The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-09


As busy could be;
At banquets and in long parades
He showed his dignity.
Twas thus he lived for many years.
And when he came to die
The city all in mourning stood,
A tear in every eye.
A marble shaft proclaimed his worth
And people called him great
man who started low in life,
But rose to high estate.
And yet he simply played game
No matter What he did. forsooth,
The public always knew.
Night in the Slums of Paris.
AS it grows later the streets fill;
women come out; the beggars come
home from the boulevards; from
farther away-from the suburbs and
outskirts-come the little men who
have made a coup, emptied a pocket
or villa; LA Boule" has finished his
oysters and we begin our night
journey. AS we turn into the Rue
Pirouette the lighted belfry of st.
That street is dark. You can hardly
make out the figures that pass, men
or women. The air is heavy with the
odors of fish, of decaying vegetables
with dead things; your boots crunch
on snail shells. At No. there is a
low archway; it leads to the Cour du
Heaume, a vast court, surrounded by
gallery set on pillars of wood; five
centuries ago. it was a sumptuous
palace-this moldy building; then a
Court of Miracles;' this night it is
filled with empty hand carts. with
ladders, baskets. the refuse of the
markets; only against one wall a half
dozen old hays lie Misunderstanding
away the hours until they can find
work at the markets. Further on, the
Rue Pierouette is lighter. Women
stand in the doorways-the eternal
women of the underworld. They offer
you the effrontery of their eyes.
They wear no hats these women;
the glory of each of them is her huge
casque of hair. yellow. red or black
built high on the head.
The "little men, in the wine shops
look out as we pass, LA Boule' and
I; they are drinking absinthe. playing
cards, eating snails; most of them are
young: they are sallow and lean and
it is in their horoscope to die
in Jail or under the guillotine or in
wild brawi of knives. We shall meet
them yonder in the "Angel Gabriel"
in the "Cave Of the Innocents" and
many another den tonight; and they
Paris. From without the "Angel Ga
BRIEF is as banal as any other of the
dirty wine shops of the town. And
indeed unless one is an old Partisan.
given to Summing. there is no way of
telling the peaceful tavern from the |
den of murder and spoil-vance
in the Outing Magazine.
A European Bridge Crush"
Another delusion of the guide books is |
the advice to ride second class on the |
of Europe. 1t is often pointed |
out that first class and second class are |
frequently but divisions of the same car |
and this makes great impression On |
the inexperienced traveller, particularly |
# his purse is limited. Landing at Ply |
mouth. Southampton, Havre, Cherbourg,
Liverpool. you are at once conveyed to |
London or Paris on steamer trains"
1nder the same excellent conditions that |
nave prevailed on your trip. But there |
after you are at your own resources.
and If you are wise you will not only
-ravel first class but you will see to /
t that your seat is always engaged well |
ahead. If you travel second class be- |
ween cities that correspond to New
York and Philadelphia, say where inter
course is frequent and numerous, you
will most likely have to stand up in all
second class compartments. To get
seat between Vienna and |
3uda Pesth, for example, is about like
boarding a train for Coney Island at
Brooklyn Bridge on a summer Sunday
lfternoon. And if you do get seat,
omebody eats sandwiches and sausages
m your lap. Another point to be re-
rendered is that in Europe you cannot
ngage a whole sleeping compartment |
or yourself, as you can here. You
ave to show a ticket for each berth.
therefore, it behooves the person
travelling alone at night to seek out be-
ore arranging the trip some suitable
ompanion, or for parties of three or
i've or any odd number to make SIM
ar provisions.-The Travel Magazine.
Why We Don't Seek Export Trade.
1 read a few weeks ago the appeal
Z a commercial traveller in South
America in behalf of the market for ,
Cortland cement. Brazil, he said, was !
sing many million tons of cement, :
urchased chiefly in England, Belgium ;
nd Germany. "Whv.' he wrote, docs
IAN some of this market and show the
BRAZILIAN what good stuff we can 3,
lake?" But the American cement |
does not care for the .
eep up with his home orders; many
sctories are months behind the local :
emand, and 1t would be ridiculous to :
hip the stuff five to eight thousand ;
lilies when it can be sold easily and
t good profit at home. This is true
z paints, of drugs, of locomotives, and |,
a hundred other articles that are
bsorbed by our internal commerce as
,st as we can produce them. The
reat trusts make use of foreign mar T
cts by selling abroad cheaper than
lev sell at home, and I have seen ar =
cles displayed in Rio at lower price
IAN had been quoted not ten miles
ON the factory. Such methods COM q
ste with Germans, undoubtedly. but r
,e average American-the man on the
reet-feels his patriotism at a low
,b when he must praise the trusts for 8
.lIing in South America at compel o
q price that which they sell at twice o
lis price at home. This unwillingly d
attributed tax drainspatriotism quick
than it can be supplied. Is
The German seeks these foreign mar 7
is because his increasing productive Il
v demands an outlet. AS a rule we n
rot vet need these foreign markets