The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-13

ihe perIect DAYS are very few, and rarely
So I'm content to be with you, and
,y,,. watch sc your face, my dear. my dear.
For once. in life 1 viii not dare unless
you bid who have the power.
seek no comfort in. church, where
priests remit mems foolish sin.
ru peace for your sake i would ref win.
watch the sunset with you here,
and 5hen Good night 'e my DEAR Ians" my
| dear.
London Spectator
Rislxcd Life in Jungle.
Tales of almost incredible escapes
from death are told by DR.. E. F. Horr,
Yale '91, Who has just returned after
two years exploration in the jungles
! of the Amazon. He was member of
the Harvard Peabody expedition, re-
cruited under Or. w. C. Farabee, of
Cambridge.
Among the lairbreadth escapes of
Pr. Horr are thrilling rescue from
drowning, runaway mule adventure,
and critical attack of the jungle
fever. The members of the party we're
stranded in Arizona Pass, 1880 feet
above the sea, and compelled to endure
held up in the Maturiato River coun-
try for three weeks without supplies
There they were obliged to subsist
upon monkeys and other animals,
| which they shot, and during this time
DR.. Horr. was taken seriously ill with
tropical fever. While returning on a
mule after his illness. his mule sud-
denly bolted and plunged into the
jungle. To rest his feet, Dr. Horr had
tied cord around the mule and made
rope stirrups. AS the mule plunged
into the forest. DR.. Horn was swept
off his back by the thick clustered
hanging vines. He swung one foot
over the mules back, but the other
caught in the rope stirrup, and as the
/ animal dashed through the jungle, the
doctor was banged and thrown from
| side to side against tree stumps and
rocks.
Retaining his presence of mind he
managed to grasp at the stirrup and
free his leg in the nick of time, but
he dropped to the ground. uncon-
scious, and covered with bruises. and
cut from head to foot. DR.. Farabee
and some of the Indian guides soon
found him and carried him back on the
trail for Head. He did not recover
consciousness for hours and was laid
up for several weeks. Permanent i'll
juries we're feared, but a broken finger
is the only mark which he bears of
| the accident.
| An interesting accomplishment of
their observations was the acceptance
! by the governments of Peru and b.
liyia of maps made by them, giving
new boundary lines between the two
countries.
The exact boundary lines had been
long in dispute, and a tribunal had
: been formed to determine the right
i lines. DR.. Horn and Mr.. Farabee pre-
scented this tribunal with their maps
when they finished their observations,
and they were accepted as correct
New Haven dispatch to New York
/ Press.
Gains for Socialists.
The worst fears of the German gov
eminent have been realized in the
heavy gains made by the socialists in
the diet elections both in saxony and
| Baden. In Saxony a new election law
enlarging the suffrage helps to ex-
plain the result, but in both states
evidently popular protest has been
lodged against the taxes recently voted
| by the reichstag.
As usual. it is in the industrial cent
ers that the socialists have shown
their greatest strength. In Baden
both they and the liberals made big
gains in the city districts at the ex-
ais. In Saxony the socialists captured
seats in Dresden, Leipsig and Chemnitz
as well as defeated the conservatives
in several country districts.
In the national elections in F'ebru-
airy, 1907. the socialist suffered a
severe setback. The kaiser regarded it
as a personal triumph. 1t was then
| that King Frederick Augustus of Sax
ony concluded telegram of congratu-
| lations to the mayor of Dresden, cit
is a pleasure to live now
That year the socialists elected only
43 members of the reichstag, although
/ full party, having polled 3,251,005
votes out of a total of 11,1O9,76S. Cast
| ing more than one-fourth of the votes,
they had less than one-eighth of the
the clericals, with 2.274,0s7 votes,
held los seats. and the conservatives,
| with 1.124,92S. held so seats. Ever
since the founding of the empire the
boundaries of the election districts
have been unchanged In the mean
! time there has been a rapid shifting
! of population from the country to the
/ cities. The socialist gains in Saxony
and Baden will only serve as a further
reason with the government for deny
| ing a Encouragement of the electoral
| diStrictS.-New York World.
| The Making of Neckties.
| Most of the neckties worn in the
United States are made in New York,
so the country has both practical and
sentimental interest in the existing
strike of the necktie workers, who
number five thousand. most of them
| girls not much over the school age.
They demand a 10-hour day, sanitary
/ shops, and an increase of 2 cents on
each dozen ties for each class of help.
! Probably the average citizen never
realized that the division of industry
makes even the manufacture of a tie
a task for several persons; but it ap-
| pears that the bit of silk has to pass
through cutters, turner's, slip stitchers
| and operators, not to mention sorters
and packers and others who help the
finished article on its way out of the
| factory.-Boston Transcript.
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Tree Planting ON English Waste Lands.
| Coke of Holkham. SO we learn from