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Sylvester Graham the First to Popu-
Iarize Article of Diet That
Bears His Name.

The housewives of America make
many loaves of graham bread during
the year, but few of them know the
history Of this article of food, nor
have they ever taken the trouble to
learn why and how it came to be first
prepared.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-28
PUSS Is PUT IN sPLINTS

While escaping from a fire In the
Borough district of London few days
ago. cat broke it's leg and as re.
suit limped about painfully for dav
or two. The porters in the Borough
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-28
HAWK ATTACKS AN INFANT

The year-old baby of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Shepherd, who live on a farm
bout two miles from Pc Ell, Wash,
was attacked by a hawk, recently.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-28

word Sentimental" The
wonder was, and the poor
light was responsible for it's remain
ing a wonder, if the father of his
country had not in his quiet hours
been reading "a Sentimental Jour
ney." If the gentle Martha had
peeped into the pages and had re-
proved George because of what she
saw there one can imagine his ready
answer that the book was written by
holy priest of her own chosen
church.
The man with the megaphone on
the Washington "rubberneck" wag-
ons tells his audience of passengers
as they roll by the Metropolitan club
house: This is the club of the nobs."
In another minute, as the big sight
seeing bus passes another clubhouse
the megaphone man says: And this
is the club of the cranks."
"The club of the cranks," as this in
formation bowler calls it, is the Cos
mos club, and a most interesting or
ganization it is It's membership is COM
posed of scientists, some physicians
and clergymen a few lawyers and
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-28

III" VI "hiN"' Ou' Will uueIIlng 1naccuracv she
made answers. This was travelled American
GIL Ihere Is fairly wellgrounded belief that
she met and captivated her German bushond
While she was doing Europe in an automobile or
vas rhapsodizing the Rhine
Some day, perhaps-vedy likely, in fact-sbe
will go back to her husbands land and will
listen to his telling of his American trip and in
he enthusiasm of the nature which he made
manifest on the Potomac he will tell the "his-
ioric truths concerning George Washington
which he learned from his American wife
1t may be that of the Germans who
know something of the life of the American gen,
era who the friend and fellow soldier of
Steuben will come to think as some Americans
nave come to think before this that little
American history might be included in the course
# study of the average American girl and that
not a dollar should be spent on her passage
money to Europe until she knows without stop
ping TO think whether it was George Washington
Abraham Lincoln who crossed the Delaware
and who, something later, forced the surrender
Of CORVALLIS at Yorktown. This may seem to
De a matter that Is beside the mark. but while
he listener had none too thorough knowledge
If American history. there were some things
said on the boat plying down the Potomac that
If they had been said by an eighth-grade school
boy ought to have brought him hogging.
Mount Vernon has been written about by
pretty nearly everybody who has seen the place.
It hasn't fallen to the lot of everybody to see it
in the fall. 1t is a noble place, fitting resting
ground for the first American
1t seldom falls to mans lot to see such he
roic trees There is giant oak which stands
sentinel over the first burial place of Washing
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-28
AN EARLY CHRISTIAN RELIC

The article here pictured Is an In
teresting relic of early Christianity
from the shores of the Red sea. II Ia
a grotesQue head bearing ring in tts
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slight fall OF
Transvaasust podey until the downfall
Of
themselves wild
inches Great
wasdo to all traffic suspended
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er, cease!" | don't know how many
thousands of Americans go yearly to
Mount Vernon to pay a visit to the re-
pDsitOry of a dead mans bones. but
the number is something enormous.
If George Washington never had
lived at Mount Vernon, never had Wis
tied there. never had died there, and
had been buried in the antipodes there
would be excuse enough for the visits
TO the place of seventy times seven
the number of the pilgrims who go
yearly down the Potomac to stand on
the towering hill and to look off down
the valley.
1t is with an utter shame that it
IS confessed that after four years
residence in Washington one man
American born and with some Turk.
ing pride of patriotism in his make
up never until recently went to the
place where the father of his coun-
Try and the exponent of the American
school teachers ideal of truth lies
buried.
Mount Vernon is the ultimate OBJ
lect of the voyage down the Potomac.
There are other objects every paddle
wheel stroke of the way, for the hills
IN either side are hills of rare beauty
crowned with trees that saw the rev.
olution and that in the fall are wear
ing the raiment which belongs to the
Kings of the forest.
On the boat going down there was
young German gentleman, who had
married an American wife. He was
much more interested in the beauty
Of the POtomac's banks and in the
history of the country beyond the
banks and in the life history of
George Washington than was she.
The German asked his American wife
if George Washington was born At
Mount Vernon. She answered thai
he was; which he wasn't, not nv
many miles. He. asked her manv
other questions. to each and every
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-10-28

