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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
A DIFFERENCE DUE TO THE
PRIMARY.

With a repetition Of the political con-
ditions that existed two years ago,
LeavenWorth county would now be in
the heat Of political conflict, and
there would be much manipulating and
dickering for advantage and for the
support of the political leaders. The op-
Grafton of the primary law has changed
all that. Candidates for office realize
that it is the people and not the poll
ticians with whom they have to deal,
and there is accordingly an almost en-
tire absence of the old servility and the
gumshoe and pussyfoot tactics. The
man who expects to win an office must
know that it is his personal qualifica-
lions and his political principles which
are going to have an effect upon the
people and to win votes, and he will
have to go before them clean-handed.
1t is just such political experiences as
we are having at present that convince
US more strongly than ever of the wis
dom Of the direct primary law.-Leav-
enworth Times. ST.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

No wonder the consumption of meat
has fallen off generally throughout the
country, the decline being variously
estimated at from twenty-five TO thirty
per cent. The prices which meat, beef
especially, has reached are well nigh
r,robfhitiva
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

There are any quantity of strange
and wonderful things and people on
the famous East Side of New York
and now the champion heavyweight
baby in the world is in it's midst She
is an italian girl twenty-five months
old and weight 10 pounds. If the
New York Tribune was not authority
for this story it would surely be set
down as the work of a nature faker.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

Evidently the people of Wichita
have plenty of money lying around
loose. Another savings bank is to be
established there.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

Here's a bright one from the New
York World: Mr.. Bryan played base
ball Saturday, and the dispatches say
that while he could catch he could not
run. That's the way he is in politics,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Generally speaking. it is not well
for persons and things to go down.
But this does not apply to floods.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

There's a procedure in the Russian
duma which it might be we'll for some
of the legislative bodies in this country
to adopt. When member or the
duma gets a little too obstreperous or
just little bit too funny he is sus-
pended for a number of sittings. If
this custom should be established in
the legislative assemblages of this
land and was taken advantage of on
all proper occasions, there would be
many members of these bodies. and
in one that sits not thousand miles
from the Kaw river, who would be
denied the privileges of participar1ne
in their deliberations during most of
the sessions, or until they took a tum
bic and learned to behave themselves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

THE Where of Wheat is the new
est catch-phrase from the ingenious
r. d -Coburn, secretary of the Kansas
department of agriculture. 1t is used
as the title of vest pocket sized little
folder of sixteen pages which has Just
been issued by Mr.. Coburn. This fold
er is small only in size. On its pages
Is plenty of evidence in figures and
comparisons which do not lie that
Kansas, Kansas the golden, is "the
where of wheat" And on the back
page are some figures and information
which are so gigantic that 1t is diff
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
\ Superstitious Landlord.

The limit Of superstition has been
reached by Landlord Miller, of the
Johnston hotel in this city. For yea RS
this hosiery has been known as the
Johnston hotel Yesterday new cleo
trio sign appeared in front with the
words: johnson Hotel" Many thought
a mistake had been made and rushed
to Miller. but he informed them that no
mistake had been made; that he rad
Hotel to johnson Hotel because
there are IL letters In the first name.
Miller says many travelling men had
noted the fact, and that as a result
they refused to stay at the house.
Miller also changed room No. % to
parlor A. He says drummers are as
superstftious regarding room % as they
are of room 13.-Logansport Dispatch
to Indianapolis News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
Tho Mathematical Mind.

A literary worker who wished to
do large amount Of reading by proxy
advertised for an assistant capable of
digesting the contents of a tremen-
dous quantity of books in a very short
while While weighing each appli-
cant's qualifications for rapid, assfm-
ilatiye reading he inquired carefully
into his mathematical requirements.
He finally chose the man who was
most skillfu1 at untangling arithmeti-
cal problems.
"On the surface that seems an I'M
necessary accomplishment in this
case" he said, but experience has
taught me that anybody who is ex-
pert in figures can read any kind OF
literature put before him with greater
accuracy and speed than the person
lacking in mathematical acumen." -
New York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
FROA OTHER PENS
FORESTRY" AND FINANCE.

AS a result largely of the rise in the
level OF moral sentiment, in corpor-
ate, business and public relations,
there has been a remarkable thinning
out of tall timber in the forest of
prominent characters in this commun-
ity. One can easily count score or
more of the names of men who stood q
in the first rank of public attention
when the Armstrong committee be-
gan its work with the first public
hearing September 6, 1905. Mean
while there has been a vast amount of
investigation, legislation. and litiga-
ton. The public attitude toward bust
ness responsibilities has become more
critical and the measure OF public
control over corporate enterprise has
been materially enlarged AS a part
of this Transformation many of the
older personages who had made ca
reers for themselves have practically
disappeared from the field. The
change has made room for younger
growths, and the end of displacement
is not yet.
To follow the analogy of the forest,
when the monarchs of ancient growth
lose their footing by decay or are
blown down by storms, they leave a
large place in the timbered district
into which the sunlight pours its nu-
tritive powers for the stimulation OF
the younger timber which the giants
of the woods have long overshadowed.
This il what has been taking place
in the management of large financial,
commercial and Industrial institutions.
With a couple of years or so an old
order of things has passed away and
with it new era of more critical
standards of business integrity has
begun. More light has been let in
from the top. 1t has called for a type
of leadership which is more respon-
sive to the demand of the age for
cleaner business methods.--Wall
Street Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
A POTATO DREAM.

