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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01

1t is stated that the proposal to
assess the members of the Interna-
tional Typographical union ten per
cent to carry on the printers strike
carried by 10000 majority.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01

New York drinks a million dollars
worth of liquor a day. Just think how
New York must feel the morning
afterl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01
MORGANs PACE.

'BilIy' Morgan's book, The Jour
ney of a Jayhawker,' seems to be set
ting a good deal faster pace in it's
sales than Mr.. Morgan established in
Europe-unless a great many earnest
assurances that have been given out
since Mr.. Morgan's return have been
misleading.-OttaWa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01

Santo Domingo is having a very
happy New Year. It is revealing in
four different and distinct revolutions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01

It seems that Mrs. Nation really did
not appreciate her Houston namesake,
the Carrie Nation saloon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01
STILL. SI1RVIVES.

It has been nearly a century since
Russian car said to an English diplo-
mat There is q sick man in Europe,
and Turkey is still alive.-Baltimore
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01
STUDENTS TOO BUMPTIOUs.

There is room for differences Of
opinion as to the sense of banishing
football from Columbia. university
altogether, but there can be none as
to the bumptiousness of some of the
students there in threatening to quit
the university unless the game is re-
tanned and hanging the university au-
thorities in efigy on account of their
attitude on the subject The game
ought not to be considered bigger
than the faculty, anyway.-Boston
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01

Revelations indicate that many of
our pillars of finance are, or were,
members of the steal trust.-New York
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01
THE IMPORTANT THING.

Safety rather than income is the inn
portant factor with savings banks
Boston Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01

Happy New Year yourself, and lots
Of 'em!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01
EROM OTHER PENS
KEEPING HIM STRAIGHT.

After this the United States Steel Cor
poration should insist that its presi-
dents pay envelope be sent straight
home to his wife.-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EVERY
WEEK DAY AND PUBLISHERS
PRESS REPORT ON SATURDAY
NIGHT FOR THE EDITION FOR
SUNDAY MORNING.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01
IRONY

It looks almost like mockery when
Edward Atkinson. a student of perfect
cooking. dies of acute Indigestion
Baltimore Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01

BY this time you have probably got
ten even with fellows you don't like
by working on On them most OF
those Christmas cigars your lady
friends sent you.-Birmingham News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01
NOT ALWAYs HIGHT KIN

The Panam canal management
does not really need q bureau of pub
licity. It can get more publicity than
it seems to want without that
PhiladeIphia LnanIrer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-01-01

An irresistible invitation (on the door
of a city restaurant)-''Please knock the
bell out Of order.''-Punch.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
Goats as Moving Machines.

flock of Angora goats was put on
rocky hillside that it was desired to have
cleared and gotten into grass, says a
writer In Country Life in America. 1t
was such tangle of brush and briers
that it was with difficulty one could make
a way through it. The goats actually ate
their way in until it was penetrated with
paths in all directions. After the leaves
within reach were eaten they would
stand on their hind feet with their fore
feet in the branches and SO eat the leaves
higher up or, if the brush was not too
large, would throw their weight against
and bend 1t to the ground, where Others
of the flock would help strip it of its
foliage. The leaves would come out again
only to be eaten off, then sprouts would
come from the roots to share the same
fate, until at the end of the second sum-
mer everything In the shape of a bush
not over six feet tall except the pine
and laurel, was completely killed, and
white clover was beginning to appear.
These goats, with their long, curly, white
fleeces, attracted more attention, prob
ably, than anything else on the place,
but, as can be imagined. they had to be
well fenced in, for they would run over
a stone wall like dogs.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10

THROW AWAY THE DISH RAG,

The best authorities have for years in
sisted on the use of brushes for scrubbing
milk cans and separators. saws Farming
When 7 first read IN the bulletins that
cloths should never be used on milk uten-
sis, I said; II should expect a brush to
be q much better harbor for bacteria than
my cloths that are scaleded every day."
but the dairy papers said: Brush the
milk tools" and some other authority
said: IF all the dish cloths in the coun-
try could be destroyed, there would be
much less sour milk brought to the
creameries," and | began to think I'd
better try a brush before | decided
against 1t. | took the new brush. the
milk pail. the cream pail and the sepa-
rator out to the north end of the porch
where the light was good and the air
still encouraging with the sweetness of
springtime. A very short time showed
me many corners and creases that a
cloth could not reach. and my standards
of cleanliness were Immediately raised.
1t took a long time to clean up that
day. and the nearby pansy ped was well
spattered before | caIied the separator
clean; but the big kettle full of boiling
water that poured into it came out per-
fectly clear and the tin parts looked like
new.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
CLIMBS TALL TREE.
Then Tries to Commit Suicide by
Swallowing Morphine.

