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Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21
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+ THE ART OF SLEEPING +
+ IN CHURCH. +

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One of the fine arts which would
almost seem to have become lost
art is the art of sleeping in church.
1t is believed to have tloulisneu
greatly in the 18th and 18th centur-
les, when sermons were anywhere
from an hour to three hours in
length. One gets a hint of its exist
ance in the famous phrase of George
Herbert. himself an American di-
vine, when, speaking of prosy pre-
achers, he said that in such a case
God himself took text and preach
ed patience.
But the art has decayed during the
10Th and Goth centuries. The mod
ern preacher dares not perpetrate
a sermon of an hours duration, at
least not upon an average congrega-
ton of laymen, and ventures to dis
course for 40 minutes only with fear
and trembling. Twenty-minute SER
monettes are in high favor with the
modern congregation and the ser
mon half an hour is merely tolerat-
ed.
In these circumstances it is not to
be wondered that sleeping in church
tends to become lost art. There is
opportunity for but little more than
a cat-nap, and this is hollow mock
cry and unsatisfying sham. What
comfort can the tired business man
get from a snooze ecclesiastical
which has no more than fairly
wrapped him in slmubrous ease be-
fore Lastly" thunders in his ears
and the doxology breaks in upon his
sweet and richly earned repose?
Nevertheless, there are those who
still practice the art even under these
heavy handicaps. 1t is refreshing
to see them snuggle down into their
corner of the family pew and COM
pose themselves to the embrace of
Morpheus. They are brave and I'M
feeling of the preacher or the smiles
of the congregation. They calmly
close their eyes and wrap themsel-
YES in the draICry of their couch
or its churchly equivalent. The
breaches mellifluous accents sing
lullaby in their ears. With the prac-
teal dexterity of the commercial
traveller or of Napolean sleeping in
his carriage as he rolled from vic
tory to victory, they snatch few
moments of refreshment from sleep.
Then the look of revival in their
eyes when they awake at the psy-
Geological moment and join in the
occasional as if they had been vir-
tuously awake every moment ! The
sight of such delight is worth the
trouble of going to church for. But
the art must begin to be cultivated
early in life. 1t is not easily acquir-
ed after one has entered the middle
forties.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21
Insomnia.

Indigestion nearly always dis
turbs the sleep more or less, and is
often the cause of insomnia. Eat a
light supper with little if any meat,
and no milk; also take one of Cham
berlain's tablets Immediately after
supper, and see If you do not rest
much better. Obtainabls every
whore.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21

You can't win the cross of iron;
The maltese is far ahead;
But you can do your bit for Sam
And support the one that's Red.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21

+ - + + + I. + + 80 *+++*
Herbert C. Hoover says food will
decide the war. Admiral Parry says
aircraft will be the deciding factor.
General Goethals says ships will win
tile victory.
And each is right. Our allies can
not win if famine befall them. Ships
must be had to transport the needed
food supplies to them. And if Ger
many should gain distinct aircraft
ascendency she would be victorious
in and battles.
To supply the allies with food we
must stop national waste and econo-
mize, as Mr.. Hoover says, on wheat,
meats and fats.
To convey that food to them we
must build ships on stupendous
scale and find more effective means
of protecting ships against subma-
rines.
To prevent German aircraft ascen-
dency we must train thousands of
aviators and build thousands of air.
planes-at first the more easily built
training craft, and, as soon as poss-
IDLE, battlecraft.
And meanwhile we shall have the
stupendous work of drafting and
training great armies to overcome
the wastage of the present fight
forces in Great Britain and France.
1t lies within the power of every
man and woman in this country to
render some measure of service in
this gigantic program. Those who
will not be called on to fight can
help with their money. Those who
have no money to spare can lend a
hand at food conservation or food
production. All can rally in one
way or another to the great cause
of liberty, democracy and humanity.
The police department is not so
slow when it can catch some of
these fast drivers of automobiles.
Zero in literary effort-writing
a who's who" of contemporary
Russia.
Germany is not cocksure about
the diversion that matter, neither
are the allies.
The incurable nut suggests that
the Portuguese ought to do we'll in a
fight with the aqueducts.
Most people go to the lake for
freckles, although a movie manager
makes them easily available.
The man is wonder all right,
but queer-he has no original plan
for winning the war.
Our weather bulletin: Fair and
warmer; thunder showers. 50-50i
Forty per cent of the anti-dry
petition signers are said to have
been wonderland they are the lead
ing buyers of dry goods.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21
coULEE CITY DISPATCH coULEE CITY wAsHJUNE a. 1917

