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Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-07-23
Walnut Crow
D It's al Joplin.

ner, Tall OF Is at Joplin.
l.e Driver has sold MS far,n a. La.
lln,a, Colo. and nlo.s'1 10 Kansas.
Mrs Nav nowuna,l AND IN, drcn have
been visiting al hcs Jton.a>'.
Al icr c-rGr .upp'r Hill lie given at
Fr-&@s: .@a~.,h Saturday night.
.'en,6r w,1 asa.- ru-!, plo~ing corn
I'm .scrk.
III. rcad Mrs J J. Talbot visited At
jia,~o"i Thomas lat sunday.
.Thom.s rA.h~u and Klein will put up
lhe bc..nna hay.
Elmer AID Marina Ecrfrot. N South
hrrp"n. are al r. y. TOfd's.
Duj:e run'her 81 pe"pic are having
j.. cream socInls.
4 number NJ RUNAWAY team, have ,sen
reported ii,e'y.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-07-23

Miss Mary Kaufman vii! teach five
months term Of school at Excelsior
Mary is a good teacher.
Miss Lizzie Holloway, of Glens,ed,
and Mis-. Jessie Barlow, Of Upton, visited
in this vicinity las, week.
MIR. and Mrs W. Kaufman enter
tanned u number Of young friends Sasur'
day night in honor of their daughter 's
birthday anniversary.
Harvesting and threshing is in progress
here Wheat, oats and hay are gots.
and the work In saving it is ~rry hard.
1t does one good 10 see sar @aces and
stacks of hay, wheat and osts. snd corn
is looking tine, sosnc lear II a drought,
but Indications are SOW for rain in time
TO sa,e the corn c'aI,.
I ast Friday, Mr. sam Ramer started
10 town. driving Chr horse 10 q bpEgy.
The hosA< is SUPPOSED ~ have become
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-07-23
Boys Essay on Girls.

Girls is sisters M Toys and has long
hair, wears dresses and powder The
first girl WAS called Christmas eve though
I never could te!l Why. Most every fam.
lily has onr e.fl and some ofem that Is
in poor irek has two or three. We have
a girl IT, onrn who is my sister.
GMis ean grow older and get younger.
Ny sister has been twenty-five for the
last three yesrs snd some day We may pe
twins. Girls play tie pisnn-' ssd Mit
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-07-23

to each other. rn git'' wan.'o b" .hts
and thin girls waat to oe fat asl al
oi'em wan, to ma,ry dood'
Why the lord mad. sh" so,osiy
knows. hss. I Ihihs h ~-~ to 10 to
church .nN eat ice cram, There is
three Kinds II girls, hrun~t girls. b'orl
eitls and them that has money. Girls
xre afraid ot mice and bugs, which
'r,sses II eun 10 put EN- down their back,
u, a. F. I. a.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-07-23

t~tS,,rned, ,hrowing him ou, of the bug.
Hy anti badly injuring him. Wcs Thom.
as iound hin, on the road and took him
to Dr. Lutnian Office where his hurts
we're relieved. Nr. Rauncr docs not re.
men.irr anything at all, and all they
know is supposition. The buggy wa.
demolished. lie now At home and
doing an we'll ~ could be expected.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1908-07-23

The brightest thundcrbolt comes iron,
the darkest sky. II you have = friess,
stick TO him rather than stick him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09

arch disciple Of the do-nothingism of
the present congress- Although he is
In the feather-weight class, physically,
he appears to be quite big enough to
hold down the congressional lid at all
hazards and there is no Indication
that as a result of his talk with the
president he has any desires or inten-
tions to do otherwise than to keep it
firmly in place. And then one Of his
biographers has the nerve to say that
Joe Cannon is in sympathy with the
presidents policies, and for that rea-
son is entitled to the Republican
presidential nomination.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
yAYHAWKER JOTS

