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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20

this she was successful, though she
caught him glazing at her across the
table several times during the meal.
and two or three times he seemed
about to break crockery. 1t was only
during the last five minutes at the
table that she made up her mind on
went up stairs and he was making
ready to begin speech she turned on
him with:
Now. then. want to know what's
the matter with you. You seem to
have something on your mind"
Eyes, woman, have something on
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
Waggish.

WaEGish.
"What a sad
dog you are,
Clubleigh! AL
ways short!"
well, I'm no
dachshund, III
admit"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
Mistlel0e.

The prettiest thing about mistletoe 10
It's milky white opalescent berries. The
stems and foliage seem to betray the
parasite nature Of the plant in their
iarly unwholesome shade characteriz-
ing the stems. 1t is an uncanny sort OF
plant. Most parasites are. Is there
anything more positively ghostlike than
the plant we know as Indian pipe lno-
pOtrOpa)?
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
II 0vv Absurdi

ibid you hear the terrible storm last
night, Sarah?"
"No; not q sound. Did it thunder?"
"Terribly."
"Why didn't you wake me? You know
I can't sleep when 1t thunders"-Man-
chester Times.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20

Oblivion Is the dark page wherein
memory writes her light beam characters
and makes them legible. Were it all light
nothing could be read there any more
than II Il were all darkness.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
Look For Good Point..

"If we'd spend only half a. much
time as the photographer does trying
to see people in the best light" said
the philosopher, wed have a much
better opinion Of everybody."-Indian-
apolis News.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20

iy.-, GA the floor with sofa pill
W under his head and fast asleep,
nd near him the cat lay stretched out
md seemingly dead. The Jar" had
Deen too much for them. NJ. QUAD.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20

81 suppose your wife always has the
last word?" said the impairment citizen.
mot always answered Mr.. Meekton.
"But she always has the last one that is
spoken aloud"-Washington Star.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
lucy.

II wouldn't have refused that young
man II I'd been YOU" said an elderly aunt
to her young and frsky niece.
~ don't think | would either il I'd been
you" retorted the saucy maiden.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
NOT Intimate Enough,

Eve never remember the faces Of those
we love most dearly"
"Thats So To save me l can't tell
what hundred dollar bill looks like
Detroit Free Press.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20

"Pa, what's an average manT
zone who thinks his employers bust
ness would be -un good deal better II he
could have mare to say in the matter
himself"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
Dear. Good Natured Soul.

Bridget. were you entertaining a man
In the kitchen last EVENING""
"Will, mum, thot's f'r him t say OF
done me hest wild tn intervals at hand,
num."-Philadelph Bulletin.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
The Wnv the Money Goe.

Wife, had to spend fifty Of that Eve
hundred for some necessary things.
Husband--Well. what are you going to
do with the four hundred and fiftyY
Wife-Oh, that goes for luxuries!-
Judge.
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BOWSER Is COWED.
he HAD TIE USUAL SUPPLY OF CON-
PLANTS, BUT Is FOaeSTALLED.
Mrs. Bowser Jars the Old Fellow By
Showing Him, to His Aston ish men {,
That His Troubles Are the Result
of His Own stupidity.
copyright. 1902. by c. B. Lewis.l

copyright. 1902, by c. B. Lewis.1
"A ~ RS. BOwSER knew that she
NV was going to catch it"
~ while Mr.. Bowser was yet
afar Off. He came along
from the street car with scuff, scuff,
scuff, and when he reached the gate
he gave 1t kick that nearly lifted 1t
Off its hinges.
He dragged himself up the steps, IN
locked the door and then banged It
open with his knee. She took his hat
and overcoat just in time to save them
from being deposited on the floor, and
her only remark was in regard to the
weather. She saw that he was ready
TO break loose, but she hoped to put
Off the climax until after dinner. In
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
DIsINTEREsTEp ADVICE

A number of these cases of marriage at
hrst sight having again turned out dis
astrously, we again remind both sexes that
people should know something about each
other before they wed.-Phiiadelphia In
quirer
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20

Humane.
Salesm an
What sort Of
music do you
want?
Old Shorter
Oh, an ything
with plenty Of
+ Q SITS In It,.
TIL ose daugh-
tiers of mine
are altogether
too ling
with the piano.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20

II we had no failings ourselves. we
should not take so much pleasure in find
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20
The Drawback.

