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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-12-09
rREco MERCANTILE co. SALE

The sale that is now on at the
Trego Mercantile surpasses anything
of its kind in it's history. Everything
is being marked down surprisingly
low and there is not a shop worn art
icle among them, everything new.
clean and up-te-date. This sale
comes at a most propitious time as
the holidays are now approaching
and it will be grand opportunity to
secure many useful and beautiful
things for Xmas gifts at prices that
are so low as to make them available
for all. Don't miss this great sale
go to the big store and take a look.
1t will cost you nothing and the pros
pective buyer will be more than
gratified at the bargains offered.
Don't fail to read their big ad. on
inside pgges of this issue.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
THE GREAT WHITE WAY.

That the lighting committee of the
Commercial club is active in formulat-
ing the preliminary plans for the es-
tablishment of a lighting system on
Kansas avenue that will transform it
into "great white way is welcome
news. The realization of this project
Will be great thing for Topeka It
will advertise it to the strangers with
in its gates as a town that is up and
doing, a wide-awake municipality
where progress in all things is on the
way. And it is the impression on
strangers that counts for much in the
growth of a city.
But the Commercial club committee
is working on plans for more than a
brilliantly lighted street at night. 1t
is figuring on having the many large
and unsightly wooden poles removed
which are used by the street railway,
the telephone and telegraph COM
panies. The street car company has
signified its willingness to do away
with such poles which are used by it
at the street intersections to hold up
its network of cross wires, and in their
place Will use the ornamental steel
poles on each of the street corners,
which will be a part of the new light
ing system. And some way can sure
ly be found by the telephone and
telegraph companies to remove their
similar poles, which are such an eye
sore on the street. They would show
up in archaic fashion when the street
was made modern thoroughfare at
night. They would be an anachronism.
Under the law passed by the recent
legislature, which makes possible the
creation of this white way project, the
burden of the original cost of it's in
stallation will fall on the property
owners along the avenue The subse-
quent cost of its maintenance will fall
on the entire city. As many of the
merchants doing business on the ave-
nue. are renters the tax on them for
this great public improvement will be
comparatively light one But they
can do their part to make it more of
a success by seeing that their show
windows are lighted with equal bril-
liancy at night, or at least during the
early hours of it. Several of the mer-
chants do this already. but they are
not in the majority. A general light
ing of the show windows. with the
special street lights that are to be put
in, will turn Kansas avenue into a
''WIite Wav'' in tr11th
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

fer a group of magazines at half. or
less. the regular advertised price.
Undertaking has had its fling; it has
seen it's balmy days, and now must
come the SOLDERING up, and nursing
back to health of vitiated mental appe-
tites. The eyes of the readers have
been color blinded until everything
looks yellow, or If seen in any other
hue, appears unnatural. It will take
time, yet it will come. but in the
process Of recuperation some maga-
zines, the worst offenders. are sure to
pay the penalty of excesses. Some will
struggle through to health again, and
some whose vitality is at low ebb will
not survive. but out of it will come a
chastened, enlightened, class of pub
fishers and a return to that high stand
ard of real literature which only few
magazines have steadily maintained
through these weary years OF husk
eating and reveling with the swine.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
HYHAWKER J0Ty

