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THE
TOPESA DAILY- STATE JOURNAL FHIDAY. EVENING, JULY 6, 1S03.
By FRANK P. MAC LEXSAS.
Entered July 1. 1S75, as second clas
a.uer at the postofTiee at Topeka, Kan.,
ander tho act of congress.
VOLUME XXXIII No. 165
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these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expense.
This is about the time that the tetanus
germ makes its appearance.
One way to do away with the end
seat hog is to have no end seats.
It certainly looks as though the To
ledo treatment for ice trusts ought to
effect c. cure.
Harvard may not be able to play foot
call. but it thinks it can row a boat,
all right, all right.
Tou will kindly note that V. S. not
only stands for Uncle Pam, but also
for Upton Sinclair.
You will note that the Populist party
continues to hold the right of way down
the middle of the road.
This is the time of year when Oyster
Kay again gets the idea that it is one
cf the world's groat capitals.
It has become quite apparent that the
great need among a certain class of
rich New Yorkers Is a powerful disin
fectant. It does no good for people who are
working for the wages of sin to go on
a strike. The wages of sin never
change.
The congress just closed cost the
country something like $900. 000.000, but
it was worth the price, considering what
it accomplished.
Very likely the new senator from Del
aware does not especially enthuse over
this idea of a sane Fourth, inasmuch
es he is the head of the powder trust.
The Washington Star refers to those
Toledo ice men as having been put in
the municipal refrigerator. That ought
to keep them for awhile.
"When you come to think of It, the
country" did burn up a good deal of
powder Wednesday without getting
much to show for it except a few
burns. It is reported that President Roose
velt is suffering from extreme nervous
ness. But pshaw! . The packers can
teil him he doesn't know what nerv
ousness is.
The last congress made a pretty good
record, but it won't get near as much
credit for it as will the man in the
White House, who isn't a member of
congress at all. '
Ptill, it seems quite likely that the
demand for tseats in the Bryan band
wagon will continue quite lively, not
withstanding Mr. Bryan's disinclination
to climb Into it himself.
The building of Kansas City's new
union depot will require 18 months.
This does not mear. that Kansas City
will have a new depot in the next three
years, however. They have to begin it
first.
Mr. Carnegie says millionaires seldom
Binlle. There is nothing strange about
that. Other people would not smile
either if they ran the same danger of
investigation that many millionaires
da.
Roy Tapley's argument in favor of
a denatured alcohol factory in the
state penitentiary sounds good.
"Alcohol makes convicts: why not
have convicts make alcohol?" he
EsfcS. '
Mr. Roosevelt tells one of his western
admirers who desired to support him
for another term that "it will be nects
nary to vote for some other Republi
can candidate next time." Now if the
president will please specify which
or.;
While it is too late to pick any more
June brides this year, the marriage
able young men should note that
there are plenty of girls who are not
anxious for the June label. Any other
eld month will do just as well.
Topeka was real ladylike and well
behaved on the Fourth. Barring one
er two accidents, we had a eompars
K?sly afe and sans celebration. The
revolver and dynamite cap pistol were
relegated to the far distance, and the
dynamite cracker, while still In evi
dence, wrought comparatively little
damage.
i i . ii
CAN THE RABBIT.
A few years ago a joke was floating
around over Kansas about jackrabbli
canneries. Del Valentine had all sorts
of fun with it. Somebody, it seems, had
dreams of great wealth from putting up
the festive jack in the shape of pressed
chicken and Imported bologna, and Kan
sas laughed a loud and merry ha-ha at
the very idea.
But now the joke has passed away
and the idea has become a sober reality.
There is at least one rabbit cannery in
the state, and other localities are long
ing for them! The day may not be far
distant when Mr. J. Rabbit will vie with
the beef steer and the son of the Help
ful Hen on the tables of the effete east.
Listen to this argument from King
man: "For the past few- seasons outside
parties have come here and bought
rabbits at a good price, shipping them
east for distribution by the produce
houses. Car loads of them have gone,
to the profit of both the hunters and the
produce men. It has made us wonder
why somebody here had not thought of
starting a rabbit cannery, similar to the
one being operated at Ellinwood by G.
Elsold. Eisold buys all the rabbits
brought in at an advance of about twen
ty per cent on the regular market price,
dresses and cans them in neat little
cans, and sends them to the eastern
cities as a delicacy that is rapidly ac
quiring a big sale. When he started his
factory he Intended to can rabbits as
long as the season lasted, and was pre
pared after that to can fruits an vege
tables till the next season opened. The
rabbit end of the enterprise paid so big
that he could afford to let the plant be
idle all summer.
