The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-12
soNNETs OF A sw1NDLE.

L III needing all the money that i get
And then hate like thunder to be beat.
and yet
One doesn't wish to think that all men
cheat,
Well. am out a quarter. but you bet
I'm not stuck with another counterfeit.
II.
Here is the COIN. 1t surely looks all right.
Competing me to throw aw the thing I away.
II certainly appears little bright,
And when it's held up closely to the light
You notice something wrong. Still ]
It out to some one on a cloudy day.
why not? Somebody showed a the 'i thing hii on
I should be getting square. at any rate.
And as for honesty-Oh, well, hate
To be dishonest. From that fault I'm
guess I'll put it Sunday in the plate.
Chicago News.
Plea for the Porters.
Is the lot of the parlor and sleeping
car porters particularly unhappy
one? Our own observation of these
dusky folk had impressed us with the
belief that they were a sleek and rath-
er prosperous class, and we had sup
posed that they were more than fair
ly successful as extorters of quarters
and half dollars from the travelling
public. We have received from Phil
adelphia. however, a letter which
claims the tribute of our tears for the
porters as men with many sorrows.
They get. it is stated, a wage of only
$25 month. For such remnants Of
food as they secure on the dining cars
they have to pay half the menu prices.
In their long journeys they are on
duty all the time, and for sleep have
to be content with stolen maps on the
edge of a chair. Worst of all their
grievances, according to this author
ity. is the enforced necessity to have
wife at each end of their routes,
since otherwise they would have to
wander disconso1ate and shelterless IN
the streets Of unsympathetic cities!.
A smaller woe is the regulation that
makes them buy two blue uniforms
year, each costing $3.50. And then
there is the never-ceasing, heart
it seems, do not like tips, and just
hate to take 'em, but what can they
do if the employing companies refuse
to raise their wages?
Well, it Is a sad story, especially as
regards the duplicated families, but
we have heard that these positions
never go begging-that they are, on
the contrary, the objects of eager riv-
airy among many applicants. The pay
is undoubtedly small-not living
term, but it must be considerably
supplemented by the loathsome gratu-
ity. and, after all, $25 month. as a
beginning or guarantee, is not so bad
as remuneration for work that re-
quires no very great amount OF train
ing and involves few responsibilities,
none of them heavy.-New York
Times.
Centers of Steel Supremacy.
Pittsburg, according to the freight
manager of the greatest Independent
h n1
supremacy to Chicago as the maker
of steel. Chicago will hereafter make
the prices. and not Pittsburg. says
this authority. The whole matter lies
in the freight rate from Cleveland to
Pittsburg, which is $1.14 on every ton
of ore that comes from Minnesota.
Neither Cleveland nor Chicago has
that freightage to pay, and as it re-
CURES two tons of ore to make ton
of metal, it follows that in the pro-
duction of a ton of metal both Cleve-
land and Chicago have the advantage
of S2.2S, or the inland freight rate on
two tons of ore, over Pittsburg.
The electric furnace as successor TO
the omen hearth is already decreed.
The United States Steel Corporation
has decided to install the Heroult fur
naces at both South Chicago and
Gary. The next advance to be ex-
pected in steel manufacture will dis
pense with coal and will produce cleo
tricity directly from water power, as
is being done already In other
metallurgical work at Niagara Falls.
When that day comes, when coal is
no longer indispensable, the water
power of Minnesota will invite to this
state the industry of steel. AS Chi
cago has the advantage or PlttsDurg
by the matter of freightage from Lake
Erie. so Duluth and Superior will have
the advantage of Chicago by the Item
IF lake TRANSFORMATION. When water
supplies the energy for which coal
now is relied upon. ore will no longer
he taken to- meet the coal, but will be
snelted at the mine.-Minneapol1
Journal.
Seeing and Thinking.
Most people see an object when they
think of it. They can see before their
eyes a geometrical) drawing or the
figures on chessboard when they
think of them. In order to think at
all most men make use Of images.
though they may be of different
kinds. Thus, one man when he thinks
of Italy sees just the printed word;
another sees the country's outline on
a map; another may see the country
lagos and towns smoldering in the
plains. Psychologists are beginning to
classify the different aids or images
of which men make use. Some, for
example, near the WoroS oI tHeir
thought within themselves; others
read them, as if the words were writ
ten generally in black on a white
ground-London Post.
The Fastness of Husbands.
Gen. George Washington, of revered
memory. speaking from his abode in
Elysium or thereabout, to the
American people of the twentieth CEN
fury. in the voice of a spiritualistic
medium, declared that 1.-THE one great
fault of the social order in this
country today sis that the children
are taught to hustle out, as 1t were.
and become breadwinners and get an
honest living, If possible. but get it
anyway" He went on to remark:
Here today .beseech you, my beloved
fellow-citizens and friends, to turn to
the simplicity of the earlier days.
when there was faith in the .fastness
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