The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-26

WOODS through WHICH We once paSScQ a.
children and often afterwards as low
There I watch the necked sunlight
and mark the silence, and It seems to
me that I can hear it be still"
More than that I know the pure soul
looks at me through the honest eyes
Kate Baltimore.
HU0foR OF THE DAY.
.,.oi was at a wake last night. YES YES
av tn wake: he was the corpse Puck
what do you think Of railway re-
bates?" said one citizen. Any chance Of
ri Then t I'n against m.S-washington
Star.
Na-WiIhe, what your little brother
CRYING about? Willie-Jist cause he don
want to learn anything. I jist took his
candy and showed him how to eat It.
Philadelphia Ledger.
First Chauffeur-Vvhat's the matter with
you lately? You amt got no more nerve
than a motorman. Second Chaumeur-Ohs
I cut out the hit-and-g getaway game dur
ing Leut.-Brooklyn Life.
Mrs. Kahn (angrily)-vat your brudder
means by running down mein solitaire ven
I show it to him2 Mr.. Hockski-a1xco
his Observation-Disclosures. IDS second nature
to him to run down everydings.-Judge.
Burroughs-Can YOU lend me a dollar,
old man? Markley-DoR't talk that way.
Surely you don't mean that? Burroug rs
you lend me dollar philadelphia
That's an unhealthy pipe you're smok-
ing" Unhealthy? Nonsense; it's getting
stronger every day."-Cleveland Leader.
spacer-Why did the editor refuse your
story? Penman-He said it didn't come
up to the standard Of the advertisements.
Life.
she has taken very great care Of her
ing on her at last" What ingratitude!''
Punch.
Have you really no affection for any
no ,rep! lied. the drug clerk, absent-
L mln9ealy, put nave something Just as
Mrs; Jones (reading)--A man in Ohio
cents. Isn't that awful? Mr.. Jones-It
certainly is-anybody who will stick
blind man is no good--Puck.
What I admire about Rojestvensky,"
said one Russian officer, lis his reckless
bravery Reckless bravery?'' yes. in
allowing himself to get into the same
ocean with the japanese. w ashingtOn
Star.
Il want to complain Of the -four you
sent me the other day." said Mrs. Newli-
with it, ma'am?" asked the grocer 1T
was tough. My husband simply wouldn't
eat the biscuits 1 made with it.'-Phila-
delphia Press.
Can YOU, COOKE" he asked. Can you
And She answered him, ''Ew new, newr'
Then fair maiden" he said,
We can never be waid,''
All right" she replied. You may gew!"
Chicago TRIBUNE.
A
man gets over his usefulness?'
''Neverl'
Never gets over. his usefulness? That's
. Usefulness? I thought you said use
lessness,' Hiram. Houston Post.
Glow do you like that speaker"
''He IS neither one thing nor the other
answered the man who is never pleased.
His remarks are just stupid enough to
make you sleepy and just loud enough to
keep you awake. ''-Washington Star.
80 you knocked him clear out of the
business" said the friend of the pugilistic
champion. We'll. he's a dead one now"
Yes. unused the bruiser, gazing at
the sense1ess form of the hardy asDirant
for honors, Il have just administered the
last sad right.'-Cleveland Leader.
His last words were very touching"
rs he dead2'
Teacher-Boys, what animal is it that
supplies you with food and clothes?
First Boy (promptly)-Father.-
York Times.
Stella-Did you give him your lover
Bella-Yes, conditioned on his raising an
equal amount.-New York Sun.
why is he such hero among those
talking women?"
Hes a man OF few ords."-Yonkers
Herald.
''Uncle Jason, I was told that you were
seen to enter Colonel Ridgely's henhOuse
at O'Clock last night, take two of the
latest hens he had, put them in a sack,
and leave in g. hurry over the back fence"
''Fo Godi Mistah Jenkins, I swar I neb-
bah did no sech thingi You sho' do dis
niggah on injestice! Lawd, Lawd! What
liar-'scusin, some white gemman toll
you, sah-folks is. Mistah jenkins, I
hopes III die eff I went neah dat back
fencei I walked right outen de gateP'-
New Orleans Tfmes-Democrat.
This new form Of spinal meningitis
seems to battle you physicians"
Battles is not the word, sir Nothing
battles a physician"
But you don't seem able to cure it. -
"Oh, that's an entirely different thing.
That's the fault of the disease, not our
fault replied the medic.-Cincinnati Com
mercial Tribune.
Husband-Why in the world are you al
ways borrowing trouble?
Wife-It's the neighbors' fault; they're
always out of everything else.-Detroit
Free Press.
Hester-Youn pardon me for speaking
of it, but your fancee Is the greatest girl
to borrow things I ever knew. She almost
always has some Of her sisters clothes
on
Dolittle-By George, I'm glad to know
that; suppose she'll keep on wearing her
sisters clothes after We are married. Be
a big saving for me, won't it?-Boston
Transcript.
Yes, said the man who occasionally
thinks aloud, that's why so many mar
riages are failures"
why IS it2' queTied the party with
The average young man thinks girl
YOU'D rather pc loved and Dit!ed than
dressed and FED, explained the noisy
I hadn't been introduced to him five
minutes before he began to talk society," -
And you didn't like that, eh?"