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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
BOWSER'S VACATION.
1t Was Brief. But Fun While It
Lasted.

Mr.. Bowser had one of his good
streaks on. He came home TO pet the
cat, who ran down to the gate to meet
him, and to give Mrs. POwser a smile
as he assembled the steps. He made no
kick at all during dinner. but on the
contrary had several W erds of praise.
When the meal had been finished and
they had assembled to the sitting room
he said:
Mrs. Bowser, you met the doctor
on the street the other day, didn't
you?'
yes"
He told me so today. He said you
were looking tagged out. I think you
are myself. The hot weather is pull
ing you down.
"Oh. don't know" she replied. 'I
haven't felt so very we'll for the last
week, but there'n come a cool day and
shall brace up. You are looking a
bit tagged yourself
81 feel so. We both of us need a
vacation We ought to have two weeks
or month off"
yes"
and we are going to have. We can
get away as we'll as not From two to
four weeks in the country or on the
seashore would make us feel like new
beings
But you've looked every summer
for the last five years and haven't
found a place"
And I'll tell you why. I've expect
ed too much. I've been thinking it
over and L know that's the reason.
don't think we ought to pay over
81 or SO a week for good farmhouse
board, but I've wanted fishing, sailing,
bathing and grand scenery thrown in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

Justice r. A. Burch of the state SUI
preme court is one of the most en-
thusiasttc fishermen in Kansas. At
the annual dinner of the Saturday
Night club Justice Burch gave utter
ance TO his exuberant thoughts on this
subject in the following classic:
For many years 1 have INDUCED
with much enthusiasm, Lut with due
moderation, in the Incompatible sport
of capturing game fish in their native
haunts, and I am proud to be known
and recognized as q member OF the
ancient and honorable society Of ang-
lers. The members of our society are
not fishermen. Angling differs from
fishing in that it is practiced, not as a
means of obtaining a livelihood, but
as a source Of wholesome recreation
and refined pleasure. Tt implies. in
addition to a large funC of scientific
knowledge and personal experience, a
certain degree of aesthetic culture,
coupled with moral and religious sus-
ceptibility. 1t is, therefore, pre-
eminently the scholarly gentleman
pastime Indeed, angling takes high
rank among the fine arts.
The fisherman is likely to be self
conceited and is usually braggart-
One of the most prominent character
istics Of the angler is his modesty and
his reserve. While he treasures with
the utmost delight and Uride his rods
paraphernalia of the sport, he never
makes a show of them or boasts about
them. His experiences have been so
rich and so varied that his unembel-
ished narratives are more engaging
than the fsherman's most elaborate
exaggeratiOns. He is reluctant to con-
flde stories of his prowess to any one
except to a brother angler, and the
spirit of contentious rivalry is so COM
pletely subdued in the angler that.
coming to camp with two or three
good fish after hard day, he will not
violate the prophecies by tantalizing
those who have none. Self poised and
considerate, he trusts his pre-eminent
merits to penetrate by force of their
own energy and brillianoy.
The angler is always a scrupulous
respecter of the rights of others. If
he discover that some one else is fish
ing his favorite pool without hesita-
tion and without resentment he seeks
another place. If his brother be fish,
ing up stream he proceeds to work
down stream. Not so, however. with
the fisherman. If a pleasant spot in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

bated breath you feel the wallow of a
great fish as he strikes and rushes
away, the rod curving like hoop, the
reel screaming and the line cutting the
water with hiss. And there is an in
effable charm in fishing with 1.-THE
rod in dark pools fringed with blue
gentian and white birches, or beneath
the shadows of tall pine trees falling
far out upon the placid waters of
northern lake; in the noiseless gliding
of the light canoe through opalescent
water. while trolling for pickerel or
for muskalonge; in the graceful sweep
in upper air of the artificial fly before
it vaults across a frothing cistern CHS
eled out of solid rock by a torrent
tumbling down the mountain side, and
alights, softly as thistle down, where
low submerged the princely trout is
lying; in the wistful waiting for bite
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
JUSTICE r. A. BURCH.

