The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-27
kAKS[S COMMENT
THE WISE MEM

Fast experience has demonstrated the
TACT that many people are just nat
uraliy endowed with wisdom and
hnoWledge to high degree, who have
nerer learned 1t at our academies. or
coieses, pelther has it been taught
them Dy the hard knocks of the school
u experience, but it is just mother wit
combined with egotism and self con-
ceit that makes them far superior to
the average man. There are plenty of
men men In every community who can posi-
lively cure chicken cholera and the
roup, yet millions of dollars worth of
poultry Gle every year because the
common people will not take the wise
mems advice. Everyone knows, Just as
naturally as water runs up hill, why
ene cost OF living is so high and each
one mas an Invaluable remedy, if they
could only get suffering humanity tic
properly do the thing that they recon-
meho' everything would be lovely, the
poor Grasses correspondingly happy, and
tue nudle classes would become mil
D,isnl olsease are durable to let them
zen II. when gasoline engine gets
brain feVer and is suffering with gen.
efai uepillty and its vitals are becoming
superneated by internal combustion,
"nen the Intake valve has jumped as
traooie OF the carbureter and appendi-
cltls is threatened and a comatose state
lntervenes there're just dozens of men
VINO never saw gasoline engine who
can tell you just by mother wit, how
10 Tx 1T. 1t is the same way in law
and politics, IN religion and the arts
least about these great subjects can tell
you the most about them, and the world
is iast becoming a human hive of YER
satlle intellectually, who know more
py intuition than our grandfathers ever
old IN the acme of their boosted educa-
ton. The good old book says that we
snail grow weaker and WISER and this
great truth is being demonstrated every
day.-Americus Greeting
FRUIT FOR SOCIALISM
Two sad sad occurrences have come to
my attention recently. and let those who
rave tears to shed, prepare to shed them
now. as lift the sombre curtain and re-
veal these pathetic events to the fearful
gaze of my sympathetic readers. A poor
little fellow was tramped on at million
ARE social function and severely injured.
So great was the grief that the sad event
spoiled the evenings entertainment en-
tirely, for the little fellow was the chief
attraction there. Women wept and men
Restoratives were applied to the little fell
low and the millionaire ladies finally kiss
ed him back to life and playfulness. The
other case was still sadder. In this case,
the little fellow died. A costly coffin was
secured and his dear little form was ten
derby wrapped in costly burial raiment,
a tiny hearse was secured, preacher en-
ployed, and the sad, sad cortege arranged
regardless of expense, wended its mel
ancholy way to a fashionable cemetery
where the dear little fellow was to be
inferred with elaborate ceremonies, and
where the minister was to pronounce an
expressive not to say expensive, eulogy
on the deceased, when 10 and behold the
cruel cemetery authorities refused admis-
sion to the weeping mourners and declined
to permit the little fellow to be buried
there at all. In both these sad sad cases
the little fellow was a poodle dog. Sad.
isn't it? Yet some people wonder why
socialism is growing in this country and
why the hateful Upas tree of anarchy is
taking root in American soil.-E. w.
Hoch in his Wanderers Notes in the
Marion Record.