The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-15
KANSAS CONAENT
WHEN THE WEEK rs DONE.


When do your duties seem the
neayier? When does the daily routine
GRIND the most? When do seconds
seem the longest that go to make up
the nterminable minutes of the end
less hours. Is it not as the evening
| closes down for the last day of the
week? Whether your labor be IN the
| nature OF grinding physical toll or
Wnetner It be task that exacts its
Toll OF mind and nerves. is not the
Trying hour the one when the knowl-
edge comes that the end of labor for
the week Is near at hand?
How thankful we should be then for
| that day of rest that is imposed on us
by religion and that custom has guar
anteed- 1t is wise economy that sets
aside twenty-four hours out of the 1853
that go to make up the week for a
cessation from accustomed labor. Man
is not a machine that will run and
run. so long as its parts will hang to-
gether, if oiled and cared for in
proper manner. Though we may &C.
casionally think the whole world is
but monster machine, of which we
are the cogs, reflection shows better.
The human machine may run for a
time without stopping, but soon or
late, break will come that is IRE
mediable. 1t Is. the wise man then
who appreciates his Sundays and uses
them profitably.
Work for the night is coming, work
through the morning hours;
Work while the dew Is sparkling.
work through the daylight
hours;
Work till the last beam fadeth, fadeth
to shine no more:
Work for the night is coming. when
man works no more.
Thus runs the old hymn. and the
additional message it carries with it,
when the last day of the week is done,
is, work being ended for the time
hni 70 h in
Hutchinson News.
MORE RAILROAD USEFULNESS.
Two years ago the Long Island
Railroad company established two ex-
detrimental farms on that island. and
| the old farmers had their laugh at
what the "book farmers" would do.
Now the railroad emerges from two
or three county fairs of the island with
twenty-four first and twenty-three
second prizes and the farmers have
ceased to laugh. These products were
grown on what was regarded as waste
land three years ago, and the farmers
are learning valuable lessons in i'm
proved methods, which was the object
of the railroads. Another result has
been the drawing in of hundreds of
settlers from other states, who have
| taken up small farms for market gar
dening. These experimental farms of
railroads, which are of vast assistance
to the agricultural department., as well
as to the farmers in general. are be-
coming more common. James J. Hill
was, perhaps. the pioneer in the move
ment. and that was part of the plan
which enabled him to make the vast
Northwest a profitable field of opera
ton for farmers, as well as railroads.
The Rock Island has established an
experimental farm in Colorado. for the
advancement of dry farming; the
Pennsylvania has lately established an
experimental farm in Delaware. by
which it hopes to show the farmers
how to double their profits. and to
double the population of the PENN
sula. The Pennsylvania is also doing
good work in reforestation of the de-
| nuded hills of the state, and the Santa
Fe is growing groves of eucalyptus in
the West to solve the cross tie prob
lem. These are not all, but they are
enough to show that railroads are in
terested in the development and pros
perity of the country For selfish rea-
sons, to be sure, but it makes 1t evil
dent also for selfish reasons. that the
country has an interest greater than
it shows in the development of the
railroads.-Atchison Globe.