the shade on the bank OF a stream af-
fording a good run or fish be pre-
empted when he arrives, he plants
himself at his rivals elbow, casts
where he casts, fouls the lines and
finally drives the dignifed and self
effacing angler away in disgust.
The fisherman, like the pot hunter,
is out for meat and everything goes
with him. Nets, SENS. traps, trOt
lines hand lines and even dynamite
are the implements of his trade. No
angler ever sets out with the specific
purpose of making a great killing. He
likes to bring home a good string, but,
after all the magnitude of the catch
is a minor consideration. He resents
fish slaughter as he does uanslaug hter-
1t takes no law to prohibit him from
spearing fish This is something no
than will satisfy the true sportsman s
instinct, returns the younS and under
sized, unframed, to the water, and
scorns to use tackle of weight or
strength that does not recognize the
Ash as a worthy antagonist and give
him a fair show for his life.
There is an unreasoning prejudice
in some quarters against bait fishing.
Bait fishing is not merely permissible
and respectable but it is in accord
with the best traditions oe angling,
when pursued in a proper way. There
accurate and deliberate cast of a liv-
ing bait than there are who can sue
cessfully handle an artificial fly, and
besides, when the mood is on the fish
the use of live bait Is an Indispensable
condition to his capture. Many times
I have dropped an artificial fly in front
of a veteran trout or bass lying in a
pool in the shadow of a shelving rock
and have seen him inspect it and back
away from it like an Independent voter
from q party platform If I had
tempted him with a genuine live bait
he would have taken it and all my skill
would have been put to test in the en-
suing battle.
No one can appreciate fully the
transports with which bountiful
Providence has blessed the lot of His
creatures, until tossing about on the
league long rollers which break upon
the painted cliffs of Santa Catalina, he
has taken the leviathan sea-bass with
a hook, or with logged perseverance
and with muscles of iron and nerve of
steel he has met the tircless rushes of
the leaping tuna. There is an ecstacy
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
-.

Manchester place because it was on
the market and was a dead bargain
Well. we tried it, and ow don't go
anywhere else. We've got eleven acres
there, and I'm going to build another
house on the property this summer"
There viii be new book for young
people by Mr.. Barbour this fall,
Team Mates
In the introduction to his new
book, Members of the Family, owen
Wister converses charmingly and in
timately about his own affairs. particu-
larly his writing. 1t is a pleasure to
read his graceful tribute to those of
his fellows from whom he has derived
inspiration. Mr.. Wister has no false
pride about his writings He is willing,
indeed anxious, to let hts many read
ers know what authors have helped
him. OF the beginning OF his literary
career he says: Writing has been a
constant pastime since the school pa
per; in 1884 Mr.. HoweIls Chow kind
he was!) had felt my literary pulse
and pronounced 1t promising; a quick
ening came from the pages of Steven
son; a far stronger shove next from
the genius of Plain Tales from the
Hills. during an unusually long and
broad wandering through the Platte
valley, Powder River, Buffalo, Chey-
enne, Fort Washable, Jackson's Hole,
and the Park. the final push happened
to be given by Prosper Merimee; 1 had
the volume containing Carmen with
me. After reading it in the Park
straightway invented a travellers tale.
This was written down after I got
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

In other words. I've been cranky
But can you find place this
year ?"
It have already found one. Fifteen
miles out a farmer has a furnished
bungalow to rent It's within a few
steps of his house. We lake the bum
galow and board in the house, and
thus we have no cares. We simply
swing in our hammocks all day long. -
But about the scenery?" asked
Mrs. Bowser.
THE farmer says it's nothing extra
and as he is honest in this respect I
believe he is in others. There win be
green meadows a brook, hill. a bit
of forest and so on. l shall not look
for seen cry, however. The sight of a
mountain 5000 feet high is not going
to put fat on our ribs
as the place on a railroad ,"
TITS 10 minutes walk from the de-
pot
and when are you going to see
about it?
Tomorrow. / shall go out there on
the o'clock train, and within two
days We shall be established in that
bungalow. I have somehow got the
feeling that we have struck it at last.
The matter was talked over for an
other hour. Mrs. Bowse, was doubt
full, but didn't want to say anything
discouraging, while the more Mr..
Bowser canvassed the meter the more
enthusiastic he became. He woke up
at midnight to say:
I'VE viii take off orr shoes and
stockings and wade in the babbling
brook"
stYas daar,,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
About New Books and Authors


