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The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-10
OLD DOMINION SUIT IS
DISMISSED BY CHANCELLOR.

TRENTON. Aug. 10.-Chancellor PIT
ney, in the Court of Chaneery, today
dismissed the action brought by Albert
S. Bigelow, of Boston. against the Old
Dominion Copper Mining and Smelling
Company. Bigelow brought suit to en-
join the company from collecting nearly
81, 900 900, which was due them from
transactions that took place when the
promotion and organ anization Of the COM
pany took place.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-10
CAR BREAKS MANS ARM.

JERSEY CITY, Aug. 10.-John Con-
don, 81 years old. of 626 simm street,
West Hoboken, had his left arm brok-
en- and was otherwise seriously in
jured by being struck by southbound
Central avenue trolley car.
The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-10

The fifth of THE EVENING STARS Free Ice
Fund Outings to the shore was given today.
Hundreds of tots and their mothers went to
Coney Islandf for pleasant sail on the Majestic
and happy, healthful hours in the sand and surf
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
JUSTICE TO FILIP1Nos.

| Secretary Wright's recent appear
ance before the ways and means COM
mittee of the house of representatives to
urge a reduction of the duty on Philip
! pine sugar indicates that fresh efforts
are to be made by the administration
| to have justice done to our far eastern
| dependency" says the New York Tri-
bune. 1T is a manifest discrimination
| against that dependency that Hawaiian
and Porto Rican sugars should be al
| lowed to enter the United States free
Of duty, and that rs per cent of the
Dingley tariff rates should be imposed
on sugars produced in the Philippines.
Congress has twice shown its intention
to incorporate the Philippine archipela-
go into our domestic system by extend
ing the coastwise navigation laws to
commerce between the Philippines and
this country. 1t has been compelled
twice to postpone the date on which
the extension was to occur, because of
the patent impropriety of holding the
Philippines to be domestic territory for
navigation purposes while excluding
them as alien territory from the benefits
of untrammeled commerce.
THE last Philippine tariff bill, pass
ed by the house of representatives by
a tremendous majority, was defeated
by indirection in the senate Philippines
committee, a body strangely responsive
to the exaggerated fears and represen-
tations of domestic interests unduly
alarmed at the threat of Philippine
competitor in sugars and tobacco. So
far as sugar is concerned, the impor-
tation from the Philippines is insignifi-
can't At the present tariff rate it does
not pay to send Philippine sugar to the
United States, and the annual Philip
pine production is only a fraction of
the amount of sugar annually consum-
ed in the United States. The domestic
sugar producers can hardly hope tc
supply the domestic market. They are
only holding their own in turning out
one-fifth Of the total supply, while the
other four-f1fths some from Hawaii and
Porto Rico (free), from the Philippines
Cat 75 per cent of the Dingley duties),
from Cuba Cat so per cent of the Dingley
duties), and from Brazil, Java, the
West Indies, and Europe Cat the full
Dingley rates). The Cuban and alien
sugars make the market price here, and
so long as the Philippines do not send
enough to crowd out the alien prod
uct or diminish the importation of the
Cuban product. they will not interfere
with the status of the domestic indus
try, any more than Hawaii and Porto
Rico have so far interfered with it,
1T is certainly practicable to admit
certain proportion of the Philippine
sugar product free, and thus give the
Filipinos an assurance that we are
ready to deal with them commercially
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

