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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

be worth $3.50. 1t might be that the
average value would shrink from $2oo
to s1.0o-that ought to be liberal
allowance in the way OF compromise.
Even then, the crop would be worth
1916 an acre or $s7. 500 for 100 acres IN
30 years. and even that is stin cheer
fully amazing as 1t means an average
of over $1,000 a year. about double the
wages of the average worker.
The great arid west will some day De
claimed by men. The poor boys OF to-
day will be the millionaires Of tomor-
row and some Of them will reap their
golden harvest from the now dry sand
of the American deserts.
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THE AMAZING EUCALYPTUS.

clifford Pinchot, the national rores-
ter, has set the people of southern
California to thinking about the
eucalyptus tree, and it is an absorbing
subject for all the people Of the coun-
try who realize the tremendous prob
lem OF reforesting this country.
In arid and semi-tropic California 1t
appears that certain profits narrow
forestry to practically one proposition.
the planting of eucalyptus trees.
The reason for this is plain. The
eucalyptus tree will thrive and make
an amazing growth with a minimum
of rain or other moisture. and when
grown the eucalyptus becomes ex-
tremely valuable as timber. These
being the conditions-ease and rapidity
of production, and great value OF the
| product-it follows, of course, that the
forestry idea in California is centered
on eucalyptus.
| The profits, as figured on eucalyptus
culture, are certainly and cheerfully
amazing. The rule, it appears, is tc
plant the trees eight feet apart. Ar
acre of ground being 209 feet square
will therefore hold 20 rows of tree!
| with &c trees in row, or a total of 81
trees. A correspondent says: "Ther,
are trees near Bakersfield 30 years OLD
| which would bring $3.50 on the stunt
for the lumber they contain" At tina
rate one acre of eucalyptus trees woult
be worth, thirty years after planting
s1e9,O0O. This is at the rate of 1888 3
per year for one acre.
Given the land, and some extr;
help at planting time. and one ma
and a team can care for 100 acres o
growing eucalyptus trees. At the abov
, rate-taking the figures as they ar
furnished-the 100 acres in 80 year
would have a value of $16,900,000.
, Cheerfully amazing, isn't It? Q
| course, the chances are that betwee
, these figures and actual practice Their
would have to be some sort of com
promise. Maybe every tree would nc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24
.kYHAWKER JOTS

They've got to the point Of law en-
forcement in lola where persons are
arrested for permitting their chickens
to run at large on the streets.
Rats have practically put the large
chicken farm of w. r. Seward at Great
Bend out of business the rooenls
killed ninety chickens IN one night not
long ago.
An Atchison girl of Is was told by
her teacher that she ought to study
evenings, and she said: why, cant
study at night; the gentlemen call on
me in the evenings.
Atchison experts have it all figured
out that it costs Bale Waggener ten
cents mile to operate his automoplle.
This includes the salary OF a chauHeur
who is regularly employed.
The Atchison Globe credits a couple
of local piscatorial celebrities with
catching all of five hundred hsh In
Sugar lake the other day. II they had
caught any more the Globe would
probably have said So
A travelling man whose business
takes him among the farmers SAID
when asked why he was loafing around
town: Farmers are so busy they ask
the blessing on the way from the
towel to the dinner table"
A candidate for county attorney In
MONTGOMERY county has printed on his
cards: Not an extremist on local
matters" And it is expected the
State Temperance union will soon DC
after him with a sharp stick.
Just because Mrs. rordham, resi-
| dent Of Wichita, is the sister OF MT
Chain, the nominee of the Prohlpi-
| tionists for president. it is not expect
1 ed that the Peerless Princess will rol
up a tremendous vote for prohibition
| According to a newspaper story.
bad man of Wichita went to lola te
clean up the town. Upon arriving
| there he took his station on the prin.
| cipal street and loudly announced
| that he was the four-pronged roarint
| rhinoceros from Bitter Creek. anc
| could whip a wagon load of wild cats
| He extended a cordial invitation to thu
town to produce man he couldn
peel and eat in three seconds. Jus
\ then the Village Blacksmith CAM
along. The smith, a mighty man wa
he, with large and sinewy hands; ant
the muscles of his brawny arms wer'
strong as iron bands. And he pasted
the bad man from Wichita on the chin
and rolled him together as scroll
| and wound him around a lamp post
and then gave him to the children u
| play with Wichita is naturally hu
inflated. for she had always taken
| warm pride in the invincible bad man
/ -Emporia Gazette.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.
IFrom the Atchison Globe. ]