Berkeley Cor. Oakland Tribune.
Climbing a tall eucalyptus tree at Cor
bin station in West Berkeley, George c.
Wilson swallowed the contents of bot
tie of morphine last night, at about 8
O'Clock, with intent to commit suicide.
II 1T had not been for the arrival of
the police the man would have succeeded
In the desperate act. but as 1t is, his
condition is precarious.
Pedestrians in the vicinity of Corbin
railroad station saw Wilson climb the
tree, armed with a bottle of whisky.
Aroused by curiosity at what the man
was about they stood watching him.
u,hev were Mortified to see him take out
hottie of morphine from his pocket
and empty the flask.
With a thud the dying man fell to the
ground. and the spectators rushed to his
aid. The police were at once notified
Sergeant Parker, of the police force,
hurried TO the scene with wagon. Wilson
was carried to the police station, where
DR. Rowel at once administered an anti
dote for the poison. This prompt action
on the part of the physician somewhat
restored the man from his stupor. His
condition was considered too dangerous
to warrant his removal, and he was kept
in the police station all last night.
Early this morning Wilson was found
to be greatly improved but as yet Or.
Rowell has not made examination, SO
It Is not known whether or not he Will
survive the day.
From the incoherent statements utter
ed by Wilson 1t was learned that he OBJ
tained the drug from MERGED But beyond
this fact nothing could be discovered.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10

IMAM LIKES A PLAIN ROOM
NO GILT, sPIDER-LEeeED CHAIRS FOR HIM.

house and then get into my room; but
don't find they worry over 1t much. In
fact find that these old chaps, who could
swing an axe today if they wanted to,
rather like IT,
"Up here they aren't in danger of slip
ping down on waXed floors, and they're
not afraid of kicking over some bric-a-
brac in the corner nor of smashing
spider leg gold chair II they sit down in
1t. nor of mussing up the satin damask
of thousand dollar sofa If they sit down
on that
mo, sir Up here they can Just plant
themselves good and solid anywhere, and
there amt anything going to break and
when I pull open the lower right hand
corner drawer of the solid old desk-you
see I'm beginning to call that old, now
and get out a box of cigars, why / don't
see that any of them have any more use
for Daghestan and Louis than I do,
though they could every one OF 'em buy
'em if they wanted to.
''The folks say that I'll come to it all
right, some time, but I don't think so.
Not that I've got anything against Daggy
and the rest az SUCH not a bit like to
see the stuff around, 1t does make a sort
of variety; and il the folks want laces
and satins and gliding and that sort ot
thing. why I want 'em to have it and en-
joy il; but don't doubt that for the rest
, OF my life. in my own quarters. anyhow.
shall stick to simple things. | like place
where I can lean back"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
MODERN SODA FOUNTAIN
RESEMBLES A SALOON

