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The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-14
WHILE STATESMEN sTRovE.

"Queer place this for a grave-a
summer resort" remarked the Wis
itor, lifting his eyes from the green
mound, with its old headstone as
kew, to survey the yellow and white
frame hotel and the springs flow
ing waters reputed to be healing.
"No more than it's queer place
to die" said the proprietor of the
little Kentucky watering place.
The visitor was disposed to look
at it as poor testimonial for the
healing spring. 1t devolved upon
the gallant Kentuckian to set him
right.
eve think right smart of this
grave" the hotel proprietor said,
taking hitch at his tow linen
trousers and tanning himself with
his Panama hat. I'VE are proud
to have that grave among us.
There's poor, sweet girl sleeping
under this blue grass as is a victim
of the north and the south. Yes,
sir.
YOU'D hardly think that possible
when there is no north and no
south. Well, there used to be. But
you can't expect young hearts to be
patient while statesmen and sojers
NEEDLE with geography.
Back before the war this place
was like you see it now-the same
pretty little river; the same arched
whispering trees over the lovers
walks; the same springs gurgling
out of the messy ground; the same
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-14

as the histories say, was then i'm
pending. Everybody was full Of
loyalty and that noble quality Sec
tional prejudice. Everybody but
them two young people. They went
right ahead regardless of the issue
and plighted their troth-and a
plight 1t proved to be for both of
them of another kind. The folks
at home would hear nothing of it.
1t was set down as double-barreled
treason.
'Tn these days they would have
married at once and let the parents
mourn. In those days they were
more old-fashioned and dutiful.
They separated, vowing to meet
here again the next summer, when
ugly passions would have cooled
and there would be no nonsense
about north and south.
'But the next year there was
war. Armies were passing and re-
passing across the border. Battles
were fit. In one of them battles the
young gentleman from the north
was lost. She never knew. Down
in Louisiana the little southern
girls heart was futtering in her
breast like a Gagged bird beating its
wings against the barrier of hate.
AS the war went more bitter and
her love more hopeless, she grew
white and waxen as a magnolia
blossom. Every day she pinned more
and more on the desolate planta-
ton.
During hull in the strife they
brought her here She told them
she had to be near the spot where
she first met him. But what she
wanted to do was to die by 1t. 1t
didn't take long. She was almost
gone when she came. Bury me un-
der the tree she said. He will
come to me here
Isn't this a serene, peaceful day!
The wind rustling through the
leaves sounds sort of comforting
like. Isn't it awful, though, that
this had to happen to a poor, frail
child, when there's no north nor no
south after allie
81 feel kind of queer in my
throat, stranger. and you don't look
very peart yourself. Come into the
house and III mix two juleps."
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-14
ORDINANCES ON FIRST
READING

New ordinances were read by the
council last night for the first time
as follows: To collect cost of care
of patients at isolation hospital
from such patients; combining
liquor licenses to the fire limits;
paying plumbing inspector $125 a
month; apprropriating $4,000 to
repay August Use on First ward
sewer mixup; separate licenses for
separate bars in saloons; for First
ward sewer; providing for inspec-
tor of gas and electricity; establish
ing salaries to be paid city en-
ployes.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-14

/ letters, is going to have Diana Dill
pickles heart il 1T costs him every
cent he has. And he says she| is
| worth $4,000.
It's enough to turn any girls
head. Only mines been turred SC
often that my neck is stiff. There
fore, my head is now little slow
turning.
| hardly know what to do. 1
There is Mr.. FinglemowG put.
ting in % hours a day writing pas
sionate missives, and here is poor
me getting them faster than I can
read them, and the neighborhood
| wondering If | have started a get
rich-quick scheme.
1t is up to me to come down to
brass lacks with the Lonely
Rancher." He has wasted bottle
of ink ON blots representing kisses
alone.
Ito be Continued.)
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porter gets 25 cent tip for brush.
ing you off.
Credit Where Due.
She (finishing an account of the
wedding): And so the parson ut.
tered the words that made them 1
He: Huh. But 1t was the bride.
groom who uttered the words that
won the maid.
There is some comment because
ROckefeller's pastor discourses
against wigs.
But the bald fact Is that wigs
give DR.. Aked a pain.
They're talking of holding an
other senatorial primary in Missis
sippi. where they seem to have the
primary symptoms In an acute
form.
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| V

