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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

came trotting back. The Widow
Grimes stood in the open door. They
saw that she did, and Sam chuckled
and cackled and whispered to his
companion:
TITS world-beater, Mary. Lean
death!'
Mary leaned, and two minutes later,
as they We're square in front of the
house. he said:
Now my arm goes around your
waist The Wilder Grimes see it.
Her heels are lifting up. 1 dasn't look
at her, but know that her face is
as red as beet The demon has
suddenly appeared, and she's saying
to herself that she'll kill any woman
tnat takes me away from her. Lord.
Mary. but shall be grateful to you
all the rest of my days!''
They drove up the road two miles
and then turned about to repeat the
performance. This time the Widow
Grimes was halfway down to the
gate. She pretended to be pulling
some weeds out of the bed of pinks.
but IT was only pretense. She saw
the Widow Spooner lean; she saw an
arm go around her waist; she almost
heard whispers of love as the old
wagon creaked along.
Mary Spooner,' said Sam Bott-
ford as he helped h-r out of the
wagon at her own gate, I'm owing
you debt I can never, never pay.
You've helped me through, like the
good woman, you are. AS drive
along back the Wilder Grimes will be
at the gate to blow me up, and after
the blowing 1t will be the preacher
and a marriage. Nobody ever had
such a plan before. 1t ras worked
without skipping cog. Don't you
buy no 'taters this fall. I'll see to 1t
that you have ten bushels to start the
winter on. Yes, ten bushels of 'taters
and a crock of butter"
"And when shall I know how you
came out?" she asked.
"Oh, you'll hear it talked of in two
or three days, and you'll hear that
we are off on our wedding tour. Lord,
Mary. hasn't 1t worked beautifully
au-ti-ful-ly!"
Two hours later, as the Widow
Spooner was eating her supper, she
heard the rattle of that democrat
wagon again and another ''Whoa,"
Bottford reached the veranda and sat
down on the steps.
"For mercy's sake, but what has
happened % she exclaimed.
There won't be any wedding" re-
piled a hollow voice.
''Nor any bridal tour"
moi"
''Nor any nothingl"
But why, Sam, WHY"
because the Wilder Grimes and
Abe johnson were married three days
agoi She was down to the gate to
tell me as drove back, and to hope
that my health was the same as
usuali''
The Widow Spooner turned her
head to hide q smile.
az knew it all along, SAM" said
she; .'but thought you wouldn't ever
be satisfied until you had tried every
way you knew"
Samuel looked at her. Slowly a
smile crept over his face.
ITO tell you the truth" said he, 'I
nearly hollered for JOY. Mary" he
said, sharply, Mary, do you want me
to remain an old bachelor? ?"
And after a little while the Widow
Spooner whispered. "No.'-(Copy-
righted, 1909. by Associated Literary
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
SEN. CURTIS ON THE rARIFF.

| Senator Curtis general attitude on
the important subject of tariff re-
vision ought to be satisfactory to most
| of his constituents. He has made it
known in reply to the assertion of a
New York newspaper that he was one
of the thirty-four senators who would
vote for any sort of a tariff bill that
Senator Aldrich might propose to
have passed. Senator Curtis makes it
plain that there are no ties of any
kind which bind him irrevocably to
the will of the senator from Rhode
Island who is the recognized boss of
a certain coterie of the Republican
senators, a majority of them in fact.
His record in the past shows that he
has not been in agreement with sew
eral of the Aldrich plans. Nor must
the impression go forth that every
thing which Mr.. Aldrich proposes and
supports is of an undesirable
character. This is far from being
the case.
Insistence is made by Senator Cur
tbs, and he is known to be man of
his word, that he is in favor of
downward revision of the tariff duties
on the so-called necessities, and high
duties on the luxuries. II am
protectionist,' he says, "but I do not
favor duties that furnish unnecessary
protection. 1 do not know what
character of bill the senate will pass.
do not propose to vote for the bill
Senator Aldrich insists upon. but the
bill that will be satisfactory to
President Taft" Everybody knows
where Mr.. Taft stands in these prem
ises. He is in favor of an honest re-
vision of the tariff downward and
Senator Curtis has not lost any
friends in Kansas by coming out SO
strongly for the Taft programme.
There is one particular in the stand
of Senator Curtis on the tariff issue.
however, to which honest objections
may be taken, and not in the spirit
of criticism of his position, for he is
entitled to his opinions and they are
in line with a sentiment that prevails
in certain sections of the state. He is
in favor of retaining the Is per cent
ad valorem duty on hides in the in
terests of Kansas farmers and cattle
raisers. He would be willing to
knock off this duty if leather and
manufactured products of leather
were placed on the free lists. AS a
matter of fact the removal of the
duty on hides will help twenty-five
Kansans to every one that the reten-
ton of it will benefit. 1t will mean
cheaper shoes even if there is tariff
on leather and leather goods,
but it is planned in the Payne
and the A1drich bills to reduce ma
terially the tariffs on boots and shoes
and other manufactured leather
goods. Experts declare that even the
cattle raiser will be more benefited
by the removal of the duty on hides
than by the keeping of 1t in force.
He will save more in shoes. harness
and other leather goods than he
would gain on thefprice ofstariff pro-
tected hides.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Much of the dross in life has consid-
cradle of the glitter to 1t.
X X \
To carry her age well a woman must
necessarily drop a few years Of 1t.
X u X
A wife doesn't often wait for her
husbands death to make an effort to
break his will
X \
Most persons who consider them
selves the salt of the earth are usually
pretty fresh.
This demonstration of the country
will make it mighty convenient for
those who are prone to take to the
woods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
FROM OTHER PENS
THAT AUTOMOBILE HORN.

