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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-05-25
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TO andfrom Quebec, < olebrouk North S'''t
ford, Lancaster, North Conway, Bo>tOa
Portland, and all points in the sax
OF Maine and Maritime Provinces,
In effect January :, 1906.
TRAINS LEAVE North Strhnord as IT,.
lows: For Colebrouk and BcvsHeJ ta1H
1910 a. m. II, and : - p. m, .
For CuokShire, budWcli function ana Lick
Ridge at 2.l2 p, m. ~.
For Quebec and all points on the gn'"
Central Ry. 2.1a y. N. ,o..
For Lancaster $50 1850 .. IN. ana '''
p. M. ,r..
For Quebec Junction, Portland ana Ia"
eru points $50 a. nj. and 300 D.. m. -
For Boston, via Portland, 90 a H. "-l
3.o7ip. NJ.
GEO +. EVANS,
Vice President and Gen Manas'r'
F. E. BOOTHBY, 6. p. Y T. A. 49,,
PORTLAND, NIB.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1906-05-25
Bauer's Laxyne Quinine Tablets

The best remedy for Colds Headache
and Grippe. Guaranteed to cure or
J money refunded. Price 2J cents at John
W. Thurston's drug store.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
Art Criticism in the Tenements.

In the tenements one meets with
freedom Of speech. One finds, too, in
dependence of thought. and unre-
stricted liberty OF feeling however
nice may be the pictures of angels
given to the jewellers in tenement
neighborhoods, those pictures are quite
openly rejected If not unreservediy
liked. Their owners have not been in
formed as to what angels ought and
ought not to be liked. But they know
which they do like. Moreover. they
are not afraid to tell. Once, at
Christmas. I sent to a woman Of the
tenements who was a friend OF mine.
and who. I knew, had a fondness for
pictures of winged children, a print, of
Ranhael's Cherubs 'sTheys real
sweet she said to me, when next we
we're together: "but there's lots pref
tier ones on the Christmas cards my
boy has got from the sunday school;
Elizabeth McCracken, in the At
Ia ptic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES


We are curious to know what sort of
an arrangement the Kansas City Star
has made with Senator Long and Gov
ernor Hoch that they give 1t so much
top-of- column advertising.
The committee on applause for SEN
ator Longs speech apparently did not
rehearse sufficiently.
The average man is always little
skeptical about Solomon being as wise
as he was cracked up to be. Solomon
got married three hundred times.
X
We judge that the submarine boat
isn't much safer than the atrship.
= -
Betcher haven't registered yet!
y
The National Purity Congress has
resoluted against the peek-a-boo waist:
We notice, however, that a chilly wind
from the north is what puts the peek
a-boo waist out Of business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
THE WAY TO DO

1.-THE thing for Kansas voters to do.
said the Capital recently, sis to see
that neither the Union Pacific nor any
other railroad owns and uses votes in
the legislature" and in commenting
thereon William Allen White gave this
advice in the Emporia Gazette:
And the way to do that is for every
Republican TO stand by his party, and
purge and purify It by voting against
every nominee of his party for the leg
islature who is generally believed to
be for the railroad candidate for sen
ator. For when a railroad buys a man
for one job it can and will use him for
many others.
THE way to get a clean legislature
is to vote for it, A clean party is
rather to be chosen than a great VIC
tory
Simmered down, this means that the
safe way to do is to vote for the best
man-the man who will most nearly
represent the people and do his duty
regardless Of party ties And this rule
should apply not only to nominees for
members of the legislature but to can
didates for all other offices.
It is to be hoped that no Republican
manager viii now rise and howl that
this IS fighting the ticket
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18

If the State Journal reads the signs
Alright, lot Of Republican leaders are
footing themselves in this campaign
perhaps some Of them are doing it
purposely
Whenever some man announces that
he voted for Hoch two years ago but
this year proposes to vote for Harris,
the Republican leaders Immediately
get out to prove that the bolter isn't
a Republican; that he was formerly a
Popuiist or Democrat and has been
voting the Republican ticket only very
recently. and that therefore the Re
publican party really hasn't lost any
thing-the voter is just going back
where he belongs.
This is very probably true. But
these Republican leaders should re-
member that not so very many years
ago these Populists ana Democrats
who are now going back to Harris
helped TO swell the majority against
the Republicans. If all the voters who
We're Populists or Democrats ten years
ago. but who lined up for Roosevelt
and Hoch two years ago. should go
over 70 Harris this year, there would
be Euch a Harris landslide that It
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
ouAKFE nF.FT.sgs.TToNs-


