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The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-11-08

A PICTURE of the three-story thousand
dollar house that Edison proposes to
build in twenty four hours is being
printed. The house will be constructed
Of concrete by means of cast iron molds
that can be removed as soon as the con.
crete hardens, and thus used over and
over again The outlay for the first set
of iron molds was $4,000. The only
wood required in the Edison house is for
door and window frames and doors.
This invention of Edisou's is undoubted-
ly one of the most important announced
in recent years
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-11-08

Just received, a sample line of ladies'
cloaks, which for quick clearance we
have marked extremely low right at the
beginning of the season. Be sure and
see these coats, the best values we have
ever offered II. P. Burns, Evansville,
Wis.
Soft coal for heating stove, cook
stove, furnace or steam use can be
bought by the consumer direct from the
mines best quality weight. Agents
wanted. For particulars write at once
to Hartman Coal Co., Old Colony Bldg,
Chicago. 47w3
WANTED Local representatives for
Edgerton and vicinity to look after re-
newals and increase subscription list of
a prominent monthly magazine, on sal
airy and commission basis. Experience
desirable, but not necessary. Good op-
portunity for right person. Address
Publisher, Box SO, Station o, New York.
"A special blanket sale this week.
Oar blanket stock is the largest and
most complete in GAINESVILLE. You will
find our prices on wool and cotton
blankets considerably lower than others.
II. P. Burns, GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The services of Josephine Brown
practical nurse, may he secured by
phone at j. D. Wixom, Milton Junction.
New sample suits, special values at
$40, So and SIS. We save you one third
on these garments. We show some
handsome velvet suits.-Archie Reid &
Co., GAINESVILLE. 4Sw2
House to rent. Inquire of Jos. j.
Leary. 46
Extra heavy outing fannels, beauti-
full line of coors and patterns, sold by
others at 1919 cents, our prices for this
week, per yard cents.-T. P. Burns,
GAINESVILLE, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-11-08
PLINY IDE.

Pliny Rodman Ide, born in the town
of Fulton, Rock county, March %, 1850,
died at the home OF his daughter, Mrs.
E. A. Schoenberg, in GAINESVILLE, shortly
after four o'clock Sunday morning. Be-
sides the daughter, there are left to
mourn his loss two brothers, Fremont
Ide of Edgerton and Elk Judge Harvey
H. Ide of Leavenworth, Kas., and a sis
ter, Mrs. George Coxhead Of Edgerton.
Funeral services were held at the
daughters home at 1870 Tuesday morn
ing, and the remains taken overland to
Edgerton to be inferred alongside the
grave of his brother, the late DR.. Spencer
Tde in the family lot
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-11-08
Farm for Sale.

Situated on Albion Prairie, east OF
Methodist church, in the town of Albion
Wis. A desirable farm with good build
ings, broom house, 2 large barns. hog
house, corn cribs, granery, milk house,
tobacco sheds, 619 acres, stripping ROOM
Over 100 acres under pillow, balance tim.
Der and pasture. All seeded down ex.
cept corn ground, and in fine state OF
cultivation. On Farmers telephone and
r. r, Price 800 per acre.
+. L. MABsoN,
40 r. r. 4, Cambridge, Wis.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1907-11-08
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1907.

