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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-12-14
WEATHER FORECAST.
Published BY Authority of the Secre-
tary of Agriculture.
ISSUED at New Orleans.)

- ISSUED at New Orleans.)
For Palestine and vicinity:
Tonight fair weather Tuesday fair
weather and continued moderate TEN
perature.
Minimum temperature, 80.
Maximum temperature, sc.
G. Hass Hagen,
Official in Charge.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-12-14
Annual Meetind.

The annual meeting of the stock
Palestine, Texas, will be held at the
office of said bank on Tuesday, Jan
uary 18th, 1909. for the purpose of
electing n board of directors to serve
during the ensuing year.
w. NJ. Ash,
12-12-tf Cashier.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-12-14

Get your Fruit, Nuts and Candy at
The Palace. 3-12t
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-12-14

Jas. F. Brook, architect and engi-
gineer Room rs, Link Building. tt
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1908-12-14

Get the Habit-cook With Gas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
THE TRACKLIsss 7rRoILEY.

In view of the agitation and move
ments throughout the entire country
for good, or better, roads it is inter-
esting to give attention to the track
less trolley system. which has been ex-
plotted successfully in France and
which has been tried experimentally In
this country. It is now proposed to
operate a trackless trolley line from
Chattanooga to the top of Walden's
Ridge, Tennessee, a distance Of fifteen
miles.
In a superficial way the trackless
trolley construction is the same as the
present overhead construction, but the
parallel fails. There are no tracks, and
the trolley, wires are strung on poles
along each side of the highway. a
specially constructed wheel rides on
the top of the trolley wire, and conveys
the electric current to the motor Of
the vehicle by means of flexible wire.
The vehicle is steered and operated in
all respects like an electric automobile,
it's scope in the matter of variation
from a direct course being regulated by
the length OF the flexible metallic cord
and the character of the roadway
Ideally the cords would be of sufficient
length to admit of being swung to the
opposite trolley wires. and enabling the
vehicle to operate in the opposite di-
rection. The cars or coaches to be
used on the Tennessee line will carry
thirty passengers each
The idea of a trackless trolley can
not be said to be in the true sense new
or novel. It has been suggested often
that trolley wires would ultimately be
made available for supply energy for
hauling farm products to market over
country roads where trolley tracks
were undesirable. The recent exploita-
ton of the idea is more ambitious, but
the use of the trackless cars for pas
sengers transported would not initiate
against their use also as an adjunct to
agriculture and general interurban
commerce.
The obvious merit of a general use
of common source of electric energy
is the elimination Of monopoly and its
diversified benefits. BY extending a
loop of this type of trolley wires to
farm premises-which would be clearly
feasible-the value of the service to
agriculture would be greatly augment
ed. 1t is by no means likely that the
trackless trolley for general use will
Immediately come into vogue but its
adoption under special conditions, in a
limited way, would not cause surprise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
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fair.
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to did, I will wroten you few lines.
Hafing holdings else to said, will
clothes, hoping dis will found you
der same. HANS
P. Son seggond guess. hal
seferal tings to said ad you. Fer in
stances: We are slowly recofering
from a stats fair. Id vas fair to
medium. Der performance uf der
races horses vas fair, but der pair
formances uf der management UT
der uffair vas unfair. Hoping dis
will find you der same. HANS
p. S. vonce again. You remember.
Looie. 1 hat warned you agensd you
ell vayss on seferal occasions. Fear
ing dot you hat forgetted vot / toidt
you, will gate you anoder bunch to
Wit; voteffer you do, keep your
alabino NIT you. Der alabino is Won
uf der greadest institooshunss uf dis
free coundry. Fer a legal power. Id
hat der writ uf egsecutioning, der de-
vorce und der writ uf injunction
skinned a block. Der alabino ISIS not
only a labor safer, but frequently
hide-safer. Long lif der alabfno. Id
hat safed my cuticura on seferal oc-
casionings. Berhaps you hat Noticed.
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suits-cases. Uf course you thinked
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
A SATURDAY SERMON.
For the wages of sin is death. Romans
y.;23.

