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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-06-05

Three prisoners succeeded in break
ms jail here Yesterday one of the
escaped %iailbirds. who is a Vs5g fat
man, IL is said. camo nearly gazing
stuck Ia the hole broken through ths
wall ana had to bc pulled frantieaill
before he could De- %cNtricatcd.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-06-05
Plan for
Summer Comfort

Don't add the heat of a kitchen
fire to the sufficient discomfort of
hot weather.
Use a New Perfection Wick Blue
Flame Oil Cook-Stove and cook in
comfort.
With a New Perfection" I
Oil Stove the preparation Of |
daily meals, Oh the big weekly i
baking" is done without rais- II
ing the temperature perccptibly
above that of any other room
in the house. Another great adyan
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-06-05

The name Cedar Brook guarantees
not only that every Government re-
rn rcment has been complied with.
but guarantees quality supreme. g
wonderful flavor and smo0thness, A
leii-aey and "a richness 10Th incom-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19

They point out clearly the Justice and
efficiency of arbitration in labor situa-
| ticps which become acute. But the
mere significant lesson that they teach
| is the value of prompt mediation by
public officials in the communities
where striEes occur or are threatened.
Such mediation is generally successful
| in bringing about the arbitration which
eros, or prevents. the strikes.
When Theodore Roosevelt was presi-
cent he started the ball rolling in this
most desirable way by his Intervention
in the great coal strike. He probably
had no authority Of law to warrant
his action in insisting that the warning
factions to this calamitous affair should
ST limit their differences to an arbitra-
ton tribunal which he created for the
purpose He jurt went ahead and did
it because it struck him as being a
great public duty. The results accom-
rlished left no sore spots on any one
and the whole nation applauded most
righteous act.
Since that epoch marking event in
public activity, govern ors of states and
n ayers of cities have not been slow to
60 likewise when labor troubles have
threatened the peace and happiness of
their communities or any portion of
item. They are not given specific auth
Gritty by laws 20 take these actions.
But there are few laws in this or any
other land which outline what a pub
lie official or ary other man may do
V hen emergencies arise. Most OF the
laws are directed towards the things
that people cannot do. But the duties
Iof public officials administrators
of the affairs of their COM
munities make it incumbent upon
them 20 undertake the settlement of
labor. or any other disputes of serious
character that confront then. And
they do not come in for criticism from
anybody for their activities in these
respects, regardless of their lack of
le gal authority to engage in them. Rath-
e. Go the people rise up and call them
blessed.
Arbitration IS a magnificent propagan-
ia for the Settlement of labor and all
other disputed questions between men
and nations as we'll. But an intelli-
CERT and discerning mediation by public
servants in high power in affairs OF this
scrt is more important. Mr.. Roosevelt
also made another excellent example
to this end when he successfully in
t. rvened in the Russian-Japanese war
and succeeded in bringing it to con-
clusion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
AYHAWKER JOTS

A clever merchant in Marion adver-
tises: You can buy cheap hat al
most as cheap as your old one looks"
1t occurs to the Jewell County Re
publican that 1.-The man who doesn't do
enough work to enjoy his rest misses a
lot"
1t was appropriate to say the least
that an Atchison veterinarian should
deny the story that he had purchased
an automobile.
man may be justified in blowing
his own horn but it is mighty hard on
those who reside in the same block,
says the editor Of the Marysville Dem
Ocrat.
The Galena Times is under a new
management which announces that in
the future it will be conservative,
liberal paper" Tom Morgan construes
this to mean that the Times will be in
favor of prohibition but opposed to its
enforcement.
The Ottawa Herald wants the tariff
made by "a commission, sitting regu :
1arly, composed of patriots, subject to
no sectional or partisan political in
fiuences.'' The fault the Leavenworth
Post finds with this plan is this: THE
gentlemen whom the Herald wants rc
put on this job are employed just now
in the orchestra of the New Jerusa-
lem -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
KANSAS HOT WINDS.