The man who puts his money in a
safety vault, or hides it away in stock
ing, at time like the present, retires
from circulation a medium which every
body needs, and does more to add to the
stringency than any other class of men.
Keep the dollar in circulation. The
banks are sound and prosperity will con-
tinue il everybody lends hand.-Ga-
Zatte
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A typographical error made it read.
at. A. MeNeal. state sprinter." Judg-
ing from the way he ran in the cleo
ton last fall, this may not be 50 far
off.
-
Speaking of the star plays in base
ball game, Bill Doolittle says he saw
the star all right the other day when
he got hit in the eye with the ball, al
though he missed the play.
=
There is a great deal of complaint
about the ice man, but there is at least
one ice man in Topeka who isn't a
robber. He doesn't give short weights,
he doesn't track mud all over the
kitchen floor, and he doesn't act
smart" The man who was on the
same route last year was the cause of
great deal of ill-temper among the
women folks. 1t was necessary for
him to label them in order to dis
tinguish 25-pound chunk from a To-
pound chunk. On real hot days when
there was a big demand for ice he
would cut the weights especially short
so as to avoid going for another load.
He helped himself to whatever was
good to eat in the refrigerator and
tracked mud over the floor. After
their experience with him, the honest,
careful man who took his place is
great relief to the women folks on his
route. The change has also lightened
the work of the Recording Angel. who
no longer has to work overtime on the
awful things the housewives said to
themselves about the old ice man.
That is why this tribute is written in
honor of this paradox, the honest ice
man.
Topeka can get considerable exer-
else climbing UP and down the West
ern Association ladder-although it
has been climbing down mostly thus
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
True dignity is really more than q
frock coat and high hat.
Even in a crowded street car there
is always room at the top.
Enthusiasm doesn't accoup1ish
much without a certain amount of
hustle.
Even when a fellow breaks his arm
the doctor is inclined to pull his leg.
The lawbreaker realizes the differ
ence between being chaste and being
chased.
A fellow may be said to celebrate
his golden wedding when he marries
an heiress.
After all, the man who tells his
troubles may be preferable to the one
who tells his jokes.
man is sometimes loved for the
enemies he has made. but seldom when
he is his own worst enemy
To be popular a young man shouIdt
always lie when the girls ask him IL
certain things they wear are becoming
to them.
Wigg-"Are you going away for the
summer" Wagg-"I suppose so. We
don't seem to stand much chance OF
getting any at home"
Mr.. Guzzler Cat the theater)-'I tell
you that last act took my breath
away" Mrs. Cumberland now I
suppose you will have to go out be-
tween the acts and acquire another
one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago New

lFrom the Chicago News.1
Too many men mistake notoriety for
fame
A boost when needed is better than
a pull that isn't.
Only simple man tries to act I'M
necessarily strenuous.
Once in a while the voters get busy
and elect an honest man.
Those who are fancy free are free to
fancy what they please.
Success is merely a matter of doing
the right thing at the right time.
A bundle of conceit Cordelia, is a
woman who is wrapped up in herself.
Lots of people manage to keep the
truth pretty busy with its struggles to
rise.
1t is just as we'll to look out for the
man who is always looking out for
himself.
When they enter a theater women
should check their hats and men their
thirst.
There are times when the still, small
voice of conscience seems to come
from the big end of a megaphone.
1t doesn't take a man long to find
out how different married life is from
what he thought it was going to be.
Experience is a great teacher, but
by the time it hands a man his diploma
he is too old to make much use of his
knowledge.
A maid thinks she is necessary to
mans happiness, a widow thinks
man is necessary to her happiness, and
a MAXWELL. no matter what he
thinks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Fronn the Atchison Globe. ]

lFTO!1 the AtchiSon Globe.l
Dissolution is the only solution to
come matrimonial problems.
Golf continues to be popular game
in the pictures advertising summer
clothes and vacation trips
The trouble with some people lies
in the fact that they consider it i'm
olite to stop talking to you.
Most children regard a bachelor un-
Gle with the same affection grownups
have for a bank account.
woman may not care much what
the neighbors say, but 1t worries her
greatly if she doesn't know it.
If a real boy is going out with a
mother decides to stay at home.
You can rely upon this: If people
are not paid for doing a thing they
can't be depended upon to do it.
A domestic argument: Sister mixes
the ice cream, and brother turns the
freezer; Which has the harder job?
When a man wants to saw some
thing mean about a newspaper man he
accuses him of having a fertile brain
Those people who fear heat prostra-
tons In summer are usually about the
same ones who never can stand cold
There are so many ways of being
disagreeable that it is wonder there
are as many popular people as there
are.
Nothing pleases the average cigar
son of some Importance using the pa
per pipes.
If you want to buy milk COW. you
Will learn that. among it's other good
qualities, the animal in question is "a
perfect pet"
IF a mans conscience never trou-
bles him, it is a sign he is very good,
or is going to get into more serious
trouble than listening to the censure of
conscience.
Most men put off until tomorrow
the things they should do today We
know man who has a better kind of
shiftlessness than that; he puts off
things until Monday.
A girl can be so much in love that
when. her steady Is out of town, let
ter received in every mail isn't enough,
but she is never so ardent that answer
ing them doesn't seem somewhat like
work.
is such thing as bad luck, if that is
the kind that is coming his way, but
the good luck falling to him is the re-
suit of his own efforts and good judg-
Erent.
With the exception of the wobbly-
ture the day the COW fails to come
home to supper, nothing on legs moves
so awkwardly and uncertainty as Il
beginner On roller skates.
There isn't enough going on at our
house to keep me busy" said Mrs. Ly-
tnis morning, $50 believe I will cali
Up the Globe office and AK them the
population of Kalamazoo before the
war. If they can't tell me, 1 will ask
in what year II e wife OF President
Madison died. If they can't tell that.
1 will have a nice time all the rest of
the day laughing to myself at how lit
tic newspaper people really know
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
THAT 'HARD UP, FEELING.