By sending my picture to Phile-
mon FinglemOwer, the lonely
rancher," l seem to have started
something.
Now | don't know If it is my fatal
beauty that has got him going. or
whether the Lonely Rancher" is
just getting his stride as CORE
spondent, but | am certainly hear
from Muskrat, Neb., early, late and
often.
My second letter, with my pic
ture enclosed in exchange for his,
hadn't no more than got to Musk
rat, when the postmarks show Mr..
Finglemower took his pen in hand.
Since then | have been getting
mail by the cord.
Talk about ardent correspond
ence!
Mr.. Finglemower, to Judge by his
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-14
HOcH DER STORk AGAIN!

BERLIN, Aug. 14.-Sh-h-h-h-h!
The stork is again lowering over
the palace of the crown prince, and
every eye in Germany is turned this
way. The first child Of the crown
prince, a boy, was born July 4, 1906
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1907-08-14
NEW MANtTo PICTURES.

This weeks program of moving
pictures at Mantle park Is the
finest yet. Admission free every
evening. ="
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27

cheaper They are prevented by law
from doing things that would lower
the cost of transportation. And that
increased cost comes out of the peck
cts of the public. They pay for it,
There was an air of finality about
him as he said 1t. 1t was doubtless
incomprehensfble to him that the
public stupidity wished to keep on pay
ing more than it should. Then he
added: And even il there were abuses
they would not be as great as the
advantages the public would derive If
the railroads were permitted to do
business scientifically. You have no
idea how uneconomically the railroads
of this country do business! There was
a note of wistfulness. of sincere regret,
almost of despair in his voice, as he
said this. It came from knowledge
and from the vain desire to be the or
ganizer of the country's entire railroad
business If he had the power to sys-
tematize it, to be the secretary of rail-
roads, with a life job like a supreme
court justice and absolute power
above all things the absolute power
there is no question that we would
have better railroads and cheaper
transportation, for Hartman is the
type of man who, knowing his capac-
ity, necessarily believes that the Nbest
form of government is an absolute
autocracy under a benevolent despot."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
HUNOR or THE Day

First Policeman-Did you catch his
Second Policeman-No.
First Policenan-That was a fine girl in
Second Policeman-Yes. wasn't she?-
The Car.
'T hear you are having trouble in meet
Trouble in meeting 'em? Great Scott
My trouble is lodging em."-Cleveland
Leader.
Sapleigh-Im learning to play the-aw
Miss Caustique-Indeed Has your phy
stefan given up all hopes?-Chicago Daily
News.
Poor Jones is all in"
What's the m2tter?'
HE shores so loud that he can't sleep."
Louisville Courier-Journal-
Johnnie inquired Mr.. Nexdore, why
don't you do funny tricks like the Kat
zenjammer Kids?'
II can't think of nuthin'.''
er's rhono2raph?- -Washingto Herald.
o.
Mrs. Knicker-Do you think poker or
racing the wise?
give me any presents after it.-New York
Sun.
''Bisget says Brightly is a 'skeptic'
He means Brightly denies something
that Bigget believes is true, that's all
PHILADELPHIA Press.
Just listen to Nero's playing Dost ap-
preciate his marvellous technic?
Second Roman-Hardly I'm in the fire
insurance business.-Philadelph Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
AYHAWKER JOTS

