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Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-13

Ladies' Colored Smocks
very fancy; regular $500
values. Price-Wreck- 40
ing Sale price Joe
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-13

L a d e $ Mercerized
Bloomers, regular S1.00
value. Price-Wreck- Al
ing Sale price fCc
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-13

L a d $ Bungalow
Aprons, regular sl.50 val
ue: Price-Wrecking 90
Sale price JOG
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-13

High grade frocks in Canton Crepe, kitten's Ear
Satin, Tancta and Charmeusc. Handsomely silk
iringcd or lavshy beaded and embroidered. Suitable
for best OCCASIONS
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-13

Navy blue Tricotinc and finest mems wear serge.
lined with Powered plain peau de cygne tailored or
proiusely embroidered and bugle beaded. Yes the
workmanship alone is worth the price marked them.
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-13

Small Children's Fancy
Caps, slightly soiled. VAL
ues up to S1.5o. Price
Wrecking S a l IN
price lUc
Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-13

Mems guaranteed Blue
Chambray Wor5ingShirts,
double stitched through
out; S1.25 value. Price
pries @isskins ; a ! : 59c
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Dorothy DIX Tails
NJ DOROTHY DIX
Wex1&'s Hfghess Paia Woman Wr4saB.
Training a Wife,.

Every girl should be taught how to
handle her husbands, money by being
given an allowance and made to live
on 1t. She should be- taught how to
save here, so she can spend there, and
to deny herself little things that she
may have big ones.
There is no shorter cut to the di-
vorce court than extravaganza and no
tie binds a man to a woman more
strongly than thrift. So If a woman
wants to be happy and prosperous
wife, she must be a good financier.
To be a successful wife, a woman
must know how to handle her hus-
band with gloves, and to run the do
nestle machinery with the least pos
sible friction. Most women have an
idea that if they love their husbands
enough, they can treat them as mean
as they please.
Acting on this theory, a woman
whose one burning desire in life is for
her husband to be always romantically
in love with her, will appear before
him daily slouchy, unattractive, with
uncombed hair and uncorseted figure.
Or, woman who loves her husband
well enough to die for him, will nag
him about everything under the sun
that he does, until his home comes to
be a symbol for the place of torment
in his mind.
The very A B c of a girls training
for matrimony should be that if she
wants to be kissed, she must keep her
self kissable; and that just because
husband and wife do have to live so
close together is the more reason for
making every effort to keep them
selves as personally attractive as pos
sible. It takes care, and work, and
trouble for a woman to keep her halo
always polished up, but it pays for the
effort it costs.
It should also be ground into the
girls consciousness that when she mar
ries, she doesn't become her hsuband's
taller. nor is she made the custodian
of his manners and habits. By the time
a man is old enough to get married,
he has found out what he likes to eat,
and wear, and read, and how late he
likes to sit up at night; and his wife
is wise if she leaves him undisturbed
in his little ways. And If she is big
enough to give him night off without
raising ructions about it, he Will arise
and bless her name.
The girl who is going to be mar
ried, should take a course in diplo-
macy, and find out the million differ
ent combinations by which a man can
be worked. She should learn how to
choose the psychological time for ask
ing for money. and imparting the news
that he mother is coming on a visit
and how to play upon masculine van
ity as upon a harp with thousand
strings.
Above all, the woman who wants tc
make a success as a wife, should be
trained to be good sport, to take
things in life as they come, hard and
soft, to be a faithful comrade, and q
good loser who will stand by her hus-
band m his adversely, as she enjoyed
the good things he lavished on her In
| his prosperity.
| Being IA wife is full-sized woman's
| job. It's no jack-leg trade for anna
tours. It's big business. and it re-
| quires a highly-trained professional tc
| make a success of it.
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Reference was made recently in
these columns to the fact that Califor-
mia fruit growers were shipping their
product TO the Atlantic coast cities,
thru the Panama canal. Now, it is
reported that Montana wheat is to be
sent to New York by the same route,
thus making a substantial saving as
compared with the rail route. The
same statement says that copper and
lead have been reaching the Atlantic
seaboard by this route at a saving OF
about IS ton. Proof that railroad
freight rates have passed beyond
what the traffic will bear" steadily is
accommodating, but nobody seems to be
doing anything about it except the
shippers. AS long as these merely
complained of high rates no attention
was paid to them but since they have
begun to act, the roads and the inter
state commerce commission may take
notice
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state commerce commission used for
the purposes of the rate case. 1t Is
less than The roads should earn in one
month to receive the 6 per cent which
the transportation act prescribes as
the measure of a fair return on the
investment. 1t is less than one-fourth
Of the taxes charged by local, state
and federal governments for the priv
ilege of owning property and doing
business and the protection of the
laws, and it represents a profit of al
most exactly one per cent on the gross
business done during the year when
the railroads handled more freight
and passengers than ever before in
their history.
These figures illustrate the impor-
lance to the railroads of the relief to
be afforded by the Winslow bill, which
authorizes partial payments pending
final settlement of the guaranty pro-
vided for by the transportation act for
the six months following the termina-
ton of federal control, which has just
been signed by the president
while the taxpayers are grumbling
about paying the guaranty" says the
Railway Age, they might pause to
remember that the railroads them
selves have to pay nearly half of it
for their taxes.
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JUST FOLKS
LIES DIFFICULTIES.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST

A fellers life, it seems to me,
Amt fixed the way it ought to be-
Jes' bout the time he's sleepin' good,
All warIs an snug so that he could
STAY there for several hours or more,
His Dad comes poundin' at the door,
An makes him rush like everything
Becoz the school bells going to ring.
Then when he doesn't want to sleep
An really feels that he could keep
Awake all night, an wants to stay
Downstairs where they are anyway
An read his book-as sure as fate
His Dad will say: Its gettin' late!"
An make him beat 1t up to bed,
Afore he's got his chapter read.
It's funny. but somehow it's true,
When amt got a thing to do
An ask for errands to the store,
There's nothing Ma can send me for;
But jes' let me begin to play
An Ma comes calm right away
An busts the game up. cause / got
To go for things sha needs lot.
1t rains when 1 dom. want it to.
An when I'm sick the skies are blue
An all the sunbeams dance about
To make me wish l could get out
II I was runnin' things down here,
I'd fix 'em sd from year to year
That what we really had tc do
Would be the things we wanted TO-
Copyright, 1921, by EdgaS A. Guest
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engine. Quickly he snatched the hose
from Mr.. James's hand and directed
the stream into the can. Then it was
funneled into the tank of the helpless
car. the driver of the other car was
offered pay and refused, Mr.. James
was hustled into his own vehicle and
away they sped.
At Alto. the next town, the party
filled the gasoline tank, and then at
a 50-mile gait the journey was re-
sumed- June enjoyed the wild ride.
but her boss chung to the car with
desperate fear, as he was bounced
about, and when they drove down the
hill into Hastings he slumped back ex-
shausted, limp as a RELATED football
Dick" he said weakly, take me
to the hotel I'm going to bed. This
day has been too much for me. You
and Miss Alton can attend to affairs at
the meeting
June turned on him, amazed.
why, Mr.. James! Surely you don't
mean it. We certainly can't get along
without you
The boss smiled YEARLY.
I'm not worrying while Dick is
there. He's the brains of the concern
anyhow, and I'm just the figurehead.
Surely you must have noticed it, Miss
Alton Dick does all the thinking,
and 1 merely net as the mouthpiece.
He's run the business for five years,
and I've simply acted on his orders
Dick, to the hotel for me-
And June sighed, and then smiled
at the back of Dicks head.
Copyright. 1921, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
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IN STATE SENATE

A delegation of some twenty Wichita
boys and girls. members of the junior
Grand Lodge of the A. o. U. W., which
is in session in Topeka, visited the
legislature this morning, under the
care of some of the senior members of
the Grand Lodge, and watched the
legislative proceedings from the gall
leries.
Senator Ed. A. Davis. of Minneapo-
lis, and his daughter. Miss Ruth Da-
Wis, who is a student at Kansas uni
versity, spent the week end at Law
renee, at the home Of Sergeant-at-
arms J. N Johnson, whose daughter.
as well as Miss Davis, are members of
the Gamma Phi Delta sorority. The
sorority is contemplating the erection
of new home at Lawrence, and Sena-
tor Davis took the opportunity of
looking over. the proposed site.
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DEATH OF CLARK A. SMITH
CawIxcr City Widely Known Attorney
Was Justice Supreme Court.

