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

Natural gas is also used in Chanute
for asphyxiating the stray ours taken
up by the dog catchers.
Some peoples generosity" says w.
c. Palmer, consists in giving away
everything you tell them"
Most of the newspapers in the wheat
growing sections of the state have al
ready reported the first loads of new
wheat to be hauled to their towns.
For a slogan for Clay Center Louis F.
Valentine comes across with this sug-
gestion: ''Clay Center-Not Like Con-
cordia, Manhattan or Junction City"
Commenting on the desire of w, B.
Ham of Stockton to run again for the
Republican congressional nomination
in the Sixth district. the Hays City
News says: I'VE thought that Ham
was cured at the last primary"
Charlie Blakesley wants to know If
the Anti-Snake law. put through the
Kansas legislature for Bosco's discom-
future by Senator Mcmillan five years
ago, be invoked in the case of the
snake worshippers out in Reno county?
A man in Paris has announced his
intention of making a map showing
fifty million stars. Paul LoYewen asks
him to be sure and not overlook the
stars that are playing in "Rube and
His Ma" with the Western Stock COM
pany of Salina.
Hutchinson's police judge is doing
his part to reduce the shortage of har-
vest hands. All boot-leggers and other
petty offenders who get before him are
being given sentences in Jail and then
paroled On the understanding that
they will go to work in the harvest
fields.
A twelve-year- Lawrence girl is
being quoted as saying: Mother,
have just found out what love is. It's
just like you would feel il some one
had given you enough candy for all
your life" When this girl gets a little
older she'll find out that some of this
candy is of the April Fool variety.
Kansas is raising about the same
amout Of wheat, and SO is the country.
as the state and country produced
when wheat was forty and fifty cents a
bushel. Have you tried to figure this
out and other like problems? A butch
er told the Gazette the other day that
he could not sell even to laboring men,
anything but the best of meats, and
that his cheaper parts spoiled in his
shop. There is a whole lot to think
about along these lines, but the ma
jOrity of people are so busy selling real
estate and trying to become statesmen
that they have no time to do the think
ing.-Lawrence Gazette.
This advertisement was placed in the
NeOdesha Sun by an evangelist who is
holding services in that town: Don't
dress up to attend the gospel meetings
in the big tent. Gents can leave their
coats at home. If the seats seem hard
bring a sofa cushion with you-or a
chair. Leave all formality and con- |
ventionality for other occasions. Come |
with a smile on your face and a song in |
your heart. Keep cool physically, but |
be fervent in spirit We offer you no |
great things in music or preaching but |
we are proclaiming a great Gospel-a
Gospel that is to transform = race-not |
reform, but transform
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-07
Making a volcano Cook.

At the very edge of the great crater
OF the volcano of Kilauea, on the Island
OF Hawaii, about 200 miles from Hon
o!ulu, is located one of the most novel
ranches in the world. Its owner is an
American, and he is making a profitable
business from the sordid occupation OF
raising SWINE; but the remarkable fea-
ture in these farming operations is the
manner of feeding the stock.
covering the slopes of this crater
mountain and entirely surrounding the
ranch is a dense forest. a greater part
OF whose thick underground is composed
OF giant tree ferns. That variety of veg
citation often rises to a height of so
feet, with wonderful feathery foliage
and stems frequently a foot or more
in diameter. The hard, shell-like COW
ering to these trunks incloses a hbrous
mass consisting principally of a pulp
rich in starches and sugars. Expert
nIents demonstrated tina. after thor
oughly steaning or cooking this pulp
it becomes soft, and is greedily eat
en- by the hogs, but the method of pre-
for practical purposes. However, the
natural resources of Hawaii solved the
problem.
The hardened lava coating, which ex-
tends for a considerable distance on ev
cry side of the active central pit of the
lowing steam to escape continually.
Yankee ingenuity recognized the value
of these phenomena. and above several
of the assures, gridirons were erected
and cordwood lengths of fern trunks
piled upon them. The effectiveness of
this primitive steam cooker was imme-
diately apparent. and in the course of
one or two days the toughest fern
became tender under this treatment.
A single stroke with an ak then sufficed
to split open each stem and laid bare
the nutritious pulp, which the swine
eagerly Observation-Disclosures Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-07
QUAKER INDICATIONS

