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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
TRAWELETTE
Washington at War.
BY NIKSAH

Washington, our said and dignified
national capital, city of magnificent
distances and congressional oratory,
metropolis whose traditional placidity
is compounded half of southern leis-
ure and half of official elaboration
Washington has been galvanized into
a-feverish activity since the declara-
ton of war Everybody is working
double speed and overtime, hotel
rooms are at a premium, government
departments are taking additional
room where they can find it. and
every day adds a dozen trainloads of
newcomers from all over the country
to keep the pot a-boiling.
Down at the war, state and navy
building, that gray and mOnume ntal
pile which had the appearance and
the dreamy atmosphere of mediae-
val monastery before the war, hur-
rying double row of visitors streams
in and out. and official business only
gains admittance there today. In the
black white tagged corridors they
have lined up rows and rows or extra
stenographers and mailing clerks. and
the building at midnight is a solid
blaze of light. Across the street, the
department of labor is moving into its
huge new building in steady process
sion of high-piled trucks filing across
Seventeenth street On the heels OF
the departing labor force, a further
overflow from the war department
streams in to take possession In the
dim corridors of the treasury sit rank
on rank of newly hired maidens mail
ing literature on the liberty loan over
at the bureau of engraving they are
turning night into day printing liberty
! bonds.
! The city is full of strangers Boards
commissions, councils, volunteer as
sistants, experts. advisory committees,
! fill the office buildings Business men
from Puget Sound to Tallahassee are
| here to look over the prospect for
building ships or making shoes, or
supplying lumber or aeroplane en-
gines or campaign hats or any one OIL
ninety-seven other classes of war sup
plies. Committees representing all
| our industries are on the job to see
that the revenue bill treats them fair
ly. Foreign missions and special rep
resentativeS can no longer draw a
| crowd. The government clerk is get
ting his first taste of the horrors OF
Prussianism as he sees his summer
leave vanish and he perspires over his
papers in the June heat for ten OF
| twelve hours a day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

Items appearing in the State Jour
naPs exchanges from time to time IN
dictate that much loss of labor ana
seed has been caused by misinfcrma-
ton sent out to amateur potato grow
ers. They were told that the peehngs
we're all that were necessary for plant
ing. 1t seems that this advice has been
taken literally by some and naturally
was followed by failure. The clrcum-
stance illustrates the disadvantage or
long range advice. Any farmer could
have told the city gardener that it was
unnecessary to plant the entire potato
but that the eye of the tuber must
have enough substance behind it to
sustain the sprout. Peeling potatoes
Tor planting purposes is all right pro-
vided the peeling be an eighth to a
quarter of an inch thick behind the
eyes. The pieces may be permitted to
dry for several days before planting
without detriment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

coal that reaches the consumer will
he in steadily increasing quantities. In
the early months of 1917, because OF
the congestion of the railroads and the
difficulties of transportation, the pro-
duction Of bituminous coal fell behind
the high mark set, in January and
February, a year ago. As as result Of
the patriotic and earnest endeavor Of
the railroad officials and the coal
operators and representatives of mine
workers who have volunteered their
services to the federal government in
this emergency, production has been
speeded up within the last few months
and the output of soft coal which in
May exceeded all previous records was
surpassed in June.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

1t is time for the government to do
something to undo the mischief 1t
wrought when it sent out the cry OF
a food shortage. There has been no
scarcity of food and none has been
threatened but the alarm was taken
advantage of by spectators and
prices were sent up to a hitherto I'M
known level from which they are slow
to descend. There were old potatoes
on the market long after the new crop
commenced to come in, yet the price
remains at a point out of all proper
ton to what the crop situation war
ranted. While the people of New
York were paying eXorbitant prices
for potatoes thousands of carloads
were standing on the car tracks out
side the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
GLOBE SIGHTS
From the Atchison Globe.1

1From the Atchison Globe1
Most men have lot of trouble that
never happens.
Sentiment often is only another
name for weakness.
One can make enemies by simply
appearing too comfortable.
History is so unreliable that people
quarrel over the details only a year
back.
1t used to be when a boy wintered
and summered a girl he was expected
to marry her.
The world is largely populated by
those who would Ike to get enough
ahead SO they could try loafing-
Alb. Adkins says his neighbours boy
is the sort of riotous individual who
wants to find out the rules so he can
violate them
After every successful public event
a proposition is sprung and accepted
to make 1t an annual affair, after
which it is promptly forgotten.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
THE LOCK-JAW SEASON.

