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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

So long as flowers their perfume give
So long I'd let the kaiser live
Live and live for million years.
With nothing to drink but Belgian tears,
With nothing to quench his awful thirst
But the saIted brue of seotchman
1 would let him live on dinner each day
Served from silver on golden tray,
Served with everything. but things to eat
And I'd make him a bed of silken sheen,
With costly linens to lie between
With covers of down and fillets of lace
And downy pillows piled in place
Yet when its comforts he would yield
It would stink with rot of the battlefield
And blood and bones of men
His pillows would cling with the rotten
Clay from the grave of soldier boy.
Ard while Gods stars their vigils KEEP,
And while the waves the white sands
He sbouid never. never sleep.
And thru all the days, thru all the years,
There should be an anthem in his ears.
Ringing and singing; never done, - u,,,,
From the edge of light to the set OF sun
Moaning, moaning and moaning wild
And I'd build him a castle by the sea,
As lovely castle as ever could be;
Then I'd show him a ship from over the
AS fine a ship as tver could be.
Laden with water cold and sweet,
Laden with everything good TO eat
Yet scarce does she touch the silver SANDS
Scarce may he reach his eager hands
Than a not and heIlish molten shell
Should change his heaven into hell
And tho he'd watch on The wave-s"epo
shore,
Our Lusitania would rise no more.
In mo Mans Land" where the Irish fell
I'd start the kaiser a private he'll;
I'd jam him, stab him. give him gas,
In every wound I'd pour ground glass;
I'd march him out where the brave boys
died. ...s.
Out past the lads they erncified
#
one thing l would do before ! was thru
I'd make him sing in a stirring manner
The wonderful words of Tine star
p'"s'eu -''''' III. b. X, 354th INIT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
MESSENGER DOGS
The Airedalei Is Selected for special
Qualities.

One of the most valuable assets to
the ll-Rafsas, $3.50 Infantry. and one
that will play great part in the win
ming of the world war is the addition
to the regiment of six Aifedale dogs
which are being trained Tor the liaison
service in connection with the signal
section OF the headquarters company.
The training of the dogs is under the
supervision of Captain C. ]. Masseck,
adjutant, who has had considera BILE
experience along this line. Like every
thing else pertaining to the 353d
they're from Kansas
Just the same as the wireless the
wigwag, and other methods of mod
ern warfare, these dogs are a part of
the equipment of Colonel Reeves's
regiment, and they are being trained
to act as liaison agents for the ALL
Kansas regiment.
Airedales have been selected as mes
sengerS by army officials owing to
their general intelligence land fight
ing qualities and that they are less
apt than any other breed of dogs to
make friends with strangers. They
are far from. being handsome, but
what they lack in looks they make up
in quality and general usefulness. This
type of dogs have proven themselves
good message carriers in the European
war because they are fast and are not
apt to be noticed. They work mostly
on days when there is heavy fog
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
IMPROVED CONDITIONS
Indications for an Early Lifting OF
Quarantine at Funston.

TIE musical program that will be
arranged for the various huts after
the quarantine is lifted is going to be
sufficient to last the men OF the
Eighty-ninth division for some weeks.
according to Mr. Chester H. Guthrie
division singing director.
Since the quarantine was put on the
camp and the meetings at which many
men spent delightful evenings were
discontinued, there have been no pub
lie gatherings and the singing enter
tainments were stopped as we're other
amusemert is. The people who had
offered their services without charge
to the Y. M. G. A. to be scheduled to
sing here are for the most part doing
the work at their own expense How
ever, in some cases the Y M G. A. il
REIN bursting them for their railroad
fare and other small expenses.
The quarantine on all gatherin1u
was put on without much notice ana
some % the singers who were schea-
uled heres were not notified untn thev
reached camp, their addresses beine
unknown Practically every sinseS
who has net been able to fill his en-
gagement on account of the uuaraD-
tine has expressed his desire to come
at some other time and INV NJ
or forty names that are to enterfain
the men here as soon as il is nossibIa
to let the men assemble.
The quarantine was, of course M,
on such meetings in order to helm he
spread Of epidemics and as the con-
diuons here are improving rapidly M
Guthrie expects to hear thar az
schedules can again be commenced
in the future
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
IN FIGHTING FRANCE

