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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-01-19

9 1910. by American Press Association.
HAM CoRBETr OF 1EAD1Na
HALFBACK IN EAST I SEASON
scrimmage. The University of Penn
sylvania has used the play a lot this
year. but almost Invariably it was
confined to passes that did not go
over the line.
About the only other change that
most of the coaches will really insist
upon will be the restoration of pulling
and pushing OF the man with the ball
after the twenty or twenty-five yard
line is reached. If this is permitted
the props will be knocked out from
under the II big argument the crit
les OF the new rules have been able
to advance that there is not enough
scoring when teams of almost equal
strength meet.
The rule prohibiting interference
with the ends in going down under
kicks has not interfered any with the
running back of punts that goes SO far
to make q game spectacular. 1t has
necessitated better interference for the
receiver and has therefore improved
the game.
The good backs still run the ball
back just as far as they ever did.
Corbett of Harvard and Pendleton Of
Princeton, the best halfbacks in the
east. and Magidsohn Of Michigan and
McGovern of Minnesota, the best in
the west, have run back punts as
49, +Io -. or7o Lol 80 oro+1oIso-o ~
all.
Forward Pass Disappoints.
Those who expected the forward
pass to become a popular play with
the removal of the restrictions that
formerly hedged around 1T have been
disappointed. Some few teams have
been able to develop it into something
more than a gamble, but mighty few.
Against real live opponents it is just
as risky as it eve was and not nearly
so snowy. The only excuse that any
one has yet been able to find for it is
that it keeps the defensive team from
drawing its backs up to the line and
makes 1t easier to gain on line plays.
As a threat it's a good thing to have
on the rule books, but that lets it out.
The outside kick has been a more
or less neglected play simply because
there are few men playing football
this season who q kick accurately
enough to make 1t worth while. The
rule that makes an outside kick Illegal
unless It travels twenty yards or more
has aboIte kil'e J II.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-01-19

systems and hie himself to Iowa to
improve the breed of Percherons.
Here is q man who was born and
worked on a farm, but took up rail-
reading while still in his teens and
stuck to it until he reached one of the
topmost rungs at the age Of ifty-seven.
and not hesitatiug to say sc. His re-
tirement will mean much to the rail-
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-01-19

road world, for it may restore to the
head Of the New York Central lines
the grandson of Commodore Cornelius
Vanderbilt, its founder.
w. G. Brown, though born at Herki-
mer, n. Y. grew up in Illinois. and it
was there he left the plow for the
railroad, first as a section hand. then
a locomotive fireman, feeding cord
wood to keep up steam, and her on
through every subordinate job to the
top.
But it is 'back to the farm" for Mr..
Brown, according to his Chicago dec
laration, in which he said:
81 am looking forward to the time
when l can lay aside the burdens Of
railroading and retire to the fine Iowa
farm I have purchased. For years and
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-01-19

First Ward.;;-"....;.Mo Morris orton. J. B: Boyd
second Ward ........J. J. Mahoney R. T.. Burke
Third Ward .......A. Harrington, Chas. Haugh
SCHOOL BOARD.
Members of Board of Education-John
Mahon Chas. Hunter, w. B. Dickson, 4 j.
Fox, j. J. Mahoney.
Treasurer. [. ....,.J, D. Milne,
n. lruaX.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-01-19
I Rail Chieftain:
T Yearns For :
Farming Life :

} life of the stock
farm is calling
w lila m c..
Brown, president
of the New York
Central lin
and from the
tenor of an adj
dress he made at
the Chicago live
stock show it is
apparent that he
is preparing to
cast off the cares
of leading one
of the country's
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1911-01-19
TRAINING camn For tr,atro;t rioera.

