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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-07-20
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press ...s............. lao
Jurors fees. .. "a. 40
| Mrs. b. q. Anderson, stamps. $3.50
| j. I. Ferguson labor At county
| farm 400
Daniel Kuf BSCne corn n aGr SSunx y f p1t
Ida ao piiI rent to poor lSS
| Tillie Seaman, aid to poor. ...... 500
Mrs. Geo. Swick, aid to poor. ~. 1000
Cora Aspley, aid to poor. ........... 800
Mrs. J. j. Ryan, aid to poor. ....... 1000
Sarah Buckles aid to poor ........ 400
d, Grinmenson, aid to Door ,,,, 1000
| j. Taylor, aid to poor. ............ 1900
y. Elwick, aid to poor..........., 500
John A. Anderson, aid to poor.... 500
Mary German, aid for April. ....... 400
Mary German, aid for May. ....... 400
p. Cloud, aid to poor. ..........,., 1000
George r. Meyer, assessing Noble
John A. Lindahl, assessing Center
township -,....,.:t. 1870. 20l 60
". ". Snyder, assessing ADlienes.s. zoovv
John TRACER, assessing Herington.. 2S40O
VIM. Kandt, assessing Union town
S. IL GugIer, assessing Liberty
township ....:.........:... 1900
y. W. Henderson, assessing Aln- II
coin township .......... -. 49,. 1890
acknowledgements Publishing Com
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9. 7. Pendergrast, truant caicer.. iS.SSSS
F. W. Morse salary. $500. 5000
Guy q Hail. surveyor. :;.......... 1870
The Reflector furnishing company, 1.
H. x, Lott, livery |. !. .......; 7.SS
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-07-20

Flfly-tWo Of the loading railroads
Of the United States operated agri-
cultural instruction trains for the
benefit Of farmers along their routes.
using zso cars ana spending more
than $780, n ne ssrviee, during
he Il months ended 5une 50, 1910.
uooordins to . report Just nada 70
10 ssasllIy o llIIsuIlnre p IoAn
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1911-07-20

w. J. Rowe, State vs.. Stonge. ..... 2.7s
John p. Quinn. State vs. Stonge.. SIS
w. J. Rowe, State w. Wade. 500. $50
J. r. Young, State vs.. Stonge.. 80. 10000
a. a. Crazy, State vs; Wade...... S.Ss
Jess Dairy, State vs.. Wades..,.... 1884
| w. J. Rowe, State We. Dewey. $50
]. r. Young, State VS.. Dewey.,... 1886
John =. Quinn, State vs.. Dewey. 6.S5
A. @. Lower, State vs.. D0voted..,. 1874
]. r. Young, merchandise for In
j. r. Young, State vs.. Londene. ~. 3.55
John p, Quinn, State vs.. Shook. 480
J. Z. Quinn, State VS.. Londene.... 3.70
7; 3 Young, State vs.. Shook. ..... Lis
g. p. Rugh, fees State VS.. Shook
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W. 8. Anderson, Claude Day, in u
p D. Hazlett. Claude Day. insane 500
J. L Short, N. D. Claude Day, In
sane s............-.......'.. 300
j. r. Young, Claud Day, insane. 49,. 46.76
o. A. Dentzer merchandise to poor $50
9. o. Sehtveley merchandise to poor 265
D a. Dentzer merchandise to
county farm ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS z4.65
Mrs. r. s. Kirk. care and expense
nursing poor .,.,...,.,.,....ss,.. 1913
Mrs. A. p. Spahr, rent to poor,.... $50
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poor Observation-Disclosures. - $50
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poor ....,s...s.......s. .b4
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I coal to poor. \, !; .,.,.s..;.... 100
Sellards Mercantile Co.. merchan-
Qlse 70 poor, ....,...,.s.s....,,.s. ADJ
u W Henderson, overseeing poor 1900
r. L. Hammond, merchandise to-
Pat Cusick, merchandise to po0r.. 14.40
poor Observation-Disclosures. 17.2l
B. F. Nelson, merchandise to poor 1905
A. R. Elwick. merchandise to coun-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

