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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17

woods or wherever a pile Of leaves has
lain until they have decayed into a
black-lOoking soil Get as much of this
as you can, and by using your hoe and
your rake, mix IL thoroughly with your
soil. If you cannot get leaf mould you
will probably be allie to get some ferti-
lizer from a barnyard or a livery stable.
Wood ashes are very useful to enrich
the soil Do not use coal ashes.
If your garden has to be in a small
yard, select the part that will receive
the most sunshine Even if you live in
a city, in an apartment house, where
not a foot of ground is your own. try to
have a box fastened In the window.
Make the earth rich and fine and have
something growing. even If il IS only a
few pansies and bachelors buttons, OF
some radishes and lettuce
The pleasure you will receive will
more than repay you for your work. But
If you happen to be so lucky as to have
even a very bare and desolate back
yard, you Will be surprised to see how
much a few plants and flowers will I'M
prove it.-Holiday Magazine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
Can You Correct These Mistakes?

How many of you boys and girls can
correct these errors2
but Mary was the most attentive"
rs that Jack? Yes, it's me-"
Jack, John and Tom IS coming to
dinner; they was to have come yester-
day"
Let US lay down on the grass"
Mother gave Bessie and a fine book
to read"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17

TT HERE are many animals that pos
sess more than Two eyes which do
not act together. A 1eech, for ex-
ample, has ten eyes on the top OF its
head which do not work in concert, and
a kind of marine worm has two eyes on
the head and a row down each sidc OF
the body.
Some lizards have an extra eye on the
top of the head which does not act with
the other two.
A bee or wasp has two large COM
pound eyes which possibly help each
other, and are used for near vision. and
also three little simple eyes on the top
of the head which arc employed for see
ing things long way of
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
MAJOR KELLY, THE WONDERFUL
CIVILIZED BABOON
Attends Parties and Behaves as Other Guests Do

the piano. This ne did. giving a very
amusing imitation OF PadereWslSi-
The guests applauded with great en-
their encores with performance after
performance until the piano at last got
out of tune
Then he retired with the gentlemen TO
the smoking room. where he enjoyed q
cfRarette-or seemed TO.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
Riddles.

L Why is a turnpike ike dead dog
tail?
, What IS smaller than an ants mouth
). What table has not a leg stand on
!. What part Of a fish weighs the rnost2
j. Why is your eye like a being
fogged2
6. Why Is a person reading these conun-
drums like a man condemned TO undergo
q military execution?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17

known proverbs are selected. each d.
vided into two parts. and each part
printed on a separate card. The host of
the evening has the hundred first halves,
which he reads aloud. one by one; the
hundred second halves are dealt TO the
other players, who place their hands
face upward on the '-tatamf," or thick
mat OF rice straw, on which they sit.
As the first half of any prOverb is read,
the holder of the second half throws il
out or if he sees it unnOticed among
his neighbours cards, seizes it and gives
him one of his own. The player who is
first out" wins. 1t is a very simple
game. but it affords great entertainment
to the players; for the quick-sighted nd
keen-Witted are constantly seizing the
cards of their duller and slower neigh
bors. and this leads to much laughter
and many gOOd-natured sarcasms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17

Dear Jay Gould:
AlthouEh I am. as YOU know. a very
bissy bissness man. am coming to spend
my birthday at your house. Have a mltyoh
dollar dele TO talk over with you.
SinserlY yours
WM X. VANDERBILT.
TTHIS was the note that Dwight
Blair, a Maryland boy, received on
the morning of the 2Sth of March.
'Hurrahi' he shouted to his big
brother Edwin, "Bertha's coming TO
visit US. Tomorrow S her birthday
Maybe you boys and girls wonder how
Dwight learned all this from the letter
that he had just received But you will
understand when you are told that
Dwight and Bertha (who were cousins
and chums) called each other Jay Gould
and William K. Vanderbilt respectively.
Both Dwight and Bertha loved to play
business" At first they had played
store, but after a while they concluded
1t was too slow a way of making money
(alI of their money was make believe
paper money, by the way, and so they
decided to become bankers and engage
in big deals. That was how Dwight
came to call himself Jay Gould and
Bertha to call herself William X Van
derbilt
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
Three Kinds of Birds
1. kite. 2. Sparrow. g. Lark
Kindness.

