The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-08
THE sPRING CRY.

At least it was when put away,
This season it WIN have to do
But from the hook it's disappeared.
Yes. vanished has that suit of gray,
Nor is be very greatly cheered
To learn she's given it away.
At r least. says he. my yellow shoes
This year have no coin to lose,
But last years oxfords, too, are gone,
This is wife's reason: aYou know. John,
That have given them away
This is the season Of the year
When angry words are often heard:
Man sees his clothing disappear.
" h Is y 1ea
II you your husbands wrath would stay;
AT heme begins all charity,
Don't give their last years clothes away.
Detroit Free Press.
Ghost Runs Engine.
NO danger turks in the path
Two drivers perch on the same
bench in the locomotives cab and
guide its destiny. One Is Horace L.
Seaver, veteran engineer and hero
Of numerous hair breadth escapes;
the other Is the ghost Of a man that
Unseen. unheard, the specter has
been at the throttle for years, guild
ing and guarding the lives of those
sleeping in the darkened coaches be-
hind.
No. Is is the Big Four fast express
which runs into Chicago over the
Illinois Central tracks from
kankakee. The train iss pulled by an
Illinois Central locomotive, Of which
Mr.. Seaver is the engineer. For
forty-three years the veteran has been
handling the trottle of Illinois Central
engines.
For forty-three years Mr.. Seaver
has been a .spiritualist, not one of the
Embarrassing, bell-ringing kind, but an
Intelligent believer that spirit bodies
exist. He says he has had in
Vulnerable evidences that a spirit
hand guided his engine through fear
full dangers and happy escapes.
Whenever he climbs up in his cab he
knows that the spectral engineer is
the hand of warning in time of need.
Mr.. Seaver was in the cab. gazing
far out along the track, one dark
night wondering how many more
trips he would make before his good
spirit deserted him. In the train
were more than 1000 old soldiers go
Ing to reunion at Champaign, Ill.
The trottle was out to the last notch
and the speed more than sixty miles
an hour. Suddenly the engineer
heard soft voice whispering in his
ear:
1.-THE bridge is burned; the bridge
is burned
AS quickly as possible Mr.. Seaver
set the air brakes and stopped the
train. In the coaches 1000 old SOL
diers were sleeping. The conductor
hurried forward to the engine.
What do you mean by stopping
this train out here he demanded,
| angrily.
"You would better go along the
track and find out" said the engineer,
quietly.
Only a few feet ahead of the en-
CINE was the river, and over the river
hung thezcharfedrr remnants OF the big
bridge. which had burned only a
short time before. The 1000 veterans
were saved. -
This happened in 1890, and Mr..
Seaver was hailed as a hero all over
the country.
But it wasn't me that did it." said
the engineer modestly "It was some-
thing unseen, something that we do
not know anything about. I did not
needed the warning that was given
| me. There are numerous other in
stances where the same voice has
given me warning just in time to save
| the lives Of my s."-Chicago
Journal.
We Are Dying Younger.
In view of all that has been said
about the fall in the death rate 1t seems
strange to realize that we are not liv-
ing so long as our grandfathers and
grandmothers did. More babies live to
grow up nowadays than formerly but
people in later life die younger. Once
arrived at adult age the average man
or woman has few years of survival to
expect. This seems on the face of it
der to be accepted 1t should be back
ed up by data authentic and indis-
putable. Such data are furnished by
the figures of the insurance companies
(Which all agree on the point, but 1t
is easier to refer to the government
census reports, which tell the tale in
simple and convincing fashion. Even
during the last Is years the death rate
among all persons over IS years OF
age of both sexes has risen very con-
siderably.-Health Culture.
Campaign Tactics in Kentucky.
A crowd Of over 100 negroes assem-
| bled at U. B. F. hall on Eighth street
Wednesday night to listen to DIR. Wood,
an eloquent colored speaker, of Dan
vile. Just after the eloquent doctor
| had begun to warm up on his subject,
Fairbanks for President" there was
an alarm Of fire turned in from box %.
about two squares from u. B. F. hall.
| The fire department responded and
when they passed the hall 1t Is said
the negroes came out very unceremon-
| iously, leaving the Fairbanks orator
with only a few hearers. There was no
fire, false alarm, and now the Fair
| banks crowd claim the alarm OF fire
| was sent in by a Taft follower, in an
| attempt to break up the Fairbanks
meeting. Surely these are strenuous
times for our Republican friends
Bourbon (Ky) News.
! Long Way Around in Scotland.
Scotland possesses several other. rail-
| way anomalies of which probably the
| most notable is that of the stations OF
| Mailaig and Kyle, of Lochalsh, which
though only 20 miles apart In straight
line, are separated by no less than 36t