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The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Mr.. M. F.. Ames has been kept
close in for the last two weeks
with Grippe. but pleased to see
him up looking we'll
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Mrs. Thomas j. Wood has been
confined to sick bed for the
last three weeks. Her physician
believes that she will be able
soon to be up.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Now is the time to pay up yooi
subscription; please do so.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Il. McManus spent Tuesday
nioht in the city and attended
snecial meeting Of the Masonic
Lodge.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

We rent Sewing Mach
ines at so cents a week,
the best make
J. 4. Stillman & Co.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Masters Sidney Lee and kellls
Wood have been confined at their
respective homes by sickness
this week.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Mr.. Tom Lamb, Jr., left Tues
day morning for Philadelphia,
where he has accepted a position
with contractor Christopher. We
wish him happiness and pros
perity.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Hon. w. II. West, OF Souti
Sturgis was here Monday.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Mrs. Utz, of Martin, arrived
Tuesday night and is the guest
of her sons family Mr.. Gaoe
Utz.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Mr.. Glenn McIlwain left Tues
day morning for Philadelphia
where he has accepted a position
with Mr.. N. N. Christopher the
contractor, as time keeper. We
wish him all prosperity.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

DIR. Earnest Spiva of Parch-
man. spent short whlle III Vne
city Yesterday morning.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Miss Susie Shropshire, OF
Sturgis, visited her sister Mrs
Ohio MeIlwain last week and re
turned nome Sunday.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

B. r. Henry is not selling
below cost. but cheaper than
anv body else, for he sells for
all cash.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

DR.. S. Nj. Rainey and l. "A.
Burgin, of Mayhem. were Vlsi'
itors to our city yesterday.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Mayor Deanes went to BIZ
mingham Wednesday morning.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Hon. r. 2. Washington was
transacting business here sever '''
days this week.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Mr.. W. H. Curry came up
from Louisville Sunday morning
and returned Tuesday after a
pleasant short visit with his
family.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

The Lords Supper Will be ad,
mmiStel ID at t the Methodlst
Church next Sunday.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Mr.. Frank f. Gottseelig ar
rived home yesterday.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Dr.. J. w. Edwards, OF Sturgis'
spent a short while here yester'
day.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Mr.. L. B. Camp returned from
jackson yesterday.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

Read the NEWS. Only S1.00 a
year.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08

r. K. & f. L. WIER.
The Starkville news., 1907-03-08
LOCALS

LOCALS
Mr.. L. B. Camp returned from
jackson yesterday.
Mr.. Frank f. Gottseelig ar
rived home yesterday.
Hon. w. II. West, of South
Sturgis was here Monday.
Rev. N. @. Adams was fele
Tuesday.
Mayor Deanes went TO Dir
mingham Wednesday morning.
Now is the time to pay up your
subscription; please do so.
Hon. r. 2. Washington was
transacting business here severa'
days this week.
DR.. S. Nj. Rainey ana l. a.
Burgin, of Mayhem. were Vlsl'
itors to our city yesterday.
Dr.. J. w. Edwards, of Sturgis'
snent a short while here yester-
day.
DR.. Earnest Spiva of Parch-
man, spent short while IN the
city Yesterday morning.
The Lords Supper Will De ao-
ministel I'd at the Methodist
Church next Sunday.
Mrs. U.z, of Martin, arrived
Tuesday night and is the guest
of her sons family Mr.. Gaoe
Utz.
Mr.. M. F., Ames has been kept
close in for the last two weeks
with Grippe. but pleased TO see
him up looking we'll
Board of Supervisors did not
adjourn until yesterday this term
being the one for the appoint
ment of road overseers.
Masters Sidney Lee and kellls
Wood have been confined at their
respective homes by sickness
this week.
Miss Susie Shropshire, OF
Sturgis, visited her sister Mrs
Otho MeIlwain last week and re
turned nome Sunday.
B. r. Henry is not selling
below cost. but cheaper than
anv body else, for he sells for
all cash.
We rent Sewing Mach
ines at SO cents a week,
the best make
J. 4. Stillman & co.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
.AYHAWKER JOTS

