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The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
WHAT coon Seed is WORTH.

A few days ago the State journal
published an editorial on the gospel of
good seed for corn farmers. What some
of the growers fof other great corn
states think of the value of the best
seed is shown by the prices that have
recently been paid for it.
At Tolono, Champaign county, Ill, a
few days ago twenty-five ears of corn
brought $3.50, or six dollars an ear. At
an exhibit of choice seed corn at the
Iowa Agricultural college the ear which
won first prize was sold for eleven dol
lars. Other small amounts sold for
fabulous sums, and one hundred ears
sold for S102 after winning a $4,000
premium.
The Tolono corn which brought six
dollars an ear was the pick of forty
acres of choice, high-bred corn. ]. H
Thrash, the owner, went through the
field and gathered the finest of the ears
in a sack, covering two rows at time
He secured several hundred ears. Then
he spent a week in examining each ear
and picked out the best twenty-five
This corn was grown in rich. black
prairie land, and was carefully culti-
waited 1t had been bred to get as great
a percentage of oil in the kernels as
possible and to secure large heavy ears
No cob was visible at the small ends of
the ears, and there were no spaces be-
tween the rows or kernels. The ears
were large and the kernels deep, and
hence there was a large percentage Of
corn to cob. This and the fact that it
was bred so that every stalk would pro-
duce large ear is what made it so ex-
tremely valuable.
Corn like this will produce two or
three times as much per acre as the
ordinary kind, and the extra production
is all profit beyond the extra cost of
the seed.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
IF'rom the Philadelphia Record

TFronl the Philadelphia Record.1
Some men are gluttons for everything
except work
Time may heal all wounds, but 1t takes
it's time about it
A college diploma doesn't necessarily
give a fellow diplomacy.
The coming ball player will soon be try
ing to make a hit with the manager.
What a fine thing it would be if people
didn't start to sing until they knew how.
When a girl refuses to play popular airs
she feels that she is getting along IN mu-
sic.
Many a fellow would marry for money
if the girl wasn't such an encumbrance-
Experience is the best teacher, especial
ly in the case of the fellow who knows
it all.
The women who have a mania for kiss
ing strange babies evidently are not
afraid of germs.
No, Maude, dear: we doubt If a musical
conductor would care for job on troll
Muggins-''What makes you think your
boy is ambitious to be a railroad man
Buggins-"Just from the way he slams the
Siiiicus-s'So they're engaged, eh? DO
you suppose it will end happily?" Cynicus
'.Oh, yes. I understand the enga cement
will be broken any day now.
might doesn't make right quoted the
Wise Guy. NO not unless you control
the law Makers replied the Simple Mug,
who had been reading up on the trust
proposition.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
WESTERN SUGAR PRODUCTION.

