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The Bottineau courant., 1909-02-19

Norfolk. Two men in sailors uniform,
who evidently had been posted for the
purpose of keeping curious loungers
away from the boat, halted him, and
were Joined almost on the instant by
two officers in waiting. Hitler 'recog-
nized one as a personal friend. They
shook hands, boarded the ship, and
almost before their feet were plauted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-05
PUBLIC HEALTH FIRST.

Certain powers are vested in the
stated board of railroad commissioners
but there will be few persons, in all
probability, with the possible excep-
ton of the members of this board and
their secretary. who will contend that
among these powers is any authority
which is paramount to a reasonable
order of the state board of health for
the protection and the promotion of
the public health of the people of the
state.
This will undoubtedly be demon
strated to the satisfaction of the rail-
road commissioners if the courts are
called upon. as they will be in all
likelihood, to determine the question
now at issue between the health and
railroad departments of the state over
the abolition of public drinking cups
on railroad trains and in railway sta
tions An order seeking to accom-
plish this end has been issued by the
board of health and the railroad COM
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QUAKER --EDITAToNs.

TFrorn the Philadelphia Record.1
Popularity frequently costs more
than ii is worth.
It's when a fellow takes affront that
he is apt to get his back up
When a girls name is Anna she can
be an old maid and still be animated.
When a convict's term expires,
should the jailer wish him many re-
turns?
When a hungry goat swallows a
sofa pillow he naturally looks down
in the mouth.
When the henpecked husband goes
away it's a shame to try<to make him
feel at home
Some people are so careful not to
break anything that they never even
crack smile.
When a man is addicted to saying
take my ADVICE 1t is Just as we'll to
take 1t with a grain of salt.
The man who relies on his pull to
get him into heaven had better begin
to practice shoveling coal.
Nell-.'Would you rather be a rich
mans darling or poor mans slave ~
Belle-"It depends upon how old the
rich man was"
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DRUGGIsTs And THE LAW.

Word comes from Newton that some
of the druggists of that city are max
ing their plans to test in the courts,
when it becomes effective, the coLsti-
tutionality of the act of the recent leg
islature which prohibits the proprietors
of drug stores from selling liquor under
any and all circumstances for any
purpose whatsoever. 1t is the corten-
ton of these druggists that there is a
provision in the constitution which
permits the sale of liquor by druggists
for medical mechanical and scientific
purposes and that the new legislation
is directly at variance with this pro-
vision
That this newest, and most necessar-
lily stringent prohibitory law of Kan
sas would be attacked in the courts
was almost a foregone conclusion. Men
who have operated drug stores in Kan
sas, and their number is great, for tie
primary purpose of making money
from the sale of whisky and beer with
in the terms of the old prohibitory law
which has been an easy proposition Tor
the Inscriptions, could not be expect
ed to give up their profits Of this sort
without a struggle in the courts, no
matter how weak leg they had 10
stand on. But the legitimate druggists
Of Kansas will not be parties to this
fight They rather welcome the new
legislation. If it is possible to enforce
it, the sham druggists will be put out
of business and the trade that rather
naturally drifted to them in the pro-
prietary articles handled by drug
stores will revert to the channels
where it belongs, the honestly con-
Quoted drug stores
If the druggists are successful in
their attack on the new law, but which
some of the best lawyers in The state
think they will not be, it will olly be a
postponement for the time being of the
solution and settlement of this drug
store evil 1t is a question that must
be solved if Kansas is to have the best
possible kind of prohibition-and the
people of the state are insistent In
their demands for this. Another leg
islature will pass a law defining
specifically just how liquor may be
sold for medical. mechanical and scien-
tific purposes and making it less easy
for druggists to obtain permits.
But in this case as in al, others there
is no reason for approaching bridge
that it is not necessary to cross ana a
different remedy for wiping fake
drug stores out of existence need not
be planned until the courts have de-
clared the new law unconstitutional,
which they probably will not.
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UNDERGROUND WATERS.

