The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-07
KANSAS COMMENT
AMT IT AWEI1I.. MAREIa

Ally II AWFUL, MABEL?
, Em tps is badly wrought up"
one morning this week of number
OF empty beer bottles The discovery
would not have precipitated the scan
dal II mas If the bottles had merely
peen peer bottles 1t developed that
they We're beer bottles which had con-
tanned beer. There might have been
times IN the past when jealousy of
Emporys' growing fame would have
leo rival to the lengths of surrepti-
tiously placing empty beer bottles on
the streets of Bill Whites town to
give IT bad name, but the cities in
that district are themselves too busily
engaged in providing directions for
their own growth to pay a great deal
OF attention to the capital and county
seat or Lyon county. Emporia makes
numerous and diverse claims to great
ness ana goodness and that it is good
and great will not be disputed. But
with all the circumstances considered
1t is as plain as anything can be that
Emporia is not entirely good. Accord
ing to the evidence, it is safe to be
even more explicit and say that some
person or persons in Emporia are
very bad. Somebody in Emporia has
ton about that While this is not a
capital offense, somebody in Emporia
VINO has been drinking beer has been
so utterly without shame as to fail to
nlde the shells, and in Emporia that
Is, or ought to be, a capital offense.-
Leavenworth Times.
MUSINGS OF THE DEACON
My friend you will never get to
heaven on the mistakes of your neigh
Dor. You can't sit on your high horse
and gloat over the misspent life of
some other fellow and point out his
frailties to the rest of the world; you
can mold yourself aloof from him be-
"a G LOT In nlo toll
account of his bat habits; you can talk
about what will happen to him when
he shuffles off this mortal coil; you
can put on your hofier than thou garb
and tell the rest of the brethren that
you are glad that you are not as some
other fellows. You can do all this, but
when you stand before st. Peter and
try to tell him how bad some of your
ne1ghbors are you will get the horse
laugh. You will very likely stand there
long enough to see some of the fellows
you have been roasting step UP and
be admitted without a word. These
goes fellow you always lambasted
because he occasionally allied with the
wine cup; but that fellow has virtues
which could never enter your narrow
soul. You have built all your hopes
on the weaknesses of your neighbor.
You will find that you have founda-
ton OF shifting sand. The thing for
you to do is to look at your own mis-
takes and try to correct them; then, If
you have any time left, speak kindly
to your fallen neighbor and gently lift
him into the straight and narrow path.
Osborne Farmer
s--O--
A NOVEL. QUESTION.
When Is a sword not a sword ? The
board of customs appraisers at New
York has decided that sometimes they
are ornaments" and as such should
not be assessed at a high rate of duty
as they would be required to pay If
they were in reality weapons of war.
The case came up on appeal from the
decision of the collector of customs
who decided that consignment of
bone swords imported from Japan for
decorative purposes should pay duty
| as swords or Side, arms" The fact
that they were MEASURED by inches
instead of feet did not strike the coli
lector as at all Important s'Swords
are swords" he said, "and they should
be assessed as SUCH In turning down
the collector the appraisers decided
that the bone ornaments were not
likely to be used in warfare.-Leaven-
mi