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The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-04-07
Silk Muslin Waists

There are also excellent Waists of
cream colored silk muslin with very
smart tucked yokes that are particularly
pleasing designs and excellent value at
&c M
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-04-07
Tailored Waists Are Good

Very smart and serviceable are our new
tailored waists, in the finest of linens,
shades of blue, lavender, biscuit, tan,
etc, as well rs white, Severely tailored
but stylish $500 and up
The striped madras waists in very neat
colors and designs are very taking, $500.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-04-07
New Washable Skirts

You should see our new washable pet
ticoats made of strong, servceable ging-
hams, in both plain coIors and stripes, at
Sl.OO, $3.50 and $500.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-04-07
New Crepe Waists

Admire the new Crepe Waists-you
can't help it. French Crepe waists are
finest, So so and up. The domestic crepe
in very clever models at 81. so to SD rs.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-04-07
Stylish Lace Waists

Showing the best laces, new designs,
very charming in every way, white, cream
and black, and the best values possible
to give at any price you wish to pay,
So. 90 and up to $1,000.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-04-07

ACEToN will break up Cold In one
night.
The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1909-04-07

Sbee4xOkOW444Os
Charles Young and family have re-
GENTLY moved to the Springs.
There will be service at st. Joseph q
chapel Good Friday evening at z 80.
Mrs. Henry Bedding and son, Her.
bert, are the guests of Mrs. Mahlon
West.
Mrs. Frederic NJ. Sanger and two
children. were the guests of her
mother, Mrs. Il. M. Neff of CLARK 4
Corner over Sunday.
Methodist Church Notes: The
usual mid-week prayer meeting will
be held this evening in the .vestry
at 7.3O. Sunday morning the new
pastor, Rev. J. Van Deck, will preach
at the usual hour. and Sunday even.
ing there will be an Epworth League
service. Topic, "Oomforted by Q
risen Saviour" John 20: 1871.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
JAYHAWKER JOTS

Thomas w. Morgan tells of little
Ottawa miss who had been told by her
mother not to bring any more books
from the library unless they were
deep books. So the next day she
marched up to the circulation desk and
asked for Jules Verne's Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Under the Sea-"
Capt. zebulon NJ. Pike says he killed
number of hoopsnakes and joint
snakes on his trip up the Cottonwood
Pixies Peak. Capt. Pike says in his
diary that while in camp on the south
fork of the Cottonwood river-near
where Bazaar now is-he met up with
a "blowsnake" that filed itself with
wind so that it was as big around
as a gallon measure, and when it gave
a big puff it blew his hat off.-El Do
RADIO Republican.
Chicken experts in Kansas are view
ing with alarm strange retrogress1on
of the Kansas ''settin' hen" 1t is
said upon the authority of expert chick
en- men that after several generations
Observation-Disclosures chickens lose the in
Istinct to "set." No other theory is
advanced for the reason why Mrs.
Helpful refuses longer to perch herself
lpon a nice bakers doze; Of choice
eggs and warm them with outspread
rinions until the miracle of nature is
wrought again, save that the incubator
has robbed her OF the setting" in
stinct. This is a rather gloomy out
look although there is a faint silver
lining The good housewife won't have
to spoil her nice barrel of rainwater
by dosing into it at regular intervals
some hen that wants to set all the
Itime.-Kansas City Journal.
Ralph Faxon and Walter Johnson are
engaged in an acrimonious dispute,
which may lead to blows. over the
"split infinitive.'' Mr.. Faxon, who is a
stickler for unadulterated grammar,
holds that a man who would use the
split infinitive would put a pewter nick
ell in the contribution box at church.
This is because Mr.. Faxon has never
written poetry; in order to write
verse that flows smoothly. it is often
necessary to use the S. l., and the
right to do so is universally recogniz-
ed, as sort of poetic license; and
the man who uses the s. i, in writing
lpoetry is pretty sure to use it in his
prose as well, and he refuses to re-
gard the practice as a crime. The s..
| l. is common in Byron's writings,
which are full of melody; and the
majority of the newspaper b'hoys will
admit that Byron is good enough in
| the use of language to be accepted as
| a model in most parts of kansas
Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
CFrom the Chicago News-1
fresh child is easily spoiled.