Training Camp For Detroit Tigers.
The Detroit American team will train
at Monroe, La, next spring and for
four years thereafter, President Frank
J. Navin having accepted the PROPOSE
ton recently made to Manager Jennings
by the Monroe Progressive league.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
NYHAWKER JOTS

"Gasaway," the Gas GuIch cores
pondent of the Wilson County Citizen,
remarks that paint and powder don't
on"
Mrs. Ruth E. Kelley in the Toronto
Republican: Eve tempted Adam and
he did eat and has been eating ever
since. Perhaps it was Ewes punish
ment that she must evermore pander
to the masculine appetite.
In the next world, says the Mime
apolis Messenger, some special devils
are going to be appointed to take
charge of the punishment of those
cheerful gossips who, under pretense
of sympathy, learn all about their vic
TINS misfortunes and then gloat over
them.
While, up to the time of going to
press, we have had no communication
from John D. Rockefeller or John D.
Archbold upon the matter, we feel
reasonably safe, says the Toronto Re-
publican, in assuring the People that
these lllustrious citizens are heartily
in favor of the recall for supreme
court judges.
A tramp print got ditched here one
day last week and blew into the office,
put out a fine line of Booster, Com
plimentary and Helpful Talk, gave us
a cigar, said he was sorry we didn't
have q rush sof work and departed
without hitting US for meal, in fact
his parting message was, "Take care OF
YOURSELF" Surely this old world is
getting better.-Florence Bulletin.
Explanations from DR.. Crumbine
would appear to be in order. Says the
Waterville Telegraph: Four families OF
gypsies were in town Tuesday, and
everybody had a chance to have his or
her fortune told The women and
children thoroughly canvassed the
town while the men remained with the
wagons. The healthy and hardy ap-
pearance of the dozen or more nan
naked and grimy looking children is
convincing argument that the germs
DR.. Crumbine is fighting have no In
| furious effects on gypsies at least.
| The story is told, relates Miss Anna
Carlson in the Lindsborg News, that
| visiting minister stepped into a local
barber shop some time ago. 1t hao
been raining, the minister had come q
long distance and his coat was eplashed
| and smeared with mud. He ordered
| a shave and removing his coat gave
| II to the boot black of the shop with a
request that it be cleaned. The boy
| took the coat and put in half an hour
| of hard work cleaning the garment
after which he handed III back to the
preacher, who said-Thank-you. The
next dav a commercial man VINO mao
also come down the road past Jer1cno
stepped into the same barber shop. He
also had a mud-besplashed coat which
he handed over to the boy to be clean
ed The boy worked ten minutes on
| This coat and on returning it the drum
mer handed him thirty-hve cents In
change. 1t is easy to see, even at this
date. which one of the two profess1ons
renresented will have the biggest pull
I'm influencing the future life of the
I how
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26

people and their wishes have still to
be reckoned with. And with the lat
stands the supreme court. One and
God make a majority said some wise
man. The people and the supreme
court hold the power now that the
matter is out of the hands of con-
gressmen. From now on the govern
ment may possess every financial Sc
cret of big business. 1t may find out
how the tariff laws operate, what
necessarily exists for protection. ex-
actly how much profit has been made,
the amount of water there may be in
capital accounts, and whether there
have been violations of the customs,
the interstate commerce, and the anti
trust laws. Competition regulates
small business. Big business that has
stified competition has no regulator ex-
cept the government. The corpora
ton tax, if the law is administered in
justice and honesty, will regulate big
business without harm to big business
and with great benefit to that sacred
and to-be-revered parsonage known
as the ultimate consumer"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
GLOBE SIGHTS.
from the Atchison Globe.l

