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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
is RECEIVE CHARTERS
State Board Approves Large Number
of New Corporations.

The state charter board, composed
of the attorney general, secretary of
state and bank commissioner, has ap-
proved the charters for the following
corporations which desire to engage
in business in Kansas:
The Askin Marine company of New York !;
capital in Kansas $4,000
The Miami Mineral Belt R. R. COM
pany; headquarters, Oklahoma City; capt.
tai in Kansas $780, 900.
The McCann-Rash Oil company of Okla
home City; capital in Kansas 50, 625.
The Utilities Oil and Refining company
of Portland Me-; capital in Kansas $780,,
OOO
Charters to these home companies were
granted.
Salina; capital stock $4,000.
The Advance Life Insurance company,
wichita; capital 100000.
Ridge OIL and Gas company, Paola !;
capital 100000.
Farmers Cooperative company of Con-
way Mcpherson county; capital $4,000
Ensign Telephone company of Ensign,
Denver Pueblo Oil and Gas company,
Lincoln; capital $4,000.
Mohawk Oil company, Wichita; capital
100000.
Carey Fruit company Coffeyville; capital
100000.
Lesh Refining company Arkansas City !;
capital $25O,OO0
The Bacon-Garrett Oil and Gas company
of Paola; capital stock $4,000.
The Mangelsdorff Dry Goods company
of Atchison; capital $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
SPOILS SOUL MATING
Wife of Aged Lochinvar Proves Eff
fective Press Agent of Affair.

St. Louis, Mo. June 2s.-The pitt
less light of publicity threatened to
shatter psychic ties today and sever
Elwood V. Mattlack, retired st. Louis
capitalist, from his alleged soul
mate" Mrs. Estelle Hamsley of Chi
cago, Mattlack is in anything but a
good humor following an interview
given out by his wife, Mrs. Sarah B.
Mattlack of Webster Grove, yesterday,
in which she is quoted as having told
of Mattlacks infatuation with Mrs.
Hamsley following a mystic voice
which brought the two souls together.
Mattlack is said to be closeted in his
apartments at the Warwick hotel tho
he was mot in" when the reporters
asked to see him.
Mrs. Mattlack at Webster Grove
refused to see anybody today or to
make any statement in connection
with the case.
1t is believed here that the wide
publicity given the case will result in
Mattlack's, ceasing his attentions to
Mrs. Hams1ey.
A report that Mrs. Mattlack for
merly lived in Cincinnati was not
confirmed by her friends. She was
formerly manager of a hotel here, it
is said, and has a fortune of her own.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
COMMUNICATION LINE
OF 5000 MILES is
BIG ARMY PROBLEM

Washington. June 2S.-Communi-
cation lines for the American army
in France are the longest and most
troublesome military men have en-
countered. A three thousand mile
trail across the trackless ocean must
be kept open for transports of men
and supplies. The only lines compar-
ing at all with the present ones were
those in the Boer war or the Philip
pine instruction, but they afforded
no especial problem inasmuch as no
submarines then swarmed in the
deep.
Heavy naval patrolling will be nee
essary to keep the communication
lines safe and this will require a
heavy system of destroyer or cruiser
convoy.
Across this 5000 mile trail. Amer
lea will send her hundreds of thou
sands of men, her munitions and her
tremendous food supplies for the
army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
PRINT A STACKER LIST
Communities Furnishing No Men for
Army Due for Publicity.

Charles 1. Martin, adjutant general,
will publish a list of the Stacker coun-
ties in Kansas. He is preparing a rec
ord of Kansas volunteer enlistments
for army service and will publish the
list early next week. Under a report
from Washington, it is asserted that
Kansas has furnished but "a per cent
of her quota of men for army service.
During the last several months Kan
sans in Washington and in Kansas
have spoken eloquently of the Kansas
brand of patriotism in furnishing men
for army service. Yet the records
from Washington indicate that Kansas
is far behind. In fact some of the
counties have failed to furnish a single
volunteer enlistment for service. 9th
er communities have far exceeded
their quota. Shawnee county, early
records show, has surpassed the city
of Topeka in a display of loyalty.
The record which is now being pre-
pared by the adjutant generals office
will show the number of volunteer en-
listments from each community in
Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
U. S. FLYER THERE
Major Mitchell Is First American
Army Aviator on French Front

