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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

Lovers of green tea will be distressed
to learn that after May 1 they will find
it impossible to procure their favorite
beverage in this country. The govern
ments "tea board has. after careful
consid Iteration, decided that the artif1-
cial coloring of tea is injurious to
health, and that therefore its further
importation is unlawful and must be
stopped. The order will not go into
effect until May i, because that is the
time when the new crop begins to
come in, and to have enforced it ear
lier might have worked considerable
hardship to those taken by surprise
with importations on the way. Def
mite notice is given now, however, and
importers will hereafter attempt to i'm
port artificially colored tea at their
peril.
The decision is expected to have a
far-reaching effect, especially on the
commerce of Japan, which exports ar
tificially colored tea in large quanti-
ties. The United States imports ap-
proximately LIE, 100000 pounds of tea
a year, and the proportion artihcially
coiored is roughly estimated at not
less than half 1t is assumed that a
large number of the tea producers OF
japan will be compelled materially to
alter their methods to meet the new
treasury regulations. - Washington
dispatch to the New York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
HUNOR OF THE DRY

Mrs. Crabshaw-My dear. Won ,vor,,
KNOW me when 1 get my new hat. crab
snaW-l don't suppose l will. If us one
OF those contraptions that come down
over your ears.-New York Times.
Mrs. Jawback-I suppose Won corsidar
your judgment far superior to mine M
JaWback-No, my dear. We nroved H.
contrary when we chose to marry eect
other.-Toledo Blade. eacn
Fa' are there any miracles nowadavs2''
res. heard of one last night. A vonnq
man VINO had inherited a million decide1
not TO go to New York to spend n %
Chicago Record-Hera1d
Conceited Fop-I warn Won IN baus-s
OF me, Tor they say I am a dangerous
man with the ladies. Debutanta~T9o Won
really dance as awkwardly as thaf7-
Meggendorfer Blaetter.
You are becoming prosperous of late "
ep' replied Farmer Corntossel. Here
after We're goin' to enjoy ourselves when
work gets slack an look UP some de-
serVin city folks thatn take winter
boarders. "-Washington Star.
do you believe in government owner
ship?" sure do. Horray fer iti'' sfYou
will subscribe to it, then?'' well. wait.
Does that mean we own tn government
or tn government owns usTLToIedo
Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

The price of all grades of refined
sugar was advanced 10 cents a hun
dred pounds on Tuesday. II the usual
procedure is followed, it is likely that
by the end Of the week an announce
ment will come that the price of all
grades OF refined sugar has been re-
duced 10 cents hundred pounds. It is
TO be presumed that the sugar trust
knows it's business but its practice of
raising the price of sugar 10 cents a
hundred pounds one day and reducing
It the same amount a couple of days
later is one of the inexp1tcable mys-
teries of the sugar trade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
"stinging,, the American.

One of the London daily newspapers
| is authority for the statement that
some Of the many American multi
millionaireS' who are coming to the
coronation have engaged West End
houses for the period OF their stay.
| One liberal peer is said to have re-
fused an American offer OF 100000
($50,0001 for the use of his residence
| for six weeks, and another Am erican
has offered $4,000 ($S5, o00) for the
| tenancy Of a house in Hill street in
May, June and July, but the owner re-
fuses to have his residence profaned
| by the presence of a Chicago pork
packer" or "Pittsburg steel magnate'
for less than 100000 ($1o0,000).
AS you have already been told by
cable, Mr.. John Hays Hammond, spe-
cial ambassador of the United States
to the coronation, will occupy No. 1
Stratton street, the old Piccadilly
home of the late Baroness Burdett-
visited when q child, as the baroness
was a personal friend of her mother,
the Duchess of Teck.
Besides the marvellous collection of
Queen Anne and early Georgian silver,
there is a large quantity of exquisite
china i'll the house. and If Mr.. Ham
mond chooses to entertain on an ex-
tensive scale he will be able to cover
the huge dinner table with Flaxman
silver, or he can use a service of gold
with beakers and goblets Of rare work
manship.
In the gallary of this house is Sir
Joshua Reynolds favoritc chair, while
on the walls hang many pictures by
this famous painter. The precious
winged Victory" from Yanina, which
shows the wonderful gold work Of the
Greeks with the chisel 1000 years
ago; a first folio Shakespeare, Rae
burn pictures of Scott, and the Null
grave picture of Pitt painted in the
year of his death by Hoppner, are a
| few of the treasures of which Mr..
Hammond will be the guardian during
his six weeks occupancy of the house.
London dispatch to the New York
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
IFrom the Philadelphia Record

