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The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-02-27
AN ALCOHOL SCHOOL.
To Teach Farmers How TO Make thu
Denatured Article.

The Government has now opened
its alcohol school in the city OF
washington for the instruction OF the
people OF the United States in proper
methods OF making and using the
denatured product.
For this purpose model still has
been erected close by the Department
OF Agriculture which Is big enough
to work up twenty-five bushels OF
corn a day. converting that quantity
OF grain into seventy-five gallons OF
% per cent. alcohol-that is to say,
90 per cent. pure. The plant repre-
sents the smallest outfit that can be
conducted proftably on a commercial
scale.
The farmers cannot very well see
II for themselves, so arrangements
have been made by which they may
learn about 1t. Agricultural experts
from the experiment stations in every
one OF the States are to go to Wash
ington, says Suburban Life, examine
the alcohol making outfit, see how II
works and listen to a course OF lee.
lures explaining its management. 1t
will be their business when they go
home to teach the farmers how to
put up and how to operate plants OF
this character
Inasmuch as such a plant could not
be erected for less than $4,000 1t Is
obvious that the ordinary farmer
would not be able TO afford to con-
struct one OF the kind. But-and
here is the point--a group OF farm
ers, representing a small neighbor.
hood might easily do so.
Then they would bring their corn
stalks and other such refuse to the
mill" and receive in return the al
cohol. 1t is a simple method which
farmers have long been accustomed
to adopt where -four and other nee
essarles were concerned.
The farmers are eager to find a
cheap source OF energy. Nowadays
multitudes Of them use gasolene for
such purposes as grinning feed, cut
ting fodder and running the corn
onNllbit NllNuidi saw hOAoO NhHPOA
and grlndstone.
A farm in these times is more or
less Of a factory. BY gasolene Is
expensive. Alcohol is comparative
ly cheap and when manufactured
from the farmers own vegetable re-
fuse II would cost next to nothing
In France there are $1,000 farmer
distillers who make alcohol for In
dustrial purposes from mOlasses and
sugar beets. 1t is high time that
this idea was turned to profitable ac-
count in the United States. Rotten
apples. frost bitten potatoes. stale
watermelons. cornstalks and cobs
and every other kind OF vegetable
refuse are available for this purpose.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-02-27

Who are the six greatest women in
Amercia7 is the question being dis.
cussed just now by the elubwomen
Of this country.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-02-27

Now that the air is so full OF
wireless messages. IL does seem that
more mon would be struck with an
idea.
The San Mateo item. (San Mateo City, Putnam County, Fla) 189?-19??, 1909-02-27

Even the man with an open face
ought TO know. when to shut up.
Evening star., 1909-06-28

FOR RENT-BEAGTfFUL LOCALITY NEAR
Conn Ave. bridge: 2635 Garfield st 10 rooms
and 2 baths; hot water heat and other desirable
modern improvements. Rent. $50.
WILI.IGE, GIBBS & DANIEL. 60s-05 18th.
Evening star., 1909-06-28
FOR RENT--HOUSES.
UNFINISHED.

FOR RENT-CQOL OR. & h. HOUSE ON TOP
Of 18th st. hill; large rear yard. nicely sod
ded; 2sll i4th ST. nv; modern; $3.50
ia26-3ts
Evening star., 1909-06-28
FOR RENT-HOUSES.
.FCRNISHED OR UNFURNISHED.

FOR 'RENT-UNFURNISHED.
Colonial house. Georgetown: large yard: lOr
and b. Low rent for summer.
1725 Riggs pl.. 10 rooms and bath. $ia- y. OK, ro
20 Quincy St ne. 6 rooms and hath. p. sc
We have a number of desirable furnished houses
In the NV. section; rent. SIS per mo. and up
ward. TYLER & RUTHERFORD unc.).
fpH,-7t 40 18th st. NV.
Evening star., 1909-06-28

ER. 9O7 G ST. NV.
144O r So. 6r. ". 1880
1870 NJ NV, 5r,w. 1907
1870 4th Sc, Or. w.12.50
1915 S Cap. Or, w.11.O0
1913 Sd SC. 6r. W. $50
Evening star., 1909-06-28

FOR RENT
1877 18th NV. .12r.h $15.15
2S11 14th nw,9r,b 43. 30
354S 10th NV. Orb 37.50
G}0 r sw. .Sr. b. -. $500
1928 10th NV .7r.b $3.50
494 Me. av.sw. ST.
$500
419 d e.5r.. 1900
s FriStoe NV, Ar. $50
FL.
1883 Nj. av.nw.5r.b
$500
us 18th NV, ,3r,h. 200
CAlWOOD & GARRET'
iaDG 2ye
Evening star., 1909-06-28
TRUNKS REPAIRED.