The Lord and the agent love a
cheerful giver.
woman has her complexion to
,,-orr,, about. a man has shaving to
offset it.
.I often catch myself doing things
bitterly condemn in others.'-Par-
son Irvine.
AS soon as a man has money Of his
own. other people want TO make loans
to. him.
An Atchison woman ties up a bum
die every afternoon, and comes down
town to make people believe she is
shopping.
An Irishman went In 10 barber
shop. and was compelled to wait a
long time. When he finally climbed
into a chair, the barber asked him:
"Have Won a mug?" yes" replied
the Irishman, land want you to
shave it quick.
Whenever a widower's name is men
TONED. 1t recalls the names of many
women said to be chasing him. N. B.. /:
TO avoid gossip, therefore, never men
ton the name of a widower unless he
falls in a lake or breaks leg.
If you say to a woman that her
child doesn't seem to get any larger,
she will say: well, you would think
she grows if you could see how 1 have
to let down her dresses" 1t always
makes a woman indignant to say that
her child doesn't grow.
When a man and woman are first
married, they try to look uncon-
cerned on the streets, but II you will
notice, they always lean over little
towards each other. But they grad
ually drift apart. and In five or sir
years they occasionally lean the other
way.
An Atchison man met an old friend
| the other day he had not seen In sew
eral years. you are looking well,
said the out of town man; you seen
| to be eating something particularly
good" NO" replied the Atchisor
man, at am not eating too much O.
| anything. That is what is doing MI
| good"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

Presumably the accidental and vlo-
lent deaths due to the dangerous oc-
equations Of men and the adventurous
spirit of boys account in part for this
difference, and the stresses and strains
of sharper conflict with the world must
Of course tend to lower masculine
vitality more than feminine. Indeed,
when the labor of women is more like
that Of men. as in Italy and Ireland,
the female death rate rises. In general,
however, the rate for both sexes is
falling. And one reason for it may be
seen in Just such laws as the District
of Columbia under which seventy-five
boys are now to have an improved
chance for living.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

pable of taking the forty-eight post
urees OF the Hindoo idols.
Perhaps his greatest trick conoi0o
In balancing himself ON the ends Of
his fingers while the whole Of his body
il In the air. Bava stated that In or
der to obtain the rank Of yoga in the
Black Caves Of India he had to COM
tinue in this position ON the ends Of
his fingers under the eyes OF the
Judges. without Z seconds interval. for
seven days and nights.-Strand Maga-
zine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A lucky man is one who can ran
asleep when he sits down to worry.
\ \ y
When time hangs heavy on man
hands he generally goes into polltlcs.
\
It's too bad the passion some people
have for writing poetry is unrequited.
y
One evidence that the world Is grow
ing no worse is that people are teinns
the same fish stories that were toio
ages ago.
An office boy who says he's sorry MS
boss is not in often speaks the truth
when the visitor came for the purpose
of thrashing the boss.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24
HUl40p or TIE Day

