The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-24
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The predatory wasp where purple globes
OF haws swing pendulous. is slipping
Or mid the grass. with apple-scented
Still deeper delves the sly woodpecker's
mine
The filibustering crows and squirrels
The brooding calm above the fields of
Old furrowed fields deeper stiffness take
When die the echoes of the quaiTs far
horn.
ObIations to the angry gods. the grape
Would offer from its chalice crystal
But none descends beside the feast to
His lips soft curve around the brim-
ming cheer.
The brier-clad crests reflect the ashen
70 OF fires that burn their grasses to decay;
And beauty fades with each succeeding
day.
Faint wreaths of clouds are curled about
And there hawk. on 1ightest wings
Hangs motionless. and with a downcast
Surveys the coverts of the underworld.
All things partake the silence: tangled
OF droning gnats forbear a louder cry;
Ut where the dark form of the vulture
In circled flight. the autumn-painted
sky.
1t seems see some ghost of that fair day,
III goiden raiment. wander from be-
The drifted leaves, and down the distance
AS Lear once did upon his cherries
Indianapolis News.
1000 Pennies Found on Beggar.
Patrolman Rocket, Of the First in
spection district staff, made an arrest
or a fake blind beggar" in the 81"
station at Bowery and Hudson street
Tuesday. He turned out to be a veri-
table copper mine. The man, who
said he was George Gabay, As years
old, of 1913 Bowery had between g.
600 and 1000 pennies in his pockets
when searched. besides other coins of
small denominations, amounting in all
to about $50. Gabay was sent to the
work house for vagrancy by Magis-
trate Barlow in the night court
He was we'll dressed and wore
smoked glasses. Rocket took him to
the East Fifth street police station.
There he was searched. His ca
with pennies. He had copper coin
scattered in all his pockets, besides
several small bags filled with the
coins After Rocket had counted g.
all together in a bag The biggest
coin the beggar had was dime. He
declined to say how long it had taken
him to get the collection together
New York Press.
Man Made Insane by Shopping.
After shopping all day with his
daughter, pushing his way through
crowded stores and listening to lengthy
discussions as to the quality and price
of dry goods, dresses, furniture, and
household accessories, Hubert Munster.
70 years old, of Waterloo, ILL.,, suddenly
became insane In the observation
ward at the city hospital he imagines
that he is still shopping and he argues
with imaginary clerks.
Munster came from Waterloo with his
daughter, Mrs. Carrie Schmidt. She
came to buy supplies for her home and
a new fall outfit for herseIfn When she
asked her father to accompany her on
a tour of the stores, he demurred, but
she insisted and he at last consented
Mrs. Schmidt went after the early
morning bargains. All through the fore
noon she hurried up and down the
aisles of the big downtown establish
mentS, with her father following her
They were in several bargain rushes
crowds.-St. Louis Dispatch to New
York World.
Plain, But Sufficient.
BILE for his lifelong fight against i'm
modesty. Mr.. Leeds reformed the
theatrical poster, he elevated paint
ing, and in a number of cases he even
succeeded in having nude statuary
draped.
He loved simplicity as he loved mod
esty. Ostentation he abhorred-espe-
cially the ostentation Of funerals and
cemeteries. He used often to quote an
epitaph that he had once seen in a Sc
1a1 yd
This epitaph, which was cut on the |
simplest, cheapest stone it is possible |
to imagine, said:
This monument is very plain, no |
doubt. but all the money in the world |
would not have brought our poor dear |
father back to US again. "-Philadelph1a
Bulletin.
The Deep Breathing Cure.
A boy who was conSumptive and was
rapidly going along the road to the
grave was taken in hand by one who
deep breathing and the i'm
portance of proper masticatton of food,
etc He was made to understand pre-
ciseIv why deep breathing was of such
vital Importance and he took lively in
terest in his own cure. He was IA years
old. In a very few weeks the change
was remarkable. He began to get firm
flesh on his poor little limbs, his chest
developed we'll, and a healthy color
came into his cheeks. His eyes, which
were always covered with sites, became
perfectly free from them, and in three
or less there were no signs of
in him. may say he was
only treated once a week for half an
Mall Gazette.
Wants $4,000 for Tooth.
H. H. Alter was as mad as a hornet
when, according to his statement, he
discovered that after he had suffered
from toothache for several days, and
went to DIR. w. E. RummeH, the dentist
pulled out the wrong tooth. The tooth
NAT was extracted Alter alleges. was