The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-24
KANSAS COAAENT
CARRYING THE BANNER.


For a year or more there have been
In circulation many stories treating Of
the desperate financial conditions pre-
vAune IN Japan, but as they were In
Qennlte and as the Japs continued to
nrag OF thsir prosperity people felt
lnal no great reliance could be placed
An investigation has been made by
Parfsian bankers and money lenders
however, and they found that Japan is
stone broke and in all sorts of diff
cult1es. The banks throughout the
country have failed. one after another,
ana the people are in desperate cir
able to find remedy. This disclosure
from Paris, which seems authentic,
will make it impossible for Japan to
borrow dollar anywhere, and the Mi
kado is facing ruin.
1t is the old story Of biting off more
than the bitter can chew. Japan was too
ambitious. She wasn't satisfied to gain
strength and prestige by slow degrees,
but must be a world power at one
jump. She has blown in millions for
ships and soldiers. and the country had
no genuine, legitimate resources to
back up such extravaganza.
There will be- less talk OF JAPANESE
wars from now on. and that is one
blessing.-Emporia Gazette.
THE FAILURE OF TRAINING.
In Washington there is a self-sup-
porting women's colony known as the
'Women's Commonwealth" The MEM
bers Of this organization regard mar
riase as sin. or say they do. There
are, however, in the colony a number
of reformed sinners-women who have
been married before. One Of these took
her daughter, Miss Adah Pratt. into
the colony when she was a child, and
there she lived until she was twenty
nine years old without forming the ac-
quaintance of a man. 1t would seem
that was enough training to make a
Spin of the most gushing maiden, but
it wasn't. Recently Miss Pratt was in
troduced by a girl friend to Phil
de1phia hotel clerk, and in a short time
this cultivated Spin and the hotel clerk
were married. And to further repudiate
her training. It Is said the girl did most
of the counting. Sin had no terrors for
her. And Miss Pratt is no exception
OF the ten girls originally in the colony
five have eloped and married the hated
men. F.fa
Being an old maid seems to be a
natural trait, like warts, or dimples
Cultivation doesn't help.-Atchisor
Globe. -,-
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION. .
It's all very we'll to preach patience
and kindred virtues, but there are
times when the meekest OF men are
driven to strenuous protests against
the sings and arrows Of outrageous
fortune. -
The editor Of the Beloit Times. fol
| instance, who is noted for his humble
demeanor and sweet and winning ways
| is at this moment as terrible as ar
| army with banners and who shall say
after reading the following from his
admirable paper, that his wrath is MOI
| Justified: ts:r5- S. ..-,.,
1--WE would like to get the name o.
the dod- blasted lson-of-a-gun that sem
our name into a mail order whisk,
house. We get three circulars regular
ly three or four times a week. eacf
house Offering US trial orders at re-
| duced prices And we a Temperance
n1nn, + VIII nj be obserteed that the editor re
| trains from saying what he would do l
he secured the name Of the field in hu
man form who thus plotted against HI
peace and reputation. Some things ar
best left to the imagination.F The edi
tor shows fine taste in drawing cur
tain over the scene of prospective hor
lrors.-Emporia Gazette.