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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
HYHAWKER JOTy

To be sure, what's the use of clean
ing the walks? asks the Leavenworth
Times. Warmer weather is bound to
do it sooner or later.
Speaking of strikes, the Salina Jour-
nal calls attention to the fact that
there is a clock in it's office which
strikes AZ times every hour.
Noting that there has been a great
drop in eggs, the Lawrence Journal
remarks This is good news whether
it refers to the hens or the market.
1 have watched the thing a long
time, says Bert Walker. and have
about come to the conclusion that the
best receipt for keeping in the straight
and narrow path is good old fash
toned hard work.
Twenty resolutions were passed at
the good roads convention in Wichita,
notes the Salina Journal and it adds:
And in spite of that handicap, 1t is be-
lieved that the good roads movement
is making progress in Kansas.
The slippery walks, says the Kansas
Cit Kansas, Gazette-Globe, make it
possible for every one, big and small,
how hard it is to walk the paths of
those running for office. About the
time you think you are balanced. you
fall.
A head full of brains isn't always a
good thing to go by, advises Deacon
Walker in his Osborne Farmer. Some
times men of the greatest ability will
get out and make bigger fools of
themselves than the fellows who can't
read line.
81 am glad that the days are grow
ing longer said old ST Chestnut the
other day to the Sedgwick Panta-
graph. 1.-THE old lady will soon be
able to do the milking without a Ian
tern, which will enable us to make
quite little saving on coal OIL"
Commenting on the complaint of the
wholesale grocers that pure food laws
Increase the cost of living by adding
the cost of inspection to the price OF
goods, the Galena Evening Times says:
Well, even this might be considered
preferable to ptomaine poisoning.
An industrious young man of Wake
field was chopping wood last week and
found $50 in the wood pile, according
to the Kansas Optimist which re-
ports further: The next day when the
story became generally known, the
hardware stores sold every ak in
stock.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1


Long days shorten the light bills.
Some people tell unnecessary lies
merely to keep in practice.
Better economic before your credi-
tors compel you to do so.
Many a man has made bad job of
it by posing as good fellow"
Blessed are the spellbinders for they
shall inherit the offices.
1t is easier to scatter sunshine than
it ID to settle with the coal man.
Humility would be more satisfactory
if ambition would cease to butt in.
It's surprising how much woman
can say with her eyes without mean
ing any of it.
1t takes tailormade woman to
make a self-made man look like last
years birds nest.
Some men acquire wealth on such a
small scale that they are locked up in
jail on account of it.
Your enemies are seldom as black
as they are painted, or your friends as
white as they are whitewashed.
A mother is always outwardly proud
of her baby if it looks like its father,
but inwardly she may regret it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
No woman thinks she has clothes
enough.
Ewes Second Husband epitom-
lied: He was a rake.
Don't be your friends severest crit
ic; be their greatest admirer.
Did you ever hear a very young
man say he was fond of babies?
A woman always accounts for her
enemies by saying they're Jealous.
Somehow we always envy the man
who looks comfortable in flannel
shirt.
It happens occasionally that a man
has SO much initiative that the boss
fires him.
1t is an unusual person who can
look after a side issue without taking
time from his main business.
Most men have a. great contempt
for the valet until they get rich enough
to hire one for themselves.
Daughter never gets over wonder
ing what sort of argument Father
must have put up to induce Mother to
say yes
1t is easy to find an argument
against monopoly. but it is difficult to
keep such thing from paying divi-
dends.
A man has to live about forty years
in the town where he was born and
reared before people begin to call him
Mister"
We contend that a man who will
wear celluloid collars shouldn't go so
far as to order them from a mail order
house,
There is one thing about a fat
woman: she is ashamed of ii. A man
is proud of being fat, although the
facts are he looks as badly as the
woman.
A man who borrows money to buy
a marriage license is putting entirely
too much confidence in the old gag
about two people living as cheaply as
one.
We all have our little vanities:
while the barber goes in for fancy
vests, the cowboy saves his money
that he may invest 1t in silver
mounted saddle.
Woman's waist line. as done in her
gowns, shifts a good deal, but this
isn't near SO distressing as the posi-
bility that it will disappear entirely
as she grows older and fatter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
KANSAS COMAENT
COOP IDEA.

