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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01
MISCELLANEOUS

ROOM AND BOARD can be had at M c. Pootoockook Park, Stratford. Post box 229. L26 d < D
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01

TO RENT-5 rooms Ellsworth St.. all imp; rooms, Sixth St., all imp:
 rooms Carroll Ave-. all imp: 1rooms. Drew Place. all imp;
 rooms. E,E1wood Ave, all imp.
 Hur1burt & Co.,. agents. 1094 Main St. S1e sn
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01

PAPER HANGER and hard wood fin isiler desires new or old work Everything done up to date. First class work, good reference Geatons, 223 Gilbert St. l. 19a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01
CARPET CLEANING

Brfdgeport Steam Carpet Cleaning and Fluff Rug Works Has Removed to 236 Stratford Ave.
 Q. w. WILCOX, Prop.
 J. c. FLORIDA, Mgr. Telephone 1328-S ..S23 tf
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01

IF YOU want an externinator for all kinds of bugs and insects, why not get one that has a s1.000 guarantee.
 I1l Kossuth St. U 613e
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01

TO RENT.-First class second story flat. in first class quiet neighborhood, near two car liEes, and easy walk ing distance of business sections of city. Henry A. Lambert, S3 Fair field Ave. L 8 < If
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01
REAL ESTATE BARGAINS
FOR SALE

FOR SALE.--Nearly new seven h. D. two-cylinder marine motor shaft and propeller, complete. Address Marine Motor, care Farmer L 30 *
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01
ROOMS TO LET

HALL TO RENT.-23s Middle street, for lodge purposes and dancing. Ap- ply to c. L. Deniss, 1164 East Main St. l. 2S q x
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01

FOR RENT-One store and rent,
 17S6 Main St. HIS eff
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01
LAUNDRIEs

OPEN AIR DRYINGAFamiiy wash- ing, ironing taken by week Park Ave. Telephone 1316-5.
 Usss
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-01

TO RENT.-5 room flat. all modern improvements. SIS. 699 East Main: 1 room flats. modern improvements. s1o. Sterling and Noble: 3 rooms. $7. 8 Sterling St. Inquire 693 East Main. or Attorney Meltzer. 925 Main.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
AYHAWKER JOTS

Most people who live on Easy
Street" says the Anthony Bulletin,
moved over there from Industry Ave
nue." Amt it the truth.
IF your business is not worth adver-
Using you would better advertise it for
sale and get into something. else is
the way an Elk county editor puts it.
The season approaches when the frost
is on the airdome and the chorus fails
to shock. blithely sings Tom Morgan,
and the Wichita Beacon is surprised
at such Ievity in a suspected candidate
for governor.
The Leavenworth Post hears that
Tom McNeal is now modifying his
proposition to get rid of the Philippines
by advocating the exchange of the
islands for Ireland so that Uncle Sam
can raise his own policemen.
1t pays to advertise A young man
lost his gold watch, and knowing that
lost and want ads in the News always
brought results he came in and handed
US notice about a. n. That after
noon he saw a rabbit near weed patch
in the north part of town and gave
chase He ran only a few rods when
he found his watch hanging on a sun
flower. Yes, it surely pays to advertise
in the News.-Meade County News.
The Osborne Farmers Village Deacon
muses. thusly: MY friend, l notice
that there are a few fellows at whom
you are constantly throwing your har-
pooh. You shoot it at them every
chance you have. They have so far
paid no attention to you and you have
become bold and are now taking more
rope than you can drag. Don't for a
imagine that these fellows are
quiet. Every day they spend a few
moments in putting a little sharper
point onto their own harpoons They
are not wasting their time. They are
practicing at a mark about your size.
Some DAY when you get just little too
gay with your little harpoon they will
step out into the street and take a
throw at you. Their harpoons are not
either, and when they
throw they will hit you right where
you live. You will go down in the dust
Of defeat and stay there. You have no
armor and they know it. but they are
not wasting time on you just now
Don't think you are going to get away
Scores of fellows smarter than YOU
have made n failure in this harpooning
business"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
KANSAS cOAMENT
ORGANIzATIoN NEEDED.

