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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

HIS PROPHETIC SPELLING.
I've had a site of trubble with mi spellin.
Al sDelin I was never extry brfte;
But after awl I reckon thairs no telIin
But wot mi othogrefy ma be awl rite.
IN sum particklers I ma be mistaken
And yet it seams thairs wun thing that
/ moo
If roofs and regerlations I've f~ersaken-
I'm suFtia 1 wus rite to spell it thru.
Nj teecher ses it ma be I'm orofetic.
she seen mo s9ellin skOleF with a k.
she thinks mi stiles inclind to be fonetic,
do it kus il seams the esy wa.
1 kant pax round a Webster's dickshon-
airy,
But looking over this moo list they've
Wot givs the letters wot amt necersairy
4 see that I've bin right to spell it
thru
l say I nevir did iurn very kwickly.
Ny reckerleckshuns amt so very gud;
L never hold in follerin to strickiy
PreVldIn wot you rite is understud.
But still 1 Xix to no at times / hit it
An dun Wot is the proper wa to do.
You ma not be kwite willin to admit it,
But 1 was alWas rite to spell it thru"
-ChicagO News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08
r0MPARATIVELY

As to this Texas elephant ranch, an
elephant doesn't look any bigger down
there III a cockroach does IN Rhode
Island or Delaware-Newark News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

Incidentally. where were the old sol
diers whom Captain Patrick Henry
Coney m~arshalled to teach the su-
prame court a thing or twoe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08
GOING m BLIND.

The president will go to Panama to
see for himself: he viii lot even solicit
the services of Mr.. Poultney Bigelow
to show him Observation-Disclosures Bull
letin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

It's all over but the shouting. and
the result is so close that there IS no
shouting for anybody to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

The independent-yoter in Kansas is
certainly making himself felt. Two
Vears ago he helped to swell up Roose-
veit's $4,000 plurality by making a
Jaw crosses in the Republican column
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

And to think that Marion oounty
could have been so cruel after that
touching appeal in the Marion Rec
nra
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

Tt Is so close that the Republican or
gans scarcely feel justified in t~rotting
out their growing ROSTERS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

The mail order candidate for COVER
nor appears to have been exactly what
a whole lot of Kansans had been want
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

Mr. Dalzell, Of P~ittsburg. the high
priest Of protection. incidentally got Z
severe scare.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

The chances seem to be fair for tive
new Democratic senator's from the
state of Oklahoma.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08
Hearst and Lincoln.

Lincoln Steffens, in his article on
Hearst. the Man Of Mystery in the
Magazine, reports the following inter-
EieW-With-HeaTst about Hearst's am
billion for office:
why do you want office yourself2
Was that an early ambition?
mo, my early ambition was to do
my part in newspapers, and I still pro-
pose to do a newspaper part. But when
I saw ago and governors and pres
idents fail, I felt that I'd like to see if I
couldn't do better. I'd like to go into
office, any office almost, 10 see II I
can't do the things I want to see done"
Mr.. Hearst I asked. would you BIZ
content to stick to Journalism if you
could find men to do those things in
Officer
YES
"'Can you name men who, you think,
would fill the biN?'
He could, and he named one or two.
Now this is not a verbatim report Of
the interview. 1t is only a true impress
sion of a number OF talks condensed in
one. But in them all I saw Mr.. Hearst
took a personal view Of history and that
he saw himself doing in our day what
the men he admired did in theirs. So 1
put TO him this question::
Then your ambition is to personify
the modern American democratic move
ment-not to hold office, but to express
the new spirit, and thus be to it what
Jefferson and Jackson and Lincoln were
to theirs?
He glanced up at me a moment; then
he nodded. That Is my ambition he
said.
Accepting this, as Mr.. Hearst did, in
all seriousness, we have a s~tartlingly
high standard set up by the man him
self to Judge him by. A man might by
work. Intelligence and viii force himself
into any office in this country; but he
can't. by any abilities, make himself the
representative of the spirit Of a people.
This is q matter of character. Imagine
Abraham Lincoln editor OF the Hearst
Newspapers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

