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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-24

That Kansas farmer who was wise
enough not to buy some of his cwn
fence posts from the thief who had
stolen them the night before may have
had his suspicious aroused because the
post-holes were not offered with them
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-24

With the rushing of United States
warships and those of other countries
TO Mexican ports, it does not appear
that Colima is the only volcano there
in a state of violent eruption.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-24

Many of her sisters will probably
look upon a Pittsburg woman. who is
suing for divorce, as altogether too
much of an optimist. She lays down
the rule that four years is long enough
for a woman to live with any man.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-24

Man needs few more soft spots in
his heart, as a preacher says. And
also a few less in his head.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-24

If the legislators keep up their pres
ent gait, they will scarcely need even
so days in which to complete the work
of the session.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-24
FROM OTHER PENS
GOOD ROADS VS.. BATTLEsHIPs.


A battleship costs from $12, 0O0, 900 to
SIS, 000, 900. The sum of SIS, 000, 900 ex-
pended in hard roads would build 1,500
miles of such roads at an expenditure
of $4,000 a mile, or 5000 miles at a
cost of $1,000 a mile. Now, battleships
may be necessary, as the relations of
the governments of this world are now
adjusted but if we can do that much
to preserve world peace why should we
not draw on the national treasury for
internal development? The cost of
few battleships would span the CONT
nent from Portland, Me-, to San Fran
cisco with a concrete national highway
100 feet wide. The construction of such
a road would promote the unity COM
fort and business of the widely divided
sections of the country and add to the
fame of the nation. Among the many
causes that appeal to the national
treasury for aid, road construction GER
tainly stands well to the front Senti-
ment is Strengthening in that dfrec-
ton and when the general government
takes hold in conjunction with the
states, we shall witness vast adj
vance in this country. If the incom-
ing administration wants the glory of
making the first start in this move
ment, the way is clear.-Bloomington
Paragraph
STATE OWNERSHIP OF FARMS
A farmer correspondent of the New
York World advances an idea for the de-
Veiopment of the natural resources of the
country and the benefit of those who are
in need of profitable employment. He
proposes that the state should own farms
and give idle men a chance to work on
Them He would have every state owned
farm put under the management of a
good farmer. This plan, it should be said
seems to relate to farms that have been
abandoned or are no longer kept up in
proper condition. Manure the old farms
WELL he says, then raise plenty of feed
and buy stock and feed it to them al
WAYS keeping the farms well stocked.
and then you will be able to so right along
with a productive FARM and the state
will get the money back in a few years
that is laid out for wages. etc. providing
the food trusts let you get your products
direct to the consumers and retail markets
in the arge cities and towns" This idea
of state owned farms Smacks rather too
much of pa ternalisTn to please good
many people, bot under wise manage
ment it might prove practicable. 1t is u
question whether the state could make
such an enterprise beneficial to the public
as a mere matter of business, but as a
means of furnishing employment to men
and boys who need to be taken away
from idle and useless lives in the cities
and places where they can do Something
of real value to the community it might
be productive of good results.-Rochester
Union and Advertiser
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-24
Noah Webster Down to Dat.

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES who can un-
dress in the upper berth of
sleeper.
Contributor-An ultimate consumer.
Conventional crooked political
meeting very popular with the an
clients.
Copperhead-Man who does not
agree with you on politics. See also
Malefactor. Demagogue. Imbecile,
Liar, Horsethief, etc.
Cornet-An instrument of torture.
Corset--A gay deceiver, which
doesn't deceive anybody.
Count-A gentleman who has no
money.
Courtship-A period in a mans life
when the foolish house gates are just
yawning for him.
Cow-An old fashioned animal that
will never be superseded by the au-
tomobile.
Cuban-Man who isn't happy un-
less he's unhappy.
From the HickeyviIIe Clarion.
Enos Hand was down to the CITY the
other day and bought a clock at a high
toned jewelry store. Enos says it will
run eight days without winding. I
wonder how long it would run If they
would wind it.
A strained nurse from Chicago has
came to take of Grandma Pringle.
This is good weather for planting
Four funerals since Sunday.
S1laS Spillaker of Hardscrabble town
ship called in last week and stopped his
paper. Well. the paper amt like yarb
tea. He don't have to take it if he don't
want to. He was sore because we didn't
publish his picture the last time he took
Peruna- Constable Ezru Hand threatens
to raid the funk game in the back room
of the drug store as it disturbs the ODD
Fellers lodge which meets upstairs. Miss
Lutte Bibbins is taking music lessons on
the catarrh from Amariah Tilson, ou.'
barber. All there. Am. Mr.. Hi Sphinx
has got new bare skin overcoat and he
wife has got neck scarf and muff made
outen pure veTmin fur.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-24

