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The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Paper Making in India.

At a time when great difficulties are
caused all owe the world by the short
age of paper, as a result of the great
war, it is interesting to note the pos
siblrties of paper making in India. By
some officials it is thought that suf-
fcient paper should be made in India
to supply the whole demand Of Asia.
1t is a question of cheap power and
water. Cotton stalks can be used and
the forests of India contain many trees
which are of no use for building and
not available for fuel, but which with
w~aterpower close to the forests could
be ground up to make pulp and paper.
Failing these, Or perhaps preferably,
grass and fibers could be grown which
might serve the purpose better and at
less cost. Where w~aterpower is OBJ
tainable not too far from the sea,
chlorine, for which there is always a
demand, can be cheaply produced from
the sea by electrolysis. In this connec.
ton it is of interest to note the i'm
mense opportunities which India af-
fords for the development of water
power and for the transmission of that
power by means of electricity where
the available sites for water schemes
are not conveniently near the place
where the power is wanted.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Harvard Observatory.

The work of the Harvard college OBJ
servatory has included the classical
ton by special types of 100000 stars,
more than 100000 measurements of
the visual brightness Of stars, the dis
covery of about three-fourths of the
variable stars known, and many de-
Examinations of star magnitudes by
photography. The observatory's star
spectra classification and its scale of
magnitudes have been adopted as
world standards. For a quarter Of q
century, a continuous Photographic
record of the stars down to the elev-
enth magnitude has been kept at a sta
ton in the northern hemisphere and
one in the southern-that is, at Cam
bridge, Mass, and Arequipa, Peru
and a quarter of a million plates,
weighing 120 tons, bear the complete
history of the stars as written by their
own light.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
ARMENIANS AN ANCIENT RACE
They Lived In Many Places Before oc-
cupyine Regions Which They Have
Held for Many Centuries.

The history of Armenia dates from
very remote times, J. de Morgan writes
in the New Armenia. Hailing, no one
knows whence, at the same time as
the races who have populated Europe,
the Armenians formerly inhabited the
steppes of Russia and the plains of
the lower Danube, and for a long time
Thrace, where they lived side by side
with the Hellenes, their congeners.
Afterward, at about the time of the
Trojan war, we see them cross the
Hellespont and settle in Phrygia, with
the Phrygians of whom they were then
but a great tribe. At this epoch the
empire of Utilities was extinguished.
1t is from Phrygia that, contrary to the
general law of migrations, the Armeni-
ans advanced toward the Orient, along
the high valley of the Euphrates, and
came to occupy the regions of Van,
Urmia, Erzerum and Ararat. The
kingdom of Uratu disappeared; the
Armenians installed themselves upon
its ruins.
1t was then that appeared the grand
figure Of Haik, a fabulous parsonage
in the traditions, but assuredly real,
whom Moses of Khorene described to
us, ~contending, in his heroic form,
against Bel, that is, against the kings
Of AsSyria. The Armenia Major of
our days was then occupied by peoples
related to the present ~Caucasians, to
the Lazes, Mingrelians and Georgians,
whom the kings of Asshur, after the
fall of the powerful state of the bor-
ders of Lake Van, hoped to subjugate.
But Nineveh was soon to fall, and
through this revolution the Armenians
gained the time to establish their pow
er firmly in the regions they con-
quered under the leadership of Haik.
The first kingdom of the Armenians,
Hal, vas founded 600 or 700 years be-
fore our era, and the spirit of Haik
has lived until our own day, welding
the Armenian element that was sep
arated from the Phrygian nation.
Some centuries after the collapse of
Nineveh the Modes were dispossessed
of power. The scepter passed to the
hands of the Persians, whose onrush
forced the ancient rulers of Iran to
retire to the mountains. Then these
tribes came in contact with the Ar.
menians, who, repulsed from the east
transmitted this pressure to the peo'
pies of Ararat.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Saving the Gas.

Bobbie will be chancellor of the ex-
chequer when he grows up, says Lon
don Tlt-Blts.
The other evening dad brought home
a beautiful green shade for the draw
ing-room chandelier and spent two
hours fixing it in order to comply with
the new lighting restrictions.