Paris, June 28.-An American army
aviator has been in active service. fly
ing over German lines at Verdun and
elsewhere. during the past week. He
is Major Mitchell. The announcement
was made at American army head
quarters today
Major Mitchell was one of the first
regular army officers to reach France
after the United States war declara-
ton. Two weeks ago he started a
tour of the various French flying es-
cadrilles and was recently reported
with the Americans in the Lafayette
escadrille.
He has the distinction of being the
first American regular army officer to
'tget into action" on the western
front in the air. Presumably he acted
as observer with a French army Off
Co. as pilot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
A CROSS HIS WEAPON
Priest Single Handed Persuades 125
Germans to Surrender.
BY HENRY WOOD.

With the French armies in the
Field, June 28.-How a French regi-
mental priest, his only arms a sacre-
dotal cross. single handedly captured
125 German prisoners in the Dragon S
cave, was the astounding story which
came to light here today.
Dragons cave was part of series
of natural subterranean chambers
more than a hundred yards long by a
hundred and fifty wide and underly-
ing the Chemin deS Danes, northwest
of Hurtebise. 1t was in the exact CEN
ter of the sector wherein the French
recently achieved their great gain.
The priest accompanied his troops
on the charge and then stopped here
and there behind them to minister to
the wounded and dying. While on
this mission of mercy, he was aston
shed to see a German, his clothing
aflame, rush out of the small secret
opening to the Dragons cave. The
priest beat out the flames on the Ger
man, ordered him to march to the
rear and then himself descended thru
the small opening to the caves. There
he found whole company of Ger
mans. Advancing in the dim light,
with his cross held high above his
head, the priest ordered them to sur
render. With his cross still aloft, the
priest negotiated with the German Of
ficers-and they, too, finally agreed to
lay down their arms, but they stipu-
lated that the surrender must be to a
French army officer.
The priest turned and clambered
out of the cave. Just outside he found
medical officer rendering first aid.
He called on him. Together the sur
geon and the priest-both non-com-
batants-returned to the Dragons
cave. Then the German officers for
mally surrendered themselves and
their men
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
GET NEW KIDNEYS!

The kidneys are the most overworked
organs of the human body, and when they
fail in their work of filtering out and
throwing off the poisons developed in the
system, things begin to happen.
One of the first warnings is pain or
stiffness in the lower part of the back !:
highly colored urine; loss of appetite: in
digestion irritation. or even stone in the
bladder. These symptoms indicate a con-
dition that may lead to that dreaded and
fatal malady, Bright's disease. for which
there is said to be cure
You can almost certainly find immediate
relief in GOLD MEDAL Harlem Oil Cap
sules For more than 200 years this famous
preparation has been an unfailing remedy
for all kidney. bladder and urinary trou-
does not give you almost immediate relief.
your money will be refunded. Be sure
you get the GOLD MEDAL brand. None
other genuine. In boxes. three sizes.-Ad-
vertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
BRITISH WILL NOT GO
Socialists Refuse to Attend the Con-
ference at Stockholm.

London, June 2S.-The section of
British Socialists led by Henry Hynd-
man, has declined the invitation of
the Russian council of workmen's and
soldiers delegates to attend the inter-
national Socialist conference at Stock
holm.
The refusal is based on the fact that
the conference will be attended by
German and Austrian Socialists and
that it cannot serve the cause of peace
or socialism as long as Germans re-
tain the possession of territory they
seized and devastated
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
GET IN REGULAR ARMY
Men in Officers Training Camp VIII
Have Fine Opportunity Soon.

Junction City, Kan, June 2S.-That
many men who are attending the Of
ficers' training camp at Fort Riley
will be given commissions in the regu-
lar army seems certain following the
announcement that only. the ranks
above captain of the units will be
given to regular army men.
The candidates for commissions
are continuing to work hard and are
now learning the fine details of sight
ing and windage. Activities at the
fort continue to grow daily and old
timers say that they never expected
to see such a military reservation as
the fort will be in a very short time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
ARREST MANY PRIESTS
One Sentenced for a Year for Preach
ing on Charity on Whitsunday.

