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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
AYHAWKER JOTS

Saline county farmers are offering
six cents a shock to corn cutters.
Prairie chicken dinners are a popular
form of entertainment at Junction
CITY.
The Beloit Gazette chronicles a yield
of 43 bushels of wheat to the acre on
one Mitchell county farm.
Everything appears to be coming
Henry Aliens way. He has been award
ed the contract for the city printing.
The man who does things without
effort, remarks the Williamsburg
Star, usually gets more credit than
the man who lies awake nights devils
ing ways and means.
The fraternal order which carried an
insurance policy on the life of Bertha
BenignuS the manner of whose death
is still a mystery, has paid the claim.
Her mother is the beneficiary. She re-
ceived $4,000.
Nothing too sporty for the Mitchell
county farmers, says the Beloit Gazette.
This morning a young farmers wife
whiZZed past this office on her way to
the produce house, the back and front
of her automobile filed with two crates
of chickens, and a big pan of home
made butter beside her in the seat
Nothing too good for the farmer now
adays.
The Smith County Pioneer vouches
Aot lHlS ONE. "A Dig swarm OI DSSS
came last spring to make their home
in the attic of the house on one of Ira
Dunavan's farms in Banner township,
that is occupied by Homer Hicks. Ho-
mer did not modest them and last week
upon investigation found they had IT'S
pounds of honey which he removed.
Bees are prodigious workers and keep
eyerlastingly at it"
The Emporia Gazette advertises for
reporter thusly: The Gazette desires
a reporter. He must be a graduate
of the high school or something equal
ly good. He must have lived at least
five years in Emporia. He must be
able to spell and write a good legible
hand. He must be willing to work
and to learn. Also he must not only
be anxious to tell the truth, but to
know the truth when he hears it,
Newspapers as a rule desire the truth
whose business profits by misleading
newspapers. In every town scores of
people profit by getting facts distorted
in newspapers. So, in getting a new
reporter, the Gazette desires one who
not only likes the truth but who knows
it when he sees it. Another thing
the way to know the truth is to de-
velop legs. The lazy reporter who will
not go clear to the bottom of the
story, who fails to get both sides of
controversy, hurts newspaper
And finally, the young man must be
neat and clean-in heart and in body
A slovenly reporter prejudices a news
paper in the public eyes. Therefore
the Gazette reporter must be neat,
schooled and Emporia bred After
that the Gazette will undertake to
make a man of him, and a newspaper
man if he has it in him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe.1

An Atchison man is having trouble
with his wife. (MoraD-Twenty years
ago, at a county fair, we saw this man
with the girl he afterwards married
thing, and he couldn't keep his hands
off of her, he was afraid some one
would steal her, and he lowered over
her like hawk. His devotion to the
girl was beautiful; also, somewhat alb
surd. But the woman is now so fat
that when she goes driving with the
children cher husband never goes
along) she fills the entire back seat.
man was talking today about a
relative who died lately: his wife's
aunt, who had lived at his house 80
years, and who had been somewhat
troublesome. He wanted to create the
impression that he was a kind, patient
man, and said: Poor Aunt Nan: when
l think of her out there in the lonely
graveyard, with the rain falling, tears
got the better Of him, and he added,
quickly: But she's better off,
A woman was abusing a neighbor
last night, and said: Il have nursed
1--WE children through whooping cough,
measles and chickenpox; 1 have scrub
bed floors, cooked, and washed, and
SHAVED, but I would rather do it all
from morning till night than play a
game of cards with THAT woman!"
We met a man today who quit bust
ness last January, and retired. He
says he was compelled to return to
work. again, at the end of three
months. to save his life. you can
never appreciate, until you have tried
it, he said. 'how terrible Ioafing Isl
We don't believe idleness would hurt
us that bad.
An old fashioned woman shifted and
snorted today over the announcement
that an Atchison woman was inform
ing her friends that in about six
months from now she will be visited
by the stork. The old fashioned wo-
man thinks such information is vul-
gar: In her day, all the little clothes
were made when no one could see, and
was to be a surprise party on the
neighbors. And often it was a surprise
party.
A farmer brought five ears of corn
to town today, to show. It's fine,''
a reporter said. 80, I've got better
than that the farmer said. Cues
ton for discussion at the next meet
ing of the Lancaster Literary society:
When a farmer brings five ears of
corn to town, to show, doesn't he bring
the best he can find?
An Atchison girl has tried every
thing from fudge to chicken gravy to
land a young man, and failed. Here
is a suggestion: Make a peach cob
bier. If a peach cobbler is made right.
no man who eats it will try to get
away.
When you become considerate
enough to pity the sorrows of a poor
old man instead of making fun of his
bald head and the grease spots on
his coat, that is a sign you are old
enough to see the top of the hill.
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Automobiles and Health.