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.l
The homely girl is usually to be
found at home.
1t seems that to make both ends
meet requires no end of money.
The photographer doesn't have to
marry in order to take girl for better
or worse.
It's when a fellow has a cold in the
head that he has no scents of right
and wrong.
Many a spinster feels that she can
husband her resources without the aid
of a husband.
In spite of the size of his trunk the
elephant hasn't such an elaborate
wardrobe as the peacock.
Every man is bound to get him
self into a hole sooner or later" re-
marked the cynical grave digger.
The hacker of show is probably
so called because he is the only one
who is reasonably sure to get back.
Blobbs-Wigwag says he always
greets misfortune with a smile. Slobbs
yes, especially if it happens to be
some other fellows misfortune
Wigg-Bjones was nearly drowned
the other day jumping for the rear
end of an outgoing ferry boat. Wagg
Well, that fellow always did jump
at conclusions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

has any advantage for agriculture, for
the pursuit of commerce or manufac-
turing, which Kansas does not possess.
It is true that in southern California,
kissed as it is by the warm waters of
the Pacific, few specialtfes can be
grown that do not thrive in Kansas.
But 1t is only the experts who can
grow them, and their cultivation is ex-
pensive. Take lemon growing for in
stance. 1t costs about thousand dol
lars an acre, including the price Of the
land, to start a lemon orchard on its
way. And if a lemon grower in Cali
fornia gets return of or per cent
on his investment he thinks he is do
ing remarkably we'll.
AS matter of fact, for the returns
that can be obtained from it, Kansas
land is the cheapest in the United
States. Many cities in Kansas are
ideal locations for manufacturing in
dustries. Few, if any Of the states in
the far west, the far southwest and
the far northwest, have anything like
the railroad transportation facilities
that Kansas enjoys. And as far as
climate goes, that of Kansas is as en-
joyable as any that can be found on
the North American continent. Surely
the time has long since passed when
these important facts should have been
advertised to the four corners of the
United States. If they had been Kan
sas would now be getting it's share of
the colonist traffic that is passing
through it and on to localities which
are not really as favored in all things
as is Kansas. But it is not too late to
begin such advertising. The colonist
travel will be large next year and will
increase for many years to come. The
eastern section of the country is becom-
ing overcrowded. And Kansas should
make some effort to get some of the
people who are planning to move from
the east.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
KANSAS COMAENT
LAW IS ALL R1cHr

me last legislature passed a law
mat no newspaper could ACCEPT pay
LOT supporting any candidate for Of
nee put as yet the lawyer, and the
spellolnder, can be hired to 90 IN and
down the country and in their most
persuasive tones tell of the special
quallncations of their employer to
nora the sought for Office, and no Ques-
tIons asked Truly We ought to be es-
peclalIy proud of our legislature. and
snoulo by all means vote them more
pay. VI course the law is unconsti-
tutlonaI and will, like hundreds of
olner laws on the statute book, be al
IoWeo 10 sleep the sleep that knows
no Waklng.-Valley Falls New Era
we are surprised, not to say as
founded at Harmon placing the news
paper man on a level with the law
yer and the spellbinder.
from our standpoint the law is all
right and although we are no consti-
tutlonal lawyer and not competent to
Judge the constitutiona1ity of the
ABOVE law, we hope it will stand The
law does not prohibit candidates from
adVertis1ng In newspapers and paying
for the same. The intention of it is
10 enable the readers to discriminate
between editorial endorsements of
candidates and advertisements. An
other object of the law is to prevent
the editor from selling out his edi-
tor1al opinions and so-called convic-
tons to the highest bidder, all of
winch makes it a good and merito-
rlous Iaw.-Holton Recorder.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

