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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13
FTrLL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

What has become Of the peanut
rolling and wheel-barrow rides that
used to follow presidential elections
with great regularity and in great
numbers? Only a few have been
recorded SO far this year. Maybe this
IS good evidence of the truth of a
statement that is made frequently
nowadays to the effect that as time
ralls on the people, generally. are
getting more sensible in all things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13

IAN evidence that Topekans are pretty
well of in all things is found in the
scarcity OF labor of all kinds in. the
city. This is one of the things that
really retards the growth Of the city
as a manufacturing center. Still, If
the people of a community have plenty
of work at hand a failure for 1t to
grow rapidly in a manufacturing way
ought not to bring forth much in the
way of complaint. A city of small size
where there is plenty of work for ev-
erybody with it's resultant tranquility
and happiness among them is a far
more desirable place than city with
a mammoth population. a considerable
part of which is made up of an army
of unemployed whose needs have to be
provided through charity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
Iron the New York Press. ]

CF'rom the New York Press
A man and his political prophecies
are soon busted.
A girl makes love to man by
making him do it to her.
The thing that makes a woman
happy is to imagine she is.
Women put on their stockings first
so that if anybody should come in
they will feel dressed.
No matter from what point Of view
you take a fat woman in, all OF her
seems to be on that side
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13

tendency has been even more marked
than it was last year. The astute
American habit of laying low for the
it is our belief that the revised rules
viii not begin to have their legitimate
effect till the bourbon graduate adj
vtsers are shaken up by few more
events like the Dartmouth triumph
The advancement of the new game
lies in the handS-or feet-of the
smaller colleges"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13
Froe Fad CrystaI Palace.

An employee of an ice company her
was delivering a cake of ice to a GUS
toner on Orchard street the other day
when he discovered a frog in the center
of the cake. The ice was melted and
the frog taken out After it had beer
exposed to the sun for about ten min
utes the frog commenced to hop about,
APPARENTLY none the worse for its ice inn
prisonment.
It is a remarkable fact that the ice
from which the frog was taken had
been in storage for two years. The
frog was exhibited about the city for
some time.-Middleton dispatch to New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13

Tt is to be hoped that the directors
of the Midwinter exposition win see
their way clear toacontirae3 on with
this enterprise. It has become some
thing of a fixture of the Topeka win
ter season and woe1ld be missed. They
should be given all possible encourage
nlent from the local concerns which have
been in the habit of displaying their
wares and products at these expeditions
tostheir own great advantage and also
to the great interest of the people of
the city. If it is decided to hold this
winter fair the people can we'll be de-
PENDED upon to give it generous pat
rOnage.--
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13

Nobody who is at all familiar with
the devious windings of various of the
lines of the Missouri Pacific in this
state, with their curiously undulating
surfaces and many bumps OF greater
and less degree. chiefly greater. will
envy the job of Mr.. c. A. Colt the en-
gineer, who has been engaged by the
state board of railroad commissioners
to inspect the tracks and roadbed of
this company for the purpose of
pointing out the places that are badly
IN need Of repair. 1t is contemplated
that he shall travel over every mile
of Missouri Pacific track in Kansas.
Any man who would undertake such
al task, regardless of the recompense
that he might receive in the way of
moneys, is surely of the stuff OF which
heroes are. made.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13

a priest in Ireland tells William E.
Curtis who is touring abroad in search
of things of human interest for the
readers Of the Chicago Record-Her-
aid, that emigration Is sapping up the
life blood of the Emerald Isle. This
divine hkens America to a whirlpool
of misery and vice and so he tells his
parishioners. Apparently this gentle
man of the cloth is speaking from
rather unreliable hearsay evidence. A
little, trip through this neck of the
woods would probably cause him to
change his mind In these particulars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13
NEW FOOTBALL SLOW IN COMING