AS usual thing the man who has
just purchased an automobile and is
at large with it for the first time is
passionately fond of sounding its
horn. He may be, trusted to recover
from this weakness in the course of
time in the. majority of cases. but
now and then there appears upon the
street a seasoned nnotorist whose horn
is a perpetual nuisance. He sounds it
at the pedestrian, the trolley ear, the
railway train, the vagrant dog or mis-
chievous gamin. He honks as he
passes one. 1t is honk, honk, honk
on the crowded street and honk,
honk, honk on the country highway
He makes himself a procession of
discordant noise.
Whether this is from desire to
warn people of his approach or
through a malicious pleasure in
startling pedestrians and others, it is
an unqualified nuisance. The auto
mobile horn has its use, but it is ex-
tremely disconeerting to the nervous
pedestrian or to the pedestrian who
is preoccupied, and in ninety-nine
cases out of a hundred is likely to re-
suit in his injury This is especially
true if the horn is used at close
range. so to speak, for the pedestrian
suddenly startled by the noise and
realizing only that danger is close at
hand, is likely to leap right into it
rather than from it.-NeWark News.
o
ENGINEERS AND MUNICIPALITIES
There is no bodyof the citizenship of
municipalities capable of more essen
tial and valuable public service than
that made up of skilled engineers. 1t
is. therefore, pleasure to note a
movement among engineering societies
to put their trained knowledge in ac-
tive use for the promotion of the gen.
eral welfare. The problems OF water
supply, gas and electric lighting, the
means of transportation, sewerage and
Of public buildings, docks and w5larves,
navigation and other matters nearly
affecting the public health and the
faciliation of traffic and comfortable
living all fall within the particular pro-
vince of the engineer IL is easy to see
what vast good might be done if IN the
solution of these sometimes intricate
and embarrassing undertakings mum
icipal officials might command as a
matter of good citizenship rather than
hire and salary, the larger knowledge
of the engineering profession
There is proposition now under
serious discussion to bring about ma
tional conference of engineers to cCn-
slider the subject Of smoke abatement
and to focus the punlic attention upon
the means of smoke control the waste
of fuel involved, the iesrirneni to che
public health and the injury TO prop
erty- Here is great opportunity to
dispel popular ignorance and help men
to help themselves by creating a body
of informed public sentiment that VIII
bring about enforced remedy.-Phila-
delphia Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
TFronn the New York Press.l

IFrom the New York Press.J
An easy thing for a widow to guess
is she couldn't have much worse luck
the second time
The more money a man could save by
not having his bad habits, the more en-
joyment he can get by having them.
A woman's Imagination is strong
enough to make an unreal thing seem
more real to her than the real thing to
q man
The reason woman knows the chill
dren could catch the measles when
there isn't any around is that they
caught the chickenpox when it was
next door.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

If Colonel Roosevelt keeps up his
great work lions will be scarcer in
Africa than are prairie chickens in
Kansas. And think of the number of
monarchs of the forest that the Smith
sonian Institute wild be bile to exhibit.
Why, it will have different Lion for
every visitor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

May is only few days old and yet
It holds two weather records for this
neck of the woods The coolest and
the warmest days that have ever been
recorded for this season of the year
have already occurred since the be-
ginning of the month. Now that May
has these records she ought to be
satisfied to be decent for the rest of
her life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

From the lack Of attention and
rotoriety he is getting these days as
an important participator in public
affairs, 1t would be reasonable to sup
pose that Nick Dongworth. son-in-law
of a certain famous faunal naturalist,
is no longer member of congress.
However, the congressional directory
Will relieve any such doubts as these
on the SUBJECT.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

violators of the pure nod law are
being landed with regularity by the
state pure food department that must
be exceedingly distressing to them.
This is the kind of activity that counts.
If the people are entitled to anything
1t is pure food when they pay the
price for IL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

