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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-12
All Washburn Law Students
Subject to Training.
Tuition to Corps Men Will Be
Free This Year.
SCHOOL THE YEAR AROUND
Glasses Will Be Held on Cam
pus in Future.
All Students Must Be Regis
tered October 1.

A telegram from Washington has
been received by Albert ]. Harno,
dean Of Washburn college school of
law, defining the status of law stu
dents with relation to the students
army training corps.
The requirements for entering the
law school or the training corps are
a four-year high school course or
equivalent. However, a law student
may be indicted into the corps the
same as a student from any other
branch of college work.
All students entering the training
corps are housed, fed, clothed and
equipped by the government. Also,
the regular $40 per month is paid.
sary medical attention. Tuition will
be free.
The curriculum for the law course
provides for II hours per week of
practical military instruction, 16 class
room hours per week, of which 2
hours are devoted to theoretical mill
tary instruction, 2 hours for interna-
tienal law, 8 hours for military law,
8 hours for a course on the underly-
ing issues of the war and the remain
der to be given to elective law sub
jects such as the faculty may pre-
scribe.
A new feature for schools in this
country will be a school in session
the year around. The year will be
divided into four quarters instead of
the usual terms.
Washburn law school will move its
quarters out to the college this year
for the convenience of the members
of the S. A. 7. c., who will live in
the barracks now being constructed
on the campus. All students must be
registered for work by October l.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-12
Is YEARS AGO In Topeka
From the eotm,ns -
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

There was literal blockade for block
around the Rock Island depot yesterday.
of people who wanted to see the governor
and staff, the state officers, the Modocs and
Marshall's band start for Chicago. The
Topeka contingent occupied four cars. three
of which were Pullman cars, and decorated.
Alfred Krauss, who has been appointed
by President Cleveland to be consul at
Zittau, Germany. left yesterday for the
fatherland. but will stop at Washington for
Instructions.
There will be double wedding in North
Topeka tonight. Daniel w. Fraser and
Miss Addie f. Allen. both of North Topeka.
will be married, and George d. Taylor, of
Nowata. Indian Territory, and Miss AIDA
L. Fraser, OF North Topeka, will be mar
ried.
Mrs. Frank Willard and Henrietta
Thompson left for Chicago yesterday.
Very Rev Dean Hayden, pastor of the
Church of the Assumption, left last evening
for the Worlds fair. During his absence
his parish will be looked after by Rev.
Matthew Cayannaugh of Usage City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-12
This Question Is Ever on the
Lips of the Afflicted

Eczema, letter, Erysipelas and
other terrifying conditions of the
skin are deep-seated blood diseases,
and applications of salves, lotions
and washes can only afford tempo
rary relief. without reaching the real
seat of the trouble. But just because
local treatment has done you no good,
there is no reason 20 despair. You
simply have not sought the proper
treatment, that is within your reach
You have the experience of others
who have suffered as you have to
guide you to a prompt radiance of
blood and skin diseases. No matter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-12
Where Can | Find Relief From
Itching, Terrifying Eczema?

how terrifying the irritation, no mat
ter how unbearable the itching and
burning of the skin, s. s. S. will
promptly reach the seat of the trouble
and forever rout from the blood every
trace of the disease. Just as It has for
others who have suffered as you have.
This grand blood remedy has been
used for more than fifty years. and
you have only. to give it a fair trial
to be restored to perfect health.
Our chief medical adviser is an
authority on blood and skin disor-
ders, and he will take pleasure in
giving you such advice as your in
dividual case may need, absolutely
without cost. Write today, describing
your case to Medical Department,
Swift Specific Co., 434 Swift Labora-
tory, Atlanta. Ga-Advertisement
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-12
GRACE DARLING KILLED
Movie Actress Crushed in Auto Acct
don't Mt Cor, E,n ,<.is1<,

