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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

With the relaying of the Rock
Island tracks in prospect many North
Side business men. are of the opinion
that the lengthening of the railroad
company's bridge is near at hand.
This undertaking was among the
recommendations of Y. r. ParkhurSt,
drainage board engineer, as meas
ure of flood protection. However, MI
Parkhurst is also of the opinion that
the Melan bridge should also be
heightened if any benefit is to be de-
rived from the Engineering OF the
railroad bridge.
The best $50 buggy you ever saw is
sold by ]. H FOUGHT.
Mr.. and Mrs A. ]. Tracy of Shelby
VILE, Ill. arrived here today for
visit at the home of MI and Mrs.
Aaron Sheetz of 1892 Quincy street.
William Oldham of Oklahoma City,
Okla. is visiting relatives here
Merel Essig of Kansas City is visit
ing at the home of c. w. Lukens in
Miss Minnie Middaugh is visiting
friends in Mcfarland. She will re-
turn home the last of this week.
People are always satisfied when
they buy Model bread.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. Duffy of Holton
are visiting at the .. f. winner
family i'll Rochester.
The Balm, the king of wagons, is sold
ny Pratt Bros.
The W. c. T. L. will meet at the
home of Mrs. w H Zarker, at I9zo
Jackson street, at O'Clock tomorrow
afternoon.
A number OF North side young people
1;tcbed their tent this morning near
the w A. Forbes place in Rochester
for e weeks camping Those in the
marty are: Miss Ruth Emmert. Miss
Jenrette F.mnert. Miss Ruth Mckinley,
Miss Gala Kincaid, Miss Hazel Kin
caid, Miss Ethel Hanna, Miss Ethel
Fink. and Miss Mary Zarker.
N a
land a half miles west of Granville, re
ports that his wheat harvest is pro
crossing nicely and that the yield will
be about % bushels to the acre.
Mrs c. H. Mathews of 225 East
Laurent street is reported to be i'll
! with pneumonia
Mrs. Pearl ToniIson is visiting in
| Valley Falls.
H. G. west of Junction City is visit
| ing at the home of his son. D. L.
| West north of the city.
Mrs G. H. Allen of 9O7 Harrison
| went to Rossville yesterday for a WISH
with her brother, George Hopkins,
Mr.. and Mrs William Ingham OF
Mrs. Allen. accompanied them Mrs
Ingham is Mrs. Aliens sister.
Lawn mowers are selling like hot
cakes at Foucht's hardware.
Watch the Journal for our Texas
land offer. L. G. Boyce.
Miss Mabel Jones of Holton viii
arrive this evening for visit with
her cousin, c. A. Jones, of 923 Quincy
| street.
The Intermediates of the North To
peka Baptist church will have q
Watermelon social tonight for al
members and their friends, at the
home of Miss Mae Rogers, north oil
Soldier creek on, Kansas avenue. AL
Intermediates and their friends viii
meet at the Zarker home, 1921 North
| Jackson street at 7:30.
! Both sections of the Woman
Christian union of the North Side will
meet at the home of Mrs. Mamie
Whitehead Thursday afternoon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

1t is the easiest thing in the world
to rid the house of rats, mice, cock
reaches, waterbugs, etc, by using the
old reliable Stearns' Electric Rat and
Roach Paste, which has been on the
market for thirty years.
1t is ready mixed for use and as II
is in paste form, there is no powder
20 blow away and get into food
See that every package bears the
signature of ]. J. Kearney, and then
YOU will get the genuine: the only
guaranteed exterminator, the only one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

and to reach the corner lot, Becker
threw some stone into it to make
crossing. This he contends is not
enough to prevent perfect drainage
even if he is guilty of placing a few
stones in the ditch.
Nearly a dozen witnesses were used
Monday and a crowd of neighborS
who say the case is the outgrowth of
hard feelings between Becker and
Neece, were on hand to see the out
come. It is expected the case will be
finished by tonight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
WON'T GET DONLIN.
William Murray Says PhilIies Won't
Trade Magee for Former Giant.

