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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
DENATURED ALCOHOL TRICK.

Several years ago in many quarters
of the country. by coincidence, of course
there suddenly arose loud cry for E
tcheap. fuel for the poor. down-trodder
farmer, writes Will A. Campbell in the
september Van Norden Magazine. Goa
was about all gone; oil was in the
hands of an octopus; gas was impos-
sible. Therefore. and it was remarka-
BILE how they all hit on the same thing
at the same time; a form of alcohol
was the only hope. Denatured alcohol
they called it, which is alcohol mixed
with a little benzine and wood alcohol;
and these scientists said that it could
be made from all the refuse of the
farm so cheaply that the coal man, the
oil man, the gas man and the wood
man would all have to go out of bust
ness.
There was only one thing, these CO.
incidental scientists declared, that pre-
vented every farmer in the country
from making his own light and fuel
right off; and that was the govern
ments exaction of an internal revenue
of $1.1O per gallon on alcohol Take off
the revenue, was the cry, and we need
never worry again. The cry was in
spring. The newspapers cried for it;
all the saviors Of the people demanded
it; the agricultural department at
Washington issued pamphlets every few
Gays and began experimenting. Con-
gress grew warm about it, and that
obnoxious tax simply melted.
Now they have the duty off, and the
only people pleased are the manufac-
truers. They are the only people bene-
flied. There are no denatured alcohol
stills lighting and heating the homes
OF the farmer of the country today,
rot unless he is a fancy farmer. The
agricultural department has laid away
in cotton it's model still. and its dem
cnstrators are working in other fields.
Congress has forgotten all about it,
and the various advocates have taken
other jobs. 1t was just a joke, any
how; the banner hoax of the twentieth
century. The only man with hope left
appears to be Secretary of Agriculture
James Wilson; that is all he has-hope.
There is no more money or men for
continued experiments
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES PAYS.

| Petitions are TO pc circulated soon
among the taxpayers on the east side
of the city for the purpose of taking
| the steps preliminary to the creation OF
a drainage district, which through a
public board, will undertake the work
of making that section of the city flood
proof from the exceedingly tickle Shun-
ganunga which froths at the mouth
! and along its sides, as we'll, whenever
there is rain of any proportions.
Only two-fifths of the taxpayers in
the affected district will have to sign
these petitions to start the machinery
in operation for the accomplishment of
this Auch needed work. And surely it
ought not to be difficult to secure that
number of signers to the petitions.
Considerable expense will be involved
either in Strengthening the channel of
the Shunganunga or cutting out it's
foody proclivities in any other way
that may be decided upon. But tais
expense should not be considered ex-
cept that it should be held down to bed
rock and be stripped of any extrava-
gances as it probably will be. WhaL-
ever the expense, though, the benefits
that will accrue to the property own
ers in this ever f1ood-threatened terri
tory. will be almost beyond computa-
ton.
The east side of Topeka is a most
attractive section for residential and all
other city purposes. 1t would be made
a hundred times more so If it were
freed from the possibility of being in
undated by water whenever the Shuu-
ganunga gets cranky. If this is accom-
plished that portion of the city will
flourish like the proverbial green bay
tree Countless people, if they are Ger
tain that there will be no chance Of
their homes being washed away or dam
aged by floods, will flock to it because
it is filled with available building sizes
which are nearer to the business &c
ton of the city by blocks than are such
tracts of land on the west side of The
city. But people are not going to take
up their homes there in any consider
able numbers until the territory is
made f1ood-proof. 1t is, indeed, unreal
sonable to expect that they should.
1t is easy to see, however, that the
east side will boom if the Shunganunga
is effectually harnessed. The taxpay-
ers, the property owners, who VIII
make up the drainage district that will
do this great work, are the ones who
will receive the first and the greatest
advantages. They ought not to hest
tate for an instant about signing the
petitions that will be presented to them
by the public spirited citizens who have
inaugurated this undertaking. AID
they probably will not. Nothing pay
quite so we'll as forehandedness and
particularly when it comes to being
prepared for floods. The recent ex-
perience of Galveston where a sea wall,
built for that very purpose, threw back
a tidal wave that would have wiped the
city out of existence. ought to furni III
conclusive evidence to every municipal
ity, or part of one, that is fiood-threat-
ened, either by great or little floods, of
this important truth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the CHICAGO News.l

LFrom the Chicago News.1
Flattery is often as effective as 1t
is cheap.
The hirt should be punished for
contempt of court.
The oftener a man gets loaded the
more time he kills.
Much of the charity that begins
abroad never reaches home.
1t may be called the si1very moon
because it comes in quarters.
How pessimist does delight in
pouring ice water on enthusiasm!
Love should be slipped slowly-not
swallowed down like a glass Of beer.
The woman who is old enough to
know better knows better than to be
too old.
What has become of the old gentle
man who used to wear q cabbage leaf
in his hat to ward off sunstroke?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
WILL JAPAN LET CO.?