Regimental Sergt.-Maj. David NJ
Todd of the All-Kansas 353rd infan-
try has written a poem entitled, In
Fighting France" that has been re-
ceived with such favor that Band Di-
music for it. The All-Kansas infantry
selection and, according to Mr. Meyers
it bids fair to be a favorite with the
Kansas people. 80 4E d
The poem follows: q -
have rolled my pack
And it's slung on my back,
l am only waiting FOR thancerss- ~
For the word and command
And a baat that will hand
on the shores Of Fighting France.
Yes. the lime is ripe
And the stars and stripes
Are calling us NIL for defense.
For our Liberty seal -s7
We Will measure Dur STEEL $780,
with the Germans III Fighting Frence
May the siaekef's life NJ
Be a cursed strife
And apart from honorable mems
When our womens course
As a Red Cross nurse
Is leading to Fighting France.
wonid Vol meet your child
With u pleasant smile
In the future, when asking hence
Say, papa mine,
Werr You on the line
With the troops in Fightitg France?"
Yet may all be true
TO the Red, White and Blue
When making our start to the trench
And when all Is told
It's the heart Of IOic
That viii answer TO roll call for France
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

lege and in his high school were very
fine.
Gibson ended his life while most of
the other men in his company were on
guard duty. AS rule there are no
cartridges in the barracks, but the
youth had been on the rifle range the
day before and had slipped cartridge
in his pocket.
In the letter to his sweetheart he
wrote that in five minutes he would
kill himself. The bullet entered his
brain just over the left eye and went
thru his head and thru the top of the
barracks into the air.
The fact that he had come to real
ize that he was being trained to take
the lives of others palled on Gibson
and he had expressed himself around
the barracks that he didn't like to
think of killing others. The letter ex-
pressed somewhat the same feeling.
Gibson's home is in Hawk Point,
Lincoln county, Missouri.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
HE KILLS HIMSELF
Missouri Lad said He Would Rather
Die Than Be Trained to Kill Others.

Five minutes after he had written
to his sweetheart, 1T is better to kill
myself than to kill Others" Private
Sidney Gibson of Company D, 354th
infantry committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head with his rifle.
Gibson had been home during the
Thanksgiving holidays and was of
course, not to be allowed to go dur
ing the Christmas holidays. Accord
ing to his comrades who live in the
same barracks and who bunk close
to him, he had been mcrose for a
week or ten days and those who were
in close companionship with him
stated that they believed his mind
had become unbalanced.
Athletics had no attraction for the
youth but he has spent a great deal
of time in camp reading and study
ing. He is a graduate of Central col
lege and his records in studies in col
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29


beeng
hatefng think
W sui
dubbed
pretty like
sit
sunthing
shood
this ought
kid
junk from sandy claus after vile they maid that
well both kck
in
kind
wandering maik
tool chest of donahow well
young
m y a haveing no comeback ms
like rushing
they're buntch al they ny bghearted beeev after
the the wnmen will
will know on their are
il
the foAR
with the csmuB but hay
the
its not much lots OF the ducks nave had to wen nd
yourf friend, PRIVATE JIM.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
Dogs and Pigeons Wanted.
MORE CARE NEEDED
Letters to Friends should Be Cen
sored by the Writers.

