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Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

without notice, strand all these
years I've served her and never q
cross. word"
"But why? What did you do?"
'It's my clumsiness, sir. / happened
to drop her hand mirror, and it broke,
it did. And then it was like herself
went mad. She flew into rage, sir,
and stamped her foot at me, and called
me a clumsy fool, and said it meant
seven years bad luck, and wouldn't
listen to me at all at all, and told me
to pack my trunk and go. that myself
was fired, and"
did she say fred Anne?"
'She did that, Captain Parr--"
at doesn't sound like Patria !"
at doesn't, sir. For the matter of
that she amt seemed like herself since
that dreadful affair ON the boat last
night"
what dreadful affair.""
| "You haven't heard about It, sir? A
poor invalid lady in the stateroom next
Miss Patria's went out Of her head
and jumped overheard and was
/ drowned, sir"
/ Anne hastily disappeared as Mrs.
Gilbert Wrenn, Patria's chaperon, en-
tered from the breakfast room with
her son Rodney. At sight of Parr they
+ broke into those wondering exclama-
/ tons he had anticipated.
"Why. Donald"
"Don! For the love of Mike! How
did you get here? Patria said"
Il flew" Captain Parr explained
modestly.
81 should say you did fly! What did
you do? Hire a special trainf"
y few" Parr iterated. Il planed
from Governors island this morning"
Donald looked round TO find the
footman waiting for his attention.
Yes, Gregory"
The man hesitated, with what
seemed singular reluctance TO deliver
his message.
Peg pardon, sir . Tn sorry
. Miss Claiming directs me TO say
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15
LAW HELPS JAPAN
How Our Near-Free- Trade Reve-
nue. Measure Operates.
Eastern Country Already Has Firm
Footing In American Markets, and
VIII Be In Even Better POSI-
ton After the War.

Figures given by a New York sta
tstical tyro on imports of hats and
materials for making them are way
of. The official figures of the depart
ment of commerce show, for 1912,
$1.984,6S7; 1913. S4,2SO. 403; 1914,
$5,197,95 1915, s4,S25,611; 1916.
$4.550.745. Here are increases rang
ing from ITO to $50 per cent over 1912.
and the record for 1913 is pretty good
evidence that even the Republican
rates in effect that year could not
keep Japan from doubling her sales Of
these articles TO US.
The New York writer finds that ex-
ports to Japan have increased at
greater ratio than imports from that
country, having trebled during the
nine months ended With March of this
year, over the same period of 1915.
Incidentally it might be remarked
that they were $13,O00,O00 less for the
nine months ended March, 1915, than
for the same period ended March,
1913, while imports from Japan dur
ing the period ended March, 1917.
were more than double what they
were for the period ended March,
1913. AS the writer remarks, 'These
exports include cotton, iron and steel
fabrications, railway cars. sole leather,
oils and resin," and many other raw
materials. Cotton for the Japanese
mills, which are driving us out of the
far Eastern textile trade; iron and
steel fabrications and railway cars
which are going to Russia; sole leath-
er for the manufacture of Russian
boots at which japanese shoemakers
have been toiling 10 hours day.
Little Of this trade will be in evidence
when the war is over; much. If not all.
of our import trade from japan will
continue under the present tariff pol
icy. In fact, 1t is quite certain that.
with her energies now devoted to sup
plying war materials released for
peaceful trade and her industries de-
veloped to pitch never before known
in her history, Japan will be quick to
take advantage of the American mar
ket under q near-free-trade tariff law.
Already her trade commission Is here
to study greater opportunities. The
argument of the New York trade ex-
pert" is amateurish.
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ming TO meet her. the brilliant moon
light glinted on a weapon in his hand.
With sob of despair, Patria turned
blindIy at right angles and ran-with-
out really approaching whittier she ran
out upon the harbor dock.
Behind her the automatic of the
japanese ratified shrewishly-and was
Unexpectedly answered from offshore
At the end of the dock, the girl
paused and glanced back. Hakuseki
had given up the pursuit-was, indeed,
running swiftly for shelter in the
dunes; but the rifles of his followers
were speaking animatedly.
A great flood of hope surged in her
bosom as she looked offshore and dis
covered an airplane settling down like
an immense water fowl upon the sur
face of the harbor, not twenty yards
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15
Heralds Republican Victory

