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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

The federal civil service system seems
to be working overtime on the wrong
end of the string. Many government
Jobs demanding special abilities and fit
ness and paying large salaries are fll-
ed each year without any examinations
as to the capabilities Of the candidates
after them. Political pull is the con-
trolling factor in the filling of these
places. The men with the most of it
land them. But postmastership which
pays IS cents q day, and one such is
now vacant at WheatfieId. Pa. is on the
civil service list and a candidate for
such a place has to take an examina-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press

Back of the desire Of man to argue
is his passion to hear his own voice.
There's nothing so easy as to get a
contempt for a thing you try to gain.
but it's beyond your reach.
A girl Is very farsighted to make a
man so attentive while she can, which
is before she marries him.
Nothing makes man more indignant
than for his wife not to appreciate how
sick he is when he isn't.
The funny thing about people with
red hair IL how mad they can get try
ing to prove it dosen't give them q bad
temper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

The wonderful endurance power Of
women Is evidenced again by the fact
that husky New York college man,
who was rehearsing in q girls part in
a play, fell in a 1T and remained I'M
conscious for some time. and for no
other reason than that he had been
wearing a tightfy-laced corset for a
couple OF hours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30
PASS IT ALONG.

What is a more lonesome sight than
the last hair on a bald mans head? p
st. Louis Star.
A clam that has accidentally got
into a bowl of restaurant clam chow
der, possibly.-Philadelp Telegraph
Dunno, unless it's a girl without a
rear piazza near-hair extension to her
head.-Los Angeles Express.
Guess again: 1t Is the residue OF a
newspaper mans salary after he pays
his grocery and gas bills,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

A New JERSEY man who has not
shaved for 20 years figures that his
Bacrtnce in this particular has saved
him $4,000 In shaving bills. That
would represent a yearly barber bill Of
about s2To. And to spend such a sum
. man would have to pass most of his
time In a barber shop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

News that Connecticut man was
killed recently by a folding bed closing
up upon him is reminiscent of the days
long ago. 1t has been the prevailing
opinion, no doubt, that folding beds of
this sort were among the instruments
of torture of another age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

Oscar Hammerstein has retired from
grand opera field. It must be admitted,
though. that he has had all kinds of ex-
element and fun while41e has been work
ing the impresar1o role. and he evidently
paid well for It. If the reports Of the
money he lost In the venture are cor
rect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

Ruth Bryan-Leaydtt appears to be OF
a decidedly romantic turn. Her first
husband was an artist and the next one
she is coon to marry is a soldier.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

Here's another peculiar thing. Mr..
Biddle, campaign manager for Con-
gresham Anthony, does not appear to
be very favorably impressed with the
Issues on which Mr.. McNeal is making
his fight for the Republican congress
sional nomination IN the First district.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

A comet is a handy thing to have
about. 1t can be blamed for any and
everything. Not so long ago in these
parts some wiseacres were attributing
the prematurely warm weather to the
approach CT HaIley's protege. And
some of the people in the Great Lakes
region are now blaming the same comet
for the snow and the cold that has
prevailed there of late.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

This being husband is evidently not
what 1t is cracked up to be in GER
tain sections of this land of the free
and homo OF the brave. A Chicago
Judge has ruled that a wife is perfect
1y justified in holding up her worser
hak and using force and the add of
friends, If necessary, to take his loose
change away from him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

A word of praise will have to be
sounded for M. PauIhan, the great
French aviator after his recent re-
mar1able performance in England, even
If he did snub the Topeka newspapers
when he passed through here some
time on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

1t is q fine sentiment that now sets
apart one day for tribute to the moth
ers of the nation But every day is
Mothers Day In the matter of work
and worries
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

Attorney General Wickersham is
booked to deliver a speech at
Wilkesbarre on Saturday night. 1t is
not reasonable to suppose that any of
the congressional insurgents will Jour-
ney thitherward to hear him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

AS the new tariff law grows older 1t
is reaching the point where 1t does not
need any defenders. It is beginning to
defend itself. And it is doing a good
lob of It, too.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

John D. Rockefeller is assuredly in
a class by himself. He is now getting
angry because congress is little slow
in opening the way for him to give
away the bulk of his fortune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30
OBSERVATIONS.

