The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-21
KANSAS COMMENT

WHAT FOOLS WE MORTALS BE!
LIS; Annie Besant, world head of
the Tneosophfsts. was interviewed in
raa city last Saturday. She ex-
her belief Cher knowledge was what
sne called IT'D that Christ is now on
earth, and that she has seen him
bia1sa,s siInes; that he would reveal
L a 70 the whole world in less
IMAM a century; that she could COM
munlcate with the dead; that she re-
mempered incidents of her former
exlstence; that. while asleep. the
the spirit performs after death; that
mere are people in the world whose
physical bodies are hundreds of years
old, and that the room in which she
spirits. Il do not believe I can
communicate with the dead know
II, she said. "You may COM
municate with them either by
thought or spoken word" She was
asked to tell OF some of the events of
a previous existence. She replied
tnat these were private matters. just
sevents IN her present life were
private matters, and she could not
not be expected to divu1ge them. She
refused to tell by what method she
was able to get into communication
with the dead. saying that it would
only serve as material to make jokes
of. Her plea was that persons who
were incapable of understanding, be-
cause they were not refined in
Theosophical thought, would think a
recital of the details of such meth
DDS absurd. Concerning ghosts. Mrs.
ordinary spirit It has the form of
person. It is visible clairvoyantly.
1t Is a cloud. a misty shape"
We can come to no other con-
very absurd person, and we could
come to no other conclusion if we
should think and investigate a
thousand years. Yet, how seriously
say she has 100000 followers!
Either Mrs Besant is a fool, or we
are, and we cannot acquire wisdom.
Globe.
THE INCREASE OF THE GADDERS.
The world has gone a-gadding There
are four railroad station platte rms in
Where in former days, they
filled up on the arrival of trains, to-
day they support population during
the whole day and at train time ara
owe rf1owing. So scarce are seats on
trains that when a train arrives the
crowd on the platform moves forward
to rush into the cars. While the stu
alton in this respect Is accantuated
here, because of Wichita's rapid rate
Of growth. something akin to it is to
be seen all over the west. The two
cent fare has had somtthing to co with
.ral prosperity. but the chef element in
The interesting movement is craze to
90. Butiness tas comparatively little |
% do With the mass or people on trains, |
rs has interstate or intercity immigra- |
Ion. The great majority OF travellers |
ire women, and the spring which keeps |
he machinery in motion is their ca
'acity for social Writing. In the old |
lays j son at a distant point might
'evisit, perhaps twice in his life, his
parents and the old homestead. He
ost personal touch with lis cousins,
md often with his brothers and sis
crs. Now families living far distant
rom one another keep in close touch.
Every wife has a circle of relations she
lists with more or less regularity. She
would feel herself oren to criticism If
he neglected lorotl5Sfss ind sisters. and
While she Is at it she includes first
nd second cousins in the annual round.
Ind those she visits. return the COM
,linent. And it is just az we'll. Life
> short enough as it is, to make
riends and hold hem. The endear
nents of home are all right, bit little
occasional absence from them en-
ances them. The man who wrote
Home. Sweet Home" was gadding.-
1chfta Eagle.