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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
EDfERGENCY FoRAGE CRoPs.

Reports from any portions of the
central west indicate that the orout.1s
of spring and early summer have great
" reduced the hay crop throughout this
entire section, and that in many locali-
ties the pastures are already complete
ly dried up. Oats. too, in some sec
lions, are only half q crop. This stu
alton calls for prompt recognition by
farmers and the immediate planting OF
emergency crops to round out the Ehort-
age Of both hay and pasture, suggests
a bulletin just issued by the United
states department of agriculture. There
is still time between now and mid
July to plant half a dozen kinds OF
ouick-Rrowing crops that may be used
as substitutes for the regular hay and
pasture crops if the seed is secured
and the land at once put into condl-
ton.
For hay there may be planted Ulillet'
cowpeas, sorghum, soy beans, and Can
ada field peas and barley. These same
crops are suitable for pasture purposes.
and, in addition, rape, rye, and winter
varieties Of wheat The whole corn
plant may also be used. For grain'
buckwheaf, millet, and cowpeas are
available, and, in the southern part Of
the region, early varieties of soy beans
The vital point now is the reeogni-
ton Of the situation and the PROMPT
planting with least possible delay of
some crop that will supplement the pas
lures as quickly as possible and I'LL
empty barns with hay for winter.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
FROM OTHER PENS
VALUE OF REUNIONS.

This is the season of class reunions,
when college men who graduate 5, TO-
Is, rs or more years ago from some
institution assemble from distant
points to renew acquaintance and go
over the stories of. college pranxs and
events. If that was all that such re-
unions meant they would possess only
Ia passing interest but reunions have
a deeper significance to the thoughtful
graduate.
Reunions are opportunities to get
ones bearings. To meet the old friends
is a great pleasure, but there are min
gled sorrows and regrets, and the
meeting is a clearinghouse of expert
ences with the world. Some find them
selves out of joint with the times,
while others are achieving what Is
called success. Hard work has been
the secret of the advance with most
men, while with others chance or luck
has been a factor.
The graduate who goes to a class re-
union and comes away without a last
ing helpful thought has lest a great
opportunity. Many business men do
the same thing day in and day out for
years and never have q. chance to COM
pare notes with others, they never get
out of their rut; but the college or
high-School man who meets with
friends, all of whom started the battle
of life on the same date, always has
something upon which to base a COM
parison.-Boston Globe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

upon them. The treasury department
fixed per cent as a rate of interest
which would be satisfactory TO invest
ors. Its Judgment is mere than justi-
NED by the enormous demand disclosed
and the handsome prem .um received.
The sale Is notable IN many respects
aside from the dattering results achiev-
ed. It initiates a new police of selling
bonds for general investm ent, and its
notable success proves the policy to be
popular and one that is not likely to
be abandoned. The government has
now laid aside the financial crutch up
on which it felt compelled to lean dur
ing the civil war, when the need of a
better market for the country's loans
than that afforded by the demand of
ordinary investors became apparent,
and the creation of the new national
banking system was taken as an OPP
portunity for providing such market.
once adopted, the system of borrow
ing money from national banks in
consideration of the privilege accorded
to the lenders of circulating their, notes
has proved hard to abandon. The low
rate at which the country has been
able to borrow under this plan and the
popularity of the national circulation,
the freedom of which from the uncer-
tainties that characterized the old
wildcat" state bank notes was COM
monty ascribed to the fact that the
AdttOud4 Dtuh 4OLSS were DdS6Q upon
government bonds, together contribut-
ed for many years to keep the govern
ment from issuing such bonds as Mr..
MacVeagh has just put forth. The
defects of the bond-secrre6 currency
have at length been perceived, and this
new step of issuing bonds without the
circulation privilege marks change
in the public attitude. 1T means that
the country is approaching the time
when a new and more sensible cur
rency system will be Gopted.-New
York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
LAYHAWKER JOTy