New York, July 2S.-WiIliam Muir
ray, manager of the Philadelphia Ma
tionaI league club, whom the new in
terests of the club seek to depose,
telegraphed here today that Outfelder
Magee will not be traded for Mike
Donlin of the New York club Muir
raw sends word that while Felix Is
man, a stakeholder, wanted him to
get out, he had no intention of re-
signing as manager. Until the matter
of Murray's retirement has been set
tide by the board of directors of the
club. it is not likely that any further
move will be made to secure Donlin-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
FOR EVERY HOUSEKEEPER
Easy Way to Rid the House of Cock
reaches, Rats, Mice, Etc.

where your druggist will refund your
money if it does not do the work.
Apply Stearns' Electric Paste at
night, in sinks, pantries. etc. and in
the morning you can sweep up a pan
full of dead cockroaches.
Use it where there are rats and
mice, and after eating 1t, they win
run out of doors to die.
All reliable druggists sell Stearns'
Electric Paste: soz. box Csc. Is ca.
box s1.OO, or sent express prepaid.
Stearns' Electric Paste Co., Chicago,
Ill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Cottonwood Tree Grew From
Seed.
On Southeast Part of State
House Grounds.
NOT FROM A STAKE.
Says Fred GUrtler, He and
Friend Discovered It.
Protected Tree From Injury
NOT FROM A STAKE.
Protected Tree From Injury
Other Interesting Items.

Fred Gurtler OF 1903 Quincy street an
old resident here says that the big cot
tonwood tree at the southeast corner
OF the state house grounds grew from
a seed instead of from a stake as
stated in Il morning paper, Mr.. Gurtler
also claims that he and q fellow work
n an discovered the tree when it was
only a few inches high, about 1867 or
'68. and protected it from injury when
it was small.
From 1867 to 1869 1 worked on the
east wing of the state house carrying
n urtar and doing other labor" said
Mr. Gurtler this morning. In TIE sum
mer of 1851 or 1861 forget which-a
fellow workman named McGravey and
myself noticed a small tree growing
up between the 'spauls' or rock chips
the masOns had left on the ground.
1T was only a few inches high As
We were the first to see the tree we
naturally took a great deal OF interest
in it ana determined to protect it from
injury. SO we LUilt a Httl-. fence
around it and thus Kept the teams from
running ever il. We watched it grow
and took care of it to some extent as
long as we worked there
Mr. lfurtleI came to kansas with
I is wife in 1865 from Maryland after
the close Of the civil war. He served in
the conflict with Co. B. of the Second
Maryland volunteer infantry.
In addition to the regular program
a. the Bijou Dream tonight. Franz Gill
more will present his illusion act in
which IN inanimate model seems to
turn to a living woman
The residents of Quincy street are re-
jozcing today. The obnoxious weeds
which have been growing al their own
sweet will in the lot vacated by the
removal of the old Quincy school build
ing. between Gordon and Laurent
streets, were cut down yesterday. This
was done by the order of the school
board to whom the ground belonged.
The cutting down of the weeds has
made such a wonderful Improvement in
the neighoorhood that owners Of othe;
Weedy lots will probably take notice
and govern themselves accordingly.
Community Comment.
Said Madison street man today:
"a fool and his hobby are seldom
parted
However, I'm afraid that the
Wichita, Kan. semi-centennial cele-
bration in 1911 by the Peerless
Prophets will be in the nature of a
consolation prize after the plans to
make a worlds fair of the OCCASION -
said West Gordon street man yes
terday evening.
said a Quincy street man today:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-28

The Prudential State Bank, corner
Seventh and Kansas avenue.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