.
According to advices from Colorado,
the Havemeyer sugar trust is prepar-
ing to greatly enlarge the beet sugar
industry of that state. and a French
syndicate is also preparing to enter the
field 1t is claimed that a dozen or
more new sugar factories will be built
in the next two or three years at vari-
Gus points in the state, possibly treb-
ling the present sugar output of Colo
rado.
If this is true it should also have the
effect of building up the beet sugar
industry in western Kansas, for west
ern Kansas prairies can produce just
as good sugar beets as Colorado-pos-
sibly better ones. The industry has
been better developed in Colorado and
the beets now raised in Kansas go
there to be made into sugar. but If the
sugar trust is preparing to go into the
sugar business on such a larger scale
western Kansas ought to get its share
of the new factories
There is no longer any doubt that
these western plains, with their dry
Augusts and abundant sunshine, grow
the best sugar beets in the world, and
the sugar industry in Colorado has
gone far past the experimental stage.
The semi-arid plains are better adapt
ed for growing beets with a large
amount of saccharine matter than
Michigan, Nebraska, or any other
state where sugar has been made from
the beet in the past Seven years ago
there was not a pound of sugar made
in Colorado. Last year there were
100000 bags, containing 100 pounds
each, made in that state. This, of
grown in the Arkansas valley in west
ern Kansas and shipped to the factory
at Rocky Ford for manufacture. The
nine factories in Colorado put eight
million dollars into circulation in Colo
rado last year.
1t is undoubtedly true that sugar
beets are as productive a crop as can
be raised in western Kansas. but
chances must be taken with it the
same as with any other crop No big
acreage can be produced by any one
individual as the crop requires a.
great deal of work. It requires knowl-
edge of the crop and experience before
the best results, can be obtained. but
there are excellent returns in it as al
rule for the man who uses intelli-
gence.
While it is to be hoped that there
will be no craze on the subject. as
there has been in some regions, yet
the development of the beet sugar in
dustry on a solid foundation in west
ern Kansas would undoubtedly be an
excellent thing for the state. And that
there is plenty of room for the de-
velopment of the industry is shown by
the fact that the United States now
imports 80 per cent of the sugar it,
uses, and the consumption is tncreas-
ing at a rapid rate. The Havemeyers
and other capitalists who have here
tofore been fighting western sugar
have now purchased many of tn el
western factories, and if they are pre-
pairing to push the industry as report
ed it means great things for the semi
arid west.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Now the Fairmaker has broken out
in California. A man by the name of
Hatfield made il contract with parties
in the vicinity of Los Angeles to fur
nish that region with a minimum of Is
inches Of rain for the rainy season be-
ginning in November and ending in
May. And, strange to say, he seems to
be making good. For a number of
years southern California has been get
ting only eight and ten inches of rain
a year, which is not as much as Cali
fornians ike: stherefore the rainmaking
contract. Already II or Il inches of
water have fallen in some localities and
Hatfield still has two months or more
to work.
One trouble with the rainmaker is
that he does not arrange to have his
showers come as gently as they should.
He lets loose too much moisture at a
time, with the result that California
railroads have been tied up much of
the winter by washouts.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.I

From the Atch1son Globe.
So many of us have another guess
coming
Aside from man. the dog is The
greatest buffer.
The dear" at the beginning of a
letter means nothing.
The old men can go to the Soldiers
home, but what is to become of the
old women?
If you want to study human nature.
you can find homes in any town that
will beat a theatre to death.
An Atchison woman has been in
suited: A guest at her house admits
that she left her best clothes at home.
When some women compliment
their husbands, it is by saying that
they are not so mean as they used
to be.
Every time we travel we give up a
prayer of gratitude that the luxuries
given the travelling public do not in
clude piano.
Some of these days a genius will
ma use for old tin cans. and then he
can get rich by hanging around a
lazy housekeeper's back door.
A certain Atchison widow comes
down town only twice year: in the
spring to pay her taxes, and in the
fall to pay interest on her mortgage.
It is believed that an Atchison
woman is in a worse condition than
any other person in town: She de-
nervous as the czar.
The average good citizen is not only
expected to do his share" but to
devote a lot of his time to coaxing
men who are not willing to do any
thing for the public good.
If we were a woman we would in
sist upon the milliner putting this
sign on hats: This is the front door"
Otherwise, how can a woman help
occasionally getting her hat on hind
foremost2
Better not admire the japanese too
much: it is intimated that after the
war great numbers of them will come
to this country, where they are so
much admired, to find work. And
the japanese are as bad as the Chin
ese: that is, they are industrious, fru-
gal, capable, honest, and mind their
own business.
Story that blew in with Dick Seitz:
An IrishInan sent to the Anheuser-
Busch brewing company at st. Louis
asking for one of their advertising
knives. The knives are valuable and
are not freely distributed The Irish
man sent a nickel so the gift would
not "cut friendship" The brewery
sent the knife. but the Dutchman who
wrote the answer remarked that no.
body but an Irishman would have sent
a nickel. The Irishman wrote again
saying that nobody but a Dutchman
would have accepted the nickel.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

