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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-13

FOR SALE.-One complete set of
Hawkins works on steam and electri-
cal engineering, bound in red morocco
gilt lodges. seven volumes as good as
new. Can be seen at this Office, and
will be sold cheap. :. :. This is snap IL
you want them.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-13
chIeaao oraIn Market.

Chicago, May II.
WHEAT-May, 81 OIL; July, s9OAc;
Sept. S6%c.
CoRN-May, 74c; July, S51sc; Sept,
6315o.
oATS-May, 55c; July. 47c; Sept,
37hc.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-13
East Buffalo Livestock Market.
East Rufal0 Ma ~

CATTLE-Best fat cows. S56s:
fair to good cows. s464 Is; best fat
heifers, - 5014 rs; best feeders. 81 rs
8; stockers. "a 1904 80.
HOGS-Yorkers. IS so@5 IS; pigs,
IS 60.
SHEEP-Best lambs. 81 sB97 W:
sulls, s5@e %: we&hsrs. 'ib bo8y u
GALVESTON 90
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-13
sattleship Michigan Ready to Launch

ot'NN'~0'''F ''''N'''b"'' F'tuHJ 70 IuuIIOIIs
Washington. May THE Michigan
delegation in both houses OF congress
has been invited to attend the launch
ing of the battleship Michigan. This
interesting event will occur at Cam
den, N. j., May 26.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-13
CHICAGO Provision Market.

Chicago, May IL.
PORK-July. sls 81; Sept, S1s So.
LARD-Jlly, So So.
RIBS-July, 81 35.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-13

wANTED-A janitor at Wright
Hall. Steady position to right man.
Inquire of MRS. ALBERTSON. Z
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1908-05-13

nell, sec Is, Fulton $50
Daniel slime and wife TO Cor
delia.E Bullock, e1s of swl
sec IL. Elbla -...--. 600
Mate A Rollin and hushnd to -.
Edwin Griffin and wife. pit of 1t
q ~ q Alma 45O
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-11
QUAKER MEDTTATTONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Many a woman talks like so who
isn't.
There are altogether too many WAYS
Of making people unhappy.
Even when a man is color blind he
can distinguish the long green.
Some people are so constituted that
they will accept anything but an
apology.
Lots Of girls don't return q fellows
love and don't even return his pres
ents.
We wouldn't always recognize our
own faults II we should stumble across
them.
1t is an actors ambition that eggs
him on, but it is something quite DIFF
ferent that eggs him off,
Hoax-"He always has a ready re-
tort" Joax-"Quick at repartee, Ell %
Hoax-"Not necessarily. He's a chem
ist."
Never look gift horse in the
mouth" runs the old proverb. The
advice is superfiuous. Few Of us have
an opportunity to.
wigg-"Bjones is the sort of fellow
who always gets the worst of it,
wogg-"Yes, Bjones couldn't even
buy a collar without getting it in the
neck
1--WE should give the devil his due"
quoted the Wise Guy. "Considerine
his parched condition, I dare say he is
very glad to get his dew" added the
Simple Mug.
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IDLE FREIGHT OARS.

1.-THE demand for freight cars is a
fair gauge of railroad prosperity"
says the Chicago Tribune Last year
there was a persistent cutlery from
shippers for more cars. Efforts were
made in several states to pass laws
imposing fines on roads that did not
supply cars with reasonable prompt
ness. The estimated shortage of cars
last September was about $4,000 and
the roads strove in vain to handle the
business pressed upon them.
"The panic speedily changed the
shortage into surplus. Two months
ago there were 404 900 idle cars, June
10 there were $4,000, but June "a,
the date of the last report, there were
$4,000. This is evidence that rail-
road business and earnings are i'm
proving gradually in advance of the
opening of the crop moving season.
When that shall arrive there will be
need for many more of the cars
which now are unused
"Of the cars which have been put
into commission again quite a num-
Der are coal carriers. Here Is an
other Indication of the revival of man
induSlTy. revival
means that the roads will have more
raw materials and finished products to
transport. 1t took some time for the
United States steel corporation to get
to reduction in prices. For months
it refused to lower it's rates. asserting
that buying would not be stimulated If
it were to do so. Last month 1t
adopted a more rational policy and in
creased buying has followed. That
means ultimately more business for
the common carriers
Naturally the roads would like to
see a steady reduction of the number
of idle cars. So should the shippers.
For IL the car surplus should be much
smaller two months hence and the
condition of the crops should be such
as to hold out a hope that all the
freight cars would be needed the
roads might consider it expedient to
give up their projected advance in
freight rates. Their first idea was to
raise them at the beginning of last
month. The vehement opposition they
encountered caused them to postpone
the raise until October. There will be
even more opposition then if there
should be at that time a reasonable
approach to the normal volume of
freight business and of railroad earn
ings.
1.-The sharp falling off in earnings is
the sole argument advanced for an in
crease in rates. If the. force of that
argument shall be blunted by steady
gains in earnings and a reasonable as
surance of continued gains higher
rates would be utterly indefensible.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.1

