The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-05
EDITORIAL NOTES

The hrst settlement on the site of Topeka. the capital Of Kansas, was made in 1854, but 1t did not become the seat Of government until NOv- B. 1861, just Afty-two years ago today. Le- compton had been the capital of the territory, but with the admission of Kansas to the Union the choice of a capital rested between Topeka and Lawrence. The former received 7,996 votes to Iawrence's 5,291. During the days preceding the civil war Kansas was "a dark and bloody ground and from it's beginning Topeka was the scene of many exciting encounters be- tween the opponents and defenders of slavery. 1n 1857 it was incorporated as a city. The first city in Kansas was Leavenworth. founded in 1854. Atchi- son was laid out later in the same year. as were Lawrence and Topeka Other important "cities'' in the Kansas of the sos included Doniphan, E1wood, Lecompton, Manhattan, Osawatonaie and Tecumseh- Some of these places are now mere villages, while other ear 1y settlements have long since van ished from the map while Kansas City, Wichita, Hutchinson, Pittsbnrg and other cities of more recent growth have become prominent
 Birthday congratulations are due to-
 
 son-in-Iaw, Nicholas Longworth, who passes his forty-fourth milestone. MT. LongWorth is millionaire, lawyer, an ex-congressman and a poet, but he Is chiefly famous a. husband of Al ice nee Roosevelt. MT Longworth was defeated for reelection to Congress last fall by Stanley B. Bowdle, who led in the race by the mere margin of eighty-f1ve votes. MT. Longworth once delivered a poetic panegyric on stpants'' l.1f0 CS17r- in he 1crr0c eional campaign he was defeated on the pants issue. The political enemy sought to discredit Col. Roosevelt's son-in-Iafw by alleging that he wore a new pair of pants every day, and the report got abroad that Bowdle, his ri- val, possessed only one pair of leg coverings. MT. Longworth was defeat ed, despite his spirited denials of a too free indulgence in garments for the neither Iimbs and it has since deve1- oped that Congressman BowdIe has plenty of pants. MT. Longworth's touching tribute to pants, as eInbalmed in the Congressional Record, was as follows:
 You may live without poetry. music
 or art: You may live without conscience, you
 may live without heart; You may live without kin, cousins, un-
 cles or aunts,
 
 pantsP' As a B,air Young Thing would remark, In marginal note, How trueg'
 Eugene victor Debs, perpetual can didate for the Presidency of the United States on the Socialist ticket, was born in Terre Hautes Ind, fffty-eight years ago today. Four times he has been the standard bearer of the red flag party of the United States, and, while he has been consistently and persistently de- feated, he has received a constantly l increasing vote. MT. Debs is now en- gagged in running for the presidency in 1916 and 1920. He has been a 1ocomo- tive fireman, a grocery clerk, city clerk of Terre Haute a member of the In diana legislature, and president of the l American Railway Union While man aging the railway strike in 1894 he was sent to jail for contempt of court, and it was while behind the bars that he | began to study socialism and became l a convert to the Marian school of in dustria1 revoIutionists. Not long ago he perpetual candidate and his charm | Ing and intellectual wife shocked Terre | Haute society by taking a woman from ] he street into their home It has since l been alleged that the woman has fully | reformed Miss Ida Minerva TarbeIl, who wrote | ~The History of the Standard Oil Com | pany,'' is a native of Erie county, Pa- | and makes no secret of the fact that | she will pass her hfty-stxth milestone | today. Her father was one of the pi- l Dneers in the development of the Penn 1 sylvania oil fields. The famous woman | journalist declares that she feels no | need of suffrage for herself, and has | expressed doubts to whether 1t l would be of any real value to the | masses of women. The chief argument | against woman suffrage, she declares | is that women do not take advantage | of the opportunities for advancement | already within their grasp She is a | feminine attire. which she says is in 1 bad taste and extravagant.
 This is Guy Fawkes Day in Eng land-the anniversary of the discovery | of the plot of Guy Fawkes and his fel- low conspirators to send king, lords | and commons sky-hooting in one grand explosion by springing a gunpowder l nine under Parliament House, Novem- Der 5, 16O5- Once the great patriotic | festival Of English youngsters, Guy 1 Fawkes Day is no longer generally ob- i served, and only a few cling to the | tinne-honored customs of lighting bon fires on Guy F'aWkes night and eating | '+parkin-'' The latter is a cake made l Of oatmeal, molasses and ginger, and for centuries it's consumption has been InseparabIy connected with the fifth l of Novem Der festival.
 In hreatening to blow up public ] buildings the English militant suffra- of Guy Hawkes. and the others implf- 1 cated in the gunpowder plot. If the 1 ''vild women should seriously un- HArtake the job, however, it is high l