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The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
WOMEN AND THE TARIFF.

Francis Burton Harrison. one oil
New York's Democratic congressman
! stated in recent speech in the house
Of representatives on the tariff ques-
ton. that if the Payne tariff bill was
enacted into law it would mean the
bringing about of woman's suffrage If
anything could create such a condition
of affairs. He had in mind the pro-
posed increased duties on hosiery,
gloves and hemstitched linens. Well if
such tariff legislation would bring
about such a desirable end it would
accomplish much. 1t would probably
be the means of doing more good for
the body polite of the country than it
would do harm in the way of placing
additional burdensome costs on real
necessities for women
But the proposed increased duties on
these articles will strike most people
as being a trif1e outrageous even if
they might be the indirect means of
stirring the women up to the point
where they will make a united demand
for their right of suffrage which can
not be denied. The tariffs now levied on
hosiery, gloves and hemstitched linens
by the Dingley law are surely high
enough. Indeed, they are a little toe
high and the tariff revisionists might
have effected a good stroke by looping
them off considerably. The present
tariff on the popular priced stockings
which sell at 25 cents a pair is fixed
in the Dingley law at so cents per dozen
pair and Is per cent ad valorem. This
means a tax of So cents on every dol
lars worth of hosiery imported and
that places something of a burden on
the consumers. The Payne bill pro-
poses a tax of 20 cents a dozen pair
and Is per cent ad valorem, which
means a tax of S5 cents on every dol
lars worth of hosiery imported. The
increased duties in the Payne bill on
gloves and hemstitched linen are pro-
portionately as great.
Surely the women have good grounds
to protest against these features of the
new tariff bill and they are beginning
to do so with a mighty voice. The
men will join them. for in the last es-
sentials it is the men for the most part
who have to foot the bills. There
won't be much of a saving for the fam
lily purse if the duty on hides is taken
off and that on manufactured shoes is
materially reduced which will lessen
the size of the shoe bills and at the
same time there is an increased duty
on stockings, gloves and linens which
will have a tendency to increase the
retail price of these articles. All of
this tends to show that no matter how
the tariff is revised the consumer will
continue to pay the freight just as he
has been doing right along. Still, If
there was a fair and square revision of
the tariff his burdens might be light
ened.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.J

When parents don't know how to
make anything else out of a boy they
call him artistic.
All the fun of staying out late at
night is lost when there's nobody at
home to carry on about it.
The easiest way for woman is to
do a thing and then find the reason
for it afterward.
A convenient thing about a woman's
figure is how she can make it look like
one when she hasn't any.
A man wastes most of his money
because there are so many sensible
things to do with 1t he can't choose
which
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

Not much in the way of ball play
ing could have been expected under
the weather conditions of last Friday
when the Topeka team went down to
defeat at Manhattan in it's first game
of the season. but in the contempla-
ton of the game it is pleasing to re-
feet that there is an old adage to the
effect that a bad beginning makes a
good ending
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
Dual Role in Court.

When the case of Ernest G. Stevens,
a lawyer against Edwin B. Smith, Mel
vim Brown and stephen G. Clarke, also
lawyers, to recover $4,000 for serv-
ices rendered in the settlement of a
federal case, came UP before Judge
day, Mr.. Stevens announced that he
was acting as his own counsel and
promptly asked himself to step to the
witness stand. which he did. Then he
began to question himself on behalf
of his client, himself.
"On what day did you see Mr.. Cur
rie, Mr.. Stevens?" he asked, Mr.. Cur
rie being one of the subordinate per-
Mr.. Stevens the witness paused a
moment and then answered:
I don't recall the date, Mr.. Ste
vens."
'sHave YOU any memoranda asked
Mr.. Stevens the lawyer.
Il have" replied. Mr.. Stevens the
witness
"Will you kindly produce the
with pleasure" he replied. Then
he took from his pocket bundle of
papers, and passing them from his
left hand to his right hand, said:
Here they are
AS the right hand took them, Mr..
Stevens, as counsel, said to himself,
as witness, "Thank you," and Mr.. Ste
vens bowed his head, as much as to
say Don't mention it, Then both of
them looked over the papers.
One of the opposing counsel, who
are also acting for themselves, made
some technical objection here. and
Mr.. Stevens the witness paused until
Mr.. Stevens the lawyer had consider
ed the question. He shifted from right
to left in his seat and then told him
self not to answer.
I'VE will reach that point later" he
said, addressing himself, land in the
me eantime, Mr.. Stevens, you are re-
lieved."
With one motion they both stepped
from the stand and the case was ad-
journed.-New York Herald.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
DESTROY THE FIELD NICE.

