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large and inspiring views of God and man and duty, by bringing to us great and profound thoughts conceived and ut tered in any age of the world. We have also learned, from comparative philology, of the kinship of scattered races and have gained clearer views of the com munity of human need and human en- deavor."
 No student who has revelled in the charms of Max Muller and of Whitney. can fail to be captured by sentences like these.
 On page we have such jewel of thoughtful generalization that I must quote it in full:
 Our intellectual and moral gains from the past are, broadly speaking, the resultant of two great deposits Of thought and sentiment the one the gift of the Aryan. the other a boon from the Semitic race. To the former we owe, again speaking generally most of our mental and political ac- quisitions; to the latter, the principal elements of our moral and spiritual her itage. The one has come to know much of the truth about man as an intellectual and social being, his pacity for thought and action, hls re lation to the outside world, and the phenomena and processes of the mate rial universe; the other has learned and taught us the highest concepions\ of mans spiritual nature, it's illimitable possibilities, and its primary needs, and has brought near to us the idea of personal God, who Is at once the in spiration of our deepest yearnings and the incarnation of our highest ideals. The one has analysed and exhibited man; the other has appreh ended and commended God. The one demon- strates the reign of physical, the other makes us feel the urgency of moral
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Forty years ago Oliver P. Morton and Roscoe Conkling advocated, the govern ment of the north by whites and the government of the south by blacks. They were not hypocrites. They were bold enough to advocate what they believed. This Crumpacker infamy is designed to turn the south over to the negro, for 1t has not yet entered the mind of re- publican statesman to conceive that the south will surrender any or all it's polit- ical power at Washington sooner than relax the grip of the white man on the state governments of the south. The passage of the Crumpacker amendment shows that MT. Cannon and his majority are revolutionists. They admit the nulli- fication of the fifteenth amendment. They purpose to have representation from the north based on population, while repre- sentation from the south shall be based on the electorate Are they fools enough to suppose that union made up of such unequal elements would be worth the devils bringing?
 As for Crumpac<er, there is method in his mischief. Indiana is full of ne- groes, especially Indianapolis, the leading newspaper of which town is beseeching the negro elders of Hoosierdom to put a stop to the influx of men and brethren from the south, now swarming in the streets of that town. The negroes of Indianapolis have made a negro problem there, and if Crumpacker could put Mis- sissippi under negro domination 1t is pos sible that instead of Mississippi negroes going to Indiana to engage in politics, Indiana negroes would go to Mississippi to run for Congress.
 Of course, it is absurd-the thought of negro running for Congress at the
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meaning of the two words? Your vocation is your regular occupation-" calling;" your avocation Is something that calls you off from it for a time. i. e., it is work aside from your regular occupation. My vocation Is preaching. my avocation is writing for The Age-Herald.
 In a footnote. page POS, volume ?. we read "rhe prophets were often, how ever. venal and partial, like the priests in their proper sphere" In whose proper sphere7" If that of the prophets. then fin their proper sphere should precede, or else immediately follow the word prophets" But if the sphere" be that of the priests then the sentence states what is unintelligible, if not impossible. And, in any event, the statement Is high ly objectionable; for It is misleading. Jehovah's prophets were usually honest men.
 On page 257 volume 3, seventh line from the top, then should be there"
 On page 329, volume ?. An expedition to northern Arabia against a certain Hazael, which. we learn from his son, Gsarhaddon, was probably not conducted by him in person." This is not a sentence, for nobody can parse the word .expedi- tion." It is a poor, lonesome nominative, left out in the cold, with no friendly verb to agree with it.
 On page 3S0, volume ?, next to the last pne, why should be that" We should mol write: Why the ball tossed into the air returns to the earth can be accounted for" etc but |" that the ball. etc.
 On page 419. volume 9 eighth line from the bottom expresses" should be "ex- lress," because ''the words being plural. oan not take a verb in the singular.
 A good many of the errors here pointed out are comparatively trivial; but they show signs of somebody's carelessness. and such bemishes should not be allowed to mar the second edition of this very valuable book.
