The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-02
THE NsTEILAR TELEPHoNE co.

WA w aal tnat. Tired? Out .aH night?
Wires busted-have to quit!
Hello. Central. venus-yes.
venus. V-e-n-u-s!
Howdy, Venus-howdido?
Wish I looked as sweet as you!
RR eaTlS yo Tss mo Il Oh. too bad!
Thought I'd ring to tell you that
Yes. it's quite becomfng-grand.
Wen. perhaps It's just as We'll.
Hair yo4 the toOk emen bit more 1S,r s g%e
Soon would die of envy, dear.
But the tilt Strikes me e.: just st right dit
| with the mareeiie Of Your hair.
Tell me. does your new spring sack
Or is it-bzz- bzz-bzz-bzutt
Wires bust again? Oh, tutt!
Hello, Central. What's the bill?
Fourteen what? Not fourteen mill
Fourteen million dollars? MY
Weekly.
st. Louis.
st. Louis was named after a very
good man. but has never followed his
example very perseveringly. It is the
metropolis of everything west of the
Mississippi River. and doesn't mind
of st. Louis on the east side of Mis-
souri, and Kansas City on the west
the mules in central Missouri have
lost their voices trying to be heard
above the din.
st. Louis has 100000 people, two
dozen railroads, SO skyscrapers, and a
| worlds fair debt. Its greatest wond-
ers are its railroad station. in which
passengers may run for 80 trains at
the same time; the Eads bridge, a
ny-n Nd 1A1Io ~ 1t,
the late municipal gang overlooked
In the city hall. ST. Louis had the
largest worlds fair on record in 1904,
and recovered from it in a remark
ably short time. 1t is an American
city of French ancestry, but now has
a pronounced German accent. ST.
Louis is the wholesale center for the
whole Southwest, and the travelling
men employed in the city would fill
LII smoking cars, allowing two
not artistic, but points with pride to
the fact that it has the finest botan-
ical garden in the country. The
Mississippi River runs past the front
door of the city, which fact is re-
garded with some resentment. it be-
thing that ever gets past ST. Louis.
The city has more than its share of
skyscrapers, but has not had cham
pion baseball club in twenty years,
<
extent.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
Good Roads Appreciated in Kentucky
The toll roads in central Kentucky
were originally made by stock COM
~ MES, and the investment paid. They
are now kept Up by taxation, and the
investment still pays. None of the
Bluegrass counties would exchange its
drnpikes for the abolition of the tax
that maintains them.
Some of these counties have 400 or
900 miles of pixies" and the need
In all of them is for increased mile
age. Every farm that fronts upon a
good turnpike sells for more than an
equally fertile farm that is connected
with the nearest turnpike by a rough
road or lone. The Bluegrass farm that
is connected with good turnpike by
a dirt road not only sells for a good
ceal less per acre than a farm of the
anne degree of fertility better so
cult to sell.-Louisville Courier-Jour-
nal
Forestry in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania claims to lead all other
states in forestry although its forest
acreage is less than that of New York.
The system of replanting, cultivation,
and protection of woodland is said to
be more complete and effective than
anywhere else in the country. The
State commissioner OF forestry says
that while the department has plant
ed many millions of trees, the work
is still in it's infancy. With the pre-
hoped that, beginning next year. the
number may be increased to 20,-
100000. The State maintains a for
estry academy, with three years
course, and makes no charge for train
ing its young men in forestry.-Utica
Press.
Sour Grapes.
w D. Howell said of an unsuccess-
full playwright:
"Perhaps it is because he can't write
plays himself that he condemns the
modern stage. Perhaps 1t is a case
of sour grapes with him. just as it
was with Jobson.
"Jobson proposed to an elderly helr-
ess But even in the course of his
proposal the man could see he stood
no chance. He ended rather abruptly,
and the heiress said in cold voice:
mo. I cannot marry you, Mr.. Job
son. The only man I ever. loved was
killed at the battle Of"
Bunker Hill" snar1ed Jobson as he
fastened forth into the night.-De-
troit Free Press.
Weight of a Crowd.
In the building of theater galleries
and grandstands the supporting
strength of the structure has to be
carefully worked out. This is done by
multiplying the area in square feet by
the pressure which it is estimated
crowd exerts to the square foot and
making the supports proportionately
strong. AT one time the weight of a
crowd was determined at between az
rounds and 102 pounds to the square
f..ot, but experiments have shown this
to be a great underestimation, and the
weight exerted is now calculaed at
from 1928 pounds to 1913 pounds
1it-Bits.
Want to Retain Revenues.
1.-THE worst handicap of the people or
Hawaii is the lack of ready cash. said