The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06


But when they've passed along this bluff,
And it's down to the real old stuff,
The delegates, as with once voice,
VIII name him as their second choice
And who is this that's fixed the wires to
Nail down the honor he aspires to.
And makes all other lights grow dim?
Why, it's the whole blamed group OF him.
indianapolis News.
Young Turkish Athletes.
Oriental people are very averse to
physical exercise of any kind. Their
awning and play Backgammon said
Edward O. Donaldson of Constanti-
nople, Turkey, the director of an
American and English wholesale I'M
porting house in the capital Of the
sultan. THAT a man should go out
and run around track in shameless
nakedness. and this with no hope of
gain, only confirms them in the belief
that all Americans are mad. But they
are initiative people, and some years
ago the influence and example of the
younger teachers got few of the pre-
paratory boys out for footraces.
THAT day, for Beu-Beirut, at least,
the deathbow was struck to the pic
turesque dress of the Orient. You
can't run a 100-yard dash with long,
baggy trousers and a silk gumbez that
hops around your ankles. Even If you
tuck your skirts into the sash the eff
one by one the students ordered Euro
pean trousers from the city tailors.
'At first they were poorly cut and
viewed with suspicion, but today there
are not three men in the collegiate de-
partment who wear the old costume.
and many of the students dress with
taste and an elegance that their pro-
fessors can not afford to emulate. Ten
mis- and basketball soon won their
place in the students favor, and now
orxyr7 a effa f~af 11c Nd O
regularly graduated athletic director,
who has learned physical culture and
boy nature through a long experience
| In the gymnasiums Of America
"But it was football that did the
most toward unification. The value of
team work is g new idea to eastern
every man for himself 1t has been
so since the time of Alcibiades and
Absalom. II it had not been SO, the
history Of the world might have been
different. It was comparatively easy
to see the joy of winning a footrace or
a tennis match, but to play an I'M
theatrical part In a football game.
obeying captain and working for the
good Of the side-that was a different
| thing. "-Washington Post.
Goose Guards Farmhouse.
Since two of their fraternity have
been driven off and badly beaten by
are giving the home OF James H.
Sholl, a Burlington farmer, a wide
berth. This guardian of the Sholl
home is Patsy. the king of a flock Of
geese.
Terrified human cries, mingled
with the fierce honking of the old
gander and the savage Tapping Of his
wings awakened the family of Mr..
Snoll night or two ago in time to
see in the moonlight a badly-fright-
ened tramp Logging it down the lane
toward the public road. The maraud-
er's intention Of raiding the poultry
house had evidently been interfered
with before he got the door open. and
his battle with the big gander had
been short but furious. The tramp
left minus portion of his trousers.
Also he learned that the bite Of a
goose is like the pinch of a wise, and
| a blow from its wings like the blow
of pugilfst.
The gander on another occasion
drove off a tramp who was begging.
At another time the bird lost half its
beak in fight with dog that tried
| to kill some goslings, and 1t has beat
en- off hawks, pigs and even a COW
that had traversed beyond their prop
| err domain.-Burlingto IN. J.) Cor
respondence New York Times.
Skunk With Two Heads.
Horace E. Young. living on the
Baton farm in Oneco, has been
bothered with some animal taking his
chickens, 10 in number, in the past
two weeks. and week ago he set a
| trap at the henhouse door, thinking
| it was a mink. The next morning he
went to look at the trap and it was
gone. The animal had got into the
| trap and gone with it.
He went down in his lot the other
| day to cut some white birches and
| he heard in the bushes near him a
noise and he looked and saw a harrow
back skunk close to him. He took a
| white birch pole and killed the skunk
and when he picked him up he found
| that the trap he set in the henhouse
was hanging to the right forward leg.
| The skunk is a full grown one.
The skunk had two perfect heads
and he could eat with both heads.
| One head Is black and the other has
a stripe on it. He had only three less,
two behind and one forward leg.
Where the left forward leg ought to
be is a perfect head. The body back
of the two heads is perfect-Water-
bury American
Miniature Art.
An English paper has an account
Of tiny boat made by an Italian and
formed Of a single pearl: Its sail is