The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-15
THE SONG OF pRoGREssIoN.

There's a voice from the past ringing
1t COMES sasI ike pe the Signing of far distant
In those dates prehistoric that trouble
| and teaze.
hear In the sound gentle accents and
From single celled .p,asm to molluso
Yet IN that weird song. as through ages
sense that Jar day when I dwell in the
Again. I observe. in the rhythm and
The happier note of primitive time:
catch in the song of the murmuring
An echo of days when I dwell in the
trees,
And now in the rune of the measure I
A changing of habit. a changing of
scene.
And strain eager ears for one trill I
In days long departed when I was a
| Mayhap in some age once again I shall
The murmur of progress ring soft in
And yearn for a note Of the song I
When living my life here on earth as a
l-Lurana W. Sheldon in the New York
| Times.
"Jarndyce VS.. Jarndyce.'
Price ct al versus Walker ct al. y
droned the clerk of Judge Windes'
| branch of the circuit yesterday. The
| judge sat mottonless as the attorneys
on both sides arose as from old habit
| and asked to have the case set ahead
30 days.
It might have been "Jarndyce YER
Tor He'd and
no one would have smiled in the hall
of justice, for price ct al versus
| Walker ct al" has been in the courts
of Cook county for As years And
now it is set ahead for 80 days-that
| is all, Just 80 days. But no one around
the court expects the venerable
chancery suit to pass out of existence
at the end of that period.
II a concrete illustration of the
laws delays which President Taft in
his recent Chicago address pointed out
as a blot on American Jurisprudence
had been sought price ct al. versus
Walker ct all would have served the
purpose. Nor would it have been the
only illustration afforded by the rec
| ords of the Chicago courts.
Another case. "Holladay versus
Ewing" pulled, hauled. dragged.
showed. motioned. petitioned. de-
INJURED and appealed through the
courts for nearly 40 years. Then II
| llLGIdllX Q1eQ a ndtul dl dCdlh- AL
the original litigants had passed to
their account and there was no one
| left to prosecute or defend
| Perhaps "Price ct al. versus Walker
ct al" may go the same way in time.
Attorneys and their clerks, who view
| it as a heritage, a legacy received from
predecessors now dead, which is to be
handed down to coming generations,
see no other end for the case. 1t has
passed through so many v1cissltudes
and has survived so many perils that
| it is hard for its legal guardians TO
| believe it ever can die.
| At one time the suit seemed to have
suffered a mortal injury. The princl-
| pal complainant became the chlef de-
| PENDANT and there appeared TO be no
way to keep the breath of life in the
aged friend. The legal physicians in
| iected older presidents and more OBJ
| scure arguments into the controversy,
and the patient was brought around
hale and hearty as ever And on
Tuesday price ct al versus Walker
ct al" was at the top of the chancery
calendar when Judge Windes opened
court 1t went over two days, ana
has now been given further life.
| The story opens with the migration
of Samuel ]. Walker to Chicago IN
i1S53. He started in the real estate
business, and many a piece OF Chi
cago property passed through his
| hands One of his deals was opening
| Walkers subdivision, In Canalport'
along the river bank, from Twenty
second street to Thirty-f1rst. and ex-
tending as far west as Western ave-
nue.. It is some of this property that
still is in litigation. and although 1t
| is occupied, and has been for many
years. by railroad tracks and build
| ings. the title is said to be so clouded
| that even the suits oldest friends
can not see through it.-Chicage
Tribune.
| Scales to Stop Frauds.
| Treasury officials Tuesday explain
ed that the long and exasperating de-
lay in the introduction on the New
| York piers of automatic scales, which
| will eliminate the human equation of
possible fraud. will soon be ended
| Twenty automatic electric weighing
| machines will be ready in 60 days for
installation at New York and else
where in the customs service. This
| announcement was made today by
James K. Taylor. supervising archi-
| tect of the treasury.
The twenty new scales are being
constructed by the Sub-Target COM
| pany of Boston. They will have many
| improvements over the automatic
scale invented by John E. Davis of
New York, which was successfully
tried out on the Arbuckle piers in New
York last year in weighing sugar. Mr..
| Davis who was located by the treas