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Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31
BROWNELL HALL

UOUIv&A& buHt&@
Under the combined Influence OF serious
work, Christian courtesy, and youthful
merry-making the students OF this Board
ing and Day school for young women and
dris grow into a happy Appreciation Of the
beauty and dignity OF wholesome, social re-
lationsiips, Students holding certificates
COVERING in full tho entrance requirements
u q standRrd state university arc admitted
without Examination TO junior year OF coli
legiate course. Certificate In college-pre-
nsratorv course admits to Vassar, Welles-
ley, smith. Mount Holyoke, University OF
Nebraska, University of WISCONSIN and
University of Chicago. Exceptional advan-
tages in music, art end domestic science.
Well equipped gymnasium. and OUTDOOR
FOR illustrated Yearbook address Miss
Macras. principal Omaha.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-08-31

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23
HYHlWKER EOTS

Among the crops that Ford county il
boasting of is the 2,749 children of
school age within her borders.
Salina is now hollering for football
team. Evidently her experience in
baseball this summer was not quite
sufficient.
One advantage of the Country club
that it will not have far to go, says
Charlie Blakesley.
The old fashioned rowdy who con-
strued 1t as an insult If a man re-
fused to drink with him. appeared in
Concordia last week, and was fined $50.
Abilene has Joined Emporia in the
cry for membership in some good base
ball league. Central Kansas towns all
seem to be looking for a chance to
spend their surplus coin.
A case of the ruling passion strong
in death" appeared in Saline county
last week, where Nathaniel Wilson, the
central Kansas checker champion,
played a game thirty minutes before
his death.
The editor of the Lindsborg News,
after sizing up the situation carefully,
gives it out as her conviction that the
girl who stays at home and washes thu
dishes is the one who gets the desirable
young man.
Many of the papers in the state are
questioning the veracity of a story in
the Salina Union to the effect that a
rooster recently swan across the
Smoky Hill river. Stranger things
than that have happened but they are
not many, to be sure.9ff ret4.fs't ..r4
At Ell Dorado the other morning the
white flag hung from the weather bu-
reau, all wet and f1abby and soaked. A
white flag means dry weather. Bent
Murdoch apologized promptly by say
inc hof 70 OF flag had hP1n
hung out the night before, but the rain
washed all the color out of it. -
The installing of natural gas in the
furnaces in the homes at Lawrence has
thrown many students out of employ
ment, according to the university en-
ployment bureau Many students made
a little money by caring for furnaces
when coal was used as fuel who are
now in the ranks of the unemployed.
Emporia should think of this before 1t
has natural gas piped to the town, sug-
gests the Wichita Eagle.
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DUSTLESS ROADS

The automobile is forcing the COM
ing of the dustless road. 1t is max
ing the nuisance of dust on unwatered
and unpaved highways, in the dry
weather of an American summer. so
great an evil that it cannot long be
endured. There will have to be cure
for the dust or else the dislike of au-
tomobiles which is still common in
the country. will grow into more act
i've hostility.
As it is, many farmers find their
homes half spoiled in the pleasantest
part of the year by the clouds of dust
set in motion by the swift and mas
sive motorcars which pass their doors.
Windows cannot be opened without
filling the best rooms in the houses
with dust. Furniture is begrimed and
the air of bedrooms is made thick when
it ought to be clean and pure. Driv-
ing for business or pleasure along dust
choked roads is made burdensome for
man and beaste in some much-used
automobile thoroughfares. The mot
orears and their occupants suffer with
the rest They get a large share of
the dust nuisance.-Cleveland Leader.
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her eyes. "If I'd known this was only
fake burglar show I wouldn't have
stirred step. When I saw Mr.. Mon,
teith spreading out his arms so dra-
matically'' (the girl gave a capital imi-
tation of the gesture) lover somebody,
1 thought it must be another wedding
ceremony for sure. and 1 came out to
join in the procession"
There was a general laugh, at the
expense of Elsie and Robert, but the lat
ter was undaunted.
That gives me a perfectly great
idea" he exclaimed jubilently. Il here
with invite you all to an impromptu
wedding. You can all be rehearsing
while I run across the street and rouse
up the minister. What do you say,
Elsie blushed. blinked and protested.
You're absolutely crazy, Rob. Be-
sides, I'm too sleepy" she pleaded. II
couldn't keep awake during the cere-
mony but she added graciously, ''the
invitations are just postponed; we'll
ask you all again at some more proper
time"
Hear. heart" they all cried enthusi-
astically, and 'hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!"
after which most unreasonable demon
stration the big house put out its lights
once more and settled down to sleep
copyrighted, 1908, by Associated Liter
airy Press.1
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QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record. ]

