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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-18

the Topeka pitching staff. Hendrix
hasn't worked in his midsummer stride
since he joined the Topeka team. Root
isn't in the best shape, and SeIby is
entirely out of it. The burden for the
remainder of the season will devolve
upon Roach and Hagerman. If one OF
them can take fall from the Jobbers,
one game from Hutchinson ought to be
easy to take. But If the locals drop
the three at Jobberville, it will require
three out Of the four at Hutchinson.
There is a good deal Of foolish talk
going the rounds about throwing
games. 1t is said that Hutchinson viii
throw the last series to Topeka and
that Webb City will lay down to Wich-
and Webb City are fighting hard for
the lead of the second division.
According to the announcement made
during the first week of the season,
Lawrence Milton, the manager of the
Webb City team will retire from base
ball at the close of the season. Milton
said in the spring that he would quit
baseball if he couldn't beat Joplin out.
And the Miners are away ahead of the
Tripletts.
Walter Sizemore the erstwhile
Hutchinson pitcher is to get tryout
with the Kansas City team next sea-
son.
Blaine Durbin, two years ago with
the Joplin team and the pitching sensa-
ton of the league, has played in eleven
games for the Chicago team this sea-
son, taking Slagle's place in center
field. During the season he batted
twenty-eight times, secured seven hits,
three runs and delivered one sacrifice.
In the outfield he accepted fifteen
chances without an error.
selby, Boles and Nage1 are not with
the team this trip. Selby will play no
more this season, while BoIes will prob
ably leave for Fort Worth in a few
days, where he will take the Texas
Single. Nagel will wait until the team
returns home and will participate in
the exhibition games. 1t was Dicks
intention to work him during the sea-
son, but the pennant is still hanging
in the balance and 1t would be taking
too much of a risk.
Brennan was sick when the team left
Topeka and hasn't been feeling any
too well for the past two weeks. But
he is one of the pluckiest little players
in the business and went along.
It is reported that Pokorny will re-
turn to Topeka next spring. His arm
Is in better shape and ''Poko'' will
make a good man in the A. A. next
season, with his trusty willow.
The following suggestion from a
Kansas City fan appeared in the KAN
saS City Times. 1t is quite timely and
shows that our Richard attracts a lot
Of attention, but Richard wouldn't go
as Topeka is the best paying PROPOSE
ton for him. Here is the suggestion:
To the Star: In view of the fact that
the Blues have made such miserable
showing under the management, and
taking for granted that the rest of the
Kansas City fans have no desire to be
double Crossed" would it be too pre-
to suggest that Mr.. Tebeau
might be able to secure the service of
one Richard Cooley of Topeka for the
of the 1909 Blues? He seems
to have no trouble winning pennants
when he manages a club according to
his own ideas. as he has clearly
not in the season just
drawing to a close, but in the former
years he has managed teams in To-
peka.
Yours truly,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-18

In the Tuesday game at Oklahoma
City which was prevented by rain after
four innings had been played. Jimmy
Prick Of the Toronto team played sec
ond base in the place of Jack Love. 1t
is we'll that the game did not get to
the official records for the game would
have been thrown out. And the Nets
evidently knew this for they did not
try to play him any more.
There is an interesting fight between
Webb City and Hutchinson for the
head of the second division. Topeka
fans would like to see Hutchinson land
the place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-18
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-18
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Oklahoma City at Springfield.
Enid at Joplin
Webb City at Hutchinson.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-18
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-18

There is a good deal Of foolish talk
going the rounds about throwing
games. 1t is said that Hutchinson viii
throw the last series to Topeka and
that Webb City will lay down to WITCH
ita. Nothing to 1t, both Hutchinson
and Webb City are fighting hard for
the lead of the second division.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-18

According to the announcement made
during the first week of the season,
Lawrence Milton, the manager of the
Webb City team will retire from base
ball at the close of the season. Milton
said in the spring that he would quit
baseball if he couldn't beat Joplin out.
And the Miners are away ahead of the
TriplettS.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
: Round the Capital
- Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
- and There in Washington.
Society Fastening to Summer Res,

