The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-26
FROM OTHER PENS
A GREAT SOLDIER.

Except Lord Roberts. General Kitch-
ener is the most distinguished of all
the living soldiers of Christendom. He
has accomplished some wonderful
things, and earned the title of the man
of blood and iron in the field as Bis
marck acquired it in the closet-by re-
suits
He is not in the class of the black
prince or Prince Hal" He is not
Marlborough ncr a Montrose. He is
more like Cromwell or Wellington. But
the soldier in history whom he most
resembles is Alexander Farnese, SPANS
governor general in the Netherlands,
fiawless in courage, consummate in ac-
ton, thorough in administration, with
will of iron and the persistence of a
devil.
He is more like. Grant than Lee,
though he springs like the latter and
holds on like the former-a combina
ton of the tiger and the bulldog. Like
Wellington and Roberts, Kitchener is
an Irishman: but he IS as cold as an
iceberg and as memorable as the null
tiplication table. He is one of those
accomplished captains of the school
founded by the famous Maurice of
Nassau, the son of William the Silent,
who regard the musket as only one,
but an important one OF the equip
ments of the soldier. There is little of
the Rupert or the Murat in him, to
lead delirious legion against a Balak-
lava. His plan is to turn an army into
a machine to respond to its comman-
der's touch, and rather than an art,
which Napoleon considered it, he looks
on war IS a science.-Wsshington Post.
TRAINED NURSES WIDE FIELD.
The trained nurse has an ever
widening field of useful endeavor.
The latest demonstration of her value
to mankind is contained in the re-
port of a chamber of commerce COM
mittee made public the other day. A
big Cleveland industrial concern now
regularly employs a nurse to look af-
ter the health and physical welfare
of its many employees. She is retain
ed to visit the sick, give advice and
comfort to the ailing, to attend the
injured and do all of those little acts
of womanly skill and kindness that
make the trained nurse a welcome
visitor to any home.
This is a practical form of welfare
work and an example which, whether
original or not, deserves to be widely
copied. 1t is another indication of
the fact that the corporations, the
big employers of help. are coming to
a more nearly complete realization
that they owe more to their employ
es than the mere payment of reg
ular wage.-C1eveland Plain Dealer
TALKATIvE STENOGRAPHERS.
And now Wisconsin proposes to reg
ulate stenographers along with rail-
roads, insurance corporations, pleuro-
pneumonia and the other things
wherein reform has given the Bad
ger state a national reputation. If
bill which already has passed the
lower branch of the legislature be-
comes a law the beautiful artist of
pencil and typewriter no longer may
take revenge on a mean old thing of
an employer by giving away" the
secrets of his business without get
ting into Jail.
The bill which has passed the as
sembly was Introduced by a young
bachelor, who is said to have had
some unpleasant experiences with
gossiping stenographers. Being a
bachelor, he never has had any I'M
pleasant experiences with a jealous
wife over stenograp pliers, and it may
be taken for granted that the gossip
to which he feels impelled to put a
stop concerns entirely the fmparting
of business secrets and confidential
letters to outsiders.-Chicago Record
Herald.