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THE TOPEKA STATE JOUBNAL, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1904.
TOPEKA STATE JOtlim
BY FRANK P. MAC LENNAK.
Entered July 1. 1S75. as second clans
matter at toe posioffioe at Topaka. Kan.,
under the act of congress.
VOLUME XXXI No. 305
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nal building over wires for this sole purpose.
The winter Is getting; so late a start
that it is impossible that it can be a
Ion? one.
It is not lower railroad rates that is
demanded so much as It is fair rates
without discrimination' or rebates.
The Mormon system of carrying the
divorce business into the beyond is to
be deprecated. There is enough of it
here on earth.
The Christmas of the Mikado would
Indeed be a merry one if he could
wake up in the morning and find Port
Arthur in his stocking.
Mrs. Chadwick does not peem to be
able to open the doors of the Cleve
land prison as easily as she opened the
doors of Ohio bank safes.
It is about time for the admiral of
the Baltic fleet to begin to see Jap
anese torpedo boats again. The next
time he sees them, they are likely to
be the real thing.
It appears now that lack of proper
advertising was not alone responsible
for the failure of the World's fair at
St. Louis. More than a third of the
admissions were free.
Instead of wrangling over the selec
tion of a United States senator, why
can't the New York politicians leave
the matter to the legislature as the
law contemplates they should do?
Xew Mexico and Arizona, which it is
proposed to form into a state by the
bill now pending In the senate, have a
combined area of 235,600 square miles,
or a greater extent of territory than
have New York, Pennsylvania, Illi
nois, Indiana and Ohio- all together.
Omaha Bee: Utah boasts that It Is
one of the five states in. which no
lynchings have taken place In recent
years ,but if the testimony adduced is
to be believed there would probably
have been more lynchings la other
states had certain people not lived In
Utah.
This fact, that the exportation of
breadstuffs. which fell in 1894 and
1S95 to one-half the figures of 1902,
subsequently recovered and showed In
1898 a total larger than In any pre
ceding year, suggests that the low rec
ord made in the present year may also
be but temporary.
Everybody is remembering his
friends at this time of the year and be
stowing upon them some token of good
will but how many are carrying the
spirit of the occasion to the extent of
ending presents to their enemies?
Tet is not that what He for whom to
morrow is named, would have done
were He in our places?
New York World: Thomas W. Law
son, whatever may be said of his char
acter, methods and purposes. Is finan
cially responsible. Those aggrieved at
his printed charges would present a
better appearance by proceeding
Against him under laws which amply
cover the case than by threatening a
distributor in advance of the distribu
tion of the magazine containing those
charges.
The failure of the Patterson Jury to
reach a verdict is hard for the out
aider to understand. At this distance
It looks as though she killed Caesar
Toung or she didn't. If she killed
him she must have started out on that
fateful morning with the intention to
do so. In that case she was guilty of
murder. It appears that not one of
the jurors believed this, since none
favored a finding of murder in the
first degree. Why she was not ac
quitted is a question that will take
Its place among a host of similar ques
tions In relation to other cases of like
nature.
IiOWKU TJI EATER PRICES.
The standard price for theatrical at
tractions of the highest grade is grad
ually being established at one dollar for
the parquet seats in New York city as
well as in many of the other leading
cities of the United States.
This seems to be a move In the right
direction. Not long ago a. New York
manager established a dollar schedule
of prices, and soon after others followed
until at the present time there are sev
ral first class houses playing high class
productions In which leading stars are
featured, at a dollar schedule of prices.
The indications point to a still further
extension of this price so as to Include
practically all of the New York houses.
It seems that for a time the theatrical
world underwent the stock watering
process which is so well known in the
commercial world, whereby values were
Inflated. The reaction now seems to be
at hand and it will not be surprising if
the reaction is far reaching enough to
touch all of the out of the way places
In the country.
Many people are inclined, to believe
that a dollar a seat is quite enough to
pay to see the average run of high class
theatrical productions. It Is of course
a matter wherein there is room for dif-
ference of opinion, but under ordinary
circumstances, it would appear that one
dollar is a fair price to pay for what is
usually looked upon as the best attrac
tions which travel on the road it Is a
good price for two hours' amusement.
PIPING NATURAL- GAS.