TFrom the Philadelphia Record
Pleasant quarters-twenty-five cent
tips.
Actors. at any rate, are judged by
appearances.
No man is satisfied with his lot IN
less. he has lot of it.
When a lawyer merely charges a
nominal fee It Is really phenomenal.
A tireless man is all right. but it's
different with a tireless automobile.
A sensible girl never marries the fell
low who scrfbbles her love sonnets-
woman will never learn to sharp
en- a pencil as long as a man viii do
it for her.
Playwright-'S you think my play
naight be better. Ell ?" Critic-"Y es,
by ending sooner.
There comes a time when any man
could hear a lot of nice things about
himself if he wasn't too dead to enjoy
them.
NeIl-"I never saw such a stickler
for harmonfzing effects" Belle es,
she even bushes when she goes to a
pink tea
Tommy (readfng stock quotations)
Pop, what IS the difference between
a gambler and a f1nancier2" Tommy's
Pop-''If a man loses he's a gambler;
if he wins he's a financier'
Muggins=.'That boy of mine is the
limit. 7 tell him TO do a thing and he
never thinks of it again for a week. 4
don't know what 70 make Of him.
Buggins- Why don't you make a
plumber Of hsnz's
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
Fewer Passes: More Fares.

Unonicially it is stated that the pas
senger receipts of the Pennsylvania
railroad on the lines east Of Pittsburg
and Erie had increased over 81, 0O0, 600 up
to September l. This increase Is attrib-
uted not only TO the larger number of
persons travelling, but also to the fact
that the passengers are paying fares
instead of travelling on passes. During
the year 1909 passenger receipts Of the
Pennsylvania railroad were SIG, 2S2, 1876,
OF about 81, 100 83 per month, amount
ing in eight months to 81, 521, 464. Pitts
burg despatc state that the passen-
ger receipts have increased forty per
cent. This would bring the gain to ST.
000, 900 for eight months, which is high
" improbable, but 1t makes the esti
mated gain of 81 000. 600 look reasonable.
The reduction in fares about to be made
and the more liberal terms on which
mileage books are sold viii stimulate
passenger traffic and in the end in
crease receipts still more.-Railway
World
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18

might endanger the entire Republican
ticket And 1t can not be denied that
there is a decided trend towards Colo
mel Harris, not only among former
Populists and Democrats, but also
among the old line Republicans.
The Republican managers are pin
ming their faith to the So 600 plurality
that Governor Hoch received two years
ago. And at frst glance 1t seems well
nigh insurmountable, especially con-
sidering the lack of organization
among Kansas Democrats. But an
analysis Of the election returns Of 1904
shows that even a $4,000 plurality
might melt away.
BY comparing the vote of 1904 with
that OF 1900, the previous presidential
year. it VIII be noted that something
over 10000 voters failed to go to the
polls, without counting the increase in
population 1t win probably be con-
ceded that the popularity Of Theodore
Roosevelt brought out approximately
the full Republican vote; but the
nomination of Parker. on the other
hand, Disguised the Democrats and
Populists and thousands of them did
not vote. This is where most of those
10000 votes belonged. Whether they
will enthuse enough over Colonel Har-
ris to turn out to the polls this year
remains to be seen on November s.
On the other hand the Republicans
can expect a big stay at home vote
this year. Not only is it an off year,
but there is a tremendous disaffection
among Republican voters this year
Many of these disaffected voters viii
scratch the ticket and many others will
not go to the polls.
II the Republican managers are
overlooking these facts, they are liable
to receive a decided jolt when the re-
turns come in about midnight on
November &.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
LAYHA WKER JOTS

