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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1908-10-29
kirkwood Library Given to State.

kirkwood Library Given to State.
Mrs. Samuel ]. Kirkwood. widow of
Iowa's war governor, has presented
her late husbands splendid library.
embracing several thousand volumes,
to the State Historical society. Valu-
able correspondence of Governor
Kirkwood, when President Garfield's
secretary of the interior, is contained
In the collection. A biography of
Kirkwood will soon be started by the
Historical society.
A thorough investigation of the
city's milk supply is being planned
by the newly organized Des Moines
Tubercular league. as the first move
in its war on the white plague. Geo.
d. Whitaker, assistant In the dairy
division Of the United States depart
inent of agriculture, will conduct the
investigation. IN it's campaign for
pure milk the league will have the
cooperation of the city health de-
partment which is already working
along the same lines. 1t is planned
for Mr.. Whitaker to make test of
every dairy supplying milk In Des
Moines.
Will Be Brooks School.
The new school building to be erect.
ed on East Twenty-frst street will
be named the Brooks" to comment
crate the memory Of DR.. Brooks, who
formerly owned the properly and who
was a contemporary pioneer with
Judge p. Nj. Casady, Alexander Scott
and Barlow Granger in the very carly
days of Des Moines. The property
was purchased from l.. C. Brooks of
Mtnneapolis,a son Of DR.. Brooks. The
lew school building will be twelve
room structure to accommodate thrt
growing district in Des Moines.
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TRACING THE BACILLUS.

Following his discovery of tuberculin,
which has proven so useful in the
diagnosis of tuberculosis, DR.. Koch, the
Viennes bacteriologist, asserts that he
has discovered the source of the toxin
which causes the discussed
sleeping sickness. The latter has
proven one of the most battling of trop-
zeal diseases and IN the districts of
West and Central Africa has been a
terrible menace.
According to the exhaustive article
on DR.. Koch's theories and experiments
in the Berliner Klinische Wochenschrift
the disease is not primarily due to the
bite of the tsetse fly. as has been held,
but comes originally from that pestifer-
Gus saurian of the tropic rivers, the
crocodile. Like the mosquito that
transmits the bacillus of malaria or of
yellow fever. the fly that inoculates the
blood of man with the germ of sleeping
sickness is himself an afflicted creature
and the eminent German has found In
the blood of the crocodile the fagellae
with which the fly is infected Thus
the man upon whom appears to have
fallen the mantle of Pasteur has posi-
bly, added another brilliant chapter to
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the history of medical science, which
is more than ever today one of two de-
partments-the one seeking the cause
of disease In the world of micro-organ-
ism and the other seeking its cure.
The feature of the discovery, which
appears as yet uncertain, is whether
an anti-toxin, like that Of diphtheria,
or tetanus, can be derived from the
isolated bacilli. If that is possible, and
the scientist appears to regard it SO,
then another safeguard is given to the
races who seek the exploration and the
exploitation Of tropical Africa.
It is not surprising to learn that King
Leopold Of Belgium will emulate the
example of Mr.. Rockefeller in endow-
ing an institute for the further research
of the matter. He has reason to do SO,
this particular disease having ravaged
his Congo holdings repeatedly. The
casuists are thereby supplied with an
other case for debate about the redemp-
ton Of tainted money when 1t fur
theirs science and reduces some Of the
worst ills to which mankind is heir
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AYHAWKER JOTS

