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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-12-08
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The Life Of a Minister.
What It Costs Individual Preach Gospel
O
By Clergy man.

HAVE been inerant Methodist preacher almost
eight My salary since married has averaged
exclusive of house rent have only or twice
circuit deft to in it. and today free from nar
embarrassment serving twentieth pastoral CHI
and these frequent changes from pastorate another
instances involved
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-12-08
FIRST "wOMAN'S RIGHTS"
MEMTJNG

The first recorded public meeting
In the interest Of "woman's rights"
vas held in the town of Medford in
i701. The gallery of the church was
occupied by the young unmarried peo-
pie Of the congregation, one side and
one half the front gallery being given
to the young men, the other side and
the other half being given to the
young women. But in the seating in
the eventful year the young men were
given the entire front of the gallery
as well, and the young women were
allowed only one side Of the gallery.
Then it was that things began to
happen. Treatment like this wasn't
to be tolerated, even for moment
The blood of the future mothers of the
Revolution was fully aroused, and the
young women made such an uproar
and connection that it speedily be-
came town matter, and town meet
ing was called to restore to them their
rights in half of the front gallery.
The young men of the day were bit
terly opposed to extending any new
privileges to women, and the fight
extended beyond Medford. Shortly
sitter the Introduction of pews into the
churches, by which families were sep
arated from the remainder of the con-
gregation, the selectmen of the town
of Newbury gave permission to group
of young women to build pew in the
gallery Of the church, upon their own
side Of the house This extension of
privilege was resented by the young
bachelors to such a degree that they
broke window of the church. forced
an entrance and hacked the pew in
pieces. For this act of sacrileec the
young men of Newbury were fined $40
each and sentenced to be whipped or
pllloried But they were manly
enough to confess their folly ard ask
pardon, so this part of their punish
ment was omitted. So you see the
"woman's rights" movement isn't a
modern one.-Boston Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-12-08

man who buitu
another
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committed of
Wall a In the
the killed
led honorable
York Sua
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-12-08
MORE FARM BEEF.

n c0noofinoc hannpnS fhaf keeDing
II. .,s.''t;,,,oe, ,,,aors oo;ne bacl,
~ VA 49, .,rsas r onnsars that we have
~ ~ ..anaa 80 this in the cattle busi.
On g.. nnon +ime there were
ahos. heof ,uas oil mad,s
~ - s..ta..., farn,s Then tbe nrai.
~ ~ - = sudden onened it's great Wis.
800 natural rastures
.ns' 80 oo,,1a he done than II
80 80. 49,, 1850 auar - cott,e until snch =
49, ,nors.s,ng formulation
-, .a that tho grass he turn.
,..;tt +ha n,owq The nlow
eard ,orw.rd, tbe stears
Ia. ss,s 49, IT, Safora The herds are driv.
go ~ country ~ droutb and
800. h,,+ aven bere the nlow
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1905-12-08
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A Riddle Of Life.
Comparative Rarity Of suicide Among e Poorer
riS

roy OF business life have employed
poor Maine Virgniamen suffered tn
fesh hard knocks of and brungs the spirit
lives light caress offered appar
entity nothing but unhappness thous
anis of IN such that only
mitted suicide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08

The estimates of the department Of
agriculture of the products of this
country of ours, place the income OF
the American hen at something over
five hundred million dollars. Perhaps
the hen ought not be given entire credit
for this vast sum, as her sons and her
daughters help by being converted into
spring fries and even her tough old
husband occasionally sweIls the amount
by being served in the restaurants as
young chicken
But on the whole it is the work of
the hen that does the business. She it
IS that lays the eggs and raises the
chickens. and to her belongs the credit
for most of that five hundred and odd
millions
This is a sum greater even than Sec
rotary Wilson credits to all the wheat
fields of the country. This is pretty
hard for a central Kansas wheat farm
er to believe. but it may be true. for
the hen does not condne her labors 10
any one section. She is as prolific in
the south as in the north; she works
Just as hard ga the rocky hilIsfdes or
New Hampshire as in the sunny valleys
OF California.
It was not always thus. Time was
not SO very long ago, when the hen
worked just as hard as she does today.
but the farmers wife did not realize
more than half as much from her toll
as she does now. The reason2 The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08

