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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
SHIPS OF CONCRETE.

War as a terrific driving force be-
hind the development of all arms or
transportation. under stern necessity,
appears to be creating the concrete
ship. .-.
Ten San Francisco shipping men
lave subscribed $4,000 each to build
concrete vessel in that harbor.
From this construction it is expected
that subsequent steps will develop the
concrete ship as an effectual means
of rapidly increasing the number of
freight vessels in service.
The widespread interest which the
subject of concrete ships is attracting
has brought to light q number of in
stances wherein concrete has-been
successfully used in the construction
of barges. One barge, known as the
Pioneer" has been in use on the
Welland canal since 1910. This barge
is so feet long, "a feet wide, 7 feet
deep, weighs $50 tons, when light.
draws 2 feet inches and when load
ed draws feet. s inches.
The concrete ship seems only fur
lher development of the concrete
barge. Concrete lighters have been
used for the past six years on Ches-
apeake bay for freighting coal, sand,
gravel, etc. With such craft, ex-
| Derience has proven, engineers say,
that there is no necessity for caull<ing
and painting; that the upkeep IS
small and that there is no danger of
decay. Barnacles, it is said, will DOT
collect on a concrete hull.
Concrete barges have been in use
on various sections of the Panama
canal since 1910. Vessels. which are
more like ships than barges have been
built of reinforced concrete in Nor
way and the American consul general
at Christiania describes a plant at
Moss, ia Norway, where vessels of
5000 tons displacement are now being
| built.
In view of this urgent need which
confronts the United States for in
creasing the merchant marine, engi-
I,eers. ship-builders and the shipping
board are giving the subject of con-
crete ships serious consideration.
From the evidence at hand it would
seem that marine construction mas en-
tered the era of concrete.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.l

[From the Atchison Globe.l
We should hesitate to trade horses
with a man who makes his living
that way.
If you are interested in the argu-
ment, you are only interested in one
side Of it.
A good many people marry for
money; in fact. good many more
than get it that way.
While there is life there is hope.
but it isn't a very strong hope when
the doctors hold a consultation.
What has become of the old-fash-
Toned women who regarded a hand
made complexion as a cardinal sin?
There is no truth in the street re-
port that Jude johnson has a gather
ing in his head. His head is petri-
fled.
Alb Adkins, who has been married
a long while, often wonders that the
detective bureaus don't employ more
women.
1t is a lucky man who becomes
speechless with anger. Usually a man
gets mad and says things he regrets
as soon as he cools off.
Considering the way woman some
times throws her affections away, it
is wonderful the price she puts on
them in breach of promise suit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
TRAWELETTE
barcelona.
BY NIKsAH

me revolutionary movement in
Spain centers in the city of Barcelona.
me goal OF the revolutionists is a
republic, and republic stand for prog
ress. OF all Spanish cities, Barcelona
is the most progressive. For ten years
the conservatives have been looking
askance at this great modern shipping
ana manufacturing center, so differ
ent from their sleepy inland strong
holds, and from the peasant villages
OF the quiet hills, with political ideas
OF the last century.
Barcelona is a great world-citv. IT
Is Qutdistancins Marseilles as the COM
mere1al queen of the Mediterranean.
The Spaniard has often been charged
with a lack of business sense and en-
terprise; barcelona is his answer.
Here his factories rival those OF
Lancashire, his shipping that of Liver
pool The great industrial suburbs
each a city in itself are reminiscent
of the outlying cities that cluster about
Manchester in the industrial north OF
England.
isticaliy Spanish. The city has taken
the ugliness, the bitter competitive
spirit OF modern industry, and more
nearly than any other industrial GEN.
ter, has blended them with beauty
and Latin courtesy and good-nature
Barcelona is Spain awakened but not
Spain transformed.
1t is sunny town, with a clear
bracing air and a blue sky, that the
smoke of a thousand chimneys never
hides. 1t has plenty of parks and
tree-shaded boulevards; even its poor
er quarters lack the sordidness of the
Anglo-SaXon slum. The flower mar
kets, the promenades, the cafes, are
thronged with 1oungers. not of the
leisure classes. but workmen in their
leisure time. The Spaniard has learned
to work without forgetting how to
idle. And withal the crowds are keen
and wideawake, nightly interested in
public affair, and discussing politics
with the heat that is a birthright in
the Italian races. Barcelona promises
to remain at the forefront of progress
SiXe Snnin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