diplomats are concerned, and as the
diplomats almost always show dis.
position to entertain, they bring gay
ETY. in their train and are most well
come, for if there is one thing that
the true American society woman
loves more than another it is the for
eigner. Many of the embassies are
dotting themselves along the north
shore. The British and the Italian en-
bassies will be at Manchester, and as
Baroness des Planches is especially
fond of keeping open house, a great
deal of entertainment is counted on
from the Italian embassy. Count
Hatzfeldt, who is charge d'affaires for
the German embassy in the absence
of Baron Speck Won Sternburg, will go
a few miles further along the shore
and be at Beverly Farms, while the
charge d'affaires of the Russian en-
bassy, Prince Nicolas Koudacheff, will
be at Magnolia, and Mr.. and Mrs. Ed
ward Lotus of the Siamese legation
at Cape Ann.
Three Of the most popular bachelors
of the diplomatic set, Baron Haymerle,
Count Torok and Prince Vincent zu
Windisch-Graetz have taken house
at Bar Harbor, where the Austrian
ambassador and Baroness Hengel-
muller will make their headquarters.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
Appropriation Made for Fairgrounds

1t is the avenue for business and the
childish romping which so often in
terferes with business in the streets
is nuisance. Yet if there is no other
place for them who can be so indiffer-
ent to their welfare as to prevent the
boys and girls from indulging their
youthful spirits in the delightful
gar.es for which only the streets at
ford them room?
Washington, with all its beautiful
parks and its we'll kept squares, is pit
fully lacking in the matter of play
grounds for the school children. Many
of the school buildings have not the
least vestige of ground inclosed about
them, but stand squarely against the
sidewalk and are squeezed on either
side by dwellings. The children at
tending these schools are permitted
to congregate in the street and on the
sidewalks opposite the building and
instructed to play quietly" It is we'll
for congress to take more active cog.
nizance of this need for Fairgrounds
and provide we'll for them. The SEN
ate's amended appropriation is not
nearly enough to do all that is re-
quired, but it is a worthy beginning
and Washington's parents as we'll az
children are thankful for it.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
President to Hunt Bic Game in Africa

ed heretofore, but when confirmation
was sought at the White House the
answer has been that no definite con-
clusion had been reached as to the
presidents plans.
But now it is stated positively that
Mr.. Roosevelt, with his son Kermit,
will sail from New York for Cairo in
April, 1909-just as soon as the neces-
sary arrangements for the departure
could be made after March 4. 1t is
the desire of the president to bring
back at the end of the year from
the wilds of Africa specimens of every
species of big game to be had on the
dark continent. He will visit no other
country. it is stated.
The outfit of the expedition will be
obtained on reaching Africa, but an
active correspondence in this connec-
ton already is under way. The ex-
act size of the hunting party-num-
Der of guides and retainers, animals,
etc.-has not been determined on. The
president, however, will take with
him an assortment of arms which he
will require in the variety of hunt
ing contemplated. This outfit will in.
clude, of course, guns of the highest
power During the absence of Mr..
Roosevelt in Africa Mrs Roosevelt
and other members of the family will
remain at the family home at Saga
more Hill, Oyster Bay.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish Tired of Newport

surd, too ridiculous. They are making
Newport the laughing stock Of the
country to-day.
Il would have our society made
more exclusive, more dignified. I
would have it harder to be accepted.
l would have it so that just the pos
session of mere money would mean
little without birth, breeding, good
manners, intellect.
What is New York society? Deadly,
most of the time. The average dinner
is bore.
I'm tired of being ladder myself.
In fact, it is unwise to be ladder
have helped many of them climb it;
have had all the experience l want.
Those people who have climbed are
the most unkind to those who have
helped them climb. That's only hui
man nature. Why? Because they
want to kick the ladder when they get
up. They hate the people who know
their secrets. They have no use for
the ones who have helped them climb.
because they know how it was done
and might tell
Nobody will catch me being a lad
der again. l prefer to meet my friends
from above-they did not have to
climb up. Neither did L.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
Musings Of the Metropolis
News of New York Town
Outlined in Brief Form.
Gotham Girls Are Learning to Swim

type who can only dawdle in the wa
ter, and who shrek terribly when they
are overtaken by a wavelet nine
inches high, and these girls positively
neglected by the beach gallants. The
idolized girl of the period is the girl
who knows how to swim in hordes.
A couple of years ago five New
York girls, all Of them crack swim
mers, figured in lot Of swimming
matches down Bensonhurst way. Can
dor compels the statement that every
one of these five girls was as homely
as C-r-r-e Min, or homelier. But, be-
fore the end of that year every moth
er's daughter of these five homely
girls, but crack swimmers, married a
wealthy husband. Thus, and for other
reasons, the impetus to the swimming
thing for young women.
This summer we may expect to read
dozens of accounts of swimming young
women pulling drowning youths out
Of the surf by their spitlocks, latter
they'd gone down for the third time"
and SO on. Won't the youth thus
yanked from the briny have to turn
around and marry the girl who res
cues him? Well, won't he feel obliged,
in common gratitude, to marry her,
whether he turns around or not?
He certainly will! There'd be moth
ing else for him to do! Perhaps these
New York girls don't know a trick or
two or three!
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
Sheath Skirt Appears at Long Beach

