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The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-20

The divorce matter of Bessie Brey-
riaier against Henry A. Breymaier
was heard by Judge Young this af-
lternoon, but the court took the mat
tel under advisement. One child,
new living with the mother, was the
issue of the marriage.
The wife claims that her husband
ltcok her to the home OF his par
ei.ts in Bucyrus and that it was
lsimply a case of too much mother
ir law; she was compelled to yield
every point to her husbands moth
er and he told her If she could not
stand it they would have to quit.
He is charged with refusing to go TO
housekeeping on their own account.
Fred Coffey was granted divorce
fIom Maude Colfey, by Judge
Young this afternoon. The Coffeys
were married August 27. 1908, and
lived together about eight months.
The husband charged gross neglect
.of duty and adultery. One child,
new three years of age. was the re-
Isut of the marriage and the custody
'or this child was given to Samuel
Rush. while the husband was
granted u divorce.
The petition for divorce filed by
John w. Kellogg against his wife,
Viola Kellogg was this afternoon dis
missed without either party appear
Ing in court. The Kellogg's form
erly conducted the notorious Last
Chance" resort on West Marion, and
both are now living out of the city.
This was the old case of the pot and
the kettle exchanging compliments
relative to the ebony hue of the
other and the court had nothing
TO do with il.
Judge Young this afternoon dis
missed the divorce petition of Lena
Wyman against w. Edward Alex
Wyman. Since the application was
made, the couple have again gone to
living together ana for this reason,
III, suit was dismissed.
The case of Sarah T.. Stallsmith
against James G.. Fairbanks. which
has been hanging in the court of
common pleas court for the last sew
Ell. or eight years. was settled to-
day.
In the matter of Joseph Slanser
and others against r. u. Holland,
ar action to revive a judgment. the
defendant has been given leave to
plead by March 1G.
The matter of Gerhart .Fleischer
against Coonrod and Abel has been
dismissed at the costs of the plain
tlif.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-20

Candy Lodge No. 81 X. Of p.
conferred the rank of page on four
candidates at regular meeting held
Tuesday evening. The attendance
was unusually large and arrange
ments were made for working the
rank of esquire on five candidates at
next weeks meeting.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-20

The case of Sarah T.. Stallsmith
against James c. Fairbanks. which
has been hanging in the court of
common pleas court for the last sew
Ell. or eight years. was settled to-
day.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-20

The matter of Gerhart .Fleischer
against Coonrod and Abel has been
dismissed at the costs of the plain
.tlif.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-20

In the matter of Joseph Slanser
and others against r. H. Holland,
an action to revive a judgment. the
defendant has been given leave to
plead by March lG.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-02-20

Judge Young this afternoon dis
missed the divorce petition Of Lena
Wyman against w. Edward Alex
Wyman. Since the application was
made, the couple have again gone to
living together ana for this reason.
III, suit was dismissed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
MAXIMUM RATES.

1t ought not to be very difficult for
the house to get together on a maxi
mum freight rate bill. Each side has
arguments in its favor and if each will
make some concessions, fair maximum
rates on a number of important Kan
sas commodities ought to be speedily
forthcoming.
One advantage that the senate has
over the house is that it has not
punched all commodities in one bill.
A good way for the house to have
done would have been to have made a
separate bill for each class of com
modities. and then omnibused them.
The senate. however. has made it's
cut grain too small. The grain
rate is the most outrageous of any of
the chief Kansas rates. and it could
probably be cut more than 20 per cent
and still be extremely remunerative
to the railroads. There is this argu-
ment, however. in favor of the 15 per
cent cut that has been made by the
senate: The railroads will not fight
it and it will go into effect in time to
benefit the farmers who now have old
grain on hand and in time for the
coming crop. The railroads might
fight a larger reduction and make it
imperative for a year or two. 1t
would have been better to have made
an Is per cent reduction, but the Is
per cent cut means much to Kansas,
and the next legislature can make
further reduction if it seems desirable.
In the meantime the state will be get
ting the benefit of the Is per cent
reduction.
There is something in the argument
made in the senate that the consumers
will not get any benefit of a reduction
in coal rates, because of the combine
among coal operators. Kansas has
powerful antitrust law, however, and
there is no reason the consume rs
should not get the benefit of the re-
duction in rates, if the power of the
law is properly invoked.
1t is to be hoped that the conference
committee on maximum rates will get
together on the best features of each
measure, and that the conference bill
will then be ratified by the two houses.
The maximum rate question Is the
biggest thing in dollars and cents be-
fore this legislature.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
SETTING A PRECEDENT.