Noah Lott lives up in Ottawa county.
Many other people think they know a
lot.
Six divorces We're ground out in an
hour and ten minutes at Wichita last
week.
A Poland China sow sold for $1,000 at
Wichita recently. Some men are not
worth that much
Sabetha brags that it hasn't had a
case in its police court in four months.
Pretty good thing to brag about.
bear belonging to a carnival COM
pany escaped at Atchison and climbed
a pole. He was not arrested. There are
no bear hunters on the Atchison police
force.
Henry Honey thinks if an American
kid were loaded down with the name
the Alfonsos gave their baby. he would
lick the old man for it as soon as he
got big enough
Suppressed item in the Minneapolis
Better Way: Bert Kay asked us not to
tell that he brought the children in to
see the show last Monday. He had
em in all right, but blamed if we are
going to tell it.
Personal Renaissance by Conner Dav
les: 1T is hard for the children born
and reared in Kansas to understand
and realize that there are other chill
dren, in other countries, who are de-
MED what they look upon as the most
commonplace things in their lives. This
experience. as vivid now after 40 years
as though it happened yesterday. At
years of age we came across in the
Storage to America. At we had
accepted a position as trapper in a
Pennsylvania coal mine. Two years la
ter the family moved to Livingston
county, Missouri, and our first home
was in the smoke house, kindly vaca-
ted for us by a hospital BILE Missouri
farmer while the log cabin was being
built on the forty bought on the in
stallment plan of the Hannibal & st.
Joe Railroad company. While living
in the smoke house the lady who lived
in the big house, after skimming the
milk one morning, said to the little
wad of foreign-looking humanity,
dressed in a plaid flannel shirt, cordu-
roy breeches and hob-nailed shoes:
Say, Conner, I wish you would carry
this pailfu1 of SKINNED milk out to the
lot and feed 1t to the hogs" Eleven
years old, yet we had never seen SO
much milk in one package before in
our life. When We got on the off side
of the barn it occurred to us that the
woman would be none the wiser, and the
hogs would never tell, if we should
good long drink, such a s we never had,
or ever seen any one else have, in all
our lives. We set the bottom of the
bucket on the top rail of the low fence
and drank as long as we could hold
our breath. The more we drank of that
rich, sweet milk, the more convinced
we were that it wasn't causing the
woman any worry and the hogs
wouldn't know the difference. anyway.
So we drank until our clothes wouldn't
fit little bit. 1t was the first time we
ever had all the milk we wanted to
drink-and then we thought there was
only one way to get such a precious
treat and that was to steal it from the
hoes-according to some of our 'es
termed contemporaries we have never
gotten out of the habit. But. say. what
Kansas denied awning
on earth that was fit to eat or drink, !
and all he wanted of it?''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
\ HARTMAN VIEWPOINT.

Hartman continues to occupy a
central place in the magazines, and one
of the most interesting of the current
articles dealing with the railroad mag
nate is by Edward Lefevre, the Wall
street writer. in the June American
Magazine. Incidentally Mr.. Lefevre
brings out some of Harriman's views
on how the government ought to deal
with the railroads. which are worthy
Of consideration.
He is full of the subject of govern
ment interference with the railroads.
writes Mr.. Lefevre. He said they
were suffering from legislation
II interrupted him and asked: Can
you tell me one single specific piece of
legislation enacted to date which is
disastrous to the railroads.
Its what the present agitation
may lead to- he answered. The rail-
roads, he went on. should have the
same rights as individuals. The
managers should be allowed TO meet
and discuss their business, and come
to understanding and be allowed to
make agreements and binding con-
tracts instead OF meeting surrepti-
tiously and talking and each man say
ing what he thinks he will CO.
But power to do what you say.
would inevitably lead to great abuses,
I inteIjected.
Under proper government regu-
lation, of course he said impatientIy;
under reasonable regulation. The
railroads --Ould be able to do business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the ChicaRo NeWs.l

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Lawyers are the most successful law
breakers.
Truth is always a friend to those who
honestly seek it.
Better lay in a stock Of thermometers
before they get any higher.
A change in your manner of living
may put more change in your pocket
Ignorance isn't bliss If you don't know
a good thing when you see it.
Speaking of skin games-what's the
matter with the beauty doctors art?
1t is just possible that liquor would
improve with age If men would let it.
The first time man falls in love he
imagines he is in bottomless pit
Don't cast your pearls before swine
or woman who is a chronic kicker.
1t takes a brave man to be chummy
with a widow who has buried three
husbands.
And 1t is sometimes necessary to put
a man out in order to find out what's
in him.
A young widow always acts as II she
would have known just as much had
she never married.
Many a man does nothing but hope
from morning till night, then sits down
and calls It a days work.
When a man tells you that he prefers
his old pipe to a good cigar there is no
reason why you should believe him.
Some men never attempt to accom-
plish anything because they are unable
to find an easy mark TO put up the
money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27