Government experts have finally
found sulphur in oleomargarine. Is
that all?
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

learned to love the sea. one can imagine
him I'm his boyhood days running down
the street with other boys of his age to
the river bank and venturing forth in the
bowl, long before the days OF the three
wise men OF Gotham.
A curious fact Is that while the genu.
Inc remnants of other civilizations are
easy to pick up. It is charged against the
Bagdadi that four-ifths OF the objects
which they offer for sale are spurious.
The antiquity forger. according TO DR..
Banks. who conducted archaeological re-
searches on the Babylonian plain for the
University 90 Chicago, has produced
hundreds OF statues. bas-reliefs, clay
and stone tablets. inscribed bronze rings,
stone vases seal cylinders and other
objects unlike anything the ancient
world ever produced "A continuous
stream Of his products" said DR.. Banks,
lis making its way from Bagdad TO the
private collections OF Europe, and more
than one successful piece has round a
conspicuous place In the showcase OF a
great national museum
The present city of Bagdad lies ON both
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

out? Indeed. how many persons Boosting
any acquaintance with geography can ex-
actly locate the place without looking
upon the map? Can they say offhand
under the rule of what country 1t Is?
Yet. tucked away in an out OF the way
corner of the world, as IL is, Its modern
ization has begun 1t has felt the CIV
ilizing % influence OF the cotton looms
of England and the five-gallon petroleum
tins of the Standard Oil Company. The
Bedouins which frequent it's wandering
streets no longer rely upon the deft
fingers of their womankind for the stun Of
which TO make their headdresses, but upon
the toll worn phalanges Of the women
of Lancashire and Manchester. These
are now made of cheap European cottons
The ubiquitous oilcans serve I'm the place
OF the old-fashioned gostskin az a means
of transporting the precious supplies of
Tigris water Bagdad is changing.
This famous old city. with its furnished
gold minarets and narrow. dusty rtreets,
the home of Sinbad the Sailor and the
scene OF secret wanderings OF HarOua Al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

, Of brigandage. IL il not strange, there
fore. that few travellers search out the
old Sity.
Bagdad is. indeed. an ancient city. II
one may believe the legends, Older than
any other existing. even Damascus. II is
said that more than two mllenniums be-
fore the opening OF the Christian era
there was town called Bagdadu on the
banks OF the Tigris. Nearly two and one
half millenniums ago ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS re-
built it. and II you doubt IL. according
to an Archaeological OF note who found i'm
the Babylonian valley the oldest statue
known, IL you wish to spend a pleasant
sunset hour you can take one of the
curious bowl-shaped boats and whirl mp
the river TO the embankment above the
bridge, where you can dig up "A large
brick bearing the name and titles of this
famous Babylonlan ruler. The boat itself
is an evidence of the antiquity OF the
place 1t is wicker coracle. coated with
bitumen. and can be found pictured among
the carvings of ancient Nineveh II may
have been in just such boat that Sind
bad had his first adventures ahoat and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
CDoxce Aozae sites ar9a0< G.5e ~res5eS ,za>0 ne
GDe4- Greatly E5eSH 42o< CLrs07o7e1' SSe1Zz9-

cast glance. the family eats III p'e"
ant weather and sleeps under me s'''.
sky i'm the summer time. Each "o'S.'
also. has a sort of cellar to when d"
treat in the middle OF the DAY "he" "a
thermometer ranges above one nu''''
degrees Fahrenheit. 81.
There are objects of interest," to' At
though the site Of the great paia'. s.,
Haroun Al-Raschid is now occupeo oo
the ungalnly buildings OF the io'e'
consulates. and the walls Of his city IN
torn down and sold some years aso'
tangible memorials of the great co."
have not disappeared. There were w."
Arabian women whose names VIII a'"' :,
live in story Thy are the Vuee"
Sheba. Zenobla and Zobeide. the ia, ,,.,sn
wife of Haroun Al-Raschid. lra''s
says her dust lies beneath the oc'aeo"
brick tower with the conical pihe"pp
dome rising above the dead lever U,
city on the right of the river. The 'o''s
is slowly falling to pieces ana oa'S
robbers make IT their home OUT I'D,
lover of the Arabian Nights couio '''
to make pilgrimage to liz
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

