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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-01
Are Dipping the cattle.

Lawrence, Kan. Sept. about 800
head of horses and cattle are being
dipped each day in the Clearfield dis
trict in the southeast corner or Doug
las county The dipping is done to
prevent scab itch, which attacks both
horses and cattle. causing the hair to
fall out and scabs to form. The dis
ease was first discovered last spring
and has gradually been getting worse
and spreading over more territory The
epidemic is prevalent throughout the
Clearfield district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-01
Died While Fishing.

Arkansas City. Kan. Sept Robert
Gully, resident of Emporia who has
been visiting with his son at Hardy,
Ok. a small station on the Midland
Valley railroad. southeast of here. was
found dead on a creek bank Sunday
evening Mr.. Gully was 20 years of age.
When found it was learned he had just
landed a large turtle from the stream
the turtle being still on the fish line.
His death is attributed to fright. His
body will be shipped to Emporia today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-01

DT0dk OuO VIII
itching sores. I
began to doc
tor him, and as
soon as 1 got
them healed up
moneplace they
would break out
in another. I
was almost in
despair. Icould
not get anything
that would help
him. One even
ing I read a tes-
tinnonial from a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-01
Herbert Knox smiths Wedding Day.

Hastings, Neb. Sept. Announce
ment is made that the marriage of
Miss Gertrude DIETRICH. daughter of
former United States Senator DIETRICH.
and Herbert Knox smith, commits
sioner of corporations whose engage
ment was recently made public, will
occur September 26 at Pennington,
Conn.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-01
HE WAS MEAN TO HER.
Reason Given by Woman for killing
Her Husband.

Jonesboro. Ark, Sept. Mrs. Arch
Pickett yesterday shot and killed her
husband. a we'll known resident of
Jonesboro, because, she alleges, he
was "mean to her and abused her."
Mrs. Pickett esca ped with her step
father, prominent famer, but both
were arrested later. Mrs. Pickett con-
fesSed.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
UNDERFED CHILDREN

NUPERINTENDEN MAXWELL of
the New York city schools has
~ recommended the foundation of
department of hygiene with competent
persons empowered to follow anaemic
and half-fed children into their homes
and compel better feeding where the
parents have been negligent in the mat
ter. and to instruct the parents how to
feed their children where ignorance is
the cause of the suffering. 1t is task
of titanic proportions, and in many
cases it may be that results will be i'm
possible of attainment, but the service
suggested commends itself to all hu-
manitarians. If a little good may be
accomplished thereby the labor of the
proposed department, if organized, will
not be in vain. Those who undertake
to follow the poorly nourished children
into their homes may discover that mall
nutrition is not attributable so much to
ignorance as to poverty. Seventy thou
sands breakfastless pupils in New York
schools are not hungry without the
knowledge of their parents. The mother
who sends her child away. pale and
wan, knows of it's hunger. These in
spectors may send in stories that will
startle and arouse the philanthroplc
persons to whom they make their re-
ports
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
A Man of Habit

It happened in Fulton street reslaG
rant that contained by actual count forty
two tables. At o'clock last Wednesday
afternoon five of these tables were occu-
pied. That left thirty-seven for the ac-
.commodation of late arrivals AT few
minutes past man entered. He was
thin, had short, gray hair, stubby gray
mustache and stony, staring blue eyes.
He came in at the south end of the room,
walked stolidly past the thirty-seven emp.
ty tables and the four that were occupied
by solitary diners, and sat down in the
end chair of the forty-second table, al
which a man and woman were seated.
The couple were engaged in converse
ton which, to all appearances, was ten
der as we'll as confidential. They stopped
talking when the man sat down, and
looked at lin and at the empty tables
suggestively. But the mans mind was
not in a receptive state. Subtle hints
" ere lost on him. Calmly he studied the
bill of fare, from which he finally selected
a meal of clam cocktail, sirloin steak and
coffee. The woman in the case looked
desperate.
us there no remedy?" she said.
None, apparently, short of actual muir
der" replied her companion.
Under the circumstances we would be
justified in that" aid she. ANY jury in
the land would acquit u.s.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
CLEAR, CRISP AND cLEAN
BELOW PAR

