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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
WORD ABOUT coTToNwooDs.

The Topeka council has decreed that
the breezy, wide spreading cottonwood
tree must go. Perhaps it is well. But
for old associations sake let US drop
tear and kindly word at the funeral
urn of tbs monarch of the western
groves.
Pioneers following up the Arkansas
liver in search of gold half century
ago found grateful shade under its
spreading branches and material for
cooking their antelope and buffalo
steaks at night and noon. In the.
drouthy periods of early settlement few
trees could exist in the sandy soil of
the Kansas plains save the hardy cot
tonwood The hustling frontiersman
thought nothing then of the cotton fuzz
that fioated through the air and minded
it no more than the brushing over his
broncho's name Of an airy butterfly. But
times have changed.
The buffalo grass has given away to
the asphalt pavement, the broncho to
the automobile. the sombrero to the AL
pine Panama and the hard, rough old
ways to those of almost too tender re-
finement. Yet for the memories that
cling around the cottonwood's past
many pioneers breathe an unspoke14
wish that the grand old tree may be
remembered for the good it has done.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Re.

[From the Philadelphia Record.]
Stolen sweets are often indfgestible.
The weather man is mixed in his
dates.
The dog catcher's labors should be
curtailed.
The sculptor is obliged to carve out
his own future.
The fool who rocks the boat generally
lives to regret it.
It's too bad that some things seem
too good to be true.
1t doesn't take conscience to make
Z towards of some people.
The coal miner kicks because he is
kept down in the world.
No. Maude, dear: you can't fill a po-
ker hand with an ash tray.
Talk is cheap, even to those who in
dulge in extravagant remarks.
The fellow who hides his light under
bushel never blows about it.
The girl with the most caeek ISM
the one who is addicted to bushes.
People may always aook on the bright
side of life without being dazzled.
When the clergyman goes into poll
tics does he become d divine heller?
Some men never break themselves Of
bad habits until they find themselves
broke.
It's all very well to strike out for
yourself, unless you happen to be a ball
player.
Some men screw up their courage
with strong drink until they are posi-
lively tight.
Girls an wonder if there are any men
in real life who make love as 1t is done
on the stage.
Even the gas bill has a sex;
The sex we think the sweeter.
Tor though her presence Oft may vex,
We always have to metre!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
NEW USE FOR ALFALFA.

A new use has been discovered for al
falfa seed. Otto Benninghoven, Riley
county farmer, comes forward as wit
ness that when the seed is properly
ground and mixed with corn it is an
excellent beef-producing food for cat
tie, taking the place of cottonseed meal.
Heretofore the seed Of the alfalfa
plant has been valuable chiefly to in
crease alfalfa acreage-in other words.
it has been used only as seed. Alfalfa
growers have feared that as the acre
I age increases the demand for seed will
decrease and the price will go down.
Alfalfa is an extremely valuable crop
for hay alone, but the seed has added
much to it's value in the past. some
times yielding five and six bushels to
the acre and bringing five dollars per
bushel.
The idea that the seed can be pro-
fitably fed to cattle is a new one and If
it proves feasible may result in an in
creased demand for the seed and there
fore prove a source of increased wealth
to the farmer. 1t will do away with the
fear that the demand for alfalfa seed
will die out and the price go down.
Secretary Coburn believes there are
new and undiscovered uses for this
wonderful plant, and he thinks that
feeding it may be entirely feasible. He
thinks it quite probable that nutrition
may be contained in the seed in such
condensed form that it will be of value
for feed. even at good price.
Mr.. Benninghoven claims that when
corn is fed whole IS per cent of it's
nutritive value is lost; when it is
ground this loss is reduced to 20 per
cent? but he says if alfalfa meal is pro-
perly mixed with it the loss Of nutri-
ton is less than per cent, and in this
mixture lies its greatest value.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
FACE IT LIKE MEN.

