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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09

Mr.. Bowser had been flushing from
red to white and back and from the
way his ears worked back and forth
it was easy to tell he was agitated.
However, Mrs. Bowser went right on
with:
There must be times when an old
woman like her has dreams-dreams
of the days when she sauntered into
the best eating joint on the Great
White Way and ordered her lobster
and champagne as carelessly as you
order six pork chops for breakfast.
She may dream of the footlights and
curtain calls-of harps and angels.
Are you going to work in dream,
Mr.. Bowser ?"
See here, but I don't like the way
you talk" he exclaimed at last.
You don't? Why. I'm trying to
help you out I'm not literary, but
[ have IDEAS
But 1 don't want 'em. You are
flippant and sarcastic, Mrs. Bowser.
Am 1, indeed? l don't mean to be.
I mean to bring the old woman out
all right in the end. You see, the
fairy has not been introduced yet.
It's the fairy that turns the trick"
But 'how? %
There are various ways, but if I
was literary and writing the story I'd
have the old woman lie awake all night
some night, shivering and shaking and
weeping. ia have her tears freeze as
they fell, until there were icicles a
foot long hanging to her eyes On this
particular night there should be an ex-
ira number of wolves to howl. and it
should be extra cold to bring more
Prostitutes. You are approaching the
grand climax. you see"
Mr.. Bowser didn't say whether he
saw or not.
when morning comes the old wo-
man must go after fuel to make her
self some wringer rubber soup. The
snow is five feet deep, but on hands
and knees she crawls through it to the
foot of a weeping willow tree There
she can go no further. There she
cries aloud:
Help! Help. Will no one save
me?'
eyes. she cries that way, Mr.. Bow
ser, and to her amazement q fairy on
snow-shoes and the end of her nose
Ives, Lulu Bannister, 1 Will save
YOU! I am in the life saving business
anyhow, and old women are included
.'Then, Mr.. Bowser, the fairy stoops
and picks Lulu up in her arms and
bears her.
Mrs. Bowser, stop it," shouted Mr..
Bowser.
But Lulu is picked up and borne"
''I don't care a durn!'
And all her tears and frost bites
and eating wringer-rollers are
But Mr. Bowser was down the hall
a few seconds later the door slammed
to behind him. He made for the fami-
" drug store, but halted outside the
door. The druggist saw him through
the glass and came out to ask:
Just out for fresh air. eh2 Well.
yourself oftener than once week
nowadays and want to congratulate
you!"-( Copyrighted 1912 by Associ-
ated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09
Fyned En- Route.

In Russia the cigarette is eVerywhere.
Even in banks the clerks smoke all day
long. and so they do in all government
offices. Yet smoking in non-smoking
carriages on Russian railways is appar-
emily attended with some perils. Some
little time ago, according to the Journal
de ST. Petersburg, a traveller on the line
to Moscow who lit a cigarette was re-
ouested by a fellow-passenger to throw
If AWAY. This he declined to do. Very
WELL was the retort, 81 am a judge,
and my jurisdiction extends over the
district through which we are travel
ing" Then he called on another pas
senger for formal evidence and inflicted
a fine of ten rubles. This the offender
had to pay before being allowed 10
leave the train.-London Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09
SUNDAY

