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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18
TRAWELETTE
Mecca.
BY NIKsAH

mecca.
Mecca has been set up as the cap
itai of new independent kingdom by
the Arabs who are in revolt against
the Turks The lords of the Crescent
are too busy with the British in
Mesopotamia to hurl anything more
destructive than threats at their re-
bellious subjects, and in view of the
present trend of the world-war, it
seems probable that the Arabian king
dom will become a permanent insti-
tuition. Then Mecca may possibly be
more accessible to the unbeliever To-
day the CHRISTIAN who penetrates to
the holy city pays the penalty of dis
covery with his life.
In spite of this, the feat has been
accomplished several times by daring
men sufficiently familiar with the
customs and language of the country
to go in the guise of Mohammedans.
From their reports and from the in
Vulnerable Mohammeda of all races
and nations who have made the pill
grimage, it is possible to form a fair
ly clear idea of conditions in Mecca.
The population of the city itself is
matter of widely varying estimate
since the Turkish census machinery is
often 200 or 800 per cent off in its
results. Mecca has perhaps a hun
dred thousand people. The number
who make the pilgrimage annually is
SUMMARY IldTu TO estimate, out there
are probably three hundred thousand
of these. This enormous stream of
tourists" supports Mecca, and to all
accounts they are robbed by the ma
tives with an Oriental thoroness.
Water is scarce. and paid for as if it
were melted gold; food is poor, and
its price varies with the pocketbook
of the buyer. Lodging is hardly at a
premium, since most Of the faithful
bring tents and bedding along.
The exceedingly heterogeneous
population of the holy city can be
imagined, when one remember that
it is the duty of every good Moslem
to make the pilgrimage once. Islam
is widely spread religion. From the
south of Africa, from Madagascar
where the old Arab slave trade flour
ished, from all the states of the sui
tan, from Egypt, the Balkans and the
near East, and from Afghanistan,
India, Burma, China and Japan Even
from under the American flag they
come, from the southern Philippine
Islands of Mindanao and Palawan.
Mohammed promised Mecca that he
would make her the center of the cities
Of the earth, and to some extent at
least the promise is fulfilled
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SIDE T ALM S
''Plated?"
ny RurH CAMERON.

'Plated?"
A rather shabbiIy dressed middle
aged woma came to counter where
was the other day
Il want to look at folks" she said.
The clerk gave her one swift glance
PLATED 90 she asked.
If were the head of a department
and heard a clerk do that, I'd take
that clerk aside and Ia give MN or
her a lesson in tact and manners that
would, 1 trust, make a lifelong i'm
preston.
True, the clerk had to find out what
the customer wanted before she could
serve her And 1 know just how
many needless preliminaries clerk
often has to go thru before she can
pin her customer down to just what
she wants.
The other day, I happened to state
what 1 wanted fairly definitely to
girl at the camisole counter, and she
looked up at me gratefully, Il wish
peaple always knew what they want
ed" she said.
Don't they?" I inquired.
"I should say not First they want
to see something in camisoles, then
after I show them a dozen of various
kinds they remember that they must
have all white, and then a few min
utes later, they decide to tell me
that they wouldn't consider anything
but Georgette crepe. And when PICK
out one all white and Georgette crepe.
they say Yes. but that hasn't got
ribbon straps over the shoulders.
Now, why couldn't they say in the
first place that they wanted white
Georgette crepe with ribbon shoulder
straps, in size 50? 1t would save
their time and mine"
But to return to the main road,
while the silver clerk had to find out
what the woman wanted, she didn't
have to do it so tactlessly. Two words
would have saved the situation. In
stead of just "plated?" she could have
said, ''solid or plated?"
1t is absurd to care what a sales
girl whom you may never see again
thinks of you, and yet it is somehow
annoying to be looked over and then
placed in that lordly way.
Some day, when I am rich, I am
going to put on some shabby clothes
and then I am going into the shops
and ask to look at suits. And when
one of the self appointed Bradstreet-
ers looks me over and says, Some
thing about $25.00?" 1 am going to
say Something about $4,000 please "
And then I am going to buy two.
Won't that be fun?
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fight under the Stars and Stripes to
rebuke such wrong. or who have TAX
en- a pronounced stand against such
iniquityl 1t remains, however, for
many others who call themselves
German-Arnerican to come out
squarely and Enthusiastically, and thus
render impossible any suspicion of dis
loyalty. The resident here of what
ever foreign descent owes it to the
country of which he is voluntarily a
citizen, and to himself, to do this. If
he cannot do this, he should either
return to that other country whose cit
izenship he places above ours or ex-
pect here the same treatment which
his preferred foreign country is ac-
customed to administer in such cases.
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THE coal SITUATION.