ASHINGTON.-In the novel
of "Ivanhoe," Isaac the
Jew tells the knight that
he knows it is the custom
of the Christians to put on
pilgrims garb and to walk
barefooted for miles to
worship dead mems bones.
There is something of a
sheer in Isaac's tone and
Ivanhoe rebukes him with
a truly heroic "RlaSnhem.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
AYHAWKER JOTy

For heavens sake keep away from
the rattlesnake,' says the Abilene Re-
dector. There is no remedy in Kan
sas."
is the funnier: the way the women do
their hair these days. or the new 1909
trousers the boys are wearing.
The Manhattan Mercury claims to
have discovered a woman in that town
who is so particular and cleanly that
she won't use pins until after she has
washed them.
One kind of a fool girl is the ne who
can make a, comfortable living, support
herself, wear good clothes, and help
mother besides. and then. goes off and
marries some chunp who can't keep
his own bills paid up, let alone support
a family.-HoWard Courant.
The Greenlief Setfnel. always glad
to rectify mistakes. makes the confess
sion that it was misinforIned when it
mentioned John Atkinson's new auto
mobile recently. 1T is John Kenning-
ton who has the new automobile" says
the Sentinel Mr.. Atkinson's acquisi-
ton is something whole lot nicer-a
baby
It begins to look like there is but
one way for the people of Garden City
Faxon's Concrete Bridge and soft
Water editorials That is to build the
bridge and dig the well. Ralph appar-
emily doesn't intend either to give up
the bridge or to take water.-Hutchin-
son News.
Kansas threshing machine dealer
made an automobile of. which he was
very proud. How long did it take
you to make it?" asked a friend. as
he eyed the machine. critically. zone
month"; said the maker. as proud as
If he had built the pyramids in that
time. What delayed your, asked the
critic.-Kansas City Journal.
It having been stated that william
Allen White did not take a typewriter
with him en- his travels. there is but
one conclusion to arrive at in reference
own paper: Walt Mason looks at a line
or two when the copy comes in and
proceeds to beat out on his own type
writer what he thinks White ought to
have said--Lawrence Gazette.
| The hired man cut. off piece of
tobacco and told the boy to chew it
as fast as he could and swallow the
was. The boy followed directions. He
is a middleaged man now and he looks
back upon that day with considerable
satisfaction as he finds in that expert
ence his reasons for never becoming a
tobacco ehewer.-Jewell Republican.
If you have a friend abused untruth-
fully in your presence, defend him.
Don't refuse to speak in his defense
because you s'do not like to say any
thing If a sheep dog were to be kill
ed for sheep killing and you knew the
wrong dog was about to be executed.
would you speak up. and defend the
innocent dog Why not, then, defend
your friend when he is innocent p
Jewell County Monitor.
| The Santa Fe is qualified to answer
the question When is a water meter
decidedly unsatisfactory This com
pany was paying Chanute $175 month
| for it's water supply at that place. But
| it was decided to make a saving by
putting in a meter. The company's bill
for the first month that the meter was
working was only $377.74. Quite a
risky meter that and one Chanute
| may we'll be proud of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
A truck has wheels-unless it is
garden truck.
Vanity leaves it's footprints or a
woman's face.
Some peoples breakfast is sort of
cereal story.
An offfceholder never retires until
the voters pry him loose.
A woman isn't necessarily gifted
because she has the gift of CAB.
The nearer you approach many a
great man the smaller he looks.
Flour by any other name would
smell as wheat-to the shorts.
The wise man keeps his temper even
when he is getting the worst of 1t.
The antique assertion that figures
won't Iie'' is a lying figure of speech.
A man will confess to one bad habit
for the purpose of hiding dozen
others.
A woman may claim to be as young
as she likes, but she doesn't always
look it.
It's simply impossible to love thy
neighbor as thyself IL he is an anna
teur cornet player.
1t takes an expert female shopper
to get rid of a dollars worth of energy
in an attempt to save 2 cents.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFronn tn

