The Topeka state journal., 1908-05-14

Fishing. boating. bathing beach,
.FEnrrcnssndozens-!ust .E,,rs ar4,1s q reach"
"N No consumotion:" !" mot = kid"
| mo MISUNDERSTANDING bad
| Quite the finest to be had:
..GGoaching parties every day"
..orchestra and dancing hail.
..Gss ..MGee.ly sgd eucnrs sr;1s, game me and ball.
| .'Onered at moderate price,
Yes. once more the mountains speak
Six and up. for board. per week.
New York Times.
The Hall of Tara.
The name Of this ancient palace is
familiar to everybody through the
well known poem Of Thomas Moore,
beginning:
'The harp that once through Tara'e
The soul Of music shed.
NOW hangs as mute on Tara's walls
AS If that soul were He'd"
| Tara is hill in Ireland made IA
nous as the site Of the palace Of the
ancient kings of that country. It was
here that st. Patrick began his great
apostolate by preaching to King
Leary in 432. The site was abandoned
in 565 on account of a curse pro-
nounced against the reigning king by
st. Ruadhan.
In the library Of Trinity college,
Dublin. there is preserved the frag-
ment Of an ancient Irish manuscript
which contains q description of the
banqueting Hall of lamar, or Tara
which is very curious. It states that
the palace of lamar was formerly
the seat Of Coon of the hundred bat
| ties; it was the seat of Art, and OF
Catrbre Liffeacher, and Carthar Nor,
ana OF every king who ruled in Tamar
to the time Of Naill.''
| In the reign Of Carmac the palace
OF lamar was 900 feet square; the
diameter Of the surrounding rath
| seven din, or casts Of a draft It con-
| tanned $50 apartments, $50 dormi-
| tories or sleeping rooms for guards
and sixty men in each. The height
| was twenty-seven cubits. There were
$50 common drinking horns. twelve
porches. twelve doors, and 1000
guests daily, besides princes, orators
and men of science, engravers of gold
and silver, carvers, modelers, and
| mobiles.
| The eating hall had twelve stalls
or divisions in each wing. with tables
| and passages round them; sixteen
! attendants on. each side, eight to the
astrologers, historians. and secre-
| taries. in the rear of the hall, and
two to each table at the door; 100
| guests in all. Two oxen, two sheep
| and two hogs at each meal divided
| equally to each side.'
We are also informed that the
quantities of meat and butter daily
consumed here surpass all descrip-
| tlOns. There were twenty-seveu
kitchens, and nine cisterns for wash.
Ing hands and feet. ceremony not
dispensed with from the highest tc
| Spirit.
I. ,.sA Tourists at the Capital. 49,.
| In the spring 1.-The tourists fancy
lightly turns to thoughts OF washing
| ton.- The streets of the national cap
ital are thronged with tourists, tourists
individually, tourists in groups. and
tourists in excursions. The excursion
lists may be known by many signs. one
OF these being the tendency to keep in
step. as they move from sight to sight
The capitol is the objective of all tour.
lists. They pack the public galleries
they mass in the rotunda. That al
come for pleasure is evident, and thai
the questions they ask.
Say" said tourist on the terracs
of the capitol accosting a Washing.
tonian. one day this week. "how can
see Mount Vernon?'
by going there"
"Going there? Yes. but 1 want tt
know how I can see 1t from here"
You can't. 1t is fifteen miles dis.
tant."
"Fifteen miles! Why, I thought /,
was right across the river from wash
| ington."
A common delusion appears to be
that the president has quarters at the
| capitol and may be seen there any day
Another delusion is that nobody but
the vice president ever occupies the
senate. Recently the vice president slip
ped out to his private room for a few
moments, calling upon Senator Nc
Cumber to preside In his absence.
| tourist who had entered the gallery
after the North Dakotan had taken
| exclaimed to his companion, Fair
banks don't look a bit like his pic
tures!"
The notebook Of a washingtonian
doings Of tourists affords food for
many reflections, and one Of these is
| that the machinery of government is
little understood by elements of our
population commonly reckoned as in
teliigent.-Washingto correspondence
| in Boston Transcript.
Mexico Good to the Chinese.
sThere are about 25.00o Chinese liv-
ing in the various towns Of the repub-
lie of Mexico. and nowhere in the
world are Cinnamon better treated
than in the country OF President Diaz. y
said Mr.. Sing Ii Foon, a prominent
merchant Of Juarez. Mexico. at the
Hotel Herman.
Mexico knows no racial prejudice
and every man, no matter what his
nativity, is given a fair show. AS a
consequence the Chinese in Mexico are
happy and prosperous. wish we got
as good treatment In other countries
IL DO not complain of the exclusion
laws of the United States, but 1t GER
| tainly is a hardship the way that our
merchants, students and travellers are
treated. In coming to Baltimore this
time had to get q special permit from
|! Washington to pass me through E.
Paso, Texas, because the regulations
are that a Chinaman must go from
Mexico to the United States either by