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Washington telegraph., 1909-01-08

! aalllsGlsslas sEaAAtlElalls lssS
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Green of
Camden passed through Monday en-
route home from Columbus.
Rev. S. L. Hogan of Arkadelphia
was a visitor last week.
Tom Wilson after spending the
holidays with his parents, returned
/ to Fay etteville Saturday to resume
his Studies at the L. of A.
Mrs. ". ? Agee of Hope was
Weekend guest Of Mrs. A. D.
Monroe.
Judge A. H. Garrigan of Hope
spent Sunday with his many friends
at the old home.
Court Stenographer Fl r. Wilson
left Saturday for New Lewisville TO
attend court.
Have you tried that White Shield
coffee at Beck s9-1 pound package
20 cents.
Miss June Williams returned to
Texarkana Monday.
DR., Pinck Garrigan Of Hope spent
Saturday IN our town.
Prof. NJ A. Natlock of Hope was
a recent visitor.
Mr.. D. W. Holt Of Jakajones was
Il Saturday visitor.
Miss Ruth Wilson of Yancy, after
spending the holidays with home.
folks, arrived this week to resume
her studies at the Washington high
school.
Elbert Smith left Saturday for
Little Rock, to look after his eandi.
daey for Journal clerk of the House.
Mrs. Ford johnson and daughter
of Hope were reeegt visitors.
Mrs. j NJ Ellis of Hope was a Wis
tor 1uesday.
]. L. Richardson of Wallaeeburg
was visiting his sister, Mrs. A. A.
ErightWeIl this week.
\ Miss Willye Stewart 5 p e n d
Washington telegraph., 1909-01-08

Dec.151908.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
JAYHNWKER JOTS

Ever notice" asks Miss Carlson in
the Lindsborg News, that the man
who says he already takes more pa
pers than he has time to read hardly
ever looks it?"
The Wichita Beacon wants a Zoo
established in one of the parks of that
city. 1t strikes Charlie Blakesley that
perhaps the Beacon thinks the Eagle
ought to be put under restraint.
This is being credited to the Sever
ance News: Minnie Huss had the mis-
fortune to get poisoned to such an
extent that she could not see her
sweetheart last Sunday. Too bad
Minnie: we hope you shall be better
before another Sunday rolls around.
Bent Murdoch editor-in chief of the
ElDorado Republican, and defender and
protector of the fish and game of the
state, observes that by the time a man
is old enough to keep a horse and sur
rey of his own, his wife is usually
stout enough to fill the back seat alone.
The girls say beaux are a little scarce
around McCracken and the young la
dies are proposing to tag them no.
tify all outside girls to keep hands off.
The dearth of young men is far more
distressing than the high price of
wheat around this neighborhood.-
Cracker Enterprise.
Miss Ellabelle Beet, of Rock City. IA
vors the Minneapolis Messenger with
eign travel:
OF all the European letters
The best are the William Allen kind,
And I hope We'll have some similar
This summer from Del Valentine
An Atchison man will be married
shortly, says the Globe, and a man
friend wants to give him a present.
But he does not want the bride to get
it: SO he will put this card on his pres
ent: This is for the bridegroom. L
know a bridegroom never before re-
ceived a wedding present. but 1 don't
know the bride. and 1 don't particu
larly approve of her."
A truly eloquent Kansas parson had
been preaching for an hour or so on
the Immortality of the soul. Il looked
at the mountains" he exclaimed, and
could not help thinking. beautiful as
you are, you will be destroyed, while
my soul will not. L gazed upon the
ocean and cried. Mighty as you are
you will eventually dry up, but not
II baldwin Ledger.
Here is a partial list of the things
to be swatted which has been compiled
by the Hutchinson Gazette: THE man
who comes in and sees you sweating
blood and Wading through a desk full
of papers and remarks cheerfully, Are
you working today?' The girl who goes
to the ball game and when a member
of the home team strikes out, with the
bases full, asks sweetly,, What does
that count us?' The man who says,
you? Thanks. Have you got match,
too?' The idiot who invented the toast
master; the man who sweeps his side
walk just when you are going past his
place of business; the fly; the dande-
lion; the thistle; the stogie; the prune."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
MIR. BRYAN AND THE PRESS.