BE kind and be gentle
To those who are old,
For dearer is kindness
And better than gold
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
A Puzzling Laundry Sign.

When collars six and seven cuffs there be,
Then wen charge you thirty-three.
For coll4rs seven and six cuffs 10 do.
Our usual charge Is thtrry-tWos
You II find the prices very cheap.
fray. you. figure out the cost of each.
FRANCES ANGLE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
A Riddle.

TIE KING AND THE PEARS.
Eleven pairs were hanging high.
Eleven kings came riaing by.
Zach king took a pear.
And still there were eleven there
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
How DominOes Started.

- OMEONE has asked where the game
of donninOes came from
1t is said TO have been invented
by two monks.
These monks, while IN strict secluslon
and under a rule of silence, decided to
pass away time with some sort OF game
that would not require them to con-
verse.
They took small. fiat white stones, on
which they marked black dots. With
these they played very much as We play
Then whenever one of them won, in
stead of saying i've won" (Which
would be conversing and breaking the
rule of silence) he would simply repeat
aloud the first line of vesDers-
When they at last, were free to con-
verse again they told their friends
But the first line of vespers was short
ened to Domino" and that word has
since become the name of the game it.
self
r-.-s4o rnnnnn-a Cana
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
Nice Drawings.

Polly Evans has received very nice
drawings from the following named boys
and girls:
Helen Carl wilkins. 2s1 Poplar avenue.
Woodbury., n J.
Mary Z. Quirk.
Iona Briggs. Knoxville, Pa
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
STORY OF THE LOST TREASURE
DISCOVERED AT LAST
An April Fool Day Experience by Boy and Girl

there. is any secret panel. But let's keep
awfully still about il, or Wen lose all
the glory of finding it.
Excusing themselves early from the
dinner table Dwight and Bertha stole
on tiptoe upstairs to the dark closet
under the attic stairway
1t was an unused one, and they found
it fun of cobwebs. But, undaunted by
the darkness and dust, they felt care
fully along he rough wall until, with
little cry of triumph. Dwight felt a panel
yield to his touch and. pushing his nand
IN. discovered j paper he TOOK II out
and. hiding it in his coat. he and Bertha
made Decline for the hay-loft in the
The paper was yellow with age and
had this writing on it:
To my heirs: As am about to join Lees
mercy Of enemies it may be l am going 10
hide the greater part Of the gold that 1 have
directions and recover the sold It Will be
under The caves. JAMES 7. BLAIR
James T. Blairr' repeated Dwight.
Nv hy that was our grandfather, Der
tha and he was killed in the war.
"Oh. OH OH cried Bertha, TO think
that there really is some buried treas
ure, and you and 1 are going to find it.'
Looking to see II the coast was clear.
they stOie through the orchard to the
SmOkehouSc. \ moments search in the
corner that had been described revealed,
however, Only another piece OF paper.
On this one We're the following words:
Have decided that this place is not suf
1clentiy Sate-might get burned down.
Therefore VIII bury the gold at the foot
of the Giant Pine, facing the east"
quick, Dwight, get q spadel" urged
Bertha, who was all excitement and i'm
patience.
Dwight was not long finding a spade.
But the Giant Pine was in a very con-
spicuous place near the carriage drive.
how We're they to dig a hole there with
out attracting attention?
AFRIL FOOL
Bertha agreed to 1aunter around the
house and garden to see who might be
about the place. She found that every
one of the family were away except Ed
win, and he was on the opposite side of
the house reading.
Edwin might not see, but then again,
he might. So on one excuse or another
he must be got rid of.
oh, Edwin" called Bertha suddenly,
who is that riding your wheel down the
road?''
My wheel!' cried Edwin. .In run
and see,'' and off he started.
Back flew Bertha to Dwight and the
Giant Pine. The coast is clear" she an
nOunced, I've just sent Edwin off on
wild goose chase: Now, dig, Dwight,
Dwight dug with all his might. The
dirt fairly flew under his spade, and di-
rectly a hard object became apparent.
Another moment, and it proved to be
tin box. Dwight got down on his knees
and, digging with his fingers, Ioosened it
from its hiding place and set it on the
grass.
breathe, pried the lid open and peeped
in. and GRANDDAUGHTER piece of paper!
On which was written
"A r F o ! -
And just then some one startled them
by shouting into their ears, April Fool!
Didn't you two fnanciers know this was
All Fools Day?"
It was Edwin.
How he laughed at the success of his
joke!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
A Question About Ages.