Some people are so modest they shy
at the naked truth or bare facts.
The expression. getting on his feet
again." might be applied. with differ
ent meaning, to the man who loses his
automobile by foreclosure proceedings.
A gag in the mouth OF a comedian
doesn't stop his noise.
Some women are such bargain fends
that they are tempted 70 poison a rela-
tive when they see a $50 mourning
outfit marked down to $49.9S.
The best man at a wedding-if It
comes to a show-down-is usually
proven to be the groom's mother-in-
law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

Strange, though 1t may be, everybody
IN these parts is nowadays agreed on
one thing-the need of rain.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30
ANSWER no CORRESPONDENCE.

o. B. S.-For the treatment OF sore
throat, follow these comprehensive in
structfons: Get a gargle prescription.
begin to swallow it and when IL is half
way down repeat rapidly the name OF
the place Colonel Roosevelt visited to
see the aeroplane 1ight-"Issy-Les
Moulin Aux"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

oh, you Santa Eel That new $3.50, 900
Office building will boom Topeka's stock
considerably.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30
KAMSAS COMMENT
PENAL nuTT1RR-

RlNA1k COL1O hh-
The editor of the Globe lately made
the statement that the average house
keeper could get pointers by visit
to the federal penitentiary. So could
er, house owner. and other average
persons in this land of the free. if the
scope of observation is extended to
the wider field of penal servitude. On
the new theory that the object Of i'm
prlsonment Is reform. rather than
punishment some strange changes
have come to the persons of our land
The penitentiary of Western Pennsyl-
van1a gives its inmates courses in oil
and water color painting. In Oklahoma
besides useful trades and the lock-
step, convtcts are instructed in foreign
language. In other prisons, there are
It has remained for the warden of
the Nebraska prison to introduce
courses in table manners Until re-
Gently, the inmates of that bastile
gulped their food in the solitude of
their cells But now all that is
changed. The warden introduced the
plan of dining together in a large hall.
acting as host. he was panied to note
a lack and variety of table etiquette
which was shocking. One or two ate
with their fork. No. 879 poured his
oonee into his saucer. and absorbed it
ike suction pump. Many others had
to be told that nourishment shouldn't
be taken in a manner to interfere
with the orchestra. So the warden
gave a course of lectures on the prop
er methods of eating. A good idea,
and. doubtless full Of pointers to those
outside, as well as those who had to
listen. And, in no facetious spirit, we
say there may be something to these
new-fangled ideas. Teaching men the
importance of good behavior is to
keep them out OF prison.-Atchison
Globe.
AS TO ILLITERACY.
The philosophical statisticians con-
tinue to exhibit the appalling ignorance
which prevails by showing with the
rule OF subtraction that the difference
between the total school population and
the number of children enrolled in
schools, gives the number of children
who are growing up in dense illiteracy.
The figure mongers fail to look at the
important facts that, in the state of
Kansas, for instance. thousands OF
children leave school at the age of Is
or Whereabouts, well educated in the
elementary branches, and that for
statistical purposes they are considered
school children until the age of FL; that
in many Kansas cities, children are not
admitted until they are T. though they
are enumerated at the age of 5; that
these facts with some notifications can
be found in every state in the Union;
that most students of statistics make
no allowance for the great number of
children and young people, still of
school age, who are educated in private
schools. That there is more ignorance
than there should be in some sections
of the country is true, but in the states
situated in the northern Mississippi
valiey.the percentage Of illiteracy is in
significant. Notwithstanding the facts
set forth in this article, we are expect
ing every day to see some magazine or
other writer thrust before the public
misleading subtractions and deductions
western School Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

''This 'children's playground move
ment may be all right as an issue In
city politics." remarked the police re-
porter as he threw three unemployed
office boys out of the local room. but
be it known that the commissioners
haven't set aside this once for such
purposes"
All England is weeping with J. M
Barrie the literary martyr who Is Civ
ing up his wife to Another Mean
while 1t is just possible that Barrie's
Great Sorrow is for exhibition pur-
poses only. Maybe in the solitude OF
his own room he chortles with Rlee as
he thinks of the lemon-colored brick
he Is handing the other Fellow.
HENPECKED.
what party do you belong tor
was recently asked of a local wage
slave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30

SPEAKING OF BIG GAME.
While Teddy, in a land remote.
Sought bongo. gnu and hippopot,
Insurgents sought to get a goat:
T. r. got his-but they did NOT.
Moral
To hunt the widest beasts that grow
In Africa is joy,
Compared with hunting Uncle Joe.
OF Danville, Illinoy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-30
A sATuRDAY sERMoN.

