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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
KANSAS C04AENT
WEATHER WITCHES.

In making up the list of the fakes
OF the world, do not overlook the
fake weather bureau" These pre-
tenders undertake to tell what the
weather is going to be a year ahead.
Ihat would be all right If they did
their stunts for their own amusement,
or for the free information of their
friends: But they are making COM
mercial proposition out of it; selling
TINS information for real money, and
trying to make it appear that they
nave some wonderful mysterious pow
er for looking into the future. Just
take notice. for example, of Fosters
forecast for July. This forecast for
July predicted that in Kansas there
would be quite a cool snap about the
26, "a and % of the month, changing
suddenly to terribly hot on the 20 and
SO, and gradually dropping back to
cool again on the first of August. AS
matter of fact, the temperature Of
July 20 was Ill, on July 81, los; on
July 20, 100. This was Mr.. Fosters
cool period. The 29th of July, when it
was due to get extremely hot, the max
imum for the day dropped back to 80,
and on July 80, when it. was due to get
still hotter, 1t slid down to S5. On Ali
gust 1, when according to Foster. it
would begin to cool off again, the tenn
perature here was SO. These long dis
tance weather prophets are amusing,
but they are not scientific. They bear
about as much relation to real science
as does the man who witches" for
water with a peach twig. When some
people, even in this enlightened age,
believe in such long range weather
forecaSterS, and believe in witching for
water, we have no ground to express
establishment at the Salem witchcraft
proceedings. We are not SO very far
away from the same place, after ALL
Salina Journal.
PROGRESSIVE POLICE METHODS.
The capture of DIR. Crippen and his
lady friend was due to the use of wire
less telegraphy. The captain of the
his passengers and wired to the land,
hundreds of miles away to have an Of
f1cer at the landing port. If it had not
been for this use of the wireless the
captain would have had no way OF
identifying this Crippen and they
would, doubtless, have escaped.
1t will soon be unsafe to commit
crime and try to run away. The next
development will probably be police
| airship. When it is suspected that
| dirigible or the aeroplane can be man
ned by a squad of police, sail after the
| boat, catch up with it and yank the
| parties under suspicion into the air
ships calaboose to be taken promptly
| back to the place from whence they
| came.
| 1t is no longer fashionable to use
| trunks as burial places and even the
application of acids and destroying
flames do not take away the evidence
| of guilt. But it has always been pos
sible for a criminal to get on a vessel
and disappear for weeks or months.
| Now, thanks to the wireless, this is
hard to accomplish and with the addi-
ton of an airship to the police force
the lot of the fugitive will be unhappy
and soon terminated. = Hutchinson
| News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

knot with black bow, and she was
flushed and smiling.
'I sometimes think" Edwin unused.
that she has just reverted to type.
You used to love to get supper for her
father, didn't you. when you were
poor and lived IN this cottage 20
Indeed I did," responded AngeIa's
mother. 'That recipe for chowder is
the one used. and he used to smack
his lips over it,
"Ard behind you is a race of good
housekeepers. and yet you expected
Angela to live like an idle princess
money back of her she had no in
centive-but now-you see"
Yes, see." the mother agreed.
But the climax came when. one
day the pink pearl ring disappeared
where's your ring?" Edwin de-
oh Angela blushed, "oh, II
don't think can tell you just now.
But the secret was out when one
day she led him into her dressing
room. 1t had been refurnished in
pale pink and white swiss, and in one
corner there was crib with rosebuds
embroidered on the cover. And in
another corner was very low white
rocking chair with a pink cushion.
room,''' 1 Angela Ella stated. i. I'AN was p just
HdleIul 10 make you Duy Sucn an ex-
pensive thing for me, Edwin-per-
haps If hadn't always demanded so
| much for myself you wouldn't have
to work so hard now-for u.s.
Her husband folded her in his arms.
Dearest, DEAR he said brokenly.
your mother didn't lose her
| money Edwin explained. 'but ]
wanted you to come to your hearth
| stone heritage as a housewife, and
you couldn't when you were having
| things showered on you"
well, we won't go back to the
city," Angela decided with a shake
of her curls; sit is ever so much
| nicer here-and I couldn't leave my
| garden and my chicks-and besides,
she hid her face against his shoulder
1 ''the country will be the best place to
bring up the baby in-won't it, Ed
win %
| In the months that followed An
| gela's mother had to have her way
| about spending. She bought every
thing from a silver porringer to q
| golden rattle.
| But Edwin bought back the pinl
pearl ring. 81 want you to wear i
because 1t is like you," he said tt
Angela, ardently, "a thing all rosy and
sunshine, and of perfect beauty
| copyrighted 1910 by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
Hone for AIimoniacs.

