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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-12-23
LADIES' WATCHES

Oxidized, Enamel, Plain and Fan.
cy, Solid Silver, Gold Filled and
Solid Gold from $3.50 to $500
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-12-23

officers
mia Evans feet which
anchor off the Port will formally turn
tomorrow The arrival of Admiral Evans
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-02-15
Town of Agram
Township 40, Range 81
Town of Little Falls.
Township 40. Rance 81

Alfred Peek, eH Of neH q
Orrin Kipp nk1a OF seL e
Annie Eastberg swH CT neA and
John Eastbergnk Of swN and
ioC . 81
John Eastberg. nwH Of sea &C
Sprague 4 Mcconnell SELL al
Home Land Co lot 4 q.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-02-15
Kansas GirIla

Most OF the girls of the young dane
ing set Will not go to dances with a
!; town boy because, they say, he has no
particular choice, but takes the phone
DOCK, begins at A and goes down the
list till he gets girl. BY comparing
n0es they have decided he does this.
ana are especially sure because he
always comes to the dances with girls
whose last names begin with a v or q
W., says the Emporia Gazette.
When a good looking woman who
1s stranger; goes into a furniture
'tore the town boys who are following
ct q safe distance give up in despair.
women are interested in furniture ut
only one stage in the game. :,
Empofia girls are getting awfully
independent.s A boy with a new fra
ternity pin has been here two months
and no girl has pursued him openly.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-02-15

Tho schools. banks aud cou It house
were closed Tuesday In Observance of
Idncoln'G birthday. . lSgsl holiday II
% state
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1907-02-15

Total -
Tax and
Penalty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
THE WHEAT PRosPECr.

According to the government re-
ports given out this week, the condi-
ton of Kansas wheat on April 1 was
SO. In other words, it was just about
as good as could be asked.
This is matter that Is of more i'm
portance to Kansas just now. from a
financial standpoint, than the railroad
row, the 100000 conspiracy, and
the Thaw case combined. These other
topics will do to argue and quarrel
about; they will answer admirably for
generating excitement; but when it
comes to real Importance to Kansas,
the condition of the wheat crop is
the thing.
This government report indicates
that never before has Kansas had such
prospect at this time of year. Fur
thermore, the acreage is exceedingly
large, and the crop is two or three
weeks further along than usual. A
condition of 80 is far above the aver
age and it indicates an unusually
large crop.
To be sure, there is considerable
agitation about the green bug just
now, and a. great many farmers are
worrying over this new pest. But If
the green bug does no more damage
than it did in 1900 when it visited US,
it won't shorten the crop appreciably.
In that year, the farmers told how
little green aphis, or louise. was suck
ing the vitality from the wheat plants.
1t was asserted that they existed in
large numbers and took the sap from
just above the base of the stalks, caus-
ing the plants to turn yellow and, if
the stalks were heavy, to fall over.
There was a terrible scare over the
aphis that year, yet some of the very
fields that turned yellow made pretty
fair yields later.
1t may be that the green bug will
do damage. The condition of Okla
homa and Texas wheat is poor, and
the aphis is said to be responsible. 1t
does not follow, however, that the
Kansas crop is to destroyed by this
little pest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

now they have exhausted even these
slender resources.
Decayed grain and even the seeds
of noxious weeds have been used in
the attempt to preserve life, resulting
in disease from these poisonous pro-
ducts. In a letter describing condi-
lions over there Is this paragraph:
AT present the temperature in this
village is in the neighborhood of
twenty degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Many of the peasants are living in
holes dug underground. They are al
most naked and they are without fuel.
Thefr food is a sort of bread made of
ground acorns or other uneata bles, to
which have been added@a little rye
meal. Typhus. scurvy and blindness,
resulting from starvation are on all
sides striking down grown up people
ana children This Is not a single
village; there are thousands like it,
and these thousands of villages have
no hope unless help can come to them
from the outside. Seventy-five cents
Will keep an adult alive for a month.
1t Is bitter to ask aims; but it is still
more bitter to look upon these
agonfes with empty hands"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
SHORTENING THE LIST.

