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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News1

lrrom the chicago News.1
A man may avoid family cares by
taking care of his family.
Even wise man can't tell when a
woman's hat is on straight.
When girl yawns it's up to the
young man to get in the home stretch.
It's easy to see the blessings of pov-
erty through the eyes. of a millionaire.
If girl is in love with a young man
she can't see any one else in a crowd.
1t takes two to make a quarrel-but
that is no reason why you should be
one of them.
In the race for wealth the average
man acts like horse of the long
cared breed.
1t sometimes happens that a street
fight reminds married man that there
are other places like home.
A woman's idea of a brave man is
one who isn't afraid to go into a dark
closet in which there may be a mouse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

In this year of various crop failures
20 a greater or less extent there is some
cheering news for Boston. The bean
crop is far more extensive than 1t was
last year and beans will accordingly be
considerably, cheaper. And this means
something to Boston. for last year it's
populace consumed thirty-two million
quarts Of beans. the bill for which was
no less than $10,000,000. .i
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

Among the momentous pipe-dreams
boating around these days is the
booming of Mr.. Roosevelt for the presi-
dency of the world through some sort
of an international government that
the universal peace Missionaries hope TO
establish at The Hague. 1t might be
a good plan to effect such a govern
ment before the choice of a universal
ruler is made. Still If 1t should hap
pen soon, although it is not likely to
be developed until the arrival of that
'chimerical thing, dubbed the millen-
MUM, Mr.. Roosevelt would be as like
ly a candidate for the job as anyone.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

The aldermen of Kansas City. Mo.
are making fine record for them
selves in the way Of the establishment
Of law and order. Missouri is any
thing but a prohibition state. yet the
city fathers of Kansas City have found
way to prohibit the operation of
saloons in various districts of the
city. and they propose to prohibit
them in certain wards and portions
of other wards. And IL they can
abolish saloons in one ward they GER
tainly can abolish them in all of the
wards. although it is hardly to be ex-
pected that they will go this far.
Nevertheless they will be doing a good
work in eliminating the saloons from
the residential districts as they are
planning to do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

General Simon Buckner-let's see
who is he? Oh, yes, he's distinguished
as having been a candidate for the vica
presidency on the ticket nominated
some years back by that emergency
party, the Gold Democrats. Weff,-aESS
how, he's stuck his head out Of oblivion
for few minutes to express his opin-
ion OF Mr.. Bryan. And, according to
him. the Nebraskan is rathed multi
tudinous. General Buckner says tina.
Mr.. Bryan is not a Democrat, rather
IS he a Popullst and also a Socialist.
Therefore Mr.. Buckner feels con-
strained to support Mr.. Taft. Prob
ably Mr.. Bryan feels awfully cut up
about this
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

lFrom the New York Press.
You can tell when q girl isn't
really in love by the way sac acts as
IL she were.
One woman's natural sense 10 worth
so mems trained reason In predica-
ment.
The average man would rather be
notorious for evil than never noticed
for anything.
The best help to self-control is to
have somebody big enough and strong
enough to sit on you.
No matter how sorry q woman is
that she married q man, she can be
glad that she kept some other
woman from getting him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

Proper attention can now be paid
by the people of the country to the
national campaign and the normal
activities of life because the nerve
wracking baseball season has been
concluded with the browning once
again of the Chicago Cubs as the
worlds champions of the game. Great,
thrice great are Mr.. Chance and his
colleagues
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

Omcers of the State Temperance
union have cut out a hard row for
themselves to hoe. even though 1t is
a most laudable one. They are going
to train their guns on congress for
the purpose of having legislation en-
acted that will stop the shipment OF
liquor into prohibition territory. Such
a statute would certainly make abso-
lutte prohibition more possible but the
trouble is that the legal lights in con-
gress have the opinion that no law
OF this kind could be passed which
would stand the constitutional tests Of
the courts. Still where there's a will
there II generally a way and the off,
eials Of the State Temperance union
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

VIII those people who are ever
harping that there is nothing new un-
der the sun. please take cognizance OF
the fact that a rifle match was recently
shot of through the medium of teleg-
ranhv2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16
MAIL ORDER LUMBER.