Kingman is boasting that the county
Jail had not held prisoner for two
years.
The editor Of the Altoona Tribune
took in six or seven dollars last week
on subscription and bought a suit of
clothes. He is now being called a plu-
tocrat.
Down at Rest, in Wilson county, the
correspondent says that everyone is
working hard planting corn. What's
the use living in Rest if you are COM
PEELED to work? queries the Wichita
Eagle.
A Pittsburg man, who has heretofore
been skeptical about the good Of reform
schools, is no longer a doubter. He
picked up a hungry and homeless boy
and gave him job, which Included
plenty to eat and some current coin,
and at the end of his first week the
poor. friendless waif tapped his bene-
factors till for $31
McMullin Brothers new hearse has
arrived. 1t is one of the most artistic
funeral cars we have seen in the west.
The carving is of the highest type,
the silver adornments are very beauti-
full, it is equipped with removable
slipping about even on the toughest
roads, has rubber-tired wheels and
altogether has the dignity and the
necessities that fit occasions upon
which it must be brought into USE
Anthony Bulletin.
According to Will Townsley of Great
Bend man in that town is in the habit
of saying the first thing as he enters
his house at noon: us dinner ready?"
His wife has tried a number of ways
to get him to say something else first,
but has been unsuccessful. The inquiry
CRATES on her ears, and on Monday she
painted her nose yellow and put blue
rings on her cheeks. He stared at her
for a moment and then asked II dinner
was ready. She was SO mad she threw
the dinner off the table and broke some
of the dishes.
"a few days ago." says E. w. Howe
| in the Atchison Globe. 1--WE received a
letter from Lincoln J. Steffens. the
magazine writer, but we have been I'M
able to read it, the writing Is so bad.
Among those who have tried to read
the letter and have failed are: w. A.
Jackson, an attorney; J; >. SKINNER, =
F. Gannaway and ]. L. Robinson, train
dispatchers; Wilbur Hawk and Charley
Rice, both graduates of the Atkinson
| county high school, and the latter a
railway mail clerk; Tom Byrne and
Walt Eastlack, pharmacists, who nave
to read doctors prescriptions; w. +
Ham. chief of police, and Church
White, ex-chief of police; John Klop-
fenstein. ex-county superintendent; a
B. Wyatt, street commissioner; T.. H.
johnson, Will Fox. Ed Lukens and Geo
Lichtenstein, business men, and Sey-
mour Haynes, postal clerk. s. r. Bee
| be glanced at the letter, but remarked
that he hadn't time to read 1t. w. l..
Meeks, Postal Telegraph manager
wanted to bet his clothes and watch
that he could read it in five minutes,
but he didn't read it in an hour: II
YOU think you are an expert, call at
the Globe office and read this letter,
! for we are really anxious to know What
Mr.. Steffens has to say.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09

vestigatfon. If Great Britain possesses
the secret of an explosive of high pow
er that can be carried in the magazines
OF ships without danger of spontaneous
illumination through chemical changes.
she is not likely to reveal It to the
other powers, as 1t is too valuable an
advantage to- deliberately ignore On
the other hand. if it can be made to
appear that Great Britain has a safer
smokeless powder, the chemists may
secure a clue that will make such
powder common property and thus
guard the seamen of the future against
the fate of the men who have thus far
been blown up by magazine accidents.
Great Britain has had her share of
naval accidents, but they have been
mainly during the maneuvering Of
fleets and experiments with torpedo
boats and submarine craft. In the line
of explosions she has had only a few
gun accidents. This may be signifi-
cant, or. as has been said, it may be a
matter of luck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
THE MODERN PATCH.

While the baby state of the union is
bending all Of it's youthful energies to
the solution of the problem of self
government, the state doomed perpet-
ually to be the smallest of the sister,
hood is wrestling with the problem of
remodeling it's constitution to meet
modern conditions. The Rhode Is
land legislature has just passed reso-
buttons to submit to the voters the
proposition to change the fundamen-
tai law Of the state so as to place suf-
frage approximately on a population
basis. With this proposed amend
ment goes one to give the governor
the veto power. Like Connecticut the
state of Roger Williams elects its leg
islature with practically complete dis
regard for the distribution of the
population. The state lawmaking
body is made up of representatives of
towns. Although this system appear
ed fair enough generations ago before
the tendency of people to segregate in
large cities became pronounced, it is
manifestly unfair now; the large
places have a grossly inadequate rep
resentation while some of the towns,
whose population has decreased un-
der the stress of modern trade, enjoy
undue influence at the state capitol
The effort to correct the evils of
the present Anticipated system has Of
ten been attempted both in Connecti-
cut and Rhode Island, but the towns
| have been jealous of their rights and
successfully resisted efforts to shear
them of some of their power. Now
that the latter has finally got its leg
islature to act, it would appear that the
people of the cities ought to be able
to pass the amendment at the polls
The issue is somewhat complicated
by the veto question, but in spite OF
this the signs appear to indicate that
our tiniest state is about to place a
modern patch on her ancient consti-
tutional garment
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
Meat in Moderation.

