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St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24

WANTED. Salesman and collector
Salary and commission. Singer Sewing
Mch. Co., No. IA r. r. St.
FURNISHED Rooms to let. Steam heat
and electric lights. 80 Summer St.
Tenement to rent November first. All
modern Improvements. 0. Y. Hooker
and Son.
To RENT. Pleasant front room 9312
Main street.
WANTED, small furnace Correspond
with Buckley & Williams, St. Iohnsburv.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1909-11-24
WEATHER RECORD,

At Binghams Drug Store, TOR the wee
ending Nov. %.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
JEYHAWKER JOTS

Every town in Kansas is talking OF
the solid growth that beats boom,
notes the Emporia Gazette.
Mack Gretchen has discovered that
some people are SO crooked that they
can't play solitaire without cheating.
The Sedgwick Paragraph has
found out that if you want to please
the children, buy the girl doll and
the boy a pup.
Attention is being directed to the
fact that a dozen eggs is now worth
more in Kansas than is a bushel of
oats Charley Blakesley thinks this is
because the eggs make better eating
Onaga has population of 700 and "a
automobiles are owned in the town.
When the autos are loaded for paradeS
there are no people left to stand On the
sidewalks to see the parade go past
Onaga is determined to better this con-
dition by starting a boom.-Hutchinson
Gazette.
An unusually interesting art exhibit
is being held under the auspices of
the State university. but it is not at
tracing much attention among the
Lawrence folks and is certain to be a
failure from a financial standpoint
Evidently, the Lawrenceites are good
and strong for art, just as they are for
music, if it is free.
drinking cup mandate is reported by
the Fredonia Citizen. This paper tells
of a man On Southern Kansas train
who was thirsty and wanted a drink.
He did not understand why there was
no public drinking cup at the fountain,
so he lifted the lid Of the water tank,
filled it with water, drank and soaked
his whiskers, and then to cap the eli
max. poured the water that was left
back into the tank.
A Leavenworth lady just returned
from the extreme northern part of
Michigan reports that the aurora
borealis was nothing like SO beautiful
this year as it was last and she claims
that Cook and Peary getting up to the
North Pole has mussed things up. up
there and spoiled the lights. When re-
minded that Cook was there last year
she concluded that Peary had been
blowing much that he had blown the
lights out.-Leavenworth Post.
Recently in commenting on the new
Democratic daily to be started in
Wichita We stated that we never heard
of New York man who knew enough
to run a paper. 1t was our intention to
say we never heard of New York man
who knew enough to run a paper in
Kansas. In some way 'tin Kansas" got
left out. There are a lot of men who
run papers successfully in New York,
but in Kansas it is different. Usually
they go broke before they learn the
Kansas language City TRAY
eIer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
TAXATION OF REALTY.

During the recent convention at Lou
isville. Ky, which was participated
in by the taxation officials of the coun-
try, Mr.. L. G. Powers, chief statistician
OF the federal census bureau discussed
the we'll known fact that the ineqllali-
ties of the present method of assessing
and collecting the property tax are num-
erous and grave. He urged the adop-
ton of a uniform listing of real estate
v HIGH will sho" more clearly the value and
assessment of real estate. He advocated
what he termed the analytical and sta
tistical methods in the listing of real
estate for taxation and claimed that
the application of this method would
take the question of property taxation
out of the reach of demagogues and
cheap politicians and that it would
serve to show the proportion of the
general tax that is being paid by the
farmer, the lumberman. the railroads,
etc.
Many economic writers and students
of public finance in the past so years
have called attention to the imperfec-
lions of existing systems of obtaining
public revenue" said Mr.. Powers, land
the desirability of finding, if possible,
some substitute for the general proper
ty tax" But he pointed out that while
many minor changes have been made
in the methods of obtaining state and
local revenues, local governments and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rom the Atchison GloheN