"Car loads of rabbits leave Kingman
every season which could Just as well
be canned right here. The material is
practically inexhaustible, and if left
alone a single year, the accumulated
hordes would take the crops and become
a nuisance. Out of this nuisance King
man might just as well reap a little
profit, and we think It won't he long till
somebody sees where there is good
money in canning rabbit meat for. the
eastern markets, and put up a small
packing house for that purpose. The
capital required is not so large as one
might expect.
"To the average Jayhawker the meat
of a jackrabbit is not much of a deli
cacy, because he is so common, but in
eastern cities this meat has a ready sale
and commands a good price so good &
price that eastern produce men can af
ford to locate agencies out here every
season and buy thousands of tons of
jackrabblts, ship them half way across
the continent, and provide for their dis
posal in territory where the meat trust
has the price of other meats at an al
most prohibitive figure. Canned, this
meat would not have to hurry to the
market, and would be just as good at
one time as another.
"We predict that somebody will take
hold of the idea before the next snow
flies, and that Kingman, instead of
shipping undressed rabbits to the east,
will ship them in neat little cans, mar
ketable the year round at a fair price,
and coming as a boon to many who
cannot afford to buy meats at trust
prices."
A TRUST OR "OT A TRUST?
The big packers who are commonly
credited with being members of tho
beef trust have insisted that there Is
no beef trust. It will be remembered
that they gave Commissioner Garfield
a lot of figures to prove that they did
not handle an undue amount of the
beef killed, that they had no monopoly
on the business, and that they were
not to blame when cattle prices ie
clined or meat prices advanced.
In fact, the big packers would hava
the public believe that they have noth
ing more to do with the rise and fall
of live stock and meat prices than the
ordinary butcher.
But Inadvertently the packers have
proven the case against them. When
the agitation against sanitary condi
tions In the packing houBes com
menced, they said: "Do not stir this
matter up, or you will hurt our busi
ness and thereby lower the price of
cattle to the cattle raisers."
In other words they set up plea that
conditions in the few big packing
houses in Chicago should not De made
public because they had such a mon
opoly of the cattle iparket of the coun
try that the price of cattle would fall
If their business were interfered with
in the least.
The half dozen men who control
these big packing companies are there
fore in absolute control of the cattle
market. They have forced out com
petition or got it into shape where it
cannot compete with them. They can
force the price of cattle down or up
at will. And if the nation causes any
abridgement of their business the price
of cattle will fall.
Is the beef trust a trust or othe--wise?
MR. BRYAN'S PREDICAMENT.
What a funny situation Democracy
Is in! The gold wing and the silver
wing are engaged In a fight over which
one shall be allowed to most honor
Mr. Bryan, a twice defeated candidate
and one whom the gold Democrats
have never before supported with en
thusiasm. Envoys have been sent all
the way to Europe to lay the matter
before Mr. Bryan and have him decide
the matter.
The Democrats can not, of course,
hope to shut the silver wing, that has
always supported Mr. Bryan, out of
participation in the proposed reception
in his honor when he lands at New
York the last of August. It is simply
fljhting for a chance itself to have a
part in the celebration. The silver
wing or more especially the Hearst
supporters are demanding that the
gold Democrats shall be Shut out of
the celebration, and it is this idea that
the money Democracy Is opposing.
It is said that Mayor George B. Mc
Clellan has gone to London to secure
from Mr. Bryan the expression of a
wish to have the gold Democrats
prominent in the demons! ration in his
honor: while Dr. John W. Cox. reore-
senting the Hearst element. Is said to
have gone to persuade Mr. Bryan to
have nothing to do with the Belmonts,
the McClellans, and that class of
Democrats.
What a predicament the great
Democratic leader Is in! These gold
Democrats have never enthused over
him before. On the contrary many of
them have openJy fought him, not
only in conventions, hut at the polls.
Hearst, on the other hand, has always
supported him, but just now Mr.
Hearst is suspected of being somewhat
lukewarm in his friendship towards the
Nebraska statesman.
Mr. Bryan's expressions thus far
have been those of a man who is not
at present hunting any political dem
onstrations in his own honor. He act3
like an individual who is not anxious
to start right away in a race which he
would have to keep up for two years.
He may refuse to have anything to do
with the proposed demonstration, un
less it be to attend as a humble private
citizen instead of as a presidential
candidate.
JOURNAL ENTRIES
Speaking of the irony of fate, there
Is the Instance of the son of Rev.
Charles M. Sheldon heading the list of
Topeka victims of the Geiorlous
Fourth.
