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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
SOUTH AMERICA
WARNED AGAINST
FUTURE DANGER
German Victory Would Van
0uish World Republicanism.
Bryce and NOrthcIiffe Address
Word to Latin Peoples.
TREMENDOUS ISSUES INVOLVED
Kaiser Always Rules by Force,
Fear and Cruelty.
Defeat of Allies Would Mean
Certain War to s. A.
TREMENDOUS ISSUES INVOLVED
Kaiser Always Rules by Force,
Fear and Cruelty.

London. March 3O.-Latin-Ameri-
r < vital interest in Germany's plan
of ggrandizement and attempt to
cru.;1, all world democracies is point
ed ont in MESA es addressed to the
DeoDle of all the South American re-
tublics by Viscount Bryce, former
ambassador to the United States, and
Viscount Northcliffe.
This war" says Lord Bryce, us
unlike any other the world has seem
MOI only in the vastness of its scale
but in the tremendous issues involved.
Vanish Democracy.
"A German victory would vanish
repuhIicanism from the world for the
German government rules by force
fear and cruelty.
''Thc men of South America, where
freedom took new birth century
ave fellow countTymen of san Mar
In. Bolivar, O'HigSins and OF many
another Argentine, Chilean and
I-rueuayan patriot whose memory is
honored today, will surely give their
sympathy to those who in Europe are
fighting the battles of democracy and
humanity
Lord Northcliffe in his message
raid
a. tin-America is as vitality inter
6 ted as North America in Germany's
:ttempt to enSlave the world Latin
/ mer ca seems out of the danger
z1n, today, but the defeat of France
: nd the British empire would be fol-
] wed by an attack upon South Amer
icl as surely as night follows day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
That Is Object of Cemetery
Association Officers.
w. r.. Carrie Explains the
Mound Leveling Rule.
MANY LOTS NOT CARED FOR
S31, 900 Spent on Upkeep in
Last Three Years.
Fourteen Men Required on the
Grounds Under Old System.

w. r. Carrie, superintendent of the
Topeka Cemetery association, has just
issued a statement setting forth the
reasons that governed the action of
the officers of the association in max
ing the ruling in regard to the level
ing of the graves and the care of the
grounds. The statement was issued
in the form of an explanation to
those patrons of the association who
complained by letter and telephone
and otherwise of the carrying out of
the order.
The Topeka Cemetery association
is trying to make the Topeka cemetery
one of the beauty spots of the West"
said Carrie in his statement, ''and to
do this it was necessary to fall in line
with the plans now in use in the big
eastern cemeteries which are noted
for their beauty.
THE Topeka Cemetery association
is making long strides toward improv-
ing and undermining this beautiful
cemetery, which is practically within
the limits of the city, and of which
the city has a right to be proud.
This cemetery is the last resting
place of 5,346 of the city's citizens.
Five years ago the Topeka Cemetery
association bought the 40 acres of
site, and all of the lots in this new
part are being sold under the per-
petual care plan.
Make 1t Beautiful Place.
MANY people do not realize that
even the cemeteries are being laid out
along scientific, modernized lines. and
every effort is being made from a
landscape standpoint to make a GEM
etery as beautiful and attractive as
possible The old rule of having a
mound of earth to show where the
grave is located is being abolished.
and n.tead of having IN 'unsightly'
mound of earth to show where the
body lies, neat, and in most cases in
expensive markers are placed at the
head of the excavations where the
bodies are inferred. This change is be-
ing made for the reason that even
with most careful care it is impossi-
BILE to keep the grass cut even on a
rounding mound of earth (unless it is
a low mound over which it is possible
to run a lawn-mower). 1t is almost
impossible from a drainage standpoint
to get the grass to grow with even
ness on this mounded pile of earth,
as most any one knows who has had
anything to do with trying to raise
grass on a rounding surface, where
the drainage from gravity will quick
ly drain off and not give life and
strength to the roots of the grass on
the high and dry spots
Most people do not realize the ex-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
BRILLIANT STROKE
Maintaining Line at Mont Di-
der Broke Up Huns Plan.
Crown Prince Expected To
March on Paris Down Disc.
BY HENRY WOOD.