In view of the serious results which
may occur it seems wise again to
warn all parents that wounds from
toy pistols, firecrackers, and firearms
are always dangerous and all persons
hurt in this way. even tho the injury
sDpear trivial, should be taken at
cnce to a competent physician for
treatment.
In the early period of the Euro =
pean war, many cases of lockjaw or
tetanus developed in the wounded of
the allied armies. This frequently ia
tai disease is caused by a bacillus
which is often found in garden soil,
street dust ard in the eartn in the
vicinity of stables. In order to cause
tetanus, the germ must lodge in a
wound ard find suitable conditions for
its growth. Injuries in which cloth
ing or foreign matter is forced widely
or deeply into the tissues are the most
dangerous because the tetanus germ
can only flourish in places into which
oxygen cannot penetrate, just as toad
stools grow best when sheltered from
the sun.
AS soon as the stress OF war CODu1-
tions permitted. all badly wounded
men were Immediately given injec-
tons Of the serum against tetanus as
routine procedure to prevent this
dreaded disease. The use of the anti
toxin caused a prompt reduction in
the number of cases and the control
of tetanus in the armies can be justly
- -, ,s,l,
science is helping valor to win the
war.
This subject is of especial interest
at the present season because Fourth
of July injuries, especially from blank
cartridges, are apt to be followed by
Iockjaw if they are not promptly and
properly treated. The general adop-
! ton of the sane Fourth" has done
much to reduce the number of these
accidents and suitable medical atten-
ton has prevented the development OF
tetanus IN almost every instance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
BEGINNING OF THE END.

Il begin to see the commenoe cement
of the end of this war" says Henry
Clews in his Financial Review, land
that end is to mean victory for the al
lies, which will secure for us and all
other democratic governments perma-
nent peace and prosperity, based on
justice and righteousness. The soon
err our antagonists recognize this the
better it will be for them and for hui
manity all over the world
The extraordinary success of the lib
erty loan and the enthusiastic re-
spouse to the Red Cross appeal, not to
speak of the energetic tho unseen ac-
tivity of our military preparations, he
continues, should convince Germany's
rulers that, with Americas resources
and power added to the experience of
the allies, a victory for the central
powers is impossible: also that con-
tinuation of the war, bad as it may be
for the allies, is infinitely worse for
Germany, which is committing suicide
by bleeding itself to death. Yet, in
spite of Germany's blindness, there is
one feature of the war that offers en-
couragement, and that IS the recovery
of Russia. Slowly and surely she is
pulling herself together after the
shock of Reorganization which natur-
ally followed the revolution. She, too,
like France, has been gloriously re-
born.
Turnout the Russian empire the
tide of democracy is rushing fast,
/ or hok e..
sweep forward into better things not
easy to recognize amid inevitable con-
fusion. All that is needed is skilful
pilotage in avoiding the rocks and
steering clear of the currents of radi-
calism that might easily wreck the
ship of state.
Ever since the Russo-Japanese war
education has been doing its beneficent
work in Russia, thanks in no small de-
gree to the japanese themselves; and
it is hardly conceivable that the new
Russian leaders, a group of strong
able and high minded men, will
treacherously desert their allies for
the sake OF Germany, which is not
only her enemy, but has nothing te
give in return for separate pea oe.
Russia may be temporarily weak
ened by the revolution. but the ntasse.
of that great empire are sane They
are not going to surrender their new.
ly gained liberty by turning theil
hacks upon those who helped then
gain it, and throwing themselves upo1
the mercies of a doomed autocracy.
1t is no small source of satisfaction
to find that a distinguished American
is playing n highly important part il
the resurrection of Russia, and to Mr.
Root must be given a large share o
credit for the recent turn of the It'd,
in that vast empire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Gingerbread With Wheat
Flour.


