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The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1907-01-04
AMONG OUR CHURCHES

Rev. Virgil Elgin preached az the
Methodist church Sunday morning at
eleven O'Clock and at seven p. N. The
text In the morning was Isiah 6i6.
I'VE all do fade as the leaf" This
was used as appropriate to the closing
year This is'a figure of human life.
especially is passing away. The fol-
lowing analogies were shown. /. A.
the leaf dies naturally. 80 Il Is nature
for man % die. 2 Leaf fades grad.
ually. 3. All fade. 4 Fade and die
10 give place 10 the new leaf. 8
Dying and deCaying Of the old leaf en-.
riches and prepares for the new. s
The leaf fades and dies, but the tree
will bud anew. The subject in the
evening was Christian Growth. -
Text 2nd Peter 3:iS. But grow in
grace and in the knowledge Of our
| Lord and Savior Jesus Christ" The
unlikely morning prevented large at
tendance, but In the evening there was
a hne audience.
90
Services every Sunday. Sunda,
School at 920 o'clock a. m, Epwortl
League at 6 O'Clock p. m. The publ
cordially invited.
The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1907-01-04
LITTLE RECORDS.

F. W. Mum, Dentist.
]. W. Goodloe was in Fredonia Mon
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
AYHAWHEK JOTS

White City has a new member of the
didn't know 1t was loaded" club and
the victim may die.
A Clay Center man has discovered
that David was 30 years old when he
killed Goliath He was rather an old
boy to be playing with slungshots.
The Oakley high school is making a
collection of fossils. according to the
Oakley Graphic. They are respectfully
referred to survivors of the Quantrell
raid by the Salina Journal
Junction City men recently went on
a hunting trip to Arkansas in an au-
tomobile, and the remarkable part Of it
is that they returned home in the same
machine in which they started.
Leavenworth has an unwritten law
case. Having failed signally to enforce
those that are written the officers there
forcement of the unwritten one.
HaZing is being probed at Mcpherson.
The hazing consisted of pumping wa
ter upon the heads of some of the dor
ter than heaping Goals Of fire on them.
A Neodesha letter to Santa Claus
signed High School Boys" was re-
ceixed today Respectfully asking for
two weeks holiday" If Santa knew
who wrote 1t he might include a speller
with his other presents, says the Sun.
A preacher who gave a banquet to
business and professional men at Sa-
lima the other day said that gambling
dens are not as harmful as social
games in the homes. The movement
Of feet under the table when this was
uttered must have been promiscuous.
The Pratt County Index relates that
the Ladies. Aid society of the Baptist
church earned $1,000 to swell the fund
necessary to pay for recent improve
ments at the church and parsonage, in
most interesting as well as a very
enjoyable way. NJ. T. Williams, who
is doing a large share of helping the
one of his best young hogs to the ladies
II they would come out to the farm,
dressed in mems apparel, and catch the
pig and load 1t themselves and haul it
to town. They did 1t and have the cash
in hand.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
GROWTH OF RAILROADS.

Notwithstanding the fact that work
on new railway projects and the ex-
tension of present systems has been
temporarily suspended during the past
few months because of the Wall street
panic, and the money stringency Incl
dent thereto, statistics show that there
were almost as many miles of road
built during 1907 as there were in 1906.
And in 1906 more new road was con-
structed than in any year since 1885,
These statistics are evidence that 1907
would have been banner year in rail-
road construction had conditions In
the money world remained normal.
They are also an evidence of con-
tinued activity in the railroad field for
the new projects which have been
planned by many of the big railroad
systems are merely in quiescent
state. Their Accomplishment will be
undertaken just so soon as there is an
easement of things in the money world
and as soon as a properly perfect con-
hdence has been restored between the
railroads and the people. whose in
terests and prosperity are SO closely
allied. That a better feeling is be-
ginning to exist between these old
friends is being evidenced on all sides
and before another year has rolled
away it is likely that all of the differ
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
RUM; RIFLES AND RECORDS.

