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vehicles. See US about that delivery 49,
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JAYHA WKER JOT.S

The Walnut Valley Times Intends to
make itself Christmas present of a
new Cranston press.
Grant Hornaday has presented tn
First Christian church of Fort Scott
with a new furnace. OF course this
wasn't won on the election.
Atchison has a walking club" but Il
isn't a Big Stick. 1t threatened to walk
10 st. Joe recently, but threatening was
as far as 1t got
Frank Laughlin. a reporter on the
PittSburg Headlight, has served cOntin
uously on that paper for fourteen years,
going about asking Pittsburg people,
Whats new?"
Delving into the archives of history,
the Hiawatha World discovers that the
Hiawatha Blue Brooches scooped the
MuScOtah Red Brooches IN 1870 These
were the good old days when the ball
was really pitched and the base runners
were crossed out" good game, too,
required forty or fifty runs on a side.
There is complaint at Emporia be =
cause the Normal students are so pros
porous that few of them have to worl.
their way through school. Emporia
people who depend on the students to
work for them are longing for the good
old days when students had less mon
ey. This prosperity business has its
drawbacks.
Pratt Republican: The Kansas game
and fish car built by the Hicks Car
company of Chicago arrived on the
Rock Island Sunday morning. The car
has been named Angler One and it is
something that the citizens of Kansas
should be proud of. In one end of this
car is the game and fish department
with tanks running along the sides thai
will hold from 10000 to 10000 fish. Tn"
other end is divided into three depart
ments, kitchen, dining room and toilet
There are berths for three people and
everything is as handy as you please.
The car is finished in fine oak with
leather upholstered furniture and there
is nothing needed but what is there in
its place D. w. Travis has worked
hard to secure this car and it will fill
the necessity for distributing fish and
game over the state.
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TIE CAR SHORTAGE.

The car famine, which was only an
annual affair a few years ago, lasting
two or three months, while the wheat
was moving to market, has now become
a continuous performance. 1t is a ser
ious matter. both to the shippers and
to the railroads.
1t is generally believed that the car
famine IS the result of too much pros
perity- The railroads are constantly
adding to their rolling stock, but not
as fast as the traffic increases.
A writer in the current number of
The World Today, however, blames
much Of the shortage to the fact that
freight cars are used to a great extent
for storage purposes. This writer-he
IS J. W. Midgley, commissioner of the
Western Traffic association=says that
under existing rules governing the ex-
change of freight cars. the latter. until
July 1. 1906, commanded a rental Of
90 cents per car per day. Thereafter
the per diem rate was advanced to rs
cents. If cars should be in constant
use. allowing three hundred working
days per year, the annual earnings
would amount to SIS per car. OF
course, all cars are not in regular use
because of the f1uctuation Of traffic.
During busy seasons, such as the one
now upon US, they are in urgent de-
mand; and as owners are then reluc-
tant to forego their use, it is provided
that after car has been in possession
Of the borrowing company twenty
days, request can be made for its re-
turn within ten days. or penalty will
thereafter be demanded, which, added
10 the regular charge, makes a total of
81 for each day the car is detained.
Unfortunately, Mr.. Midgley con
tinues, the exigencies of competition
between common carriers and rival
seaports led. in some instances, to the
allowance of free storage, for speci-
fed periods. of commodities notably
grain destined abroad. Thus, thousands
Of western cars are held on track at
North Atlantic ports, awaiting vessel
room, the elevator capacity there be-
ing unequal to the prompt unloading
of grain during the height of the ex-
port movement In that way conges-
tons of freight occur. and the cry
goes out for more cars in which to for
ward the enormous grain crop; where
as. what is needed is not more cars but
the quick unloading and return of the
cars in use, instead OF their CONVEX
sion into storehouses at tidewater ter
minals- Frequently during such con
gestions, the various sidings of trunk
lines between Chicago and the sea-
board are blocked with freight cars
loaded with grain and other foodstuffs
destined to Europe.
This explanation Of Mr.. AIidgley has
its bearing upon the shortage in grain
and general merchandise cars, but does
it explain the shortage in coal cars
that is sometimes complained OF
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t is said that Senator La Toilette
enjoys a political or legislative fight.
Senator La Toilette will probably have
lots of fun in the United States senate
this winter.
Speaking of high school sororities,
what is really needed is a sorority that
Will encourage the noble arts of max
ing bread and washing dishes.
x n
This is the time of year=when the
water gets real cold-when the aver
age small boys neck and ears show a
great need to be sent around to the
laundry.
Like as not the Topeka Plaindealer
viii now recall its demand that Presi-
dent Roosevelt stand for a third term.
= X
The good old game of football has
also lost some of its interest for the
doctors and surgeons, but not to the
extent the mothers of the players
would like.
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If you spend the winter in the trop-
les. don't forget to look the COW tree
up" SAL a globe Lrotter.
The COW tree %
Yes; the palo de vaca. or COW tree.
1t gives milk
Real milk?"
The very best. Listen to what Hum
boldt, in his work on South America
says about it,
And the globe trotter took down
book and read:
Among the many curious phenome-
ma that beheLd during my journey.
there was hardly any that struck my
imagination so forcibly as the COW tree.
1t grows on the rocky side of a noun
tain, securely insinuating us roots in
tt stone. For many months not a
shower of rain falls on its dry leaves,
the branches seem dry and dead; but
pierce the trunk, and a sweet and nour-
ishing milk flows. At sunrise this veg
etable source is most abundant; then
the blacks and native people hurry
from all parts provided with jugs To
catch the milk, which turns thick and
yellow on the surface"
The globe trotter, replacing the vol
ume, went on:
1--WE tasted the COW trees milk and
found it good. This milk has been an
alyzed. 1t contains, besides the fat
proper to milk sugar casein and phos-
pilates. So rich is it that ordinary milk
is as nothing beside it. In fact it is
as rich as cream.
The Canary islands, Memerara, Cey-
lon and such like places all have COW
trees. Los Angeles Times.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[F'rom the Chicago News.1
An argument is the preface to a
quarrel.
To err is human-to lie about it is
more human.
He is indeed a busy man who can
never find time to find fault
Girls are fond of attention; married
women are fond of contention.
Many a rich man is unable to offer
anything better than poor excuse.
The more sunshine there is in some
mems lives the less hay they make.
It's usually the man who hasn't much
money who wants people to think he
has a lot
No wonder the way of the transgres-
scr is hard when one considers the
amount of travel thereon.
Proba bly, the undertaken never
would get some people If they could
live until they acquired wisdom.
Frost is on the pumpkin, the folders
in the shock, and soon the plumbers
hammer viii knock, knock, knock.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe. ]


