The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-21
CHEER. uPsu

Cheer upli \
Treat the matter as joke
You can put your watch in soak
Cheer up!l!
Should you get into a fight.
Perhaps the licking served you right.
Use your heart and use your Head;
What's a week or two in bed,
When you'd have to work instead
Cheer up!i!
Should an auto knock you far.
1t might have been a subway car.
If a fire destroys your flat,
Please consider where you're at,
Paying rent is wore than that
Cheer uD!ll
If you're married to a wife.
Remember. there's another life,
If you find yourself in jail
And the judge refuses bail;
Don't look dismal, don't look pale
-wex Jones In the New York American.
Gulf Waters of Gay Hue.
A most remarkable marine
phenomenon was observed by the
steamship Dover, Capt. Yon A.
Carlson, as that vessel steamed to
S5 miles from Mobile light, at 7
O'Clock in the evening of the oath of
December, the ship ran suddenly in a
streak of light coming from the water
which alternated blue and green, the
colors being so brilliant that the yes
sci was lighted up as if she was COW
cred with arc lights with coiored
globes.
A haIf-mile streak Of dark water,
and a blackness that settled like a
pail over the ship followed and a Sec
ond streak of the same brilliant hued
waters was encountered. The second
streak was about as wide as the first
and, and when the ship ran out of it
the same black waters and a night of
exceptional blackness was also en-
countered. A. D. Montmollian, travel
ing freight agent of the line. was on
board the vessel. and he and Chief
Engineer T. J. Cole. fully sub
stantiated Capt Carlson's statement
regarding the phenomena.
ST have sailed the high seas for %
years" declared Capt. Carlson, "and
have seen interesting phenomena. both
meteorological and otherwise. in the
waters of every known ocean, but l
never saw anything that approached
this blue and green light from the
water phenomena. The night was
dark, but clear. and we ran into the
streaks without any seeming warning.
was in the pilot house when we
struck 1T. and / ran on deck, thinking
that some thing was on fire.
It is thought that perhaps a phos-
phorescent condition of the waters on
the bottom of the seas at that point
suddenly mingling may have found a
condition which brought about the
lights in question.-Tampa Times.
American Dolls Bald?
Is the future American doll to be
bald-headed? is being asked all over the
country by the little mothers who have
families of dolls. It looks now as if the
birth rate of dolls in American was to
be cut down unless the little mothers
of the dolls are willing to accept their
children without a lock of ''reaP' hair
on their heads. 1t seems that there is
only one place in the country where
dolls are made. Now, these dolls will
be evolved without as much hair as the
baldest of babies unless the material Is
imported, and it looks now as if that
could not be done. The reason is that
real hair in dolls. the kind that can
be combed and brushed and curled and
put up in curl papers, is made of wool,
the duty on which is prohibitive. The
tariff is 10 per cent on the wool alone,
and a whole doll or a dolls head with
the hair ready grown can be brought
into this country for 35 per cent duty
less than the plain undyed material
from which the hair is made. 1t is
enough to make any respectable doll
turn suffragette, the dolls mammas
say, to think that they must go with
out hair at all or lose their inalienable
right to be born American citizens. The
only alternative is to wear foreign
heads on American shoulders. The own
ers of the only doll birthplace in Amer
lea are asking to have the duty taken
off or reduced on the raw wool OF
which doll hair is made, so that the
dolls can grow their own hair in their
own country. The dolls mammas say
If the men succeed in doing this they
will decorate the original birthplace of
the American doll with an appropriate
tablet when they themselves grow old
enough to belong to a patriotic society.
New York Times.
A Successful Woman Farmer.
One of the most successful and ex-
tensive woman farmers in Aroostook
county is Mrs. Cora H. Houghton, of
Fort Fairfield, living on R. F. d. route
No. 2 from Fort Fairfield. The
farm is about miles from the village,
and contains 500 acres. 375 of which
are under high state of cultivation.
From a field of IS acres of potatoes
she harvested 5000 barrels; had 40
acres in oats. which yielded a good
return; cut IT'S tons of the very best
quality hay, has eight work horses
and a driver employed in doing the
work She has cows enough for
domestic use. Mrs. HoughtOn has a
fine new house of two and one-half
stories, built last year at a cost of
$1,000 heated by steam, with hot and
cold water throughout. On the farm
are two potato houses. and three
barns sufficient for the stock, hay and
grain-Kennebec Journal
Plumber Reduces His Bill!
This is a true story.
George SchoIze, manager for John
f. Ryan, a prosperous plumber of
Flushing, L. L. was before Surrogate
Noble in Jamaica, testifying as to
work he had done for Mary McCar-
dell. Administrative of the estate of
Bernard Carraher. of Flushing.
"I find a discrepancy in your bill,
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