Editor Roberts of the La Harpe
Journal has sold his paper and print
ing plant to William Dano and Cloyce
Hamilton.
W. P. Brown holds the rather ex-
pensive honor of being the heaviest
taxpayer in Montgomery county. Hts
taxes for this year amounted to $4,000.
Joseph Page, one of the prosperous
farmers Of Dickinson county, proposes
to take season off enjoying his well
earned thrift. He has purchased an
automobile of the touring car variety
and is going to have bully time.
o. L. Thisler of Abilene secured a
verdict the other day of 1890 against
the Union Pacific Railroad company.
He secured this verdict on the fourth
four of his horses were killed by a
train.
Four young men Of Wichita in
dulged in some FUN" the other day
They got hold of a couple of young
boys, stripped all of their clothing Off
This prank cost them considerable in
the way Of police court fines.
Folks at Fort Scott have just ex-
perienced another skinning. A profess
sional CRATER struck the town the
other day. He went to a grocery store
and bought forty cents worth of cheap
laundry soap. Then he Whitfield the
bars into small pieces, wrapped the
pieces up in tissue paper and sold them
for peculiar soap that would remove
frost stains and accumulations on win
dows. He cleaned up about $40 on
his forty cents investment.
And now the Emporia Gazette de-
clares that the Robber Barons of the
Rhine were Cheap skates as COM
pared with the masked highwaymen
who run the nsportation systems"
This conclusion is emitted because at
Usage City, which is twenty-seven
miles from Emporia, the coal minea
there is offered for sale at $3.50 a ton
while at Emporia the buyer has to
pay $4.75 or SIS for a ton of it. That
seems to be sufficient grounds for call
ing names.
Rev. William o. Troutman of Kick
apoo has made formal application to
have the six children of Frank Hill,
who was drowned at Kickapoo, admit
ted to the Soldiers Orphans home at
Atchison. The mother died two years
ago, and the drowning Of the father
leaves the children without support, as
their grandm other is too aged and poor
to care for them. Under the juvenile
act, 1t is possible to admit the children
to the Soldiers Orphans home. They
are all small children.
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LIGHT ON A NATURE PROBLEM.

In the faithful performance of his
duty, the intelligent correspondent of
an Intelligent newspaper that pre-
sumably pays well for his work, has
made an innocent discovery which is
immensely more valuable than at first
it seems. From a small town in
Pennsylvania comes to Philadelphia
newspaper a story, naively interest
ing in itself, concerning a man who
has attained to the considerable age
of one hundred and five years, and
provides the necessary explanation of
how he did it by averring that it is
his custom to go to bed at the first
cold snap of every winter season, and
not to come downstairs again until
the additionally proper Candlemas
day. Following still the custom of
the grounding, to which he con-
fesses the credit for this idea of hi
bernation. he remains then within
doors until real spring comes.
There Is no need to perpetrate the
heresy Of questioning the truth of
this delightful discovery, for when
was the special space writer ever de-
teoted in anything save the most alb
solute veracity? The real Importance
of this information consists IN the
light which it sheds upon the winter
whereabouts of a familiar summer
character. While the suns of sum-
mer shine, and the open trolley car
is abroad in the land, it has a para
site conveniently known as 1.-The end
seat-hog." Some have wondered what
becomes of him in winter, but so far
as the general public has noticed, no
answer has been found to the ques-
ton. Such mystery as there is in
this would appear to be solved by the
Pennsylvania discovery. Though
known simply as a hog, this end-seat
animal has evidently more of the
grounding in his nature. The ten
acity with which he clings to the
seat, and the savageness with which
he will fight. even tooth and nail, to
keep It, were sufficient to prove that.
Then, of course, he goes into hfber-
nation, and we lose him for six
months. There is a great blessing in
his temporary absence, but the sug-
gestion that his habit of Information
preserves him TO a centenary age is
seriously discomforting compensa-
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
Some men just can't foot a bill with
out kicking.
No, Alonzo, a nervous woman isn't
necessarily nervy.
Some finished orators don't seem to
know when to quit.
A milkman doesn't cry over split milk
If there is pump handy.
The trouble with jealous woman is
that she can't keep the lid on.
BY the bloom on a mans nose you
may recognize his distaste for water.
The ties that bind some actors to-
gether belong to the railway compar-
les.
It's better to have your teeth filed in
q restaurant than in a dentists chair.
Nothing hurts woman more than
to have a man tell her that she is moth
ing but a woman.
1t Is easier for a man to ACQUIRE q
bad reputation than 1t Is for his chill
dren to live 1t down.
Probably the best salve for healing
the broken heart of a woman Is a mix
ture of time and another man.
An Industrious man can easily earn
his own living, but the trouble is he
usually has to earn a living for a lot of
others,
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the state offices and held at the time
of the regular fall election, is the
signal for a legislative fight. There
are many men in Kansas whose opin-
ions on primary legislation are just as
valuable and worthy of just as much
attention as are Mr.. Stubs. They be-
lieve that the United States senator
ial primary should be separated from
the regular state primary. As soon
as Mr.. Stubs gets over this Hiram
know-alr' attitude which he assumes
on most occasions and his insistence
that my way is the only way and the
right way just so soon will his
popularity be increased. He has no
corner on the legislative intelligence
of the state.
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THE oyERsUPPLY OF GOLD.

