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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

And the chances are that many of
the eighty pardons granted in one day
by Governor Blease of South Carolina
were not deserved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Probably the worst is yet to come.
When the suffragis who are walking
from New York to Albany reach
their destination, they are likely to an
nounce their intentions of entering
vaudeville
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Some of the educators have determin-
ed that examinations are no good. The
schoolboys could have told them that
long ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Senator Bacon, of Georgia, is going
to plant a tree in the capitol grounds
in Washington. The Bacon tree being
provided, undoubtedly somebody will
come to the front with an egg plant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

France is about to elect a president.
And being without an Ananias club
and Southern postmasters, possibly it
will be able to do so in peace.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Man, says a French savant, has six
times more lung power than he needs.
But. on the other hand, woman needs
all she has to make him hear her when
she asks for 80 cents for a new pair
of stockings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Perhaps, hereafter, the husbands of
the women who are marching from
New York to Albany will consider
themselves excused from the duty of
walking the floor with the baby at
night
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Old Clip Castro, who is booked to
arrive in New York in the near future,
may be on his way to Mexico, where
the picking for bandits is especially
rich these days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Surely Attorney General Wickersham
is not going to overlook the book trust
before he goes out of office.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

Any number of people outside OF
the Balkan states took a fall out OF
Turkey yesterday.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
FROM OTHER PENS
WHEN is A POOL. NOT A TRUST

WHEN IS A POOL NOT A TRUST.
The appellate court of Indiana-a state
which has gained some reputation as hos
tile to trusts-approves the contracts of
noloS as binding the clause which re-
quires member to pay into the pool %
per cent OF any amount received from out
side sales. The contract provides that
the Burley society shall be sole agents of
the producer for receiving wa-ehousins,
grading and selling his product, but the
court rules that this is not against public
policy and is proper way for the to
for his crop, while the 20 per cent clause
is not interpreted penal, but merely as
liquidation of damages which might be
claimed for violation of the contract. Tho
Burley contract. Somewhere there muSt
be line of difference between the poo
which controls the supply of the raw Pro-
quot and holds up the market for the best
available price, and the wicked trust
which reaches out for the control of that
same crop after it has gone through the
manufacturing process and seeks to
stabilize the market at not exorbitant
price. The layman will have some diff
Guilty in discovering the line beyond which
a pool becomes a trust, and it is not at all
certain that the supreme court of the
United States would agree with the
courts of Indiana and Kentucky. Unless
congress helps to make the lines more dis
corporation law, it may be necessary 20
continue for an indefinite time the pro-
cess of readjustment for each individual
combination concerning which complaint
arises, which, ut best, is disturbing to
business and unsatisfactory to an i'm
Patient public. But in the period of un-
certainty meanwhile, it cannot be said
that every man who is found with one
foot over the mysterious line is a criminal
and deserves a prison cell.-Philadelphia
Bulletin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

production of the morning after
feeling. A roast goose and the other
trimmings can produce about the same
results.
The French tariff on absinthe and
other brands of poor booze has driven
the poor natives to the last ditch.
They are taking readily and rapidly
to morphine, cocaine and other poor
substitutes for absinthe.
Example, of Xmas repartee in a
newspaper office: Editor hands politi-
cal letter to Political reporter. Politi-
barks: This isn't -letter-it's a Yid-
dish opera. Shall I read it or sing it %
Try it on your piano" ytps editor,
pointing to typewriter.
CURTAIN, followed by noise of
typewriter.
Some Harvard professor thinks he
has proven that angle worms have
brains. His theory may be all right,
but we will believe it when he pro
duces a trained angle worm that can
beat cat fish or robin in a guess
ing contest.
Think a moment, and you will read
lily grasp Mr.. Hodges excuse for re-
fusing to permit an inaugural ball.
The defeated gang will furnish suf-
ficient amount of 'fbawl.'' a.
Two-and-a-half carat diamond has
been stolen in Chicago-and the po-
lice are making as much noise as If
it were a lump of hard coal or a pork
chop.
Happy day after!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
THE BEST POTATOES.

