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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
HUNOR or THE D<Y

An Atchison girl, who will become a
teacher, said today: IT am not becoming
teacher to do good, but for the pleasure
OF whipping boys.'-Atchison Globe,
Encouraging Chollie.-'Tm doing NV
best to get ahead" asserted CholIie.
Wen, heaven knows you need one" as
sented Dollie.-Toledo Blade.
What aviation literature have your"
Here's the very latest, sir, The Life of
Wellman's Cat; in nine volumes. Pitts
burg Post.
DID you ever pause to consider the
mischief you might get into If YOU were
not kept busy working for a HvinR?'' ''No.
WHAT'S the use dreaming of pleasures you
know you never can have?'-Chicago
Record-Herald.
.Dashaway-You have splendid looking
clothes, old man. Who is your tailor?
Cleverton-Hes the first man YOU see as
you go out.-Iife.
DO you think it's possible for a man
to live all his life without telling a ue?"
Hardly. Most every man falls In love
one time or another."-Cleveland Leader
Willis-Under this years football rules
you can't assist the man with the ball.
Gilis-Great Scott! What do they do
stand around and let him die?-Puck.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
Pike County Cnlture.

'Seppulchre," spelled Miss Margaret
Patterson and the two p's ended the
longest spelling bee ever held in Mis-
souri,, with Miss Ruth Crenshaw. the
winner, still standing.
The Pike county courthouse was
filled with friends and relatives of the
contestants, who for seventeen hours,
with only an occasional intermission.
had withstood the bombardment of
words until 10000 had been given out.
The contest was held under the SUI
pervision Of the county school COM
missioner. 1t is estimated that of the
10, 900 words assigned to the contest
ants, the winner spelled 2,500.-Bowl-
ing Green dispatch to the New York
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
COUNTRY COMMUNITY PRAYER

In the May American Magazine the
following letter is published:
'I see that Professor Rauschenbusch
says. In the preface to For God and
the People, that he will welcome sug-
gestions from anyone. AS one who has
been greatly helped by these prayers
as published month by month in your
magazine, would like, through you,
to suggest prayer for country COM
munity. 1t might run something like
this:
Our Father, we invoke Thy blessing
on every member of this community.
We thank Thee for the opportunities
for healthful work and simple living
which life in the country affords US.
Help us to take full advantage of them.
Grant that we may appreciate the
privilege we enjoy in living and work
ing in the midst of the natural beauties
with which Thou hast filed the earth.
May our sense of this beauty not be
dulled by use, nor our work become a
monotonous, soul-deadening round, but
may our beautiful surroundings be to
us new every morning and fresh every
evening. Give to the farmers of this
country a realizing sense Of the bless
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
JOURNAL ENTRIES

No matter how good the excuse Is,
it cannot rectify an error.
y
Anything a man has to say in his
sleep always commands his wires at
tention.
y y
ANY number of people are mighty
clever if you merely take their word
for it.
You seldom come across real wiso
man who is given to Dragging ABOUT
what he knows.
4 y
Many a man tries to put his best
foot so far forward that he stumbles
and falls all over himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.
girl knows her hair car curl natu-
rally by her saying it does.
The only man who ever seems to
get bored with his job is the devil.
Even if a man really did want little
here below he'd want to get it with
out working for it.
A man knows a lot when he knows
it isn't enough to keep him from being
fooled by a woman
Just the same, the clinging kind of
woman seems to be the very one that
picks a man UP and carries him when
he falls down.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Nothing short Of a ten-year war
would be likely to disturb the equani-
nifty of Porhrio Diaz. He refers to the
revolution, and the considerable bloody
fighting that has been incident to it. as
merely having interrupted the peace of
Mexico "for the moment"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Notwithstanding the strenuous efforts
Of the crop killers to prove that the
Kansas wheat crop was going to be
a miserable failure this year, Secre-
tary Coburn. of the Kansas department
Of agriculture, Is able to report that the
present condition of the wheat crop is
24s per cent better than it was at the
same period last year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
KANSAS COMMENT
HOUSE CTEANING TIME.


