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The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-03-23
A Mood.

One of the deepest and strangest Of
all human moods is the mood which
will suddenly strike US perhaps in a
garden ut night, or deep in sloping
meadows. the feeling that every flower
and leaf has Just uttered something
stupendously direct and important,
and that we have by prodigy Of i'm
becility not heard or understood It.
There Is certain poetic value, and
that genuine one, in this sense Of
having missed the full meaning Of
things. There Is beauty, not only In
wisdom, but in this dazed and dra-
matte ignorance.-G. X. Chesterton.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-03-23
Use for the oourd crop.

None Of our plants or flowers last
summer were any more worth while
than the small ornamental gourds
which we had In our garden. OF
course they made handy stocking
"eggs" for darning, but more than this,
they proved to be ideal tops. Ny own
baby likes to play with the one that
always floats in his bath others afford
him amusement as rnttles and ham,
mers. We had quite "crop" Of
these gourds and kept a whole boxful,
which are always diverting novelty
for visiting children, who usually take
some home with them.-Good House.
keeping.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-03-23
Thra.hsd by a Man Of P.aes.

A Yorkshire village Will have q folk
tale about the conscientious objector
long after the war Is over.
This conscientious objector told the
tribunal that he would not defend his
mother and sisters. The two sisters
worked at the mill and were twitted
numerically about their chicken
hearted protector. The appeal failed,
and the conscientious director had to
report himself at the barracks. On
his last night at home he waited for
the chief tormentor and thrashed him.
And now every time that patriot
goes out he is laughed at BY all the
village as the man who met q consci.
entious Observation-Disclosures (Eng.)
Guardian.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-03-23
VOTING AGE VARIES
Franchise Right Not the Same IN
All Countries.
Belgium Furnishes Those Who Fall d
Exercise Their Privilege Of Cast.
Inn BaIiot-Womsn to vets fer
President This Year.

The great army Of stay-at.home
voters have no pride In what Doctor
Holmes describes thus:
The freeman casting With unpurchassd
The Vote that shakes the turrets of the
land.
We get our word ''vote" from the
Latin "votum," and originally q vote
means a vow or pledge. An old Roman
method of casting vote once consist
ed in striking a spear against shield.
and from the Latin expression describ-
ing the resultant noise we get our word
suffrage.
Ballot" too, has an ancient origin.
The Greeks on important occasions
cast secret votes by using pebbles. and
their word has come down to our time.
A recent perusal of our newspapers.
however, will show that present-day
politicians don't stop with casting peb-
bles. They carry it to the point Of
singing mud.
Anywhere in the United States one
must have lived twenty-one years be-
fore he can vote. Not SO in many other
countries.
The Hun votes at twenty. but the
Austrian, in the other half Of the en-
pIre, must be twenty-four. Prussians
cannot vote until they are twenty-five
years old, and that Is the minimum age
limit In a number of German states.
Twenty-Five is also the age in Hol-
land, Belgium and Japan. Denmark 10
believer In the wisdom that comes
with age. hence no one there under
thirty can vote. EnglIsh-speaking races
may vote at twenty-One.
In many countries soldiers are dis
franchIsed, and under the Portuguese
kingdom no domestic servant or gov
eminent employee had ballot.
Sam Salter never lived in Belgium.
system Of multiple voting. College
graduates, for example. have three
votes. and SO do many others who full.
fill property requirements.
About 100000 Belgians have each
three votes, and more than that num-
Der have two votes. And notice this,
Mfr. Stay-at-Home. failure to vote in
Belgium is punishable as q misde-
meanor.
Idaho withholds the ballot from big
amists. Election bets .disfranchise
men In some states, and one duel will
keep any man from the polls In Florida
for all time.
A pauper cannot vote In Aassachu-
sets, while nearly all states specidcal-
ly debar idiots, felons and insane from
the use of the suffrage.
More than 100000 women win be
able to vote in the United States this
year, and that will bring the total pos
sible vote for presidential electors up
to nearly 3OOOO,OOO, or double the
number cast four years ago.-Philadel.
phIa Ledger.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-03-23
Wonderful Cat.

shea-.I thought you were going to
drown the cat7" Algie-"Well. they
say cat has nine lives, but this one
mas twenty, I think. Why. I actually put
that cat into tub Of water and tied
n brick around its neck, and what do
you think 7" Shea-'Goodness knows"
Algie-"Well, this morning, when l
went to look at the tub the cat had
swallowed all the water and was sit
ting on the brick"
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Common Mistake.