LFrom the Chicago News-1
Better stay if you can't pay as you
go.
How proud we are Of the things we
intend to do.
Lawn dresses are said to be in favor
with grass windows.
It isn't what you have been but what
you are that counts.
Unless a man lives to learn he Will
never learn to live.
A mans relations seldom bother him
If he is poorer than they are.
After marriage a man new admits
that he was the one who proposed
If you don't think well of your en-
ployer keep your thoughts to yourself.
If a man dies of starvation his heirs
are not apt to quarrel over his estate.
Even IL a man has good sense It
doesn't cut much of figure in a love
affair.
A woman never considers her photo
graph a good likeness unless It looks as
she would like to look.
we seek a lawyer to protect US from
our neighbors and a doctor to protect
US from ourselves
All things may come TO a man who
waits-provided he doesn't wait in the
path of an automobile.
Once in a great while you meet a
woman who understands men, but she
is too busy manipulating the strings to
say anything about 1t.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

Nesting amid the hills of the Little
Miami valley is a quaint village where
in recent years there has existed a
group of twelve girls known as the
Panhandle Club writes T J. Ed
monds in the Survey
What a strange name for a club,
says a reader. 1t was not so called
from the gentle peripatetic art of pan
handling Panhandle meant what It
said-the '.-andle of a PAN The Pan
handle club was a cooking club. Each
month it met at the home of one of the
twelve and the hostess prepared a re-
past. There were twelve lucky men in
vited to these feasts. And-well, eleven
of them have now married eleven OF
the girls. and the twelfth curses the
day he left the village
The history of the old Panhandle
club illustrates the Importance Of the
housekeeping art before marriage; the
experience of -ocial workers in the
homes of the poor emphasizes its i'm
portance after the home has been
established.
Every social worker has learn ed
that although sometimes the wolf en-
ters the home because the income is too
small, more often he comes because
the outgo is too large; that too many
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
.JAYHAWKER JOTS

Since so much is said about the
dangers of permitting flies to roam
around at WILL" says the Concordia
Kansan, 'it makes us souirm to think
OF the dangers We have passed
through in the early days of this
glorious western country before we
had screens for our windows and
DOORS"
Editor Stromquist of the Linds-
Dorg Record has a few suggestions for
making the baseball lingo even more
versatile, which he conveys as follows.
The reporter of the Mcpherson Daily
republican might make his baseball
dope little more interesting and save
1t from becoming monotonous by Civ
ing the word "bonehead" a rest. ANY
OF the Following would do as a sub
stitute; sad work, bad job, screw
loose. too many cooks, fumbled
STUN bled, fell into a trap, not know
what one is about, the saddle on the
wrong morse, aim at pigeon and kill
crow, wild goose chase, doing
things by halves and so forth.
As related by the Wichita Beacon:
girl had gone to a dinner in New
York with her steady. The young man
noticed a Speck of what appear RED to
be lint on her shoulder. When she
wasn't looking he attempted to knock
it off with his finger. After several
futile attempts he took hold of the
lint and started to pull it off He I'M
raveled several yards of the feecy stuff
and when he seemed to have it all.
threw the wad under the table That
night the girl told her mother that she
had had perfectly lovely time. But"
she added Il have just been lying here
in bed, mother. and wondering what
became of my union suit
Reported by the McLouth Times,
While doing some repair work on the
Commercial club room. the workmen
uncovered a perfect skelet III, which
was perfect so far as every bone was
concerned and all were nicely united.
The bones were clean and white and
1t was turned over to DIR. Gephart rs q
real curiosity, as those who saw it had
never seen so fine a job Of steriizinG
by natural causes. We predicted {.
rafting among the dry bones when the
Commercial club got down to business
and here's an example. It is not known
just how long the skeleton had been
there. We almost forgot to state that
the skeleton was that Of IN English
sparrow and may be seen At DR.. Gep-
hart's Office.
Two prominent women in a certain
Kansas town were being taken to their
homes from the railway station in a
cab one evening, relates the Downs
Times, and without paying any par
ticular attention to the other occu-
pants of the cab, a fine looking young
man, one of them gave a full deScrip-
ton of a family that had just pur-
chased the house next door, saying a
few things that were not entirely
complimentary. In the course of the
conversation, the woman remarked
that there were eight children in the
family. A few moments later, she
was considerably taken back when
the cab stopped in front of the house
of the new neighbors and the young
man stepped out of the cab, pausing
only to lift his hat and say. Good
evening, ladies, I'm one of the eight
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
QUAKER MEDrTATIONs.