A new Kansas book just published
by Crane & Co. of Topeka. is 'Wey
Wing, a Romance of Cathay' which op-
Viously while written by a Kansas
man does not deal with affairs of the
Sunfower State nor is its locale n
Kansas or even in America. 1t is writ
ten by Rev. Thomas W. Houston. chap
lain of the Kansas State Penitentiary.
The scene of the story is in Nankng.
the old capital of the Chinese empire IN
former dynasties, the present seat of
the new republic. The tale is unique
in characters and in detail. Human
passion. lust. greed, fear and hate as
we'll S sympathy and love are common
inheritances of the human race. These
are all strikingly depicted in this book.
but its Oriental setting, its looking at
things from the Chinese viewpoint, its
water buffaloes, Buddhist priest in yell
low robes, beggar-king in tatters, the
official yamenS and Silken chair, are
the uncommon features which stand in
relief while the plot carries the reader
through to the last page before he is
willing to lay it down.
The author. son of Col D. W. HOuS
ton. of the Seventh Kansas Cavalry,
kansan born of parents who moved to
the territory in 1859 from Pennsylvania.
TO help make it free state, trained in
her schools and university, has been Il
newspaper worker, then mission
worker in China for eight years. from
whence he returned because of poor
health. and is now the chaplain in the
penitentiary.
1T is not often writes William Dean
Howells, in his preface to the new illus
trated edition of tom Browns School
Days. illustrated by Louis Rhead,
that in later years one finds any book
as good as one remembers it from ones
youth; but it has been my interesting
experience to find the story of Tom
Browns School Days even better than
I once thought it-say. so years ago;
not only better, but more charming.
more kindly. nanlier, truer, realer. 1t
is full of the delight in nature and hui
man nature, unpatronized and unsen-
timentalized. This edition has just
been published by the Harpers. There
are IS full-page illustrations, besides
maps and smaller pictures.
Tom Brown" is one of those stories
which it is impossible to separate from
its scene and surroundings. If it were
not a story of Rugby it would be no
story at all The world within a world
of the school life is full of glamour-its
adventures, its customs. its very rou-
tine. The story. then, lends itself pc
culiarly we'll to illustration, and is not
spoiled by it as some classics would be.
We need. in fact, to see the actual
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09

ones. She has to gather her own fuel
in the forest of course %
Yves
And she had to crawl on her hands
and knees to do it. Therefore, you
must describe the great callOuSes on
her knees. Were you going to have
a bible in the hut?"
No answer.
You had best have one. The poor
old woman will want to read when she
isn't weeping, and if you don't mention
what she reads the children may think
it is The Sewing Machine Girl by
Bertha Clay. The little folks are very
curious about these things. Had you
thought of it?'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09

IRE narrative ne pictures Dy Louis
Rhead in this new edition of Tom
Browns School Days Will commend
themselves to those who know and love
the book, While they will make it pos
sible for the new generation of boys 10
enjoy the adventures of Tom Brown
even more than the last.
A new Lincoln story by Mary Ray
mond Shipman Andrews will appear
this month by the Scribner's. Its title
is THE Counsel Assigned As she
presented Abraham Lincoln, the presi
dent, in her famous 1.-The Perfect
Tribute making him distinct. real
and understandable, so now in 1.-The
Counsel Assigned she presents Lin
coin, the young lawyer. She shows
a great personal opportunity and strid-
ing across the rought Illinois coun-
try in answer to request for help
from those who had helped him;
eloquent. his own ambition submerged
in the defense of a boy on trial for
murder, whose parents had once Civ
en- him a home. Like 1.-The Perfect
revelation of that heroic character,
who was, with all his strength, so SIM
pie and kindly, and so ever ready to
surrender his own private aims for
Sir Gilbert Parker has just returned
to New York enthusiastic over the
Arizona climate and scenery. He
found the air of Prescott even more
bracing than that of st. Moritz and
other Alpine resorts. where he has
frequently been for his health. In
spite of naturally delicate constitu
ton, which sent him in his early
twentieS to the South Seas-the seen
cry of which ne has used as a back
ground of his latest book, "Cumner's
Son succeeds in doing more than
a mans work. His present holiday is
nearly at an end. as he must be in
London by the middle of the month
for his parliamentary duties.
Mrs. Hamilton King has been wide
ly known for a generation past as
the author of 1.-The Disciples" a poem
dealing with Mazzini and the liberia
ton and unity of Italy. She is
about to publish through Messrs.
Longmans a new book. Letters and
Recollections of Mazzini.'' It is a pc
culiarly genuine and personal record
of the more intimate side of Mazzini's
life during those sad latter years when
his cause was triumphing in the eyes
of his friends, but not in his own. 1t
contains some of his most characters
tic letters, and a description of his last
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09
BOOK Treasures OF Past.

