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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rFrom the Chicago News.1


Fashion begets a lot of new wrinkles
Love levels all things-if it is on the
level.
Life is a game of chance, but death is
a sure thing.
The people we envy always envy some
other fellow higher up.
Some men would rather steal a poor
living than earn good one.
Many a man likes a woman's style
as long as he doesn't have to pay for it,
The things we get for nothing are apt
to cost US more than the things we buy.
Often when love at first sight leads to
marriage second sight is apt to lead to
divorce.
If you have occasion to transact BUSH
ness with a mule select one who has no
kick coming.
1t is as difficult for a man to serve two
masters as it is for woman to serve
both style and comfort.
Once in a great while a man comes
home as early as his wife thinks he
ought tc, or the postman brings her a
letter that she expects.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

ness. He drew out a crushed tele-
gram and handed it to her.
ST sent it last night, as soon as I
was sure he said. "And here's the
answer.
Mona and self engaged. Wire
consent to wedding soon as possible -
Well, upon my word, Barry
AmeS-'
Read what the old chap answered .
laughed Barry, slipping one arm
close about her
Love and congratulations. Catch
her while she's in the mood, boy
Copyright 1913 by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Many men lose time. no doubt. be-
cause 1t flies so fast.
n u
Most women can throw straight
when it comes to glances with their
eyes.
Feoling the people is not only easy.
1t is also especially profitable.
u ~ A
Folk who believe all they hear
have lot of particularly unnecessary
worries.
q
Manufacturers of Christmas toys are
friends of the grown-upS because they
make horns that are easily broken.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Frederic Harrison, one of England's
noted historians and philosophers, also
seems to be entitled to most of the
medals that belong to the superstitious
folk He is so sure that the 1 8 in the
new year portends a disaster that will
take the turn of a great European con-
flict. that he wants Great Britain to
negotiate a little loan of $3.50, 900, 600
Immediately for the purpose of
STRENGTHENING her army and navy.
Battleship builders, moulders of can
non and small arms and those who
have other munitions of war to sell
are undoubtedly of the opinion that
Mr. Harrison is a wonderfully wise
man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.