"Cut your Weeds is a good slogan
for the average Kansas town.
Saline county records show $50 di-
vorces have been granted there in
twenty years.
The mayor of Seneca has designated
next Wednesday as a day to cut the
weeds. Good idea.
One street in wellington shows
$146,0 900 worth of new business blocks
built or projected in the present year.
ElDorado presents a candidate for
the job of meanest man. He passed a
counterfeit dollar on a poor. blind
widow.
Roy Tapley's idea of the millennium
is a time when all railroads will quit
lying about the time belated train
will pull in.
J. L. Brady has observed that the
rustling of a silk sometimes makes
woman nervous-when it is on the
other woman.
A stray hive of bees emigrated down
at Pratt recently and took up quar-
tiers in the county jail, to the great ais
comfiture of a man who couldn't get
away.
Bill White received an ovation at
Oberlin college the other day, and
Billy Morgan thinks he Will probably
take it home with him and put it away
with his Tom Reed letter and other
treasures.
The Salina Union tells this one on
Wichita: on flag day in Wichita
man in a street car noticed the colors
flying everywhere and asked: What
are all these flags waving for?
Don't you know" spoke up base
ball fan 1--WE just laid it over Okla
home city ten to nothing and people
feel like celebrating"
The Lawrence Journal gives this
illustration of the Sharp retort:"
Boss Bidgood has a habit of walking
short distance to reach a box and let
ting his horse rest. A stranger saw
him the other day and tried to make
fun of him. Don't they have any
good horses in Douglas county, he
asked. Yes" replied the carrier on
rural route No. 1. ::"They have good
horses. mules and cows but the jack
asses we have to import" The man
got so mad that he wanted to fight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
A STATE PRIMARY.

There is no doubt that the great
majority OF the Republican voters of
Kansas would like to nominate their
state ticket by direct primary.
The primary system is already in
vogue in a large number of counties
for the nomination of county tickets,
and several congressman will doubt
less be named by primary the coming
year. 1t ought to be no difficult mat
ter to arrange to nominate the state
ticket by the same method.
The power to say whether this
shall be done rests entirely with the
members of the state committee.
Grant Hcrnaday, one of the guber-
Material candidates. advocates such
plan, and it will probably be presented
to the state committee by Congress
man Anthony. A majority of the
state committee can order the nomi-
nations made by primary.
The only objection that can be
urged against the plan is the expense,
and if proper arrangements are made
the expense ought to be light. A
large number of counties already hold
primaries. In such counties there
would be no additional expense,
whereas the convention plan would
entail on them the additional expense
of holding county conventions and of
sending delegates to the state and
congressional convention. In most
counties there are enough patriots to
act as judges and. clerks of primaries
for the glory of it, so that the CHIEF
expense would be the printing of the
ballots. If state, congressional and
county tickets were nominated stimuli
taneously, the expense would be COM
paratively small.
If the committee should take the
initiative in this matter. practically
every county committee would follow
its example and provide for the nomi-
nation of the county ticket by direct
primary. The state committee can
provide such rules as will provide
against fraud.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25

that have brought to me bedside ivry
mornin' with all the other pa-apers,
-fr where wud we be without tn free
dom ~ tn press, though they prob
ably go too far in criticism iv our pub
lie men, but what cud be expected?
1t is most fortunate, think. that tn
Foorth Nv July shud invariably, as far
as 1 have had the OPPORTUNITY to OBJ
sarve, happen ivry year in tn month
Nv July, if I am right
"A wild fellow. But hope an be-
lieve, Hinnisy. that if ilicted president
tn responsibilities iv his high office,
like tn responsibilities iv his high hat,
will rest as heavily on his head as they
have on RosenfeIt's. TIL Janial hall
fellow, tn free-an-aisy hayro iv tn
dairy rathskellar, thumpin' tn table
with a stein iv butthermilk an singin,'
FIR it's always fair weather whin good
fellows get together will soon be so
bered by his mighty job. I'm bound
to have me doubts about man that
comes into this saloon just as I'm
goin' to close up. hangs his hat on
gas jet an asks tn stove FIR tn pleas
ure iv two-step; but 1 feel that if
Oscar Fairbanks is ilicted prisidint he'll
settle down an save his money"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

