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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

all at once, there began flying around
their heads a number of birds. The
birds Clipped and cheeped and made
all sorts of sad cries.
They flew down at the animal boys,
dropping their wings the birds did, and
they seemed to be trying to pick up
off the ground the new marbles Sa m
mic and his friends were going to play
with.
''Oh, that one big robin tried to pick
out my eyes cried Jackie Bow Wow,
barking and wagging his tail.
And hear that catbird cry" said
his brother Peetie, holding his paws in
front of his nose no bird would pick
him. She sounds just like lost kit
ten"
Il wonder why they are bothering
us?" asked Sammie. "They act as tho
they didn't like us to play a marble
game here in the wood. and l don't
see wheat harm we're doing"
.Oh, you don't eh?" asked a big
robin. We'll. if you don't give back
those blue things
What, give back the blue marbles
Billie Busytail took out of the tree? l
guess mott We want to play with them.
Here goes for the first shot" Sammie
cried. and he was just going to shoot
at the round things in the ring when a
voice cried:
Here! Don't do that"
Don't do WHAT" asked Sammie.
DO you mean don't shoot at the color
ed marbles"
Il mean don't shoot at those colored
eggsi" and out from behind a bush
stepped Uncle Wiggily Longears.
"Colored-co1ored eggs?" gasped
Sammie.
Yes" said Uncle wiggiIy. "Those
things you thought were marbles are
prettily colored birds eggs; the blue
ones are the robbins No wonder the
birds fluttered around you. If you had
shot at the eggs, and made even
tiny crack in one, no little bird would
hatch out"
"Oh, dear" cried Sammie I'VE
didn't know that. Wen put the eggs
right back" And they did, and the
mother birds were happy, and Uncle
Wiggily gave the animal boys money
to buy real marbles. And if the coal
man doesn't take the wooden tooth
picks to start fire in the lamp Chin
ney, I'll tell you next about Uncle
Wiggily and the chocolate mousse
Copyright 1917, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
THE TASK BEFORE US.

Events have moved rapidly in this
country since the meeting of congress
on the second day of April, to hear the
presidents great war message and to
declare state of war with Germany.
The nation has awakened promptly to
the mighty import of the situation, and
this has been aided by the visit of
the commissions, including some of the
greatest men in Great Britain and
France.
In the last few days the seriousness
of the situation has for the first time
overwhelmed the whole country and
the meaning of it to us as a nation. 1t
means in the words of Secretary Lane,
that 'if we don't fight the war on the
other side, we shall have to fight it on
this side" 1t means, says the Bache
Review, that if we do not put forth our
mightiest efforts, every ounce of hero
ism and courage that is in us, the full
est measure of our resources, in men
as we'll is in food, money and ships, we
may be faced by the disaster of a con-
quered Europe and laid open ourselves
| to destructive and threatened vas
salage.
These are the conclusions to be
drawn from the inside sources of in
rmation-information of which our
own government has been fully aware
and which is now frankly made pub
| lie.
In Washington, as one correspond
ent reports, this gloomy outlook has
not caused disbursement, but is
squirting the administration on; is
| stimulating and quickening the minds
I of officials, captains of industry. in
ventors, and military and naval ex-
perts- In one week there has been a
noticeable change in Washington,
from an air of confident ease to one
of renewed determination, and the ele-
ments of danger which have not before
been realized are beginning to chaI-
lenge the genius of America.
The whole country will now begin
to bend its wonderful energy to the
tremendous task before it. The vast
forces of brain and muscle which have
produced giant results in Industry, will
be directed now with even greater en-
ersy to helping to beat down and to
completely subdue the monster of mil
1tary autocracy which is rayaging
Europe.
We are placing unreservedly on the
scales for the purchase of the worlds
liberty, the weight of two hundred
billions of wealth and the influence
and services of one hundred millions
of people.
If is
now apparent, is most urgently need
ed, but which must ultimately turn
the balance to victory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
OCEAN MOSQUITOES.