WE sMAKE SPECIALITY OF REPAIRING
trunks and handbags: goods called for; mod
TRUNK SHOPS. 10th & NV. Ph. 4s2l y
Evening star., 1909-06-28

FOK KFNT-
BY JOHN SCRIVEN
1918 Riggs NV. 11r.
b. .31. 80
1907 Goth NV, Or, ,b..-
1852 C sw, 1r. h. b...3.0O
1113 C ne. 6r. b. .17.T
635 s c ay Sc, Or, ,w16.O0
jp26-at
Evening star., 1909-06-28

AT G nw,14r.h. $0.5O
1892 Corcoran ST, b,
112 Euclid NV. .6r.b
$3.50
49S Me.av.sw,Sr,b.
$3.50
IL i nv. .Jr. 1850
1853 Burden NV, Ar $40
IT'S.
53 Eye ne. or. h. $500
SO Porter ne, Arb. 1890
[, 1881 n. Y. ave. NV.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-17
RICH THUG VICTIM
NEAR BURIAL As
HOMELESS TRAMP
Body of George Dietz on Way
to Potter'S Field When
Found by Widow.

The murder NJ George DIetz, a manu-.
facturor Of artificial flowers, who had
lived for many Yeas with his wife AMI
family Mt No. III Nolth Fourteenth
street, WILLIAMSBURG. WIS brought 10
irHt to-day when the mans wife Won,
20 tie bedford avenue police station to
lcpoy; that h, had been missing from
home since sunday night
Had Mrs. DI,ta delayed a few hours
longer her husband would have loW
buried in roHe,'s Field "uiar the n1m
of Tom Williams. ana described az .
homeless tgaap, who had been mortally
injured IN s"me mysterious way while
No'aing near Tie Williamsburg lIo.p,aI
on sunday night
Going on the theory that tho man
who WAS picEcl up with b.acNjac,.
hole in his head aal died day later
30 to hospital was a homeieN, friend.
less Wandercr, the police had paid little
attention to the circumstances surround
ng his death. Now that it is known lie
vas a wci-to-do merchant, With fam
Iy and friends a different aspect IS
put upon the crime.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-17
WAR Of STATES
IN LAW TANCLE
OVER INSURANCE
Massachusetts, an: New York
Courts Each Enjoin
the Other.

A peculiar legal tangie, In which a
Massachusetts, court las issued an in.
nnction restraining tho prosecution Of
case in this state aud Justice Of tho
lew York supreme Court has granted
similar injunction restraining action
) Massachusetts, was disclosed to-day
etorc Supreme Court Justice Hendricks.
The case is tina; Of Anna c. VI. Web
ter against tho Columbia National Life
Insurance Company, Massachusetts,
orpora tion, to recover $4,000. the
mount of policy held by Everett b.
labstcr, who died Nov %, 1907.
Mrs Webster sets forth that her hus-
Nnk took on, the policy May 70, 1901,
I'D paid a premium Of SOL annually.
ne Columbia National Life refused 70
ottle the claim Mt Webster's death
Joseph H. Choato jr., representing the
Columbia National Life. made motion
o-day to have Judgment granted in
avor OF the plaintiff here set aside, and
sked for stay OF the Injunction issued
~ the New York supreme Court re-
training the company from prosecuting
t. case in Massachusetts.
Il Is contended by the Columbia Ma
ional Life that Webster obtained his
ollcy by fraud and Misrepresentation:
hat he had an incurabIc disease. OF
thich he did not inform the company
When he got the policy.
Justice Hendrick reserved decision.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-17

called. They said they wished to have
Il general alarm gent out FOR George
DIez. hfty-threH years Old, manu-.
facturcr OF artificial flowers. vino had
lived FOR many yours "a. 80 ~ North
Fourteenth street.
Then Mrs. DIo0a r.ye detailed de
script,on Of her husband and mentioned
the fact that hc carried AN old silver
watch, which Doc had worn since boy.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1909-03-17
Watch Proves Identity.

wills was on the desk this morning
when Mrs. p!etz and her son. George,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.

