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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23
AT BIG LEAGUE CAMPS

Oakland, Calif.-Inability to hit
right handed pitchers is the Cubs
greatest weakness this year. And
while the Oakland pitchers were toy
ing with the Bruins, the native sons
nicked Demaree and Carter for six
runs.
Mineral Wells. Texas With four
men available. the right garden is
Manager Rowland's hardest problem.
Liebold and Rookie Eldred are the
best bets, but Rowland is worried, he
admits.
San Antonio, Tex--With a real
baseball sun shining here. Fielder
Jones shot the Browns thru nifty
workout before departing for Waco
for series of games there The rem
nants of the Cardinal squad still here
worked with the Brownies.
Fort Worth. Tex-Grouchy over
their defeat by the Tigers at Waxa-
hachie Thursday, the main squad of
route to Dallas for a game. Revenge
was the battle cry.
gan life as a luxury acquisition of the
Dodgers by losing a brand new base
bah over the right field fence in a
practice game.
Marlin, Tex-Waco is the Giants
victim today and then the elected
champions of the National league will
shake the sand hills.
Macon, Ga-Jesse Tannehin has
taken the joy out of the Yankees
lives. AS an umpire he has begun
calling them as they are and thereby
running percents for practice games.
Waxahachie, Tex.-A tour to Mex
leo City by Tigers and Giants in the
spring of 1918 is under consideration
by Jennings and McGraw. The man.
ayers are said to believe they can in
still a love for the United States into
the Mexican by a fancy assortment of
base hits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23
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SIOUX GET A MANAGER
Hanlon Announces Former Memphis
Player Will Have Charge of Club.

Sioux City, Ia. March 23.-E. j.
Hanlon, president of the Sioux City
club of the Western league has an
nounced that Ed Holley, formerly
with the Memphis team of the South
ern association, will manage the local
team this season.
Hanlon also announced he had
given an eastern syndicate an option
on the Sioux City club, which will not
expire until July /.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23

Jimmy Callahan will have flu
charge of the Pirates this season
One word from Barney Dreyfuss an
Jim can do as he pleases.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23
Food for Fans
BY GEO. e. PHAIR.
(Copyright.)

The Amateur Gardener.
1t was Summer afternoon,
His office work was done,
And he before his cottage door
Was digging in the SUM-
For he had planted onions, beets
And cabbageS and other eats.
And when his crop came sprouting up,
His soul grew sad and sore.
He muttered he leaned his hoe
Beside the cottage door:
II broke a pair of galluses
To raise crop of callouses."
The Useful A. c. has an appro-
pirate name. 1t helps the promoters
to get by without working for liv-
ing.
| American league ball players are
not in need of military training-at
least. not those who have batted
against Walter Johnson.
AS we understand it. the chief pur-
pose of a spring training trip is to
give the stockholders an opportunity
to break into print
Public enthusiasm over the pro-
posed GibbOnS-Darcy match has al
most reached heat approaching that
of ice.
Quo Vadis?
Where goest thou 2" the moujik cried
Unto Nick Romanoff.
II do not know the Gar replied
| I'm just Romanoff.
Or. Spencer, the noted bone spe-
| cialist, is the man most of the ball
| players go to for their ailments.
Quite right
Jimmy Callahan will have full
charge of the Pirates this season.
| One word from Barney Dreyfuss and
/ Jim can do as he pleases.
George stallings is. an efficient
| drill master, but his remarks to his
troops are not printed in any Sunday
school journal.
We decline to believe the rumor
that Jack Barry will manage his team
from the bench. Jack can show 'em
how better than he can tell 'em how.
ADDITIONAL SPORT WILL
BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23

ADDITIONAL SPORT WILL
BE FOUND ON OTHER PAGES
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23
New Strap
Purses

One of the prettiest things we
have ever seen in leather goods
are these Flat Purses with metal
chain and bracelet handle set
with semi-precious stones. Black
and all the new colors in leather
at-$5.5O each.
Pin Seal Purses, flat style with
back strap handle They come
in black, blue. brown, tan and
red and sell at-S3.5O each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23

