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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

at first because he was Maurice's
brother, and then-I took care of him
through an illness when we all lived
in the West, and 1 learned to be very
What was the matter with him ?''
asked Joan.
Smallpox"
Joan uttered an exclamation and
carried the hand of Jim's sister-in
law to her lips.
mo wonder he loves youi"
During the ride in the woods and
under the spell of condolences about
Jim, Joan learned to know Mrs.
Fletcher better than she could have
done under any other circumstances.
How narrow and prejudiced
vast thought Joan. TO take the
stand I did until I had seen herl
might have trusted inns judgment
Il am, sorry Maurice will be away
for week." said Mrs. Fletcher as she
left Joan at her aunt's home. but
you will be neighborly. L hope
The rides. drives and visits during
the ensuing week brought them very
near to each other.
Maurice comes this evening" an
noupced Mrs. Fletcher on Tuesday,
"and-some one is coming with hini!''
Not Jim!" exclaimed Joan.
Yes, Jin1.'
Joan slipped out into one of the
little balconies for delicious solitary
revery. 1t was nearly dusk when she
heard step behind her. She turned
with glad little cry.
"Jimi"
He looked at her strangely, hesitat-
ed and then, quickly turning went In
| to the house.
She WINGED with shame at her re-
pulsed advance, and, with a sadly
beating heart, she stepped from the
balcony and crossed the lawn. Some
one came running behind her.
"Joani" said a deep, fervent voice,
you are not running away?"
oh, Jim, why did you turn away
from me there on the balcony"
- haven't been on the balcony
That was Maurice. He does look like
me-in the dark. We were all hunt
ing for you, and when Maurice saw
you, he forgot his manners in his Gag
erness to tell me-"
"Jim." she confded later, wher
they were walking to her aunt's, az
have asked Helen to pour tea fol
| mother and me at our first regular
at-home when we return to the city
| Did you do it for me?" he asked
| tenderIy.
For you, and for her too, Jim
| copyrighted 1910 by Associated Lit
| erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.1

ONLY those who don't believe in love
can talk aboat it without becoming
silly.
Every good husband is what is
known among women as a great
baby"
There are some people who express
their sympathy for a man in order to
gossip about his troubles.
Literary Note: No one reads Charles
Dickens any more: There are ma
chauffeurs in Dickens works.
1t would add something to the peace
satisfied creatures were. only as easily
pleased with the rest of us.
Opportunity comes in many ways,
but, up to date, no one has encountered
it while earnestly gazing at the new
moon over his right shoulder.
The man who has found out that he
himself is to blame for most of his
trouble has learned an important and
useful fact overlooked by a lot of peo-
pie.
Talk about gold mine: An Atchi-
son doctor has found woman patient
who has all FINDS of money, and inn
AGNES she has seventeen different dis
eases.
What has become of the old fash
toned parent who took his child to a
funeral. and lifted it up for look in
the coffin, that it might realize the
power of death?
It is easy for a lover to remember
his girls likes and disiikes, but after
he is married the only way way his
wife can make an impression on his
memory is to want the cheapest.
girl? This may seem unimportant, but
In sending valentines, should pic
ture of a girl be sent to a boy, or to a
| the philosophers have always insisted
| that it is the unimportant things that
count.
When host and his wife stop being
polite to each other before guest it
| is a sign the strain has been too great
upon them, and that the guest should
| be going home.
| An Atchison girl, who has always
| longed to live in the country that she
might walk out in the early morn and
pick roses still wet with the dew, is
| engaged to marry a farmer. and he
/ has promised her folks to make the
awakening easy by not asking her to
| slop the hogs for at least three months.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Violations of the laws of nature
always come in for punishment.
X y
The wiser the man the more pecu-
liar are his ways, as a general thing.
X X
Many people would not need any
great quantity of time to tell all they
know
The vermiform appendix appears
to be of no advantage to any one ex-
cept the surgeons.
X X y
1t is the experience of those who
have tried them that the cheaper cuts
of meat are also tougher.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

ness world as soon as they graduate.
And the existing courses in manual
training and domestic science should be
developed along purposeful and useful
lines, with more practicability and less
theory injected into them.
There has long been an opinion pre-
valent among the taxpayers that the
board of education is extravagant and
that a more economical administration
would not cripple the schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Mayor Gaynor of New York now
looks good to Missouri Democrats as
possible presidential timber. Where
do Champ Clark, former Governor
Folk, D. r. Francis and few other
Missouri notables come in? Surely
the Democrats of Missouri are a tickle
-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Another candidate for the honor of
being styled the meanest man alive has
bobbed UP in the person of a store
keeper at Washington, Pa. Noticing a
rapid shrinkage in his bag of peanuts
he placed a steel spring rat trap in
/; which succeeded in grabbing the
fingers of one of the most prominent
residents of the town.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

the inmates of that institution have
never exhibited any evidences of in
sanity. 1t is a common occurrence
all over the country for persons
charged with crime to work the in
sanity dodge so they can cheat the
law. But this much can be said to
the credit of New York state. When
it gets fellow like that in Matteawan
It manages to keep him in confine-
ment whether he is insane or not
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

