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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09
The Untamed East.

We all know how the typical New
Yorker used to think about the middle
West as place where wild animals
and wilder men were to be encoun-
tered at every turn. 1t was almost the
attitude of the Englishman who came
over expecting to shoot buffaloes at
Buffalo.
But it was not so many years ago
that a fond New York mother. whose
sons were departing to take jobs in
Chicago and Detroit. when asked what
they should send her for Christmas,
suggested that they bring themselves
If possible and also some prairie chick
ems and a haunch of venison. since
she liked the latter and desired to
taste the former. and they could easily
shoot them right on the outskirts of
the western villages to which they
were goingi
Well, things have changed since
then, and we doubt whether today
even a typical New Yorker would ex-
rest to be able to sf of p, s;rir chick
ems -s.thin mile o. the Ch'.ag, city
fall or to find deer roaming about The
environs of Detroit. or to be in some
danger from the attentions of grizzly
bears soon after passing Omaha, or at
any rate at Denver.
But while wild animals have been
eliminated from about the centers of
population here in the middle west,
this does not seem to be the case in
the old east. We judge so not only
from the frequent reports that moose
come in to Craze on the lawns of
Bangor, and that bears are raiding the
pigpens in Shamokin and other places
within two or three hours ride of
Philadelphia, but are led to this con-
clusion also by a tale that comes from
Fishkill Landing, n. Y.
Now, Fishkill Landing is on the east
side of the Hudson, just above West
Point, 1t is literally on Broadway, for
its principal street bears that name,
being a continuation northward of the
noted New York thoroughfare. And it
is also only "forty-five minutes from
Broadway''-the Broadway that we
read about in the magazines as "The
Great White Way"
Yet the other day a deer walked
down the streets of Fishkili Landing
and created much commo tion there.
taking a walk about town. 1t was a
wild deer just from the woods. That
is officially certified by the local game
warden.
The deer was not apparently inhos-
pitably received. That is, nobody
threatened to call the police If it did
not move on But it appears to
have been greeted with that frigidity
of manner, we may call it, which
strangers commonly say they find
when they try to be harmlessly soci-
able with the typical denizens of New
York city and its environs.
At any rate the deer showed an ig-
norance of Eastern city ways. For it
grew confused and walked through the
plate glass window. of a pharmacy. and
then tried to walk through a large
mirror at the rear of the shop, and fin
ally landed in a sewer trench at the
street in front of dry goods store
Thence the local game warden res
cued the hapless rural wanderer
through the mazes Of urban life, loaded
it into a farm wagon, took 1t out into
the woods, and turned it loose. APP
parently, the woods, which are the
natural abode of the deer. were close
at hand-Chicago Inter Ocean
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

1t was not by Encouragement that
the girl in red tights dropped In on
Jawn D. Rockefeller. His pastor should
feel no alarm over the incident.
Isn't it perfectly legitimate to ''crib"
baby joke or corn crop joker
No he-medium lacks for control
II he's married.
Joseph N. Gentry. the chosen goat
OF the incubator baby case. is over at
Holton today. being converted into an
AngOra rug.
FOR SALE: One perfectly good base
ball franchise. There Is absolutely
nothing wrong with this franchise. A
bottle is not worn out just because 1t
is empty.
children Boarded" (Kansas City
ADD Perhaps an effort to make the
punishment fit the crime, but in our
youth, they were simply shingied.
In describing Flack, the wanted
bank cashier. late of Abilene. the cor
respondent says: HE took life leisurely.
1t appears also that he took little
something on the side-a chaser" as
1t were.
Ferdinand Peanut Earle. who runs
to whiskers and aff1nities. has decided
his female collection, the same being
the only real and original Mrs. F. p.
Earle. She will probably take him
back, thereby proving that he Is not
the only fool in the Earle matrimonial
firm.
"Our family can't all take a vaca-
ton at the same time" says Jack
Supp, because some one has to stay
home and water the two ten-cent gold
fish,"
Col. Roosevelt passed up the beer
while in Milwaukee. This was the
surest way of attracting attention IN
milwaukee,.
In fight between a love-lorn youth
and the male parent of his inamorata,
the youth was injured according to po-
lice court testimony, to such an extent
that he couldn't play his cornet. Per-
haps this was his delicate way of tes-
tifying that the old man mauled the
wind out of him.
New York legislature is probing for
graft in connection with a street car
company's affairs. New York legisla-
ture is usually probing for graft. but
seems to be armed with a half-inch
probe.
No man who works the fishing trip
gag on his wife, should make the at
tempt without some knowledge of fish
and their habits. A Topeka man re-
Gently spent two days out Of town on
a Fishing trip"-(his ticket read. Kan
sas City,) and came back with three
salt mackerel. four-pound halibut
and a can of kippered herrings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News
A man thinks his stubbornness is
pride.
A boy never forgets to wind his first
watch.
Many a really great man never even
suspects it.
We don't blame a man for kickinu
when he is called mulish.
The man with musty ideas is gener-
ally the first to air his opinions.
When it is disguised as lemonade we
don't mind being handed lemon.
AS a mans income increases he beS
gins to make noise in the world.
Some people manufacture groans for
the purpose Of exciting sympathy.
Physical culture never extends to the
carrying of our neighbor's burdens
Unfortunately the pure food law
doesn't eliminate the worm from the
chestnut.
Some men eat food at a restaurant
that they wouldn't touch IL it was serv-
ed to them at home
If man calls woman endearin~
names during an alteration the
chances are that she will get glad and
Quit s- $50
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The boy with a thoughtful cast of
countenance is generally an adept at
getting into mischief.
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Some persons seem to go on the
theory that it's all right to be un-
scrupulous in big things.
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Love of money may be the root of
all evil and it is also the reason for
many matrimonial ventures.
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Men are just as curious as women,
but, unlike the fair sex, most of them
have the knack of concealing their
curiosity
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If it were not for an occasional cold
in the head many persons would go
through life without having anything
in their top-pieces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