Trade of the United States with South
America in the fiscal year just ended,
according to figures compiled by the
National City bank, will total rearly
$500, 100000 against less than $780,
100000 in any year prior to the war.
The total trade with that continent in
the ten months, for which a complete
ecord is now at hand, is $3.50. OOO.-
900, and for the latest month (April)
Of that period $79.0O0.0OO. Should
he two remaining months of TIE fiscal
year. for which figures are not yet
available, make respectively as high
"a record as did the month of April. the
total for the fiscal year would reach
$3.50. 100000 as against $364.OOO, 900 in
1913, the highest pre-war record of
our trade with South America.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

fled harbors by the use of torpedo
planes A single torpedo from u sea-
plane will sink a German batLleshIp
just as effectively as single torpedo
from submarine will sink an English
battleship.
Other things that could be done
with sufficiently strong, aviation
ing of the German artillery, the
dropping OF bombs on all fortified
German towns and naval bases, raids
extending all over the central empires
that would neeessitate the main
tenance by the Germans of large de-
fepsive forces of aircraft, and finally
a persistent, ceaseiess, ubiquitous
campaign of aerial attack on the Ger
man armies in the front line the sec
ond line and the reserves that would
go far toward weakening their morale.
These are among the things that have
not actually been done, necessarily,
but that seem not at all extravagant
and eTninently practicable. AS for the
things that are among the possibili-
ties, they are too numerous even to
mention.
1t should be remembered that these
things take time. 1t will be many
months, perhaps year, before we
are turning out 5000 engines a month.
The task is a tremendous one, and
the United States today is the only
nation in the world that has the re-
sources and the capacity for whole
sale standardized production that it
calls for But in view of the hard
facts of the case, aside from all rosy
hopes and prophecies with all due
discount for disappointments, it seems
the thing best worth doing, the most
promising solution of the world dead l.
lock. The greatest project the spe-
cialists put before the nation deserves
the support and the funds that they
ask.
Questions on the abovo or any SUBJ
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, 1917-07-14


A present congestion in the frozen
poultry market, shown by figures OF
the United States department of agrt-
culture, can be relieved If the retail
dealers will handle the goods at rea-
sonable advance over wholesale prices.
This action would make poultry avail
able at prices comparing favorably
with other meats, according to the
findings of conference just held in
Washington between wholesale poul-
Try distributors and officials of the de-
partnent of agriculture. Both parties
70 the conference say that more poul-
toy should be eaten when the facts
L re understood by the consumer; and
an increased use of poultry now, in
the opinion of the department. will
tend to conserve other meats which
|are of more importance to Americans
and their allies in Europe. The re-
Itailers. as well as wholesalers it is
POINTED out, should aid in relieving the
congestion. The consumer will do
his part if the government will see
that he is permitted to buy chickens
at fair price.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
RED CROSS.

AED ChOSS.
Out where the line of battle cleaves
The horizon of woe
And sightless warriors clutch the leaves.
The Red Cross nurses go.
IN where the cots of agony
MARX deaths unmeasured tide
Dear up the battles haryestry-
The Red Cross nurses glide
Look. Where the hell of steel has torn
ITS way thru slumbering earth,
Inc orphaned urchins kneel, forlorn,
And wonder at their birth
Until, above them, calm and wise,
with smile and guiding hand
6oa locking thru their gentle eyes,
The Red Cross nurses stand.
here, III our sheltered homes we sit.
Remote from wars red sweep,
Dong half-heartediy our bit,
Sleeping our painless sleep.
see Where the Red Cross flags unroIled
with red, and white, and blue;
Let us pour out our treasured gold
To guide the Red Cross true.
Thomas L. Mason.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

ord may contain one-s:ded arguments,
paid for by the public. but the Record
is open for the presentation of both
sides of any question. In this respect
it differs from the Official Bulletin.
There may be difference of opinion
as to the merits of equal suffrage but
there ought not to be any difference
as to the evil of public maintenance
of an organ whose columns are open
to the advocates of only one side of
public issue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

The Chicago board of rade seems
to have no difficulty in fixing prices
Of grain when it undertakes to do so.
When, some time ago. it placed a
limit on the price of wheat, there fol-
lowed n drop of approximately 81
d bushel. 1t has now turned it's atten-
ton to corn. Perhaps it will take &C
ton regarding meat and lard next.
There should be some way by which
the boards method could be applied
10 other food stuffs and to coal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
DINNER STORIES

