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The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-05-15

a few months time has done much to
arouse interest in the subject among
it's twenty-five thousand farm subscrib-
ers. But the editors are not content
with what little bit has been accom-
plished, for they do not feel that they
are beginning to cope with the pos
sibilities that the subject offers. An
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-05-15
The Ranch Enlists the Support of Its
Readers in an Effort for Better High
ways in the Agricultural Districts.

country is comprised largely of rough,
rolling plains which make transporta-
tiOH without good roads almost impos-
siblc. Many regions rich and full
Of great agricultural possibilities,
have not been developed because the
markets are too inaccessible and be-
cause the farmers are confronted by
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-05-15

we must nave IuoiI
moral support. And
in order to start the
campaign right, we
are publishing in
connection with this
article, on the next
page, a Good Roads
Memorial which we
want each and every
one of our numerous
readers to sign and
send to us at once.
1t costs you nothing
and you are commit
ting yourself to moth
ing. 1t only means
that the man who
signs is heartily in
favor of the move
ment towards Good
Roads, that he is a
farmer who is depen-
dent upon Good
Roads for his well
fare, and that he is
anxious to see an i'm
prOvement made in
our highways lead
ing from the farm to
town. We expect to
get thousands of
these returned to us,
signed by our read
ers, during the next
two or three weeks,
for surely there IS
not a farmer in this
entire Pacific North
west who does not
want better roads
and the benefits that
will accrue to him as
a result thereof.
Be sure and sign
the document in ink,
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sections of the country as a result Oh
bringing new districts closer to the
markets. They mean higher prices
for farm lands and better means OF
commercial and social intercommunl-
cation that the farmers of the outly-
ing districts will be brought closer
together, that farm life will not only
be more profitable, but more agree
able. They mean better prices and
better living
To the agricultural districts of the
Pacific Northwest which are only IN
the early stages of their development
with many vast empires yet TO pc
opened to the wealth-producing farm
or Good Roads have an especial sig
nificance. The agricultural regions
are scattered through many long
leagues between the towns and rail-
road stations which represent the near
est markets for the farmers, and the
The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1908-05-15

that threatened the
sound and basic
thrift of the Ameri-
can people.
These great farm
highways, these ave-
nues of wealth that
lead from the field
to the market and
that transport annu-
ally almost enough
wealth to pave them
with gold, are an i'm
portant part of the
commercial and in
dustria1 machinery
of the country, and
as such are worthy
of the greatest atten-
ton, care and devel-
opment that the ma
ton can give.
r h e subject Of
Good Roads means
volumes to the Amer
lean people. 1t means
more to the farmers
themselves, who are
directly interested
and whose welfare is
virtually involved.
Good Roads to the
farmers mean cas-
Ter avenues of trans
portation to the mar
kets; they mean a
saving in money and
time in the great
task of marketing
farm produce; they
mean higher net
prices for their crops
and more accessible
markets; they mean
greater agricultural
development in all
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe

[From the Atchison Globe.J
Along about As, look around for
bargains in spectacles.
People expect SO much that they
fear the worst when they have plenty.
The only excuse for a man school
teacher is that he whips harder than
woman.
If you keep on asking for good ad-
vice, some day you will get it, and
won't like it.
There is always material for a fierce
political quarrel, if you can find fools
to engage in it.
The newspaper a man takes is very
much like the town in which he lives:
never satisfactory.
People will be all right as soon as
they forget this year. and begin to
hope for next year.
Considering the annoyance of life,
a patient man or woman is entitled to
a great deal of credit.
After a man is SO years old he
knows so many people that speaking
to them all becomes hard work
A crank is a man who takes and
reads an automobile magazine, al
though he doesn't own an automobile.
A woman hasn't thoroughly learned
the art of shopping if she can't make
the rounds down town without spend
ing cent.
When man tells how he was
whipped as a boy, the women are
usually sympathetic, but the men say:
"Ill bet you deserved it"
good singer can always make
women cry by singing Home, Sweet
Home" So many people long for a
home, and SO few have one.
1t is getting to be so that a natural
~ growing-old woman is better look
ing than the one who invests in pow
der and dye to defeat time.
1t is pretty sad to think you will
not be missed when you are dead but
it is worse to know that your absence
is desirable when you are living.
The precociousness of a child pleases
its mother in every instance, except
when the child makes the discovery
that there is no Santa Claus.
You never hear a girl say she hopes
to marry a man who will love her
truly and sincerely; she always says
she wants to marry a rich man. Girls
do not believe in love as much as
they pretend to.
Young women have many accom-
plishments that older women don't
have, but they can't start fires A
young woman with paper, kindling,
coal and oil. can't make as good a
fire as an old woman can make with
a few pieces of rough wood. Men
can't touch women when it comes to
making hres.
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IN ABSENCE.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder,
As I've often noted.
When I'm here and she is yonder
feel quite devoted
NY affection has a glow
Warmer than lust now. know.
Far more love I can display
When she's very far away.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Here 1t seems inactive.
When in some strange town wander
She grows more attractive.
Yes. I've noticed when she's near
She's not anywhere so dear
Half so cherished. I should say,
AS when she is far away.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
If it's warmth's abated
her many virtues ponder
When we've separated.
Nothing clouds our happiness
AS it does now. more or less.
Then find it hard to stay
Want to see her right away.
Chicago News.
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THE DRUG STORES.

| Mr. Schenck, the able public prose-
cutor for Shawnee county, who has
done yeoman's service in enforcing the
| prohibitorv law within its confines and
| who has been successful in Kidding To-
peka, with the aid of Sheriff Wilkerson
and the police, of the Joints and 9TH
err Ubiquitous dives which used to
flourish here, makes the point that the
liquor permits to druggists are issued
too promiscuously in this locality. Il
is an excellent one and should be well
taken. There are now forty-eight drug
stories in Topeka holding permits to
sell intoxicating liquor within the
terms of the prohibitory law. This is
a drug store for considerably less than
every one thousand of the population i'll
the city. Surely there can be no one,
unless it be some of the druggists who
use their stores as masks to sell
liquors. who will argue that Topekans
need anv such number of pharmacies
to supply their wants in this line
Particularly can it not be argued that
this number Of drug stores is necessary
to provide the liquor that might prop
erly be needed in the city for medicinal
and scientific purposes.
There can be only one conclusion to
be drawn from this number of drug
stores. 1t is the one arrived at by Mr.
Schenck when he says that a large
share of the drug stores in the city
could not exist without their liquor
business and that from the large in
crease in the number Of drug stores in
the past two years, or since the pro-
hibitory law has been enforced here, il
| is evident that many have come in to
take the place of the joints that have
been run out of business. OF course,
there is. not a drug store that plies its
liquor trade in the same open fashion
that the joints did. They show some
semblance OF observing the law by per-
functorily maxine purchasers of liquor
sign up for it. But they use no dis
elimination in the sale of the liquor as
the prohibitory law intends that they
shall. Mr.. Schenck believes that some
steps should be taken looking toward
a reduction of the number of druggists
who hold liquor permits. And some
thing along that line should be done.
But 1t will be q difficult question to
deal with. A law which would limit
the number of men who might engage
in the drug business in a community,
say proportionately with the popula-
ton. would hardly hold water The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-18
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Light Iabor-a job in the gas works.
Even the flower of the family may
go to seed.
Santa Claus is beginning to count
the stockings.
It isn't always the fault of his tenn
per when doctor gets out of patients.
Opportunity may make the man. but
the man must first make the oppor-
tunity.
A man may sometimes feel that he
has no friends. and at other times
that he has too many.
Here's where my plans go up in
smoke" remarked the architect as
he discovered that his Office was on
fire.
at takes three generations to make
a gentleman" quoted the Wise Guy
Eyes; provided Nature doesn't step in
and make monkey of him." added
the Simple Mug.
Mrs. Buggins-"Before we were
married you used to say was the
sunshine of your life" Mr.. Buggins-
well 1 admit that you still do your
best to make things hot for me-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-18
AYHAWKER JOTS

