The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-01
THE PATH 10 YHsTERDAY.

AZ EVENING, FEBRUAR'
THE PATH TO YESTERDAY.
There's a path that leads to Yesterday
A rambling path Of blossoms and per-
fume.
You remember. how the wild grapes. over
To the house upon the hilltop deep in
bloom.
There's path that leads to Yesterday
through flowers,
Where the cricket snaps its fairy whip
And a barefoot boy goes whistling all
i. day long.
There's a path that leads to Yesterday
OF the forest, where the wood pool is
And the sunbeam is twinkle soft that
mingles
With gladness of a girl who dances by
There's a path that leads to Yesterday.
With the pearl and purple footsteps of
Where the first star leaps and flashes
On the violet verge of twilight washed
with musk.
There's path that leads to Yesterday
that's haunted
With the shadows Of old memories Of
bliss,
And the ghosts of loves that roamed
there once, who counted
Every moment by a heartbeat or kiss.
Oh. that path that leads to Yesterday.
It's calling!
Don't you hear It? How it calls
Through its roses, like the memories now
falling,
And the dreamlike Westward futtering
Ol wings.
On the path that leads to Yesterday we've
Hear it calling with its many whip
Through the darkness where the moon
rests on the hills.
Madison Cawein, in st. Louis Globe
Democrat.
Divorce Problem Easy.
Nowhere in the United States is di-
vorce so costly that only the rich can
buy justice. Nowhere does divorce
children. A comparison of the laws of
Europe and the laws of the United
States invites the question, On which
side of the world is loftier ideal of
| marriage shown? Where are the rights
of women and children the better pro-
tected?
The solution Of our divorce problem
lies in securin a better relation be-
| tween men and women in every de-
partment of life 1t is an anomaly in
this republic that there should be any
distinctions on account of Sex. 1t is
absurd that women should receive low
er wages than men for equal work per-
formed or equal service given. 1t is
| unfair to deny women their share In
public housekeeping. 1t is unjust to
tax them and at the same time refuse
them citizenship.
American women are as well educa-
ted, as intelligent as moral, as con-
scientious, and, within their opportuni-
ties, as efficient as American men. once
this is fully recOgniZed; once the last
veStige of sex prejudice and sex con-
tempt vanishes from custom and from
the statute books; once the same stand
ard of morals is recognized in society
as it is in the law; once it is made at
least as easy for women as for men to
earn an honorable living; once mar
riage on absolutely equal terms is made
possible-no moral or physical advan-
tage' on the side of the husband, no
parasitism allowed on the part OF the
wife-then it will be perfectly safe to
attach a divorce coupon to every mar
rage certificate, with permission for
both parties to tear it off at wil1.-Rheta
Childe Dorr, in the Forum.
Fate of a Famous Horse.
The story of Kansas Russell. one IF
the best known equine personalities uf
the city and horse with history in
two states, graphically illustrates every
event in the descending scale of q
| horses life from colthood to old age.
Now he seems to have reached the
end of the scale and the 1regs of his
| cup. He is a dray horse with the city
express. His station is at the corner Of
| Markham and Scott streets, and there
he stands, wind-galled, broken, and
blind. But withal he is a game loser,
and his work is his level best. 1t takes
| no clubbing to rouse him to action, be-
| cause he is patrician bred and born 20
the purple.
| Kansas was originally brought to
Little Rock by Henry Dalhoff. a well
| known railroad contractor, 20 years
ago. He was stallion then and a
beautiful one, trim of limb, deep OF
chest, slender of barrel, rich sorrel in
color, blazed face, and with a white
stocking on each hind leg. He was
| then about 6 years old and one of the
racing string of a Kansas turfman.
His trotting record at that time was
2:15 but he seldom entered in his class.
! Kansas was outlawed in his native
state and barred from Kansas tracks
on account of the sfrewd practices of
| his owners, who would paint and other
wise alter his, appearance and enter
him under an alias in a lower class.
| Because of his outlawry, Kansas was
| SOLD IN Arkansas AIter IFe years III
| the service of Mr.. Dalhoff, Mr.. Beller
bought him for $500, and it was in his
possession that Kansas became a FAM
] ily horse Older residents sof Little
Rock remember Kansas as one of the
best combination horses in the city He
was a superb saddler, pacing equally
as we'll as he trotted, and. on account
of his gentle disposition, unexcelled as
| a family horse.
Several years after acquiring the
horse Mr. Beller contracted a severe
/ case of blood poisoning and became un
able to drive him So Kansas was sold
/ for a third time for $3.50. Since then
| he has been sold and resold time and
! time again.
| The old blind horse probably will
drop dead some day, but when he does
he will die at the post and trying
| Arkansas Gazette.