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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the, New York Press.l

lFrom the New York Press.1
A child can be a great economy to
it's parents by not being twins.
A man gets so ratified when a girl
proposes to him that she can make him
believe he did 1t.
The best way to get along with a
red-headed woman's temper Is to let
some other fellow be married to it.
Men are fools to object to visits from
their wives relatives when it's such a
good excuse to dine at the club on bus
mess.
Some people are SO lucky that when
they are going on a church picnic they
miss the start and are obliged to stay
home and have q good time instead
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State journal
AWAY during the summer may hav's
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address at the rate OF ten cents
. week or thirty cents a month (by
mail on1y.) Address changed as often
rs desired. While out OF town tho
State Journal win be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

News comes from New York, where
a number of the larger railroad ex-
ecutives Of the country have gathered,
that these gentlemen are worrying be-
cause of the conditions confronting
them They say that one of three
things must happen to put the finan
cial condition of the railroads on a
firm basis. Rates must be increased
Wages must be reduced; or more bus
mess must be done. If the railroad
managers would be a little patient
there is every indication that they will
get the increased business they need.
II the reports of the diminishing num-
Der of idle freight cars are correct, as
they are presumed to be, it would
seem that the business of the railroads
is increasing greatly. And 1t will in
crease much faster from now on be-
cause the bumper crops will soon be
moving in earnest. Then, too, reports
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21
HU4oR or THE Day

"One-half the world doesn't know how
the other half lives" observed the moral
How provokingr exclaimed Mrs. Cos
syp--Lippincotts.
Those girls do me great credit.
You are one of the teachers, I pre-
surne.''
mo. I'm a maker.''-Louisvilie
HE went to that place from which no
traveller returns"
mo, you interrupted me before had
finished. From which no traveller returns
until he is bus.ed-New York."-Newark
Star.
De Tough-I want to return this dog to
the gent who owns him. I seen his ad.
In the paper.
a gent that put the ad. IN?
De Tough-'Cause 1t said: mo questions
asked. '-Pick-Me-Up.
termined-looking man.
Yes. sir" said the salesman. six
''why-er--you'd better make it a nine
chamber. want to use it on a cat next
door. London Express
Cant you help me. SIR asked the
beggar on the street to the passer-by; at
don't know where the next meal is COM
ing FRONT"
Neither do l." said the man addressed.
passing on: "our girl left this morning,
too."-Yonkers Statesman.
Teacher Gin Sunday school class)-who
can tell me anything about Abraham?
First Small Boy-Used to know, but
can't remember now.
name Of Abraham's wife.
Small Boy (promptly,-Mis' Lincoln
Life.
sitting on the porch. looking at the stars.
You know. suppose. he whispered.
what young mans privilege is when he
mo" she answered. 1T haven't the
slightest idea. There goes one. "-Chicago
Tribune.
IT hear that your new. school superin-
tendent Is rather radical
He's cut out the higher headwork and
the perforated tatting. and he's advising
teachers to handle children o ascordin o to
new superintendent is radical all right
Louisville Courier-Journal.
stella.:what is a horserace without q
without a matthew York Sun.
Bicker-Doing wrong is simply follow
ing the line OF least resistance. knocker
Yes. it's as easy as falling on the Deca-
logue.-Lsife.
MY boy. I'm, indeed. surprised to hear
such profanity from your Yep; amt It
great? An I'm only six years Old
Brooklyn Eagle.
wifey-Didn't you get soaked last night
dear? Hubby (absent mindedly)-Yep;
had to be bafled out.-Yale Record.
Knicker-Birds of feather flock to-
gether. Bocker-Yes. II took several
eagles to pay for my wife's hat.-Brook-
lyn Life.
"why il your husband so irritable.
Because he knows It's safe to be-" an
swered the long-suffering wife.-Wash-
ington Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

people of this country, and especially
those Of them who are charged by the
others with the administration of it's
affairs. to stop for a minute or two
and give some good sober thought to
the fact that the appropriations of
money by the last congress for one
governmental purpose or another
reached the enormous total of more
than one billion dollars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

How true it is that honors never
come singly to man. Mr.. Taft is no
sooner nominated for the presidency,
which would seem to be a sufficiency
of laurels for the time being, than he
is also elected a member of the la
Dor union known as the International
Society of Steam Shovel Men. If,
working in his capacity as one of the
rank and file of this organization, he
could lift load of dirt as large as
himself, he ought to be able to COM
plete the Panama canal excavation
work in a week, or ten days at least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