So much is being said about the
shortage of bituminous coal, and the
general public realizes so little the i'm
portant gains in output made by, the
operators under trying conditions, last
summer, over all previous records,
that the statement just issued by the
United States geological survey on pro-
duction in 1917 compared with 1916
is particularly timely. In commenting
on this report prepared by the statis-
ticians of the geological survey, Di-
rector George Otis Smith points out
that the shortage is not due to the
failure of the soft-coa1 mines to pro-
duce more coal than in the past, for
the country on September 1 was about
month ahead of last year in output
and is expected to finish the year with
an increase of 10 per cent over 1916,
the banner year, and of rs per cent
over 1915.
The tremendous increase in manu-
featuring and transportation activity
this year has created a demand for
soft coal in excess of any in the past
an increase in demand that is difficult
to measure in terms of tons but that is
certainly more than the 10 per cent
by which production has increased. TIC
meet this demand the mines have
been producing soft coal at rate new
er before equaled.
In the second week of July, 1917
the average daily production was more
than 100000 tons. the highest point
yet attained; in the middle of August
the lowest rate for the summer, l.
$500 tons. was recorded; and in the
last week of September the daily rate
was 100000 tons. In the first eigh:
months Of 1917 the output of soft
coal was 363. 100000 tons, or $1,000
900 tons more than in the first eight
months of 1916. In the same period
shipments of anthracite increased IL
per cent over those of 1916.
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THE SOLDIERS
ISSUED by the War Department and all
rights to reprint reserved.
XXXUI.

The spirit that dominated the Amer
lean armies at Bunker Hill. New
Orleans. Buena Vista. Gettysburg. and
Santiago will just as surely dominate
the national army on the battlefield
of Europe.
This spirit is a compound 1t is
made up in part of democratic feeling
in part of respect and love for the
nation, and in part of Americanism
The United States army has always
been and will always remain a demo-
cratic army. Every man in the army
is made-to feel that his brains and in
dividuality count for something 1t is
merely big, soulless machine that
moves with mechanical precision. 1t
is a team" Each man in the team is
presumed to be intelligent and self
reliant.
OF course there can be no teamwork
without regularity and strict discipline
This is equally true of a football 0r
baseball team. There must also be
various ranks and degrees of author
ity- And sometimes this necessary or
ganization and close regulation creates
an impression that the army is not
democratic.
Tomorrow: Democracy of the
army.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18

Vanderlip's advice to the banks to
eliminate all loans except those made
TO the government, if followed, prob
ably would succeed in putting a seri-
Gus crimp in the business of the coun-
try. To the uninitiated into the world
of finance it appears that what the
government needs as much as any
thing else is that business of every
kind shall continue in order that the
revenues shall come up to expecta-
tons. Some kinds of industries might
be Lady crippled If denied access to
the banks. There's plenty of money
in the country to meet all require
ments and if the government do not
get its share failure will be due to
bad management on the part of the
treasury department. The department.
comedies that it bungIed the first lib
erty loan.
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SOMETHING TO FIGHT FOR.

