The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-11
KANSAS CONTENT
THE EXPOSE OF THE PIGEON.

Ear Use OF THE FlGEO1~.
1t remained for a professor in. the
chicago university to discover that
doves and pigeons are not the birds
they have been pictured by the poets.
They are not coy, but instead are
prazen hoydens. Not obedient and
faithful, but instead disobedient and
unfaithful. The female frequently de-
serts her mate for a handsonner gen.
tleman friend and the lady members
OF pigeon society are as reckless as we
OF the west are wont to imagine some
OF the Partisan society people. Dove
may rhyme with love and perhaps TINS
is the reason the poets have built up
for Miss Dove the wonderful reputa-
ton she held until recently. But mere
man has undone the work OF the poets
and Miss Pigeon is shown up In her
true colors, beautiful but faithless,
tickle and reckless.
The professor knows whereof he
speaks as he has observed pigeon so
c1ety for many years and has traced
Miss Pigeon from the time she MADE
her bow to pigeon society to the last
chapter in the pigeon divorce courts.
He has watched the maiden love lure
the gentleman friends into matrimony,
sometimes reluctantly as the male was
to try a matrimonial plunge. He has
listened to their disputes over the site
for home and witnessed their loving
caresses when suitable place had
been found. He has noted how the
birds after long period OF mating
break up housekeeping and find new
mates. In this, too, the female Is US
ually to blame. He has not recon-
mended the proposed Chicago ordi.
nance which is designed to protect
men from designing women, be adopt
ed for the friends Of the lady pigeon,
but this will probably come later.
When they quarrel, the professor says
the performance is highly elaborate,
and violent gestures. Whether their
talk is similar to that man whose
wife takes him house hunting or is of
less severe nature the professor has
not discovered.
What mass OF freak theories ema-
nate from the professors of the Chi
cago university
What great work this university
is doing for the world. What a lot
of rubbish is sent out as news.-Salina
Journal
BREWER CONDEMNS BLACKLIST.
Again has there come an expression
from an auth oritative source on the
perplexing and complex question of
the blacklist. This time from a KAN
sas man and distinguished jurist,
David j. Brewer, associate. justice of
the OIlleu SldltS cIlO CO0l <ao
an able and keenly erudite lawyer, any
statement coming from Judge Brewer
bears weight and effect. Before q large
gathering of life insurance agents at
Milwaukee, a few days ago. Judge
Brewer used the strong language that
the blacklist Is damnable. The Declar-
alton of Independence, he says, is the
foundation upon which all govern
ment of and by the people must rest.
He even went so far as to declare that
the use of the blacklist endangers the
future and the glory of the republic,
since the very existence of the posi-
bility Of any organization to threaten
any man seeking employment unless
he joins that association, is menace
to society and serious weakening of
liberty and rights of the individual. 1t
is recalled that a notorious example of
this Migrant abuse was the action
taken by all the railroads in the coun-
try following the historical A. r. u.
strike of 1894. Every man In any man
ner connected with that uprising was
forever blacklisted. To make this
action legal the companies did not, of
course, directly do this in SO many
words, but the mans clearance card as
to past record read, Conduct good up
to August, 1894" which was under
stood by each Of the big railway cor
porations to mean that he had gone
out in that strike. Judge Brewer be-
lieves that this government can only
endure as we hold fast to the prin-
ciples laid down In the wonderful
document of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, the spirit of which is the
right of every man in the pursuit of
happiness. The trouble is in the same
class as the method of injunction
which courts and party platforms are
taking cognizance of.-Wichita Eagle.
ROSSINGTON AND READ.
Colonel Rossington, who died re-
Gently at Topeka, was a wonderful
man in many respects. His acquaint-
ance with literature was remarkable.
Once when the editor of the Times
was riding to Chicago with him in the
smoking compartment of a Pullman,
the conversation turned on old liter
ature Colonel Rossington quoted
long passages from the pens Of early
authors. A third person and a strang-
er in the car Joined in the conversation
and he also began quoting from the
same authors and others of their time.
1t soon appeared that the stranger
was a match for Colonel Rossington.
and as the quoting continued the two
men began to inspect each other with
increased interest. Finally Colonel
Rossington inquired. May 1 ask your
name?" Certainly; Opie Read" was
the reply. Whereupon the converse
ton was resumed and lasted until long
after midnight-Leavenwo Times.