Urine stands below par in Los An
geles today. Taking the town by
~ storm just prior to the opening OF
their favorite headquarters, the race
track at Arcadia, the holdup men and
thugs held a brief carnival. The police
interposed and for awhile there was a
lull in the criminal operations of this
class. Last week, however, the street
car holdups were renewed. But the
bravery of two men-one the conductor
of a Redondo electric car, the other a
passenger on the car-in summarily
Furnishing the highwayman, acting as
they did in pursuance of that high law
which applauds a man for acting in
self-defense or in the defense of an
other, win be very apt to prove de-
terrent of crime of this peculiarly ex-
asperating class.
Yes, crime stands below par in Los
Angeles. Six weeks ago a patrolman
of the police force was killed by foot
pads while in the performance of his
duty. The guilty men were arrested:
one of them has been tried, convicted
and sentenced to pay the extreme PEN
atty imposed by law-death by hang
ing. His partner in crime is now on
trial
In the case first mentioned justice was
done without resorting to an appeal to
the court. In rare-very rare-in-
stances is such action advisable or to
be tolerated by a civilized community;
but the circumstances in this particu-
lar case were such that none can crit
icise Conductor Greer and Mr.. Williams
for the part they took in Kidding the
community of a most dangerous char
acter. In the second case the law fol-
lowed it's usual course, excepting that
the possible mental sufferings of the
murderer of Patrolman Lyons will not
be unnecessarily prolonged.
Crime stands below par in Los An
geles, because of the quick action Of
the regularly constituted courts of JUS
tice and the still quicker action of in
dividuals who were able to solve in the
twinkling of an eye problem pre-
senting no perplexities.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
A cONUNDRUM

TTTHE statements made during the
past year or so by railroad men
Il to the effect that the successful
operation of the railroads had been
greatly hampered by the interference
Of the federal and state governments do
not tally very closely with the story
that has been told by the Wall Street
Journal and the Railway Age-two
eminent authorities on railway matters,
which agree that American railways
are now in better position, more worthy
of confidence and of greater value than
ever before in our history" AS an IL
lustration of the manner in which bet
terments have been made one of these
papers cities the case of one great
American road, which during the past
ten years has devoted more than $780,
100000 of its profits to improvements
But in spite of these heavy outlays
the dividends of American railways
have been constantly increasing during
the period mentioned. Ten years ago
but one-third of the capital stock of
these roads paid dividends. During the
past year dividends were paid on prac-
tically two-thirds of the stock. At the
same time the average rate of dividend
Z has increased from 40 per cent in 1898
to 6.2 per cent at the present time.
This is not all. Although these roads
transacted-many of them-the greatest
volume OF business known to their his
tory, there is promise of more business
for years to come than they can handle
unless they increase their facilities at
even a greater rate than has marked
railway development during the past
decade. why, then, have the big rail-
way men of the country united in de-
crying the attitude of the public, the
national administration and state gov
ernments in demanding that the rail-
ways OF the country shall abide by the
laws made for their governance, making
the now proven specious plea that all
this agitation has almost ruined their
businessg Can anybody guess the an
swer?
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14

If said she was just a Joy Of a girl,
You'd surmise at once a thingumbob curl
II called her the fairest that strolls the
beach,
You'd know right away the girl was peach
For they rhyme them SO in the verse of the
day,
In an easy, artistic, nonchalant way.
Then If / desribe her figure neat
You'd learn she had daintily pretty feet:
II said that jealousy in my heart rankles.
You'd hazard a chance on silken-clad
ankles;
For they rhyme them so in the verse of the
day.
In an easy. artistic, nonchalant way.
While if should write her charming girl
very.
You'd diagnose cheeks as brown as a berry.
But now let's an end TO this ready-made poesy
Which doubtless ere this you have reckoned
as prosy;
For they rhyme them so in the verse of the
day,
In an easy artistic nonchalant way.
IS
Strange, come to think of it, that none
of the photographers have discovered
the possibility that the sailing of the
Pacific fleet may mean a cruise of oil
upon troubled waters.
st. Louis drove almost all its manu-
factories across the river to the Illinois
side, and now raises howl because the
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
WIDOWS WHO ARE STUNNED