From the Philadelphia Record
Even loves young dream sometimes
dies of old age.
He who is on the winning side is the
one who breaches the triumph OF
right.
When you see fellow with a long
face it generally means that he is
short.
After all, it is better to throw bou-
quets at the dead than to throw mud
at the living.
The worshipers of wealth put the
dollar before the man, but it doesn't
stay there long.
Is the fellow who announces that he
has money to burn guilty of making
an incendiary speech?
Many a man expects to get the
worst Of IT, but the true pessimist is
disappointed If he doesn't.
Sometimes the spectators will wit
ness a play unmoved, and sometimes
they leave in body.
Sillicus-"What do you consider is
the proper time for a man to marry ?''
Cynicus-"Oh, I suppose when he
hasn't anything else to worry him.
1.-THE hash at this boarding house. -
said the old-timer, ssis literally a scan
dal." And I suppose the scandal is
frequently rehashed, suggested the
new arrival
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
TAKING THE CHEAPER COFFEE

Prior to the presentation OF. the
Payne tariff bill by the ways and
means committee to the house of rep
resentatives there was considerable
talk as to the possibility of the meas
ure providing for a tax on coffee Tor
the purpose of increasing the reve-
nues of the government. When the
bill was finally introduced it was seen
at first glance that coffee was left on
the free list and the consumers heart
probably leaped a little with JOY over
the fact that the revenues of the gov
eminent were not to be increased by
an impost on a commodity which
would strike at the pocketbook of ev-
cry family.
A closer scrutiny of the Payne bill.
however, disclosed that fact that 1t
proposes to levy a retaliatory or coun-
tervailing duty on coffee. An analysis
of how this will work out shows that
while such a duty probably would not
affect prices to consumers who buy
their coffee at 80 and 40 cents pound
it would, in all probability, be the
means of increasing the cost of the
cheaper grades of coffee. and that is
the kind which is the more generally
purchased by the bulk OF the people of
the United States. The Chicago News
recently explained the situation in this
regard most lucidly as follows:
"The so-called joker, slipped into
the free list, provides that If any coun-
try or province shall put an export
duty on coffee sent to the United
States there shall be levied on it's pro-
duct an import duty of like proper
tions No duties are imposed on Java
and Mocha coffee. the high-grade va
rieties from the Dutch East Indies
and Arabia, respectively. The states
of Brazil. however, levy export duties
on coffee Santos and Rio Coffee from
the South American country, makes
up 80 per cent of the supply annually
used in the United States. 1t provides
the cheaper grades. sold at 15. 20 and
rs cents a pound retail, to working
mems families.
About four-fifths of the Brazilian
coffee consumed in the United States
comes from Santos, the port of the
state of Sac Paulo. At this moment
the export tax levied on coffee by Sac
Paulo is rs cents a pound. The tax
is lower at other seasons, being 1 sis
cents a pound on the first 5000, 600
bags of 1872 pounds each exported af-
ter July 1 each year. When the ex-
ports have reached that total there is
added a tax of 90 per cent on the
value Of any coffee exported. This
higher tax is intended to prevent over
production of coffee in Sac Paulo.
"The house ways and means COM
mittee explains its provision for re-
taliatory duty by saying that it would
force the state of Sac Paulo to lift its
export duty on coffee, or at least to
lower it. Secretary Knox, however,
has sent to the senate finance commit
tee confidential data, supplied by the
Brazilian embassy at Washington.
which show that this export tax OF
Sac Pauio's cannot be repealed be-
cause foreign loans are secured by it
Thus 1t is plain that the imposition Of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

From the Chicago News1
1t is difficult to keep a purse fat on
a slender income.
Probably the easiest way to acquire
wealth Is to inherit It,
Curtain lectures should always be
delivered behind the scenes.
Remember your friends today and
forget your enemies tomorrow.
More men would attend church if
all women were as good as they look.
Only an expert political CRATER is
able to play both ends against the
middle.
The average man finds classical mu-
sic almost as difficult to understand as
women.
The worst kind of dead beat is a
man who tries to swindle the estate
of deceased friend.
Although vanity is supposed to be a
feminine trait, one doesn't have to
scratch very deep to find it in a man.
Occasionally you encounter a man
who is failure because 1t requires
less effort to fail than it does to win
success
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03

