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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

wire that he calls Felix, and they has
a heart-to-heart talk in French for
about ten minutes.
It's all arranged" says he. You
are to hand my card to the man at the
door as you go in, and Felix Will do the
rest. Eleven-fifteen is the hour. But
I'm surprised at you, shorty A lady,
Ell? All, we'll. In the spring the young
mans fancy gently turns"
"Ah. sayr says l. There amt no
call for any funny cracks about this
You know me, and you can guess I'm
no Willie-bOy. When L get soft spot
i'm my head, and try TO win queen
it'll be done on the dead quiet, and you
won't hear no call for help. But this
is a different proposition. This is a
real lady, who's been locked out by
the society trust, and who takes an
invite from me just because we hap
pened TO know each other when we was
kids"
"Oh-how says Pinckney, snappin
them black eyes the way he does when
he gets real walked up. That sounds
quite romantic"
1T amt" says l. It's just as reg
lar as takin' your aunt to sacred
concert"
He seemed 10 want to know the de-
tails, though; so | told him all about
Sadie, and how she'd been ruled out of
her class by a lot of stiffs who want
one-two- sixteen with her, either for
looks OF lucre.
And it's a crooked decision" says
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

to home. There wasn't one in sight
that didn't have her chin up and her
shoulders back. and carrying all the
dog the law allows. They treated
them stiff-necked foOd-slingers like
they was a lot of wooden Indians
You'd see 'em pilin' their wraps on one
of them lordly gents just as if he was a
chair. Then they'd plant themselves,
spread out their dry goods, peel off
their elbow gloves. and proceed to res
cue the cherry from the bottom of the
glass.
And Sadie! Well. say, you'd thought
she'd never had meal anywhere else
II her life. The way she bossed Felix
around, and sized up the other folks,
| calm as a Chinaman, was a caution.
| And talk, / never had so much rapid
! fire cOnVersat ton passed out TO me all
/ in a bunch before. Course. she was
! just keepin' her end up, and maxim
/ believe / was doing my share, too. But
/ it was a mighty good imitation. Every
now and then she'd tear off a little
laugh so natural that 1 could almost
swear I'd said something funny, only
l knew l hadn't opened my head.
/ AS for me, / was busy tryin' to guess
what was under the silver covers that
Felix kept bringin' in. and re-
memberin' what Pinckney had said
about forks and spoons Say. ]
suppose you've been up against
one of those little after-the-
play-is-Over suppers that they
serve behind the lace cur
tains on Fifth avenue: but
| this was my first offense. Little sup
pers. Honest, now. there was mOre'n
I'd want if / hadn't been fed for a
week. Generally / can worry along
! with three squares a day. and when
do feel like haVin a bite before | hit
the blankets. sweitzerkase sandwich
| does me. But this affair had seven
acts to it. and every one was a mys-
terry.
why. didn't know you were such
an epicure," says Sadie
Me either says /; but I'd never
let myself loose before. Have some
| more fully from the carOusell. and
help yourself to the-the other thing
Shorty. tell he how you managed
! it," says she.
I've been taking lessons by mail.
says L.
you're dear to do it. anyway
says she. Just think of the figure IL
cut coming here by my lonesome. It.
bad enough at the hotel, with only Mrs
Prusset. And I've been wanting t
come for weeks. What luck it wa.
finding ySrl today"
Say, Ubn't run away with the ides
that I'm maxim days work OF this.
says I. I'm havin a little fun out o.
this myself. There's worse company
than you, y'know.
And I've met heap of men stupid
er than Shorty McCabe," says she, Civ
in me the jolly with that sassy grin o.
hers, and lettin' go one of those gurgly
laughs that sound as if it had beer
made on a clarinet.
1t was just about then that I look
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

l. Maybe Sadie wasn't brought up
by a Swedish maid and French gov
erness from Chelsea, Mass; but she's
on velvet now. and she's a real hand
picked pippin, too. What's more. she's
nice little lady, with nothin' behind
her that you couldn't print in Sun
day weekly. All she aims to do
is to travel with the money burners
and be s0Ciable. And. say. that's nat
ural amt ito"
It's quit human" says Pinckney,
and what you've told me about her Is
very interesting. 1 hope the little sup
per goes off all right. Ta-ta, shorty"
Well, it began frosty enough; for
when it came to pilOtin a lady into
that swell mob. l had The worst case
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19
IN LEAP YEAR,

