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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
.HYHlWKER LOTS

There are two dailies in Great Bend
and there will be third if M DALEY
succeeds in his ambition to be elected
sheriff.
The Anthony Bulletin does not now
remember Of anything the dandelion
is good for except to make poetry and
other trouble.
An accident occurred in Neosho
county last week in which, the cores
pendent says. a man had both limbs
and an arm broken"
In the Garrett band great effect is
gained by the base drummer, who quits
his humping long enough to whistle
an aria in one piece.
Miss Mattel Howe, daughter Of the
Atchison Globe, recently received
cash prize of $500 for an article de-
scriptive of Portland, Ore.
Several Harrington people attended
the Messiah concert at Lindsborg last
Sunday and they allow that it was
good but not up to the opera.
The Butler county commissioners are
going to make a tour of the state to
pick out the kind Of a court house
they will buy for Ell Dorado.
One day last week was so beautiful
that the editor of the Neodesha Regis
ter declared it was good to be alive"
From this it might be inferred that
there are days when Mr.. Wiley has
doubts.
An ACCn1SOn man, the NIlODe says,
borrowed q plug horse from Mis-
sourian. ''It is good enough to drive
around WITH remarked the Missou-
rian, "but don't start to go any place
with it,
| Alex Butts, of the Kansas City Star,
newspaper folk are proud, Is taking
! long vacation. and may journey around
the world before he again gets up
| against the collar.
| W. E. Blackburn notes that the Cald-
we'll Advance man is both touchy and
accommodating. He kicked on few
dead hogs floating around the intake
| of their water supply, but when a
member Of the council told him to keep
| his name out Of his paper, he did it
and now in the council proceedings
| John Doe" appears in place of the
irate councilman's name.
| An odor of iodoform and the CLINT of
| white cranial bandages made the whole
north side Of Main street like hospi-
| tai the first Of the week. G. H. Arnett
at the slaughter house Monday and the
| next day w. S. Bristol had a small
| wen like growth cut out of his scalp,
| and as they are neighbors 1t looked
| to the uniformed as If they had mix
| ed."-Anthony Republican.
A whole bunch Of ''what-has-be
of tracers is sent out by the Mankato
| Monitor at once. 1t asks what has be-
come of the following: The split-bot-
| tom chair, the red yarn gal1uses, the
red yarn string around the toe to cure
ground itch, the woman's reticule, the
| bootjack that sat in the corner. the
back log and dog irons, the old crane
| that swung to and fro in the fireplace,
| the deep we'll walled with stone and a
| green frog sitting on the butter, the
| boy with yoke of steers, the hand
rake in the hay field, the dinner horn
| and the gal that blew it. the side sad
| die, boots with red tops, the wooden
| axletree and wide track wagon, the
| hoopskirts worn by our best girl. the
| EMBARK to tie cornfodder, the candle
that had to be snuffed as often as we
would spit and the boy who would roll
| his trousers up to his knees in sum-
mer and spit through his teeth?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Recor

[From the Philadelphia Record.]
The man who never laughs at funny
stories daren't tell any.
Don't give a man advice unless you
know the kind he is looking for.
Any fellow who marries an heiress
can celebrate his golden wedding.
Many a fellow goes back to his first
love because she is the only one that
will have him.
When a man can't stand prosperity
and can't bear adversely It's time for
him to quit.
When a man Is his own worst enemy
we don't, as a rule. love him for the
enemies he has made.
He-"When do you consider that a
girl reaches the marriageable age?''
She-'sWhen the right fellow asks her."
There are times when q man must
lie like a gentleman: when q woman
asks If she looks her age for instance.
Tommy-"Pop. what is an egotist ?"
Tommy's Pop-"An egotist, my son. is
any man who thinks he is better than
we are"
When doctor puts you on a diet It
is merely case Of his finding out the
things you like and ordering you not 10
eat them.
Wigwag-'T believe there Is a tinpe
Of insanity in all religious enthusiasts"
Henpeckke-"Yes, take the Mormons.
for instance; any man that wants more
than one wife Is plumb crazy"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
ALL THE BLAME ON vERMIN.

