davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
KANSAS COAAENT
MORE Papers coNsoL1DArE.

MORE PAPERS CONSOLIDATE.
The business men of Ashtabula,
Ohios have secured control Of three OF
the papers OF that city and will dis
continue two of them. Though Ashta-
Dula IS a town of 10, 600 inhabitants,
1t is felt by the commercial interests
Of the city that one daily paper is all
tney care to support. The subscription
price of a paper seems to be dwindling
in value till it looks that in time some
OF the metropolitan papers will issue
for mere nominal sum per year. It
is to the advertising patronage accord
ed to paper that publishers nowadays
look to meet their current expenses.
consequently the subscription price OF
a paper goes lower and lower in an ef-
fort to increase its subscription. The
ever growing cost of getting out a
paper, the large amount of money re-
quired to be invested IN plant IN
order to make the publication pre-
sentable and not suffer too much by
comparison with the metropolitan
dailies that are now carried into the
most remote parts Of the country, Will
in time work a marked change in the
business with the result thai there will
be fewer papers in a given locality, but
those that remain will be larger in size
and OF q better quality 1t is question
able in time whether there Will be
more than one newspaper published in
the average county seat, anc 1t is just
within the bounds of possibility that
there will not be more than one in the
average county. The business men or
Ashtabula are evidently of the BELIEF
that one paper with a large circulation
is worth more to them than three pa
pers with a circulation in each in
stance too limited to be effective be-
cause of a patronage thai is badly cut
up and divided.-Junction City Union.
THE CHIGGER.
OF all the omniverous, carniverous.
herbiverous, inEectiverous, creations
that people the earth, the chigger
is without doubt the most "niverous. Z"
Wherever there is a cool, inviting
plot of grass or tangled shaded nook,
there he is also, ever ready to greet
you and show his friendship at the
slightest opportunity. For slayer
he has no parallel. He refuses to
be swatted and enters into your per-
sonality in most engaging manner.
He sticketh closer than lodge
solicitor and compels attention from
all he meets. He is no respector Of
persons and like the wind, goeth where
he listeth and he listeth where he
goeth. He plants himself with wan
ton abandonment that is most distract
ing. He is a hustler. He digs for a
living and his example makes others
scratch. Chiggers have the commun-
itv spirit, they like company both Of
their own kind and the human kind.
No one is immune from them. Some
people claim they are, but others are
more truthful. If the chigger had a
slogan, it would doubtless be KUN to
Kansas" The chigger delights to get
down to bare facts and in some IN
stances goes even further-in fact, too
far. He is q great leveler of classes,
we don't all have to scratch for liv-
ing, but we all have to scratch for the
chigger. He is the only menace to
our health that Doc Crumbine hasn't
succeeded in having legislated from the
state. He has even stuck" him.
Holton Signal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

IF'rom the Philadelphia RecordI
Every pessimist thinks it is differ
ent because he knows.
If he could afford 1t. every small
boy would own circus.
Most anybody can be assured of a
warm reception these days.
If your library is large enough you
can find authority for anything.
To the average small boy a police
mans star looks like a half acre.
Whisky won't cool you off just be-
cause you happen to put ice in it.
Going to work helps one to stand
the suspense, and number Of other
things.
Many people will never know that
a sunrise is apt to be as beautiful as
a sunset.
While the aeropIane is in a great
hurry, it is also apt to stop in that
way at any time.
Some men seem to be absent a good
deal when one comes TO looking them
up by telephone.
Remorse SO often sneaks in at the
same time the strong arm of the law
prizes the door open.
There are too many poor marks
men in the brigade engaged at target
practice on the cuspidor.
Some men live a long time and at
tain no greater distinction than re-
tanning most of their hair.
A woman who puts the clothes to
soak Sunday night is too anxious to
get the washing out early.
A girl doesn't usually have many
birthday parties after her mother
quits arranging them for her.
If either fate is to overtake him, a
colored man had rather be overcome
by the heat than by the cold
bno177 ar 1,ro II - som atm a. ee
difficult to understand as q Russian or
a thirty-third degree baseball fan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

Dr. Eliot, president-emeritus of Har-
ward university. is of the opinion tina.
the Declaration of Independence is all
wrong. He declares that men are not
created equal and that they do not
possess inalienable rights to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happines. DR..
Eliot must have been busying himself
lately with interviewing the proletariat.
This has been the belief of most folk in
this class for some little time.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
FROM OTHER PENS
wHEN Ar ARE ALIKE.

