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Professor Ryans show at the Center
school Thursday evening was we'll at
tended and everybody pleased.
Lew Kerrigan has gone to South
Dakota to look after his farm.
John Dohse, Jr. has bought the 100
acre farm of Ricke Bruins for $l7,
90. We welcome you, John.
William Malloy, of Missouri is Wis
lifting with his brothers.
Mrs. John JAMS is visiting with her
children in Jackson township.
Tim Ryan left for Omaha SATURDAY
on a pleasure and business trip.
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Button and
daughters, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank JAMS
and children and Peter Boldt and
wife were oyer-Sunday guests OF Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Rickers.
August 26th there will be chill
dren's dance at Arcadia.
Mrs. Robert Hannah and daughter
visited at the Fred Rickers and Mrs.
Henry Maynard homes Wednesday.
Who invented ice cream anyway?
He must have been among the unrec-
oenized great. Thursday, August ~,
1889. Senator William Maclay, OF
Pennsylvania, attended diner given
by President Washington. 1T was
great dinner" he wrote in his journal
after he got home. 'The best OF the
kind l ever was at. The room, how
ever, was disagreeably warm. The
dessert was first apple pies, buildings,
ETC.; then ice creams, jellies, etc.; then
watermelons, muskmelons, applies,
peaches and nuts
So the palate was delectated in the
heat of a New York August day by ice
cream as much as 120 years ago. |,
were pity that the inventors name
should have been lost in the haze OF
antiquity.
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-27
KANSAS AND IRRIGATION.

Not few Kansas farmers and many
of their brethren in other agricultural
states in the central west are being at
tracted to newly opened lands in states
in the far southwest and northwest
where the wonders of irrigation are be-
ing exploited. The land in these sec
tions is as high priced and in many
instance higher than the best of farm
lands in Kansas Not only that but
the cost of water rights is also pretty
expensive, even if the payment for
them is spread over a period of years.
Right here in Kansas, though, there
is much LAND that can be had for ex-
ceedingly reasonable prices which can
be adapted to irrigation and on which
as large if not larger results can be
achieved as on the irrigated lands in
the distant places, where the other
advantages Of civilization are not de-
veloped to any such extent as they are
in Kansas. An instance of the adap-
liability of Kansas land to irrigation is
cited in unmistakable fashion in a
local story that appeared not long ago
in the Kearney County Advocate pub
lisned at Lakin. 1t follows:
John Baumann has just installed a
we'll on his place on the south side
of the river that is the best we have
seen yet. 1t is a "A inch casing sunk
to the depth of SO feet; in this is a
~ inch pipe to which is attached a
centrifugal pump large enough to
throw a solid stream. Its supposed ca
pacity, under pressure, 1850 gallons per
minute. Mr.. Baumann has 240 acres
of smooth even land, with a slight
slope, which he intends to irrigate with
this we'll He expects to attach
a forty horse power crude oil bur-
ner engine to operate same.
He has just completed a modern thi~-
teen room residence which viii have
hot water heat throughout and lighted
by electricity operated by his own
power. MI Baumann is one of oar
new citizens, coming from Iowa and
is a practical farmer. He sized up
the situation in this valley at a glance.
He examined the soil; it was all right.
He was careful in selecting a smooth
piece of land with enough slope to be
easily irrigated. He argued that this
soil, with water, would raise any crop,
and he has backed his judgment by
expanding a good sized fortune in I'M
provements- He has erected a mod
ern home, a modern barn and mod
ern irrigating plant, and broke I'D a
large section of his farm and cuiti-
waited same. which will be ready for
next seasons crops. He has imported
cattle. a cross between Swiss and Jer-
sey, brought from Switzerland. He
has a good sized family of bright boys
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and girls who are good musicians and
viii be a welcome adjunct to the
young crowd. With Mr.. Baumann this
year is preliminary, just getting ready,
as 1t were. but to show his foresight,
he will, from present indications, have
magnificent crop of potatoes this
fall. His prophetic vision must have
been illuminated for there is a short
age everywhere else
OF course Farmer Baumann was in
financial position to establish him
self at the very beginning on a rather
magnificent scale. But his activity
and dtscernment show the possibilities
of irrigating Kansas land with success.
Nor Is his case an isolated one. Farm
ers all over the state are beginning 20
go into the irrigation business. par
ticularly in western Kansas. And the
fact that much Kansas land is adapt
able to irrigation should be heralded
broadcast. Kansas would then get its
share of the fasteners who are seek
ing this sort of land.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-27
JAYHAWKER JOTS

