The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-29
FRON OTHER PENS
A TEST OF MEN.

In their Overwhelming misfortune
the minnesota settlers are giving to the
ndtlon an example of manliness and
that stole hardihood upon which the
greatness of America was built. Their
homes and cities are DESTROYED The
work OF years is reduced to ashes. But
they march up to the relief trains. get
tent and an AK and will begin life
anew.
The history of this country teens
with instances of the homes of settlers
being destroyed by Indians or the raw
ages of wars. But the dead were
places of those destroyed. 1t is
spirit that is essential to the building
OF any conmonwealt and to the hap
piness of mankind. In their simple
wisest of the wise. How silly it is. in
deed to admit any kind of defeat. All
that man can obtain from his ma
terial wealth is food. shelter and
clothes. His other asset is peace Of
mind and joy in living The forest IRE
can not destroy either. It devoIves
upon him to destroy them, if they are
to be lost.-St. Antonio Express.
- STOP, LOOK, LISTEN"
In a decision of the United States
court of appeals in the case of the
New York Central VS.. Maidment is a
point which should be noted by auto
mobile operators and owners. The ia
miliar rule, "Stop look, 1isten,'' the
court says, is more binding upon the
chauffeur than the driver of a horse.
An automobile can be stopped near a
track without danger, while a horse
! might be frightened by the locomotive.
According to this decision, chauffeurs
who dash over crossing without look
ing for approaching trains are guilty
of contributory negligence. If they
more often used ordinary caution the
proba bi1ity of fatalities at crossings
would be greatly lessened.
This decision, however, is in no sense
a defense of grade crossings. The aboli-
lion of these deathtraps is necessary to
insure absolute safety. The signals OF
watchmen may be misunderstood by
| drivers who are not inclined to take
risks. Public sentiment, while strong
| ly opposed to the creation of new grade
crossings, is not powerful enough to
| abolish the old ones on short notice;
and the prospect is that it will be many
| years before all roads are carried over
or under railway tracks.-Providence
Journal.
| PEOPLE WITH WHIMS.
| They are In the way. They delay
the procession. They want things thai
nobody else is thinking about. They
| trump up desires out of their imagina-
cause they are not gratified. It is the
| duty of everybody who wants to be fail
| to the surrounding world to ask him
| self and herself, too-am whimsical
| There is such a thing as healthy dis
| content, but a whim is an unhealthy
one. 1t is a fancy trumped up out OF
a mere conceit, and self1shness is the
| impulse that pushes it forth. So the
whimsical person is out of place, and
yet he wants to make himself the cen
| ter of all things. Everybody must bow
/ to his caprice or he makes himself
| ugly and becomes nuisance whom
| everybody tries to avoid.
| But the other kind of a person. wht
values what he has more than he i'm.
AGNES what he lacks, is always wei
come. We can understand how &
steadily reasonable husband can ge
along with a whimsical wife or vice
versa, but how serenity and joy car
prevail when both are whimsical
/ which we have sometimes seen to b.
/ the case, one can not surmise. There
| is where a whim crawls in like snake
| into Eden. Keep it out.-Ohio STATE
/ Journal.