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The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-06-20

Michael G.. Mulhall, the noted statis-
sfcian who died recently in London,
~Eorecasted the twelfth American CEN
sus within $4,000, showing how very
precise and accurate statistical science
ran be in skiliful hands.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-06-20

If you wish hens to do their best in
producing eggs all winter, see that the
fiocks are not too large, or too man
crowded in the house; fifty good, hens
we'll cared for will give better s~atisfac-
ton and greater returns than 100 half
kept. AS a general thing, it is not the
large flock that is making the clear
profit for the poultry raiser. but the
small lots that are well kept.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-06-20

When there is room in the heart
there is room in the house.
The Dupuyer acantha. [volume] (Dupuyer, Mont.) 1894-1904, 1901-06-20

Hostile Boxers are said to be return
ing to Pekin in large numbers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
TRAIL OF THE FAKE ARTIST

If the legislature would pass law
giving men who send out fake stories
from Kansas to the eastern press about
60 days in the county jailfor each Offense
a blessing would be conferred upon the
state.
There is nothing that injuries the
standing of Kansas one-half 50 much
as the freak fairy tales gotten up by
correspondents and sent to eastern
journals at so much per column
Many people actually believe them
and the impression grows that the jay
hawler people are certainly the great
est aggregation of freaks and curios
ever gathered together under one tent.
To the credit of the rest of the state,
be it said the most Of these highly col
ored tales bear a Wichita date line
But they are greedily taken by the yell
low journals along the lake shores of
Michigan ana the Atlantic sea board
and with each publication Kansas gets
another black eye.
One of the latest of offences in this
line was weird tale sent out from
wichita wherein Miss Beals was made
marshal Of Lawton, thus busting Bat
Carr. the present official. The ingenu-
Gus correspondent then related how
Miss Beals and Bat Carr. met To test
her nerve he took several shots at her
She opened fire on him and shot his hat
off After these little pleasant ex-
changes of compliments the two shook
hands and promised to be friends.
This not even plausible yarn was very
generally circulated among the press
in the cultured and effete east and
again we are made a laughing stock
and dubbed 1.-THE wild and woody vest
In the name of all that is fair and
descent can't these blackmailers OF
Kansas be suppressed?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
GFrom the Chicago News.l

TFrom the Chicago News.1
Shoes that exactly 1T a girl are a
curiosity.
The gift of CAB isn't always an ac-
ceptable present.
Some husbands are domestic and
some are imported.
After a man has reached his limit he
can ScOrn desire
The plumber lays his pipes and the
minstrel pipes his lay
AS a scorcher the sun gives it to the
Wheelman in the neck.
The locomotive tender and the bar
tender are both tank filters.
The female who has money out at in
terest is not a poor loan woman.
1t is the summer of our discomfort
when the felt hat is felt hot.
Revenge may be sweet or it may be
bitter 1t depends on who gets it.
If man has a light heart the re-
Election will light up his cOuntenance-
Lots of people lose their temper, but
unfortunately the loss is not perman-
emit.
A little knowledge may be a danger
Gus thing, but a little widow is often
more So
Fifty little debts of a dollar each will
cause a man more trouble than one big
debt of a thousand
1t doesn't take a schoolboy long to
evince a love for division-when anoth-
er boy owns the apple.
Many a man would probably be an
angel today if his physician hadn t
given him up during his last Illness.
"A girls pretty foot never makes the
impression on a young man that her
fathers pedal extremity sometimes
does
Don't ignore a man because he is in
the light-Weight class It is easier to
throw a cannon ball a mile than it is
to throw a feather ten feet
An ounce of contentment may be bet
ter than a ton of gold, but most people
| who have the contentment would gladly
] .a.-cl,- n e-aa 1t far. He cold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
EDIBILITY OF PRUNEs.

