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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-05

Richard K. Collins, a student at
Creighton College. Omaha. Neb., ar
rived in the city this morning to visit
over Sunday with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. D. J. Collins.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-05
STANDING OF CLUBS
Results Friday.

At Marshalltown - Marshaltown-
Cedar Rapids game postponed; wet
grounds.
At Mason City-Mason City. 6; La
Crosse, 0.
AT Fort Dodge-Fort Dodge, .; Du-
buque. 0.
At Observation-Disclosures Clinton game
postponed; wet grounds.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-05
CoRNs HURT. TODAY?
LIT your corus or ea'luses on
with fingers and It won't
pain you one bit.

Yes! You truly can lift off every
hard corn, soft corn or corn between
the toes, as well as hardened calluses
on bottom OF feet without one bit OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-05

Mrs. G. G. Trinc went this morning
to Grinnell to attend the May festival
and visit her daughter Elizabeth. Mr..
Urine goes down this evening.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-05

Vic Louthan, arrested here ~ tho res
quest Of the sheriff Of Rockwell City,
was taken TO that place Friday night
by IN oflicer who came for him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-05

It is to be regretted. of course. that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19
TRAWELETTE

BY NIKSAH


The SLOGAN is the name given to the
picturesque mining district of south
western Canada, that has known the
romance of a big boom. the slow
tragedy of decline and desertion, and
the pulse of renewed prosperity and
activity, all within the memory of
men still young enough for military
service. Twenty years ago the rush
was on, and all the mad scramble and
lavish spending of Leadville and the
Klondike were being re-enacted in
Kaslo and Nelson and Sandon and the
rest of the little mining camps. In
Sandon they boarded over the river
to make the single city street, be-
cause the canyon walls were too steep
to lay it anywhere else. Kalso grew
over night into a budding metropolis.
The drop in silver spelled temper
airy disaster to the SLOGAN, and men
who were too impatient to do with
less than the hope of fortune a
week poured out as fast as they had
rushed in. They left many deep
buried low-grade ore vein behind
them for the patient and methodical
work of some powerful syndicate to
open up and exploit. They threw aside
as not worth bothering with the zinc
ores that the war has almost classed
among the precious metals. So the
future of the SLOGAN district may vet
be as prosperous and a good deal more
solidly founded than its past.
There are many lines beside mining
which give promise of possible de-
velopment, but it has always been
the lure of quick portable wealth In
the shape of gold or silver or dia-
monds that has led to the opening
of far countries. The Spanish con-
quistadores penetrated what is now
our west in search of the seven golden
cities of Cibola; the rush of 40 Pvt
q m hA II 10
strikes were the beginning of the new
Alaska. So with the SLOGAN; TODAY
they are turning to fruit raising and
farming on the shores of the maRni-
ficent lakes in the shadows of tower
ing mountains; but the early days of
the silver rush will always be the
most romantic passages in the his
tory of the district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19
GLOBE SIGHTS
from the Atchison GIobe.1

CFrom the Atchison Globe.]
Wastefulness is nearly as bad as
stealing.
A womans tears lose their power if
she use them too freely.
There are a good many frenzied fl
nanciers on the first day of every
month.
AS a man grows older. he is also
able to carry a knife longer without
losing it.
1t isn't a mans eagerness to serve
the people which makes him go in for
a political career.
Men are foolish in many ways, but
not to the extent of expecting their
wives to believe them.
An orator is one who understands
that his audience is more interested in
sentiment than sense.
No man can make a hit with his
wife by telling her what a good man
ager some other woman is
a man may not pay much attention
to a wor1ans clothes, particularly il
he can see thru them.
A few good men are controlled by
their conscience. while fear and wives
| keep others on the straight and mar
row.
If women be still allowed to boss
their husbands there, the fact that
there are no marriages III heaven
won't cut into their lasting joy a
| great deal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