The hundreds of Topekans who paid
their nickels to get out to the circus
grounds the other day only to find that
there was going to be no show are Just
as much entitled to get their car fare
back from Ringlings' as the circus peo-
pie are to get back their license fee
from the city, There were a few hard
ships all around on that most disa-
Rreeable of circus days. It's up to
everybody, though, the circus people
included, to grin and bear 'em and
hape for better luck next time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Iron the Atchison Globe.]

From the AtchiSon Globe
We believe we have never known a
candidate who was not sure of cleo
ton.
his authority probably hasn't great
deal.
One of the most common mistakes
people make is saying: People won't
notice it."
Call a boy a bad name. and he will
reply: You are ten times double
what you call me-"
Every man who becomes a popular
idol demands lot for the people the
people are not entitled to.
We have in us another exhibition
of bad taste, and we might as we'll out
with: We don't care much for this
new Boy Scout movement.
How often you hear people say:
Hes all in, but he doesn't know it."
Oh, yes. he knows it. but won't admit
it, and neither would you.
Didn't you hate to go to school
when you were a boy?" we heard one
man ask another recently. YES" the
man replied, land, what's more, I
didn't go much
MY husband is acting on the COM
mittee again. writes a Despairing
Wife to this office, land receiving
nothing for it. When he acts on the
wages are so important to u.s.
A boy is half willing to wash his
hands in summer, when the water is
warm, but he hates to do 1t in winter,
when the water is cold; one of the
surest signs of approaching winter is
that boys hands become dirtier.
It seems to be natural to men to ad-
vocate big reforms. But it never was
natural with US. The only real reform
We ever advocated with spirit is let
ting the schools out for two hours on
the morning of a circus parade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

A new method of detecting or iden-
tifying criminals has been developed
by Professor Tamassia of Italy. 1t
concerns the photographing of the
vein structures on the backs of hands
No two of them are alike. What
would be more to the point would be
the development of some plan to find
an honest man. According to much
of the palaver going the rounds in
such volumes these days such an. in
dividual is a rarity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.
A man swims with the tide and be-
lieyes he's carrying it along with him.
A girl would know enough to fool
men if there weren't any in the world
for her to fool.
One big trouble is a mighty good
thing to take your mind off worrying
so much about the others.
One thing a woman never brags
about her husband is the kind of
clothes he would wear if she would
let him.
If a man will remember his we'd
ding anniversary, no matter how busy
he is, his wife can forgive him for
always forgetting ever to give her
any money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

Some of the thrills of flying through
the air at a considerable height can oe
experienced in the future by the pas
sengers on the Southern Pacific trains
in Texas. They'll only have to look
down when they are crossing the new
bridge being built over the Pecos river
near the town of viaduct. This bridge
will be 32S feet above the bed of the
river
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

Contractors in and about Topeka in
sist that every carpenter in the city is
employed and there is plenty of. work
for more. For the information of the
carpenters in other places who have
not all the work they would like. it
can be stated, without fear of honest
contradiction, that there is not a bet
ter city in the country to live and
work in than this same Topeka. And
the SCARCITY OF needed workers in this
city is not confined TO the carpentry
trade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09
FRON OTHER PENS
10
RAISING THE MAINE.