Enuered as second-class matter November s.
1909. at the post-ofice at Coulee City WASH. un-
der the Act of March 3. 1879
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21

The police department is not so
slow when it can catch some of
these fast drivers of automobiles.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21

Zero in literary effort-writing
a who's who" of contemporary
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21

Germany is not cocksure about
the diversion that matter, neither
are the allies.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21

The man is wonder all right,
but queer-he has no original plan
for winning the war.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21

The incurable nut suggests that
the Portuguese ought to do we'll in a
fight with the aqueducts.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21

Most people go to the lake for
freckles, although movie manager
makes them easily available.
Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1917-06-21

Our weather bulletin: Fair and
warmer; thunder showers. 50-50i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
SENATE NOTES

Two old landmarks will disappear
from the Kansas statutes if a bill in
troduced by Senator Schoch of Shaw
nee becomes a law.
Spinning wheels and looms and
yoke of oxen" are eliminated from
the law setting forth personal prop
erty exemptions.
The Kansas exemption law was
placed on the statute books when prac-
tically every farmer owned one or
was done largely with the unwieldy
beasts. They gave away first to the
horse and mule. The horse and mule
are gradually giving away to the farm
tractor. There is no longer any need
for the exemption of yoke of oxen
and Senator Schoch seeks to strike
that encumbrance from the statute
books.
One hundred and seventy-seven
bills have been introduced in the SEN
ate and twenty-seven of them have
been introduced by Senator Schoch of
Shawnee.
If every senator had equaled his
record there would now be 1,0S0 bills
in the senate and if that lick were
continued for the remainder of the
session, at the end of fifty days there
would be in the neighborhood of $500
bills in the senate hopper instead of
the probable 500 or 500 expected.
Efforts will be made by members
of the legislature to obtain an appro-
priation for the benefit of the mem
bers of the Kansas National Guard
who performed service on the Next
can border under federal orders. A
bill to that effect carrying an ap-
preparation of probably $4,000, will
be introduced by Senator Barr of
Bourbon county.
The guardsmen received SO cents a
y-privates-while they were on
duty. That is the stipend allowed by
the federal government The Kansas
state laws allow 81 90 a day to guards
men on duty. The bill by Barr will
seek to appropriate to the guardsmen
the difference between the amount
paid each man by the federal govern
ment and the amount he would have
drawn had he been under state Or
derS-
The bill will not apply to commits
stoned officers. Many of the guards
men lost their positions while they
were on the border and men with
families are now without work or
prospects of work becauses they an
swered the call. Adj. Gen. c, L. Mar
tin has investigated one case where
the wife of a guardsman was COM
PEELED to distribute four little chill
dren among the neighbors before her
husbands return and he hasn't
worked day since he returned.
James Malone, senator from Raw
Inns, expects to introduce a bill to-
day putting a crimp in romance. He
would require the publication of a
prospective marriage for two weeks
before it was performed. There would
be no secret weddings; there could be
no elopements. Senator Malone is not
responsible for the bill 1t is urged
by the club women of Wichita and
Senator Malone merely introduces it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18

At this particular time more people
Of prominence. socially, politically ana
financially are lending their names 10
the organization of all sorts of new as
sociations, ostensibly for the uplift of
mankind. than the records have ever
shown before A public protest
against these increasing devices TO pro-
vide a living for bunch OF shrewo
promoters is heard. The busy men IN
our great cities whose addresses nave
fallen into the hands of these pro-
motors and who are receiving eXpen-
sively engraved invitations to join IN
various educational, philanthroplc'
political and other enterprises, says
Leslie's. are beginning to rebel at the
multiplicity and pertinacity of the So
licitations that pour in daily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
THAT LEAK.

