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The Washington times., 1909-08-18
Mill Hand
Expected to Die

Three years ago, W. L. Webster. q
mill hand Of Lisbon, y. H., was suffer-
ing 18th bronchitis and consumption.
The i@-tors gave him up TO die. but
Mr. : ebster hearing Of Father John
Medic e tegan taking IL faithfully and
was ared. Prevents pneumonia and
consumption. Not a patent medicine.
80 !firs in use, no opium. morphine
or poisonous drugs in any form.
The Washington times., 1909-08-18
YORK PLAYERS PURCHASED.

YORK. Pa, Aug lG-The York Ath-
fetfc Association has sold OutdeIder
Perry 10 the New York Americans for
So Perry viii remain with York until
the expiration OF the Tri-State season.
Recently an OFFER Of $1,000 for Pitcher
Reisling and $3.50 for Perry was received
from. Cincinnati. but turned down, al
though Reisling Will probably be sold
later
The Washington times., 1909-08-18
RESPITE Zoe BRAGG.

RICHMOND. Va, Aug 18-Howard
Bragg, Of Rockbridge county, has been
respited by Governor Swanson. Bragg
was to die Friday OF this week He
had before been saved from the electric
chair by executive Intervention. Sep
TENDER q is the date now set for the
execution. Bragg is charged with muir
derlng his brother-in-law.
The Washington times., 1909-08-18
DELEGATES APPOINTED.

CHARLESTON. W. Va, Aug. H.
Governor Glasscock has appointed the
following delegates TO the first Ma
tional Conservation Congress at Seattle,
august 81. ". W Jackson. PaTkers-
burg Alfred ". Bell, Clay. Arthur n.
Thorn Clarksburg.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
Me. A1drich,s creed.

Apparently this is Aldrich's creed:
II believe in the divine right of
vested interests. The future prosper
ity of this country is wrapped up in
the success of its captains of industry
porous the whole country benefits.
Therefore, they should have all they
want. Special privileges are their
right, for these will contribute to their
prosperity. Any means which is neces-
sary to give Big Business what it
wants is justified, for in the long run
it will make for the prosperity of the
country. The people don't know what
is good for them So they must be
circumvented for their own good. The
best interests of the nation will be
subserved by concentrating the wealth
in the hands of a Few. The Square
Deal is a fraudulent and destructive
doctrine. Unequal rights and special
privileges constitute the cornerstone
of craftsmanship"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
AYHAWKER JOTS

With the passing of the near-beer
ordinance Wichita retired from the
1imelight.
The Parsons papers keep in close
touch with state affairs. They are
calling attention to the attractions of
the state wide fair to be held in To-
peka.
The alfalfa plant at. Cottonwood
Falls has received an order for 25,-
900 pounds of meal for foreign ship
ment.
The records of attendance at coun-
ty fairs this month eclipses those Of
any previous year since the first Pop
ulist campaign.
1t is told that Lincoln woman in
vested dollar, in response to an adj
vertisement, to find out how to make
hens lay. She received card telling
her to kill them"
Along comes the Florence Bulletin to
the defense of Evelyn Thaw. Say
whatever you like it remarks ABOUT
Evelyn Thaw. She. at least, did not
marry a Chinaman.'
The Great Bend Tribune did not need
to be so profuse with it's apologies to its
readers because an editorial severely
arraigning the Republican party APP
peared in it's religious thought columns
That's the most popular kind of Demo-
cratic religion.
The Anthony town clock is in place
and according to the Republican it
tells time both day and night. This
will be little hard on the boys for
awhile, says the Wichita Beacon, but
by and by the striking hours won't
wake the good wives at night.
A new postoffice was established in
a small village in western Kansas and
a native of the soil was appointed post
master. After a while complaints were
made that no mail was sent out from
the new office, and an inspector was
sent to inquire into the matter. He
called upon the postmaster, and stating
the cause of his visit, asked why no
mail had been sent out. The postmas-
ter pointed to big and nearly empty
mail bag hanging UP in q corner. said:
well, I amt sent it out cause the bag
amt nowhere nigh full yet."-Salina
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
LET PRESIDENT TAFT ANSWER.