Movie Actress Crushed In Auto Acct
dent at San Francisco.
San Francisco, Cal, Sept. ~
Grace Darling, motion picture actress,
was killed Wednesday afternoon in a
motor accident here. Her body was
identified by Chester Franklin, her
husband.
Miss Darling was crushed to death
against a fire hydrant when two no
tor cars collided. One car was thrown
to the sidewalk, striking her as she
stood waiting for a street car. Miss
Darling was taken to an emergency
hospital, where she died within few
minutes.
The actress was married recently to
Franklin, who is soldier, stationed
at the Preside here.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02

She Stuck Her Little Feet Out Be-
fore Her.
ly dreams, and also so they'll hear
that there are no bad COLLINS, but only
nice, jolly COLLINS.
"I do believe the children in the
bedrooms of this house are dreaming
some of our special dreams tonight
"She threw a kiss to each peacock,
and said, Now tell me the story you
promised me last time I came
"The peacocks could not look at
each other, as one was at one end Of
the books-and the other one at the
other end.
''The fairy noticed this at once, and
said, You might begin, peacock at this
end, and then when you pause, the
other peacocks will talk
$50 that settled the difficulty.
THE story we wanted to tell you
said the first peacock, was this. We
wanted to let you know what an honor
had been paid to peacocks. We thought
you might tell the fairies about US,
and that would please us so much. We
get rather tired staying so still, but
we're happy because of our story
1.-The second peacock began to speak.
as the fairy hoped over nearer that
end of the book-rack. We're so de-
lighted because for years we've been
considered very vain. We have beau
tiful tails and we love to spread them
out and strut about and show them
off. We know our tails are lovely,
and the colors of our feathers very
wonderful.
"'No wonder, then, that we want to
show them to the whole world. We
think they enjoy beautiful things, and
so we show off our tails. But do they
appreciate them? Not for a moment.
Well, maybe that's bit harsh. They
do think our tails are beautiful, I've
not a doubt of that, but instead of
thanking US for giving them so many
opportunities for seeing our tails, they
call US vain
"'We are vain, TO be sure said the
first peacock, but we like to give
pleasure with our beauty. And so it's
no wonder they choose us for lovely
book-racks. But more than that-we
make lovely decorations, but we hold
up books, and so they must think we're
wise, and it's something we've never
been thought before
Both the peacocks looked very
happy, and the fairy promised to tell
the other fairies about them, but she
laughed to herself for she didn't think
1t was any sign of wisdom to simply
hold up books"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
DADDY EWNING
ARY TALL a.
PEACOCK BooK-RAcKs.
81 MARY GRAHAM BONNER

'The whole household was asleep"
said Daddy, "and everything was very
still. Even the gold fishes in the bowl
were sleeping and the snails were en-
joying a good rest.
Suddenly little fairy came hopping
and skipping into the library. Hello,
peacocks, she said. I've been mean
ing to come for some time, but I've
been so busy. Gracious, but I've been
a busy fairyr
What have you been doingY ask
ed the peacocks. we like to hear
what's going on. We see a good deal,
but still when folks come into the H.
brary they're apt to sit in big chairs
and put their heads inside of books
or it looks that way to us, anyway
and they read and read They don't
say anything at all. We're all ready
to hear the news-and we don't hear
any. So tell us. won't you. little fairy,
what you have been doing lately?'
'The little fairy put her wand down
on the library table and jumped up on
the table beside the peacocks. And
of course you must know just who
the peacocks were, and why they were
in the library. On the library table
was a set of book-racks. At either
end these racks held up whatever
books were put between them, SO they
were arranged where people could look
at the names of the books they wanted
to take out and read. These book
racks were very beautiful. Each one
was made to look like beautiful pea
cock with a spread tail, and so, at
either end there was a make-believe
peacock.
"They were the peac0Cks the fairy
had come to see. She stuck her lit
tie feet straight out before her, and
she wore sandals with wings upon
them.
81 can jump and fly so much cas-
Ter that way than if 1 didn't wear
them, she said, when she noticed the
peacock were looking at them.
"'And now you've asked me what
I've been doing lately. I've been go
ing to number of parties. The fairies
have given a ball, the brownies and
gnomes have given slush party on
a deliciously slushy day last week,
and there has been a lot OF work to
attend to.
1--we been helping the Fair Queen
in her talks to Mr.. Sandman and the
Dream King so children will have love-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02

