davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-10
En- Ia terra del G;Ilmea.
(Por ez doctor stahl.)

El DR. Jacques Bertiilon, notable
investigator, especiaiidad en- antro-
poiogla criminal, que ha estudiado
mlnuclosamente craneos de crimi-
naies, en- un articulo tituiado "Js
sals tout, ofrece una description
instructive de Ia vida y situacion
de los confinados franceses, que me-
rece especial atencion con motive
de los informes contradictorios que
uitimamente han sonado con insis-
tencia en- 10 relative a las condicio-
mes relnantes en- las isias a que Sc
confinan los deportados francsses
En- primer termino aparecen las
tres Isias de Salud con las gigantes-
cas- penitenciarias de Francia, no
en- aqueila forma aterradora que
nos solemos representa- Ia costa de
Guayana; pero el delincuente ali
deportado no experimental NADIA de
las dehcias del viaje trasatiantico
y de la beiieza del paisaje Los con-
finados estan bordo encerrados en-
jauias de hero cuai 81 fuesen fieras;
Sc les villa severamente y SOLO Sc
les permite respirar por media hora
cada dia al aire iibre y contempiar
la luz del sol, 10 sufici ente para SEN
tir 10 horrible de su suerte Saben
bien, que con sus jauias conectan
tubos que los inundarian de humo
asfixiante en- case de motin Al fin
han arribado a la verde playa de las
isias, entonces Sc les trasiada INN E.
diatamsnts a mlserables y trist es
dep6sitos de los que SOLO saien pa ra
ejecutar trabajos peligrosos con ex-
traordinarios esfuerzos
En- las coionias francesas existe n
en- conjunto 1851 confinados,
de estos condenados q simple depor-
tacion 5 $50 que gozan de alguna
libertad, 5 70S deportados en- Nueva
Caledonia que ejercen trabajos for
zados menos pesados y 5 70S han
sido trarportados a Guayana, con-
denados 4 los mas pesados trabajos
Ell costo de SUI mantenimiento ascen-
dia el aho 1903 a 5,75z 400 frances,
8 sea cerca de 900 frances cada con-
finado, cifra que SOLO aproximada-
mente puede calcuiarse
Los mayores criminaies son de-
portados d las tres isias San JOSS.
Real V del Diabio, de aili pas an al
preside de Kuru, enclavado en- el
peor punto de la costa de Quay ana,
en- una "Vegetaci6n de la muerte'
y al preside de Maroni en- la desem-
bocadura del gran rio que divide
la Guayana francesa de Ia hoiande-
sa En- todos estos parajes del terror
ei china es insoportabie, el suelo ca
81 incultivabie; ei trabajador 0 abo-
ma con su propio cuerpo, de co ntinuo
esta envuelto en- una nube d e mos
quitos que faciimente lie trasmiten
con su doiorosa picada el germen del
paludismo y de Ia fiebre amarllla
Las serpientes venenosas abundan,
tambien los sanguinarlos vampires,
pulgas gigantes y hormigas rojas
Las mas comunes de las enfermeda-
des tropicales, la anemla y la olsen
terra dan cuenta de los condenados,
a trabajos forzados y obhgados a
soportar sin compassion ei ardor de
un sol hecho ascua y un cieio que,
cual loza de piomo apiastante, des-
ciende sobre sus cabezas La morta-
lidad es enorme A pesar de que ell
estado no publica estadistica alguna,
81 DR. Bertiil6n pudo comprobar
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-11-10

despues de haberse humedecido las
manos. Tambien pueden empiearse
patatas cocidas en- su peliejo, con las
cuales Sc auita ensegulda todo ras-
tro de srasa.
CURIOSO.-El rostro es el espe-
10 del alma. deciamos hasta ahora.
en- la creencia de que enla hsonomia
de las personas Sc reAejaban las con-
diciones del espiritu; pero de reclen-
ties observaciones ha venido result
tar que ell verdadero espejo del alma
es la oreja.
! Segun los tecnicos, las orejas pc
quenas y bien conformadas anun-
clan ei ingenio y la vivacidad.
El Iobuio bien separado denota
un buen caracter. La oreja ancha
Y unida delata un espiritu d6bii.
La plana y ;.iargada denota amor
propio.
Cuando es rola Y gruesa, tempe
ramento avldo lie goces.
La corta V mai hecha es de NAL
aguerO.
Las anchas Y muv pegadas al era
neo, cuyo iobuio avanza en- punta
eS en- los ioventes presaglo lie sor-
dura V corpuiencia pr6xima
Y aSi nor eI eStiip
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
HOTELS AND THE LAW.