In view of the failure of congress to
appropriate a sum sufficient to raise
the wreck of the battlesl1ip Maine from
its present position in Havana harbor,
and % remove it to some port of the
United States, the suggestion has been
made that the hulk be merely raised,
towed into deep water and sunk for
ever beneath the waves. If the purpose
of this suggestion is prompted by no
other desire than to thwart the plan to
preserve the wreck as a grim relic of
IN international crime, it will probably
sceive the cordial Endorsement of all
umane persons, to whom to forget a
wrong is more worthy than to remem-
Der it. But the sinister addition is
made to the proposal that "by sinking
the Maine in deep water there will
never be any chance of disproving the
previous findings that the disaster. was
caused by an outside explosion"
It is impossible to believe that sug-
gestion so infamous came from any
naval officer or official of the govern;
ment possessing honor or integrity. The
American people want the truth and
nothing but the truth about the Maine,
and it was to ascertain this as much
as it was to perform an act of interna-
tional comfy in removing so serious an
obstruction from the roadstead at Ha-
vana that the agitation for the raising
of the Maine was so persistently car
ried on."-Philadelphia Ledger.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

Reports from the western section Of
the state, where the wheat crop was
reported a few months ago to be rs
dead as the proverbiaI door nall, are TO
the effect that many of the farmers
there have threshed out yields Of from
IL. 600 to Az bushels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

Pork loins are higher now than they
were In the spring when hogs were
selling for $1.20 more per hundred
pounds than they are now. But the
packers have an explanation to the eff
feet these top-notch figures for pork
loins are due to scarcity of light hogs,
rather than to their intrinsic value.
All OF which goes. to show that IL one
reason is not good enough to main
tain and also explain the high prices
OF meat, another one is handy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

Environment is the chief mould IN
the making OF the man. William Loeb,
ir., collector of the port of New York,
never thought of going on hunts for
big game until he came under the in
flutnce of n. p.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

George E Roberts, the newly APP
pointed director Of the government
mint, declares that wars are a satire on
civilization. And another thing, they
eat up money faster than any mint
can turn il out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

II Clifford Pinchot doesn't watch out
his next friend will be transferring him
to the famous class of mollycoddles.
Mr.. Pinchot wept at the ovation which
was given him by the delegates to the
conservation congress.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

King Menelik, who was reported dead
for sure a few months ago, is now re-
ported to be suffering from a serious
illness. Nobody will believe that this
tickle gentleman is dead even if ne
does die
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

AS many police officers as are neces-
sary should be assigned to the work
of putting down rowdyism, on the part
of youths and others, in the local
parks. Such thing should not be toll
Grated for a day. Arrests and good
stiff Jail sentences are the proper med
icine for this ailment. And it would
not take many doses to effect a cure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

"veItIang'' is the newest thing in
the way of a universal language. Pre-
sumably it is being pushed by the
type trust, If there is such an octopus.
It has an alphabet of twenty letters,
only five of which resemble in any
way the letters of the Latin alphabet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

A Chicago alderman evidently hates
peace. He would have the city plant
peach, apple and pear trees in tina
city's parks. Just think of the riots
there would be when the fruit got ripe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

Going up in a balloon is reported to
be highly fascinating sport. But the
people so reporting haven't taken a fall
in one as yet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganizafion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The state Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur.
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09
ON BEING FRIENDLY.

It is a great thing for a community
to be full of friendship, a sentiment of
mutual respect and forbearance; uni
versal kind feeling, as it were. That
is what makes happiness. A man can
not go through the world friendly to
just a few and be happy. That leaves
great room in his heart for mean
ness and hatred, and these things usuj
ally reveal themselves in regret and
sorrow.
Friendship is based on the good in
others and is, therefore. itself virtue
and a good. 1t sees the best and truest
in people and this of itself makes ones
heart glad. One can never be happy
picking out flaws in others-like one
who goes out to gather wild flowers
and looks for nothing but snakes.
A merchant one time divided the
world into two classes, one which
bought at his store and the other that
didn't, and he treated the two classes
differently He was agreeable to the
first, but frowned on the second. At
ter while he had very few. if any
friends in town, for he tried to be kind
and mean. too. but that won't work.
Kindness and meanness cannot cohabit
in the same heart; the latter will al
ways drive out the former.-Oh1o State
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09
REMEDY FOR ovERsPEEDING.

1t must be highly detrimental to
the dignity and sensitiveness of a bank
president to subject himself to 30
day sentence in the workhouse, with
out the option of fine. And yet that
is what has happened to Frank W.
Waterman, president of the Ramsey
County State bank at ST Paul, Mimi,
for the offense of driving his automo-
bile beyond the speed limit in city
streets. This procedure may be re-
garded as a fairly sure specific for
the mania of overspeeding.
Many reckless drivers of autos, like
the "bad" trusts, view the penalties
of fines with lordly contempt They
are perfectly willing to enrich COM
munity's exchequer by any reason
able amount, provided that gives
them the license to honor traffic-regu-
lation rules in the breach rather than
the observance. But removing the al
tentative of a fine and giving the Of
fender several days sentence in a
common ''lockupi" Well. that is a
horse of quite another color.-Atlanta
Constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