sides OF the Tigris. the main part being
on the east bank. Old Bagdad was chiefly
on the west side. The modern city is a
network of winding streets. They are too
narrow for horsemen to pass. and In
some places even pedestrlans-certainly OF
the aldermanic type OF build-have DIM
Guilty In getting by each other IL Is
said that when a native Is lost In the
labyrinth which represents the street
plan. he seeks a street I'm which Is the
deep path marking the route OF the
donkeys which carry water. All such
roads lead to the rivers brink.
The house walls hemming I'm the streets
would delight the eye of bill poster.
but no one else. They are blank sur
faces of brick. for the Mahometan
lives as the PompeIians did before they
were swallowed up. His home life Is
spent looking not out. but In. The in
terror OF a Bagdad house Is an open court
surrounded by galleries The courts,
with their fountains, are the high
walled gardens, green and old" On the
fiat roof, with It's high parapct. over
which the neighbor is supposed never to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
SIC Lxa5 -7cso0 TIE Zpr1s .E~IU>eee Olo oz7S 0eA1
.RaSSe6 oS6 ~To1z7e o<-2I5e (z7zoxH5 Goals

Raschid. the caliph Of the ARABIAN
Nights" when in its prime thousand
years ago had a population OF two mill
ion. according to tradition. Now It's In
babitants number less than onc-tenth
that number Its scores OF mosques are
in ruins and the major part Of the m
habitants are living in a relatively new
Bagdad. which has grown up on the east
bank of the Tgris
There are three ways OF reaching Rag-
dad one is a month-lorg camel journey
across the Arabian Desert; second
which takes an even greater length Of
time, is the Persian Gulf and fiat bot
tom steamer. which traverses the five
hundred miles OF curves In the Tigrls
River between the gulf and the city; the
third is a raft. on which one floats for a
thousand miles down the Mesopotamian
Valley on the turgid waters OF the Tigris
from Dearbekir. in Kurdistan. The jour
ney on the river in either direction II not
without danger from marauding gang
sters of the desert. who do not hesitate
to Kill in the practice of their profession
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

The only way in which the committee
investigating could secure such informa-
ton was by following on the street the
women or children carrying home the ma
terials delivered to them by contractors.
In one house. whose license had oeeh
revoked and which was shortly after de-
clared unfit for dwelling purposes, every
ono Of the forty residing families was
found at work picking nuts for cahdy
factories.
Manufacturers are compelled TO keep
record ~ all their "out workers" and are
not supposed to send for manufacture any
of the forty-one articles specified In the
act TO an unlicensed house nor 10 any
Mace where there is a case OF contagious
disease. But II is generally the case that
the "out workers" take more work thah
they could do themselves and farm II out
10 whoever they please retaining shght
nrofit for their middleman service.
Or II happens that a little contractor
rents a fat in a licensed tenement and
uses II only as a storage room. There Il
hundred "out workers" may call in the
morning for bags Of nuts. which they
take TO some airocious howell reekng WIN
filth and disease Now and then one
reads in the paper. especially the jewish
and Italian papers-for it Is the most
wretched Of these two races who seek
that kind Of employment-an advertise
ment like this:
HOME WORK.-No experience necessary.
Call Apartment 20, 9TH floor, NO. -
Madison street.
II the reader goes there some morning
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
HQ77e -Ws7TG D07z777 z7z7z7e0 0s 77017''7 ~
Nuts. Sailed or Candied, and Certain Varieties
of Fruits Are Among the Edibles Often
Handled in 1ovels or Tenements
Reeking with Filth and Disease.