With it's trusty blue pencil firmly
grasped in it's business hand. the New
York Press, which, by the way, is an
independent Republican paper of the
reform type, narrows the list of presi-
Dental possibilities down to two pro-
babilities-and strange to say, the
name of neither Taft nor Foraker is
one of these two. Here is the way
the Press runs over the list and the
reason it gives for eliminating eleven
possibilities:
Because he will not
touch it.
"Root-Because he could not carry
New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana,
possible exception of Iowa west of the
Mississippi river.
'Cortelyou--Sam reason.
"Knox-Same reason.
his own state nor of any worth men
tioning; might have a few federal Of
ficials from territories.
"Foraker-Presiden ROOSEVELT
battle AK will knock him in the head.
"Cannon-Can carry the Standard
Oil Trust. the Steel Trust, the Lum-
Der Trust, the Sugar Trust. the ship
subsidy grafters; nothing else.
irbanks-Frozen stiff.
"Cummins-Hasn't any principles
"Crane-Never been introduced to
the public.
$50 the host dwindIes to:
Hughes.
LA Toilette.
SHAW.
SHAW is a good man, but the pub
lie regards him as too conservative.
1t will not vote for a man who is less
radical than Roosevelt. This leaves:
Hughes.
'LaFollette.
PLENTY and to spare!'
And so the Press puts Hughes and
LaFoIlette foremost in the race, eth
er of whom would doubtless serve the
people well. Hughes has not yet en-
tirely proved himself. but he appears
to be making good at Albany
Still, the Press may have put
number of candidates out of the run
ming without due cause. There is
Taft, for instance. Even though he
were not a formidable candidate by
his own personal strength, the fact
that Theodore Roosevelt is behind him
and is doing considerable pushing
gives him great momentum. This
fact alone would make him acceptable
to Kansas. In reality, Secretary Taft
has good show to get
not only the delegates from his own
state. but from a considerable num-
Der of other states as we'll.
It is quite likely, also, that some of
the other gentlemen on the list will
not accept the blue peneilings of the
Press as final.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
A dinner call-the bell.
A high old time has laid many a
man low.
With the judge it's case of try, try
again.
Money makes the mare go. but most
of us prefer an automobile.
Even the fellow who blows his own
horn must raise the wind to do it.
The girl who paints her cheeks is
not necessarily the picture of health.
The widow may look out for No. 1
even when she is looking out for No g.
A fellow can always raise a little
money by putting up his umbrella
with a pawnbroker. II
Nell-"Miss Antique used to be very
kittenish.' Believes, and now she's
a perfect cat"
One swallow doesn't make a sum-
mer, especially when you have to
swallow your pride.
Lots of married men are henpecked.
but many a man is a bachelor because
he is chicken-hearted-
1.-THE devil is the father of lies"
quoted the Wise Guy. ''Wel, all I've
got to say is he has a mighty big fam
ily," added the Simple Mug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
THE RUSSIAN FAMINE.

In the midst of the prosperity and
plenty in this land of ours, 1t is diff
ficult to realize the suffering and
death that is devastating the famine
stricken portions of Russia The
statement in the State Journals dis
patches Wednesday that twenty mill
lion people in that land cannot live IN
til the next harvest without aid, can
the vast majority of the people have
not only the comforts. but many of
the luxuries of the life.
1t makes our American troubles
seem petty when we learn that three
quarters of a million of people are
starving in one province. In this land
of plenty one of our most serious diff
f1culties is that the railroads cannot
haul away our products as fast as we
raise them. SO great Is our prosperity;
Vet across the sea multitudes of hu-
man beings are dying for lack of these
things.
The famine-stricken area covers
twenty-one provinces with a popula-
ton of about 80 millions. Agriculture
Is the only occupation of these peo-
pie. In many provinces there was no
harvest whatever last year; even the
seed put into the ground was lost.
The peasants have sold their horses
to buy bread. They have consumed
the grain held for seed. Thus they
have mortgaged their future by sac
rificing the means of future tilIage in
order to maintain life at present, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
JAYK6 WKER JOT.S

