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Arizona republican., 1903-11-04
OUT UPON THE FARM.

All the brightest gifts of God
Blossom on the farm:
There's the greatest bulk of good.
Least amount of harm.
Fields are greenest, and the valleys
EIcho sweetest robin rallies
Skies are bluest, ties are truest
Out upon the farm.
Whitest is the wether's' fleece
Out uron the farm;
Never rarer dimples broke
Ger a maiden's arm
Than uDon a little lass's
Singing down the meadow grasses
Sorgs are sweetest, hours are feetest
Out upon the farm,
Rosiest the evening suns
Out upon the farm:
Honey-laden every bee
HoTning ere the storm:
All the clouds are silver -whited,
All the birds are ioy-delighted-
Moons are rarest, mornings fairest
Out upon the farm,
once / met meadow lass
Gut upon the farm!
Half of all my Joys OF her,
Half of all the charm:
For I kissed her mid the faces
OF the shy. inquiring daisies
And I've missed her since | kissed her
Out upon the farm!
Let me wander once again
Down the meadow landl
Let me guide her with my heart.
Lead her by the hand;
And when we have wooed and mar
rted,
Let us live where once we tarried--
Skies are bluest. hearts are truest
Out upon the farm,
-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04
oEElcIAL CROP REPORTS.

The October crop report of the de-
partment of agriculture is getting its
full share Of the contemptuous criti-
cism which has come to be regularly
visited upon similar reports from the
same source. For example. according
&c the departments figures. the wheat
crop of Oregon, Washington and Ida
no this year is from twelve to fifteen
million bushels more than any export
er, miller or grain dealer in the coun-
try. has been able to find within the
confines of those three states, and the
California yield is put by the depart
ment at nearly double the estimate
of the best informed men in the trade
at San Francisco. Such wide differ
ences as these ought not TO be land
past experience is sufficient founda-
ton for the belief that the greater
error is in the government figures. II
the agricultural department cannot
come nearer to accuracy II might bet
ter abandon its reports altogether. In
fact, they are now often worse than
useless, since the putting forth of in
formation so wide of the truth may
lead to most costly deception OF both
buyers and sellers.-Provideace Jour
nal.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04
The Spain Of Today.

William E. Curtis, the Washington
through Spain, and he finds that the
average Spaniard is not what Ameri-
cans believe him to be. Neither does
Mr.. Curtis find Spain a beautiful coun-
try, and il is clear that his coldly
critical way of looking at things makes
him unable to take the romantic view
that colored Washington Irving's Span
ish sketches. But Mr.. Curtis has
faculty for getting at the facts.
Spain is net a lovely country, he
tells us, although it has some beautiful
spots. 1t is very much like Old Mex
leo and New Mexico in its topography
and it's landscapes. There are few for
ests, scarcely any grass and no vegeta-
ton except in the vallays and upon the
slopes that may be irrigated. The con-
quistadores of Mexico called it New
Spain because of it's resemblance to
their home country. and the appear
ance of the towns and cities as we'll as
the mountains and plains. the architec-
ture and arrangement of the houses
and other buildings of Mexico is in
close imitation of Spain. The same is
true of all the former Spanish-Amer-
lean colonies. Hence one who has been
in Mexico and South America will find
familiar objects in every direction in
the Spanish provinces.
Mr.. Curtis is not pleased with the
Spanish people. except in the Basque
provinces.
The Spanish standard Of morals and
manners, he claims. is very different
from what we are accustomed to, and
1t requires an exercise of patience and
charity for an American visitor to adj
just himself to conditions there. 1t is
not necessary to go into details. Mr..
Curtis says you often hear about Span
ish politeness, but don't see much of it
while travelling. 1t is sometimes re-
served for acquaintance and is not al
ways shown to strangers. although
among the lower classes you will meet
with a courtesy and consideration that
wen De Dy "
similar stations in our own country.
But people who go to Spain, he
signs. must put up with things as they
are. 1t is useless for a tourist to try
TO reform morals or change habits that
have been practiced for thousands or
years. and those who are not willing to
surrender themselves to be cheated and
swindled and to endure certain incon-
veniences and Giscomforts had better
stay at home. There Is plenty of COM
pensaticn. and. Furthermore, the Span
lard above all men is perfectly salts
fed with his own condition and con-
siders himself the most fortunate of all
Gods creatures. He never goes outside
of his own country; he never reads
a foreign newspaper or a foreign book.
Like the Chinese. he considers other
nations barbarians. and points to Ma
drid as the center Of civilization.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04