[From the Philadelphia Record.l
1t is perhaps better to be a spend
thrift than a lendthrift.
Many a girl will knit her brows who
wouldn't darn a stocking.
Most of us try to forget the mean
things we know about ourselves.
Enough is as good as a feast, but
the average man wants a surplus.
Clothes don't make the man. Many
baggy trousers.
Don't judge by appearances. The
man who wears a diamond pin may
sometimes be really wealthy.
Fear isn't the only thing that will
make a woman change color, as wit
ness the seashore tan wearing off.
The only man who really loves his
enemy as he loves himself is the fell
low who is his own worst enemy.
Blobbs-"Guzzler is on a terra
Gotta bust" Slobbs-" Elucidate. -
Blobbs-"He's painting the town red. +"
Nell-"The women of the Fiji ISL
ands don't wear any clothes" Belle
"Graciousi I wonder what they have
to talk about"
Just because an artists father ham
pens to be a dentist it doesn't neees-
sarily follow that he inherited his tall
ent for drawing.
Wigg-"Do you think the weather
affects a watch?". Wagg-'I know
the seasons do. For instance, a spring
is much better for watch than a
fall"
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OILING THE ROADS.

One of the greatest and most serious
complaints against the automobile is
it's tendency to destroy roads by tear
ing up the surface and scattering it in
the form of dust to the annoyance of
all travellers and the homes it passes
along the highways. AS a protection
to the roads and to allay the dust evil,
oil is being used more and more in
many states in rural and suburban dis
tricts. While there are, of course, some
objections to it on the score of the
odor, what some people consider the
uncleanliness and other grounds, there
can be no doubt to it's virtues as
dust conqueror, and other claims are
made for 1t. California, especially, has
been making some exhaustive tests,
and reports from there seem to indi-
cate that practically all the objec-
tions to both oil and tar, rightly ap-
piled, have been overcome. Oil is also
extensively used on roads in some of
| the New England states and in New
York, and the opposition to 1t is grad
ually disappearing. There seems every
probability that oil will figure more
and more right along in road building
| and in road mending in sections where
oil can be secured cheaply, and though
it can be looked to no more than any
other material as solving all problems
connected with the creation and main
tenance of good roads there seems no
doubt that it will help some.''
Mr.. Malone. the attorney general of
| Massachusetts. recently passed upon a
question raised and submitted to him
officially, as to the liability of cities,
towns, districts. counties or even the
| state for injury or damage to persons
or property resulting from the use of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23
GLOBE SIGHTS
LFrom the Atchison Globe.l


There are more kinds of shiftlessness
than there are kinds of religion.
1t is terribly hard to pursue such a
course that it pleases both an old and
a young person.
Not one man in hundred has sense
enough to take care of money after
he gets it,
AS a rule, people do not think as
much of their ancestors as they think
of their heirloomS.
An Atchison man who has always
been clamoring for people to patron
lie home industry, married a girl in
the east.
What has become of the old fash
iorred man who caught the children
and bearded" them by rubbing his
face over theirs?
You will often find a mother who
thinks the baby loves her more than
1t loves it's father, because it cries to
go to her when it is hungry.
Every day when we are at work we
think we will have a good paper in
the evening, but when it appears we
wonder what all of US have been doing
all day.
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oil and tar for the purpose of keeping
the dust down, on the groundathat We
hicles and the clothing of riders ana
pedestrians, would be liable to be soil
ed, and that the sufferers would be IL
able to look to the authorities for re-
compense. 1t can easily be seen that
were this idea to be sustained the
number of claims, and the amount OF
money that would be likely to be IN
volved. would be almost beyond limit.
Mr.. Malone, however, holds that no
such suits for damages would lie. and
that such claims would not or should
not be recognized by the courts. HIS
argument is that it is within the pro
vince of the community to make good
roads, and in doing so it is perfectly
proper to use such material as is shown
to be of value. Damage resulting from
the use of any legitimate material
would give no more right to recover
than the scattering of persons cloth
ing with mud from a passing vehicle,
provided of course, all concerned are
within their legal rights.
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DEAD LAWS