fMontgomery (Ala.) Advertiser)
Clara-Did you get on your knees,
Marguerite, when you proposed to Fred
last night?
Marguerite-Of course not; was on
his knees at the time.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-19

why, SHORTY WCOdpe! is It YOU "
of stage-fright you ever saw. Say,
them walters is a naughty lookin' lot,
amt they? But after we'd found Fee
lix. and I'd passed him a ten-spot, and
he'd bowed and scraped and tOwed US
across the room like he thought We
held a mortgage on the place, l didn't
feel quite so much as if I'd got into
the wrong fiat.
/ did have something of a chill when
| caught sight of sheepish-lOOkin'
cuss in the glass. He looked sort of ia
miliar. and | was wondering what he'd
done to be ashamed of. when l sees it
was me. Then l squints around at the
other guys; and, say. more'n half of
EN- wore the same kind of a look. 1t
was only the women that seemed right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
AYHAWKER JOTy

Mr.. Dyer, whose candidacy for Judge
OF the city court in Wichita is an
nouneed is expected to make a strong
bid for the "colored" vote.
Among other advantages of the pro-
posed name. Kansas State College of
Agriculture and Mechanical Arts" it is
so terse, says Charlie Blakesley
Mrs. Blank is SO thin,' an Erie wo-
man is quoted as saying, you can dis
tinctly read her every thought before
she can open her mouth to let it es-
cape"
A Salina man who lodged two cy-
clones in one day only to be chased by
third when he went to another town,
is now looking for portable cyclone
cellar.
THE average girl" says Miss Riddle
in the Minneapolis Messenger, els quite
certain she was born to be a great ac-
tress. had not cruel circumstances pre-
vented
According to the returns of Asses
population in the past year. Last year
the assessor found 1889 people and this
year 1,45S was the number found.
lodge committee at Sedan APP
pointed to draw up resolutions of con-
dolence, began their piece with verse
and closed with "Requiescat in pace
and they had the most kindly feeling
toward the departed.
A Rossville farmer was recently de-
stroyed by dynamite. As this is too
late in the year for the thawing out OF
dynamite, his heirs will have the
pleasure of knowing that his death
did not occur in this way.
1t seems that Atchison people dis
tinguish themselves wherever they go
The Champion says that H. c. Solo,
mon, who used to live there, but is
now at Kansas City, saw a man fall
down four flights Of stairs without be-
ing injured a few days ago.
DR.. Allen of Neodesha is starting a
movement for the abolition Of the cot
tonwood. He says the trees shed thefl
fuzzy cotton in his lettuce patch and
when he tries to eat the lettuce he gets
the cotton in his teeth. He is going
to sacrifice all his big trees and wants
others to do likewise.
Some persons might suspect thai
this "item'' in Governor and Homer
Hoch's paper, the Marion Record. has
a political reference: When a mar
gets meanness stewed into his system
and it suits his purpose to believe
something evil of you and peddle Il
around, It's a waste of time for yoJ
to argue with him or prove to him tht
falsity of the story, for he will con
tinue to peddle it around Just thu
same"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

II man wants a job done in a hur-
~ he never puts two boys on it.
= X
A man soon stops taking dinners
with friends If he has incurred the
enmity OF their cook
X
About all the average lad expects to
be when he becomes Of age is twenty
one years old.
4 X x
The only individuals who are not
annoyed by the singing next door are
those who work in saw mills.
X X 4
IT makes man proud to rise from
nothing but no man likes to sit down
to 1t as he has to in the ordinary
boarding house.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
ss,4fs Stockholders.

