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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18
KANSAS cOAMENT
THE AID TO INVESTMENT.

LIE ALI TO INVESTMENT.
The railroads Of the country are said
10 be holding up investments aggregat-
ing vast sum of estimated millions,
While they wait to see what the pub
nc is going to do with legislation.
From this showing there quickly fol-
lows from railroad publicity bureaus
an argument against any more legis-
lstlon.any further disturbance of the
SITUATION; anything which may dis
quiet capital''
1t is admitted that the railroad bus
mess is thing which railroad men
know best and which the mind not
framed IN railroading knows little.
6ut the intelligence which deals with
other things will put some confidence
IN ITS opinion that those railroads
which are taking this attitude and
making this argument are acting
against their own interests-and pro-
Sresslve railroad men hold to this same
opinion.
The railroad question. which is one
type of the general corporation and
pubic service question. isn't going to
be settled until it is settled right. Cap
itaI won't have the sweet peace which
1t Graves until this settlement is reach
co. or nearly approached. There is no
general Observation-Disclosures sensa-
tionalists may shout-to get at this
settlement by any but fair means.
There is no menace to capital that in
vests wisely, on securities that will
stand inspection. The railroads can
hasten the adjustment of things by hon.
estly cooperating with the readjust-
ment program; by more of frankness
and less of scornful resentment; by an
acknowledgment of the public servants
obligation, and an effort to fairly dis
charge the obligation. Railroads that
are doing these things aren't in trouble;
they aren't having to hold up their inn
provements.
The best aid to investment and the
most lasting assurance to timid capt.
tai is for capital to cure itself of see
ing things that-aren't there, and to
get out and commune with the folks
who believe that the world was made
for everybody to live in.-Ottawa Her
aid.
THE SQUEALS THE THING.
A Lawrence man who fed a pig with
milk from a diseased COW and then,
killing the pig, found that its lungs
were badly affected, probably thinks
he has done a great thing in the name
of science. But did he examine the
squea1? Aye, there's the rub. What
good is the lung discovery going to
do the world If the world does not
possess the real news concerning the
squeal Of the exposed pig.
The squeal is the only important
part of the pig SO far as science is
concerned. If we want to impart dis
ease to any part of the pig. that part
is the squeal. Evidently, the mans
experiments We're a failure; If he gave
the pig poisoned milk and the result
was other than q poisoned squeal,
then all his labors were for naught.
Let's hear from the next scientist.
But in the meantime let us remember
that what we are seeking to destroy
in the makeup of the Kansas pig is
the reverberant, self-evident and pene-
trating squeal.--Leavenworth Times
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18
Eastern Land Values.

A recent issue of the Wall Street
Journal comments upon the rise which
has been noted in the value of eastern
farm land, and it will not be surprising
if the attention of investors shall be
turned in that direction as strongly as
toward the south and west.
few years ago there was common
complaint in New York as well as in
New England on account of the aban-
donment of farms and the inability of
the owners to obtain anything like an
adequate revenue from them. But it
is probable that in the near future lit
tie of this will be heard.
The high price of farm products
as we'll as of western land is having
the natural effect of forcing men to
recognize that with proper manage
ment an eastern farmer should find
agriculture and horticulture profitable
industries. Proximity to large mar
kets suggests that the lack of profit in
eastern farming has been due in some
measure to bad management or lack
of industry, and if the future shows
this to be true. eastern farm values
will continue to advance. The old
states may then regain some of their
lost prestige as contributors to the
country's agricultural wealth.-Den-
yer Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Great wisdom and good sense do not
always go together.
X x x
Poor excuses live up to their name by
seldom accomplishing their purpose.
x X
Times claws are deft enough to carve
up a persons face without cutting it.
X
Between the springing Of hopes and
their realization there is an enormous
gulf
= X
There may be. a place in the world
for everybody but most folks have lots
of trouble finding theirs.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18
Talking Over the Ocean.

