The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-14

As the Irish section boss wrote, after T
he had been warned not to make his
reports of small wrecks too long:
of again
"On again
Gone again
tsigned) FLANAGAN"
The Germans have a word wander |
lust which is hard to translate into
English but 1t means the feeling that
gets dnfosthe heart OF any one who has
Travelled some and which impels him
to start of. once more whenever he gets
fairly stopped. There is very little
more excuse for this journey than the
swanderlust" and the desire to see
strange scenes and foreign lands. The
United States is the greatest country
on earth but there are some people
! who were IN business before America
was on the map and they have done
some things that are worth looking at
1 and thinking about. No matter how
| se1f-satisfied we are with own
things there is always somewhere
1 something equally as good" Once
/ upon a time very devoted husband
met with the crushing misfortune Of
/ losing his wife. His grief was COM
mented on most favorably in all the
sewing societies of the town and as a
sign of his broken heart he had
| beautiful monument placed above the
/ grave with the inscription: 1.-THE Light
of Ny Life has Gone Out" In a few
months he married again The sec
| ond wife was never comfortable over
the remarks made by the neighbors
leoncerning the monument in the Gem
etery, and she soon had him seeing his
| error. Decency forbade taking down
| the stone, but the resourceful woman
made a way and one day the people
/ who went to the grave yard found an
! amendment to the inscription so that
it read: 1.-The Light of my Life has
/ Gone Out. But have found match
An added reason for taking a sec
ond trip to Europe is that I found on
my return that in fact / had seen
nothing at ali of those things which
L should have seen. Whenever tried
to discourse, say of London, I would
be met with the query, rOf course you
| went to see so and so? What, you
4 didn't. Why. that is the greatest thing
in London. You surely didn't get
around muchI" Now a matter Of
fact l had walked until I had corns
on my feet and gazed until I had corns
on my eyes, and thought [ had seen
4 about everything that a self-respecting
man with his wife along could be ex-
pected to visit. But everybody who
has been in Europe and every body
who has read anything about Europe
has made me so ashamed of myself
/
tempted to deny that I had ever been
east Of Burton, in order to escape
conviction.
It has been told that I am going to
Russ There IS no doubt but that
lsnewspaper man should visit that coun-
! try great editor. once said that the
art of finding news was to know where
hell would break out next and be there.
Russia fills the bill and have no doubt
but the history of that country for the
next few years will be the news OF the
world But there are impediments in
the way. The car IS not just now
/ giving cordial invitations to American
newspaper men to visit him in his home.
1t would be very difficult to go to Rus
STA and not run some risk of being
blown up and when I leave this world
I want a better starting place than
Russia It IS true that if a Kansas
editor should be dynamited or even put
in Jail. Nor just lose an arm, or leg,
+he people of Kansas would lay aside
factions and rise as one man upon his
hind legs and roar. Roosevelt would
give two whoops and be in the game,
something. I suspect, we would rather
like The unknown Kansas editor
would have a worldwide reputation
within "a hours and Uncle Sam would
mt his boot against the czar in the
tnlace where it would do the most good.
II explained all this to Mrs Morgan,
who is not in favor of Russian trip
hut she remains unmoved I even Of
ferpd the crown or n1drIErdOn IN the
cause of humanity to her. but she turn
ed it down. She prefers to be a live
although unknown tourist to having a
martyrs crown and getting her name
( in the newspapers for two weeks Wo-
men are funny. As have said. the in
dicatfons for visit to Russia are very
poor
} After leaving New York our first stop
was in HobOlen. It IS really not nee
essary to cross the ocean to reach a
foreign land. three cent fare from
New York city VIII land you in Ho-
! bolzen. New Jersey, where the people
talk all languages but English. The
signs. the faces. the tongues and the
l ways are really more like Berlin and
Jerusalem than they are like those OF
Kansas or even New York. The steam
Z ship Deutschland. in which 7 had ar
ranged to cross the Atlantic was watt
ing for US and as soon as I had gotten
aboard and began to wonder where
the baggage was. the screw TevOlved
and the voyage had begun.
The experience of seeing ones ma
tive land fade into the distance is
always a solemn one. Down the har-
Dor we went. passed the big build
ings of the lower end of the city
e saw the lair of the Wall street Oc-
2 topus disappear, went by Governors
island, where the United States army
2 Of the east has its headquarters. and
under the eye Of the statue of Liberty
+ Enlightening the World. I wonder
how that statue must look to the
: foreign emigrant as ne realizes its
Z Significance to him. NO more vii
D he have to bow down to kings OF
: dukes or take off his hat to any mar
t unless he wishes to- Freedom doesna
j, mean more to eat. more to wear Of
= more holidays from work But It doe.
! strike a harmonious note in the hu-
3 man soul when 1t makes him reaiize
that If he Is honest and decent NJ