The semfannual dividend of the
pennsylvania has been mailed to So. AS
shareholders. the greatest number in
the company's history. and represent
ing an increase OF $4,000 over the
number receiving the dividend one
year ago.
The nearly $4,000 separate checks
sent out amounted in value to $9,437.-
S59, this being dividend of 8 per
cent on the capitalization Of $314,594 j,
$50, divided into 6.291.S93 shares II
$50 par value. The average holdings
amounted to only los shares, a de-
crease for the last year of thirty-two.
Or exceptional interest Is the in
crease in the number Of women shares
holders to 27,767, who will receive
thus receive more than 46 per cent
of the total number of dividend checks
sent out today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
QUAKER REFLECTIONS,

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Many a man is as red as q beet
who isn't one.
The wise brewer SHES at his own
beer, but, so does the wise UNDER
taker.
The man who. permits his head and
his heart to work In unison generally
remains poor.
Mrs. Musgins-"Did she marry for
lover" Mrs. Buggins-"Oh. yes, for
love of luxury
1t frequently happens that a fellow
wouldn't know he was in love with \
girl IL she didn't tell him.
acknowledgements says he never
married because he has been true to
his first love-" Slobbs-"Meanine
himself, I suppose"
Faint heart ne'er won fair lady"
quoted the Wise Guy. Neither aid II
ever escape the clutches of one"
added the Simple Mug.
wigg-'They say hell is paved
with good intentions" WagR-"Ceei
If that's the case i wonder what the
highway contractors will do when
they get there"
why do you think you womb
make q success as a bill collector -
asked the manager of the collection
agency. IT used to be a professional
hypnotist," replied the applicant for
a Job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
HUHOR or THE DIY

Bertie-Hello. old chap. What dye
,Resinald-Nothing; by Jovel Not a
Mr.. Wigscn-Do you think a wife should
handle her husbands money?
Mr.. Jackson-If she can find it.-Brook-
II suppose you are pretty good chauf-
feur by this time" remarked the man on
Yes" answered the man at the steering
wheel Il ran over six people last week
and never hurt the machine a bit."-Chi-
How do you shoot craps-with a gum"
themselves are ioaded Le a,de
er.
,s sns.W J! do they mean by soft
y makes me begin to SCI sost.-Kansas
u" "nsy your our. daughter n YETI"
when will she be?"
Not until after she is married"-cleve-
land Leader.
Here. waiter, what makes your knives
SO dull?'' said the customer
"Eatin' with 'em. SIR replied the at
No one likes him.
Hes forward in society and shy in po-
ker games. Post.
"Your honor" said the receiver 1T de-
sire enlightenment from the court.sa..
State your proposition" -
Having wound UP the affairs Of the
find there is but 100000 left. TO What
source am to look for the balance of my
observation-disclosures Ledger.
Three young doctors connected with the
hospital in Budapest have discovered the
conveyed to victims by fieas and other
parasites.
Knicker-Do you believe settlement
works produce paupeT1zatfon?
Rocker-No; but the fellow who Wont
settle does.-New York Sun.
Daughter-He is the most thoroughly
honest young man I ever knew.
Father-That settles it! He couldn't sup
port you.-St Louis Post-Dispatch.
First be sure you're right. then go
ahead"
..Some man who didn't have a wife to
consult, imagine. "-Pittsburg Post.
Adam had just blamed the woman. IT
guess it's his nature" unused Eve. He
ing him if it hadn't been for me."-New
York Sun.
ct wonder who first said it's better to
be born lucky than rich?' Querted the
young widow.
''Some old fool whose young wife mar
ried him for his money, imagine" re-
Joined the wise Observation-Disclosures News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
which ready interruption cannot cas-
fly interfere

which ready interruption cannot cas-
lily interfere.
the next day or two the house part
OF the Kansas delegation got good
ana got busy" Three Kansas con-
gressmen made speeches on the floor
during one afternoon-this was on the
army canteen proposition. The house
was so interesting to the writer that he
was scarcely on the senate size. Fur
tnermore, the house committee on
pulp held him while on their side.
Fairbanks did say a few nice Things
ana ne can say them about as well as
anybody excepting his charming wife,
who certainly has no superior for
amiabliity and kindly courtesy. She is
evidently one of the mosx popular
women in Washington. If her hus-
band does not get additional honors,
1t is no fault of his helpmate. Faar-
banks said that outside of kansas ne
had made speeches in thirty-rwo other
states last year. "hut was not talking
much this year. F.. M.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
JFrom the Atchison Globe

