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Williams news., 1908-10-31
SOME LOCAL ITEMS

MI Q. w Lb' A|&'ChSOAt Oa 1oh Oi h ' was shopping in the city Tuesday.
 Smith Beck, of Flagstaff. was a business visitor in the city Tuesday. Deputy Sheriff Woody was a business visitor in the city Monday and Tuesday.
 Toys, toys, dolls, doll buggies, tin toys, drums, bugles, etc, etc., have begin to arrive at Hill & Ken nedy's.
 J. A. Gray, the Junction sheep man vas transaoting business in the city Saturday.
 The postoffice at Hunt, Apache county has been discontinued, mail to be sent to Concho.
 Victor Hugo, local Santa Fe agent returned from a short trip to Los Angeles Saturday.
 Los Dos Naciones, Arthurs, Burns, UpmaRs, Stanford cigars in holiday packages at Hill & Ken nedy's.
 George Hoehderffer, democratic nominee for assemblyman, was cir culating among the voters in Will jams on Tuesday.
 Patsy Hollihan has started an express business in the city, and is now prepared to do your heavy or light hauling on short notice.
 The latest report on the Hum bolt smelter situation is that the property will be sold at public auction in Prescott, November 10.
 Two nicely furnished down stairs front rooms for rent. Apply three doors west of hospital. Mrs. Geo. L. Barnes.
 Hon. L. S. Williams, democratic nominee for the assembly, returned to the city Monday from a cam paign tour in the eastern part of the county.
 w. G. Dickinson was in the city the first of the week. Billy" is the democratic nominee for super visor and Is making a good can vass for the position.
 Dr. Wasson, the dentist, has opened his office in the Cottage house and is prepared to do dental work of the highest grade.
 N. G. Layton, district court clerk, passed through here Saturday evening on his way home at Flag staff from Kingman where he had been attending the term of the dis trict court.
 Tom" Drum, the republican nominee for sheriff, was circulating among the waters here Saturday MT. Drum is hustler, and is mak- ing many friends among the voters of this section.
 Any time you want your clothes or shoes fixed In hurry don't fail to send for Jess Franklin, who will call for aAd deliver them any day in the week
 Mrs. Amos Adams returned from Los Angeles Sunday evening. where she had been making her home for several months. Amos has been here for some time and they will again make their home in Will iams
 John w. Francis, the democratic nominee for sheriff was in the city Saturday, looking after the voters and incidently attending to busi- ness. John never allows personal matters to interfere with the duties of his office
 Drop in at the Pullman when you want a good driak of San Diego or Jos beer. The famous old Taylor whiskey always kept In stock. BAUMaARTNER & SAToRI.
 James A. Johnson, of the John son Cattle Co.,. Monday shipped 516 head of cattle to Allen Robin son & Co.,, at Kansas City. Pitts < Co, of Ssligman brought in
Williams news., 1908-10-31

Considered a Conservative Estimate Reasonably sure republican. 280 Doubtful. republican leanings 26 Reasonably sure dem moeratic 156 Doubtful, democratic leanings.. 21 Necessary to choice. .... PAP Roosevelt. 1904 .. .336- = Parker, 1904. .140
 sIXTY-FIRsT CONGRESS. hePuOllcans lS0 DSMOoIAco 100 DououuI DO Republican senators. rs.......... 61 Democratic senators. 31
 sIXTIETH CONGRESS.
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Williams news., 1908-10-31
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shop possesses every requisite for the exe- cution of printing in an artful manner, and great pains are taken with every piece of work that comes to this office. .* I% .$
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
MAGISTRATES Bright Idea.