Garden City's r,ew railroad has reach
ed the point of beginning the survey.
but trains will not begin running for
several days.
The walls of a bank building at Hill
City theraten to fall out. They are
propped up. 1t is supposed the strain
of carrying the farmers money is re-
sponsible for busting the bank.
An editor in Chihuahua, Mexico, has
been thrown into prison for daring to
question the propriety of re-electing
Enrique G. Creel governor of Chihua-
hua while he is serving as ambassador
to Washington. THAT is the kind of a
law" comments Charlie Blakesley, 1.-The
Tom and Dave and Sam politicians
would like to have the next Kansas leg
islature enact"
William Allen White is discouraged
because NJ. SantoS-Dumont, after years
of experimenting, was able to fly only
30 yards. Two years and half ago. -
he says in the Emporia Gazette 1.-THE
writer of this, without any previous
preparation. met woman who wore a
troubled look, and Immediately he few
rs feet, with a standing start, with no
previous training, and without machin-
cry except a lively imagination and
lightweight Overcoat. The trouble with
Mr.. Santos-Dumont Is that he trusts
to science and not inspiration. No man
can fly unless he has to. One can't sit
down and determine to fly, and fly. To
fly, and to make go of it, one must
feel an impelling desire to kick the
earth away from him, and grab hold of
the circumambient atmosphere and pull
himself into another and pleasanter
environment, without unnecessary de-
lays, procrastinations or what the old
Latin writers used to call monkey bust
ness, Given that impulse to move, and
the laws of gravitation become void and
a man can track around a. streak of
lightning and go on for 30 or 40 yards
without much trouble. What Santos
Dumont needs is less science and more
enthusiasm in his work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe


You can't do anything very we'll if
you don't want to do 1t.
Trouble has more lives than a cat.
if you try to drown it in drink.
Love is particularly blind when it
comes to seeing danger signals.
A mother always expects her son to
do better in life than his father did.
IT am a coward myself, but I expect
other men to be brave,'-Parson Irvine.
Every man likes a large, rolling lawn
until it comes time to start the mower.
From their actions, we infer that
some people consider every chance a
fighting chance.
If you like that word "goodly.' you
will find it as often as you could ask,
in a church paper.
The heroines in the grocery stores
are the country women who always
bring in good butter.
There isn't enough exciting in the
usual secret to pay for being bored by
entreaties not to tell.
further their chances of butting into
the affairs of others.
If you are popular, your friends say
you are "tactful." but your enemies
say you are 1.-TWO faced
Way down in the bottom of every
mans heart is buried this truth: There
is no such thing as freedom.
In the average home father likes
what is called a stirred up cake;
one without any frosting or favoring.
The vagrant dog and the vagrant
man have a lot of liberty they would
be glad to exchange for some more
tangible JOY.
Every man could bring a breach of
promise suit against his wife, if that
'obey" clause in the ceremony has any
legal weight.
All poker players think that only
the men they play with know about it,
but the facts are every poker player in
town is spotted. rI
When a man In a candidate for an
appointment, and fails to, get 1t, what
fine scorn he exhibits in speaking of
the man who did get it, -
Frequently the only reward Father
gets for trying to control the chill
dren when he is at home, is a reputa-
ton for being cranky
IF you want to hear something "on"
your enemy, praise him enthusiastical-
ly: A compliment will bring out a
'stoly" IN him quicker than abuse.
After a man has been married a long
time he has for his best suit of clothes
one that he wouldn't have worn for his
worst when he was single.
Radishes look pretty on the table, but
ii should be considered as Improper to
eat them as to eat the string of srnilax
hanging from the chandelier.
They are not very satisfactory, and
a man doesn't deserve a great deal of
credit for the compliments he gets af-
ter he is Dead that kind are coming to
every one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

