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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
NO ILL FEELINGS
Relations Between Germany
and q. S. Cordial, Gerard Says.
Ambassador Makes Big Hit
With Speech in Berlin.

Berlin, Jan. 9.-"Never since the be-
ginning of the war have the relations
between Germany and the United
States been as cordial as now"
Amid tremendous cheers, James w.
Gerard, United States ambassador to
Germany, made this statement ct
banquet given in his honor at the Hotel
Adlon by the American Association OF
Commerce and Trade, of Berlin. Two
hundred leaders of Germany's political
and commercial life listened to the
speech of Mr.. Gerard who character
lied President Wilson's note to the bel
ligerents as an "olive branch.
Responding to the American am
bassador, DR.. Alfred Zimmerman,
secretary of state for foreign affairs,
in brief address eulogizing Ambassa-
dor Gerard and his work said:
81 have always elaborated with the
ambassador in an excellent fashion and
with mutual confidence, so that feel
that the friendly and trustful relations
between both countries will continue
in the manner described by Mr..
Gerard
President Wilson and the kaiser
were toasted at the banquet and a
message of good will was sent to each.
The banquet was probably the most
notable gathering bearing on the re-
latlonS between Germany and the
United States held since the beginning
of the war. Present were Arthur
Gwinner, head of the Deutsche bank,
who in an eloquent and much APP
plauded speech, compared Ambassa-
dor Gerard to Noah's peace dove; Vice
Chancellor Helfferich, who represent
ed Mr.. Won Bethmann-H ollweg; Col
onial Secretary Doctor Solf; Walther
Rathenau, president of the General
Electric company; August Lehman.
president of the Ocean Rhedrei, which
owns the Deutschland, and many no.
table men in the German foreign Of
flee, war ministry and admiralty The
dinner took place in the famous kaiser
hall of the Adlon, which was appro-
prlately decorated for the occasion
Simon Wolf, president of the associa-
ton, was the POSTMASTER
Ambassador Gerard in his speech
described the deep sympathy in the
United States with the German char
lty work and told how many promi-
nent people, including Messrs. Armour
and Guggenhejm, handed him checks
for the German Red Cross. He said
he delivered to the different German
relief funds about 100000 marks
(S1OO,OO0) on his return to GERMANY.
Washington Wants Speech.
Washington, Jan. 9-The state de-
partment today cabled Ambassa dor
! Gerard at Berlin, requesting a report
on the speech he is said to have madt.
at the banquet of the American Asso-
cation of Commerce and Trade at
Berlin last Saturday night.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
CAPTURE FOCSANI
Another Rumania Stronghold
Falls to Germans.
Take 1910 PrisOners-NOW 30
Miles Beyond Braila.

Berlin, via Sayville wireless, Jan g.
-Focsani (FokshanD was captured by
the Germans yesterday with 1910 prls-
soners, today's German official state
ment said.
Forcing back of Rumanian forces
from the strongly fortified main mass
of Odobest to Putna and storming, in
hand to hand fighting, of enemy posi-
tionS, south of Milcovu, was reported.
Pushing beyond we gave the enemy
no time to settle in second line posi-
tions on the canal between Focsani
and Yaresta,' the statement continued.
This position was pierced and.
pressing further, we crossed the road
from Focsani to Bolotesti.
This morning (January y Focsani
was captured. From the conquered
fort We took 1910 prisoners, three
cannon and several machine guns"
Focsani lies nearly 100 miles north
of Bucharest. 1t is an important
strategic point situated exactly mid
way between Hungary and Russia in
the narrowest part of the neck which
connects Rumania with the northern
province of Moldavia. The city is
nearly thirty miles northwest of Braila,
recently captured by the Germans
and which is their northermost point
on the Danube river.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
PAVE MORE STREETS
City Commissioners Consider Property
Owners Petitions at Meeting Today.

Paving petitions from several sec
tions of the city, which have been pre-
scented by the property owners along
the proposed paved district, were pre-
sented at the meeting of the city COM
missioners this morning. after having
been investigated and reported back
by Commissioner Tandy. Petitions for
several stretches of paving were grant
ed, and legal preparations for the
work started.
The paving petition for one stretch
of street, Adams, from Fourth to
Fifth. was reported unfavorably, and
the recommendation that it be not
granted was adopted by the commits
sion.
Streets on which paving is to be
done include: Tyndall, Fourth, Lee
land, Western avenue, Second street,
Plasss street and Euclid avenue. Eu
cid avenue is to be paved from Kan
sas avenue to Monroe street.
One alley near the Santa Fe yards
was vacated at the request of the COM
pany. An ordinance providing for the
vacation of a part of another in the
west part of town came up for the first
reading
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
ARREST. FIVE FOR MURDER.
Soldier Beaten to Dcath-Negro Won
an Had Gun and Blackjack.