good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
James iv:1
Much of the crime. much of the
sin which is committed in this world
is the result of ignorance. And while
this is no good reason FOR its pardon
in the eyes of the law. it may well be
looked upon, however. with less abb
florence, as it generally is, than sin
and crime which is perpetrated by
those who know better. and their
number is far larger than it should
be. Many of the most successful
criminals-if it is possible to charac-
terize any crime as a success-afd
many of the most pernicious OF sin
ners are men and women of education
and intelligence. 1t is generally the
case that the craftier the crime, the
larger its proportions. the greater is
the sense and understanding of the
criminal. In fact If such persons
would turn their energies from way
ward ways and devote them to honest
toll and upright living, they would ac-
ouire more substantial rewards and
more real pleasures than they possibly
could by pursuing evil and unlawful
paths which lead them to ultimate de-
struction.
Take the counterfeiter, for instance.
A man who is clever enough to coun-
terfeit a piece of paper money so that
it will readily pass for the real thing
among ordinary people, and will even
deceive the eye of experts, could make
an excellent living and dwell in peace,
pleasure an plentitude. by following
the honest trade of an engraver, which
calls for unusual skill. Other ex-
amples of a similar sort could be cited
But they are not necessary for most
people are familiar with them and are
we'll aware that If the activities OF
sinners and criminals, who are intel
ligent enough to know right from
wrong. were directed in proper fields
of endeavor they would occupy
nrominent places in society. They
would be the recipients of merited APP
plause instead of the righteous con-
demnation which is melted out to
them.
To know what is right and good
and then to do the opposite is the
most grievous of SHINING. An IN
dividual may pursue such course
for quite continued period before his
methods of life are discovered. But
such a period of time is generally
short rather than of long duration.
AS "Murder will out" SO Will all crimes
and sin eventually. Disgrace, dis
honor. penal seryitude, and worst OF
all the borrowings Of stricken con-
science are the lot of such
a. misguided person. And be-
cause he was intelligent enough
to know the right and the good from
the wrong and the evil, there VIII pc
few among his former ardent friends
who will extend hand or nelp or
word of sympathy when the Things ne
has builded UP on false foundations
fall about his head and crush him
down. Nor is help and sympathy due
this sort of a person sf
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe.

CFrom the Atchison Giope-1
Every man kicks on expenses.
One chance in a thousand Is not
very good: don't take it.
If you like your work. you will inn
prove it, even though you may never
become a genius or top-notcher.
A secret is an unpleasant thing to
handle; If you keep 1T you can't enjoy
it, if you tell it you are In trouble.
Stockings said Lysander John
Appleton, looking over the top of his
paper at his wife, "are going to be
higher" "But we can't wear them
any higher with those new long cor
SETS" protested his wife.
How children exaggerate about
their. kin! The John Kunkel children,
living south of town, recently said of
their brother Bill: "Bi1l has gone to
town, to build the new high school"
AS a matter of fact, Bill was hired to
move concrete in a wheelbarrow. and
lasted only one day.
A young wife sat down and cried
the other evening, because her hus-
band was kept down town late, and
would have to come home in the dark.
An elderly woman who was present,
and who had a husband and three
sons at the front in the Civil war and
didn't hear from them for months at
a time, wiped up the floor to have fit
when the young wife cried, but chang
ed her mind and slapped the young
wife in the face.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
D;es victim of His Theory.

DR. Herman G. N1erman, a yOuHg
and wealthy physician of this city.
died Sunday morning after voluntarily
undergoing an intestinal operation to
prove a radical theory ne first adyan-
ced at the Washington medical con-
gress, that the large colon was un-
Necessary for ones health, and that.
because of its being a breeding ground
for disease, it was harmful DR.. Nier--
man submitted to the operation last
Tuesday, and local doctors say that
the surgery was faultless. Death re-
DIR Norman had asked number
of outside surgeons to operate on him.
but all refused. 1t is believed that
this was the third operation of the
kind known to science, the other two
having been performed by DR.. Nier-
man himseif.-Fort Wayne dispatch
to New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03

Wroten AID Looie Linkenfusser, vich
ISIS Afraid to go home in der Dark.
Greetings, Looie: Skinee wrotening
you lasd, / hat opserfed nit pleasure
der Wild und vooly addempt uf der AS
sassinated Press correspondent in Ugly
horny to make Injun rise-ooping. Ad
der pressendt wrotening, dere ISIS nod
ings uf a muchness bidding. But es
you dondt read any lidderatoor but der
Perfect Ladies Home Journal. will dell
you all aboudt id.
Down in Uglyhomy an old Injun NIT
der name or Foolish Snake, sviped
hen und a setting uf aigss, er someding
like dot, und Token to der brush. Den
|sefen hondred solchers und dwice es
many farmers got alder him, armed
wit two guns und three press achendts
a piece. Der only reason dey ditndt
catch der poor oldt Teller vas pecaus
efery dime dey ran halluf-a mile towards
him, dey would gedt scared ad some
ding und run a whole mile beck again.
Derefore, der more dey chased him, der
closer away dey getted. Dis, ouf course,
vas froot fer der bress-achendts, vich
vas working py der day. Dey couldn't
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
JOURNAL /, ENTRIES