1t is semiofficially stated in Peking,
that the Chinese government under
stands the terms of agreement insist
ed upon by Japan in settling, for the
present, the questions at issue in Man
churia, to mean that the japanese re-
fuse to give full effect to the clause OF
the treaty of Portsmouth which
affirmed Chinese sovereignty in Man
churia. The Chinese certainly have
reasons for so interpreting the points
of the agreement upon which Japan
refused to yield anything, or even
consider the subjects open for discus
sion. The Japanese government
would not admit that there could be
any doubt about Japanese policing OF
railroad lines in Manchuria which be-
long to Japan, or as to japanese ad-
ministration of the railroad zone
1t is plain that If this position taken
by the Japanese is to be maintained,
there can be no real equality of com
mercial and industrial opportunities
in Manchuria, or 4any Just recognition
there of the authority Of China. II
Japan is not forced or persuaded to
alter the attitude assumed in regard to
one of the richest and largest pro-
vinces of China it will be idle to talk
of maintaining the integrity of the
Chinese Empire.-C1eveland Leader
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
BETTER LAWYERS, BETTER
JTIDGES

Stronger and ADLER judges, more con-
scientious and better educated lawyers,
it is hardly open to doubt, could 90
away with some of the grosser ana
more fragrant evils complained of by
litigants. Much delay is due to mere
weakness, incompetence and ignorance
and these qualities in occupants CT
the bench are in many cases fostered
by politics. We are told that in New
York inferior lawyers are generally
nominated for the bench, men whom TO
bar association would think of indors-
ing. Other jurisdictions have similar
tales to tell, doubtless.
The necessary reforms of practice
and procedure will be realized grad
ually. Meantime intelligent citizens
everywhere can further the cause by
frowning on political control of the
bench, on judicial participation in ac-
tive politics, and on too close under
standings between courts and ma
chimes. Judicial nominations ard
ballots should be nonpartisan, and the
method of nomination should be direct
and simple. An independent and ca
pable judiciary would take. care OF
higher as well as lower shysters, or
we'll paid sophists and obstructionists.
as well as of ambulance chasers and
other small fry.-Chicago Record ei :
aid. -.-s
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
JOURNAL ENTRIES

About the only easy way to get
money is to inherit it.
X X
An automobile is apt to make a man
forget his other troubles.
4 y
The great drawback with toys is
that they are so easily broken.
4 X f~
A civil tongue is even more valuable
in a head than highly developed brains.
-
Where one man dies from overwork
there's a million who are not in the
slightest danger of going by the same
route.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
Arkansas Diamonds.

"A great many people do not know
1t, but it is a fact that Arkansas is
not excelled in the variety of its re-
sources by any state in the Union
observed Col. A. Wilmington, who has
for years been one of the prominent
citizens of Hot Springs, Ark, at the
Belvedere.
I'VE have nearly all the important
minerals, lead. iron. zinc, and coal in
vast quantity, and our forests are
among the best in America, being es-
pecially rich in hard woods. The fer
tility of our lands and their great
yield of cotton and the cereals is well
known, but it is not so generally I'M
derstood that the rice crop of Arkan-
sas is getting to be of immense value
and that the land producing it is worth
as much as $500 an acre.
ct had almost forgotten to say that
We have a section in the southwest
corner in which many beautiful and
valuable diamonds have lately been
found The geological formation re-
sembles that of the diamond fields of
South Africa. and when the mines
shall have been fully developed there
is chance that Arkansas may fur
nish the sparkling gems by the whole
sale They are of all shades of color,
some of them of exquisite brilliancy
and of fair size."-Baltimore Ameri-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

