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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
TRAWELETTE
The Lucin Grade.
BY NIKSAH

The Lucin grade. or the Lucin cut
off, is one of those American en-
cheering marvels that we are ap-
parently waiting for European visitors
and future generations to marvel at,
while we of America and today ac-
cept them as a natural part of COM
mercial development and railroad en-
cheering. The Lucien cutoff" they
say in the west-"oh. yes, that's
grade thru the Great Salt Lake. Had
to do it to avoid the bad grades, you
know" And that of course is all
there is to it-simply a railroad run
ming for miles thru a sea.
To depict the wonders of nature,
the pen of the poet can fall back con-
fidently- on metaphor and hyperbole.
But to give an idea of some of the
achievements of man, only the nob1er
and more poetic resource of statistics
will suffice. One might, of course.
rolls literally for hours in a Pullman
car over the glistening waters. but to
give an idea of the job that made it
possible. figures are the only adequate
medium.
The railroad built some thirty miles
of fills and trestles thru the lake
They took steam shovels and picked
up few small mountains, dumped
them into dirt cars and flung them
down into the waters. They cut
10000 big pines to use as piles
quite a respectable forest-for the
main trestle. Once the bottom of
things dropped out, the piles could
find no holding ground, and the lake
swallowed up all the rock they fed it
and asked for more. In another age
they would have thought that the
gods were opposed to so puresumptu-
Gus an undertaking and abandoned it,;
but in this twentieth century they re-
vised the estimates of construction
cost and continued to dump rock and
drive piles until the piles stuck. They
made a hundred-mile cutoff as level
as a ballroom floor. And they find
their justification, not in the compile
ton of a unique structure, not in set
ting at naught the might of nature
and providing the esthetic traveller
with a beautiful view and the victim
of ennui with a new experience, but
in the fact that they have Shortened
a transcontinenta1 line by forty miles,
and cut the cost of hauling freight by
some fraction of a cent ton
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

the government, all native F'ilipinos,
at once pledged their loyalty and that
of the Filipino people as whole in
cooperating in any war measures de-
cided upon by the chief executive
These pledges have been followed by
many applications from native Fill
pinos for admission to the United
States navy, and by the formation of
a division of the national guard.
Upward of 1000 Filipinos applied
for admission to the guard as soon as
its formation was authorized. Young
Filipino students at home and in the
United States are not only volunteer
matter of personal responsibility to
induce their brother, students to take
similar action. In Sar Francisco
alone a Filipino volunteer eg.ment
has been mustered thru the Trojan
zeal of two or three students who
think it their first duty to help their
Uncle Sam. There are Filipinos in
the medical corps. too, who will bring
to the war valuable experience of SER
vice in Philippine hospitals.
Such spontaneous response to
Americas call as their offer of $4,000
troops and their subscription to the
liberty loan must have been a bitter
answer to German agents who Of
fered SIS to every former Filipino in
surrecto who would pledge his sup
port to a revolt.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

THE DESTRUCTION OF sENNACHERfB.
The Assyrian came down like the wolf on
And his cohorts were cleaning in purple
And the sheen en- of their spears was like stars
where the e. blue wave rolls nightly on deep
Galilee.
Like the leaves of the forest when summer
That host with their banners at sunset
Like the leaves of the forest when autumn
That host on the morrow lay withered and
strown-
For the Angel Of Death spread his wings on
And breathed in the face of the foe as he
And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly
and chill,
And their hearts but once heaved, and for
ever grew still
And there lay the steed with his nostrii
But through il there rolrd not the breath
And the foam of his gasping lay white on
And cold as the spray of the rock-beating
SURF
And there lay the rider distorted and pale,
his mail;
And the tents were all silent, the banners
alone,
And the widows of Ashur are loud in their
| wall;
! And the idols are broke In the temple OF
And the might of the Gentle, unsmote by
the sword,
Lord Byron.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
FILIPINO LOYALTY.

Probably we shall hear little in the
future regarding independence for the
Philippines. The islands are rapidly
becoming as much a part Of the
United States as are Hawaii. Alaska or
Porto Rico.
Nothing is more indicative of the
changed attitude of the Philippines
toward the United States than their
eagerness to aid in the war against
the kaiser. Ten years ago revolution
and discomfort were the order of the
day in the Philippine Archipelago;
the Filipinos looked upon American
occupation with hostility and were
suspicious of American motives To-
day their eager loyalty to stand back
of the United States in the fight for
liberty and democracy bears witness to
sheir sense of unity with America.
Their offers OF financial, moral and
military support attest the success of
American methods in the Philippines.
Manila papers are full of the ac-
tivities following the entrance of the
United States into the war. Imme-
oiately on receipt of the announce
IB6nL the Elhplno Veterans dSSOCld-
ton, composed of men who fought in
the instruction of 1900 against the
United States, formally rendered its
services to the governor-general to be
used in any capacity acceptable. an
act Immediately Followed by the mu-
nicipal board of Manila, composed OF
ten Filipinos elected by the native vot-
,f oil he
taries of the. various departments of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