For the first time since the existing
stringency in the city finances COM
menced, the city authorities seem to
have undertaken to grapp1e with the
problem in a business-like and deter
mined manner. The ways and means
committee of the council has called on
the city clerk for statements of expen-
ditures, to see where the money has
been going, and for the first time in
years the city treasurer and city clerk
have been called into consultation with
the CON mitttee to discuss the situation
and assist in finding a solution.
Heretofore the city officials seem to
have been afraid to look the dilemma
squarely in the face. They have OBJ
jected to all efforts to make public the
real condition of the city treasury.
Privately they have admitted that
things were in bad shape, but in their
public acts they have tried to put the
best side foremost, and have increased
rather than decreased the city expen-
ditures.
If it had not been for the banks in
the city, Topeka would stamp its war;
rants mot paid for want of funds"
about four months out of each year. As
it is, the banks carry the city's paper.
ana preserve the city 8 credit.
1t is to be hoped that the ways and
means committee will find the leaks in
the city's financial administration, and
stop them. 1t is well known where sew
eral of them exist already. There may
be others. 1t will require considerable
backbone for the committee to do it's
work we'll, and hew TO the line. The
axe may. pass through the necks of a
great many who hold political jobs, in
reaching the aforementioned line. There
will be a great chorus of sequeals, and
the pressure which will be brought upon
the councilmen to spare the henchmen
will be great. This is a matter which
touches the pocketbooks of every tax
payer in Topeka, however, and the poll
ticians at the pie counter and the ex-
pensive schemes to win popularity at
the city's expense must be of secondary
consideration.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

What it is treason to all the tradi-
lions of Fourth of July literature and
oratory to designate otherwise than as
.our natal day has dawned again and
passed with the usual Introduction and
accompaniment of pandemoniac noises
and the usual number of frightful cas-
ua1ties incidental to what has come to
be considered its proper observance. No
doubt the victims of the long conflict
which found its climax in the signing
of the Declaration of Independence did
not greatly exceed in number those la
ter patriots who have given up lives,
eyes and fingers in it's strenuous cele-
bration. Death and disaster have come
to be such inevitable concofnitants of
the Fourth of July that the majority
of Americans have lost sight of the
sentiment that originally attached to
the national celebration in their anx-
ious concern for life and limb
The American colonies struggle for
independence and the war of the Revo-
luton, there can be no doubt, have been
dwarfed into insignificance for recent
generations by the stirring times
through which they themselves have
passed. 1t is not surprising that people
who lived through the terrible days of
the heDol11Qn SHOULD AedT Ollly 90 vim
and distant echoes the booming of the
cannon of the Revolution.
The battles in which we received our
scars are the battles which we must
inevitably remember with the greatest
distinctness and which must always
have for us the greatest fascination
and interest. The man who lost a limb
at Shiloh and the woman whose sons
III ,I of the
great cost of the preservation of the
Union than of the sacrifices incidental
to it's birth And if your family was
represented by a hero who swan with
Funston in the Bag-bag the stories Of
Washington and Green and Lee and
Ethan Allen and Putnam can hardly
impress you.
But. no later event in the history of
our country, howsoever magnified in our
opinion by our immediate connection
with it, can compare in Importance with
that first national clmacteric; the war
for independence If ever there was
righteous war it was the American Rev
olution The polite historian will UNI
ouestionably withhold the sane verdict OF
time on some of our later wars, but
the history of the Revolution. insofar as
its causes, its objects and its accom-
plishments are concerned, will bear the
closest investigation and the most ear
nest study which can be devoted to 1t
and only gain as time goes on in glory.
II ever bloodshed and suffering and sac
rifice were justified, it was in the cause
for which those stout-hearted American
colonists fought and which was voiced
in the deathless words of the document
whose adoption the skyrocket and the
giant fire cracker have just commence
rated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe

IF'rOm the Atch1S0n GlObe.J
You have good deal of sense II you
have enough not to drink whiskey or
gamble.
Do you abuse ugly people? And are
you above suspicion in that particular
yourself?
If we were a woman, we wouldn't
kiss the men. And We'll be doggoned
If we'd kiss the women, either.
The mean men seem to expect every
thing unreasonable from the women ex-
cept that they pay their bets.
If some owners of horses would spend
more for feed and less for whips, they
would have more spirited animals
Every woman hears those things from
her husband about other men which the
other men say are a pack of lies.
What good times we could have talk
ing all night and telling all we know,
to man who is to be hanged tomorrow.
The women are funny: even after they
years, they are still interested in love
stories.
One of the great disappointments to
woman is that no man places the
value on his wife's forgiveness that the
novels say he does
We have watched. and have decided
that the louder kiss sounds. the less
sincerity there is in it. The quiet ones
are the real terrors.
When a man visits in the country.
tAcic Is q suspicion That MS HOST ana
hostess are ashamed of him, unless they
take him to church
When a man goes to another country
to look around" it sometimes indicates
that he spent too much time in looking
around" at home.
The writer of this shook hands with
woman 10 years old this morning, and
she jerked her hand away, as though
we were holding it too long.
Don't get up a picnic. Wait to be
invited, and then sit around, and turn
up your nose at the arrangements. No
man ever has any fun at a picnic he
proposes to manage.
They tell OF an Atchison girl who was
mad at another girl, at a concert. and
sat down on a bouquet of roses that
had been sent her. She pretended it
was mistake, and smiled like an angel
in making apologies.
disquieting report comes from Chi
cago: 1t is to the effect that the swag-
ger young men will not wear straw
hats this year: they are too common.
We like a straw, because it is light
and airy, but of course we will give it
up if the Chicago men say SO. Nit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
A BUSINESS CONGRESS.

An interesting review, of the work of
the session of congress just ended ap-
pears in the Chicago Journal, paper
with Democratic leanings. It follows:
We think that Speaker Henderson
may be pardoned something of the n.y.
perbole of his valediction to the house
yesterday. where he said that no house
of representatives since the constitu-
ton was adopted has in the same length
of time done the amount of work that
this house of representatives has done. -
1t sounds like exaggeration when we
consider certain of the great epochs of
our history, but it can not be denied
that in the seven-months session just
closed congress has performed an inn
mense amount of work. That it has
done SO much and done it so well may
be aScribed to the better business meth
DDS that are now observed both in the
senate and the house.
So far as the house is concerned. much
is due to the Reed rules" which extri-
Gated it from quagmire of i'm beetle in
eptitude, into which any small minority
of Instructors could plunge it whenever
1t chose to do SO, and while these rules
carried the house to the other extreme
where it ceased to be deliberative
" .
as long as Mr.. Reed administered the
rules.
But it is not everyone who can use the
wand of a magician, or WELD the gavel of
Speaker Reed, and one thing that has been
demonstrated by the past session is that
determined combination can Illustrate
the despotism of the speaker and compel
elaboration and debate on public questions
where there is need for it, no matter how
much the speaker and the committee on
rules may oppose it. Revolts against the
speaker, which were impossible under
Reed, have been frequent under Hender-
son, and these have made the house dur
ing the present session something better
than the mere registrar for too powerful
committee.
When we turn to the senate we also note
a decided change for the better in it's dis
position to transact business.
While debates have been prolonged they
have not been so interminable as hereto
fore and there has been no disposition 20
waste time in talk for talks sake. Every
opportunity has been given to the minor
ity to discuss the measures that have
been brought forward, and a very COM
mendable spirit has been evinced on both
sides to bring important questions to a
conclusive hearing. Indeed, we do not re-
call any session of the senate in many
years where better feeling has been pre-
served between the opposing parties
All this shows evolution in congress and
an increased tendency to dispatch the pub
lie business in the most efficient manner.
A few years of such practice will make
some of the old traditions effete and make
the national legislature what it should
and must be, the governing power of a
vast empire.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
RELIGIOUS THOUGHT.
Gems Cleaned From the Teachings o.
All Denominations.