During the two years of 1907 and
1908 there was a disastrous field
mouse plague in several of the farm
ing regions of Nevada. These little
rodents devastated fields upon fields of
alfalfa and grain and caused the far
mers losses of really enormous sums
of money in the aggregate. After
tedious and expensive work these
pests were killed off. And inasmuch
as the development of such a plague
is possible in every farming COM
munity where field mice are to be
found-and there are few farming
sections where they are not-the con-
clusions drawn by Stanley E. Piper, an
assistant in the biological survey of
the federal department of agriculture,
in an elaborate review of the Nevada
mouse plague cannot fail to be of in
terest. He writes:
"The plague of field mice in Nevada
illustrates the dangerous proclivities
of this group of rodents and stamps
them as most serious pests. Since field
mice possess in marked degree the
tendency to periodic excessive multi
plication, plaques are possible wher-
ever they exist. In view of the ma
turaI increase of field mice resulting
from the reclamation of desert lands
and the gradual extirpation of their
natural enemies, mouse plaques of
vastly greater proportions are by no
means improbable.
IAN understanding of the manner in
which such plaques develop is
essential in attempts to prevent them.
Control, easy in the beginning, be-
comes very difficult and expensive af-
ter a plague is we'll established. In
Humboldt valley, in the beginning, a
little poisoning with green alfalfa or
crushed wheat would have sufficed to
prevent the plague. During the fall
and winter of 19O6-7, when the mice
seriously injured fields here and there,
they could have been destroyed with
poisoned alfalfa hay. Even during
the summer of 1907 concerted and
vigorous poisoning would have de-
stroyed them at cost small indeed in
comparison with the damage they in
ficted later.
winter poisoning with alfalfa hay
is the most practicable, since the alb
sence of green herbage is distinct
Ordinarily. poisoning in
winter will prevent the necessity for
it in summer. When, however. mice
appear in alarming numbers In
spring they should be promptly sup
pressed, since under these conditions
a plague may be we'll established by
fall. But if in default of such pre-
ventive measures plague is well es-
tablished, nothing short of sys-
tematic and vigorous poisoning will
check it. This requires the employ
ment of enough men to cover the in
IL CHI ov-4i
time.
in localities where mice are present
in destructive numbers, systematic
effort to control them results not only
in considerable saving to the ranch
man, but proves the best safeguard
against more serious damage.
ION the enormous ranches of the
west, the centers of abundance which
form the starting points for general
invasions may develop on the lands of
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
OfciaI 4sLazy List /"

The town of Great harrington lately
came into possession, by purchase from
the estate of the late Henry c. Warner,
of a bound volume of town reports for
the years 1866 to 1888, inclusive. The
annual school reports for the years 1872
73 to 1S77-7S, inclusive, contain much in
formation that is omitted from the
school committees reports of more re-
cent years. One of the chief things in
this line was called 1.-The Lazy List"
The reports usually embodied rolls of
honor, lists of star pupils, and the lazy
list. The latter embraces the names of
scholars who were often tardy, but not
necessarily the names of those who
lacked diligence after reaching the
school room. The report for 1s72-73
contains II names. The lazy list went
out of existence in 1S7s.-Berkshire
Courier.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

That criminals have too many
''rights' is tersely expressed by the
London Times as follows: "In the
fight that never ends between the
criminal and society more and more
advantage is given to the former. He
is handled tenderly. His rights are
large, and they are respected even if
honest mems rights suffer. Some of
his privileges might be withdrawn
with no loss to any one meriting much
consideration.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

