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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-12-22
FILES PETITION
FOR ROOSEVELT
Omaha Lawyer Springs Surprise
on State Officials.
ENTERS NAME At PRIMARIES

veiser Declares That He Can Get All
Signatures Necessary to Place For
mer President In Running at Ne
braska Presidential Preference
contest--Says He Has Correspond
ed With Rough Rider but Refuses
10 Make Public Any Of the Letters.
Omaha, Neb, Dec. 21.-Colonel
fheodcre Roosevelt is officially a
candidate for the Republican nomi-
nation for president, his boom having
been launched in Nebraska when the
secretary of state received petition
properly signed asking that the
name Of the ex-president be placed
upon the Republican ballot at the
next primaries, under the preferen-
tial voting law. Only 25 names are
signed to the petition which makes
Roosevelt candidate, and at the
head is that of John o. Yeiser, an
Omaha attorney. Accompanying the
petition is letter from Mr.. Yeiser
onering to secure just as many sig
natures as may be demanded by the
state officials.
Inquiry of Mr.. Yeiser as to his az
thority in making the filing ELECTED
small information. 81 must decline
TO discuss that phase of the matter"
he said.
Have you written Colonel Roose-
welt oil his canddacy?" was asked.
II have"
Declines to Discuss Authority.
"Will you make public this corre-
spondence?" 81 will not. That is a
private and personal matter Fur
7thermore, must refuse to discuss
any correspondence | may or may
not have had with Colonel Roose-
velt."
yet, In the face of your refusal to
make this correspondence public you
have fled this petition which special.
ly makes Mr.. Roosevelt candidate
for the nomination." "The action in
filing the petition answers that Qpes'
tion." replica Mr. 9eiser.
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COLONEL CASEY TO RETIRE

Washington. ID. c.. Dec. 2i-The ac-
tive cpreer of one OF the best known
and most efficient engineering OH.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1911-12-22
NOTICE!

All persons knowing tHssnr
selves to be in debt to
MILTON LEWIS
will please call at Rosn .,
McDermott Bldg, over Mar
dis music store, and settle
same. ALI who are prompt
will confer a great favor TO
me.
l wish to say that l have ina
my Office a full line of sann-
pies for Suits, Overeeats,
Etc, and will be glad to or
der anything that 1 carried
in my stock for aRy enc at
any time.
Office open evenfAgs 'tR 8
O'Clock; Saturday evenings
until 8 o'clock.
MILTON s. LEWIS.
Citizens 'Phone 533B.
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j. BIRTHS -
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A son was born Wednesday to Mr..
and Mrs d. c. Nixon of East Gambler
street.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
THE NATIONS HEALTH.

More and more intelligent interest
is centering on the subject of the ma
TONS health The number of articles
appearing in the newspapers and the
magazines and the practically unani-
nous approval of the presidents ac-
ton in supporting DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley are proof" writes VIM. Jay
Schiefflin in The Survey, '-of the grow
ing Importance of this question. The
endeavor to GUST DIR. Wiley had such
an absolutely opposite effect that those
who promoted it are left in a ludi-
crous position. This conspiracy
against DR.. Wiley has again brought
into prominence the question: Why
should important health matters be
under the control of the departme nt
of agriculture?
"One of the most important meas
ures now pending in congress is the
proposition to ablish a national de-
partment of health. 1t has been COM
puted that sickness and death cost this
nation $4,000 900 annually, If the
value of the labor lost is capitalized.
In the United States. every year there
are 1900, 900 deaths, of which $780,
600, according to reliable authorities.
are due to preventable causes. For
many years our national government
has expended an enormous amount of
money annually in ascertaining and
telling the farmers how to prevent dis
eases among hogs, cattle and other
animals. This is entirely proper. be-
cause it helps to conserve the ma
terial resources of the nation; but ow-
ing to the lack of necessary legisla-
ton, the government has not done
nearly as much towards the conserva-
ton of human life.
TT has been said that the United
States is the laughing stock of Eu-
rope because of the fact that its health
agencies are distributed among the
treasury department. the department
of agriculture and other departments,
while it's people are dying from pre-
ventable causes at the rate of one
every minute. This is a deplora BILE
situation which the various states are
unable to control; but if we had a de-
partment of health with the tremen-
dous facilities Of the national gov
eminent at its command, it could
gather and disseminate among the
people information which would re-
suit in greatly improving their health
and in largely reducing the death
rate"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
JAYHAWKER JOTS