The prediction of London correspon
dent that within a few weeks a man
standing upon the Eiffel Tower in Paris
may hold a conversation with a man
upon the Mutual Life building, Is pro-
baby premature. We may allow a lit
tie longer time for the development of
wireless telephony to this stage of eff
cheney. But one would hesitate, in the
light of recent experience, to set any
limits to this wonderful line of inyen-
ton or to speak of any achievement
as impossible. Wireless biography
that is, signaling by electric impulses
through the atmos phere at enormous
d.stances-was at first almost incredi-
BILE. Every one could see its limita-
tions. Already these limitations have
almost disappeared. Wireless telegra-
ply is matter of course. The sudden
transmission of spoken words was still
more incredible; yet only a few weeks
have sufficed for demonstrations so
complete that we already are prepar-
ed to believe anything possible. Per-
haps the next discoverer of the North
Pole win have only to stand upon the
pole and tell US that he is there.-Phil-
adelphia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

It's safe to bet that Colonel Roose-
Welt had hard work to restrain him
self from getting into the melee Incl
dent to the killing of a lion by some
native Africans armed with nothing
but long spears. You know, he used
to think nothing of grabbing coyotes
by the jaws and choking them to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

A professor of the far-famed Uni
versity of Copenhagen has worked out
a new universal language. called lido,
which he Lronounces far superior to
VoIapuk and Esperanto. This is in
teresting, but nothing more. The
weakness of these universal Ian
guages is to be found in the fact that
a new one has to be promulgated
every so often in order to keep up in
fereSt in them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

Professor Blackmar, the sociologist
at the state university. believes in di-
vorce. But he would make it much
more difficult for persons to marry
and would also make a man support
his family, once he has one, even
though he prefers not to live with his
wife. II the latter condition were
made a part of divorces there would
MT be so many of them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

Another indication that Topeka is a
mighty fine place to live in is found
in the annual report of the city ply
stefan for the past year. The death
rate during 1909 dropped to II per
cent per thousand. There are few
healthier towns in the entire nation.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

house are to be on the committee and
the insurgents in the house number
20 while the regulars number some
thing like 200, it cannot be figured out
by fair-minded people that the ''in-
surgents" are faring badly in this
M Yfio4,Jor
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18
he waterworks plant

If the waterworks plant in this
city was owned by private corpora
ton the howl that would be going up
from divers quarters over the present
condition of the water would be loud
enough to sound from here to Africa
and echo back again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

Congressional insurgents are re-
ported to feel sighted because only
OLA Of their number. Ed. Madison Of
Kansas, is to be on the special COM
miItee to investigate the Ballinger-
Pinehot controversy. Inasmuch as
only four Republican members of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

The record made by the rejuvenated
Commercial club during the past year
is a fine one, but it is not a marker
to what the members of this organi-
cation propose to do in the present
year and their boasts are not idle ones,
either
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

1t occurs to the New York Evening
Post that the proposed dinner to be
given at Pittsburg, Pa, at a cost of
800 plate will increase the envy of
the Pennsylvania farmer who said
bitterly that some men were born with
silver knives in their mouths.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

There's nothing of the reckless
about the Toledo Blade. Its one lew
resolution for 1910 is that it will not,
under any circumstances, take a flying
machine trip during the year. If that
also means that the Blade is going
through the year without once getting
up in the air its present reputation for
rleverness will be enhanced materially.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

Experts in the premises are now ex-
pressing the fear that the ice on the
ground, which is general throughout
the state, is killing or has killed the
wheat crop. And it wasn't SO many
days ago that they We're insisting that
the snow and ice had Saved this
crop. Evidently it's pretty difficult to
please those chans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

Some women are mighty hard to
please. Look at the case, for instance,
of Mrs. Harter OF Des Moines. Her
husband thought so much of her that
he carved his initials on her cheek
with a penknife. And then she retail
lated by getting a divorce
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

Representative Diekema announces
his candidacy for the speakership of
the house of representatives in the
Sixty-third congress. But suppose the
folks at Mr.. Diekema's home should
send another representative to con-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

A wife deserter in New York city
was sentenced the other day to a
years Imprisonment and a fine OF
$1,000. That's the way to treat those
f1lI1u-r
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

Walter Lonsdale. who acted as pri-
waite secretary to DIR. Cook. is the lat
est friend to desert the explorer.
Presumably Mr.. Lonsdale's pay has
ceased
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member of the
Associated Press ana receives the full day
telegraph report of that, great news or
puhlica tion in Topeka.
The news is received in The state Jour-
nal building over wires for this sole pu~
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

Probably the coming Kansas Day
club banquet with real duck served in
place of the accustomed mock duck
won't taste just right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-18

Belgium is entitled to little SYM
pathy. Joe Zelaya plans to take up
his residence there.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13

