The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-04

/ olden mystery.
The wandering herder and his sheep one
M SIGHTS upon crest.
sage from the blest,
And then the plains are bare again. and
| night comes, and sweet rest.
The sunrise is cloth of gold-noon is a
And lucky is the wanderer whose rowing
The eye shan Il, see un-st - -. n,.,. :,
| Laramie.
Arthur Chapman. in the Denver Repub-
1 Hcan.
Nation Is Homogeneous.
: All travellers through the West and
i South have been struck by that
nomogeneity of the American peo-
pie which has impressed President
IaIt during his tour of the country.
said:
we all wear the same clothes, even
to the latest fashions in the bonnets
of the ladies; we all speak the same
language and have the same ideas and
strikes one going around the country
| Is the exactly similar attitude the peo-
pie all occupy toward the questions
that AFFECT them in the same way
A New Yorker has only to cross the
continent to hear San Francisco, 1900
miles away, humming Broadway's
newest topical song. He will see
clothes of the same cut as his own,
the same hats and haberdashery. In
the hotels are the palm rooms and
entirely has one touch of fashion
made the whole country kin that
| dutch necks" appear simultaneously
on Fifth and Michigan avenues and
the latest confections of the New York
modiste blossom out in Butte or Gal
| weston.
st. Paul reads the same chest SELL
| ers as Boston. The whole country
| laughs at the same jokes. works out
the same jiggsaw puzzles, discusses
the same public observation-disclosures"
DR.. Cook. New York's mayoralty is
sues and candidates, prohibition or Ii
cense. baseball, Sunday observance. 1t
spices its speech with the same slang
| expressions.
Manner, morals, political views have
all undergone Standardization which
is one of the remarkable aspects of
American evolution. Perhaps it is in
the uniformity of language that this
development has been most note
mountains and the back country of
New England there is no true dialect.
BY his r we may still know the Bos-
tontan, and there are many foreign
ers who cling to the mother tongue.
But we have nothing corresponding to
affords no example of SO complete a
linguistic fusion among so large a
population.-New York World.
/ Out of the Mouths of Babes.
Little Fred-Are you a lawyer like
papa?
DR.. Smith-Oh. no; I'm a physi-
clan.
Little Fred-Then you are the man
who goes to see sick people before
they die.
! Teacher-Now, remember, Nellie,
that anything you can see through is
4 transparent. Can you name some
thing that is transparent?
Small NelIie-Yes, ma'am. A key
hole.
Johnny" said a mother to an in
corrigible youngster, don't you know
that your face is awfully dirty?"
''Well, what if it is" he rejoined.
1.-THE face of the earth is dirty. but
nobody makes a fuss about it."
Little Edgar Gagged 5)-Uncle John.
did you used to be a little boy like
I me?
Uncle John-Yes, Edgar.
Little Edgar-Didn't you feel aw-
fully queer for a few days after you
got to be a man?
| Small Harold-Papa, won't you
please give me cents?
Papa-Not now. Run along. I'm
very busy.
! Small Harold (holding his hands
joined together)-Well, papa, just
drop a nickel in the slot and see me
go.-Chicago News.
A Modern Phase of Railroad Building.
The opening of branch line of the
Lake Shore railway whereby Chicago Is
\ brought 80 miles nearer to New York is
interesting as an important example oil
new form of railroad construction.
A railroad as originally built is rarely
the shortest distance between two
points. Expenses of grading and con-
| siderations of income to be derived
from cities not lying on direct route
between termini are responsible fol
many detours. It is only in the Sec
ondary stage of the roads development
| when competition has become keen and
the reduction of running time and cost
is essential to earning power, thai
. physical reconstruction is undertaken
with that object. One of the most sug
gestive items of railroad expenditure
, within q decade is the large appropria-
) ton by trunk lines for "cutoffs'
. through which reduction Of mileage i;
secured
/ AIRLINE" roads remain impractical
BILE. But the manifest aim of modern
railroad construction to straighten and
! shorten old routes makes the term less
and less a misnomer.-New Yorl
, World.
Hotel Guests Full Meal.
,l Beer Barley, Fish, Coffee and Cool
, were registered at the Stratford hote
!, yesterday, while all points of the com
: pass were found at the Palmer hous,
! and Auditorium hotel.
At the Stratford there were A. G
I Beer of Ashland, Ohio; o. S. Barley o.
. Lansing, Mich; ]. B. Fish of Milwau
\ KY. Shortly after they had been as
q signed rooms Eugene Cook of Kala