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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-20
IT'S UP TO US HERE
"YOu Take Care of Huns Over
There" Writes a Topekan.
'.WeIl Handle EN- Over Here.o
Says Captain Millard.

You people take care of the Huns
over there and we will handle them
over here"
Writing from France. Capt S. T.
Willard, former Topeka surgeon and
physician. sends these instructions
back across the water to the people
who are safe in America. Captain
Willard is with the chief surgeon of
the First American army corps in
France and his letter containing the
above admonition is dated March 10.
DIR. Willard writing to George w.
Stansfield, a prominent local druggist
says:
with a little time at my disposal,
thought | would drop a line to let you
know | was thinking of you AS you
will see from above 1 have been called
to a position of signal honor as l am
assistant in the above office also at
tending surgeon to officers and men
in the first army corps, an o1llce
which has not existed since the civil
war.
PERSONALLY, 1 am well, have plenty
of good food, an excellent room with
a good bed in it, an enviable position
and am perfectly happy, but for the
fact that I am so far from my family
The health of the army is most eX-
celIent in spite of spurious press artl-
cles to the contrary; the spirit is eX-
oellent morale high and an envlaole
account of their talents will be rem
dered, you watch.
There are many things ] could en-
tighten you on but as we officers are
, placed on our honor in censoring our
own mail. quite naturally we would
shrink from writing things which are
forbidden.
This is beautiful country with
its quaint old villages and chateauX.
elegant rock roads with trees planted
along its side, beautiful pine covered
mountains, fertile valleys and canals
The people. of course, are peculiar,
irdging from our own standard. but
they are frugal industrious and are
living examples of stole fortitude and
pstience. They have suffered much
ard are willing to suffer more for the
sake of democracy, and l am gao
that the Stars and Stripes are with
them. You people at home cannot
fire -nusket but you are loyalty and
literally furnishing the money, moral
s1,Dport. food and making great per-
scnal sacrifices which has a large
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zeNsE Serssrz

cant tournaments in der United
Stadts. und after listening to der ad-
vice off seferal barbeT-5hop chererals
und cigar store lieutenants der real
colonel said. Lets go back to France.
If We stay here mooch longer We will
know how tC run dis war veil dot
der three off us will be ali vot ISIS
needed to lick der ChermaEs." Ad-
vice ISIS a good thing sometimes. Heine,
but der adviser should know vot he ISIS
advising der advisee perfore he ad-
vises. vich iss different. Now any
pody can advise anybody else to puy
Liberty Loan Var Bonds, ind any
pody can take dot advise md nodt
go wrong, so if you hear anybody
saiding vot der alleys should do. or
telling how Mr.. Cheneral Haig or
somepody else should push der. attach
against der Chermans chust tell him to
shut oop und go puy a bond. wish will
heliup.
Veil. I see puy der papers dot some
more off der poys ISIS going to be
drafted. Veil, dot ISIS fine, Heine DOT
dey will haff der chance to serve DER
Country, ind idt ISIS nit pleasure dot
all off dem ISIS going mitout fear und
nit mooch willingness to face der
dangers off der Var. Idt reminds me
WHENEVER / hear off a Stacker, Vich ISIS
nodt often. off three neighbors off
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Mein dear son Heine:
Your letter receifed 6nd I moost say
dot der Liberty Loan Committee GER
tainly hat made a grave mIStook in
nodt enlisting your, services in der ad-
Vertising campaign. for you do make
der most beautiful appeal for money
dot 1 efer kaff read. Howefer. here
nit ISIS der heck.
Speaking off der var, Heine, half
you noticed how many generals and
colonies and admirals und things ISIS
laying aroundt loose und unengaged?
IF you walk inside off apv barber
shop. or hotel lobby. cigar store, or iff
YOU see three or more men stooding
puy der street on und talking you can
Immediately conclude dot del var iss
being discussed, und nodt only dis
cussed but likewise in each bunch will
You find somevun who knows idt ALL
und ISIS telling der rest off der bunch
how idt should be done. und vot der
alleys should do und nodt do vich ISIS
der same. Off course some off dem
haff nodt hadt any more experience
init var than to stood puy der street
corner und listen to der Salvation
Army und vich makes dem think they
know all apoudt der var game but dey
can tell how ISIS idt anyway { knew a
real colonel. vun major und some oder
officer. l think he vos privSte who
vos making inspection tour off der
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into the light of the sum- Push up"
said the fairy gain. and now a white
thin stalk started on its way. Soon,
between the green leaves, this stalk
pushed out and it, too, turned green.
Now" said the fairy, is my chance
And soon at the top of the stalk there
appeared what most people would say
was just a bud. If you had been
there with me you would have seen
these buds grow larger and larger.
waited day after day and watched
very carefully. for / felt sure that this
must be the fairy home, and wondered
how the fairies would be dressed. And
then l looked out of my window one
morning and. 10, the fairies were all
there, thousands of them. Such beau
tiful fairies, and such wonderful
dresses, yellow and purple, lavender
and white; some with dresses striped
red and white, others had on glorious
red. deep and shining. So now / am
glad that when I planted them SO
many months ago l believed the fa tries
were there, for had l not, so believed
the pleasure of this wonderful sight
would not have been given me-
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FAIRIES OF TULIPLAND.