What is the effect of automO billing on
health? The question is engaging the
attention of our foremost insurance
companies, which are at work obtain
ing statistics from which really valG-
able deductions may be made. But It
has already been taken up by individ
ual doctors, and. if one may judge by
what they say, the general verdict is
likely to be much in the automobiles
favor, though in special cases-where
persons are affected with certain kinds
of complaintS-itS use will be con-
demned
Recently DIR. James Tyson presented
a paper in Philadelphia on the effect of
the use of the automobile upon the
heart. His conclusions were favorable
He expressed the belief that in many
cases of heart trouble the sufferer is
materially benefited by automobiling
1t gently stimulates the circulation, at
fords fresh air. a moderate amount Of
exercise, and mental diversion, things
which he says have an excellent in
fluence in these cases. In the Medical
Record for August 20 DR.. D. Bryson
Delavan of New York discusses the
matter from another standpoint, that
of the effect of automobiling upon the
upper air passages. While admitting
that the subject must be carefully in
vestigated before an authoritative
opinion may be reached, he comes to
the tentative conclusion that proper
ly used in suitable cases, the automo-
bile may be a valuable therapeutic
agent"
In acute catarrhal conditions, he says.
motoring would seem to be a bad thing.
But in many subacute and chronic ca
tarrhal conditions it appears to be dis
tinctly advantageous. And he states
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
A Woman,s Pilgrimage.

Miss Olive Macleod, daughter of Sir
Reginald Macleod. has just left Lon
don on a journey of 4,5OO miles TO
the grave of her sweetheart in Africa.
Miss Macleod was engaged to be
married to Lieut.. Boyd Alexander,
who was murdered last April by the
natives of Wadai, near Lake Chad, in
central Africa. The brave officer lies
buried beside his brother. Capt.
Claude Alexander, at Maifoni. The
intrepid woman who has undertaken
to traverse the 1000 miles of jungle
between the Niger river and the lake
takes with her white marble cross,
which she will place upon the lonely
grave of her lover. 1t will be the first
time that a white woman has been
in that part of Africa, and the person
al risk she incurs is considerable.
Gen. Gordon said he never married
because he never found the woman
who would follow him anywhere. Lieut..
Alexander had found woman as
brave as himself, and that the blind
fury came with 1.-The abhorred shears"
as their happiness was about to be
contaminated is one of the saddest of
recent tragedies.
1t was in 1904 that Alexander start
ed on his remarkable journey across
Africa from the Niger to the Nile. He
had two white companionS-his broth
er and Capt. G. B. Costing, both of
whom died of the fever during the
Journey. For many months the party
remained in the neighborhood of Lake
Chad, often wading waist deep in the
mud amid the reeds in mapping the
outlines of the mysterious disappear
ing lake." The explorer did not
emerge from the wilderness at the
headwaters of the Nile till 1907. The
region known as Wadai is inhabited
by fanatical black Mohammedans,
very loosely under the control of
French officials. Alexander was ira
versing this region on his way to
Egypt, after revisiting Lake Chad
when he was killed.
Scientific exploration in the death of
Boyd Alexander has suffered the loss
of a man of Stanley's caliber, a SOL
der equally brave and modest, and
the worlds sympathy goes out to the
woman who was to have been his
Wife=PhiladelphiaL Ledger.
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can't be disloyal to them and spoil
it ALL
spoil it. God bless your darling
hearti" laughed Carr, as he gripped
her hands fast in his. and held them
to his lips. You shall not spoil them.
You shall bring them out at the big
gest cotillion of the year. You shall
present them on the other side, and do
anything you want with them. You
shall be their fairy godmother-"
A noise behind startled them both,
and they turned to find the twins
smiling at them joyously. wickedly
from the arched doors.
May we come in. Uncle Bert %
asked Marcella, innocently. 1--WE
couldn't help but hear what you said,
and we sympathize with you immense
ly, Fan and I. and we just want to
say this: We'd rather lose the mil
lions than Leonie as an aunt
Il will give you both fifty thousand
each this minute if you will go away"
said Carr. calmly. ''Is it a go?"
Done the twins returned, as
quietly, and vanished.
1t was very still in the long, dark
ened room, and then Carr laughed
happily as he raised his head
1T was worth it, he said.-(Copy-
righted 1910 by Associated Literary
Pressl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
HIGH PRICES AND THETR CAUSES.

