The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-28
KANSAS COMMENT
THE sUMAfER CAPITAL.

Beverly, Massachusetts,. is a place
bounded on the east by the deep and
more or less blue sea. and on the
nortn' south and west by newspaper
correspondent The location of the
sea may not be exact. but the rela-
i've positions are reasonably accurate.
II Is mere that President Taft has
s ssftisa down with all the settling pos
slplLtles OF 30O-pound man. to seek
summer solace and comfort. Beverly
Is Lne nations summer capital.
BetWeen the lines of the stories
when "a the newspaper men are sending
OUT from Beverly there runs q strong
thread OF confirmation for the theory,
rounded on personal experience
among the country's yoemanry, that a
summer capital with modern con-
ven1ences' is not different-in respect
to its privileges and obligations
President Taft started out this
morning TO play mumb1e-peg with his
private secretary. The department of
state called up to know what to do
about the Chinese loan. The presi-
dent moved a rocking chair under
the elm In the front yard and ordered a
pitcher of lemonade from the
kitchen. Citizens of Beverly led by
to the city that had been overlooked
in the seventeen previous presenta-
lions. The president gave it out that
he would be asleep in the hammock.
preached with the Providence brass
band to show appreciation for re-
vision of the tariff downward. Sem
ator Pifde wanted to know about the
postoff1ce at Alfalfa Center. The
equal suffrage league in marching or
der inquired whether the president
meant what the reporter said he said.
The cook delivered a farewell address.
The country Is full Of summer cap
itals whose chief purpose is to prove
the vanity of hope. Party majorities
are made UP by the votes of men who
carry to the polls in November. spirit
chastened and. saddened by the
recollection OF the summer capital
of rest and quiet and q different life.
The country Is watching the presi-
Dental experiment with interest, and
with an assurance as to the outcome.
sand years to take maps at home on
Sunday afternoon for nothing.
Some day Mr.. Taft and his banker
ing fellow citizens may find the rest
when they take the wings of the
morning, and the Barcan desert
pierce, and lose themselves in the con-
tinuous wilds where rolls the Oregon,
and hears no sound from the tele-
phone or the rural mail man.
A summer capital is q winter cap
ita1, with the windows opens and q
few more f1ies.-Ottawa Herald.
AHEAD OF THE SCIENTISTS.
The fly has been branded as the
filthy dissemination of typhoid. tuber-
culosis and lesser ills; the mosquito
ecatters yellow fever and malaria;
even the butterfly breeds caterpillars
which devastate vegetation. One by
one familiar insects are being placed
in the rogues' gallery of the scientists.
Therefore we hasten to say good
word for the FREELY, otherwise known
as the lightning bug, and having also
a longer Latin alias. Before this nat
ural searchHght is accused OF spread
ing Asiatic cholera, or working the
night shift on the wheat with the
green bug, let It be said that 1t adds
a bit of cheer to gloom. 1t does not
tickle like the fly, nor bite like the
mosquito. A harmless, playmate for
the children on the lawns in the even
ing, It seems. but the scientists may
transform it to glittering monster
engaged in depopulating the earth. |
You never can tell about your insect
friends. And that light the FREELY
carries is also of interest; is has an
advantage over the electric gas, kero- |
sene or tal1ow candles of mankind.
1t is a light without heat. Not much |
light, to be sure, but it Is enough for J
the female to attract its mate, which, |
the wise ones say, is its purpose
Atchison Globe.