The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-13
THE MULE sKINNER,s KICK.


cause of much personal pain
At the way the author-men leave out us,
in charge of the wagon train; 90 -
Granted the rest of EN- worked ana III IN
If it wasn't for us that skinned the mules
how would the bunch have come
We have frosted ourselves on the prairie
sweeps a-bringin' the Sioux to book,
And the sojer men never had no kick that
the front rank had been forsook:
They cussed warm holes in the blizzard s
teeth, when waitin' for grub and tents.
But the comforts of1home we alluS brung,
though at times at our own expense.
We have sweated and swore in the desert
land, where the. white sand glares like
A-rompin' around forty rods from hell,
playin' tag with Geronimo;
We larruped the jacks when the bullets
flew, and then, when twas gettin' too
We used for our breastworks mules, dead
mules, and We give EN- back shot fer
We never was rugged up purity, of course.
and we didn't talk too perlite.
to the tail end of every fight;
We made a trail through the hostile lands
So why in the name Me Of ali that's fair can't
Denver Republican.
Education in Turkey.
Consul Ernest~L. Harris, of Smyr-
ma. furnishes the following infor-
nation relative to educational cond1-
tons in the Ottoman Empire:
The ministry of public instruction
is divided into four departments.
charged with the supervision Of the
schools generally, viz: Cd Primary
schools, ca higher primary schools,
CD preparatory schools. 90 schools
of the non-Mussulman and foreign
communities.
The grand council of the depart
ment of public instruction. which
controls the revenues appropriated
for public instruction, also supervises
the following Institutions: The law
school, fine arts college, coiiege TOT
civil servants, commercial colleges,
meteorological observatory, imperial
museum. censor's department, and
the deaf and dumb institution.
All the government schools are sup
ported by the government, the fol-
lowing taxes being appropriated for
the purpose: One-half of 1 per cent
of the tfthes on agricultural produce;
5 per cent of the taxes collected on
real estate; one-third of the poor rate.
At all of these schools instruction is
free, whether for Ottoman or foreign
subjects. The schools Of the nom
Mussulman and foreign communities
are supported by their respective COM
munities.
In each province there is a council
supervising the school therein, which
reports to the grand rector Of the
ministry of public instruction at Con-
stantinople. This council is under the
presidency of two vicerectors, one a
Mussulman, the other a non-Mussul-
man, and the board is composed of an
inspector general. an inspector, and a
secretary. In every village there is,
by law, a primary school at which at
tendance is obligatory for all Otto
man subjects, unless they be non-Mus-
sulmans, who attend the schools es-
tablished by their respective commun-
tiles. Boys have to go to school from
6 to II years of age, and girls from
to IL
The primary course, which covers
four years, includes reading, writing
history, the Turkish language, ele-
ments of geography, and religious in
the pupil. In towns of over 500 in
habitants there is higher primary
school. The course here also lasts for
four years. and comprises Turkish
grammar. letter writing. Persian and
Arabic grammar. arithmetic. book
and one of the languages current in
that district. In all towns having over
1000 houses there are preparatory
colleges. Here the course lasts two
years, and the Following SUBJECTS are
studied: Turkish literature, French,
rhetoric, political economy, geo
graphy. general history. natural his
tory. algebra, arithmetic. geometry,
surveying, physics, chemistry, and
drawing.
Coins Hidden for 1900 Years
A hundred specimens of the sill
yer tetradrachm of Alexander the
Great, part of find of 500 pieces,
made recently in lower Egypt, have