A recently printed map, showing by
means of a heavy black line, Presi-
dent Taft's route in his proposed
swing around the circle of these
United States, indicates in significant
fashion that Kansas has been dis
eliminated against by the architect
who designed this presidential jour-
ney.
The heavy black line starts at
Massachusetts, and travelling directly
east, crosses the states of New York,
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, thence
northwest through Wisconsin and Min
nesota, thence south and west through
Iowa and Nebraska, thence southwest
through Colorado. and On northwest
clear to the Pacific coast. Returning,
this heavy black line traverses all the
states of the coast and passes through
Arizona, New Mexico and Texas and
even touches Old Mexico. Then it
crosses Oklahoma and Missouri and
turns abruptly south to the gulf and
p>netrates the swamps and cotton
fields of every southern state and final
" comes to an abrupt ending in Mary
land, my Maryland.
But where is Kansas On this map?
Let Mr.. Taft answer the question if he
can. This heavy black line twines
around the Sunf1ower state like a SER
pent but is not contaminated for an
instant by contact with our borders.
1t passes through Nebraska to the
north of US, Missouri on the east,
Oklahoma to the south and Colorado
on the west. 1t misses. the northwest
Kansas border by four miles and on
the return trip passes within three and
one-half miles of the southeast Dor
der of this devoted commonwealth.
Only Kansas, North Dakota, Alaska
and Hawaii of all of Uncle Sans
states and colonies are passed by on
this 1900 mile journey.
President Taft's beneficent smile
will shine upon the cowboys of Okla
homa, the Digger Indians of Mexico,
the tie choppers and salmon fishers of
Washington, the miners of Idaho, the
hill billies of Arkansas, the swamp
angels of Louisiana, the moonshiners
of South Carolina and the aristocracy
of the old Dominion state, but the
citizens of Kansas will have to sit in
outer darkness and gnash their teeth.
Kansans, this year. will harvest their
eight million bushels of wheat in
gloomy silence. They will gather their
corn in sadness and count their hoard
of money with scowling brow. No
where in the borders of the state will
be heard the song of harvest or the
tales of the states glory. Coburn's
reports will be dull and colorless and
William Allen Whites pen have fallen
from his nerveIess fingers.
The state has fallen under the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The average boy reaches the age
of disenchantment at twelve years
and he parts with most of his H.
1usions at thirty.
1t is possible that the constitution
atty of the Kansas prohibitory law
will be attacked from the angle that
it failed to make provision against
the sale of comet" wines in the
state.
Vacation time being nearly over
the festive traveller will count his
multiplied ills and the tavern keeper
at the summer resort will place his
multiplied gains in the bank.
u 4 -
The man of sentiment has little
room in his heart for avarice, cruelty
or selfishness and these three cause
most of the trouble in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

shadow of the big presidents dis
pleasure. Why this is SO no one knows
but the time has come when the fact
must be admitted even by the most
hopeful of her sons. The revokement
of the appointment of Robert Stone
was an omen Of the coming calamity,
now the worst has come to pass.
Kansas, thy glory has departed, and
that after proudly wheeling into line
the first of the Taft states before the
last national convention. Kansas, the
home of Curtis, the presidential whip
of the last anti-tariff revision session
of congress. Kansas with her big
Taft majority last fall and her legends
of Jim Lane and John Brown and
Corodado, sits in sackcloth and ashes
and refuses to be comforted.
Let the question, whats the mat
ter with Kansas be asked again. and
let President Taft answer it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.I

GFrom the Chicago Newg.1
And the butcher plays for big
steaks.
The credit system is s1ow-yet al
ways on time.
All that goes up must come down
SO stand from under.
An accommodation train has as
many stops as pipe organ.
There's a streak OF wolf and a
streak of lamb in every man.
Some politicians have discarded the
golden rule for one of steal.
The less you know about certain
people the better opinion you have OF
them.
There are times when a conscience
is an inconvenient thing to have
around.
The average woman seems to think
that her husbands wife is too good
for him.
A man can see beauty in any woman
If he has the right kind of an Imagine
ton.
No, Alonzo, we never heard Of a zeal
man who had his finger nails polished
by manicure.
The average woman thinks she
ought to consult a doctor every time
she hasn't anything to worry about.
A man stops Dragging about 4be
Grnartness of his children after the,
learn how to separate him from his
entire salary.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
1T Is A SHAME.

