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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

Congress is in session once again. It
has convened for what is Familiarity
known as the short session.. Like a
few of its longer predecessors it is not
expected to do much. Outside of the
passage of appropriation bills it is not
believed that much legislation of any
sort will be enacted. Hence, what was
the necessity of a thirty thousand word
message from the president. None, ex-
cept that it was customary and fitting.
If congress should attempt to dispose
of legislation covering the topics sug-
gested by the president. and did it with
it's usual speed, or lack of it, it would
probably have to remain in session COR
tinuously for eighteen or twenty
months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08
HUNOR OF THE Day

Eyes, it must be terrible thing to
go through life without your limb.
but you must remember 1t will be re-
stored to you in the next world" "I
know 1t will, mum, but dat don't en-
courage me, fer it wuZ cut off when I
wuz baby an it won't come widin
couple of foot of de ground."-Life.
Judge (to accused)-Your name
and age? Accused-Auguste Anatole
Casimir Edgard Adore Dupont Six
teen. Judge--Have you been con-
demned before? Accused-To death
four times? Judge-To death four
times? Accused-Yes, by four diner
ent doctors.-American Illustre.
"she's advertised as stage beauty
be beauty" ''Well. stage beauty is
a good deal like stage money
Louisville Courier-Journal.
Father {of student)-But my boy
possesses Nlenty of energy doesn't he?
College President-Yes, sir, in one
direction. In consequence of the at
traction of gravitation he exerts what
we call, scientifically, a potential
energy of 1877 pounds.-Chicago Tri-
bune.
The Judge-For two years you
men have fished together, peaceably,
and yet you fought over this fish.
The Sportsman-You see. Your Hon
or, this is the first one we ever
acknowledgement Blaetter.
The Stranger-This place is con-
sidered pretty healthy, isn't it? The
Native-'Ealthy! Lor' bless yer, yes,
sir. It's always full of invalids.-
Pick-Me-Up.
"She looks young to have a grown
daughter" yes. she was just telling
me" II know. That she was mar
ried when she was just barely Is
years old. '-Pittsburg Post
singleton-By the way, Viewed. is
there any truth in the theory that
two can live as cheaply as one?
Newed-Of course, there is, old man.
Now I've got a question for you.
Singleton-Well, what is it? Newed--
Can you let me have $40 till next
week ?-Chicago News.
"I've got a little straight" said the
man who had called. What have
you got?' Three affinities and a pair
of artists" answered the other, raking
in the pot. Later when the man saw
three queens and two jacks he
realized that he was playing poker
with one who reads the papers-De-
troit Free Press.
Mrs Gramercy-So you find it hard to
The money 1 won at bridge while away in
the country scarcely makes up what my
husband lost in town at poker.-Puck.
In Atlantic City.-"what's done to kill
time there?'' "Oh. the bored walk
Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

Except that all of the football ex-
perts in the country have not picked
out their all-American. all-Eastern,
all-Western and all other locality
football teams to their own satisfac-
ton, it may be said that the football
season of 1908 is a thing of the past.
But there will be no lull in college
athletics. No. indeed. Their cur
riculum is quite as extensive, if not
more so, than the others which are
incident to college life. Basketball
and hockey will divide the athletes
attention until the spring when base
ball, tennis and track athletics will
come in for their innings. AssuredIy
the college athlete has more to attract
his attention than his brethren who go
in to make a record in their studies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.I

1t takes almost as much money to
send a boy through college as it does
to support him afterward.
A mans idea of patriotism is think
ing he could run the government bet
ter than those who are elected to do it.
A girl sleeps with a love letter un-
der her pillow so she won't be able to
sleep for wanting to get up and read
it again.
If woman can't worry about any
thing else she can about whether she
is going to like the baby's wife when it
grows up and gets married.
One of the most convincing things
about a widow is how, having had all
her faith in man shattered by one, she
can have it so perfectly for all the
others of his race.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