~
A few years ago an effort was made
to reform and debrutalize football by
changing the rules with a view of en-
couraging a much more open game.
But to those who have kept in touch
with the sport this season it does not
seem that much progress has been
made in revo1utionizing the game into
a more open one. Among the smaller
colleges an effort has been made to
perfect the open game but their teams
have gone down in defeat this year
before the teams of larger colleges
where the older heads supervise the
football affairs. 1t has been a notice
able fact in the games played around
these parts of the country that the
teams which have won this year have
confined their tactics on the field to
the old style of football, repeated
plunges and mass plays against the
line. An excellent and interesting
analysis of the game as it is being
played this year is to be found in an
editorial recently printed in the Chi
cago Evening Post, which follows:
"a wise Yale footpalI coach once
remarked that 1t would take at least
four years to get the new game fairly
under way, as the existing college
pass out before the ground could be
cleared Of the hampering traditions of
the old game.
cit seems now as if it would take
longer than four years. In last
Saturdays intercollegiate contests the
possibilities of the more daring and
open play possible under the revised
rules were but feebly illustrated. Yet
victory swung against the team
which chung to the straight, line
bucking tactics of the past.
I'm the west, Wisconsin's defeat of
distinctly due to her skill in the new
game. By the same agency Chicago
beat Minnesota last week and by it
Michigan's easy. victory over Ken
lucky was made easier. Northwest
ern alone can blame the revised rules
for beating. A forward pass went
wrong and Purdee won.
''In the east, Brown held Yale to
tie and Dartmouth beat Princeton,
because each of the two minor
elevens was better versed in modern
football than it's more famous
opponent. The main light which the
vard-Carlisle game shed on the
new methods was the awarding of the
almost unheard of penalty of forty
five yards and the removal of
player who revived the ancient prac-
tice of smuggling
Upon the prediction of the Yale
bearing. AS we look at it, it appears
that the hampering OF the new game
is due not SO much to the players as
to their coaches The smaller coll
leges, with no ponderous old coaching
system to break up, are able to throw
themselves freely into the most pro-
gressive xperiments-aided also by
the fact that they have little to lose
and everything to gain. The larger
universities. when their athletic gov
eminent is a one-man power, can do
the same. But at Harvard, Yale and
Princeton 1t IS different. Here the
coaching is done by a staff of grad
yates, busy men who can give a week
or two in the fall to their old elevens,
but who cannot take time enough to
educate themselves in the new game
Instinctively they cling to the football
they played as undergraduates, and
so become a heavy drag upon the
sports development.
$50 far this season a reactionary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13

Chicago's city council has ever had
the reputation for being a most
ubiquitous body. So there is nothing
unusual in the fact that it has laid
aside purely administrative matters
for the time being and is devoting its
attention to such problems as mar
rage and divorce. 1t is discussing the
advisability of passing an ordinance
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13
SimpIe Life in Finland.

In Finland everybody lives the SIM
pie life in summer time. They camp
out on islands, in the forests, and al
ways somewhere near the water, for
everybody swims and bathes. Almost
all classes sleep and eat al fresco at
this time of year, and the town coun-
ellis ofAthe towns in this progressive
and altogether delightful little coun-
try provide public fireplaces and pub
lie bathing sheds in all places where
the working classes 70 in search of
fresh air.
But the simple life is by no means
dull with the frisky Films. They COM
bine it with a surprising amount of
gayety. They eat, drink. and are very
merry in their picturesque little log
cabins outside the cities.
When they are tired of bathing and
splashing, they dance, they sing, they
watch fireworks and practice gT@nnas-
ties, they all become like children and
are the very happiest, merriest, most
good natured most easily pleased, and
most healthy holiday makers in the
world. We might take many leaves
from the Firms book.-Ladies' Pic
torial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13
insanity caused hv Inne2