| Our knowledge of the causes of in
fectious diseases has advanced not
uniformly, but by leaps and bounds
| as new methods have been developed
and new incentives have arisen With
the evolution of bacteriology, follow
ing the work of Pasteur and Koch,
there was a rapid expansion in our
knowledge of infections. The discov-
cry that Texas fever was transmitted
by the tick started extensive studies
on the relation of insects to the trans
mission of disease. The demonstra-
ton that certain diseases are due to
germs too small to be seen through
the microscope rapidly led to a study
of many obscure diseases and cleared
away much of the confusion regard
ing them Great epidemics have fur
nished an incentive for the most ex-
haustive study of some of our essen
TALLY epidemic diseases, as cholera,
plague, influenza and meningitis. In
addition, greater experience in inter-
preting results; the training and de-
velopment of men for research; the
foundation and endowment of large
institutions for research, such as the
Rockefeller Institute, the Memorial
of the United States public health
service, and the adoption of new
methods by research workers. have
made possible the recent increase in
our knowledge of this class of dis
cases. The use of the monkey as an
experimental animal, instead of the
small animals usually employed, has
contributed more than any other fac
tor to the important recent additions
to our knowledge of the acute infec-
lions, says The Journal of the Ameri-
can Medical Association. Recent work
has shown that the monkey is sus-
ceptible to number of diseases
which affect man but which are
transmissibIe with difficulty, if at all,
to the small laboratory animals, such
as rabbits, rats and guinea-pigs.
Through this new medium of expert
ment we have been able TO reproduce
these diseases at will and to study
them under laboratory conditions.
Without the monkey as an experiment
tai animal our knowledge of typhus
fever, poliomye1itis, measles. cerebro-
spinal meningitis and scarlet fever
would not have made it's recent great
advances; indeed, it probably would
have remained at a standstill for many
years to come
Unfortunately the application of
this knowledge to the control and
eradication of the diseases has not
kept pace with it's acquisition. With
a few notable exceptions, such as the
control of yellow fever through mos
quito eradication and of bubonic
plague by rat campaigns, health au-
thorities have been slow to apply the
great mass of information now avail
able to them by reason of the re-
searches of the last few years. What
at present is more needed than re-
search is a more general application of
the results already at hand Our law
makers should be informed that it
requires money to carry out the
measures for the control of disease
which have been pointed out so con-
vincingly by laboratory studies. Who
can predict how many lives would be
saved and how many cripples for life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Surely the time is becoming ripper
daily for the beginning of crusade
to swat the deadly hatpin. A Boston
ian was pricked on the temple with
one recently. BIoodpoisoning ensued,
and he died within a few days. Only
little while ago an Ohio man had
hatpin jabbed clear through his nose
while he was trying to maintain his
footing in a street car. A Topekan,
too, came near having his eye put out
recently by the same agency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Pressl
Advice has the same delicious flavor
as stale beer.
The baby can yell more than its ia
Their, but it can't growl as much
Before marriage a man imagines he
loves a woman, and afterward she i'm
AGNES she loves him.
Just as soon as girl wants man to
begin teaching her politics she begins
to teach him to marry her.
Even If she didn't have it charged to
him in the shop, a man couldn't appre-
ciate the Xmas present his wife gives
him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Manager A. G. Delamater was so
we'll pleased with Neil Twomey's
dramatization of the story that he has
commissioned Mr.. Twomey to drama
tie two other popular novels of which
he controls the dramatic rights. This
will undoubtedly bring fame and for
tune to Mr.. TwOmey. Judging by the
liberal patronage and the extravagant
praise given it by the dramatic critics,
it is sure to coin another good sized
fortune for it's producer, Mr.. Della
mater. This play is the attraction at
the Grand today.
The real dramatic sensation of the
season will come to the Grand on
Thursday, January 2, when Thomas
w. Ross will be seen in his production
of Winchell Smiths much discussed
play, THE Only Son. The play has
been the subject of a number of SER
mons so powerful a lesson does it
teach, but at the same time, Mr.
Smith has succeeded in retaining in it
much of the comedy which made his
other success, THE Fortune Hunter"
and "Brewster's Millions SO popular
Thomas w. Ross comes here after
breaking the popularity record" for
Chicago. With his engagement in that
city ending month ago he had play
ed there for two solid seasons, with
but slight break. Mr.. Ross is favor
ably known here for his splendid work
in Checkers" In "Tfie Only Son.
he is said to have one of the strongest
pal 70 VI his uIdIldllc career
Manager Crawford announces that
''Bunty Pulls the Strings" will come to
the Grand theater for matinee and
night Saturday. Doubtless the en-
gagement will be one of the most
notable of the theatrical season in
this city. Topeka playgoers have wait
ed long and patiently for the coming
of "Bunty.'
The company which will present
Madame Sherry in this city on
Tuesday, January Z, at the Grand. is
a company of talented performers who
nave won their spurs" in many
prominent productions They, one
and all, are players of wide versatility.
having been selected with view to
their peculiar fitness to the parts thew
are called upon to fill
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Governor Wilson wants his presiden-
tiaI administration to witness the OBJ
liberation of all sectional feeling be-
tween the North and the South. And
such fine progress has been made in
this direction of late years that his
wish may be gratifed, but this is
matter that no administrative act of
the government or a president can
hasten along.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

More bad news for the express COM
panies and equally good news for
long suffering public. Postmaster
General Hitchcock makes the welcome
announcement that the rates for par
GELS post service are higher than they
need be after the service gets running
smoothly, and he believes that it will
be possible to reduce them materially
within six months time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Scientists are paying a number of
women a whole dollar each a day for
merely breathing into bottles. The
vapor thus procured is to be analysed
in experiments to better the conditions
of the atmosphere in sick rooms. But
the job is probably a particularly irk-
some one because the women are not
permitted to talk while they're breath
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Nor will the first weeks of the new
year be very happy ones for the little
children and other dependents of the
125, 900 garment workers in New York
city who have gone on strike. Pow
erty always stalks near their homes,
and as soon as their pay envelopes
cease making the rounds, misery fol-
lows quickly in the wake. ..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Among the newest of ailments is the
auto foot. People who constantly ride
around in their machines suffer from
a sort of paralysis of their feet that
is due to their lack of use However,
there are any number of the common
herd who would be delighted at
chance to become afflicted with such a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

They say that the suffragettes who
hiked fom New York to Albany gained
in weight from 1 to pounds apiece
while en- route. But as no definite
statement is made as to what parts of
their anatomy took on the increase,
the chance is open to surmise that it
developed in the large corn, and bunion
crops that were produced on their feet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Fewer acres have been sown to
wheat in Kansas this year than last.
However, if conditions are at all
favorable the aggregate yield will
probably be larger. Because the Kan
sas farmers are learning fast how to
grow two and three heads of wheat
where they only used to grow one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Too many men who are tired of
life and wish TO shuttle it off make the
sorry mistake of shooting their wives
and children before they turn their
weapons at their own heads. A south
ern Kansan entered this class the
other dav
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
''FRECkLES" TONIGHT.
Dramatization Gene Porter's Great
Book at Grand.

