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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Laura Jean Libbey, the authoress,
made her debut in New York the other
night as vaudeviIlian. And the crit
ics-they wept. Not out Of sympathy
for her because of the showing she
made but because their hearts were
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

NATURAL HISTORY-(Lesson Xxx,
The TURTLE in shy and retiring,
And feels like flying the coop.
He thinks that we all are conspirinf
To hustle him into the soup.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

One disadvantage about having nj
opposition for an office. Is that ths
early editions, before the compfete re.
turns are in. do not print the opposi
tion-less candidates picture with the
caption, Probably nominated for -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

The corner which Stubs has re-
newed on Kansas patronage, is ne
necessarily square" corner. E
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Our idea of nothing to read--in
the Bartenders' Guide
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

This department conscientiously.
voted the ticket without skipping an
office, and by carefully voting for
every candidate who had no opposition
managed to score six out OF possible
"a.
The man who undertakes to fight
for his rights can keep busy at 1t dur
ing a long, hard life, and then lose.
It is too bad Jerry Simpson couldn't
have been here to enjoy this 'swave OF
insurgency"
We are told to always speak the
truth, and the same good book tells US
who loves his enemy is a liar.
Our idea of nothing to read---in
Topeka-is the Bartenders' Guide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

what are you In such rush about?''
Promised to meet my wife at 3 o clock
down at the corner" well, there's no
hurry. 1t isn't yet."-C1eveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04
THE EVENING STORY
Elder Bloom.

[By Martha McCulIoch- Williams.1
You say elder bloom is sickish sweet
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Footpad--Your watch. mister, and be
have no time to spare.-Boston Tran
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Mr.. L. s. Dee-I saw the count kiss you
in the conservatory. Why didn't you tell
him stop? Mrs. L. s. Dee (demurely)-
Why, you know can't speak FRENCH
NJ. Z. p.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Now, little boys" he concluded, what
may we learn from the brutal affair at
de minute, responded an observant Youth
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Old Fungus-My lad, saw you fighting
yesterday, and Youth-Look ERE, mister.
II you wants to make any contracts you
must see my nager!-Chips.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

Pendleton-What are the two greatest
wishes OF a medical student? Kefer-Give
1t up. What are they? Pendleton-lTo put
"Dr." before his own name and Or
after the names of other people.-Chicago
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-04

It found that our stenograpf1er can't
read his notes after they are day old
Raised his salary. and put him under con-
Observation-Disclosures Star.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25

The new place of business of E. L.
Forbes Piano Co., on Pine street, first
west of Main street, is the center of
attraction this week to that large con-
tingent who desire music in their
homes.
The great remOdelling sale, as pre-
viously advertised in this paper, has
aroused interest among the people of
Hattiesburg.
The enormous reductions in prices,
together with tn well known high
quality of pianos and organs handled
by E. 4. Forbes Piano Co., have
brought the shrewd buyers out of hid
ing.
Why anyone wanting a piano or or
gan should fail to take advantage o.
this opportunity, is hard to under
stand.
/ Surely no one need ever expect to
find greater reductions from regular
selling prices. This and the fact that
cash is not required, should keep ev-
eryone from hesitating.
Even at such absurdly low prices,
you will be allowed very small pay
ments. What is to be gained by wait
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
AIiurine ou~rouno,ngs.

A young man who mad just gone tn
Philadelphia to take employ nlent IN /,
business house was casting about for
suitable room for himself IN Ger,
mantown when he CHANGED upon one.
in fine house overlooking IL GENE.
terry.
He was a little doubtful about the
terms and more than doubtful about
the cemetery.
"Your rate is pretty high" he MUIR
INJURED hesitatingly to the landlady.
But consider the cheerful view. sir -
ventured the mistress Of the house.
Cheerful viewv' exclaimed that ap-
plicant for lodgings. lis that. what
you call a view that embraces grave
yardT
"Why. certainly" was the response.
"Just think how comfortin' and cheer
in 1t will be when you look out Of
your window and think you're not
therew-Cincinnat Commercial Trib-
une.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
CAT AND FOX MEET.