After the family had recovered from
the upbeaval which always attends
any duty performed by dad, they set
tied down under the obscured light.
Suddenly dad perceived BObbie sit
ting well outside the radius of the light
porting v a volume of close print.
snow then, Bobbie," he snapped,
'what are you sitting right outside
there for straining your eyes in the
dark like that? / haven't got enough
expense as it is, 1 suppose, and you
want to run me into more expense for
s~pectacies for you-what2"
please, dad, l was only sitting out
side here In order to a v the gast"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Sensitive Steel Hands.

Some wonders of physical recon
struction are being achieved in the
treatment of disabled soldiers in
France. Particularly successful is the
work of Prof. Jules Amar, to whom, as
he goes down the street near his hos
pital in Paris, the women smile and
say: "That's the man that gave my
husband his arm back"
One man, who had lost his arm,
while waiting for an interview one
day, amused himself by turning on a
lathe little brass shells, as souvenirs,
as well as any turner could have
done.
A second man, whose arm was am
putated above the elbow, picked up a
needle from the table with a small
pair of dissecting forceps. Afterwards
the men gave an exhibition of turning
and filing metal, and wood-drilling
with a sensitive bit.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

what we can gather up. I presume an
average of a few cents will corner the
lot. The entire cost won't reach five
hundred dollars"
Every good, and dear at that" said
the old man.
There's two hundred dollars on &C
count" and he extracted the amount
from a worn wallet and departed.
II declare! This is the most re-
freshing novelty that ever came into
this Office" soliloqulzed Rolfe. "What
Is the old fox, anyhow-a swindler?
He don't look it. I'd pay something
TO fathom his game"
In a perfectly satisfied and business
like manner, the next day, Mr.. Sterling
reappeared, received innumerable
shares of stock, settled in full, slowed
his new possessions In an inside pock-
ct and nodded crlsply to the broker.
"Thank'ee," he spoke tersely.
some word" suggested ROlfe, as his
erratic client was about to leave-"I
would like to ask you n question"
"Fire away" directed Sterling calm
Iy.
"What are you going to do with that
lot of rubbish"
The old mans eyes twinkled. He
smiled shrewdly. "I'm going to start
a mlllion-dOllar trust" he chuckled,
sand get even with the world"
1t was an hour after his departure
that ROlfe CHANGED TO notice some pa
pers lying under the chair where the
old man had sat. He picked them up.
One was a letter beginning, Dear Fa-
Their" and winding up with, "Your low
Ing daughter, Veronica" 81 am lnclOs-
ing a new photograph l had taken just
after you left. Hurry home. l am
lonesome without you"
Rolfe stood staring at the counter
felt presentmenI of the lOveliest face
~sciously he murmured the name, "Ver-
onica." 1t had a sweetly appealing
charm. The second paper was some
kind of a schedule. 1t listed the item
"One million dollars in securities"
"Homestead, eight thousand dollars"
"Wild land in Canada, prospective
value, one hundred thousand dollars"
"Deed Of trust in favor of Veronica
Sterling. Make Lawyer Morse trus-
tee"
''The puzzle d~eepens," medltated
Rolfe. Whatever in the world is the
Schemer up TO, anyhow"
~~~&sed the papers In an en-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

there with their banners day after day, day after day. I doubt If any men,
of congress O n ne of the thousands of men who pass those banners
by could repeat properly the words upon the purple and gold cloth, but, of
course, everyone knows the women are emulatng soldiers standing guard on
a battle line; that they are besieging congress and will lot raise the siege
until congress capituhtes and pays a ransom in the shape of universal sf-
frage.
We'll, it was a night II two ago that I aw a skirt switching into a store
room in the house office building, and as I passed the switching skirt I
looked further and beheld an old employee of the building and the two sf-
frage sentnes. The employee had just opened the door with his key and the
suffrage sentnes were in the act of leaning their banners against the wall,
be storedt there for the night.
