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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
WORE MANS TROUSERS
Negro Girl Picked Up in River District
by Police Today.

A girl wearing a mans clothes on
Halloween night passes muster. But a
girl dressed in those things the morn
ing after is guilty of disorderly con-
duct. That's the way Helen Gilkie, a
colored girl, was booked at police
headquarters today. Later she was
discharged.
Officer Frazier passed Helen in the
bOtoms twice without a suspicion that
she was not a man. Finally, some
thing, he didn't say what, attracted his
attention. A conversation ensued. Hell
en- admitted she hadn't any business
wearing mans clothes and was taken
to police headquarters. The police say
Officer Frazier can't be blamed for
taking Helen for a man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
MORE STRIP ASPHALT
Nine Blocks of Streets Will Be Resur-
faced This Week.

Nine blocks of strip asphalt sur
facing will be laid this week, accord
ing to Commissioner w. @. Tandy.
Pleasant weather has made the fall
work possible.
Third street from Kansas avenue to
jackson street will be surfaced With
strip paving. Quincy street from Cor
don street to Fairchild avenue will
also be resurfaced. The two largest
areas of the surface will be COM
pleted this week. Three blocks on
Eighth street from Jefferson to
Quincy street and four blocks on
Tenth street from Shunganunga
creek to Quincy street will complete
the work of this week.
The paving is being laid by the
Security Paving comnany-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
This Is Measure Advocated by
Member of Legislature.
Frank L. Martin Would Round
Up All LOafers.
ALL OILERS ARE SLACKERS
Wealth Should Excuse No One
From Service.
Hutchinson Man Opposes Spe-
ciaI Session of Legislature.

Something should be done by the
state and government little stronger
than the persuasion en- the labor ana
food questions I believe it was alb
soluteIy necessary to draft men Nor
soldiers and 1 believe it is absolutely
necessary to draft men and women
for work. We cannot wait for volun-
teers."
That is the opinion of Frank l..
Martin, prominent Hutchinson lawyer
and member of the state legislature
from Reno county. Martin believes
the government should conscript ev-
cry man, woman and child between
the ages of IA and 60 for eight to ten
hours a day labor. Martin would
send the men to the fields, the shops
and factories and to the mines
People who are idle, in my opin-
ion, are no better than slackers," en-
phatically declared the Reno county
law maker. 1.-THE fact that a man is
able to live without work is no eX-
cuse. Wealth and ability to live in
ease does not excuse one from be
coming "A soldier and it should not eX-
cuse one from becoming a worker.
Reduce the IL. c. of l..
IF all the idlers in Kansas were put
to work by a system os registration
and draft, there would be plenty of
people to raise all the food we require
and save it when it is raised Then
the high cost of living would soon be
cut in two.
Il have not Eoticed any scarcity of
labor for driving AUTOMOBILES" sar-
castically remarked Martin. "or Tor
filling them with gasoline or procur-
ing the gasoline for pleasure pur-
poses.
I remember that during and just
after the Civil war, the people where
! lived in Illinois were very patriotic
and made all sacrifices for Uncle sam.
As expressed by Lincoln in his Gettys-
burg address, they paid the last full
measure of devotjon. They paid it.
however, because they were compelled
to do so.
The way to have patriotism that
viii stick and last twenty four hours
every day is for the state and govern
NETT to lax itsssleaNy hand on every
idler and put him to work and do it
at once. l doubt if we should need
home guard very badly if we had
everybody at work Some of the
farmers are complaining because the
government has set the price of
wheat. I think most of them are in
fun sympathy with the movement. I
do not think anyone has a right to
complain of anything the government
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
A MASON 40 YEARS
Frank McNIurtrie Was Well Known in
Lodge Circles in Kansas.

Frank McMurtrie, veteran Santa Fe
train dispatcher, who died at the fam
lily home, 1850 Garfield avenue, We'd
nesday, was one of the best known
Masons in Topeka. For forty years
he has been a member of this order
He was master of Topeka Lodge No.
II. A F. & A NJ. in 1881. In 1854
he was commander of the Topeka
conmandery, knights Templar, being
one of the oldest members of this
organization. He-was also a Scottish
Rite Mason, taking his eighteenth
degree.
Many Masons will attend the fu-
neral at the Westminster Presbyterian
church Friday afternoon at 1880
O'Clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
HE CAN'T TAKE PLACE
Phil Eastman Not Candidate for
Chamber Commerce Secretaryship.