Automobile factories in the United
States are training women to take the
places of men who are called away to
war.
To eQualize unemployment in the
winter months, members of Seattle
(Wash.) painters union will work FIVE
days a week. Saturday will be the of
day.
The Great Western railway system
extends over 3.0OS miles, thus taking
first place in the United Kingdom. The
Northwestern comes second with 1869
miles.
A prize of $1,000 for the best inven-
ton which viii enable coal gas to be
used for motor cars and motorcycles
is offered by the London Automobile
association.
It has been estimated by a scientist
that in lifetime of seventy years a
man grows nails which, If ii were pos
sible to preserve them uncut, would
reach the length of feet inches.
To make the artificial eye practical
/ ly indistinguIshable Is the aim of
British army surgeon who is expert
menting with a ball made of cartilage
as a substitute for a metal or glass
] ona
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
CONVERSATIONS

Six counties in Kansas have women
county clerks.
\ four-miIiOn-dollar palace for the
Japanese parliament is in the course
of erection.
Mrs. J. w. Gale of Calgary is the
first woman to be elected 10 the board
of aldermen of any city in Canada.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels is said
20 have received something like 10000
suggestions for eliminating subma-
rineS.
The production of quicksilver in the
United States last year. 2,T26.S 25
pounds, was the greatest in quantity
since 1888 and the greatest in value
since 1875.
Safety is a leading feature of new
motor omnibus which cannot be start
ed while the entrance door is open,
while the door cannot be opened while
the vehicle is in motion.
Many inquiries for supplies of fish
skins are being received by the bureau
of fisheries. 1t is stated that the prob
lens in connection with tanning fish
skins for use as leather are being over
come.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
81 and of Lanterns"

Among the Chinese there has exist
ed for ages passion for fireworks and
lanterns. In every city, at every port
and on every river and canal, as soon
as night comes on, the lanterns make
their appearance. They pre- hung out
at the door of every dl' ling; they
swing as pendants to the angles of the
pagoda; they form the fiery crown Of
every shop front; they cluster round
the houses of the rich and light up
the novels of the poor; they are borne
with the carriage of the traveller, anC
they swing from the yards and masts
of his vessel
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02

How do you go upstairs? With yoEY
body bent over7 And. clinging - the
banister7 That isn't the way 70 profit
by staircAmbing. Going upstairs is a
fine chance for body training. People
who know its value in physical culture
go upstairs in a prescribed way. This
Is how to do It: You pause lightly
on the balls Of your feet; you lift your
chest; you inhale a good long breath;
then you go up easily and quickly as If
you were lifted by your chest. Seer
Try 1t.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
w. N. u, MILWAUKEE, NO. 1s--1s1s
Excuses Of Little Value.

The world does not want men who
offer excuses in place of accomplish
ment. Often it is compelled to accept
excuses. Often it experiences genuine
sorrow for the man who, instead of
succeeding, brings back a satisfactory
excuse for failure. But when the
time for advancement comes, the man
who is pushed forward is he who has
done the work, who has not offered
hard-luck stories in place of success.
full effort. In him confidence can be
placed.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
Great Soldiers Of Small pbx.,,,,.

Military greatness seems to arrive
often to the short. It is hard to think
of gigantic general of first-class gen.
ius; while military history is peopled
by fine strategists and tacticians of
diminutive size or poor physique. Alex-
ander, Caesar and Napoleon were all
little men. William III never went
through battle without paroxvsms ~
coughing. Luxembourg, who beat him
again and again, was dwarfisb hunch-
back. Moltke was a living skeleton
who never expected to survive The
rigors Of 1870.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
Excuse and Failure Synonymous.

An excuse is an admission of fail.
ere. II is a plea for leniency, for sus.
pension Of sentence. It is a step to-
ward loss of self-confdence. 1t is ths
beginning of life failure. And that
man Oh woman who expects success to
crown his or her old age should go to
any legitimate extreme to prevent the
possibility of having to offer excuses
for failure in execution. Excuses are
the aliases of bankrupt lives. Achieve
ment is difficult, but profitable In III
large and gainful returns.-Milwsukes
Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
DEVELOPMENT Of Character.