Mr.. Bryan is to be sincerely pitied
II there is any truth in a recent cable
dispatch received in New York. 1t is
to the effect that Richard Croker is
to forego the delights of bowling
occasionally to the king OF England
when he passes the royal box at the
race course and is to return to this
country for the avowed purpose of
helping Mr.. Bryan's candidacy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

Experts Of the United States signal
corps announce that Just about So.
100000 will be enough for the first
years work and experiments in estab-
fishing war fleet of balloons and air
ships. This will probably appeal
strongly to President Roosevelt, but
hardly to Congressman Hobson be-
cause the amount of money involved
for a defense of this sort Is so in
efopffcapt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

There's something decidedly wrong
with his royal highness the Masharajah
Kuhner of Sickhim, the son of one of
the wealthiest rulers in all India, who
Is visiting in New York. He is more
enthusiastic about the railroads than
the American women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

The mad dog alarmists ought to pom
der deeply over the fact that the dog
catcher of Montclair, New Jersey. has
been bitten no less than three thou
sand times during the past six years
by all manner of dogs, including few
that we're supposed to be afflicted with
rabies, and he is still hale and hearty
and has never shown any symptoms of
having hydrophobia.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

are coming from everywhere Of tre-
mendous increase in business activities
In all lines of endeavors. So perhaps
1t may be proper to say that the rail-
road magnates are just a little unnes-
essarily alarmed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

Maybe Mr.. Hitchcock. Mr.. Taft's
campaign manager, hurried west SO
suddenly because Walla Walla, Wash.
went Democratic last Wednesday for
the first time in its history.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21
RoosEvEI,T AND HIS WORDS.

President Roosevelt is to get two dol
lars a word for what he will write
about his forthcoming experiences as a
hunter in the Dark Continent" This
is a large sum. But yet Mr.. Roosevelt
has written many words for which he
might easily have received many times
more than two dollars each-if he had
merely not published them.-Hutchin-
son News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21
KANSAS C0AlAENT
TWO HUNDRED YEARS.


Inc venerable Mr.. Depew continues
20 DISCOURSE fiuently Of his system OF
olet, which, he confidently asserts. will
enable him to reach the age of hum
dred years.
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese ambas-
sador, who is quite as persistent in
the advertising department, has inn
proved upon the Depew bill OF fare.
ana gives official warning that he will
nve until he is two hundred years old.
unless church falls on him or some
otner accident befalls him.
Sundry other more or less tiresome
people are talking a great deal about
what they eat, and how they eat it.
and how long they intend to live; and
they VIII probably live as long as they
pan TO, for the good die young, and
the bores endure forever.
No sane man would want to live
TWO hundred years, or hundred years
and 1t is impossible to imagine a great
er national calamity than to have
Cnauncey and WI Gin our midst" Tor
several decades. The longer they live,
the more they will talk about 1t. and
brag. and point with pride AS they
grow older they will think and talk of
nothing but their appetities. and their
Digestion; and they will deliver lectures
on the science of mastication; and
they viii start correspondence schools.
and give instructions by mail as to
HOW DeSl TO PICK ones teeth, ana IIlSy
will dwell forever upon the sordid, an
imal affairs of eating and drinking.
which should be mentioned only Incl
dentally.
When old men can find nothing
more uplifting to discourse of than
their bellies and their alimentary ca
mails, they should not be encouraged
to believe that they are going to live
longer than the law allows.-Emporia
Gazette.
JASPER A FAVORITE.
There are three children in the Taft
family; two in the Sherman family;
three in the Bryan family. and three
in the Kern family. Five on the Re-
publican ticket and six on the Demo-
cratic. This should make the thought
full voter Qt is proper always to refer
to a voter as thoughtfuD think. and
think. If the Republican ticket wins
1t will mean one less child to burden
the telegraph than if the Democrats
win.
On the other side, however. Jasper
Kern is on the Democratic ticket, and
a great intellectual treat is In store
for the people If his father is elected
Jasper is a thoughtful child mucn
given to statistics. He has COM
from how much milk a six-months
kitten drinks per lap, to how many
times a day mother says Don't Inc
election of Bryan and Kern means the
opening of a child's storehouse OF
knowledge to a thirsty public. Vote
for Jasper-Atchison Globe.
ROOSEVELT AND HIS WORDS.
President Roosevelt is to get two dol
lars a word for what he will write
about his forthcoming experiences as
hunter in the Dark Continent" This
is a large sum. But yet Mr.. Roosevelt
has written many words for which he
might easily have received many times
more than two dollars each-if he had
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

II want a good revolver" began the de-
termined-loolzing man.
Yes. SIR" said the salesman. six
chambers?"
'Why-er-you'd better make 1t a nine
chamber. want to use 1t on q cat next
door."-London Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

