The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-28
KANSAS COMMENT
HERE IS COURAGE.

| 1t is not unlikely that you sometimes
feel discouraged and down in the
mouth: SO to speak, and utterly care
less of the consequences. Some per-
sons are apt to take trouble pretty
hard and lose interest in themselves
| and the rest of the world. 1t is easy 10
| become sentimental to the exclusion Of
| everything else and give up the fight.
If you ever felt inclined to take this
| view of things just read and ponder
over the following written by woman
| VINO, within the past few months has
lost her husband and two of her sons
| and who still clings to her work With
| a spirit that is all bravery:
| BE NEIGHBORBY.
| The home is for happiness. Whatever
| brings the highest happiness is right
! and best. Do not forget and abandon
all neighborly courtesy with your
friends, companions, conversation, SYM
pathy and neighborly visitings to and
| fro. Visit your friends, and receive
them in your home, that your heart
may be lightened and frightened by an
interchange of thoughts and feelings.
Be neighborly, be obliging, be kind and
courteous, and then when sorrow and
| sickness come you will have sympathy
and help.-Winchester Star.
Mrs. Kirkpatrick, the editor OF the
| Winchester Star and the woman VINO
| wrote the above bit of philosophy, has
| had more trouble within a year than
many women would be able to survive
in a life time. Several months ago her
| husband began to fail in health. He
was the editor of a small paper, but
| he supported a happy family and was
a splendid man. His wife went to his
| aid and learned the ways of the princ
shop sufficiently to become an excellent
| help in getting out the paper.
| Then the oldest son, nearly grown
| man, died. To relieve her feelings the
mother worked the harder in the shop
| and enabled her husband to take his
work easier and give more attention TO
| the remedying of his ills. She ran the
| job press, set type and even solicited
| and wrote advertising. In the last days
| of his illness she enlisted the help of
| her younger daughter in the work at
| the shop and divided her own time
with the husband at his bedside. Every
| weeks paper went to press at the
schedule time.
| Neighbors in the little town looked
| for a collapse of the wife when the hus-
band was finally taken away. But IN
stead, there came a stronger deterTnl-
nation to maintain the weekly paper IN
order to earn money to keep up the
home for the remaining son and daugh-
| ter About a week ago the remaining
| son died. And with bravery that
| would shame the heart Of many man
who has edited a paper for many years,
she took her pencil and wrote the
above paragraph which Is the essence
! of gospel for the home, the home that.
in her case, has little enough left to
| call home.
| We don't know how other people feel
about it but in our opinion there is no
medal for bravery that is adequate to
reward a woman who has courage like
| this. It is the kind of bravery that
brings its own reward.-Leavenwor
| Times.
THE HYDE LIE.
| Some day people are going to learn
that the cleverest liar in the world
can't get away with it always. There
| is the case of DIR. Hyde, who had a
good chance of being cleared until, in a
moment of inanity, he swore he had
used cyanide for ten years. and then
| couldn't remember a single place where
he had purchased it except the one pur-
chase he was accused of using to poison
old Col. Swope. There was no neces-
| sity for such a story. If he had said
| it was the only purchase of cyanide he
ever made in his life it would have
sounded reasonable. But he wasn't
| satisfied with a reasonable story. He
wanted to tell one that would help his
! case Hyde lost the faith of lot of
people ana convicted himself by THAI
| one statement and it was all done be-
cause he couldn't be satisfied with a
reasonable Observation-Disclosures Ga
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