years ago. He says they are beautiful specimens of pure
old Colonial architecture, the one style that is really
American. We may agree that they are pleasing. We
don't, perhaps, know why, but We think it is lust be-
cause they are old. 1t has never occurred to lis that
they were not far inferior to our modern, turreted and
otherwise highly embellished residences with the corners
all sliced off and bay windows bullying from every van
tage point. Perhaps We liked to look at the old house
best as it shone white and stately through the trees, but
we supposed 1t. was just a little remnant of sentiment,
and as such, of course, not to be encouraged.
But the fact remains that it has taken the American
people nearly a hundred years to grow up to the point
where they could intenigently appreciate the architec-
tural worth of their own inheritance. The awakening is
not yet complete, but we are learning very fast, in
deed.
An interesting example of how we are returning to the
standard our forefathers set and are doing what we can
to preserve the fine traditions that were theirs is the
Annapolis postoffce. Annapolis, where the United States
naval academy is, is an old Colonial town. Almost every
building is in that style. Two or three years ago con-
gress made an appropriation for a new ~postofice there.
The matter was referred to the Office of the supervising
architect of the treasury, which designs and builds all
Uncle Sans mail depots.
Now the supervising architect, Mr.. John Knox TAYLOR,
happens to be a man Of discernment, culture and good
taste. He soon saw that the only kind of a postofice that
would be harmonious, pleasing and ~creditab1e among all
those Colonial houses would be one of the Colonial
style. At first Annapolis was inclined to be disappointed.
1--WE are tired of Colonial" they said. why can't you
give us something ~upto-date in Queen Amer"
So Mr.. Taylor explained and discussed and went on
win MS COLONIAL plans and bullt the charming post
office, a photograph of which is shown on this page.
Quite recently a government official who was interest.
ed in the work of the supervising architects office and
heard that there was a new postofice in Annapolis, re-
turned to Washington from a visit there. He at once
hunted up Mr.. Taylor and in a grieved tone remarked:
SAY, Taylor, l thought you had just put up a new
postofice in Annapolis. I couldn't find it."
I'VE have" said Mr.. Taylor, and it is So" (naming the
locality.
"Nonsense!" answered the official. Il searched that
neighborhood thoroughly for one whole hour and I'll
take my oath there is not a building in 1t less than rs
years old"
did you notice that?" said the architect, pointing to a
photograph on the wall of his office,
Certainly, that was one of Them was the answer,
Mr.. Taylor laughed.
"That is the highest compliment / have received in
the ten years | have been in this office" he said.
And now Annapolis, which, by the way, has become
more than reconciled to its Colonial ~postoffce since 1t
has heard the enthusiastic comments Of its many promi.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

There is reason to fear that the danger of further such
dictated to. 1t swallowed the Burton Idea" measure
making expert advice on contemplated rivers and har-
bors improvements compulsory, but it did so with a
wry face.
However, the presidents council of fine arts is an
accomplished fact and for several years we have been
getting beautiful postof1ces at the rate of a hundred or
more a year. The new department buildings are also
so far ahead of what has gone before, and with all this
growing sentiment and the widespread educational move
ment working towards more beautiful surroundings for
the next generation hope begins that we will not only
have beautiful architecture but architecture distinctly
American.
In this regard a study of the new postofices, the new
department buildings at Washington and most of the best
new monumental buildings in the larger cities, shows
that architects have gone back for their models to the
original source of the Colonial-to what is known as the
classic style. In old Greece and Rome are found the
simplest and most majestic monumental buildings ever
erected. They are the purest source of architectural in
SEPARATION that man has. Their spirit, too, is in a large
measure the spirit of our democracy-dignity and
strength with simplicity-and it seems to have been some
such idea as this that, created the Colonial style.
Without forgetting the beauty and inspiration of our
Colonial architecture, we have at last found time to go
back to the old world to renew our nearly lost traditions.
The result is a widespread revival of the classic style,
modified to suit changed conditions and a new and dis
tinct nationality, but so fundamentally true to the Amer
lean spirit that we may feel at least that we are on the
road to an expression of ourselves that will picture us
truly to posterity.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18
DIDN'T REALIZE
How Injurious Coffee Really Was.