and. if the German people preserve the
unity that Bismarck built up for them.
as we have preserved our own unity,
1t will require the same kind of pa
tent search a hundred years hence tc
find the names of Bismarck's detrac-
tors
Mr.. Whites estimate my be recon-
mended to all those little people who
jump for fame by remembering or
conjecturing something about the de-
fects of Bismarck's qualities. No one
can be a strong, capable, useful and
memorable man without defects in
his qualities Luther had his defects.
but he built up an enduring spiritual
method; Bismarck had his defects, but
he built up a powerful empire; Wash
ington had his defects but he built up
a mighty republic. For our own day.
and as a working rule of contemporary
Judgment upon the German state
builder, Mr.. Whites opinion that Bis
marck was the greatest German since
Luther is absolutely trustworthy. This
same opinion is written very distinctly
in the general contemporary German
mind of the Protestant faith. Time
and tradition will not efface this opin-
ion. All the probabilities are that time
and tradition will make this writing
in the German mind clearer and more
conspicuous. and that later generations
Of students of German history will find
no names among that great and inter-
esting people to place in the same class
with the man who brought spiritual
freedom to the Germans and the man
who added to the race sense of the
Germans the sense and habit of poll
teal unity.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04

Having a greater demand for loans
then we can supply from our regular
monthly receipts from dues and inter
est
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04
Mr.. White on Bismarck.

Mr.. Andrew D. Whites paper in the
November Century" is occupied with
recollections of Bismarck. These recol-
lections are both personal and official.
but there are no surprises in them
The intellectual picture presented is
welI-roundsl and human.
At one point Mr.. Whites dislike of
Theirs, on historical grounds, finds
vent. Mr.. White says that he has stud
led Theirs las u historian. "bserv~a
him as a statesman, anG eonvcrsed
with him as a social being. and he had
always seemed, and still Sc Ems TO me,
the most noxious Of all 'he greater
architects of ruin that France pro-
duced during the latter half of the
century, and that is saying much"
Theirs is that the Frenchman was
master hand in tearing down but had
no skill in building up. Bismarck
work, on the contrary, was construc-
tive. Whatever he might do on a pc
culiar day. or in a particular week.
the main purpose of it all was to pro-
duce conditions for his country and
his people more desirable than those
then existing. IF ever there existed
a man at the opposite pole from Bis
marck." Mr.. White says. 'Thiers was
certainly that man" Mr.. White means
by this. undoubtedly. that while Theirs
was famous destroyer, Bismarck was
a famous builder.
1t is this essential characteristic of
Bismarck's craftsmanship that war
rants Mr.. Whites impressive closing
sentence-the only one in this article
that partakes of the nature of an his
torical Judgment: 80 was lost to sight
one of the greatest Germans since
Luther The further away in time.
the man who judges Bismarck is from
the days Of Bismarck. the more vivid
pear.
Luther was a builder, a constructor,
in religious relations. He taught his
fellow-Germans to know God in a new
way. 1t was a new domain, and
new manner CT using this domain, that
Luther gave to the German people in
their spiritual life. The German peo-
pie were placed in permanent posses
sion by Luther of something that they
never possessed before. In similar
constructive manner Bismarck built up
the German state, out of many small
and discordant pieces, and gave it to
the German people for permanent use
The petty German states which Bis
marck welded together into a mighty
empire presented the same factional
discord that was seen in our colonies
before the revolution, and Washington
had a task very similar to
Bismarck's. Washington was black
guarded and malinged by those whose
main capacity was to agree with them
selves, and with nobody else. Wash
ington carried his work through and
his detractors can only be found now
by looking in old books and pamphlets;
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04

