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plants but which will kill the lice
 The most common of these contact
 poisons is nicotine SuIphate-a tobac-
 co extract-made of tobacco refuse
 from factories. This is a poison and,
 to be effective in killing the "lice" without injuring the plants, must be
 used exactly according to the direc- tionS given on the container. United States Department of Agriculture Farmers Bulletin S56. on the control of garden diseases and insects, has of nicotine Sulphate:
 For small garden plats one tea spoonful of nicotine sulphate should be used to one gallon of water, to which one-inch cube of hard soap should be added and thoroughly mixed. If a larger quantity is desired, use one fluid ounce to eight gallons of water, with the addition of one-half pound of stap. Full directions are given on the covers of packages, and instructions accompany them.
 Effective Application of Spray.
 i"In the use of nicotine Sulphate the effective application of the spray is of the utmost importance, since it is pri- marily upon this that the success or failure of the treatment depends. If the liquid has stood for any length of time it should be agitated thoroughly before use The insects themselves must receive a thorough coat of the | spray or they will not be killed, and | immediate inspection after spraying | should show the foliage occupied by | he insects to 'e completely wet.
 Spraying should be done as early | IS possible, always on the first appear ince of the insect, not only because t is good practice to keep the plants rec from pests but because more thor ,ugh work can be done on small plants.'' The main point is to start the fight D time and kill the advance scouts md head off the main army of insect | ,eSrS
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Valuable to Science.

The telescope gives enlarged views of distant objects, the microscope shows only what is almost in contact with its lens, and by giving a means of making intermediate observations the notifications of the Davon micro telescope have proven a boon to the naturalist. With great depth of focus and large field of view, the short focus type, for example, has a work ing distance of 10 to IS inches, and magnifies 15 to 3S diameters. An ad- Unstable rubber-tipped rod serves as a rest to support the instrument at the desired height for studying such ob- jects as insects, plants and rocks.
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CHAPTER Iv.-continued.

But the terrible fangs were never
 to know her white flesh. Some one
 had come between. There was no
 chance to shoot: Whisperfoot and the
 girl were too near together for that.
 But one course remained; and there
 was not even time to count the cost.
 In this most terrible moment of Dan
 Failings life, there was not even an Instant's hesitation. He did not know that Whisperfoot was wounded. He saw the beast creeping forward in the weird dancing light of the fallen 1an- tern, and, he only knew that his flesh, not hers, must resist its rending tal- Ons. Nothing else mattered. No oth- CT consideration could come between.
 It was the test ; and Dams instincts prompted cOelly and well, He leaped with all his strength. The cougar bounded into his arms. not upon the prone body of the girl. And she open ed her eyes to hear a curious thrash ing in the pine needles, strange grim battle that, as the lantern flashed out, was hidden in the darkness.
 And that battle, in the far reaches of the Divide. passed into legend. It was the tale of how Dan Failing, his gun knocked from his hands as he mef the cougars leap, with his own 1naided arms kept the life-giving | breath from the animals lungs and | killed him in the pine needles. Claw | and fang and the frenzy of death | could not matter at all.
 Thus Failing established before all nen his right to the name he bore. And thus he paid one of his debts fife for life, as the code of the forest las always decreed-and in the fire if danger and pain his metal was ried and proven.
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PREPARE WAR ON
 INSECT ENEMIES
If Left Undisturbed Bugs of Va rious Kinds Will Destroy Best
 Part of Garden.
PESTS HAVE BIG APPETITES
Tobacco Extract Is Recommended for Plant Lice and Other Sucking Par asites-Man Point Is to
 Start Fight Early

(Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.)
 Gardeners are warned by specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture to prepare to combat the
 little enemies of the garden In
 sects of various kinds are making their
 appearance in vast numbers in gar
 dens in all parts of the country, and if
 left undisturbed will defeat the gar
 dener's best efforts and lay waste the
 vegetable crops. This is the open sea-
 son for insects and there are no laws
 which limit the number which may be
 killed. The department specialists
 urge the use of the spray pump and dusting bag for the frequent applica- tion of poisons in order to destroy the pests before they destroy the gar den. Early efforts in fighting insects are most effective.
 Little Bugs With Big Appetites.
 In most localities the Colorado or ''hard-sheIP' potato beetles are indus triously depositing clusters of small yellowish eggs on the underside of the potato leaves. In few days these hatch into little red, soft-shelled slugs or "soft-shells," as they are often called, that have most wonderful ap- petities. and unless poisons are ap- piled they will soon strip the potato plants of their leaves.
 Perhaps there is no class of garden insects the method of attack of which | is SO inSidiOuS as that of the plant l lice or aphids.
 At first very few lice may be found hidden on the under side of the leaves 1f melons, peas, cabbage. and other A little later the leaves be- gin to curl up and to lose their color, md an examination will show that he "lice" which the ants carried out lave became grandmothers, and the lnder side of the leaves will be lit .raIly alive with them, feasting on the uices of the plants. At this stage omething must be done quickly, for within few days there will be mother generation or brood at work
 Arsenate of lead and paris green ave no effect upon this army of plant lood suckers, and it is necessary to SC contact poiSOnS. A preparation aust be used that will not iniure the
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Antf-sovfet Plot Uncovered.

New York.-The entente espionage system was directly involved in coun- ter revolutionary plots unearthed at Petrograd and in the western prov fnces Of Russia, according to a cable received from the official Russian Telegraph agency, by the publication Soviet Russia '"The ring leaders in the Petrograd conspiracy" said the message, headed by the notorious monarchist leader, Professor Tagant- sell, confessed to plans, backed by French espionage agents, to assassi- nate leading Communists and Soviet workers and to blow up offices, rail- ways, factories and poison red troops, etc
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Opium Shipments Decline.

Washington.-More .:quor is going into China as the use of opium falls off, according to a report to the Com merce Department from Consul Gen. eral W. HI. Gale at Hong Kong. The net revenue collected in Hong Kong from liquor duties and licensed ware hauses during 1920, MT. Gale said, was $779,OOO, compared with $73o,OO0 in 1919, while the revenue from the opium monopoly in 1920 was S4,3OO,OOO as compared with S6,SOO,O GOO during 191o
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To Make Parks Sanitary.

Washington.-A concerted effort is being made by the United States Pub lie Health service and the National Park service to make the national parks Of the United States safe and sanitary for the vast numbers who have recently taken to touring them. When tourists were fewer and most of them treveled on stage lines and stopped at park hotels, the sanitary problem was simple. More recently. however, the great majority travel in and camp out, enormous ly complicatfng an health matters.
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Killing Pigeons in Wisconsin.

Madison, Wis-Riflemen posted in the Wisconsin capitol building began killing hundreds of pigeons at the re- quest of the superintendent of prop erty, who offered the plea of economy Superintendent Morrissey said that the capitol was being made "chicken roost'' and that it was costing the state hundreds of dollars to feed the birds Wisconsin people visiting Capitol park had long regarded the pigeons as pets-
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Senator Norris coIIapses.

WaShington.-Senator Norris, Repub- ncan, Nebraska, suffered a partial col lapse i'm the Senate at the close of an address of nearly three hours. The ef fort, combined with intense heat, ex- hauSted him and he was taken to an adjoining committee room where first aid remedies were applied by Senator Ball of Deleware, a physician, who said Mr. Norris condition was not be- neved to be serious
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Elevators Sign With Growers.

Fargo, N. D.-Eighty-nine farmers elevators and local associations have been signed by the United States Grain Growers, Inc, in North Dakota, U. L. Burdick, director of the National Grain Sales agency, announced. With eighty equity elevators which have been signed, this makes 169 elevators or associations in the state which have agreed to deal through the growers this fall, he said
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Ria Warehouse RIaze.

