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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

The riots incident to the recent
clash between the whites and the
blacks of Springfield, ILL.,, and which
have resulted in the high crimes of
murder and arson, are not only ter
rible blot on the civilization of this
country. They are also the cause of
much uneasiness in every section of
the land where any number of negroes
live when they call forth admonitions
like the one delivered by negro
preacher in Chicago to the effect that
the negroes all over should arm them
selves for their self protection. This
preacher and others like him should
be squelched in short order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

It's not known whether President
Roosevelt will treat the lions of Africa
in the way he has been wont to handle
coyotes and wolves that is. riding up
with them, grabbing them by the
throat and choking them to death.
But he'll have to treat the lions in
some equally familiar way or the
laurels for huntin~ them will go to
Buffalo Jones. This Kansas character
intends to go to South Africa and in
dulge in the pastime of roping wild
lions with lassos.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

A special grand jury has been i'm
panelled at Springfield, Ill. to admin
lister Justice in connection with the
horrible race war that has prevailed
within the city famed in history as the
home of Abraham Lincoln, the great
emancipation of the negro race. This
body should see to it that the ring
leaders of the riots are compelled to
pay heavy price for Springfields
shame.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers Of the State journal
AWAY during the summer may havr
the paper mailed regularly each day
90 any address mt the rate OF ten cents
. week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only.) Address changed as ofseu
ns desired. While out OF town the
State Journal win be to you like o
daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions. to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFrom the New York Press.J

IFrom the New York PressJ
Some novels are written Tor thinking
people, but most of them for women.
What q girl likes about an old beau
IL the way she can quit him for a young
one.
Probably IL summer hotels had any OF
the comforts people get at home they
wouldn't go to them.
What makes a college boy proud is IN
have somebody recognize he is one by the
way he smokes his pipe.
The greatest pleasure a woman has
from going out to dinner at q resfauranf
which they really didn't.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

billion dollars has been unnecessarily
taken from the consumers of the
country through the tariff for the
dement, of the already rich. This
means that $50 has been taken from
each man, woman and child in the
United States more than was neces-
sary and adequate to protect Ameri-
can Industry.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

Considerable impetus has been
given to Mr.. Taft's chances for cleo
ton. Cervera. the Spanish admiral,
who bowed in defeat before Admiral
Schley at Santiago Bay. announces
that he is for the Republican candi-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

Ever are things in Arkansas, ques-
tionably famous as the home of jeff
Davis, an United States senator, run
ming from the sublime to the ridicu-
lous. Two girls have just been indicted
there on a charge of disturbing pub
lie worship because they Uttered in
church
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

The Democrats must have an untold
quantity of spellbinding material this
year because Congressman Champ
Clark Of Missouri has been booked for
only two speeches a day from Septem-
Der 1 until the eve of election. Champ
is capable of at least dozen speeches
a day as we'll as innumerable talks
sandwiched in between them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

Prince Eitel son of Emperor Will
liam of Germany, saws wood and does
gardening as a cure for obesity. This
may be an efficacious remedy but it
will hardly become a popular one.
Most fat folks would prefer to worry
along with their fleshy increments
rather than attempt to work them off
in any such as strenuous way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

It's small wonder from the figures
he has in his possession that Francis
r. McGovern, the Republican candi-
date for United States senator from
Wisconsin is an ardent tariff reformer.
He has statistics TO show that during
the past ten years an aggregate Of fve
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

Quite a few champions OF the pee
pull" are frisking about these days.
Debs, Watson, Hearst and few others
seem determined to divide the honors
in this regard with Bryan and Taft.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19

This monkey business, or making
monkeys of themselves. seems to run
in the Caruso family. Mrs. Caruso
has eloped
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19
WHAT'S THE USE.

will agree that yesterday
Was hot. and if you please
VIII agree that with the heat
Came very little breeze.
Will admit that I perspired,
But even though you doubt 1t,
1 must protest I had no time
To kick about it.
round the sun was blazing hot
And hurried for the shade;
And twice I sat me down to drink
A cooling lemonade
ana through the day I realized
My clothes to me were sticking.
But still couldn't see the sense
In kicking.
Hot days are like a lot of things
That come to us through life;
we couldn't change them IL we would,
Each day with them is rife.
The little crosses we must bear
Are parts of Gods designing:
And l am sure we get no help
From whining.
Detroit Free Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19
The Latest Rarebit Dream.