IFrom the New York Press.J
Most people can talk poetry; one in
ten thousand feels it.
A bald-headed woman would wish
her husband to admire her hair.
A woman can always feel her figure
is perfectly natural except when it
isn't dressed up.
Maybe people who can't get into
heaven in the next world will find
the other place is it's suburbs.
The man in the moon must be deaf
not to explode with laughter at ali
the rot young people talk before him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

Reports come from New York that
harmonious relations have been estab-
lished between the Standard Oil crowd.
which includes the Hartman interests,
and ]. Pierpont Morgan and his fol-
lowers. If this is the case it. will not
be long cow before a handful of men,
working together, will have a first
mortgage on all of the industries of
the earth, or at least that important
portion Of it on the North American
continent
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

One thing has been accomplished by
the bank depositors' guaranty law 1t
has provided a lot of work for lawyers
who are in the habit of getting fat
fees. It is now before both the state
and the federal courts and if it should
be made imperative, through federal
mandate, until its merits can be deter
mined, it will be some years yet before
the law gets to working in Kansas.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

Mr.. Coburn, secretary of the Kansas
department of agriculture, reports that
the farmers of the commonwealth have
been planting more corn and less
wheat. But after their experience of
this year with the corn crop the
chances are that it will not be long
now before they get back to their first
love again
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

Mr.. Bryan says that the Democrats
must favor material reductions in the
Rsriff if they expect to win in the ma
tioEal elections. That's just what they
said they favored during the last cam
paign but the few of them who reach
ed congressional levels did not keep
their promises and vote that way to
any alarming extent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

A Chicago Judge declares that the
e!ckly sentimertality which pervades
Abe jury room and is responsible for
the acquittal of many criminals who
should be punished is one of the things
which is promoting and increasing crime
these days. And many people will
ngree with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

According to Mr.. Wellhouse, secre-
tary of the State Horticultural society,
the grape crop was porportionately the
best of any of the fruit crops raised in
Kansas this year. Locally speaking,
the volume of the grape crop was all
that could be desired but unfortunate
~ most of the grapes were the head
quarters for worms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
HUNOR OF THE Day

Say" said the Theosophist's small
boy, Il guess my pa was baseball
umpire in previous existence"
what makes you think so 20 Mas
always throwing things at hin."-De-
troit Free Press.
Billings is ecouraging the govern
ment to investigate his corporate af-
books need auditing and this is the
cheapest way he can have 1T done.
Brooklyn Life.
Isl Whiffietree believes in scientific
farming" whats he done ?" Hired
a Quartette to sing and two actors
from rural play to talk dialect. He's
simply turning away the summer
MISUNDERSTANDING Post.
The Parson-The Jones family looks
very sheepish this morning. I wonder
what the trouble is? The Elder
understand that they discovered last
night that Jones medical book. his
wife's French novel and Whites ola
mond Dick" were occupying the same
hiding place.-Puck.
A prisoner at the sessions had been
duly convicted of theft, when it was
eeen, on proving previous convic-
tions," that he had actually been in
prison at the time the theft was COM
mitted. 'Why didn't you say so %
asked the judge of the prisoner angri-
ly. your lordship, I was afraid of
prejudicing the jury against me-
Home Herald.
Tenderfoot-It's my intention to be
a cowboy. COMMUNICATIONS out
ter be cowboy, hey? Well. reckon
you'd make a better miImaid.-Judge.
Stella-Did he say he loved you in so
many words? BelIa-Yes; seventeen
pages.-New York Sun.
- $50 SGES41 $50 e1I SIS '1svnsf
The literary Muses. carried each Of
them a pastepot and brush. "Our
chief business nowadays" they hasten
to explain, ''is gluing readers attention
to various thinks!' And not, perhaps,
without a note of restrained sorrow
that they should have come to this
Puck.
81 see that Jane Bleker always takes
Charlie Brainard with her when she
drives her new motor car. I thought
she favored Clarence Green" yes,
but poor Clarence isn't any good at
pumping up tires.''-Cleveland Plain
Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

According to the Chicago Tribune, a
savant, technically speaking, is man
who never went to the North pole but
who is qualified to show Peary and
Cook Just where they made mistakes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

Business men the country over are
expressing qualification over the per-
sonnet OF the tariff board which has
been named by President Taft. In his
appointments. as in all other things.
Mr.. Taft is proving himself to be a
III esident of The right sort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