Spare the blrdsi When your bag holds
a dozen plump partridge quail so-called),
take the shells out of your gun and 20
home. Be a sportsman And bear in
mind that a sportsman is no occult genius
more game than you, personally. can use
Is not p1ayinf fair to either the game
or 10 your fellow countrymen who are
doing their utmost to preserve the re-
naming wild life of America.
There are a lot of men called sports
men, who have not the hrst Instincts of
the breed; in most cases, they would be
known as butchers IL they were rightfuIly
branded. Some of them are members of
sportsmens clubs or leagues where they
SIT among the elect because forsOoth they
have killed big game; many of them
are luxurious gentlemen who affect par
tIes ana switch their private cars onto
a siding while they and their friends
slaughter all the birds within reach dur
ing a few days shooting"
Heaven deliver US from the ~loud-voiced
persons who sWagger abroad with a gun
~ the belief that a shooting-jacket or a
requisite to sportsmanship!
A sportsman does not achieve distine-
ton by reason OF the size or variety Of
ms game bag, but by the manner in
which he uses his opportunity and his
tools at the m omen
There IS so pitiful an ignorance con-
corning the qualities that go to the max
ing OF q sD-ortsman-and after all it is
only another name for loyalty to p
honesty and charity; the man who does
his work modestly and to the very limit
of his skill and endurance.
Rc SeHtits II HfHli Win your dORS-yOu
can accomplish so much more with them
# you are; and they are so faithful and
Deserving. If you must punish. do so
in mercy; and to punish in mercy is to
punish instantly and thOroughly-that the
chance of repetition may be the more re
remote.
Kill your game Clearly: to bungIe is
neither merciful to the quarry. nor the
attribute of a sportsman. Pick your spot
ana shoot close. unless for ruffled grouse
there is not the need for so much snap
shooting as is common on the uplands
and in the woods. Except in the expert
class, it tends to careless work.
Never pull trigger until you clearly dis
tinguish the object of your aim; so many
sad accidents have happened through
snap shooting at something that moved
in the brush. or at a ~brownish. reddish
spot which looked like a deer's flank and
turned out to be a mans back There is
literally no excuse for m~istaking a man
in the woods or out for any other animal
than he is; those who do should be Grim
inally prosecuted.
Be a good American. as we'll as a
sportsman, by observing the laws that
are made and are making for the protec-
tion and the preservation of our wild bird
and animal life.-Caspar Whitney in The
Outing Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

Here is more trouble: Although the
election is over. the Thaw case is about
TO come to trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

so NEAR AND YET so FAR.
Those last 200 miles seem merely
a trihe to anybody who has not trav-
eled near the pole.-Chtcago Inter-
Ocean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

For the first time IN Is years Ameri-
can consular fees are larger than the
expenditures, the excess being $40, 722.
By tanning business men instead of
politicians the service could be made
a profitable Investments. Louis Re
pubic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

Hereafter no straw votes will be ac-
eeDted. We must have bean votes or
nothing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

Hearst had 'em all scared. to say
the least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

An amusing story OF the late Mrs.
CraiEie, the noted novelist, was told
the other day at the Authors club in
when Mrs. Craigie was in America
last YEAR said an editor, "she was in
yited to make an address at a certain
| meeting. She accepted h invitation,
but her name. through some oversight,
was put far down on the programme.
and worse than that, the chairman, a
rather stupid person, introduced be-
fore her some speakers who were not
on the programme at all.
In short. it was close on to II
O'Clock when the chairman. with a
pleasant smile. bowed and said:
Mrs. Craigie, the eminent author
of Some Emotions and a Moral" will
now give US her address
Mrs. Craigie rose and said calmly:
my address is No. IS Lancaster
| Gate. Hyde park. w. London, and 1
now wish you all good night, for 1 am
far from home Exchanges
How 1t balanced.
Mrs. Ada Dean, the woman jockey
of Grafton, Mass. said the other day of
snobbishness:
The greatest preventive Of snob-
bishness is charity, unselhshness, SYM
pathy. If h who despises people.
thinking them beneath him, were to
get to know h people he despises, he
would like them, Il he would per
eeive that they were not so far beneath
him as he had imagined.
II know a little boy. a well-dressed,
wealthy boy, who was playing one af-
ternoon with some dirty urchins IN
SS'Johnny. cried the little boys
mother In of horror, come here
at onceIs
And. when he anne. she added:
Don't you know those are bad
boys for you to play withz
Yes. mother he replied; but then
II IN q good boy for them to play
: With Los Angeles Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

Miss Thumper-That old gentleman
cried when I played the nocturne. He
said it reminded him of his past life. Is
he q great player?
Mr.. ChCmper-NO. he used to be a
piano tuner.@Cleveiand Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

What is it the poet said was sorrows
crown of sorrow?
I don't know. Maybe he meant the
aching crown you lave the morning after
YOU try to drown your sorrow. Catholic
Standard and Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-08

rs that actress so devoted to her ar
as TO be capable OF great self-sacrihce2 .
Sure she is answered the manager
There's scarcely any chance she wouldn
take for the sake of an advertisement. r.
Washington Star.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

for next years chicks. A boy can do
this also.
1.-The chicks are now through with
the brooders, SO it is good time to
scrub them out, give good sun bath
and stack them away till next year.
1t is very nice to have them all ready
for work when spring comes with its
rushing work"
Really, this planning should have
commenced several months ago if on a
farm where feed for the chicks can be
grown, as many things can be raised
much cheaper than bought. Each one
must plan according to circumstances,
but l would advise planning for sew
eral years ahead and work according
ly. One ought not commence the poul-
try business till after studying the
subject some time beforehand. 1t
would save many dollars spent useless
ly if one would also make up the mind
to not get discouraged at failure to
make anything the first year or much
the second. 1t takes time, though, and
considerable money to get a paying
business started right. There is no
business that needs more of each than
the poultry business. A year or two
for preparation is none too much for
success"
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
Getting Ready for Next Year.

