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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

| blue overhead to watch the noon mail
| traverse the bit of clear skyline on
| the opposite ridge. The train roars
afar off, like the surf on sand; comes
] fast into view; crosses its allotted
space; and is gone. 1t passes slowly
enough as the watch ticks, yet urgent
and low and long, over there, like a
running greyhound or a racing horse,
| it conveys the impression Of matchless
velocity. 1t goes like a hunted thing
in dream, that makes desperate
haste and can barely creep by the
tagging landmarks. It was not, it was
there, it was gone. It came out of the
unknown INFINITE. and passed again
into the infinite unknown. It Is a
daily recurrent symbol. Life Is mo-
ment between two eternities. a wild
swallows flight through a lighted hall,
a train that goes by along a hill-crest.
At night the lonely hooting of the en-
CINE in the darkness draws a poet to
his balcony to watch the regular lights
fash by far above on the high horizon,
and see the sudden flare, rudy against
the level trail of smoke, vibrating
dimly outward. through the thick
black air, even to the rim of things.
Under all the sky, IN thick weathers, in
certain aspects, the glow seems to
! mingle with the gray of night and
change the colors of ito suffuse it
all with impalpable gold-dust; the
tawny plume of smoke. the golden
patches of the windows, the hurrying
silhouette of dull black on luminous
black, are less like anything plastic
than like the strange solutions and
bewiIdering progressions of modern
music. They have the same air of
suggesting what experience has not
known. of stirring memories which
must reach to the other side of birth
-antenatal dreams. intangible expec-
tations."
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

A sample of justice as il is frequent
" administered by the superior courts
in this country: The supreme court of
Ohio has reversed the conviction and
ordered a new trial in a murder case
because of the alleged wrongful use
of one word in the trial judges charge
TO the jury. This charge comprised
some thirty-odd typewriter pages
The jurors in this case would have
been a remarkable aggregation of men
If their verdict of guilty hinged alone
on that particular Word The chances
are great that they never noticed it
and that their verdict was founded on
the facts in the case as they were
elucidated at the trial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
AYHAWKER JOTS

It occurs to the Wichita Beacon
that the time to swat the fly is be-
fore the fly swats you.
There are thing more important
than beautiful clothes" remarks the
Jewell County Republican, but don't
waste your breath trying to make an
1S-year-old girl believe it,
VIII c. Palmer has propounded a
question that it will be up to the ex-
pert bugologists to answer How" he
asks, can the bugs tell where the po-
tato patch is before the potatoes come
up? They are always right there wait
ing for them"
The startling news comes from
Washington that Victor Murdoch is
becoming too fat, as a result of quit
ting the use of tobacco, notes the En-
poria Gazette and it adds: "A man
some sort of punishment
Don't stick UP your nose at the King
road drag. The only objection to it is
that 1t is too simple. 1t ought to have
three or four fiywheels, so or 60 cogs
and few hundred coil springs attach
ed to 1t. Then if $685. f. O. b. Chicago
" ere charged for it, it might come into
general use. AS 1t is, it is handicapped
by cheapress. Nobody wants a road
drag that costs only a few boards off
the back fence, a bolt or two from the
windmill and a f1st-full of skinned
knuckles.-Olathe Register.
A story is told of a deacon in Du-
luth church who was given to long
winded harangues on whatever sub
ject was up for discussion. At a meet
ing to discuss an important church
matter, having the deacon in mind a
rule was adopted limiting each speak
er to five minutes. The rule was OBJ
served until the deacon arose. His
five minutes were consumed in point
less preamble. But he was not to be
silenced. When the chairman inform
ed him that his time was up the deac-
on was surprised. The bells sharp
tinkle caused him to start and frown.
Am 1 to understand he said, that
my five minutes have expired ?" Eyes
Deacon said the pastor, and the au-
dience Uttered slightly. Then
brethren" said the deacon, -1 will
throw the rest of my remarks in the
form of a prayer lola Register.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

Your victor couldn't have bought that
bureau for $50, 900. know"
A week lat Chapman received this
letter:
Dear Mr. Chrpman:
In calling upon you recently I did
so acting in the capacity of your late
aInt's legal adviser, and as the adj
ministrator of her estate. The legacy
OF the bureau was a test. If you kept
1t an allotted time and refused to dis
pose of 1t for even such a ridiculously
large sum as offered you 1t would
prove your love for her and the rest of
the estate was to come to you.
You have won, and in the face of
great temptation. Congratulations.
The property amounts to over
100000 Call upon me as soon as
possible for more explicit informa-
ton. Very truly,
&C. C. CUMMINGS"
at pays" said Annette Leya, who
was present at the opening of the let
ter ''to cherish heirlooms- Copy
righted 1910 by Associated Literary
Press).
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
HUNOR OF THE Day

