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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
WISHES PArrEN DISASTER

Although James A. Patten has retired
from the wheat market and the corner
in this grain has been broken, the eff
fects of 1t are stin being felt by the
poor people of this and other countries
because of the rise in the price of
wheat and bread. and view of the
situation from a foreign source while
the Patten corner was still at its height
cannot fail to be interesting. In a re-
cent issue, the Westminster Review.
one of the leading publications of Great
Britain. discussed the price of wheat
and the Patten corner. as follows:
During recent weeks the price of
wheat has risen from to 5 shiIlings a
quarter and now stands fully 10 shill-
ings a quarter higher than at this time
last year. There are two chief causes
for this increase-one, real shortage
in the worlds supply. the other a skill
full manipulation OF the market by
spectators. A certain Mr.. Patten of
Chicago is conducting what is called a
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
AWAY WITH ~BIINDn ROOMS.

1t appears that there is no state
law which will give local authorities
a right to insist that hotels be con-
structed without blind" rooms in
them; that is. rooms which have no
means of exit save the doors which
lead out of them into interior hall
ways. 1t was such rooms as these that
were responsible in a great measure
for most of the deaths which oc-
Cured in the recent disastrous fire in
the Central hotel. Neither Is there
any ordinance of the city of Topeka
which covers this most important
subject.
There certainly should be both.
While state law covering this point
would seem to be most desirable it is
not likely that one is needed to give
municipalities authority to act in
these premises. Surely a city under
the power that is given it in its char
ter to provide adequate protection in
all particulars to its people and the
persons who visit it has ample
authority to pass an ordinance which
would make it impossible for hotel
proprietors to use "blind'' rooms for
sleeping quarters for their guests.
The chances are that there are not
many such rooms in the hotels in this
city. either in the large ones or the
small ones. But there should not be
single one. And the city council
men should lose no time in passing
an ordinance against them. If the
owners of hotel property and the
proprietors of hotels object to the en-
forcement of such an ordinance, the
matter can be tested in the courts.
But it is hard to believe that hotel
proprietors would protest against such
an ordinance. They should realize
the danger that turks in such rooms
in case of fire. 1t ought to be some
thing in the way of fine advertisement
for them If they could say that
blind" rooms for the purpose of
guests do not exist in their hotels.
Arguments might be presented in
opposition to such an ordinance on
the grounds that it would impose
considerable hardships on hotel prop
erty owners who are unfortunate
enough to have blind" rooms in their
hostelries. Some small hotel build
ings may be so situated that blind"
rooms cannot be done away with ex-
cepC at cOHSlueTdUle oAp0AS0 anu IhO
closing of such rooms, if their de-
fects could not be remedied. would in
volve quite financial loss to hotel
proprietors so situated. Such argu-
ments as these should have no weight.
The throwing of all reasonable
precautions around hotel guests for
their safety is paramount to any
monetary interests that may sur
round hotel property. Blind" rooms
should be driven from hotels and the
time to do this thing is now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

ed, fiercely. when you were rich
and 1 was poor?"
What difference would that
make?" Charlotte asked, softly, Iii
you loved me-
"a man has his pride" Dick stated.
--tAnd a woman her love-" Charlotte
whispered. "Oh, Dick, Dick. don't
ever let my money come between u.s."
1T can't now" said Dick, 'for you
haven't any,"
And then Charlotte, with her head
up. confessed, 81 am not poor. I SIM
ply tried my little plot to get rid of
Reginald Barrett. 1 knew his motives
were mercenary but mother wanted
me to marry him. So while he was in
New York for q few days, 1 planned
my descent into poverty. 1 suppose it
was silly"
She stopped, then went on softly,
were in town-that you would know
that is where my little plot carried be-
yond my Expectations
And now that you are rich, must
go away Dick began, but Char
lotte interrupted him with a little cry:
"And leave me to be always a lady
in waiting? ''
1T don't understand ?"
IT shall always be waiting for your
love, Dick" her mouth and eyes plead
ed together. sst
And then he surrendered. Anyhow,
| my old mine is beginning to make
good he stated, later, $50 I am not
| quite a beggar.'
| "You are rich,~ Charlotte told him.
! as she laid her flushed check against
| his coat you are rich because love
you, Dickey, dear copyrighted.
1909. by Associated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

