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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
JOInTISTS USE FISTS.
Silver Lake Men Assault Father
and Son.

A. T. Rankins has a battered face and
q black and blue eye and his son Frank
and one finger is nearly severed as the
result of an attack on the father and son
who are now being prosecuted by the
State Temperance union for running
Barney and McRoberts also assaulted
Al Rankins, brother Of 4. T Rankins,
and Ed Meggson his ,l brotherl LIN The
night. This morning A. T. Rankins and
Meggison appeared before County Attor-
ney Hungate and secured warrant for
assaulting Frank Rankins with intent. to
Frank Rankins, and a warrant for the
arrest of McRoberts on the charge of as
The Story of the elder Rankins to the
county attorney is that he and his son
were sitting in barber shop at il SILVER Me
Frank: You said all jointists ought to
attacked the boy and struck him with
an umbrella, At the same time McRob-
several blows. knocked him to the floor
struggle Barney got Frank Rankins lit
tie finger in his mouth and bit it nearly
Barney and McRoberts, according to A.
T. Rankins story, were about to clear the
shop and McRoberts grabbed chair and
swung it over his head, shouting that he
would kin the father and son with it J.
w. McKelVey, cousin OF RanklnS, came
in just then and grabbed the chair. Nc
Keivy invited McRoberts and Barney to
step outside while he beat them both sin
gle handed This seemed to take the de-
sire for fight out of Barney and McRob-
erts, and they did not accept the chal-
lenge, but left Silver Lake.
Earlier in the evening as Meggfson and
Al Rankins were going home, McRoberts
and Barney followed them and attacked
them. 1t ives then that Frank Roberts,
who saw the trouble, said that the joint
lists ought to be in Jail. McRoberts and
Barney will be tried in the city court
before Judge McCabe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

lFTom the PhlladelphIa Record.I
1t is hard to be both truthful and pop
ular.
Love either intoxicates a man or sobers
him up
A girl may be the pink of propriety
without blushing.
Before you accept a favor it is well to
look for the string.
A good days work is generally worth a
month of physical culture.
The fellow who knows it all isn't SO bad
if he keeps it to himself.
Even the skeptic doesn't have to eat an
egg to know that it is bad.
The people who won't listen to reason
say they have no reason to listen.
Some people only put on their best man
ners with their Sunday clothes.
According to the laws of gravitation
even the high flyer must eventually come
down.
Even the fellow who claims that he is
laying up treasures in heaven doesn't
Scorn fire insurance.
Blobbs-'I never heard Bjones try to get
off a funny story, did your" Slobbs-''N No,
he's one of the most popular fellows 1
know"
Wigg-"Why does your pessimistic
friend wear smoked glasses?" Wagg-
"Oh, he's afraid he might be forced to
look on the bright side of things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
JAYHAWKER JOTS.

Very naturally one of the best hunt
ers in Reno county is Mr.. Bangs.
About the worst needed thing at
lola is an intelligent system of street
signs.
An Erie man was under the physi-
clans care this week for the first time
in 35 years.
Mr.. Canon, the hustling stock buyer
'of Kinsley, fired five loads of cattle into
the market Saturday night
Six fine steers at Tribune went to
sleep too near the wire fence and one
flash of lightning got 'em all.
Ness City politicians aim to please
There will be at least four local tickets
in the field this fall to vote for.
Three young eagles were captured in
a nest near Oberlin the other day. They
will probably be sent to Esopus
A Morrill, plum tree bore three bush
els this season to make up for q
drouth for several seasons past
The Lutheran folks of Norcatur took
a couple of days off and painted their
church. That's practical religion.
A Hiawatha great grandpa Their of 80
children, took time the other day to
celebrate his eighty-ninth birthday.
a Topeka iceman lost a warm friend
the other day by giving out an IS
pound chunk for a 25 pound coupon.
Ellsworth is going to put a dam
across the Smoky at the cost of about
81, 500. Besides it will make good fish
ing.
Lyons citizens are glad to announce
that it was a gentleman from Wichita
that blew out the gas and not home
talent.
The Jacksonian knows of IA Demo-
Gratis in Gray county who will forsake
Parker for Roosevelt But they will
stick to Dale.
Greensburg is hustling to prevent it's
band from disbanding the same as To-
peka. They hope to wipe out the debt
by Christmas.
A Minneapolis pastor with a faulty
memory called to perform a marriage
ceremony exactly one week ahead of
the correct date.
The Salvation Army has folded its
tents at Ellsworth and flown and the
Reporter thinks their visit was of lit
tie value to the town.
Blue stem of the nine feet variety is
on exhibition in Cimarron. 1t was cut
off at the top of the ground and not
pulled up by the roots either.
A formerly of Neosho county man has
been nominated for congress by the
of Kentucky. But, be it
the returning board is in
the hands of the Democrats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
GIVEN A BAD SCARE.
Paymasters of IA. n. G. Nearly Desert
Their Cash.