From the price of potatoes, the
editor of the Moline Gazette is begin
ming to think that he will have to eat
rice with chop sticks.
Thus does the great universal peace
movement march on it's successful
way. The Hamilton County Republi-
can-News and the Syracuse Journal
have finally buried the Ratchet.
An pathological note in the CT
marion Jacksonian: The hooking
birds have quit their singing. Family
cares are too great. Before they had
the little birds to feed they would
sing all night, but we suppose they
don't want to spoil youngsters by
singing them to sleep.
I'VE wonder what is the cause of
this drouth ?" writes Fritz tho
Numa correspondent of the Douglas
Tribune. us it because of the great
amouna of meanness the Republican
party has done? or is it because the
Democrats elected majority Of this
congress? Or is it because of the wick
edness of the nation?"
Marguerite" the Bodarc CORE
spondent of the Douglass Tribune,
who it would ordinarily be safe to
assume is of feminine extraction, re-
marks: "The objection we have to
whiskers is that while eating they
knock the peas off the knife. Also
there might be some excuse for using
the weapon a san instrument of pre-
hension, If it were serviceable as a
carrier of food to the mouth
Another observation from MAR
guerite," the Bodarc reporter of the
Douglass Tribune: 1.-THE crop situa-
ton has been discussed pro and con,
principally the latter. However, there
is one thing certain now. Mother will
trim ocer her last falls hat, sister
will wait another year for the piano.
and if there are no elephant bugs,
drouths or foods next year. we will
get the automobile. Oh, but the an
ticipated joys of farming are great
Something in the nature Of an argu-
ment favorable to the false hair so
popular with the fair sex. in the Doug
lass Tribune: A lady at Caldwell with
a luxuriant growth OF hair, was ar
ranging it recently, while an electric
fan revolving at great speed modified
the air of the room. A hank of the
hair was blown into the fan, and then
things happened. She screamed of
course, but the ringing church bells
nearly drowned her cries. Finally she
managed to reach and turn the con-
nection. But It was with much diff
Guilty that she was released from rhe
fan
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
The CoIirna volcano.

The Colima volcano, like most cones
on this hemisphere, is in it's 'soltafara''
stage. This is held to be indicative of
dying energy. Craters in that state
seldom beIch forth lava, which is typi-
cal OF younger and more active cones.
No lava at all issued from Mt Pelee
in its celebrated eruption. and the
writer, who has visited a dozen or
more North American volcanoes, has
seen but one flow, besides that upon
Colina, which could be possibly as
signed to modern geologic times. This
was on the Shishaldin volcano in Ber-
ing sea.
But the absence of lava does not
necessarily diminish the grandeur of an
eruption. At the height of one steam
clouds greatly obscure the crater, and
what is generally taken tc be flame is
but the reflection on them of the deep
er molten masses or the electrical dis
play that always accompanies an out
break. In the case of CoIima, if the
forests on its lower slopes have caught
fire, as dispatches indicate, the spec
tacle must be extraordinary. But in
any case no great loss of life is to be
feared.
The connection between the erup-
ton and the earthquakes in various
parts of the republic will have to be
proved before scientists will be willing
to attribute either to the same changes
within the earth's crust. Tie fact that
the tremors have occurred apparently
in zones of severity and alternate
qufescence, extending eastward from
Colirna, SO that while Guadalajara es-
capped, the federal district was stricken
and the eastern edge of the plateau
was not affected while Vera Cruz was,
is of great, although not novel inter-
est. During the outbreak of Pelee.
nearly all the submarine cables in the
vicinity of the Windward Islands were
severed-by exactly what cause is un-
known-and vet no quake at all oc-
CURED upon the Island OF Martinique.
The Colma eruptions of 1902 and 1909
were accompanied by Only slight ire
mors. while in that of 1906, in which
the church of Zapot1an was destroyed
killing hundreds who had gathered
there in fear, the display b. the cone
was hardly notable. In the study OF
volcanoes and earthquakes, about
which less is known than in any other
of geology or photography coincid-
ence plays no less part than in the
happenings of everyday life. It is the
| impressiveness of the phenomena
which has driven the lay mind to
many false conclusions concerning
them.-Robert Dunn, in the New York
| Evening Post.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
KANSAS COMNENT
ANoTHER REFoRM.