The response to the cry for help which
has gone up from the many sufferers of
The terrible foods in Mexico, does not
appear to have assumed anything Ike
generous proportions. Charity evident
~ begins at or near home only in
theory
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

A Pennsylvania named Kidd has
christened his son and heir Orville
Updyke. This lad will therefore be,
in all probability, the only real "Oh
you. KIDD in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

Feminine fashion dictators have
now decreed that the directoire gown
is to be a thing of the past. 1t really
had a longer life than it deserved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

Mr.. Roosevelt's place is in Cali
fornia, not in Africa. Lions infesting
the mountains along the Pacific coast
are actually killing people.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

Evidently there is going to be some
thing to see at the Hudson Fulton eel
ebration to be held soon in New York
city No less than $4,000 is to be ex-
rended for the construction of review
IN
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

The successful opposition to the hold
ing of prize fights in Arkansas by the
y life of the governor of that state is
"petticoat politics. of the right sort.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

1t is just as might have been expect
ed Official word comes from Washing
ton that the troops engaged in the re-
cent assault on and defense of Boston
"6id little damage
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
KANSAS COMMENT
SOME ANCIENr SENSE.


russian investigation in Thibet has
recently discovered a handbook of
medicine there which has been in use
Tor more than 1900 years. The vol
ume describes cures that have been
nailed as discoveries many years later,
and, in addition to medical knowledge
contains such sensible advice az this:
sickness in general originates ow-
ing to the evil and ignorance of hu-
man beings, especially owing to their
inability to overcome their passions,
which disturb the healthy nourish-
ment of the human organs All evil
thoughts have harmful influence on
the heart and liver"
Again it advises all who would be
well to lead an orderly, sensible man
ner of life, avoid excuses and irregu-
larities, also eonscientiously cherish
and keep clean both soul and body"
Twelve hundred years have not
for those who would get the full joy
of living.-Atchison Globe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

Commander Peary announces en-
rhatically that he is the only white
man who has ever reached the North
Pole. But it must be said that he isn't
acting much like one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
FRON OTHER PENS
wHAT AMERICANs ACHIEVED.

WHAT AMERICANS ACHIEVED
Americans founded the first govern
ment under which all men were equai
before the law. Since the Declaration
of independence was published to the
world the democratic idea has hourly
received new impulse, until now It's
march seems irresistible. Americans
were the first to demonstrate the feas-
ability of relying on a citizen soldiery
to defend the land and it's institutions
against foreign and domestic attack.
Americans were the first to aponsn I'll i,
ular distinctions and to deprive SOCIAL
eminence of any support save CHAR
acter or the consensus of those wac
choose to consider themselves as Sc
cially elect. It was an American VINO
invented the telegraph. An American
invented the telephone. An American
invented the electric light An Amerl-
can invented the reaper, which make;
it possible to feed the billion and more
people on this planet. 1t was an Amerl-
can, too, who invented the sewing ma
chine Americans also were the con-
querors of pain when they discovered
how, by the use of sulphuric ether, the
tenderest human nerve could be made
insensible to the surgeons steeL-Bt s.
ton Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Beverly, Mass. will now proceed TO
crawl back in the unnoticed hole which
it occupied for so long time
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
Indians the Victims.

AT last the Sioux Indians have gone
In for politics. and SO quickly have they
adapted themselves to the white mans
method of running campaign that in
the first election held in Tripp county,
a Part of the Sioux reservation recently
opened for settlement, the Indians
worsted the whites and elected an en-
tire ticket, with the exception of two
white men, wnom the Indians indorsed
And then, in answer to complaints of
irregularities" and threats of the
Write men to secure an injunction pre-
venting the Indian officials elect from
&; Stunning their offices. the willy Sioux
stole another march on the white men
organized the county, took the oath of
office, and had everything in running
order before the white malcontants
knew what was up. 1t was then too
late for the whites to take legal steps
and the red men are in office and con-
Quoting the affairs of the county in the
most approved and up-to-date manner.
The Indians are so elated over their
success that they threaten to elect In
dian officehol6ers in all South Dakota
counties cut from the Indian reserya-
tions, where the Indian population is
heavy.
This election was the first, in all
time, in which the Indians took an in
terest. In previous contests the red
men have refused to participate, leav-
irg the voting and the officeholding to
the whites.-Bonesteel Dispatch to New
York Herald.