casfonally a city or a state or an in
dividual establishes an institution for
crippled children or adults. but that
is all. They are given a refuge, but
no effort is made to return them to
the world as Self-supporting MEM
bers of society. Perhaps Iowa offers
the most progressive example in the
state care of cripples, a1tho its activi-
ties are concerned only with children.
Connected with the University Hos
pital of Iowa is a special section de-
voted to the treatment and care Of
crippled and diseased children. Here
a great Austrian surgeon, who is lit
tie less than wizard. transplants
bones, gratis skin, and turns 80 per
cent of his patients away cured.
1t is to be hoped that the re-educa-
ton of soldier cripples will lead to the
re-education of industrial cripples
when the war is over. Already this
seems to be the idea in the establish
ment of the new Red Cross institution
in New York. Every effort will be
made to make the school permanent.
An investigation is now being made
to determine the various advantages
and difficulties of returning disabled
men to industry. Representatives
have been sent to Canada, Great Brit
ain and France to obtain information.
One man is taking a census of the
cases of men who have had amputa-
lions in the New York hospitals, with
the idea of tracing them and discov-
ering how they have met the situa-
ton. In a few years the New York
school will doubtless be only one of
many such institutions.
Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State Journal Information Bu-
reau, Frederic j. Haskin. Director.
Washington. D. C.. with 2-cent stamp
e. closed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
SIDE TALK S
How Much to Dress?

IlO" NAuCA ~ OHCSSs
How much does it cost you a year
to dress?
Some day this summer when the
reader friends have some vacation
time that they don't know what to do
with, I wish they'd write me some let
tiers on this subject. Then we'll have
a symposium on it the same as we
did on the subject of how much people
give for charity.
Tell us what your income Is and
how much of it you spend on clothes
And if you have time we'd like to
know about how you apportion that
money, how much for underwear
suits, blouses, etc. If you put a great
up at the rate Of dressmaker's OF
seamstress' time.
Presumably the letters will be an
onymous. If you want to sign your
name, of course the confidence will
be respected.
The way 1 became interested in the
subject was this: A group of us were
talking about what we spent for
clothes. One woman spent $500 9
year; another, $3.50, eplus consider
able of her own time); third, 5000
fat.
The third is an unmarried business
woman with an income of about two
thousand dollars and that seemed to
me a very moderate allotment. What
do you think?
Incidentally, when we expressed oul
surprised that she could do so well or
that she gave us some of her rules.
I think they are interesting enough
to repeat:
Be careful that your clothes are
we'll spaced-that is that each gar
ment serves some sufficiently differ
ent purpose. One needs a different
kind of gown for SO many occasions
that no woman of limited income car
afford to double up by buying two oil
three gowns that serve the same
usage.
If you can make a summer coat
really warm enough for winter By
putting an interlining in 1t, do so and
finish it up while it is in style.
Don't have the trick of wearing
some favorite dress all the time and
permitting other perfectly good
dresses to Sour in your closet
Use all the assists that keep clothes
in good shape, hangers. shoe trees
the tailor, etc. Keep an umbrella
and rubbers at both ends of the route
and always have an adequate raincoat
These are some of her suggestions
Maybe you'll have some that you'll
! incorporate in that letter you are 60
ing to write me.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
THE SEAlRCHLlGMT
Latest News from the Fields Of
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INVENTION


Gas. MASKS.
The use of poisonous gases in mod
ern warfare has become SO much the
rule, since the practice was incepted
by the Germans in April, 1915, that
a gas mask is Invariably a part of
the equipment of the man at the
front. The American gas . mask is
said to combine the best features of
the German and English, and to be
absolutely proof against gases for a
period of ten hours. The breath is
drawn thru a mouth tube, passing
thru a canister of chemicals which
neutralize the gases. A clamp pre-
vents the man from breathing thru
the nose, so that all the inhaled air
must pass thru the canister. Some
of the trench masks are much simpler
than this, notably one of the French
types, which consists simply of a cloth
saturated in chemicals drawn over the
head, thru which the soldier breathes,
either with nose or mouth at will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
FARMERS AND FREIGHT RATES