Stanford White achieved fame as
one of the foremost architects OF
America and the world. Some of the
creations of his brain are masterpieces
of beauty. He lies in grave. And he
came to it under circumstances that
make even his own family reluctant to
have his name mentioned
Harry Kendall Thaw is just entering
on the prime of life. He was born with
a spoon of gold in his mouth and was
given every advantage that money and
indulgent parents could bestow upon d
child. He is in an insane asylum,
which is really a worse fate than
death. To get himself sent there was
his only alternative to going to the
electric. chair as the murderer of
Stanford White.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw was born with
a rare beauty and might have made an
enviable name for herself on the stage,
her chosen profession. She is now in a
sanitarium a physical, and probably a
moral wreck. And she is living on the
charity of friends. She was the direct
cause of the murder Of Stanford
White and the incarceration of his
murderer, her husband, in a lunatic
asylum.
Old as humanity itself is the moral
of this tale, and yet it is one that never
seems to grow old. In every genera
ton there are those, and many of them,
who will not learn it,-who will not
even think of it until it is too late.
The lesson of it all is plain and clear
before everyone every day. But 1t
needs ever to be reiterated and en-
forced upon the minds OF the young.
And it needs ever to be taken to heart
by the young and old alike.
1t is far better to be decent and to
obey the laws Of man and God. no
matter how pleasant it may be for the
time being to tamper with ir.decency.
AS sure as the sun rises and sets just
so sure does the primrose path lead
straight and swift to perdition, and the
wages of. sin is death
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
THROUGH DUTCH EYES.

DIR. Frederick Van Eeden, Hollands
leading poet, novelist and social re-
former. has been spending a month in
this country and is coming back in the
fall to deliver a course of lectures. The
Independent thought that even his
hasty Impressions of America would
be worth while.
DIR. Van Eeden's month in the Unit
ed States was passed in New York
and vicinity, and in Washington.
Strange as it may appear he considers
New York far more beautiful than
Washington. He says that New York
is naively. unintentionally and mag
nihcently beautiful. with it's broad yell
lowish gray rivers sparkling in the
sun, its curious conglomerate of square
brick piles, delicately red and cream
white, its white panaches of steam
waited out and dissolving into the
clear. blue. transparent sky" The i'm
preston left on him by New York is
that of sincerity; the impression of
strong, vigorous life and character,
the healthy style of straight necessity. -
Washington seemed to him to be ar
tihcial. 1t was trying to be beautiful
and failed to represent 1.-THE American
Athens. not because It had the strong
sense of beauty in it which it had to
make plastic and enduring, but simply
out of ambition
Getting away from the concrete con-
trast of the two cities. DR.. Van Eeden
wonder why it is that America is $50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison Globe.J
What some men enjoy would cause
others to commit suicide.
Parents and turkeys are always
treated well before Christmas.
1t is as natural for boy to have
dirty hands as 1t is for cat to have
fits.
Many people would be more truth
full, but for their uncomfortable de-
sire to talk.
1t always makes some peoples fin
gers tremble to hear a child talk i'm
pudently to its parents.
The average country woman is all
ways as Disguised with the showing
of new millinery as the men are.
If woman's husband thinks she is
good looking, the whole world thinks
SO, so far as she should care or know.
1t always makes a daughter mad to
hear daughter-in-law speak for
the future possession of some family
heirloom.
When a man wants to work" a
newspaper reporter, he begins by tell
ing him how many years he has been
taking the paper.
When a politician says that he will
never let up in his campaign until the
country is redeemed, he means until
he is elected.
When you are in love. don't tell
your adored one you are not worthy
of her Cor him. She Cor heb may re-
member it after you are married, and
throw it UP to you.
Every young married couple has
set of nut crackers and nut picks. The
people who have been married as long
as ten years have no other way OF
cracking nuts than by using Ratchet.
1t is said that the domestic unhap-
piness of an Atchison couple dates to
the fact that when they started out on
their wedding trip, the bride took
couple of books along to read on the
train.
An Atchison girl has figured 1t out
that when a young man wants to kiss
her the first time he calls, he does
not mean business, and she always
gives him the rnitten, in order to give
rome one else a chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