Leavenworth, Kan, Jan 9.-Investi-
cation into the attack upon Claude Nc
Cord, a guard at the disciplinary bar
racks at Fort Leavenworth, and mis-
companion, Private Harvey Hasley, in
which McCord was beaten to death
and Hasley left in an unconscious con-
dition, has resulted in the arrest of
five negroes, three of them women.
The police said one of the women, all
of whom were said to be sisters, had
a revolver and bloodstained blackjack
in her muff when arrested
The attack occurred in an alley and
descriptions of their assailants were
furnished by Hasley when he regained
consciousness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
TEX INTENDED TO ESCAPE.
Pleas of Other Convicts Brought Him
Back, Says Warden.

lola. Kan. Jan. 9.-The official
publication of the Kansas penitentiary,
The Square Deal" will have another
editor when next issued. and III. A.
c"Tex'O Schapper, the former editor,
who overstayed his Christmas parole,
will be sent to the prison machine
shops for an indefinite stay, Warden
J. K. Codding of the penitentiary told
an audience here.
Everything went well with Tex,
until he arrived at Fort Worth, Tex,
on his return north from Galveston,
where he went to spend his vacation
1t was there, SO he told me, that he de-
cided he would not return to the pris-
en- TO serve the twenty-one remaining
years of his sentence, put would leave
for Mexico. However, on the morning
he intended to flee delay caused him
to miss his train by five minutes.
Picking up a newspaper, he noticed
story of the return of the sixteen
men paroled with him and read of
their pleadings for him to keep his
word and not to bring disgrace upon
the honor system that he had fought
for in his paper. TeXs desire to flee
was overcome. by the story and he pre-
scented himself at the Fort Worth po-
lice station, where he told authorities
to wire the Kansas prison of his pres
ence' -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
BE PRETTY! TURN
GRAY HAIR DARK
Look young! Nobody can tell if you
use Grandmothers simple recipe
of Sage Tea and Sulphur.

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
ed. brings back the natural color, and
Iustre to the hair when faded, streak
ed or gray. Years ago the only way
10 get this mixture was to make it at
home, which is mussy and trouble
some Nowadays, by asking at any
drug store for 'Wyeth's Sage and SUI
phur Compound" you will get a large
bottle of this famous old recipe inn
proved by the addition of other in
1redients for about so cents.
I Don't stay gray! Try it, No one
can possibly tell that you darkened
Ebur hair, as it does it so naturally
AID evenly. You dampen sponge or
akff brush with it and draw this
fhr0ugh your hair, taking one small
strand at a time: by morning the gray
nair disappears. and after another ap-
plicfion or two. your hair becomes
Beautifully dark, glossy and attractive.
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
bound is a delightful toilet requisite
for those who desire dark hair and a
youthful appearance. 1t is not in
tended for the cure. mitigation or pre-
vention of disease. -Advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
CHARITY'S HANDS FULL
Despite General Prosperity, Many
Needy Do Not Share it.

New York, Jan. 9.-Despitc the gen
eral prosperity, the charity organiZa-
tions in the city are virtually the same
as in time of business depression, says
the charity organization society in its
annual report today.
The report shows that during the
year ended September 80 aid was
given to 6,575 families, only 200 less
than the number helped in 1912 or
1913, the years preceding the period
of unemployment which reached it's
climax in the first nine months of the
war.
OF the families under the care of the
society there were more Italians than
any other nationality. Americans were
next and Irish third
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
TO U. S. FOR REFUGE
Two Million Disbursed for War Relief
Appeal foe. More.

