The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-29
PARADISE RECLAIMED.

All my hopes O. fortune Still far
/ As heaven is from me.
Still though far away it seems
There's heaven in my dreams,
Blessed paradise had an lost, but hope
again to win,
An. An, it calls me from the breeze
mat blows in acrOSt the seas
| Win a ship comes in.
Sure. it's hell to be a stevydore."
| The lads beside me say;
But it's purgatory an no more,
Since some may win away.
An, it's not forever that I'll slave
Within a stuffy hold,
For the pennies that 1 make an save
| VIII turn at last to gold.
OH the heaven that I knew,
Risin' green above the blue,
Blessed paradise I had an lost an
,,,. dreamed sc much about,
| On day that's soon to be
IT. A. Daily. in the Catholic Standard and
Times.
Napoleons of the Farm.
| We have captains of industry, wiz
ards of finance, and Napoleons of
| transportation. Why not Alexan-
| ders of the farm.
| James ]. Hill refers to the question
of the food supply as the. greatest
there is in this country an empire of
agriculture awaiting conquest, the
richest domain of equal extent on the
| planet.
| Except IOr a rev great
| in the days of slavery, a splendid
ranch here and there in Texas, and
the half dozen bonanza farms of Da-
kota, agriculture has not been pur-
sued in this country on great scale.
| If a genius for organization and di-
| rection can produce magical results
in other directions, why should not
similar ability work wonders on the
fertile soil of this continent?
| Considering the area of our i'm
proved land, our farm products are
| small, and yet their value this year is
estimated at $8,000,000,000. The en-
| tire value of our manufactured pro-
ducts in 1905 was $14,S00, 100000. OF
our exports in 1908, amounting to ST.
| 860,000,000, only a little more than
one-half came from the farm and the
| range. A land such as this has only
inattention and ignorance to plead for
| the factory's superiority over the
farm. Our agricultural products
should be doubled.
There has been and still is some
| sensitiveness to great landed estates,
| but the tendency in rural districts is
| toward tenant farming, the worst pos
| sible solution of the question. Most
| of the states of the north have more
tenant farmers than Ireland. In this
| fact lies one of the most portentouS
dangers confronting agriculture. An
industry carried on in sloth and waste
| by nomads cannot be profitable in
money or citizenship.
A few wizards of wheat, Caesars of
cotton, and monarchs of maize ap-
plying brains, energy, and capital to
production would give the people of
this country an example. Too many
Americans are attempting to initiate
those who by consolidation have
made themselves masters of finance
commerce, manufacturers, and spec
ulation. No great harm will be done
and much good may result If we set
up few sovereigns of the soil-New
York World.
Frauds of Mediums.
In discussing Nine. Eusapia Palla-
dino, the italian medium. who ar
rived here Wednesday, and her spec
tacular work abroad, Prof. James H.
Hyslop, secretary of the American So
ciety for Psychical Research, and the
best known authority in America on
"spiritistic" phenomena, declared last
evening that many so-called mediums
commit fraud without being aware
that they are doing SO.
Prof. Hyslop said that such me-
diums fooled themselves without
knowing it. Their receptions are per-
petrated when they are in a "subcon
scious" state. He referred to the true
mediums as doing "supernorma1"
work, and asserted that there is all
the difference in the world between
the "subconscious" and the super
normal"
ST recently investigated peculiar
case in a western city," said he. 1.-THE
woman practiced fraud without
knowing that she did so. We held
her hands and feet. and yet she was
able to shake a tambourine. While
that was going on we took flash
light photograph. and discovered that
she was holding the tambourine be-
tween her teeth. She was in sub
conscious state, and did not know
that she was trying to deceive us.
ST hardly know what name to give
might call 'subconscious' fraud. Her
real self was not responsible. We
could not blame her for the decep-
lions any more than we could hold
sleep-waIker responsible for his acts.
.'There is a wide difference in me-
diums and each individual must be
tested To thoroughly determine if
Nine Palladino does 'supernormaP
work would require from $50 to 200
sittings 1t would take years to do
that properly.
AIt would be an easy matter to
write ordinary questions and receive
ordinary answers. The mediums from
the subconscious can tell us things
mediums disclose things beyond our
selves, and that is what we call 'su-
pernormal.
Prof. Hyslop said that he had test
ed the work of scores of mediums. but
was not prepared to classify them.
Their work is sometimes successful
and sometimes unsuccessful. Even
true medium are sometimes caught
in deceptions.-New York American.
Building a Reputation.
Young physicians IN the smaller
towns have an idea that appearing
very busy will help them greatly in
starting a practice. The following is
told by senator, Dr. Godfrey Hunter.
of Kentucky. Dr. Hunter had a call
the afternoon following the hanging
out of his single, and started through
town in his buggy at terrific speed. A
policeman stopped the enterprising
physician.
Doctor" he said, at is against the
CITY ordinance to drive at the speed
vo, orc going You must accompany