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Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-03-23
GERMANS LAUNCH ATTACK
AT FRENCH LINES
ERmANS FORCE WAY IN / y
MOREY BUT ARE DRIVEN OUT

IN|IT|T" VI y" V|ITVI'|IIT ~ IT TT|I|II
headquarters has tclCEraphCd Lon
don that the Germans forced their
way into MUrcy this morning but
were driven out by a heavy counter
attack. Under the tremendous on
slaurht the British troops arc slowly
falling back in excellent order. Al
many places they are withdrawing
voluntarily in order 20 maintain an
unbrOkCn front.
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IMPORTATION FOR ALL READERS OF
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL.

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fered she unlimited use of the largest in
formation bureau in the world.
This Service Bureau is located in the ma
tionaI capital, where 1t is in immediate
touch with all the great resources or the
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1t can answer practically any question
you want TO ask, butt cannot give adj
vice nor make exhaustive research.
The war has forced SO many changes IN
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be invaluable 10 all who use 1t.
Keep in touch with your government
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Governmental control of coffee i'm
ports into the United States recently
announced from Washington lends in
terest to figures Of the worlds coffee
production and the share consumed
in the United States. recently present.
ed in lecture before the class in in
ternational trade commercial geogra-
ply in the educational department of
the National City Bank of New York.
The worlds coffee crop, according to
the lecturer. averages about $780,
100000 pounds a year, of which the
United States consumes more than
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26

Two amendments to the constitu-
ton OF Kansas will be submitted to the
voters at the election next month. The
text of both is appearing in the news
papers from time to time. The citi-
zen who reads them carefully can
hardly fail to approve them. They
have the endorsement of almost ev-
cry man in public life in the state. In
regard to these proposed amendments
Senator Thompson says: II can think
of no better thing that the people of
Kansas could do than to preserve the
usefulness and sacredness of the bal
lot to the loyal and patriotic citizenry,
provided by the first amendment; and,
in securing in scientific manner the
permanent support and maintenance
of the state educational institutions
and holding the money raised for edu-
cation sacred for such purpose as pro-
vided by the second amendment"
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GLOBE SIGHTS
From tho Atchison Globe.1

There is a type of man who is al
ways handing out a clipping to be
read.
Every man who Is poor thinks he
could become rich IL he could find
someone to back him.
The man who talks a good deeI
about TO one having anything on
him will bear watching.
A lawyer is a man who never feels
quite at ease talking to anyone except
when he is in an office with the door
closed.
Taking care of a baby is not such
task as some women make out, and
making a living isn't SO hard as some
men make out.
A pretty woman may forgive you if
you compliment a good looking wo-
man in her presence, but beware of
praising another woman's cooking in
the presence of a good cook.
It seems a hard thing to talk against
human nature, but roasting people
will help ySu along quicker than
praising them. HE has the courage
of his convictions they say of the
rooster He is insincere," they say
of the man who likes to bestow
praise.
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HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I would like
to have you tell me what can do.
carelessly dropped a knit sweater on
fly paper. I would like something
that would not take the color out
Please tell me if anything can be done,
as would rather not have flies chase
me. x. Y. u.
I would advise you to take your
Home treatment probably would make
rings around the spot you have
cleaned, or would remove the color. If
you prefer to clean it yourself wear
it into drug store and ask the drug
gist to recommend something that will
remove fly sticker without injuring
that particular color.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: My girl
friend corresponds with soldier in
France and she has asked me to write
to 4 young man over there who would
like to get letters from some nice girl
here. I do not correspond with any
soldier and I woufA like to know if it
would be all right for me to cores
pond with him?
My girl friends soldier says that he
is a fine fellow and that I will never
regret the correspondence IL agree to
it. What shall 1 do?
DOUBTFUL.
Write to the soldier. If he is SO
lonely and in need of letters that he
Is seeking a girl with whom to cor
respond, you will be doing a service
If you write.
Dear Mrs. Thompson: How can
entertain bashful gentleman friend !?
1t seems as though I cannot find any
thing to do and 1 don't like to go to a
show every Saturday and Wednesday
night when he comes. BETTY.
Read book together. or, If you pre-
fer, short stories. This will make your
evening pass quickly and will furnish
entertainment. There is little else a
girl can do, when conversation is diff
ficult. Once in while you could
make candy with maple syrup. To
use sugar would be unpatriotic.
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"ODE TO LIBERTY"