(From the Atchfson Giobe.)
Even new things have their faults;
We can never keep new shoestrings
tied.
Store keepers never have as much to
do as farmers, except just before
Christmas.
81 have such poor judgment that it
makes me mad every time I use it,
Parson Irvine.
IF I win, must not only overcome
my opponents skill, but his fool luck
Drake Watson.
"I always watch the signs of the
times; but 1 rare'y know what they
mean. "-Parson Irvine.
When you have Joke on a man.
why not laugh about it behind his
back instead of to his face?
We greatly admire a certain man,
but we are beginning to suspect that
he is entertaining because he is a liar.
When man wants company for
dinner, he has to have his wife's per-
mission, and she has to have the
cooks.
We have noticed that an automobile
owner will as readily promise to go on
trip as a lawyer will agree to make
Fourth of July Grafton, and as
quickly back out.
A woman always looks funny on
one of those little single seats in the
back of a three passenger automobile.
In fact it looks as undignif1ed to ride
on one OF those little seats as to be run
over by a pop-pop machine.
Nothing pays so we'll as plain, plug
politeness. We don't believe in the
kind of politeness that is overdone to
such an extent as to become offensive,
but in the kind that is used at home,
and on the street, and every ordinary
place you 60
An Atchison man and wife are
rather extravagant. "Why should we
worry over the future % they ask, and
add, pointing with pride to their four
year-oId boy. Haven't we a SON to
take care of US some day?" One old
man who heard them talk this way,
went out behind the barn and had a
fit on the ground before he could
thrO wdown any hay.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
SONG BY AN oLD BACHELoIs.

o. tender lovely woman is,
A thing of down and satin;
Some spot of deathless roses she
Should make her habitat in.
How carefully she wraps her up
When winter swirls and rankles;
A sealSkin sack upon her back
And gauze upon her ankles.
o. gracious lovely woman is,
In Gilead the balm, she;
The ministering angel here,
Mans stay in storm and calm, She
She smooths our brow, she buoys US UP
Through fate's outrageous twisters-
And with fair lips she soundly rips
Her luckless Grant sisters!
o, fragile lovely woman is;
Behold the weaker vessel
Untitled by her feeble frame.
With stress and ruth to wreStle-
Not hers to walk, not hers to work,
With ease her path we ham. sir
So that she may but shop all day
And bridge till A. NJ, sir!
o, darling lovely woman is.
The vine about the oak, she;
Our ever-present joy and light,
Our ever-present joke she.
Without her life would be but gray
And we but dull, sad foxes;
lis she supplies us paradise
And Sundry paradoXeSi
Edwin L. Sabin in the Baltimore Ameri-
can.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

most state governments in the United
States and Canada rely today. as al
the middle of the last century. princi-
pally upon the general property tax fol
their revenue. He expressed the opinion
that the same conditions will prevail
| for the next so years and probably
longer.
Under such circumstances the prac-
teal man, striving to improve the ad-
nfinistration of public business" he
went on. will give his attention pri-
marily to a consideration of methods
of freeing the assessment and collection
OF that tax from the inequalities
which now accompany them. Those in
equalities are numerous and grave.
Many townships can be found in the
country in which farm with selling
value of $1,000 is subject to the same
tax as a second farm in another part
of the township with a selling value of
$4,000; and the townships are legion in
number in which farm property is as
sessed at a different proportion of its
value from that assigned to forest
land, or the property used for residential
and manufacturing purposes" Mr..
Powers insisted that the need of inn
proving the methods of assessing real
property was evidenced by the fact
that for 40 years at least IS per cent
of the general property tax of the Uni
ted States has been levied and collect
ed upon realty.
The points made by Mr.. Powers
should be we'll taken by every state
and community engaged in the levying
of taxes On realty as all of them are
in this country. Kansas has tried to
meet some of the imperfections to which
Mr.. Powers called attention during the
past few wears by it's new method of
property taxation which insists that all
property shall be assessed for the pur-
poses of taxation at it's full value.
Considerable progress to a better equal
ity of taxation has been achieved al
ready through this system. but there
is plenty of room for improvement yet.
The tax officials. from the state COM
missioners down to those of local cali
Der should bend all of their energies
tc bringing it about.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
HORRORS AHEAD.

