie. leap from the second
floor of the hotel, to death on the
pavements. Whether this was Mrs.
The hotel is a semi shionable resi-
dence hotel.
Is Ice Encased Tomb.
Firemen base their belief that many
persisted in the fire on the statement
of Allen Paulson, one of the first to
arrive at the scene of the blaze. He
third floor windows and cry for help,
then fall back into the flames. All of
these persisted, firemen believe.
On account of the heavy coat of ice
which formed over the ruins of the
building, firemen have been delayed
in their search for the bodies of other
possible victims. Search will be start
ed late today or tomorrow, Chief
Ringer said.
Overcoats Used as Life Net.
| George Osland chung to a window
ledge until his fingers were frozen
with the cold. Then he let go. When
he fell, he struck Ernie Johnson,
who was entering the building to help
those on the lower floor. johnson
broke Islands fall and probably
saved his life. Both men were slight
| ly hurt.
Miss Ruth Reams, who roomed with
Mrs. Lucille Squire, the woman who
died from injuries suffered when she
leaped to the street from a third story
| window, jumped from the same win
dow about five minutes after Mrs.
Squire jumped. She was caught in an
improvised net made of spectators
| OVerCOats
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BEFORE SUICIDE ALTAR
Hungry and Cold Aged Couples At
tempt Is Failure.

Chicago, Feb. 12.-Life had reached
its darkest moment. Outside the wind
moaned and the 10 below chill pene-
trated the thin walls of the cottage
The hearth was cold and the pan
try empty.
So Albert Straikowski, three score
years and ten, and his wife, Mary,
ten years his senior, decided to give
up the struggle.
Neighbors today broke down the
door to the little wooden cottage.
Before an improvised altar-a cru
cifix, bible and an unlighted candle
they found the aged couple, uncon-
scious, clasped in each others arms.
The gas jet was open, but low pres
sure had prevented the fumes from
doing their work effectually.
Albert was taken to the hospital
Pneumonia promises to finish the
work that gas failed to do. At the
home of friendly neighbors his wife
repeatedly mutters, in her sane mo-
ments:
God is good. Soon I'm going
home"
Police are searching for son and
daughter. said to reside in Chicago.
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THEY DON'T CARE
Nothing to Fear From New Fed
eraI Probe of ii. G. of L.
Seattle Scarcity Due to Break
ing Up of Large Ranches"

Chicago, Feb. 12.-Chicago packers
are not in the least worried over the
prospect of a government investlga-
ton into the high price of foods, espe-
cially, meats, and are waiting uncon-
cerned for any action that Hinton Il.
Clabaugh. head of the local branch
OF the department of justice, may
take.
81 see no reason to believe that the
Investigation asked by President VIII
son will be directed especially against
mour said. 81 don't think that the
i kers have anything to fear from
such Investigations"
Mr.. Armour refused to state wheth-
er his company would allow the leu-
eral Investigators to go over their
books He also refused 20 make any
comments that would throw any llght
on the present food price situation
1.-THE explanation for the :ttuatlo
Thomas L. Wilson, head OF wilson @
Co. said. ais the changed condltlon III
The west. The great amount of meat
formerly produced in the west was
due to ranches of tremendous size
These ranches have been broken up
INTO small grain farms. The West
however. is gradually readjustins
itself and there is a tendency to devote
more and more space on these smaller
farms to cattle raising.
Hinton CIabaugh, federal investiga-
tor, who perhaps will have charge Oh
any move made here, refused 10 com
rnent upon his orders from Washing
TON further than to say that he al
ready had sent a great mass of evil
dence and information on prices ana
suspected price fixing consplracles 20
the department.
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a n
a w of a
of re-
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to
Chicago Auditorium II.
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Kansas City, Feb. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
1900. Market steady. Bulk of sales S1i 90
G12.35: heavy. S12.30@12. 45; packers and
butchers. s1210d12.35; light 81. G0G12O5 ::
pigs $10O0Q11-50
CATTLE@Receipt 17.OO0incIuding 300
southerns. Market steady to lower Prime
fed steers, s112SG12.O0; dressed beef
IL so: southern steers, $6.50Q9G0: cows
s55OG95O; heifers, 5000 1880: stockers
and feeders. S7.O0@9.75; bulls, S65Oa $3.50 !;
calves S1100@ 1925
sHEEP-Receipts 1900 Market steady
Lambs. s12.50Q14.40; yearlings. s12.e5@
1890; stockers and feeders. s7.OO@13.7J-
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winter.
New York, Feb. ia drop in
the temperature to three degrees
above zero at 1880 a. m. today.
brought to this city the coolest winter
weather of the season. The official
forecast was that it would turn
warmer.
Rivers and bays about New York
are filled with heavy drifting ice
fields today, interfering to some eX-
tent with navigation.
For the first time in five years the
Hudson is solidly frozen over the g.
mile stretch between Tarrytown and
walked from shore to shore and sew
eral automobiles have safely negotiat-
ed the trip.
2I Below in Vermont.
Boston, Feb. 1.-THE coolest
weather of the winter was reported
by a number of points in New England
today Minimum temperatures during
the night ranged from "a degrees be-
low zero to 6 above. In Boston the
minimum was zero, as compared with
above on February 3, when the
lowest mark in three years was shown
by official bureau figures
Mortified, VT. showed minimum
of "a below, while Burlington, W.
with S below and Portland. Me, with
from which the weather bureau re-
celved reports of intense cold.
10 Below at Cleveland.
Cleveland, Feb 1.-THE thermomc-
ter registered 10 degrees below zero
here this forenoon. 1t was the coolest
day since February 10, 1888, when the
temperature dropped to 16 below Low
made the situation exceptionally
|
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ARMY TRAINING AT "U''
Prof. Fox, Formerly of Twentieth
Kansas, in Charge at Northwestern.

