The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-26
A SONG o FrHE Pillow.

The big plow-horses lift
And climb from the marge of the sea.
And the clouds of their breath on the
clear wind drift
Over the fallow lea.
Streaming up with the yoke.
Brown as the understanding loan,
through sun-swept smother of sweat
The two great horses come.
Up through the raw, cold morn
And my dreams are waving with I'M
In far-on spring.
It is my soul lies bare
Between the hills and the sea:
Come, plowman Life. with thy sharp
And pillow the field for me.
Alfred Moves.
Sons of Preachers.
A French scientist has made an in
vestigation to show that ministers
sons make up a disproportionately large
number Of the men In all conspicuous
callings. By study of the statistics
and by an even cursory observation,
we can easily see how strikingly true it
is, especially in our own country and
Great Britain, and, at the same time,
how inaccurate and inexcusable the
fippant disparagement of preachers
sons one often hears.
One glance at the men in public life
proves the contention true. The three
most eminent instances today are Gov.
Hughes of New York Gov. Harmon Of
while the late Justice Brewer, whose
Ilace on the United States supreme
bench Mr.. Hughes has been chosen to
fill, was sen Of a missionary and bora
in Syria. 1t is no trouble to call up
scores Of them, knowing that they will
be only small part of the total list.
There are Senator Dolliver, Mr.. Norton,
secretary to PresidentTaft;M Norway Will
,iams, Ollie James, Levi P. Morton
but the number is too large to write
down.
Three members of the Asquith min
stry are ministers sons-David Lloyd
George, Augustine Birrell, and Richard
Burden Haldane. The late Sir Charles
son also. There is a long list of the
illustrious dead who were potent III our
past history. In this group Grover
Cleveland, William Mckinley, Chester
A. Arthur, Gen. John B. Gordon, Gov.
James P. Eagle, Edward Everett, Hen
ry Clay. and others.
1t is not difficult to find the reasons
for this phenomenon. For one thing,
they usually get a better education
than other boys. The atmosphere of
culture was greater in their homes.
Even today, when culture is so diffused.
the minister's home is equal to the
best That both stimulated the taste
for an education ard gave him special
opportunity. The leading schools of the
East have been UNCONVENTIONAL schools,
end ministers have been their founders
and trustees, and in many cases teach
ers. For those and other good reasons,
their children have always been given
special concessions and social encour-
agements.
Brought I'D to homes in which the
sense of public values and the senti-
| ments of public welfare are in their
atmosphere and education, they are
trained in the most effective way for
public life. It. would reverse the laws
of both heredity and environment if
they did not rise above the average.
They also see something Of the world,
for their fathers do. They usually grow
out of the provincial and local. a
When Joseph w. Folk was chosen at
| torney of st. Louis, he went after graft
ers and startled the nation. His father
was an eminent lawyer before he be-
came a preacher.
OF course we must confess to such
instances as Robert G. Ingersoll, the
James brothers, and James ]. Jeffries
| But they are freaks. what the scientists
would call sports a curious case OF
atavism; or the product of forces for
which their father was not responsible
| except in a general way; or the vic
! Tins of that extreme altruism which
expense of private interests-J. 3. K,
in st. Paul Pioneer Press.
Saw Treasure in Dream.
Thomas l.. Rodgers, who gives High
| Point, N. c., as his home address, pub
| fishes in the latest issue Of the Rogers
Vile Herald, at Rogersville. Tenn, what
he AYERS to be a true story Of how he
| recently discovered 5000 in gold coin
| in cave near the Clinch river in Han
cock county. Tenn.
| 1t was there he spent his childhood
and he states that in a dream 1t was
revealed to him that i'll the rock hcuse
| cave in q lonely mountain spot near his
| childhood home was stored a large
amount of cold. Rodgers tells that SC
thoroughly impressed was he with the
| dream that he left his North Carolina
home and explored the cave. He tells
| that in a great room, not unlike the
ater, he dis covered an ole kettle turned
upside down. Scattered in the cham
| Der about it were old bayonets, can
| teens, and other evidences that 1T was
used as a place of refuge during the
/ civil war Near the kettle was skel-
| eton, and on a piece of slate beside this
skeleton was carved this inscription:
1.-THE first white man reading these
| lines will find $4,000 in coin under this
kettle Take this money, bury this
1 kOQy III II l0IiCAy SPOl oIA tOP Va NOPfOA
Ridge, and peace shall be yours the re-
| prainder of your days"
| Rodgers, who describes himself as
| row an old man, AYERS that he carried
out the wish expressed on the inscrip-
ton, and with the gold in his posses
| sion returned to North Carolina. He
| states that he published his experience
| in the Rogersville paper that the friends
| of his childhood might know of MS good
| luck, declaring that he had beer a poor
laboring nan up to that time.-New
Orle. ne Tines pemocrat.
Horse Aged Fffty-One.
Yesterday was Jerseys fifty-first
birthday. There may not seem to be
anything remarkable about this, fol
there are undoubtedly many of thai
name who have reached that age, and
there are surely some who are many
years older.