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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

ing his wishes? "Ill never let a woman
run me like that" he resolved sudden
ly, rushing to his room and beginning
to get into his best suit, with a bellig
erent eye on the highway. He had to
spend an anxious five minutes at the
telephone, but in an incredibly short
time he drove up to his neighbours gate.
'.All ready, Martha Elem he called,
cheerfully
The girl came down the walk wonder
ingly, but she offered no remonstrance
when he lifted her quickly in, and gath
cred up the reins- Sam, where are we
soing?" she whispered, beginning to
tremble.
We're going to Haw1ey's for a Ii
cense," answered Sam, grimly, land
we are going to Elder Browns and get
married. And then We are going down
to Connell's office, and I'm going to
make over half my personal property
to my wife and give her a joint deed
of the farm. I'm going to promise her
half of my income to run her end of
the business for the rest of her
days, and L guess she has seen enough
of my -setneSs' to know 1 am liable to
keep my word
oh said Martha Ellen, weakly.
Tomorrow morning. he added, I'VE
will pack our buds and go to- be-
lieve it is the brides privilege to choose
the destination, isn't it?''
At a sheltered bend in the road he
drew the horse to a standstill. 1T is
not housekeeper I want" he said, and
now his voice trembled. Money doesn't
matchmaking matters, without you
dearr
Oh she said, again.
Martha Ellen, tell me-" he ques-
toned wistfuIly, have you been happy
this summer"
mo, no. she sobbed, at the hurt in
his voice.
You haven't?'' He held her. back
and looked at her. Then you were
only-Wel" he drew her close with a
smile of relieved understanding. st
think l see my finish, that is allr'-
Copyright. 1913, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01
CauteriZing by Cold.

Cautery means treatement by burn
ing; in what is called actual cautery
| the burning is done with a white-hot
instrument; otherwise it is effected
with chemicals, common application
being that of nitrate of silver. But
extreme cold can burn effectively
as great heat. If given the choice of
touching the tongue to either of two
pieces of iron-one at 1000 degrees
above zero and the other at so degrees
below-it would be hard to decide. A
rev method of applying cautery by
cold. which is as absolute and eff
fe ctive as that by heat, has just been
perfected in France, and is described
n the Revue Scientifique, which cred
its its facts to La Presse Medicale OF
the same city. We translate this de-
scription, as follows:
"Cauterization by cold has already
been in use for a long time in the
tire atment of skin diseases, and it
sometimes succeeds in curing LESSONS
that have resisted other surgical or
medical treatment. AS refrigerating
agent the first to be utilized was
liquid ethyl Chord, in the form of
spray: afterward, in 1899, liquid air
was tried. The latter gave excellen
results, but as its use involved numer-
Gus inconvenience and even some
danger, il was soon abandoned.
I'm 1907 Pussy conceived the idea
he devised a method of application
which is now used all over the world
1.-THE carbonic snow is used in the
form of small crayons, which are easy
to prepare, even at the patients bed
side, for portable apparatus of small
weight and easy operation has been
constructed for the use of practition-
ers. Unfortunately crayons of carbon
dioxid have a serious inconvenience
despite their low temperature, they
are not aseptic, and their direct APP
plication to a wound exposes it to in
fiction, which it is desirable to avoid
at all costs
''To obviate risks of this sort, Bor-
Gas has suggested the use of a silver
tube, ending in a flat surface, in
which is placed mixture of carbOnic
snow and alcohol or acetone. The
application of the cold is thus made
through the interposition of a steril-
liable surface. and it is also possible
to vary the temperature to be used by
changing the composition of the re-
frigerating mixture.
Whatever may be the technic en-
ployed, local refrigeration by means
Of carbonic snow generally gives good
results; cauterization in this way may
even be of great service in the treat
n,ent of certain skin diseases, such as
erythematous lupus, .birthmarks,' and
various forms of abnormal growths
Literary Digest.
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QUAKER fluctuations.
From the Philadelphia Record