(From the Chicago News-1
A fresh child is easily spoiled.
A grouchless person Is almost in
variably happy one.
Lots of self-made men manage sue
cessfully to conceal it.
Women like to gossip almost as well
as men like to boast.
No, Alonzo. quakers are not to blame
for our earthquakes.
Silence is an argument that most
women scorn to make use of.
Learn to blow your own horn IL you
would head the procession with the
band.
A woman's idea of a becoming hat
is one that costs more than she can
afford to pay
Money talks and these is often a
speaking likeness between the genuine
and the counterfeit.
Some men make more noise about
nickel they contribute to charity than
an old hen does when she lays an egg.
It sometimes happens that a woman
causes her neighbors a lot of worry
because they are unable to fnd out
anything about her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

treasury to dip into for all kinds of
public improvements. Whatever form
of administration the District OF CO.
lupbia might have, under the federal
constitution, it could never develop
pure local self-government, owing to
the supreme legislative power of con-
gress and the supreme executive power
Of the president OF the United States.
The commission form of government
however, requires for its best develop
ment concentration of adequate pow
er. with commensurate responsibility,
upon the local administration.
THE local government of the District
of Columbia must always be distinct,
even isolated, problem owing to the pc
culiar conditions of direct federal con-
trol-conditions that must be perIna-
nent in the nature of the case The
city of Washington was created by
congress as a seat of national govern
ment, and the national government
interest in the place must ever be para
mount Any form of local administra-
ton whatever that might fail in wash
ington should not, on that account. as
credit similar form in use elsewhere;
and this is probably generally under
stood throughout the country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
QUAKER NIEDITATTONs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.J
The best thing to start a dinner with
is an appetite.
Is 1t necessarily bad fire when the
flames are arrested?
A man can always flatter his wife
by becoming jealous of her.
The busy bee that improves each
shining hour may be a busybody.
The fellow who wastes his time here
may have time to burn in the here
after.
There are lots of things that It Is
much easier to look over than to over
look.
When a fellow calls on a girl and
is slow in going it means that hA N
gone
Any man can have children named
after him, but only a hero has dogs
named for him.
Some men can't even find fault with
out acting as though they had dis
covered something to be proud of.
1t may be lucky to be a seventh son,
provided the boy doesn't have to wear
the CASTOR clothes of his six elder
brothers.
Hubbubs-'I saw you taking a new
cook home the other day; did she stay
long?" Subbubs-''Weil, We kept her
over three trains"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
A WRONG PRACTICE.

A judgment was rendered and SEN
tence imposed in the court of Topeka
the other day which is in line with a
practice that is INDUCED in frequently
N many localities, but which scarcely
seems possible to be worthy of any
sort of commentator. A middle-aged
man, who might well be classed as an
irresponsible-he suffers from paralysis
and cannot or will not work, he is ad-
dicted to a variety of vices, including
the use of drugs and liquor when he
can get them, because of his actions
his elderly parents and relatives are
are unable to care for him and he will
not stay at the poor farm-was fined
$50 for disorderly conduct. The judge
then suspended sentence in the case
and told the unfortunate that he would
be given two days to get out of town.
In the event that he did not disappear
in this period of time the suspended
sentence would be enforced against him
and he would have to go to Jail to work
it out, as he could not possibly pay the
fine.
Now where is that man to go? He
has no money. He has no friends.
The only avenue open to him is to
wander away from the city and make
a nuisance of himself in some other
locality, and in some place eventually
he will become a public charge and
have to be cared for either in a jail
or a poor house, or in some way. 1t
might not be desirable to send such a
man to Jail for the petty offense which
landed him in court. But it is not
tempering justice with mercy to sus-
pend a Jail sentence upon him by CIV
ing him an alternative to leave town.
Rather is this an evasion of duty on
the part of this community to care in
some way for it's undesirable and ire
sponsible citizens.
That this procedure is generally prac-
ticed by most cities in this section of
the country, and in all other portions
of it for that matter. in dealing with
tramps and buns of all sorts. is as
suredly no excuse for it. Each COM
immunity should deal in some way with
such cases of this kind as develop in
it. The last thing that any locality
should do is to attempt to thrust these
burdens on some other place, and that
lis just exactly what is done when a
tramp or other person is arrested for
a petty offense and given a suspended
sentence with the understanding that
he will Immediately get out of town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
KANSAS CONAENT