Education is poor thing if it does
not include the development of charac-
ter. A girl had better never learn to
read and write, than not to learn to
tell the truth. Proficiency in mathe-
matics cannot make up for lack in the
qualities which win friends. Educa-
ton should include the training of the
spirit as well as that of the brain.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02

There are several versions of the
connection of the hare with Easter,
but the hare custom is exclusively pa
gan in origin and has nothing to do
with the Christian festival. In the East,
the hare played part in the mythical
life and adventures of Buddha. In
fact, several hare myths come out of
India, the great reservoir of religious
symbolism,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
EASTER SUNDAY
new YEARS DAY
Originally Marked the Beginning
OF the Twelve NOTWITHSTANDING
Festivals in Vogue Long
Before the Time of
Christianity.
BY REV. ARTHUR HOLT.

- ASTER Sunday was formerly
- equivalent to New Years day !;
though not the first day of the
year it was the day on which
the opening of the year was celebrated.
Historically the Christian Easter is
simply a continuation of the Jewish
Passover, which was celebrated on the
18th day of the first month of the Jew
ish year-that is, on the day of the
first full moon next following the day
of the equinox. It has been questioned
whether any special observance of this
day was practiced or enjOined by the
apostles and the early Church Fa-
Tiers; yet the words of st. Paul Il Cor
5:7-8) seem to sanction If they do not
recommend an observance of some sort
and foreshadow the thought which
came finally to underlie it: For even
Christ our passover is sacrificed for
US. Therefore let us keep the feast,
not with old leaven, neither with the
leaven of malice and wickednesS, but
with the unleavened bread of SINGER
ity and truth" According to the jew
ish tradition, the Passover commence
rated the passing of the Angel of
Death over the houses of the Israelites
in Egypt, the doorposts and lintels of
which had been sprinkled with the
blood of the paSchal lamb. The Chris
tians, in adopting the festival, gave it
a new significance. For them the Saw
Tor became the true Paschal Lamb, and
the new festival commemorated His
resurrection on the third day following
the Crucifixion.
The proper day for celebrating East
er was one of the questions which the
Council of Nice "a. D. $3.50 was called
upon to decide. By the Eastern Chris
tians it was at that time celebrated on
the same day as the Jewish Passover,
without regard to the day of the week
on which it might fall. Among the
Western Christians, who held that the
crucifiXion occurred on Friday and
the resurrection on a Sunday, there
had arisen a custom of celebrating
Easter on the first Sunday following
the 14th of the first month, and to this
custom was given the official sanction
of the council. Furthermore, the rule
then established for fixing upon the
proper Sunday was designed partly to
prevent the possibility of Easter ever
falling on the same day as the Pass
over, but the rule has failed on several
occasions to prevent this coincidence,
and at rare intervals the two festivals
came together.
Changes in Calendar.
The old Roman year, like the Jewish
year, began in March, when the sun en-
tered the constellation Aries When the
calendar was reformed under Julius
Caesar, the year was made to begin on
the first day of January. After the
adoption of Christianity in Europe, the
date of the beginning of the year was
changed to March in most countries, SO
that Easter became recognized as a
New Years day. The reform of the
calendar by Pope Gregory, in 1882
again changed the day on which the
year began, although in England il
continued TO begin on the 18th OF
March until the adoption of the new
style" there in 1852.
Christianity found Spring festivals
already in vogue in heather Europe
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
"Neryes1 Easily Explained.

What is eccentricity In one stage Of
experience is natural In another, and
many a state the average physician
calls nerves" is really the movement
Of the individual on a larger orbit of
perception, expression and, perhaps,
Northumberland Capen Whitney.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
WiIIie,s Good Reason.

willie" said the teacher, suppose
1 had two squash pies, and cut one in
six pieces and the other in twelve
pieces; which pie would you rather
have a piece OFF,
''The one cut in twelve pieces" re-
piled Willie. 81 don't like squash pie :"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
Beyond Hope.