"what's your opinion Of Bommns-
ter?" swell, when first met him
he impressed me as being leader Of
men. a 10,OOO-volt human dynamo. .
clarIon-voiced car who would brook
no opposition but when met him the
second time. in his Office, sized him
up for a pusillanimous mouse" "Where
did you meet him the FIRST timer ~On
the telephone"
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-03-23
His Statue

"what are you, my man, plain
trnmp7" "You might shy so, mum. Or
II you wishes to follow the plan so
prevalent these days Of giving every.
thing a special name" "Yes?" You
might call me an inefficiency expert"
Louisville Courier-Journal.
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Porclns prep,nouIty,

visitor-My good man, you hsso
your pigs too nenr the house.
Cottnger-Thnt's just what the de-.
tor said. mum. But don't see how
it's ag0ia' to hurt 'eml.-London
Punch.
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4elltaln.

Keeping q secret Is a game that onl.
one can play at.
The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1918-03-23

Patent Leather.
Patent leather shoes should be
cleaned with milk or a little sweet oil
may be rubbed into them.
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hand confdingly within his own. As
she did 80 Arnold gave vivid start.
Upon one finger he noted a ring-a
bloodstone ring-hls ring, given to Nell
lie Ross years ago. oh, he could not
mistake It'll
II will see this little one safely
home" he said, and with her left the
drug store.
Where did she live. With Aunty
Nellie.
He thrilled with hope. "Aunty Nell
lie" had adopted her when her father
and mother died. Aunty Nellie did
embroidery work for big store and
she had Just been delivering a parcel
of the same when the accident oc-
Cured.
Aunt Nellie was Miss Ross to most
people," Oh, she was 30 good and
kindl And the rlngf That was pre-
cious keepsake, but Aunty had let her
wear 1t because 1t was her birthday.
Was he treading the path Of para
disc or despair1 Arnold Wayne knew
within the hour-knew that his letter
from the far North had never reached
Nellie, knew that her love for him had
never dimmed.
And after that Joyous meeting. as
he left Nellie and their eyes met, she
extended her hand-the left one.
nearest the heart"-and he bent over
and kissed 1t fervently, and knew that
all was well.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
Kansas Fell Below Estimate in
Draft Registration.
Less Than 1900 Men of '1s
Glass Have Been Recorded.
FROM 5000 TO $500 NEEDED
This Was Figure Government
Had Depended Upon Here.
At Least 1,5O0 Men Are Want
ed To Fill Draft Calls.

Draft registrations in Kansas last
Saturday fell below estimates of state
and government draft officials. Re
turns received at the office of Charles
S. Huffman, adjutant general. show a
registration of 1855 in 1O2 of the 105
counties. The counties of Grant, Has
kell and Wallace have not reported.
Their entire registration is not ex-
pected to boost figures above the
2,700 mark.
Under Estimates.
Practically every city and county in
the state dropped below estimates in
its registration of men who have at
tanned their majority since June 5, this
year. Estimates by state draft Off
cials placed the probable enrolment
of new man power at slightly above
5000. Several government estimates
ranged from 3.40O to $500.
Quotas Take Two-Thirds.
A total of 1000 class l men were
expected from last Saturdays registra-
tion. At least 1900 of the men who
registered last week are needed to fill
Induction calls which are effective
next week. 1t is believed that the cur
rent calls will exhaust practically the
entire list of front rank service men.
In any event less than 500 men are ex-
pected to be eligible for immediate
call after meeting current quotas.
According to reports received at the
adjutant generals office. Saturdays s
registration included 1853 whites, So
negroes and u aliens.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
CONSULS FREED?.
Situation in Moscow at Present
Time Obscure.
Dispatches From Russian Cap
ital Are Contradictory.