1t was new precedent in Kansas
that Governor Hoch established when
he appeared before each house of the
legislature and read a special message
in person. 1t is not the first time this
thing has been done in other states,
however. At the opening of the Iowa
legislature a few weeks ago Governor
Cummfns went before it personally
and read his own message, giving spe-
cial emphasis to those parts that need
ed emphasis.
Governor Hoch's action was certain
~ warranted by the scant courtesy
that was given his chief message at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
JAYHHWKER JOTS

A big eagle was killed near Dodge
City last week.
Ottawa BARRIERS have put the price
of shaves up to fifteen cents.
A Jetmore liveryman has bought an
automobile to use in his business.
Good mules are like good men:
scarce, but when you do ma a good
one, he is valuable.
A Coolidge woman sold 1874
pounds of butter last year, bringing
her S417.65 net. This is no joke.
Gray county reports that prairrc
schooners are frequently sighted out
there these days. The navigators
thereof are usually looking for a land
ing place.
A man who claims to be on the in
side says there are six barrels of
whisky drunk in Independence every
week 1t is suspected that the infor-
mant is really on the outside-of some
of the liquor.
Ellsworth claims a little of the lime
light because man who formerly ltV-
ed there, Lee Johns, recently made
worlds record at bowling at Newark,
n. J. He made an average of 277 for
seven straight games.
News from Syracuse: rep" Piper
and Frank Young have each blocked
out set of Van Dyke whfskers and
the girls say they look just too sweet
Ray JACKSON says OIIuS VI q leather
flock together.
Story by AImira Todd: James re-
marked an east side woman few
evenings ago. 1.-The doctor says that one
of US had better remain up awhile with
Willie tonight and give him his medi-
cine 'All right, wife" replied the
thoughtful James, but if I wuz you I
wouldn't stay up too late"
Wichita is to have a riding school,"
Thirty years ago the entire country
west of the Sixth P. NJ. was big rid
ing school and the man or woman who
couldn't ride horseback never got any
the Wichita school" will be, although
it was doubtless more practical.
wellington News: We have been
told all our lives that there is nothing
in luck or chance, but all in effort and
foresight. But here is an instance in
which that idea is refuted. About
thirty-five years ago two young men
came to Kansas from Indiana. Both
looked over the land in Sumner and
that the best land to settle on was in
the vicinity of where Zyba now stands.
One of them accordingly took up a
claim near there. The other decided
he would rather have poorer land and
live nearer a settlement. so he went
about mile south of the village of
Wichita and took up a sand" claim
that was considered practically worth
less. Today his land is almost in the
heart of Wichita and he is Immensely
rich. The man who settled near Zyba
lives in wellington and Is in ordinary
recalled the experiences they had en-
countered since the day they staked
their fortunes on two quarter sections
of Kansas lands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27

the opening of the present legislature.
Neither house caid much attention to
his official communication. To be
sure, it was very Ions and could be
better understood when read in the
newspapers in cold type than 1t could
by simply hearing it read. But
neither house seemingly gave any
great weight to the governors recon-
mendations.
And why should not the governor
read his own communications to the
legislature? Is not the legislature
worthy of the personal attendance of
the governor? Is there any good rea-
son why the executive head of the
state government, whose duty it is by
law to make recommendations to the
legislature, should not make those
recommendations in person. lending
his personality to emphasizing such
parts as he wishes to give special
emphasis?
Besides, if the message is very long
it relieves the poor reading clerks of
tedious job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.


