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The Adair County news., 1912-12-04
GleHSfOrk.

SdIl MIDI SIldli anu MISS MARY
Bradshaw. both of this vicinity
welded on Sunday the "a. Rev.
G. R. Abrell tied the knot. The
groom is a son of Mrs. Siotha
Marshall, and the bride a grand
daughter of Mr.. F. 0. Leach with
whom she lived. They are both
nice industrious young people,
therefore possessed of the quail
ties that make a happy welded
pair.
Billie Clifford bought Mrs.
Samantha Wesleys place on Cedar
creek for $3.50, and has moved to
his new home.
Uriah Morgan sold the place
known as the Simon Taylor farm
to Joe B. Young, of Cumberland
county, for $1,000 and has given
Mr.. Young possession of the
property. Mr.. Morgrn bought
Of Mr.. Mathew Taylor that por-
ton Of his farm lying west of
Glensfork creek, for $1,000 and
has began the erection OF farm
buildings. His new residence
will stand out on the hill 4 miles
west of this place near the Fair
play road.
MIR. Will Anderson, formerly
of Greensboro vicinity, has re-
Gently moved to the property he
bought of Jeff Bradshaw on the
Montpelier road.
Mr.. S. V. Wilkinson bought Of
Mr.. Edd Bennett the Ben Willis
farm near Simpson schoolhouse
for 81, 700 and in turn sold it to
Mr.. Mogan of Cumberland coun'
| ty for 81, 800.
| Messrs Arthur Frodge and DR..
| Holland Simpson, of Breeding
Robert and Winston Rowe, Of
Sparksville, Finis Strange an1
bud CASTOR. of Rugby, Rev
Payne, of Eli, G. G. Campbell
of Dirigo, J. A. Willis and 10
Sandusky, of Columbia, and Rob
ert Bailey, of Craycraft. attend
, ed the Masonic Lodge at thi
place on last Saturday night
The Lodge had work in tn
!. second degree and it also confel
| ed the masters degree on'W. T
] Taylor, John Jones and Robel
: Willis.
y Uncle Jack Sanders sold h
farm to Whit Order for $35'
+ He had a sale on the Both, ar
IS will give possession in few day
II
The Adair County news., 1912-12-04

Resurrected from legal death
by a stroke of Governor Dix's
pen. Albert T. Patrick, thrice on
the verge of the solemn march to
the grim electric chair, and q
life prisoner in Sing Sing for the
murder of William Marsh Rice
ate his Thanksgiving dinner a
home in New York.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-04

Gov. Dix has announced that
he. had pardoned Albert 7, Pat
rick, who is serving a life SEN
eteRee in Sing Sing prison for the
murder of William Marsh Rice,
an aged millionaire, September
%, 1900.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-04

The many appointments to be
made by the incoming pemocrat.
ic administration seems to COM
mand much attention, and al
ready the erop of applicants has
far passed the limits of fulfill
ment.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-04

There are several other prospec-
tive candidates, but it looks very
much like Gov. Beckham has the
caIE He is very popular in this
section of the State.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-04
WE'D. DEC. 1. 1912

The Hamilton Club, Of Chica-
go, is making an effort to get
Progressives to return to the Re
publican party, and has called a
meeting to that end to be held in
Chicago January Is.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-04

Woodrow Wilson, Democratic
President elect, has written a
letter, asking Mr. Bryan to meet
him in conference, the meeting
to take place after Mr.. Wilson'S
return from Bermuda.
The Adair County news., 1912-12-04
News
Elizabethtown

The EllzabetnuoWn NEWS
whose editor is a competent
Judge, says: "In the argument
before Judge Cochran in the
railroad assessment cases, we
cannot see where Gen. Garnet
and his assistants were outclass-
ed in any way by the railroad
attorneys"
The Adair County news., 1912-12-04
The announcement of Ex.Gov.