When you do exactly what you
want. don't demand credit for doing it,
When an office actually seeks a man
his campaign expenses are low
enough.
To say a person is unconventional,
is often polite way of saying he is
impolite.
Perhaps one reason they call it
high finance" is because it resembles
a hold-up.
An Atchison woman carries her
nose higher than grocery prices in
Goldheld. Nevada
4 wise man does the best thing IN
der the circumstances. and lets the
bowling minority howl
If you think q mans children are
Intelligent, you ought to get him to
tell you about his bird dog.
In the opinion of & coffee salesman,
the best grocer IN town Is the one who
buys the most of his Coffee
Without a desire to encourage vag-
rancy. it may be said that hobo"
earns about all he gets at this season.
We don't care for sleighing; it re-
minds US too much Of sitting with our
feet in ice water. and juggling sleigh
bells.
One picnic a year. and one rabbit a
wear, is about all we can stand We
intend to eat our rabbit for 1906 this
evening.
When We read the boy and girl
troubles in the papers, we wonder that
girls do not run from boys as soon
as they see them.
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stores that do a credit business than
men who spend their money-much or
little-in saloons. Children reared away
from the influence Of the saloon, taught
to understand that the saloon is an
outlaw and it's business a back alley
business. grow into better citizens,
make less trouble for the police, than
children whose way to school passes the
saloon door,
Let it be granted that men have a
right to drink if they want to, granted
that temperance people are unwar-
rsntedly interfering with the privileges
of the citizen when they preach prohi-
bition, granted that prohibition can
never entirely prohibit, the business ar
gument still stands that the dry town
is a better town than the wet town.
The business fact still stands that sa-
looms do not make a good town, have
never made 1t and will never make it.
The benefits of prohibition cannot be
demonstrated in a saloon town in a
week or a month. Possibly in a year
they may begin to be manifest. In five
years any town which fairly and hon
estly tries the dry policy and fairly
and honestly compares it with the con-
ditions under open saloons, will de-
clare for prohibition. This does not
deny that there will be an outcry in
every community where the saloons are
closed; that classes will not rise up and
threaten to leave a town where a man
can't do as he pleases; that trade will
not be drawn away to the town where
liquor is sold; that there will not be
sarcastic protest upon the deafness and
stagnation OF the town that has taken
to prohibition. All these things will
happen. And gradually, affairs will re-
adjust themselves, and better citizens
will replace the ones whose indignation
and appreciation of personal rights
have drawn them away-and better
and more substantial trade will take
the place of the trade that is lost. New
sources of revenue and less sources of
expense Will supplant the saloon IL
cense and the conditions that accom-
pany it,
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us TARBELL On TIE TARIFF.