l
1t is proposed in the Kansas house
to enact a rule by which the aye and
! nay vote may be taken in committee
! of the whole.
TO any one familiar with proceed
ure IN the mouse, this is a reform
| Whlch VIII commend itself, if it is pro-
| perry safeguarded SO that it can not be
used as a means for delaying the trans
action of business. Perhaps the best
way would be to abolish the committee
| of the whole
| The proposed reform means that it
! would be possible. in committee Of the
Wnole, to demand q roll call and put
| members on record
1t is In committee of the whole where
commendable bills are ambushed and
| sam by enemies who do not dare to
| come out in the open with their oppo-
sition.
| When bill is up in committee of
the whole, some member may say, Mr..
speaker, l move that the committee
i recommend that the enacting clause be
! stricken from the BILL" and then a
i viva voce vote is taken, and members
! VINO would not dare to vote against the
pill on roll call are able to stab in the
back and escape.
Or some noxious amendment to a
good bill may be injected into the meas
ure, SO that when the bill finally comes
upon the floor of the house members
| may vote against it, and cover their
ment which they themselves helped,
uncer cover, to put into the bill.
But unless the right of a roll call is
restricted to the vital question in COM
mlttee OF the whole, it may prove to
pc serious handicap to the work of
the house. which is already slow, owing
to the large number of members who
want to be heard.-Salina Journal.
THAT CHILD LABOR LAW.
Some time ago w. A. McKeever,
professor of philosophy in the State
Agricultural college, made the state
nent that men are not born criminals,
but learn their trade. In the same
pamphlet Prof McKeever speaks of
the vacation season as a crime breeder.
The evident idea being the old adage
An idle mind is the DEVILS work
SHOP" The World believes that Prof.
McKeever is right and once more calls
attention to the vicious law in Kansas
concerning child labor. Under a strict
enforcement of the law it will be i'm
possible for boy to begin learning
a trade until he is past 16 years old.
Th1S law should be amended to meet
conditions as they exist in Kansas.
There are no sweat shops in Kansas
and therefore laws governing sweat
SHOP slavery are unnecessary here.
What is wanted is a law that will keep
boys in school during the school year,
, but which will allow them to engage
in any honorable work during vaca-
ton or during vacant hours before and
after school. The boy who is not
taught to work before he is sixteen
becomes a loafer. Letters to your
representatives and senators should be
written urging Acknowledgement
World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

into law, it will add years to the life
of most of the new pavement that is
put down in cities streets. Everybody
in each city in Kansas is familiar with
the thoughtiess way in which new
pavements on streets are torn up here
and there almost as soon as they are
laid. No matter how much care is
exercised in replacing the pavement,
1t is almost impossible 70 put 1t IN as
good shape as it originally was. A
bump or a depression is usually left in
it. This has tendency to weaken the
surrounding pavement. and the result
is that it does not last nearly as long
as it would, if it had not been neces-
sary to tear it up in places.
The cities of Kansas ought to have
the power to make just such rules and
regulations as this one If they had
there would not be any need to both
err the legislature with matters of this
sort. And this suggests again the de-
STABILITY Of giving the cities of the
state charters of broad enough scope
that their administrators can handle
questions of this sort whenever they
suggest themselves. A larger measure
OF home rule is one of the crying
needs of the cities Of Kansas, even
those which are now being conducted
under the commission form of govern
ment. City officials are hampered in
this way and that whenever they IN
dertake to do anything that may be
a trif1e out of the ordinary, and which
the members of legislature, few of
whom have had any experience in the
management of municipal affairs, are
unable to foresee and provide for in
such limited charters as they are in
the habit of granting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