Just at present there is a lot of ex
citement about the question of piping
natural gas out of the southern Kan
sas gas fields. It will not last long.
The gas will be piped out.
Even if it were desirable for the
southern part of the state to keep its
gas at home, It is offered by a com
blnation which It can't beat. The
people who are opposed to the piping
of gas are in a hopeless minority. All
over the state of Kansas are scattered
people who own gas wells down in
southern Kansas. The gas wells are
not worth a cent to them unless they
can turn the product into a gas main
and have it transported to places
where it is In demand. Indications
are that the big manufactured gas
companies in Kansas City and Topeka
are working in harmony with the pipe
line people, instead of opposing them,
as it was expected they might do. The
manufactured gas people expect to use
the natural gas in their existing mains.
They will make a good profit and con
tinue to do business in natural gas un
til the supply is exhausted. Then
they will be right on the ground ready
to resume business in manufactured
gas. They are not going to furnish
any "sinews" with which to fight the
piping of natural gas, because they
realize that an alliance with the
"enemy" is their only hope of safety.
It is probably true, as has been
claimed of late, that the people who
own the gas wells in southern Kansas,
even the resident owners, are In favor
of the pipe lines. The ones who are
making the fight are the manufactur
ers and residents of the towns and
cities, who hope to force business to
come to them, instead of sending the
gas where the business demands it. It
is a very natural position for those
people to take. No one can blame
them for trying to maintain a sort of
monopoly on their gas. It is a most
valuable asset for a town, and the big
pipe line will of course deplete the
supply at a rapid rate.
For cities situated as Topeka Is situ
ated, the pipe line will prove to be a
great boon. Gas will be cheap, and will
be used to a much greater extent than
it is now used, both for lighting and
fuel. There Is, however, this danger:
if the big main leading out of the gas
fields should break or, perchance, be
blown up with dynamite after the gas
is flowing, the towns and cities de
pendent upon that main for gas would
be in deplorable condition. It is
doubtful whether a sufficient supply of
gas could be kept on hand in the city
reservoirs to last for more than one or
two days; It would take probably two
or three days to repair the break, and
three days more for the gas to travel
from the gas fields to the place of con
sumption, after the break was repair
ed. The law would have to be con
structed to Inflict the most severe pen
alties on anyone tampering with the
pipe lines.
Kansas Borely needs laws which will
prevent waste to the gas supply and the
forthcoming legislature will surely make
such enactments.
MR. HOCH'S DILEMMA.
E. W. Hoch, governor-elect, is feel
ing the first discomforts of official
power. He Is overwhelmed with ap
plications for positions and this In
face of the fact that the number of
places at his disposal Is comparatively
small '
Mr. Hoch Is famous for his un
ruffled disposition. He has been
known as a man who could accept any
situation no matter how trying with
the utmost composure. He is a man
who likes to avoid giving offense and
if he could give every man In Kansas
who voted for him a position there Is
no man who would derive more satis
faction from such an act than Mr.
Hoch. But he is at the place where
he must give offense. He hasn't
enough positions to supply one-fourth
of the applicants. He will not be able
to satisfy every one, least of all the
applicants themselves. This Is a try
ing position for Mr. Hoch but it is
one that he will have to meet, a fact
which he no doubt understands per
fectly. While it Is not the purpose to give
Mr. Hoch advice it may be stated
broadly that the only safe course open
to him is to make appointments with
reference to the fitness of the ap
plicant and appoint men who are able
to give the best service to the state.
The fact that a politician supports this
or that candidate does not give that
person a mortgage on an office
and If. as often happens the Job
hunter is totally incompetent his ap
pointment, while it will give the ap
plicant and his Immediate friends sat
isfaction, will ultimately bring dis
credit to the administration. If Mr.
Hoch appoints good and competent
men to office the people will be sat
isfied, and after all there are more
people than politicians.
Mr. Hoch could not have made a bet
ter start than his appointment of T. A.
McNeal as his private secretary.
WHERE'S THE SENSE?
From the Atchison Globe.
A man can understand the folly of
deliberately putting his hand In the fire,
and holding it there. But somehow he
cannot understand the folly of paying
his hard-earned money for intoxicants
which do him physical and moral In
jury. Why la It that a man can understand
that it hurts to have a .tooth pulled, but
cannot understand that it hurts to drink
whisky?