AS the society editor of the Hiawa-
tina World puts it: A woman dresses to
look IA around the feet and 40 around
her head.
Mack Gretchen says some people are
so cranky that if they find the silver
lining to their cloud they kick because
i isn't gold"
The sun crossed the line Tuesday and
tn, act was accomplished without any
frills and friction, remarks the Hum
boldt Union, and then it comes across
with this good advice: Now slaughter
the spring poets"
There is one good thing about gaso-
line engine, says the Cimarron Jack
sonian. 1t never refuses to run until at
least three different things have hap
pened to it. At least that is what W.
always find in trying to make it start
again.
A newspaper is supposed to be as
tenacious of life as a cat, remarks the
ottawa Republic. Here's the Baldwin
Republican to prove it. The Republ1-
can lived nine years and had nine own
the paper died.
The latest thing in society sdoings
called showers as reported by the
Kansas press concerns one OF the
kitchen variety which a woman gave
her husband the other night. and dur
struck him squarely above the right
eye.
The editor of the jamestown Optim-
ist answers the advertisement of the
editor of the Clyde Voice for a new list
of adjectives for use in writing up
weddings as follows: 1.-The next time
the editor of the Voice writes up a
wedding, he has our permission to say
that the bride is homely, selfish, i'll
natured, pug-nosed, fretful ungainly,
fat, stoop-shouldered, cranky, sloven-
ly. uneducated spiteful and unlady-
like. He may also say that the groom
is ignorant, worthless, lazy, ugly,
stingy, mean, cowardly and dishonest.
These are only a few suggestions and
we do not even advise the Voice man
to use them, or If he does they should
be used conservatively. AS far as we
are individually concerned we intend to
stick to the prehistoric style. In this
might be termed progressive We are
a standpatter."
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

Perhaps she will feel differently
tomorrow" Dick suggested .sT can't
understand it,
Looks to me as If Kitty might be
sweet on you. I'm done with her for
good. I'll just knock around a while
to see the sights and then I'll make
Tor nome. Turning on his heel he
walked up the street.
The abashed state pathologist re-
malned for some moments stupidity
staring after him.
Kitty was not in the dining room
the next morning nor the next, nor
next. Cartons uneasiness increased
from day to day. To what desperate
measures had he forced her? Or,
perhaps she was i'll? Either alterna-
solved to consult one of the mattresses.
1t was near the end of the dining
hour, and the room was free from
guests. The Mattresses congregated in
little knots, talking. To his disturbed
conscience they seemed to watch him
beckoned to the nearest one.
Where is Kitty Ralson7"
"Sfe has gone away The girl
spoke meaningly, and he recognized
her as the sole witness of the unfortu-
nate Saturdays encounter.
He gave little sigh of relief. "Oh,
then you know about it, His tone
was so miserable that the girl relented.
kitty was afraid you might bring
that fellow back, so she left
'But where has she Eone?" he per-
sisted eagerly.
The waitress eyed him sharply. II
r were you I would not hunt her up
unless''-she hesitated-"unless you
like her pretty well.''
But why, why?" Carton stam-
mered, the blood rushing to his face.
Because Kitty likes YOU. Didn't she
hang over your table the blessed time
you were in the room? Didn't she turn
color if you as much as spoke to herr
Anyone but a man would have seen
it," The scorn of her tone was mex
pressible.
His head whirled. Kitty loved him.
And he-and he-like one in a dream
he heard himself saying, "And if do
like her?"
''Then she Is at the Bixby hospital,
starting a course in trained nursing.
He made straight for the telephone
booth, and then caught a car to the
hospital All the way his heart was
singing. In his chosen work of teach
ing the mountain folk how to farm he
would have a loving helpmate, he
would have one of his people.-(Copy-
right 1911, by the Associated Literary
preSSN
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
QUAKER sfEDITArToNs.
[From the Philadelphia Record

rFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Most rich men are quite satisfied to
let their money do the talking.
The one good turn that deserves an
other sometimes has long time to
wait.
One swallow doesn't make sum-
mer, but one grasshopper can make
spring.
The things you don't want demon
strate that it is better to give than to
receive.
Somehow or other. the matrimonial
bargain counter never seems to con-
tain any shopworn heiresses.
No, Maude, dear; when pugilists
drink we have never heard that their
preference was for punch.
We can always greet disappoint-
ment with a smile, if it happens to be
some other fellows disappointment.
Hoax know one place where d.
vorce comes before marriage. Joax-
I'll be the goat. Spring it. Hoax-In
the dictionary.
Nothing is so bad that it couldn't
be worse.'' quoted the Wise Guy.
yes" agreed the Simple Mug. we
can't suffer from insomnia and night
mare at the same time"
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
Modern Robinson Crusoe.