Maud speeches. With admiration? Ethel
Absolutely Why. I thought she'd never
Transcript.
Judging from the way you play whist
/ would say you are a Democrat" Why
sou Because you always do the wrong
thing at the right time for your oppon-
ents. Judge.
Nurse drumming in excitedly)-Madam.
the baby has just fallen out Of the nur-
and the new cement walk hasn't time to
dry out yet either!-St. Louis Star
$50 YOU are writing stories" said the
friend. Not exactly" answered the cyni-
cal literateur; Il am merely furnishing a
trations from running into one another
Washington Star.
City Editor-ou say in this murder story
that one bullet bored through the stomach
and lodged in the bedstead; Reporter
and piay up the board and lodging fea-
ture.-Kansas City Times.
Mother-Come, William. quick, Minna
has tried to kill herself by inhaling gasl
Father-Good heavens! Think what the
gas bill will be this month!-Meggendor-
fer Blaetter.
What do you think of this endowed
it. What we want is an endowed slaugh-
ter house. kansas City Journal.
81 got a good bump last night" saws
the Philosopher of Folly. "A girl said
she didn't love me enough TO be a sister
IL %s eHS faad E fesa marry me If
81 hope the season won't open with a
stretch of rain. That will mean a lot OF
postponed games mo matter POST
poned games mean double-headers later"
-Pittsburg Post.
The Chu-ese wall was finished IT do all
my fence mending at one lick an
nounced the emperor. Thus he proved
himself statesman instead OF polite
ian.-NeW York Sun.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
Latest Flood NeUs-

AS might have been expected,
doubts are cast on the authority. the
of Professor Hilprecht's latest news
of the flood. Probably the professor
will not be disturbed. He is used to
havin~ the authenticity and inteliigi-
bility of his Nippur tablets questioned,
but he goes right ahead arranging
and deeipherlng them. He Is criti-
cised for reading one word of the old
hieroglyphic and then producing the
whole line to which 1t belongs. But
Michael Angelo constructed an admir-
able bull from the torso. This sort of
thing is easy If you know how to do
it.
Professor Hilprecht's publication of
his discovery of the legend on the tab
let through the newspapers also seems
to annoy some of his scientific con-
makes the point that Professor Schelrs
Interpretation of the tablet of the
eleventh year of King Ammizaduka, of
the Hummurhabi dynasty, now in Mr..
]. P. Morgan's collection of antiqui-
ties. was published modestly in the
pages of a purely technical journal.
But the latest news of Noah's flood
concerns all of us, not only the purely
technical. Some folks have said there
never was such a flood. The two
Hammurhabi tablets in existence and
decipherable before Professor Hell
precht made known his discovery sus-
tains the Biblical account. The newly
deciphered Nippur tablet is still fur
Their proof. Some folks will still say,
of course that there never was a
flood, but they are arguing against a
considerable array of ancient and I'M
related statements.
Professor I1ilprecht dates his tab
let between 2100 and 1900 B. c. The
date is purely conjectural. DIR. Jast-
row insists that the Morgan tablet is
older. though it may date from the
comparatively recent year of 1900 B
G. We have no doubt that Professor
Eilprecht will rise to the occasion and
produce other Nippur tablets confirm
ing the theory. He has an immense
collection and he reads their legends
like book. Interesting reading they
make, too.-NeW York Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
AePODIane Patents.

That the movement to invalidate the
Wright patents in France is a result
of the suit brought in the United
States to prevent the use of foreign
all unlikely News of the proceedings
about to be instituted by the syndi-
cate of French manufacturers, how
ever, will hardly disturb the Dayton
inventors. No doubt they will well
come an official definition of their
rights on both sides of the Atlantic.
Having taken steps to secure q decis-
ion of this, character in America, they
should be equally interested in obtain
ing one in the only other country in
which they have thus far found COM
mercial rivals
The ground on which the cancella-
ton of the patents will be acked
according to a Paris dispatch, is that
the Wrights allowed more than a spe-
Gifted period to elapse before exploit
ing their invention in France. 1t is a
fact, nevertheless, that the manufac-
ture of Wright machines has already
begun in thai country. The industry
started there almost as soon as it did
the United States. Besides, no Ameri-
can machines. we believe, have been
exported to France. Apparently there
is no ground for the complaint that
the French workman is being robbed
by the American. 1t looks very much
as if the Wrights could show that thew
ming business on French soil, and the
tribunal before which the matter will
be heard. AMI which presumably has
legal discretion, may look leniently up
on any triflins delay. if it shall be sat
isffed that the spirit of the law has
been complied with.
The question of priority of inven-
tlon'' has also been raised in France
the syndicate which has assumed the
aggressive in that country offering the
,1Ia9 hxy
Tense before a United States court a
few months ago. The first point to be
considered in both cases is the precise
language employed in the patents to
describe the novel features for which
protection is sought. The second is
the evidence presented to prove that
these have been previously used by
others, or that the patentee, even if the
originator of them, has been slow to
ask for exclusive rights. No one can
foresee the outcome of the proceed
ings in either country. but Americans
will heartily Sympathze with the eff
forts of the Wrights to obtain the ex-
elusive enjoyment of all their legal
privilege York Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
GFrom the Chicago News.1