In American Poultry Journal Ellen
A. Day says: 81 think there is moth
ing more important at this time than
to consider what we are going to do
next year. One cannot commence too
early to get ready for next year. Are
we going to raise more chicks next
year than this? If so, what have we
to provide? If it is buildings it is
time to look up plans and get to work
soon, for getting buildings built early
gives time for the plaster in the walls
to dry thoroughly, also for the ground
to dry out in case no floors are used
Sand should be hauled in and allowed
to get thoroughly dried. Old floors
should be dug out and replaced with
clean sand or dirt and the old houses
cleaned.
eff new fencing is to be built, con-
slider how much is needed and where
it is to be. The material should be
bought with the money now coming in,
so that the work may be done at times
when other work is not driving.
"Are you going into the fancy stock
business on a large scale? If so, the
summer is the time to buy young stock,
as it can be produced much cheaper
than during the fall or winter. A very
necessary article to provide this year,
before needed is plenty of road dust,
stored in barrels in each room or some
other convenient place. 1t does not
pay to put this off until fall, for dust
is hard to get after fall rains COM
mence. 1t is very nice to have plenty
on hand. One days work of boy
with the horse and cart will give a
fair supply for two or three hundred
hens. If one has access to a good
gravel bed half a days work will sup
ply enough fine grit of sifted gravel
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
Poultry Business Being Overdone?
success.

Some croakers have stated that the
business of raising eggs and poultry
for the market is being overdone.
This dismal cry went up more than
twenty-five years ago, yet it has not
turned true thus far, and it is not
likely to do so during the next quar-
ter of a century. The people who en-
gage in poultry raising have learned
to conduct their business on modern
lines, and with such a fine product
as may be found today the taste for
chicken has vastly increased. Thus
the demand is greater now than be-
fore, not only for the reason stated
above, but also because the population
is much larger now. The demand has
kept we'll ahead of the supply, and the
indications are that it will continue
to keep ahead for years to come. The
great strides that have been, and are
being, made in the improvement in
chicken raising are placing the poultry
growers on a much higher plane than
they ever stood upon, but there is
room for still greater Improvement.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
How's This?

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. F. j.
Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned have known F. j.
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions and financially able to car
ry out any obligations made by his firm.
-Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal
ly, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces of the system Testi-
monials sent free. Price 75c. per bottle
Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
What About the Robin?

There are several problems of mi.
nor sort that bother the farmers more
or less, and any who have had expert
ence with one or the other are asked
to write The Ranch and state what
they know. A small controversy has
arisen over the robin as a friend to
the farmer and fruit grower. One
writer says: I'm some sections this
bird has certainly become a great nui-
sance, and, as it lives largely upon
earthworms, which are useful to the
soil, there seem to be only two req
sons why it should be treated with
consideration, and these are that it
is a cheerful creature and sweet
songster. We know many farm folks
who would forego it's cheerfulness and
it's songs, if thereby their crops were
saved On the other hand, there are
those who say the robin is one of the
best friends the farmer has. We are
not going to take sides on this ques-
ton, but would like to know what
you have had to do with the bird and
how it is either friend or an enemy
to you.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15
Tomato Blight in Yakima County.

From VIM. Tyler, a subscriber IN
Yakima county, comes a communica-
ton relating to the serious blight
that is affecting the tomato patches
over there. Many of the ranchers who
have planted them are blowing them
up and putting the ground into some
other crop. One man in particular had
twenty acres in tomatoes, on which
he expended much time and labor,
but now has to destroy the whole field
on account of the blight. The pest
is getting worse every year, our cor
respondent says, and unless something
is done soon to effectually check j
the growers will have to go out of that
line entirely.
For the benefit of the many readers
of this publication who have tomato
patches we would like to hear from
those who have had experience with
the blight and were able to check it's
ravages or eradicate it. At the pres
ent time there is no data in our hands
on which to base surmise as to
what causes the trouble. If Mr.. Ty-
Ter or some one else in the Yakima
valley will send a few specimens to
us we will get them into the hands
of some one who can probably give
a remedy.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

