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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
ON The SPUR
Or The AOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON.
BY ROY x.

The Summer Resort.
Same old beach,
Same old peach
With the same old Winsome smile.
Same old stare,
Same hot air
And the same flirtatious style.
Same old view,
Nothing new
Same old skeeters there to sting.
Same old sand,
, Same old band,
Same cash register to ring.
Same old drones,
Sitting in the rocking chairs.
Same old walks,
Same old talks,
Same old spooning on the stairs.
Same canned food.
! Boiled and stewed,
Same transparent slice of meat.
Same old girls,
Same old curls,
Same old slot machine to beat.
Same old junk,
Same old bunk,
Same old stunt and nothing more.
Same price list,
Same bridge whist,
Same old never-ending bore.
MORAL: Stay at home and raise dill
pickles in the kitchen garden.
From the HiclzeyviIIe Clarion.
Mr.. Jed Frink has inaugurated an ice
cream parlor in connection with his horse
shoeing and blacksmith shop ami is now
prepared to serve the frozen DAINTY at
any hour of the night. Mr.. Frink also
write calling cards and has the agency
in this township for a sure cure for blind
staggers. Mr.. Frink who is also a JUS
tice, performs wedding ceremonies.
Mrs: Hank Purdy is saving her butter
and the money to go to Reno, New:
Elihu Bibbins, our gentlemanly and YER
satile jeweler, took a dollar Watclp apart
has a quart measure full of works -hat he
has been unable to get back in the case.
Eihu says he doesn't perceive nov they
can make a watch like that for a dollar
worth
Tx it and try to put it together again.
Mr. Elmer Jones who left this village
fortune, has his feet under his fathers
table again When he tried to sell the
patent rights for his perpetual motion ma
chine. upon which he had been working
all winter they discovered that it had to
be wound up with key.
There is pustal card at the pustotfice
for Uncle Ezra Harkins which arrived
three weeks ago inviting him ID his
cousins funeral out in Newbraskey. 1t is
not thought now that he can get there in
time, even if he calls for the pustal card,
which at the present time seems rather
doubtful, as he is in jail over at tie coun-
ty jail for interfering with religious
meeting by going to sleep and falling out'n
the gallery at the Hardshell church
prominent ladies in midst
Mr. Anne Eilliker has invented horse
collar that the horse puts on and takes
hands. There is place to hook neck
tie on in front and Anne thinks they
ought to go like hot cakes.
lackey standing Ger me swatting flies
From early morn until the daylight dies,
Another through the night to slap the
All, that methinks, were Paradise, com
plete.
A shady spot in some sequestered glade.
And thou beside me brewing lemonade,
That tinkles in a pitcher of cracked ice
That's what I call an August Paradise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

AS was to have been expected. peace
between Italy and Turkey has been
brought about by the Turks submitting
to the demands of the Italians. But
the chances are that Turkey will not
stand hitched for long to the promises
she has made to Italy That isn't the
Turkish way of doing business.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

Governor Wilson had 70 scruples
about accepting a campaign contribu-
ton from Cyrus Mccormick just be-
cause he happened to be the head of
the Harvester trust This is in line
with the attitude in this respect of all
other candidates for Office. It's the
sources of the other fellows campaign
funds to which they take such critical
execution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
Some VaIuable Hints on CANNING.

Always screw the lids of the glass
fruit jars on so tightly that it will
be necessary to break the cans open
with hammer next winter. This is
one of the first principles of can
ming and it should never be violated.
Can everything you find excepting
your husband. You may need him
from time to time.
1t is better to remove the pits
from peaches before canning them,
for the pits are hard TO digest and
form a very heavy diet when eaten
in the winter. Canned peaches are
more to be pitted than censured.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.1
The art of lying is to know just how
much Of it is enough
A man is more solemn about shaving
than a woman is saying her prayers
The way for girl to have fine COM
plexion is to get all tangled up climbing
fence.
The more of his own money a man
spends the less of it he would IL his FAM
lily could get hold OF 1t first.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