This looks suspicious that a South
Polar controversy is slated for the
immediate future. The captain of a
ship who reports he was in commun-
ication with the French South Polar
expedition which started for Antarctic
regions about two years ago, refuses
to give out any information he may
have obtained as to the results of
that expedition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Lawyers are ever being criticized
for the fees they demand when the
opportunities are ripe but such criti-
cism surely cannot be levelled at a
certain Chicago attorney. He advised
a woman to marry man on his
deathbed. She did so. In a couple
of hours she became the mistress of
a fortune worth 100000. And the
lawyer in question is only asking 3d.
500 fee for his services.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

The proposed income tax amendment
to the federal constitution has been ap-
proved by the senate of Illinois by a
vote of 40 to o. That's not so bad for
a starter and it shows that the solons
of Illinois did not put much stock in
the alleged defective feature in the
form of the proposed amendment
which was pointed out the other day
by Governor Hughes of New York.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

The commentator given by Attor-
ney General Jackson to the Kansas
state board of medical registration
and examination for the fight it has
been making against "quacks" was
to the point. A real service is being
rendered to the people of the state
by these activities
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Five hundred more workmen for
all kinds of skilled and unskilIed labor
are needed in the Santa Fe shops in
this city. Assuredly few other towns
in the country have the opportunities
for employment that Topeka is now
able to offer. And it is impossible to
beat Topeka as the most desirable
sort of a place to labor and live in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Prospects for the conservation of
the nations resources are not very
encouraging just now, thinks Clifford
Pinchot. OF course not. He's not
on the Job now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Now If Sam Gompers had only
been a member of the United States
senate the decisions and orders of
Judge Wright of the supreme court
of the District of Columbia would not
have occasioned him a particle of
worry. He could have laughed at
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Societies for the prevention OF
cruelty to animals ought to be pro-
testing vigorously against the meat
boycott 1t = certainly hard on the
dogs of a family
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

In the plans which are being made
for the reception to Colonel Roosevelt
when he lands on United States soil
again, it is to be hoped the committee
in charge will not be so careless as
to fail to have the band play See, the
Conuuering Hero Comes"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12
THE POSTAL QUESTION.

There is great deal Of nonsense on
both sides Of the discussion now being
fought out before congress, with refer
ence to the postal rates on magazines.
The charge that the investigation has
anything to do with a punishment of
magazines for the outspoken criticism
of conditions is wrong as 1t applies to
the presidents suggestion, which
brought up the subject for investiga-
ton. The president in his message
merely called attention to the fact that
the government is carrying for one cent
a pound mail matter for whose trans
portation the cost is nine cents a pound.
But the suggestion that the rate should
be increased was short sighted, in view
Of the many other possible methods by
which the postal department might
overcome it's deficit.
The claim that the government is
paying the railroads entirely too much.
by comparison with what the express
companies pay, the claim that the gov
eminent should charge up the franked
mail in its account of scheduled earn
ings, and the claim that there should
be more business-like economy in all
departments deserve to be heard i'm
partially without charge on the one
hand that the government is trying TO
muzzle the press, or on the other hand
that undertaking press has brought
punishment upon it.
A representation that all classes of
publications should pay their full way
through the mails does not carry con-
viction with 1t, since the postal depart
ment was not founded on that theory.
Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

According to Roger A. Babson. a
New York economist, the United
States will be in the throes of a dis
astrous financial panic in 1912. BY
that time the congressional wise
acres ought to have a reformed bank
ing and currency system in working
order which will be capable of han
ding any financial panic that might
care to develop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR

TFrorn the New York Press.1
Money could do lot more for a man
If he wanted 1t to do less.
The reason a man has faults is that
if he didn't they would be vices.
There's more brotherly love in a
kind word than In truckload of
tracts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

A word from DR.. Fletcher about
the performance of the Washington
ian. who ate so pounds of food in two
and three-quarters hours and still
lives, would be interesting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

After having served a term as vice
president of the United States the
prominence which Mr.. Fairbanks has
recently achieved must be a rare and
thrilling experience for him, thinks the
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Der vasser. uf vich 1 wroten to you
1asd week, ISIS gedding vetter den for
merly. Diss ISIS due to der feet dot der
vasser-vorkers buildt coffee-dam
aroundt bunch uf cat-feesh bubbles.
Dey also vendt hunting Wild onions
along der benk uf der riffer und found
a leek. Meanvile We continue to stew
der vasser und run id trough der sis
sage mill pefore using. Our pipes ISIS
full uf mud. Hoping dis will find you
der same. Looie, remain es effer,
HANS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