Once we put the blame on the devil
when we were sick. Then we laid it to
God, under the name of mysterious
dispensation of Providence" It turns
out now that disease and pestilence are
| more and more certainly a mere matter
Of vermin. Rats cause bubonic plague.
Mosquitoes give us malaria and yellow
fever. Flies cause typhoid by not wip-
| ing their feet when they come in from
| their haunts in the germery. The
sweating sickness and the sleeping
sickness of Africa arise from insect
| bites.
| The rats have fieas and the f1eas bu-
bonic plague germs, and the germs in
| feet persons whom the f1eas bite. The
rat merely carries the flea. The mos
quito does not "enjoy" either yellow
! fever or malaria. He is merely "host"
of the bacillus of those diseases, and
gives them to us in a sincere and
natural if not altogether blameless eff
| fort to suck our blood. 1t is really the
misfortunes Of the rats and the mos
quitoes through which we suffer, and
not any malice on their part.
| Nevertheless it is war to the death
against vermin for the future. Down
with rats! Death to mosquitoes! A
murrain upon flies! And it is affecting
them by murrains and distempers that
we shall get rid of them. Here's bad
health to vermin!
A great preliminary skirmish has
been won in the fight with rats. A
German savant has developed a con-
tagious disease that he gives to rats
| in their food and which they then take
from each other. dying in myriads.
| When we think of the millions and
| millions Of victims annually of bubonic
plague in India, alone, we may rank
the discoverer of "ratin" with the
greatest benefactors Of the race-from
our point Of view. The rats, of course
may regard it differently. And So
strange to say will the Hindus. Their
religion forbids the killing of rats-or
other animals. While the plague is
raging these deluded people will care
fully destroy the poison set by the au-
thorities for rats. They prefer to die
of the plague rather than to have rats
killed on their account. But when the
rat population begins to die of ''ratin'
the Hindus will doubtless bow to the
inevitable, and accept the benefit oil
our raticidal crimes.
Let the reform proceed. Bring or
your mosquito disease that will pass
from hummer to buzzer, and wipe oul
the race. It will bring the blessing OF
civilization to New Jersey and Other
places. Its indirect effects will be in
calculable. More epidemics for mos
quitos, please.
And f1eas! Some scientist must soor
produce the germ Of the fly pestilence
LIST It be set at work. Right now Is 6
good time. The ny IL an incorrigibl,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
INTERCHANGING CITIZENS.

MANY farmers are crossing the line
of the United States into the western
provinces Of Canada" says the Chicago
Tribune. 1.-THE movement has attract
ed widespread attention. It has been
encouraged by systematic work of
publicity and promotion. The boomer
has used all sorts of advertising de-
vices to emphasize the advantages of
the new country. That his services
have been effective is undoubted. If
Canadian figures are reliable several
hundred thousand people have moved
vinces since 1900.
There Is a steady movement of pop
ulation in the other direction also.
New England is filling up with immi-
grants from Canada. They are crowd
ing the mill towns and are also occu-
plying the farms once owned by the
descendants of Pilgrim and Puritan.
The old towns show the loss Of names
once common and the presence of fami-
lies of entirely different origin. These
Canadian-French settlers are changing
rural conditions in New England COM
pletely. The fact of their steady in
crease is as apparent and, in a way,
as striking as is that of the other mi
grafton in the northwest.
There is another movement from
Canada of men of business instincts
rather than of agricultural or indus
trial tendencies. How great the vol
ume of this steady flow is uncertain.
But it is matter Of common observa-
ton that many Canadian clerks are at
work in the United States. Only a
casual glance is needed to show that
a good proportion of these follow up
their migration to the south by seek
ing American citizenship.
1.-The outflow of population is more
spectacular than the inflow. It causes
alarm in the minds of many because
it is the same sort of movement that
accomplished so much in the develop
| ment Of the United States. The west
in changing localities was largely built
up by settlers from the east this lat
ter term also being a movable one
Because of the knowledge of this
splendid citizenship which is being lost
Americans regret the restless search
for new lands is carrying the pioneers
across the border into Canada.
ut is the regret manifested by
| OOuVeTneuT MOTIFS Wnen speaking OF
the eastern opposition to the Louisiana
purchase. He pictured the exuberant
population of the eastern states flow
ing in a steady stream into the west
ern wilderness. He declared that If
that country were neglected or per-
mitted to pass into the hands of for
eign power the fairest nope of pos
terity would be destroyed.
1.-The less Of good American stock is
to be regretted. But the movement
means progress. 1t means harmonious
relationships between the northwestern
states and the Canadian northwest. II
| means development Of a new region by
| splendid citizens. 1t means betterment
of conditions by those whose fathers
and grandfathers sought the same
| thing by western migration. In this
| instance the United States loses as the
| older states lost before"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
THE CRAZE.