California promises an abundant
crop of prunes this year. Whether
boarding houses and restaurants can
furnish oatmeal or not on account of
the short oat crop, and whether there
win be corn enough to make good
supply Of hoe cake, makes no differ
ence. for there viii be prunes.
Learn to eat prunes Some wit once
asked why Adam ate of the apple, and
the reply was because there We're no
prunes.p People viii not have to eat Of
apples this winter. even if there is a
scarcity Of other fruits and vegetables.
The California prune crop IS large
There are 81. 900 acres of prune trees In
the state, and every prune tree is ex-
pected to thrive during the drouth-
The crop is estimated at $4,000 600
pounds of green prunes, 10000 COG
pounds of dried prunes, or 100000 geo
pounds of boarding house prunes after
they are properly soaked and irrigated
The dried prunes will ill 5000 freight
cars, and If the people learn to eat
them it viii be possible to have at
least 5000, COO O000 people fun of prunes
this winter Look in the cook books
ana see what can be done with prunes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

his first newspaper work on the Chi
cago Tribune.
Burlington women are going in for
athletic sports They have organized a
Somerset" club.
Mr.. OT4eary Of lola buys and sells
mules He is probably true to his name
when handling them
Sunday school and church have been
abandoned at ingalls, and the stores
keep open on Sundays.
The story going around that Topeka
ice is so impure that the council will
order all citizens to boil it is probably
a fake
A Pratt crap shooter says its unlucky
to play on Sunday. He probably knows
as he lost $25. a gold watch and dia-
mond ring
Some OF the missionaries that are be-
ing sent by the Kansas churches to At
rica and China should be sidetracked
at Fort Scott.
One day the Parsons papers prove
that the Benders We're lynched, just as
easily the next day it it is shown that
they are alive
Yates Center, that hasn't seen enough
rain this summer to lay the dust, con-
tributed 50 to a fund to aid the drouth
stricken in China
Having no pastoral calls to make or
woodpiles to saw up, two Garden city
preachers engaged in a rough aud tum-
BILE fist fight recently.
Ingalls, merchants believing in re-
eiprocity sell their country customers
bad potatoes enough to even up for the
bad eggs brought in.
A minstrel show with pretty girls
and an important council meeting was
billed for the same night at FL Dorado.
Only one was held Can you guess
which one2
A pioneer settler returned to lola and
jollied the inhabitants with a story that
he thought that he was approaching
Kansas City as he blew in. The fatted
calf was at once 1ariated and a few
cold ones opened.
Certain parties who never heard a
weapon fired outside of a popgun are
grumbling about Col.I1ttle being award
ed pension. Ed Little was a brave
soldier and a gentleman and the kick
ers should pull in their horns.
An Ottawa amateur company of 100
win tread the boards in Uncle Tom S
Ca bin' soon. It is understood that
Henry Allen will do the stunt that is
required to receive the Iashes'' and
Billy Deford will impersonate Simon
Legree.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
BURToN's QUEER TACTICS.

A Washington dispatch says that
when Senator Burton was asked con-
corning reports from Kansas that the
Republicans of the state are practically
unanimous in favor of the nomination
of Vice President Roosevelt for presi-
dent in 1904, he said:
THE people Of the state are not talk
ing politics of any kind. Roosevelt is
not being doomed for the nomination
Nobody is being doomed, in fact; the
truth is that there is so much business
being done in Kansas that the state
has no time to be Specializing on who
Will be nominated for president three
years hence"
It has been 50 long since the Junior
senator from Kansas has given out an
original interview on public questions
that it might be said his life is one Of
constant denials- Burton and Roose-
Welt were reported to be getting so
chummy that it is difficult of compre-
hension to see why he should try to
hold up Teddy's Kansas boom.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
MuRpERoUs WEATHER.