bull operation in wheat, which means
that he is buying or obtaining control
OF immense supplies, present or pros
pective, which he is keeping off the
market in order that the price may rise
and he may sell at a large profit. In
normal circumstances the operation
would be impossible, but he relies on
the natural shortage, and especially on
the prospective though not yet real
lied deficiency for the remainder of the
cereal season. The success of his
maneuvers depends on his ability to
carry the stocks he has and to buy
more In case they are offered in suf-
hclent quantities to break his artificial
price. 1t nearly was broken in Chicago
on Thursday. But with the daring of
his kind he went on buying and event.
ually brought the price up another cent
before the close of the day. We heartily
wish Mr.. Patten every kind of disaster
in his constituencies attempt to
squeeze vast wealth out of the necessi-
ties of the poor, and as we read the ac-
count Of his proceedings it occurs to US
that modern states may some day, like
ancient ones, have to find means of
protecting the defenseless millions
against forestallers and regraters."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
PAPER AND PULP IN THE TARIFF

lone of the chief reasons for the
effective demand on the part Of
American newspapers for free wood
pulp and a greatly reduced tariff on
white paper, lay in the clear demon
stration to congress and the country
that the manufacture of pulp and
print paper has become so concen-
Grated that, with the aid of the tariff,
virtual monopoly was IN the MAX
ing" says the Review of Reviews edi-
torially in fits May issue. Now It so
happens that the pulr used in making
the paper upon which daily and week.
ly news journals are printed is pre-
pared by processes chiefly mechanical;
while the more carefully prepared
pulp. which is the material from
which the paper of magazines and
books is made, is subjected to certain
chemical processes. Thus, it has been
possible in the Payne bill to make one
kind of pulp free of duty and to keep
the other kind dutiable at about IS
a ton. In like manner the finished
white paper upon which newspapers
are printed, which is now dutiable at
Sc ton under the Dingley act, is re-
OoCC0 III Iio dy IA0 Oil 10 % a Ton,
while the kind of paper used in this
magazine remains in the Payne bill
dutiable at $12 a ton. So wide a dis
elimination is not justifable upon any
fair statement of the facts The OBJ
lection to the proposed duties upon
chemically prepared pulp and super
calendared paper, lies not so much in
the duties themselves as in the prob
ability that virtual monopoly Gas re-
spects the fixing of prices to consum-
ers) will almost inevitably result The
white paper might fairly enough be
| taxed at a duty of 81 or even Sc a ton;
but all wood pulp for making paper
whether mechanical or chemical in
the process of preparation, ought to
be on the free list. Many of the pa
per makers do not control their own
supply of pulp, and the proposed tar
! in will put them at the mercy of in
terests which will compel them in the
future, as in the recent past, to sell
paper at a dictated price. We mention
this situation as illustrating a mum
Der of others that have arisen in the
making of this tariff, as we'll as in the
making of the Dingley bill. the Will
son bill, the Mckinley bill and al
oLher preceding tariff measures
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
QUAKER fluctuations.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A lame excuse is one that doesn't GO
F'ilet of wet soles is the proper fish
course for April
1t takes a lot of denunciation to help
some plays to success.
Dead men tell no tales, but medals
are cheaper than pensions.
No, Maude, dear; a buggy Is not a
trap, although many a fellow has been
trapped in one.
An alarm clock always sounds sweet
est when 1t goes off and you realize
that you don't have to get up.
Blobbs-''That girl Guzzler is Mash
ed on Is a lemon" Slobbs-WeIl, Guz-
zler always was partial to a sour
mash"
Borrowe1l-"Helloi Harduppe. You
look like 30 cents" Harduppe-"You
fiatter me, Borrowell. 1 only have a
quarter"
Assistant-'T don't think this new re-
porter will do City Editor-"what's
the matter with him?" Assistant
Here he has, written up that story Of
the execution down at Moyamensing
and never mentioned that the con-
demned ate a hearty breakfast and
what 1t consisted Of"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A woman is only a woman. as Kipling
said, but that is quite sufficient.
n n
If there was no trouble in the world
it wouldn't be a very interesting place.
n
Most men let their wives do just as
they please because there is no other
way out.
Ignorance may be bliss but bliss
never went very far in helping to win
out in the battle of life. re-
= X
Many a mans life is not always what
he makes 1t because he doesn't get a
chance to shape 1t as he would like to.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
COYOTE SONG.