tFrom the Philadelphia Record
Back talk is what makes a man
take affront man
To do up lawn dress shouldn't do
up a laundress. w
There is no fool like the fool who.
Is old enough to know better.
The man who won't listen 70 rea-
son Is generally thinking the same
thing Of us.
Half the world doesn't know how,
the other half lives and is much han
pier for it,
1t is better to nave too little con-
hdence in yourself than to have too
much In other people.
Many fellow doesn't seem n
realize the difference between fakfnS
brace and taking a bracer.
Hoax-"About once a month al
ways get a bilious attack" Joax-
''Ah. when the bills come in ! sun
pose"
The average business man has no
use for a dead one; but, then the
undertaken isn't an average business
man.
Marriage is a lottery" quoted the
Wise Guy. "Oh. that's an autioua-
ted idea" observed the Simple Mug
Nowadays it's a game OF skill
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THEIR PLACE.

he looks at US with silent ave.
(Thus speak the stars of Summer skies),
Such reverence who ever saw
AgloW IN youthful eyes?'
Deep thought on all the mystery
That wells this Wondrous armament,
toreYermore we plainly see
Shrlned IN your gaze intent"
He thfnks-and sadly shakes his head
How insignificant men are!
Can all earth's luminaries shed
The glory of one starr -
Wise youth, on yonder wave-lapped
beach,
How earnestly you seek to learn
w nat silent stars were made to teach:
FROM earth your glances turn!
Ihen growls a planet wise: tut, tut!
10 yonder youth the endless whirl
O5 earn and moon and stars is but
The background for some girl
-Lhomas r. Ybarra in the New York
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison G1obe.1

From the AtchisOn Globe.
No man is very good at baseball and
grammar at the same time.
So many things which are easy to
recommend, are hard to do.
Most people buy a piano because 1t
looks we'll to have one in the house.
The word of honor of most men isn't
any better than their ordinary state
ments.
Every man has a lot of natural re-
sources he ought to conserve more than
he does.
When a woman doesn't come down
she has to attend to.
OF course there is no such thing as
true love, but there is an imitation that
is mighty pleasant.
Always remember that your neigh
bors watch you closely, and that your
neighbors are very particular.
If you don't hear what a cross man
is saying, don't ask him to repeat it:
1t may have been that he was saying
damn.
That which people call hone is really
conceit; man believes that his dollar
talent will finally bring a fortune, and
hopes on.
At the union depot. every time a
train arrives. lot of women rush into
each others arms. Brakemen call
these affairs head-end collisions.
Every man who has a twinge of dys-
pepsia thinks he knows all about what
that Spartan boy went through, with a
fox gnawing at his breast.
The superstition that it is good luck
for a bride to wear something old, is
misplaced; that kind OF superstition
should attach to the old married
women.
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in the barn and granaries of the farm.
All the year it wages incessant war
on the rats and mice about the place,
and as a result of the snakes strict
attention to business Mr. Johnson
says he hasn't a rat or mouse on his
$50 acres of land. He says he never
has any corn eaten by the rats. He
has given instructions to members of
his family not to injure or modest the
snake in any way, and intends to al
low it to make its home on his farm
as long as it cares to remain. A chick
en- snake is not a thing of beauty and
appears to be a vicious reptile. 1t is a
black snake with white spots covering
the back.-Indianapoli News.
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Students Eatinc Hav.

