The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-12


And; ah! know it's mighty tough
When, never mind how hard you try.
You're always certain-sure to mum
The slowest little easy fly!
And when they choose up sides to play
A reg-lar game Of grown-up ball
It happens every time, some way.
They always choose you last OF all
Buck up. old man! The bigger game
That all the grizzled grown-ups play
For life, for fortune, or for fame
Is run in just that same grim way.
And every player of them all
Would very gladly trade With you
If they could start the game anew.
James ]. Montague in New York Amer
lean.
Sioux Falls Divorces.
It would be nonsensical to assert that
the hard times, superinduced by the
clearing Of the atmosphere, have re-
suited in no good whatever. Such a
statement, II made by the thoughtless
or the Incorporate, would immediate
ly be controverted by the news from
Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
The stringency occasioned by the
rich mans panic has had a paralyzing
effect upon the business Of the sixty
ing house keepers. the forty doctors,
and the dozen milliners who have not
only subsisted but fourished on the d.
vorce industry Of that city for the last
few years.
At the present time there is nothing
doing in the divorce business at Sioux
Falls. why" said one Of the leading
attorneys of the place few years ago,
II have had only two divorce clients
since call money went up to 125 per cent
in New York. II this keeps on bunch
of Sioux Falls attorneys will be looking
for work in the harvest fields this sum-
mer."
Last year 220 divorces were granted
to nonresidents of the state of South
Dakota, and nearly all OF these were
handled by Sioux Falls attorneys. The
divorce business is worth not less than
$50, 900 a year to the Sioux Falls bar.
Those who seek divorce, and are COM
PEELED to take up temporary residence
in Sioux Falls, spend in good times
considerable money in the town aside
from what they pay out in fees. An
average divorce seeker, II woman, Is
worth, according to statistician Of
Sioux Falls $500 to the grocer. 300 TO
some physician, $500 to the dry goods
dealers, $50 to the dentist. $500 to the
owner of the house in which she taxes
nm her six months residence, and SIS
to the florist.
But" says the statistician. some
women spend several times these
amounts during their stay. For exam
pie, certain Chicago woman stayed IN
Sioux Falls just ten days and It cost
her 49, 500. She was visited by her hus-
band week after her arrival had peen
announced by the newspapers, ana
within forty minutes he had MADE MS
peace with her."-Chicago Inter ocean.
Rain and Animals.
Lions, tigers, and all the cat tribe
dread rain," said a zoo keeper "On
rainy day they tear nervously up and
down their cages, growing and trem-
bling. We usually give them an extra
ration of hot milk. That puts them to
sleep. Wolves love gray day Of rain
They are then very CHEEKY. Treachef-
Gus as the wolf is, no keeper need Tear
him on a rainy day. He is too happy
| to harm a fly. Snakes, too. IKE rain
They perk up wonderfully as the
barometer falls and the camp r1akes
itself felt in their warm cases of glass
Rain makes monkeys glum. They are
apt from instinct, when they see II
through the window, to clasp .heii
hands above their heads and SIT sc
fer hours. That attitude, soa know
makes a kind of shelter. II Is the
primitive umbrella. So. VIXEN it rain
ed. the naked primitive man and wo.
man sat gloomily In the. primeva
swamps of giant ferns.-NeW Sort
| Press.
BENJAMIN Franklin With a Wig.
In the window of Chestnut street
photographer there is a photograph
Of BENJAMIN Franklin with wig. A:
| there were no cameras in Franknn'i
day and poor Richard never wore
wig. the picture occasions much com
ment. It was taken one day in earl.
| March just after a soft cinging snow
had fallen, and the subject was thu
Franklin statue on the postofice plaza
l The snow covered the top OF the hea(
on the statue and hung down IN
| fluffy mass. With little sklll1ul re
| touching the photographer not oni!
| made ii a very becoming wig, but n
| obtained such a hfelike appearance II
| the photograph that to the lay 90
server it seems that the great states
man and scientist must have returned
in person to sit for his picture.-Phila
| delphia Record.
Foreign Women's Rights.
American women can do about a.
they please, except that some sla, nI
thew are making big fuss about that
BUT certain aliens who nave come u
our shores seem to have taken qulle
slump since the days Of chivalry 4
kansas City had quite a struggle con
vincing a dago truck gardener that
wasn't proper form to use his wire an'
daughter as pillow horses. Now the IN
habitants of Evanston, Chlcag'
lsuburb, are agitated because an tia!
ian junk dealer is using his wife In hi
wagon. instead of the family hors,
which died recently. The man VII
probably take great credit to h1msei
because, while he carries whip, tn
same as he did for the horse, no on
has seen him use it on his wife,
Atchison Globe.
Family of Criminals.
A grim epitaph, perhaps unexampled
is to be found in the cemetery of De
brescin, Eastern Hungary.
It reads as follows: Here rest in tn
Lord Joseph Moritz, ST.. who DIED y
his sixty-second year. He was shot b,
his son. Frau Joseph Moritz. who die
in her forty-seventh year. She was sho
by her daughter, Elizabeth Moritz.wh
died by her own hand, in her seven
taanth wear after shooting her mother