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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

President Palma of Cuba has re-
ceived from President Roosevelt n let
ter thanking him and the Cuban con-
gress for its touching and generous
memento Of the marriage of his daugh-
ter. He congratulated President Palma
on the progress Of the Cuban republic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

Secretary of State Root, in letter
to Representative DENLY of Michigan,
explains the attitude of the AMERICAN
government toward the alleged scan
dals in the Congo Free State in Cen
trail Africa. The Congressman had
written regarding the widespread feel
ing that our government ought to do
something to bring about an interna-
tiOnal adjudication of the issues in
yolved. In reply, the Secretary says
that our country is not in a position to
take the initiative toward such Il step,
because it has no possessions or spheres
of influence in Africa. In the general
act for the repression of the slave
trade, to which we are Il party. it is
expressly stipulated that the regula-
ton of FIREARMS and liquor traffic
shall be relegated to the powers having
possessions in Africa. Our relation TO
the Congo State is that of one Sover-
eign to another: consequently we are
without power to even investigate eX-
listing conditions. We do not even have
diplomatic representatives in that coun-
try.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

Since Congress has cut down the APP
preparation to the War Department, it
is interesting to note the comparison IF
our army budget with that of other
countries. The regular army in the
United States to-day amounts to about
10000 men, and it costs in round num-
bers about ST2,000,000 France main
tains an active army of $4,000 men,
and it costs her $133 100000. Germany
maintains an army which has upon its
active list 640,000 men, and it costs her
$144 100000 Il year. France has an
army about nine times the size of the
United States and it costs her less than
twice as much to maintain, while Ger
many has an army more than ten times
as large, costing her about double. The
greater cost of the army of the United
States is explained by the fact that this
country pays its army men something
like wages. while only a small and al
most nominal stipend is allowed the
troops of Germany, France, and other
European countries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1906-03-22

Uncle Sam has discovered a real hero
and rewarded him. 1t took the old
fellow q year, but this caution makes
the reward all the more valuable. An
act of Congress was approved Oh Feb
ruary %, 1905, which provided for the
bestowal of a bronze medal on such per
sons as risked their lives to save 9th
ers in the railway service. The first
hero to get this medal is George Poell,
of Grand Island, Neb. Mr.. Poell was
q locomotive fireman on the st. Joe &
Grand Island Road, and on n run with
a heavy freight train little boy, Paul
Ussary, was discovered on the track.
The lad, two and a half years OLD. did
not realize his danger, and needed not
the whistle. Mr.. Poell made his way
to the pilot and reached out for the
youngster. In saving him the fireman
slipped from the pilot and was drag
ged for 125 feet, his left foot being torn
off and his arms broken. The boy had
been dropped in the grass and was I'M
hurt.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
FARMER CORURN


While Kansas is shaking hands with
herself over the fact that Mr.. COburn
win continue to do good things for her
agriculture, she cannot help feeling
little sad also because the high expec-
tations that were aroused throughout
the country over the appointment of
Mr. Coburn as United States senator
VIII not be fulfilled.
OF course. the rest of the country
could not imagine Mr.. Coburn turning
down the appointment, and 1t took his
acceptance for granted. This was the
theory on which the following lines in
the New York Sun were written:
There will be a third farmer in the
senate when Foster Dwight Coburn,
appointed by Governor HOoh of kan
sas, takes the oath and his seat But
the difference between him and the
South Carolina pair will be that.
whereas they represent the Demo-
cratic party of the Palmetto state Mr..
Coburn will be the representative of
the farmers of the Sunfower state in a
special sense and champion of the
American farmer in general; for he
is not only a practical, but theo-
retical 'agriculturist,' a cultivator of
the soil and of georgia ideas indis-
pensable to the soil tiller.
'Mr. Coburn has dug, drained and
fertilized; he has diversified crops and
irrigated; he has made two blades OF
grass grow where one was seen before:
he has taken toll from the soil which
superior skill harnessed to labor. Be
sides. he has taught farming in book
and pamphlet. organized the stock de-
partment Of the st. Louis fair, and
served Kansas as secretary of agricul-
ture. His works on alfalfa and swine
husbandry are famous the country
over, and he is a respected authority
on dairying and the raising of stock.
He will be an invaluable adviser of
Secretary Wilson, and in the senate
the unimpeachable authority on seeds
and things We congratulate the
speeders of the plough on the advent
Of Farmer Coburn.T
Mr.. Coburn is already a man of in
ternational reputation His name is
known wherever agricultural ltera-
ture is read on the globe. AS is evil
denced by the foregoing paragraphs.
his fame is secure in his own nation.
It is doubtful If he could have added to
it by going to the senate, and so he
will continue to deal with things agri-
cultural instead of political. He will
continue to be- as the Sun calls him,
Farmer Coburn.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
Women,s Varied Activltv.

