The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31

Indt were MO from me IN the long ago.
would not be a boy again,
Nv with boys unrest and boys desire;
Is best-and the glow of a later fire.
/ sit and rock with my hands at rest;
The sun is falling behind the hill;
And a reasoned faith in the things to be-
The better things-is with me still.
| My house is small and my fare is plain.
My books are few and my eyes are dim;
And the world is good to the very. rim.
Century Magazine.
His Alibi Not Needed.
Here's one that is just as true as
If it were copied verbatim out of
spelling book = true, Notwithstanding
that the names are omitted owing to
a fool promise that one was talked
into making before the story was mar
rated.
An excited man rushed into the Of
flee of a banker with his mouth full
of words.
Say he painted. you remember
well enough that 1 was in here for two
hours this morning, don't you-meb-
be two hours and half, but two any
how?''
The banker nodded that he recalled
that fact.
"Uh huh," went on the excited man,
| Slightly relieved, land those two hours
| OF II1OIC luCluQGQ the IlOuI OStWCCh AO
and II o'clock, didn't they? You re-
| member that, don't you?"
"Ah, I am glad you remember.
Now If my wife calls up and asks you
if was right here in sight every min
ute of the time from 10 to II. you
could tell her SO truthfully enough,
couldn't you? Goodi What do you
think! You know that fellow Smith
that lives right next door to US? AL
| ways seemed like a nice fellow. but
vu1,o 40 o. ho did this
ing? On his way by the house he
tells my wife that 1 have just been ar
| rested for insulting a woman down
On the public square about 1880, and
| husband, who managed to punch my
face for me before the police got there.
Smith thought it'd be great joke,
1 s'pose. Yeh. Funny one. wasn't
and won't believe there wasn't any
thing to it. Says the reports may have
been exaggerated, but surely some
| thing must have happened. Gawd!
I'm glad you're able to prove an alibi
for me. Well, I must get along. This
things upset me so that I've had to
let my work just sort of Slide
The banker waited for the wife to
call him up. intending to do every
! thing in his power for the acquittal
In about three-quarters of an hour
the friend came rushing in again.
This time he was smiling, and was
less excited.
ITS all right" he said. Here's
how it all happened. My wife had an
awful spell of hiccoughing and ran
over to the Smiths to see if they knew
any way to stop it. Smith had heard
that sudden CONSERVATION would stop
it, SO he faxed up the story about me
| worked. too-except that my wife
wouldn't believe him at first when he
told her that he had just said it to
stop hiccoughs. Everything is all
sorry about it. but he meant well
enough. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Rebels at Dog Meat.
Dog meat is not likely to become as
common an article of food in Paris
a proposition was made that the sale
of the flesh of the friend of man be
authorized ami that canine butcher
shops be established.
The idea, however, is so repugnant
that instead of winning adhercnts it
has brought forth a strong protest.
Certain members of the Society for the
Prevention # Cruelty to Animals even
are considering a petition to the pre-
feet of police not to license such shops.
The Patrie has interviewed the pres
ident of the Antivivisection Society,
DR.. Foveau de Courme1les, who OPP
poses the project strenuously.
Even If the meat is innocuouS in
theory he says, ''it might become
noxious in reality. The meat of oxen
and calves easily becomes dangerous
and no longer presents the necessary
quality for consumption if the ami
mails be tormented by brutal drovers
on the way tc the slaughter house.
If suffering endured by these animals
for three or four days constitute dan
ger for consumers of their meat, what
~ Inn 7nof
Dogs, being more sensible, are
much more conscious of danger which
threatens them. They may present the
same dangerous symptoms in two or
three hours as oxen or calves do IN
two or three days.
"In short" concluded DR.. Foveau
de Courmelles, consumption of dog
meat would present grave danger
from every point of view 1t is to be
hoped that the project of police will
forbid the establishment of this new
and useless enterprise. Paris dis
patch to the New York Herald.
Raising Gourds for Pipes.
Uncle Sam is sending out a circu-
lar to show farmers how they can raise
gourds and make pipes for smokers
at profit. The gourds do not grow
as rapidly as the gourds of ancient
be produced in almost any part of the
country from seed that is supplied
by the government, with the directions
for planting and for making pipes.
The fad comes from South Africa,
where the gourd is called the calabash
Beers made pipes of the gourds for
many years, but the world took lit
tie notice until after the Boer war,
when the English began to import
them Later the demand spread to
the United States, and now there is
a large market for the pipes at So
to So each, according to the circu-
lar of the department of agriculture.
The Beers tried to monopolize the seed
of the gourd, but a large supply has
been secured, and there is prospect
that the cror will become general
If is claimed that the gourd pipes col