In opening the Republican cam
paign in Ohio last week, Secretary of
Agriculture James Wilson undertook
to give his audience an explanation of
the prevailing high cost of living.
Dealing with the expanding problem
of food supply, Secretary Wilson held
out no hope of a return to lower
level of prives. He sees in an increase
in population which outruns agricul-
tural development the prime cause of
the increasing cost of the necessaries
of life. We are led to infer that the
country wide agitation of the question
of exorbitant prices and fixing the
responsibility could but come to
naught. Only in the case of meats
was the cost inflated artifcially. This
was not owing to rapacity, as the pub
lie suspected, but to the fact that the
retail business was overdone. 1t is
also to be inferred that while prices
will be maintained, a still higher level
is not to be apprehended. Increased
profits act as spur to production, and
hence the crops are keeping pace with
the increase of population, but no
more.
The secretary's theory is but one of
time to time in the past few years. If
some of these students of the problem
of prices would dig deeper they might
find that the great expansion of the
volume of money which has been go
ing on, affords the real basis for the
increase in prices not only of food
products, but other commodities and
of wages.
High prices and prosperity have ever
gone hand in hand.
Nothing would reduce values so
quickly and effectively as contraction
of the currency. A look backward at
the financial history of the country
will prove this to be a fact. Let the
student of the price problem, contem-
plate for a moment, what would be the
effect of retirement from circulation
of the greenbacks or the national bank
currency. Does anybody doubt that
there would be a tumble in values and
/ end to our present boosted pros
perity?
A cessation of the steady stream of
gold pouring from the mines of the
world would be fully as effective in the
same direction.
Do we really want lower prices, or
is it a more equitable adjustment that
is needed?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News. I

tFrom the Chicago News.1
How funny a joke isn't when it's on
you!
Ancestors come in handy to inherit
money from.
1t takes a pretty smart widow to pre-
tend she isn't.
And man is judged by the society
that avoids him.
After all. the average man doesn't
lose so very much money.
The man who isn't proud of being
honest is ashamed of being poor.
Some men live in the country, some
in the city and others Just board.
Never do until tomorrow the mean
things you contemplate doing today.
If a woman hasn't anything else to
brag about she boasts of her ailments.
The man who wants but little here
below should patronize a cheap board
ing house.
A woman may be able to make
money go further than man, but she
can't make it go as fast.
Airship racing is dangerous sport.
but some of us just can't resist the
temptation to butt into the high-flyer
class.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
THE WORKERS.


Inc men who have muscle for sale
are making the world go round;
without them, what plans would fall
what castles would fall to the ground !;
NO rails on the lofty pass,
would CLEAN in the light of the dawn:
Inen toast with a trimming glass,
Inc horses who barter their Drawn.
Iney are bridging the chasm grand
Ihat bafled US many a day
Where the primitive made its stand,
Holding civilization at bay;
Iney are setting the war-craft afloat
Prepared for hates iron hail;
Cheer then, with ringing note,
Inc men who have muscle for sale.
The men who have muscle for sale
Are Drowned by the glazing sun;
With duty their only grail,
They stand to their toll, each one:
And the good-who shall measure it all
That they've won, when the sunbeams
And they scatter, at evenings call
me men who have muscle for sale.
Arthur Chapman, in the Denver Repub-
lican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
Neck Pierced by Arrow.