The following IS from the current IS
sue of Harper's Weekly:
Summer after summer comes. and
some among us are still wondering, as
they wondered years ago. as to the con
nection between heat and murder Why
is the revolver so near and the hand
so prone to the billy on a hot night,
especially after there has been indnl-
gence in a picnic or other cup festival
Why do homicides coincide with heat
and mosquitoes The question IS easy
Heat. mosquitoes. whisky. beer. sitting
s bedrooms, swarming and unclean fire
escapes. asphalt smells, too little cold
water inside and outside-these. and
lurking jealousies which possibly might
so hang in the winter, nourish passions.
The remedy is simple-that is, an
emollient may readily be devised. Less
poverty would help greatly, but we
can't diminish that by public action
because SO many people have acquired
the habit of poverty and persist in it.
while so many others are defeated by
poverty and are unable to recover. Less
of the rum habit would help; but we
can't do much here. for the rum habit
is not conQuerable by law But the com
munity can lesson some of the evils OF
heat by insisting upon better tenementS.
more cleanliness in them and the
streets. more small parks and recrea-
tlOn WharNeS. more free chairs IN the
parks, and many, many more bathing
places. Comfort, GOODNESS, mental and
moral placidity which would be added
TO life by the things the city can do.
would accomplish all that is possible to
disarm the victims of wrath compelling
sun, alcohol and discomfort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

it down as an evil inroad upon his
preroeatives. the wise man keeps silent
and lets her have her own way-as
usual The woman Of today elects 70
live and work on the same footing as
the sterner sex.
what is more. the business woman,
and, in that sense, working girl, moves
in society as good as the best She
may not hold her head so high sas the
pert school girl. literally. But the up
turned nose attitude is peculiar to the
school miss. And what IS she, pray,
but one who is preparing TO take a
part in the worlds work2 People edu-
cate their daughters more nowadays
with an idea that they shall be Of
some use to themselves and to their
fellowmen.
1t is the distinguishing feature of
this city of Topeka that among its
sweetest girls are to be found its work
ing girls With lack Of milHonaires and
our democratic ideas. we would not
have 1t anything else
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
Begun Ar THE soURcE.

In a talk given to the Christian En-
deavorers of Central Congregational
church Sunday night, Rev Charles NJ
Sheldon touched upon the topic which
according to reports is to furnish ma
terial for his forthcoming story-sermon
that of the slums in Chicago. His re-
marks of this topic We're strong, point
ed and indicative of the great uplift
which the college settlement and SINH
lar plans have brought about to the
poor of the cities. But giving to all
those engaged in such work their just
credit, it does seem a matter of surprise
that almost no attention has been given
to the problem behind that of the ten
ement house and slum-
The rural population is the basis of
that of the cities;. that is the country
districts are furnishing an incessant
flow of people cityward- Now why not
begin purifying downstream by begin
ming at the source2 OF course it IS not
understood that by paying attention to
the rural classes the entire city popula-
ton is to be redeemed from tbs degrad-
alton. But there should be at least an
Immortality on the part Of the reform
ers which shall bring to the great ag-
ricult1lral classes of this country some
consideration. 1t is readily admitted
that the surroundings of rural life in
America are conducive to the highest
morality but in a country as thinly set
tied as this, the solitude of the farms
is largely the cause OF such an exodus
to the towns and cities. The young peo-
Die have small opportunities to hear
lectures. concerts. entertainments and
the like. In many farm homes of the
United States books are not plentltui
and mail comes possibly twice week
possibly less. Is it any wonder then
That the boy who follows a team all
day long with nothing to think about
except the little neighborhood gossip
that he may hear, when night comes is
convinced that farm life is one OF
drudgery2
Why shouldn't the reformers who are
So anxious to save for a few short years
the rnisspent lives of men and women
who have gone beyond middle age, turn
a little Of their attention to filling the
needs of the rural population. and
rounding out the lives of the young
men and women in every other way
supplied with the necessary means fol-
evolving the highest possible citizen
ship. The tendency has been too Ions
to slight the great plain people and II
is now time to wake up to real oppor-
tunity for doing good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
GLOBE SIGHTS