DR.. Bertillon, the director of the Paris
asylum for the insane, has been study
ing love as a mental disease, and says
he has found that when love is so in
tense as to approach a state of mental
alteration the whole left side of the body
becomes representative. Such love, he
says, as leads to passionate crimes is
merely form of madness.
Dr. BRAND, director OF the Villejuif
asylum, contends, on the other hand,
that love never leads to madness, but
frequently causes money troubles, and
they may result in such worry as to
drive a man insane.
The discussion upon the subject of
love and madness and their relation one
to the other arose out of the case of
Coquelin the younger. who was conf1n-
ed in a private insane asylum in Paris.
Coquelin had lost a good deal of
lions, but not sufficient to ruin him. He
also suffered because his love for well
known Partisan woman was not recip-
rocated. He became a victim to melan-
cholia, and while with his wonderful
talent as a comic actor he wis nightly
amusing his audiences and sending
them into peals of laughter, his heart
grew heavier and heavier within him.
Finally he became so respondent that
his friends were alarmed for him, and
he was examined by physicians and put
into a sanitarium.
BY the exercise of great cunning he
escaped and made his way through
Paris on foot at night to his own door
way. Then. overwrought, weak ana III,
he sank on the steps, unable even to
knock at the door. He was found SIT
ting there and crying as though MS
heart would break.
Eminent French specialists on mental
diseases are divided in opinion as to
whether it was money or love that so
upset poor Coquelin.-Par1S cable TO
New York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13
Strange "Front Names"

The writer has recently drawn at
tention to the strange front names
with which some people are labeled
for life by unthinking parents. A cor
respondent who has been looking
through the "True Bills and other
records of the Middlesex session rolls
during Tudor and Stuart times, gath
ers that by far the largest number of
people who make themselves obnox-
ious to the law are people with COM
mon Christian names. OF out of the
way names he did not happen upon
many, though he found-place aux
dames-an "Appolonia" accused of
thieving and a Colleberie who had
been robbed.
There were more strange names of
men, but they were not numerous; an
Eluthorius Smith!-who was twice
found guilty of ''conventicle" attend
ing, and other Christian names that
might well have moved their bearers
to unchristian feelings toward their
godparents were Lion, Lisach, Ba-
zonne, Sapcoates, Drugo, Odgoenus,
Nicasius, and Cridioek. Among the
commonwealth names "Damarise Ba-
kerr" seems to be Damaris, with an e
added by a clerical humorist; unless
but no Puritan would make such a
remark about his baby.-London
chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13
TeTephone Troubles.

The man at the telephone had been
trying for what seemed to him like an
unnecessarily large portion of etern-
ity to get his party" He had
been connected by central with
persons who were total strangers
to him and had been fumbIed
and mussed. fguratively speaking, I'M
til at last his patience was a thing of
shreds and tatters. One spark only
was needed to burn up the remnants
and it appeared in the inability of the
girl at the other end of the line to COM
prehend the figures he was trying to
talk off. After a loud noise which
sounded to others in the room like pro-
family he shouted:
Cant you understand anything? I
want 1492-tFe year Columbus discov-
cred America. Now do you know what
1 want?"
Then he collapsed and was laid out
on a desk while the office force applied
restoratives. After he had been brought
out of the faint he explained:
after that last shot the girl said:
oh. yes, 1 know now. You want one
four nine-two, Columbus, Ohio. You
should have asked for long distance"
-Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13

"John. do make biscuits like yoifr
mother used to make?'' NO and I am
glad of it; my digestion isn't what it
used to be."-Houston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-13

Hell won't elope with you unless you
promise not to tell living soul. She
But if 1 don't tell papa where we're GO
ing how can he know where to send any
money to?-Young's Magazine.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05
HOW BRIGHAM CELEBRATED
Sports and Festivals Made Up the
Program for the

Brigham, July 1.-The morning of the
4th was ushered in at Brigham with the
usual firing Of guns. music by the band
and the noise of the firecracker In the
hands of the small boy.
The main feature of the day was the
horse races at i p. m. A hay rack was
fixed up for a band wagon, which headed
the line of vehicles to the race track. On
reaching the BIZ hollow west of town. the
reach pole broke and down went the load
of humanity. The band stopped in the
hollow. while the teamsters rustled an
other hay rack and then proceeded on to
the races.
The ball game was pulled off at $3.50.
with a good crowd in attendance. A big
dance at the academy ended the day.
A couple of sports from Willard were
making noise in the saloon last night.
and as Deputy Marshal Lillywhite went
in to quiet them, they assaulted him. bad
ly beating him up. The night Waterman
arrested them and they were given a hear
ing this morning. They were let out on
bonds to appear in the Justices court
Monday morning.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05
Oqden Briefs.