1t used to be only men who knocked
about the world and had queer and un-
en- are having mild adventures, too.
New York is the very best place to
encounter such women.
At meeting held for a special pur-
pose in a private house the other day
the women, largely strangers to one
another, fell to talking after the busi-
ness which called them together was
dispatched They were mostly sedate
married women, living the most con-
ventional of lives on Manhattan, but
conversation reached strange wander
ings.
The mildest and most sedate of all
had been for several years chaplain of
a state prison for men, had preach ed
Sunday after Sunday to congregation
of convicts, and had maintained corre-
spondence with ex-convicts and enter
tanned them in her home.
Another had taught school IN Ha-
waii, going out solely for the fun of the
thing, and teaching a school made up
of Chinese, Japanese and native Ha-
waiian children.
A third had taught school in a little
busted mining camp in one of the
Rocky mountain states, 10000 feet
above sea level, where after the trains
shut down in the fall there were no
more till the SHOWS disappeared in the
spring, the mail coming in by snowshoe
meanwhile. 1t being a state where
women voted, she had risen to the Of
fee of county superintendent of
schools, over a county pretty nearly as
big as the state of Verm ont and con-
tanning schools 100 miles from the rail.
road.
Another had been a trained nurse,
had gone to the Philippines in the war,
and had been on the firing line in more
than one skirmish.
Another had had charge Of a gov
ernment pottery kiln among the Pueb-
10 Indians, and had lived for three
years in an Indian village of 800 in
habitants. not more than a dozen of
them white.
Another had run a little daily paper
in a western town, edited the telegraph
news, rustled the local news and writ
ten the editorials, singly, alone. and
bossed the foreman and advertising
man besides.
And still another had been a med
ical missionary for years on the borders
of Tibet, and had made frequent ex-
cursions into that forbidden land, arm
ed with tracts and a doctors kit.
None of these women was born in
New York, and none ever expected in
her earlier days to live here, but the
great whirlpool that seems to center
on Manhattan had gathered them al
in.-NeW York Sun.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12

ing community as is now the -four mill.
Each community will be found to a
large extent making its own alcohol for
domestic use out of the waste products
Of the surrounding farms, the surplus
Of its fields.
Experience has shown that for burn
ing In a lamp the light is better and a
quart of alcohol burns about twice as
long as one Of kerosene With a cheap
supply, alcohol viii become a fornid-
able competitor of gasoline in the oper-
alton Of automobiles and small engines,
not only as a direct power, but as a fuel
for steam propelled ones. In Germany
there are said to now be 5000 such en-
gines run by the duty-free alcohol of
that country. Thousands of small en-
gines now in use with gasoline as the
explosive or steam generating fuel can
be operated without mechanical altera-
tion by the substitution of alcohol.
Alcohol was certainly intended by
the Creator for some good purpose and
perhaps man is just now finding out
how to make it do good in place of all
the evil it has wrought in the past.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.

LFrom the Atchison GIobe.J
Look out for the man who boasts he
has never kissed a woman.
Some girls when they appear in pub
lie. looked dressed for market
When woman entertains, the men
her husband is owing money get busy.
When you visit a hardware store,
can you name the use of half the arti-
cles displayed?
clothes, old fashioned men say: Where
was the fire ?"
Lots of men who think they would
run like wolves If nominated, are beat
en- in the convention.
An Atchison man was ruined by
politeness: he was too polite to say no
to old John Barleycorn.
Every man thinks there is room for
another ma agaZine. We have a good
one in mind we'd like to start.
What has become of the old fashion
ed curly haired boy who put "clabber"
on his hair to straighten it?
There are some mothers who think
the baby's father doesn't love 1t be-
cause he refuses to let it smear mo-
lasses candy on his clothes.
We are disposed to pay a good deal
by Perry Hayes: He uses shingle nails
instead Of buttons in holding up his
pants.
1t is an UpHft theory that a friend
would rather have a half-blown rose
as present than box of candy. but
the trouble is the friends one has to
buy for are never Uplifts-
'I intended" every candidate says.
"to make q clean, decent fight. but the
methods of the opposition have been so
disreputable that / am compelled to
meet FIRE with fire" eao.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12