rom TIE SIlSo6o 4NC"S.1
A coat of arms doesn't always hide
the family skeleton.
1t isn't a secret if woman hesitates
in the telling of 1t.
Even a drunken man doesn't care to
be held up by footpad.
You can't fiatter an honest man by
telling him that he is honest.
A man isn't necessarily wood saw
yer because he says nothing.
Conveniences of the age include i'm
proved wigs and better false teeth.
1t takes an optimist to get more
good out of a thing than there is in it.
It's hard to work; but it's harder to
be unable to get work when you
want It.
When a pessimist takes unto him.
self a better half his worst fears are
realized.
By covering up their tracks some
men get credit for walking in the
straight and narrow path
1t is surprising how near a young
widow can come to proposing to a
man without actually doing it.
1t matters not whether a man lives
we'll or merely exists, so long as he
doesn't know the difference
Most young men will do almost any
thing a young and pretty sister asks
If she is some other fellows sister.
The worst thing about rich relations
Is the way they look down on you be-
cause you are not rich enough to look
down on them.
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imperialism instead of

them toward imperialism instead of
away from it.
But sometimes early impressions
regarding the influence or effect of
education are misleading. In most
civilized countries it will be remem-
bered that at first the untaught child
compares most favorably with the
child that is receiving instruction. The
former is apt to be more obedient and
tractable; to stand in greater awe of
authority, parental or other, a state
of mind to be highly priced where the
exercise of discipline is concerned.
The latter, however, IKE the "edu-
Gated" Filipino. at once conceives the
idea that he is possessed of a su-
pericr wisdom that should brook no
interference: If he does not know all
there is to be learned, he at least
knows all that is worth knowing, even
before he has shaken the dust of the
primary school from his feet, and he
conducts himself accordingly until he
is brought up with a round turn, SO to
speak
The round turn awaits him surely.
and 1t may be awaiting the audacious
and intolerable Filipino. Fortunately.
too. other accounts from competent
eyewitnesses are more encouraging.
In any event, It may be doubted If
there is yet reason to surrender in
despair.
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was accounted more than ordinarily
skillful at the game.
There were on a strip Of the beach
little freQuented in the evening. and
In dve minutes Vinton was down and
out and Dollie was Kneeling beside
him in the sand seeking to restore
him to consciousness. He opened his
eyes presently and smiled into Dol
lies anxious face.
1T all right" he said weakly
THAT little college student of yours
has the skill of a professional prize
fighter"
sure" assented Brady. "You was
goin some. Bo. but your company
was too fast. used to be the Cherry
the blink and I had to look for some
thin easier. been teachin' the rah-
rah boy to handle their hams lately.
It's a puddin' alongside the other
game. The doc told me. to get some
salt air for the summer, an I'm
dom 1t. I fought Terry five rounds
to a draw once" he added with
pride.
And now you are studying for col
lege?" asked Dollie wonderingly.
II was teachin'." explained the
What's all this raw about college.
anyway. When the boss cook hired
me he says. L spose you come from
college?' And told him I just come
from there. Now you're harping on
the same string"
The walters this season are all
students working their way through
college" explained Dollie. THAT was
why L"
She paused In confusion and Brady
completed the sentence for her.
THAT was why you mashed me?"
he asked good-naturedly. I'm sorry
| for you, sis, but amt the real goods.
Better stick to his joblots over there.
| He's in your class. 1 amt no heavy
weight"
Dollie regarded Paul. nursing a
rapidly blackening optic, and smiled.
| At the moment Vinton seemed any
| thing but romantic.
That's all right" interposed the
| man eater. understandingly. "A bit
| Of raw steak will fix that up. He's
! the man to tie to, all right. There
amt many chaps like him that could
| give me the run he did. You hook
| up"
THANK you. I will take your ad-
| vice." declared Dollie as she sank
| down on the sand beside Vinton and.
| seeing that he was no longer wanted,
| the man eater Slipped away, rubbing
his cauliflower ear refiectively.
IT hope he don't beat the little
DAME" he said musingly: HE sure
can hit, even II he can't lick me-" and
| the man eater never realized thai
| with Cupid as referee Paul was the
winner after all.-(Copyrighted. 1908
by Associated Literary Press.)
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Directioned ad Looie Linkenfusser. Der
Voodss.
Liebr Looie:-Fer der passed week
hat had almosd nerfless prostitution.
Der anser ISIS, I vas trying to work oudt
a invention vich I knew vas needed
by bot der messes und der ownerss ut
der country.
Eureka, (also Yates Center und HI
Dorado) I hat found i'd! My invention
is calculated to reform der vorldt.
Skince Misder Edison und Harpers'
Weekly inwentioned der funnygraft.
dere ISIS nodings like i'd. Und now, Loo
lie. NIT diapsograms und description.
atings, led you in on der secret. But
keeb i'd dark. Looie, undil gedt my
patents. Here iss der refolutionizer:
chairman's gafel. I almosd schmeU
your sniffie uf Disappointment. but
Walt, vonce. Looie. Dot iss nod all.
Connectioned NIT MY gafel ISIS a long
feldt (also caststeeD vant,-a hook Nit
der diarhoeagram herevit, you may gedt
der Idea. A stands fer der handle.-
chusd q plain handle,-B stands Ter
der bumper,-chusd a plain bumper
but &C. stands fer der blaze we're
your neck ISIS. See? Also, py opserhnq
der sketchency abofe. you may geda
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KANSAS COMMENT
A WORD OF WARNING.