After noting the action of the jury,
we Judge that Mr.. Pigg got stuck.
IN -
This department grieves to note that a
morning contemporary has Senator
Foraker differing with the president
StllI, 1t was well known that he does
not agree from" Roosevelt
@ C.
What skind-hearted man this Mr..
Hartman must bep' said Mrs. Twogood
to the Deacon today. He spends so
much of his time watering the poor suf-
fering stock"
%
Lost. Strayed, or Stolen: One ner-
vous collapse, directed to the White
House by 1.-The interests" Finder will
please see that it reaches T. r., and will
be literally rewarded.-The Trusts.
n
There was a big contest on the bulletin
boards yesterday. The opening of the
baseball season in the big leagues in
sisted on the right of way over the Thaw
case-but they didn't get it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
HUMOR OF THE DAY

"Er-really." began Mr.. Chesty,
you have the advantage of me, sir.
My memory, perhaps, is at fault,
but NO, interrupted Peppery,
sit isn't your memory, but your man
ners. '-Philadelphia Press.
do you think your name will be
handed down in history"
81 can't discuss that" answered
Senator Sorghum. I'm too busy keep
ing it from being passed up by the
legislature. "-WaShington Star.
He (after the refusal)-Had 1 been
rich, perhaps your answer would have
been quite different
She-Perhaps.
He-But poverty is no crime.
She-Oh! yes, it is-and the pun
ishment is hard labor.-Illustrated
Bits.
'If I were younger" said the rich
old man. ''I believe 1 might win you
for my wife,
Yes replied the cold beauty,
dreanily considering his so years. "or.
say, Is or 20 years older."-Philadel-
phia Press. ---
Suits to protect CATTLE" she read
aloud; "now. isn't that nice of the
government? 1 suppose they will fur
nish each of the Door. dear cows
blanket"
Satisfied with this glimpse at the
news of the great world, she turned to
the realities of the fashion column
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

for Richard would be sure to find thens
and the mud was so deep she could not
possibly dismount. She drove Ginger as
close to them as possible, and was lean
ing over reaching for them so attentive
ly that she did not see Richard till he
rode up almost against her. +.
Her eyes met his. defiantly con-
scious of her. floating hair and hee
soiled face, and above all the teu-tale
letters. She wished her writing was
finer-she could see that hateful 81
love YOU from where she now was!
He lifted his hat and was getting down
to hand her the letters when she
stopped him.
Richard Copeland, you go right
away. Don't touch them. 1 will get
sYou can't You'd get stuck in the
mud Let me-
IF you do, I'Il-hate you.''
You do anyway, and besides won't
look at whatever it is you seem to
value So" He coolly dismounted, but
she sprang down ahead of him and
in the slush. Ginger started and Rich
ard called 'Whoa!'' but gave the poor
beast sly cut with his whip that sent
her on a mad gallon for home. He
held Colonel by the bride. Edith
faced him
''Now, Edith" he said, "hate me or
not. you will have to get on Colonel
and be taken home. Come-dear."
L II QlS mere ITSL. nc DlOUAAou,
and. riding close to her, suddenly
caught her in his arms and drew her
struggling and angry to the saddle in
front of him.
Edith" he said, 'I couldn't help
seeing the L love you on the letter
you were so anxious about Was 1t
written for me?" Suddenly she felt
that she could bear it no longer. She
turned her face against his shoulder
and cried, while he smoothed back her
long hair and held her very close Her
pride was quite gone; she was in tears.
and fright generally. She felt that it
was positively a miracle that he could
still love her. He kissed the only avail
able place, which happened to be her
left ear. Then he asked her again
about the letter.
''I meant it for you" she owned,
"but I couldn't send it and I was mis-
CRADLE"
He laughed softly and babe her look
UP, and Colonel somehow understood
that he was expected to go very, very
slow.-(Copyrighted, 1907, by E. O.
Parcells.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[F'rom the Chicago News.1
Some men look as helpless as losT
dog.
The paperhanger expects pay for
putaing up at a hotel.
Everything in the way of trouble
comes to those who mate.
No, Cordelia, temperance drinks are
not in the dry goods class.
Money may not purchase love and
happiness, but it will buy foreign
titles.
No, Alonzo, a man isn't necessarily
simple because he leads the simple
life.
A girl seldom falls in love with a
man unless there is some reason why
she shouldn't.
And a wise man never tells woman
with a baby how pretty some other
woman's baby is.
There are lots of things children
would never think of doing If their
parents did not forbid the doing
thereof.
When a widower takes another wife
for better or for worse he always
hopes there will be something like an
average.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12
A LITTLE CABIN.

