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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

A Cleveland couple who have been
married sixty years are held up as an
example of the fact that it is possible
for marriage to be a success, As
matter Of fact many marriages are
successes, but little attention is paid to
them. It's only the unsuccessful mar
riages that generally find their way
into. the columns of the newspapers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

What will the insurgent Republicans
have to say to this? Reports are cur
rent in Washington that President Taft
and Colonel Roosevelt have been corre-
spending regularly and the indications
are that the two are working together
for Republican success in 1912, and
furthermore that there will be no OPP
position from Roosevelt to President
Taft's denomination
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

No one should get the idea that this
prosecution of the bath tub trust by
the federal government is a move OF
any sort. against persons taking a
bath occasionally.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

It's to be wondered what Clifford
Pinchot and James A. Garfield found in
their stockings. A few wads of con-
ISOLATION would have been most appro-
pirate Christmas remembrances for
them. Reports are also current that
they, and other distinguished gentle
men who we're parties to it, have re-
organized their mutual admiration So
ciety into one OF commiseration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

That merry-go-round piano which
was used successfully to quiet the
wild animals on a rampage in the
winter quarters OF an amusement COM
pany, probably scared the beasts al
most to death.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

Undoubtedly. the Porto Ricans are
not very favorably impressed with a
progressive government The fight
there against the hookworm, that de-
veloper of laziness, is going along iii
fine shape.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

About the only thing that Kansans
have not succeeded in doing with mucn
success is the building and operating
of flying machines. Still, this is not
very consequential.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

Knasas City, Mo-, to the fore again.
An ordinance has been passed there
which requires women to place muzzles
or guards on the points of their long
hatpins. This is one of the evils. how
ever. that has been greatly exagger-
afed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

The State Journal Is 4 member Of the
Associated Press and. resolves the full day
telegraph report Of that great neWs or
ganizadon for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose sra
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

Thinks the Kansas City Star: DR..
Cook should not despair Perhaps he
can induce a senate committee to 'in-
vestigate'' him,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

Conditions are about as usual IN
Hayti. They're having trouble there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

If "Blue-eyed Billy Shetland is
elected United States senator from
New York at the behest of Tammany.
he will reach the councils of govern
ment too late to help out his particular
friends in the Electrical trust, which
has just been proceeded against by the
federal government. Mr.. Sheehan is
among the prominent attorneys for all
of the big electrical interests in and
about New York. But then ne will
come in handy in the senate to help
pull the teeth from the antitrust law.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

John watch-me Gates has contribu<-
ed another 5000 to the Port Arthur
Collegiate institute, which is under the
lana cement of the Methodist Episco-
pal church. Maybe this is some of the
money that John Watch-me won on
one Of his several successful excursions
to Monte Carlo. You don't hear much
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

Chickens from sixteen states are to
be exhibited at the poultry show to be
held in this city beginning January ..
It's to be wondered if among them
will be a specimen of that rare, that
almost extinct bird, 1.-The helpful hen"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

A bucket of butter 40 years old has
been found in a well at Hope. The
bidding, on this rare find Is open only
to restaurants.
H P
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-29

What shall we do with this lob lot of
odds and ends?' Put 'em in prornineo+
cry family buys a Christmas present ~.
father. "-Leuisviile Courier-Jorrnal. io'
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28