AGO, my brothers, the moon Is red,
And the antelope starts from his prairie
bed:
Then join We again in the ancient threne
For the day that's dead
And the hunt that's fled
And the terror of things unseen.
Affair, afar on the starlit plain
Our fathers howled where the deer had
lain
And hung on the flanks Of the bison run,
For the bull that fell
In the wild pell-mell
Was dead ere the night was done.
No more the warrior rides his raids
And the hunting-star of the prairie fades,
Mnlle a fiery comet tears the night
With a demon Shrek
And a crimson streak
All ablaze with the white mans light.
AGO, my brothers. the stars are red
And the lean coyote must mourn unfed-
Come join We again in the ancient Groom.
For the dawn is gray
And another day
Has faded the red. red moon
John S. Reid in The Outing Magazine
for April.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
HUNOR or THE Day

From a Forthcoming NoveL-Panic-
stricken, we saw that our little airboat.
In which we had endeavored to escape
from the wreck of the airShip. was rapidly
filling with atmosphere Bail her out,'
shouted Corkney. And all through the
night we dipped out the air with our hats
and flung it back into the sky.-Life.
How about my letter of proposal?' de-
manded the young Congressman. 1T has
been advanced to a second reading" an
swered the naughty Washington belle
Louisville Courier-Journal
Whatever made you make Brackins a
present OF pocket comb? He's as bald
to make him think I never noticed it,
Tit-Bits.
for real estate dealer" Yes. He'd lay
out an allotment in Mars and get husky
cracking up the canal privileges. "-Cleve-
Knicker-what did Jones look like2
Bocker--A tariff bill after the Senate had
got through with it.-New York Sun.
you said had been drinking" well.
sailor sBut had been drinking?"
and furl sail. Philadelphia Bulletin.
They say. F1ubdub's youngest boy is
quite a prodigy" Yes. he can name all
the Vice Presidents of the United states"
Puck.
Cholly-The dentist told me 1 had large
cavity that needed filling. Ethel-Did he
recommend any special course of study
London Public Opinion.
You are charged with larceny. Are you
guilty or not guilty." Not guilty, Judge.
my lawyer, an he's convinced me that 1
amt. "-Chicago Tribune
Henpecke-Every man has something to
be thankful for. Wigwag-What have you
to be thankful for? Henpecke-That I'm
not a Mormon.-Philadelph Record
He-1f I'd known how sarcastic you were
1 never should have married you. She
say, This is so sudden when you pro-
posed TO me after four years courtship?-
Boston Transcript.
do you think that most people nova
days worship money!" mo, won't go as
far as that answered the homegrown
philosopher but 1 will say that the love
of money is seldom platonic.
phia Ledger.
IT see that that old fellow who was al
ways complaining that life was not worth
living is cripple; how did that happcnf
He broke his leg getting out OF the way
of a freight train."-Houston Post.
I'm not going to invite Mr. and Mrs
Brown over here to play cards any more"
Brown" "oh he's all right. but she's
positive bore. She won't discuss scandal,
millinery or cake recipes during the game"
Detroit Free Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