same thing with a larger amount OF
claret, and, as Its name implies, was
invented for the college man. When he
goes to the soda fountain he generally
calls for the "Semer," and the girl ac-
companying him asks for "Fizz Fozz."
"Cinisaya" is made of a tincture of
cinchona, orange and lemon syrups.
The Hollywood Cooler is half glass
full of Clipped Ice into which has been
placed the juice of an orange and
wineglassful of Maraschino. Cherry
Cherry is made of cherry syrup. two
dashes OF angostlra bitters. half lemon
and a dash of orange water.
The Persian Bisque" to my taste is
the best of them all. To make this ice
cream, in about the same quantity used
IN making an ice-cream soda, is placed
in a special star-shaped glass. In each
OF the star points is placed a cherry,
one green and one red, alternately.
Black raspberry syrup Is poured in the
center at the top and the spoon Is ar
tistically placed. A manhattan cocktail
srndae is simply a sundae favored with
manhattan cocktail.
The drink called "Splinters" is an in
temperate drink and is often served on
the sly. It's principal ingredient comes
from a bottle labeled Subway smile,
which looks like whisky, and taste like
whisky, and smells like whisky, and has
the effect Of whisky IL is mixed with
something-the dispenser wouldn't ex-
plain this drink to me-and served with
a cherry and straws. looking very much
like a mint jullp with the mint left out.
And then there are many other new
drinks to be found at the soda bars and
fountains. most of them being old drinks
with new names The Potter Pot Is
another intoxicating beverage which can
be found at soda fountains. 1t Is nothing
more than ice cold egg nog served in
pot-shaped cup.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
vAcclNATED IN THE EYE.
Physician Has Unpleasant Experience
as Result of Accident.

BY a simple misadventure, a doctor
practicing in a town near Manchester has
become the victim of peculiar and pain
full incubation, says the London mail.
While breaking a tiny vial containing
lymph for the purpose of vaccinating
an infant. a particle of glass flew up and
struck him on the pupil of the eye. Adj
herring to the glass fragment was an al
most mlscorscopic quantity of calf's lymph.
The doctor realized the danger of vacci-
nation to which he was exposed, and i'm
mediately bathed his eye. So tender, how
ever is the skin of the eye that the glass
made a minute scratch, and day or so
afterward the usual symptoms which FOL
lowed incubation gradually appeared
The pain and discomfort which ordi-
nearly arise from the operation in this
instance are acutely aggravated. and he
is going through exactly the same process
as if he had been vaecinated on the arm.
The patient cannot sleep, and. in conse-
quence the eye is never at rest. The eye
Is bandaged up, and the doctor is for
hidden to read. When it is dark he walks
abroad under the shade of the trees and
away from the gas lamps.
The accident occurred about six weeks
ago, and 1t is the first of it's kind in
England. though it is said two such cases
have happened in Germany.
1t is not likely that the eye of the I'M
fortunate doctor will be impaired.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
MEASURE WAISTS.
Done at Church Social, and Older Peo-
Pile Were Shocked.


wilherding PENN Cor. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
A waist measure social threatens to dis
rupt the Wesleyan church and all local So
ciety. The social was held this week by
the Wilmerding Wesleyan society to raise
funds for church work. Admission was
one cent for every inch of girth showed
by the tape measure. Refreshments were
furnished free.
The social was a great success among
the younger people, but elder members
of the wesleyan community are raising a
hue and cry. They declare that 1t has
made their church ridiculous that 1t
savors of hippancy and that the size of
ones waist has nothing to do with the
size of ones soul. A church trial for those
who originated the social is threatened
by some of the more radical of the con
servative church members
Nothing else has been talked of since tho
social All the fat girls. 1t Is alleged,
pulled their corset strings a trifle tighter
TO save money, and there are charges that
a number of thin ones let theirs out and
consumed dried apples and water imme-
diately before leaving home. The young
man who handled the tape measure is ac-
cused of unnecessary slowness as he
passed It around certain of the more beau
tiful forms.
All the young people have taken up
arms in defense of the social The war
threatens to be something fierce.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
From What to Eat

From What to Eat.
~ UAINIER'S opening reveals many new
eonceits In soda fountains and bev-
- erages. oldest of the changes is
the fountain without seats. but arranged
very much la saloon. In every way
excepting in the fluids served the new
dispensary resembles cafe bar. The back
IS a solid mirror; there are foot rests,
and the soda water is drawn from the
rear of the bar, just as in a beer saloon
and not from fountain against the wall.
The latter space Is used as a sideboard
for cut glass A strange sight it is to
zee the matinee girls each afternoon, fac
ing this bar one hand grasping the hand
rest. perhaps, and dainty foot neatly
encased. resting on the foot piece There
they stand and gossip and sip their
fizzes as nonchalantly as if they had
always been used to drinking in stand
ing poscture. The soda bars" as they
are termed, are immensely popular.
At thes bars, and at the old time soda
fountains, many strange names have been
added to the dispensers vocabulary, and
gradually the patrons are becoming fa-
miliar with them. Among them are Fem
Semer." "Fizz Fozz," "Cinisaya," Cherry
Cherry" Hollywood Cooler Persian
Bisque." Manhattan Cocktail sundae,"
Potter Pot" deriving It's name from the
subway tavern) "Splinters," and other
names of new drinks that are being con-
cocted daily.
A "Fizz Fozz'' is made of ginger ale
mixed with a very small amount Of claret
wine. The wine adds the new flavor to
the drink, and none of the ginger ale
flavor is lost. Fem Semer,' is the
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
Divorced by a Preacher.

