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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe. 7


Tell man he is good talker, and
he'll Immediately overdo it.
Some people are as annoying as a flat
wheel under a street car.
A certain kind of gush seems to be nee
essary in politics and society.
If you have killed a bear, you are
very apt to talk too much about it.
An old-timer hasn't, much use for any
one who hasn't read up on early history.
What young people call Having the
blues'' older people call feeling bilious.
If you have made up your mind to get
married, get married, ana have 1t over
with.
BUSY men become very tired of loafers,
particularly if the loafers act important
1t is easier to raise chickens for meat
than it is to hunt rabbits, the easiest OF
all game.
Not one man in ten who gets drunk can
afford the expense; to say nothing of the
disgrace.
one great trouble is, people without
sense so frequently call attention to thei1
Don't let your sympathy for the under
dog carry you to the length OF betting
that it will win.
you are sincere, keep on Walking until e
few tears show in your eyes.
A brakemen, said recently; That mar
IS SO stingy he Wo aIIo give a duck
When a sucker is worked by. a bunch
of smooth gamblers they always 81
around and praise him for being such &
game loser.
You can very easily overdo your special
ty. 1t is possible for a man to harm 81
good a cause as temperance by always
talking about it.
If you are knocked out, don't give III
too easily. Look yourself over; there Il
another fight IN you, if you will cut GU
your fool ways.
While women are the greatest church
goers we have observed that they ar,
more likely to discuss hats than the ser
mon when they return.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.[


1t doesn't take a very sharp man to
cut a figure in society.
The knocker usually gets his when
the hammer rebounds.
A superior manner is one thing;
superior person is another.
Only a woman can enjoy being I'M
happy because she is misunderstood.
Some women can look swear words
just as forcibly as some men can say
them.
The average married man often
" onders how his wife can have so
much faith in him.
A woman may forgive a man for
beating her If he did it because he was
jealous of her.
Advice to a girl who would be a
housekeeper: First catch husband
possessing a house.
Any man can make fool of himself,
but with a woman's help the job can
be finished much quicker.
If you sympathize with some people
once you will be expected to listen to
their tales of woe forever after.
Before doing anything because of
enthusiasm or excitement, lie low a
few DAYS and see If your enthusiasm
or excitement is still on the job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
THE vAU1E OF WATERWAYS.

The system of inland waterways
formed by the Great Lakes has done
much toward making better and cheaper
service in the marketing Of a large part
of the grain crops of the United States.
Deepening the lake channels has made
it possible to use larger vessels, and
with the increased size of the carriers
have come lower freight rates. A re-
view of the past 40 years. covering the
principal events in this growth of
cheap transportation, has just been
published by the department of agri-
culture in a bulletin of the bureau of
statistics.
In discussing improvements in lake
channels, the report shows that in 1871
the ordinary depth of water at the shall
lowest points between Buffalo and
Lakes Superior and Michigan was
about IA feet, while in 1909 this depth
had been increased to 81 feet. Deep
ening the channel was accompanied by
the building of larger boats. During
1S71-1S75 the average size of the YES
sells built on the lakes was 1913 tons
of 100 cubic feet gross measurement
and the average size of those built in
1906-19O9 was 1882 tons. The lake boats
built now are more than six times as
large as those built when the channel
was feet shallower.
While the average cargo of grain re-
ceived at Buffalo for a season may be
| less than one-half that amount ,oo'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
FROM O7EER PENS
PROBLEM OF STORING FOOD.


Whatever may be the outcome of the
proposed legislation to regulate cold
storage of foodstuffs, the one consid-
Grafton of human health should be
kept in mind above everything else.
If it is, just law may be obtained,
and if it guides further in the enforce
ment of the law there need be no more
trouble. How long quantities of food
or foodstuffs should be kept in storage
or in what volume ought not to give
serious difficulty if all interests are in
earnest about conserving peoples
health. 1t is a matter of social econ
omy first, industrial last.
1t should never be possible for arti-
cles of food to be kept in storage I'M
til they are impaired so that they may
menace the lives of consumers. No
financial consideration should be great
enough to outweigh this one object. 1t
| is all nonsense to say that experts In
| cold storage can not tell'how long each
! commodity may stand the process.
| The purpose primarily of the cold
storage system was a good one, and II
| it was faithfully carried out 1t would
have a very helpful influence on the
| househo1der's pocketbook and health
alike But the primary purpose was
not to facilitate speculation. And the
law should be so farmed as to see that
men do not gamble in these neces-
saries of life, both to the physical and
| financial injury of the consumer
| Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
Table Etiquette in Schools.