How modest are the New York $50
ciety'' folks becoming. One of them,
Mrs. Burden, recently won applause
by putting on a dance in honor to
Bacchus with pink stockinged feet.
Does this mean that the barefoot
dance has seen its best day in the
realms OF the upper crust?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

Really strange things happen in
Kansas occasionally. The voters of
Kansas City, Kan. decided by an over
wdhelmang majority for the municipal
ownership and operation of that city's
Wuaterworks' system. And this decision
was reached in the face OF the fact
that the Kansas City, Mo. Star was
favorable to the proposition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
FoRGGoTrEN TRoUBLE.

Do you know what it was that caused you
to fret
Only a year ago?
Can you tell me the source of your ut
most regret,
Only a year ago?
IL looked big to you then and you moped
and you pined.
The long nights were sleepless and trou-
bled your mind.
Yet you can't tell what happened, in look
ing behind,
Only a year ago?
Do you know why you frowned as you
journey your way.
Only a month ago?
can you tell now what made all your blue
skies look gray,
Only a month ago?
What trouble was 1t that your happiness
marred,
That. caused you to say that your heart
had grown hard.
And from all future joys in this world
you were barred,
Only a month ago?
You've forgotten them all, both the great
and the small,
The pain and the woe;
For rev are the troubles we ever recall
AS onward go.
An, Few are the troubles, my brother, that
They seem big at first. but the moment
they're past.
They slip from the mind, for they never
stick fast.
1t is well that it's so,
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

The Kansas congressman who went
on the most recent junket to Panama
must have been treated right royalty
while on the Isthmus. They believe
the big canal will be In working order
inside of five years. This is a year
sooner than the experts on the work
think 1t will take to finish the job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

Missouri's prison inspector dropped
of at Liberty the other day and start
ed to the Jail to hunt for prison
abuses Presumably he was a bit
chagrined to find that the only prison
er in the institution was a man, who
at the time of the investigation. had
locked up his own cell, taken the key
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

AS is usually the case the prospec-
tive apple crop in these parts which
was reported as "killed" after the re-
cent cold weather is pretty lively
corpse. The freeze only damaged it
TO minimum extent. There is alto
gether too much calamity bowling in
the fruit and crop world before the
milk Is spilled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

A couple OF years ago the Wright
brothers were looked upon with more
or less suspicion as to their mental
aptitude by their neighbors in Ohio,
who heard from time to time that
they were devoting all of their ener-
gies to making a flying machine, and
now they are among the recognized
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

This sounds like a fairy tale. The
Portland. Oregon, Journal reports that
one Thousand Indians of the Nez Perez
tribe are going to join the prohibition
forces in the fight against the rum
shops in Nez Perce county. Idaho.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

Chicago can not be such an attrac-
tive place after all. Thirty-nine per-
sons committed suicide there during
the month of April
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

Evidently the dreaded sleeping
sickness which prevails in certain
portions of Africa was so named be-
cause the victims of it hardly know
what sleep is during the course of
I711Iadv
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

Governor Stubs is very proud of
the way the new, state text book COM
mission did its work and so is every
one else in the state. with the pos
sible exception of the agents of the
book trust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

The Chicago Tribune notes with re-
greet that the great peace movement
IS not universal because Battling Nell
son is taking no part in it. ,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07

ed the homage of heroes by the
princes. potentates and populace of
every land they visit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
Sanization for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
Safe Enough.

Pat got a job moving some kegs of
powder and. to the alarm of the FORE
man, was discovered smoking at his
work.
"Graciousr' exclaimed the foreman.
do you know what happened when a
man smoked at this job some years
ago? There was an explosion. which
blew up a dozen men,"
THAT couldn't happen here" return
ed Pat calmly
why not ?"
Zoos there's only me apd your was
the reply.-Tit-Bits-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
At the Novelty.

Tonight--North Bros. Stock company in
"Out of the Fold"
Observation-Disclosures and Saturdays.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
ADJUSTMENTS.

At the Grand.
Saturday matinee and night-"The Cir
Question"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
At the Majestic.

