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Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-08-04
80 Acres, So. W.

10 head stock, horse, poultry, flock
sheep, all farming tools, machinery and
equipment included for 90, 300, part cash;
easy terms; cuts 40 tons hay; chance to
make 500 gals. maple syrup yearly; will
cut 500 eds. wood, 100000 #. timber;
orchard OF 100 trees, good 5 r. b., ? large
barns and outbuildines; running water;
only 3 miles to village; near neighbors
n schools all equipped as it is it's a
$1,000 property; owners tangled business
compels immediate. sale, hence the sacri-
hcei all details this and others from 5000
up described in detail with travelling in
structions, 'iStrout's Big Farm Catalogue
No. 3d. copy free. Station 1859, E. A.
Strout, 294 Washington ST., Boston. ae
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-08-04

"Are you going to take summer
boarders this year?1
NO." answered Farmer Corntossel.
Business is good and times are
changed. After this I'm going to take
a vacation in cold weather and drop in
and criticise the city folks that have
to take winter boarders."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25
THE; STATE FAIR.

OF the many excellent plans which
are under way to advertise Topeka to
the world as live, up-to-date city with
unusual advantages as a place to live and
DO business in. none will prove to be
more potent than the establishment
here of an agricultural exposition of
statewide proportions. The first i'm
portant step to bring this about has
already been accomplished in the Sc
lection of H. L. Cook as secretary of
the fair association. Mr.. Cook is one of
the most experienced men in the coun-
try in this kind of work. During the
nine years he has acted in a similar
capacity in the association that directs
the Nebraska state fair he has de-
veloped that institution until it is one
of the very best in this section Of the
country. Many Topekans who have
visited that fair in the past few years
can testify to this. 1t has often been
remarked by them that if Topeka and
Kansas could only have a fair of the
size and quality of the Nebraska ex-
position they would have something
worth while.
But no matter how clever a man Mr..
Cook may be in his line of work he
will not be able to institute a big fair
in Topeka in one or ten years unless he
has help of the right sort. Plenty of
men must come to the front who Will
be willing to work with him and work
hard. Above all, though, he must be
provided with adequate sinews of war
| for the undertaking. In other words,
| If Mr. Cook is going to be given the
| chance to make good. he must be pro-
v.del with money. This provision must
be made by the people of Topeka and
of the other portions Of the state where
the belief is general that Topeka is the
| logical location for a state fair.
There really ought 20 be no trouble
in raising this money. and the bulk of
Il right at home here. 1t will be the
hest investment that the business men
OF this city can possibly make. 1t may
not he an investment that viii imme-
| diately return stated amount of divi-
aends on the cash put in. Adequate
ret,1rns on the investment. however,
will come in other and innumerable
ways. A big fair will draw thou
sands and thousands of visitors here
/ who will spend their money freely
/ xrf7ile they are here. But that won't
he the chief benefit. They'll go home.
not only to the villages and cities
around here, but to localities in many
other states from which the exhibitors
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25