Good for Minnesota! Good, say we, for
any state which FORCES to the front with
special achievement particularly in agri-
cultural production. At the recent land
show Minnesota took the first prize in
the potato contest; that is, it was awarded
the distinction Of growing and exhibiting
the best potatoes in the United States.
The bushel that won the award was
grown in the northern part of the state
on what is known as low land-land that
must be drained in order to be used for
tillage purposes. The variety was Early
Ohio and grown by w. A. Dickinson OF
Meadowlands. Mr.. Dickinson is a grad
uate of the Minnesota school of agricul-
ture and is in the employ of a railroad.
as its agricultural expert. Although the
potatoes were not, therefore, grown by .
farmer on his own land the credit ~
Minnesota's just the same. And it Is a
very great and honorable credit indeed
from which benefits must overflow to all
the surrounding states and to all the ma
ton. To grow the best potatoes, to har-
vest the most bushels Of corn, to produce
the finest chees, to evolve the higehst
quality of live stock, to improve the tex
ture and aroma of a tobacco leaf, to
gather prize apples or cherries-these are
the things which count prodigiously with
the practical world Of today.-Ft. Madison
Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26
BY THE WY
By HARVEY PARSONS.

A jag" has no monopoly in the
production of the morning after
feeling. A roast goose and the other
trimmings can produce about the same
results.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-26

FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28
Coming Events

Feb. 2S-Sagadahoc Pomona, Bowdoin
side.
March Especial Election of State Sem
ators in Androscoggin and Waldo Coun-
ties.
March 5-7-National Civic Federation,
Washington, ID. c.
March 5-Waldo Pomona. Thorndike.
March &c. Somerset Pomona, Ripley.
March 6-Androseoggin Pomona, Dan
vile Junction
March 7-Somerset County Veterans
and Ladies' Auxiliary, Skowhegan.
March 9-Cumberland Pomona, Gardi-
ner.
March 11-special Election of State Sem
ators in York County
March 13-1i-State Council, ID. a. r.,
Lewiston.
March 14-Excelsor Pomona, Chester
vile.
March 15--state Board of Trade. Au-
guSta.
March l5-Meeting of Governor and
Council.
March Especial Session Of Maine
March 27-Maine Methodist Conference
at Lewiston.
April 3--East Maine Methodist Con-
ference. Rockland.
April 10.-State Republican Convention,
Bangor.
June Subdivision Encampment, Sons of
Veterans, at Gardiner.
June 5-6-hiaine Division, Sons of Vet
June. ls-Nationsl Republican Conven-
tfOn Chicago
June 26-2s-Maine Pharmaceutical Assn
Convention, st. Andrews, N. b.
July 26Aug 2-The Young Peoples
Missionary Conference. Ocean Park.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28

spirit but a harvest-time viii follow.
when ruined characters, wrecked famil-
les, debauched lives and degenerate
manhood will stalk through our COM
munitN, and homes now reputable VIII
become the abodes of disgrace and de-
SPAR. Unrebuked lawlessuess is Ike
We've first endure. then pity, then
embrace IT is more dangerous than
smallpox.
law is Ia be laid at the door of OF
county sheriff, and of the mayors office
If the chief of police We're ordered
strictly To enforce the law against open
saloons in Lewiston, and he knew the
mayor meant it-does anyone doubt hut
every saloon would be shut up within tS
hours. There is where the responsible
" Of open bar-rooms in Lewiston lies :
The rumsellers know just how far they
can go without arrcst-and they go 10
the limit of safety.
Il have lived in a town wide open. and
have seen every saloon in town shut up
tight within 80 days and several men be-
hind the barS-solely because the good
people of the town rose i'm their might
and demanded enforcement of the law
and The officers yielded to the public de-
mand.
1T is not within the province of a
sworn officer to discriminate between
laws or law-breakers; it is his to keep
| fear that from the governor down to
the least of the blue-ceats there is Il dis
position to connive at law breaking for
personal or political considerations. 1t
looks like that"
We have given but a few words each
from a few sermons preached last
Sunday in the churches of Androscog-
gin county. What fair-minded reader
will deny that these men represent the
best element of citizenship in Maine?
Who does not believe that the above
quoted pastors are of the most intelli-
gent. best educated, highest morals of
their communities?
And, most important of all. who will
offer to dispute that these reverend
gentlemen voice general public opin-
ion?
Now, then, what has caused this up
heaval of public indignation? Who
are responsible for such shameless
conditions in Maine that church.
Grange and all other non-partisan or
carnations arise in revolt against q
carnival Of officially protected and Of
fcially-assessed crime?
DR. Hallock says that, 1T looks like
a disposition TO eonnive at law break
ing for personal or political consider
ations, from the governor down."
What an Indictment against an adj
ministration which little more than
year ago vociferously pledged itself
to cleanse the state of corruption. null
LITIGATION and crime
1t is useless for brazen official law
breakers TO defend their course by
shouting: The other fellows were just
as bad" for the people have been
here all the time, and they know.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28
MOUSE COMES TO AID.
In Bringing the Thread Through the