Washington, Jan. 9.-Americans are
being sought to refill the almost empty
war relief fund of the American Red
Cross in an open letter by Woodrow
Wilson as president of the Red Cross,
made public last night at the society's
headquarters.
1T is for you to decide writes the
president, whether the most prosper
Gus nation in the world will allow its
national relief organization to keep up
its work or withdraw from a field
where there exists the greatest need
ever recorded in history
Accompanying the letter is a state
ment that from August 6, 1914, to
September 80, 1916, the Red Cross re-
ceived and disbursed for European
war relief $2,144,96S.17
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
NOT A CONQUEST
High Official Urges Allies to
Tell Motives of War.
No Idea of Increasing Territory
or Power, He Says.
BY ED l.. KEEN

London. Jan. 9-The greatest sig
nificance was attributed to the speech
at the Browning settlement of Minis
ter of Pensions Barnes. urging an ex-
plicit reply by the allies to President
wilson's plea for submission of def
mite peace terms.
The fact that a member of the
Lloyd-George ministry publicly an
nounced president Wilson's appeal
for beIligerents to state their terms OF
peace, is entitled to all the respect that
can be shown it. for many reasons,
was taken as indicating that the allies
reply will probably set forth a. definite
list of the aims for which the entente
is fighting. Press dispatches on De-
cember 81 summarized the view of Of
'ficialdom then that the reply should
make a listing of the allies purposes.
1t is now expected that as result
of the harmonious conference at
Rome, just concluded, the reply will be
forwarded to President Wilson within
the next two or three days.
"Let America Know Our Terms
Those sentences in Barncs's speech
which attracted most attention were:
81 should like to see something done
in the way of making our general
terms or the general objects for which
we are in this war more widely known
to the American people. We should
accept the invitation of the American
president, to tell him, at any rate.
what our terms or objects are
Whether they should be made public
is another matter.
THE president should be assured
that this country is not one to smash
the Germans, Germany, or any one or
anything except military power and
military pride 1 think he may
be told OF our negative objects and as
sured that we have no idea in this war
of increasing our territory or power,
or anvt hing of the kind"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
BABE browns IN BAPTIsTRY
Body of Norwich, Kan, Child Found
After All Day Meeting,

Norwich, Kan, Jan. 9.-The city of
Norwich was ineXpressibly shocked by
the accidental death of little Walter
Roger, the 15-months-old son of Mr.
and Mrs Elmer Roger. The child was
drowned in the baptistry of the Chris
tian church.
An all-day meeting was in progress
in the church. Following a big basket
dinner, the congregation was engaged
IN business session. Mrs Roger had
put the baby to sleep and had carried
him to the pastors study, where it
would be quiet. She returned to the
business meeting, and at its close went
to see about the child
Not finding him, she began a search
and shortly after discovered it float
ing in the water. Evidently the child
had awakened and, unnoticed by any
one, had wandered thru another room
and the hallway leading to the bap-
tistry, and then walked into the water.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
"TIZ" FOR TIRED
AND SORE FEET
Use ''Tiz" for puffed-up, burn
ing, aching, caIlOused feet
and cOrnS.

Why go limping around with aching,
puffed-up feet-feet so tired. chafed,
sore and swollen you can hardly get
your shoes on or off? Why don't you
get a 25-cent box of "Tiz'' from the
drug store now and gladden. your tor
tured feet?
''Tiz' makes your feet glow with
comfort: takes down swellings and
draws the soreness and misery right
out of feet that chafe, smart and burn.
sTiz" instantly stops pain in corns,
callouses and bunions. "Tiz' is glori-
Gus for tired, aching, sore feet. No
more shoe tightness-no more foot
torture.-Advertisem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
Hurrah! HoW'S This
Cincinnati authority says corns
dry up and lift out
with fingers.

Hospital records show that every
time you cut corn you invite lock-
Jaw or blood poison. which is need
less, says a Cincinnati authority, who
tells you that a quarter ounce of a
drug called freezone can be obtained
at little cost from the drug store but is
Sufficient to rid ones feet of every
hard or soft corn or callus.
You simply apply a few drops of
freezone on a tender. aching corn and
soreness is instantly relieved. Shortly
the entire corn can be lifted out, root
and all, without pain.
This drug is sticky but dries at once
and is claimed to just shrivel up any
corn without inflaming or even irritat-
ing the surrounding tissue or skin.
If your wife wears high heels she
will be glad to know of this.-Adver-
tisement.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
PAoLA INQUEST THURSDAY.
Wounded SpclInan Girl Improving
Funeral of Mother Held Today.