$50 you've Quarreled with your
ianceeT Yes. l fear it's all over"
Don't give up so easily. Call her on
the telephone" ITS no use. She used
TO know who was the moment l said
Hello Now she positively refuses to
recognize my Observation-Disclosures
Age-Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
Ancient Popular Belief.

Another indication of the ancient
solar character of this festival is an
old popular belief, said to survive still
in Brandenburg and Saxony, that the
sun at the moment of rising on the
morning of Easter gives three joyous
leaps, that he dances with youthful
joy. This curious belief was not con-
fined to Germany. In the middle dis
tricts of Ireland, according to Brand,
it was customary, after spending East
err eve in merrymaking and carous-
ing-watching the pot boil, the con-
tents of which were to break the long
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
Mouth IIIuminator.

For the use Of physicians and dem
lists, a tongue depressing instrument
has been invented that switches on an
electric light to illuminate a patients
mouth when it is used.-Houston Post.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02

and to these oldtime festivals many Of
the customs and superstitious rites still
connected with Easter are clearly
traceable. The name Easter, given to
the day by the Teutonic natiOns-the
Roman nations have retained the old
Hebrew name, pascha, under modified
forms, as the Jour de PaQues, of the
French-is derived by Bede from Eos
ter or Ostara, the name of an old
Anglo-Saxon goddess, in whose honor
a Spring festival was celebrated.
Grimm was unable to find any mention
of deity of this name among the an
cient Germans, but from the fact that
the month of April still bears the name
ostermonat Tin Old High German os-
tarmanoth), he did not doubt that such
a goddess, probably "the divinity of
the radiant dawn" had been known
among them. The old OSter festival
was clearly of a solar character, a cell
ebration in honor of the birth or the
of the sun of the new
year. This is made evident, aside from
the known character of similar festi-
walls in other parts of tfiS w6rld, by
many of the observances which it be-
queathed to Easter. Thus it was fol-
merly custom all through the north
of Germany, on the night of Easter
Sunday or the third night following, to
kindle bOnfires on all the heights, af-
fording a magnificent spectacle, when
these fires were to be seen here and
there over miles of country. This Gus
tom had become simply a mode of
merrymaking, but it is held with plaus-
Utility that originally the bonfire was
symbolical of the new fire that was to
warm the earth and quicken it into re-
newed life after the cold embrace of
winter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02

The differences between the Missis-
sippi senators, who never speak to
each other and cordially detest each
other, often furnishes nice little by
play in the senate. Not long ago dur
ing the discussion of the shortage of
farm help Senator Vardaman of Mis-
Sissippi suggested that the soldiers
who knew anything about working on
a farm should be furloughed so that
they could go home and help make u
large crop. In the course of an hour
or so Senator Williams took the floor
and ridiculed the idea with all of the
sarcastic invective at his command. al
though he never mentioned Vardaman
or intimated that Vardaman had taken
the other side. Williams told a story
about how old Gov. Joe Brown of
Georgia wanted the soldiers to come
home during the war between the
states and work on the farm until they
were wanted to go into battle, and
then they would be sent back again.
The discussion developed that only
about per cent of the farm labor had
been taken for service in the war. The
real facts are that farm labor has gone
to the cities and the big towns, where
there is a great demand for labor with
high prices.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02
We Wonder.

Here's a question I'd like to pro-
pound" remarked the Observer Of
Events and Things: Does bowlegged
soldier become knock-kneed when he
faces the enemy for the first timer
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-04-02

Secretary Houston of the agricul-
tural department believes that there
are great possibilities for obtaining
lagos, and the department hopes that
every community will utilize all the
man power possible in planting and
harvesting crops this year. Here is
part of a statement made by Secretary
Houston:
IF soldiers are willing to serve in
the trenches, to dig bitches, build rail-
roads and risk their lives, many civil
ians can well afford to spare a part of
their time to serve in the burrows and
in the harvest fields"