The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-24
KANSAS COAAENT
READY TO HANDLE THE WHEAT.

READY TO HANDLE THE WHEAT.
The Missouri Pacific is preparing to
handle the wheat crop without causing
delay to the shippers. It has been col
lecting cars fit for hauling grain and
will have them in readiness when the
grain is threshed and hauled to the
stations along the line. There has al
ways been considerable complaint re-
garding the inability of the shippers
to get cars Immediately after harvest
and the Missouri Pacific is doing all ii
can to relieve the old time conditions.
1t IS hoped that other lines will be as
active IN the matter. It is not believed
that as much grain will be rushed to
the markets as last year because the
farmers are convinced, through the ex-
per1ence of last year and this spring,
that they can do better by holding at
least share of their wheat. But the
fact that the Missouri Pacific, and pos
sibiy the other lines is doing all 1t can
in preparing to hurry the crop to mar
ket will be appreciated by the grain
growers and shippers.
In the past q great many uncorri-
plimentary remarks have been made
concerning the Gould lines in Kansas.
but the decided Improvement which is
being made in the track and in the
rolling stock Is making the line as
popular as other roads.-Wichita
Eagle.
A GIRL WHO WENT WRONG.
Some years ago there there lived in
Missouri a girl named Mary O'Brien.
The farm. the country town, the city,
in turn, grew too small for her and she
went to New York, where she was lost.
In short, she ceased to exist having
adopted stage life and the name of
Ruth Hilton.
Antonio Ruiz, a member af the Gu
ban legation, saw her, fell in love with
her, and. as it was an honest love, he
married her. But he found out that
Ruth Hilton hadn't been her only
men, and had lived with number Of
them. They separated, and, when
Mary O'Brien again bobbed to light it
was as Nine. Ruiz, living In fashion
able apartments in London. and the
FRIEND of Alfred Vanderbilt. She
kept eight servants, and the splendor
in which she lived, and her beauty
were the talk of London.
You know the rest: Vanderbilt tired
of her, quit going to see her, she
moped and cried, and finally shot and
killed herself, and now lies in an un-
marked grave.-Atchison Globe.
THE UNRESPONSIVE BED SHEETS
The law has been put to square
test in Oklahoma, and those who had
expected it to do miracles are disap-
pointed and full of painful doubts. Two
years ago the Oklahoma legislature
passed a law requiring bed sheets to be
nine feet long and not to contain more
than q certain percentage of rinse wa
ter. 1t is now discovered that the
sheets have not grown a fractional part
of an inch. under the dispensation of
the law, nor have they dried out any.
The people are naturally suspicious
as well as distressed. and they are
gathering in the market places to ask
whether the law which will not stretch
or wiring a bed sheet can be expected
to do any of the more complex work
of society.
1t has been suggested that the trou-
BILE in Oklahoma is that nobody has
been around to see to the application
of the law, and to support its provis-
ions with a strong right arm and a pair
of handouts The suggestion has been
found to be full of truth, and it is
regarded as possible that this may con-
tain the explanation of the failure of
the bed sheets to grow to their statu-
tory length.
Gradually the conviction is forcing
itself home that bed sheets nine feet
| long, as we'll as many of the other
| comforts, conveniences and virtues of
| civilization are to be won by watching
also, as well as praying.--Ottawa Her
aid.