There are widows and widows" said the
gray haired man. Take for instance the widow
whose husband committed suicide. She's diff
fcrent-that is everybody treats her as IL
she were different. There is belief abroad
deep rooted as the everlasting hills, that 1t Is
the easiest thing in the world for a widow TO
remarry. As a general thing this may be true
but in the case of the woman whose husband
died by his own hand the belief is a fallacy.
They don't find it easy to marry again.
know three most estimable women who at
tanned their widowhood through the revolver
and poison route. Their husbands tragic TAX
ing Off was in wise attributable to nerVe-
racking qualities in the wives. The women
DIDN'T nag, they were not extravagant they
were not tickle. The men were driven to their
rash deeds solely by their own cussedness; yet
in each case the widow blamed for his
self-destruction and is still paying the pen
atty Each has received offers from men who
fell victims to their charms but as soon as
the prospective bridegrooms learned that their
predecessors committed suicide they backed
out for fear that il they contaminated the
bargain they might be driven TO the same
end."-New York Press
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
Japan WIZ Try TO
Cuf'taiZ Emigration

within the empire, but it is only fair
to let the trial be made.
Ambassador Aoki was quoted as saying
that, while his government would con-
troll emigration, it would be considered
as inconsistent with the national dignity
to deal with the subject by treaty, and
it would be considered as offensive" for
us to legisate on the subject We i'm
agine that in the translation the word
offensive" got in when the proper word
was 'disagreeable." That, we presume.
was what The ambassador meant to say,
and did say in Japanese. If action would
be disagreeable to the japanese it would
be a friendly thing for us to do to re-
frain, at least for the present. And yet
by the express terms of the treaty now
in force Japan comedies our right to
legislate, and he states explicitly that
American laborers will be excluded from
Japan. That is for Japan to say, but
If they are excluded it must be by Jap
anese law, for our government has no
power to keep them out of Japan. Japan,
therefore. virtually asks us not to do
what she herself actually proposes to do
in respect to American laborers- Very
well. Let it rest there for the present.
Certainly Japan could ask nothing more
of us in the way of manifestation of in
ternational good nature.-San Francisco
Chronicle
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
AWAKE!
ports.

T HOSE citizens of Los Angeles and
vicinity who believe the material
Il welfare of this section of the state
will be advanced if the harbor at San
Pedro be made free to the people and
that the work outlined by Capt. A. A.
Fries will enhance the value of that
undertaking may be able to help the
work along by writing to United States
Senator Flint and Representative Nc
Lachlan, urging upon them the neces-
sity of congressional action authoriz-
ing an appropriation for the dredging
of the proposed west basin of the inner
harbor. This is matter of vital in
terest to the people Of Southern Cali
fornia. United action on the part of a
large number of persons may produce
the desired result. Lethargy certainly
will not.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14