Chicago, Feb. ia modified form
OF military training has been insti-
tuted at Northwestern university and
the first classes were held today.
There will be no drilling or carrying
of arms, but the course includes only
such phases of the training as can be
taught in lectures.
Philip Fox, professor of astronomy,
former lieutenant in the Twentieth
Kansas infantry. has been placed in
charge of the course. Three hours a
week are to be devoted to the study.
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WILL SELL RAILROAD
Indiana Holdings of Pre- aMrquette
Ordered Disposed OF.

Indianapolis. Ind. Feb IL. = The
sale of the Indiana assets of the Pere
Marquette railroad has been ordered
by Judge a. B. Anderson in federal
court here. The railroad has been in
the hands of receivers for some time
ard the order here is similar to one
made in Detroit recently authorizing
the sale of the road. The upset price
Cor the entire road has been fixed at
$40, 100000.
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MENACE WATER MAIN
Fire on Suspect Near Aqueduct Carry
ing New York Supply.

New York, Feb. IA rifle shot
fired at two men who approached the
Pleasantville meter of the Catskil1
aqueduct carrying a suit case, brought
fresh reports today of the danger in
which the international crisis places
the water supply of the city.
The two men escaped, racing away
from a pursuing sentry in an automo-
bile which had been left at the foot
of an embankment
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Build s1.5OO.OOO Station.

Chicago, Feb. IA special COM
mittee of the city council recommend
ed acceptance of the proposition of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
road to construct S1,5o0,00O fruit
terminal station in this city. An auc-
ton house is a feature of the plan.
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COOPER is BOUND OVER
Preliminary Hearing Concluded n the
Court of Topeka Today.

When the preliminary trial of Ezra
Cooper, charged with killing Burt F.
Hunt, was resumed this morning, ia
the court OF Topeka, attorneys agreed
to dispense with arguments and Coop
err was bound over to the district court
under a bond of $4,000.
Cooper already had his bond posted
and was released. w. E. Atchison, at
torney for Cooper, announced that the
trial in the district court will come up
al the April term.
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31a lbs 14c: springs. over lbs 17e.
ducks, 10c; geese, Sc; broilers. lbs and
under, 1Sc; old ROSTERS. DC: shaggy vonno
ROSTERS. 1 'uh
Butter end Eggs
FURNISHED by the Beatrice Creamery "a
Topeka. kan.I
CHICAGO EGGS-f4N44Mc
NEW YORK EGGsisM 4e1hc
CREAMERY BCTTER-Chicaeo. ssza
oyc New York. 43c. Elgin SOC: TopeIs
wholesale. 3615c. pe>~
Topeka Hay Market.
FURNISHED by T. A. Beck Il.-l4 East 9Th
Topeka. Kan, Feb. Il
ALFALFA-s17Oo.
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AGENTS FOR GERMANY
Sweden Takes Over Kaiser's Interest
in Russia and Egypt.

Berlin, Feb. HERMAN interests
in hostile countries which. in most
Instances. have been transferred by
American to Swiss representatives,
have been taken over in Russia and
Egypt by Sweden. British interests in
Germany have been transferred to
Holland and those of Japan, Rumania
ard Serbia, as we'll as the United
gates to Snain-
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PERU NOTE TO u. S.
Reply Forwarded to Washington To-
day Supports Wilson.

Lima. Peru. Feb. 10.-Peru's reply
to the American note suggesting unity
of action among neutrals will be for
varded to the United States today
There is every indication that Peru
has decided to support President VIII
sons program, althO the text of tha
message is rs yet withheld.
Peru's reply to the German note
was sent last night. 1t was strongly
V-orded protest.
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S7.sod12.2o; western steers, sIs5d1O25;
st9ekers a end 4d feeders, s61o@910; cows and
SHEEP-Receipts Is, 600. tomorrow 90
600. Market steady. Wethers, $1,000
11.S0; almbs, S12.10M1460.
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A FAIR WEEK AHEAD
Continued from Page q

(ContInued from Page One)
lowest mark ever recorded at any
time Of the year in more than thirty
years at Topeka.
The wind this morning was making
twelve miles an hour from the south
east. The moon tonight rises at 11:4I
o'clock,
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Chicago, Feb. 12.-Chicago physi-
clans surgeons and nurses are organ
izing fully equipped and fully
manned base hospital unit. Provision
for five hundred beds will be made.
The unit consists of 173 men and As
women Most of the members have
seen service and several belong to the
federal reserve of the United States
amy
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Mexican Killed in Machinery,

CORTLAND, Kan, Feb. 12-Branlia
Olvera, a Mexican, working at the .oal
chute, was killed here when he was
caught in one of the cables at the
chute,
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Chicago, Feb 12-HOGS-Receipts &c.
600, tomorrow $1,000. Market steady at
SATURDAYS acreage to a shade lower. Bulk
Of sales. S12 3oM1250; light, $11-S0m12.40:
mixed, SO. 15G12.5o; heavy: S1205g $3.50;
CATTLE-Receipts q. 900, tomorrow
5000. Market easy. Native beef cattle