Omaha goes the vegetable food fad
dist one better and furnishes the proof
that a man can live on hay and enjoy
the best of health. There are college
men in town to prove the assertion.
Creighton university is one of the
foremost schools in the country. 1t is
broad gauge, and, while it is under the
direction of the church, majority of
the student body is composed of men
of various religious beliefs. There are
clubs galore, and among them is one
known as the alfalfa Hay CLUB"
From the name one might infer that
the members are agriculturists.
The Creighton "Alfalf9 Club" num-
bers %, and one of the purposes of
the organization is to demonstrate the
important fact that alfalfa is a human
food product, as we'll as food for ami
mails. The young men are working in
the interest of science and, at the
same time they are furnishing daily
evidence that grass is palatable when
properly treated
The alfalfa they use comes from the
having been taken to remove all the
seeds and foreign substances. Then the
verdant and tender leaves, with small
portion of the upper parts of the stalk,
are ground together, and run through
a boiling machine, that turns out
meal almost as fine as flour, having
a rich brown color. The meal is
bIeached until it has a creamy hue.
This done, it is ready to go to the Gull
mary department of the college club,
where It is cooked into many palatable
articles of food-Omaha dispatch to
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-07

ing to cut out dances for a while-and
girls" she allowed herself the lux
ury of retort.
''Then you won't miss me when I
go away" she said, pointedly.
GO away2" he questioned.
morrow, and my money viii be my
own, to use as I please-and have
so many plans"
But" the halfbaek gasped. Il
thought. you had lost your money"
He stopped. red to the ears.
80 did the poet" said Dulcie, ma
rion told both of you some kind OF
tale, and both of you believed it."
That wasn't the reason" the half
back excused
Dulcie stopped him sternIy. Yes, It
was-that was why you gave up
girls-that was why you gave up mel"
And she left him abruptly.
Il am half afraid to have you tell
Billy" she told Marion that night. IF
he should fail me-
But Billy when he heard the news
came straight to her
Marion has told me-" he said sim
ply. Il haven't much. Dulcie-but
love you, and want you to marry me
at once, if you will"
Dulcie laid her hand on his arm.
Billy" she said, ''I am not poor.
put you and the poet and the half
You are the knight of the True Heart
and I love you"
After Billy had kissed her raptur-
ously he asked, Are you sure / won't
bore you. Dulcie?"
eff you knew how I hated the
poets poems and the halfbaclS's boast
ing, you wouldn't ask such a silly
question, Billy" she replied.-(Copy-
righted 1909 by Associated Literary
Press.)
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

Beauty and brains are seldom done
up in the same package.
To do or die is a fine sentiment but
it does not have many devotees.
Too many persons are altogether too
strong on taking the initiative
r. y
There are many people who never say
II told you so.' They. use different
expressions which mean the same
thing.
y =
Artisans have a habit of doing things
their own way regardless of the desires
of those who are paying them for their
work.
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MORE REVISION UPWARD.

'fWhiIe we're at it, just let's soak it
to 'em, seems to be the attitude of Mr..
Aldrich and his friends towards the
people of the country as the revision
of the tariff continues. The latest bit
of evidence on this score is the an
nouncement of Mr.. Aldrich's intention
to increase the tax on cut and plug
tobacco and cigars and cigarettes to
about 20 per cent over the house
rates.
OF course, it goes without saying
that the consumers of tobacco will
have to pay this increased tax. The
tobacco trust will see to that, either
through a Encouragement of its retail
prices or by putting out inferior to-
baccos and reducing the size of
cigars There are more ways than one
to skin a cat of this sort, and each
and every trust is an adept in the art
of this particular kind of skinning.
Only one redeeming feature is to
be found in this increase in the to-
bacco schedules. The money that will
be levied on the consumers under it
will go to help support their federal
government That will be better than
having them pay it over to the trust
as they are now doing in being COM
PEELED to pay the same money for the
same quantity of tobacco that was
sold during the Ievying of taxes for
the Spanish-American war. This has
practically made them pay the special
war tax on tobacco ever since that
period. No intimation comes from
Mr.. AIdrich that this outrage is to be
suppressed in line with the demands
of Senator Beverage and others. So
the tobacco consumers will probably
keep on paying the Spanish-American
war tax on tobacco and it will continue
to go into the pockets of the tobacco
trust. But, as stated, the additional
tax which Mr.. AIdrich proposes to
place On tobacco will go to the federal
government, and that's a little better
than If it was to be devoted to fur
Their enriching the tobacco trust
These increased tobacco schedules
are for the avowed purpose of fncreas-
ing the governmental revenues. Per-
haps there's another reason for them. |
The tobacco trust will probably be
able to further swell its Golfers as a |
result of their workings. The net in |
comes of corporations are to be taxed |
2 per cent. What could be more nat
ural than that the senatorial friends |
Of this and other trusts should feel |
duty bound to help their cronies |
gather in the wherewithaI to meet the |
corporation income tax without reduc-
ing their present incomes out of whicn |
such tax would come? Sometimes |
there are wheels within wheels.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the chicaro Nsws.1