Policeman (gfving evidence)-After
being elected from the movie show he
was discovered with a large bouquet
in his arms on the doorstep of the
back entrance to the picture palace.
Magistrate-Did he give any reason
for his extraordinary behavior?
Policeman-His speech was very
indistinct, your honor, but from what
I could gather he was waiting to see
Mary Pickford home.
A sentry. an Irishman, was on post
duty for the first time at night, when
the officer of the day approached. !
called. who comes there?''
"Officer of the day!' was the reply.
Then what are yez doin' out at
night?" asked the sentry.
A young man went to a dentist the
other day to have several teeth ex-
tracted. II suppose / ought to take
something to deaden the pain, but I'm
afraid of this gas you USE" said the
prospective patient.
The dentist treasured him and
wound up with: You'll only be I'M
conscious two or three minutes at the
most" The patient took out his
pocketbook.
'-Never mind that now" said the
dentist; you can pay me when I've
finished"
Il wasn't going to pay you!'' ex-
claimed the patient II was going to
count my money!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

The Official Bulletin" published
by the government at the expense of
all the people. men and women alike,
contains an argument against The
methods OF those women who are urg-
ing upon the president their right of
suffrage Thus the women who want
the campaign for equal suffrage IN
tinued, are taxed to pay for the pubn-
cation of arguments against their own
convictions. The Congressional Rec
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST
Sugared Currants
Boiled Butterfish

Menu Hint.
BREAKFAST
Sugared Currants
Boiled Butterfish
Mullins Coffee
LUNCHEON
Spanish Scrambled Eggs
Steamed Corn Bread
Chocolate Gingerbread Sea
DINNER
Tomato Bouiilon
Crown of Roast Lamb
Green Peas New Potatoes
Coffee Jelly Whipped Cream
Coffee
The Table.
Escalloped Rice With Cheese-Two
cups rice (cooked), one-fourth pound
grated cheese. one cup cracker
crumbs, white sauce. Make white
sauce by melting one tablespoon but
ter in frying pan, add to this one
tablespoon flour, pinch salt and one
cup milk. Cook until consistency of
gravy. Put rice in bake dish,
white sauce on rice, put grated cheese
and cracker crumbs on rice and brown
in oven.
AppleTapioca Pudding Eight
large baking apples; pare. core and
lay in deep dish: put a little sugar
and very little cinnamon in each. Soa k
teacup of tapioca in quart of luke
warm water for one hour; pour over
apples and bake till apples are ten
der. Milk and sugar for sauce. or
cream.
Cherry Cake-Cream heaping table,
spoon butter and one of lard in one
half cup sugar. Add one or two eggs,
cup of milk. three teaspoons baking
powder and enough flour to make bat
ter as for loaf cake Have loaf cake
pan we'll creased and paper in bot
tom. Put in one-ha1f batter, add pint
OF cherries, then add rest of batter
on top Bake one hour. Sauce for
over cake: Stew pint of cherries,
thicken juice with cornstarch and
sweeten with sugar. Sauce to be eaten
cold or warm, but cake should be cold,
VIII serve seven or eight persons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
THE SEARCMLIGET
latest News from the Fields OF
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INVENTION
Cork Cloth.

The French have perfected a pro-
cess for manufacturing a cheap, wa
terproof cloth from cork that is at
once warm and durable. The cork is
cut into very thin slices, and the slices
are treated with chemicals. This
chemical treatment is the essential
part of the process, for il removes
certain elements from the cork which
make 1t brittle. After the treatment,
the sheets of cork can be rolled or
folded without breaking. These elias
tic sheets are cemented to a back
ground of thin cloth, and the fabric
is ready for use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

q time when the country needs
the services of every able bodied man,
II seems that some way should be
found TO set at work those idlers which
Arizona authorities are shipping about
the country. II they refuse to work
IN the mines they should be compelled
80 work at some other place until the
dinpute with their bosses is settled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

Figures presented by the office of
public roads. United States depart
ment of agriculture, show that Iowa
last year had one motor car for every
IL inhabitants, and led all other states
in this respect. California was close
second with 1 car to every 10 inhabit-
Fnts. Nebraska and South Dakota had
for every 10. Arkansas could show
but in every 116. The average for
the United States is l car for every
% persons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

What ever became of all u the
fashioned remedies for rheuma-
tism2'' inquiries the Los Angeles Times
They have disappeared as the result
o a discovery by the doctors that
rheuma-ism is not disease but a
symptom. rheumatism now is treated
hy an operation on the fonsils or on
the teeth
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

From all over Kansas, reports are
coming in, of much larger wheat yield
than expected. There is nothing sur
-1lrising about this. 1t has nearly al
ways been so. Wheat crop killers and
corn crop killers are as numerous in
this state as are peach crop killers in
Georgia and Delaware.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

which was a year later. when he said
to her:
cording to law, and must be to the
end. If you do not say yes to me
you'll be fined at least $1,000 TOR the
time 1 have wasted" And Katherine
didn't have to pay any ine.-tCopy-
right, 1917. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

