The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-12-16

white columns which indicate that their
builders used to own slaves. that he is
disappointed to find Virginia a state of
little cabins and little farm houses
even smaller than the Kansas average.
The farms are poorly kept-from the
Kansas mans standpoint; the land is
Weedy and the fences broken and ram
Shackle. The out buildings Ere I'M
painted and there seem to be no poul
try or live stock about the place. Thu
hills, however. are beautiful and the
few big houses that one sees all look
like boom houses in Wichita three years
after Murdoch called a halt. They
seem to be going through foreclosure
proceedings, and they are all modern
built during the tower and pOrtico sea-
son of the early eighties. They look
pretentious and shabby. The best farms
between Kansas and the Atlantic ocean
are in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Some
way when a man lives in Kansas he
doesn't look at landscape much for
scenery but to size it up as crop pro-
Queer. Down in Wichita there used to
be quarrel as to how many acres of
land were represented in Millet's pic
ture the '.Angelus 1.-THE quarrel brought
out the fact that the land in this IA
nous picture had not been plowed deep
ly enough and that it needed cross har-
rowing So no man from Lyon county
where the farmers are particularly neat
housekeepers even at the expense of
picturesque scenery, is capable of just
judgment of a one-mule country. The
kansas man can't appreciate it's beauty
and he underestimates it's worth
There is really no town in the world
like Emporia, kas.,. u. S. A, and no
country like the steer country For two
weeks the writer has heard just two
kinds OF talk on trains and in hotels
talk of politics. deals, combinations,
jobs, and the Lord knows what of in
trigues, and also talk of cotton. 1t was
cotton for breakfast, cotton crops for
dinner and cotton prices for supper.
And for a man who knows nothing of
cotton, it is a dull, dry and Improbable
subject But yesterday morning on the
sleeper these words filtered through the
thick curtain in the gray of the morn
ing: well, *he poor feedersi The
Lords certainly got 1t in for them
They haven't made a dollar except on
their feed for five years." Then pass
ing freight train cut in, after which the
voice resumed: II got a bunch down III
New Mexico though .last year. 1 did
pretty well on them. Bill lost out on
them Texas cattle, for he only got his
feed back''-and then the nearer knew
that he was in the land of pure delight,
and began to long for the scene of the
Lang wreck
Washington is fine town-for loaf
ers- 1t is a hard town to work in A
done in a day in Emporia can get about
three things done in a day at Washing
ton If he works like dog. Every one
you want to see is out-generally at
lullSh. Hcy eat tOO LluSii III w cio1lAi6-
ton, as they do in all cities. So the men
become fat, blear-eyed and puffy
checked 1t isn't whisky, but beef
steak, that is killing the great men of
the country. The most important loss
by death Kansas ever sustained came
from over-eating-not from over drink
ing, as was once whispered. Two meals
day are enough for anyone In Wash
ington some men eat four whopping big
ones 1t is the men who keep house at
home who do the real work in Wash
I'm Rton