The cost of materials and copying.
illuminating and binding books by hand
made them the treasures of rich collec-
tors and the pride of museums, palaces.
and convent libraries. Immense sums
were invested in them, and a rare or
unusually original copy became a gem
in value. as we'll as sentiment. Cicero,
whose magnificent library was almost
as famous as it's owners eloquence, de-
clared that he had seen d parchment
roll containing the entire '.Iliad" of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09
- QN@TK!E .SPVRSAA:4!9
( g OF"TAEMOMENT
NEW By Roy k. Mol1lton a

When Maggie Sings.
No ordinary voice is hers
Because. you see, it really stirs
The souls of those who listen and
Her kind OF music understand.
There's not another of its kind
That anyone can call to mind.
It's plain to see she has a tone
That's really, truly, all her own,
No TretaZzini or Calve
Can ever hope to sing the way
That Maggie does when she is right
For her accustomed vocal flight,
Life loses all its other strings
When Maggie sings.
When Maggie sings, MY Rosary"
The folks who listen must agree
No one on earth could initiate
Her technique and that's safe to state,
Her audience beneath her sway
Sees other troubles pass away
They float on a mysterious sea
Where they had never thought to be.
The universe seems to stand still
A feeling strange just seems to thrill
Them and a CHASTITY message send
That this world is about to end
I always wish it would, by jings,
When Maggie sings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09
Hints for Good Cooks.

There is always one sure way to tell
when an egg is bad. Boil it soft and
then open it with a common case knife or
a spoon. If it is bad, you will not be
left long in doubt.
A very good substitute for macaroni
when company comes Unexpectedly Is
white clothes line. 1t can be cut up into
any lengths desired and boiled until quite
tender. Then pour on the melted cheese
and the tomato sauce and nine out of ten
guests who have eaten home cooked
macaroni before will not know the diff
ference.
Salad dressing can be made of almost
anything, but the best imitation of the
genuine can be manufactured by taking
two teacups full of gasoline, a pint OF
ammonia, three tablespoonsful of cod
liver oil and jigger of axle grease. 1t
would take an expert to detect the fact
that II was an imitation.
Corned beef and cabbage makes
dainty lunch for an afternoon tea. The
boiling cabbage gives the house home
like atmosphere and will prevent the
guests from staying too long. Home made
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09

Homer. which was compressed between
the shells of nut, a work of extreme
skill and patience, which a French
savant NJ. Huet, has since demon
strated was within the range of posi-
bility. Many such tours de force are
said to have demonstrated the skill of
ancient copyists and their economy
parchment and vellum.
In the eighth century it was with
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09
From the HickeyviIIe Clarion.

From the HickeyyiIIe Clarion.
Livin' pictures was given at our opry
house last week by the Ladies' Aid
Hank Purdy and Hod Renfrew posed
for The Rasslers." and Hod reached int,
Hanks back pocket fer to get Hanks
bottle while they was i'm a ciinch and
Hank soaked Hold on the bugIe something
desperate. That was the most successful
picture of the evening when il got to go
ing good and Constable Ezra Whippie
busted into It just in time TO go saiiin'
through the winder and out on a snow
bank. That was the last picture OF the
alarm and everybody had to go 70 the
fire which was a fizzle and wasn't half as
good as the pictures.
Miss Euphemia Nudge our poetess Of
passion, has won four packages OF to-
hacker for sending in the best poem
about Pride of the Gravel Train" smoE-
IN which will be used for advertiser
purposes. Col Nudge says there ain't
nothing like having a talented daughter
in the family as he probably won't have
to hit the box OF free smokin' tobacker
down to Hflhker's store for two or three
weeks.
Miss Mudge's prize winning poem was
a. follows. towit:
Come all ye smokers. far and near.
Oh, come and see what you kin hear,
When other smolzin' gives you pain
Just try Pride Of the Gravel Train"
oh, bring your good old Henry Clay
And light her up and puff away.
1t wipes the clouds from Off your brain
Does old, Pride of the Gravel Train
Old Andy Butts is dead you know
He smoked II ninety years or so.
He's smokin' yet with might and main,
But not Pride Of the Gravel Train"
Just save your coupons. They're the stun
And then. IL you live long enough
You'll get a ten-cent walking cane
SO smoke Pride Of the Gravel Train"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09