Just out of their wrappings
are some new all silk Taffeta
and Moire Ribbons in white,
pink. light blue, navy. red,
brown, black and tan at Csc I'd.
All Bows Tied Free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23
Toilet Goods

White Rose and Lily of the
Valley Perfumes, regularly soc
for-25c OF.
25c Silver Suds, metal polish
for-19c.
Lilas Toilet Waterloo.
Bocabelli CASTLE Soap, 1Oc
cakes for soc.
25c and 35c Pompeian Night
Cream at lee and CSC.
Csc and soc Mentholatum at
Ice and 39c.
25c. soc and 500 Listerine at
-19c, 39c and 7Sc.
Lyons Tooth Powder-19c.
Dorin's Rouge and Powder in
compact form-50c value for
soc.
Sanitol Face Powder-19c.
Leotine Cleaning Fluid. use
bottle for-19c.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23

gan life as luxury acquisition of the
Dodgers by losing a brand new base
BAH over the right field fence in a
practice game.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23

Or. Spencer, the noted bone spe
cialist. is the man most of the bal
players go to for their ailments.
Quite right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23

Marlin, Tex-Waco is the Giants
victim today and then the elected
champions of the National league will
shake the sand hills.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23
Use Buttons
For q Trimming

Buttons as trimming are
again to the front. You can use
your own judgment as to shape
and color.
Gold, brass, rose, turquoise,
purple, green and black and
white effects are all good. And
so are the staid and staple COL
ors.
Round, square. hexagon and
every conceivable shape for
sport, motor and dress apparel
at moderate prices.
Pearl Buttons in all sizes at
sc a doZ. to soc each.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-23
Ties for Men

They are ties that are truly
spring-like. New in colorings
and new in patterns. Flow-end
four-in-hands, just the kind of
ties particular men like to wear.
soc and 75c each.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08

have sprung up like mushrooms, i'm
mediately adjacent to the numerous
army camps and environments.
These little cities. numbering per-
haps 5000 or 10000 inhabitants, are
devoted to supplying the needs Of
the soldiers. There are little shops,
laundries, restaurants, and dozens
of small business enterprises, en-
ploying women workers. The set
Elements are but rows Of shacks,
and are often so crowded that young
women are forced to alternate in
the use Of beds and rooms, one
woman taking a bed as another
leaves it.
This is but a glimpse at the home
work OF the Y. w. c. A. in the war.
The foreign service is Of even
greater Importance. and it is along
the same lines. There are hundreds
of thousands Of young women, al
most as directly engaged in war
work as the soldiers, who are look
ing TO the Y. w. C. A. for the same
service that the Y. NJ. c. A gives to
the men.
The Y. w. C. A. may have to do a
little explaining, but It shouldn't be
forced to do any arguing to raise it's
fund.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08
Scorns The Kaiser
Empress of Austria Is Frankly Anti
German, and Has Two Brothers
In Belgian Army.

Despot and naughty autocrat he
may be, yet the Kaiser OF Germany
has so far failed to override the will
Of one person in the dual monarchy.
He has dreamed and planned, only to
find his ambitions thwarted by the
stubbornness OF one who fails to
recognize him as the all powerful and
refuses consistently to bow to his
will.
Yet the kaiser has no recourse. He
must take his medicine. For this par
ticuIar stumbling block in his path
is Of royal blood and in q high posi-
ton. The irony of 1t also is. no
doubt, CALLING to the proud emperor
OF the Germans because his nemesis
is q woman-Zita, the empress Of
Austria.
Empress Zita despises the kaiser,
and she makes no secret Of the fact.
She also has no love for anything
German. She consistently refuses to
have q. German bqpk in her library,
and she never speaks a word Of Ger
man, preferring French or Italian.
She firmly believes that Austria is
being made a catspaw by the kaiser
and was directly responsible for the
agitation of separate peace which
emanated from Vienna early in the
year, it is said.
Crown Prince Aequieseed.
AS an indication Of her natural
leanings in the war, it is known that
the empress offered no objections
when two Of her brothers, Sixtus and
Francis Xavier OF Bourbon-Parma,
announced their intention at the be-
ginning Of the conflict of joining the
allied army. She consulted with her
husband, then the crown prince, and
her influence with him is evident
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08