The mosquitoes kept Staten Island
from becoming the residential garden
spot of the world. justified by it's sur
rounding water. soil and climate
The U-boats, says Henry Clews in
his Financial Review, are the mos
quitoes of the Atlantic ocean. Staten
Island has been largely redeemed by
scattering oil on the stagnant waters,
thus destroying the creative bases of
the mosquito. The U-boat mosquitoes
must be dealt with in a similar drastic
manner right off, and their base of
supplies must be destroyed, also the
the Uboats are mostly launched,
should be b1ockaded and the U-boats
largely outnumbered by means of
small high speed torpedo boat destroy
ers on the entire lane from our ports
to the war zone.
The ingenuity and go aheaditiveness
Of the American people certainly
ought to be equal to the task of rid
ding the seas of the U-boat mos
quitoes, and it should be done without
delay. Then the war will soon end
and a lasting world peace be effected.
The world is now about ready for it,
the U-boat mosquitoes alone block the
way.
The effectiveness of the remedy ap-
piled to the scourge of Staten Island
was realized too late. causing Long
Island to forge ahead under an i'm
petus strong enough to make it now
the summer residential place for our
rich New York people. The United
States must not delay in applying a
remedy for destroying the U-boats or
else she may suffer the fate of Staten
Island.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
TRAVELETTE
Bloodhounds of the Bush.
BY NIKSAH

The art of the professional tracker
is a fascinating thing to watch. The
old-time western plainsman could
trail a deer for two days thru the
forest, the modern White mountain
Apache of Arizona will follow a moe
casined man over broken. jagged lava
country, there are said to be tribes in
the interior of Brazil who can track
for short distances by scent. But the
king and past master of all crackers,
the man who can make an Apache
look like an apprentice Boy Scout, is
the blackfellow of Australia. He will
perform feats of tracking that are al
most beyond belief.
The native Australian people are
ranked low in the scale of humanity,
and it may be because they are the
most primitive of all races that they
keep an almost animal delicacy of
perception. But they add to it a very
fine reasoning power in the things of
the bush, and by combining the two
qualities, they can tell not only where
the man or the animal they track is
going, but even what he is doing on
the way.
The most spectacular exploits of the
crackers have been accomplished in
the pursuit of criminals, on whose
trail they are more deadly than blood
hounds. The Australian mounted po-
liceman takes a black tracker along
when he follows a criminal into desert
or bush, and that settles it. The
tracker will stay on the trail until the
end of it is reached. It may take a
day, or week, or month-in one in
stance it took ten weeks-but the
blackfellow never loses the trail for
long. He will trail across rocks.
across windblown sand, thru a tansIe
of other footprints, he will pick up
the track again if the quarry takes to
the water, and he will report accur-
ately the condition. of the man pur-
sued, whether he is strong or weak
ening.
SO expert do these natives become
IN tracking that they can recognize a
TREND or an enemy as readily by his
footprints as by his face Personal
identification of a footprint by an ex-
pert black tracker is accepted as good
evidence IN court of law. Such a
tracker can even recognize the hoof-
mark of almost every horse that is
known to him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
A WAYTO HELP.

To increase our wheat acreage is
not the only way to meet the present
shortage in breadstuffs. This of
course must be the first object in any
campaign to augment food supplies.
However, in the grinding of the wheat
and the treatment of the flour another
big gain can be effected between the
harvested grain and the finished loaf.
= 1t means something when we hear
that 100000 barrels of flour could
have been added to last seasons sup
ply had whole wheat instead of white
flour been the rule adopted by our
millers.
We cannot disregard taste and habit
and prejudice, and the American peo-
pie have somehow grown to connect
the white flour loaf with our better
brand of prosperity. Black bread in
the past was for the serf, the slave and
the downtrodden. White bread is the
glorious heritage of the free man.
But whole wheat bread is not Black
bread nor does it distantly resemble
it in taste, color or substance. 1t is
white bread raised to a higher degree
of healthfulness and nutriment; it
contains some food elements lost in
milling white flour. The use of whole
wheat bread will conserve our food
supplies to an appreciate extent.
These are points, says the Los Angeles
Times, the public should weigh well
when the use of whole wheat bread is
urged upon them by economists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