Amsterdam, June 2S.-According to
the TELEGRAPH, several priests of the
encourage of Cardinal MERCER.
primate of Belgium, We're arrested re-
Gently and imprisoned in Germany.
One of them is Bishop Legraive of
MalineS.
Twenty others, the newspaper saws.
have been imprisoned in Belgium.
Among this number is Cardinal Mer-
cier's private secretary who was SEN
fenced to year in prison for preach
ing on Whitsunday on Christian chart
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
MURDER A MYSTERY
Girl % Shot Dead While Going to
Home of Friend in Sioux City.

Sioux City, June 28.-The murder
of Miss Thecla Gerken, % years old
of Woonsocket, S. D., who was shot
late last night by an unknown person.
while going to the home of a friend
whom she was visiting, renamed a
deep mystery today. The entire de-
tective force is working on the case,
but has not yet uncovered a good
clue.
One theory advanced is that the girl
was shot by man who was deranged
Miss Gerken had only a few friends
here and is not known to have had
any enemies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
RED CROSS BALL BLUE.

That's the idea. A pure blue, true
blue. no dope Gives to clothes clear
white, whittier than snow. Be careful,
use the best. Large package, sold by
good grocers only. cents. Ask for it
today.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot Ease, the antiseptic powder to
be shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in
the foot bath. 1t relieves painful swollen
smarting feet and takes the sting out of
corns and bunions. Use it when you put on
rubbers or heavy stockings. Aliens Foot
Ease Is a certain relief for sweating cal
ious, tired, aching feet. Sold by Druggists
everywhere, 25c. Always use it to Break
in new shoes. Trial package FREE. Ad-
dress. Allen S. Olmsted. LIE Roy, N. Y
Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28

Some one wants that which
you do not. A small ad in the
State Journal want columns sat-
isfieS both
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
Devastating City of Lens.

The German commanders have
been preparing for REIMBURSEMENT of
Lens for a month, realizing sooner or
later a general mass attack by Haig
would sweep them out. A systematic
plan of destruction of the citys fac
tories, coal mining plants and shafts
near by was put into operation weeks
ago, according to reports of aviators
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
Wonderful discovery
by Cincinnati man

This remarkable drug is
called freezone and is a COM
pound of ether discovered by
a Cincinnati man.
Ask at any drug store for
a small bottle of freezone,
which will cost but a trifie,
but is sufficient to rid ones
feet of every corn or callus.
Put a few drops directly
upon any tender, aching corn
or callus. Instantly the
soreness disappears and
shortly the corn or callus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
Few drops of Freezone take all pain and
from cornS instantly

No humbug! Any corn,
whether hard, soft or be-
tween the toes, will loosen
right up and lift out, with
out a particle of pain or
soreness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-28
TOUCHING OFF A BIG BARGAIN FRIDAY
Just Before The Glorious 4th fT i:
Our Basement Store Offers
MEMS SUMMER SUITS

either Il or full lined-of fine all
wool worsteds and cheviots-in
both Mems and Young Mems
styles-strictly hand tailored-are
the actual SIS grades-in sizes to
fit men of all sizes; stouts, regu-
lars or longS-many blue and gray
serges among them. We offer
these special on Friday at
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

60 far as his work is concerned We
remember rascally poet named Rich
ard Savage for one solitary line-thal
in which he speaks Of the tenth trans
mitter Of foolish face" 1t catchlJ
conveys the notion Of heredity and sug
gests the sort Of wonderful family like
ness OF which one has just been told t.
the Royal Society Of Medicine.
The first Earl Of Shrewsbury, who
died In 1453, was born with a physica
popularity little finger and the
finger adjoining on each hand had only
one joint, the first two bones beinl
united. The same abnormalIty affected
all the toes except the big ones. To
day in a direct masculine descendant
Of the first earl the same extraordinary
formation persists. 1t was transmitted
to him by his father and to his father
from his grandfather and has com,
down unchanged through nearly 50t
years, passing through fourteen gener
ations.-London Standard.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

