davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-11

Jacksonville, Fla, June 10.-F'rom a deck hand on a St. Johns river steam boat to the United States senate is the step to be made by Napoleon B.. Broward of Florida. Senator James P. Taliaferro has about given up all hopes of returning to the senate, con- ceding that Broward has won in the senatorial primary. The official count will not be completed for another week. Broward was governor of Flor ida, but since his retirement from public office has been devoting his time to converting the famous Ever glades into productive farms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
CHANsoN DE REroUR.

Each year at this time in disgust
ones bound to endure all the quips
OF bantering fellows, who've Just
Returned from their holiday trips.
Iney laugh at us. stay-at-nome folk,
And insist on giving details
VI now they Gas usuaD went broke.
And telling their travellers tales.
Inere,s Smith, who. to be IN the swim,
Vic Naples-(I doubt If he went)-
'SsuVlus arranging for him
Al eruption of wondrous extent;
ana Zones, who viii swear that he
nc matter-this is the worst
ms outing has ended in naught
But most inordinate thirst.
mere isn't man in the lot
Tbon mo hasnt some deed to confide.
T Il l gent think I'd like to decide.
ASt s1em talk, II they have a mind
ana mind where invention nrevajIs,
extremely amusing, you'll find.
70 listen to travellers tales,
Times. e" 10Th
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
THE STATE FAIR.

Everything is in readiness for the
great state fair which opens it's gates
on Monday. In fact. there will be a
band concert at the grounds tomorrow
afternoon, but the formal opening of
the exposition does not occur until
Monday morning. And there are
plenty of indications on the grounds
already that it is going to be the big
gest thing in the way of an agricul-
tural fair that has ever been held in
Kansas. There are other indications,
too. that all of Kansas is going to be
there. Indeed, the prospects for
most successful fair in each and every
particular could not be brighter.
Topekans can do a lot to make them
certain. The fifty thousand people in
this city are going to be benefited won
derfully by this fair. There can be
little doubt now that when the time
comes for the state of Kansas to ap-
propriate moneys for the esta blishment
of state fair of proportions common
surate with the agricultural promi-
hence of the state. these appropria-
tions will be made for the location of
the fair at Topeka, the logical site for
it. But this contingency can be made
almost a surety by the generous
patronage of this fair by the people of
Topeka and it's immediate vicinity.
With such a strong protest going up
from the people of the state against
increasing state appropriations for any
purpose, the chances are that it will
be a couple of more years yet before
the Kansas legislature sees it's way
clear to go into the state fair bust
ness. So the fair at hand must be
made a big success in order that the
one to follow it next year NAV be de-
veloped and made larger and more
successful in all of its details And it
| is up to the people of Topeka to help
make this fair the success that it
should be.
If the fair of this year was going to
be of the same variety of the fairs
which have been held here during the
past few years, there would be no
boost it along, and to urge the people
of the city to attend it. But it is going
to be decidedly different from those
purely horse-racing occasions which
have travelled on before it under the
guise of a fair. Horse races are all
right. interesting and exciting and
there will be better ones at the fair
next week than have ever before been
held in this city. But they will only
be one of the attractions at the fair
Magnificent displays of some of the
finest live stock of all varieties will be
there. So will there be the wonderful
achievements of the Kansas farmers in
their tilling of the soil. The agricul-
ltural exhibits promise to be great
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
HUAOR or THE DAY

PA, what is concomitant?" "Oh. one
of these HALEY fakes Now run out and
NOW the lawn. I want to read what this
magazine says about the lesson of the
great fight ''-Chicago Record-Herald.
do you believe that an orfense carries
to cheat the government by buying a box
of cigars the man said he had struggled.
Then 1 tried to smoke them. washing
Shall we advertise gorge as well as
think a gorge means a lot to eat."-Pltts-
burg Post.
an animal that has tiles on its back and
puts its head into its mouth."-Rire.
The Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
explained IT have to on account of the
clothespin skirt" she cried. Thus we see
to what fashion will drive woman
well old man, I'm sorry for you.
ground and that your wife and mother
in-law were destroyed Yes, that's so.
have So dsin ke 1id Sp9 bear tna5
Leader.
Fuddy--I understand there is some talk
the front of the Boston Public Library.
Duddy.Why so? Fuddy.someone has
to do with besns."-Boston Transcript.
hens fxeetRfs aBecause sy thew are sbout
the scarcest things in the world" More
scarce than men who enjoy hearing about
the cleverness of other peoples babies?"-
Chicago Record-Herald.
NOW" said Mr.. Bunker, who was in
structing her in the mysteries Of golf,
you know what a tee Is. Now, then,
the duties of a caddie-'' "Ohi of course"
she interrupted, the caddy's what you put
the tea in know what a tea caddie Is"
Catholic Standard and Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
Tine rruth About the Tariff.