Des a little cabin
Big ernuff fur two,
Des awaitin', Honey.
Cozy 6xt fur you;
Down dab by de road,
Not ve'y far from town,
Waitin' fur de missis
When she's ready to come down.
Des a little cabin,
An er acre o. groun';
Vines agrowin' on it,
Fruit trees all aroun',
HoHyhawks ab1oomin
In de gyahden plot
Honey, would you like to
Own dat little spot?
Make dat little cabin
CHEEKY, clean an bright,
With an angel in it
Like a ray of light?
Make dat little palace
Somethin' fine an gran,
Make it like an Eden
Fur a lonely man?
Des you listen, Honey,
While I 'splain it all,
Ho" some lady's go inter-
Boss dat little hall:
Des you take my han,
OATS de way it's writ:
Des you take my heart,
OATS de deed to it.
Springfield Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

CF'rom the New York Press.
A girl that doesn't get married can
make everybody believe she is glad of
IL but herself
The difference between pleasure ana
duty is the difference between going
fishing and to church.
woman will work harder to get a
nice, fresh complexion than a man will
to get million dollars.
As people always give ten times as
much in wedding presents as they get.
where does the difference go?
man has to know a lot about
some particular thing not to be ALWAYS
everything.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

The man who> sent improper letters
through the mail to his stenographer
and who pleaded in the federal court
that he was drunk when ne did it,
will be protected from falling into the
same error again for a time. He will
spend nine months in the Shawnee
county jail-and it is somewhat diff
cult to get drunk in Jail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

Up in Minnesota a lot of farmers
have declared in favor of establishing
an implement factory in the peniten-
tiary, and if the penitentiary isn't big
enough they want 1t enlarged. The
penItentiary binding Irvine plant has
been so successful in putting a stop to
the robbery of the Irvine trust that the
farmers want to try the same remedy
for the implement trust.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

Some of President Rooseve1t's enc
mics intimate that he has brain
storms If this be true it's pity there
are not more brain storms of the same
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

ssThe full story of the watering of
the Chicago & Alton" says the Salina
journal, will make interesting read
ing after the Thaw trial ends" Still,
@ good many people will pronounce it
pretty dull after what they have had
gu the Tvhaw case
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

Still, If the president really wants a
man just like himself to be elected
next year to continue his policies. the
only place he can find him is in the
White House.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

Incidentally Attorney General jack
son appears to be making the big
liquor interests as much trouble as
John Schenck is the local jointists. The
way of the bookseller. large and
small, is becoming harder and harder.
The way things are going in Kansas at
present it will soon no longer be true
that prohibition does not prohibit
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

If the undertakers raise their price
as they threaten to do, they will mattel
the high cost of living with a high cos
OF diving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

Mr. Hartman charges that Presi-
dent Roosevelt does not keep his
promises. Perhaps he can prove 1t by
Senator BURTON
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

Ex-Governor Odell. of New York.
and ex-senator Thurston, of Nebraska.
both satellites of Hartman. have
started in to tell how much they dis
approve Roosevelt. Criticism of the
president by some live man would be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

General Hughes proposes to teach
the science of war by mail. This isn't
entirely original, however. In olden
days the coat Of mail had something
to do with war-we forget just what.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

more interesting" says the Chicago
News. The trouble is that the live
man who starts in to criticise Roose-|
welt has a. faculty of not staying alive
very long.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

Some people think that special
ONCE ought to be created to make Mr..
Roosevelt special adviser to the gov
eminent after his term as president
expires. But wouldn't the election of
Taft as president mean that very
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

1T looks as If it is as dangerous t.
attend a political banquet as it is te
write a political letter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

Still, even the pennant of the West
ern association is a pretty handsome
bunch of goods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-12

While the Altoona cobbler's inven-
ton consumes both ashes and smoke,
4t doesn't satisfy Joseph L. Brtstow.
What is really needed, says Mr.. Bris-
tow, is something that will consume
the tin cans and kitchen waste.