Surely there is no rose without it's
thorn. The Montenegrins won a dis
tinctive victory over the Turks re-
Gently, and incidentally captured no
less than 10000 of the enemy. Could
there be a more unpleasant task than
being compelled to look after 10000
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

Mayor Gaynor of New York is one
of the few men on --arth who is in the
best possible position to extend sympa-
thy to Colonel Roosevelt. He knows
exactly how it feels to be shot by
crank
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

Here's another fine opportunity for
somebody to dilate on the unreason-
ableness of women. One in central
Kansas has sued for divorce because
ner husband has allowed her but 81
for clothing during the course of four
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

Don't forget, Mr.. Voter, that if you
desire to participate in one of the
most important elections that has
been held in this country in years and
are no. properly registered, you nave
only eight more days in which you
can do so.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

The Kaw valley potato crop aver
aged $50 bushels to the acre this year
Even at such. a low price as so cents
q bushel this brought gross return
of SIS per acre which is considerably
better than wheat does in Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

Anyhow there were sufficient hon
ors in the games for the baseball
championship for each member Of the
defeated team to have a share.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

That was some touchdown that was
made by AL Martin one-time foot
ball player of note. when he bore to
.he earth the would-be slayer of
Colonel Roosevelt and thereby pre-
vented him from firing another shot.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State journal Is a member Of the
Associated Press and receives the fun DAY
telegraph report of that great news or
gMnfxAtion for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
al building over wires for this sole pu1-
q,cga-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
FROM OTHER PENS
NO MORE CHESTNUTs

What shall we do for chestnuts? There
is fear that by and by we shall have
no more to roast. Everywhere the trees
are dying, and our wise men do not know
what to do about it. The very thought
of a Thanksgiving without chestnuts,
and from our own woods, our own
farm, would rob the festival of a big
chestnut tree, on a glorious Saturday
afternoon in October, filled our boy1 IA
hearts with gladness. Those glorious
frondS had been in our schedule fer
weeks We knew every chestnut tree
within five miles. We met all the boys in
town beneath their branches. Such free
fights with the farmers lads, on whose
preserve we trespassed! Such vigfls on
frosty nights under the harvest moon
that that we might be the first on the ground!
The memory is still keen of the burr
that yielded slowly to our blows with a
stone, and the pounded fingers and the
ever heavy bag bursting full by the time
the sunbeams came aslant out of tn
west In those days the boy scout was
not. But we built our fires of faggots
and cooked repasts of the real, roasted
article years ago. 1t was an industry
that paid, for we got the chestnuts off a
village for sale, where the man bought
his own chestnuts of the dealer. However
the boys belonged in the system, for vve
had thraShed the mans trees. tumblei
out of the branches. fought of his dog,
and put the goods on the market. 1t was
not hostile government that interfered
with chestnutting. 1t was some occult
law The practice is about broken up
for while there are still grand October
soon be no more chestnut trees.-Nev
York Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

Certainly there is nothing that
savors of q shrinking personality about
John Schrank.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

A number of telegraph Iinemen had
Fathered Wednesday morning at a
street corner where they were to begin
their days work as soon as the clock
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
KANSAS C0MMENT
TIMES HAYE CHANGED.


w. r. Smith of Topeka, general at
torney for the Santa Fe, has written
a very sensible letter to me of the
Topeka papers commenting on news
paper article in which several Kansas
statesmen were classed as undesirable
citizens because they happened to be
local railroad attorneys. Judge Smith
calls attention to the fact that some
of the best and most reputable law
yers in Kansas are attorneys for
some of the various railways that
the Roosevelt electors is employed by
The Santa Fe in that capacity and that
other lawyers, high in the councils OF
the several political parties, have SINH
iar connections. The Herald agrees
with Judge Smith that the day has
long since passed when 4 could be
considered a mark of reprobation to
be classed as a railroad attorney.
There was a time when the duties OF
the local attorney were largely po-
litical and his principal usefulness to
his employer was to bring in a dele
CATION to the state convention. The
railroads were then strong political
factors and felt that their continued
well doing depended on their political
influence and activity. They have long
since retired entirely from the po-
litical field and have learned that the
anri-pass law, good service and a fair
businesslike attitude toward their
patrons is far more satisfactory than
the old way. The present local rail-
road attorney attends only to the or
binary legal affairs OF mis- company
and his connection Herewith is es-
teemed as an hono> both by himself
and the people of his community
Ottawa Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
BETTER QUIT THE MEANNEss.