A sentence, probably unique in this
country, was recently pronounced by
a magistrate in Everett, Mass. Two
youngsters of twelve years had been
Convicted of throwing stones, to the
destruction Of property and the peril
of passers-by. Just how to deal with
the youthful offenders was puzzle
for the court for a while, but after
due thought the judge hit upon the
fun" into a penalty. He ordered a
police sergeant to take the boys back
to the lot where they had been cap
turen and make them spend half an
hour in throwing stones as fast as
they could pick them up. The SER
geant obeyed orders to the letter, and
the YOUNGSTERS got enough of stone
throwing to last them the rest OF their
liyes-New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
Time was also made for slave driv-
ers.
Peace often comes in mighty little
pieces.
Live according to their convictions
Convicts.
It doesn't pay to feather your nest
with borrowed plumes.
No cigar is so good that 1t doesn't
eventually meet its match
Few people require adhesive plaster
to get stuck on themselves.
When the piker bets his bottom dol
lar he doesn't have to dig very far.
No, Maude, dear; even the female
baker doesn't like to keep her lady
fingers on hand.
Success has turned many a mans
head. In fact. it's long head that
has no turning.
"This is entirely uncalled for" re-
marked the postmaster as he sent the
letter to the dead letter ONCE.
wigg-"Harduppe proposed to Miss
Gotrox on his knees" Wagg-"I sup
pose he wanted her to put him on his
feet.''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
Dog Saved by Merry Widow Hat.

A Merry Widow hat saved puppy's
life near this place yesterday after
noon. Miss Gillette of Newark, guest
of friends at Sparrowbush. N. z,
western suburb. dropped the pup into
the Delaware river. The current car
ried it down stream to a rock, upon
which the dog crawled. Miss Gillette
took her hat off, removed Its trim
mings, and tying a strong string to the
brim, let it float down to the rock.
Then she coaxed the puppy into the
hat and towed it to shore. This morn
ing she appeared on the streets with
the hat repressed and trimmed as good
as ever-Port Jervis dispatch to New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02

Maintaining a navy on an adequate
peace footing seems quite as perilous
as sending squadron of ships into bat
tie as is evidenced by the happenings
in the English navy during a brief
space of time. An armored cruiser
WAS cut in two and sunk by a mer-
chairman, a similar fate happened to
a torpedo boat and most recently a
boiler tube explosion on a battleship
MANNED a number of men. In the
other two accidents a number of lives
were lost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
LTTTLE PIrCHERs.

I got real mad the other day
with Willie Jones an said
I'd hop out II he got too gay
And punch his darn fool head.
Nom heard me an she called mo In
An spanked me, too. by gumi
She didn't seem to care q pin
When father mashed his thumb
Maybe it's wrong for boys to use
The langwitch that did
An grown folks never will excuse
A cuss word in a kid
pose tnat darn g naughty word;
It's reckoned so by some.
But that's not much to what heard
When father mashed his thumb.
But just you wait till get growed
As big as father is
And Willie Jones gets in my road!
I bet you'll hear things sizz.
If anybody gets me hot
In that sweet time to come
III show 'em that learned a lot
When father mashed his thumb.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
AYHAWKER JOTS

j. w. Mulnix Of LaHarpe has an
English coin dated 1877. And now
La Harpe people are accusing him OF
boarding.
Among the other celebrities in
Atchison is Ed Smell Of whom 1t is
reported that he can make a bee eat
out of his hand.
The Meanest Man has been given a
job on the lola police force and is
trying to make the kids quit playing
ball in the streets.
Charley Miles OF Bulletin. was re-
Gently thrown from a buggy and bad
ly skinned UP. He says that will not
leave so much for the assessor to do.
Ex-Congressman Bowersock will
pay a personal tax on $204,750. 1t is
safe to say that his title as champion
tax payer on personal property will
not be contested.
George Stunkle a farmer living
near Mulvane, has what the News of
that town says is the biggest barn in
Kansas. The building is 90 feet
wide and 1876 feet long.
Forty convicts at the state peni-
Tertiary have learned to read and
write within the school year. Had
they learned early in life how many
of them would be there now? asks
the Wichita Beacon.
There's great excitement around
Iukd. SOMEBODY Caught q pOSSum III
his chicken house. With this beast
as a nucleus there is some talk OF
the city starting a public menagerie
of rare wild animals.
Atchison has one soda fountain to
every thousand Inhabitants, counting
$4,000 people in the town. When
the prohibition law was not enforced
in this fair town the ratio of saloons
and joints was much larger.
A couple Of boys were wrestling
on the depot platform at Frankfort
when a venerable woman descended
from the train. They jostled her and
upset her, so that she broke her hip,
and now the railway company will be
sued for damages.
Judge Dyer, of the Wichita city
court, has made record by allowing
damages to a plaintiff to the entire
extent of one cent. In olden times
when money was not the medium of
exchange in this country a smaller
amount OF damages might have been
awarded. But they would necessarily
have been in mustard seeds or some
thing equally valueless.
A novel idea in the way Of contri-
buttons for needy institutions was
adopted recently by the Methodist
Sunday school at Salina. The children
were asked to bring fresh eggs to be
sent to Bethany hospital at Kansas
City which is maintained by the
Methodists. They responded with
one hundred and eighty dozen. AL
most any hospital maintained through
charity would be glad Of a contribu-
ton Of this sort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.