TFrOm the Atch1SOn GloDe.1
The man who breaches tolerance has
pretty fair creed
Sometimes a. confidential adviser isn't
so much so as he seems.
Another mans meanness is about the
weakest excuse for your own.
Some peoples economy and conserva-
ton run largely to saving exertion.
Something done today is better than
half a dozen things planned for next
week.
The trouble is, when you are. cross
and disagreeable you can't run away
from yourself.
There is this to say for the lightning
liar: no one wants to put on a demon
stration to prove that he is.
Beyond the fact that it has plenty
of pockets, there isn't a great deal to
be said in favor of the vest
No, Clemintine. it isn't public spirit
which prompts man to try to make
every other mans business his own.
Anyone can tell you how to keep cool
in hot weather, but no one succeeds
very well in applying this liberal adj
vice.
AS a rule, the family horse will work
more faithfully at swatting flies than 1t
does at pulling the family surrey about.
A farm hands idea of a good man to
work for is one who doesn't have g
woodshed for him to work in on rainy
days.
You may have noticed that a horse.
man who is driving a colt he has JUS
broken, seems rather proud of his &C
comp1ishment.
| Spontaneous combustion has alsC
been relieved of most of the blamt
since cigarette smoking became a ma
| tional pestime.
| However, it is not necessary fol
daughter to graduate in order to max,
her confident that she knows NOR
THAN her parents
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
CARS AND POLES

There is nothing unreasonable in the
suggestion of the city commissioners
to levy a special tax on the trolley
cars and also on the poles of the tele-
phone, telegraph and electric light
companies. 1t is about time that To-
peka was getting something in the
way of revenue on the valuable fran
chises under which these concerns are
doing business. A provision exists in
the franchise of the street railway
company compelling it to pay certain
per cent of it's net earnings into the
city treasury. But the city has yet to
receive any money under this pro-
vision. Since it has been a part of the
railway company's franchise the
books of that concern, or its financial
report to the city, have failed to show
{; vthing in the way of net earnings.
It was an error of Judgment for the
city to attempt to levy this sort of a
franchise tax in such form. In
other cities the tax of this character
is fixed at a small per cent of the
gross earnings of such corporations.
Thus is a city assured of fair reve-
nue. from such a source. But it Will
be impossible for Topeka to change the
franchise of the street railway COM
pany in this respect until its life has
expired, and that will not be for some
time yet In the meantime tax OF
$25 on each street car in operation, as
is proposed. ought not to be burden
some to the street railway company.
And the revenue to the city, while not
exceedingly large, would be worth
while. other cities tax street cars in
this fashion and in some of them the
tax is $50 per car.
AS to the suggested tax of so cents
for each of the poles used in the city
by the telegraph, telephone and cleo
trio light companies, the,e should not
be much in the way of protest against
it. Topeka is about the only city of
any size in the country that does not
levy a tax of this sort. The franchises
that were given to these companies by
Topeka contain no provisions for re-
compense to the city for the valuable
privileges they enjoy. There is no suf-
ficient argument against the PROPOSE
ton that the city is entitled to some
revenue each year from such fran
chises. The day when franchises of
this sort were given away for nothing
by municipalities is properly of the
past. And it is likely that Topeka will
not make any mistakes Of this sort in
the future when the time comes for
the renewal of these franchises.
Taxing the poles of the telegraph
and telephone and electric light COM
panies may also be the means of en-
couraging these concerns to put more
of their wires underground, and es-
pecialIy in the business section OF the
city. This. would be. accomplishing
something that would really be worth
more to the city than the 5o-cent tax
on each pole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
QUAKER MEDIrATIoNs.

[From the Philadelphia Record.1
The modern Diogenes generally has
a gold brick to sell.
With some girls the line of least re-
sistance is the waist line.
Even the man with an iron will may
discover that it gets rusty.
No, Maude. dear; all the stage rob
bers are not theatrical managers.
It is sometimes easier to find four
leaved clover than to find the keyhole
In front door.
When fellow tells girl he loves
the ground she walks on, does 1t mean
that he wants the. earth?
Why doesn't somebody write an
article on how to build one OF those
$500 bungalows at a cost of less than
$4,000?
why do you call this the poker
trunk?" asked the prospective pur-
chaser. "1t holds four trays" explain
ed the salesman.
what a strangely interesting face
your friend the poet has" gurgled the
maiden of 40. ut seems to possess all
the elements of happiness and sorrow,
each struggling for supremacy" Yes
he looks to me like man who was
married and didn't know it," growled
| the Cynical Bachelor.
ssHave you any piscatorial diversion
lhere?" ssked the boarder from Boston
ST can't say rightly as We have" re-
piled Farmer Punkinseed. I'VE ain'l
much on them new-fangled games uF
here, but my son kin show you where
there's some good fishiE'."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
ANOTHER TAFT TRIUMPH.