After the polls close in November
we should forget the bitterness and
personalities that have entered into
this campaign and all be brothers and
friends again. 1t is lamentable the
mean things a fellow can say about
the other fellow but it is good to feel
that after the political war IS over
We can be nice bedfellows again. We
often wonder if the women folks, when
they come into their own will be as
grouchy and cross to each other and
tongue-lash and lambast each other
as the men folks? If so. we are for
ever feminist suffrage We hope
the saying of a brilliant man, long
since passed to the beyond, that "thc
publication of politics is an rides
cent dream" win be the reverse when
women get the right of suffrage.-Sil-
yer Lake Mirror.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17
MORE MADNESS


1t is difficult to write with patience OF
the performances of some aviators and
still more so of the conduct of those who
Tor the sake of gain urge them to deeds
of recklessneSs. Walsh, who was killed
on Thursday at Trenton while performing,
at the state fair, was known as 'one Z
the greatest trick aviators in the world -
1t was said that there was not n sttIf.t
in the game that he would not try aid
he was killed while essaying a piece CT
folly sensational advertised as the
dip of death" few days before an
other aviator, Ashley, was killed whfe
performing at another fair, in England
Before he became an aviator he was an
daring. In his last and fatal flight lie
executed number of maneuvers in the
air in the most daring manner" Then
his machine went wrong, and he was
killed. 1t ought to be obvious to a most
rudimentary intellect that even the most
cautious flights are perilous. If a man
ascends on an aeroplane and essays moth
ing but the simple and direct flight which
alone Is likely to be of in practical
aviation he runs serious risks DeIfber-
ately to increase those risks by doing
stunts" is simply to make overtures to
suicide. Perhaps we cannot enforce laws
against such folly. But we could make
and enforce laws against the public ex-
ploitation of it for gain The fact that a
fair or other concern advertises that an
aviator will perform a dip to DEATH.
should be sufficient to bring upon It
legal prohibition. It is contrary to pub-
lie morals to make money out of the pub
lie exhibition of man trying to see how
near he can come to killing himself -
New York Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-17

A shady spot in some sequestered glade.
And thou beside me brewing lemonade,
That tinkles in a pitcher of cracked ice
That's what I call an August Paradise.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
SAVED BY CARRIER PIGEON

A bird was recently the means OF
summoning a doctor to the Scottish
mainland, to attend to an injured
man. A carrier pigeon conveyed the
news that an accident had taken place
on Ailsa Craig. Almost at the same
moment as the lookout man at Cir
van, Ayrshire, some ten miles away,
had noticed the fame-the usual sig
nal that doctor is required-the pig
ecn arrived with message, stating
that a man had been badly injured.
A boat with a doctor put off at once,
and 1t was found that laborer en-
ployed by the Ailsa Craig Granite
company had fallen down a cliff,
and had been seriously injured. The
man left the workmen's huts for the
purpose of collecting birds eggs, and,
as he did not return, search party
was organized, and he was found un-
conscious at the bottom of cliff,
with his legs badly injured. He had
lain where he was found all night, in
a torrential rainstorm. A number OF
carrier pigeons are kept and trained
on the rock so that urgent messages
may be sent to the mainland.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
ANGRY FISH BITES ANGLER
Brooklyn Man, the Sufferer, Sends
Head to Pasteur Institute, Fear
ing Rabies.

