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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
FALLS DOWN STEps

Mrs. Charles Weibly, SOC Curtin
street, fell down the cellar steps at heI
home this morning. Her scalp is lac
eratel and her face badly cut.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
NEW CUMBERLAND sUNsHINERs

The Sunshine Guild of New Cum
berland, of which Mrs. Joseph Wealth
erby is president. will hold a meeting
this evening at the residence of Mrs.
]. Herbert Kellberg. The guild is DO
ing excellent work in its district and
is one of the live clubs of the town.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
HONOR MRS. JONES

Mrs. Mabel Cronise Jones, of Locust
street, has been appointed vice-chair-
one counties by the State Federation
of Pennsylvania Women.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-02-27
TAKES X-RAY EXAMINATION

Mrs. Carrie f. Wagner, of 1880
North Sixth street, is home from Bal
timore where she visited her daughter,
went an X-ray examination in st,
Agnes hospital under the direction of
DIR. Neitch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
TRAVELETTE
Wilmington.


He would be a rash scribe who
would write of Wilmington in general.
for in these United States there are no
less than sixteen towns and cities
hight Wilmington, (of which Illinois
and Massachusetts boast two apiece
to say nothing of sundry Wilmington
Heights and Wilmington functions. as
we'll as Wilmington Island, which is
in Georgia. The richest and most i'm
portant of the large tribe of Whining
tons is Wilmington. Del. but the most
colorful and picturesque is Whining
ton, N. c.
Wilmington, N. c.. is a Carolina
seaport, doing considerable trade in
cotton and fertilizer, but such details,
while largely responsible for the eX-
istence of the city, are unimportant
from the esthetic point of view. They
do not compare with an old negro
fisherman lying in the sun on de-
serted wharf, an unbelievably bat
tered hat pulled down over his sleep
ing eyes, and a coarse fishtwine tied
to one bare black toe. He arouses an
Irresistible desire to sketch him, and
an irreligious longing to behold some
finny leviathan seize the other end of
that Irvine fsh-line and depart for
deeps unknown. 1t would be a sad
shock to the fisherman.
Other romances of Wilmington
cluster around Cape Fear, which is
far down the sound on the Atlantic
itself. Cape Fear was a famous haunt
of pirates century ago. They made
their land headquarters on the low
square island of which the cape is one
corner, and preyed on the fat mer-
chantmen that worked up to Will
mington. Some of the most famous
barriers of the Spanish Main put in
to Cape Fear now and again, and le-
gend says that some well-known gem
tlemen of old Wilmington occasion
ally fitted out vessel to engage in
the same uncertain and lucrative
trader
| Today the old Cape has occasion
ally come into notice again as the re-
ported haunt of mythical U-boats, and
the merchant ships go softly, as they
went a century ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
ROOM FOR AMENDMENT.

There was no necessity for the law
which increased letter and postal card
postage one cent, and which put the
zone system, in distant zones as high
as s cents a pound, which is really
prohibitive 1t is safe to say says
'Leslie's, that the new rates would
never have been fixed If the report of
a 100000 surplus had been in the
hands of congress. Its publication at
this time is the best argument for the
prompt repeal of the postal clause of
the new war revenue bill.
When the government established
the cent-a-pound postal rate for news
papers and periodicals in 1879 its ac-
ton was entirely voluntary. The
change was made, not for the benefit
of the publishers. but for that of the
subscribers, who up to that time had
paid the postage when they received
their magazines at the postoffice.
The second reason for establishing
the lower rate was that the govern
ment regarded newspapers and period
icals as in the nature of public utili-
NA0Ss lis view was d0DltI6DAy GA-
pressed in the report of the senate
committee on printing, at the extra
session of congress, in which it sub
mitted that ito jeopardize the exist
ence of the press is to fmperil the life
of the government itself, so dependent
is democracy upon the prompt and
widespread information of it's people;
therefore. whatever affects the publ
cation of its newspapers and periodi-
Gals likewise affects the welfare of the
government, and the necessities of
such publications become in fact pub
lie necessities
just as the rural free delivery was
adopted, not to tap a new source OF
revenue but to develop a new field Of
service for the large class of country
jewellers, so the adoption of the cent
a-pound postal rate for newspapers
ands magazines was designed to en-
courage their wide distribution as
public educators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
GLOBE SIGHTS
[From the Atchison Globe.i

