The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-15
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SEEING THE HORSE RACE.

Our friend Jones says he never at
tends a horse race for all horse races
are exactly alike, except the poor ones,
and he doesn't care to see them. The
only interesting thing in a horse race
is the time, and the difference be-
tween 2:0S and 2;09 is so slight that
1t cannot be appreciated, and there
fore not enjoyed.
So, when Jones wants to see a horse
race he shuts his eyes and let's his i'm
agination do the rest. All that one
sees is a picture, anyhow, and the i'm
agination can furnish that just as we'll
as the actual event can. He can see
those horses stretching themselves,
neck and neck, and the whole outline
of their graceful speed. He has seen
1t before, and he couldn't tell the diff
ference this time. So he sits on his
veranda, eating his peanuts and hur-
raining in his heart as the bay comes
up the homestretch, half a head
ahead. There is one of the pleasures
of memory-to enjoy again what one
has seen before. 1t is perfectly psy-
Geological. There is no need for a
man to see a thing over and over
again, unless he is too matter of fact
to dream; and no one has any busi-
ness to be that kind of fellow.-Ohio
State Journal.
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TENO1SD DISEAA1GN1 LIZ - - L
All of the governments efforts to
preserve the forests of the nation and
encourage the limitation of the lun1-
Der cut appear to have been futile, ac-
cording to the Census Bureau statis-
tics of the lumber cut for 1907. These
returns show that the total cut of
1907 was about 10000, 100000 feet of
lumber, as compared with $1,000, 000,-
900 in 1906, until then the banner
Q07
received from assoc mills, the depart
ment concluding that these reports
cover at least So per cent of the total
lumber production for the year.
1t Is striking fact that, although
lumber prices have steadily advanced
during the last half century, the per
capita consumption of lumber has al
SO Increased, illustrating what has
been found true the world over that
with Industrial progress the demand
for wood becomes greater.
The record of 1907 serves to further
illustrate the wisdom of the forestry
policy of the Republican party. 1t is
estimated that the lumber supply of
the nation will be exhausted within
rs years, and under such conditions
no laws looking to the preservation of
the forests can be made too strict or
too rigfdly enforced.-Omaha Bee.
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The German ,emperor's effort to
force France to let him have his way
in Morocco does not appear to be like
ly to succeed, with Great Britain, Rus
STA, Spain and Italy standing behind
the French government in it's atti-
tude of resistance to the will OF the
masterful kaiser Germany has once
Inundated France in Morocco. and it
seemed not difficult to do 1t again.
For a parallel to the arrogance of
Emperor William we must go back a
hundred years to the days when the
French emperor, the great Napoleon,
after his conquest of Prussia, dated
DEGREES at Berlin. and on raft at
Tflsit agreed with the Russian EN-
peror Alexander, that one-half OF the
Prussian monarch's territories should
be restored, while Napoleon's three
brothers-Joseph, Louis and Jerome
should be elevated to the throne of
Naples, Holland and Westphalia.
France In 1905 may reflect on the
way the world went in 1908. for ma
tions as well as individuals may pom
der with prfiot on how the whirligig
of time brings in its revengeS."-Bos-