Table etiquette, the way to brush
the teeth, the necessity of bathing, and
kindred personal hygiene" subjects
form the latest educational advance
that is to be inaugurated during the
present school term in the towns of
West Brookfeld. New Braintree, and
Sturbridge, presided over by c. c. Fer
guson.
The teachers who formerly taught
the routine facts about hygiene are
preparing to instruct their pupils by
personal example, if necessary, the
proper way in which to acquire table
manners, prevent decayed teeth by the
application of the brush, avoid round
shoulders, sweep their homes, and a
plethora of other useful bits of infor-
nation.
If it becomes necessary there will
| be demonstrations of the proper way
/, in which to manipulate knife and
| fork The vulgarity at present prac-
ticed in table mannees will be done
away with, and the pupils, in addition
to being drilled in the use of the Eng
| Iish language and the use of algebra,
will receive useful instruction along
lines that will not only fit them for
enviable. positions in the world: but
will enable them to hold the positions
without criticism of alleged boorish-
ness.
| Bathing is to be one of the first sub
jects to be dealt with. This will be
| followed by the care of the teeth, the
"art'' of eating. posture, and the bene-
fetal results from a proper position
when standing or sitting.
| PoIiteness as an art will receive its
share of importance under the new
Eregime. and the pupils will be instruct
ed in the art of treating strangers as
well as friends in the proper way
Boston special to the New York Press
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
wEAK m GEOGRAPHY.

People-and they are more numer-
Gus than may be generally Supposed
who hold that the secondary schools
of this country are prone to give stu
dents an early start in other branches
will be fully prepared, no doubt, for
the results of this years examination
of the freshman class at the Univer-
sity of Wisconsin. 1t is reported that
many of the freshmen could not tell in
what states were such well known
cities as Richmond. Mobile, Memphis,
Butte, Syracuse, Nashville, Spokane,
Atlanta and Scranton. Some could To-
cate only four of the following ten
cities by telling in what country each
is; Vienna, Venice, Lisbon, Bombay,
Buenos Ayres, Hongkong, Athens,
Moscow. Shanghai and Melbourne. AS
to famous rivers and mountains of the
earth. the students are reported to
have made an equally poor showing
It is small wonder that college pres1-
dents and members Of college faculties
not infrequently express the opinion
that Vocational geography should re-
ceive more attention in secondary
schools. The college man or woman,
whether fitting for business or for pro-
fessional life, can i'll afford to be with
out a working knowledge of this i'm
portant bTanch.-MancheSte Union
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Broken matrimonial engagements
are far better than broken hearts a
year or so later.
X X X
Although prospective brides are fond
of Showers they don't enthuse over
rain on their wedding days.
X Y y
There wouldn't be so many misun-
derstandings if folk were not so anx-
ious to have them.
X X \
Any number of men devote lots of
time to hunting where there isn't any
possible chance of finding game.
X x X
More people would be found to have
yellow streaks'' if they were not so
fortunate as to miss chances to show
them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

A rice trust is about to be formed in
the southern states where this staple
is grown with success. But it is to be
a little different from most trusts in
that it is to be organized by the grow
ers of the rice. Still it will likely
work out in the usual way of trusts as
far as the consumers are concerned.
The consumers, however, are the butt
of everything and one or two more
trusts that will affect them Will prob
ably not be noticed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