The Gazette wants to warn once
more the people OF the flooded dis
tricts of the Kaw valley against graft
ers and men with schemes to stop the
floods. Man is absolutely powerless
against such floods as come down the
Kaw valley three times in five years.
To guard against them and insure
safety. would cost more than every
acre of land and every piece of per-
sonal property in the whole valley
would sell for. With man there Is
nothing impossible save when he un-
dertakes to cope with the unfettered
powers of Nature. Then he is as
pewling infant. The mighty levees OF
the Mississippi, built by the govern
ment at a cost of millions upon mil
lions, and pronounced absolutely i'm
pregnable by the greatest engineers
of the world, went down as the sand
house of a baby before the floods.
So 1t will be with ours. You may
spend million dollars in levees In
Douglas county alone, and a flood
like that Of 1903 would make monkeys
Of us all. 1t is not well to spend our
money on these defenses against the
waters, and then lose what we have
left by their destruction. If we err
in haste, we shall repent at leisure
Lawrence Gazette.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

CTrom the Atchison Globel
Every man has q scheme that won't
work
A wise man can become a fool In
a month by talking too much.
When no one is bothering him. how
beautifully a man counsels peace!
Those who have the reast need of
forgiveness are usually the quick
est to forgive.
If a man abuses his stomach when
he Is young, his stomach abuses him
when he Is old.
Woman's hand may be pale and
delicate. but she can pick up q hot
ter plate than a man.
People finally put tag on the man
who is always volunteering to oblige
his friends, but who never does 1t.
Sometimes a smoker gets a whiff
Of q cigar that reminds him Of a par
ticularly good cigar he smoked years
ago, and has lost track of.
When a man begins by saying, "Of
course 1t Is none of my business
but" it Is a sign he is going to make
1t his business. and advise you what
to do.
No man in a lunatic asylum longs
to get back to his home, and resume
the simple habits OF useful life. A
crazy man talks with spirits, and
hears strange noises, and knows of
wonderful things that are happening
When a girl begins to talk of the
Darkness of the days, 1t is one sign
that father, mother, brother sisters
and friends don't amount to as much
as 2. pin in the special scenery she
has built up in her heart for a certain
man who has grown cold.
Every place we ever worked. the
people down stairs thought the peo-
pie up stairs hadn't enough to do, and
were always suggesting that the peo-
pie up stairs take some of the down
stairs work. And the people up
stairs believed that the people down
stairs spent most of their time in
play. and should take some Of the I'D
stairs work.
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THE DREAMER