Cant you help me, sirT' asked the
beggar on the street to the passer-by; IT
don't know where the next meal is COM
ing 'front.'"
Neither do l." said the man addressed.
passing on: "our girl left this morning,
too."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

ST hear that your new school superin-
tendent Is rather radical"
HE is that" responded Farmer Haw.
He's cut out the higher headwork and
the perforated tatting and he's advising
teachers to handle children accordin' to
the rules Of common sense. Oh. yes! Our
new superintendent is radical, all right
Louisville Courier-Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

Teacher Gin Sunday school class)--Who
can tell me anything about Abraham?
First Small Boy-Used to know. but
can't remember now.
Teacher-Perhaps some one can tell the
name of Abraham's wife.
Small Boy (promptly,-Mis' Lincoln
Life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-21

1t was night. They're and she-were
sitting on the porch. looking at the stars.
You know. I suppose" he whispered.
what a young mans privilege is when he
sees a shooting starr
mo" she answered. 1T haven't the
slightest idea. There goes ne."-Chicago
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-11-05
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BITTINGER.
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A party consisting of Mr.. and Mrs.
Elias Orendo.f, Mr.. and Mrs. John
Stark and Mrs. Henry Bittenger and
children left here last Tuesday for Nor
folk, Va. and they expect to visit
Washington and Baltimore before re-
turning.
Cleaver Brenneman and sister, Miss
Fannie, drove over to Meyersdale, Pa,
on last Monday.
Clarence Brenneman and Miss Huldah
Wiley spent last Sunday with friends at
Springs, Pa.
G.. W. Engle returned to Baltimore
last Tuesday after spending few days
with his parents at this place.
Edward Knox had his leg broken one
day last week, while wrestling with a
schoolmate.
Rev. Alvin Yugel and Delegate c. f.
Ellithorp returned from Frederick, Md,
last Monday evening, after attending
the meeting of the Ely. Lutheran Synod
at that place.
VIM. Ralston, of Frostburg, came up
last Monday to be on hand for election
and to visit his mother.
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ported him because we believed his
election would be better in every way
for the country than the election of
Mr.. Bryan.
Our Endorsement of Mr.. Taft, how
evvr, did not include the endorsement
of all the Republican principles and
and practices, and we take it that neither
is the cOuntrY's Endorsement of him to
be so construed. There are many things
WHICH the Republican party will have
to do, many practices which it will have
to repudiate and many reforms which
it will have to institute if it hopes to
retain the support and confidence of the
country Mr.. Taft will begin his ad-
ministration with a great opportunity
and great responsibility, and we sin
cerely trust that he will fully improve
the one and measure up to the other
Baltimore Sun.
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III. P. T." is responsible.
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STATE GEOLOGICAL
SURVEY GOES ON.
Work in Progress in Frederi OK, Car.
roll and washington Counties,

The semi-annual meetings of the
State Geological Survey and the State
Forestry Commissions were held Tues
day at the offices of the State GeOlogi-
cal Survey at the Johns Hopkins Uni
versity. Baltimore
DIR. William Bullock Clark, the State
/ Geologist, presented a report showing
/ that during the last six months topo
graphic surveys had been under way in
Frederick, Carroll and Washington
counties, which would result by the end
of the season in the completion of the
mapping of the southern half of Freder-
lex county and nearly all of Carroll
county.
DR.. Clark reported that the inveStiga-
ton of the lime and cement products of
the State, which has been under way
the last two seasons, was completed.
A full report will be issued during the
winter
A report was made on the progress of
highway work under the Geological
Survey, which has charge of the ad-
ministration of the State Aid act. com
monty known as the Shoemaker law,
and also of the construction of the high
way to Washington. Since the last
meeting surveys have been made by
the engineering staff for SO miles of
road altogether. Contracts have been
approved for 1495 miles of roads at a
total cost of $13O, 848.72. The Highway
Commission ordered that work on the
Washington road at Hyattsville and
Laurel, already agreed on, be taken up
at once and completed at the earliest
possible date.
Work is now in progress in Allegany,
Baltimore, Cecil, Hartford, Howard,
Montgomery, Worcester and Wicomco
counties on about 20 mile of road, the
greater portion of which should be COM
pleted before winter.
Mr.. F. w. Beaslev, the State Fores-
ter, reported that c mplete forest sur
veys had been made in st. Mary's, Cal
vert, Allegsny and Qdeen Anne's
counties during the summer and that
surveys in Garrett, Har ord and Wi
comico counties started last season had
also been finished
Forest fires have been numerous dur
ing the last month and on account of
the extremely dry condition of the woods
they have been unusually severe, par
ticularly in the western counties. The
forest wardens have, in most cases, re-
sponded satisfactorily and have greatly
reduced the actual damage.
There is growing interest in forest
management through the State, as
indicated by the number of applications
for wood-lot examinations and inquiries
as to the most suitable trees for plant
ing.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-11-05
Cholera Kills harylander.