One of the large accomplishing nts
of President Taft's administration that
has recently been endorsed by the su-
preme court of the United States, and
to which the attention that it deserves
has not been paid, is the corporation
tax. It's import and real significance
is set forth in admirable fashion in an
editorial which appears in the current
issue of Human Life, as follows:
1.-The decision of the supreme court
whereby the constitutionality of the
corporation tax was affirmed is Taft
triumph. Big business may no longer
be conducted In secret. The govern
ment now has access to corporation
books. It is step toward that gov
ernment supervision which will bring
to an end the abuse of corporation
power. The Payne tariff bill carried
this tax as a rider. Republican lead
ers were against it. Senator Aldrich
prophesied that the law would be re-
pealed within three years. But. as the
Icountry knows, Senator Aldrich spoke
only the desires of the interests. The
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
STATON PARKs

Vinland, Kansas, is not a very large
town, nor is it on very important
branch of the Atchison, Topeka q
Santa Fe system. Yet in the vicinity
OF the railroad station there is one of
the prettiest parks on the entire
Santa F'e system. It is good sized
Mot of ground covered with bluegrass.
There are a number of evergreen trees
in it that are ajbount twenty-five years
old. It is a civic asset that any town
would be proud to have.
And the story of its establishment
may contain some valuable suggestions
to other cities OF Kansas and their
public-spirited citizens, along not only
the lines Of the Santa Fe but of the
other railroads that traverse the state.
This plot of ground at Vinland origin
ally belonged to w. E. Barnes,
a nurseryman of that place. He got
the good idea that If it were fixed up in
a park the Santa Fe might be willing to
provide for its maintenance. He sub
raitteds this idea to Division Superin-
tendent Mcclellan of the Santa Fe. Mr..
Mcclellan fell in with it without the
slightest urging. And so this park came
little city of Vinland.
It must strike the travellers along
the line as an oasis in desert 1t
must give them a fine impression of
vinland. And there is no good reason
why the railroads and the people if
most Of the other cities of Kansas
should not get together in identifying
the vicinity of the railroad stations
with parks of this sort. They would
help to make the trips Of all travellers
through Kansas more memorable oc-
casions. They would be big advertise
ments for every locality in the state
that had one. With the railroads and
the people of Kansas working together
in this and all other particulars much
more can be accomplished for the com
monwea1th than if they work at cross
purposes with each other.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
Making Rubfes to Order.

Making big rubies out of little ones
while you wait" is q new industry in
troduced in Fifth avenue.
In a laboratory at the rear of a show
ness what. was announced to be the
first attempt in this country to produce
artificial gems by fusion. A. J.. Van
Exen, a Belgian, was the manager of
the undertaking.
First of all was shown a bottle of
pink material said to be ruby powder,
made by crushing small ruby particles.
The process of manufacture. as dis
played, was simple. The apparatus,
called a chalumeau, is an adaptation
Eofstie Hydrogen blow pipe. ~ r
There were two small furnaces cap
able of producing enormous heat, each
of which contained q retoTt- The pow
der of natural stone was put into a
metal cup at the top Of the retort and
by means of electric tapping. was
forced through a tiny sieve and blown
by oxygen down a pipe, falling into a
gas fame intensified to 1900 degrees
Fahrenheit. The molten particles drop
ped through the flame upon a point,
where they gradually build UP white
hot glowing cone. When cooled this
showed itself to be what the manager
called ruby in the rough"
Mr.. Van Exen said that it took
about one hour to make a one carat
stone and four hours to build up one
of six carats. A record stone of
twenty carats required eighteen
hours of continuous watching.
There was also an exhibition of the
manufacture of sapphires, but these, it
was explained, were merely synthetic,
composed, not of sapphire particles,
but of the chemical constituents of the
genuine stone, aluminium. oxide of iron
and oxide of titanium. Real sapphire
particles when fused lose their color,
but the synthetic stones became
deem blue-New York Herald
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
THE MoDERN oFFENsE.