It sounds trite to say that war
reacts in widely different ways on
different people.
It could not be otherwise, Of
course, as long as human beings are
not all stamped from the same die.
But TO get contrast raised TO the
infinite degree, two OF the popular
war books Of the day should be read
concurrently. They are James w.
Gerard's, My Four Years in Ger
many, and the translation Of lie
Feu". by Henri Barbusse. published
Under the English title Under Fire.
The translation is the work of Fitz-
water wray.
It is amazing that one Of SUFFICIENT
intelligence to represent the United
States in one OF the most important
diplomatic positions, should be able
to live through such stirring times in
the war center OF Europe, and get no
more out Of 1t than backstairs gos-
sip.
Ambassador Gerard's book is dis
appointingly shallow, and shows
atrocious workmanship. Poor tech
nique, poor construction, and even
mistakes in English that q printer
should edit out, might be excused If
the writer showed some appreciation
Of the significance Of the events
transpiring about him.
Mr.. Gerard's book is one first class
newspaper interview, stretched out
to cover some 400 pages. 1t contains
few striking conversations with
German leaders which are significant,
and which have been quoted freely
in editorial comment, but the rest Is
a collection Of trivialities.
On opening Mr.. Gerard's book, one
naturally expects a glimpse behind
the curtain OF European diplomacy
leading up to the war. Without CIV
ing away state secrets, or betraying
condolences he might have given his
own views Of the events preceding
the greatest war Of all time. But in
stead Of this intelligent insight into
events, and first hand information
about the leaders of thought and
action in Germany, one reads page
after page OF gossipy comment
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08

from the reply of Charles Francis to
his brothers-in-law:
do your duty.
The brothers interpreted the
laconic reply to mean approval Of
their decision to fight for the allied
cause, and they left Immediately for
France. There they were forbidden,
because of their connection with the
former French ruling houses, to Join
the army OF the republic. They went
to England, where again their offer
Of service was refused for the same
reason, the strict etiquette of the
law of solidarity among the Allies
forbidding their acceptance. In Rus
STA they met the same reception.
From Russia the brothers turned
to Belgium and renewed their petition
to King Albert, but they were in
formed that Belgium did not accept
foreigners in it's armies, However,
Queen Elizabeth personally interest
ed herself in their behalf and finally
they were enrolled in the medical
department. Their record in the am
bulance service later attracted the
notice of the king, and they were al
lowed to enter the artillery with the
rank of second lieutenants. They
were trained artillerymen, and their
advancement thereafter was rapid.
Recently both were decorted with
medals Of honor by the President of
France.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08
WHERE UNION is STRENGTH.

Fargo has a Glad Tidlngs mission
that is doing q most valuable service
to the community, and that would be
indispensable, II there were no other
agency.
Fargo has an Associated Charities
that is doing an equally valuable
service to the city and is equally in
dispensable under the same condi-
lions.
All told Fargo has about sixty
families on its list Of those needing
financial assistance.
Either one of the agencies above
mentioned could handle all sixty
cases without difficulty, and without
duplication.
Both organizations are skirting the
edge Of bankruptcy. They are run
ming behind, and unable to meet the
demands upon them. The high cost
of living has increased the calls for
assistance, and the war enterprises
have choked off their support, until
it is but fraction of what it was.
The money subscribed for the two
Of them would about provide ade-
quate support for one.
The Forum has reason to believe
that the amalgamation of the two
organizations is possible. Such
step should be most seriously con-
sidered for the duration Of the war
at least.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08
WHAT THE WoMENFoLKs MAY
BE READING.