At a meeting of the Mothers club
yesterday one woman confessed that
she spent the first six months of her
married life in humping her head
against a rock wall. After that, she
found out it was useless and began to
do things her husbands way. Other
sisters told CT experiences as harrow
ing-Atchison Globe.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04

President Babcock OF the Territorial
University may write only a so-sc
brand of poetry. but that should not
be charged against him in Weighing
his qualities as an educator AS pres
ident OF the university he will be a
decided success, we think.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04
Definition.

Father" said little Willie, what is
a pessimist?"
A pessimist. my son, is man who
isn't content with the trouble that is
coming to him. but insists on hunting
more. "-Washington Star.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04

When a woman with a big family of
children issues invitations to a party,
1t is with the prayer that the children
will not come down with the measures.
whooping cough or scarlet fever be-
fore the date of the party.-Atchison
Globe.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04

They are playing progressive card
games. giving progressive lunches, pro-
pressive buggy rides, etc Therefore,
there will be no surprise at learning
that the game Of progressive husband
is to be played in Atchison shortly
Atchison Globe.
Arizona republican., 1903-11-04
SANATORIUMs
OPTICAL Goods
ADOLF FRESE
POULTRY SUPPLIES

HENRY ALBERS, 15 s. Main st
Largest poultry supply house In u. 8
Send for free catalogue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14
TIME TO INVESTIGATE.

The disclosures of the past few days
in regard to forgery of the name of Sid
ney Brakeman to warrants and to the
warrant register in the state auditors
office, have made several facts plain.
One is that the business end of legis-
Iature is conducted in an exceedingly
slipshod manner, Notwithstanding the
army of employees in both houses. An
other thing is that it was possible for
those who knew the methods used to
draw warrants in the names of men
who were not in Topeka at all and cash
them at the state treasury without
identification, and that this very thing
was done. Another thing is that the
names of persons were placed upon the
payrolls without authority and without
any record being made of who was re-
sponsible for them or in what capacity
they served, if they ever served at all.
These disclosures certainly call for still
further investigations. 1t is due the
people of Kansas that this affair be
aired. 1t is especially due the honest
people who were in the legislature that
the dishonest ones be shown up and the
honest ones freed from suspicion. And
the state of Kansas owes it to itself to
hunt down the forgers, the thieves and
the grafters and put them behind the
bars.
The investigation should be no half
hearted affair and it should be made
without fear or favor. The fact that 1t
might involve some particular person
should not enter into the affair at all. It
should be made just as searching as the
postoffice investigation has been made in
national affairs. And in this connection
letter of President Roosevelt's to a
certain congressman in connection with
the postoffice investigation would serve
as good instructions for an investigation
of the legislative forgeries. The letter is
very characteristic of President Roose-
welt His directions are: Anyone who
is guilty is to be prosecuted with the
utmost rigor of the law. and no one
who is not guilty is TO be touched. 1
care not for the political or social infiu-
ence of any human being when the
question is one of his guilt or innocence
in such matters as the corruption of the
government service"
Let there be a thorough. searching IN
vestigation of the legislative payroll and
the persons who are responsible for loot
ing the state treasury!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14

he is so busy that he has not had his
coat on this winter: he was so busy
this morning that he not only had his
coat off. but had his shirt oDen-
We have always ionged to attend a
banquet: the word sounds so aristo-
cratic We attended one lately. and
this is what they had to eat: Fried
chicken and gravy, bakers bread,
store butter. ice water.
A family wherein the woman wears
the pants never amounts to anything.
There is case in Atchison: the head
of the family is the wife. She hasn't
any sense. and she has fought the old
man until he hasn't any.
When girl gets on a round, ruffied
apron, with a ribbon bow on the
pocket, and manipulates a chafing dish,
the average man is such a dupe that
he 1magines she win make a success
handling big black pans and pots.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14
GIVE NEW CHIEF A CHANCE.