One afternoon last summer there en-
tered a hospital in the poorer quarter of
Philadelphia a little girl OF about eight
years, bearing in her arms teS terrier
whose forefoot had been crushed by a
heavv wagon. To the attendant who
tells the story the little girl explained
that she desired to have the doctors
'fx the doggy's foot. Inc physicians
in view of the great distress Of the
youngster, they finally pefnllltso ., sileLi
ShIoroforna, instruments, and bandages
were produced. and neat -
.sTTov-.'' said one of the doctors, you
nav take the dog home with you :.
Tbe little ones eyes widened. 'Oh," :
she explained. 1T amt mine! jest
found it, an / thlnk you ousiiee1 Tan
Ana off she went. leaving the dog in
t,,eir custody.-Harper's Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08

cold storage plant. a few years ago
during the warmer months when the
hen worked hardest her product vas
drug On the market at seven cents per
Dozen and It was never safe to invest
in many even at that price. Now the
tanners wife gets from double to four
times that amount the year around.
In this year of grace when the hen
gees forth and lays eggs while the sun
shines. in the summertime, her product
viii nearly always bring Is cents per
dozen. The reason for the increase IN
price IS that as fast as she lays them
her eggs are hurried 10 the cold stor-
age plant. and when she takes her va
cation along in January they are dealt
out to US city dwelIers as fresh farm
eggs. And at this writing every time
the hen tells the world OF her achieve
ments in a loud and boisterous cachle,
it is worth two cents per cackle to the
farmers wife
The hen is all right! Long live the
hen:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08

The late Sir Henry irving did most
things Well to which he set his hand.
but the notable exception was his writ
ing. It was execrable. Not one friend
among ten could read the whole of a
note from the great actor-nanager-
and there is at least one American
household which remembers this trait
or the good man past and gone; remem-
beTs il in both amusement and norti-
fication.
Among Sir Henry,s many friends in
this country are a certain Philadelphia
couple, who, on the morning of the day
when the Englishman was TO OPEN
IN their city, left at his hotel a line of
warm welcome, with the added word
that they should see him across the
footlights that evening, providing a
bad cold, from which one of two was
suffering, would only permit their be-
ing out. An hour later came an en-
velope addressed to them in the Irving
scraWl-but that which was scratched
across the single sheet enclosed was
absolutely illegible. BY and by it oc-
Cured to the man of the house fae
with the eold) that it might be a pre-
scription sent him out of the kindness
OF Irving's big heart. He took it to a
chemist-and next morning the recipi-
ent Of the dose, wholly cured, called on
the actor to present his thanks. And
the first question he had to meet was.
tsHow did you like the play? I hope
my order for your seats reached you in
good time. Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
JAYHA WKER J0TS

Oberlin is building a $4,000 opera
house by popular subscription.
Speaking of Culture with a capital
&C" Colby supports a firsS class lecture
course.
Ralph Tennal admits that his real
ambition in life is 30 hhd a pen point
TO suit him.
The Globe-Republican figures that
Dodge City ought to have six thousand
people BY the close Of 1906.
A Sabetha woman's low neck society
dress becomes a. travelling gown by put
ting a collar on it. There are others.
The new Carnegie library at Dodge
City will be completed the coming sum
mer- The contract for building it has
been let.
'BilIy' O'Reilly. of Concordia. who
has been the boss barber of northern
Kansas ever since the food, has leased
his shop and will quit shaving people
for awhile.
The extreme northwestern part of the
state is ee-Iighted because the Burling-
ton is thinking about contemplating ex-
tending its line from St. Francis to coal
fields at Trinidad, Colo
Do you remember D. ". Blaine? Well.
here is an echo of him from the Pratt
Republican,: The Railway World is
talking about "a ship canal from Chi
cago 10 the Gulf" Now will some fool
make fun of Dave Blaine's barge canal
from Dakota to the gulf?
A Pratt young man went TO a hotel
and asked to see the cook. says the
Union. The landlord said. rs it really
the cook you wish to see?" When as
sured that it was. he sent the cook to
the young man, and she was as black
as night. The hotel had changed cooks
while the young man was out of town.
Newspaper troubles in the short grass
coantry. recorded by the St Francis
Herald: For three consecutive weeks
now we have been delayed N gong 70
nTess nv The failure of the Burlington TO
bring our patent. The first week the
delay was one day. The second week the
delav was two days, and this week u
is nearly Saturday noon and the issue IS
still in doubt by reason OF having re-
.ceix-ed no paper. But with the permls-
sien If the Lord we'll make it yeti
not on a whole sheet then on a half
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08