Paola, Kan, Jan. "a coroner's
jury was impaneled at Osawatomie
late Monday to investigate the death of
Mrs. l. t. Spellman and the wound
ing of her daughter, Hazel Spellman,
last Thursday in barn near here The
jury. after viewing the body of Mrs.
Spellman. was liberated and the in
quest Will be continued in this city on
Thursday. No testimony was taken
today.
The condition of Miss Spellman con-
tinues to improve. according to her
physician, and her testimony at the
coming inquest is expected to clear the
mystery surrounding the double shoot
ing. The funeral of Mrs. Spellman
will be held here today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
N. Y. GETTING GOOD
Moral Tone of City L. on Higher Plane
Than Ever Before.

New York, Jan. 9.-The moral tone
of New York City is on a higher
plane than at any time previous in its
history, according to a report issued
by the Bureau of Social Hygiene, of
which John d. Rockefeller, Jr., is
president.
1.-The vice ring. in the old sense of
the word, no longer exists in this city"
says the report. THE former promot-
ers of commercialized vice seem to
have come to the conclusion that the
banner years of their prosperity will
never return. 1t is a known fact that
seventy-five former men owners and
their agents have left the city with
their women for more open markets. y
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
DON'T BE BILIOUS,
HEADACHY, SICK
OR CONSTIPATED
Enjoy life! Liven your liver and
bowels tonight and
feel great.
Wake up with head clear, stOm-
ach sweet, breath right,
cold gone

Take one or two Cascarets tonight
and enjoy the incest, gentlest liver and
bowel cleansing you ever experienced;
Wake up feeling arand, your mead WIN
be clear. your tongue clean, breath
sweet, stomach + gulated ana your Nv
er anf thirty feet of bowels active. Get
a box at any drug store now and get
Enlightened up by morning. stop the
headache, biliousness, bad colds ana
bad days. Feel fit and ready Tor WORK
or play Cascarets do not grippe. sic, en-
or Inconvenience you the next day like
salts, pills or calomoL. They're fine!
Mothers should give a whole cas-
caret any time to cross, SICK, plilous
or feverish children because 1t Will act
thoroughly and can not inJure-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
LEAVE 1T TO JAPS
"GentIemen's Agreement Between
Nations on Immigration, Holds.

Washington, Jan. BY a vote of
Sc to 10 the senate has adopted the
conference report on the immigration
bill.
Supporters of the bill, following the
overwhelming vote, expressed conf
dence the bill will be passed by two
thirds vote of both house and senate
in case the president vetoes it as has
been minated.
The conference report leaves Japan
csc immigration to be regulated by
Japan as provided in the "gentlemen's
agreement" between United States and
Japan. So
The bill as adopted is in. substance
the same as passed by the. senate sew
eral weeks ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
GILNIER CASE ON JAN. DOCKET.
Garden City Murder Case This Month
Try Alleged Cattle Thieves.

Garden City, Kan, Jan. 9.-The
January term of district court con-
vened this week with Judge George J.
Downer of Syracuse presiding. There
is an unusually heavy docket for this
term, there being fifty civil cases and
twenty criminal cases.
The most important criminal case is
that of Fred D. Gilmer and wife,
charged with the murder of Gilmer's
former wife. The case will be defend
ed by Hoskinson & Hoskinson. and
prosecuted by County Attorney A
Schulmap.. assisted by Fred Evans,
former county attorney. A number of
cattle stealing cases will also be tried
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
OUCH! BACKACHE!
RUB LUMBAGO OR
STIFFNESS AWAY
Rub pain from back with small
trial bottle of old, penetrating
est. Jacobs Oil"

or lumbaso, sciatica or rheumatism
has you stiffened up. don't suffer- ret
a small trial bottle of old. honest st
Jacobs Dir at any drug store. pour A
little in your hand and rub it iyl,t
on your aching hack. and by the time
you count fifty. the soreness and lame
ness is gone.
Don't stay crippled. This soothing,
penetrating oil needs to he used only
once 1t takes the pain i light out md
ends the misery 1t is magical. yet
absolutely harmless and doesn't burn
the skin.
Nothing else stops lumbago. sciatica.
backache or rheumatism so promptly.
1t never disappointsi-Adver
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
Girls! This Water
Keeps Hair Curly
Keep your curIs and waves for
days in spite of wind or
dampness.