II don't know whether the pompa.
doured young lady who brings me my
breakfast has been listening. or
whether she thinks for herself" says
restaurant. "but she's getting to be
almost funny. Yesterday ordered
liver and bacon, and then waited till
I'd committed everything in the
Washington Herald to memory. Come
hither: I said to her. gave you my
order half an hour ago. Do get that
lfver?' She stopped chewing gum
longer than than ever knew her to
do before. You get it, said she; but
there were two orders in ahead OF
yours. You don't want your liver out
Of order. do uT"-sunday Maga-
zine.
seubrette (in the ''continuous'',-when
comedian-RiEht after the trained dom
Soubrette-Heavens, It's q wonder the
stage manager doesn't try to break the
monotony more than he does.-Brooklyn
Eagle.
II see they are experimenting With .
machine for laying the dust"
with one for raisins it"-Ssitimors
American.
house. and it takes after the mother"
We'll. that's q comfort. anyway"
Why. have you ever seen Mrs. Mug
mo. but I've seen Musley."-Philadel-
phia Press.
Mamma-Here comes your father. Sec
how cross you've made him. Now, 60 and
blamed cross.-Phiiadelphia Press.
II say, mother"
what's the height OF the ridiculous?'.
We'll" said Mrs. Henpeck. your faith
T1t-BitA
He-Before we become engaged must
} tell you that had a cousin who was
hanged.
she.IThat's all right. I've got about 30
They say that tips for walters have
ST never knew them to be."-Cleveiand
Plain Dealer.
s%ithsGnNPoOr - chspi understand that
Jonesby-Yes. He belonged to four, I
think.-Judge.
c Beware likewise of the sheep In wolf 8
r clothing. His overconfidence may give
i YOU an uncomfortable place among the
: Il wonder why jamie Green decided to
wen nobody slse hsd ns. her ana :,
s was almost June."-Cieveiand Plain
Dealer
5 Edmund is the smartest child I ever
saw" boosted the fond mother. HE Is
as keen as a razor"
Fsnips seG IKE " grumpy rssss FrandD. and
i I'm wha: way?"
r why. he needs strapping" Chicago
{ News.
The visiting .parson was handing. convict
;, should not complain. my misguided
friend" he said. ut IL better to take
= things as you find them"
e "Youse Is on de wrong track" replied
4 the prisoner ut was practisin' dat theo-
y ~ dat got me pinched. "-Chicaxo Daily
ct don't know her. but mean to know
her before the day Is over"
Beware. You are on thin ice."
3" Then II will he all the easier to breal
it."-Louisville Courier-Journal.
al A fool and his money are soon parted
q and II that doesn't Justify the fool to q
commercial generation, nothing WILL
70 Puck.
IS You used to travel a good deal. sena
tor Brown.
e yes" answered the great man regret
u Katherine-I saw you this morning Will
, that horrid widow. Mrs Weeds. All Il
over with us. and shall send back you
y presents.
a them to the wfdow.-Illustrated Bits.
n orarrD HrrvprrArr0Nc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24
Ep0A OTHER PENS

EXPORTS FROM NEW ZEALAND.
The islands of New Zealand. which
our fleet will soon visit, constitute
busy and prosperous British colony,
whose interests have much In common
with the United States. A general
state of thrift among the inhabitants
has laid q base for cooperative ex-
attention in other parts of the world.
One adverse feature is the marked
decrease of exports from New Zealand
to the United States The chief things
which we buy from New Zealand are
flax. fiber, pelts, wool and kauris
gum. For the product last named
Auckland province is the only source
of supply, and the United States takes
from half to two-thirds of the out
put, which last year amounted to
$500 tons. The sudden falling off in
orders from America has created q
depression in the industry. In one
year our imports from Auckland of
fax fiber have shrunk from $26,s22 to
$9,S11, our imports of pelts from
$155,S2S to $27,962, and our imports
of wool from $138,319 to $11.0SS. The
price of New Zealand fax has dropped
from $1s5 to $107 a ton; wool has
declined about SO per cent. This fall
demand from the United States, Incl
dent to the business depression here.
A special source Of loss has been due
to the suspension of the oceanic
steamship service between Auckland
and our west coast. Yet, despite the
paratively little from New Zealand, 1t
appears that New Zearand is buying
more from US than ever before. 1t is
possible that our purchases from New
Zealand will rise to the former mark
before long, bringing revival in
several Industries in that colony
Springfield (Mass.t Union.
SUFFRAGE ONLY A PRIVILEGE.
In a decision Of the court of crimi-
nal appeals it is declared that the
suffrage is not an inherent right, but
is privilege which is granted or de-
MED on grounds of general policy
Many women of the country are de-
| manding the privilege OF the suffrage
as their right, and there is among mer
generally disposition to accord 1t tc
/ them IL it were believed that they real
| except for small contingent, they DE-
| not. The Antiwomen's Suffrage asso.
| citation just now is in the ascendant
The literature being sent out by the
| ants tends to show that the might o.
sentiment among the good women o.
| the country is against woman's suf
| frage for obvious reasons, and that tn,
experiment has not proven very salts
| factory In those states in which 1t ha
been tried.
The decision of the Texas court
| which merely asserts that the suffrag
is a privilege, not an inherent right
does not affect the question of genera
policy, but it ought to silence the con
tention among the disfranchised an
the unenfranchised that they are bein
denied their rights under the law whe
only their privileges are restrained.
Yet there is grave question involve
in the matter of restriction of the RICH
of franchise which goes to the yer
heart of a republican form of govern
! ment, and laws and court decisions o
. this matter may easily nullify what ha
come to be the American definition c
, our form of governments govern
J ment of the people, by the people an
for the people."-San Antonio Express
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IFrom the Chicago News.1