An old plug of a horse or a poor
milk COW will be somewhat of a lux
ury to keep this coming winter; better
get rid of them, advises tho Formoso
New Era.
College spirit may be a great thing
in college, remarks the Hiawatha
World. but it isn't much of a help
around a rock quarry or a business
establishment.
Better keep your COWS away from
cane and kaffir corn patches unless you
have time to skin them, is some ad-
vice from the Windy Corner CORE
spondent of the Herndon Nonparei.
A recent rainstorm in Ellis county
as described by the Hays Free Press:
One of the grandest (allegoricaD rain
storms ever in this vicinity came Tues
day night. Clouds from the blacklist
black to brilliant red hoated through
the sky, lightning flashed, thunder
rolled, and the opening of Creation
had come. The music ceased, the pic
lures on the screen of the airdome
faded from the view. Rain battered
on the roof. people got within their
homes, when in a few moments the
full moon shone in the heavens, the
face smiled Fooled Again" and the
clouds rolled by.
Sporting news in the Herndon Non
pareil: The horseshoe game is wax
lib last anu III 4NGol1J every 0clJ
some farmer comes in with 'blud' in
his eye and wants to pitch some of
the Herald force and if we are all busy
we send to the court house, where we
can always find a substitute. Oh, you
pitchers, take notice, You can find a
game most any time. Julian
Drath of HerndOn was in town
Wednesday evening, having come over
with Henry Euhus and Young May of
Logan. They were ready to go home
and were looking for him f. a couple
of hours and could not imagine what
had went with him, but finally found
him in a game of chess with Colonel
the colonel a hard man to meet in a
game of chess.
A couple of Atticas new school
marms went hunting schools last week
and We're caught in the heavy rain
Thursday afternoon. They stopped at
a convenient farm house until the rain
was over, then started out to drive to
the home of a school director They
came to a small creek whfcT the rain
had swollen until it ran over the Gull
vert, which could not be Seen. The
young ladies were up against it-they
were afraid to drive across for fear
the culvert had been washed out.
Finally, one young lady said to her
companion, I'VE must get across and
see that school director I just must
get the promise of that school, know
what I'll do" What she did do was to
pull off her shoes and stockings and
wade out across the culv..rt to see that
it was safe. Then they drove across,
saw the school director and got the
promise of the school. Well wager
that school will be a decided success
the coming term-at any rate the new
teacher won't be bluffed.-Attica In
dependent
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QUAKER 7fEDITATToNs.

LF'rom the Philadelphia Record.1
Dumb luck isn't wholly restricted IA
the deaf mute.
The man who wants to be a beau
should never be bowlegged.
The brewer makes people ale. wbera.
at the brewer rejoices.
If you want to demonstrate the m
certainty OF sure thing bet your
money on it.
There is nothing that viii take the
cenceit out of a man SO much as his
own wedding.
The only people who have mora
friends than they need are the neorls
who don't need them.
Even a boy who doesn't know how
to spell would rather have the whole cf
doughnut than the hole of it.
The editor doesn't always agrea with
the postof1ce authorities as to what
constitutes hrst-class matter.
Nell-"Maude doesn't follow The
styles very closely, does she?" Belle
I should say not. Why, that dress
she has on Is last weeks style,
What IS it that we iken unto 4ha
sands Of the sea?' asked the es,sv,,se-S
school teacher. Summer girls, ,a-
piled the kid who reads the comic a,1n-
plements.
The man who goes out to 1oo1- 60.
four-leaved clover is lucky not -
be the victim of poison wv, sS
bull, mosquito bites or bee sfinas .a sI,ss.
though he may find what he was looi- -
ing for. WA
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-27
GLOBE SIGHTS.
Iron the Atchison Globe