| ORGANIZATION NEEDED.
The automobile enthusiasts of Kan
sas, as IN other states. are forming
CLUBS and associations, the chief end
ana aim OF which is to win zinc loving
cups which are frequently offered as
| prizes to the winners of pathfinding
tours and endurance runs, but it never
seems to occur to anybody that an
organization for the purpose of detect
ing and Furnishing speed maniacs and
others who bring motoring into disre-
pute, would be a good thing.
When morse stealing became such a
prosperous industry in the west that
The sher1ffS and other officers of the
law couldn't cope with it, the farmers
formed an organization for the special
purpose of dealing with the thieves,
and the latter became so discouraged
that they practically went out of bust
ness. The Anti-Horsethief association
is said to have lost some OF its eff
cheney in recent years because the
members devoted too much attention
to its picnic features, but whenever the
association does show signs of activity,
the thieves take to the woods
The auto owners should have some
organization for their own protection.
Every accident that occurs increases
the prejudice against the gasoline
wagon, and emphasizes the demand
for legislation that will make motoring
seem like riding On hearse.
The other day a young man was run
down in Emporia and it was merely
a bit of good luck that he wasn't kill
ed. The man who was running the
machine had important engagements
somewhere else, and didn't wait to see
what happened to the victim. He kept
in the middle of the road. and is pos
sibly making fast time yet. All efforts
to discover his identity failed, and I'M
less he dies of a guilty conscience, he
will never be punished. If the autoists
had the sort of an organization sug-
gested, that man would be apprehend-
ed somewhere, and brought to punish
ment, regardless of expense. When
they demonstrate that they have as
chauffeur, they will have accomplish
cd something that will lessen the
growing prejudice against the whole
automobile business. And such work
is surely as important as winning tin
cups for running a machine a thous-
and miles through a swamp.-Emporia
Gazette.
TAKE OFF THE HIGH SPEED.
Governor Haskell must have been
speaking politically when he said. if
he is correctly quoted, that the ma
tional banks of Oklahoma broke the
Columbia bank and Trust Co. An ex-
animation of the records has shown
that reckless banking broke the in
stitution. 1t is not surprising that in
Oklahoma City catastrophe like this
has happened. Oklahoma City has
made marvellous speed in commercial
growth, and high speed commerce in |
a new country always has a wreck |
somewhere along the way. Oklahoma |
City has had the high speed clutch on |
all along the line, and the one wreck |
may serve as a sufficient warning TO |
other fast drivers in the business world |
down there.
Oklahoma City is bound to be a |
great city, but the follies of impulsive |
youth are inevitable; no city can es-
cape tnem.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

were given to some words: ''Irregu-
lar" was spelled ''earegular;" ''chiv-
! airy came out "chifalery;" "intelli-
gence' was revealed as "enteligance'
and SO on There were many more just
as remarkable spellings of the same
words.
And surely this condition of affairs
demands a reform of some sort, not
necessarily the adoption of the much
mooted system of s'simplified spelling"
which Is being promulgated these days
in some quarters, for a good deal of
this new-fangled spelling is quite as
queer as any of the misguided efforts
of the freshmen of Northwestern uni
versity- They are probably an average
lot Of the college students of the day.
1t is, therefore, likely that the same
ignorance of spelling prevails among
most of the youngsters in all of the col
leges and most of the graduates of the
grammar high schools who have not
gone to college The fault must lies in
the preparatory schools. If proper at
tention were given to spelling in them,
the young folks entering college would
know how to spell correctly.
There is a lighter side to the PROPOSE
ton, though and it is set forth admir-
ably in a little Jingle which was con-
tributed to a recent issues of Success
by r. Rochester. 1t follows:
If an and an I. and an o and U
With an x at the end spell Su,
And an E and and E spell 1,
Pray what is speller to do?
Then if also an and an I and G
And H. E. D. spell side,
There's nothing much left for a speller to
Surely is the English language fear
fully and wonderfully made but that is
no good excuse why those people who
can speak it should not be able to spell
it, and particularly those who are sup
posed to have the advantages of gram
mar and high school educations and
who purpose to continue their educa-
tionaI careers through colleges.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the chicago News.1

GFrom the Chicago News.J
In a woman's weakness lies her strength
The man in Jail doesn't have to dodge
automobiles.
progress.
A $500 stock of perfumery may look like
thirty scents.
II you. would get close to nature get q
job as farmland.
A girl doesn't like to be kissed bv a
man-if he is her brother.
Drifting with the tide is one way to get
where you don't want to go.
Between the written and unwrftten law
justice has no easy task.
1t is all right to refrain from telling
the truth when silence Is better.
If people distrust you pause n moment
and ask yourself who is to blame
II you want your wife to do a thinp.
just tell her that you won't permit if
Honestly. don't you believe that ALI Moo
pie who disagree with you are wrong
Women who don't believe what they
hear about others are fond of repeating ~
Even If a woman doesn't get the right
Kind of husband she thinks 1t better than
being left. Tie"
Doesn't it sound silly when Won hear
people talking In language that you do
not understand ~
Think three times before you sneak and
thus give the other fellow Chance 70
make fool Of himself.
When girl is interested in a man che
tries to stir him up by telling him about
other men who are interested in her.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