The most encouraging bit of war
news that has reached this country
since our entry into the struggle Is
contained in the dispatch which says
that Japan is planning to send an
army of 100000 men to the eastern
front. When there shall be a Jap
anese army on the Russian fighting
line and an American army on that
Of France. the end of the struggle will
be in sight There are no better
fighters in the world than the Yam
KEGS of the Orient. Russia knows for
she has tried them. 1t should not take
long to transport a force, already
trained and equipped, to the fighting
line. by way of the Siberian railroad.
1t would become veritable yellow
peril" for Germany. The backbone of
Russia appears to need stiffening.
Nothing could serve the purpose better
than the coming of an army of her
former enemies. 1t would mean an
early ending of the war.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

While it may not be possible on
Memorial Day to strew flowers on the
newly made graves in foreign lands,
the citizens of this country probably
will have them in mind. The sugges-
tion from London that May 80 be OBJ
served this year as Allied Memorial
Day. says the Boston Transcript, con-
tains the germ of an idea that is
hound to be heard from again. The
war will knit together in bonds of
Increasing strength the nations now
Standing together in defense of human
liberty. and victory, when it comes at
last. will be the triumph of the peoples
of more than half the world. Its COM
memoration annually will be inevita-
bic, and from this necessity will
spring in time, no doubt, an interna-
fonal holiday, the observance of
which will keep alive thruout Chris
tendon the memory of the brave who
gave UP their lives that civilization
might live.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Delicious Butter Substitutes

Buttermilk Cream-By controlling
the temperature in heating the but
termilk and not allowing il to go
above 100 degrees F., a compound is
made which, after draining. has the
consistency of very thick cream.
1t is claimed by the investigators of
the Wisconsin experiment station that
this cream" is suitable for eating on
bread in place of butter
Devonshire Cream-This somewhat
resembles sweet cream in flavor and
consistency. 1t is very much liked in
England, where it is commonly eaten
with fresh Or preserved fruit but is
not so well known in America
To make Devonshire cream allow a
pan of whole milk to stand for TWEEN
ty-four hours in a cool place or for
twelve hours in warmer place
Place the pan the cooler part of
the stove and heat until the milk is
very hot but not to boiling point If
heated too much a thick skin will
form on the surface. The more Slow
ly the milk is heated the better. Uav-
ing been heated the milk should he
kept in a cool place for twenty-four
hours and then skinned The thiclr
cream obtained has a characteristics
favor and texture.
Chicken Potpie-Dress a nice Fat
hen in the usual way; salt. cook till
meat will slip from bones; pick bones
all out; chop and cool. Now make a
SNcN mn piSculI dOuSh, line a bread
pan with the dough rolled to. one
fourth inch thick. Put chicken in.
pepper, then cut strips of dough to suit
ana mix with meat. Thicker broth
for gravy. pour in pan and put ton
crust on. Cut holes in top for yentiIar
ton Bake tiH~ dough is nicely
Drowned.
New Salmon Dish-Cook and season
together half can of tomatoes (smaIi-
slzeo CAM and all the juice and one
tablespoonful of fish from can of ra,5
salmon Have one. ten-ounce box of
cut MACE roni cooked and add to ton,s
toes ana fish. Last. add little milk
i.,s. M = rev broken crackers. 1t tastes
lust Ike oysters and is cheap.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
GLOBE SIGHTS