I never saw such disreputable look
ing object"
well. I never supposed that dress
made the man entirely" Chalmers re-
He was the first man to enter the
drawing room after dinner. His host
ess at once Joined him.
s"Jim. Miss Randall says you are
mistaken-that you have never been
presented to her.
They went up to Miss Randall who
stood apart from the others. After
the introduction the hostess left them.
, why did you say you had met me,
Mr.. Chalmers?" she asked
meaning1y, from something 1 had
heard I thought you would be pleased
! to avoid an Introduction"
ST think, Mr.. Chalmers" she said
frankly, that you were maligned to
me- I beg your pardon for a foolish
remark
"Oh.'' he laughed.
Bentley came up to them, and
Chalmers had no further opportunity
to speak to her during the evening
until she was leaving. He asked to
see her to her car They found her
His face was white and drawn.
81 have wrenched my ARM" he ex-
planned. ST fear it's broken"
Chalmers quickly called to his man.
Here. Lane. take this man in my
car to the doctors and see that he's
fixed up all right and then take him
home. May 1 drive you home?" he
asked Miss Randall.
"You certainly are Jack of all
trades" she said as they drove home
from the doctors Office where she had
insisted on going. do I dare offer
you another fee?''
mot now" he said slowly. Some
day when have earned the right L
am going to ask for more than a
1911. by Associated
Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.

IFrom the Atchison Globe.J
Every investment looks good to the
man who makes it.
1t is deplorable, but in many cases
talent and conceit are related.
When the wires are down, lot Of
people want to send kilograms.
Rheumatism puts in lot of over
time without getting paid for II.
It is rarely the man who has idle
time who does the most for his town.
Post card philosophy: Remember
that for one day of turkey you get
six days of hash.
Remember that you just think you
can do some other fellows work bet
ter than he can
About all the cleaning up some men
ever do is to get an occasional shave
and haircut.
If you just sit around and wait the
chances are that you will deserve
whatever comes to you.
There are times when everyone ia
vors mob law a little bit if 1t is tried
on the other fellow.
There is really more patience in
the world than the telephone girls
have reason to believe there is.
1t is said of every rich man that he
knows how to keep his money. If
he didn't he wouldn't be rich.
You can't play tune on manure
spreader, but it is more useful than
the piano in other respects.
If a man has powerful horse, he
isn't satisfied until he finds out just
how much the horse will pull.
What has become of the old-fash-
toned man who referred to his plug of
| finecut as eating tobacco?"
The farm hand still has the con-
ISOLATION that dull pillow can't be
sent to the blacksmith shop by tele-
phone.
If you are looking for a goat, it
seems reasonably safe to go after the
Mormons, if you don't happen to live
| in Utah.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
AYHAWKER JOTS

One of the butchers at Bison adj
vertises as follows: The rose is red,
the violet blue, 1 sell you meat that
you can chew.
Tom Thompson says: The fellows
who whine around and cry for square
gea a square deal is to shut your
mouth and get after it.
A problem propounded by the To-
ronto Republican: If it takes six dozen
hens five days to lay enough eggs to
buy two dozen roses, how long will 1T
take one hen to scratch out the same
when planted?
Municipal ownership scored heavily
at Yates Center, comments the Chanute
Tribune. The lady bloodhound bought
by the council to track chicken thieves
has given birth to eleven little blood
hounds, each worth $50 apiece.
Related by the Jewell County Mont
tor: A new church had been built and
an insurance agent urged them to take
out some insurance. They held a meet
ing to talk it over and one of the big
members made his protest in this wise:
He said, IT gave $500 to build the house
of God and now If God wants to strike
it with lightning and burn His own
house he may do so. I am opposed to
insurance"
Editor Kelley, of the Toronto Repub-
Thompson of the Howard Courant, who
is somewhat insistent in his hunt for
old-fashioned folk: What has become
of the old-fashioned man, dear Tom,
who used to tweak a little fellow S
proboscis, show the ball Of his thumb
between two fingers, and say, There,
sonny, I've got your nose!" Also, what
has become of the man who made his
own ax-handles and stood them in his
wife's soap barrel for six months ito
make 'em like whalebone?" Seems to
US like lots Of old timers have moved
off or gone on.
AS the new game law has been in
Iterpreted by the Sedgwick Panta-
graph: "The gunner must procure a
license if he has any notion Of buying
a gun, must always hunt without any
loads in the gun and never attempt to
load and shoot until the game is at
least 500 yards off and not then if it
attempts to light. If it continues to
fly in a straight-away direction he may
unload both barrels at it. If he hunts
after night he must carry horse
fiddle and keep saving on it contin-
ualIy. that the game may not be taken
unawares. Should he, while hunting,
meet a woman wearing a feather on
her hat he is to hold her up at the
muzzle of his empty gun, rip the feath-
er from her hat, If it came from any
bird that habitates or ever crossed the
boundary lines into Kansas. He must
Immediately go before the county at
torney with the feather and give that
officer a full and complete description
of the offender"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
A rather bitter contest has been