Paul Elder & Co., San Francisco, win
publish in April an important worS
entitled "A Yosemite Flora by Har
vey Monroe Hall, Phi. D., assistant
professor of botany in the University
OF California and Carlotta Case Hall,
3. S. The work will give a descrip-
tive account of the ferns and flower
ing plants, including the trees of the
Yosemite National park, with simple
keys for their identification; coverinss
most of the species found from Tahoc
on the north to Kings river on the
eleven plates and 40 figures in the
text.
The Monitor and the Merrimac,"
published this week by the Harpers
tells the story of the famous battle III
the words of the actual participants.
1t is believed that this book makes
public for the first time the story told
by the officers of the two ships. The
little known incidents of the sinking
of the Monitor are also given in de-
tail
THE London Spectator takes up n
its columns IN considerable detail Ten
nyson and His Friends which was
published in England the first of this
month and which appeared here last
week. This book is says THE Spec
of things, unusual, making an appeal
to our interest of a very special kline
The greater part of it is new. freshly
written for the occasion, with material
not given to the world before. Some,
a comparatively small part, consist CT
papers already published and inserted
here for the sake of giving complete
ness, or because they were too good TO
be lost and find here a proper, pro-
portionate and permanent place. This
- I, ,k7&S e
new audience and a fresh generation
of a great figure, one of the greatest of
their fathers and gra ndfathers' day.
The question why Should We
Change Our Form of Government ?"
which is the name of the first and
title essay in a series of Studies in
Practical Politics by Nicholas Muir
ray Butler, president of Columbia un-
iversity, refers to such schemes of di-
rect popular rule as the referendum,
initiative, recall, and the government
tai control of corporations. These
were the topics discussed by Theodore
Roosevelt in his Columbus speech.
President Buffers argument traVerses
the same ground as did the COloneFs s.
1t takes up the same topics almost
point by point, maintaining another
view from that advanced by Mr..
Roosevelt. In the other essays of the
volume-Business and Politics, Poll
tics and Business, The Call to Citizen
Ship Alexander Hamilton, The Revolt
of the Unfit-questions such as those
centering about the Sherman Anti
Trust Law, which are to be the criti-
cal issue of critical presidential
campaign are thoroughly analysed
from a practical standpoint.
''Vistas of New York" a collection
of stories by Brander Matthews, is
published this week by the Harpers:
AS in his ''Vignettes of Manhattan"
the authors aim has been to catch
the shifting aspects of the metropoli-
tan kaleidoscope. He gives a variety
of snapshots of New York life-vistas
framed by business. politics. crime, so
ciety and love making with the city
always at the end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09

great difficulty that monk of the rich
Abbey of Saint Gall. France. gathered
piece by piece sufficient parchment TO
begin the transcription of a rare work
Later, in 1120, monk employed to pre-
pare copy of the Bible could not find
in all England sufficient parchment for
TIE purpose. Magazine.
Have you been Aetnaized?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09

Have you been Aetnaizedg
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09
IN! ~ i Today
HlflErD IZl0S ROBERT NJ Z4E2kEETzEl
REAL USE
SATURDAY

REAL USE
A fine little who believes is
asking the authoriti Washington he
training school, o a
of the garden pats, where
shelter.
manual training have read that the Springfield,
Mass. vocational hool, the
cottage for the of the domestic science department
Tuskeegee Institute the first six grades
school childrens VIII he
learn only school branches but all the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-09

brown bread is always a treat. First mix
your dough and then mold it into nice
round loaves. Your husbands silk hat
viii make an excellent mold. II he hasn't
got a silk hat have him 20 to a banquet
and get one by leaving fifteen minutes
ahead OF the other guests.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1912-08-22