An excellent chance for conjecture
IS found in the request of Mrs. Pierre
Lorillard. jr., the wife of the tobacco
magnate. who committed suicide in
Washington the other day. that a let
ter which she wrote be buried with
her unopened. What did she write
the letter for?
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

Here's another bit of evidence that
the Taft administration is decidedly
Independent of the Roosevelt regime.
President Taft has countermanded the
order of ex-President Roosevelt reIiev-
ing the marines from duty on board
of war vessels.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

the scope of the activities of the
league should be widened so 1t will
also benefit the pupils in the schools.
The teachers should agitate among
themselves for the exercise of more
care in teaching and for the better
ment of the methods of education.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

The director of the federal census
ought to get medal of some sort for
his modesty. He asks congress for
only s1O.0OO,O0O to pay the expenses
of the census work. Too much en-
phasis can not be placed on the word
ssor7Tx-
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

persons who neglect to control them.
If each ranchman will consider the
suppression of field mice on his own
land a regular part of farming
operations, such scourges of mice will
never occur"
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

Consistency may be a jewel but it
must be of the invisible sort. The
state of Kansas paid an agent $2S.0OO
for collecting its claim against the
federal government. And one of the
reasons the state of Kansas, through
its legislature, gave for refusing to
pay the just claim of the city of To-
peka against it for paving the streets
around the state house was that some
agents of the city were to receive a
small percentage of the money for
doing the work necessary for the col
1e ction of the claim
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pUr-
pose.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
FRON OTHER PENS

FORESHADOWING OF DESTINY.
The United States and the Mexican
republic have no Joint intention of an
nexing the turbulent Central Ameri-
can states that lie between their pos
sessions. They never will have that
joint intention. Present newspaper re-
ports to the contrary are quite false.
Or, rather, they are helf false and half
premature. Yet who can doubt that
such reports, though repudiated today,
hold up a mirror to the future, not of
Mexico, but of this republic?
The Panama canal is sure to attract
a part of the United States to the
isthmus. There will be henceforward
a moral and intellectual closing in up
on the turbulent little republics. 1t
will be an assimilation rather than an
annexation. 1t will be a process like
that in Porto Rico today-carried for
ward by the desire of the people there
rather than by the will of the people
here.
The view is too long to arrest our
attention for more than moment in
this year 1909, yet some child now
born will live to see no flag between
the Great Lakes and Darien save that
of the Stars and Stripes. Destiny fore
shadows it-who can doubt it?-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

There is talk of forming a teachers
league of North America which will
embrace all of the half million school
teachers in the United States and
Canada. It's object is to obtain higher
salaries and pensions for teachers and
national and state aid to education.
This will be fine for the teachers but
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

The New York Evening Post ex-
presses the good thought that what
the country seems to need is less un-
written and more unbroken law.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

Pictures Of Prince George would in
dicate that the Servians have not lost
much through mis- renunciation of his
rights to succeed his father to the
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

No reason for fear can be found in
the prediction of E. H. Hartman that
in time the farmers will be in control
of the industrial world. The farmers,
generally. are a level-headed lot.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

This much can be said to the credit
of rheumatism. 1t is no reSpecter of
persons. Mr.. Paderewski and Mr..
Hartman are among the latest to
suffer its twinges.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
Germans Last Miracle Worker.

While Dusseldorf and Mayence have
declined the Heine monument, and
while the little backwood town Malchin,
in Mecklenburg, hesitated to accept the
gift of a memorial tablet over the
house where Siegfried Marcus, the in
ventor of the automobile, was born,
Michelstadt, in Hesse, is more liberal.
There the town council passed a resolu-
ton to place a memorial tablet over the
house where Rabbi Seckel Loeb Worm
ser died. The latter was the last caba-
list and miracle worker in Germany, and
is widely known as the ''Baal Schem
of Michelstadt." 1t seems to the gem
Grafton living at present an almost in
conceivable fact that so years ago a
rabbi in Germany could still write
amu1ets which should heal sickness and
insure success in business and the like.
raelite.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

Individuals who are not expressing
opinions these days on what should
be done to the tariff are rarities.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
Sea Brakes for Shins.