the bristles of the toothbrush
were soiled by all that uncleanliness, and
IL may be that lips already touched by
finger OF death moistened the cigarette
paper
For the tenement shop is creeping fast
over the slum, invading every field OF the
manufacturing business which requires no
special training and no special machinery
Tenement work, or, as II is known,
"outwork," is a practical means Of defy
ing without any legal risks all the labor
laws and all the sanitary regulations. In
"outwork" there is no minimum wage. no
maximum time, yet an unlimited supply
of workers.
Finally. and this is very important,
when it comes to the preparation Of food
stuffs the bothersome regulations relative
to sanitary conditions can be disregarded
entirely. Filthy as the workers may be-
their employer may disclaim all RESPONSE
bilities He saves costs OF rent, heat ana
light: avoids the necessity OF Keeping the
force together and giving them regular
employment when work is slack And by
turing the workers homes into branches
Of the factory he escapes the necessity OF
observing the factory laws. Instead OF
the manifold restrictions which apply TO
employees within the factory. he is here
responsible only for keeping a list OF
home workers, and he may not send any
goods. which are named in the home WORK
law. into a tenement which has not been
licensed
According to law. the preparation OF
foodstuffs must not be carried on in any
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
~ooDsTUFFs prepared in tenement
X houses! For whom? For you' tas-
IL tidious reader, and for everybody

~OODSTUFFS prepared in tenement
X houses. For whom? For you, tas-
Il tidious reader. and for everybody
A pleasant subject this for meditation.
Stun squalor has been reaching uptown In
many insidious ways. 1t was bad enough
70 think that the clothing one wore had
been handled In stuffy rooms, where sani-
tary conditions and ventilation were de-
plorable. The skin, however, Is pretty
tough, and even If some tuberculous child
covered itself up all night. as investigators
have declared, with the fabric from which
a coat was TO be cut there was still
fighting chance against the tuberculosis
bacillus.
When II is learned, however. that many
of the things actually eaten or put to the
lips have been prepared by some poor
slattern in Indifferent or bad health ana
by more or less dirty tots Of the slums
amid surroundings that would cause hu-
mainly 10 hold its nose. a brilliant future
looms up for some of the scourges scien-
fists are busily endeavoring to stamp out
Walnuts. pecan nuts, peanuts, almonds.
all the meaty kernels which come packed
neatly either in boxes or Jars, or salted,
or coated with candy, or imbedded In
cake or made into brittle or ground
and spread over a sunjae, were in the
majority Of cases handled in such places
by such persons. some Of them actually
cracked between Stun dwellers' teeth.
The coffee may have been sorted in the
same way. Figs and dates, especially the
stuffed kind. were prepared by the same
hands in the same germ laden atmosphere
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
Il Bagdad. with It's

ILL Bagdad. with its
N "shrines of fretted gold.
4" High-walled gardens, green and
DID,"
ever resume its former glory? VIII the
picturesque scene Of the Arabian Nights
become a great mart for the distribution
of the treasures of the Orient? Doubtless
some of TIE glores OF the days OF Haronn
Al-Raschid. the famous caliph. will never
return. The city which once divided
honors with Cordova as centres OF the
worlds literature and science and which
was the capital OF Islam will not again
reach that eminence But perchance
some day the famous project of Meso-
potamian railroad connecting CONSTANT
NOBLE with Bagdad and the Persian Gun
will be accomplished and an irrigation
system like that which made the plains OF
Nineyeh and Babylon blossom ike the
rose will be dug. Then will the faded
colors of Bagdad. the glorious, take on
new lustre. for 1t will be the entrepot Tor
a wide and prospecting area.
At present Bagdad Is almost lost to the
world. What Occidental ever seeks 1t
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
RNz1rS Gya~eHe"
KalZz3rS Cya~eAe"
Investigators Of National Child Labor Commit.
tee Report Facts with Reference to "Out-
work" Which Reveal the Pressing
Need of Change in Statute.

he will behold a procession Of women and
young children carrying raw material to
their homes. The house is in every case
licensed house. The candy manufacturer
can proudly show his books and prove
that all his "out work is done in mice.
clean buildings" He IS not supposed TO
know anything of the private arrange
ments his "out workers" may make with
their friends and relatives.
What the workers rooms are like 10
best shown by figures borrowed from re-
ports of the National Child Labor Com
mittee. The monthly rent Of flats In
which nut picking is carried out was
low as s. in several cases. a family OF
ten engaged i'm nut picking was huddled
In a sl2 a month fiat
One of the worst features of the system
is that a great part Of the work is done
by very young children at the very age
when cleanliness appears TO them cum
bersome detail of life rather than vir-
tue.
The picking of nuts Is absolutely I'M
skilled work, as simple as the pulling Of
basting threads. and does not by its
nature necessitate even the elementary
precautions required in the handling If
clothing Dirty hands. a greasy table Or
, an unclean floor might mean the ruin OF
some light fabric Nut meat and coffee
| beans do not show the prints of dirty
! little fingers.
And thus thousands OF children are set
to work i'm violation of the child labor
ro,,inuad on saxantu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
Esz7zzy NI2exS Azly liz q dirty Ze1ze77euE Home
Girl Is crsckz7zS nuts sD,zkA Ter teeth