There is a tendency to criticise To-
peka's new chief of police before he
has been given a trial. Some say he
is inexperienced in police work. 9th
ers think he has not lived here long
enough to know the town. A few
criticise his appointment on the mar
row basis of partisanism.
A. f. McColum may not have made
police work his speciality UP to this
time. but the tests which Topeka has
made of men who have spent their life
in police work has not been such as
to make experience an infallible rec
concentration for the Office of chief.
Because he is unknown to many
people of the city does not prove that
he does not know the town. And he is
likely to become we'll know if he holds
the Office of chief a few months.
Partisan politics is something which
Mayor Bergundthal has done we'll to
eliminate from consideration. and it is
hoped that his example will be fol-
lowed in the future management of
the police department Mr.. McCollum
may be a Democrat. but if he is. and
if he makes good record, the credit
for the appointment should not be
withheld from Mayor Bergundthal.
Mr. McCollum seems to be a man of
considerable ability and a man of ex-
traordinary force. He has a look of
determination in his eye which indi-
Gates that he will grapple the prob
lem of his Office with the tenacitY of
a bulldog. He does not look like a
man who will easily give up, when
once he sets about doing a thing.
Whether he will prove to be shrewd
and resourceful, clean and honorable.
remains to be seen. There should be
no prejudice against Mr.. McCollum.
He has a hard place to fill, and he
should be given a fair trial. If he
succeeds. he viii be the man of the
hour; he will have a reputation much
wider than merely that of a municipal
officer. If he fails, it win merely in
dictate that he is one of the great ma
jority of men who are not cut out for
police officers.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14
Is THE END IN SIGHT P

The suit just filed by the water
company. or rather by those who hold
the securities. indicates that the long
struggle for the ownership of the
water plant by the city is nearing an
end. The action just commenced is
evidence of a decision on the part of
the water company to turn the plant
over to the city in accordance with
the terms of the agreement made be-
fore the proposition to determine the
question of bond issue to pay for the
plant was submitted to the voters of
the cit--.
There is no doubt whatever that the
people of Topeka are overwhelmingly
in favor Of the ownership and opera
ton of the water supply system by the
city, but they have been hoodwinked
so long and there have been so many
delays oceasioned by legal complica-
tions that they almost despaired of
ever seeing the city in actual possess
sion of the plant.
The attitude of President Street of
the water company has been one OF
fairness ever since the people he rep
resents came into possession of the
property. and it is cot surprising that
he is now taking steps to carry out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14

and private tutors in Manila, at sal
aries ranging from $40 to $35 a week,
and women are wanted by the hundreds
to fill these positions. However much
the newspaper editor OF the east may
joke about the proposition, it is a very
serious and earnest matter in the west.
With so many women wearing them
selves out in the sweatshops of the
eastern cities. eking out an existence in
the congested districts, and earning
barely though to sustain life, it is re-
rnarkable that the appeals from the
west do not meet with more generous
response, as we believe they would If
conditions were better understood. 1t
should be remembered that there is lit
tie show of class distinction in the west.
The woman who is employed as a do
nestle on the farm or in the smaller
towns, if she be otherwise worthy, is as
cheerfully accorded social recognition
and social and educational advantages
as the daughters of the wealthiest citi-
zens of the section. 1t is character that
counts, rather than the purse in the
west. The employment, in any line, is
no more exacting than similar work in
the large cities, the expenses are in
finitely less, the wholesome, free atmos-
phere Of the general life more attractive
and satisfying. Altogether, it would
seem that d generous attack of the
western fever would be a good thing for
several million women, as that is about
the size of the surplus male population
of the country that is calling for fe-
male helm
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14
MIR. ADAMS, rR1RurE.

