The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-08
FROM OTHER PENS
cANADA,s DETERMINATIONS.


The new commercial treaty between
France and Canada is troubling other
countries besides the United States.
Belgium is much concerned over a
clause providing that products original
ing in France. in order to receive the
benefit of the lower duties. must be
transported directly from a French
port to Canada without transshipment.
At present Antwerp does a consider
able trade with Canada in goods, or
iginating in France and Switzerland.
There is direct steamship line between
Antwerp and Montreal Not only is
there danger of losing much of this
transshipped business. but Belgilln's
direct trade with Canada. amounting to
600 a year, must also suffer by
reason of the determinations In favor
of France.
Italy also is anxious on account of
the concession OF dusy of Is per cent
ad valorem on French silks, while Ital-
ian silks will continue to pay 81 per
| cent. The discrimination must be ia
tai to the italian silk trade with Can
AGA. Italy buys $1.600000 worth of fish
every year from Canada and the temp
tation to retaliate must be strong.
Discriminatory duties invariably
cause confusion to trade and disagreea-
| hle International complications. The
| time may come when the leading COM
mercial countries will hold information
al congresses to arrange tariff and
trade agreements which will be fair to
everybody.-Buffalo Express.
| FELLOWSHIP OF WOMEN.
Mrs Humphrey Ward, the distinguish
| ed novelist, has just been elected a
member of the New York State Asso-
| citation Opposed to Woman Suffrage.
/ The organization here is small COM
| pared with the similar one In England,
in which Mrs. Ward is already active,
| but the fact that a great body of wo-
| R1~ to fhnx
/ great body. of women from securing
rights or privileges from man is sig
nificant.
Men as species or a class have al
| ways stood together. 1t is an article
| of common faith not to betray one an
other to others who are not members of
| the species class or sex. If large
| body of men were endeavoring to wiring
rights or privileges from some other
class, species or sex. it Is not conceiv-
able that other men would organize to
defeat their attempt. They might dis
approve, but they would merely stand
! aside and remain silent.
/ This lack of fellowship among women
is visible to everybody. Women, unless
they be sisters, feel it necessary to
compliment one another, to speak well
| of their children. their houses, their
| dresses and what they do. Always the
woman is in great fear lest some I'M
| guarded word may have given offense
of any great friendships among women,
| but comradeship has always been one
of the vital facts of mans life.-New
York World.
SPARE PEESIMMON'S FUCKER.
It could not fail to arouse dire fore
bodings among the sturdy American pio-
neers, If they knew of it, to learn OF
the propose elimination of the pucker
from the persimmon by the United
States department Of agriculture. They
would view with alarm the enervated
taste of the age and ask IL deplorable
softening of the national character had
not taken place.
Those of us who have known the per-
sirnmon in it's native lair are compelled
i to grieve at it's threatened domestica-
ton. Take away the quicker and you
have taken away the tang Of the brush
the odor of the wildwood. Its individ-
uality has been destroyed, for untam-
pered with by man no two persim-
mons are alike.
| It is the most temperamental OF
fruits. Growing on the same tree
ripened by the same amount of sun
light brought to epicurean perfection
by the same frost. one persimmon viii
draw the mouth until the unlucky de-
vourer looks like an imitation of pike
4 the twin brother, sugary and luscious
will melt away softly like a dream. Bu1
puckerless, what was formerly gas
tronomic adventure becomes as tame {
performance as eating a tomato.-Nev
| York World.