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died from the pip or something in vacant
lots. and such-like carrion. Really. l
hate to tell Of the unspeakable aroma
that Buey diffiused. especially when he
tried to snugsle up to a fellow. as re-
suit of these lamentable dietary habits.
Worse than that, Rluey fell into the
habit of dragging the passe fish heads
and the less presentable portions of the
deceased chickens carcasses into the
house and secreting them under the set
tin room" lounge. practice which natu-
really made the "settin' room.' and even
the adjoining rooms. penetrated by the
eff1uvia. quite uninhabitable until after
the caches OF carrion had been removed
and the windows thrown wide open for
hours.
1t was. however, when Bluey when
passing from this carrion-hoarding phase,
developed a passion for live meat, meat
on the hOof, that he passed cut of my
young life. Chickens and gosIings. still
devoid even Of pin-feathers, became Blu
eys sanguinary obsession. He had what
you might call a wide. catholic taste for
goslings and chicks. I mean he didn {
care whose they were. IF we had COS
l.ngs and chicks on the place Bluey
would eat 'em alive" If we hadn't he'd
eat somebody elses. 1t made no differ
ence TO 61ueN whose tney were. ms.
you've already inferred. did not make
him popular with the neighbors-and l
grieve to say that Bluey never had been
popular at home, except with me.
At first Bluey ate his live chicks and
goslings sub rosa. He'd come slouching
in the back gate, licking the tiny yellow
fuzz from his chops. and the next time
a certain brood was counted there'd be
one missing. Growing bolder. Bluey then
took to grabbing EN- when we were pres
ent. but momentarily had our backs
turned. He'd stink around on the edge
of a brood. nudging closer and closer
all the time, and the wait for whoever
happened to be near to look the other
way.
Then he'd snap the fluffy little thing
that he'd picked up-snap it with the eX-
pertness of A trained seal grabbing a
hunk of tossed fish out of the air-and
when. almost instantly. the Mortified
cacklng of the mother of the brood
would pull our head around again. there
would be Buey. sitting innocently on
his launches, gazing complacently in
quite the opposite direction from the
brood: not even his jaws moving, I give
you my solemn word; but the tell-tale
yellow fuzz would be clinging to his
malign muzzle. the rogue not having
had the time to lick the fuzz off before
you turned around.
1t was a mighty poor poultry year
for my folks. the year / had Bluey.
Broilers for our own table were scarcer
than hens teeth, whereas. the previous
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we'll known sporting idosyncrasy. the dou-
Bile cross.
IF Mr. Cannon gets ont in a hurry. it
will indicate that MIR. Taft swatted him
between the eyes when he was looking
1t will not mean that Mr.. Taft crept up
behind him when he was not on guard.
and pushed him off the dome of the Cap
itol
D REPRESENTATIVE WASHINGTON
N GARDNER Of Michigan used to be
a preacher. He has changed his vocation.
but not his principles. his manner or his
voice. His friends suggest that he would
make the most successful confidence man
in history if he weren't handicapped by
responsibility.
d EPR ESENTAT1EE RICHARD BAR
~ THOLDT of Missouri the friend of
the dove, used 10 wear medals for having
the most classic Choiman accent in the
House of Representatives. But now he's
a back number Representative kuester-
mann of Wisconsin has him beat by city
block. When the word goes around that
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lars, hev? groucIed Mr.. Grump the
other evening Certainly YOU don't see
any reason. That's easy There is no
reason as TO anything that YOU can see.
All reasons are invisible to you. So go
ahead. Get two more fur coats. Get
three Get half dozen of en-
why, shucks alive. ! don't see how 4
oman of your station and circumstances
in life could think Of getting along on
less than half dozen fur coats, anyhow.
\ woman has got TO dress up to her
standing, of course. and, as the wife OF a
millionaire. why. YOU should rate two
or three dozen far coats and sets of furs.
You'll observe that l said millionaire
I say that because that's what You ap-
pear TO think l am. The rest Of the world
knows me and / know myself as the most
pauperized church mouse that ever chew
ed the excelsior out of a pew cushion.