The announcement or Ex.Gov-
ernor ]. C. w. Beckham. can
didate for the Democratic NOM
nation for the Senate has been
formally made. 1t will be re-
membered that Mr.. Beckham
won the nomination over Gov.
McCreary and then was defeat
ed by Senator Bradley in the
Legislature, by four SO called
Democratic members. This fact
together with Mr.. Beckham'!
splendid service to State aut
1
The Adair County news., 1912-12-04

Former Governor j. c. w
Beckham has formerly announ-
ced his candidacy for United
States Senator, subject to the
August State wide primary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10

would volunteer their services. to act
with the authority, that state COM
mission would give them, attending
to all the minor matters themselves
and reporting the larger ones to the
state officer.
Men and women everywhere. eth er
as Representatives of local Humane
societies or as unorganized workers
for good citizenship should get to-
gether and formulate a plan for pc
titioning the next legislature to give
to the state of Kansas an appropria-
ton capable of organizing and carry
ing on the work of a state Humane
society.
1--WE raise ourselves by raising 9TH
ers. He who stoops above the fall
len and holds out a helping hand
tends to elevate the human race"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Even when it is new, the garden hose is
played out.
The people who always expect to be
cheated generally are
Even in the smoothest running bar
there is nlix-up in summer drinks.
A dog may be good retriever and still
not bring much when he is sold.
The telephone girl may truthfully claim
that she is connected with the best fam
lilies.
We should all be willing to meet trouble
half way, but we don't always have to go
that far.
Blobbs-'It was case of love at first
sight" Slobbs-"And did they marry?'
Blobbs-"No; they took another look
Even the most accomplished musician
can't always strike the right key when no
gets to his front door after night of it.
But my daughter has been accustomed
to every luxury" demonstrated the Old
man. That's all right replied the i'm .
pecunious sutton. I'm sort of luxury
myself"
How are the life-preservers this
boat?'' asked the nervous passenger.
Fine" replied the man with the impress
sive nose I've just had three, as good as
1 ever drank"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
AYH.AWKER JOTy

| After consulting the political time
| tables, the Galena Republican has
come to the conclusion that the Beau
tiful Isle of Somewhere is located on
one of those obscure one-track roads
1t occurs to the Trego County Re
porter that the friends at home ought
to cable congratulations to the party
of American tourists, reported to be
snowbound in the Alps.
AS the La Cygne Record says:
Even the most hardened sinner who is
deaf to the pleadings of the evangelist
and uninfuenced by the singing, will
get a hike on when the busy little
chigger begins tickling him.
Tom Jones, of Enterprise. is the proud
father of a baby boy that arrived re-
Gently. Tom declares that at birth the
youngster weighed 221 pounds. But
the Enterprise Push reports that TOMS
friends are inclined to believe he
weighed the lad on his ice scales.
Reported by the Eskridge Tribune
Star: Chas. Mcgee has a potato on
exhibition at the Eskridge State bank
that beats all others that have been
placed on exhibition. This potato
weighs two pounds and five ounces
and has enough large potatoes grow
ing out of it to make a mess.
Related by the Republic City News:
The teacher had the letters CAT on the
blackboard and was trying to teach
little PanSy PeaV1Sn TO pronounce the
word but PanSy couldn't come to it,
Think said the teacher, What is
it that has some whiskers and comes
up on the porch late at night when
it is cold and begs to come into
the house?" "Oh, I knowi' exclaimed
little Pansy, a great light dawning'
Its papa!"
so others may know" the Everest
Enterprise presents the following which
is good advice for the subscribers of
every newspaper: If you know of any
thing we don't know and which the
public ought to know; if it is worth
knowing don't you know that it is your
duty to let us know it, that the peo-
pie may also know? You may know,
but they don't know, unless you let US
know the things which you know.
That will be good for all the people,
don't you know.
Another snake story, via the Wamego
Times: If anyone in the neighborhood
has lost a china nest egg he should
call on Henry Zazer. Henry killed
bullsnake west of town one day last
week with a peculiar large lump in
it's stomach. In order to satisfy mis-
curiosity as to what his snakeship had
he dissected the thing
and 10 and behold a nice white china
nest egg was found on which the n
gestive apparatus of the snake had
failed to even make a dent. 1t was
a lean hungry looking snake about
three feet in length and how it man
aged to swallow so large an article
and what it expected to do with it
will have to be left to an experienced
ospecia1ist to determine. The probabili- |
ties are that the snake did not realize
that particular egg shell was so hard. |
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
EVENING CHIT
By RUTH CAMERON.