One night a professor of mathemat-
les was at work in his little study
looking over the lake at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin, writes Anne Hard
in an article on 1.-THE Waters Under
the Earth" in Technical World maya
zine for April. He was a theorist,
whose main interest in life was the
speculation as to what particular
sort of curve will do if it ever encoun-
tiers another particular sort of curve
on a dark night somewhere just this
side of infinity.
And his name not unknown among
other such theorists, was Charles
Sumner Slichter.
To him, thus studying the manners
and customs of irrational curves, came
another professor, from the agricul-
tural department of the same univer-
sity, one c. I. King. He, too, had his
hobby and it was the study of aca-
demic particles of soil under the in
huence of academic particles of water.
What King wanted to know from
Slichter was the precise mathematical
formula for determining how much
water would reach the acre of pota-
toes in the northwest forty when one
lncn Oh ram 1Sll OH the I'VE AuHureQ
acres just north of your farm; and
similar problems.
The first thing a bona fide, anti
Barrios theorist does when he is given
a new problem, is to find out what the
Germans have done. Slichter looked
up VIII the Germans had done and
he was very much panied to find that
they had done very little. He couldn't
even agree with their estimate of the
amount of water there was under the
earth, in the first place. He corrected
that amount until he brought it
around to neat $4,000, 100000, 900
cubic yards-one-third the volume of
all the waters in all the oceans on the
surface of the earth.
But that was merely spin up a
side lane. The real road he was fol-
lowing led to an Introduction and pos
sible acquaintance with those millions
of millions of cubic yards of water
that had been hiding themselves in
places like California, and Kansas, and
Colorado, so successfully from man.
Of course he did not know it himself
at that time. He did not guess 1t at
all. any more than he guessed that a
few years would find him making the
plans for a ss50,000 pumping station,
which would catch and harness
$4,000, 900 gallons of those waters in
one day in one place alone, like Gar
den City, or that he would be assisting
cities with more drinkers than drink,
like Brooklyn, to overtake other mill
lions of gallons that were running
away underground to the sea.
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KYHAWKER .JOTS

The Emporia Gazette rebukes the
Lawrence Gazette for having the
lmpertinence to appear the other
DAY without any editorials al
Inc Sallna Journal says that citi-
zens of Great Bend went to see the
play entitled "Old Arkansaw'' under
the impression that 1t had something
to do with their famous river and
went away disappointed.
Evidently subscriber of the Lam
sing News has not much of an opinion
of the think-works of the editor of that
paper for he wrote him recently: IF
your brains were dynamite and they
should explode they wouldn't muss
your hair
A Kansas City. Kan. woman had
little luck in the chicken business
recently. She paid 60 cents for a hen
and found gold tooth in it's craw
valued at So. She cleared $40 on
her investment and still had the
chick to eat
''The Mercury would be something
of newspaper if it could carry out
all the good advice it gets" says the
Manhattan Mercury. "In addition to
the news printed in last nights paper
a valued subscriber reproved the
paper for devoting only three lines to
the death of a more or less noted
writer who died yesterday. The val
ued subscriber had a special interest
In the noted writer and would have
OSCA CIAtii ely SdlISleu WITH the paper
if it devoted three columns, not count
ing three column picture, to the
life and works of the n w. But the
paper wouldn't have appealed to all
the True Sports, who complain that
the Mercury doesn't devote enough
space to sporting events A page,
they say, setting forth the exploits of
the fighters, the wrestlers the horse
racers and the baseballers would be
about right. And the page of sports
would simply act as a red rag to the
farmers and cattle feeders who com
plain that too much space is already
consumed by unimportant stuff; which
space might be occupied by market
reports and financial news. Then the
politicians tell the circulation man.
ager that the paper would get a lot
more subscribers If it printed less
nonsense and would devote the space
to red hot political editorials. Taking
all these criticisms and suggestions
into consideration the former Man
haitian newspaper man who said that
the Mercury was about as big a joke
as he had seen recently wasn't handing
in a minority report"
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
1From the Atchison Globe.]

