The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-15
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Through all the worlds in vain;
II VII not come to any call,
But ever free renaini
Yet he who follows Light may see
IL pause,-and fit again!
IAN lights I dwell in, moon or stars,
The FTba light i,t, OF future golden deeds
And IN the dawn above the dead
CLEAN fneffablyr'
o Love. as wind and spirit free!
Nor life. nor any tomb
Can hold thee in captivity
To cage would by thy doom;
But where thy blue wings once have
Can never more be glooml
Deep in the Garden of the Night
The song floats merrily-
I may not captured be;
But come at will where falls the Light,
And eYermore am freei''
M. E. BUTLER. in the New York Times.
TilIman and Potatoes.
Some vivacious Frenchman once said
that a man is as old as he feels and a.
woman as old as she looks. I do not
propose to be drawn into any discus
sion of woman She is no more to be
improved than a Gala lily is to be i'm
proved. Moreover, my pencil, however
kindly, is too coarse for what peach
| blow delicacy the subject would de-
mand. It would be as though steve
dore handled spun glass or Irish lace.
AS to the animal man, however, 1 feel
MORE sure as to my ground. Granting,
then, that the veracious Frenchman
was right, Senator Tillman, born in
1S47, is much older than his age.
Mr.. Tillman first burst upon an I'M
guarded world linked to that humble
vegetable, the potato. Mr.. TiIlman
wanted certain things to occur in the
destiny of the potato, and he went 20
a farmers convention and laid bare his
views. So earnest was he in his adj
vocacy Of the potato that other dele
gates tooff affront, and assailed Mr..
| Tillman- Being man of his hands
and feet-Mr. Tillman distinguished
himself in these chickering's and thrash
| ed several sons of the soil until they
Endorsed his potato position
Mr.. Tillman resolved to make the po-
tato an issue and carry it before the
peop1. Organizing his henchmen of the
hills, he led them against the patricians
of the lowlands who lacked in rever-
ence for the potato. He ran for the
office of governor, and was elected.
This was in 1890; he was elected again
in 1892.
When he became governor and had
| moved into the executive mansion Mr..
Tillman found a broad green lawn in
front Full of q potato sincerity, and
condemning blade and blossom as the
merest badges of an oppressive pluto
cracy, he plowed up the lawn and
planted 1t to potatoes. The peasantry
passing were pleased with the pota-
toes. They felt that every potato was
feather in Tillman's wool hat. The
potato-hating patricians cursed Mr..
Ti1lman and his lawn-wasting argri-
culture as the merest mountebank and
his trick.
OF medium size, with a face grim and
sinister, Mr.. Tillman, when all is said.
Is a bit impressive. His profile is like
the side view of a rip saw. His face is
strong, not handsome, and resembles
the raw face of a cliff, laid bare by
some recent landslide. His jaw, broad
and bony, confers an iron-bound effect
He doesn't look like q humorist, and he
isn't.
Mr.. Tillman fought General Butler
for the seat he now holds. After the
fashion of their religion, Mr.. Til1man
and Mr.. Butler met in Joint debate
These collisions were made up of nine
tenths vilifications, one-tenth debate
They were cantakerous rather than
controversial.
Whatever fault may be found with
Mr.. Ti11man in the land at large, In
the Palmetto rattlesnake region he
represents he is regarded as the mod
ern Demosthenes. In South Carolina
oratory demands that you call some
body a liar and quote Shakespeare,
and the speeches of Mr.. TfIlman
abound in these particulars.-Alfred
Henry Lewis, in New York American.
How India Is Governed.
The executive authority in India it
self is vested in the governor general
in council. The governor general, or,
as he is more generally called. the
viceroy, is. appointed by the GROWN and
holds Office for five years. this term Is
sometimes extended. The salary OF
the vicery is 250,800 rupees, year.
The rupee is now worth shilling and
pence, or, roughly, "a cents; the
salary amounts, therefore. to about
$4,000 a year; but should be sorry
to undertake the job and to pay my
expenses out of that sum.
The council of the viceroy consists
of six ordinary members besides the
chief of the army, and
they hold office for five years. This
council is enlarged into a legislative
council by the addition of sixteen
other members appointed by the vice.
roy under certain restrictions.
| Further, India is divided into nine
provinces: Bombay, Madras, Bengal,
Eastern Bengal, United Provinces. the
Punjab, Central Provinces and Burma.
THE governors of Bombay and Madras
are the most important officials after
the viceroy, and are appointed by the
crown, and each carries a salary OF
$4,000 a year The governors of Bonn
bay and Madras have an executive
council of two members of the Indian
| civil service appointed by the crown.
The lieutenant governors of Bengal,
Eastern Bengal, United Provinces, the
Punjab and Burma are appointed by
the viceroy, with the approval of the
crown; the chief commissioners of the
Central Provinces and the agent to the
governor general who governs the
| Northwest Frontier Provinces are APP
pointed by the viceroy in council. OF
these divisions, visited seven, and in
each I was impressed by the enormous
amount of work being done, by the
conscientious-often 1 thought too
onscientiousEway in which 1t was
done, and by the dignity and fearless
ness of the men who were doing it.
If it were not for the interference from
the India office and the criticism from
| ignorant politicians, who shamelessly
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