robins egg blue and one of a fine,
glorious, eye filing red. They were
tucked and girted around the slender
figures of their wearers as closely as
the tights on the sausage" and the
balmy sportive breeze from the At
lantlc tapped back the peculiar, slit
ike opening in the skirt and revealed
SUCH ankles, such silken hosiery, as
would have made Jove himself come
down from the high Olympus and as
sumo the form of a manatee on
barnacle, or some other savage beast
as he was wont to do in time past the
better to see.
They are 'manniquins' from Fifth
avenue modiste's," said Walter KAT
fenberg, the proprietor of the new
Casino, standing on the broad veranda
9ave seen them before. They are
what you call new cloak models. Tn
Paris 1t was two 'manniquins' who
were hired to show the new gowns at
the Longchamps race course, and it is
the same here"
Inc three young women, wearing
immense plumed hats, paraded up and
down, and were joined by nartv
which arrived in an automobile and
mad dinner In the Casino.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26

NEW YORK.-The proprietors Of
~ New York natitoriums for women
exclusively have been getting the
money over here of late, and the
swimming instructors who give pri-
vate lessons in the swimming pools
of wealthy homes are getting rich.
The New York girls have got the
swimming bug. New York girls are
the observant ones, you see. Their
observation has taught them that the
seaside girl who knows how to swim
we'll and gracefully is invariably hit,
not to say knockout, with the trou.
sered element. There is something
in the makeup of the male biped that
causes him to hugely admire the girl
who knows how to swim.
Take notice of this, when you get
down to the beaches this summer, and
you will perceive that the swimming
girl who can dauntlessly breast the
breakers is always surrounded by q
bunch of admirers, even If she be a
girl several leagues removed from a
superior pulchritudinosity. Right close
to her you will see girls of the beauty
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26

NOW that the tide of European
~ travel is approaching it's food, the
usual number of complaints from trav-
elers as to the needless i'll treatment
they suffer from the inquisitorial
methods of American customs in
spectors are beginning to be heard.
Stories of enforced payment of duties
on articles of value purchased in the
United States which the owners have
neglected to register before leaving
the country are common, and are
matched by other stories of damage to
costly fabrics by rough handling of
their garments before the throngs on
the piers.
The greatest complaint is not against
the examination, tedious and vexatious
as it is, but against the manner in
which it is conducted and the atti-
tude of the inspectors, who treat everv
person as a probable smuggler until
he or she can prove the contrary. In
no other country in the world, it is
pointed out-not even in Russia-are
persons against whom there is no
ground for suspicion treated as thew
are by Uncle Sans representatives.
How much better they perform this
disagreeable task abroad is told in a
striking way by DR.. Henry c. Rowland
in his description of trip across
Europe by motor boat. On arriving at
Paris the writer and his companions
were approached by two polite Gus
toms representatives who asked II
the travellers carried any contraband.
On being assured that tho only ar.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
White House Kept Guessing by Joker

The wallet was said to contain doc
uments which, if made public, might
cause serious international complica-
tons. Later it was stated that pri-
vate executive papers of the president
were in the wallet. The ADVERTISE
ment gave Washington police, the Sc
cret service men and Secretary Loeb
a busy day, but later it was learned
that the missing papers consist of a
political puzzle which some Jealous
salesman expects to spring on the
public as soon as his mission is prop.
erly advertised.
The puzzle consists of a sort of a
pigs in the clover arrangement with
a picture of President Roosevelt in
the center. Two little balls, one la.
beled Bryan and one Taft. are easily
worked into the eyes. The puzzle is
to put a thirdterm ball in the open
mouth of the president.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26

