The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-01
KANSAS coAMENT
A TREELEss TOWN.

People who live in this section, or
any other where vegetation grows
treely, possibly do not realize what a
dressing that Is. Do you appreciate
the trees which add beauty and COM
fort to the residence streets, and make
the whole city, viewed from a hilltop,
look ike town dropped down amidst
Forest? If not, 1T IS because you are
stranger to the treeless town. ana
other barren places. Probably Butte,
months the largest town without trees,
without grass, or anything else IN the
line OF vegetation. In a naturally bar
rem district, 1t is impossible to do
much In the way of landscape gard
ening, because the fumes from the ore
mills and smeIters are fatal to vege-
table life. A week or two in Butte
VIII make any man love trees. But
Butte is not the only treeless town.
Many OF the small towns In western
Kansas and eastern Colorado are with
out trees worthy the name, although
the larger ones, which have city wat
err have embarked in tree culture, that
the land may not always look desert
A residence street.-The average resi-
dence street, with here a house in
need of paint and there a shutter on
one hinge, and other little Irregular
ities-is a sorrowful sight indeed,
without the softening influence of
trees.-Atchison Globe.
There was a national convention OF
the Christian and Missionary Alliance
in Old Orchard, Maine, the other day,
and following an impassioned appeal
from one of the leaders for help, men
and women in the audience rushed
forward and emptied their purses into
the collection basket, and stripped
themselves of all jewelry. Children
caught the infection, and crowded to the
front with their parents, and threw
their pennies and gold rings into the
rapidly accommodating pile Of treasure.
The hysteria lasted an hour and a half,
and, when it was over. the speaker said
the collection amounted to $4,000 in
cash, valuables that could be disposed
of for $4,000, and pledges for $4,000
These people were not in their sober
senses: Many parted with jewelry that
two hours before they would have
fought to the death to retain. What
was the germ? We seem to be like
sheep in more than the one particular
of having gone astray.- Atchison
Globe.
ROCKEFELLER TURNED DOWN.
The Uncle Remus association of At
lanta has turned down the offer of
John D. Rockefeller to give $1,000 to
the Joel c. Harris memorial fund.
There was a sting and a string to it.
The oil king made the offer only on the
condition that the association raise
$4,000 more, and that unless it did
raise it his contribution would be with
drawn.
There was no generosity in an offer
from Rockefeller with such a string to
it. Subscribers who are as rich as
Rockefeller should not designate how
much the public should give. 1t is
way of running the thing, or rather,
perhaps, trying to run 1t, that the pub
lie would not appreciate.
The truth Is that such men as Rookie
Teller have no business in such a move
ment as the Uncle Remus association
has started. There was nothing what
ever in the soul OF Joel Chandler Har-
ris that was in harmony with the soul
Of Rockefeller. The types were as diff
ferent as the shark and the songbird.
wichita Eagle. VI HroH