A statement of results to be derived
from the war has been formulated by
Colonel Roosevelt. He does not as
sumo, of course, to speak with off
cial authority; but he will be able to
adduce geographic, ethnoIogic and re-
ligious-in addition to diplomatic and
political-reasons for the program
which he would have the peace con-
ference consider.
He urges a free Arabia and Ar
menia, thus freeing subject peoples,
both Christian and Mohammedan,
from Ottoman rule. He proposes
Constantinople as a free city-gov-
erned, it is to be assumed, by a mixed
commission. This is in accordance
with views which have been held by
European statesmen for many years
and which were seriously discussed
for practical application at the time of
the Balkan wars, five years ago. He
calls for independence in Poland and
in Finland, again seeking to preserve
and strengthen a spirit of nationality
which is rich in tradition and POSSIBLE
ity and which has persisted thru gem
erations of submission to alien con-
troll. The Czechs also he would have
independent. thus segregating an ag-
gressive element of the conglomerate
Austro- Hungarian population; and to
the Jugo-Slavs he would give a ma
tional entity which they have always
craved. Italia Irredenta, according to
the Roosevelt program, would be re-
deemed; Alsace-Lorraine would again
be happy under the tri-color; the Bal
tic coast would fall to Poland. and the
territory in Asia and Africa already
taken from its German colonizers by
the Japanese and the British would
remain in the hands of its conquerors
The spoils of war would thus be
fairly apportioned; and the great OBJ
ject Of the war, namely, the establish
ment and development of free insti-
buttons turnout the world, would be
assured.
| For the United States Colonel
Roosevelt ask no material compensa-
ton for the sacrifices which we shall
make to produce so much of benefit
for all the rest of the world. He call.
only for a worldwide recognition %
the Monroe doctrine, which will brine
to this hemisphere the freedom fol
national development which the
Roosevelt program assures TO the ole
world.
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TME SEARCMLNGMT
Latest News from the Fields OF
SCIENCE. EDUCATION, INVENTION
Fire Fighting at Sea.

Sea fires have always been classed
among the most dangerous of marine
accidents. The confined space in the
hold of a vessel and the tightness with
which it is enclosed render it peculiar
ly fitted to gather great clouds of
mephitic gases, which imperil the
lives of the crew when they attempt
to locate and drown the fire. A recent
invention is designed to make the
quenching of these hold fires safer
and more effective. The fire hose is
designed to be lowered into the hold
from the deck, and it terminates in
multiple nozzle with mouths aimed in
all directions. A pressure pump forces
water through the nozzle at the rate
of $4,000 gallons a minute, and any
thing within hundred feet in any di-
rection is sure of thoro soaking. :.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18

was a selfish fellow and he couldn't
help but be very glad that she was
coming back.
why don't you move in yourself"
Mildred was saying You don't have
to be in the city. There's splendid
light room upstairs you could use for
a studio for your illustratfons-or you
could even commute if you chose. The
trains are rather regular"
Il couldn't-now,' he said. It's
rented. It's your house. There's just
one condition under which 1 might
live here. That is
She waited, wondering, her heart
curiously a-flutter before his tender
eyes.
THAT You will stay here with me.
Could you marry me, Mildred, even
though l offered you nothing better
than this little house, and love?'
"Oh, David!" she whispered. IT
could. And nobody in all the world
could wish for any morer'-(Copy-
right, 1917, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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Our feeling of adherence toward
a nation which has cast aside all the
traditions of civilized warfare, that
puts arsenic in .wells. that places
ground glass in food. that hurls broad
cast disease germs for man and beast.
that hands out poisoned candy to
trusting children. that Intentionally
bombs hospitals filled with sick and
dying. that tortures its prisoners of
war, that marches its school children
with waving flags on a special nation
al holiday when a Lusitania" filled
with helpless women and children
goes down. writes H. H. Windsor in
Popular Mechanics. does not apply to
those who themselves. or whose pa
rents, tho born in Gel lanv. are loyal
true Americans. Special honor to all
those who have already volunteered to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18