Among- those w ho are not lining up
enthusiastically for Horace A. Keefer
for governor can be seen the illustrious
figure of Frederick Vandegrift.
Keefer has been one of "Old Van's"
pet aversions ever since the legislature
of 1897.
You know the old hymn about,
"Hark! From the Tombs a Mournful
Sound." But most of the sounds that
come from the Tombs nowadays are
stories about Harrv Thaw.
By the way, have you yet com
pleted the census of little Willie's
fingers to ascertain If they are all
here?
JAYHAWKER JOTS
Observation by Bert Walker: Several
of my friends are always putting up a
great bluff about pushing the lawn
mower for exercise and keeping up
their lawn, but I noticed that the best
lawns in town are either kept up
by the women or the hired men.
A Kingman printer has started an
innovation. He has purchased a type
setting machine for himself and has
contracted with both the weekly pa
pers to do their typesetting for them.
He runs his business Independent of
either of the papers, simple setting
their "straight matter" at a specified
price. As there Is enough Job work
and "ad" composition In Kingman to
keep all the printers busy, the machine
will throw no one out of work and it
is looked upon as a good proposition
all around.
"Say, my young lady friend," says
Deacon Walker, of the Osborne Farm
er, "I noticed that you took occasion
to ridicule that old lady who just
passed you on the street. It gave you
a lot of pleasure. I have no doubt, but
let me tell you something about her.
She is old and wrinkled and bent with
age now. But once she could skin you
a block for good looks. She was mar
ried to a man she loved and had a
happy home for years. Three child
ren Came to bless them. One night
the husband was brought home dead.
When grief had spent itself she faced
the world penniless, with three little
ones to feed. She tolled with needle
and over the tub. She kept the wolf
from the door, but you see at what
physical cost. Through the long hot
days and far into the night she worked
on. Amid her labors she found time
to teach the children good and whole
some truths to be honest and square
and look every man In the eye. The
children are grown now and mother
lives with them. Her eyes are growing
dim with the sweet consciousness that
not one of her children ever brought
the blush of shame to her cheeks.
When you get old and can face the
world and hold up such blessed
fruits of your labors you will not have
to concern yourself about the world to
come."
POrNTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
When a woman marries a man's
troubles begin.
Six feet of earth or a bathtub makes
all men equal.
Fear of being reformed keeps many
a man in the bachelor class.
Only the man who is blindly In love
fails to see through a coat of com
plexion paint.
Shoplifters should go Into a drug
store and take something for what's
the matter with them.
Some men are kept so busy criticis
ing others that they have no time to
accomplish anything themselves.
When the average man makes a mis
take he tries to Justify himself by re
ferring to his good indentions.
Sometimes it seems as if the less a
woman knows about anything the
more she likes to talk about It.
It's the easiest thing in the world to
convince yourself that you are just a
little better than your neighbor.
It's all right to dream of the great
things you are going to do, but don't
forget to wake up in time to begin
work.
It may be better for a foolish man to
acquire dollars by marrying an heiress
than to remain without cents all his
days.
There is one advantage possessed by
the man at the bottom over the man
at the top; he doesn't have so far to
fall.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
The born fool seldom gets over it.
A windmill is not necessarily an
heirloom.
The things that are better left un
said are generally shouted from the
housetops.
The Patriot "What I have done I
did for my country's good." The Mere
Man "Yes, your country's good to
you."
Muggins "That boy of mine was
born to rule." Buggins "Think he'll
make a statesman ?" Muggins "Yes,
or a janitor."
Wigg "t-.'
with him is t
on an er:M
"Humph! 3
an empty hea
"And wo'
The ge
He shoos r s
Mv love
"us says the . trouble
at he smokes cigarettes
y stomach." Wagg
; "3s he means through
r"'e for me, my dear?"
Id was sighing.
d and said: "I fear
".dv Ine."
KANSAS COMMENT
A TRUE SPORT.
The truest sport we ever knew was
a preacher. The preacher was lion
ized In the towp In which he was sta
tioned, and it looked as if he had a
Job for life at $3,500 a year. He
might have had a nice easy time
purely aa a minister, but one fall he
opened up a war on a notoriously sel
fish, corrupt but powerful politipa
faction which had ruled the county
at least thirty years. Everybody threw
up his hands In horror when the news
went out. The Rev. Oldin had ruined
himself in the community by waging
war on the Honorable James R.