There Is an island lying about $50
miles from the southern end of New
Zealand named Macquarie, which, in
the Maori tongue, is designated by a
name meaning "the last joint of the
tail" Capt. J. K. Davis, OF Shackle-
TONS ship. the Nimrod, visited It, ana
his report of his journey was publish
ed in the Geographical Journal. Capt.
Davis quest was a singular one He
was sent on journey from Sydney, IN
Australia, to Cape Horn to look for
lost islands. Various islands had been
reported as seen by previous explorers,
but Can't. Davis vessel sailed over the
supposed location Of Royal Island, En-
erald Island. the Nimrod group. ana
Dougherty Island without finding
At Macquarie Island. incorrectly To-
Gated on the admiralty cnart, ne iouna
a single inhabitant. Ills name was
MacKibben, and he had landed three
months before. of his own volition, from
a. schooner which came TO get sea
elephant oil. He had a hut of two
rooms, heated with coal, which he car
ried four miles, and with plenty of
ship stores to live upon he supple
n,ented the canned diet with the hearts
and tongues of sea elephants.
When Capt. Davis invited him to re-
turn to the world, he said: why
should L? I'm happy enough here ana
have all want. I'm glad to have seen
you, but I don't want to leave the Is
land
Here was a Selkirk who did not ask
for pity or repine in his lot; he was
monarch of all he surveyed and was
entirely happy. The solitary connne-
ment among the penguins and sea
grasses. with 20 miles of wind-sWept
highlands to roam over and g. sailless
horizon, would have driven some men
crazy, but solitude brought only peace
and contentment to the soul OF this IT
ishman OF 81. He had all he wanted.
How few there are in the great rounu
world $50 full of a number of things"
who are ready to make this aver
mentl He seems to have been, 'as nav.
ing nothing. yet possessing all things
He had found how many things a man
can do without. and how few things
there are that one really needs; ana
hence the prospect of returning to the
Kingdoms of this world held no allure
ment for him. "As we steamed away
we dipped our flag to the old man, VINO
waved farewell to us from the beach.
-PhiladeIphia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
GLOBE SIGHTS.
tFrom the Atchison Globe.l

CF-rom the Atehison Globe.1
The best part of good cake is the
last piece.
Hard work IL the powerful enemy of
grouchiness.
No man who represents himself has
very much backing.
Your health would be better If you
would only let it be.
Nothing is so harsh as the harsh
voice of a tired woman.
1t is said of nearly every big merchant
that he is a big borrower.
No man whose wife keeps boarders
should try to Save The Country.
About the only ambition a really bad
boy seems to have is to die with his
boots on.
You ought to be doing better than
you are, but the facts are you don't try
very hard.
Speaking of good hunting, it is usual
ly easier to find wild geese than to find
excitement
Be cheerful but not SO all-fired
cheerful that you must whistle as you
go about your work.
A woman imagines that the principal
accomplishment in business is keeping
receipted bills.
Modern physicians haven't entirely
recovered from the ancient custom of
bleeding their patients.
AS musicians are born. not made, the
wisest thing some people ever do is to
neglect their music.
Some men are so onery they dom.
re much for hunting except when 1t
Is in violation Of the game law.
Does an old man mean it when he
says he wishes he was younger when
the wal talk begins to go around.
Some mighty foolish schemes are
labeled progress and pushed along by
flood of misdirected sentiment.
Gambling does about as much to dis
courage gambling as any of the re-
formers who ever tackled the job.
AS a general rule, an open letter
might as well be closed, so far as its
interest to the general public is coll
cerneG
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
HUAOR OF THE Day

