The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-20
GET THERE.

Toll. and you toll alone:
worth
While the others pay toll with a groan
'Kic ky sn anar eg yeu are YOU
For the supple knee the rich love to see,
But frown on Justices war.
Get cash, and men Will laud you:
Fail, and they turn the head;
IL you can buy folly. with you they're
But do not ask them for bread.
Buy wine and sycophants flatter;.
Buy beer. and you're a cheap skate; :,
With music and light they'll stay UP all
night,
Dance. and the crowd applauds you.
An anfom ad Eo1 VIII 1 Il the You YAK he ea
Walk, you can go-wl1ere you may.
There is room for the man who ''gets
No matter what road he runs;
But he who balks at getting what talks, -
Wa aha st l1e M B1is gnd Bs sanns
Good Business.
j. A. Everett, the president of the
american Society OF Equity, said in In
annapolis of a certain deal in stocks:
This deal reminds me forcibly of an
advertisement that once appeared in the
Lost and Found column Of several Phil
adelphia newspapers. It ran:
FOUNDLYesterday afternoon, on
gold watch. Loser may recover same
by calling at office of John C. Smith. 2S7
North Tenth street, and paying cost of
this advertisement
Well. John c. Smith sat in his bare
office the next morning, and little he
fore 8, a rather shabby man entered.
About that watch, STRIP he began
He had an anxious, furtive eye
The unsophisticated Smith drew a
large gold watch from his desk drawer.
rs this it?' he asked.
The very thing said the other. bur
rfedly. He looked immensely relieved.
The advertising costs are 49, said
Mr.. Smith.
The shabby mans face darkened.
Eight he muttered suspicfously
Eight said Mr.. Smith. That notice
has been running a week in seven pa
pers.'
THE man with some difficulty paid
the money, for the most part in silver.
words Of thanks.
Mr.. Smith, after he was gone, smiled
to himself.
"'Ah,' he nurmured, this watch find
ing is mighty good business
"And, in preparation for his next visi-
tor. he put in the drawer another gold
watch from a large pine box Of them
that lay under the table"
Mixed Names.
plates in a Yorkville apartment house
are the subject of letter from New
York in a Vienna paper II had to
stand in the little space" the writer
says, waiting for some one five flights
up to pull a string which opens the
entrance door. This took long time,
and I had opportunity to study the
names of the people in the house
These were some of the names: Becker,
Schneider Schuster, Kelner, Schreiner.
T1v,nk1 A i
thought that the various apartments
were occupied by persons engaged IN
the trades named on the little signs, but
this was not so. Becker (baker) was a
clerk; Schneider (tailor) was railroad
employe; Schuster (shoemaker) was
cigar1naker; Kelner e(waiter)- was, an
electrician; Schreiner (carpentery was
a wornan-a4 dressmaher; Thurman
1teamsterJ was a barber. and Drucker
(printer1 was a painter. The person
whom / visited escorted me to the door
and called my attention to one little
sign which 1 had overlooked. 1t was
Inscribed Baker That he said, is
the only American family in the house,
and they rave a boarder whose name
is Carpenter; both men are IRON WORK
ers.' 1t all made me think l had been
at labor union convention. Ne"
York Tribune.
Prevention of Floods.
Pittsburg is awakening to the neces-
sity of more forests to protect her val
uahIe interests from injury by floods.
Other communities are in the same
boat The watersheds of the Allegheny
and Monongahela rivers cover nearly
$4,000 square miles. 1t is estlmateo
that 1000, 100000 trees would be re-
oI,ired TO suitably plant the denuded
territory. and that fifteen years must
eIanse before they would be of any
material benefit. Also that the expen-
diture would be enormous. -,
Admitting all these drawbacks II
would be a paying investment. The
Pittsburg district lost SIS, 900, 600 by
the single flood of last March. other
districts lost in proportion; F1oous
are SO common nowadays that they
are ant to visit us at least once year.
In mich less than fifteen years would
the damage be equal to the sum ex-
pended for replanting the territory
which was once forests-or at least
sufficient portion of 1T to provide pro-
acknowledging Register.
-s- The Problem.
Senator Rayner of Maryland Is In
favor Of adequate salaries Tor scnool
teachers. and at reception ne toiu
story about a teachers meeting IN
district where the salaries were extreme
"A rich, portiy banker opened the
meeting with an address," he said. The
banker concluded his remarks with an
enthusiastic gesture and the WORDS
Long live our school teacnersf
"iWhat on?' shouted a thin, pale,
seedy man in a black coat slightly
srneared with chalk marks. New Or
leans States.
Freak Insurance.
HIs IT a fact" asked judge-Justice
Darling-the other day of counsel In
a case that was before him. that in
snrance companies insure against