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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
DAFFYDHS
BY o. NoALL.

If Boston preacher buys cyanide
of potassium what would a Jewish
rabbi?
mo, Phyllis. A life-preserver is
not for use in cases of sea-sickness.)
If an ace up your sleeve is crooked
would you call an ace high straight?
(Carelessly tossing a bag of gold
to the servitor, he vauIted upon his
steed and galloped away into the
mighty
If Matty's favorite is fadeaway
what is Larry Mulligan's ball?
(Chip in hearty, boys. The fiddler
must be well paid.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

Golfers Weekly doesn't appear to
be waxing exceedingly enthusiastic
over the presidential candidacy of
Colonel Roosevelt Most of its edi-
torial efforts in the premises are de-
voted to insisting that George Wash
ington did not pronounce against a
third presidential term. On two or
more occasions Thomas Jefferson ex-
plicitly stated that Washington was
opposed to a third te, m and estab-
lished the precedent against a presi-
dent accepting one. In view of the
great light, though, that Norman
Hapgood has thrown on the subject.
it must be that Jefferson did not know
what he was talking about
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
FROM OTHER PENS

JUDICIAL RECALL IN ARIZONA.
Arizona's cowboy governor has lost
no time in starting the proceedings for
incorporating in Arizona's constitution
the provision for recall of judicial Off
GERS. This is one of the provisions OBJ
Jected to by the president and elm
mated from the original constitution
on his demand, as a condition of ad-
mission of the territory as a state.
OF course, it was perfectly under
stood that while the president might
exclude from the constitution of the
new state provisions which he believed
to be inconsistent with the best form
of Republican government. the people
of the state could not be permanently
barred from adopting them. Once ad-
mitted as a state their power OF
amending their own constitution is not
subject to congressional or executive
control.
This is no argument that the presi-
dent was not right in his refusal to ac-
cept the unexpurgated edition of the
Arizona constitution. 1t only illustrates
the fact that it didn't do much good.
The matter is presented to the legis-
lature of Arizona in the governors
first message. In 1t he urges the sub
mission of an amendment to the con-
stitution at the next regular election
providing for the recall of judicial offi-
cers.-St. Paul Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

incidentally, that young California
woman who has startled the world by
establishing a new record for women
I'm putting a 12-pound shot is de-
scribed as being pretty. Few are the
women, young or old, who get their
names in the newspapers that are not
characterized in the same fashion.
When it comes to the chivalrous
treatment of women, the knights-er-
rant of old have nothing on the news
paper reporters of today
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New Yc

[From the New York Press.I
A dog can be more grateful than man
because he has less to make him SO.
The easiest way for young folk to get
into trouble is to have parents sure they
won't.
girl wants a full moon when she gets
engaged to man so they can keep out
of its light.
There's nothing humiliates a young
woman much to think of the clothes
she wore when she was little girl
Men seem to think that if they could
earn their own fortune it would be more
worthy to get somebody else's away from
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
THE sTANDARDIzERs.

There is only one thing which would
be more astonishing than stage far
mer without a set of faded whislSers.
That would be a stage newspaper re-
porter who did not scribble I'm note
book. In real life, of course. both are
rarities; possibly the note book re-
porter never did exist.
But we suppose the farming occupa-
ton will never b divorced from the
tradition of boards. IT goes with ag
riculture as the dollar marks go with
the clothes of the financier. the clay
pipe with the Irishman and the bat
tered tomato can with the tramp. For
our ideas of the men of certain call
ings and the distinguishing marks OF
certain nationalities are not formed
out of our observation. but are estab-
lished by the cartoonists and actors.
1t was they who made the figure of
Uncle Sam. Twas they who made all
Germans fat, all Frenchmen thin, who
invented that paper cap of labor and
caused the ditch-digger to trudge be-
tween home and work with shovel and
pick over his shoulders. That in real
life these things are not is of no i'm
portance. The cartoonists and the
actors have done what they could 10
reduce things to a standard.-Toledo
Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

Here's hoping that the strike Of the
coal miners in this country is a mere
formality, as their leaders say it is,
and that the men will be at work as
soon as new wage agreements can be
drafted. With another wave of pros
perity getting ready to roll over this
land, it would be too bad if it should
be retarded by serious labor troubles.
The politicians are kicking up a suf-
ficient fuss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

