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The Elbert County tribune., 1911-10-13
weuern League season Closes.

Denver.-The Western League base
ball season has closed With it en-
tered new champion. Denver. Last
year the pennant was captured by
Sioux City. This team takes fifth
place in this years race The closing
winners were Denver, Sioux City.
Omaha and Des Moines. st. Joseph
cinched second place when It defeated
Denver. That put Pueblo into third
place. Three changes were made by
the final games. Omaha jumped into
the first division. taking fourth place
Lincoln and Sioux City traded places.
putting Sioux City on top. This gives
Lincoln sixth place. Topeka has not
been out of seventh place very much
during the whole season. Des Moines
stayed at the bottom throughout the
season.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-10-13
FLOODS DESTROY FARMS.
cloudbu,st Breaks Three Large Res
ervoirs and Hundreds of Cattle
and Horses Perish.

Walsenburg.-Disa floods over
western and southwestern Colorado
are reported as result of heavy
rains. Two persons. whose \ names
have not been learned. are reported
drowned The Curtis. the Smith and
the Meyers reservoirs. near Gardner.
each of which impounds over 100000
900 gallons of water, have been totally
destroyed The damage to farms
caused by the waters of the Huerfano
river and other streams is thousands
of dollars
The county abous Gardner is very
sparseIy settled. and to this fact can
be attributed the small number of
lives los; and the fact that greater
damage was not done.
Miles and miles of rich acres in the
Huerfano valley We're swept over. and
where the land. houses and haystacks
were not carried away, soil was left
in ridges and furrows, destroying the
value OF the land. Haystacks, barns
and outhouses were swept away
from several ranches. In many of the
ranch houses the water is two or three
feet deep. and women were rescued
by horsemen.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-10-13

October 1920 - -International Dry
Farming Congress and international
Congress OF Farm Womcn--Coiorado
Springs
October 14-21--Second Annual Show.
Colorado Electric Club. Denver.
Nov. 14-16.-American Apple Con-
sress. Denver.
November 27-29-colorado Teachers
Association-Denver.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-10-13
GENERAL.

Betting on the worlds baseball
series between New York and Phila-
delphia is at even money in bot.
cities.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-10-13

TelIuride.-Twenty-fo hours of
heavy downpour. following week of
drizZling rain, caused rise in the
San Miguel river that washed away
miles of railroad track. swept heavy
iron bridges down stream and brought
death to Patrick Mcclosky. laborer
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-10-13
SPORT.

WESTERN LEAGUE FINAL
STANDING.
The Elbert County tribune., 1911-10-13
COMING EVENTS.

we..erni Ne,s.paper rnlen Nen. sserylee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
ATHLETICS IN ACADEM1C LIFE.

An attitude of jealousy on the part
of faculty toward athletics, viewed
as competitive with scholarship, is a
weak attitude, writes William j. Tuck
er in the June Atlantic. Athletics,
rising to the standard of attainment,
and therefore of interest, to a college
at large, ought to be recognized-in a
certain way organized into the life of
the college; or they ought to be aboI-
ished, that is, reduced to a recrea-
ton. Can the colleges afford to re-
duce athletics to a recreation? Would
this course be in the interest of schol-
arship? What would take their place
in supplying virility, physical discipline
and the preventive moral influence
which they exert? What substitute
would be introduced for protection
against the soft vices? The alternative
to athletics is to be feared. The virile
sports must keep their place among us,
lest there become dear to u.s. as to the
Phaeacians of the Odyssey, 1.-THE ban
quet. and the harp. and the dance, and
the change of raiment, and the warm
bath, and love, and sleep" Academic
athletics have their drawbacks: there
are personal liabilities from over
training as from overstudy, there are
tendencies to professionalism which
must be carefully watched, there are
rivalries which may become ungener-
Gus, and which ought to be suspended;
but, fundamentally. athletics are a
protection to vigorous and healthy
scholarship far more than they are a
derriment to it, as I believe it would
appear in no long time. if recreation
were offered as a substitute for ath-
letics. From the days of the Greeks
till now, athletics have had legiti-
mate place in academic life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01