One Of the most interesting and re-
markabls Of the many regions for the
observation Of sand dunes lies between
Bordeaux and Bayonne, In Gascony.
The sea here throws every year upon
the beach, along a line Of 100 miles In
length, some 100000 cubic yards OF
sand. The prevailing westerly winds
continue picking up the surface par
ticles from the westward slope, whirl
them over to the inward slope, where
they are again deposited, and the entire
ridge by this means alone moves grad
ually inward. In the course OF years
there has thus been formed complex
system of dunes, all approximately
parallel with the coast and with one
another and Of all attitudes up to 2aO
feet. These are marching steadily In
ward at rate Of from three to SIX
feet a year, whole villages having
sometimes been torn down to prevent
burial and rebuilt at distance.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21


An Indiana man was travelling dow
the Ohio on a steamer with a MARI
and two-year-old colt when by a sud
den careen Of the boat all three were
tilted into tbs water. The Hoosier, a:
he rose putting and blowing above wa
ter. caught hold Of the tail Of the colt
not having q doubt but that the natu
raj instinct Of the animal would carry
him safely ashore. The old mare mad'
for the land, but the frightened col
swan Justify down the current with it,
owner still hanging fast Let go o
the colt and hang on to the marel'
shouted some Of his friends. "Boohl'
exclaimed the Hoosier, spouting thu
water from his mouth, fits might.
fine telling me to let go the colt, but II
a man who can't swim this amt ex
actly the time for swapping horses
Ottawa Citizen.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

DO these things for your children,
says Leo Tolstoy. II you would propEly
train them;
Let them do all they can for them
sedves-carry their own Jugs, wash up,
arrange their own rooms, clean their
boots and clothes. lay the table. Be
lieve me, that unlmportant as these
things may seem, they are a hundred
times more important for your chill
dren's happiness than a knowledge OF
French or Of history.
These things train the children to
simplicity, to work and to self indie
pendence.
If you can add work on the land, If II
be but a kitchen garden, that will be
well.
Believe me. that without that condi-
ton there Is no possibility Of moral
education, a Christian education or
Consciousness of the fact that men are
not naturally divided into the classes Of
masters and slaves, but that they are
all brothers and equals.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

During the long tertiary epoch. when
opossums disported themselves on the
site OF Paris and mastodons tramped
along the valley Of the Thames, the
earth was IN the throes Of mountain
making. The Alps, the Himalayas
the Alleghenies, the Andes, attest the
power Of her activity in those days. Al
their termination our continents stood
greatly higher than they do now, and
this aided their glaciation, although il
does not fully account for It. But as
they became loaded with ice Europe
and America gradually and we may
venture to say contemporaneously
sank. This was inevitable. Owing Il
the extreme heat and pressure prevail
ing in its interior the earth is an emf
nently elastic body. Its surface &c
tually balges in or out with a very
slight increase or decrease of the Loaf
upon It
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

When Napoleon was a student at Bri
enne he happened to be asked by on
Of the examiners the following ques
ton, "Supposing you were in an invest
ed town, threatened with starvation
how would you supply yourself witt
provisionsT From Che enemy" re
piled the sublieutenant Of artillery
And this answer so pleased the exam
liners that they passed him without fur
Their questioning. Now, Napoleon's an
swer was by no means original, TO
one of Suvsroff's sergeants obtaine'
promotion from the ranks by giyinl
the very same answer when asked tn
very same question.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

The toothbrush, now an indispensa-
Bile article Of toilet, Is but little older
than the American republic itself Not
even Lord Chesterfield used one, for,
writing to his son in 1854, he said:
II hope you take great care Of your
mouth and teeth and that you clean
them every morning with a sponge
and tepid water with a few drops OF
arquebusade water dropped into 1t. /
do insist upon your never using those
sticks or any hard substance whatever
which always rub away the gums and
destroy the varnish Of the teeth"
In Henry Esmond" Thackeray made
lord Castlewood spend "a tenth part
Of his day in the brushing Of his teeth
and the oillng of his hair" and in doing
so the novelist committed double an
achronism. Not only was the tooth
brush unknown, but during the first
half of the eighteenth century ell fine
gentlemen wore wigs and had no use
for oil on their hair.-New York Sun.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

