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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

People with chest complaints are
recommended by medical men to read
aloud. as this strengthens throat,
lungs and chest muscles alike. The
reading should be deliberate, without
being allowed to drag, and the enun-
citation clear, the body being held in
an easy, unstrained, upright position,
so that the chest will have free play.
The breathing should be natural and
as deep as possible without undue
effort.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11
Railroad Superstition.

A late article on the psychology OF
crime spoke OF the influence one sui
eide is apt to have upon others with
tendency to self destruction. An
equally curious phase of character
comes out in a notion said to be conf
mon among railroad people. They
have an idea that II one fatal acci-
dent occurs In particular spot ON the
line two other deaths are likely to
follow In the same neighborhood at
close Observation-Disclosures Times.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

Probably 1t has never occurred to
the average man how much free ad-
vertising he is doing for the various
dealers and manufacturers whom he
patronzes. The halter puts his label
in our hats, the tailor attaches his
etiquette to our coats. Collars, cuffs,
shirts and shoes all bear the name of
the maker, so to some extent every
man who walks the street is sand
wich man."
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11
CA .A,ea;
!cHIlDRENS COLUMN |
-wewNw2Cy Iex2J

The Grasshopper's Untimeiy End.
"Just watch me" said the gra asshopper,
Preparing for n flight;
~ feel so vigorous today.
I'll jump clear out OF sight ~
j watched him as ho rose In air,
He kept his word no doubt,
For down he came into stream
Where lived hungry trout.
st. NlcholaA
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

The New Zealand government has
decided that swimming and life-sav-
ing shall be taught in all its schools.
The life-savins society's method hav-
ing been adopted, 1000 hand-boolis
and charts have been sent by order
of the government for the use of
schoolmasters. The handbook, in
which the course of instruction is full
ly set forth for the use Of classes,
schools, and individuals. has also
been translated into Swedish and
Italian.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

The farmers boy who drifts to the
city finds, in nine cases out of ten,
irregular work, dingy little room in
a bad street, food that he would have
disdained in his country home and ir-
resistible temptation to spend every
dollar which he can get hold Of. The
city boy reaching the country finds
just as hard work and longer hours,
but work in the fresh air and sun
shine, with comfortable surroundings,
good food and all the social standing
OF which his character makes him
worthy.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

ireland has become innoculated with
the bacilli expositionalis and It is
planned to hold great international
exhibition at Cork.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

In Australia, among the Chinese
population of between $4,000 and 30,-
900 are some of the "solidest" men
of the community, and. as in British
Guiana and Trinidad, where there are
1898 and 22OO respectively. they num-
ber many shopkeepers and general
merchants, as well as miners and rail-
way builders.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.

Arrayed in all his state clothes the
Sultan of Johore is a glittering GU.
riosity. He wears gems worth $12.-
100000. They sparkle in his crown.
on his epaulets, in his girdle and
his cuffs.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

"Here's q distinguished scientist
Who says that after all there is moth
ing In germs"
Nothing In germs? Nonsense.
Why. look how much the doctors have
made out Of them"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11
And Also LAWYERS,

Bobbts Pa, what happcns VIXEN
cars are telesconed?
Father-The passengers see stars,
my son.-Smart Set.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

Great Bend Kan, is proud of hand.
to-mouth breadlng-making feat
achieved there recently. Wheat which
stood in the field at noon was harvest
ed and thrashed by machinery in the
afternoon, taken TO mill. ground into
flour. made into bread, baked and Of
fered for sale by p. m. Great Bend
asserts that this record cannot be
beaten.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

When Sheffield steel manufacturers
set up mills in Pennsylvania. Great
Britain indeed gives up beaten.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

AS result of the observation
of board of British naval officers
some important changes are to be
made in battleships to be built in the
near future as part of England's prin-
ciple defence. For one thing it has
been decided to cut down the masts
of such ships some sixty feet, because
the new signaling devices introduced
into use recently make tall masts un-
necessary. Furthermore. the high
fore and aft bridges are to be lowered,
built entirely of iron. and 30 arranged
that in clearing ship for action they
can easily be slid overheard. These
improvements are in the general line
of naval progress, and must be ac-
cepted as good. But what will the
outsider think In regard to the grad
ual disappearance of all that he has
long recognized as marks of ship?
There were weepings and wailings
when the old spars and canvas went.
and In the course of time even the
lighting mast will 60. and when
steam is superseded perhaps even the
tunnels. Then we shall have nothing
but the floating hulk, filled with death
dealing machines and horrid to look
upon. But maybe before that time
comes war will have been abolished.
Why not? queries the New York
ySmes.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11
A REFLECTION.