Great Bend merchants were PROB
ably delighted last week with the visit
Mrs Shopper made in their town.
George Philip, mayor of Sharon
Springs, also came across with an OF
fetal proclamation designating May 30
as Memorial Day.
Ralph Faxon well remarked that the
ingalls, Beacon, run by two very
young but hustling and optimistic fell
lows, is a mighty fine institution And
the Beacon refrigerated by referring to
Brother Faxon as the prince of Boost
ers.'
According to the Sharon Springs
Western Times, Mrs. Mike Nowowiey-
ski gave a party at Lake Creek the
other day in honor Of her Ster, Miss
Sarah Bunker. In other words Mr<.
Mike Nowowieyski did not change her
name to any advantage, orthograph-
ically speaking.
A baseball note in the Mcpherson
Freeman: There was some talk at the
ball game yesterday of furnishing the
base runners with motor cycles, so
they would not all be wind broken for
the rest of the season. The chief OBJ
lection being that they were afraid
they could not find machines enough -
go around.
If you want rain single the roof
on your house. At least this is q
tip that is conveyed in the following
item in the Oakland Blade: A fine rain
visited us as predicted by Judge Will
liamS last week. He said just as soon
as he got his house shingled that we
would get rain and sure enough the
very night he finished the shingling 1t
rained.
Business has been exceptionally
brisk this week, says Verd Napier in
his Blue Mound Sun: We have written
resolutions for three lodges, prepared
a card of thanks, given a tramp printer
a quarter, sold six stamps, made out a
farm lease, written letter of recon-
country to see a mans pigs, given
away four papers, read war news to a
blind man, sent in two subscriptions
to the Ladies Home Journal, trimmed
the ends of a bunch of magazines. and
subscribed two dollars for the orphans
home. Verify. the editor is busy
man.
A motherly hen Matched out Ii chicks.
only one being a rooster, relates the
Cimarron Jacksonian. Him she named
Henry. She tried to bring them up
right, and gave them much good advice
and many times warned them, when
the preacher comes around you watch
out and run and hide, or you will lose
your precious lives. 1t is always dan
gerous when he stays for dinner"
They needed her warning for a time
but finally Henry became careless, lost
his head and was eaten. The old moth
er grieved for a while but at last be-
came resigned. Perhaps 1t is just as
WE'LL" she unused, that Henry should
enter the ministry, because the rest of
my flock can never be anything but
lay members. anyway"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
CAP AND GOWN FOR GRADUATES

In several of the Kansas high schools
orders have been issued by the powers
that be directing the graduates to APP
pear at the commencement exercises in
caps and gowns that are popular habili-
ments these days all over the world
with students in the higher institu-
lions of learning. The reason for this
move in the Kansas high schools is
that it will have tendency to dis
courage the graduates. the girls es-
pecially, to clothe themselves in elab-
crate costumes which are exceedingly
expensive.
There is much to commend this move.
The graduation finery that has become
popular with the sweet girl graduates
has also become an unusual drain on
the pocketbooks of their parents. 1t
is the truth that some girls have been
taken out of high schools month or
more before they would have graduated
because their parents were not in Il
position to spend a large sum of money
for graduation gowns and the frills and
furbelows that go with them. Such
girls have been denied. or have denied
themselves the honor of crowning their
educational careers with a high school
AdLHGE ItldL Lney De
Inundated on commencement day be-
cause they could not afford gowns that
would come up to the high standards
set by their classmates. Compelling
the high school graduates to don caps
and gowns will obviate the develop
ment of any such painful situations
The garb is also attractive, and as all
graduates will be uniformly dressed
they will present an even more pleas
ing picture than they now do in their
fancy and expensive clothes.
But caps and gowns for students were
not originated for any such purpose
as this. Rather, the reverse was tho
case. Years and years ago in Ok
ford and Cambridge. the students there
became especially careless in their per-
sonal adornment with clothes. They
became cranks in going around with
all kinds Of nondescript costumes on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
THE STATE PRINTING PLANT.