IF'rom the Chicago News.1
An open door lets the knocker out of
a Job.
one way to relieve the mind from
worry is to go crazy
A secret enemy is one who is unable
to keep a secret.
It is unlucky to meet Is of your
creditors on Friday.
Any coward can get married, but it
takes a hero to stay married.
It's up to a man to foot his bills az
ter receiving a handsome legacy.
There are as many different kinds of
husbands as there are married men.
The average woman is inclined to ex-
aggerate-except when speaking about
her age
Practice doesn't always make perfect,
but it makes some lawyers and doctors
wealthy.
Even a spinster may have the matri-
monial fever, but it doesn't always
terminate to her liking.
OF course a man has right to the
best of everything-as long as he pays
for it with honestly acquired money.
There is a chance for some genius to
acquire everlasting fame by inventing
a device that will enable a man to de-
termine who his friends really are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
DISCOVERING RULES.

Last September there was a wreck
on the Grand Trunk railroad which
resulted in the prosecution of the en-
gineer and conductor in charge of the
train on the ground that they caused
the wreck by violating the rules of the
railroad company. They have re-
Gently been found guilty and sem
fenced to imprisonment for three
years and to pay fine.
This is wholesome move, for
there is entirely too much dis
obedience of rules among railroad
men. In fact, large majority of the
wrecks have the element of some
ones carelessness or disobedience in
them.
At the same time, it must be re-
membered that incentives are con-
tinualIy being placed before railroad
employees to break over rules. The
engineer who can make a swift
schedule and bring his train in on
time. regardless of rules and condi-
tions, is the one who gets promotions
and a fat pay envelope. Trainmen
continually take chances at overriding
rules in order to accomplish results.
Ninety-nine times out of a hundred
time and nobody is the wiser for the
disobedience. But the hundredth
time comes the accident, caused by
the fracture of the regulations, and
lives are lost.
If there is any place on earth where
rules should be exactly followed, it is
in the movement of trains. That is
one place where there should be no
carlessness or taking of chances. The
rules should be carefully framed, and
railroad officials ought to see that they
are enforced under all circumstances.
If this were done in the repair and
inspection of tracks and equipment
and in the movement of the trains
themselves many wrecks would be
avoided.
The action of a court in Furnishing
disobedient trainmen who cause
wrecks through disobedience or care
lessness, is a proper one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
THE TREE OF GOSSIP.


Inree gossipS sat alone one day
ana where they were a tiny seed
The little seed of truth, indeed
Onharmful and unhidden lay.
Ere they had gossiped long the shell
Began TO open and a sprout,
AT first half timidly, peeped out
And grew as something watered well
The stalk was big and coarse and strong,
ana sticky leaves upon it hung,
Each shaped, as is a gossip's tongue
Inc tree filled all the room er long.
They dragged the Shiny trunk aside,
And there the warped tree spread and
And there by every breeze that blew
It's fertile seeds were scattered wide.
The gossips three behe1d the tree
Ihat from the little seed had grown;
A stencil from every leaf was blown,
Its fruit was horrible to see.
They held their noses and they turned
Their backs upon the horrid sight;
the three had met with much delight,
With shame their cheeks at parting
$, E; Kiser. in the Chicago Record
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t is said that the Italian who shot
a fellow-passenger on a train in west
ern Kansas had been drinking YER
mouth. Vermouth apears to be italian
for drug store whiskey.
. q
The fact that it was Mark Twain who
did it doesn't make that bath robe
stunt on a London street appear any
more creditable to this department.
N
The announcement is made that
Daniels comet has been re-discover-
ed This is the first intimation this
department has had that Daniel had
lost it.
When the weather man says, "cool-
err" and it keeps on being as hot as
blazes. 1t is not surprising that the
weather bureau is accused of nature
taking.
Isn't 1t about time for another of the
374 members of the original F1orodora
sextette to break into the limelight?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IRON the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record]
Many a man secures a place in his
tory as an '-also ram.
Some men expect to get into heaven
at their own valuation.
Widowers make the best husbands;
they know what to expect.
The girl who can wear a No. 2 shoe
feels that she has accomplished a
great feat.
Some people are so busy acquiring
knowledge that they seem to forget the
use oe 1t.
Lots of women get the reputation of
being light-hearted when their buoy
ancy is really of the head.
The rich man had consulted the fam
Gus specialist You have something
preying upon you" said the famous
specialist What rare intuition" muir
INJURED the rich man, thinking of his
three sons-in-law.
Nell-"What's the matter with Maude
and Jack?" Belle-"He had the nerve
to kiss her." Nell-'I shouldn't think
that would have turned her against
him So" Belle-"But the chump prom
ised never to do it again.
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FRON OTHER PENS
NOTABLE REFORMS