A sneaking suspicion will not down
that the present activities of Bob Fitz-
simmons in taking frequent smashes
at the ribs and jaws of alleged mash
ers are not so much concerned with
avenging insults to the fair sex as they
are with getting the erstwhile pugi-
listic champion large amount of free
advertising. Bob is vaudevillian
now. and if he can keep in the lime
light. so much the better for his bust
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

Some Boston women have banded
together in a crusade against the cleo
ton of bachelors to public office. Turn
about is fair play. ana the women
will have no kick coming if the men
take a similar stand against old maids.
They probably won't do it, though.
Maybe the old maids don't know it
but the men as a rule have much adj
miration for their intelligence and
f7fScernmant
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

is revision of the statutes applying
to them. This revision should elimi-
nate most of them and substitute in
their place comprehensive charters for
the cities of the several classes which
will be sufficiently elastic to give each
city the largest possible measure of
real home rule.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

There was some hope of capturing
the ringleaders of the Allen gang as
long as the Virginia authorities did
not Put bloodhounds on their trail.
Now that that has been done. Sidna
Allen and his nephew can avoid cap
ture just as long as they please.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
KANSAS cOMMENT .
TIE SIZE On KANsAs

Kansas contains $4,000 square
mics which is a vast expanse but
iust now large We can hardly compre-
mend. Suppose we could combine the
states, New Hampshire. Vermont,
massachusetts, Rhode Island. Con-
necticut, Delaware, Maryland and the
District of Columbia into one state.
Kansas would contain them all, and
sun nave room enough for another
rhode Island. Kansas is larger than
any southern state except Texas. and
exceeds in size both the Virginias. 1t
is almost as large as the com bined
areas of North and South Carolina
and is larger than Ohio and Indiana
together.
If size alone were significant Kan
sas could take its place among the
Iirst-clasS powers of the earth. Eng
land and Scotland together are small
er than Kansas, while Wales, Ireland,
switzerland, the Netherlands and Bel
GUM added together will not equal it
IN size. Or, we might add Denmark
Andorra, Portugal, San Marine and
Greece together and not have enough
territory to make a Kansas. Turkey,
In Europe, is not as large as this state
and Servia, Roumania and Montene-
gro combined do not equal It. 1t
exceeds in size the great islands of
Celebes, Java or the Moluccas and
would make more than a dozen Poly
nesias If cut up into little islands and
soWed broadcast in the ocean.
Butler county alone is larger than
Rhode Island or the whole of the
French possessions in the West In
dies, and Atchison county equals the
whole of the Dutch possessions there.
-Olathe Register.
L1NCOLN'S ADVICE TO FARMERS
Fifty years ago, Abraham Lincoln
delivered an address before the Wis
consin State Agricultural society,
from which we quote:
ITO speak entirely within bounds
it is known that fifty bushels of
wheat or 100 bushels of corn can be
produced from an acre. Take SO OF
wheat and 100 of corn to be the pos
sibility and compare it with the &C
tual crops of the country. Many
years ago 1 saw it stated that Is
bushels of wheat was the average
crop throughout the United States"
These are Lincoln's words spoken
fifty years ago. The average yield
now fallen to 1877 bushels per acre
as ten-year average, 1S99-19OS
In the same address Lincoln said:
AS to corn and, indeed most
other crops, the case has not been
much better. / believe il is also true
that the soil has never been pushed
up to one-half of it's capacity. What
would be the effect upon the farm
ing interest to push the soil up to
something near its full capacitvP
-, - VIII edhS more Ia
Dor to produce so bushels Of wheat
from an acre than it will to pro-
duce 10 bushels from the same acre;
but will it take more labor to pro-
duce so bushels from che acre than
from five? Unquestionab1y thorough
cultivation will require more labor
to the buShel? 1t is almost certain
that by analysis of soils, experiments
with manures and varieties Of seeds.
these causes would be discovered
and remedied. Kansas
Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

Mayor Gaynor points out that in
effect the recall of judicial decisions
is no new thing. He SAYS the peo-
pie in the several states have been
doing it right along through amend
ments to their constitutions, to keep
them abreast of the development of
the times; and thereby to. make the
courts amenable to the peoples will.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