But the important thing. of course. Is
what YOU consider me to be: and since,
according TO your view. I've got about
uine-tenths Of all the money in the world.
why, go right ahead and get fur coat
for every hour in the day. I've got just
about as much chance to pay for a whole
one of the kind you're talking about.
How's that? You don't think 500 is such
an awful lot of money for a nice fur
coat? OF course you don't. You look
upon 500 as mere chewing gum money.
I've found that out. But just you go out
and try To get hold of $1O0-that's all I've
go; 10 say Then you'll find out how
.7Iich j. o"cy il is.
oh. I'm not saying that s1oO would
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HERE are several,
quite several, news
paper men in Wash
ington who appear
aimless of purpose,
and blank of eye
since T II e o d or e
Roosevelt d o II e d
the purple. 1t was
the custom of these
gentlemen to sit in
the presidential lap.
when I h a I digni-
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boys were looking on, why. he'd COM
pensate me- for all my trouble SO. when
school took UP again. l managed to en-
tice Snoops about halfway to the school
house with me. Then. when I'd been
joined by a lot of other boys TALL owners
OF the right kind of dogs that held their
tails up and all like that. gingerly
placed the strapped books I'm Snoope'
had dog that could and would do the
trick
Snoops held the books in his. mouth
long enough to trot To the edge of the
curb. where he incontinently chucked the
books into the muddy ditch, amid the
whoops of the onlookers. and then Snoops
picked up his feet and beat il back home
as fast as he could go. | love dogs and
all that, but ] am pleased to say that
the rock which I sent flying after Snoops
i'm that moment of bitter defeat landed on
Snoops just exactly where | wanted IL to
land.
Worse than all, though. I never owned
a dog that knew the first principles OF
fighting. It's pretty hard on a hoy when
his dog gets everlastingly licked. trounced
and macerated every time the dog be-
comes mingled in melee. But that is
just precisely what always happened to
me and my dogs One and all. they
always got chewed to pulp. They hadn't
any more spunk than snowbirds. They'd
let the other boys dogs pick on them and
boss and bully them all over the place
and never offer even protest not matter
if they were twice as big the other
dogs, which some of them were And
then. when the bullying dog, disgustedly
saying to himself. "Oh, this is just too
soft for any use, I'll Just take little
hunk O. pelt off this fellow for luck.
would begin to eat portions of my dog.
why. my dog would just yelp and flop
around making terrific noise and bother.
But lie wouldn't fight any more than
caterpillar. and he'd infallibly sauirm out
of the spunkN dogs embrace and pike of
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Angling in the rag
carpeted "settin'
room" OF the little
old home you first
remember " a S
there a large, some
what tine-yellowed
engraving (maybe
from a portrait by
Romney. or Rey-
nolds, or Gainsbor-
ough, or some such
big-money painting
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common. ornery creatures with no pride.
you'll be saying. but still they do the best
they can with what they've got, and they
have a little consideration anyhow for the
hefolks who have to dig and delve to sup
ply them with the oo'n.
But go get your fur coat by all means.
Don't let any poor trifiing remarks that I
make deter you from anything. Get it.
can't see that it makes a whole lot of
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o you don't see any
good reason why,
when furs are
marked down after
New Year, you
shouldn't have q
new fur coat, es-
pecially when you
know that you can
get just the kind
of a fur coat you
want for a mere
little hundred dol
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y REPRESENTATIVE AUGUSTUS P.
N GARDNER of Massachusetts dis
likes exceedingly to he identified solely
by the remark that he is Senator Lodge $
son-in-law. 1t is the general opinion
around the House of Representatives that
Mr.. Gardner is man of distinction on
his own hook, and that If he didn't have
a manner and accent like a blue FLOODED
Goldfish he would be much more of a
power in the body than he now is Nat
urally enough, most of the facetious COM
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in this town that can take just half of a
hundred-dollar note and hike downtown
and rig themselves ont from head to
foot-fur coat, set of furs. tailored suit,
shoes. hat. belt. fictitious hair. veil.
gloves. the hull burned works--for that
piece of money. and still have enough left
to matinee tickets and hot chocolates and
bunch of gumdrops. OF course, they're
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ment on Mr. Gardeners Plymouth Rock.
brand guaranteed genuine England
accent comes from far southern members.
whose speech undoubtedly SOUNDS as
ridiculous 10 Mr.. Gardner as his does 10
them. Foolish isn't 1t?
