The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-08

yes. stupid, just as close as possible
l-like-that. And next you"
There was silence in the Garden for
| a little while, and then:
"Oh-h-h, Adam!' with a shiver in it.
| You know how it sounds. 1t hasn't
changed bit since first 1t thrilled
Creation.-From the Autobiography
of Cupid by Edward Marshall in the
A Seductive Noise.
F. Augustus Heinze, in the course
of a dinner on board his yacht Revo-
luton, said of a certain mooted min
ing reform:
''Oh. yes, it would be good thing
If it could be done, but there is no
possible way to do it. Ask these re-
formers how they are going to put
their ideas in operation, and they give
you answers that are about as prac-
teal as the little boys method Of
catching the mule.
There was once, you know, in a
large field mule that refused to be
caught by it's owner. Round and
round the field the mule galloped. The
owner tore along behind, red and
angry, swinging halter in his hand,
and swearing passionately.
1.-The mule would let him draw very
near, almost near enough to throw
the halter over it's head; then it would
kick up its legs merrily and run like
the wind. A boy, his face wreathed
in smiles, watched the unequal chase
for an hour or SO. Then he entered
the field and said:
"I'll tell you how to catch that
mule, mister. If you'll give me
nickel
'''All right painted the man.
"'Get behind that thick hedge over
there said the boy, and make a noise
like a carrot"
Bathos.
Prof Brander Matthews at a recent
dinner talked of bathos with his usual
wealth OF apt illustration.
1--WE find deal of bathos in the
law courts" ne said AN excellent
example occurred in a Massachusetts,
judges summing up of larceny case.
He said:
For forty centuries the thunders
of Sinai have echoed through the
world, Thou shalt not steal" This
is also, gentlemen, principle of COM
mon law and a rule of equity
I'm murder trial-the accused
had killed a soldier-another judge
said:
John Jones, not only have you
committed murder, but you have also
run a bayonet through the brooches of
one of our august republics cavalry
uniforms
"a Sunapee justice of the peace re-
buked a thief thus:
Prisoner. a bountiful Providence
has endowed you with health and
strength, instead of which you go
about stealing chickens
Leather From Whale Skins.
Newfoundland fishermen connected
with the whaling industry nave been
conducting a series of experiments IN
an attempt to make whale leather a
commercial product, and are said to
be meeting with some success. The
Ill e., <-Fl
a bout 1900 square feet. square foot
of the hide weighing from two to nve'l
ounces and being valued as high as so
cents. The leather is exceedingly
tough, and is said to possess great
wearing qualities, thereby being pecu-
Iiarly adapted to the covering of furni-
ture, carriage tops and seats and to
automobile purposes. 1t is also said
and shoes.
Leather made from the intestines OF
the whale resembles kid, and is ex-
tremeiy thin and tough. 1t colors |
glove manufacturers for making the |
gloves now fashionable |
women.-New York Tribune.
The Old Clerk
P T. Sherman, labor commissioner |
of New York. was describing at a din
ner that large class of laboring men |
that, though faithful and industrious /
and unselfish. never rises, never gets
on.
"Such a man." said Mr.. Sherman.
was an aged clerk I used to know in
St. Louis. This thin, bowed person,
with his white hair and his dim, kind,
tinid eyes, had worked for the same
firm steadily for thirty-nine years.
he was called to the
front one morning, and the chief
said:
"'I am sorry. Henry, but times
have become hard, expenses must be
regret it, but you will have
% CO.
1.-The old clerks jaw fell.
why he stammered piteously
why, when 1 started to work here,
vas told the job was regular"
A Woman Blacksmith.
A widow named Ann Winn SO years
I'D, who was recently buried at Con-
tantine, near Falmouth, left ISL de-
cendants, including seventeen sons
md daughters, the eldest of whom is
4. There are seventy-f1ve grandchil-
lren and f1fty-nine great-grandchil-
lren Deceased has two brothers and
sister still alive, their ages being SO,
Is and IS. For many years the de-
eased woman, whose husband was a