One-quarter cupful sugar, one and
one-half cupful shortening, one cup
full molasses, one-half cupful milk.
one-half teasponful ginger, one-half
teaspoonful cinnamon, two eggs, two
cupfuIs whole wheat flour, one tea
spoonful soda, dissolved in one-quarter
cupful hot water.
Cream the sugar and shortening.
add molasses, spices. and eggs; add al
ternately milk and flour. until one
cupful of flour is used. Dissolve soda
in very hot water, stir into the mix
ture, and lastly add another cupful Of
flour, stir well. pour into a creased
baking pan and bake slowly for one
half hour.
Bed Linen Economy.
1t pays to turn sheets at the first
sign of wear in the middle. The I'M
worn parts OF the sheets may then
be made into pillow cases.
Making sheets and pillow cases Is
trifiing matter, and the saving on
a single sheet is at least 20 cents, to
say nothing of the fact that the quail
ity of the muslin is better than the
average material used for ready made
bed linen. If you have linen sheets
and pillow cases the saving is more
marked. Aside from the comfort of
sheets three yards long they wear
better, as they are not torn or strain
ed in the constant effort to pull them
up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

tering to the women. l predicted fall
ure for you the first day I was here,
because it seemed to me that you
ought to have gone in for women's
duds. Now 1 was sensible, 1 thought,
to go in for mems things because /
was a man.
You see. it is this way" Edith ex-
planned Somehow man is always
sorry for a girl and if the girl doesn't
seem too shrewd he always likes to
see her make profit That's man
nature. And that's why the men who
come in here without in the least try
ing to flirt or be silly because L am
a girl always buy quickly But Wom-
en- are different with each other. A
man can always sell more quickly to
a woman because a woman is more
flattered by the attention of a man. L
suppose. / don't know whether this
theory holds good everywhere, but II
certainly does with these Deans Bay
people,
s.And in the meantime" commented
Judson with a frown, you are max
ing a profit on the fact that you are
an attractive young woman. Forgive
me- that is the way it looks to me.
And incidentally we are both losing all
the trade of the women. For surely 1
don't want to go in for fancy work
and flattery"
Edith at first had blushed with in
dignation and then after looking into
the fire Cor a few minutes she gave
her dictu2n. 'Well, just to show that
I'm not profiting by the fact that am
| a girl, I'll make this proposal. Let's
combine. We can throw out that mid
die partition-and then If you don't
approve of my method of getting men
customers you can wait on them in
stead, and when a plump old dow
ager comes in who looks as if she
would buy more from perfectly good
man artist why then you can wait
on her even if she has come only for
knitting worsted and embroidery
| floss. Do you think that would be
perfectly all right?"
| NO" pronounced Judson. You'd
need a chaperone and I don't like
chaperones. How about making that
sign read: The Fishnet. E. and B.
Judson. proprietors.' You know ]
am distracted about you. 1 didn't
think 1 had the right to ask you till
had won out and that might be
years hence. But don't you think you
could love me enough to"
And a week later, after a hurried
weekend trip to Ediths home in the
city, the sign was changed, the parti-
ton was torn out and profits were in
creased fourfold.-(Copyrig 1917
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndi-
| cate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

The production of coal in the United
States last year was the greatest in
the history of the country. A new
record. however. was set for the first
six months of this year, fully 270,-
COO.O0O tons of bituminous coal being
produced since January l. thus ex-
ceeding the output of the first six
months of last year, by about 10000
900 tons. Even better news is that
the limit has not yet been reached. for
as the railroads are able to work out
TO better advantage the problem of
car supply and give to the mines
greater facilities for transporting
their product to market. the supply of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