The stranger or possible investor,
visiting a city, is in a large measure,
attracted or repealed by the appear
ance of the principal corners on the
main business streets of that city.
Anyway, the home man points with
particular pride to a fine building on
a prominent corner and bases his
argument for his town on the beau
tifuI or prosperous appearance of the
strategic points of the business battle
field.
If these points of vantage be I'M
occupied or defended only by weak
forces then the impression is sure to
prevail that the business battle is
weak on this particular field or not
worth while and the result matter
of indifference to the town after all.
So it is a shame that one of the
best business or hotel corners in To-
peka should be occupied by pile of
ruins and blackened, crumbing walls
This corner, commanding the APP
proach to the state capitol, is the
best hotel corner in the state OF
Kansas. For many years the most
important of the political affairs OF
the state were transacted on this site
within the red walls of the famous
old Copeland hotel. And now the
ruins of those walls are utilized by
the billboard man and a peanut and
popcorn vendor cries his wares In
the doorway of the old hosiery.
BY consulting the walls of the
COPELAND on the best corner in the
business section of Topeka you can
ascertain the fact that there is going
to be a fireworks display tonight at
one of the parks; that a certain stock
company will hold forth in blood
curdling melodrama; that one kind of
chewing gum is better than all
others; that there is only one soap in
the world; only one corn sa1ye, ETC.;
that Buffalo Bill and Barnum and
Bailey will soon be in our midst.
The enterprising popcorn man
above referred to has put up an
awning in front of the entrance of the
old hotel ruins and utilities the side
walk and front walls for the sale and
display of iced drinks and roasted
eatables. This is a birds nest in
lions skull. The walls OF the old
Copeland should be RACED the
ground cleared and some concerted
effort made by our business men to
have a modern hotel built on this
most desirable corner. If a half mil
lion dollar structure is not prac-
ticable then make it quarter of a.
million venture. 81 %3s~ NJ
The Copeland should be rebuilt at
the same time the Mills building
across the street is going UP. Then
the extension of the Kansas avenue
business section toward the south
will have a concerted effort and bear
fruits. The capitol. the Santa Fe Of
fees. the Memorial building, the
Mills building and the Y. NJ. c. A.
building cannot properly balance and
beautify the Ninth street and Kansas
avenue section with pile of ruins
standing on the Copeland corner and
a peanut man crying his wares from
the charred doorway of the ruins.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.
tFrom the Atchison G1obe.J

This can usually be said of every
boy who can play the piano well: He
can't do anything else.
What an indignity appears to be
put upon noble animal, when.
horse is driven by a drunken man!
About the only thing a bachelor
and the father of a family regard
from the same point of view is
baseball game.
When it is said of an Atchison
man that he is Going the Pace, it is
meant that he attends the Airdome
or moving picture show every night.
Smith and Jones do not like each
other Smith is telling a tough story
around town about Jones' Jones, COM
menting on the fact today, said: NO
body will believe him." There's
where Jones is wrong.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton has
bet of $25 up with her best friend.
1t is that when she goes to her hus-
band and tells him she is sick and in
need of urgent attention, he will say,
TT is all your imagination.
Two men and two women from st.
Joe were in Atchison yesterday. in a
hired automobile, and they had
great time roasting the town. We
are not very. smart, but we know
better than to visit a town smaller
than the one in which we live, and
roast it. That is the greatest jay trick
known among men,
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton will
enter a hospital next week, and only
the doctor and Mrs Appleton know
the real situation. You need a rest"
the doctor ordered. Il have seven
children, two hired men and hus-
band to cook for" she replied He
sent for her husband. used words OF
five syllab1es. and Mr.. Appleton has
gathered from the Doctors language,
that something very wrong in his
wife must be cut out He doesn't
know what it is, having never met
the word 'foverwork' in such serious
language before
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cornet player, being in his own house
and paying his rent or taxes, could
do as he pleased, and fined the COM
planning witness for disturbing the
inspiration of the musician. Yet a
Boston judge a short time ago held
that any person disturbing his or her
neighbor by singing or playing on a
musical instrument after midnight
was guilty of a violation of the con-
law, and subject to a fine.
The differences of opinion held by
these judges seem to involve the ques-
ton of whether or not a mans house
is his castle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