She rollerskated greatly-'twas the chief
of her delights;
She rollerskated mornings and she roller
skated nights:
She always roIlerskated when the sky was
fair, you bet,
And, too, she rollerskated when the day
was damp and wet.
She rollerskated up the street, she roller
skated down:
In fact. she rollerskated all around the
blooming town,
Where'er the patent pavement led she'd
rolierskate. ano then
She's rollerskate herself around and skate
1t Ger again.
She rollerskated on her calls, she dittoed
to the shops,
She even rollerskated past the bristling,
angry cops;
She rollerskated friends away. she roller
skated me:
She rollerskated till her ma has got in
santtee.
And I've no doubt that on day, the mar
rage contract signed,
She'll rOllerskate adown the aisle, her
brides veil pinned behind;
And later on. when it's her time to see
the pearly gates, ~
7 IL bet she's whisk I'D to them on a pair
of rollerskates.
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.l

Everything a woman wears is tight.
No man is agreeable when he Is
hunting something that is lost.
To some men, all the dresses worn
by women are different grades of cali
co.
Tell q boy he is a good boy, and he
will try to deserve the compliment.
1t is much easier to lose a friend
than to gain a vote by political argu-
ments.
Spinach doesn't shrink any more in
hot water than hopes shrink after
marriage.
A lecture is not the worst thing i'll
the world, but it's next to a reading"
by an elocutionist-
When a woman bets, she never puts
up any money. And If she loses, she
expects you to pay, anyway.
The average strong, healthy boy has
such an appetite that his mother has
no use for a garbage can except for
potato Feelings.
Every woman believes that her soul
grades higher than her husbands be-
cause she looks at the flowers when
they sit down to dinner, and he looks
at the meat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

No one will dare say a word now
against the Merry Widow hats. Some
of them worn by the women wor-
shippers in the front pews of ST. Johns
cathedral at st. Louis shut off the view
of the altar from the rest of the con-
gregation and prevented it's members
from seeing a fire which started by a
candle igniting some paper flowers.
Thereby what might have been a fire
panic was averted. At least the ST.
Louis newspapers write up the incident
to this effect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The average musical critic is one
that all music seems to irritate.
K X X
The girl who. says fudge" to ev-
erything may be said to give sweet
answer.
4 X =
If children desire to be nice in
company a good rule for them to fol-
low is to do nothing they would like
to do.
About the only signs of college
training that some college graduates
show are decided 1imps they received
through. athletic sports.
X x
A perfect dialogue is when two
women talk with each other, and the
perfect monologue is when a woman
carries on q conversation with her
husband.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