Mere man may be missing untold
treasures of literary worth these
days, by overlooking the magazines
intended chiefly for Friend wife's
eyes.
Nonchalantly we glimpsed, en- pas
SAINT this week-wait a minute, they
have us doing It too. In plain Eng
lish, "get this from "The Sons Of
God" by Gertrude Brooke Hamilton,
in Good Housekeeping for Decem-
Der:
From her vantage point she
shrugged. Quite close to him, I'm
the play kitchen, long shoulder
curve almost brushing his, she
dismissed and held him; with
scarcely more than a quirk of
her shoulder. And having met
him at q disadvantage, she be-
came naive.
"Her eyes told the truth-while
evasion glanced from her lips.
Merry Christmas she laughed,
volatile"
Just how can one laugh Merry
Christmas" You can hiss the Christ
mas, but you can't laugh it, and how
can you be volatile, doing it?
There is more Of it. Protesting.
yet curious withai. it led US on and
on, reckoning from page to page,
magnetized. With a quirk. we became
naive over this:
Al rush Of weeping love un-
manned him. As poignantly IS he
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08
This "city Within a City"

1t was a strange irony of fate the
other day that forced revolutionists,
hard lpressed by the soldiers of Ker-
ensky, to fall back into the Kremlin
OF Moscow, for, centuries the seat Of
despotism of Russia. And addition
al interest was attached to this his
toric spot by the later announcement
that here Kerensky intended to es-
tablish his government. Perhaps no
city OF the nation has figured so
prominently i'm the turmoil which for
centuries has accompanied Russian
politics as has this ,'city within a
city"
1t was on the site OF the Kremlin,
now the center OF the city, that Mos
COW was founded by Yuti Dolgoruki,
Prince Of Kiev, in 1147. though his
torians believe a village existed on
the heights above the River Moskva
even before the advent OF Prince
Yuri. Within century the new viii
lage entered into the turmoil Of
Slavic wars then raging. In 1888
the Kremlin, then an important milf
tary station of the principality OF
Vladimir, was sacked and burned by
Batou-K Khan. In 1898 it was again
sacked and its inhabitants were car
ried away into slavery by Khan
Nagal. Since then it repeatedly has
been plundered and burned.
The Kremlin is almost triangular
In shape, and is surrounded by a
high earthen wall, mile and half
long, which has stood for centuries.
1t is one Of the 1--WE divisions OF the
city which still retain their pali-
sades. The Kremlin's wall is sur
mounted by eighteen towers and
pierced by five gates.
Was the Capital Of Russia.
In the. early part OF the fourteenth
century, Ivan Danilovitch of Yladi-
mir took the title Of grand prince Of
Moscow and moved the government
from Vladimir to Moscow. From
that time until the beginning OF the
eighteenth century, when the admin
istration was transferred to ST.
Petersburg, the Kremlin remained
the seat OF government
Time after time, together with the
rest Of the city Of Moscow, the
Kremlin has been burned. the last
instance being In 1912. when 1t was
occupied by Na&oleon and the In
habitants started CONGREGATIONS
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08

It must be a constant temptation
to = concert violinist to follow the
tran that leads to an easy popuIari-
ty by turning himself into an
animated graphophone. and. grinding
out his own records.
The broad, easy path to popularity,
applause, and soaring fees, Is pleas
antIy marked with the milestones OF
THE HumoresqueA, lie Cygne' ana
such pleasantly saccharine offerings,
that are 80 catholic in their appeal,
and so avidly received.
To the credit OF Mischa Elman,
who induced several hundred Far
goans to brave bitter night and
amply repaid them for Il, let it be
said that he has not devoted his tai
ents to playing upon an easy senti-
mentality. as he once threatened to
do. He is a more finished artist than
the Elman Of a few years ago. He
takes his art more seriously. His
old exaggerations OF style are gone,
and there is a dignity to his work
that is sound and sincere.
Any violinist who will open his
program with two concertos and a
sonata, scarcely can be accused Of
seeking an easy road to popularity,
but Mr.. Elman did it last evening,
and left rarely enthusiastic audi
ence behind him. If there was any
criticism to be made OF his attitude,
1t was that he was a little too chary
with encores. which possibly might
have been due to desire to catch
a train.
In the stately Handel D Major
sonata, and in Gounod's Ave Maria,
which he played as an encore to his
second number, the new Elman was
best exemplified. The Ave Maria
was reverently played, and he re-
sisted the temptation to unduly
emphasize his truly marvellous
Iegato tones, which he would have
been unable to resist few years
ago.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08

