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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
HOUSEHOLD HINTS


Cocoa Cake-Cream a tablespoon of
butter or lard with one cup sugar;
add one cup buttermilk or sour milk,
one level teaspoonful soda, two heap
ing teaspoons cocoa, pinch of salt, two
cups flour and one teaspoon baking
powder. Flavor with vanilla, or use
brown sugar and spice for a change.
Spice Cake-Cream together four
tablespoons partly melted butter and
half cup sugar. then put IN half cup
molasses and half cup sour milk into
which one spoon of soda has been dis
solved; then stir in two cups sifted
[ flour. one cup chopped raisins and
Zone teaspoon cinnamon. nutmeg and
cloves.
War Fruit Cake-No one need go
without fruit cake for Thanksgiving
dinner with this cheap recipe on
hand. Two cups brown sugar two
cups hot water, two tablespoons lard,
one package raisins. one teaspoon salt
one teaspoon cinnamon, one teaspoon
nutmeg. Boil ingredients five min
utes after they begin to bubble.
When cold add three cups flour.
one teaspoon soda dissolved in tea
spoon hot water. Bake in two loaves
forty five minutes in a slow oven.
Eggless, Sugarless Ginger Cake
( One-fourth cup melted butter one
cup molasses, one cup sour milk two
and one-third cups flour. two tea
spoons soda, two teaspoons ginger,
half teaspoon salt One-fourth cup
out.
Ihe Table
Rice Potatoes Cmeat substitute)-
Wash one-half cup rice. put in skillet
with two cups milk, one cup water.
salt and pepper. Put in oven and
four or five potatoes and lay in the
rice with thin slice of bacon on each
b potato and bake one hour
Potatoes and rice may be served
n a or hnr
people.
Quick and Economical Coffee Cake
-Four tablespoons sugar, two table,
spoons lard or lard substitute, one
level tablespoon salt, one-half tea
spoon nutmeg, two eggs, one quart of
flour, not quite a quart of milk (half
water and half milk will dol, three
heaping teaspoons king powder.
Mix sugar, salt lard and eggs to-
gether, add milk; sift flour and bak-
ing powder together and add. Put
in large. square tin. Sprinkle lfttla
cinnamon and Sugar on top. Bake in
hot oven. Test like cake.
EgSless Brown Sugar Cookies
One-hsf cup shortening. two CUPS
brown sugar, one teaspoon soda dia
solved in one-haIf cup water. one tea
{ spoon -flavoring. pinch of salt, enough
flour to roll.
Sugarless. BUTTERFLIES Puddin1
Stir one cup of any kind of the nra-
pared breakfast foods into one c,,n
OF scaldcd skim milk and add one chr,
OF rice water thot). As soon as tba
mixture becomes thick, remove from
lire ana str gradually into cup OF
ehorI ed figs and one-quarter clIp NJ
chopl ed suet. then add one cun -
Tnolasses, teaspoon each of soda ana
salt, one egg and two Ia blespoons hot
coffee Turn into a three-pint r,,o1d
ana steam three hours. Serve with
el.ali pe. - sauce made of one quart
mai cups water till berries are teDdar
then run thru a sieve. Return to fIre
and add two cups molaases, cook unttI
II is foamy; Chill and serve. Can aIsa
be served warm. ~'sO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
WHAT HOOVE r SAYS

vi.
I'VE have all listened to the spe-
cious arguments of the siren of high
prices; it is heralded as the mark of
prosperity and to possess economic
advantages; it is advocated as a con-
servation measure. 1t is true, high
prices reduce consul ption, but they
reduce it thru the methods of famine
for the burden is thrown on the class
of the most limited means, and thus
the class least able to bear it.
There is no national conservation
in robbing our working classes of the
ability to buy food. High pisces are
conservation by reducing the standard
of living of the majority. 1t works
no hardship on>the rich and dis
eliminates against the poor"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26

An official report shows that food
prices have advanced Al per cent
since the beginning of the war and
per cent since August. If the advance
were seen only irF those articles of
consumption which are being shipped
TO Europe 1t might be easily under
stood. but it is seen in many perish
able products. While the country pro-
duced a potato crop exceeding by
hundreds of millions of bushels that
of last year the price is much higher
than it was in 1916. Similar state
ments regarding other vegetables
might be made with truth. Clearly
some way of bringing producer and
consumer closer together is needed.
Probably nothing would contribute
more TO this end than a system of
good roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
TRAVELETTE
The Anus.
by NIKSAH.