Possum suppers are having quite a
vogue these days in and about Lola.
| Those who like possums are surely
| privileged to eat them but --
Something of a rabbit hunt was
pulled off not long age near Ottawa.
More than seven hundred rabbits fell
before the guns of the mighty MINI
rods of that section.
A curiosity in the rabbit line is on
exhibition in Plainville. One of the
rabbit which is pure white. But
maybe this is a mature fake
The Old Fiddlers' association of
EmpOria is now a regularly incor-
pOrated body but there is a grave
question as to whether or not this fact
will help the playing of its members.
A story comes from Doniphan that
some of the girls are remaining away
from school owing to the actions of
some of the big boys. A few hickory
rods and a little strap oil might re-
lieve the situation.
chased alligator bags costing SIG each
for their sisters This leads the
1tem-Rustler to remark that mo sis
tiers will ever see those bags on
Christmas morning"
Hats off to the Anti-Horse Thief
association of Hutchinson. 1t gave
an oyster supper recently in which
there were some real oysters in the
soup. Think of it. Thirty gallons of
oysters were used for this soup.
- In Towanda sour milk is selling at
five cents a quart. This is because the
eating of corn bread has become
something of an epidemic in the town.
This is one of the few epidemics that
is pleasing. If there is anything bet
ter than corn bread it is more of 1t.
Emporia is all agog or in some like
condition. A 15-year- boy of that
town was found in the public library
the other day so intoxicated that he
could hardly walk And the
agogginess in Emporia is over the
question as to where he got the
whisky.
Logan is to have some street lights
and practically at little OF no cost to
the town. 1t seems that the electric
light company operating there uses
between 81 and IS worth of city water
each month. Its manager has agreed
to put in five arc lights on the main
street and operate them in exchange
for the water and the town is willing
to do this.
Winfield has something new in the
way Of a crop. 1t is Soy beans. They
grow on bushes which attain height
of three feet. The bushes are prolific
In bearing beans and the leaves on the
bushes, the pods and the beans are
relfshed by stock, especially hogs. A
farmer south of the town sowed two
acres of this variety of beans, which
are somewhat like COW peas, and
when they had got their growth he
turned his hogs into the field to pas
ture. He is enthusiastic about the
crop as hog fodder.
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that dread disease, tuberculosis. This
is more than a charity. 1t IS a duty
of citizenship to help eliminate this
deadly malady which Is the one real
peril of the country. Through the
medium of these stamps everyone, the
poor and the rich, can contribute
their mites to an excellent cause. The
purchase of a few or many or these
stamps will not be much of a drain
on any Christmas purse, but if the
practice is generally INDUCED in by
the people of the nation the aggre-
gate sum realized ought to be suffi-
Gent to give this excellent movement
a great start along its inestimably
valuable way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-18

II MT. GuiIbert, the representative
elect from Logan county, has his way
there will be a systematic extermina-
ton OF the prairie dogs in Kansas. He
is going 20 endeavor to have a law en-
acted which win make 1t compulsory
for township authorities to poison prai-
rie dogs wherever they exist. This
calls to-ulind the fact that even prairie
dogs have some friends. In the Bronx
Geological park in New York is a viii
Iage of them which is most zealously
guarded and where the little rascals
are encouraged to have the best sort of
a time
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.J

