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Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1910-09-01
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ben!"
9tm nG9Fen Mloreen bra9te ibm
iein 8urfdbe ole Stisfel; 70 eesIdnst
batten iie nod ME.
rGrcellen5. i1 gratultere!"
&aum battle sr ods gefdst. fIog
aud i6on elm Stiefet an Ieinen &opf.
paItin tpOIIts Dem Burden aud ben
Stpeitsn na9iperfen. aber er beidnn
iid nod re9tseitis; uno um feline
gntsleiiung su beri9leitrn. fagte er,
6aB Der erfte StiefeI beHer setptbit
fein IoGIs.
r9tufel, jsbt bsiBt es aufpaHen!"
faste er au iih, aIs iener binaus mar;
rfonit perosrbs id nod Die sdnse Sds
DIE; bdt oas Weib fbon fdpaben
miiHen, uno nun fpiien es au9 5s'
reits aGIe; ba III es beFer. id pers
f9pinbe bis aur So9seit!"
9lei9 oarauf bru6te linn MaruFd
&offte nit ouften6en Rrapfen uno
boIte fi1 ibrsn Morgenfub. 8einuhe
bGtts .r iie nibt srtannt; 70 fsI9 unb
Inn ssbn Sabre finger iab lie aus;
fogur In elm Goriett mar Fe einges
spdnst; ipO iie bas muir iiber Naat
allies Der batte9
~Run, febe i9 nidt aus ipie cine
9eneralf9e9"
rgeipibl = afdsnbrDosI ift feline
Sdse!"
nDds lit @f9enbrDbeG9"
rOas mar elm armes WG69en, bic
iiber Ro9t sur prinaeFin ipurbe!"
beIe9rte er iie; naber, iebt bore. mas
i9 Dir fdee: Sonntag lit Die Srau>
ung; i'd fdbre beute aufs Gut uno
bin Biz oabin fpi.oer suriid. 8eforge
alles beitens, pade Deinen uno meis
men Softer, uno = berseHe fsinerI.i
Dertbiuben, benn mir t6nnsn niht
piFen, ipus in unierer @bpeienbsit
bier sef6iebt."
Sci berfihert. S6orfdI, 0u foTft
NIT mir iiber ale MaBen aufrieben
fein!"
paltin 6ampfte ab uno mar Sonns
toss burulf nidt ipsnis erffaunt, fsi>
ne MaruFd aIs cine 70 ftattIidbe
9ruut ipieoersuiebsn. Stbt fab iie gar
I'm spunSis Sabre finger aus. Die
Sadie fling an, linn Spab au MAIDEN.
Illes gins slutt bonftdtten.
Im Morsen mad Der Srauung
tamen Die iiinsen GbsI.ute in Mostau
an uno ftiesen i'm Sotel ab. Die
@ussn Der @eneraTin itrabIten prr
Sreu6e.
9lu9 palfin leu1tete por @.reniis
gen, benn nun mar er am 3iele; bier
ionnte er ben 9etpinnit sIei9 b.i Der
Stoatsbant redIiIirtn.
rSaft Su aud Oein Cos porii6tss
balber mitsenommen2" frus er bel
pdfenber 9elesenbeit.
nS9orf9l, ib bin 70 iibergIiidlid,
id feline mid mad feinem Soupttrefs
fer m.br, benn Der biif 0u!"
~S9on re9t! @bsr bas Coos BAIT
Ou bod gut beripabrt. niht ipabre"
%, bus 1T gut in Der 8ant aufs.>
bpben!"
rSn tpeI6er 9anf2~
sd peiB ani9t mebr. ipie Fe bi.b;
i8 babe bas Coos fdon i'm porigtn
Sabre bort pertauft!"
2uutIos fdni @eneral paItin in
Die 9trms i.iner beitiiraten 9emdbs
lin -.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1910-09-01
@eSanfcniplitter.