"Elsie says there was only one draw
back to her wedding"
"Whnt was that?"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-02-20

Mrs. Steighatome-I haven't been to the
theatre for 90 long wouldn't know how
to act.
Mr.. Steighatome-Just as we'll You'd
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
BIDS FOR DALLAS LINE.
Rock Island Asking For Bids to Be
Opened August 10.

Denver, July 30-The Rock Island will,
on August 10. open bids for the con-
struction of its road from Fort Worth
to Dallas and Corsicana. This is pro-
5ect recently reported as abandoned, but
1T is now said that the report was false.
The Colorado & Southern is interested
In this extension, as it will give the Col
orado road another outlet from Fort
Worth. There are many rumors that the
relations between the Rock Island and
colorado & Southern are becoming very
close, particularly for Texas business
the through passenger service between
Memphis and Denver via the Choctaw,
now owned by the. Rock Island, and the
Colorado road is said to be only the be-
ginning of more extensive and bind
ing agreement between the two roads.
While the Rock Island is a direct COM
petitor of the Santa F'e and the latter
and the Colorado & Southern are close
ly allied, it is said that the deals be-
tween the Colorado road and the Rock
Island viii be such as to in no way af-
feet the status of the Colorado road and
the Santa Fe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
President B. F. YOakum Of the
Frisco Again Denies.
Says Control of Road Will Not
Pass to Rock Island.
Rock Island May Reach Coast
Over Santa Fe Tracks.
May Also Absorb Kansas City
Southern.

President Benjamin F. Yoakum OF
the st. Louis and San Francisco rail-
road has again denied the reports of
the Frisco being absorbed by the Rock
Island or that controlling interest is
to be transferred to the Rock Island.
President Yoakum has been very busy
for three months denying the reports
of the merging of his road with the
Rock Island.
A dispatch from New York says:
The ST. Louis and San Francisco
railroad is not to be merged with Rock
Island nor with any other railroad,
said President Yoakum of the former
tonight at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
The Frisco will have board meet
ing here on Wednesday, but the sale of
the road will not be a part of the pro-
ceedings.
I have denied this before, and now
repeat it. You can make it as en-
phatic as you choose. The Frisco is
not negotiating with any railroad or
ale 1t is doing very well independ-
emily. It's stockholders are perfectly
satisfied with the property as it ex-
This disposes of the reported extern
sion of Rock Island, so far as the
Frisco is concerned. The Atchison is
another which is said to be claiming
the attention of the Moores. President
Ripley of the Atchison is quoted today
as saying that there will be no sale
of the control of that property to Rock
4SldnQ interests. lie also declares tnat
the Atchison people have not been look
ing for any merger with the Rock Is
land or any other road.
No project concerning any western
railroad has attracted so much atten-
ton as the proposed readjustment plan
of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad, which is to come up at the
annual meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the system in New York.
THE Santa Fe reorganization a few
years ago, which attracted so much at
tention. was a successful effort to re-
habilitate bankrupt railroad. But the
Rock Island project involves a system
in splendid physical and financial con-
ditiOn and is an attempt to control the
immense traffic of the west and south
west. 1t is by long odds the biggest
transaction of its kind among granger
railroads. Granger is term applied
to railroads west of Chicago and the
Mississippi river.
THE Rock Island has doubled it's mile
age within year and now operates
5000 miles of track. If the projects I'M
der way succeed it will operate nearly
II. 900 miles of track. At the board
meeting in New York the capital stock
is to be increased, and the absorption
by purchase of one or two other lines
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is to be considered. In some quarters
the report that the Rock Island is seek
ing to purchase the ST. Louis & San
Francisco railroad is discredited. In
view of the statement of the head of
the system that the naturaT outlet for
the traffic of the Rock Island is by way
of Galveston and the Gulf and the ad-
mission that the road will purchase the
Mallory line of steamers running out Of
Galveston it is more reasonable to sup
pose that it is the purchase of the Kan
sas City Southern railroad that is real
ly the desirable proposition. The Kan
sas City Southern runs straight as the
crow f1ies' to the Gulf, while the Frisco
has no tracks of its own to this point.
1T may develop as one of the surprises
of the meeting that the Rock Island has
made a traffic arrangement with the
Santa Fe railroad by which it will not
be necessary for the Rock Island tc
build to the Pacific coast.
by the purchase of the Kansas City
Southern railroad the Rock Island
would gain control of the Suburban
Belt railroad in Kansas City, thus af-
fording it an ideal terminal system and
one in close proximity to the Bates
bridge with its many ramifications. The
Rock Island is said to be backing this
enterprise"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
BODYs DAILY FUEL SUPPLY.

