The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-29
MEMORIES.

tove to thi1x of the days gone oy Wneh
Would wander wherever wanted to go,
lazy and ainlesSly.
L love to think OF the path that leo tnTo
woodlands cool ana SWEEP,
To the dear old stream where used 10 go
to free myself from heat.
And l love to dream OF that river panR
and the placid swimming place,
Where the willows swayed by the breezes
kissed the waters breast with grace. ,
But / hate to think of tho day when al
my dreams were put to rout:
When mother discovered my hair was wet
and my shirt was inside out.
It's long way back to the dear old days,
When 1 was a kid with freckles and a
head of towsled tow.
scenes that then were mine.
The swimming hole, the. meadows. and
the pathway for the kline.
1 love to dream of my dreams OF then,
onward creep the years,
But ever there's one thing steals in them
that stops my flow of tears
And that's the thought of the day when I
WA was logged with q, paddle ,s.1 :, stout
and my shirt was inside out.
Milwaukee Sentinel.
A Political Sphinx.
The late disclosure of New York
newspaper correspondent that Mr.
Cortelyou, secretary of the treasury,
is candidate for the Republican
nomination in 1908. and u.s. therefore,
quietly working against Mr.. Taft, was
probably the merest gossip, and, at
any rate, it is too easy to spoil a man 5
good name by accepting as true any
statement rejecting on his loyalty
Mr.. Cortelyou owes a good deal to
Mr.. Roosevelt. and has not yet indi-
Gated that he Is capable of surrepti-
tious dealing with his friends How
ever that may be. Mr. cortelyou's is a
wonderful career. Whether it is one
to- be enlulated or not, remains to be
seen. In the terms of current base
bali English, he has made GOOD to
those whom he has intimately served,
but he has been singularly deficient in
opportunities to justify his high at
tainments to the country at large.
Wnen Mr.. Cleveland was short of a
stenographer, the civil service COM
mission thought that Cortelyou would
do, and Mr.. Cleveland never had such
a satisfactory stenographer; so when
Mr.. Mckinley got short of a private
secretary, he tried CorteIyou, and he
found him perfect; then Mr.. Roose-
welt tried him and felt towards him
as the other two had felt. No one
who has talked with Mr.. Cortelyou
ever heard him question the views of
nearest approach to political opin-
ion that any outsider ever heard was
remark made to one of the scrib-
bling fraternity. who was permitted to
L.
velt's messages. Its a great paper"
said Mr.. Cortelyou. 1t is doubtless
true that Mr.. Roosevelt knows Mr..
Cortelyou's political views, but it is
also true that the only information
which the country possesses is con-
fined to the indirect information
gained from his assumption of the
craftsmanship of the Republican ma
tional committee. An utterance seems
to be required, if a mans political
ideas are to be widely known. Mr..
Cortelyou has said nothing very def
mite, but his associates must be aware
of his opinions, and men of business
have discovered in him a talent for
organization. Once it was said at the
White House that a life insurance
company had offered him $4,000 a
year for job of organizing. But Mr..
Cortelyou had political ambition and
refused,- Harper's Weekly.
Always Polite
zone of the most polite men that
ever lived in this town was Lon Ho-
bart" said a prominent citizen of
Bushby to a stranger in the village.
1--WE were always proud of Ions man
ners whilst he was here, and by what
l learn they've got every reason to be
proud of him out in stony Gulch,
where he now resides.
Eyes, he went out there In the in
terests of mine," continued the Bush
by man, glad to have a new listener.
Some of our folks went out there last
year, and Lon showed 'em round. They
said that in one place, where it was
kind O. dangerous and open. there was
a big placard stuck up, and on it Lon
had printed: Please do not tumble
down the shaft
"They said 1t made 'em feel at home
right off."-Youth's Companion.