Amsterdam, Aug. While a Mos
cow dispatch to the Rhenish West
phalian Gazette of Essen states that
the entente diplomatic representatives
have been liberated. latest advices
from the Bolsheviki capital, under
date of August 26. deny that the
American and British diplomats there
were ever arrested.
The dispatch to the Rhenish West
phalian Gazette. however. says that
members of the allied military mis-
sions at Moscow are still in custody.
Dewitt c. Poole, jr.. the acting
American consul general at MoScow
dispatches state is awaiting a safe
conduct from the German consul and
tween Russia and the entente gov
ernments
A Russian wireless says that War
Minister Trotzky denies an alleged
American report that the soviets in :
tend to arm German and Austro-
Hungarian prisoners to fight the
CZecho-Slovaks. Trotzky adds that in
the soviet army the only former war
prisoners are those who have become
Russian citizens.
The central executive committee of
the soviets. according to the Pravda
has decreed the abolition In towns of
more than 10000 inhabitants of all
private and real property, the value
of which exceeds a scale to be fixed
by the local soviets.
British Consul Reported Arrested.
1t was reported from London Au-
gust 10 that Robert Lock khart, actin g
British consul general at Moscow, six
members of his staff and several
French diplomatic agents had been
arrested in Moscow by the Bolsheviki.
There have been no reports of inter-
ference with American diplomatic or
consular representatives. Ambassador
Francis and his staff went from
Vologda to Archangel last month and
were not molested by the Bolshevik
authorities.
At the time that Leon Trotzky de-
clared a state of war existed between
Russia and England and France, Con-
sui General Poole was informed by the
Bolshevik authorities that they did not
consider themselves to be at war with
America and facilities were given him
to communicate this fact to his gov
ernment. Altho there have since been
unconfirmed reports of a Bolsheviki
declaration of war against this coun-
try apparently the American repre-
-entatives have not been molested.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
FOR DOUGLAS co. ROAD
State Highway Commission Grants
Federal Aid on Old Trail.

The Kansas highway commission
today granted federal aid for con-
crete road twenty-one and a quarter
miles extending across the south half
of Douglas county. This road is the
old Santa Fe Trail, and passes thru
Baldwin and the celebrated battle
field of Black Jack. The granting of
this petition places Douglas county in
the forefront of all counties in the
state in the preparation for perma-
nent roads. While they do not expect
to have all the construction done now,
they have availed themselves of tho
federal funds provided, and as soon
as the war is over rapid construction
may be expected. -s
The highway commission has now
set aside all the funds for the first
four years of work granted by the fed
eral government, and it will not be
many months before sufficient num-
Der of counties will have absorbed the
remainder. While the labor problem
and the scarcity of materials will re-
tard the work. in a number of cases
hills will be cut to grade and the en-
tire road bed put in shape so that it
can settle before the hard surface is
constructed.
Allen county had several petitions
granted this week, and Montgomery
is soon to report with a very elabor-
ate plan.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
RUSSIA STARVING
keeIey Says Quarter to Third of
People Will Die.
Believes Germany Will Try To
Set Up a Monarchy.

New York. Aug. 29.-James Kelley,
former editor of the Chicago Herald.
believes Germany soon will make an
effort to restore a monarchy in Rus
sia and that the kaiser already has
chosen the successor to Gar Nicholas.
Keeley has just returned from a trip
to Europe. made at the request of
the committee on public information.
Keeley also declared it to be his be-
lief that from one-quarter to a third
of the Russian working people are
doomed to death from starvation and
disease before next summer. due to
the terrible conditions in that nation
There is no industry and no food. he
said. The nation's gold reserve has
heoo stoI II
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
GOMPERS STANDS PAT
VIII Not Yield to Pacifist Labor Ele-
ment in England.

London. Aug. 29.-From public
statements by Samuel Gompers. pres
ident of the American Federation of
Labor. since he arrived in London il
is regarded as certain that he intends
to continue a strong support of the
allied governments attitude toward
the war and peace. He will, it is be-
lieved. establish the closest relations
with the orthodox pro-war union lead
ers in this country.
May Convert Socialists.
1t is expected. however. that Com
pers will have some conferences with
the Socialists and more extreme labor
groups, with the effort of converting
them to stronger war spirit. But it
is certain that If any compromise is
made, it will be at the request of the
latter and not Gompers.
1t is expected the American labor
leader will. declare his detailed policy
when he speaks at the Derby Trade
Union congress which opens Monday
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
he is BOUND OVER

