The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-15
i. THE HOUSE OF MEMORIES.

THE HOUSE OF MEMORIES.
There's a little house in little street.
A little way from the sea.
It's there that l fain would ID bel
For the world is full of sorrow and care
| And the darkness lies before;
| That were ours, but are ours no more.
In the little street. in the long ago
In the little house by the sea,
We dreamed OF the days that have had
| OF the years that shall never be.
But you were young and was young.
And dearer and better than life has been
We're the dreams that came to US there.
And so when I'm weary of all the world
I think Of the little house that was ours
And sigh to be there again.
'Twere heaven enough if we found our
And dreamed them again, maybe,
| In the little house, in the little street,
A little way from the sea.
1 Pail Mall Magazine.
| Passing of the Shakers.
That those quiet and industrious
folk known to the world as Shakers,
but more properly ''the United Society
OF True Believers in Christ's Second
appearance" are passing is again en-
phasized by the sale of property be-
longing to the communities. The
Shaker property in Shirley and Lam
caster, in Massachusetts,, amounting
to nearly 6S5 acres. is to be sold to
the Commonwealth. The land is re-
Iqu1red by the state as site for an in
dustrial school, as recently provided
for by. the. state legislature. The
courts have made it possible for Elder
Joseph Holden to give clear title to
the property, and $4,000 is to be paid
for 1t, according to the Pittsfield Jour-
InaI.
Albany knows chiefly Of the Niska-
yuma and the Lebanon Shakers, their
peaceful communal life, their indus
try and neatness. These are two of
the fifteen societies of the Shakers in
the United States which have a COM
bined membership at present of not
more than 1000. These communities
are confined to New York, Massachu-
sets. Connecticut, New Hampshire,
Maine, Ohio and Kentucky, and at the
lhelght of Shaker prosperity they num-
bered but 1850. Gradually, through
the tendencies of the times, the en-
! croachment of other interests in the
rural sections, the dwindling of the
membership, the aging of the mem
bers, and the lack of new recruits to
take up "the heat and burden of the
day, the Shakers are dying out. They
represent the oldest communistic es-
Establishment in America. Many others
have sprung into existence, have run
their course, have proved the imprac-
; ticability of the dream Of their found
erS, and have ceased to be- The Shak-
ers have had a long life, as a COM
munal society, and they have stood
for many things of good report and
! won the respect of all citizens who
have come in contact with them.-Al-
. bany Argus
Il A City of Foreieners.
Figures compiled by the Mems High
School Teachers association show that
in this city Ill per cent of the chill
dren OF school age are foreign born,
, parentage. 1t is asserted that those
: figures substantially confirm the con-
tention of the school teachers in this
/ city that the state has a special in
terest in the thorough education and
; mental and moral assimilation of i'm
} migrant children. The figures show
that only Is per cent of children OF
: school-going age in this city are native
born and of native parents.
OF all the cities in this state Buffa-
10 alone approaches New York city in
these conditions, and that is particu-
larry true of the percentage of nom
English speaking parents Recent
large immigration from Russia, Hun
gary. Poland, and the lands bordering
upon the eastern Mediterranean will
nOns
English speaking element, it Is be-
lieved.
The men teachers assert that the
, figures suffice to establish their con-
tention that the state at large is in
, timately interested in the schools O,
this city. The city schools contain
one-half the pupils in the state, and
r the schools are expected to make good
American citizens tout of raw ma
terial of diverse racial heredity and
1 n low 1<r@r
Romance of History.
3 A peasant girl called half-wittet
/ did promise to defeat the victors o.
r Agincourt and did it It ought t.
t be q fact A poet and a poetess die
= sunny cline. 1t is obviously a three
= volume novel: but it happened. Mel
1 son did die in the act of winning thu
), one battle that could change the
e world. 1t is grossly improbabl,
1 coincidence, but it is too late to altel
v 1t now. Napoleon did win the battl,
of Austerlitz. It is unnatural, but i
is not my fault When the genera
who had surrendered a republican
: town returned, saying, easily. "I hav,
: with an air Of inquiry, Are yo,
' dead ?" When Robespierre coughed
e in his cold harangue, GARNER did say
t The blood of Danton chokes you.
t STAFFORD did say of his own desertior
: of parliament, eff do it. may my lif,
: and death be set on a hill for all mel
v to wonder att Disraeli did say, 9Th,
q time will come when you shall heai
a me-"
I'll The heroic is fact, even when it 4
: a fact of coincidence or Of miracle
n and fact is a thing which can b.
: admitted without being explained.-G
: K. Chesterton in London News
IL Spanish Railroad Trains.
n The Spanish train averages possibl
: 20 miles an hour-to allow one to max
f time exposures Of the scenery. perhaps
: 1t makes frequent and long waits. A
: every station the guards run up an
|. down, shouting the name Of the tow
and the number of minutes for eac
stop. AT every station also the tw