CFrom the Atchison Globe
A Pollyanna can become awfully
tiresome.
Your talk is moving picture of
your mind.
Some men like to talk of their ill
luck; others of their good luck.
A man who exaggerates is simply a
liar attempting to cover up his tracks.
Sometimes the guest as well as the
hostess is bored and neither shows it.
No matter how tight and close a
man may be he thinks he's generous.
All over the country women are
taking advantage of our war activities
to break into society.
When Atchison gossips get together
their slogan is not, do your Bit" but
tell your Bit
Some men wake up with a lot of
new resolutions every morning to
break them all before evening
The latest creation of the war is
the man who talks almost incessa ntly
about how much war tax he will have
to pay.
There is something wrong with the
man who always feels he is getting
the worst of it.
A rich old man is a person who
thinks a young fellow should be salts
fled with his youth
The hardest thing in the world is
to arouse a footbalI-less town to take
an interest in football
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
, TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL IN.
FORMATION BUREAU.

Late dispatches indicate that Japan
IS showing not only a readiness but a
willingness to get into the war in an
active way. Apparently it is up to
.her European allies to say the word.
What the reasons are that have kept
her out up to this time have not been
mad. public. But it has been re-
ported that she has made certain ter
.ritoriaI demands as related to north
eastern Asia. 1t is believed in some
.quar+ers that Italys entrance into the
war was the result of a bargain look
dng 70 the acquisition of territory Bull
garia came in, on the other side. fol-
lUwing a similar agreement with the
central powers Probably when the
inside history of the world conflict
shan have been written it will be
found that with the exception of the
United States and Belgium. all the ma
tions ut war with Germany. while &C
mated by the lofty purpose of max
ing the world safe for democracy.
have not been wholly unmindful of
their individual interests
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04

1t is officially announced by Score
tary of the Treasury McAdoo that ap-
plications for life insurance received
by the bureau of war risk insurance
has passed the billion mark Specif-
ically, the total amount of life in
surance applied for up to the time of
the announcement was $1,O32,
and the number of applications re-
ceived was 10000. According to the
law, the maximum amount of risk the
government will carry for a soldier or
sailor is $4,000, and the minimum
$1,000. Thus far the average amount
of insurance applied for is 1857.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
LIE 7 TIERS OF
TWO WOMEN
Come Bacl< to GirIhood.
BY ZOE BECKLEY.

NEW 1OTh, 1ueSOdy morning.
Just got your letter. May darling,
and am dashing this off before I leave
for the Office. Come to US, dear. and
a thousand welcomes! I'm glad you've
taken the bit in your teeth and bolted.
Our home is yours for as long as
you'll keep it, and when you won't,
I've ALI sorts of other plans that I'll
spring on you as soon as may be.
Don't be afraid to jump, May.
There is nothing so inevitable about
it if you do jump. Curtis may come
to his senses when he sees he has
something besides a human doormat
to deal with. Paul says he can get
you a place in his office as easy as
pie. 1t may be only fifteen a week to
start, but with our shack to bunk in,
you can make it do till you get more.
And your mother is not far away:
she'll help you out with the Precious!
Why, you can have a little apartment
somewhere after while, May. you
and your mother and the kiddie, and
life will in time sing its song again.
Meanwhile you've got Paul and me.
Oh, child alive, how glad I shall be
to see you again! Wen be our two
old selves again, working women, with
the same interests and ambitions.
Come back to your Firlhood. Maize,
and forget the rest.
understand exactly how you feel
about taking the baby away from his
dad, and all that. But there is an
other side to that, and 1 often wonder
why people don't see it. 1t is COM
mon practice for a woman to stay
with a brutal husband for the sake
of her child" But why, in heaven S
name, is it better for a child to be
brought up in an atmosphere of ha-
tired and wretchedness (for you can
not successfully assume harmony
when you have it not) than to give il
chance for happiness with one par
ent or the other? And oh, Maizie
think of the number of women who
have wrecked their own happiness
and slain their ambitions by a mis-
taken sense of duty! For every case
where wife has patched up her mar
ried life and striven to make a success
of it despite mismating, for the sake
OF her children, l can point you out a
case where marriage has been made
wretched for life because children
kept the couple together.
No, Maize, 1 do not think sacrifice
always ends constructively, any more
| than virtue is always a reward.
think here are as many good women
| made into bad women. because of silly
sacrifices made for children as there
| are bad women made into good ones
| by the persistent practice of unselfish-
ness.
Children are, of course, the crux OF
every important situation in married
life. Without children. most prob
lens are simple. With them, there
are always complexities But don't be
too frightened at yours, dear. What's
\ one mere babyi Why, there's a WON
| on in my office who takes care OF
three, keeps house and supports g
good-for-nothing husband, all with the
| cheeriest good will in the world
know any number of women who Jug
gle job and one baby.
So come to us with a light hear
as you can muster Take your owr
advice to me: Look forward, never
back: go for the constructive thing
| forget the destructivei
Here's luck, old friend, and welcome
waitingi
| Thine ever KATE
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Menu Hints.
I'D EAKEAC CT