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
A "dashy" man is never of much
use.
If a man expects to amount to any
thing, he must do 1t in spite of bad
luck.
There probably never was a red
headed boy who wasn't called Red"
by his companions.
You have probably noticed that the
man who succeeds attends to his bust
ness pretty steadily.
The pecking women do at the de-
pot, which they call kissing, is about
the funniest thing in the world.
If there We're anything in hypno-
tism, women would have used 1t long
ago in controlling their hired girls.
No matter what you happen to be-
lieve, your deeds are going to attract
a good deal more attention than your
creeds.
If a woman refuses to play on the
piano, it is because she wasn't coax
ed enough, not because she thinks she
can't play.
Probably the proudest moment in a
boys life is when he is allowed to
pick out suit of clothes without his
mother going along.
1t is wonderful and terrible how
extravagant engaged folks are with
love, and how economical they are
with it after marriage.
Some of the agents are very clever.
Why do they devote their talents to
selling sets of books to women who
will cry after they get them?
ct want to ask your advice" said
citizen to brakeman recently. "All
right" the brakeman replied, but
give you notice that my advice isn't
worth anything"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
At the NoveytvI


iine mornings. If you are getting q
40: OF new garments together. and 1
lhihk you are. you may need several
new trunks. Just order them. When
packed tell William to drive them I'd
the depot for you. If I were in wal
ter's place 1 believe / should ,,,.La
the tour OF Europe. His father will
make great howl over the things
ana II VIII take several weeks for him
70 get his breath back You NIGH.
KISS me now, Edith, as I'm a rather
sound sleeper. you know. And here's .
check for $1,000. It's birthday
present or something of that sort.9
The lovers had decided that thsre
was no cause for great haste abdul
the elopement, but it finally came Off
according to schedule. A visit was finst
paid to the house of minister who
had been seen in the afternoon. and
after the twain had been made one
they rode to the depot in a closed car
riage and were off.
No enraged and bloodthirstv mar
ents pursued, nor was the telegraph
appealed to to stop them at all ha-
yards. The newly wed tried their hard
est to feel scared and heroic by turns.
but 1t was rather tame affair.
AT breakfast next morning twas ar
nounced in one house that Walter was
gone, and in the other that Edith
could not be found. Two mothers shed
tears and two fathers chuckled An
hour later the two fathers met on
the street. They stopped to eye each
other, and after moment the Hon.
Samuel Morton chuckled:
We'll, Walter has got her in spite
of your
'sNo, sir-no siri'' chuckled the
Judge "She has got Walter in spite
of youi"
But I knew they were going to
elopeI"
"And knew the samel"
And after that, what could two SEN
sible men and fathers do but shake
hands bridge the chasm and forward
q. joint telegram of congratulations p
Copyright. 1909, by Associated Liter
arv Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
CONSUMERS AT THE BAT.

