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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
NOT A CoMPLIMENT.
FRON OTHER PENS
\ STRONG EDUCATIONAL FACTOR

A SIItONG EDUCATIONAL FACIOh
President Elliot's annual report
alton in the domain of American
education. The primacy of Harvard
is recognized in good many ways.
The power of its retiring president
has been tremendous. When his ad-
ministration is reviewed with SYM
pathetic analysis the evidences of
his influence are astonishing both for
their number and their variety.
In hitting the line" however, Pres
ident Eliot does not appear to gain
many yards. He has attacked college
football with vehemence year after
year. He has made little progress ap-
parently. But he may have been look
ing far ahead to the game of year af-
ter next, This year he recognizes
that some. Improvement has been
made, but his attitude remains hostile.
When his influence in many other
directions is recalled it is interesting
to wonder, at least. whether his part
ing prediction about football will come
true: at is reasonable to expect that
the barbarous stage of public opinion
concerning athletics, which in this
country has been partly the result of
inexperience in competitive sports
and partly of the general predisposi-
ton to exaggeration in pleasures
which characterize Americans. will
pass away before many years.
Chicago Tribune.
ROOM FOR NEW RAILROADS.
Not so much in the newest as II
some of the oldest countries there Is
opportunity for enormous development
of transportation facilities, especially
in the form of railroads. Asia, for ex-
ample might we'll build 10000 miles OF
railway annually for the next twenty
FIVE years. Such rapid extensions OF
the scanty railroad systems of the
greatest and most populous continent
would not pay at once, but there is un'
doubtedly room for them as provision
for the future and as agencies for de-
veloping countries now drifting along
at far less than their natural rate Of
production and progress.
The Chinese government has prac
tically decided that there must be &
long railway built northwestward from
with Russia's great Siberian railroad
and there will be railway through
Tibet before many years. Persia and
Turkey need railroads urgently. IL
Persia, especially, the transportation
facilities are extremely poor. In coun
try not much more than twice the siz'
of Texas. Or equal to about hfteeI
states like Ohio. the cost of carrying
merchandise such as clothing and rug
from the interior to the coast is equa
to about 40 per cent of the value of tbs
goods. American manufacturers shil
such freight an equal distance for
and 2 per cent of the value of the pro
ducts of their mills and factories, Otter
for a smaller fraction of their cost
Cleveland Leader.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

The railroads have figured it out
that their gross earnings for the year
ending June 80, 1908, were reduced
100000 as compared with the
previous year. The figures of the in
terstate commerce commission on the
same identical subject show a reduc-
ton of $164, 464,941. But there is
nothing strange in this discrepancy.
No one can attempt to compete with
the railroads when it comes to figuring
up losses. Fhey can produce any and
all kinds of different figures even on
the same subject which may be needed
TO prove a point they wish to make.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Advice is the freest thing in all the
world and it is shame that so much
of it is bad.
High-1ying in life is certain to end
just as disastrously as ascensions in
defective balloons.
X X x
Many merchants doubtless think that
some Of the best long distance runners
of this age are bills.
X \ h
Maybe gossips and scandal are talked
over so generally because subjects for
polite conversation are SO scarce.
n 4 =
Among the essential preliminaries for
divorce and breach of promise suits are
proposals for marriage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

Several of the United States senators
seem to be itching for a fight with
President Taft. Senator Bailey has an
nounced that the president will get
himself into trouble if he begins to
veto bills that do not suit him. That's
a presidential prerogative and if the
senators want to lock horns with Mr..
Taft he will probably accommodate
them. He can rest assured that the
people will be with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

1t is to be sincerely hoped that the
commissioners Of Jefferson and Shaw
nee counties will be able to get togeth-
er on plans for the construction of a
bridge across the Kaw at Granville
Such a structure is sorely needed there
and the expense of it should be borne
equally by the taxpayers of the two
counties as each Of them will derive the
same benefits from the proposed bridge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
[From the New York Press.1

The reason a girl wants to be kissed
against her will is it isn't.
There's nobody can stand having the
same stuff preached to him that he
breaches to others.
A woman's faith in man is based on
her instinct that he could not be trusted
unless she had it.
When a girl rejects a mans first pro-
posal she already has it planned out
how she will accept his fourth.
The thing that irritates a man about
putting money in the collection plate Is
it doesn't seem like spending it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

"A wealthy resident of Pittsburg,
Pa, has decided to present his daugh-
ter on her marriage with a million
dollar home. II he has agreed to pro-
vide the means for paying the taxes
on this property. well and good But
AZ he hasn't, well, the groom-to-be, who
Is only a bank clerk. will have a hard
time holding out an occasional nickel
for chewing tobacco
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

their native heaths are on quite as
fruitless a search as was Ponce de
Leon when he went hunting for the
spring from which flowed the elixir
Of perpetual youth. Their unsuccess-
full quest, however. may be beneficial
as warning to others not to buy
lands of great promise without look
ing them over.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

