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Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02
IvAJrHoE BLACK DIES.
(From Sundays Daily)

Ns'" '"hH"f DaiilJ
 News reached here yesterday from Los Angeles of the death in that city few days ago of Ivanhoe Black, a former resident of this city. Prior to year and half ago, he was connect ed with the mercantile establishment of k. II. Burmister and Sons Company here for two years. He left with Will liam Bond and engaged in the mercan- tile business with him in Long Beacn, California, under the name of the R. B. Store.
 July last he was stricken with ner. vous prostration. He gradually grew worse until death relieved him of his sufferlngs. He was 25 years old and . native of Tennessee. His remains were taken to his native place for in torment by his mother, who was with him when the end came. He was n young man of exceptional business ability and very popular with the pot. rcns of the business sstablisAmsrts with which hs vss connected.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02
JOHN BULLS OK ooRED.

The race problem in the United States always has been viewed by Bnglisnmen with good natured super eiiiousuess. They didn't take it SC riously at all, putting down the con siderable agitation over it 10 an Amer iczn habit of exaggera,ion. But now that Britain has a race problem of her own, she talks about it all day and dreams of it at night.
 The most pessimis,ic American never predicted that the race problem would wreck the American Republic. The prediction is heard every day over in England that the future of the Empire Is endangered by th. British race pro- blem; or, rather, race problems, for there is not one but several. There Is one race problem in India, another in South Africa and still q third in Aus tralia and New Zealand. The Indian problem is the worst, because it is just now most acute. Its ramifcations extend to the most exclusive London drawing rooms. East Indian students of rank who have gone to England to complete their educations complain that they are not shown social consid- erstion, are not treated as equals by persons in England whose rank is no higher than their own. The govern ment recognizes that this is true, but realizes it's helplessness. Several of the "high brow" newspapers have taken the matter up and are urging British gentlefolks to avoid social dis. crimination. There is no reason to re. gard n man as social inferior, they declare, merely because his skin is several degrees darker than yours.
 But fret as the government may and preach as may the editors, the age old fact of racial antagonism is there and 1t is not going to he efaeed by any such thing as political considerations.
 And the Indian student in England
 
 ity in very much the same way the American negro who demands social equality has done-by showing his un. worthiness of it. At recent meet. ing at which Indian students were specially invited guests they booed and hissed the kings name, and instances have not been lacking of late in which they have made themselves offensive 10 English ladies.
 Australia has been lectured and South Africa scolded because they are not willing to admit East Indians and other Orientals on terms of equality with the white man. And the very great folks who nave been doing the featuring and the scolding have been aropsing updying hatred in the breasts of Indian students by treating them as social interiors. It is the ignorant coolie Australia and South Africa in. sist upon barring. lt is the best cul. ture and refinement of India that the London smart set has offended, many of them capable of tracing their an. eestry back to the days when England was vassal of Rome. The govern. ing class of England is amazed that the colonists should insist on Keeping out the riff raff of India, but holi back their skirts for fear of contami. mating contact with the best India has to offer in the way of culture and re hnement. They are very willing to send the "thin red line' to the out posts of the Empire to bear the white man 's burden, but they don't want tae burden packed homo 10 their London
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02

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Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02
HUNT INHERITANCE.

New York parties claiming relation. ship to Patrick Dillon, who is claimed to have died intestate in this territory several years ago, are anxious for in. formation concerning him. They claim that he left a valuable estate but have been unable to locate it.
 Several pioneer residents of this section met yesterday do not remem. ber Dillon and the probability is that he was resident of some other part of the territory.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02
HOME FROM HONEYMOON.

MT. and Mrs. F.. J. F. Horne arrived home yesterday morning from a short honeymoon. They were united in mar. riage in Bisbee on Thanksgiving Day, as announced in the Journal. Miner early last week.
 They were accompanied by Eddie Donovan, Mrs. Horne's eleven.year.old sop. They win reside on Mount Pleas. ant street in a comfortable home re. gently purchased by the groom.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02
THE OLD RU0ABOO.

Probably the most sensible comment which has yet appeared upon the ques ton of German invasion of England and Lord Robert foolish prattle, was published several days ago by the New York worlI, which says;
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02

Col. Gaedtke speaks of what he calls a "eriminal idiot" Then there must also be such things as white black. birds.
Weekly journal-miner., 1908-12-02

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The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1908-05-28