the gate of heavn lay through a par
tition in a writing desk"
Heaven she said, as her lips
brushed his forehead, tiles IN many
places. fnd mine in a Morris chair
wrapped in q slumber robe.
Il must have been slum berinss a long
time he laughed. '@That menu card
IS dated three years ago.
Il cannot realize even now" she
whispered, that this is not all a
dream,
From which may we never awak-
en- he whispered, as he drew her race
down to his again.
You may remain here Margaret
said after a few minutes. II shall go
to Aunt Ruth's room and, as q recon-
pense to her for letting me share her
apartment I'll=Isll tell her about 1t.
She loves a romance" ."=( Copyright,
1906, by E. c. Parcells.)
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
HOPE

Say, heart o mine, do ever
The birds lit glad and true
Along the winding river
The way they used 10 dO2
Nay, dear heart. if you miss nae
The half that i miss you,
And If you miss the bliss we
Knew, they sing not true.
The Cuyahoga's winding
Down through the same old vaies.
A-turning, twisting finding
The old familiar trails,
But / am out and far now
From river trails and thee.
Afar from where you are now,
And Woe-ah-Woe is mel
The live oaks stretch their branches,
And, to the sky's S far line,
Are bayOus. prairies, ranches,
And mllliOn-head O. kline;
And mocking birds sing loud now
But, oh, they sing not true.
For, oh, my soul is bowed now
Ihat I'm afar from you.
The birds shall wake each thicket
With every glad refrain
We knew, and BY the wicket,
When ] come back again,
l know you viii await me
With shining eyes and truet
God grant naught may belate me,
Or keep me long from you.
j. M. Lewis in the Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

IF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
The greatness that is thrust upon a
man is apt to crate on others.
knowledge comes with old age. es-
pecially the knowledge of lost oppor-
tunities
The small boy is apt to marvel when
he hears of a man who doesn't know
when he is whipped.
Men must work and women must
weep. but the women always do their
end of the job with more gusto.
WigWag-" Has your baby had any
of the infantile ailments yet?" Young
pop (wearily)-"Only insomnia p
There isn't anything much more dis
tressing than a naturally taIkatlve i. -
man who has an impediment in her
speech
Wigg-''What I like about her is that
she has such fresh complexion -
Wagg-"Yes; [ imagine it's fresh every
morning
HThe telegraph" remarked the Wise
Guy "annihilates distance" ssyThe mes
senger boy, too, kills time" murmured
the Simple Mug.
Nell-"Has the sudden acquisition OF
wealth changed her much?" Belle
NO; she's just as fond Of a s8-cent bar
gain marked down from dollar as
evo-.''
Sunday School Teacher-'The Bible
tells us that we should ali love our
enemies Willie Fresh-"There weren't
any Janitors and gas companies when
the Bible was written. were there?,'
AarsL Buggins-.sPoker is a much
easier game than euchre" Mr.. Rug
gins (sarcasticallyl-''It is, eh2" Mrs.
BuEgins-''W Why, 1t is quite sfn7nis
There isn't even a trump to keep tract.
Of
Totde Tinkleton. who writes for the
woman's page, says a bashful man slIf
fers more than a bashful woman. How
do you know, Tottie? Did you ever
run across a bashfuI woman?
81 thought you said there was run
ming water In this COTTAGE" expostu-
lated the city man. There renArsffss
is replied the suburban real esfs q.
agent, but the weather has been ~
dry that 1t has all run out. After
good rain the cellar" But the ct+S.
man waited to hear no more.
You are the sunshine OF my life.
He cried. All, prophecy so GRIM
Shes still his sunshine. As llfs vie
She often makes It hot for him
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
LAYHA WKER JOES