II to my age your age combine,
The sum would reach So
To half my age add H. and see
Just what half your age will be.
Now half your age 10 half Of mine
Your age and mine now I ask.
Pray. are YOU equal to the task2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
14JlszCerS. to Last Weeks
PUSHES and Problems
Five Kinds Of Stitches.

ID Chain. C2) Machine. Cd Cross. or
(5)-g
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
Match Puzzle.

This shows how to take away one stick
and leave one
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17

: Why is a dogs tail like the heart Of a
8 Why is ireland the richest Of countries?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17

Favorite japanese Game.
A favorite card game of the Japanese
is played as follows: One hundred we'll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17
Flow to Get Jimmie out.

There is a very simple. easy way TO get
Jimmie out of the wen-take an eraser and
rub him out
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-17

wv z HAVE in this country a babOon
M called Major Kelly who is 50
Wv valuable that his owner recently
had lis ILf.a .r....aa c..-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
Jogging the Memory.

From the London Chronicle.
The frequent cases of weakness or loss
of memory which threaten to make this age
remarkable have given rise in Vienna to
the establishment of "Memento Agency
whose function is to relieve of anxiety
those people who cannot rely on their own
recollection with regard to future engage.
ments The agency issues a double en-
velope to it's clients. In one, on which you
write your name, address and the date on
which you wish to have your memory
logged, you inclose a note of the particular
business of which you want reminding.
You seal it up and send it, in the second
envelope to the agency, which returns you
the Enclosure exactly at the desired time.
You are thus freed from all intermediate
worry There is only one possible flaw in
this arrangement, but that is a fearful one.
WHO can guarantee that the employees of
the agency will not also lapse into forget
fulneSS?
Rough and ready devices to refresh a
jaded memory are numerous. Many men
(implored by wives to post that letter with
out faiD tie a knot in their handkerchief;
others submit to having a piece of string
tied about forefnger. But these are I'M
comfortable methods, and If the engage
ments are many the knots and the pieces of
string would interfere with the use of the
forefinger and the handkerchief And if
the engagements are far ahead-well, one
wants at least a change of handkerchiefs
and even if the knot be transferred, it must
be translated from memory!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22

Engineer Commissioner. should recommend
a course of action which as acting Engineer
Commissioner he would be required to dis
approve. In order to prevent such con-
tingency arising he says he will probably
confer with himself in the capacity of the
two officials and agree with himself Tor
each official on the course OF action.
X x
A little lad who lives on 4th street near
that big pile of bricks known as the pension
Office has evolved a brand-new style of
rapid reckoning. His sister was trying to
famliarize him with his arithmetic lesson
the other night, and reading from the book
said:
There are three groups of boys and four
boys in each group. How many boys are
there altogether?''
Quick a flash came the boys reply:
why, there's a whole gang
x X X X *
A man, we'll dressed. polite, but evidently
hard up, walked into an avenue cigar store
the other day, asked for cigar. carefully
cut the end Off lit 1t and walked out with
out paying for it.
A reporter for the Star who was in the
store at the time expressed surprise and
thought surely it must have been a friend
of the proprietor, but such was not the
case.
THE whole thing in a nutshell is this"
casionally man comes in to whom we give
a cigar or a piece of tobacco. The man ex-
plains that he is out of work and has not
the price of smoke. l know what it feels
like to want smoke and l have seen the
time l would give dollar for a cigar So
persons in that condition can always count
upon me for a smoke. and have never
been imposed upon"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
Radium and Temperature.
From Harper's Weekly