| l& tion which was made by Am
| IA 0 bassador Aoki in an interview
published in the Chronicle of
last Sunday is precisely the position
which this journal predicted that that
government would take. Two years ago,
when discussion in this country was very
heated, the Chronicle declared that there
could be no doubt that Japanese states
men who would come here and get about
among us and see for themselves eX-
actly what was happening where large
number of Japanese were concentrated
could find no fault with us for insisting
that coolie immigration should cease, and
that they could not but concede that the
interest of both races demanded that
masses of the two peoples should not be
brought into contact because nothing
could prevent their fighting, whether the
contact took place on this continent or
in Asia.
The suggestion that war could result
from our determination to stop coolie
immigration was never worth discuss
ing. Good taste forbids any reference to
such subject. We do not suppose that
any American has the least desire to go
to war with Japan. and the few Japan
ese who have talked that way were mere
! ly the ignorant and excitable rabble, not
entitled to any consideration. 1t Is I'M
| fortunate that our sensational press
should have seemed to Ambassador Aol1i
to require him to explicitly deny any
warlike intention. For the first time,
| however, there has been given to the
American people direct an official state
ment carrying the highest authority, of
the Japanese position on immigration,
| The ambassador said:
II am perfectly convinced that the i'm
migration of Japanese laborers to this
| is ftndagfrohl / admit that II
is impossible for American and Japan
csc laborers to live and work together
in this country without fighting. Under
the competitive conditions which the
| japanese laborer imposes on the Ameri-
can laborer, I cannot see how strife can
be avoided between them, and for this
reason 1 am in favor of the restriction
of immigration.
st can assure you that the immigra-
ton of laborers from Japan to this coun-
| try will be entirely stopped by the Jap
anese government, and also that Ameri-
can laborers will be excluded from en-
tering Japan. The Japanese government
| is fully determined on this course and
effective legislation will be enacted and
enforced Immediately. The effect of these
| regulations will, in my opinion, remove
all serious international differences,
The language is unequivocal. We are
| convinced that it was made in good faith
and that the Japanese government be-
lieves that it can control the situation
1t should be allowed to do so undis-
turbed by unfriendly comment on this
side In the end we do not doubt that
domestic legislation will be required on
our part, in which the Japanese may
not be referred to by name, but which
will deal with all Orientals. We doubt
whether the Japanese government can
control its subjects who are not actually
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14

ton, in conjunction with the representa-
tives of the principal European powers,
founded an international association for
the civilization of central Africa and The
abolition of the slave trade. Henry M.
Stanley, having explored large portion
of the Congo river, the king, who was
justly recognized as the prime mover of
the time in the great African enterprise,
requested that explorer to undertake the
establishment of hospital stations along
the banks and to open up a road to
facilitate communication between the in
terror of the country and the Gulf of
Guinea. The Congo, as distinct state,
had, at that time, no definite existence.
After six years of heroic effort and an
enormous sacrifice of men and money,
Stanley accomplished the mission intrust-
ed to him by Leopold II, who found the
funds necessary for the carrying on OF
the work. Whence he obtained those
funds is another matter but it is certain
that his private purse was drawn upon
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
KING Wants 10 Make the
C0ng0a Colony of Belgium

to a considerable extent to push forward
the enterprise
In 1884 France and Portugal believing
that their respective possessions IN inc
neighborhood of the Congo might be
menaced as the result of Leopolds enter
prlses, called the attention of the great
powers to the situation, with the result
that the aforementioned association was
dissolved and a conference of the powers
summoned for the following year at Ber-
lin. 1t was at that conference that the
now famous Berlin act was signed. IN
der it liberty of commerce was formally
and specifically provided for throughout
central Africa, France was granted
portion of territory on the right bank
of the Congo, while Portugal obtained
that part of the left bank at the mouth
of the river. The whole of the remainder
of the Congo basin was declared to form
the independent State of Congo" Leo
pold II, recognized as its principal de-
veloper, was appointed to control it, ana
with the consent of the Belgian parlia-
mentor the Belgian constitution forbids
any king of the Belgians to become ruler
of any other country without the specific
authority of his parliament-his majesty
assumed the title of sovereign of the
Congo Free State. The Congo state was,
under this arrangement, connected with
Belgium only by reason of the fact that
the king of the Belgians was sovereign
of the state; that he governed it through
an administration in Brussels which cor
responded with the officials of state ON
African soil. This was all the relation
officially speaking, in which Belgium
stood to the Congo.
Such, then, were the beginnings of the
Congo state. and as such the state has
gone on existing ever since. And IL Is
only now, after twenty-five years OF ad-
ministration by King Leopold, that a
proposal to make the state Belgian
colony has taken shape. Washington
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14