If there has been any one thing upon
which the public has been particular
ly aroused it has been the tariff bill.
Now, upon this subject let US have a
campaign of education as we had IN
1896, when, at the beginning, 1t SEEM
ed as If all was against us, but when
November came there was sweeping
victory for Mckinley and sound mon
ey There have been increases in the
duty on silks, on laces, on wines ana
liquors, on some forms of cotton, on
some forms of agricultural products l
am not going to stand before you ana
say that the Payne law is a perfect
law. 1t has its defects. There were
some ideas that 1 myself desired 10
have embodied in 1t that are not there,
but I am only one of many. repre-
sent one state out of 46-and If there
is any task in legislation which Is diff
f1cult it is to frame tariff bill that
will be satisfactory even to one per
son-let alone the United States. Let
us hold up the hands of President
Taft; let us give to this session the
message to continue the work; let us
call the people away from turmoil ana
excitement, from superf1ciality ana
sensationalism, twin brothers and sis
tiers of envy, obstruction, and unrest;
let us call the people at large TO a
dispassionate, intelligent view OF ali
the public questions. We would nave
with us a tinge of radicalism, but a
tinge of conservatism as well, That the
things that are essential may remain
These are the things we must keep
before us to do sane and progressive
work-Senator Theodore E. Burton, IN
Leslie's.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
.AYHAWKER JOTS

The Kansas City Star is accused by
the Hutchinson News of being a ma
chine" paper-because it promoted an
automobile run which has just been
concluded.
The fellow who has good health, a
friends should be happy, says the
Atchison Champion. Sure, but such
fellows are few and far between.
Competition in all lines is growing
keener all the time. remarks the OF
tawa Republic, and it explains: At
Hutchinson, a bulldog caught a thief,
thus interfering with the regular voca-
ton of the bloodhound.
An oily-tongued stranger went to
Boston the other day and cleaned up
fortune in few hours without Civ
ing anything but hot air in return.
mark: IT'S no use abusing the In
dams for being easy marks. The pale
faces are just as bad"
Wonder is expressed by the Ottawa
Herald as to what the jealous tourists
in the Star Cup Run did to the other
contestants cars before they started
to make them "act. up" The Herald
calls attention to the fact that putting
a sand burr under the saddle blanket
wouldn't work in such a case.
Apparently the Hutchinson News
has not a very high idea of the intel
says: 1.-The people of Kansas will soon
have to learn what initiative and refer
endum is. Most people are for it or
against 1T without knowing whether it
Is f1sh or a breakfast food-and not
caring
Another old one a New York paper
should copyright, says the Atchison
Globe: A Missourian recounts the fol-
lowing conversation between a minis
ter and a man whose wife was buried
the other day. my brother" said the
preacher. 81 know that this is a great
grief that has overtaken you, and
though you are compelled to mourn
the loss of one who has been your
companion and partner in life. viii
console you with the assurance that
there Is another who synpathizes with
you, and seeks to embrace you in the
arms of unfailing love-" To this the
bereaved husband replied by asking as
he gazed into the minister's face:
whats her name?"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
Training Street Hawkers.