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difference in your appearance no matter
what you wear, but 7 know burned we'll
that If you don't get this one-hundred-
dollar fur coat you'll be smiling and
sulking around here till the place won't he
mt for human habitation, and so go get
it the first thing tomorrow morning after
breakfast That's the price have to paw
around here"
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pearance of indignation. you certainly
ought to speak to Mr.. Longworth You
ought to reprove him publicly
so il was Longworth who broke loose
like that. eh?" the Speaker said.
.''Oh. no., replied the well known mem
Der. Il laughed-but Longworth told a
story that made me do it,,
And he backed down from the Speaker $
desk. still looking mad and aggrieved.
Uncle Joe grinned and decided to for
get it,
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Jones tried to dance with George Smiths
girl. Fourteen are dead and eight others
are not expected Ia live etc.
The Washington correspondents present
laughed and agreed that the Englishman
had excellent grounds for his comment.
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WITHOUT any effort at all Of his own,
:" Speaker Cannon seems always to
be in the spotlight of late. Every day or
so some anonymous. but invariably in
innate" friend of the Speaker Is quoted to
the effect that Uncle Joe has decided to
retire. The latest Of all these rumors would
indicate that President Taft is conspirng
with Brutus Gardner and Cassius Muir
dock for the assassination Of Caesar
The main thing wrong with this report
is that President Taft, while he may not
be a past master of the gentle art of
politics, isn't as clumsy as all this would
indicate. Nor is he an advocate of that
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n REPRESENTATIVE JOHN w
N DWIGHT of New York. the repub-
lican whip Of the House. doesn't look
one-third as intelligent as his admirers
say he is.
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President Taft seems able to get along
without any personal attentions of this
sort. 1t hurts, in some quarters, too.
Just the other day one of our best known
uplifters was standing in front OF the
White House, after having had a ten
minute chat with the President He was
looking as blue as indigo. A newspaper
friend, who happened along, asked him
what in the world was the matter
oh" said the uplifter. with deep
sigh. there doesn't seem anything ever
to write about any more"
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gan or the Rajah of Hydera bad or Coal
Oil Johnny or the Tsar of Muscovy: but,
inasmuch as every 800 that finds its way
into this family has to be earned by the
bitter sweat Of my brow. why, I s'pose
you'll be good enough to forgive me,
won't you, II / am cheap piker enough to
regard 500 as quite little piece of
change, Ell? Thanks. / am delighted
that you will forgive me. Much 'bliged
for meeting you.
And, by the way, when it comes to
that, how long dye suppose it has been
since I disbursed as much money as 500
for couple of suits of clothes? Oh, you
don't know. hey? Can't remember? Oh.
we'll. l guess you can remember when we
were married. can't you? Ch-huh! All
right! That makes it easy. then. for you
to remember how long it's been since I
time | dug up that much money for a
mess of raiment for myself was little
while before we were married, and now
you can figure it out for yourself
Maybe you won't compel me to state
the answer as to why haven't purc!,as-
ed 500 worth OF raiment all at one fell
swoop since we were married. That an
swer. at any rate. ought to be and no
haps. however. you imagine that I ex-
tract a whole lot of comfort and JOY from
the necessity which compels-positively
compels-me to patronize cheap tailors.
IL yOu uANc tfBOukHJ ABOUT IL i suppose
you say to yourself that 1t serves me
PERFECTLY right. because I have to dig
up obscure little tailors to make my
clothes and dicker with 'em and beat
'em down from their asking prices and
all that SORT Of measly thing. Maybe
you imagine that it tickles me almost to
death to wear suit OF clothes that has
cost me about one-half or even one third
what my suits used to cost me before 1
was idiotic enough to-before we were
married. that is to say. Well. it doesn't.