TFroni the Philadelphia Record.1
Done to turn-a vaudeville sketch.
Twenty is a score, but it takes less in a
baseball game.
Most servant girls are foreigners and
yet We call them domestics
Poverty is no crime. Many man would
rather be right than be rich.
Many man spends all his life waiting
for the unexpected that never happens.
The time when a man never de-
mands a receipt is when he pays a
grudge.
an argument generally takes a curious
form. 1t always has two sides, but only
one end.
It's all right to take an interest in other
peoples affairs, but don't be more in
terested in them than they are them
selves.
Cne-half the world, dissatisfied with
what it has, can't understand how the
other half. can be dissatisfied with what 1t
HASN'T.
He-''Will you marry me?" She-"You
would make a poor excuse for a husband -
He-"Well a poor excuse is better than
none"
Tommy-"Pop, an oil well is a gusher.
isn't it?' Tommy's Pop-'Yes. my son:
also the man who writes the prospectus
about it,
-"Bjones always says the right
thing at the right time Cynicus-''Yes
he's one of the most accomplished liars 1
know
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AYHIWKER .JOTy

Oh, well, remarks the Wamego Re-
porter, it may be that some women
wear slit skirts to detract attention
from their faces.
A charity solicitor, explains the
Marquette Tribune, is one who ALWAYS
you and fails to recognize you any
where else.
The Woodson County Journal, pub
lished at Yates Center, is a year old.
attractive youngster of eight pages, all
home print
For hOarseneSs, advises the Bur-
lington Independent, bake a lemon as
one would an apple. Squeeze a little
of the thickened and heated Juice
quently.
Now that the Balkan war is over,
why not discard the Bulgarian dress
for the MeXicano, suggests the Mound
ridge journal We predict that wide
brlmmed hats and silver bells will be
much in vogue next summer.
Colonel Roosevelt found the snake
dance of the Hopi Indians immensely
entertaining, notes the South Kansas
tribune, and it adds: But for some
reason or other ne takes no interest
in the ghost dance of the Bull
Moosers.
Related by the Stafford Courier: A
merchant had ordered a jug of whis-
ky. the man who delivered it let the
cork slip out and spilled a little on
the floor. rat in the corner came
out and took sip and scooted into
his hole, then he came again and
scooted into his hole; the third time
he did not get back to the hole he
continued to shorten the distance
every time, until he just stayed and
licked all of the liquor up Then he
stood upon his hind feet and looking
all around. said, Now, where is that
cat 20
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CLOSE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCTIIsoN GLOBE.

Lies are told about every religion
If you know and can't remember vo,
don't know.
Some women enjoy society, while others
prefer funerals.
1t takes about day to do a days work :;
sometimes longer.
or course. it's the towns fault If YOU
happen to be failure
People who act like they own the earth
usually have the least
There is also the kind of man who has
more courage than sense.
So many talk brotherhood on the street
corners and don't practice it.
The liniment gets a good deal of credit
that belongs to rubbing it on.
Bill Bowen: Explanations by the aver
age married man are defenses.''
Every man thinks he's clever as every
woman thinks she has winning ways.
Why do dogs occasionally hurry? That
is as much of a mystery electricity.
A man never confesses to his wife until
he is pretty sure she has found out
about it.
Sometimes a henpecked man becomes
philosophical and figures it is for his Own
Good.
If the average man designed the fash
ions, red probably would be the predomi-
mating color.
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EVE ACCIDENTS n GOLF.