Surely no objections will be raised to
the action of the county commissioners
In appropriating $135 a month for the
care of four patients at the tubereu-
Iosis camp who are wholly dependent
upon charity. Public funds can be
used to no better advantage than in
assisting in the war against the great
white plague. 1t is to the benefit of all
the people in a community that con-
sumptives be isolated. In this way most
effective steps are taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

A woman, who has been an inmate
of the Minnesota insane asylum for
IS years, has won a $3.50 prize for writ
ing the best poem in a contest conduct
ed by a magazine. Unlike the crimi-
mails in prison who write good poetry
and get pardons thereby, this woman
viii not be given her freedom, because
a lunatic is held to be dangerous to
society With criminal, though, it
seems to be different.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

can smoke my cigar right to the end. -
Journal Amusant
$50 Johnnie. you wish to be boy
weeds in the backyard would make an
excellent cover for an enemy. 1 think
it would be good military tactics for you
to cut 'em down. "-Pittsburg Post.
Miss Flora McFIimsey, of Madison
Square, was complaining that she had alb
solutely nothing to wear. Il draw the
line, of course" she said, ''at the hobbie
skirt" Concealing herself beneath an in
Verted washtub hat, however, she man
aged to walk UP Broadway without being
recognized OF attracting any particular
attention.-Chicago Tribune.
mol keep my mouth shut."-Cleveland
Leader.
Singleton-I cannot understand why a
mans wife is called his better half Wed
more-You would If you had to divide
your salary with one.-Boston Transcript.
Doctor Ito typhoid patient)-Do you re-
member where you drank water? Patient
Gan actor)-Oh, yes! 1t was on the dear
old farm-twenty years ago.-Puck.
Bystander Gas everybody ducks for
cover)-What's the matter? Citizen
Jones Is coming up one side of the street
with a jag, and his wire IS coming up
the other side with a hobble skirt on
Puck.
Pitman-why doesn't Saunders sing any
more? Horner-He listened to q solo he
had made on a monograph cylinder
Chicago News,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

DR.. Norman Plass. former president
of Washburn college, has returned to
Boston to face the music of having i'm
properly conducted the land and tim
Der companies with which he is asso-
ciated. That is just what many of his
Topeka friends had every reason to be-
ueVe he would do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

UNIQUE among men stands James
Conklin of Bureau county, Ill. He has
brought suit for divorce because his
wife refuses to keep up with the fash
ions and dress like other women. Think
Of it, she has refused to buy new
dress for two years, despite the urgings
of her husbands that she replenism her
wardrobe. It may also be said with
equal truth that Mrs Conklin is a rath-
er unique specimen of womanhood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

Secretary Ballinger has come back
with charges to the effect that eastern
interests seeking a coal market monop-
DIV are responsible for the agitation
which has kept Alaska coal lands so
long from being opened. And stranger
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

President Taft's Thanksgiving day
proclamation is quite as dignif1ed and
earnest as it is brief. All the COVER
nors should follow suit. But many of
them won't. or rather, their more or
less gifted and ELUSIVE private secre-
taries won't Let them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

An automobilist negotiated $50 miles
at Atlanta a day or so ago at speed
which averaged II miles an hour.
That's pretty fast going but this ex-
pert would have to do considerably
better than that on some of Topeka's
streets to keep within sight of a few
of this towns automobile speedo-
voopTacS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

loked like if it had not been sewed
together and by Betsy or some other
gal? Needless to say it would have
been sorry looking if General Put
nam had been compelled to WELD the
needle and thread on it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

Curtis Guild, former governor of
Massachusetts, told some school chill
dren of Boston the other day that
General Israel Putnam and not Betsy
Ross created the first American flag.
Mr.. Guild insists that dear old Betsy
had nothing to do with the first flag
except to sew it together. But. if the
question is not impertinent, what
would the first American flag have
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

According to a brother of Count
Zeppelin, the famous builder of air
ships of the dirigible balloon type says
that the failure of most of these craft
to come up to expectations is due to
motor troubles. 1t must be remem-
bered, though, that Count Zeppelin has
never tried one of those equilibrators
of WeIlman's invention.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