Suppose there was a leak. If the
president told some of his official fam
lily that he intended to send peace
note to the warning nations of Europe
it was not an unusual thing to do and
he was within his rights. The only
reason for not making his intention
public was that naturally he would
not want the information to reach the
foreign capitals in advance of his note.
Nobody could know in advance
what effect his note would have on
the war There was no reason what
ever to suppose that it would bring
about a cessation of hostilities. How
could he know or even suppose that a
lot of Wall street gamblers who had
loaded up with war stocks would take
fright and cause a slump in the mar
ket?
If these men who were endeavoring
to profit by the misfortunes of Europe
had kept their heads and waited until
the effect of the presidents note had
been determined there would have
been no losses and therefore no fuss
about a leak.
When a man enters a gamblers
game he should be prepared to pocket
possible losses without squealing. The
losers are the men who guessed
wrong. If the peace note had brought
the results hoped for by the president
they would have won and the other
crowd would have lost
In all games of chance one man can
not win except at the expense of an
other. If he can not judge whether
or not the cards are stacked he should
stay out.
The country has lost nothing; then
why all this pother?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
SANTA FE
Notes and personals from Santa Fe.
by Frances Jones. 211 Grattan street,
telephone between 8 and 10 a. m, $3.50;
other hours, 4751 K-2.

Topeka lodge No. II, Switchmen's Union
of North America, will hold a special meet
ing Friday at *. of p. hall, at p. M
Mrs. Herman Wood and two sons, of
Princeton, Ind, are visitors at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. g. Schwerdtfeger
Fireman and Mrs. Charles Brown have
changed their residence from Scotland ave-
nue. to Chandler street.
Opal Strait, little daughter of H V.
Strait of the stores department and Mrs
Strait, who has been seriously i'll with
diphtheria, is improving.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cox and daughter
Edna have left for Phoenix. Ariz, where
they will spend a month visiting relatives
The Ladies' Auxiliary to the S. U. of n.
A will meet Friday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. John Nelson.
Rev. NJ. L. Robey will conduct the re-
ligious service Friday morning at 1O:45
o'clock in the telegraph school.
The Friday noon meeting in the new mill
will be in charge of Rev. B. H. Hobbs
The first of the series of practical talks
will be given next Wednesday evening at
the r. r. Y. NJ. c. A This will be a talk
On Practical Electricity, Economy in the
Home and Shop" and will be given by
H. A. French foreman. of the electrical
Illustrated
H. o. Walker of the auditor of disburse-
ments office, has been called to White CITY
to attend the funeral of his father who
recently died. Mrs. H o. Walker, wife of
Mr.. Walker, was buried Sunday, January
II.
The postal card found in the pound can
you free to the Midwinter Exposition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
North Side News

The filling station which the Stand
ard Oil company is erecting at the
corner of Gordon and Central avenue
Is nearing completion. 1t is an at
tractive affair of brick and white
Stucco with wide projecting roof OF
red thing. Some one compared it to a
Chinese tea room. The building will
be finished within a week. tho the
construction of the underground stor-
ing tanks will take somewhat longer.
about 1000 gallons. The North To-
peka station is one of three being
erected in different parts of the city.
isis" Turner was arrested by the
police this morning on a sheriff's war
rant. A felony charge will be lodged
against her as a persistent violator of
the prohibitory law. Sis" is an old
offender, whose relations with the po-
lice in past years have been almost
marks of many battles, and the police
have wearied of her activities.
North Topeka young people say that
if Commissioner Porter will only ar
range to have the snow cleaned off of
field park and will supply a few cleo
trio light bulbs for the empty sockets
in the outdoor lighting equipment,
they are ready to vote for him for any
office for which he cares to run.
The Senior B. Y. P. U. of the Bap-
fist church gave a play last December
, entitled Mrs. McGreevey's Boarders.'
The play met with such success that
the society has decided to put it on at
several of the surrounding towns. Ar
engagements are being made to produce
it at Kiro in a short time, and a pro-
posal to present it at Quincy school is
meeting with approval. Other vaude-
vile acts will accompany the play.
Social and Personal.
i. Mr.. and Mrs. j. r. Price of 906 n.
Jackson street, will celebrate their
crystal wedding anniversary this eve
ming. Many friends of the couple will
be present. The Baptist choir is to
attend in a body. The members of
| the Ladies' Aid society of the Baptist
| church, have arranged a surprise for
the couple.
mer North Topekan, is visiting friends
in town today.
Local market men are predicting a
short potato crop next season. The
excessively high price of seed potatoes
I mas caused many growers to substitute
other crops. For a successful grower,
the coming season it is predicted, will
bring a rich harvest of hard cash.
Herbert Mack of Coffeyville, former
pastor of the Episcopalian church, is
visiting friends in North Topeka
H. E. Dawler has accepted a posi-
ton with the Graham Clothing COM
pany.
Armin Fassler, Of the Interocean
mills, is i'll at his home with the grip.
c. F. Baer, formerly of North To-
peka, who has made his home in Abb
iene for some time, has returned to
this city to live.
A. NJ. Petro, Druggist-Adv.
Mrs Ruth Barratt Reed. of Great
Bend, is in North Topeka on business.
Mr.. r. r. Baer will return today
from a business trip to Kansas City.
Mrs. Bertha Hirschberg has been
called to the bedside of her mother
who is critically i'll at Seabrook
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
ANNUAL Y. w. BANQUET
New Directors Will. Be Chosen at
Meeting Friday Evening.

