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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-28
ALLIES HOLDING THE
ENEMY N CHECK

AT BRITISH HEADQUARTERS,
France, March 2s.--The allies are
holding well on the extreme right
wing where the French have been
falling back Beaumont and Hamel is
virtually In No-Mans Land this
morning, The contending forces have
drawn close on either side.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-28
TODAY AND A YEAR AGO.

Official readings of the ther- 4
mometer by the United States I
observer at Tonopah
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1918-03-28

Tonight and Friday fair
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
TRAVELETTE
Abu Siml,el.

The temples of Abu Simbel are a
group of rock-cut shrines in the banks
of the Nile. The four giant coiossi
guarding the entrance to the main
temple gaze TRANQUILITY over the river
from their rocky perch. For ages
these huge figures have kept their
vigil By the waters weary yet faith
full sentinels of the Nile. They are
supposed to represent Rameses the
Second. and smaller figures of the
great kings queens and children keep
watch with their husband and father.
Behind the colossi. over the temple
door, lows of dog-headed apes look
towards the sun in perpetual adora-
alton. The temple was built in honor
of Ra, the sun god. Inside. in the
great entrance hall, Ra himself with
Knem and two lesser gods. wait with
folded arms and solemn faces for the
Offering of worshipers long since re-
turned to dust. The hills are dark
ano gloomy until the sun comes up
over the Nile valley. Then for a few
moments. sunlight slips past the
guardians at the entrance and strikes
the silent figures of the gods. The
shaft of gold lights the dim halls and
turns the dark figures to statues of
bronze and gold. 1t fades again. leav-
, ing the temple dark as before.
The WALL AMI columns are covered
with hieroglyphics. telling the glory
| OF Harnesses reign. the names and
number of his children and queens.
They tell of Nefrere. his sister and
best beloved consort, of the battle
with the Hittites of wars with Syria,
Libya and Ethiopia. According to the
evidences set forth on the walls and
pillars Eameses had no small idea of
his own importance
| At the foot of one of the colossi a
soldier of Psammetichus the Second
sometime in the year 593 b. c. wrote
his name. idly obtaining immortality.
Today the scription is cherished tend
erly by historians and archa biologists
| as conclusive proof of the presence
OF Greek mercenaries in Egyptian
armies Of that day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
THE POISON OF PRUssIANIsM.