Even the bloody records of Kate
Bender and Mrs. Guinness have been
made to look amateurish by that
Louisiana negress who has killed
seventeen persons with her own hands
and participated in the murder of
eighteen others
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

When Madero gets his army of
$4,000 men he'll probably emulate
that far-famed king of France who
had a similar force which he marched
up a hill and then marched down
IN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-04

Alabama Democrats do not appear
to be of a consistent mould. They
give a unanimous endorsement to Mr..
Underwood, who, among other things,
is in favor of material retrenchment
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
A $4,000 CATTLE SALE

The Hart Company encompassed
and controlled by Hart & Bah
bitt, took into their Enclosure
the cattle, pasturage ranches,
and etc. of Richard Gibbons St.
Johns, at the above named price
Bobby S. Teeple, informant.
While Mr.. Gibbons is retiring
at the present moment from the
cattle industry of Navajo couu-
ty is liable to go in the sheep
business SOON. Mr.. Gibbons
ranch, recently sold to Hart Cat
tie Company, located Is miles
south of st. Johns, is a nice To-
cality adapted to grazing.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
CATTLE SCARCE
IN CALIFORNIA
Mesa Buyer Finds He can
do Better In the Salt River
Valley In Purchase
of Dairy Cattle

Edw. Pattee, who recently be-
came the owner of a fine ranch
southeast of Mesa, and who been
ever since stocking the same and
putting it in shape for a modern
dairy farm, received a telegram
from Mrs. Pattee yesterday say
ing that dairy cattle were very
high in Southern California. and
very scarce. The price for cows
of any standing at all were $1OO
per head. Recently over 5000
head had been sold and removed
from that section, making it al
most impossible to get a good
cow at a reasonable price. In
view of his failure to get what
he wanted in the coast country;
Mr.. Peters went to Phoenix to
see what he could secure there.
Phoenix Republican.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
A Million For Farmers.

One million dollars, to be used
to educate the American farmer,
has been voted by the directors
of the International Harvester
Company What the Company
intends doing is to compete with
the United States Department of
Agriculture in the 'uplift" of
the American farmer.
Agents will be sent out to dis
tribute improved seed and scien-
tific farming literature. The
wheat belt will be broadened and
the yield increased, seed corn
special trains will be run; free
lectures of scientific farming, de-
livered; social and farm i'm
provements; societies; practi-
cal farming will be introduced in
country school, the ofhc of
county crop expert established
and tested seed will be furnished.
to farmers.
Prof. Percy C. Holden, Iowa,
State director of agriculture ex,
tension, will be brought to Chica-
go to take charge of the work.
A few months ago Julius Ro-
senwarld of Sears Roebuck &
Co., gave 1 million dollars to the
farm uplift movement.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22

j. H. Barnes, purchased Of
Scott Brothers, 1000 lambs last
Saturday, consigned to C. N.
Bowers, Garden City, Kansas.
Two car loads of sheep left
here the first of the week for
Kansas City, consigned to and
bought by Clay Robinson & Co.
Fred c. Purcell shipped 8 cars
of wethers Sunday to the Cud-
ahy's at Los Angeles.
Give your ranch a name and see
that every product that's sold
from the ranch is worthy of the
name and the man who is respon-
sible for the name. If a name
is worth much to the manufact-
urer, why should it not pay the
producer? And your letters and
and other stationery
with your name and location
neatly printed on them win.
Drop in or write to the HoI-
brook News office, We'll explain.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
100000 Death Benefit

$500 Weekly Benefit for Accident
or Sickness; $1,000 for loss OF limb or
eyesight; 81, 900 for Emergency Relief
Benefit Cost is $500 per year. No
other dues nor assessment MEN AND
WOMEN between ages 16 to 65 are
accepted. Reliable Company with
500, 100000 State Deposit for the pro-
lection of Policy holders and to guar
antee the payment of claims. Write
for further information giving your
age, sex and occupation. Addreas
Dept. AL, American Registry Com
pany, Erie, Pa.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
WANTED

The Cosmopolitan Groupe requires
the service of representative in Hol-
brook and surrounding territory, to
look after subscription renewals, and
to extend circulation by special meth
DDS which have proved unusually sue
cessful. Salary and Commission. Pre-
vious experience desirable but not es-
sential. Whole time or spare time.
Address, with references, Charles c.
Schwer, The Cosmopolitan Group, 38l
Frouth Ave. New Rork City.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
The COST OF GRASS
GOES UP
Price for Grazing in Kan
sas is $3.50 a Head.