@efdente, Die man umIonft erbGlt,
bas iino grade Die tbeueri item auf Der
Welt.
Sc 1T mertpiirbis, bab fait ale
Srauep, bic feline Sabine mebr haben,
serabe bic biifigiten iinb.
Ser S9uiter ipirb elm rei9er
Mann, Der fopiel - rleiitet" aIs
TT fdnn.
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1910-09-01

@us Der g 9uIs. aebrer:
r3u psI9er Spssies btbOren benn
Salat unb Spinat2" = S9iiler:
gu ben SdIinspflunsen!" = 2ebs
rer mi. tommit 9u bdrauf9" =
G6iiIsr: Run, neil iis psrfdIunssn
perbsn!"
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1910-09-01

9osbaft. Dame: Meiu
Wuun IGbt mid iebt muIeu. 5r.un.
Tin; e9isbsr mdIteit' Ou Did ipObI
Ielbi. ni4t tpabls
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1910-09-01

-Sreff.nb. nWas fusen
sic, tpie betplletirt bic mas.re Moptr
ift?" = nSie bldmirt fid Bis uuf bic
&no9en!"
= DerfebIte Iusrebs.
5err: .Die Sobaun, sic trinfen aus
meiner Rosndtflaideg" = Chauffeur
(berIesen): Aid Oerseiben sic, i'd
oadte. es fei. 8snStn setpeisn!"
Scranton Wochenblatt. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1865-1918, 1910-09-01

~Odrf t9 SIe pe9lelien, DrduS
Iein2"
rRein, odnfe."
.Wirtlid ni9t2"
.Rein!~
SD made 81. aber aufmertfam,
baB mir uns bier in einem berrufs>
nen, tntles,nen StuottbsiI befinoen,
no elm ansiuseben sefdbrli9 it,"
nRun, penn sic iih gar 70 febr
fiir4ten. bann Seben sic uur NIT
mir"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10

the expediency of the proposition. A
more complete explanation is prom
ised later on by Mr.. Reininghaus.
Perhaps it would be just as we'll If
he did not take the trouble to make
it. There may be merit to his sugges-
tions, but it is rather difficult to figure
out why the present calendar should
be changed, and the good old year
divided up by the insertion of the
couple of half months without any
distinctive names, and the ignoring en-
tirely of the last day of each year
and the rather mystic leap year day
which comes around every four years.
The present division of the year has
served very satisfactorily for long
time. OF course that is no good ex-
cuse for maintaining it if a better sys-
tenn can be worked out, but Mr..
Reininghaus does not appear to have
delivered the goods in this particular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10
A WARNING.

History tells u.s. writes Professor
Cyril G. Hopkins of the University of
Illinois in the Popular Science Month
ly for June, ''that Roman agriculture
declined until a bushel of seed brought
only four bushels in the harvest-de-
clined until the high civilization of the
Mediterranean countries passed into
the dark ages which covered the face
of the earth for a thousand years, I'M
til the discovery of a new world
brought new supplies of food, renewed
prosperity, and new life and light to
western Europe; but the dark ages
still exist for most of our own Aryan
race in Russia and in India, where, as
an average, day by day, and year by
year, more people are hungry than
live in the United States where the
average wage of a man is fifty cents
a month, where famine RACES always,
and where the price of wheat some
times rises to a point where six
months wages of a working man are
required to buy one bushel. This is
the condition where the absolute needs
of the population exceed the food sup
ply; and just so sure as the intelligent
and influential men and women of
America continue to ignore the ma
terial foundation upon which national
prosperity depends. just so sure will
future dark ages blot out American
civilization"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10
LEGIsLATVE PAY.

A penny wise and pound foolish at
titude on the part of Kansans in the
matter of paying salaries to their rep
resentatives in the state legislature is
undoubtedly responsible for the paucity
of candidates for these important places
III the public service. The pay that is
given to members of the Kansas legis-
lature has been something of a sorry
joke for years. 1t is scarcely suffl-
cient to cover the bare expenses of
even the most frugal of them during
their sojourn in Topeka 1t is hardly
as much per diem as a good mechanic
can make with a hammer or a saw.
Yet the people of Kansas expect men
of the highest caliber and integrity in
their communities to go to the trouble
ard expense of conducting campaigns
for legislative office. take their seats
and transact the vital affairs of state,
maintain their establishments at home
and pay their expenses in Topeka for
a salary of So a day for go days and
car fare to and from their homes. In
other words the highest of public ser
vice is demanded for ridiculously poor
pay.
That the time has come when such
expectations are not going to be realiz-
ed to any great extent is being made
apparent by the lack of interest which
is being shown in many parts of the
state in the matter of securing nomi-
nations for election to membership in
the Legislature. Few men are taking
the trouble to seek them. They are not
worth going after. 1t is impossible for
a man to conduct a campaign for one
of these offices, serve the required time
it takes to discharge the duties faith
fully, and come near breaking even on
his expenses, unless he is of that type,
of which, fortunately there do not seem
TO be many N Kansas, who is willing
to prostitute his honor and the in
terests of his constituents by serving
sucn interests in his legislative work
as are willing to pay for the favors
received.
One of the propositions to be submit
ted to the voters at the coming cleo
ton concerns an increase in the pay
of the state legislators 1t is not
large increase nor will it turn legisla-
|, tive service into a money making ven
ture, or an employment that is desir-
able because 1T is lucrative. Similar
propositions have been submitted to the
voters before, but always to be turned
down. 1t would appear to be about
time that favorable action was taken in
these premises. Certainly the voters of
Kansas can not rightly expect the men
of large abilities in their neighborhoods,
who could serve the state with distinc
ton, to drop their work, enter on an
expensive campaign for Office and then
devote much time and hard work to
the service of the state. for a beggarly
stipend that will not come near paying
their expenses. It's a fine theory that
r1en should be willing to serve their
communities and their state for glory
but it doesn't work out very well in
practice, nor should it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10
AYHAWKER JOTS