Some people say they do not believe
in fairies. That is all very sad, be-
ca use they miss much, and fairies
never come to people who do not be-
lieve in them. Fairies do many beau
tiful things in the world, and l Will
tell you of one thing they have done
in my garden this spring No one but
the fairies could have done it Last
fall 1 planted great many tulip
bulbs as we call them They ed
brown and dry and all looked alike.
Now, altho you could not see them.
1 knew there was fairy in every
bulb, and now l have proved it, as
many people who have been in the
garden will testify.
Last fall the fairies were fast
asleep. but when the warm sun CO me
and crept down into the earth the
fairy in the tulips said. Push up.
The white leaves which were in the
center of the tulip heard her and be-
gan to push up thru the soft ground
and peeped out at the top Then they
gradually turned green as they came
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fees collected will go to the Red
Cross. The instructors are authorized
to give these courses by the American
Red Cross and they are working un-
DER the Topeka chapter Both the
government and the Red Cross have
urged the women of the country to
take these courses. They do not fit
one to GO out and do nursing as d
Profession but they will enable the
women to give unusually good care to
the sick ones at home. The govern
ment and the Red Cross are taking a
great many trained nurses for army
service and the fact that women can
do a good deal of nursing at home if
they know how prompted the Red
Cross % offer these courses of study
to the women in the homes
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National Crop Improvement servicel

animals. as well as being eaten on
bread by the human population.
Feed Stuffs Scarce.
Practically one-thlrd of the cotton
seed crop has been diverted to beef
animals and the fact that cottonseed
meal was fixed IN a basis of so much
per unit of protein, corresponding to
its fertilizing value instead of at a
higher basis, where 1t normally would
have gone, has caused this valuable
dairy feed to be made into fertilizer
and very little is now available for
feed. The same is true Of linseed
meal, peanut products, etc.
So far this season the production
of nnseed meal and oil cake has been
about one-third of our maximum. It
is practically out Of the market. Al
cohol and brewers grains, malt
sprouts, etc, are at prohibitive prices.
where neither silage nor legumi-
nous hay of any kind is available the
dairyman can hardly hope to feed his
cows at a profit in the winter" says
Prof. A. G. Ragsdale, Dairy Extension,
University Of Missouri, "but he may ex-
pect to carry good cows through with
out loss until he can prepare to get
these feeds for another year."
Feed By-Products.
There Is no argument, however,
necessary to show that live stock, es-
pecially dairy cattle. should be fed
upon the by-products of grain after
the human food has been largely uti-
llzed.
The overwhelming demand for
wheat flour substitutes has put price
upon corn, oats, barley and rye, way
| beyond their former value at any time
IL history.
Therefore, laying all theory aside,
| by-products must save our COWS.
| Common sense demonstrates that
whenever feeds and milk are high in
price farmers can afford to feed heav-
Ter than when the same conditions are
low, because he gets three or four
pounds of milk for one pound of con-
centrated feed. So the price Of COM
and they save the most important
item-the farmers labor.
Dairy feeds are all analysed by
the state agricultural college, and any
dairyman can have full information
about every feed for sale in his state.
There was never a poorer time to
keep the average cow. Milk produc-
ton must be maintained. but no one
will care to maintain It as a losing
proposition. The COW that pays Is the
cow to keep.
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A practical backyard poultry house

