The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16

mus at no very distant date,
since good must yield to best
Old Mother Nature'Il abdicate
And man will do the rest.
New York Times.
A Good Advertisement.
Private John Allen takes a deep in
terest In the advertising business. Adj
vertlsements that he deems exception
any good he clips out and pastes in a
scrapbook. AS he was showing this
scrapbook to a guest one day, he said:
But the best ad [ know of is not in
here. For it wasn't written, but
spoken 1t earned its originator some
thousands of dollars, yet 1 can never
show it. 1 can only describe it, and
description fails to do it justice.
1t was the work of a ciothier in
| Nashville. He had, with his partner,
the first establishment in town and
the business of the firm was considered
very prosperous. The two men had
married sisters, and their relationship
was more than friendly. Hence the
greatest surprise overlook Nashville
when the junior partner suddenly took
out summons and hailed the senior
into court.
6 The senior partner is running the
1 business gossip said. He is getting
softening of the brain, or paresis, or
| something of that sort: Now is the
height of the spring season. when they
ought to be making money hand over
i inst, but the seniors cracked methods
are spelling everything
$50 all Nashville took tremendous
interest in the case, and, on the morn
| ing it was called, the courtroom was
Icrowded as in a murder trial.
THE junior partners complaint was
presented strongly and directly. He
| wanted an Injunction to restrain the
| senior from selling below cost. He
| showed that goods were being sacri-
4 feed at fraction of their value, and
he asked that this rIfnous trading be
stopped lest ruin enSue.
I '"The defendants lawyer, an able
fellow, secured an adjournment for
| three weeks.
ION the announcement of this ad-
| journment, the junior partner gave a
| loud groan. He leaped to his feet,
and rushed out like one demented.
| shouting as he went:
"'Merciful heavens, then the sacri-
flee must still go on!'
" L don't need to tell you how much
business that firm did in the next
| three weeks. ''-Exchange.
A Cynic of Human Nature.
The late Emerson Bennett of Phila-
| delphia was in his prime the most pop
ular of American authors. He was the
star of Robert Bonner's New York
| Ledger staff, and certain of his books
| the Prairie Flower and the Phantom
| of the Forest'-had a circulation that
would be thought enormous even now.
| Mr.. Bennett was over eighty when he
| O1eQ. lie was sc unfortunate as 10 nave
| outlfved his fame. Nevertheless he con-
tinued cheerful to the end, and in the
Masonic home where his last days were
passed his humor was priced highly.
| Mr. Bennett often used to talk about
| Robert Bonner at the home. This is
one of the Bonner stories that he some
| times told:
Bonner, one day, was criticising hui
man nature cynically. A clergyman
took up the cudgel in human natures
| defense.
There is good in all of u.s." he said;
| more good than bad. I believe that 80
per cent of US have never done anything
for which there is real cause to be
| ashamed
Nonsense" said Bonner. Every
man has a skeleton in his closet. You
could shoot a gun anywhere and bring
down bad man. Why" he continued
warmly, 81 once knew a bishop who
was considered the hottest man in
a joke, telegraphed one night to this
bishop: All is discovered. Fly at
once"
Mr.. Bonner paused and chuckled-
| 'TWell?' said the clergyman, impat-
| iently. s'Well, what happened?"
by morning. said Mr. Bonner, "the
bishop had disappeared, and he has
never been heard of since Los
| Angeles Times.
4 Last Stand of the Elk.
1t was on the very backbone of our
continent at the top of the world that
the elk found their refuge summer
and winter. where the Pacific" creeks
and Atlantic creeks flow in differ
ent directions with the same source
from the Continental Divide, says
/ Country Life in America for. Septem-
Der. Down between the Great Teton
range and eros Ventre, Shoshone, and
the Wind River Mountains, where the
biggest of the Rockies have left liter
ally a great cleft in the earth. form
ing an oblong valley, is natural
STRONGHOLD The elk that sought win
ter pastures outside of these mountains
perished; those that came down in
side lived to breed the last of their
The "hole" itself. for the place is
called Jackson's Hole, is bordered on
!, the west by the abrupt wall of the
!, mighty Teton range which parallels
| the Idaho border closely. 1t includes
: on the north a bit of the lower por-
ton of the Yellowstone National Park.
1t is a hundred or SO miles long and
a few miles wide at its narrowed walls
1t is all but impossible to man and
: beast for the six months of the year IN
which the elk come down to hole
. country. It is estimated that 20.00O
!; country in winter.
An Ungracious Speech.
s,rhat speech said Bird S. Coler,
anent political address, was ungrac-
ious 1t reminds me of Scots speech
to his wife.