This is notice to the tariff that it bet
ter hide out. Miss Ida NJ. Tarbell is
camping on its trail, and the tariff
knows what that means. If it doesn't.
let 1t address a note of inquiry to ]. D.
r., No. % Broadway. and it will find
out.
The series of articles which Miss Tar
bell begins in the December number of
the American Magazine on The Tariff
in Our Times" ought to prove an i'm
mensely interesting as well as valuable
contribution to economic literature.
AS a rule tariff articles are dull read
ing at best, but it is safe to predict
that what Miss Tarben writes will be
exceptional She proposes to give the
history of the tariff,-the men who adj
vocated it. and why they did it; and
the various movements which have re-
suited in increasing the tariff, until it
is now at the highest point it has ever
been.
Miss TarbeH viii treat the tariff much
as she did the Standard OIL company,
merely giving the facts in its develop
ment and their results Instead of
picking out certain facts to prove GER
tain theories, she will doubtless give all
the facts and let the reader draw his
own deductions and evolve his own
theories.
1t is doubtful If the result can be very
flattering to our tariff system. The high
tariff was designed chiefly as a war
measure to raise revenue. but 1t was
found useful to the protected manufac-
turers and it has been manipulated and
increased until it is now higher than
ever before. and it has resulted in
trusts and the accumulation of ire
mendous private fortunes A tariff for
the development Of small and weak in
dustries sounds all right. but when the
industry attains mammoth proportions,
organizes itself into a trust, and utilizes
the tariff to rob the rest OF the country,
It's a different proposition.
The tariff will remember what Miss
TarbeH did to Standard OIL If it is a
close student of affairs it has already
noted that the country is in a proper
frame of mind to hear some pronounced
truths concerning it. This is fair warn
ing to the tariff that it better hunt its
hole.
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QUAKER REFLECTToNs.

From the Philadelphia Record.
monumental Har-the fellow who
writes epitaphs.
1t doesn't take blind man to say;
i never saw cord of wood"
Many a popular song is unhonored.
although it Is scarcely unsung.
The fellow who is driven to drink
generally acts as his own chauffeur
The widow must look out for No
even when she is looking out for No
It may be better to be born lucky
than to be born rich, but after all there
isn't a whole lot of difference.
It doesn't necessarily mean that a
fellow is lacking in synonyms Just be-
cause he calls a spade a spade
A real detective resembles the book
article just about as much as a stage
heroine resembles the girl you marry.
The average married woman realizes
that she doesn't have to get into poll
tics to be the speaker OF the house.
Every man would like to have his
own way, but the older he grows the
more thankful he is that he didn't
have 1t.
First Chauffeur Tho boss pays me
my own fines" Second Chauffeur-
Gee! How much do you owe him
now?"
Muggins-"That boy OF mine Is al
ways doing something to get himself
in hot water. I don't know what will
become of him when he grows up"
Buggins-''Hell be a reformer. most
likely"
Mr.. Cityman docking for suburban
home) but the advertisement said
the place was only ten minutes walk
from the station" Native='Well, the
used to be the amateur long distance
walker of the United States"
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ford to have you sick on our hands.
with Mcguire on the edge OF pneu-
monia.''
The piercing tones ran the length Of
laughter ND and down the lines. With
crimson cheeks Emily touched the
| button, but when the waiter arrived.
| it was Marston who took the matter
in hand and ordered a dainty lunch
con.
Mrs. Mcguire admitted that for
man lin pork he knew how to order.
1t annoyed her that she could not COM
band Later she said something of the
sort to Emily, who had brought Mr.
Mcguire an evening paper, picked up
at POughkeepSie.
Emily did not seem to hear the pa
tronizing remark of her employer. Her
mind had leaped forward to that mo-
ment when the train should pull into
TO the Grand Central depot Then she
and the Maguires would enter the car
riage neid in waiting by liveried ser
wants, and Marston would go his self
made, Independent way. When she re-
turned to her chair, the dull foggy
dusk was settling down on the river.
Pretty soon on the broad, sick-track
way, trains loaded with suburbanites
would go shooting past them, subur-
banites going home to cottages and
firesides all their own, where women
who had never dreamed of artistic ca
reers waited for them.
The porter received Mrs. Maguire's
curt comment on poor gas with abJect
apologies.
"Surhin's sure wrong, but we can't
locate the trouble. but Wen soon be in
town." he said and hurried on. He
knew the Mcguire type.
Emily started. Marstons hand was
on her arm, not gently or as re-
minder that he deserved her attention,
but IN a mastery, determined clasp.
Emily, do you think for one min
ute 1 am going abroad and leave you
with that-that sort OF a woman? I've
got to sail in the mornIng-there Is
not much time-but you can get frills
and frocks in Paris, and when we come
home, II visiting are centers abroad has
reused your ambition once more, III
have you study with the best"
Il don't want to study have no
ambitions just want
Marston bent very close to catch the
last WOrd-''you.'
Emily. get a rug for Mr.. Mcguire
exclaimed Mrs. Mcguire SO sharply
that the doing passengers all woke
up. Then as the girl leaned over to
pick up the fallen rug Mrs. Mcguire
whispered harshly:
II guess you forget where you are!"
No" replied Emily, happily. I've
only just found out where belong.
Mr.. Marston and 1 are going to be
married tonight. and sail for London
in the morning.
Mrs. Mcguire gave vent to an esrcla-
nation that reused her husband to
frightened wonder and made several
men in the farther end of the car
laugh aloud.
The little bride in chair IL leaned
over and touched her husbands hand.
billy, dear, I believe there's a little
story going on right under our noses
Her husband patted her hand teEl-
derby under cover of the friendly dusk
Wouldn't be surprised, sweetheart
and all I've got to say is I hope thar
the young man is the SORT who will n2e
consign Emily to a draughty seat"
Il hope he is just as dear and good
as you are"
And down in the front of the car
Marston and Emily Hunt sat gazing
out into the night, too happy for Words
Copyright. 1906, by Z. c. Parcells.)
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HVMOR or THE DAY