''The report that hot winds are dam
| aging the western Kansas corn crop
must be accepted with due allowance
for the proverbial tendency in that
state to magnify the danger of drouth
and hot Winds" says the Kansas City
Star. "As a matter of fact it has been
| many years since Kansas suffered SER
| ious loss from either drought or hot
winds. In twenty years the average
corn crop in that state has been 1884,
456,31s bushels. Only three years in
| twenty has the yield dropped below
the 100000 mark, the smallest
yield being 42,6O5,572 bushels in 1901.
But 1901 was an exceptionally dry
year. Except for a rain over part
of the state the night of July 4, there
was no rain from April Is until late in
the fall, and the drought followed a
drv winter and was preceded by an
unusually dry summer and fall in
1900.
1.-THE fear of hot winds in Kansas is
a tradition. Even the three corn
failures since 1889 (anything less
than 100, 100000 bushels is called a.
failure in Kansas) have not been oc-
casioned by hot winds, but by dry
weather The real hot winds have not
visited Kansas since the sos, and up
to that time they were almost always
limited to long dry SPELLS as COM
monty supposed. The hot winds were
liable to drop i'm any time during
July and August, and in few days
the corn would wither and dry in the
stalk, the ear would refuse to 'fill,'
and the prospects that had been most
promising for an abundant yield would
disappear in a day.
"But these blighting winds do not
blow in Kansas now. The term, as
used by the newspaper correspondents
to describe conditions in that state is
deceptive. And, besides, if Kansas
should have corn failure this
year. it would hardly be noticed be-
cause the farmers are rich and 'have
need of nothing
But in the old days, when Kansas
really had hot winds, the crop loss was
complete, and fell upon pioneers al
ready overburdened with hardships and
actual want. There was no dollar
wheat and no fat bank balances to
rely on in that day. After the hot
winds there was nothing left-nothing
but a family to feed and clothe some
how. and the interest on the mortgage
to meet in some way.
But Kansas lived through it and
came out of the Great Tribulation
more than conuueror'"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

rFrom the Chicago News.1
The self-possessed burglar takes
tEdrgs quietly.
Platonic love is almost as dangerous
as toy pistol.
Some men are too lazy to complain
If they. can't find work.
It's easy for lady circus riders to get
engagement rings.
Eve raised Cain after Adam lost his
job as gardener in Eden.
Our idea Of andy man is one who
is able to keep his hand in.
People who feel sure of their ability
usually make the least display of it.
If hearts are trumps it's up to the
" Use young man to play a diamond.
No. Cordclia. fourth-class poStmas-
ter isn't necessarily a fourth-class man.
Manicures would always be busy if
they could improve the hands of poker
players.
The average man is a willing worker
when he meets another man who is
willing to be worked.
When a sirl orders flowers sent home
it's a sign that she expects the neigh
bCrs to think some man sent them.
Unless you have more spare time than
you know what to do with it's foolish
to try to convince a fool that he is
foolish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19

With a shade of wonder in them she
waited for him 20 answer.
At last he spoke. 1T don't want to
deny It'll" he choked. 81 want to tell
1t! I want to cry it out so that Galatea
cHnnot help but hear and heed. II 1
could say it as 1 think it, I know she
would wake to life and anEwer me. But
never shall say it, shall never dare
to say it. =
Mary Curtis raised her hand. Per
haps you have said it, she answered
softly. Hearts have changed little
since Rygmalion's time. Perhaps Gala
tea may not be so frozen as you think!
PERHAPS"
With a cry Wvkoff caught her in his
arms. "Galateai'' he cried. "Galatea!"
well, I'll be hanged!" Meredith was
staring open-mouthed, at the two.
Don't mind me-" he continued. IT
vas just going away"
Mary Curtis disengaged herself
laughing. Don't go. M. Meredith"
she protested. I'VE want you to"
ITO De our best man." interrupted
wy koff -(Coryrighted, 1909, by Assoc
GATED Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
MEDIATION A GREAT FORCE.

