The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-10
KANSAS CONAENT
JUSTICE rRIUMPHANr.

JUSTICE TRIUMPHANT.
There are times when the people,
disappointed by some unpopular de-
cision of the courts, take pessimis-
tic view of the whole machinery of
justice, and insist that truth is for
ever on the scaffold, right forever on
the bum. When they are most de-
pressed, 1t usually happens that the
courts, by some triumphant stroke
at error. vindicate themselves, and re-
store public confidence.
Such decision as that which has
just been reported from Baltimore
will do much to allay the popular un-
rest; it will convince skeptics that
Justice has not entirely forsaken her
sanctuary.
A citizen of that town went into
a restaurant and ordered a frugal
meal, which included soup. The
waiter, in feverish, unsafe and in
sane desire to serve three or four pa
irons at once, Hoped through the din
ing room with about a hundred and
nifty dishes stacked up on his arms,
shoulders, bosom and head. this being
the custom of feeb1e-minded walters
the world over. In attempting to
unload his cargo, he spilled a plate
or soup on the citizens neck, and it
ran down, inside his clothes. It was
extremely hot soup, and it contained
variety OF vegetables, and the inside
of the citizens shirt was filed with
hot beans and carrots and cabbage
leaves. 1t is therefore not surprising
that ne broke a chair on the walters
person. and then sat on his head. and
Spolled lot of crockery on him.
The waiter had the citizen arrested
The waiter was backed up by the pro-
prietor of the restaurant, and other
corporate influences, and all the re-
sources of capital were employed to
bring condign punishment upon the
parboiled citizen, who was merely a
humble clerk in shoe store. So gen.
eral is the dissatisfaction with the
courts and the processes of justice,
that 1t was freely predicted that the
citizen would draw a penitentiary SEN
tence at the least. But Daniel was
come to judgment in this case. After
hearing all the evidence, the jurist
who occupied the bench not only ac-
quilted the citizen, but handed the
waiter package about as hot as the
soup he spilled, intimating that res
taurant walters are required by the
constitution to place a bowl of soup
on the table in front of a customer
of his neck.
The citizen repaired in triumph to
his shoe store, and the base firelings
and cormorants and janizaries of pred
atory wealth retired, abashed, to
their jungle.-Emporia Gazette.
ONE INFATUATION.
few of the magazine publishers
have at last made the discovery that
people who buy the stuff to read are
not -passionately fond of long rigma-
roles about the stage and actors and
actresses. Two magazines which have
published, each month, many pages
Of scenes from plays and pictures of
actresses who had nothing much on
above the waist, have dropped that
feature. and are devoting the space
to safe and sane reading matter.
But the old superstition that ''the-
atrical chat is great magazine
feature dies hard. While some pub
locations are dropping it, others are
taking it up, and it will be a good
many years before the tiresome twad-
die, and the inane pictures are
dumped for good.
The magazines are published in
large cities, and the local readers may
be interested in a new play at the
Metropolitan, or a. ballet at the Oeci-
dental, and a sideview of Viola Aliens
neck, in colors, may be Illuminating
to them; but the magazines depend
upon the people of the small towns
people have little interest in plays.
and they do not consider pictures of
half-dressed women as being particul-
arly instructive or entertaining.
When a man with family looks
over the magazines, seeking some
thing to take home and read, he al
most invariably passes up the one
that has a lot Of theatrical pictures.
The man with family Is the rest
customer a magazine or newspaper
can have, and it seems foolish to
queer him iberately.-Emporia Ca
zette.