The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-27
THE OLD TEAPOT.

OF dull. worn goblin places quite worn
through.
little maid with a funny. frightened face.
Is r Rot On tip f 5ut suited G fe99 her bead
Now why could she not sit or stand in
All, now I see the sequel to the talel
A lover-pink and white-in haste pur-
His steps are wide and yet they always
He cannot catch the maid in pointed
Now tell me why it was in grandma's
They painted teapots-and the cups to
With girls and girls. of every race and
So very frightened and so hard to catch?
New York Times.
SDectacIes Crime Cure.
Cain did not wear glasses. If he
had he might not have killed Abel. A
number of other catastrophes might
pIcation of pair of spectacIes. If
you want to reform a criminal clap
pair of glasses on him, for the chances
are that defective physical vision has
theory of DR.. William NJ. Richards of
229 West Ninety-seventh street, and
he hopes inside of a year to be able to
book his theory with statistics.
the search for subjects DIR. Richards
has visited the district attorneys Of
fee, several police courts, the Elmira
refornatory, the Magdalen home, and
various other institutions. At the Ell
mira reformatory he found that most
of the boys were suffering from abnor-
NAL vision; that in the majority of
cases poor eyesight had led to truancy.
truancy to bad companionship, and
that to crime.
At the Magdalen home he fitted
glasses to twenty inmates, and every
one of these, he said, found work on
particular had never been able to keep
job more than few days. She was
considered stupid and lazy. Since
leaving the home two months ago
been steadily employed by a firm of
wholesalers, and is still working
there. At the time he examined her
she was unable to make out the larg-
est type on the test card at a distance
of four feet.
DR.. Richards is now trying his
scheme on some 200 second offenders.
burglars, holdup men, and grafters of
various degrees, and he hopes that if
they do not lose their glasses they will
be desirable citizens by the time they
emerge from seclusion. Most of the
glasses are provided by the Shaarath
Israel, which is much interested in
the work.
Early Wednesday morning DR.. Rich
ards visited Magistrate Barlow in the
night court and examined the eyes of
some of the women prisoners. The re-
suit showed, he said, that many of
the women brought in had something
the matter with their eyesight, and it
was entirely possible that if their
they themselves would be able to lead
a normal life.-New York Sun.
Tammany Accused.
An assault on Tammany Hall in the
form of a bulletin under the title, In
direct Cost of Tammany,' has been is
sued by the Democratic Union. 1t says,
in part:
which yielded Tammany 100000 last
year and cost small storekeepers,
wholesale merchants, householders,
shippers, grocers, milk dealers, liver
stable men, and builders 900, will be
inaugurated on July by the first sal IS
of outing tickets. Through control of the
city departments large blocks of outing
tickets are sold to the employees at IS
each.
For one Tammany outing in the
Bronx last year $1,000 tickets were sold
at IS apiece, a total of sos, 000 These
tickets are sent, with a request to re
nit on receipt to those having bust
hess with city departments controlled
by Tammany, and arc sold, further, to
employees of all city departments who
may be removed, transferred, or fined.
Street sweepers get one, drivers in thu
street cleaning department two, assist
ant foremen in any department fxe,
and foremen ten.
"Other sources of honest graft which
do not appear in the budget are found
available by Tammany. Water meters
installed by the city cost, wholesale,
$32. The cost of installing is So addi-
tional for plumber and helper. The
cost to the householder varies from $3.50
to $3.50. The Aston estate paid this year
1925 for one meter. A James street
tenement paid $213. Over $4,000 meters
were installed in Manhattan and the
Bronx last year by the 'Tammany
plumbers Though in five years the
city budget for current expenses in
creased from SOS, 1000, 900 to $156 900, 900,
the collection of fines and penalties in
the various departments through the
ability to get things fixed has dimin-
ished and is less now than it was four
years ago.''-New York World.
Making Cotton in Missouri.
There are not many people who
would fail to be surprised at the state
ment that Missouri is a greater cotton
raising state than Virginia, Kentucky
Kansas, or New Mexico, all of which
have more of their territory in the
cotton belt" said Mr.. Joseph N. Wright