According to head writer on an es-
teemed contemporary, the officer in
command of a U. S. gunboat is prop
erly styled as a general"
"a Soldier of Fortune" is soon to be
presented by the Thayer Dramatic club
and the local paper is thoughtful
enough to add the information that
eggs are now Is cents a dozen"
In all probability, the most unpopu-
lar man in Salina these DAYS Is the
assessor who has produced some fig
ures to show that that town has lost
in population during the past year.
The Ottawa Herald is particular to
point out that the fiat rate of five cents
which the Lawrence railway has made
does not include going through the
university
Evidently that black bass which
Professor Dyche says Mayor Davidson
of Wichita says caught a bluejay and
swallowed it whole. did net catch the
bird in the accepted fashion which
calls for the use of salt The fish. is
reported to have swallowed the bird
head first.
The Winfield Courier repeats for the
benefit of the forgetful ones, Arte11us
Wards story of the spinster who re
qllested a local magistrate to prohih:t
bathing in a certain cove near her home.
Out ma oili SApOSluldlSu IIlS dSlOIl-
ished mayor, that is really quite Ii
distance from your home" well"
said the complainant, 81 can see them
with my opera glasses"
A suggestion from the editor of the
Harrington Sun that he would like to
get news when it is news is contained
in the following: THE friends of this
paper will please hand us in news
items when they are fresh. We prefer
not to publish birth after the child is
weaned, marriage after the honey
moon is over or the death of a man
after his widow is married again"
over in Sedan the attorneys for the
defense in murder trial tried to get
a new trial for their client on the
ground that the jury which had sat on
the case was Influenced by a phono-
graph which they heard While passing
a jewelry store on the way to supper.
Personally, we can't help believing
ing to the average talking machine a
man would naturally want to send
somebody TO the penitentiary.-Co ffey
vile Earth.
One of the latest contributions from
the Spring Hill New Era's correspond
ent at Snake Hill follows: zone day
last week a lokle preecher kolled on
81 Hooper and stopt fer dinner. While
saddlin his horce after dinner the
preecher xidentally discovered duz-
en- long necked bottles in the manger
and his susDichens were aroused i'm
mejutly. 81 explained the mater by
telling the preacher that his horces
wuz subiec to kolic almost every da
and he yoosed the bottles to drench
EN- with. ST is afrade tho that the
preecher didn't believe the story. Sich
things woodent wurrv 81 If he wuz-
zent a kandydate for the legislacher,
but every little thing counts in poll
ticks in a klose district"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10
SUMNER PLANS


Get out the time tables Lucy. surely
we re late this spring,
+ or IL time to plan vacation and the
annual summering.
we who have planned together junkets
and trips and tours
aark ,s TO my plans, Lucy, and I will
First we must go to the mountains, up
49,, where it's clear and dry
But l don't like the mountains; they're
likely to be too high.
hatner Tor US the seashore, by the At
But don't like the ocean; its noise never
let's me sleep.
why not a trip to Europe, where we
can have a changer
BUT am afraid of Europe, where every
-. tn1ng seems SO strange.
wen, let US try the Rockies, and travel
the boundless west
But that would be work my dearest and
the, thing we both need is rest
HAPPY. then, Nova Scotia cool as a
mountain grot-"
Cool? Don't you ever think it! Some
times it's terribly hot
We'll, let US seek the country up in the
woods of Maine
Perish the very notion Miles from a
boat or train
! could go on forever. telling each futile
plan,
Reporting each conversation that ends
right where it began:
But here's the motif of my ballad, this
is the cruX of my pome:
That Lucy and / do this each year and
end by staying at home.
Success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
T From the Atchison Globe.1

