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The Detroit times., 1909-01-28
DISTRICT TEN.

Mis-. Mildred HOLSTER. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Mrs F. !. Fry. 3l2 Frederick Observation-Disclosures.
Mrs ~. Peabody, 1875 Brush ................
cross. I21 Mott
Chas. Mobbs. 81 Westminster ..................
Mrs l.. Bentley, 1913 Westminster. ..............
Mrs John Solomon, Rosedale
Miss Hattie Pulcer. 245 Westminster. ...........
Miss Jennie Mitchell. s2i Farnsworth. ............
Mrs Grace True 2t2 Mt. Vernon ...........
Mrs James Mahoney 5s4 Milwaukee ...............
Mrs clyde Toan. l13 Philadelphia ..............
Miss Julia Cron 45 Harper.
Miss Ina Lawson. go King
Miss Helen Held 299 Warren E.....................
Miss j. Hipp 200 Smith.
Miss Mabel Love 1860 Antoine
Miss Lille Penhalls. as Piquette
Miss Ethel Brady. 1921 King
Miss Queenie Wright. - PrIuette ............
Miss Helen Hitchcock 246 Custer.
Miss Hetsler 45 Melrose.
Miss Florence Finn. lac Chandler. ..............
Miss Hazel Lloyd. ll5 Merose
Miss Laura Raymond, l0l Cameron. ..............
Miss Elva Ranks 1903 Merose. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Miss Shirley Woodward. 200 Chandler. .............
Miss Helose Aidrich, ia Chandler ...........
Miss Hattie Tunth los Melrose ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Miss Myrtle Pratt. 2SS
Miss Lula Arts 21S Oakland .............
Miss Helen Walker $50 Mt. vernon.................
Miss Helen Door. 254 Bethune Observation-Disclosures.
Miss Leatha Flynn. 1O3 Horton
Mss Mss Mamtf aG R,ssgi Mott
Miss Miss 6Ta we SGns 1890 q o s%a@kee
Miss Alma Lowell 81 Milwaukee E...................
Miss Mabel Holloway; s. Milwaukee E.
Miss Ethel Reynolds, 1916 Plquette.
Miss Lite Ardusie ssss woodward
Miss Catherine Moll 300 Frederick
Miss Mann. owen NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Miss Mabel Northiop 1873 Oakland
Miss Catherine Chds ~ Smith.
Miss Ruth Abraham, l23 Leicester
Miss Florcucs Beals 10 Mt. Vernon
Mrs Grace I.ddington as Leicester.
Miss Mary Grant 1914 Woodward ..................
Miss Lillian Mcconnell 315 Mt Vernon
Miss Grace Parker 1876 Grand Blvd
Mrs Mrs Fred M 15sak. 81 E sis Melbourne
Miss Beryle Wetter, 316 Euclid f:
Virginia Mccullough 2S6 Euclid
Miss Grants, 243 Melbourne.
Mrs Rert Tower. 192 Cameron ..s...........
X Thompson.
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Miss Bessie Costegan 1889 Beaubien
Miss Margaret Mckay. l1T5 Russell
Miss stella Ford. 1880 Woodward.
Miss Ella r. Person, - Medbury
Miss clara !. Grand Blvd E...........
Mrs Ida Newman. 40 Harper
Miss Mary Klein 657 Warren E...................
Miss Myra Bray - Mt Vernon.
Miss Elizabeth Moore 2S2 Marston ............>..
Miss Nagell 23l Farnsworth.
Yrs 49,.
Mira Gilbert Mcintyre. 140 Woodland.
Miss NJ L. Thompsons 70 Theodore
T.. Brown. l25 Josephine.
Miss Edith Pettee 80 Harper E.............y.~-.
COnoVer ia Marston.
Miss Catherine Hne 1873 Ferry
Miss Scholtz, 1919 Rivard
Miss Lillian Tones 1916 Rivard.
Miss Lillian Tones. 1875 Rivard
Pearl Van Cice. $50 Milwaukee IL.
Miss wilson 564 Milwaukee F..
Miss charlotte Moran. ~ Medbury
Miss Anna Earhell 66S Harper.
Miss Agnes lucns. 500 Harper.
Miss May Wilson, 400 Farnsworth
Mildred Santon. 1lO5 Russell
Mrs Helen = Cardinal 23S Piquette ...~~-~~~~Aa~-
Miss Bertha T. Johns. q Milwaukee L .~~~s--
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DISTRICT NINE.