Judge Wofford, of the Kansas City
criminal court, a few days ago, in sen
tencing a young man for getting drunk
and stabbing a man, said: "Four-fifths
of the time of this court Is taken up
with crimes caused by whisky. The
greatest evil that now affects this coun
try is the abuse of whisky. Every day
men are swimming to the penitentiary
through whisky."
CHRISTMAS TIDE.
Our Christmas praise to Thee, O God,
For Love personified
In Christ the Babe of Bethlehem,
In Christ, the crucified.
Who greatly lived his life for us
And daily showed the Light,
That we might know Thee as Thou art.
And worship Thee aright.
Send Christ anew into the world
The Love that maketh whole.
Rich gifts of grace divine impart
To each awaiting soul. ,
All that which selfish Is. O God
From us this day do take,
Thy holy spirit gracious give
Our lives enlarged to make. '
Help us this day to realize
The Christ in us, though dim;
Grant unto us the Joy supreme
Of comradeship with Him.
The Christmas spirit let us keep
Through all the coming year;
Whatever life may bring to us
Be conscious thou art near.
Ella W. Brown.
These original lines, the Christmas
greeting of one of the best women of
Kansas to her friends, tell the real
import of the hour. He who asks
"Why?" here finds his answer.
There Is but one panacea for the
ills which come with the turning of
each cycle of the clock's hands, and
that teems to be that all pervading
word. Love. The other day about
half a dozen little unkempt girls, all of
them apparently poor, stood in front
of a Kansas avenue store looking into
the window at some ten-cent dolls.
The little bright eyes betrayed well
enough their heart's- desire. A young
lady In passing noticed them. She
went inside and bought enough of the
little wax baby Images to satisfy the
yearning hearts which were outside.
The glee of the little girls was rare
but the lesson was more rare. Those
little girls will know it soon the
years will not be long. But the young
lady who made them happy, knows it
how.
This Is but an humble example, but
it is not different than the divine love
which Christ brought into the world.
The Great Saviour loved his fellow
men that young lady loved those
poor little girls.
There is nothing left to men any
how but memory. He who toils over
against the mountainside has the
wounds on his hands healed with the
passing of the days, but if his work is
poorly done, if he has harmed some
man through that day, time only in
sinuates Itself deeper into his regrets,
and these grow and grow until they
become a burden. But a little kind
liness, a little act of unselfish devotion
to another, a helping hand here or
there as you go through your devious
paths, is in reality the outcropping of
the divine love, of which every man
is possessed.
"The Christmas spirit let us keep
throughout the coming year." With
it we will keep sweet memories,
heart's-ease, and a permanent under
standing of the love of that great Man
who walked by the sea of Galilee
2,000 years ago.
AN OFFENSIVE FREAK.
In choosing the name "Border Ruf
fians" a convivial association of resi
dents of New York city has shown
either ignorance or extreme bad taste,
says the Chicago Inter-Ocean. Al
though most of the members are said
to have come from the southwest, or
to have lived there, it is evident that
they can hardly comprehend what the
name "Border Ruffian" stands for in
history and public feeling In the west.
When the struggle for Kansas was
raging there arose organizations of
lawless and criminal adventurers, who
sought by theft, pillage, rapine, and
murder to decide the political future
of Kansas, and to make it a slave ter
ritory. These bloody and Infamous
men were the Border Ruffians.
A few years ago there were still
pointed out in the city of Lawrence,
Kan., the blackened foundations of
houses burned over the heads of wo
men and children by the Border Ruf
fians. The spot in a vacant lot was
shown where a prominent citizen of
the town, shot down unarmed by the
Border Ruffians, lay all day helpless
and apparently dying, while his family
was forbidden by armed thugs to give
him the slightest aid.
The man thus tortured by the
Border Ruffians survived to become
head of one of the largest mercantile
houses in the Missouri valley, and was
a living witness a few years ago to
what the Border Ruffians were. The
cemeteries of all the older towns of
eastern Kansas contain the graves of
victims of the Border Ruffians.