Indebtedness is due to the excitemen~
over the big Catholic parade in London
recently, for a suggestion which may
prove Illuminating. 1t comes from
Scranton, Pa, by way OF a New York
newspaper. The futile effort to invoke
an ancient British law which is mani
testify a dead letter for the purpose of
stopping the parade suggests to this
correspondent the need of some posi-
tive appliance for keeping the statute
books clear Of obsolete rubbish. To his
mind the remedy Is simple-namely, a
time limit attachment to every statute.
placed there at the time of it's passage.
He suggests twenty-one years, as ap-
proximating to the length of a genera
tion. and adds some superfuous in
stances of the will of a living people
curbed by the will Of dead law
The discovery of the need is certainly
not original. 1t is not even certain
that the suggested remedy is new,
though perhaps few have had the cour-
age to make it so boldly. However,
why not a time limit? OF the making
of many laws, like of the making of
books, there is no end. Every two
years in this state and sometimes more
often as the whim of the governor die
tates, body of men meets here in To-
peka filled with a great zeal to pass
laws. AS they generally succeed in
adding some hundreds for every one
they repeal, the plain effect must be a
congestion ultimately serious.
Now 1t is readily admitted that laws
are valuable only as they are supported
by majority Of public sentiment. AS
each new generation has character
istics markedly different from that
which it succeeds laws not broadly
general in character can hardly be ac-
ceptable to any generation save that
for which they are passed. The sug-
gestion of a generation time limit
would seem appropriate. But perhaps
| this is not sufficient. Is it not estab
nshed that the human body is renewed
throughout once in seven or eight
years? Should not the laws need re-
newing at least as often? Some ar
rangement for an automatic burial for
those which have had their brief
day and ceased to be of popular force
cannot be otherwise than a matter OF
decent disposal of the remains
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23
CHICAGO AND PRECEDENT.

And now it is reported that Chicago
is violently agitated over the question
whether Henry VIII was divorced. 1t is
somewhat difficult to determine just
what is meant when an entire city is
committed to an eruption of this kind.
or to anything else, for that matter.
There are many men of many minds
and many occupations or interests
Doubtless Chicago has several thou
sand inhabitants who never heard of
Henry VIII. He was not even distant
ly related to the Marshall Fields or the
Potter Palmers or Leslie Carriers, or
Franklin MacVeaghs.
However it would appear that there
are residents in Chicago who are look
ing UP the record Of Henry VIII with
some definite purpose in view, though
what that purpose may be is not
easily OWNED. 1t may be that Chicago
is searching for precedent where di-
vorces are concerned. In common with
other settlements she has considerable
precedent, of course, but possibly she
wants more of it. Some emergency
may have arisen on the lake front,
some sudden and unexpected domestic
estrangement in very peculiar circum-
stances. But, assuming that to be
true. it may be questioned If 1t is worth
while to go back to Henry VIII and
his habit OF life for guidance and in
struction.
The world has had an opportunity to
improve, surely since his day and
there were several monarchs before
him and after him whose example
could be initiated to better advantage
in case Chicago learns that he was di
vorced, though it might be regarded as
commendable in him to take the pains to
secure a divorce. Chicago should have
been taught by this time that unless
the provocation is extreme divorces are
to be avoided. The divorce evil is
menace - society and Chicago is moth
ing if not strong on society.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Men are like mosquitoes in that they
are easier to catch after a full meal.
X X X
Some people are deep enough to
plead poverty just for the impression
it will create.
When a bride goes to cooking
school her husband attends an eating
school perforce.
X y
The number of men who can not
tell what they can do even after they
have tried is legion.
X X
Many of the Americans who have
enjoyed the honor of being presented
to court have been introduced to it by
the grand jury.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.1
Many an ugly man has a handsome
mug in a barber shop.
1t is easy to prevent failure; all one
has to do is refrain from trying.
A man would rather give himself
away than be sold by a woman.
A man and his wife may be one, but
it is necessary to provide for two.
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
if he doesn't try to make a touch
The more a man talks the less he
can be depended on to deliver the
goods.
A blind man in Ohio, after drinking
a pint of whisky, claims to have seen
things.
After a woman has talked about SO
long her husband is anxious to turn
off the gas.
A bachelor may be independently
rich, but rich married man is never
Independent.
Many a man imagines he's done
something for the church when he
buys a cushion for his pew
One trouble with the man who
starts out to kill time is that he kills
lot of time belonging to busy people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23
Is No Perfect Human Ear.

