The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-06

| Z Suantlc oores who swell and pun
| hnrn.a some midnight oil they've
nave shown to me conceit enough,
bef. I t6ay they never learned
I've not deal Of use for such
In fact. I hardly think 1t pays
oo not want to know too much.
I'd rather be little dumb.
| little dear. little blind
And get along by rule Of thumb
nan De entirely voice and mind
IKE 70 keep some faith and trust,
DO not Want a to JAMES Kncv to 9oa the s touch
Some knowledge often brings dissust-
Chicago ws.
The Human Tide.
| The gates Of Castle Garden. have
oeen swinging outward in recent
| months in striking way. In 1907
there were 78s.74S alien arrivals and
| l55,7s2 departures In 1908. the half
year mere have been 1866 arrivals
and 377,664 departures. Never be-
fore In whole year did so many peo-
PIE OF the laboring class leave this
country as left in this half wear. More
than this. the immigration adds to the
total-it was 20 per cent less than a
record for panic effects
The Springfield Republican quotes
the figures for 1893, showing that the
decline in immigration then was from
$4,000 in the fiscal year to June 1902
TO 6O2.90s in 1893. and from 314,467
IN 1884 to 279,94S in 1895, So the re-
latfve decrease in those years was less
than this year. After 1873 the falling
on was about one-half In the two fol-
lowing years and about two-thirds in
three years. Hitherto the greatest de-
cline was from 7ss,900 arrivals, in
1882 to 334 200 in 1sS6-a smaller rel
alive shrinkage than the present year.
Possibly a greater proportion of re-
cent Immigrants were labor adventur-
ers. so to speak-that is, our abound
ing prosperity attracted immigrants
merely for the job. Men may have
calculated the cost Of passage and the
wages which the certainty Of work
offered, and taken chances on a visit
as an investment. With hard times
they incontinently returned. This
theory seems to be borne out by the
impression left by the returning aliens
that they did not intend to come back
here.
Be this as 1t may, the fact abides
and the drain on rough and unskilled
labor, in western Pennsylvania not
ably, is SO great that the iron and steel
industry is apprehensive lest there be
lack of laborers when prosperity re-
turns. But when two jobs are again
hunting one man we shall have a re-
newal of immigration. The human
tide sets easily these days between Eu-
rope ana America, ana It's recent now
the other way may have its useful les
son in demonstrating that it is a small
thing to cross the ocean-Indianapo
lis News
Cat Ran Itself to Death.
A little black cat which A. G. Lackey
owned is dead. This will perhaps be
good news for the gang of hoodlums
that tied a can to the tail of "Blackie"
and laughed to see him run. After the
cat got out Of range he kept on rum
ming. judging from his appearance, and
he got as far as his home several
times.
He would not let any of us go near
him. said Mr.. I.ackey. Unlike a dog.
which, similarly treated, runs home
for help, poor cat seems to lose faith
in all human beings after being put to
torture. So my poor old pet simply
ran himself to death trying to get away
from that. to him, terrible instrument
that was trying to beat him to death.
'Blackie' came home at last to stay,
and he died the next day. I have only
one regret to add to the one about his
DEATH wish the whole army of boys
who think 1t sport to impose on cat
or a dog could have seen the dismay
expressed in the eyes of that unfor-
tunate cat as he dragged itself to my
feet to lie there and die. They would
be friends of dumb beasts the balance
OF their lives. -kanSaS Clty JouIHdi.
Cottonseed OIL Industry.
In the great cotton belt of the
south are S48 mills engaged in crush
ing cotton seed for its oil and other
products. In these mills are 2,60S
presses, and in connection with them
2,752 gin stands and 3,126 linters. 1t
Is estimated that in the production of
cottonseed oil and by-products more
than $S5,000,000 is invested. The
mills annually use about 100000
tons Of seed, costing about $4,000
900. When made into oil, cake. hulls, |
and linters. and other products, its
present time but little more than half
the total seed product of the country |
is crushed.-Chicago Journal.
Whale Milking a Disappearing Art.
1 wish to protest against the mis-
leading article concerning the milking |
of whale in the Bay of Fundy. From |
this article the casual raeder would |
Judge that whale milking was as easy |
as the milking of the domestic goat, |
while in fact the milking of the whale |
is most difficult and with the present |
generation Of whale mixers will be-
come a lost art.
Further, 1t is not the milking Of the |
whale in itself which calls for intrepid |
daring, firm muscles and iron nerves, |
but the herding and tending of the |
sucking whales. |
A sucking whale, be 1t known, Is |
no Jersey calf or Angora kid that can |
be held between the knees. A lively. |
playful sucking whale will sometimes |
run twenty miles to dodge the corral |
during the milking hour. not because |
It needs the milk, but from that alb |
normal curiosity so common to the |
young.-From a Letter in the New |
York Sun.
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
from the Philadelphia Record.
Blessings often come disguised. The /
boynelv girl needs no chaperOne