The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-12-12
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part OF the examination is mathematics. .
sTURDEyANT DID WELL
NJ L. Sturdevant grasped the card in 8
business-like way, hoisted his feet up on
his desk and asked the reporter to take q
seat. How long will you give mes" he
asked. he was Informed that he could
have reasonable amount of time
Let's see," he started out, Robinson
was the first territorial governor of Kan
sas Yes. Kansas had two territorial
governors" and ne put it down. He got
the second, the third and after long tus.
sic trying TO think of Postmaster General
Wanamaker the fourth question. Also
the sixth and the seventh. Mr. Sturde-
wants card was an exceptionally fine one,
only having one answer in error. He went
about it without objecting and was
through in an Incredible short space of
time.
The Rev. David Winters was diligently
searched for but could not be found. He
is the other member of the board of city
examiners.
SUPERINTENDENT STEVENSON ONE.
How do you do, Doctorf" said the re-
porter, boarding DIR. Stevenson. superin-
tendent of the city schools, in his den.
"How do you do?" said the doctor, very
affably, in reply.
Doctor, will you please answer these
questions for the EAGLE?' said the report
er, handing him card
After reading the questions the doctor
in his usual suave and polite way said:
Certainly, SIR"
He then strobe toward the library wip-
ing his glasses as he went, and arriving
there he very carefully adjusted his artif-
cial optics to the bridge of his nose and
proceeded at once to hunt Don Quixote to
find who the author of 1t was
Hold on there, Doctor" said the re-
porter. 'You are to refer to no books for
answers to these questions"
1t then began to dawn on the doctors
mind that he WAS in tight place and he
begged to be excused, but excuses were
not in order and in the language of the
boys, che had to take his medicine"
He very candidly admitted that he knew
| nothing about the territory of Kansas so
| far as its governors were concerned and as
| for the authorship of don Buixote" his
mind was blank on that subject. He
knew that Columbus landed first on Cat
| Island, and let it be sid here that that is
the only question he answered correctly.
He was dead sure he knew the members
of Harrison's cabinet and he
proceeded to put them down
something after this manner. Blaine, Sec
rotary of state; Foster secretary of the
treasury; Tracy, secretary of the navy.
ha 10 nf ha in.
terror; WaDamaker, postmaster general,
and Miller, attorney general, and. and,
and. When he reached the question
''Who is present lieutenant governor of
Kansas" he threw up the sponge and said:
why" my dear sir, 81 don't know any
more about the lieutenant governor of
Kansas than the babe that was born last
night" He gazed on the grammatical ques-
tion five solid minutes and finally said !
can't see any error in the sentence and
so saying he handed the card back to the
reporter with selfsatisfying sigh of relief.
To snm the whole matter up the accom-
plished educator answered one out Of the
seven questions correctly.
ONE FOR PROFESSOR SKULL.
Professor U. P. Shull. principal of the
High school, was the next victim. He
was found in the museum of the school
and greeted the reporter very affably.
Answer these questions Mr.. Shull." said
the reporter, at the same time handing
him the card. Mr.. Shull took the card
and put his left hand in his trousers
pocket. Suddenly he concluded that it
was his right hand he wanted in his
pocket, and before he had it there two
seconds ne changed his mind again and
put his left hand in his pocket He then
stood erect, fixed his dark eyes on the re-
porter, and no doubt silently wished the
EAGLE was in Jerusalem, Jerico or some
other place "What do you fellows want
to spring such thing as that on u.s." said
he. Don't you know that a fellow might
know whole lot of things and not be able
to answer them questions. l don't think
Ill answer them at ALL" At that moment
his eye fell on the question having refer
ence TO the presidents cabinet and immed
lately his face frightened and he said:
"Why this is an easy question and I'll an
swer it," He sat down to his desk and
wrote James G. Blaine, secretary of state.
Then he scratched his head and after some
could not tell for the life of him who the
treasurer was. With the next stroke of
his pen he transferred Tracy from the
navy to the war department and borrowed
Endicott from Cleveland's cabinet to
fill the vacancy. He knew there was
an interior department, but he could
not possibly tell who was at the
head of it. He didn't know how many
territorial governors Kansas had nor did
he know what was the name of the first
one. He had read Don Quixote and knew
it was good book, but couldn't tell the
immortal name of the man who wrote it.
Professor Shull had no idea how the word
tariff originated, and hadn't he slight
est idea who the lieutenant governor of
Kansas is He pondered over the question
in grammar quite while. but couldn't see
the error in it. Then this brilliant idea
struck him, and with bold and fearless
hand he wrote the following mystical
words: "Thers is a lack of agreement in
the lenses. The future present may be |
used all through"
When Mr.. Shull sat down to answer the |
questions his hair was as slick as the back |
Of raven, but when he got through |
sticking his fingers through 1t, trying |
thereby to aid his memory, it resembled !
the back of an enraged porcupine.
PENCE's WONDERFUL MEMORY.
One of the EAGLE reporters had been |
sent to present County Superintendent !
Pence, who is also president of the state /
.eachers' organization. with one OF the /
cards He couldn't fnd him, but Mr. /
Pence was found in front of the EAGLE /
,ffice later and put on the rack. But be /