Miss Hazel Chaplain SOS Pennsylvania ......
Miss Madge Henry. Sl5 Mcclellan .................
Miss Florence Howell 81 Emmons Observation-Disclosures.
Miss Gerte Goetz. Emmons
Miss Edith Fassnaoht. l449
Miss Minnie Eber. 7s1 Superior. Observation-Disclosures.
Mrs. 'has Boom. Fischer. ...............
Miss Theresa FasOcnder. Piquette
Mrs coratta Bloss. 1886 GratIot
Miss Anna Goetsch. Mcclellan ................
Miss MadRe Henning S15 Mcclellan ................
Miss Louise IIauck itls Bellevue ................
Miss IIilda Hammer. Baldwin
Miss Edith We'll 1917 Helen. ..................
Mrs j. Tronbly. l124 sheridan. observation-disclosures.
Miss Emma Nz Gratiot. Observation-Disclosures.
Mrs Henry Wurm l6iG Gratiot Observation-Disclosures.
AIRS Martha Currcr. 953 Van Dyke .................
Mrs Jos Ranstader. Palmer E...................
Mrs Herman link, 1873 Erskine. ..........
Miss Mary Rider Warren
Mrs Hans Kunow. 1910 GIatiot.
Mrs Anna Micke.
Miss Gertrude Rose, 9S5 McDougall.
Miss Elsa schuman 4cl Mack ..............
Miss Elizabeth Wolf IS Moran.
Miss Hattie schultz 80
Miss M MpRiS HsT n l ss sShh INA
Ms Mrs. Ernest nest sehmdt sI Hale
Miss Gsrtie Kerschner 80 Pennsvl vanla
Mis- Mis- a" wa!.c s'oi loas car nH'fso" court
siss 4 Eeahn iS SS2 Me s5S o@s
Mrs Mr.. schultz ,,. $50, SIC Ianeock
Mss SIaynsk as $50 los csmp@ an: :,
Mrs Mr.. ! v dins Ss3 mitchell
Ms; MIS- LIN, Msof .n iss e1aPa E Sya
Miss Nc!tIe Paulson 81 Cooper
Miss Elizabeth Nehls. 7S5 Superior ...............
Miss Edythe Fairvend 1926 Pennsylvania
Miss Bertha Deiss $50 Belle vue.
Mrs John Ryerson. 1864 Concord
Miss Mary Kambash. 1919 jos Campau.
Miss Wayne Iinmer. 1914 Gratot .........,.....
Miss May Kaiser. 93 Theodore
Miss Mary alThed. S65 Jos Campau.
Mrs Frank Adams, 30 Robins. Observation-Disclosures.
Miss Clara Mildahn 1875 Illinois
Miss Margaret Van Every 1859 JOS Campau.
Mrs Bliss. S52 Piquctte. ...............
Mrs T.. NJ. 1926 Jos. Campau. ................
Miss H. Strohschein, S97 Pquettc .................
Miss Nellie L. jackson, 1856 Bellevue
Ezabeth Kinsler SOL Mitchell
Miss Ethel Mykwcll, 1907 Jos camrau.
Miss Nellie q mbs, 1882 Jos. Cam2au .........
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Miss iottle weyher. $40 Fourteenth ..............
Miss Ruth Sharrow. $40 Sixth.
Miss Ethel GouN 1O4 Calumet
Miss Edna Schwan. ass Fifth. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Miss Nellie Ingram sixth ........ ...................
Miss Grace Higgins. Twelfth
Miss Estele Roothby. 729iz Woodward
Mrs Henry watt. 72s1s Woodward ...............
Mrs VIII Seabury 726 Wabash.
Mrs Mary Mott, Trumbull. ...........
Miss Lillian Bromley PrentIs .................
Miss Mary Gilchrist. Hancock W ...............
Miss Florence Harrington 25s Lincoln
Miss Carrie Lewrrens. 40 Prentis
Miss hottie Rouse. ESQ second
Miss Mabel kichardson Lysandct. d..
Miss Mary Bell, 1913 Common wealth
Miss clara Schurtz Trumbull Observation-Disclosures.
Miss Grace l.. FLOYD. Forest
Miss Mary Thompson, S2g Third .....
Hiss Leone Johnston. 20 Sibley
Miss Myrtle Shippey 33l Fourth ......
Miss Maud Richard 81 Dufied
Mrs. Hattie Togo. 325 Harrison
Miss Meta Hodges $50 Twelfth.
Miss lillian wadham lbs spruce ........
Miss Beatrice Menot, 20 Myrtle. .............
Miss Miss i Eesen BG gssb g 3 c2 sD@ns
Miss Blanche Anderson 435 Cass ..............
Miss Miss F@y Tre aSu@ as 90 ts.. cass
Miss IL. Malcomspn. 3GS Trumbull......'.
Miss r. Davy. ga Cass. '......
MISS Frances Wyatt $50 sixth. ...........
Mss Mss Mary MalcoEson 3t3 Tfumbull
Mss Annie Hampton 5o3 Cass .................
Airs. J. Reid. I2s Ledyard -. .. 800.
Mrs. Edward simpson High
Mrs Geo Phillips wabash. F.. y
Miss Bessie Shaw. i9S Plne......... 80 p
Miss Theresa Concy IS sblcy ...,.................
Hiss Florence Morehead. isS Pine. ..............
Ms John H9rnert S3l Vermont. .................
Mrs. Chas. Moss. 32l Vermont. .,........
Miss Nav Alice $50 lIieh,.
Miss Anna Wood. 7s5 sixth 49,
Miss Miss h snagefs Rl.l PeSS = Adams Adams
The Detroit times., 1909-01-28
DISTRICT SEVEN-Continued.