[F7rom the Chicago News.1
Many a train has been wrecked in a
ball room.
Many so-called gilt-edged securities
are guilt-edged.
About all a pretty girl asks is a
chance to show off.
A dogs bark is worse than his bite
because it lasts longer
AS the years roll by many old pro-
verbs take to the tall timber
Courtship fills a man with conceit but
marriage takes it all out Of him.
Some willing workers never miss a.,
opportunity to work their friends.
When two people argue one is in tbA
wrong-and just as like as not both are
The first time young man succeeds
in kissing clever girl she looks at mir,
in way that makes him wish he had
got busy sooner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.
It's generally the nerve of other peo-
pie that gets on ours.
Sometimes the most successful argu-
ment is that of silence.
The fellow who follows the races is
naturally behind them.
Even platonic love may be blind. At
any rate. it can never see its own finish
The office that seeks the man gen.
orally has to be sicked on, like a dog
1t would do the bore good to take a
few days off and get acquainted with
himself
A mans popularity consists quite as
much in what he doesn't do as what he
does do. a
wigg-"Old Skinflynt says he is in
soul" Wagg-'Yes, hut not pocket
book
Nell-"Mr. and Mrs Buggins don't
get along together" Belle-"Oh, Mrs.
Buggins has her faults. too" Nell
Yes; one of them is the ease with
which she let's him deceive her.
Aunt Dinah-"De minister saw dat
men mus work an women mus weep >,
Aunt Mandy" Pears to me dat de
women wouldn't hab to do so much
weepin' eff dem lazy, no count men
would on'y do some work"
Uncle Bob-"In some parts of the
southwest water is so scarce as to be
really precious" Little WiIIie-'sCea '
That would be a cinch place to live A
Teller wouldn't all the time be told to
go and wash his hands and face"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
GET BUSY.

| There was certainly ample justifica-
ton for Governor Hoch's appeal to the
legislature to get busy. The fifty days
| in which the constitution contemplates
| that all legislation will be enacted has
expired, and comparatively few of the
really important measures have gonn
to the governor for his signature
1t is true that each house has passed
number of important bills, but these
measures have not passed the other
house. On some of the most important
propositions-pr primary elections and
maximum freight rates, for instance
the two houses have clashed, and their
respective measures have gone to con-
ference committees.
Only very few days remain in
which the majority of the members will
remain to accomplish * work that
must be homework that the people are
demanding. If this legislature fails to
enact that legislation those RESPONSE
BILE for the failure will not get another
chance. 1t is possible that the Repub-
ican party will not get another chance
two years hence. Governor Hoch was
certainly justified in calling attention
in his special message to this legis-
lation that the people are demanding.
Incidentally the fact is again empha-
sized that the principle on which Kan
sas legislators are paid is wrong. In
stead of being given per diem, with
a limited number of days for which
they can be paid, members of the leg
islature should be given a stated salary
say, $500 for the two years-and then
required to stay until all legislation is
completed. In this way important
measures would receive due considera-
ton and there would be less tempta-
ton to work only four or five days a
week early in the session.
This winter the senatorial contest
was disposed of early in the session and
the legislature got down to business al
most Immediately after it convened. 1t
was confidently predicted that the i'm
portant measures could be considered
and adopted without the closing days
of the session being so crowded with
important work that some legislation
must slip through in very crude form.
The trouble with the present system
is that the rush at the close of the SEES
sion permits ''jokers" and errors to
validate them after the people believe
tney nave gut WHAT Iney WISH
Notwithstanding the good start made
by the present legislature, this session
closes in as bad shape as any. Com
paratively few measures have gone to
the governor except local bills and those
of secondary Importance. 1t is said that
the appropriation bills are well in shape
in the committees and can be agreed
upon with little trouble, but several
vital measures are still far from the
goal Of the statute book
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27

club rooms. Next door the colored
people were having a ball. Two doors
further west the board of education
was in session From there the noise
of the skating rink could be heard. In
the city hall Police Judge Freyl Cor
win was trying a case. Down at the
opera house, a show was being given
to a crowded house. Six attractions
were being pulled off simultaneously.
to say nothing of the groups in the
drug stores and barber shops saving
the country. And the day before there
had been a fire alarm. No one could
have the nerve to call Sabetha a slow
town
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27