The only man permitted
To enter Fortunes gate
IL he who keeps on fighting
And never yields to fate.
Profitable Advertising.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

A novel but excellent idea has been
introduced in London at all Of the
large halls. museums, exposition
buildings and other places which are
frequently attended by children. At
the Crystal Palace, South Kensington
Museum, the Hippodrome, Earl's
Court Exhibition, the Agricultural
halls, the Kew Gardens and other
places a room has been set apart to
which lost children are taken by the
ushers and other attendants and re-
tanned until called for by their par
ents or whoever is in charge of them.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

Mosquito hunters will follow with in
terest the experiments that are being
made in New Orleans, where the mos
quitoes flourish practically all the
year around. Oil has become very
cheap in that city since the opening
of the Texas fields, and it has been
decided to try to do two things at
once-lay the dust in the streets and
kill the mosquitoes. Railroads have
tried sprinkling their roads with
crude oil, and have found this method
most efficient in permanently laying
the dust. New Orleans is trying the
same thing, and it is said to be as
successful in streets used for traffic
as it is on railways. Most Of New
Orleans mosquitoes are bred in open
drains and cisterns, and while the
streets are being sprinlSled oil is put
on the neighboring drains.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

There is certain lady known 20
the London omnibus officials as the
Regent Street Mystery" who is pos
sessed of the extraordinary eccentric
ity of entering bus and quitting It
again before it has proceeded dozen
PAGES. It would appear that she has
followed this practice for many years,
but the reason for 1t has bafiled the
ingenuity of several generations Of
conductors. Some believe. that he
mind was affected yars ago by the loss
of a friend or relative, and that she
wanders accordingly from omnibus 20
omnibus in the hope OF encounterlng
the missing party. but whether this
solution of the mystery be correct or
not the writer is unable to hazard
the faintest guess.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

Diamandi a native of Pylaros, one
of the Greek islands, Is a remarkable
calculator. After a mere glance at a
blackboard on which 80 groups of fig
ures are written he can repeat them
in any order, and deal with them by
any arithmetical process. It is said
that he never makes an error in cal
culation involving billions, and he can
extract square or cube roots with mar
vellous rapidity and accuracy. Dia.
mandi writes poetry and novels in the
intervals of business. and shows con-
siderable intellectual capacity.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1901-09-11

How many persons who daily eat
sandwiches are aware that II is to an
ancestor of the Earl of Sandwich that
that popular form of food owes It's
name? The story runs that the earl
in question was very fond of playing
cards, and in order to prevent having
to stop to eat he used to have slice
of meat put between two slices of
breat and eat these as he played
This got to be called sandwich y
but gradually the inverted commas
were dropped as the word became an
accepted one in the language.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
What a Chicago Paper Says.

The Chicago Post says: General at
tention is just now being devoted to
the condition of the Santa Fee road
This is owing to the action of the d.
rectors in placing the common stock
on a per cent. dividend basis notwith-
standing the failure of the corn crop
in the territory through which it's lines
run. Those most familiar with the in
side condition of the roads affairs con-
tend that the action was amply justi-
fled. They point out that the Santa Fe
in the last three or four years has
undergone a wonderful transformation.
The present is only the sixth annual
report issued by the reorganiZed COM
pany, yet the prosperous results dis
closed are similar to those of the old
est and best tablished properties in
the United States. During the late
year gross earnings increased nearly
IS per cent, or $8.242,744, making d
total of $54, 474, 1922, against $50, 621, 800 for
1S96-'97.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
AT THE PLAY LAST NIGHT.