Which is to laugh! The soldiers stand about the walls all day, beseging
one of those within the walls opens the postern gate and takes into the bosom
Of the city the very mes who are esigng it, that their weapons and banners
may be safe against the morrow.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
In Trust for
Veronica
"
49,
BY Walter Joseph Delaney
(%CopyrLght. BIZ M. 9. Chapmanl

Copyright, by W. G. C%hapman)
"You are certainly n most eXtraOr-
nary client" observed Rolfe Darwin,
stockbroker, and he stared wondering
ly at the hatchet-faced, keen-eyed lit
tie old man seated at the side of his
desk.
"Why?' snapped his visitor with PTS
tol-shOt observation-disclosures l hap
pen to know just what l want?"
mot that-but the class Of stock
you are ordering
"WelI?"
"The one hundred thousand shares
of mining securities include two COM
panies that are insipid, one in the
hands of a receiver and the last one
IA rank promotional swindle of the
worst type"
Proceed" calmly suggested John
Sterling, with a grim chuckle.
"Of the mining stocks you have
named, not one has eve paid a divi-
dend."
"Tm not after dividends"
3 SIT appears not" rejoined Dawson.
ain fact, you are ordering shares of
worthless stock, par value nearly a
million dollars, present value so low
that the securities are used only by
cheap stockholders to trade in as a
bonus where they make a real sale"
you're telling me nothing 1 don't
know" advised Sterling coolly, but a
trihe i%rritably. "Tve given you q list
of what 1 want. How soon can you
have the stuff"
"Stuff, indeed I" muttered Dawson IN
der his breath. 1--WE don't usually
handle the class of securities you
want" he added aloud, "and you take
them on your own responsibility. l
VIII know by tomorrow at this hour
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

"The second is soil. OF course, some soils ire better than others and
make better gardens, but all this talk about soils being too poor to make
gardens out of is bosh. A garden can be started o. almost any sort of soil.
You can have a good garden Of the sttfest sort of yellow clay Oh the most
porous sand. There is no such thing a s a soil too poor for garden use.
9TH third essential is the preparation Of the soil. If you have q good,
rich loan that makes a fine garden you want to keep 1t in good condition.
You can plant rye o. it In the fall, and put on a layer of manure, and then
spade it under In the spring. 1t won't do any good to put this layer on in
the spring. If you have a stiff clay soil that VIII not absorb water quickly
you should put coal ashes or something similar in the clay to loosen 1t up.
Then, you must spade it when it will crumble-not when 1t is soaking wet
or hard as a rock. If you have a sandy soil you want to get some loan In
it o that 1T will hold moisture
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

wise, paternahstc ARE of a proud and generous government. People speak
no exaggerahon in such encomum. Indeed, it falls short of full truth or
adequate praise. World travellers today unhestatngy give Washington equal
rank with Paris, Berlin, Buenos Aires and Rio, and some of them avOw that
it eclpses all other capitals.
Beauty however, is not Washngton's solitary charm. The life Of the fair
city is altogether charming. 1t is cosmopolitan. In it's transformation 1t has
acquired a metropolitan air and carries it naturally BY contrast the pro-
vndalsm of Gotham stands ut prominently, ven garingy Washington
does not go the mad pace of the greater city, does not spend Its short days
in sorhd moneymaking and its longer, if feetng, nights dining and dashng
to the theates and patronizing maudln cabarets. Washington takes time to
think.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

The person also knows a story when 1T comes her way, and knows what
to do with it. 10 she remarked that the mar had a rather queer name.
"Werum, W thinks County Cider got a vehy fine name. 1t come outer
a book. I don't know what it call Itself o n the kver, but there was some
monty GURUS folks inside. The fust an fomust of all Of em called
hissef q lord-whch is monty scan1ous for a wum of the nth to nam hi@f
after the Hebenly Marster, an I don't care who heahs me say So lutheran
this lord man he wanted to mahy a young widdery lady name of County
Cider. But, law, man, she took to her heels a n run away with a po' genman,
an-thats how Miss Fan come to chrHsen the old mare, because she u
away with her n time when the two of EN- wa colHsh-an' low little Mis-
Fan an all the res of my white family has gone thoo the peary gates an
my fus' wife dMd, an my other not nigh the san comfort, no, maam-an'
me IN County Cider. W e JUS pokes along togever. JMuch obleeged, lady.