If you must argufy. let no fool ar
gument spoil a friendship.
1t is not only treason to knock on
your country, but also on your town.
Some people sing as tho they wanted
the audience to leave the building.
The man who appreciates his home
during the housekeeping season is a
mollycoddle.
Altho it takes two to make a quar-
rel, it is usually easy to get that many
together.
While a word, to the wise is suffi-
Gent, they usually hear a good deal
more than that.
A good deal of devilment is excus-
only young once
My, but we men are strong. To-
day there were twelve women but only
one man in a doctors office.
Doctors don't say much, but they
often become Disguised with some
| women who think it is clever to be
sick.
You can always tell when a wedding
was written by he reporter. for the
bridegroom's name is mentioned in
the write-up.
If you can be affable and at the
same time keep your mouth shut
when silence is in order, you are going
to get along very well.
The man who does the most COM
planning has the least cause for COM
| planning. Most people who are in
serious trouble don't complain much,
but think a great deal.
When a married man walks into a
public place looking mad enough to
| bite nail in two, and growls to
those who speak to him, old maids
who happen to be present shake
| hands with themselves. They have
| nothing like that coming home noon
and evenings
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Yes, your honor, I'll explain me-
self said the juror when Mr.
Finn finished his talking me mind
was clear all thru, but whin Mr.. Evans
begins his talkin' / becomes all con-
fused an says l to meself, Faith, I'd
better lave at once, an SHAY away
until he is done because, your honor,
to tell the truth. 1 didn't like the way
the argument was goin'-"
Now, Pat said a magistrate to
an old offender, what brought you
here again ?"
Two policemen, sor.s was the la
comic reply
Drunk. l suppose ?" queried the
magistrate sternly
Yes sor." said Pat: both ov thim''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

Japan is numbered among our allies
in the war against Germany. China is
about to become so. Shall we continue
to bar the citizens of these countries
from the shores of the United States :?
If they are good enough for fighting
partners. they should be good enough
for working partners. There is no
reason why the shortage of labor
should become a menace in this coun-
try. The orientals are among the best
Workers in the world They are
peaceful and lawabiding. Why not
permit them to come in and join our
S<lmy of producers? There is an
abundance of idle land, which should
be put into cultivation if we are to
meet the demands of the world for
food. Immigration from Europe is al
most at a standstill. 1t is improbable
xflat it will be resumed on large scale
for some years after the close of the
war. When we have a million or SO
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undoubtedly render a service of per-

undoubtedly render a service of per-
manent value.
1.-THE new Information bureau just estab-
Iished by the Topeka State journal at
Washington, d. c., is in position to send
any reader who makes the request, and
sends 2-cent stamp for postage, each
book desired, any one or all of the fol-
lowing: THE United States Army, a
beautiful booklet profusely illustrated: sew
eral pages in colors, showing the uniforms
in colors of different officers. prepared
under the direction of the adjutant gen
eral of the United States army; THE
United States Navy" enlistment, instruc-
tons; United States Marines" soldiers
of the sea, duties, experiences, opportu-
mites. pay. issued by the United States
illustrations, two pages in colors.
Remember, those booklets, are free to
any reader of the State Journal; he need
not even be regular subscriber. Address
our Washington Bureau.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
WHEN COUNTRY CALLS.

Loudly may the jingoes clamor
That our patriotism's dead;
All the militantS may thunder
That our blood's no longer red;
But when congress, gravely sitting,
Says state of war exists
Then there are no hyphenated,
And there are no pacifists-
Some may rave at "watchful waiting"
Some want peace at any price;
Some be unconcerned at U-boats,
Dealing death, destruction, vice
Let the Stars and Stripes be THREATENED
At the call for volunteers,
We are one behind the colors-
Ev'ry difference disappears.
Some have sympathies with one land,
Some another DER the sea;
There the loved ones still are waiting
For the light of liberty.
Comes the break-they all determine:
We will ev'ry man be true
To the land of his adoption.
To the red, the white, the blue.
JOHN RUPPENTHAL.
Russell, Kan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

4 The potato famine seems in a fair
way to be relieved. During the week
of April 2430, ISL cars of new pota-
toes were shipped from Florida as
compared with SIS cars of potatoes
shipped from that state during the
previous week of this year. A total of
S55 cars of new potatoes were ship
ped from Florida to April 80, in 1916,
whereas 1878 cars of new potatoes
have been shipped from Florida to
the same date in 1917.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