A new record price in pasture
land rentals has just been estab-
lished in Kansas at 81 and ST. SO
a head for stock during the gra-
zing season. These are the fig
ures at which several thousand
acres of the choicest grazing land
in the east part of Chase county.
Kansas, have been contracted
for by Texas and Western stock
men who will bring cattle in for
grazing next spring. That is
the highest rental ever paid for
grazing land in this locality and
is fifty cents above last seasons
highest price.
The demand for Kansas graz
ing land among southern and
western shippers has been stead
lily increasing and the advance
in rentals have kept pace with
this demand. Last summer Sc
and Sc. so head was the gener-
al price paid here for grazing.
The year previous to that SIS and
$3.50 was the average price.
Seven years ago Chase county
land owners were renting their
pastures for So. 25 to 81 head.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
Irl R. Hicks 1913 Almanac

That remarkable Year Book
on Storms, Weather, Earth
quakes and Astronomy. The
Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for
1913, the finest and best ever is
sued, is now ready. Send only
35 cents to Word and Works
Publishing Co." 34O1 Franklin
Avenue. st. Louis, Mo-, and you
will receive a copy prepaid, also
one copy of the Rev. Irl R. Hicks
Magazine, Word and Works. d"
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22

Charles J. Rabbit, of the we'll
known firm of Babbitt Brothers,
HEADQUARTERS at Flagstaff, was a
very busy man here Thursday,
hustlipg cars and looking after
cattle shipments. Mr.. Babbitt
shipped two car loads of selected
breeding cattle to the firms
ranch at Ventura, California, and
ten car loads of feeders to be
placed on one of their ranches
near Phoenix.
o. L. Hart, of the Hart Cattle
company, Coconino county, has
made a complete canvass of Nav
ajo county in search of the festive
bovine and succeeded in annexing
to his herds something in the
neighborhood of $50 head, Cat
tie are evidently getting scarce,
hence better prices are prevail
ing.
Juan Candeliaro and his son,
M. A. Candeliaro. of Concho,
were here this week delivering
5000 head of sheep to Mr.. Speer,
who will ship them to Kansas to
feed. Mr.. Candeliaro says there
is not day passes but one sees
a new corner in his section look
ing for a land location coming in
by teams and stage.
B. B. Crosby sold this week to
Julius Wetzler, some 500 head of
cattle which Mr.. Wetzler shipped
part to Phoenix. part to Ventu-
"a, Calf, and part to San Die
go. Mr.. Wetzler also shipped Is
cars to Albuquerque.
Scott Brother had 10, ZOO lambs
here Sunday for shipment, $3.50
of which they had sold to the
Cudahy Company, Los Angeles,
and $500 to c. M. Bower, of Gar
den City, Kansas.
The Cudahy Packing Compa-
ny's representative, Fred Pur-
cell bought and shipped from
here Monday. consigned to Cud-
ahys at Los Angeles, 5000 head
of sheep.
c. M: Bower shipped out from
the local yards Tuesday, % car
loads of sheep to go on feed near
Garden City, Kansas.
The Holbrook news. (Holbrook, Navajo County [Ariz.]) 1909-1923, 1912-11-22
Horses and Mules Holding
Their Own

The new year book just issued
by the U. S. Department of Ag-
riculture gives the following facts
regarding horses and mules in
the United States:
In 1867 there were 5,401, 900
horses and 822, 900 mules in this
country, and in 1912 the number
of horses had increased to TO-
900, 0G0, and mules to a, 1862. 900.
The increase has been very
gradual. In 1902 there were
16, 531, 900 horses and LIST, 900
mules.
The price of a horse in 1867
was $59.O5, and a mule $66. "a,
and in 1912 $105.94 and $120.5I.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-05-03
HOW ABOUT THls7