I entered in,o a friendly CONVERSE
ton with farmer who was riding
my way, and asked him II he could
tell me where could get shelter for
the night. He good humoredlx-
laughed at the idea of my putting up.
at any place short of Wanna. I told
him that ! was not very partfculas
and that my guides horse was tocs
tired for further travelling He looke&
hard at me and then said:
There is house about one mile
from here. You will get poor fare
and poor shelter, but there 10 1ene>
better. think. this side Of Wanna. +
will show you the way"
30 we trotted on, and soon turning
aside from the main road he gufdeG
US along vile OF cart path, the worst
of all roads to fide on in bad night
We went about mile up the valley.
Presently the narrow way opened SUI
into square walled enclosure, en-.
powered with vines running over
rafters Of wood supported by the
walls and stone pillars. It was like q
huge room. the ceiling of which was
vines. 1t was the courtyard of
good sized farmhouse. The farmer
stopped.
Why" said I, this is q private
house."
1T is the house of your excellency,"
replied the farmer, standing uncov.
cred, with the true courteous hos,
pitality of all old-fashioned Portys.
guese. 1t was, in truth, this mans
house. and he and his wife, children
and dog stood to welcome US.
"Cea! Cea!" called out the farmer,
cheerily, which. being Interpreted, 10
Support" Here is one who has not
eaten since he was in spain!"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13
LOVE CANNOT BAKE BREAD
That 10 One Cause Of Many Divorces,
Pastor Tells HE Con-
oreoation.

while men sleep the divorce mon
ster 10 growing" said Rev. Dr.. John
Wesley Hill at the Metropolitan tenn
pie the last Sunday before his sum-
mer vacation. and this citadel Of our
civilization IL being undermined and
overthrown. The devil IL foreclosing
. mortgage on our country"
The clergyman, according to the
New York Times, said no thought mar
riase should be the outcome of judg-
ment a. we'll rs Of romance, "for love
cannot harmonize incompatibilities
expand narrow minds, overcome
physical disabilities or bake bread.
any more than the relations between
husband and wife can be wisely and
happily affected by love without judg.
ment.
ITO drink" he continued. "the devil
Of strength which drags men from
home. the ruin Of many families is at.
tributed. and in the pale face in the
kitchen and the hungry little mouths
about the hearthstone the ravages of
the evil can be traced.
LAS an antidote for matrimonial In.
felicity, first of all, uniform legislation
is proposed, so that 1t will not be pos
sible to step across the line from one
state into another, and upon few
weeks residence in city already
made Infamous by the countenance 1t
gives to prize fighting, evade legisla-
ton against the divorce cobra which
is encircling our national life and in
jecting its poison into our institutions.
Marriage must be regarded in its
true light Of divine institution, not
created by men or otherwise. If it be-
come a civil institution man may dis.
solve the relations with his wife Just
as with q servant or his cook"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13
Colfax hocals

Eugene says he can play
whist, but-I'm from Missouri.
Miss Susie Anderson is as
sisting Mrs. ]. Bolstad with
her household duties.
A. G. Myhre of Battle Lake,
Mimi. spent Part OF last week
with his brother Chris.
a. +. Wien made a flying
business trip to Kindred Fri.
day.
G. Tostenson, who had in
tended to move to Fillmore
County, Minnesota has decided
to stay. The deal with II. e.
Crandall Land Co., being can.
celled. There is no place like
North Dakota anyhow.
Miss Mabel Johnson, a neice
of Mrs. ]. A. Loe arrived here
from North wood Wednesday.
Rev. Tickle of Dwip oh t
preached his forewell sermon
at Colfax Sunday evening. The
people in general regret his de-
parture.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. ]. Champion
visited with ]. Williams and
family Of Barney, Saturday and
Sunday.
The confirmation services
held here last Sunday were
we'll attended, The church be
ing beautifully decorated with
flowers and ferns for the occa-
sion. A class of eight were con-
firmed, five girls and three
boys.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13
COUNTY VIEWS
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will be re elected in spite of all
the stalwart papersin the state.
People take and know more
talsehood from the Forum or
any other paper who's boss is
Mckenzie, yet democrats will
win a glorious victory next fail.
Have you heard the republi-
can party speaking of anything
else than harmony? See MS to
NE that their only platform is
harmony and save the party,
they never speak of interests
good for the people or anything
that will upbuild our state or
our nation, only harmony.
Christian ]. soihjen and Miss
Clara |. Solhjen went to Fergus
Falls last week where they will
attend the High School during
the winter.
Hans Briden sold his four
large work horses to Olag Ha
gen and Ole Dahl Hans will
attend the Science School at
Wahpeton during the winter.
Carl Knudson departed for
Carson, Norton county to teach,
school in the vicinity of his
brother Georges home this
winter.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13
African Boy Servants.