The suggestion made by Commits
sioner W. L. Porter at the League of
Municipalities meeting that public i'm
provement be curtaiied during the
war doubtless will bring forth criti-
cism and objections from the advo-
Gates Of business as usual" Cessation
of activity in any particular line of
industry would be likely to grow and
spread until its effects became danger
GUS to the welfare of the country.
There are enough men and dollars in
the United States to carry on its ordi-
nary business and the war at the same
time. 1t is a matter for congratula-
ton that the masses of the people
since the war began have paid little
attention to the constant appeals to do
this or that or refrain from doing the
other thing. They have gone ahead
doing whatever is essential to aid the
government in the prosecution of the
war and have in a large measure ig-
nored the various suggestions regard
ing changes in their daily habits and
regular occupations. The people are
entitled to commentator for the dis
elimination they have shown in sepa-
rating the grain from the chaff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


POTATO DunpIings-Pare and boil
six good-sized potatoes; when almost
done CRATE (when cool enough to ham
dle), add one cup bread crumbs, one
whole egg beaten light, salt to taste,
sufficient flour to form into medium
sized balls. Boil until done. Have
bread crumbs Drowned in butter or
frvings and after dumplings are
drained. pour over the Drowned bread
crumbs. Sufficient for family of five
or six (reliable recipe)
Butter Scotch Cookies5-Four cups
brown sugar, four eggs, one cup
shortening, one level tablespoon
cream tartar, one level tablespoon
soda. one teaspoon vanilla, seven to
eight cups flour. Mix thoroughly put
into two loaves, let stand over night.
slice thin and bake in the morning.
This may seem expensive, but makes
between eighty and ninety cookies.
Date Cake (eggless) cup
white sugar, butter size OF large egg,
one cup sour milk. one teaspoon soda,
pinch of salt. one teaspoon cinnamon.
two cups flour one pound COR pack
age) stoned dates, one-half cup nuts.
Mix fruit with the flour Bake one
hour DO not have oven too hot to
begin with. Bake in a loaf. Just as
good without icing as with. III you
haven't any sour milk. sweet milk will
do by adding one small tablespoon
vinegar.
Salmon en- Casserole delicious,
economical luncheon dish: One small
can pink salmon, three cups cold boil
ed rice, one green pepper cut up
coarsely, two tablespoons butter. salt.
pepper and paprika to taste. two cups
white sauce. Mix salmon. rice and
green pepper with some Of the white
sauce. then place the creamed mixture
in casserole in layers; season and dot
each layer with butter and pour more
white sauce over. For the top a little
more butter than on the other layers,
and pour over the remaining white
sauce. Place casserole or baking dish
6uncovered) in hot oven and bake
from ten TO fifteen minutes. A very
nice company dish, served with hot
buttered rolls
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18

Henry Allen has returned from Eu-
rope and business in Kansas politics
may be expected to pick up as soon as
he reaches Wichita. 1t will be inter
esting to learn whether he has won
the support of Will White during their
sojourn together on the other side of
the big water. After campaigning to-
gether and drinking out of the same
canteen more than two months there
should have been formed an entente
cordiale, which will rebound to the
glory honor and success of both gen
tlemen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
IFrom the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the AtchiSOn Globe.
Although talk is cheap, too many
people waste language.
Experience also teaches a number
of things you shouldn't know.
It doesn't hurt a suicide any to call
him a coward, which he probably is
Nearly every man keeps a lot of
receipts he will never have any use
for.
Your grammar is of secondary i'm
portance if you have something to
say.
Men have been known to. but did
any woman ever admit she was a
loafer?
If life is really a stage, more rot
ten fruit and cabbage should be
thrown.
While it may not be the mans fault.
we hate to look at a man who has
eyes like a pig.
One spends about half of his life
preparing to life. and the other half
in preparing to die.
AS rule the slush is deeper in the
Christmas magazines than it is dur
ing a January thaw-
As a rule a man is angry when he
whips his children and there is a lot
of piffle when he talks of the impor-
lance of stern disciDline
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Our Health Talks.