The ancient and honorable game of
golf is not without its misfortunes to
the eyes of devotees. Many people have
lost eyes because like Lots wife they
looked back. The familiar cry of Fore"
has been the signal for ocular destruc-
ton many times. When this impera-
tive vocal signal reverberates over the
golf field, the first impulse of the av-
erage player is to look behind, and this
is a fatal mistake, for, every once in
a while, ball strikes the eye, and 1T
usually comes with so much force as
to destroy the eye or seriously damage
it Vision, at least, is almost always
lost, and the removal of the eyeball
itself is frequently necessary to prevent
a sympathetic and fatal disease of the
other eye. The lesson to be learned
is not to look back on the golf field,
advises the Journal of the American
Medical Association. When Fore" is
called, look the other way, and lean
forward, as it is better to be hit on
any other part of the body than on the
head. Even when Fore" is not called,
it is better not to look back, EXCEPT
when necessary, as balls are always
liable to be flying especially on small
and crowded fields) and an eye injury
is always among the possibilities.
Another. but less frequent, source of
eye accidents on the golf field is the
reckless and inconsiderate swinging of
clubs in making practice shots when
near other players. This is common
practice and should be sharply dis
couraged, as some fatal accidents have
occurred by a crushing blow on the head
by a golf stick. Eyes have been seri-
ously, and totally injured by the same
custom. If players wish to make prac-
tice strokes they should do so in re-
mote places where they will not injure
other people.
Eyes are also frequently injured by
being struck with foreign bodies, such
as sand, gravel, ETC., flying off from
the end of club, as when a player
endeavors to drive ball from a sand
pit with a niblick This exasperating
performance will frequently be follow
ed by a shower of sand, gravel. etc,
flying around the players head, and
eyes are often injured in this way. The
injury is usually slight, but sometimes
more serious consequences ensue, and
eyes have been lost from the conse-
quences of such accidents.
Within the last two or three years
quite number of serious accidents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01
Japanese ToweIing is Very Durable

Japanese IOWeiing is Very Dura bic
Japanese toweling can be put to many
interesting uses; it is cheap. artistic
in design and easy to launder, so it
ought to be popular.
The most usual way to make use of
it is to make it into runners for the
breakfast and luncheon table. These
are strips long enough to go through
the center of the table, from end to
end, and cross it at intervals, so that
each end of each runner is used for a
place. The ends can be hemstitched,
hemmed or feather-stitched.
Instead of runners doilies can be
made of this toweling. Make them
square, and hemstitch them on two
sides. Napkins for use with runners
can be made in the same way. They
and save wear and tear on more ex-
pensive damask.
Runners for sideboard and serving
table of this toweling are attractive
for use in the summer cottage or in the
simple dining room furnished in blue.
They can be finished like the table
runners
Toweling can also be made into very
decorative curtains. These can be
hemstitched at the end which hangs
free, and hemmed to go over brass
rods. If a valance is desired, it can
be made of a strip of toweling running
lengthwise across the top Of the WIN
dow This sort of valance will not
need hemstitching and scanning, as one
made of sections of the toweling run
ming up and down would.
Attractive couch covers are made of
several lengthwise strips of the towel
ing fagotted together with dark blue
if the design is in blue, as it usually
is. For use on couch covered in this
way cushions can also be covered with
the toweling. Two strips of the towel
ing, fagotted together, are used for a
cushion slip overwhelming.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

have occurred from the opening of golf
balls to ascertain their contents. Most
balls contain no fluid. but there are
balls wherein will be found acids, held
there under high pressure, SO that when
opened by knife, Ratchet or what not,
the acid squirts out. Not infrequently,
the eyes and face have been severely
burned. The acid is supposed to give
the ball greater resiliency and carrying
power, but its use is dangerous. Do
not cut open golf balls, to see what
they are made Of. or for any other rea-
son.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01
HVAOQ OF THE DRY

Yes, husband is always SO pressea g
. .i1rh. He complains bitterly about ~ !.
his office this afternoon ana /, was in
there. Yes. His golf club &c s wash 81 I
away that he has to leave his deslx 80 Tar
o CLOCK Plain Dealer. one
Mrs Wordley-"If as Won sax,
ma master kissed you against your viii war war
All. ,madame, Eat ees lust zee naid--
vlch could not sink at re moment. org or
h s len; EelnenDer Get. eet was too late. H.
Puck. Ne tihes."-
an, An; yes: And who gave the bride
away inquired the able editor 90 tHe
Gosh Goshkonong Gazette. Nobody r re iae
iooe sag, who was relating the detaiIs
OF recent wedding in high life ssIf ftae,.s.
was ANYBODY present that could have dons
SO. ne never said a word."-Judge uone
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01
THE AIrrIC WINDoM.