"Freckles," Gene Stratton-P orter's
most popular and best selling novel,
apparently possesses that magic quail
ity that brings fortune to everyone
connected with it; the sale of the book
has reached half million copies and
it is still one eff the six best sellers,
which means that it has earned a
fortune for Mrs. Porter and Double
day, Page & Co. and Grosset & Dun
lap, the publishers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Fifty-cent gas will be more than a
luxury if the conditions again develop
when there isn't enough of it to pro-
duce more than a flicker of flame in a
burner while the meter ticks merrily
on in the rapid tenor of it's way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

Another of those born at the rate
of one a minute is pushing a wheel
barrow from Sumner county, this
state, to the Pacific coast. He is pay
Jig an election bet. He had an idea
that Woodrow Wilson would have at
least $50 votes in the electoral college.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01

prevented if means were provided for
fly campaign next summer in order
to carry into effect measures for the
prevention of infantile paralysis by
the control of the stable-fly?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-01
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF TEE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal In N member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
sanitation -four the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka
The news I'm received I'm The state Jour-
NAL building over wires for talis sols ptsR~
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19
The Cause of Rheumatism

Stomach trouble, lazy liver and de-
ranged kidneys are the cause of rheu-
matism. Get your stomach, liver kid
news and bowels in a healthy condi-
ton by taking Electric Bitters, and
you will not be troubled with the
pains of rheumatism. Charles B. AL
len, school principal. of Sylvania,
Ca, who suffered indiscribable torture
from rheumatism, liver and stomach
trOuele and diseased kidneys, writes:
"All remedies failed until used Elec-
trio Bitters, but four bottles of this
wonderful remedy cured me complete
ly." May be your rheumatic pains
come from stomach, liver or kidney
troubles. Electric Bitters will give
you prompt relief. soc and 81. Rec
commended by PAUL Drug Co.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19

are LILO logs on the yard, and
they are not done cutting and
hauling yet.
Mr.. John Tunis, of Esto, was
visiting at Mr.. John Hadley's
one day this week.
Misses Ollie and Patra Hadley
were visiting at Mr.. Chrisley
Burton's one day last week.
Mr.. Pompy Burton and Miss
Mary Curry, of Purdy, eloped to
Tennessee last Wednesday night.
Born to the wife of Frank
Burton, Feb, the 10th, a fine son.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19
SlauShtering Calves.

Someone has conservatively es-
timated that around 5000, 900
calves are annually slaughtered
in this country, including those
slaughtered on the farm. Thous-
ands of calves are annually
slaughtered that are of good
beet type, their owners slaugh-
tering and marketing them at a
tender age to rid the cow of her
charge and put her into the
dairy service again. The dairy
COW is a short road to profit, but
her steer calf, if kept on the
farm until he has attained the
yearling age and then sold to a
beef-cattle feeder, should in the
long run net more profit. 1t
might not all be represented in
dollars and cents, but that calf,
having the run of the farm for
a year, would help enrich the
soil fertility enough to we'll pay
its keep. 1t should be stopped
by law. That is the cause of a
shortage on cattle, which causes
this high cost of living. "-Ex.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19
The Forty Year Test

An article must have exceptional
merit to survive for period of forty
years. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
was first offered to the public in 1872.
From small beginning it has grown
in favor and popularity until it has
attained a world wide reputation.
You will find nothing better for a
cough or cold. Try it and you will
understand why it is favorite after
a period of more than forty years. 1t
not only gives relief-~it cures. For
sale by Taull Drug Co.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19
LONGEST Straight Line Railroad.

One would think that the dis
tinction of having the longest
section of straight line would be-
long to some of the railroad
systems traversing the vast
prairie section of this country
but this is not so, The longest
straight line of railroad in the
world is in New Zealand. 1t is
1876 miles long, and throughout
its whole length there is not a
single cure or minors deviatio
from a straight line. But what
makes this fact of New Zealand's
possession the more remarkable
is that the country is mountain
GUS throughout the greatest part
of its 1900 square miles of ter
ritory.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19
Knifley.

