The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-03
SOME NEW LINES.
Some Songs and Sayings in Light
Opera and Plays.

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cess" the light opera in which Miss Lulu
/ CHASER is appearing, have pretty swing.
One Of the best is THE Cavalier:
I've a name that's known to court,
In both rumor and report.
As a man who has touchy disposition.
admit I'm rather savage,
And my enemies / ravage;
Revenge I seek with greatest expedition.
| Ger all the British nation
have made reputation
As a cavalier who's fond of a duel1o;
With the slightest cause for action,
1 demand full satisfaction
In fact, I am a dangerous sort of fellow.
With cloak and sword and plumed hat,
I'm the beau ideal aristocrat;
Fighting, flirting,
Maids deserving,
Knowing neither care nor fear.
Full of swagger, fire and dash,
Fond of all adventures rash,
A desperate,
Full of bravado.
I'm a typical cavalier.
To a demoiselIe or dame
Who for beauty has a name,
L lay siege and she is certain to surren-
der;
have yet to see the coldness
That will never yield to holiness
But proudest has for me smile that's
To sit jauntily at table,
To call for wine, when comrades all are
At cards love battle,
adore the dice's rattle
In fact, am devil of a fellow.
Raffles. the fascinating gentleman
burglar, who, in the person of Kyrle
Bellew, outwits Captain Bedford, the
not always defensibIe, ideas upon the
question of crime and it's relation to
social conditions. Here are some lines
from AR. Bellows play bearing upon
the point:
Lady Melrose-The man a thief and
a member of society," 1t is unheard of
Raffles-Not at all, Lady Melrose.
Society is founded upon theft!
All-ImpOsSible.
Raffles-Not at all. Simply a case of
heredity. Social prestige is founded
upon possession, titles, lands, conquests
something taken from others by
armed superiority. 1t took us thirty
years to steal Kent, upon which we
founded England. Alexander stole
Asia, one might say. from the waist
coat pocket of Darius. History calls
him Great Caesar won his toga by
stealing a province with borrowed
fleet. Three thefts gave him all Gaul.
In five years he stole the whole of Eu-
rope. His descendants today rob us
when we visit Naples-from sheer force
of heredity, no doubt.
Lord -SophistryI Sophis-
try, my dear Raffles. Amusing, but
sophistry.
Raffles-No. Lord Amersteth. Truth,
Virtue and Courage once were the same
words in all languages. Law breakers
who were brave believed themselves
also good and gained the sympathy of
their fellows-we haven't forgotten
that. That's why condemned GRIM
inals get tons of roses and notes of
sympathy.
Two of Raffles' aphorisms are:
To follow crime with reasonable i'm
punity one should have some other os-
tensible career.
There is no such thing as a safe safe.
Besides. locks and keys are but hints
to the honest to remain SO. They can
not keep out the intelligent and enter
prising burglar.
Raffles insists that the brainy Grim
inal is more than a match for the
brairFy detective.
With fear eliminated, the intelligent
criminal is superior to the intelligent
policeman Given a man without fear,
he is above the law of detection. How,
then can you catch him? The leader
is always more than a match for the
follower-other conditions being equal.
The hare is superior to the hound.
When the good fellow, Bunny dis