window panes in every one of the
new England states. August was still
worse; ice formed nearly an inch in
thickness and killed nearly every
green thing in the United States and
Europe. In the spring of 1917 corn
which had been kept over from the
crop of 1915 sold for from SIS to $40
a busheL the buyers purchasing for
seed But just as though that were not
enough, the Herald produces a man
from York state who remembers
hearing his parents tell about the ter
rible summer Of 1915 when winter
lasted all summer. 1t is even asserted
that up in York state people went
sleighriding on the Fourth of July.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

"Melba Can't Sing" says a headline
over a story about the prima donna S
cold. Well. there are others who can't
also, but they go through the motions
just the same.
The newspapers are saying that
King Peter of Servia wants to borrow
money. Pete is like a good many
other people. but If he wants more
than two bits he need not look in the
direction of this department.
-
The Sabetha Herald prints a clip
ping from a paper published in 1917
saying that thick ice formed in New
England all the previous summer.
We fear that the art of lying has been
lost in these degenerate days.
Notwithstanding that the new
Spanish baby has twelve names, the
chances are that the other boys will
call him "kid' when he starts to
school.
o %
Beginning a week from today you
must paint your gasolene can red. but
don't make a mistake and paint the
town red instead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.l
When a man acts superior, it is a
sure thing he is not superior man.
Some of the new hosiery advertise
ments are very much Police Gazette.
When a thing really amounts to a
great deal. people do not believe it
amounts to much.
About everything from physical
culture to quinine claims to be "Na-
turo's own remedy"
An Atchison man is so squeamish
that he becomes seasick every time he
sees a girl wearing a sailor hat.
The Darlor sofa is probably wonder
ing why its friend, the. hammock
doesn't get busy. so it can take a va
cation.
BY the time man is 40 he should
have learned this much at least: That
nine times out of ten he is liable to
be mistaken.
In these days of unhampered flights
of fancy, you will occasionally find
brand of bacon with a name that
sounds as if it belonged to a girl.
ut isn't right" a man said today,
pathetically and Indignantly. A great
many things go on that are not right,
and indignation will not stop them.
What has become OF the old-fash-
toned young woman who. when a
man jumped at her and kissed her,
inquired: Now, do you feel any bet
ter?"
There is some curiosity to know
which warship is to be commissioned
to take the delegates to the peace
conference at The Hague.
II a girl asks other girls to come
over in the evening that a young man
is to call on her. it is a sign she
doesn't care much for him.
We have an idea that one of the
greatest joys heaven will have for
the workingman is that it is a place
where no whistles arc blown.
When a mans friends praise him
to his wife she looks pleased, if a
bride, but If she has been married
quite a while, she looks suspicious.
When a woman moves into a house
which has been occupied before, she
says: you should have seen that
house: L simply had to dig it OUT
After a woman has been married
about so long she looks at her hus-
band, the way we all look at COM
pany who have worn out their well
come.
The man who wears green goggles
on a windy day, does it to keep the
dust out of his eyes, and not from an
excess of modesty, as the ladies might
suppose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
FROM the PhiladelphIa Pres. j

From the Philadelphia Press
A real enemy is more to be desired
than a false friend.
1t seems as though some fellows only
play poker when their friends need
the money.
Few women are as good looking as
they think other women ought to think
they are.
A man may be said to have acquired
true fame when all the newspapers
spell his name correctly.
There isn't anything much sadder to
contemplate than meal ticket with
all the meals punched out.
No, Maude, dear; the bee culturist
doesn't suffer from hives any more
than the lumber dealer does from
shingles.
Women can find more to talk about
at a sewing circle than men can at a
Board meeting Of billion-dollar
Trust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27