And Rsynard Rstirss the Worss For
the Meeting.
In . recent number Of q German
sporting paper a forester describes a
scene which be witnessed in a clearing
In the forest.
He came one afternoon upon q big
black cat occupied apparently in the
pursuit Of mice. and from the shelter
Of a tree he. watched sitss movements
through a neldglass. After a few min
utes an old fox made its appearance.
Sinking slowly forward toward the
cat, 1t lay down within a few steps of
It, ready to spring. ...
The cat had observed its enemy, but
beyond keeping a sharp lookout on its
movements it made no sign. Shortly a
young fox Joined the old one and al
most Immediately bounded at the cat,
which sprang aside and struck its as
sailant 80 efflcaciously across its face
with its sharp claws that 1t retired as
quickly as 1t came. After an interval
the old fox. advancing slowly and
carefully, made its attack, but the re-
suit was the same. The cat. splitting
and Kissing. struck out hard. and the
fox retired discounted.
A minute afterward it again sprang
forward, but this time the cat got
much the best of it and was left in
peace.-London Globe.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
The Act Of byinu,


The common phrase death agony" Is
not warranted by what occurs In natu.
raj death, which is a complete relief
from all pain. When death is owing to
heart failure or syncope it is sudden
and painless, perhaps pleasant. Death
BY hanging, there is reason to believe,
Is attended by voluptuous spasm.
Death by decapitation or electricity Is
only a momentary shock, hardly felt.
Death by poisoning varies in painful
ness according to the poison employed.
Opium and other narcotics probably
give a painless, perhaps a pleasant.
dreamful death. Hemlock, as we
know from the account Of the death
Of Socrates, causes gradual insensibil-
lily from below upward. On the other
hand, arsenic, strychnine, carbolic and
mineral acids, corrosive sublimate, tar
tar emetic and other metallic poisons
infict slow and torturing death. Prus-
sic acid and cyanide of potassium
cause quick death.-Exchange.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25

ing? And what may YOU lose NV wait.
ing until the sale closes and regular
prices put back.
A saving OF from 500 to $3.50 on
Inc purchase of piano is too big .
thing for the average man or woma,
to brush lightly aside. you must
work and save quite long while to
be able to count that much out of tho
FAMILY stocking.
another thing-don't wait mill tbo
stock is picked over, and the choicest
styles are gone. 1t will do no .o,a
10 feel sorry that you didn't cal, oar.
lier. Wi
these pianos must be gotten out of
the way of the carpentars 49,.
hangers and painters, and We have
marked the prices and terms down ~
where We know they will be moved
"hen the sale is all over, the Wise
ones VIII be those with beautiful non,
pianos in their homes, bought at wav.
oo"n sale prices, and on easv nov
ments-people who are able 70 r.oo.
nize opportunity when thew MOI. :.
face to face. 1t
II you live out of the city, write for
catalogue and sale prices.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
HIS HAPPY THOUGHT.


h Let ths New Train Dispatcher on
Without an Accident.
An operator for q western railroad
who had served his company long and
well was called into the office one day
and asked II he thought he could hold
down the job Of night dispatcher. He
promptly replied that he could and
was told to report for duty that night.
and his chief instructed him in what
he was to do. Just after the chief left
the office it began to blow and snow,
and the trains commenced to run late.
The new night dispatcher soon had de-
veloped bad case of ''rattles'' and al
most cried, He did not want IN acct
dent. and he could not handle the
trains. So a happy thought struck
him. As fast as report came In he
replied, directing the conductor to take
a siding and wait for orders, and 1t
was not a great while until he had
every train on the division sidetracked.
Then he took book. lighted his pipe
and sat down to wait for daylight. In
the morning the chief appeared, with
anxiety written all over his face.
ANY accidents. Johnny" asked the
chief.
mot an accident. I've got 'em all on
the sidetrack, showed in and waiting
for orders, and you will have to get
'em out. I am going to blow this job"
It took the chief and his force nearly
all day to get the trains Strengthened
out and traffic resumed on the road.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
MAY Be VICTIM
OF FOUL PLAY
Discharged Soldier under Care Of
Physicians at Henderson, KY, suf-
prins with Strange Ma.ady.
(By Associated. Press.)

