The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-03


| and the very poor must huddle in
houses of mud or sod like the peas
antry of the Old World? If that ar
gument does not appeal, will you con-
| slider the economic effect of the future
decline and disappearance of what Is
now and might remain always one
of your greatest industries? Will you
realize what this country must be-
| come when stripped of its forests;
the washing away of the soil, the in
evitable changes in climate, tt devas-
| tations of torrential overflow and dis
astrous drought, the barren bleakness
| Of your mountains, and the desolation
| of your valleys when the forests have
for forest conservation will begin to-
day.. ]. Hill, in Putnam's Magazine
Diminutive Farms.
| The Portuguese are an extremely con-
~ the hen meth o- employed by his father
and fOrefathers. In very many parts of
/ the country the old wooden plows are
| still used.
| When a man dies, instead of one of the
heirs taking the whole property and pay
the whole property is divided into as
many parts as there are heirs More than
thus divided
| Thus, if a property consists of 10 acres
of pasture land, so of vineyard. and 10 of
grain land and there were ten heirs, each
heir would receive one acre each of grain
and pasture land and eight acres of vine
yard. This process has been going on for
a very long time, so that now in the
most fertile part of Portugal the land is
divided into iIneredibly, small portions
| to the. United States consular. reports, is
that the product Of the land J.. is barely
South of the River Tagus, on the other
hand. there are enormous tracts of ex-
found impossible to induce the farmers
of the north to move into this region
and take up large holdings.-Philadelph
Inquirer.
Are Cats Tools of Trade?
The board of United States general APP
trade or are animals not specially pro-
| the Dingley tariff. Nine. A. Thieueman.
/ the owner of the animals, maintains that
the government had no right to exact 20
imported a,s for exhibition PURPOSES only:
opigin while others were re- reared ua abroad.
eminent that the importer failed to com
ply properly with the bonding require
At 0 hearng bere Jndge Waite yes
Masters I e. s,s spgeaTsd fcr Nine.
| mails are entitled to the benefit of free
entry. Counsel for the government ar
Should be allowed to stand.
| Judge Waite took the papers in the
case and reserved decision.-New York
Times.
Kentucky's Biggest Cornfield.
| The biggest cornfield in the state OF
| Kentucky is now being laid by. 1t is
| the field outlined by the gigantic horse
shoe sweep of the Ohio river from Hen
derson round past Evansville to Green
river. 1t is the biggest because it is
| corn continuously for 5000 or 1000
acres un' roken by fences, unrelieved
| by any other erop-no hay, no tobacco.
oats, or wheat-just corn, corn, corn,
and then more corn.
| It is estimated that more than 300 600
| bushels of corn will be raised in this
monster tract this year, and this in
| spite of the fact that the farmers were
scared out of a years growth by the
! high water and for time were not
quite sure whether the high water
would let them raise any corn.
| 1t means something to pillow one of
these rows of corn a mile long in Horse
shoe Bend, and by the time a team has
made a few round trips 1t is time TO
rest a bit.-Louisville Courier-Journal
Horse Has Tobacco Habit.
1t is generally believed fact that
dumb animals have an aversion to to-
| bacco in any form. This was dis
proved to a slight extent by the re-
| cent experience Oh d SpTiuSuSlQ man
| in New York city.
| He says that he was standing on the
upper deck of a Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad ferry
returning from Hoboken. As he stood
there watching the passengers come
| on he saw a delivery wagon belong
| ing to a Hoboken laundry concern
drive on the lower deck and stop.
The driver descended from his seat
and, pulling out package of tobacco,
rolled cigarette and returned the
package to his pocket. His horse in
the meantime had pricked up his ears
| sharply, and then stepped forward and
began to sniff at the pocket where the
| tobacco had been replaced.-Spring-
| field Republican.
Died in the Proper Way.
A clergyman, who was not averse
| to an occasional glass, hired an Irish
man to clean out his cellar. The
Irishman began his work. He
brought forth lot of whisky bottles.
and as he lifted each one looked
through it at the sun. The preacher,
who was walking on the lawn, saw
him, and said: "They are all dead
ones, Pat" They are!" said Pat.
We'll there is one good thing about
| it; they all had the minister with
them when they were dying -Argo-
maui