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New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
Making Germany Pay to the Last Dollar!

rs 1T conceivable that we should permit the $50.
i OOO,OOO,0OO or more of bonds which the Ger
man people have gleefully taken because thew
expected that success would redeem these bonds and
give them enormous financial profit by looting the
world, to be made good by Germany, while Belgium
and France and Serbia and Italy and England have
had to bear the tremendous loss in lives and in
money for keeping these burglars, these looters,
these murderers, these destroyers of womanhood
and childhood, from overrunning the world?
1t would be unspeakable folly for the Allies to
permit this at least until Germany has paid the last
farhng of the cost of the to our European allies
and to America
Moreover, the criminal should be made to pay to
the family of every soldier killed in defence of
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

civilization a financial remuneration, and also to
every man permanently invalided in the struggle Of
civilization against barbarism
To all of this should be added an indemnity .uf.
hc'ent to restore all property destroyed by GERMANY
and to repay every dollar spent by America and its
allies in this great struggle
These terms are not harsh when considered in
many in this ong-planned war for world domination
and world looting
Even if every suggestion here made should be
enforced to the letter. the financial condition of the
German people WOULD be far better than was the
condition of the South in 1865.-From The Manu-
fdcturers' Record
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01
lie Dares to Call on
L 1 international Law!

The lntensifying of the campaign of
reprlsal which the enemy has brought on
nlmself by four years of lust and FRIGHT
fulness aimed against civilians. women
and children, has brought howl from
him. He calls on international law. and
all other guarantees he was the first to
shatter, for his safety. AS "The Pitts
burgh Dispatch" remarks: Years of air
ralding, the murder of women and chill
dren, the bombing of Red Cross stations
and torpedoing of hospital ships, were all
the part of warfare until his antagonists
finally found themselves able to retort
with raidings-then international law is
remembered" 1.-The Philadelnhia Jr-
quirer" finds advantage in this course
now followed by Allied fiers, observing:
What Germany needs is a good dose ~
warfare within it's own borders. When tho
German frontiers are crossed and the Ger
man cities including Berlin are menaceda
ray OF common sense may penetrate the dull
German mind. It may be that the masses
viii at length begin to realize how they
have been misled and deceived and the
troops beaten and facing destruction will
be not only willing but glad TO end it all
in an unconditional surrender"
THE Providence Journal" adds to this.
The Kaiser has taken an undisguised
pleasure in the fact that the war thus far
has left German towns almost unscathed.
he has moralized over the desolation that
mas been suffered in Belgium and France
and has piously discovered evidence of
Divine approval in the immunity of the soil
OF his empire. 1t will be different if the
Allied hosts push across the boundary north
of the little stretch of nomnallv German
territory they now hold and give the Huns
a new idea of war by waging it at their
very DOORS"
The Kaiser himself is to be tested in
the bitter days in store for his country.
declares "The Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune:
"He has lost forever, it would seem, the
prestige of victory. With the news of de-
feat in their ears, the people continue to
hunger and to want otherwise. Their once
all-powerful Emperor is either unwilling
or unable to succor them. The glamour of
his strength is gone. Every day brings
new knowledge of his deceptions and new
evidence of the cruelties that attend his
royal rage. His promises have failed ut
terly. The idol is broken
But the severest test is to appear soon
in the fact that the Germans are speedily
to become the victims of desolating in
vasion. They are soon to see in great tri-
umph the enemy armies as to which they
have known so little. In the cruel blight
of war their homes are to be DESTROYED.
their fields and gardens desolated the small
sources of their meagre supplies shut off.
Under these influences they will take new
measure of their ruler"
Finally, dispatch from Amsterdam
quotes Lieutenant General Baron Won
Ardenne as writing in the "Deiisseldorf
Nachrchten':
"The German army and nation now face
dark hours. May God protect the Father
land!"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