A couple of newspaper men have been
honored, at last, with elevation to
membership in the National Ananias
club. Mr.. Smith, editor of the Indian
apolis News, and Mr.. Laffan, editor of
the New York Sun, are the gentlemen
in question. Mr.. Roosevelt declares
that the story given prominence in
these newspapers to the effect that his
brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson, and
Mr.. Taft's brother, Charles P. Taft.
profited greatly as members of the
syndicate from which the United
States bought the Panama canal is an
outrageous lie" Fine. Evidence is
not now lacking that the administra-
ton of Mr.. Roosevelt will go out with
blaze of pyrotechnies of one sort and
another.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

1t is not very often that Mr.. Roose-
welt places himself in the position of d
chicken on a fence, part on one side
and part on the other. But this APP
pears to be how he stands on the sub
ject of woman suffrage. Personally he
is not opposed to the proposition but,
and this but ought to be spelled with
capital letters, he sees no hope of bet
tering conditions through it. Therefore,
there isn't much to recommend it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

In the new Democratic leader of the
national house of representatives,
Champ Clark of Missouri. the Demo-
Gratis have selected a man who will
fit we'll into the shoes of the retiring
leader, Mr.. Williams Champ is a
fighter from the drop of the hat and
when he has anything to say he says
it in a way that is sure of receiving
attention
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

The members of the streets and walks
committee of the city council are Ger
tainly of the right sort. They see their
way clear to report favorably on all of
the petitions that have been filed for
new paving during the coming year.
These call for the paving of no less
than fifty-three blocks of street and
four blocks of alleys. Nothing so en-
hances the value of city property as
well paved streets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

If the selection of John Dawson to
be his private secretary by Mr.. Stubs.
the governor-elect, can be taken as a
criterion of the caliber of the other
appointments that the states new
executive is to make. and also as a
criterion of the qualities of the next
administration in every particular
Mr.. Stubs reign will certainly develop
into a hummer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

Mr.. Pinchot, the United States fores-
ter, says that the federal government
will be delighted to cooperate with the
state of Kansas to secure forestration.
He says that the government will fur
nish the real thing in the way of a
forester if the state will provide the
salary. That's fair enough. But who
or what is going to supply the forests
for this chap to work with?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

Mr. Denton, the secretary of state.
estimates that the cost of the first state
wide primary was s135,000. This is a
good-sized sum but it is an expediture
of public funds for which the people OF
the state are certain that they received
ADEQUATE returns.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08
Tried 1t on the Dog.

Doc, fox terrier, who makes his
home in the Harlem hospital and runs
with the ambulance whenever it is
called out, proved his loyalty to that
institution by permitting his stomach
to be utilized in the aid of science.
If he had known the name of the
instrument used he might have OBJ
jected, but as he didn't, he probably
will win renown in surgical annals one
of these days. 1t was an oseOphogo-
scope-that's all.
Dr. George NJ. Bennett and DR..
George Rerrity, attached to the sur
gical staff of the hospital, and DR..
Perry SHOEMAKER, of ISL West 126th
street, a visiting surgeon, have been
trying to perfect the what-d'ye- call-it
for a long time. 1t is a long silver
tube, from one-quarter to one-half an
inch in diameter and hollow. On the
inside are mirrors and at one end is a
reflector, the whole being operated by
an electric battery. The purpose was
to insert this tube in the mouth of a
patient and down the throat to the
stomach the mirrors and ref1ectors CIV
ing such a view of the interior that
diagnosis would be made easy.
AS nobody volunteered to try the
merits of the new device the surgeons
opportunity fell i'll. The three physi-
clans were quite sure he had stomach
trouble and Doc didn't say anything to
the contrary So they took him I'M
awareS yesterday, put him under ether,
and put the oseophogoscope into him.
The examination lasted 40 minutes,
and, sure enough, it was stomach trou-
BILE. The surgeons said the experiment
was a great success and the utility
of the-same word as before-assured
What the dog thought about it was
not learned.-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal IS a member oe the
Associated Press and receives the fun day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publica ton in Topeka.
The news is received IN The State Jour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

''Hazing is a violation of good man
ners and of the right of individual lib
erty. 1t is a provocation of public dis
order. In it's milder forms 1t is a nom
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08
Color cure for Insane