Can you laugh?
Just about once in so often am ne1v1x
impressed with the enormous value of a
gooo laugh as a social asset
MY most recent lesson in this matter
was gwen me by one Of those mushroom
acquaintances which we all make in vaca-
tion days. She was a rather plain woman
WIN no particular recommendation except
that ability to laugh, often at the nronar
time and extremely well. And nv HuSaTi,
don't mean musically, but simply with
an appearance of hearty ENJOYMENT and
appreciation. -N
without the laugh she would have been
commonplace. With it she shortly became
one or the most popular women in the
!i{Th+ Everyone said to everyone else.
mucn interest she takes in everyone.
what pleasure it is to talk to her. -
newcomers, especially, were delighted
with her.
AT first l. too, was among the entbus-
lasts, but in two or three weeks Like
many others-got under the laugh found
that the reality beneath the mask was
rather more cold and selfish than the
average. But whoever failed her, there
were always plenty of new arrivals 70
meet the lady fall beneath the spell of
the laugh and go about saying, What a
Jolly woman Mrs. S. Isl etc.
laugh was. '--'
1t successfully concealed GOODNESS ana
self-1nterest; it won constant popularity
Tor an otherwise commonplace woman: il
made infinitely more friends for her in a
season than many genuinely cordial men
and women find in a lifetime
Now am sure some of my readers are
wondering what l mean by praising such
a woman. Perhaps they are saying "I
wouldn't be such a hyprocrite for any
thing
Nobody wants you to be hypocrites, my
friends.
And I am not praising the woman. I
am simply praising the laugh.
I am taking it for granted that you are
one OF the genuinely cordial folks, and
therefore, urge that you learn to laugh
as a self-eXpression, not as a pretense
If a woman with no warmth in her
heart could make friends so easily by a
pleasant laugh, think how much a man
or woman with a really cordial heart
could do.
An attractive show window is necessary
to lure people into a shop even If the
things inside are most desirable. And so
even the most desirable people cannot af-
ford to be entirely without show-window
such as good manners, the
ability to talk small talk, an agreeable
presence and a pleasant laugh.
A pleasant smile is a good thing, but a
pleasant laugh, both with people and at
them-when they want to be laughed at.
And don't you think such a time doesn't
exist. Most people are as avid to be
laughed at as a cat is to have its back
scratched: provided, of course. you laugh
at them at the right time-that is, when
they intend to be amusing.
Can you laugh?
If you can't why don't you learn to?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many of the public servants of
the people also want to be their
bosses.
Even a naturally cheerful and OPP
timistic man cannot continue in those
moods when visited by company of
chiggerS.
X y
Everybody is particular to send
stamps for mail held for postage with
the fond hope that it is important, but
it never is.
y 4
Altogether too much stress is laid
on the fact that Columbus discovered
America. If he hadn't somebody else
would have done so.
Most novels probably end happily in
the marriage of the hero and the hero
inc because they don't go on and tell
about their married life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
by THE WAY
BIZ HARVEY PARsoNsA

1t is hard to shake. that Ponce person
Not that any effort has been mace
but, just the same, pipe TINS little Dlliy
dco. 1t appears that the Ponce IS peeVeo
over the effort of our latest correspond M
emit, the Mysterious Guy. Ladies AND
Others.-Mr. Ponce:
The call of the wild has come TO
muh. Must needs chort some
I've puzzled once or twice ABOUT
the Gink of Mysterie, ana nav
come to the conclusion ne IS lrou-
bled with a Bee, which, IN DuzZlns
round his think-tank in an almIesS
sort of way; has eaten up the plhs-
hole and has loosened up stay 50
that when he tries to gather up Ins
Gray Stuff in a bunch, ne nnos s SCI
Stuff has slipped away 10 give 'ne
grass a lunch.
Now if you wanna ma the Jim
and prove it on him, take a car AT
the corner. 1t will be labelled
Asylum. The fellah sitting in the
shade of the big cactae Will be Inc
Gink The day saw him there ne
was singing ditty bearing some re-
semblance to the following thInk
that it is the chorus to a champagne
bottle hymn.
The Ditty:
'I ask you does the Pork U Pine
cost forty cents a pound? (Bolo
gnas' fresh, sir. came today Lnat
Missing Link was round.) N1oo
high! Ball oneD 1 broke my Watcn
face. bling, just then. Say mas Ine
Crock A Dial? (Third floor BACK SIR
to your right, and down the center
aisle.)"
At this stage of the chortlefest a
person with a Determined Chln nut-
ted in. As the pair disappeared thro
a Big Door a little zephyret waited
the following wordlets to me-
If the delegates from Florida are
black, is William Alum White?
Spiffle. I'll bet one Progressive
CANDIDATE against one Undesirable
Citizen that 1 can beat the Gink to
the bughouse. Huh?
Praps you also observed, by reading
&c papers, that the President of Hayti
as given little blowout by his sub
,cts.
Local detectives are of the opinion |
rat the Hayti affair was the immedi- |
tie result of Dark Plot.
The Chinese girl who caused the row |
Frisco's Chinatown is quoted at a
arket price of 81, 500 Sounds to US |
Ike watered stock So far as we are
the market price of Chinese
iris is So cents per dozen for brights, |
nd % for russets.
It is evident that Hon Doom of the |
Nationals hasn't a good |
LpectOrant thrower on his staff Other |
Use he would have overlooked the |
rave danger of transmitting germs |
nd things via the salivated sphere.
"A fair division means givin' yuh all |
.uh best of it.''-Deacon Squash.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10