That strike which has kept 900 hat
makers in New Jersey out of work for
several months has been settled at
lest by arbitration and through the
mediation of Governor Fort of New
Jersey. Similar results were accom-
plished not so long ago In a strike of
street car employees in Pittsburg, Pa.
The mayor of that city announced that
* the street car company refused to
arbitrate it's differences with its
employees he would take charge of its
property and operate the car lines on
his own hook A strike that would have
CO used much trouble and turmoil in
Chicago, which was threatened by the
street car employees. was averted by the
intervention of the mayor of that city
and the success full arbitration of the
n alters in dispute.
And SO run the stories about things
LOT this sort in these days Of grace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record-1
Mans fiattery is largely responsible
for woman's vanity.
Wisdom comes With years, il folly
doe an't beat it cut.
1t is only In fiction that we hear of
a woman being speeches. with rnge.
BY the time a man feels that he can
afford to marry he doesn't want to.
The man who borrows trouble there
by places a mortgage on his peace or
n ind.
The henpecked husband doesn't have
to be a violinist to play second fiddle.
Nell-"Mr. Guzzler has such liquid
eyes" Bclle-"fes. and he does" Nell
-''Does what?" Belle-"Liquidize."
There is a fortune in it for the man
' 10 can manufacture a hammock only
large enough for one. but strong enough
to hold two.
The man who thinks with his heart
always gets the worst of it when he
stacks up against the man who thinks
With his cad
Sillicus-"I can't decide which one of
those two girls I want to marry"
Cynicus-"W marry either one OF
them and you'll discover ehat you got
the wrong one"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Time flies especially fast for the
man who has a note to meet.
4 q
In some boarding houses about the
only thing in the vegetable line which
is served is horSeradish.
= =
Preparations which are good for
badness really ought not to be In
much demand from bald-headed folks.
= x
Lucky. indeed, is the individual
who can say the right thing at the
right time, but, unfortunately there
are not many of them.
* "
Nothing but the best of feeling
should prevail among all people af-
ter the hot weather has gone. It's
been sufficient to work all the mean
ness out Of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
TOKENs OF PROsPERITY.

Real signs of the prosperity which
is returning to the business &C
tivities of the people of this nation
are to be found on many sides. but
none Of them are more certain than
those which have developed of late in
the railroad world. Railroad COM
panies are not in the habit of buying
more freight and passenger cars and
additional locomotives unless such
equipment is needed. Neither do they
put in big orders simply to take care
of such a rush of business as will be
occasioned when the big crops of the
land begin to move. Engines and
freight cars are not bought for use for
a few weeks but for several years.
And so when the railroads go into the
business of placing huge orders for
all kinds of rolling stock it means
that they are preparing for the BUSH
ness of the future.
That the railways believe that the
returning prosperity is not only here
to stay but that it is going to grow
greater in the future is evidenced
by the orders for new equipment
which they are placing these days
Only a few days ago the Rock Island
placed orders for 5000 forty-ton
freight cars ana oU LOCOMOTIVES.
The Chesapeake & Ohio also handed
in new order for 5000 freight cars
in addition to a recent order for 1900.
The Baltimore & Ohio has contracted
for 70 passenger cars. The Santa Fe
has gone into the market for go pas
senger cars of varying types. The
Pennsylvania railroad has placed an
order for $S,500,000 worth of freight
cars and engines, said to be the
largest single order of the kind on
record. "Uncle Vim" Hill. who is in
clined to get pessimistic at times has
ordered 100000 worth of new loco
motives In fact, about every rail-
road in the country is after more
facilities with which to handle the
business of the future.
And the most satisfying feature of
all this is that the railroads seldom if
ever make a mistake in their
representations. There is a good
reason for this. Their officials have
their fingers at all times on the pulse
Of the nations activities in every field
of endeavor. They know when pros
perity is at hand and they are able
to figure out to a nicely whether it
is of the substantial sort that is going
to continue on its way.
1t can be set down for certain,
therefore. that the prosperity which is
rushing on by leaps and bounds, is
here to stay. This is a particularly
satisfying thought even If the weather
has not been conducive to thoughts
of that sort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Glob,