AT BartonV1lle, ILL.,, two cottage build
lngs nave been erected in connection
with the Illinois hospital for the insane
In which the effects of colors on pat
tents are to be given a thorough test.
Inc two cottages cost 800, 900 and are
equipped with eight solariums and the
, work VII be lnaugurated and the build
lngS dedicated Thanksgiving day. DR..
ZeIler, who is in charge of the expert
ment, was the first to throw away locks
and bars In an insane asylum and trust
to more modern and humane methods
or dealing with mental Affections.
According to DR.. Zeller there are four
colors that are especially curative and
soothing in their effects on certain pa
t1ents. These are ruby, violet, amber,
and opal. In the cottages at Barton
vile there are two rooms, or solariums,
devoted to each of these colors. The
incandescent lamps, the glass through
which the light enters, as we'll as the
decorations, are all similar in each of
the two rooms devoted to a certain COL
or, and patients will be treated in each
as their cases may demand. DR.. Eel
Ter finds that the respondent become
cheerful in red solarium, the violent
of the blue rooms, while opal and am
Der are found to aid consumptives and
certain others.
The idea of phototherapic treatment
for it's influence on mind and body is
not new Every one knows that green,
the green of grass and fields and for
ests, is pleasing and calming to the
eye and mind; that the opaline tints
of water as seen on lakes or ocean are
restful, and that red is stimulative in
its effects upon the passions. The idea
of solariumS and the use of different
colored glass in the treatment of dis
ease has also been applied in Denmark
for perhaps 20 years or more. The first
American experiment on a large scale
in the treatment of the insane by pho
totherapy will therefore be watched
with Interestingly York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

'She's advertised as a stage beauty
now" Indeed? She never used to
be a beauty" well, stage beauty is
good deal like stage money
Louisville Courier-Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

Father {of student)-But my boy
possesse' 'lenty of energy, doesn't he?
College President-Yes, sir, in one
direction. In consequence of the at
traction of gravitation he exerts what
we call, scientifically a potential
energy Of 1877 pounds.-Chicago Tri-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

The Stranger-This place is con-
sidered pretty healthy, isn't it? The
Native Ealthy! Lor' bless yer yes.
sir. It's always full of invalids.-
Pick Me-Up.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

The Judge-For two years YOU
men have fished together, peaceably,
and yet you fought over this fish
The Sportsman-You see, Your Hon
or, this is the first one we ever
caught!-Meggend Blaetter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

"She looks young to have a grown
daughter yes, she was just telling
me" II know. That she was mar
ried when she was just barely 5
years old. "-Pittsburg Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

Mrs. Gramercy-So you find it hard to
make both ends meet2 Mrs. Park-Yes.
The money won at bridge while away in
the country scarcely makes up what my
husband lost in town at poker.-Puck
In Atlantic City.-"What's done to kill
time there?' "Oh. the bored walk
IudPe-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-08

Singleton-By the way, Newed. is
there any truth in the theory that
two can live as cheaply as one?
Newed-Of course, there is, old man.
Now I've got a question for you.
Singleton-Well, what is it? Newed-
Can you let me have $40 till next
week Chicago News.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-30

trough first and one pound of cotton
seed meal per steer poured over it.
1t was the aim to let the steers have
all the corn they would eat and still
retain a good appetite. The two lots
were fed equal quantities of mixed
hay.
Lot l was fed corn slower, which is
the fodder without the ears; the guam
tity fed intended to be approximately
as nearly equal to the hay fed as prac-
ticable. Lot , was fed corn silage
in such quantities as they would eat
up clean. 1t should be borne in mind
that the ensilage contained the ears
while the stoyer did not. The hay was
fed after the grain ration in the even
ing and the stover and ensilage after
the grain ration in the morning.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-30
ALTON