The pretty schoolteacher had asket
her class for the best original defini
ton of wife, and the boy in the cor
ner promptly responded, "A rib"
She looked at him reproachfully ant
nodded to the boy with dreamy eyes
who seemed anxious to say something.
MANS guiding star and guardian an
GEL" he said In response to the nod.
"A helpmeet," put In little fiaxer
haired girl.
A zone who soothes man In adversely,
suggested a demure little girl.
zone who makes a man hustle" wal
the next suggestion.
"And keeps him from making a foo
Of himself" put in another girl.
Some one for a man to find fault
with when things go wrong" said q
sorrowful little maiden.
stop there" said the schoolteacher
That's the best definition" - Pitts
burgh Chronicle-Telegraph.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21
AntInuitx.

Antiquity thou wondrous charm,
what art thou, that. being nothing, art
everything7 When thou vert thou
vert not antiqu'ty-then thou vert
nothing, but hadst remoter antiquity,
as thou calledst 1t, to look back to with
blind generation, thou myself being to
myself fat, jejune, modernl What mys-
terry turks In this retroversion, or what
half Januses are we that cannot look
forward with the same idolatry with
which we forever revertl The mighty
future is as nothing, being everything
the past is everything, being nothingl--
Charles Lamb.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

As a substitute for hot water bags ii
ordinary ailments, such as toothache
earache and other minor pains, u.s.
common flannel bags made in conven
tent sizes, with drawstrings. Fill then
with hot sand or salt and they ar,
safer than cheap rubber bottle, jus
as efficacious and much handler to use
Keep half dozen ready. They are o
great help in time Of aches and pains.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

"How was the playf"
"Rather dull"
@You didn't have any tense moments
during the performance"
"oh. yes. A man weighing not less
than $50 pounds climbed over me twice
10 go out and pull himself together for
the next ct."-Exchange.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21
=. hiarla and tha Wat.
'cst Is still an indefinite term,
.eny things have been called

sest Is still an indefinite term,
.eny things have been called
n which more strictly were far
I'm. The effiorescence Of Califor.
In the brilliant satire Of Bret
Harfe. tO.name him only who was first
Of the califonians. was an effect Of
the east In the new conditions Of the
Pacific slope. 1t had no root in the
soil. and none OF the poets who formed
the San Francisco school Of Harteis
day were Of California birth, much
less culture. They were only western
BY sojourn.
Harte himself, who was flrst Of them,
had greater originality In his verse
than in his prose, but be was born in
and grew up in Albany. The literary
atmosphere which he breathed In the
west was, as Il were, piped from the
east, and bis ambition was, as the gen.
erous expectation of his fellow exiies
was for him, to suggest in his prose the
literary art Of DR.. Holmes.-willlam
Dean Howells in Harper's Magazine.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

Most of all the other beautiful things
In life come by twos and threes, by
dozens and hundreds-plenty Of roses,
stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and
sisters. aunts and cousins, but only one
mother In all the wide world.-Kate
Douglas Wiggin.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

snow, my good woman, will TAXI
up the subject Of your dispute will
your husband"
But you can't take IT up, your honor
why can't l, madam
ats the parlor carpet, sirr-Balti
more American.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

Whales and porpoises are mammals
like cattle and sheep, and their flesh 4
meat" not "tish." In texture and ap
pearance II resembles beef, though thu
color is darker red, and the flavor Il
closer to that meat than to any other
It is devoid of all hshy taste.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

Small scales or blisters on the rind Of
q watermelon are said to indicate that
the seeds within are turning black and
the flesh maturing. As the ripening
process advances the blisters increase
In size and number until they cover
the surface OF the fruit.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21
J.MITCHELL C0CHRANE
Duly Commissioned
Notary Public
For Charles County, Nd.

Will be pleased to attend q
calls for the purpose of TAXI n
acknowledgements and affidavit
for ageeither within or beyo n
the limits of the State of Mary
land. OFFICE CoCHRANE's SToR
LA PLATA, MARYLAND.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1917-09-21

Death opens the gate of fame an6
shuts the gate Of envy after 1t; it un
looscns the chain of the captive an6
puts the bondsman's task into anothe'
mans hand.--Sterne.