With the French Armies in the
Field March 2S.-Since General
French at Ypres prevented the Ger
mans from turning the British flank
by stretching out his little army until
it reached the North sea. no more brill
liant movement has been executed on
the west front than the manner in
which the French general staff night
and day kept up contact with the Brit
ish armies doggedly retreating to the
northwest.
The French steadily extended their
lines from the region of La Fere to
beyond Mont Didier. This successful
operation has definitely broken up
what is now known to have been the
original German plan. namely, follow
ing the Bavarian crown princes ex-
pected rupture of the British front, for
the German crown princes army to
pass thru the breach and march on
Paris by way of the Disc valley.
While barring the latter movement
by holding the Disc line solidly, the
French kept up contact with the Brit
ish. This was accomplished only by
masterful handling of the French re-
serves-throwing in infantry divisions
when they arrived in time, otherwise
action was necessary, while artillery
front.
Meantime, every French division
was resisting heroically. necessitating
often fifteen German attacks to dis
lodge them.
Prisoners declare they were driven
to the attack by officers welding
whips.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
KIRK A SHAMELESS.
Hun Shell Kills IS at Prayer in
Paris Church.
81 Women and Many Children
Numbered Among Victims.

Paris March 30.-Rescue parties at
work in the church which was struck
yesterday by a shell from a German
long DANCE gun have found more
bodies. 1t is now known that fifty
four women were killed. An earlier
official report stated seventy-five
were killed and thirty wounded.
The shell struck the north side of
the church, bringing down part of the
roof and opening breach twelve feet
high and twenty feet wide. Nearly
all the debris fell inward upon the
heads of the worshippers sixty feet
below. The edifice is now a heart
rending sight.
Tn enormous mass of stone, crum-
! bled into all shapes and sizes, lies in
the middle of the nave and piled to
about the same height as the high
altar, which was not damaged. The
side aisles are Uttered with less cum
berSome wreckage and the pavement
is covered with gray dust.
All the stained glass windows, some
OF which were of historical interest,
are shattered The church, altho be-
gun in the middle ages, was entirely
remodelled in the epoch of the renais-
sance.
Kills Swiss Diplomat.
In addition to H. Stroehlin. coun-
sellor of the Swiss legation in Paris,
who was killed, it is feared that his
wife also is victim, altho searchers
have not yet found her body in the
debris. Among the injured are
Countess Morand, Viscount Molitor
and former Senator Louis Gautteron
Inc same church was struck by
shell during the celebration of high
mass last Sunday and many casualties
resulted.
The killing of the women and chill
dren who were praying in the church
has caused a feeling of horror and
intense indignation in Paris. The Ger
man explosive missile fell amid an as
semblage of peace loving people, who
were beSeeching heaven to send an
enduring peace on the day they were
concentrating the greatest sacrifice
ever offered that peace should reign
on earth.
Red Cross Is on Scene.
Feeling runs high in Paris. 1t is
no peace crowd that walks the
streets or congregates in the cafes,
theaterS and churches. The stern reso-
luton to conduct the war to a success
full termination is written on the face
of everyone.
The American Red Cross once more
distinguished itself in rescuing injured
persons from the edifice.
M. Grosseau. in the chamber of
deputies, referring to the disaster,
said:
1.-The barbarian enemy resumed his
bombardment on Good Friday and his
victims are numerous. 1t is with ex-
treme sorrow and intense indignation
that I note that most of them were
assembled in church. We must not
forget that justice and right shall have
the last word before God and before
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
HELD LINE ALL DAY
Only Once Did Germans Succeed by
Attacking British in Rear.

London. March S0.-The British
Feld magnificently thruout Friday ac-
Cording to Reuters limited correspon-
cent 1T British headquarters in France.
AT one point only" says the cor
respondent, where the Germans got
across the river in force about Cerisy
and so taking the troops in the Proy-
art Mericourt neighborhood in the
rear have we fallen back but that re-
tirement was calamity done. Our
M en- were attacked in the rear before
they knew it.
LAS there were guns TO be got away
both infantry and gunners faced
round and for awhile some of cur
field artillery was firing with open
sights into the enemy. Then the in
fantry charged and succeeded in driv-
ing the superior forces of the enemy
back to the river bank, holding them
until the guns were got away. This
section of the line then swung back
to new positions running by Hamel
and I.amOtte''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
ADD ri MEN TO DRAFT
United States Will Register 100000 a
Year by New Rule.