Miss Luce Canuee, Monroe.
Miss Mary Baranowskl AS Concord. ...............
Miss Ida Solomon. ASS Concord
Miss Ida Luhman 81 Waterloo Observation-Disclosures.
Miss Paula Loops. $50 Bellevue.
Miss slice Radke I6s Mt Elliot .........
Mrs Esr Me6 S5SaT i 5Ss @ oasrsss
Mrs, Irzet!a Plckrn 50 chanpi4in
Miss Mabel CoweL Meldrum ................
Miss Cora wshrauds. 90; MulIett
Mss Ella Wake. 5iy Fegs
Miss Ethel Johnson so Monroe; .........,.... 1850.
Miss Clara +: oetten, 80 elnwood.
Miss MnEie TSt.ad, Heisa
MF. i FisrI r5Gms H.l ' e.
Miss Hattie Kaier, 80 Berlin.
Miss aIaud smith 1913 CLINTON.
Mss Mss Bose Stanley Burns hotei ...............
Miss LAURA sullivan est BELLEVUE. .........,..
Miss ia Is NJ He sR!if e Ar nat
Miss Nettie sos Hrlen.
Ms Is% ST. ToeGsE: Isl AHtIstam
Miss Hsnging 5si Catherine
Miss Miss s Mnnie H seSaikcst ss %Tad
Miss Elsie Gshrke SIS Russell
Miss Amelia Berg. 1i7 81. Aubin.
Miss sisrc1 Morrisette s7s bellevue
Miss Lo"ise " Adams ls g Grand SIS blvd E.
Mrs. Alberta proelle al So Autln.
SIS. Martha RGs5sr Msidfa@ =.
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Mics Ida Studier % Heidelberg:
Miss Elsie GuedenpfennIng. 90 Heidelberg
Miss stella De Gaussin ~ Preston ................
Miss Edith yaran. 74s Bellevue ...................
Miss Helen Taylor. 2Ab jos Ca.npau. ..............
Miss Nellie Corcoran io7? Champaign. ......,.......
Miss Anna Mayer. 100 Fay.
Miss Eta Umbcrley, 1i9 1T. Antoine
Miss Irene Whitaker. 80 Mcpougail.
Ass Cara VI Clark 295 Beaufatt
Miss Gertrude koehler Ill ST. Aubn ...............
Miss Harriet Youngblood 462 ST Aubin
NJ: Ms N Ah$E hs s ioi Ns%SS"
Miss Nadgc Cotter $40 Helen OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
Miss Theresa NJ Redden. 2S7 Fort E................
Miss Pauline Mette. 2ei ST. Aubn.
Elizabeth 362 Congress E...............
Miss Edith Baker. is 81. Aubn
Miss Theresa Kerwin t6s Concord .................
Bertha Norke, 37s Bellevue
Miss Julla Parker, Az
Delidh Roberts. 315 Fort
Miss Catherine Cah Gas Monroe Observation-Disclosures.
Miss Ida Bach. 665 Clinton
Miss Epsy Coyne 1868 Jefferson. ,................
Miss Mary Townsend s2S Jefferson.
Miss T.ora Lyons. l04 Macomb
Miss Jessie McCallum, 62s Congress E...............
Miss Cornne Kramer, 35S Bellevue. ................
Mrs j. watson $50 Mt Elliott. ..................
Miss Louise Maus 474 Helcn
Miss Harriet ODea 496 Helen.
Miss Alice wilmont 49e Catherine NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Miss Anna Davis. 392 Catherine
Mrs Julia Jones 4O5 ST. Aubin.
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DISTRICT THREE.