Henderson, KY, Jan. 25.-Edward
Way, q discharged soldier, is under
the care of physicians here. He was
either a victim of aphasia or foul play
somewhere between Fort Sam Hous-
ton. San Antonio. Texas. and Hender-
son. His mind is blank, but letters
ON his person show bis name and call
ing. Discharge papers show he en-
listed in New Orleais in 1906 and was
discharged in San Antonio in 1909.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
Y r Y Y Y Y = Y y = =
/. How II Will
: : Be Recorded :

*~4~4~4T4~4~4~4x~xNxNxNx
ployees at the rate of about 25,OOOOOO
cards q month.
After the cards have been punched
and verified they are ready for the
new semiautomatic electric tabulating
machine, similar in many respects to
the one used in the twelfth census,
which was invented by Hermann Hol-
lerith. It is In the form of a heavy
cabinet, from the front of which ex-
tends movable arm or lever, attached
to the outer extremity Of which is a
pin box" containing a pin FOR each
possible hole In a card.
The operator feeds the cards by
hand, one at time, into receptacle
directly under the pin box. This re-
ceiver has'holes that come under those
In the card. Beneath each hole is a
mercury cup. After placing a card
In the receiver the operator touches a
spring starting an electric motor. This
automatically brings the pin box
down upon the card. The electrically
charged pins pass through the holes
into the mercury cups, contact is &C.
complished, and the current by means
Of relays causes one or more dials or
counters to register. In other words,
each pin and its mercury cup form
terminals Of separate current passing
through an tro-magnet controlling
the tabulating dial for each item Of
data required. The pins which reach
the unpunched surface Of the card are
pushed back into the box 30 that NO
contact ia possible. The tabulating
process II completed by an automatic
pscording and printing system. some
what on the stock ticker plan, con-
nected with each dial When the op.
orator wishes to make reading or to
ascertain a total or series Of totals an
electric button Is touched. and the de-
tails are automatically printed on RIB
hons Of paper.
Each tabulating machine can, If nee
essary, carry sixty counters, but it il
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
CLOTHES AND THE Man.
oeed Appearance Waits Upon the Way
Garments Are Worn.

oeed Appearance Waits Upon the Way
Garments Are Worm. ,t
You can talk all you please abou,
clothes making a man." said u Walnut
street tailor, "but want to say right
now that the smartest clothes In the
world can't make man 'natty' II he
ID not naturally so. There is an old,
sto0p shOuldered doctor uptown that
have been tailoring for seven years.
He buys four and sometimes FIVE suits
q year, and yet, except for a few days
after he has broken In each new suit,
he never looks nice. The trousers bag
at the knees, the coat falls away in
front, and the shoulders begin to look
sloppy. The mans dropping figure
and the poor care he takes Of his
clothes furnish, of course, the explana-
ton.
did you ever notice the average
college mans clothesY Almost in
variably he looks neat and correct
despite the easy swing with which he
walks. But you'll notice that he car
ries his head high, his shoulders fairly
erect, and his trousers never break
at the shoes, so that the crease Is al
ways preserved. All classes of men
go to cOllege-rich and poor. Few col
lege men take more than fair care of
their clothes. It's all the way they
wear their clothes, think. Notice the
young lawyers and doctors around
town too. Few Of them can afford the
very best in tailor made clothes. That
they usually look nice is due to the
fact that they have picked up the dis
tinguished way to wear clothes,
might call 1t. Clothes make the man.
but only when the man Is willing to
help."-Philadelphia Record.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25

st. ElmO's fire is name popularity
given to a luminous appearance some
times seen on dark and stormy nights
at the masthead and yardarms Of ves-
sells and also on land at the top Of
church spires and trees and even on
horses names and about human heads.
II is due to the presence Of electricity.
generally at elevated points, where It
accumulates more rapidly than it can
be discharged and is named after st.
Elmo, the patron saint of sailors.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
Want the Facts.