What does "Quack, Quaek!" mean?
asks the high school reporter of the
Lindsborg Record. Generally, the ap-
proach of duck
Say what you please about Billy
Sunday, advises the Douglass Tribune.
He says just what he pleases about
other people and says it hard.
birds of a feather, eh?' chirps the
independence Star in commenting on
the recent marriage in it's town of a
Mr.. Longnecker and a Miss Crane.
About the only way you can get
gossips to speak well of you, says Anna
Carlson in ner LindsborG News, is to
lie down and die-and it isn't worth the
price.
Sinful Peck. OF the Kansas News
Dem ocrat, thinks that the man who
can roast his shinS after a days work
is over and go to bed on a full stom-
ach has no howl coming
Naturally, this comes from Bert
Walker. the ST Anthony of Kansas:
Every old bachelor is a whole lot
wiser than the average married woman
gives them credit for being
The Moundridge Journal has al
ways contended that the only sensa-
ton worse than biting into an apple
and seeing a worm is to bite into the
same apple and see only half a worm.
Related by the OsawatOmie Globe:
THAT woman makes a splendid pray
er, don't she?" said one woman to
another few days. YES" replied
the other, but you ought to hear her
abuse the hired girl"
The attention of the Kansas City
Star is respectfully called to the fol-
lowing from the Atchison Globe: If
the S. s. Chester had wheels with
broad tires. this would be a great fall
for advancing river navigation.
Editor Kelley of the Toronto Re
publican has sent out an earnest ap-
peal for instructions for chasing hat
on windy day without loss of dig
nifty. There may be better ways, but
one is to let an innocent bystander do
the chasing.
Here's a chance for the expenditure
Of a lot Of the peoples money in liti-
CATION, says the Usage City Free Press.
A Garnett councilman refuses to spit
in the cuspidor and defies the authori-
ties to arrest him for splitting on the
floor. BY all means let s call out the
assistant attorneys general and invoke
the aid of the adjutant general
An Augusta genius has invented
some kind of a machine that will pick
UP the dust from every nook and cor
ner of a house OF a store AS soon
as he gets it patented in this and all
other countries on earth he will put
it on the market and be satisfied with
ST royalty on each machine. So en-
thusiastic is the Augusta Journal over
the proposition that it says any mathe-
matician can easily figure out that the
inventors income Will be not less than
100000 q year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
I'D YER Using TALKS
BY WILLIAM c. FREEMAN

Norman Angel, author of THE Great
Illusion in a recent London interview
concluded his remarks with the follow
ITO attain this end we must organize
for the dissemination of facts; perhaps
we might advertise them. 1t sounds
prosaic to say that a great reform-an
immense step in civilization, will come
by advertisement but perhaps we shall
see it
OF course it will come-everything that
IS educational-that means progress, has
got to be told to the people through the
advertising columns.
The ordinary news article never quite
gets at the spirit back of any great re-
form-of any enterprise. To do that 1t
must be written in a way that reflects
the enthusiasm and the faith of the
hackers of that reform-of that enter
prise. And the originator is the only man
who can talk the plan the best and in the
most convincing way.
If municipality wishes to reform-if it
wants to elect business men of character
to office the way to do it is to advertise
IN all the newspapers, telling in the ad-
vertising just what it wants to accom-
plish and why-and the public will re-
spond.
OF course. the backing of good news
paper in its editorial and news columns
in a campaign of this kind is very neces-
sary, but I have noticed in recent years
that editorial, as well as individual opin-
ions, antedating an election. do not count
for much The people, after all, decS4e
these things and are influenced in their
action by facts only, particularly if these
facts are set forth clearly in the adver-
Using columns.
In the year 1912, during the presidential
campaign, the whole country will be
aroused. the people win want all of the
facts before they will vote
The prejudiced arguments of speakers
arrayed on one side as against those ar
rayed on the other side of the fence, will
not have nearly so much weight as in
telligent argument based on facts made
to the people through the advertising
columns of the different publications.
Managers Of the political campaign
next year will do well to consider adver-
Using in their candidates behalf.
CTo be continued.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28