FROM Harpers Weekly
How far radium is responsible for the
heat of the earth is one of the philosophi-
cal questions now interesting scientists.
Prof. RUTHERFORD before a recent meeting
of the Royal institution of London. stated
that he believed the amount of radium
present and uniformly distributed through
out the earth would be sufficient to ac-
count for all thesheat lost from that BODY.
In this event the cooling of the earth. so
that ultimatey.iif would become uninhabi-
table, as was Calculated by Lord Kelvin.
would be postponed, Gand a few million
more years would be afforded for the vari-
Gus forms of animal life. Such a possibiI
ity was anticipated doubtless by Lord Kel.
vim himself, forodn his calculations he in
serted provided no new form of heat is
discovered" This is now held to exist in
the minute Quantities of radium which are
widely and universally distributed over the
earth, and whichamay account for the grad
ual increase of temperature as tha intarior
of the earth is approached
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
Papa1 Financiering.
From Chambers Journal.


The capital which gives the pontiff a sure
income is. proportionately, very limited
When Plus TX died it amounted to FL ,2OO,-
600. but Leo XIII. wishing to augment it,
was induced to participate in several risky
financial enterprises, which ended in Sc
we're disaster in 1888, when the holy see lost
t4o0,OOO. The former pontiff, who was
rather parsiminious with his money, felt
the reverse most keenly, and set himself to
repair it by all means in his power: and he
succeeded, as ten years after speaking to
cardinal only few months before his
death, he said that half of the money lost
had been recovered. By this, however he
meant that he had succeeded in saving
enough from the interest of the fSOO o. ID
which was left to him after the failure to
bring that capital up to fl 100000 Inde-
pendently from this, out of the offerings
made directly to him in the TWENTY-FIVE
years of his pontificate, he succeeded in
putting aside over f600.0O0 so that con-
trary to what is generally believed. he left
10 ms successor more than he had himself
received from his predecessor This is much
more remarkable when it is considered thai
Leo Nil, although he had the reputa tion
or being almost a miser spent as none
t2OOoOOO in churches, RESERVATIONS and
works of art, f2S0OO0 of which went for
the apse and repairs in st. John Lateran.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
The Independence of the United States


More than any other country of the
present time, with the possible exception
of the Russian empire, the United States
may be regarded as a complete homo
geneous economic entity. 1t is able to
grow all the corn it requires it can raise
all the stock that ii needs. it's cotton plan
tations are sufficient to supply all it's re-
quirements. it's mineral resources, both of
base and precious metals, are extensive,
and it's coal mines are inexhaustible
Add to this every year enormous Access
sions by immigration of carefully selected
adult able-bodied and skilled workmen to
assist in the development of these very
varied resources. The development of that
country is probably due in large degree to
these causes. The policy of protection
which it has extended to industries has
only hastened the natural and inevitable
growth of the country. We may be sure
that in the future, it will become more
and more Independent of all other coun-
tries.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
shakespeare's Best Monument.
Blackwood's Magazine


The actors, who show little respect to the
noet's text, are determined to set up a
monument to the poets memory. Shillings
are demanded in the public prints, and the
warnings of the past are unregarded. No
man that ever lived needs the poor honor
that a statue can afford so little as Shake
speare. If you would seek his monument.
open his book. Moreover, every attempt to
celebrate his genius has ANONYMOUSLY
failed. Who thinks of the sad monument
in Leicester Square without disgrace? Can
any one feel pride in the vast tea garden
which has been arranged, under the very
hest auspices, at Stratford-on-Avon? There
Is but one tribute which the actors of Eng
land need pay to England's dramatist. They
NAV recite his works with the same re-
straint of gesture. intonation and adorn-
ment which interpreted his works in his
own day And If this method be not ac-
ceptable to them. let them be sincere In
their admiration, and set UP all the statues
they can afford to the carpenters and scene
painters. who are the real masters of the
modern drama
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
Uses for the SunfioWer

