The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-11-29

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Left was one tooth; his ribs, forsooth.
Were stove in on each side,
And which was mud and which was blood
Had closest look defied.
The doctors, said they'd sew his head,
Cut OF a leg or so;
That through the knife, he would through
A human remnant go.
He tried for speech-they bent to reach
The feeble message there
To ones most dear-this did they hear
we won. and don't caren'
Baltimore American.
A New Hampshire Mil City.
The Amoskeag corporation owns all
but one Of the mills, and rents water
power to that one. The Amoskeap
mills are good mills. says Frank Put
nam in the New England Magazine.
Iheir work. people are paid wages as
nigh as the industry offers anywhere.
me stockholders draw liberal divi-
oends. here are few labor troubles
IN these mills. Organizations of labor
ers IN the mills are few and not too
Warlike. The corporation owns and
keeps in repair several streets, which
are lined with its mill and tenement
proprties. Its influenc is, naturally
enough, powerful in shaping munich
pal policies. but lit cannot fairly be
said to "own the town" It does not,
in fact. own one-11alf of the town. It
is capitalized for 100000 and pays
to the city $159,000 year in taxes.
Smaller corporations, in visivle plant
and annual turnover, are often enough
capitalized for half a dozen times as
much as the Amoskeag. Its employees
get their wages on time, and 1t does
not issue trading checks good only at
company stores. It pays off in real
money. Considering that it is not a
philanthropy, but a business, run for
profit. it measures up very well with
the standard Of its time and class. If
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sonnet of its employees, these will have
to originate outside of the mills. 1t is
hard to get workers enough to keep
the mills going at top notch, and IL
women and children within the legal
age limits ask for work they will con-
tinue to get 1t until the laws Of the
state are changed to forbid their en-
ployment under the presnt conditions.
A Southern man who walked
through the mill tenement section
with me said: These quarters are
undoubtedly better than the slave
quarters of the old Southern planta-
tions-solider. mean, though I doubt
If they house as cherry a population
as those old quarters did. But where
is the Big House-the residence of the
owner?"
Prices I'm 1907
1t Is exactly 100 years since Charles
William Janson published his still en-
Pertaining volume, 1.-THE Stranger in
America" in which he gives the fruits
of his observations in this country dur
Ing long residence here. The book
has frequently been quoted from. but
his brief survey of the markets of this
city as he found them in 1907 is partic-
ularly enlightening in these times Of
high prices. He says:
1.-THE beef is good, but the mutton and
veal far inferior to that of England and
Ireland. Butter and poultry are excel
lent, and there is a profusion of vegeta-7
bles. Butchers meat. on an average,
not one-third of the London price, and
of a superior quality.
Fowls of all kinds. are within the
compass of the purchase of the laborer
A turkey Of sixteen pounds weight may
often be bought in Philadelphia for a
dollar, but I have seen them sold for
three shillings and even still less, Brit
iSh money. Wild turkeys are sometimes
brought to market of the enormous
weight of twenty-five pounds and up
ward, but these birds retire from the
country as 1T becomes more settled.
Geese, duck, fowls, rabbits (there are
no hares In the United States) are of
a proportionate price. Quails, which
they call cartridges, are bought alive
in large quantities and sold for about
two and sixpence a dozen.
Excellent butter is supplied by the
German settlers at about an English
shilling a pound, and eggs at sixpence
a dozen. The pork throughout the
United States is excellent, and is raised
In abundance. It is generally in price
from S. to Sc hundredweigft." Phil
adelphia Ledger.
An Absent Friend.
One bright sunny morning Of the
fall that is now passing. ere 1 had
made half the distance to our school
house, I was hailed by a kind and
cheerful "How do you do?" Hating
and looking around about to see
came these words of greeting,
I was left standing in wonderment,
for not a soul did I see. Just as I
was turning to resume my journey,
again the words were spoken as plain
" as if uttered by the nearest friend.
This time I spied the speaker. He
was a beautiful little prairie dog, |
standing erect at the threshold of his
habitation. 1 at once made right my |
delayed courtesy, and addressed him
IN the most gentlemanly manner pos
;ible. He seemed to appreciate II. |
From that day henceforth we were
good friends. No morning passed |
greeting each other. He ap-
parently made special effort to be by |
the roadside when passed. He trust |
I'D me as a friend; he at last had faith |
IN all, but was deceived, for heart |!
ess wretch, in whose stomach was the |
center of gravitatton rather than in |
mis- heart, took from the little creature /!
Ill it had, it's life.-J. A. McCollum in |
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