LFrom the Atcfison Globe.l
There is no need to provide artifi-
cial hot air escapes.
You have doubtless encountered ex-
plantations that didn't explain any
thing
The family skeleton shouldn't be
allowed to appear in public in a bath
ing suit.
There are plenty of wrinkle remov-
ers, and a good dealsfor them to work
on.
incidentally. why doesn't some mov-
ing picture concern use cowboys for
"a subject?
An optimist is a man who hopes to
be able to declare dividend on a
hunting license
One may convince mule by talk
ing loud, but that process has little
influence on man.
Fewer men seem to be wearing col
lars built to form frame for a prom
inent Adams apple.
Colorado and California probably
are exaggerated more than anything
else except the fish stories.
Flies and gossips revel in filth, al
though both are sometimes found in
the homes of leading citizens.
But the well-informed man should
Mt labor under the delusion that he
is the only fount Of knowledge.
Women are abused a good deal. but
you viii find more women who excel
as cooks than as piano players.
When you go into the enemy's coun-
try you should always figure that the
umpire will be against you.
II it were only in childhood that
people chased off after the end of the
rainbow, they would get along better
Although you may not be a base
ball player, there always is an umpire
at your heels with raw decisions for
you.
1t should also be remembered That
woman, whose work is never done.
does most of the visiting in this vale
OF tears.
IF a man lets his violent temper get
away with him, it is a sign he doesn't
try to control it as much as he might
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Reporter Forgets saIary.

Ever hear of a newspaper man
who forgot to draw his salary for
all in heap?" asked the Cub Reporter
as he licked his cigarette ashes away
from his new notebook.
His companions surveyed him coldly.
Said the Able Copyreader (for there
are such). you should save these liz
tie true stories of newspaper life for
magazines and the stoige."
'Incredulity and Ignorance are
twins" rejoined the c. r. hotly. BE
fore you interrupted me I was going
counting room when he cashed in. Old
Moneybags behind the cage let out a
shrek that was heard as far as the
Singer building. Bookkeeper dropped
in a fit. Don't butt in
Long low whistles caused the gorge
Of the G. r. to rise as he faced his
skeptical prosecutors.
"Give us story now about some
journalist who forgot to ask for a So
order before pay day remarked the
hale genius buster on his right.
IF you can find anybody within
sight of the city hall who will swallow
this yarn of yours" observed the Star
reporter, who had come in from across
the water, 1--WE apologize
The jaunty journalist gave his
strange account over and over again.
From the Press club to beef an
Johnny's' he recounted the prodigy
which, he said, his eyes had beheld,
and men heard him through and then
turned sadly away, lamenting how the
heat of the summer solstice can blight
the mind.
At last they appointed a committee
on the sanity of the G. r. and gave him
one more chance
"You say remarked the Oldest Liv-
ing pityingly, that you can take US to
this newspaper man who forgot for
three months to draw his salary -?
Then, for the sake of reason, Bill. do
so at once"
He led them to tall building at the
corner of Nassau and Spruce streets.
and soon they stood in the presence
of youth who was intently assisting
the city editor.
isn't it true" gasped the c.. r..
that you forgot to draw salary for
three months and happened to think
about it casually one day last week
and took it all at once ?"
quite So" replied the newspaper
man addressed amiably. cit was rath-
er absentminded of me, but what of
it -
He looked up and all signs of Wis
itors were gone.
what a remarkably personal in
quiry," commented Ogden Mills Reid
son of Whitelaw Reid, owner of the
Tribune, as he drew a wide circle with
q blue pencil on the printed page be-
fore him.-NeW York Herald.
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MONEY RETURNING.

After the Boxer rebellion the Chinese
government promptly paid the in
IDENTITIES demanded by the allied pow
ers whose troops had made the memoir
able advance on Pekin. The United
States accepted the sum apportioned it,
but found, when all just claims had
been paid, that there was a consider
able balance remaining, and this bal
ance it turned over to China. Tt was
an honorable thing to do, and the
Chinese government has shown its ap-
probation by setting the money aside
as fund, the proceeds of which shall
be used in educating each year a num-
Der of Chinese youth in America. On
August Z 65 Chinese students will leave
their native land for the United States
to enter American colleges. where their
expenses will be paid out OF the income
from the Boxer indemnity which was
returned to China by the United States
The value of this sort Of thing cannot
pc estimated in dollars and cents. or IN
any other denomination Of money
Manchester Union
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FROM OTHER PENS
CRIMES AND ARRESTS.