Otto H. Kahn a native of Germany,
but now a loyal citizen of the United
States, addressing a Milwaukee audi
ence composed largely Of brother Ger
mans, laid before them certain facts
which should reach the intelligence of
all his countrymen in America. Mr..
Kahn spoke in part as follows:
There are some of you, probably
who will still find it hard to believe
that the Germany you knew can be
guilty of the crimes which have made
it an outlaw amongst the nations
But do you know modern Germany?
Unless you have been there within the
last twenty-five years, not once or
twice, but at regular intervals; I'M
less you have looked below the gilt
tering surface of the marvellous ma
terial progress and achievement and
seen how the soul of Germany was
being eaten away by the virulent poi
son of Prussianism; unless you have
watched and followed the appalling
transformation of German mentality
and morality under the nefarious and
puissa mt influence of the priesthood of
pOwer-worship, you do not know the
Germany of this day and generation.
1t is not the Germany of old, the
land of our affectionate remem brance.
1t is not the Germany which men now
of middle age or over knew in their
youth. 1t is not the Germany of the
first Empero. William, a modest and
God-feariEg gentleman It is not the
Germany, even, of Bismarck. man of
blood and iron tho he was, who had
builded a structure which, whilst not
founded on liberty. yet was capable
and gave promise of going down into
history as one of the greatest exam
Piles of enlightened and even benefi-
cent autocracy: who, in the contempla-
tive and mellowed wisdom of his old
age, often warned the nation against
the very spirit which, alas, came to
have sway over it, and against the
very war which that spirit unclaimed.
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Berkeley. The wedding will take
place in the early fall"
For q time he looked absently at
the clipping. then his eyes sought and
held hers.
Not ii 1 can prevent it," he said at
last. DO you think 1 will let you go
out of my life without protest.
Il have never been in your life
The reply came a trirle breathlessly-
You have probably not realized it
the slip of paper, makes it very plain
to me. The trouble has. been / have
never had time Tor play, but in the
back of my mind has always been the
certainty that you and L would live
out our lives together There has
glightful experience courtship, AND
courtship is what girl wants, is II
not?"
surely, it is her right" The reply
held a touch of asperity.
II suppose so and now 1 have no
time for it. This letter came two
months ago. 1t is now October i
will have to take you whether you
will, or no. The coureship can come
afterward." He looked at his watch
There is just time to reach the City
hall before it closes. Will you come
with me and from there to some
clergyman ! am afraid to let you out
of my sight, Mary"
And Mr.. Berkeley? 1 gave him my
promise"
This is question between you
and me. love you. l hope you care
enough for ME to marry me. some
promises should be broken before they
break ones life. And, Mary, we can
be very happy together. If had
! time yoI would find it out before, but
1 am pressed for time and the knowl-
edge mus. come later. Will you
Gomez
She lad risen and was fumblins
rather aimlessly with her glove but
to-
u think 1 had better tell you some
thing first" she replied little I'M
steadily IT found I did not care for
Mr.. Berke,y and ct the eleventh hour
broke my engagement. I discovered
before i. was too late that l cared for
another man."
And that man."
He was very stupid" She looked
at him sQuarely now. Il had to find
some way to- make him know his own
mind for / was sure he cared for me
| but for many years he lad taken me
SO as a matte IF course that he did
not realize it. You asked me If / di-
racted tina envelope. I did not. blu,
| l know who did. 1t was addressed &c
you a. my request, and 1 think, Hugh
az yo'. are willing. we will forget there
| is such a thing as a big wedding
would rather go quietly with you to
st. Marks parsonage"
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of meat and fish with vegetables per
day.
In all of these countries the press
indicates that the mass feeding idea is
spreading 1t is one more =demopstra-
ton of many which the war has
brought out that in emergencies de-
manding the greatest efficiency men
must fall back upon cooperation,
while the free play of individual
greed, which has been the basis OF
law and social organizations hereto
fore, must be suppressed
Questions on the above or any sub
ject upon which the reader desires in
formation, should be addressed the
Topeka State Journal Information
Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, Director,
Washington, D. c., with a Scent
stamp enclosed for reply.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
A HERO EVERY DAY
Brave Deeds of Men IN
Americas Fighting Service

For unusual heroism, the secretary
of the navy has just awarded a medal
of honor to Ora Graves, a seaman of
the United Safes navy. His is the sec
ond medal of honor awarded to a man
in the regular navy since the war
began On December %, last, an ex-
plosion followed the firing OF a three
inch salute charge on board the L. s.
s. Pittsburg. then in South American
waters Two men were killed. and
several others injured. Graves was
thrown to the deck but soon recovered
Coming to his senses, he noticed a
bundle OF burning waste lying on the
deck. Despite his knowledge of the
presence of powder in nearby case
mate. and the risk he took Of being
killed by explosion. he picked up the
blazing material and put out the
flames with his hands Graves en-
listed in the navy in November. 1915.
at San Francisco His mother, Mrs
Alice L. Graves. lives at Maxwell, New
Mexico
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
A Temple of the Queen.

