The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-25
KANSAS COMMENT
THEY AROUSE coNJEcrURE.


Another batch Of kilograms sent over
the wires to Beacon readers will arouse
conjecture on the part of readers who
reflect upon the news of the day.
1t was stated that ghouls robbed the
grave of mummies three thousand
years ago. taking the jewels and other
valuables about their persons This
compels the thought that the world is
not growing worse because our ances-
tors did just as mean things as are done
today. Another reflection is that mod
erners do not bury gems of much value
with the casket, preferring to keep them
as mementoes of the dear departed.
A Washington dispatch asserted that
Dan r. Anthony Is an expert in finance
because he married the daughter of a
successful banker. This raises the ques-
ton Of how far man can inherit moral
and intellectual ability from his wife's
ancestors. Heredity is acknowledged
but heretofore it has been confined to
ones own ancestry rather than to ones
wife's.
London has concluded to issue mourn
ing stamps to find out if the venture
will prove a financial success. The ex-
perience of stationers who print note
paper an envelopes with mourning
border should be worth something in
settling this question.
In Oklahoma the house has assessed
a fine for listening at telephones to
which you are not a party. VIII this
stop the practice of listening or will
the eavesdroppers be more discreet and
not tell what they hear?
A Michigan CRATER is on trial for ac-
cepting pay for public work which he
didn't do because he was taken ill after
1t was half done. 1t was so small a
graft that he wonders why the author1-
ties bother him and let the millionaire
boodlers go free. That is complete
picture of human nature. We are ever
so eager to reform others that we can
not see our own defects.
Two Russian, generals INDUCED In
duel at St. Petersburg and one was
fatally wounded. Won't the practice of
dueling in Europe become unpopular II
it kills too often?
Another curious development appear
ed in Pittsburg when a jointist sought
to convict a man of crime because he
bought what the jointist had been en-
joined not to sell. The jointist, blind to
his own fault, sees clearly the iniqulty
of the other.
These are but samples of thoughts
aroused by the daily news Items
Wichita Beacon.
THE RICH EDITORS PERIL.
You don't know all about hardship
and exposure. I drove an auto from
Topeka to Horton Friday night, start
ing home about 10 p. m. The roads
We're fine to Holton and I made the
80 miles in less than two hours.
saw the prairie fire that swept over
700 acres, destroying a house, a barn
implements and burning hay grain
| and stock. Three miles beyond Hol-
ton the cylinders of my car became
overheated and I didn't know what
was the matter. The car stopped and
, wouldn't move. Iwalked back to the
nearest farm house, about half a mile
and telephoned to- Holton for an auto
expert. The girl operator said he had
no telephone and she couldn't reach
him. I asked her. to call up the city
hotel and get the landlord or porter
to hunt UP the marshal and have him
go to the automan's house and get
him. This was done and within an
hour he was with NE. About a. m
we got the car moving all right, but
the roads wereSth worst ever I had
my forehead hurt, my nose skinned
and my neck jolted by a big bump
from a rough place we passed over too
quick. 1t was after a. m. when we
reached Horton. From there to Hia-
| watha the journey was fine.-E. H
| in Hiawatha World.