Ask, and It shall be given you; seek.
and ye shall find; knock. and II shall be
opened unto you. st. Matthew VII =
Williams news., 1910-12-03

DoN'T get impatient and long to get a new cuss word to use when you get letters from people who get their stationery from outside firms. The belief that what we get from "furin countries" is so much better than the home made article, must be overcome, and it can't be overcome by hunting up and using new cuss words. Make it interest ing to that class some way if you can; and one usually can.
Williams news., 1910-12-03
New Apportionment

The house shall consist of fifty four members, nineteen in the senate ard thirty five in the house of representatives. The apportion ment is as follows: Apache county l senator, 1 representative; Cochise county 2 senators, 7 representa- tives; Coconino county 1 senator, representative; Gila county 2 sena- tors. 3 representatives; Graham county senator. 2 representatives Greenlee county senator, 2 rep resentatives; Maricopa county senators, 6 representatives; Mohave county senator. 1 representative; Navajo county 1 senator, 1 repre-. sentative; Pima county 2 senators 3 representatives; Pinal county l senator, representative; Santa Cruz county 1 senator, 1 represe' .tative; Yavapai county senators 4 representatives; Yuma county senator representatives.
Williams news., 1910-12-03
Notice

THE NEWS has been sending out a large number of bills due for subscription during the last three weeks. Under the new law we cannot carry the names on the subscription list unless paid Please give the matter your atten sion at once. The management of THE NEWS dislike to erase your name from the list. but we have no option in the matter. Uncle Sam means what he says, and the law must be enforced.
Williams news., 1910-12-03

THE democrats in the constitu tional convention overlooked 6 good bet when they failed to select Colonel John Dunbar, editor of the Arizona Democrat, as chaplain of that august body. Dunbar can make a powerful supplication to Providence when he has anything to pray for; but some one must have given the deacon a bum steer when they sent him against that constitutional bunch.
Williams news., 1910-12-03

Seventh Anniversary Number of the Los Angeles Examiner to be published Dec 25. 1910-A 160 page paper profusely illustrated in half tones and colors, giving full statistics of this remarkable countrv-mailed to any address in the United States or Mexico, 10 cents a copy. Send it back east Send orders and money direct to the Los Angeles Exs miner for the number of copies you wish mailed to your friends. As the edition is limited. an early remittance is desired.
Williams news., 1910-12-03

WHEN the democratic delegates voted to apply the recall to the judiciary, it was supposed that the limit of rampant radicalism had been reached, but the attack upon the Deity by a democratic delegate from Navajo. is far in advance of anything thus achieved in Oregon, Oklahoma. or even in previous sessions of the constitutional con- vention. Citizen.
Williams news., 1910-12-03
Revenues From National Forests

Washington, Nov. 3O-For the fiscal year ended June 30 last, the U. s. Department of Agriculture announces that 25 per cent of National Forest revenue which will go to the states for road and school purposes amounted to $5O6,194 84. This was $67 492 O3 more than las, year, or an increase of little over 115 per cent. The payments are an offset to the loss of income from taxable property sustained through withdrawal of the forest land from entry under the public land laws:
 The amounts which will go to the various states are as follows: Arizona. $51. .229 3s; Arkansas, $2,- BOA A: California, $60,752 91; Col
 orado, $50. 306 19; Florada. $7O6 3S; Idaho. $66. O74 55; Kansas, $1.OO4, 67; Minnesota, $457 37; Montana, $S3,67S 38; Nebraska, $2,S2O 25; Nevada, $16,314 33; New Mexico, $2S, 529 53; North Dakota, $63 GA; Oklahoma, $626 10; Oregon, $39 ! 635 S7; South Dakota, $,SOS. 93; Utah, $32,905 49; Washington. $23,671 S9; Wyoming, $34,7O5.54.
Williams news., 1910-12-03

GOVERNOR ELECT Floss of Massa- chusetts has demanded that Sena- tor Lodge of the same state with draw from the senatorial race, for the reason that '.Senator Lodge is not in touch with the new order of things. He does not represent the people and men and woman in the ordinary walks of life"
Williams news., 1910-12-03

THE rex' legislature of Arizona will consist If 54 men bers-19 in the senate and 35 in the house of representatives That is, if Ari zona is admitted as a state.
Williams news., 1910-12-03
Thanksgiving
Tconcluded from last week.