Iron the Philadelphia Record
The most elastic thing in the world
is an optimist's hope.
It's suspense that kills people. espe-
cially those who are hanged.
The fellow who knows it all is sell
dom the one who wins the bets
Many a man doesn't climb upward
because he would rather be on the
level.
There are men who could easily lose
their regulations without missing
them.
No matter how antiquated they may
be, indoor games are never played
Some people never go ahead because
they wait too long to make sure they
are right.
Years come with wisdom, but IN
fortunately wisdom doesn't always
come with years.
Drum music does not come by the
pound, although church music can be
bought by the quire.
You can always f1atter a mother bv
saying the baby looks like her. no maj
ter how ugly the kid may be.
Blobbs: THAT girl seems very sus-
ceptibIe to flattery." SIobbs: II shouId
say so. Why, would you believe it
once told her she was as sweet as
honey, and the very next day she had
hives"
Love, they say, is blind" gurgled
the sweet young thing. .As blind as
a bat" areed the confirmed. bachelor
OF course, no one but a confirmed
bachelor could possibly suggest such .
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15

aid Blake. am through with you. Let
me 60"
eff you mean Annabel--''
II don't care anything about Anna
bell said Amy scornfully. "A girl
who
Gerald understood Eyes. she did
come here to see me- he said, but it
was necessary. Now listen, Amy
Il viii not" stormed Amy You
met her in the East" anG her eyes
blazed as she thought of his deceit.
YES he answered.
'She arrived here and came straight
to my home to see you. You did not
tell me you saw her in Boston.
''I could not then" he answered
4but I can tell you all about it now
AnnabeI ran away and got married in
Boston. We met by accident and L
helped her to keep the secret. I prom
ised to keep it and I promised to help
her fix 1t up here at home, which l
have done. 1t was necessary to see
me before she went home on her ar
rival. It's all right now. Her father
sent for the happy bridegroom yester-
day
All Amy's bravado was gone. She
was crying softly on the grass.
DO you" her voice choked in her
throat-''yet?"
do l?'' Gerald smiled. II think I
do he said.-(Copyrigh 1911, by
the Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
GLOBE SIGHTS

IFrom the Atchison Globe.J
Some men make money easier than
they spend it.
AS a general rule hackers don't do
a man much good.
Every old man is sure no young
man should complain.
There are a number of other pests
besides the insect variety.
HE lacks tact is a polite way of
saying "he has no sense"
No chauffeur is the real nifty boy
unless he sits on his neck
When it comes to telling ages old
Father Time is great bias
A hen wastes an immense amount of
energy in cackling. Do you?
No influential man has as much in
huence as he thinks he has.
There are a number OF healthy peo-
pie who don't enjoy good health.
When a dentist doesn't hurt you he
doesn't do anything much for you
In the minds of many, it isn't a far
reach from suspicion to e cinoh.
Postcard philosophy: A man who
thinks he's always right is always
wrong.
Unless stolen, a watermelon doesn' t
amount to much until it Is cooled.
Tom Edison will never be able to in
vent a machine that viii register all of
the kicks.
Don't talk so much about your work
that you make it difficult for others to
do theirs.
Getting whipped a few times often
goes some distance toward curing a
quarrelsome disposition.
Old age has one consolation: your
teeth are less sensitive, rs you require
more dental work.
Beyond taking up space on the hotel
register an honorary degree doesn' t
often amount to much.
Except the man trying to get away
from them, most people have a good
deal of contempt for detectives.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
A sATURDAY SERMON.