1t may not be generally known
hereabouts but the first Filipino sail
ors in the United States navy shipped
at Manila aboard the battleship Kan
sas when she was on her world grid
ling voyage with the great battleship
fleet. The current Issue Of Harper's
Weekly prints a picture of five of
them and they are likely looking lot
nf Lads
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

AS the Chicago Tribune wisely says,
at is a mighty good scheme for idle
hands and idle lands to get together"
No matter how small the price of
ground is that a person or family
has he can make 1t either useful or
beautiful or both by planting some
thing and this is the season of the
year to do the planting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

During the recent spell of wind in
this city the fire department was cali
ed out two or three times to extin-
guish bonflres which got beyond the
control of those who started them.
ANY person who will start bonfires in
q city on a windy day for the mere
purpose of burning up brush or rub
Dish ought to be tarred and feathered
and ridden on a rail.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

Reports from Washington have it
that all of the nations of the world
have accepted the invitation of the
United States to enter the conference
for the conservation Of the natural re-
sources of the earth. This is one of
the greatest things started by Mr..
Roosevelt and it will be an everlasting
and growing monument to his
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

This is reputed to be anything but
a nature fake. Some Pennsylvania,
sportsnen have a four-year-old Dur
ham bull which they claim can trot a
mile hitched to a sulky in $3.50 or
hotter
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

Why all this fuss about Hetty
Green taking an APARTMENT in a fash
1onabIe New York hotel for which she
has to pay $125 a week? II any
woman in the land can afford such a
luxury Hetty is certainly the one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

The old soldier vote cannot be ex-
ceedingiy strong in North Dakota
United States Senator McCumber from
that state, has expressed an opinion
that it is time to call a halt in pension
1apfsIaf3or
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

The London Ladies' Field remarks
that Gin the day when women sat at
home and did needlework they may
possibly have had time to be interested
in their husbands careers. Today
their own careers monopolize their at
tention." Fortunately, for a few men,
this is not the case with all women.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

Those Scotchmen who are search
ing near Vera Cruz, Mexico, for lands
covered with luxurious growths of
banana plants which they purchased
from promoter who visited them on
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
Horse Racing in Japan.

John H. Snodgrass, the American
consul, reports from Kobe that it is
announced that the Japanse govern
ment will ask the diet at its next ses-
sion to appropriate s175,00o annually
Tor improving the breed of horses.
and that this sum will be divided
among thirteen racing clubs. The
consul also writes concerning a new
regulation for horse racing in Japan.
IN view of the interest manifested
IN the United States concerning race
course gambling. the following new
regulations for the control of horse
races, issued by the Japanese cabinet.
may be of interest:
- No one shall be permitted to
formed in conformity with article 81
Of the civil code.
2. Horse races shall be held
twice year regularly by each club,
ana the number of days when racing
will take place on each occasion sha Il
not exceed four
8: No horses useless for horse
breeding purposes shall be allowed to
run in the races.
a. Each horse racing association
races and submit them to the director
of the stud bureau.
3. The director of the stud bu-
reau. when he deems it necessary for
the improvement of horse breeding,
the expenses of the races
=. All matters relating to the
maintenance of order and public
morals shall be in the hands of the
local authorities
CT. If horse race is found to he
run in the circumstances referred to
peloW the authorities may order If to
pc stopped or may take proper stems
Tor the punishment of the racing club
responsible: (a) When the racing
or is guilty of any other irregularity.
CD when danger is found to be pres
emf In matters relating to the races:
tc) when it is deemed necessary to
axe action for the maintenance of or
ger ana public morals of the race
course. - Washington correspond-
enee in New York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
A S125,OOO Bible.

The ikons in the Cathedral of the
Assumption in the Kremlin at Moscow
are immensely valuable. They yielded
about 5 tons of silver and 5 hundred
weight of gold to the French soldiery
in 1912, but this treasure was re-
covered by the Cossacks, who, in their
gratitude, presented to the cathedral
a silver chandelier weighing 500
pounds. The jewels with which the
ikonostas is adorned are valued at
s125,0O0. This is Bible so large
that two men are needed to lift it. and
it is studded with gold and emeralds
and other stones sober estimate
of the weight of gold used in the
ikonostas and vessels of this famous
church alone places it at 106 hundred
weight.-Harper' Weekly.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press ard receives the full day
ean5zsfHIor Hf tnzE c,nl3ye sStsrnoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
GERMAN CO-EDUCATION.