Somebody whose name we will not
mention. The preacher got on the
stump, and, astonishing as It seemed
at the time, he made a great deal of
headway. He was a smart chap, and
for nine long weeks he had the enemy
guessing. He could think up more
things in one night than most men
would invent in a month for his
cause. His personal enthusiasm put
the children to carrying flags, and the
men to wearing buttons, and the wo
men to talking. He put up the pret
tiest and cleverest fight for liberty
and decency that that section ever
had. The preacher lost at the polls,
but he never whimpered, and was just
as good natured as he had everbeen.
But the Honorable Somebody and his
corrupt organization were not satisfied.
They told stories on him and got him
fired within three months. Everybody
went to hear the preacher's last ser
mon, expecting to hear a sensational
talk. But the parson preached on
cheerfulness and good will. When
he left the town lost the only true
sport It had ever had. Sabetha
Herald.
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WATCH OUT FOR GROVE R.
G. Cleveland has not yet an
nounced his opinion of the Bryan
boom. G. Cleveland is a man of few
words and large girth, but he can tell
a band wagon when he sees one. And
when the band wagon comes along
G. r.lways has a reserved seat we;l tifj
In front.- Osborne Farmer.
AN EXCUSE.
One excuse for Harry K. Thaw Is
that he had a vain, rich mother one
of the kind willing to sell her daugh
ter to a worthless scamp for the sake
of a title. You can't expect much of a
son who has that kind of a mother,
an actress for a wife, and nothing on
earth to do but amuse himself.
Jewell Republican.
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SINCE 1492.
We don't care, if anyone is sent to
Europe to Interview William Jennings
Bryan about his candidacy for the
presidency it ought to be Grant Har
rington. Harrington has run Brynn's
picture above the editorial column in
the Hiawatha Democrat ever since
Bryan discovered silver in 1492. Sa
betha Herald.
CAN'T IMAGINE IT.
No wonder the czar of Russia is
trying to hang on to his Job as long
as possible. His income is $25,000 a
day. Imagine a Kansas politician
giving up that kind of a snap with
out a struggle. Osborne Farmer.
FROM OTHER PENS
THE SPELLING REFORM.
The spelling reform brethren now
claim William Shakespeare as one of
their confraternity and they are right.
A man who consistently refused to
spell his own name the . same way
twice in succession certainly must be
credited with latltudinarian views tn
the matter of orthography. Chicago
Chronicle.
RAILWAY PASSES.
In their proposed plan of adjustment
of the free pass matter the conferees
on the rate bill display greater wis
dom than has been shown by either of
the bodies which they represent. They
approach the question from the pro
per direction. The issuance or non
issuance of passes to the railroads' own
employes, to clergymen, to the deserv
ing poor and to such others as existing
law may exempt from the general pro
hibition is properly a matter for deter
mination by the authorities of the
roads. The pass system has always
been a heavy burden, financially, and
many efforts have been made to limit
it and even to do away with it entire
ly. It will be easier now than ever be
fore to give success, to these efforts.
Now that it has been found that the
Elkins law really has vitality and that
its effectiveness is increased by an
amendment to the Hepburn bill, the
free pass to shippers takes on the na
ture of a prohibited rebate, or a form
of unlawful discrimination unless passes
are given to all shippers. As the law
will probably Boon stand the roads may
be trusted to take care of themselves,
to grant passes where they deem it
proper and lawful to do so, and to
exercise without abuse a privilege
which is clearly within their rightful
administrative functions. With the Is
suance of passes to public officials, to
legislators and judges whoBe votes and
decisions are subject to possible influ
ence by free transportation, the public
is directly concerned. It pays the mile
age of Its legislators. To accept this
mileage and then accept a pass which
makes the mileage what is known in
the street as "velvet" is a form of
graft which should be suppressed.
New Y'ork Sun.
FRENCH DIVORCE.
The new French divorce bill proposes
to make the untying of the knot as
easy as the tying of it was. Of course
by elevating mutual consent into a le
gal ground for the dissolution of a mar
riage "collusion" would be no offense,
and a great stimulous of legal ingenulty
would be removed. New York Evening
Sun.
THE GAGE OF BATTLE.
President Roosevelt will receive, and
will deserve a great deal of praise for
his detemination to bring sweeping
criminal prosecutions against the
Standard Oil company. It 1s not that
the step Is politically hazardous, nor
that it requites any great amount of
heroism to attack the most hated cor
poration with the most detested offi
cers in this country. But the fact re
mains that the "Standard crowd" are
a great power in the financial world.
Banks and railroads are their play
things as well as the oil business: and
no Republican president aware of the
close dependence of his party upon
Hannaesque sinews of war, has even
dared to strike the shield of those
magnates so full and square as Mr.
Roosevelt1 has now done. New York
Evening Post.
RHEUMATISM.