Every day or SO we see an item in a
paper telling of the trouble man gets
into by trying to kiss some girl he has
no business to. Only last Tuesday a
man in Chicago was arrested for
abruptly kissing an 18-year-old dam
sci, and was fined $50 and costs. The
court would have made the fine great
er, but the man plead that he had an
aged mother to support, and so could
not stand q great fine.
The interesting part about this mat
ter is that only lately it has appeared
as an offense. 1t didn't use to be that
a fellow was arrested for disorderly
conduct when he attempted to kiss q
girl. Whether he didn't try then, or
she was not so particular as now, it
would be hard to discover. But, how
ever that may be, this lesson is evolved,
that the ancient and reversed rule still
holds sway in human affairs that it
takes two to make a bargain, and any
act in defiance of that law is akin to
piracy on the high seas.
There is another branch OF this mo-
mentous matter. In law there is such
an offense as an act to provide
breach Of the peace, and it may be a
question how far the senoritas with
their saucy hats and other fascinating
adornments are responsible for the
mems reckless invasion of the regions
of propriety. Either the female con-
tingent will have to stop being so ir-
resistible or the men will have to take
to the woods.-Ohio State Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
A WILL AND A WAY.

1t is not always easy to detect tax
dodgers. or, in any event, to bring
them to justice, but the Bavarian gov
eminent appears to have proved. to its
own satisfaction, at least. that where
there's a will there's a way; and it is
now investigating income-tax lodging
as revealed in the wills OF wealthy de-
cedents. AS an example of the cases
which have come to light is cited that
of Chevalier Yon Klemm, member or
the Bavarian Reiehsrath, who, at his
death, left $10,0O0s000. For 20 years,
it is said, the returns made by him to
the government accounted for property
varying in value from $625,000 to ST.
oOO, OOO His heirs are now held to be
liable for 700 back taxes. Whether
wealthy and inscriptions Bavarians
have been accustomed to overlook the
fact that their tax-dodging sin would
find them out in the testamentary dis
posal of their property, or, in spirit
of selfishness, have resolved to cheat
the government out of its tax during
their lives and leave then heirs to get
out of the net as best they might, is
not clear. At any rate. it appears that
the government of Bavaria has way
of looking after such things, and that
way lies in the will.-Manchester
Union.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-26
FROM OTHER PENS
A PRoTEsT DESERVED.

The Court of Appeals of the Metho-
dist Church, sitting in Toronto, has
decided on inquiry from British COL
umbia, that there shall be no woman
delegates to the church conference.
This kind of ruling is not new in
many of the churches. Yet it appears
to be absolutely without support in
equity, no matter how strongly based
it may be in ecclesiastical law. It is
admitted we believe, that the body of
the church membership is composed
of women. They do the work, they
supply the enthusiasm, they have the
most to do with keeping up the social
side. If the church needs a new carpet
the women are looked to to supply it,;
if the organ needs repairing, let the
women find the funds. If there must
be a donation party for the minister,
the women manage it. If there must
be a fair to raise funds for something
or other, the women supply most of
the work and nearly all of the supplies
and sell whatever is sold. If there
must be church supper to stir up
general interest, the women are quite
competent to run that But they do
not know enough to- knew anything
about ecclesiastical law or theology or
whatever it is necessary to know to en-
title one to sit with the male rulers of
the church.-Buffalo Express.