About 10 O'Clock this morning Pay
master Charles Elliott and Assistant
Pi:ynlaster Harry Brent took $12, 900
out of the Central National bank to
pay off the soldiers at Camp Bailey.
The money was in a valise and a
wheat-sack. Six X. N. c. guardsnlen
under command of a sergeant, We're
detailed to escort Colonel Elliott and
Colonel Brent. While the party was
waiting for a Vinewood car on the
sidewalk north of the bank, the money
was placed on the pavement and the
soldiers lined up with shouldered guns.
a number of bystanders thought 1T
was q good opportunity to give the
soldiers and the payTnaSterS a real
Jesse James scare.
Accordingly a two-foot blank giant
fire cracker was obtained. The per-
petrators of the joke went up into the
second story of the bank building, and
after lighting the fuse to the big
cracker, dropped it on the head of
one of the soldiers. Tne big red inn
itation sputtered threateningly. There
was a movement among those blue
coats like crows when they receive the
full discharge of q shotgun. But the
sergeant proved himserr a hero. He
made a dash for the firecracker and
threw it into the street with all his
might and main. Tine fuse spit fire
for little after hitting the pavement,
and then slowly died out in the street.
car track.
A search was instituted for Paymas-
ter Elliott and his assistant, Harry
Brent They were found wedged up
against the stone wall of the bank and
still fighting to get behind each other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
MORE ABOUT APPENDICITIS.
b. v. Kelley of Topeka Has Re-
nlarkable Experience.

Eight and half hours work at a
linotype machine without a moments
intermiSSion even for lunch is not a
bad nights worn for a sick man. This
was the record made by B. V. Kelley,
manager of the Topeka Typesetting
Co., 116 West Sixth street, on Monday
night and thereby hangs a tale.
Two weeks ago Mr.. Kelley was
years ago he began to suffer with
stomach trouble and about two weeks
ago it attacked him with reinforce
ments in the shape of appendicitis and
congestion of the liver. 1t made him
sick, so sick that he couldn't eat or
work. 1t was in that shape that he
saw Prof. Larson q week ago Mon
day night.
'Why, after the first treatment"
Mr.. Kelley remarked to reporter,
good nights work, when I was unable
to work more than two or three
hours out of the twenty-four for a
week previous. I took three treat
ments last week and have been work.
ing day and night since. 1 would
never have been equal to the emer-
gency that was thrust upon me by
rush of work had 1 not taken those
treatments of Prof. Larson. Now I
eat anything and all I want without
distress. The soreness in the region
of the appendix has disappeared alb
solutely, and / haven't felt the pain
lung L Was SICCp-
less before. but now I rest well. It's
great treatment and / expect it to
put me back to the place 1 was nine
years ago. simply feel fine"
Mr.. Kelley lives at 726 Topeka ave
nue., and is held in high repute by all
who know him. His remarkable
statement simply adds to Prof. Lar
sons wonderful reputation as heal
er, coming as it does on the heels of
his recent public statement regarding
his ability to cure appendicitis. and
will result in bringing to his offices at
the National hotel scores of people
who have been waiting to see what he
would accomplish here. Larson never
waits He gets results and the peo-
pie who begin treatment first are
usually the ones who are first cured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
How the Novik Was Sunk.