Mrs. Gabriel Stuart Mulliner is op-
posed to alimony. She vows that it
boldly as graft She makes a careful
differentiation between divorce cases
that are complicated by children and
divorce cases that are not so compli-
Gated.
In the latter circumstances she has
nothing but scorn for the woman who
draws an income from the man with
whom she has refused to live and from
whom she has freed herself. Nor can
she understand how a woman can send
her former husband to Ludlow street
Jail, that most uncongenial and uncom-
Portable place.
AS a matter of fact there are a doz-
en- of divorced wives who share Mrs.
Mulliner's proud feelings. But they
are the ones who are abls to make
their way in the world themselves or
have relatives to support them
But what does Mrs. Mulliner pro-
pose to do in the cases in which a
woman finds it impossible to live with
man and finds it impossible to sup
port herself without that man
Mrs. Mulliner mentions. amid every
token of profound sympathy, sculp-
tor who is supporting one wife and
| struggling" to pay alimony. He is
not exactly to be pitied. The second
| lady was a luxury he could not afford
and in which he should not have. in
dulged.
| AS a matter of fact, all attempts to
form a general solution for the intri-
cate problems of divorce are fruitless
The subject bristles with difficulties. q
composition Of which can only be
adumbrated by the consideration OF
each case on its merits. Divorce is 9
great necessity and terrible evil and
| the legislator who frames successful
laws contemplating the dual nature OF
divorce will earn the admiration OF
posterity as the benefactor of man.
| kind.-New York Telegraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
DRAINAGE IN THE SOUTH.

The reclamation of swamp lands in
the south goes enterprisingly on. New
Orleans is draining $4,000 acres of
marshes that lie within the city limits
and preparations are being made for
the drainage of fully 100000 acres
within SO miles of that city.
Many things are possible in these
days of improved machinery that were
impossible in the early days of the re-
public Steam dredEes and ditching
machines are doing wonders In all
parts of the country and are making
inhabitable millions of acres of land
formerly productive of nothing but
mosquitoes and malaria These sub
merged lands are exceedingly fertile.
THE soil is so deep and so rich as to
be practically inexhaustible- In states
like Louisiana. where it Is possible TO
grow several crops of vegetables in the
course of year, the drainage prop
osition is assuming great Importance
There is small excuse for any large
amount of marsh land lying unre-
claimed in the vicinity of big city
like New Orleans.-Louisville Courier
Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

Rev. Irl r. Hicks, the celebrated To-
cal and long distance weather guesser.
was beaten for reelection as mayor oI
his home town, Wellston, MO-, ana MS
fellow citizens celebrated the incioent by
killing a few Of his favorite policemen
Having been thus tremendously ush-
cred out of politics, it is to be presumed
that the Rev. Irl will resume the
weather guessing business without fur
Their delay.
This wave of insurgency" says Jack
Supp. sis the result Of a fad, and will
he fashionable for while and then re-
tire to the attic. Remember the Pop
ulists. with the slogan, Less corn and
More hell Remember also the hustle!
Rut who wants to be a Populist now,
and what woman wants to wear pack
porch like an observation carr!
Why is it that the average crook is
So successful when he uses religion as
a bait for his skin-game? Is it because
religious people are more gullibler
TT NAV he that Alice Roosevelt Long
worth is setting a bad example by
smoking cigarettes, but have you stop
ned to consider the fact that not one
person out of every million Of the U
& population knew that Alice smoked
until the but-ins began to advertise the
confined is not apt to do any material
damage, and until it was spread
around by the knocker. several million
girls did not have this incentive to
smoke cigarettes.
We are extremely glad to find one item
in connection with the Increased Cost
of Living which does not affect US in
the least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
FROA OTHER PENS
ANOTHER VETERANS VICTORY.


