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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
"BOoGERS."


Sirena' Humphreys, she en- tell
More storieSi An sometimes, wy, she
en- purt' near almost make you yell
You get as scairt as you en- be.
An men Sirena she'll just sit
An watch you Shiver; an she'll grin
An asst you if she better quit
A-tellin' EN- wifi boogers in!
Sirena mphreyS-her folks say
They don't know what In all tn earth
Makes her tell stories hathaway
An men just laugh for all she's worth
When you get scairt sol wy. she'll stop
An roll her eyes and twist her chin
An make you almost purt' near drop.
When she tells 'em wifi boogers in!
Sometimes it's graveyards, an a ghos',
Or sometimes pi-ruts. at II take
Somebody at was loved tn mos
An cutlass 'emI An, goodness sake;
Sometimes its cannibals at won't
Eat people while they are so thin
But fattenS 'em. Sirena don't
Tell none wifout a booger ini
An haunted houses-woo!-wif lights
AT flashes green on every floor!
An when 1 lay awake at nights
I say I won't asst her no more
To tell me things at make me 'fraid.
But very next time she begins
I hope she has ghos' or shade
Or mother kind o. booger I'M
Wilbur D. Nesbit, in Harper's Maya
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
Variations of Love.

Into telegraph office in an eastern
town here recently came a much agi-
tated young woman. She wrote upon
one telegraph blank, tore it in halves,
wrote second, which she treated in
the same manner, and at last a third.
This she handed to the operator, re
questing, in a trembling voice, that he
hurry it up"
The operator obeyed instructions,
and when the young woman had gone
he read the two messages that she had
torn in halves.
The first was:
All is over. never wish to see you
again. ~.
The second read:
: Do not write or try to see me at
present.
And the third ran:
Can you take the next train? Please
answer-Lppincott'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

"Actaeon is noted in history as the
original "Peeping Tom" He was too
much like the bear that went over the
mountain, of which our forebears
were wont to sing at o'clock in the
morning-he was on the lookout to
see what he could see. He was inclin-
ed to look 'em over. What Diana did
to him was no more than right, but
we have long suspicioned that there
was more of selfishness than outraged
propriety in her action. Diana was a
huntress; Actaeon was a hunter. We
feel confident that Diana took this
drastic method of reproving him for
hunting on her game preserves. rather
than for getting his eye full. We have
seen several pictures and statues of
Diana, and have gathered from the
same that she was not so blamed
modest that q peek at her bathing
costume could be reasonably constd-
cred capital offense.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

The excitement among the girls Of
Wisconsin as a result Of the election
must be intense. One OF them has ii
chance to be elevated In one bound
to the position of the first lady in the
state. Mr.. McGovern, who was elected
governor, told his friends that If his
candidacy was successful he would
4orswear bacheIorhood and take unto
himself a wife. and furthermore he
said that he had no one In mind as the
possible victim. The campaign that
viii now be waged among the girls Of
wisconsin to become Mrs. Governor,
will probably make the recent political
cam paign as tame as a convention of
deaf mutes in comparison. f-,4..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
HUMOR OF THE Day