Uontinne1 tr..m tf'pa Onet
che boat coming to the United States
this trip. One of these witnesses gave
testimony to the effect that he had
known Phillips and associated with
him Intimately but two days-and
these two days some five or six years
ago. This testimony was deemed in
competent and was thrown out of
court.
About three O'Clock Wednesday af-
ternoon the defense called its first
vital witness to the stand. Preacher
Harvey E Phillips. He admitted
statements in his sermon charged by
the government as tending to throw
out the idea that Germany is Gods
instrument in the war, and that Ger
many is the Furnishing agent which
God has sent to visit on Belgium ret
the Congo. The statement taken
from Phillips's own sermon as signed
and delivered to the agents for the
government at the investigation fol-
lows:
Very often God speaks TO a whole ma
ton. and he repays a nation for the sins
of her rulers and her nation We find
notable instances of that in the land of
Belgium 1t is impossible for to explain
the details of the workings of Gods provi-
dence: but it is impossible for us to forget
that fifteen eighteen years ago the king
of Belgium, at the head of the Congo Rub
ber Co., carrying out n system of per-
seeutiOH was guilty of the same atrocities
that since have been committed In their
own land. and now our own skirts are not
clear in the matter Of Belgium.
Other witnesses introduced by the
defense at the afternoon hearing were
o. H. White, president of the Topeka
Transfer company; p. W. Griggs.
uncle of the defendant and Shawnee
county poor commissioner; W. S.
Maxwell, with the new national ex-
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
HIGH TIME ON SO
Colored Children Found Pocketbool
and Started on Tour.

It was a high life two colored chill
dren, Theodore Chapman, II and Mary
williams. ~, were living when they
arrived in Topeka from Kansas City
about l o'clock this morning. They
were promptly arrested by Officer
Harve williams and taken to police
headquarters. then turned over to Mrs.
Sarah Malone, colored welfare worker.
The children both live in Kansas
City. They were at the market
square, they said, when they observed
a woman drop a pocket book. They
picked it up, found 1t contained So
and started out to have a good time.
The first purchase was a half bushel
market basket. This they filled with
oranges, bananas, peanuts and otLe
good things to eat. Then they bought
tickets for Topeka.
Were Awful Dirty.
When brought to the police station
they were first turned over to Mrs.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29

press company's office in Topeka; and
Mrs. ]. w. Davis. All of these persons,
tho introduced as witnesses for the de-
fense, proved of advantage to the gov
ernment, officials feel.
In the hearing today L. G. Thorpe,
brother-in-law of the; defendant, put
the sermon on the basis of world and
Biblical history that that explanation
would in itself clear Phillips of any
charge of disloyalty.
Thorpe testified to these facts on
the stand and said that these state
mcnts are his own Interpretation of
Phillipss sermon: Phillips went
back into history and showed that
God permits nations, not righteous
themselves to make war on other ma
tions to punish the latter for their
sins" Thorpe also admitted that
Phillips said the American people are
sinfully careless in using their money
for other than war purposes
Thorpe. under pressure. admitted
that the idea of Germany being used
as the scourge of God on Belgium in
punishment for Belgium's sins might
have been gathered by some who
heard the sermon.
Will J. Graves on the stand for the
defense, testified that he has one
Eephew who has fallen in France, has
another who is in the front line
trenches, and has a son. overseas.
Graves admitted that the idea that the
allies are being punished for their
sins was possible deduction from the
statement quoted in this article from
Phillips's sermon. He stated that 'iC
is my impression from the sermon that
God is Furnishing the allies for their
SINS
He dictated this statement to At
torney Mellott as his conception of
the meaning of the sermon, as fol-
lows:
We and the allies are being pun
ished. God is using Germany as the
instrument to punish the allies. just
as he used other nations for the sa me
purpose in Bible times"
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
ASKED FOR time
President Sought Extension for
Liquor Interests.
But Drys Would Not Yield Be-
yOnd July 1.

Washington, Aug. 29.-With the
offering of compromise nation wide
prohibition amendment today by Sem
ator Sheppard, the war time prohibi-
ton fight was on in the senate.
Sheppard's amendment, which repre-
sents a virtual agreement between
senate vets and drys. provides that
after July l, 1919, no Intoxicating
liquor shall be imported or sold in the
United States and that after May l,
1919, no grain or foodstuffs shall be
used in the manufa cture of intoxi-
cants.
1t authorizes the president at once
to create dry zones around munition
plants and ship yards. within which
the sale of intoXicants shall be punish
able by fine of $1,000, Imprisonment
for a year, OF both.
Wilson Wanted a Year.
This amendment extends the date
of complete prohibition from January
/, 1919, to July 1. President Wilson,
Sheppard announced, wanted the time
extended to one year from passage of
the bill Sheppard, however, assured
the president that July 1. was the
latest date that would be accepted by
the drys and as that is ten months
away, the president consented.
Immediately after Sheppard had Of
fered his substitute, Senator Phelan,
California, opened his fight to give
California wine interests more time to
dispose of their stock and get their
investments out of their business.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
WORK OF DRUNkS
Firing at NogaIes Last Night Was
Done by Intoxica ted Civilians.