Phil Eastman, predicted as the next
secretary of the Chamber of Com
merce, this morning shot holes in the
plans of the board of directors. He
handed Charles L. Mitchell, president
of the Chamber, a statement wherein
he declared that it would be impos-
sible for him to accept the position,
if elected.
Numerous other candidates have
been mentioned for the position, but
as yet the board of directors is in the
dark. Several out of town men are
now being considered.
A meeting of the board will be held
tomorrow noon for the purpose of
discussing candidates for the secre-
taryship, and probably for the selec-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
Enjoy life! Liven your liver and
bowels tonight and
feel fine.

Tonight sure! Remove the liver and
bowel poison which is keeping your
head dizzy, your tongue coated, breath
offensive and stomach sour Don't
stay bilious, sick, headachy, consti-
pated and full of cold. WHY don't YOU
get a box of Cascarets from the drug
store now? Eat one or two tonight
and enjoy the incest, gentlest liver
and bowel cleansing you ever exper-
fenced. You will wake up feeling fit
and fine. Cascarets never grippe or
bother you all the next day like Gallo
mel, salts and pills. They act gently
but thoroughly. Mothers should give
cross, sick. bilious or feverish children
a whole Cascaret any time. They are
harmless and children love them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
GETS LIFE SENTENCE
Confesses Staying Partner; Leaves
Property to Victims Children.

St. Joseph. Nov. 1.-Chas F.. Win
Ginger, who confessed to the police
that he murdered VIM. c. Goold, his
former business partner last Friday,
pleaded guilty in the criminal court
here today, was sentenced to the
prison for life and an officer will start
for jefferson City prison with him to-
night. Be. ore he was sentenced Win
Ginger placed all his property, valued
at several thousand dollars, in trust
for Goo1d's four children.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
$4,000 ASK "RAISE"
Railroad Men Deny Strike Is Con-
tenplated-UniohsI In Conference.

Chicago. Nov. IA formal demand
for a general wage increase to ESQ.,
600 railroad employees to meet adj
vanced living costs is expected to re-
suit from a joint conference sta cted
today by officials of the Brotherhood
of Railroad Trainmen and the Order
of Railway Conductors
Conductors. brakemen, flasmen,
ba gga gemen, switchmen and yardmen
are the men affected. Labor officials
deny that any strike is concentrated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
New Orleans 200 Years Old.

Paris, Nov. THE Louisiana dele
CATION to the observance here of the
bi-centenary of New Orleans visited
the city of Orleans yesterday he
visitors We're accompanied by George
Sharp. son of the American ambassa-
DOR Count Duchoffault, Emile Hove
iacque. and others A reception was
held at the city hall
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
TAKE OVER ALL LIQUOR
Britain Experiments in Manufacture
and Supply in Scotland.

London, Nov. 1.-The British gov
eminent. according to the Daily E&-
press. is considering making its first
experiment in state control of the
liquor trade by assuming control of
the manufacture and supply in Scot
land.
on the success of the test would de-
pend the extension of control to Eng
land ireland and Wales
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
PROBE CORN MEAL
81 Pound Sack Retailing for S1.7@
X. c. Wires Hoover.

Kansas City, Mo, Nov. kansas
City started corn meal probe today.
The city clubs war aid committee dis
covering that a twenty-four pound
sack of corn meal was selling at S1.75
wired Herbert Hoover to investigate.
The meal is selling wholesale at five
cents a pound, the committee asserts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
DAIRY MEN STRIKE
Refuse to Sell Milk at New Price Fixed
by Chicago Distributors.

E,lgin. Nov IA strike of dairy
men of this district against the lower
price offered by Chicago distributors
of milk, effective today. Is on Prar-
tica1y no milk was delivered at the
various collecting stations this morn
ing.
In neighboring districts it was said
that the farmers were delivering from
so to rs per cent of normal quantities.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
Raise Garments Wages.