A Concordia prospective groom was
given a sock shower by his friends
so that he wouldn't get cold feet.
one hundred thousand ballots viii
be printed in Sedgwtek county but
only a few of them will be voted.
A Garden City man had his fingers
mashed in the beet sugar factory one
afternoon, but he was at work again
the next morning.
webb McNalI is having a cement
tank built on his farm, and it is to be
forty feet long, six feet wide, and four
feet deep. In town that would be
called a natatorium.
There is a dearth of sleeping apart
ments in Wellington. Monday night
every available room in town was
taken, and ten men who arrived on
a late train We're forced to stay up all
night at a resta uTant
Junction City is putting on airs. The
Union SAYS: 1.-The members OF the
Country club are going to have a large
windmill placed on the grounds. The
mill will furnish water for the mem
bers Of the club and pump fresh wa
ter into the lake. The persons who
have cottages at the club intend to run
a pipe line to their places from the
windmill and have water works sys-
tenn"
Atchison Globe: Most of the really
good stories come from the country
towns. GIL Keithline brought the fol-
lowing from Netawaka this morning:
A farmer out there was annoyed by a
ueighbOr who frequently passed
through a gate on his farm, and left 1t
open. After being annoyed in this way
a long time the farmer finally said to
his wife: Of he ever leaves that gate
open again. let me know, and I Will
give him good whipping. A few
days later the farmers wife went into
the field where her husband was plow-
ing. and said that the gate had been
left open again. and by the same old
offender, and that in addition the cat
tie were out. The farmer promptly
dropped his work, and took after the
man. After a long time, the farmer
came back. with his clothes torn. and
blood on his hands and face. We'll. "
his wife asked, did you whip him %
mo" the farmer replied, as he went
out to the well after a pan of water
in which to battle his swollen face
''but it was all he could do to whip
me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18

The early explorers who describe the
buffalo numbers do not give US any
thing more exact than superlative ex-
pressions. such as countless herds, =
incredible numbers .'teeming nyr-
lads the world one robe etc.
have endeavored to get at a more exact
idea of their numbers.
The total area inhabited by the buff
falo was about 100000 square miles.
OF this. the open plains We're one-haIf-
According to figures supplied me by Mr.
A. F. Potter, of the forest service, the
ranges OF the Dakotas. Montana, Wy
Oming, Nebraska. Kansas, Colorado,
Texas, and Oklahoma Ca total of about
10000 square miles, or half of the
plains) were, according to the census
of 1900, carrying "A 000. 900 head of cattle
sheep. This means that when fully
stocked they might sustain a number If
buffalo at least equal to the number of
cattle and horses. The buffalo had to
divide their heritage with numerous
herds of mustang, antelope, and wapiti;
on the other hand, a buffalo could find
living where a range animal would
starve, many OF the richest bottom
lands are now fenced in, and we have
taken no account of the 100000 sheep.
Therefore we are safe in placing at
10000, 600 the buffalo formerly living on
the entire plains area.
Their prairie range was a third as
large, but it was vastly more fertile,
indeed, the stockmen reckon one prairie
acre equal to four acres on the plains.
Doubtless, therefore, the prairies Sus-
tanned nearly as many head as the
plains; we may safely set their popu-
lation at 30.0o0.000 The forest region
was the lowest in the rate of population;
for its 100000 square miles we should
not allow more than 100000 buffalo.
These figures would make the primitive
number of buffalo rs, 900 900.
Many other calculations based on
different data give similar or slightly
lower totals. From these facts it will
appear very safe to put the primitive
buffalo population at 0,0O0, 900 to co.
900, 000.-From THE American Bison Of
Buffalo, by Ernest Thompson Seton, in
the October Scrihnnr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
po1NTRD PARAGRAPHS.
IFron the chicago News.I