Another notable victory for a veteran
champion has just been won, in the ten
mis- tournament on the Longwood courts,
near Boston, where many Of the BEST
players in the country met this year. as
in summers gone by. William A. Larn-
ed, the champion of last year, again
defeated the players who won first hon
ors Of the tournament and the right to
challenge Larned for the famous Long
wood CUP.
1t proved to be rather an easy VIC
tory for the champion, although Nc
Laughlin, the young athlete who play
ed against him. had one very brilliant
work throughout the earlier rounds. Elk
perience defeated youth, and in a sport
which especially demands speed and
dash the veteran, who has been con-
spicuous figure in tennis for 10 years
won -~-.~i-alv that 1t was eviden:
he might have come of victor against
a decidedly more dangerous rival.
This sort of thing is more remark
able in tennis than it would be in a
sport which called for less extreme agil-
ity and suppleness. When men close tc
30 can play tennis as Larned does it Ii
evident that "Cy'' Young is not alone
in his glory.-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
Can't Prove He's Alive.

Although declared dead by the gov
eminent, and his body placed in a
grave at Fort Thomas, KY, with
handsome tombstone to keep him
down. Arthur ]. Meacham, a member
of the Second Georgia regiment in
the Spanish war, refuses to stay dead.
He insists that he did not die, and in
sists that the government pay him
$135 back pay.
While his regiment was in Florida
Meacham contracted typhoid fever,
and, with several others, was sent to
Fort Thomas. En- route the tags with
the names of the men on them were
changed. Consequently when another
man died he was buried as Meacham-
Meacham declares he has no use for
the tombstone, but would rather have
the money. He is having hard time
resurrecting himself to the satisfac-
ton of Uncle Sans war department
Atlanta Dispatch to the Philadelphia
Record
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

Jake L. Hamon has denied emphat-
ically under oath that he ever offered
a bribe to United States Senator Gore
or that he told Mr.. Gore that Vice
President Sherman, Senator Curtis and
others were mixed up in the McMur-
ray contracts. 1t was not to be ex-
pected, of course, that Hamon would
make any admissions on this score
But the story Gore says Hamon told
him was evidently manufactured by
some one. There does not appear tc
be a scintilla of truth on which to base
It. The denials of Mr.. sherman and
Mr.. Curtis are of a character that il
Wtu be easy to verify. ---
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

lFrom the New York Press.1
It's almost as hard to inherit money
as to marry it.
A man is proud to be in business
for himself II he does nothing else but
lose money at it.
A man wants his wife for a partner
at bridge, so that when he's beaten he
can blame it on her.
Nobody in the family doubts the
baby is talking plain English, especial
ly when nobody understands it.
A woman comes to think her hus-
band is Directorate when he eats his
breakfast without growing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Even fat man may be light
sleeper.
:: So
Misfortune makes optimists out of
some folk.
y n
AS a matter of fact, men are no bet
ter at keeping secrets than are women.
= y
1t seems to be just as easy for wild
overs to get other partners as it is for
widows.
Some people never appear to be
satisfied unless they have an ailment
of one sort or another to complain
about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journai
AWAY during the summer may nave
the paper mailed regularly each DAY
to any address at the rate OF ten cents
a week or thirty cents a month 10y
mail onIy.) Address changed as often
as desired. While out OF town the
State Journal will be to you ike
daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