About this time of the year the
mouse cleaning spirit strikes the female
aaIe1ipers OF every household. You can
pee IL coming month ahead. 1t has
passed the stage of a custom with
most women. It is a disease. 1t comes
IKE an epidemic affecting whole neigh
DorhoodS at once.
The men don't say much, but every
gay When they go home expect to see
everything piled out in the front yard
and everything chaos. At such times
even though they are served with
polIed tea and biscuits for dinner, they
nave learned not to murmur for they
nave learned that this is one of a
tr1hed with. She is in her element.
ana when 1t comes to hunting out the
art on such occasions the average
housewife has got Doc Crumbine beat
10 a standstill. On such occasions If
the mead of the house is wise he will
play the part OF the meek and obedient
ana perhaps be given a chance to
demonstrate his batting average by
beating the carpets and rugs. Though
IN many cases the vacuum cleaner is
olspIacing him in this capacity with no
regrets on his part. On these occa-
s1onS II the numerous family crayons
escape Jagged puncture or a shatter-
ca glass, and the hand painted china
palnted( survives, and the globe of
gold fish and doc dads on the piano
are preserved until the next semi
annual upheaval all is we'll. Every
one is thankful when it is all over,
even the cat who has been driven
from pillar to post and who is begin
nlng TO entertain some dingy views of
life. And it is not until everything is
back in place and the last tack driven
and the last picture hung, and the
household gods restored to their prop
er places, does anyone breathe easy or
rest much, or begin to take their meals
with any degree of egularity.-Holton
Signal.
THE MARCH OF PROGRESS.
A good sensible teacher who has
taught in Emporia schools for twenty
years says she has not had a case Of
lice in her school room for five years.
A careful inquiry among other good
teachers seems to verify the staten ent
that the louise as a human companion
is disappearing. This is not a polite
subject, though why the louise should
be avoided any more than the fly or
flea or the gnat or the chigger, it is
hard to say: for any of these pests
has ways that are dark and tricks that
are vain. But the louise is introduced
here to indicate the march of progress.
The fine-tooth comb that was a house
hold necessity in families twenty years
ago is falling in desuetude. Humanity
is slow. 1t has been untold thousands
Of years swatting the louise; but he is
on the run. The world is edging on.
I-Emporia Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

It is up to those folk who make it a
point to prepare for the future to get
busy. An English scientist has an
nounced that the winters will get
gradually warmer during the next 400
years, but that after the year 2294
there will be a change for the worst.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Political advice from the Cincin-
natl Tribune: The South. for its own
selfish interests, ought to break away
from voting Democratic as n unit. The
same is true of Pennsylvania voting
solidly Republican. The best interests
of the country demand that there be a
healthy rivalry in all states and sec
lions to secure an evenly balanced re-
TlIt5lic
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Something decidedly new in the
taxing line and also In the regulation
OF the liquor problem has been devised
by a Pennsylvania law-maker. He has
drafted bill requiring every man and
woman who desires to drink liquor or
beer to take out an annual license at
n cnaf Of S6
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
FROM OTHER PENS
TREND OF IMMIGRATION.

Where five years ago the total i'm
migration to Canada was only $4,000,
it is expected to reach 100000 in 1911.
Not a steerage or second cabin berth
is to be secured on any of the liners
bound for Canadian ports for six
months to come, according to the COM
missioner, and many are coming by
way of New York and Boston. OF
this estimate, 10000 are booked from
Great Britain, with possibly as many
more are expected from the United
States.
The other third of the expected
$50, 900 are coming from the northern
countries that have sent the best type
of immigrant to this country in former
years, and those, by the way, from
which we no longer draw so freely.
The sturdy agriculturistS who peo-
pied our Western country are now
turning to the Dominion's farming
section. The lure which attracted
them last wear drew approximately
100000 American farmers northward.
Meanwhile the immigration from
the south and southwest of Europe,
which is not drawn to the farms, but
to the cities, is coming to this coun-
try. Canada has no great centers of
industry and population to attract
them, but doubtless with the indus
trial development of the Dominion
and the settlement of the agricultural
districts the same change will be no
ticed across the border, although it is
yet in the distance. But the fact that
Canada is today drawing practically
half as many immigrants as the
United States is a remarkable fact and
a striking illustration of the squirt
taken by our Northern neighborS.-
Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Now that the prospects for a Dem
ocratic presidential victory are bright
er than they have been in many years.
there is evidently going to be no
dearth of candidates for the nominal
ton. The Indiana Democrats have
launched a boom for John w. Kern,
who was recently elected from that
state to the United States senate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Reports have been prevalent for a
couple of months that the steel trade
was in the doldrums. But the directors
of the United States Steel corporation
met the other day and declared the
usual quarterly dividend of ~ per
cent on the preferred stock and IL per
cent on the common stock. And the
capitalization of this corporation APP
proximates $1,000, 600 900.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Some expression Of opinion from
Judge Latshaw would be apropos. Dr..
Hyde is a free man once again, al
though he faces another trial for the
murder Of Col. Swope.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

A Russian immigrant Of the peasant
type arrived at the port Of New York
the other day with $2650O in cash in
his pockets. How he ever was permit
ted to get away from Russia. with that
sum of money in his possession is an
inexplicable mystery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

schools will carry Industrial and nor
NAL courses during the coming year,
and forty-one others will carry the
normal course alone. Best of all, the
high school at Topeka is in the for
mer class. and is the only high school
in any of the larger cities in the state
which has taken advantage of the OPP
portunities in this particular,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Tho State Journal Il q member Of the
AeD0ciated Press and receives the fun day
Telegraph report OF that great n9wB or
ganiEatlon for the exclusive sxpsCnoon
Publication In Topeka
The news H. received In The state jour
pces.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