Idle men often get up a row simply
to have something to do.
Farmers will finally quit trying to
raise fruit and melons. the boys are so
bad.
= Every man is disappointed at the
smallness of the object a ministering
friend Dokes out of his eve.
Airships will never be popular as a
means of getting about until they can
fly in wet weather. Railroad trains
can do it.
If man has a pond en- his place
in which he does not want the boys
to swim, it causes him as much trouble
as a watermelon patch.
Mighty few people will keep up a
correspondence on the strength of
friendship; love and business are what
make postal system necessary.
One nice thing about the German
carp (and perhaps it is the only one)
is that when you fish for them you
are lucky If you don't catch them.
Perhaps if the singers paid as much
heed to the way the musical director
to the brakeman's motions. there
would be fewer vocal wrecks and col
lisions.
Shortly after the girl sets the date
her young man begins to give a signal
of distress to her father He doesn't
W ant pIOGSSSlOI anu " ~
the father object? But the father
knows the strength of the enemies
guns and responds that it is no use.
Benjamin Franklin once said that
want of care does us more damage
than want of knowledge. This rule ap-
plies with particular force to human
health. Not one man in hundred, or
woman either. but knows how to take
care of himself better than he does
The Lancaster Literary society, in
order to divert the minds of its mem
bers from weather conditions, will dis
cuss the follov. ing soon: If one must
be sighted in the preparing. which
should it be, meat or pudding? In
other words. is it wiser to start man
feeling good at a meal or finish him
feeling satisfied?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10
HUNOR OF THE DAY

Il wish were an ostrich said Hicks.
angrily, as he tried to eat one of his
wife's biscuits, but couldn't. Il wish you
were" returned Mrs Hicks; I'D get a
few feathers for my hat"-MusicaI Cour-
Ter.
DO you believe in the Darwinian the
ory?" Il am inclined to go further than
Darwin did" answered Miss Cayenne.
species have started on return trip
Washington Star.
What is a totem pole?'' his wife asked.
us the raii-or pole-on which an objec-
tionable citizen is ridden-or toted-out of
Friend-What? You don't mean to say
men by mental treatment? Explorer
Yes, indeed. we persuaded them that
sons sony bail ball games.1Puck. - M ' sea-
Curious Charley-Do nuts grow on trees,
father? Father-They do, my son. Cur
ious Charley-Then what tree does the
doughnut grow on? Father-The pantry,
my son.-Purple Cow.
THAT boy of mine was out pretty late
last night. Says he was sitting up with
e?" "Guess I'll have to. My father
used to honor it to a reasonable extent
Kansas City Journal.
Better take a hardwood table, ma'am;
they are the fashionable thing" the deal
er said. NO said the young woman
baby will soon be old enough to ham,
her, and he never could drive nail into
hardwood. I'll take plain pine table,
Buffalo Express.
Diogenes was still looking for that hon
est man. What town is this?" he asked
Whereupon the cynic viciously smashed
his lantern against the nearest lamp-post
Even a searchlight would be of no use
here he growled as he struck out for
the nearest suburb.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News. ]

lFrom the Chicago News.1
Temporary deafness in children calls
for the slipper treatment.
The beauty of many a woman is hid
den away, in a safety deposit vault
BY discovering the North Pole Peary
worked himself out of a steady job
If you have nothing to do you can
always depend on lazy man to help
you.
The less man says the more he is
supposed to be able to say if he wanted
to.
1t takes a crafty widow to make n
man believe she thinks his faults are
virtues.
When you see a man looking for trou
BILE it won't be long until you'll heaN
him call for help.
You may have noticed that a multi
tude of friends come to visit those who
live on Easy street
When a man let's his whiskers grow,
after marriage his wife suspects thai
he doesn't love her any more
The reason cyclists are the MOS.
cheerful people in the world is that tbay
are so well satisfied with themselves.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10