oh, Liberty, fair Liberty,
Thou priceless gift OF God!
oh, haste, for the world Is grooming
Meath His Christening rod.
Haste. for Civilization calls
And Humanity pleads,
While Barbarism shocks the world
With its infamous deeds.
Come thou, with flaming torch aloft
And Freedoms flag unfurled--
Fair Liberty, hasten aud come
To this cructfied world!
Come, while Democracy struggles
'Gainst Autocracy's might,
And rivers of blood are flowing
Where sons Of Freedom fight.
oh, come, from thy silent retreat
To this Travelling earth,
And lead Democracy's legions
On. to freedoms new birth.
MRS. HULDA e. FORSDICE,
Oberlin, Kan.
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The kaiser having brought his coun-
try to the verge of ruin now appears to
be allowing it to work its way out of
the difficulties which surround it in
whatever way it can. His name no
longer appears in the dispatches de-
failing what is taking place in Ger
many. He has made mess Of the
situation and probably, in the future.
will consider himself fortunate if he
shall be permitted to retain his crown
and pass it down the Hohenzollern
line. Had he won he would have been
the most prominent man in the limo
light of the world stage. AS it is he
is hated and despised by all mankind
including probably large majority of
his own people. If the Hun Bolshe-
Wiki shall rise and slay him. as their
Slav brethren did the car, the world
will look upon the event with far less
sympathetic eyes. Nicholas was a pa
triot and strove for the good Of Rus
STA. according to his lights, but Will
helm sought first the glorification of
himself and the tribe of Hohenzol-
lern.
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The Hun estimate of what a beaten
nation has a right to expect from its
victorious adversaries doubtless has
undergone a great change since Ger
many launched her war of conquest.
1t is not difficult to imagine the kind
of peace terms that would have been
dictated to England, France, Italy and
Belgium, had the central powers been
successful in their undertaking. The
treatment of France in 1871 is a sam-
pie of what might have been looked
for. The time has arrived for the
medicine
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Is YEARS AGO IN Topeka
From The colunzns x
THE TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL

October rs, 1893.
Prof George Z. Curtis, Of Washington,
D. c., but formerly professor at Wash
burn college. is spending few days in
the city with Superintendent Jennings, of
the United States signal service office. Mr..
Curtis has been working the last three
years with Prof. s. =. Langley, secretary
Of the Smithsonian Institution. on a flying
machine, which he says will Pc success
I'VE have been working on the machine
nearly three years and confidently expect
it will be successful the first time it is
tried"
The Ladies' society of the First NJ. f.
church will meet next Wednesday after
noon at the home of Mrs. David Mulvane on
Clay street. The ladies are making arrange
ments for a fair to be given during the
holidays.
Mrs. e. L. Copeland entertained yester-
day afternoon In honor Of Miss Daisy Cope
land of Rockford. III. About seventy five
Invitations were issued.
sThe Olivette club has elected the follow
ing officers: President, s. J. HodgiEs
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HOUSEHOLD HINTS

Honey Frosting-To make honey
frosting. boil honey. instead Of sugar
and water. pouring over the stiffly
beaten white of an egg as for ordinary
boiled frosting. !
To Serve Cantaloupe-Cut the
melon in half. remove the seeds and
scoop out with a teaspoon. Get the
spoon about three-Quarters full each
time and turn 1t into q sherbert glass
with the round side up, make a mound
of these pieces in the glass. The eff
feet is very pretty. One large melon
will serve four in this way.
Another way 10 to scoop out all Of
the half with a tablespoon and stand
1t up in a cone shape or wrap 1t
around a cone of ice cream.
Esgless Lemon Pie that is very good
Grated rind and juice of two lem
ons, one cup cold water one cup su-
gar, one grated raw Irish potato.
Bake with single crust and strips OF
dough across top
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one-third-in fact about 40 per cent.
The value of the worlds crop at the
place of growth is about sS00,000,000
per annum and the value of the cof-
fee imported into the United States
averages a little more than 100000
900 per annum-has averaged in the
last five years about s113, 100000 per
annum, the fiscal year 1918 having
been $1o3,ooo,o0O, or slightly below
the normal. The quantity imported
into the United States is little over
one billion pounds. having averaged
for the past five years ,175.0o0,0o0
pounds per annum, tho the 1918 fig
having been 1, 144,ooo,ooo pounds.
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ANSWERS TO
CORRESPONDENTS

The following are some interesting
answers to corresponding who wrote
for information to the Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau. Wash
ington, D. c.
Who is General Fayolle?
Acknowledgement Fayolle Is now IN
Command of the French armies along the
Disc between Scissors and Noyon. Fayolte
has been known as 1.-The right-hand man
of Foch." He is one of the ablest French
generals Before the beginning of the
March offensive he was in command OF the
French army in Italy . .
house and a tree?
ANSWER-When flag is flown from a
rope stretched from a house to tree, the
stars should be towards the street.
Are the interned Germans paid and why ?
Are they prisoners of war;
ANswER-Internei Germans In , this
country are not prisoners OF war. They
are paid by the United States government
for the work they do There is nHsue
war shall receive the pay of their rank
from the country holding them. This does
not apply to interned officers and crew
Of a merchant marine. or civilians.
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DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
ASx1A's Highest Paid wemaa Wdtse.
Womah.s Crowning Charm-2.