1t is to be hoped that arrangements
will soon be made for a representative
exhibit of irrigation work at the
a-Yukon-Pacific exposition in Sc
attic in 1909.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

The outlook is bad for the man who
fails to buy his apple barrels early. At
picking time prices are likely to be
higher than they are now; and higher
than last years prices.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

Look up our list of fairs and begin
your preparations to attend one or
more of them. Go to your county fair,
any way.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

in good sales. Another suggestion Is
that every breeder who has hogs to
sell for breeding purposes should send
his name and address to The Ranch
for reference, whether he is going
to advertise now or not.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

Address communications to The Ranch
1856 Colman Bldg, Seattle, Wash.
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15

your preparations u dII0uu Ou0 VI
more of them. Go to your county fair,
any way.
1t is to be hoped that arrangements
will soon be made for representative
exhibit of irrigation work at the
Alaska Yukon-Pacifi exposition in Sc
attic in 1909.
Denaturized alcohol will undoubt-
eddy be great help to American agri-
culture in general. The new law is
one more link in very promising out
look; but too much should not at once
be expected from the idea. 1t will take
time to get matters into practical
working order.
The poultry patrons of the Wash
ington state fair may congratulate
themselves upon the appointment OF
Theo Hewes, of Indianapolis, to judge
the chicken exhibits at the fair the
coming fall. Mr. Hewes is an expert
enced judge and his work has given
very general satisfaction wherever he
has had appointments.
The Western Fruit-Grover reports
good apple crop in Missouri, Illinois
and Kansas, but short crop in Mich
igan. The famous Albcmarle district
in Virginia is almost destitute of
apples. From a complete survey of
the field we are able to say that
peaches are high and will continue to
be high in the Pacific Northwest. Ap-
pies must bring a good price and the
same is true of pears. To those who
have any. of these fruits, the outlook
is good for remunerative prices.
In North Yakima the other day there
was dedicated a fine warehouse that
has been erected by the horticultural
union of that county, at cost of $14,-
900. The growth of the horticultural
industry over there has been so great
that the need of such warehouse was
felt long ago, so the union set about
to erect one. According to the coun-
ty fruit inspector Yakima county now
has an acreage in orchards that is
sufficient to guarantee production OF
10000 carloads of fruit, making 400
trains of 80 cars each in the next
five years, supposing that not another
tree is planted or comes into bearing
in that time.
Do you have Chester White hogs
or any other breed? There is good
demand for full blooded logs, judging
from the number of inquiries coming
into the office of The Ranch for the
names of breeders. Among the latest
letters of this kind is one from a Sno-
homish county farmer who wants some
pure-bred Chester Whites. The names
of some of the best known breeders
in the northwest were given him and
they will probably hear from him
soon. In this connection the publish
ers will suggest that little adver-
tisement in our columns, costing a
nominal sum per year, will bring you
a great many inquiries, which, when
properly followed up, will often result
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1906-08-15


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Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-04-12
The Standard Supply
Company, Inc.

NO. 26Os Huntington Avenus.
y. White Chandler, X. H. BrushWood.
esident. Secretary.
]. p. Gayle, Treasurer.
Don't forget the place where you can
buy studehaker Wagons Of !.
every style.
We carry fun line OF Runabouts.
5lirreys. Top Buggies, Grocery Wae-
ohs' and many other spring vehicles.
Harness and Horse Furnishings. tiar.,
ness Repairing special feature
good work assured
Farm implements, including the fol
lowing well-known makes: Oliver Chill
Piows, Deering e Mccormick Movers
and Rakes, Disc tiarrows, Disc cult.
Sators, Farmers Friend Corn Plant.
ers, Planter juniors, and many othnra
Agents for Austin-Western Road
Machinery, Armour's Fertiizers--bot-
tom prices for CASH.
The biggest line ever offered In our
city. Call ana look it over before
bnying. We want your business.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-04-12
CHEAP ADVERTISING.
CASH IN ADVANCE.
ONE CENT A WORD

Advertisements under classified
reads in this column will be inserted
II tile uniform rate Of one cent word
or each Insertion. No advertisement,
however smali, less than rs cento tor
he first insertion. Cash In advance
Invariably. Special ratea made on long
contracts. Orders for diacontlnuanee
nuat be made In writing.
Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1906-04-12
Schooner Lost at sea.
(Dy Assot.lated Press

--- Wy NSH0HIHEUU EIthS.J
hoSTON, MASS. April li,--Thr
Portland steamer Bay State, which
arrived! here This evening brought
news Of The loss ri The schooner
Sadie b.. Philadelphia for Bangor and
lunr OF The crew The vessel fmln
dercd in Massachusetts Bay ycsler-
day