''I can't pay this taxicao bill" '~rhen
I'll take you to a police station" "'Tn
pay it. But take me to the poorhouse and
leave me there. Houston Chronicle.
st hear his relations with his wife are
strained What caused it?'' Her rela-
lions. "-Lippincott's
Miss Jones isn't lookingg at all like
herself this evening" "Oh, no-she never
does."-Cleveland Leader.
my wife. salesgiri-What Kind. sirf Gus
tomer-Very cranky.-Life.
Mrs A-Didn't her constant singing in
the flat annoy you? Mrs. B.-Not so much
as the constant flat in her singing.-Bos-
she-:Did I understand you to say that
your friend Brown was thirsting for
had a glorious thirst!-Tit-B Bits.
First Suburbanite-we've got a baby
baby In ours.-Baltimore American.
Country Opera Director-what do you
think of our tenor? Stranger-Jf were
you I'd hire him out as an imitator OF
the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Blaetter.
Heiress-Tell me truly, Arthur, is it
your love or your reason prompts you 10
marry me! A1IHur-JuSl as YOU ike
acknowledgements Blaetter.
Maud-She acts as though she owned
her husband. Beatrix-Sure she does. She
thinks she owns him as much as she does
the books she borrows.-Life.
First Heiress-I understand Count de
Macaroni is paying court to you. Is he
an ardent sutton? Second Heiress-Oh no;
he's frenzied financier.-Chicago News.
wiIkins-That chap lives on the fat of
the land Miller-So? Wilkins-Sure.
He's a manufacturer OF obesity remedies.
Judges Library.
Iiggs-Are you not INDUCING In a good
many Iuxurfes for one IN your position,
old man? Biggs-Yes. but, great Scotfi
the necessities are all SO laundering high.
Boston Transcript
"Dfd links pay you the fiver?" mo.
He offered to toss me double or quits,
and / won" you were lucky Cant
see IT. He owes me tenner. Judge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Insurgent Republican newspapers are
pointing with pride to the fact that
nowhere were there Republican sue
cesses except where Cannonism and
Aldrichism had been repudiated. They
seem to have overlooked that congress
sional district in Illinois which has
Danville for its base; also D. r. An
thony, who is not an insurgent and
who had probably the biggest majority
OF any Republican congressman in the
United States who had opposition.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
ELECTRICITY AND GOD.

A Lawrence electrician says that the
more he studies electricity the greater
his belief in God who controls and
directs the affairs of the universe. "All
that we know of electricity is what it
does. From the looks of a wire We
cannot tell whether it is simply a dead
piece of metal, or whether it is charg-
ed with a current strong enough to
cause instant death. We cannot see
electricity, we know how to produce it,
but what it is we cannot say other
than it is a wonderful force. So it is
with God, we cannot see Him. we do
not know what He is, but on every
hand we see the effects of His influence
upon the lives and character of men,
Lawrence World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
KANSAS COMNENT
THAr PoETs UNION.

The public press announces that the
poets of New York and vicinity have
organized a union called the Poets
Gullo. The idea is a good one. The
need OF a poets union has long been
manifest. All the other crafts have
been improving trade conditions with
shorter hours and better pay, but the
poet still lives upon blue sky and thin
air, but slightly heated, and as for
hours of service he still through long
days of labor and nights devoid of
ease. Frances up and down on the
treadmlll in his attic, munching his
crust Of bread and caroling his round
delay. What the world needs is
meter put on the poets, so that verse
Will have its standard value. The
trouble Is now that the magazines pay
no more for a. long hexameter than
Tor short and jerky bark, bark, the
lark" This is not as it should be.
the poet should have an eight hour
day closed shop to keep out appren-
tees who rhyme dream with seen,
sanitary environment to protect the
public against the hectic tubercular
poet who mixes mysticism into his
product, and scatters the microbes of
pesslmlsm broadcast. But until they
organize, under-paid and half-baked
poets will glut the market with wares
without the label and sweat shops like
Harper's and Scribner's, and contrac-
tors like Sam Mcclure will keep the
| "a VI POCIly 0OWu 10 LI1C PlSCOWOTh
starvation prices, instead of paying
day wages, and the estate Of the poet
will be as low as that of the cham ber-
maid in a horse garage. Moreover
| ever and anon, some rank outsider
like this man, Mason of Kansas, will
break into the business and corner
the market, turning out by his new,
improved methods, more yodels, quat-
rains, lyrics. Noodles, roundeaux,
songs, chants, dirges and quicksteps
in single day than the Franklin
Square sweatshop can produce in a
week. The closed shop is the only
way to stop the Fat Peril of Empcria
from stalking into the halcyon abode
of poesy and cabbaging the whole
works.
| Pegasus has been lariated too long
in the jimson weeds; he needs a turn
in the alfalfa and few rounds. of
oats. The town pump should not be
stuck into the Pierian spring. The
muses. should get walking delegate,
call out the poets. go up to Parnassus,
and turn over a few affairs, kick out
the divine fire, and picket the place
to show the gods that Music, heavenly
maid, is no SLOUGH even in her old age.
l-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