From the st. James Gazette
Various paragraphs mentioning sunfiow-
ers OF from ten to a dozen feet in height
have lately appeared. asking if these are
not record heights for this flower The
sunfiower with which Suburbia is bedeck-
ed reaches a height of twenty feet in its
native tropical America, and has flowers of
from twelve to twenty-four inches in d.
ameter.
We do not heed the full possibilities of
this flower in England. Elsewhere they
grow ii as a field crop. Its seed makes a
magnificent food for cattle and poultry,
and yields valuable oil, a gallon to the
bushel, and fifty bushels of seeds to the
acre. The seeds have medicinal properties
too. and in places they make nourishing
food for infants from them. They are a
dessert to the Russian, who eats them in
stead of nuts. The red Indian makes his
bread from the seeds. Bees get unlimited
honey from the flower; cattle nour-
fshed by the leaves; the stalks make fuel,
and altogether the sunfower is about as
valuable. If properly utilized. as is the mil
let in which the Japs are just now sniping
the Russians. You will never get an idea
of the fecundity of the sunfiower until an
old garden having a few of them has run
wild for a year. Then in every bed and
border, in the gravel paths. in the lawn, in
every imaginable corner, sunfiowers, self
seeded, spring.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
Spain's Blithe Young King.
From the London Chronicle

From the London Chronicle.
There is a grave crisis in the history of
Spanish etiquette. King Alfonso XIII, who
is described by French journal as very
impulsive, and at the same time very
sports" wishes to make a royal progress
through his kingdom in an automobile.
Horror of the prime minister! Such vehi-
Gle, says he, is beneath the dignity of a
monarch to whom the constitution has in
trusted the "sumptuous car of the state"
The sumptuous car must not be driven by
petrol. Horses are still harnessed to the
chariot of the sun. But Spanish etiquette
does not prevent the monarch from travel
ing by railway. Lady Currie tells a story
of young man who jumped into a COM
partment one day on an English train and
started a conversation with an old lady
who greatly admired his pleasant manners
When he was alighting she asked his name,
and he answered. blithely, Alfonso" He
was Alfonso XII, then a cadet at Sand
hurst. The anecdote will probably be read
at Madrid with pain and incredulity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
British National Art Treasures.
From the Westminster Gazette.


Titians portrait of Ariosto. recently ac-
quired for the National Gallery rom Sir
George Donaldson for ESQ, O00--the sum for
which 1t was purchased some years ago
from Lord Darnley-fs by no means tho
costliest of the national pictures. That dis
tinction belongs to the .-Ansidei Madonna"
of Raphael, bought in 1855 from the Duke
of Marlborough for 9T0,O00-more than
three times the highest price ever before
paid for picture. and equal to more than
914 per square inch Ruskin spoke of il
as quite the loveliest Raphael In the
world" II had been valued by the director
OF the National Gallery at ell5OO. and
Gladstone was wont to find satisfaction in
having saved the taxpayers e45.JC0 in this
purchase.
Other costly acquisitions include Van
Dyck's Charles T. (e17,a00), Holbein 8
Ambassadors, 'Velasquez's "Admoral
Pulido-Pareja' and Moronis italian No.
bleman from Longford castle which to-
gether cost G55009-G:s0,0 900 of which was
derived from private gifts-and Rembrandt 3
Portrait of a Burgomaster' and Portrait
of an Old Lady" acquired in 1899 from Lord
de Saumarez for e15.o50. Fer the Peel COL
lection, comprising "a pictures and IS draw
lngs, acquired in 1871, s75,Ooo was paid
An interesting offer of a quarter of a mill
llion sterling was made for the Peel pictures
in 1884.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-22
As to Eating Rice.
From the New York Press.

FrOm the New York Press
Coils P. Huntington once told me that
the best workers he ever had on his rail.
roads were Chinese. They lived on rice
The Japanese are proving themselves great
warriors and have developed a marvellous
Intelligence, combined with a physical
prowess never dreamed of by white ma
tons They live on rice We hear that
loo,Ooo public school children in New York
are underfed. Do their parents know,
enough to feed them on rice? A pound OF
the best rice costs cents and will make
four good meals for a family of five The
with butter or gravy. A little salt ia the
only seasoning. Italians eat great ouanti-
ties of rice. They are a sturdy nation. We
throw rice after newly welded couples: LET
underfed school children