The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
KANSAS COl4AEN1
GETTING JUST DEsERrs.

GETTING JUST DESERTS.
Mail order houses are slowly but
surely coming into their just deserts.
Everywhere they are being watched
and the quality and quantity of the
goods they sell will be carefully in
spected. The pure food law will 60
a long way toward putting them out of
business. as Is evidenced by the fact
tnat up IN Minnesota large mail
order house in Chicago has been
caught. Out of eighty-two samples
taken from one shipment by an iu-
spector OF the Minnesota pure food de-
partment. only two compiled with the
pure food law. Every one of the
elgnty packages were short weight.
Coffee marked fifteen pounds weighed
thirteen pounds eight ounces. And
so o. through. the list of spices, rice.
etc. The coffee was adulterated with
roasted Deanss spices were adulterated,
ana a sample OF blackberry cordial
contained salicylic acid and coal tar
dye. This concern is one of those mail
order houses that is able to outsell
local dealers several hundred miles
from their place Of business. The mail
order houses can do this on cheap
adulterated and poisoned trash unfit
Tor food. The firm pleaded guilty and
was fined $50 and costs.-Brown Coun-
ty World.
UPLIFT AND THE GINGER SNAP.
DR.. Crumbine lectured to the To-
peka Women's club yesterday, taking
TOR his text ''The Ginger Snap" He
had been all over the state looking for
ings in them. ETC.. and yesterday ex-
niDited some to the ladies that con-
ta1ned broom straws. He grew SO
eloquent in exposing the Ginger Snap
that he explained that in other Ginger
Snaps would be found the rest of the
broom. yUa
astounded.s For years they had bought
the Store Ginger Snap, being too busy
attending club meetings to make them
at home, and had been feeding their
family all these years on nails. cord
wood, bugs. shoe strings, and every
thing that can usually be found in q
days sweeping.
The lecture leaves the women in
doubt and distress: If thev make the
family Ginger Snap, they will have to
give up the study Of Ibsen and the
search for the Holy Grail And. after
all, these floor sweepings do not seem
between the Uplift and The Ginger
Snap-Atchison Globe.
JAPANESE GALL
Japanese gall has no limit The
Japs made the Chinese apologize for
selling a vessel that was carrying
munitions of war to Chinese rebels,
Now she demands that China suppress
the boycott of Japanese goods that
the trouble has stirred up In China.
Japan says, in effect,to China "You
must not only permit us to supply your
rebels with arms and ammunition with
which to overthrow your government,
but you must thank us for doing so,
and buy goods Of us as a proof of your
affection for us."-Hutchinson News.
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WORD FOR GREAT SOUTHWEST.
The Great Southwest, as 1t was FORM
erly called, was never in all its
fifty years Of civilization in better
physical. moral mental and f1nan-
cial fix than it is to lay. The ex-
act truth is that, no people any
where have SO many of the COM
forts, the luxuries, the everything
worth having of life as our people are
enjoying right now; and what is better
still. the early spring is as fresh and
sweet and clean and promising as a
16-year old homegrown Kansas girl
reared in the lap of Kansas farm
luxury, and who has never had a wave
of trouble, trial. temptation or tribula-
ton in all her sweet life. The Great
Southwest is certainly at its very best
today.-El Dorado Republican.