Chicago.-Fire thought to have been due to spontaneous combustion caused a loss estimated at $1,5OO,0OO to the building and contents of the Crook Terminal Warehouse and Chicago Stor- age and Transfer Company on the southern outskirts of the city. Two men were injured in fighting the fire.
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Chief AiImcnt.

A large proportion of our troubles is caused by too much bone in the head and not enough in the back--Co lumbus (S. co Record
Williams news., 1921-08-05

Washington.-Six members of the House Census Committee, which re- gently voted to report bill for in creasing the membership of the House of Representatives from 435 to 460, declared in minority report filed that the present total was big enough Chairman Siegel, who presented the majority report, said that the reap portionment was required after each ten-year census. Maine and Missouri would lose one representative each and the annual cost for adding twenty five members would be around S296,- OOO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-22
TO SUE STANDARD
Uncle Sam Oil Company Wants
Billion Damages.
Kansas Company Claims Con-
spiracy in Lease Case.

Kansas City, Feb. 22.-Francis J.
Heney of Los Angeles has been re-
tained by the Uncle Sam Oil company,
with headquarters in Kansas City,
Kan, in a suit against the subsidiaries
of the Standard company, involving
436,000 acres of oil lands in the Usage
lease in Oklahoma to the amount of
$1,000, 100000, it. was announced this
morning at the offices of the Uncle
Sam company.
The announcement said Mr. Heney
has been working on the suit for
about four months and that no def
mite date has yet been set for the
actual filing of the litigation.
Damages and continued con-
splracy' will be the paramount charge
of the petition against the subsidiaries
of the Standard company, this an
nouncement said.
The Uncle Sam Oil company, an in
dependent corporation having about
$4,000 stockholders with a capitaliza-
ton of s4,000.00O, the announcement
continued, claims it has sustained dam
ages of s1,O00,000,00O from what il
terms "the oil trust in the Iatter's
manipulation of the Osa ge field.
The 100000 acres involved in the
suit is said to contain a ma ajority ans
the largest of the oil wells in the en-.
tire Usage nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-22
u. S. MAKES KICK
Demands League Council Hold
Up Mandate Plans.
Wilson Wants No Action Until
After March 4.

Washington, Feb. 22.-President
Wilson has sent note to the council
of the League of Nations, now in ses-
sion in Paris, protesting against dis
position of mandates as now planned
by the principal allied powers, Under
Secretary of State Norman H. Davis
said today.
Davis said that the protest applies
to the proposed British mandate over
Mesopotamia and the mandate already
confirmed by the league council for
Japan over the island of Yap.
The note is a final statement of the
position of the United States regarding
the department of mandate territories
taken from the central powers as a
result of the war.
The principal object of the Ameri-
can note is understood to be to safe
guard the rights of the United States
in the mandate territories under the
incoming administration of President
elect Harding and his secretary OF
state, Charles Evans Hughes.
The state department has not yet
taken the question of mandates up
with Hughes, but it is hoped that the
present protest will have the effect OF
staving off any further action by the
allies until the new secretary of state
has an opportunity to make known his
position.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-22
BOlsheviki Prove Masters of
European Diplomacy.
Block Troops Progress Toward
City of Wilma.
CLAIM SUPPORT FOR POLES
Allies Refused Passage for
Plebiscite Guard by Neutrals.
council Considers Compelling
Passage for Its Troops.