The reassuring news comes from
the Linwood Times that there need
be no fear of any expense incurred
by HalIey's Comet, for the gas COM
posing the comets tail will not go
through d meter
An illustration of misfortunes not
coming singly, notes the lola Regis
ter, is the experience of the stutter-
ing shopper in I&incaid who took SO
long telling the dealer that he wanted
some butter that the price was raised
three times on him.
Life to the editor is becoming
strenuous just now, says the Law
renee Gazette, one of the stunts of
life is to make people clean up their
premises, and he is beginning to get
busy now. And in the matter OF spring
cleaning for his neighbors, every edl-
tor can have written truthfully upon
his headstone, He Seen His Duty
and He Done It.
You may not be very DID, says
the Jefferson County Tribune, but
you can remember when an automo-
bile was a real curiosity. You can
recall the days when only town folks
had telephones. You can easily re-
member the establishment that greet
ed the proposed establishments OF
moving along, but as you are moving
right along with it you fail to notice
the motion
You have noticed that the best
lawyers have never been admltteo TO
the bar. They stand around on the
street corners that is in court or in
the newspapers. The best statesmen
are fellows who have never been
elected to an office and never Will
be. They also stand around on the
street and argue their heads OF ABOUT
the tariff and other state questions.
They know all about the cotton
schedules and the duty on pig lead
and every other item in the tariff
schedule. They know how Uncle
sam could wipe out the deficit IN the
postal department. They know eV-
ervthinS The best baseball umPlres
are always in the grandstand. Ihey
howl about and dispute every decls-
ion the real umpire makes. But you
never hear of them being called upon
to officiate in a real game. me
greatest financiers sit about on the
streets and whittle the corners on OF
drv goods boxes. They know Wnere
| this man made mistake and where
the town banker is going broke. But
they can not take their wisdom TO
the meat market and trade 1t Tor
SCUM bone, nor go to the grocery STORE
/ and exchange an opinion TOR three
mounds of sugar. Why, then' are an
| the Wiseacres out of office and OUT
Of tohs. You know and I know, but
the Wiseacres do not.-Osporne
| County Farmer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
The ignorance that is bliss is not the
kind that blisters.
1t is almost as hard to dodge an au-
tomobile as a creditor.
Some people make both ends meet
at the expense of the middle.
1t must take muscular rheumatism
to throw man on his back.
A girl shouldn't find a fellow DIM
cult to lard when he is half seas over.
1t NAV be true that Ajax defied the
lightning, but every man isn't as good
e buffer as Ajax
1t sometimes happens that the wealth
err isn't really as disagreeable as the
peopIe who talk about ii.
When a man asks you to break bread
with him it probably means that his
wife does her own cooking.
She-"I suppose your idea Of a per
feet woman Is one who has no faults
He-"No; one who acknowledges them"
NelI-"When you threatened to scream
for your mother did he stop kissing
your BELIEVES. once or twice"
FIaIlroo1r1-'Luther Burbank is now
crossing two fowls that resemble
centfpede and a giraffe" Starboarder-
ssvYshat's his object?'' Hallroon1-''To
nroduce a boarding house chicken"
The raendicart had forced his way
into the private Office of the business
man. sir" he whined. 81 am a Grip
ME, Can You help me out?'' Certain
iv'' replied the business man. James,
helm this cripple out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.1

TFrom the Atchison Globe.I
The more you hate a man the more
nrosperous he seems to grow
TelIing your troubles is as complete
waste of time as a dog barking
1-itle of a new serio-comic song; II
Looks Like Rain; All Right, we Neeo
a Shower"
The more you go to church. the
more difficult you will find 1t TO prove
that salvation is free
woman occasionally lets her nus
hand have her own way because sne
realizes there are advantages IN oelng
q martyr.
RiIl Bowen was SO ornery as boy
that hfs old neighbors say his mother
should whip him again, now that ne Is
a man grown.
In this county all you have to do TO
become famous is to get some 1901. out
uncommon. idea into your heao' ana
tell the public about 1t.
Farmers are becoming so independ-
emf that soma of them are now COM
pIaining because it is troublesome 10
raise corn Bill Hutson made the
complaint yesterday
A woman claims she is being
abused by her husband. why don
Won leave him?'' she is asked. Be
cause / love him." she replies That's
a lie No woman ever loved a man
who abused her.
PeoDIe are becoming crazler than
ever before for notoriety: all the men
are irving to get their pictures in the
Saturday Evening Post. and all the
women are ambitious to get their re-
| cipes in the Ladies Home Journal.
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had gone for a walk-with Guy Haro-
in-they'd be back soon. with an aP.
petite for lunch. would ne Ho1
stay. also? He refused
II wis1-she would not 60 aDou'
with HARDIN don't quite" fneu
the mothers cold look-assumed, for
she agreed with him-made him re-
member that he had no right to crit
else the friends of Avis, or, indeed. 70
choose her friends for her. He saw
the pink flowers he had sent the DAY
before in their bowI-but no red rose
anywhere-she was, of course. wear,
ing the red rose-the wrong rose!
he came to a sudden conclusion.
Mrs. Horton" he said. "if you'll
let me. I'll stay until IL and wait
for Avis in the library want just
word with her. 1 won't stay to lunch
but when she comes you will send
her to me moment? 20
A lew minutes past twelve AVIS
horton came, still in her wraps, into
the pretty library. Her face was
asiow with exercise. her hair blow
ing about her rosy ears, her eyes deep
and blue. She wore a red rose.
Here I am, John. Mother says you
want word with me- Which word is
it2 Is it in the dictionary here 70 She
teasing light in her eye.
He rose, pale and angry.
what on earth is it? Are you i'll
what has happened?" The girl
Iedneo toward MIN as he held himself
back moment, and then almost
roughly took her into his arms.
THE matter is-that 1 love YOU
you know do-and you're torturing
me. Avis! Won't you say You love
me? Don't you? You musti I have
for months, wanted to tell Won. but
feared to lose your friendship by ask.
ing your Lowell I had to see YOU. be
with you-and now Avis, Will YOU
marry me?" She had been very still,
her cheek paling, her hands clutching
at his sleeve as his arm held her. He
looked down. She looked up and then
nodded her head.
whispered. ''Of course 1 dol
But who sent the wrong roses? Not
Guy Hardin. who, with Mrs. Horton.
came in after a while and found the
two unashamed. and holding each
others hands. Certainly not Avery
he could not have sent them-he hat
ed them. Perhaps Mrs. Horton knew
something about it. for they never
| came after that day, and she mailed
check and a note to a certain dis
! Greet florist. Many mothers. unsus-
| pected, have the wisdom of Eve, and
know that competition, even when
manufactured, does its little work.
(Copyrighted, 1910, by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
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at the fair will be drawn, and they'll
talk about Topeka and what sort of
city it is. And they'll have but one
story to tell and that'll be one which
will boost Topeka in the best possible
way.
There should be an earnest endeaVor
on the part Of everyone, therefore. TO
give Mr.. Cook all the help he needs IN
creating a fair which will be a credit
to the city and to the state-a fair
which will be the nucleus for the act
ual state fair that the legislators OF
the state of kansas will be wise enough
some day to create.
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FROA OTHER PENS
WHY HATS?