The greatest queen of Egypt, when
all the evidence is in, has proved to be
not Cleopatra. but a lady, by the un-
usual and striking name of Hatshep-
sui Cleopatra has been so extensive
iy press-agented by Shakespeare and
G. B. Shaw that her rival is NOT a
serious opposition candidate for pom
ular favor today. Maybe Shaw and
Shakespeare preferred Cleopatra be-
cause her name is easier to pronounce
because Cleopatra was such a femi.
nine woman Hatshepsut was not
feminine at all.
She did not affect barges whose
perfumed silken sails beguiled the
langourous airs of Nile himself She
stood for warfare, direct action and
militant feminism some sixteen hum
dred years before the birth of Christ
All these facts and many others are
set forth in imperishable hieroglyphics
on the walls of her temple at Thebes
The queens own portrait is always
carved with the added adornment of
beard. She chose TO be thus re-
membered by future generations both
as earnest of her scorn of the viIss
of beauty. and as a Qualification of the
possessed in good measure. She ruled
Egypt with the strong hand, and
added many miles of conquered ter
ritory to her dominicns. Like most
feminists, she had her family trou-
bles.
Her only brother. with a name as
unpronounceable as her own, frowned
on her activities. He believed that
woman's place was the home. She
showed him that the rule would work
both ways by keeping him locked in
her palace for several years. That
her nature was not entirely lacking in
feminine touches is indicated by the
fact that several of the hierogiyphics
refer to him. by her orders, as the
most disagreeable man In Egypt.
When she went the way of all flesh.
the conservative brother succeeded to
the throne. and vented his rage by
erasing her name and portrait where
ever Il appeared In the endless carv-
ings Her grandson, who later sue
ceedcd 60 the power. showed a moro
liberal spirit by trying to restore them
to their original clarity. And thirty
five hundred years later grave anti
uuarians dug aside the sands of
Nilus. found the old. old story of q
family quarrel craven on the gram
lite. and set 1t down in history without
even cracking smile. But ali the
little sps1inxes in the terraced palace
gardens laugh to themselves as they
look out over the Nile
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
THE POTATO MARKET.

3isRemembering the Hoover famine
threat of few days ago, says the
Bsston Transcript, the morning advice
~ the United States Bureau of Mar
Eets is reassuring. Housewives are
especially urged to buy potatoes be-
cause if more of them are not bought
tht. unusual quantities grown last
war viii rot before they can be con-
sunaed and the growers, suffering loss.
will fail to grow enough next year.
Bat the patriotic housewife, starting
out with market basket to fight down
the famine with this plethora, finds
that she must pay at lowest retail
prices So cents per peck. Should she
b.. blafc,ed if she resents this7 One
high authority cries famine. Another
begs us to. buy because there is an
over-stock, and when we go out to
buy. the price seems unfairly high.
- There was promise last fall of an
easy potato market, but the retail
biyer ia net find it. Prices for this
staple food have ranged discourag-
inEly high for a year. There was a
bumpeS crop and the state of affairs
that prevails and has prevailed makes
TIL buye- believe that it was manipu-
listed. The retailer does not seem to
be sharing in this. He pays 40 cents
q peck for what he sells for So. The
trouble must be sought nearer the
source. There has been much outcry
OF late against food boarding. In the
case of the potatoes it has been the
hig grower and the big warehouse
man that have done it, not the con-
sumer. How far the famine predicted
BY high authority has gone to hold
spd incs ease food prices already dis
cSuragiagly high it is not easy to say
Certainly it has not helped matters
Certainiy also staple products which
are SO plentiful that they will rot il
We do rot help out the market by
Saying Them. should not remain al
famine prices. The consumer is be-
ing very successfully regulated. Isn't
tseresa fair chance for success with
bigger game?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
ON SPUR f 1s MOMENT
~ ROY x. MouLroM
Suffragettc Sermonettcs.
(By Edith Lorraine.O
Observation-Disclosures