The retail lumber dealers of Kansas
Will nave to emerge from their seclu-
sion ana advertise like other merchants
II they want to combat the mail order
system.
Several big wreckage companies in
Chicago have invaded their territory
with flaming advertisements, and four
pound catalogues, which are bound to
interest the farmers. and lead them
captive, unless the local dealers in
Kansas do some advertising of their
own and carry on campaign of edu-
cation.
These wreckage companies may be
hollow mockeries, but they certainly
know how to. advertise their goods,
and they are shipping countless car
loads of their stuff to Kansas this fall
Farmers who have cribs or barns or
fences to build club together and send
for carloads of the "wreckage" lumber,
under the impression that they save a
lot of money. Maybe they don't save
a cent; maybe they get the worst end
every time; it is up to the legitimate
lumber dealers of the west 70 argue
that question in the public prints; and
the exercise will do them good, for, as
a class, they are about the poorest adj
vertisers in the country.-Emporia Ga
zette.
THE KANSAS YOUTH IN COLLEGE.
Every school of higher learning in
hdHSdS EepOTlS lDlS IIlOnln an III
creased attendance at the openings
over all previous years. This is highly
gratifying. Today over 5000 Kansas
young people are in the various COL
leges and universities of the state
seeking the broader intellectual life
that comes with the college training.
In addition to those studying in Kan
sas colleges hundreds have gone to
universities outside the state. The age
has changed more in the last fifty
years than in all antecedent history.
The result is a new world. The great
inventions of the age, which have
wiped out space. have made the whole
earth a mere neighborhood. The time
demands of the citizen therefore that
he shall have culture broad enough
to give him citizenship of the whole
earth. The college education is the
transforming influence which fits a
man for the larger relationships of
life In which the marvellous civilization
of today has placed him. A few years
ago a high school education was a rare
luxury; today it is but stepping
stone upon which to build a broader
holarship.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

may. by Joining hands with others in
terested in this movement, meet with
the success that everyone who has real
prohibition at heart hopes for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

There will certainly be something
doing in Kansas on the day before cleo
ton. Mr.. Bryan purposes to end the
campaign here with innumerabie
anaeches
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news Is received in The State Jour
n0aA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16
Dynamite i'm the Mailing


50 thoroughly deceptive is dynamite
IN the making that you are apt to be
disappointed in viewing the surface of
things You could more readily fancy
thunoerbolts leaping and crashing
from tender blue skies than that the
most fearful forces in creation are
nldden under such peaceful exterior.
Nltroglycerin, cupful of which would
distribute you over square miles of
landscape, is diligently mixing around
you in hundreds and thousands of gall
Ions
1t is making itself in big iron re-
torts. cascading down leaden cutters
and merrily tumbling in minute Mia
garas into immense watts. where the
deliquescent yellow peril pursues it's
journey powderward out of one re-
ceptacle 1t fares furiously through
special lead coils, driven only by cool
Ing blasts of air. and is drawn off like
draught ale and piped on to the next
perfecting stage. Gaze with the nitro
glycerin expert into one of those big
caldrons. The interior is brilliantly
illuminated by electricity. the only IL
Illuminating agency permitted in or
about the danger houses.
Around you are other houses. at
uniform distance apart, and connected
by series of narrow-gauge tracks,
wherein workmen are railroading
nitroglycerin from here and pulp cot
ton from there, to be compounded into
dynamite and blasting gelatine. Great
est care is taken in rO;iirg the prod
uct from house TO house. AS soon as
loaded cart is ready to pass out of
the nitroglycerin house, for instance,
a semiphore signals from an adjoining
station, to which the consignment is
carefully hurried.
Around you are long storehouseS
packed with pulp in tons of innocent
whiteness. Presently this pulp will
assume a tan color under the nitrating
process, and then, suddenly becoming
carbonite, red cross. hercules. judson
and giant powder, forcite, or what you
order, 1t develops the quasi virtues of
dynamite-dynamite or blasting CELIA
tine, in which more natural forces are
condensed to the cubic inch than exist
anywhere else in creation. Death,
curbed and sleeping. encircles you in
gallons and tons. Annihilation threat
ems at every turn. in the form of DO
tential pulverizing forces. But the
man and the mercury are there also,l
alert, responsive, reliable.-Leslie's
Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

Wallie-Next to woman, what Is the
most nervous thing you known Willie Gun
Observation-Disclosures to a woman
Somerville Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

His Distress.-"You look much distress
ed. Brown. Anything the matter at your
house?" Yes" "What?" Social promi-
nence."-Nashville American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

Parson-Young man, I'm surprised to
see YOU fishing on the Sabbath, I shall GER
tainly make it a subject of a sermon The
Young Man-Waal. IL it gives you an idea
for a sermon. maybe it's with 1t!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

A Familiar Observation-Disclosures
tell me you are a trusty What were you
before you were sent here? Convict No.
l5lS-I was a trustee. mum.-Judge.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