Sammy. Mary Maryl inowed you'd
COMETS n1e!''
Symons reached down from the sad
die and gathered the frail little form in
his arms. AS they rode on, she told him
how the little fellow had released her
that she might come to warn him.
When she had explained it in few
tender words, Sammy broke in:
ST fixed his gun, too"
"How's that?" Syn1ons asked, start
ing at the statement. for he knew he
had looked squarely at rife muzzie,
and yet was unhurt.
HE loaded his gun while was there
and put it in a corner. I've loaded
guns and knew what to do. I took the
cartridge out when he wasn't in the
room, and squeezed the bullet OF, and
put the cartridge back, and
Sammy" Symons' arm went round
him tight, ut was you who saved my
life"
Sammy snuggled close to him. He
keeps licking me-and I want to go
where are you going?" he suddenly
asked, interestedly
Symons laughed softly, a laugh Of
happiness. I'm going to take you and
Mary to home where we can all be
happy together"
Sammy sighed a long contented sigh.
as If he felt that ut last he was on his
way to peace.-(Copyright 1909, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[Fron1 the Atchison Globe


We are afraid of any woman; but of
Suffragette most of all.
We are prejudiced. but not enough to
give the umpire credit for winning or los
ing a ball game.
A woman can put no greater confidence
in another woman than when she confides
to her that she has found a bed bug.
Politeness is to be admired of course
but it doesn't amount to much in the
dustry.
in the sacred precincts of the family. they
say a whole lot of things about you they
never say to your face.
Il notice your indignation because so
pullets escape writes man. The pull
lets sold Off in the spring, after they
are through with the winters laying
Well. they five that much longer than
boosters.
After a man works ten or twelve years
learning to play the violin, he discovers
that he must also learn to play the cornet,
to double in brass, If he hopes to become
to play both the violin and cornet well he
learns that he can make two dollars a
day.
Probably you laughed because Ty Cobb,
the greatest batter in baseball, failed to
make a hit In Pittsburg yesterday. when
his club needed it most. That's the sort
of baseball player we would make When
We are in a position where We are ex-
time when we do our worst.
A boy goes to the woods, carrying a
sack on his back. He works all day gath
ering hazelnuts, and, after Juggling them
home home puts them on the roof d,, of the wood,
puts them away carefully. for his own
use. And then there is considerable COM
plant because he does not divide them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
COUNTY AFFAIRS.

Nothing has come to the front of late
which ought to be quite SO satisfying to
the taxpayers of this vicinity as the
annual report of Mr.. Medlicott, the
county treasurer, which was made pub
lie the other day. 1t shows that the
financial affairs of Shawnee county are
in a most admirable condition.
This has been brought about in a
great measure by the solicitous care in
the expenditure of county funds which
has been exercised by the county COM
fnissioners of the immediate past and
the present. One of their most success
full endeavors has been the reduction of
the bonded indebtedness of the county.
The good work of the last few years in
this respect has been kept up during
the past fiscal year. In that period the
bonded indebtedness has been reduced
by $72, $50 and now the entire indebted
ness Of the county is only $4,000. This
is an exceedingly small bonded indebt-
edness for a county of the size of
Shawnee, which has a large population
and extensive property values. Few
counties of the size and development
of Shawnee in the entire country can
show such a small one 1t is reason
able to assume that if the present rate
of progress is kept up this whole
bonded Indebtedness will be wiped out.
When it is no portion of the taxpayers
money which is paid into the county
treasury in the future will have to go
to the support of dead horses. It will
be available for the undertaking of
public works, such as the establish
ment of good roads the building of
more and necessary bridges and the
like, all of which will be of great bene-
At to the people who foot the bills.
Shawnee county has been particular
ly well administered during the past
few years. No stronger argument could
be presented for form of government
which places it in the hands of a few
men, which gives them a chance to ap-
ply business methods to the running of
public affairs. Mistakes have been
made from time to time by county
commissioners of the past and the
present but on the whole they have
acquitted themselves creditably. They
have got dollar of value for every
dollars worth of money that they have
expended And it is to be hoped that
they will keep up their good work.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
QUAKER MEDIrArToNs.
[Frorn the PhiIadeInbia

lFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
overwork. OPtS IMAM
,; When clock is fast is it wasting its
It's easy to get cider now. but Soma
times 1t comes hard e
The only office that really seeks the
The deer cannot talk. and yet we often
EVEN when a woman doesn't bara q
bird on her hat it comes with a biii
Don't allow your regret for YESTERDAY
70 oVerpaIance your hope for tomorrov
There are lots Of different kinds 20 Soois
~ ana some fellows try to be ali of then,
When. politician lends his fnfI,,a,.. =.
tEetneraitiy charges a pretty high rate ~
You don't have tc go to an antio,a sho,,
20 20 Discover that things are seldom vvhsf
Blohts-'. Bjones says he Is tbirt,,.
Sttthu aly ABOUT marriage" SIobbs-ssvHbxss
,o er,Hus e ne was married two or thru
ny lion.ns ago. Blobbs-"So he was huf
si,o,1t Hust beginning to think seriousiS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A question without two sides to it is
not a very important one.
y ,
There is nothing very satisfying in
pity for those to whom it is given.
4 X
It's to be noticed that most of
these affinity affairs have brief and
sorry endings.
n
Occasionally, so much is expected
of a man that he would need to be
twins to accomplish it.
It is not rare to hear a woman say
shed like to be a man, but whoever
heard man say he'd like to be a wo-
man?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