A rather bitter contest has been
raging in Washington, D. c., this week
over the selection of officers for the
Daughters Of the American Revolu-
ton for the ensuing year. and which
will come to a head tomorrow. Still
the distinguished women who make UP
this organization would hardly be liv-
ing up to the reputation of their equal
ly distinguished ancestors if they did
not engage in a stirring struggle
whenever the occasion offered.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR.
[From the New York Pres

GFrom the New York Press.J
The wedding presents that you cast
upon the waters sink
Compared with being nice to some
people even the govt is fun.
It's extra easy for a man to make a
fool of himself when a girl arranges
II for him.
When man takes the family to the
theater he looks as If he were going to
a funeral.
The man who sells you gold bricks
doesn't do it because he's so smart.
but because you're such q fool.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

It's easy enough to smile when
things are coming your way.
y
Treat some persons decently and
they'll try to impose on you.
= y
A knife is quite as unhandy for
some men to eat with as a fork is for
others.
Good looking compilations are more
expensive nowadays than they were in
years gone by.
As soon as most people get the
things they want they find them to be
unsatisfactory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
AFRAID OF MEN.

Some learned judge will decide that
IN such a case as that wherein Miss
Bowes sues ]. N. Sly it will make no
difference at all as to whether the
woman is of good character or not.
Why not turn the searchlight into the
mans character. Isn't the woman,
however bad she may be. as good as
the bad man? wherein in real equity
lies the difference.
And some day it will cease to be a
joke with men that women are afraid
OF men. AS woman would you not
eterna1y be ashamed of your sex If
men were SO afraid of you that they
dire not venture abroad after night,
and dare not remain alone in farm
house, dare not in fact go about to do
the chores around q barn, SO afraid
they were of women. How would wo-
men feel about it. Men ought to be so
ashamed of the fact that they would
be covered with confusion to think
that women were afraid only of them.
-Plainville Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

After the rebel performance at Aqua
Prieta, it would appear that the Mexi-
can federals can save much valuable
ammunition and the disagreeable incl
dents attendent on fighting, and also
accomplish victorious results, by seeing
1t that each band of rebels is pro-
vided with few cases Of beer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

Polo seems to be on a par with grant
opera in one respect. The cheapest
seats for the international polo match
soon to be played at Meadowbrook, L.
L., are to be S. each and boxes will sell
at from $76 to 5000. But. then. at polo
game it is possible for a spectator tn
get little excitement for his money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

bama permitted contractor to send
more than a hundred convicts against
their will into peril that resulted in
the killing of all of them by firedamp
in coal mine. If the same thing had
happened in Siberia the world would
have been shocked. The measure of
civilization that We expect from Rus
STA may well be expected from Ala
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

Cartoonist Wilder. of the Chicago
Record-HeraId. presents a reasonable
suggestion that the rifles of the Mexi-
can rebels. and the federals have the
ends of their barrels turned in oppo-
site directions. Thus there is no dan
ger to themselves when they shoot at
each other and the bullets fly off in the
direction. of the innocent bystanders.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

Still another precedent has been
broken. Generally excellent weather
Prevailed in all the localities where the
first weeks games in the major base
ball leagues have been played. Here's
hoping that the same kind Of weather
will be on deck during the beginning
Of the Western league season.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
FROM OTHER PENS
MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.