out of sight, ran swiftly down to the
sandy strip of beach and away from
him, her cheeks on fire. her heart
beating hard. If he did care, did
want her, he could seek her out and
say so, and until he did this, she
would not dawdle about alone on the
cliffs; but neither would she stoop
to an attempt to make him Jealous
she would not encourage Hal Porter.
AS she turned toward home she vowed
a mental and spiritual vow of loyalty
to Stanley, and to him alone. She
would trust her love and leave it to
his manliness and discretion to show
her his heart when the fuIlness Of
time should have come.
Che sun had quite gone down, and
the first dusk came, and with it great
peace and comfort to the girl after
the unrest of the past few weeks In
this mood, Orpha came hurrying up
the wood path, aware that she should
not be alone, when she heard rapid
steps behind her. She quickened her
own pace, little fearful, but in a
moment the steps came closer and she
heard her name.
"Orpha! Orpha, wait for mel" An
other instant and Stanley was close
at her side, a little out of breath
she turned, smiling slowly at him in
the dim light, looking up at the big,
Ia,I man as ne took her by the arm
with a deep breath of relief.
Why are you running away from
me Z" he demanded. Cant YOU see
that some day 1 am bound to tell
you that love you? You have elud-
ed me for weeks, Orpha! Does that
mean that you don't-care 90 He
waited, and she shook her head in
denial joy surging in every vein.
can you love me?-do your" He
caught both her hands in his and
bent over them, kissing them gently.
She did not withdraw them. There
was no pretense, no Discrimination in
love like hers '
love you-dearly,' she replied
firmly, but in a low tone. He nIit an
arm about her shoulders and drew her
to him. ioi
oh, my dear!" he said INV dear,"
1912, by Associated
Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
A STATE HUMANE SOCIETY

From the H. H. Jacobs Humane
society of Kansas City, Kan, come
some suggestions that are worthy of
consideration. They follow:
Throughout Kansas there are
number of active Humane societies
as there are in every advanced and
civilized country, but an incorporated
state society is needed. Colorado
and Wyoming are most excellent ex-
amples of state work. Nebraska has
had a state organization for twelve
years. Illinois has accomplished great
things by state humane education
Kansas should lead in humane work
as it does in many other worthy
things.
This cause is far reaching. A coun-
ty, state. a community progresses
only to the extent that it is humane.
Teach humane treatment of animals
to the child and he grows up to re-
srect all law and life. The work of
the Humane society covers a field
not covered by any other educational
or charitable organization, The HUI
name society frequently is incorpor-
ated either under a city or county
charter. The officer or officers of
such societies have police authority,
and certain other special rights, yet
from every such society. from every
such officer will come confirmation of
the statement, that the usefulness and
activity of each are restricted by city
limits, county lines, court Jurisdiction
An officer discovers a man beating
an animal and protests against the
mans cruelty. The man drags the
animal across the county line and
continues the beating. The same pro-
cess ensues if the victim is wife in
stead of animal Chance conditions
put a state commission in that Off
GERS pocket along with his county
commission. County lines are thus
wiped out. The wife or animal beaten
has no refuge, but is brought to JUS
tIce and his victim protected.
The higher up a good cause IS
placed, the farther out it reaches.
Gas lamps do not guide the traveller,
az do electric light towers. There are
some localities where it has not been
possible to organize Humane socie-
ties At the same time. in these To-
calities there are men and women
deeply interested in the work, who
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