The New Yorkers who have chosen
this name for their convivial associa
tion appear to be men of some stand
ing. Some of them have been Judges,
and one mentioned is a scientist in
the federal service. Probably they do
not understand that the name they
have chosen misrepresents the west to
the east, and revives in hundreds of
families throughout the country griefs
and shames they would like to forget.
oilier tney are ignorant, or in
choosing that name they have Indulged
in a most offensive freak.
SURRENDER OF THE CONFESSION
lTom the Emporia Gazette.
The board of directors of Union The-
logical seminary, which has been a lead
ing theological seminary of the Presby
terian cnurcn tor many years, has de
cided to surrender the Westminster
confession of faith, as a test for preach
ers who are graduated from that insti
tution. The tendency to make the individual
conscience of the believer the final test
on matters of right and wrong, is grow
ing so fast that no church can check
it. Circumstances make right or wrong.
There are no absolute rules of conduct.
Every act must be Judged by itself and
in Its own environment. Conduct is
two-thirds of life, if not more. And
conduct will be good or bad, according
to the moral perception and moral cour
age of each man. About the best thing
preachers and churches can teach is
the doctrine of personal honor and the
faith, which may be demonstrated sci
entifically, that in the long run, the
right prevails. Christ's life as a model
for mankind will move the world more
and more, as the world grows in intel
ligence enough to appreciate the kind
of a life Christ led. The story of his
life is the sum of all theology. The
Westminster confession like confes
sions of other ages is good in as much
as it helps like scores of confessions of
faith that have been made up and aban
doned before now in other ages Is good
only as it helps the people of certain
eras understand what Christ did. When
the age outgrows its confession, the
confession is abandoned, as scores of
confessions have been abandoned. The
truth, instead of suffering grows strong
er as each old confession is laid aside.
A confession of faith is merely a crutch
for men to walk to good conduct on.
When a man can throw away his
crutches, or a generation give up its
confession of faith, the faith and the
generation have grown stronger. Truth
is eternal. Our expression and under
standing of truth are matters of time
and environment.
BRING IT HOME.
In an editorial on "Prevailing Moral
Standards," the Topeka Capital says:
"Even 'the heart of the masses' is
sometimes corrupted, in spots. Take
what has Just occurred within a week
at Boston, for instance. An alderman
impersonated an ignorant ward heeler
at a civil service examination, passing
the examination for him and thus im
posing on the government. He was
tired and sentenced to a month's serv
ice in Jail. And last week while serv
ing his sentence he was re-elected by
his constituents. That could occur
probably only in one of the corrupt
wards of a large city. Alderman Harp
of Buffalo the other day was acquitted
on a charge of boodling, the evidence
being so overwhelming that the ver
dict is denounced by the newspapers as
an 'outrage.' Says the Buffalo Cour
ier, 'If in Buffalo Juries cannot be se
cured to convict grafters, it should be
the league's desire early to learn why
a desire that ought to be strengthen
ed by the recent miscarriages of Jus
tice.' These cannot be called typical
instances, except as to the larger cities.
But corruption and graft in municipal
government could not exist and go on
from year to year as they do but for
the Indifference of the voters. The
corruption in cities which begins at
the top, among rich and successful
men who ought to be leading lights in
their communities, extends downward,
and it has a demoralizing influence on
all classes of people and on the whole
country. It is the glaring evil of our
times; a poison that if not checked is
capable of extending until moral stan
dards are infected among the people."
But why does the Capital go so far
from home and pick such insignificant
officials for its illustrations? Does it
not remember a state official of Kansas
who was recently re-elected to the
most responsible financial office In the
state, even after it had been proven
that he had committed embezzlement
by loaning $123,000 of the state's
money entrusted to his keeping to a
private Individual to carry through a
shady bond deal to the detriment of
the state? Even after thousands of
dollars of shortages had been traced
to his door, concerning one of which
the Capital, his friend. Itself said that
It was up to Kelly to produce the mys
terious A. R. Brown, else the public
would be Justified in believing him a
thief and A. R. Brown ha3 never
been produced? Even after the peo
ple of his home county have repeated
ly repudiated him, believing him to be
corrupt, a belief that Kelly justified by
paying back to the county over $1,300
which he had taken from it while
county clerk paying it back . when
confronted with -the positive evidence
of his crime?
