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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
FARM OR woRKHoUsE.

Kansas City has had one year of ex-
perience with farm which was es-
tablished to take the place of the mu-
nicipa1 workhouse. The results of her
first years trial have been more salts
factory than the most sanguine advo-
Gates of the plan had dared hope. The
report shows that while the workhouse
cost the city 1920 a year PEI prisoner,
the farm has earned 500 year profit
for each prisoner. In other words, the
actual loss of 60 cents day per pris-
oner has been turned into a profit of
80 cents a day.
The financial gain, however, is the
smallest part of the advantage. The
board of public welfare reports that
the prisoners have taken the keenest
interest in their work, have shown no
desire to escape, and that many of
them have hurried to the farms as
soon as their sentences have been
served. The men who. through dissi-
patton or the commission of minor Of
lenses, have been sentenced to work
on the farm have found the pleasure
and health that comes from employ
ment in the open. Men employed on
the Kansas City farm have completed
their sentences with coats of tan. in
stead of pallor that usually marks the
discharged prisoner. Their systems
have been toned up until they are cap
able of doing an honest days work
and also have the desire to do 1t. They
have learned that there is a moral, as
well as a physical. curative in outdoor
work.-St. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

[F,rom the New York Press.1
The better the deed the fewer the
people to do It.
Loafing could be just as hateful as
work If you got a salary for it.
Most people can brag three years
about three weeks trip they took
Maybe we like to talk about the
weather because we don't like other
people to.
Enough money to satisfy the greedy
would have to be just a little more
than there is in the world.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

No trouble ought to be experienced
by any resident Of Gary. Ind, If he is
disposed to get out and stretch him
self. That city's territory now COM
prises 27,200 acres or about eleven
square miles, and the population of the
town is only 1892.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, the British
suffragette, who is to speak in Kan
sas on 1.-THE Political Situation in Eng
land" will prove herself to be rather
remarkable parsonage If she eIucidates
her subject so just common, ordinary
folk can understand it. The political
situation in England is more mixed
than is the political situation in any
other land. No two Englishmen are
able to agree as to just what it is and
how it is going to turn out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

Sam Gompers is Of the opinion that
a constructive. progressive. radical la
Dor party must soon enter the field OF
politics against the Republican and
Democratic parties If this promulga-
ton Of new political parties keeps up,
there will be one for every handful of
voters
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

No great civic issues are to be de-
cided at the coming municipal primar-
les and election in this city. Still it
would be desirable if all the voters
in town registered. Nothing could be
better than a full expression of the
voters of the entire city at every NUM-
cinal election
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

Senator Lorimer's own defense was
dramatic, indeed, but it seems trifie
far-fetched for him to have urged that
Democratic support he received in his
election to the United States senate
could in any way be connected with
the friendship which sprung up be-
tween him and ''Hinky Dink" Kenna
when they were newsboys on the
streets Of Chicago forty years ago. 1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

Jack johnson announces his will
ingness to engage in prize fight with
Sam Langford provided he is given a
guarantee of $4,000. Almost any
man would be delighted to do the
same thing, and many could be found
who would be willing to undertake the
job for considerably less than johnson
demands
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

After all, the Haytien soldiers seem
to be the only ones who have a proper
appreciation of their business. Sol
diers are supposed to be fighting men.
And when those in the Haytien army
have nothing in the way of an enemy
60 tackle, they fight amongst them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

One of the greatest newspaper ad-
nirers of Colonel Roosevelt in Kansas
and the country had this to say re-
Gently: 1.-THE untimely death of Nc
Kinley set back the liberalizing of the
Republican tariff policy ten years -
And there were seven years of the
Roosevelt regime. Moreover, he
pledged himself to carry out all of
the Mckinley policies. 1t does seem
20 be inherently human to violate
pledges, especially those of the po-
hticaI sort
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

ment has been effected by the Kansas
house of representatives. A '1egisla-
tive. precedent has been smashed.
Perhaps if less attention were paid to
these things, the work of the legis1a-
ture would run on more smoothly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

1t was most I'M for an audience
in the United States senate chamber
to hiss certain remarks of Senator
Bailey of Texas. But they appear to
have been deserved. Senators are no
different from other people. Everybody
eventually gets what is coming to him
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

This shortening of the quail season
will make it bad for the hunters in
more ways than one. 1t will mean that
many more of them will get in the
field at the same time, and the CASUAL
ties among them are likely to be enor-
mons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

is not recalled that "Hinky Dink' has
ever held much sway in state politics
in Illinois, His activities have been
confined to the cheapest kind of ward
politics in Chicago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