Within a few weeks the battleship
Indiana will make a test of the new
sea brake, scheme to prevent COL
months ago by the navy department.
Wings 13 feet long by wide are being
made for the vessel at Cramps ship
yards, and will be attached at the
Philadelphia navy yard. They will be
fiat against the vessels sides, with the
hinges attached perpendicularly when
she is under headway When a sudden
stop is desired they will open half way
from the front, and they are expected
to check the speed almost instantly
While there is nothing especially new
in the idea it has never been attempted
on a ship of such size as the Indiana,
which is of Is, 900 tons.
The wings will, if they are success
full, make it possible to maneuver the
vessel in smaller space. When the
English battleship Camperdown was
rammed and sunk by the Victoria dur
ing fleet evolution in he Mediterran-
can it was seen that L collision was
inevitable some moments before the
actual crash, and it is believed that a
brake might have prevented it.
The mechanism of the brake will be
operated by pneumatic control on the
firing bridge, the station of the officer
of the deck.
The secretary of the navy will be
present when the test is made some
where in Delaware bay, and some of
the officers of the Cunard line have
asked permission to attend, SO that
they may judge how well the plan
meets their needs.-Philadelphia dis
patch to New York Times.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
SnowbaIIs Clear Highways.

Ruyl Smith, scientific farmer, util-
lied his knowledge in a most practi-
cal manner today when he cleared his
fields of the heavy snow and then gen.
erously offered his services to the
township supervisors and opened up
some badly drifted roads
Its all very easy when you know
how modestly commented Mr.. Smith
when congratulated upon his work.
II merely used the old idea of rolling
a huge SNOWFALL"
That's precisely what was done. For
instance, in opening up the roads, he
walked out into the middle of the
highway, made a SNOWFALL and pro-
ceeded to roll 1T over and over until it
reached a diameter Of six feet
He then ordered one of his men to
bring down a traction engine. With
this motive force he pushed the snow
ball over and over until it grew to
such dimensions that it completely
filed the road.
1t rolled into a ten-foot drift, and
in the easiest manner imaginable
picked up every bit OF snow there and
made an easy passage for teams. The
snowballs were melted with Jets of
steam from the same traction engine
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

1t is the opinion of the leaders of
the United States senate that only
census and tariff legislation ought to
be considered at the present special
session. Inasmuch as the census
measure has been disposed of only the
tariff will be left for consideration if
this plan is adhered to. And that's
great sufficiency. To handle the tariff
as it should be handled and as the
people desire it to be handled will be
q great and good work. That's all
congress was called together for and
that's all the legislation it should
undertake.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

David s. Rose. the mayor of Mil
waukee, in debating the liquor ques-
ton the other night, declared that
prohibition increased crime, insanity,
death, domestic infelicity pauperism
and 80 --~4eS business. 1t is certain
that ne did not find facts on which to
draw these conclusions from a survey
of the manner in which prohibition
has worked out in Kansas. The
chances are that he hasn't any facts
to back up these assertions.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
MILITARIsM AND TAXES.