Deception cashes more chips in the 20
litical game than any other.
If the man in the moon has a powerful
telescope, he can see a good deal.
There is so much to do in this world
that we wonder anyone ever pieces quilts.
Some men are good losers, no doubt, be-
cause of long and persistent practice in
that line.
Being prejudiced, we admit that swind-
ling an Indian never struck US as a very
serious offense.
A delegate who has to pay his own ex-
penses is rather too loyal for his own
good as general thing.
1t occurs to US occasionally that the
muzzles shouldn't all be devoted to dogs,
and calves of weaving age.
What has become of the O. (. mother
who believed early walking would make
her baby bow-legged?
1t may be true that none but the brave
deserve the fair, but there aren't enough
men with hero medals to go around.
A True Sport would rather go without
fish than to seine them, but the world
doesn't depend on the True Sport for his
fish supply.
II have met number of pretty shrewd
men. but none of them quite so wise as
a young graduate looks when logged out
in mortarboard cap and gown. RUFF
HoskinS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
The Pet Bean.

The fashionable apartment in
which children and animal pets are
banned is making it's appearance in
some of the smaller cities of the west.
An Iowa stockmn visiting his son in
Des Moines found the young couple
living in a house where dogs were not
allowed.
What have you done with the bull
terrier you used to be SO proud off"
the old stockman asked, for he was
fond of dogs himself.
I'VE can't keep a dog in this house,
dad" the young man said; so 1 gave
old Jeff away. Wife ventured to get
a canary, but the management kicked
about that. They would let us keep
a gold fish, but my wife hates fish as
she does snakes
so you haven't got any pet at all?"
well, we've got one of those Next
can jumping beans. We've got to
have something to lavish our affec-
lions on
The couple didn't state whether
they knew what made the bean jump.
The antics of this Mexican seed are
caused by an insect moving about in
side the shell.-New York Mail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
HUAOR or THE DAY

The Husband-I was taken by surprise
when you accepted me. The Wife1Yoy
We're taken by mistake John: don't make
Dispatch.
casey (watching the golfers)-Oi don't
zee amy difference bechune thot an
VIZ Tx. y Brien-Yez don't, Ell? Well
E Sa. would whin pay day KEN around
Georgia Lawyer Ito coIored prisonerJ-
wen, Ras, so you want me to defend YOU.
rave you got any money? Rastus-No;
ouI Sc got a mule and a few chickens.
dhd hog or two. Lawyer-Those will do
very nicely. Now, let's see; what do they
accuse you of stealing7 Rastus-Ch. a
Ihule' and few. chickens, and a hog or
two.-Life.
Jack says Name treats him like a
cog. 'Ah, but is the treatment general
or PARTICULAR What do you meanY''
Does she treat him like her dog?'-
Baltimore American.
A New Version.-"Talking about dry
towns, have you ever been in Leaven-
worth, Kan?'' asked the commercial traY-
eler in the smoking car mo? We'll,
that's a dry town for you all right
They can't sell liquor at all there?'
asked one OF the men. "Only If you have
been bitten by a snake" said the traveller.
They have only one snake in the town,
and when got TO it the other day after
standing in line for nearly half the day.
1t was too tired to bite."-Laughter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-10
SAYS UNCLE CAV

No man is really good who ism t
good for something. Virtue is no neg
ative. 1t gets results if it exists. The
merely. good person is an abomination.
ceremonies and little of deeds. There
fore, garnering a fair reputation, he
lives a lie. He brings forth thistles
for figs and, asked for bread, offers
a bit of petrif1ed doctrine. He lives
and moves and has his being under
false pretenses. He takes literally of
warm blooded sympathy and gives in
return, consciously or unconsciously,
cold hypocrisy.
You know the type. You find him
in the church, where he is the despair
of the earnest pastors heart. He at
tends every service, always finds the
proper place in the prayer book looks
neither to the right nor the left and
is above leVity. He is stanch in his
insistence that all forms be complied
with and is quite as fixed in his de-
termination, to have naught to do
with any church enterprise that calls
for self-Sacrifice.
loudly of honor and a stickler for the
letter of the bond. But you never find
him in public movements, and his purse
strings shrink at the thought of char
ity. You find him in the professions,
where he talks much of ethics and
sneaks out of his professional obliga-
lions at every opportunity.
Nearly 1000 years ago a Galilian
with a tongue of flame burned away
the garments of sham and pretense
that cloak the good who are good
for nothing. and left them naked to
the scorn of all the future ages. He
called them whited sepulchres, fair
but within foul and full of
dead mems bones.-(Copyright 1912, by
the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)