Probably the worst thing ever said
about rheumatism is that bee stings are
to be welcomed as an antidote for it.
Philadelphia Inquirer.
THE RALLYING POINT.
It has been suggested that a merger
oZ the Democratic and Republican par
ties will be formed around Cul. Brya.
Charleston News and Courier.
IUER ANSWER.
"Dearest," T said, and whispered low,
"Tell me a thing I long to know.
Tell me, thou prophetess of bliss.
Tell me which cheek of thine to kiss?"
She sighed and shook her head (the witch)
"It makes no difference which is which.
The choice, kind sir, is up to you
You must decide between the two."
Tom Masson in The Reader.
Japanese Tobacco.
Attention Is called in the July Every
body's, by Charles Edward Russell, in
aa interesting installment of "Soldiers
of the Common Good," to the recently
established Japanese tobacco monop
oly. He says: ,
"These matters and the Japanese
purposes become clearer if we take
concrete illustrations. Manufactured
tobacco and ' cigarettes, for instance.
Once we enjoyed an abundant trade
with Japan in these things, for we
had taught her to want them, and
then joyously we supplied her want at
high prices. Thus in the end Japan
served copiously to swell the hard
earned treasures of the American to
bacco trust, for the Japanese were in
dustrious consumers and the trust
could charge what it pleased, having
the trade by the throat. But when the
trust had established branch houses
and offices and works and invested in
them $12,000,000, the Japanese gov
ernment concluded that it might as
well have the goodly profits as let the
trust have them, so it went into the
tobacco business on its own account.
It bought factories and stores and
passed a law establishing iteslf in a
practical monopoly of the tobacco
trade, for no makers of cigarettes,
cigars or tobacco were allowed to sell
their products until they had been of
fered to, and declined by, an agent of
the government a necessary provi
sion, because in Japan cigarette mak
ing is largely a domiciliary trade. Still
there might have been left to the
American trust a chance to compete in
quality of product or in some special
lines if it had not been for one thing.
The government, put an import duty
of 250 per cent on cigarettes and to
bacco. Thereupon the American
cigarettes vanished faster than their
own smoke, and the defeated Amer
ican tobacco trust was glad to sell to
the government (for what it could get)
its business and branch houses.
"Now in Japanese shops you will see
on shelves formerly loaded with Amer
ican product nothing but the cigarettes
and tobacco of the Japanese govern
ment." How a Great "Work Began.
A wonderful story of heroism is
John L. Mathew's "Sophie Wright:
The Best Citizen of New Orleans," in
the July Everybody's. Of her begin
nings he writes: .
"There is encouragement for some
one in every act of Sophie Wright's
life. That first school of hers may
serve as an inspiration to every girl
looking- about for some field of work
to enter in order to help others or her
self. Tiny, crippled almost beyond
endurance, herself only an 'eighth
grader,' living In a city where women
of quality did not commonly work, this
fourteen-year-old girl undertook the
task with no hesitation and with big
anticipation. She borrowed some un
used benches from a public school
building to fill a room of her mother's
cottage, and on the door hung out her
sign: 'Day School for Girls." The
terms were fifty cents a rrfonth for
each pupil. The school was from ne
cessity designed for those who had not
yet attained to eighth grade standards.
Its mistress still wore her skirts short
and her hair in two comical twin
braids which stuck, out oddly behind
her head. And yet it succeeded, as
with her everything has succeeded. A
pupil came at once, and with an as
sured income of fifty cents a month
Miss Sophie announced her Intention
of supporting herself and helping her
family. Before the end of the first
year she was doing so, with twenty
pupils and the fabulous income of $10
every four weeks."
Had Got Something.
"I was up in northern Vermont about
the first of May." said the Boston in
surance agent, "and one day I had a
farmer drive me across the country be
tween two towns. In our conversation
he told me that he had forty cores of
land, but owing to its sterility he could
hardly make a living. In a joking way,
and supposing he would take it as a
Joke, I asked:
" 'Why don't you plant the whole
thing to gondolas?'
" 'Yes, I might.' he mused, 'but I think
I have got a better thing something
that will pay big after two or three
years.'
" 'And what is that?'
" 'There was a feller up here from
Cape Cod the other day and lie told me
that it was just the place to grow lob
sters, and he's going to send me up
half a dozen to begin with next fall."
" 'Did he give you any statistics about
them?'
" 'Figures, you mean? All he said
was that they took care of themselves,
kept skunks away, and sold for 50 cents
apiece as soon as they were big enough
to climb trees. That's good enough for
me." " Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Tlirovvina: Stones.