One of the best investments ever
made by Kansas was the establishment
of a state printing plant 1t will have
been in operation for six years on the
lsst day of this month. In an approx
mate way it has been the means of
saving 100000. for Kansas during
that period, or rather the plant has
been worth that sum to the state.
This important fact is made known
in a report which has Just been pub
lished by Mr.. T. A. McNeal the state
printer. who retires from that position
at the end of the month and who has
served as state printer ever since the
plant was started His summary of
the operation of the plant and its
worth to the state is convincing. and
is as follows:
81. The state owns plant worth
100000. 1t has expended, or will
have expended at the end of this fiscal
year. $13,O72.SS Gin cash) less than
was expended during the previous six
years; making difference on the face
of the returns of more than $4,000
in favor of state ownership.
80. 1t has done 40 per cent more
printing than was done during a like
period OF private ownership.
"S. 1t has done this printing handi-
capped by an increase in rate of wages
of 35 per cent, as compared with the
wage rate under the previous system.
ITO sum up generally and finally:
After making all reasonable allow
ances for. depreciation. for the cost of
light, heat and power. and taking into
consideration the amount of work done.
AS compared with the amount done
under the old systematic state is the
gamer by owning its state printing
plant of fully 100000"
Much of the credit for this remark
able showing belongs with Mr.. McNeal
and able assistants. They brought to
the work of establishing this plant six
years ago wide experience in the art
of printing. To put this plant in oper-
alton was no small task But it was
most successfully accomplished. And
it has been conducted in admirable
fashion during the entire time of it's
existence. AS state printer, Mr.. Nc
Neal has rendered his state distin-
guished service. So have the assist
ants and department heads who have
labored so harmoniously and success
fully with him. Their record is one of
which they may well be proud. 1t sets
a high standard for the future opera
ton of the plant which is sure to be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
A "I2oyal" Hunter.

The following is the kaiser's bag of
game for 1909 as taken from the col
umns OF Wild und Humid, Germany:
January $40. on the Shorfheide, 20
stays: January Is, Potsdam, 1O2
pheasants, 10 rabbits; June. 2, MadIitz
6 roebuck; September % to October 5,
Rominten, 21 stays; October els,
Shorfheide, Is stays; November 1918,
Letzlingen. 81 fallow buck, II wild
boar; November 1921. Donaueschin-
gen. l fallow buck. 81 foxes, badger,
3. hares; November "a, Neudeck, SIS
pheasants, 2 hares, nutcracker. 1
owl; November 1927. Pless. bison. 2
stays. wild boar, 440 pheasants 2
hares, 1 nutcracker; December "a
Gohrde, Is stays, / brocket, binds, 40
wild boar-in all. 1,57e head.
His majesty's total bag during his
career as a sportsman is returned at
63.439 head, made up as follows: 1850
stays, 80 kinds. 1876 f&llow buck, 90
does. 3,346 wild boar. 924 roebuck,
1888 hares, 2.426 rabbits. 121
chamois. 342 foxes, 8 bears. 9 elk, s
bison, reindeer, 6 badgers, martin,
10S capercailzie, "a blackgame, a.
051 pheasants, S65 partridges 95
grouse. woodcock, snipe, 81 duck,
2 guinea fowl, s26 heron and cormor-
ants, / whale, pike, 514 miscellane-
GUS"
Some of. us have killed more snipe.
anyhow-Outing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News.l