81 notice." said DR.. j. K. ,Ballinger, OF
San Francisco, at the Belvedere, that
the newspapers speak Of the serious ILL
ness of Senator La Toilette, OF Wiscon-
sin. His ailment is said to be stomach
trouble and this reminds me that the
senator has been frequently mentioned
in the public press as devoted vege-
tartan. He was said to boast Of retain
ing good physical condition on a diet
Of nuts and vegetables.
without pretending to know any
thing of his particular case, must say
that the vegetarian theory is open to
grave objection. While it is not well to
eat too much meat-a sin most Ameri-
cans commit-the entire elimination of
meat from the daily menu is not to be
recommended. The experience of man.
kind for several thousand years is not
to be disregarded, and for all the GEN.
turtles of which we have any record
man has been a carnivorous animal
Baltimore American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.]

rFrom the Atchison Globe.1
ANYTHING is work that a man is
compelled to do.
We are somewhat fussy. but we do
not object to man yelling when ne
has a tooth pulled.
If you are a man, you PROBABLY pc
lieye that some other man is receiving
credit for your work.
man who has an ear for music,
should have another ear for practicing,
and the performances of amateurs.
This is what telling your troubles
amounts to: Every person to whom
you show your boil has a boil that is
bigger.
There are some choir leaders who
act as il they believe the music in
heaven will not be worth hearing until
they get there to direct 1t.
When the under dog begins spending
his time asking for sympathy, instead
of working to get on top, he is liable
to always be the under dog.
When the men find a blonde hair on
a mans coat, although they all know
his wife has black hair, they laugh,
and are merry. Instead, they should
refuse to speak to the man until he
offers a satisfactory explanation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
Old Fashioned Spring Medicine.

The lower class Of Italians have
splendid compilations. which they at
tribute to drinking in May and April
an ample sufficiency of dandelion steep
ed In gin. This infusion awakens the
torpid liver and quickens the circula-
ton of the blood, opens the pores of the
skin and healthif1es the endothelium
throughout the body. Even the babies
have their regular spring doses of this
blood purifier.
The old-time German doctors pre-
scribed SIENNA as spring medicine,
and the descendants Of their patients
use it to this very day as faithfully as
the Italians use dandelion and gin.
SIENNA leaves can be had of any drug
gist. Ten cents worth will straighten
up an entire family. Never make tea
of it by boiling. If you do you will
have something worse than green ap-
pie gripes or green corn collie. DR..
Berckman says: Soak a pinch Of
leaves fifteen hours in cold water,
strain and drink before going to bed.
Repeat this about once a week for
April or May."-New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
A Test Of Honesty.

Men are men. as oysters are oysters.
Most human creatures do as they
initiating fact illustrated almost in
everyday life.
In this connection we may advance
the theory that policemen, culled from
the human hive, are about as honest as
men in other walks, and no more so.
Many OF my readers will recall the
severe test that the Chicago Herald
once made of average honesty among
the people of the Windy City. 1t
demonstrated the fact, which every
cosmopolitan already knew, that men
inclined toward honesty sometimes
yield to temptation.
The plan Of that city editor was to
have pocketbooks containing various
walks in the most fashionable section
of the town. A special detective was
assigned to shadow the finder in each
case, in order to report as to that in
dividuars conduct. In each portemon,
naie was a card. giving the name and
address Of the supposititious owner,
and asking for the return of the wallet.
in case of loss.
The record was very discouraging to
a believer in average honesty. Out of a
decoys, three were promptly returned.
without any demand for reward. Five
were advertised; but, in one notable
case, the amount of money was de-
cided1y less than the wallet had con-
tanned! Several other parcels had
been picked up by men and women on
their way to church-not one Of which
was advertised or returned to the ad-
dress given!
The name of each finder was ascer-
tanned. Whether all were published
or not has slipped my memory. But
they ought to have been. A law stands
upon the statute book Of every state
making the retention of lost money or
jewels an act of larceny on the part
of the finder.
The criminal code of this state is
precise upon this point; but it is quite
probable that test applied to our
citizens would not show any higher
| degree Of general integrity than the
Chicago trial exhibited.-Julius Cham
bers in the Brooklyn Eagle.
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Looie Linkenfusser. somevare in
Dear Looie: Hating receifed your
postage card from der Chawcaw8o
zooanimal fectory, will wroten dis to
dere. a1dough I do nod know vich cage
to address, i'd ad, yet. Aldough. you are
nod ad home-you Will gedt used to Id
howefer-I egspect you would like to
hear der noos, derefore Will addempt
to kick der said noos into a small
peckach, und frontvards i'd to you COL
lect.
Der vedder here ISIS cross between
rain und baseball. Der baseball Deas-
son, howefer, is sigs jumps behind
der rainy season. You know base
ball season ISIS nefer really oben undill
some Ut der jumpers vich iss umping
der game, hat peen s1ugged on der
chaw.
Our oldt colIeche chumbp, Cawl-
will be gone kvite a vile, but he prom
Used me dot UT would hold hiss chob
he would bring be back a sack NJ
Europeanuts. He also gate me der
pipe dot he would look fer someding
| neat in shirt-vaists vile he vas in Paris.
Berhaps you notised in der baper
vich I sent you dot Misder Tucker
vept, but be treasured, Looie, he
schmiled later. Der chury said he vas
nod guildy. but he musndt do i'd some
| more.
! Der dandelfon crop In der Staff
Haus lawn ISIS sdill doing veil. Der
chanitor's keep oop signs vich sayss,
"Keebp ouf der dandelions," er words
| to dot effect. Der only weeds vfch il
destroyed on der Staff Haus lawn iss
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
A YOUNG MANS FANCY.