Announcement is made that the su-
preme court of the United States Will
take a vacation, beginning next Mon
day and lasting until November 70. On
no one thing is the supreme court
quite so strong as in the matter of TAX
ing vacations.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New YORK Press.1

TFrom the New YORK Press.l
Your stroke of genius would be in some
other fellow just an idea
Marriages may be made in heaven, but
they can be unmade any old place.
Men get wildly excited over politics SO
as to make themselves believe some of it.
Maybe if men let women have the right
to vote women would let men have the
right to spend some Of their own nonax-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

There are a few more yards of the
White Elephants hide that must be
torn off. And now that the political
arena has been cleared, the job of put
TIM this beast hors de combat ought
to be prosecuted with more vigor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

If Belle Gilmore is alive she is en-
titled to the distinction of being the
meanest woman who has ever been on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full Gay
telegraph report Of that great news or
ganiZation for the exclusive afternoon
publication ia 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, 1910-11-10


local losers We discover the name of
Mr.. Winner.
do without what you cannot at
ford" is good advice, but there is
some conjecture as to how Hon.
Stubs will get along without the SER
vices of Hon. Dolley in the legislature.
But there is one place where the
sun Is still shining, and the cruel
Democrats failed to unload a few
buckets of gloom. We refer, of course,
to Danville, Illinoy.
In Paris, the telephone girls do not
say hello" they say, II listen" The
telephone girls in this country do not
say it, but they frequently do.
The man who has a gold brick to
sell should look up the person who be-
lteves there Is any such thing as a
painless dentist.
LOVELY CHARACTERS. Lesson XXI
I'll. Morgan.
Hen. Morgan was a financier who did
mt deal in grain,
But picked up many bargains on the
good old Spanish Main.
His mother called him "Hen-nery,
and others called him "'Hy,''
Or "Old Cantharides," because he
made the Spanish fly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
HUNOR OF THE DAY

Barriers Burned Away.-''What a funny
idea to have cut your musrache off, It's
the fashion just now and besides now L
can smoke my cigar right to the end -
Journal Amusant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10
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Paradox number Ala: Among the
local losers We discover the name of
Mr.. Winner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-10

Owing to the pressing call of other
duties, principal of which is making
recount OF the Stubs majority in
Shawnee county, we will close out to-
day at cost. This is the smallest pack
age of the season, but considering the
quality of the offering, it's brevity will
be welcomed
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-05
MANCHESTER.

Rev Leroy W. Coons of Augusta
vii preach at 2.S0 p. NJ. Sunday, Nov.
6, in Union church. Manchester
The Friends church on the Lake
road had the pleasure at its last sun
day morning service of WELCOMING IN
to the church as members tho follow
ing persons: Mr.. and Mrs. Wood. Mr.
and Mrs Ernest F. Temple and their
daughters, Nancy, Flora and Nellie
The younger children of the family
were received as associate members
The ceremony Of receiving these into
the church was conducted by the pas
tor, Rev. l. Warren Hawkes. and was
marked by it's simplicity, yet impress
siveness, which cllaracterizcs all the
services connected with this church
The ceremony was concluded by the
congregation singing that grand old
hymn so fun of fellowship and unity
"Blost Be the Tie That Binds
Mrs. y. S. BusWell. who has been
spending the summer With her daugh-
ter, Mrs May Moore at Lakehurst. re-
turned Thursday to her home in RoX-
bury. Mass.
Miss Jessie Libbey. who has been
engaged at G. NJ. BaiIey's at Winthrop
Center for the past two years, is with
her sister, Mrs. Alice Farr.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-05
SAGADAHOC.
WooLWlcH.