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." Got what? yells tn captng. Got the D. T.s do ye mean, ye impudent cod S. head, ye long-legged land-lubber. ye hatchet-faee bank clerk? What in hell air ye doin' aboard my ship anyway, 1 shd like to know?' An he goes on acallin' of him names till he gifts out of breath.
 Don't stop, says Skilln's admirin'ly when he was through. I likes to hear you: it does me good. It's been years now sence l heerd anythin s fine as that. When I was cabin-bouy tn Mary Powell
 !" Bill Gladox breaks in tn old man in voice that made me glad 1 warn't in Bills shoes, what is thls party doin aboard my ship at this hour of tn night?'
 'N-n-nothin'. says Bill in kind of whisper. He's only frien of mine come aboard to-to-to-'
 ITO buy some birds says Skillins- Bill gives a groan.
 "'To buy some brds! says tn capting, buy blrds?'
 Yep, parrots they was, goes on Skill lins calmly. Green ones I b'lieve you said they was. MT. Gladox? Yer fond of parrots, always was fond of 'em pass nately fond of em, most intrestin' fowls-sh'd say birds-I knows.
 I was expectn' tn old man to. throw a fit when he hears that" concluded tn cook; flor in course he sees them now it was Merryvngia happens to be aboard But he don't do nothin of tn kind Instd he gives a sort of Srunt, an grabbin' Skilin's by tn arm, walks off to tn cabin with i'm, leavin Bill leanin' up az inst tn deckhouse too all-fired fab berga asted to move. Bein as l ain't quite sure what's goin' to happen to tn bird man, I follows along after em. an peeks in ag'in through tn winder, kinder ex- pectin' mebbe tn capting is goin' to lick tn stuffn' outern i'm where 1t can be done quiet without rasin' tn per lice.
 But I'm away off'n. my recl<'nin'. He don't do nothin' of tn sort Instid he gives Skillin's chair. an seegar, an then-an sells him them birds of par adse-yessir-e sells i'm tn whole four of 'em for a flve-dollar blll I see Skill lin's give it to him. An then he helps him on tn ship with 'em as perlite as can be, an tells him he hopes he won't fall down a-carryin of 'em home. You oughter-ve seed Bills face! I guess it warn't bit more s'prised lookin th'n mine be, howsomever.
 "Th' next mornin' when I brings tn old man his breakfast, he says to me: You ain't seed nothin' of any parrots on board. have ye, Sam?'
 No. sir says l. I aint.'
 "'Well, if you was to- says he very solemn-lil<e, I hopes you'll wiring their necks. It's bird I can't abide tn sight of
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pieser III, these successive transplant ings are the only ones we know of We see, therefore, what the problem of ac- counting for the lost tribes amounts to. The number of the expelled peoples given by Sargon doubtless includes all that were sent away during his reign, ans this comprised but a small portion of the inhabitants, even of the reduced Sass marian territory. Twenty years later, more than seven times this number were carried away from Judah, without de- stroying the integrity of the kingdom. To preclude any further temptation to search for these mythical wanderers It is worth while pointing out that this comparatively small number speedily lost its identity by being absorbed in the new populations to which it was introduced. Those who were transported to Media disappeared in a generation or two, scat tered as they were in small companies, among utterly alien peoples themselves in state of rapid transformation by reason of the influx of Iranians f/3m Central Asia. And even those who were settled near the River Habor, living as they did among the kindred Aramean race. would, by reason of their kinship, be readily assimlated to their social and religious environment and so lose their corporate as well as racial identity"
 Volume 1, page 400 to 401. So, if yod gre bent on pursuing the Lost Tribes" it may be well to vary the amusement by squaring the circle and then inventing perpetual notion
 Though this is. upon the whole, an admirable and scholarly work, still the defects and blemishes are neither few nor slight. In general, l must say that there is too much speculation here. Too large a part of the book Is written i1 the potential and subjunctive moods. Too
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law. Aryan culture includes science, art, philosophy, epic and dramatic poetry, and philosophic history. Semitic culture has little of these to show; it can boast an unequalled lyric and gnomic poetry, but in everything else it is subordinate, initiative, or entirely uncreative. The Aryan genius ranges far and wide, observes, compares, clas- sifies, generalizes, both in the world of matter and of spirit. The Semitic genius is narrow and intense; it con- fines itself to what is close at hand and of direct practical moment. Be- yond this region it needs ap impulse from without to awaken it's innat-. energy and capacities. It is normally stationary and unadventurous, while the Aryan genius is enterprisng and progressive. Yet, when the Semitic mind is aroused, it can compete with or even .outstrip its rival in the edu- cation of humanity. It has done as much for the world through its in tuitions and postulates as the Arya1 mind has achieved through reflection and demonstration