EtI AM tired of Newport" So says
1 Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish. 1T is
dead, barren, spoiled. We are not
going there this summer. We shall
travel in Europe instead. What do we
find in Newport now? Climbers? Yes,
to be sure. Anybody who wants to get
into society-and has enough money
only has to go there for four or five
years and he or she will get into So
ciety. And they are just the people
who have spoiled Newport.
We find lot of people there who
think that money makes the lady or
the gentleman. We find them strug-
Cling to get into what we call society.
And they get into it, too, if they are
willing to take the snubs and the in
suits which are dealt out to them day
after day. I've seen plenty of it.
Nobody is more tired than I Of
these funny little people who think
themselves queens They're too ab-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26

| ONG BEACH may claim the dis
II tinction of being the scene of the
first parade of the sheath skirt" in
New York. Paris was first in all the
~orld-certainly, she always is-and
Chicago may have beaten us only by a
length or maybe couple of lengths,
but the real thing appeared on the
new boardwalk the other afternoon at
Long Beach and the camera fiends fol.
lowed in coveys
The new boardwalk, the widest and
prospectively the largest in the world,
was thronged from morning until late
in the evening, and it was here that
the redoubtable sheath skirts" made
their appearance.
A Mrs. Osborn, debating to an
Elinor Glyn, might aptly describe
these get-ups. This poor chronicler is
not of their sphere
There were three-one of gray, one
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26

Des Moines, Ia, has been governed
under new system since early in
April. The government is not divided
into legislative and executive branch
es, as is common in most American
cities. The executive and legislative
officers are the same. There are a
mayor and four councilmen, each of
whom is the head of an executive de-
partment. That which the mayor
controls is called the department of
public affairs. The mayor and council
men meet together as a legislature
and pass ordinances The Will of any
three prevails. The mayor receives
$500 year, and each of the council
men $4,000. 1t is maintained by the
supporters of the law that the salaries
are large enough to attract capable
citizens to Office While considerable
legislative power is vested in the
elected officers, they are kept from dis
regarding the popular will by a pro-
vision which compels them either to
pass any ordinance submitted to them
by petition signed by a certain pro-
portion of the voters, or to submit it
to the general public at special elec-
ton. A slightly different system of
city government has been in operation
In Texas in the cities of Galveston,
Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth,
where it is said public affairs are now
managed honestly, even if there has
been no gain in economy.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26

T. VERY one must agree that the SEN
Il ate amendment to the district ap-
preparation bill, by which the sum of
$500 approved by the house for play
grounds was increased to $4,000, is a
piece of wise legislation. The fathers
and mothers as we'll as the children
of Washington are interested in it
and there is greater need here for play
grounds than there is for a good many
other institutions with more dignifed
titles.
That "all work and no play makes
Jack dull boy is as true for children
now as it has ever been, must be con-
coded even by those who have forgot
ten the requirements and the joys of
their childhood. Play is not merely a
matter of pleasure for the children;
it is matter of health, and proper
play can only be INDUCED in upon
grounds or in places suitable for it.
The street is not the place for play.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26

IMMEDIATELY after the ending of
his term March next President
Roosevelt will start on an extend
ed hunting trip in British East
Africa. His second son, Kermit, now
In the preparatory school at Groton,
Mass, is to be his companion.
If the present plans are carried out
the trip will last fully year. When
the expedition starts it will be
equipped with all modern weapons for
killing elephants and other wild
beasts. Some preparations have al
ready been made
The president has told few friends
he looks forward to the trip with the
greatest pleasure The president
goes as much to study the African
wild animal as anything else He
wants to know the nature and habits
of the beasts in their homes.
Upon his return he will do consider
able writing.
Rumors that Mr.. Roosevelt was to
leave the country at the conclusion
of his term of Office have been print
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26


military which
Dreyfus
Col Picquarts
Lieut. the
Public France hed
a charge
dismiss he army.
and the of Picquar head the
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1908-06-26
Rather Reached Him.

James Huffnagle of Marble, Clarion
county, had close call from suffering
from an injection of rattlesnake venom
recently. He was fishing, and in fore
ing his way through a tangle Of grass,
felt something strike his leg. The
something" proved to be black rat
tlesnake over four feet long. The
snake had struck him just below the
right knee, but the mans heavy cordu-
roy trousers were wet and the snakes
fangs were not long enough to more
than cut through the cloth. They were
fastened in the trousers, however. Mr..
Huffnagle kicked the snake loose with
his left foot and trampled it to deai,a.
He then took a personal observation
Of damages done and found TWO
scratches on the calf of his leg, caused
by the "serpent's TOOTH" but not deep
enough to draw blood. He and his
ashing companion then made . search