Nogales. Aug. 29.-Drunken civilians
on the Mexican side of the border
were held responsible today for the
shooting which occurred late last
night which resulted in the wounding
slightly of an American soldier.
Replied With Machine Gun.
Nogales, Ariz.. Aug. 29.-One round
of eighteen shots from an American
machine gun was fired across the
border about 10 o'clock last night as
the American answer to Mexican shots
it was announced here today.
During the night 2. total of about
100 shots were fired. The Americans
did not reply until about forty shots
had come across the line from the
Mexican side.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29

Delnore McGrath, police matron. The
boy had $1.54 and the girl s1.6S-all
that was left of the SO. They were
unspeakably dirty and when turned
over to Mrs. Malone were given a
thoro scrubbing. much to their dis
gust. before they were returned to
their homes in Kansas, City. The girl
told Mrs. McGrath that the boy was
her cousin, but the boy denied any re-
Iationship, saying they were Just
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
GUARANTEE FUND ORDER
New Regulations Issued Concerning
Less Than 5 Bushel Yield.

Kansas farmers who harvest less
than five bushels per acre of wheat
will be protected from the guarantee
fund, according to word from Leon NJ.
Estabrook, representa- tive of the ma
tional board of agriculture, who wired
]. C. Mohler today that new regula-
tions were being issued providing that
the guarantee fund should be credited
pro rata to the promissory notes of the
farmers falling to harvest a fair crop
and any balance left after satisfying
all failures, will be. refunded pro rata
to those who contributed.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
DIFFER ON WATERPOWER
President Objects to Paying met In
vestment" for Plants.

Washington, Aug. 29.-When the
house resumed consideration of the
water power bill today. Representative
Sims of Tennessee, in charge of the
measure, sprung a surprise with
letter from President Wilson disap-
proving the proposal to pay the met
investment" to water power plants
which may be commandeered for pub
lie ownership.
The president said the met invest
ment'' provision had been inserted
after he Professionally approved the
bill and asked congress to pass it IT
its original form, which provides pay
ment of fair value not exceeding
original cost. The whole fight oyer
the bill ranges around these two
phrases. the water power interests in
sisting they cannot command capital
for .development under the latter
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
$4,000 HUNS IN 8 DAYS

London. Aug. 29.-German pris-
oners taken since August 81 total
more than $4,000. Field Marshal
Haig announced today. In the
same period more than 100 guns
have been captured.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
LET U. S. SETTLE 1T
Nicaragua and Honduras VIII With
drnw Armed Forces on Border.

Washington. Aug. 29.-Nicaragua
and Honduras have averted their
threatened armed clash over long
standing boundary dispute by agree
ing. at the request of the United states
40 Withdraw all troops from their
borders and submit the controversy
the United States thru their ministers
in Washington.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
DOWNED 20 PLANES
American Flyers Did Good Work In
First Half of August.

Paris, Aug 29.-American aviators
brought down twenty German planes
during the first two weeks of August
and probably accounted for eleven
others, the Petit Partisan declared to-
day.
During the same period they made
9f4 flights, engaged in eighty-four
fights and dropped 1850 pounds OF
bombs.
The Topeka state journal., 1918-08-29
SHE WON'T GIVE UP
Clearly Beaten for Senate, Miss Ran
kin Refuses To Admit Defeat.

Butte. Mont, Aug. 29.-Dr. c. M.
I.anstrum- was leading CongressWo-
man Jeanette Rankin for the Repub-
Ucan senatorial nomination in the
Montana primaries by 5000 votes. De-
spite the handicap Miss Rankin re-
fuses to admit defeat. Senator Walsh
Will be Lanstrum's opponent at the
regular election il Miss Rankin is
eliminated