That high prices exist, there is no
question. All the average price levels,
whether English or American, show in
eight years more than so per cent in
crease, writes J. Pease Norton in the
American Review of Reviews for
January. In other words, it requires
$3.50 to buy what 81 would purchase
on the average eight years ago. If
these are not famine prices. because
during the eight years the crops have
been bountiful, progress extremely
rapid, and the standard of living
Throughout the world upon the in
crease, then the causes should be
sought in the depreciation of money.
If the statistics agree in showing
the quantity of gold increasing, the
cost of production of ton of ore di-
minished radically by new inventions,
and the worlds stock of gold show
ing a marked and sudden increase,
little doubt remains. The facts are
plain. A golden deluge is already
upon US. In the year 100 the an
nual production was 100000, in
1900 s12,Oo0,0oO, in 1900 s262.O0O,-
900, in 1907 100000, and the rate
is accelerating.
When we remember that the larger
amount of each years production Is
added to all that has been produced
before, unlike all other commodities,
that at the present rate of accelera
ton the worlds stock can double in
less than twelve years, and finally,
that the causes of the gold food are
not sporadic and exceptional but en-
tirely rational, namely, the ingenuity
of chemists and metallurgists, who
have succeeded in reducing the profit
able working cost per ton of ore from
$14 to less than 50 at the present
time, by new inventions, this question
of gold depreciation becomes easily
the financial problem of the age.
For the amount of Oh cap gold ore is
unlimited in nature. Mr.. Frederick
Upham Adams, In the August issue OF
Success, quotes Mr.. John D. Rookie
Teller as saying: at seems to me that
one of the most startling conditions
this country must face is the overpro-
duction of gold"
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more ample explanation. My DEAR
niece's fears are well founded" he
continued bluntly. st did fall in love
with you. That's why I am here this
morning to ask if may call upon you
in town.
ST don't even know where am
going" demurred Audrey.
"I do" said the major, with de-
cision. You are going to be the
guest of my partners wife until you
find a new place-or find that after
all an old man may still be worthy
of love. Do you think that will be 20
hard?"
mot so very" confessed the girl
shyly. and in her heart she knew that
already this kindly old man had won
her affections. She had not thought
Of his money, but it was inexpressibiy
pleasant to be looked after instead OF
looking after others, and as the train
sped along the side of the river
Audrey knew that it would not be
long before she would come back
again to be chatelaine of the castle
of her valiant knight.-(Copyrighte
1908. by Homer Sprague.)
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

lr Iu5 AICnISOl 1lOD6.1
It is said that no man likes to have
the girl he loves see him eat.
Don't trust your secrets to age; 1t
is said that age tells on man.
When he has nothing else to do, a
man plays cards; a woman sews.
A married man comes nearer know
ing how mean he is than one who is
not married.
Age rounds off mans nose, but the
older a woman gets, the sharper her
nose becomes.
It was never intended that a man
should hear the things said behind his
back: his ears were not set on that
way.
When a Real Good Man gets up to
talk, he is pretty apt to ask this ques-
ton: Are we doing as much for the
children as we ought?"
With a desire to be perfectly elegant
in its grammar, the Globe wishes to
ask this question: Is it proper to refer
to sausage as at" or "them?''
When farmer stands on the streets
holding a baby while his wife shops,
he seems to say by his manner: Had
1 known I was coming to this,
wouldn't have married.
When a man goes a long, long ways
to attend the funeral of a relative 1t
is pretty sure that the relative has left
something besides mourners and that
lIc HAL EOi1c W get Ills.
It is wonderful, considering what
some women claim, that they have
enough faith in the man who buys the
family beefsteak to have a pan on the
fire ready for it when he comes home
at night.
Go around to the home of any mar
ried woman or Spin in the evening,
and the only difference you will find
between them Is that in the married
woman's home the top of a mans
head shows over the top of a news
paper, and in the SPINS home she is
reading the paper herself.
One loafer will stir up more trouble
and discord than twenty busy men.
And a 1oafer does not always talk
small scandal: he dips into public az
fairs, religion and everything else.
Loafers are not always poor chaps.
who have overworked wives at home.
Many of them have money, and these
are the most mischievous loafers in
town: They make more trouble than
the poor loafer because more attention
is paid to what they say. A good deal
of the trouble complained of In Atchi-
son is stirred up by loafers; 1t is pity
that we have so many. When men have
nothing else to do. they abuse each 9TH
er. or the town in which they live.
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QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
-[From the Philadelphia Recon,