Why did not the Capital use this
illustration of its point? Possibly be
cause "corruption begins among rich
and successful men who ought to be
the leading lights of their communi
ties."
To be sure, the "prevailing moral
standard" in Kansas is not so low as
it may seem, for the majority of the
voters In Kansas did not cast their
ballots for Kelly In the recent election,
but Inasmuch as many thousands fail
ed to vote for his opponent, Kelly was
elected. The- Buffalo instance of the
miscarriage of Justice is not more glar
ing than the case of T. T. Kelly, who
escaped the consequences of his Miami
county crimes because of the statute
of limitations, and who now seems to
have so much power over the attorney
general of the state that the latter
officer will not prosecute him, even
though he has the positive evidence of
the shortages In the state treasury.
McNEAIi FOR SECRETARY.
From the Emporia Gazette.
Governor-elect Hoch has made a
wise choice in picking T. A. McNeal,
editor of the Topeka Mail and Breeze,
for private secretary to the governor,
and though the selection of McNeal
is probably only a temporary affair,
it will throw the new governor dur
ing the really critical weeks of his
administration with a man of sound
Judgment, of absolute honesty, and
unquestioned courage7 In addition to
this, McNeal has that fine and saving
sense of humor which will save a
hundred bad situations. No other
man in Kansas is so thoroughly
equipped to guide the new governor
over the dangerous shoals that stand
in front of him during the early part
of his administration as Tom McNeal.
The fact that he is using rather
high grade talent for the secretary
ship will not of course affect McNeal.
He and all the people of Kansas know
that he will some day come into a
place in the service of this state where
those talents will have all the honor
due them, and Just now it is duty, and
not honor, that he is seeking.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Always increases The dude's trousers.
Some blondes are ox-eyed and some are
peroxide.
Silence is something more eloquent than
a sermon.
Some men's minds are storehouses and
others are junk shops.
It is quite possible to grow sadder
without growing any wiser.
Sometimes the best marksmen fail when
they try to shoot crap.
It doesn't nay in .iie end to get to the
Tront by fjotng back on your friends.
The trouble with a bore is that he never
comes to the point.
You can drive a hors3 even to a brew
ery wagon, but you can't make him drink.
French people are generally fast, but
that's no reason why French clocks
should be.
There Is plenty of room at the top even
for the fellow who hasn't an idea in his
head.
Hoax "Ugllcuss might be good looking
but for one thing." Joax "What's that?"
Hoax "His face."
' "The poet is born," remarked the Wise
Guy. "Yes, but he seldom gets an easy
berth." added the Simple Mug.
Our good intentions make us bold;
We think each one a gem;
And surely they should ne'er grow cold,
If hell is paved with them.
To some people Peg's Christmas
would have been anything but a pleas
ant one and the memory of it would be
a nightmare but to Peg it was different.
It was "his Christmas" that brought
him more than he had in the world
before friendship.
It happened in western Kansas in the
early eighties. Two days before Christ
mas the wind blew a gale, the snow
and sleet was driven before the wind
and the prairies of the short grass
country were swept by one of the fierc
est blizzards that ever brought suffering
to the settlers of the early days.
Peg was far from town before the
blizzard was thought of. The weather
was balmy, as prairie weather can be
Just before the storm. The herds of
cattle, so soon to be lying stark and
frozen on the wind swept prairie, were
grazing peacefully as unmindful of the
fate in store for them; as unmindful
as was Peg for the cruel suffering that
was to be his.
Peg had drifted Into the year
before. He was homeless and friend
less and he remainded so. He was a
queer fellow. He wanted friends, but
he was odd and as he spoke more Ger
man thanEnglishhedid not make friends
rapidly. He was poor. He did not own
a good saddle, nor a good pinto pony,
nor a broad brimmed hat, nor fine high
heeled boots, not silvered spurs. He was
simply a nobody, but having these re
quirements to pass him into short grass
society in the early days so he was
looked upon as a rank outsider and
when he followed cattle on a borrowed
clay bank crowbarit and a second hand
army saddle he was nothing but an
outcast.
Life in western Kansas on the cattle
ranges, was lonesome enough in those
early days with friends, but without
friends .
The blizzard grew in Intensity. By 3
o'clock in the afternoon, two days be
fore Christmas, the snow was drifting
and the wind was cutting like a knife.
