The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-10
KANSAS COMNENT
NEW CHAIJTAIroITA FAyoRITE

NEW CHAUTAUQUA F,AVOR1TE-
Il choose you, Uncle Alb said G.
Washington Settler of Chautauqua, y.
Y, as he breezily brushed by the man
at the door of Yildiz Kiosk. when the
white flag had been hoiSted as a signal
to the Young Turks. Il represent the
biggest chautauqua association on
earth and you're picked for the star JOB
this year. We had figured on Uncle
Joe Cannon as being the biggest auto
erat in the business, but he turned US
down, and it's up to you. Besides our
audiences are composed mostly OF wo-
men and it's been told me you are con-
versant with women's ways; so you're
IT. Sign here" and the breezy Ameri-
can held out the ehautauqua contract
Pack your suit case, pick out a few
choice ones from the harem and come
with me. I'll make you rich and the
women will talk about you at pink
teas. Chance of your life, Uncle;
nounced that A. Hamid, known to his
personal friends and the inhabitants of
the kiosk as Uncle Alb" viii be seen
on the local chautauqua circuits this
when a Bluff Didn't Work" or The
Franks of Certain Young Turks" He
should be a drawing card for he comes
highly recommended by the most ex-
elusive society Of the Bosphorus straits
Hutchinson News.
A PATHETIC PICTURE.
A cartoon in the Cleveland Plain
Dealer is food for pathetic thought. An
old, worn Indian, with musket by his
side, is reclining on the ground at the
foothill of a rocky eminence- Pictured
in the distance, rising as it were from
a cloudy horizon, outlined In similarity
to a mirage that one sees on the
plateaus of Mexico, are the spires ana
lofty buildings of a city. Despair Is
t,1. ,$ar, Of he
aborigine; disappointment, bitterness.
the unhappy face of natures son is de-
picted in every lineament of his feat
ures and the words Somehow they
don't need me-" are indicative Of the
gloom that pervades the soul of lead
er of his race, a chieftain whose power
is gone, who is shorn of his birthr1ght
and despoiled of his country.
The advancing march of civilization
has pushed the red man on and on I'M
til the point has been reached where he
is useless creature in the economy of
the modern world. Unused to the ways
of trade, unable to cope with the arts
of the whites by nature unified to till
the soil or turn his mind to the field of
industry, he can well exclaim in the
bitterness of his impending doom,
Somehow they don't need me."-Clay
Center Republican.
CARRIES HATCHETS.
Kansas is TO lose Carrie Nation, anu
will probably bear up bravely under
the loss. Carrie, having saved up
money from the sale of hatchets, has
purchased an Arkansas farm, and will
go to make her home in a strange
state, where liquor is not only sold, but
frequently home made when the reve-
nue. inspector isn't looking.
But doesn't the fact that Carrie has
purchased a fine farm rather reverse
the popular estimate of the bar buster?
People have long believed her poor but
crazy, but it developed that she was
making it pay. She has proited to the
extent of extensive tours in America,
and at least one trip abroad, and now
she buys a farm, and retires. There
are about the usual number of saloons
running, but Carrie sold what hatchets
she didn't need. And there are a num-
Der of other ReforIners about the cour-
try who are doing no good, and whom
you may think foolish, but they are
making it pay.-Atchison Globe.