Mrs. Nellie Goyer. 10 Campbell. ................
Miss Pearl O'Bricn Fern place. ..............
Miss Lille Wolf. 76S Baker.
Mics Rosie Miller. 2lls jefferson W..............
Mrs. John Kiehha. Campbell. ...........
Miss Gertrudee DeForest 2S4 King.................
Miss Maize Gulley. 81 Rogers ................
Miss Mary Fitzgibbons 391 Plummer .........
Miss Elizabeth Kennedy, 24Ol Jefferson W..
Miss Evelyn Foley. eco Carter.
Mise Madge MeGregor. 5sl Military,
Miss stella A Rowe ST7 Military ..........L.....
Miss Bertha Van Nerst. 40 Thadieus .............
Mas Annabelle Carey. 60 Thaddeus
Miss Anna Duprey. All WessOn. ................
Mrs. G.. Mcintosh 1884 Jefferson
Mra. A. Wall asa Cavalry 80
Miss Anna Adams 6S4 Beard ............
Miss Helen Daley. 1G3 Cavalry.
Miss Florence Rose 443 Dragon ............
Miss tottie Ruppcl IA Military.
Miss Josephine Susyski 110l Junction .............
Miss Fila Pegler. 1870 Campbell
Miss Emily Adams. 220 Driggs............... -
Miss Jessie Darge. 45i Dragon .............
Wies Evelyn Rutherford. coo Military
Mas Ella Steinke. 500 Dix. Observation-Disclosures.
Mas Julh Pocock. 40b Toledo ...........
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-02

breeders for all sorts of disease germs,
and if for no other reason, than in
the interest of public health, they
should be kept as clean as possible all
of the time and particularly in the
spring and summer. But there is
another reason. Topeka, with her
tree and park lined streets. with her
detached houses, which expose back
yards to view, is a beautiful city. She
has few equals in the whole country
in this regard. One unclean yard, in
a block, however, will almost spoil its
entire beauty. 1t will create an eye
sore in the mind that will wipe out
the other attractive features of the To-
cality- So every effort should be made
to make the city as beautiful in every
little detail as it's possibilities will
admit, and they are great.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-02
QUAKER MEDIrAr1oNs.


CFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
Call for the ayes and the noes
spectac1es.
Blobbs-"He acts like a fish out of
water" Slobbs-"Or a politician out
of a job"
The trouble about taking a mate
for life is that the mate soon wants to
be captain.
Good times are all right. but some
men have been swamped by high tides
of prosperity.
The man who is always on the fence
considers that better than being on
the wrong side.
A lie sometimes acts as a boomer
ang, and the surer the aim the more
disastrous the results.
Some love affairs would seem to in
dictate that Cupid ought to drop his
bow and arrow and get a gun.
Hoax-"How did he make his
money!" Joax-"Selling a lotion to
remove freckles." Hoax-"Ah, spot
cash, eh ?"
1t is possible to convince a woman.
but she is apt to forget she was con-
vinced, and then you must do 1t all
over again.
Wigg-"They lead a regular cat and
dog life" Wagg- "How foolish;
doesn't he realize that a cat has nine
lives to dogs one?"
We speak only good of the dead
because as a general thing we have
exhausted our supply Of blame
on them when they were alive.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-02
AYHAWKER JOTS