After having been in a quiescent
state for some time Mr.. William Jen-
nings Bryan jumps into the public
arena with an attack on the press, or
that portion of it which he styles as
corporation newspapers" But
he is guilty of something of an injus-
tice in intimating, or conveying the
idea, that this class of newspapers
is large; in fact the rule throughout
the country. 1.-The corporation has
entered the field of journalism, he
says, until now the constituencies
corporation-owned newspapers in
stead of moulding public sentiment in
regard to right and wrong, merely
secs that the blind public hears all
sgood and nothing bad about the
grasping company which backs the
sheet. You cannot tell who the
stockholders are. These papers US
ually are anonymous or of unac-
knowledged ownership. They are
owned by railroads and franchise
holding corporations. The corpora
ton pays the editors to chIoroform
the public while in its greed it picks
the public pocket. You cannot tell
when you read an editorial how much
it cost to put it there for reading.
It's the same way in the news col
umns. The paper is paid to distort
the news even.'
Unfortunately there are undoubted-
ly a few newspapers in the United
States which are thus justly assailed
by Mr.. Bryan. But their number is
mighty few and Mr.. Bryan of all men
ought to know this and he ought to
have been a little more specific in his
criticism of the press. As a matter of
fact the day when corporations and
other interests. even those of the poll
teal stripe which have often had
plenty of money to control newspapers
and editorial opinions, is of the past.
1t is an exact fact to state that the
general run of the newspa pers of to-
day are decidedly more free from out
side influence than they have ever
been. And if any man or any corpora
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS
IFrom the Chicago News.1

GFrom the Chicago NewsJ
Rainbow-chasers get at least a run
for their money.
It's impossible to buy a friend that IS
worth the price.
A little learning is doubly dangerous
If 1t swells a mans head.
Even the doll-faced girl isn't satisfied
with sawdust breakfast food.
How the veteran musician does hate
to admit that he is played out,
Farming is lots of fun-unless you
have to do it in order to make a living
The more a girl thinks of a young
man the more her mother thinks she
doesn't.
A woman can occasionally preserve
her respect for man by refusing &c
marry him.
He's a mean father who has his
whiskers amputated just because the
baby likes to pull them.
1t sometimes happens that n music
composers wife thinks it IS up to her
to put on a lot of airs.
A newly married man is always will
ing to attend his wife's church, but he
is apt to be shy about acquiring the
habit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.

from the Atchison Globe.]
At what age does boy become
man?
Most lawsuits are brought not to
secure justice, but to get even.
Don't abuse your friends, and expect
them to consider it criticism.
When a farmer loses a cow, and it
is the best mich COW he had, he is
genuinely discouraged.
Question for the Lancaster Literary
society: Which costs the more, Wis
itor or a spell of sickness?
We met a man recently who is hard
to please: he doesn't like cold weather,
and he doesn't like warm weather.
Bought an automobile yet?" a
farmer was asked the other day.
''Huhi' he replied. "I haven't had the
sraphophone fever yet
When a man talks to a woman over
the telephone, it is always his wife's
conversation sounds guarded
If woman asks the brethren and
sisters at prayer meeting to pray for
her husband, he learns about it with
out being told; it's in the air.
A church woman,s idea of being
closed when she hears a member of
some other denomination boast.
The trait in parents that children
love the most is that which prompts a
mother to proceed with packing a
lunch basket for a picnic, though the
clouds are gathering.
Farmers wives, so far. have adopt
ed every style known to the women in
town, except the straight front corset.
A farmers wife in a straight front
corset couldn't save any chickens from
drowning.
Husbands don't give thier wives
much encouragement in piling puffs
and rolls on their heads, but their
children encourage them. Next to eat
ing candy, a child knows no greater
joy than to be allowed to handle its
mothers false hair.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
lFrom the Philadelphia Record