The war department is beginning
to tighten up" on the sources of in
formation that in some cases are the
basis for many erroneous rumors and
every man in the division is asked to
be very careful in the writing of let
ters postals and in his conversation
relative to activities in the camp and
bout his friends who have been or
dered to other points. A portion of
letter received from the war depart
ment has been published in bulletin
by the Headquarters division for the
information and guidance of all con-
cerned and calls attention to general
ordres, No. ga, war department, 1911.
The portion of the letter from the
war department follows:
1T has been brought to the atten-
ton of the war department that con-
siderable information of military i'm
portance becomes public due to the
fact that officers and men send out a
great deal in letters and on postcards
to relatives ana friends, by whom it
is made public.
TO avoid the leaking out of mill
tary information, Instructions regard
ing secret information were issued in
general orders No. ga, war depart
ment, 1917, but considerable informa-
ton continues to become public. ~
Secretary of war directs that an
OIIc0FS ana enllSCeU men OF your COM
mand be directed to exercise the
greatest amount of care to prevent all
military information from leaking out
public or mentioning in private let
tiers anything whatever which might
be of military value to the enemy.
Considerable of Importance becomes
public thru publication of letters; the
publication of letters is generally OBJ
jectionable because, very frequently,
they carry information harmless in
itself but seriously harmful when con-
nected with other items of apparently
harmless matter.
In addition to the requirements of
general orders No. "a, war depart
ment, 1917, it is of the greatest i'm
portance that officers and men be
thoroly instructed before their depar-
ture from camps or environments in
the United States and also en- route.
with reference to the necessity of Civ
ing no details of the names, numbers
or movements of troops for duty
abroad or en- route to Europe; no
names or numbers of ships; no de-
scription or details of methods used
to avoid enemy submarines; no infor-
nation concerning the patrols for the
protection of ships; no ports of en-
barkation, departure. arrival, debark-
alton; no routes pursued"
The above instructions will be car
ried out in spirit and letter by all
members of this command
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

them.
All persons are requested when
meeting these dogs on the roads, not
to whistle, CALL attempt to pet or an
noy any of them. Around each
dogs neck is collar and to it is at
tacfied a turkey bell and they are cas-
lily recognizable
There is a guard on post always
whose beat is around the kennels and
the aviary and no one is allowed to
lihger in the vicinity of the training
grounds
Dogs and Pigeons Wanted.
Any faneiers having Homers of
proven racing stock or Aire dales or
German police dogs and wish to do
nate their services to the govern
inant kindly wire or write Captain
Plant. or Lieut. Butler. care 314th
Signal Battalion, Camp Funston. Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
DOGS AND PIGEONS
Are wanted ANA in Training at Camp
Funston.

Many soldiers and visitors have
wondered recently what the small
houses surrounded by wire pens, set in
the hill back of the Y M. c. A. are
These houses probably house the best
collection of racing Belgian Homers
and Airedale terriers in the country.
These dogs and birds will probably
all do their bit alongside of that other
Indispensable animal, the so-called
Missouri mule.
Major Franklin, Eighty-ninth di-
vision signal officer, and Capt. 6. F.
Plant, Company c, 314th field.signal
battalion, to whose company they are
assigned. are very much pleased with
the work of these dumb message
bearers.
The Racing Belgian Homer
The racing homer should not be
confused with carrier pigeons. The
carrier has been found to be too large
and slow and are only found nova days
in pigeon shows and exhibits. The
racing homer is the fastest bird in the
air with the possible exception of a
small hawk found only in Canada.
They fly very high and it is almost i'm
possible to shoot them on the wing.
The birds here are being trained and
culled over, however, and birds that
will be used in France will all have to
be raised there. The homer always
returns to the place where it was
raised At present there are fifty
birds, and some of these were inn
ported from Belgium.
Airetlale Terriers.
: Most of the dogs are well knewi1 in
bench shows and many dog fanciers
would recognize their names. Nine of
them were donated by Mr. Herbert
Woolf of Woolf Bros. Clothing Co. of
kansas City. Mo-, who has the largest
kennels in the middle west.
The training of these birds and
dogs is under the direction of Lieut..
VIM. Butler of Kansas City. His as
sistants are CorpoIals Dole, Sells,
Kehoe and Keller.
Corporal Sells Is one of the Sells, of
Sells circus fame and is an expert in
the handling of dogs.
Airedales were selected because of
their intelligence. courage and indur-
ance and the fact that they are strict
ly lone man dog" Then, too, their
coat is weather proof and even the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
HOW THEY DRINK 1T
G Is served sweetened an