| Parsons is all agog with anticipa-
ton that a city street car system will
be in operation by June 1.
The joy of the school children in
the Benfield district six miles east Of
Salina Is only rivalled by the Iamenta-
tions of their parents over the recent
burning down of the school house.
''In every town. says the Turon
Press, you will find two or three fell
lows who have solved a greater
government They can get along
without work and make a living at it. -
The Manhattan Mercury announced
the other day that lone of the har-
bingers of spring that really harb is
the angleworm. Several of them had
this morning to be on hand for the
early Bird
The Larned Til1er and Toi1er prom
ises its readers a great Improvement
because it has purchased a type-set-
ting machine. 1t is the opinion of the
Emporia Gazette that the greatest i'm
provement to this paper would be a
change of name.
The window of a dry goods store at
Garden City had a hole cut in 1t one
night recently and a thief fished out
seven shoes each one of which was
ciples of Sherlock Holmes are busy
and are presumably hunting for a
burglar with a right foot missing.
The Central Branch lately had an
accident just west of Atchison, which
not only blocked its own track but
the track of the Santa Fe, which runs
parallel. For heavens sake" the su-
perintendent of the Santa Fe is said to
have telephoned a Central Branch Of
ficial, eff you can't run railroad,
get out of the way and give us a
chance"
A dr1nIrap soldier from TaaveD
worth visited Atchison the other day
and walked into the open door of one
of the homes in the residence district
81 am looking for a good time" he
announced to the woman of the house.
The woman called her husband and
the soldier found what he was looking
for. He was knocked down and kick
ed into the street and then led to the
police station. Atchison people are
if not accommodating to
strangers, comments the Kansas City
Star
The Ottawa Herald tells of the fol-
lowing interesting cane, made by a
man of that town: "a cane made of
postage stamps. This is new arri-
val in Ottawa, the property of E. Le-
master. Mr.. Lemaster has worked for !
a number of years making a collection |
of stamps for this cane. The stamps |
have been collected from all the lead
ing firms of the city, total of 10000, |
which have face value of $4,000. |
The stamps are placed one on another, |
with only the edges in view. All
stamps of a color are together, giving |
the cane the appearance of a block of
agate Through the center is run a |
steel rod, which gives the cane
strength, and the whole affair is
rounded and vanished making it a |
thing of beauty as well as interest. At |
the top is a polished section of a COW |
horn, while for a tip is a four-inch |
section of buffalo horn.'
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-02
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
(From the Chicago News.)

(From the Chicago News)
No first-class phonograph is asham-
ed of it's record.
The sleeping beauty evidently didn't
sacrifice her beauty sleep.
The sunlight of happiness seldom
falls upon a shady reputation.
Even a slow-witted man may event.
ually get next in a barber shop.
The man in the moon is the only
chap who seems to thrive on a high
ball.
He's a wise man who makes the
mistake of guessing a woman's age
too young.
To render marriage a success the
husband must be patient and the wife
a martyr.
And you can't always tell by girls
looks whether she has a cold in her
head or is in love.
1t is better to lead u procession
than to follow ft-unless the leader
is in a black wagon with glass win
dOws
1t is far easier to crit1cIse the small
mistakes of others than it is not to
make a few larger ones yourself.
No matter how much good luck a
man may have he always manages to
have enough of the other kind to
break the monotony.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
(From the Atchison Globe) }


Nuisances never abate themselves.
If boy earns 10 cents, he wants it:
he is not willing to trust the richest
man alive.
Haste makes waste" is an old mot
to, but a lazy one. You've really got
to hurry to keep up.
When you lose a hundred dollars,
your friend says he is sorry, but it is
impossible for him to be as sorry as
you are.
About the dullest man on earth is
the one who is forever writing to the
newspapers about what our forefath-
ers did.
The men wear some mighty homely
hats, but it can, at least, be said for
the men that they never claim their
headgear came from Paris.
There is a good deal of cheap wit
about hugging girls in a waltz; as a
matter of fact, when a man hugs
woman, he does not do it in a crowd.
1t is all right to rave about Grecian
noses in poetry, but the nose to ad
mire. in common, everyday expert
ence, is the nose that is kept out of
other peoples business.
A woman confesses everything she
does to her husband, but she does
nothing wicked enough to make the
confession interesting. A man, who
could be more interesting, has nothing
to say.
1t was formerly the fashion, when
a girl tried to be coy, for the man to
be deceived, or pretend to be, but, of
late. it is the fashion for the man to
speak up, and tell everything he
knows about girls being coy.
Oranges are said to be particularly
good for you, but they are a nasty
thing to eat. Stick a spoon into one,
and the juice will fly all over you.
Why not squeeze the juice out as you
do in making lemonade, and drink it
An Atchison man, who recently visited
at one of the incest houses he ever
did visit, was given his breakfast
oranges in this manner; that is, only
the orange juice was on the table. and
you could eat it with a spoon if you
drink it.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-02
RoNDEAu REnouRIE-

nate dun. It makes me fairly sick
ms letter asking me to please remit. y
II could pay I'd do 1t mighty quick.
can I, however, so I wish they'd quit.
Iney viii not, though, let up a little bit,
T.oni uI.edten Su1t-a very shabby trick,
OGgiifstuerlng the suit was poor in fit.
nate dun. 1t fairly makes me sick.
That is the worst of getting things on
ri | wish that I had waited for my kit
ms curt reminder makes my conscience
This letter asking me to please renimt. .
credit is an invention of the pit,
Inlng devised for torment by Old
I can't grow calloused. am tired of it,
IL could pay I'd do it mighty quick.
When I am broke, that is the time they
pick
To poster me. to threaten with a writ.
10 satisfy them I'd at nothing stick;
L can't, however, so wish they'd quit.
1t seems to me as if they had but little
wit.
One can't get blood from turnip, stone
or brick.
Well. with the statement my pipe have
lit.
That ends it. I shall simply let 'em
kick
hate a dun.
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-02
FRON OTHER PENS
HIT BOGUS REFoRMERs-