Menu Hints.
BREAKFAST
Old fashioned Pancakes, Corn Syrup
CRecipe-To one pint sour milk use
one-half teaspoon SOFA. pinch salt, one
egg, flour to make consistency of thick
cream.)
Assorted Fruits.
Cereal Coffee or Cocoa.
LUNCHEON.
Dreamed Leftover Salmon.
Spinach with Egg Garnish.
Oatmeal Cookies. Tea
DINNER.
Lima Bean Loaf
(Recipe-To two cups cooked beans
add one-half cup bread crumbs, one
egg well beaten, mold and bake.3
Dreamed Potatoes.
Raisin Bread. Oleomargarine-
Fruit Salad. Coffee.
The Table
Onion Sauce-Put drippings in
saucepan, add chopped onion, fry I'M
til light yellow and tender; shake pan
and stir all the time; add milk and
tablespoon flour stirred with little
milk to thicken like cream. Add salt
and dash of pepper.
+ Gingerbread-Warm together two
cups sorghum, one cup shortening.
two tablespoons ground ginger and
beat for ten minutes. Add two tea
spoons soda dissolved in a little hot
water, one cup sour milk and enough
-four to make a soft dough that can
be rolled out Turn on Toured
board, cut intQ shapes and bake in
brisk oven.
Southern Pudding-Sift two cups
flour with one teaspoon soda and
one-half teaspoon salt. Rub into the
flour one cup chopped suet and add
one cup raisins. Mix with one cup
sorghum, one egg, one-half cup milk.
Juice of one-half lemon. Turn into
buttered pudding dish and steam two
hours
Oatmeal Macaroons.
One cupful sugar, one tablespoonful
butter, two eggs, one teaspoonful van
iIa two and one-half cupfuls rolled
oats, two tablespoonful flour, two
teaspoonfuls baking powder.
Cream the butter and add the su-
gar and the well-beaten eggs Stir
the rolled oats, flour and baking pow
der into the mixture
DROP from a teaspoon about an
inch apart in creased pans. and bake
in a moderate oven until well puffed.
crisp and brown
These are excellent cookies for the
children, and grown-ups will not
scorn them for afternoon tea. The
recipe makes twenty-eight macaroons
and costs twenty cents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04

moonlit sea. he again visualized ms
den and the extraordinary changes IN
it's arrangements; the dainty shoes pc
side his shabby slippers. ana across
from his comfortable armchair the
smaller chair occupied by the woman
now seated in the corner OF the oeck
behind him. Suddenly that room as
he now saw it became desirable above
everything on earth, and he turned
again to her.
Il have everything to do with it"
he repeated. II want to marry you
myself"
Have you taken leave of your
senses?"
a sense of what is necessary to my
But to have it happen like this. 1t
Il would have said the same thing
a week ago. Today there is but one
explanation"
And that?"
ut had to be. Just charge the whole
thing to fate, and marry me when we
reach St Johns. 1 know the consul
and his wife. They will be deiignteo 2,
to act as host ard hostess. What say
your"
She left him and walked to the END
of the deck He waited long for her
to return to him, and then followed.
What 1 have said may seem pre-
mature" he told her, but am thor
oughly in earnest. If you cannot
answer me now. Will ask again. "heh
you know me better.
She faced him as she spoke. THAT
will be unnecessary. was merely
thinking fate had been most kind. =
DOWNRIGHT 1917, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate-)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
HELP ON THE WAY.