Very well, Hans said the doctor.
then, of course [ won't have any
thing done to them"
we'll but l charge you feefty cents
already yet"
why, what for"
IVY, ven / came to see you de I'D
der day you sharged me tree dollars
for telling me dot dere amt nod Iings
der matter nit me-"
'If you have never had any Mill
tary experience how did you happen to
get the title of colonel?" asked the in
quisitive stranger.
We'll if you must know replied
the old fashioned southern gentleman,
"early in life l gave IS to a colored
head waiter. and I've been a colonel
ever since"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

Exports from the United States to
Russia in the first three years of the
war will aggregate nearly twice as
much as in the fifty years preceding
the war. A compilation by the Ma
tional City Bank of New York shows
that the total exports to Russia in the
first three years of the war will ag-
gregate nearly $1.OOO,OOO,OoO, while
the aggregate of the fifty years pre-
ceding the war was but a little over
S5OO,OOO,OOO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMEMT

The Aged Sailor Man.
1 met an aged sailor man,
A-going to the fair,
He took some oysters from a pan
And rubbed them in his hair
Your ways are queer IL seems 10 mt
Said l. and paused spell,
Now tell me why, old man.. SAID ne,
There isn't much to tell
Il get the simple things i need
nv roaming through the hills.
In search of paste and pumpkin SEED
And warts water bills
And when the seasons late for these
| say little piece
Or eIsp at times / merely sneeze
To please my little niece.
Il save the pennies that / can
And when there's some to spare,
l buy some oysters in n pan
And rub them in my hair .,
Il never even harm Il fly,
Indeed l DON'T" he said.
ITS we'll Won don't.' in rage said l
And beat him on the head
Oh, curse that day of evil bans,
In memory | vince.
For j have dreamed or saiiors, pans
And oysters ever since
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
THE SEARCELIGMT
Latest News from the Fields OF
SCIENCE. EDUCATION. INVENTIONS


In few years we may be walking
in fish-skin shoes, riding in automo-
biles upholstered in fish-skin leather.
and stropping our raZors on fish-skin
s.rops. The federal bureau of fish
cries is working on the manufacture
of leather from the skins of many diff
ferent fish. Several tanners have re-
ported the development of successful
processes for tanning the fish skins
At the bureau they have specimens of
shark-skin leather that is almost the
exact counterpart of a leather made
from high-grade beef hide. Other
fish whose skins have been success
fully tanned are the cod the salmon,
the sting-ray and the porpoise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

The plea of the railroads for an in
crease in freight rates has been de-
MED by the interstate commerce com
mission. Owing to tue increased cost
of operation resulting from high
prices the roads find themselves in
about the same situation as the news
papers. The more business they do
the less money they make. Increased
patronage becomes a liability instead
of an asset
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

The question why Boston people are
advised to eat whale meat at 10 cents
per pound while choice sea food is a
drug on the docks for cents per
pound wholesale. says the Rochester
Democrat. needs diagrams and blue
prints for explanation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

Telegraphic reports indicate that
which started with the revolution.
Possibly the cars prohibition ukase
caused the seeds of revolt to sprout.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

tinue to pay outrageous prices for
what it eats while congress fights
over what that same public shall or
shall not drink.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

We are being informed continually
that the Russians will hold fast. But
that is not what we want We want
to see them advance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
DINNER STORIES

After carefully examining the shoes
the physician brought in for repairs
the cobbler handed them back, say
ing: Dem shoes amt worth mend
ing DOCTOR"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

The pacifists are contending that
we cannot use the drafted army on
foreign soil; that it is unconstitution-
al. Just wait and see
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

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, 1917-07-03

The cry of long ago: THE old flag
and an appropriation" has been
changed to the old flag and prohibit
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

