The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-20

Be spoken of in JEST
Why should they all unbidden
DoWn with the hateful meddlers
And cover them with shamel
up. then. oh, malefactors.
And also birds of prey;
Why quake while I am ready
To keep the foe at bay?
III bite them and III scratch them,
And all the world shall see
With what unyie1ding valor
Chicago Record-Herald.
A Century OF "St6ne Coal"
Wiikesbarre today celebrates the CEN
tennial of anthracite. Special honors
will be paid to the memory of Judge
Jesse Fell, the Wyoming Valley pioneer
who on February 1, 1908, at the village
tavern, showed how ''stone coaP' could
be burned in an open CRATE.
An Indian massacre of unusual atroc-
1ty, a poem, and the reputation Of being
one of natures garden spots fix the
Wyoming Valley in the popular mind.
1t Is otherwise entitled to fame as a
source OF national wealth far exceeding
the product Of California gold fields or
African diamond mines.
Twelve years after Felps discovery
only 365 tons of hard coal were shipped
from the mines in year. Now there Is
an annual output of ~, 100000 tons, with
a value at the mines Of $166, 000, 900. All
the gold mined in the United States In
1906 was worth but $94,000.000. The
Pennsylvania anthracite fields cover 470
square miles and include fifteen seams.
The industry employs $4,000 men. How
long will the supply last at the present
rate Of yield? Probably 100 years. ac-
cording to conservative estimates.
BY that time the $50, 600, 100000 tons of
anthracite in the Shensi regions Of
China may have become available for
American use, If no new yellow peril"
occurs to prevent But the certainty of
the ultimate exhaustion Of the Pennsyi-
vania fields makes all the more obliga-
tory measures of economy in production
and the correction where possible Of the
criminal waste Of the past.-New York
World.
Breathitt Henceforfh Peaceful.
"Now that Judge Jim Hargis has
been slain, albeit his death at the
hands of his son was supremely
and terror in Breathitt county is
ended forever said Mr.. G. B. Blake
ly. OF Mount Sterling. KY, at the
Eutaw house the other day.
1T knew Judge Hargis well and can
tell you that, despite his many faults,
he had some excellent qualities; He
was loyal to his friends and he had a
big streak of kindness in his nature.
He was born some centuries too late
and in the wrong country. He should
have been the chief of Scottish
clan back in the feudal era, when
might made right. He was a modern
Rob Roy, modified only in a slight de-
gree by his environment. But his end
means the close of the vendetta in
bloody Breathitt. In fact, it had
about died out prior to his taking off.
for his own children had Of late been
associating on a.micable terms with
the younger members OF the families
of his mortal enemies, the Cockrills
land Marcums With HargiS in his
grave, there is not a chance of the re-
opening of one of the worst feudS
ever waged in the mountain 'wilds
of eastern Kentucky. "-Baltimor
American.
Human "DoIls'' for Moping Monkeys.
At the Copenhagen Zoo" a boy
has just been installed in chimpan-
ices cage. His sole duty is to allow
the animal to play and sport with him
whenever 1t feels inclined-in short,
to be to it a sort of human doll.
These sensitive and highly-strung
anthropoid apes are very like babies
=, in one respect Unless they are kept
constantly amused. they NOPE and be-
come morbid. Then their end is as
sured- They succumb to their pet
/
/, speedily.
The late P. T. Barnum was the first
| to find this out. His collection Of
| gibbons, orang-outangs. gorillas, and
! chimpanzees was the most complete
ever got together, and he managed to
keep them alive longer than anybody
else ever succeeded in doing.
The reason was that to each ape
was assigned its own special COM
| panion. in the shape of young negro
attendant. These lads were well paid.
siuaian playmates. Indeed, one OF
them attempted suicide when de
prived by death of the companionship
| of the famous chimpanzee, Sally,
toward whom he entertained feelings
| of affection similar to those existing
! between an older brother and a
fondly loved younger sister.-Pear-
sons Weekly.
The ssHochzedtbitter."
! Tn northern Germany familiar figure
| OF the rural districts Is a quaint olo
| gentleman, whose hat is very mucn
| decorated with flowers and partl-coior
| ed ribbons. and who carries stan, to
| the top of which is tied a huge bunch
of real or artificial flowers knotted to
n nv long streamers of similar ribbons
| According to the district, his costume
| also is old-fashioned and unusual In
other ways He Is the ''hochzeitbitter,
or person employed among the country
| folks to 60 from house to house and In
| vite guests to attend a wedding. He
| delivers himself OF q set speech In an
old .sPIatt- deutsch" rhyme when he ar
riyes at each place accompanying II
with wagging of the head and stamping
t. " In =