Before Mongol hordes descended
upon what is now Japan. the Anus
were there. They were the aboriginal
inhabitants of the country. and once
occupied the whole of it as nomadic
tribes of hunters, in the same way that
the American Indians occupied this
country Like the American Indians,
they are now reduced to a few scat
tered villages, having been almost ex-
terminated by the more vigorous and
predatory Mongols, of which stock all
the true Japanese belong.
The Anus according to ethnolog-
lists are a branch of the Aryan race
from which the German and Anglo
Saxon and the Romance peoples
sprang. Some viciSsitude of prehis-
toric times carried them East instead
of west Their Aryan character is
plainly shown in the light complex
ions, straight-set eyes and abundant
boards which distinguished them
sharply from the Mongol Japanese.
They have left their racial impress to
some slight extent upon the Japanese
population, however. for occasionally
fair types are found on the streets of
Tokyo and other japanese cities
The Anus, like other conquered
primitive races. have made little adj
vance over the condition in which the
conquero- found them. They still
live in villages of matched huts. and
FOLLOW their ancient customs of fish
ing and hunting. The young women
are comely and fair. but the older
ones are disfigured by facial tattoo
ing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26

germs flying about in the air, to be
breathed in and start disease. 1 say
that germs ought not to be disturbed
in public It's dangerous. They
ought to be let alone-not thrown into
the air by all this brushing"
There was a moment of silence
during which the porter grinned. He
waved the brush.
Come on, doctah." he said. ''and
let me brush you off. Don't let dat
idea about microbes bother you. What
little brushin' Use goin' to do amt
goin to disturb no germs. No, suh!"
w. B. Trites. the, novelist. re-
preached a magazine editor the other
day for never printing translations.
Here are Anatole France and
octave Mirabeau.'' he said. Here
are Andreyoff and Barbusse and a
dozen other wells of genius to draw
from Why don't you draw
Because" said the editor. our
readers prefer native talent"
You remind me-" said the novel;
ist "of the Scotch minister who never
used the Lords prayer.
Why don't you use it. man.? a
friend from the city asked him.
"'WeeI. you see. we dinna need it,
said the minister.
"a sublime prayer like that. Come,
now, even a man so marvelously gifted
as yourself can hardly equal a prayer
like that
Ma: but our folk think ither-
wise the preacher simpered."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
GLOBE SIGHTS

CFrom the Atchison Globe
There is a shortage of labor but not
of orators
Every man thinks he ought to be
lecturer-every woman is.
A boys notion of the most WORTH
less dog is a woman's dog.
There are no new truths in the mod
ern books, but lot of new lies.
Be so smart and so enterprising that
you don't need a letter of introduce
ton.
It is said of a good many men the
only reason they hold their jobs is
because of their lodge affiliations.
About the only campaign that has
been overlooked is one to raise money
to purchase rat traps for the soldiers
in the trenches
We have heard good deal about
some men being so capable they could
name their own salary, but we have
never seen them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26

The president of Dartmouth college
proposes that college men who join
the army shall have recognition OF
their service thru degree of bachelor
of military science which is TO be
granted to them as Of their class. rms
is in line with Civil war traditions
when the colleges of the north gave of
their best to save the Union. and re-
Varded them with their degrees as II
they had stayed on at their studies
some of them being carried on the
rolls as bachelors, post obit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26

Even were Italy to be crushed. Ger
many could not win the war against
Britain. France and the United States
Russia and italy. even if Italy were
permanently removed from the war
now. have lasted long enough to de-
stroy Austria's value as an ally to
Germany. and Germany must stand or
fan alone in a battle with three ma
lions. two of which in wealth and in
population vastly exceed the kaiser
empire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
'r,Sr rOput<A STATE JOURNAL IN
llL r..tsnr n,InN RI-KE-AIL