being of fowls, yet how many poultry
houses are there that have been con-
structed to supply the necessary
amount. The average backyard poul-
try fancier is under the impression
that any old shed or out-of-the way
place will do for the chickens and
when he does not get the results he
expects, he blames it on the fowls.
We have designed a cheap, practi-
cal, portable poultry house for the
back yard. This measures 6XSXS feet.
The floor is raised II feet from the
ground. thus giving the chickens an
opportunity to use the lower compart-
ment for a runway and scratching
shed, obviating additional outside
runs Thus in a space 6XS, fifteen
fowls can be kept. in a healthy condi-
I ton. If the ground should get foul,
the house can be moved to a new To-
cation and the old plot spaded up to
raise lettuce or other crops that will
grow quickly. The illustration here
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FOR CARE OF SICK
Red Cross Courses in Home
Nursing Here Next Week.
Registration for Lessons Open
Tuesday at the Y. w. c. A.

Courses in training the women Of
Topeka II elementary hygiene and
home 3are of the sick will begin next
week. Registration will be held
Tuesday at the Y. w. c. A. Hours of
registration will be from $50 a. m.
t. $3.50 p m.
Hours of the course will be ar
ranged to suit the convenience of the
women Of the city. There will be
classes each morning. afternoon and
evening if the women desire it. The
course requires one and one-half
hours for each lesson and there are
fifteen lessons to complete it.
Miss Pearl Martin, Miss Emma
Ward and Mrs Ruth Bredei, all reg
istered nurses. will be the instructors
and they have announced that the
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BACK s IT.

with explains the construction of this
house and any one who can handle
hammer and saw will be able to build
it. Estimates on this house from va
rious lumber companies state that it
can be built for about SIS, according
to the material used. The illustration
is intended mostly for the purpose of
showing modern poultry house con-
struction adapted for small vacant
plots Any old shed can be remod-
eled to conform with thu general i'd ca
of this house. Any old plot of ground
will do. A brick paved cinder or clay
covered back yard-will enable you to
raise poultry just as successfully as
you could on the finest prepared
ground Keep the house clean AID
free from vermin by whitewashing the
inside with thick coat to fill up the
cracks. Add little carbolic acid to
the mixture. In the winter muslin
curtains can be provided for the open
front to keep out the cold air
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KEEP UP THE MILK SUPPLY
ey-Produets VIII Save Our Good
Cove Until Another Crop Of Grain
and Grass is Grown.