and that a new doctor had happened
to be driving by the house.
What door,"
''rhe front door,"
What doctor?''
'tDr. Foster"
But how did those two old hats
and an overcoat come to be out there
in the road %
1.-THE cat must have been playing
with them
Dr. Foster called next day, and
while dressing the finger he observed
that doors had a bad way of pinch
ing Indeed, they had been known to
grateful glance from both girls and
a "humph!" from brother Fred.
When he called to dress it again he
seemed to look at Miss Nellie's face
more than at the finger, but before
departing he did remark that he had
known of the tail of a dog being
sliced right off by shutting door.
About seven calls were made on the
fingers account, and then he began
calling on other accounts. and the day
before the victim of his bullets was
to leave for home Miss Mollie took
Miss Nellie out to the hen house and
giggled and laughed and asked:
do you like him %
Yes"
HE didn't kill you"
MOO
"And he lied so beautifully"
fsY-e-s"
''And I heard him ask if he might
write you, and call when he was in
town, and you said he might, and you
are going to be engaged and married
and we never shall roll down hill to-
gether gain!"-Copyrigh 1911, by
Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
Money may be filthy lucre, but 1t all
comes out in the wash
Many a fellow has asked for a girls
hand because of the rings on it.
The man who lays up something for a
rainy day isn't SO apt TO be laid up by it.
It's difficult for any man to realize that
he was once the prettlest baby in the
world.
Perhaps the reason the average man
isn't a hero to his valet is because ne
hasn't one
With negative husband and A positive
wife the current of matrimony is seldom
smooth.
Money talks" quoted the Wise Cuv.
Yes. that goes without saying" added
the Simple Mug.
When a woman meets an old friend her
husband asks: What did she saw
When a man meets one his wife asks:
What did she have on2"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
LABOR FOR RED CROSS SEALS.

Direct approval of the campaign for
the sale of Red Cross Seals has been
given by the American Federation of
Labor, according to an announcement
made recently by the National Asso-
citation for the Study and Prevention
of tuberculosis
At the last annual convention OF the
American Federation of Labor, reso-
luton was adopted calling on all the
members of the Federation to further
the sale as much as possible. The
resolution reads as follows:
Whereas, The American Federation
of Labor has in every possible way
aided the movement for the study and
prevention of tuberculosis throughout
the United States and Canada, and
Whereas The American National
Red Cross has been in the past and is
now making an especial effort,
through the sale of Red Cross Christ
mas Seals. to secure funds to carry
on the war against tuberculosis and
BY means of the funds raised in this
manner has been able to do much eff
fective work in this direction, there
fore be it
Grafton of Labor give its endorsement
to the movement of the American Red
Cross and encourage its members to
further in every reasonable way the
sale Of these seals in their respective
communities.
There are now four special meth
DDS by which consumptive working
men in the United States are being
cared for. In such cities as Albany.
Elmira and Binghamton, N Y, the
unions support a separate pavilion or
hospital In cities like Hartford. New
Britain and South Manchester, Conn,
the workmen contribute towards the
maintenance of a fund for the care
of consumptives. The employers also
contribute to these funds. There are
also two national sanatoria for the
treatment of tuberculosis owned and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
KANSAS COAAENT
CHILDREN AND THEIR NAMES

