The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-27
AWAY.


1t is only dust and tar
And I plunged into the solitudes
As a swimmer apant for the seas,
And gave my soul to the wonder OF
To the fields and the woods,
And the winds thai never nan's cheek |
And the heights where silence reigns,
And sank my heart in the boundless view; |
All, God, the plains. the plains
But often now as I lie where the sky
aces s Up from the leagues o, OF gfasi Sass
And the night Climbs hagh, m e'|'''
I see far away the lights of the bay
Where the TOW towers Of &c, Carnival n al. shine,
And It fiushes my pulse like wine
Sky. and sky and nothing more!
To be cast on desolate shore
To wake and feed with the steer and the
To go round and round on the rangel
If only the herd would stampede!
ReaT G9d, , Tor q Snange; Ior q cnange!
toms Magazine.
LincoIn's Education.
1t is common for some persons to
speak of Abraham Lincoln as an un-
educated man. Nothing could be fur
Their from the truth. 1t is true that he
never took a course in college, that he
received no degrees from universities;
| but few men have had a finer educa-
ton, using the term in it's broadest
and best sense.
| We are apt to think that education
comes solely from absorbing the
knowledge that is in books. from MEM
orizing what other people have
/ learned. This is one form of educa-
ton, the most popular and the easiest
Abraham Lincoln also had an educa-
ton in books. There were eight vol
1T l. L., 1, Is
had the Bible and 1.-THE Pilgrims
Progress for religion, history of the
United States and a Life of Washing
tom for politics, Aesop's Fables and
Robinson Crusoe for literature, and
the Statutes of Indiana and Euclid for
science. This does not seem like
large library. but there are few men
who know them so we'll as did Abra-
ham Lincoln AS one speaker at the
current dinners in his honor remarked,
l Lincoln ''f1etcherized" these eight
books For his university education
he did the same with Shakespeare and
IPlutarch.
If every man were we'll grounded in
these ten volumes. there would be
more solidly educated men today than
exist in spite of all our universities. In
the career of Lincoln one may trace
the influence of each one of these
books. A man who has almost wholly
memorized the Authorized Version OF
lAesop, Defoe and Drydep'S translation
Iof Plutarch has not only acquired the
finest vocabulary, but he has filled
himself with literary style. In almost
lall that Lincoln wrote which survives,
there is the poetic element not only
: in its imaginative quality. but in its
m etrical aspects. In a current review
appear many Of his noted letters and
speeches in the form of blank verse
without the change of word, and
they have a rhythm which is striking.
It was fortunate for Lincoln that II
: he had few books they CHANGED TO be
l the best, and that he devoured them
l until they became almost a part of
himself. But he was also well educated
lin human life. He knew men better
THAN any of his contemporaries and II
was no accident that gave him promi-
t Inence. 1t was because he made the
most at all times of his meager OPP
$ portunities. No young man in this
country today has so few chances for
3 success as had Abraham Lincoln al
birth, or for twenty years thereafter.
f The young man who fails now mas
Philadelphia Inquirer.
|. Mountain sheep Nearly Extinct.
= 1t is doubtful if the United States
s possesses today more than 1000
: mountain sheep, with Wyoming and
: Montana following Colorado with
n probably less than 500 sheep EACH
q both of these states still permit hunt
t ing in spite of the fact that the AMI
f mails are nearing extinction and thai
: the ranges in the high attitudes ano
4 rugged mountain peaks inhabited BY
4 them are incapable of supporting any
q other animal of value save the noun
" tain goat. When the wyoming ano
Montana ranges, which might supper
| manly thousand sheep under norma
. conditions, are finally depopulated, al
:, they are sure to be at not distant
" date, they will be unutilized, desotdte
| silent wastes.
s. Though Colorado still has so large
!. a proportion of the sheep, her ranges
y could easily support many times th'
II present number. and to Rave the pro
y hibition against killing suspended fo
lseveral years to come would appeal tt
those interested in perpetuating thu
Ispecies as little short of calamity
lDillon Wallace. in Outing.
IS On Cupid's Bargain Counter.
1t "Guess I'm once more matrimon
a ial remnant, cast upon Cupid's bar
l. gain counter"
IT There was a smile on Nat Good
Te wins face and tear in his eye as h.
re said this, when Informed that j
If Campbell Thompson, referee in tn
is divorce suit brought by Edna Good
n rich, his fourth wife, has recommend
It ed in his report, which will be filed II
ID the county clerks office, that Mrs
lie Goodwin be granted an unconditiona
rs divorce.
e The holder of the heavyweight mat
rimonial championship seemed some
1T what cast down, now that he ) one
Of more in danger of being placed in tn
Or position of a man without a wife. Blu
is he was game" and the burden of hi
Of cry, was, ct don't care
at Warned that he was stealing tn
Ill stuff of a well-known actress, he re
lie piled:
leI Nevertheless, 1 don't care. LIE
is 'em divorce me, or let 'em not.
lie don't care. When you've reached m
of age, my boy, nothing worries you
is New York American
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