Chanute reports a big blackberry
crop. The appendicitis crop will come
next.
John Olhon, a Dickinson county pio-
neer who has just died, came to kan
sas in 1858 in an oX-cart.
fambeaux down to Ottawa on the
Fourth of July and show the natives
how to celebrate.
Mr.. Drew did that to his pay for the
last time the other day when he re-
tired from the Office of the freight traf-
fic manager of the Katy" at Parsons
A Cottonwood Falls man is repairing
his house, and it brings out the fact
that he first plastered it nearly forty
years ago, and it was never replastered
until this spring. This has no refer
ence to a mortgage plaster.
Charlie Blakesley needs disciplining.
He says: "A Topeka woman has is
sued invitations for "a kensington,' and
her friends are in doubt whether it
means a keg party, bridge session or
a knitting bee"
Concordia's new natatorium was
opened the other night and Conner
Davies who is a connOiseur in such
matters, unhesitatingly hands down
this opinion: 1.-The bathing suits are
good ones, those for the ladies even
handsome" But there is complaint
because there were no suits for the fat
men, ana I1llS WAS the cause OF COlSlQ-
cradle trouble. Think Of Ike Rigby,
for instance, in bathing suit that was
built for Walter Reid
Somebody has perpetrated this on
the Council Grove Guard, in spite of its
name
love Mi love most Trewly
Even if Mi disposition is most Muly
And her Eye to me is moast fare
And was as Crost to her as a Bare
Littel gold ringlits fell from her head
i wood jist AS soon be Struct ded
For Give me mi Sweet little duv
Come COW on Mi shoalder Deer
Or for the othur shoar 1 ma shuv
So come to Me mi darling dear trew
love
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A goat appears to be a pretty wise
animal after all You Will notice that
he merely eats the cans and never
touches the stuff that has been inside
of them.
The radishes and lettuce taste un-
usually good since the ll-Reynolds
report came out. Nobody has officially
told US about the bugs on the lettuce.
The Helpful Hen and her son can
now so on lifting the mortgages and
supporting the family. Mr. Coburn
will stay in Kansas.
If this thing keeps up John G. Coop
er will be looked upon as easy How
did Edith Willets-et-al. come
to overlook him?
There is no doubt that the chicken
soup put up by the packing houses
really has chicken among its ingred-
tents. AT least you can sometimes find
pin feathers in 1t.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS


A fool at 40 may have been wise at 90
Many an otherwise sensible man
takes unto himself a wife.
Most people would rather be misera-
bly, rich than happily poor
Too many drawing room smiles deter
iorate into kitchen frowns.
IF q man tells all he knows, he is apt
to believe all he hears
The smaller a man is the harder it is
for him to eat crow gracefully.
A mans shady past viii not benefit
him much in the good old summer time
All things come to the waiter-with
the possible exception of the expected
tip.
It is necessary to put lot of money
into some friendships in order to make
them last
You can always depend on the enmity
Of your enemies, but there are times
when you cannot depend on the friend
ship Of your friends.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
KAMSNS c0MAENT

THE NEW LAWYERS OATH
Lawyers are made nowadays IN
Kansas by board of examiners dp-
pointed by the supreme court only
This board, under the laws anu tne
rules Of the court must satisfy ltsen
as to the moral standing of the candl-
date, his citizenship, also as to his gen
eral educational qualifications. Ihen
he is given a sten-winder of a written
examination, his identity kept secret
from the board all the time to the
end that politics, religion, Masonry or
any other possible undue predictions
may not mingle. If he passes he then
takes a newly manufactured oath as
follows, in open court, the bar stand
ing on its feet in respectful attention:
You DO solemnly swear that you viii
support and bear true allegiance to
the constitution of the United States
and the constitution Of the state OF
Kansas; that you will neither delay
nor deny any man his right through
malice, for lucre, or from any un-
worthy desire; that you will not know
tngly foster or promote. or give your
assent to, any fraudulent, groundless
or Unjust suit, that you VIII neither
DO, nor consent to the doing of any
faisehood in court; and that u will
discharge your duties as an attorney
and counsellor of the supreme and all
inferior courts of the state OF Kansas
with fidelity both to the court and to
your cause, and to the best of --our
ability. So help you. God" It would
not be possible for a lawyer to take
and obey that oath IN letter and spirit
to the detriment Of either court or
cliene. Every obligation of whatso-
ever kind between lawyer and client is
here suggested, likewise the duty Of
the lawyer to the court.-Clay Center
Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12

IDIOTS AND AUTOMOBILES.

any ldlot may run an automobile
through the streets without let or him
drance. The public has the right to de-
eide who shall act as chauffeurs and
who shall not. Examination and license
seem to be the only remedy. Compet-
ency may thus be assured and careless
ness can be punished by revoking the
hoense.-Cleveland 6Ohio) Leader.
And fining the owner a good roun5
sum. Don't forget the timid afraid-of-
his-chauffeur owner. Nail himi Fine
hint He is the man who might have
checked the reckless chauffeur!-New
York Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12