Statistics concerning crime need to
be used with caution. To say that rob-
berry :ntoxication and crimes against
women are less numerous in New York
than in Chicago, because the percent
age of arrests in Chicago is greater
may only mean that the Chicago police
are more vigilant. Similarly, the low
percentage of arrests in Chicago for
disturbance of the peace, compared
with the New York record, may in
dictate that the great metropolis pur-
sues a different policy as to arrests, as,
indeed, seems probable in the light of
Mayor Gaynors recent reform efforts.
Comparison depends mainly upon the
answer to the question as to what con-
stitutes a disturbance of the peace.
Even if the Philadelphia police are
making IL times more arrests for
breaches Of the peace than the Chicago
police, the fact indicates little. Over
jealous or stupid policemen may make
many arrests that are not justifiable,
while inefficient officers may not make
nearly as many arrests as they ought
to make.
Statistics of convictions for crime
probably are more valuable than those
of arrests. but even in using them it
ought to be considered that juries are
less inclined to convict in some local
tiles than in others; that magistrates
differ in their attitude toward those
charged with crime, and that laws vary
in the several states.-Washing
Herald.
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HUAOR OF THE Day

The recommendation of the Maine
Game Commission for more severe treat
ment of careless hunters recalls the way
an indian in Washington county once
sized up Names game laws: xiii cow
moose, pay 500; kill man, too bad
Boston Globe.
Teacher-Wil1ie, did your father cane
you for what you did in school yester-
day? Pupil-NO, ma'am; he said the lick
ing would hurt him more than it would
too sympathetic. Pupil-No, ma'am; but
he's got the rheumatism in both arms
Beaumont Enterprise.
.sBinks used to be daft on the snbiaos
Of buried treasure. What's he up to
now z" Hes got up an expedition to
Try 10 1ind the place where Methuselah
stored his birthday presents."-Toledo
Blade.
suitor-surely your father would do
Indeed he would! He said that he would
operate on you any time free of charge
Judge.
Ethan. reflectively, ito be one of the
charitablest men in the whole town. and
guess he was. He always owned a
pug hat, for one thing, and never knew
him to refuse to lend it to anybody
Youths Companion.
k9OHtcILueS we interpret TOO literally. Il
want to learn to make jelly" said the
newly installed housewife. rs 1t hard 70
"Oh, Lord, no NUM-" replied the cook.
with supreme pity Its oft.''-Judge.
Lets drop into this restaurant" 20. I
don't believe L care to eat anything
'Well, come in and get a new hat for
your old one, anyway."-St. Louis Poat-
Dispatch.
Il have remarkable history began
ITO tell or to sell?" inquired the LAWYER
cautiously.-W ashington Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-27
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
fFrom the Chicago News.1

[From the Chicago News.1
Women ask "Why?' Men ask
sWhen?'
Mans weakness is woman's oppor-
tunity to get even.
Anyway the tire of a lazy man isn't
easily punctured-
A kick against fate is often but an
apology for laziness.
When kind and gentle man does
deliver a jolt it counts.
Troubles shadow Is frequently black
er than the trouble itself
If a woman can't think of any other
excuse she can have headache.
There are times when it is better to
be imposed upon than 1t is to fight
A self-made man nearly always looks
like the kind Of job he might be ex-
pected to turn out
When a girl wants to be kissed she
makes more fuss about it than she
would IL she didn't
Winking at trouble is almost as dan
gerous as winking at the man who dis
penses soda water.
Success has been known to assume
the guise of a sexton long enough to
dig the grave Of genius.
If our neighbors would only do things
as we think they should. how much
easier 1t would be 70 love thernl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-27
nHR RANCM KIN


The Johnsons, I'D Dead Injun Draw,
Have got the cutest- little boy;
We worship hfrn-his word is law
The cowboys bring him many a toy;
The Johnsons went the other day,
To visit folks on Roarin' Branch,
And We was proud to have Babe J.
Left in our care at Two-Bar. ranch
At night the word was whispered through
That Johnson's kid was awful sick;
You oughter seen that clubhouse crew
Jest fight to ride our fast horse, Nick;
But Pecos Kelly got astride
And rode like blazes forty mile
To get a doctor-that there ride
Nobody's goin' to beat awhile.
The Circle bunch they did their part
And relayed Pecos, and the Doc
Was hustled out so fast his heart
Near went to pieces from the shock;
We hung around the ranch house door
TIL Doc comes out-one 'dobe cake
And says: Don't play nursemaid no
He only had the tummy achey'
Arthur Chapman, in the Denver Repub-
hcan.
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JOURNAL ENTRIES