ripe.
Not long ago there was accomplished
in western city a mechanical feat
which at first had baffied the several
electricians having the task in hand,
but which eventually was effected with
the aid of a mouse.
The men were engaged in stringing
wires in new building, and they wished
TO force certain of them through pipe
1877 feet long. Now, this pipe mad q
sharp turn in it, circumstance that
rendered useless the usual methods
adopted to get the wires through.
First the men endeavored to blow
tape line through the pipe, but to no
avail. Then they tried to force the tape
through water. This, too, was faii-
ure by reason of the sharp bend in the
pipe line.
After a long squabble some one sug-
gested that mouse be employed to car
ny the string through the pipe Accord
ingly after some difficulty a mouse was
captured and put to work. thread
was tied to the little creatures leg. 1t
was placed in the mouth of the pipe and
given a decided impetus with Whit of
compressed air
II was not more than q minute or so
before the rodent appeared at the other
end of the pipe with the thread The
rest of the work was easy. The thread
drew the tape through the pipe and the
tape pulled the electric wires.-kansas
City Journal,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28
Editorial Comment.
Four of the Editors Troubles.
tBoston Herald.l

tBOSton Herald.l
ord Wolseley called the war cor
respondent the pest of modern armies.
In other circles, newspaper represent
atives are regarded-with more or less
reason-as in this category. But the
newspaper man himself is not without
his annoyances at the hands of the
public. These he calls merely "treu-
bles.s. since they are bardenseme only
as they become cumulative. Here are
some of them:
The man who believes that newspa-
pers are sorely pressed to.find mater
ial With which to fill their columns,
and that any contribution of two or
three columns, like the full text of a
bill, or all the signatures to a petition,
of the details of a legal argument,
would be highly welcome, not that 1t
is even conceivably readable or inter-
esting, but because he supposed you
would be glad to have something to
fill M with.
The lawyer who calls the editor up
to say that the aunts of his client.
who has just been sentenced to two
years in jail are such sensitive and
estimable ladies that it would please
them very much if all allusion to the
lads misdoings could be kept out OF
the newspaper.
The man who desires to reinterpret
the events of the day as seen by the
reporter-not that the latter is great
ly wrong, but that some adjustment
such as could be made in three times
the space originally allotted to the
subject. seems contributory TO exact
ness.
The man who calls up by telephone
every time he makes a speech to say
that he would like to have it put in
the hands of the editorial writer ex-
pert on the question discussed, to see
what the latter would be disposed TO
say about it editorially-just out of
a cheerful curiosity
Every newspaper has from two 10
five times as much material as it can
print every day of its existence; 1t
cannot perform its duty to the pub
lie by leaving news out to save the
sensibilities of every good person who
may be adversely affected; it cannot
expect to limit it's columns to mater
ial that would get in by unanimous
consent, and it picks out for editorial
treatment topics which it deems, all
things considered, most worth While.
1t welcomes suggestions along these
and countless other lines. but it must
not be blamed occasionally for seeing
things in its own narrow way.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28
FIREWooD AT SEA BOTTOM.
Natives of Hawaiian Islands Dive in
Ocean for Fuel.