Prussia has just entered upon an ex-
pertinent in co-education in the uniyeT-
stiles, the first naturalization of female
students at Berlin, Goettingen, Bonn
and the other great educational estab-
Eshments having recently taken place
Six hundred and sixty-three students
were admitted, 461 of these being from
Prussia and 202 from other states. The
choice Of courses made by these young
women is interesting as an index to
the trend of feminine thought and ac-
tlvity. OF the total number, 1863 take
up philosophy, philology or history: 134
medicine; los mathematics or natural
sciences; 20 dentistry; 22 political econ
ology and two pharmacy.
Most note worthy in this list is the
very meager tendency to patronize the
law and the church. Corresponding
statistics from American co-education-
al institutions are not at hand, but 1t is
safe to say that if they were they
would show a much greater proportion
or patronage for both the law course
and the theological course than appears
in the. case of the young women at the
Prussian seats Sof learning. The pre-
ponderance in favor of the heavier
studies, Observation-Disclosures and his
tory bespeaks significantly the cast of
the German Misunderstanding Chron-
icle- Telegraph.
NOT A COMPLIMENT.
Do you know it is not a compliment
to be called just man? It carries
with it an intoierant spirit a mean dis
position and a fault finding manner.
There must not be too much business in
this country. The deeds must be filter
ed and sugar coated. The just man is
the man who demands that everybody
come up to his standards. Ever think
how hard a job that is? We have our
own standards and it keeps US busy
measuring up to them but to have to
measure up to some other mans stand
ard is awful, simply awful.-Lawrence
Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
KANSAS COMMENT
PASSING OF THE TIN CUP.

ot-SH lin AOf.
Feopie Who have never had the pleas
ure OF working at a railroad division
point Will probably not appreciate the
thrill OF joy that penetrates the heart
on any railroad man who has so work
ca, at the prospective elimination of the
TIN cup as one of the articles of equip
inent OF the ordinary passenger coach.
I'M cups cause more trouble to the
railroads than does even the interstate
commerce commission.
1t takes millions of tin cups to run a
railroad. Tratahaen will tell you that
a train leaving one division point fully
equipped, will arrive at the next with
out a single drinking cup on the train.
Mnat becomes of them? They are
swlped, stolen, packed up, carried off.
by the great American travelling pub
lie polite form of train robbery which
no railroad sleuth has been able to
check.
And the train crew must swear to, a
lot OF affidayits. sign lot of requisi-
tons, and go through a lot of railroad
red tape to get tin cups to replace those
wounded and missing
Ii the railroad companies no longer
ought to be possible for them to reduce
fares to cents a mile, and leave
handsome margin
Out Of it's saving On tin cups, the
Rock Island might be able to run it's
motor car out of Salina at good fat
profit.
With tin cups eliminated, the Missouri
Pacific would make such dividends that
1t could rebuild it's entire line.
The splendid possibilities which are
opened up to the railroad companies by
the elimination of the tin cup almost
dazzle the imagination
AT the same time it will possibly in
crease the patronage of the lunch coun-
tiers along the road, for. if DIR. Crum-
bine's suspicious be true in taking one
drink from a railroad coach tin CuD.
one takes down enough germs to sup
ply the middle story of an ordinary
sandwich. With this source of susten-
ance cut off, the passenger would nee
essarily patronize more literally the
railway lunch rooms, and thus still
further contribute TO the growth and
prosperity Of the railways.-Sahna Jour-
nal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

Tonight--North Bros Stock company II
The Parish Priest"
Observation-Disclosures and Saturdays
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
Collie Saves Family.

Had it not been for the extraordin-
airy intelligence displayed by their pet
collie, the family of Antony Bill a
rich farmer in Norfolk, would have
been burned to death in their beds
early Tuesday AS it is, the country
house is RACED and a portion of the big
hay and stock barn is charred Mon
day evening the last thing that Mr.
Bill did after he had seen his wife and
five children safely in bed, and had
locked the doors and windows was to
bank his furnace fire and adjust the
drafts. He went to bed and to sleep,
which was shaken just before daylight
Monday morning by the dog, Liska,
jumping onto his bed and licking his
face and head, the while he whined
and moaned in his frantic eagerness
to make himself understood.
The animals efforts were almost
human and decidedly supercanine
Only half reused, the farmer shook off
the dog, which ran off into the other
sleeping rooms until the entire family.
becoming suddenly awake, smelled
smoke and felt hot puffs of air, which
warned them that they would soon be
caught in a trap.
The faithful collie, having saved his
master and family, was the last to
come dashing out of the smoking
doorway.-Hartford dispatch to New
York Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
ADJUSTMENTS.

At the Grand.
Saturday matinee and nighttime L'o'
and the Mouse"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

Daily matinee 2:3o-High class vaueex
Evenings 7:l5-9:15-High class yauaeFnie'
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
Is Too Noisy Eating Som.