A little girl came home from school
The other day all worked up over poll
tics She said the teacher told her
class that j. p Morgan was furnish
ing big campaign fund for Woodrow
Wilson, but that Morgan wouldn't con.
tribute anything for Taft or Roosevelt
because he knew ae couldn't control
them.
That's what the little girl said-we
don't know whether size got it straight
or mot children frequently become
confused about suol. Ilings-but IL her
report was anything like correct her
teacher needs a calling down. It Is
eminentIy right and wholesome for
children to be taught the principles ol
political science and about the practi-
cal workings Of the machinery Of gov
ernment, but the line must be drawn
on controversial PARTISAN politics
Matters Of the kind mentioned by Tie
iittle girl certainly have no place in
the eeGo9. room.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-05-03

Somebody rises to remark that the
publicity that the college is getting as
a result Of the muss over the presi-
dency isn't doing the Institution any
good and we concur in this view. How
ever. it isn't really the news that is
hurting, but the actual facts upon
which It is based. Some people stlll
have the idea that news can be sup
pressed by keeping it out OF the pa.
pers, especially the local papers There
never was greater fallacy. News
travels on wings and the chances are
that II the papers were not giving the
real facts about the college affair, the
story would grow a good deal larger
than 1t is Moreover, does anybody
suppose that the suppression Or news
Of statewide interest by local paper
would keep it from the public? There
are too many publishers who are pay
ing correspondents to report news to
suppose that such a thing could be
done No, 1t isn't the news that hurts
but the conditions that give rise to it.
For the good Of the college, we hope
to see a speedy adjustment Of the con.
troyersy.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-05-03

Tearing his shirt from his back an
Ohio man tagged a train and saved
it from a wreck, but II. T. Alston. Raj
eigh, n G., once prevented a wreck
with Electric Bitters. 4 was in a ter
rible plight when began to use them"
bo wriies, my stomach. head. back
and kidneys We're all bady affected
and my liver was in bad condition. but
four BOTTLES Of Electric Bitiers made
me feel like a new man. A trial win
convince YOU Of their matchless merit
for any stomach, liver or kidney trou-
Bile Price 30 cents at Brown & Co $.
d&w
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1912-05-03
THERE is BETTER FARMING.

We don't pretend to know very much
about the farming game. but when we
read story Ike the one we publish
today, written BY a Caddo county
farmer, we are convinced beyond
doubt that there Is good farming and
poor farming
This man produces the figures to
show that his cash returns from culti-
waiting eightyseven acres last year, in
the dryeat of dry seasons, were over
$1,000 besides a goodly quantity Of
feed. Perhaps his conditions we're a
little different from others, possibly
he happened to catch a shower or two
that the others didn't get, but making
all possible allowances, it must be that
lie farmed III better way than his
neighbors
We trust that every reader Of The
Express win peruse the Caddo county
mans story and pass It on for the
information and encouragement Of
others Ii shows what can be done in
Oklahoma even I'll the most unfayor-
able season by the application Of the
proper methods. It isn't the produc-
tion for a theorist. but Is the story Of
a practical farmer VINO declares that
he has succeeded in Oklahoma for
ten years By using tie same system.
The other day a farmer who studies
bis business reading all taat is Wit.
ten On the subject by experts. striy-
Ing 10 profit BY the experience of
others, told us that he sent a neigh
Dor some bulletins issued by the
United States department Of agricul-
tufe He thought he was doing his
friend q favor by putting him in pos
session Of valuable Information and
he was but imagine his surprise when
on gosng to see his neighbor. he found
the latte, as mad as a hornet almost
ready to lick" him. What do you
mean by sending me that stuff? Do
you think don't know how to larm?"
was about what the man said. Now.
wouldn't that jar your What hope is
there for the merchant, the lawyer,
The doctor or the farmer who thinks
he knows SO much about his business
that no one can teach him? Profes-
sional men, business men, bankers,
mechanics and all others are constant
y studying problems that confront
them in connection With their gooa-
tions, reading newspapers. magazines
and hooks to acquire the knowledge
that win make them more successful,
but here was q man who, because he
was reared on farm and had been Ia
the business All his life, thought he