The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-08
AGAINST PRIMARY PETITIONS.
FRON OTHER PENS
wIPING our soLITuDE.

| Richard LC Caffeine bemoans in
poets fashion in the current Smart
Set that loss of the spotless sky which
Is to be pitiless consequence of the
| airsh1p's development. It may occur
to other minds that by the invasion of
the skies mans work will be crowned
| of providing that neither in the earth
below nor the heavens above shall he
be able henceforth to find solitude.
| Within DAYS still recent there were
spots on the globe of unexplored Sc
| clusion. None is now of an assured
IlOnesomeness. Men have gone out to
the utmost boundaries Of the lands
and have penetrated to the deepest in
teriors. The seas, traversed by multi
plying ships, are no longer trackless;
| in this day of submarines they are not
even unsOunded. Those who sail the
oceans keep. whether they will or not,
| in wireless touch with the cities. One
may not sit down at the North Pole,
even, with the full confidence that
| there he will be left to his own COM
partnership.
! Where once were breathing spots
between towns. in peaceful American
woods or by serene lakes, trolley cars
now circle. bearing chattering crowds.
Where the trolley lines have not yet
ventured, the motor car irvades The
| telephone circuit is all-embracing. No
more possessing that frontier which of
old was the boundary of our Ameri-
| can west. we find now our backwoods
close upon the vanishing line.-New
York World.
THE FIRST SONGS.
Doubtless the first music arose
from mourning and sorrow" the Rev.
DR.. Brown is quoted as saying in his
address to graduating GLASS of a
school of music. This seems rather a
strange notion. The first songs must
have been the imDulsive outbursts of
emotion, but why should the emotion
OF grief inspire them rather than glad
ness? Songs seems first of all to be-
long to youth, and when youth sings 1t
Is out of the rejoicing of its heart, its
very Joy in living, not the desire to ex-
press sorrow.
The song in mourning must have
been a more artificial and less impul-
sive utterance. Before it. it would
seem, must have come the song Of tri-
victorious battle. Songs of praise and
thanksgiving. the spiritual" song.
would naturally come before that of
lamentation. Jeremiah's "Lamenta-
tons" which are song" are not the
utterances of a primitive man, but of
spiritual songs were not sad. SIS any
merry among you; let him sing
psalms" 1.-THE pastures shout for joy;
they also sing" cries the psalmist. re-
joicing, and again, make a joyful
noise unto the Lord. all we lands" The
ancholy. s"They that carried us away
captive required of us song; and they
that wasted us requested of us mirth.
saying, Sing US one of the songs of
Zion indianapolis Star.
FARMERS AS SPECTATORS.
If the farmers of the northwest can
not make money by growing spring
wheat they propose to thrive by buy
ing and selling wheat in the open mar
ket. The late Mr.. Havemeyer once tes-
tilted that if he could not earn divi-
dends for the holders of shares of the
American Sugar Refining company by
refining sugar he would speculate for
their account in the stock market and
provide for dividends from that source.
Northwestern farmers now appear to
| be following Mr.. Havemeyer's example.
Lack of rain in North Dakota has. ac-
cording to dispatches from that sec
tlon, caused great damage to the grow
| ing wheat crop, and as the farmers see
the prospect of bountful harvesI
profits from the usual source din1n-
| ishing, they naturally become bulllsh
| on the wheat market.
Next to Chicago and New York Min
neapolis has the greatest grain market
| in this country, and there the farmers
are conducting a bull campaign on
wheat. The extensive telephone sys-
| tenn now makes it possible for the
farmers to keep in close touch with the
markets at all grain centers, and 1t is
said that the erangers are keeping the
wires humming with orders to their
brokers' It would be curious If the
attorney general fclt compelled to ap-
ply the same tactics on the the
Dakota farmers rs he has made use
of against the bulls on cotton Phil
adelphia Pres