Republicans in Washington, in con-
gress and out. have discussed with
unconcealed qualification the result
of the election in the Sixth Indiana
district. They appear to draw from
it that while the war overshadows pot
itics the people are thinking deeply
about party alignment and party prin-
ciples and pOncies. Dennis Flynn,
one of the most active Republican
workers in national politics for many
years, is happy over the result. He
sees in it inevitable victory for the
Republican party next year.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

1t occurs to US that Mr.. Daniels
could protitably be relieved of his ma
val responsibilities so as to enable
him to devote his entire attention to
the matters closest to his heart. It.
might be possible to create new
portfolio for him and give him the
title of secretary of personal recti-
tude and moral reform. In such pO-
sition he probably would cause us all
a lot of discomfort, but at least he
couldn't do any damage to the navy.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15
Valuable Piece Of Pronertx.

According to the figuring of the
New York tax department in its 1917
estimate. the Grand Central station is
the most valuable single property in
the city. Its value is reckoDed at $21,-
100000. The Equitable building and
site covering the block between Mas
sua street, Broadway, Pine and Cedar
streets is assessed at a value of 500
900 900, and the Pennsylvania station
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

is believed TO be worth S15,9S0,O00, &C
cording to current values. The Metro
poltan Life Insurance company build
ing is taxed at S12.5OO,O0O; B. Altman
* Co.'S dry goods store is rated as the
most valuable, at S14.100.OO0, and the
Waldorf-Astoria taxed at S11,650,000.
Is the most valuable hotel.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

the efforts to combat the spinach
aphis which seriously attacked the
truck crops of Virginia year after
year. This has been accomplished by
the introduction of the spotted lady
bird, which is said TO have proved
very effective in keeping down the
aphis. The first efforts in this diree-
ton were unsuccessful. owing to the
fact that there mas been extensive re-
moval OF trees and underbrush, and
this left TO accommodations for the
alteration of the lady birds, which
persisted during the winter. This has
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

accepted death as bravely as any mar
tyr OF the faith. That he was I'M
justly convicted and executed has
since been decided by Spain's tribunal,
which generally considered the case
months after the death of the victim.
and rs gravely handed down a de-
cision that Ferrer was innocent OF
the charges made against him!
Ferrer was born in a village near
Barcelona on January 10. 1859. Early
in life he became a shop boy, and then
ticket inspector on a Spanish rail
way. Although he had few education
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15
Deal Lightly with Corporations.

A Democratic house Of representa-
tives frames a war tax measure that
deals as lightly with the proft-gorged
corporations as the tread of a dancing
master. a Democratic senate COM
mittee on finance apparently has no
other purpose, though it changes the
method OF taking the tax.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15
UNJUSTLY SENT TO DEATH
Spanish Tribunals, After His Execu-
ton, concede That Ferrer Was Not
Guilty of Extreme Offense.

Spanish republicans, socialists, an
archists and radicals Of all degrees
celebrate January 10 as the birthday
Of Francisco Ferrer, who, convicted
OF having melted revolutionary riots
In Barcelona, was executed in 1909.
Ferrer was in many ways a remark
able mana fanatic of unbellef, who
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

al advantages he was naturally
student. and spent all his spare time
reading and studying scientific and
philosophical works. He early be-
came an opponent of the church and
a republican, and his intellectual abil-
ity won for him a place among the
leaders of the Spanish anti-clericals
and anti-mOnarchiStS.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15
SYNOPSIS.

Patria, last of 1.-The Fighting Chan
nings," en- route to Newport, her summer
home is thrown to drown from a Sound
steamer by agents of Baron Huroki, chief
of the japanese secret service, who, con-
spring to embroil the United States and
Mexico, desires control of the extensive
Claiming munition plants owned by Pa
tria. Her physical counterpart Elaine, a
notorious dancer in HuToks pay. substi-
Sutes for Patria.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

It's mighty queer how hard 1t is TO
make people believe We are not loaf
ing when we are sitting still. thinking
Exchange.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

The day Of Republican opportunity
VIII the leaders in the
watchtowers at Washington see its
dawn :
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

now been taken care OF and the raw
ages of the aphis greatly decreased.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15
CURLING Ravaues Of Aphls.

Announcement has been made by
the United States bureau of entomol-
oGy that great success has attended
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15
THE CAST.