Prosperity is relative. If a million
| aire should have his fortune cut down
! to a mere hundred thousand edollars
! he would feel absolutely poverty
| stricken; but if a man with nothing
should suddenly fall heir to a hundred
| thousand dollars he would feel rich
beyond the dreams Of avarice.
This accounts for the feeling of
blues from which some Kansas farm
ers are suffering just now. They are
| accustomed to gathering big wheat
| crops about this time of year, and now,
although they are well-to-do in every
respect. they feel hard up just because
| their wheat crop is not up to their
expectation this year.
An optimist from the shortgrass
country was in Topeka recently, and
in speaking along this line. he said:
The people of my county have over
800 on deposit in the banks for every
man, woman and child in the county,
yet to hear some farmers talk one
would think they were facing absolute
hard times. Early in the spring we
had the best wheat prospect in our
history, but the hard freeze three
weeks ago greatly deteriorated it, and
this is what makes the farmers feel
poor. We will still have a great deal
of wheat, and the price today is "a
cents bushel. Besides that, the labor
problem will not be as serious as usual.
Everybody is welI-to-do. In my town
we have "a automobiles and 1900 peo-
pie. or one auto for every 80 inhabit-
ants. Here in Topeka you have one
auto for every 400 people. Automo-
biles are becoming common in west
tern Kansas. The trouble with the
farmers is that those who haven't
autos wanted to buy one or two with
the surplus profits from this years
wheat crop. besides buying the rest of
the township they live in
OF course, there may be some Kan
sas farmers who are hard up. But the
average farmer is on Easy Street, COM
pared to what he was a few years ago.
Too few farmers stop to think of the
increased price which the wheat they
have will bring. At present. wheat is
selling at from so to 80 cents in KAN
sas. 1t usually sells for from so to 60
cents. This does not mean that it is
now worth only half as much again to
the farmer as usual-it means that it
is worth nearly two and a half times
as much.
1t costs about 35 cents to raise
bushel of wheat in Kansas. taking the
state as a whole, and counting the
whole cost. When it sells for SIS cents
a busheI there is twenty cents profit in
it for the farmer. When it sells for
IS cents the profit is so cents, or two
and a half times as much.
If the Kansas wheat-raiser will stop
to check up. he will find that he isn't
so hard up after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
do TT Nown