A motion for . new trial in the
bleached flour case containing 1877 req
sons why it should be granted was
filed in the United States court at
Kansas City.
Five hundred miners are out at
Joplin, Mo, because the smelling com.
pany wanted to reduce wages rs cents
per day.
Moses II. Joseph, Of New York.
testifying before the Chicago grand
Jury is said to have given the details
of how the National Packing company
secured control Of the Butchers
Dressed neat company, which was or.
ganized in New York to fight the beef
trust.
New York bankers have found IL
necessary to take measures to dis
courage the reckless buying of auto
mobiles by refusing to handle mort
cages placed on homes for that pur-
pose.
George Howard and Walter Collins
who sailed from Hamilton, o., in a
balloon with the hope OF breaking the
44-hour record only remained in the
air ten hours and landed zeal Mount
Pleasant, III.
Speaker Cannon IN his Emporia
speech charges Senator Bristow with
making false statements as to rubber
im~portations. The senator stated in
his Winfield speech that there had
been a decrease in imports Of manu-.
featured rubber but Speaker Cannon
says the records show an increase Of
$356,332 in the first nine months OF
the Payne law.
Ellwood Haynes Of kokomo, Ind,
announced at the meeting Of the
American Chemical society at San
Francisco the discovery of o new
metal which will take an edge equal
to steel, admits Of a high polish and
will not tarnish. It is but little more
expensive than steel. The d~iscoverer
says 1t has no equal except gold and
platinum.
The wage controversy between the
Pennsylvania railroad east OF Pitts
burg and the trainmen has been set
tied.
IT Is reported, but not officially con-
firmed that the majority of the COM.
mittee which investigated the Bal
linger- Pinchot controversy have
agreed upon a report generating
Secretary Ballinger. The report will
not be made public until September
10. Two minority reports will be
made one by the Democratic members
and one by Representative Madison.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
AN OFF DAY FOR THE LAKE SHORE
On One Division -Four Wrecks, Seven
Engines Disabled and Five
Men Hurt.

Franklin, Pennsylvania.-It was an
off agin Finncgan" day on the Frank.
lin branch of the Lake Shore railroad.
Four trains were wrecked; five men
were hurt, one perhaps fatally. First,
a westbound freight crashed head-on
into a double header, piling up three
engines and seven cars. A wreck train
rushing from Ashtabula jumped tie
track near jamestown and was ditch
ed. Three locomotives coupled to-
gether running to the telegraph office
for orders collied near the-roundhouse
here with another engine, one loComo-
tive being demolished and the others
badly damaged.
William Dye of Ashtabula, engineer
Of the wreck train, was injured severe
ly. Four other engineers were hurt.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
Hill Talks on Good Roads.

Two thousand persons heard Curtis
Hill Of Columbia, state highway engi-
neer, talk on good roads at the Chilli
Gothic C~hautauqua. He said: 1.-THE re-
lation Of public roads to the social,
moral and educational part OF life has
been largely overlooked; the home,
the school and the church is the nu-
cleus around which our social life ex-
lists. This Is particularly true Of coun.
try life. where the highway is the
means of communication between the
home, school and church. Neglect your
public roads and you not only neglect
your w transportation facilities, but
your social and educational environ.
ments."
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
Campaign for Better Eggs.

The campaign for better eggs has
been going on ever since the setting
season ended, before June. 1t is state.
wide now, and DR.. Cutler is sending
out 5000 cards to egg buyers in the
country towns and cities, citing the
law for the instruction Of both farm
ers and dealers, The result already
has been remarkable, he says. One
member of the produce exchange told
DR.. Cutler that there is a 100 per cent
improvement already in the quality of
eggs sent in from Missouri.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
An Eaav Fit

A number Of years ago there lived
In northern New Hampshire a notori-
GUS woman.hater. 1t was before the
day of ready-made clothing, and want
Ing a new suit, he was obliged to take
the material to the village tailoress.
She took his measurements, and when
she cut the coat, made q liberal al
lowance on each seam.
The mans dislike of women In gen.
eral prevented his having a fitting.
He took the finished garment without
trying It on. It was much too large.
and his disgust was apparent in the
answer he made to the friendly loafer
on his first visit to the post once,
when he wore the despised article.
Got a new coat. Obed?" said the
loafer.
mo, I hain't!" said Obed. i've got
yards Of cloth wrapped round
me."-Youth's Companion.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
EPIDEMIC OF ITCH IN WELSH
VILLAGE