Common candor forces me to the state
ment that II does not. Not any. Not
none.
LAS a matter Of fact. 1 like to look
decent as we'll as the next man. even If
my goose is all cooked and I'm slielved
and sewed up and bound down and put
away In cold storage and all like that.
/ like to keep nv head up and make
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WHILE the House Of Representatives.
!" was very quietly considering
measure of no particular Importance just
before the holiday adjournment, the or
derby proceedings of the body were inter-
rupted by a shrek of laughter from the
left center of the chamber. Speaker Can
non banged the desk with his gavel and
looked fierce. Half dozen deputy ser
geants-at-arms stirred into action but
the laugh was cut off short.
A second or so later a we'll known menu
Der of the House. who had been sitting
next to Representative Longworth of
Ohio. jumped to his feet and made for
Uncle Joe's desk.
MIR. Speaker he said, with every ap-
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oh. I'm not saying that 500 would
leok like big money to ]. Pierpont Nor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-08

=. At last here is instant relief and last
Ping permanent remedy for sore feet. No
more swollen, bad smelling, sweaty feet
No more corns. No more bunions No
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tried without getting relief. JUST USE
TTZ.
T1Z is totally unlike anything else for
the purpose you ever heard of. It's the
only foot remedy ever made which acts
on the principal OF drawing out all the
poisonous exudations which cause sore
feet. Powders and other remedies mere
ly clog up the pores. TIZ cleanses them
out and keeps them clean. 1t works right
off. You viii feel better the very first
time its used. Use it a week and you can
forget you ever had sore feet There is
nothing on earth that can compare with
1T. TIZ is for sale at all druggists Is
cents per box or direct If you wish from
Walter Luther Dodge & Co., Dodge Bldg,
Chicago, Ill. Recommended and sold by
Geo. W. Stansfield, $50 Kansas ave-; A. O.
Rosser. 522 Kansas ave-.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-08
TO PROHIBIT FIGHT PICTURES.
Kansas City, Kan, Commissioners In
troduce an Ordinance

Kansas City. Kan, July s.-An ordi-
nance was introduced at the meeting
of the Kansas City, Kan, commission
ers yesterday prohibiting the exhibit
ton of the motion pictures of the JEFF
fries johnson fight in this city. The
ordinance was prepared by C. w.
Green, commissioner of finance. 1t
provides:
THAT any person or persons who
shall exhibit or cause to be exhibited
in this city (Kansas City, Kan.) in any
theater, place of amusement or other
public place, pictures portraying the
Jeffries-J Johnson prize fight shall be
guilty of a misdemeanor and upon
conviction thereof shall be fined in any
sum not exceeding $500, or by impris-
onment not exceeding one year in Jail,
or both such fine and Imprisonment
The ordinance is intended to pre-
vent motion picture theater promoters
from showing the fight pictures. 1t
was placed on its first reading yester-
day afternoon and will be voted upon
for it's final passage at the next meet
ing Of the commission.
Mr. Green says the exhibition of the
pictures might cause race prejudice
and he believes it would be unwise to
permit to be shown life-size motion
pictures of white man being beaten
by a negro.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-08
TWICE CONVICTED PRISONER.
Attorney General Brings Mandamus
Proceedings Against Warden.

Leavenworth, Kan, July S-John
Marshall, assistant attorney general
has begun mandamus proceedings
here against J. K. Codding, as war
den of the Kansas penitentiary, to
make him give up the custody of Ar
thur Ward, convict serving a 5-year
term for Jail breaking. The suit is in
stituted on behalf of the managers
and superintendent of the Hutchinson
reformatory. Ward was originally con-
victed of chicken stealing in Johnson
county and sentenced TO the reforma-
tory for five years.
After his conviction and while
awaiting to be taken to the reforma-
tory, Ward broke Jail in johnson
county and was recaptured and then
taken to the reformatory. He served
part of the reformatory sentence and
was released on parole, but while out
with the parole over him the johnson
county officials arrested him and tried
him for jail breaking and he was
brought to the penitentiary to serve
five years.