MRS. VERNON CASTLE as
Patria Charming.
MILTON STILLS as Donald Parr.
WARNER GLAND as Baron
Huroki.
DOROTHY GREEN as Fanny
Adair.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-08-15

the sloop. Then turning his back to
these he drifted from their ken along
the wave-packed sands. A few hun
dred wards farther on, and he checked
sharply, with low-pitched cry of
amaze. A curve of the island had
brought him within view of the body
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-16

Miss Weightman is the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Matt Weightman, Jr. She
is an Alpha Phi, has taken part in a
good many of the college plays, and
Is one of the very popular students of
Washburn.
The program for Thursday evening,
which is open to the public, and to
which all interested persons are invit-
ed, will be as follows:
Laetus Sorte Mea Cuttings from the
story of q Short Lifel ..Julianna Ewin z
Martha, George and Miss Charlotte. =.
Thomas Nelson Page
Miss Weightman.
NY Heart at Thy Sweet Voice (from
Samson and Delilah) ......- Saint Saens
Miss Lauterbach.
Afterward .......-.....Ia lam MeClaren
Miss Weightman.
GIogh Leighter
Miss Lauterbach.
The Committee on Matrimony Anonymous
-ou jours Amour Edmund Stedman
Love on Deck: George Barlow
Miss Weightman.
y X X
Miss Gladys West will entertain her
bridge club Wednesday of next week.
x X
Mrs Harvey Delano, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Murdoch OF
| Wichita, is on her way home from the
Orient, where she has been since her
marriage. The Murdocks have re-
ceived a cablegram saying that she is
on the Empress of Russia, and will
arrive at Vancouver, B. c., May 2S-
! Navigation has opened on the
| YangtSe and Mrs. Delano came out OF
Chung King, which is eighteen hun
dred miles up the stream, on the first
boat down. She will arrive in Wichita
for a visit with her parents about
June /. Before leaving Chung King
Mrs. De1ano took part in the organiza-
ton of Red Cross society among the
various nationals there. She writes
that all hands are greatly excited
about United States entry into The
war and China's threat to get in.
Topeka friends of the Murdocks
will be interested to know of Mrs
Delano's return to the States for {
visit.
Mrs Clyde Miller invited guests fol
an informal afternoon at bridge al
her home this afternoon in compli.
ment to Mrs. S. z. Barber of New Yorl
City. who is in Topeka for a shori
time Mrs. Barber and Mrs. Miller
| were neighbors in Governor Square
block when Mrs. Barber made hel
home in Topeka. and those who played
this afternoon were a few of Mrs. Bar
| ber's close friends.
The executive committee of tn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-16

for the Topeka druggists wives to ar
range for the parties to be given for
the delegates to the convention now
in session, was this morning elected to
the place of second vice president of
the Woman's auxiliary of the Kansas
Association of Druggists. The presi-
dent elected was Mrs. G. Q. Lake of
Kansas City. and the first vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Ray Hassig of Kansas City.
Topeka women have been chosen to
the other two offices. They are: Mrs.
y. ]. Petro, secretary, and Mrs. N. G.
Edelblute, treasurer.
The women are having a card party
this afternoon at the Elks club, fol-
lowing a luncheon served at l o'clock
today. Tuesday night the men and
women of the convention had dane
ing party at Kirkpatrick hall. The
hall was decorated with spring flowers
and with the national colors. About
two hundred people attended.
X X x
The XIV club will meet Friday aft
ernoon with Mrs. Frank Vaughn, 211
West Eleventh street.
X X X
Miss Mary Weightman graduated this
spring from the Washburn college
school of expression, under Miss Helen
Griffin. She will give her diploma re-
cita1 Thursday evening at o'clock in
Washburn chapel. She will be assist
ed by Miss Esther Lauterbach, vocal
list. Miss Weightman gave an enter
tainment in Nortonville Tuesday night.
She also has class in expression at
HOyt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-16

TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY

Those who attended the Lotus club
party last evening at Hudson's hall
were: Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Furry, Mrs
Arthur Mills. DIR. and Mrs. c. c. Allen,
Mrs. Belle Hall Small, Mrs. H. w.
Neiswanger, Miss Withers, Miss Smith,
Miss Temple of Sedalia, Miss Lou
Neeley of Leavenworth, Miss Baldwin
Kansas City, Miss Nellie McClintock,
Miss Mary Thompson, Miss Glenna
Cross, Miss Lillian Whitelock, Miss
Virgiline Mulvane, Miss Margaret Null
vane, Miss Pearl Powleson, Miss SUSIE
Jewell, Miss Myrtle Jetmore. Miss
Ranney, Miss Lolita Ranney, Miss
Frances Moon, Miss Mary Moon, Miss
Villa Rogers, Miss Mabel Quigley,
Miss Madge Johnson, Miss Martie
Whaley, Miss Alice Prescott, Miss Bessie
West, Miss Winifred Wagner, Miss
Franc Littlefield, Miss Kellam, Miss
Norma Smith, Miss Edna Crane, Miss
Susie Wilder. Miss Vera Low, Miss
Harriet Jones, Mr.. Walter Gust, Mr..
Ben Criswell, Mr.. Dean Low. Mr. E.
P. Kepley, Mr.. Fred McGiffin, Mr.. j.
E. Morgan, Mr.. L. Bronson, Mr.. H. S.
Morgan, Mr.. Oscar Woolverton, Mr. E.
j. White Mr. Clarence Young, Mr.. w.
F. Evans, Mr.. Harry Weaver, Mr.. Eu
gene Hagan. Mr.. Frank Bennett, Mr.
Galen Nichols, Mr.. A. F. Williams, Mr.
Harry Williams, Mr. S. Stoddard, Mr.
Willard Scott, Mr.. Edward Dennis, Mr..
Walter Burgess. Mr.. Mart Wikidal, Mr..
Will WikidaI, Mr.. Julius Wedding, Mr..
Ed Mcbride, Mr.. Ralph Moore, Mr.
Ed Kellam, Mr.. Frank Davis, Mr.. Fay
Howell Mr. j. C. Waters, Mr.. George
Hayden, Mr.. Ben Johnson, Mr.. David
Sibley Mr. Frank Cain, Mr.. c. W.
Barnes Mr. w. A Alexander Mr.. c.
E. Curry.
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for Lake Topinabee, Mich. to spend
the summer at their lakeside home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Randall Burrow of
Cambridge, Mass, are expected some
time in June for a visit to Mr. j. R.
Burrow and to Mrs. Burrows people.
Mrs. J. w. Lauck and her daughters.
Edith and Helen, of Olsburg, are
visiting Mrs. Lauck's sister, Mrs. F. c.
Beck.
Mr.. Ernest Biene, of Joplin, will ar
rive Thursday to join Mrs. Biene m a
visit to their relatives They will re-
turn home together Sunday.
Mrs. Fred Stewart has returned from
Coffeyville, where she visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Lewis Croker.
Lieut.. Charles Ryder, the son of
Mrs. L. A. Ryder. has been appointed
instructor in the officers training
school at Fort Niagara, Buffalo, N. Y.
Miss Madeline Whitney, who is n
student in the Parsons School of Art
in New York, will leave New York
Sunday to visit friends aid relatives
in Mohawk, Mt. Morris and Rochester.
She will stop on her way home in
! Lafayette, Ind, to visit Mrs. William
Croker. who was formerly Miss
! Blanche Rohrer, of Topeka.
The American Ladies' club will meet
Thursday, May II, at the home of Mrs.
/ Roy Stoves Ala East Eleventh street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-16
SANTA FEE NOTES