IFrom the Chicago News
Appearances are seldom as deceitful
as disappearance
Rafting tongues are usually to be
found in empty heads.
Even the living skeleton has a thin
chance of getting stout.
Many a mans popularity is due to
his lack of self-respect.
She is a wise girl who knows enough
not to pretend to know too much
A man saves his religion and his
best suit of clothes for Sunday
It is easier to look over another
faults than 1t is to overlook them.
When a woman knows her husband
like a book it is usually his pocket
book
If you wait for others to do things
for you they are apt to do you while
you wait
It takes a lot OF common sense to
get a man out OF the trouble a little
nonsense got him into.
People sometimes stir up lot of
trouble BY telling the truth when 1t
would be policy to say nothing.
The average doctor would die OF
starvation II his patients had no more
conhdence IN him than he has in him
self.
The wife Of a man who plays the
races never has to waste any time fig
uri1g on what she VIII do with the
money he wins.
The girls Of a country town never
forgive g young man of their set II he
disgraces himself by marrying an out-
oe-towu E
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
a GoOD CANnInA1E-

In the midst of the disanectfon now
prevailing among Republican voters,
the State Journal wishes to say a good
word for James NJ. Nation, Republican
candidate for state auditor. Mr.. Ma
tons Democratic opponent may be a
good man-as to that this paper can
not state one way or the other-but
It does know the ability and integrity
of the Republican nominee sufficient
" to give him its unqualified approval.
During the four years. early-that
Mr.. Nation has been assistant state
auditor, there has been abundant OPP
portunity to judge Of his character and
work. In that time he has had charge
Of the detail Of the vast amount Of
work in the auditors office. The great
bulk of this work is keeping the states
accounts. Mr.. Nation is not only an
expert in clerical work, but he has the
benefit of four years experience in this
line. He knows where changes should
be made in the present system. which
a new man would not learn until he
had acquired the experience Mr.. Ma
ton already has.
Further than that. those who know
have the utmost confidence in Mr..
-*t-~-S-4 = 4A4AN ~ WcLS lac Mo- III
the absence of the auditor. held up
and frustrated an attempt to unload
some Dodge City bonds on to the state
school fund, when the valuation figures
had evidently been juggled in an en-
deavor to get the deal through. For
this and other instances where he in
sisted on compliance with the law he
won the ill-wiH OF grafters. but for the
same reason he is entitled to the
gratitude of Kansas people
Had it not been for the honor and
integrity of Mr.. Nation and his as
sOciates in the auditors Office. those
who were trying to get this notorious
Comanche county bond deal through
without the knowledge Of the people
might have succeeded In some Of
the state departments it would have
been impossible to get these facts, but
Mr.. Nation believed that public records
are open to the public and that the
public is entitled to know what is go
ing on.
1t was James NJ. Nation who de-
clared that he would not lend his ap-
prevail to the Comanche county bond
deal without a written opinion from
the attorney general covering certain
points-if it were checked up to him.
It was not checked I'D to him. Those
who were manipnla ting the deal did
not eonsummate 1T until Mr.. Nation
was absent on his vacation.
For these reasons the people of
Kansas owe it to themselves and to
Mr.. Nation to place him at the head
of the states auditing department, and
these remarks are especially com
mended to Independent Republicans
and others who contemplate voting
against the entire Republican ticket
because of the head of the ticket and
the railroad commissioner nominees.
Mr.. Nation knows nothing Of this
endorsement. It may cost him the
votes OF those who were engaged in
the Comanche county bond deal. If
so, it is all the more reason why the
Independent voter should support him
The Democratic state committee is
making capital out Of that bond deal,
but it would be a great injustice to
direct any of it against Mr.. Nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18

over both Democrats and Republicans.
Today he has lost almost all OF his fol-
lowing. and the Republican state com
mittee refused to allow him to make
speeches for Hughes=he is a boiling
Democratic fear he viii hurt
Hughes more than he viii help him.
A year ago Jerome was hailed as one
Of the great reformers and prosecutors
of crime in the country. Today New
York has lost faith in him. Why this
changer Because he refused to indiet
and prosecute some OF the big insur-
ance officials who were responsible for
the Insurance outrages. When the
public loses confidence in one OF its
idols It were better for him had he
never been an idol
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18


him Tommy. the girl flushed mn .,a
exclaimed: AMI
" hy--why there was a Tommy Hone
weeks ago. %
Yes, 7 was there
And you j-5unped2''
Il jumped, Miss Lawson"
And yCu--you s-printed2"
7 sprinted. Did you happen 81 -
there in person p 70
Yves, and I told my chuna. Tsab.I
DAVIS. that hated athletes. IT So
that an old horse could beat you All a.
running or Jumping and that you
you
That I ought to be saving wood
perhaps?" he laughed. ''Well. I sban-f
hold It against YOU
And he didn't. IF he had how co,,Y5
they be engaged at the present time. 40
announced in the society columns? If
is more than likely, also, that Miss
Edith has changed her opinions and Is
q warm champion Of the cause
Copyright, 1906, by c. H. Sutcline.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
GLOBE sTGHTs.