A rather unattractive picture of thf
bloody possibilities which might result
in the event of conflict of arms be-
! tween Germany and England is pre-
scented in a recent Harper's Weekly as
| follows:
"If England should win. Germany
would be left powerless for offence,
and perhaps her shipyards also could
be reached. If Germany should win,
there might be left only the landing
and the march on London. and per-
haps but one land battle-another
Hastings.
THAT is conceivable, but not prob
able; not so probable as that the first
shot would set all Europe afiame; not
so probable as that once again a Ger
man army, this time quite the great
est the world ever saw, would start for
Paris, the emperor taking the field.
and that France-aIl France-would
fling herself upon it with such a
shamed ferocity as no mans hatred,
but only a twice-trampled woman's,
could be compared to. Austria-Hun-
gary and Russia, lately aggrieved by
Germany's backing Austrian rapacity
in the near East, would stand ready to
leap at each others throats: and
and possibly not even that, would hold
the Slavs back from the Balkans, Con-
stantinople, perhaps Vienna. Southern
Africa would take fire quickly. and we
should see if the Beers new-found 10y
atty to their conquerors. strengthened
as it is by England's superbly wise
moderation in the recent reconstruc-
ton, would avail against a new and
tempting challenge to the old grudges
and to the pride of a very proud and
strong and MISUNDERSTANDING race.
ireland would doubtless once again, as
always in such emergencies. stir and
murmur and threaten, possibly rise. Eu
rope and Africa being thrown thus into
epic turmoil, would even Asia hold to
her long quietude? Once let the tide
flow strongly against England, and
English eyes would turn with supreme
apprehension to India. The ruinous
overthrow of the greatest of modern
empires might awaken to new and
incalculable life-a life of which some
STRINGS are already manifest-the
most mysterious and splendid of all
the ancient civilizations now in any
wise extant. If Turkey and Persia
were yesterday capable of self-trans-
formation. why may not India change
tomorrow? Why may not the fame
and light leap acros even the Hima-
layas, and all Asia suddenly find her
self, and shake herself erect, and bring
her immemorial strength to bear upon
this too long impertinent modern
world, which for some centuries has
been Fostering her Sleep"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
EXPERIMENTAL FARMS.

One of the laws passed by the last
legislature which should be of inesti-
mable benefit to the agricultural inter-
ests of the state. and they are para
mount. authorizes the state agricul-
tural college to arrange with county
commissioners to use from 10 to 40
acres on each county farm for the pur-
poses of experiments and demonstra-
tons. Nine of these experimental
farms have already been established
and the agricultural college authori-
ties propose to keep on with their
work in this respect until there is such
farm in every county of the state. If
requested by county commissioners the
college will send a man to meet with
them, inspect the county farm and ar
range definite plans for carrying on the
work.
Agriculture has been helped along
nightly during the past decade
through the experimental and demon
strative farming carried on by the fed
eral agricultural department and those
of the various states, and also by the
many and valuable agricultural in
situations OF learning which have
been brought into existence. Most of
this experimental farming has been
carried on under ideal conditions
Many of the results achieved have
been remarkable. but it has been
found in several instances to have
been impossible to duplicate them in
the realms of practical farming. One
reason for this is that the conditions
surrounding the experimental farms,
as to climate, soil and other essen
tials, do not prevail on many of the
ordinary farms even in the same state
where the experimental farms are con-
Quoted. Rules that will work with
excellent satisfaction at the experiment
stations avail little or nothing when
tried elsewhere. This is but natural.
But with experimental farms in
every county in the state things ought
to work out differently. The experts
in agriculture who will direct their
operation will be able to determine
just what are the best farming meth
DDS for each individual locality in the
commonwealth. And the results of
their Investigations along this line can
not fail to be of great advantage to
the farmers generally throughout the
entire state
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
TFrom the Chicago News.l