In the i-ht OF the supreme court
decisio. so poll tax law. it ap-
,,e.rst tor Getty did his state
nerhat .tingly, a great service
when H.. .dained the exemption Of
Kansas CITY from the. operation of the
act. A poll tax was not desired ny
anv considerable number OF persons
IN any first class city in the state
This is evidenced by opposition to its
collection which mas been manifested
Again has the necessity of home rule
for cities been exemplified
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
ON SPUR f qh MOMENT
The Letters OF a German War Spy.
BY ROY X. MoULTON

The Letters OF a German War Spy.
Somewhere in America.
w. Hohenzollern, Potsdam.
Dear Kise--It is not so like it used
to was yet. 1 regret TO report der
American boobs are wise getting.
Only night behind last they were so
insolent as to have some police out
side a powder mill which we had
planned to blow up already, and two
of our loyal party in the boobyhatch
are.
They have defied us. AS the tree
falls, so shall she stand.
We have lost several good strafers
this way. The American is growing
insolent too much by making inter-
ference with our plans. / hope you
and Colt will punish America for
daring to interfere with our kultur
here in a free country. 1t is no
longer free. We are not free to burn
up grain elevators like once.
names have got of several Amer
ikan citizens who loyal are to this
country and are saying things against
US Germans and they are impudent in
referring to your eldest son yet as the
Crown Ounce.
1t looks like it will be not very good
healthy for me here
Give my regards to your partner
Colt.
ADOLPH PUMPERNICKEL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26

iment flung itself against whole
German division and by its heroic sac
rifice broke the counter-attack.
And now the islanders who since the'
war began have sent 5000 men to the
front are considering the question OF
adopting the Canadian plan of select
i've conscription for the maintenance
of their strength on the firing line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
THE SEARCMLlGZT
Latest News from the Fields Of
SCIENCE, EDUCATION, INVENTION
New TcIcnhone Receiver

An improved telephone receiver has
been put on the market by the use of
which il is said that even persons
partially deaf can hear over the rele-
phone. The receiver has a trumpet
shaped design, with a fIuted ear-piece
and is made as to shut out all ex-
ternal noises 1t is also claimed for
it that it does away with the car
splitting cracks which result when
central is working to get a party
who doesn't answer"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
A MESSAGE TO UNCLE


If we send our boys to France,
Uncle Sam.
There to carry gun aud lance,
Uncle Sam;
If they go prepared to fight.
For the truth with all their might;
Will you do for them what's right,
Uncle SAM
Will you guard them from disease,
Uncle sam:
Will you see that they'll not freeze,
Uncle sam?
viii you warn them to be true.
Guard them 'gainSt temptations new.
Honor them that prove true blue,
Uncle Sam?
Reckon. their one love and pride,
Uncle Sam;
And no matter what betide,
Uncle Sam.
Should they die by gun or shell,
Or they live the tale to tell.
Do your best to guard them we'll,
Uncle Sam. j II. W.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26

sorry the older girl could not have
enjoyed a vacation here also"
The two girls were silent, but Dick
chuckled
The foxy old fairy godfather" he
said. "Hurrah for Pipes.r-(Copy-
right. 1917, by the Mcclure Newspaper
Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
DINNER STORIES

Here" said the doctor, indicating
the whisk- broom, lis one of the finest
little systems of spreading germs that
was ever devised. This porter comes
and he brushes me off: then he
brushes you, and you and you. and
every one else; and starts a lot of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26

That is great game that is in prog
ress on tie Italian front Saturday
the Huns were reported to be hold
ing three kings and jack pat while
Italy was drawing to aces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-26
ADOLPH PUMPERNICKEL,