There will be general satisfaction
over the fact that the co-eds at De
PAW have agreed on regulations and
restrictions for spiking which will allow
a part of them time for study and re-
ceiving social attention from young
men, Hereafter no new girl is to be
nailed up for more thar three days in
succession. AT the end of that period
they must try another tack, Or recur to
staple methods. Dates for walks are al
lowed, and lemons from the opposition
but pickles, chewing gum and all-day
suckers are cut out. 1t is believed that
the new rules will preserve the teeth
and promote the digestion of the stu
dents.-Indianapolis Star
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
DooLEY ON FAIRBANKS.

One of the most readable characteri-
cations that has appeared in current
literature in many day was that of
Vice President Fairbanks in the series
of Great Men and Their Neighbors,' -
which Samuel G. Blythe is writing for
the Saturday Evening Post. The atti-
tude which Mr.. Fairbanks assumes in
his speeches is forcibly emphasized by
Mr.. Blythe in the Quotations which
he makes.
Along the same line is an article by
Mr.. Dooley in the July American Mag
azine. Mr.. Dooley, however, deals in
his inimitable style with all the Re
publican presidential candidates, but
pecially forcibIe.
Fairbanks" he says to Hennessey,
lis too divvle-may-care There's a
Puritan sthreak in our blood, hide it
though we will. Undher tn polite
veneer. as Hogan says. iv drunken
ness we ar-re still conservative peo-.
pie an its a question whether we can
thrust a man that can be so carried
away by tn tumult iv tn time as to
exclaim in a gust iv passion: I con-
sidher it the most fortunate, If We will
frgive tn Whence ~ tn expression, an
1 conclude that ivry man has a right to
differ with me on this or amy other
question, an I will gladly shake tn
hand iv amy man in this vast aujeence
who honestly disagrees with me, that
in this country iv ours, blessed, as
some say an some say not, be univer-
sal suffrage, 1t shud happen that tn
sacred festival iv our freedom, tn
Foorth iv July, though those that be-
lieve in st. Pathrick's day are entitled
to their opinyon, an a betther lot Nv
men niver lived, an have a gr-reat
NANNY English frinds, an Germans too,
FIR that matther, an Swedes, that tn
Foorth iv July which we cillybrate so
joyously, though it is deplorable that so
NANNY little boys shud blow off their
thumbs thryin' to Brighten their sis
ters with cannon crackers, an read
In q Chicago pa-aper that this is so, an
an excellent family Journal It is, too,
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up dollar barrel and not go to jail
Tor 1t. Everything was ready to begin
business, but there would be need of
inoney-quite bit of money. Being
q foreigner. Miss Dawson must put up
$4,000 before filing the suit and then
there would be need of $4,000 addf-
tlonal to bride officials and get the
papers started on the right road. The.
american lawyer would bring the
money when he came. but that would
mean more delay. When you are go
ing 10 sue for millions left by your
era ndmother. You can't begin too
quick. II you fool around too long a
hundred other heirs will rise from
their graves to hold out their
avarfcious paws.
When the lawyer had departed Miss
Dawson was almost in tears. She had
not the cash to advance Her LAWYER
was taking the case on a chance. and
a thousand dollars was all she could
raise. She succeeded in choking back
a few sobs, and then suddenly smiled
and said it would make no great differ-
ence. III she had not the money that
must end it,
Right there was where Mr.. CASTOR
spoke his little piece. He had loved her
from the instant he found the purse in
the steamer chair, and now that he
could be of use to her his love welled
up like spring in the Catskill noun
tains. He would advance the money z
the lawyer. She must not say him nay.
would not make a formal proposal un-
TIL she had had time to study him and
make sure that he was no CRATER nor
sordid wretch. She protested, but he in
sisted. Even while she protested he
left her to fix things with the law
yer. You may be in Naples and your
bank account in New York, but things
can be fixed in a day to transfer any
sum named.
The next day as Mr. CASTOR came into
the presence of the one loved, she
blushed and returned the pressure of
his hand. Old Vesuv still whanged
away, but she was quiet compared with
Gaston's heart. For one day onlyI On
his next call he found the heiress miss
ing. After anxious inquiry he learned
that she had taken the train for Genoa.
He might have telegraphed and had
her and the fake lawyer arrested, but
he decided not to do so. He had loved
and lost and without another look at
the famous volcano he took the steamer
for New York. When his club friends
asked him to describe what he had
seen, he said there was nothing to de-
scribe. To one man only did ne opeIF
his bleeding heart, and he was some
what comforted to hear the other ex-
claim:
THE deuce you say! Why the same
girl got $4,000 of my good money in
the same way last summer! Glad I'm
not the only easy mark in this old
world."-Copyright 1907, by Mary Nc
Kean.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
HUNOR or THE Day