COMING TO TOWN.

It is not an unusual occurrence
nowadays for farmers who have made
all the money they will need TO i1ve
comfortably and to educate their chill
dren to come to the city to make
it their future home. AS a rule the
boys, if they are grown, remain on
the farm and will in few years
make as much money as did the fath-
er and they will in turn come to the
city. In some cases the farmers come
to town before the children are grown
and in such cases they come because
of the advantages they have IN giving
their children an education.
This has been the history OF every
prosperous and good town In the
state of Kansas, and 1t Will continue
to be the custom of the farmers, when
they have accumulated wealth 10
move to cities.
But this does not mean that they
are selling their farms, for that Is
not the case. In nine cases out OF
ten the farms remain the property OF
the farmer or his children because
they realize that there is not another
investment which will bring the same
returns. They realize that while they
own good farm lands they are lnde-
pendent and if hard times or panicS
should come they will always have
the farm to fall back upon. And here
is where the farmer is wise. lie un-
derstands farming and his chiloren
understand it. They know II they SOLD
Tic ldnO anu CHICISQ ONoAAAOo0
city they are taking chances and this
they do not care to do.
The wealth of this state has all
come from the farms, and it looks
mighty good to see the men who have
made the states riches come into the
city where they can enjoy the fruits
of their labor.-Wichita Eagle.
o.
UNCLE BENT AT PRATT.
In the seven weeks we have been
here we have slaughtered as folIoWs
towit:
1913 mud, swapping and green tur-
ties: 80 water moccasins; musk rats;
pole cat; % king fishers; hell
divers; IA killdees; pelicans-not
old pelicans; cranes, shite- pokes, ana
other varmints too numerous to cat
alogue. This is a great game coun-
try. Our tested Thermometer Went
to 90 and that was the best we could
do on the hottest afternoon. But our
bungalow is surrounded by 70 acres
of very decent water that keeps right
on running. The Hatchery grounds
begin to look quite inviting.-El Dor
ado Republican.
TOPEKA AND INCUBATOR BABY.
People in Topeka are raising
fund to help Mrs. Bleak1ey get the
incubator baby back in Topeka.
There may be something more than
pure sentiment behind this movement.
Topeka lost second place In popula-
ton to Wichita the past year and
she wants to retain all her people,
Chanute Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
TO any address at the rate of ten
rents a week or thirty cents q month
6by mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While out of town
the State journal will be to you like
q 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, 1909-08-31

According to the London Stage, the
public is the best censor of plays. "a
frankly impossible play" it says,
s'would never be entertained by g
sensible manager. If it were, the man.
ager who produced it would have to
take risks. The play would speedily
come TO an end, for the reason tITat the
public will not support a play that is
morally repellant to It," But then, all
theatrical managers are not sensible
Neither are all publics what they
should be.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

All the irony of fate is condensed
in the recent dispatches announcing
the inheritance of a fortune of a
quarter of a million dollars by a
Seattle woman over so years of age.
Her husband, from whom she had
been separated for half century,
died in Waterbury, Conn.,, the other
day, and the lawyers have decided
that this woman is entitled to the es-
tate. After all these years spent in a
struggle for existence fortune comes
in the twilight of life. The executor
of the Joseph Kendreken estate
should write the words '"Too late
across every check and bond and GER
tiffcate he turns over to this aged
woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