This has been a late spring-in fact.
there has been no spring at all. but
summer has come immediately upon
the cessation of frosts-but the
Oldest inhabitant can greatly dis
count it. The Sabetha Herald
has got hold of a clipping from
The Wing, published at Frost
burg. Maryland. in 1917, which
tells this story: According to the
records January and February. 1916.
<he year without a summer, were
warm and stormy. Vegetation had
gotten well along in April when real
winter set in. Sleet and snow fell on
II different days in May. In June
shere was either frost or snow every
might but three. The snow was five
inches deep for several days in sue
session in the interior of New York,
sEd from ten inches to three feet in
Vermont and Maine. July was cold
and frosty; Ice formed as thick as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
LFrom the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
There's a heap of misery in hunting
for it all the time.
A woman would about as lief lose
from sunburn.
Parents are so braggy they manage
to act proud over the way their chiId
has the measles
It's just human nature to get more
fun out OF losing ten dollars at ram-
bling than making ten by work.
1t takes girl to know that a nboto
graph that fatters her is a better ILL.,
the looking glass An
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
FROM OTHER PENS
A WYOMING PHENOMENON.

The snowstorm that has ragged in the
mountains of southern Wyoming since
April Is without intermission is un-
precedented for this season of the year
as far as the knowledge of the white
man extends. Seven feet on level and
a temperature lowering around zero
would seem to preclude the possibility
of the existence of even wild life in
those wintry solitudes. This is of
course entirely without the limits of
the stockraising belt of the state, hence
the storm is phenomenon rather than
a disaster.-Portland Oregonian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
A COMPARISON

Abraham Ruef, the fallen political
boss of San Francisco, who last week
pleaded guilty to the charge of corrup-
ton, declared that he entered politics
with high ideals, but that he found he
had to sacrifice them to gain and retain
political power. How grossly he was
mistaken in choosing the course he did
he now doubtless perceives. Compare
his career with that of Governor Folk
of Missouri, or of Governor Hughes.
of New York, and see how much bet
ter it paid, even in a political way to
dare to do right than to succumb to
the wrong.-Pittsburg Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27

And now Old Bent Murdoch. who is
one of the spokesman for the Square
Dealers. is getting sore because the
machine is endorsing the Square
Deal ideas. He accuses the machine"
of being a me too organization.
Colonel Murdoch might try copyright
ing the Square Deal ideas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
THE OLD SWEET PASTURES.

You. that have world o. money-now' s
the time you want to be
In the meadows. sweet as honey, where
the birds are flynn free:
want to leave the city mansion for the
simple country ranch
Where some barefoot fellerss wadin' in
the riDDles o the branchi
In the city, life is money; but you'd
change your golden state
For your love song to your Honey by a
hOneysuck1e gatel
Give your stormy city towers for the dear
old country ranch
For day off with the flowers wadin in
a rippled branch
Atlanta Constitution
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27

One of the main arguments in sup
port of the Taft boom is that Taft will
carry out Roosevelt's policies. Fair
banks or Foraker might carry them
out also-but it would be out into the
back yard where they would be split
IN for kindlinR
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27

The Alfonsos are not the only royal
family in which there Is a brand new
baby. The Sultan of Turkey is also a
more or less proud father, but as it is
the fourteenth time 1t has happened
in his case. there was far less excite
ment in Constantinople than in Mad
rid When there are fourteen young
Alfonsos Madrid won't get so wrought
up over the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27
TO RELIEVE THE DRoUTH.

To say the least. County Attorney
Peterson of Allen county, who had
nine visiting Eagles arrested for bring
ing in liquor, has a somewhat blunted
sense of the courtesy due to company.
What does he suppose the lola Eagles
had their brethren from the outside
come there for Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27

The price of eggs having gone down
to ten cents a dozen, the Wichita Bea-
con suggests a farmers wives union
to boost the price to twenty cents. But
would it advise holding the eggs?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-27

While some of the other members of
the Gould family are having a full line
of domestic troubles, George Gould is
setting an example in domestic life that
might we'll be followed by other mill
lionaires. The George Goulds appear
to be an exceptionally fine family