The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-11

Today her mood again has changed
So mutable this maid:
Now spring is here and winters gone
Her gowns OF liyeiier shade.
Soft emerald its " sheen n'''o'As new
For gay Miss Earth, quite a Ia mode
e. A Tanning, in the New York World
Dead Ducks Revenge.
W: M. Newson tells of an amusing
ed more activity than would a live one.
The incident is as follows:
Later on we saw a small flock of
broadbills approaching. They came d.
rectly for US. but unfortunately did not
stop for our decoys. AS they arrived
almost over US. we stood up and fred.
pulled on nice plump looking drake
He started to fall. so turned my sec
ond load loose rather promiscuously and
then started to load up. Behind me
Johnny was still shooting. Then Johnny
yelled, and something hit me a mighty
swat on the back of my neck, where
upon tried to clean a big hunk of
stone of its barnacles by means of my
nose and front teeth. This may be
pleasant to look upon, but it is not an
enjoyable Dastime.
Il had always liked Johnny, but the
thought that he had hit me on the
back OF the neck and was now laugh
ing was too much. I started for him
with murder In my eye and a large
driftwood stick in my hand Johnny.
still In fits of laughter. pointed behind
duck looked around and there be-
hind me on the rocks was the same
plump-looktng drake that I had shot
at the first time. 1t was hard to real
ize that such small bird had such
mighty swat
When Johnny had come out of his
commissions and had picked the feath-
ers out OF my back hair. we looked
around bit and found there were
four dead broadlbills. so I cheered up
a bit. Johnny didn't need any cheering
up ton Magazine.
Now the Automobile Hearse.
ve Ihs funeral Of ~. William Henry Hawkins
modern impro7esaents. The Se ooffin W WAS
bile that also accommodated the mourn
srs and carried the floral tributes. In the
OF the immediate family and the usuai
lu me procession was dispensed with.
ve IN me Journey to the cemetery the
front of the automobile the coffin was
R Pa eh. IN compartment directly under
ed spacious compartment where the
fourteen mourners sat. Banked in upon
the casket were the flowers that had been
sent in remembrance Of the dead.
me automobile hearse is the Invention
S5 the unGsPtaksr who had charge Of the
That the Difference to the dead might be
observed with due regard for tradition,
rate OF miles an hour. although it is
capable of 20 with it's z5-horsepoWer mo-
the undertaken believes that ali lie the fesl Dro
p1TIetiss of funeral were adhered to
The principal. advantage of the new
electric hearse is that it Is cheaper than
the usual funeral The single carriage
riages and merges into one expense the
cost Of hiring carriages, horses, and driv-
pact instead of having the carriages scat
!eren among several ferryboats or lost
funeral coach as an experiment. but he Is
vate funerals.
the hiring of taxicabs to follow the
auto hearse. and the recent development
think, may set him to work On an lr aeroz
plane hearse.-New York Press.
Hatched in a New York Court.
WHO'S this joke on7' inquired Magis- |
trate Corrigan today as one Frank Hill |
dreth, breakfast food painter, appeared
why the yoifs on ni the 9 prisoner an
swered Policeman steinmeyer. who is |
wifh the reiS Sgisk t GSePaP6ss
tr!u4ty COP; They're ali running now.
up in the Morrisania avenue court.
1T is not so; there were no bad ones"
spoke up Mr.. Morris Rosenbloom, a gro |
Ger and prosecuting witness In the case.
They are trying to work a shell game |
out"
He was caught in the JAM" cut in
Steinmeyer. and then. seemingly exhaust |
ed by their efforts, the trio related that |
one Q Hildreth. IS years old, Of 452 Lenox
food signs and had longed for a little of
It was alleged by Mr.. Rosenbloom that
when Hildreth departed today from a sign |
he was painting three bottles of jam, a |
along.
ST had just laid those eggs on the side
walk" concluded the grocer, while Hill
dreth was held in eggsactly $500 bail dur
Ing the uproar that feliowed.-New York
Telegram.
BY the Shape of Your Nose.
There is a tolerably close racial paraI-
lei between high-nosed and high-mind-
ed. The nose is not only our most hui
man, but in a broad sense is our most |
feature. Growth of nose
and shrinkage of jaw have been the
two great correlates which have ac-
human rrogrASs The mo-