~NHE shadow has fallen on the path
of German destiny and the Ger
- man watches it grow, fascinated

man watches it grow, fascinated
by it's menace to him, appalled,
by it, trying vainly to escape the impli-
cations Of it, but never rid Of it. His
newspapers are nervous with the knowl
edge of disaster; his war critics squirm
uneasily in their effort to darken and
cover the facts Like a man whistling
in the dark, the German shouts in a
strained and cracked voice of fear the
threats of future Schrecklichkeit."
But what he faces has quality of in
evitability about it that doubtless adds
TO his terror. The expressions of Allied
statesmen added to the march of Allied
soldiers are not the judgments of mere
" angry men. They have all the coun-
tenance and composure of long judg-
ment- Germany must pay, so the rest
Of the world can feel safe" But he will
not be allowed hand in saying how
much the payment shall be. "Can a
criminal be his own judge?" asks "The
New York Globe" and proceeds to an
swer:
"a logical peace is not to be expected,
for as the human animal is seldom logical
Individually, he is still less logical collec-
lively But we are scarcely likely to reach
the summit Of unreason implied in treating
the Kaiser's agents as full equals in COM
mon deliberations This would be to make
the war absurd This is defensive and
remedial war to restrain Germany in her
present campaigns of destruction and to
megalomania, doing again that which has
been done A league to enforce peace, born
in the exigencies of a great crisis, has been
functioning 1t is likely something will be
done to continue the league, to institu
tionalize it, and to prepare against another
lawless onslaught But Germany-surely
the Kaiser and Ludendorf l. is estopped
from taking part in discussions. No faith
in her good faith now seems possible.
Likewise disarmament proposals Will
doubtless be considered. Again Germany,
unless fundamental change occurs in her,
may scarcely take part in formulating the
rules policeman may be allowed
weapon while burglar may not be, and
for burglar to ask that the policeman
d;vest himself of his weapons as price of
the burglar doing the same is, of course,
nonsense. The German feet must be broken
up and the German army disbanded, and
then, and not until then, can there be talk
of universal disarmament"
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

From The Montreal Daily Star
so roams the nightly wov about the
fold;
Wet NTH descending shoU'rs, and stiff
with cold,
ne hoscls for hunger, and he g,'ins for
pain,
tHas gnashing teeth are exercised IN
uain)
ana, fmpotent of anger, finds no avay
IN hts diste'lded poaUs to grasp the preY."
-Aeneid, 9th Book
New-York tribune., 1918-09-01

the land, but where he would be made to
feel some little measure of the rigors which
his kind have imposed upon innumerable
innocent people. We would send German
spies, incendiaries and what not to the
ethal zone between blank wall and a r-
ing squad We would impress it upon the
minds of our soldiers at the front that
their first duty is to kill Huns. If it is
necessary or unavoidable that prisoners
shall be taken, take them but always re-
member that the first choice is to kill.
"Ths is not savagery. 1t is not blood
thlrstiness. 1t is humanity. 1t is justice
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-02

dered service to humanity, are cast
into everlasting torment regardless
Of whatever else they may have DONE
Il Ia to these virtues that this order
IL dedicated.
A beautiful tribute is paid frater'
nalism In the following verse:
"Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe in
creased
Awoke one night from a deep dream
Of paece,
And saw within the moonlight OF his
room,
Making it rich like a lily IN bloom
An angel writing in a book OF gold;
Exceeding peace had made Ben Ad'
hem bold,
And to the presence in the room he
said,
What writest thou% The vision
raised its head,
And with look made Of all sweet
accord,
Answered, The names Of those who
love the Lord
And is mine one% said Abou. Nay.
not So
Replied the angel. Abou spoke more
low,
But cheerily still, and said, ] pray
thee, then,
Write me as one who loves his fellow
men,
The angel wrote ant r2rshAd, But
next night
1t came again with great awakening
light,
And showed the names whom love Of
God had blessed
And, 10! Ben Adhem's name led all
the rest!"
When will the work Of the frater-
nalist cease? answer: When the last
tear has been wiped from sorrows
eyes; when the roses of the field have
bowed their last sad goodnight to
God; when the sun has grown cold
and is coffined by destruction; when
Gods Balm of Gilead has soothed ev-
cry aching heart,--then will the work
Of the fraternalist cease, only for its
faithful to hear Gods ever welcome
plaudits; "Well done, thou good and
faithful servant, enter thou into the
joys prepared for thee and the an
gels"
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-02
Improvements