Mrs. A. c. McCardell, of Frederick
has received word of the death in a hos
pital at Manila, Philippine Islands, of
her niece, Mrs. Grace Whitmore Nit
chell. She was taken i'll with cholera
while her husband was absent from
Manila and died while he was away.
Mrs. Mitchell, who was twenty-eight
years of age, graduated some years ago
from the Woman s College Of Frederick
and subsequently took course in nurs-
ing in Philadelphia. She was commits
stoned by the foreign mission board Of
the Reformed Church as missionary
nurse, and was sent to China. In that
country she met DR.. G l. Mitchell,
whom she married on May'26 last, and
with whom she went to the Philippines.
She was daughter of the late Rev.
DAVID Whitmore. d minister of the
Reformed Church.
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90. .. 900. 600. ...e.o.e.o 900.
FIKE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. .s.a.a..t:

We had a nice rain here one day last
week, but not sufficient to raise the
waters.
When Mr.. Asa Fike and wife awoke
on last Sunday morning they found their
little daughter dead in bed The funeral
was preached on Monday at l.. c.
Fixes and interment was made at the
same place.
The Connecting Telephone Co. met
last Saturday evening and transacted
considerable business. 1t was decided
by the company that no exchange won
be given with the Farmers Union.
The school at this place has now an
enrolment OF So pupils and the teacher
and pupils have organized literary So
ciety.
You can now hear the report of guns
as the woods seem full of hunters.
CARTER.
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In memory of District Deputy A. F.
George, of Nantauquas Tribe Number
l6l, Improved Order of Red Men.
Your committee having been appoint
ed by the Sachem to prepare suitable
resolution of respect to the memory of
our late Brother, District Deputy A. F.
George, present the following:
1t is a mournful duty at all times to
consider the death of any member of
our Tribe, but greater is the sorrow
when the subject of our considerations
is one with whom we have been intimate
and loyed as a brother.
Brother Georges great usefulness
and service in the Improved Order of
Red Men is well known to many who
have been attending its sessions. Sell
dom was he absent. 1t is hard to realize
that the voice of one with whom we
have been so closely associated is silent
forever and that his manly form is
shrouded for its long last sleep He
was well qualified for the several posi-
lions of trust and honor he was called
upon to fill, but the knowledge and at
tainments could not stay the hand of
the destroyer, Death. He had a kind,
generous nature. He was an inspiring
and stimulating associate, and most
highly valued by those who knew him
best. During his connection with our
Tribe and the various Chieftancies he
h ED, he came in close intercourse with
many upon whom he left his moral i'm
press for eternity
He enjoyed life and happy in his work
He did not fear death nor shrink from
the grave. His life is ended and the
success or failure thereof rests in the
hands of Almighty God, who one day.
must judge us all The form of Brother
George has passed to the silent tomb
but pleasing is the memories of his life,
his companionship, the work done by
him for our Tribe; his generous heart
his pleasing voice, these memories shall
endure with us: therefore be it
Resolved, That in the death of Dis
trict Deputy A. F. George, in the Nan
tauquas Tribe Number lGl, of the |. o.
r. M. lost an honored and faithful
member.
Resolved, That these resolutions be
printed in our records and also printed
in each of our county papers and that
the original be presented to the family
of our deceased Brother for preserva-
ton.
FraternaIly submitted in F., F. & C.
WILLIAM w. SWEET,
JERRY MANKIS,
VIM. B. SWEET,
Committee.
See our and Toe glassware. Baum
gartner.
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See our and Toe glassware. Baum
gartner.
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Col. PEARRE's close run for Congress
may remove him as possible candidate
for Judge against His Honor A Hunter
ROVd
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-11-05

BRYAN, the Peerless Loser, has al
ready started on the manuscript for his
book, THE Third Battle
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-11-05

WHILE Col. Pearre is elected by a
small majority Garrett county furnished
it more than double.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-11-05

HOUSE FOR RENT, possession given
aft 7 October LIST; contains eight rooms:
spring water. Apply to Mrs l.. F.
Sincell, Oakland. Also cottage of six
rooms, either furnisdhe or uufurnished.
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Is BRYAN still running?

''H. P. T. " viii have our oral sup
port in his efforts to do better.