Ray of Cheer.
without a word of warning, Food
Director williams of New York an
nounced the shocking news that there
is not now and will not be a salt
famine.
This is a great shock to the nerves
to find that there is really some
thing that is not short The bumper
salt crop this year helps out i'm
measurably.
Most of us can earn that commodity
unless we are following the peregri-
mating and uncertain paths of litera-
ture and. of course, we are NOT all
doing that.
Young ladies who are not officially
connected With the navy must not
wear MILDLY blouses bearing naval in
sigma.
will get after some of the United
States senators who are wearing the
camouflage of senatorial courtesy and
posing as patriots.
A New York banker has returned
from England and says in an inter
view that business conditions are bad
in Europe just now. We can almost
believe that he is more than half right.
More frightfulness.
The German word for tank" is,
officially, 'schutzengrabenver :
tungautomobil"
If we want to insult any friend by
calling him tank, it will take us all
night to do il.
Silver and Money.
A man told us the other day that
a silver dollar IS worth a dollar and
four cents. He said IL is worth a
good deal more thai 1t was ten years
ago.
Not in our money, it isn't The
way we figure it. silver dollar is
worth about fifty cents less than it
was ten years ago.
Money of all denominations is get
ting so it isn't any good any more.
You can't buy anything with it
Amid the fever of conservation that
has swept the country it is pleasurable
to note that Senator j. Ham Lewis is
still saving whiskers.
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r,,Iresr at washington furnishes readers,
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\ B-Inquirers should be careIu 4 20 ~
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The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-08
PERSONALS

Mr.. T. P. Lewis of New orleans
was here today
Nc Aucoin of Amelia, La, was
sting in the city this morning.
~. on his trip. While here Mr., Null
~, ,u., visited Mr.. ]. [. Fisher
Mr.. W. Roussel Of Patterson La
vas a visitor here today
ui.e Carrie Meter Of Meridian
,;ss is the pleasant guest Of Mr..
'rd Mrs. Morris Gresnwaid.
,;ss Ruth Joret, who has ben az
ding the Summer Normal at La
ssra+te. is visiting Mrs. VI. P. Pal
mer..
phone 273 for your cleaning and
oressing-A. J. Chaser. tt
Mr. Frank Prohaska, Miss Leta
o-oh.ska and Mr.. James Prohaska,
+. leave today for Mineral Wells
Tsras. where they will spend the
GUNNER.
NJ Muller of New Orleans, a
urominent cotton merchant OF New
orleans arrived here this afternoon
!, h;s Packard car enroute to Hous-
ton. Mr.. Muller reports the roads
h.+ven Gibson and Morgan City
,he worst he has ever traversed, and
we're II not for his high powered ma
b;ne he would in all probabilities
have ben stuck and lost considerable
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-08

II you sit in a cool draft when you
- heated and get stiff neck or
lame back, you are looking for
.ouethine that will ease the pain.
N vour mind on BILLIARDS.
SNOW LINIMENT and don't be
talked out Of it because it is the best
pein relieving liniment you can get
anywhere. Price Csc, 50c,and $1.0O
M bottle. Sold by Belanger Drug
Co.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-08

For The stomach and bowel disor-
IN Il babies, MCGEE BABY
Elixir i . remedy Of genuine
nait Il acts quickly, 10 pure, whole
16e and Soc per bottle. Sold by Bel
sens and pleasant to take. Price
mgr Drug ca.
The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-08-08
ARCADE TONIGHT

Mis- Jackie Saunders in "The
Wild Cat"-five parts. She was will
I'll and spoiled-a tomboy-and
tAey nicknamed her 1.-THE Wild Cat"
81 discouraged all fortune-hunting
nitos in . very vigorous manner.
Be met her match, however, when
istAer and lover combined, and she
actually begged for the privilege Of
nazTyins fathers choice.
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but he had not quite presence Of mind
for that; he gagged little, colored
crimson, and staggered on:

but he had not quite presence OF mind
for that; he gagged little, colored
crimson, and staggered on:
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim,
Despite these titles, power and pelf.
The wretch. concentered all in SELF
and here the poor fellow choked, could
not 60 on, but started up, swung the
book into the sea, vanished into his
stateroom. land by Jove," said Phil
lips, I'VE did not see him for two
months again. And I had to make up
some beggarly story to that English
surgeon why did not return his Wal
ter Scott to him."
That story shows about the time
when Nolan's braggadocio must have
broken down. At first, they said, he
took q very high tone, considered his
Imprisonment q mere farce, affected
to enjoy the voyage, and all that; but
Phillips said that after he came out Of
his stateroom he never was the same
man again. He never read aloud again,
unless it was the Bible or Shakespeare,
or something else he was sure of. But
It was not that merely. He never en-
tered In with the other young men ex-
actly as a companion again. He was
always shy afterward, when I knew
him, very seldom spoke. unless he
was spoken to, except to a very few
frienda He lighted up occasionally.
I remember late In his life hearing
him fairly eloquent ON something
which had been suggested to him by
one Of Flechier's sermons, but gener-
ally he had the nervous, tired look Of
Q heart-wounded man.
When Captain Shaw was coming
home-if as say, 1t was Shaw-rath-
er to the surprise Of everybody they
made one Of the Windward islands,
and lay of and on for nearly a week.
The boys said the officers were sick
Of salt junk, and meant to have tur-
tie soup before they came home. But
after several days the Warren came to
the same rendezvous: they exchanged
signals; she sent to Phillips and these
homeward-boundm men letters and pa.
pers, and told them she was outward
bound, perhaps to the Mediterranean.
and took poor Nolan and his traps on
the boat back to try his second cruise.
He looked very blank when he was told
to get ready to join her. he had
known enough Of the signs Of the sky
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to know that till that moment he was
going 'home." But this was a dis
tinct evidence of something he had not
thought of, perhaps, that there was no
going home for him, even to prison.
And this was the first of some twenty
such transfers. which brought him
sooner or later into half our best ves-
sells, hut which kept him all his life
at least some hundred miles from the
country he had hoped he might never
hear Of again
hit may have been on that second
cruise-it was once when he was up
the Mediteranean-that Mrs. Graf,
the celebrated Southern beauty Of
those. days. danced VII him. They
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TYPEWRITER CARBON

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FLASHES FROM FRANKLIN

Judge Baker is now in Hates
burg, Miss, having been summoned
there by news Of the serious illness
of sister.
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of sister.
An investigation by our represen-
tative Of the official blanks Of the
Parish reveals that our Parish Off
Gals have registered the following
party affiliations:
Sheriff, Charles Pecot, Progress
i've.
Clerk of Court Kramer, Progress
i've.
Assessor, Henry Kappel, Pro
gressive. .........
Judge W. C. Baker, Democratic.
Dist. Attorney, Percy Saint, Pro
gressive.
1t is generally understood that
District Attorney Saint has returned
to the Democratic fold, and is now
associated with movement to form
an Independent faction inside the
Democratic party.
Judge Baker was nominated and
elected as a Progressive, but recent
ly registered as Democrat and give
out to the general press his reason
therefor at the time.
The three remaining officials were
nominated and elected as Progress
ives and are REGISTERED as such, and
have not given any indication of any
change Of party affiliation.
One Of the Progressive officials
stated to a representative of the Re-
view that he considered their at
titude at this time to be to endeavor
to do what would be for the best in
terest of citizens of this Parish and
District. That the Progressive move
had this in view in sending to Con-
gress Progressive, and that until
the present session Of Congress had
adjourned, it would not be either
wise or fitting for party leaders to
take any step that would weaken the
influence of our Congressman at
Washington; was generally recog-
nized that the Progressive party
would have to face dissolution in the
near future, and that he did not in
tend, and knew that his associates
did not intend to affiliate with the
Republican party. The time and
manner for this dissolution and af-
filiation with the Democratic party
should be taken up after the ad-
journment Of Congress, and after
giving all interested parties chance
to express their views and advice.
Mrs. Ella O'Niell, wife Of Hon.
r. E. O'Niell, Secretary Of the Po-
lice Jury was knocked down by an
auto, driven by Delahoussaye Sum
day night, receiving severe injuries,
necessitating her being taken at once
to the Patterson Sanitarium. She
was brought back home Monday
and is now much better,
but considerably bruised and shaken
up from the accident.
Sheriff Charles Pecot spent Tues
day in New Orleans, La, returning
that night in order to be present at
the medical examination Wednes-
day. As Chairman Of the Exemption
Board, Sheriff Pecot is present in
person during the entire period of
each days examination, and provides
those examined with the necessary
blanks for claiming exemption.
Superintendent Of Education
Charles Colt visited Houma Tuesday
IN educational matters. The new
principal of the Franklin High
School, Prof. Gaussiran Of Point
conhu was in Franklin Monday visit
ng Supt. Colt and was introduced
o its citizens. He is graduate Of
!. S. U. and taught last year at
Washington, La.
Mr.. John H. Lund, formerly a
Staff Representative Of the old
2eview-B Bulletin, is now a Sergeant
n Co. B., 5th. Texas National
Guard.