Paris, Feb. 22.-The League of Ma
tions army is halted today by For
eign Minister Tchitcherin's BoIshevik
wireless.
The army was assigned to go to
Wilma and supervise the plebiscite
there to determine whether the city
shall be Polish or Lithuanian. A
Polish army holds the city which is
the capital of Lithuania.
The Bolsheviki want to keep the
League of Nations from sending in an
army to supervise the plebiscite, on
the the ground such action would be
virtual Intervention in favor of Po-
land.
Swiss Refusal First.
Spanish, British, Belgian and
French troops, comprising the league
army, first tried to get to Wilma thru
Switzerland. Tchitcherin wirelessed
orders to Swiss radicals who brought
pressure on the government and
forced it to refuse the army passage
thru the country. The troops then
tried to pass thru Italy.
Again the Moscow wireless sent or
ders. After the radicals had acted,
the government reported to the league
that it would not be allowed to send
the army thru Italy. Italian railway
workers are among the most radical
in the country, the government said.
and there might be trouble if the SOL
diers used the rails there.
1t developed today that Tchitcherin
had proceeded in other countries in
the same fashion. Rumania Austria
and Czecho-Slovakia in turn were
compelled thru the threats of their
radicals to turn the league army back
The League of Nations council may
decide on action this week to compel
member countries to give its troops
passage. The Wilma plebiscite origin
ally was set for March but probably
will be delayed several months as a
result of the Tchitcherin wireless
| campaign.
Delegates to the league council.
| highly annoyed at the interference
admitted Russia was holding them
| back. They declared they had no way
of meeting the attack
| United States to Make Protest.
The United States in notes received
by the Leagues of Nations council to-
day asked that no action be taken on
| confirming of mandates until she can
submit protests now being prepared.
| The United States. it is understood.
will object to the awarding of the Is
land of Yap to Japan and of Mesopo-
| tamia to Great Britain.
| Oil and cable rights are involved in
| the protest from the United States.
| Yap is important as a cable landing
point. Secretary of State Colby al
ready has questioned Great Britain
regarding her intentions in handling
the great oil field in Mesopota mia.
| The council adopted publicity rules
| somewhat similar to those of the
league assembly. Open meetings will
| be held when members believe it
"opportune." At other times. action
of the council will be made public
| after 1t has been. taken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-22

House Committee Recommends
Aircraft Measure.
Final Passage Is Still in Doubt
Is Indication.
VOTE WAS AZ FOR; 81 AGAINST
Rep. Murray Had Busy Time
Defending Act.
Friends of Law Must Get
Twenty More Votes.

After all manner af altitude flights
and circus stunts, the house commit
tee of the whole today recommended
the aircraft bill for passage. The
flight of the bill thru the house is still
in doubt, tho, as a formidable attack
by airplane guns made safe landing
uncertain.
Murray of Cowley was author of
the original house bill. A substitute
affairs committee. 1t was this bill
which came thru the house this morn
ing after an aerial bombardment
which threatens it's final success. On
final test the bill had AZ votes with
81 registered in opposition.
Busy Time Defending 1t.
The Cowley member had a busy
time defending his bill. House mem
bers started after the enacting clause.
Then they assailed everything after
the enacting clause. On a final test
Brown of Atchison sought to strike out
the final section of the bill-which
would thus provide no definite time
in which the law would become ef-
fective.
House members saw visions of an
other board or commission at state
expense if the bill passed. Some of
the members objected to proposals
permitting the various towns and cities
to provide landing fields. They didn't
want to take chances on regulation of
the flying game lest it might mean an
increase in the tax levies. Murray,
tho, sought to assure the house that
the bill was desired by the bird men
and was necessary for the safety of
property and human life. The bill is
now on third reading where friends
of the measure must rally some twenty
additional votes to insure its passage.
On General Orders.
The house is spending the day on
general orders. No third reading work
will be attempted until Wednesday.
Both the house and senate are in re-
cess session and records of today S
work will be included in the account
ing of official business of Monday. In
this manner the legislature is taking
advantage of the holiday and arrang
ing for a big crop of new laws when
the two houses reach third reading.
Members of the house revision COM
mittee went into executive session be-
fore the afternoon session opened.
They loaded the switch tracks with
bills which must wait until some con-
venient time for consideration and ad-
vanced the measures to be given an
early hearing.
Committees in the house reported
on twenty bills this morning. None of
them were of general state wide i'm
portance. OF the measures which re-
ceived committee action, thirteen were
killed and six were recommended
passed. One bill was re-referred.
No committee bills were presented
in the house today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-22
R. R. TEST LOSES
Southern Road Wage Cut Was
National Precedent.
Federal Board Declares Wages
Must Be Just and Reasonable