that official robbery has been the
ruination of that land, one of the
worlds most favored isles. He says
that the military corruption which
has prevailed in the country has
brought beggary to the people. He
declares that thievery runs riot In all
ranks and the late wife of the de-
posed president, Nord Alexis, was the
prime CRATER in the earth's chfer
graftland. If only one-haf of the
things that Mr.. Bonsal writes about
concerning the way the affairs of Hayti
have been mismanaged were true, and
doubtless all of the things he says are
the exact truth. it is no wonder that
there is a revolution of some sort IN
Hayti every other minute.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.1
It always amuses a woman to see a
man fan himself.
The poorer the family, the more
romantic names given the children.
No man would listen to you talk If
he didn't know it was his turn next.
Men and women who have been
brought up as pets, are always dis
agreeable.
Women who want to marry should
keep the fact quiet; men hate hus-
band hunter.
About the only satisfaction poorly
married women have is that they are
not old maids.
An Atchison man thought he was
marrying one woman, but later found
he had married three.
A woman who can make root beer
is as proud of 1t as man VINO can
handle shotgun we'll
When the devil is finally caught, we
have a strong suspicion that he will
turn out to be Man.
Just before Christmas. woman sits
up late at night to make things for
her best man he won't wear.
The women believe that if there is
anyone rneaner than the woman who
brings home bargains, and refuses to
tell what she paid for them, they don't
meet her on the average days journey.
Occasionally, think of things not
very creditable to humanity, and feel
ashamed of myself for thinking of
such things; and then I am startled,
when reading, to discover that some
other fellow has thought of it.-too.''-
Parson Twine.
Aegood looking Atchison man, lack
ing in moral courage, is engaged to
two different girls, and is having a
great deal of trouble. He may finally
be compelled to leave town, to get
out of the difficulty. He goes to see
one girl one night, and the other girl
the next, and is about worn out, in
addition to his other trouble. The ex-
pIosion will come when both girls in
sist upon his coming to see them every
night.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.I
1t isn't when a show is a dead one
that the ghost walks.
If a fellow doesn't get the better of
himself some other fellow will.
When the world owes a man a living
he can at least get 1t in the peniten-
tiary.
Strangely enough, it's when a man
comes right to the point that he Is
considered blunt.
The botanist can tell the different
kinds of trees by the bark, but he
isn't SO successful with dogs.
Some fellows are so quarrelsome
that they would even go into a poker
game with a chip on the shoulder.
Sometimes a man deludes himself
with the idea that he has arrived at
the top when he is really laid on the
shelf.
Blobbs-"I wonder why those two
fellows are always on the outs Slobbs
THAT comes from their habit of
rubbing it in"
First Pugilist-"I told her she was
the only girl 1 ever loved" Second
Pugilist-"What did she say?" First
Pugilist-'Told me to 90 get a repu-
tatiOr'
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
SCHOOL BOOKS.

! Resolutions are pending before the
local board of education which vii
! probably be adopted at future meet
ing and which will place the board or
record as favoring a repeal of the
\ present state text book law and the
enacting of one in its place that viii
provide for the state publication
of text books to be manu-
factured at the state printing plant
The members of the Topeka board OF
education do not think the present
text books in use throughout Kansas
meet the needs of the public schools
That they have been of this belief for
some time has been plainly apparent
to the parents of school children in
this city who have been compelled to
provide them with a set of school
books as adopted by the state text
book commission and also with set
of supplemental book covering the
same studies which the local board of
education has deemed necessary.
And perhaps if the school books
were printed by the state the same
condition of affairs would prevail.
The agitation which has been going
on for the printing of the school
books by the state has not taken the
form so much of dissatisfaction
with the books which have been
selected by the state text book COM
mission as with the price which is
charged for them. The principal
argument in favor of the state print
ing of school books has been. to the
effect that if this plan were INDUCED in
the pupils in the schools would not
have to pay near as much for the
same class of books as they are now
compelled to pay because of the
Vaccinations of the book trust.
Surely if the legislature should de-
eide to have school books printed at
the state printing plant a commits
sion Of some sort would have to be en-
trusted with the selection of the
books that will be printed for the use
of the school children. In all like
lihood expert educators would have
to be engaged to prepare certain of
the text books for state printing for
most of the school books extant in the
country are protected by copyright.
So it is reasonable to suppose that
if the state did engage in the print
ing of its own books the selection of
them that might be made would not
be agreeable to all of the school
authorities in the state and especially
to the Topeka school board which has
shown such a great prediction in
the past for selecting supplemental
books to the regular ones adopted by
the state authorities. But this prac-
tice, which is unnecessarily expensive
to the parents of school children, can
probably be stopped by the state if it /
to print the school books,
by the insertion of a clause in the law
which will prohibit local boards from
adopting books supplemental to the
ones chosen by the state authorities
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Some actors must get a lot of sat
isfaction these days over the fact that
eggs are so expensive.
X y "
Many an individual who has the build
of a man fails to come near living up
to his specifications.
" * &
Probably it is technically correct in
speaking of time to say that 1t is
never more than IL o'clock.
When a heavyweight indulges in
horseback riding to take off fat he is
generally successful as far as the horse
is concerned.
y X
Perhaps it's all right to urge persons
to take an interest in their work but
there certainly is a good deal of work
that is decidedly uninteresting.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
rrrom the Chicago News.1 ]