everything. save her lovers presence.
For supper he secured a tiny table to
themselves.
Strangely interested in his compan-
ion, yet knowing his suspicious to be
wildly improbable, he impatiently
awaited the striking of the clock. As
the first silvery chime rang through
the room, the guests amid gay rail-
llery, threw of their masks.
Augusta, casting one startled glance
about her, sprang to her feet, then
ANONYMOUSLY fed. like Cinderella OF
old. leaving Fftzray to stare at her
empty chair. Reaching the hall
moment later, the young man caught
| a glimpse Of vanishing drapery on the
stairs
Imagining that the girl must return.
he waited with the best grace he could
muster, but at the sound of wheels
outside he flung wide the hall door,
| Just in time to see q carriage disap-
pearing with all speed. while before
| the servants gate lay a small OBJ
ject, dark against the snow-the silk
en- mask that had banled him.
| In the MERGERS schoolroom next
morning lessons dragged as never be-
fore, and the pupil wasted no regrets
when her governess was summoned
/ to her sisters room.
''Say something" demanded that
lady, after having informed Augusta
| that her cousin had been to see her.
/ -
in business, winning such golden optn-
ions from his employer, that a part
nership was promised.
''UncIe is so proud" she concluded.
HE declares himself willing to re-
ceive Morgan's chosen wife. After
which news, I couldn't fib-it scarce
ly seemed to your interest, and you'd
better go down to him.
Instead OF following this advice.
Augusta dropped on her knees beside
the lounge.
Its been so lonely-Pm so hap
py," she whispered incoherently.
Morgan didn't look overstocked
with patience Miss Mercer warned
as she pushed the girl gently away.
Come back directly he's gone" she
commanded, and as the girl turned,
with a smile before closing the door,
her face was beautiful in its tremu-
lous happiness.
Left alone, Miss Mercer lay quite
still, watching the hands of the clock
slowly making the circle of the dial.
LET wonder" she unused, whimsically,
"are fairies human enough to feel a
wee bit lonely after they have brought
the lovers together ?'-(Copyrighted
.. 1908 by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

criminal He will not wipe his feet.
and his aversion to bathing and clean
ate for the children-or any OF the rest
of us. Because typhoid germs are
harmless to him, he refuses to take any
precautions in our favor. Produce the
fly murrain, o Science, as soon as con-
venient-and In the meantime we VOW
eternal feud with flies.
We are making progress. We know
what to fight. And we have "ratin''
for the rats. When we get mos
quitoin" and ''fyin' we shall be going
some.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

lfTom the chicago NeWS.1
If Time were woman would 1t wait
for man?
Police magistrates have the courage
Of their convictions.
It's easier TO find dozen faults than
it Is to mend one.
Even palmist can't read all the
lines In the hand Of q poet.
It's up to the grass widow to make
hay while the sun shines.
Even on the seamy side Of life things
are seldom what they seem.
A stitch in time may save q stitch In;
the side. plus the surgeons fee.
Probably Eve was so-called. Alfonso.
because she arrived in the late after
noon.
It's easier to convince a woman that
she is foolish than 1t is to make her
believe she shores.
One-half the world may not know
how the other half lives, but the fem
inlue half makes = strenuous edIort 70
ma cut.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
In a Microbe Factory.

Among the most important govern
ment institutions at Washington is a
microbe factory. 1t belongs to the
war department and makes a business
diseases in Quantities, breeding them
in glass tubes, and feeding them upon
specially prepared jelly foods.
The establishment in question,
which is under the charge of DR..
William Gray, is one of the principal
service. Whenever a new and in
teresting "pathogenic" microbe turns
up-such as the long sought germ of
the deadly Panama fever. which was
discovered recent1y-it undergoes
painstaking examination at the fac
pies in specially constructed incuba-
tor. provided with every luxury Of
diet that it's fancy demands, and even
furnished with living prey in the
shape. of monkeys, rabbits, or guinea
pigs. In order that it may have a
composites it's deadly work.
The results obtained are well worth
the trouble expended. For when a
disease microbe has been satisfactor-
lily identified and its life history fully
studied means wherewith to fight it
are easily found. For one thing, va
rfOus pofsons are tried upon 1t and
the one that seems most deadly is
likely to prove, for obvious reasons,
the most effective medicine for the
malady when given in judicious doses
to a person attacked by it.
There is, however. an entirely new
idea which is soon to be applied in
our army, not for the treatment but
for the prevention of typhoid-that
deadly disease which decimates
troops so frightfully in the field. 1t
already has proved successful in Ger
many. Batches of typhoid germs, ar
tifcially bred on gelatine, are SUBJ
jected to a temperature of 40 de-
grees Fahrenheit for one hour, there
by killing them, and their dead sub
stance is employed thereupon as a
vaccine" being introduced by inoc-
ulation into the veins of the soldier.
| Though the microbes themselves are
1 no more, their poison retains an ac-
tiyity which, when utilized in the
manner described, gives immunity
against the dreaded malady.
| The ca pacity of the laboratory In
Washington is sufficient to turn out,
| incidentally to other work, as many
billions of typhoid germs as might be
required, when thus employed, to
vaccinate the entire population of the
many other diseases which seem to
| be amenable to treatment by this
novel process, the microbe cultures
| in each case being available, when
their vitality has been destroyed by
heat, for utilization as a preventive
vaccine. Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

