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The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

on a Sunday in May suddenly, he
was afraid What if she would not
listen to him What if, after all, she
did not care as he did? His whole
ness.
| She heard him and turned and met
that look. giving a startled, almost
p1tiful little cry. He had intended to
speak of something else first, but now
1t seemed to him that even an instant
was longer than he could wait to know
his fate with this dear woman, who
mad so long been near him and still
so far from him. He came to stand
beside her.
Annie" he said. haltingly, "I have
come to say that love you. I have
always loved you, but I didn't know it
consciously until last night. You know
have always been little stupid and
SLOW, and was bending under my fam
lily burden, and had no life of my own
that I could have asked you to share,
even had I thought of it. But I have
always loved you-how could I help
it ?"
Still she loked straight at him, her
eyes very sweet and her cheeks pale.
He went on:
Annie, you don't know how I want
you-need you! If you could marry
me-love me-"
Something unresisting in her atti-
tude made him take both her hands,
draw her to him, hold her closer and
yet closer. 'Will you, Annie?"
She took a quick, deep breath and
nodded her head against his shoulder,
and he stopped and kissed her soft
cheek.
Then, with a quick gesture, she
broke away from him and searched
his face-the good, kind face, with it's
few weary lines, and its dark eyes full
of hope and love. Her own eyes filed
with tears.
What is it?" he asked, quickly,
coming to put his arm around her.
you stupid, blind, slow, darling!"
she murmured. Cant you see that
though 1 love you now that you are
free and happy. that it almost killed
me to have you bearing that burden
alone so long? Didn't you see that
have wanted all the time to help
you? But I'll forgive you, now that
you have at last asked mei''-(Copy-
right, 1911, by Associated Literary
PreSS1
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
QUAKER MEDITATToNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
1t is also long lane that has no
shortcomings. iA'
Every stage has its wings. but II
takes an angel to make them futfer.
No woman is so well married that -
doesn't seem possible to unmarrv her
Any waiter will tell you that a tin
in the hand is worth two on the races.
The fellow who marries a cooLing
school girl should love her with his
whole heart and his liver as well.
A man can generally accomplish a
lot while waiting for his wife. who is
going to be ready in just a minute.
Blobbs-'My friend the book aeent
is a man with a history SIobbsSae
thought it was an encyclopedias he
was selling" Ae
The man whose nose is contin,,,,,.
down to the grindstone should ranne,,,Sy
ber that there is many another 80,
who hasn't even a grindstone.
'tBoo-hooi Boo-hoo!" walled tha a..
tie girl, viewing the remains of tba
broken pitcher. There! Therei,, e.se a.r
claimed the kind-hearted old eantIa-
man. Its no use to cry over sniiIe5
milk" Milk, nuthif','' replied fba ist
tie girl. IF it was only milk wo,.Idnst
care It was fathers beer. Boo-hooi9s
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
Feeding stations for Birds.

The season of sleet storms is upon
us, and during such periods our feath-
cred friends suffer terribly unless some
provision is made to tide them over
the days when it is almost impossible
for them to secure food.
There are various ways in which
feeding stations may be established.
These serve to attract the birds, SO that
they will come back to pleasant wealth
er, as we'll as in times of storm
The Sixth ward school of Eau Claire,
Wis, has a committee for the purpose
of establishing and maintaining feed
ing stations for the birds.
It is the duty of this committee to
locate the feeding stations; to keep the
stations supplied with food; and to re-
port results.
Shelves are fastened outside window
lodges in sheltered places; boxes are
nailed onto convenient branches of
trees. and various kinds of food placed
in them. This is done not only on the
schools grounds, but the pupils are
encouraged to establish feeding stations
at their own homes, and in the parks
and driveways.
The food consist of nuts of various
kinds-cracked hickory nuts being the
favorite delicacy Of the downy wood
pecker and the nuthatches-oatmeal,
and pieces of suet nailed to a shelf or
tree, so that the birds can get them
conveniently.
The committees report the birds that
have been attracted to these stations
as the chickadee, wtite-breasted nut
hatch redpoll, downy, hairy, and red
headed woodpeckers, junco and evening
grosbeak.
These committees are not only doing
a great work for the birds, and TINS
adding to the beauty and joyousness of
the world, but they are finding the
work of great pleasure, and are laying
ND a fund of observation as to bird
lore" that cannot fail to be of great
benefit to the community as well as to
Observation-Disclosures Miller. in our
Dumb Animals.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
FROM OTHER PENS
DEAD FROM A SENSE OF DUTY.