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master mind - well - \ multttuda e
surprises.
The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1908-05-28
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07

favorably on bill prohibiting the
shipment of liquor into prohibition
territory, they will be giving prohibi-
ton states a great aid if they will
push the measure which they have I'M
der contemplation and which provides
that packages containing liquor to be
shipped from one state to another
must be marked plainly to indicate
the contents. This will tend to abolish
the collect on delivery feature con-
nected with interstate commerce in
intoxicants. This will put mend to
the collect on delivery shipments of
liquors to fictitious parties and delivery
of liquors by railroad or express COM
panies to any person who will pay the
charges. Such a law will be Of i'm
measurable help in reducing the traffic
in liquor to minimum in prohibition
ferritorv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Don't expect a medal for doing your
duty.
You can generally hatter a woman
by calling her a fiirt.
A woman is never so full of gossip
that she can't acquire more.
There is quite difference between
breezy conversation and hot air.
Some men even take their pleasure
as though they meant business.
Many a man displays a lot of in
genuity in making fool of himself.
The bride takes a f1endish delight in
inviting all her enemies to her wedding.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to remark
that marriage is always a tie, and
sometimes chain.
He-"So you believe that every man
has his price?'' She-"Well, 1 know a
lot of fellows who look like 30 cents"
wigg-'Do you consider it bad luck
to walk under a LADDER" Wagg-"Not
nearly such bad luck as to fall of OF
one"
Rlobbs-"He says he is from Boston. y
Slobbs-'T don't believe it. He pro-
norrnces his RS and doesn't like baked
beacs-" :
rsell-"They say Chollie Saphedde
was terribly downcast when Maude re-
fused him. Belief should say he
was. Why, he didn't call on another
Girl for nearly two weeks.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07
OFFENSIVE DEPoRTMENr.

A western railroad has finally joined
those which have preceded it in for
bidding rice throwing all over the
floor of its stations and cars by hilari-
GUS young people who are giving what
they consider jolly send-off to blush
ing and embarrassed young brides and
awkward bridegrooms. This practice
by certain classes of wedding guests of
tying ribbons and placards on car
riages, throwing rice on the persons OF
the bride and groom, chasing them in
carriages and automobiles all over
town to prevent their escape from the
torments prepared for them blowing
horns in railroad stations ana on trains
to attract public attention to their VIC
tins and indulging in other monkey
shines, has become so offensive, vulgar
and often brutal as to call for the In.
terposition of right-minded people and
officials. 1t is entirely homogeneous at
a function which peculiarly calls for
delicacy, gentleness and chivalric de-
pertinent on the part Of all guests
The worst of it is that in many cases
women are among the worst offenders
Their conduct as we'll as that of young
men at any other time would be re-
garded as excessively ill-mannered
and insulting. Why should it not be
SO considered at a wedding?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07
.HYHlWKER JO7y

Garden City Is preparing to flood
the whole world with melons.
A Reno county farmer who killed
fOrty-seven wolves last winter claims
to be the state champion.
1.-The Svea vitterhetsallskap gave an
excellent program in the chapel last
Friday evening. "-Lindsborg Record.
county apple raiser, thinks he Will
have ESQ carloads OF apples to mar
ket this year.
The Garden City Telegram has
started an agitation for dustless
streets and the whole world is wait
ing to be shown.
Mayor A. B. Reeves Of Garden City
has become an author and has writ
ten a story for McClure's entitled,
THE Blind Goddess"
A man in Pratt asked a neighbor to
go as security for him at the bank.
The neighbor replied: 81 wouldn't in
dorse the note of hooking bird"
An Atchison young woman who is
engaged is quoted by the Globe as
saying to her fiance: II wish I was
twins so that I could sit on both sides
Of you at once"
A Bronson doctor is being sued for
$4,000 damages because he failed to
set a fracture properly and it was
shortened two inches. If he had pull
ed the patients leg properly he might
have escaped the law suit.
Several young men of Emporia
formed a walking club. and will hoof
it to Americas every Sunday, having
been informed that ice cream can be
purchased for five cents plate there.
|-Emporia Gazette.
Attention is being called to an adj
vertisement for empty beer bottles in
the Emporia Gazette. Is this by way
of a gentle hint to the editors who are
to be there this month that the lid
may be tilted wee mite? asks the
Hutchinson News.
Ottawa has at last built hotel
which can accommodate a great many
more people than will patronize it.
People who have business in that
town can now make their plans for
remaining over night instead of going
| to Kansas Cit to get a bed.
Toney T. Crooks, who won the Cecil
Rhodes scholarship for Idaho, and
| Walter Campbell, who won the same
prize in Oklahoma, were both born in
Wilson county. The scholarship car
ries with 1t an allowance of $1,000 a
year for expenses.
Social event item from the Pratt
Republican,: While a mother was
reading a paper on Did Rameses
Evolve the Dynastic Theory" at a
| club meeting in New Britain. Conn.,. a
man carrying a baby came into the
room and placed the sQualling young
un in her arms with the statement
that he was tired of caring for it. The
club women condemn him for his
rudeness and unite in saying that he
| Is no real gentleman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.]