AS is said by Dr.. Crumbine, the
secretary of the state board of health
and the major domo of the enforce
ment of the pure food laws, the law
providing for correct weights and full
measures, and a variety of other
statutes for getting the people their
due in many things, 'the consumers
are getting their innings now And
it's about time. The manner in which
the consumers of this country. and
those of Kansas included, of course,
have been imposed upon in times
passed by impure and imitation food
products and drugs, by short weights
and small measures and in countless
other ways. has been outrageous.
But things are different now. There
are laws on the statute books of the
nation and most of the states, and
Kansas is in this latter class, which
make it possible for the consumers to
get a square deal in their purchases
of the necessities of life. Under these
laws, If they are enforced, they will
get just exactly what they are willing
to pay for. That will be eminently
satisfactory to them and 1t should be
satisfactory to dealers in all COM
modities, as it probably has been all
along to many of them who have al
ways been honest in their dealings.
And the best thing about this
proposition is that these laws are be-
ing enforced, in Kansas at any rate.
1t is not hard to substantiate- this
statement. The newspapers of every
day in every part of the state contain
items which tell of the activity of the
state board of health agents and also
of local authorities. as well, in bring
ing offenders against these laws to
justice. Such effective work is being
done along these lines that it won't
be long now before dealers in every
kind of necessary commodity will
hesitate to work an imposition of any
sort on their customers. And these
customers, the consumers, can help out
in the enforcement of these laws by
calling the attention of the authorities
to any attempted violations of them.
Most persons are reluctant to become
informers and get other people into
trouble, but in this respect it is almost
duty that they owe to themselves
and to their neighbors to help out in
the enforcement of these pure food
and other laws, whose proper admins
tration means so much to the public
health and to the general benefit of
the community in all ways.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
HUNOR OF THE DAY

''You needn't sniff at this cigar. Fellow
smoking one of the same brand the other
faeky eh Pekv
Philadelphia Ledger.
Bleecker-Do you believe there is room
at the top? Houston-There is at the top
of the tax list The fellows there always
seem to manage to get their names re-
so you think this African expedition
Tl exert b , elylilsing itn MI a., yes;
to pronounce the names of some of the
towns. If there Is anything that Africa
needs, it's spelling reform washington
Star.
Mr.. Brown and his family were standing
Mrs. Brown, eff those animals were to
escape, whom would you save first me or
out Observation-Disclosures Magazine.
Not Exclusive.-'swas it an exclusive
party?' mot at all. Some of her rela-
tives were there. detroit Free Press.
Protecting the Literary Believe un-
cordance with the unanimous wish of his
constituents, has proposed to put a heavy
tariff on historical novels.-Cleveland
Leader.
An Uncomplimentary Estimate.-'No,
mans suffrage. It's liable to cause en-
barrassment" I'm what way?" Sup
pose the average woman's husband is run
ming for office. If she doesn't vote for
him it will cause comment And If she
does vote for him, how is she going to
satisfy her conscience ?''--Washington Star.
Doctor-Iost-er-for you consult
ed me. I'm just the very man to--er--
cure you. Patient-Ah, that's lucky! You
are quite familiar with my complaint.
then? Doctor-Familiar? My dear, sir, I've
had it myself-er-this twenty years.
Comic Cuts.
Bridge Teacher-Now, if your partner
is dealer and has a dreadful hand. what
will she make it? Mrs. Baker-No trumps
Bridge Teacher-Why, you don't know
anything about bridge? Mrs. Baker-Pos-
sibly not: but know all about my part
ner.-EIarper's Bazaar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
He who laughs best has the laugh
on the other fellow.
Man is made of dust, and he Is al
ways out after more.
All the worlds a stage, and most OF
us want to be critics.
Many a man has made friends by
keeping his advice to himself.
1t is hard for children to understand
how they can always tell the truth and
still be polite.
Wigwag-.'All flesh is as grass"
Guzzier-"well, I'm SO dry 1 feel like
bale of hay"
Among dime museum freaks it is
quite natural for the human pincush-
ion to be stuck up.
The girl who says she has an APP
petite like a. bird should remember
that the ostrich is also a bird.
Some fellows are so used to expect
ing the worst of it that they are dis
appointed if they don't get it.
The time to congratulate a bride
and groom is after they have lived to-
gether for q year and are still happy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The longest way round is also the
most expensive way there.
=
A good deal of the freedom and
liberty in this land is of the ina ginary
sort.
Something of a rarity in human
beings is a person whose head is not
turned by success.
You can generally set it down that
when a fellow takes an optimistic
view of life he's happily married.
- u
If the lone man of a large family
were only a mouse he could make the
women folks step around quite lively
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
THE DOORS OF GOOD.