If the opinion of couple of million
other persons will have weight Schmitz
and Ruef will stay in jail.
s.
A Pennsylvania woman who has had
six husbands has written an article to
prove marriage is a failure. she ought
to know.
I'VE must walk in the light" declares
Deacon Rockefeller. Amen, brother,
amenl But will an illumination by cleo
tricity do just as we'll as one by oil?
&
G. Stanley Hall of Clark university
says there are too few male school
teachers and that educational institu-
tions are becoming "effeminized." He
adds that this is an age of cover
Termination" In schools where men
principals have only women under
them, he declares, the men become
"sissies.'' Some apple-cheeked Iowa
schoolma'am must be responsible for
this and G. Stanley is taking his fall
rather to heart.
The state has rested in the Thaw
trial. Now, if they will give all OF us
rest we Will be duly thankful.
q
During the next campaign when the
spellbinder arises to plead the cause
of the Republican candidate in New
England he will be asked about the
prospects of tariff reform. His reply
will be an adroit sidestep, but it will
scarcely impress any of the 100000
workers who are now out of employ
ment in that land where factories de-
mand free raw material. Men once real
hungry have long InamnrieS
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
Mere Caution

A dentist in Rochester was visited by a
native of Duchess county to be treated
for an liberated tooth,
That's a bad TOOTH said the man of
the forceps land should advise you TO
spare yourself pain by taking gas 1t
will be only fifty cents more" And the
dentist showed his machine to the doubt
full person from Duchess county, ex-
planning its workings-how he would fall
asleep for a minute or two, and then
awake with the tooth and the pain gone.
At last the patient consented and took
out his wallet.
Never mind paying now" said the
dentist. patronizingly
II wasn't thinking of paying" re-
sponded the Duchess county person.
"But I thought that If l was going to
sleep I'd like to count my money first"
-IIarper's Weekly.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
COMMON pIFFlcuLTIEs

You look quite clever. friend
/ know you're an average man,
Did you ever open a tin of meat
With the key that is on the can?
know you're bright and sharp,
1 like your cut and style.
Can you get dressed in a sleeper berth
And not get out in the aisle ?
know you've been about,
You look like a man alive;
Did you ever get ten-cent smoke
As advertised for 1--WE?
You've had Experience
In some Of the paths you've strayed,
Can you put tight car window up
And not have to call for aid2
know you've been about,
You've put your time to use;
Do you ever find it hard TO strike
The joints OF a roasted goose2
Thanks, friend; I'm treasured,
You've been around ! see;
thought, perhaps. until l asked
The fault lay all with me.
j. w. Foley in N. Y. Times
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
ReadY.to-Read Verse

A maiden there was in Los Angeles town,
You'll guess of course, that her hair was
brown;
When 1 add, as 1 shall, that her heart was
true,
You Immediately know that her eyes were
blue;
For they rhyme them so in the verse of the
day,
In an easy, artistic. nonchalant way.
Now this maid was maiden beyond. compare
BY that you learn her complexion was fair
She had pearly teeth set all in a row;
OF course-in a mouth like cupid's bow;
For they rhyme them SO in the verso of th'
day,
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14

The Lincoln-R Roosevelt Republican
strength by leaps and bounds. That
decision of the appellate court in the
Schmitz case will bring many a hesi-
tating one into the anti-Southern Pa
cific fold.
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14
LOS ANGELES HERALD: TUESDAY MORNING. JANUARY


moment, when the
question of the an
nexation of the Con-
go by Belgium is
being discussed by
the parliament of
the little neutral
kingdom. to state
the facts connected
with the birth of the
Congo state and how
King Leopold came
to be its sovereign.
In 1876 Leopold II,
on his own proposf-
Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-01-14

The Herald inadvertently referred to
Judge Cooper of the court of appeals
in San Francisco as having been NOM
which nominated his associates on the
bench. This is an error, which we
hasten to correct. Judge Cooper was
elected as the candidate of the Democ-
racy and the Independence league.