The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-14
THE sun SHONE LATER.
Great Crowds Enjoying the
Second Days Fiesta.
Editor Howe, the Instigator,
Detected at the Shower.
Later When Sky Cleared His
Happy Courage Returns.


Atchison, Kan. Sept. 14.-Today is
the big day of the Corn Carnival and
thousands of people are swarming the
streets, pelting each other with corn
and confetti. There is a riot of colors
and a deluge of flowers, notwithstand-
ing shower. Never in the history of
the town has there been such crowd.
The opening days festivities were
marred for time by rain.
In fact the town stopped smiling at
o'clock in the afternoon and ran with
huddled shoulders for the shelter of the
nearest doorways. A blanket of black
clouds unrolled across the blue sky and
the Wind-driven rain swept the streets
IN torrents. The colored Streamers and
bright flags that festooned Commercial
street hung dripping and melancholy.
The long highway that ten minutes be-
fore shone rampant in the brilliant sun
light, gay with crowding people and
twinkling with colored confetti, seemed
to sprawl beneath the drenching down.
pour like some dissolate creature, de-
serted and discolored in 1.-The cold gray
dawn of the morning after"
And while the storm drove over the
town, E. w. Howe of the Globe sat in
the editorial chair in the Globe office,
detected and solitary.
e. w. Howe's Sorrow.
IF that goes on he said, sit will
wash away the fruits of six months
had our last carnival and this promised
to be the banner event. I invented corn
carnivals. In the summer of 1895 I
wrote in the Globe, What's the matter
with corn carnival?' and the people Of
Atchison said Nothing. We whooped
it UP from that time and it has been
my misfortune to have had entire charge
of the first and every succeeding car
nival. A committee of three always
goes around and collects from 81 200 to
81 hI1t for that there have
never been any committees connected
with these carnivals. My one standby
has always been John Compton, chief
of our fire department. When 1 want
to make a roar about anything I say
John Compton is doing the fussing'
and he quietly takes the blame. have
said a hundred times that would quit
these carnivals, but I suppose / never
will. And do not think It is little one
lot show. 1t is not. If the rain stops
Thursday will show that. Wait till
Thursday. Then corn will be king in>7
deed" -7 5efssa --s3t49se-e =
s'But why should there be all this ex-
citement about corn. The people are
thronging the streets as though you
had won great victory
$50 we have A great victory. Great
er than Santiago. Go down to the
corn school and see Henry Field. He'll
tell you why corn is king.
Field Was Cheerful.
There was no detection where Mr..
Field stood among a score OF farmers
in the exhibition room in the fire de-
partment building. On long tables the
piled ears stood, white, golden, yellow
and blood red. Men lifted the clustered
ears and handled them with loving
care A deluge could not Quench the
enthusiasm of Mr.. Field.
Corn" he laughed, why is corn
king? There's a fascination about the
mere growing of corn. Men don't mere
ly grow corn, they breed it. have given
as much as one dollar for single ear
of corn because it's growth was so per-
feet. Take this pile of fifty ears; they
are as you can see, almost perfect.
Plant the corn from these twenty-five
ears and in three years you will get
so, 900 bushels. You can see corn grow
ing, and you can grow 1t yourself. Inc
man who owns the eighty-acre farm
can plant his own corn. He can gather
it himself, and he can pillow the corn
into the soil as WE'LL"
But there is never any enthusiasm
over wheat?"
"wheat?" Mr. Field exclaimed con-
ternptuously. why wheat is foreign
er. Corn is American, no other country
in the world can grow it, Kansas
grows more wheat than any other state
in the Union, but it grows twice as
much corn as it grows wheat. And we
can sell the corn right at home"
Clicks Great Work.
"That's so,'' affirmed Ex-Governor G.
w. Click, who was standing BY I
have grown 300, 900 bushels of corn and
never sold a bushel- We turn our wheat
into money, but we turn our corn into
meat and our meat into profit.
Mr.. Field took his theme again.
Corn! Why the freedom of this
country was built upon corn. When
the Pilgrim fathers landed they had
to buy six and thirty goodly ears at
this years CROP and the chronlcler
has it some white, some golden, some
red, and some of divers colors. me
Indians sold it to them on credit ana
they paid them in the fall. And without
that corn the Pilgrim fathers would
have starved to. death Tire war OF the
revolution was won on corn. we grow
our steers and our men on 1t, ana tney
are both good. 1t IS distinctly AMER
can. The more prosperous any OF our
states become, the more corn they grow
OF course corn is king. Walk. down
lane of corn when the stalks are ten
feet high and the growing ears nang
clustered beneath the shelter of the
green blades, and then you will under
stand better. 1t is a poor farmer who
is not corn enthusiast.
Clouds Drift Away.
At o'clock the clouds drifted away
and the sunshine brought the people TO
the streets again They sprinkied each
other with corn and confetti. They
laughed and ..joIIied" each other as
they passed and repassed in the strug-
Cling procession; they marched and
countermarched in Commercial street
Mr.. Howe was smiling when he left his
office.
Two Veterans Dead.
Leavenworth, Kan. Sept. 14.-David
Geary a veteran of the Soldiers
nome. was killed by a southbound
Missouri Pacific passenger train a
mile north of I1eavenworth Junction
at & O'Clock last night. Geary was
walking on the track and apparently