There was one incident of the coro-
nation ceremonies in London which
was not emphasized in the news re-
ports. It was the lunch served in old
st. stephens hall after the main event
was over.
When the time came there was a
mad scramble for the tables where the
food was served. August earls grab
bed their coronets off their noble
brows, swung their glittering robes
over their left arms and waded in
much as the members of a promis-
cuous crowd do at a butchers picnic
dn America. The stately countesses. did
likewise. Possibly, because the expert
ence at bargain counters they utilized
their elbows to better advantage than
the men. And probably it is the mer-
CHESS truth that some of them used
their fingers. A premonition of some
thing of this kind may be what induced
King George to prohibit moving pic
ture men from being present at the
coronation.
Such affairs as the primitive hustle
for food in st. Stephens hall tend not
only to keep our vision clear in this
respect, but to bring home the truth
behind an answer once made by the
founder of the house of Astor-that oil
he was able to get out of life were
three meals a day. place to sleep and
clothing to wear-Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
HoaLE NEws WILLIE AwAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
may have the paper mailed regularly
each dav 10 any address at the rate OF
ten cents q week OF thirty cents a
month (by mail only. Address
changed as often as desired. While
out OF town the State Journal VIII be
to You like 4 daily letter from home.
Advance payment Is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
hooIzkeepinn expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

If it is true that the Partisan women
of fashion change their clothes
throughout as many as eleven
times a day, that probably makes them
the most dressed women in the world
And it must also be a fact under these
conditions that they are the most IN
dressed women in the world during a.
large part of each day. 1t takes a lot
of time for any woman to change her
rl0fbar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

When the rain does come there will
probably be enormous quantities of It.
While Old Sol was working so vigor-
ously of late he must have drawn Inn
mense volumes of water from the seas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

Foreign powers are to hold a pour
parlers" concerning the situation in
Morocco. Presumably this means that
the DULLES of Europe are going to de-
wise an effective scheme to mix Mo-
rocco UP into a delectable soup. Then
each Of the cooks will dip in for a
helping that viii be a heaping dishful.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

Not so many months ago and the
flight of an aeroplane over the Eng
lish channel was considered an epoch
making event. During the past few
days a flock of a dozen bird-men flow
over this waterway and back again in
a bunch. Wonderful progress is be-
ing rapidly made in the field Of avia-
tim
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

Now that all the heat records have
been broken, 1t is to be hoped that the
weather will be content to rest on its
laurels in this particular.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

notwithstanding the fact that it was
warmer in all parts of Kansas than it
was in Chicago and other large cities
further east, few if any deaths and a
meager number of prostrations were
charged up to the heat in the Sunflow-
er state. In Chicago alone the deaths
from the effect of the heat numbered
2O1 during a period of five days and
the prostrations were so many that it
was not possible to keep track Of all Of
them. Some time, perhaps, the hordes
that are crowded together in the big
cities, will wake up to the fact that
the place for them is on the broad ex-
panse of the central and far west
where there is plenty Of room for all
and enough food to do a little more
than keep body and soul together.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
FIGHTING RECIPROCITY.