It's a good thing for Tom McNeal
that the youngsters can not partici-
pate in the municipal elections. In a
recent address on George Washington
Mr.. McNeal expressed the opinion that
It is well-nigh impossible for a boy
not to tell a lie.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report Of that great news or
gAniZation for the exclusive afternoon
p1blication in Topeka.
The news Is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

Many folk are in high feather these
days. The beautiful snow is never
quite so beautiful to them as when it is
making a getaway
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

The betting is about 100 to 1 that
after Mr.. David Leahy is dead and
buried he will send few letters from
the grave.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

Dave Leahy also. seems to be one
of the few men who thoroughly en-
Joys being abused.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

But it is the wrongs of children of
American parents, not those of the
second generation of immigrants, that
Kansas City's juvenile court is called
upon most often to correct. OF the
1893 boys and girls brought into the
chiIdren's court, 935 were Americans.
Jewish children to the number of so
were the next heaviest nationality.
Others were italian 40, English 2, Sy-
rian /, German 26, French 2, Indian 1,
Greek 4, Swede 9, Austrian 6, Russian
1, Mexican 2, and Servian 5.-Kansas
City Star.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24
FpOH O7EER PENS
MUSIC IN THE HOME

A member. of the faculty. Of the
Ethical Culture school of New York
urges the development of music in the
home by unusual though simple
means He would have the growing
child learn to play upon his mothers
olsnpan as an Introduction to the key
board of the piano, and graduate from
drumming upon a rubber band to the
strings Of a violin. He mentioned also
the triangle and the xylophone as ex-
amples of the more primitive instru-
ments child could learn to play. and
ne might have extended the list with
the Instruments employed in the
r-symphony-the cuckoo. the
water whistle, the watchman's rattle
and the other diminutive editions of
the cacophonous inventions OF Rich
ard Strauss.
To carry the idea further, child
who has the laudable ambition to be-
come the tympanist in a symphony
orchestra might be- taught to drum
On the window pane on rainy days; he
should be fed on drumsticks; he is to
be encouraged to practice the reveille
and the rataplan with his knife and
fork on the edge of the table. Here
after judicious parents will not throw
away empty tomato cans, for, given a
stout bit of Irvine and a piece of rosin,
their noise-making possibilities are al
most Infinite. By sliding downstairs
children will cultivate a facility that
will prove useful in the manipulation
of the slide trombone, and the use of
the shoehorn will suggest the French
horn and the English horn subse-
Quently.-Philadelp Ledger.
o.
THE HABIT OF WALL STREET.
It is the custom in Wall street to
pause at the end of each week to take
stock of the financial and Industrial
elements of the country. For exam
pie, we learned that from steel trade
circles came warnings against too
sanguine expectations of the further
growth of demand" There are un-
favorable statistics issuing from the
copper producers headquarters. In
the money markets 1t appears that the
time is unfriendly to the flotation of
new capital issues. Cotton is going
down because there are prospects for
big crop next season. And SO on.
People in the lake parts may re-
member that in the. spring of 1900 the
prediction was for a very dull ship
after a painstaking inquiry into the
state of the iron trade. That year the
record for ore shipments was broken.
The copper industry depends largely
upon the electrical industries. Is it
any less likely that the firmly placed
street railways and interurban com
panies will buy copper this year than
as many passengers as ever? The
money markets are unfriendly to
stock promotions whenever the
chances of selling the paper are poor.
The public is keeping out Of Wall
street just now. The price of cotton
is falling, hurting the feelings of the
SPECTATORS, but the hopes for a big
crop mean hopes for many millions of
dollars from the mills to the planters
banks.-Toledo Blade.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-24

The Cannibai King-See here, what was
that dish you served up to me at lunch?
The Cook-Stewed cyclist, your majesty.
The Cannibal knight tasted burnt. The
caught him, your majesty.-Human Life
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
THE MOON LAW ISSUE.

The state supreme court has under
consideration the Moon law limiting
the number of saloons in Iowa cities
and towns to one to every 1000 In
habitants. The main question is
whether the number should be cut
down at once, or reduced as saloons
are put out of business for infraction
of the mulct law. The appellants con-
tend IN effect that saloon license is
a sort of continuing and perpetual
permit, subject to extension from
time to time. The state contends
that the licenses granted by the city
councils can not extend beyond the
period fixed in the petition OF con-
sent, so that actually all licenses in
force expired July 1, 1911, all over
Iowa. at the time Of the expiration of
all petitions OF consent then In force.
1t is not believed that the court
will hand down an opinion on the
matter before the first Of the new
year.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
HousEwoRk BY ELECTRICITY.

