The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-02

Have you striven. man, to girdle ''all the
earth" within your arm
AS YOU. note the consultations dart and
simmer with alarm?
Have you seen the misty vistas of alright
within her die
As you win her faintest answer to be
yours for aye and aye?
Have you felt the rocking motion of the
universe that dips
AS you press her closer, closer, slipping
money from her lips?
| If you nave. o happy lover, you have seen
the system right
For the way to heaven opened to astron-
Byron Williams.
Oliver Cromwell's Way.
Oliver Cromwell, who was absolute
ruler of England from 1648 to 1858,
although a man of great force of will,
was crude and uncouth. His religious
fervor amounted almost to fanaticism.
He was of vigorous mold and strong
convictions. He appeared to be
equally great as a military captain and
statesman. He arose to every occa-
sion. His vigorous foreign policy
made England as much feared abroad
as the lord protector was at home.
That this unlettered farmer could
wrest from the hands of Charles the
scepter of a hundred kings, ''cut off
his head with his crown on it, as he
expressed it, and make himself abso-
Lutte, is one of the marvels of history.
In the long parliament Cromwell
represented the county of Cambridge.
Sir Philip Warwick, a royalist contem-
porary, gives the following description
of him:
II came into the house one morn
ing, well clad, and perceived a gentle
man speaking whom L knew not, very
ordinarily appareled, for it was a plain
cloth suit, which seemed to have been
made by an ill country tailor. His
linen was plain and not very clean.
and I member a speck or two of
blood upon his little band, which was
not much larger than his collar. His
ure was of a good size; his sword
stuck close to his side: his counte-
nance swollen and reddish; his voice
sharp and untunable. and his elo-
quence full of fervor. for the subject
matter would not bear much of rea-
son, 1t being in behalf of a servant Of
Mr.. Prynee's. who had dispersed
iibels again the queen for her dancing,
he aggravated the Imprisonment of
this man by the council table upon
that height that one would have be-
lieved the very government itself had
been in great danger by it,
After Cromwelps military successes
had fired him with the ambition of
taking it upon him to be a king" his
first step was to dissolve the long par
lament, which was not disposed to
take orders implicitly. He repaired to
the parliament house with a strong
military force and after making the
following speech, turned the members
out Of doors:
at is high time for me to put an
end to your sitting in this place, which
We have dishonored by your contempt
of all virtue, and defiled by your prac-
lice of every vice. 3, Ye are factious
crew and enemies to all good govern
vvnn Va nf
wretches, and would. like Esau. sell
your Country for a mess of pottage;
and like Judas, betray your God for a
few pieces of money. Is there single
virtue now remaining among you? Is
there one vice you do not possess?
You have no more religion than my
horse. Gold is your god. Which of
you has not bartered away your con-
among you that has the care for the
good of the commonwealth? You.
who were deputed here by the people
to get their grievances redressed. are
grievance grievance Your Country, th eefore,
calls upon me to cleanse this Augean
stable, by putting a final period to
your Ubiquitous proceedings. And by
Gods help and the strength He has
given me I am come to do it. I com-
mand you, therefore, upon the peril OF
your lives, to depart Immediately out
Of this place. Go, get you out; make
HdSle. y0 Vendl slaves, D0SOn6!
Punxsutawney (Pa.) Spirit.
Hearts and Manners
When Robert Louis Stevenson made
his first trip across the plains to Cali
fornia, after having crossed the Allan
tic in the steerage of a Glasgow steam
er, he travelled in an ordinary, not over
comfortable car, as other poor 'en1i-
grants" travel, says Harper's Bazaar.
He was Ill, weak and particularly sensi-
tive to the manners of the people he
met. AS he dropped forlornly in the
corner of his seat a newsboy. striding
through the car with papers, jostled
him rudely. A little later the same boy
passed a second time, and again, ap-
parently with intention, pushed rough
ly against Stevenson. When the door
opened on his tormentor for the third
time Stevenson, wasted and feverish as
he was, pulled himself together and
prepared to do battle-self-respect de-
at least a show of resistance!
The newsboy-a big hobbledehoy of
sixteen-approached the genius; the
genius doubled up his emaciated fist;
when, 10! the newsboy in passing Slip
ped a large and juicy pear into the
sick mans hand, and staggered on
without waiting to be thanked. Be-
at such inconsistent behavior,
Stevenson came to the conclusion that
the Americans have the best hearts and
the worst manners in the world.
Remington's Indian Story