The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-17

the tomato SOUP and that came from
Tecumseh
Il don't propose for the governor to
stand here and use all the superlatives
in describing Kansas am something
of liar myself. l want to tell You
that if all the wheat and corn of +s,e
state were ground together and made
into one enormous doughnut that all
the colored people in the United States
could get inside the rim and by the
| time they had eaten their way out the
race problem will have been settled If
all the poultry products of the state
could be condensed into one hen, her
cackle would announce the laying Of
an egg as big as Pixies Peak, and the
sound of her morning orison would
make the roar and thunder of Niagara
Falls sound like the lullaby song OF
a mother as she puts her little one to
sleep at night.
that have staid in Kansas until the
gentle winds Of the state have blown
all the hair from my head. Most OF
you are in the same condition. l want
| to warn you to never try hair restorer
it is a fake in all cases. p
This question is a tender subject
with me, but, still have noticed that
badness is the advance guard of civil
fzation.I AS man advances in7 culture
he wears mores cfuthes and less hair.
I believe the time will come When
those most advanced in thought and
action of the world viii have no hair
at all. ,y
"A preacher who had fine head of
curly hair once asked me the differ
ence between my hair and his. 1 was
grouchy In a minute and refused to
answer him, and he said: My hair is
crocheted, while yours is Ok)nit.'"
T. F. Doran Tells History of Jobbers.
one of the leading lawyers of the city,
and he spoke as follows:
The marvellous development of the
west is strikingly illustrated by the
fact that it is only fifty-four years
since the founder of this city beat the
first pathway connecting 1t with civil
ization. Their wagons toiled slowly
up the Kaw river valley through ap-
parently endless and unbroken
stretches of wild grass. The solitude
was stirred only by the strange sounds
that echo from a wilderness. Today,
three great transcontinental railroads
parallel the pathway Of Kansas pio-
neers while the great commonwealth
they founded reflects in the sunlight a
shining web of steel, more than ten
thousand miles in length, the path
way of commerce, bringing to us the
choicest treasures of the globe and
opening for our surplus products the
gateway to the worlds best markets.
Trade was coeval with human So
ciety. Its earliest records are found
in 1.-The Hebrew Scriptures. When
Abraham bought his first farm, it is
recorded that he weighted down
four hundred sheckels of silver, cur
rent with the merchants for the field
of Ephron, showing that there were
both currency and merchants in those
days. The first merchants were the
southern Arabs. who carried goods
and bags of silver from one region to
another. The first successful naviga-
tors were the Phoenicians-the frag-
ments of the Canaanites. who, over
thrown by the Hebrews and driven
from the plain of the Jordan, the hilly
slopes of Judea and the sacred
Mount Moriah. settled on a narrow
strip of land on the Mediterranean.
ers and manufacturers of ancient.
These, gentlemen were the first
jobbers, and the jobs they put up on
the Jews would bring the blush of
shame to the cheek of modern
lightning rod peddler-they in fact
taught that ancient race its trade.
Gentlemen, the jobbers of To-
peka greet you We are proud of
your present patronage, grateful for
past favors and hopeful of future
business and social relations. Buy
where you can buy cheaply, but al
Once a Kansan, always a Kan,
san. You may wander from her
green fields and billowy prairies, but
you will hear their woes calling you
back. as they called a Kansas girl,
who,- lying on the warm sand of a
California beach, wrote these lines"
He closed with 1.-THE Call of Kan
sas" by Esther M. Clark.
Ed Mckeever and Topeka Merchants.
Edwin D. McKeever was introduced
as one Of the brightest and wittiest
members of the Shawnee county bar,
and he responded with the following
on the subject, "Why Topeka
81 don't know what the committee
meant by this subject and the au-
dience will likely know as little about
it after I am through as they do at
this time.
From the time I first began to
keep house in this city my inspiration
has been the retail merchant Day
and night have worked and sweat to
liQuidate my Indebtedness to him.
am toiling this hot weather because
of him. In my youth I had great as
pirations and high aims. as phflan-a