There is nothing unusual about the
report of DIR. Lamb, head of New
FORKS famous asylum for the Grim
SnaI insane. to the effect that many Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

From der report uf der coronerss'
chury Won may gadder dot Col Swope
died uf der disease known as hard
oop-relationists."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news Or
ganIzation for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Der kiddo at Bottlesville Uglyhoma
vot bumped hiss papa NIT axe, sayss
hiss step-moder told him to did it, Vich
proofs him a exceptional specimen. Der
youth vot will mind hiss step-moder ISIS
indeed curiosity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

kveen Liliokinkalini, vot hat peen
Visiting in Washington, hat vednt back
to Haw-wa w-yee, but a stemendt uf her
baggage fails to include der seferal
tousand real dollars vich Aunt Lii came
after.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

We opserf NIT Satisfaction dot der
Countless Szechenyi, late Gladys Van
derbullet, hat mastered der Magyar
language. Being such a fluent Iinguist
id ISIS barely possible dot in time der
Countless will learn to pronounce her
new name.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

In Saindt Looie, vile a investigating
commiddee vas frisking der poggets uf
der bolice force, der yeggers und hold
oopers vas bitzy frisking der skitizens.
Der dispadge fails to state. howeffer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

Ven Kermit Rosinfelt vendt to Africa
und shooted. ginks. cooks, lepers, und
oder Wild animals, he vas atfertised es
der brafest Won uf der Rosinfelt chill
dren. Howeffer his big brudder. Teddf-
felt Jr. hat gone him Won besser. und
will herafder wear der title He an
nounces dot he viii get married
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12
KANSAS COANENT
BUYING nv TELEPHoNE.

BUYING BY TELEPHONE.
James J. Hill put his finger on the
spot recently when he said that the
telephone has led the modern house
VINE into ways of extravaganza.
1t is SO easy to telephone to the
grocery now days that every woman
who has telephone in the house uses
1t, and every woman who does not,
uses her neighbours telephone.
The old fashioned habit of going to
market and buying what the family
needs is almost an extinct operation.
When the woman calls up over the
phone, she says something like this.
want dozen eggs, and 20 cents
worth of steak. and a bunch of let
tuce, and a can of cocoa, and half
dozen oranges
Nine times out of ten the woman
doesn't know the price of single ar
ticle she orders.
She doesn't know what the grocer
has in stock.
She doesn't know whether eggs are
high or low the day she buys.
She doesn't know whether there is
anything on the market that day
which is especially cheap.
II she wants a sack of flour, she
stead of keeping posted on the mar
ket, and buying flour when it can be
bought cheap.
1t is only when the bills come in
that the woman realizes that she has
been running up a lot of expensive
items, and then the custom is to
blame it on the grocer and the high
price of living"
The telephone is to blame
It is too easy to order things, it is
too much trouble to keep posted on
prices, it is too much bother to walk
to the store and really know the mar
kets.
The telephone is a great institution,
and we couldn't possibly get along
without it. But just think it over,
and see If the telephone is not to
blame in at least a part, for some of
those big grocery and meat bills
Salina Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12

vedder er not conditions vas any besser
before der friskency uf der bolice force
started. Der only moral to be gadder-
ed, derefore, ISIS: You might es veil let
der bolice force hat part uf i'd.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-12
A SATURDAY SERMON.

So she CLEANED in the field until even
and beat out that she had CLEANED; and
1t was about an ephah Of barley. Ruth
II : II.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-11

The most influential Senator that
has ever dictated in the United
States Senate has recently made the
statement that under careful and
judicious business-lil1e management,
three hundred millions of dollars per
annum could be saved in the eS
penses of the national government
of the United States. The subject Of
the cost of living is in the air. The
Senate has recently appointed COM
mittee to investigate the increased
cost of food 1t Is to be feared that
this committee has already begun to
do nothing, but if Senator Aldrich
will stand behind his resolution to
investigate and reduce the expenses
of the national household $300,000,-
600, something will be accomplished.
Ours is the most expensive govern
ment in the world. A billion of dol
lars year would stagger any of the
great European governments. But
this is not all that this country pays.
1t has to support forty-six state gov
ernments and hundreds of county
governments, with thousands of muni-
cipal governments. President JEFF
ferson uttered the words which have
ever since been automatic with DEM
ocratic statesmen, that the best gov
ernment was that which governed
least. 1t is disillusioning to live un-
der and close to national politics and
politicians. Only a few resist the
demoralizing influence of wealth, sta
tion and social life such as is known
at great capitals. Senator Toombs
OF Georgia served eight years in the
House and an equal number of years
in the Senate before the Civil War.
He was colossal in many ways, and
made boast which perhaps no other
Senator can parallel, that during his
sixteen years in Congress he never
asked for his state a cent from the
federal government. The Senator'S
and Representatives in Congress now,
many of whom are little more than
attorneys for the great corporations
and interests of their states, would
hold their places by brittle threads
if they ceased to bestir themselves
and secure offices, pensions, jobs and
appropriations for the people who
elected them.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-11