Springfield. No, Nov. THE
Springfield Traction company today
announced an increase in the wages of
notor1nen and conductors averaging
2A cents per hour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
American Flyer Falls In Japan.

Toxic, Nov. Frank Champion,
an American aviator, was killed i'll an
exhibition flight at Kochi ShiSoko
TODAY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01
SNAP SHOTS

AT HOME NEWS

No Help There.
''Your Tommy talks too much-this note
From teacher brought another,
For father sadly sent reply:
-Cir-Cingle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-01

does I think if there is any reason
for complaint, it is because the gov
eminent is too easy with the farmers
and everyone else"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-15


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The dining room has TsOa atrc
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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-07-15
Squires
Electric Company

Can save you money in installing your electric
wiring. Better work, better material Seven
years in Ardmore
Phone oO1
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Rule Of the Romanoff..

Many curious Instances are given In
the history of the RomanOifs as to how
heirs apparent have been cheated Of
their rights. Catherine the Great ex.
ercised her right OF bequeathing the
scepter. to whom she thought fit. She
appointed her grandson, Alexander, in
stead of S.s father, her only son, Paul.
Paul, however. destroyed the document
before it.could be put into execution
Earlier still Peter the Great left the
scepter 70 Empress Catherine l.. wo-
man OF peasant birth, who had been a
chambermaid at an inn. His grand
child, the sole offspring OF sss murder
ed son and rlghtful heir was thus dis
Inherited. Many other instances have
been cited of dcprlying legitimate heirs
Of their rights. Sometimes II was NAL
ice, expedieiicy In other cases and very
often prejudice.
Car Paul for instance, was on the
eve of sending his two eldest sons to
Siberia to favor his third son, Nicho-
las. Paul was assassinated 10y the au-
thOrity Of the two sons before he could
carry out his plan, and thus one OF the
most terrible chapters was added TO
Russian imperial history. Pearson
Weekly.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Mathematics and War.

In addition to BIS attachments as Il
chess player Napoleon was sklllful
mathematician, a science which HAS
always attracted great soldiers. As a
young man he was (v'tc distinguished
by his ready maIip cation of mathe
NAUTICAL formulate, and his keen mathe-
NAUTICAL brain was q big factor in his
success as general.
Wellington also had similar talent,
and on one occasion he told the Rev. H..
Gleig that he attributed much of his
military success to his lifelong deyo-
ton to the science of numbers. Many
other famous soldiers of the last CEN
fury were adopts In rapid and accurate
calculation. among them Lee. Jackson
and Moltke. Washington, too. was n
mathematician, Il subject In which he
was exceptionally proficient.
General Joffre, had he not chosen the
army as Il profession, might have been
professor OF mathematics. Mathe-
NAUTICAL calculation and applied science
are great factors for success In war;
London Chronicle.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
hnr Old Ginve.

at is made out of the upper part Of
long, white kid glove" the little
manicure explained when noticed the
case from which she took her file, scis-
sors and orange wood sticks. 1t was n
very dainty affair, made very simply
by Sitting glove arm and turning
one piece of the kid back on the other.
The pockets were made by graduated
rows of machine stitching, which made
them any size YOU liked
Il find this very convenient little
case to carry my tools when am call
cd from one room to another or go out
to a private customer 1t would be
nice for travelling, too, as 1t Is so Fat
and easy to make. My buffer, you no
tice, Is covered with the white kid. /
find II much better than the chamois,
as 1t is softer and more like the palm
OF the hand New York Press.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Australian Wool Industry.

Australian wool. OH which has been
built up much of that British colony's
prosperity. started well over n century
ago. 1t originated with certain Cap
tain Macarthur, a soldier in the Brit
fish army. Settling in New South
Wales soon after Governor Phillip ar
rived there, lie saw the possibilities for
growing fine wool and by the mckiest
accident was able in 1896 to import
five merino ewes and three rams.
They were of flock presented Ivy the
king Of Spain 20 the Dutch at the
Cape and came from the famous Es-
curial flock. These, judiciously added
to by Macarthur, We're the beginning
of the vast Australian sheep industry
of today. The first shipment of Aus
tralian wool was 245 pounds in 1901
Now the Shipments run into hundreds
of millions of pounds,-Indianapolis
News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Beds For Camping.