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
There are few grave legal ques-
lions involved in a poor estate.
No one can teach school a long
time without becoming more or less
| bossy.
Every boy wonders why a girls
hair doesn't become hopelessly
tangled --- tvc Hf --
What has become of the old fash
toned dog that had sore ears from
fighting?
Unfortunately a good many mems
idea of a joke is to humiliate some
one before people.
1t makes no difference when a
man comes home. his wife involun-
tarily looks at the clock.
The lion and the lamb lie down
together about as often as dentists
pull teeth without pain.
An Atchison man pays cent and
a half more for goods than is neces-
sary. just to be contrary.
Most women would be satisfied il
they could make themselves look as
good as the photographer can.
Get the vacation spirit. If you
can't afford to go on trip, see that
your suit case goes with your neigh
Dor.
A man is never appreciated in his
home town, and he is usually not
known in other places; and there you
When a man says a streak of rust.
he means a railroad: The same ex-
preston from a woman describes her
corset.
A floor walker in a dry goods store
must be mighty mean man. Think
of a man who can speak cross to the
pretty clerks!
When a farmer begins to watch
the clouds for rain, his vigilance is
only to be compared with woman
watching her husband.
We have listened attentively for
two weeks past, and haven't heard
any one complain because the sheets
on his bed were not nine feet long.
In future, historians will say. He
made money but died poor, his wife
having a great many things the doc
tors decided to cut out of her."
An Atchison woman, the mother
of boy named William, often talks
in her sleep. and says: William.
don't do that" William, don't do
that"
Here is one expression that means
great deal: LAS sour as a sour
dish raG." In order that you may
forget the heat, we want to ask you
what you know about a sour dish
rag
When a friend has a v.-itor from
out of town, it is up to you to get
information from the guest her host
ess wants but isn't allowed to seek.
Ask her how long she intends to
stay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
HUNOR OF THE D<Y

Bach--Ever- tell her a lie? Chumley-
Didn't say tell her everything?-Spare
Moments.
did your son graduate with honors?''
II should say so. He had two fractured
ribs, broken arm and numerous strained
tepdons. Red Hen.
He is a self-made man. am told"
quite true; but his mother-in-law insists
on making some alterations. '-Birming-
ham Age-Herald.
''Yes-I once kissed the wrong girl while
going through the tunnel"-Cleveland
Leader.
Miss Hunt didn't know that Miss
Flash was a college graduate, did you?
of the aluminium of Vassar.-Boston C,ur-
Ter.
cumsoSMy husband won't ifS drink anything any
but oolong.-Boston Transcript.
How are you getting along with your
new housemaid?' First rate" answered
Iae ed of IL the t1 Wa1 do the seems 70 sP
City Journal
get wet. I think you'd better stay to
dinner Departing Guest-Oh, dear, no.
It's not raining so badly as all that
Love your neighbor as yourself" said
the minister with great earnestness.
Thomas whispered the lady who lived
next door to a pretty young widow, come
away; this Is no place for you."-Chicago
Record-Herald.
Passenger Agent-Here are some post
card views along our line of rail. Would
you like them? Patron-No, thank you.
I rode over the line day last week,
and have views of my own on it.-Tit-
Bits.
Does cabbage seem to be getting any
cheaper, dear?'' IF it is haven't noticed
it, Why?" Then 1 guess there is no
truth in the report that they are now
making cigars out Of alfalfa" Houston
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
FROM OTHER PENS