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Most good fellows are only that way
away from home.
The mutual friend Of an engaged
couple has a hard row to hoe.
When things go wrong the hand of
fate generally has finger in the pie.
The worst feature about the man
with one idea is that the idea Is seldom
big enough.
Life may be one grand. sweet song.
but to the apartment-house dweller 1t
is written in A fiat.
There Is only one thing that bores a
woman more than fiattery, and that is
not to be fiattered.
The fellow who was weiehed in the
balance and found wanting probably
forgot to drop a cent In the slot.
Wigwag-"Bjone says he is a wo-
man-hater'' Henpeckke-'I can't un-
derstand that He has never been
married"
Lots of men feel that they could fill
President Taft's shoes, but they forget
that they would also have to fill his
waistcoat.
amy fool can fall in love-" remarked
the wise Guy. "Yess" agreed the Sim
Die Mug, but it takes a pretty slick
article to land on his feet"
Muggins-"They say your boy is one
of the most versatile fellows in coll
Iege." Buggins-"I guess that's right
He sings second tenor in the Glee Club
and plays third base on the ball teams
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
Cancer Among Fish.

The discovery that cancer is a very
common disease with many kinds of
fish, and especially brook trout. has
been made.
Dr. Harvey r. Gaylord, head of the
Buffalo State cancer laboratory. an
nounced Sunday that scientists con-
nected with that institution are now
o otip ing a new line of experiment.
ation TO discover whether or not can
Ger IS communicated to human beings
py the flsh they eat or whether the
water OF streams is infected by the
cancer germ from the fish.
Inc new discovery on which the
cancer experts are working may give
clew to the manner in which can
Ger is communicated to the human
system. heretofore cancer research
had been conducted chiefly along the
hnes OF a hunt for a cure The dis
ease was found to be most prevalent
Al iillce ana rats, and most of the ex-
perlments have been performed with
these animals as subjects.
Whlle 1t is an established fact that
caLcer Is common disease among
ilsn; there is no certainty that this
Is me source of infection of human
beings. DR.. Gaylord said:
There is no certainty that cancer
comes from fish. We are CONDUCTING
a vigorous line of experiments. how
ever, to find out if it does. These ex-
per,nents have not gone far enough
yet to warrant giving any opinion in
the matter. The discovery that can
GER exists among fish was made by
French scientist. A study of fish
has shown that the disease is quite
common among this species of ami
maj life. 1t is found that the gilIs
OF fish are the parts affected. The
disease is found in many varieties of
fresh water fish. and many sea fish
nave also been found which are SO
diseased"
. While DR.. Gaylord was quite guard
ed IN his statements as to the effect
OF this discovery and the result of the
experiments which are now being
carried on. it is known that officials
of the State forest, fish. and game
commission are much interested. In
fected fish are now furnished to the
cancer laboratory in this city by the
State hatcheries for these expert
ments.
The fish experiments are being con-
Quoted along two lines-first. to see
whether the fish infect the water in
which they live. and, second, whether
the cancer germs are entirely destroy
ed by the heat of cooking-BuffaIo
dispatch to the New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
HOUSEHOLD PETS.

Wnen Willie gets a fad for pets
Inc household pays attention;
When home he brings the little things
They stimulate dissension
HIS sisters actively object
with frank appeals to mother,
And cry with scorn, "One might expect
Much nicer things of brother
Poor Willie takes delight in snakes.
And hberates them always
IL is such fun to see them run
Across the rooms and Railways!
Ills sisters. fail to see the Joke:
~; Iheir fright you might think silly,
iH Ty scream and quake and long to choke
Their little brother Willie.
L ct sister Sue possesses two
snake bracelets that she prizes;
A Izard pin and scarabs in
All sorts of shapes and sizes.
An ugly, apoplectic pug
MI, rs SISTER James chief treasure
w nile both girls wear rats in their hair
with unpretentious pleasure.
Chicago News
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's an unusually wise umbrella that
knows it's real owner.
\ y
Plenty of room may always be
found at the top but the way to it is
generally pretty crowded.
n X
There is altogether too much worry
ing in the world over the things that
have not yet happened.
K X X
It's often difficult to tell what
woman is driving at, especially if she
has hammer in her hand.
\ X X
A man is a bachelor before he is
married, but after the great event of
his life there is no adequate charac-
terization for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

''what with tornadoes and floods
wrecking property, and allegations of
land frauds wrecking regulations and
an occasional lynching, Oklahoma"
says the st. Louis Star. seems to be
having somewhat of a strenuous time.
But maybe these are simply the aff1ic-
tionsthat are incident to baby statehood
just as measles, whooping cough,
chickenpox and other diseases which
are incident to human babyhood; and
the state may be all the better for hav-
ing passed through them in infancy"
THAT the new state will grow better in
all ways is almost a certainty for 1t is
hardly possible that it could get worse.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
FRON OTHER PENS
NEGLECTED DETAILS.