He-Darling. be mine and your smallest
wishes shall ever be fulfilled. She cold
lyl-I am able to do that myself; What N,dtst !
wishes.-Judge.
WHAT Ten years in office and
you've never once been promoted. What
kind of man do you work for?" "a
promoter."-Boston Transcript.
my little dear, are you crying because
your doll is stuffed with sawdust?" mo.
sir. I'm crying because & they y ,aa,d found the an
lace my. mamma ,1f. was trylnig 10 snussie In
''You used to say" said his boyhood
friend. that you. would ,,S be vii wiling ing to
yes, 1 know. But I've changed my mind
I've tried starving in an attic."-Judge.
ious? Wife-One, of course. You told me
how to spell it yesterday, when 1 was
writing. Observation-Disclosures I'm writing
now, and that makes all the differences
Punch.
Father-I never smoked when 1 was
your age Will you be able to tell that
to your son? Willie-Not and keep my
face as straight as you do, pop!-Puck
'.Never let it be said that you accepted
votes that were given for financial con-
sideration-" ..oh. we'll" replied the, man
apiece is enough Of a financial eonsidera-
tfon to be worth oning.'-Washing-
ton Star.
Native to Cornwall he went to London
and was gazing into a shop window. and
obstructing the footpath. A cockney
stumbled against him, and seeing that he
was from the country. said to him: MY
man, have you seen a wagonload OF
monkeys pass down the street?' MOO"
Cousin Jack replied; "faaled out of the
wagon, ded' e?''-Argonaut.
Bridget, 1 feel so i'll wish you would
not go out today. Couldn't you get what
you are going for just as well tornorrow?s,
Faith, an Oh can-tomorrow or amy
day, I was goin out to get mesilf Q new
job."-HarpeTs Baxar.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
GRoWING uP.

m growing very big and tall,
Almost to my mothers shoulder:
And though there's lots of things I like
In getting to be older
Ny legs and arms have grown so long
That father laughs. and Bobby
Just gr1ns and says: "Oh, Gee Pauline
Your knees are awful knobby!'
AND uncle calls me Spindle-shanks
And Polly-Doodle-Dandy,
AVa Wa says: MY child. be thankful that
If anybody pleases
But do wish my family
Weren't all such horrid leases.
I don't know where to put myself
When mother tries to hold me:
wish she knew some comfy way
10 take me up and fold me-
or course, she's always letting down
MY skirts and sleeves, to hide me
BuI, then, wish my bones would wait
iii grow up inside me.
Edna Kingsley Wallace, in the Century.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

IFrom the Chicago News.1
Few men give as cheerfully as they
receive.
No man likes to hear a woman
praise another man.
How easy it is to spend the money
earned by somebody else!
Ever notice what funny names the
people in a strange town have?
If kisses were poisonous only few
girls would live to graduate.
If you would discover a mans sore
spot, keep quiet and let him talk
There is one woman man can de-
mend upon under all circumstance
his mother.
And vanity may be thinking things
about yourself that other people would
never think of thinking.
The hairs Of a mans head may be
numbered, but in after years there are
a lot of the back numbers missing.
A man doesn't have to get very
many highbal1s under his belt in order
to convince himself that he is good
fellow
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

Senator Depew has enhanced his
reputation as a joker considerably. He
has formally released the Republicans
IN the New York legislature from their
caucus pledge to vote for his return to
the United States senate. Please bear
in mind that the Republicans in the
New York legislature are in the mi
nOrity. If they had not ben they would
never have pledged themselves to give
Depew the empty honor that has been
his during the New York senatorial
deadlock. If the Republicans had had
any chance to elect a United States
senator they would have decided on
some other man.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

He's an unusual individual who'll re-
fuse an invitation to make q speech.
=
Jealousy Is responsible for large
portion Of the unnecessary trouble In
this world,
1t would appear that q few chickens
in the baseball arena are being pre-
mateurely counted.
y
Most folk have one brand OF philoso-
ply for themselves and another one for
other people.
Many a man tells the same lie 80
often he finally becomes impressed
with an idea that it's the truth.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