From the Atchison Globe.1
If a hotel man succeeds he Is soon
known as Colonel" at least.
It is not what you think Of your
employer, but what your employer
thinks of you.
II a man takes one day off. it takes
him about three days to get the har-
ness fitted again.
If a man looked like the pictures
in a tailor's fashion plate, people
would set the dogs on him.
There is one time when q women
gives as little satisfaction as a wild
over: When she is in mourning"
A man will get up in the night and
have to tumble all over the house be-
fore he can fnd anything. A burglar
never has such trouble.
When you praise woman by say
ing she makes her own hats, the
other women who are present will
say: Eyes, they look like it,"
In picking out wife there are a
few rules to observe in the color of
her hair. Dark brown hair indicates
common sense; the brighter the color,
the TOUGHER she is.
When a child goes over to a neigh
boris, and says to the woman of the
house: Mamma says please send me
home in an hour" 1t is a sign the
child's mother is wise.
About the time mother thinks a
Young man should propose to her
daughter, she begins to sit up till her
daughter comes home, looking for
signs in confusion. bushes and rum
pied hair.
when a man goes home at noon
and finds his wife two hours behind
her household time table, it usually
means that some of the kind neigh
hors seeing how much she had to do.
have been over to help" her
There was an old-fashioned woman
u,ho would blush If company caught
her with less than six different kinds
of cake, and seven different kinds OF
preserves in the house. If guest
i;Lad coffee for supper. she thought it
was VAS right that she should have it. Her
pies were always rich. and she used
tots of butter and cream. sne mao
never heard of the diet cure, ana be-
Heved in people eating just what they
liked. what a pity it is that she ism Z
alive, SO we folks who are. tlreo OF
dieting could go and vislt- her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
Effect of a Whistle.

Did you know that a short, sharp
whistle from the mouth would stop a
rabbit? 1t surely does. Next time you
see little molly cottontail leap FROM
her burrow and make of. don't shoot.
just whistle. Whether from fear or
curiosity, 1 cannot tell, but she will
stop still in her tracks. An antelope
has been known to do likewise. An
African hunter once said that the ele-
plant is the most timid of all animals
and can be frightened into a cold
sweat by a mysterious noise.-New
York Press. !
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

And still the prohibition tidal wave
rolls steadily on. 1t gives evidence of
engulfing the entire country soon. and
the sooner the better. North Carolina
has succumbed to the inevitable and
the white ribbon has been pinned on
her breast with a convincing majority
of approximately $4,000 votes. 1t
won't be long now before conditions
in this country will be reversed abso-
lutely. The states which are not I'M
der the protecting wing of prohibition
will be looked upon as the odd ones.
Until very few years ago the prohi-
bition states had this honor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

Drastic legislation of all sorts has
lature during it's first session. Some of
It Is good Some of 1t is bad and some
of ii borders on the ridiculous. And
this record was kept up right until the
closing hours of the sine die adjourn
rnent on Wednesday. Among the meas
ures passed in the final minutes was
one which makes 1t penitentiary Of
Tense for an employer who refuses to
work an employee on account of the lat
ter belonging to a labor union Many
viii question the propriety of such leg
islation and how it can be made effec-
tive because it is not known that there
Is any way to force an employer to tell
why he discharges man. But the OBJ
noxious feature of this measure is a
sort OF a rider which prohibits Pinker-
ton detectives from working in the
state. On several occasions in times
past the methods of the Pinkertons.
especially in the handling of strikers.
have not been above the condemnation
agency is a power for good in this
country in the way of ferreting out
crimes and criminals that would be
missed. Why it's detectives should be
prohibited from working in Oklahoma
or any other state Is inexplicable. 1t
IL q question If such q law will stand
khs~ test Of the courts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

Great prominence is given in the
newspapers to the fact that one James
A. Patten and a few friends cleaned up
81, O0O, 600 with recent coup in the Chi
cago corn pit. But not single word
consolatory or otherwise. is said of the
poor devils who lost this sum.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