Just because some music is classical,
that's no excuse for great deal of it.
Vivid imaginations are apt to get
their possessors into all kinds of
trouble
The individual who can make the
commonplace things of life interesting
is genius.
X
Life without few disappointments
would be altogether too monotonous
and uninteresting.
= = y
From the records of the divorce
courts 1t is apparent that vows of
everlasting love are fragile things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
KANSAS CONAENT
CONCEALED WEAPONS.

Leavenworth some years ago adopt
ed the policy of giving violators OF
the law regarding the carrying of con-
cealed weapons the maximum penalty
of 500 fine. Probably it has been
effective to some extent but it has by
no means broken up the practice, as
altogether too frequent cuttings and
killings in this city will attest. Other
been imposed experience the same dir
ficulty. The provisions of the law will
have to be made more drastic if 1t is to
serve as a preventive against the con-
cealed weapon evil. The New YORK
Tribune suggests that IF the persons
who carry concealed weapons could
be made to realize that merely to
have a pistol in the pocket was per-
ilous, and that discovery would in
evitably lead to a jail sentence, the
number of pistol users would be ma
terfalIy diminished POSSIBLY this
would help, but it would by no means
prove an adequate remedy. So long
as it is as easy to obtain weapons
that may be concealed about the per-
son as it is at present, there VIII pc
found plenty of men who are willing
to take chances on being caught with
them in their possession. Such wea-
pons should be sold only under police
supervision, and their sale closely reg
ulated. That will come nearer to pc
ing a solution f-tf1e concealed wea-
Leavenworth Times.
THE TOURIST VANDAL.
The average American has a horror
of robbery. or vandalism, when seated
by his own fireside, or even in his
home tot.n or county. But when he
buys a tourist ticket. and gets away
from home, he becomes something of
a terror, without regard for the rights
of living or dead. Washington and
other places of note have had con-
siderable trouble with this kind of
peaceful citizen. Policemen are needed
to prevent the tourists carrying away
Washington'S monument, and other
noted relics and monuments must be
protected. During the jamestown ex-
position, the souvenir fiends almost
sacked a foreign warship which hap
pened to anchor there, and perhaps
none of the visitors thought they
were robbers; they wouldn't be at
home. Hence it isn't so startling to
learn that monuments erected to our
dead who fell before Santiago in the
Cuban campaign, have been married
by the festive tourist, and that a
strong guard has to be maintained to
keep them from being totally de-
Stroyed.
Americans who travel should take
with them their respectability, as we'll
as their toothbrush and night shirt, or
they should cease to care for souven-
irs and relics. The present system
isn't plimentary to our civilization.
-Atchison Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03

the proposed retaliatory duty would
add materially to the price of each
pound of Is to % cent coffee sold at
retail in the United States.
at is reported from Washington
that the senate finance committee will
strike from the Payne bill the provis-
ion for a coffee tax The house Of rep
resentatives should not wait for the
senators to do this. but should attend
to the matter ITSELF
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press. ]

IFrom the New York Press.
A girl will never admit It's flirting
unless it isn't.
Most peoples tempers are fairly de-
cent when they are sound asleep.
The less money man has the more
ways he knows how to spend it,
Babies are very determined to learn
to talk a sane language in spite of all
their female relatives.
The solidest enjoyment a woman
gets out of life is when everybody is
chased out of the house by her plans
for housekeeping.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03

Jack johnson, the worlds champion
heavyweight pugilist, was fined 5000 in
New York city court the other day
on plea of guilty to a long standinz
charge of having stolen some jewelry
from a colored woman. Now If he had
been treated as is an ordinary negro
thief in New York he would have been
sentenced to Jail for six months or a
year. This is only another example of
the Inequalities of Justice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03

The sixth transcontinental railroad
mas been completed. Now If some one
VIII get busy and build the first great
Forth and south railroad through this
section Of the country everybody
around here will have a few more rea-
sons for joyousness
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-03

Wonderfully strange things are hap
pening every day all over the world
and particularly in Missouri but this
tells OF the most uncommon of them
all. A Missouri woman. sixty-four
years old, veterans widow, has de-
cided to give up her pension of SIS a
month and a light household position
paying her $50 a month to wed a 49,
year-Old bow