The railroad situation promises to
be taken up for serious consideration
Immediately by the present congress.
The railroads are going thru a rapid
process of Capitalization, the object in
view being the operation of the roads
on the unit basis. The railroad wa
board at Washington is strongly in
favor OF the pooling system, which will
facilitate handling the traffic and
hasten both efficiency and ECONOMY.
The demands of the roads for new
equipment, facilities. etc, are still
unprovided for. These imperative
needs are now recognized by the ad-
ministration, and some action NAV
soon bes expected. The interstate
commerce commission will probably
grant the desired 1 5 per cent to at least
some of the lines. says Henry Clews
in his Financial Review, but this will
not suffice to give the roads a living
wage under present conditions, nor
will it remedy the fundamental weak
ness in our railroad situation. which
is lack of unity
Various projects for financial relief
are under discussion, such as a direct
loan by the government or the guar
antee of interest or dividends by the
government. These proposals are con-
sidered practical, he continues. while
public ownership is neither feasible
nor desirable. Public opinion is not
ripe for such action. Talk of reduc-
ing dividends for the purpose of meet
ing necessary OUTLAWS is absurd The
total dividends paid by American rail-
roads are considerably less than $3.50
100000 annually on a capital stock OF
approximately $4,000. OOO,0 900. or about
per cent. To reduce dividends
would inevitably impair the credit OF
even the strongest roads and make il
still more impossible for them to raise
money by either stocks or bonds
Surprising the roads were to reduce
dividends, say, one-quarter, what
would be the result? Simply a crush
ing blow to their credit and a saving
of less than $1OO,0OO,O0O. This would
be trifling matter compared with
the billion or more needed; while any
possible reduction in dividends could
have no effect whatever upon wages
The only thorogoing solution of the
railroad problem is to amend the law
so as to permit railroad pooling which
will permit operation of the roads as
a single system under government
regulation, and at the same time abol-
ish the confusion and waste arising
from operating under the laws OF
forty-eight different states. For the
purpose of immediate relief railroad
bonds. guaranteed as to principal and
interest by the government would be-
the surest and least Objectionable plan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
ON SPUR RE FL MOMENT

The Letters of a German Spy.
Ca,,.or-L1,o ~ Aroarioa

W. Hohenzollera. Potsdam.
Omnipotent One-I am deep dis
tress in. It's no use around to beat
the bush. I am against it up.
I can find no secrets out. I can
find not out anything which every
body else does not know yet. Here
everybody everything knows. When
1 some important information get for
you, 1 put him in my notebook, and
when 1 by the news stand walk 1
see it in the papers with big head
lines which can be read the street
across. All the inside information is
outside information as soon like the
first edition he came out. Americans
hang all their troubles the clothes
line on early in the morning, so if
there is anything wrong anywhere
they fix him.
And that would save you a lot of
money. Everything 1 can find out,
you can get from the papers, and by
night they get him all fixed up again
all right. So, by the time l get the
news wigwagged to you all is differ
ent again.
have got a cha1fee not The pa
pers to it beat me.
marriage has been performed in
a cemetery near Boston.
Another of those quiet we'd
dings," what?
Unpopular Songs.
Take Back Your Gold and Give
Me a Parsnip."
It's Not So Sweet as Once 1t Was,
for Sugars Hit the Sky"
Goodnight, Ladies. Goodnight
Ladies. Goodnight, Ladies, Show
Tickets Are Too High"
a Ca~;aI C@or,-
(The Decline and Fall of the Booze
Traffic.)
CHAPTER 1, 1880.
Fill 'em up again, McGinnis.'
CHAPTER II, 1890.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
CHAPTER III, 1900.
"Fillaginnis''
CHAPTER ", 1910
''Fillinis.''
CHAPTER V, 1920.
''Finis"
(The end.)
Farewell.
(The old roller towels have been
banished from the Mushrooms of the
capitol at Washington.-News Item.)
Farewell, old roller towel, farewell.
Well see your like no more.
Full many statesman's mug you've dried
In the halcyon days of yore.
Full many a microbe you've dispensed,
Full many deadly germ.
Perhaps you've stopped some patriots
From serving a second term.
There's no use killing the statesmen off
With mikes that you gaily shed,
For statesmen are of peculiar mind
They don't know when they're dead.
So travel along in your frightfulness,
Old non-skid towel, pray do.
You're four hundred years behind the
times,
And we've had enough of you.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04