The City of New York is going to
make an official effort to reform booze
fighters Since police stations and jails
We're invented it has been the custom
to lock up plain drunks'' and then
hand them fines or terms of iInprison-
ment. Many of the victims of this
time-honored system were young men,
not yet confirmed drunka-ds, to whom
an experience in Jail was a lasting dis
grace.
Somebody in oficial circles got the
sane idea that many of these young
men might be redeemed by sensible
treatment. and the experiment will be
tried Only chronic offenders will be
sent to jail. The others viii be given
every chance and encouragement to
brace up, even to the extent of sending
them to curative institute at state ex-
pense, when necessary.
This disposition to discriminate in
the punishment of law v.olators is one
of the most hopeful signs of the times.
The old plan of punching all Offenders,
the new beginner with the hardened
criminal, has contributed greatly to
the increase of crime and vice.-Em-
poria Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
HIS HONOR AMISS.

The spoon that stirs the soup is the
symbol of domestic felicity and the
husband should learn to use it as well
as the wife, said a Chicago municipal
judge when he was called on to cen
sure a man who. unable t. cook, had
forced his wife to arise at $3.50 a. m.
to get his breakfast.
THE man that can't cook shouldn't
think of getting married. said the
judge. He is a pitiable object. Let
the bride beware of her husband il he
cannot toss the piping fapjack or coax
the flavor from the carrot to the
SOUP
Wonder what's the matte with this
Judge? He talks through his hat
when he says all men should cook or
remain in single blessedness. If that
rule applied there would be more girls
on the market than we ever heard of.
and that would never co. We have
noticed for some time that when
judges go outside their judicial juris-
diction they fall down on their job
most lamentably. Judge your honor,
stay on the bench; keep away from
the bar-that's where we all stand
New Orleans Picayune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
PoTNTED PARAGRAPHs.
IFrom the Chicago News.l

LF'rom the Chicago News.J
A stitch at 9 may prevent a. rim at
10.
ANY man who repeats half ne hears
talks too much.
One mans weakness may be another
mans opportunity.
Muscle is Of more Importance in a
SOUL race than brains.
The rising generation ought to pat
ronize aviation schools.
Many a man works himself to death
trying to make a living
Sympathy is like blond hair; a lot
OF it is not the real thing.
A love1ess marriage is like cham
payne with the hzz all out of it.
Bees can't talk, but they often get
back at one with singing retort
A woman may win g man's love
without trying, but she can't keep it
that way.
Airs fair in love and war, but most
men would rather be in love than in
a fight.
After man has been married three
or four years the Romeo and Juliet
balcony scene makes him weary
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press.1
Inheriting money seems about as
rare as inherfting brains.
Men seem crazy to spend money on
anything except the family.
The reason a man has 8 good ontn-
ION OF nlmseh Is SO somebody will.
A man can act as If he did his wife
q sa -aHor 70 let ner Work Tor the whole
A woman who is willing to he =
grandmother has reconciled hersaIS 70
admitting she's past 40
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
HUAOR OF TIE Dry