A YOUNG MANS FANCY.
In the spring young mans fancy always
turns to thoughts Of how
ne Win get his new spring wardrobe; so
there's care upon his brows
For the. fashions seem to alter in a very
And i, what late was very stylish seems par
ticularly jay.
While his last springs suit looks almost
as 1t did when 1t was new,
sun. the coat length is excessive and the
buttons are two few.
And the waistcoat's cut too low. or else
IT'S just a trifle high.
And 1t seems to him that surely he must
get new supply.
There are shirts to be considered: he must
nave some new ones made,
for the shirts that he possesses are not
quite the proper shade.
When he thinks about his footwear he
For the very SWEETEST dressers now wear
buckles on their shoes.
He must think about his collars, he must
think of his cravats
ana share of his attention is demanded
by his hats.
You nay talk about the wonderland YOU
very likely do
But the young man in the springtime has
his share of troubles, too.
For a care for his appearance he is by no
And In thinking of the fashions he's no
time for thoughts of love.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.1

From the New. York Press.
1t takes a lot of the pleasure out of
gossip for women to have it true.
The average person thinks he's
truthful II he only lies when it's con-
venient.
quitoes is they bring the season of
openwork things they can bite
through.
Families were invented so a man
wouldn't run the danger of getting the
idea he had enough money for his
needs.
One of the perfectly natural things
about this world is the way a bald
head man will recommend a hair
tonic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
A PROBLEM FOR CHEMISTS.

Investigation of the cause of the
explosion which caused the sinking of
the Japanese cruiser Matsushima with
over two hundred officers seamen and
cadets, ought to arouse direct interest
in every nation which maintains a
navy. The magazines of the Inflated
cruiser blew up while the majority of
those on board were in their ham
mocks or hunks, and while the guards
were alert on deck. There is there
fore no escape from the conviction
that the explosion was due to spon-
taneous combustion in the magazine.
Accidents of this kind have occurred
in three conspicuous instances. Ac-
cepting the growing belief that the
Maine was accidentally DESTROYED,
there have been explosions of maya
zines on United States, French and
Japanese warships. Great Britain has
thus far been immune from magazine
explosions, but whether this has been
due to good fortune alone or to differ
ences in the constituents of the ex-
plosives is matter of interest that
can be revealed only by formal in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-09
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IFrom the p

TFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The spring fever germ is in our
midst.
We are never too old to learn the
latest wrinkle.
Many a woman with good backing
wears q false front.
The shoe dealer should be the sole
owner of his business.
It's a good thing to bottle your
wrath and then lose the corkscrew, =.
Even the most accomplished hustler
can't catch up with tomorrow.
No. Maude, dear. every man who
smokes doesn't wear a stovepipe hat.
Here's where I get a head of the
grocer" remarked the shrewd woman
as she bought cabbage.
First Tooth-"Have you ever been
hlled?" Second Tooth-"No, but f'n
just aching for a chance"
The doctor feels that he has come
to the end of his patience when he
completes his professional calls.
The delegation. of eight workmen
entered the office of their employees
I'VE have come to discuss the sftua.
tion,' they said. "Cit you eieht." In
vited the boss. Whereupon the work.
men were 80 affected 1t this now of
wit that they forgot their argumeuta-
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The best belongs to those loved.
There are times when the worlds
standards of value are to be disre-
garded. and life's uttermost treasure
to be poured forth freely as a love
token. Who does not know exper-
fences which can not be measured by
the worlds yardsticks or weighed in
the worlds scales, or entered up in
any commercial 1edgers. has lived a
barren existence indeed.
Love does not calculate or reckon !;
this utter freedom from any faint of
self caring is loves divinist charm
All that it has seems to love too
small an offering to make to one be-
loved.
Mary had anointed Christ with an
oil that was reckoned to have cost
many dollars-but price was not con-
sidered by the grateful sister of Laza-
rus.
Like the sudden intrusion of the
wrangling of an Oriental market
place into the scene of harmony at
the feast of Bethany fell the captious
criticism of Judas. "Why was not
this ointment sold for three hundred
pence, and given to the poor?"
When a critic is serving some per-
sonal interest. he is to be disregard
ed: this superf1cially reasonable OBJ
lection of Judas was not honest, for
he was thief, and stole the money
from the treasury Of which he was
custodian. He was not a friend OF
the poor, but an enemy. Indeed, ev-
cry person who is tempted to be crit
ical and censorious should look well
to himself to discover if the fault
may not be within.
The ungraciousness of Judas act,
in that he was guest and Mary was
one of his hostesses, has been OBJ
scured by the rank Nervousness of 1t.
For Judas, the robber of the poor,
was about to deliver up to death his
Master, and for sum amounting to
less than half of what Mary poured
out in unrestrained love.
Mary was promptly INDICATED by
the Master, who paid a rare tribute.
She had discerned that to which his
other friends had been blind; her
woman's heart had seen the cross
and the grave, waiting in the future
further along the road. Nicodemus
who had failed to give the Lord his
love in life, brought precious spices
to the dead body; Mary gave spike
nard made doub1y fragrant by he,
loyal. loving DEVOTION; and she did II
while her Master was yet alive to be
| comforted by the deed
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mechanical fashion. but Tom checked

mechanical fashion. but Tom checked
him.
I've know all about the place. he
said. we just wanted to see that It
was still in good condition. I shall
want some changes made in the
paper"
about that" announced the janitor
producing a card. "He's only two
blocks away" The man shuffied on to
led Jean to the window. The sun had
broken through the western sky and a
huge rainbow spanned the city.
That is the sign Of peace re-
minded Tom, "just as that TO let
was Of good omen. Will you forgive
hve years? Believe me, have been
sufficiently punished! You said that 1t
was here that you wished to start
housekeeping"
.'I think I am still of the same
opinion confessed the girl shyly.
tie ways, was far more attractive than
the imperious Tom Fleming OF five
years before.
do you know" she went on. that
when I got on the car q couple OF
hours ago it was like stepping into
the past and taking up life where
left it five years back. OF course lots
OF things have changed. but 1t all
seems SO good-it's like coming back
from a journey and realizing that you
are at home again.
And this is going to be home to
u.s." said Tom, tenderly I'VE will
forget the five years, and pretend we
haven't gone downstairs that first
time yet"
mo" Jean shook her head with
energy. 1--WE will profit by experience
and not quarrel this time
Quarrel echoed Tom, 1T should
say not. Once is more than enough
for me. Fate's given me another
chance, but there never would be 6
| third. I've got you dear. and I'm go
ing to keep you for life."-(Copy
righted, 1908, by Associated Literar!
PreSs.l
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t would seem that chauffeur might
properly be defined as the janitor Of an
auto.
+ X
If a fellow is crazy over a girl the
best thing he can take for his ailment
is the girl herself.
\ X
Some folks are SO addicted to the
drug habit that they even buy their
postage stamps in drug stores.
= X
Small wonder is It, indeed, that domes-
tics resent being treated as the equals
of some Of their employers.
X X
An idea that 1t is impossible for a
person to sit still for a continued period
of time can be shattered If one will
study the average farm hand.