Pittsburg makes a bid for first place
as the numismatic center or Kansas.
In its midst now are two or the an
cient twenty-five cent gold pieces =
Jewell City has not yet seen a d.
rectoire gown, and the Republican
says: 1.-The only thing in this county
that goes around on one leg is a milk
stool"
The Newton journal paused on It's
| twenty ninth birthday, September 4,
and took a long look back over the
dim and misty past, which, it is
regrets.
TITS going to be all right to cam
paign in an automobile" says John
KiIle, of the Harper Sentinel. THE
farmers are all buying them now, and
they are getting SO popular that they
are really not considered a luxury any
longer"
The Stafford Republican remarks
that every farmer who owns land is
making an effort to secure more, but
that there is very little land to be
bought. This it adds, sis going to
force the farmer folks to put their
surplus in the banks for want OF
knowledge as to where to invest it
properly
An explanation of the Typographical
error in the Minneapolis setter Way
says: 1.-THE copy looked plain enough
ana II surely QlQ SpSdh VI Inc
blushing bride, but when it appeared
in cold type it was the dirty. buster
ing bride Already seven Of her rela-
tives have stopped the paper and the
husband is laying for the editor. Now
why should the editor be made to suf-
fer for little thing like that? This
is indeed q cold, cold world"
A new style of fakir worked Good
| land the other day for about $50. He
had a kind of three-legged stool and
was taking views of the business
houses, exterior and interior. He
cloth over his head, press a button
and collect half the fee, the other halt
to be paid when the picture was re-
| turned from the house fully finished
and developed. After waiting some
| time a victim investigated and found
| that the town had been ''stung," as the
fake had nothing but three-prongeo
stick and a cloth to throw over his
head. They have never learned what
| he used for a button.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
'sStrong as an OK

In the choice of motive power, al
low me to suggest the OK. The horse
leans forward to pull, and even helps
himself along by bobbing his head; he
jerks load out of hard place by
plunging bodily against the collar,
stopping, and lunging again; he
strains through hard place and then
starts suddenly forward at his release;
he works himself into lather, and
you, if you are the right kind of a per-
son. cannot help feeling for him and
assisting him with inward stress and
strain.
The OK does not bob a horn. He
simply journeys and the load goes
along. When he comes to a tough
place his pasterns do not bend down /;
he does not squat to pull; he does not
pinch along on the toes of his shoes;
he seldom blows. and he does not
know how to sweat ta- .-f.as'F'
There is much about him besides
his disposition that is self-contained;
he is the antithesis of the automobile.
To ride on his back is a cure for the
indigestion; to ride behind him is rest
for the mind; a course of OK is an an
tidote for the ills of the times
Charles D. Stewart in the Atlantic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

terribly unoriginal." 1t seemed to him
that in the striving of the people of
this country for beauty they are al
ways Initiating. following, aping and
mimicking'' Europe. But there is one
thing he thinks, in which America
might we'll initiate the Old World, that
is. in respect for nature. The most
painful remembrance DR.. Van Eeden
carried away with him was the way
in which the charm OF out-of-doors
was brutaIly disregarded in this coun-
try He had always thought that Hol-
land was bad enough in this respect.
but Holland is. to his mind. model
compared with America In visiting
the -environs Of New York he found
that nature in the wild is treated with
the same regard as is "a common back
yard in an over-populated slum." All
sorts of refuse was thrown out quite
indiscriminately and without regard to
destruction wrought to flower and
plant life. not to speak of the burn
ing of underwood everywhere. DR.: Van
Eeden compared this with one par
ticular. spot of which he is fond, the
Island of Guernsey in the English
(AAdt1ACtt WACAC II WA0A4 bC 4Ae-A oAJ
possible to find a rubbish heap on the
whole island. ssS-.5
Turning to the things which most
attracted him In America, DR.. Van
Eeden says that first of all comes its
| intense activity. America appears to
his eye as the land of life. of move
ment, of hope" That, to DR.. Van
Eeden, is the best thing of all. The
most dreadful of all curses is despon-
dency. sloth, indifference. and pes
simism. Hence, minor defects of the
outward can, after all. count but little
when one appreciates the inward spirit
OF America, for that is bound to evolve,
make over and remove blemishes and
to create ideals. Certainly this is the
kindest possible judgment for a man
who feels our defects as strongly as
does DIR. Van Eeden.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
THn MopERN ExrnRER.