Many explanations and reasons are
given for the great advance in the
price of cotton cloth. Among them
are the war, increased wages, the high
cost of material, of fuel, of operation,
and so on. But little is said. says the
Christian Science Monitor. about the
tiny item generally hidden away
under a small heading, in a corner of
an inside page of newspaper, which
tells of one manufacturing company
in Massachusetts which has just de-
clared a so per cent dividend on the
common stock. OF course. it figures
In the price, and surely will figure
in the excess profit tax list.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
THE SEARCMLIGHT
Latest News from the Fields Of
SCIENCE, EDUCATION. INVENTION
Plant Wars.

Plant Wars.
That plants of different species
growing close together wage a sort
of war for supremacy, in which one
thrives at the expense of the othe1
is a fact that has long been known.
Recent researches cast some light on
the way this comes about. 1t is not
due principally to the fact that one
plant may exhaust the available nouf-
ishment in the soil, for the same eff
feet is noticeable even in the richest
soils. 1t is rather ascribed to the
production of plant toxins, by-prod-
ucts. of growth. by means of which
one plant or tree poisons che other
1t is estimated that growth may be
stunned from one-half to two-thirds
of normal due to this cause
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04

According to a preliminary an
nouncement with reference to mortal
sty in 1916, issued by Director Sam.
i. Rogers. of the Bureau of the Cen
sus, and compiled under the direction
OF DR.. william H. Davis. chief statis-
tician for vital statistics, the regis
tration area" which contained ap-
proximately 20 per cent of the popu-
lation of the entire United States, re-
ported for that year 1,001.921 deaths.
OF these deaths. nearly one-third were
due to three causes-heart diseases,
tuberculosis, and pneumonia. = and
nearly another third were charged to
the following nine causes: Bright's
disease and nephritis, cancer, apo
plexy, diarrhea and enteritis, influen-
"a. arterial diseases. diabetes, diph-
liberia, and typhoid fever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04

When fighting is going on the Ger
man crown prince cannot remain
quiet. He seems to fear the world
will lose sight of him. So it is that
after each big battle along the west
ern front, he launches an attack in
the vicinity of Verdun. These at
tempts of the crown prince to dent
the French line are always unsuccess-
<si. but he persists in making them.
His "old man" should move him far
Their north where ne could be accom-
modated with all the fighting he de-
-sires. The future Kaiser should be
given a chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04

Even as a wolf differs from a New
fouhdland dog SO does the German
emperor differ from the English or
the Italian king. Mr.. HohenzoIlern
has demonstrated to the world. says
the Los Angeles Times, that he is des-
titute of honor; that he will give any
promise without hesitation and break
aay promise without shame, that he
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04

will unscrupulously employ corrup-
ton. forgery, perjury, arson and as
sassination to compass his ends. His
agents are servile, greedy and treach-
erous. The war will never end upon
any basis that will secure peace for
the future unless it ends with his com
plete and permanent expulsion from
power
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04

singers. players and publishers have
all fastened to join, seeing in it a
great opportunity to advance the nu-
steal education and culture of Amer
lea. For all musicians are naturally
looking forward to the day when they
may admit with pride rather than
embarrassment that they are Ameri-
cans and were educated right here at
home.
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation, should be addressed IL ;
Topeka State Journal Information Blu
reau, Frederic ]. Haskin. Director.
Washington, D. c., with a Scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04
DINNER STORIES

Robinson-Helloa, old boyl How
are you? Glad to see you. By the
way, 1 heard you were engaged to
Miss Bondclipper.
Jones-No, Robinson; 1 was en-
gagged to her, but that is past.
We'll, Jones, between you and me,
now, you are a lucky boy. She's rich.
of course, but that is all she has to
recommend her. And then her money
is only prospective, you know.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-04

Remembering what Washington
said about "entangling alliances"
Uncle Sam declined to Join in the
Allies warning to Russia, regarding
making a separate peace.