The man who presented himself at
the treasury department in Washing
ton the other day, saying that he UNI
derstood the government had more
money than it knew what to do with,
and therefore he would help out by
taking a million, was slightly misin-
formed as to the fact. The govern
ment has reached the stage where it
needs no help in getting rid of the
surplus But he seems to have grasp
ed the key and motive of practical
political action.
The fact that this proponent was
sent to the lunatic asylum, while 9TH
ers pursuing the identical ultimate pur-
pose win success as statesmen, shows
the danger of departure from the con-
ventional methods of s-ttaining the
purpose. To get hundred thousand,
a million, or several Of them. out of
the treasury is the controlling aim of
practical politics. But you must do it
by certain recognized channels, or you
are naught. To get it by a public ap-
preparation or Joker" in the tariff
bill is constructive craftsmanship. To
call for it over the treasury counter is
constructive nsanity.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate of ten
cents a week or thirty cents a month
(by mail only.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State journal will be to you like
a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

The signs of relief that are going up
in Illinois these days are so loud that
they can almost be heard in Kansas.
And the reason? Well, the Illinois
legislature has finally adjourned. It's
a mighty peculiar thing how unpopu-
lar all legislatures are with the people
who create them. Maybe If they gave
a little more attention to this task
things would be different.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.

from the New York Press.1
The way for a woman to manage a
man is not to be married to him.
A mans conscience hardly ever
cries out if there's anybody around to
hear it.
There are two kinds of fools-just
plain, ordinary fools and highly edu-
Gated fools.
A girl knows a heap more than she
will let on about everything except
how she can help her mother about
the house.
If you have much company in the
house the servants won't stay because
1t makes too much work; if you don't
have any, they won't stay because you
have no social position.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

ton does not believe this let him or
1T dig up wad of money and try to
buy some editorial space in newspa-
per; or try to control the editorial
opinions of newspaper. or try to
color its news stories to suit particular
whims or interests. 1t will then be
found out that the number of news
papers which come within this latest
Bryan Indictment are scareer than
hens teeth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10
Tine Banouet i'm Bamboola.

The Ancient and Honorable Order OF
CannibaIs, in Bamboola, Central Africa,
having given its annual dinner In honor
of the new missionary, the toastmaster
arose with his customary grace and
ease and rapping for order and gazing
at the vacant seat of the erstwhile
guest of honor, remarked
gentlemen, we have in our midsts
tonight, etc"-Chicago Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

politicians are more forehanded than
those of kansas. In fact the cam
paigns for certain Offices are perpetual.
AS soon as an election puts a man in
a place for even a period of two years,
plans are perfected at once by others
to succeed him and of course he has
to make counter-plans if he hopes to
retain the place. And so the political
pot in Kansas is ALWAYS boiling.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

There can be little doubt over Will
liam Augustus Reeder's liking for the
Sob of representing the Sixth Kansas
congressional district in the house of
representatives. He has conveyed the
information to his friends that he
would be pleased to be the Republican
nominee for this place once again. In
asmuch as there are now about eleven
other candidates for this nomination
there ought to be stirring times, po-
1itically, in the Sixth district about
q year aa5 a half hence. Certainly no
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

Governor Campbell of Texas pro-
poses to call a special session of the
legislature for the purpose of having
a law enacted which will place an en-
barge on pugtlistic contests in the
Lone Star state. The governors Of
several of the other states in the
Union would be doing a fine thing IL
they emulated the Texas executive in
this respect. Prize fighting should
not be countenanced in any COM
munity that makes claims to being
civilized.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

juno is only ten days old and yet
the building permits issued so far
this month call for new structures in
the city which will cost $52.8S0. Is
Topeka growing? An answer is I'M
necessary. The fact that Topeka is
developing in all ways is becoming
something of an old story. but it is
an old story of the sort that i'm
proves with age and is worth the re-
telling on every possible occasion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