OEAD F1IOh - OG11N DE- OH DO L l.
The brave baggageman on the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey who lost
his life in an attempt to save the lives
of others did only what policemen and
firemen are constantly doing. But
trainmen are not employed with view
to their fitness for such rescue work. It
is not in their line of duty and the fact
gives an added .hereism to a deed of
self sacrifice which is to the credit of
the service.
There is more of this quality of cour-
ageous devotion to duty beyond the let
ter of their instructions among railroad
employees than is commonly recognized.
An example of it was furnished by the
station agent at Croton Lake, on the
New York Central, who gave his life to
protect the company's property from
robbers. The pension granted to his
widow teStifieS to the roads apprecia-
ton of conspicuous fidelity in the en-
ployee. It is present in every engineer
who sticks to his post when his loco
motive leaves the rails, and in firemen,
telegraph operators and brakemen. 1t
was possessed by the Buffalo flagman
who was killed while trying to drag a
woman from the tracks.
If the sense of responsibility among
the rank and Tile of the service were al
ways matched by an equal efficiency in
executive offices there would be fewer
occasions for its exercise at the cost
of life. It ought not to be necessary for
baggagemen to leap from their cars to
give warning of danger or possible for
passengers to be killed on the tracks
before station.-New York World. ~
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
JOURNAL ENTRIES

The flies never seem to have any
trouble in coming back.
Even the very best of friends are
rather frail things to lean on.
Soma people have the faculty of
saying mean things in a nice way.
y.
Poor consolation: Somebody is like
ly to gain by the mistakes you make.
Another female knack is to put
things safely away where they can't
be found.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
Wolves Brighten Farmers.

Farne era IN THIS section are carrying 8
shotguns when they go out after dark,
within doors because of wolf scare
which has taken hold of the country
side from TapDan to as far west in
Rockland county as the Hartman es-
tate in the Ramapos. There have been
no wild wolves in Rockland county as
far as the Oldest farmers recollect; but
dogs have been killed and partially de-
voured in way that looks like a
VOLTS work. and several farmers with
in the past few days have been stalk ed
on lonely roads at night by what they
say is either a strangely furtive dog
or a real wolf.
Farmer Blauvelt, who lives on the
back road above Orangeburg, drove his
horse at a gallop into Tappan and said
that he had been chased by a wolf,
which had only given up following him
when he got into the lighted section of
and evidently badly frightened. He
borrowed a shotgun from a roadhouse
keeper for protection on the road
home. The story of Blauvelt's esca pc
was spread over the countryside at
church, and the neighbors at Mount
Ivy thought that Blauvelt's wolf might
account for the fate of half a score
of dogs which have been butchered by
marauding animals since Christmas.
There are no cattle at large in the
L0lQS al LIllS S6dSOu anu f6OChtdINt
county farmers have given up sheep,
so that a real VOLTS prey would be
limited to small game.
Hunters since the early fall have re-
ported finding blood patches in the
snow, marking all that was left of
rabbits. Tracks like dogs around
these spots led to the belief that a
homeless canine was the butcher,
though it is well known in these parts
that a dog does not eat his prey hair
and hide. The first of the dog killings
reported occurred the dav after Christ
mas, when Jerome Strickland, on the
back road from the Mount Ivy stone
crusher, found his bull terrier partly
devoured at the end of his chain by the
barn.
The wolf scare has been acute since
guest of Herbert Crowley, a New
York artist. in this neighborhood heard
a wolf howl on HaverstraW Mountain.
This man has hunted in the northwest,
where timber wolves are plentiful.
The dogs had been barking for hours,
and about midnight he went out to as
certain the cause. He reported that he
wolves lonesome cry
On Monday George Nash's big
mongrel mastin came limping home
with a lacerated shoulder and long
gashes on his f1anks. The fresh snow
on the mountain showed the tracks
of half a dozen dogs in chase. Their
quarry. whose tracks could not be dis
tinguished from those of an ordinary
large dog, was evidently clever in the
ways of the woods. There were many
places on the trail where he had
leaped up and aside to abutting rocks
and flew through the thickest of the
brush. The scattered tracks of the
pursuing dogs showed plainly that they
were either baffled or unable to make
the same leaps-Mount Ivy On. Y.)
disptach to New York Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
KANSAS COAMENT
THE OLD QUESTION.

