The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-18

He has to protect 1t from rust
In vain are devices OF bolts and of bars,
They vanish away as the air;
A thousand and one are the plans of the
Against which he has to take care
And now with the trust busters stalking
The best we can say of the deal
Is that Mr.. Croesus must lay up his
Where the honest can't break in and
New York Sun.
India's Political Unrest.
The worlds political center of CRAWL
| ty is changing. If one were asked to
name the four or five most significant
events that have happened during the
last IL months, he should include
(, among them these three: The adoption
of a constitutional form Of government
by Persia, the insistence by the last
, session of the Indian national congress
upon the rights Of the Indian people
as British subjects to govern them
selves, and the decree issued by the
! emperor of China calling upon the Chi
| nese to prepare so that within ten years
that empire would be ready to adopt a
constitutional form Of government.
! India is well within the circle of this
world movement. There are many things
! to indicate that the people of India are
slowly finding themselves, are coming
| to their own. Everywhere there is fer
/ ment and a murmur Of discomfort. The
cry "Bande mataram!" (Hai1 to the
| mother countryD is heard throughout
the land, and "swara5' (home rule)and
! ''swadeshi'' (home country have be-
| come words of magic to conjure with.
What does it all mean? Briefly and
J fundamentally 1t means this: A new
nation is about to be born.
! There are three dominant notes in the
murmur of discomfort, one political, an
other Industrial, and the third religious
and social. During Christmas week OF
1906 Dadabhai Naoroji, Parsee gentle
man of Bombay, for some years past
resident in England and formerly
member of the British parliament, in
the course of his presidential address at
! the opening of the twenty-second ses-
SIGN of the Indian national congress
insisted upon the right of the Indian
people as British subjects to govern
themselves and asked that this right be
, realized. There were nearly 10000 dele
gates and visitors present, and the ad-
dress was received with tumult of
applause. The members of the con-
gress belong for the most part to the
Moderate" party. They maintain an
attitude of confidence toward the Brit
ish government and believe that in the
end they will gain what they ask by
persistent agitation. They do not on
any account wish the guiding hand of
the British Raj to be Withdrawn, Tor
they know full well that the people of
India are not yet ready to take the
government into their own hands.
There is, on the other hand, an "Ex-
treme' party, led by such men as Bal
Ghanghadar Tilak, of Poona. Bipin
Chandar Pal, of Calcutta, and Lala
Lajpat Raj, of Lahore, who openly as
sert that it is useless to continue to
ask the government for what they
want, that to do so is to play the part
of beggars and that the thing to do is
to take by force what they cannot get
rwise.-From India: A Nation IN
the Making" by w. M. Zumbro, In the
Review of Reviews.
An African Guide.
Modern Tunis holds to one side or
the Porte de France, or old arched
through and controls the other side. A
snake charmer hurled his fanged mon
ster in the air as 1, with Hannah, pass
ed under the gate; an Aran seIilng
closely over his face on seeing a strang-
er with a camera. He dreaded that
should put upon him the evil eye, While
his own look towards me was shreWo
and wicked.
I'VE should perhaps have brought
guide" 1 said to Hannah, despite her
stalwartness. We were then entering
one of the very narrow streets, or
"Souks'' leading upward through the
quarter. 1 spoke in English, but our
bewildered look had proclaimed the SEN
timent.
Madam should have a guide was
am should have one who, can take her
to see the Bey's palace, the great
Mosque, and to Barbouchi Brothers, the
greatest Oriental bazaar of Tun1s.'
Salah Ben, who thus presented him
self. was an Imposing figure in his flow
ing lawn colored burnhouse and gayly
colored undergarments. Salah Ben had
outwitted all other guides in securing
our patronage.-The Travel magazine
Absorbing a Language.
Passenger Manager W. w. Jehries
Of the International Mercantiie
Marine was discussing IN New York
the other day the record breaking
army of tourists that is now returning
from Europe.
1.-THE size and the opulence of this
multitude said Mr.. Jeffries, speaks
well for our grand country's pros
perity. The people are bringing back
many things with them from abroad.
And the men are bringing back,
among other things. some good
stories A Chicagoan told me yester-
day of an accident that happened in
Highland inn. In the smoke room of
this inn the Chicagoan complained
that he very much regretted his in
ability to speak Scotch.
"'Hoot, mon,' said the pretty. rosy
checked barmaid. meier mind that SO
lang as We can swaller it,
A Caddy's Joke.
James Anderson, of the Scottish
American Golf club, smiled at a poor
player on the Van Courtlandt park
links in New York.
"He reminds me of a chap I used to
know" said Mr. Anderson This
chap played SO badly that even his
caddies made a butt of him. He got
a ball badly bunkered one day, and, do
what he would. he couldn't get it out
again. Whack. whack, whack. he
went, missing every time. After half
an hours wo1k he wiped his wet face
with his handkerchief. and turned
to the eaddy.