Improvements
On q is large club boat house; on
| and 2 (1OOx165) is a cottage with
bed rooms, dining room, cook room,
pnatry and bath room. A large closed
hall with freplace) between bed
rooms. Another fireplace in one OF
the bed rooms, Two large closets and
one small one. Front and rear veran-
das. Good arrangements for the care
OF so chickens. Plenty of city water
Fruit Trees
Oranges, "a; peaches, S; lines. s.:
kumquats, 2; Thomas Grapes, 2. Rub
sian mulberries, 2, and guayas, %.
Most of these have borne two crops.
Have never had serious loss by frost
Terms: $4,000 cash, or, if desired,
$500 cash on immediateposse ssion and
$l1oO April 1, 1919 at 7 per cent in.
terest, Title good. If not sold in
30 days price will go up.
Apply to ]. A. cox (Owner),
Corner Garden st. and N. Iowa Ave-,
1000 Lakeland, Fla.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-02
FOR SALE BY OWNER

Lots l, 2 and 1-13 interesttin lot ~
in Lake Parker Club Addition to Lake
land, Fla.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-12-02
TO THE PUBLIC!

My wife has voluntarily left me and
I will not be responsible for any debts
that she may incur.
S136 l.. W. YARNALL.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-14
Bible Stmdy
BY MRS. c. r. MENNINCER
Published every Saturday evening In
ToDeka State Journal

Supplement to lessons five and six-
Amos and Hosea.
The following notes are selected
from Professor Sanders Messages Of
the Prophets With Amos and Hosea
in the middle of the eighth century.
b. c., began those notable utterances
which were given permanent form in
TIE prophetic books of the Old Tesla
ment. These men were unsparing
critics of social wrongs. idolatry,
Journalism and worldliness-preach
of faith in God and love to man, and
advisers on questions of public policy
as well. Their chief distinction was
their modest holiness. They served
as Gods mouthpiece in times of spec
ial need, when His people required re-
assurance, guidance, comfort or criti-
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hollow ceremonial worship broke
down under the test of adversely. The
nation, which had lost faith in itself,
began to seek support in foreign al
liances. She lost faith in Jehovah,
whom they had degraded almost to
the level of a heather deity. Israel
presented the sad example of nation
in a state of moral. political and re-
ligious collapse. while slowly the ire
sistible, Unsuitable foe Assyria, was
advancing to crush her. In the light
of these facts we can understand the
anguish OF the inspired poet, patriot
and prophet who was forced to witness
the suicide of his beloved nation. In
chapters four to fourteen are impas-
stoned cries now of denuneiatio1, now
of anguish, and now of ef1treaty. The
tragedy which darkened Hoseas life
and which laid bare the very depths
of his soul is alluded to in his earlier
sermons. and is presented hesitatine-
ing as he tells his own sad story n
the beginning chapters.
Lesson TX next Saturday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-14
No. 21.45g.
Lydia Jeffries, Appellee,

The Farmers Union COOPERATIVE Mercan-
Stile and Elevator Company, Appellant
Appeal from Rush County
On Reheari1g.
Former Opinion and judgment Adhered to-.
Syllabus. By the Court. Burch, J..
1. Under the factory act and related pro-
visions of the code % civil procedure con-
corning death by wrongful act. the person
al representative Of the deceased, or the
widow when no personal representative has
been appointed and the deceased left a
widow and a child. or children, is a statu-
tory agent to collect and distribute tire
damages recoverable, and possesses the
any other agent appointed to collect and
distribute a fund.
2. When the deceased left a widow and
child and no personal representative has
been appointed, the widow may bind her
self and child by receiving payment In
money, without suit. for fair, reasonable
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No. 21,79.
Mrs. A. L. Carver, Appellee,

MIS-. a. Il. carver, Appellee,
VS..
The Kansas Fraternal Citizens. Appellant
Appeal from Wyandotte County.
division No. 81
AFFIRMED.
1. The plaintiff commenced this action
calling for $1,000. The other $1,000 had
been paid under a compromise and settle
ment which, the plaintiff alleged, had been
procured by the fraud of the defendant.
Evidence was introduced on that question.
Held. that the evidence was sufficient to
support the jury's finding that the COM
promise and settlement had been procured
by fraudulent representations.
2. In order TO recover the remainder OF
the amount named in a beneficiary certiff-
cate, after part has been paid under a
compromise and settlement. 1t Is not necas-
sary to tender back or offer to return the
amount received.
B. Certain evidence introduced was hard
ly material but it cannot be said that its
admis sion was prejudieial.
4. The complaint concerning the refusal
of the court to give specially requested n
struc<ions is without foundation. fer the
reason that they were, in substance given
in the general instructions.
5. Under the circumstances disclosed by
the evidence, it was proper to give an in
struction involving the good faith OF the
applicant in his answers to questions coL-
tafned in his application for beneficiary
certificate.
+ 6. It was not error to instruct the jury
that the law favors compromise and set
Element where no fraud or deception IL
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No. 81 go.
Martha A. White, Appellant,