rFrom the chicago NewaJ
Back pay IL usually slow about COM
ing to the front.
A little learning ana little widow
are dangerous things.
How we enjoy meeting a man who
has no tale OF woe to tell!
A wise man is apt to know when he
has enough before he gets It.
Men never make mistakes-after
the undertaken gets busy with them.
Most people who claim to want jus
tice may be thankful they don't get Il.
People who dwell In paper houses
should refrain from casting insinua-
tons.
About all you have to do to make
a boy hate any particular kind Of food
il to tell him that 1t IL healthful.
Much sympathy II wasted on people
who ought to be ashamed to keep the
undertaken waiting for = job.
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w. II. Ryan. chairman OF the DEM
ocratfo state committee. who has re-
Gently ana suddenly risen to the emf
nsnoe of s'Coioner' Is In particular
" optimistic mood these days. He
predicts $4,000 majority for Bryan
IN Kansas. But at that Colonel Ryan
Is more modest than some Of his
Democratic brethren And because it
doesn't cost anything to. make political
predictions that's the reason they are
no yafueless.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

Speaking of joint debates. an inter
esting one could be provided by Mr..
Urmy, Judge of the police court. and
Mr.. Eaton, chief Of police. on the
question as to where tho Jurisdiction
OF one ends and the other begins in
matters pertaining to law enforce
msnt in the city.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

What will happen next? Boston. the
effete, the cultured, has been the scene
of a fight with desperadoes in which
two men were killed, another fatally
injured and eleven others wounded
with revolver shots. Most people had
an idea that the only things the bad
men of Boston fred at their enemies
were words which most people can
not pronounce or understand. But
thus is another idol shattered. Boston
now takes her place with the wild and
woolly western towns of fiction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

Ths~'sacred kiss" II q tenet Of new
religious sect that Is holding sway and
making converts at Richmond Ind.
under the name Of the Church of the
First Born. Every member OF the de-
domination has q perfect right to sa-
tuts his brother or sister In the faith
with q kiss and It can be placed on the
forehead. cheek. hand or mouth There
A this recommendation for the prac-
ttcas II a not compulsory.
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PHES0
HOME NEWS WHILE AWAY.

Subscribers OF the STATE journal
sway during the summer may hav1
Ekho paper mailed regularly each Gay
% any address nc the rate OF ten cents
IN week or thirty cents month Coy
IMAM onfy.) Address changed as often
a desired. While out OF town the
kssate journal win DO TO you Ike
daily letter from home.
Advance payment Il requested on
xhese short time subscriptions, to save
Bookkeeping expenses.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

Not much cause for wonder is
found in the announcement that the
agreement OF the railroads not to cut
under two cent fare for special
meetings and excursions in localities
where this rate was forced upon them
has gone to smash. The railroads used
to enjoy considerable profit in running
sunday excursions and making special
rates below two cents a mile in times
past and It was no more than reason
able to suppose that they would in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24
FOR A PURE OCEAN.

