The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-06

Sing. and woes will disappear;
Each has all that he can carry;
Give him greeting. smile, and cheer.
-WomanS Home Journal.
Africans Are Not Lazy.
DR.. Blyde1, the learned African
publicist, -esents the charge that the
native African is lazy and needs a lot
of wives to work for him. He says
that hundred steamers are constant
ly visiting the African coasts to take
away the produce the native has
created. not by the help or supervis-
ion OF the white man. Steamers, he
says, do not lie in West African ports
for days landing cargo as presents to
worthless men who give nothing in
return.
Any one who reads the newspapers
now published in tropical Africa
knows that there is good foundation
for DR.. Blyden's protest. The old
conundrum. "Will the native African
work?" is out OF date. We read that
in Southern Togo the natives have
raised $4,000 tons of maize for ex-
port and sold it at price SO cheap
that in spite of land transport to the
sea and the long ocean journey the
grain completes with northern maize
in the European market
The native planters of Southern Nj
geria raised only 500 bales of cotton
in 1903, but the crop grew TO e,ooo
bales in 1903, and the prediction is
that in two years more they will be
producing 10000 bales. The statis=
| tics of the British gold coast show
that in 1900 the value of the cacao
grown on native plantations was
slz5,0O0, and that in 1906 the native
crop was sold for more than $1,000
900.
According to the Deutsch Ostafrik-
anische Zeitung the native coHee
plantations in German East Africa,
| without the investment OF dollar OF
European capital, are producing
third of the total crop. The blacks
along the German coast of Victoria
Nyanza in 1906 brought to the two
shipping ports of Muanga and Buko-
ba on the lake e6 tons of rice, ISL
tons Of peanuts, eS5 tons OF hides, 10y
tons of wax. and other products worth
| altogether $7s6, 900, and these native
products were sent over the Uganda
railroad to the sea for export to Eu-
rope.
plenty of it to raise such crops and
| carry them to market. A great many
of our ideas about Africans and their
continent have been very crude ano
misleading Not long ago the Ger
mans were talking of the need OF q
Africa. but today we are told that the
natives are coming scores or miles &c
| apply for work on the extension or the
l Tar-es-Salaam raiIroad.-New YORK
Sun.
When Living Was Cheap.
| old-tine hotel rates in England
were low. For instance. in the days
Of Queen Elizabeth the charge at the
George Inn" for feather peo' PEI
night was 1 penny. Dinner cost six
hence az cents) and offered choice
of beef, mutton or pigge or nsh' II
Stuart times each room owned
name, instead of number, cnien.
those of inn signs, such as the Cros
Keys room, the Bell chamner, lh'
Adam and Eve room, and SO fortn.
Formerly the custom In importan
cities during festival times was to limi
, the price of food and lodging o.
, statute. In Canterbury during tn
. ceIebration of the bicentenary o
, of bread was fixed at two loayes 10
a penny e cents). a fairly high ng
ure considering the comparative vaiu
t of money then and now, ana VIII
, brought 16 cents gallon:
century or so later the scale
prices in Edinburgh all the yea
i round was equally moderate shee
: being sold at prices ranging from
cents to 20 cents, according to qualltS
) .sbest hens" at / cent eacn' an
: Rochelle wine at 1 cent pint an
} vender departing from these prices fa
, | nc risk of forfeiture of his goods
e Chicago News.
E An Early 'Roentgen" Picture.
2 AS Long ago as 1875 a Leipzig hous
; published a German novel illustrate
nv something closely resembling
: Roentgen picture. The story tells Q
> the Countess Abillinia, who gave ne
! heart to the Knight Gibeiio. IN
: knightly lover was thoughtless enoug
: to Kill his lady loves father; ne
affection turned to hatred; she vowe
| to kill him. In a dream she saw IN
man who had fascinated her. ana sn
| stood, ready to slay him, when sue
her stood a grinning skeleton, saylnt
at have already been punished. IN
/, | scene is illustrated in the old booi
= and the picture is not unlike Hoenl
. | gen photograph. When 1t was put
? | ijshed no one probably would nav
: believed that science within CON
naratiyely short time would make
POSSIBLE to produce this picture, wh1c
p the authors imagination invented
: Chicago News
y Bear Fell From Tree.
FALLING ont of a huge fir tree frol
1 a. height of SO feet near Berlin. Lin
l. county, when shot by hunters yeste
O day. black bear, weighing Al
pounds. struck squarely on noun
IS valued at $500, killing the animal II
e stantly The incident was the resu
n Of an hours chase. in which sever
n farmers. bent on avenging II
Ie slaughter of their herds by bears, toe
N warned by the baying hounds tn
1t he was in danger, bruin took retuge
le the Ar tree A few minutes later,
. narty of six hunters emptied the
rifles into the treetop. Pierced
several bullets, the animal releas.
its hold and crashed through q
is branches to the ground One OF Q
= rushed in, but misjudged the distan
lie and received the full impact of t
g animals weight.-Portland dispat
Of to Seattle acknowledgement.
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ed Dog Mus1 Noe