Thome=I left some good company at a
club dinner table one night to go off
to a lonely library and begin it A
second followed, both We're sent to
Franklin Square and accepted by Mr.
Alden. Then 1 found my pretty faith
fully-kept Western diaries (they would
now fill a shelf to be 4 reservoir of
suggestion=and at times a source of
despair; as, for instance, when I IN
earthed the following abbreviations
Be sure to remember Green-hides-
perpendicular = sediment Tuesdays
as rule.
aware of Merimee's rot highly ex-
pansive nature, should hesitate, were
he alive, to disclose my debt to his
Carmen-my favorite OF all short
Eleanor Hallowen Abbott, creator
of molly Make-Beheve," is a passion
ate lover of out-of-doors. She and her
busy physician husband. DIR. Fordyce
Coburn, of Lowell, Miss, spend all
their leisure in the open-salmon fish
ing Maine waters, tennis playing at
the Lowell Country Club, coon and
wild turkey hunting in Florida. There
Will be a new book by this favorite
author this fall. and it will be called
THE Sick-a-Bed Lady"
The July number of Kansas Maya
zine is a good one Every line of it
is written by Kansas authors. It con-
tains a travel article of the South Ire
land by F. Dumont Smith, an interest
ing sketch of legislative freaks by z. G.
Hopkins, illustrated by Harvey Par
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

Of The Lady of the Decoration these
letters tell the story of koW father
in New York City sends his rheumatic
son for a six-months' stay on the
ranch of an old Yale College chum
living in the Solomon Valley. The son,
preferring a trip to Europe. is indig-
nant and goes West expecting to find
it still wild and woolly.' How he is
disappointed in his expectations and
falls in love with the farmers daugh-
ter and how they give up their car
eers'-the boy. & business life on Wall
street, and the girl, a musical educa-
ton in Europe-for the simple life
Of a Western Kansas farm, is all told
in a pleasing manner and the whole
story is full Of tender sentiment. This
book has been gotten up especially for
the Holiday trade"
Two books announced for early
publication from The Century Co. s
Educational Department are Professor
William Magie's "Principles of Ply
sizes" for classes in elementary college
physics: and Professor Lauder Will
liam Jones' "A Laboratory Outline of
Organic Chemistry"
Ralph Henry Barbour, one of Amer
ica's most popular writers for boys
and girls. spends his summer now at
Manchester, in a house set among the
trees with a fine view OF the sea.
1--WE spent the summer for a good
many years at East Gloucester in a
bungalow we have there" said Mr..
Barbour recently, land swOre we
never would leave it. picked up the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

These things weave magic spells
about the angler until all the selfish
ness, the envy. the rancCr and the riot
Gus pride with which he must cope in
the crowded town are forgotten as
completely as if they had never been
endured and he feels that his own be-
ing has been caught up by the forces
of nature and mingled with the woods
and waters like the shining mist which
lies like a silver veil beneath the pa
tient and eternal stars.
I have heard golf praised as If it
We're a sport worthy of mention in
competition with angling. I do not
desire to enter into any controversy
with the devotees of golf, but will
say this: The angler holds communion
with the most enhancing of natures
visible forms. To him she speaks her
most various language arc an outing
spent in angling is completely filled
with trembling expectation of APP
preaching qualification, with the in
toxication of consumma, ed JOY, and
with the sweet relaxation after full
enjoyment in which the spirit gains
fresh strength for renewed delight.
Therefore, go angling-where the
vain jangle of contentious tongues
cannot reach me; where there is per-
feet release from mind corroding care;
and where I can be alone with nature,
with my own soul, and with destiny.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