tFrom the Chicago News.l
Your second thoughts may be best
If they arrive on time.
There's no hope for a youne man who
is too lazy to fall in love
A lot of valuable time is wasted on
explanations, and apologies
Even If a woman doesn't love a man
she loves TO have a man love her.
There never was an oldest in
habitant' who had not seen better
days.
A man is to be excused for writing
silly letters If he doesn't send them
How many men do you know who
would starve if it wasn't for their
wives?
Six months after marrying another
woman a mans old flames begin 10
look like shinig lights.
Nearly every time a man approaches
Il new field of pleasure he bumps up
look like shining lights.
Don't squander all your love on a
man during courtship. Cordelia You'll
need big surplus to draw on after the
honeymoon has slumped the slumps
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
L KNOW A PLACE.


L know place not far from here
Inc flowers render sweet the air,
ana one may rest him there nor fear
intrusion from the world of care
me bees are softly droning there,
And in the forest keeps apace
The birds are singing everywhere
1 know a place.
II.
l know place not far from here
Inc wind is singing in the trees,
And In the forest one may share
The spirit of it's melodies.
Inc wind that blows from DER seas
And sings upon the reach of space
Its universal symphonies
I know place.
III
1 know place not far from here
Inc forest keeps are deep in shade.
AND AL that therein doth appear
with you is one that God hath made
so fair His works are there displayed
Methinks in them 1 see His face
In all its loneliness arrayed-
! know place.
st. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Gil

TF'rom the Atchison Globe.1
A girl always cries when she loses
her job.
Is it proper to smoke in a funeral
procession?
1t is easier to blame your hoodoo
than to admit your mistakes.
Which. would you rather have: one
big trouble or a whole lot of little
troubles?
If you don't like man, you will not
appreciate his jokes, however clever
they may be.
A woman is terribly fond of saying,
81 am SO sick 1 ought to be in bed this
very moment
In real life, the time. the place. and
the girl Cor the MANI never get togeth-
er on the same day.
When a farmer gets govt, it is from
over-indulgence in ice cream and cake,
and from drinking too much coffee.
Shawls are coming back" But what
use will there be for them since there
has passed out of sight forever the
woman who wore hers as much to pro-
tect the baby she carried under it, as TO
protect herself?
The discouraging feature about wo-
man having a higher ambition than to
be a butterfly, is that after a man has
eaten good meal some ant-wife has
prepared, he plainly shows he would
like to have some butterfly amuse him.
1t is nice to sympathize with the I'M
der dog, Of course, but there is some
thing equally important: be just to the
man who is in the right, and who has
been unfairly and untruthfully at
tackled by sensational and malicious
liars.
Don't force people to do things if you
can help it; they don't like il. When a
little child asks a man to buy a con-
cert ticket, he is forced to do some
thing he does not want to do And
there isn't much excuse for the child
selling tickets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
JOURNAL ENTRIES

One thing is certainty. Some per-
sons dispositions could not be any
worse.
Excuses of having staid up all
night in order to see Halley's comet
are now out of order.
y x
1t is much easier for fellow to tell
girl how he loves her than it is for
him to tell the same thing to her
father.
X y
Riches have wings, no doubt, and
that's a very good reason why they
are so difficult for most people to
get their hands on.
=
Young people who are delaying their
marriages until the cost of living takes
material drop, are in for quite an
extensive wait.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

[From the New York Press
The prize husband has never been
born yet.
It's easy to admire man to his face
when he will do something for your
for it.
Children have a good time until they
get ole enough to learn it doesn't cost
anything.
It's a great comfort to a woman 70
feel that any minute her husband
might learn to appreciate her.
A man thinks he's full of logic to re-
member the states that were in the
geography he studied.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
TRAINS.