Senator Cumm1nS truly SAID Lnab
conditions have changed when con-
fronted by Senator Williams with his
earnest plea for reciprocity with Can
ada, when governor of Iowa. He did
not anticipate then that a Republican
president would enter into an agree
ment with Canada in full accord with
his sentiments, but not in harmony
with his present or future political
plans. Had not President Taft made
this agreement when he did. there is
not the best reason to assume from his
former utterances as well as from his
position as a tariff reformer that reci-
procity would have had in Senator
Cummins an ardent advocate2
AS for the many amendments to the
Reciprocity bill proposed by Senator
Cummins, he will have ample opportu-
nifty to offer them In q separate bill
after the Reciprocity bill shall have
become a law Then he will have full
scope for his activity as a tariff re-
former. But as riders to the recipro-
city bill his amendments would be
fatal, as there is not the least prospect
of concurrence by the House, If it were
possible to secure a majority in the
Philadelphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
HOME AND PHILOSOPHY.

DR.. Stone, the president OF Purdue
University, has obtained E. divorce
from his wife because she has adopted
an East Indian religious cult, known
as Yogi philosophy. She has been
away from the doctor for four years
now, enjoying her Yogoism among
others of the cult in Coalleda, Ger
many. When a true wifely philosophy
runs up against the Yogi philosophy
and gets knocked out, it is time for a
divorce.
It is always a sad case when a wifes
mind gets all tangled up with occult
ism and the strange PHILOSOPHERS of
the Indies. It interferes with good
bread, orderly beds, flowers on the
table, regular meals, nursing the baby.
attending church and all those little
habits and ways that make a sane and
cheerful home. No true philosophy,
no amount of intellectually should
drive a woman from her home. If it
is not a home that corresponds to her
intellectually, then there is something
the matter with her intellectually. If
a woman does not fit a home like a
song fits a canary's throat, then it is
time to pause ond consider.-Ohio
State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

For pure. unadrlterated cruelty, the
proper medal belongs on the breast Of
the Chicago News. On July when the
temperature in the Windy City had
reached 101 degrees. the News printed
G. series OF pictures taken in Chicago
streets during last December. Said
streets were filled with snow and the
pictures were 50 graphic that one could
almost see blizzard raging. The
wasn't rubbing it in enough, so under
meath these pictures the News asked:
do you remember only a short while
ago you complained bitterly about the
blizzard which piled the streets with
snow? Do you recall how you scolded
the man who didn't shovel off his side
walk soon enough?' That the editor of
the News was not treated to a coat of
tar and feathers is something Of a
mystery.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the chicago News.1


Every time a man pays a bill he
buys experience.
Even a good humored lawyer may
becomes a cross-examiner.
The optimistic chiropodist sees a
corn on every mistletoe.
Too many girls prefer to pose as
breadwinners rather than breadmak-
ers.
A man may convince a woman that
he is in the wrong by agreeing with
her.
The man who can please a woman
and keep her pleased has not time for
anything else.
It isn't proper for a girl to sit on
young mans knee without first obtain
ing his permission.
When woman believes everything
that her husband tells her it's a sign
they haven't been married long.
When a man begins by saying. "Of
course it's none of my business.
but he is getting ready to butt in.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

A lot Of hero bunk has been ped
died about Congressman Luke Lea, but
who wouldn't be willing to slip his
wife few pints of blood if it would
do her any good? The average man is
not only accustomed to being bled, but
is so constituted that he would offer
more than a quart of his blood to a
perfect stranger, if the stranger wore
skirts.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

The boss races will not occur until
September. but in the meantime, let's
make a little pool on the great contest
between hot weather and the water
melon for first place in the Fatality
Glass.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

When the bride stops telling all about
herself and begins to enquire into the
past of the Other Half, the Honey
moon is in the Third Quarter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

The absence of any rhyme in this
column is defensible. Spring, Fall and
son, but it takes good strong prose to
describe present weather conditions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

That story about the sun Matching
out a batch Of chickens, was recently
unearthed and sent out under Mas
Sachusetts date line; which indicates
that Massachusetts, correspondents ara
not above the larceny of old Kansas
newspaper lies
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
OF A BACHELOR.
LFrom the New York Press.