I'm powf1 thusty for a little DRAM" y
And the woman. having paid for her thread of yarn. wondered. a she
reeled It on a pad. II the paud odm mares nam could ave started out as
Countess Idai
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

bonnet that had once been due anu
red Bingham trimmed with used-to-be
white fringe.
A clrcus-watching person who
happened to stand next, and who
knows a gentleman when she sees one,
asked the old man If he reckoned his
horse knew she had on a midsummer
bonnet on a spring day.
"Yes'm. Suttinly she knows she
got her bonnet on! County Cider amt
nobody's fool. Yes'm. County Cider
knows she gotter bonnet on, an, fur
fhermn, she knows Whv-hnh huh ~
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

hewing to the line in the years of city
building and no radical departure
from the artistic designs of the great
engineer to whom George Washington
intrusted the laying out of the nations
seat and It's scope of development. 1t
is today the capital they intended 1t
should be-perhaps surprising in
grandeur the most roseate vision of
that primitive day. 1t is the dlstinc-
tive American city-the city Of cities,
destined to become Increasingly beau
tiful under the continued prodigal. vet
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

essentials of q successful garden are
Connolly explains:
1.-THE first essential is a gardener
who is enthusiastic, willing and likes
the work. 1 me- a man the other day
who had a plot 16 feet square and he
said if he could only find omeone to
spade 1t up for him he would tend to
1t afterward. 1t isn't likely that man
would be a successful gardener be-
cause If he was too Indifferent to
spade it up he would likely be too in
different to care for it afterward.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23

Such thoughts as these ran through
my head only a few nights past at
something that took place in the house
of representatives office building,
writes Earl Goodwin in the Washington
Star.
You know there are always q pair
of suffrage sentinels standing guard at
the corner of New Jersey avenue and
B street-opposite the front door of
the house office building. They stand
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Advice.

cts always safest and best"
"What is?"
"To think that your rival knows a
little more than he seems to, and that
you know a little less than you think
you do"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Capital Is Waxing Enthusiastic Over Garden Plots

r ARDEN1NG will be the principal sport in Washington this summer. Al
VI least that lis what II. N. Connolly, expert of the department of agriculture
predicts: He SAYS 1t win be more popular than golf or fishing: Just what the
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Congress Takes Care of Banners of "Besiegers'

VIZ HEN the soldiers are relieved from duty in the siege of a town do the
w seneschals of the watch tower con down to a little postern gate and
open a wicket and take in the leaguering ones that they may store their
weapons within the walls Of their
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Possible Explanation Of Old Mares Queer Name

A RICKETY old coored man had drawn his horse to a curbstone to let the
"A circus go by. The ancient mare stood with a detected patience that,
somehow. implied humiliation at having to force the season in a raMsh horse
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1917-06-23
Washington's Clear Right to Title, "Ciy Beautiful

w AsHINGToN-washingto is the city beautiful. In this second decade
w of the twentieth century 1t realizes the dreams of its founders. Len
fants plans have not been adhered to literally but there has beer a general
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
LECTURER CONVICTED IN DAv.
EXPORT FOR TREASoNABLE
UTTERANcEs GIVEN LIMIT.
JUDGE WADE ExcoRiATEs
PRISONER At BAR
Says Wallace is Most Dangerous Man
Ever Tried in His Court-Danserous
to Society and Without Reckoning
Quality - Wallace Gives Notice Of
Appeal to Federal Circuit Court.

Davenport, Oct. 1l.-Daniel H. Wal
lace. of Chicago, convicted Of treason
able utterances in violation OF the es-
pionage act in a speech delivered here
last summer, was sentenced to twenty
years IN federal prison by Judge Mar
tin ]. Wade, OF the federal court to-
day This is the maximum penalty
under the law:
The heavy penalty was imposed by
the court after a bitter eNCor!ation OF
the lecturer. whose speech also caused
the indictment of six prominent Daf-
export men who brought him here. on
a charge OF conspiracy TO oostruct ths
draft and who are now on trial.
Wallace Immediately gave notice OF
appeal 10 the circuit court. His pond
was fixed at $4,000.