Washington, March 30.-Draft leg
islation urged by the war department
was a step nearer completion today, as
the result of the senate's action last
night in adopting a resolution extend
ing the draft to men reaching the age
of 81 since the first registration day,
June 5, 1917.
The senate rejected an amendment
providing for the training of youths
from / 8 to 81.
Approximately 100000 will be add
ed to the registration this year by the
resolution. 1t now goes to the house
for consideration, with a bill to base
the state and district quotas for second
draft on the number of registrants in
class one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
A raw, SORE THROAT
Eases Quickly When You Apply
a Little Musterole.

And Musterole won't blister like the
old-fashioned mustard plaster. Just
spread it on with your fingers. 1t pene-
trates to the sore spot with a gentle
Jingle, loosens the congestion and draws
out the soreness and pain.
Musterole is a clean, white ointment
made with oil of mustard. 1t is fine for
quick relief from sore throat, bronchitis,
tonsilitis, Group, stiff neck, asthma, neu-
ralgia, headache, congestion, pleurisy,
rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of
the back or joints, sprains, sore muscles.
bruises, chilblains, frosted feet, colds on
the chest lit often prevents pneumonia.
Nothing like Musterole for croupy chill
dren. Keep it handy for instant use.
SOC and 6Oc jars; hospital size $3.50.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30

The step was taken, the paper says.
in order to obviate the difficulties due
to the mixing up of Bri fish and French
troops on various parts of the line.
Field Marshal Haig, it says, con-
ours fully in the appointment of Cen
eral Foch.
General Ferdinand Foch is of
Basque origin. He was born at Tar
bee, in 1851, but was reared at Metz.
Rather than become a German after
the annexation of Lorraine, Foch pre-
ferred to return to France and help
to prepare France for the struggle
with Germany which he believed ulti-
mately would take place.
All along he has been impressed
with the idea that a German victory
was impossible and frequently has eX-
pressed the opinion that the enemy
forces would never be able to break
thru the allied line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30

have been made. We want them to
know more about this asset to the
city of Topeka, with its paved streets
right 20 its gateway, its complete wa
ter system, connected with city water
mains, its large receiving vault for
temporary interments, it's beautiful
monuments and mausoleums, which
have been erected during the past
two years.
THE Topeka cemetery has paved
streets right to its gates and is regu-
larly watered with water from the
city mains''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
STUDENTS TAKE HAND
wisconsin University Men Won't
Stand for DisloyaIists.

Madison. Wis, March 3O.-Wiscon-
sin university students gave warning
today that suspected disloyalists could
expect the same dose handed Adolph
Germer. national Socialist secretary
who was forced to sign an oath of
allegiance here last night Substitute
ing for Morris Hilquit at a campaign
meeting in behalf of Victor L. Berger,
senatorial candidate, Germer was Of
fered the alternative of taking the
oath or a. coat of tar and feathers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
CANADA TO ADOPT 1T
VIII Pass More Daylight Law TO Con-
form to That of United States.

Ottawa, Ont March 30.-The Cana
dian daylight saving bill, correspond
ing to the measure which becomes eff
fective in the United States Sunday,
will probably be passed in about a
fortnight,
When the senate resumes April 8,
daylight saving and moving the clocks
forward will be the first important
piece of legislation before it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
TAFT'S SON GOES UP
Sergeant Major In France Recon-
mended for a Commission.

With the American Army in France,
March 29.-Sergeant Major Charles
Taft, son of former President Taft
has been recommended for a commits
sion, it was learned today.
It is stated that altho Taft is still
under age he has served a year and
shown qualifications warranting a
commission.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
LENINE REPORTED ILL
Bolshevik Premier Has Pneumonia,
Petrograd Correspondent Announces

London. March 20.-Nikolai Lenine.
the Bolshevik premier is i'll of pneu-
mon1a, Reuters Petrograd correspon-
dent reports. The correspondent also
says it is reported that General Alex
Jeff, former Russian commander-in-
chief, who recently has been one of
the leaders in the Cossack movement
against the Bolsheviki, has been ar
rested in the Don region
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
RED GUARDS DEFEATED
Government Forces Take 10000 Pris-
oners and Fl Guns.

London, March 3O.-Finnish red
guards have been defeated at Tam
merfors, north of Helsingfors, by the
government forces according to a
Reuter- dispatch from Petrograd. The
rebels are said to have lost 10000
prisoners and tWentY-one guns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
MAKES REAL PATRIOT
Nels Morris, Packer. Is Put in Glass
la by Draft Board.