Iron the Atchison GIobeI
vance.
Drug stores in big and little towns
are different"
There never was a wife so old that
she didn't look better as a widow
How people love to gossip and how
they do hate to be pinned down when
questioned!
Another advantage the women have
over the men is that there are no slot
machines at soda fountains.
What has become Of the old fash
toned girl who pinned away and forgot
to curl her hair when love didn't go to
suit her?
"rm going out a man said in a joint
today, and Scare 'eu All" But Pc
uceman Joe Miller got to him before he
Scared EN- All.
When good-hearted, easy-going
man dies, and his wife gets hold Of his
books, she soon has every one who ever
owed him a cent. on the run.
The good book says something about
An men being liars" The only trou-
bic is the statement Is too narrow. Il
should have included women and chill
dren.
When little girl names her doll for
you IL is a compliment, but when she Is
a grown woman and names her baby
Tor yous there may De another motive
in connection.
AS a rule, the women who are the
most eloquent in raving about the Won
derful cures effected by their pet doc
tors, are those who have never had any
thing the matter with them
A good deal of fault is found with the
Ben Davis apple. STILL the Ben Davis
is worth while TO simply hang on the
tree in the fall. and look pretty. Il
may at least be said Of the Ben Davis
that It is red.
Here's one thing we'd like Edward
Box to tell us: Every day we meet car
tain women on the streets Of Atchison
three or four times Each time we are
supposed to take of our hat and bow
to them politely. From this continual
hat tipping our right arm Is becoming
larger than It should be; indeed. II has
become so large as to threaten to be-
come deforn7ed. What we would like
to know. II bowling to them once a day
IS not enough. We could bow to them
ia the morning. and then be dead on
them all day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
PACKING.

She's not athletic not whit,
She never trained a little bit.
Y ct somehow all the items fit
When mother packs.
She thinks of this and thinks Of that,
Gives here a tuck and there a pat.
The grip is fun and smooth and flat,
When mother packs.
It works upon a different plan,
The pitching would delight fan
The lacking cheer the football man
When father packs.
"A last in broken. gaping form,
w hile things ne needs outside it swarIns,
lis checked unto a climate warm
When father packs.
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18

THE HEARsT ..HoAx !.

Exposure Of the Hearst hoax is now
so complete that his campaign begins
to look like joke. A pretended oppon-
ent of political bosses, he comes to the
front as the eager partner-perhaps al
SO the dupe-of the most notorious of
all the bosses. The ostensibIe enemy of
corporations. he is shown up not only as
the creator and beneficiary Of corpor-
atoms. but as resorting in their forrna-
ton TO the questionable expedients that
characterized the hated trusts. New
York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-18
Tne Reanv Remarlnhle I1hea-

The rhea of South America is a re-
markable bird" said an ornithologist
'Really2"
Yes. The male rI1ea matches out the
eggs. He, and not the female, is the
sitter. He sits always in a quiet and
desolafe place, where there Is no food,
nothing to attract enemies; and, as soon
as the young are born, the question is
how to feed them?
THE rhea answers that question in
advance. Three or four days before
the eggs are to open, he shoves a cou-
pie OF them out of the nest with his
bill, and lays them in the sun.
What is the result2 The result is
that the hot South American sun de-
composes the eggs, and the father
breaks them as the young birds begin
to appear in the nest, and the flies
settle on them, and in "a hours they are
alive with worms-teder, juicy. de-
1fcious worms. the best food in the
world for the nest of new born birdlings.
There. Is not that ingenious? Is
not the rhea remarkable ~
HE hrea-ly is.