The styles have their purposes.
A lady who wears one of those
diaphanous gowns will never be ar
rested for having no visible means of
support.
Women can vote now only in certain
states.
But a man can vote, no matter what
state he is in.
Now that the New York women
have the ballot, their husbands can
enjoy a well-earned rest.
The wives can no longer blame them
personally for everything that hap
pens in government from a shortage
in face powder to a three-cent posta ge
regulation.
The blame is now fifty-fifty.
The sweetless days is nothing new
in some homes.
But it will be tough on the honey
mooners.
My husband and 1 never argue
He has learned the utter futility OF
it.
When we named our first baby. he
insisted upon Richard.
1 insisted upon Robert.
1t was a long-fought battle and the
neighbors suggested that we strike a
compromise, which We did.
The compromise name was Robert
Some of tn. mossbacks who argue
against equal suffrage claim that, in
office, women would bungle things.
Why shouldn't we? The men al
ways have.
Nearly all the loving couples you
see in the Broadway jazzoriums are
married.
But not to each other
The men-durn 'em. as a prominent
actress once said-we can't live with
'em or without 'em.
Orville H. Babcock. a hotel friend
of ours in Chicago, rode home from
New York last week, and he claims
it took him thirty-seven hours
As an interesting sidelight on See
ing America First" just now we quote
the following extracts from his letter.
Sunday night. Monday, Monday
night and Tuesday morning What a
trip! The only time the old caravan
wasn't in the air or on its back was
when it was off the track We could
always tell when it was off the track
as the bumps almost ceased then.
was sick as a boss all the way 10
Buffalo. and then a change came.
got little sicker. All 1 could eat was
a little slush on the order of oatmeal
and cup of almost-coffee. The
prices in the diner were so stiff that
most of the passengers refused to eat
there, and got off at various points
! and bought fruit. My ceIlmate on the
ZIP "CiC a COuptc VI vaudeville gen.
tlemen who cracked jokes with a loud
raucous sound. Some trip. You will
not see me in New York again for
the duration of the war"
No more old hens will be killed for
I while. according to a foo6 order
Just as we'll satisfied. The last one
we had. boiled. was a veteran of the
civil war and involved a s25 dentist
bill.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05

A company of United States ma
rires. on active service somewhere in
France. is reported to be insured for
s2,545,o 0o. This is believed to be
record fer individual company insur-
aEce subscription OF the 255 men in
the CONF any, z54 took out insurance
for SO. 900 each, the remaining mem
Der subscribing to a $1,000 policy. In
addition to this. 1ss men of the same
company made allotments. totaling
$2,s30.5e, for the folks back home. 4"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
DINNER STORIES

A clergyman was about to leave his
church one evening, when he encoun-
tered an old lady examining the carv-
ing on the font.
Finding her DESTROYS of seeing the
beauties of the church, he volunteered
old lady, much gratified at this I'M
expected offer of personally con-
Quoted tour, shyly accepted it
BY and by they came to a hand
some tablet on the right of the pull
pit This, explained the good man,
Is a memorial tablet erected to the
memory of the late vicar"
There now. Amt it beautiful2'
exclaimed the admiring old lady. still
mustered and anxious to please And
I'm sure. sir, l 'ope it won't be long
afore we see one erected to you on the
other side
A young Burnley weaver. accord
ing to an English paper, was taking
her little baby to church to be chris
tened.
Its father had been in the trenches
for three months, and it was impos-
sible for him to get home for the cere-
mony.
The baby smiled up beautifully in
to the minister's face.
We'll. madam said the minister,
Il must congratulate you on your lit
tie ones behavior. / have christened
1000 babies, but 1 never christened
one that behaved so well as yours ?"
The young mother smiled demure-
1y and said: His grandad and me hev'
bin practicin' wi him fer a week wi
a bucket of water!"
First Nurse-The doctor says you
are to find out Mr.. Skintite's mean
temperature.
Second Nurse-That's the only
lii hafc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05
GLOBE SIGHTS
from the Atchison Globe.1

IFrom the Atchison Globe.
The person next door is not neces-
sarily neighbor.
If the eatless days increase, there
will be some sleepless nights.
We are SO glad that SO much of the
poetry in some peoples souls is un-
written.
A dog bowling dolefully at night is
not a sign of death. but a sign of a
nuisance.
Some farmers won't admit that they
raised a crop until after they have
marketed it.
There is always something to ruin
men. 1t used to be race horses. Now
it is automobiles.
Mrs. Jude johnson still insists that
the war in Europe was started with
the view of attracting tourists.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05