man and the courts to put him on trial
and summon Drayton from state'a
prison.
When the two men finally stood toe
gether there was wonder and amaze
ment in the court. Their own moth
ers could not have told them apart. A
little detective work had unearthed =
bad record for the stranger. and ale
though he started out TO make q great
legal fight. he ended by confessiag
that he was the guilty party. and that
Drayton had served two years for
crime he had not committed. The lat
ter was pardoned out and restored TO
citizenship and respectability, while
the guilty party =as sent to occupy
his place fl prison. and the judge who
had read a moral lesson from the
bench had something more to say.
His conscience had been troubling him
for the way he charged the jury
against an innocent man. and lla
sought to console it by admitting that
somewhere in the world every man
may md his prototype. but that the
law could not take cognizance of the
fact-C Copyright, 1905, by Beatrix
Reade.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.


FHronl the ALGlfSoH
As a rule unless you are working the
word friendship on some oAis' y - SS
worked on you.
Put a. paper sack on the table and every
one who enters the room VIII look TO SEQ
what is IN It. 80 :.
is a constant wonder TO us that he doesn
trim his beard into side whiskers.
An Atchison woman knows how Il feels
to kill two birds with one stone- she mas
made six people mad by one remark.
When a baby walks very young the
mothers Of babies that do not walk 50
early make the discovery that It is bow
legged.
works in man is that he no longer
idealizes a woman who spends hours IN
gazing at the stars
The men argue that a Dutch lunch does
not cost as much as womans lunch,
but have you ever noticed how much it
cost the next day.
Romance has been so subdued by fact
in the average fathers heart that he does
not see anything Of interest in his daugh-
fer's courtship except the price of fuel.
The announcement by physicians that
eating carrots would improve the com
plexion having failed to sell them, the
farmers might as well quit raising them.
It is a good evidence that a girl would
not make a good housekeeper. when she
moor" it IS a sign OF the artistic tenn
permanent.
If you have a 1inple in your cheek you
viii find the word .tequiiibrillrl'' xiii
with dimple finds . good deal of use for
the word
The bride always chooses what shall be
sung at her wedding and such songs as
Wedding Day and Radiant AForr7ss are
sung If the groom ever had q chance to
sts $500 fe s 9gsa Tae gss s'sn sqngs IS o
Whose Dat Maxim All Dis Fuss9ss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
Discomfort.

The mail is full of letters
and the soup is fun Of peas.
Ihere sugar in the coffee
And the yard is full of trees
The hetds are full Of stubb1e
And there's grass upon the ground
But the world is full of trouble
II we only look around.
The corn is full of kernels,
There arc lilies in the brooks;
The towns arc full of people.
There are stories in the books
The orchards fun Of apples,
And the meadows fun of hay
But what troubles we discover
1f we're only built that way.
The liiac's fun of blossoms
And the trees arc full OF leaves,
The meadows full of clover
And the fields are full OF sheaVes;
The bread is full of -four
And the rain is damp and wet
But how much there is to fret Us
II we really want to fret.
The bees are full Of honey
And the apples full OF juice,
The banks are full of money
But-be happy2 What's the use?
The beach is fun of pebbles,
There is water in the creek
But nothing really suits us
If we really want to kick.
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
FOR THE ATExICAN cons

FOR THE MEXICAN CONSULATE
The complaint is frequently made
that Kansas is not represented in the
governments consular and foreign ser
vice as much as it should be-wfich is
undoubtedly true. Kansas has few
minor consulates but none of import
ance since W. R Brigham was relieved
at Cape Town.
Here is q suggestion: The office Of
United States consul at the City of
Mexico has recently been made vacant
by the accidental death OF the consul.
A Kansan. Charles c. Eberhardt Of Sa-
lima. has been vice consul there. Why
should not Kansas ask to have Mr..
Eberhardt placed IN charge Of the Mex
lean consulate?
M. Eberhardt is the second OF the
five famous Eberhardt brothers OF Sa-
lima, who were for number of years
the states foremost athletes. He is one
Of those clean. hearted, thor
oughly honest and honorable young
men whom everyone admires. He has
ability. is acquainted with the work,
and would be a great credit to his
state. Why should not Mr.. Eberhardt
succeed to the Mexican consulate?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
Where the Auto Is Useful.

