The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-15
LIVES ON
Only Success Dies, Says Ebert
Hubbard.
Fra EIbertus Delights Audience
With His Talk.
TUE ORIGIN OF LEAP YEAR
He Says That Mark Antony Is
Responsible.
Takes Gentle Slap at Lawyers,
Preachers and Doctors.

| Ebert Hubbard, philosopher and
lecturer IN his address at 1.-The March
| Of the Centuries" at the Auditorium
Wednesday night before several hundred
persons kept his audience in moods
varying from that of profound thought
fitness to the highest pitch of hilarity-
The truths that he uttered were as
food for thought, while his witt
cisnls convulsed his hearers With laugh
i ter.
In tracing the development of civil
| ization the speaker began with ancient
Egypt. According to Fra Elpertus
| civilization did not remain long Ia
Egypt but moved to Babylon and
Ninevah, and eventually to Athens
Rome, Constantinople. Venice, Spain,
Holland, England, and finally to Amer
lea
1--WE have been told that civilization
had its rise in Egypt" he began L DO
not know whether or not this is SO,
but civilization did not stay. Mem
phis is now a solitary place where the
jackals howl and travellers pitch the4r
tents
In speaking of the downfall of athens
the speaker said: Athens died because
it was satisfied; because it believed 1t
had the best religion and the pest CIV
ilization, the greatest system of schools
success always dies. Only failure
.sYonr enemies are The only people
that tell you the truth The way not
to have enemies is to do nothing; TO
say nothing ~.
hear Of an order that any Roman sol
der that desecrated Greclan statue
must make one as good
Caesar. was a priest and lawyer
they onIv know one way to make
money. IA lawyer and priest, ana theS
make it by getting yours They DO not
create but destroy They are stroliS
on injunctions; they work ooth enos
apainst the middle they tax you com
ing and going. -, of
.7Marlx Anthony having spoken Ill OF
Caesar. he invented leap year. he ais
covered the corporation. He was never
n9issed-there is always somebody to 40
your work better than you 90 IL
Likes smell of Gasoline.
There are more autos in Kansas
than in any other state in the Union
I am told. [ congratulate you'll love
the smell of gasoline! Julius Caesar was
a builder of good roads IN oroer u
huild roadways he devised corporations.
one hundred men were appointed -
do the work and when one o teIL a nis
other was to be appointed 70 take ms
llf n speaking of the downfall of Spain
Mr.. Hubbard said: "One-nah nllllloil
Jews were killed, ana SPAN was
crumbling into dust
I'm 1892 the world was discovered
man was in 1875. W oman was no
discovered until 1875, although theIe
existed before that time. She was dis-
covered when the typewriter was us IS
covered. She is here and can pc |
abolished.
Il am ashamed of my country when
7 think of her having waged war on |
poor old sickly Spain.
'sHolland ruled the world as the |
center of art. Then comes the year
16O9-onIy three hundred years ago! |
see how we smell the paint! Three
hundred years ago man named I
Henry Hudson, a Dane, was hired to |
come over here and find northwest |
massage to India. He got clear to Al |
banv before he discovered that the
river had the same name as himself.
ENGLAND became the financial CEN
fer of the world. England is not the |
financial center of the world now. We
have 50 to their one. New York is
the financial center. Things are COM |
ing our way. They are always com
ing our way
s.As far as I know Topeka will be |
the financial and art center of the
world Topeka is the geographical |
center of the United States. There |
are men and women here with the
cunning brain. Why not? Well, 1 will |
tell you. Never again will a city be |
the financial and artistic center. The
telephone and railroad have brought /
the cities close together and there will |
be many centers all over the world.
1.-The wild and woolly is gone. You /
can get anything the plains of Ari-
iona if you have the price, and if you |
haven't the price you can get a job |
ton.
"There is no problem of the unem-