 l had marked for transcription a num- Der of admirable passages; but my space is limited and I must content myself With only one more, Wnlch IL IS 10 De hoped will help some readers who have acquired the habit of worrying them selves as to what has become of the Lost Tribes of Israer:
 'It may be remarked, in passing, that this is the whole story of the famous dispersion of the 10 tribes Our mar ratve has already shown at several stages how, little by little the 10 tribes came to lose their original autonomy and how, even in their own land, several of them became gradually extinguished Now, besides the partial dportation of the northern communities by Tiglath-
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INHlS is the title of a remarkable work
 by James Frederick McCurdy,
 Ph.D., ILL D. professor of Oriental languages In University college. Toronto Canada. The publishers are the MacMil- Ian company, New York, and the price is s per volume. This work is in three volumes; but in this review I shall cou- fine myself to the first two.
 The author is evidently man of ex- traordinary ability. His learning is broad and profound, and he is a master work man in the very extensive field which he has chosen. In the excellent preface, he says Cpage D that the work is arranged as a manual suitable for classes in col leges, as well as for private students;" but I must confess that 1 have known scarcely any college classes that were prepared to study such a work as this The style is not obscure; but the subject is profound and difficult; and no scholar ly treatment of it could make "sea-Side' reading. To the general reader" who has not done a good deal of hard study and who is not determined to do a good oeal more, this book would be pretty se- curely sealed.
 On the third page of volume one are some noble sentences which at once as- suleu hle tndC was III the ndnuS ol d master:
 This, then, Is the strongest ground upon which the study of history with its auxiliary, the study of languages, can be based and defended The widening of our view and the hberalizing of our sym pathies which this century has brought to us, especially through the teachings of the science of language, have affected our notions of the scope and value of his torical study, as well as of literature. We have now learned that any language and any literature may rightly be termed classical which helps us to
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Force of Habit.
pm Success Magazine.

From Success Magazine.
 There is a certain western congressman whose boundless affability and habitua1 absent-m -mindedness have occasionally led him into absurd mistakes, One dayfas,r- ing his last campaign. as he stepped the train at the station of his hon. town after an arduous two weeks of stumping and "glad-handipg," his little daughter rushed up to him and kissed him. The congressman beamed upon her with a proud and tender parental eye.
 Well. well!'' he exclaimed, ''if it isn't my little Alberta!' Then he added me- chemically: And how is your dear old father?"
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The Ruling Passion.

From Puck.
 ''The colonel Is very sick man. sym pathetically said the attending physician, addressing the auctioneer's anxious wife. His pulse is now going at one hundred and four
 Going at i04v' feebly cried the invalid. At 104, Going at 104, Who'll make 1t 105? 105, do 1 hear for a pulse that has been running steadily for 47 years and never once stopped? 105, will you gim. me? Who'll make 1t 106r'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-06
STANDING TIMBER CENSUS.
First One Ever Taken Is Now in
Progress.

Washington, Oct. 6.-The national
conservation commission has caused the
first comprehensive attempt at a census
of the standing timber in the United
States ever undertaken. The commits
sion needs the information to help COM
plete its inventory of the country's nat
rual resources, which it will include in
its report to the president and since
that report is to be submitted on the
first of next year, 1T needs the infor-
nation at once. In consequence the
work on the census has been started
with rush and is now well under
way.
Estimates as to the amount of stand
ing timber in the United States range
all the way from S22,S62 million to p
900 900. 600, 900 board feet. a difference
of more than a trillion feet in the views
of the best qualified authorities in the
country.