From the Philadelphia Record.
A most curious marriage tangle came to
light in Camden yesterday, when Wesley
n. Monroe made charges of bigamy
against his wife, who was jeanette Il.
Miller. The charges were maue before
Justice of the Peace Barr, and brought
to light the following odd divorce" de-
cree purported to be signed by Paul IL.
Gresson a Camden local preacher:
The marriage L performed between Wes-
ley N. Monroe and jeanette b. Miller is
hereby declared null and void.
The girl was married to Monroe In 1905.
Her father, Rev. Mr. Miller, also local
pre- acher. objected to it, as she was only
Ii years of age. 1t is asserted he told
Rev Mr.. Gresson there would be trouble
unless the knot was united. The remark
able note was thereupon written, on the
strength of which it Is alleged that Mr.
Miller himself officiated at the marriage
of his daughter last December to Roy l..
Quinn.
On the advice of Prosecutor Lloyd. JUS
tice Barr held the girl under $500 bail for
further hearing. A search was made last
night for Mr.. Gresson, but he could not be
located. 1t is thought that he issued his
peculiar note of separation under the inn
preston that the girl had obtained a
legal divorce decree.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
An Embarrassing Order.

From Harper's Weekly.
A men entered a wellknown restaurant
in New York the other day and beckoned
20 waiter. Bring me-" he said. two
fried eggs-one fried on one side and one
on the other
The waiter looked slightly puzzled but
answered, Yes sir" and disappeared to-
ward the kitchen.
( Ten minutes later he returned, looking
decidedly worried.
would you mind repeating that order
rir?" he asked.
~ want two fried eggs" said the diner
zone fried on one side and one on the
other
The waiter again disappeared In the di-
rection of the kitchen. After a longer
wait than before he returned his clothes
dishevelled and his face bruised and
scratched.
!. ~ beg your pardon. sir he said. "but
would you mind having boiled eggs I've
had words with the cook
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
Ice Cream from OH.

From the Technical World.
To make vanilla, ice cream by ARTIFICIAL
means the alchemist took some triple re-
fined cottonseed oil and placed it in a
centrifugal machine which moved at
velocity of 5000 revolutions minute. A
beautiful emulsion was thereby produced,
which was then frozen. chemically, of
course
The flavor was obtained by the addition
of vanillin, glucin and introbenzol. They
say that ice cream composed as above is
sold In many southern states, where cot
tonseed oil is more plentiful, and conse-
quently cheaper than milk or cream. 1t
is far from harmful, tastes good and
does not melt as quickly as the genuine
ice.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
A Real Fish Story.

Belgrade (Maine) Cor. Boston Post.
Enos Wilson, an enthusiastic fisherman
from Broclxton Mass, who is here on his
spring vacation, is receiving the con.
CALCULATIONS of his friends. While out
fishing in a canoe yesterday Enos got a
bite from a dogflsh. The dogfish bit the
bottom out of the canoe and also carried
away a portion of Mr. Wilson'S trousers.
This so enraged the doughty fisherman
that he threw away his rod and line, and,
jumping into the water, swan after the
fish, overtaking it and holding 1t under
the water until It was drowned The
dogfish weighed 10 pounds on its own
scales. 1t was a fresh water dogfish
and very vicious.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
AN ASTONISHING DISCOVERY.
How a Missouri Farmer Built a Good
Road.
claude II. Miller in JUNO Farming.