1t was in the summer of SO that
George Wainwright and Ben Spencer,
each in charge of a train of freight
wagons were headed for the Missouri
river to bring supplies back to Colo
RADIO points. The Indians were very
troublesome in those days, and these
two outfits always camped together for
protection. One night they had ar
ranged the camp, with the wagons
forming a circle, and everybody but
the guards were to be inside. VAIN
wright preferred to sleep in a clump
of cottonwoods about ( quarter of a
mile off, and there he fixed himself
Neither the camp nor Wainwright was
disturbed during the night, but early
the next morning. while Wainwright
was sitting on the ground with his
back to tree drinking his tin of cof-
fee, an arrow from an unseen foe en-
tered his neck to the right of the jugu-
lar vein, and was driven with such
force as to impale the victim to the
tree The negro, believing his master
was killed, ran to Spencer's camp and
gave the alarm.
Spencer and some of his men rushed
over to Wainwright. Instead of being
dead, Wainwright was not even SER
iously injured. Spencer cut the ar
row off close to the point of entrance,
and then gently drew Wainwright's
head forward until he was released.
The victim suffered but little inconven-
fence from the wound, and by the
time the trip was completed 1t was en-
tireIy healed-Los Angeles Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
HUNOR or THE Dry

and his wife are chums, '-Rirn giy; he
Age-Herald. On iiiiiish nam
You are an earnest advocate If ,,,,,,,..
sdtfrage; RI, What are your reasons?' NV
ton Johns rwen S,ay rn az Jupiter June
, YOU wont need over two gowns. "gI ,ouis.
,Knicker-My forebears came over in t,a
n Maylo4wer: Booker suppose rhey we're
then.-New York Sun.
da neeM lay, bay baye the pleasure of tni,
must be very slow, as have hist ron ~
into mourning. -Frou- Frou. ee
sb Di ext one thing about Louise
friends. Ethel-Repeats, No. indeed she
starts characterization Advocate S0
4 want land reform: i want hoI,siog Ut Ut
form; want educational reform: TwaS5+
66ored Voice-Chloroform. = Manchester
H gaoi In NaS yo1 yer boy Macy? josh
he on by this t time? Rqq 6sbMhd, SIDES
mean? Rube-Is he sellin' goi ha' br;s yss
aa'reaady or buyin' EN- yefOC Si sleRi
:. Well Meaning Golfer-Er-do YOU think
- quite safe to bring that child across
the inks? Matilda Jane-Oh it's all ripif
sir, | shouldn't think of bringin' i'm IL he
"arn,t as deaf as a post, poor little chant
hat do you think ought to he dora
WIN persons who give short weights in
trade? Il think they ought TO he e~i,,., a.,
long waits in jail."-Baltimore Amer;nSvni
The next event." said the announcer ~
me county fair, will be a sack race for
girls Professionals barred ..yvLS+ IL II
you mean by professionally ..rhosa a. 10. 90
nave neen wearing hobble skirts. ''Npittso1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22
QUAKER MEDTTATIONs
tF'rom the PHILADELPHIA Record

tFrom the Philadelphia Record
FootbaIl will soon be featured.
NOT to be sneezed at-A hav fezar
remedy. nay lever
one ay to make a small how wash
ms hands is to let him blow sosn h,,hN
b1es. 'oop oup-
1t may be that the autumn 1eave,
them. .eii aooue
professional humorist when he res,;s .eaS
that he had the d. Us.
Most women are eager for the Iate.&
wIinkie, and yet they go to the BEAUTY
specialist to remove it.
ray as you go is a good motto. and
IN the case of the bore we are avan
wiling to lend him money to get awav-
W1gg-'Did you get away with anv-
tnlng at the church fair last night p,
my carfare.'' WIN
Hoax-"Miss Peachleigh looks ,;La
perfect poem" Joax-'Yes. buf IF vo,,
try to kiss her you'll find she is not at
all averse." a.
A fellow may feel that a girl 60 al,
the world to him, but when she i,Its
MIN he realizes that after all she was
merely representative of the frig;d
zone. ieio
~, slobbsn~Bjones may be a mischief
maker, but he is at least generous .
Blobbs-"Yes, it is hard for a man 70
make trouble for himself without civ
Ing his friends share of it."
Muggins had been invited by Rueeins
out In his motor boat "I hone yn,,
haven't forgotten your life preserves :;
sald Mugg1ns, nervously. mo, but. NV
george. that just reminds me. I'VE for,
hoDeIesslv eeln>s
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b J
Time flies, unless you are waiting
for a train or something.