''You reckon these fault-finding brethren
go to heaVen?' Some of 'em will have
to. The other place is too full of EN-
Atlanta Constitution.
I'm sorry you spoke so sharply to
that boy-you must cut him to the quick
Impossible! He has no quick!' mo
quick? Why. what" Hes a messenger
boy!'-Stray Stories.
Now, gentlemen" said the professor,
name some of the beauties of educa-
ton And a facetious student in the
back row shouted: Pretty school teach
ersr-Funny Cuts.
Motor Owner-What proof have I that
you managed your late employers car
successfully? Chauffeur-Why,- / m alive,
amt I?-Harper's Weekly.
"Yapley makes a great boast of always
speaking as he thinks. Does he?" Yes;
only more frequently. Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
t. any address at the rate of ten cents
n week or thirty cents = month Thy
mail onIy). Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
State Journal will be to YOU Ike n
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe. ]

LFrom the Atchison Globe.l
Don't let an agent decide how you
shall invest your money.
If a man gets the fishing fever right
| bad there is only one cure for it.
| A boys idea of Paradise always in
cludes a first class swimming hole.
The fishing is always pretty good the
day you planned to go, and didn't.
Some palpable lies are so interesting
one would rather like to believe them.
Content is like your eyes, nose, or
any other feature: To have it, you
must be born with it.
1t is a rare woman who does not
occasionally inquire. with fine scorn:
How about the menu
The average woman has a curiosity
to know If a rich woman has all the
souvenir spoons she wants.
A woman hates to be jealous almost
as much as she likes to make some
other woman feel that way.
The hard way a man lights when
he gets caught at it, may be the rea-
son it is called high finance"
Every editor knows there are plen-
ty of fool papers, and that his will be-
come one unless he is careful.
Toasts should always be drunk with
some cool beverage; there is so much
hot air about the average toast.
An old-fashioned Atchison woman
says 1t is a shame for a man of
family to be crazy over baseball.
There is only one thing to do to get
rid of the impudence microbe: Kill
the person who has IL. There is no
cure.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who told of a heavy rain
fall by saying: at rained pitchforks %
The mule is becoming so valuable,
it would occasion no great surprise to
hear some poet describe him as no
BILE steed.''
They talk so readily the wonder is
prize fighters don't become auction
eers instead of drifting into the sa-
loon business.
Climbing mountains is great fun,
because you don't get paid for doing
it; If followed for wages, it makes
corn blowing look easy.
From a boys standpoint. summer
underwear is a thing of vanity, as wen
as handicap to rapid undressing for.
swimming purposes.
The idle dog receives more atten-
ton than the busy bee; betows at
tention on a bee, and you will more
fully understand the reason.
Many breakfast foods" have been
produced in the last few years, but
they haven't helped the reputation OF
breakfast much as being a good
meal
A woman may think a man IS
fattering her when he tells how he
her, but she never gets very
mad about it, or thinks he is a fool.
Married women have a way of saw
ing of their spin friends: .It is funny
she has never married" But the
spins get even: they say of their mar
ried friends husband: What did she
ever see in him?"
An Atchison woman recently sat I'm
the debris of her kitchen in deer
study: the children were crying for
attention. and her husband had iust
left the house in drunken rage
What are you thinking off" said a
friend. who happened In. "I was inst
thinking of my graduating essay on
How to Make the World Retters..
said the woman with a sigh as she
picked up baby with one hand. ana
q broom with the other.