Apropos of the subject of economy
in national affairs, Senator Scott of
West Virginia, chairman of the Pub
lie Buildings committee in the Senate,
is giving the subject of rents paid
in Washington by the government
careful investigation, and he finds re-
suits that are remarkable. He said
yesterday that the government was
paying from ten to seventeen per
cent a year of the cost of buildings
rented by it. This means that in six
or seven years the rents paid for
these buildings would be sufficient
to buy them. He proposes that by
the issue of two per cent bonds on
a hundred million of dollars, the
government could greatly economize
by building a number of Office build
ings similar to the State Department,
or the Treasury or Agricultural De-
partment buildings, thus securing
more commodious quarters for gov
ernment employees and adding great
ly to the attractiveness and dignity
of the national capital.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-11
DEATH OF PIONEER.

Anthony Asmus, of Hull Prairie,
died on Sunday afternoon at the age
of IA years, after an illness of only a
few days with pneumonia.
Deceased was born in Germany and
came to America when small boy.
He is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. VIM. Phillips and Mrs. Fred
Bachman, and one son, Henry Asmus.
Funeral was held Wednesday at the
Lutheran church, Haskins, Rev. Dimke
officiating. !,
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-11
PUBLIC SALE.

The undersigned will sell at the
Shipman farm at Roachton, miles
south of Perrysburg, and one mile
west of the Bowling Green electric
line, commencing at 900 a. M, Tues
day, March Is, a large amount Of
personal property consisting of 6 head
of horses, cows, sheep, and hogs,
and a large amount of farm imple-
ments, wagons, buggies, harness,
etc. L. Shiman proprietor, and E.
A. Underhill, auctioneer.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-11
NO INDICTMENT

Samuel Huff, held for manslaugh-
ter for killing William Gates with a
poker, at Rising Sun, when Huff and
Gates became involved in a quarrel
at the Huff home to which place
Gates had gone to see Mrs. Huff,
need not stand trial.
The grand jury, reporting Friday
afternoon failed to return an indict-
ment against Huff, who, the coroner
found, struck in defense of his home.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-11

The overcrowded and cruel trans
portation of poultry in interstate
shipment is the subject of a bill that
has been introduced by Representa-
time Mann of Chicago. This humble
and unsensational bill is one of real
ly great Importance. When one
thinks of the intolerable suffering of
many millions of highly organized
animals in their long journey from
the farms, frequently through two or
three states, and for as many or
more days packed in crates where
they can neither stand nor lie down,
the crates frequently piled on each
other to the top of unventilated
freight cars, and this often in the
hottest of weather, a faint realiza-
tion OF the enormous suffering may
be had 1t is seldom that a consign-
ments of fowls reaches its destination
with out some dead animals, and
where some are dead from this severe
ordeal, 1t must be inferred that many
others are in dying condition.
These sick and dying fowls compose
the food of millions of denizens of
cities. Are we after all so much
nicer than the Chinese, who eat ami
mails that have died, not from prefer
ence, but for economy's sake? Mr..
Mann, who is behind this bill, is one
of the most able and forceful mem
bers of Congress, and his measure
prescribes that ample space shall be
provided in crates in which poultry
is shipped, in order that the fowls
may be able TO stand up at will; and
1t further provides that water and
food shall be supplied them at least
once In every twenty-four hours. If
the bill shall be passed. it will mean
much to the health Of the millions Of
people in the United States, to say
nothing of the comfort of millions
of animals. Altruism purged of race
egoism is a hopeful sign of the times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-03-11
To the Republicans of Wood County.

1t has been more than thirty years
since citizen of Grand Rapids
township held county Office, and in
the entire history Of the township
only one man has held county Of
fee, Do you call that square deal
for a township which has come up
every year, never sulking, with the
largest majority in the county?
We are presenting this year for
nomination as County Recorder, Ed
win e. Dancer, native of Wood
county, citizen of our village the
past eight years, man of 3S, with
a family of five, an intelligent, edu-
Gated gentleman of high morals and
strictly correct habits. No man in
the county is better qualified
Respectfully submitted,
Republicans of Grand Rapids.