Dodge City shows no inclination to
dodge row with Hon. Stubs.
The water famine on the Rockefel-
Ter estate may prevent the oil mag
nate from washing his face, but it
VIII not entail the necessity of letting
his hair go dirty. He is so constituted
that he can send his hair down to
New York to be washed, or have it
dry-cleaned on the premises.
frequently 1t is proven that there
is nothing In name. A party named
Larsen was acquitted in court yester-
day. He was charged with larceny.
Vice President Sherman will no
doubt concede that the other Sherman
properly defined war, and add that
New York politics and war are synon-
ymous.
Gen. Freddie Funston has issued an
order to kill or skiddoo all the cats
on the Fort Leavenworth reservation
When he starts out to execute his own
orders, he will find that some female
cat owners are a darnsight worse than
Filipino insurgents.
Tawney was defeated in Minnesota
by man named Anderson. A Swede
name is handy thing to have in a
close Minnesota campaign, and Taw-
-SS SAAOd40 AldF6 maze nlmSeif secure
IN the. premises by changing his name
to Tawneyson.
A party of scientists who RECENTLY
explored portions of the arctic re-
glons came back with fine collection
OF ch1llblains and this rare and i'm
portant scientific data. towit. shoe
strings, when soaked in fish-oiI arc
NOT exactly substitute for porfar~
house steak.
Inc lost heir to a Danish title ord
estate, has been located in Seat+Ie
and restored to his household af+er -
nunt OF many years. Wonder which
InShufacturere of hair restorer will
give MS product the credit?
1ncldentally,you may say this for Riil
Jennings Bryan: He is a prohibitionist
VINO doesn't drink it in his own ceI-
lar. S own Gel
The Tobacco Growers association,
mas decided that Secretary Coburn is
not in favor of tobacco growinp Tha.,
may be right. 1t is a well known ~
that Secretary Coburn does NOT nee ~
bacco, and does not enjov having :,
Wao OF II 1ncinerated under his nose
put Wniie ne claims a perfect right to
ms opinion. and is entitled to ~ he is
broad minded, and may not take issue
with large number of peonle WIZ
consider his distaste for tobacco III.
| only weakness. nis
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more gas available in these fields this
year than there was last, the chances
are that such shortages of gas as oc-
cur this winter will not be any more
serious than have been those in the
winters which have gone before.
These shortages will be occasioned
only, as / nthe past, by breakages to
the pipe lines or pumping plants.
These are things which it does not
seem possible to guard against sue
cessfulIy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22

The idea that platforms are made
to stand on as we'll as to get in on
appears to be growing. The Republi-
can nominee in New Jersey forced the
convention to make a declaration, of
principles suited to his taste before
he would consent to accept the NOM
nation. New Jersey Republicans have
a hard fight on hands this year, at
that
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

IFrom the New York Press.1
A man can love girl just because
he oughtn't to.
Most anybody could get rich if it
really made trouble for him.
Before he is married man thinks
he has troubles; afterward he knows.
One way to get along in the world
is not to be an heir to much money.
What a man likes about family life
is how important he thinks he Is in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22

Once more the veterans of the war
between the states have met in reunion
and marched in review before their
admiring countrymen. It is As years
since that war closed and both the
line and the route have grown much
shorter. but the enthusiasm shows no
signs of diminishing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22

The fact that Democrat leaders in
Nebraska are fighting each other BODIES
i'll for Republican success in that state.
Democracy is never SO weak at any
other time as it is when harmonious.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22

The editor of Harper's Weekly has
been trying for years to get into the
Warwick business. At last he has sue
ceeded to the extent of placing Presi-
dent Woodrow Wilson at the head of
the Democrat state ticket in New Jer-
sey. OF course. the real object is not
the governorship. but the presidential
nomination in 1912
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22

The usual fall scare is going the
rounds about the possible shortage
during the winter months in the nat
uraI gas supply of those cities in
Kansas which enjoy this luxury and
which are somewhat removed from
the gas fields. Inasmuch as there is
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22

Fifty thousand persons are going to
participate in a parade at Pittsburg
Pa, as a protest against the use of
profanity. Why don't they also agitate
the use of Esperanto as the language
for Pittsburg? There is no such thing
as a cuss word in it
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-22

In boiling the head of the Demo-
cratic ticket in Nebraska, Col. Bryan
with his customary cleverness makes
it appear that the candidate for gov
ernor is in fact the bolter.