A little over year hence electrici-
ty will be available from the great
hydro-electric plant now In progress
OF construction in the Mississippi riv-
er here, and it is anticipated that 1t
will promptly come into use locally for
a variety OF household purposes. Cook
ing by means of the subtle fluid
would seem to make housekeeping
the most dainty and deft handicraft of
them all In late number OF Subur-
ban Life is described house which
was built, after experience with coal,
gas and electricity for cooking. It
actually had no chimney in the kitch-
en- and no provision for anything but
the electric range, SO sure was the
householder that electricity was in
the long run the most economical pro
cess of cookery.
One thing is the gain Of time. The
maid may get the cereals and various
things ready the night before and
when she wakens has only to insert
plugs in switchboard at the head OF
her bed to insure the things being
practically ready to serve by the time
she is dressed
The electric range cooked big din
ner for sixteen persons, proving the
mistake Of thinking it only a device
for solitude deux
A small electric table Is installed II
the dining room. providing ready
means for light luncheons or late sup
pers cooked by the hostess.
Another clever contriyance was the
electric fatiron in the bedroom, where
1t was ready at moment for pressing
and freshening garments and for ust
in home dressmaking.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
Champ clark,a EooIlsh Speech.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Speaker
Champ Clark is trying to excuse his
blunder in talking annexation by de-
claring that what he said did not have
half as bad effect on the Canadian cleo
ton as something President Taft said.
The less Champ Clark talks about
his blunder the quicker people will
forget it, especially IL he is inclined to
decline any blame for the turn events
took in Canada.
Clark made fool of himself in his
annexation speech, and he. ought to
admit 1t and then subside.
1t Is hardly probable that his foolish
talk turned the tide against reciproci-
ty; but it is fact that It did set in
motion a great deal Of the opposition
that developed in the eastern pro-
vinces.
The speaker displayed the poorest
sort of judgment when he made that
speech. And his mistake is sufficient
to warrant Democrats in refusing 70
even consider his name in connection
with the Presidential nomination.
Moreover, If nominated, the party VIII
be inviting the overwhelming defeat
which party should get when It picks
up man with SO little Judgment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
NEWSPAPER INJUSTICE.

DR.. Cook, the Arctic explorer, lee
tured at Washington, Iowa, and con
WINGED Alex Miller OF the Democrat
that If he did not reach the north pole
exactly he was in that immediate
vicinity. Mr.. Miller discusses him and
his claims to the extent Of more than
two columns space, and the article is
quite readable, as is everything the
Washington editor writes. In speak.
ing of DR.. Cooks disappearance until
the newspaper storm blew over, Mr..
Miller comedies that the only wa the
explorer could get rest was to go into
hiding, and makes the incident the
subject of remarks concerning the
vindictiveness of some of the metro
politan journals, as follows:
I'VE know what the newspapers
can do to man. We know how they
bounded Ballinger out OF the cabinet
although President Taft says he was
one of the most useful men he ever
had and say what you will about Taft,
we do not believe he is a liar. We
believe he Is an honest man. We
know also that Joe Cannon was
abused as If he had been desperate.
although Uncle Joe is not half as bad
as many who detracted from him and
we can see very little difference be-
tween times now and when he was
t,peaker. We have to work just as
lard when Champ Clark is speaker
as when Joe Cannon is speaker. The
newspapers can raise a lot Of hell
when they set out to do it and we all
know 1t and admit it,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
ILLINOIS HIGHWAY COMMISSION.
The third report OF the Illinnia h4ah

ILLINOIS HIGHWAY COMMISSION
The third report Of the Illinois high.
way commission Is at. hand In this
report the work of the commission
for the years 190S-1909 Is reviewed
and the results commented upon in
the light of experience gained during
1910, so that while the publication OF
the report has been delayed, 1t Ia be.
lieved nothing has been lost. and in
some particulars considerable gained
The report comprises statistics Of
amounts spent on the roads and
bridges, approximating Six million dol.
lars per year, chapters on earth road
construction, macadam roads Of va
rious kinds, and on highway bridges.
In each of these chapters is given in
detail description and the cost OF
various methods of construction.
When feasible, photographs have been
used and as much as possible OF the
story told in this manner. It con-
tains many statistical tables and a
large amuont of miscellaneous infor-
nation Of value to all interested in
road improvement. whether officials
or not.
1t also discusses the problem OF
systematic state wide road improve
ment. The various roads are classed
as local roads. main business roads,
or pleasure roads, and methods OF
construction and maintenance for
each class outlined. The problem OF
permanent bridge construction Is TAX
en- up at length and the various phases
OF bridge design discussed from a
technical and economic viewpoint.
This report shows that the demands
made upon the commission by town
ship officials have steadily increased
and would indicate increasing con-
fidence in the work of the department.
Copies may be obtained from the State
Highway Commission. Springfield, Illi-
nois.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28

