The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-07
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I tread where Night the broad day bars:
Inat Ieads-thank God-to a CLEAN of
The Stair that creaks in the darkness
Like the the ghosts were coming to claim
For who tolls in a garnet for bread-for
Is one with the singers that starved of
My friends are ghosts; for the human
In the wofld where my heart was cruel
Where 2 place of Skulls FOR their hate
Dark as the Calvary. of the Christ,
But singers the wide world Ger have
Death where the Darkness makes its
And I am even as they-long dead;
win a crust OF Love and a crust OF
Here. with my. ghost-friends standing by
shall all toll till del shall toll tin 1
With IA, a song SOM to the stars and song to
As 4 smile in a tear. and a laugh in a sigh.
Inc ,mor,a' my masters, the world-it
Where etc to plant the thorn ast reap the
But the toiler for bread in a garret
Well, the, stars and the ghosts are his
| Good-by,
FRANK L. Stanton in Uncle Renus' Mag
azine.
Mars Message to Ether.
The project of Prof. David Todd, of
Amherst college, to make a balloon
| ascension to a record altitude in order
| to intercept possible messages from
| Mars by using wireless receiving in
struments. is commended by the noted
| French astronomer, M. Camille Flam-
marion. In an interview with the Her
aid correspondent M. F'lammarion said
| today:
| Prof Todd evidently adheres to an
idea which 1 have frequently put for
ward, namely, that the Martians have
| In all probability, sgnaled to us al
ready more than 100000 years ago.
Astronomical instruments were un-
known before 1909, and it is only with
| IN quite recent years that We have been
| able to observe Mars with sufficient
| surety to notice its geographical de-
| tails.
| Prof. .Todds proposal to ascend as
high as possible in order to escape the
disturbances of the atmosphere for the
| purpose of experiment is natural and
| logical With a supply of oxygen, he
could ascend to a height of about 10000
meters, but no higher, as the difference
in the pressure of the air at a greater
| altitude would be fatal
| Now, of course, assuming that it be
| possible to record the messages or
| wireless instruments, we are obliged te
| suppose that the Marian method o.
| signaling is based on some principle Of
electric waves, electricity being a forcs
that exists throughout the universe.
/ Evidently. any signals received
would be incomprehensible, but al
electric wave signal of any sort from
Mars would at least affect the wireless:
instrument in some manner. We nee6
49, %I,a+ hot %1,1
tian's instruments are anything like
our own. Needless to say, too, IL Mar.
sent us simple luminous signals, Prof
i Todd's experiment. would be useless
Paris cable to New York Herald.
The Lost City of the Incas.
DR.. Hiram Bingham, lecturer. or
Lattn-American history at Yale, ha:
returned from an exploration of Choq
! quequirau, believed to be the lost cit!
of the Incas. in Peru. 1t is the frs
recorded exploration of the ancien
city; it is claimed that until he wen
there no one had visited the place fol
the last 400 years. At any rate. 1
seems to be an interesting place. Tt
get there required a weeks hare
travel from Cuzco, the ancient CAPT
tai of the Incan empire. Choqque
quirau lies at an elevation of abou
$4,000 feet. DIR. Bingham believes tina
the place was a fort built by the In
cas- to protect themselves against at
tacks of the Amazon Indians. HI
found traces of Notifications ane
many relics The buildings are made
not of the finely wrought stone of the
palaces in Cuzco, but of roughly hewr
stone cemented together, and the in
teriors in some places are plastered
The old water works remain and sew
eral reservoirs are in good condition
The archaeological possibilities O
South America give rich promise fol
the daring and determined explorer
Boston Advertiser.
MAY Burn Tons of Coffee
i Intense interest is being displayed in TIL
coffee trade in proposition recently mad
by the, state of Sac Paulo, Brazil; to des
crop crop For several years the Braziiial
government has been buying up coffee t
been ruined by the low prices prevailing
A short time ago large issue OF bond
sold fa in this sS ss tb and
the government had bought. One of TIL
|, provisions of the bond issue was tina
Brazil might export $4,000 bags of coffe
year and a heavy tax be, placed upoI
any exports in excess of that amount
The. planters of Sac Paulo are averse t
20 per cent. and have asked the bond
holders to ALLOW sst them in place ss Of payin
with the e.5eeOoo bag limitation. The de
| clSlOn rs IN the nandS or an internatfona
| committee, of which Herman Sielcker
local coffee merchant. who returned fror
Europe on Tuesday. is member. Sielcke
is expected soon to issue a statement a
, to whether this remarkable proposition I
burn up million bags of coffee will b
carried out.-New York Press.
Says Tennessee Is Republican.
There is good reason to think tina
? Tennessee will be in the list of sur
, Republican states ere many NOR
/ campaigns go by said Hon Newell
Sanders. of Chattanooga. at the Stat
: ford. Mr.. Sanders is a prosperou
/ manufactures and chairman of tn
) Republican state committee.
II bryan beat Taft in Tennessee b.