CFrom the Chicago NewS.1
A wise workman lets the boss have his
own way.
Every man makes a satisfactory hus-
band-for a few days.
People who get rich quick usually get
rid of it the same way.
If you have a good friend don't spoil it
all by imposing on him.
The weather eventually gets back at
the people who talk about it.
Opinions and visits are more appreciated
when not forced upon people.
A woman says unprintable things about
as gracefully as she throws brick.
A small boy is never so happy as when
he is riding and eating at the. same time
You can save a lot OF time by being
sure where you want to go before start
ing.
The first time a girl is disappointed in
love she imagines she has nothing left to
live for.
a woman's idea of tactful man is one
who is able to increase the admira ton
she has for herself.
An office seekers love for his country is
good deal like that of a titled foreigner
for an American heiress.
1t is said that most suicides regret IL
after swallowing the fatal dose-just as
some men do after getting married.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

claiming anxlously. Fetch DIR. Bell
And keep Aunt Abby away"
Afternoon service was Just about ts
tegin-in the stir and confusion Of get.
ting the crowd inside the church it was
easy to mask Miss James faint as some
"oh. EI-turned my ankle" she
herself said, smiling the salts sister
Brown held under her nostrils.
''Then we must take you straight
home" the professor said, as one in
authority. looking into her eyes while
he nodded toward Minerva and her
Miss Jane began to say family,
sAbby-where is she?" but Sister
Brown checked her with Significant
"Don't you worry about Miss Abby"
she said. "Just let them put you in
the barouche and go along. DR.. Hen
shawl see to it your sister gets nome
Then DR.. Bell exploded. When he
could speak for laughing. he said
wringing Miss James hand heartily
and beaming on the professor:
"It has worked splendidly. Get home
all of you. I'll tell Abby everything
and make her likewise tell me-"
What has worked?'' Miss Jane de-
turned ankle and stamping her foot.
The doctor looked quizzically from her
to Minerva. then on to the professor
and young Lee, whence his eyes wan
dered to Miss Abby and her prize just
now coming UP to them.
my organized Epidemic he said
with another great laugh. "Of matri-
mony, to be sure-it hurt my feelings
to see three fine wives going to waste
For once Miss Jane had no word
ready-the professor was likewise 81
lent. But young Lee spoke up man.
fully:
"You were exactly right. doctor
and no man could have done a better
deed"
$50. can say: BLESS you. my chill
dreni' all round?" the doctor queried.
Young Lees eyes twinkled. "Sure
thing he said. "You see, DR.. Hen
shaw begged me to fix things up with
Minerva, so Miss Abby would have no
excuses to make him watt
''She didn't think of me, l suppose,
Miss Jane said, signing. The others
smiled. Sister Brown spoke for all of
them. "No-she didn't forget YOU"
she said. but all of us have seen how
it would he this last three days.
Copyrighted 1909 by Associated Liter
airy Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
QUAKER s1EDITAT1oNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record
The man who really knows himself is
never a bore.
1t is better to be on pleasure bent than
to be broke.
Many a woman has lost a good friend
by marrying him.
It's hard to get the best of some men
because they haven't any.
If you want to present a bride with n
striking gift send her a clock
Love is blind. but self-loye is the only
kind that is positively incurabie.
There are few things more certain tn
happer tnan the uncertainties of life
The &2ctor isn't supposed to treat a
wen man, but he should treat a man we'll
Good advice is frequently wasted. Give
e q man pointer and he will kick because
IT wasn't a setter.
Wigwag-"TIello! Guzzler. 1 see YOU ara
Up with the lark this morning. - GiizzIer-
on bet your life, and I've been keeninr
the lark up all night fs
Mrs. Muggins--'When a girl is married
sne Is apt to think her troubles are o1ey .
MrS Buggins-''Yes, she doesn't seem to
1 rSaIzZe that things can go @nliss with =
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Among the rare individuals are those
whose wants are satisfied.
= = 4
Some folks never get mad without US
ing cuss words and they make matters
worse.
Mutual admiration societies are al
most always organized by conceited
folks.
Generally, when a person tries to say
something funny he makes a miser-
able failure Of it.
Sympathy should go out to the hook
worm. 1t will be blamed for much of
the laziness it is not responsible for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
ORION the New york Press.)