Something in the way of a real hen
party is to be given in Chicago soon.
A woman of note in that city has is
sued invitations for q poultry
party to be given at her home "to
celebrate the eggstraordinary virtues
Of the American hen It's about
time that the helpful hen" received
some OF the social recognition that is
due her
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

Representative D r.. Anthony an
nounces that he will make his cam
paign for denomination as the Re-
publican candidate for the First Kan
sas congressional district on his rec
ord in congress. If there have been
any serious flaws in it they haven't
been prominent enough to get to the
surface
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

and Captain A. w. Butts, L. S. A, APP
parently have delightful assignments.
From the newspaper dispatches from
Washington it is evident that about
the only thing they have to do is to
play golf with President Taft.
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pens ooh, 1 don't know. Somebody ~
nays Nay, claim to have predicted it''-Boston
era Before a man is 80 he falls in love with
s felS pretty girl he looks at Yes, and
pretty girl that looks at him. Boston
Few things come to those who hate
Buffalo Times "'o nate
What's the matter, grip .sOh. the cat
Went to sleep on my new hat and I wore
I9ar- d1oWntown and Washington
to ~so your lToh boy Josh is, workin' UP to
After all them fusa IS hes hes h 9ot off n %
tend on days the home team PLAYED. il
show up way Hf as r Stat to
,o Green Golfelr,-Why.. did knock it in the
n te; Caddie?' Caddfe-Yes. sir; that last
S 81 When yer shut yer eyes on account
or the dust.-Puck.
..1 What plea can offer for loving herr"
Wen" responded rival belle. .enotion-
al insanity seems to be a popular plea lust
now'-Louisville Courier-Journai
r i,VgII pooAes me. Tirince. is fwhat the
mischlef kapes him up" ''Snure tits little
Ss hHoW; rat Healy, NV the tirrifio force O.
sravitashun. Judge.
the etadiou tra Si1 is very improyns said
Cayenne; salt6oueb Yos; cs 1nswered MISS us;
where person has been by the pictures
on the post cards he sends home wash
ington Star.
kean kemble-Have you seen my Ham
let. my boy? Scribb-I am glad to hear
you characterize it in that way. Kean
kemble-What do you mean? Scribb~I
am glad to hear you call it your Hamlet.
L lknew 1t wasn't Shakespeares. -Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
Wigwag Crying to think of insomnia
about a week what do you cali it? Young npl
pop[What is 1t, boy or a girl ?-Phila-
delphia Record.
Yalevard, Jr.-Rah, rah rah ma Rab
rah. rah, ma. I'm halfback n the varsity
teaml Yalevard, Sr;-Yes, so heard; ana
aii Lie way oacK with your studies-Life.
s Mau omar Is such a queer girl. with
way? Maud--She insists it is not right
10 be engaged to more than one fellow at
time.-Baltimore American.
going to buy? Marjorie-rve looked ali
through the catalogue, but I Just can't
make, make up my mind. They have the same
man cars--Judge.
Why should man pay rent when he
can own his own homc?" said the thrifty
citizen Il don't know" answered Mr.
Mookton, unless it's because you'd rather
nave your wife speak her mind to the
landlord than to you when the place gets
run doWn"-W ashington Star.
A Change of Fare.-Customer (studyine
| bill of fare)-Waiter 1 have only seven
pence-ha' penny; tell me what you recon-
dllafe " AFTER - Another restaurant
AS They View It.-Some men seem to
| think the best evidence of being the salt
| of the earth is ability to make folks
| smart.-Chicago Tribune.
A Promoter...Ikey-Vat is a promotes?
Father of ikea promoter is Won who Will
supply der ocean If some Won else will fur
nish der ships.-Princeton Tiger
us your husband interested in basebaIl?"
NO" How strange. 1 thought all the
men We're" mo. John isn't Interested
That isn't the name for his trouble He
is baseball crazy. "-Chicago Record Her
aid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-10

There is at least one excellent pro-
vision in the new automobile ordinance
as it passed the city council. Chauf-
feurs in Topeka must be eighteen years
oils oy yver