The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-17

saw poor ana humble cabin rise,
The Grade of the nursing Liberty
Unsheltered meath the cold. inclement
skies.
The ocean roared upon the wooded shore
And smote the beetling crags with wild
The b wind-sw reat pine gave back the
And shook the wilderness from its tower
Ing crest.
Ger all the wilderness there lay the
The pail of solitude and deep'ning night
While from that rude and meager cabin
Glimmered and cleaned dim. uncer-
tain light.
Deep lay the snow along the briny strand.
And winged Want rose CHASTITY DER the
To weave with wintry snow her ghostay
And then the vision changed. the silent
The mighty stretch of untrod ocean
shore,
The wilderness and voiceless solitude: -
more.
Within a mighty city by the sea
I saw aloft a towering statue rise
Hurting the beacon flame of Liberty
Far, far away across the ocean skies;
This from tn unpeopled wilderness had
E'e9 j. as the, the morning bursts from out
So from this primal solitude, unknown.
The spark, enkindled. famed beacon
light.
And eyes that ne'er had seen were opened
Erect. the. heads oppression rest re-
strained,
Hope laid her wreath upon the furrowed
Lips were unsealed and fettered limbs
unclaimed.
And 'yond the water waste myriad host
Thronged eagerly across the western
Fen from the realm of remoter coast
All joyfulIy they hailed the lambent star
No more restrained, they worshipped from
A world oppressed had found a nobler
M ''' FLOYD D. RAzE. =
Anamoose, North Dakota
To Harness Rio Grande.
President Taft's wonderment over
the desert and over the enterprise that
has made part of it yield sustenane zee
for human beings, as expressed In MS
speeches, has borne fruit.
AS matter of fact southwestern
Texas was laying" for the president.
Lawrence Bennett. head of a private
irrigation enterprise that has reclaim
ed a million and half acres of desert,
will present to Mr.. Taft a proposition
from the pioneers of development in
the district at which he wondered.
They ask that the United States and
Mexico agree to make or the Rl1
agreement. This would mean that by
a system of dams the waters OF the
Rio Grande would be diverted to 1rrl-
gate arid lands, and that at IT'S pres
ent mouth the river dividing the United
States and Mexico would be dry, but
it's waters would have made productive
100000 acres on the American size
and as many more acres across the
border.
The men of this section will not ask
a cent of the government. All they
will ask is that the government. make
an agreement with Mexico as to the
amount Of water to be taken by each
country, and that the two governments
supervise its distribution.
Private capital in small and large
lots will do the work. The Rio Grande
as a boundary line will be only mem
ory; but on the American SIDE alone
an area as large as Massachusetts VIII
be made another garden spot built In
a desert.-Gregory, Texas, dispatch to
New York World.
Cattle Raising in India.
The superintendent of the Indian civil
veterinary department throws a little
light on the native method of cattle
raising. The native living on meal of
rice with a few herbs as seasoning, ex-
poets his cattle will in like manner PICK
up what they can in the way OF pasture
about the village or its adjacent ianos,
grow green food or prepare dry fodder
for them; the same plant which sup
plies him with grain feeds his cattle
also with its straw. In most towns and
villages cattle are driven out at all sea-
sons to Craze abroad, and In the dry
season they more frequently lick the
dust only and return home as empty
as when they started, to receive per-
haps a few handfuls of straw or rub
bish, just sufficient to sustain life.
MANY Of the beasts, too, are worth
less. being too weedy even to put in the
lightest plough. and they are allowed to
exist and eat up the rations of the more
profitable ones. Undoubtedly reiiglouS
sentiment among the vast majority or
the people is averse to destroying cattle,
as among the Hindus the bull has al
ways been considered to be sacred. and,
indeed, is worshiped under the name of
Nundi it having formed the vehicle OF
their deity SILVA during his peregrina-
tions. A Hindu would consider It
grievous sin to kill useless cattle, hence
it is that the terrible specimens refer
red to are allowed to exist and eat the
food which should go to the workers.
Westminster Gazette.
Compulsory Marriage.
A Chicago preacher says that the
state ought to compel men to marry"
Physical unfitness, according to this
dominic, is the only valid reason why
men should not marry.
He also advises the girls to help
ont ba sh FIJI and modest young men by
popping the question" themselves. II
said young men are too slow about 1t.
1t goes without saying that this
parson stands we'll with the feminine