If those persons upon whom de-
wolves the task Of prosecuting the war
deem it necessary that there should be
"a food dictator, then congress should
make provision for one without furth =
er deya Whatever objection there
may be to one-man power under or
binary conditions, they do not apply
with equal force when the country is
facing a crisis in its affairs. The only
question should be, is control of the
food supply necessary. If it be found
To be so then the only way to accom-
llish il successfully is to turn it over
to a competent man. In England
Lloyd George not only is food dicta-
tor but he is dictator of everything
else. Where would England have been
if the management of the war had
been left to lot of bureaus and
commissions, without a supreme
guiding hand. The fact that La Fol
lette opposes the food control meas
.ure should be sufficient reason for
patriotic congressman to support it.
Any power conferred by congress can
be revoked by that body at will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19
THE gEARCHIIG light
Latest News from the Fields of
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INVENTION
Talking Movies,

Application has been made f9r a
patent on very elaborate device
which would produce a combination
of the ciuematograph and >he phcno-
graph to give US moving pictures
wherein the characters not only move
but speak. The idea of such pictures
is not new, but the difficulties of syn
chronizinG have hitherto proved in
surmountable. By synchronizing is
meant the exact coincidence of the
motion picture, projected by one ma
chine, with the speech supposed to
proceed from the characters, which is
produced by quite another. Unless
the speech comes at the right instant.
the result is laughable rather than
impressive. In the proposed device,
the actual speech of the characters is
transmitted by wireless telephone TO a
phonogra ph whose complex receiving
mechanism us synchronizec with the
movements of the moving picture
camera.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

swept ever it: 1t was taken by Celts
and Gauls and Normans. 1t was the
first possession of Emperor Charles V
who later ruled more European terri
tory than any monarch before OF since
During the Thirty Years war, proba bly,
the only conflict which equalled the
present n the misery it inflicted on
non-combatant populations. conditions
were worse in Luxembourg than any
where else. In modern times the
Duchy was handed back and forth
among the French, the Dutch, the
Spanish, the Prussians and the Aus
trians, losing a little territory at each
exchange. 1t almost caused a Franco
Prussian war in 1866, but Bismarck
was not ready, and he consented to the
solemn covenant which guaranteed the
Grand Duchy of Luxembourg neutral
and inviol1ta for all time. And so it
remained Until August, 1914.
What will become of Luxembourg
after the war? The people are unal-
terably opposed to Prussian rule. No
where are the Prussians better hated.
Luxembourg would sooner be French
than Prussian, and she would rather
be part of Belgium than a part of
France. What she really desires is
again what she was once, a free and
independent state.
Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation should be addressed the To-
peka State journal Information Blu
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, 1917-06-19
HELPING THE RED CROSS.

Colonel Roosevelt, speaking at Lin
coin, Neb., in behalf of the S1OO,OOO,-
900 war fund which the American
Red Cross has set out to raise declar-
ed that the. Red Cross would be sec
ond in importance only to the army as
a factor in winning the war. The sue
cess of the liberty loan campaign is,
therefore, a good augury for the sue
cess of the campaign to provide the
Red Cross with adequate funds for the
performance of the important duties
which will fall to it in connection with
the war.
Those who foresee difficulties in the
way of raising such a huge sum do not
appreciate the importance of the work
which the Red Cross will be called
upon to perform, once our troops are
in France. The fact of the matter is
that the money must be raised, or else
the men vino are fighting under Old
Glory will be deprived of the care
which they are entitled to Expect from
this nation, and the wounded must
suffer the neglect.
Once this aspect of the matter is
borne IN upon our pSOple, tlcic Will
be no difficulty about raising the
S1OO,0OO,O0O. 1t may be true that
they do not as yet fully grasp the i'm
portance of the Red Cross in time of
war, but their education cannot begin
too soon. The Red Cross must be
equipped now for the work ahead of
it. Delay until the movement of
troops across the water had begun,
says the Rochester Democrat, would
be a national crime. Colonel Roose-
Welt said:
Our own sons and brothers will soon
be going into battle. They will be
three thousand miles from home, in
a land already wasted by war, a land
threatened by famine. a land smitten
by disease. They tell us that. in ma ny
cases today the wounds of soldiers in
France must be tied up with news
paper for want of the necessary sur
gical bandages. When our own men
are wounded-as they surely will be in
great numberS-are We going to allow
them to suffer yet more because we
| fail to provide those things which
can at least mitigate distress? Surely
| not! But we must do it in advance.
If we wait it may be too late.
There are indications that the Ger
man army on the western front is
| preparing to stage another strategic
retreat" Hindenburg> should be care
| full. He may start something that he
cannot stop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19
LIBERTY LOAN A WINNER.