A. B. Corey of the Corey Bros. Con-
struction company is back from BRUSH
Alberta, Canada, where his company mas
extensive construction work In connection
with the great irrigation project DelhS
carried on there.
George NJ Hanson. secretary to United
States Senator George Sutherland, who
on Monday last was stricken with uremlc
poisoning to such an extent that his life
was despaired of, was able to leave the
hospital Yesterday. His complete recov-
cry Is now considered only a matter OF
a short time.
The Ogden delegation to the Denver
convention will not be as large as was
first anticipated. Among those who will
Join the special from Salt Lake at this
tiers. W. II. Williams. Mayor A. L. Brew
err. T. A Whalen. Mrs. Abbie Day. G. J.
HUMPHREYS. c. w. Clapp, and s. s. Smith
The Fourth of July in Ogden was cele-
brated IN remarkably safe and sane
manner. The accidents resulting from the
discharge of fireworks were few and of
a minor nature. No fires were reported
during the day.
On account of the many attractions in
the city and at the suburban resorts more
people remained at home this year than
for many years past. All of the resorts
aid a big business and all other attrac-
tIons were literally patronized.
Mrs. George Z. Rowland. residing a,
Twentieth street and Adams avenue was
kicked by a horse Friday evening and
painfully injured. Her cheekbone was
fractured, her left eye injured and hei
face and right arm were badly bruised
and discolored. The horse ran from the
stable to the corral. with the halter strar
dragged on the ground. Mrs. Rowlands
stopped to catch the strap when the ami
NAL kicked her in the face. She was un-
conscious for some time, but Is reported
to be recovering nicely.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05
INSTRUCTORS VISIT OGDEN
Teachers of Deaf and Blind Holding
Their Annual Convention in
Junction City.

The first session of the eighteenth tri-
ennial convention of the American In
structors of the Deaf was held last even.
ing at the State School for the Oar and
Blind la this city. Tls convention will
last for week and promises to be one
OF the moss important in the history of
the organization. More than 200 delegates
teachers and .jupils, representing nearly
every state i the union. as well as two
or the Caadian provinces. are in attend
ance.
Govsnor John c. Cutler delivered the
first address of welcome at the opening
u fhe convention last night. Similar adj
dlesses were delivered by Miss Maud
Jabcock, president of the board of trus-
tees OF the school. and City Attorney De-
vine, representing Mayor A. L. Brewer,
who is out of the city. Responses were
made by Superintendent +. Mckay Good
win of North Carolina, DR.. Warren Will
kinson, superintendent of the California
School for the Deaf; President A. c.
Walker of St Augustine, Fla, and Su-
perintendent +. W. Walker of Deleven,
Wis.
Special services will be held in all of
the churches today, and this evening d
special service has been arranged at the
ogden tabernacle In honor of the visitors.
Apostle d. o. Mckay will deliver an
address and a special musical program
will be rendered by the Ogden tabernacle
choir. under the direction of Professor
A c.. Ballantyne.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05
| Ogden News !
offIe, 40 rwenty-FIfsh s.rse.
\ Ogden, Sunday, JULY
RoRERsg1ack STORE slFt
Picket Grocery Damaged to Amount
# $1,000 by Explosion of
Dynamite.
Ogden, Sunday. July