TFrom the Chicago News.1
The door of hope swings both ways.
Good luck is seldom displayed on bar
gain counters
Most women keep a lot Of ready-made
sympathy on hand.
The world is wide, but there are lots
of narrow people in it.
Even a musical alarm clock is seldom
appreciated in the early morn.
A lazy man is on the wrong side Of
humanity's profit and loss account.
It's what people don't know about re-
ligion that causes all the arguments.
And the man who can let it alone
seems to have it on the water wagon
passenger.
If a woman wants a man to throw
himself at her feet she should not throw
herself at his head.
The heiress who marries a man to
reform him may make good by using
plenty Of the gold cure.
The evident admiration Of strange
man makes a girl almost as indignant
as his failure to notice her.
Girls may worship novel heroes, but
in real life they prefer men who can
provide them with three square nSals
day.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
BRICKs or STRAW.

Stone walls do not prison make
And well, indeed, we know it.
A recipe won't make a cake,-
Nor words alone poet
With book OF synonyms
Open on the desk before US,
Wait we on the Muses. whimS-
Wait we with Roget's Thesaurus.
Search we diligently through
Many rhyming dictionaries
Blue, clew, due, eve. few, glue, new,
Diaries, fairies. janissaries.
Though we have a chest of tools
Than which there is none completer,
Though we're jerry to the rules,
Rules of verbfage and meter;
After spending half the morn
On this footless young effusion,
We admit that bardS are born
And we come to this conclusion:
Stone walls do not a prison make,
And well indeed, we know it,
A stove alone won't make a cake,
Nor words alone a poet.
New York Mail.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
KANSAS CONMENT
FORESTRY IN JAPAN.


Just at the time when this country is
Deglnnlng to struggle with the problem
OF nusbanding its forest resources, of
protecting its mountain slopes, and of
Improving the waterways, 1t is inter-
estlng to know that the Japanese have
successfully attacked the same prob
IeHl' pefore the land suffered severely
from the evil effects following de-
Iorestat1on. The far-sighted people of
nippon have foreseen the results of de-
Slructlon of their extensive mountain
forests, and have safeguarded them
selves by placing all of these under
government control
The practice of forestry has been car
rled on in Japan for longer time than
IN any other country. For 1,200 years
the people of Japan have been planting
anc growing forests, with a success
that has been little short of marvellous.
Under careful management, the Jap
anese forests yield very high financial
returns. This high yield is only made
possible by the close utilization of
every bit of the tree so that scarcely
twig is wasted, and by the improve
ment OF the growth Of their forests by
carefully conducted thinning and tend
ing The woods are first thinned at the
age of thirteen years, and then every
f1ve years after, that up to the time or
the final harvest, at 120 years.
1t was with the opening of the hith-
erto inaccessible mountain forests that
the Japanese government became most
intensely interested in forestry. The
mountains were still government land,
so all that was necessary to protect
them was to place proper restrictions
on the sale and cutting of timber. This
was effected by declaring the forests
on the steep slopes as reserved forests
in which the only cutting should be
done under government direction. The
forests on agricultural lands. not need
ed for protection, are classed as avail
able forests, and here the cutting is not
SO carefully restricted.
Thus Japan has effectually prevented
the stripping of her mountain slopes
before any great damage has been
done. In some districts, where the
are near the towns. the steep
slopes have already been cleared, and
this has resulted in floods and the
washing down of the soil from the
slopes on the farm lands. But these
cases have been exceptional, and have
merely served as a warning; which |
Japan has needed before it was too |
late to prevent widespread destruction. |
Gazette.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