J. W. White, ct al. Appellees,
Appeal from Miami County.
AFFIRMED.
Syllabus. BY the Court Porter j.
A document testamentary in character Oy
which a husband attempts to dispose of a
portion of his property to his wife, to
which she signs her nnIne In the presence
of two witnesses. is considered In connec-
ton with cohveyances exchanged between
the, parties at the same time, as part of one
and the same transaction, and held suffi-
Gent to show the wifes consent in writing,
under the provisions Of Section 11790, Gen
Stat. 1915. that her husband might bequeath
AWAY from her more than one-haIf of his
property: and held further, that in de-
termining what the Intentions of the par
ties were. the court may take into onsider-
alton all the circumstances showing the sit
uatfon of the parties including the terms
Of will executed by the husband ten years
later (of which the wife at the time knew
hothing) and codieil thereto executed sub
seGuently, the will and codici1 expressly re-
ferring to and confirming the former docu-
ment, and also the fact that the wife then
orally assented to the will and codfeil. and
rs part of the same transaction executed
her own will bequeathing all the property
she possessed to others than her husband.
All the justices concurring.
A true copy.
Attest: D. A. VALENTINE,
(Seal) Clerk Supreme Court
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No. 21.T3G.
Edwin Erickson, Appellee,


The Order OF United Commercial Travellers
of America. Appellant.
Appeal from Wyandotte County.
Div. No. 2.
AFFIRMED.
Syllabus. BY the Court: Johnston, G.
L. provision in nm accident insurance
policy that notice Of an injury must be
given to the insurer within ten days after
Il. occurs. may be waived by the retention
Of the proofs furnished By the Insured,
ins,Ted to obtain and furnish additional
proofs or to do some act or incur some
expense Inconsistent with a forfeiture; and
held under. the testimony herein that the
insurer waived the requirement as to the
time OF giving notice of injury.
q. The rule of Commercial Travellers y.
Barnes, y Kan. 293, followed as to the
meaning of the contract provision relating
to the immediate and continuous total dis
ability OF claimant.
3. A provision in an agreement that ac-
tions on insurance policies can only be
brought within six months after the claim
has been disallowed, is repugnant to the
provisions OF section II Of the Civil Codes
and therefore void.
All the justices coneurring.
A tue copy. ..
Attest: u. A. VALENTINE,
(Seal) Clerk Supreme Court
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No. 22,OO2.

Vera B. Cash, Appellee,
VS..
The Kansas Oil Refining Company, a Cor
poration, Appellant
Appeal from Montgomery County.
REVERSED AND REMANDED.
Syllabus. By the Court Porter r.
In an action against refining company
to recover for the death of a workman, it
was claimed that the defendant was negiig-
ent in sending him into q dangerous place
without providing some person to assist
HIM In case he was overcome By fumes of
gasoline: that he was overcome by fumes
OF gasoline from the tank car and while in
this condition fell from the top of the cal
to a ditch by the side of the track and in
hailed water. mud and gasoline and 9th
er waste products in the ditch and died
from suffocation. Held, that there was no
stantial, fairly tending to prove what act
ually caused the deceased to fall from the
car and that demurrer to the evidence
should have been sustained.
Bureh, J.. Mason, r. West. J., Marshall,
j. and Dawson, j., concurring.
Johnston. c. J., dissenting.
true copy.
Attest: ID. A. VALENTINE
(Seal) Clerk Supreme Court.
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No. p, 42s.
Alexander De Leon, Appellee,

The Atchison, Toreka and Santa Re Rail-
way Company. Appellant.
Appeal from SedgwicE County,
division No. -
AFFIRMED.
Syllabus. BY the Court. Porter }.
A night Waterman in the employ Of a
railway company. whose duty 1t was to
guard and protect property in the railway
yards and prevent ears from beirg broken
into ana goods stolen thereffofn. shot and
injured the plaintiff. who was lettering
after midnight in the yards near winery sew
eral cars stood, the scals Of which he9 been
broken. In an action against the railway
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d. A. VALENTINE,
Clerk Supreme Court.