He Is a deceitfuI man" What makes
you think sop He pretended to believe
me the other day when he knew / was
lying to him. cleveland Plain-Dealer.
There are blessings in defeat as well as
IN victory, said the philosopher. Yes"
answered the disappointed candidate.
There is nothing like defeat for keeping
a reformer from backsliding. "-Washing-
ton Star.
Jones (to next door neighbor)-' don't
like to mention it. but I fearr your
daughter is taking elocutfon lessons
hotly)-.'C Certainly she is. What
of it?'' Jones (hurriedly)-"Oh, nothing;
only I thought l would break the news as
gently as possible, in case you were ig-
nOrant Of the fact. Town and Country
He is 4 radical of radicals" ssYes?''
He even advocates the public ownership
of legislatures" Good heavensf VVouId
he leave no feld whatever for private en-
terprise pfc.
M, MISS PepperyE.'I was surprised to hear
that you had Joined the National Guard. -
C no really. yknow, I always
der der Miss PepPery-'.Yes2 Well, now
to be man "-Philadelphia Press.
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THE DRY, AND THE ..XvF,T, ;,


Students Of affairs generally admit
that the 'saloonless' town is the hes
town in the long run, other things be-
ing equal. This is true in the very ma
ture Of things. The saloon does no good
whatever 1t undermines mems health
and robs them Of their wealth. IL
breeds crime and poverty. 1t takes the
wages of the laboring man that should
go to the grocer. and the dry goods
man. Its influence is demoralizinE in
stead OF uplifting.
Henry J. Allen IN an editorial In the
Ottawa Herald tries to cheer up WIch-
ita, Leavenworth and the other towns
that are about to lose their saloons.
with the idea that they are better off
without their saloons than with them.
He admits that they probably won't be-
lieve it, but it is a fact nevertheless.
IF there were no other arguments
against the saloon than its effect upon
business says Mr.. Allen, III a moral
question were not involved in the prop
osition, it would still Be advisable to
have a dry community. The reasons
are obvious; they are matter-of-fact
business reasons. Men who spend theil
money on necessities and harmless lux
uries are better tax payers, build better
homes make more reliable patrons OF
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George Vanderbilt has decided to aban-
don his poultry farm. which has been
losing 5000 a year--News Note.
When it's genius that you're seekin',
Spread on genuine an thick,
Jes come down an spend a week in
Good OF Pohick on the Crick.
Them folks that's financierfn'
Often causes us alarm
By the profits they are clearin'-
But they couldn't run farm!
The goose whose eggs are golden
Must be managed with great skill,
But when it comes to hOldin'
Chickens down, that's harder still.
They kin fix a speculation
That'u work jes' like charm
An astonish the whole nation
But they couldn't run a farm!
Washington Star.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
{ from the New York Pres

LFrom the New York Press.J
It's awful extravaganza to get d.
vorced from a rich wife.
We should always like to see our
relatives If they never came near US.
A funny thing is the way a woman
can keep her feet warm by wearing a
pearl necklace.
A woman has a hard time convincing
herself that her boy would be smarter
II he had more brains.
When a millionaire runs over you
with his automobile he thinks he is
mighty confederate OF you to pay foR
your funeral.