The striking individuality of Mr.
roosevelt; MS pioneerShfp in a hundred
different paths; his bold attack upon
long established evils; his impregnabIe
place in the hearts of the peopIe-these
facts, exhibited in a thousand and one
lights during stormy encounters, have
made him an ideal model and pattern
Tor shoals OF counterfeit "reformers, -
bogus crusaders and base imitators
The more Theodore Roosevelt was
tested by fire and found to be pure gold
the more eager were charlatans to irni-
tate him. A counterfeit is never coun-
terfeited; 1t is the genuine which is
1ouoWed by its spurious shadow
The retirement of Mr. Roosevelt to
private life will of necessity put an end
to the pestilent activity of his sickIy
imitators. Those who aped even his
dress and manners will find their oc-
cupation gone. Those who sought to
make capital of the reform movements
he inaugurated will soon discover that
the public is sick and tired of being
imposed upon, and without Mr. Roose-
velt's personal Endorsement all persons
masquerading as his disciples will be
exposed. The president in pushing for
ward his plans has not always had
time to turn aside and expose takers,
who, without warrant, have attached 1
themselves to his train. Occasionally
he has shown up a peculiarly offensive
and blatant "reformer," but in the
main the public has had to exercise it's
ing the false from the true. But now
that Mr.. Roosevelt's plans are accom-
plished, so far as he can accomplish
them officially. the public will make
short work of any chalatan who at
tempts to carry on his nefarious opera
tions under the cloak of RooseveItism.
Washington Post.
SOCIALISTIC EBB AND FLOW.
The failure of the demonstration in
Berlin last week does not diScOura ee
leaders of the German Social Demo-
cratic party. The time was unpropi-
tious, popular interest was centered on
the kaiser's birthday and on the visit
of King Edward, and very little is
necessary to distract the pubIic's at
downcast by the continued falling off
in the Socialist vote in the later cleo
tions to the Reichstag, by the dimin-
ished receipts and by the great loss in
circulation of Socialist books, news
papers and miscellaneous party 1itera-
ture. Nothing, they say, can prevent
the seed sown by Marx, Bebe1 and
their followers from bearing fruit. The
frost can't kill it all. There have been
seasons when popular interest in So
die out, but those seasons have invari-
ably been followed by renewed life
and vigor.
In this country, where so much is
said and so little is done along purely
socialistic lines, there is a similar ebb
and flow in expressed public interest
in socialistic theories. Ever since
1852, when the first socialist plank
was put into national party plat
form, the free-soilers declaring that
portion of the SOIL" the pendulum has |
swung back and forth. and at times
has been brought to a standstin by 1
other issues--Boston Globe.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-02
CLEAN ALLEYS AND YARDS.

The campaign which is about to
be waged in Chicago for general
cleanup of the backyards of that city,
and a novel incident to which is to be
the taking, for publication, of pic
lures of yards that are in bad condi-
ton, suggests the thought that the
time is fast approaching when it will
be well for many of the people of
Topeka to undertake thorough
cleaning of their yards, and for the
city authorities to clean out the al
leys During a winter season there is
likely to be a collection of refuse of
one sort and another in back yards
and alleys which is not noticeable to
any degree until the ice and snow
have gone for good. Then unsightly
and equally unhealthy conditions are
exposed.
To clean up this rubbage is not
desirable task but that makes it none
the less a necessity. 1t is a portion of
the civic duty that every property
holder owes to his city, his neighbors
and himself as well to keep his prop
erty in the best possible shape and
this can not be done if all sorts of
trash is allowed to accumulate and
remain in backwards and alleys. 1t
is the duty of the city authorities to
keep the alleys, unattractive necessi-
ties as they are at best, in cleanliness.
Their efforts can be made easier by
q little forethought and care on the
part of the property owners in pro-
vidfng proper receptacles for rubbish
and garbage in the alleys or on the
abutting end of their lots Dirty al
leys and dirty backwards are excellent