the table the thought weighed so
heavily upon her that she could not
sit down to enjoy it. At last, she
summoned courage to explain the
was with difficulty that she re-
strained her father from running i'm
mediately to the door of Melville to
drag him boldly to the table to join
them.
'It will be far better for me to go, ."
she expostulated. II can be tactfui.
He may feel a delicacy about it"
"Yes-let Faith co. the mother
added. shes used to city ways
This time it was without an apron
door. 1t took her fully ten minutes
to persuade the young man to Join
the little party and eat a portion of
the. meal he had been influential in
saving. But, at last he was induced
to go, and Faith waited while he
touch or two to his toilet.
The merry little party sat about the
studio until the logs in the old fire.
place had crumpled to ashes and the
folks from the country had begun to
wonder what the hour might be.
When Melville rose to go Faith S
father shook his hand warmly. 81
shall leave my little girl a stack of
quarters when go back to Home
town." he said, $50 you needn't be
Oil 1iO SlAC IL NC OOIIOW wing
mo, indeed. she mustn't" Mrs. Ar
liss interjected. "She mustn't get into
the borrowing habit, even if she does
live in a studio.'
Faith blushed and turned toward
young Melville. "You see they are
all in sympathy with you." she
laughed.
eff they WERE" the young man said,
pointedly, "they would never leave
you stack of quarters. for how-in
that case-can 1 ever expect to be-
come acquainted?"
ST still have this one to pay back
Faith reminded him, as she stood in
the studio door while he unlocked his
own.
"No"-he held up his hand in re-
monstrance. please don't mention
that. Just let me come to see you
and Well say bought my meal with
the quarter
But Faith did return the money
She said afterward, that she always
would have felt that he sought hel
studio so frequently because he hoped
to get back his quarter and she pre-
ferred to have better understanding
or his acknowledgements 1911
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10
Squally weather Imminent.

On one occasion Prof. Willis Luther
Moore, head of the United States
weather bureau, Travelled from WASH
ington to New York in smoking COM
partment with three men who, when he
encountered them, were busily engaged
in roasting the very bureau of which
Moore was the chief.
Why, that fellow Moore" said one of
the strangers, Ought to be run out of
the government service. He always
predicts, but he's generally wrong"
fellows" said the second. apparently
indicating with a sweep of his hand the
whole government service.
Look what he did last Inauguration
day. chimed in the third. said it
would be clear, and we had enough
snow to tie up every railroad system in
the country"
into the roasting bee at this moment
"Rottenr' he said. emphatically. I'D
like to meet that fellow and tell him
what 1 really think of him.
But he's got the farmers bluffed,' -
conceded the second speaker
And so the abuse was heaped on the
professor for more than 100 miles,
Before it was over the weather bureau
and all connected with it had been put
in the pan and roasted to a rich dark
brown.
When the party left the train Moore
called a taxicab. and SO did the other
three. Just as the professor stepped
into his vehicle and left his compan-
ions standing on the sidewalk he hand
ed them his card, on which was en-
graved:
s"willis L. Moore, chief of the weather
bureau, U. S. A."-Popular Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-10
FRON OTHER PENS
THE HUCKLEBERRY.

We are of the impression that it will
crafty some thousands of readers of
sound taste to learn that, by all ac-
counts, and from many points of OBJ
servation, this is likely to prove a rec
ord year for the admirable blue, or
whortle, or-as We know it best
huckleberry. Whatever may have
happened to the wheat in the west it
is certain the small fruits in the east
and the huckleberry foremost of all
flourish amazingly this season, for
the delight of a people tired of high
prices.
There is berry which is too proud
to ask for cultivation; it just grows.
like Topsy, and like the dispensation
of salt, as asseverated by Proctor
Knott in the house of representatives.
it lis one of the grandest free gifts
vouchsafed by God to man.
The modest huckleberry. plucked on
the mountain side, in the lonely woods
of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, sells
Cor shall, it is probable this summary
at a ridiculous rate pail; and yet
when treated by the artist hand it
makes pudding that puts the naughty
plum to the blush. Moreover, judicious-
ly mixed with rich cream and sugar,
it swallows bravely, as nature made
| it.-Philadelphia Press
PROSPECTS FOR ARBITRATION.
The public sentiment upon no sub
ject has grown with such strength and
rapidity as the sentiment for arbftra-
ton and the consequent disarmament
of nations The war crowd seems to
be in full retreat though they are
making a desperate stand at Washing
ton, where the red blossom of war is
always in bloom.
The secretary of state believes that
the International tribunal for the set
Element of all disputes between ma
tionS will be agreed upon in the near
future. The whole world is getting
ready for the great event. when civili-
zation will come to its own. 1t is quite
probable that this nation has made its
last great appropriation for navy.
In his prediction. Secretary Knox
doesn't limit the subjects for ADJUST
ment before an international tribunal
by excluding questions of honor. II
was a great piece of famboyant self
exploitation that threw out points OF
| honor from arbitral adjudication, but
| if there are any issues that, more than
others, should be disposed of by arbl-
tration. it is Just such disputes that
seem to involve a question of honor.
Yet this honor matter was the worst
obstacle arbitration had 20 encounter
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