Young Greeley Nansen Peary Smith would
an explorer be.
And longed to- plunge into the life far
north of fifty-three;''
but first I've got to have the COIN" says
Greeley Smith, says he.
So he organized a company. with name
- grand and absurd,
And boosted by Smiths eloQuence. the
stock scared like q bird,
And some of it was common stock and
some Of 1t preferred.
A factory was built. to make Smiths pat
ent polar boats,
To turn out breakfast pemmican and
Smiths nonfreezing oats,
And Sr1ith's far northern shaving soap
the kind that always floats.
What's that you say? Has Smith e'er
FOUND that cold and distant goal?
And what Of his exploring trip?-why,
really, bless your soul.
Smiths far too busy making dough to go
and hunt the polei
Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
[From the chicago News. ]

=
Good wishes also come home to roost.
Unreal pleasures of life are the most
expensive.
Many a mans strong breath is due to
his weak backbone.
1t is almost as easy to find trouble as
it is to make excuses.
Every man has a different explana-
ton for his failure to make good.
When an heiress marries a title that
is about all she gets for her money.
A woman Is always looking for q
change-either OF dress or complexion.
A statesman is a politician who can
keep his face closed at the right time.
When two or more women get to-
getler one Of the things you don't hear
is silence. =
Many slow man develops into 6
Splinter when he has a chance to run
into debt. -.
Everything in. the world was created
for some purpose. The old bachelor
keeps spinsters hopeful
Anyway, the average woman knows
as much about politics as the average
man does about feeding baby.
The man who grumbles at the heat
does a lot OF kicking when the mercury
goes into winter quarters.
Big peaches are at the top of the
crate because they were picked last
and had more time to grow. That's the
explanation.
No man is perfect, yet almost every
girl fools herself into believing that at
least one young man Of her acquaint-
ance is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
QUAKER MEDTTATIoNs.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record

rFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
There's a fall opening in oysters.
Likewise a slump In the Ice cream
soda market.
Nelr-"Jack is a perfect bear" Belle
HAS he been trying to hug you
too?"
The trouble with the easy-going fell
low is that he doesn't always know
when to stop.
The old maid consoles herself with
the thought that it's a mistake to
marry too young
The doctor may be able to cure him
self which is more than can be said
of the political heller
When a fellow tells girl he Is ur1-
worthy of her he is very much sur
prised If she agrees with him.
Love is a tonic" quoted the Wise
CIV. yes" assented the Simple Mug,
sit intoxicates some men and sobers
others up"
'see here" exclaimed the. thirsty
man at the soda water fountain.
there's a piece of fly paper In my
soda" well, didn't you ask for a
stick In it?' demanded the mixologist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