1t is easily seen that the old system
OF city government, as it has prevailed
from the beginning of the nation, is a
failure. Recently, as the result of a
great and what at the time appeared
to be an irretrievable disaster, the city
OF Galveston adopted what was called
commission government. At the out
set it was expected to be only tenn
porary, and it was expected that as
soon as the city got out of it's troubles,
the old form of government would
again be taken up.5
But the experience with the new
form was so satisfactory that it was
made permanent, and the people of
that city now testify that the change
has already been worth hundreds of
thousands of dollars The example of
Galveston has been followed by num-
erous other cities and there are now
over hundred of them that have
thrown off the old form and taken up
the new. Not one that has tried the
commission form has abandoned. it.
One OF the foolishest things tmagin-
able, something that cannot be recon
ciled at all with either business sense
or common sense, is the injection of
party politics into city governm emit
Whenever and wherever that is done,
more or less Of the taxes paid by all
the people will be dissipated in be-
slowing rewards upon politicians and
the tools of politicians. The munich
pal politician assumes that it is one of
his vested privileges to take as much
of city's money as he may need in
his business, and his business is to
hold municipal office. - Knoxville
Journal and Tribune.
BUREAU. OF DOMESTIC SCIENCE.
Representative Wilson, of Illinois,
has introduced a bill proposing that
100000 be expended to establish a Blu
reau Of Domestic Science in the De-
partment of Agriculture. This bureau
shall investigate methods and appli-
ances for the preparation of food and
gather Information to be used in train
ing the boys and girls of the schools
and colleges in household and institu-
tional management. The bureau would
have branches in some of the col
legeS wherein experimental research
should be conducted. SemiannuaI re-
warded to Washington "for general
distribution in the homes of the people
of the United States"
The development of scientific meth
DDS in the home has come late. The
home, is, of course, the most conser-
vative Of human institutions. In it
may be found excellent survivals of
the old practical and patriarchal gov
ernmeEt, but the relations of master
or mistress and servant are similar to
the relations Of master and serf in the
Middle Ages The dom este institu-
ton has, until lately. been proof
against the introduction of labor-sav-
ing machinery. It retains some of the
old hand occupations; inventions that
displace them are looked at askance.
But their introduction will not be de-
MED and the general distribution in
the homes of the people" of informing
documents that point out new and
better, and more economical way Of
daily living would do much to revolu-
tionize the domestic economy of the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

AS the Brooklyn Eagle rightly says:
In the leasing of convicts to money
making contractors for extra hazard
Gus work the state may In effect i'm
pose a death penalty for minor Of
lenses, or at least for offenses that ho
civilized country now Furnishes with
death. This was the case when Ala
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

Another air man, this time distin-
guished captain in the French army,
has fallen to his death. Thus does
science march onward, or so insist
some people
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

That monument which has been
erected at Annapolis by the Sons If
the American Revolution in honor and
memory of the nameless French SOL
diers and sailors who laid down their
lives in the cause of American indie
pendence. must be the real thing in it's
line. On its face, so say the dispatches.
Is "a bronze entableture in alto relieve. "
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

A large company Of police, both
mounted on horses and on foot, was
needed to dispense a crowd of 5000
which gathered in a Chicago street the
other day to, get peek at a girl wear
1ng a harem skirt. A couple of such
skirts have been, worn in Topeka on
several occasions recently without bare
~ attracting passing notice.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

Evidently wall street is of the opin-
ion that a poor excuse is better than
none. There was a sharp break in the
prices Of stocks the other day and the
blame was placed on the Mexican sit
uatfOu
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20

Business will begin to pick UP in the
United States senate. Miles Poindexter.
the new senator from washington, has
been formally sworn into office.