That plan of a Missouri legislator
to reduce the dangers of aviation by
prohibiting aviators from going. higher
than 1000 feet in exhibition flights in
that state, would likely prove ineffec-
tual were it to be put in force. There
is just as much danger of death fall
from that height or any lesser height
as there is from a much greater
height. Chavez who flew over the
Alps. did not lose control of his ma
chine until he was within thirty feet
of the ground. Yet he was SO serious
ly injured that he died
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

Yale has discarded the elective sys-
tenn in favor of curriculum which
divides the courses of study offered to
the undergraduates in groups cover
ing the entire four years of the college
career. This is the way the courses
used to be arranged in all the colleges
and universities of the country, and
the educations obtained under them
were at least substantial. Then a de-
gree of Bachelor of Arts meant some
thing. But when the new tangled idea
of letting under-g graduates study just
what they pleased was put in opera
ton that degree came to mean little
or nothing. 1t has been asserted. and
not denied. that in one of the larger
universities of the country not so long
ago it was possible for a student TO
earn such a degree by doing nothing
more than taking a four years course
in plano lessons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
A PLAIN WOMAN.

She's plain, uncultured woman,
she cannot philosophers;
dengie, Schopenhauer, Darwin,
Rave no value in her eyes,
or she doesn't know about 'em.
And. besides. she's orthodox,
Sc sho plods along without em;
But darns her husbands socks.
she is not a bit capricious,
NOT on female suffrage bent
And her cooking is delicious
And her husband is content
Sne is wholesome, happy, human,
OnDeguiling, unbegui1ed;
just a plain, uncultured woman;
But she has a little child
" after s. Trumbull, in January Lippin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

1t doesn't take very much to cause
some people to become terribly excited.
y X 4
Any number of folk admit they're
liars by frequently threatening to tell
the whole truth
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who could swear to a
queens taste.
The longer it takes man to hit back
the harder he hits when he finally gets
worked up to it.
y X
Many people would be sorely disap-
pointed in themselves if they only
knew how far off were their estimates
of what they really are.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

Much legislation is being disposed of
in congress these days. For the most
part, though. it concerns inconsequen-
tial measures in which only a few or
many of the congressmen's constituents
are interested. All of the important
general legislation which has been rec
commended by President Taft and in
which the people of the whole country
are concerned appears to have been put
on the shelf. But then congress always
could get busy when the necessity arose
for the grinding of personal axes May
be there'll be change some day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

Those Democrats in the New York
legislature who are standing out
against the election of Sheehan to the
United States senate have the true in
terests of the Democratic party at
heart. If Sheehan's election is brought
about, the victory of the Democrats in
New York during the last campaign
will be vitiated. In fact, the Demo-
cratic cause the country over will re-
ceive blow from which it will be hard
IN recover
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

Pretty near next to the Ten Conn
mandments, fresh air makes people
better.
A girl has beautiful eyes whenever
she herself examines them in the look
ingglass.
We all know we have weaknesses.
but it's only in other fellows they stick
out so everybody can see them.
A soft answer gets you LOT more
abuse because it makes the man who
is abusing you think you will stand it.
Getting woman used to receiving
telegraph envelopes without panic is as
easy as getting her used to the baby
going near scarlet fever.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

a hint to householders: Put your fan
nels on tine waterpipes. Another cold
wave is predicted for the last of the
week. And the weather experts seem
TO be infallible when it comes to pre-
dieting cold waves. AS a matter of fact,
though, several such undesirable eli
matte calamities are due in the winter
season. so perhaps the weather sharps
are not so smart after all.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

After a reading of the reply of Mr..
Jackson' the former attorney general,
to the decision of the house of repre-
sentatives that the matter of the fees
he has received in the prosecution of
violations of the prohibitory law is one
that calls for an investigation, people
may be pardoned for thinking that Mr.
Jackson's idea of what constitutes "a
joke is peculiar to say the least.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