Whether a fish can have hydro
phobia is question that Fred
Henry of Hancock street, Brooklyn.
would like to have settled, and for
that reason he has sent to the Pas
teur institute in New York the head
of a pickerel that bit him at Swarts-
wood lake recently. says Newton IN.
J.) correspondent of the New York
Press. Henry was fishing In a boat
that was trifie leaky and he took on
his shoes and socks. His first catch
was pickerel weighing three pounds.
When he yanked the fish 1t Topped
around in the bottom Of the boat In
lively fashion.
AS Henry was batting up again ne
felt sharp pain in one of his feet,
and. looking down, saw that the pick
erel had made a jump and fastened
it's teeth in his toe. He tried to kick
the fish away. but the pickerel held
on and Henry had to use the handle
of his landing net to pry open the
fish's jaws before he got free OF It.
The toe started to swell where the
teeth had punctured IL, and Henry be-
came worried. He says he thinks 1t
possible that the pickerel may have
had hydrophobia and, as precaution-
airy measure, he sent the head to the
Pasteur institute.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
PROFITABLE FEEDING
OF CHESTER WHITES
Difference Shown Between Hog
Given Penty of Feed and
One Neglected.

The result of different treatments of
hogs came to my notice last spring,
when a neighbor sold two average
pigs eight weeks old to man who did
not have any other hogs. He bought
the two hogs to make pork the next
fall and, of course, wanted to. give
them a good chance to do their best.
They were fed wheat middlings, milk
and scraps from the table, in addition
to the pasture they gathered. They
were grade Chester Whites, narrowed
in April. These two pigs dressed be-
tween $50 and 175 pounds each when
about seven months old.
The pigs that had not been sold and
out of the same litter were allowed to
run on pasture, and when corn was
ready to feed they were fed enough
corn to put them in pork condition,
but when, slaughtered at about the
same time as the other two they only
weighed 60 to 70 pounds each. There
was difference. OF nearly 100 pounds
between these well-fed hogs and their
mates not so fed, and It is wholly due
to different treatments. 1t is easy to
see which was the most economical
pork producer--the well-cared-for hog
or the one which got enough feed to
barely live until fattening time The
difference In value was almost $40, as
pork sold at 10 cents pound here
last fall. The two well-cared-for hogs
IA = u 80
from the time they were separated
from their mates until they were
slaughtered.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
OLD MILL OF NEW LONDON

The CID town mill at New London,
conn, was built by Gov. John Win
hrop, the founder of New London, In
1901. The stream on which 1t was
quilt was called Mill river, although
scarcely deserving to be called river.
e IS still, however, considerable OF
stream and still turns the great over
Mot wheel that runs the mill to grind
ne town corn, for the mill is still IN
operation and grinds the corn in the
zane primitive fashion of two Gen.
Mries ago. The shadowy, rocky glen
n which it is situated has no appear
lnce of ever having been disturbed
Once the founders time, and one
sould scarcely imagine that the glen
vas more wild or primeval or Its
gloom more deep when the first few
inhabitants of the town assembled In
1861 to build the dam than it is at
present.
That monopolies are not of the
present day alone is told by the fol-
owing, taken from the history Of New
London. When Gov. John Winthrop
Iuilt his mill this clause was incorpo-
ated in the bargain: Farther 1t is
agreed that no person or persons shall
Jet up any other milne to grind corn
or the town of Pequett now New
London) within the limits of the town
sither for the present or the future so
Ong as John Winthrop or his heirs
10 uphold milne to grind the town
sorn."
The mill being a monopoly could not
all of becoming a grievance. 1t soon
,ecame insufficient for growing COM
nunity. 1t was leased to other par
des and they failing to satisfy the
ownspeople, complaint was made to
he courts chat they were not duly
served and were much damified there
BY" and In 1912 the monopoly was
broken and other mills built.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
Robert Rrownina,s WEI.