The liberty loan proved a crafty
ing success, being oversubscribed,
fully one-half having been raised in
New York. One of the most pleasing
features, says Henry Clews in his
Financial Review, was that over two
million subscribers are reported to
have taken part, which is double the
number attracted to the first loans of
either Great Britain or Germany.
Evidently there is no lack of pa
triotism in the country. The cause of
the hesitation freely to subscribe at
the start was that the mass of people
in the United States did not then fully
appreciate the vital issues at stake
They have only slowly realized that
back of all surface and minor issues
stands one supreme fact; that the
struggle is pre- eminently to preserve
democracy against autocracy; that
the freedom won in 1875 was gravely
menaced, and that self protection
really forced US into the contest; not
to mention the dictates of humanity
AMI our fundamental beliefs in lib
erty and an advanced civilization.
We have been SO isolated from Eu-
ropean affairs, so wrapped up in our
own interests, SO free from injury or
pain, so confident of our safety, so sat-
isfied with our own progress and so
pleased with war profits that SUPER
human efforts were necessary to over
come the solid inertia which made it
difficult to turn the rising spirit of
patriotism into positive action. This
fact was clearly demonstrated by ear
lier enthusiasm displayed in the sea-
board cities. which are naturally in
closer touch with Europe and more
sensitive to its movements than the
! interior; albeit the latter sometimes
overlooks to what an extent it is de-
pendent upon Europe as a market for
its products. Time, however will
work great changes in this respect
especially when doings of the Ameri-
can army and navy on the other side
begin to awaken latent enthusiasm
President Wilson's eloquent Flag
day address was an effective appeal
to American patriotism and self-inter-
est that will have a wide and bene.
ficial effect. Within a few months
the new spirit will have swept across
tn continent, welding the whole
country together in its determination
to push the struggle with all possible
| vigor to victorious conclusion.
/ Operations connected with the loar
do not threaten any serious disturb
ance to the money market, further
than a general firmness of rates
Other heavy calls are in prospect, blu
the strain will be relieved by partia
payments, by keeping the funds il
banks as far as possible and by reds
counting loans thru the reserv,
banks. Moreover, practically tn,
hole of the loan will be spent in tn,
United States for war purposes. Great
ing new activity in all munition indus
tries. Demands upon the money mar
ket during the remainder of jun
i.romise to be quite heavy. Payment
fer the new loan will aggregate $500,
100000 before the first of JULY. Div
idend disbursements on the same dat
are estimated at over $500, 900. 600. tn
largest on record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

The fact that this is not a cavalry
war, and that automobiles, motor
ton balloons are performing much of
the service formerly required of the
horse in war time, does not seem to
have checked the demand for Ameri-
can saddle and draft animals. In the
first year of the war the number of
horses and mules sent out of the
country was in round numbers 3d.
900, in the second year 100000, and in
the third year, which ends with this
month, it will approximate 100000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19


