davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
school of Eating.

An enterprising woman named Hoik-
er has started a school here where
pupils of all ages are given full
course of instruction in the art of eat
ing.
Practical demonstrations are given IN
ordinary table manners. but the chief
aim of the establishment is to teach the
ignorant how to deal successfully with
such dishes as they have never even
heard Of.
''Who does not recollect in his cx-
perience moments Of unspeakable
anguish asks Frau Hoiker, when at
a dinner party he finds that he is us
ing his knife and fork for dish that
only requires a spoon, or vice versa? 1t
is to save men and women from these
little tragedies that have opened ray
school"
Examinations are to be held at the
end of each term, when the students
will be requested to attack an array of
unknown delicacies set before them.
Those who undergo the ordeal success
fully will obtain a, certificate from Frau
Hoiker, which will enable them to face
any banquet without filnching.-Buda-
pest CORES ondence of London Ex-
press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
HUHOR OF TIE DAY

Earl saw a rattlesnalke sixteen
feet long this morning. Ethei-How
did you know il was rattesnake
Earl-By the way my teeth ratified
when I saw it.-Evening Wisconsin.
Eyes" said the old peer. my son
is willing to stand for parliament m
fortunately" he added, after slight
pause, parliament does not recipro-
cate."-Christian Register.
love" That's all right in theory"
'FWell?" "The trouble is that most
Of US can't afford it."-Pittsburg Post
The Old oaken Bucket dropped a
few tears. at don't arouse the en-
thusiasm of the home plate" it com
planned. Herewith began the rivalry
between the scenes Of childhood
New York sun.
Madam" shrieked the excited in
dividual. your husband has been hurt
and they are bringing him home 1i b an
fatal % asked the wife. ..'No. But his
woman, this is one night I suppose
that he will be home to supper on
me.''-Detroit Free Press.
Jimmie sat on the chopping block
rehectively twiddling his fingers.
Should he go fishing or play ballf HIS
grandmother called from the open
window: Jimmie! Don't you know
Satan finds some mischief still for idle
hands to do?" Bring in a basket of
chips" Replied Jimmie, with
twinkle: THAT amt no mischief
Lippincott's.
THE old poets knew about the auto
mobile" 'How now2" "Macaulay
speaks of Lars Porsena and his ivory
car" 'sWeII?" "And Poe cites an
instance Of the air growing denser.
Evidently an auto had just passed.
Louisville Courier-Journal.
In a Shehield school the children
were asked to come prepared with the
meaning of the word bachelor" for
the next lesson. This was one little
girls confident definition: "A bach
elor is a very happy man." The
teacher wanted to know more. How
told me soi"-Tid-Bits.
Going by Degrees.-Friend-
the ambassadors wife has been here
social life has become much livelier.
Professor-How old should you say
she was? Friend--About 40, I sup
pose. Professor-H'm; Reamur or
Fahrenheit ?-Fliegende Batter.
Should Have Large Practicable
But if you fancy there's anything
wrong with your heart, why not see
-Srnythe. the specialist? She
I'm so afraid he'd discover II was
something fatal He-Oh, rot! He
wouldn't; he's an awfully decent fell
low.-The Taller.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Realized mistakes are great helps
to eventual success.
The man who tries to do two
mems work is going to come out un-
satisfactorily.
y X
Sisters get along better if they are
built so that they cannot wear each
others clothes
X
Undoubtedly, there is plenty of
room at the top but the rounds on
the ladder reaching to it are general
ly pretty crowded.
There wouldn't be so much bicker-
ing in the world if everyone didn't
have a somewhat different idea as to
what constitutes justice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.1
The reason a girl fools her mother
is her mother thinks she doesn't
The more of vacation a man
be at home.
Except for children, rent. the
household bills and where it is best
for the family to live, marriage is not
such a great failure.
Even when man trades for a
horse he has to send to the glue far
tory he can take pride in how near
he came to making a good bargain.
There's never any use OF a man
learning fine speech to make to a
girl when he proposes to her, because
sne accepts him before he can get Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
Ct louis Eur Exchange.

st. Louis now has fur exchange,
the first of the kind ever organized
in the world. Ever since John Jacob
Astor had st. Louis as branch OF
the extensive fur business he carried
on in the West and the LacIedes and
Chouteaus built up the trade here, st.
Louis has been the largest primary
fur market in the world. As much as
sEo 400 worth of furs are frequently
sold here in one day. The fur BUSH
ness has been carried on differently
in st. Louis than in other markets in
that here it has been customary for
the firms engaged in the fur trade to
receive sealed bids for furs from all
parts Of the world. In other fur mar
kets fur is handled like any other raw
1naterial.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
FULL IE.ASED WIFE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED FRFss
HOME NEWS wHu.E AwAy.