The Americans have reached France
in time to show the Frenchmen what
an old fashioned Fourth of July cele-
bration is like.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

He is no patriot at all who loves
to whimper and to bawl, to moan that
war has pains ard aches and lets OF
misery it makes; who goes with long
and woeful face, with tears and signs
from place to place and stops his
friends upon the street, or any one
that he might meet. to ask them with
a bleary eye. why don't you wall
bit and sigh? Most any daily paper
states the woe that certainly awaits,
The flower of the nations youth Will
soon be lying dead, forsooth, upon the
battlefic1ds of France. This is no
time to sing and lance Who whim-
pers thus upon the whole, may be a
most we'll nearing soul, yet We should
shove him off the map or somehow
make him close his trap Well take
war seriously enough without SUCH
weepy, wailing stuff. When off to
war we're marching By we'll want our
hopes and spirits high, nor shall We
step at timid pace with woe and fear
upon our face Who goes about in
gloomy style upbraiding those who
dare to smile. disseminating sadness
and assuring US that Woes at hand.
we ought to muzzle up his mug and
chuck him quickly in the jug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

Both Greece and Brazil have lined
up definitely on the side of the allies.
Now let us hear from Spain, Argen-
tina and Norway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

guilty conscience and an upset stonl-
ach are two things that decency re-
quires we should deal with only IN
strict privacy. and SO unless you can
follow the Biblical injunction ana eat
what is set before you and ask no
questions, either remain In your own
house or else go to a hotel where you
can pay for the trouble you give.
Fourtenth don't. And this is the
most important of all. After you have
visited in house, never forget that
NUNS the word. Never repeat what
Won have heard Never reveal what
you saw when the family skeleton cup
board door was left a5ar. You nave
eaten of your hosts bread ana SAT-
and that makes them sacred TO you.
Even the savages do tnat ana AZ q
savage virtue we civilized people
might initiate oftener.
Follow these rules, and it's goou-
bye-come again!"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

The age limit for women employed in
the British government who are sent to
France must be over twenty years and
under forty They must learn discipline
and hygiene before leaving England.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

The country is demonstrating the
fact that it can be economical ana pa
triotic without becoming hysterical.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03
Happy Thought.


As long as you're of any use yot
won't be in the Dumps.
Amt 1t!
IAN easy way to go flat broke
lust get a car" said Ernest Wheezy-
That's true enough. but Holy Smoke,
Most any way is easy,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-03

Questions on the above or any sub
5ect upon which the reader desires in
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-08-02
Origin of "Pisais rist."

One who appropriateS- hat +. steals
tile literary work or another TO use 1t
as MS own thought. the child OF MS
own brain, Is guilty of Plagiarism. as
everybody knows. yet few are aequa,nt-
ed With the derivation of the word or
know that the pla.iarist il literally a
child stealer Among certain class If
criminals in Rome in tho time Of the
earlier Caesars there existed the fear
iul custom Of stealing children and
selling them as slaves According to
Roman law. the child stealcrS when de-
tected received as a part Of the penalty
for their crime severe logging. As
the Latin word playa signifies stripe
or lash, the ancient Siduapers were
termed "plagiari" that Is deserving of
stripes. So both the crime and the
criminals received their names from
the castigation inflicted
Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1917-08-02
sAxToN IN THE DITCH.

The Saxton roadster James Graves
purchased this spring is now in the local
garage awaiting repairs, the result of
the machine going in ditch near the
John Crea residence, the other side of
Fem, early Sunday evening. Jim, y
who is big hearted fellow and not at
all stingy with his friends, let Charley
Petersen and Bert Bemis take the car
for a little spin and on the return from
Cottonwood the boys took too wide a
swing on the turn in rounding a corner
on the road leading north and south
past the John Crea place. AS result
the entire weight of the car was thrown
on the wheels on the left side of the
ear striking the ditch and rocks caved in
the wheels. The ear was brought in
Monday and with pair of new wheels.
telegraphed for, will be as good as new.