Francis Arnold Collins, author Of
1.-THE Boys Book of Model Aero
planes" spends most of his leisure
time in attending model aeropiane
meets and in working over aeroplane
models, always in company with his
eleven-year-old boy. In the fall they
viii sail for England to see the latest
developments in model aeroplane
building and flying in that country
and on the continent. There is to be
a new Boys Book Of Model Aero
planes" in the fall.
Young people who remember 1.-The
Wizard of or and the other o. books,
and they all do, will welcome with
delight new book by Frank L. Baum
just published by the Reilly Britton
company of Chicago. It IT, called THE
Daring Twins" The story is no fairy
tale. but the real life Of real boys and
girls. They all have host OF fun in
termingled with the trials, which are
made Insignificant by their perpetual
cheerfulness. 1t contains many thrill
ing adventures, for Mr.. Baum knows
his readers we'll and they know him
for they have grown up right with him
and are now old enough to realize the
beginning of the drama of life as it
starts in childhood
The publishers. A. c. McClurg &
Co, send out the following announce
ment of Margret Hill McCarter's
Forthcoming book 1.-THE Peace of Sol
ONION Valley: In the breezy manner
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

sons. a historical article on early
Wichita, a striking tale of adventure
in South Pacific by Jas. Fraser, story
of early days in Kansas, by Tom Nc
Neal a woman's club story by Jose
phine Weatherly, a new number of the
tales of a Pullman Ark by Margaret
Hill McCarter, an exciting tale of the
stock exchange by Chester Porter Bis
sell, a college story, 1.-The Point Win
ner," by Mr.. M, a new writer. in ad-
dition to the editorial book review,
Messrs. A. c. mcclure & Company
announce for publication in the fall
a book to be called 1.-THE Coming
China" written by Joseph King Good
rich, who went to China for the first
time in 1856, when a lad. Mr.. Good
rich has Travelled extensively in South
ern China, studied the language at
Swaton. and read a great deal of his
tory, folklore, etc, with native teach-
ers. He again visited Japan in 1868,
and later in the SOS, made his per-
manent home in the Far Fast, remain
ing there for more than twenty-five
years. His book will discuss the for
mer attitude of Chinese statesmen
and ruling classes: the causes operat-
ing to change that attitude; the as
pirations of the new China; the
reasons for the present feeling IN
China towards America and in Ameri-
ca toward China; and other topics of
interest to the general reader. The
volume will be fully illustrated and
issued in handbook form uniform with
Clements Handbook of Modern
Japan which has had a wide success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland
into the District of Columbia and
right up to the White House steps
The big, gray elephant and the dapper
yellow donkey carry big oilcloth side
panels on which. in red letters, will
appear this stirring device: 1912 or
Bust"
The race is the result Of a bet made
three months ago by Uncle joe
Cannon and Frederick Thompson of
Luna park. following a discussion as
to the trustworthiness, speed and gen
eral character of the elephant and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

At 1 O'Clock he said:
I'VE will lay down and roll over in
the green meadows"
Eyes, dear
At 2 o'clock he said:
I'VE will milk the COWS and chase
the frolicking lambs"
Yes, dear"
At 3 O'Clock he sat up in bed and
said:
And the bobolinks and mocking
birds VIII sing us to sleep every night .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

New York City. July l5.-The ele-
plant and the donkey just as you
know them in the daily political car
toons-are not going to wait till 1912
for the big race to Washington. They
are to race through lair weather
and foul. storm and stress, even roads
and rough, all the way from Coney
Island to the White House at Wash
ington. d. c. The race is t. be go as
you please trot, run, walk, balk or
gallop. The course is 275 miles long.
II crosses New York. New Jersey,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

the donkey. Fred Thcm pson stood
out stoutly in favor of the donkey.
And Uncle Joe"-well, what could
Uncle Joe" very We'll c but enter
the cause of the elephant with heart
and hand? So it wound up by
Thompson offering to be- Uncle Joe''
the finest latest, blacklist. most fra
grant cigar obtainable on the result
of an actual race between an elephant
and a donkey.
This photograph was made at the
start of the big race from Luna park
to the White House.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
For Your
Summer Outing
Visit RoseInont, Colo.

the heart Cripple
Railway.
ttude little 1000 valley
mile beyond the summit of the Line Railway
Big Chief.
and tents for by
the week
people furnished sanitary
house with
furnished complete
EUHRO RIDES. are
good accommodations be had reasonable
be in
climbing
the summit Of Mt after
this easily
Canon the lake at Broadmoor
tain Pueblo the Arkansas River winding
TROUT FISHING FINE The Little
season. The along this stream
who wish
at moor
The
IN to
them enjoy
uonaiity a al
TRAINS LEAVE COLORADO SPRINGS SANTA FE DEPOT AS
-
1914 a. M
p m. Sprn sos
circulars to I
s. Colorado E. ntenden
Rosemont Teller Co. Colorado it will cheerfully
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