lFrom the Chicago News.1
Electric signs are responsible for
some bright remarks.
Do your duty and let the other fellow
do the explaining.
The butcher should be careful how
he steaks his reputation.
The theatrical manager has q Door
show II it isn't a good one.
Instead OF waiting for things to turn
up, turn them up while you wait
A woman seldom nags her husband
unless he is that kind of a husband.
II a woman is thin she can make
UP for it, but there is no help for a
thin man.
Indifference is about the only thing
capable of freezing the milk Of human
kindness.
Josh Billings advocated simplff1ed
spelling, but it didn't take" outside
his business.
Some one has said that happiness is
but habit. II it is, here's hoping that
you may acquire the habit
A manly man likes to ACKNOWLEDGES
his faults to womanly woman who
tries to convince him that he has none.
Economy may be the road to wealth.
but ntne-tenths Of those who are COM
PEELED to travel Il never reach ths 0oal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
MARRIAGE,

1t must be admitted even, by those
who do not belong to the Roman
Catholic church, that the edict pro-
mulgated on Easter Sunday last was
sadly needed. 1t was not a new rule
or new ecclesiastical law, but merely
a reiteration of an old one, and it's
tendency was to make marriages hon.
orable. If practised everywhere it
would put marriages upon a higher
plane than that upon which they rest
in this country.
The church which issued the edict
referred to tolerates no divorces. 1t
holds that when two are married they
are married until one or the other
dies. King Henry VIII could not
swerve the church from this doctrine,
and Miss Helen Maloney. of later
day notoriety, can not, with all her
millions, remove the ban of the
church against her divorce and re-
marriage.
Whatever may be thought by those
not of the Roman Catholic faith with
reference to some Of the rules Of
marriage laid down in this edict, they
will recognize one fact, which is that
the divorce courts would have little
to do. and there would not be so
much need of uniform divorce laws,
if these or even more drastic regula-
tions were necessary to validate a
marriage. Altogether too lightly is
the marriage contract considered,
and altogether too easily may it be
broken.
The result of this lack of respect
or of reverence for the institution
upon which rests all true homes and
true family life, is seen in the thou
sands, the tens of thousands of di-
vorces. and the immediate remarriage
of one or both of the parties. And
with the exception of alimony, there
is no punishment for the vicious con-
finds the doors of society open, If
there is plenty of money to unlock
them, and they are not frowned upon,
The vast number Of divorces, and
their constant ratio of increase, have
brought intelligent, moral people to
the conclusion that something must
be done to put a check to this vice
that is undermining the home and
putting a premium on infidelity. The
idea is growing that the guilty partv
in divorce case should be made TO
| suffer; that this crime against mar
rage should involve punishment that
would tend even to make the Pitts
burg millionaire and the sons of the
great railroad magnates hesitate long
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's deeds not words that count ex-
cept when one has cause to send a tele-
gram.
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A girl should at least wait until she
is married before she tries to monopo-
lie the conversation.
X X
It is difficult job to be real friend
ly with man you actually like whom
you owe him a considerable sum Of
money.
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One reason why the average man
hesitates to consider himself as wise
as Solomon Is because he has not lot
of wives to advise him.
Probably the average inexperienced
person wants large wages at the start
on the ground that his work will be
harder because he does not know how.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
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s-eN C1RlB Z0FSS