Sympathy goes out to distant pos
terity. They'll never have a chance
TO see the glorious sight that is af-
corded by Niagara Falls when they
ere not frozen up. The Niagara river
will be a dry bed within three thou
sand years. AS might be expected,
this announcement comes from a pro-
fessor Of the Chicago university.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

The Hutchinson Gazette wants to
know when North Topeka got license
to take on city airs. North Topeka
has. and has had for long time,
every right in the world to take on
city airs. AS a thriving, wide awake
business community and a good place
to live in, it has many of the alleged
cities in the state beaten any number
of blocks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

The new story in the Whitla kid
naping case to the effect that another
demand has been made on Mr.. Whitla
for $4,000 under a threat that his
boy will be stolen again has a hshy
ring to it. because these latest black
rnailers are alleged to have demanded
that $4,000 of the money be sent to
them in nine $1,000 bills. A $4,000
bill is about the hardest piece of
money to change that is issued.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

Burglary ought soon to be quite an
unpopular trade in the borough of
Brooklyn, New York city. Two men
who were recently convicted of at
tempted burglary in that place were
sentenced to prison for respective
terms of AZ and "a years. And they
committed no assaults or anything of
that sort as incidents to the burglaries
they tried to effect.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
Commenting on the fact that Joh1

Commenting on the fact that John
Wesley Gaines, one of Tennessee's
congressman who is gifted with large
abilities in the speech making line and
which he uses freely, got such a cold
at the inaugural ceremonies that he
isn't able to talk, the Detroit Free
Press remarks: "And yet they talk
of changing the date"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

London Sketch gives some advice
to the women who travel these days:
'Use your big dress baskets and Sara
toga trunks for your hats and put
your little, soft, clinging dresses in
your hat boxes"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
FRON OTHER PENS
FARMERS AND GOOD ROADS.

Better roads, according to those
who have been studying the country
life improvement question, constitute
the reform which would do most to
advance the material and social well
fare of the farmers. Following the
report of the country life commission
appointed by former President Roose-
welt, the National Grange. which
claims title as the original Good
Roads Association" has started a
state aid in improved highway con-
Struction.
A bulletin issued by the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows the direct
connection between good roads and
the value of farm lands. An investi-
cation was made relating to public
road mileage, revenues, improved
roads and expenditures in the United
States in the year 1904. In nearly ev-
cry case, it is shown, states having
the highest percentage OF improved
roads have the largest population per
mile of road, indicating that better
roads are a powerful factor in en-
couraging the settlement of unused
lands. especially in sparsely populat-
ed sections of the country.
It is held, further, that good roads
are an important influence in retain
ing upon the farms desirable elements
that otherwise might seek the towns
and cities The logic of this conten-
I1On lies III the IdCC lldl SOOO ROADS
increase farm values, and thus lessen
an incentive to seek material advance
ment away from the soil.-Chicago
Record-He
REGULATING PEDESTRIANS.
The rules of the road are so much
a matter of course that one hardly
thinks Of their existence. Every driv-
er knows them and realizes as well
that to break them they will not only
be punished, but that the breaking
usually brings its own punishment We
have laws regulating automobiles, and
the street commissioners are trying
TO help street traffic by a set of new
regulations. But who will regulate
the pedestrian. Now, the majority of
city jewellers are afoot while they are
in the street. For one person in a
carriage there are d hundred on the
sidewalk.
And how many pedestrians are
there who observe the rules of the
road? As for offenders, there is the
woman whom the attractions of the
show windows draw to the wrong side
| of the walk; the man who has an idea
| the suddennesS of whose coming brings
him to standstill: the umbrella or
parasol carrier who holds that dan
gerous weapon under the arm; the
gossips who stand in the middle of a
| crowded sidewalk when doorway or
| a side street would do as well: most
exasperating of all, the man who turns
| to fling last word to a friend who
| has passed and drifts across the walk
with eyes behind him. This last it is
| impossible to avoid. You may dance
| from side to side. but he is sure to get
you One such offender obstructs the
\ dozen who are behind him in a hurry
| for we are all in hurry, whether the
hurry is necessary or not--Boston
l Globa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

