The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-20


Take off the prize their lines have caught.
To fish-to catch-perchance to wed
Aye, there's the rub!
For If one wedS what one can eaten!
She may not wed man.
But just lobster or clam ,,,,s
Would darn socks ever,
Be care-free never,
From salary sever?
Il. Wonder, in the New York Times
Century Old Newspapers.
A year ago last July the ST. Louis Re-
public celebrated its birthday by pub
fishing a centennial edition. Other
newspapers that had passed the CEN
tury mark had INDUCED in celebrations
Of the same kind, but it was because OF
the pleasant time that was had" in st.
Louis that a movement was started for
the establishment of century club OF
American newspapers. This young in
honorables. has now been fully organ
lied and rejoices in membership of 81
|-55 daily newspapers and ~ Weeknes.
Two of the latter, it may surprise some
readers to know, are published in Ger
mantle Reading (Pa.) Adler and the
Lancaster Pa.) VoIksfreund and Beo-
bachter. Given the fact, however, there
will be no surprise that their home is in
Pennsylvania, where Germans congre-
gated IN colonial times. Pennsylvania,
largest representation in the club, and
there are. Of her sister states asso-
ciated with her.
A book issued by the Republic which
tells all about the club and gives his
torical sketch of the members calls at
tention to the fact that mo community
upon the extensive coast line of the
Great Lakes" is represented, and at
| first sight this does seem strange, but
no doubt it may be easily explained by
H.
ing. Take the case of Ohio, for ex-
| ample. 1t ranks third in the club, but
| its old newspaper towns are all to the
south and on or near the rivers. There
were settlements there before the re-
gion along the lake was opened up, and
there was a heavy river trade.
Perhaps the Ohio showing should be
put among the surprises, seeing that
there are SO many older states. The
small representation Of the south is
fairly well accounted for, however, by
| the civil war, and Ohio must bow to six
| are more than $50 years old. One OF
these Is southern daily, the Charles
ton News and Courier, and heading the
list are the Philadelphia North Ameri-
, can and the Saturday Evening Post,
which sprang from Franklin's GaZett g.
In this connection 1t is to be noted that
great cities are properly humbled in the
Century club Evidently there is en-
during vitality even in very small COM
| munities. Witness the Shenandoah Val
which has less than a thousand inhab-
itants. Curiously enough. this record
| of the ancients suggests youth first OF
all. It is not only because thes clul
members are strong and vigorous ami
preparing to 1--we forever, but because
the story shows that this young coun.
try is really an old newspaper country,
that the American publications reach
! back about as far as those of Europe.
| But if the business had a late start,
with what rush 1t has gone forward.
how rapid and how great have been the
developments during the last hundred
years.-Chicago Record Herald
The Hunt for Radium.
From the brief announcement which
! has been made regarding the recently
organized Radium Institute of Amer
:ca. 1t is evident that it will undertake
| slightly different work from that of
he one esta blished a few months ago
in England. What the muniticence Of
! Lord lveagh and Sir Ernest Cassel has
made possible on the other side of the
Atlantic is an Investigation of the
4 : roperties of the element discovered by
the Curles and study of its usefulness
"a the treatment of disease. Among
the avoWed aims Of the organization,
i at the head of which Prof. c. F.
I SlAelAuAS1, O1 SO1QHlOId University, mas
been placed, is exploration for ores
Welding radlum. Pitchblende and
| carnotite, from which uranium is ex-
| tracted. are found in several places in
| this country. and there is at least a
possibility that, if the search is pushed
further, minerals may be discovered
! which contain enough radium to make
| rs separation profitable. In time,
here is reason to think, mines in
Cornwall will make a perceptible ad-
. clifton to the SnnnlV from .TnaPhirnS-
thai over which the Austrian gov
! eminent exercises control, but If
! America also were able to make con-
tribution a reduction in price might
follow, greatly to the advantage OF
those who wish to employ radium for
/ curative purposes.
| Another object of the institute which
will have its headquarters in New York
is to examine waters giving off radia-
tons like those discovered by Roent-
gen. number of interesting ques-
IONS are raised by this phenomenon.
1t is extremely desirable to know how
greatly the intensity of "radio-activ-
| ity'' in springs varies, and also whether
those exhibiting the characteristic in
q marked degree have a special medi-
c;nal value.-New York Tribune.
Worlds Great Harvest.
The Liverpool estimate of Broomhall
1909, perhaps the most important OF
! The annual European calculations, is at
hand this week. 1t shows the present
year to have established an absolute
3.346,96S,000 bushels named as the
worlds total compared with 3.603,.
100000 in 1908. an increase of 9 u
er cent. Compared with the 3,226,-
TeS,000 bushels of 1906, the previous
record, the increase is 3ss per cent;
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