Judge Clark A Smith, former justice
of the supreme court and one of the
most widely known lawyers in west
ern Kansas. is dead at his home in
Cawker City. Mitchell county. He had
been in failing health for some
months.
Judge Smith served ten years as a
justice of the supreme court. He was
retired in the nonpartisan judiciary
primary of 1914 when three Smiths
sought supreme court nomination and
all failed. From 1881 to 1889 Judge
Smith was judge of the Fifteenth judi
cial district. He was for many years
active in the practice of law in the
Fifth and Sixth congressional districts
and was well known in political Cir
cles. He was a Republican.
Funeral services will be held in
Cawker City Tuesday afternoon.
Judge. Smith<was one of the earliest
settlers of Mitchell county. He went
to Cawker City in 1871 and was the
first public school teacher in the city.
He was married in 1873 to Miss Sarah
Bowers, who with two sons, survive.
The sons are Matthew A. Smith, owner
of the Granite Creek stock farm near
Cawker, and Omar D. Smith, who is
practicing law in Beloit. Omar D.
Smith lived in Topeka several years.
He is graduate of Washburn col
lege and a member of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity.
Mrs Smith is the only woman living
in Cawker owning an original home
stead. She filed on the farm just
north of Cawker in 1871 and lived in
the building formerly used as the gov
eminent land office.
Judge Smith was a charter member
of the Masonic lodge of Cawker and
was the organizer and last surviving
charter member of the Hesperian
Library club of Cawker. 1t has the
distinction of being the only library
club in the state owning its own prop
xx-;fl, no o,1f-i1a holm
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MAY DELAY PACT
Senate Fails to Set Date for
Colombian Treaty Debate.
Provides for s25,O0O,000 Pay
ment for Canal Zone.

Washington, March THE Colon
bian treaty was reported to the senate
today by the foreign relations commit
tee without discussion
No time for taking it up was set and
committee members said it might not
be acted on this session. despite Presi-
dent Harding's desire for immediate
ratification.
The treaty provides for payment ~
s25.0o0.o00 to Colombia in five yearly
installments for territory taken N con-
nection with the Panama canal.
The committee also reported a
treaty with Great Britain applying to
Canada extradition reciprocafly of
thousands of wives who desert their
children. This treaty. applying then
only to wife deserters. was rejected
last session.
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HIGH RATES FAIL.

Late figures on railroad operation
do not furnish much occasion for OPP
timism regarding the situation of the
ansportation systems of the country.
The roads, when they were taken
over by President Wilson in 1917,
were making a return of 5.S1 per cent
on property investment. In the fol-
lowing year, the first of federal con-
d. troll, the return dropped to $50 per
cent and in 1919, the last complete
year of government operation, the re-
: turn dwindled to 2,64 per cent. For
1920, estimates place the return at
0.7S per cent. The actual return for
December was IL per cent. The ag-
gregate net operating revenues for the
month were $15,Ss6.S1S, when 6 per
cent would have called for $685.
600.
Taxes paid by the railroads in 1920,
or those for which they became liable
because some of the roads are behind
in their tax bills as well as other bills,
amounted to 4 II times as much as the
net operating income which the roads
earned for their owners, says the Rail-
way Age.
Total operating revenues for the
year. according to the interstate COM
merce commission statistics, were
$6,225. 402,762. the largest in the his
tory of the railroads. and $1,041, 000.-
600 greater than for 1919. Operating
expenses, however. consumed $685.
1874 of this, or $1,4O6, 900, 200
more than in 1919; and taxes $2S1,-
SSOs62O or SIS. 900 more than In
1919. Taxes include $SS, S4s,93S OF
war taxes for the period from March
to December after the roads were re-
turned by the government. After de-
Quoting for uncollectible revenues and
equipment and joint facility rents, this
leaves a net operating income or prof
it from railway operations of only
s62.264.421. This compares with ar
average of over 5000, 600, 900 for the
three years preceding the war.
1t represents return of about one
third of one per cent on the valuation
OF $4,000. 600. 900. which the inter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-07
TOPEKA MINISTER'S TO RETURN.
No Changes VIII Be Made in Pastors
OF Methodist Churches Here