Flag over which the battle broke,
When through a pail of rolling smoke
Bonnie Homme Richards cannon spoke;
Flag. which unfolded in the skies,
Held with its clear and brilliant dyes
Brave Lawrences uplifted eyes;
Flag which at Buena Vista spread
Its glory over Taylor's head,
When Santa Anna turned and fled;
Flag which unfurled its silver stars
Above the Hartford's smoky spars,
And Farragut's heroic tars;
Flag which was wrapped in vapors gray,
And crimson mist apd fiery spray,
With Dewey at Manila Bay;
Flag of the sea and of the shore,
Beloved flag our fathers bore
To famous victories OF yore,
Again we fling thee to the breeze
To feel the sting Of battle-bees.
And lead the charging batteries.
Again thy cause is true and just.
And 10 when every throne is dust,
And conquering swords are sheathed in
rust,
Untouched. triumphant. thou shalt be
Still bright with immortality,
y glorious emblem of the free
-Minna Irving, in Leslies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

The apprentice was splashing the
lime wash about. The master, not re-
fishing this waste, said: Mind your
eyes, lad"
The lad said: TT is all right, sir.
1 have just had-one eye full, xbut 1
didn't waste it. I put it back in the
bucket"
When the conversation turned to
the subject of romantic marriage this
little anecdote was volunteered by H.
NJ. Asker, North Dakota politician !:
$50 you were married ten years
ago Took place in the church.
suppose, with bridesmaids, flowers
cake and the brass banda
mo; it was an elopement."
"An elopement, Ell? Did the girls
father follow your
Yes. and he has been with us ever
SINCE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

ment usually affords. If necessary to
this end it should follow up the lib
erty loan with another. There has
been much complaint by creditors of
Uncle Sam that they do not get their
money when it is due. The war bust
ness will be greatly accelerated and
possibly cheapened by prompt cash
pavment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

An eastern writer in an article dis
cussing the war situation refers to
Goethals as "a shipbuilder who never
built ships before" He might also
with equal propriety have referred to
him a few years ago as a canal builder
who never built canals before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

Germany continues her attempt to
conclude a separate peace with Rus
STA. Why should any nation want to
enter into any sort of agreement with
Germany? She has no regard for
treaty obligations and considers
them mere scraps of paper" If Rus
STA knows when she is well off she will
stick to her allies and thereby win a
peace which will be worth while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

Greece and Spain and Russia should
hurry If they want to be in at the
finishing of Germany. Field Marshal
Haig is showing a disposition to end
the job by himself He is not waiting
for ANYBODY
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Daily Menu.
BREAKFAST,

Cherries.
Spinach Omelet
Toast. Coffee.
LUNCHEON.
Lobster or Shrimp a la Creole.
Bread and Butter. Olives
Iced Tea. Date Bars.
Grapefruit Cocktail.
Roast Lamb,
Fresh Mint with Current jelly Savr>
New POTATOES. Green Peas
Rice Charlotte Russo with
Strawberries.
Oatmeal Scum.
Boil one-half cup of oats in o,.
quart water: add one cup raisins. one
half cup sugar. two cups milk. one
teaspoon salt; boil. Serve with era ok
ers.
Cocoanut Pudding.
Butter four slices of raised hra.s
and place together and then cut in
one-half inch squares Now butter a
two-quart agate basin and put an AL
ternate layer of bread and then snrin-
kIe shredded cocoanut over bread mn
III all Is used up and top layer is or
pread; then mix three beaten VOLTS 90
eggs. one teaspoonful vanila and thrae
teacups OF new milk; pour over an
ana bake in moderate oven until c,1s
tard sets and then remove
In the meantime beat the laf..
whites to a stiff broth and a1d 49,.
enough pulverized sugar. NOT o,-s.
TWO level tablespoonful beat stir 60
spread over top of pudding and ~
place IN oven few minutes unt;,
'io"h' eneh remove for good,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

1t has been said that war is bust
ness. Then the government should
conduct the present business in which
il is engaged on a business basis. It
not only should pay cash promptly
hut should be able to take advantage
Of the lower prices which cash pay
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

