The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-24
NORTH SIDE NEWS
Carruthers of Lawrence Returns
$500 to Owner.
Finds 1t in Smoker on U. +.
Train.
THROUGH GERTEISEN
Money Lost by c. F. WOffmeis-
ter, Iowa Man.
Turned Over to Conductor Joe
Bergen.
THROUGH GERTEISEN

c. f. Hoffmeister of Des Molnes' Id
a land agent, knows that honest me- tIl
a few at least, are nvlhE: I5Iance.
Joe Bergen, a Union Pacific conuuc 1
and Charles Gerteisen. agent Ior tile
Santa Fe at the Junction depot. IT,,
The honesty of these men saved MN
5000.
Mr.. Hoffmeister arrived in TopeKa
Sunday morning on the Union Rdc1Ic
train 30 ito dne here at 6:10 a. m. He
was on his way from the west 70 %
Joe. When he reached for his pocket
book for his ticket money at tHe JUL ~,
tfon depot his spirit, buOyed up Dy the
beantV of the spring morning, sank be-
low zero. His pocketbook was gone
'Everv cloud has silver HnlnS.
Mr.. Hoffmeisters cloud also had green
backs and gold lining in the way III %
bills and gold coins to the VaIue OF S 2ID
which were in the missing pocketoook.
However, he had enough to buy ticket
to ST. Toe, and then being a land agent
who knows but what he had more
money. Besides Mr.. Gertelseh ever
smiling face at the ticket WlLuo"
would cheer the most respondent man.
even one who had forgotten his mother-
in-law's address, or had lost a season
pass to the ball grounds. So. Mr.. HoI-
meister took heart -.
He also took Mr.. Gerteisen INTO MS
confidence and mentioned the loss, stat
ing that he thought that it had rolled
out of his pocket when he was slttlhg
in the smoker.
Mr.. Gerteisen told him to 'be OF
good cheer" as he would do ms pest
to find the wallet. He wired the con-
ductor. Joe Bergen, of Union Paclnc
train No. 10 at Armstrong OF the case.
A little later a reply was received thaI
a Mr.. Carruthers of Lawrence had
found the money, and had voluntarily
turned it into the conductor. II was
sent to Mr.. Hoffmeister at St Joe.
Now the finder could have kept IT,
could have divided with the conductor
or the two might have tried 10 puy
secrecy of Mr.. Gerteisen-Which would
not have been possible-but they didn't.
SO Mr.. Hofmeister will likely have
kindly feeling all his life to all con-
cerned.
Brush up" Young man or young
woman, old man or old woman, II you
have brush and belong to the Cen
trail Avenue Christian church or are
Interested in it, bring your brush to
the church tomorrow night. The white
paint to paint the class room recently
built for and by the Excelsior Bible
class of the church is to be painted
white in one evening. Each member
Of the class is expected to help. .-
Gilbert Bremen, of Kansas City,
spent Sunday visiting his father, Louis
6E6uuGIS OL ~ w COZ N1OA0OlA olACObs
In an interview this morning with
]. B. Nicholson manager of the Kaw
Milling company. Mr.. Nicholson said:
1.-THE United States and Canada are
now looking forward to the outcome
and decision of the special session of
congress upon a very important bill,
that of reciprocity with Canada.
'This. of course, IS u very important
bill, and affects a great many of our
commodities and among them espe-
cially the admission of Canadian wheat
into the United States. If this bill is
passed, or is not passed, grain specu-
lators and gamblers will not be slow in
using either side to try and promote
their interests, and possibly will sue
coed in doing so to a certain extent
for time at least; but believe it will
adjust itself, and that very shortly.
For, if the bill passes, it is not go
ing to make any more wheat for the
worlds consumption, and we will still
have the world for a market. And on
the other hand. if it does not pass we
must eventually come to a worlds
market basis for the value of our ag-
ricultural products anyway.
1--WE, to my notion, are right now
confronted by far greater and more
important problem as agriculturists
and manufacturers than the Canadian
reciprocity bill if we as Kansas ex-
DeCl W ICldlll Jul DldCes WHICH Is dL
the top of the world, as quality pro-
ducers for agricultural products, and
this problem is the one of our seed
grain. If we expect to d anything
right we must start right, and if our
farmers and grain producers would
only pay more attention to the selec-
tion of grain for planting, they would
make more money for their products
by obtaining a choice quality grain for
their seed, and thus reap quality
product in return, as well as more of
it.
kansas has one of the best state
AGRICULTURAL colleges in the United
States with a very competent staff of
professors, who are always more than
willing to assist individual farmers in
selecting, advising and caring for their
seed grain for planting. For instance,
If a farmer should raise a very choice
quality of wheat, free from all
dWarfed kernels, weed seed and smut,
the agricultural college could advise
him where he could sell at good profit
in those sections where they are look
ing for just this quality seed grain,
and the state experiment stations are
constantly testing seed for its germin-
ating qualities, and they know exactly
what quality is best adapted to the
different individual soils and climatic
conditions from their constant expert
ments along this line. And if we
could get our farmers to take up this
problem of what they plant, they will
be surprised at the results they OBJ
tain, for they can increase their crops
as to yield from four to eight bushels
per acre, and will also obtain a wheat