Think of an editor actually receiv-
ing a circular from a beer manufac-
turerl 1t is a disgrace to the profess
sion, and we are proud that one
brother has absolutely refused to stand
for it. Listen to the awful threat of
Editor Percy Root. of the Agra SEN
tinel: IF the skunk who sent the ed
itor's name to a beer house will call
at this Office we will make him eat
the circulars we received A man
who would do that is so small that It
would not be a hard job either''
There is no crime so great as that per
petrated on our Agra brother. A beer
manufacturer should be stoned for
thus torturing an editor with Turing
advertisements of the foaming nectar.
when experience should have taught
him that not one editor in a thousand
ever has the price of a case, prepaid.
Making him eat the circular would be
JUST punishment It could not be any
worse than expectoratfng cotton =.
Gaylord Sentinel.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BAcHrI.DR
LFrom the New York Preas.J

IFrom the New York Press.1
A billionaire can afford to be hated
Getting up in the morning is harder
than being a Christian.
It would be awful hard on tba h,,o.
and things II nobody kept gardens FOR
them.
Some of those open-worlx shirt
waists would be more rnodest - ~ +hszz
came OF altogether
It's a good deal cheaper to buy
theater tickets and suppers for an ~.
unmarried girls you know thar r. a. a,,r. sl.s
port the one you are married to.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
HVMOR OF THE DAY

Why" exclaimed the visitor who vas
being shown over the house. this picture
Well. maybe It IS" replied Mrs Neu-
ritch. but I'm sure the frame is quite
new. Chicago News
Il met Turner today: he's a roommate
Of yours, isn't her"
Bright fellow; wide awake. isn't hep
Wen, he seems wider asleep at any
rate never get my full share OF the bed
-Philadelphia Ledger.
And he lived to read his own obitu-
yes. and said he was glad to know he
was not the only liar in town. Atlanta
What caused the trouble between Bin
They got into row over an automo-
Ibid = didn't ,t.ls!s know they owned one;
ed Minneapolis News
If the poet were alive today I think he
What would he say?''
= Where every prospectus Pleaases and
Journal
selling impure whisky. The night before
the case came of the defendant went
round to the judges house. To the man
Here's a bottle Of whisky want your
(
MY master never tries anything but a
case, pompousiy replied the butler.-Lip-
pincott's.
Backlotz,-DOes your servant girl ever
subbubs-Not only that. but she over
sleeps us.-Philadelphia Press.
Mrs. Yacht lsuperctIiousIy)--NI husband
your husband can afford such a luxury.
-.
hold the mortgage on the one your hus-
band has-The Bohemian
Jones, (going home at a m.)-It must
be aWf,ly monotonous for you, by yourself
watehnan-oh. we gets used to the mo-
RditR0iy Bits Of 1t after while SiF-llluStrafsd
Ethel told Jack that when we were
married we woEld have to have a country
place, a town house, two automobiles and
Papa-Wen what did he say?
Ethel-de told me that If l slept on my
side I wouldn't dream.-Chieago Journal.
Poor Mans son-Yes. siri I began at the
bottom Of the ladder and climbed up.
Rich Mans Son-Huh;I 4 began at the top
Of the ladder and slid down-Detroit Free
Press.
Teacher-How long had washington
been dead when Roosevelt was inaugural
Scholar dunno. but it hasn't been very
dead since Teddy has been thereI-Brook-
I'm Life.
DE Ritter hasn't been very successful
with his new paper has her.
NO; I think he ought to change the
name of It; ought to call it Advice
! Advice? -Why2''
We'll, nobody takes t-'-PhiIadelphia
Yes. she saved every love letter that he
told her to burn
That's bad.
mo. Jim is pretty smart The letters
he told her to burn were the harmless
ones. Cleveland Plain Dealer
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12
DESPER ALTON

WI Ting-fang has retired because
discouraged in his efforts to introduce
honest methods in public business. Some
statesmen in this country have been
conscious of similar discourag cement, but
none has been so desperate as to retire
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-12

If you had been helping Mr.. stubbs
hold up a senatorial lightning rod until
your arms aehed, with the assurance
that the lightning would hit it just as
soon as it got into the hitting business,
wouldn't you be mad too If the light
ming took pains to pass by on the other
NgdeF