1nS0peraOly dllloQ IO IneSo di- nual observances comes the incom
 parable and lordly turkey. We cannot overmsgnify his praise. It is unfortunate that a carrion-lov. ing bird of prev like the eagle was selected as the National emblem of the America n Republic The eagle is symbol of war and conquest of the bloody battle field. lilly be fitting a nation that stands for peace and justice. The true bird of the Republic is the noble turkey
 "a native of our soil He feeds not on carrion ard offal. but on
 he berries, grains and nuts of the fields and woodlands. He is . ahoriginal to every state and terri tory from the Rio Grande to the Red River of the North, from the Gulf of California to Cape Cod Bay.
 md from Florida Straits to Puget Sound. In beauty of form and
 plumage, and in dignity of carriage he bird of prey can rival him
 He is lord of the feast of Thanks
 giving and Christmas, and is the aohlest game bird of the Western Hemisphere. The wild fowl is much superior to the domesticated bird in almost every respect, in size, beauty of plumage, intelli- gence and in flavor. Wild turkeys have been shot weighing 60 pounds and carrying their heads fully four feet above ground; while the prize winners at poultry shows rarely attain a weight of even 40 pounds.
 The most gorgeous of the, turkey family is the ocellated turkey of Yucatan and Honduras in Central America. Although smaller than the more northern variety, his plumage is dazzingly lustrous. re- f1ecting every color of the rainbow. and making him fully as beautiful as the pea cock. The turkey was domesticated by the Indians of Southwestern America long before the white man ever set foot on this continent. The Yucatan variety was the one tanned by the Indians, and from it most of the breeds now raised have been derived. It is estimated that more than 65, ,O00,. 900 turkeys are raised for table consumption in this country every year.
 Next to the Proverbal turkey and cranberry sauce of Thanksgiv ing, stands the pumpkin pie Pumpkin is the Thanksgiving staple upon which the poor man may always depend Prices of turkey may soar beyond his reach hut everybody can afford feast of this suculent vegetable No Thanks giving dinner is complete without it. In some sections of the west fall festival is observed, at which pumpkin pie is freely furnished to all, the occasion being known az "Pumpkin-Pie Day" The occasion is usually in October. Oxen are roasted over pit and pumpkin pies are served from tents. Thous ands of people may be seen during the day munching pumpkin pie.
Williams news., 1910-12-03

THE man who trades at home helps his city; the man who trades away from it. hurts it. But what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. This applies to the seller as we'll as the buyer.
Williams news., 1910-12-03

. THE Coconino Sun is twenty seven years old. Editor Breen has made the Sun a first class paper, and THE NEWS hopes he may live many years to enjoy his deserved prosperity.
Williams news., 1910-12-03

THE board of supervisors of Cochise county has appointed three rangers at salary $125 per month to watch out for cattle and horse thieves and other classes of crimi nals
Williams news., 1910-12-03

WHO will be =the first bushes. man in Willia ms to take the frs' step toward organizing chambt, e.: clmmsIct? D,n't- wait for som. one else Do it yourself.
Williams news., 1910-12-03

THE socialists in the constitution were handed a nice lemon by their democratic brethren as soon as their services were no longer needed. All the favorite measures of the socialists have been thrown in the discard. No wonder they feel sore.
Williams news., 1910-12-03
Dr. PierCe'S FaYOrite Prescription

Is the best of all medicines for the of dseases disorders and weaknesses peculiar It is the only preparation of its kind devised by regularly gradu aed physician-an experienced and skilled specialist in the diseases of women.
 It safe medicine in any condition of the system. THE ONE REMEDY which contains alcohol
 and no injurious habit-formins drugs and which
 creates craving for such stirnulants.
 THE ONE REMEDY good that its makers
 not afraid to print its every ingredient
 each outside bottle wrapper and attest to the
 truthfulness of the under oath.
 It is sold by medicine dealers everywhere, and deal get it. Don't take a substitute of unknown composition No counterfeit is good the gent who something else is 'ust good Dr. Pierce or trying deceive for his selfish benefit Sue trusted. He is tring with your priceless posses may be your life itse See af yon get whaf ask
Williams news., 1910-12-03

It is rumored that Territorial Auditor Foster has handed his resignation to Gov. Sloan.
Williams news., 1910-12-03

IT is, only four weeks until Chris, mas D. your Christmas buyin early ard get the best.
Williams news., 1910-12-03
SATURDAY DECEMBER 8. 1910

THAT Mexican "revolution' seems to have died a bornin'.
Williams news., 1910-12-03
Mammoth Mine a Producer

Bullion receipts yesterday at the Bank of Arizona included a fifty eight ounce bar of gold from the Mammoth mine, partial cleanup of the plates of the new mill in the test run started few days ago It will be shipped to the branch mint at San Francisco.
 The Mammoth mine was taken over several months ago by George U. Young, Secretary of Arizona, for the Young Mines company The property was one of the noted producers of the Territory guar ter of century ago. Since the title passed to MT. Young and his associates great progress has beer made in reopening the property which has been idle many years. due to litigation and disagreemen's among it's former owners Some of the old workings have been re paired and in addition virgin de posits of rich ore. not known tn ex ist in it's early history, have been uncovered.
 The new mill has been finished and ten stamps are now working on the test run giving satifaction
 No wonder the Arizona corpora tions are not represented in Phoe- nix by their attorneys. The reason is plain. They have elected them as members of this constitutiodal convention. Wonder how the people of Arizona like this piece of information ?-Arizona Demo crat