OF all the windows in our house
like the attic window best;
Because it's high and small and round
And oh, so different from the rest.
For every single way you look
Is like fairy picture book.
Such lovely things there are outsidei
Red chimney stacks, and near, blue sky,
And fat cats walking on the roofs,
And baby cloudlets skipping by;
And pigeons cooling on the sill,
So 1 can stroke them, if will,
The smoke plumes from the chimney
stacks
Are banners waving to and fro,
While gallant knights with prancing
SteedS,
Through the long roof-lanes come and
go.
The clouds of sunset often hold
Great palaces of shining gold.
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

Almost every day the newspapers
print a brief story from somewhere IN
der a headline about like this: "A
Child and Matches" And those four
words invariably indicate exactly what
has happened. A little one is burned
to death through the carelessness of
those who permit it to get hold of
matches. Sometimes the blaze that
snuffs out the youngsters life also de-
stroys a home. Parental negligence of
this caliber is criminal. and should be
treated accordingly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01
ON TIE SPUR
or THE AOMENT
By ROY z. MOULHON.
Arcadia.

l2rcaulds
A place where can hang my hat
And know that am home;
A place from whence 1 well know that
I'll never care to roam.
A place where there is no dissent
And love reignS e'er supreme;
Where no one cares how time is spent
And can sit and dream
A place where no collectors come
To spoil a happy day;
A place where lawnmowerS do not hum
Nor alley felineS play.
A place where monographs don't rasp,
No pianolas pound;
A place where neighbors do not gasp
And peddle lies around.
A place where skeeters do not skeet
And autos do not chug;
A quiet and serene retreat,
Without a single mike or bug.
Where time need not be Teckoned by
And I could take my ease;
Arcadia'S the place. where 1
Could do as 1 darn please.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

If the international movement for a
six-hour work day and a five and one
half day working week, which is being
promoted by Tom Mann, British la
Dor leader, is successful it will imme-
diately be followed by another one for
a four-hour work day and a four day
working week. Or perhaps some gen.
ius will come along with a plan by
which the necessary work of the world
can be done without any labor Eeing
expended on it, and which will make It
necessary for the erstwhile workers to
draw only their breath and their pay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01
From the IIickeyvilIc Clarion.

Mr.. and Mrs. Prof. Jimkey's new
baby was born with a full set of teeth.
Prof. says he don't know whether the
kid is going to grow up to be a presi-
dent or an iron awed man in some cir
Gus or other. Grandma Whipple sent
down to the city for a new set of false
teeth, but they were too high in the
instep and she couldn't get her mouth
shet with them in. Jed Prick, our gen.
tlemanly and congenial blacksmith and
dentist, says it is a wonder some folks
will never learn to patronize home in
dustry.
We have been readin' about a turbine
boat that kin make sixty knots an
hour. Huh, that's nothing. Hank
Tumms had boat on Duck lake once
that made sixty knots in one minute,
when the heavin' line got tangled up
in the propeller wheel.
Owing to a break in our machinery,
the Clarion has had to use foldin'
bed for a printing press this week.
This issue therefore is a little behind
time. but not so much as the majority
of our subscribers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

incidentally. the thing that has made
Milwaukee more or less famous I'M
doubtedly did not contribute in any way
to the achievement of it's ball team in
winning the American associa ton pen
nant. Ball players and beer 20 not
mix with much success.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A line of talk isn't always one of
reasoning.
4 = =
Nobody thinks of attributing his
virtues to heredity.
+ Es +
Neither are there any rules for
1ove-making. It's a catch-as- catch
can affair.
+ + j.
No girl adds to her attractiyeness by
being photographed with a dog in her
arms.
/. + i.
Women who follow the freakish
styles are truly of the many who
haven't anything fit to wear.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

Even if the state board of embalmers
are successful in their efforts 20 re-
duce the cost of dying, that isn't likely
to make it any more popular, except
possibly with the relatives who are left
behind to pay the funeral expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

A fife and drum corps is a mighty
poor interpreter of sacred music. Yet
one is being carted around Massachu-
sets in the campaign that is being
waged there by the Progressive can
didate for governor Surely an organ
would be more appropriate for such an
'inspired" cause.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