Looie Linkenfusser, Kalamnook.
Michconsigan. yet.
Dear Looie: Skince wrotening you
lasd week, noos hat been scarce uno
far from togedder. allretty. Wery
Iiddle ISIS bidding. Misder Tucker.
junior-our oldt collech chump vicn
used to skun US blaying marples Ter
dimdends fss again oop agensd 10. he
ISIS indicted fer der sixth dime mttin
a regency, und,-dake i'd from me-
Looie, der end ISIS nod yedt. Dis dime
he will be convictoned on tree coundtSf
Feirsd, talking sassy to q stockholder,
und telling him to beat i'd; SECOND.
baying hiss vice pressidendt only cub
reporter wages, und thairdleDsly, but
nod leasdlessly py dingsignt, butklng
indo der territory cofered py der green
gofermendt stamp UT der Standard OH
combany. Alder dey gedt trough NIT
Misder Tucker, junior. on desc
charches, he will be resticked on der
follering: Lese majestics. freQuende
f1oppency, bummency, nixcumaroue-
ency, diabetis und yeller fefer. say
dis, Looie, es a conserfatif estimate. Der
offs poy hat losd my copy UT der
criminal CODE" derefore cannod be
egspected to dell you efery dings he
will be sticked for. At any rate. Looie.
he ISIS sticked.
Hoping dis will find you der same I
Reminder HANS ZUPP.
p. d. Q. s.: promised to deli you
vass ISIS coming along NIT der Eaton
Dreningese var. Dere ISIS nodings.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02

It appears now that the joke is de-
cidedly on congress. President Roose-
welt is entirely satisfied with the naval
programme authorizing the construc-
ton of two big battleships. He even
goes so far as to say that this number
is more than he expected at one time.
Can it be that the presidents insistent
and vigorous fight for four mammoth
ships Of war was for the purpose of
getting at least two? Maybe, for Mr.
Roosevelt ever has a trick or two up
his sleeve and is an adept when it
comes to stacking cards. Probably if
he had insisted on two battleships he
would only have secured one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe

IFrom the Atchison Globe.
No man wants to quit work early and
go home on wash day.
So many things are wrong that we
are tired of being indignant.
It is more impolite than unlucky to
cross in front Of a funeral procession.
Convince a man in an argument that
he is wrong, and he will hate you.
No woman can ask a man for money
so gently that 1t will not make him
mad.
The man who is always pretty busy
in crowd of women, never has much
to say in a crowd of men.
You are what the opinion of your
neighbors make you, but by your own
conduct you make their opinions.
The best girl in the world is the one
who remembers that her mother is a
human being, and sometimes gets tired.
Whenever a man has a little pain he
goes around saying he feels as though
someone were sticking a knife into his
vitals.
The American who has invented a
noiseless powder. should form the ac-
quaintance of the women; some Of
them use a pretty loud variety.
1t makes no difference how little a
boy is, when his mother scolds him,
she says: You ought to be ashamed
of yourself; a big boy like you"
oOH SO Will yOu OcCduSo Inc
you." said a frank young woman to
a young man the other day, but to
find out If will like you when I know
you better"
There are a number of mistakes in
the world, but the one boy makes
when he runs away from home to get
out of work, stands well towards the
head Of the list in size.
Conversation at a family dinner is
apt to be as disconnected as the die
tionary, owing to an effort to get the
girl children to eat more and the boy
children to eat less.
Give girl a double set of grand
parents, her parents. and a half dozen
brothers and sisters, and she will not
feel that anyone in the world under
stands her until some young man comes
along.
They tell of a little boy who was
playing with a lot Of toys given to him
by his father. His mother reminded
him that he should love the Lord. He
replied: "Of course I love the Lord
best but daddy is mighty good to me-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02

No matter how serious the condi-
tions are that develop a fine, old opti-
mist hobs up and points to the antique
adage that it's an ill wind that blows
no good. This time it is E. G. Bass,
the state house gardener. He sees in
the cold weather blessing in dis
guise. 1t will kill all the worms and
bugs that would have ruined the
flowers and vegetables later on. This,
OF course, is good only for the vegeta-
bles and flowers that were not killed
themselyes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02