lFrOm the Chicago NeWSJ
Hope is the mother of disappoint-
ment.
Some people who take things easy
land in Jail.
The nearer some neighbors are the
dearer they are not.
No man approves Of woman who
f1irts with another man.
1t is sometimes safer to back down
than to get your back up.
It's easy for a man to do right when
he can't do anything else.
Let CRATER get under a cloud and
he will steal its silver lining.
A wise man never tries to please him.
self and a woman at the same time.
Why not borrow your neighbours spec
tacles and have a look at your own
faults?
If YOU see a man making love to a
woman in public it's sign she isn't his
wife.
People have time to listen to stories
of success, but they have failures of
their own.
Many a mans popularity is due to
the fact that he adheres to the truth
only when necessary.
And the wise theatrical manager
bitches his wagon to a star rather than
to a girl in the chorus.
1t has been remarked that love levels
all things and the man who has loved
and lost knows that it leveled him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07
HU1H0R or THE DAY

Book Agent-sood morningl Are you
the lady of the house?
Bridget-Pm wan O. thim.-Life.
you should never take anything that
doesn't agree with you," the physician
.'If I had always followed that rule.
Maria" he remarked to his wife. where
would you be?"-Boston Traveller.
Benevolent Lady-But, my poor man, if
you have been looking for work all these
years, why is it that you have never found
Tramp (confidentiallyl-It's luck, mum
just sheer good 1uck.-Boston Globe.
She-Indeed? It-Say, sis, ask him wheth-
eer he growls or hugs.-Woman's Home
Companion.
( Bill-Do you find It hard to dodge that
bill collector now?
about in an automobile. you know.-Yon-
kers Statesman.
Heard a fellow mention me today in
connection with the presidency"
Fact. Said no dub of my type would
do."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
Contradictions along: you've got to
have a bath.
Tramp-A bath! What. with water?
Constable-Yes, of course.
Tramp-Couldn't you manage 1t with one
O. them vacuum cleaners? New York
Globe.
The religious editor was struggling with
the query: ''Is it sin to play poker?"
After much prayerful Consideration he
wrote the following reply: Yes, the way
some people play t.'-Philadelphia Press.
Mr.. Subbubs-Do you expect any visit
ors to night, my dear?
Mrs. Subbubs-WeH, considering that
Brfdgets going to leave, Wiilie's got the
measles. the cellar is flooded. and the gro
Ger hasn't called for two days-yes, d.
Ally Sloper's Half-Holliday
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07
BENCHES FOR CONGRESSMAN.

At first it seemed hardly credible
that the Republican leaders Of the
house Of representatives at Washing
ton had really agreed to put into leg
islatiye form at the present session a
plan for rearrangement of that
chamber by the substitution of
benches for the commodious desks and
luxurious chairs now in use. And, in
deed, we may well think even now that
if they make the attempt they will
encounter no slight practical difficult
ties. Nevertheless, there are reasons,
and very sensible ones. for undertake
ing. the change.
And neither the first nor the prin-
cipal reason is. as some of the irrever-
ent profess to be lieve, desire to copy
after the British house of commons,
though that could hardly be called a
bad reason, after all, since the British
method of seating legislators in the
popular branch has the approval of
long experience. Our trial with our
method, on the contrary, has not been
satisfactory. The desks and chairs in
the house of representatives require
such extended floor space that men,
Der must have almost foghorn voice
10 SLanO In the center OF the cndmD Der
and have his words carry distinctly to
the four corners.
I Substituting benches would reduce
the floor space by about one-half and
thus make it far easier for a speaker
to be heard. 1t would also postpone
for a long time the difficulty, which is
| imminent under the present arrange
ment, Of accomm odating the increas-
ing number of representatives with
any seats at all. Best of all, moreover
the proposed benches would promise
| surely, better attention to the public
business and correspondingly better
| legislation. There would be no more
employment of the hours of the session
| in attending to private correspondence
| behind the shelter Of the desks. There
would be no more light doing in the
soft and capacious leather chairs.
| All the same, however. the proposal
| to give up those soft chairs and those
half-concealing desks for close rows
of hard, uncomfortable benches would
not seem one to be likely to slip
| through the house very easily.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07
KANSAS COMMENT
FAILURE OF App1.E .copNp,t, ;.