When one spits open a nice baked
potato-baked all through wisely and
kindly, so that it looks like section
of newly fallen snow, and melts into a
copious lump of butter, and lets his
thoughts rollick with the JOY of big
bite of THE wonders why Luther
Burbank is spending his time trying
to make the potato better than 1t Is.
But that is what he is doing, and now
he has 900 hybrids of his own Gull
ture that he is comparing and testing,
in order to get the very best to breed
from. He thinks the Irish potato
should be a little sweeter than it is,
not only for taste, but for health, and
to this end he is working. He has sue
ceeded in getting a pota.o quite as
sweet as the sweet potato, but that Is
sweeter than he wants 1t, so he 1s
breeding that back to a milder quality.
In this effort he has tried to get an
Irish potato from its native haunts,
away UP in the SUBMITS of the Andes,
where Jealous wild men dwell and
won't let white people come, and SO
he has to wrestle with cross purposes,
and the indications are that before he
is through he will be the originator of
another Burbank potato, that will far
exceed the achievement of his youth
full dreams. 1t is interesting to note
| that in his efforts to arrive at some
| thing new in the potato line he has
developed new vegetable altogether.
The apparent consanguinity of the po-
tato and the tomato led him to en-
courage an alliance between them, SO
he grated a potato vine on a tomato
root and succeeded in raising new
vegetable-an aif-grown pota.o, sma1i
and fantastic in shape, but tasty and
| nutritious He. is still pushing that
vegetable or fruit, and who knows but
i that some day the true Burbank po-
tato. highly sublimated. will be gain
ered from the air, as one picks
peacnes.-Ohto State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12
Bottled Gas by the Pound.

Prof. William j. Hallock, Of Column
bia university, told the members of
the Chemists club last night about a
new discovery whereby it would be
possible for householder to purchase
a bottle of Illuminating gas on his way
home without leaving a IS deposit.
The illuminant may be bought by the
pound, at Is cents or so. when some
body starts in to manufacture it, AS
yet it's manufacture, has not been I'M
dertaken in this country. 1t has been
used in Germany, where it was discov-
cred by Prof. Blau. After him it is
named Blaugas. Prof. Hallock had a
jar of it at the Chemists club and
showed it's power of illumination. The
gas leaves the Jar through tube about
the size of telegraph wire. The other
end Of the tube connects with The
burner. The great advantage attribu-
ted to the new illuminant is its mex
pensiveness. A % pound cylinder at Is
cents a pound would give a so candle
power light for four months at four
hours a day.-New York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

Does this car go to Twenty-fourth
street.? inquired the elderly lady.
mo. ma'an, but have something Just
as good. replied the conductor, who was
twice at Twelfth eet''-Bohemian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-12

Here Is my seat, madam, but candor
oornpels me to say that think you are A
well able to stand as am
Pohteness compels me 10 aay Thank
you. sir Chicago Tribune
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

which preceded It. It compares with it's
seeming competitors as the product of the
expert of fifty years usually compares with
that of the apprentice Of one, two or five
years.
The CADILLAC THIRTY motor of today
is a better motor than any of those which
preceded 1t, better In design. material and
workmanship; better made; more efficient;
more reliable, If such a thing is possible;
It possesses at least ten points of superiority
over any other car made in America selling
at less than $4,000. 1t is fully equal in
every way, in these ten points to cars SELL
ing at any price.
Hundreds have verified these statements
by actual service. You can verify them by
personal inspection and trial. They are
coroborated by the following quotation of
an editorial in the New York Globe. Mon
day, Nov. 23d.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
BILLIARD ROW STOPS TOURNEY
Charges OF Professionalism Causes
FURRY Among National Amateurs.