Tommy-Paw, what is the Chinese ques-
ton? Mr. .Tucker-I don't know. 1t used
to be Mr.. WI. but he's quit.-Chicago
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

did you really tell your audience that
1t would be better to steal than go hum
gry?" II did, replied the chronic orator.
Did they seem to approve your advice?"
"One of em walked away with my coat"
philadelphia Ledger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

did the burglars leave clew7'" asked
the chief. mo-" replied the new police
man they made a clean sweep."-Phil-
adelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

First Coed-What makes Prof Crank
leigh use that curious dialect? Second Co
ed-That isn't dialect It's his way of
trying to convey the idea that he uses the
simplified spelling.-Chfcago Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

What charge would they lodge against
man writing a Black Hand letter.
~Blackmail. of course. st. Louis Post
Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

knicker-Virtue Is It's own reWard.
Bocker-Yes. it only pays a scrip dividend.
New York Sun.
Teacher-Tommie. tell me what you
know about home rule. Tommie-Er-now
-er-the cook does it.--Bohemian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

What are the most powerful explosives
known?'' inquired the young man 1.-TWO
piled the ex-theatrical manager.-Chicago
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-16

Tramp-Lady, have you a pair of
trousers which your husband has discard
ed. Kind Iady-Yes. Here they are, but
they will not last long-my husband dis
cards from weakness.-Harper' Weekly.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-27
A SOciahlA A ftArn0on

Mrs. E. E. Whitney on Friday af-
ternoon received a visit from several
ladies, who appeared at her home in
body and unannounced. The ladies
carried baskets containing cake, fruit
and other delicacies and one of them
had package of crackers for Polly
Perkins, the parrot. A very pleasant
time was passed in playing various
games and a fve-o 'clock tea was
served by the hostess. Mrs. Whitney
was presented with a pretty memento
by the ladies. The leading feature
of the afternoons entertainment was
unanimously declared to be a vocal
solo by Miss Polly Perkins. but the
bird positively refused to respond to
an encore. It merely shook it's head
and calculated eff you don't get out
of here I'll call up papa!"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-27
A GOOD SUGGESTION
Princeton Should Follow St. Clouds
precedent in rlatter of Memo.
rial Day Observance.
Commercial Club and Citizens Gener-
ally Should Cooperate With
Veterans to That End,

Through the efforts of President
Havill of the commercial club of St.
Cloud a movement has been started
for better observance of Memorial
day. In proposition to the men,
bers OF that body Mr.. Havill strongly
advocated cooperation of the club
and citizens generally with the veter-
ans upon the occasion mentioned. He
gave as his reason that the old SOL
diers had reached an age when the
fatigue OF making arrangements for a
proper celebration was too much of a
physical hardship. He thought the
citizens should assume the financial
burden and do the work, but that they
should act in concert with the men,
bers OF the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. This is a meritorious sugges-
tion-a suggestion which it seems
would be we'll for other towns to carry
out, Princeton among them.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-27
No More Town Road Oyerseers.

Town meeting day is drawing near
and voters should bear in mind that
section 2 of chapter 458, general laws
OF 1907, abolishes the Office of town
road overseer, and provides in place
thereof that the town board shall ap-
point a competent road builder as
road Inspector, who shall have charge
under the direction of the county su-
perintendent of highways of the con-
struction and maintenance of all roads
and bridges in the town. There is no
county superintendent of highways in
this county, as it is not obligatory on
the county board to appoint such an
official. But the Office of road over
seer is arbitrarily abolished by Sec
ton two of the act referred to, and IT,
is made the duty of the town board to
appoint town road inspector and fix
his compensation.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-27

day evening. Mrs. Smith and the
children, who were asleep at the time,
were awakened by the barking of the
dog, which slept in the kitchen, and
in all probability the animal saved
their lives, for the house was filed
with dense smoke. Taking the chill
dren and gathering up an armful of
clothes, Mrs. Smith fled with them to
the house of neighbour, where they
we're cared for. Mr.. Smith was at the
livery barn when the fire started.
When the fire department arrived the
chemical engine was first brought into
play and a hose was then stretched
from the hydrant across the Galley
lumber yard and put into operation.
The department accomplished good
work, but nevertheless the kitchen was
destroyed and some of the other rooms
Quilted. The fire is supposed to have
originated from defective hue.
An insurance of $500 on the build
ing and 5000 on the furniture is car
ried in Guy Ewing's agency.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-27
Chad aud the Skeeters.