is Il hot enough for you?'' he said with
rs, sie M. smile No, my dear friend"
was the prompt reply. ut is not vet hot
will observe that I am still wearine- s se,.
Inuffs, arctic overshoes and a paper vest
70 avoid getting pneumonia detroit
The rhinoceros surveyed the world COM
placeLtay. AFTER all, set the pace, in a
manner ma sa OF speaking" quoth he. whereat
We'll W it's fact" the rhinoceros insisted
Zen me, please, where would civiiizafior
pc II IL It We're not for men with hides like
~. And do the woods skirt your rarmYs
Yes: rather narrow, though Sort ~
mobile skirt 1t. "-Browning's Magazine.
i've been warning Clara skepps aho,,+
Allowing her husband to play SO much
baseball. Now, it's made her a widow y
Nv mn nat are you talking about7 Nothing's
the matter with Skeggs.' II tell you It's
1lnlsneo MIN. 1 saw myself in the paper
where Bill Skeggs was playing a CANA
and died on the base. Baltimore Ameri-
As It Struck a stranger.-sYou OBJ
serve. remarked the host, who was
showing his distinguished foreign visitors
vote ourselves to pleasure regardless Of
expense I'D hardly put It that way
EebOElSu Ine witty foreigner. Rather Won
devote yourselves to expense regardless
OF pleasure Exchange.
Mrs. Dwigg-Do you put alcohol on vour
windows to give them that polish? Mrs
5wigg-No; I just breathes on EN-
Judge.
steIla-Did you give the bride a show
er? Bella-Well all her friends threw
cold water on the bridegroom.-New York
Sun
These hanging gardens of Babylon are
said to have been 300 feet in the air.
Why did the king put them SO hiEh?''
Perhaps the neighboring kings kent
chickens. "-Ptttsburg Post.
"Dumley's just back from a trip after
trout. and he says it was the most dis
NAL failure he ever experienced What
else could you expect of him? He couldn't
make fishing trip a success because he
has absolutely imagination "-Catholfc
Standard and Times.
Blobbs-The money young Milyun's IA
Their left them won't last long. Slobbs-
Why, is he such a spender? T3lobbs-
Spender? Why, do you know what that
fellow is doing? He's actually paving his
income Philadelphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

Every man a Chesterfield" is a
new slogan that has been promulgated
for it's employees by the Illinois Cen
trail railroad. In other words, the III
nois Central proposes to encourage its
employees to treat the patrons of the
road with the utmost courtesy on all
occasions. Most of the big railroad
systems in the country are striving
toward the same end. It's an admir-
able undertaking. And there is no
particular reason why it should be
limited to the railroad field. There
is plenty of room for the exercise of
more courtesy in every arena of hui
man endeavor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
UNFORTUNATE D1R1G1BLEs.

Between wind and fire the great di-
rigibIe balloons of German construc-
ton are having a hard tirne of 1t. The
seventh of these unfortunate airships,
the Parseval v, was destroyed by
flames while undergoing repairs, and
but a few months ago il was barely
saved from disaster by making a peril
Gus descent during a storm. The other
airships of the Zeppelin type, met with
their misfortunes through being
caught in gales, one of them, the
Deutschland IL, being smashed while
making a flight Fortunately there
has thus far been no loss of life in the
wrecks of the dirigibles, although pas
sengers and crews have narrowly es-
capped death on several occasions.
Notwithstanding these costly acct
dents, for each loss of dirigible
means a large sum, the projectors of
this method of aerial transportation
courageously continue their labors, re-
placing destroyed airships with new
ones as rapidly as they can be con-
structed. About the time that the
Parseva1 was burning the latest Yep
peIin dirigible, the Schwaben L, with
Count Zepplin aboard, was making its
maiden hight.-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Looking pleasant doesn't always
mean the locker feels that way.
\ X
The man who courts popularity
seldom succeeds in winning it.
\
More people would be happy if they
only knew what happiness is.
- y
Most of the sympathy that is passed
out so freely is just as insincere.
=
Much of the spice of life is apt to
leave a bitter taste in the mouth.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

Mr.. Cummins' amendments to the
Canadian reciprocity bill were consign-
ed to the wastepaper basket by a good
majority of his fellow senators. The
prospects for this bill going through
the senate in unamended form are al
most certain President Taft is entitled
to almost the whole credit for this vic
tory After reciprocity with Canada
gets to working it won't be many
months before everybody in this coun-
try who is not prejudiced will have to
admit that by it the president has es-
tablished a tariff reform worth while.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

A donkey and an elephant have been
started on a race from Coney Island to
washington as an intended forecast for
the superstitious concerning the result
of the next presidential struggle. And
why not let the result Of this race set
tie the matter? Thus would a trying
campaign be obviated.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