Charges of Professionalism Causes
FURRY Among National Amateurs.
NEW YORK. Dec. Acknowledgements in
the amateur billiard worlds scandal"
threaten to break up the annual national
championship tournament which is
scheduled for next March. ]. Ferdinand
P~oggenburg. the LAederkranz club entry.
and Edward Gardner. former national
amateur champion, are involved in the
tangle which has caused q sensation in
Chicago.
According to the billiard committee OF
the Chicago Athletic association, where the
tournament was held last winter. four OF
the six players were guilty OF rank pro-
fessionalism. The committee reports that
Clarence jackson OF Chicago and Charles
Wright OF San Francisco maintained their
amateur status. but that the other four,
while posing as amateurs, accepted money
for their services.
Besides Poggenburg and Gardner, the
men accused are Fred Conklin of Chicago
and Calvin Demarest. who has Just re-
signed the national amateur championship
to be a professional. According to the
promoters of the Chicago tournament,
Gardner, Poggenburg. Demarest and Conk-
lin received weekly stipends. Gardner is
alleged to ave drawn down SIS, while
Demarest, being a resident OF Chicago, got
only so. The New Workers laugh at the
accusation, stating that only their ex-
penses were paid.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
DISTANCE. RUN AGAIN POPULAR
Feats of Hayes, LonEboat and Do
rando REEVES Old sport.

Feats of Hayes, LOngboRt and Do
randO Revives ola sport.
NEW YORK. Dec. n.-with Tom Long
boat, the Indian, in the professional ranks.
distance racing. so popular a decade ago,
is likely to see a big revival. The world
wide fame won by Johnny Hayes in the
Olympic Marathon, Dorando's now historic
finish In the same race, his recent defeat
Of Hayes, and Longboat's meteoric career,
are events sufficient 20 arouse the old In
terest In contests of speed and endurance.
Jongboat is perhaps the most picturesque
figure in athletics today. He is a full
blooded Onondaga Indian. and was raised
on the Caledonia reservation. seven miles
from Hamilton. Canada He attracted at
tention suddenly by winning the historic
Herald Marathon race in Canada when u
years old, and came back and won. a similar
race the following year. No one had ever
heard of him before this, but subsequently
he won many famous long-distance races
among them the twenty five-mile Boston
Marathon.
Longboat ran in the Marathon at the
Olympic games last year and was among the
front runners for about twenty miles. when
he retired. Long-distance running. Is sec
ond nature with the Indian. He can run as
well with rubber boots on as with the up
to-date spiked shoes. Longboat is a natural
born runner. He was born in a typacal
Indian hut and when a youhgster his peo-
pie marveled at his speed and endurance
With the Hayes-Dorando match PROBES
sional running has certainly taken a great
boom. 1t wouldn't be at all surprising to
see many great amateurs turn to the
moneyed side of the game within the next
few months. Hayes and Dorando, asgre-
eating their shares of the gate receipts
cleared $1,000 the other night. This Is
enough to make many amateur athletes
eyes stick out with envy. Hayes for 5000
which is about as much as he'd get In ten
years at the job he left when he went tc
England.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
GOLF RECORD WITH SINGLE CLUB
Jerome Traver wins Curious Wager
I'm -enty-Se Strokes.

jerome Travers wins Curious Wager
I'm Seventy-Seven Strokes.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12-One of the most
remarkable exhibitions of golf ever seen
anywhere was given on a recent Saturday
by Jerome d. Travers, national amateur
champion, on the links OF the Montclair
Golf club, when he made the round In
seventy-seven strokes. using only one club
his driving iron. Over a lunch in the
club house there were three players looking
for a fourth man, when some one suggested
that Travers be taken in to play the best
ball Of the three, whereupon an admirer
spoke up and said; II will bet that Trav-
ers can beat their best bail and only use
one club"
The result was that Mr.. Travers under
took the task, and after careful study be-
tween selecting a mid-iron, or a driving
iron, finally took the latter. Played in
high wind, with the course very rough
after a period of dampness and heavy fog,
with putting greens abundant in warm
casts. the display of the champion was all
the more marvellous.
His long game was practically perfect
throughout, with the exception of one
sliced shot, the long approach to the fourth
green. His heaviest handicap was on tho
short approach and the approach putt,
notably on his second to the first, third
and eighth greens, and his approach puts
from just off the green on the ninth and
thirteenth Those trifling Irregularities
were more than offset by his b~rilHancy on
the putting greens, where he only needed
one putt on nine greens, for a total Of
twenty-seven puts on the round.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
COAST GETS TRIO OF FIGHTS
California Clubs Schedule Series of
Events for Month of December.