Scientists, editors of Sunday supple
ments, and others are now worrying
themselves over the human ear. 1t q;
asserted that no person living has a
perfect ear.
On this subject it is said that Emma
Eames has the most classical ear of
any woman before the public eye. But
even the ear of the charming Emma,
the experts say, is away out. 1t leans
too far back; it is too nearly on the
horizontal to be perfect.
The Princess Chimay was touted as
the most perfect specimen of Ameri-
can beauty, but her ear was declared
by experts who are studying earology
to have been almost a deformity.
So if your wife's or your sweet
hearts ear does not look just right to
you, do not try to get a divorce or a
release on that account. You may
go further to fare worse. and these
experts tell us that in all the world
YOU will not find perfect human
ear-New York Telegraph.
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Roosevelt

President Roosevelt has surely
done one thing by making public Mr..
Taft's letter of more than a year ago
to the effect that the Republican can
didate would not think of allowing
his name to be coupled with Senator
Foraker's in the interest of harmony
in Ohio. He has cut out a pretty
tough proposition for Mr.. Taft in the
way of reconciling his attitude then
and his more recent one of healing
the breach with Foraker. On this
latter occasion Mr.. Taft went so far
as to say that he and Mr.. Foraker.
despite the apparent efforts of others
TO the contrary, had always been the
best of friends
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23

Mr.. Taft is doing his best to
popularize the word "ancillary." He
uses it on every possible occasion and
makes it At in pretty we'll for such
an unwield1y word as it is. And it
apparently adds dignity and strength
to the other words around it not
withstanding the fact that it is de-
rived from the Latin "ancillaris,' -
with a literal meaning of female SER
want. But it does not follow that
when Mr.. Taft speaks of an "ancillary
committee" to the national COM
mittee he means a committee of lady
helpers.
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and reasonable administration of the
barrel stave on belligerent youngsters.
And this recalls the exceeding good
sense conveyed in the old saw: spare
the rod and spoil the child" But on
the other hand there are many and
varied efficacious ways of bringing a
child to time without beating it. Still.
little strap oil judiciously applied
will work wonders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23

It's extremely gratifying to learn
that Mr.. Bonaparte. the national at
torney general, has had the inclina-
lions to put some trust magnate be-
hind the bars. But it's quite evident
that thisgood intention will continue to
avail nothing and eventually take its
place in that locality where the streets
are paved with them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23

In addition to the others which have
already been given another hearty
three cheers is hereby proposed for
Dick Cooley and his sturdy band of
clever ball players. Topekans, whether
they be ardent baseball fans or not,
are proud that one more Western as
ISOLATION pennant is dangling at the
belt OF the home team and their home
coming should be made a memorable
and pleasurable occasion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23

New York newspapers are narrating
IN detail several plans that Evelyn
Nesbit Thaw may have for the imme-
date future. It is to be sincerely
hoped that there is nothing to the re-
port that she is about to write his
tory Of her life
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Rat Shares Watchman's Tobacco.

