The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-09
IN AUTUMN WOODS.

| AAeres sung or frost In the morning
And the sunbeams slant like rain;
| The Tar horizon is broken and dim
| AND the mist wreaths cover the plain.
The wooded upland has chosen its garb
The sumach has lighted its flaming torch
| 70 show US the way from town.
Our backs are turned on the. worries of
It's tuppenny toll and woe
And with gun on shoulder we seek the
Where the winds of fancy blow.
Where the shy. brown woodcock spring
cs are fr0m srs
TOMORROW thing for scorn.
Herbert carrickson in Outing Magazine.
| China's New Railroad.
Attention was directed. a few days
ago. TO the opening of the railroad
| from Pektng to Kalgan and to the
extraordinary demonstrations of pop
ular and ofhicial exultation which ac-
companied it. The event deserved
such a celebration, for thourh the
road is at present only 122 miles long,
II is OF enormous commercial import
ance. and of the greatest significance
to China. AS hitherto stated. it is the
first important railroad in China to
pc Quilt entirely by the Chinese 1t
is true that the rails and rolling stock
were imported, but in all other re-
spects the enterprise is purely Chin
ese-ln conception. in financing, in
construction. in operation and in con-
troll. 1t was paid for as it was built,
out OF the earnings of the Northern
railways of China, without borrowing
a dollar, and the work of building it
has developed fine force of young
Chinese engineers, who will be of
great service in further undertake
ings. -.
The road runs from Picking up the
valley of the Yung-ting river. in a
northwest direction, beyond the great
wall to Kalgan. That city, in the
northwest of Chill, and near the bor-
ders Of Shansi, is the meeting place
OF the five chief caravan trade routes
from Mongolia, and is one of the
greatest centers of Monaghan trade.
4 1t Is in Shan-si that the great coal
ana iron deposits are found, compris-
ing $4,000 square miles of anthracite
from to 40 feet thick, and an almost
equal area of bituminous coal. That
province is provided with the best sys-
tenn OF common roads in the empire
and it has long been notable for the
fact that it has supplied the whole
empire with practically all of its
bankers, excepting proprietors of pet
lty local banks. Shan-si is, in brief
likely to become one of the most i'm
portant industrial and commercial
provinces in China, and this new rail-
road will do much toward placing il
in that rank. The Peking- Kalgan en-
terprise means that, SO far as in them
lies, the Chinese intend to build their
own railroads, open their own mines
develop their own resources. estab-
lish their own industries, and in the
most practical manner realize the sal
utary principle of China for the Chin
ese.-New York Tribune.
Sour Milk and LONGEVITY
DR.. Ellie Metchnikoff contributes to
the current number of the Century
Magazine an article on the utility OF
Tactic microbes. in which he says:
Contrary to what many Journalists
have made me say, I have never. in
! any of my publications on the sub
J ject, asserted that curdled milk is able
to prolong life
But he adds:
I'VE have the right to suppose they
(the Tactic microbeS) must exercise a
Favorable influence in favor of long
evity. Only, before such suppositiOn
; becomes confessed reality, many pre-
else facts have still to be gathered
Nevertheless, it has been found that
bacilli inhabiting the digestive organs
J secrete phenols in abundance, land
these poisons act on the arteries and
bring about artero-scierosis, one OF
, the main symptoms of premature old
age These baciIli of putrefactior
, ence of the microbes of curdled milk
The administration of the Tactic fer
ments is successful in remedying many
: intestinal ailments and has been ap-
where. Dr. Metchnikoff's denial
therefore. is made rather in the inter
) est of scientific accuracy than because
the intelligent layman requires it
Those who have the courage to i'm
bibe the sour Metchnikoffian brews
may abide in the hope that it will keep
) their arteries pliable.-New York
Times.
Climbing the Army Ladder.
return was issued this morning
showing the average time taken from
the date of first commission in at
tanning, respectively, the ranks Of cap
tain and of major of officers in the
cavalry, royal artillery. royal engi-
!. neers, infantry, and Indian army.
The average time was lowest in the
cavalry, the period being seven years
and five months. Next comes the gar
rison artillery. with eight years, fol-
J lowed by the infantry, eight years
} and four months; field artillery, eight
years and six months, and the engi-
; neers and Indian army. nine years
The last two were time promotions
The average time taken to reach the
rank Of major was: Cavalry, fourteen
years and ten months: field artillery
seventeen years anu SiA tiichthSs al
dian army. eighteen years; infantry,
eighteen years and three months; en-
gineers nineteen years and seven
months; garrison artillery, twenty
years. The Indian army period was
a time omotion.-London Evening
Standard.
Out of the Mouths of Babes.
Mrs. Neighbors-Some one said
your little baby brother was sick.
What is the matter with him?
Small Sadie-Oh, nothin' much.
J guess. He's just hatchin' some teeth.
what shall we name baby. sister.
dear?" asked mother of her little 4
year-old daughter.
call her Early. mamma replied
the little miss. .sthen when she gets
bigger she'll be the May Queen"
Il Little Fred had been kept after