The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-13
KANSAS COAAENT
TARDY DIFFERENTIATION.

Inc IaIne OF George Washington has
nVeo long. and no doubt his memoir
aDle work In founding the nation will
iast as long as the nation lasts. But he
mad a long time to wait for his monu-
ment- Many. men of seeming great
ness are forgotten in less time. Even
pe1ore his death there was talk of
erecting monument to him, but it
amounted to nothing more. In 1900
congress decided to erect a memorial
mausoleum to the founder of the coun-
try, and the consent of Mrs. Washing
ton was asked to inter the generals re-
mains In the national capital, which
request was granted. But congress
nnally tailed to make the necessary ap-
preparation Not until late in Septem-
Der 1883, was the first step taken which
led directly to the great monument
which stands as a nations tribute to
its first president. In that year an or
gan1zation was perfected to collect
FUNDS, and work for the construction Of
the monument. Not until 1S4S was the
cornerstone laid, and the work fairly
begun. Later there were scandals, and
the work was delayed. Congress came
to the rescue with $500, 900, and the
work went on for awhile. Then came
the CIVIL war, and the monument stood
through several years, an unsightly.
unfinished work. Finally, in 1876, con-
SreSs again came to the rescue with
another 100000 to complete the work
and the monument was finally finished
in 1884. The total cost was only $1,lS7,-
900. which seems a trifiing amount to
quibble<over, In view of the way con-
gress now spends millions, and even
billions. But this was not always the
richest and most prosperous country in
the world. Next year some definite &C
ton is likely to be taken toward the
erection Of a national memorial of some
kind to Abraham Lincoln. but, once
started. it is unlikely it will undergo
the vicissitudes and delays that marked
the construction of the Washington
monument.-Atchison Globe
HOME INFLUENCE
''I am not responsible" observed
Mrs. Milt Creviston, of Manhattan, for
anything the old devil does.
She had reference to her husband,
who had just been arrested for the
murder of a student, and VINO later
ended in Improbable life by hanging
himself in his dungeon.
Much has been said In denunciation
of Milt, but now that he is dead, and
the brown leaves are heaped upon his
grave by the chill autumn wind, 1t
might be we'll to ask whether ne
wasn't driven to crime by home influ-
ences? A man who is persistently al
luded to as an old devil by the wife of
his bosom. is pretty sure to become
fretful in the course of time, his moral
instincts will be blunted. and he will
eventually try to deserve the reputa-
ton that has been thrust upon him.
If Mrs. Creviston described him as
an old devil to strangers, there is no
saying what she would call him by the
fireside and inglenook; and no man
can stand that sort of thing very long
without iorating.-Emporia Ga
zette.
THE PATIENT MAN.
1t is the fashion to extol the pa
tient man but it is not much good.
The patient man is always being i'm
posed upon in the first place. In the
next place the history of the world is
not made by the patient man. 1t is
made by the impatient man. the man
who cannot and will not wait. The
patient man has everything put upon
him. He may be popular in a certain
way, but he does not make history.
There are men. who can walt who
can bide their time, but they are not
patient. they are only suppressed
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