The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-26
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So f9rniture Of quaint design
ana feeble strength is then selected
win ciumsfness In every line
Conceivable-not ones neglected.
When this is duly crowded in
"A space of rather scantish limit,
important then It's to begin
color scheme with naught to dim it,
70 make things CHEEKY. trim, and snug,
Sne usually sets her whima on
raucously large lowered rug
With background of loud-shoutine
crimson.
Some cushions for the chairs. she thinks
a contrast make-you hear 1t below
when she chucks in those blues and pinks
AND greens. with here and there a vel
low.
A hammock of impressive stripe
And gauded fringe is added duly,
one OF the most artistic tyue
Although its hues NAV seem unr,,v
Then hubby's called to view the group,
his commendation-she would learn it.
And; sitting down there mutters: "Durn
IL. indianapolis News.
Rise Of John Burns.
Some people are laboring under the
belief that England Is less democratic
IMAM this republic. They should study
the rise of John Burns. now president
OF the local governing board. Thirty
hve years ago hewas an engineers
apprentice at 81 a week. This posi-
ton In England is far more mental
than in this country, because lad has
little hope of rising to an earning
point beyond 6 or 8 shillfngs day.
But John Burns kept going.
He acquired an education by self
study because the common school sys-
tenn, as we understand the words. does
not exist in Great Britain. He de-
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feet! He stood for parliament, al
though he hadn't shilling besides his
earnings as an expert workman.
Members of the British parliament
are not paid anything for their ser
vices. Friends came to Burns as
sistarice. and he took his seat, with
nearly forty other representatives of
labor. Today he is a member of the
government. and as privy councillor
may, IL he chooses, draw $4,000 per
year for the rest Of his life, whether
in or out of office.
OF course, it is not considered
regular to take the salary when one
is out of office; but some cases of the
kind are well remembered. That Ben
Butler of the British parliament. Ben
jamin Disrael, always drew the
money. He needed it. he asserted.
But what started to say is that a
workman has as great a chance in
England as here If he makes some
thing of himself beyond drudge.
Such successes are more exceptional
there than here, If reference be had to
the American born workman-be-
cause the foreign born laborer does
as little work as he can, here or else
where. His Incidence Is infectious and
many formerly earnest toilers have
become imbued with the continental
belief in Sinking duty.
Had Burns felt thus he would still
hA be, ut
pail.-Julius Chambers in Brooklyn
Eagle.
Serpent Of Esculapius.
It has been pointed out by DIR
Boudin that the worship Of the SER
pent was SO universal in antiquity that
all temples came to be known az
"draconia," serpent houses.
However that may be, serpents
were kept in many of the temples OF
antiquity, notably in those of Apollo
| whose son Esculapius is represented
| in ancient statuary carrying serpent
entwined round a staff or round his
arm. The serpent, indeed, came in
time to be the special mystical en-
blem or symbol OF the Escuiapian art
The serpents Of the ancient Greek
| temples were in all probability relics
| of that primitive serpent worship
| which was at one time universal
among prehistoric peoples and has not
| died out among many savage races at
| the present day.
And "yoodoo," or "obi" serpent
worship, is still said to linger in the
West Indies among the descendants
| Of slaves.
In Haiti especially, where negroes
| were dumped down from Africa by the
| old slave traders and were kept in re-
serve before being sold to masters In
| the surrounding islands, voodoo has
defied Roman Catholic missionaries
and priests for ages. A French naval
officer who visited the court of the
Haitian potentate Soulongue in 1913
| describes voodoo ceremony where
| cannibalistic and other orgies were
| INDUCED in.
| 1t is noticeable that the cock and
black goat which were solemnly eaten
! on this occasion were both Of them
sacred to Esculapius. Hence we may
infer that the Aesculapian cultus was
! originally an innocent form OF voodoo
and at the same primordial religion.
/ The extreme antiquity of serpent
worship seems, indeed, to be limited at
| in Genesis, where the devil appears
| in the guise of the snake god intent on
| the ruin Of man. In the story of the
brazen serpent healing qualities are
attributed to the image.-Lancet.
Jagged on His Last Run.
| His big heart broken because for
| the first time he felt the lash of a
drivers whip, Black Jim, a fire horse.
] dropped dead yesterday in front of a
hydrant at Barclay street and West
Broadway. The engine was respond
| ing to an alarm at Vesey and Green
witch streets.
When the alarm sounded the horses
jumped in their places. Jim always
worked with his companions, Tom and
Broncho. In going through the busy
| street Jim Jagged behind his mates,
although usually the quickest. Driver
Charles Wanders pulled the whip and
hit Jim just once. The horse jumped
ahead in response and showed his old
speed. The engine finally was brought
| to a stop alongside the hydrant.
HARDLY had the men iIrn ned from the