Try this, Before curling err waving
your hair with pins, papers on heat
ed iron, just moisten each strand with
atalpa water and you will be delighted
how natural the curls and waves ap-
pear and how long they last in spite
of wind. dampneSs or perspiration- A
small bottle OF atalpa water will cost
but a few cents at any drug store and
there is nothing better to help retain
the curls and waves or to soften. gloss
or fluff the hair and to make it look
Observation-Disclosures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
DRINK HOT TEA
FOR A BAD COLD

Get a small package of Hamburg
Breast Tea, or as the German folks call
it, Hamburger Brust Thee" at any
pharmacy. Take a tablespoonful of
the tea. put cup of boiling water
upon it, pour through a sieve and
drink a teacup full at any time. 1t is
the most effective way to break a cold
and cure grip, as it opens the pores,
relieving congestion. Also Ioosens the
bowels, thus breaking a cold at once.
1t is inexpensive and entirely veg
etable, therefore harmless-Advertise
ment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
DOG SAVES SEVEN FROM FIRE
Barking of Animal Weakened Owner IL
Time to Escape Flames.

Dodge City, Kan, Jan. 9.-The
barking of bulldog saved the lives of
H f. Pendleton and his family from
death by burning or suffocation. The
building, two-story frame affair, is
located at the corner of D and Military
avenues. The grocery store occupies
the lower floor. The family five chill
dren and the father and mother, live
upstairs.
Mr.. Pendleton heard the dog bark
and thought it was someone trying to
get into the store. He hurried down
stairs and found the back room a mass
of flames He rushed upstairs and
awakened the family, who dressed and
esca ped with their lives Only a few
clothes and the accounts of the store
were saved
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
AUSTRIA NEAR FALL?
Reports of Big Quarrel Between Gen.
trail Powers in Berne.

London, Jan. "a Berne dispatch
to the Daily News says: IF news
reaching here from usually trust
worthy sources is accurate, Austria
Hungary is very near collapse. No eff
fort is made to conceal the differ
ences which have arisen between the
two kaisers, and Swiss newspapers at
tribute to Count Golachowsky, who re-
Gently arrived here from Vienna, a
statement that the quarrel between the
monarchs has gone too far to be
patched up
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09
Open Revival at Jetmorc.

Jetmore, Kan. Jan. 9.-Revival SER
vices have been begun in Jetmore this
week with Es S. Sucker of Ottawa as
evangelist, and H. NJ. Van Landingham
of Olathe as choir leader. The services
are under the auspices of the four
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-09

churches of Jetmore. Mr.. Sucker is
giving his hearers some of the instruc-
tive talks he has given previously on
the chautauqua platform.
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Wilson to Address Teachers.

Girard, Kan, Jan. 9.-H. B. Wilson
of Topeka, will be one of the principal
speakers at the meeting of Crawford
county school teachers here January
20. His subject will be Motivation of
School Work
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-01-09
WILL USE JURY'S AWARD
TO EDUCATE HIS SON
Father of Boy Who Lost Arm and OBJ
tanned $4,000 Verdict Will Invest
Money for Him

Charlie Mulliu, who had to have his arm
amputated as result of being run over
by truck, will be educated with the money
which was awarded him by sympathizlng
jury IN Judge Barratts court
HIS father. John Mullin. said so today
at the Mullin home 3lI7 Wharton street.
when asked what would become of $4,000
awarded for the loss of the arm. and the
$500 awarded for medical expenses
After the lawyers get their percentage"
SAID the father grayhaired giant stand
ing SIX feet six in his stocking feet I'VE
VIII invest that money for Charlie we
viii get $500 of the $4,000 You see
dld not have cent to fight with | dId
NOT nave any way of getting money for
the loss of Charles arm. So I nut n in
the hands OF a lawyer. on the 5000 basis "
Mr. Mulin does not know along lust what
lines Charlie will he educated, hut an adu-
cation he is to have, according to the father.
who says:
tell you I don't want him to have 10
go through the hard knocks that | have had
10 so through. I want him to have an
education and a trade. / do not know lust
what he can do with one arm but we will
take care Of that in due time Charlie i.
smart He was in the fourth grade at the
Alcorn School. Thirty-fourth and Wharton
streets when he was injured. He was lust
a lew days past his twelfth birthday when
II happened. lie and n lot of other bovs
were hopping on an ice wagon He was
run down by truck belonging to Daniel
g. McAllister and taken to the PRESBYTERIAN
Hospital"