lE rom the chicago NEWS
Cold facts often cause hot argu-
ments.
A lot of men go broke just before
the day breaks.
If you are troubled with insomnia
so to sleep and forget it.
A man seldom acts like a fool unless
he's the real thing
An offieeho1der who has a pull
doesn't generate much push.
Too many people are trying to make
honest dollars dishonesty.
If a man knows he is in the wrong
he can afford to get angry.
Advice that comedies with your own
opinion is easily swallowed.
Light literature is expensive when it
comes in the shape of gas bills.
A man is never quite sure whether
a woman is sorry or glad when she
cries.
There would be more microbes in
kisses if they appreciated good soft
snap.
There are but few sensible people in
the world-yet they ell agree with
Probably more men would become
famous if they didn't attempt to write
poetry.
A vain woman may accuse a man
of being a fatterer. but never of being
a liar.
Some men hustle almost as hard for
a job as some women hustle for a
husband.
An amiable bachelor says that al
most any miss is better than mile
providing she is neither too old nor too
young.
Scientists tell us that people should
wed their opposites. Perhaps that is
why so many people are anxious to
marry money.
You never hear a widow accuse a
man of being an idiot unless she IS IN
love with him and he is in love with
some other woman.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
MUNICIPAL oWNERsHIP.

One of the most common arguments
against municipal ownership of public
utilities, such as water or lighting
plants, is that the management is less
efficient than that of the private cor
poration, and for that reason service
of equal merit will cost more if rem
dered by the municipality than it will
when rendered by the private corpora
ton. United States Consul Daniels of
Sheffield, England, gives an instance in
a recent report in which the facts are
the other way. Municipal ownership
proved more efficient and less costly
than private ownership. Unfortunate
ly, he does not give specifically the
water rates charged in Sheffield, but
remarks that they are the lowest
charged in the United Kingdom. Here
is his statement:
1.-The year 1887 was the last Of the
water company, and a comparison be-
tween private and municipal owner
ship is presented. In 1887 the gross
revenue of the water concern was
EsS.31O (s4O5,42S) in 1904 it was
f169,O4s (ss22.662), an increase of
1OS per cent The working expenses
in 1887 were f14.224 ($69,221); in
1904 they were f27,4OS ($13S,381), an
increase of 90 per cent The gross
profit in 1887 was f69.036 $685.
S63); in 1904 it was f114,54S ($557,-
447). The net profit after deducting
charges for interest and new works in
1887 was only f5,971 (s29,O5S); in
1904 it was E74,22S ($361,231), an in
crease of more than 1900 per cent.
The old shareholders of the company
have been paid in progressive divi-
dends f119,4O1 ($5S1,O65) more than
they were receiving in 1887. The city
received as it's share of the improve
ments f352,5O9 ($1.715, 1850, consist
ing of reduced water charges, $780,
619 ($51s,S61); amount paid toward
the purchase of the freehold, f122,065
(S594,O29) and a surplus Of f12O,S25
($5s7,9a5) on hand for emergencies
Early in the year the municipality be-
gan giving water free to the health
committee for bath and other pur-
poses, by which that department is
now saving f2,7OO ($13,14O) a year"
Mr.. Daniels comparison shows that
public management is not necessarily
more expensive nor more costly than
private management. It all depends
upon the sort of municipal govern
ment involved. In fact, the public
management has some advantages on
the score of economy, such as lower
interest rates Experiments now go
ing on in municipal ownership in Eng
land and elsewhere will prove of
great interest to dwelers in American
municipalities in which public service
problems are more or less acute.
Foreigners have telephone service
greatly superior in efficiency and of
vastly lower cost than we have in
America, especially where the foreign
er has applied the principle of munich
pal or state ownership. They are de-
veloping superior services in other
lines. America may finally find, says
the Baltimore News, that good
municipal government is necessary as
a stepping stone to good and cheap
water. good and cheap lighting, good
and cheap telephones, and several of
the other necessities of modern life.
When that conclusion is reached. we
shall have better municipal govern
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
THE RAINNrAKER.

A decade or so ago the rainmaker
started business in Kansas. For a time
he fiourished as a green bay tree
whatever that is-and companies were
actually formed for the purpose of max
ing rain by bombarding the skies, mix
ing chemicals, or doing something of
the sort. Kansas was advertised all over
the country as the home of the rain
maker. Reposing in the Office of the
secretary Of state are records showing
the Incorporation of companies organic
ed for the purpose of selling rain to va
rious communities needing it. But the
time speedily came when the rain
maker failed to connect with Provi-
dence. and the business languished.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
As 10 LIQUoR ADVERTIsING.