It is to be hoped that the members
of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers on the western lines will be
able to iron out their differences with
their employers, the railroads, and
that the enginemen viii not consider
It necessary to strike. Such a strike,
coming as it would within the next few
months. would be likely to place a
large obstacle in the way of the grow
ing prosperity of this section of the
country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Glenn H. Curtis is another one of
the aeroplanists who is about to retire
from the game. He says that because
deaths shadow is always lurking in
front of the aviators they lose their
nerve. Still, there does not appear to
be much of q falling off in the num-
Der of men, not familiar with this
death-courting sport. who are anxious
TO risk their necks at It.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.l

from the New York Press.1
The more temper man has the
more he'll think his wife makes it.
A lot of men would rather make a
noise with their mouths than a living
with their heads.
A man can get maddest trying to
prove by argument that he never loses
his temper.
There's hardly anything that de-
lights a man with you more than for
YOU 10 remind him that his weather
prediction last week was right, espec-
tally when it wasn't.
The same man who can want to
buy flowers all the time for a girl be-
fore he marries her can think, after
he marries her. that buying gloves for
her Is sinful waste
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

3este. A man who fought the forest
fires in the northwest declares that
Prof. Dyche is wrong in his assertion
that the decreasing number Of wild
ducks is due to the hunters. This man
places the blame on the forest fires.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

While it is eminently proper that the
officials Of the Western league and the
towns which have teams in it should
protest strongly against the RELOCATION
Of the league from Glass A to Glass B,
there is also no doubt that some Of the
teams in the league during the past
season were Of the Glass G or the Glass
d variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Twenty-six Japs who plotted against
the life Of their emperor are not going
TO be given much time to think over
their folly. Their heads are to be chop
ned off forthwith
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

It is also a noticeable fact that no
great grief is being expressed in any
quarter, not even among his insur-
gent friends in the west, at the defeat
which was administered to Colonel
ROOseveIt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Those plans which have been sug-
gested for the holding of a big Fourth
of July picnic for the people of Shaw
nee county at the Fair Grounds, ought
to appeal strongly to everybody in the
community. They should be pressed
to a successful conclusion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

1t is not unreasonable to expect that
before long the columns Of the Outlook
will have a dissertation from the con-
tributing editor on the theory that re
publics are ungratefuI."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
JAPAN AND THE JAPANESE.

Congress is not far off and the japan
war cloud is also gathering. It is no
longer strange-the association between
the two An appropriation is the con-
Meeting link-great OUTLAWS for ships
and cannon. If it weren't for the ap-
preparation it is very likely that war
cloud would dwindIe to silvery mist,
fading away in the zenith.
What is now suggested as something
that ought to scare this Christian land
into warlike tumult is the report that
Japan, having absorbed Korea, has
now its wistful eyes on China, and if
we don't look out that little 80. 000, 900
nation will step across the Sea of Japan
and possess itself of the Celestial en-
pire with over 400, 00O, 900 souls.
Right on the heels of this apprehen-
sion comes this warning from the chief
of the scarecrow and the representative
of the appropriation: Current opin-
ion in the far east is also pessimistic
about the security of America in the
Philippine islands," Japan is not to he
satisfied with China; 1t is to take the
Philippines from us. That is the slap
in the face that is supposed to support
| mighty raid on the treasury-Ohio
State Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Somebody will be sure to insist that
the name of the town, made famous
because of its proximity to Sycamore
Hill, should be changed to Lobster
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Latest reports on the corn crop of
1910, which was slated several months
ago to be a failure. are that in volume
and yield per acre it is far ahead Of
the average corn crops for the past ten
years
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Something was decidedly out of kilte-
IN Texas the other day. The Demo-
Gratis only succeeded In rolling up a
majority Of 10000.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

No fear has been expressed as yet
that the ground SWELL which swept
over the country last Tuesday and put
a quietus on the political aspirations
and pretensions Of many, has even
come near swampinE any ship Of state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

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 ia 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, 1910-11-11
FROM O7EER PENS
UNsCIENTIFIC UNCLE SAM.