The magnificent showing made by the
committee in charge of the $4,000 cam
paign for Washburn college, in it's re-
port for Friday was a relief to all those
who have the interests of the institution
at heart. 1t has been feared by some
that Topeka did not realize its RESPONSE
billy In this matter. Perhaps this is
not the case SO much as it is a matter
OF putting Off subscribing until 1t is
found whether or not it is necessary. If
each one should wait for some one else
there would be a speedy end to the hope
OF the institution without further
worry and work by those in charge.
People an subscribe very literally If
they see the need and realize that
prompt action is an element most nee
essary.
The best thing that Topeka can do to
show its appreciation for the efforts of
Washburn to grow Is to come up with
the goods" as early as possible and in
duce others to do the same. 1t is be-
lieved there are a considerable number
of people who are contemplating a gen.
erous subscription to this fund. The
thing to do is to make that subscription
as soon as possible and in this way to
relieve the strain OF anxiety. If a num-
Der should do this others would do the
same and the fund would be raised in
side of a week.
1t has been said that it is simply a
matter Of business that Topeka raise
this fund. Matters of sentiment need
not be appealed to in this. 1t is of vital
Importance to the people of the city that
all means possible be used to promote
institutions that are a source of large
financial profit to the community. 1t
has also been said that eastern
people have shown an unwillingness to
give more money to Kansas interests
unless Kansas people show more will
ingness to open their bursting vaults
and give literally to themselves. Here
Is the opportunity to shoulder part OF
your own burden and in this way secure
aid in the carrying of the rest. The
only other point is to do it now before
the time limit it I'D.
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and looked over the strawberry beds
m going to put up sign," he saic
with smile, so that Terrence cannot
rent my property, or I'll accuse some
1ou were awfully cross that MORN
ing, she said with a reminiscent
smile i remember rushed back to
the house and declared that I would
Tot stay in the horrid place another
Were you sorry you changed your
mind! he asked softly.
thief
But you are" he. persisted. You
stole my heart
I might say the same of you," she
declared as he took her hand.
Set a thief to catch a thief" he
quoted. Have I caught you. dear?''
Il guess you have" she confessed,
though you don't deserve to-
And next season we will share the
strawberries" he declared. at will
be joint ownership then"
She smiled into his eager eyes and
then the cunbopLet eclipsed his face
copyrighted 1907, by Homer
Sprague.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17

tice that after the end of this month
it will charge only SIS between Chicago
and Cincinnati. The other roads have
| four weeks in which to decide whether
they will fight their competitor by
dropping to IS, or whether they will all
come to a friendly understanding with
it.
Presumably the new road IS conf
dent that it will not lose money by
cLrrying passengers from Chicago to
Cincinnati for IS, though the rate will
be under 2 cents a mile. The lower
through rate will necessitate the lower
ing of some local rates, but that does
not seem to alarm the officers of the
road. They are not like the managers
of Illinois roads, who assert that
cent rate will be ruinous.
THAT rate will become operative in
this state on the 1st of July. Between
then and now the Illinois roads will
have to decide between going into court
to fight The law and reducing numerous
local and through rates. There is no
doubt that they can afford to make
the reduction, and that that will be
proved upon them if they shall resist
the law"
A IS rate for 300 miles would be only
one and two-thirds cents a mile. If
this new road can make money at this
rate for a distance of considerably
more than 800 miles-for it has a cir
cuitous route. why cannot the direct
lines make as much or more by charg-
ing the same rate fer the 300 mile haul.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
RAILROAD PASSENGER RATES.


Although there is a disposition on the
part of most railroads to fight a two
cent fare when established by law.
some roads are going even beyond the
law and making a rate of less than
two cents, believing it viii pay them
to do so. The Chicago Tribune cites
an instance in the following:
For some time the fare between Chi
cago and Cincinnati has been 81. That
is 2 1-3 cents a mile the distance by
the shortest lire being 300 miles. After
the Ohio legislature reduced the rate
In that state to 2 cents a mile, the
three roais which have done the Chi
cago-Cincinnati passenger business
agreed among themselves that the fare
should be Sc after July 1.
This is substantial reduction
through legislation, and there is to be
further reduction through competi-
ton. Last month a new line was OPP
ened between the two cities and IS
bidding for both passenger and freight
business. AS it las a more circuitous
route than its competitors. it asked per-
mission of them to charge, dollar
less than they did, so that 1t might get
a reasonable share of the passenger
traffic. The request was refused, but
the new road, undisturbed by the pos
sibility OF a rate war has given no
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
FROM OTHER PENS
A BRIDES HAPPINESS.