Mr.. Coburn. secretary Of the Kansas
department Of agriculture, would have
the word drouth eliminated from the
kansas language. But this wouldn't
prevent the development of conditions
which correspond with the accepted
definition Of that word.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

Clip Castro is reported to have land
ed once again on the shores of his
native land. There was no committee
OF prominent Venezuelans with a brass
band to give him a hearty welcome.
Indeed, it is likely that some such
committee is cunning for him with a
brass howitzer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

And Ethel Barrymore Colt has
rather unexpectedly sued for divorce
after an exceedingly brief trial Of we'd
ded life. About the only American
actress Of fame who has not figured in
the divorce courts is the estimab!e
Maude Adams. This may possibly be
explained by the fact that she has neg
lected to take the. necessary preIimIn-
airy step Of marriage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

Followers of Evelyn Arthur See, the
leader of the Absolute Life cult, are
not by any means the only mortals who
believe they are above sin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

The recent rains have made u big
corn crop in Kansas still probable.
There are still a few undesirable seats
in the rear Of the gallery for the pes
sirnists who have not already been es-
signed to similar quarters. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

1t is the duty of every Tooekan to
invite his friends and former residents
OF the city to make a visit here during
the week Of September 1O-1s, when the
state fair and the Kansas Semi Centen-
NAL celebration will be on the boards.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

The 1910 census statistics show that
divorces are materially on the increase.
And one way to solve this pressing d.
vorce problem is in the several states
making their marriage laws more strin-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

Get out your fur coats and other
wraps Of winter. The weather experts
are predicting another wave Of intense
heat for the immediate future
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

A sixteen-year-old girl Of this city
has just been granted a divorce.
There'll be a law in Kansas some day
prohibiting parents from giving per-
mission to marry to their infants. Such
a law can not come any too soon,
either
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

Even the fish OF Kansas were made
happier by the recent rains which
were general throughout the state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

Congress should be Informed that
this is no good time to get up q stew
and make political medicine over the
Wool schedule. Nobody cares about
wool now, but it would make a good
fall and winter topic.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

Or. Kansas might take Mary Eliza
beth Leases substitute for corn. The
weather will furnish the seed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

He who hesitates is Iost-in some
instances. but he who hesitates at an
auction sale usually saves money.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11

The damages sustained by a broken
heart may not be regulated by fiuan-
cial standings, but it Is curious CO.
incidence that it always comes higher
to a rich men. It is a further coin
cidence that hearts are seldom broken
Ito such an extent that the fracture
is exhibited in COURT by poor man.
When the annual recurrence Of
frosts in Florida put the orange indus
try on the Fritz. the natives turned
to vegetables. Kansas might profit
by the suggestion and quit corn in
favor of cactus.
Or. Kansas might take Mary Eliza
beth Leases substitute for corn. The
weather win furnish the seed.
Congress should be Informed that
this is no good time to get up q stew
and make political medicine over. the
wool schedule. Nobody cares about
wool now, but it would make a good
fall and winter topic.
He who hesitates is lost-sn some
instances. but he who hesitates at an
auction sale usually saves money.
Unto each life some rain must
ran, observed the late Hon Longfel-
low But we should remem Der that
Hon. Longfellow did not live in
uEousnt QlST1cL.
There are other noticeable differ
enceS between Paris and Topeka. but
glazing one is that when a Topelxa
man becomes a momentarv hero. the
Populace does not drop in twice in
every block and drink to his health.
Any gent who has a prescription
Tor snoring" says Hondo Murphy.
will confer favor by sending It in.
MY wife says I make a noise ike a
morse jumping up and down on 3
wooden bridge, and when she found
dry-Weather cracks in the back ward
Laid it to the fact that I slept o,,t
there one hot night
Fame is fleeing: Esteemed Cgeve-
land Plain Dealer speaks edftorfaIlv of
one Richard P. Hobson.
Resemblance between the Kapv rfv-
er and the Kaw team continues 70
hold Both are down. and coT11dn't
go much lower unless the botfons -
| lowered. -
Hep