Toxic, Aug. 23-5 p. m.-The Japanese
protected cruiser Tsushima alone de-
feated the Russian cruiser Novik. me
first engagement occurred saturday,
August 20. and the Japanese protected
cruiser Chitose finished the destruction
of the Russian ship on Sunday. The
details of the engagement reached the
navy department here today. At dawn
of Saturday the Chitose arrived at a
point 20 miles northwest of Rebunshir1
island and proceeded to search the Soya
(LaPerouz) strait. The weather was
heavy and the Novfk was not discover
ed. At o'clock Saturday morning the
Chitose and the Tsusninaa met close to
Reburnshiri island. The Tsushirna had
previously been searching to the west
ward. After the meeting of the two
Japanese cruisers the Chitose took up
line extending from Soya point to
Cape Shiretol1o, and the Tsushlma was
disaptcned toward Korsakovsk-
The Tsushima found the Novik off
Korsakovsk harbor at 4:30 o'clock in
the afternoon. She Immediately signal
led her discovery to the Cnitose by
wireless telegraphy and at once attack
ed the enemy. The Novik was hit fire.
quently by the fire from the Japanese
cruiser. and at $40 she retreated to the
inner anchorage at Korsakovsk- She
was then enveloped in white smoke and
evidently on fire. The Tsushima had
received projectiles through bunkers
Nos 6 and g. She was leaking badly
and listing and was forced to withdraw
out of the range of the Novik's guns
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23

for temporary repairs. These were eff
fected that evening.
The Chitose Joined the Tsushima af-
ter shutdown of Saturday. The
Tsushinla was sent to guard the strait
and the Chitose watched Korsakoysk
harbor.
At dawn of Sunday the Chitose adj
vanced to the Korsakovsk anchorage
and discovered that the NoVik had
been beached close to the town and
that the crew of the Russian vessel APP
peared to be disembarking. The Chi
tose shelled the Novik from rs minutes
past until ii minutes past Z. The hull
of the Novik was concealed behind
clouds of black smoke and this made
sighting for the Japanese gunners most
difficult.
After this Smelling the Chitose steam
ed in to within $500 yards to observe
the Novfk- She saw that the Russian
cruiser had partly sunk. She had a
bad list to starboard and her side lights
and lower deck were under water. Her
hull was seriously damaged.
The Cnitose satisfied herself that the
Novik had been destroyed and steamed
away.
The Tsushima has been repaired and
is again In fighting trim. The Japanese
sustained no casualties in this engage
ment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago NewS.l
Men talk shop and women talk shop
ping.
The silent partner in firm always has
lot to say.
Stock quotations are the dialogue used
in comic papers.
Debt is apt to worry a man who is I'm
able to obtain credit.
The poor lawyer is apt to have few
trials but many fluctuations.
Haste is said to make waste, yet there
are few hustlers in almshouses.
Many a man follows the races because
he is unable to get ahead of them.
Some real estate men make speciality
of Transforming molehillS into mountains.
The girl who looks forward to a matri-
monial alliance should not be forward
looking.
An Ohio genius is said to have invented
a device for utilizing the heat of an ar
gument
Many a man is capable of judging the
affairs of others better than he is of judg-
ing his own.
At the age of 30 a man is very apt to
feel under everlasting obligations to the
chap who married the girl he was spoony
on at the age of 20.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
FAULT FINDERS.