A New York writer comes along
with the happy suggestion that young
ladies who operate typewriting ma
chimes should be called by some name
to distinguish them from the con-
frivances they use. He suggests that
they be styled photographs Some
other appellation would be better
Dactylograph may properly describe
the operator of a typewriter but it is
Zoo much of a jaw-breaker for ordi-
nary use. And then think of speak
ing of blue-eyed. haired
dactylograph. oh. horrors!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

w. "a. Larned OF New Jersey, has
Rgain demonstrated that he Is lawn
tennis champion of the United States.
Tie has been such for a number of
years. But he was never called to the
councils of the famous tennis cabinet
which used to exist in washington
when "Bwana Jumbo" held sway thera.
However, tennis was only a side issue
with that aggregation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

That story from Chicago telling that
three sisters set the same date for their
weddings without consultation with each
other is a pretty hard one to swallow
But things that are stranger than f1c-
ton, and truth as we'll. are always hap
pening in the Windy City.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

The gentlemen of the law have dis
agree from time iInmemorial, but
here is a case of point blank differ
,ence of opinion that will be hard to
arbitrate. A Kansas City judge in
deciding a complaint by a citizen that
his neighbor sat up and played horn
all night and thus disturbed the slum-
hers Of the complainant. held that the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

An Iowa judge has decided that
the mayor of city who gets drunk
is no longer eligible to hold office
and should be ousted therefrom with
out ceremony. The plea of the de-
PENDANT in this case that he was not
on duty when intoxicated was dis
regarded, the judges grim rejoinder
being that a mayor is always on
S7fIfy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

Fame is fieeting. Take the case of
William Allen White, who writes prose
sentences as concise and effectf1e as a
flock of bullets from machine gun
and yet is referred to on the day of his
home coming from Europe by the Cof-
feyville Journal as the great Kansas
nOef
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

An offer has been made by some pro-
motors looking towards the holding OF
the Jeffries-Johnson fight in Oklahoma
It's to be wondered If the state authori-
ties have been consulted about the
Smafter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

Those woods around Beverly, Mass,
must be of considerable extent if an
individual of Mr.. Taft's stature can get
lost to sight in them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31

The Emporia Gazette refuses to get
excited over the benzoate of soda graft
until the Bleakley baby has been dist
nOSad of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-31
Ont of the Mouths of Babes.

Margie's mother was sowing some
seeds and explaining how they would
come up plants.
ooh. yes" exclaimed Margie they go
to be babies and get up grown peo-
pie"
Teacher-In this sentence. 1.-THE sick
boy loves. his medicine" what part OF
speech is "loves?'
Small Boy-Please. ma'am, it's the
part that amt So
Darwin, and one day he said. Grand
pa, I want to ask you something"
ssWell, what is it. Fred?" queried the
old gentleman.
when you were a monkey" said the
small student, "did you have a tail?'
Stern parent Cbringing out the strap)-
Now, Tommy, suppose you know why
I am going to whip you, don't you?
Little Tomrny-Yes. sir: you are going
to whip me because 1 am so small. If
I was as big as the man next door you
wouldn't dare lay a finger on me.-Chi-
cago News.
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happily. II fell asleep waiting for you
and had a bad dream about you
but when your voice called mel woke,
copyrighted, 1909, by Associated
Literary Press.)
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Freshman-Who is the smallest man
mentioned in history? Sophomore give
it up. Parliamentary. the Roman sol
der who slept on his watch.-University
of Pennsylvania Punch Bowl.
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The Rock of Moses.

The "Rock Of Moses" lies in the Wild
valley at the base of Jebul Musa. the
Mount of the Law. in the peninsula of
Sinai The rock is IS or 20 feet high,
slightly inclined, rough fndentation
running over each side. which is inter
sected here and there with Sits, and the
stone is worn away in places as If from
the effects of running water. It is be-
yond doubt the oldest known legendary
object IN the vicinity. The Koran re-
fers to this rock more than once, and
from these illusions arose the reverence
of the Redouins. who hold it sacred.
From the Middle Ages onward it has
been visited by Christian pilgrims, who
have carved rude crosses on its Sides
London Globe.