The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-29
HER CHARM.

And then she was. indeed. most be-
Witchins sight;
hind,
And SO contrived to rob me of my peace
Of mind.
The fall she wore it far. far over on the
She seemed SO fair that of calmness was
And likewise when 1T flared up high above
She kept on being just as beautiful, some
how.
now that sr she years hat that lops down
is found, es
She manages to have her yvav as bereto-
fore,
And still possesses charms that thrill me
There is doctrine which I'll cling to all
The style which she AFFECTS may merit
scorn or praise;
She has a charm with which to bring or
But it is In herself and not in what she
wears.
IS. E; Kiser in the Chicago Record
Free Postage.
When the postoffice was first open-
ed at Kali Feng, the clerks had a fight
with some men who bought stamps
e-ito A0iuSSu 10 go away until the
stamps We're licked and stuck on their
envelopes for them. The foreign post
offices in Palestine are usually con-
yulsed by spirit of keen competition.
If parcel exceeding the regulation
weight or size is taken to an office
and refusedj, the traveller, in the ma
!or1ty OF cases, has only to threaten
to take 1t to q rival office, and it is
straightway received without murmur
So keen is the rivalry between some
n nffi
estine possess free post within GER
tain districts. Between Jaffa and the
surrounding colonies, and also within
Jerusalem, the German and Austrian
offices make no charge for the de-
livery of local letters-Chicago News.
Lost Millions, But Still Happy.
I'VE are shy in Texas about 2,O00,-
600 bales of the yield our cotton fields
should hove produced" said Mr.. C, L..
Mclaughlin, OF Dennison, Tex, at the
Belvedere.
This means that the Texas planters
are out of pocket the enormous sum
Of 1920. 100000, reckoning on valua-
ton of but $50 to the bale, although
$40 Is nearer the mark. But even
with the short crop, in view of the
prices the farmers have received, the
State is in extremely good shape, and
there is abundant prosperity. Immi-
grants of the best quality are pouring
in and buying our lands right and left,
those of any other Southern State, and
yet the rural districts are becoming
thickly peopled also" -Baltfmore
American.
Hawk and Weasel Fight in Air.
A hen hawk and weasel fought in
mid-air here yesterday until both were
injured fatally. Today Eben Van
Duyne gave the bodies of the bird and
the weasel to taxidermist, with orders
TO mount them thew
In the death struggle. The battle in
the air was interesting, and was watch
ed by several farmers of this place.
The two enemies of the hen encoun-
vading the chicken yard Of Elston
trowbridge's farm. The farmer saw
the hawk circling over his place and
hurried out with his gun. The bird
swooped down. and started upward
with something in it's claws. AS it
rose it fought wildly to drop the weasel
which it had picked UP, evidently in
mistake for a chicken.
The weasel sunk its teeth into the
hawks breast and chung there. The
under its left wing where the weasel's
head was. The weaseps body swung
free as the bird tried to use its talons
to throw it to the ground. AS they
fought the birds flight became err
ratio, and finally 1t fell to the ground.
Van Duyne, who had been watching
the flight, rushed UP, and found the
combatants still struggling. The weas-
els bite soon caused the bird to die,
and the weasel had been injured so
seriously by the hawks talons that it,
too, died. Van Duyne took the bodies,
locked in the death grapple, to his
home, and he is having them mount
ed to show how the battle was foungt.
IN. J.) Dispatch to the
New York Press.
New Corn For the Southwest.
Last year a scmall lot OF shelled corn
of a kind new to this country was sent
to the Department of Agriculture from
that may makwe it valuable in breed
ing a corn adapted to the hot and dry
conditions of tie Southwest. The
plants raised in the test averaged less
than feet in height, with an aver
age of twelve green leaves at the time
of tasseling. The ears averaged 5 1-3
inches in greatest circumference, with
sixteen to eighteen rows of small
grains. On the upper part of the
plant the leaves are all on one side of
the stalk, instead of being arranged
in two rows on opposite sides. Be
sidecs this, the upper leaves stand
erect instead of dropping. and the tips
of the leaves are therefore above the
top of the tassei The silks of the ear
are produced at the point where the
leaf blade is joined to the leaf sheath,
and they appear before there is any
sign of an ear except a slight swelling.
Scientific American.
Shonts Rewards Employees.
The police pension fund has just
been swelled by a check for $4,000
from the marlborough Rapid Transit
Company. President Theodore P.
Shonts recommended to the directors
of the company several weeks ago
that this sum be paid as reward
for the efficient work done by the po-
lice in handling the traffic at subway
and elevated stations on the upper
West Side during the Hudson-Fulton
celebration.
The directors, at the suggestion of
Mr., Shonts, also set aside $4,000 to
be distributed among the employees of
tho comypany as An excellent service