A young Boston woman-Caroline f..
Wenzell-has originated an interesting
scheme, by which the street hawkers
are developed into musical entertain
ers to the crowds of people who have
heretofore painfully endured their ex-
istence. Miss Wenzell has started
school, after due elaboration as TO
chances for success. One morning she
which a line of peddlers make their
way daily. AS the men appeared she
began a conversation. Each peddler
was asked his nationality. how long he
had been IN the country, whether ne
was married or not, and how mucn
their confidence, Miss Wenzen next
asked them how many customers they
had in a day, and whether the MAORI
ty of them were Americans or foreign
born citizens. More of their own peo-
pie" bought from them, they said
whereupon Miss Wenzell used the an
swer as an argument to convince them
that if they spoke better English ano
cried their wares more PLAINLY anu
musically their customers would pe
doubled and trebled. Thus she got their
attention, and then and there gave her
''class'-four peddlers-their first les
| son in street. or commercial, Engnsn
The next morning her class was
| increased by two. Two of the six were
strawberry peddlers, one was an old
| junk dealers. All seemed interested
and were very respectful. Two days
later, one of the men appeared with
wooden box for the teacher to sit
on. Miss Wenzell says OF her work.
| 1.-The ordinary street cries, OF which
there are about a half dozen in COM
mon use, are susceptible Of almost any
variety of changes, and all of them
| in a musical key. AS an experiment
since I have taken up this work alone
7 xUn
| out in several cases definite muslca
notation which seemed best adapted te
my men. Three of them do wonderful
| ly well with them. and all of them I'M
proved 100 per cent. Any of the mer
who have come to me regularly can DC
heard a block away, and their cries
are musical and clear. The best 1arl
of 1t all is that they are teaching wha1
they know to others that are in the
same business. "-Springfield Republl'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10

terrupted little Miss Murray formally.
Nevertheless persisted Jarvis pa
tiently, you are about to receive them.
Listen, dear. have never called on
Mile Blyly in my life-let alone at
ter left here. When you referred
TO the skeleton in my closet, took the
phrase literally. There is a skeleton
in my closet-a six foot skeleton OF q
man that DR.. Blyly loaned me to AID
me in my studies, because-weH, m
studying medicine with him, you see:
1 don't want to be a drug clerk all
my life. T."
But here his late f1ancee. face
asmile, interrupted his sentence IN 2
very pleasing way.-(Copyrighted 1917
by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News.1
Fools often serve as horrible ex-
amples.
Many a man sees his duty in time
to dodge It.
Elbow-grease is a standard oil, and
it pays good dividends.
Speaking of resolutions-the good
nearly always die young.
Strenuous babies are responsible for
many meek and lowly parents.
Occasionally a man avoids straiten-
ed circumstances by being crooked.
The nearer a man comes to under
standing woman the more he wishes
he didn't.
When a bachelor maid encounters
a bachelor man 1t takes a lot of wind
out of her sails.
After man gets on the shady side
of 40 love doesn't trouble him half
as much as rheumatism does.
After a girl has been married a year
or two she begins to generate a lot of
respect for women who remain in the
spinstef class.
It's almost as difficult for a girl
who is poor and plain to get into smart
society as it is for a rich man to
crawl through the eye Of n needle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

Lots of people become dirty without
entering politics.
A sunny disposition is ike ANYTHING
else: it can be overdone
Even their enemies must admit that
the progressives are progressing.
The fact that everyone makes mis-
takes doesn't particularly recommend
them.
A man cuts just about as much fig
ure at his wedding as he does when his
first baby is born.
An Atchison gossip denies that she
gossips: she says she is simply a stud
ent of human nature.
Some men defame themselves Just to
hear their wives say, Nov you know
that isn't true, dearie."
You know what is happening to a
man when he complains bitterly of the
injustice of gossip: he's getting a dose.
The men who stand for the conser-
walton of natural resources do not seem
willing to apply the same theory to
talk.
Is there not one man in the world
willing to admit that he Is occasionally
in the wrong? We have never met
one.
When a man consents to act as a
policeman, he always believes he will
be chief within a year; probably within
six months.
IT got a wealth of affection and de-
votion with my wife, said a citizen
today, but heaven knows 1 didn't get
any money with her"
Before we die, we hope to see every
thing go right for one day. When we
get one thing going smoothly, another
begins to wobble.
When q woman abuses US, we stand
it; we can't fight a woman, but we
have a way of getting even: we abuse
her preserves behind her back.
Everything else being equal the
preacher with small family gets the
call. s'Increase and multiply" Is good
scripture, unless carried too far.
| People have put this and that to-
gecher, and discovered that a girl who
lately went east to study painting
really went to study the millinery bust
ness.
Il is better to be robbed of five hun
bred dollars than it is to steal a dollar
And it is usually better to be imposed
upon than it is to engage IN a street
| fight.
We are pretty easily fooled. but ne
one can make US believe that anyone
ever had an operation for appendiciti,
| performed because operations of that
| kind were fashionable.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
From the Philadelphia Record.