1t was not by Encouragement th4
the girl in red tights dropped in on
Jawn D. Rockefeller. His pastor should
feel no alarm over the incident.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

FOR SALE: One perfectly good base
ball franchise There is absolutely
nothing wrong with this franchise. A
is empty.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

In describing Flack, the wanted
bank cashier. late of Abilene. the cor.
respondent says: He took life leisurely:'
1t appears also that he took little
something on the side-a chaser" a:
1t were.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

children Boarded" (Kansas City
ADD Perhaps an effort to make the
punishment fit the crime, but in our
youth, they were simply shingied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

Joseph N. Gentry. the chosen goat
of the incubator baby case. is over at
Holton today. being converted into an
Angora rug.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

and the male parent of his inamorata
the youth was injured, according to po
lice court testimony, to such an extent
that he couldn't play his cornet. Per
haps this was his delicate way of tes
tifying that the old man mauled the
wind out of him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

New York legislature is probing fol
graft in connection with a street cal
company's affairs. New York legisla-
ture is usually probing for graft. but
seems to be armed with half-inct
probe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

1T don't believe the reports about the
finding of a $4,000 diamond in Africa
Sounds probable enough for me-"
Sounds all right. But no rich American
has tried TO srnuggle 1t n."-Philadelphia
Ledger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-09

Isn't it perfectly legitimate to "crib''
a baby joke or corn crop joke?
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-07
How They Take the Medicine.

1.-THE News and Cyurier' is now asking
about the weather and talking about the
Philippines. The Observation-Disclosures race
seems to occupy none of its attention.
Like Mrs. Valentine, colored, who had
spread a wedding supper for her daughter
Lizzie, an. Lizzy's intended. The intend
ell" failin% to matcrialiZe, and Mrs. Nolcn
tine being rhidcd with the desertion the
next morning replied {: 1.-The Niger
wusent no count any how and sides, LIZ
don't Civ ;: rOnfound.
"The News and Courier" don't give
%confound."
But the estate" The State" is weighing
like a tcr r:lpin with Il coal on his BACK
1.-The Sta.c is scratching like a ''cooter'
under hot sand for some means to defeat
Blease.
Did not the people of the State know the
"sStatc" attitude on the liquor question the
~uh,rl's Iui.cncr would DC much greater.
The people know that if it is a question
of mcn now il WAS a question before the
first primary. They also know that II IL
was a question of platforms before the
first pr mary it is Il question OF platforms
now!
"Olo Brother People" is not such a NUT
ton head as not to know that men anu
platforms co not hop about like skipper
hugs on q hot skillet.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-07
CARD FROM MAYOR COLE. l. BlEASE,
To The Democratic Voters Of AbbevilIe
County.

/ am deeply grateful for the magniii-
cent vote which l received for Governor
in the first primary, and l take THIS
method OF expressing my thanke for those
| you gave me III your county.
Leaving my home county of Newberry
with q handsome majority, and leading
all the other candidates III the surround
ing counties of Lexington, Union, Saluda,
Fairfield, and Laurens, the latter county
being the home of'Hon C. G. Featherstone
who is my opponent in the second race,
nv vote was general throughout the state
without regards TO geographical lines, or
yocatiOnS of life. In seventeen or che
fourty-three counties, although there
we're six candidates before the people, L
received more votes than n other can.
diIate. Having led by several Thousand
votes in the first primary, n with the
new assurances OF support which nave
come to me, 1 am confidently expecting to
be nominated for Governor III the second
/ have sought to place my compaign
upon a high plane, seeking the votes OF
the people on my own merits. IL elected
| will be the Governor of the whole people,
without regard to section or class. ,
desire to warn the voters against
eleventh-hour rumors and false charges.
| shall deeply appreciate the suffragcs
of the democrats OF Abbeville county in
the second primary.
Respectfully,
Cole. L. Blease.
Newberry, S. c.
Sept. 3, 1910.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1910-09-07
The Fairs.

The time for the Fairs is rapidly ap'
preaching. Not many people look on q
visit to a fair as being educational in its
nature and yet such it ought to be. OF
course many go for pleasure alone, and
1t is we'll to have this feature to our Fairs,
but every person who attends imbibes
more or less valuable information from
such q visit.
Abbeville county had only n exhibit
at the State Fair last fall. 1t will be
different this year. Let it be said, how
ever, the exhibit we did have Won a prize.
It was an exhibit Of oats and was made by
Mr.. Wham.
Make your arrangements to attend the
Fairs both County and State. You will be
the gamer by doing so. Those who have
exhibits at the County Fair will no doubt
in manyc cases wish to take the same eX-
hibits to the State Fair. This can easily
be done for the County Fair just precedes
the State Fair by a day or two.