The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-21

One of these days
He trudged along in gloomy thought
Through busy ways.
The motorman cried: you'll get caught
one OF these daysi'
III, linen he was hit by No. S.
dney said; Perhaps you will contrive
when dna crossing streets to look alive.
Adversely will often bring.
Much cause for praise,
Says he; They'll cure this broken wing
No cosmic sorrow does he shout,
Us us future seems all free from doubt.
Washington Star.
/ Russians in Scotland,
That $4,000 subjects of the car
should be hard at work north of the
Tweed seems to have come as a sur
prise to many Southerners who regard
Scotland as immune from the alien
Tnat he should flock into London,
which is much more accessible to him,
and offers greater, though more IL
Elusive, visions of gold paved streets, is
quite Understandable, vet there he is
I-Pole,s Lett and Lithuanian-hard at
work among the coal and iron strata
of the west of Scotland, and he has
been there since 1894, when the Bairds
OF Gartsherrie introduced him to break
a strike.
After all. it is but a return visit,
/
turtles. sent some of her best blood
across the North sea to Poland, and
at a later period to Russia itself.
Scots went as soldiers, they crowded
in as traders, for in those days the sea
offered greater facilities than the road
and the path to the Baltic ports was
easier and the welcome greater than
the highway that led to England.
Some of the descendants of these VEN
turers still remain in the land of their
q &rt~
names, but quite unable to read line
of Burns; and they are readily traced,
for they usually carried with them a
document. known as the birth brieve,
detailing their origin, duplicate of
which was kept by the magistrates
who granted it, and is still to be found
in what is known as the propinQuity
registers of Scotland.
The name of Peter the Painter" is
equaled in the first half of the seven
teenth century by a Scotsman who en-
tered the Polish cavalry and who is
constantly described in Scotch docu-
ments as Patrick Gordon. alias "SteeI-
hand" From the same part of the
country came Peter the Greats right
hand man, the Laird of AuchleuchrieS
in Buchan, and the Jacobite rebellion
drove a Scotch naval officer into the
position of governor CronstRdt
These emigrants, indeed, were near
ly all men of mark. Our immigrants
1
and drawers of water. The attack on
| the bank at Motherwell strongly
reminiscent of the Tottenham and
Houndsditch affairs, is attributed to
Let's; but the Lithuaniens bear a
good name. The children, of course.
speak English, with a Lanarkshire ac-
cent, but the elders largely keep to
themselves, and marry among them
selves. They are very domesticated,
and their favorite amusement seems to
l 10 Ia1 nj &c T11or a rNvia
and a weekly paper of their own,
Rankpelnis (the Worker), and main
tain their national customs-London
Graphic.
! Knowing Too Much.
| 1t has often been said that "it is bet
ter not to know so much than to know
so much that is not So" Louis G.
| Brandeis, the eminent attorney, who
has projected himself into public notice
| of late, is finding out the truth of this
aphorism. Without experience in rail
reading, he undertook to tell the rail-
ways that they could save $1,000,000 q
| day by introducing standardizing
methods. The railroads promptly Of
fered Mr.. Brandeis any kind of a SAL
airy if he would show them just how
the trick could be done. Warren S.
Stone, the grand chief of the Interna-
| tional Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
| gineers, and a number of other pract1-
| cal railroad workers repudiated Mr..
Brandeis' claim and insisted that it in
volved a serious reduction either in
wages or in the number of men en-
ployed.
| This is not the only instance where
Mr.. Brandeis has put his foot in it. In
| his argument before the interstate
| commerce commission, he said that 81
per cent of the 1ubricating oils used by
| American railroads was furnished by
the Standard Oil company at excessive
prices. OF course Mr.. Brandeis did not
know that tables, introduced in the re-
cent government suit against the
| Standard Oil company, showed for over
40 railroads a substantial saving in the
cost of fabrication ranging from 80 to
/ so per cent of what 1t was at the be-
| ginning of the period, for each road,
| when the Standard company undertook
the fabrication. Apparently he was
also not advised that contracts with
railroads for lubricating oil are made
| for fabrication, and not for oil, and at
| a maximum cost per unit of service.
The oil that will lubricate most salts
| factory for the longest distance has
the preference and is the most econom-
| ical.-Leslie's Weekly
Busy Times I'm Africa.
Frank Edward Johnson, artist and
lectu. ea, salIed or The -4adoAna, COM
missioned by the Smithsonian Insti-
tuition to report on the cave jewellers
OF the Sahara desert. The lecturer
has been studying the troglodytes'
anthropological measurements used
4 by the Smithsonian under the direc-
ton of DIR. Herdlicka, a curator of
| the division of physical anthropology
in the National museum
The department of Agriculture has
requested johnson to get data on olive
! oil and date growing with the least
possible moisture. The library of
congress has commissioned him to
photograph various tribes and types
] in northern Africa and the Roman
ruins in Tunisia.
/ Wilbur Carr, director of the United
States consular service, has asked
Johnson to report on the outlook for
American trade in the resort.
With Johnson sailed his wife and