IL IOIIl Tie SiICdSO 4NCNSsJ
Some charity begins and ends at
home.
It's always the open season for hunt
ing trouble.
The secret of success is a secret wo-
men never tell
The girl who smacks of freshness
gets a good many smacks.
Cleaning upsets a house almost as
badly as it does a watch
A woman cares not who saves the
money if she is allowed to spend 1t.
Talk of spirits at a seance is listened
to with raped attention.
And you may sometimes judge a man
by the company that doesn't keep him.
MANY a man has lost money on a
sure thing because he was afraid to
take chances.
The sweet music children make in a
home has nothing in common with
piano lessons.
Long before a woman acquires any
Jewels she Hikes to worry for fear they
may be stolen.
What a splendid thing it would be AZ
people who lose their tempers were un
able to find them againl
Foreign titles come Highland a good
many American heiresses have discov-
cred that they we're not worth the
price.
A man isn't necessarily an ex-convict
because he doesn't care to talk about
himself. He may be afflicted WITH
modesty -
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Man wants but little here below.
sang a poet and that's just what most
of them get.
X \
When n mans wife is entertaining
her club he is apt to feel like a
stranger in his own home.
y X
No matter what labor a young boy
INDUCES in of his own volition he does
not consider 1t to be work.
X x
A woman can hardly be expected to
thoroughly hate gossip until she has
heard all of it so she can know what
she is hating.
1t Is hardly reasonable to expect
to find a pearl in the average dish of
oyster soup when the oysters them
selves are so scarce.
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There can be no good and sufficient
arguments against the measure which
has been introduced in congress by
Representative Cooper of Texas which
calls for the printing of the names of
the owners and editors of all news
papers on the publications put out by
them, except in the matter Of a. slight
detail. Mr.. Cooper would have these
names printed on the first page of the
publications. whether they be news
papers, magazines or other
periodicals. That would be an I'M
handy place for them in a newspaper.
Anyone who is interested in the name
of the owner and editor of a news
paper can surely Inconvenience him
self to the extent of turning to the
editorial page and finding it at the top
OF the editorial column where it prop
eriy belongs and where 1t already can
be found IN most of the reputable
newspapers of the country.
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approval and the marriage was quickly

arranged.
Dick wondered when. among the pres
ents, he saw a sealed envelope on which
was written the Injunction that It was
ding.
Not until they were comfortably in
stailed In Pettis' private car on their
letter.
As he unfolded the sheet three slipA
OF colored paper fluttered to the floor
OF the car, and Eleanor gave a little
cry as she picked them up. Dick was
too deep in the letter to realize that he
mad dropped anything. for he found 1t
interesting reading.
,o,l Dear Dick" at ran. Il am inclOs-
that Pettis owed. Pettis and are
each adding a like amount to get you
young people started. We feel rather
proud of our match making. If we had
been couple of ambitious mothers, we
might have made the error of trying
to force you two to marry.
Instead. we invented this debt of
100000 and gave 1t to you to collect
That brought you and Eleanor togeth-
er and the trip abroad was for the
purpose of bringing things to a head.
L guess that we are able to beat out
any of the matchmaking hens that ever
unused things up. 1t was all could do
to keep from laughing in your face
when you gave me your own money.
and told me it was from Pettis, so that
l would consent to your marriage. I'm
telling you this so you'll have some
thing to laugh over on your honey
moon"
And We thought that we were
fooltng them all the time-the mean
things" cried Eleanor
Meant cried Dick reproachfully.
when they brought us together"
But we thought our plan was so
tactful," she pouted. TT was to show
that you had been broken into busl-
ness.
II guess 1 haven't even commenced"
admitted Dick. But I've some one to
work for now. You watch me!"-(Copy-
righted, 1908, by Associated Literary
Press1.
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THE POPULAR VOTE.