c. g.. Chadbourne, in a letter to
A. z. Norton, says that he expects to
leave Havana on March II and that
he will visit Porto Rico, San Domingo
and the Bermudas on his way home
via New York. Chad has tired of
Cuba. 1.-The sights are beautiful to
behold" says he, "but where a man
can't speak the language it's an
Internal nuisance, for the niggers and
Spaniards take advantage of it and
direct you wrong nine times out of
ten. have tramped many a mile out
OF my way just on this ACCOUNT
discovered upon half dozen occa-
sions that had been walking away
from instead of toward the place
was looking for. Then again, the
mosquitoes are so multitudinous that
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-27
MAGNUS-BRACE.
Chester Magnus and Maude Brace Marie
ON Monday RVeninu

Chester Magnus and Maude Brace Married
on Monday evening.
AT the residence of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Hepburn on Monday evening
at $3.50 O'Clock, Chester Magnus, an
employe of the Union Office, was
united in wedlock to Miss Maude
Brace, daughter of Mrs. J. P. Sc
lander. Rev. J. W. Heard tied the
nuptial knot and Mr.. and Mrs,
Hepburn we're witnesses to the cere-
mony.
At the conclusion of the ceremony
refreshments we're served and later
Mr.. and Mrs. Magnus repaired to the
Commercial hotel, where for a time
they intend making their home. Both
are highly respected young people of
the community and have many friends
who wish them success in life.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-27
Minnesota Society s. A. r,

The 10th anniversary of Washing
tons birthday was duly celebrated by
the Minnesota Society of the Sons of
the American Revolution, at the Gen.
trial Presbyterian church, st. Paul,
last Saturday afternoon, Hon. Chas.
Keith of this place presiding. The
program was interesting and intensely
patriotic. The Introductory address
was delivered by Judge Keith. Rev.
John E. Bushnell of Minneapolis was
the principal speaker. and he talked
eloquently of Washington and the
Royal Home of Democracy" The
music was soul-stirring and beftting
the occasion-the chorus of 1926 school
children was especially inspiring.
Judge Keith, the present president
of the society, is a lineal descendant
of a soldier of the revolutionary war.
His great-great grandfather command
ed a company at the battle of Lexing-
ton.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-27

they have raised bumps like young
carbuncles all over my body-the
pesky varmints have such tremen-
dous long bills and are so strong and
husky that believe they could bore
through an inch plank without exert
ing themselves. Natives are not
bothered by the bloodsuckers to any
great extent, but myriads of the
vampires introduce themselves to the
northerner immediately he lands and
follows him around day and night
until he departs again. The druggists
here sell preparation for keeping
the 'gallinippers,' as they call them,
from lighting on person, but the
stuff stinks so that when a man uses it
dozens of dogs will follow him about
town. At least they did me. And
then the temperature of this place. It
is as hot as-well, it is so hot that I
am sticky all the time; my clothes
40 not even dry during the night.
Enough for the present. Yours per-
spiringly, Chad"
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-02-27
THE DISTRICT SUIT.
Referee Philip NJ. Woodward Takes
Testimony of the Fourteen
Witnesses Summoned.
Evidence Will Be Submitted to Su-
preme Court aad Case Taken
Up at the April Term.

The hearing of the district II quo
warranto case came on before Philip
M. Woodward, the referee appointed
by the supreme court to take and
report the evidence, on Monday at
1870 p. m. and was a rapid-6re pro-
ceedjng. The testimony of fourteen
witnesses was taken and large num-
Der of exhibits placed in evidence. At
noon on Tuesday all the evidence was
in.
After the usual referees oath the
proceedings started with a stipulation
of record to the effect that during all
the time involved in such proceedings
Gilbert Wilkes has been and now is a
duly qualified chairman of school dis
trict II, thereby eliminating the claims
of G. II. Sandberg to that Office.
The witnesses called and sworn we're
O. A. laden, G. H. Sandberg, Chas.
Brant Mrs. o. A. laden, E. E. Whit
ney, T. E. Potts, Chas. L. Freer, Ed
ward Bauer, r. J. Peterson, Gilbert
Wilkes, 81. G. Booth, Andrew Gunder-
son, Harry Wilkes and Guy Ewing.
With the exception of two-E. E.
Whitney and Guy Ewing-the wit
nesses we're from the Mile Laos lake
country.
Attorney E. L. Mcmillan appeared at
the hearing in behalf of the attorney
generals Office for re]ator and George
Stewart of the law firm of Stewart g.
Brewer, St. Cloud, represented the
respondents.
The suit was brought by the state
on relation of the attorney general
and the respondents are O. A. laden,
Chas. Brant and G. 81. Sandberg.
Within a few days Referee Wood
ward will report the evidence to the
supreme court and the case will come
on for hearing and determination be-
fore that court at the April term on
briefs and oral argument based upon
the record. 49, s@-.-.. .. a