CHILDREN AND THEIR NAMES.
How would IT do TO number instead OF
naming children until they reach an age
when their bodies and minds are devel-
oped and their chara cteristics displayed
beyond a dOuht2 While as a rule the
present system may work all right. not
unoften the names given are a sort OF
mistit 1T Is rather incongruous that "a
hot, quick-tempered woman should bear
the name Of Patience" or that one tip
ping the scales at $50 pounds should be
known as Tiny" Lily" Daisy" or
Birdie" And with men. 1t makes
one smile that some poor creature who
dare not call his soul his own has such
a misfit name as "LycurEus." that one
mentally deficient should 20 through tho
world s. "Solon," that dOmineering UNI
charitable egotist should be introduced
to society as Abraham Lincoln" and
that George Washington" should be
mean, low-down derelict. The ancient
Jews and other nations gave names that
reflected some characteristic or that
spoke of some notable achievement. and
not unoften on occasion they changed "a
mans name. Such practice cannot well
be followed In these days. but 81 might
be well for some parents TO show greater
discrimination in the names they give
their children and not weigh them down
through life with some absurdity.-Nor-
ton County News.
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operated by-Iabor unions: one by the
International Typographical union,
and the other by the Printing Press
men and Assistants union In Massa-
chusetts, Illinois, and elsewhere, large
corporations and manufacturers have
agreed voluntarily to care for all their
consumptive employees for a limited
length of time.
But as long as consumption kills
one in every three workingmen be-
tween the ages of fifteen and forty
five" says the National Association
for the Study and Prevention of
tuberculosis. more education, better
shop and home conditions, and more
hospitals are needed. Red Cross Seals
provide these things
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE

AS a rule. the true optimist has some
thing to sell.
If you must borrow money, don't Dor
row it from your friends
Father isn't apt to whip Son for fight
ing If Son was victorious.
There are many people who would take
rebates who don't get them.
When a woman loves a man, she
blames his friends for his fool tricks
Remember that the public forgets rap
idly, and that you are part of said pub
lie.
A town Is also attaining city proper
lions when its richest citizen keeps a
valet
Speaking of the so much good in all
of US the braggart is an optimistic cuss-
Some men seem to be made of soft,
clinging material, like the heroine's gown
Some men want to work their way up
in the same easy manner that balloon
gets there.
women don't faint as much as form
erly but they fool the men in several
other ways.
There is rumor that the sugar trust
was really responsible for the cranberry
industry.
It is still difficult for some people to
cite the difference between an excuse
and a reason.
What has become of the old-fashioned
woman who insisted ground coffee loses
its flayor2
1t is natural enough for guilty man TO
plead not guilty, but it doesn't always
help him much
a spendthrift is apt to overestimate the
modern conxeniences to be found in the
average poor house.
a rebellion is necessary in the average
mans stomach before he will begin to
govern it properly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
THE CRITIC ON THE HEARTH.

1 know a mellow, worthy pair,
Who may welded year have seen
And stoutly faced their wear and tear,
Learning to bear things and forbear,
And strike loves golden mean.
Yet twixt these two one troubIous cloud
Has spread, that time fails to dispense
AND, spite of all forbearance vowed,
AS with undy1ng force endowed,
The thing gets worse and worse.
One way she has he cannot see
Without an inward groan;
The same in him has come to be
For her a source of misery;
It wears her to the bone.
They put their tempers out of gear
Yet still pursue their riling way,
Each to the other still is dear,
But six months out of every year
They do it every day.
Yet by no deadly sin they're racked
And urged to such undying ire,
Nay, they are proud of this one act;
Which is the futile way, in fact.
That each will poke the fire.
London Evening Standard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
STORM SIGNALS UP
F'orty-AfiIe Blizzard Is Blowing Across
the Lakes.

Sault ste. Marie. Mich. Nov. Is
Northwest storm signals are displayed
at the weather bureau station today
and all vessels are warned TO remain
in port.
A forty mile blizzard from the north
east, accompanied by a heavy snow
storm. has been prevailing but is grad
ually changing to Northwestern. a
large number of boats are tied up and
others are reported at anchor I'm White
Fish bay and the river. Ice is making
fast in the river and unless there Is a de-
cided change in the weather 1t Will be
necessary to get the ice crusher Algoma
in commission to keep the channel open.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Nor are all the blunders made by
persons who are inexperienced.
X X
Almost every man has an idea that
his better half is the wife of a genius.
Hair mattresses seem to have gone
out of style as aids for the construc-
ton of fashionable coiffures.
X
Making even one end meat is some
thing of a problem these days for
those who are not We1l-to-dO.
If a man wins the first time he plays
a game he is more than likely to be-
come one of its ardent devotees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
TURKEYS ARE CHEAPER
A Drop of Two Cents Pound I'm Chi
cage Today.