| With the filing of the official vote il
Michigan recently the total popular
vote OF the various presidential candi-
dates at the last election is available
and while political affairs of this sort
are trifie out of season a brief review
OF vote cannot fail to be of inter
est. The popular vote of the entire
| country totaled 1882, 239, of which Mr.
Taft, the Republican and successful
candidate received 1851, 676. Mr. Bryan
the Democratic candidate, received
6,305, 1872; Mr.. Debs, the Socialist, AL
651; Mr.. Chain, Prohibitionist, 241. 252;
Mr.. Hisgen, Independence party, S3,1s6;
Watson, Populist, 22S71, and Gilhaus
Socialist Labor, 15,421.
The grand total vote exceeds by l.
341,5S1 the total number of votes cast
in the presidential election of 1904, when
the grand total was 13, $40, 70S. Compar-
ed with that election, the candidates of
the Republican, Democratic and Social
list parties increased their votes this
year. The reverse is true of the can
didates Of the Prohibition, Popuhst and
Socialist Labor parties. The Independ-
ence party did not figure in the presi-
Dental election of four years ago. The
greatest difference in a party vote is
shown in an increase for Bryan of
1,315,21 over the total vote in 1904
for Alton B. Parker. Judge Taft re-
ceived 14.190 more votes than were poll
ed for President Roosevelt in 1904, and
Debs ran 45,S6S ahead of the vote he
received four years ago, and this was
a great disappointment to Mr.. Debs and
his followers. They expected a much
larger increase in their vote.
The heaviest loss is shown by the
Populists,. who with the same candi-
date, registered S3,312 votes less this
year than in 1904. when their total was
III 1873. The Prohibitionist candidate,
Chain. ran 17,2S4 votes behind the 1904
mark Of his party, and Gilhaus, the
Socialist Labor candidate, received only
about 30 per cent of the vote given to
Corrigan, which was 81 ,249 in the previ-
$500 votes, Pennsylvania with 745, 779
and Illinois with 629,932 gave Taft the
greatest number of votes among the
states while as to Bryan the order was
New York with 667, 46S votes, Ohio with
502,721 and Illinois with 45O,S1O. The
votes cast for Taft and Bryan were al
most identical in Maryland and Ne
vada. In the first Taft received Ill 253
124 and 1855 respectively.
Debs received his largest vote in
Pennsylvania and his next largest In
Illinois and New York. Vermont was
the only state in which not a single
vote was cast for the Socialist candi-
date. Delaware gave him only IS votes.
Hisgen's vote In New York 35,S17, and
in his own state of Massachusetts, 49,
237, together formed nearly two-thirds
of all the votes he received in the whole
country. In six states not a vote was
cast for him and all of this is pretty
conclusive evidence that Mr.. Hearst's
much Haunted Independence party did
not cut a very wide swath in the pres
idential contest. Nine states register
ed not a single vote for the Prohibi-
Zionist candidate. The Socialist Labor
candidate received votes in only 13 of
the states, and in only 10 states were
votes cast for watson, of the Populist
party.
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Out OF the 100000 passengers car
Fied last year on the new steel Pullman
cars there was but one death from &C .
ctdent. This is a strong argument in
favor Of the equipment of railroads
with steel passenger cars but the pro-
verbal position of Pullman cars on the
rear OF all trains must also be taken
into consideration. The rear cars of a
train generally go through the average
wreck without much damage being
done TO them or injury to the passen-
Earg treveling in them.
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drug business is q legitimate one and it
would probably be impossible to pre-
vent anyone from engaging in it. The
remedy seems to lie in making more
stringent provisions to the prohibitory
law regarding the issuance of permits
to sell liquor. Mr.. Schenck has some
suggestions along this line which are
valuable. Perhaps, though, the evil
would be lessened to a considerable ex-
tent If more discrimination were used
by probate judges in the giving of the
permits. Their authority in the matter
is absolute.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-18

Boston may be erudite to an unusual
degree but her people did not make
much of a sound like 1t at a recent
election They voted to continue the
cit as license town when under the
Massachusetts local option law they
could have made it q great prohibition
center. That's what other places with
a less distinguished reputation for IN
telligence are doing whenever they get
the chance. But the chances are that
Boston's reputation for great wisdom
Is merely q myth.
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Possibly 1t will be interesting to
know that the New York World first
incurred the hatred of Mr.. Roosevelt
when 1t published prematurely an
important state document while Mr..
Roosevelt was governor of New York
which was stolen from the states
executive department through the
connivance of a stenographer in the
employ of that department. He was
given a good round sum of money by
the World for the betrayal of his