The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-20
KANSAS COMMENT
THE PESSIMIST.

IdE PESSlM1ST.
was talking with one of the old
fashioned kind of pessimists the other
day. l believe it did me good, for since
1 passed my sixty-eighth year 1 ma
that 1 am inclined to knock instead OF
boost tWo-thirds Of the time. Going
to get quite little wheat after all.
aren't your 1 said. Eyes, but won't
get anything for it," he answered.
Corn IS coming nicely" 1 ventured.
Fair; but the weeds are getting big
start and win take part of my CROP
Made little money last year, didn' t
your Somes but not half what
should have made; costs too much to
live" Made something in the advance
of your land since you bought it, havn't
you?" "A little, but not half what
should have made; taxes too high,
and costs too much, for school books for
pretty good shape, wouldn't it Yes,
but big crop9iwouId be awful hard on
the ground, and we wouldn't get any
thing then for a couple of years andii
would lose it all waiting for another
CROP, And the gloom settled down
over his countenance as he went out
into the street to lament and moan
There are times when / fervently LIT
up my voice In fhankfulnesS because L
am not as some other men. That was
one of the times.-Bert Walker.
IN ARKANSAW.
SO awful slow. An Ell Dorado fellow
citizen went to Arkansas some time
ago, bought 40 acres of land and turn
ed to be a Democrat. This gave him a
hog right-that is the right to go into
the woods and kill a mast-fed wild hog
when out of meat. This Kansas man
seems to have had 20 acres OF WOODS
and 20 acres of plow land. He started
on 10 acres of watermelons and ~
acres of chickens, and as he was 70
miles from a railway station he had
to create a home market for his pro-
duce. He fitted up his woods, hired
colored campmeeting. He led IN
prayer, exhorted of nights, "hfteo tns
collections, sold his watermelons ana
chickens to the brothers and sisters
and when everything was disposed OF
campmeeting was out He now owns
half a township of land, is living ike
an Arkansas nabob and is counted one
of the foremost citizens of darkest Az
kansaw.-El Dorado Republican
o.
COMPARATIVELY.
1t would be interesting to know. now
the state board of railroad commas
sioners who are now examining tue
Missouri Pacific tracks in Kansas are
doing it, The worst track seems rather
smooth to a man in a special car or a
Pullman; the best tracks are rough 10
a man who is riding in the locomotive
cab.-Wichita Eagle.
OF COURSE NOT.
1.-THE half has not been told, assert
the railway trackmen who are trying
to show that every other tie In the
Missouri Pacific's track is rotten And
If Railway Attorney Joe Richards has
his way, the half will not be told
Lawrence World.
A SUGGESTION.
The attorneys in the Thaw case
should see the attorneys for the state
in the Haywood case, and when Or
chard is placed on the stand again
have him confess, to the killing of
White. This ought to dispose OF botn
cases and Orchard at the same time,
and the only trouble with 1t is that It
wouldn't dispose Of Thaw.-Parsons
Sun.
ANOTHER VOTE. ~
The department of agriculture has
nominated the corn tassel to be our
national flower. We're for it. We are
also in favor of putting on our silver
dollars a portrait of that erninently
respectable citizen and patriot, Farm
err acknowledgements World.
/ EDOM OTHER PENS