MOVEMENT AGAINST AUTOISTS.
Ihere Is general movement all over
the country against reckless autoists,
ana the result will be that if those
whose good fortune enables them to
own autos do not use them with more
regard to the rights of others, there
VIII De a rising among the people
whose rights have been diSregarded
and there may be laws passed which
VIII pc as aggravating to the autoists
as some OF the new laws are to the
railroads.
quite a few Maine towns have passed
ordinances absolutely barring automo-
plies from the public highways. Such
lesis!atlon may be considered unrea-
sonapie, but it may serve the purpose
OF calling the attention of certain
autoists to the fact that they have no
one to blame but themselves.
IN New York since April l, 20 chill
cren have been killed by autoists who
think more of fast ride than they
do or human life.
In England the fight against the
reckless autoist has reached the stage
Wnere Journal called the Non-Motor-
ISL is being published in London. 1t is
issued under the auspices of a society
mobile. OF course such an object can
not De attained. but it shows to what
extent the reckless autoists have dri-
ven the people of England. 1t will be
put a snort time until such a society
Will be organized in this country I'M
less the sensible auto owners manage
to restrict the speed-crazed autoists.
II is up to the sensible men who own
autos and who have due regard for
the general public to see that the or
FINANCES now in effect against speed
ing are enforced. They can do more
than an entire police force if they will.
II they do not they will later regret
their lack OF Observation-Disclosures Eagle.
o.
THE BOSS BORE.
The most annoying bore in the
whole galaxy is the one who is con-
stitutionally unable to realize, when
he calls upon you, that you are busy
and need every minute of your time.
The walls of your office may be COW
| cred with mottos requesting visitors
| to "cut it short" and the expression
| KAN OMMENT-THREE
on your face may be that of a meat
axe, but the bore is impervious to
| hints of any sort, and the only way
you can get rid of him is to take him
| by the slack of the garments and
| push him out doors. The newspaper
| office is always the favorite resort of
| the long-winded bore, who takes half
| an hour to tell something that ism t
| worth telling, and which might easily
be related in thirty seconds. If news
| paper workers are sometimes cranky
| and shy of patience, it should always
| be remembered that the bores have
| driven them to desperation. How
| beautiful upon the mountain are the
| footsteps of the pilgrim who explains
| his errand in a score of words, and
then wishes everybody Gadspeed, and
| takes his umbrella and goesi He is
as radiant as the morning, but as
| scarce as hens teeth.-Emporia Ga
| Zette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
ADJUSTMENTS.

straight to her from the train. Per-
maps he took courage from her very
Loriornness and disbursement so
oliierent from her usual bright self.
I'm glad it happened" he said.
emphatically. Glad! Because now
maybe you'll have time to think of
me a little bit!"
I've thought of you a lot" Car
re Jameson admitted as she dabbed
her eyes and made instructive nassas
at her turnbled hair. 1t was good to
see him again.
DE- White deliberately sat down on
the blackened box and reached for
nre nand. Now we'Il talk it overt"
he said.-(Copyright 1908. bv Asso-
cfated Literary Press)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe. ]


