The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-07

Teller out west here has power to edit
Nebhe IN MS name Wna1 ne 1oesE in
Texas.
I amt no idee. an more. don't care.
| All that we ask of a man is be square.
Back of them hills that you see over yon-
der.
CHATS where tn beef trail comes up
We amt much given to worry or wonder.
What mans been an git trouble for
Teller don't gain much out west here by
Lookin' for knowledge that isn't just
We don't care what he was down in Wy
We're, goin' to Judge him by what he
is here.
We had three Joneses last year with our
Tom, Jim an BiIl-three good hands as
Mebbe their pedigrees wasn't to brag on
1 don't know what names the three left
But. told you. we don't keep no cases
Back of them hills where tn beef trail
All O. tn cards in tn deck can't be aces,
Give EN- a chance to play square now
Deal tn game open an cut tn cards
Give every conner new stock Of checks
sQuarely, A
. Did wing a greaser somewhere in Old
Better take men as y happen to find 'em
ION keep poor devil out in the wet
nat II ne 8 lett some bad record behind
Help him an give him a chance to for
y. w. Foley in New York Times
The Big Man.
Inc Dlgsest map that ever was made
a Vx%I
complete, is to have material addIt,oo
mace TO 1t this summer. 1t is the to-
graphic survey map OF the Trnite.1
states, being made by the eeoloricai
survey and this year field work is fo
De done in thirty-one states and four
territories. anu Aoul
The people who live in localities that
nave already been completely SURVEYED
and who know about the map find II an
invaluable aid. 1t is prepared in such
o o.soal mat every hamlet is shown and
even every house, except where the
buildings are closely crowded together
IN cities. Every road and path. every
stream and ford and bridge, every hill
ana every stage of elevation of every
hill are shown with precision.
The government manages to cornnIete
ABOUT $1,000 square miles of this map
every, year at cost of $3.50, 900, or about
$40 square mile. 1t has finished with
Rhode Island, Connecti-
y,
with several other states, Altogether
a little over third of the area Of the
country has been covered The states
that contribute to the work are getting
the earliest benefit. Not only do they
nave maps made on a larger scale but |
they have more Of them finished each
year. Ohio, which contributes largely.
expects to have thirteen additional |
sheets completed nearly completed |
this summer Even Alaska is coming
he fv,o
mining districts will soon have maps
on scale Of about one mile to an |
inch.
All the field work for this map is, |
OF course, done in the summer time. |
1t Is pleasure to know that during the |
Silly season there is some useful work |
going on in the world somewhere |
Chicago Rccord-Herald.
His Bullet Was a Hornet
The passengers on a Darby-bound |
trolley car from this city, on the line of |
the Chester Traction company, were |
startled to see a well-dressed man, |
named Elliott, jump out of his seat, |
claim, My God, I'm shoty'
The man sank back in his seat, pallid |
and the passengers clustered around |
around him, thinking some miscreant |
had fired into the car although no shot |
was heard.
at feel my blood slowly ebbing away; |
it is way down my ARM said Elliott. |
He put his hand in, placed 1t on his |
arm. groaned, and pulled it out again |
covered MISREPRESENTATION. The con- |
doctor, assisted by a sympathetic passen- |
ger, with great care pulled the mans |
coat down over the shoulder and then |
exposed the largest specimen Of hornet |
seen in these parts. He had been stung. |
Dispatch to Philadelphia Record.
GDivorce' Party the Latest.
Newport has done so many wild things /
in the way of fresh entertaining that 1t |
takes something unusual to raise rip |
pie there any more. But the latest din |
ner party idea is so extraordinary that |
it made even Newport gasp.
1t was an original luncheon given by /
one of the foremost opponents of the |
trial marriage. She conceived the idea
of gathering together all the former |
husbands and wives of her little set and /
sending them to the dining room to the |
strains of Should auld acquaintance be |
forgot The luncheon was pretty and
with weeping cupids of
Trianon in ices, and orange flowers and
rosemary decorations, and toast Of
''lovers once. friends now" closed the
odd entertainment, and Newport Is talk
ing about 1t yet.-Broadway Magazine. |
They Moved Down to Boston.
Mrs H. G. Wells and other grown-ups |
have had their merry gibes at Boston,
but here is a little miss whose uncon-
scious irony puts their best efforts to
shame.
"Why." asked Dorothy the other night
on going to bed; why can't we see the
fairies 3"
because they do not live in the fields
and woods here any more" replied her
.sWhere are they, then-in heaven?"
Perhaps So.
ooh I know" said Dorothy. after
of silent thought. The angels
got tired OF their old mansions In the