The Topeka state journal., 1908-10-27
KANSAS CONMENT
OCTORER-

OCIOBER.
October is a beautiful mosaic. The
richness of the year is centered in this
month 1t is glorious even to live and
10 breathe makes life worth while. To
Dreatne, just to breathe. to draw IN
Dig oraught of the rare October atmos-
pnere and let it sift through the lungs
is a sensation that makes life worth
While. so many people are eye lazy
They fall to see the beauty of the Oc-
toper day. I tbs a waste that ought to
be cultivated. 1t enriches life and 1t
makes for the happiness of the human
FAMILY If we lived more in October,
we would live better the other eleven
months. If we drank in the beauty of
this month We would carry with US
the erects of it to the end Some peo-
pie cannot appreciate music, others
cannot enjoy paintings, still others do
not enjoy human society. The enjoy
ment of these is set down as "glft
but 1t is more properly a faculty ana
1t can be cultivated. The lack of ap-
probation of beauty is largely careless
ness 1t means that we are mentally
careless. Having our attention called
to the nature of the country often
leads to education in that line and edu-
cation means development. The faculty
is enlarged and our happiness added
to. There is beauty even in the towns
in October but to enjoy beauty at Its
best you must go out In the country
1t is rare privilege to be political
campaigner at this time. One can
see so much that is beautiful.-Law-
renee Journal.
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THOSE WHO FOLLOW.
After me the deluge," said Louis XIV
of France, and went ahead blowing In
the substance of the realm; and the
deluge came all right.
The people now inhabiting this coun-
try found it groaning with forests, and
hTIl n ri nf fTda
necessary to man, and these treasures
have been squandered and wasted so
recklessly that the people who come
after us may shake their fists at our
monuments. and pile tin cans on our
graves.
In order to preserve some small
remnant of the nations resources for
those who are to infest this country
when we are gone We are diligently
fitting patent time locks to the stable
door, paying little heed to the fact that
the horse has been stolen. It's a way
of ours, as a people. Right blithely and
merrily did we butcher the buffalo,
which once swarmed over these plains,
until one day We discovered that there
were but three left. and the world
knows how religiously We have pre-
served them, and exhibited them in
Wild West shows. and Forepaugh cir
cuses.
And now, in order to husband a few
wet elm and Eastwood trees remain
Ing, we are holding many banquets,
and delivering the most soul stirring
speeches and appointing committees to
go into the woods and put up Keep Off
the Grass" signs; and when our de-
scendants are trying to burn ice, and
make houses out of clay, they must
pause, however indignant they are, to
admire the eleventh hour activity that
we displayed
But there is some small comfort for
those descendants; Edison says that
within twenty years the heat of the sun
will be so utilized that people won't
need fires. So it may be that the wind
will be tempered to the shorn lambs;
and it behooves every man Jack of US
to order in plenty of coal before the bad
weather comes.-Emporia Gazette.