In certain of the Hawaiian Islands
the natives dive for their firewood
This is drift that is brought down from
the uplands by freshets that follow
heavy rains. Much of the island tim
Der is extremely heavy, and, instead of
floating in orthodox fashion, it prompt
ly sinks to the bottom. AS the freshet
gains Roadway. down come the heavy
tree trunks and branches dashing
fiercely against the bottom until all
semblance of their original shape is
lost, and they are bruised into shapes
less blocks or split into kindling.
The current carries them we'll into
the ocean. where they settle into the
sand. The first stage of their journey
is over In day or two the ocean
rises and sends in huge breakers upon
the shore, which catch the logs and
splinters and roll them over and over,
still on the bottom, toward the beach.
At this point the opportunity for
which the natives have been waiting
presents itself They are out in force.
men, women and children. to combine
business with pleasure.
The men dive into the breakers, UNI
der the big combers, and rising on the
crests of the smaller ones. until they
find a piece of wood which, large or
small, the Kanka dives down head
foremost to seize.
The women and children wade in n
little distance to catch the smaller
pieces that get past the men, and soon
the piles on the shore assume consid-
able proportions. Sometimes a piece
of wood may be so large as to require
the aid of rope to pull it in; but
whether the wood pieces be large or
small the work of diving for them is
mo easy matter.-Kansas City Journal.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28
INDIAN MAIDS DoWRY.
Two Items Consisted of 500 Pairs Of
Blankets and II Sewing Machines.

\ wedding dowry which will undouht-
eddy amaze the closest students of the
marriage ceremony was recently given
by one British Columbia Indian to an.
other, the story of it being told here i'm
Washington by Edward Curtis. the most
famous living expert on the red man.
says the Washington Star.
THE institution of the marriage por-
ton" said Mr.. Curtis in talking 10 n re-
porter. lis common enough among In
dians, but the dowry takes on freak
forms sometimes. 1 have Just heard
from Kwakiuti friend of mine in Brit
ish Columbia. He tells me in a long
letter about the stuff he gave TO his
brothers-n-law for his recent bride.
In the first place he had to pay over
to the wife's family 200 pairs of
blankets, and he still owes 80 pairs
That seems TO have been mere mat
ter of form, because with his wife came
dowry That sounds like the inventory
of a wholesale supply house. He got
100 81 bills. $50 pairs of blankets. orna-
mented with thousands of pearl buttons:
IA sewing machines, four Japanese
boxes, 500 kettles and pans, Is shawls 40
sweaters y towels, 20 bars of soap.
three small sail boats worth about $50
apiece, s35 worth of calico and four gold
bracelets worth $50 apiece.
THE brothers-in-law have further
promised. and such promises are always
kept to give their sisters husband four
copper plates valued in the aggregate, at
1000 blankets, 800 button-covered blank
cts, 500 kettles and pans. IL more sail
boats so more sewing machines and %
talking machines. 50 gold bracelets 50
gold earrings, 200 silver bracelets and
many fathoms of colored beads, which
, are still priced by the red men,
THAT is marvellous for a white man
, to contemplate. The value of the stuff
is startling. but one of the brothers is
goldsmith whose work produces him
fabulous sums. and the other is a real
medicine man whose fees would shame
corporation LAWYER
However this aggregation of wealth
will do no particular good to my friend
1t did not remain in his possession over
night, but was distributed among his
tribes people in order of their rank-and
believe me that those Indians guard
their rights of rank They can give
| points to coronation presentation.
AS soon as the brides brothers have
j fulfilled their obligations and have given
over that enormous bin of goods. il win,
be perfectly proper and right for the
| bride herself to set her can for a new
! husband IL she so desires. And the med
icine man and the goldsmith will have
TO come to the front again with another
! doWfy, in order to preserve the fair
fame of their name and rank
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28
Wednesday, February %, 1912.
VIVA. You Order. and What You Get.