Chicago. Feb. 22.-Railroad en-
ployers of the nation today had lost
their test case before the United
States labor board for immediate re-
duction in wages of employees.
The board. in a decision rendered
to the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic
railroad, in effect said;
The Fact that railroad cannot pay
the, wages fixed ahyy the Labor board
does not empower x TO notify its em-
ployes that wages are to be cut; the
road must first prove that the wages
are not lust and reasonable"
The A. B. & A. railroad case fol-
lows:
The road posted notices seven weeks
ago that wages were to be cut.
Employees Appealed to the labor
board. which decided in favor of en-
ployes.
1t has been generally reported that
railroads all over the country had in
tended to post wage reduction notices
in case the A. B. & A. had won.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-22
Democratic Leaders Here for
Annual Banquet.
They Speak Little of Returns
for 191s-'2O.
THE ADVANCE GUARD Small
Only Few Gather Early at Hotel
Headquarters.
John HI. Atwood Is Chief
Speaker for Tonight.

by Democrat leaders in Topeka today
for the annual banquet tonight at Ma
sonic temple. The Bourbons talk OF
futures and speak little of the returns
for 1919-20. There is but little enthu-
siasm over any plan to win Kansas in
1922-and nearly four years is a long.
long time to wait in anticipation of
another national victory. In conse-
quence some of the old steam and
fight that was so much in evidence
during the Hodges administration and
early days of Wilson rule is missing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-22

The advance gathering for the party
dinner was small. 1t didn't look like
the night-before-the-b banquet crowd OF
1913-l4. There were few OF the
leaders in the Throop hotel. Hobbies
and others went to rooms for occa-
sional conferences. But the old jos
Ting. Misunderstanding, laughing, shout
ing and good natured workers were
not here. Some of them came on early
trains today Others will be here be-
fore the banquet starts. The nfedi-
cine making, tho, has been set aside
for this season.
No Definite Program.
1t is probable Kansas Democracy
will not attempt to work out definite
campaign plan until next year. The
party leadership in the state wants to
watch and wait. Anyway it is the sad
hour before final exodus of the Wilson
administration from Washington after
eight years of rule. Plans which usu-
ally are fresh and numerous in the
minds of every Democrat areejust now
at low tide. They want to watch the
Harding policies and the worlSsof con-
gress in its special session.
Today many of the Democrats went
to the state house to watch the legis-
lature in action. There has been little
to praise or condemn in work of the
session to date, the Bourbon high Of
ficers asserted. But the party's one
hope of success in the state next year
Tor twenty years always the rareSt
element of outside chances-is that
the Republicans may split and stage
repetition of the fight of 1912. With
no evidence of pending row, Bour-
bon political interest is in Washington.
Party Leaders Here.
Sam Amidon, national committees
man: Forrest Luther, state chairman:
and others in command of the party's
affairs in the state are here for the
dinner. Luther arrived Monday.
Amidon came to Topeka today.
Neither was disposed to talk of the
past or discuss detailed plans for the
future.
Among the Democrats in Topeka to-
day are many of the well known labor
| leaders of the state. Many of the
union chieftains were here for the BAN
quet in 1920. Most of the union men
are confident that their chances to win
| in the state lie in ability to establish
| favorable working agreements with
| the Democrats and to secure thru that
party pronouncement of their plans
| and principles President Freeman of
| Continued on Page Twol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-02-22
TODAY IN CONGRESS-
In the Senate.

Appropriations committee considers
Kenyon resolution to appropriate
100000 for sending American grain
to starving Chinese '-.
Military committee expected to COM
plete work on army appropriation bill.
The senate today passed the Wins
low bill authorizing partial payment to
the railroads of the sums due them
from the government under the guar
antee provision of the EschCummins
law. .--sF
In the House.
Postoffice committee considers
needs of aerial mail service.