The most endearings institution on
earth is the church.-The Late Rev. DR..
T. Dewitt Talmage.
THE SOULS GREAT NEED.
Never did individual souls need the
knowledge of Christ more than today.
Rev. DIR. w. w. Landrum, Baptist,
THE SPIRITUAL VISION.
Men Of spiritual vision are not vision
airy men, Spirituality is practicality.-
Rev. DR.. w. w. Landrum, Baptist, At
lanta, Ga.
ADVANCE OF CHRISTIANITY.
The cause of Christianity is going on
from eonquering to conquer. God lives
and men believe it and love him.-Rev.
MAKE HIM BETTER KNOWN.
IT we would know Christ better, we
must make him better known to the
world without.-Rev. DR.. Shaw, Pres
Observation-Disclosures
Despite the talk, of money and meth
DDS, there is really but one way of
propagating the gospel, and that is by
the personal influence of souls saved
Providence, r. I.
PRACTICABILITY OF RELIGION.
For all the vocations today In our
industrial world religion is practicable,
ed acceptably by all the people all the
week and at all times.-Rev. w. G..
Partridge, Baptist, Cincinnati.
THE STREAM OF PROGRESS.
It is useless to force medieval ideas
on a world that is reaping the benefits
of modern thought The stream of
progress will not flow backward to
accomn odate impractical idealists.-
Rev. DR. Roseman, Hebrew, Baltimore.
THE NURSERY OF THE SOUL.
Some people think only of the i'm
mortality beyond the grave, forgetting
the life here and the fact that it will
live forever in some ones memory
This is but a nursery. where the hu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

[From the Chicago News1
There are times when 1t is better to
be never than late.
When the money of some people con-
verses it uses megaphone.
Social training enables one to appear
interested when he isn't.
Expect every man to do his duty
then expect to be disappointed.
Some men like to fish because it's the
next thing to doing nothing.
The more shiftless man is the often
er he shifts from one job to another.
Even the minister whose sermons are
of the long-drawn-out variety is prefer
able to the sensational grandstand par
son.
The south's protested friendship for
the north is apt to be questioned after
the first shipment of early watermelons.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

What will Topeka citizens do for
amusement now that the stores are to
be closed on Saturday night and the
dome on the state house locked? Posi-
bly, go to Kansas City occasionally on
the new proposed electric line where
they will find the stores also closed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

A Cleveland alderman arose In council
meeting and held aloft $1,000 which he
claimed had been offered him as bribe.
There will probably be scramble
among the aldermen to get on the COM
mission to decide who the money be-
longs to. if they are at all familiar with
Kansas history.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

The Lawrence girl who committed
suicide in Denver for the express pur-
pose of getting notoriety got just II
lines under a telegraph head in her
home state. Wouldn't she be disappoint-
ed if she came back?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers of the State Journal
ayay during the summer may haze
the fater mailed regularly each day
to any address at the rate of thirty
cents a month. Address changed as
often as desired. While out of f0aU's
the State journal aOfH be to y0w like
a daily letter from home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

the executive council meets anyway to
issue orders to the custodian and the
janitors? The janitors and custodian
are bigger than the executive council.
They received their appointments in the
usual political channels and they are
not going to lower themselves by taking
orders That is not to be expected. Ger
tainly not. Governor Stanley will have
to shut the door,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

Sylvan Klein has been committed for
purchasing box of pretzels, but that is
not at all strange. At the time of his
arrest and conviction two years ago a
corkscrew was sufficient evidence,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

When J. E. Hurley drove the mails
back and forth to Strong City twenty
five years ago he did not see visions of
the SUPPLEMENTARY of a great railroad
division,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