Peg, on his borrowed pony, made for an
old shack of a house. He reached there
before dark. He did not have food and
the fuel in the house was scarce.
He sat up all night keeping the fire
going. He used all the fuel and when
the day before Christmas came the
blizzard had reached its height, the
thermometer was some 20 degrees be
low zero, and Pag had burned all the
rickety chairs, the table, the loose
boards of the floor. By noon of the
day before Christmas he "had used all
the floor for fuel and still he was cold.
There was nothing to do but strike
out for town 12 miles away.
His pony had drifted with the wind
along with the cattle .driven before
the blizzard and was gone.
Vesr floundered around for a while
in the snow and did not make much
headway. He was cold and then
quietly that soothing numbness that
comes with gradual freezing stole
over him. He sank down and soon he
was" warm, so warm and comfortable.
He had not felt so good since the
storm started.
When the blizzard had abated some
what a rancher who was working
his way to town saw something stick
ing out of a drift of snow. It was a
shoe. Behind that shoe was a foot,
a leg and a man.
Peg was found. It was hours be
fore he was gotten to town and it was
a wonder he was alive. There was
just a spark of life In him and it was
gradually fanned into a flame. Peg
lived but when the doctors got through
with him he was minus the ends of
his two lees and half of one arm.
The people felt sorry for him. They
didn't know what his German name
was. They didn t Care. He had been
an outcast, to be sure, but he needed
sympathy and he needed it more than
anyone else in the community. He
also needed a pair or peg legs, Tne
grocer on the corner started the work
bv promising the new legs for Peg.
A rancher gave a pony, although it
looked doubtful if Peg could ever use
it except to a buggy. The harness
maker gave a saddle and bridle. The
shoemaker promised a pair of boots,
if boots were any use on cork feet.
The hardware man gave the best pair
of spurs he had and threw in a brace
of Colts. The proprietor of the cloth
ing emporium gave the biggest hat he
had and a suit of clothes.
When Peg came to and opened his
eyes Christmas night all these gifts
were piled in the room in front of his
bed all but the pony, which couldn't
very well be brought into the room,
and the cork legs which had to come
from the east.
But more than the presents to Peg
were the people there in the room
looking at him with kindly, pitying
glances and all wishing him a Merry
Christmas.
Most men who had lost two legs and
an arm would not have felt merry.
Peg felt that he had lost a good deal
but he had gained more. He pulled
through and lived to wear the hat, the
boots, the spurs, the clothing and the
cork legs and to ride the pony. He is
living today in western Kansas and is
well to do. He has had opportunity to
help all who helped him, and others
too, and he has never failed to be the
first to offer assistance and friendship
where assistance and -friendship were
needed.
Peg says that Christmas was the
greatest day of his life, to what is left
of him.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
It takes more than nine men to make a
fashionable tailor.
A suburb by any other name would be
just as difficult to reach.
A woman is apt to exaggerate about ev
erything but her age.
Never try to dictate to a woman unless
she is your stenographer.
A woman isn't necessarily a good cook
because she roasts her neighbors.
Did it ever occur to you that most of
the men who drink to excess are married?
A pretty girl says many a young man
who knows where to stop doesn't know
when to go.
Good advice is well enough in its way,
but a hurgry man can't make a satisfac
tory meal of it.
The sayings and doings of many a mar
ried man depend altogether upon the kind
of a wife he has.
Does that woman live who can drive &
lazy horse without slapping it with the
lines about every ten feet?
When you're broke the girls are shy.
They turn and fly as you coma nigh.
Brace up. old man: show some pluck:
Take Rocky Mountain Tea; it'll change
your luck. Gatlia Drug Co.
THE PLAYER'S CHRISTMAS.
I.
In happier climes for luckier men while
Carols wjeo n da.
And sleeping folk are roused by
"Walts'1 with Christmas roudelay,
For us a pounding Poiter at the peace
ful hour of thiee
Raucous bawling "Git ep quick, the 'bus
won s wait on troopers!' See?"
II.
Oh, the frost is on the tree tops and the
snow is in the dU!
(It's a shame we left our rubbers at the
"Lake View Grand Hotel!")