A man who will brag about how
much money he has rarely has it.
Money is a snail for speed till it gets
to you, when it becomes a streak of
lightning.
It's not SO hard to he reasonably
sick If you don't have to be nursed by
any of your relatives.
You can tell when woman is going
to have a new gown by how she keeps
worrying about what the weather viii
be on the day it is ready.
Some men are just plain, ordinary
deceivers of their wives; then there is
the one who makes his believe he can't
bear to have her go away from him
on a visit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

And, furthermore, considering ths
subject, the dashes at least, are ap-
propriate.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
From the Eskridge Tribune:

EXTRA-Ben Jordan has quit sell
ing booze.-Topeka State Journal. II
we remember Alright, this is the thirty
eighth time that Ben has quit. or in
other words the thirty-eighth time he
has been in Jail The only way to keep
him from selling booze is to decorate
the city prison with him"
From this clipping it may be gath
cred that country town editors somc-
times read the head lines: and for the
esteemed Tribune's suggestion thai Ben
be used a Jail decoration, would ad-
wise: that the favorite Topeka idea Of
nothing with which to decorate "A Jail,
is a deceased colored gentleman. Come
again, Trib.
Hep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

CThat one is wasted on all other than
telegraph operators, but we dasn't say
it out loud.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

The citizen who is against capital
punishment may change his mind when
some hopeless boob who is summer
ing on the Lakes, telegraphs him cJllect:
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

The mule, being in a temper, kicked a
few boards out Of the side of the barn.
''One of those fresh air cranss,' COM
mented the horse to itself.-Buffa1o Ex-
press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

Knicker-Brown counts his wealth in
seven figures. Bocker-Perpendicu
New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

"A Harvard professor says that the tur-
tie Is more of a bird than fish, THAT
accounts for it." For what?" $50 many
OF these autos turning turtle when they
are trying to fly.'-Houston Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

az don't believe she'll ever get married. -
why not?" "Her friends have started
telling what good wife she'll make for
some man some day.''-Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08
dHE ]A|

was per1ectIy proper Tot her % pIusHf
under the circumstances.
Since preachers were invented, they
have been warning frail humanity that
it might smoke hereafter, but it re-
NAMED for a New Jersey preacher to
say: Smoke now, if you want to-" His
invitation, however. seems incomplete.
He should have added, land get used
to it"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

Singing Teacher-Now, children, give us
Little Drops of Water and put some
spirit in it Principal (whispering)--Ca
full, sir This is a temperance school. Say.
put some ginger in it."-Woman's Home
Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

What's the matter, Miss Darlington %
asked the village wag. You never laugh
at any OF my jokes" II have been taught
Chicago Record-H Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

What time was 1t when you got home
last night?" II didn't get home" You
did! We took you there "You did not.
You only took me to the door, NY wife
was looking out Of the window!''-Toledo
Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

Right There With That Kind. Scott
The trouble with Fritters Is he lacks APP
plication. Mott-The deuce he doesl Why,
he applies to ne for loan once a week
Transcript.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

what was the biggest fish you ever
caught? II don't know. The biggest
I could recognize him. "--Detroit Free
Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-08

- ss.'
-.
.-2
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-30
NEW YORK PRODUCE MARKET.