IFrom the Chicago News.1
pretty woman cuts a lot of ice with
her tears.
It's the same thing over again that
makes revolution.
Getting married doesn't cost half as
much as being married.
1t is surprising how popular some people
are with themselves.
And it sometimes occurs that marriage
is an antidote for love-
No matter what you say to chemist,
he always has a ready retort-
In the midst of proposal mans heart
palpftates less than his knees.
A wise man can break into the fool class
in few minutes by talking too much.
A bachelor girl wouldn't be one If she
could annex a bachelor-or even
widower.
There can be no equal rights until all
members of our state legislatures are
bribeproof.
The only infaIlible rule for bringing up
children in the way they should go is
not to have any.
A mans idea of a real vacation is to get
so far away from home that he won't
have to live up to his reputation.
You may have noticed that it costs
man a good deal to get in line at the po-
Htical pie counter in this great and glor-
ious land of the free.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record
The nerve of some people affects us like
a toothache.
Even the crack oarsman may have a
hard row to hoe.
Castles in the air are too often construct
ed of gold bricks.
Too much money will frequently result
in spontaneous combustion.
Many fellow who is a light-weight is
really heavyweight to his friends
It's a good plan to tell other people
your troubles before they have a chance
to tell you theirs.
Advice to dyspetics-Look not upon the
wine when it is red. nor upon the boiled
lobster.
The fellow who has more money than
brains is apt to blow in the former and
then blow out the latter.
Two heads are better than one" quot
ed the Wise Guy. How about when IL
comes to the head of the house?" asked
the Simple Mug.
Nell-"He actually had the audacity to
make love to me. Why, he's a perfect
idiot" Believes, he must be!'' And
now the dear girls don't speak.
Z Mrs. Muggins-'I used to be very fond
of fiction before I was married." Mrs.
Buggins-''And don't you read much
now?" Mrs. Muggins-.'No, after the tales
my husband tells me about why he is so
late getting home, mere printed fiction
seems so tame and imaginative
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison GIobe.I

LFrom the Atchi6On GLOBE
There never was good reason for a
long performance.
Kindness makes friends" Was more
ever said In three words?
Somehow we never greatly admire q
man who keeps tab on his cigar bill.
When an imitation becomes an improve
ment 1t is apt to get along pretty well.
If a gambler loses only a little, he will
say broke even, but II he wins as much,
he won't.
No man is in favor of Intervention in
his own fight, unless he is about to get
the worst of it.
Overestimates are common enough but
one the Size Of that attaching to turtle
soup is rather unusual
People don't dread smallpox as much
as they used to. but time has done moth
ing to modify their fear of taxes.
There are so many old sharks that
young man, just starting out in business,
has the hardest shedding OF his life.
A kimono may look all right on a Geisha
girl in old Japan, but an American woman
can't look dressed up in one.
Women who economic by making weak
coffee should go farther, and make none,
or else try to save in some other way.
As a general thing. the man who con-
tends that cigarettes are the least harmful
form of tobacco, is man who smokes
them.
There are men who seem to devote most
of course the excellency of lodges in gem
eral
When a stranger stays in a small town
as long as a week without getting ac-
quainted, the general opinion is that he Is
a detective.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01

presumably they figured II out that
such clothes would indicate their won
derful genius. And, they got in the
habit of wearing their rags to the
commencement exercises. Now a gradu-
alton day. at either Oxford or Cam
bridge is a most digniied affair. 1t Is
attended by all the high-brows of Eng
land, the professors and doctors Of vari-
oNs degrees wearing their magnificent
robes. And before a dignified assem-
blage of this sort it was not unusual
in the days long gone by for members
of the graduating class to SLOUGH into
the proceedings and take their placeas of
honor on the platforms in football
suits, tennis suits, all kinds OF athletic
costumes, or any combination of coats
and pants that happened to be within
easy reach when they dressed up In
the morning. They looked more like
a company Of f1oboes than class Oh
college graduates. And finally they
went to such extremes in this particu-
lar that the oxford and Cambridge
authorities decreed that the graduates
should come for their degrees clothed
in caps and gowns which would cover
up their rags and tatters.
So in the first instance the cap ana
gown was ushered into use because the
costumes of English collegians were
never appropriate to the graduating
occasion. Now they are being adopt
ed for high school graduates because or
the latter's tendency to wear too elao-
crate and expensive costumes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01