lrIOm the chicago News.
Ask for bread and you may be Civ
en- the stony stare.
Small talk is responsible for the
use Of many big words
No, Alonzo. a polecat isn't the only
cat that can climb a pole
Every time a man has his fortune
told he gets rid OF a small portion
Of It.
An old crouch is as good as a new
one IL you are merely looking for
trouble.
The market price of airships would
indicate that only the rich can pose
as high flyers.
When town woman spends a few
days in the country she refers to IL
ever after as a house party.
When a, drunken man doesn't think
he is exceptionally wise the chances
are he is beyond the thinking stage.
Many a man imagines he knows ali
about the financial question because
he once had occasion to cash a 81
cheek,
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

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away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
20 any address at the rate of ten
cents a week or thirty cents a month
(by mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out OF town
the State Journal will be to you like
a 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, 1909-07-07
KANSAS cOMAENT
SNAKE WORsHTPPERs


1t is queer story that comes from
hutchinson, a town of some impor-
creek.
The story is related bv an assessor
named Grubs, and must be true. 1t is
Wen known that assessors are chosen
Tor that uncompromising veracity and
at Hutchinson this qualification is es-
peclally insisted upon. 1t would be
nothing short of hardihood to question
the word of any assessor pur when an
assessor named Grubbs tells a story,
II Is simply egregious folly to doubt
Mr. GTubbs says that 20 or 80
men ana women near Hutchinson
nave organized for snake worship.
he witnessed their unhoIy orgies in
the name of religion, and was shock
ed beyond expression, and it is his
Should be Done.
Other measures failing. there ought
to be law.
These misguided people assemble
IN their place of worship, and permit
venomous snakes to bite them, claim
ing that their faith makes them i'm
mune.
One man has shriveled arm, and
a child is dying, and several are in
strenuous form of devotion.
Mr.. Grubbs naturally contends
that it is high time, etc.
He feels that a halt should be
He insists upon knowing whittier
we are drifting.
If this story had been started by
anybody but an assessor named
Grubbs (may his tribe increase) the
Gazette would take it for granted
that the Salina news faker had pitch
ed his moving tent. upon the banks of
Cow creek, and would dismiss the
matter with a frivolous paragraph,
but since assessors are the fountain
of truth, the only alternative is to be-
lieve that Mr.. Grubbs was deceived.
He probably witnessed the rites and
evolutions of body of Hutchinson
citizens who, under a misunderstand
ing of the new drug store law, believ-
ed that man with several snakebites
could secure a bottle of sheet light
ming from the nearest apothecary. The
snakebite superstition still fingers,
despite the best efforts of Fred jack
son to show its fallacy.
This is the only reasonable explain
alton of the internal revels said to
have been witnessed by Mr.. Grubbs.
Kansas people will swallow most any
sort of a story on a dull day, but they
have to draw the line at this thrilling
narrative of snake worship.-Em- |
poria Gazette.
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RBrLECTIoNs OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

When a girl is afraid to go on 2 dark
piazza with a man it's a sign she will
Craftsmanship is letting somebody
else play the cheap politics to get the
office for you.
Men don't understand women be-
cause they can't; women don't under
stand men because they don't have to.
The madden a woman can be over a
freckled nose the prouder she can be
telling how she got it out yachting.
a man goes into debt because he
thinks he can soon get out; he goes in
deeper because he knows he never can
get out.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-07

The committee appointed to inves-
tigate the East st. Louis stockyards
report that there are no grounds for
the charges that the meat inspection
service there was rotten and a farce
and that the butchering was done in
these yards under filthy conditions.
This is news of the extremely reas-
surfing sort. The weather is altogeth-
er too hot for people to have the adj
ditiona1 worry that some of the meat
they may get hold of is tainted and
really unfit for use.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-07

