The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-12
ON SECOND THOUGHT
By JAY E. HOUSE.
(From Philadelphia Public Ledgsr.I

AS we have hitherto had occasion
to remark, reporting isn't what it was
when we were on the job. OF the
nineteen million persons who read the
story of Mr.. Ford's misadventure,
1S,999,997 wondered what sort of car
he was driving. 1t was the wallop of
the ages, but the reporter who wrote
the story neglected to impart it.
OF course. one may approach prox-
unity to fact by the process of elimi-
nation. Mr.. Ford was ascending an
incline at a speed of thirty miles an
hour. That exonerates one we'll
known motorcar.
There is some controversy as to the
identity of the gentleman who first
remarked that what this country
needs is a good five-cent cigar" The
1t would be equally to the point to say
that what this country needs is a good
$500 Rolls-Royce.
If, however, it were possible to pro-
duce such a cigar-and it isnt-no-
body would buy it. Ours is a brave
and hardy country which stands up
well under the burdens of grief and
nobody is going publicly to admit that
he smokes a fiVe-cent cigar.
One of the things we particularly
l1keQ ABOUT IH6 IdLe ALEXANDER IRA
ham Bell was that he didn't attribute
his success along scientific lines, and
his ripened years to early rising or
abstinence from the use of tobacco or
stimulants.
And we also gather from a frag-
mentary reading of Mr.. Bells memoirs,
printed not so long ago, that he had
a good bit Of fun as he went along.
We thought we were a. bit low in
mind over the defeat Of Phil Campbell,
but that was before the New York
World began moaning over the norni-
nation of Jim Reed.
Ours is a lachrymal nature. The
tears of disappointment well from us
at the lightest touch. But we never
saw the day We could cry with the
World.
Having learned all about their bust
ness from one who is in a position to
know, we trust the rail executives will
now go ahead and accept the terms
offered.
The Columning of Eugene Field.
IFrom "The Works of Eugene Field
and compiled from the "Sharps and
Flats" column in the Chicago Daily
News, 1SS3-1S95.1
Mr.. James R. Lowell, a Boston
writer, whose poems give promise OF a
brilliant future for the author, will Wis.,
1t Chicago next week as the guest of
one of our most enterprising citizens,
whose reduction in the price of green
hams is noted in our advertising col
umnS.
The Princess Louise has sent seven
water color5 to the Boston exhibition.
One OF them represents a blue COW
grazing in a lavender meadow, thru
which a purple brook, filled with pink
fish, purls along under a green sky, in
which a terra Gotta sun flames gor-
geously. The Princess has painted her
monogram on one corner of the pic
ture, and this fact, with the intrinsic
value of the work OF art, would seem
to make the gem peculiarly attractive
to such q discriminating connoisseur
as our fellow-townsman, Colonel n. K.
Fairbank.
It is a singular coincidence that the
birth of Martin Luther, the Ben Butler
of his times, and the birth of Ben
Butler, the Martin Luther of his times,
should have occurred upon the same
date of the same month, just 400 years
apart.
The new national library will have
space for 100000 books. We mem
ton this merely to encourage Mr.. F.
Marion Crawford to keep right on.
Nat Goodwin tells a story of a tramp
who, upon being asked to undertake
the task of eating thirty quail in thirty
days, pathetically exclaimed: Make
it turkeys