IRON the AIcnlSOn dlODe.l
During excessively hot weather, it is
important to keep cool in your mind
A man is confronted with problems
all his life but never solves any of them
till he dies.
There is a married woman in Atchi-
son who is better looking than her I'M
married sister. who is younger.
Our kin who are living in Buffalo
have our permission to move to St.
Louis any time after November.
When business is dull on the rail-
roads, the brakemen talk about carry
ing great quantities of bulk eggs.
About the most shiftless trick a man
can be guilty of, is TO walk along the
streets in the middle of the day carry
ing a guitar.
When a woman asks her husband
for money, she always asks him for
change although she really wants
twenty dollar bills.
Everything has its disadvantages: if
you are at the head of the procession
You can't rest or slow up a moment,
and if you are at the foot. you get all
the dust
After the groom has given the preach
er an envelope, the preachers wife has
no more interest in the proceedings,
being devoured with curiosity to know
what amount was enclosed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
oUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Even photograph has its own rec
ord.
Sowing wild oats naturally makes
one Seedy.
Some men would like to deliver their
own funeral orations-
It's good thing to swallow your
pride, provided you can digest it.
The man who celebrates his twenty
fifth wedding anniversary must be IN
favor of free silver.
No Maude, dear. a woman IS not nee
essarily d shoplifter because she takes
an elevator in a department store
An uptown Mrs Malaprop who was
taken to an oratorio expressed her dis
appointment because there was no ora
tory.
Wigg-"The landlady says you're a
kicker: YOU beef about things So"
Wagg-.sWell. when she eats her beef
stew III bet she beefs, too.
'sThey tell me trade is vulgar" says
The man who puts on frlils,
And. feeling this contempt for trade,
He never pays his bills
Nell-s'A Mr.. PufTedup says he talks in
his sleep. isn't it TOO bad2" Belle
why is it too bad2" Nell-.tWhe he's
asleep he cant hear himself talk
When it comes to mere chatter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
THE GIRL WHO WORKS.

shes sweet girl though she has
to work for her living" There is a
volume Of sermons and library of
Bertha NJ. Clay novels in this trite
phrase. With all the dignity that has
become attached to labor by the on
ward democratic trend of the age, the
pity of it is stiI heard.
There is no reason TO make a sour
girl OF a sweet girl by reason Of the
fact that she works for her own living.
Many Of them work from choice the
same as few Of the men. It is a part
Of the growing spirit of independence
that dominates the whole American
social fabric. regardless of sex. There
is large question whether he would
now be considered entirely and grandly
chivalrous who would bar women from
the business and working world. 1t is
more than likely that he would be ac-
cused Of selfish motives and a fear Of
competition. So instead Of marking
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
IAYHAWKER Jors.

The drouth has killed the loco weed
in Ford county.
Mrs Nation is free and Mr.. Nation
is trying to be-
A colony Of rats, the first in the town,
has reached Dodge City.
ST. John is to have an old-fashioned
Swiss bell ringers concert
Ottawa has grown SO civilized, that
a cage Of horned toads attracts atten-
ton.
Mr.. Fox, janitor, win dust the Belle
vile school house with his brush this
winter.
Right in the midst of the hot wave
two Wichita women went to law over
a plush cape.
A Medicine Lodge man whose corn
crop was a failure has three tons of
grapes for sale.
a brave Holton young man will do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
MAYOR HUGHES DILEMMA.