There is something a1literative in the
phrase, rum, rifles and records" and
its use may serve to recall one
that is credited with having denied
James G. Blaine the right of occupancy
of the White House and giving it to
Grover Cleveland. But, as Kipling
says, that is another story. The pres
ent is story applicable and appro-
PIRATE to prohibition times. 1t comes
from Bavaria and is based on tests of
craftsmanship by the rif1emen of the
Bavarian army.
This contest was between riiemen
who drank beer and rif1emen who were
total abstainers. The test was con-
tinued during an entire week and was
severe. The beer drinkers beat the
total abstainers at all points and under
all conditions, hitting the bulls eye
with regularity, neatness and dispatch,
while the total abstainers made their
best scores by hitting the target within
the rings, only one of their number
shooting straight.
No moral is sought to be drawn from
the facts of the test nor is it used as
an antiprohibition argument. The
facts alone are submitted. 1t was beer
and center shots against total absti-
nence and shooting wild.
1t has been the experience in this
country where the sale of beer and
liquor is promiscuous that it has been
responsible for a lot of wild shooting as
we'll as straight shooting and it will be
interesting now to watch Georgia after
January 1, 1908. and note whether the
Georgians can shoot as straight under
prohibition legislation as they can to-
day when the mash tub is still legal
entity and its product within the pale
of the law. 1t is to be hoped they can
not for the distressing feuds there Will
not result in so many ruthless murders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
No. Maude, dear a political platform
is not always made up of gang planls.
The club man may have a steady in
come and still come in rather unstead-
lily.
When an actress n1arries and retires
from the stage she Is, Of course, an ex-
acting wife.
Some pessimists were born that
way" observed the Cynical Bachelor.
but more get married"
Wigwag-''Money causes lots of
worry. Harduppe-"Yes, especially
when you can't borrow any"
He-"When you married me didn't
you promise to love, honor ana obey7,
She-"Yes. but had my fingers cross
ed"
Superiority" says the Manayunts
Philosopher, is not so much the feel
ing that we are better than other peo-
pie as that they are worse than wa
are"
THE early bird catches the worn, ..
quoted the Wise Guy. Yes" assentaa
the Simple Mug, "and in these davs
often has it served piping hot for the
breakfast of the late riser"
Blobbs-"I believe that woman sho,,,.
serve on 5uries." Slobbs-''But sunno.e
a husband and wife should he az S.s4S
on the same Jury" Blobbs-"Whaf ~
that? Slobbs-"Well, do you supposa
that jury would ever asree7''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

L
Even impossibilities are possible.
Talk is cheap-unless a lawyer is
handing it out.
It's easy for the average man to
make a bad break.
An ounce of help is better than a ton
of hot air on the subject.
BY the way, are you acquainted with
any man who fiatters his wife?
A man doesn't cut much ice when he
trdes to cut down his wife's allowance.
There are husbands and husbands
and the good ones are nearly all dead.
People who are good at making ex-
cuses are not much good at anything
else.
It is only in novels that girls receive
proposals of marriage in a conserva-
tory.
A man who says a mean thing about
another man isn't half as mean as the
man who repeats 1t.
Occasionally q woman Is glad when
her husband makes her cry, because
she can work him for peace offering.
1t may be the uncertainty of flirting
that appeals to girl; she is never quite
sure but what she really means it.
There is no earthly reason why light
ming shouldn't strike twice In the same
place-that Is, providing it can find the
place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
WIRELESS TALKING.

