The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-19
KANSAS COMMENT
MIsERARLE MoNEY.


Recent announcement of the will
OF Mary Adelaide Yerzes, splitting
up remnant of a once great estate
among numerous kin, shows how
fortunes center. and then spread out
again: But more interesting than
that is the story it recalls, of how
money itself, fails to purchase happi-
ness; how, even, it may swing the
other way and purchase misery in
punches. We know little enough of
the way Yerkes made his money: big
deals in traction stocks, promotion
of street railways in two countries,
with, perhaps, some shady deals in
the making. But If would have been
gold mine, diamond field or an oil
we'll 1t was the way the money was
used, and not the method of acquire
ment that made the misery in this in
stance.
Charles T. Yerkes, the man who
made it, died alone in a New York
hotel, estranged from a family which
had reason to feel that way about it.
Mary ADELAIDE, who has just made her
will, then came in for her share Of
it. She hadn't been happy with
Yerkes. Perhaps married him for
money, thinking the money would
make her life one glad, sweet song.
1t didn't. Having the money, she
wanted love. She purchased a young
western man of type she thought
she could love. But he wasn't worth
the price she paid for him, so he was
Internationally released.
And her health failed her, and her
last days were spent surrounded by
loving kin who were wondering how
they would divide the swag. She re-
warded them tmpartially, by splitting
1t up in even parts, what she hadn't
wasted, and left nothing to charity.
So their great fortune didn't help
the Yerkes family much. A good
deal of it was wasted after the f1nan-
cier who made it died. The millions
that were leftoto be divided up among
1t will all depend on how it is used,
and on other things. Money may
help towards happiness. or 1t may
work in the other direction, but there
are any number of things more i'm
portant.-Atchison Globe.
THEY ARE WRONG.
It is wonderful-the amount Of
| knowledge that is not possessed by
some of the newspaper artists and
cartooniStS. Laughs are on the sur
face of many of the funny pictures we
see in the newspapers but many of the
pictures will not stand inspection.
For instance: A cartoon recently ap-
pearing in a Chicago newspaper pic
tured an official milking a cow labeled
"The Public Purse" Anyone could
see the point intended but no self-re-
specting cow would allow chap to sit
down on the left side as that fellow
was doing in the picture.
Another picture recently printed
was of an italian harp player doing
duty in a cartoon. But he was doing
what is almost mpossible-playing
left handed.
A Saturday metropolitan cartoon
pictured woman riding on a side
saddle. The woman was sitting with
her feet on the right side Of the horse
she was riding. Cartoonists are a
bright lot of fellows usually but there
should be established a school for de-
tails in order to keep them from de-
ceiving the growing generation. Some
youngster is apt to try to harness a
mule from the wrong side following
cartoon directions-and be TANNED
through a barn door as a reminder of
the error of Observation-Disclosures
Herald. -7efc-