The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-03-05
FROM OTHER PENS
RE-ENTER THE TooTHPICK.

We venture to call the attention of
our social authorities. to a revelation
of manners in the latest work of Mr..
David Grahanlz Phillipss which seems
to invite more than casual scrutiny.
1t should not be said, perhaps, that
this latest work by Mr.. Phillips is
more important than his former eff
forts, but it is at least as original and
Indispensable as any other, and as
such it's denotation of high society
can not be scavalferly brushed aside.
At an important crisis in the Phil
lips novel the heroine is discovered
in a furious state of mind, pacing up
and down the lawn of one of those in
closed estates that may still be found
in the city of Washington. She does
not destroy the turf or tear down the
trees or give vent to profane Ian
guage; but wreaks her passion upon a
wooden toothpick. thus diverted from
it's normal uses to be torn to shred
between her pretty teeth.
AS the young woman in the story is
a person of the very best family and
one whose irreproachable manners are
in themselves, as a part of the plot, a
foil to the coarserS rough diamond of
'four hero" it is not permitted us to
doubt that the toothpick as an i'm
plement of table usage and an orna-
ment to conversation has come into
it's own again after prolonged and
pitilesS prescription. If we are in err
ror about this we should be glad to be
corrected, and so also, no doubt, would
Mr.. PhilIips.-Indfanapol Star.
ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO.
Arizona and New Mexico, the last
remaining territories in our old estab-
lished American sense, wait for ad-
mission to the Union as separate
states. That they ought to come in
together as one state is the belief OF
nearly all people who have studied
the facts with care and without bias
That they will not consent to admlS-
sion together as a single state as long
as they have hope of separate admis-
sion is only too we'll established by
recent history.
Given the admission of these two
states. and the nation is doomed per-
manently to the evils which will arise
from the existence of group OF six
or eight states in the Rocky noun
tain and Great Desert region, all, so
far as one can forecast, bound to re-
main scanty in population, and hence,
under our constitution, disproportlon-
ately strong in their influence upon
the election of the presidency, In the
upper branch of the federal legislature
and upon the adoption of amendments
to the constitution itself. Such states
are deliberately endowed by the ma
ton, so far as it can endow them.
with the characteristics of rotten
boroughs." They are peril for the
future, and will be infinitely hard to
get rid OF in the END II necessity
arises.--Chicago Record-Herald.
UNCLE SANS GROWING INCOME.
For long time the revenues of the
United States have been falling below
the figures for the preceding year. They
were less in 190S-much less-than in
1907. In January the customs. at least,
contributed a smaller income than that
which duties on imports yielded in the
corresponding month of 1908
state of business. The federal govern
ment is the biggest corporation in
America on it's financial side. When
the people who pay it's taxes prosper its
revenues rise. When there is Industrial
and commercial depression its income
shrinks. The fruits of the revenue laws,
as the treasury gathers them, measure
the general returns to the people from
their work and their capital. There
fore. the marked gain in February S
receipts from customs means one more
proof of better times. 1t shows higher
purchasing power. than year ago.
more confidence in business, greater
industrial activity.-C1eveland Leader.