EaIf y yesterday morning nervy CRACKS
men {dynamited the safe in the Pickett
grocefy store at 2s44 Washington ave
nue. Fhe explosion did about 81 900 worth
OF ds$mage but the thieves got little for
tneir{ patAE, The robbers took advantage
the n03Ge of the explosion of many
fireworks turn the trick.
AppaleaDy the amour. OF explosive ne
the ~ steel strong box was entirely
~dcs4oyed and all of the inflammable con-
tents OF the safe we-e burned TO ashes
1t is believed that the explosion must
have occurred about 6 o'clock yesterday
morning. So intense was the heat Of the
explosion that four hours later the safe
was too warm to be touched with the
naked hand.
Checks collected Friday amounting to
$500 were in the safe together with a
number of deeds. abstracts and similar
documents of value and all were con-
sumed In the fire which followed the ex-
plosion When the safe was locked the
night before. in addition to the papers
named above, $50 in cash was locked In
the inner box of the strong box. The
force of the explosion was so great that
greater portion of this money was scat
tered about the store. But two twenty
dollar gold pieces Spd a small amount of
missing and 1t is thought that this was
the sole swag of the safe crackers. II
Is believed that the robbers became
frightened and made hasty departure
sion.
Roorners living above the store had their
attention attracted to the store by smoke
from the burning papers and exploded
dynamite. A fire alarm was turned in.
Upon the arrival of the fire department
II was discovered that the safe had been
destroyed.
As soon as the case was reported to
police headquarters Officers Fred Tout
and Grin Hadlock were assigned to the
case They discovered the head of a
rusty pick and a blacksmith's hammer
which the robbers had dropped In their
haste Extra lengths of fuse were strewn
about the floor among the ashes and bits
of metal
Aside from the tools the police have
as yet discovered no clue to the safe
crackers. II Is believed that the work
was that OF professionals and that the
bulgling job was simply due to under
estimating the amount OF the charge
entrance and exit was made through
n rear door which had been ..jimmied'
open
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05
VOTED A BIG SUCCESS
Park City Did Herself Proud in In
dependence Day Cele-
hration.

Park City. July Another very success
full Fourth of July. celebration. for which
Park City is noted. was held here today,
ana II there was one person in town who
old not have big day, or who did not en-
JOY himself or herself such a case was
not reported. The program of sports for
TINS year was not as inviting to look at
as IN times gone by. but when one stops
and considers what Park City people have
been up against the past eight months,
with the Reproducing mines practically
closed tight, much credit is due the local
business men for their generous contribu-
tons TO the Independence day fund, and
the citizens also come in for a goodf>
share of praise for the manner in which
they took hold of things and made the
celebration the grand success 1t was.
Long before daylight, and from that
time on during the whole day, there was
one continual noise from the explosion OF
giant powder and large firecrackers of all
kinds.
1t was exactly o'clock when the band
made its appearance in the morning, and
after playing several of the national airs.
they marched north to the Union Pacific
depot. where the parade was formed In
the following order:
Standard bearer. Harry WeiSt: Park
City band, 200 school children and G. A.
r. veterans with fife and drums. Each
child in line was given flag and a ticket
good for cents in trade at any store or
theatre in town.
Immediately following the parade ex-
ercises were held at the band stand, and a
very pleasing program was given In this
order:
Remarks, Mayor c. NJ. Wilson.
Selection, Park City band.
Grafton A D. Griffin
Vocai s5ssf>n. MISC f'afek.
local solo Miss +. Rasband.
Address, Rev. Mr.. Craven.
Vocal solo. Charles Il. Prisk.
Selection, Park City band.
This was Superintendent A. d. Griffins
initial appearance before a Park City au-
dience and the gentleman made good
impression.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05
SALT LAKERS MARRIED.
J. J. Davis and Miss Mary Stephen
son United in OGDEN.

After failing TO secure a marriage
license in both Salt Lake and Farming
ton. James ]. Davis. stenographer. and
Miss Mar Stephenson of Salt Lake City
came to Ogden last night and were mar
ried by Elder George d. Folkman at the
county courthouse. Davis telephOned from
Pennington TO the county clerk and ar
ranged for that official to meet him at
the county building at o'clock. The
county clerk failed to keep the appoint
nlent and It was some time later before
H. could he located During the wait
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-05
THE FOURTH AT PROVO

Provo. July 4.-There was general and
enthusiastic observance of independence
day here. Many people came in from Tin
tic and adjoining towns to aid the Provo
people In the celebration.
An interesting program was rendered
in the tabernacle in which former Mayor
Thomas N. Taylor delivered the Grafton.
and Senator Smoot an address. Both
were on broad patriotic lipes. voicing a
spirit of pride and gratitude for the bless
ings OF liberty and for the prosperity and
happiness the years have brought to the
nation.
In the afternoon races and other sports
were enjoyed at the race track.