One Of the things that strikes a
stranger in Kansas as incongruous is
to Sc elniquor advertisements staring
one in the face from bilIboards in a
prohibition state. If it is not allow
able to sell liquor in Kansas, asks the
stranger, why are these advertise
ments permitted? Why Is publicity
permitted to increase a business which
the laws of the state are intended to
suppress?
Another proposition: Few reputable
newspapers in Kansas will admit to
their columns whisky advertisements
Is it any more reputable to allow
them On billboards. Possibly the rea-
son why whisky manufacturers appeal
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
REFLECTIONS. OF A BACHELoR.
TF'rom the New York Press.l


There is hardly any vice that seems as
extraYagant as raising a family.
When a woman g1ares savagely at a
man in a street car it is a sign he gave
her his seat.
head that there isn't somebody she ought
to be jealous of.
Nowadays people have no respect for
the business ability of a man who can't
support his son-in-law in better style than
he lives himself.
After a woman has sharpened a pencil
to look as if it had been chewed by a
bull dog, she believes that if she had been
born a man she would be a great ship
builder.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

to bnlboards is because they cannot
get into the columns of newspapers
but should public sentiment counten-
ance such a thing on billboards any
more than they would in the news
papers which come into their homes ?
1t certainly does not speak well for
a state or community which has out
lawed liquor to have faring announce
ments of Pink Top Booze and Wer-
ner's Worst glaring at one from every
billboard. Isn't there room for a lit
tie practical work on the part Of tenn
perance people along this line?
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Father Beck, OF the Holton Recorder
in discussing Roosevelt's successor, says
he is in favor Of any man who is not
afraid Of the United States senate and
who knows how to make the senate
afraid Of him. Such a man would prob
ably have to come from outside Of that
august bOdv
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Herbine is a boon for sufferers from
aneamia. BY its use the blood is quick
" regenerated and the color becomes nor
NAL The dropping strength is revived.
The languor is diminished. Health. vigor
and tone predominate New life and hap
py activity results. Mrs. Belle H. Shirel,
Middlesborough, H., writes: 7 have been
troubled with liver complaint and poor
blood and have found nothing to benefit
me like Herbine hope never to be with
out it. I have wished that I had known
of it in my husbands lifetime" SOC. Sold
by Rowley & Snow and ". S. Miller.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

The Ottawa Herald says: Since
coming to the state Miss Tarben has
decided that Kansas can successfully
operate an oil refinery. Thus the
great truth that "seein's believin' " is
vindicated at the same time that
woman's right to change her mind is
aesnrfad
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

1t is claimed that the railroads were
not opposed to the ant-pass bill in the
legislature, which is probably true.
What the railroads were. opposed to
was that the same law would have re-
duced all passenger fares from three
cents to two cents a mile. STILL in the
aggregate they would have received
about as much money, for the poll
ticians would have had to walk or pay
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Statistics show startling mortality from
appendicitis and peritonitis. To prevent
and cure this awful disease there is just
one reliable remedy, Dr. Kings New Life
Pills. NJ F1annery of Il Custom House
Place, Chicago, says. They have no
equal for constipation and biliousness.'
2Sc at Arnold Drug So, 81 North Kansas
avenue.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

It is noticed that Warner stock in the
Missouri senatorial fight has declined
since Kansas took a hand in it and
declared for Warner. Missouri has had
experience before with a senator pick
ed out by a Kansas legislature and is
shy about irving it again.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

You viii note that che people who
make the most fuss about the low
wages Of the poor wcrkingman never
work themselves" remarks an ex-
change OF course not. People who
really work do not have time to make
f11ee
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

This is the time of year the Mr.. Vox
Popuh and his friend Veritas take up
considerable space in the country pa
pers telling how things ought to be.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

A Kansas City man who seems to
know what he is talking about, figures
that the big packing houses make at
least s7.n a head on all cattle they
kill, instead Of 80 cents as shown by
Commissioner Garfeld's investigation
The Kansas City man says the pack
ing houses get an average Of 1892 for
the hides, 1856 for the fats, and S226
for the offai. The fats and offal are
lost to the small butcher, while they
yield nearly eight dollars a head to the
big packer. This III itself is a big
item.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