EVENINGS 6.15-f1fgh class VaudevfiIe
For particulars. prices and amusement
details. see announcements In this paper
elsewhere.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07


last.
They slip from the mind, for they never
1t is well that it's so.
Detroit Free Press.
Its Charities Secret.
Had Mrs. Russell Sage wished to
perpetuate the name of Sage in such
manner as to challenge the attention of
all observers, her foundation would
have taken some material form instead
OF being a still-working industrial force.
She might have built a pyramid or
new Colossus of Rhodes. which would
have caught the eye and put to shame
Gent world. Had she and the trustees
whom she has associated with herself
in the Russell Sage foundation sought
to advertise the work of the founda-
ton to gain acclaim for all 1t is doing,
they might have insisted on branding
every activity in which it took part
with its name"
Thus does Robert w. DeForrest, vice
president of the great Sage charity, be-
gin discussion of the initial activi-
ties of the Russell Sage foundation.
Mr.. De Forrest. in his article, out
lines the work which the Sage founda-
ton has already accomplished. Many
of the activities have not previously
been made public. The foundation fur
nished the means for statewide cam
paign against tuberculosis. conducted
by the State Charities Aid association.
AS a result more than $1,000. 900 has been
specially appropriated by the different
municipalities to fight the white
plague" 1t also paid part of the ex-
pense Of the recent tuberculosis exhi-
bition in New York.
The playground extension movement
has had the active aid of the founda-
ton. It has taken part in the estab-
lshment of play grounds in more than
100 cities. under either municipal or
private ownership. The foundation
furnished the funds for the Fairgrounds
and model children's school garden as
porting special committee of the New
York association for the blind to devise
ways and means Of preventing blindness
in children.
In the line of research. the foundation
is most active. 1t is making a study
of small insurance, of the evils of the
salary loan business, of the desirability
of establishing employment bureaus in
New York city, and a special study Of
slow progress among school children
New York American.
Flip Coin for Million.
1t was announced Sunday that E.
H. Harriman's new Puget Sound rail-
road through Tacoma will not go
through the Betz buildings. 500 feet
long. located at Pacific and Seven
teenth streets, and valued at ST.
100000. South of the Betz buildings
run the Northern Pacific main line
tracks. AS a result of the recent Har-
riman-Hill conference, these tracks
Harriman's road a 50-foot right of
xVav along the side of instead Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
Rapid Composing.

haplQ composing.
Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote the over
ture to 1.-The Yeoman of the Guard"
in twelve hours, and that to "Iolan-
the in less space of time (from 9 p.
m. to I. a. NO.. But even this capa-
city for speed in composition is eclips-
ed by M. Bompard. who for a wager.
has composed the music to a song in
ten minutes. Mr.. n. Trotere, however
is the composer of whom most quick
time anecdotes are told. His beau
tiful song "Asthore" was both writ
ten and composed in 40 minutes, in
Blanchard's restaurant. The melody
of "In Old Madrid was the result of
a sudden inspiration. 1t came to the
composer while on his way home from
the Aquarium. Lest it should escape
him, he rushed into a small public
house in Rochester Row, seized bis
cult bag and on 1t jotted down the
air But Mr.. Trotere holds the cham
pionship. 1t is said that he actually
composed 1.-The Brow of the HILL
wrote a letter. and ran 400 yards to
post it, in eight minutes.-Dundee Ad-
vertiser.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-06-11

When you sleep, in which direction
do you lay your head?
1t makes much difference. Even in
sleeping there is much science.
Sleeplessness or insomnia may be
greatly relieved If not actually cured
by having the body lie in the natural
relation Of It's own magnetism and the
earth magnetism.
The human body is a great living
magnet, almost as deGcately poised as
a magnetic needle In the compass box.
When the compass needle Is placed in
an east and west direction at once the
needle begins to try to get in north
and south line with its length. This
Is because the magnetic waves in pass
ing from the north pole of the world
to the south pole sweep the magnetic
needle into the line Of least resist
ance, lengthwise, so the magnetic
forces Of the needle and the earth
may be in harmony.
If you are sleepless. or rest poorly,
look a1ter the arrangement OF your
bed. Turn its head to the north. Get
your body In line with the magnetic
polar earth waves and have no mag
netic counteraction In your nervous
makeup by the earth currents running
across your magnetic organism. The
proof Of a medicine is its results.
TTrv thic north and couth hndu 1ipa-
up and note results that will make
you marvel If you are nervous and
0leepless.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-06-11
The American College Student,

Prlvy Councillor Zuntz on his return
to Berlin, after three months visit to
the United States, delivered a lecture
before the students of the Industrial
high school Of that city, In which he
had much to say in praise of Ameri-
can students and of the college sys.
TEN under which they were trained.
"our Students he said, "can help
themselves financially only by teach
Ing The American student has the ad-
vantage in this respect, because, with.
out losing caste or dignity, he can
break stone, act as waiter or porter.
or do work at any trade. 1t is not an
infreQuent occurrence, that a young
man acts as waiter at gathering
Of people where he Is received as an
equal as soon as his mental duties have
been performed"