But all the joys that poets sing and
poetasters rhyme
Are lost in wandering if the tram will
reach Podunk "on time."
I
III.
While children of the older growth their
yonker's antics view,
And in baby frolics sharing their lost fable-faith
renew;
While peace of home and mirth of feat
are found on every hand.
We've the dank insult called dinner in a
western one night stand.
1
While your yule log's (or your anthra
cite's, or gas stove's) cheery flame
(If your "local habitation's" one that's
worthy of the "name,")
If in mansion (or in "chambers," or con
gested flat) you dwell.
Make all mankind feel the magic of the
joyous Christmas spell;
While your table groans (or murmurs)
with its (more or less) display.
The mummer's mixing grease paint for
the Christmas matinee.
v
Oh, lords of hearts and dames of homes.
Whose Joy of zhts time speaks.
In the ringing of your laughter, in the
holly of your cheeks;
'Twixt the oysters and the coffee let a
tearful toast be drunk
To the Player's poor penates in the top-
tray oi urn trunx.
By Wilton Lackaye.
THE CHRIST.
Written for the State Journal by W. A.
mcjvcever, xaannattan, n.an.j
I.
Out of infinity,
Born from eternftv.
Came once a child from the Father above.
WW m tne manger. Ha
Lay where great destiny
Named him forever the Savior of Love.
II.
Child of immensity,
Sent to show vmt nA m
How that we too may be saviors of men;
.oiiiuing- me oroKen neart.
Breaking the bonds apart.
Bidding the downcast start upward again,
I
ill.
Deep as infinity.
Broad as eternity.
Great as immensity, being of mine!
I am the life, the way;
I am the Truth today;
I am the Love for aye, perfect, divine.
JAYIIAWKEK JOTS.
Concordia liquor is shipped to town la
beled "crockery."
We are all hoping to be gifted people
Two plasterers in a street fight at Cha
nute mixed up thoroughly.
Great Bend has nine churches and an.
cording to Carrie Nation, almost as many
A story comes out of Cloud county
about a young man being nearly devoured
uy wolves.
It may or may not be a white Christmas
In Topeka, but thank the Lord it won't
ue a Diue one.
The Eureka Herald force have lost their
spectacles, but they continue to get out
tb guuu paper, nevertneiess.
A Fredonia glass factory secures its
sand from Klondike. They might have
suue iu mrs. inaawicK or lAwson.
Eureka has written Santa Claus to give
them a gas well, a new opera house and
a scneme to get Main street paved.
An abandoned livery stable is to be turn
ed into a skating rink. The hay mow will
ue utilized as a gallery ror spectators.
The fellow who out in the niirht rnhhlm
the Soldier depot to secure 64 cents might
ueiier nave spent niteen minutes or so
nusKing corn.
Two of the finest white turkeys ever
seen m tjoneyviue were hanging in. front
of a local butcher shop this week. They
were dressed.
Why go to Cuba? Roses are blooming
uuiuwrs in souinnrn nansas and a Jan
uary game of football is announced for
ArKansas (jity.
The stork has visited an Overbrook cow
twice within two weeks and the owner is
wondering if it's going to be a case of
perpetual motion.
The Beloit farmer who has gone to Jail
in preference to oavine: a divorce unit
costs will at least get out of building
in C3 iuca UVllU 111 Ul 111H2J.
Medicine Lodge has a character who
promenades the streets In his shirt sleeves
when other men are wearing overcoats
and the mercury is down to 10 below.
Walt until after Governor-elect - Hoch
attempts to settle the quarrel between
southeast Kansas gas factions, then, in-
aeea, win ne wisn mmseil back to Grigs
by's station.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.
Things never go right. Don't ex
pect it.
Some people ask for Christmas
presents.
A letter is all right. In Its way;
but a telegram is the real thing.
Church White and Bill Bowen tell
good stories, but they don't like to
listen to them.
"I have sense enough to quit
smoking, but I haven't nerve enough."
Drake Watson.
People never expect much of news
papers during the holidays; and they
are seldom disappointed.
Nothing seems to die harder than
the superstition that a woman can
make candy cheaper than she can buy
it.
We can't abolish the Xmas cus
tom; we're going to quit trying. The
more we fuss, the more they write it
Xmas.