w Ouluu 8 CrOWuuS SnurM--S.
Each sex loathes the other when it
peaches on it's preserves. Women
cannot abide an effeminate man. Men
detest a masculine woman. Men never
pick out a woman who has on a tailor
made suit as being. the best dressed
woman in a crowd. They like women
to wear frills and furbelows and high
heeled shoes. And they like a wo-
mems personality to be as feminine
as her clothes
Therefore, a woman never makes a
bigger mistake than when she tries
to make an imitation man Of herself
in her business dealings with men. She
repulses them by her assumption OF
being q good fellow. by drinking
and smoking with them, and by telling
risque stories. They want nothing to
do with such a woman.
But the woman they like to deal
with is the quiet, modest, gentle little
woman who looks and acts like a lady,
and talks like a lady, and who has
merely added business sense and abil-
ity to her other feminine charms. That
kind of a woman makes an eternal
appeal to a man. She soothes him in
stead of irritating him. She makes
him think of his mother, his wife, his
daughter, all of the women he loves
and honors, and, without realizing it,
for their sakes. and the sake of his
reverence for all womanhood, he helps
her along.
Therefore, I would advise all girls
going into business to cling to their
femininity as their most valuable asset
Let them do their work as well as
men, but do it in q womanly way. Be
as modest and ladylike behind your
typewriter or ledger as you would be
behind your own tea table. Remem-
Der that the only voice that ever per
suades a man into doing anything is
the one that is keyed down to a gent,-
murmur, never the one that is pitched
to a fog horn shrek, and that a gentle
and pleasing manner will open office
doors for a woman that she couldn't
break into with a battering ram.
Men don't like women who-are loud,
who laugh too much or talk too much.
or women who put themselves forward
too much, or who are arguments tive,
and always ready for a scrap. They
like women who smile, rather than
those who laugh, women who are al
ways ready to listen. women who are
understanding and sympathetic, and
who are charitable in their judg-
ments of others, and women who are
gentle and womaniy.
Just to be a woman Is woman's
best graft, II she only had sense
enough to know it,
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Save YOUR FAT!

Two to three ounces of fat a day
is sufficient for the bodily require
ments Of grown person.
II we eat more than we require
we are robbing the allies. who
should be well fed SO they can help
US win a 100 per cent victory.
Children who are getting a quart
Of whole milk daily do not need as
much other fat.
Butter is the best fat, especially
for children.
The apies need so per cent more
fat this year than We shipped to
them last year.
Save fat for them by baking,
boiling and broiling meat instead
of frying it.
Especially cut out deep fat fry
ing.
Fry out all meat fat and use IL.
Use all the fat you buy; but do
not buy more than you need
Help the allies SO they can help
us win
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that your father would like Venice,
with the gondolas and st. Marks
and Michael Angelo"
"Oh, no." the young woman inter
rupted. ut wasn't that. He liked it
because he could sit in the hotel and
fish from the window"
''Wel1. well. Jones, of all the sur
prisesi Your son. who flunked in every
mathematics exam., chief auditor OF
your businessf' exclaimed the visitor.
Yes, indeed; he's an expert, too"
'WelI, who is the elderly bookkeeper
he's Raging for balling up the bal
ances?"
He? Why. he's my sons former
professor of mathematics"
The welfare worker glanced around
apprehensively as she entered the
humble dwelling. Are you not afraid
to live here? I do not see any fire.
escape"
Law, no miss! I don't need one,"
returned the satisfied slum dweller.
whenever the cops come up after me
L makes my getaway over the roof"
The attorney was dumfounded.
Madam" he exclaimed. you have
had three husbands, and every one Of
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them either went crazy or turned out
to be worthless. Yet you are think.
ing of marrying again,"
Fair client: Yes. sir. I want Q
safe and sane fourth"
An illiterate preacher who professed
to despise education, remarked during
a conversation with an educated
Clergyman:
1T am thankful that the Lord has
opened my mouth to preach without
learning"
"a similar event occurred in Ba.
laam's time" was the quiet retort.
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them were gathered on the front
porch, Tom Dudley put in his oar.
when he observed that his friend was
trying to camouf1age a hafid-holding
contest with Grace Morgan in the
shadow of the vines.
There's a bungalow for sale just
down the street" he suggested inno-
Gently, Tets all go and look at it,
And that's how the ingenious Mrs.
Dudley, with q we'll trained husband,
capably assisted by one Kirk Lovejoy.
succeeded in saving Grace.
Copyright, 1918, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
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II since our entry into the war the
Woman's party and the Prohibition
lists had devoted to war work the
energy they have displayed in fur
thering their own especial hobbies,
they might have accomplished much
more good for their country and for
their respective causes. The country
has shown considerable amount OF
Impotence with both factions.
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Senator Thompson seems to be hav-
ing more than his share of good luck.
1t is reported that the Woman's party
will send speakers into Kansas to OPP
pose the senator's reelection. Gov
ernor Capper might well pray to be
delivered from his friends. What the
Woman's party did to Hughes still is
remembered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26