Senator Lodge spoke words of truth
and soberness when he said in the sen
ate that your most successful breeder of
socialists and anarchists is the cynically
law-defying rich man. The latter talks
plaintively about the guarantees of
property and the foundations of good
order, but he himself Is the one who
does most to break them up by his as
sumption that the ordinary criminal
laws were not intended for millionaires.
This is the thesis often sustained by the
Evening Post. Another one is that any
unfair advantage given one man by the
law, at the expense of another, is a
direct provocative of social discontent.
Men know that they cannot be equal
except before the law: and when a law
like the Dingley bill creates favored
classes, and gives them the power to
tax their fellows, it becomes a fruitful
mother of socialism. How does Senator
Lodge know that he, by his refusal to
lift a finger to remove the unjust bur
dens of the tariff, is not doing as much
to Increase the socialist vote in Haver
hill and Lynn as Nelson Morris is in
Chicago? New York Evening Post.
The Russian Revolution.
Woman suffrage is disturbing the
equanimity of the douma, and the un
gallant deputies run away from Its ad
vocates. Here comes In again the
analogy to the French revolution.
Woman suffrage had its advocates
then; It was one of the "issues" and
had an "organ," a newspaper that ap
pealed in vain to the convention,
which did not think the time oppor
tune to grant the request of the peti
tioners. Boston Transcript.
Just Missed It.
An elderly woman who had, during
the course of a somewhat eventful
life, buried four husbands, encounter
ed at the gates of the cemetery where
they reposed an old but timid lover,
whom she had not seen for years. She
took him inside and showed him not
without a feeling of pride the well
kept tombstones of her former lords
and masters.
"Ah. James." she remarked, feelingly,
"you might have been lying there to
day if you only had -a little more cour
age." London Tribune.
THE EVENING STORY
Jg.'.. - - '.BESS,
Oil the Veldt,
(By Frank H. Sweet.
It was the dry season on the veldt,
and the grass was turned down and
half covered with yellow dust. Not a
kraal was to be seen or a habitation,
not a tree or shrub so far as the eye
could reach; only the ochre-brown earth
stretching away and at last ending in
the same level sky-lines to the north
and south and east and west, and
crossing the sun-biistered waste one
little animate dot, the canvas-covered
wagon of a Boer family trekking with
the sheep and cattle in search of a
watercourse that had not dred up.
. For three days had the dot been mov
ing across the waterless waste; and for
three days had the sun left the thirsty
sky-line in the east, only to glare down
pitilessly until it dropped behind the
equally thirsty sky-line irt the west; and
now the tongues of the cattle were
hanging from their mouths and the
sheep bleated piteously, and the small
auantity of water brought along for
the trekkers' own use was exhausted.
By the end of the second day they
had expected to find water, but the
stream counted on had proved but a
dusty, sun-dried depression, and for
twenty-four hours they had followed its
course, hoping to find some sink-hole
from which the water hai not dried.
Now they were pondering the necessity
of seeking the next watercourse; yet
another twenty-four hours away; if
that were dry also, what then?
Other families had trekked over this
veldt before them, and more would fol
low, for this was the annual custom.
When the dry season came an( burned
every vestige of green from the home
grazing lands, the Boers would load
their families Into the great wagons,
drawn bymany spans of oxen, and driv
ing the sheep and cattle before them,
seek the water-courses that had not
dried up. And there they would re
main as long as the drought lasted, un
til weeks of steady and violent rains
should come and transform the dry,
barren veldt into a tropical garden.
Then they would trek back home.
Long before the sun rose for a new
day cf burning heat and thirst, the dot
of wagons and animals was ready for
departure. But even as it began to
crawl away from the river bed that
was dry toward the one that might
contain water, several of the mounted
Boers who were circling about the cat
tle descried something less than a third
of a mile away.
In the dim light they at first thought
it a wild animal, and examined their
rifles; then, as the object drew near,
they made it out to be a man, and
that he was on foot instead of horse
back. But it was not until he had ap
proached to within a few rods that
they discovered he was very young,
scarcely more than a boy, and that he
was an Outlander.
Now there Is nothing more obnox
ious to a Boer than an Outlander or
Witlander alien. He feels that there
coming into the country threatens his
institutions, and that the very object
of their coming is wrong. The treas
ures of the earth belong to the earth,
and should noe be wrested away. The
bustle and desire for change, for
wealth, for investigating, even the
progressive ideas of these outsiders are
causes for suspicion and dislike. So
when a cheery "Hello!" came from the
wayfarer, their answer was but a gruff
and unintelligible grunt.