Another great honor for Oklahoma
A dog that was born and reared in that
state won an important prize at dog
show held recently in Tennessee. Some
of the politicians in the new state
could also win prizes for having a few
unusual points in any contest of that
sort that might be held.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

That would-be actress who has been Civ
en- a place on the side lines because she
refused to be kissed by a stage sweet
heart during the course of a play in
which she was to star. made a serious
mistake in selecting a career. She
should have entered a convent and be-
come a nun
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

Jack Johnson is now reported to be
looking for a fight. He'll probably get
it. That's the way such activities us
ually work out. And it is also most
always the case that the man who
looks for a fight gets more than he
bargains for when it comes his way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
Sanctuary for Criminals.

In the matter of precautions, this
country is recognized by criminals as
sort of low-pressure area, into which
they will flow in accordance with nat
ura1 law. Political desperadoes have
long recognized the advantage of alb
staining from overt crime in this coun-
try in order to keep it open as a sanct-
uary into which they can retire when
hard pressed. The mere plunderers
bent upon gain at any cost have a diff
doubt to the fact that plumber is their
trade, and that no country is of much
use to them unless they carry on their
trade. They. bring not only novel forms
of deliberate violence. but also an or
ganization of crime which is probably
more perfect than we are accustomed
to, and in which, by the way, women
play larger part.-London Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

Presumably the judge presiding at the
trial of Mrs. Schenck is getting quite
as tired of it as is everybody else in
the land. He has taken steps to ex-
pedite it to a finish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

Things are beginning to look as
thought DanvilIe. I'LL, is going to press
Adams county, Ohio. pretty hard for
the dishonorable championship of the
,1affop
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24
Boiling an Indian Village.

The government is boiling an Indian
village in the Wind River reservation,
wyoming.
Everything about the settlement, te-
PEGS, clothing, blankets, harness, etc
that can be boiled is being subjected TO
that treatment to destroy traces of
smallpox.
This village is where 100 Indians were
Guaranteed while they suffered from
smallpox in mild form. There were no
deaths, and the quarantine is practical
" lifted
The hot water method of disinfection
was resorted to because the Indians
more readily understood it.-Milwaukee
Sentinel. --
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-24

Nell-Maud has had a dreadful cold for
nearly two months. Belle-How did she
get it? Nell-She went in bathing at
Atlantic City and got her feet wet-Phil-
adelphia Record.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

+ Breckenridge Telegram Gus Dom
aldson. one of the engineers who pull
the fast mail trains 27 and 2S be-
tween this city and St. Paul, tells of
an unusual experience which befell
his train last Thursday. 1t was the
west bound mail, No 27, and they
were running about sixty miles an
hour after leaving Benson. when a
COW got in the way. In the resulting
collision the animal was thrown about
thirty feet and struck a section hand
who was cutting weeds along the right
of-way. Supposing that the man
would be killed, Donaldson stopped
his train and went over to pick up
the remains. Contrary to the ex-
pectations of the crew, however. the
man was not hurt beyond being stun
ned by the impact, and little later
was able to go on with his work.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

Arrangements have been made by
The Farm Store whereby The Mime.
waska Leader, 20 Century first patent.
guaranteed -four is to be sold at
lowest wholesale prices to the people
of Morris, price SO lbs. So. 40; 49 lbs.
ST.. 20; in lots of 500 lbs. or at thou
sand lbs. less. Every sack warranted.
be sure and try it before price is
raised.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

Workmen are busy this week re-
pairing and making improvements at
the Methodist parsonage. and Rev.
Graves expects his family here and
will move in as soon as the work is
done.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17
PROTECTION OF TREES.