Something exceeding novel as an in
cident to a divorce suit has been hit
upon by a banker in Lynn, Mass. His
wife has sued him for divorce and in
order to provide himself with funds
to pay the probable costs of the action
the gentleman in the case has organ
ized a subscription dance for which
he is selling tickets at $5 per ticket
He expects to sell a thousand tickets.
If his hopes are realized in this re-
gard he ought to be able to turn his
divorce troubles into quite a remuner-
ative affair. The chances are that this
scheme will become popular among
folks Of certain class who hold the
marriage relations lightly and are no
more worried over divorce than the
least inconsequential thing on the face
of the earth.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

DR.. Lyman Abbott, who is to be Mr..
Rooseve1t's boss when he becomes an
associate editor on the staff of the
outlook, has come to the defense of
football In stirring fashion. 'T do
not know enough about football" he
said recently in sermon delivered at
Yale, ''to know whether there are
more deaths and accidents than there
ought to be in the game. but I do
know that real courage can not be
developed without danger, and If real
courage is developed on the football
field, the sacrifice is worth the peril. -
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

When the rulers of one country
visit another they are generally greet
ed most effusively and given the best
sort of a time. But that is evidently
not to be the case with Mr.. Castro,
the dictator of Venezuela. He is not
10 be permitted to even land on
French soil until he has formally
apologized to France for the expulsion
Of one of her representatives from
Venezuela some time ago and until he
makes arrangements for the immedi-
ate payment of some old debts that
Venezuela owes to France. This is
Just the way that Castro should be
treated.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

An agitation has been started by
the New York Chamber of Commerce
for the appointment of state COM
mission to make another examination
of the conditions now surrounding the
great life insurance companies of the
country which are domiciled in the
Empire state. Surely they haven't
gone wrong aRain7
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
TFrom the New York Press.]

lrTOIH the @NS"
Next to being a successful liar him
self. a man tries to nail one who thinks
he Is.
The average man would rather pay
thousand dollars in rent than a nun
dred in taxes.
A nan can work like a slave trying
~ match ND things around the house
unless he's hired to do It,
A man may reform himself because
of his love of a woman. but no love of
hers can ever do it for him.
The reason a man wants to go to the
+heater is SO he can lie to his family
about how he was working late in tbs
off1ce.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

Too much attention to nonreligious
problems, wrong methods in handling
boys IN Sunday schools, wrong finan-
cial systems, materialstic ideals and
retention Of unfit members are among
the causes given for the absence of
men from the churches by the Rev.
John A. Earl, one Of Chicago's promi-
nent Baptist ministers, in a recent
sermon. And there is a good deal of
truth in his conclusions.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

Governor johnson of Minnesota may
be classed among the optimistic
Democrats. He does not believe that
the leaders of the Democratic party
were cast down by defeat. This is as
suredly true of Mr.. Bryan. who is
willing to run for the presidency again
If the conditions" whatever that may
he warrant IL.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