A party of men were lunching recent
ly, when in the course Of political
discussion it was suggested that Mr..
Roosevelt and Mr.. Bryan are both pri-
marily preachers. I'm fact" comment
ed the man from the south, pretty
much all the public men who are cut
ting any figure today are doing more
or less preaching. One Of our southern
senators went to town to make a
political speech the other day, and ev-
erybody turned out to hear him. He
talked for two hours, and he never
touched the tariff or the other stock
political theme; but he dwelt on the
Importance of character, the need for
religion, the value Of wholesome home
life and so forth. And he held his
auditors to a man, for he knew what
most interests people nowadays"
The simple verities Of religion have a
compelling power over the minds Of
the plain people. They cannot get
deeply interested in theological sub
tleties. Look into the Bible of an earn
est Chirtian and you will find thumb
marks on this fourteenth chapter OF
Johns Gospel, with it's familiar appeal
to the depths Of the common heart.
When the topic of trouble is touched
upon everybody is interested; for trou-
bic is a universal experience. This
group of friends, gathered in an upper
room in old Jerusalem. were in sore
trouble. Their best Friend was going
away from them, as he had just told
them. He had been for three years
their leader, counsellor and strength.
Now they are desolated by the prospect
Of his near departure.
Instead of thinking of his own trou-
bles, Christ took up. as usual, the
strong mans burden of comforting
others. Let not your heart be trou-
bled." Why not? What is the COM
fort for the sorrowing? 1t is two-fold.
First, a realization Of God. God told
of the simplest of all creeds, namely.
that God is, and that God is love, hav-
ing best expressed himself in Jesus
Christ Let not your heart be trou-
bled."
A sense of Jehovah is the refuge for
the human heart in it's hour of need.
If a man will think more Of higher,
outer thoughts and less Of his troubles,
the latter will quickly begin to assume
small proportions.
The second bit of consolation which
the wise Teacher brought to his trout
bled followers was a reminder of
heaven. I'm my Fathers house are
many homes that never break up"
Their present family relations were
about to be severed; the Head Of the
house was leaving them. LIES founda-
lions seemed to be tottering. They
questioned the stability of everything,
after this shattering blow to their
hopes.
The comfort was the thought Of home
-earth's best perfected and perpetu-
ated in heaven. The first thought was
that of permanence: in the disabilities
of time, they were to find a reminder
Of the abiding sureness of eternity.
Earth's homes all break up sometime;
the day is inevitable when the blinds
will be drawn and a bit Of crepe will
flutter from the door.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02

are not serious and it would seem that
they should be adjusted regularly. In
the meantime, however, the strike has
not had any bad effects. The rail-
roads and factories have plenty OF
coal on hand as have other con-
sumers who are not very numerous in
these parts because of the natural gas
supply. It was real nice Of the miners
to strike at a time when SO little
hardships would result from their
act.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02

In one of the Chicago settlements
there is a mothers club whose MEM
bers are awarded souvenir spoons on
the advent of an addition to their
families. Some of the members are
the proud possessors of a dozen or
more of these spoons It's certain
that race suicide is not popular in this
organization and also that virtue
occasionally gets it's reward. although
in this instance the reward hardly
seems adequate
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02

Richard Croker. the exile boss of
Tammany hall who has the privilege
OF bowling to the King of England
when they occasionally pass each
other at the race track, has delivered
himself of some real choice logic. He
declares that life is gamble and
politics gamble; and why therefore
should Governor Hughes or anybody
else who is engaged in this form of
gambling attempt to stop gambling
on race horses. Great, indeed, are the
Vaccinations of Cookers brain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press1
A girl likes some particular man so
she can change off.
Rosy cheeks are nice to look at, but
they don't taste any better
A woman tells man he's cookbook
ing to make him think he's also smart.
It's awful selfish of man to wear as
good clothes as the sons he supports.
One good thing about politicians is
they make you think so much better of
the rest OF humanity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02

That it is we'll nigh futile for
criminal to evade eventual capture if
the authorities keep after him is
again evidenced by the capture of
Frank Morgan at Mcfarland. He has
been fugitive from justice for four
teen years, having broken jail at
Seattle, Wash, that long ago. He was
under arrest there for grand larceny
and will be taken back to serve out
his sentence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-02

B. Y. Yoakum, head of the Rock
Island Frisco system, declares that
the policies of Mr.. Roosevelt are
healthy. There are many who agree
with him but unfortunately they are
not members of congress. The repre-
sentatives and senators seem to look
on the presidents policies as anything
but healthy. They handle them as
though they were poison.