The Russian munition factory work
ers have succeeded in having the
working day cut to six hours They
probably want more time for organic
ing revolutions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

The next important money raising
campaign in this country is the gath
ering together of S1O0.OOO,OOO for the
use of the Red Cross. Its Importance
is secondary only to that of the lib
erty loan. The sum called for should
be largely oversubscribed The or
ganization can find use for all the
money it can get.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

Uncle Sans success in floating the
liberty loan was SO great that he is
planning to try it again. The task
should be much easier next time. The
educational work has been done. Be-
sides most of the money obtained by
the first loan will be back in circula-
ton by the time the next call is made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

had They talked of fogs. gales anu
fires ard other Interesting things, and
il was six months before stephen
Douglas had his home and fireside,
and Miss Annette had her coy iittie
flat and a good husband.-t Copyright
1917. by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

the liberty loan campaign, what do
those persons think who have held
that the masses are not behind the
war;
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

The kaiser has ordered his men on
the western front to take no more
British prisoners. They have been
taking so few recently as to render
the order almost unnecessary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19
DINNER STORIES

The decorator and his apprentice
were lime-washing the bakery.
They were about half way thru their
task when the master decorator came
to look around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

The abdication of king no longer
arouses more than passing notice.
Probably it soon will cease to be front
page matter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

honor the a,nall boy. exclusively and
individually. The Japanese small boy
is courteous, kindly, gentle and con-
siderate of others. He doesn't even
yell like :; Comanche wheE he plays
football, AMI you never see him in a
street fight. Perhaps lie is polite be-
cause he is treated politely
Let's follow the japanese custom of
honoring the small boy and see if We
can't civilize the American small hoy,
too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

The citizen who has done a patri-
otto duty by buying liberty loan bond
should not close his pocketbook yet.
There is the Red Cross demanding his
attention
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19
Seldom.

He gets from us no loving cup
Who tattles of us round the town
And so we're seldom running up
To him who runs us down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

The ideal of the "fatherhood of
God and the brotherhood of man" is
being given a big boost by the Great
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19
The Truth of the Matter.

They had been sitting there for some
while and not a word had passed be-
tween them. If there had been a quar-
rel it was not apparent for he smiled
almost sweetly into the CRATE and her
look was placid and serene. She held
a book lightly in her hand and yet one
could see that she read not a word of
1t. They were beth very handsome
in a way tho his color was a bit too
pink and white to become a man so
large and her features were a trifle
insipid. They appeared to be man and
wife and perhaps newly married.
Everything in the room, the smoking
stand at his elbow. the large rug with
the price tag still on it, the large
leather chair, the bookcase and the
reading table, were all so obviously
new. AS they sat there quietly and
with all the shiny new things about
them they might have been wax fig
ures that are sometimes seen in the
windows of the large furniture stores.
In fact, they were.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT

BY ROY x. MOULToN.

Ode to q Sparrow.
Though least befriended of your kind.
OF birds the waif and pauper,
Though oft disparaged and malfgned
We hail you, little topper!
While other birds in song are proud,
Or fancy feathers dressing,
How poorly you have been endowed
With aught of boon or blessing.
Thy dowdy dress is scarcely famed
For lovelfness of fashion,
Thy feeble note is Ill acclaimed,
We curse it in passion.
And yet through all the livelong day,
AS jaunty as a skipper,
You hop and flutter on your way,
Forever bright and clipper.
Disdaining book or learned screed,
And though no gown you're DOMINIC,
You have a simple little creed
That men might well be coming.
Your brow perhaps is rather low,
Your wit is not n Giants,
But Cheerfulness you have and oh,
A Lot of Self reliance!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

It's better to make fuss over the
Mrs. than over the misses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

Happy Thought.

Man is as prone to Beef as is its
Price to fly upward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-19

There are indications that the Ger
man army on the western front is
preparing to stage another strategic
retreat" Hindenburg> should be care
full. He may start something that he
cannot stoD