This will heln out the long suffering
public a whole lot. The interstate COM
anerce commission has ordered a reduc-
ton in the express rates on horses in
carload lots
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Slogan OIL IIl0 SUI
HYDE OUT
Bolivar" is the name OF a Central
American booze, which is said to
qualify the quarter for place in the
d. T, ward. Some sudden thing like
that would be a great boon to a num-
Der of our local sports, who, being
provided only with ordinary prune
Juice, have to work at it several days
before acquiring a perfect case of the
''Willies."
From a perusal of the Hearst pub
LEGATIONS one might gather that some
heightened English woman has peeved
Winifred Black; and peeving Wini-
fred is the same as driving nails in
a wasp nest.
1t is now proposed that railroad
porters be abolished, and the brakes
permitted to do their work" "Doing
the work. of the porters means do
ing the passengers"
UNPROTECTED.
The game law is so very strict
1t is not safe to tote a gun,
Lest by some warden you are picked
For what you might, but haven't,
done.
The wonder is that we may yet
Go forth to hunt the violet.
Because of legislative "bunc''
The shotgun is taboo,-de trop;
You may not pug the pretty skunk.
But still you may a-hunting go:
Just teach your setter pup to set
The meek and modest violet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

From the numerous announcements
in the newspapers of wedding engage
ments, it is apparent that the crop Of
June brides Is going to be up to the
standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Inasmuch as the dove of peace has
finally settled on Mexico the rebel and
federal soldiers who have been eating
hot shot Of late for breakfast. dinner
and supper, can go back to their diet
of hot taInales.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

IS 1T SOMETHING TO EAT?
(Never having subbed for the So
c1ety reporter, we are Curious to
Know. Will some one kindly place US
adjacent2)
At the Kensington to be given by
Mrs. Slattery of the post this af-
ternoon there will be an informal
musical program given by Mrs.
Day, Mrs. Drum, Mrs. SIattery
and Miss Shug Reaumme.-
Leavenworth Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Talk is already being INDUCED in at
Washington as to the time when the
special session Of congress will adjourn.
The sooner, the better.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

That the busiest man on a railway
system Is it's president seems to be
fair enough. He is the employee that
gets the biggest pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Apparently it's a case of any kind Of
a means to the end. A negro has been
engaged to train Carl Morris. "the
white mans hope" But isn't this a
case of 1ese majestic, or something OF
the sort, against Jack Johnson?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

The campaign for more vocational
education in the high schools of Kan
eas is going along with the right kind
Of a rush. No less than ffty-nine high
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

And somebody arose and remarked
the other day that the Kaws were de-
plorably weak at the bat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Atlas may have supported the world.
but the chances are his wife supported
him. That is about all you could ex-
pect of a big stiff who would be salts
fed to do nothing but loaf around with
a lump of real estate on his shoulder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Can you blame a Sunday school
teacher for jumping her job when
some well-washed innocent asks WHY
the angels came down a ladder to call
on Jacob, when they were provided
with wings?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

What" asks Doc Crumbine, does
the fly do after he leaves the cuspi-
dor?" All right Doc. we'll bite; what
DOES the fly do after he leaves the
cuspidor?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

The Meanest Man has been located
in New York; he stole his sons wood
en- leg. Other candidates for the title
may as well retire to the tall uncut
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27
CAMPAIGN FUND PUBLICITY.

The passage of the before-election
campaign fund publicity bill as part
of the Democratic house program at
Washington is a reminder that Ne
braska has had a law on its statute
books designed for the same purpose
since 1899, and that it has had be-
fore-election provision engrafted on it
since 1909. There may be difference
of opinion as to what extent this leg
islation has restrained the improper
use of money in elections in Nebraska,
but our experience with the known de-
fects of the Nebraska law would indf-
cate that the bill which the Demo-
Gratis have railroaded through the
house without amendment is put up
solely for advertising purposes, and
with no idea of making it an effective
brake on campaign corruption.
The Democratic bill SO far as it re-
lates to money spent in congressional
and national campaigns is even less
comprehensive than the Nebraska law
SO far as it relates to money spent in
state and local campaigns, and leaves
so many loopholes for evasion that it
need be observed only by those who
want to observe it. Merely to require
the filing of a public statement by
treasurers of regular party commit
tees is a form that has here proved no
bar to the secret use of money through
outside agencies-Omaha Bee.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

It takes a strong-minded man to
refer to some other woman as a
peach" in the presence of his wife.
- Fl c. P
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-27