Leaders in the National Council of
Education do not believe that the OBJ
ject Of the public school system is to
provide boys with preparatory
course to the presidency of the Uni
ted states. This being the case it is
time that folks stopped dining in
every boys ear the fact, which is also
something of a fancy. that he has a
chance to be president. However it
is safe to say that the general public
has not known that its school system
was so framed as to fit boys for the
nresfdencv
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COMFORT AND SUMMER CLOTHES

1.-THE coat for summer wear should
| be loose and of some light open-wove
material" writes DR.. w. r. c. Lat
son in The Outing Magazine for July.
"a very common fault in all coats is
that the collar is made too short, thus
| causing more or less pressure upon
the back of the neck. This pull of the
coat collar tends to drag the head of
the wearer forward, thus contracting
the chest and interfering with the
action of the lungs and other vital
organs. This means lowering of
the body's power of breathing and
other vital functions. This of course,
means q loss of general vitality and
diminution Of the body's power to re-
sist the heat; and thus adds more
than one would think to the discom-
forts of the hot weather.
GAS to the waistcoat. the garment
is bad enough at any time. but during
the hot weather it is an abomination.
1t is gratifying to note that most we'll
dressed men discard the waistcoat
during the summer.
'Suspenders are happily little worn
during the summer. Nor should they
be, either then or at any other sea-
son. For the suspenders are uncom-
Portable and injurious in many ways.
They are uncomfortable because. of
all the appliances worn by men, they
produce the most incessant, strong
and unrelenting pressure. Air can pass
through the coat, the shirt, even the
waistcoat; but under the place where
the suspenders cling about the chest,
back and shoulders no air can get.
AS every man knows, the suspenders
are the hottest thing he can possibly
wear.
And why wear them at al?I
Well says some one, if you don't
wear suspenders you must wear
tight belt, and that is nearly as bad
"True, a tight belt is nearly as bad,
but it is not necessary to wear tight
belt-or a belt at all, unless you wish
to do so for appearance sake.
How. then, are we to keep the
trousers in place? Have the trousers
cut so as to fit snugly over the hips;
have the buckles at the sides just over
the hip bones, instead of at the back
and you have not the slightest dis
comfort or difficulty in keeping the
trousers up.
THE pressure is distributed over
the hips and the sacraI region so that
it is felt hardly at all. There is per-
feet freedom of the trunk and shout
ders and there is no need for the
tightly-drawn belt that is not only
ugly. and uncomfortable but actually
injurious. In my own case I have not
worn either suspenders or belt for
twenty years. but have worn trousers
which. being cut with a closely fit
ting body, have kept themselves in
place without the slightest discomfort
or annoyance.
''Tai1ors call trousers cut in this
way hip trousers and any good
practical cutter can draft the pattern
so that the trousers shall be, as they
ought to be, very full across the lower
part of the seat and the thighs falling
in artistic lines to the ankle, and yet
holding a firm. gentle grip over the
hi,S
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They punish grafters in public life
IN Japan in the right way. Twenty
three Japanese office holders whose
fingers were a little sticky were re-
Gently sent to prison for varying
terms of servitude. In this land
which is supposed to have a mortgage
on most of the enlightenment and
civilization that exists in the world
today, similar offenders frequently
get no worse punishment than fine
which they are generally well able to
nav
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Help is to be given to the jobbers
and manufacturers by the retail
merchants of the city to pay the ex-
penses incident to the recent enter
tainment of the Kansas merchants.
This help is voluntary and It shows
the caliber of all of the business men
of this city. It is impossible fora town
not to grow and develop in all ways
with such public-spirited merchants in
1t as has Topeka.
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vile Wright has made at Fort Meyer
since his return to complete the gov
eminent trials Either the newspa-
per men who are on the job at Fort
Meyer have peculiar ideas as to what
constitutes success in the manipula-
tion of an airship, or the other recent
flights by the Wrights have not
amounted to very much