There is general belief that corn is
the coming crop and it is freely pre-
dicted that before many years the
prices of corn and wheat will be side
by side. This will be fine for the grow
ers of corn but 1t won't set quite so
well with the man of ordinary means
who has a horse or two to feed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

It is not conducive to peace of mind
or reputation to indulge in the business
of prophecy. But just the same, we'll
take a flyer and say that the reply Of
Senator Long to the article written by
William Allen White attacking Mr..
Longs congressional record, will make
interesting reading. This reply is ex-
pected shortly
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

It's almost useless to answer the
question Whats in manner" Every
one knows what it is. It's Nothing"
and particularly in this country. This
is again made apparent by the arrest
of Theodore H. Price, the cotton dealer
of New York. He gloried in the name
of Cotton King" and there are many
others in the community who are dub
bed kings of some sort. But what's
the use of being a king of anything If
you are to be subjected to such petty
annoyances as the observance of the
laws of the land? IT'S but a shallow
honor under such circumstances.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

meeliy. TITS up to you now" and shs
followed him toward the stairs VI
which they had climbed an hour be.
fore with such different feelings
Copyrighted. 1908. by Associated Lit
erary Press,l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

Isn't it a bit appropriate. even if 1t
Is disastrous, that cyclones and tor
nadoes should prevail in Oklahoma In
view Of the fact that the states fegis-
lature has adjourned? Surely some
thing Is now needed there to hven
things IN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

This is the ever recurring season OF
the year when thousands of boy and
girl graduates all over the land are I'M
pressed and the time worn poetfcal
thought that they are standing with
reluctant feet where the brook and
river meet 4"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

That Guinness dog would have been
worth considerably more than $40 If he
could talk. He was probably around
wagging his tail when the bodies were
buried and possibly had look in or
two when some Of the murders were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal fs a member q xne
Associated Press and receives the tux gay
telegraph report OF that great news or
Eanization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news IL received in The State jour.
nal building over wire5 for this sole pur-
nose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
rFrom the New York Press,

A man can't even win his spur.
without taking q chance.
People would stop eating canvas
back duck II 1t got cheap.
Saving money IL very useful for n.
fellow who gets 1t away from you.
A mans digestion has q lot more q,
do with his morals than his relirion
A girl seeks marriage to sain her
liberty, and q man avoids it to keen
his.
A woman gives her religion RI.
credit for the days when her huss
band isn't cross
When the awkward fellow do.s..
know what to do with hia h.rSs
puts them in his pocket. which. after
all, Is better than putfine tl,em g
othsxs pAoplaia R0ek0Gg. :.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

This is a sample of progress along
rather unusual lines. OF course, it de-
veloped in Chicago. The local authorf-
, ties there are taking steps to bring the
deficiency of the frennen up to the same
high standard that is displayed by the
horses of the fire department.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

De ouiz-why did you walk home from
sl Re WIKI with bitterness}-Because
sranted TO heat the uag bet on--tf5ook-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-01

Another thing about these represen-
tatives who are not always on the hoor
Of the house, there is this, to be said:
in their new four million dollar Office
building with a beautiful room and hne
equipment for each, with the name OF
the member in brass on the mahogany
door, there is a buzzer. This buzzer Is
important. very important. There Is
placard beside the buzzer which says:
One buzz: roll call in Is minutes:
two buzzes adjournment" three, call
of the house." and so on down the hst-
BY means of the buzzer the member
in his office room knows what is go
ing on in the house and he knows
what is going to happen. For Tear the
buzzer does not awaken sleeping con-
gressmen, and there. are some drones
who ought to be stirred up, and for
fear that the buzzer may not. attract
the members attention, just as an
alarm clock will fail to awaken man
who does not want to get up. there
is an occasional rap at the door on the
mart of an emissary from the sergeant
alarms who tells the representative
| that it is important for him to be on
the floor, or that a measure in which
he. or his state, is interested is about
| to come I'D.
These buxzers are great things. They
don't seem to have them over In the
senate part of the capitol and the SEN
ators have not any multi million dol
lar general office building either, but
the senators are scattered around in
the Easements and embellishments OF
their end Of the capitol where they
are mighty hard to nnd and are prob
! ably able to do businesa jn-1w1H VITA