A coterie of advanced young women
in st. Louis have undertaken to reform
their sisters at a point which Is IN
sore need of reform. 1t is their purpose
to impress upon femininity in general
that the latest styles in headgear are
insuppOrtable-not physically OF course,
because women would find it possible
to support on their don1es firkln OF
butter, if fashion so decreed.
Mere man, to be sure, is not informed
as to the latest edicts of fashion with
regard to his better fractions top piece.
All he knows and all he cares to know
is that when the bills come in for the
Easter creations, they will be plenty
large enough. But If the things to be
balanced on femininity's heads are
anything like those that are now being
juggled about. mere man will welcome
anything that resembles reform. They
are certainly awesome creations, AMI
creations is the only word that httlngly
describes them
No doubt the limit has been reached,
when women themselves begin to re-
volt. Let 1t be hoped that the pendu-
lum will swing so far the other way
that the fair sex will eventually dis
card hats altogether. If womans glory
is her hair, as some enthusiast has re-
marked, let her display it unencumber-
ed, imputed and unratted.-P1ttsourg
Post
THE REFORMING TEMPERAMENT.
Andrew Carnegie. who is a good deal
of a philosopher in scots. is quoted as
thus characterizing Clifford Pinchot IN
an interview at Santa Barbara, Cal:
He is well-meaning, jealous, self-sac-
rificing-a fine type. We need more like
him. but he is inclined to walk so
straight sometimes as TO lean over
backward. He does not seem to have
much OF the give-and-take." In other
words, Mr.. Pinchot has the faults of
his virtues. The intense reformer, bent
| on achieving good ends in his own way,
too often insists that all men shall walk
his narrow path. and that those who
6iyerge even slightly as to methods,
| but are sound on the main issue, are
| enemies of the cause and to be assail-
| ed with all possible vigor as such. The
reforming temperament is often the
| berating one, and thereby injustice
comes about. and that with the best
! intentions in the world. The zealot
| who will have no methods of reaching
| a given point save his own is a difficult
| nerson to work with. day in and day
| out He is a great factor in the world 8
| progress. we could not do without him,
| hut as a yoke-fellow he is not the best
| AT all times When President Taft
| pleaded with MY Dear Clifford" not to
| make his own retention in the service
| impossible, the point was well illustra-
! ted The country has plenty of need
/ for Mr.. Pinchot, but he does not seem
/ to have much of the g1ve-and-take,
| as Mr.. Carnegie puts it.-Springheld
Republican
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
from the Chicago News.l