II have no fault to find,'' remarked
Prof. Heckold, of a western college,
with most of the butter served in
taverns of the higher class, but when
towns you do not have to be an agri-
cultural expert to tell the difference.
Once you have looked over the sta
tisttcs showing how much butter is
produced in this country, and how
much supposed. and actual butter is
used, you will wonder how the pa
tient, Woodworking, cud-chewing
cows supply SO much.
Our last government report gave
the average production of butter per
COW as As pounds year. That does
not compare favorably' with the pro-
duct of each Belgian COW. which gives
224 pounds year without complain
ing. The wonder is where all the real
butter comes from, but there are a.
100000 mich cows in this land of the
free, and you can do a little figuring
on the basis of 145 pounds a year to
each COW.
THAT means something over three
billion pounds of butter that is churn-
ed out every twelve months. It Is not
near enough to meet the demand,
hence the imitation stuff. Of which
much more is produced than the yield
of actual butter.
There are experiments going on
each year to get more butter from
each COW, and to not only equal the
Belgian record, but beat it. There are
mild active cows of high
grade in this country that produce as
high as 500 pounds of butter in a
year. One COW has a record of 99S
pounds, but that is unusual, and our
American farmer would be- glad of
an n-the-year-round producer of a
little over 200 pounds. You can do
some more figuring with the price of
butter at 80 cents a pound. This
would mean many millions of dollars
earned by the American COW each
year. yet the complaint is that there
is hardly any profit in the keeping of
cows for butter production, and that
a breaking even is considered lucky
with 8 third of the butter-producing
cows. The thing to do. of course, is
to weed out the improbable COW and
to keep only the butter producers
which try to excel the record. Science
has taken a hand in 1t. and each year
promises to increase the number of
cows that can pay profit and make
glad the heart of the dairyman."-
Washington Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01


told her humbiy, "and know that at
the end should have my reward, I
should not rebel"
Perhaps 1 shall make you serve
longer than that" she told him, but
there was a note of yielding in her
voice, which gave him hope.
8. When the spring came again and
the white lilacs bloomed. she said to
him one day: IF we wait there will be
no white lilacs for my wedding
Radiance Illuminated his face. do
you mean, he gasped. that you will ?''
ut would be pity" she said and
smiled up at him, ITO let such beauty
waste"
your beauty" he questioned.
Again she smiled and said, THE
beauty of the lilacs."
And all their world was white with
TIN fragrant flowers on the day she
came to him, after she had taught him
that a wonan's love Is not to be won
lightly nor to be cast aside for the
things that do not count.-(Copyright
1911, by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
WHITE SANS.

White sails unfuried
Beyond the straight, dark sea
Lies world on world of dreaming
Quietude,
Wherein no angry murmur of unrest
Disturbs the gentle swirls. Alone flee
The brazen combat OF q crowded day.
And let my being sink into repose
so deep, SO infinitely calm and sweet
That all the fragrant thoughts Of discon-
tent
Fade from my mind. like pictures from
a screen.
White sails unfurled "a.
When silently I slip
The moorings of the busy port of earth
l want it thus-the vaguely shining dark,
Soft as an orchid. warm with waiting
songs,
Where through the purple curtain of the
sky
Shall gleam the radiance of a lonely star.
Like some fair Jewel from out Gods
casket spilled.
White sails unfurled
So be 1t when my barque
Sails bravely out across the misty dusk.
No bitter murmurings OF grfef's unrest
To rend the gentle swirls; just peace
And ghostly silence like to this,
When through the swaying whisper OF
the waves
Gods voice drifts down to me.
Helen Hamilton Dudley, in Smart Set.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

from the New York Press.J
1t seems possible to be able to learn to
like anybody. under urgent necessity, ex-
cept your relatives.
A woman can tell a man is an old cross
patch by his not saying anything about
her beautiful new hat.
The best way to make it rain is to get
far off from any shelter in brand -new
straw hat without an umbrella.
Nothing looks 50 reasonable to a man
as his excuse for something before he
makes It and nothing SO foolish after he
does.
A man can't fool himself about his bald
spot the way a woman can herself about
how her hair wouldn't be gray even IL she
didn't put the stun on it she does to keep
it from showing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-01
Hippo Ate Ton OF sand.

Pete, hippopotamus in the Bronx
zoo, ate about a ton of sand as an ap-
petizer the other afternoon on his first
spring outing. He shufied from his
winter house into the yard, saw the
sand pile. and decided his stomach
needed filling. After the meal Pete
waded into deep water. But Pete had
too much sand in his ballast to keep
afioat. He sank and stayed under
water, struggling hard to come to the
surface. Keepers Richard and Thur
man called the other keepers to their
aid. With a block and tackle Pete
was got to dry land in an hour. Just
what effect the ton of sand will have
on Pete's health is a question.-New
York World