Almost without exception the most
successful dairymen use the very
highest grade of concentrates obtain
able. However, for obvious reasons,
nearly every university very prop
eriy advocates the feeding of home
grown feeds, usually overlooking the
fact that the farmer who mixes his
own feed is taxed at least 81 a ton
for his own labor. and also that the
Ingredients generally recommended
are almost impossible to get at a fair
price IN small quantities, If at all.
There has not been a time in the
past ten years when a pound of milk
would not buy q pound of we'll bal
anced feed. Smaller quantities of
grain and concentrates are required
when a man has homegrown corn,
silage or legume hay. Almost every
farmer can grow these feeds but the
sad part of 1t is that generally when
he needs them the most his crop has
failed. The dairyman near the large
cities often has insufficient land, Ia
Dor and equipment.
One Pound Grain Makes 8 to 4 Pounds
Milk.
some OF the university dairy de-
partments advocate ID that where a
man has his own legumes and rough.
age he can afford to feed cottonseed
meal up to pa pounds daily which
would be sufficient for a COW giving
81 to 8 gallons Of milk daily; (2)
cora and cob meal or corn chop 300
TO 400 pounds. wheat bran or ground
oats 100 pounds, cottonseed meal 100
pounds. THIS grain mixture should be
fed TO the heavier producing cows in
the proportion Of one pound of the mix.
ture to to 31a pounds of Jersey OIL
Guernsey milk and to 31s to 4 pounds
OF Holstein milk. If you do not have
& legume hay. and can purchase al
falfa at $50 per ton or less or clover
at SIS per ton or less, they will prove
g good buy.
The trouble with all of this advice
Is that the farmer is not always able
to buy these Ingredients. Under the
food administration wheat feeds
which have arbitrarily been placed al
q lower level than other feeds are
practically understandable because Of
overbuying and oversubstitution by
the consumer and also a large diver
sion Of this dairy feed for nondairJ
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minimum 10 cents: by the week cents a
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When address is used count each initial
letter and each number or combination of
figures one word.
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payment of the same. Note the foregoing
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Journal
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gest und huskiest Teller in der bunch.
VS. afraid to go because he might
eedt shot und for dot reason he
didn't vent Shortly after der close off
der var. der two poys who hadt en-
listed und been through der whole
shooting business came home, honor
ably discharged. und nit medals
pinned all ofer dem. but chust two
DAYS before dey arrived home, der
oder Teller who vos afraid to go to
var, got ge-kicked in der face puy a
mule und vos killed.
Hoping you are der same,
Your fader,
LOUIE SCHNITZ -
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TED-waitresses for Topeka and
many other towns; women cooks So
VIZ Kitchen help; chamber maids: Ia.in-
Dry help; girls for private families: house
Keepers Furman's Employment Office 100
West Sth.
WANTED-Ten bright. capable women to
travel demonstrate and sell dealers So
10 500 per week. Railroad fare paid.
weekly advance for travelling expenses
address at once Goodrich Drug Co, Dept
'SSI Omaha, Neb.
WANTED-Women IS or over as govern
, ment clerks at Washington. 800 month
Easy work. Thousands wanteI immedf-
ateiy. List positions free. Franklin In
stltute. Dept esd. Rochester N Y
GOVERNMENT will soon appoint 10000
persons in Washington Thorough In D..
struct1on for examination 81. Returned If
not appointed. Particulars free American
Clvll Service School, Washington, ID. C.
EXPERIENCED MARKERS in finished
and rough dry departments. Mutual
WANTED-White girl for general house
work, two in family. Phone 5212 J.
ARMWaitress wanted at Scott's Restau-
rant. 427 Kansas avenue.
EXPERIENCED Waitress wanted at To-
pekafc. liz West Sth
WANTED-Iirls for basket work Kaw
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BY LOUIS A. STAHMER

The ultimate results attending the
keeping of poultry depend, to a very
great extent, upon the way the fowls
are housed. Next to the feeding ques-
ton the proper manner of housing is
the most important one in the indus
try Without proper accommodations
you cannot expect and will not receive
the results you are looking for. Too
many people are under the impression
that almost any kind of quarters will
do for chickens. If the writer had his
choice between some of the houses
he has seen and a tree for the fowls
to roost on. he would choose the lat
ter, for under this condition the fowls
would be provided with light and be
able to inhale pure air at least. With
out an adequate supply of pure air
neither man nor beast can thrive. 1t
is an inexpensive necessity to the well
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place in this war. one thing L hope
VIII soon materialize (and has al
ready progressed magnificently), that
is the branding and putting out of
the way all hyphenated Americans
who do not stand firmly behind the
game in every particular. You peo-
pie take care of the Huns there and
we will handle them over here and
when his thing is over the world will
be safe. Pardon the pencil, ink is
scarce with me. A line when you get
time as we over here appreciate a
line from our friends
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MALE AND FEMALE

L. s GOVERNMENT wants thousands
clerks at Washiu gton Immediately for
war preparatory work. 800 month. Quick
increase. Men. women Is or over. 1-bour
day. 30 days vacation. Easy clerical work
Common education sufficient. Your coun-
try needs you Help her and live in Wash
ington during these stirring war times.
Write Immediately for free list positions
open. Franklin Institute. Dept 13G ID.
Rochester y. Y.
WANTED Immediately. names mon womea
wishing to become government clerks
s1n0 month. a}2 n. this office
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WANTED-AIAI.E HELP

-Machinists for Topeka. capable
job work. 571h hr.: 800 labOrers for city
and ship out. railroad work; fry cooks !;
walters; porters: kitchen help: married
feI I'M couples: % farm hands: laborers in
city 81 10: fry cooks, 81 wk.: blacksmith {:
dairy wagon driver: dairy hand; men TO
ship to Wyoming Monday noon. railroad
work. Furmans Labor Agency. 1fs5 West stb.
LABORERS FOR WYOMING.
Ship Iaborers TO Wyoming Monday noon.
April END. railroad work. springs and mat
tress furnished: men must have blankets
Furman's Labor Agency, log West sth.
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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

c. l.. Short to A. r. Short pit. lot
40 Fillmore ST.. Kings add ...s 1
Z. +. Pierce and husband to G. Z.
Edwards Tr. sub ................. 1, 400
W. A Smith and wife to +. J. Buch-
helm, lot 40, 9th ave. west ..... 200
lots 1867 ADAMS St, Cranes add =, 5000
A. j. McCabe, Tr. Of o. Kuehne,
Pres. Works to Cap. Saw. & TT Co.
add - S57
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WANTED-SALES,rEN