New England's bankers have joined
their brethren in other. sections of the
country in a vigorous protest against
the Glass currency bill. This bill,
though, is being framed in the inter-
ests of the whole people of the coun-
try, and not especially for the benefit
and convenience of the bankers
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

Presumably there are any number
of sensitive people who will speedily
overcome their liking for fish. An
expert on cannibalism declares that
human flesh tastes like it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

"a New England suffragist has
tanned angleworms so that they come
up out of the ground and eat sauer
kraut out of her hand" MIR. Bryan
should not delay engaging her as an
attraction for his next lecture tour
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait has start
ed a school for suffrage workers in
New York. But the suspicion that Mrs.
Pankhurst is coming over for the pur-
pose of taking the chair of window
sma shing is probably unwarranted.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

There is new $40 counterfeit bill in
circulation. But the secret service
men are having difficulty in locating il,
as it moves only in exclusive circles
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

listers volunteer army of 1000
men paraded in review the other day,
but it was equipped with wooden
guns. However, a good healthy Irish
man can do more execution and dam
age with a club than he can with
rifle
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KANSAS COMMENT
THE BOW IN THE BACK.

THE BOW IN bASA-
If is a fairly common masculine
trait TO prefer an old hat to new
one and vet a man feels he must IN
vest in a new lid when the seasons
and fashions change, to prove he mas
the price. And to a man VINO must
shave daily to keep his whiskerS IN
reasona BILE restraint, and is possessed
of other virile and violent character
istics, the latest styles are more pam
full than usual. The effeminate APP
pearance of the bow in the back il
intended to make the average maScu-
line animal feel like a sissy and mol
lycoddle. But that is the law laid
down by the fashion dictators, 10
whom men are slaves no less than
women; or not enough less to help
much. Nor are the feminist frills
limited to the bow in the back, or the
headgear of recent vintage. A prom
inent authority states the nearer a
man looks like his name were AL
gernon, the more nearly he conforms
to the fall fashions. His coat should
be cut narrow at the shoulders, and
built to give him a stoop-shouldered
effect, while the trousers are designed
to make him seem a spindleshanks.
is supposed to stroll soulfully along
Done in these dashing decorations, lie
with about the same display of old
pep common to consumptives. Ger
tainly it is enough to drive a man
forth to seek the sylvan solitude, but
he may console himself by the thought
that there are others who look IS
ridiculous as he does. Also, that most
of us live so far from Broadway that
there is no sense in going the full
distance in following fashions fool
1sh foibles.-Atchison Globe.
HARD LUCK.
Upon no subject, unless it be LOYALTY
to their government, are the English
people more universally interested than
in sport. They are famously a sport
loving people. Yet Great Britain is
having some very hard luck in the sport
world. 1t was gloomy when the Eng
llSh polo team was defeated by the
American team. 1t was gloomy when
the British athletes did not show so
conspicuously among the Olympic win
ners. The gloom has become more pro-
found when the great golfer Vardon
tailed to bring home the bacon" We
wonder whether the cheerful Sir Thorn
as Upton with his challenger for the
Americas cup will be able to dissipate
intensity it. For one thing, however,
We fail to see why the British sports
men carry on so. They are exemplars
of the spirit of sport for sports sake.
The very reason they give for thinking
of giving up the Olympic games entire
ly is because the games are becoming
sort of professional winning business
eS. Sport for sports sake, means a sec
ondary interest in the results of Vari-
Gus paStimeS. But it turns out to be
immaterial whether one is pla ying for
pastime, for bread and butter or for a
short cut to fortune, it is nevertheless
depressing not to cop off something
once in awhile.-Wichita Eagle.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news oF-
SANITATION for the exclusive AFTERNOON
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State jour
nal building over wires for this sole pu1-
pose
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

Nor will the old-fashioned people
of superstitious tendencies feel at all
comfortable over the Dragging that
is being done because Topeka is re-
markably free from disease just now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-01

An aviator has succeeded in flying
no less than 60 miles at a rate of speed
of us miles an hour. That's going
some, but it isn't nearly as fast as
many aViatorS have fallen.