The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-19
NOTHING IN LIFE.

n thousand valleys the gold mist lies
Meath the ambient CLEAN of the autumn
In million cities the thunder beats
OF life In the thronged and throbbing
There are homes to build and hearts to
And a Joy where the sweetheart lips lean
With hills Of blossom and daIes of clover.
With simple duties and noble toll
Where the plowshares loosen the fallow
Where the spindles hum and the shuttles
and oyer us always the sweet blue sky.
Where the world turns back to an April
thing!
Nothing in life? It is full and fine
For the the hearts that trust and the eyes
With hope and courage and fortnight zeal
In the. comrade spirit that all should feel
II is 63righ ut and and bounding and brimmed
For honest effort-with song and dance.
With rosy faces and lips Of gleam,
dream!
Nothing in life? Oh, trust its care!
The sun is shining for all somewhere,
And the green world ring with the song
Go on with courage; the clouds win clear,
The green hills glow and the blooms bend
4 thousand valleys are fair and sweet
For one dull loom in a city street,
-Folger McKinsey in Baltimore Sun.
Justices White and Holmes.
Mr.. Justice Holmes and Mr.. Justice
White, of the supreme court, personal
ly are more intimate than any of the
other members. So soon as court adj
emerge from the capitol together and
swing down Pennsylvania avenue at
almost a Weston gait. The former Is
Republican of evolutionary ante
cedents and environment; the latter g
stickler for the sovereignty Of states,
and when a young man believed in
slavery.
They were talking tariff the other
day during one Of their strides, and
Mr.: Justice White agreed that gaudy
and an expensive articles of apparel
posed tariff on gloves" he said.
Mr.. Justice Holmes gazed at him in
apparent establishment. Don't you
ever tell me again that you are not on
terms of friendship with Standard OIL"
he said.
What do you mean?" asked the
Louisianan. in rather an abrupt tone.
Simply this" the Boston jurist an
swered: IF gloves-they being one of
the expensive articles women must
have-are to go higher, 1t means that
the demand Is less, the gloves at home
must be made to last longer, And how
can this be done? By cleaning and pre-
serving them. And how are they pre-
served? By using benzine, gasoline.
and the like, products of the Standard
Oil.
THE next time a Standard Oil case
appears before us. 1 am going to keep
mighty close watch on your vote, Ed.
mighty close eye."-James S. Evans
in the New York American.
Horse Punches the Bag.
Talk about trained seals. John
Alderman, who lives near Livingston,
N. J.. has a horse that Is as skiIlful
at punching the bag as any amateur
or professional boxer Sam, the bag
punching horse, is a 5-year-old bay,
with distinguishing white star be-
tween his eyes. ..E .sss-.
Two months ago Ackerman's son,
George. inspired with a desire to
develop his muscles. purchased a
barn. 1t was placed so it hung d.
rectly in the path of the horses as
they entered and left the stable.
Three of the four horses paid little
attention to the leather sphere sus-
pended from the ceiling, but the first
time that Sam bumped into it he was
aroused to a fighting temper which
prompted him to snap at It with his
teeth. Gradually the horse learned
to play with the bag as he passed in
and out of the stall, and soon he was
able to bang it so hard that it flew
back and forward several times with
one sharp blow from the animals
nose. Young Alderman then started
the training of Sam, and in few
weeks the horse developed remark
able still at punching the bag. So
far he uses only his nose to keep the
bag going. but young Alderman, de-
lighted with his success as a trainer,
expects to educate the animal to use
his forefeet as we'll.
The horse enters into the game
with great enthusiasm, and with
flashing eyes and arched neck he Is
a picture of grace as he keeps the
bag humming for ten minutes at a
stretch.-New York Press.
France Wars on Foreign Corsets.
There is an outcry in the papers for
prohibitive tariff on American and
other foreign corsets.
| Paris still has a monopoly in manu-
afcturing high class corsets, but there
portation of the cheaper grades. such
as are worn by women of the lower
middle class and working girls. Up
| to 1900 the annual importation did
not exceed 5000 corsets, but statistics c $
| just issued show that nearly 100000
foreign corsets now Invade" France
yearly Germany heads the invasion,
but Belgium and the United States are
we'll to the front.
A special meeting of the parlfa
mentary. committee on tariffs has been
held to consider the subject. and it has
been decided to protect the national
corset by imposing a prohibitive duty
| on the foreign article.-Paris cable to
| New York World.
| Mare Saves Drowning Colt.
| A blooded racing mare, owned by
George Leiper, exhibited the strong
mother instinct when she rescued
| from quarry hole her 4-week-old
| colt on Sunday. The mare and colt
were being taken to water from the
L ~, Iainar,s farm Eddv=