facts and can serve no other pur-
pose.
Conditions have arisen!"
Lacey does not state what con-
dition have arisen, but he evi-
IDENTIFY refers to the order
against Judge Gossom. Nothing
else has arisen" and there is
nothing to which he can allude.
OF the unfairness and rottenness
of these charges, the majority of
the court has spoken in their
statement, as also the people by
their vote in the primary. That
answer should be sufficient. But
go further. The reason, if
any, consists in very small sum
of incidental expenses allowed
Judge GoSsom, which is a plain
matter of record and requires no
auditing to discover, besides, the
items have already been publish
ed by Judge Gossom, himself,
and only a point of law, whether
these expenses are legal, remains
to be settled, which must be set
tied by IA court. and not by an
auditing concern. Any ten-year
old school boy in the county can
easily go to the records and
figure up the amount of inciden
tai expenses allowed the various
county officials, which has all
been discovered and published to
the world in the Argus, the Dem
ocrat and the Herald, and it now
only remains for the courts to
decide the legality of such eX-
penSeS.
Since all this has been diScov-
ed and published to the world,
what cause has "ARISEN?"
Has Lacey found the collector,
the treasurer, or any other cOun-
ty official short, or the books of
the Circuit clerk, the recorder,
the county clerk Or any other Of
fetal out of balance? If not,
then what cause has "ARISEN?"
The people, by their vote at the
primary, not only dealt the death
blow to political connivery, trick
cry and double dealing that has
been practiced in this county SO
long. but they put the old shy,
SterS and ringsterS down and
and now when the auditing" is
over, the people can take hold of
our county'S government with
out fear of mOleStatiOn and free
from the influence Of diSturberS.
We do not know of any cause
:, that has arisen why the coun.
:. tvs books should be audited; we
J regard every county official as an
honest man and a gentleman and
feel that they will be fully vindi
Gated, and until some cause
has arisen" to the contrary we
: ask the people to Withhold theil
. Judgement. The peace that
:. auditing may bring and the sill
. ence it will put over politica
trickSters may, after all, be
worth the price, and about the
only thing to guard against is
- Lacey and his clan having any in
tiuence over the auditors.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1912-08-22
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Sheriff:
MACK STEBBI.EFIELD.
LACEY AS A HUMORIST.


"Nverything on earth has Il use, but
no one has yet discovered the mission
OF Elayti', paper. Bill Lacey in the
Caruther>ville le boomerang.
Well, if you haven't earned yet
the schooling you paid for is of
but little use, and hereafter YOU
should refrain from making adj
vertiSing propositions, because
some one mot us) might be ser
ious enough to take you in earn
est. For our part, we have come
to regard You as great joker
a fun. maker, else you would be
more careful of things that are
loaded, in fact, we didn't know
that our friend Bill Lacey of the
CalutherSvlle Democrat could
be SO humorous, so cOmical and
so acrObatic until he begun to
pull off his stunts in the primary
election hippodrome. Dan Rice,
the great Snowman, in his palmy
days, could not turn a summer
sault over herd of thirty ele.
plants, ride a kangaroo around
the ring, climb a creased pole
backwards or act the clown for
the amusement of his spectators
with more success than did
Bill Lacey.
But his old performances do
not compare with his new, and his
latest act of Skinning the cat on
the county auditing is certainly
appreciated by the fun loving
public.
Seriously, now; Bill ought to
be clown, IA humorist or Joker
to receive the proper recogni-
tiOn, else, as we said, some Seri-
ously inclined person may mis-
ia Ike him and accuse him of try
ing to fool the people by con
STRUNG his artful antics to be
dishonest political motives. But
that can't be so. He knows the
f l., -, L..
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1912-08-22
City and County Maps.

have on hand number of up-to-
date maps of the City of Hayti, worth
$500, which / will sell for $4.OO.
Retter buy these quick, as the supply
will soon be exhausted. also
have a few county maps, which are a
great bargain, at $3.50.
l., f.. THRUPP, Caruthersville, Mo.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-24

we'll explined by M. Bryce in his In
t,oEs,ction as follows: They are, OF
course. merely flrSt impressions. pu'
the impressions which travel makes
On a fresh mind have their value II
tested by subsequent study. and by De-
ing submitted to persons who know
the country thoroughly: have tried SO
to test these Impressions OF nline. ana
hope they nay be of service to those
whc desire to lea!n something about
South America but have not time TO
peruse the rlany books Of travel that
have been written aboIt each OF Its
countries
The first eleven chapters contain a
description of what the author sa"
of scenery and Of social and scono-
rnic phenomena in the seven republics
of Panama Peru. Bolivia. Chlle. Ar
gcntina Uruguay ana aZil- TIE re-
manning chapters deal OF The RISE OF
New Nations" The Relations "f
Races in South America" The Two
Americas ard the Relation OF south
America TO Europe" The Conditions
Of Political Life in Spa nish-American
RepubIics" and Some Reflections and
Forecasts"
The volume describes the ground
gone over fully and in detail. and Is
written in a mos. attractive manner.
II will be Of much value to the student
an.3 to all interested in the countries
mentioned.