One of the good things that came
out of the late legislature-and about
the only temperance measure. by the
way-was the anti-jug law, framed by
Cyrus Leland. While Leland by no
means poses as a prohibitionist his
law viii do much toward stopping
liquor drinking in the country COM
rnunities where it is shipped in by ex-
press and delivered to anybody who
wants it and is willing to pay the c.
0. ID. charges That is the practice
which Mr.. Leland's measure Is de-
signed to stop.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Real spring seems TO have arrived
out Of doors as well as in the depart.
ment store windows
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Mr. Cleveland now says that he didn't
criticise Mr.. Cortelyou, but on the con-
trary he thinks Mr.. Cortelyou is all
wool and a yard wide. Perhaps Mr.
Cleveland is getting ready to ask for
the Princeton postonice.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Among other things Mr.. Oyama cap
tured big lot of maps. but he has so
changed the map of eastern Asia that
they are no longer of service.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

The name of State Senator Green Of
New York is next on that programme
that Joe Bristow fixed up for the
courts while he was fourth assistant
postmaster general
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

There is no noticeable rush of per-
sons who want to work in the state oil
refinery state jobs with a ball and
chain attached are not the kind most
statesmen are looking for.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Buffalo Bill seems to be having an
extremely hard time getting his knot
r1ntfad
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Now it is suggested that some Sunday
be set apart to take up collections in the
churches for the poor meat trust.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

This is the time Of year that the gov
ernment clerks in Washington are busy
sending out garden seeds that won't
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

An alleged joker called up a busi-
ness man by telephone. Hello" he
said, do you want to hear something
grate2'' Yes, what is it?" said the
busy man. Rub two bricks togeth-
er." came the answer.
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18

Since the nice old ladies in the
United States senate are so solicitous
over our Infant Industries why
shouldn't they be made a part of the
Congress of Mothers to look after the
fnfanfS2
The Topeka state journal., 1905-03-18
SAVE MONEY
AND
PUT IT TO WORK

Where it will work for you night and
day earning you to per cent ac-
cording to time.
The Capitol Building and Loan AssOciat'u
Send for Booklet. ss4 Kansas Ave.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-08-28
ZIARA is THE BEST.
The Ardmorelte is Read.

That the Ardmoreite is read abroad
is shown in the fact that The Journal
OF Labor published al Atlanta, Ga,
has the following 10 say:
We learn from the Daily Ardmoreite
that the labor agitator Is in that beau
tiful little city. and has evidently found
a fertile field
An advertisement In the columns of
the paper announces the fact that Ar.
T. +, Choata Is running a line Of first
class hacks and employs only union
drivers. We commend Mr. Choate 10
the favorable consideration OF all the
Georgians who may be travelling In
that direction.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1905-08-28
THREATS OF
DYNAMITE
MINERS At TRACY CITY. TENN.
MAKE TROUBLE.
: Battalion Of State Militia Ordered tc
the seers IS Trrsstene5 that Dy-
Mantle viii bs Used in cul-
yer.s-Oytiook Is Grave.

Chattanooga. Tenn. Aug Zs-A
battalion Of state militia ordered 90
Tracy City. left C0wan this morning
All sorts Of threats have been made TO
dynamite the cliyerts over which the
train will pass The outlook ls con-
-.iered grave.
All is quiet al Tracy City this morn.
ing
Nashville. Aug. -1.-Six companies
Of the Third regiment OF the state
militia. Colonel Spence commanding.
have left camp az H7rrlman. under or
..rs from Cos mo. Cox. tC proCeed-to
Tracy City. wlere striking coal min
ar- are threatening 20 make trouble
The troops are due 90 reach the scene
early tomorrow. The Tennessee Con
all.ia-rl Coal a. Iron company. whose
mines have been closed for a cUl-il-
cradle time because of the strike OF
United Mine Workers. has announced
that the mines Will be re0psned to-
m-rrow with uoE-Gl.On labor. ali the
attitude uf the union men gives
ground for fear that violence viii fol-
low such s-temp' on the cOmpauys
part governor Cox reached Tracy
City today and made TWO addresses
one at night being 70 the miners eX-
clusiyeiy. He old them any artemp-
az lawlessness would De- promptly
punished but that he would remain
on the scene a. long a. necessary and
see that their rights were fully res
pected His speech received the strict
attention Of the men. SUNDAY about
the mines was quiet