licensed and declared fit for the manufact-
ure Of anything. including foodstuffs. The
picture. however. does not do justice to
other picturesque details OF tho building
rickety stairways and atrocious toilets.
Fully as much home work Is done. how
ever. in unlicensed tenements as In
licensed ones. and when the Department
OF Labor refuses TO license "A building II
must have reached an appalling degree Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

but licensed tenements. The trouble is the
Department Of Labor will license almost
any old tenement provided there Is not
a glaring case of contagious disease In
one Of the thirty or forty fapilies occu-
pying the building at the time the appll-
cation is made.
one Of the accompanying illustrations
gives some idea Of the wretched novels
of the nest holes which have been duly
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11

rOttenncss.
The National Child Labor Committee 10
which credit is due for uncovering these
frightfu conditions found out that out OF
a families which were engaged in picking
nuts y lived In licensed and 10 in un-
licensed houses. In other home industries
such as brush making. out Of l2i families
investigated 10 lived in licensed and III In
unlicensed houses.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-01
GOSSIP ABOUT
REAL ESTATE
Demand for Stores in Smith
Street Increasing.

Like in New York and other large
cities the retail business segregates
often on one side of the street, leav-
ing the other side partially deserted
of stores, so it Is with Smith street
below State. Very few stores are on
the south side of the street compared
with the number on the north side.
The locations on the latter side are
much more In demand than those on
the former, and bring much better
rents. There is now a large store
with a good front lying idle on the
south side, and has been so for sew
eral months. Many Of the places on
the south side are rented for barber
shops, shoeshining parlors or for
other smaller and less lucrative en-
terprises. The merchants do not
value highly the south side as a bust
ness location and much prefer a place
on the north side. Why business
segregates on n side of the street to
the exclusion of the other is not
known but 1t can easily be proven by
taking for example many streets in
larger cities. Many theories have
been advanced as to the cause of this
shifting Of business to certain sides
of a street. Some think that it orr
ginates with the first stores. that
whatever side they are. on will in
1uence the majority of merchants
who move to that street, as they want
to be near the center of trade and
that hereby one side Of the street
grows with stores In exclusion to the
other.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1913-02-01
REALESTATE TRANSFERS

Real estate transfers recorded in
the office of Collector Richard F..
White the past week are as follows:
Peter Madison to Wilbur R
block 165. lot IA, Sheridan street.
Mas7opust Realty Company to
John Wawerezak, block 1926, lot $50.
Ashley street.
Theresa Machuska to Joseph 20
watski. block BAD, lot SOP; through
Thomas Brown.
w. C. Arnold to Feliko Pomvkata.
block 29S, lot 21; through F. F.. Fox.
w. c. Arnold to John NJ. Marmon.
block 253, lot 8, Neville street;
through F. f. Fox.
Karl Henkel to ]. B. Joselson
block 267, lot 7, Hall avenue;
through S. F. Somogyi.
J. B.. Joselson to Alexander Henk-
Ell, block 267, lot 7; through S. F..
Somogyi.
D. P. Bachman to Benjamin Gold
berger. block 81, lot "a, Park ave-
nue.; through Leo Goldberger.
Benjamin G~oldberger to Anna
Bachman, block 81, lot "a, Park ave-
nue.; through Leo GoIdberger.
Peter S. Peterson to August Nils
son, block IS. lot rs, First street.
through Thomas Brown.
August Nilsson to Peter S. Peter
son, block 313, lots 244 and 245.
Hommann avenue; through Thomas
Brown.
g.. M. Kelly Realty Company 70
Michael L~ukoshewitz, block 311, lot
1l5, Hall avenue; through John
Hanson.