THE LURE OF ENGLAND.
Quite different from the ridicuIe. if
not open hostility, that America and
Americans received from England only
few years ago is the glad hand of
friendship that now is being extended
across the sea. In view of this altered
| condition of affairs, we are apt to feel
imn4S nsely ,flattered until we seek the
reason for the outburst of British af-
lection. Is it the great American dol
lar that has bowled over the barriers
and pulled down the latch strings? The
desire to be let alone appears to be
one of his chief reasons for going to
England. There, he says, he may
move about without an inquisitive
public specializing as to his purposes
and designs. Then, again. he finds
delightful society. which admits brains,
position, wealth, and birth on an equal
footing. He deplores the fact that
and expresses himself as having tired
of the association alone of those who
have no other interests than to attain
wealth.
This criticism, indeed, seems well
founded, and even though we might
accuse England with Interior motives
in enticing our millionaires, we cannot
blame the latter for buying with their
money what they like best. The only
pity is that they who have the power
to revolutioniZe American society
should desert it for ready-made condi-
tions that might be effected at home
witt. comparatively little effort. They
might find in Washington just such a
social structure as they admire in
London. There is no snobbishness
here, and the cosmopolitan personnel
of the Capitals society is democratic
enough to welcome any man who cares
to enter, If he has brains and breed
ing.-Washington Post.
AMERICANS AS EMIGRANTs.
We are impatient with those imni
grants who maintain their native ways
of living and thought within our Dor
ders. May it not be that in the Can
adian Northwest the Canadian-born
look with distrust upon the Americans
recently settled there?
A traveller wrote that tbs saddest |
men and women he had ever met were
the American exiles who were trying |
to be gay in Paris. The farmers who |
have gone into Canada to till the lands |
all but given them will not have oc-
casion to know the sadness of the |
exile. They will be too busy. Their |
work will save them, will protect |
them, from the grief the banished feel. |
But as these farm people grow older |
they will have the leisure to dwell |
upon their relations to the folk about |
them and to the institutions under |
which they live. 1t is characteristic |
of the American to compare the things |
he sees abroad with those at home to /
the disadvantage of the foreign. And |
those who have settled in Manitoba /
and Alberta, being as American as any
of US, are hardly likely to lose that |
habit.-Toledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
60 any address at the rate OF ten
cents a week or thirty cents n month
Thy mail onIy.) Address changed as
often as desired. While ont OF town
the state journal win be to you Ike
. 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, 1909-08-19

William E. Curtis writes to the Chi
cago Record-Herald that the bachelors
of Wyoming, who outnunber the wo-
men there by 10 to 1, find good wives
by mail order" This ought to be as
good way as any to get a wife for a
man never can tell what he is getting
in that line. regardless of his oppor-
tunities for intimate courtship. until he
has been married for some time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19

Evidently Mr.. Hartman is satisfied
in his own mind that the sickness
which is troubling him at D:esent is
only of a temporary character. 1t is
reliably reported that he has secured
an option on the control of the great
New York. Central system of railroads.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New york Press

The reason a man thinks he has a
good head for business is nobody
else thinks So
When a girl won't let a man kiss
her it's so as to make her mother
believe it.
All the things a man can get fun
out of doing he couldn't if they were
useful.
A man is just fool enough to think
that il he can send flowers to an
actress the world admires him.
The unsatisfactory thing about
having enough money seems to be
that when man gets it it isn't
enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19

Because a Chicago woman, sick un-
to death, believed that her three little
babies would be helpless and suffering
afte~ she was gone she took their lives
and her own by the gas route. This
is a poor way to attempt to solve one
of life's riddles.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19

The chief of the psychopathic ward
at Bellevue, New York's famous pub
lie hospital, declares that tea and cof-
fee are as great perils to women as
strong drink to men. This furnishes
something else for the women to worry
hofIf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19

Mr.. Ralston, the city attorney, has
concluded that the city is liable for
flood damages if the Melan bridge is
not extended so that it will not block
the channel of the Kaw. This is an
other good reason why the bonds for
this extension should carry at the spe-
cial election to be held soon for this
1urnnse
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19

"Of course. Kansas was the hottest
place in the country yesterday says
the Kansas City Star of August Is.
''Put it down always as certain that
the rest of the world will never be
able to do anything or have anything
quite like Kansas" Correct.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-19

Delegates to the eighteenth annual
assembly of the Young Peoples ALI
ance and Women's Missionary society
announced on the recent conclusion of
their deliberations here that they liked
Topeka mighty we'll That's the YER
dict of every one who comes to this
city and stays long enough to get ac-
oi1ainted