Miss Ada Brink was the guest OF
Miss Lucas Saturday.
Miss Eva Mcknight was a guest OF
relatives Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Null entertain
ed relatives at Sunday dinner.
Mr.. Stevens of White. was a pro.
fessional caller in Fountain Wednes.
day.
Mrs. c. w. Koenig is enjoying a
visit from her father from Le'Mars,
Iowa.
The barley harvest is on and the
crop around here is heavy and of good
quality.
Mrs. G. A. Null and Master Donald
OF Argo. were guests of old friends in
Alton Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. LuckinbiH spent the
day Wednesday with J, w. Mcknight
and wife OF ~Brookings.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. s. Culver expect
to return 10 their home in North Da.
kota the last of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Richard are
spending the week with their daugh-
ter. Mrs. Miller OF Fountain.
Fox. the land man of ~Brookings.
was visiting this part OF the county
with a party Of landseekers the fore.
part OF the week.
Mr.. Brink and daughters of Illinois
and f. c. Brink and family were en-
tertained Sunday at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Joe Sprat near Aurora.
A. G. Gazely was repairing phones
on the D line Tuesday, which was APP
preciated by the patrons as the line
was much damaged by the storm Sat.
urday.
Little Floyd Mills, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Mills, had the misfortune TO
be kicked by a horse the fore part
of the week. At this writing he is
somewhat improved.
Alfred Offerle had the misfortune 10
cut his hand badly Wednesday while
opening a sack of Irvine. He was TAX.
en- TO White. where his wound was
dressed by DR.. Stevens.
A number of Woodmen brothers of
Alton attended a special meeting in
White Monday evening and a bunch
of e members were taken in. This
caNlp is Of the largest in the state
and at the present rate will soon have
them all distanced In point of mem
bers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-30
PRESTON.

Mrs. Ellen Plumb visited last week
with 0. d. Plumb.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fader visited at Sey-
mour Longs Sunday.
Tom Jennings and wife Of Estelline,
visited with Ellwood Plumbs' Sunday.
Miss Hannah Nelson returned home
last week from her visit at Fertile,
MINI.
Mark Hopkins and daughter, Clara,
went to Brookings Saturday and re-
tnrued Monday.
Born. July 23, a son to Mr.. and Mrs.
Nels r. Nelson. Mother and babe
both doing well.
Jerome Paula has been painting at
his home, making a great improve
ment In the looks.
o. u. Plumb is thinking Of thresh-
ing Friday for feed to accommodate his
n~eighbors, for they all need feed.
Geo. Dewitt returned home Satur-
day from Napoleon, y. u. George
likes North Dakota, but we really be-
lieve he likes South Dakota best.
This part of the country was visited
last Saturday by the worst storm we
have had for some time. There was
N terrific wind comDanie nv rain
and hail, the latter doing considerable
damage and some farmers think their
crops half ruined and are consequent
1y discouraged.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-30
CHICKEN CHAT.

Keep the feed dishes clean.
Nests should be kept clean. even If
new straw has to be put in every
day.
The demand for poultry products is
such that there is no danger of an
o%ver-supply.
The success with poultry depends
on the little things as much as on
the large ones.
Charcoal and grit are as important
as food and water. Do not think of
trying to raise chicks without both.
Many a country boy and girl might
make a neat sur of little lone year.
ly by keeping a flock of chickens.
Experiments i n combining laying tnr.
keys are showing that it does not
greatly affect the fertility of the eggs.
IT takes about a handful OF grain
to fill he crop of a fowl at night,
This is a safe guide to follow in feed
ing yarded fowls.
Pure, cool water |; one Of the es,
c~entials in keeping the flock healthy,
Do not permit the birds to drink from
stagnant pools.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-30
AURORA.

Mrs. w. H. Larrabee was in Brook
ings between trains Monday.
Miss Nora Smith spent Sunday with
her cousin, Miss Myrtle Buckley.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Wilkinson and
children were Bushnell visitors Sun.
day.
Mesdames VIII Hahn and Geo.
Thornton were Brookings visitors
Tuesday.
Guy Thornton and Harvey Stone
spent Sunday afternoon with Geo.
Hickman.
Grandma Baker came down from
Brookings Monday morning after a few
days visit.
Mrs. Thos. Main and children OF
Elkton. we're guests Of Mrs. Hiltz last
Wednesday.
v. Rexford has been on the sick list
the past few days, but is reported to
be improving.
]. B. Southland and family and Miss
Maude Wilkinson spent Sunday al
Sankey Phillips.
Mrs. Homer Rexford and Mrs. Ger
trude Won ARK and Ruth. visited with
Mrs.. Geo. Baker Monday.
Miss Lulu Cusick returned home
from volga last Thursday where she
has been doing dress making.
Miss Iottie link arrived home from
Le Mars. Iowa, Saturday evening
afser /. weeks visit with relatives.
Mrs. deo. Baker Is enjoying q visit
nom her mother. Mrs. A. Baldwin o.
epting Valley, who arrived Monda,
evening tor an indefinite stay.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-30
EAST TRENTON.