1t is the same old question. People
are never satisfied. Everybody wants
lower prices, and the question is how
tnat can ever be unless somebody is
gong TO make less profit, or the WORK
ing man is to take lower wages? A
recent report shows that the British
wage-Worker receives 81 a day. The
average American wage-worker $3.50 a
cheap and still pay the wage-worker
$50 day is still unanswered, although
some OF the statesmen think 1t is easy
enough. How are the prices of beer,
PORK, butter eggs and flour to be re-
duced unless the man who produces
these things makes a smaller profit. or
no profit at all? Already the effect of
The uproar against high prices has
made decline of 20 to 40 per cent on
rood products. The fight has now be-
goods. And this is right, too. Let
everyone who is making a howl on the
high prices take his medicine, because
in this country if one industry is hit
all must suffer in their turn. The
Workmen who organized a boycott on
meat Will have their turn when the
manufacturer finds his business slow
ing down. This is now taking place,
owing to the general showdown in trade.
The wages of the working man must
come down. but he has one consola-
tfon. He can buy cheaper meat and
eggs and butter. He did not think OF
this when he was so gay with his boy
colt few months ago.
The elections last fall in the eastern
states could express but one meaning.
That was the people wanted lower
prices. Not lower prices on what they
had to sell, of course, but lower prices
for what they must buy of the other
fellow. They are now getting the low
er prices, but the prices of their own
products are threatened to come down
with it. That is the cause of the lat
est kick now.
The cattle and hog raiser can now
sit back and smile at the antics of the
manufacturer and his men who thought
they were so very smart when they
kick up big rumpus over the cost of
meat few months ago.-Smith County
Pioneer.
SEND THE TROOPS TO KANSAS.
The fact that it has been raining
considerable at San Antonio, Texas,
since the army has been mobilized
there has caused some to ask, Does
rain follow the army?" and in support
of the claim some of the old soldiers
have become reminiscent and have told
how that it rained during the sixties
following each battle or mobilization.
If mobilizing the army will produce rain
the farmers of western Kansas would
be tickled to death to have the army
ordered into headquarters somewhere
in this part of the state. How would
1t be to keep the army en- route as
rain is needed?--Trego County Repor-
ter.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
MICROBES AND CATS.

Chicago man is organizing to kill
off the cats. He is doctor, and he
gives as a reason for his murderous
intent that the cats whiskers are the
roosting places of numerous unsigbtly
and terrifying microbes, ready to
pounce upon their victim at the first
chance. In order to expedite the
massacre of the felines the doctor has
invented a sort of gibbet trap, which
is said to terminate the cat in the most
painless manner. The doctor is now
being assailed on every side, especially
by the women, who have taken the
cat tribe to heart.
We do not expect this mans microbe
scare will result in the death of a
single cat People are getting tired of
microbe scares. There are too many
of them. If they run from all the
microbes that are discovered they will
keep on the run. A person should
know how to 1ive-how to keep clean.
pure, temperate, brave, hopeful. and
then snap his fingers at the microbes,
especially those on the cats whiskers.
Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Governor Stubbs and F. d. Coburn,
secretary of the Kansas department of
agriculture, are heartily in sympathy
with the suggestions of Mr.. Fairchild,
the state superintendent OF public in
struction, that more attention be paid
in high schools to vocational education.
This is a necessary reform in the edu-
cationaI world that is certain to come
Its day should be hastened along.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
THE SECRET OF THE RoAD