The contention is set up that Ward
was and is still reformatory prisoner
and can not be sent to the penitentiary
until the expiration of the first 5-year
chicken stealing term.
Judge Dill will hear the case Sat
urday, July 16.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-08
COLLAPSED ON WITNESS STAND.
Miss Hernamia KaeSmann SwoOned
From Chair Nervous Wreck.

independence, Kan, July S.-Miss
Hernamia Kaesmann, president and
general manager of the Sunfiower
State refinery. after being on the. wit
ness stand in a bankruptcy case two
days, collapsed under fearful gruelling
of creditors lawyers, and swooned
from the chair a nervous wreck. After
about an hour she revived sufficiently
to be carried to an interuban car and
sent to her home.
Creditors claim that Miss Kaesmann
and other directors of the refinery sold
to her within four months of the
bankruptcy $4,000 worth of refinery
stock at fifty cents on the dollar, Civ
ing her preference not due her.
Miss Kaesmann claims the refinery
owes her $4,000, but she has not
shown that she put that amount in the
business. Creditors therefore petition
referee to place the Sunf1ower State
Oil company selling branch of refinery
also in possession of Trustee White.
They also ask that trust deed be made
to cover lubricating plant and all prop
erty acquired after building same be
declared invalid as touching any prop
erty acquired after it was executed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-08
MPLYWITHLAW
Kansas Millers Suspend Bleach
ing Flour Process.
Decision Is a Serious Blow to
This State.
AMERICAN HOUSEWIFE
Said She Is Largely Responsible
For Whole Trouble.
Will Take Appeal to Govern
ment Food Department.

Hutchinson, Kan, July 5.-There is
rot a bleacher working in the -four
mills of Hutchinson. The decision OF
the federal court at Kansas City against
the Kansas millers. meant the suspen-
sion of the bleaching process.
Fifteen minutes after l had receiv-
ed a message from Kansas City an
rounciag that we had lost, the bleacher
in our mill was stopped" said William
Kelly, of the Kelly mills.
and president of the Southern Kansas
Millers' league, who has been one OF
fine leaders in the fight against the
bleaching suit, is expected home from
Kansas City this evening.
He wired the local millers the re-
suit of the case. Two WORDS 7tolo the
tale. I'VE lost
The decision will affect not only the
Kansas milling industry but also every
wheat grower in Kansas.
AS result of the decision, Kansas
flour can no longer be "bleached: The
to be put en- the market in its natural
color, a slight yellowish tinge.
This will not affect the -four in any
way. The bleaching process did not
improve the -four, although the miller
insisted that it did not injure It,
American Housewife Responsible.
The American housewife is largely to
blame for the whole trouble. She has
a theory that flour has to be absolute
lv white to be of the best grade. Kan
sas wheat is so rich in certain qualities
that the grain is yelloWlsh, ana the
flour has a tinge of color. 1t means a
richness in quality which the northern
wheat does not have. But the resul-
is the flour is a little yellOWiSh, while
the northern flour is naturally white
The trade prefers the white flour
end in order to compete with the north
ern flour Kansas millerS have hao TO
bleach the flour and make 1t white
The northern millers took advantage
Of the situation, and have succeeded in
getting the order from the court for
bidding the bleaching of the flour. The
United States government will now
seize aay flour that is bleached, and
Kansas millers will. of course, have to
cult bleaching.
Black Eye for Kansas Millers.
This decision will give the Kansas
n7illers a black eve" declared Mr..
Kelly TODAY. Because of the lack of
satisfactory color we will find the gen.
eral domestic trade affected. 1t will
have an effect on our flour
in the market, and will naturally have
ali effect on the price we pay for wheat.
The nillerS here expect one more ef-
fort to be made to save the day for
Kansas wheat and flour. An appeal will
be taken to q board, connected with
the government pure food department,
and If this board sustains the conten-
ton of the Kansas millers that the
bleaching process is not harmful, the
courts action at Kansas City may be
upset But this is the last hope