lFron the Atchison Globe]
No one thinks he looks as old as he
is.
What little affair it takes to start
a big rowi
The tears people shed are not bitter;
they are salty.
Some people are as careless as nat
urally as others take pains.
The town COW has commenced look
ing around to see who is going to put
in gardens. ~
IF you don't encourage me more"
said an Atchison man who has quit
smoking, II VIII quit trying"
A girl loves to have her complexion
complimented, but a boy is ashamed to
be told he has lovely complexion
There are not many men who will
steal openly, but nearly every man will
take advantage of another mans care
lessness.
ST am often bothered by receiving
suggestions and good advice, but every
important mistake Ii have made, has
been without warning.''-Drake Watson.
The strongest argument against the
practice of medicine that we know
anything about. is the case a young
doctor can make out against an old one.
A young man who lives in Missouri,
east of Atehfson. went to Kansas City
to live. In two months he became in
sane TITS the light bread his friends
at home said. So they brought him
home, and gave him soda biscuits three
times day, and he recovered.
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! missionerS have been presumptuous
enough to- tell the railroads off hand
that they need not pay any attention
to the order. A hearing is to be given
by the railroad commissioners to the
secretary of the board of health on
this proposition and after it the ex-
perts on the regulation of the rail-
roads in the state may change their
mind, but this is not likely as the rail-
road commissioners never show any
inclination to back down" on any
thing they do until the courts tell
them that they must, which has not
been an infrequent occurrence.
The authority given to the state
board of health is large as it must
needs be. if the great work imposed
upon it is to attain any measure of
success. If it decides that anything
is detrimental to public health 1t has
the power to order its abatement
This it has done in regard to public
drinking cups on trains. Surely the
railroad commissioners will not take
the position that such drinking cups
are not active and vicious agents in
the promiscuous spread of many
kinds of contagious and infectious
most self evident. The discontinuance
of their use is a necessary step in the
righteous crusades which the board of
health are waging against all diseases
which war on the public.
No one will be so foolish as to con-
tend that there are not limitations to
the authority of the state board of
health. Any ridiculous or unreason-
able order that it might issue through
errors of judgment would be promptly
nullified by the courts. But such is
not the case when an order is as
reasonable on it's very face as is the
one regarding these public drinking
cups. If the railroads on the advice
of the railroad commissioners refuse
to obey the order ,abolishing them, it
will only be delaying of the accom-
plishment of a much needed reform
until the strong arm of the courts can
be called in.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nothing of much value is ever gain
ed by the use of fiattery.
x X
AS Robert Burdette put it, the evils
which make US fume and fret are the
things which haven't happened yet.
Most of the differences in the world
could be quickly settled by more
equitable division of the money in it,
X
Considerable Is heard about signs of
refinement, but, as a matter of fact,
true refinement has no signs because
1t doesn't need any.
x x
In order to maintain the proper
lions found in the drama, If all the
worlds a stage, seventy-five per cent
or the people in it must be bad actors.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

lr rom the chicago NeWS.l
Never kick live wire when it's down.
Poor pencils and dull boys are diff
cult to sharpen.
1t takes a pretty sharp remark to cut
slow man to the quick.
A long yard is sometimes produced
from the threads of conversation.
If you would blind man by throw
ing dust III his eyes use gold dust.
When we call a man a brick We don't
mean that he is made of common clay.
Even the tadpole can boast of his So
cial position, having been born in the
swim.
The longer you let an account run.
the longer it will be before you catch
up with it.
Occasionally when man attempts to
stand on his dignity some one spoils
it by sitting on it.
Shooting stars appear to have no aim,
and no one on earth seems to know
what they are shooting for.
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FRON OTHER PENS
THE CHURCH BELL.