The figures of the national war bills,
as presented by our Washington cor
respondent in the Sunday Herald. have
a special interest now that a growing
deficit in federal finances complicates
the problem of a new tariff bill. The
adequate solution of any problem re-
quires a consideration of cause and
effect. It is of little use for consum-
ers to protest against tax on coffee
and sugar for property owners to pro-
test against income taxes, or for states
to object to federal inheritance taxes,
unless similar protest is made
against the policies which relate to
these taxes as cause to effect. What
causes the deficit in national finances? Z?
Out of a total of 100000 appro-
priated, exclusive of the postal de-
partment, $526,000,000 was required
to meet the war bills of the govern
ment! We are paying 81, 44O, 900 a
day for war! That is more than the
cost of the first year of the Civil war,
and more than half the cost of the
last year, IN which great armies were
maintained in action. We are at
peace with the world, but we are
maintaining war standard OF equip
ment. We must pay for it. We have
followed the nations of Europe in our
military policy 1t is inevitable that
we must follow them also in our finan-
cial policies which provide funds for
military establishme ents.-Boston Her.
aid.
DOES PASSENGER TRAFFIC PAY?
Is there a profit for railroads in
their passenger traffic? Most of the
railroad presidents say not. But it is
a curious thing that all railroads,
while denying that there is a profit in
hauling people, still spend enormous
sums to promote passenger traffic.
The Pennsylvania's president says
quite bluntly that as the average fare
on his lines is now a fraction under
two cents a mile the rate is too low.
He draws the inference that passen-
ger business is not profitable. And
yet the Pennsylvania is spending over
$100,0O0,000 on its New York ter
minal, which will be used solely for
passenger traffic.
The New York Central is spending
half a $ much on a similar enterprise
and one in which freight will never
help pay penny of the cost. At
Washington there was but recently
finished the most magnificent railroad
station in the world. 1t cost over
s14.0oo,00o, and not pound of
freight can be carried into it. Other
railroads have expended millions upon
terminals that cater to passenger
business only. Investors might in
quire: Why all these vast sums to
foster passenger traffic if that traffic
doesn't Day?-PhiladeIDhia Press.
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
At the Majestic.

Daily matinee 2:3o-High class vaudevill
evenings :45-9:15-High class vaudevili
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

For particulars, prices and amusement
ostalIs, see announcements In this paper
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29

At the Novelty
[u[oonight-Readick Stock Company In
Haatinees-Wednesda and Saturdays
The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-29
ADJUSTMENTS.
At the Grand

AT the Grand
w Mednesday night-''The Holy City"
~, nursoay night-Washburn Dramatic
club In The Show Girl"
. Frlday afternoon-Ben Greet Players in
a MldSumner Nights Dream
Pictures
Saturday matinee and night-Lyan H
Howe's Moving Pictures.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-27

Peck for $50, small tract in 1866.
E o. Peck n wife to E. o. Peck,
Jr., for $500 small tract in 1866.
Ella Lea Bede1l and husband to Jaf-
ia, Prayer & Co.. for 81 thirty-four
lots in Lea's subdivision to Roswell.
Frank Wilson to Ed Hall and 9TH
ers for 81, block 6 Victoria Heights ad
dition to Roswell.
Frank Wilson to Ed Hall and others
for 5000, block 4, Victoria Heights ad-
dition to Roswell.
Herbert Clyde Allison to Ed Hall
and others, for 81 block 4, Victoria
addition to Roswell.
Dexter Townsite Company to ]. P.
Shinneman, for $3.50, lot 2, block 4.
Dexter.
E D.. Kinsinger and wife to o. A.
Conrad, for 81, $50 acres in 14-13-25.
Felix Costa and wife to Sadie Costa
Mullane, for 81 twenty acres in 3-11-24
J.. E. Levers and wife to R. E. Prue,
for $1,000 part of lot Is, LEAFS srdb-di-
vision to Roswell.
P. c.. Wilson and wife, to G. w. Rob
inson, for $1,000, lot 3, block 10, Ala
media Heights addition to Roswell.
The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1909-05-27
Salvation Army Congress.

New York, May 26.-Distinguished
officers and high privates of the Sal
walton Army forces of the United
States gathered at the rendezvous at
Army headquarters in West Fourteen
tn street this morning to begin the
annual national congress. A welcome
meeting was occupied with private
councils OF the officers. Another ses-
sion was held this afternoon, when
the affairs and plans OF the army were
discussed J.. The councils will continue
through tomorrow and Friday. On
Saturday an open salvation meeting
will be held. The congress will con-
clude Sunday, with three great mass
meetings in Carnegie Hall.
Commander Miss Booth Is leading
the congress meeting, and Commits
sioner and Mrs. Estill of Chicago are
also taking a prominent part in the
conference. Nearly a thousand officers
and as many soldiers are here for the
congress.