Mrs. Maria Leonard has closed her
house and gone to East Boston to re-
sumo her work as a nurse.
j. o. Carter and family of Rich
mond We're in town last week.
Miss May Roberts of Wiscasset was
the weekend guest of Mrs. Mary E.
Call.
Fred /. Carter and sister. Mrs. Lena
Bibber, took trip to Richmond Tues
day in his new launch.
Capt Alfred Thompson of Bath has
been in town this week, putting his
home in shape for winter.
Mrs. Marcia Stinson, who has been
substituting in Bath, has now a reg
ular position in a Primary school.
Arthur Price of Bath is the guest
of his grandmother. Mrs. Abel Price.
Miss Emma Leonard is visiting Mrs.
Carl w. Longfellow in Worcester,
Mass.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-05

Of Gardiner, Who Conducted Devotional
Exercises at Central Maine Sunday
School Institute.
only the healthy ana normal piety of the
10y ana girl from children, not the adult
experience related in the adult way.
The supreme opportunity of the Maine
Methodist conference is with the 5000
young people in the Sunday school of this
conference who are not in church. The
best work for God is to keep the child
in the Kingdom,
The speaker said in conclusion: "rhe
ore solution to the question whether
Maine shall remain in the column of the
temperance states is to so into the Sun
day shoots and impress the pupils of the
Sunday school with the advantages of
Statewide prohibition"
Rev. Edgar Blake, ID. d., of Chicago
was the closing speaker, taking for his
subject THE New Awakening, and
treating of the work of the recently
formed Sunday school board of the Meth
odist church This board has the care
and supervision of the $1,000 Sunday
schools of the Methodist church with
their 4.oOO,Oo0 scholars. This beard III tn"
,"o Hr"'S '""' II ''''H wy 80
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Nt'S nv ~ .
ney'nss IN the Northwest IN ''o .le I',I, ~
eStS OF the 'uiio"N N'.'o'l ''''I" ,,' : ~
church does its duty i'll the great North
west we will have a vast new empire for
Christ" said the speaker he stated
ti"' ny '''h ''"'''' g ~
ll' ''''' t,''' ,o1,,a
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Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-05
KENNEBEC
LINCOLN
wHi1EFlELD.

SOU1H-D T. Matthews is at Wis
casset serving on the jury.
George Bailey Of Pittston was a re-
cent caller in the place.
A b. Mcdonald was in Gardiner this
week on business
Fourteen carloads Of lumber left
the station this week. Five portable
mills are at work III the immediate Vi
cinity.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-05
MAY CLOSE MILLS.
Unless More Rain Comes Paper Plants
May Have to Shut Down.

Franklin. \. H., Nov 4.-Unless the
heavy rain of the past two days con
tinues for some time to come. the Off
cials OF the paper mills here state
there is probability that it will be
necessary for them to curtal their
output this coming winter, thereby
throwing out of employment many
persons.
Most of the mills here depend upon
the Winnipesseogee river and the
stream from Webster lake to furnish
motive power and for the past few
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-05
co. M. NOTES.
New Clerk Appointed-Rifle QuaIifica
tion-The Attendance.

Private George K. MeiCs has been
appointed clerk of CO. NJ. "a Inf.
vice Lieut.. Fred s. Rand. resigned
Lieut.. Rand remains an officer Of the
company but gives up the position OF
clerk. which he has held ever since
the organization. in order that he may
have more time to devote to his du-
ties as second lieutenant.
Orders have been received fir ON
the adjutant general extending the
outdoor rifle qualification season un-
til Nov. 15.
The attendance record for the month
of October has been summarized ano
shows that the first platoon. COM
manded by Lieut.. Periey. wins out
over the second by narrow margin
The squad having the best record
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-05

weeks the water has been so low that
it has heen impossible to run much OF
tho pulp-making machinery.
During the past few weeks large
part of the stock for the paper mills
has been imported from distant places
at an increased expense. Today the
rivers are somewhat higher as a re
suit of the two-days rain but vast
amount more is needed to give the fac
tories the desired amount of power for
the winter season.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1910-11-05

conversion to the church of the heads
of families i'll times of revival, but rather
of the admission to the church of boys
and girls with a long period of life before
them to devote to the Masters service
Methodism holds that by virtue of the
unconditional benefits of the atonement
all children are members Of the Kingdom.
The Discipline says that as soon as they
show symptoms of picty the children are
to be taken into the church-and that
does not mean on probation, although IN
practice we are accustomed to admit
them in that way. We ought to expect