4niua Leluer wants a divorce
from Aeh Leider. who eats his food
with knife and his soup with a noise
aceordlng to a petition filed somewha
Hysterlously in the circuit court.
Inc plaintiff says she has PLAYED
the role of wife to zAch since 1894
put that life has become too burden
some TO be yoked with him any Ion
err She was born in 1874. she saws.
ana was graduated in 1895 from
wellesley, famous among the col
leges of the land where blue stockings
are as prominent as daisies in June .
soa iere sne learned the ways of polite
society and acquired good manners
and correct habits of eating. other
wise known as table manners Con
| sequently, the sight of a person eat
ing with a knife or the sound of SOM
surgnng INTO the mouth or the blow
ing OF ones nose at meals or the in
haiing of liquids or semi-lioujds nv
the power of suction are sources ~
excruclating pain and annoyance to
her. "
Her husband" she says, "bends
over his soup plate with his head nm
til his beard almost dips into the SCUM
and from the time of lifting the first
spoonful to his lips until the last drou
is drained makes noise akin to that
| of a sawmilI."
He contends, she says. that this
! method OF taking soup keeps the mus
cles of his face in action and such ex-
ercise prevents the growth OF
| wrinkles.
The plaintiff ayers that these con-
tons are false. and are known by the
| defendant, Ach Leider. to be false.
| The plaintiff says Ach is a lady kill
er, or thinks he is. ana never leaves
home without a boutonniere in his
coat lapel.
He also shores. she says, and she
has requested him to sleep In the
! basement where he would not disturb
anything but the dog, but he has stub.
lbornly and persistentIy refused to dc
so.-St. Louis dispatch to- New York
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14

For particulars. prices and emusemenn
details. see announcements IN th's 10y
elsewhere.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
WORK or THE WISE HOSTESS
Study and Close Application Of Little
Things Has Put Her in Proud
Position.

"A hostess whose little dinners or
luncheons are never long or expensive,
but described at all times as perfec-
ton. with delicious surprises included
that do not interfere with the nights
good rest, declares that these CASTRO
nomical achievements are often sug-
gested to her merely by seeing the
ingredients in juxtaposition This may
happen through the carelessness of
the butcher boy or the groceryman,
both having returned with forgotten"
articles that have been thrown with
out intent for such effect upon the
same table. In this way a most de-
lectable combination Of oysters and
maccaroni occurred which was tenn
pered by cheese and paprika and some
shredded green peppers. Another
time stufiing for peppers ensued, for
which the secret has never been told.
Another invention is a salad of
chopped celery, to which grape fruit,
orange and nuts are added, and over
this 4 French dressing with tarragon
vinegar, aided by chopped onion and
wee bit Of sugar. An accompaniment
to this salad is cheese souf1le done
In tiny balls, arranged in a pyramid
on toasted biscuits. Paprika is plenti-
fully sprinkled over all to give snap,
but not bring tears, cayenne would.
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
MAKES THE BATH beneficial
Long.teaded Young Woman Has Ideas
Of Her Own a. to the Needed
Additions.

Ono athletic young woman INDUCES
frequently in what she calls her home
made Turkish BATH It is a fact, as
she says, that one cannot always
cleanse the skin thoroughly with only
soap and water and comparatively
smooth cloth. A cold-cream bath on
the face will prove that. Therefore
she takes small scrub brush, of the
sort sometimes sold in drug stores for
nail brushes, and, first wetting the
body with sponge and hot water,
scrubs the whole surface OF the skin
with the brush and a thick soap lather.
This goes down into the pores and
cleanses them, carries off more old
skin and particles of dust and waste
than the ordinary wash cloth, and
stimulates the circulation. The soap
Is next thoroughly rinsed of with hot
water. and the bath followed. by a
cold shower and q brisk rub. For the
not toe vigorous person, a slight rest
adds to the beneficial effect, but,
whether with or without the conclud-
The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1909-05-14
WHAT coLoRs SHALL / UuellE9l
This Question 10 important In Palntlno
q House Or Other BUILDING.

4 proper color scheme is extremely
important in painting a house. Il
makes all the difference between. "A
really attractive home and one 1t
which you wouldn't take q second
glance. And it makes big difference
In the price the property win bring on
the market. 7
AS to the exterior, 4 good deal de-.
ponds upon the size and architecture
OF the house. and upon its surround
inss. For a good interior effect you
must consider the size Of the rooms,
the light, etc.
You can avoid disappointment by
studying the books Of color schemes
for both exterior and interior painting,
which can be had free by writing Ma,
tional Lead Company, 1902. Trinity
Building, New York, and asking for
Houseowner's Painting Outfit No. ~.
The outfit also includes specifications.
and simple instrument for testing
the purity Of paint materials. Pure
White Lead which will stand the test
In this outfit will stand the weather
test. National Lead Company's IA
nous Dutch Boy Painter trademark
on the key is guarantee Of that kind
OF white lead.