No Topeka church will lose its pastor
in the changes to be made at the an
nual conference of the Methodist
churches of eastern Kansas at lola this
week. according to DIR. E. ]. Kulp.
pastor of the First Methodist church.
Doctor Kulp said that no changes were
to be made in the Topeka district and
all Topeka ministers will return to
their pastorates.
The conference will begin Tuesday.
with Bishop e. L. Waldorf presiding.
The Topeka ministers who will go to
lola are the Reverend Kulp; the Rev.
H. o. Hotter. Lowman Memorial
Methodist church; the Rev. c. e. Glib
son, Seward Avenue Methodist church:
the Rev. J. II. Sutton. Euclid avenue
Methodist church; the Rev. r. Z.
Gordon, Kansas Avenue Methodist
church: the Rev. C. W. Marlin. Oak
land Methodist church: the Rev. J.
w. r. Clardy, East Side Methodist
church: and the Rev. IT. w. Reed.
Highland Park Methodist church.
An important question to be met at
the conference will be whether or not
lay delegates shall be admitted to con-
ference meetings. The lay electoral
conference will meet in lola at the
same time that the conference is held.
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Questions-AnsuDers

O. Can a man-eating shark see? II so,
why does a pilot fish accompany him =
A. J. B.
very large prominent eyes. 1t is probable
that the fish known as the pilot fish is
in hts it's ys ths
anything edible that might be cast away.
Q. Who are the Cow Creek Indians?-A-
A. This Is an Athopasken tribe in Ore
gon. and also division of Seminoies in
O.. Where is the Cradle of Libertys-H.
A This is name popularity given to
Faneuil Hall, Boston, as the scene Of early
Q. Does congress have to approve the
appointment Of ambassadors? DIM. ].
a. The president has the power to sc.
lect ambassadors to foreign countries, but
the appointments have to be ratified by the
q. which was The first country that was
A Many of the ancient towns had re-
publican form of government, notably Tyre
and Sidon. Carthage. Athens. and Tome.
Most authorities seem to agree. however;
that the earliest republic n the accepted
sense of the term as that Of Athens.
o. When was starch first -ade? II. L. II.
A. The first making of starch is not of
record, but it is spoken Of by Pliny in the
first century A. D. as being made from
mentioned by later writer's until the time
of Queen Elizabeth. 10th century: when its
use became a necessity for stiffening the
enormous ruffs worn BIZ the queen and her
court.
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question By writing The Topeka Stats
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LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE. BOOK
BIZ LEE PAPE.

Us fellows was going to start up q
game of something, and we went
erround to looh for Pubs Simkins and
he was setting on his frunt steps with
his hand up to his face and sad
Expression on it, saying, o boy maybe
I amt got heck of a earake, o boy.
WITCH US fellows started to say things
to make him feel better, Sam Cross
saying, You awt to be glad it amt in
both ears, Pubs, it must be fearse in
both ears.
Its fearse in one, sed Pubs.
Aw G, Pubs, think of something
cheerful and forget it, jest Suppose
you had a broken leg in 8 places, think
how mulch verse that would be. I
sed.
Nuthing could be eny more verse.
watts the use of thinking, sed Pubs.
It will all be the same in million
yeers. Pubs. there's no use worrying.
sed Sid Hunt.
don't Expect to be f1eer in million
Iyeers. sed Pubs.
Well cheer up, Pubs. you can ony
die once SO it mite as well be now, sed
Skinny Martin.
Id IKE to see you cheer up with
tooth AXE, you long legged prooen. sed
Pubs. Being a heck of a way to in
suit somebody trying to make him feel
better, and Skinny sed. whose long
legged prooen. just for that I got d
good mind jest to leeve you suffer.
And US other fellows sed. Gosh Pubs,
| its a wonder you wouldent use a little
gratitude wen people try to simpathize
with you, heck Pubs. IL that the way
you're going to tawk you dezerve to
have a tooth AXE and its a wonder you
dident get one long ago, G Pubs, gosh.
holey smoaks. Pubs
And we went and started game OF
| Cops and Robbers and left him there
Ito simpathize with himself If he
wunted to.
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IN U. S. SUPREME COURT

