The Topeka state journal., 1908-03-16


He's in no mood for idle play,
instead he'd much prefer q row.
DO not run up and down the stairs
ana let your laughter be suppressed:
BOZ pa Is cross; today he wears
mustard plaster on his chest.
'Twere well to leave him right alone.
6e,s fidgety and apt to fret;
LON speak above q monotone,
lis possible you may regret
Inc consequences when he swears.
hes In no mood for idle jest;
You must be good while father wears
A mustard plaster on his chest.
Detroit Free Press.
Maligned Public Men.
1t is doubtful if any public man ever
was SO cruelty injured by fantastic
gibes as is Charles w. Fairbanks
James G. Blame was made to suffer
from the artist who lampooned him as
the tattooed man. He lived down the
lie and became his party's candidate
Tor the presidency in spite of 1t. He
| was defeated in New York through
| an unfortunate faction fight and not
| through the merciless lie which had
pursued him for years.
Mark Hanna became most familiar
to the country through the cartoons
| which pictured him incased in dollar
| mark raiment- There was a time
when nine people out of ten thought
or hlm as an unscrupulous purse
proud parvenu. He lived down the
|
men in the United States. The people
came to know him for what he was,
bluff. hearty. honest, indefatigable,
and charming companion.
! PRESIDENT Roosevelt has never suf-
| fered from the pictures of his big
| teeth, and the big stick. which was
originated to do him injury. has be-
come his coat-of-arms. and in this
| sign he conQuers.
| But Vice President Fairbanks was
made the victim of an irresponsible
scribbler, and to this day the great
mass of people have accepted as true
| the fantastic falsehood. the origin of
which Is so obscure that it can not be
| traced. How any man ever came to
| describe Charles Warren Fairbanks as
/ the driver Of an ice wagon, or as hav-
| Ing cold feet. or as sort of animated
Jack Frost. no one who knows him
| and scores of men in public life to
| whom such a description might apply.
but it certainly does not fit the vice
| president, and never did fit him, so far
| as l can remember, and have known
| him since he entered national politics
| and known him Intimately.
Many public men have been the vic
TINS of some popular description.
which has taken hold of the people,
/ but in almost every case there was
some excuse for it. General Winfield
| Scott was called "Old Fuss and Feath-
| ers I" Contemporary history shows
! there was a good deal of reason for
this. and the statue of the old general
| in the principal circle of Washington
! certainly bears out this idea
! Roscoe Conkling was called by
somebody-it may have been Blaine
Turkey Cock" The name was an apt
an undeniable strut. and I remember
how it was commented upon when he
led the Grant forces to glorious defeat
in the Chicago convention of 1880.
Tom Reed had in his manner the
autocracy Of an American car To
those who had even the slightest claim
to his intellectual friendship. he was a
moss charming companion, but he
could freeze a bore into the lowest
/ depths Of insignif1cance and without
/ the slightest apparent effort
| Governor Hughes of New York Is a
veritable north pole expedition all by
| himself when compared with the vice
president, and, yet, after all, tn gov
/ ernor's attitude is nothing but that OF
| a studious college professor called
upon to do big things under a magni-
| flying glass.
| It is idle to attempt to trace the ice
| house story applied to Vice President
Fairbanks. The last really great In
| diana public man, Benjamin Harrison,
was frequently described as cold blood
cd. He deserved the epithet to some
| extent. From all I can learn. Fair
banks merely inherited this reputation.
That he does not deserve it everybody
in Washington knows, and everybody
| elsewh ere in the country knows it who
has ever come within the radius of his
personality. If he has a fault. 1t is
| that he is too friendly, that he beams
| too much, and that his glad hand is
always extended.-Raymond in the
Chicago Tribune.
How to Resist Colds.
| Medical science is now nearly unani-
NOUS in it's belief that colds are ac-
| uuired by infection, just like measles
or scarlet fever. They run through
schools and factories and families.
Folk who lead outdoor lives and dwell
In we'll ventilated houses are least sus-
ceptible to them if they do not under
feed or overindulge in alcohol and If
| they do not pile on so much clothing
| that the splendid armor of the human
| skin is pampered and weakened. Plenty
of cold bathing and exercise, light un-
derwear. free use of water inside and
outside of the body and sleeping with
wide-open windows will help to resist
the infection. From the filthy street
car, underheated and unventifated.
there is no escape for most New York
ers nor is 1t possible to avoid frequent
exposures to the flying germ But 1t is
| in everybody's power to furnish HIM
| self protection against the ravages or
aerial disease breeders by putting his
system into condition to repel the at
| tack.-New York Press
Complying With the Law.
) The Louisville and Nashville railway
announces its complete compliance with
the command Of the Hepburn act. that
| no railway shall own the coal lands
| whose products it transports The
method is simplicity itse1f-the railway
conveyed the lands to its shareholders
| as individuals. The same persons own
the railway and the coal lands now, as
before. and the letter Of the law has
| been obeyed.
| This vindication of the majesty of the
law is impressive, and we await with
| interest the effect upon the price OF
| coal and the rate of freight. II there