"How hard it is to work up genuine
astonishmen. over the announcement
from Copenhagen that wireless tele-
phone messages have been successful
w transmitted between the Danish
and the German capitalist" says the
New York Tribune. 1--WE have all be-
come so hardened to wonders that
the prospect of early International
conversations pleases without thrill
ling. wireless telegraphy has already
been practiced so long that, to judge
by the present average rate of scien-
tific progress, an important advance
upon vocal communication by wire Is
due. In spite of the placidity with
which the latest achievement will be
received, scientists and practical tele-
phone men must be wondering what
effect wireless telephoning may have
upon the various companies all over
the world which have hundreds Of
millions of dollars invested in wire
and poles. But the history of wireless
telegraphy up to date will doubtless
be used as a consoling analogy. In
the field of science arguments by
analogy are exceedingly hazardous;
nevertheless, it will probably be urged
that the difficulty of preventing all
save the desired wireless telegraph re-
ceiver from picking up message will
be encountered by the inventor of the
wireless telephone. 1t must be re-
membered, however, that recently
perfected methods of attuning have
in a measure overcome this obstacle
to privacy, and, inasmuch as the fun
damental principles of the wireless
telephone must be those of the wire
less telegraph, improvements in the
latter will give valuable clews to
scientists experimenting with the tel
ephone.
There is, however, one weakness
apparently inherent in all wireless
communication which will operate
more seriously against the telephone
than against the telegraph. That is
the disturbing influence of sunlight
upon the ether waves utilized, which
sometimes necessitates the sending Of
messages only at night. While long
distance transmissions are more af-
fected by this absorption process, it
also hampers medium distance mes
sages to some extent. The prospect
of having to defer chats with neigh
bors until dusk would undoubtedly
deter housewives from adopting wire
less conversation, and the same atti-
tude would naturally be taken by
business men, who are loath to post
pone business talks until the hours of
rest. Should human ingenuity over
come this obstacle there would re-
main the intricate problem of con-
structing a system of attuning delicate
and trustworthy enough to make
feasible wireless central" With all
these tasks and uncertainties, wireless
talking will probably long remain a
luxury to be enjoyed chiefly by army
and navy officers. who will assume the
task of perfecting the new system for
military service"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

There's no such thing as an idle the
DRY. Every man or woman who has
a theory keeps 1t working overtime.
r
Some folks appear on the stage in
private theatricals so that they won't
have to sit in the audience and be
bored to death.
n r
When a child swallows a coin 1t might
be said of him that he is financially en-
barraSSed.
Clocks are about the only things
around insane asylums that are apt to
be right.
Most horses that are capable of win
ming in a walk are foolishly entered in
running races.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
HUMOR OF THE Day

" ..HHavs. you cookr'
How do you manage it7'
her room."Sst. Louis Fost-DisDatch.
I'm what department of the university
Hes in the medical department just
studying to be a doctor?'
No Convalescing after the last foot
ball game."-Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
IT never deny my wife a wish"
why should 1? 1t doesn't cost anything
to wish."-Washington Herald.
What is the difference between prefer
red and common stock?"
well. If you buy the common you lose
tSsr right G 1 onfer ySa a Duy
t.'@Judge.
D'Auber-Of course not every one can
be an artist. One must have imagination
Critic-Yes. notice that most so-caIled
on their imaginations q great deal
Catholic Standard and Times
Everything in this world is useful in
some way said the serenely philosophy
Yes" answered Miss Cayenne. "If you
didn't know what else to do with some
thing you can give 1t to somebody for
Christmas. "-Washington Star
First Weary willie-what did you get?
Second Weary Willie-The lady gave me
little of everything you could mention.
First Weary Willie-Hash?
Second Weary willie--No; a pocket die
tionary.-Bro0klyn Eagle.
Miss Yerner-But would you die for me7
Jack Brightly-To tell you the truth,
dear. 1 would not.
Miss Yerner-Ah! I Just knew you
wouldn't, and yet you talk to me OF
love
Jack BrightIy-My dear, my love is of
the undying sort--Philadelphia Press.
They named the baby after Uncle Ne
buchadnezzar."
HAS Uncle Northumberland money!"
do you spose they like the Manner
Louisville Courier-Journal.
What can you see in that feliow?'
"Ohi I like him"
Hes neither witty, wealthy nor wise"
mo, but he never has any troubles to
tell me. Washington Herald.
What are your views on currency?"
asked the busy citizen.
Mostly sad and reminiscent" answered
the man who had been to the races
washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