A loan shark bathes in the summer sea
By the sandy Jersey shore,
And an inlky sQuid and singing ray
Swear they will have his gore.
A devi1fish comes at their call to arms
And q Portuguese mau-of-wAr,
And the dogfish bark at the bold loan
shark
AS he bathes on the sandy bar.
LET the swordfish draw ana the seahorse
neigh, 49,
And the drumfish set to drumming!'
He wallows away in the nice, clean spray
And he doesn't know what's a-coming. s
The wavering seagull flaps its wings
And the wild waves wildly wave him,
But the Jerseacow is angered now,
And nothing on earth can save him.
The gray crab catches him under the TIDE.
The dogfish snap at his heels,
And they shock him stif with a current
supplied
BY a school of electric cells.
Then of they swim, to funeral marcn
Played on a comb by norman.
And bury him dank in the uttermost bank
While a publish breaches the sermon
Newark Evening News
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There ts this satisfaction to the peo-
pie OF Kansas while their governor Is
away imparting words Of wisdom TO
the intellectually hungry OF other
states. couple OF governors from
other communities are doing the same
thing in this state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

President Roosevelt characterizes
the navy as the cheapest form OF safe
ty Insurance policy the nation can OBJ
tain. That's probably true, but 1t Is
decidedly expensive cheapness. And
list try and imagine what the expense
would he IL Hobson had his way.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

One of the features of the Demo
cratic national campaign that is bound
not to make much of a hit will be the
Canned speeches Of Mr.. Bryan that
it is proposed to grind out in phono-
graphs. A little music from one OF
these machines goes a great ways with
~. aaf folks
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

That the recent financial panic did
not cause Kansas capitalists and in
vestors to become skeptical over the
business of banking is made plainly
apparent by the fact tnar twenty-eight
new state banks have been Instituted
here since the first of January and
twelve more are to be organized with
In a short time. This also bespeaks
well for the prosperity or the Sunfiow-
er state. It is surely a land of golden
opportunities.
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dulge In them again as soon as they
got over their huff at being compelled
to put in a two cent rate. Few per-
sons or corporations will continue to
gnaw at their own noses until they
bite them off entirely.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

One of the most successful ways to
make money is not to need 1t.
If Central always gives you the
right number in Heaven 1t will really
seem to be-
A woman can help her husband to
enjoy himself when he goes anywhere
by not going with him.
What a woman likes about riding in
an automobile is maybe she will meet
somebody she hates walking.
Very hard work about being in love
with a girl Is all the interest you have
to fake up in her family.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

on horrursi Mrs. Elinor Gfyn Is to
70 on tho stage. She Is to give her
own Interpretation Of her nauseatins
book, three Weeks" She says 1t
has been misunderstood. For her
own salre It Is to be hoped that 1t has.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

This engineers have arrived at the
conclusion that the Kaw river is not
half wide enough at Topeka to care
tor unusual floods. And to the casual
observer the thought WIN come that
neither L. Il half deep enough.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

For fourteen years Bava Luchman
Dass received from the priests OF the
Riaclr Caves of central India the
necessary education In order to be-
come q yoga. as q yoga must be ca
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24
Big Appetite and Big Feet.

Twenty-three pancakes and a large
alice of fried ham constituted mere
working sample for Miss Grace Schoo-
maLer's appetite, according to her
amnIoyer. Miss Sarah Peck Judson,
Eeeper of the Judson Inn. at Water
town who is resisting the girls suit
for forty-one months wages at $40
month :. =. s
Miss Shoemaker, 1t is alleged.
-oLs the boarders with the noise OF
her feet. which were so big, Miss Jud-
SON declares, that she was kept busy
hunting for shoes to At them.
The plaintiff, on the other hand
saws she had to sleep in the cellar
work a lawn mower, feed chickens
nnsh wheelbarrow, make furnace
6res and do other things, like a man
Waterbury (Conn.) dispatch to New
York World.
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wedding OF 1O.1o1 Couples.

Costly and magnificent as are the
modern marriages Of the wealthy ana
noble, for generations they ran oan
short of one which occurred over z'ooo
years ago. ~ m.
At this gigantic ceremony 2o,2o2 peo-
pie were united.
When Alexander the Great conquel
"A Hinp Darfus. he decided to espouse
the defeated monarch's daughter u
the same time he decreed that 100 OF
his chief OFFICERS should wed 100 women zen
from noble Persian families, and lOooo
~ his Greek soldiers must take as
MANY Asiatic women as their wives.
The ceremony which took place in
huge pavilion, was very simple. Alex
ander gave his hand to the princess
and kissed her, and all the other bride,
rrooms did the same to their selected
mates. ..,,.. !,
Save, festival. which has never
since been excelled in grandeur anu
a~nificence.[London Answers.