Man needs a certain amount of food
to run his body, just as an engine needs
coal, water, oil and repairs. Starch is
by far the most important part of mans
diet, this coal being about four times
the required quantity of "oil and re-
pairs" Starchy foods should be dex-
trinized, however, as they overwork the
stomach. The easiest, most appetfzing
and best way to secure the necessary
starch is through the use of that thor
oughly cooked cereal, Toasted Wheat
Flakes. 1t makes an ideal starch-dex-
trinized food-ideaI in that it gives the
amount of energy required; ideal be-
cause being delicately sweetened with
Malt Honey, it tempts the palate; ideal
because it furnishes the starch dextrfn-
lied for rapid and easy assimilation,
thus saving the stomach this work.
Genuine packages show the Battle
Creek Sanitarium.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
PROSPERITY MUST COME
Paul Morton Talks About Kansas
Crop Prospects.

Vice President Paul Morton of the Atch-
ison, who has just returned from long
western trip, says the west will have the
He looks for corn crop approximatfng
2,50O, 100000 bushels, or about 10000, 900
bushels more than the largest previous
crop on record.
1.-THE crops in the west are all beyond
the danger line" declares Mr.. Morton.
I'VE are having plenty of rain, but 1 do
not believe there has not been enough
anywhere to do material damage. Okla
homa and Kansas are both safe for crops.
About the only danger now is from hot
winds, and these could do very little harm
before the plant natures. Kansas has
fully 1000, 600 acres of land in corn this
year more than ever before, large bulk
of this area being spring wheat that was
plowed up. Farmers are jubilant and
prosperity must come to them from the
high prices they receive for all products
this year."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
Inquiries Answered.

Mrs. T. L. H. writes: 1 have been
using your recipes and find them good;
would you please give me a recipe for
sweet crackers; also for velvet cookies:
they are similar to the first We buy
them at the bakery and the word velvet
is stamped on them.
Could you tell me how to put up
cucumber pickles like those we buy in
bottles, so sweet and peppery?
SWEET CRACKERS AND VELVET
COOKIES.
We would like to oblige our corre-
spondent with recipes for these, but be-
a speciality of these goods the recipes
are part of their stock in trade, and
their exact composition a trade secret,
which may not be given to the public.
SMALL CUCUMBER PICKLES..
Select cucumbers not over two and
half inches in length For one hundred
pickles allow one ounce of mustard
seed, one ounce OF whole cloves, one
large tablespoonful of salt, table
spoonful of grated, fresh horseradish.
half pound of sugar and two little red
peppers. Put all these spices into two
small bags. Place the cucumbers in a
kettle and cover the fire; add the spices
and the peppers cut into small pieces.
Let the vinegar heat very slowly and
when the pickles are scalding hot put
them into jars, packing closely end to
end; adding the red peppers, but leav-
ing out the spices. Fill bottles very full
with vinegar and seal.
BOILED HUCKLEBERRY PUDDING.
A Constant Reader: Would you kind
ly publish recipe for a boiled buckle
berry pudding with a sauce?
Measure a pint and half OF sffted
-four and add to it two teaspoonfuls OF
baking powder and a saltspoon of salt.
Sift thoroughly together. Stir a we'll
beaten egg into pint of milk and stir
| this gradually into the flour, making a
smooth batter. Then stir in three cups
of berries Turn into buttered mould
| and steam in enough boiling water tc
| partly cover the mould, for two hours
| Serve with hard or liquid sauce.
HARD SAUCE.
| Cream together cup Of powdered
| sugar and quarter Of cup nf butter
and beat in the juice of one lemon
When light and creamy add the beater
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
STORING COAL FOR WINTER.
Santa Fe Will Accumulate 5000 Tons
at WELLINGTON.