It always pleases us to hear that
a boy is "getting along." Boys are !
abused so much, and so many times
unjustly. j
Oh, well. It is possible to outgrow
a trouble: now we no longer worry
that Santa Claus can't get here if
there is no snow.
There Is one similarity between the
real Santa Claus and the pretended;
no one pays any attention to either
of them on Christmas day.
When you read of a baby being
born on a street car or on a train, you
can at least be grateful to your own
mother for having had better Judg
ment. Possibly you think the Globe is
running too much advertising. Re
member that every advertisement con
tains the word Christmas, and be
merry.
An Atchison woman not only has
nervous prostration, but is Screaming
with terror; she accidentally gave
away to a child the fact that there Is
no Santa Claus. She fears she will
Never Be Forgiven.'
After all, was the Spartan lad who
said nothing when the fox gnawed at
his vitals, so brave? Hadn't he stolen
it? Hasn t every one in his days suf
fered for a sin without a groan, when
if it had been an honest ache, the
whole town would have heard him?
Holiday Rates via Mlsourl Pacific
Railway.
The rate will be one fare plus 50
cents, except between points where
rate of one and one-third fares is less
with minimum of 60 cents. Dates of
sale December 24, 26, 26 and 31 and
January 1 and 2, limited to January 4.
To Move, or to
Store Your Goods
TRY US
Phone 320
Topeka Transfer and Storage Co.
406 East Sixth Street
Id iss goot for Touega dot Cadging
Cassie dit nodt light on id. Efen a negero
bum mlt der cbeabest kind ut a forgery
can flam-fllm Topega. Cassie vould haf
sviped der chande-loo-er oudt uf der au
dytorum und den borrowed der ding-dong
wagon from Cheef Stahl to haul id avay
mit. Pecoollar, alndt id, vod fools some
beoples iss? Eferybody iss fools but you
und me, und somedlmes you iss.
As a frlendt I ask you dis: Sposink I
vas earning along, una you und your vlfe
vas earning, too, along, und sposink a gob
uf snow hit me py der eye und makes me
vink at your vlfe uf dls should happen,
do you sposink vould be all right und
fair fer you to kick me und svat me on
der head mlt a basket uf Chrismas junk?
Dere iss some us us hard-ups vot al
mosd vlsn ve vas a Chlnymans, so ve
could go on der fairsd uf der year oudt,
und py simbly shootlnk ourself on der
neck, seddle all uf our debts.
Goot liddle kids haf been alvays told
dot Sandycluss vondt fergedt dem pecaus
dey iss poor, budt uf der vash-laty's kid
viU egsamine closely he vill discofer dot
dere iss more as thlrdy cendts difference
bedween der toy he gedts und der von
vlch came to Chimmie Vilson, across dar
streedt.
Mr. Ferrand-Cunningham seems to haf
peen a ladies' man, und had lots uf f e-
male friendts, but hiss mad Infaduatloa
fer a automebeel -as der strongesdt. He
vas simbly carried avay mit id.
Dere iss going to be a radical dufference
bedween dis lechislacher und der laad
von. Id iss dls: A dufferent bunch uf
spoilers vill connect mlt der spoils.
Id's der night pefore Chrlsmus,
Und all trough my flat
Nod a critter iss Stirling
Agsepting a rat.
Dor stofe-plpe iss oben
Und so iss my face.
Vile I dream uf der green-fields
Uf soma oder biace.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press. J
The man with a grievance is a grlevaM
to others.
A woman can forget more rears than
she ever had.
It is hardly ever worth while to know
more than the man you want to like you.
The only man who is willing to admit
he did not predict the result of the elec
tion is the one who got beaten.
When you guess right In a political
campaign you are a great leader; when
you guess wrong a deposed boss.
A girl thinks she Is having a flirtation
when she sticks her umbrella into a man's
eye trying to get on a street car.
Don't tie the top of your
jelly and preserve Jars Id
the old fashioned way. Seal
them by the new, quick.
at thin coating of Pare
xtaunea i-sraaino. lias
bo taate or odor. Is
lr tight and acid
proof. Easily applied.
Useful In adozen other
waya about tha hntM
Full directions with
each cake.
Bold everywhere. UadeSy
STANDARD OIL CO.