No, 1,oa4.
The State Of Kansas, ex rel: s; N; Brewster,
Attorney General, Plaintiff,
H. J. Piper, Sheriff of Sherman County,
No FLOSS.
Attorney General, Plaintiff,
H. J. Piper, Sheriff Of Sherman County,
haniSs s. ! 9s5ssoAnt,
Attorney General, Plaintiff,
Kansas. pefehdsnt an '''"'''
Original ,I ProSeeding in Mandnmus.
Syllabus. By the Court. Dawson; j.
1. A justice Of the peace is without iufie-
diction to grant a parole, and has ne juris-
anras 70 remit sail sent 1 and sseh
nullity.
2. A probate Judge Is without Jurisdiction
from the custody Of an officer who holds
the petitioner by virtue of an unexecuted
Judgment adsnss Ia. and commitment Issued by
8. The term of a commitment to a county
jail does not expire until the sentence OF
has been fully executed.
4. Assuming but Without deciding that
altogether relieve convicted person from
liability to serve such Jail sentence, the
cIfeuHstaHees oI tne present cases wnere
the jail sentences were Imposed in Febru-
aalfy ana the commitments not issued until
held that while the lapse of time was un ;
usual. it was not Unreasonable, and that
the commitments shOthd be executed and
that mandamus may issue to accomplish
| that purpose.
3. three persons pleaded guilty to vio-
lations of the prohibitofy law before a
justice of the peace; and we're sentenced
the justice paroled the defendants and re-
mitted the Jail sentences when the fines
| and costs were paid The Justice of the
peace resigned and his Successor issued
| commitments for their Incarceration. The
| probate judge discharged them writs of
habeas corpus. Held that the justice of
| the peace was without Jurisdiction to
parole or remit the Jail sentences. and that
the probate Judge had nd Jurisdiction to
custody of the sheriff who held them under
the commitments for the terms of imprison-
ment which had not been executed; and
| Held, also, that mandamHs should issue to
secure the execution Of the judgments orig
| inal1y imposed
| All the justices cofcurring.
| A true copy.
| Attest: d. A. VALENTINE
tSeal) Clerk Supreme Court.
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LEGAL.
IPubiished in The Topeka State journal.
December IA, 1918.
SUPREME COURT TlLAbi

No. 81 ,0se.
B. f. Bush, receiver of the Missouri Pacific
Railway Company, Appellant,
VS..
The City Of Topeka, Kansas, ct al, Appellee.
Appeal from Shawnee County.
Division No 1.
AFFIRMED.
Syllabus. By the Court. Johnston. c. j.
I. In making and apportionfng special
assessment for paving street in a plattsd
portion of the city, the block is the unit
and the fact that the Block may vary in sire
and shape from others i'll the city, does not
affect the rule or the validity of the assess
?. \ block so situated must all be re-
garded as plated ground although a part
Of 1t has not been subdivided into lots of
the customary size, and 1t is subject to as
sessment from the line of the improved
street to the middle of the block.
3. The fact that the assessment was ex-
tended only 800 feet from the improved
street, when 1t should have been extended
to the middle of the block by reason of
which the assessment upon the ground of
plaintiff, the complaining party, was con-
siderably lessened, is not an error of which
the plaintiff can complain. party can not
take advantage-of an error which operates
to his advantage.
All the justices concurring.
true copy.
Attest: d. A. VALENTINE,
(Seal) Clerk Supreme Court.
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No % III.

No. o.
In re Petition of Bill Tilghman.
Original Proceeding in Habeas Corpus.
PETITIONER DISCHARGED.
Syllabus. BY the Court. West. j.
1. A proceeding TO punish for contempt
under section l!G9 of the General Statutes
of 1915, for failure to turn over property
sought to be replevined is civil in its Ia
ture.
g. Generally a proceeding to punish for
contempt which may be Instituted by a
party to enforce his own rights in an action
is civil and not criminal, the state and its
prosecuting officers not being directly or
materially interested therein.
3. "A justice of the peace before whom
such a proceeding has been had and who
has adjudged the defendant in a replevin
action to be in contempt for failure to turn
over the property sought to be taken. is
without Jurisdiction to send a commitment
to another county for the apprehension OF