''Flipper," just as handy legged as
ever, with the same comical and self
SATISFIED grin, wearing the same derby
hat of the depth of a watch crystal and
with a diamond larger than ever, was
at the Crawford last night with "a Run
away Grip in the parsonage of Arthur
Dunn.
The music of the piece has won it
fame but after all the success of the
musical comedy would be more than
doubtful but for Dunn or some other
person like him. There is really little in
the part "Flipper'' the jockey as fur
nished by the author that is funny but
in the business that Dunn puts into the
part there is a continuous laugh while
he is on the stage. All he has to do is to
lift his hat and smile. That brings a
laugh from the audience.
Dunn is small. very small in stature
but when it comes to Importance he is
in the same class SO far as his estima-
ton of size goes, with big Bill' De-
we're or any of the large men of the
stage. No one would think to see the
easy going 'Flipper" on the stage that
Mr.. Dunn, who is inside the box coat
mad legginS, would demand of the man
agement that his pictures should receive
the most prominence, that his name
should appear in every advertisement
and that he would not play unless such
was the case. But that's Mr.. Dunn.
He's mighty particular. Mr.. Dunn will
at the close of this season and next he
will go into farce comedy.
The company supporting Mr.. Dunn
was nearly the same as seen here last
season. Miss Celeste Wynn was seen
for the second time as "Winnifred
Grey" the runaway girl and her song
THE Boy Guessed Right the Very First
Time" took Just as well as last season.
Clara Bell Jerome was better than ever
in the part of Alice the sweetheart of
F1ipper. Miss Jerome and Mr.. Dunn
in their pickaniny song 1.-THE COLLINS
made the song hit of the evening.
Rose LaHarte made a capital Dor
othy Stanley" Besides being handsome
she possesses a voice that is decidedly
in the part who has sung Listen to the
Band" to the satisfaction of everyone.
Some may say that Miss LaHarte's
voice was not strong enough but the
quality can not be Questioned. If "A
Runaway Grip were a beauty contest
Miss LaHarte would be able to give the
rest a good, long handicap and then
beat them out for the decision. Sadies
Kirby as "Carmenita'' was fairly pleas
ing in the part and sang her song so
ciety'' with a dash that won her an en-
core.
The only bad feature about the per-
Torrance was the orchestra. The lead
er, who travels with the company, Off
ciated at the piano and he with the
snare drummer and bass viol player had
to furnish the music. The other
musicians got lost somewhere in trying
to follow the runaway girl on her flight
from England to Corsica and then to
Venice and at the finish the piano. the
three. The snare drummer was Johnny
on the spot and saved Listen to the
Band" for Miss LaHarte and received
her smiles of approval.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
NEW RAIL SAW.
Machine to Cut the Ragged Ends
From Rails.

Newton, Kas., Oct 19.-As soon as the
factory at Bay City, Mich, can fill its
contract with the Santa F'e there will
be set UP at Newton the first rail saw
of its kind on the system. The prin-
cipal difference between it and the one
now in use somewhere down south is
that the new machine will be station
airy, whereas the old one is portable,
being moved about on a car. Steel
rails that have been in service a good
while become battered and bent on the
ends by the incessant pounding of nu-
merous swiftly moving wheels, and they
have to be taken out and piece of the
end removed. 1t is for this purpose that
a rail saw is designed. The most in
teresting fact about this machine is
that the saw proper is nothing more
than a circular piece of steel similar
to an ordinary saw except that it has
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
THE WAY IN.
Orient Officials Said to Be Planning
Entrance to Wichita

The Wichita Beacon says that meet
ing of Orient railroad officials has been
held, which indicates that the an
nouncement of the route the road
of the passenger depot will be made
soon. John A. Eaton, of Kansas City,
general attorney for the road; w. 2.
Robinson, a stockholder and contractor,
also of Kansas City; L. c. Campbell, OF
ST. Joseph, Mo, also a stockholder and
owner of considerable property in
Wichita, and w. E. Barnhart, right-of-
way agent for the road, were at the
meeting.
L. c. Campbell is a former resident
of Wichita, and is we'll known here.
The fact that he owns considerable
property along Hydraulic avenue
which is one of the proposed routes Of
the belief that this is the route over
which the Orient is to come into the
city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
RAILROAD NEWS.
Time Schedule Arranged For
California Limited.
Leaves Chicago at s p. m. and
Arrives at 2:15 p. m.
WESTOF ALBUQUERQUE
Schedule For Those Lines Fixed
at Los Angeles.
Time at Which the Limited
Reaches Topeka.
SUNDAY.