Information comes from New York
city that the western hens are busy.
People out here would hardly have
suspected this from the prices that
eggs are now bringing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

BY wireless from Africa: A giasti-
cutas posed for several hours the other
day in the vicinity of Mr.. Roosevelt
but he disdained to notice it. The
animal became so chagrined at the
fact that 1t was not considered worthy
of a shot from such a distinguished
faunal naturalist that it committed
Ruicide.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

Tom Hueston, the former pool
champion of the world. must be twins.
Some newspapers recently reported
that he played exhibition games of
pool at about the same hour and on
the same evening in Chicago and ST.
Louis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
tFrom the New York Press.I

IOIlI FIESBJ
Unless thing is useful women can
always find reason for wearing it.
When anybody pretends not to like
hattery it wouldn't be safe to trust him
under oath.
A woman calls 1t being frank when
she will admit she was born a year af-
ter her younger brother.
A man goes into a horse trade ex-
pecting to cheat the other fellow and
knowing it is going to happen to him
self
The surer a man is to make up his
mind how the children ought to be rails
ed. the surer his wife Is to unmake Il
for him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

Permits were issued in one day re-
Gently for the construction of fifteen
new dwellings in this city. And still
there are some Jealous rivals of To-
peka in the state which insist that
most of the talk about Topeka's great
growth Is moonshine. It is to laugh.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

New Jerseyites are showing a gem
erous strain by making an effort to
raise $1,000, 900 to purchase a hand
some estate on the Atlantic coast of
that state which they propose to deed
to IL e federal government for the pur-
posaI of a summer home for the presi-
deNt. This is fine but 1t is not known
that there is anything in the federal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

It's too bad that the catfish of Kan
sas are so constituted that they can
not appreciate the gallant defense
which has been made of them by
Colonel T. Benton Murdoch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

That Abdul Hamid did not lose his
Job many years ago is the only re-
mark able thing in connection with the
recent successful uprising In Turkey.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

May their tribe increase. The Kan
sas Agricultural college has a couple
of hens that have laid two eggs each
in one day
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

They must be going to make some
real improvements in and around the
city Of Buenos Ayres. A loan of $15,-
600, 900 has been negotiated for this
purpose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

constitution or the federal statutes
which will compel a president to pass
his summer vacation at any particular
place.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

The New York Evening Post thinks
that wireless politics would be ex-
tremely useful on ships of state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30

Tonight-North Bros. Stock company II
The Cowboy and the Lady.
Matinees-Wednesdays and Saturdays.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
Britain's Heavy Income Tax.

The British income tax is not only
the heaviest but the hardest, most in
quisitorial in the world. The three year
average having been done away, a man
row is assessed on his profits or gains
during the year of assessment. The
death duties are a fearful burden on
all classes. Since they were imposed,
in 1894, they have yielded over ego. eoo.-
900. Many landed estates have paid
twice or three times within five or six
years, with the result that they are
utterly crippled Fine houses have gone
to ruin and hundreds Of agricultural
laborers have been thrown out of en-
ployment For a so-called free trade
country, the duties are very high--Cas-
sells Journal
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-30
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press ard 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.
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Laments Football Energy.

Energy spent in football cannot be
recalled writes Goodwin Smith to the
Cornell Era, commenting on the true
relation of athletics to student life. He
says:
ct see that the number Of athletes
failing to pass a university examina-
ton is less than 1T was. The shade OF
Ezra Cornell will rejoice. What our
founder wanted was not show of mus
Gle. but preparation for life. In which.
in the case OF university men. muscle
does not count for much. The force
spent in football cannot be recalled for
study. Let US have games, by all
means, but games which exercise, not
exhaust and in which all alike can
take part
besides, there is military drill, good
in itself. and not to be neglected If the
force of the country is OF be kept in the
right hands. Into some universities the
betting ring seems to have crept;
never I hope. into ours.''-Ithaca dis
patch to New York Times.