The annual meeting and members
banquet of the Y. w. c. A. will be held
next Friday evening at the Y. w. c. A
building. At the meeting annual re-
ports of the officers of the different
departments will be read and nine va
cancies on the board of directors will
be filled. The present members of the
board whose terms expire at this
meeting and who are up for re-elec-
ton, are: Mrs. w. S. Lindsay, Mrs.
David Page, Mrs. E. c. Seger, Miss
Mildred Shaw, Miss Annie B. Sweet
and Miss Mary MacLennan. The fol-
lowing names have been suggested
to fill vacancies in the board created
by resignation Mrs. Charles Mitchell,
Mrs. Clyde Miller and Mrs. c. D. Skin
ner.
Following is the program for the
meeting and banquet:
Piano solo, Mrs. Leland McAfee.
Blessing, Mrs. Troxell
Song During the dinner) by the
various clubs of the association.
Annual reports as follows: Treas
urer, Mrs. Davies; religious work, Mrs.
TroXell; physical education, Mrs. W. ].
Lewis; lunch room, Mrs. Vest; girls
work, Miss Mary MacLennan; mem
bership, Miss Ellen Foberg; house, en-
ployment and announcements, Miss
Fannie Hart, secretary of the Y. w.
c. A
Election of officers of the associa-
ton and members of the board for
the coming year will follow and. the
meeting will be closed by an address
by Mrs. D. L. MacEachron on "Y. W.
c. A. Ideals and the announcements
of the results of the balloting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
He WAS SCARED"
Biggers Says That's Reason He
Confessed to Killing Cox.
Companions Muss Up Testi-
mOny in Trial Today.

Fear of the mysterious third de-
gree" the fact that not man of his
color was present and excitability
prompted Claude Biggers, accused of
the murder of John Cox, deputy game
warden, to sign the written confess
sion he did on the day of the murder
Such was a statement of Biggers on
the witness stand today when he told
what he claims is the true version OF
the shooting.
Biggers declared that Cox never
showed his authority for arresting
him, other than to display piece of
paper he drew from his pocket. Big
gers says he walked down the road
about a block with Cox and Haskell. Il
colored youth with Biggers at the
time. He had given Cox his gun.
Then Biggers stopped and asked Has
kell for a cirgarette.
Z" Come on and never mind the
cigarette, 3" Biggers testified Cox
said.
Cigarette Story Denied.
At the same time, according to Big
gers's testimony, Cox raised one of
the guns he was carrying and pointed
it at him. Biggers says he reached
over, grabbed Haskells doubled bar
relied shotgun and fired. Haskell and
Watts, the coIored boys with Biggers.
declared the cigarette incident occur
red a considerable time before the
shooting. Biggers admitted thai
while only twenty years of age he had
been arrested five times on different
charges.
Biggers told the jury he planned to
return to Topeka and give himself up
to the officers but was afraid OF being
caught by the farmers. He found the
game warden's license lying by Cox's
side, he declared, took it and his gun
and ran half a mile where he took
off his overalls, tore the certificate
and laid down his gun in order to
escape identification by farmers who
were securing the country for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
is 1T THE ONLY WAY?