| IFrom the Springfield (Mass-) Union-1
Did you ever attend a ball game and
watch and listen to a cynic in the
grandstand? When a fielder, after
long run, catches the ball in his left
hand, and while all the rooters are
crazy with joy he remarks that If he
was the manager, ne would fire the
player for not using both hands. 1t
was just a grandstand play. and he
took great risk in putting up only
one hand. A little later, with the bases
full, a player knocks the ball just out
of reach of the fielders. and clears the
bases. Then the Pathfinder observes,
if his remarks are not drowned by the
applause, that it was pure luck. Had
the ball gone three feet to the left, it
would have been an easy out
We have these grumblers and fault
finders always with us, and in every
walk of life Just now we have them
in politics. Roosevelt is unsafe, and
Parker is stupid. Fairbanks is a wind
bag, and Davis is has been" The
presidents speech of acceptance show
ed too much self-esteem, and Parker's
lacked any novelty or display of cour-
age. Roosevelt showed too much sand,
and Parker none at all.
1t is hard to understand how the
grumbIer at the ball game and the
double-faced critic in politics, gets any
enjoyment out of life. He sits in the
grandstand or at the political rally, and
under his breath calls the enthusiastic
spectators fools, and the performers
hirelings. who never say a sincere word.
He can tell every man how to conduct
his business, every party how to write
it's platform, every ball player how to
play the game. Were he assigned to
any one of the tasks, he would prove a
dismal failure, but he thinks that he
is ordained to find fault, and to direct
And we pity the cynic. What a mis-
cradle life he leads! He doubts every
body and everything. He grumbles on
the street and writes pessimistic let
tiers to the editor, or if by chance he
conducts a newspaper, he makes his
readers miserable by telling them, day
after day, that their rulers are all blum
derers, or worse. He sees in every
new movement an attempt to do wrong,
and in every effort to stand pat a
sign of selfishness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
lie sassed the Postmistress.

II had money order on a village post
office in Michigan" said the Chicago
drummer, and when I went in to get it
cashed 1 found a postmistress instead of
postmaster. She was Cabling away
with another woman, and being in a hur-
ry l spoke to her rather sharply In
fact. I asked her if Uncle Sam employed
her to gossip about her neighbors. In re-
ply she looked at the other and said:
. James NJ. Blank, Ell? Well, sir, you
will have to be identified
Il had half a dozen letters, but she
shooke her head. showed her my initials
on my collar, but it was no go. 1 had
SasSed her and she had a chance to get
even and matter of fact she kept me
in that town for two whole days and
would then hardly believe a lawyer who
came 20 miles to identify me.
It's safe enough to sass your landlady
when you are not behind your board,
but don't try it on postmistress who has
got the United States government at her
back
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Glob

IFrom the Atchison Globel
The dog fennei is the poor kin of the
daisy family, and the real rich kin is the
marguerite.
An unmarried man has some standing
in society, but after he is married he has
none except through his wife
One of the rules of art is to eliminate all
unnecessary accessories. This rule of art
may have given rise to the see-more
waist.
There are not many women who can get
up such a good meal that their guests
will not get up from the table TO run to
a fire.
A Missourian was talking of a man he
hated. That man is so low that he would
have to get a step ladder to get into
HE'LL he said
After a woman has found a quarter in
her husbands pockets after he has gone
TO bed, she doesn't go to sleep before he
does for six months.
1t happens I'm some cases of bereave-
ment that grief reaches the high water
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23