An editorialette writer in the New
York Times wants the church bell
silenced. There is nothing sacred
about church bells,'' says the icono-
clast. Their original use was the
very practical one of calling to
church services people who, for
the most part, had no other way
of knowing the time of day, and the
necessity for giving that Information
in that way having passed away, there
is no reason why the bells should not
depart with it. The efficiency of
church activities would be in no degree
decreased by the abandonment of a
now useless custom and that efficiency
would on the whole be increased if
to positive injury, were not caused by
continuing what has become an empty
form. Especially is the loud ringing
of church bells early in the morning a
nuisance that shoNld not be tolerated"
Perhaps the bell is not necessary to
notify regular churchgoers of a par
ticular church when service time ap-
proaches, but it is a reminder that
most regular attendants like to hear,
and it often draws to church persons
who would otherwise not 60 There is
a voice in the church bell that appeals
to many, and there's music in 1t for all
who listen. Let us keep the church
bell. Even those who seldom or never
go to church like to hear its pealing
music. Fancy a city on Sunday morn
ing without the sound of a church bell
Let the church bell call to song and
prayer and sermon, and let it toll for
us when the ills of life are over and
we are borne to our last resting place.
Nashville American.
EUROPEAN WATERWAY PROJECT
A waterway Improvement lately pro-
posed in Europe is ose OF the most i'm
portant ever brought forward in that
continent. The plan. which is espe-
cially backed by Austrian engineers. is
to construct a 2,000-tcn barge canal,
with a depth of eight feet, to connect
the Danube system with tho Aegean
sea, forming direct water communica-
ton between Central Europe and the
Mediterranean Most of the traffic
now between these sections goes to
ports on the North sea. and thence
through the Atlant,. to the Gibraltar
gateway. 1t is sal that The Danube
600. and that an American company,
backed by American capital, is ready
to undertake the work
Austria has Shown. OF late desire to
count for more In marine commerce.
No other nation of its size and imrcr-
lance is so extensively cut off from the
sea, though its capitals are cn the
greatest river of the continent Ger
many's progress has been largely asso-
ciated with its growing ocean traffic
snd betterment of inland waterways.
Austria's population IF 2s.000,0 900 In
cludes 10000. 600 Germans, and the Kun
garian and Bohemian elsmen are
large and enterprising. One of the
movement to deepen the waterways
permanently, enlarge the ports and ex
tend the coast line--St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
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ing a very prontable little transaction.

ing very profitable little transaction
Grace looked at him in shocked
amazement. Jim stared at her and OPP
ened his mouth to say something. but
thought better of it. Grace turned her
face away to hide her tears which she
could not repress, try as she would.
She did not trust herself to speak ex-
cept once or twice to ask the direction
that she heard him chuckle, but dis
missed the idea as a morbid fancy.
Harrington met them with a cordial
handshake and a strange cheerfulness.
which was explained when he said hur-
riedly to Jim that the girl was much
better. Then he asked colby If they
would not like to see her.
Jim replied in the affirmative without
"a moments hesitation: but Grace held
back. Then Jim chuckled 1t was as
unmistakable out-and-out chuckle.
Bewildered, wondering, Grace follow
ed the two men and Harrington led the
way to-the stables.
A rather feeble looking mare whinnied
when she saw JIM, and made a weak
effort to get upon her feet.
On the way back Jim said with a
happy smile: You'll have to read up
on one subject, anyway, darling. Any
body who knows anything at all about
racing knows The Girl. She's the win
Eer of the Shenandoah sweepstakes, the
Cumberland futurity, and the Gold cup.
and she belongs to the racing firm of
yours truly, Garrison & Harrington. I'm
glad she is better; but, sweetheart.
even if she had died. would have con-
sidered her well paid for by the know
ledge I've won through your misunder-
standing about that telegram. Am
very stupid, darling, if think that you
love me, even though don't know much
of literature and art?'
And Grace Garrison gave him a reply
that convinced him that he was not
stupid -(Copyrighted 1909, by Associ-
ated Press
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Pat, did you bring back my umbrelIa?,''
iii bring ing 1.-THE. '''e imply ''''N'N'
why do you tell me all your troubles?"
doesn't love oUees misery. for heaven's SAKE.
cut 1t out!"-Cleveland Leader.
She talks very learnedly on art. Is she
talker."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
II don't suppose you have dollar you
credit. How did you guess?'-Cleveland
Leader.
will take one slip to the rare. thin one to
the front, thin one to the rare again, an
Yell be yez were before yez were
What hat do xog thin! think ought to be done
o MIN me swed san nNs eSpre h ANY
expressions on the subject will be con-
fined to congratulations for my constit-
dolences for those who get left.''-wash-
ington Star. NA
$50 this is your famous Rembrandt. Ell?
Very fine; but see it is signed Rachel"
dot is on account of mein creditors.
Everything vos in mein wife's name."-
White-Why are you so anxious to lend
lnat IrlehQ QOllar whenever ne asks II!
He only spends the money in drinks and
cigars. Black-Oh. he always pays it
back! White.-But there must be some
other reason for your ready generosity.
Blackwell there is. He always spends
half of the money on me.-Judge.
Magistrate-You are charged with steal
ing a valuable rug. What have you to say
for yourself? Hobo-I amt guilty, jedge.
Magistrate-But the rug was found in
asked de woman fer a handout Jedtge, an
she handed me de rug an told me t. beat
it."-Chicago Daily News.
"a farmer has to take chances like any
other business man." said the citizen who
ed Mr.. Corntassel. I'm willin to take all
kinds of chances. I answer most every
circular anybody sends me. But L never
yet had the nerve to depend on free dis
tribution seeds for my summer vegeta-
bles. "-Washington Star.
Mrs. Boggs-Mr. Meekman is a splendid
example of what man ought to be. Mr..
Boggs-Not on your life. He's a SPLEEN
did example of what a wife, two sisters a
daughter and a mother-ir-law
think a man ought to be.-Puck.
so you advise me to give UP my am
bition to be a great editor said the-ener-
getic. young man. land become an active
ghum. IAN active politician stands more
show of telling Just what he thinks about
anybody without being nailed with libel
suit "-Washington Star.
She-Anything. that is worth winning is
worth working for. He-Yes, but the ques-
ton is will your father thaw out or will
have to keep ON working for you after
I've won you?-Philadelphia Inquirer.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New york Press.J

