The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-18

Wouid not reciprocate my flame.
1 1elt again / could not love-
That Wonan'S faith was all a myth
But soon got quite hand and glove
with Fascinating Polly Smith.
Another chap got PoIly's hand;
The mitten. though, with me she left;
II really was too much to stand
TO be OF all my hopes bereft.
But, of a sanguine frame of mind,
cont allow myself to fret;
II Maggie Robinson proves kind
think 1 may be happy yet.
Chicago News.
Raising Elk for Profit.
Elk are successfully domesticated in
stne eastern states. In fact they are
the only deer that can be easily reared
m captivity in practically any climate.
They will live without shelter, and can
subsist on hardy diet of bark and
tw1gs during the severe winter, when
the domestic animals would not survive
They are prolific and their young thrive.
All this raises question of considera-
bic economic Importance. The Pilgrims
when they landed on Plymouth Rock
found elk at home in New England
down to tide water. Why not make use
of the waste land of the east again;
rehabilitate it with elk that can, If nee
essary, find Sustenance winter and sum-
mer on the barren pastures of aban-
doned farms, and thus create a new in
duStry of raising elk for profit? Ac-
cordlng to Professor William t. Horna-
day, who of all authorities in America
could perhaps speak with the most
weight on this subject, there is no doubt
that an industry of raising elk in New
England may be created providing only
that there is a market for elk venison
at a higher price than beef-say fifty
cents pound retail-Country Life in
America for September.
Her Dream.
"It was such a beautiful dream"
she said. YES? "' the other inquiringly
remarked. tSuch a delightful en-.
TELL me about it, won't your ''How
can I? Words cannot describe it. 1t
was such a divine dream! Such a
heavenly visionl Such a rapturous-'
DO tell me-" 81 can try. but I know
that 1 shall never succeed. 1t was
such an ecstat-but will try. In my
dream was in a country that never
had seen before. It was a pleasant
enough country, SO far as scenery was
concerned. and there we're many wo-
men there, but-not one mani I'm
agine how we felt''' The other one
shuddered. SAT last a man actually
appeared. He walked straight up to
me, never looking at any of the other
visited with me only" The narration
ceased. 60 on. go ont" the other
breathlessly cried. SCI want to hear
all of it, ooh, there wasn't any
more. walked up then. But wasn't
it a delightful, beautiful dream ?''
Moral-It is scandalous to tell such
stories when everybody must know
that there is not particle of justi-
fication for them in feminine nature.
San Francisco Call.
On Southern Railroad.
Marshall P Wilder, at a dinner in
st. Louis, was telling railroad stories
Zone summer afternoon / was rid
ing on southern train,' he said. 1T
was hot, bright afternoon. The car
the air that swept through the open
door was warm and gritty and I'M
refreshing. Everybody was uncom-
Portable, and a little boy who sat in
the window all the time in search of
GOODNESS. Now and then, with some
loud remark, he drew in his head, all
coated with dust and SCOT, and made a
few white Streaks over its dark sur
face by dabbing it with handker-
chief.
1.-THE boys remarks were amusing.
and all fell into the habit of waiting
for them. In the heat and dust and
glaring sunshine, they seemed to af-
ford us a little relief.
1.-THE train, after a time, struck a
serpentine stretch of track, and began
were hurled to the right; now we
were flung violently to the left. On
we went, with this crazy rocking
motion, and in the distance a tunnel
appeared. AS, always swaying VIC
lently. we drew near the tunnel, the
boy in front drew in his dust-grimed
head quickly, and in wild excitement,
shouted:
by George, believe We'll miss the
hole Los Angeles Times.
Hetty Green Advises Investors.
ooh, yesl And in what do you in
vest?''
RAILROADS and real estate. I believe
in getting in either at the top or at the
bottom. I like to buy railroad stock or
thing going cheap because nobody wants
it, I buy a lot of it and tuck it away.
Then when the time comes they have tC
hunt me up and pay me a good price fol
cages in crowded sections. They seem
to me as good as anything"
How about stocks and bonds?'
IT don't much believe in stocks. Wall
steer clear of it, and never buy indus
trials. Railroads and real estate are
the things I like. You see I believe In
using common sense in business. Before
deciding on an investment l therefore
seek out every kind of information
about it. There is no great secret il
| fortune making. All you have to do is
| to buy cheap and sell dear, act WITT
| thrift and shrewdness and then be per
| stent"-Carol Ford in National Maya
| zine for September.
Might Stay on Earth.
| Sneaker Joseph Cannon, in response
] to toast at a recent dinner, began
! his remarks so as to create the initial
laugh which is so much desired by
orators as a preparation for weightief
| matter to follow.
Astronomers tell u.s. he began, ''ac-
| cording to the gentleman who has just
sat down, that an express train moving
| a hundred miles a second would CON
| sumo several million years in reaching
| a certain STAR
! He. paused and looked toward tbs
| guest to whom he had referred.
| THAT was the statement" said the
| speakers neighbor. nodding-