WANTED-We can use at once two high
class statesmen for Kansas territory. Tn
eNcelled speciality sold to all classes Of
merchants in small country towns Tn
usual commission contract &35 weekly
drawing account. J. s. Handel, Sales
Manager. Houser Bldg, St Louis Mo
Observation-Disclosures permanent position
capable statesmen in Kansas Vacancy
May L: staple line for general retail trade
Liberal commissions; SIS weekly advance
Rice Co.. 269 Williams Bldg, Detroit
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&c, RENr-sToKE -ooMs

III KANSAS AVE-2nd floor large room
&c # by 80 IT.. suitable for mannfartur-
ing storage or lodge. Half block south OF
Rock Island depot Cheap rent Cali
phone Go
f03I. F. 4TI1-Store room. good business
location. living DOM iH rear gas and
electric lights. city water furnished. Phone
61e.
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WOMEN FOR PEACE

International Conference in Switzcr-
land to Appeal to the World.
Berne, April 20.-The international
conference of women comprising for
the most part women resident in
Switzerland has decided to address
to the women of all the countries of
the world a request for collective ac-
ton for peace, the freedom and in
dependence of all nations. interna-
tional concord and woman suffrage
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WANTED-FARMS
Observation-Disclosures


WE WANT 1000 ACRES OF POP CORN
AND A LIMITED AMOUNT OF SWEET
CORN PLANTED ON CONTRACT.
We will give you positive guarantee Of
SC per pound for all the mop corn You can
raise or &c per pound sheled. We also
want some sweet corn planted the same
way.
Do not get scared about shocking this
corn for Won can put ii up with a corn
binder and thresh Il. or snap it and shell
it il you wish.
Suppose you try % to 80 acres it should
Yield from 30 to 40 bu. per acre and We
will get you the seed. who can beat II?
Your cron crop may not be worth more
than Joc per bushel and is not a
crop pop corn
Call write To see me.
W. T. ROLAN. RossviIie Kan
CASH FOR OLD FALSE TEETH Don't
matter II broken ! pay 81 to si5 per set
also cash for ola gold. silver. platinum
dental gold and old gold jewelry. VIII
send cash by return mail and will hold
goods ten days for sender's approval Of
my price. Mail to l.. Maser. 2OO7 s. 5t5 At.
Phila Ia.
CASH FOR SCHOOL BOOKS. Harvard
Classics. britannica. Law Books Pen
drys. lis West Sixth.
CARPET and rug weaving: also pillow
covers porters. etc. 221 Lake 229s white
1889 HAsTv. Ar.'o EXPRESS
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LOST AND FOUND

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LOST-Monday night between 10th and
Topeka and Orphan theater. Daughter of
American Revolution pin. Call 1SJ Re
turn to The Virginia. Reward.
FOCND-A pair of ladies' kid gloves be-
tween 18th and 9th on avenue Party
may receive same by paying for adv. Phone
~
COLORED BOY known who took diamond
ring from residence. 1880 Lane. Friday.
Reward for return.
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WANTED sITUaTIoN-MALE

TREE trimming by expert workmen: dan
gerous ones safely removed: sodding and
nice elm trees Phone 1911 Bl4 h Brooks
& Conelly.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. as assistant cook or
helper in kitchen by a cook. J. Wesley.
4n1 Monroe
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mine during der Spanish Var. Two
off dem vos rip-snorting mad to go to
der Var, und both off dem enlisted.
but der oder Teller, who vos der big
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WANTED-AGENTS

- 70
$50 WEEKLY and automobile furnished
men everywhere placing samples wonder
full new automobile fuel product with ca
owners. &c worth equals gallon of gasoline.
Outfit furnished free. L. Ballwey. c AZ:
Sta. f. Louisville Ky