from the Chicago NeWS.I
He who knows a woman has solved
a great mystery.
And money is also the root of many
a family tree.
a good start has all the requirements
of a bad finish.
Nothing iolts a woman's sweet, trust
ing DISPOSITION like marriage.
When a young man fiatters girl she
decides later that he really meant 1t.
The kiss of a homely girl may be
sweeter than that of a pretty one-to a
blind man.
Many a time heirs who really need
the estate take a chance and hire a
lawyer to settle 1t.
Many a man who expects to go to
heaven pays out a lot OF good money
for fire Insurance.
IT'S always safe to reserve your con-
11a+rlaxions until the pair have been
.uarried at least a year.
When a girl gets her first letter from
a man she keeps the envelope stuck in
Rev mirror frame for six months.
somehow the people who do as they
niease seem to get along Just as we'll az
those VINO ara always trying to please
others.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The wiser a person is the more
things he has to worry about.
X x \
Situations develop where the only
way out of them is a trip to Jail
x x x
Some men are like cats in that they
have a faculty of always landing on
their feet.
X x x
Nothing is finer than q friend in
need, but, like all good things, they're
hard to locate.
X X
AS a matter of fact. if it were not
for the chronic "kickers.'' everybody
would have to put UP with more in
conveniences.
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it because little if any attention was
paid to it either by the public or the
theater managers. 1t has been To-
peka's experience, though. that all
that is needed to encompass such re-
form is a firm stand on the part of the
theater managers. The managers of
the Topeka theaters instituted this
reasonable ruling at the beginning of
the present theatrical season. They
have kindly but firmly enforced it and
the rank and file of the theater pa
irons in town would not now go back
to the old order of things for any con-
Sidera tion
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25
HUAOR OF TIE Day

How did they manage to get all
those facts about the milk trust % "In
the natural way, I suppose" How
was that? Pumped the witnesses.'-
Baltimore -1erican
The Different Sides of r story
Lady (who has jumped on the ton OF
another)-Stupid womanl Came down
just in front of me. and nearly gave
me bad fall,-Punch.
Kind Lady Cat kitchen door)-so
you were in the army during the war
with SPAR? What was your capacity
there? Hungry Hobo-Double rations,
ma'an.-Chicago Daily News.
Have you been married. Bridget?''
"TWicet, num-" And have you any
children % "Yis, mum; I'VE three, one
be tn third wife av me second flus-
band. a. two be the second wife av me
first."-Cleveland Leader.
wouldn't a railway increase the
population OF this village 20 asked the
enterprfsing person. "Dunno's it
would replied the native. at 'ud be
constant temptation to a lot OF US
Inhabitants to get away."-Washing-
ton Star.
Young Professors Wife-Lysander
you have explained to me several times
how the overproduction of gold causes
high prices, but somehow / can't get
it through my head. Young Professor
oh, yes, you can; the passage from
one ear to the other seems to be en-
tirely structed.-Chicago Tribune.
Don't you feel any happier since
your husband made a fortune than Won
used top ooh. yes, lots. The dress
maker never asks me to wait any more
because somebody's having a wedding
gown made-"-Chicago Record Herald.
What we want is harmony said
the statesman. Yes" said Senator
Sorghum. cit makes me think of a glee
club I used to belong to. Every fei-
lows idea of harmony was to pick his
own key and sing so loud nobody else
could be noticed."-Washingt Star.
II suppose you saw some interesting
scenery on your trip across the continent"
"A little. Once held four kings. Pitts
burg Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25
MAYOR GREEN.