Now is the time to drag the country
roads and every man along them should
lend his hand to put them in as good
a condition as possible. In helping to
make the roads good he will be helping
himself. 1.-THE township trustees should
also extend such financial aid as they
can for the betterment of the roads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IF'rom the New York Press.]
A man who can prove he has brains
knows he never has to.
1t would be very nice to have so
much money your family didn't need it
all.
The time a woman has scruples about
playing cards for money is after she
loses.
A good way for men to refrain from
drinking too much is not to be able to
get it.
What a woman likes about keeping
house Ii how much better she thinks
she does It than any oe her friends.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

If eleven of Italy's warships visit
Turkey with business in their eyes it
is likely that the sultan will settle
such claims as Italians have against
him in short order. The wearer of the
royal fez is a cantankerous buffer but
he usually willis if there appears to be
the slightest chance that anything
serious might happen to him or his
country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

Congress will probably take favor
able action on the proposition to enlist
5000 additional men for the navy. There
ought not to be much trouble in get
ting them for it Is likely that the
present big cruise of the battleship
fleet is but a beginning of other at
tractive cruises that will follow, cruises
that almost anybody would be glad of
q chance of taking.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

President Roosevelt will likely be
empowered to deal with Venezuela and
Castro in whatever way the occasion
may demand. 1t will not take many
whacks nor will the stick have to be
a big one to make the little dictator
realize that he will have to behave him
self.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

Chicago has a fox terrier pup that
understands three, languages, French,
German and English. This should not
be taken to mean that he talks f1uently
in them, although it would not be sur
prising to get a story from Chicago
that there was d talking dog in its
r1,idet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

They're surely great on seeing things
out in Jewell county. And the latest
unusual event to come within the Wis
ion of the folks there is an aurora
borealis. If it were not for the fact
that the prohibition law is strictly en-
forced in Jewell county, well,-but
what's the use of specializing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

Vic Murdoch appears to be the only
Republican representative in congress
who has the courage of his convictions
He voted with the Democrats against
the adoption of some additional gag
rules which give Mr.. Common even
more power than he has had, and he
had more than a plenty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

tfona1 primary law on the statute
books. Kansas will then furnish any
quantity of candidates for the presi-
Dental nominations for no man will
need any backing then but his own
energies and there are doubtless many
men in the state right now who feel
that they could discharge the duties
of president in most excellent fashion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22
NOT HER SOUL NATE.

A divorce that is attracting some
attention is that of Mrs. George Rich
ards, wife of a lieutenant of the ma
rine corps. She says that he was good
to her, and kind, but that they were
not soul mates" She says he is
wandering in spiritual darkness, and
that by separating from him she can
reach a spiritual unfolding" This
new fad is going to make it harder
than ever for husbands to be salts
factory. After a. man has brought in
the water and split the wood. and given
a woman all his wages she can still
insist he is not her soul mate, and
leave him, puzzled over what ails him.
I-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

The Mississippi river has evidently
been discovered again. st. Louis is
preparing to start a steel barge line
between that city and New Orleans at
. cost of $2,OOO,OOO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-22

Fred S. Jackson, the states attorney
general, is satisfied that a lumber trust
exists in the state. Its scope, however,
seems to be confined to the north
western section of the state. That
speaks well for the lumber dealers in
this section