The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-11


brains" existed no more 1t may reach
that place-but every brave. healthy
minded young man and young woman
who goes out into the state, equipped
with right thoughts and sane ideals,
determined to carry forward noble
plans uninfluenced by every wind that
blows, is an added power in the MAX
ling of true greatness for our beloved
commonwealth. The kansan Of tomor-
row will ask With Lowell:
why shall man go down to live
in his cellar instead of mounting 10
those fair upper chambers which look
towards the sunrise2'
The world of today demands simple
! ity. In music, in art, in literature, IN
architecture in religion, men want TO
get at the heart of things without any
unnecessary nonsense. The new Pull
man cars have no gold and green NIL
gree ornaments, the new houses have
no fancy ScroOl saw work on the gables,
the new furniture is as plain as if-as
| George AIDE says-it were chopped out
with an AK Carry this tendency into
your life and into the business and po-
Ilitical life of the state. Make it simple,
clear, forceful Leave out the gaudi-
ness the scroll saw work, the green and
gold ornaments. 1t is thus that we APP
proach the art of our fathers, the up
lifting of the early days. the glor1es OF
the golden age Good old Marcus Azure
Illus, whose wisdom we should read Of
ten saws: such are thy habitual
Thoughts. so also will be the character
of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by
the thoughts"
A few short weeks ago the chief mag
listrate of the nation came to us and he
brought a message. Was it of the ad-
lvantages of wealth. of the service OF
conquest. of the pride of armies? None
of these With all his wide experience,
with all his admira Bile outlook on the
things that go to make nation great
4 with all his knowledge of men and MS
sympathy with the west, he could con-
ceive of no better, no nobler tldlngs
than to herald the worth of character
Above all and beyond all in the max
ing of an American, in the making of
a Kansan, he placed this Not know
ledge, not money, not statesmanshlp'
not strength. not even determination
but character. The simple goodness
that warns the heart. that makes for
the brotherhood of man. that brings
into the life the true sympathy that
has it's home in religion and obtains
its power from heaven. He was sim
cere he meant what he said-he al
ways does-and it was a significant
thing that nothing else in the broad
field of human knowledge and exper-
fence was to him so worthy as this
and he was right.
UNFOLDING OF THE SOUL.
Near my home is a rich expanse or
unbroken plain. Set high above a
broad valley where full orchards, way
ing fields and happy homes make a
panorama of plenty, it is as gift or
virgin paradise amid the cIamorous ac-
tivity of the twentieth century. One may
lose himself on its slopes and view
naught but the emerald of the rolling
prairie and the Opalescent blue of the
overbending sky 1t seems to me a sad
thing when a young man or a young
woman sees nothing in that bit of ma
ture but fine pasture, profitable hay
? ! ground, an opportunity for canter-
, But if there come yelling to eager lips
, words of appreciation of the blending
, of colors as the sun tips the hills with
glory; if eyes dim with suggestions of
! infinity in the circle of blushing haze on
the limit of vision, If the sweep of the
. winds awaken wonder at the marvellous
nandiwork of creation-then is come to
> pass a gracious miracle; the unfolding
of soul that through all the VlclsSl-
, tudes of earthly years shall be uDlifted
! and unafraid. It is such perception,
such recognition, that the Kansas youth
should seek. The gem of this life is its
possession. No degree can equal it; no
honor or place serve as a substitute.
2 From the pulpit comes to US the pre-
I cept wonderful in its teachings: The
f kingdom of God is within you-' It is
but a half truth. In equal measure with
) equal application to life and art, the
! kingdom of this world is within you
: The men and women who have won, the
a captains of industry, of literature. OF
science of education. have succeeded be-
! cause they had within them the i'm
: mortal selfhood that conquers.
William Ernest Henley, of blessed
memory, in all his volumes of graceful
and artistic verse, wrote nothing thai
= will live so long as this:
ct matters not how strait the gate.
How charged with punishments ths
scroll;
:. 1 am the master of my fate,
d I am the captain of my SOUL
Il In southern Europe at the foot Of
tree-crowned cliff bubbles a spring, anC
Q its legend relates that he who drinks
II of its waters viii one day return u
g drink again. Travellers dip their whit
h nectar of the fountain. believing
= irving to helieNe-that thew will com.