I'm Dowlais, South Wales, about ar.
teen years ago. families were strick-
en- wholesale by a disease known a.
the itch. Believe me. 1t Is the most
terrible disease of its kind that I
know Of, as 1t itches all through your
body and makes your life an inferno.
Sleep is out of the question and you
feel as II a million mosquitoes were
attacking. you at the same time. I
knew a dozen families that were so
affected.
THE doctors did their best, but
their remedies were of no avail what
ever. Then the families tried a drug
gist who was noted far and wide for
his remarkable cures. People came
to him from all parts Of the country
for treatment. but his medicine made
matters still worse, as a last resort
they were advised by q friend to use
the Cuticura Remedies. I am glad to
tell you that after a few days treat
ment with Cuticura Soap, Ointment
and Resolvent. the effect was wonder
full and the result a a perfect cure
In all cases.
II may add that my three brothers,
three sisters, myself and all our fam
lilies have been users Of the Cuticura
Remedies for fifteen years. Thomas
Hugh, 1850 West Huron st., Chicago.
ILL.,, June 20. 1909"
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
SURPLUS OF BANK IS GONE
August Ropke Assistant Secretary Is
Accused Of Taking Money-Dei.
posters VIII Not Suffer.

Louisville, Kentucky.--The surplus
of the Fidelity Trust company OF
Louisville was $1,l40,000. Every sent
of It has been stolen.
That statement was made by John
w. Barr, president of the institution
August Ropke, who was assistant sec
rotary and b%ookkeeper, is accused OF
making way with the money. He is
locked up in the county Jail, where he
was placed ten days ago in default OF
1925, 900 bail.
Ropkc was a heavy Spectator and
lost large sums, It Is said, on Wall
street and the Chicago board of trade.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
MISSOURI STATE NEWS
A Grand Home.c Coming.

A crusade to bring back to NILSSON
RI the $4,000 to 10000 m n
members of their household, who were
lured to other states and Western
Canada by exaggerated stories OF I'M
limited prosperity supposed to exist
In those places, is advocated by LABOR
Commissioner J. G. A. Hitler. who Will
take the first step in that direction by
preparing appropriate literature. which
Is to be sent broadcast North, South
and West to such homesick Missouri
n The grand homecoming OF
Missourians' is the title advance
sheets from tie 1910 Red Book Of the
Bureau Of Labor Statistics applies to
the crusade. Several chapters will
be devoted to this interesting and
thrilling subject. January /, 1911 Is
the day set for the general movement
Of the army back to Missouri" but
1t will take a good deal Of hard work
on the part of Commissioner Hitler to
accomplish this gigantic task and he
will need the hearty cooperation Of
every present inhabitant OF the state
to make 1t a complete success. Let
ters from these ambitious, but home
sick Missourians, which are being re-
ceived daily by their friends and rel.
atives they left behind here, reveal
that the vast majority fully realize
they made a sad mistake in leaving
the land of inexhaustible everything
to try their fortunes elsewhere. Be-
tween the lines their messages plain
ly read that all such would gladly re-
turn could they but sell their farms
for nearly what they paid for them.
Labor Commissioner Hitler wants to
get in communication with every
resident of the state, who has the
lame and p~ostoffice address Of any
and every Missourian nov farming
elsewhere, so that the preliminary
steps toward inaugurating the gen
eral homecoming crusade" can be
taken. During the months Of Septem'
Der and October the Bureau of Labor
Statistics will issue pamphlets deal
ing with the splendid variegated and
inexhaustible Of Missouri
and the advantages and opportunities
the state constantly holds out to all.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
THE ACCUSED OFFER 100000
II Illinois Central Railroad viii Drop
Observation-Disclosures Re
fuse Offer.

Chicago, Ilinois.-A sum OF money,
approximating $1,000, 900. was offered
the directors of the Illinois Central
railroad ut their meeting in New York
Thursday to get them to drop civil
and criminal suits in the alleged con-
spiracy which threatened to involve
Ira G. Rawn, now dead, and others
who are still living.
This serves to indicate the vast pro-
portion OF the railroad scandal, The
ma of the men who made the offer
and the time that the proposal was
first made to the roads representa-
tlves are as yet not disclosed.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
TEXAS WILL TRY paOBTION
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES FAVOR
ABLE BY LARGE MAJORITY.
Two-Thlrds Of the Members Of tho
Legislature Favor Dry State
CoiquiH Nominated.