Thou art weighed in the balance, and
art found wanting. Daniel r.
This is the Interpretation which was
given by the prophet, Daniel, to one
Of the words which startled Belshazzar,
the successor of Observation-Disclosures as king
of BaDylonia, when it was written with
some other phrases by mysterious
hand on a wall before his very eyes.
It conveyed to Belshazzar the warning,
soon after fulfilled, that his hours as a
ruler were nearing the end. He had
been weighed in the balances and found
wanting.
And that is the verdict which is be-
ing passed upon many men ana women
in the world today. Perhaps the hand
writing on the wall telling them Of the
scant advantage they have taken of
their opportunities-wh they gener-
ally fail to see, or seeing fail to heed
does not appear before them in such an
emphatic and rather uncanny way as it
did before the doomed Belshazzar. But
it is always there. And it could be fig
ured out and interpreted by those to
whom it is addressed if they had any
real desire to do so.
They don't, though. The folk who
are making anything but the most of
their lives are generally of the self
satisfied sort. They believe themselves
self-sufficient in all things. Nobody
can tell them anything. They even shut
their eyes to the many danger marks
along the routes they are drifting. Be
cause they can skip over a little pit
fall they consider themselves smart
enough to evade the larger ones which
they come up with. But they arrive
at one sooner or later which engulfs
them. Their end is distressing.
To avoid the judgment of being found
wanting should be the constant effort
of every man and woman Right liv-
ing in all particulars points the way
to this goal. Take the case of Bel
shazzar for example. Nebuchadnezzar
left in his hands a mighty kingdom
rich and powerful AS soon as Bel
shazzar ascended his throne and posi-
ton of power he started in to make
mis- life one long. continued revelry Of
dissipation. He did not appreciate the
wonderful opportunities and enormous
RESPONSIBILITIES that had been given to
him. Wine, women and song attracted
his entire attention. Is i any wonder
then that the wrath of God descended
upor him; that mis- kingship was but
for a day? Not the slightest.
So it is in the world of the present
era, just as it has been in every other
cycle of time tfat has passed on its
way. Many NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. number
is really prodigious-negeiect their du-
ties Of life: their duties 10 themselves
and to their families if they have any;
and also their duties to their God. They
dodge the responsibilities which have
been properly thrust upon them. AL
most before they know 1.-THE time is
longer with some and shorter with 9TH
ers-the terrible judgment is rendered
against them. They have been weighed
in the balances and found wanting
And no verdict could be more cruelty
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
KANSAS COAAENT
CIVIC ENTHusIAsM.

If you want your home city to re-
main stationary or to lose in popula-
ton one sure way to help toward that
end is to adopt an apologize attitude
in speaking of your home institutions.
If you have O. friend visiting you, or
when you are conYersing with travel
ing men, be sure and make II clear
that you recognize all the faults OF
the place you live in.
Thereby they will perceive that you
are person of high social and bust
ness standards, of keen and critical
perception, accustomed to move freely
among the seats of the mighty. Iney
will note that you condescend to min
gle with the common people. and that
you absent yourself from the world
great metropolitan centers merely
from some interesting eccentric Wnlai.
But although you may succeed IN
making this impression, your real es-
tate or your business Will not thereby
grow more valuable, nor VIII your
wages thereby be increased. You viii
not thereby add anything to the rep
utation possessed by your town as d
good place to live and do business IN,
which reputation is the only tnlng
that draws newcomers.
We have often noted the feelng OF
pride with which people IN a growing
city speak of the place they i've H.
They call the little brook running
through the town, a river, the pond
is a lake, the hill is a mountain
1t is easy, of course, for people 10
get to speaking about such things N
a high-fiowing bombastic way. But
an enthusiastic view of ones surrounJ-
ings need not necessarily make itself
ridiculous.
The habit of civic enthusiasm is not
the effect Of growth, but cause and
the principal cause. Just as man &C
complishes in life the degree of sue
cess he believes he can accomplish so
a city accomplishes in some degree
the growth its people believe 1t can
attain=Atchison Champion.
HIPLESS TROUSERS FOR MEN.
An authority on fashion in Boston
says mems hipless trousers are com
ing into use, just as sure as anything.
He has the figures all made out as to
the why's and wherefores. And he goes
farther and saysthat before Ions male
persons will be wearing hobble pants in
CAV colors and decked out with ribbons.
Won't this be lovely? Think of fix
ing I'D for an afternoon tea in ones
best harem breaches, tied around the
bottom with tinted crinoline, wearing
"a Jacket gored with wide cores and
A pair of gloves to match the eye.
Won't there Just be a lot of jealousies
among us men folk and won't we just
cut a dash in the parks and at the re-
sorts?
Bring on the day soon. Bring it OF
and bring with it regiment of artil
Iery. for the women will need the big
guns to clean US out, when we step
over the line and encroach on the
funny stuff that naturally belongs TO
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
FROM OTHER PENS
rHE HOTEL CIERK