Mrs Kettle Hancock who has
been sick for some time is no
better.
Mr., Joe L. Feese bought a
farm from ]. B. Watson for
$500; Mr.. Watson then brought
a farm form Mat Oversteet for
$3.50.
Owen Arnold sold one span of
aged mules TO Gum Ellis fer $500
and bought span of three year
old horse mules from G. Webb
for $275.
Mr.. Owen Gains, a stock trad
er, was in this section last week
buying stock.
The sale at Garlin Weather
fords was we'll attended and
property sold for a good price.
Mr.. Weatherford will leave for
Illinois in a short time.
We look anxiously forward to
the rebuilding of the bridge at
Watson, it being down is incon-
venient to a great many people
in this section.
Mr.. J. M. Wolford while log.
ging a few days ago let a log
roll onto his team breaking one
of his horses legs. 1t was valued
at SIPS.
Mr.. Jake Chelf, a candidate
for Assessor is mixing with the
voters of this section.
Mr.. John Overstreet has NOV
ed to Rheber easy county.
Aunt Bette Knihey, IS years
Of age is as sprightly as a person
of half her years.
Green river has been past
fording almost since the bridge
washed out.
Hogs, cattle and horse stock
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19

in this section are both scarce
and high.
The wheat crops in these parts
look better than last year, also
young grass.
The article in the news Feb.
26, in regard to the bond issue
selected an easy place to fall.
Mr., H B. Ingram, of Co.
lumbia, visited DR.. J. C. Gose
and C. G. Jeffries a few days
last week.
1t is reported that the county
will build a new school house
near Plumpoint church for the
coming school year.
Mr.. G. E. Walker was in the
Louisville market last week.
MIR. J. A. Williams was in Co.
lumbia on business last Saturday.
The culverts on the road from
this place to Green river are
dangerous, the Engineer shonld
look after them.
Born, to the wife of L. r.
Chelf March the 9th, a son.
Mother and baby doing we'll.
Died at her residence in
Knifley March the 8tb, Mrs.
Flossie Dunbar, wife of ]. V.
Dunbar. Lung trouble was the
cause of her death. We extend
our profound sympathy to hus-
band. two little boys and two lit
tie brothers.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19
MaGaha.
Farmers are all busy breaking

Farmers are all busy breaking
corn ground
Mrs. Maude Davidson, who has
been confined to her bed for
some time, is no better.
Miss Ida Pyles, of Ella, is Wis.,
iting her sister, Mrs. Lula Rocks.
Mrs. Nancy j McGaha, who
has been confined to her bed for
some time, don't improve very
much.
"Biggie" and "Littly" Rice.
of (color,) moved their saw mill
to Frank Burton's yard. There
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19
Pointed Paragraphs.

The best of men are some
times worsted-and that's no
yarn.
Silly people are usually happy.
but not all happy people are sill
ly.
No inventor has been able to
produce noiseless fiat wheel as
yet.
Many a slow man develops in
to sprinter when he has chance
too run into debt.
While the seasons always
open for fortune hunting, few of
the hunters are good shots.
Love and whiskey makes some
men do a lot of queer things.
A spinster has given up hope
when she quits reading the mar
riage notices.
1t may be that woman dislikes
cigars because they are always
arrayed in common everyday
wrappers.
A widows idea of letting a
man win her is to first catch
him in a webb of her own spin
ming.
Somehow the average woman's
heart aches a good deal more for
the poor heather abroad than it
does for the dirty children in the
next block.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19
Newspaper Errors.

The editor of an exchange
doesn't want anyone to send him
any more copies of his paper in
which they have found mistakes.
If they find a perfect copy, how
ever, he offers a big price for il.
Same with us. says the editor of
the Crystal Falls, Mich, Drill.
If the fool critic who huntrs for
mistakes in the papers would find
them all he would be kept busy.
We will be pleased to buy copies
of any paper which can be proven
entirely free from errors, either
typographical or in statement of
fact. We will be pleased to find
a merchant who never made a
mistake in putting up an order;
a lawyer who never lost a case
through his own error, a doctor
who never made a mistake, a
postoffice official who never put
mail into the wrong box, a wo-
man who never forgot to put in
salt while cooking or to put tea
in the teapot before putting in
the water.
Bring on some of your mis-
takeless paragons who find it so
easy to criticise the papers and
We'll give them the chance of
their lives to find out whether
they are human
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1913-03-19
Somebody's Daughter.

| do not know her name; per-
haps you do. | have never seen
her face; maybe her picture
hangs on her bed room wall.
By some strange chance her
head may have rested some day
on your shoulders. She's some
body's daughter; pray God not
yours.
Tonight the claws of the city
are ripping at her soul. Lone
illness and hunger have Slapped
her will and false pride has
blinded her.
She is not bad girl, just tired,
numb. The dice were loaded.
The game was crooked The
odds were too great for her wis
dom and strength. The road
was strange and the guide-posts
lied.
Back home life was a drab
thing and sober-faced. The pet
ty tyrannies of the little town
the eternal sameness of the
years, starving her imagination.
Romance was hungry within