TFrom the Philadelphia Record
Consistency is a Jewel we always
admire-in other people.
The average man is too busy
preaching economy to MS wire TO
practice any himself.
Many a fellows only chance to win
a girl lies in the fact that her famiiy
are opposed to him.
Be sure you are right and then go
ahead Don't turn around to see II
YOUR neighbors are looking.
True love has no greater test than
for a man to eat free lunches In order
to take his wife out to dinner.
Starboarder-'T am firm be-
lever in the theory that might is
right" Hallroom-"How about strong
butter?"
The softest powder puff in the world
isn't as agreeable to the touch of a
spinster's cheek as three-days'
growth of beard
The trouble with the man who
reaches the top is that he seems to
think he is exempt from the laws of
gravitation.
Wigg-"You can't tell how much
money man is making from the
clothes he wears" Wagg-That's
right. But you can form some idea
from. the clothes his wife wears"
Hoax-"which season of the year
is it that a man suffers from chill
blains Joax-.I don't Just re-
member, but I know there is one sea-
on when the chillblains take to
their heels
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
[4!l!
tk.7:ll9|

Old age is slowly overtal<ing Terribly
Teddy. The most apparent symptom IS
in days of old At his Chicago speech
he invited his hearers to let the
rascals out" He used to say 1t,
THROW the rascals out"
In St. Louis, woman OF 80 years and
40 pounds, swan five miles. If this
woman continues to improve. by the
time she is 80 years of age and weighs
230, she will be some swimmer, believs
muh.
Hope, for a season, babe the world
farewell;
Freedom shrieked.-as Kos-ci-us-ko
fell"
Thus the poet wrote it. His meter
precludes the use of any pronunciation
requiring less than four syllables. Yet
the Polish gents name is pronounced
'Ko-shoos-ko." eve would not venture
to start anything with poet who Is
still on the job, but Thomas Campbell
has been a long time dead.)
According to recent automobile sta
tistics. there are. in Kansas. $4,0O0.000
worth of mortgages on homes to secure
autom obile purchases. Does this in
clude YOUR honk wagon?
Give Topeka women due credit: The
only hobble skirts locally exhibited. are
of the mildest. least hobblesome type.
and the wearers can chase a car with
out turning UP the bottoms of the gar
mentS.
Upon investigating a big cotton buy
in.; concern in Mississippi, the govern
had very little real cotton, but had ac-
cumulated a debt of over 100000. As
no one else has come to the front with
a well-founded claim for the distinc-
IL wrv4A IL IL
to this case as the finest collection OF
debts on record.
Such is fame: A gent recently died
in New York, and got his name in the
papers all over the world. And his
only claim to distinction was that he
| was reported to be- engaged to Lily
Langtry about rs years ago.
| 1t is reported from San Francisco
that a Chinaman named Lew Sing Chow
was shot by countryman. The nature
of his injury is not given, but it is evil
dent that the bullet ''pied" his name.
! Mormon gent. who is sojourning in
| Chicago, has one wife with him, but is
| petitioning the district attorney to lot
| him ship in his other five helpmates. 1t
appears that he feels the need of the
| entire set.
| Another distressing accident: Dis
patch says a man shot himself in the
weeds near Pueblo. Col.
| This department does not know
| whether or not the American Ladies'
| Concert band, which has been secured
| for the state fair, can play music, but
| If the units of the band average up in
| looks with the young one who plays
| the cornet solos, the band will be en-
| tirely satisfactory.
| Kansas City cop jumped his job be-
cause. after paying for a new uniform.
| he didn't have enough of his salary LETT
| to pay the grocery bill. The only
remedy for this distressing condition
/ would be to construct the uniforms of
some edible material, SO that the cops
might eat the old ones when they pur-
| chase now ones.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
Moving pictures OF Not-which:

Two opinions on the moving picture
show are contrasted by the New York
Dramatic Mirror. That publication
asks: which opinion is the more
worthy of respect?"
Prof W. A. McKeever, of Kansas
state Agricultural college, in Coco
Housekeeping: "oMtion pictures need
careful supervision and excelsior of the
many Representations of crime and vice.
the more demoralizing because they
bring to the young the actual vision OF
the criminal act or scene OF vicious
practices. The motto of the organiza-
lions that run the picture shows might
be: "A red light district in easy reaca
of every home. See the murders ana
debauncheries while you wait.
Mayor Gaynor of New York. in Pic
torial Review: 1--WE been going to see
moving pictures. They are all right.
The censors are doing their work well.
The makers of moving pictures are
living up to the law. The harm lies
in the way in which children see the
pictures. If they go with the wrong
sort of company. that is up to the
mother. She ought to know VINO taxes
her children to moving picture SHOWS
theaters, etc.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
A SATURDAY SERMON.


And we know that all things work to-
gether for good to them that love God.
Romans VIII Is.
''It looks like more rain said a To-
pekan the other morning to a friend
he hao overtaken on the way to work.
Yes, it does" was the reply. And
have often wondered how much bet
ter everybody and everything concern
ed would be. If all the rain we get in
three or four days or week, as we
have been getting it of late. was dis
tributed more generally and at times
when 1t is more needed. Enough rain
falls each year, at least that is true
of this section of the country, for all
its many important purposes. But it
seems to come in punches. as it were
If a little of it would come along now
and then conditions would be improv-
ed a whole lot. There would be none
of the dire talk or fear about crop fail
ures. Nor would there be any such
failures. And every body would be
better off,"
THAT seems true, but is it," queried
back the man who had started the con-
versation, and he continued: "Just sup
pose the rainfall for year. large and
sufficient as it is. was distributed
around at the exact times when it is
most needed. 1t wouldn't be long, in
Kansas, at any rate, before everybody
would have a mansion on the shady
side of easy street. The struggle for
an existence, among the bulk of the
population of the state, would be re-
duced to a minimum. Crops of all
kinds would grow and flourish as they
never had before Not much effort
would be required for almost every
man to become rich. And it wouldn't
be long before a general idleness would
supplant the wonderful activity that
now makes the red and healthy blood
to flow through the veins of Kansans,
that keeps them up and going. The re-
suits would not be difficult to imagine.
Too much prosperity is even worse
than not enough. The pages of history
are replete with the decay and decline
of glorious nations of the past. You
know as we'll as I do what caused
these declines The people became
surfeited with riches. They stopped
work. They couldn't originate enough
play to keep them properly amused.
Those who did not become dissolute
plottings and their intrigues to gain
power. The end was not long coming.
Maybe, it's Just as well that the rain
doesn't come along as we think we
would like to have it. Maybe it is best
for us that we have to worry little
and hustle all the time. In tropical
chimes, where living is easy. where no
effort is required to produce even the
food necessary to keep the body a
going, the people are either savages or
only semi civilized, and their condition
of life is not one for which you and
I would willingly change places"
II guess maybe you're right said
the friend. Il hadn't thought of those
things
So was the inspired st. Paul right
when he wrote to the Romans the
words used for the text: I'VE know all
things work together for good" And
the words of Paul give emphasis to the
lines penned by the poet, William Cow
per:
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.J

IF'rom the New York Press.1
Discipline seems to do the most good
to the one who administers it.
Clubs save a lot of money for a man
by his belonging to them without being
married.
A man who can be good natured at
breakfast is very likely TO so to heaven
when he dies.
Where man win go to the theater
with his family it's the kind of show
where he doesn't want to sit in the
front row.
No matter how easy it is for a man
t. make money there always seems 10
be somebody else for whom 1t is easier
to get 1t away from him.