The dreamer dreamed and the busy world
Passed by with q mociing smile,
AS 1t went in search OF the worlds re.
wards,
But the dreamer dreamed the while.
He saw the world. as the world should be
When longer years had run,
And the world but paused in its work to
ask:
Pray what has the dreamer done?"
Yet ever the dreamer dreamed his dream,
Until, in some wondrous way
AS the water springing in deeps Of earth,
Finds passage to upper day
The dreamer's dream found the man Of
power
Ills strange how mems lives are knit
Who knew not the dreamer, but took his
dream
And transformed the world with it.
The world bows down to the man of
power
Forgotten the dreamer dies,
Yet the dream he dreamed Is the secret
force
That has forged mans destinies.
The Bellman.
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A LANDLORDS ACT.

More men are needed in the world
like Morris Rosenfeld. the New York
landlord who recently reduced the
rents on his fats of his own volition
because times had been and still are
hard, and many of his tenants found
1t difficult to support their families.
Without having been asked to reduce
the rental upon his properties by q
single tenant, he voluntarily reduced
his income 81 per month on each fiat.
This sum will be added to the amount
left over by each family after the
months rent is paid.
Rosenfeld is a Jew and most OF his
tenants are Christians, 50 the ties OF
religion did not prompt him. He re-
garded the matter as one of little I'M
portance when asked for an explana-
ton Of his act, and told his question
ers that his tenants had never failed
him when times were good and that
he believed 1t his duty to favor them
now. Consequently he had reduced
the rentals on his properties.
The world needs more men who
can forget self for the benefit of
others in this way. Rosenfeld was
not compelled to cut his profits. He
could have rented his flats to men
who could and would pay If his pres
ent tenants could not do so. But IN
return for fair treatment he reduced
the cost of living of those whose well
fare he controlled to a certain de-
gree as their landlord.-Salina Jour
nal.
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A DARK PICTURE.

Mrs. l.. A. Clark, who has just re-
turned from Manila, where she has
been engaged as a nurse for the past
nire years, paints a rather curious and
depressing picture of conditions in the
Philippines under our administration.
She says, in part, that Americans are
only beginners in the art of COLOMBIA
ton and that those who go to the
archipelago where she has been max
ing her observations fall into the
error of trying to treat the natives as
equals. The Spaniards. she admits.
went too far in the other direction,
but our mistake, in her opinion, is
equally grave. The race has always
been kept in subsection and ii does not
know how to behave when well treat
ed. Education breeds Stiffness and
arrogance and worse than both, idle
ness; it is impossible to till the coun-
try The conclusion reached by this
authority is that the Filipinos are
sense of honor.
This would appear to be in the
nature of disquieting information. 1t
is true, of course, that the experience
of Americans as colonizers is limited,
and If, at the outset, they must aban-
don education and depend entirely
upon tyrannical methods it may be
feared that they will never become eff
ficient guardians Of an alien people.
OF necessity the limitations and Pc
culiarities OF their subjects may force
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-11
LlYHIWKER JOTS