(By Old Doc Potts.)
Hay fever is the only great national
pastime that has not been curtailed on
account of the war. In the fall the
wheezers fly northward as far as their
means will permit.
From the standpoint of the suffer-
ing hay fever is a brand of physical
kultur which attacks one with leu
tonic frightfulness,~ and from the
standpoint of the innocent bystander
it is a fad There is probably no dis
ease in the world more sneezed about
and sneezed at and less understood
than this one.
The man can be a genuine hay fever
victim until he has amassed at least
100000, and in these times it re-
quires considerable sagacity to meet
this qualification.
People don't die of hay fever. One
way in which a man can cure hay
fever is to lose his fortune and be
forced to go to work on the section
Then the best you can get is a cold
in the head.
A neutral has about as much chance
nowadays as an innocent bystandel
who is attending a boiler explosion.
Yesterday we saw a bright lady
knitting washrag for soldier. The
| cost of this washrag when completed
will be about as follows:
Mental anguish while learning tc
knit, 500; material, Is cents; time
So. Total, S1O3.15
Good AL, non-skid, -puncturable
washrags can be bought in the store
for a nickel apiece
Efficiency, thou art a jewel
After the husband goes and plants
the seeds it seems as tho the wife
should keep her eye on the garden
All she has to do is to cultivate 1t two
or three times, pull the weeds, keep ii
well hoed and watered. bugyed
wormed and sprayed.
Mercy, How Time Flies!
Up to 101 o'clock, however, Londor
was not raided.-N. Y. Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18

What you been dom to get tired ?"
demanded the other.
Well" explained the thin one,
drawing a deep breath. "over to
Brother Smiths dey are measurin' ce
house for some new carpets. Dey
haven't got no yawdstick and is Just
exactly six feet tall. SO to oblige
Brother Smith Is been a-layin' down
and a-getting up all over deir house"
MIR. Dolby was found engaged IN
vigorously polishing his shoes.
What are you doing that Tor
the intruder asked. Il always thought
YOU wore patent leather shoes"
These are patent laether." replied
Dolby, painfully bringing his spinal
column into normal position, but the
patant on them has expired
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18

The latest invention designed to
bring the war to a speedy close is one
that permits aviators to fly at a height
which places them out of reach of air
craft guns. No effort appears to have
been made to keep the news from Ber-
lin. A large amount of camouflage
has emanated from both sides since
hostilfties began. The victory will
be won by the side having the larger
armies and the bigger guns and that
of course is the side of the entente
allies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18
ON SPUR f Gh MOMENT

The festive gent, who's always spent his
midnight kale in smart cafes,
Has been set back He's changed his tack
and trimmed his sail in divers ways.
The price to sup has been moved up be-
yond the common pliers means,
And he must HE to some nearby hash
house, low browed, for pork and beams
The luscious roast and quail on toast have
got to be such swell affairs
Account of war that they are for none but
munition millionaires.
dollar bill is very still. 1t makes no
noise, nor does a five.
You've got to spring the twenty thing to
make waiter look alive.
If prices keep on growing steep and even
toothpicks means expense,
Well have to go right back, you know, to
honest food and common sense.
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Chicago officials have started out to
break up the milk trust. This will be
sad news to the consumers, who will
be called upon ultimately to make
good all the expense to which the
milkmen are put by the litigation and
disturbance Of their business. Trust
busting" is the one big joke in the af-
fairs of the American public.
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Among the new situations growing
out of disturbances in the world of la
Dor is row among the officers of the
United Mine Workers of America. 1t
is too early to determine what effect
this will have on the coal situation.
but it is probable that as usual the
public viii be the sufferer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-18

Come on in; the waters fine. is the
substance of President wilson's ad-
dress to the state banks in behalf of
the federal reserve system. 1t is De
sirahle that the country should present
q united money front to its enemies.