'If woman suffrage is to become
Nationwide during the present gener-
alton, it will have to be gained thru a
federal amendment" says Ida Hustled
Harper, chairman of the National
Suffrage Press committee, in a letter
addressed to the editor of the State
Journal. She sets forth some of the
reasons for making the fight for fed
eral amendment as follows:
1.-The reason the suffragist are urg-
ing a national amendment is because
it never would go to the voters of the
states for decision; it would be acted
upon entirely by the legislatures,
which are in the main composed of
selected men; it would have an open
ballot, so that it's friends and its enc
mics could be distinguished; the cor
rupt influences which have so many
times worked thru the secret ballot
TO defeat state amendment could not
Influence a legislature without the
facts becoming apparent to the pub
lie
1.-The constitutions of a large num-
Der of states are so worded that they
could not be amended for woman suf-
frage. even if a majority of the voters
were willing. and in others, especially
in the east, the forces opposed are
such as it is almost impossible to
overcome
The distrust of the voters implied
in the foregoing seems in bad taste
when coming from party which is
seeking Justice at their hands. 1t is
possible that similar distrust on
the part of the voters is one of the
strongest influences in keeping the
franchise from women.
Let the suffragists once convince the
people of state that their cause is
a just one and that the comforting of
the franchise upon them is a good
thing an he state will find way to
give them the vote.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18
WOMEN HIS DOWNFALL
Gambling Also Helped to Drive Lange
to Forging Checks.

Women and gambling are RESPONSE
BILE for the downfall of Fred Lange,
20-year-old son of F. G. Lange, a
wealthy Cedar Point farmer, accord
ing to a statement made by Lange in
the county Jail today. Lange was ar
rested Wednesday in North Topeka
charged with forging checks amount
ing to 1904 on the Citizens State bank.
This money has been spent in the
last few weeks, according to informa
ton received by the police. And this
is not all of the money thrown away
by the country lad on bad companions.
Information possessed by the police is
to the effect that only recently his
mother gave a note for $500 to cover
overdue notes held by North Topeka
banks against the youth.
LANCE came ITO Topeka from the
farl, and got & job as a switchman.
He lost his job about Christmas time
and hasn't done thing since. Mean
time he picked up bad companions
and became a victim to women and
gambling. Lange's parents will arrive
in Topeka this afternoon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-18

Mrs D. r. Finley and daughter Mabel.
of Seattle. Wash, have arrived to make
C. L. Wood, and Mrs. Wood, Forest ave-
nue..
Rev. Mary A. Sibbetts will deliver a free
lecture Friday evening at the Oakland
who's Business Is It?" The lecture will
begin at Z 40 O'Clock and given under the
auspices of the Oakland w. c. T. L.
T. F. Allen is i'll with grippe at his home,
Forest avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred A. worley. Mrs. R. NJ.
Rathbun and daughter Edna, Of Oklahoma.
Formoso, who were called to the city by
the death of Mrs Catherine Rink, have
returned to their respective homes.
Mrs C. Z. Main and children of Kansas
City are visiting Mr.. and Mrs C. W. Main,
Green street.
Members of the Rebekah lodge will meet
at 8 o'clock Friday evening at the 1. o.
o. L. hall for practice
J. Wilson has returned to Kansas City
after spending the week end with his fam
lily, AFTER avenue.
their card club at their home. AFTER ave-
nue.. The honors of the evening were won
by Mr. and Mrs. j. II. Weaver.
treatment at a lo"',l hospital has returned
to his home, in Ivo,.--.seh. Mr.. Arnett is
greatly improved.
sent musical program Saturday evening,
January 20, at Tecumseh. Miss Binn will
De assisted by the Tecumseh Grange.
A box supper will be given Thursday
evening at the l. o. o. f. hall in Oakland.
The supper and program is under the di-
rection of the senior class of the Oakland
high school.
Rev. Mary A. Sibbetts. a W. c. T. L.
lecturer, will deliver several addresses
Friday afternoon at the Oakland schools
Miss Elizabeth May Bannon and Mr..
Raymond c. clearinghouse were married
Wednesday evening at the home of the
bride, 30S wabash avenue. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev c. D. banner.
of Sylvia, Kan. About twenty six guests
witnessed the ceremony. The young cou-
pie will make their home at i45 Emmett
street.
The postal card found in the pound can
of Rumford Baking Powder will admit
you free to the Midwinter Exposition.
ADV.