I'm view of the fact that the amount
of yellow pine ctTmpage standing IN
the Southern stat IS IS not dehnitely
known, it is advisable for the associa-
ton to undertake 10 ascertain the to-
tai amount
It is declared lumbegmen have been
governed too long by mere estimates
not by actual facts.
President H. H. Foster will deliver
his annual address at the opening SEES
sion Tuesday. Reports will then be
made by Secretary Geo. X. Smith, OF
St. Louis, and Treasurer A. J. Neimey-
err.
Committees will then be appointed
to take up various lines of work. AT
the Wednesday morning session the
new federal corporation tax will be dis
cussed. as will the manufacture and
sale of odd lengths of lumber for floor
ing and other purposes
Committee reports will also be re-
ceived Wednesday morning and after
noon. One of the last routine acts of
the convention will be to elect Off
GERS. r
Mr.. Foster lives at Malvern, Ark
Mr. Neimeyer is from st. Louis, and
there is a long list of vice presidents
from Louisiana and other states hav-
ing membership in the association.
Arrangements for the convention
and the Hoo-Hoo festivities are COM
pleted Saturday night at meeting
in the Grunewald Hotel
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
A TRUE STORY.
Il Was vouehsd For by the osntlsmas
Who Related Il.

Il Was vouehsd For by the osntissnan
Who Related II.
Some years ago in certain, town In
the north a gentleman possessed Of
more money than education was asked
to address the scholars attending one
Of the local schools some Sunday after
noon.
"Well, childwen," said he, "I's not
used to public speyking, but I remem-
Der when I was lad I was very fond
Of hearing a story. Shall tell ye q
story?
"Once upon a time many years ago
there was lad, very good lad, who
went regularly to Sunday school and
nivver missed. But one Sunday aft
ernoon as he was gavin to school two
bad boys met him and persuaded him
10 gan bird nesting wiz 'em. So they
went alang by the riverside, and by
and by they came to a tree, and In
the tree on branch which overhung
the waiter was nest. The two bad
lads sent the good lad to climb the
tree and fetch the eggs: Up he went
and got on the branch, farther and far
ther, and just as he was reaching out
his hand to TAX the nest the branch
brok', and he fell into the river and
was drooned."
After waiting a few moments to al
low his hearers to thoroughly grasp
the full extent Of the catastrophe he
resumed with:
Children, the story is true, for the
lad that was drooned was melon
don Tit-Bits.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
yellow PINE MEN
Want The FIGURES
During the Convention at New Orleans
Today Will Plan to Get at the Act
ual Stumpage Area.


Specialize The VetOS.
New Orleans, Jan. 25.-Members of
the Yellow Pine Manufacturer Asso-
citation, one Of the big lumber organi-
cations of the South, met at the
Grunewald Hotel at 10 o'clock this
morning in annual convention.
Sessions will last until Wednesday
evening, when officers will be elected.
One of the social features of the
meeting will be the gathering of
members of the Hoo-Hoo Order. Tues
day night they will have a concatena-
ton and high jinks" in the big con-
vention hail on the top floor of the
hotel.
About $50 kittens will be initial
ed. The noted Missouri Hoo-Hoo
Band, from st. Louis, will furnish mu-
sic and at IL o'clock there will be a
banquet.
The wealth controlled by the men,
bers of the yellow pine organization
is said to run high into the hundreds
Of millions of dollars,
The conservation of timber is one
of the problems the yellow pine men
must face. During the convention a
paper by former National Forester
Clifford Pinchot will be read on THE
Importance of Corrective Education
of Public Sentiment as an Indispensi-
BILE Aid to Forest Conservation"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
BIG REALTY DEAL.
10y Union Associated Press.

New York, Jan. 25.-One of the big
gest real estate auctions held in New
York recently is scheduled for today,
plots in the Southern Boulevard dis
trict of the Bronx will be knocked
down to the highest bidders. The
property is surrounded by big build
ings and apartment houses, and has
been held by estates.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
Trotter and Thoro uuhbred.

1.-THE trotting horse is infinitely more
practical and useful, speaking on
broad lines, than the thoroughbred"
said well known horse breeder, to a
Washington Herald reporter. "a thor
oughbred has the speed for burst of
time, but when it comes to do hard
work every day, day after day and
all the year around, 1t cannot com
pete with the trotting horse. The thor
oughbred Is rattle Drained, has no
sense, is beyond all control. 1t doesn't
know when to stop or what to do In
a race; 1t simply runs until it cannot
run any longer. whereas the trOtting
horse is ur''er the control of its driver
from start TO finish and Obeys orders
at any time. The thoroughbred natu-
rally exceeds. the trotter In burst Of
speed. but in the dong run 1t cannot
compete. AS general proposition. it
is accepted among horsemen that the
trotting horse is superior to the thor
oughbred for general purposes"
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
Arsenic.