- 4. .. @- a.
Many persons go on drinking coffee
year after year without realizing hat
1t is the cause Of many obscure but
persistent ailments.
The drug-caffeine-in coffee and
tea, is very like uric acid and is often
the cause of rheumatic attacks which.
when coffee is used habitually, become
chronic.
a Washington lady said, recently.
am sixty-ive and have had a good
deal OF experience with coffee. / con
slider it very injurious and the cause
OF many diseases. l am sure II causes
decay Of teeth in children.
I'When I drank coffee / had sick
spells and still did not realize hat
coffee could be SO harmful, till about
a year ago l had rheumatism in nv
arms and fingers, got SO nervous 1
GOULD not sleep, and was all run down
At last, after finding that medicines
ala me no good, ! decided to quit cot.
zee entirely and try Postum. After
using 1t six months / fully recovered
my health beyond all expectations. can
sleep sound and my rheumatism is all
gone" There's a Reason
Name given by Postum CO.. Battle
creek, Mich. Read the famous little
book, THE Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
Evcr read the above letter. A new
one nppears from time to time. Z
nv menuine' true, and full Of humaa
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

HE'LL VsuorS, is to have an Fh coSVG1 q
example OF the other thing. wNS'S Or
Recently congress appro- @
priated $14, 1000 for a new
naval academy. With this, under the governments I'M
systematic and ridiculous way of looking after it's build
ing operations, the supervising architect had nothing to
DO. 1t was therefore perhaps natural that the winning
designs, passed on by laymen evidently lacking in either
dlscernment or taste, should be for buildings altogether
un-Amerlcan in style and entirely incongruous with
either the purpose for which they are intended, the char
acter OF the town and location or the traditions of the
country. me new naval academy is in the French style,
very fine of its kind, and done by an architect of note
tand french tralnlng), but it has the one fatal fault of
being wholly unsuitable. And suitability is the first
principle of good architecture just as it is the first nrin-
ciple of a successful career or almost anything else in
life.
Ihls case of the Annapolis naval academy is being
much cited these days as a typical and fragrant example
OF what President Roosevelt sought to prevent when he
appointed the much-discussed council of fine arts and
gave 1t power over all executive building and park opera
tons recently. He incurred the wrath of congress by
doing it, for congress is as jealous as a spoiled child
IN the matter of its petty powers, but he also voiced
the sentiment of a vast majority Of the people. For 1t is
very evident that there has been a great popular awaken.
ing to the value of the art side of life and to the pressing
need for federal reform and the establishment of stand
ards and methods that will help the individual commu.
mites to help themselves. So great, in fact, is the senti-
ment that both the house and senate are being forced
to consider bills intended to do by law what the president
did by executive order; turn the supervising architects Of
flee of the treasury into a bureau of fine arts with super-
vision over the buildings and parks of all departments
ana add an advisory council composed of leading archi-
tects, painters and %sculptors.
1t is even possible that congress will be forced by the
public demand to pass such a measure, though there
is little doubt that they will avoid doing so if they can,
at least until after President Roosevelt goes out Of
office, which means till the next session.
Instances Of the need of such a bureau are especially
numerous at the seat of the national government, in
Washington, and here again the wisdom of our fore
fathers is apparent. Those buildings that were built in
the early part of the last century are in the main dig.
nifed monuments to the sincerity, the intelligence and
the good taste of shat time. More than that, they were
placed according to q definite and all embracing group
plan, that Of Maj TEnfant, which has not been improved
upon to this day. In later years not only was this great
and noble plan lost sight of entirely but such architec-
tural and monumental monstrosities were produced for
the uses Of the government or the honor Of national
generations to come.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18
FATHER HAD A GRIEVANCE.
Some Excuse for His Violent Assault
on Managing Editor.

Lima Cavalier, the beautiful Roman
prima donna, said recently of her
beauty parlor" in New York:
Beauty is woman's most important
attribute. She who increases beauty
is woman's greatest benefactor. Hus-
bands, brothers, even fathers-in their
inmost hearts beauty is the thing they
desire most to see in their feminine
relations"
She laughed.
only the other day." she said, "a
gray, fat old gentleman entered a
newspaper office and said:
Are you the managing editor?'
Yes was the reply.
81 suppose that on you, then,' said
the visitor, rests the responsibility for
this mornings reference to my daugh-
ter Patty as Fatty. Take that!'"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18
Sure Cure For Pirates

