The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-21
A SUNSET STUDY.

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The insurgent imminent cIoud-cohorts
The portals of the sunset. where the
OF the ernbattled sun-god viii not yield
Even yet its dominance of might, but
Against the darkness that would work
The shaft of golden light that he doth
Ger ali the gloom of the disastrous field
E klindles III. its Ugh light Of battle far along
Yet deem we not the glory is deceased.
Soon shall there tighten in the waking
Once more our lord the Sun. in golden
mail,
And ali earth's myriad voices crying
'Hail!'
Fall close about us, and our Iabors seem
The Improbable semblance of dream,
Let us take heart, and in the gloom s
Await the dawn in patience; soon the
Shall tremble in expectance of the CLEAN.
And all the portals of the heaven stream
Hidden, not quenched, the indomitable sun
Fulfills his path of shadow; may we,
Tho close about our steps the dark be
Hold with high hope the upward way be-
gun,
Press forward still, in certitude of dawn.
Charles E. Whitmore, in the Boston
transcript.
Punctuality.
So much is said about the virtue of
punctuality that people who go in for
it to any great extent are exceedingly
uppish and disagreeable. Punctuality
has its bad side, just as everything
else has. People should remember
this. If they are on time they only
serve to throw into embarrassing re-
lief the poor souls who come hurry
ing UP ten minutes late. 1t is SNUG
to be precisely punctual. 1t is rails
ing yourself above the rest of man
kind, refusing to partake of it's frail-
ties. The ideal thing from the point
of view of courtesy to others and de-
cent humility about your own attain
late, or at least to appear SO.
If you are to meet at the package
office in the Grand Central station at
o'clock, SIT quietly in the middle
of the hall until IL minutes after 4;
then when you have seen the other
person dash up, followed by painting
porters and fairly dripping with ex-
wait until the arrival has
had a second in which to recover self
respect and stroll up with remark on
or the best way to Guilt
vate carrots. This will insure your
popularity and show you to be a per-
son of kindness and forethought. At
any rate, it is better than a pitiless
would be, your superiority increasing
every minute, and confronting, up
braiding silently, the person who
promised to meet you because you ap-
peared rather likable sort. but who
finds you in Jour panoply of punctual-
ity the very reverse of likable.
For be it remembered that just as
some people cannot be on time, 9TH
ers cannot, to save their skins, be
late. So that they deserve not a whit
Of credit for it, and should. in fact, be
when they do 1t osten-
and in public.
The theaters have formed a charm
ing habit of sending up the curtain
Just fifteen minutes after the time
stated, which by punctual members Of
the audience is considered shocking,
for it permits the late arrivals to set
lie comfortably in their seats and say
to the members of their family, who
TUNED and fused and had silly idea
that the time to get to the theater was
at the hour suggested in the papers,
Now, you see. here we are In perfect
time; couldn't be better which
the worse nature of the pune
.ual persons and divides families
against themselves.-New York Even
ng Sun.