New York. July 2a,-Inour-ouiet wrlh
prices steady TO nrm. Spring patents, $50
a5lo; winter sITaights. s3.sOa ITO: winter
patents. si2eiJo. Rye Flour Dull; fancy
s94 90 Cornmeal-steady. Bariey-No,ni.
nal. Wheat-Spot easy: No . red new, ssc
elevator and SIC. { o. o. afoat; No ! north.
ern Duluth, 81. {. o b. ahoa, Options $40
i.c eat lover july closed at sSXc Sen
lembef. - lie. December. DC Corn-sno,
steady. exports No. ?. csi.c. T. o. b. snoa,
Options nominal. oa,sspois steady orion,
nominal.
Pork-Firm Gu, Mca,s-s,eady. Lard
Easy Tallow-oult;. Petroieum-Steadv.
Wool an Rosin-Quiet. Turpentine-Eay 81.
Rice-Steady. Sugar-Raw arm Butter
steady and unchanged. Cheese-steady and
unchanged; exports. ZOO boxes Eggs
STEADY Coffee-Futures closed steady a; a
net decline OF sdi5 points. Spot, quiet,
Rio. No. :. isi. l3Ac.; sen,os No. l. is7.c'
nomnai mild. quiet; Cordovn ,igi6c nom.
inal CpnbaBes-W Weak FTeiRhts and Pea.
nuts Unchanged.
Eottonsesd Oh was easier under scattered
se.iing b. looal longs. induced by the Dc.
Tor 7ciuAl oil Trading was very light IN
volume Futures closed "a points net low
err August, S.5Iq5.S7: September. 5.iSGs.i7;
october. ssS95.@: November. saiQ6a,
December. e.ssGs.st; primo crude, nominal;
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-30

practically has perfected plans For ~
instruction or stone highway
through Tennessee from Bristol to
Memphis. the Board of Trade offered n
resolution looking to the organization
OF the Bristol to- Washington High.
way Association. The resolution was
: heartily Endorsed. Its purpose is to
organize the counties of the State with
a view to taking up the work here os
extending the Memphis. TO Brjsto,
highway from Bristol through yir.
GINA to Washington, thus making If
national highway.
In accordance with the resolution
the secretary of the Board OF Trade
to-day addressed invitations to boards
% trade and other commercial organ
,@atlons In Virginia, urging that they
oe represented at a meeting to be held
mere August IL. when the association
VIII be organized.
Secretary Gilbert. OF the Tennessee
commission. is highly in favor of this
plan. and reports that as the result Of
recent visit to Washington he re-
ceived every assurance that the Fed.
eral government would aid in the
work. p. st. Julien Wilson, State
Highway Commissioner of Virginia
will be urged to attend the meetino
and assist in organizing the state
1t Is hoped to get the work started
soon after construction work has been
commenced by the counties OF Tonnes.
see. All tho necessary financial
pledges have been made to assure 'th,
building Of the Tennessee Highway.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-30
COTTON MARKETS.

ne" foFk. July 2s.-There was a contin-
uouon OF the decline OF the cotton marke,
To-Day with August and all new crop
months making still another set of new
Low! low records. and vita January cotton soil
,n oeaow II cents for the arst time in over
continued heavy RICH, up 10 the close
n mMiea was easy at ne, decline OF eci 20
oales against $40 last week ana . Hsi ooe
year Fos the week 1908 bales against Ass
las. nasa week and 6.s2s last year. To.day's re-
~ q, a. New orleans 10 bales against s75
lii last year. asa1hs' |
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-30
ltures ranged II. follows.

neseipts-Wheat. 5lS.3to bushels: corn ,5o
~ bushels; oats, $4,000 bushels Sbin,,a 49,
SS hvs Sushe's; corn. SLIGO bushels: oats, ~
sels q s7hc.; No. 3 red, new. ssh q SAL "ew'
:, s. new $50 so,9c.; No 3 new. hard, 81
9 %SyI,: No ! northern. si.o5qIS; No. new
% '"e.H' soo O si; No. northern slCa6
mo- mof."efn' sS a eSe: No. 3 northern, new. %
s zoe NO spring $40 esc.: velvet chan. seSS
ansmn,. Ssassc. Corn-No. .. esGpsa.ce:
NJ, D. VIZ q SIC; No. 4. 62G624c: No
"nite S6assEc.; No. white. e5;i Gssc': No
whiie. 6:'s q 63c.: No. yellow, 6SH n ss,sc
30 80 yellow. $50 e3ifc.; No. yellow, % n
Doc; oats-No. 2. 2sHc.; No. . white soS
sso:2e.; No. white. new. 500 40c.; No. Whit
a'9 'oc.; No. white. new, ssh a SOC No
wni'e, Ss's 9 ssc. standard. s3%. a +ec stand