Arsenic is mined In Japan, Italy.
Portugal, Spain, Germany, England
and. within a limited area, in the
United States. Its uses are many. Az
a poison it has been known from very
early times. The peasant women of
Austria consume large quantities Of 1t,
having faith in it's virtues as beauti-
fer, and the men of the same region
are addicted to its use in the mistaken
belief that it increases their bodily
strength and endurance.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25
FA1nER IN
lIlI6ATOR SWAMP
NsN verk Youth at New Orleans
Thinks parent Might Have Been
Victim Of Reptile.

Apectol to The Ne,os.
New Orleans. Jan. 26.--Determined
g md his father, who j. either lost
= the marshes near Port Arthur
>xae, or has been devoured by the
@ligators which infest the region, Al
ut Fritchie. s/seventeen-year-old
Now Orleans bpS, left the city yes
e1rday moruiHS and will lead hunt
~ party through the marshes in
hitch his father is believed to have
xoupf Fritchte was accompanied to
TeHfs by his aunt, Mrs. ]. A. Salmen.
Mr. Fritz Salmen. of the Salmen
Drjck and Lumber Company, is an
untle ct the youth.
Mr.. Fritchie has been missing since
LIST Friday morning. when he went
intb the marshes to shoot ducks. His
relatives in Texas became alarmed
Sunday when he did not return, and
messase was sent y New Orleans
70 the SON, who is q student at the
aoule Business College.
The marshes who're, Mr.. Ffitchie
went to hu4t ducks has claimed five
lives in th@ last ten years, according
= rsport3 from Texas, and any at
tempt to tsnetrsGe the jungle-lfke Sec
tisa Il Always sftended By great peril.
Young, Friehie hopes that his faith.
or may heye merely. lost his way and
that / yil be able to find him. If
this fh94ld be the case It is very
likel4 1(ak the elder Fritchte is alive,
~ 1e/ could easily kill enough game
to /sfstain him.
~. Fritchie's son has arranged by
fe|egraph for q searching party.
Which win include physician and
4 trained nurse to provide for any
Possibility Of Mr.. Fritchie needing
their services.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-01-25

TIE sEMIAUTOMATIO ELECTRICAL CENSUS
CARD PUNCHING MACHINE.
believed that the fluctuations necessary
will require only about twenty, as that
represents approximately the average
number Of facts punched into each
card. -, 81,
A speed Of $4,000 cards tabulated
per day on one of these machines
should be reached easily. Contracts
have been let for the building Of a
hundred of them. The daily output of
the old style machine averaged about
10000 cards owing to the fact that the
counters had to be read by the opera
tor and the results recorded by hand,
a method productive Of error and loss
Of time.
The form Of tabulator described is
really semiautomatic. but requires the
constant attention of an operator
when in service. However, the census
experts are now at work on a tabula-
tor designed to be wholly automatic in
its action which will feed cards from
a magazine and receive them into an
other magazine after the fashion of
the new card punch. Electric motors
OF One-half horsepower are employed
for the operation of the new census
machines.
After the transfer Of information to
the cards has been completed the
schedules are filed away In fireproof
vault for permanent preservation. The
clerks handling the cards cannot tell
from anything on them the names or
addresses of the individuals for whom
the cards stand, so that in the tabula-
ton and subsequent statistical proc
esses the personal element is lost and
the card is known only by number.
After the census is over the cards are
boxed and filed away in great room.
One other machine is employed In
the work. It is an automatic electrical
sorter, which separates into different
compartments the groups Of cards ar
ranged with reference to the character
Of the statistical tables for which they
supply the facts.
The census of 1890 was noteworthy
because Of the introduction of electric
tabulation, but not Of punching. The
card punching machines were simple
mechanical devices operated by hand
The symbols on a card were punched
out by plunger. The electrical tab
ulating machine used in 1890 ed 1900
also was operated by hand.
1t has been officially stated that cleo
trio tabulation has proved boon to
the census office. tits also declared
that If at the twelfth census the three
tallies Of age and sex, nativity and &C.
cupation had been made by hand the
publication of. the statistics for these |
three subjects alone would have re-
luired the time of 100 clerks seven
years. eleven months and five days.