The housefiy and the English spar
Tow Low. are pests says Hondo Murphy,
oul tney are hopeless low-graders In
Ine pest class. when compared with
the nosey woman. big share OF
the trouble, here and elsewhere is
caused by this class Of female. For
instance: The other night a doctor
went out toward the ragged edge of
Town IN answer to q call. It was one
OF those cases which sometimes re-
Quires medical attention for two or
tnree hours. AS result, both the
doctor and his horse went without
their suppers. The doctor didn't beef
ABOUT It, but the horse, being a spoiled
pet raised holler when the supper
nour passed with nothing doing. Then
some "nosey' woman telephoned the
police that q horse had been left to
starve. To quiet the woman, the Off
GERS ran the horse il, and the doctor
had to walk home"
Hail. sweet Spring! You have deliv-
cred sample of most every other
sort of weather, SO hail, darn you,
HAIL!
Pete Miller is hereby submitted as
the White Mans Hope" He has been
In the ring for years, and no one
around here can beat him with
motorcycle or a yard of gas pipe.
why is hen ?" the teacher inquired,
And the pupil replied, Dunno"
Tnen you loose grade. or perhaps
your fred
Spake the teacher, soft and low.
(She got this guess from a book of
rules
Which might be Of use in breaking
mules.)
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
lFrom the New York Press.1

IFTOnl LHe NEW IUIK FToss-1
How duty looks depends on whether
it's yours or somebody else's.
It's queer how pianos in flat houses
won't play till after midnight.
Sometimes a man can learn to under
stand his family by trying to under
stand himself
All a woman's female relatives are
mad with her If she doesn't take them
along when she goes to buy a gown.
1t doesn't take a woman more than a
second to make up her mind not to like
another who is better looking than
she is.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

A significant comparison: Municipal
primaries were held on the same day
in Wichita and Topeka. If anything,
the campaign leading Hp to them was
warmer and more exciting in Wichita.
than it was in Topeka, and large
vote in the Peerless Princess was cer-
tain to be cast Before the primary
day one of the Wichita newspapers
announced that the registration was
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

Unusual are the honors which fall to
the lot Of some men, Eugene Sandow,
the famous strong man." has just been
appointed by King George of England
as professor of scientific and physical
culture to his majesty Thus is San
dow placed on a level with the profess
sors Of the Chicago university.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

about 10000" The day after cleo
ton the otter newspaper in that town
stated that the registration was about
10000" But the total vote cast in
TIE primary at Wichita was in the
neighborhood of only $4,000, while the
total vote cast in Topeka was around
the $4,000 mark.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

Criticism is being directed at the
new Mexican cabinet by the insur-
rectos. Nothing else was to have been
expected. They won't be satisfied
with a cabinet unless they have the
naming of it. This is the great fault
of insurgency the world over. Nothing
is good or worth while unless it orig
mates in the brains of the insurgents.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

If much of the fruit crop in this
vicinity survived the snow with the
subsequent cold weather, it will be re-
markabIe. Still the moisture was good
for the wheat and other crops which
make Kansas famous. But it is gem
orally the case that the man who has
fruit trees hasn't wheat or corn fields,
and vice versa
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

Another postal savings bank in Kan
SIS is to be established soon at Man
haitian. This makes it much more con-
venient for Kansans in this neighbor-
hood and several other sections of the
state. In case they want to patronize
such governmental institution they
have the choice of going either to Pitts
burg Or Manhattan to do so.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

Some people will be sure to insist
that this is an instance of retributive
Justice. A Missourian, who had been
letting his hair and beard grow since
Bryan first ran for the presidency and
who intended to do the same until
Bryan was elected president, fell
down stairs the other day and injured
himself so severely that he died.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

Eugene walters play 1.-THE Easiest
Way has had it's fortune made when
it begins a tour of the provinces.
Mayor Fitzgerald of Boston suppress
ed its production in that city. This
was surprising. too, in view of the
fact that almost anything goes where
art is supposed to reign supreme.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

An Illinoian says that he is more
afraid of his wife than he would be of
a giant. This is not an unusual state
among men, however. only not many
of them are willing to confess it.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

At last the secret as to what ails
Russia is out. The average Russian
peasant bathes only three times from
the cradle to the grave.
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30

Recent statistics show that the Bible
continues to be far and away the best
seller" among books. But you never
see it mentioned IN those lists of the
six best sellers that are put out
The Topeka state journal., 1911-03-30
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal Is q member Of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganizafion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
Dose.