which Is entertaining inIthe extreme,
but not enlightening.
Mr.. Gerard had the opportunity TO
write q book that would have been
handed down as one Of the really
great contributions to the history and
literature of the war. He has writ
ten 400 pages of chatter, interesting
enough, but Of no Importance either
as history or literature.
Gerard should be taken in small
doses as an antidote to Under
Fire. Here IL tremendous bit Of
realism, that Is almost depressing in
its grip on the emotions.
This young Frenchman has proven
himself the Dostoevshy OF the trench
es. and the work Of the translator is
scarcely less remarkable than that
Of the author. foundations, too
often, devitalize the original text, and
leave but the skeleton Of Tat words.
The translation of lie Ecu" has been
compared to Fitzgerald's handling Of
THE Rubayiat", which is about the
highest compliment that could be paid
a translator.
What Les Miserables" revealed of
the life of the poor Of Paris, Under
Fire" does for the life of the soldier
in the trenches. It is terrible in it's
vividness. It leaves, the reader
saturated with the horror Of the
filth the muck. the brutality Of war.
The book would drive recruiting
sergeant to the verge Of apoplexy,
but the author, apparently, has no
more fear of the condemnation that
will be heaped upon his head, than
he had of the machine guns Of tho
enemy
II Mr.. Gerard's reaction to the war,
was disappointing in its poverty, the
reaction Of M. Barbusse is that Of a
Tolstoy.
But the author accepts war as the
lesser Of two evils. The book is not
without its heroic pages.
The two books should, by all
means, be read together, for the sake
OF the contrast and the mutual anti
dote they provide. Some place be-
tween them, perhaps. is the happy
medium.
u. z. r.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08

throughout the city which forced the
little corporal to commence his disas-
trous retreat from Russia. Napo-
Icons headquarters were in the
kremIin, and. while the flames there
were not so destructive as in the re-
mainder of the city, the fire attain
ed Sufficient magnitude to compel the
French to evacuate.
!, For centuries the czars OF Russia
received their crowns from God and
the fatherland" in Uspenskiy cathe-
dral Cathedral Of the Assumption,
In the skremlin, and in Arcltangel-
sky Cathedral Of the ArchangeI
Michael), are the tombs of many OF
the emperors, down to Peter the
Great. In the upper story Of the
treasury repose the crowns Of the
early czars. several thrones, war
trophies and miscellaneous curios-
tiles. In the arsenal is a great coli
lection of weapons and arms taken
in conflict.
In the Kremlin are grouped some
OF the most beautiful buildings of
Russia. Within its walls NAV. be
read the architectural history Of the
nation, but perhaps the most inter-
esting Of the sights of the acropolis
Is the tower Of Ivan the Great, S22
feet high and crowned by a gilt
dome.
The "kina Of Bells
It contains thirty-four bells, and
at its foot rests the King OF Bells
the Car Kolokol. silky feet in Cir
cumference at it's rim, and nineteen
feet high, which for more than
century remained buried in the earth
where 1t fell as worIxmen attempted
to raise it to the dome. until it was
raised in 1882 to the marble pedestal
where it now stands. on Easter eve
all the great bells Of the Kremlin toll
out their message OF the resurrec-
ton, and before the war travellers
'Journeyed from all over the world To
participate In the impressive Easter
ceremony there.
The Kremlin was the second capi-
tai Of the empire after the removal
Of the government to Petrograd.
Within Its walls is the great palace
completed in 1S49, and here, are the
most wonderful churches and cathe-
drals of the country, Up TO the de-
thronement Of Nicholas the Kremlin
was the ecclesiastical center Of RUS
sia-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-08
FIVE SEALS PER CAPITA.

Five seals per capita would be a
fair mark TO set for Fargo in the
Red Cross Christmas seal campaign.
That would mean total Of APP
proximateIy $4,000 seals. or about
$3.50 for the city Of Fargo. This is
the mark required for any commun-
ity to be placed on the honor roll.
and Fargo cannot afford to do less.
II everyone bought seals, the ex-
penditure Of five cents apiece would
result in Fargo raising nearly ten
times the sum it contributed last
year, to the fight against tuberculo-
sis. Nickels could not be better in
vested.