It used to be said that the hotel
clerk was a lordly person, who would
condescend to speak to you II you ap-
preached him in the proper spirit OF
humility and that he always left you
enough to travel out of town with.
when he submitted your bill Like all
traditions this one may have had some
sort of basis in years gone by; yet how
different conditions are today! The
hotel clerk of the present is the or1gi-
nal dispenser of the glad hand. At
least, that is the prevailing type. That
is the kind of clerk who stays, and is
ALWAYS identified with the best hostel
ries. He is a student of human nature,
and he realizes more quickly than the
guest knows just how to deal with IN
diyidual cases. He knows instantly
when he is confronted by man with
limited means whose success depends
upon his making a brave showing.
and he exacts no toll in the way %
confession when such an applicant
comes to his desk. He finds a room at
the right rates and permits the guest
to believe that he is getting by with
his stall, and is quietly amiable. The
hotel clerk is a destroyer of the blues
when the traveller is thinking of Mollie
and the babies. The clerk says word,
or tells a story or remembers a face,
and the man away from home sud
denly realizes that the hotel is his
home, and that he needn't be home
sick at all after he has written let
ter back to Oskaloosa or Green Bay.
ST Louis Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
NATURES BOUNTY.

The shutdown of the carbon gas
company's pumps at Saratoga marks
the conservation of the people of a
bounty of nature which for more than
a generation past has been held for
private emolument. Saratoga Springs
was first exploited as a public resort.
This developed into gambling cen
ter Then came the seclusion Of the
springs for pumping" purposes; the
sale of the waters having a CONNER
eial Importance.
Then the state stepped in. declaring
a public reservation Of this district,
and there has been a battle between
local interests and the 4'anti-pumping
law which has been carried up to the
tribunal of ultimate authority, the su-
preme court of the United States. The
decision of this court determines ana
confirms the authority Of the people.
That is to say, the people of the state
of New York own practically by pur-
chase every flowing mineral spring in
Saratoga, the price to be paid being
agreed upon in the court OF claims.
including about $50 acres of land
Boston Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
A SONG OF KANSAS.

Not rain cloud in the sky,
And the milk is soaring high.
For the COWS are going dry:
All the creeks are drying up
Scarce enough to fill a cup
Little for the stock to sup.
Not a bit of garden sass
Everything has gone to grass
Not enough to feed an ass.
Most of the alfalfa hay
So the cattle raisers say
Is not up-or blown away
No potatoes here to eat
Not a cabbage nor q beet
(But we've lots of good sound wheat
There's a little hope for corn
Though just now somewhat forlorn.
Just sure as you are born,
All thermometers we've seen
Register about one-fifteen-
Little higher than the mean
For at night they get so low
That we think twill surely snow
Down to ninety-eight they CO.
NJ. B. NICHOL.
Frankfort Kan. July ID, 1911.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
THE SUPREME COURT.

The Kansas supreme court has COM
pleted another years work and the
justices will have a months vacation
This is an opportune time, therefore,
to comment upon the supreme tribunal
of the state And it is no more than
the simple truth to say in this con
nection that the people of the state
have good reason to feel a degree of
pride when reference is made to the
Kansas supreme court It is COM
posed of men of unblemished integrity
and unusual legal attachments, who
command the respect of every citizen
as we'll as the attorneys who come di-
rectly in contact with the court.
It is doubtful if seven men better
qualified for these important positions
could be found in the state. While the
court is more or less subject to the
vicissitudes of politics. there is
growing sentiment in Kansas that the
members Of this court who have been
tried and made good should be re-
tanned. Next year the terms of Chief
Justice Johnston and Justice Burch ex-
pire. There is disposition among law
yers to concede them another term
without a contest. There can be no
good reason urged for dispiacing either
nection that the people of Kansas
of these officials and it would be a
well merited endorsement to re-elect
these two members of the court with
ont a contest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nothing s so rare as real humor al
though most folk confound it with
cheap wit.
Most people have the faculty of maxi
ing fools of themselves frequently with
out trying very hard.
Handsome may be that handsome
does but it fails to show up to good
advantage in a photograph.
The world will applaud winner even
If it is only the charioteer getting III
first in a circus race.
A friend remarks that a visit to the
circus suggested to him that we are
all wild animals with merely varied
degrees Of training.