The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-20
KANSAS cOMMENT
REPATRIATION.

The Gazette has held from the be
ginning that the housewife who dishes
up canned beans, except in cases OF
emergency, if flying in the face of
Providence. The Lord Intended that
beans should be baked in the oven,
with a piece of pork.
A Kansas City woman, too indolent
to cook beans in the old-fashioned
way, bought can at the grocery, and
put it in saucepan of boiling water,
in order to furnish her husband with
a nasty meal She wanted to go to q
meeting of the Daughters of Delilah,
right after dinner, and if she spent the
forenoon baking beans as they should
be baked, she'd be sure to be late for
the meeting Hence the can of beans
in the boiling water.
When she lifted the can from its
scalding bath it exploded, and she
was plastered with red hot beans and
fat pork and delicious tomato sauce.
Her screams attracted the neighbors,
and they scraped the beans off her and
covered her with poultices and the
doctor says she isn't permanently in
5ured, but will suffer a great deal for
several days.
Her husband gets his meals at a
restaurant and enjoys this change.
The woman was sadly missed at the
meeting of the Daughters of Delilah.
She always was the life and soul of
those festive gatherings
Gazette
REMEDY FOR TAX-DODGING.
The plain English of the matter is
and it does not matter how much we
gloss it over-the man who by devious
ways lodges paying his just and lawful
proportion of the taxes necessary to
support the government, is a thief, and
should be so recognized among his ac-
Quatntances and by the public, but in
many cases it is thought to be a smart
trick to beat the tax assessor.
In view of the fact that no man can
tell when he will die why should not
this uncertainty be a powerful lever in
getting an honest statement of proper
ty for taxation. Suppose the law was
to the effect that every person could
voluntarily give in to the county as
SCISSOR list of his property of what
ever nature and pay his proportion of
taxes on this value. In the event of
death the probate court to take charge
of the entire estate. both personal and
real, .appraise the same and deliver to
the heirs an amount equal to that on
which the deceased had paid taxes the
preceding year, the remainder to be
forfeited to the county treasurer p
Valley Falls indicator
REFORM IS COSTLY.
Kansas eggs sold for nine cents
dozen last week, the first time they
were at that low ebb for many years.
Indications are that they will go even
lower. The reformers are at the bot
tom of this great loss to the farm ers.
One of them has introduced a bill in
congress that prohibits the keeping of
any eggs and other food products in
cold storage for more than ninety days.
The big storage plants over the coun-
try are afraid the measure will become
a law and have cut down to the min
imum on their purchases. This is the
season when they have been wont to
fill their big plants and tt competition
among them for the eggs is what has
kept the price up heretofore. Reform
is a great boon but it costs this coun-
try lot Of money every ear, with the
farmers bearing the burden in nearly
every instance.-Smfth County Pioneer.