According to Mr.. Wilmarth, chief
of the fire department. there are
twenty-five hotels in Topeka that
have not yet fully complied with the
state laws concerning the equipment
which it has been deemed by the leg
islature to be needed to safeguard
guests in the case of fire. In the list
of these delinquent hotels are the
foremost and largest in the city as
we'll as the most insignificant ones.
Chief Wilmarth states that the
proprietors of most of these hotels
have not wantonly and defiantly vio-
lated the laws in question, but that
they have been dilatory IN some re-
spects and in others they have been
unable to secure in time the fire es-
capes and fire fighting devices which
the laws demand. This is undoubt-
eddy true in many instances, but such
excuses are rather poor ones after all.
These laws have been on the statute
books for months and it would ap-
pear that plenty of time has already
elapsed in which all hotel-keepera
could have complied with them. And
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
TAXES IN KANSAS.

| Much discussion Is De1ng INDUCED II,
| these days over the taxes in Kansas
and the increased expenditures during
the past few years for the administra-
| ton of the affairs of the state. it's
cities and its counties. Some of it is of
| a decidedly unfavorable character but
this must come from individuals who
do not take the trouble 20 think over
the matter in a fair and square man
ner They merely see the fact that
large sums of money are being raised
by taxes for state, city and county
| purposes and then launch out with
their criticisms on general principles.
Taxes are not low in Kansas, but if
the figures were at hand they would
show that they compare more than
favorably with the taxes that are
levied in most of the states of the
union. During the past decade Kansas
has developed wonderfully. Her cities
and towns have grown in most SUBJ
stantial ways. With such growth comes
the necessity for the expenditure of
large sums of money for public i'm
provements of all sorts to make THE
communities desirable and healthful
places to live In. This is the reason
why the taxes in the urban communl-
ties are so high. But there is little If
any honestly founded protest against
them, because the people, for the most
part, rightly believe that they are get
ting large returns for their taxes in a
variety of ways. The same is true in
county affairs and an analysis of the
taxes will show that the taxes for
cities and counties have increased to a
much greater extent than have those
for state purposes. There has been
substantial increases in the latter re-
spect but it is safe to assert that there
are few state governments in the ma
ton which are more economically con-
Quoted than is Kansas and where
larger returns are received for the
taxes invested. This is not a. condition
of the present alone. 1t has prevailed
for the last few years back.
But even with the taxes at their
present figures they are not as burden
some to the people of the state as they
were in the days of years ago when the
money needed to conduct the state. the
cities and the counties, was not half as
large as it is today. The reason is
simple. The people of the state at the
present time are better Off financially
and in every other way than they were
in the past All OF their property of
every sort has enhanced greatly in
value. And this explains the fact that
while more money is needed now than
before to manage the public affairs of
the state and its communities, the rate
of taxation is lower than it has ever
been.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
POISONING GoPHERs.