ences in the transportation world,
which is the real vital one in the
United States, will have been adjusted
in an equitable manner and for the
benefit of all concerned.
When this happy condition of affairs
maintains the railroads will get buster
than ever before in enlarging their
accommodations and facilities in every
way to handle the great business of
the country which will continue to
grow as it has in the past few years
despite any hampers that may be
thrown upon it by the crooks of Wall
street.
The railroad statistics for 1907
prove conclusively that the new south
and the great and wonderful central
and southwest are the portions of the
country that are developing with the
greatest rapidly. In these sections
has been done the bulk Of the new
railroad work and they will be the
scenes of the railroad energies for the
future for the growth of these Sec
tons OF the country have really but
barely begun. And extensions of
existing railroad systems the increase
of all railroad facilities and the con-
struction of new roads will be needed
to take care of the ever growing BUSH
ness in these sections.
Most reassuring information is given
by the statistics that there has been
a great increase in the equipment of
railroad lines with block signals dur
ing the past year. 1t shows that the
railroads are bending all efforts and
spending huge sums of money to in
crease the safety of travel.
There are some other statistics
which do not look quite so favorable
at glance. They are the ones show
ing big fallings off in the order for
new equipment for future delivery.
When it is remembered that the or
ders for equipment, which were placed
in the latter part of 1905 and 1906
were so enormous that the car and en-
CINE building plants could not prom
Use to fulfill many of them until 1908
and 1909, the falling off in the or
ders placed this year is explained to
an extent. It would have been USE
less to place orders this year when
they could not have been filled until
a couple of years hence. Then again.
when the railroads, especially those in
this part of the country, have secured
all of the equipment they have or
dered they will have as much as their
trackage facilities will permit them
to handle, yes and probably more.
What is needed more than additional
Is increased trackage
facilities and the big systems through
put the west have plans already de-
yeloped for the laying of great strings
IF double track as soon as money con-
1itions become favorable and the con-
1dence of the people is regained.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

Next to being good the most irritat-
ing thing is to be caught being bad.
A good way for a man to make a
comfortable living is to have a rich
father.
A comforting thing about bad habits
is they don't seem to be If they are
yours.
No matter how pretty g. girl is, she
can have grievance If some other girl
is, too.
A very good way for a woman to re-
gain her ideals after marriage is to be-
come q widow.
A man seems to think If he can't be
anything else he can be a politician.
and maybe he is right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.

a. - lFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Society consists of cake and late
hours, and doing all ones thinking next
day with a piece Of leather
If man is cross he looks terrifying
enough, but when he is cross and I'M
shaver, it is a sight to make the ba-
bies cry.
A man will use the slightest pretext
for getting out of Christmas giving,
and a woman will use the same for
getting into 1t.
True, Christmas is disappointing. but
1t is no more disappointing than any
thing else. We never knew anything
that was not disappointing. Did you?
The man who owes big financial debts
never throws as much weight and
worry into his tones as a woman when
she relates that she Owes So Many
Letters.
The average man doesn't know Who
or What that is in the parlor counting
daughter. but he takes a lot of credit
to himself when it happens that daugh-
ter marries we'll
1t shows a good deal of originality
If none of your friends had to resort
to the Old Favorites in their gifts to
you. You may not be satisfied with
what you get, but 1t is something to
be grateful for II you don't receive one
Of the Old Favorites.
An Atchison woman says that she
frequently gives her husband letter
to mail, ana Wnen Sne asks MIN IN the
evening If he mailed it. she knows he
forgot it If he replies CURLY, Certain
ly I mailed it!' Then she goes through
his pockets, finds the letter, and sends
one of the children to the postoffice
with 1t.
After an engaged couple have gone
together for month after month; after
they have told every relative and
friend they have that they are to be
married; after she has asked her best
fritz RI he hrid Ao
him ask his brother to be best man;
after he has bought the wedding ring
and engaged the preacher; after they
have dashed the length of the town in
a hack, to which are driven white
horses; after every friend they have in
the town has gone to the depot with
them, and showered them with rice as
they start of on their wedding trip,
they think that a notice of their mar
riage is a big item for the pager ssaA
not one moment before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
UNCLE. sAM,s STOCKING