Railway freight rates are lower at
present compared with the prices of
agricultural products than they ever
were before in the history of the
United States" the Railway Age Ga
zette points out in an editorial COM
aIenting on the fact that the farmers,
especially in the middle west, con-
tinue 20 oppose advances in rates.
while most other business interests
favor them.
1t is often said. the Gazette c0ntin-
ues, that while the prices which con-
sumers have to pay for agricultural
products have increased greatly, the
farmers have not received the bene-
fit of these increases. Official sta
| tistics on the subject demonstrate the
,ncorrectness of this contention. The
| Statistical Abstract of the United
States shows that between 1910 and
1916 the farm values of the most i'm
portant agricultural products in
creased as follows: Wheat, from SS.3
cents per bushel to s1.60. or 81 Y per
cent; corn, from 4S cents to $50 cents,
or IS per cent; oats, from 34.4 cents
to 52.4 cents, or So per cent; barley,
from SIS cents to ss2 cents. CT So
per cent; rye. from u II cents to s1.22,
or 70.S per cent; buckwheet, from Sc
cents to $1.13, or 70.S per cent; pota-
toes, from 55.7 cents to $1.46, OF 1862
per cent.
Meanwhile, railway rates almost
stood still. In consequence, whereas
| in Al
of wheat from Chicago to New York
was IL per cent of the farm value of
the wheat, in 1916 it was only 6S per
cent of the farm value of the wheat
Likewise, while in 1910 the freight
rate on a bushe1 of corn from Chicago
to New York was 1876 per cent of the
farm value of the corn, in 1916 the
:ate from Chicago to New York was
only 101z per cent of the farm value
of the corn.
How much the farm values of agri-
cultural product have increased rel
atively to the rates which the rail-
ways received is strikingly illustrated
ny the increases which have taken
place in the number of ton-miIes and
passenger-miles of transportation
which can be bought with 4 given
quantity of any farm product For
example, in 1910 a busheI of corn at
the average farm value would buy Is
tCn-miles of transportation, while in
1916 it would buy 126 ton-miles, an
increase of exactly 100 per cent. Like
wise, in 1910, bushel of wheat at
the average farm value would buy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

More than 6 billion cigarettes,
valued at approximately $4,000, 900
were exported from the United States
in the fiscal year just ended, this num-
Der being far greater than in any
year of the history of the American
cigarette. These 6 billion cigarettes,
laid end to end in a continuous line
would extend ten times around the
world at the equator. Nor do these
billions of short smokes go to the
''men in the trenches as might be
supposed. On the contrary. they went
in an entirely different direction and
for the use of an entirely different
type of people. A compilation by The
National City Bank of New York
shows that no less than 4 billion
American cigarettes were sent to
China in the last fiscal year. the year
ending with June, another billion to
the Straits Settlements. hundred mil
lion to Siam. another hundred to Hong
Kong and about 10 millions to our own
Philippines.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
GLOBE SIGHTS

A mass meeting probably accom-
plishes less in proportion to its size
than anything else
A man who knows a few foreign
words is going to use them That is
what makes him so tfresome.
Don't get contested when some man
steps up to you and says, IT wish to
congratulate you" He may add.
Gimme a quarter"
Alb Adkins admits he is getting old
er as some of the stories he heard as
a boy are now going around disguised
as new ones.
She hung up the receiver and wait
ed. Three times she waited, and then,
exasperated, she broke into the con-
versation
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
The Postcard Pest.

The Postcard Pest.
He thinks he is the happy guy,
Who now in rural scenes is lolling,
While we in heat at home must ply
Our humble calling.
He thinks he has chance to gloat
And SO a silly card he's writing.
"Wish you were here to row the boat,
The fish are biting"
Through all the day he lies about,
Or so his postal cards attesting,
He "strolls and 1oafs." The lazy loutf
He thinks he's resting.
He doesn't do a thing, the cuss,
No mail-how does he do without it'll
What's more he drops a card to us
And brags about it
He 1oafs and laughs at me and you,
But though the heat may drive us dizzy,
At least, we have enough to do,
We're always busy.
We are indeed, both late and oft,
And when the weathers scarcely breezy,
How fine to hear his Pretty soft ~
Or This is easy!"
1t doesn't take a brainy nut,
Most any Tom Dick or Lee could
Write home to say, "Some fishing !''-But
We wish that We could
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

Corn touched a price of 81 a bushel
in eastern grain markets this week.
There still are living those who re-
member when this cereal was sold at
10 cents in Kansas and was used for
fuel because it was cheaper than coal.
The present high price is not wholly
due to the war. Corn has been ad-
vancing steadily for number of years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
WHATEVER you WANT TO KNOW

The Topeka State Journal Information
Bureau at Washington furnishes readers,
free of charge. accurate and authoritative
answers to questions on any and all sub
1eets concerning which information can
be had from the unparalleled resources OF
the various federal government depart
ments and the great library Of congress.
A cent stamp for return postage must
accompany each inquiry. State clearly the
Information wanted. write plainly ana au-
dress.
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL IN
FORMATION BUREAU,
Washington d. c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
Boarding Houses.

