The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-12-02
NOT SHERLOCK HOLMES
But Even More ImpossibIeThan
Conan DOyle's Character,
Is the Detective Portrayed By
DIR. E. E. White,
In His Lecture on Character" With
Some Anecdotes on Reading
It-Author of the Celebrat-
ed Arithmetics Here.

DR.. z. E. White, ex-president of Pur-
due university, delivered an eloquent
lecture before a large audience at the
high school auditorium last night. The
lecture was given as a special number
to patrons of the high school library
course
DR.. White is the author of Whites
series of arithmetics which are IN use
IN the city schools. Yesterday aIIef-
noon he addressed the Topeka teachers
on The Three Trinities of Teaching
and at 4 o'clock this afternoon he speaks
to them about Elementary Language
in the Public Schools
The following young ladies of the sen
Tor class acted as uShers last evening.
Misses Grace Mcclure, Gertrude Nor
ton, Jessie Marsh, Mabel Baker, Susie
Wilder, Mary McGifHn, Mamie Smith,
and Cora SilVernail.
superintendent Davidson introduced
DR. White who proceeded Immediately
TO an address on the subject, "Charac-
ter" Mans soul" said DR. White, IS
of a tWo-fold nature. In the inner soul
are the powers of thinking, feeling. vii
ling and enjoying. In the outer IS &C
ton and achievement. Character IS the
indwelling principle of moral light It
is the fountain, while conduct IS the
outer stream. Our characters are but
our lives in us. We mould our charac-
tiers. A character full of power and rich
in virtue requires for its growth a
whole life of self-denial and selt-re-
straint It is the inner man that is
mighty in resolve, irresistible in action.
This INNER light is hidden in no IN
Scrutable secrecy We are read ana
known by others. Every act.aSplratlOn
and emotion has an outer sign Char
acter may be yelled but not concealed.
Our bodies manifest our spirits. our
spirits carve our faces
Dr. White related the story of the
capture Of the criminals who blew up
the steamboat, Martha Washington
at Cleveland. o.. several years ago.
q 0ff a
rest of the guilty parties. Burton, the
famous detective was one of those who
undertook to clear up the mystery.
Coming to Cleveland he seated himself
in an upper window and gazed upon the
passing crowds below He was a
stranger in the city Vet from the ap-
to recognize the lawyer the preacher,
the tacher, even the sign painter. Sud
denly starting from his chair he eX-
claimed 81 think / see my man." By
the movements of a certain individual
his suspicious We're aroused He shad
owed the man in Chicago and several
other cities and finally captured him in
St Louis, after gathering evidence SUI
ficient to convict. DR.. White related
this story as AN illustration of marvel
GUS power of reading character in the
faces and movements of men.
The speaker named temper as the
first sOul-reVealer of a mans life An
other is the human face, THE eye is
the open window of the heart-a cam
era luClQa- me eye Is honest Wu6I46E
the person back of it is or not 1t IS
not a counterfeit The face tells lfe's
story in universal language which
never needs an Interpreter
Another tell-tale is the human voice.
Carlyle said, Laughter is a hey with
which you unlock q man and read his
spirit Those of you who travel recOg-
nize the deep SOnOrOuS laugh as com
ing from a beer key while horse laugh
is the sign of an empty head
Another indicator IS a mans man
ners.' Whoever imagines that legiti-
mate manners can be put on for COM
pany, and then laid aside with our
clothes, is greatly mistaken. If man
ners are articidcial, the person is also
artificial.
There is an old proverb, silence is
gold, and speech only silver " Then
pausing. the speaker said, I wonder if
I must reverse that order in Kansas
DR.. White cOmbatted the idea that we
can conceal our true character by any
kind of sham or disguise. There is a
time for Unbolting in this world. No
life is safe that Will not bear the search
light"
He impressed on the younger mem
bers of the audience the necessity Of
forming right habits. We SOW desire
and reap habits. We SOW habit and
reap character We SOW character and
reap a destiny of sorrow or of joy
Character and influence cannot be
divorced. They are not accidents Of
life. They are at once the result and
reward of heroic and manly living
Character is in the man, and influence
is the consequence of character.
The nOblest result of human life is
manhood The world wants manly men.
The times wants scholars The age
wants heroes who shall dare to Strug-
gle in the ranks of truth, to crush the
era of corruption out and leave unlver-
sal manhood in