When Uncle Sam his stocking sees
With Christmas jubilation,
The shape of 1t will tell him all
Without investigation.
If it inclines to embonpoint
Symmetrica1ly rounded,
his nope that Hughes may be inside
VIII be correctly founded.
If it inclines to emboupoint
around about the middle
The guess that Taft may fill it's gfrth
VIII rightly solve the riddle.
And IL 1t hops around the room.
1t will not need good eyes to see
Ff1e third term in it sticking.
New York Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

And still comes another compliment
to the abilities of the railroad men of
the middle west. Hartman is to send
his operating officials in this section
who have done such wonders with the
Union Pacific out to San Francisco
where they will take hold of the
Hartman coast lines and whip them
into much needed shape.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

More than one or two smiles will be
occasioned by the news from Washing
ton that medals of a suitable charac-
ter are to ge given to all citizens of the
United States who have served two
years in the government service on the
Isthmus of Panama No one would be
surprised to hear of the establishment of
an honorary order of some sort in the
near future. 1t might be appropriate
ly called knights of Civic Honesty"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

Chicago authorities are going to
establish a sort of police court of
appeals where husbands who are sent
to Jail on the complaint of their wives
may have a rehearing. That's a step
In the right direction. Man is an
onery Individual but there are likewise
g. few women in the same category.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26
When Fred S. Jackson. the states

When Fred S. Jackson. the states
attorney general, gets through with
Coheyville and its city officials who
have connived with the defiance of the
prohibitory law by jointists from
whom they collected tribute-well
one doesn't need to be a prophet to
say the officials will know that some
thing has struck them and the city
will take on the garb of spotless town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

Mary Baker G. Eddy and her Christ
tan Science friends are to erect an in
stitution in Boston at the cost Of ST.
coo 900 to be devoted especially to help
ing the poor. This action strongly sub
stimulates the ideas that many have
held for a long time that poverty is not
a state of mind
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

"a Kansas man gets a good Ha-
waiian place." say the dispatches from
Honolulu over the appointment of
William T. Pope to the position of dean
of the College of Agriculture and Me-
chanic Arts. 1t would have been more
proper to have said that a good and
capable Kansas man has had his worth
roeo~rfyad
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

According to the New York Journal
of Commerce the bread eaters of the
world are growing in numbers SO fast
that they will soon overtake the wheat
crops This is good news for the Kan
SO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

those atrocious crimes that are COM
United frequently by negroes in the
south and which are almost justifiable
excuses for the administration Of lynch
law, repugnant as it Is to Americans.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

Oklahoma's fair name has been stain
ed with blot that it will be we'll nigh
impossible to wipe away. A negro was
taken from the Jail at Henrietta and
lynched. This man had murdered an
other in cold blood but he was entitled
to have justice administered to him in
conformity with the laws of the new
state. He was not guilty Of one of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

Col. Goethals is evidently the man for
the Panama canal job. The rapidity
with which the work of excavating is
being done under his direction and SUI
pervision Is nothing short of marvel
ious. Let the good work go on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

Something must be wrong over in
Ireland The Irish parliamentary
leaders are near a peace pact and are
going to work together-on some
things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

There's a sneaking suspicion that the
Shah of Persia has yielded in every
point in controversy with the consti-
tutional leaders in the country because
of his desire to keep not only his job
bIlt his head
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

That New York syndicate which
made an unsuccessful effort to corner
the apple crop did not have to worry
much as to who possessed the apple
harvest of Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-26

If there was anybody IN Topeka who
did not have a merry Christmas yes
terday he or she succeeded in hiding
the fact from general notice. Every
ones face seemed to be wreathed with
smiles of happiness and contentment.