UNSCIENTIFTC UNCLE SAM.
People who live in the tropics have
to be thoughtful as to the state Of their
livers. It is advisable to abstain from
heavy foods, the lighter being the bet
ter. We know these things because
they have been written about in fiction.
books of travel and medical reports ac-
companied by figures and citations Of
awful examples.
But what does Uncle Sam honestly
care about the lives of his sons and
daughters in the Philippines? Moth
ing at all, for he is carrying out his
yearly practice of loading a ship with
material for the Thanksgiving dinner
in the islands. Thirty-seven hundred
turkeys, 10 barrels of cranberries, 600
pounds of mincemeat and 200 boxes of
red apples have been packed into the
refrigerators. There is also canned
milk from Washington, prunes from
Oregon, oranges from California, beef
from the Dakotas, pork from Mime
sofa and eggs from Wisconsin. Enough
to founder the ship, or if the ship es-
capes, to founder the army. All this
we know to be very bad for folk in the
tropics. It will strain belts and cause
the guard to turn out very, very list
1ess1y. It will make eye1ids droop and
increase the natural irritation of the
doctors at sick call the next morning.
Toledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
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And now that this particular section
OF the country has been saved once
more, We may permit our attention to
rest, for brief spell, upon that gas
tronomic question, Thanksgiving.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

That the above mentioned national
holiday comes after election day. is
indeed fortunate. It gives US all some-
thing to be thankful for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Has anybody here seen (the party
who ran against) Kelley?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

wiIkins-That chap lives on tho fat of
tha land Miller-So? WILLIAMSBURG.
He's a manufacturer of obesity remedies.
Judges Library.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Mr.. Hodges. who suspected him
SELF OF being an honest, decent Prohi-
bitionist, may now learn just what a
nard citizen he was, by reading the
Stubs post mortems, wherein he cou-
pies Mr.. Hodges with Rum. Rail-
roads and Rough-necks."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Maud-She acts as though she owned
her husband Beatrix-Sure she does. She
thinks she owns him as much as she does
the books she borrows.-Lhe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Speaking of the high price of meat:
Even when you are given q bum
steer" 1t costs you something.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

why Missouri went wet" (Reason
number 3,165.) From a Monday pa
per: ''R. w. Eaton and several other
topeka business men, have gone to
Missouri to assist in the crusade
against the saloons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Heiress-Tell me truly, Arthur, is it
your love or your reason prompts you 10
marry me? Arthur-Just as you like
acknowledgements Blaetter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

The principal ambition of the auto
mooilist is to get away before the VIC
tim can catch his number.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

First Heiress-I understand Count de
Macaroni is paying court to you. Is he
an ardent sutton? Second Heiress-Oh, no;
he's a frenzied financier.-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

Eiggs-Are you not INDUCING In a good
many Injuries for one IN your position,
old man? Biggs-Yes, but, great Scotfl
the necessities are all so laundering high.
Boston Transcript
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11


ActaeOn.
"Actaeon was a character in Greek
Mythology,
VINO Kept his eye wide open Just to
see what he could see.
He rubbered at Diana when she took
little swim,
And so she called some poodle-dogs
and 'sicked' 'em onto him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-11

think of our tenor? Stranger-Jf were
you I'd hire him out as an irnitator of
the Observation-Disclosures Blaetter.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-21
SMITHS LUNCH ROOM