The signing of a peace treaty pc
tween Russia and the central powers
should simplify the arranging of peace
t,-rms between the Huns and the re-
rnninder of the world when the peace
council shall assemble. Since Russia
has entered into an agreement Tor
separate peace her former allies are
no Longer under obligations to look
gu. for her interests. She has made
he- bed and may well be permitted to
lie on it, The Hun invasion of Russia
probably will hasten the end OF the
war. If the German armies are led
by the lure of great stores of provi-
sions they are doomed in advance to
failure. There has been practically no
plantine of winter wheat in Russia;
the food shortage was so great in Sep
teniber that the seed wheat was all
eaten. Fields are not titled because
both horses and cattle have been driv-
en- away by the banditti or devoured-
Localized government has disappeared
and no man sows a field which he
knows he will not be permitted to
reap. IJalf Russia is starving and the
other half is intoxicated with criminal
license 1t is a Russian wilderness
which tie armies of the kaiser are
penetrating; a wilderness peopled by
hGman wolves. They will find neither
gold nol food and il will require as
great q :orce of armed troops to pro-
tect the frontier as was employed dur
ing the last three years to resist the
armies % the czar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-05

The kaiser is having a busy time
in keeping his friends in line. He has
just thrown a bit of sop to Turkey by
restoring to that country territory
hitherto occupied by the Russians
Last year when Austria was waver-
ing he rushed his armies into Italy
and braced up the tottering structure
of Austlia's war spirit. All of this
serves to prolong the war but it does
not bring victory for the Teutonic
arms any nearer. And a decisive
victory is what the Huns need and
must have to save their entire ma
chine from collapse. .-
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A DAY OF JUDGMENT.

Whel the war has ended and the
Germany should be cited to appear
before that tribunal and show cause
why she should be permitted to con-
tinue existence as a nation; why she
should rot be utterly annihilated.
There is raging in Europe today the
most terrible and destructive conflict
that the human race has ever encoun-
tered in its history. melted and main
tanned b: the doctrine that in national
conduct the end justifies the means,
however selfish that end may be. The
ss,fishness of the end is sanctified in
the minds of those who are seeking it
by the assumption that they are SUI
pcrior tc the rest of mankind and d.
vi.iely commissioned to dominate for
the progress of the world. This is
virtually the avowed doctrine OF the
autocratic rulers of the German en-
pire to1iy. Whatever their pretense
may b : from time to time in regard
to specie acts or achievements, their
general pretencion is made so conspic-
uous thai it overshadows all details of
curducf
Are the great mass of the people of
that empire so imbued with this dia l.
bolical Joctrine that they believe in it
AID are ready to die for it as a reli-
g1ous siorifice. or are they the unw:ll-
ing victims of a gross deception?
1t is not necessary to reiterate the
evidence of Teutonic deceit in precip-
it.3tin n Iii
pretensc that it was rorced upon the
thoroly prepared empire by nations
not prepared even for their own de-
feEse. the secret efforts to deceive and
to injure not only enemies but neutrals
and even friendly nations where any
thing wcs thought likely to be gained
BY it.
NO 'ubt or question is left as to
ting utterly INSCRIPTIONS and infa-
mously IMMORAL political doctrine OF
the ruling class of Germany. whatever
pretense. it may persist in making thru
the mouth of kaiser, or chancellor or
other Spokesman from the brazen al
tafs of its faith. No trust is to be put
in anything they profess and it is use
less to talk with them about right or
justice or fair terms of peace.
The real question is. says the New
York J)Irnal of Commerce, whether
the pc orle of Germany are obsessed
| with the doctrine that might makes
right, that the end justifies the means
that the violation of every principle OF
truth o. Justice or moral conduct be-
comes g sacred duty IN the conduct
of the pation-so completely obsessed
that there is nothing else to appeal to
in the effort to put an end to this
abomindole conflict and bring about
world peace which can be depend.
| ed upon to last
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