In President Wilson's latest appeal
to his countrymen, the ship owners
may be able to detect a hint. If they
continue to demand extortionate rates
Il is not impossible for the government
to find a remedy. Uncle Sam may
deem it necessary to take over the
ships and operate them himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

II Mexico enter the war against
Germany it would be fine political
stroke for Carranza 10 send over an
army under command of Villa. 1t
might bring permanent peace to our
sister republic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

The Russian steam roller continues
TO Toll thru Galicia. The advance
of the Slav army resembles Sherman's
march from Atlanta to the sea.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT

So We Are.
The eye is dull, alas,
There is no gay or CHEEKY place,
The dismal days may pass,
The worlds woefui, weary place,
We sob and sigh and then
We moan at our condition for
It's dull and dreary when
There's nothing to be wishin' for.
The eye is gay and bright,
We wear an eager, snappy smile,
And many In delight
Observe our broad and happy smile,
And full of joy we go,
OF ginger and ambition for
Our hopes are high and oh,
There's something that we're wishin for
It's oh, the happy mood,
The yearning and the youth of it
Perhaps a platitude
But let us know the truth of it.
1t brings a boon to men,
A blessing In addition for
We're gay aud busy when
There's something TO be wishin for!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

The Chinese did not have time to
grow queues after the restored mon
archy told them they might do so, be-
fore the emperor was again deposed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14
Ancestors.

Ancestors.
1t is a simple thing TO be an ances-
tor once you get the rick of it, tho
few can say whether it is much fun.
People have always preferred to be de-
scendants. Lots of descendants are
very proud of their ancestors and in
fact almost all descendants are more
proud of their ancestors than the an
cestors are of their descendants. TO
get anywhere at all a man has to have
all of his ancestors and If there was
ever any one who didn't have his full
| share of them he probably died of the
shame of it. Il would be very hard to
find you had no ancestors, in fact il
would be impossible. Some people
seem to be doubtful about it, how
ever, and are at great expense to get
the names and addresses of their an
cestors just so they can feel easy on
the point. Science shows that for
every man alive today there were
enough ancestors four or five cen
turtles ago to fill trainload of ca, s
altho railroads then had not been in
vented. 1t is probably good things
that most ancestors lived quite a few
years ago instead of today Today So
many people live in flats. 1t would
embarrass a conscientious, painstak-
ing ancestor to have to live in q flat
A young man may hit the high
spots, but look what the high spcts do
to him.
Well known Ends
4 perfect days.
Tails.
: that Justify the means.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-14

Well known Ends.
A perfect days.
Tails.
= that Justify the means.
Calliopes.
Finger bowls.
The herald., 1917-04-26
CHARTER
OF THE NATIONAL SULPHUR COMPAN
MOOR PORATED

IOr lGlE Nal lONAL SOLPHUR COMPANY,
INCORPORATED.
United States of America, State of Louisi-
ana, Parish of Orleans, City of New Or
leans.
Be 1t known, that on this the 3lst day
OF March, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand nine hundred and seventeen, and of
the Independence of the United States of
America, the one hundred and forty-frst
before me, Alexis Brian, a notary public
duly mmissioned and qualified, within and
for the Parish. of Orleans, State Of Louisiana,
therein residing, and in the presence of the
witnesses hereinafter named and under
signed; personally came and appeared, the
several persons whose names are hereunto
subscribed:
Who declared, that availing themselves OF
the privileges granted by the laws of the
ents form and organize themselves and such
other persons as may hereafter join with
| them, as well as their successors, into a cor,
poratlon tor the purposes and objects and
| under the stipulations following, to-wit:
Article THE name of this corporation
shall be the National Sulphur Company, In.
| corporated," and under such name it shall
ninety-nine years from date hereof, unles,
sooner dissolved, according to law. It's do
| mlclle shall be in the City Of New Orleans
| state OF louisiana, where all legal proce:
directed against it shall be served upon It's
| president, or in his absence, upon the vice
president, and in the absence of both of SAID
| officers, upon its secretary
Article I-Sad corporation NAV have
hold, lease, purchase, SELL convey, mortgage
| or pledge property, real or personal, OF
| mixed, rights, franchises and chooses in actor
| and stocks, bonds and securities of other
corporations; it may borrow or lend money
upon security; 1t may sue and be sued