Wellington, Kas., July &C.. W. Clos
son, fuel contractor for the Santa Fe sys-
tenn, is here today and with him came the
first shipment of the roads winter supply
of coal. A little over 5000 tons will be de-
livered in Wellington which Will provide
against any scarcity of fuel this coming
winter on the Panhandle division The
trouble between the strikers and coal bar
ons in Pennsylvania gives promise to send
the price of coal skyward and the Santa
Fee deemed it advisable to put in the stock
of winter coal now. Steady shipments
of coal will continue now until, the winter
supplied is stored. 1t is being done all
over the system and at every division
point, Dodge City, Newton, Arkansas
City, Topeka, ETC., coal is being stored
The Santa Fe ships Cerrillos coal from
Colorado entirely. 1t is available at a
more reasonable figure than eastern fuel
and has proved of a better burning
quality.
Mr. Closson says it will require several
weeks time to complete the work of stor-
ing coal here.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30

little water to keep them from burning.
Bake them until tender. but not broken
Serve on individual plate with sprig
of parsley at the side.
GREEN TOMATOES STEWED.
Pare six large, green tomatoes; peel
three medium sized onions. Put a ia
blespoonful Of butter or drippings into
an agate frying pan and when hot slice
in the onions and let them fry without
browning for five minutes; sprinkle in
a teaspoonful of salt and quarter of a
teaspoonful of pepper; stir about for
few minutes, then slice in the tomatoes
and add half a cup of hot water. Cover
and let simmer until tomatoes are ten
der; add a large tablespoonful of but
ter and serve.
TOMATO sOUFFLE.
Stew three cups of tomato down to
pint; and drain off any liquid part re-
naming; then rub the pulp through
sieve. Separate six eggs and beat yolks
and whites separately. Mix yOlks with
the pulp and season to taste with salt
and pepper. Beat whites to a froth and
baking dish and bake ten or fifteen min
utes until set, in a hot oven. Serve as
soon as done.
TOMATO AND RICE.
Prepare the tomatoes as for stewing
and when they begin to boil add we'll
washed, unlocked rice, allowing two ia
blespoonfuls of rice to cup of tomato.
Cover and cook slowly for half an hour;
then season to taste with salt, pepper.
sugar and bit of butter. Stir and cook
a few minutes longer and then serve.
TOMATO TOAST.
Stew a quart of tomatoes and season
to taste with salt, cayenne, sugar and
butter. Cut thin slices of entire wheat
bread and toast on both sides; lay on a
hot platter and moisten slightly with a
little hot water and melted butter.
Cover the toast with the tomato and
put a large tablespoonful of whipped
cream on top of each covered slice just
before serving.
TOMATO FARCI.
Cut smooth, round tomatoes in half
and place them in the baking pan with
the cut side down, with enough hot far
to keep them from burning, moving
them about occasionally until they are
little tender; then lift out carefully
without breaking and place them in a
buttered baking dish Pour a little oil
around them, and sprinkle lightly with
chopped garlic or onion, parsley, salt
and cayenne Place in hot oven and
bake Is minutes. Serve from dish in
which they are baked.
TOMATOES STUFFED WITH CHICK
EN- SALAD.
Peel six round, solid, smooth tomatoes
by scalding a moment with boiling wa
ter and then quickly placing in cold wa
ter and removing the skins. AS soon as
water to harden them. Cut small
slice from the blossom end, remove seeds
and core and fill with chicken salad.
Place a spoonful of whipped cream on
top of each and on this lay the slice
cut from the end. Place each tomato
on q little mat of crisp lettuce leaves
and serve ice cold.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
Conference with Farmers.

Spokane WASH, July 3O-President Jas.
Hill, of the Great Northern and c. S. Mel
len, of the Northern Pacific, will meet the
farmers of the Big Bend country at DAY.
EXPORT on Monday, August 4, and of the
Palouse country at Colfax, on Tuesday,
the fifth kilograms have been received
from them making this announcement.
They left st. Paul today for the west.
The question of freight rates on grain will
be under discussion. The present rate
from these districts Is $4.25 per ton.
Wheat raisers are c1amoring for re-
duction to $3.50. and think it should not
exceed 1925.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
oRIENT's FIRST, HAUL.
Freight Service Comm nced Betwee
Waldron and ANTHONY.

The Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railroad hauled its first car of freight
yesterday. The haul was from Waldron,
Kan, to Anthony, where the car of Co.
900 pounds Of wheat was turned over to
the Missouri Pacific for the haul to
Kansas City. The Orient expects to
have regular trains in operation August
/ from Harper to forty miles south of
Anthony.
J. Med. Trimb1e, general counsel for
the Orient, returned yesterday from a
two months stay in Mexico. While in
Mexico Mr.. Trimble instituted condem-
nation proceedings for the terminal
grounds at Topolobampo and for a
hundred miles of the right of way from
Topolobampo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
CAN'T GET SANTA FE.
Denver Railroad Man Says Stock Is
Too Widely Scattered.

The Denver Times says: In connection
with the report that the Pennsylvania and
the Rock Island are struggling for the
control of the Santa Fe, well posted
railroad man today had this to say:
II don't doubt that the dispatch refers
to efforts of one of these systems to Sc
cure such a foothold with the Santa Fe
that it will be assured against the Pacific
and Gould combinations, but control of
the Santa Fe is practically an impossi-
bility. There are 600 stockholders in the
Santa Fe, and to secure control of the
road would mean the expenditure of many
millions of dollars-a sum that even the
Pennsylvania might well hesitate over"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
SANTA FE TO MAKE ICE.
Contract Let for an $4,000 Plant at
Aroentine Kana

The Santa Fte has awarded the contract
for building ice plant at Argentine to
the Featherstone Manufacturing COM
pany. of Chicago. The plant will cost in
the neighborhood of 900 complete, and
will be the first ice plant to be built by a
Kansas City railroad The building will
be of brick. and will be so by 50 feet in di-
mansions.
Last spring the Santa Fe ice house at
Argentine was destroyed by fire, and it
will not be replaced. 1t is thought that
the proposed ice plant which takes the
place Of the burned ice house will supply
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-30
ABOUT RAILROAD PEOPLE.

John E. Gibson is a new machinist
helper.
Joseph Boyer of the wheel shop is sick
and unable to be in his place.
James Davidson went on as an assistant
boilermaker Tuesday morning.
John Denwood, a shops laborer, has
been off duty for day or two
Louis Burkhardt has been given employ
ment IN the south shop. He Is machin-
list.
William Boyes of the water service de-
rest. ~ @'- W. = @' ''-'e q
Emil Quednow, a, water service man. has
been sick and unable to be on duty for a
few days
Conductor w. Proctor, who runs in the
chain gang out of Argentine. was in To-
peka Tuesday.
Colorado helping build steel tanks, has
drawn his time.
w. s. Grandy, division master mechanic
at Newton, was in town for a brief time
Tuesday morning.
There is a crowd of shop boys talking
of going out north of town on fishing
excursion Saturday afternoon.
Gus Bollotte, who presides over a rod
fire, is working after lay off, caused by
catching a hot scale in one eye.
Ray Near is at his place In the boiler
shop she -, after ala, lay off Of week, made urg-
Frank Israel, who used to be employed
at Springfield, Mo-. was around Tuesday.
force in the east shop. had the end of one
finger badly mashed on duty Tuesday af-
terroon.
William Rice a Topeka high school boy.
IS putting in part of his summer vaca-
ton with the Santa Fee boilermaking de-
partment.
Earl Edgeworth. a machinist apprentice,
took his examination Tuesday. preparatory
to being admitted to full fellowship in the
machiniSts' craft.
John F. Roter went on TUESDAY as a
handcar repairer. He used to be on the
pay roll of the Santa Fe, but for time
has been farming.
John Lang is working as a laborer in
MAT nlaTti n hearoons car shops gang He
in the machine shop.
Fred Ober of the chemical laboratory is
on DUTY, owing to sickness. It is under
stood that he has been threatened with a
siege of typhoid fever.
Locomotive 646 which used to be large
compound road engine, has been changed
into simple switcher ard win be out
ready for service in a few days.
Peter Melchior, a boiler shop man who
ing out punch, will loaf fer a few days.
The machine inflicted an ugly cash above
one eye.
A l. Fisher, travelling passenger agent
lieved the monotony which has existed
around the passenger offices for some days
by calling Tuesday
Andrew Meder has rejoined the mechanic
ing out for a few weeks. He was formerly
blacksmith helper, but hereafter will as
sist in the boiler shop.
Two members of the resident engineer.
stalking out the line for the iearrange-
ment of the yards here The building Of
the new shops necessitates the change Of
| nearly the whole number Of tracks at thi'