The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-25
AFTER ALL.
After death. what7-cesare Lombroso.

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After death, what?-Cesare Lombroso
After you and have ceased to care
The hi, hiDrii winds win blow across the
The rose viii spread its fragrance on the
The swallows twitter round the CHM
The brook win wind its leisure way along
And right will still be right and wrong
| be wrong.
After you and have ceased to fret
Because a. ssU OUT planning sometimes comes
The foolish still will foolishly regret
When home the spite they vented has
They. will be needed most who give de-
And wrong win stin be wrong and right
be right.
It may be that we shall with joy arrive
Where none shall be undone and none
Where no one for another's gain shall
But here the wise men still shall be the
And right will still be right and wrong
s. E. Kiser in the Chicago Record
Cranberry 'Barbarism."
With this years cranberry crop esti-
mated at 100000 bushels, exclusive OF
the large production of Cape Cod. max
ing a crop nearly twice as large as that
of last year, the state department has
sought to find out the possibilities Of
Europe as a market for the surplus
Unfavorable reports have been received
from consuls in England, France, and
Germany.
In London the demand for cranber-
ries is confined almost exclusively to the
American colony. Many years ago Sir
Joseph Banks cultivated the berry i'll
England, and at one time Lincolnshire
and Norfolk supplied all that England
needed for tarts, pies, and an acid sum-
mer beverage that had some popularity
there. Nowadays, outside of the Ameri-
can berries, confessedly the best, Eng
land imports berries from Sweden and
Russia.
The French are reported to regard
the eating of, cranberry sauce with
fowl as IA mild form of barbartsm."
And yet the cranberry was g. sacred
plant" with the Druids, who gave both
government and religion to Gaul 1000
years ago. However. France was not
then the leader in creating fashions Tor
the inner or the outer man.
The German people are more appre-
ciative but their government has pre-
vented them from INDUCING IN "a MID Isi
form Of barbarism'' by exacting tariff
duty of $1.19 on each 200 pounds, where
as the fruits of other countries are ad-
AS long as Europe has failed to rise
to its opportunity the American COLI
sumner NAV be able to get his cram
berries cheaper-New York World.
Change Inauguration Day.
II seems that the movement to
change the date of the inauguration or
the president and vice president OF the
and that a quiet canvass has been go
ing on by which the governors of 4e
states and territories have pledged their
support to a movement to make tn5
last Thursday in April the date OF IN
auguration. The national committee
having the movement in charge, of
which District Commissioner Macraf-
Land is chairman, has collected fund
Of information as to the death roll OF
past inaugurations when the weather
has been unfavorable, and VIII present
the question to congress at the next
session.
Resolutions providing for the change
were presented to both houses at the
last special session by Senator Depew
and Representative Gaines There Is
really no good reason why the nation
should adhere to March 4 as the date
of inauguration, and an excellent rea-
son why the time should be set at
date when the festivities are not SO
likely to encounter bad weatner; A re-
form will be welcomed not only by pub
lie officials, but by all who look Tor,
ward to visiting the national capital
when a new chief magistrate is sworn
into office.-Springfield (Mass) Union.
Born Blind, She Sees at IS.
Born blind. Miss Lottie Sheldon. of
Mount Pleasant, Mich, % years old, has
been made to see. This is the result
of months of treatment and q delicate
operation which was performed yester
day at the Homeopathic hospital here.
l>oI, f6a nh
girls parents that she was sufTer1ng
from congenita1 cataracts, and that
she would never be able to see. Be
cause of her affection she has been able
to perform only the toughest and
crudest kinds of work. and Tor many
years, day after day, she has scrubbed
floors and done other homework.
At times her weeks savings would
not total more than so cents, but every
penny was boarded. and at last she had
enough money to enter the hospiN
and the time for the operation arrived. |
When this was completed she was led
to a window and given her first sight |
of the world. 1t was no more than a
glimpse before the bandages: which she
will be forced to wear Tor several
weeks. were applied but that giimpse
amply repaid her for the years of dark
ness and suffering. She will try to pro- |
vide treatment for a little brother. who
has also been blind from b1rth.-Ann
Arbor dispatch to the New York |
Herald.
Phosphorescent Forests.
The phosphorescence of certain |
agaries Of Borneo has more than once |
demoralized the superstitious natives
and astonished whites. Some years |
ago q party OF English engineers |
found It necessary to survey tract |
of low-lying country, which was al |
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