All this time the train was moving
forward, but slowly, for oxen are plod
ding travelers. The boy was obliged to
pause for the animals to pass, and he
watched the long, straggling line with
the interest of a newcomer. After th
cattle and sheep and their guard came
the creaking, unwieldly wagons, with
their lnspanned oxen. Beside the first
of these wagons road a large, broad
faced man whose white hair and air of
authority proclaimed him the head of
the family. As he came opposite the
bov steDoed forward.
"Hello," he called again, cheerfully.
The man looked down at him, his
face hardening. But he stopped.
"Well." he said harshly, "what do you
want? Isn't it a little strange for a boy
to be crossing the veldt without a
hors?"
"Oh, I don't know," the boy answer
ed, carelessly; "I walked up from the
coast three months ago. You see, I
didn't have money enough for a horse
and a good outfit, and I needed the out
fit most. Besides, 1 was raised on a
farm and am used to walkirsr. A man
I met carried my outfit to the mi.ies.
and I pegged on behind."
"And now you are going oack home,
empty handed?" the Boer asked, sar
casticalli'. "No, indeed," quickly; "I didn't come
here for fun. I'm going to college
sometime, and that takes money: ttnd
I've got half a dozen brothers and sis
ters who are planning for different
things. It was easiest for me to leave,
so all of them put in their savings tow
ard my expenses. Of course I don't ex
pect to get rich," frankly, "but I shall
work hard to take back enough to get
us all a good start."
The Boer grunted.
"Why are you going back then, with
out your outfit?" he demanded.
"Got to have something to eat," the
boy answered easily. "I went to the
mines first, but the only opening was to
work for somebody else, or to buy a
claim at a fabulous price, so I shoul
dered my outfit and struck off prospect
ing. I kept it up three weeks, and
now," his eyes flashing eagerly into the
grim ones above him. "I believe I've
found a spot that will turn me In a lot
of money. But I'm out of provisions,
so I must go back after a supply. I
don't suppose you have any you would
sell?"
"No," shortly, "but Where's your out
fit?" 'Oh, I've concealed that in the sand;
I guess it'll be all right. Anyway, there
was. nothing else to do. But I didn't
stop you to talk about myself " color
ing a little. "I wanted to say that your
cattle are awful thirsty. At home we
would drop everything to furnish such
cattle with water quick.
The Boer's face relaxed somewhat.
"Even If there was no wat,?r i eiwcen
four days' Journey?" he asked con
temptuously. "You Witlanders who
would do all things can make rivers as
you need them, I suppose?"
"There Is the water course only one
day's journey behind you." the boy re
torted, "and your cattle show they
were not attended to there. No matter
the hurry a man may be in, it is a
crime to neglect beasts as you have
yours."
"The water course behind was dry.
as this Is, and as the next one may be."
The Boer said, "My teams have not
had water in three days, and God
knows what may happen if the next
river bed is like this one and the last."
The boy's face paled suddenly.
"The river dry." he gasped; "why, I
counted on getting water there. I've
only Just enough with me to last one
day." Then he forgot himself in con
cern for the cattle.
"You must turn back toward the
place I've found." he cried authori
tatively: "it's only five or six miles
away. There's a hole in the river bed
that has water, and it's thirty yards or
more across and several feet deep. It
will enough to supply your herds for
some weeks. And beyond it are three
or four miles of good grazing, where
the soil has not yet become dry. If
you keep on this course the cattle wiii
a!l perish."
The Boer had straightened up, pre
paratory to riding on, but at this he
turned sharply.
"Water," he cried, "and plenty of it."
He raised his hand to his mouth and
called to the men in front. One of them
rode back. To him he gave a quick,
peremptory order. Then he turned back
to the boy.
"Do you understand what you hive
done?'' he demanded. "This pace you
have discovered will need water to work
It. and if we u-e that, as we doubtless
shall, you will lose all the benefit of
your discovery for this season."
The boy threw back his head, as
though to ward off the insinuation.
"The cattle need the water more than
the- land." he returned. "If the water
is gone when I return with the pro
visions, I can go and prospect some
where else, and perhaps come back af
ter the rains stt in. The folks at home
would not want me to put by money at
the expense of suffering."
The Boer leaned down and held out
his hand.
"It is well," he said simply. "You
will go back to the basin with us. We
do not sell provisions, but we have
plenty which we will give you. And It
may be." with a friendly twinkle ban
ishing the last trace of hardness from
his eyes, "that we will be able to ad
vance the success of your object here."
(Copyright, 1906, by M. M. Cunninghaf.)