"The bed is the most important
requisite to Il good camping trip 1t
may be only pile of leaves, but 1t
must be comfortable In the Wom-
ans Home Companion We read that
folding canvas cots and chairs are car
ried. For bedding get two rubber
sheets for top and bottom IL possible.
The best thing is an old imitation
leather top from an automobile. Can.
vas or duck Is good If you cannot get
rubber. A double comforter makes II
very good mattress. When camping
several nights get bale of hay on
straw. Take such blankets as you are
likely to need and pillows If wanted.
For one night camps. unless there arc
heavy dews 1t is often needless to
pitch the tent The rubber sheets pro,
tect and give warmth Use them Ia
roll the bedding In when packing, aud
spread on the ground to sit on when
you eat
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Patriotism and Retiuion.

Draw little circle around your per-
sonality and it will include your fam
lily; draw larger circle aud il will in
clude your friends; n still larger circle
takes in your fellow countrymon; the
last and largest circle of all embraces
all humanity. As the circle enarges
the objects OF our love increase in num-
Der and the intensity of our love nat
orally diminishes. We are not bound
to all mankind as strongly or as ten
DERBY as we are to our fellow country
men. We are not bound to do for all
our c0untrymen us much as we are
bound TO do for our neighbors next
door or on the next street or In the
next township. Our highest human OBJ
legation Is to those of our own house
hold. The supreme duty we owe to
One. and one alone, Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God. "-Christian Herald.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
The Name Of Arizona.

Arizona, probably Arizonac in its
original form. was the native and prob
ably Pimn name of the place-of hill,
valley, stream or some other local fen
ture-just south of the modern bound
airy. in the mountains still SO called, on
the hcadwaters of the stream flowing
past Saric, where the famous Planchas
dc Plata mine was discovered IN the
middle OF the eighteenth century the
name being first known to the Span
iards in that connection and being mp
piled to the mining camp or real de
minas. The aboriginal meaning of the
term IL not known. The name should
probably be written and pronounced
Arisona. IA our English sound Of q
does not occur In Spanish,-H. II. Ban
croft, History of the Pacific States"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Knew II Was Good Music.

The late yiolinist. Rcmenyi. used TO
call ut the old Edison office at G5 Fifth
avenue. Some one asked Mr.. Edison
n he remembered the sisits.
IL remember him well, Alr. Edison
replied. Il was working on the phono-
graph. He used to come to No. 60
after his concerts and talk. He would
sit there talking. aud by aud by start
playing most beautiful things-wail-
Ing, soft music. He would play $1,000
or $1,000 worth every night"
Didn't you get him once to play for
the Photographic" Mr.. Edison was
asked.
yes, but the phonOgraph wasn't
working well in those days, so It didn't
do him justice. He stood on soap
box and played for me one night, and
when he finished tears were rolling
down his checks. | asked him what
the matter was. and he said il always
made him cry TO hear good music" -
Chicago News.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Street Illumination,

illuminating engineers are now
turning all their energies toward a sys-
TEN for the proper distribution OF
street lighting" writes Walter Il. How
ell in Good Health. "They have unan-
lmously agreed that the best light is
that from globe that is dense enough
not to reveal the form of the actual
Hight within, but TO give the effect OF
light streaming forth from the globe"
The reason FOR this is that street
lamps are necessarily against a dark
background, and the amount of glare
upon the eyes depends TO great de-
gree upon the background against
which the light is seen. An electric
light, unshaded, against dark velvet
wall covering, for instance, win be
found much more trying to the eyes
than would the same light with white
wall paper behind 1t.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Walden Ammunition.

ssl. > years ago civil war was raging
between two Afghan tribes, the All
Khcl and the Mnla Khel. The latter
tribe built great hopes Of success on a
cannon of such a size that lG1 men
were required to draw 1t. \ sikh
trained I'm n British battery was en-
gagged 10 work the gun on the under
standing that he receive % rupees
every time he hit the village fort OF
the foe This did not prove remuner-
alive. for, according 70 an eyewitness,
the ammunition consisted of olive
wood balls bound with iron bands,
which have Il highly eccentric ilight
and are calculated to do about equal
damage to friend and foe" After a
three days Commandment, in which the
fort was hit only three times the hos
tiltlcs came To- an end.-London stand
ard.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Women as Fortune Builders.

