The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-10
KANSAS COMMENT
MoRTALITy OF CROPS.


A few days ago you could have pur-
CHASED large area of the corn crop
OF 1910 for small sum of money but
TO-DAY there is none of the crop for
SAFE 1t is all due to the fact that
rain came over nearly all of the corn
belt of Kansas Wednesday and the
crop Killer must find something
else to complain about. People find
TOO much fault with conditions in
Kansas. They are much the same in
otner states but in Kansas each wheat
crop has about nine lives and the corn
crop is killed and resurrected every
week from about July 1 until frost
comes which is usually early in Sep
TENDER 1t is the same story every
year. Kansas usually starts out with
zine corn crop prospects. Sometimes
tnere is too much rain in the spring
and the planting is late and the first
returns from the Crop Killers town
SHIPS indicate that the corn crop has
lost out by big majority-this before
it is planted.
When dry weather finally does come
the crop is lost because it is so late
or 1T is rotting in the ground. Crop
Killer story number Two. whenever
there is hail storm during the sum-
mer the corn suffers fifty per cent
Sometimes in this manner the crop is
damaged as high as two hundred per
cent and only for its remarkable re-
covering power it would be wiped off
the map several times over.
But the Crop Killer has the stage
In August every year with scarcely
any opposition. The weather has been
hot in Kansas in August for the past
two thousand years and that is as far
back as Secretary Coburn remembers.
The hot weather willis the corn. 1t
also willis the people and some days
1t would be easy to believe story to
the effect that the hot weather had
even baked ard cracked the ground
In which the corn was planted. At
such times a large force is recruited
to the Crop Killers and the report is
repeated that the crop is killed finally
and forever and that the chinch bugs
are going to the water melons drinking
water. But it all changes with a rain
and 1t always rains. 1t has rained in
time to save the corn crop in Saline
past that the time is forgotten when
there was crop failure excepting
those of course who took part in the
massacre by the grasshoppers that
came here from another state.-Sa-
lima Union.
EDU~ ATION OF A PRINCE.
There has recently been published in
an English review an article on the
trailing given by his parents to Ed
ward VII This education of a prince
was not of the kind described by the
IL was WIldt OS cApOCLCu
from such careful parents as Victoria
and her consort. No mother and faith
err in any position of life could have
been more solicitous that their son
should walk in the path of honor and
to so comport himself that he should
be an example to the nation over which
he was born to rule.
1t may be that some may smile over
the advice these parents offered, but
the memoranda they sent to the future
kline are worthy of perusal by the
highest or the lowest. 1t is a valuable
sidelight on royal life and custom, and
it confirms all that has been said Of
the virtues and common sense of the
good queen Nt
What could be better than this?
ITO the servants and those below
you, you will always be courteous and
kind, remembering that by having en-
gagged to serve you in return for GER
tain money payments they have not
surrendered their dignity which be-
longs to them as brother men and
brother Christians. You will try to
emancipate yourself as much as posi-
BILE from the thraldom of abject de-
pendence for your daily wants of life
on your servants. The more you can
do for yourself and the less you need
their help the greater will be your in
dependence and real comfort"
Platitudes? Perhaps, but how many
parents today inculcate in their chill
dren such wholesome and Christian
principles, such democracy and con-
sideration in the amenities of life!-
Ottawa Herald.