Mayor Hughes is now trying TO re-
pudiate the platform enunciated by
Chief of Police Stahl at the Good Cit
zenship meeting two weeks ago. Hughes
does not want his warlike chief to stir
up the animosity of the German voters
of the city by interfering with the Ger
man societies and he also objects TO his
threatening talk about the Elks and
Topeka club.
The president of the Turner society
was probably correct when he sized up
the situation thus: Mayor Hughes is
all right if the cranks viii leave him
alone" The mayor seems to be 'all
right" on which ever side Of the ques-
ton he happens to land He was AN
right to the temperance people in the
campaign and now he is ''an right TO
the German societies.
1T is interesting to observe the dou-
bic hand which the mayor has been
playing. In spite Of the smoke of cam
paign promises, Mr.. Hughes building
was used as a joint by Woods brothers
1t was useless for the mayoralty cam
didate to tell how it happened, and
throw the responsibility onto his Wife.
The people of Topeka. OF whom there
IS a nominal temperance majority, did
not believe Mr.. Hughes sincere and
hundreds of them refused to vote for
him in spite of his official Endorsements
Now that the supreme court has made
Mr. Hughes at least the temporary
mayor of TopeHai it is obligatory upon
him to maintain his bluff. He must
continue to pose as a Temperance"
mayor. while for political purposes he
holds star chambers with the president
of the Turner society, and promises to
see" the chief of police in the interests
of institutions which the chief has bold
" threatened to crush
Without doubt the scheme of the
mayor would succeed admirably, and
temperance people would not have
heard anything about the German so
cieties but for the chief of police. whose
cooperation was necessary to the
mayor. The chief has baked He
holds to the old fashioned idea that he
must enforce all laws. regardless OF
who it hits. He can not see the neces-
sity of adopting any particular course
simply for policys sake.
Mayor Hughes has discovered that to
tie Chief Stahrs hands with orders will
seriously shock the temperance voters
who supported his ticket. To allow
Stahl to follow the present drastic
policy against the German societies viii
be breaking faith with the other side,
and bad politics generally. Thus the
two horses which the mayor has been
riding so successfully are likely to start
off in opposite directions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

The Devices Wood works at McKees-
port. Pa. which the steel colossus has
ordered dismantled, is one of the old
est and best known plants in Pennsyl-
vania- 1t was founded nearly 40 years
ago, and its shops and mills cover from
Il to IA acres. It employed an aver
age of 900 men. but in the busiest tim es
the payroll carried 1900 names. The
plant cost several million dollars. The
company announced its intention Of
spending a large sum of money in i'm
provements, but the order to dismantle
the mill terminates that plan. The
sentiments of the citizens and officials
Of McKeesport have been against the
steel corporation, and the latter pre-
ferred TO get out rather than attempt
to resnrna
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

I've frequently found
That the fellows who fatter
Are invited around.
Tomny-t.Pop what is meant by the
breath of suspicion2 % Tommy's Pop
THE breath of suspicion my son, is a
figure of speech based largely upon the
aroma, OF cloves
She gave me the marble heart,
She gave me a frozen stare,
She gave me an icy hand to shake
With a frightfully frigid air.
Oh, she was a maiden cold,
And I was in deep despair,
TIL she gave me a shock when she gave
me a lock
OF her flaming, fiery hafrl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

reminiscent and he told interesting stories
Of ''Parson' Brownlow,s son, wno was
colonel of the Fourth Tennessee Aoun-
tain infantry in the federal army Hed
tape didn't hamper Colonel BroWnlow,
eafd the old soldier 1T almost crazed
raarfinefs to hear BroWnloW shout. one
string into twos; git or TWO strings into
four. git In the same corps with bfOWia-
lows rnonntaineers was a company Of
Massachusetts sharpshooters. who had q
captain as unconventlonaliy military -
men he would say when he wanted the
company to wheel. while klnaly nre
ruandS.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
CT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
azgav during the summer may haze
The 6aber mailed regularly each day
10 any address at the rate Of Thirty
cents a month. address changed as
often as Hesfred. TTJHize ont Of fO0O''
Tie STATE journal z0iz be TO Jo~ like a
e7afIy letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10
An Uneonven1io officer.

FF'rom the Philadelphia Reeord.l
The news that Congressman BroWnioN
nephew Of s.Parson BroWnlow--the IA
nous southern uniOnist. had settled Ike
publican fractional troubles in Tennessee
with his rival leader. Pension Comm1S-
sioner Evans, made civil war veteran
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

Milwaukee Journal: The Spaniards
who We're so gloriously whipped. must
be astonished at the fuss we are max
ing as to who did it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

Admiral Sampson has been out
classed. Al man has been found who is
more heartily despised than that Of
icer. His name is James r. Woods,
and his address is Lawton o. T.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-10

When Colonel Roosevelt comes out
west among his friends and admirers,
he doesn't seem IN any hurry to return.
He viii Hnger. in Colorado another
week. The longer he stays the bigger
his boom Will become.