If you ever move into a boarding
house you will have all you can do to
keep your face straight. 1t is con-
vulsing to sit at boarding house
table and hear the jokes about the
food they always make
If you should think up a good Joke
about tough chickens or weak soup
move into a boarding house and
spring it. A joke about food always
goes good If it comes out of board
ing house.
Boarders make jokes upon the
feeblest provocation. If the coffee is
feeble they make a joke upon that.
In fact, we have made feeble joke
upon it.
When a new boarder moves into a
boarding house the other boarders
take him aside and give him list of
the best things to joke about. They
will tell him how to get the landlady
going and set the table in an uproar.
When he comes to the table for his
first meal he will have something
harsh to say about the succotash.
Perhaps he will ask the landlady
to serve straws with the mashed po-
tatoes.
Nothing brings people closer to-
gether than innocent merriment and
laughter. Any landlady tells you that
her boarders are just like one big
family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

Delay in the passage of the food
control bill will have one effect per-
haps not intended. 1t will prevent an
army of administrative officers from
escaping the draft. The conscriptive
selection will be over before the food
controllers can be appointed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

In order to settle the row between
Goethals and the manager of the ship
ping board the friend of Germany,
whoever he is, should be eliminated
The supporter of the kaiser is the man
who is holding up the ship building
program. President Wilson should be
able to put his finger on the right
person.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

It is reported that no less than "a
lunatics were arrested in Washington
in the month of June. The proceed
ings in congress indicate that there
still are several at large.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

Just as soon as Elihu Rooot left
Russia trouble for the new govern
ment began. Russia should import a
few able bodied American policemen
to preserve order in Petrograd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

The placing in effect of the embargo
on exports. which it was charged
would depress wheat prices appears
TO have had the opposite effect. Wheat
has been advancing steadily for sew
eral DAYS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21

There are now 8 nations engaged in
the war against Germany but the
kaiser seems to pay no attention to
the hoodoo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
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Copyright. 1917. by the Wheeler sypd,c.,.
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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-28
ILlS Of TO- IURE
J: 9I BULGAR TROOPS

=
=. Paris. Oct. Thy mail to New York;.
Snowy" Williams. for years an
.sEnglish jockey riding at the French
grace tracks at Chantilly. Maisons La
thtte and Paris, has arrived here, en-
5nute for London, where he is to be
Presented to King George v. after
undergoing one of the most harrow
ing experiences of any soldier in the
great war and escaping from the
hands of the enemy in the oldest
manner conceivable.
With q French comrade who had
been captured with him In Albania,
Williams was tied to a tree by Bull
garian troops under the leadership Of
two Prussian officers, and kept there
for seven days and seven nights. Dur
Ang that period the French soldier,
w twisting his head toward his left
shoulder, gnawed through the rope
mat bound him there and then wrig-
gled himself loosS and freed the ex-
Jockey.
!, The pair mads their escape after
Killing two Bulgarian sentries and
mking their arms and iron rations"
'rAnq lived on grapes for three weeks
until they signaIied a French fighting
,Aeroplane flying overhead. The pilot
, alighted, and when the refugees had
proven they were members of the
French army, he returned to the al
ued lines. returning in thre hours with
two larger bombarding machines.
which took the men aboard and trans
ported them inside their own lines.
Snowy" Williams is well known to
American racegoers in Franch as
Jockey and trainer. He is a member
spf the group of famous riders which
includes Winnie" O'Connor, O'Nefll,
Guy Garner, MacGee, Milton Henry,
Johnny Reiff and others.
williams has been connected with
the racing stables Of William X. VAN
derbft. Harry Payne Whitney and
Clarence Mackay.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-10-28
THE kIoBMoNp vIRoINIAN " SUNDAY ocToBER 2s 1917

snag Warming has been issued by
Captain w. 8. overton. sent by Uncle
Sam to train the prospective Yale.
officers of the reserve officers train
Ing corps, TO these tailors that prices
Tor uniforms for the training corps
are fixed by Uncle Sam and. that no
violations OF the price regulations will
be tolerated. Some of the tailors have
been charging the regulation price for
the uniforms and adding a tat fee
for alterations. The price for altera-
tions Is fixed, however by the govern
ment And, worst of all for the tailors.
students who have ben mulcted for
more than the regulation price for
uniforms are authorized to demand a
rebate of the excess. As most Yale