Just in order to be in line with the
general course of events, a wrecking
train at Salina went out on the road
and was wrecked.
Mack p. Gretchen. editor of the Sedg-
wick Paragraph, has a clever story
entitled "A Moulder of Opinion" in the
National Magazine for July.
At Grinnell some girls ate bakers
cake and are suffering from poisoning
as result They will now return to
the cake like mother used to make.
1t is reported that the engagement
OF an Elk county couple was broken
because the bride to be discovered that
He had saved up so pairs of socks that
needed darning.
Winfield tried to surprise the world
the other morning with an automobile
parade unexcelled. The world at Win
field was duly surprised at the magni-
tude of the display.
Ed Martindale, formerly Of Lawrence
and Hiawatha, but now the editor of a
paper in Mound City, Mo-, caught his
right arm in his printing press last
week and 1t was so severely broken and
crushed that it may have to be am
putated.
Abilene thinks the melon crop will
be short this year. This Is a story the
farmers always tell in an endeavor to
fool the boys, says the Salina Journal.
w. c. Pamer's idea is that if ex-
perience would only teach her valu-
able lessons before things happen in
stead of after, 1t would save most Of
us a lot of trouble.
Harry Pile told us the other day
about Tennessee acquaintance Of his
who was at the Chicago convention"
says the Osawatomie Globe. "On his
way home he came via Kansas City
and home over the Frisco. On arriving
home he said: L came through eastern
and do know I
a stalk of cotton. 1 don't see how those
people make living"
somnambulist stayed part of Tues
day night last with Frank Latshaw;
he went to bed all right, but about 10
o'clock he got up and lighted a lamp,
dressed himself and hit the pike and
when he awoke he was at Will Schou-
tens a mile away from Mr.. Latshaw'S;
he was much surprised when told what
he had done. He lived in Kingman
county. A Rural Route" tale in Pratt
Republican.
A prominent Cottonwood Falls man is
fast getting the name of being tickle
in his pets. For some time he has had
a tame crow which was the idol of his
heart. The crow has now been sup
planted by an infant raccoon which is
the apple of its owners eye. Maybe
this change was necessitated by the fact
that his crowship few away. Some say
the gentleman chased 1t away because
the bird did not come up to his ex-
pectation in being able to outtalk his
wife.
That electricity has destroyed S5 per
cent of the wheat crop in the territory
between McCracken and Scott City is
the opinion of grain men in that sec
ton. 1t is stated that during the high
winds that prevailed in western Kan
sas the atmosphere was so charged
with electricity that the wheat and
other vegetation was burnt so that 1t
was nearly destroyed. Most of 1t is
dark and dead looking and when 1t is
touched or crushed in the hand it
crumbles like dry dirt.
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A SATURDAY SERMON.
Defer not-Ecclesiastes-v:4


A single rose to the living is better
than beautiful and countless wreaths
for the dead.
III there is any good deed I can do
or kindness show" said one of the
great philosophers. -let me do 1t now.
Let me not deter or postpone It, for I
shall not pass this way again"
Multftudes of wasted lives owe their
failure to the dangerous habit Of put
ting off until tomorrow what ought to
be done today.
Procrastination steals more than
time. 1t purloins freedom, makes
slaves and debtors whose tomorrows
are mortgaged.
Nor does the michief stop here. No
man is sufficient unto himself. for his
life at every point touches other lives.
Humanity is one great family. None
can delay or postpone his work with
out infringing on the rights of others
and disarranging some part of the
social fabric. be he ever so insignif1-
cant q unit
Procrastination dulls the conscience,
palsies the will. energy and ambition
and weakens the highest springs of
character.
Work promptly done is an incentive
to new endeavor. It increases skill
gives new courage to press forward.
1t repays tenfold in the peace of
mind that comes from the conscious
ness of completed work.
Begin right and begin right away,
Is good motto with which to APP
proach a task. Its accomplishment
will then be easier.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

If a fellow IL wealthy he never has
to steal kiss.
X n
The best way to keep a cat is to try
to chase 1t away.
r y
All women are not hard to suit as a
glance at their husbands will show.
= X
The average boy believes his mother
could economic considerably on the
soap.
Because life Is not a melodrama ev-
cry fellow is not bound to get the girl
he's after in the end.
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war Is to break out In this country
during which some of the millionaires'
palaces in New York are to be looted.
1t Is equally refreshing to learn that
order viii be restored here eventually.
now that the people Of this country
know what to expect It would be well
Ior them to prepare accordingly and
extend a vote of thanks to the Ger
man who has told them what is going
10 happen but who hides under the
pseudonym of "ParabeIlum.
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HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF tho State Journal
AWAY during the summer may hav's
the paper mailed regularly each day
60 any address Mt the rate OF ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month (by
mail only.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out of town the
State journal viii be to you like a
daily letter from home.
Advance payment IS requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
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That the Germans are an inventive
and versatile people in all things is
best evidenced by a book which has
Just been written by one of them in
which the whole story of the "inevit-
able war" between the United States
and Japan is told in remarkable de-
tail. Japan gets the best of it at
first but is finally. conquered by the
forces of Uncle Sam, but not, how
ever. as would naturally be expected
from a German standpoint, until
great hordes of Europeans have en-
listed to fight under the Stars and
stripes. It is distressing to learn that
while this war Is in progress q civil