Mr.. Reeve called at Aurora Monday.
Barley harvest is we'll under way
now.
Morris Settler was an Aurora caller
Monday.
Mrs. Carter was an Aurora caller
Monday.
G. G. Roseau was a Trenton caller
Saturday.
Leonard Stewart was seen in these
parts Monday.
Mrs. VIM. Biggar was down from
Brookings Friday.
Geo. Judd returned from North Da.
kota Saturday evening.
F. Messner has been harvesting for
some of his n%eighbors.
Lewis Smothers drove down in this
vicinity Friday evening.
Nj. Z. Johnson and S. z. Mckinney
each have new binders.
Frank Messner had some feed
ground at Bulen's Monday.
The Sunday ball game between Tren.
ton and Riverview resulted in a victory
for Riyerview by a score of 10 to 8.
Quite a number from here attended
the O. T. Hubbart funeral at Medary
Friday.
A few from here attended the far.
mers' elevator meeting at Aurora Sat
urday. Some of them got wet.
Geo. Staples is an enterprising far
mer now. as he has lots of Push,
a new Push binder being noticed in
his fields.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-30
CHERISH YOUR GIRLHOOD.

Dear girls, don't be so often wish.
ing you were grown-up women, that
you will neglect your girlhood. In
the rush and hurry of these fast
times there is danger that you will
reach and strain after young lady.
hood too much. Be girls awhile
yet. Be tender, joyous, loving, obe-
dent, industrious. Womanhood. with
its privileges and power, it's burdens
and trials, will come soon enough.
On this point one has wisely said.
Wait patiently, my children, throuaha
the whole limit of your girlhood. Go
not after womanhood; let it come to
you. Keep out of public view. CO
tivate refinement and modesty. The
cares and responsibilities of life will
come soon enough. When they come
you will meet them, / trust as true
women should. But oh. be not so
unwise as to- throw away your girl
hood. Rob not yourself of this bean.
tifui season, which, wisely spent. vii,
brighten all your future life."-The
Excelsior.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-30

devised. For hauls under 100 feet,
or in making fills" it is especially
servicable. 1t is a mistake, however,
to- attempt to handle long haul mater
ial with this scraper as the wheel
scraper is better adapted to such work.
For hauls of more than 500 feet, a
wagon should be used.
The machine most generally used
in road work is the grader, or road
machine. This machine is especially
useful in smoothing and browning the
road and in opening bitches. A clay
subsoil under a thin coating of soil
should not be disturbed with a grad
grader Unfortunately and to pull
material from bitches upon a sand
clay road. Not i%nfrequently turf, soil
and silt from ditch bottoms are piled
in the middle of the road in a ridge,
making mudholes a certainty. 1t is
important in using a grader to- avoid
building up the road too much at one
time. A road gradually built up by
frequent use of the grader will last
better than if completed at one op-
Grafton. The foreman frequently thinks
his road must be high in the first
instance. He piles up material from
10 inches to a foot in depth only to
learn, with the arrival of the first
rain, that he has furnished the mater
ial for as many inches of mud. All
material should be brought up in thin
layers, each layer we'll puddled and
firmly packed by rollers or traffic be-
fore the next is added. A common
mistake is to crown too high with
the road machine On a narrow road.
The split-log drag should be used
to fill in ruts and smooth the road
when not so badly washed. The drag
possesses great merit and SO simple
in construction and operation that
every farmer should have one. A
special article will be published later
telling how to make and use the drag.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-07-30
WHY A WOMAN WAS MADE OF RIB

A young lady asked a surgeon why
woman was made from the rib of a
mar in preference to any other bone.
he gave the following gallant answer.
"She was not taken from the head.
lest she would rule over him: nor
from his feet, lest he should trample.
upon her; but she was taken from
his side, that she might be his equal;
from under his arm, that he might
protect her; from near his heart that
he might cherish and love her."-Ex.