One of the principal things which was
done at the time card meeting which
has been held at the Santa Fe otaces
for the past three days was the arrange
ment of the time schedule for the Cali
fornia limited, which will begin its trips
on November and continue daily
throughout the winter.
The west-bound limited will be known
as No. 3. It will pass through Topeka
at 1920 every morning, and will stop
here only minutes East-bound limit
ed will be known as No. 4, and will
reach Topeka at 55 minutes past mid
night every morning. leaving here at
n
According to the schedule arranged
the east and west bound limited trains
will pass each other at the following
points: Marcelline, Mo-. 5:25 a. m;
Wright, Kan, ~ miles east of Dodge
City, at 5:45 p. m; Kroenigs, n. M, 10
miles east of Las Vegas, at $40 a. m
The following is the schedule for the
time of arrival at the important stops
between Chicago and Albuquerque:
Nac hpI1Dd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
NOW IS THE TIME

Seasons change. We can't
change them. We can't pre-
vent the coming of cold and
damp airs.
But we.can prevent the sore
threats, the coughs, colds and
lung troubles by taking SCOTS
Emulsion. Nothing does more
to make the tender throat
tough. Nothing gives such
strength to weak lungs
Don't take risks-when it's
easy to be safe. Now is the
season for taking SCOTS
Emulsion in season.
Wen send you little to try, if you like.
SCOTT & BOVINE, 4o9 Pearl street. New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
FROM LEXINGTON.

Superintendent Hobbs, accompanied
! by A. K. Wilson and Fuel Agent Hart,
passed through Harrington last Wednes-
day in their private car attached to No
l on their way south.
Superintendent A D. Abbott has
been transacting business at Enid and
other intermediate points during the
past week.
low Caldwell, the Enid switch engine
has been temporarily pulled off.
Five train crews and one engine crew
have been pulled off at Caldwell
In the near future the dispatcher's
force in the Harrington office will be in
creased to five and Harry Burnett, who
has been our operator here for the past
four years, will be promoted to that re-
sponsible position.
w. P. Bossart returned to Caldwell
Monday after a couple of days visit
with Harrington friends and relatives.
J. o. Collins was the train master dur
ing his two weeks vacation.
J. M. Neal, who ever since Harrington
has been incorporated, has been one OF
the Rock Islands road masters, last
week resigned has position on account
of i'll health. John Bolton of Chickasha
succeeds him.
Boilermaker Walter Scott will leave
Saturday for Atchison where he goes on
business interests. He will be absent a
week
Kansas City spent Sunday last with
Harrington friends.
Engine 16, the Wichita switcher, which
has been in the shops for a couple of
weeks, is now nearing completion and
will be sent down the latter part of the
week
Eldon Harmon of White City, has ac-
cepted a position as boiler maker help
er at the roundhouse.
Robert Huly, of the machine shops,
returned to work Tuesday morning af-
ter a two days layoff.
Engineer John Monaghan has been
assigned the S04, a new machine out of
the Horton shops.
Fireman c. r. Darlington has moved
his family to Dalhart. Mr.. and Mrs.
Darlington will be missed by Herring
ton, especially in church work.
Engine 72S, which has been held in the
shops here for the past three weeks, was
fired up Tuesday morning and sent to
Caldwell where she will run in the flu
ture.
Ed Riley, of Armourdale, is a new
boiler maker at the roundhouse, having
commenced work Monday noon-
Boiler Maker Harry Hilcher, who was
so unfortunate as to get a cinder
embedded in his eye about two weeks
ago, is now in a Kansas City hospital
undergoing surgical care
Engineer E. w. Folsom, who has been
located at Caldwell for the past year,
running 35 and SO, cane to Harrington
Tuesday last and will run out of here
in the chain gang owing to an engine
crew being pulled off below.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19

querQue to the coast has been arranged
at the meeting of division superintend-
ants of the Santa Fe west of Albuquer-
que which was held in Los Angeles the
early part of the week, and which will
be sent here.
The Santa F'e train which leaves Kan
sas City in the morning. and which
passes through Topeka at 1880 o'clock
stops at Wilder II miles from Kansas
City to allow the limited to pass. The
limited leaves Kansas City Is minutes
behind the 1870 train, and makes up
the time in the II mile run.
The following is the time of the west
hound train over the eastern division of
the road, which extends from Kansas
City to Emporia:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE

Harry Sharp Of the machine shop has
quit.
John Clupper of the sheds took lay off
Friday.
Edgar DeCamp of the south shop was
off duty Friday.
William R. Samue1s, a Cottonwood engi-
neer, was in Topeka Friday.
Joseph Syring. Otto Zaclxser and Willis
Clutch. car reDairers have quit.
William DWyer of the scrap iron gang
has been sick and unable to work.
Chris Reid and John Wood of the water
service were out hunting Friday.
Paul Pyetzki of the boiler shop has been
moved over into the sheet iron gang.
Machinist Frank Gibson has quit here.
He has been on the pay roll only short
time
Francis PEARL p farmer Lad from Wa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
Is AN APPLE KING.
C. A. Keller, of Cowley County, Har-
vesting 10000 Bushels of Fruit.

Arkansas City, Oct. 19.-The Traveller
says:
This morning Charles Langfeldt came
to the city and after presenting the
Traveller with bag of apples. related
story which, if it did not apply to Cow
ley county, and was not related by
nan of unimpeachable integrity, it
would be difficult to believe.
Yesterday he visited his neighbor and
friend, c. A. Keller, the apple king of
southern Kansas and found him. with
an army of employees. gathering his
crop of apples For three weeks he has
had IS men employed and they have
now gathered and housed 5000 bushels
and there are still at least 1900 bushels
on the trees.
Mr. Keller has erected storage build
ing this season, 30x75, and Is carpenters
are building another with all possible
dispatch. There are 20 varieties of APP
pies on Mr.. Keller's farm and they are
large, golden and beautiful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
MORE SLEEPING CARS.
Santa Fe's New Time Card Makes Inn
portant Changes.

Some new arrangements for sleeping
cars have been announced by the Santa
F'e passenger department On and af-
ter November 3, the sleeping car line
now operated between Amarillo and
Roswell, will run between Wichita and
Carlsbad To do this necessitates a new
their numbers being 4O1 and 4O2 These
trains will connect with Nos POI and POP
for the Panhandle and Pecos Valley.
The sleeper which has been running
on trains 203 and 204 will after Noyenn-
Der be run between Kansas CITY and
Independence From Kansas Civ to
Independence No 203 will run a little
later than on the present card, and east
bound No. 2O4 will run on about tha
same schedule as at present
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
Stricken with Paralvsis.

Henderson Grimett of this place was
stricken with partial paralysis and COM
pletely lost the use of one arm and side.
After being treated by an eminent physi-
clan for quite a while without relief, my
wife recommended Chamberlains Pain
Balm and after using two bottles of it he
IS ALMOST entirely cured.-George r. Nc
eral other very remarkable cures of par
tial paralysis have been effected by the
known, however as a cure for rheuma-
tism. sprainS and bruises. Sold by all
druggists
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
Kansas City (Kan.) Bank Statistics.

Washington, Oct. 19.-The abstract of
the condition of national banks of Kan
sas City, Kan, at the close of business
on September 30 shows the average re-
serve held at A SO per cent, against
1852 per cent on July Is; loans and dis
counts decreased from $7743,06 to $4,-
III, 1872; lawful money reserve Increased
from $685., 123 to $780, 437; individual de-
posits decreased from 81, 1897, 256 to ST.
1876 63e.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-19
WILL CUT DOWN TIME.
Kansas City7Chicago Trains on Santa
Fe Will Be -Swifter Than Ever.

On the Chicago division of the Santa
Fe there have been a number of i'm
portant changes made in the running
time of trains The average number of
miles per hour made by the various
trains have been raised in MANY in
stances from 1 to 5 miles,
Similar changes have been made on
other divisions. but the time between
Santa Fe is making a special effort to