James Barton Adams. the poet of the
Denver Post. is well known to some
Topeka people. Mr.. Adams mother,
Grandma" Adams. lived in Oakland.
She died year ago. Those who knew
Mr.. Adams and knew of his devotion
to his mother. will thoroughly appre-
ciate the honest sentiment of the fol-
LOWING poem by Mr.. Adams:
Long years ago she won my love, a love
that yet is warm
AS when it first burst into light upon the
old home farm
A love that death alone can dim, and
when our souls arise
Twill burn again with added light up yon-
der in the skies
We look into each others eyes and read
our story there.
As dear as ere the frost of time had
touched her wreath of hair.
story tinged with gold of love in every
tender line.
And ever sweet to me as to that old
sweetheart of mine.
In early years when clouds of care tinged
all my skies with gray,
Her smile would. as a CHEEKY sun. drive
every cloud away.
And in the magic of her kiss the world
would seem more bright
magic that oft put the dark winged
birds of care to flight.
h en- yet when by the cares of life an
noyed or sore distressed,
L love to lay my troubled head upon her
loving breast
And listen to the CHEEKY words that flow
as sweet as wine
From smiling lips of mother dear, that
old sweetheart of mine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14
GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atchison Globe.l

When asked for relief. don't register
a kick.
Occasionally you meet a man whose
lands feel too soft to be honest.
We confess to greater belief in the
man who says damn than in the one
who says "Oh, lah."
At every family reunion there are
kin who haven't any more reason for
being there than the cranberry.
We have noticed that when big
dor whips a little dog, the little dog
whips a cat as soon after his humilia-
ton as possible.
As we grow older, we rejoice that
we do not visit any friends so wealthy
that the floors in their house are Of
slippery hard wood
Has anyone noticed with alarm that
the times are so speedy. and so much
is to be done. that people have COM
menced TO shorten their prayers?
The modern girl instead of looking
for slow poison to give the man who
has spurned her. invites him up to see
her and makes a Welsh rarebit-
Now that Perry Hayes has two stores
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-11-14
JAYHAWKER lots

Wathena wants a canning factory.
There's too much gossip floating
around.
An Elk Falls man nursed a night
blooming cereus four years for the
pleasure of one bloom.
A Severy man weary of kicking on
the local markets has shipped car
load of mules to Florida.
Howard thanks the powers that be-
that the town has passed the stage of
old fashioned debating S-cieties
A Highland girl was so enamored of
her first cousin that she eloped on a
dark night via the attic window route.
At the age of n years a Doniphan
county woman goes to the cornfeld and
does her half of husking 140 bushels
daily.
Topeka's new chief of police is a pro-
hibition Democrat Otherwise he ap-
pears to be very respectable gentle
man.
Moline's fire alarm is an 800 pound
bell elevated on a vacant lot. The mis-
chievous small boy has discovered the
location.
Benevilie water contains a large per
cent of albumoid ammonia and sodium
sulphate. This may account for the abb
sence of joints in the town.
Twenty separate fiocks of wild geese
flew south over Troy Monday. Friends
of Cyrus Leland declare this a harbin-
H.
A Highland farmer has a wagon
which ne has run daily for the past So
years. There seems to be others besides
the boys in blue in need of pensions.
At a Sunday experience meeting at
Waverly forty-three persons were pres
ent who were over SIS years of age. The
eldest was 50. Eighteen were from
Ohio.
wellington has more petty fuses
than any other town within the state
limits; yet somehow they manage to
ship out a train load of -four every
day.
A correspondent in the Marion Record
says: THE rivers are full on account
of so much water. Topeka old soaks
will be running pipe line to that
town.
/ A Neodesha workman has sued the
juries received. Take another nickel
along when you go after gallon Of
! gasoline.
Topeka's new chief of police is said
/ to be a prohibitionist but he goes
against the grain all right. His first
act was to raid a drug store and cap
ture many cases of whisky.
An Atchison county man, originally
from Missouri, is mourning the loss of
two lively coon dogs. They struck a
warm trail down the railroad track but
the engine back of them was the flyer
behind time.
Editor Hoch seems to have it in for
/ the boss busters" He says: There
are a lot of fellows in Kansas whooping
Lit up for Roosevelt who wouldn't be for
him a minute if he lived in Kansas and
I were a candidate for something in this
state He is not their kind