The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-05


plants set in the bed.
The season for hotbeds varies with
latitude and purpose. For most pur-
poses 1t may best be made in the latter
part of February or the first of March,
1t is sometimes the practice to dig a
pit and fill it with manure so that tho
bottom of the bed is even with the top
of the ground. There is danger that
the pit will be filled with water
He Stopped the Game.
De you still hunger fer excite
Il smacks my lips over it, says he.
and his eye is on me, cold as a rat
tier. while he slips his hand into the
gun drawer.
out the roll of pea-soup with the fuse
hangin' to it. 1 touches it off with the
blazin, match and it begins to sizzle
Wen all go up in bunch
whistle, givin' a laugh like the rayin's
Of John Mccullough, that 1 heard in. a
pheny graph senee.- ssS 80 , f---assr3
: However the dramatic polish of them
crowd is moved by one uncommon i'm
pulse, and the sound of their hoofs s
like the roar of thunder
Noise busted out of them cow-men
like they'd. blowed of. cylinder-head.
They didn't heller, but horrid discord
just pizened the air.
In gun fight, man can hide
back of the bar crawl under the
stove CT into the neck of a beer bot
tie, if he's scared enough. but sech
protective stratagems is wholly vain
agin dynamite.
1T appeared like everybody got a
fair. honest start, because they all run
a dead heat to the door, where they
met and wedged. then crawled their
way out into the night and far away
las for the dealer, cold draught
famed my artif1cially fevered brow
from the window through which he had
departed. He ran plum out of town.
wearin' the window-sash for neck
tie. Not soul was left to tell the
tale.
Il scooped off the bank roll and step
ped to the back door. There was con-
siderable currency lynn on the crap
table, and silver glittered on the
wheel, but passed them by. 1t was
not fer me. I had busted the bank
other games was on the square, and
mine was only a mission of VEN
geance. From THE Colognizing of
Kansas by Rex Beach in McCIure's
Good Pens and Bad Writing.
The boys of the present day ought
to write better hand than their pre-
decessors; but it is not in accord with
general experience that they do so.
Those whose painful duty it is to en-
gage and supervise junior clerks tell
US that when they were lads they
would have been ashamed to turn out
such work as now daily meets their
eyes, and it is even whispered that
there Is a mysterious connection be-
tween badly made pens and incorrect
spelling. Now, it is incontestable that
pens are much better made mechani-
cally than in the days when school
masters, or boys, used to be taught to
fashion goose quilts into writing i'm
plements for themselves. We have
steel pens of every degree Of hardness.
to say nothing of styles and fountain
pens Good writing, by which is meant
writing that anybody can read at
glance, ought to be universal accom-
plishrnent. Why is it not? Obviously
because 1t is undervalued. Boys are
not taught to esteem highly the power
to make their meaning plain. And 1T is
not boys only that are to blame. Half
our educated" people are content to
inflict an almost uncomfortable task
upon everybody who tries to read
them whenever they put pen to paper.
The fact is that illegible writing Is q
moral offense, and If that were gener-
ally recognized life would go much
would be saved in bad temper, and
perhaps now and then in bad Ian
guage, when people open their letters.
are numerable.-London Globe.
NegIectlng the Greater Danger.
legislative reformers from one END
of the country to the other are doing
valiant service in the ranks OF the
general crusade against corpora1iro ol7,
and SO fevered are they by the holy
contaeion for hampering or destroying
certain classes of business that they
utterances of anarchists in various
parts of the country who are taking
full advantage of this opportunity 10
spread their terrible doctrine OF sociat
Ias;siators themselves Anarchy is to
be dreaded infinitely more than any
CORPORATION that now exists. Tor the
corporat ton can be regulated by law,
while anarchy is not respec1er oA any
10 Kansas City Journal.