The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-02


The he, bills you knew were coming due,
which you foresaw no way Of meeting,
The creditors who'd surely sue,
The time that was SO very fleeing!
You worried early, worried late.
The chances for escape were small
For rum you could only wait
1t never happened. though, at all.
The failures that you deemed were near
The trials and the tribulations-
Calamittes you'd cause to fear.
You thought. from all the indications!
You worried early, worried late;
The trouble would your soul appal.
1t did seem tough to contemplate.
1t never happened. though. at all.
Chicago News.
The History of q Tree.
Think of cutting down for firewood
or for shingles or for board fences
such tree as that described by Will
liam Russell Dudley, q tree which
science has proved conclusively be-
gan its existence 271 years before
Christ was born in Bethlehem. Mr..
Dudley wrote of the remarkable
great trees In the Converse Basin af-
ter they had been injured by fire.
Among number or similar
cases." he writes. 1.-The most instruc-
tive record of these ancient forest
fires was observed in q tree Of mod
CIdt0 SlZC"aDOuL nIIcSn IGcI IN
diameter. five feet from the ground.
1t was 270 feet in height, and 2,171
years old.
''rhe history of the tree was as
follows: B. c. 271 1t began its
existence. The f1rst year of the Chris
diameter about the base. A. D. 245,
at SIS years Of age. a burning three
feet wide occurred on the trunk. One
hundred and five years were occupied
in covering this wound with new It's
sue. For 1,196 years no further in
juries were registered. A. D. 1441. at
LIP years OF age, the tree was
burned a second time in two long
grooves, one and two feet wide,
respectively. Each had its own sys-
tenn of repair.
zone hundred and thirty-nine years
OF growth followed, including the
time OF covering the wounds. A. D.
1880. at 1851 years Of age. occurred
another fire, causing burn on the
trunk two feet wide, which took fifty
six years to cover with new tissue.
Two hundred and seventeen years OF
growth followed this burn. A. D.
1897, when the tree was 2,06s years
burning a great scar eighteen feet
wide. One hundred and three years
enabled the tree to reduce the exposed
area Of the burn to about fourteen
feet in width"
Recently it was found that a great
tree which had been felled for COM
mercial purposes had begun its
existence 525 years before Christ
The age. If not the fame, of the
cedars of Lebanon attaches to these
trees Of California. They are worth
few dollars when cut up into clap
boards Their value is priceless il
left standing, but you can't make a
lumberman see it that way-E. B
Clark in Chicago Post.
Not Single American Flag.
"On the first of the present month";
said George L. Hester, of San Fran
cisco. at the Rennert. IT got back
home from a tour Of the world That
an ordinary thing nowadays to girdle
the globe What had in mind to tel
you was that never once in the lons
voyage from the Orient to Europe die
my eyes light on the flag of my coun.
try while at sea. OF all the craft tina
came in range of my vision from
Hongkong to Liverpool not one car
ried the stars and stripes of Uncl,
aSm. There were English, German
French, Italian and Japanese flags ga
lore, but in vain I looked for the on,
| that would make me think of home.
1T was melancholy thought, ant
have not yet overcome the depressed
feeling that on the worlds high sea,
no ships fly the emblem Of the mos
powerful nation Of the earth. II 1
had not been for an occasional glimps,
of 1t ashore, as 1t waved over som,
American consulate, would have be
| gun to wonder whether there was an,
dreamed that the United States wa
really the mighty and puissant nation
we have been in the habit of asserting
| it to be.''-Baltimore American.
Heart Was on the Wrong Side.
Paul Grgzgswigski, who was stab
bed by Tony Flax Sunday night. diet
instantly because he had misplaced
| heart
| Flax, who is insane, drove a lon.
cake KNIT into Grzgzswigskis RICH
breast Ordinarily the wound would
not have been fatal one, but by som.
freak Of nature Grgzgswigski's hear
was on that side, and the knife pene
trated 1t.
The abnormality which cost th'
| man his life was discovered at the cor
oner's inquest yesterday. DR.. H. g
w. Reinhardt, his curiosity aroused
| the stabbing, made the post-norten
examination that revealed the mis-.
placement.
Besides the misplaced heart the
organs of the dead man were perfect.
~ normal" the physician said, "excep
that the right lung was about as larg'
as the left lung generally Is, while hi
left lung had the development of {
normal right lung. 1t is not an isolat
ed case, though I never saw one be
| fore. s-Chfcago Examiner.
Had Cause to Be Hungry.
An autopsy on the body OF Rober
1 Alexander Adamson, who died o
stomach trouble, revealed peculiar con
ditions. For two years Adamson has
complained Of his stomach, but Away
insisted that the pain was in the region