kettle singing over fire of twigs'
while the glow of midday softened in
to the long light of afternoon. =.
"A mellow light to see visions BY,
| observed Vanringcourt.
"Visionslr
"All day I've been longing for a
| glimpse Of a girl that I used to know.
| She used to wear a pink linen gown,
frilled sunbonnet on her arm. The
last time saw her this orchard was all
in bloom, and she promised to love me
for ever and ever. and in token of that
we exchanged rings made of grass"
MY dear Jimmy" protested Mrs
st. Aubyn.
Vanringcourt fumbIed in his pocket.
There it is he said. smiling whim-
sically.
How absurd" said Mrs. st. Aubyn.
but her voice trembled.
yes, isn't it'll To cherish that little
bit of dried grass as I've cherished
nothing else on earth, although the
girl that gave it to me decided six
months later that love in a cottage was
only another name for folly, and that
money and position were what counted
most. For you see, in the meantime.
like the fairy godmother in the nursery
tale, a rich relation had come and
whirled her away to town, and when
next / saw her the wild rose had be-
come an American beauty-the great
est success of brilliant social season.
VOLTA touti"
"But you
''Oh. yes, know. I've had success.
too. I've gained it. I'm counted for
tunate as the run Of men go. yet the
thing I've wanted most I've never had.
Nothing else ever really mattered ex-
cept the girl 1 knew in this orchard.
All my life and all my heart have been
empty because of her"
1T was spring then, and it. is aut-
umn now"
THE glory of the year. said Van
ringcourt
But in these last few months you've
never even written to me-you've
never said you remembered-or-or
cared"
II waited till the moment came when
you found things empty as you have
found them today. till you knew that
your golden apples were only Dead
sea fruit. You refused the boys love
that was offered you in the sprfngtime;
VIII you take the mans love that Of
Ter you now, Helene?"
oh. Jimmy" she began, and then
her eyes brimmed and speech failed
her: but she reached out her hands to
MIN with an adorable gesture. and as
ne kissed her late bird posing on a
Dough above their heads burst sudden
" INTO song Copyrighted, 1907. by
M. M. Cunningham
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Old Bill White advises people to "be
cam" over the primary election bill.
That is the trouble with too much i'm
portant legislation: 1t has been "be-
calmed.'
Speaking of train-wrecking, a Tope-
ka man says he is an expert at it every
time he goes to a social function where
the women wear the blamed things.
n "
Lets see," says the Hutchinson
News, "can you give us the name of
the pin-head governor who raised such
a furore at the time of the Kingston
earthquake by reason of his ASST
ninity % Of course. Swearathim. Our
memory is good for that. Ask another.
There is this to be charged up
against Evelyn Thaw: She kept a
diary.
e y
Speaking of the Shawnee county
representa- tives, this department would
like to make a joke about two Birds
and one Stone, but as there is only one
Bird and one Stone we can't think of
a joke that will fit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
BOOST OF FREIGHT RATES.

