The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-03

| ears full OF ClanOT and din.
| Woe to the child of the people, swept
| by tempestuous chin;
| Tossing in seas of persuasion, argument,
| logic. and threat;
Beaten. bombarded. and battered; imbecile
| soon, but not yet.
Skies split with luminous 1ightnings, cliffs
tumbled into the sea;
| Antics, gyrations, gymnastics-aH that the
people be free!
Cymbals and tocsins and slogans; twilight
| and midday and morn:
| BEST be the people forever-living and
| dead and unborn!
| II. w. Foley in the New York Sun.
Rights of the Rabbit.
Has the rabbit no rights One would
| be led to think so by the onslaught
made upon him by a great branch of
| the American government, the depart
ment Of agriculture. In a publication
just issued from that source he is ma
| igned and execrated in a manner that
| would certainly be resented at the
| polls next November, if the rabbit en-
joyed the right Of suffrage. He is
charged, for instance, with the larger
part of the destruction of the $40, 0O0,-
by the rodents of the country each
year. True, pocket gophers, wood
chucks, prairie dogs, ground squir-
rels, rats and mice are held respon-
sible to some degree, but it is the rab-
/ bit that is held most conspicuously up
| to public reprobation.
| But even a more serious stain is cast
| upon the reputation of this heretofore
| highly respected member of the ami
NAL community. Now and then GER
tain publications have feigned to be-
| lieve that the rabbit was a quarrel
some body, given to disorderly conduct
and drawings. These outpourings
have been generally regarded as the
| emanations of constituencies nature
takers. but now the powerful machin-
cry of the United States government
| Is invoked to perpetuate the libel Be
hind the apparently innocent state
| ment that he-or she-wil fight If at
| tackled is none the less the skillfully
| contrived suggestion, in the following
paragraph, that the rabbit, instead of
| being endowed with those gentleman
/ ly and ladylike Instincts usually as
| cribed to the species, is in reality a
star member of the rough element in
| our civilization:
| ""The female. while caring for her
young remains in the vicinity of the
nest. If enemies approach, she runs
| away for short distance; but when
| the young are attacked and cry out,
she has been known to fight desper-
| ately in their defense, and even to
vanduish such a formidable foe as a
cat or a snake. When attacking she
jumps and strikes the enemy with her
hind feet-members capable of pow
erful blow, as many boys who have
captured a live rabbit can testify
The way in which the writer who
composed the publication scores the
rabbit for indulging the natural in
stinct for filling his stomach with the
choice things of the land raises the
suspicion that. forced by circum-
| stances to content himself with the
cracked mugs and prehistoric eggs of
Washingtons quick lunchrooms, the
writer was bitterly envious of the 9TH
| Tyar 13i ,ezt IN
dispatch to Brooklyn Eagle.
Reading in Bed Sometimes Beneficial.
Reading in bed, like most luxuries,
can be overdone; in fact, there seems
to be only one excuse for this fascinat-
ing way of ending the day. Certain
people find that their worries accrmu-
late in their brains after bedtime;
their nerves are at high tension and
their minds are actively at work try
ing to solve problems that should have
been left behind in the city.
Going to bed with the brain in such
a state means that with nothing to
distract the thoughts, hearing nothing
and seeing nothing in the darkness
imagination has full sway and hours
of wa.kefulness may be the result
Such a man, we think, will find hall
an hours reading in bed a great help
With careful attention paid to the
that without pickering 1t shines over
the shoulder and directly on to the
page the much maligned habit OF
reading in bed has sometimes a very
beneficial effect on a tired and over
wakeful brain.-Family Doctor.
A Lucrative Nose.
Mile. Lubia Behrend, one of st. Pet
ersburg's most popular actresses, adds
fifteen pounds a week to her income
by devoting an hour or two a day to
smelling the perfumes manufactured
by a leading firm of Russian scent
makers.
Mile Behrend is gifted with an ex-
ceedingly delicate sense of smell
which renders her assistance inval-
liable when determining the proper
proportions of the various ingredients
in a new perfume.
| Much of Queen Alexandra's favorite
Iscent-violet-is distilled in Russia. II
costs ten pounds per ounce bottle, and
it has to run the gauntlet of Mile. Beh-
rend's nostrils as well as those of four
subordinate professional smellers
before it is passed as being correctly
blended and ready for her use.-Tatler.
The Tactful Doctor.
physician in a small town in
northern Michigan got himself into a
serious predicament by his inability to
remember names and people. One day,
while making out a patients receipt,
his visitors name escaped him. Not
wishing to appear so forgetful. and
thinking to get clew. he asked her
whether she spelled her name with an
e or i. The lady smilingly replied,
why, doctor, my name is Hill.
Success MAGAZINE.