Austin, Texas.--Both the Prohibi.
tionists and anti Yrolibitionists won
. victory In Democratic primaries
in Texas. The Prohibition or.
g~anization nominated its candidate
o. B. Colquitt for governor by prob
ably 10000 plurality and the Prohibit
tiOnists, according to tie count OF the
votes so far as made carried the
proposition of state wide Production
by q large majority and nominated
more than two.thirdg Of the members
Of the legislature, making statewide
Prohibition a certainty, despite the
governorelect, The proposition as
voted upon is to make 1t obligatory
on the part of the legislature to sub
init to a vote of the people a proposed
constitutional amendment providing
for statewide Prohibition. The state
convention at Galveston August ~
must make this plan a part OF the
platform. Mr.. Colquitt will refuse to
accept this statewide Prohibition
plank OF the platform. In that event
the Prohibition will put out an indie
pendent candidate for governor. But
for the fact that there are two Pro-
hibition candidates in the field for gov
ernor, that faction of the party would
have also won that feature Of the con.
test by a large majority.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
The Pop Corn Crop.

Advance figures from the 1910 Red
Book OF the Bureau OF Labor Statis-
tics, place the pop corn crop of the
ia counties OF the state at 5,550.000
pounds for the year 1909. Probably
only a half Of the production went on
the market. but had all been sold, the
farmers who raised 1t, would have re-
ceived $166.500 for the crop, figuring
this article at an average Of three
cents n pound the year around. With
half of the amount sent to market
the sum of $s3,250 was poured into
the Golfers of the farmers.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
Foreign Affairs.

Twenty.One Mormon missionaries
were arrested in Berlin and escorted
to the frontier by German political
police.
The striking railroad trainmen On
the Grand Trunk have accepted the
offer OF Canadian officials to arbitrate
their differences with the road.
The strike Of the l. 1000 employees
Of the Northern railroad in England
has been settled.
The gas works OF the Zeppelin Air
ship company at Friedrichshafen have
been demolished by an explosion.
Seven persons were injured.
Forty persons were injured in an
accident on the Great Southern rail-
way at Roscres, in the northwestern
part Of Tipperary county, Ireland.
None Of the passengers was killed.
The japanese government has or.
dered four military airships built in
France.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
Veteran Nurseryman Dead.

George II. Shepherd. widely known
throughout the state as an author
ity on agriculture and horticulture
died at his home near Lamonte,
where he had been engaged in the
nursery business for fifty years.
During the Civil war he a a Union
soldier.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
TO learn All About Alaska.

Vancouver, B. C.-United States At.
tornry General George w. Wicker
sham and Secretary of Commerce and
Labor Charles Nagel arrived from the
East and left Immediately for Alaska
aboard the fish commission steamer
AlbatrOss.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
They Voted for a Dead Man.

Austin, Texas.-As a compliment
to the memory of james Michaels,
the constable who was murdered by
Henry Genery. a negro, at Bolton,
Friday, a unanimous vote was cast for
him for constable at the Democratic
primaries in his precinct Saturday.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
Missouri Editors In New York.

W. II. Zorn West Plains editor Of
the Howell County Gazette went to
New York to buy a linotype and other
improvements for his newspaper plant.
Mr.. Zorn says a number Of Missouri
newspaper owners have been there
recently to buy modern equipment for
their newspaper plants. Among them
are Arthur Thrower of the Dunklin
Democrat OF Kennett, Samuel Davis
of the Citizen Democrat, Popular Blur
and Louis lobe OF the Bloomfield In.
dicatoT.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
the Critic.

Charles Sumner, when in London.
gave a ready reply. At a dinner given
in his honor, he spoke of "the ashes"
of some dead hero. Ashes! What
American English" rudely broke In
an Englishman; dust you mean, Mr..
Sumner. We don't burn our dead in
this country" Yet" instantly 70.
piled Mr.. Sumner. with a courteous
smile, your poet Gray tells US that
Even in our ashes live their wonted
fires" The American was not criti.
cized again that evening.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28

The fellow who buries the Ratchet
may still have a knife up his sleeve.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28
Personal.