The total number of deaths recorded
IN the Topeka health office for 1908
| is 1884, and for 1904, ass. But for this
year that figure is largely increased by
IN" rlinber of dead bodies found in
the Kansas river, by the big railroad
wreck at Willrad, and from accidents
which have occurred IN the city and
at nearby points.
az speaking of Topeka's health con-
ditions, President Henninger of the
lie nth board said this morning "To-
peka's health conditions are We Y good
IN comp arson with other cities of 70
pekas size ana located similarly from
a geographical standpoint. The fig
ures as given me here show about La
deaths each year to every 1000 peo-
pie The Interior conditions, such as
railroad wreck, the drownings, etc,
with the increase of population in the
CITY, easily account for The 10 per cent
increase in the mortality rate"
from the records it was noticed
that the majority of the deaths in the
city We're caused by heart failure and
pneumonia.
The latter fact occasions no surprise,
Out the former did. Doctor Menninger
was asked about that, and he said: I'm
the majority of instances where heart
trouble is given, it is not the cause at
an. Inc blanks ask the physician to
give the immediate reason for the
death. The heart is affected by illness
ana disease and in many instances is
responsible for immediate death. But it
Is not the real cause The illness which
superinduced the heart trouble should
have been given"
A consultation of the birth records
Tor the nrSt seven months of this year,
concluding with July 81, shows but 100
YlSltations of the stork in the city of
Topeka. That might alarm some an
thropologist, but it wouldn't alarm any
one who knows and is cognizant of the
negligence of the topeka doctors in re-
porting births.
The figures for the seven months are
as follows: January, 81; February, 80;
March, 40; April, 20; May, IS; June, 10;
July "a.
They don't report them at ALL" said
Dr. Menninger, when asked about it.
1T is due to our failure to enforce the
law in that regard more than anything
else. The doctors in the city ought to
report the births, but they simply don't
do it."
Sanitary Sergeant Pay delivered HIM
self of a sage opinion on the matter rs
follows: If you go to see a circus pa
rade any time In Topeka, you will see
at least 500 baby. carriages with babies
in them, any old time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23
LAME FOOTBALL FACTS.
SpaIding's Official Guide Sights WASH
burn and "A. U.

Spaldings official football schedule is
burns undefeated championship team
of 1908 and also the scores of its games.
The picture is a good one.
But Washburn will without question
have a crow to pick with one Martin
DeIany, who signs himself ''of St Louis
university In writing Football in the
Southwest" in the Guide, Delaney says
the following:
Missouri university had the best
team in our section, defeating Washing
ton easily, also She final game with
Kansas, which gave them the right to
claim the championship. They were
well coached, Mclean of Michigan
played a hard, steady game, and this
wear should see Missouri's best year
BY turning back to the scores, the
Guide contains the record that both
Washburn and Kansas defeated Mis-
souri, university last fall. Yet Mr.. De-
Ianey, whoever he may be, very calm
~ hands the laurels over to the Tiger
school of Missouri as being the cham
pion of the Missouri valley.
The Spalding Guide had better get a
when It selects man to write up the
football results for this territory next
fall. What is a man at st. Louis sup
posed to know of Missouri valley foot
ball? 1t is apparent also that the
Worlds Fair city man thought the
most important thing in the whole sea-
son in this district was the defeat of
Washington university at st. Louis by
Missouri university. Nobody hears OF
Washington university very often out
in this part of the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-23

The Minneapolis Journal which is in
close touch with the wheat region of
the great northwest, discusses the crop
situation and it's relation to prices as
follows: That the crop has been very
seriously damaged does not permit of
doubt; hence, in that sense, this is a
legitimate market as distinguished
from manipulation or attempt. at
corner How great the loss in quality
and in quantity is beyond the power of
any one TO approximate. Time Will
bring out the supply situation more
clearly, and such final price adjustment
as may be found warranted. The grain
trade proper will govern itself sanely
according to the circumstances of the
day or hour. To the public, drawn into
the vortex by the general excitement,
there is little to be said Opportunities
for large profits from small investments
appeal too strongly to the speculative
bent of the American mind to fail to
attract, and many will venture. When
once the public enters a speculative
market, sentiment works into predom-
inance-and no one can gage sentiment.
1t is well to remember that, as oppor-
tunity for quick action increases, risk
increases in corresponding ratio; that
whatever goes too high comes down
again, and that. however high wheat is
finally 10 go. it cannot advance al
XvSNS'
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mark twice: When death comes, and later
when the undertakings bill comes in
If there is anything that helps in start
ing day wrong, it is to receive news
paper with marked written the
wrapper, which is not marked inside.
This is the first time said an Atchi-
house who had arrived from out of town
to attend his wife's funeral, that ! ever
brought company home without telling
her about it
There is only one way to reduce taxes
and that is to cut down expenses. There
is only one way to save money, and that
is also to cut down expenses. This cut
ting down of expenses is not practiced
enough. The people seem to have so
many outside reforms that they never get
around to their personal extravagances
with the scissors.