The public may now breathe easier
The ban of secrecy imposed regarding
the movements of Colonel House has
been lifted and the newspapers are
permitted to announce that the colonel
is in France. Doubtless the country
will rejoice to learn his whereabouts.
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II the Huns are ready, willing and
even anxious to evacuate occupied ter
ritory, as they are endeavoring to
make it appear, there is nothing stand
ing in the way of their leaving Russia
and Rumania. 1t is improbable that
anybody would follow them should
they retire from Finland, Poland and
Ukraiuia
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DINNER STORIES

A young woman was telling of the
time when she toured thru Italy with
her father, stating they liked all the
Italian cities, but most of all they
loved Venice.
"Ah, Venice, to be sure" said the
friend. "I can readily understand
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The Good Book teaches that there
Is no forgiveness without repentance.
The Huns. up to this time. have shown
no signs of being in a repentant mood.
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ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BIZ ROY z. NOULroN


Live and Learn.
The ban is on the banquet.
Herbert Hoover wills It SO
In his new list of food ruleA
Respectfully do we ask it
Do they serve food at banquets!
We nave attended many Of them,
And We never found one guilty
OF lowering the nations supply
OF sustenance.
We have always eaten at home
Before going to banquets.
And then had little lunch
At a restaurant afterward.
We have always heard that
A banquet was a place to go
To get a new hat or perhaps
A new oyercoat or
Something else to wear
Not something to eat.
As the Greek philosopher.
Erysipelas, once truly said:
Live and learn
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The Greeks are reported to be eager
to go on a Turkey hunt. The time is
opportune; Thanksgiving day soon
will be with US.
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country, the story is the same. And
everywhere tho reason is the same.
Ignace Brzipsky is rising to his re-
sponsibilities.
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The war has accomplished another
great good. According to the Kansas
City Star it has entirely eliminated the
wandering seller of enlarged crayon
portraits.
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William S. Hart and Douglas Fair
banks are both registrants in the new
draft. No wonder the kaiser is anx-
ious for peace.
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My idea of no sort Of job il to be
the first German commercial traveller
to come to America after the war.
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Now comes the fuel administration
declaring that it did not instruct
apartment house owners not to start
fires until November 1. Now, who on
earth could have started that little
rumor? One gdess. You're right
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The couple were married at the
home of the brides parents. where
they will remain until the bridegroom
gets a job.-Centralia {Mo.) Courier
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The young lady next door says her
uncle, who had been saving up for
three months to buy a porterhouse
steak, has gone and put it all into
liberty bonds.
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Inc couple were married at the
hoVe of the brides parents. where
they will remain until the bridegroom
gets a job.-Centralia {Mo.) Courier.
Now comes the fuel administration
declaring that it did not instruct
apartment house owners not to start
fires until November 1. Now, who on
earth could have started that little
rumor? One gdess. You're right.
The war has accomplished another
great good. According to the Kansas
City Star it has entirely eliminated the
wandering seller of enlarged crayon
portraits.
William S. Hart and Douglas Fair
banks are both registrants in the new
draft. No wonder the kaiser is anx-
ious for peace.
My idea of no sort of job is to be
the first German commercial traveller
to come to America after the war.
The young lady next door says her
uncle, who had been saving up for
three months to buy a porterhouse
steak, has gone and put it all into
liberty bonds.
OF Man Worry.
There's a propaganda fellow with a
streak that's mighty yellow, always
ready with cold water, you to drench.
He's pessimist, a cynic and he tries
to hold a clinic when he's got a victim
on the rack to wrench. His delight
is mental anguish. meant to make his
victim languish, plunge into the deepest
bluest, darkest gloom. He is worse
than any fever. None can beat him Is
deceiver. He will make you think
there's nothing else but doom. There's
a way to surely beat him. Anybody
can defeat him If he only sets him
self to win the fight. Take him off
his guard and hurry. Laugh at him.
the Old Man Worry. Ridicule will
fill his soul with deep dismay. Mirth
will send him all rejected. to oblivion
elected. He won't come back as long
as you are gay. H. Z. B.
Another young lady who has been
driven into seclusion by the prevail
ing styles is the one who used to wear
sandpaper on her ankles to initiate the
frou-frou of silk petticoat.
Vineyard workers in France tread
the grapes with their bare feet and,
adds Bert Taylor. that's the way they
put the kick in the wine.
jos Reeds slogan.
Eat spuds.
Patch duds.
What fort
Win war.
Looks as tho they may have to add
a large bed and six singles in the Old
Kings Home for some prospective ar
rivals from Potsdam.