TilIers of the soil the country over
will probably welcome the announce
nent that the automobile, whose intro
duction to the rural community excited
apprehension and threatened disaster,
is undergoing a process of evolution
calculated to transform it into COM
rnonplace, industrious machine. It is
reported that a new and special type
of the motor car has been developed
to Scotland at cost of $500 which
will prepare and seed the ground at one
operation and which can be made to
cover six or seven acres a day. The in
vasion of the field by this tireless and
energetic contrivance should revolution
ize old as we'll as modern harvest meth
DDS and enable the agrieulturist to de-
vote considerably more of his time to
saving the nation at the CROSSROADS
store In any event, farmers, even
amateur farmers. are we'll aware that
there cannot be too many inventions
designed to make farming easy and
Observation-Disclosures Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
EpON OTHER PENS


Kansas is first i'd corn. first in wheat,
first in the heartsof her citizens. But
her greatest production, as Governor
Hoch says, is Kansans. They are d
people by themselves, three-quarters
Gascon and fhree-fourths Roundhead,
born poets, politicians, money makers,
trouble makers. spouters, coHe-outers,
heroes. world savers and cranks. Step
on a Kansan's toe, and you .perpetrate
a horror. greater to him than hun
dred Calabrian earthquake. He was
born a cyclone, and he has been re-
yolyfng ever since. We salute him We
love him. Never was a man hotter or
colder of head. more buoyant of tenn
permanent. shrewder in managing his
own business and more bound to man
age that of the other folks.-New York
Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08

Among other things, we are thank
ful we do not have to wear elbow
sleeves and long white gloves at this
time of year.
To Anxious inquirer; No. State
hood Bill, whom you see mentioned in
the Washington dispatches as being
prominent in the national capital this
winter is no kin to Buffalo Bill.
We hope it viii not be taken amiss
If we suggest that Mrs. Berry, who
barricaded herself in a car at Girard,
IS a sort Of gooseberry.
This is the time of year to begin to
clubs.
The suspicious thing about that
chorus girl conversion story is that it
is under Wichita date line.
Unless it is out of order, we would
like to ask the chair If it is because
he is mad or just scared that makes
Senator LaFollette's hair stand up on
end all the time.
As we learn more and more con-
corning the personnel OF the United
states senate, the conviction is forced
upon US that Addicks of Delaware
might have been credit to that body
after all.
How strange it win seem to Mr.. Nc
Curdy to have to pay his own railroad
fare instead of riding in a. private car
at the expense of the policy hoIders.
Emperor Wilhelm owns eight big
touring cars not to mention smaller
autos. When Wilhelm wishes he can
nave a gasoline parade all of his own.
Chauncey Depew Gays he will give
out no more interviews. This confirms
the report that Chauncey has run out
Of anything TO say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
Miles and I. O. Z. Money.

Gen. Nelson A. Miles used to delight
in meeting cranks, because he always
knew how to get rid of them. While
stationed in Chicago the general one
day received a visit from the author
of a book Oh finance. It was during the
free silver excitement. when every work
on the subject of money was largely
sought. This particular work condemn
ed both silver and gold coinage and con-
tended that the only real money was
paper 7. o. L" issued by the individ
uaI
when a man makes a purchase all he
needs do under this system is give his
paper I. o. U. for it, and that settles
the transaction" said the author, with
much fervor. in explaining the merits of
his book to the soldier.
Gen. Miles said the plan looked like
a quick method of exchange, and that
remark sent the author away well
pleased. ~
Some days later the general received
a package containing a dozen of the
books. Then in q week came the in
evitable bill for So. On receipt thereof
the general wrote like this:
Enclosed please find my I. Q. Z. for
the books Hoping the same will be
satisfactory, I am, yours very truly. -
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
TIE SLEEPER.