Slogan of the surviving Swopes:
HYDE OUT
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-06

G. A Martin was then recalled and
said: II stayed in front Of the News Of
flee until or 10 minutes after Harrell
was removed. I did not see any weapon
whatever there, either as l1arren's body
lay on the sidewalk or latter. Harry Pot
ter and 1 we're standing near Harrelrs
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-06

was not my purpose to shoot him
again. I could have shot him a dozen
times
Il told Mr.. Hord don't let him shoot
me- as I gave my gun to Mr. Hord
after he had searched Harren
7 had been told HarreH was bad
serapper. John Waller and Harren had
both told me about that
Befrfended HarreH
Harrell intimated that he could net
go back home, and some one had told
me he had killed a man up there.
, Harreu told me he had trouble I
gave him transportation for his mother
and sister to come down here because
he could not go back there
I believed HarreH would carry out
the threats that he would kill me. ana
to do when he rushed upon me- Other
wise would not have shot him.
On crOSS-examinati0n Mitchim said:
i think it was in the forenoon Tues
day that he came into my office and
think I told him that we would have
to print the picture. but that 1 would
have the picture altered do not re-
member where I was during the after
noon.
Wednesday afternoon I came down
to the office after 3 or o'clock I do
not remember who brought the proof OF
the picture back Harrell certainly
never said that he was satisfied with
the alterations that had been made"
AdjOurnment Is Taken.
The deposition Of Cecil Stultz and
Frank Herkert and the testimony OF
A. H. Lyon and Mrs. Geo. Ulrich at the
habeas corpus hearing were Offered by
the defence, but the state declined to
admit any but the testimony OF Lyon,
whose present residence is unknown
The defence sought TO introduce me
Stultz and Herkert dispositions 70 prove
the finding of a billy after the killing.
The court declined TO pass on the
admissibility Of the testimony objected
tic, and took it under advisement until
Thursday morning, to which time an
adjournment was taken at 5:10 2. m
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-06

will be repealed at the next session.
as it was passed in a passion and So
Der judgment will coorrect it.
What we want is to have FL Paso
advertised in the east (Texas) more.
We ought to have the east Texas pa
pers print the facts about FL Paso so
that the people over there will know
more of us. The legislators are dis
posed to be more liberal regarding
west Texas when we tell them what
we have over here When we show
them that we pay twice as much into
the school fund as we draw out, while
the district of which Rusk is the cen
ter draws twice as much as it paws
they are disposed to listen to our
claims.
If we send committees to Washing
ton to work for the post enlarge
ment, three is no reason why we can
not get the post enlarged. The &c, 900
troops at Fort Sam Houston, one of
the San Antonio business men told me-
dropped $4,000 a day there. Ell Paso
ought to be the military base for the
entire border from here to the Pacific
and with the RICH kind OF effort we
can get our post enlarged. 1 am go
ing to Washington next week to ap-
pear before the ways and means COM
mittee and I am going With data and
will use my best efforts to secure the
enlargement of the post"
The state senator then did a back
handed political bit of political second
sigh reading by predicting that Gov.
Harmon would be elected the next
president. Postmaster ]. "A. Smith re-
marked that folks, meaning Republi
can folks, had heard this kind of talk
so much that it did lot listen good to
him.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-04-06
The Philosophers and the
Frog

DR.. Stafford. for many years profess
sor OF chemistry in the Medical Coll
lege OF the University OF Nashville.
used to tell his students q fabIe-the
moral sof which was s-prove At" Ger
tain wise men were gathered together
60 ascertain the explanation OF a state
ment that when two glasses OF water
OF equal weight are balanced on the
beams of a balance scale and frog
IS then put in one Of the vessels the
balance remains the same, thus at
tempting to prove the assertion that
= frog mas no weight when immersed
IN water. Each wise man had his own
explanation. and there was much
heated argument and discussion At
length one OF the wise men said ~But
Is your statement true7 Let's prove
It," OF course when It came to prov
ing 1t, they couldn't
So when you hear people say that
Coca-Cola is Injurious, just ask them
TO prove 1t. They can't. Nobody can.
because 1t is not injurious But on
the other hand 1t can be proved that
II Is not Injurious by chemical analy-
sis Or II you are not a chemist
yourself. why not accept the verdict
of every competent chemist who ever
analyzed It? Eminent College ana
University Chemists. Commercial Chem
lists, Government. State and City Chem
ists-an have analysed Coca-Cola and
not one has ever been able TO find any
thing Injurious In IT The very next
time you hear anyone say that Coca
cola contains deleterious ingredients
tell him 10 write the Coca-Cola Co, At
ianta. Ca, for q free copy Of their book
Ret. .sTne Truth About Coca-Cola-~ n
the meantime write for copy for your-
sslf-zou viii lind It very interesting.