a gray-bearded wharf rat at the
Aiken lumber yard, Perth Amboy, N.
j., chews tobacco like any old
bo'swain.
Ed Tompson, Waterman at the
ward. uses a plug that reeks with
licorice and molasses. Tompson left
his plug to dry in the sun on pile
of boards one day; he saw the rat
take a good chew of the tobacco. AT
ter that Tompson, who is not selfish,
and who is lonesome at the yard, left
a chew of tobacco for the rat every
dav and they became fast friends
Now the rat has the habit and comes
to, the Waterman for its chew.
Tompson declares the rat does not
swallow the tobacco, but chewS 1t
like any human and seemingly great
" enjoys the fiavor.-New York
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23
PENNSYLVANIA Giant Pine.

A giant white pine tree was cut in
Cameron county which produced the
following number and length or logs:
Twelve 16-foot logs, two 14-foot logs,
eight 12-foot logs, three 10-foot logs
and six S-foot logs. and the whole
bunch scaled the magnificent total
of 10000 feet board measure. The
butt log measured so inches, or feet
in diameter at the small end. The
tree was not 394 feet high, as it
would seem from the figures, but had
two forks and three branches of i'm
mense size, hence the large number
of logs. The tree was cut down dur
ing the deepest snow of the last win
ter, and hence 1t was not mucn
broken. because the snow deadened
the fali.-Ridgway Daily Record.
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REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
From the New YORK Press1

IT IOIII lIIt 4N6W IOIK HTeSS.
A good way to get girl to marry
you is not to be able to support her.
The only thing needed to mark a
man as bore is for him to have good
sense.
A woman has such imagination she
can tell by the way a man has his hair
cut that he admires her.
There's hardly any way a man can
fatter a woman more than to tell her
she doesn't seem to eat as much as
bird.
NO matter how many times va,,
kiss somebody else's sister it ALWAYS
tastes different, and no matter how
few times your own sister always the
same.
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Mr.. Hartman continues to remark
that it won't make any particular diff
ference whether Mr.. Taft or Mr..
Bryan is elected. But it is noticed
that his friends in Wall street seem
to be worrying a good deal about the
outcome as is evidenced by the erratic
actions of the stock market.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23

The woman's suffrage cause may
now be said to be on "easy street" in
a financial way. Mrs. Clarence H.
Mackay, of New York, has enlisted to
night actively under It's banner and
Mrs. Mackay's husband is many, many
times a millionaire
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23

From all accounts of the political
conditions throughout the country 1t
Is reasonable to conclude that about
the greatest foe the Republicans have
to contend with is "overconhdence."
And It is not so many years ago that
this same foe was responsible for a
Republican defeat in a national cam
paign.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23

Evidently the New York Mail is do
ing its best to inject the money ques-
ton in one Of its phases into the
campaign. It naively inquiries: "Does
anybody know whether the motto has
been put back on the coins?" Ignor-
ance on this burning question will
have to be confessed in these parts.
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Ten Stick Island.

In the Southwest Bay, in the New
Hebrides group, there is q small
wooded island of considerable helght
above the sea, although only Few
hundred yards in circumference. The
story of it's acquisition is a curious
one. Southwest Bay used to be con-
sidered a good place for target prac-
tice by the British men-of-war on
patrol duty there, and this small islet
was used as target so frequently
that it seemed in danger of being
gradually shot away. The chief who
owned it protested and wanted COM
pensation. The captain of man-of-
war. who understood the natives.
knew that these claims would
be a ceaseless source of black
mail unless they were settled once
for all; so he bought the island for
the British crown, paying 10 sticks OF
tobacco for it, and every one was sat
isfied. The place since then has been
known as 'NTen Stick Island--Lon-
don Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-23

Pioneer Kansans are In a position to
extend some real sympathy to the
Pennsylvanians who are in the throes
Of an actual drouth. And 1t may be
said IN passing that floods are quite
bad enough but drouths are consider
abiv yvorSe