The government today won its ap-
peal to the supreme court for a re
trial of the case against the Diamond
Coal & Coke company. to obtain the
cancellation of eighteen patents to coal
lands alleged to have been obtained
thru fraud.
Claim by the state of New Mexico
to certain lands filed on by it in lieu
of tracts owned by the state within
the limitaof a national forest was up
held today by the supreme court.
h Advancement of rearguments of
governments antitrust suit against
the alleged hardwood lumber com
bine, was asked of the supreme court
today by the American Hardwood
Manufacturers association.
Supreme court today sustained the
contention Of the federal government
that in a previous decision in the Dan
Hill case, it had upheld the Reed
amendment, passed. before the days
of the Volstead act to prohibit the
shipment of liquor into dry state.
Judgment for $4,000 awarded A.
V. Wills and sons. contractors, against
Bates county, Missouri, for work on
drainage contract, will stand as a
result of the refusal today of the SUI
preme court to review the case.
Damages of $4,000 awarded in st.
Louis courts to heirs of Walter l..
Clark, an employe of the st. Louis &,
San Francisco railway, will stand as
a result of the supreme courts refusal
today to review the case. Clark was
knocked off a freight car and killed
by temporary structure which attor-
neys for the road claimed had been
built by the city.
Clay Arthur Pierce, Henry Clay
Pierce and the Pierce Investment
Co. were held liable by the supreme
court today for the $4,000 fine for re-
ceiving rebates imposed on the Waters
Pierce Oil company, of st. Louis, after
they had sold the concern to the
Pierce Oil company.
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two states rushed into United States
supreme court, one might think that
there is great public cutlery against
tho Interstate commerce commissions
taking away the power of state rail-
way and public utilities commissions
to fix freight and passenger rates
within a state. But, says the Sioux
City Tribune, there is none. 1t is only
an effort to save political jobs that
should be abolished.
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AIRS. Anderson was born in Orebro.
Ian, Sweden, on January 2. 1874, and
came to Kansas in 1902 and settled at
Clay Center Kan. In 1908 Mr.. and
Mrs. Anderson moved to Topeka.
She is survived by three daughters:
Mrs K. Isaacson of Everett, Wash;
Mrs. Ellen Olson of Orebro Ian, Swe-
den, and Mrs. Augusta Van Ausdell
Of Wichita, Kan. Also one son. Os-
car Anderson, of Fairbanks Alaska,
and fifteen grandchildren and twelve
great grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held Tues
day afternoon at 2 o'clock from the
Swedish Baptist church.
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DEATHS AND FUNERALS

Word has been received in Topeka Of the
death Sunday night OF Mrs. J. w. Tillman
of Pueblo, Colo. Mrs. Tlllman before her
marriage was Miss Isabel Lewis, a sister
Of Mrs. George Real. 405 Monroe street.
Mrs. Tillman lived in Topeka several years
previous to her marriage more than a year
ago.
L. I. BATTEY, age II, died March > in
St Petersburg, Florida. according 10 word
received in Topeka by relatives. He lived
in Florence, Kan. for many years, and
moved to Florida about six years ago. He
is survived by his widow and one son, A..
u. Battey of Chicago. and a brother. A.
ID. Battey of Kansas City, Kan. The funeral
will be held at the home Of his niece. Mrs.
William Bradbury. of 1901 Topeka avenue.
at $3.50 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. Burial
in Topeka cemetery.
ELSIE RIBESA. II months old daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Ribesa, lis North
Jefferson street, died Saturday morning.
The funeral was held at O'Clock today
from the residence. Burial in Mount
Calvary cemetery.
DORA A. DRESSLER, age TO- died Sun
day at her home, 800 Wabash street. The
funeral will be held at 1890 o'clock Tues
day from the home. Burial in Morrfss-
vile. Indiana.
Lords Flowers satisfy. Tel. SAT-