The boy" servants at Nairobi in
Central Africa, seem to have reached
the limit Of incompetence. II used
to impress thoroughly on my own
personal servant" writes an English
resident, that he must never hand
me anything except on a tray. I
hardly expected him. however, to bring
my boots in on one, and carefully GOV.
cred with an afternoon tea cloth! But,
after all. these boys were raw natives.
perhaps year before running about
with spear attending to their cattle"
A good many Of them had not the
faintest notion Of what soap was;s1o
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13

spent Saturday at Wahpeton.
Chas. Jacobson was out of
town last week.
Messrs. Riley and Trudell
were at Wahpeton Friday.
Nrs. A. Reul and daughter
Anna were passengers 20 Wah
peton Tuesday.
Adolph Hafner of Wahpeton
was in town the fore part of
the week.
NJ. ]. Hafener was a passen.
ger TO Wahpeton Tuesday.
Math Wolverding aud DR..
Hoxie OF Barney were in town
Tuesday evening.
The Ladies' Aid of the Con
gregational church met at the
home of M-s. Kenneth NJ Kin
non Wednesday of last week.
Alex McKinnon spent few
days at Barney last week.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13
HOSPITALITY OF PORTUGUESE
Courteous Welcome That q Traveller
Received From a Farmer and
His Family.

All travellers know that the Portw-
guese are a courteous people. No
Better example Of delicate and gen.
erous hospitality could be given than
the experience Of John Laboucto, told
In his Travels in Portugal" The
author was taking horseback trip in
that country, and riding toward VI
anna the nightfall overlook him at
quite distance from the city.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13
sheyenne Tips

Andrew Ulsaker of Mcleod
threshed for his brother, Einar
out here last week.
The highest yield of wheat
in Shevenne was 20 bushels
per acre and 40 bushels per
acre of barley. Tobias Hagen
got the finest, whitest aud big
gest barley in the vicinity, it
was white as snow.
Mr.. and Mrs. liver Sviggum
lost their youngest child, Z
months old who died from sum.
n,er complaint on the 22nd.
John Fosmo returned from
Montana to A. ]. Berg's with
the typhoid fever and died at
ter weeks stay.
n. Liedal has new piano
in his fine residence besides
his organ. There is nothing
like music.
Henry Almlie, our present
SCHOOL clerk will move into
Glendale with his family this
week aud you will have to look
for another clerk.
Oliver Almlie was again
awarded the contract for the
transportation of school chill
dren in the north District Of
Sheyenne at $44.65 per month.
Laurits Larson has the con-
tract for the south district.
A number of people out here
are suffering from the so called
summer complaint.
Threshing is now practically
completed all over and people
are satisfied with their crop re
suit rnd is now fostering a hope
for a still better crop next year.
Sheyenne is the land of hay,
and thousands of tons are put
up and lot of it is bailed and
shipped.
Oscar Bake who filed on
homestead in Montana l a
spring is back home again and
will probably stay here contin-
ucusly. North Dskota is good
enough for all.
Andrew Rosendal of Barrie
departed with his threshing
rig last week to his home near
Seven Trees.
Newman Nilsson will teach
school in Freeman this winter.
Gilbert Sletmow of Barrie
will depart for Montana next
week to erect a house on his
homestead claim. -
Einar Ulsaker erected very
large and solid granary this
fell to save his big crop.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lars Severson
is visiting relatives in the vi
'cinity of Horace and Kindred
this week.
Albert Stensrud went to Da-
.venport on the 22nd for the
purpose of taking home some
of his farm machinery such as
gang plows and drags.
Oar governor, John Burke
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13

will be held next Friday after
noon Oct. DIST at 2:45 p. M. a
complete program Of partici
pants and their selections will
be pu blished in our next weeks
issue of our notes.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1910-10-13
Lending His Face.

The old professor was very tired. He
explained why.
Il have been sitting for four hours
this afternoon" said he. FOR my Dor.
trait. Ill never do 1t again. / am
tired to DEATH"
Il wondered from the first" said his
friend, why you should lend your
countenance to thing like that"
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More Than He Dare.

"Oh, love-" sighed the sentimental
lover. Il would these were the knight.
ly days of old. that I might go forth
and perform some brave deed to prove
my love"
"But so you may, George" inter.
supted the girl. Go forth and speak
70 father. STRAY Stories.