"a railway train. the most familiar
thing in the world, is the most ro-
mantle" says a writer in a recent issue
of Harper's Weekly. 1T is the pro-
found an inexhaustible source of joy
to the uncounted generations of chill
dren that step into one another's little
shoes and keep the faculty of rapture
alive on earth. 1t is a call and a
promise to all the restless hearted,
that want to get away from their
neighbors, their drudgery, or their
own thoughts. 1t is a lure and a mys-
terry and an embodiment of the in
visible and unspeakable to the poet.
He will pause on a windy hilltop, call
down his gaze from the unplumbed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

Who says that the London Punch
never gets off a real, good funny.
Please give attention to this one from
that distinguished sheet: During his
stay in Paris, Mr.. Roosevelt paid fly
ing visit to the Louvre, where" we
are told, "he spent few enraptured
minutes before the Venus of Milo"
This is characteristic of the great
hunters largeness of mind. He can
admire not only the strong man armed,
but also a weak woman unarmed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

If a common. ordinary electrical
storm had visited these parts on
Wednesday night there would have
been great scurrying for cellars and
caves on the part Of many people who
were more than half convinced in their
own minds that the comet was going
to do something
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

"Our desire for independence re-
mains unalterable." say some of the
leading Filipinos. But 1t is the pre-
vailing opinion of those who are in a
position to know that this desire is in
no way commensurate with the abili-
ties of the little brown brothers" to
govern themselves
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

When those three thousand pounds
of dynamite exploded on Wednesday
afternoon at Pinar Del Rio it is safe to
assume that the inhabitants of that To-
cality were certain for some time that
a comet, or a portion of it. had landed
In their neighhorhOod.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

Even that optimist of optimists on
the progress OF its city, the Kansas
City Star, has apparently lost hope that
the new union depot for that town is
going to be built in the near future. 1t
recently remarked: BY the year 1886,
when the comet calls again. work OH
the new union station and the West
Traffic way probably will be well under
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

The man who buys a ton of coal may
weigh it ere he pays the toll. and still
be skinned to beat the Dutch because
he didn't chance to touch the dirt and
Stag and painted stones for which the
dealer charged four bones. And oft
we note the rule applies to those with
goods to advertise; publisher may
whoop and snort and scatter figures
by the quart, and he may also show
his books, through which the adver-
tiser looks and finds the names of
Richard Roe and John, and Jane and
Mary Doe; but should the victim
chance to look through Uncle Sammy
Radges' book, he finds that no such
folks exist outside that long and phony
list. This rhyme is poor and blind and
lame, and Uncle Walt is not to blame;
But none the less, the morals there:
"Of circulation fakes, BEWARE"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

Editor Herbert of Hiawatha told the
newspaper men at Washington that
the '1nsurgent'' movement in Kansas
did not amount to very much. Editor
White OF Emporia told the same gem
flemen that Kansas was fairly alive
with Republican Insurgency" Evil
IDENTIFY 1t is a case of pay your money
and take your choice
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

Whenever a scandal of any sort de-
velops in the army or navy much no.
toriety is given to 1t regardless of its
proportions. But, as a matter of fact,
1T would seem that such affairs are few
and far between in armv and navy
life in this country in proportion to
the number of men in such service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

If the women of Norway have the
same feelings as have their sisters in
other chimes about telling their ages. It
IS not probable that many of them will
take advantage of the right of munich
pal suffrage that has been granted
them. They will have to confess to be-
ing at least 25 years old before they can
participate in the elections.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

New Workers can not be quite such a
bad lot as they are occasionally held
up to be. At least they must be given
credit for being generous. Many beg
gars in the big town make from SIS to
SIS day in their panhandling on the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

Detroit is looming up on the horizon
as another place where municipal
bribe givers and bride takers have
been perniciously active. Like Pitts
burg. Pa, though, the Detroiters have
an opportunity for consolation and
pride in their baseball team.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
Colored person, aged 1os. passes aw

Colored person. aged 1o6. passes away
= Pittsburg, Kan. Dispatch hastens to
note the incident, and refer to his ripe
old age.' Now, this expression, ripe
old age'' is considered permissible in
reference to persons of 75 or so, and It
occurs to US that some other express
sion should be placed in circulation
when the deceased has added quarter
of a century to the period of ripeness.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

Those spots on the sun may be ex-
planned as being clouds of wrath
which are appearing on its face be-
cause so much attention is being paid
these DAYS to Halley's comet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

June 1 is the date set when the
local high school graduates will stand
''with reluctant feet where the brook
and river meet"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

President Taft denies that he has
said any unkind things about the Gin
eurgents' to which their sensitive souls
might take offense. If he had done so
It would have been most pardonable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

No, Maud, the football coach Is not
necessarily the baggage coach ahead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

A woman should not be called an
"old hen" just because she is prone TO
lay plans and hatch schemes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

Dispatch from Clay Center states
that the citizens of that burg are in
dignant over the manner in which the
sheriff rounded up some bad men. The
kew to the indignation is found later in
the dispatch. where said sheriff Is
branded as a Democrat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20
4
YHsZ|sIvN

Amrine: There is no such word In
the dictionary, but 1t is against the
law of common usage to spell IL
"groutch." Please refrain from mis-
spelling 1t in future illusions.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-20

Another record has been cruelty
wrested from the Central Branch
Train No. 4. on the San Pedro, Los An
geles and Salt Lake railroad, has just
arrived at Salt Lake, after a record
run, from Los Angeles, Of 1877 days.