Subscribers OF the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
70 any address at the rate OF ten
cents n 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
q 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, 1909-07-23

The date when the municipal light
plant viii be doing business again
cannot come any too soon. A moon
light schedule for lighting the resi-
dental portions OF the town is bad
enough, but no schedule at all is
considerably worse. The darkness
that has been reigning at night in
most OF the residential districts has
been of the impenetrable order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

Every city in Kansas and in every
other part of the country that is sub
ject to damage from foods ought to
learn the valuable lesson from the re-
cent experiences of Galveston that it
pays to be forehanded. Possible dam
age from floods could really be re-
duced to a minimum in every locality
situated on tickle streams if the prop
er precautions were taken. All such
viii cost money but it will be money
we'll spent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
origin Of satelIites.

Two views have been set forth as
to the origin of planets satellites.
The first of these is that the attend
ant body is a part of the planet itself
thrown off in the early stage OF its
history In conformity with this
view it is thought by some that the
depression which marks the site of
the Pacific ocean was caused by the
throwing off Of the moon. The other
view is that the satellite IS captured.
rsl9re for example, comet visiting
the solar systems approaches too near
the planet Jupiter. 1t is drawn out
of its course and constrained by the
attraction of the giant planet TO move
IN an elliptfc course around it The
..,,-e+ TINS becomes a satellite or
moon. prof See now announces that
he has proved that all satellites are
sscaDttred. London Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

There is nothing on earth the
matter with Kansas said ]. N. Dol
ley, the states bank commissioner,
the other day to an Official of an
eastern insurance company. Those
words express the exact sentiment
of every man, woman and child in
this great state, with the possible ex-
ception of the bootleggers. and they
DOM count.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
EYEGLASSES VS.. HANDcUFFs.
FRON OTHER PENS
AMERICA IN MANcHURIA.

Although China's sovereignty over
Manchuria was recognized by the
treaty of Portsmouth, the special
positions that Russia and Japan hold
in Manchuria by reason of their con-
troll of the railroad which traverses
that province have enabled them in
their respective spheres of operations
to practically dominate the trade,
and even the government of Man
churia. In Hardin, which is the cen
ter. of Russian activity in the north
ern half of the province, no SEM
blance of respect or regard is paid
to Chinese authority. Russia leVies
taxes on Chinese and foreigners alike,
and Russians are accorded a prac-
teal monopoly of the trade of the
country. Similarly in the southern
half of Manchuria the japanese, by
road and the right of policing it,
practically dominate the country
and monopolize it's trade. They
maintain a garrison of at least co.
600 men at Mukden, and, although
they are more diplomatic than the
Russians, they succeed quite as eff
fectively in ignoring Chinese auth
GRITTY and dominating the business of
the province.
resentatiVeS, has refused to recog-
nize either the Russian or the Jap
anese claim to control in Manchu-
ria, and contends that China alone
has the right to exercise sovereignty
and to prescribe the restrictions
under which trade may be conducted,
which restrictions must be the same
for all foreign nations, Russia and
Japan included.-New Orleans Plea
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

It is to be presumed that the
Rev. Henry A. ButcheI, D. D., a
former governor of Colorado, has
taken up a permanent residence in
New York. He said recently
that "only the dregs of womankind
vote in Colorado; the mothers have
to be practically dubbed to the polls"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

James NJ. Nation, the state auditor,
has done exactly right in deciding
that certain institutions in the state
of a really private character must
show that they are actually engaged
in charitable work of a public sort
before they are entitled to state aid.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
BOOSTING DIPLOMACY

Very few of the American people
knew what a financial camel got his
head into the treasury tent when our
foreign representatives were raised to
the anbassadorial level. They are
worth nothing more to the country.
Indeed, beyond being politely orna-
mental and preposterousiy pretentious
and costly. our diplomatic service has
small influence on our national life or
WE'LL being.
The cable has reduced most foreign
representatives to the messenger boy
level The heads of governments now
communicate directly in all affairs big
ger than the commercial scope of a
consul. Nevertheless. a most persist
ent effort is kept up by those who
fare abroad. and those who would like
to, at the nations expense, whom the
glamor of courts and caste and privi-
lege of social display allure, to have
the country purchase embassy resi-
dences- Americans visiting in London
are to be given a dinner next week to
boom this preposterous scheme
AS it is now, the state our diplomatic
re representatives are required to assume
by a self-imposed convention costs
much more than the salary attached.
Instead of coming down to simpler
American standards of common sense
and simplicity, these-loving. tuft-hunt-
ing climbers want to run the pay up
sufficient to support European scales
Of extravaganza and display. Then the
clamor for uniforms and other gauds of
distinction viii be redoubled--Pittsburg
Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