Nothing appears to be Impossible
with the surgeons of today. Some OF
them in Philadelphia have been sue
cessfuI in transferring the cornea, the
transparent film enveloping the eye,
from a mans eye to woman's and
thereby restored her sight.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

Mr.. Bryan has also taken up the
business of reading men out of parties.
He SAYS that the Democratic members
of the Illinois legislature who voted
for Lorimer have no place in the Dem
ocratic party. He should have added
that those who took brides for their
votes have no place in any party.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

During the international congress of
the EsDerantists, which is to be held
in Washington, d. c.. before long,
church services are to be conducted. in
the proposed universal language. But
it doesn't matter so much in what Ian
guage prayers are uttered. It's the
state of mind and heart of the folk
making them which count.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
I;Y!l!|
tze!1:S.z

did it ever occur to you" asks Hon.
do Murphy, when you read of a shoot
ing scrape which ended fatally. that
nine times out of ten the damage js
done with some dinkey little gun of
kindergarten calibre? 1t is a fact. The
little gun is the killer, and the A and
45 are life-savers. Many times has the
necessity OF shooting been averted by
the introduction of a gun which looked
like one Of the turret tools on the
battleship Kansas.
Down where came from, a promi-
nent citizen cashed his last stack just
because his opponent did not have A
Colts at hand.
DOC Hackney was a gent of the old
school. AS a gentleman. he had
reputation to protect. His reputation
was that of a knife fighter. who scorn-
ed other weapons. He had list Of
two killed and half dozen wounded
to his credit. And so. when the time
arrived to kill friend named knight,
he started out with nothing but a mean
disposition and his trusty spring bladed
knife. Would he stop to slift Mr..
Knight full of buckshot? Never!
"Mr. Knight had a peaceable reputa-
| ton and hardware store, and worked
studiously at both. Doc Hackney
dropped around early in the morning
while Mr.. Knight was cleaning out the
store and fixing it up comfortable for
the clerks, and remarked:
.Mistah Knight, sub, I have called
| this mawin' to kill you Suh. And then
| he ST.; ted in to make good. He first
chased Knight behind the counter, and
was trying to reach his throat across
| it, Knight, by flattening against the
back counter and shelves, could save
| his neck by half an inch, and while the
Doc gaily cut his hfty-cent cravat TO
ribbons, felt along the shelf for scale
weight or other weapon. In the search,
KNIGHTS hand came in contact with a
% calibre pistol,-one of the dollar-two-
| bits kind, which the clerks had used
| to shoot at rats, and had left loaoeo
| With this trinket he threatened the
Doc. who assured him that 1T was
| further insult which could be wiped out
by blood only. Then Mr.. knight puiled
| the trigger The coroner remarked
later that in all his wide experience, he
never saw a man shot squarer De-
| tween the eyes or killed deader than
/ was this same Doc Hackney.
| s.Of course Mr.. knight was sad. He
knew Doc Hackney, and knew that on
several former occasions he had been
tanned and forced to put away his
trusty knife when facing mans sized
six-shooter.
THAT settles it, 1 will never kill an
other man." and then he loaded and
placed in a conspicuous place the
largest revolver he had in stock HAD
he taken this precaution earlier, Doc
Hackney might have lived TO carve
several other friends before dying OF
old age"
NATURAL HISTORY. Gesson XXIID.
! AS one who leads the quiet life,
We recommend the OYSTER.
1 He keeps away from noise and STRIFE
And those inclined to royster.
| (However, when his price is low, the
I OYSTER sometimes gets into poor COM
pany,-fried, stewed or raw
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
10000.

