The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-24

And he doesn't know what's a-coming.
ih And wa sSe Wid waves wildly n wave him.
But the Jerseacow is angered now,
And nothing on earth can save him.
The gray crab catches him under the tide.
The dogfish snap at his heels.
And they shock him stiff with current
BY a school of electric cells.
Then of they swim, to funeral marcn
And a bury I him danR in the uttermost bank
Newark Evening News
Luxury in Hotel Building.
The addition to the Hotel Astor,
doubling it's capacity, will require an
outlay Of $1,000,000. A ball room.
4 adapted for use as theater, and
vast roof garden are among the i'm
provements planned. At the Plaza a
summer rose garden and an avenue
terrace with a vine-covered pergola
will furnish further provocatlons 10
. that polite guttony which palm gar
dens, orangeries, and Pompeiian rooms
foster. Was Babylon or Rome SO
. given to eating and drinking as Is this
capital Of the New World?
II A story of hotel prosperity unparai-
| leled anywhere is told in the builders
/, contracts. The enlargement of the
Il Astor follows close upon the repuiio-
|, ing of the Plaza. Since the Waldorf
set the example with the addition OF
the Astoria, the Manhattan and Hofr-
. man have been. enlarged.
,, The vast sums expended on hotel
construction in New York within 9
decade, roughly reckoned. stagger the
: powers of computation. London in
. that time, according to recent esti'
mate, has spent from $40,00O,OOO tc
a $50, 100000 on new hotels: Three
New York hotels-the Waido5I-eAns'
900; the New Plaza. assessed at 81.
l 900, and the Aston, the new as
o sessment Of which will approximate
6 $4,000 ,000-represent an investment
r London hotels. Reckoning with thes'
g the Belmont, $3,s75,000; the Manhat
J, tan, $3,20O,000; the st. Regis, $500,
900: the Gotham, the Knickerbocker
and the innumerable apartment hotel
R from the Ansoria downward, New
q York's pre-eminence as hotel CIT!
= remains beyond dispute.
Mr. Ernest Runtz in a London ad
= dress on the modern hotel, instance
the development of the Lounge" o
y elorified lobby as it's distinctive feature
No hotel, he said, would now be toler
Il ated without this place of rendezvous
e Mr.. Runtz regards the lounge as wo
II She does not desire to be pitchforke
II away from the man of her choice"
It Is the skyscraper hotel, then, to b
Is considered as a monument II emancl
N pated womanhood? certainly IN
lie Of the sexes have had much to do wit
is its success. He builded better than h
IT knew who devised the first palm roor
lie and peacock alley.-New York Worlf
l. A Cure for Dependency.
~ A large fieshy man with whisker
told me of a sovereign cure Tor des
- number of girls in his employ, anon
them one that he knew was in strue
Cling circumstances and supporting
1l sick mother on a none too healthy sa
ary. She had come into the store an
laid her purse and somber widow az
on the counter While she olo soHieeiiiii
y about the place.
The large fleshy man got between M
u and the purse and when she was IN
n looking he slipped a IS bill into 1T ar
a moved unconsciously about his ous
y, ness.
al had a red spot in each cheek and 81
ts was heard asking other girls IL tne
x believed in fairies. She never solve
ed the mystery it was two years az
d. and never will unless she reaos TN
ed T2ut the IS bill was very useful In l
i'd little way and the large despondel
% man felt so good for two whole da.
re that he hip-hopped on the sidewalk
is his way home.-Minneapolis journal
ed
ce Public School Wonder Boy.
es Hyman Fenster, who is just thi
II teen wears old is one OF the Wono
to hovs at public school 10, at Broom
in and Cannon streets. He has now We
a scholarship offered to students
ne the child labor committee. 1t pa
OF him $3.50 week, whlch heips su
70 port his family.
m He is ore of two sons OF Gazel
It's Fenster. a widow who came to Tn
he country some three months ago FRO
ed Austria. the other son being Solomo
as fif+een wears old. Solomon and q
all mother work. Lyman started
ed school as soon as he arrived. FRO
ci- the foreign class he was quickly pr
re. noted from class to class until no
ue after three months, he is In era
lie ga. and is able to speak the Engli
nd language so that any one can unde
he stand him.-New York Sun
n "
1T wedding OF O,1O1 Couples.
ne Costly and magnificent as are t
modern marriages OF the wealthy a.
~ noble. for generations they IaA 1
n short of one which occurred over ~
years ago. =.
At this gigantic ceremony 2o,2O2 pc
pie were united.
when Alexander the Great conqut
s. ed King Darius, he decided to espou
M the defeated monarch's daugnter.
the the same time he decreed that loo
out HE chief officers should wed 100 WON
de- from noble Persian families, and 10,
Cy. =. - r-oa1- SoIdiers must take