Interesting results have just been
| announced by the forest service as a
result of the campaign conducted in
southern California by Stanley e.
Piper, expert OF the biological survey
of the department of agriculture. to
exterminate ground squirrels and
gophers.
Extensive experiments were tried to
determine the best means of killing
off these destructive little animals,
and it was found that most effective
results were obtained by using pois-
oned green or ripening barley heads.
The squirrels are exceedingly fond of
this green heritage. and eagerly ate
the poisoned food placed along their
runways. Tests were also made with
oats, wheat. barley, raisins. prunes.
dried apples, and cracked corn. but
these did not prove so successful.
While green barley proved most
successful for poisoning ground
squirrels. yet the difficulty of proour-
ing sufficient supply in all localities
led to dry barley grain being tried.
The grain was treated with strychnine
sulphate, saccharine. and eggs. and
although this combination proved
very destructive to the squirrels. 1t
ho0 pIdCl1CdA1y NO SIIOCt UPON OONCS
and quail In fact, a deliberate at
tempt was made to poison these birds
at their watering places. but no bad
effect resulted. The poisoned grain
was also used in fields grazed over by
sheep and produced no Ill effects
whatever.
The experiments also proved that
gophers were partial to raisins and
dried apples, and these were success
fully used in the poison experiment
1t was found that by sprinkling the
apples or raisins with the strychnine
solution, as effective results were pro-
duced as could be obtained by in
sorting the poison into the fruit.
The experiments for determination
of squirrels also resulted in the death
of a considerable number of rabbits,
and in other experiments it was found
that poisoned oats proved very effec-
tive in killing both jacks and cotton
tails. Green alfalfa was also used
with good results for the same pur-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
.AYHAWKER JOTS

Iuka is to have a weekly paper. She
needs another name quite as badly.
Mack Gretchen thinks that he might
be induced to trade places with the ice
man but he has never had the least
desire to swap jobs with the umpire.
Bill SincalIer and his folks had been
reading of a man who had committed
suicide because disgrace stared him in
the face and the Vinland Vine quotes
Bill as remarking: There is no such
thing as dying to avoid disgrace 1t is
just allowing disgrace to swallow you
up
Commenting on the fact that the
state university has secured Professor
of public speaking the lola Register
says: 1T is a question whether the
changing from the old crap game
spontaneity of Kansas oratory to bridge
whist science will improve it,
Walt Mason, Emporia's bounteous
bard and Paul Lovewell, Salinas re-
Gently acquired sage, have engaged in
tilt of words over the merits of their
respective baliwicks. Physically
speaking they are as were David and
Goliath. The result of their encounter
is also similar to the ending of that
famous battle between those warriors
of old. HonOrS in the fray were about
even for a time but in the last round
of the fight in which the Salina Jour
nal has had it's say Brother Loveweu
gets several laps ahead by referring to
EmpOria'S Scorn for Salina as 'ScaWn."
Bill kercher told this one recently
in the Kansas City Journal: Charles
Shukers, assistant attorney general,
was at one time a school teacher One
day he was very busily engaged in try
ing to teach the meaning of the word
"smell'' to the primary class. He was
not making a great deal of Roadway,
and finally asked: "Well, now, what
do you use your nose for?" The class
was very quiet for a moment, when up
shot the hand of a small boy "Well
in onnS yhla nh s6ot huK tbe enTUurag
triumphant1y, just as if he had made
a great discovery, 1--WE wipe EN-"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News

From the Chicago News.I
Charity for revenue only is a mis-.
take
The principal ingredients of good
luck are prudence and industry. =
It's hard to get money and it's
harder to keep it after you get it.
Possession is nine points of the law
and the attorneys fee is the tenth.
Some medicine is so disagreeable
that one can't even forget to take it.
A woman can do without a lot Of
things If her neighbors haven't got
them.
The trouble with too many people
is that they push in the wrong direc-
ton.
Don't think a man is always in the
wrong because he doesn't agree with
you.
One kind of diplomat is a woman
who can make man believe he
knows more than she does.
The small boy is apt to lose faith
in his mothers veracity when she
says it hurts her more to whip him
than it hurts him..
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
GFrom the Philadelphia Record

tFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
A trickster is merely a man who
gets the better of u.s.
No man should play practical
jokes unless he is a good loser.
Misery loves company. but the
company isn't apt to call again.
The sculptor should nave no diff
ficulty in cutting out a rival.
It's queer how a six months old
baby can make a fool of an SO-year-
old man.
The woman who says she doesn't
care how she looks is either genius
or liar.
The theory that two can live as
cheaply as one is responsible for
half the divorces.
It's all right to be prepared for the
worst. but it is also we'll to keep an
eye peeled for the best.
fellow doesn't appreciate a mod A
ern fiat till he has spent five or six
nights on a sleeping car.
A woman will pay another wo-
mans carfare about as cheerful1y as
a man will pay another mans gas
bill.
The bee gives wax as well as hon.
ey. In fact, all through life we can't
expect all honey and no whacks.
Nell-"Miss Antique has great
opinion of herself She seems to
think she is quite matchIess." Belle
II guess she's right. don't be-
1ieve she will ever meet her match"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20

this is a matter that should not be
put off until it is convenient for the
hotel men to live up to it. The pub
lie convenience and safety is para
mount to any interest that, the hotel
men may have involved.
Within the past nine months there
have been two hotel fires in Topeka,
the thoughts of which are quite hor-
rible enough to make folks shudder
even now. A single repetition of
them in the near or distant future
would be to the everlasting disgrace
of the city and would be criminal in
it's nature, in view of the fact that
there are laws on this subject which
should be obeyed. It is not to be
supposed that the precautions which
these laws demand would absolute
ly prevent the losing of a life in a
hotel that might catch on fire and
which had observed them in their en-
tirety. Hotel fires are such tickle
and uncertain things that even bet
ter precautionary measures than the
Kansas legislature has provided
would not make loss of life impos-
sible in one of them under conditions
which might develop.
But IL all the hotels of this city,
and throughout the state as well, were
equipped with the fire escapes and
the fire fighting devices that the laws
insist they shall be, the guests who
might be IN one of them when a fire
started would have far better
chance of saving their lives than they
would have If these laws are disre-
gardeG.
Therefore, these laws should be
enforced to their very letter and at
once, as there is every indication
that they will be. There must be no
more fastening of the stable door in
this respect after another horse has
been stolen.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
EFrom the Atchison Globe.l

IFrOm the AtchiSon GlObe.l
Some thieves go no higher than a
chicken.
The best any man ever says for the
umpire is that 'he tried to be fair
The only Freedom some men seem
to care for is the Freedom to annoy
others.
The owner of a little automobile al
ways doubts that. a big automobile is
worth the money it costs.
What has become of the old fash
Toned farmers wife who took hard
roasting ears, grated them, and made
mush out of the meal?
We can't help admiring a man who
admits 1t when he makes a fool of HIM
self. And how we dislike those per-
sons who are always right!
There is a rare kind of a man who
always has a grin on his face, and is
always ready to laugh at other peo-
PIES jokes; who never tells any Of his
own.
When two men argue, you often hear
one of them say: ''Wait It'll I get
through" CThe other man is so anxi-
Gus to reply that he begins his reply
too early).
Young people who insist on making
foolish marriages should remember that
the on,e-homo-and-be-for act
doesn't occur as frequently in real life
as it does in the summer novels.
When girls give a weekend party
ithout their parents. the doctor has
to be called to counterfeit the fudge,
but when the boys give a party under
such circumstances. the police are sent
for.
An old man said recently, speaking of
a young man: why, he doesn't get
up until o'clocki 1 am UP every
morning at 5 o'clock. In fact, can't
sleep after S O'Clock" Young people
rrobabIy talk too much about their
favorite subjects And so do old peo-
pie.
1 You Otter. hear of boys who become
angry, and want to run away. Grown
men have the same weakness; there
never was a man, probably, who did
lot occasionally feel like running away
tC a place where he would never be
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
Mark Twain and justice Fuller.