California Clubs Schedule Series of
Events for Month of DecembeP.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 12.-Three
important fights will be pulled off in Cali
fornia this month. The FIRST will be a
twenty-five round SO between Billy Papke
and Hugo Kelly. the crack m~iddlewelghts,
at the Jefferies Athletic club of Los An
geles. on December Is; the second a TWEEN
ty-round battle between Sam Langford,
the colored pugilist of Boston. and Jim
Flynn, the Pueblo heavyweight, at the
Washington Athletic club of San Fran
cisco. on December II, and the third, which
will be the big event of them all, will be
a forty-fiye round go between AL Kauf-
man, the California heavyweight, and Jim
Barry of Chicago. which is carded for De-
cember 81 at the Jefferies Athletic club OF
Los Angeles. The winner of the latter
bout will probably be matched to fight
the victor of the Tommy Burns-Jack John
son battle for the heavyweight title.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13

These thirty cars were shipped to the
following points: One, Baltimore; two'
ogden; one, Chicago; three, Denver; three,
Kansas City; three, Milwaukee,; one' Grano
Rapids; one, Atlanta; three, Boston,
three, Utica; five, Los Angeles; three
Rochester; one. Brentwood, Texas.
The Cadillac output is increasing ex-
actly as scheduled. In a short time at least
thirty Of these high powered four cylinder
Cadillac go" ears will be shipped every
working day.
Thirty complete cars per day is a
pretty big output for an automobile plant,
it's true; but when you consider that the
Cadillac Company inherits so years of vital,
practical manufacturing experience; when
you consider that the Cadillac go" is alb
solutely standardized; when you consider
that Cadillac capacity means a 1000 men
plant operating special machinery not pos
sessed by other plants; when you consider
that for the tool maintenance account alone
100000 is spent in a single year; when
you consider that 95 per cent of the entire
car is built right here in our own plant;
when you consider that the equipment in
cludes more than 500 especially designed,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
BICYCLE RIDERS AS AUTO RACERS
New Field Opened Up for OId-Time
Speed Celebrities.


NEW YORK, Dec. 12.-The great success
which has attended bicycle riders who have
become drivers of racing autos in this
country seems to rave opened up a new
avenue of lucrative employment for those
interested in track and field sports. and 1t
would not be surprising IL In the continued
growth of the auto racing game, particu-
larly on tracks. which promies to show a
great increase in competitors next season,
a great many Of those heretofore promi-
nent in athletics should turn to this new
profession.
Cycling peculiarly fitted the successful
speed merchants to the task OF driving a
racing car. The quick eye, steady nerve
and endurance to stand the strain Of men
tai and physical forces are similar in
both lines of sport. Judgment of distance,
time and speed must be good, and the mind
active to form accurate decisions in an
emergency. Strength of arm is also nee
essary, and this has barred some of the
jockeys from entering this line of sport.
OF the cycling champions. Barney Old
field was one of the first to drive an auto
in races. He came into prominence in
Detroit, six years ago.
Tom Cooper. who was killed In an acct
dent in Central Park, but not through his
own carelessness, was another OF the cycle
champions In the same school as Oldfield.
Good common sense and sound judgment
gave him success in the racing car. Eddie
Bald. who held many cycling records. had
three or four years of training as a driver
before he turned his attention to the selling
side Of the auto industry.
Joe Tracey, the Loco driver. who was
regarded as the best OF the Americans in
the Vanderbilt Cup race two years ago,
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
INSURANCE FOR FLEET MACS
Business Has Assumed Large Proper
'tiOns in Last Few Years.

oAA ~ 1Aa3h
NEW YORK, Dec. 1.-THE insurance of
race horses has assumed large proper
tions during the last few years. according
to an agent of the Lloyd's, London. While
all classes of horses are insured by this
company, race horses are considered best
risks. After winning a great race a stake
horse gets the same measure of oats as
usual, 10 rubbed down and tucked away. In
a stall where he has pure air. clean bed
ding and plenty of room. This sort of
treatment is a preventive against collie,
which is sufficient to bar a horse from
life insurance. II 1t were not for railway
accidents the payments of death claims
for ~trotters and runners would be very
few and far between. Hermis was insured
for $1,000 just after he won the Suburban
handicap. De Laud at one time was in
sured for $50, 900, while Colin carries a
policy now for $&,00. Fair Play, Au-
gust Belmont's star 3-year-old. who is
now in England. is insured for $4,000. with
his stable mates Octagon and Six O'Clock
for $4,000 each. Mr.. Belmont's entire
stable carries a 100000 policy. while H. p.
Whitney's is insured for 10000. w. X.
Vandelbilt's racing stable in France is also
similarly protected.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-12-13
SAVANNAH RACES PERMANENT
Brown Declares Auto Course 10 be
Best in United States.

NEW YORK, Dec. 12-Lewis B.. Brown.
vice chairman OF the advisory committee
of the Automobile club of America, who
was organizer OF the steamship excursion
to Savannah, says:
THE Savannah races will undoubtedly
be permanently established in the regular
automobile events in this country. Per-
sonally I can see nc reason why It should
not be ar annual event, to be held at about
the same time every year that II was held
this year. II seemed to be the general
consensus Of opinion among the foreign
automobile men that there is no course in
America which they would prefer to the
one In Savannah. So far as the steamship
excursion Is concerned, It was so success
ful that three vessels will probably be
needed next year instead Of two In order
to accommodate all who will want to go to
Savannah IN that way"