In the opinion of the forest service,
the most carefully prepared estimates
vet made are those by Henry Gannett,
published by the twelfth census in 1900,
which placed the total stumpage at
]. 800 billion board feet. Mr.. Gannett
was recently chosen by the president
10 compile all the information gathered
for the commission. The census is ex-
pected to give an accurate basis for
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-06
PIPE WAS INSPECTED.
Superintendent Shaw Can't UNDER
stand Water Main Accident.

Jesse Shaw, superintendent of the
water department, tells the following
story of the new pipe line IN whlch
the break occurred at Auournoale al
Just the worst possible time MONDAY
morning during the fire when there
was 10 pounds pressure on the
mains:
when the new pipe line was laid,
something over a month ago, from the
pump station down through Auburn
dale, 1 ordered the pipe to be LETT I'M
covered in the ditch until could in
spect it thoroughly. l walked the en-
tire length of the line clear to the
pump house and found no leaks. There
was an ordinary pressure on the line.
Then had the engineer run the pres
sure on this line up to 100 pounds and
1 walked back along the line. 1t held
like a jug. Not even leak In the
Joints and when 1 got to the end OF
the line 1 threw up my hands and con-
graduated myself on having good
pine line. 1 told the men to cover
a dozen times in the past month
there have been as high as 10 pounds
pressure on this line
yesterday morning an entire sec
ton Of this pipe split like cardboard
under 10 pounds pressure. 1 felt as
badly about it as anyone. But it could
not be helped. Only after year s
test can one be sure of a pipe. He
can test it when it is laid and it may
stand that test in manner to lead
him to believe that it will stand the
racket for years. and then burst the
next day.
1--WE will have two separate mains
from the pump station to the city as
soon as possible.
"At the point where this break oc-
Cured the water swept the pipe line
bitches as clear as it was the day the
pipes were laid in it For a distance
of 800 feet the five feet of packed
dirt on top of the pipe line had been
removed from that ditch as though a
giant scraper had passed that way.
The residents in that vicinity declared
that the noise of the break in the
pipe sounded like a clap of thunder
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-06

computing how long our timber sup
plies will last.
The consensus of opinion is that the
present annual consumption of wood is
about 100 billion board feet or some
thing more than that. A leading auth
GRITTY has placed it as high as $50 bill
lion board feet. Assuming a stumpage
of 1,4Oe billion board feet an annual
use of 100 billion board feet and neg
lecting growth in the calculation, the
exhaustion of our timber supply is in
Dictated in IA years and assuming the
same use and stand. with an annual
growth of 40 billion feet, a supply for
% years is indicated.
Letters to county clerks asking for
statements as to forest areas in their
counties have been forwarded Seven
thousand lumbermen and timber land
owners have been asked to supply sim
liar information. In all nearly 1500 900
letters have been sent. These letters
also ask for a wide variety of infor-
nation including not only the lumber
ing and milling industries but all 9TH
ers even indirectly dependent upon use
of wood.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-06
FROM A CIVIL
WAR VETERAN
Tells How He Was Cured of
rheumatism After Fifteen
Years of SUFFERING.

Mr.. John D. Laughlin, whose adj
dress is r. F. D. No. 1, Burns City,
Martin Co., Ind, is known and highly
respected throughout that county and
has lived on his present farm for 60
years. During the Civil war Mr..
Laughlin served in Company B. 27th
Indiana volunteers ond his sickness
was the direct result of the hardships
of the war. After years of pain he
found a cure in Dr. Williams Pink
Pills and his statement should be read
by every rheumatic sufferer.
81 was discharged from the army
in September, 1864 physical wreck,
weighing only 81 pounds" he says,
fiicted with rheumatism. Ny feet and
ankles were swollen and my arms
were drawn up stiff and at times L
could not lift them for they felt life
less. There were darling pains that
shifted from one part of my body to
another and kept me in misery all the
time. At night 1 could not sleep and
my heart troubled me. l was fire.
quently confined to my bed.
IT tried several doctors but got little
help and no encouragement from them
for they said 1 could not expect to
live for more than year or so even
with the best of care and advised me
not to try and work. I then tried
many TeHl0dlSS DQl Win little cement
until began to use DR.. Williams Pink
Pills. 1 had been sick for about if
teen years before 1 read about these
pills and bought two boxes for a trial.