"A picture recently published in Munich shows that the
peculiar vanity which manifests itself in a desire to be
photographed often kills the sense of decency," says a
writer in a Berlin paper. The picture shows five uni
formed men standing on the smoking ruins of a building.
In front of them, propped up against the debris, are
eight mutilated corpses. Under the picture is this le
gend: The Indian coast has been infested for hundreds
OF years by Malaga pirates. Recently a body of Euro
peans, conducted by natives, pursued and captured one
of these robber bands, whom they bound and cast into
a pagoda, which they then blew up with dynamite The
men who posed for a picture, In which they seemed to
gloat over the deed, the fruit Of which forms the grew.
some foreground, were all Europeans"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

syllables in the latter. Two other
words, disintellectualization and in
Observation-Disclosures, may be com.
mended to police inspectors in search
of fresh tests of sobriety. These words
are, of course, easily surpassed even in
England by Observation-Disclosures.
benzonphtylamides' and other gems Of
scientific ~phraseology; while IL We
cross the German ocean we find innu.
merable instances Of 1~3-syllabled
words, such as 'suelpaardelooszon
derspoorwegpetroolyting, the Dutch
for motor car"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18
Wanted LONGER Sermons.

1t was a proud boast one clergyman
made to two or three others who were
having a quiet chat in his study the
other ~night-namely, that he had ac-
tually on one occasion been asked to
make his service, both prayers and
sermon, a bit longer.
His brethren regarded him with SUI
perstitious awe, and one asked, feebly:
Where on earth was that%
well, boys" was the frank confes,
sion, sit was with a goal where l acted
as chaplain for a short time. The
poor beggars dreaded to leave the
church for their cells"
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18
Tremendous Cost of Prairie Dogs

Of his burrow at the ZOO, would ever
become the subject of the govern
ment intervention or endanger the uc-
cess of stockraising? Yet such is the
fact. Out on the national forests
which Uncle Sam is guarding for the
use Of the public, expert hunters have
gone after the prairie dogs with zeal,
ingenuity and poison, and literally ex-
terminated them In great numbers,
because some Of the choicest bottom
lands have had the grazing ruined for
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

may not have been altogether as
sumed. While the late Prof. Curie
was ~lecturing on the wonderful ele-
ment one day in Paris he dropped the
glass tube containing a few grains
Of radium with which he was demon
strating, and. the glass breaking, the
precious powder was scattered all over
the floor. AT once the room was
cleared, every speck Of dust collected
with the greatest care, taken to the
professors laboratory. dissolved, re-
c~rystallized and the radium extracted
from the refuse again with the loss
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

In the state Of Texas alone, prairie
dogs eat annually enough grass to
support 1862, 500 cows. Utterly use
less, the little animal is a pest so
dreaded that the forestry service has
undertaken his determination. Poison
III killing him, wherever he now -four
ishes. and another Of the
farmer Is safeguarded.
who would think that the prairie
dog, the shy and amusing little rodent
that we like to watch before the door
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18
Value Of Radlurn.

The value of a speck Of radium is
incredibly great, and when the Hon.
Sydney Holland, at Sir Frederick
Treves' lecture at the London hospi-
tai recently. picked up the tube con
tanning the famous surgeons micro
scopic $500 worth Of radium bromide
Sir Frederick's concern for its safety
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

Longest Word in English Language.
What is the longest word in the Ian
guage? Says the London Chronicle:
THE honors in English appear to rest
between ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
and Notwithstanding, the former
word scoring rs letters and ten syl-
tables, as against % letters and IL,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18
A Tabloid Fable.

A man once collided with an oppor-
tunity.
why don't you look where you are
going?" growled the man.
Don't you recognize me?" asked the
opportunity, pleasantly.
mo, and l don't care to-. You have
trodden on my %corns," replied the man
as he limped away.
Moral: Don't believe the people
who say they have never had a chance.
New York Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

of only an i~nfinitesimal fraction. The
cost Of radium bromide Is about R7
a milligramme, which would mean
over 100000 for an ounce avoirdu-
pois.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18

stock by the Industrious burrowing
OF the "dogs."-From ITO Extermi-
nate the Prairie Dog" in Technical
World Magazine.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-03-18
Alas. How True!

II often WONDER" remarked MI.
Stub, in solemn reflection, IF the last
man On earth will have the last word
"Of course he will, JOHN laughed
Mrs. Stub.
"But why are you so sure?"
Because the last woman will give
1t to him."