Shareholders of railroads have i'm
proved their position as investors since
the war began. In 1913 the net op-
Grating revenue ran approximately
from S2T5 a mile in January to $500
a mile in December. In 1916 the net
operating revenue ran approximately
from 1897 mile in January to $3.50
in october. The net revenue for rail-
roads earning over million dollars
annually for the six months ending
January I, 1917, was practically $780,
100000, which is the largest profit in
the history of American railroading.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

The New York Commercial and FL
nancial Chronicle has made a survey
of building operations in the United
States for the first three months of
1917. 1t finds that the total of in
tended outlay for construction work
is heavier than for any like period
Of any year since 1910, and bat slightly
Under the aggregate then recorded.
Out of 169 cities reported on, the esti-
mated cost of new building is over
$S7. 900. and of all these cities 100
show increases over the previous year.
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him also, for he smiled understanding
Iy and crept closer to the bench. From
out of the semi darkness he heard a
mans voice.
And sure, Nellie" it was saying, Il
didn't think that you would ever mar
ry the likes of me-.
4 think you're the grandest man in
the world a woman's voice answer
ed. And I'll marry you whenever you
want me to-
Very softly, so as not to disturb
them, the patrolman crept slowly away
from the bench. He realized suddenly
that spring had acknowledgements
1917, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate)
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THE SEAlRCHLl LIGHT
Latest News from the Fields of
SCIENCE, EDUCATION, INVENTION
whitewash for Electricity.

When, at the beginning of the war,
London was ordered to be kept dark
at night against attack, the people suf-
fered They bumped into lampposts;
fell up and down steps, lost their way,
and collided with one another. In a
fog the streets were absolutely un-
navigable. Now. however, difficulty
has been overcome by the simple ex-
pedient of whitewash. The lamp
posts. steps, gates and curbstones are
whitewashed and so stand out clearly
against the black of night. but are
not distinguishable at any great dis
lance from above.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
Can You Remember?

Remember when you used to pull
your boiled shirts over your head p
Buffalo News.
And hooked on your bow tie at the
back of your celluloid collar?-Pitts-
burg Post.
And went out buggy riding Sunday
afternoons Boston Globe.
And bought three pounds of pork
for a quarter New York Mail.
And didn't know a darned thing
about wood fibre socks Toledo
Daily Blade.
And thought nothing of eating
couple of apples in the grocery store
while you were waiting for the clerk
to wrap up your nickels worth of
drief beef ?-Y Youngstown Telegram.
And got a bag of candy when you
paid the grocery bill?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
nv RnY Il dnEITA
Perhaps He Docs.

Perhaps He Docs.
Perhaps he wondered how it feels,
When silent all the dell,
To bite Nephew on the heels
Or merely yell and yell;
Perhaps he wished to know how he
Could doze for several years,
By putting turnips in his tea
Or putty in his ears
Perhaps he sought to know why gnats
Will sneeZe if in distress
Or how he might spell pussycats
Without a single s;
Or vet how he might always let
His tongue hang further out,
Or what ahoy is like or yet
What this is all about,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09
DINNER STORIES

Tim Casey, a juror, rose suddenly
from his seat and fastened to the
door of the courtroom. He was pre-
vented, however. from leaving the
room and was sternly questioned by
the judge.
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reason for Safe and sane Fourth. We
shall need the powder, which ordinari-
~ is consumed on that day, for other
purpOses.
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II is reported that Bernstorff is to be
appointed minister to a neutral coun-
ivy. There are not many of them to
nick from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

Turkey announces that she wants no
new territory. She probably would
be glad of any assurance that she can
keep what she has.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

men in the army, who is to perform
the necessary labor in this country?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-09

When a Man Goes to the Wall he
can expect to b. y Against it.
Never.
You'll notice almost every week
This rule is seldom broken,
You very seldom can outspeak
The man who is outspoken.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1917-11-01

Madam, your heart is your own
business, though any one may lay
siege to it. 1t is possible that at some
time may come to your rescue as you
have to mine. Setting aside hearts,
let us make an alliance offensive and
defensive against the enemy"
She put her warm palm into mine,
but Immediately drew it away as II to
discourage sentiment. ut is hardly
necessary" she said quickly. "Come,
We had better get back to the house."