The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-25
LONG ABOUT TH1s Time :, xr.,

sorroWS and their pains:
you can hear 'em growlin' steady almost
~ any where you turn;
inis old world. as they look at it, is
mighty poor concern;
But m thanking God I'm present when
. the days are warm and clear
ana the breeze is BLOWN SOFTLY long
ABOUT this time O. year.
I will not deny that toilin' sometimes gets
to be a bore:
Ihere are things which I could mention
that would often please me more:
sui there amt no sense in frettin' all the
days we have to live;
seems to me we're COMPENSATED prettv
~, well for what we give:
Anougn I've done my share Of workin'
am mighty glad I'm here
When the robins start to chirpin'. long
about this time o. year.
3. e: kiser. in the Chicago Record
speculation Is Suppressed.
what seems to be strangely in
consistent feature OF financial condi-
tions as they are today is the fact
tnat currency or money is plentiful
and yet there is no demand for it. No
one can say truthfully now that spec
ulat1on is under way. Those who have
FUNDS are very glad to lend them
upon call at the rate of per cent
Speculation is almost suppressed.
Ihen 1t also happens that our custom
houses are reporting an abnormal
falling off in imports, and an equally
abnormal increase in exports, at least
the mere statistics seem to be of alb
normal character.
Yet 1t is phenomenon always OBJ
served in England when there has
been business depression or high rates
OF discount, so that it is regarded
there as automatic that when hard
times begin imports decrease and ex-
ports increase. 1t is of course, ex-
planned by the fact that in times of
business depression lower prices in
duce larger buying, at least in the for
eign markets. So, it is now clear that
during the spring the United States is
to find itself plentifully supplied with
money, since there is no demand for
it to speak or. curtailing imports and
heavily increasing exports. whereby
very large credit may be established
across the sea.
This is only another way of explain
ing what was meant by Mrs. Hetty
Green in the recent sensational, but
characteristic, interview she gave for
publication. In the sense in which
she meant it. the rich have felt some
| Of the pangs OF poverty, and probably
relatively greater anxiety than have
the really poor.
The rich were those who left auto
mobiles ordered, but not paid for, In
the great repositories. The long walt
| ing lists of chauffeurs tell the story OF
enforced economy. A year ago chauf-
feurs were hard to get. Now the sup
| ply is far in excess Of the demand.
Many incidents telling Of the sudden
desperation of the wealthy, whose
special need was actual money, al
though they had property in plenty.
were told during the panic days, some
of them matching the incidents mar
rated by Mrs. Green.-Holland in the
| Philadelphia Press.
Tree Trunks as Filters.
| A well known Austrian engineer. M.
property of the trunks of trees. name
| ly, that of retaining the salt of sea
| water that has filtered through the
| trunk in the direction of the fiber. He
| has consequently constructed an ap-
paratus designed to utilize this proper
ty in obtaining drinkable water for the
use Of ships crews. This apparatus
consists of a pump, which sucks up the
sea water into a res ervofr. and than
forces it into the filter formed by the
tree trunk. As soon as certain pres
sure is reached the water is seen at
| the end of from one to three minutes.
according to the kind of wood used.
1t makes its exit from the other ex-
tremity of the trunk, at first in drops
| and then in fine streams. the water
! thus filtered being drinkable, freed. in
, fact, from every particle of the usual
| salty taste which is such drawback
4
| manner.-Montreal Standard.
] Where the Chairman Fell Down.
| After a f1attering allusion to Secre-
| tary Taft's services as a member of
/ the cabinet Chairman Charles
| Sprague Smith intro uced that gen
tleman to the big audience at the
Cooper union the other night as 1.-THE
secretary of the navy!" Mr.. Taft
good naturedly set the matter right
amid laughter, adding that the in
cident reminded him of a story told
him by the president. Mr.. Roosevelt
once attended public meeting in the
west, at which the chairman spoke
most flatteringly Of the speaker he
presented This chairman said: ~
| take pleasure in introducing to you a
| man known from California to Maine,
| from Canada to Mexico. who has
known what it is to be on the firing
| line-who has smelled gunpowder-
| the Hon. Mr. -" Here the chair
man hesitated, embarrassed for a. mo-
/ ment, then turning to the guest OF
| the evening, asked: what is your
name, please ?"-Buffalo Commercial
Not Such Heavy Drinkers.
when was a student at Heidel-
| berg, twenty-five years ago, the
| amount of beer the students con-
| sumed was something astonishing
said Mr.. J. N Osborne, of St. Louis, at
| the Carrollton hotel.
I'm fact, many of them drank to
| excess, and the fellow who could put
1 away the biggest quantity was a sort
/ of hero.
"Now all that has changed, as my
| son, who is studying at Heidelberg,
| writes me. He says that while good
| MANY of the students still use beer, q
| poodly number are teetotalers, and
! that the wholesale swilling of the old
! DAVIS has gone. I think that every
| BODY will be glad TO know that
| sobriety has taken the place of intem-
| nerance among the young men at one
Of The foremost seats of learning in
| the world" -Baltimore American.