Coffee Is Served Sweetened and
UnsvScetened at Funston.
The conservation of sugar and
great many other food materials Is
being watched by the headquarters in
order that there will be no more waste
than is absolutely necessary.
1t was found that many cups which
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

Jim Wishes Al "Mary Crisn1us"
BY OUR OWN RING w. LARDNER


well al hear it is getting clost to the day witch
last yere was wen we got our bonenusses you re-
member al miyun was ten dollars moar that what yrs
was meme crismus al but their wont be bone
muses. this al perapps it is just well that
their wont be bonenusses. miyun last yere
all gone ennyweigh by yeres & what did it get
me hay al only better drag with Aggie you know
al.
in VI letter you laf1ng to think will be
hear in this traneing camp sitting my thum &
wishing was wear amt witch wood be home vile
you are their haveing big time with the girls &
everything. probly will be wishing was home al
but know there amt mulch chants my getting
their so what's the ust of laying around & wishing.
1me hear C guest it wont be SO bad after all.
vile wont be getting bonenuss of mummy
lie be satisthde to know their other boneh uses
beside what are mummy sutch fealing better than
/ of ever felt befoar witch is bonenuss beleev
me al wen your in good helth getting good meels
per day even If ime not home if know everybody &
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

and at night between the trenches.
They are also used for carrying mes
sages from one organization to an
other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29

The S42 symphony orchestra is cav
tainly there with the goods. II ".
don't believe it just stroll around son
nice afternoon and judge for yourself
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-29
THE 353RD INFANTRY
Notes of Regiment by Sergeant r. f.
Lewis.

First Lieut. ]. G.. Nixon has been at
the Au-Kansas 353rd infantry and has
been appointed mastering officer. He
is very efficient official and is get
ting along splendidly with his new
duties.
The All-Kansas regiment won in the
t1ie-of-war in the preliminary contest
held last week. The pull was against
the crack 314th Engineers, one of the
heaviest and best trained organize
tons in the Camp Funston canton
ment. The Engineers were outclassed
in every point of the game by the All
Kansas boys. The tug-of-war team of
the 353rd avefa ges 205 pounds and
they are some pullers.
Battalion sergt. Maj. John Davis,
Jr.. left the last of the week to spend
the Christmas holidays with his folks
at Pittsburg, Kan. The boys around
the regimehtaI headquarters have
missed his smiling face the last few
days. All wish him a pleasant trip.
Charles Wayne Hail, assistant mus
tering officer of the 1I-Kansas infan-
try, is spending the Christmas holi-
DAYS with home folks at Parsons. Kan
He has been in the mastering office
ever since he has been in camp and
handles the work very efficiently
The Kansas 353rd Infantry band
gave a very delightful rehearsal at Y
NJ. c. A No. Friday night The
program follows:
The midland journal., 1917-01-05
Marriage Licenses.

John William Smelling and Edith
Vernon Frederick, both Of Blythe
dale.
Harvey A. Grakson and Anna ]
Jackson, both of Elk Mills.
Joseph w. Miller and Isadors
Racine, both of Providence.
James Mayrice Brown, of Earle
vile, and Bessie Wiltbank, of Cecil
ton.
Horace W. Taylor and Helen A
Logan, both of Rowlandsville.
Alexander G. Smith, of Nortl
East, and Ellen J. Wigton, of Rising
Sun.
Samuel T. Blansfeld and Mar
3aret Green, both of Earleville.
John Fletcher Wooleyhan ant
Pearl Ray Short, both Of Cecilton.
Herman Rhoades and Nellie Vir
ginia Gillespie, both of Earleville..
Alvin F. Moody and Helen G. Rick
ards, both of Elkton.
Lars C. Jensen and Grace George
10th of Elkton.
Henry w. DuBose and Dorothy R
Biddle, both of Elkton.
The midland journal., 1917-01-05
Rad Habits.