Claude II. Miller in June Farming.
Ten years ago a Missouri farmer
who had grown tired of wading through
a slough of despond" every spring
when the roads we're soft and who had
seen his neighbors lose time, money
and patience when their wagons were
hub-deep In the mire or their horses
Juggling and straining in their harness
to get a half load to market, decided
that there must be some remedy for
this condition. One day in thinking 1t
pver he made the astonishing discovery
that what made the roads muddy was
mud. and that If the road was worked
into such a shape and that the water
would drain off instead of soaking into
the ground after every rain the roads
would cease to be muddy.
BY means of three pieces of fence
board he rugged up homemade con.
trivance out of an old wooden pump
stock that the frost had spoiled and an
oak post. He nailed these together so
that they were parallel to each other.
Then he made a rough plank platform
on which to stand, and by means Of
wire hitched his team to this clumsy
affair at such point that it would drag
along over the road with a slant OF
about 45 degrees.
he began with the road that ran in
front of his own farm. When 1t was at
its worst he drove up and down, from
his own front gate to that Of his near
est neighbor Like a huge mason's
trowel shooting of mortar, it scraped
along, cutting down the inequalities
and rough places and filling up the
wagon ruts. He kept at it, and after a
number Of dragglngs, in place of the
flat basin that had served as a water
course for every storm to settle in, he
had built up a road with a crown and
surface that was smooth enough to
shed water AXE a ducks back" In
snort. he simply demonstrated the
soundness Of his major premise, "1f |
can get rid of the mud, the roads will
cease to be muddy" The device he
made is called a split log road drag.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-10
WESTERN WHISKY
KILLS RAHTLESNAKE
THE BITES DID NOT HURT THE
MAN, WHO WAS THOROUGHLY
SOAKED WITH MEDICINE HAT
WHISKY.

I came to Medicine Hat Alberta, in the
month of March from Buffalo. n. Y, says
a Chicago Inter-ocean correspondent, and
as all fasteners are termed "tenderfeet'
in this western country, I was looked
upon a suoh by the old-timers.
They are the men who came to these
prairie regions in the ealy $685. in advance
of civilization as hunters and fur traders,
some of whom formed the now famous
Northwest Mounted Police.
Now. it is a well known fact that there
is a strip of country running south from
Medicine Hat down across the lnterna-
tlonal boundary into Montana which Is
plentifully supplied with rattlesnakes ana
naturally there are more or less rattle
snake stories told, and according TO the
story tellers one is led to believe that
whisky is the only antidote for rattle
snake bites.
Be that as 1t may. here is story as
told TO me by one Of the veterans or the
Northwest Mounted Police:
1t was shortly after the Canadian Pa
ei1c Railway company had laid its bands
of steel across the prairie that coal
mine was opened up by a large mining
concern across the saskatchewan riNei'
and a few miles up the railroad from
Medicine Hat. the concern employing
large number of men, among them peing
ono Ben Butler who was the gehlal,
eood-natured scout of the mining camp.
Poor Ben had his faults, however ana
directly he would receive his monthly pay
ne would leave camp and strike for Medi-
cine Hat. and get filled up on all the nad
whisky he could lay his hands on
In those early days there was prohibi-
ton in the Territories, and any whisky
1..bicb came in had to be smuggled and
sold in speak eases," but Ben was on
to the ropes and generally managed 10
get what he wanted. One fine June morn
ing Pen blew into town with mis- mohth )
nav in his poclret and light heart but
before night had got his usual load OF
bad whisky.
When he started for the camp he
crossed the river on the Canadian PACING
Railroad bridge. but he did not get far
before he had to lie down to sleep off
some of the effects of his potations. He
Law there all night, and next morning
eounle of Medicine Hat citizens taxing
a walk along the railway track came
upon him. They at once shook him up
and nlaced him on his feet, and we're
Fortified to see lying right beside where
he had been large rattlesnake Iney
at once made for some stones with whleh
to kill the reptile. but on closer eXamina-
ton # was found the snake was already
dead They then examined Ben and were
startled TO discover several rattlesnake
bites on different parts of his body, but
he anpeared to be none the worse Tor the
bites and never experienced any troupie
from them after. 1t was generally sup
nosed that Butler was so saturated with
whisky that the reptiles poisonous iaiss
had no effect on him, and that the WHISKY
had caused the death of the RATHER