The "Stahl movement" is becoming
popular in Ottawa. The officers of that
place broke loose Tuesday night and the
drug stores lost whisky, beer, cork
screws and glasses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

King Edward may thank his stars
he was not a resident of America July
A. Not even for a crowned head would
the small boy have foresworn exploding
tOrpedoeS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

Governor Stanley always speaks in d
sympathetic manner of Senator Burton
Evidently he thinks he may be in the
same fix some day.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

Panama hats are getting pretty com
mon but do you know of anyone that
made bonfire of one on the Fourth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

Even if the boilermakers are out on g
strike the city did not suffer for the
usual Fourth of July noise.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

Kansas weather never appeared in all
its surprising uncertainty to better adj
vantage than during the past two weeks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

If Aguinaldo is really after loot, why
doesn't he settle down and run for al
derman in the First ward of Manila?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

worth it's weight in gold" is obso-
lete in these Twentieth century days
Worth it's weight in beef is proper
now.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

A glimpse at the interior of the state
house dome will make anyone proud OF
the magnificent structure.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

The reports from the Kansas corn
fields these days don't discourage any
body but the bulls in the corn pits.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

This is the season of the year when
Colorado begins to reap her greatest
haryest-the tourist crop.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

1t seemed for a time as though the
Kaw river had entered in a water trust
with it's tributaries.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

Why do you look SO troubled?'' we
troubled. too he sighed whats up?''
Why, that Don't Worry poem 1 wrote
has been rejected by a dozen editors
PHILADELPHIA Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

Isn't this pretty hot weather to boom
senatorial campaigns that are not pull
ed off until next winter?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

The city council has decided to re-
trench. This measure should have been
adopted three years ago.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

Each succeeding Fourth of July seems
noisier than it's predecessor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

Topeka must save money The city
IS a good deal like the man who begins
to save after he is hopelessly involved.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

If corn keeps going up mush and milk
can only be INDUCED in by the aristo-
Gratis,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-05

There is a glove trust now. 1t ought
not to cost much to get hand in that.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-10-16

We are authorized to an
nounce Mr.. U. S. Gober as a
candidate for the Office of Hide
and Animal Inspector of Ran
dali County. Mr.. Gober is pc
culiarly we'll situated to fill this
office. He is a COW man of ma
ny years experience, knows ev-
cry brand in the county and ex-
actly where each brand belongs.
besides being member of the
firm of Gober, Hume & Kenyon,
who handle every hide that
finds its way to market from
this territory. Mr.. Gober is
certainly in the best position to
fill the office to the best posi-
Die advantage to the COW men.
The stayer. (Canyon City, Tex.) 1896-1903, 1902-10-16

visited Redhill last Sunday, the
guests of Misses Florence and
Ida Eiland.
Mr.. Will James one of the old
Cow Boys who quit work some
time ago, is now back at his old
post with the wagon. Mr..
James is good, kind, pleasant
man and we welcome him back
in our midst.
Mrs. Jackson and family took
dinner with the Cow Boys last
Saturday. Mr.. Hastings and
family, also Miss Redfern, took
supper with the Cow Boys last
Sunday night.
Miss Odell spent last Wednes-
day night with Misses Yula and
Ollie jackson.
Mr.. Jack Terrell, also John
Lemmons rode pitching horses
out at the roundup last Satur-
day.
Mr.. Rutter and family have
moved to Mr.. Lemmons' where
they will make it their home
for another year.
We learn that Mr.. Birch has
sold out to Father Derr, but we
haven't yet heard what he got.
Miss Ethel Haily is staying
with Mrs. Tom Bradford this
week.
Preaching at Salem last Sun
day by Bro. Carter, but the
writer didn't get to attend.
Mr.. Hightower is on the
Plains helping to gather his cat
tie.
No sickness that we know of
in the neighborhood. Every
body well and in good spirits.
Jasper.
Politics are getting interest
ing these days.