After weeks of vacillation the
members of the city council have
finally fixed 16 years as the age linn
it under which children will not be
permitted to operate automobiles on
the city's streets. 1t is to be hoped
that this ends the matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

Those Crawford county clubs
which have been incorporated to pro-
mote interest in checkers, chess,
dominoes and other sports likely
have in mind the establishment OF
locker systems The lockers, on
couss, Will only be used for the stor-
Ing of the members paraphernalia,
maybe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

J. J. Schenck. the county attorney,
announces that he is willing to pros
ecute any and all hotel men in this
locality for their failure to live up to
the terms of the state law providing
for the equipment of their obstetrics
with fire escapes. if complaints are
fled with him. That's business. And
It is a kind that should be engaged
in by prosecuting Officers all over
kansas. Persons -oule not be re-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

An enrolment of $50 students is ex-
pected at Washburn this fall. All Of
which goes to show that a good college
is certain to get good patronage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

John r. MuIvane calls attention to
the fact that the Kansas banks of
today have the money to move the
big crops of wheat and corn for
which the state is famous. Things
were not ALWAYS like this.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

Another war of the opera bouffe
order is in prospect. Argentina and
Bolivia are preparing to fight. If the
universal peace enthusiasts We're
practical in attempting to further
their desires they would send a high
class circus on a couple of months
tour of these countries. It's a GER
tainty, which has been proved time
and time again, that South Americans
won't engage in battles or do any
thing else while a circus is around.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

Presumably Uncle Vim Hill is
paying FOR that bust OF himself
which is to be unveiled at the Seattle
exposition on Minnesota day, August
3. Its cost is $4,000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

luctant, either. to make the necessary
complaints. They are essential to
starting the machinery of the law in
operation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
Peaches at So Each.

Probably the most expensive of all
the fine fruits sold here out of season
are the dollhouse peaches imported
from Belgium and offered In the
month of May.
These Belgian dollhouse peaches
come packed six in a box, each in an
ample bed of cotton. The peaches re-
quire a little extra room. on account
of the manner in which they are
taken from the tree, for these are not
simply bare peaches to be huddled in
together any how, but to each is still
attached the stem on which it grew,
while to the stem is attached a little
section cut from the twig or Dough
to which, while growing, the peach
was suspended from the tree, stem
and bough giving thus to each peach
a separate personality or grace of its
own.
Early in May when they first come
these peaches sell here for $24
dozen. About the middle of May or
a little later they bring SIS, and along
at the last of May or the first of June
they can be bought for $12 dozen.
But that is about the last of them,
for along around May % Florida
peaches begin to come in, and Georgia
peaches only a little later, and about
June 1 the price of fancy peaches
takes a sudden great drop.--Boston
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
Ncw outlet FOR West.

The Hudson Bay railway is at last
more than a theory. The necessary
capital of S40,000.000 has been raised and
construction is to begin at once. The
rails will be laid to the bay from Win
nipeg and a line of steamers will sail
regularly during the open months, to
Liverpool.
Most persons will think this a wild
sort of sheme. What's the use? The
Question may easily be answered by
looking at a large globe. The ordinary
maps on the Mercator projection do not
disclose the real truth of the situation
From York Factory, on Hudson Bay, to
Liverpool is a shorter line than from
New York to the same port But that
is not the main value. 1t is the snort
railway haul of Canadian wheat that is
economic.
It is now almost 80 years since the
first survey for the road was made,
ard, though it seemed feasible, the
fact that it must lie unoperated for a
number of months each year made 1T
seem hardly worth while. This, how
ever, was before the opening or the
vast wheat fields in Manitoba and to
the westward. The new railway is not
alone to tap these fields, but to build
into undeveloped lands. 1t is primarily
q wheat enterprise, but the rapidly
Y it'll which Canadian Northwest IS
growing in all directions makes 1t GER
tain that there will be other business
for the road. Moreover it is expected
that considerable wheat from our own
Northwest will go in this direction, as
the new line will not be hampered IN
freight rates by any interstate COM
n. cree rules.
1t is predicted freely that in a few
years Americans from Chicago or be-
yond will go to Europe via the Hudson
Bay route with more ease and less ex-
Bense than via New York. and that the
scenic effects will make il worth while
for fasteners to use it. Hudson would
Lave been an amazed man. indeed. if
some spirit could have foretold the re-
suits of his first venture into the great
open sea. For centuries 1T has given
up it's toll of furs, but now it is to be
a highway of international commerce.
Inquirer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

Everybody ought to marry for
love" That's all right in theory.
''Well?'' "The trouble is that most
Of us can't afford it."-Pittsburg Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

The Old Oaken Bucket dropped
few tears. at don't arouse the en-
thusiasm of the home plate" it com
planned. Herewith began the rivalry
between the scenes of childhood
New York sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

Going by Degrees.-Friend-
the ambassadors wife has been he
social life has become much livelie
Professor-How old should you Sc
she was? Friend--About 40, I SUI
pose. Professor-H'm Reamur
Fahrenheit ?-Fliegende Batter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23

Earl saw a rattlesnake sixteen
feet long this morning. Ethel--How
did you know il was a rattlesnake!
Earl-By the way my teeth ratified
when saw it.-Evening Wisconsin.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-02-03
Politics Ia years Ago.