Capt. Hobson-of kissing fame-has
again expressed his fear Of war with
Japan and calls for a greater navy.
Mrs. Wadsworth, a New York soci-
ETY. woman, rode 212-3 miles in Is
hours and sever minutes. She used
20 horses. all her own hunters. This
Is believed to be a record achieve.
ment.
Senator Bristow during a speech at
Manhattan, Kan, gave the date and
page Of the statistical report showing
o decrease In rubber imports as stated
in his Winfield speech and asked that
Speaker Cannon be equally specific In
his contention that the Senator was
wrong.
Henry Gentry, 0 negro, who at
tempted to enter the room of q white
woman at Balton, Tex, and who later
killed Constable Mitchell, who tried
to arrest him, was burned at the stake
by a mob.
I. G. Rawh, president Of the Chi.
cago, Indianapolis & Louisville rail-
road company was shot and killed by
a burglar in his summer home in q
Chicago suburb,
Ballle p. Waggener Of Atchison,
Kan, Is the greatest c%hildren's friend.
Each year he invites them to a picnic
to celebrate his birthday. This year
he invited all those living in Atchison
county, brought them In In special
trains. furnished bands, street car
fares. and all the mark amusemapt.
Everything was free, Next year he
proposes to do greater things.
Col. Roosevelt has announced that
he will not attempt to dictate any
nominations this fall. not even the
governor OF New York.
Robert II. shearer of Paola, Kan.
Is one of the few survivors of the
battle Of Osawatomie the anniversary
Of which will be celebrated August 81
by the dedication Of John Brown
PARK. Theodore Roosevelt will speak.
Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-28

The saddest case In this world 10
when one thinks the almighty has
destined him to be happy at the price
of another's misery.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-05
Southern Corn Production.

A remarkable showing and one which is prophetic of great things for the south, is made by Martin V. Calvin, Cirector of the Georgia Experiment sta ton, in a communication to the At lanta Constitution, wherein he com pores the corn production of the lead lug cotton producing states to the pro- duction of grain in several eastern and western states.
 These figures show that North Car olina, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala bama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas 4 arkansas and Oklahoma produced 417,- SIT, 900 bushels of corn, while the gross fToduct in Pennsylvania, Indiana. Mic higan, Wisconsin. Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas and Colorado was 355.790000. Thus for 1909 the cotton states have to their credit 61,79o,000 more bushels of corn tran the nine eastern and western states given in this list The latter Goes not, of course. contain all of the com producing states of those sections ut, nevertheless, these figures are e,equent of the determina tfon of the fsrmers of the south to cease to de- pend entirely upon cotton. and they forecast increasing prosperity.-Birm- icgham Age-Herald.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-05
PRETTY NATURE STORY.
Partridge Refuses to Leave Nest al
 Approach of Danger.

Wethersfield correspondent fur . nishes this story:
 t'The ruse of mother partridge in pretending to be hurt and making a great commOtion to attract attention. while her chicks scatter in all direc- tions and hide, is well known. This is what Ben Bidwell thought was hap pening the other day while moving for Arthur Willard in the Wethers- field meadows. He soon saw, however. that he was mistaken, and that the bird was in reality seriously hurt in fact so badly that in mercy he killed it. and found that the moving machine knives had taken off both feet and part of one wing.
 Upon investigation he found that she had been a victim because of her faithfulness to her nest and nine eggs. One would have thought that the c1at- ter of the machine would have caused her to have flown in time to save her life, and that she staid shows how strong the wild creatures setting in Stinct was
 "The moving machine is esponsible for the going awry of the best laid plans of many of our feathered friends While having in the swamp between South Wethersfield and the river many nests of such birds as meadow larks boholinks and redwinged black : birds are found. As general thing the swamp is cut so late that the birds have a chance to raise their families and clear out. most of the nests being found empty"