Chicago. Nov. 2S.-With Thanksgivinr
dinner yet IS hours distant the wholesale
price of live turkeys today dropped :
cents a pound to Is cents. For dressed
turkeys the cost fell = cent. Plentiful
supplies on hand was the expectation.
There was a good crop Of the birds this
year and receipts for the last few days
have been heavy.
According to dealers. one drawback re-
NAMED from a housekeeper's point OF
view. Most market men. after holdiuF
back as long as possible, purchased the
bulk supplies yesterday before the whole
salers made the hoped for cut ia prices.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
DAFFYDHS
BY Z. NOALL-

If the people of Topeka went to
war would those of Wamego2
(Police! Police There's a lone fly
abroad which was not swatted last
summer.1
If a doctor is wicked, would his
medicine?
(send in a hurry call for the ambu-
lance.)
Can blind man fall in love at first
sight?
(Mercy. Mary! That was a terrible
iolt.1
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News.

lFrom the Chicago News.
And those you envy may envy others
higher up
Many a rascal was given a good name
by his parents.
The butchers favorite authors are not
necessarily Lamb and Bacon.
A taIkative woman may strike a man
dumb, but not with admiration.
Better prepare for winter by getting on
good terms with the janitor
The latest wrinkle often calls for the
services OF a beauty specialist.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28

Now comes the season of the year
for picking out AlI-American. All
Eastern and All-Western football
teams. There will be as many of them
as there are football experts. For no
two of the latter can agree in this
particular. And if anybody, outside
of the experts. is not satisfied with any
of the teams selected, he is accorded
the privilege under the federal con-
stitution of choosing one himself Let
there be no acrimonious debate or
bIoodshed over such an unimportant
matter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-28
FROM OTHER pEES


LADIES IN THE JURY BOX.
It is already becoming clear what viii
be the principal result OF knocking down
the barriers which once barred woman
from the jury box Woman's sphere will
another opportunity to display her soft
heartedness in the face Of manly beauty
in distress.
out in California the other day there
who was charged with maltreatment OF
l5-year-old boy. The boy plaintiff was
evidently an attractive looking youth and
his plea was not weakened as he told 50
to the ~ women of the jury with tears
rolling down his cheeks. But the evidence
happened to be so strongly against him
that the judge in the exercise OF his mind
and duty ordered a verdict for the de-
PENDANT.
The jury swept out Of the box and
promptly returned with a verdict OF.
guilty. II is recorded that the Judge
why the instructions Of the court were
disobeyed, the forewoman retorted that
the jury thought the defendant was am
effect. and that whatever the evidence
showed they intended that he should be
punished.
The moral is plain. No woman should
be tried by a male jury and women
should never be allowed to try "a man.
II the plaintiff in this case had been 4
landlady trying To collect her just debt
from a deserted young bride With a lack
Of business instinct viii anyone venture
to say that she would have got Justice
from her own sex? 1t IS useless a.
pause for reply. On the other hand
how rare are the occasions when a fur,,
OF men falls 70 give the desired amount
of heart-bslm to the thrifty coulletfes
There are those who deem the whole e,,s
tenn Of trial by jury a clumsy method a.
signed to defeat the ends Of justice Pt.t
If we only realize that the only neere -
woman are other women. and that r,s,,
seeking Justice against youths who 49,
cursed with the fatal gift OF bes,-.,
should never be handed over to the 49,
der Tnercies OF the fair sex. il may e.
even of its most conternptuous er3tses 6
Philadelphia Press
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POST-SCRIPT
GO OVER THE MESSAGE
President Taft and His Cabinet Hold
Long Session.

Washington, Nov. 2S.-That President
Tafts annual message which goes 10 con-
gress next week is regarded by his cap-
met as most important was indicated To-
day by the long consideration given 70
it and the number Of revisions, under
stood this afternoon 10 have been mace
or proposed. The cabinet met az ~
O'Clock and with only one interruption OF
a few minutes sat through the usual
luncheon hour and still In session
late this afternoon.
Rumors of disagreement over parts OF
the message were not confirmed at the
White House