Those who's breakfast at eight
o'clock or later, lunch at twelve and
have dinner at six are almost certain
be troubled with Indigestion
They do not allow time for one meal
0 digest before taking another. Not
less than five hours should elapse
',etween meals. If you are troubled
nth indigestion correct your habits
and take Chamberlain Tablets, and
-ou may reasonably hope for a quick
recovery. These tablets strengthen
he stomach and enable it to perform
is functions naturally. Obtainable
everywhere.
The midland journal., 1917-01-05
RISING sun, ND.
More PASSENGERS Carried ard Not a
IAke Lost.


In 1915 the Rennsylvania Rail
road System carried in its trains
more people than In any previous
| year Of its history, and did SO with
out losing the life of a single pas
senger in train accident of any
kind.
Statistics which have just been
compiled show that during the year
there were transported safely, ON the
Lines East and West of PittsbNrg,
196,294,146 passengers. Figures for
the last few weeks of the year are
necessarily partly estimated. The
heaviest freight traffic ever handled
by the Pennsylvania Railroad Sys-
TEN was moved over its lines at the
same time that these passengers
were being carried without loss of
life.
The entire Pennsylvania Railroad
System, taking into account every
affiliated company either east or west
of Pittsburg, now has to its credit
three full calendar years in which
no passenger has been killed as a
result of train accident on any por-
tion of the lines. During this period
553,890,063 passengers-equal to
five and sone-half times the popula-
tion of the United States-have been
safely transported total distance
of approximately fifteen billions of
miles, or $50 times as far as the sun
is from the earth. Upward of o.
900, 900 trains, carrying both pas
sengers and freight, were operated
by day and night, through sleet and
storm, and fog and sunshine, over
$4,000 miles of railroad line and
$4,000 miles of track, while these
passengers were being taken on their
journeys without loss Of life.
On the lines of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, East Of Pittsburg, no pas
senger's life has been lost in train
accident during any of the last four
calendar years, and in that period
16,626,957 people have travelled
safely over these lines alone.
The midland journal., 1917-01-05

There Is more Catarrh in this section
put together, and for years 1t was sup
posed to be incurable Doctors pre-
scribed local remedies. and by constant
ly falling to cure with local treatment,
pronounced 1t incurable. Catarrh Is a
local disease, greatly influenced by con-
stitutional conditions and therefore re-
quires constitutional treatment. Halls
Catarrh Cure. manufactured by f. J.
Cheney & Co.. Toledo. Ohio. is a consti-
tutiOnal remedy, is taken internally
and acts thru the Blood on the Mucous
Surfaces OF the, System. One Hundred
Dollars reward q offered for any case
that Halls CataNth Cure -1ails to cpne
Send for elrcul IimQ
The midland journal., 1917-01-05

During the past II years the an
nual expenditures on the rural roads
land bridges in the United States
have increased from about $780,
100000 to about 282,O0O,OO0 or an
increase of more than 25O per cent.
During this same period the annual
expenditures from State funds for
road and bridge construction and
maintenance have increased from
$2,55O,000, to 53,492,O00, or al
most 1000 per cent.
The midland journal., 1917-01-05

It has occurred to us that news
paper is much like public school.
aaRot one patron in twenty visits the
TOOL once year, yet most of them
always ready to eriticise it. The
is true with the newspaper. II
rson In town would drop
Office once a week, or in
tell us the news items they
at newspaper we should
The midland journal., 1917-01-05
Inactivity Causes Constipation.

/ Lack of exercise in the winter is
q frequent cause of constipation.
Kou feel heavy, dull and listiess.
your complexion is sallow and PIN
ply. and energy at low ebb. Clean
Up this condition once with DR..
Ks New Life Is. mild lax
hAtH relieY e congested in