(From the New York Press.)
Propinquity is nine points of the
law of matrimony.
Anyhow, a woman can always vote
to spend her husbands money.
The way the average man wants to
help others is trying to get them to
help him.
The remarkable thing about a wo-
mans faith is how it can be just as
strong after the foundations have been
knocked from under it.
A man can be SO proud of getting
down to breakfast nearly on time that
he can get mad with his wife for not
saying it's because he's so smart she
had to call him only three times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

New York pie bakers have struck for
higher wages and the placing of the
union stamp ON the upper crust of
every union-made pie. Placing the
union label on apple pies will be simple
enough" remarks the Chicago Record
Herald but it inquiries, how are they
going TO manage It with custard and
pumpkin pies?'' That'u be easy The
filling of most custard and pumpkin
pies of bakery make has a strong SEM
hiauce to sole leather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

Many meetings are being planned by
the Commercial club to interest the
people of the city in the commission form
of government. An important part of
these meetings should be brief and
pointed lectures to the voters that their
preliminary duty in the premises is to
register frefo-e October IS so that they
can participate in the election on the
commission question which is to be
held on November 2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

The Washington Post thinks it will
be an unfortunate day if amending the
Constitution gets to be a habit. This is
the exact truth unless all of the amend
raents proposed are as Tneritorious as
two which are now being agitated
those providing for the levying of a
direct income tax and the election of
United States senators by the direct
vote of the people of their respective
-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

That political assassination of Prof
francisco Ferrer. as the Paris papers
call it, which has just been consum-
mated by the Spanish government, will
probably be wiped out sooner or later
by a river of blood which will sap the
vitals from the grandees of the land
and give to Spain a government OF free
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

Another example of the way real
justice is administered IN England
comes to light in the suit for divorce
which j. NJ. Barrie. the novelist and
playwright has prosecuted successfully.
The cost of the proceedings have been
assessed against the correspondent
named by Mr.. Barrie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

Nothing but applause is due to the
officials of the University of Michigan
for their expulsion OF upper classmen
who indulge in the practice of hazing.
This action should be emulated by the
authorities at every institution of high
err learning. Hazing is a relic of bar
barism that belongs to the past,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

Oklahoma's constitution has been
characterized by President Taft as a
geological garden of cranks." And be
1t borne in mind that this constitution
received the endorsement of congress
and no less a distinguished friend of
Mr.. Taft's than one Theodore Roose-
Welt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

There is now talk of something of a
shortage in freight cars in this section
of the country. Such a condition of af-
fairs is annoying to shippers but it is
far more satisfactory than a surplusage
of freight cars would be. A car short
age indicates enormous business activ-
ity and that means prosperity.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

Either We have free speech and a
free press in this country or we have
not remarked Mr.. Gompers in Wash
ington the other day in a further dis
cussion of the merits of his conviction
for contempt of court. Judge Ander-
sons recent decision in the famous
Panama libel case would indicate that
the press is still free
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

When the late Mr.. Hartman was in
Topeka a couple of years ago he stated
that he was anything but a wealthy
man. The fortune left by him approx
mates $500. 100000. It would be interest
ing to know just what was Mr.. Harri-
mans idea of wealthy man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

Colonel Roosevelt must needs brace
up to keep his laurels intact. John T.
McCutcheon, the Chicago Tribune's
famous cartoonist, who is now hunting
in Africa, has caught a baby rhinoceros
olive
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15

The injunction has been brought into
play in the case of a strike in the
Philippine islands. This is an adjunct
of free government which it will likely
be pretty difficult for the semicivilized
T-ilininos to understa and.