The Mountaineer recently unearth-
ed poll book of Kooskia precinct in
the Nov. 9th 1894 election, when the
precinct was known as Lorena. Ten
votes were cast then as against 3 last
election. The book shows c. NJ.
Day running for Senator, ]. G.
Rowton for representative, Jeff Hen
dern for assessor and Tom Surridge,
Walter Clark and Harden Chenoweth
for county Commissioners.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-02-03
MONEY
Geo. M. Reed.
To Loan
A STORY

He had been renting a farm for
several years, had made some money
and had gotten the place in shape to
make more, when a new conner came
along and seeing the place in good
condition, buys it
She was a teacher in a country
school.
They were lovers, he had often
settled tin his mind that he would
ask her to be his wife, but the thought
of having no home of his own, al
ways prevented it. One evening he
went to see her, determined that be-
fore leaving her he would know his
fate.
During the course of the evening
he said to her, Darling, long have
| loved you, and long have | cher
ished hope that some day you
would be my wife As you know |
have no home of my own but now
ask you for your heart and hand"
She raised her eyes to meet his,
gently she laid her hand on his shout
der, with merry twinkle in her eye
she replied, LAND FOR SALE"
] l.. NJ. Harris & Co.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-02-03
FERDINAND

Roy Gordon drove about ten car
loads of hogs from here to Vollmer
Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nuxoll, of
the German state bank of Cotton
wood, visited with Henry kuther and
family Sunday.
Bert Jones, of Orogrande, is here
visiting his mother and sister for
short time.
Miss Augusta HauSes, from Cot
tonwood, is the new employe at the
hotel
Mrs. R. w. Lloyd left for
weeks visit at Palouse, Wash,
Monday.
Miss Celia and Joe Hayden are
up from Sites for a few days visit
with their brothers, Charles and
VIII.
Miss Bertha Ries left for Grange
vile Sunday.
Miss Josephine Kuther spent a
week in Spokane, returning Mon
day
DR. Truitt has been in town for a
few days from Cottonwood.
Quite a crowd from here went out
to Mr. VIM Kincaids to dance
Friday night, all report fine time.
Mr.. Pagan moved here with his
family Thursday from Winona. Mr.
Pagan bought Mr. John Terwlliger' S
blacksmith shop and will continue
the same
Henry Kuther has been on the
sick list for few months
Miss Mary Refs visited in town a
few days last week.
James Lyttle, of Denver, came
in on.Wednesday morning train, re-
turning the same day
John Baer, of Spokane, was in
Ferdinand returning Thursday morn
ing.
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-02-03
Pedagogical Pebbles

Mrs. ID. l.. Johnston is once more
in charge of the fifth grade
Our music teacher Miss Logan
did some very creditabe work as
accompanies at the Baptist concert
last Friday evening.
Miss Stella Crowder has resigned
as teacher of the fifth grade on ac-
count of her health and has taken
work with the Lewiston schools
Mss Lotie Spedden has been
placed in charge of the fifth grade
We confidently expect her to do ex-
Cellent work. She has had years of
training in Normal College and Uni
verSlty, and two or three years eX-
perlenCc.
The superlntendentS report for
January shows our total enrolment
to be four hundred and eighty two.
-Four hundred and thirty three be-
longing this month. The actual
daily attendance was three hundred
and sixty, which was better than last
year and better than we expected from
the epidemic of colds and sore throatS
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-02-03

perfect frenzy OF rage to Bansemer.
let me go-pig!"
Not until afterward did Banscmer
recall that in the general excitement it
was the boy who dragged him along
to the spot. And in spite of the solem-
nifty of the scene there was something
in his manner of delivering the insult
that amused rather than angered the
American
"Pluclly little DEVIL" he said half
aloud
Again the sick man groaned. tried to
rise from the blankets and speak, but
only to fall back moaning. Connell
cautioned him against eNertion AMI
TO he Continued
The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1909-02-03
Idaho County Stock Association.

The Idaho County Stock Associa-
ton, has called meeting of its mem
bers for March LIST, at which time it
is expected that a reorganization will
be effected, and new name adopted.
The organization is also contem-
plating becoming an auxiliary of the
Washington Livestock Association.