The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09

Some men of whom when they were there
Wed hear but good report
But. really. what's the use
Since no one rises UP to say:
Come on. Bill: cut 'er loose?"
Nashville American.
Japanese as Servants.
Since the wholesale discharge OF
Japanese servants from duty on the
ships Of the battle fleet (if they really
were discharged) hundreds of the little
fellows are in New York seeking en-
ployment. These ''ex-navy orna-
ments," Wallets de luxe. ward room
etc. are thoroughly disciplined.
Ihey move noiselessly and their
voices are golden--being. silent. II
these men are hard-up they do not
selves as cheap servants. Only the
green ones will accept $25 a month. A
trained valet, butler, general house.
worker or handy man about the
house.4wan $40 or more.
L To have a diminutive Jap trotting in
his sandals about the house ready at
every ones beck and call, ever cheer
ful, willing, vigilant, is something of
a change from Maria, Jennie. Char
lotte, Mary, Louisa, Amelia, Maggie.
Nora, Ellen, Nellie. Lizzie, Annie, and
Bridget. Hear the children lisping:
XII, Yamaguchi, Kusaki, Togo, Saki,
Mort. Gfchf, Kobayashi, Yokota. Taky,
Kanekoto, Itachi, Inuzuka. Makoto
and Matsui.
The Japs seem to possess strange
prediction for domestic service when
they come to America The Chinese
want either laundry or some heavy
outdoor work, lige railroad construc-
ton. As soon as possible they set up
in business for themselves and make
thrifty merchants.
The Japs are supposed to be the
most expert gardeners and florists in
the world, but do you ever Sc them
| ty? It seems to be their purpose to
"get next" to us, as the phrase goes,
to spy on us in our homes. picking up
information on a thousand and one
subjects for the benefit of the govern
ment at home.-New York Press.
Swallowed Gold He Could Not Hide.
Almost an ounce Of small gold mug
gets were found to be imbedded in
the appendix of Samuel E. Graves,
who has just been operated on at a
local hospital, after long suffering.
When he was shown the gold and
told where it came from, Graves ex-
planned the mystery. Three years
ago he was engaged as a pick and
shovel man in the Guggenhefrme
mines, near Katalla, Alaska. It is the
| custom of mine operators to guard
tne pick ana SnOvef~ men cfoSely TO
prevent them picking up any single
| nugget they might chance to uncover.
Graves said he happened to strike
a small pocket of nuggets, and, YIELD
ing to the temptation of taking them
he figured long and deep on the best
way TO rob his employers and not be
| discovered.
He covered up the gold, and each
day for several weeks swallowed q
few OF the tiny particles of gold. In a
| few months he. grew Ill, and came
| back to Seattle, and ever since has
been sick until the operation. Now
he lays his long indisposition te
swallowing the stolen gold.-Seattle
| Post-Intelligencer.
| Real Estate Investment.
Several years ago the superinten-
dent of the Rockaway Hunt club or
Long Island bought a tract of swamr
has since sold the salt hay on it fol-
$500 annually, and the other day re-
fused an offer of SIS, 900 for his pur-
chase from a dock company Who
says that real estate as an investmen,
does not pay Boston Transcript.
| Is a House of Discord.
Truly the schultze establishment il
Jamaica avenue, Richmond Hill
/ Queens, is a house divided arafns
ITSELF Although they dwell on thu
same floor, Edward SchuItze and hi.
wife, Sophie, have not spoken to eacl
other since August Is last. Within tn,
same walls. they are as far apart a.
| the poles.
| Schultze is a prosperous harness
maker who owns the house Of discort
where he and his wife live apart and
silent. OF their five children, one
Frederick, aged 20. sides with his father
in the family quarrel; Edward, Jr., q
years; Miss Pauline, who will MARI,
soon. and the two youngest Schultzes
/ sympathize with their mother. Sucl
bitter partisans are the children tha,
none of the four speaks to Frederick
4 nor he to them.
/ The older Schultze and Frederick
keep house" In the front room of tl1t
| floor, which Is over the harness shop
| There they cook their meals, when neet
be. on gas stove: they do their owr
i housework; there the father sleeps, al
/ though of late Frederick has occupied
q little room at night.
The other five-sevenths of the famil,
| live in the same way in the rear O.
the house, as far remote as Patagonis
from Greenland. Mrs. Schultze, Ed
ward, Jr., and Pauline go out to worl
every day.-New York World