Wallace is the most dangerous man
have ever had before me in my eN-
perienCe on the bench" declared Judge
Wade, just before he passed sentence.
He has been sowing seeds OF discon-
tent and tearing at the very foundation
OF our government at a time when the
greatest announcement is needed. He
is dangerous TO society. He has not
single good redeeming quality.
Wallace smiled as he left the court
room.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
News Of Belmond.
al to Times Republican.

Special to Times RepuDilcan. ...
gelmond, Oct. 1.-THE electric
equipment for pumping the city wa
ter has been installed and the plant
is now being run by electricity. The
first days bill for electricity amounted
to but $i.25, a considerable saving over
steam. While it formerly took an en-
tire day to fill the tank, it is now filled
in two hours.
AS some Of the land owners on the
uurtiss &C Morse lake objected to the
proposed outlet to be made by voiun-
tary labor last week. the project was
abandoned for the present. There was
no objection to q permanent concrete
spillway, however, and such will be
put in at later date, the farmers OF
fering to contribute toward its cost.
Rev Mr.. Burress was sent back to
the Methodist church here Tor another
year by the conference at Algona, II
was announced at first that he had
been sent to another charge. Rev. MI
Webb, Of Rock Valley. coming here
The proposed change did not suit MT
Burress or the people q this city, and
movement was 1t once fnstitufed e
have him returned. This movsmen'
proved successful.
Professor Wilson u the Bsluone
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
Cough Nearly Cone
In "a Hours
That's tho usual experience with
this homemade remedy. Costs
ltttle-try 1t,

Anyone who tries this pleasant fast.
ing homemade cough syrup, will
quickly understand why it is used in
Canada than any other cough remedy.
cough, giving immediate relief. will make
fore. 1t is truly dependable cough
remedy that should &c kent handy in
every home. to use at the first sign of q
cough during the night or day time.
Any druggist can supply you with
Pour this into pint bottle, and fill the
syrup. The total cost is about 65 cents
effective remedy you ever used.
The quick. lasting relief you get from
this excellent cough syrup will really
surprise YOU. 1t promptly heals the
indamcd membranes that line the throat
and air passages, stops the annoying
throat tickle, loosens the phlegm. and
soon YOUR cough stops entirely. Sp.en-
did fer bronchitis, Group, whooplnG cough
and bronchial! asthma.
Pinex is highly concentrated com.
pound OF NORWAY pine extract, and d
famous the world over for Its healing
effect on the membranes.
To avoid disappointment ask for '21
ounces OF PinAy" with full directions
and don't accent ANYTHING else. \ guar
antee OF absolute satisfaction or money
promptly refunded goes with this prep
aratiou. Tie tiDeI Co., Fl. Wayne,
Ind.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-11
7-er News Notes.

S-ac;al - Times RApuNACah.
Tro.- oct 1.-THE Greek !ahorer on
--a 9 & \. ". who was hurt al
VOORHEES, Tuesday and was brought 70
--aer for medical assistance. was TAX
az n Cedar Rapids for treatment as
10 sustained serious injuries OF the
head
Mss Elsie Eeiden, sventh grade
teacher IN the public schools, was
called to Webster city yesterday ny
the dea-h Of a sister.
Mr.. and Mrs John Morrison, OF Ster-
Eng colo. are expected IN Traer To-Day
for e TWO weeks visit al the r. J. Nor
.son home.
DR. and Mrs A A Crabbe left yes
ter6ay for weeks visit in New Lon :
don and Washington.
John Keith left for Minnesota to pur-
chase more cattle.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Yukl, on the F.
". Wood farm have new son.
The body Of James Patton was
brought 70 Traer from Poynette. Wis,
and the funeral was held al the home
Of his daughter Mrs. Agnes Fay. She
was a pioneer Of Tama county, having
lived or a farm near Amity until re-
cent years.
Mrs. J. A Ladd, who moved from
Traer 10 Chicago over a year ago, has
moved back to Cedar Rapids. Her
daughter, Mrs. Nancy Boyer, lives with
her.
Mr.. Reed, Of the Traer Drug Com
pany, is moving his family from Dy-
sart.