]. N. Darling. the gifted cartoonist
OF the Des Moines Register and Lead
er, has entered upon years vacation
and gone to Florida. He is suffering
from what is known as writer's
cramp which makes it impossible for
him to continue his art work. He will
be seriously missed from among the
newspaper workers of the state. All
will hope for his speedy Improvement
and complete recovery.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28

through the best crops this year.
Southern Iowa has been little hard
err hit, in portions than the rest of
the state. 1t is SO near the Missouri
line that it sometimes happens that
Missouri's hard luck spills over the
line. The crops in this part Of the
state are in much better condition
than they are in the southern part.
But in the meantime. we are thank
full for the cheering news that comes
from the Burlington line We like
the Burlington way. Keep it up.
Keep 1t going. We send back to
Burlington our Fluctuations, our con-
gratulations and our thanks. A cheer
full word now and then counts in the
industrial world quite as much as the
grooming that comes from the poll
ticians and the men who want things
to go wrong in order that they can
preach their discomfort and prescribe
their nostrums.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
FARM VERSUS woRkHoUsE.

Kansas CITY has had one year OF
experience with farm which was es-
tablished to take the place OF the mu-
nicipal workhouse. The results OF her
first years trial have been more sat
isfactory than the most sanguine adj
vocates of the plan had dared hope.
The report shows that while the work.
house cost the city 1920 year per
prisoner. the farm has earned 500
year profit for each prisoner. In 9th
er words the actual loss of 60 cents
day per prisoner has been turned
into a profit of 80 cents day.
The financial gain, however. Is the
smallest part of the advantage. The
board of public welfare reports that
the prisoners have taken the keenest
interest in their work, have shown
no desire to escape, and that many
of them have hurried to the farms
as soon as their sentences have been
served The men who, through dis.
I sipation or the commission of minor
offenses, have been sentenced to
work on the farm have found the
pleasure and health that comes from
employment in the open. Men en-
ployed on the Kansas City farm have
completed their sentences with coats
of tan, instead of the pallor that
usually marks the discharged prison.
er. Their systems have been toned
up until they are capable of doing an
honest days work and also have the
desire to do it. They have learned
that there is q moral, as well as a
physical, curative in outdoor work.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28

Weather Prophet Busby of Independ-
ence doesn't agree with Professor
Horace Johnson, Connecticut's wealth.
er forecaster. that We will have long
and severe winter The latter, 1t will
be recalled, predicts snow and ice by
October IS. Mr.. Busby says he has
viewed the planets, studied nature and
consulted his goosebone and they all
tell of mild. moderate winter. When
weather prophets disagree all that is
left other people is simply to take the
weather as 1t comes.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
Everything Well on the Burlington


Everything Well on the Burlington.
Cedar Rapids Republican: The Bur
lington Hawk-Eye is authority for the
statement that the Burlington, the
old c. B. & O., Is not laying off men,
but is putting on new crews to take
care of the freight business. That is
called the Burlington way. 1t may al
SO be called the Iowa way. In the
far east and in the far west they
seem to be in some industrial stress,
but here in Iowa things are going on
about as usual. We have never been
overlooked, but we have always been
fairly prosperous. In the far east it
is either up or down and the far west
seems to be in the same condition.
The far west depends largely on tour
ist business and that has probably
had falling off
Nor does the Burlington road run
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
Reaches "PIckle-House' Goal

10
In little while he knew every hole
and corner of the fertilizer plant. He
saw glandered horse. which he had
carted in, cut up on the same floor
with cats and dogs. He also saw the
carcass Of "thoroughbred' that was
to be carried to the green house to
be picked into succulent morsel for
tables in Holland or frankfurter that
might come back imported"
A few hours later he was given a
job that called for yrustworthiness,
carrying meat to the picking place,
the green house." No one told him
that the meat was being transferred
to be corned for humans. He had
been led to believe, like the other en-
ployes, that the meats went over sim
ply to be packed for menagerie anil
mails.
First Bill carried over pieces of
that cow Next he was given horse.
AS in his college days, when football
hero, he tucked the ball under his arm
and dashed for the goal, this time the
green house." He brought over hand
carts loaded with the stuff, and on his
visits to the packing place saw Isl
mon, the butcher put 1t in brine. The
game had been bagged in its lair by
the doctor