The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-10

Want OF friends or money
You'll be sure to strike lead
Toward the point that's funny
IF. perforce. each sense you own
Suffers malnutrition,
Right in prime condition.
If some power you must invoke
Lei, er Il ilfe ssL Rert Ese abe Joke
In each situation.
-Lurana w. Sheldon, in the New York
Times.
Cardinal SatoiIi.
Recently the suggestion has been
made that the vatican is DESTROYS OF
ESTABLISHING formal diplomatic relations
with this country. Impossible as such
a thing must be-the very suggestion OF
it may be entirely irresponsible-it is
none the less expressive of the cordial
and frank spirit that exists between
administrative heads of the Catholic
church and this government. To what
is this spirit Attributable if not to men
like Cardinal SatoIli and President
Taft? So far as the Catholic church is
concerned, it is not improbably due to
Cardinal Satolli-the first apostolic
delegate to the United States-more
than to any other man.
Cardinal Satolli improved his oppor-
tunities to create sentiment of friend
illness between this country and the
church. Some things that he let drop
would indicate that this was not en-
tirely diplomacy on his part-that he
had affection for many Ameri-
cans and genuine admiration for their
institutions. 1t may be that he ad-
mired the republican form of govern
ment far moro than the monarchical-
A recent statement reported to nave
been made by him would indicate that
this was tho case. In any case he must
have suggested to many q native-born
American priest and prelate how the
church and the state could be served
through the same ninistrations. 1t is
III Ii Am-I--- ~
studied carefully the spirit of certain
American institutions that without
subscribing to all of them-notably to
the public schools-it is accounted in
strongest bulwarks of order and good
government, while its communicates
are regarded as among the very best
citizens.-New York Globe.
satanic Streak in Poe's Genius.
The proud and sinister features of
Edgar Allan Poe may well remind the
imaginative behclder of Millions Luci
Ter. His chief sin, like Lucifer's, was
intellectual pride: his one obsessien the
in Marie Corelli's Sorrows of Satan"
he held a peculiar fascination for wo-
men. Prof. Woodberry. in his Life
of Poe" dwells upon the magical
character of the poets voice. He APP
pealed to sentimental women by his
figure, his history. and his actions, and
to kind-hearted women by his suffer-
ing Mrs. Sarah Helen Whitman, one
of the poets loves, in poem unearth-
ed by Eugene L. Didler, describes his
portrait in words that suggest the
prince of darkness as Hauff and Hoff-
mann have Visioned him.
Mrs. Wbitman's plant for the de- |
parted poet tnrillingly suggests Cole |
ridges maiden wailing for her demon |
lover . Poe himself believed in de-
mons, He was afraid Of going, out In |
the dark for fear OF invisible and |
presence Like Swinburne's |
heroes, marked cross from the womb |
and perverse," his life was one long |
of failure. He was thwarted |
in everything he attempted. Whenever |
he scared heavenward he fell An in |
a nightmare In the olden days people |
would have said that he was possessed |
by the devil. And it is more than CO. |
incidence that the archpriest of liter |
airy diabolisni Charles Baudelaire, |
author of THE Flowers of Evil was |
bis first disciple and prophet in Europe. |
Current Literature.
Unified Promise.
With the multiplication of wireless |
tie legraph stations affoat and ashore, /
increase of the Interference, |
accidental or Intentional of the differ
emit operators with each others work, |
ard from several quarters has come the
communication is to attain anything /
like its full possibilities of usefulness
1t will have to be taken into govern
rnent control and operation. Indeed,
Willis L. Moore, the chief of the wealth
er bureau, speaks almost seriously of
an international monopoly. to serve, if
not all countries, at least all those with
interests on the Atlantic ocean. There
are grave difficulties in the way of that,
he admits, and he does not expect it to
come in our day, if ever.
ses that interference in wireless teleg-
raphy could and would be prevented
by a simple system of tuning" the
various instruments? Dozens of emf
nent electricians have confidently as
serted the practicability of that, but
not one of them has even
begun to do it, and, so far as present
go, none of them ever will.
Lack of some such device is causing
grave trouble for the wireless men
liready. and it threatens to become in
.olerable Il their numbers increase
much more.-New York Times.
Collectors of Specimens for Naturalists
Students of the crustacea often find
he cod a useful assistant collector.
Thus the circular crab seems to be
favorite food of Gods and rays and
t was chiefly from the stomachs of
hese fish that some of the older nat
lralists obtained specimens.
Another hunting ground of the nat
Iralist is the sailing ship which has
,een in foreign ports. In this way
Dr.. Clark has been able to add a tiny Z
1hilian crab to the Cornish crustacea. I
t was obtained by Vallentin on the :
oof In in a 4