The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-11
CROOKED RIVER.

S, the whip-poor-Win
Sings e at eve ,d his Iii, Rlaintive song ana the
In the sedges at the edges OF your quiet
tide.
Turning, bending, curving, flecked with
light and shade;
Showing. glimpses tempting Of fairy, fern
BubbIing over moses, whispering to the
trees, ,
summer breeze.
F'ringed with water lilies-yellow. white
Where ,' the tan, slim cat-tails bend. nod
ding DER the brink:
When a sunbeam, with a bold CLEAN,
spies their hiding place
And we float on slowly down the wind
ing stream.
Losing all our worry and the daily wear
OF the busy struggling city-here we know
katherine e. Linck in the New York
Times.
King PIutocrat Rules Us.
The Rev. William d. Moss, pastor of
the fashionable washington Heights
Presbyterian church, who in his
THANKSGIVING day sermon said that
only the associate president" and
that 1--WE are ruled not from Washing
ton but from Wall street, said to the
World correspondent today that new
king was ruling the United States
the plutocrat-and that conditions
were such that if permitted to go on
| he would be as autocrat1c as any king
of the Old World four centuries ago.
There is too much individualism
7r,z- Il en{1 n
| this individualism is taking away the
divine rights of man. The plutocrat
enjoys the divine rights of both man
and king-right by might.
During the recent panic do you
suppose that the public could have got
any benefit by going to congress? No.
While those men in congress are high
minded, they could not have come to
the aid of the country, for they real
lied fully that had they done so the
great oil trust would have reached
forth its hand to the pulse of trade
and stilled it. dead. 1t would have
ruined the masses and probably
brought on war.
''In England if the workingmen la
Dor 225 days they can afford to rest
for the balance OF the year. In this
country. which is not decadent, as it
| is said England is. the workingman
must work whole month longer
this in the face of our resources and
wealth.
"By fraternalism we can down King
Plutocrat and regain the rights of
man which we had when we first
started out under our constitution.
| "Just SO long as this individualism
runs rampant, just so long will con-
gress fail to reduce the tariff on ne
ceSsities. The members, individually
and collectively, know they are an
swerable to the trusts. They know
that if they do not act as directed the
| trusts will still trade and cause a
panic. The small merchant. the back
bone of our civilization, can best tes-
| tify to this. He has been crowded
out by the trusts and their subsidi-
aries. the railroads.
"Some people will advocate social
! ism, but we have had an example of
that in New Zealand. 1t failed. 1t
must be fraternalisn1, or, summed up,
the brotherhood of Misunderstanding
ton dispatch to the New York World.
Naughty Cupid.
| We live and learn. Heretofore the
American cocktail always has been
/ regarded as a comparatively harmless
/ and refreshing beverage, used to liven
up a dormant appetite and give zest
to the meal that follows. Now it
turns out to be Knockout drops. Mrs.
Leveret Hubbard has brought suit in
the New Jersey court of chancery to
have her marriage annulled. and says
sensible to everything that was going
on, due to drinking cocktails. Mrs.
Hubbard was Miss Nightingale, at
tending school in New Bedford. A
year ago she was travelling on a train
and met man whose name was Hub
bard. They talked and liked each
other and last March (by appoint
ment) they met again in New York,
dined together and drank few cock
tails, and then went to the theater
u 1Ocrathnn nf q INV int
est in the affair SO far; it reads like,
thousands of others.
/ But let us go on. After the theater
the young lady and Mr.. Hubbard went
to the Aston and had a little supper,
with a cocktail or two. Then "the
next thing she remembers is that she
came to her senses in a room in a no
tel, and Hubbard was there congratu-
lating himself and herself on their
being married. He gave her certifi-
cate showing that the knot had been
tied that morning. Now she wishes
it united. Mrs. Nightingale Hubbard
says cocktails deprived her of her
senses.
1t has been the custom of certain
bachelors, called ''men about town.
to enbibe dozen or more of these
drinks before and during and even af-
ter meal. 1t now turns out that it
is not safe to do SO. First thing one
of them knows he'll wake up in no.
tel and find wife there waving a
marriage certiflcate-New York Tel
egraph.
A Good Colorado Example.
There is an organization in oul
state which does a glorious business
without any flourish or blowing Of
trumpets.'' said Mr.. David R. LOCKER
of Denver at the City hotel.
"It is known as the Bureau of Child
and Animal Protection of Colorado
It rescues juvenile waits in every
part of the state outside of Denver
Not only are for1orn, destitute and neg
, lected children looked after and pro
!, tected, but suffering cattle, horses anC
sheep are kept from starving oryfreez