These helped me some so 1 kept on
taking them until cured. 1 always
keep them on hand to take occasional
ly If 1 feel I need a tonic. 1 gained
in weight and have done as much
work as most of my neighbors. I
often recommend DR.. Williams Pink
Pills for 1 can't help speaking we'll of
them"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills are a tonic
for the blood and nerves and have
proved especially helpful to women
and growing girls. They were used
extensively in private medical prac-
tice and, proving efficient in a wide
range of diseases and absolutely safe
in all cases. were placed upon general
sale with directions for use prepared
by the doctor himself.
These pills are sold by all druggists
or will be sent. postpaid. on receipt of
price. so cents per box; six boxes,
$3.50, by the DR.. Williams Medicine
Company. Schenectady. N. Y.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-06
MEMBERS WANTED.
Y. w. C. a. Starts on Lively Cam
paign.

This morning one hundred and ten
members of the Young Women's
Christian association started out on an
eight-days' campaign for members
women who have just come to To-
peka those who have belonged to the
association in the last three years
will all be given a chance to take out
a membership.
Last night the workers met at a
banquet at the Masonic building. AT
$50 a three-course supper was served.
The room and tables were decorated
in the team colors-various schemes
were carried out in novel way-all
through the supper hour the girls
sang their team songs and yells. En-
thusiasm ran high. Miss McNutt, gen.
eral secretary of the Topeka associa-
ton, presided as toastmistress. Mrs.
NJ. McKirahan, president of the board
of directors. assured the girls of the
cooperation of the women and help in
Mrs. w. c. Payne, of Lawrence. Mrs.
Payne has been connected with the
Y. w. c. A. at the university for sew
eral years. She spoke of the chance
in the Y. w. c. A. for girl to develop
in all ways. but especially of the
chance for service. That the Y. w. C.
A. gives a young woman a broader
and more correct view of life was her
argument for the association move
ment. Miss Thayer, secretary for Kan
sas and Oklahoma, then explained the
details of the campaign.
This morning the girls and women
were at work early.
For eight days the women of the
city will have opportunity to help the
girls in their work to reach a larger
number in the association work.
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he would not work on the rock pile.
saying he would soil his hands. Last
evening he was taken down in the
hole" and spent the night with a can
of water, a piece of bread and a num-
Der of rats who came over to rest in
front of his cell while they were busily
engaged in digging into the police
joint and nibble the corks in the
dollar FIVE" When the jailer went
down to see him this morning he was
shivering from cold and fear and said
that he would do any kind of work just
to get out of the basement. This after
noon he was the fastest man on the
quarry and he holds the record for
making the biggest, pile of little rocks
in the she'd The medal will be given
him by Police Judge Urmy this after
noon after working hours.
A. S. Smith, a Iaborer, was arrested
last night for being in an unhappy
drunk and on coming out of it this
morning his first words We're: Did
that alarm clock go off? must go 70
work" The jailer did as he requested
and he was taken out to the stone
crusher, where he ran one of the ham
mers all morning. He was paid out
this morning by fellow workman and
is working for pay this afternoon.
Charles Staley was released this
morning after working out his fine
for being drunk and dfsorderly. He
went out of the station as happy as
kid after his first shave and after get
ting out in front of the station he
looked up above the entrance for
number saying that he might come
back and did not want to forget the
number Jailer Smith told him that
he need not go to any such trouble
as the police would accompany him
and furnish all the information as to
direction, streets, food, water. etc.
mo more whisky for me-" said Staley.
as he went whistling up Fifth street
wearing a Taft smile.
The landlady of the lockwood ho-
tel, Fort Scott, is having troubles of
her own with a Topeka woman, who
says her name is Mrs. McVey. The
Topeka lady left her children and a
board bill with the landlady and skip
ped from the city after giving a bogus
check. The hotel keeper says that the
board bill is q loss and the children
are a gain. both of which are unwel-
come The police are after Mrs. Nc
Vey for pawning her children for no.
tel bills. There is no law against
such q system of soaking" but in the
words of old Colonel" Gordon: ANY