Diligent search is being made OF
Florence, Italy, for the will of Robert
Browning, son Of the famous poet,
but so far it has not been found. The
fact that there apparently lis mo- wiz
is causing considerable gossip an
the property, of which there Ia good
deal, both in Asolo and Florence,
will pass to his wife, who vas Miss
Coddington of New York, and rom
whom he lived apart for years owing
to incompatibility of temper.
Browning's property in Florence in
cluded Casa Guidi, where he spent his
childhood days. When hin mother
died the property passed out Of the
family, and was acquired by him a
few years ago.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
BRAYS AT RAILWAY CROSSING

"As little sense as donkey" Is a
favorite expression of contempt, but
sometimes the four-footed creature
shows intelligence far greater than
the two-footed species. There is a
donkey at Laredo, Tex, whose daily
performance Is entitled to special men,
ton. The donkey is attached to wa
ter cart, a two-wheeled vehicle used
by Mexicans to peddle water among
the homes Of some of their country
men. 1t is driven across railroad
track about ten times each day and
each time as it nears the track the
donkey stops and brays vociferously.
No amount of persuasion can get the
animal across the track until 1t has
stopped and given notice to trains on
the right of way that it is coming.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
EXCELLENT FLOORS
FOR A HOG HOUSE
Easy Matter to Secure Comfort.
able Quarters if Cold
Is Kept Out.

I am using concrete floors In our
hog houses and have found that need
very little bedding, just enough to
keep the body of the pig from coming
in contact with the concrete. 1t is
easy to keep a concrete floor warm If
the cold air cannot get under 1t, says
a writer in an exchange. With one
hundred pigs in the house, during zero
weather, / had to keep some of the
windows and the upper end doors
open for ventilation. / have never had
pigs get stiff from lying on concrete
floors. Good, dry bedding, straw or
shredded fodder, is used, and is re-
moved as soon as it becomes damp
and replaced with a fresh supply.
Ventilation is such that cold winds
cannot blow III on the pigs. l disin-
feet the houses often with air-slaked
lime
A dipping tank Is essential, not only
for destroying lice, but for promoting
health conditions in general. dip
my pigs once in two months, more
often If the ANIMALS are bothered with
lice. and use any of the dip on the
market that have crude oil as ba-
sis. / do not Clip In winter, but crowd
the hogs into the house and spray
them, leaving them until dry. spray
hogs, walls, bedding and all.
keep wood ashes and little lime
in self-feedes before the pigs all the
time. Hogs need more mineRas mat
ter than they usually get. Dusing the
summer the hogs should be provided
with ample slade.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
Motor Cars and Mosquitoes.

Mosquitoes, flies and gnats of every
description are said to be more numer-
GUS In Paris this year than ever be-
fore. 1t has become a veritable inva-
sion. The explanation usually Civ
en- is that the swallows are much fewer
this summer, and also that the
ubiquitous sparrow is notably on the
decrease. Nobody can find a reason
for the desertion of the swallows. but
the reason of the scarcity of spar
rows is not far to seek. The enemy
is mechanical traction, which lis sup
planting the use of the horse. Before
long, horses will practically have dis
appeared in Paris, and when their
nosebags go there will disappear one
of the principle staples of food for the
Paris "pierrot," who is taking wing for
the country in search of the grains of
oats and barley once SO plentiful ON
the boulevards and avenues
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
ORGAN CACTUS OF MEXICO

The giant organ cactus gives a pic
turesque setting to the desert region
of western Mexico. These thorny
species of vegetation often tower to
heights of 20 to 40 feet, their SYM
metrical columns rising upward in
clusters, giving the tree unique and
attractive appearance. This particu-
lar cactus is of very slow growth, and
some of the trees in the Pacific coast
country of Mexico are said to be sew
eral hundred years old. The trunk
"a often three or four feet in diameter
and the limbs to which the columns of
thorny branches are attached extend
outward In a regular and well formed
fashion. To the native Mexicans
this cactus is often food and drink as
well as fuel. The more tender por-
tons of the plant contain II bountiful
supply of pure water which may be
had by tapping or cutting them, and
each season they bear large quantities
of edible food. The trunk mikes good
fuel and is often used for that pur-
pose.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1912-09-26
Collective housekeeping.

An English paper tells of an expert
ment in collective housekeeping in
what is known as Brent Garden vii
lage The dwelling houses contain all
improvements except kitchen. Meals
for everybody are cooked at a CEN
trail hall, and may either be eaten
there or sent home. A four-course din
ner costs only shilling and pence.
Servants are supplied, when needed,
from the central hall at cost of
about ten cents an hour.