Chicago, March S0.-Because Mel
son Morris, chairman of the board of
Morris & Co. packers. has time to
work for the government as a dollar
a year" patriot, a draft appeal board
here placed him in class Ia today.
Edward Morris, Jr., president of the
company, married. was placed in class
four as the necessary operating head
of an industry
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
MARINE HERO NOW
HEADS ALL ALLIES
ARMIES IN FRANCE

London, March 30.-The French
and British governments have decided
to appoint General Foch, Marine hero,
commander of the allied armies on
the front during the present opera
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30

The debt of our government is now $51
per capita or five times greater than when
the war began.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30
Lots sold with or without
permanent care contracts

Exclusive owners and manufacturers of the best
reinforced cement vault known-abSoutely air
tight and waterproof.
Your inspection of our Cemetery solicited.
Hundreds of beautiful locations to select from in
the 40 acre addition on the south.
We do not solicit, but telephone call will bring
to you Immediately.
The Washington times., 1918-05-30

on him with a pistol and made him
swear on a Bible that he loved her.
Again, a moment later, she iung
the pistol aside and threw her arms
about his neck and told him that he
need not tell anybody anything.
is that the way a normal person
acts? That was the action OF mind
that was ruined by DR.. Roberts. II
had begun to work against him.
what she asked was the truth, all
he told her ives lies Why didn't he
say to her: Grace, I am through with
you. I have come to the end OF my
AFFAIR with you as have come to the
end Of affairs with. other girls. / can
not leave my wife. I admired you for
your brains and accomplishments, but
there never was any real love-
DO you know what would have
happened. Grace Lusk's life would
have been snuffed out. and the entire
unhappy incident would have ended"
Plea Of Insanity.
The attitude Of the defense toward
an acquittal verdict was unmistakably
set forth again by Attorney Clancy
in the closing minutes Of his argu-
ment -
There is only one verdict we be-
lisve YOU gentlemen can possibly rs-
turn" said Mr.. Clancey That is the
verdict Of not guilty because she is
insane"
Attorney Clancey's entire address
was q clear summing up Of the war;
Gus incidents by which the defense
hoped to prove Grace Lusk insane.
The only deviation from this came
when he. following the example Of
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because Grace Lusk's revolver was
not there bht At the home In the Mills
cottage, where Mrs. Roberts wen. for
that long deferred sexplanatioa" -
TulIar, or the av6ltAhi6' e16qdenee.
says Grace Lusk never went upstairs
for the Roberts letters, but for a gun
to kin.
No one but Grace Lusk can tell the
truth about the matter and she has
denied II saying she went up to get
the letters, found the gun, and then
decided to kill herself. But the cpl
thets OF the other woman drove her
mad, and She 1ost consciousness ana
shot withaut know!9gHz 2C.-S -
URsxDeeted Happened.
In this one was to see that
the relentless hand OF the horse doc
tor, by every subtsrfuge at his com
mand, had tried TO keep the two
prevented a meeting, and when they
handy. - -
pened. Roberts had had So much ez-
perience in the adjustment OF these
affairs that he never dreamed his dip
lomatic state would fail him. But
fail il did and he went out OF the
Mills House, leaving one woman dead
and the other apparently dying.
He went for a doctor. but he did not
come back. Through the whole sffair
Roberts has evinced a positive genius
for evadinE unpleasant situations
And so they took Grace Lusk away on
a stretchers and the last words she said
before leaving Miss Mills home we're.
Strange. but I love him still"
The whole thing suggests demoniacal
possession.
All the fruits OF those years OF toll
thrown over the rapids for a freakish
little man who never had a man friend.
As she said to me herself day or
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publication OF her Illicit relations with
the horse doctor.
1 believe if she had been. tried by
jury of omen, they would have re-
Garded her as mad, OF acquitted her
altogether. Sane women do not cast
aside in q day the traditions Of a life
time. They are not recast into a diff
ferent mold by men like Roberts:
there was something unaccountable,
unnatural about her infatuation for
him.
Grace Lusk's life Is as over and
done for as II they had lowered her
body into the grave with those haunt
ing anaL. words Dust 10 dust, ashes
20 ashes"
Turned Gen on Self.