Mark Twain was waiting for street
car in Boston, when a young girl ap-
preached him, smiling. She was love-
~ girl, fresh, blooming, ingenious, bub-
bling with enthusiasm, and evidently
on her way home from school.
Pardon me-" she said. 81 know it's
very unconventional, but I may never
have another chance. Would you mind
giving me your autograph"
"Glad to do it, my dear child" said
Mr.. Clemens. drawing out his fountain
pen.
ooh, it's so good of you," gurgled
the girl. You know, I've never seen
you but once, Chief Justice Fuller, and
that was at distance; but I've seen
your portrait so often that I recog-
nized you the moment I saw you here"
"I'm-m-m-!' said Mr. Clemens,
non-committally Then he took from
her eager hands her nice little auto
graph album and wrote in bold script
these words:
"It is delicious to be full,
But it is heavenly to be Fuller.
I am, cordially yours,
MELVILLE w. FULLER
Mr.. Clemens has not heard from
Chief Justice Fuller yet.-Harper's
Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Love and reason seldom walk along
together.
Many a coat of tan costs more than a
whole suit of ordinary clothes.
4
Most men who consider themselves
worthy of women are seriously afflicted
with the exaggerated ego.
q 4
Some girls would undoubtedly have
better dispositions if there were no
such things in the world as mirrors.
y e n
Almost every individual is something
of an inventive genius when the neces-
sity arises for him to present an ex-
cuSe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the State Journal
away during the summer may have
the paper mailed regularly each day
co any address at the rate of ten
cents . week or thirty cents q month
l(by mail onIy.l Address changed as
often as desired. While out OF town
Ghe State Journal VIII be to you like
= daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions. TO save
bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.1

From the New York Press.
A girl hopes to make name for her
self-by marrying.
1t isn't every family tree that bears
the fruit of industry.
A brunette judge may be even fairer
than a blond one
People don't speak honeyed words
when they have the hives.
It's better for man to be forgetful
than to be for getting full.
Beauty is but skin deep-and there
ere lot OF thin-skinned people.
No doubt the June bride has begun
to unlearn a few things she knew.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20

So the navy board that inquired into
the matter is of the opinion that Lieu
tenant Sutton caused his own death
eithe- by suicide or by accident in an
attempt to shoot one of his three
brother officers who were holding him
down when the fatal shot was fired.
Most persons who followed the testi-
mony in this famous case might well
be pardoned for thinking that a COM
mon ordinary jury would have found
otherwise
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20
Ruin of FIsherman's Paradise.

cit has not been so many years ago
since that stretch of the Potomac
River, not far from Washington, and
embraced in the expanse between the
Little Falls and the Great Falls, was
a veritable paradise of fishermen"
said Mr. sheldon S. Cline, an enthus-
iastic disciple of Izaak Walton, and
veteran member of the Anglers Club,
of the District of Columbia, at the
Rennert
"That halcyon day has long since
vanished, and over the same course
where a fisherman could once take
out more grand specimens Of black
striped bass than from any other
stream in the United States, it is now
almost an impossibility to capture
enough for a meal
'The same plenitude would exist
today but for the asinine deed of some
government official, who introduced
into the Potomac a quantity of Ger
man carp and Mississippi River cat
fish. These miserable and greedy
creatures began at once to devour the
spawn of the aristocratic game fish.
that from the day of the advent Of
their baser brethren began to diInin-
ish and finally to almost disappear.
1t was an act of stupidity approaching
a crime. ''-Baltimor American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20

But. as a matter of fact, this depart
ment of the federal government does
its work pretty well and is not entitled
to any of the r::dicuIe which is heaped
upon 1t from some quarters. Its pre-
dictions that fail are the only ones
which come in for comment. when. in
reality, its predictions that are realized
outnumber the failures two to one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20

A former famous gambling house in
New York city is to be transformed
into a "high-class" restaurant. If it is
run along the lines Of most of such
places in the big town its patrons of
the future. like those Of its past. Will
continue to get skinned"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20

According to a professor of the Chi
cago university. evolution was a puzzle
to the earliest human beings. And it
is just as much of a puzzle to those of
today. 1t is one of those reasonable
theories which has to be accepted with
1ni1f nrnnf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20

That war game which is being play
ed around Boston these days is decid-
eddy reminiscent of the old jingle
which runs: 1.-THE king of France had
twice. ten thousand men. He march
ed them Up the hill and marched them
down again."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-20

Most Of the rural schools in Shawnee
county are to be open during the cont
ing year for terms of eight months
each. 1t was not so long ago tnar the
farmers in these parts could i'll afford
to allow their children to attend school
four four months at a stretch