The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-08-08
IN HOTEL CORRIDORS.

three years has been remarkable, SAID
a gentleman talking with a friend at the
Fifth Avenue. "A few years ago very
few people excepting teachers. scholars
| and mapmalzers paid any attention 70
| geography outside of their country ana
some of them had forgotten even that,
not having looked at a map since their
| school days unless we considered rail-
road maps. The great change began
when the war between Greece and Iur-
key was on. The newspapers began run
ming poor substitutes for maps to ex-
! plain their reports better and in a short
1 time there was a great demand for maps
| of that section of Europe. There were
many men who had forgotten where
| Greece was and when the maps came
out it was a revelation. The general
| impression was that it was an island or
a peninsula or something Of that sort
and that it was located in southern Eur
| ope, but there was not one man in one
| hundred who could locate ii accurate
| When our war with Spain came on the
| sale Of maps increased greatly and many
a man dug up an old geography to ind
| out where the West Indies were and
/ what they were. The morning that the
report of Dewey's victory was announc-
| ed there was hardly man, even in the
newspaper offices, who knew anything
of the Philippines, and it would be safe
to say that not one in ten thousand
knew which one of the islands Manila
was on or on which side of the island it
was located. That has all been changed
now, and any NUMBER OF peOpie can rat
tie off the names of the different Philip
pine islands and can talk glibly of the
subdivisions of Cuba and Porto Rico
The British Boer war opened up a pan
Drama of a region that was almost IN
known to people in this hemisphere, ard
was most instructive in attracting our
attention to the geographical features OF
South Africa as we'll as to its inhabi-
tantS and their mode of living. The
present war in China has opened TO
many minds new world and is teaching
them more about the F1owery kingdom
than they ever knew before. If this war
business keeps up we will know the geo
graphy and politics of every country as
well we do our own. 1t is a great
snap for the map-makerS for it is inn
possible to get an understanding of the
movements of the troops without a good
map and the great demand is creating
an extra lot OF map peddlers.
"a novel question was settled by the
supreme court of Tennessee not long
ago. remarked an attorney chatting
with few friends at the Copeland THE
question was whether counsel in his ar
gunaent to the jury has right to shed
tears and it was decided that he had,
and that furthermore it is not only pro-
per, but if tears are available 1t IS cou1-
sells duty to shed them when occasion
demands. do not remember the case,
but the weeping was done and objected
to by opposing counsel on the ground
that the tears unduly excited the pas
greatly prejudiced them in favor of the
weeper'S client. The supreme judge said
in discussing the question in COURT
Bearing upon the assignment of error,
we have been cited to no direct author
ity, and after diligent search we have
been able to find none. The conduct of
counsel in presenting their cases to Jur
les is a matter which must be left large
ly> to the ethics of the profession, and
the discretion of the trial judge. Per
haps no two counsel observe the same
rule. Some deal wholly in logic and le
gal argument, without any embellish-
1nent whatever. Others use rhetoric
and occasional flights of fancy and i'm
agination. Others rely upon noise and
gesticulation, earnestness of manner and
Teheme1ce Of speech Others appeal to
the passions, Irejudices and sy1npathies
of the jury. Others combine all these
modes with various accomplishments of
different kinds. No cast iron rule should
be laid down. To do so would result that
in many cases clients would be deprived
of the privilege of being heard at all by
counsel. Tears have always been con-
sidered legitimate arguments before the
jury, and we know OF no power or Jur1S-
diction of the trial judge to check them.
1t would appear to be one of the natural
rights of counsel which no statute
constitution could take away. 1t is GER
tainly a matter Of highest personal priv
ilege Indeed, if counsel have tears at
command, it may be seriously question
ed whether it is not his professional duty
arises, and the trial judge would not
feel constrained to interfere unless they
are INDUCED in to such an excess as to
impede, eTnbaITass, or delay the business
before the court "
It met a man on the train the other
day who has a very peculiar hobby
said a travelling man during a conVersa-
ton with a friend at the National. Il
have met the man before several times
and in different places, but I never knew
that he had a hobby. He is very quiet
about it and unless some chance should
reveal it even his best friends might be
in ignorance concerning the hobby His
hobby is sticIxpinS or Scarfpins and as it
is not very expensive one he can in
dulge in it. He has some very expensive
pins and his collection is probably worth
s., 000 He has a pin for almost every
day in the year and when he gets thar
number he says he viii be satisfied. But
he won't; he will still want every unique
pin he can find did not see many of
the pins, only a few dozen but / think
those that he showed me were the most
beautiful that 1 have ever seen. \
friend who has seen the entire collection
says that he has a few diamonds, some
Australian OpalS, pearls and other prec-
iouS stones and some exquisite designs
in plain gold and silver. He told me that
a number of people had the same hobby
and that he had seen collections that
were far beyond his dreams. It seems
to me to be a mighty poor hobby bDt
then as long as a man is going to have q
hobby it is better to have the least in
offensive one possible and guess stick
pins are less likely to cause adverse
comment than anything else. 1t is much
better than the pipe hobby to say the
least and is not as troublesome to the
rest OF humanity who object to the vile
smell of an old pipe
TEXAS DEMOCRATS.