What a lot of insulting things you'd
say to people, if you dared!
Say what you please, we all like
foolishness more than we should.
Every man must be henpecked a
little, or be classed as No Gentleman.
1t is nearly always said of the
mother of the family: 'She never eats
anything"
Every man hates the thought that
his wife's patience is the outgrowth
of trying to get along with him.
A busy body never has any time to
attend to his own affairs, and is al
ways unsuccessful and shiftless.
Nearly every smoker says he can
quit, but you will observe that very
few of them make good the assertion.
When a man lives all alone, the
people who mention it usually make
this cheerful comment: Hell be
found dead some day."
About the only difference between
city and a country town is that the
people of the city take to the word
garage more naturally.
Being wicked" said young man
recently, lis becoming troublesome in
this town. I believe I'll quit it. In
case there is revival soon. believe
I'll go forward"
When a woman goes calling she
thinks she is lucky If she finds her
friends out, but when a man goes
calling he wants to find people at
home: he wants to see them.
Perhaps one reason there are so
few angels on the streets in white,
with a blue sash, is that fashion auth
critics can't agree on where the waist
line should be for hanging the sash.
Occasionally you hear a man say:
81 intend to do right no difference
what people say" AS though people
are in the habit of finding fault when
a man does right. People always ap-
prove when a man does right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
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 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 homo.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

It's a mighty difficult task to learn to
say mo" q.
A man with a past is likely to be
far more interesting than one with a
future.
7 4 X 4
Most married women consider them
selves Slaves but few Of them look
the part.
Many persons are reliable to the ex-
tent that it is always safe to believe
the exactly opposite of what they say.
\
The doctrine of the survival of the
fttest gets a severe jolt every once in
a while, that is in the estimation of
some people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
lFrom the New York Press.l

CF'rom the New York Press.
Anything that is irregular is ire
sistible to human nature.
An awful nice thing about a girl
is not to be your sister.
A woman's photograph is generally
success unless it looks like her.
People who never tell anything but
the truth can't help lying about how
they do it.
If man had twice as much in
come he'd have a two and a half
times more expensive family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

Germans are indignant because some
United States senators got indignant
over some information furnished by
Germany concerning tariff matters. So,
there is whole lot of Indignation all
around. In all likelihood, when the
matter is sifted and boiled down it will
be found that an effort has been made
to make a mountain out of a nole-hiIl.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

Every possible success is due the
Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition if for
no other reason than that its grounds
and buildings were completed by the
time its gates were opened to the pub
lie and all of the exhibits were in place.
This is something most unusual. And
from all accounts the exposition is a
really great one in all particulars.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

State board Of health experts have
tossed the harpoon into an 'egg SUBJ
stitute'' which has been on sale in
Kansas. They report that it is about
as much of substitute for the real
thing as an elephant would be for
hen This will be good news for the
hens of the state. They can continue
merrily on their way Of being helpful
when they feel like it, and just as
cussed and onery as they please at
other times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

Railroads are now worrying because
they have a great surplus of idle cars
on their hands. In couple of months,
when the crops begin to move. the
shippers will probably be worrying just
as hard because of a shortage of
freight cars
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

Saturday is Tag Day. The funds
which will be collected are to be de-
voted to the worthy cause of estab-
fishing tuberculosis health camp
under the direction of the Provident
association. Every one in the city
should be ready to play 'it''
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

tude by presenting figures to show that
the duty derived by the government
from imported iron ore last year was
$127, 900. And then Mr.. Bailey waxed
so wroth the other day that he wanted
to fight because he believed that
Washington newspaper correspondent
has "misstated and misconstrued" his
motives on another proposition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

Evidently the delegates to the an
nual convention of the United States
Brewers association which is in ses-
sion at Atlantic City, have neither
their ears to the ground nor the
ability to read the handwriting on
the wall. They declare that the
prohibition wave has reached it's
height
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04
HUNOR OF THE DAY

