The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-07
KANSAS CONMENT
Two PICTURES.


When Warmer, the defaulting Big
-Four treasurer, first began to attract
attention, year or so ago, a large and
beautiful portrait of him was publish
ed In many newspapers, and his race
became familiar to most people.
1t was heavy. fat, complacent face;
the face of man with good appetite.
unimpaired digestion, and an India rub
Der conscience. Anybody seeing that
countenance would know that the
owner was used to all the comforts
of life. that he was given to expensive
suppers and imported luxuries Wnen
the picture was made there was not
line OF care on his brow; MS eyes
were sleepy and sensuous; his mouth
had a rather insolent curve IL was
face so expressive Of fat living that
it stuck to the memory of most peo-
pie who saw the picture.
The other day Warmer was taken
from the Ohio penitentiary to C1ncln-
natl, to testify in the Ford trial. a case
that is an outgrowth of his own. AS
he took his seat in the court room a
busy newspaper photographer snap
ped" him, and the resulting picture ~
printed in one of the daily newspapers
there. The city editor of that paper
missed a great opportunity when ne
failed to publish the new picture SIDE
by side with the old one. Inc con-
IIdSI WOulO nave dIIOT0SQ Gil co1AAAA
able illustration of the old axiom,
1.-THE Way of the Trangresser is Hard
It is difficult to believe that the bag
gard, God-forsaken looking man IN the
new picture is the same as the Iat' ar
rogant individual of the old picture.
The man who took his seat in the
court room the other day is thin ana
hollowed-cheSted, his face is scanned
with deep lines, and there is an ab-
ject droop to the corners OF his
Tfo 11nnafI1TlfiV
large. and deep shadows are under
them; they are the eyes of man VINO
is tortured and desperate, and II is
easy to believe the story that recently
feet that he is prey to remorse, and
is in a decline.
These two pictures should be print
ed on a nice sheet of cardboard, SIDE
by side, and placed in general c1rcu-
lation. They should be framed. and
hung up in every office, store, BANK
counting room-in every place where
men may be tempted to take the short
and dishonest road to riches. The
lesson conveyed by the dismal contrast
is more striking than any spoken or
written sermon; it is a lesson from real
life, set down by the truthful camera
and heavy with ragedy.-Emporia
Gazette.
IMPROVE QUALITY OF WHEAT.
An effort will be made by the mil
lers of the state to get the wheat pro-
ducers to improve the grade of the
grain. In order to do this 1t will be
necessary to secure good seed wheat
and that is what the millers intend
doing. They will have a special corps
of inspectors appointed whose duty
it will be to visit the fields and have
the rye and poor wheat cut from the
growing fields. The farmers will also
be instructed in regard to stacking,
storing and caring for the wheat in
tended for seed. 1t is hoped that the
next legislature will make an appro-
priation to carry on the work.
This step by the millers is of the
utmost Importance to Kansas, which
is the greatest wheat producing state
in the country. If the state can i'm
prove it's wheat the crop will be worth
millions more even at the same acre
age which is now planted. Every eff
fort should be made to keep Kansas
in the front rank not only as the
greatest producer of wheat, but as the
producer of the very best wheat in
the world. The fact that Kansas does
produce the best wheat will be worth
millions to the state simply as an ad-
vertisement.-Wich Eagle.