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Q Q
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

Unto lisping soft and winning
Like far distant mandol.ring
Drifting down the ripping reaches of
the lake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

until the mellow glow of evening melts
into purple night, the vespers of the
song birds cease and the rising breezes
break
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

Everybody reads the STATE 5sNsa'all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
TheDeIights of Angling

Being a Dissertation on Fishing by One
of Kansas Most Enthusiastic Anglers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-27
SHOW HEN NIPS DIAMOND.
Careless Fancier Refuses to Kill
Chicken. Saying He Has More Gems.

Allentown, Pa.-Whle petting a
pretty white Leghorn hen during the
closing hours of the poultry show, a.
B. Fowler said to be a rich poultry
fancier from central New York state,
lost a diamond stud.
In the display of the Blink Bonnie
farm was an attractive little white
chicken that everybody made a pet of
During the week she had been taken
out of her cage many times and al
lowed to sit on the shoulders of wo-
men, when she would peck at their
earrings or the buttons on their coats.
Fowler put the hen on his shoulder,
when she began to peck at his dia-
mond. The stone was not very well
fastened and the little hen swallowed
it.
A bystander suggested killing the
chicken, but Fowler vetoed the sug-
gestion, saying it was his own fault,
and that he had lot more diamonds
anyway.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-27
At the Grand.

"The New Judge" is breaking all
house records as a laugh producer
and large houses
The Good Ship, Nancy Lee"
Thursdays change, the management
has something up its sleeve as a sur
prise for the patrons of the Grand.
This is one of the Roger Bros feature
comedies and had a long New York
and Chicago run. The scene is on
board the ship Nancy Lee, bound for
the North Pole. This is a scenic pro-
duction and all special scenery has
been arranged for same. The dates
for the military drama given for the
Malaban camp OF veterans of the
Spanish American war will be Janu-
ary Is, 16 and 18th, instead of dates
given in Tuesday nights issue. Friday
n ght is amateur night at the Grand,
Don't miss 1t.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-27
MAYORS WIFE SELLS
GOODIES AT CUT RATE

Indianapolis, Ind.-Mrs. Lewis
Shank actively reinforced her husband
the mayor of indianapolis, in has cam
paign against the high cost of Christ
mas feasting
She stood in the public market SELL
ing dressed turkeys and chickens,
walnuts and mince meat, purchased by
the mayor directly from the producers
and offered to the consumers at pri-
ces under those asked by the regular
dealers.
Mrs. Shank's smile of acknowledge
ment of feliciations stimulated busi-
ness at the mayors stand and the
stock moved rapidly.
Outside the market building the
mayor in person superintended the
sale of live turkeys and chickens. He
offered in all a thousand fowls, ton
OF walnuts and several hundred gal
| Ions of mince meat at cut prices
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1911-12-27
At THE PICTURE SHOWS
Orpllcunl.


Special Kalem feature in three
reels for Tuesdays change.
"Arrah- No Pogue," (Kalem). An
Irish drama in three reels. Every
scene made in the Beautiful Emerald
Isle. A veritable transcript from hu.
man life, related in AZ absorbing
scenes, embellished with primitive
scenic splendors and Interpreted by a
galaxy of artists of surprising merit
"Mr. Peck Goes Calling" (Bio-
graph.) 1t is Mrs. Peck's birthday
and Peck has bought her a ring. They
make a neighborly call and poor
Peck Is placed in a very embarrassing
position. He falls to sleep and is Ia
ter taken for burglar. He escapes,
but leaves his coat behind, which is
found later by Mrs. Peck. 1t takes
lot of explaining.
The Beautiful Voice." (Biogra PHI.
An eccentric Frenchman passing al
ong the avenue, hears the sound of a
beautiful voice and falls in love with
the unseen singer. When he presents
himself he finds it is phonograph.