That was what she had hoped for
when she turned the revolver on her
own breast after killing Mrs. Roberts.
I have heard her tell the jury how
hard II IS to kill oneself, tell them
with that curiously naive expression
that Is half elfin, half childlike,
koI she 6adstrie6 to sSnd-Ds. Davies
out or the fcom before she hred the
last shot at herself because -'she
didn't want him TO feel badly" and
DR.. Davies corroborates this amazing
testimony.
The jury did not ind her insane
but certainly it would have been JUS
tined in finding her abnormal A
woman also who had just taken life,
who had shot herself twice, was suf-
fering acutely and expected to die,
was concerned with all manner and
sorts OF things like distressing DR..
Davies and worrying over what she
had done to Blanca Mills door.
The relentless element again crops
out in the scene OF the interview with
the dead woman.
II Dr. Roberts had not dissusded
his wife from going to Miss Lusll's
office in the Y. M. c. 4. building,
there would have been no shooting,
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two ago in spsakin gof the posSiblsA
verdict Of the ury, what can they
fate-T have thrust up6h nyssif? fhss
good men DO lives after them"
at f. % be hoped she Will carTys
some such consolation as this int
the penitentiary, or that equally
sorry alternative, the mad house.
She Had DOae GOod.
For she did good before Roberts,
came into her Hfe-lots Of Il. Shsr
taught weary and dIseour1gsd Behool
teachers enc w0ndersl6f. books, she
swestsned the df1laEerE-. or other
lives, and IL her tsmPeF Was pep
pery," she made school intsrestinE.,
as several OF her pupils have said.
TO me.
It is q relentless story woman
who walked straight for nearly forty.
years and then went love-mad and
slew another woman on account Of
a funny little man with = queer
The real Grace LusKa " Hsxplained
not By her satisfaetory for Roberts.
but ny. tha. fina, JwOmen who have
stood hg0 her through dIia ordeal,
Miss Lusk and Miss Barber have
never missed a session OF the trials
in type, they are the best this eeun-
try has to offer; they explain the
real Grace Lusk-
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/ least strenEe among them tha'
dozens OF Grace Lusk's former pupils
should have heard her branded as q
mUrdercss, a Cavcwomsn. and an a..
tTtsS.
have talked with scores OF thes,
girls and have yet 20 hear one Of then
sa yanythIng worse or her than a.
times she uad 4 "pCppcry temper
and then qualify II with, but ! Eucs
/ deSorv, IT.
Their" Is something relentless aobui
the whole tsnEIe 1f this supe rim,
school mistress. the coarse it'll,
stable qUaCk. and his dead wife. VIII,
not only fOrEave his infidcnties b.
even sometimes helped 10 adjust them
Under UnIucLy Star.
II would seem that Grace Lusk vas
born under an unlucky star, il ther,
are such things. Tho frugal girl had
with its privations and grinding toll
the culean. wholesome life for nearl,
four decades, and then the love mad
ness that undid everything and mad,
Of this self-contained vestal, who had
spent her youth in burning the mid
night oil over her books, comethinr
akin to a harpy who clamored for the
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his associate. Attorney Lockney, turn
ed the fre Of his scorn on DR.. David
Roberts as a veterinary Don Juan
tand a "LothaFio horse doctor7 erase
Lusk's affection for this man. he
maintained, was one Of the cers lin
signs OF a mental disease.
Under Doctors Care.
Miss Lusk is under the care OF two
nurses and a specialist today, still
unnerved by the verdict which drove
her in a maniacal fury at the prose-
cutor's throat. Despite opiates, she
passed a sleepIess night.
Her lawyers will make a motion
for a new trial when Ehe is called to
hear formal sentence passed Wednes
day. Their plea will be that the
jury failed to ind in accordance with
the evidence OF insanity.
DR.. David Roberts. pilloried in
closing arguments yesterday as part
/ ly to blame for Miss Lusk Staying
| his wife last June. was absent from
the court room when the jury came
in, shortly after 10 p. m. Miss Lusk
had asked that he be brought in, and
later she ordered her brother and
aged father GO to DR.. Roberts
Don't hurt him, but tell him what
has happened TO me"
The father waSa hesrtbroken and
haggard today after an all-night
watch al his daughters side.
God. II ! could only tell all I
know OF the man who put my daugh.
ter here" he said OF DR.. Roberts.
Some day a reckoning is coming to
him"
Hundreds OF women who hurried TO
the courtroom when news spread that
the jury had reached a decision stood
with tears streaming down their faces
during Miss LUsk's collapse. Jurors
fled out with ashen faces, never
looking At the defendant