The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-30
KANSAS CONNENT
WHERE GREED ovERREAcHED.


In Baltimore a man bid $1,000 for
| TWO inches of land fronting on a prin-
opal street. The two inches were on
| me corner and Joined an estate which
naturally would like to be on the cor
ner The purchaser kept bidding over
land.
Under the building laws of the city
ne finds that he can do nothing with
the property. He can not erect a wall
TO smut Off the estate because the or
d1nances viii not permit so thin a
structure. In fact he has an elephant
on his hands. He can make no use of
| IT yet he must pay taxes so long as he
He bought the land with the idea
that he could annoy the estate so
greatly that it would be willing to
give MIN a good bonus to get rid of
MIN. But the estate will do nothing.
1t will not give him the purchase
price and probably it will not buy the
| land at all. It will give the specula-
tor a taste of his own medicine. 1t
VIII let him continue to own and pay
| taxes on the bit of land until in ut
ter despair he lets it go for the taxes
when the estate may get a tax deed.
There is a difference between
shrewdness and meanness in real es-
tate transactions. To foresee that a
able on its merits, and to buy it for
| that legitimate gain. is shrewdpess to
be commended, but to try to take ad-
vantage of somebody, with view to
bleeding him is meanness pure and
simple, and it is doubtful If man
can be found in Baltimore who has a
particle of sympathy for this victim
of his own greed-Wichita Beacon.
FIRST DISTRICT ANTHONY GOSSIP.
There are two politicians in Atchison
who seldom make poor predictions. Both
OF them say Dan Anthony will win.
They say Atchison county is for him;
that he will do pretty good in Shaw
nee, and that he will have an even
break in jackson county. They say
there is not a prominent Republican in
Atchison county-a man who ever takes
interest in politics-Who is for NcNeai.
Opposition may develop later, but there
is practically none now. according to
the two best politicians in the county
AtchiSon Globe.
Mr.. Anthony will find lot of friends
in Hiawatha. Most of our Republicans
stand with the president and that is
standing by Mr.. Anthony, for his oppon-
ent differs with the president. In ad-
dition to the majority of the party here
abouts being for him. tho party organ
ization officers are mis- friends. The Re-
publican congressional committeeman
for this county, Mr.. Weltmer, is for
Anthony-so IS the chairman of the
Republican League club, John House.
They are all for President Taft and,
of course, Mr.. Anthony stands for the
president and naturally loyal Republi
cans will support Mr.. Anthony, because
Republicans stand by a Republican
president and Republican majority in
Congress.-Brown County World
NEEDED-A PERFUME.
There are few flowers which are
more beautiful than the sunhower.
This is not said because the sunfiower
Is the chosen flower of Kansas. but
because it is pretty. 1t is more beau
tiful than any other wild flower which
grows. If sunfowers were not COM
mon, if they were not hardy and had
to be raised in a dollhouse, people
would wear them in their buttonholes
just as they wear carnations. The
sunf1ower lacks but one thing to make
it the most popular flower in the land,
and that is a perfume. If Luther
Burb bank, the plant wizard, who has
produced the odorless onion, a cactus
without thorns and who is now ex-
perimenting with the object of throw
ing a perfume on the ehrysanthemum.
plant made popular by football,
should add a perfume to the sunf1ow
err it would be in great demand and
would be on display in the window
of every florist. There are just two
things against the sunfiower: it is COM
mon and it lacks perfume For
gorgeous beauty it has no equal. Give
the sunfiower a perfume and make it
etrates the forests in tropical coun-
tries in search of orchids would throw
up his job and search for sunf1owers.
- "a OIL