+;., on: Lady Jane, you must take some
tickets a for charity dance I'm helping to
e-er-indieent Something ir so or otberIsnd
gos the Fas Alsatian Ba Rdf p ed nsss
really good cause."-Punch.
Does he ever do anything on time?'
Press.
The Plain One-And weren't Won hit
nervous when he proposed to your, The
Pretty One-Oh, dear, MOI Proposals used
S 70 maze me nervous, but not any more
you ought to be more careful about
@as gue say n your speeches before your
swered Senator Sorghum but to tell the
5isiaIlir didn't realize that any one was
listening '-Washington Star.
Yes, Sah," the Florida colonel said.
sometimes we have a Republican candi-
yeah Bill Traux was candidate fof Con-
gress. No, he didn't attract many votes.
him tS san an they are threatenin' to
News. ''e N'''i ION repea'in indianapolis
a st5ainsd the by
many of them. He wasn't even an Ohio
man. '-Louisville CourierJournal.
a
rule get my tips before I start-I- Gus
toner (sternly)-That amt no tip young
man. That's hush money!-Bohemian.
Grace-Who is that man they're all quar-
reling with? Jack-Why, he's keeping the
score Grace-Oh!-and won't he give it
up?-Bohemian Magazine.
Maud-My fiance is a heartless wretch.
BeIle-Whats the trouble? Maud-rve got
a better offer and he won't release me
from our ngagement.-BOSton TRANSCRIPT
The L TS Or. oneo an were you born
self upon it.-Chicago Daily News.
| oi'm glad OF don't For il oi liked ut,
Ord ate ut, an hate the - ff.''-Life
DO you ever indulge in the pleasure of
earth?" TITS no pleasure to me- an
swered the novice at golf: EVERY time I
for my aet Kf IN tha
washington Star.
Family Physician-The trouble with your
husband. madam, is that he has over
! drawn his account at the bank OF vitality.
abo1t 6o Ss waI Eve yog
| my word never knew he had any ac-
count there,-Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Robin-Get up. John. I hear a bur
| glar. Mr.. Robin-Go to sleep. my dear, it
! is only the noise of the woodpecker next
door.-St. Louis Times.
Knicker-women will get the ballot
when the majority of them ask for it. Mrs.
Knicker-Do men get their buttons sewed
on when the majority of them ask for it?-
Harper's Bazaar.
You are a poor young MANI IT am"
noniical wife. mot at all. WHAT + want
is a rich, liberal ife.''-Democratic Tele-
gram.
isn't it great advantage to study for
eign languages before travelling abroadT
Not always" answered Miss Cayenne.
"Unfamliarity with a language OCCASION
ally enables one to conceal a great deal of
downright ignorance. Washington Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

Those robbers who went to the trou-
bic of frisking a mail car on Union
Pacific train near Omaha recently got
only about $500 in money. But that
was not all the disappointment they
got. They got caught.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

Fire insurance companies doing bust
ness in Kansas announce that they are
going to comply with the new state
law concerning their administration
and rates without so much as question
ing the legality Of the measure in the
courts. This is a most unusual pro-
ceeding. 1t would lead to the belief
that the law doesn't really amount to
r14tCh
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

when Washingtonians saw both
the president and the vice president
at the big baseball game eating pea
nuts out of a paper bag they ceased
to despair of the republic" is the
good idea of the Mexican Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

The Quakers in Philadelphia have re-
turned again to the simple life. They
are walking to and from their work as
their forebears used to, but this is only
because the street cars in the city are
not running on account of a. strike.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

Mrs. Alfonso will probably place polo
playing by her king of Spain under the
same ban that maintains against aerial
flights on his part. He fell from his
horse in a polo contest recently and
sprained an ankle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

OF course, the 45,003 population
given to Topeka by the assessors
doesn't do this city any more justice
than does the populations given by
their assessors to other cities in the
state. Such poor job is generally
done by the assessors all over in
taking censuses of population that
they might just as well cut out this
line of activity in the future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-04

Senator Bailey of Texas declared that
he favored a duty on iron ore, not for
the purposes Of protection but for the
purposes Of revenue. The New York
Evening Post exposes this sham atti-