The following is guaranteed TO excite
the salivary glands to an unusual de-
gree if repeated rapidly. A sleeper is
one VINO sleeps and sleeper is also
that in which a, traveller sleeps. and the
sleeper in which the sleeper sleeps also
runs over sleepers, therefore while the
sleeper sleeps IN the sleeper, the sleeper
carries the sleeper over the sleepers that
are under the sleeper that is carrying the
sleeper, and when the sleeper which car
ries the sleeper jumps the sieepers and
wakes the sleeper in the sleeper by
humping the sIeepers under the sleeper,
there is no longer any sleep for the sleep
r-I4eavenWo Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08

Give US the country town where every
thing is a kind of family affair. A Sa-
betha woman went down town shopping
Saturday. forgetting some cooking she
had on the stove. Marshall Battey,
who drives for Battey s. Son, walked
into the house to deliver groceries. See
ing that the Woman's dinner was about
to burn. Marshall shut. off the damper
on the stove basted the chicken, put
more water in the tea kettle and moved
the potatoes to the back of the stove so
they wouldn't boil dry. Then he went out
on the street and reminded the woman
of her dinner on the stoye.-Sabetha
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


o-o4,,ina aInnses a baby that doesn' t
annoy grown to4Ks. ~. -
office wins in . walk -
Some wise old saws are so old they
have lost their teeth
a vonan's admiration for painting
usually runs to the frame,
A poor mans faults are synoilsiliosis
with q rich mans eccentrieitles
IF YOU want anything told. tell it to d
woman and tell her not to tell It.
It takes a woman with a good eonsfl-
tuition to pose as chronic lnvaila-
In order to realize the full value Of
some things they should be fully insured
There is apt to be trouble when the bet
ter half discovers how the other hall
lives.
An ohio man attempted to drown his
sorrow by turning the hose on his uloEh-
er-in-Iaw-
After a man succeeds in achieving fame
a lot Of brilliant things said by other men
arc credited to him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
ouAKER REFLECTIONS.
fFron the Philadelphia Record. ]

TFronl the Philadelphia Record.l
One of the signs a hungry man believes
in-"Efree Lunch,
It's ali right to choose between two
evils if You are cock sure which is the
least.
When the corner house Of a row re-
mains vacant it is the last but not
leased.
Hubbubs-.'Have You q country club
here2s Subbubs-"Only the enc carried
by the village constable"
No. Maude. dear; it doesn't necessarily
follow that successful eanVasser would
make a. good awning maker.
The cooking school teacher was descriio-
ing the intricacies OF an omelet- Nov IS
she began, las TO the fire. 81 suppose
it should be made Of egg coal" suggested
the girl in the back seat.
Twin roses in her cheeks she has
Yet I've discovered that
They're just as artificial as
The roses in her hat.
Overheard in the dime rnusenna--s.-rbs
hypnotist looks sort of tired this 1l,o,.1
ing" remarked the living sa<eIefo,,
Yes said the fat lady; The vyaS 411.
nearly all night trying to get the baby IL
sleep. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08
KANSAS COMMENT
TIE RIeHT GIRL.

Al old story again revived is 10 the
erect that a. young man should call on
a girl early in the morning TO ask her
to marry him, rather than throwing
himself At her feet at q party If she
comes TO the door IN a neat slaiTtEEaist
with a rose in her hair. he should grab
her and run. The advice Is wrong.
When a girl has time in the morning.
to deck out in shirt waist suit and
deck her head out with flowers, you let
mother has been getting breakfast
ready. The girl who flies into a dress
ing sack, twists her hair in biscuit,
and jumps into a pair of slippers is the
girl TO grab. She has been getting
breakfast. sweeping the house and max
ing the beds. while Miss Rose-in-her~
Hair has been imping.-Sabetha
Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08

So far. it appears as though the peo-
pie of Reno county might take just
pride in Carr Taylor as the attorney in
trusted with the duty Of endeavoTing to
rectify some of the wrongs in railroad
rates in this state. As to the legal abil-
ity he has displayed in handling these
cases we are not a competent judge,
neither have We had any opportunity to
observe. But he does seem to have had
the disposition to do things and has been
making a good effort, handicapped
though he may be by a hostile board
Hutchinson Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-08

food law. give free trade to the Philip
pine; fix things in Hawaii and Porte
Rico; pass the statehood hiII. make an
appropriation to dig the canal and at
tend to few minor matters-if con
gress N-iil do these few things the pres
ident win excuse it from revising the
tariff just at present.