The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-25
o. HOPE JONES.
He Delivers a Lecture on the Subject
of Love.

copyright. 1903, by c. B. Lewis.1
| Fellow countrymen of Harper'S Cor
ners The subject of my lecture this
evening has already been announced by
! handbills, but as some of you may have
got things mixed up 1 will say that it
/ is Love.
Let us begin business by asking.
! What is love? No one can give teen
nical answer but we've all been there
/ and know how ii is. Perhaps it is
needless to tell you that love began In
the Garden of Eden. Adam had been
sloshing around for weeks and weeks,
all alone in the world and boss of
everything but he wasn't exactly
happy. He found himself signing and
yearning and looking about for some
thing that wasn't there, Day by day
| the feeling grew stronger, and he could
MT shak< it off by climbing trees or
| jumping over fences. 1t may seem
| ridiculous to that old baldhead sitting
on the back bench, but that. my
friends was the budding and the be-
ginning Of love in the human breast.
One day Adam found Eve as he was
strolling around, and l don't suppose II
was two hours before he was sQueez-
! ing her hand and calling her an angel
and telling her how much he loved her.
Love today is the same as it was in
the beginning. There has been no
change The feeling seems to begin
| way down in our toes and work up
until it lifts the hat off our head.
Sometimes there is loss of appetite con-
nected with it-sometimes it makes one
hungry Sometimes it makes one sleep
and dream of cherubS flying about
sometimes it keeps him awake and pac-
ing the floor all night
There is no other human sentiment
so strong. Ambition will send man
out to a ward caucus on a dark night
but love will obhge him to walk three
miles in a snow storm to see the out
side of the house in which his girl re-
! sides. You may hate man and keep
! it uD for three or four weeks, but it
/ finally pals on you and you let 60
Not so with love. 1t hangs right to
you like a dog to a root, and you either
marry the female or she throws you
down with a dull thud and breaks your
heart. 1t has been truly said that If
the sentiment of love was eliminated
/ from the human heart we would degen-
crate into either wolves or donkeys,
and no one can doubt it.
In all times and all ages love has
been the spur to incite a man to great
er efforts. cite you the case of Alex
ander the Great. He was Jogging
/ along at a pretty good gait at the age
of twenty-three. but the highest aim he
mad IN view was to command a hum
1 dred soldiers and be addressed as
Cap One evening. when he was out
to candy-pull, or something of the
sort. he met redhaired girl with a
willowy form and fell in love with her
at the droO of the hat He saw her
nome from the party, and he had hard
~ left at the gate before he was am
bilious for place and power. He took
a jump upwards from that very hour,
and he continued to jump, and history
has told you the pinnacle he finally
reached. IN due time their cards read,
Mr.. and Mrs. Alexander the Great"
and love was the cause of it.
You have heard of Diogenes. of
course. He was the old chap who sat
around in his tub most of the time, but
upon occasions went about with a lam
tern in the daytime looking for an
honest man. He got off a lot of stuff
he called philosophy, but it was no
4 thicker than the CRIME on the back of
his neck. He got the reputation of be-
4 ing an old crank. and he would have
died in his tub and been dumped into
a sewer if he hadn't met up with a
certain widow named I.adias. She was
fair, fat and forty, and had about $780,
600 in cash behind her, and old dog
was no chicken.