The writer had a dream last night
in which he saw our fleet of warships
anchored in a large land-locked har-
Dor surrounded by hills. Everything
seemed calm and peaceful. The scene
then changed and it was night. 1
seemed to be able to look beneath the
waters, and saw several submarines
about to attack the fleet. Frequent
explosions now took place amid great
confusion. All the ships seemed to be
sinking.
1t may be superstitious, but believe
in dreams. If you can do so. through
the medium of your journal. try to get
the authorities to allow only one or
two of the battleships at a time to en-
ter any harbor while in Japanese wa
ters 1 have lived ten years in the
Orient, and have little faith in any of
it's people.--Brooklyn letter, in New
York Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19
New Use for Fort Brown.

mot a long while ago the name of
Brownsville was on every tongue be-
cause Of the memorable episode which
resulted in the discharge Of battalion
Of colored soldiers stationed there"
said Capt. D. B. Draper. Of San An
tonic, Tex.
by reason of the unfortunate oc-
currence, the military post there was
abandoned, and the old fort will never
more house any of Uncle Sans troop
ers. But it was too good a piece of
ground to let go to waste, and the
reservation has been turned into a
fiourishing agricultural experiment
station. Old Fort Brown now presents
the smiling face of a semitropical gar
den. Beautiful orchards and lovely
gardens TEEN with fruits and vege-
tables, it being the purpose of the gov
eminent to show that the lower Rio
Grande valley is capable of growing
excellent crops, that will bring top
prices in the market by reason of their
maturing much earlier than in other
parts of Texas.
Melons and grapes Of extra quality
have been raised this season by the
governments agents, and there is a
fine prospect that in the new capacity
the ancient fortress will be of even
greater value to humanity than when
it was kept solely for military uses"
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19
The Ohio Passport.

with all due respect to the state
department at Washington and not at
ali resenting it's determination to mon
opolize the passport business" said
Opha Moore, of the governors office.
the other day. IT must say that those
who have used our passports have tes-
titled that they were able to realize
upon them when those issued at Wash
ington were apparently valueless. One
man, friend of mine. was once stop
ped by officers in Germany for over
speeding his automobile. When he
showed the officer his Washington
passport it had no notifying effect,
but when that of the governor of Ohio,
with its three inch caliber gold seal
attached Eve were always liberal in
that regard), was flashed. the officer
uncovered, bowed low, and begged the
gentleman's pardon. Dis
patch.
And the Crow Said ssThank You"
Although his pet crow had a split
tongue and could talk. Justice of the
Peace 1. w. Valentine of this place, to-
day killed the bird. which had ac-
ouired the habit of killing and eating
little chicks and ducklings belonging
to neighbors. The justice said the
most irritating feature of the bird S
depredations was that it always said
THANK you as it finished a meal, and
never forgot to say it after it had
eaten one of the birds it killed.
| The crow learned the little chicks
and ducklings were good eating, and
helped itself. This morning it was
| discovered. The bird had made q fine
meal on fat little duckling, and was
| saying THANK you" over and over. as
| If to express his delight
| Here, you thief, I'll have your life
| for this" said the owner of the little
| duck, as he bounced on and seized the
/ crow.
Thank you," said the crow as he
/ was carried off. The justice killed the
/ bird when he heard of it. 1t Is said
that the crow could drive cattle home,
using voice and beak.-Coldsprine
Harbor dispatch to Now York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-19
Brftain's Tiny Possessions.

OsC~ScAOAASs
That very latest addition to the
British empire. Coetivy island. is not
the smallest single bit of territory
reigned over by King Edward.
For Coetivy, although little more
than a chunk of volcanic rock, dump
ed down by nature in the middle of the
Indian ocean, is between eight and
nine square miles in extent; and this,
for desert island, is quite a respec-
table size.
1t is, for instance, at least ten times
as big as Pudding island, in the Tonga
group. which is, by latest reports. less
than mile in circumference. The
area of this latter, too, is gradually d.
minishing, owing to the disintegration
and subsistence of the coral base on
name from its striking resemblance to
the top half of pudding, the barrier
reef which entirely surrounds it stand
ing for the rim of the basin.
Then. again, there is Beehive island,
in the South Pacific, which rises from
form to a height of four hundred feet.
in a smooth dome-shaped hill of
polished basalt, exactly resembling a
beehive. Its area altogether is less
than thousand acres. Nevertheless,
on the ledge surrounding the mac
cessible central dome, are some two
hundred natives, who support them
selves by fishing.
Conway island is another curiosity
in smallness. 1t Is feet above the
water. and measures barely $50 yards
in one direction by about so in an
other.
Ninepin island, near st. PauPs. in
the Southern Indian ocean, is shaped
exactly like a gigantic ninepin, and
nobody has ever succeeded in climb
ing to the top. But its total area can
not exceed a few score acres. Hunter
island is another tiny portion of the
British empire upon which no one has
ever set foot, although it was discov-
cred by Capt. Fearn, of the Hunter, so
long ago as 1898. 1t is an oblong
block of volcanic rock, rising sheer
from the sea to the height OF 1000
feet, and measures half a mile long
by one-third of a mile in BREADTH
Pearson's Weekly.
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-12-10
arpsning,l Self iighltteningg Scissor, to Hustler Readers
Township Road Fund ,

Green River Mfg Co.'s SO
C N Fetch, Hoopers Cr- 90
w B Justice, HendersOnville16 Is
NE Gillian, Blue RIDGE 8 90
is Morrison Go, plow---11 60
Total 81 81
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-12-10
June.