Fashion note: Partisan dressmak-
ers having developed what is known
as the straight front in dress are now
bending their energies. or rather their
customers bodies, to a straight back.
This new style, straight in front and
back, gives a woman's body the sem
blance of a tube. 1t will probably be
popular because 1t is a new style, but
surely not for any continued period.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

as members of the American political
and Industrial system. The senate has
so far inexcusably resisted the efforts
of the administration and the house of
representatives to deal equitably with
the Filipino producer. 1t is time for
more enlightened and generous coun-
sells to prevail"
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

The necessity Of President Roosevelt
sending an illustrated message to con-
gress is not patent. He is one of the
few prominent men in the world who
never mince words and whose argu-
nents need no diagrams. unless it is
the possible exception of those he cares
20 make on woman suffrage.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

Important If true. 1t is reported
that the members of congress are
generally in the best of humor and
good feeling at the beginning of the
present session. If they'll only keep
that way much good work may be
Sxpected from them.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
THE DIFFERENCE.

The city government is business
proposition. That being true, the city
government needs plain business treat
ment. The treatment given it under
the old system of ward councilmen Sc
lected through the system provided by
city politicians is not businesslike-it is
political The system proposed under
the commission form provides for a
nonpartisan government by trustees or
commissioners who would handle the
city's business just as a business cor
poration handles its business. It is the
difference between business and poll
tics.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

one of the horrible results of mis-
cegenation has occurred in Topeka.
"a white woman, the legal wife of a
negro, is dead, evidently having taken
her own life. This catastrophe should
not be without its lesson.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Inasmuch as there has already been
an indian summer and also an Indian
fall in these parts, IN all reasonable
ness the present weather conditions
are worthy Of being styled an Indian
winter.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

old story, and found it delightfuIIy new.
Blount had won by a turnout. His
ruined car and aching head were for
tten.-(Copyrighted, 1908, by Associ-
ated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10
FRON OTHER PENS
DYSPEPSIA ON THE RUN.

The long and litter fight between
the advocates and opponents of vege-
tarianism is being fought out to a
scientific, showdowniin the laboratories
of Yale university and preliminary
reports indicate a remarkable, and
possibly revolutionary advance in the
science of dietetics. AS a result of
somewhat startling experiments. Prof
Chittenden announces that there is
mo limit to our power of producing
organic substances by purely chemical
synthesis.'' He has discovered the
secret of separating the tissue build
ing proteins of both flesh and vege-
tables, and by artificial chemical
means reproducing the various pro-
cesses of the stomach and assimilative
organs.
With such a perfect tool of investi-
cation, the mysteries of dietetics
should soon be numbered with the
problems solved. Not only will the
conflicting pretensions of the vegetar-
ians and the flesh eaters be weighed
in this new scientific balance, but a
host of dietetic fads and fancies, from
the gospel of buttermilk to the evangel
Of raw beef and cereals, will, by this
new method, be put to the test of eX-
actness. and it is safe bet that vast
quantity of advertising matter Will
have to be rewritten. The forecast
indicates dark and gloomy days ahead
for dyspepsia.-Washing Post.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

Stephen RonsaI, a foreign corre-
spondent of the Chicago Tribune who
- now in Hayti, writes to his paper
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

Bloom-I'm glad I met your wife.
She seemed to take a fancy to me-
Pacque-Did she? 1 wish you'd met
ner sooner.-New York Journal.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

"Oh, pshaw! You haven't any stock
or mats at ALI" "Why, madame, you
nave tried on two hundred and forty
so far! Batter
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

Customer-What is the price Of the
duck? Little Girl-Please, mum. it's
three shillings. But mother says, il
you grumble, it's two-and- d-six!-Punch
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

you remind me of a broken pump.
doctor" said the druggist. How so %
queried the M. d. "You can draw
nothing from the we'll" replied the
pill compiler.-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

"A man learns to do by doing" re-
marked the moralizer YES" re-
joined the demoralizer; "and also by
oelng done.'-Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-12-10

Father" said little Rollo, what is
graft?" Graft, my son, is any pecu-
mary advantage enjoyed by some one
who opposes your political views."-
Washington Star.