The unreasonable fellow never
thinks he's that way.
Some men. like many other ami
mails, are not as fierce as they look.
= =
Most people have a far more enjoy
able time when others are footing the
bills.
When a man is satisfied with his
lot in life he is generally Embedded
deeply in a rut.
Buying hay for horse these days
is nearly as expensive as keeping an
automobile supplied with tires.
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was a 'sunfragette. because wanted
you to stay
But the Merely Power company
Is it your real reason for being here
Are you lobbying for it %
Mono am not. haven't ,
dollar in it. Truly / have not. But I
did have. Must tell you any more
Won't you trust me, Richard, and not
ask me to tell you-''
Go on. Tell me everything"
"A few days ago some one said that
you intended to vote to close the Pow
er company and limited that I was try
ing to influence you in favor of the
company. I did not want you to think
that I was trying to get your vote and
and so 1 sold my stock. was IN
such hurry to dispose of it that 1
let it go for mere fraction of its
value
''You sacrificed your property be-
cause you feared 1 should think"
The amazement in his voice stung
her. She whirled toward him =
have plenty of money. Don't f1atter
yourself that I have beggared myself
for the sake of your opinion" She
looked at him for the first time since
she had begun her confession. The
look in his eyes stopped her irate
words.
Betty, u're-you're-the dearest
the best Let's-Let's go to the rock
by the river and dream new dream,
the sweetest one in the world. Don't
turn your face from me. dear, unless
you want me to kiss the back of your
head."-(Copyright 1911 by the As
ISOLATED Literary Press.)
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WhoIesomeness of Lee.

With the season of ice beverages at
hand, it is pertinent to recall the
words of Prof. Sedgwick of Technol-
ogy's department of biology and pub
lie health, to the effect that fee is not
unwholesome, as the majority Of peo-
pie have been led to suppose. Accord
ing to Prof Sedgwick, mary typhoid
germs are killed by freezing, and after
two weeks exposure in the ice, up
ward of SO per cent die: the remain
ing germs, while quite hardy, gradu-
ally are weakened and eventually die.
LAS a vehicle of disease he says. ice
is plainly far less dangerous to the
public health than is either water or
milk
In Prof. Sedgwick's tests he has
shown that typhoid bacilli are killed
when stored in ice after nine weeks,
and that B. coli, communis, may ole
after a period of twelve weeks. Most
ice is, of course, stored longer than
this. He states that last winter (and,
in fact, for five or six winters) he made
a large number of examinations of ice
harvested in New York. Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Connecticut, land in
every case where a subsequent exani-
nation was made in June or July the
accuracy of my figures as to the effect
of temperature on bacteria in Ice has
been verified
Users of ice will stiE be careful,
however. Long-cherished beliefs are
not easily upset, even by unquestioned
scientific authority and pronounce
ment. Much ice has dirt in it, and
besides being distasteful, it has been
asserted that bacilli protected by a
comparatively thick coating of dirt or
sawdust may resist the surrounding
cold for a considerably longer period
than the same bacilli IL frozen solidly
and unprotected in the ice.-Boston
Advertiser.
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REFLECTIONS OF BACHELOR.
IFrom the New York Press.1

IFrom the New York Press.
All kisses taste alike to a man when
they're in the family.
woman is able to hold down her
age much easier than her weight
man is sure he's interesting to
girls because they are so tricky as to
let him talk about himself.
If you anchored your money the
way you do a boat, it would drag an
chor and get away just the same.
Some men seem to think that tax
ing home to their wives a magazine
they bought to read on the train
makes it all up to. them for never
giving them q cent.
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alleged wire trust have been permitted
TO withdraw their pleas Of not guilty
by the judge handling the case and
enter pleas of "nolle contender"
Now they get off with fines And fin
ing trust magnate is like pouring
water on a ducks back. This turn Of
affairs in the wire trust case Is an
other strong argument for fixing UP
the antitrust laws so that guilty in
dividuals who violate them cannot es-
cape with fines. Jail or prison SEN
fences are the only punishments for
them that are worth while and which
would have a salutary effect,