ELC Patterson. calm court.
VIC Rains, jdge of electin
D jdge Of election
"a S McClain
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-12-10
Total
February

G W Corn haul. coal for CO. 10 80
James Lee keeper Co. home IS 20
B F Station ser.Sas elk. I'D. % 81
Electric L &PCo. lights 8 90
wv Mcintyre plumb. at jail 8 20
Clark Hdw. Co. hdw. for Jail 9 80
Walker Evans, Go bks stat
ionery reg. Office AZ 80
Walker Evans Co. bks stat
ionery for c. S. G IL 90
Wanteska Trust Co Insur-.
ance on court house 220 90
M Pace stat. for office 8 36
exam lunatic 230
Proctor Coal Co coal for CO. 81 90
Waldrop exam. lunatic 200
] G Waldrop med ser for co 10 80
TB Conner ser as fireman 80 90
jail fees "a 80
] H Dittmer plumb. at CT 10 go
CIV Brooks wood for jail 90
J F Jones ser. as com 8 10
H-ville Mer. Co mds. for Co Ito
DIR Egerton meeting BIB 200
C E Pless Stationery etc: l 55
Otis Powers shf fees $40
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-12-10

Mrs J Hollingsworth
3 E Laughter
Rachel Jones
Ernest Rheese
Walter Corn
Total
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-12-10

August.
James Lee, keepg co home So 95
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-12-10
TOtal

General County Bridge Fund
w O Johnson H-ville Twp 10 90
w johnson H-ville Twp 10 90
Walter Byers go
Landrum Taylor lin, labor 26 %
o Morgan lumber IA 90
J R j Shipmar lumber 90
Nv Pittillo Blacksmith wk. / SO
Joseph Hamilton repair
ing bridge q 90
Total 500 50
The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1908-12-10
General County Bridge Fund


Hicks McCrary, lumber 81
M S Livingston III TO
P B Gibbs, 62
Hicks McCrary ~ %
O6
Edgar Merrell, work. - 90
Total - 72 II
General County Road Fund.
John Gallian, meal for gng 5 10
B B Souther, salary & sup 81 OF
Tom Liverett, salary---- 80 90
w A Britain, supplies IA 90
P F Patton, salary---- Is 90
B F Station, issu speel Gins $40
R T Drake, work -- 5 SO
w N Cornwell, as overseer 10 90
] o Williams, merchandise 82
] B Willis, Hoopers Creek 20
Total----- 18o 81
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-23
PreservatiVe.

After 1ounging away the first two
weeks of his vacation on the farm a
Georgia student received rather in
sistent notice one morning that the
carriage needed washing. Finding
tub full of water near the pump,
he proceeded to ask whether it might
be used for his purpose.
"Jim," he said to one of the old
darkies on the place, what do they
use that tub for?"
II don't know, Marse George" re.
piled the negro, "jes zactly what dey
do use dat tub foh"
ooh, pshaw, JIM" said George, i'm
periously Been here a whole year
and don't know what the tubs for?
What do they do with it?''
We'll, massa," said Jim, at his
wits end, 81 reckon dey jest uses
dat tub fob to keep water in fob to
keep it from leakin' ''-Harper's Week.
ly
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-23
The Quest of Two Moons.
BY FRANKLIN WELlES CALKINS.

ed not of its truth, smacked of i'm
probability. They declared that they
would get those thieving Sioux if
they had to starve them out! Had
they been within the reservation linn
it's, l might have made my authority
felt, but they were we'll outside my
Jurisdiction; and I saw that neither
threat nor persuasion could avail.
After some talk / went back to
where / had posted Chaska-Two
Moons father-only to find that he
was gone. I knew then that, in spite
of my injunction, he had passed the
word of his boys plight out over the
agency. The cow-men must back
down in the end, or fight my Brules.
"The wretched prospect of another
Indian uprising was staring me in
the face, and / had not even COM
municatiOn by wire with the outside
world. I went back to the cow-men,
to be witness against them and for
my Indians in the last extremity.
Had the night been dark, should
have had hope that Little Chief and
Two Moons might crawl through the
lines or make a dash and get away;
but there was a brilliant full moon,
and man could be seen quite plainly
at 200 yards. The cowboys stood,
or grimly sat, at intervals of fifty
yards, and rabbit could not have
passed their line without discovery.
Farrell was not at all pleased to
see me when l bivouacked at his
stand. He was offish in conversation,
not exactly rude, but with a tone
which said, You may camp here, it's
a free range-too free for interfer-
ence of any sort!
by midnight other cow-men be-
gan to arrive, and by daylight there
were twenty-five or thirty at hand.
Evidently these men expected a sortie
by the agency Sioux, and were pre-
pared to fight. Losses from stock
'rustling' of late had exasperated the
whole district Of the Antelope. Each
man of these besiegers carried mag
azine gun and two revolvers, and was
belted with metallic cartridges, so
that, in the distance, he appeared to
be uniformed in copper plate.
II knew that, if not interfered
with, they would rush my Indians
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-23
Mirth and Medicine.