Notes and personals from Santa Fe
by Frances Jones, 211 Grattan street.
Telephone between and 10 a. M. 1880;
other hours. 4751 K-2.
W. w. Hutton, general chairman of the
Board of Adjustment for the Order of
Railway Conductors, has returned from Il
business trip to Amarillo, Texas.
Roy Linn. has recently been appointed
assistant instructor in the machinist ap-
prentice school room.
L. Z. Painter has returned to his work
in the freight claim department after be-
ing absent from work on account of the
death of his father.
Miss Mildred Here has resigned her
position in the freight claim department.
The work has been taken up by Miss A.
Palmer of North Topeka.
The annual invoice taken at the stores
department is keeping the office force
busy. The ware house employees finished
their part in the invoicing several days
ago.
10 Schiffelbein, boiler maker, has been
appointed one of the boiler inspectors
in the boiler shops
Charles Hoffman is a new employee in
the machine shops.
Mrs. s. Grossnfckel has returned to her
home after spending week in Kansas
Citv. Mo.
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ans fashions. The up to date doublet is
built on the Russian blouse lines, but
toning under the arm and made with
a wide belt, sometimes a jeweled at
fair, if the doublet is of silk. A patch
pocket is attached to the belt with
wide straps just as it was in Shakes
peares time. If the doublet is made
of velvet or brocade and worn over
a soft silk gown with peasant inner
bodice and sleeves of georgette, it
makes a strikingly nice looking cos
tune.
TROLLEY TALK.
Two girls on the car were discuss
irg the ever-absorbing topic of dress.
SAID one of them, bubbling with en-
thusiasm: Il have been downtown,
and l saw the darlingest coat you ever
laid your eyes on. 1t has flare oh,
laats-Gee 1 wisht 1 hadt-and :
| belt"
X x X
There were a number of heroes
around town for few days, but quite
| a number of them are just plain citi-
zens again, due to some military per-
sons at the fort. When registration
for the reserve camp opened. our
| young hero talked the situation over
with some fellow workers and decided
| that there was much that was ettrac-
tive in an officers life, especially to a
I
in the draft. So he turned in his APP
plication. He had had no military
training, to be sure, and his experience
| in directing large forces of men had
been chiefly in ordering the two office
boys in his department, but he felt
that he had arranged for a chance to
! lead heroic charges against the Huns
| and to capture crown princes and
great generals. After undergoing the
examiners scrutiny, he returned to
1 -
had signed up for the reserve camp.
| All the girls he knew called him on the
| phone. and invited him out and as
sured him that "he was just too brave
for anything" Then he ate six fare
we'll dinners, wiped away six sets OF
tears from shining feminine eyes. and
received a bale of congratulations on
his noble self-sacrifice. Then the sift-
ing of the 4,0O0-odd applications al
| the fort began, and our hero was not
among the officers-to-be.
Now he takes up most of his time
| explaining and framing up a work
| able alibi.
X X X
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mrs. Claude Butlin of the City OF
Mexico, who is visiting her mother
Mrs. Anna Wilson. has returned from
Kansas City, where she spent a few
days with Mrs. Stoddard.
Mrs. Arthur Lingafelt has returned
to her home in Oklahoma City, after
a visit to her mother, Mrs. Jane.
Brewer.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Staebler mo-
tored to Kansas City and are visiting
friends a few days.
Miss Eva Dewey of Wichita, wht
has been visiting Mrs. Luther Burns
is now the guest of friends in Kansa.
City. She will return to Topeka tt
resume her visit to Mrs. Burns unit
Saturday, when she will leave fol
Wichita.
Mrs w. H. Whitton and her son
William. Jr., of ST. Louis. Mo, will
arrive Thursday to visit Mrs. Wilton.
parents, DR.. and Mrs. 5. B. Anderson
and her sister, Mrs. J. K. Rankin.
Mrs. George Neil will leave soon fol
Quincy. ILL.,, to visit her daughter, Mrs
E. P. Lannan. Mr.. and Mrs. Lamar
have just completed a new HON.
which they are now occupying.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Watson. Mis-.
A1tha Watson and Frederick Watson
will leave soon after the. close of schoo
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afternoon at her home, 419 Topeka
avenue.
x X X
The forestry department of the
WomanS club has postponed its meet
ing for Thursday afternoon until
Thursday, May "a, when the meeting
will be held at Washburn college. The
change in date is made on account OF
the musical which will be given tomor-
row afternoon by the music depart
ment of the club at the First Bap.s:
church.
x K x
Those who are up on Shakespeare
know all about the doublet of the old
days. The doublet has made it's APP
pearance again, and judging by tho
pleasant manner in which it is re-
ceived, it will become popular in woIn-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-16
Bad Cough? Feverish? Grfppy?

You need DR. Kings New Discovery to
stop that cold, the soothing balsam ingre
dents heal the irritated membranes.
soothe the sore throat, the antiseptic quail
tiles kill the germ and your cold is quick
ly relieved. Dr. Kings New Discovery has
for As years been the standard remedy
for coughs and colds in thousands of
homes. Get bottle to-day and have it
handy in your medicine chest for coughs.
colds Group, grippe and all bronchial af-
fections. At your druggist. 50c.-Adv.