For some rather unaccountable
reason a determined effort is being
made in some quarters to prevent the
denomination and reelection of Will
liam Green as mayor of this city. 1t is
natural and n laudable desire for
other men tc aspire to this office and
no man is to be criticized for so doing
Nor is there any indication that the
men who are candidates for the place
against Mr.. Green are using anything
but honest and straightforward meth
DDS in furthering their candidates..
But the same is not true of other and
irresponsible elements in the city who
are out to dofeat Mr.. Green in what
ever way their purposes may be at
tanned.
1t is manifestly unfair and unjust
that Mr.. Green be held up as being I'M
fit through lack of ability or other
reasons for the office he has held for
three years. AS matter of fact Mayor
Green will 20 down in the municipal
history of Topeka as being one of the
very best chief executives the city has
ever had. He may have made few
mistakes. but who hasn't? But his
mistakes have indeed been few and all
Of them have been more or less trivial.
In making any of these mistakes,
though, he has committed them
through honesty of purpose. His char
acter for integrity and probity is unas-
saila bic. While he has been mayor his
constant endeavor has been to admin
lister the affairs of the city in the best
possible way And there is plenty OF
evidence floating around that he has
been successful in his efforts. His ad-
ministration has been a most econom-
zeal one in proportion to the things 1t
has accomplished. In fact, he has
made a record for economy that has
been surpassed by few of Topeka's
mayors.
It is a we'll known fact that much
of the opposition which developed here
TO the adoption of the commission form
of government was due to the fact that
Topeka's municipal government was
such an excellent one under the old
system. Mayor Green certainly has
played a large part III achieving that
excellence. Then again he was elected
last time for term of two years, and
voluntarily suggested the termination
of his tenure of Office by a whole year
so that the city could be benefited by
having commission form of govern
ment. Under this condition he would
seem to be entitled to an opportunity
to serve at least another year as
mayor. His experience as a municipal
official and the knowledge he has
gained of the workings of the various
departments of the city ought to prove
an invaluable asset to the commission
ers to be chosen when they are called
upon to run the city's affairs.
Mayor Green is unpopular in GER
tain quarters He's not much of a poll
tician because the ways and byways
of politicians do not appeal to his
methods of doing business. But most
of the unpopularity directed against
| him emanates from the lawless ele-
ment in the city who would glory in a
/ "wide-open'' town and the advantages
such a place would afford them for
their pernicious activities. May or
Green is the terror of law-breakers and
evil doors aud that's about the best
recommendation that can be given a
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A ROBIN SANG.

A robin sang, and 10! a change
Came DER the spirit of my dreams,
And what was desolate and strange
Became a phantasy of streams
Wide trimming in their fIowered banks,
The yellowhammer's challenge rang,
And the woods were beautiful ana green
A robin sang.
A robin sang. and 10. the theme
He sang my heart was singing. 100;
A song 1t was of when my dream
In all its loneliness were true
The piping meadowlark at morn,
And in the air the fragrant tang
And breath of all the blooming things
A robin sang.
A robin sang, and 10, the Spring
Was fashioned in the dream he woVe
AS deftly as Minerva sprang
F'uII-statured from the brain OF JoVe
In imagery saw the fields,
And heard the clamor of a gang
OF wild geese beating down the wind
A robin sang.
St Louis Post-Dispatch.
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RErIECrIoNs OF a BACHELOR
tFrom the New York Press.I

IRON the New York Press.I
An ideal never seems to be able to
nav it's own way.
The salt in the wound of love is a
term of affection without feeling.
woman can be very sorry for a
man who is married unless it's to her
A man could become very popular
with everybody just being simple and
cheerful. and that's why he never
does.
One difference between a man and
a woman is she looks in every mirror
she meets and admits it, and he does
the same thing. but denies 1t.
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President Taft is an ardent adnirer
of the great universal peace movement
as il is being carried on by Germany
Great Britain, France and all the oth-
er powers. He is strongly IN favor OF
peace and the building of huge navles
10 maintain it.
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DIR. Cooks wife reports her husband
to be broken in health and purse and
therefore unable to continue the fight
for the honors which he still says
should have been his. This seems to
be about the easiest way for the ex-
plorer to slip out of the distressing
dilemma which confronts him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25

Bleached -four is certainly persona
non grata with the federal agricultural
department The latest ukase on the
subject from Secretary Wilson is to the
effect that bleached -four by any other
mans, is bleached -four and no state
ment upon the label can bring it with
ir, the law
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25

No finer compliment or tribute to the
memory of a public servant has ever
been given than the voluntary sub
scription by the people Of Minnesota
of a fund which will provide an income
of 800 a month for life for the widow
OF the late Governor John A. Johnson.