Perhaps it's a trifle late to call at
tention to the fact. But that consp1r-
acy, unearthed by Dave Leahy' which
had for its purpose the theft of the
gubernatorial nomination from MI
Stubbs, was evidently not in very good
working order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

The pardoning of old man Cooper by
Governor Patterson Of Tennessee was
the chief issue in the Judiciary election
held the other day in that state. And
the people of the commonwealth re-
buked Patterson with majority of
nm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

Nothing quite so absurd has come to
the front in long time as the move
ment in the ranks of the w. c. T. U.
and other societies to get I'D mon
ster petition asking Mrs. Nick Long
worth to stop smoking cigarettes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

An apple shipper, Mr.. e. c. Cook,
of Baltimore, deplores the tendency of
the times to put apples in cold storage
and make Injuries out of them. He
points out that children are no longer
intimate with apple pie. Some food
faddists will probably insist that that's
why the children are healthier than
thew used to be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

Colonel William R. Nelson's idea
that Colonel Roosevelt would sweep
the country calls attention to the fact
that there are several sections OF 1t
which need sweeping" badly by some
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

There ought to be general agree
ment on the proposition that Mr.. NJ. B.
McNabb of Chicago has his hands full
and then some. He is one of the
prominent knights Templars of that
city and has been entrusted with en-
PERTAINING 5000 women visitors at the
Templar conclave which opened there
tOdaV
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

Present indications are that the poll
teal pot in Kansas will be kept boil
ing necessarily. Not only is an insur-
gent candidate already in the field for
the next Republican congressional
nomination in the. First district A
candidate has also come to the front
for the next Republican shrievalty
nomination in Shawnee county.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

The delay in the count Of the votes
cast on primary day is the best argu-
ment in the world for the use of vot-
ing machines in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

The United States supreme court is
to pass on the Kansas bank deposlts
guaranty law early in october. 1t VIII
be a great relief when this mucn-
rnnnted question is settled.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08
| NATURAL HIS
Az one who Il

NATURAL HISTORY. (Lesson AAIIIJ.
AS one who leads the quiet life,
We recommend the OYSTER.
He keeps away from noise and strife
And those inclined to royster-
(However, when his price is low, the
oyster sometimes gets into poor coin-
pany,-frfed, stewed or raw.)
The Yale expositor., 1910-07-29
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Passenger train No. on the Che
sapeake & Ohio railroad was derailed
near Russell, Greenup county, KY.
None Of the persons aboard the train
was seriously hurt. Two coaches left
the track.
Prince Nicholas de Ghika, of Rou-
mania, called at the agricultural de-
partment, Washington. and obtained
a permit TO shoot game in Alaska.
The prince is on his way to Alaska
Ill search of specimens for the mu-
scum at Bucharest.
Having driven a team of Angora
goats distance OF more than 1000
miles as the result of a wager, Capt.
V. Edwards, ranch owner of San
Diego, Cal, arrived at Washington,
ID. c., from San Diego. With Capt.
Edwards are six young men and
pack team of three Mexican burros,
Eitched to canvas covered wagon.
notwithstanding that the precipi-
tation during the rainy month of June,
1910, in Panama was almost double
that OF the months of June, 1909, and
1908, the work of excavation in the
Panama canal last June exceeded by
100000 cubic yards the excavation in
the corresponding periods OF previous
years. In June. 1904, the excavation
amounted TO 32,551 cubic yards, as
compared 10 1,305,14l cubic yards
taken out last month.
Sixteen Hindus, who applied for ad.
mission to this country at Seattle,
were ordered deported by Acting Sec
rotary Cable. OF the department of
commerce and labor. The steamship
company which brought them will be
compelled to bear the expense of their.
return. Investigation showed that the
Hindus were illiterate. could not speak
the English language, had very little
money, averaging between $50 and $45,
and were of poor physique A number
of them said they believed in poly.
gamy.
Rare presence of mind was displayed
when o. w. Nelson, driving in an au-
tomobile with Miss Ellen Smakel,
seized his companion in his arms and
leaped to safety on the pilot of train
that threatened them with death. The
incident occurred at Roselle, ILL.,, near
where the Elgin electric road crosses
the Chicago. Milwaukee & st. Paul
tracks. The couple were driving to-
ward Chicago and as they were on
the tracks a defect in mechanism
abruptly stalled the car. A freight
train was rushing toward them.