The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-09

wrong,
i There, little girl don't vote,
i Don't vote!
There, little girl, don't vote!
You have beautiful clothes, I know
! That blue marquisette,
Would make a most splendid show:
But though you've a Russian sable coat
There, little girl, don't vote,
Carolyn Wells, in Judge.
Nuns Going to Oregon.
/ There arrived on the Laurentic six
Irish nuns Of the Dominican order,
who were driven out of Portugal after
the establishment of the republic.
Robbed, Inundated, and at times in
danger of physical violence, they were
forced to leave their convent six hours
after the order of expulsion was pub
lished and were deported on a vessel
sailing from Lisbon for Liverpool.
They are on their way to Baker City.
Ore, to establish there convent and
school.
Mother Prioress Mary Catherine
Roth was the head of the Convent of
st. Joseph near Lisbon. With her
came Sisters Mary Catherine Clayton
and Mary Donnelly Murphy, Of the
same convent, and Sisters Mary Pat
rick Mcguire, Antoninus McCabe and
Augustine Collins, of the Dominican
convent of Aveiro, near Oporto.
| In the Convent of ST Joseph said
the mother prioress, "were about 100
nuns and an enrolment of 80 scholars.
The first we knew of the order to
leave the country was on October 10,
when an edict was published in the
papers giving us "a hours to leave our
convent. For a week the people had
been bowling about the convent. Ev-
erywhere there was evidence Of hatred
against US. When a threat was made
to blow up the convent the govern
ment sent the soldiers and police to
protect us. While some guarded from
the outside others were stationed in
the building. The place was practical
1y made a barracks and persons were
allowed to come and go as they pleas
ed. Some visited us out of sympathy,
but others came out of curiosity and
to jeer. 1t is hard to explain the atti-
tude of the people. Just a week be-
fore, when we went on the streets, we
were treated with Difference and re-
Ispect.
when the order of expulsion was
published we sent to ask for an extern
were not wanted, and only six hours
remained for us to leave. About that
time a number of motor cars came to
the door. Each car had a governme nt
official. We were told that we must go
at once. Permission was refused for
US to go out in the garb of our order.
Some Of the women, our friends, had
Isent in some clothing, and a number
| of us dressed in it. Others had to
leave in their black skirts with their
long black wells thrown about their
heads like shawls. New York
| Times.
Senator BouIne's Oversight.
| Senator Jonathan Bourne. father of
the Oregon idea" and generalissimo
of the band of progressives called
1 ssBourne's Salvation Army" reached
70 h oh tn n icfn RI q
genealogy for his doctrine in a speech
to the senate. He began with the art
! of printing in 1456. and did not miss
many celebrities from that time to the
present moment in tracing the birth
| of the particular variety of popular
government for the establishment of
which the senator from Oregon mod
estly takes much credit. Kant and
Locke were included in the list as pro-
gressive philosophers, Cromwell as a
progressive general, and. Thomas
Paine and Thomas Jefferso.l were al
luded to as 'the chanteclers of lib
erty.''
But the greatest of all these fore
runners of Senator Bourne's popular
government" was, according to his an
alysis, Jean Jacques Rousseau, who, he
asserted, Gin his social contract exer-
cised the greatest influence" The his
tory of this emotional child of France
was traced with tender hand, perhaps
for the first time, for the edification of
| the senate of the United States. His
simplicity, which prompted the great
ladies of the court of Louis to build
cottages in the park of the Trianons.
was dwelt upon with charming sympa-
| thy. But, strangely enough, the sena-
tor from Oregon overlooked the fact
| that Jean jacques is most generally
known as one of the forerunners of the
French revolution.-G. G. Hill, in the
New York Tribune.
The Use of Tobacco.