We are firmly convinced that the
happiness of a June bride, as she
walks up the aisle and observes out of
the corner of her eye the green envy
that sicklies Ger the faces of her
friends, is a million times greater
than any ecstacy that ever comes to a
member of the sterner sex. Not Rich
ard the Lion in sight of Jerusalem,
not Columbus as he waded ashore on
fat San Salvador, not Calico when
when they counted the vote-not one
of all the worlds vast company of
scourges, discoveries. martyrs and ru-
lers ever knew half so terrible a joy.
1t is transcendental and ineffable, un-
speakable and infinite. 1t makes the
bride smile upon all the world, includ-
ing her enemies. 1t is enough almost
to make her forgive her bridesmaids
for flirting with the best man.-Balti-
more Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
HUNOR or TIE DAY

Diggs-What salary do you get?
Wiggs-One hundred and fifty dollars
per.
Diggs-Per week. per month or perhaps?
Chicago News.
First Small Boy-Tm goin' ter git
square wild pa fer licltin' me ter day.
Second Small Boy-How yer goin' ter?
First Small Boy-When de circus comes
along I'm goin' ter say don't care ter go.
Judge
Lady-I want to see Mr.. Jones'
New Office BOy--He's engaged, ma'am.
Lady-Engaged, fiddlesticksi He's mar
ried. and I'm his wife.-Chicago Daily
Parson-Well, Tommy, how are you get
ting along at school?
Tommy-Fine. I've got so I can write
my own excuses now.-Chicago New.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
PosTRoAD CONTROL.

The national government would as
sumo a gigantic task if 1t were to
assert control of all the post roads
in the country for the purpose of keep
ing them Eat the highest point of eff
ficiency" There are some poorly
paved streets or postroads in Chicago,
and some of the public highways in
this state are in bad shape, but it is
not likely that the general govern
ment will compel the city and state to
m end them or will do the work itself.
The fear that cities and states may lose
control of their streets and roads is
baseless.-Chicago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
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
a week or thirty cents ~ month Thy
mail only. Address changed as often
as desired While out Of town the
State journal will be to Won like 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, 1907-06-17
A POOR GAME.

This thing of defying public senti-
ment is a poor game to play at. A
man may seem to win for awhile, but
he will lose every time. There is one
thing that men should understand.
and that is that the popular regard
for purity and decency is something
to be dealt with as part of the un-
bending logic of life. and all the mon
ey in the world will not protect a
man from the natural consequences
of his meanness.-Ohio State Jour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
rFrom the New York Press1

IFrom the New York Press.
There would be fun In even going to
church Il Ii was a scandal.
A woman has a good time 1otnz
shopping unless it's to buy something.
A man who owns an automobile
would think he was rich if he didn't.
Bank accounts are very useful tn
make you wish yours wasn't so small
A girl likes to blush so that maybe
plexion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17

and the federal courts ordering them
TO do the opposite, the railroads can
take their choice and do as they
please Which is the way they usual
" do anyway.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17

Ananias did not tell much of a lie,
but he had professed to be above that
sort of thing, and that is what got
him into trouble. There are many liars
who are more accomplished in the art
than was Ananias. He was only an
amateur
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17

Although President Roosevelt went
to Oyster Bay on his vacation the 9TH
er day, he blocked out enough work
for the other men on the job to keep
the octopus busy lodging all summer.
There will be no vacation for the octo-
pus this year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17
CLEVELAND AND HUGHES.

we do not KNOW OF any QUIET cover
nor since Cleveland, who has equalled
this governor in his cool. quiet pro-
found and prompt action, touching
measures which a reluctant legisla-
ture, controlled by political tricksters
in both parties. has been minded to
ignore and defeat or to deal with in
a shameful manner that would fool
the people, instead of meeting their
rights and satisfying their sense of
iustice.-BroOklyn Eagle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17

Mayor Schmitz announced some
time ago that he will be able to handle
the street car strike. If he does he
will probably have to handle it
through prison bars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-17

Secretary Taft's illness was caused
by overeating at the many banquets
recently rendered him. The secretary
should do his eating by proxy for
awhile. He can doubtless procure
plenty of substitutes