1t isn't what you order but what
YOU pay for that counts. in these days
of high cost of living.
Hoasekeeper at the telephone, in
tonch with market: Have you any
pickerel?'
Mafketman yes; some canEht
Sun recently"
How much a pound :"
Twenty cents"
send up two and one-half pounds,
please: and be sure to get it here by
II o'clock
Thanks; all right
Three hours later the fish had been
delivered. 1t weighed one pound, ten
ounces. Housekeeper disturbed be-
cause too late 10 order anything more
for the noon meal for her six people
Also disturbed at bill of 45 cents for
small showing of fish.
tsame phone; same woman; same
market mani. Housekeeper: Il or
dered 2J5 lbs. of fish, and l got just
about pound and half-and You
charged me 40 cents for it,
aoh, yes, Madam! But you kno"
we weigh those fish before they are
So. in these times, in order to live
as cheaply as of old, it is only neees-
sary to weigh your appetite before
it is dressed, the way the fishes ana
the chickens and pretty much every
thing else is weighed at the markets.
These are days of gross weight; con-
vince your appetite of this and the
thing is done. Knock off one-thifa
your consumption of food and you'll
very nearly hit the bull's-eye-in more
ways than one.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28
snoilina the Parcels Post.

when in doubt, play politics seems
"a ha the up-to-date motto of Demo-
cratic leaders-and they're always IN
doubt,
The latest in national affairs is the
Moon committee attempt to legislate
in an appropriation bill, by lacking
on 8 rider in this Democratic House
committee. It is regarded as an out
rage by friends Of the parcels post,
and farmers of all political faiths, al
over the country, will resent the ap-
parent attempt TO favor the express
monopoly.
1t is plain that House leaders are
not dealing squarely with the issue
or the people who want a real parcels
post, if anything, and not a sham.
THE Washington correspondent OF
the Boston Transcript independently
writes that the amendments pro-
posed in Representative Moons COM
mittee actually favor the express COM
nanies at the expense of the Ameri-
can farmer.
The so-called Moon amendments ap-
ply only TO fourth class matter, thus
excluding books, and limit the postal
merchandise weight to IL pounds.
They provide for a general merchand-
Use rate of L cents a pound, with no
fractions. and for a local service on
rural routes at the rate of cent for
. ounces, 2 cents for ounces, cents
for ounces, cents for u ounces, D
E cents pound and each additional
pound . cents, or 25 cents for IL
pounds.
James L. Cowes. president of the
Postal Progress League, condemns
these provisions as fraud and giee-
fully announces that Representative
Snlzer of New York, whose own bill
is backed by the League, will make
a fight against the post Office bill IL
the Moon amendments are attained.
fined strictly TO fourth class matter"
says Mr. Cowles. and they force the
American farmer on the rural routes
10 pay % cents on an 1lpoun1 pack
age within distances OF "A miles, while
a German farmer sends similar
package IS miles for cents, and
while the American Express Company
transports European 1i-pound postal
parcels for "a cents anywhere through
out the country and delivers them 10
the addressee within the usual ex-
press limits. They also force the
farmer to pay two and one half tines
as, much as the express companies oi
the United States now charge on H.
pound packets Of magazines and news
papers despatched by New York
throughout all the New England and
the Middle States and west of the
Ohio Pennsylvania State line, distances
up TO more than 1900 miles. The
scheme sacrifices a hundred farmers
10 one small merchant, while the small
merchant in the great majority OF
cases will be quite as much benefited
by an extended and cheap parcels
post as the rest of the public >
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28
NJ aine Goss ID

Skowhegan, Me. Feb -(SpeciaD.-
\ curiosity now most prominent IN
Skowhegan is the anto-sled recent
Iy invented by Arthur JeWett, a clerk
in a drug store here. 1t has SO aroused
the envy OF the small boys that they
smash their double runners and beg
their parents that they may have a
sled that will save them the trouble
of walking up hill.
Mr.. Jewett has had number of joy
rides with his new sled and makes
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-28

quite long trips into the country. The
power connected To the sled is the
engine from his motorcycle, a JIG
horse mower. All the other parts that
go to make it OF practical value have
been devised by him. He has a
scheme that he can work the engine
on pung or sleigh but believes it of
less value as it would be difficult To
run the sleigh unless there was an
extra gooa road. He runs his double
runner motor sled in the horse path
with no trouble whatever.