1t is estimated that the contemplated
increase in railroad freight rates will
add several hundred millions to the
revenues of the transportation COM
panies 1t is thus the clever managers
of great corporations pluck the ng OF
contentm ent from the nettle of adver-
sity. Much ado was made by them
over the fact that the recent raise in
wages would add something over
hundred millions to the operating ex-
penses of the roads, but the hundred
millions addition to be paid out for
wages will be amply offset by the sew
erai hundred millions to be extracted
from patrons in the shape of an all
round raise of freight rates.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
Don't make a kick unless you can
cash it.
Many a man who thinks, he isn't
henpecked, is
When there is hole in store floor,
farmers will spit in it.
We wouldn't care to be chess cham
pion of the state. Would you?
You cannot talk to some people:
You can only argue with them
No one admires a stingy man. but
he always seems to get along pretty
we'll.
About all the promptness some peo-
pie manifest is being on time for their
meals.
A newspaper heading seen very
often these days: "Dies on the operat-
ing table"
Almost every other kind of a man
is more endurable that a "mischiev-
Gust man.
You have probably observed that
some people can be very busy without
doing anything.
When a person has a poor memory
for names. he usually says he is good
at remembering faces.
distinction that never helps man
much in securing job
What a happy world this would be
Il everyone enjoyed their work as we'll
as an auctioneer seems to-
Here Is a joke no wife appreciates:
When a girl says she will be wife
number 2 for the wife's husband.
A bald headed man scratches the
top of his head through force of habit,
not because there is game there.
When a man sees fool love letter,
he laughs and thinks to himself: Il
have written many a one myself
What has become of the old fash
toned man who selected a girl because
she was a good housekeeper and
good cook?
A man who is an admfrer of dogs.
hears them bay at night. but everyone
else hears them bark, and howl and
disturb the peace.
Some people speak of a person, who
has been graduated in a manner
indicating there is nothing left for
such a person to learn.
Great mems quarrels always seem
about as small as those of ordinary
people: more so, in fact when one
considers the principals.
1t seems to take the pickle dish
among wedding presents longer to pass
around the corner and out or style
than anything else on earth.
The man who complains that he has
mo chance is usually SO busy kick
ing about his hard luck that he
wouldn't recognize Opportunity II he
met it in the road.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
Larkspurs or DeIphiniums.

The larkspurs are useful annual and
perennial plants. The boldness of the
pant and the beauty of the flowers
VIII always attract attention. They
are eHective when planted in beds or
massed in front of shrubs In color
the flowers range from palest to deep
esq piue ana include pink, red and
white, but rarely yellow.
The culture of larkspur is very sim
pie They will thrive in almost any
good garden soil and in almost any
SITUATION The perennial kinds should
be propagated from seed sown early
in the fall. In the spring young
seedlings which have been kept during
the winter in a cold frame in two inch
or three inch pots should be available
and should be set out two or three
feet apart in rich sandy loan, in a
sunny exposure. Perennial larkspurs
may also be propagated by taking up
an old plant and dividing its roots. In
fact bed will remain in condition
longer If the plants are dug up and
replanted every three or four years.
The roots or young seedlings may be
obtained from most florists. Grandi-
forum, hybridum and formosum are
the best varieties.
Seed of the annual varieties may
be sown in beds or borders in spring
or fall preferably the latter, so GER
mination may take place in early
spring. AS the seedlings grow they
should stand II to Is inches apart.
Seed sown in April will give good re-
suits. When the plants are establish
ed they should be transplanted to
light, rich soil where they will grow
rapidly. The socalled ANIMALS are
really hardy biennials. but because
they bloom the first season they are
treated as ANIMALS. Two successive
flower crops may be had the same sea-
son from the same plants if the faded
flower stems of the first crop are re-
moved. Among the better varieties
are ajacis, which grows from 1 to Is
inches high and has graceful spread.
ing branches, and grandif1orum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27
FRON OTHER PENS
A REAL STRENUOUS JOB.

A resolution making the president
press censor has, been introduced IN
the house ty young Mr.. Wharton of
illinois. Exercise of the power pro
posed would require the president, II
he took his duties seriously, to keep an
eve upon every newspaper IN the
scandal. No doubt he would be will
ing to respond to the call upon him
both as a moralist and hustler, but
we submit. for the consideration of the
presidents other well wlshers' that
there might be such a thing as killing
him with kfndness-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-27

Here is a good word for the Santa
Fe: 1t has made a voluntary reduction
on the freight rate on oranges from
California to the Missouri river and
the east, of ten cents hundred. MAX
ing the rate $1.15 instead of $1.25.
This does not look like much of a cut.
but it adds from SIS to $25 to the
profit of every acre of good orange
grove in southern California. Good
groves yield from two-thirds of car to
a car of fruit per acre. and the saving
amounts to $26 a car. The man who
has a twenty-acre grove will realize
$500 or $500 more each year in net
profits.