HUMOR OF THE 'DAY
Mr. Parvenu This is a. fine prospectus
of that resort we saw adve-rtised, but it
says it has a very low temperature.
Mrs. .parvenu (decidedly) Then we wtil
not go there. Baltimore American.
Reirrer I wonder what Jingleton irets
for his magazine poems.
Jvoxiy l non t know. But X know what .-
he ought to get. , .
Keicler What?
Noxly Six months twice a year. Chi
cago New.
'What kind of pie will you have, Wil
lie mince or apple?
X 11 take two pieces of each, please.
'Two pieces!"
'Yes'm. Mamma told me not to aVtc
twice." Life.
"For goodness' sake. What's that
poise?"
"The girl next door is having her voice
cultivated."
"Huh! Aroarently the process of culti
vation has reached the harrowing sea
son." Philadelphia Ledger.
'See thp.t man? Ha! ha! ha! Ho! ho!
ho!" laughed Love.
"What's the matter with him?" asked
Envy.
"Nothing," answered Love, "only he's a
locksmith. Ha! ha! ha!" Philadelphia
Record.
"Isn't It splendid out here all alone?"
began Mr. Borem, who had found her
musing beside the quiet lake.
"Yes," replied Miss Bright, -' was
thinking that very thing before you came
along." Philadelphia Press.
Mistress I am sorry to trouble you,
Bridget.but my husband wants his break
fast tomorrow at 5:30.
Cook Oh, it won t be no throuble at
all, mum, if he don't knock nothin' over
whoile cookln' it an' wake me up."
Judse.
Young Husband I told the governor I
thought it would be wise If we started
house-keeping at once.
Young Wife And did he indorse the
opinion?
Young Husband Oh, yes. he indorsed
the opinion ail right. Town and Country.
"The linfts of your hand Indicate." ssld
the fortune teller, "that you will be mar
ried a second time."
"Pshaw!" she angrily retorted, grabbing
for the dollar she had just laid upon the
table, "you're an old fraud. If I'm ever
married again it will be the fourth time."
Chicago Record-Herald.
"That's Mr. McFront. His daughter is
one of the most charming "
"Yes, I've been out at his house and
he has asked me to call again."
"Get out! You can't make me believe
you call on his daughter "
"No. I didn't call on his daughter, but
to collect a bilj." Philadelphia Press.
"Se what all this blamed nonsense has
cost the country!" exclaimed the western
cattle raiser.
"What? The investigation?" queried
the other passenger.
"No, darn It the things the investigat
ors found out." Chicago Tribune.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.
There is this to say about the best
of kin: If none of them live with her,
a wife has faith in her husband longer.
There are some people who ask for
no greater distinction In life than to be
asked, in time of trouble, "to break the
news."
A man in politics has the same hag
gard look that a woman has when she
is engineering a rather unsuccessful
love affair.
If a man can't afford to give a girl
a diamond ring for a betrothal, he
can tdo more than square matte's by
giving her a very thin plain gold one.
and saying It was engagement ring of
his grandmother.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton con
fessed to her husband yesterday even
ing that when she was a girl, living
in New York, she attended a dinner
given by Stanford White. and that
White, after first drugging her,- held
her hand. Mr. Appleon will begin pro
ceedings for divorce.
There is a new piece of band music
entitled "Always in the Way," and as
soon as the husbands and fathers read
this they will decide it is the piece
their women folks will think appropri
ate to play at their funerals. Every
man who has a number of women folks
thinks he is in the way.
Mrs. Lysander John Appleton who
visited her wealthy sister in New York
recently, conducted herself as if she had
been surrounded by maids, butlers and
coachmen all her life until one fate
ful day when she discovered that the
butler belonged to the same church that
she did. when she brought disgrace
upon herself by asking him In the par
lor to hear all about her preacher.
A girl spanked her little brother till
he screamed because he drew a pin
across the piano. Four years later the
same piano was hacked with a hatchet,
and the same girl said. "Don't, dear."
in the sweetest of tones, to the child
that did the hacking. Note: She had
married in the four years that lapse l
between the first and second curtains,
and the child that did the hacking was
her son.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
A girl would never be so deceptive a'
to make a man believe she loved him
when she did.
A man fools his wife about his brair.a
a good deal less than she fools her
friends about tham.
The more a man reads books on how
to have a garden, the better he will
It with a hired man who never did any
thing but work in one.
Hardly any man has so much time for
fun as the man who has to stsr arid
work in the hot city, while hia family
are away for the summer.
What a woman likes is to get in an
argument with her husband so he csn
prove she Is wrong, so she can cry. so
he will have to give her a nice present
to make it up to hef.