morning. idly dreaming Of dream
gone wrong. his telephone bell rang
was Edith Hamilton at the other
eno or the wire. She asked him in
most unsteady voice. to CONE , o,,a az
mat evening-that she had some sort
OF an explanation to make. Sharniv
at O'Clock Scott was in the tirawinsr
room; AS she entered the room her
lace pore sad expression, yet withal
sue e.Y MAS radlantly beautiful to Earle.
Little girl" Scott almost whis-
pered, as she came toward him. she
seemed sanity being, far bevonfi
ms reach: Il love you-you know
that. don't your" '0"
Yes. Earle. believe you do. she
uttered as she sank into a chair near
him. THAT is why 1 sent for von
Something seemed to tell it to me af-
Ter you left. want TO tell Won some
tning. The day met you on the
per l wanted to escape your father
peIore he came on shore. We had
joked about my marrying his SON.
and when the time came when musf
actually face you, hurried away to
escape the meeting"
And thought you were running
away from the customs officials, !"
We'll. in part I was. You see. 7
brought over a lot of real lace and
smuggled it in. had sewn yards
and yards of it on a cheap petticoat
which I-had on at the time"
For a moment they both laughed
heartily. then again the serious ex-
preston came back into Edith's face.
1T was all started in Joke" she
continued. But when 1 had actual
ly met you and" here her voice
dropped almost to a whisper-"and
loved you, I was so afraid that YOU
were asking me just to release your
DO I look like such a mollvcod-
die p asked Earle as he drew closer
to her.
well, that was why said mo, las,
night Then I couldn't sleep for the
very joy of thinking that perhaps
perhaps you really did love me fol
| myself alone-do you, Earle ?"
For answer Earle took her in hi:
arms
You're a deceitful little wretch. ;
he leased, "but I love you, and fol
| yourself alone-better than life itsel
and you must know it,"
"Oh, dear, I'm SO happy she muir.
INJURED, as she nestled closer to him
And Earle it's early. and Uncle Johr
| mas gone over to play whist will
your father. Let's run over and sur
prise them. I'm sure Uncle John will
| be so glad to be rid of me-and you
| father-well--'
will be SO happy to find that hi
matrimonial importation has prove,
acceptable" finished Earle.-Copy
rlghted, 1908, by Associated Literar.
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's quite appropriate to play religious
pieces on an upright piano.
y X
Wisdom teeth are by no means the
last teeth a person gets. How about
the false ones?
y y,
From the way they whistle tunes It
may be taken for granted that most
men dislike music.
X \
Time is wasted IN many ways but
the most useless waste of 1t is for a
man to argue with his wife.
X
Men who get their legs pulled by
each and every member of their faml-
lies. ought to be thankful that they
are not centipedes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

That the people of this vicinity and
the surroundings erfitbry will. turn out
en- masse for a real fair has been dem
onstrated by the unusual attendance
at the fair grounds on Thursday after
noon and the generally large attend
ance on all Of the other days of the
fair. This makes it apparent that q
state fair will become self-supporting
in time and that Topeka is the place
for It to be located
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
.tFrom de New YORK Press.l

sEFrom the New York Press.]
The average man isn't half as
ashamed of going to jail as to a church
picnic.
What a woman wants her husband
to do every once in while is to quit
loving her and make love to her.
Nobody could estimate how many
times widow would have had to be
married to get oyer being so innocent
about men,
A man thinks he has fine business
Judgment when he guesses stocks are
going up, and they do, unless he
bought them.
When you hear people talking so
loud that everybody in the block can
hear them, it's sign they are telling
what they saw in Europe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

with the advent OF Sam Gompers and
few others into the congressional
. campaign in the Eighteenth Illinois dis
trfct with the avowed purpose of at
tachtng the scalp of ''uncle Joe Can
non to their belts that old war horse
Of Republicanism has started out on the
warpath on his own account and from
the speeches he is making it is ex-
ceedingly evident that he's quite capa-
, bic of taking, care of himself. The
greater the opposition to him, the
stronger he seems to loom up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

Professor A. NJ TenEyck of the State
Agricultural college. is taking steps to
interest the farmers Of the state in the
National Corn Exposition which is to
be held at OMAHA Neb,, in December.
His efforts should be rewarded by a big
display of Kansas corn at this EXPOSE
ton. There's no reason why Kansas
should not take front seat at this
great show. Certainly Kansas grows
the corn that could take the first prizes
. any place that 1t might be exhibited.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

Hoyman Lazarus, a local Judge OF
Bayonee. N. J.. where there is quite a
colony of Italians, has decidedly or
igiRal idea of minimizing fatal results
to the fights which the Italians are
always indulging in. He would have
Ne city establish gymnasiums and
boxing schools for the Italians where
they can develop their muscles and
learn to fight in the American fashion
Thus when they get into an alteration
they will use their fists instead OF
knives and guns as is now their won't
If such schools are established the re-
suits Of Judge Lazarus experiment will
be watched with interest.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-12

Levy Ankeny has lost in the pri-
maries just held in the state of Wash
ington in his contest for the Republi-
can denomination to the Office of Uni
ted States senator. This adds some
more strong evidence to the usefulness
of state wide primaries in giving a
much needed change to the complex
lon Of the United States senate. They
seem to be the one means available by
which this desirable end can be brought
about and all the states in the Union
should get in line and put primaries of
this sort into. practice.