/ know of nothing equal to a
cheerful and even mirthful converse
ton for restoring the tone of mind
and body, when both have been over
done. Some great and good men, on
whom very heavy cares and tolls
have been laid, manifest a constitu-
tional tendency to relax into mirth
when their work is over.
Narrow minds denounce the in
congruity; large hearts own God s
goodness in the fact, and rejoice in
the wise provision made for prolong-
ing useful lives. Mirth, after ex-
haustive toll, is one of natures in
stinctive efforts to heal the part
which has been racked or bruised.
You cannot too sternly reprobate
frivolous life; but If the life be
earnest for God or man, with here
and there a layer of mirthfulness
protruding, soft bedding to receive
heavy cares, which otherwise would
crush the spirit, to snarl against the
sports of mirth may be the easy and
useless occupation of q small mah,
who cannot take in at one view the
whole circumference Of large one.
-Arnot
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-23

and end the business as soon as they
had coffee and bite to eat. While a
detail was passing coffee and hard
biscuit along the line, my Sioux put
in an appearance. To the number of
fifty odd these filed out of coulee,
in glitter of oiled guns and copper
shells, and took position, sitting their
horses, like group of bronze and
armored statues, at 600 or 100 yards.
They were the pick of my agency,
armed, doubtless, with all the guns
and cartridges that could be collected
on Antelope Reservation.
"The cow-men paid this formidable
party no apparent heed, but pro-
ceeded calmly with the bread and
coffee. Yet / knew that a fight was
imminent, and without providential
interference could not be delayed be-
yond few minutes. I begged per-
mission of Farrell to go to their
covert and have an interview with
Little Chief and Two Moons, but after
brief talk with some of his men, he
refused my request.
"The tragedy was at hand. The
men had finished eating and were
looking to their weapons and hitch
ing their cartridge-belts into position,
and a detail had brought up their
horses for distribution when, at the
head of the coulee and in their CEN
ire, saw fiuttering rag, apparently
thrust up out of the ground.
Il lost no seconds in pointing this
out to Farrell, who was about TO
mount his horse.
They want to talk, / said. Let
them, and I will interpret
Farrell scowled fiercelya at the
pitiful signal, and swept the outlying
Sioux with swift glance of sus-
picion. Then he turned to me.
WE'LL he growled, holler at EN-
if it'll do you any good; but don't
give 'em any notion they can get away
from what's coming
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-23
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

neutrality-suspicious. as theycannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness and that is by constr
tutional remedies. Deafness is caused byan
mfamed condition Of the mucous lining of
The Eustachian Tube. When this tube is IN
tanned you have a ,rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when. it is entirely closed
deafness is the result, and unless the intiam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to it's normal condition, hearing VIII
bedestroyed forever. Nine cases out Of ten
are caused bycatarrh, which is nothingbttan
m1amed condition Of the mucous surfaces.
we VIII give One Hundred Dollars for any
case ofDeafness Caused bycatarrh) that can.
not be curedby Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars free. Ed. CHENEY & Co., Toledo o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for consultation.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-23
Costly Necklaces.

The most costly necklace in the
world belongs to the Countess
Henckel, lady well known in Lon
don and Paris society, the value O..
which is said to be $25O,0OO. It is
really composed of three necklaces,
each of historic interest One was
the property of the ex-Queen of
Naples, sister of the late Austrian
Empress: the second was once the
property of Spanish grandee; while
the third was formerly owned by the
Empress Eugene. Not long ago a
necklace composed of Az pearls, in
eight rows, the property of the late
Duchess of Montrose, was sold for
$4,000. The Empress Frederick of
Germany is said to have possessed a
necklace of thirty-two pearls, worth
at least 100000, while Lady IL
chester's necklace of black pearls is
valued at about $125, O00.-Tit-B Bits.
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1908-01-23

This woman says that sick
women should not fail to try
Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound as she did.
Mrs. A. Gregory, of 1856 Lawrence
St., Denver, Col, writes to Mrs.
Pinkham:
81 was practically an invalid for six
years, on account of female troubles.
underwent an operation by the
doctors advice, but in few months I
was worse than before. A friend adj
vised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound and it restored me to perfect
health, such as have not enjoyed in
many years. Any woman suffering as
did with backache, bearing. down
pains, and periodic pains, should not fail
to use Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
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