[From the Philadelphia Record
Good intentions won't pave the road
to success.
Even a cracked voice is seldom all IT
Is cracked up to be.
The only sure things of life are those
that have already happened.
Wise Is the man who knows more
than the fool thinks he knows.
Even the affections of some women
are Of the cold storage variety
The fellows who can't stand prosper-
ity can't understand those who can
When a man Is straight he may mere
ly be following his natural bent.
The great trouble with the matri-
monial knot seems to be that 1t won't
stay tied.
In spite of the Bible it may be easier
to serve two masters than to master
two servants.
Wisg-"Have you seen young Got-
rox? He is ablaze with diamonds.
Wagg-Well, have noticed that The
men who are ablaze with diamonds saIe
dom set the world on fire."
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WHEN HE RUNS.

A politician may descant
Of many things today
or tariff and the oyster plant,
Or Of the price of hay
The public veal, the cost OF steel,
The navy and it's guns
But up and ask him where he stands
On prohibition, and, my lands,
He ups and runs!
A politician may discourse
OF very many things,
Haranguing US till he is hoarse
With all his bellowings,
or Panama or better law
He ever may enthuse-
But up and ask him where he's at
On prohibition. and, my scat,
The gentleman skiddoos!
He's not afraid to come out bold
On issues that pertain
To party platforms-silver, gold
He's fearless in the main
He thinks aloud before a crowd
With finely frenzied eyes
But up and ask him where he is
On prohibition, and, gee-whiz,
The politician flies.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Honeymoons are the only kind of
moons that girls see during leap year.
4
A fellow lives for little thing who
lives for himself alone.
=
AS Dickens said, 1t is easy enough to
refute assertions but who can refute
silence.
The only time a wife pays any at
tention to what her husband says Is
when he talks in his sleep
A f1irt is like a battered dipper at
town pump. Everyone is at liberty to
drink from it but no one desires to
carry it away.
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HUNOR or THE Day