| observe and you win notice that
notwithstanding the great incursion Of
women of late years into one or an
other department Of business they are
not of much account as fortune build
ers. Some of them earn or make a
good deal of money. but they seldom
get rich by their own cxertions, and
nearly all the rich women have inher-
tied fortunes from men. Moreover the
women who are most successful as
money makers are not, as rule, the
most successful as women. Th&wom-
en- seem to be consecrated sex. too
valuable TO be employed in mere mon
ey getting. Vast numbers of them earn
living. sometimes good one, and
have to, but few Of them get rich. 1t
is common for young man to start
out deliberately to accumulate a for
tune. Ii Is very uncommon for young
woman TO do so. She is much moro
likely to accumulate "A young man.
+. S. Martin in Atlantic.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
i
FIRST AMERICAN TRAITOR.
Benjamin Church Played That Role
During the Revolution.

Benjamin Church. graduate OF Har-
yard and a member Of n distinguished
New England family, was the first
American traitor. Church became em-
inent rs Il surgeon and as writer of
verse and was one Of the leading
Wings In the years just preceding the
Revolution. At one time he WAS Il
member Of the Massachusetts provin-
elal congress and became member of
the famous Boston committee of
safety.
The committees plans were consis-
tently revealed to General Gage, gov
erIlor of the province. but the source
of the leak was not discovered until
after the Revolution was fairly under
way At the time of the actual break
between the colonies and England
Church was assigned to an important
colonial hospital In September, 1878,
letter from Church to British army
officer. containing secrets OF the colo.
mist army, was intercepted. Church
had intrusted the letter, written In
code, to a woman, to be conveyed TO
one of General Cages STAFF officers.
The woman confessed her share In the
reasonable move and implicated
Church.
Tile traitor was taken before coun-
eli presided over by Washington, and
he there practically admitted his guilt
Congress, acting on the suggestion OF
the trial council, ordered Church kept
in close confinement In the Cambridge
Jail, without the use of pen or paper,
and that no person he allowed to con
verse with him except in the presence
and hearing of colonial officers until
further orders from this or future
congress"
Church's health failed rapidly, and
he was permitted to undergo Danish
ment to the West Indies. He sailed in
merchant vessel In May, 1875 and
neither the ship nor Church ever was
heard of again.-kansas City Star
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Writing to the Press.

I have sometimes thought that !
would write letter to the paper and
sign II Ira II. Pinhead or Henry Stern
Wheeler, and in this letter would
excoriate the editor and tell him just
how the country ought to be run and
how little lie knew about Il.
But you know how you put Off these
things, SO | did not do it for many,
many years. Then sat down and just
burned the paper. added sarcas-
tic line; then OF course they would not
dare to print my letter. | know that
well enough. And they didn't. 1t new.
er appeared. Wasn't that good joke
on the paper?- Minneapolis journal.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
The White Man In Africa.

"The footprint of the white man Is
Ike the footprint of the elephant"
says Swat native provssb lit re
mains in tue ground"
Another proverb: white men are
like and yet unlike quails. When you
see one in your country you will soon
see flock. But the quails leave you
again. the white men never"
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Fooled All tho Prophets.

you never can tell what man will
make of himself" remarked the prac-
teal woman.
"pcrhops not"
Take my husband, for instance. lie
used TO be an expert mandolin player
and had fair tenor voice. Despite
these handlcaps he has risen to be
president of one Of the largest manu-
featuring concerns In this part of the
country" birmingham Agc-lIemld.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-07-16
Too Much For Tommis.

Mother wants you to come right
over and see Tommie," said the little
girl.
"Whot seems to be the matter with
him ?" asked the doctor.
HE can't swallow. His teacher gave
him some big words to spell today, and
We think some of 'em got stuck in his
throat. "-Yonkers Statesman.