[From the New York Press.
The man who decided honesty was
the best policy avoided passing on it
as q principle.
The most deceitful thing about a
girl is how she can convince you she
isn't when you know she is.
Even when a man can build house
that is livable there Will be malaria
or something around.
When a woman has curly hair of
her own she can't appear any more
honest about it than she could If it
weren't.
girl when he oughtn't to, the less she
can count them when her mother asks
her about 1t.
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General Nelson A. Miles is quoted as
saying that he could never quite see
why a man wants to shoot elephants
and other animals wilfully. and partic-
ularly elephants because they can be
made to be so useful. Now if General
Miles had only put this query before
MIR. Roosevelt sailed for Africa he would
probably have had it answered in way
that would have been entertaining, If
mt convincing
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All of the United States troops have
now been removed from the island of
Cuba. 1t is to be hoped that they
have said a final farewell to the little
republic. But many are the fears
that these hopes will not be realized.
Such fears are not groundless, either.
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BY the time Topeka's great slogan.
Topeka Kan, Topeka WILL" got through
the hands of Tom Morgan, it appeared
In his paper, the Ottawa Herald, as
"Topelxa, Kansas, TOPEKA will" Broth
err Morgan is excused this time but he
and all others are warned that any
further maltreatment of the Topeka
slogan will be dealt with summarily.
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Lost Bet on His Wife.

John B. Richards laid a wager with
a friend that his wife would not make
an engagement with the friend. The
stake was a new hat. He lost the hat
Now he's afraid he will lose the wife.
A divorce suit has been brought
against him by his wife, in which she
accuses him of having a man call her
I'D and represent himself to be
friend of her brother and ask her to
meet him in East st. Louis in regard
to railroad transportation
Mrs. Richards says she kept the ap-
nointment. and while she was talking
to the man her husband appeared and
accused her of making dates" with
other men Richards admits it was
put-up Job. and says he's sorry. be-
cause he lost the hat.-St. Louis dis
patch to New York World.
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March were much larger than they
have been for many months but the
governmental expenditures beat them
out by more than 100000. This
brings the government deficit for the
last nine months up to nearly $780,
0O0, 900. A curtailing of the enor-
nous expenses of the government is
quite as necessary as an adequate re-
vision of the tariff.