month do you want?
YOU take me fora far-rm-hand? Me scale
av salary is 111e cints an hour, ktcnen
time time wid double on pay f9S o nohoays an
"And no doubt" we say to our friend,
iai appeal for votes by VS. sympathizins with
the man with patches on his garments?
No he responds with knowing wink:
undying sympathy with the men who
can't get their clothes patched.
Post.
why" he asked, do girls like so much
to display diamond rings on their engage
"WeIl.'' she replied. as she carelessly
twirled the jewel on her third finger, you
know there is nothing like a shining ex-
When she had time to speak again she
was trying to throw out a hint. I never
suspected that you cared about me at ALL
Judge.
Educator tell you, sirs. these are his
Publishers Agent-Yes, but the difficult
schools.-Baltimore American
ter's mistake. You know she plays en-
BuEg1nS-QnfOrtunatel tnat Is also the
way I listen.-Philadelphia Record.
"Of course" said the teacher. iron is
great conductor Of heat is it notf !,,+ .,-
".fndeed7? And why not alwaysT
well, the steam pipes in our flat are
iron. ''-Ph1ladelphaa Press.
TT looks like some people are born to
i'll luck" sighed the old lady.
why do you think so?" Queried the
chance caller.
the od ag naNs d 6on
600 medical recipes and pasted them into
been SICK eRe day IL IN my
go Daily News.
Blackjack Bill-Dis here's me proposal,
Moo Jersey de Second-Story Operation
Company Of America. Den when one OF
COPS can't Jug us@see Hlbut'm have ter
punish an fine de corporation. If de
h fTadin an US be bacE!mPaok. can 10 0A'' vs."
Nero was affecting to make light Of the
fire" he said. The boys will soon put it
out we have the double platoon s,a system m
added to the ddn that filled the air byplay-
ing a selection from Wasner.-Chicago
Tribune.
"Brokeley must be getting rich. He
| told Borroughs he hadn't anything less
| than $50 note"
That's the truth. A penny Is less than
so note and Brokeley hasn't even got
| that."-Philadelphia Press.
Patience-What do they charge for
seat at the skating rink?
| Patrice-Why, paid for the skates and
| then 1 sat down for nothing.-Yon
Statesman.
StelIa-Men are inconsistent.
Bella-Yes; the same fellow who won't
| believe Central when she says the wire is
| busy expects his wife to believe he work
| ed down at the office all night.-New
York Sun.
Star Actor-I must insist, Mr.. Stager, on
/ having real food in the banquet scene.
Manager-Very well, then, II you insist
on that you will be supplied with real
poison in the death scene.-Boston Tran
script.
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Mr.. Jerome and the counsel for
Harry Thaw have Joined in petition
to the court to exclude all persons;
Including the newspaper reporters
from the further sessions of the trial
in the interests of public morals. They
need not be so particular at this late
date and especially as few newspa-
pers in the country will care to again
print the fearful tale of Mrs. Harry
Thaw's wrongs at the hands of STAN
ford White.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-20

TO look at the pictures of Senator
I. D. Young, one would never think
OF associating him with mixing in the
kind of politics that Senator Sam
Fitzpatrick accused him of at the last
session of the legislature and which
accusations led to such an exceeding
" merry time for a few hours in the
senate chamber and came near re-
sulting In a fist fight between Mr.
Young and Webb McNan.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-20

Secretary Taft raises the recent esti-
mated increased cost Of the Panama
canal by thirty-three and one-third
per cent, placing It at $300,000,000.
This is $1o,ooo,0o0 more than double
the original estimates for the big ditch.
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AS a theoretical proposition to put
a stop to all lobbying the Stubs bill
providing for the creation of a leg
islative reference library is all right
But as a practical means of stopping
lobbying such an institution would
prove just as futile as many other
suggestions to the same end. Still
this sort of a library ought to be of
immense value to legislators in the
careful preparation of their work.
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the merchant who boycotts
newspaper because he cannot con-
troll its editorial policies serves notice
upon the friends Of that paper that
he does not care for their business,
Is a real truth uttered by the Wichita
RaaNon
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Topeka's great Midwinter EXPOSE
ton begins today and will continue
for two weeks. That it will be pa
tronized to the capacity of the au-
ditorium there is not the shadow Of a
doubt. It is an institution that holds
a warm place in the hearts OF Tope-
kans and most deservedly SO.
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Any quantity of meritorious meas
ures have been presented to the leg
isiature in the form of bills. If all
of them are given the careful consid-
Grafton they deserve the special ses-
sion will last for a couple Of months.
There is bound to be all sorts of
disagreements as where the lines shall
be drawn and which of these many
bills shall be seriously considered.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the fun DAY
telegraph report OF that great pews CT
publication in Topeka,
The news Is received in The State Jour
nose.
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Secretary Taft need not worry any
longer over his chances for the presi-
Dental nomination. The Republicans
Of Brown county, Kansas, have come
ont flat-footed for him,
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Western bankers do not like Sena-
tor Aldrichs currency bill. It is only
Just to Mr.. Aldrich. however, to ex~
plain that he did not have the western
bankers in mind when he was prepar-
ing the bill, says the Kansas City Star.
S50o trina
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-20

East Topeka and Parkdale folks
are almost rioting with joy. The East
sixth avenue wivoduct has finally been
opened to traffic after having been
out of commission for many months.
Everything comes to those who wait.
but this sort of waiting that has been
forced upon one set of Topekans is of
the kind that make people feel like
lighting