A Lawrence youth stole a couple Of
revolvers, turned bandit. robbed a bank
at Eudora of nearly $1,000, incidentally
wounded a policeman seriously with a
revolver shot. and now they are try
ing to blame it all on a young girl
because she is alleged to have fitted
him. Such is life. 1t might be remark
ed that the girl should receive con-
gratulatioEs for having the discernme
TO turn loose such chap as this fellow
has proved to be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

Rhode Island has asked Kansas for
some advice concerning the methods
employed to do away with public drink
ing cups on railroad trains. This was
easy and it would have been just as
easy for Kansas to have provided
Rhode Island with some information on
the ma of tariff law that would
be more acceptable to the people than
the present one in which the smallest
state in the union had such an important
hand
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

Cities along the seacoast have several
advantages over those of the inland
variety, but they also have some disad-
Vantages in the line OF hurricanes and
tidal waves. Still the interior cities
have their occasional cyclones, and. as
a matter of fact. it is pretty hard to
pick out any locality where nature will
not lay heavy hand once in a while,
nature is such a tickle old dame
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

1t is probably a good thing for the
peace of mind of Judge A. B. Ander-
son, of the United States court of the
Indiana jurisdiction. who promptly dis
missed the charges of criminal libel
against the owners of the Indianapolis
News for their articles about the Pan
anna canal deal. that Bwana Tumbo
is in far away Africa. If he were not
a scorching statement on the inef1icacy
of the nations courts would be the or
Ger OF the day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

If the dishes at the banquet to be
given at Juarez to Presidents Diaz and
Taft are as fantastic as the names
with which they have been labelled on
the menu cards, it is reasonable to
assume that the average partaker of the
feast will have no more idea Of what
he has eaten than he would have if
the meal consisted of nothing more
elaborate than chilli con carne and hot
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

The United States is holding up her
end of the universal peace movement.
"A contract has just been let by the
ravy department for the construction
OF another Dattleship of the Dread
naught type. This makes seven large
battleships which Uncle Sam has under
construction, three of which are nearly
ready for service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

Next to Oscar Hammerste;n and
Buffalo Jones, Emmett Dalton looms
UP as the best press agent for himself
among the public characters of the day.
He is always pulling off a stunt of
some kind which gets him newspaper
rotoriety. And when Emmett left the
Kansas prison it was his plan to live
O. quiet, transformations life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

Perhaps the city authorities win now
see to it that the alleys are kept in a
passable condition. A truckman has
been awarded $500 damages from the
city for injuries sustained by him
through the overturning of a wagon
which was caused by a pile of refuse
IN, al
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
SPELLING.

News dispatches of the other day told
of the unusual lack Of knowledge on
the subject of spelling which prevails
among the freshmen at the Northwest
ern university. They were each given
one hundred words to spell. words in
common use. and their general lack of
ability to spell them was amazing. To
note a few of the terrible twists that
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14

Detroit's ministers are TO carry on an
evangelical campaign on their own
hook. This is a far better method than
that of importing professional evange
lists of the hypnotic sort who are in
terested in saving souls for a remun-
eratiYe consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
FROM OTHER PENS
TOWARD A CENTRAL BANK.


Oficials of the treasury are con-
WINGED that both the public and the
country banks have laid aside most
of their prejudice against the central
bank idea. These officials, looking at
the movements of opinion merely as
information in the line of their duty,
think that the long sustained political
hostility to a central bank dating
from Jackson's battle with Biddle and
his bank has nearly passed away.
The position of the president, which
is not demand, but a thoughtful
willingness to consider the recon-
mendation if presented by the none
tary commission, has had pro-
found effect on general opinion. AS
the old Democrats learn that the CEN
eral bank idea of today has little
to the Biddle bank that
Jackson destroyed, they forget any
prejudice resting on the ground of
political consistency. The Aldrich
plan contempIates only bank of is
sue which Will be free of Wall street
influence and separated from the
politics of political machines. If this
separation from Wall street and the
seems difficult, the country
feels that for the present 1t can
trust President Taft and can await
the full development of the COM
missions plan.-Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
IRON the New York Presg.l

LFTOm the New York Press
A girl proposes to a man by making him
do it to her.
A man tries to control his children be-
fore he has learned to control himself.
A compliment to a woman is a promis-
sorry note to pay her ten more or she'll
think you cheated her.
The kind of music a man likes is the
kind he doesn't admit because he imag-
ines 1t will make people think he has good
taste in such things