IHE SECRET OF THE ROAD.
which way does the road go?
Up and down
From the valley to the hilps crown.
AInWart the woods that lie behind
Lake a silver ribbon blown by the wind
And through the green
where geese are seen,
anu past the gray mill with its peeping
paneS,
AND the long honeysuckled lanes;
ana down, and on, and up the spinney's
rise
iii it creeps into the skies.
If I should start, and walk the uyelong
day,
w Watching wonderingly all the way,
iii all familiar things had travelled by
And the stars had falPn into the sky
should not find that which the wind
finds at his will:
Inc secreta of the road-it stretches far
ther, farther still
Agnes Grozier Herbertson, in Pail Mall
Magazine.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Another expert in the premises has
Just recited some startling facts con-
cerning the fondness of many society
women for liquor Were such experts
disposed to be fair, they would also
state that there is also a fondness for
HouoE among countless women who
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
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Our village item for today: QUIZ
popular contractor, Joe Dolley, nSs
torn down the grandstand he erected
in Mitchell county last week.
Mr.. Merriam has been appointed
professor of Political Science in the
Chicago University. Mr.. Merriam, as
you may remember, is an expert on
politics from the viewpoint of the
also-ran.
All the pictures of Lee O'Neil
Browne show him wearing a broad
grin. Certain Illinois political purists
are now conducting experiments to
find out whether or not it is that
smile that won't come off,
AS rule, the woman who tells her
husband what she wants, instead of
asking him for it, gets better results
and more of them.
THE PESSIMISTS PERSPECTIVE
How often it occurs to U.S.
This thought, compatible, though
trite;
Were dandelions worth a cuss
They would not spring up in a night
Instead, lot of work they'd cost
And then-SUCCUMB TO DROUGHT
OR FROST!
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From tha New York Press

ltrom the New York Press
Most of the people We admire have
the imagination to think we do.
Sonre engagements are broken off;
most go right on to the bitter end.
Getting rich is mighty clever thing
for a fellows father to do for him,
If a woman is unfortunate enough
to have a good business head she has
to support the family.
A great patent would be a latchkey
that could find the keyhole Just as
easily at in the morning as before
dinner.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Gradually are the horrors of life in
all of it's callings being eliminated. In
one of the metropolitan centers plans
have been perfected for building a re-
treat for actresses which will make it
unnecessary for the poorer paid women
of the stage to exc out a rather miser-
able existence in hall bedrooms.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

That you will get anything you go
after if you only go hard enough, is
made apparent by the success of the
young New Yorker who received no
less than six nominations to a cadet
ship at West Point from as many diff
ferent congreesmen
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Most of the young fellows at sa-
pulpa, Okla, will likely do their best
to get into some kind of trouble that
will necessitate their Investigation and
arrest. Three lovely young society
girls have Just been appointed detec-
tives on the police force of that town.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Albert T. Patrick, the New York
lawyer who has been in prison for
many years for the murder of William
Marsh Rice, surely stands a better
chance than ever before of gaining his
freedom. His brother-in-iaw, Mr.. Bill
liken. is now working strenuously in
h inf
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

No sooner do prospects loom up for
a permanent peace in Mexico than
trouble threatens to break out in
Morocco, to which place France is
rushing 10000 troops. No one could
blame the dove of universal peace in
becoming disgusted with her job and
giving it up.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Congressman-Captain Richmond Pear
son Hobson will probably consider this
an instance of retributive justice. DR..
William Osborne Mcdowell, president
of the Journal of American History.
and a prominent worker for interna-
tional peace, was severely injured the
other day by some stray buckshot fired
by boys who were playing Indians
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Census statistics show that women
immigrants to this country bear an
average Of nearly twice as many chill
dren as American women Of native
parentage. But how about the quality? :?
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