New York Spectators last fall saw
visions Of great wealth to be obtained
Dy corner1ng the apple crop of the
east, since practically no trees in the
west bore this fruit last year. They
made early and heavy purchases. even
buying the fruit OF thousands of or
chards before 1t was ripe and this
policy led many farmers to store their
product, in the expectation that they
would realize larger returns later on.
An eastern Journal says, There has
been slump in prices in New York,
and 1t is estimated that dealers who
bought early must suffer loss in ex-
cess OF a million dollars, as the hun
dreds OF thousands of bushels in
storage must be sold at a sacrifice.
1t became clear shortly after the holi-
days that those who bought heavily in
the hope of doubling their money were
not to realize their expectations. They
gambled in the future apple crop and
lois, and are now working Off their
holdings at a sacrifice. Those farmers
who sold early did the best for them
Selves
The experience of the New York
SPECTATORS recalls that of certain St.
Joseph and Kansas City commission
men two years ago. when Kansas pro-
duced an abundance of apples. They
set an extremely low price, a figure
so low in fact that the farmers declined
to sell. The result was that thousands
OF bushels were left to rot, and the
supply ran short before the winter was
over. If the commission men had Of
fered reasonable prices and bought
large quantities they could easily have
more than doubled their money
Kansas no doubt contributed this
winter to the discontinue OF the east
ern spectators. When the attempt
was made to secure excessive prices
for apples a great many Of the peo-
pie of the state found that they could
get along without them, and have done
so.-Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07
A WARLESS WEAPON.

In the April Contemporary Review
Colonel F. w. Mande describes a new
engine of destruction which seems to
be designed to put an end to conflict
For courtesy's sake it is called a gun,
although it resembles two or three forts
actively and belligerently engaged
However, it is said that 1t is in ex-
istence and that it can impart by the
application of electricity an initial
velocity of 10000 feet second to
projectiles of all dimensions. What is
more gruesome, perhaps, it can be
practically handled under war condi-
lions and on board ship or in station
airy defenses. To illustrate the power
of this latest contrivance it is explained
that there is nothing to prevent it
from throwing several tons of cold
metal or explosives from London to
Paris two or three times an hour every
day, with the possible exception of OBJ
jections raised by the Parisians.
According to Colonel Mande, the
most distinguished experts in Europe
have examined the model and are sat
isfied that it will do all that is claimed
for it. And there is reason to fear
that before long it will do even more
gun will be pretty sure to make its
appearance with propelling force
enough to carry across the ocean
There is no smoke, flash or recoil
Bombarded cities may guess more OF
| less accurately, but they will be un-
able to determine positively, who is
attacking them until they are called
upon to pay the costs of the one
sided encounter. 1t follows, of course
| that they will be at a serious disad-
vantage when it comes to returning
the fire. They may shoot into the
wrong camp and cause suffering and
death among their friends.
| Colonel Mande is Of the opinion thai
ultimately all navies will be compelled
to abandon armor and devote their en-
ergies to the attainment OF speed a.
| the prime factor of success. but there
can be no safety In flight, surely. and
It would be futile to attempt to es'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-07

why he don't die and let me marry Z
sensible man."
Mrs. Billings. what If you should
hear that Ezra was dead?" asked the
deacon in solemn voice.
"Oh, quit your fooling.''
What If his dead body. mangled out
Of shape by falling tree. should be
borne into this house within the next
ten minutes? ''
Isis anything the matter with
Ezra?"
you have called him names You
have wished him dead. You have
tempted and defied Providence. Oh.
woman"
She didn't wait to hear anything fur
Their, but hatless and with skirts Tying,
she took across the fields for the woods :
Deacon Harrow, who had Ezra to han
die, had INDUCED In q few casual OBJ
servations and then asked II Martha
was well.
"She was all right when I left the
house." was the reply, but there's no
telling what an idiot Of woman may
do. She may have gone to the well
head first for all know"
Ezra Billings. you have been heard
to threaten to brain your wife!
That's just my way"
"You have been heard to wish that
she was dead?'
"That was Just a joke. deacon"
Joke! Man, IL Martha Is found dead
in the house with her head all battered
in, don't you know"
But Ezra had dropped his axe and
started for the house on a run. Hus-
band and wife met half way, with
deacon behind either to point the
| moral. There was no moral to point.
you lop-shouldered. knock-kneed
| old camel, but what do you meanf'
| demanded the wife as she saw that her
husband was all right.
"And what do you mean?" demanded
the husband as he looked her over.
Say. Martha, you don't know nun to
| lift them big feet Of yours when wad-
| ing through a mudholer'
Ezra, you are gosh-hanged Hart"
| Martha, you deserve killing!'
And as they turned their backs on
each other and walked away the two
deacons locked arms and headed for
the road. Not word was said until
they had climbed the fence, and then
Deacon Swift observed: would you
call it a failure, deacon-a failure Of
| our part ?"
II certainly should. deacon. and
should further say that we hadn't bet
ter say anything about it."-(Copy-
righted, 1908, by Associated Literary
Press.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

If fish is good brain food 1t might
be well for some folks to eat a whale.
x X
It's hard work for a man who mar
ries widow to live up to the reputa-
ton of her first husband.
x X
Many persons who have wonderful
brains don't seem to have the COM
mon sense to know how to use them.
y <
The average woman who goes to
an auction sale after a stove will buy
a refrigerator If one goes real cheap.
4 K
After a man has smoked a cigar
that has been handed to him by a
Happy father he Is inclined to be-
come a believer in race suicide.