Quick lunches, soft drinks, cigars and
confectionery. Open from 8 A N. to
12P.M Give us a trial.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-21
lALK OF The TOWN

Snow shoes at Shepard's.
Rosary beads at Burr's.
Marshall Fields handkerehiefs at Alb
bolts.
Print house dresses, $lOO each. Yeale
& Knight.
shawmut rubbers guaranteed at Fits
shoe department.
The Vaughan Store is good place for
Christmas shopping
Rosades, crucifxes, gold beads, at
Holmes, the jeweler.
Remember the apron sale and dance
in Foresters hall Dec. 70.
Go to the Staples Allen Co. to do your
Christmas shopping. Something for ey-
cry member OF the family.
Regular meeting Bright Star Rebekah
lodge Wednesday evening, Dec. Il, at
1880 o'clock Election OF officers.
Mrs Cummings, who for the past 10
years has displayed her hand painted
china goods in Fits store, viii show
some of her decorated porcelain pins and
brooches throughout the holidays.
Until January l. handsome calendar
Will be given with every cash order.
Positively only one will be given to a
family. f. w. Langlois, soda manufae,
turer, "a Granite street, city. Telephone
434-ll or 1914.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-21

..aseSsss Regular meeting of Hiawa.
ss tina lodge, T. 0. o. r, Thurs.
fsss%se day, Dec. p, az o'clock,
Nomination OF officers Per order of
noble grand,
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-21

and pulp wood down to the Connecticut
and thence to points wherever wanted.
1t has large tracts OF timber around the
headwaters of the river, which the com
pany claimed it could not utilize unless
it secured this log floating privilege,
which is probably not true. The bill
before the legislature as first drafted
was fairly stiff proposition similar
bills have been presented and put through
as a matter of course and perhaps the
sweeping nature of the first demands ac-
counts for the sudden and unexpected
wrath Of opposition which killed it with
an almost unanimous vote.
The Ottauquechee bill is dead for two
years at least, and with the spread of
the conservation idea, the education Of
our people to the necessity Of preventing
further desolation Of their woodlands, a
similar measure will have less cousidera-
ton in the future.-Woodst Spirit
of the Age.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-21
TALK OF THE TOWN.

Handbags at Fits
Buckskin moccasins at Shepardis
Sale Of new wash goods at vaughan's.
Handkerchiefs for the whole family
at Fits
Black pctticoats for csc each. yeale
& Knight.
Lots of bargains coats and
skirts, at Naughans
Maglie tsweaters per uomo ragazzo
.di ogni moda, e ogni prezzo mel Frank
McWhorter Co
Two new Biograph reels OF pictures
came to the Pavilion this morning, one
entitled The Broken Doll conceded by
dramatic critics to be the finest piece of
work ever done by moving picture man,
ufaeturers In making their decision,
the critics took into consideration three
points Of excellence, namely, the plot. the
acting and the photography on all three
points this picture got the highest mum
Der Of votes. The story deals with an
Indian child, to whom a white family
had shown kindness. This Kindness she
returns by FORGETTING her life in An en-
deevor to save a white village from de.
struction by the Indians. Her mission
is accomplished, but she gives up her
life from a wound received in the con
fict, living only long enough to reach
the grave Of her broken doll which had
been given her BY the white family
whom she had saved. The little girl
who plays the part Of the Indian child
is the well-known Biograph child, who
has done excellent work in a number Of
the Biograph productions The rest Of
the show at the Pavilion is fully up
to the excellent standard which usually
prevails at this popular little theatre.
In fact, we think MaDeIl and Corbley
is the best comedy musical act ever seen
there. The new program OF vaudeville.
which comes tomorrow, and the an.
Biograph program OF pictures which will
be part Of the program, had ought to net
the Salvation Army considerable assist
anee toward their Christmas dinner for
the needy Everyone is invited to come.
The entire receipts Of the matinee 60
to charity.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1910-12-21

GEO. D. ". Smith, IA Main stsot, saus