WhIteWaSn VIII NGGP HdppIIS FTuW
Gnawing In Winter.
The very best treatment, to our
knowledge, for protecting trees from
rabbits in the winter time. is as fol-
lows:
Make a very thick whitewash by
Stacking quick lime in water. add to it
enough blue stone solution to make
the mass q deep blue, and apply with
brush now and perhaps once later
on in the winter, as far up on the
trunks as the rabbits can reach.-F
L. Washburn, State Entomologist.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

Cyrus Citizen:.- The Cyrus Cream
cry will be closed after this week
because of insufficient cream to keep
it running without loss. 1t will re-
main closed until there is sufficient
amount of cream in the community
to warrant its being run without a
deficit. In the meantime there will
doubtless be local buyers who will
receive cream for out-of- town COM
panies.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17
For Sale or Exchange.

l have the following list of property
that ! wisk to sell or exchange.
32O acres clear land in Oklahoma.
23O acres clear land in Kansas.
800 acres clear land in Texas.
BicknelI Residence. formerly owned
by w. C. Bicknell.
A good 42O acre improved farm in
Stevens Co. for other property.
12O lots in Morris.
1O5 lots in Donnelly.
5 lots in Minneapolis on the best
residence street.
tional Bank, Morris. Mimi.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

S. Stewart, who some time ago
purchased a $50 horse power engine
for the electric light plant, was in
the cities the first of the week and
purchased a new and larger generator
for the plant. The new generator
will be installed in week or two and
the new engine as soon as possible.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

Mrs. ]. E. Starkey and pupils will
give recital at the armory on We'd
nesday evening, Nov. %, at 8 80.
Admission will be by ticket invita-
tions. Mrs. Starkey and her pupils
always furnish pleasing evening" S
enter ainment whenever they give a
recital.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

An epidemic of diphtheria has
broken out at the state Agricultural
school at st. Anthony Park. There
are thirteen cases and about fifty are
thought to have been exposed. Pre-
cautions are being taken to prevent
the spread of the desease.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

AS there are parties circulating a
report that the Fairview Dairy is
going to quit business and other false
reports for their own benefit, | would
say we were never in better shape for
furnishing new and old customers and
can make rates on quantities at any
time. J. A. Yarger, manager.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

b; H. H. Wells was up to Herman on
Monday on account of his brother R.
p. Wells being sick.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17
Midnioht Oil.

Mrs. Simple Newlywed-I want you
to send around gallon Of midnight
oil. Grocer-Midnight Oil? never
heard of 1t. Mrs. Simple Newlywed-
Why, I'm sure that's the kind my hus-
bands mother said he always burned.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17
For Sale

Quarter section of land one mile
from Morris. Sec. 33, Town 125,
Range AZ. This is the estate of
James Mullen, deceased. Address
John Mullen, SGT Main ST., Mankato.
MINI.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17
The shipping of cattle from

= The shipping of cattle from
a distance to the South st.
Paul or Sioux City stock yards,
there to be bought by feeders.
fattened, and then shipped
back to butchers at the points
from whence they came, is one
of the features of the stock
raising business which reflects
small credit on some North.
western breeders.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

Philip Dohm went to the northern
part of the state on Wednesday on a
deer hunt.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

Mrs. E. j. Jones is expected to bt
able to return home Saturday from
Minneapolis. @E
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Spooner went to
St. Cloud yesterday to attend week
end party there.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

More snow started falling yester-
day morning and continued tnruout
the dav. and there is now between
four or five inches on the level. 1t
looks as tho winter has come to stay.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

County Commissioners O. N. Doh
len and P. F. Casey arrived here yes
terday from Duluth where they have
been attending the State Conference
of Corrections and Charities held in
Duluth.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

+ For pains in the side or chest
dampen piece of flannel with Cham
berlain' S Liniment and bind it on over
the seat of pain. There is nothing
better. For sale by all dealers.
Morris tribune., 1911-11-17

Eye-sight restored. By DR.. Bro
kaw eye specialist at Krueger's drug
store. Morris the 9th and 7th of every
month. Painful head and eyes made
painless. Prices always lowest.