Philanthropists are tired of the null
tiplicity of societies.-Sir John Kirk.
Professional doors of good abound,
and the subscription list is ever open.
Causes" are beyond compute, and
many persons make q fairly comfort
able living out of them. But there is
often more zeal than efficiency, more
machinery than results. What human
ity needs is more fraternal helpful
ness, more of the touch of man to
man, a brighter personal philosophy,
and the sinking of the ego so much in
evidence nowadays among Hon-killers
and heads of big benevolent organiza-
lions. Everyone can aid someone to be
a bit happier sometimes with a kind
word, sometimes with money, some
times by opening his mental windows
and letting in the light. To be good
for something is as important as to
be a doer of good. In an age of brass
bands and self-advertising 1t is some
thing to be quietly at WORM lending
a hand to the chap that has failed,
to the man that the others are down
I-on.--Mexican Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
KANyAS COMAENT
AN $50. 600. 900 WHEAT cRoP.


Good rains have visited the wheat
belt of Kansas during the past two
Gays and the fields have been wonder
1uliy improved. Not long ago from
one-half to two-thfrds of a crop was
pIedicted and farmers were some
what discouraged. The thing which
kept up their spirits was the prospect
or a high price for the wheat they
would harvest. They figured that with
decreased crop and with the in
" as much money for their wheat as
they DID last year. But conditions have
Deen changing with the rains which
nave peen falling at exactly the proper
time- There has seldom been a better
prospect for both a large yield and a
nigh price for the wheat. From local
tues Wnere 1t was reported two weeks
ago That from twelve to fifteen bush
els TO the. acre would be the yield,
now come reports that some fields
Will produce twenty-five bushels to
the acre. And these reports are from
the very center of the great wheat
belt.
Estimates have been placed on the
crop by every man who is supposed
to know something of the conditions
In the big producing counties These
estimates run from so million to so
million bushels. No one expects a rec
ora breaking crop, even with the
present optimistic reports of the past
the acreage is over 100000 less than
last year and even with a heavy yield
the crop will not be as large as 1t was
in 1908 But there is every reason to
believe that with a fair yield from the
acreage planted and the prevailing
tendency toward higher prices the
crop will be worth more than any
crop ever produced in the state.
No one will be surprised If the value.
of the crop reaches $4,000, O00-
Wichita Eagle.
-. "JOHNNIES" AND TANKS
Ten thousand armed "Johnnies"
were concentrated in Memphis recent
ly. Had this Information been brought
up North As years ago, it would have
caused vastly different sensation
among the .Yanks" than it did re-
at Memphis were the relics of a once
powerful army, which fought as never
any army ever fought-save one. and
that one was composed of "Yanks"
With falterfng steps many of those
white haired boys in gray marched
along the scorching thoroughfares, but
when the officers tried to get the
feebler ones to drop out did they sue
coed? No indeed, for the spirit of that
veteran corps was as high as it was
nearly half century ago, when they
followed Pickett on the fatal charge,
or hurried the fleeing "Yanks" at the
Wilderness. To the thrilling shrek
of the flies playing Dixie, they march
ed on with their rusty old muskets
and gray homespun suits, a splendid
relic of a lost cause. The soldiers of
the South are only less to be honored
than the soldiers of the North. 1t is
not the old soldier either of North or
South who is responsible for keeping
alive the smouIdering fires of section
alism-Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
HER PATHWAY.

So sweet a path it is that 1
And all the flowers love it;
Inc gracious goldenrod sways nigh,
The asters bend above it.
In ruby or in golden cup
Its name the Hchen pledges,
And crimson berried vines creep up
Bejeweling its edges.
The bees and crickets sing its songs,
the shadows kiss 1t lightly
W nile butterflies in golden throngs
Fit up and down it brightly.
And little pines with jealous frown
Try here and there to hide it.
Lest falling stars should hasten down
To WOO it if they spied IT.
And l. too, fam would keep its way
Safe hidden mid the grasses
sweet path, dear path, down which each
day,
My little true love passes.
-Sprnelia Kane Rathbone in the Century
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-16
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