1t is suggested by the Washington
Post that the Long Island whale that
escaped with a harpoon stuck in him
has Senator Lorimer's tenderest SYM
pathies.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

make no pretense of being "in So
ciety." This is apparent in any large
center of population where there is a
saloon on every other corner.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Ex-Governor Hoch thinks the in
ltlatlVe and referendum a Harmless
piece of tom-foolery." A lot of stand
pat politicians agree with this senti
ment, after expurgating by removing
the word harmless No stand
patter can stand for ANYTHING
as harmless" when it has a tendency
70 shove Stubbs toward the United
States senate.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Word comes from Washington that
the senate is still unprepared to do
business. That's nothing more, how
ever, than chronic state with this
"most august assemblage.''
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Good news comes along once in a
while. Jim Jeffries is emphatic in his
announcement that he never proposes
to make another effort to come back"
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

What's this? Four men were con-
victed at Wichita the other day for
participating in a bank robbery at
Viola. It's a long road, indeed, that
hasn't a turn.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

: Now that some important arrests
have been made in the case, it appears
that the 100000 reward for the convic-
tion Of wreckers of the Los Angeles
Times building has dwindled down to
about SIS 600
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

1t is easy to believe that portion of
the dispatch from London, about the
race which is on for the discovery of
the South Pole, which states: Facts
are meager and to some extent contra
dictOrHr -
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

The correspondent announcing thar
the Wichita Quaker University girls
nave started to play baseball, says thew
show surprisingly good FORM This
may be a shock to the faculty, as in
dicated in the report, but said TacrIt,,
should remember that too much cIotb1
ing fnterferes with the activity necss-
sary to play the game.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Those three defeats of the Topeka
baseball team at Wichita have long
since been forgotten.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member OF the
Agsociated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
IGnization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news Is received In The State Jour
PAL building over wires for this sole Dur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

The difference between the Probate
court and the jury in the Hanson in
sanity case, seems to be in one letter.
NOT" says the jury NUT,
oplnes the Court, who seems to have
the last guess.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Here's a real paradox. Three hum
dred blind men are to be taken on a
"sight seeing" tour of New York city.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

me massachusetts, man, who de-
voured thirteen Holsters at one s;++iro-
claims to be the champion eater:
many will join us in the contention
that he is the champion cannibaI
H q
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Topeka's most distinguished citizen
for the time being is Merit Whitney.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

Dead men tell no tales, but they are
the subjects of many of the whop-
pers told by surviving acquaintances
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

suppose you are going to say exactly
Yes replied the cautious statesnos.,
out L m going to go slow about making
up my mind as to exactly what think .
Washington Star 'iiiHA' =
The Topeka state journal., 1911-04-26

I'm glad we don't live in Chino >, -..s
nttIe Oswald. TT must be awfIIIy tire
some to have it dark all day and the s11n
snlnlng at night."-Chicago News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-12-05
FORMER CHIEF JUSTICE
viii Sit as Referee in Case Involving
the Briggs Estate.

Former Chief Justice Lucilius ~ En-
cry of Ellsworth will arrive in the city
Tuesday for the pun pose OF sitting in a
reference hearing with Chief Justice
WhitehouSe and Associate Justice Georg
j.. Bird of Portland upon the case Of
Briggs, Petr., VS.. B-sgts, Admr
This is an action brought by Fran 9
Briggs of Pittsfield against Edgar NJ
Briggs of Lewiston iii which between
$1,000 and $4,000 of property is understood
to be involved and which has been In the
courts for some time. The principal ques-
lions in dispute are whether or not the
petitioner is a party interested III the
estate of the late Orlando NJ. Briggs OF
Parkman, the father Of the defendant
and whether or not the estate OF the late
Orlando NJ Briggs is indebted TO the Pc
tition, and if so what sum, upon the
final accounting of the defendant as adj
ministrator will be due and owing to
the petitioner from the estate.
A number of important legal points are
involved in the case, the hearing of
which viii probably consume the entire
day, Tuesday, and may go over into
Wednesday. John w. Manson of Pitts
field and Hudson &c Hudson of Gulford
will appear for the plaintiff, while. for
the defence. Briggs will appear pro Sc
with Judge Enoch Foster of PORTLAND.
The hearing will begin, at 10 \ NJ,
Tuesday.