The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-04
A LULLABY.

Now draw close the shutters across the
The loved queen of Nodland awaits her
sweet prize,
And fairies stand ready to carry thee
The meadows that stretch. to the far
| Hush thee my little one, hush
The golden head nestles on mothers warm
/ Baby is almost asleep.
A wee little bird flutters home to its
Baby is almost asleep.
How gently. how fast. fall the deep
Ger sea and Ger land. DER hills and
How softly the moon sheds its silvery
On slaInbsrland's walls and its cities Of
BABY is fast, fast asleep.
Amy Churchill. in September Lippin-
| Early Glassblowers.
| In William Stith's History of vir-
| ginia," it is stated that Capt. New
| port on his second voyage to the
colony in the latter part of 1908
brought out among others glass work.
ers sent out by the London company,
and as soon as they were landed the
president of the colony dispersed as
many as were able, some to make
glass and others for pitch. tar. and
| soap ashes.
| Inc GRASS mousse, StlLn INFORMS US,
| stood in the woods about a mile from
jamestown, and though probably un-
pretending in its dimensions and ap-
| pofntments 1t was undoubtedly the
| first mandatory ever erected in this
country. We also learn that the coun-
ell in London wrote an angry letter
| to the president, complaining that no
gold or silver had been sent, and
| threatened that If the expenses, about
| $40 000.- were not betrayed by the
ships return they should be deserted.
! To the letter Capt. Smith sent "a
plain and scholarly answer by the
ship, which was at length dispatched
| with the trials of pitch. tar, glass.
| frankincense, and soap ashes. with
what wainscot and clapboard could be
| provided"
! In the year 1921 a fund was sub
| scribed for a glass furnace to make
beads which were the current coin
| with the Indians. and one Capt. Nor.
ton. with some italian workmen, sent
over for that purpose. The sub
| scribers to the fund were to partici-
pate in the proceeds of the sales of the
articles. The factory at Salem after
an experiment was abandoned in 1642,
| three years after the grant of land
and one year after the loan of ESQ
by the town of Salem; and in 1915
| the Concklins received permission
| from the court to form new COM
| pany to carry on the business. At
lnlS IdcIOTy, as IN the edTleT one III
| Virginia, bottles and other articles of
coarse glass were manufactured. Was
| Germantown merged into Quincy or
Braintree?
In 1883 the Free Society of Traders
| evidently had a glass house, as Penn
speaks of the sawmill and glass house
as conveniently posted for water
| carriage" A glass house and pot
terry was established at Frankfort,
near Philadelphia, in 1885 by some
English Friends who settled there. In
| 1871 an advertisement in the Pennsyl-
vania Gazette by Edward Bradford,
near the postoff1ce in Front street,
Philadelphia announced that he
| silvered looking glasses and sold win
| dow glass by the box. These are
few of the earlier glass factories in
the United States.-From letter in
the New York Sun.
Girl Spends s11.7OO Year.
surrogate,s office in Newark. N. j.,
yesterday, by her father and guardian,
| 1t cost just $35,170.05, or $1,000 a
year, to feed, clothe, house, and edu-
cate Carolyn H. Dorset, IL years old,
for the last three years. r. Clarence
Dorset, New York lawyer. is the
fatfer-gurdian. The child's income
approximated $4,000 year, so in the
same period her principal was increas-
led $3,6SS, her father says
Miss Dorset is the only granddaugh-
ter and heir of the late Mrs. Theo-
dore Macknet. whose home was at
993 Broad street, Newark. When she
died her estate was left in trust for
the little girl, child of her dead daugh-
ter Mrs. Eliza Dawson Dorset.
Miss Dorset lives with her father.
Her share of. the rent is charged up
at $1,000 per year. Then there are
ness, hotel bills, travelling expenses and
dresses, for all of which the little girl
pays her proportion. For young wo-
man of her mode of life her guardian
does not think she is extravagant and
neither do the trustees.-New York
Herald.
Brave Operator Died at Her Post.
There have been many instances of
newspaper and railroad telegraphers
remaining at their keys to the last
when teir lives were in danger. and
in some cases they have died at their
posts. unsung and unhonored. 1t re-
manned for a telephone operator Mrs.
Dalla Rookie. at Falsom. N. M. to
demonstrate that the phone also has
a Casa blanca.
A man up the valley te1ephoned to
Mrs. Rookie about IL O'Clock one
night last week the news that the
waters were rising rapidly and that
she would be flooded out in an hour
if she did not leave the exchange.
But instead of taking advantage of
the warning TO save herself the little
woman began calling up number at
ter number of the subscribers to the
telephone, and as she got into COM
munication with each one she tele-
phoned:
Pack up and leave at once; flood
is coming down the valley
1t was late at-hight and hard to
get some of the people to answer their
telephone calls. but Mrs. Rookie kept
bravely at her sef-imposed task,
warning one after the other as fast
as she could get them on the wire.
The lives of many people were
thus saved, but Mrs. Rookie was
swept away and drowned.-Fourth
Estate.
Dog Saves Mate in Well.