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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

The official report on the prison
nopulation in England remarks on
the fact that many of the young boys
convicted of crime were unemployed
at the time the offense was COM
mitted and had been unemployed ex-
cept at rare intervals since leaving
school In one of the London prisons
it was found that many of the boys
received, boys between the ages of 16
to 90, had hardly been to school at
all and could neither read nor write.
They generally explain their illiteracy
by saying that they come from
neighborhoods where attendance Of
fcers can be evaded or defied- These
''juveniIe-adults, as prisoners be-
tween 16 and 90 years of age are
called, are, in stature and weight, I'M
der the average of the rural laboring
class, and even under that Of the
artisan population of the towns.-New
York Tribune.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
= pT1zzT,En FATHER

-
I've been watching with unbounded in
terest 49,.
I have seen the fragile darling bafhed
and dressed:
Before she touches him the careful nurse
Goes through a course of treatment well
defined:
She fllniRates herself. and must immense
IN a potent antiseptic of some kind.
I. filled with awe. must view him from
I may not gladly tweak his little nose
Remembering how few his chances are,
I have few moments of serene repose
They boil his bottle after every meal.
They disinfect the tiny thumb he gnaws.
Their many grave precautions make me
That danger turks in every breath he
draws
They test his food with instruments that
show
Its density and its degree of heat;
In every stitch and tuck he has a foe
That they must take precautions to de-
feat.
watch them. and think with deep dis
may
OF nv own babyhood and wonder how
I in the old. unscientific way
Pulled through to stand here. filled with
wonder now!
Chicago Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
puritan Children Scarce.

In a paper on 1.-The Perpetuation of
the Church" read at the union confer
ence of the Congregational churches of
Boston and vicinity, the Rev. G. L.
Cady. of Dorchester, declared that the
Puritan stock is committing race sui
Il find" he said, "5S churches which
boast of a single child each for last
year, and GO which reported twins
EACH
His figures showed % churches which,
with a combined membership of 7,494,
with 1926 in the Sunday schools, and
with All young people in EndeaVor so
cieties, were able in a year to bring
forth six new births into the kingdom
of God.
congregational families" he said,
have ceased to perpetuate themselves
The days when the family came to
church and filed one or two pews. as
in our youth, are gone, and in their
in the church or in the home.
1.-The Catholic church has a great
army of children coming up each year,
native born, and the priest knows Just
what he can count upon for contrma-
ton each year, and he knows that next
year there will be just as large a crop
to harvest
.sI have no doubt that, things being
equal if there were as many children
born in Congregational as IN Catnohc
families, we could today witness as
and front the future with a calm race.
when the Puritan stock commits
race suicide, the Puritan church must
also follow the path of involuntary
harikari Boston Dispatch to New
York World.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

LFrom the Chicago News.
A man may go through life on q
bluff he walks.
Call the average man a liar and he
will make good.
High living is the limit Of many
mans lofty ideals.
1t doesn't take a blunt person long
to come to the point.
Most of the free advice we get isS
worth just about that much.
It's enough to make a woman frown
if her husband smiles too often.
When a man is married to a good
woman he doesn't think it necessary
to go to church.
And it sometimes happens that one
can judge by appearances. Many a
woman seems strait-laced because
she il laced that way.
The first time you meet a woman
she'll begin to tell you her troubles
If she has a chance; the second time
she will make the chance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
Rank Notes in a Dust Bin.

Ten 1.OO0-franc bank notes, representing
the savings of a woman who lived at Nan
terre. near Paris were hidden by her in
an old envelope, which was placed in a
drawer. In a moment of forgetfulness the
envelope found its way into dust bin. IN
bin. tossing aside the tateered envelope
without inspection. Some carriers hap
the now mud-splashed piece of paper, one
remarking to. the other: Perhaps there
notes. This is some fools pleasantly, :"
they said; so by. way of revenging them
selves on the unknown joker and not be-
them to pieces and threw them aside.
Two market women came along shortly
afferward With the shrewdness of their
class they recognized the scattered pieces
of paper and gathered them up and took
them to the comnissary of police. There
they were pieced together, and it was
found that none was missing Two hours
later the notes so curiously discovered
were restored to their owner.-London
Chronicle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
BACK TO THE FARM.

Back to the farm. where the bobwhite
still is calling
As in remembered daWnings when youth
and were boys.
Driving the cattle where the meadow
brook is brawling
Her imr1emoriaI wandering fears and
Joys!
Home to the farm for the deep green
Gains of summer
Life of the open furrow. life of the wav-
Leaving the painted world of masquerade
Just for the sense of earth and ripening
again.
Down in the hayfield where scythes CLINT
through the clover;
Lusty blood a-throbbing in the splendor
Lying mid the haycocks as casting clouds
Hearing insect lovers a-piping out of
tune.
OFF to the wood lot, where brier bloom
And wary forest creature no hunters
Virgin growth. beguiling the solemn
hearted quiet
with songs of winter fires a-ripple
through the leaves
Out in the dews with the spider at his
In that half-dreaming hour that awakes
the whippoorwiu
And sets the nighthawk darling sinister
Fer the full moon complacent letters
DER the hill
Back to the farmi With the friendly
brute for neighbor.
Where youth and nature beclon. the
tryst who would not keep?
Back to the primal Joys of hunger and
Martha G. D. Bianohi in scribner's Mag
azine.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

competent to pass upon their
adequacy and efficiency are the teach
ers who will ultimately be the ones
that will have to enforce their adj
ministration.
Through the consolidation of school
districts in sparsely settled regions of
the state much good is bound to come
not only to the school children but to
the teachers. 1t will mean the estab-
Iishment of a strong school with well
paid teachers rather than the exist
ence of a number of weak schools
with poorly paid teachers. The
schools will also be improved through
an intelligent revision of the courses
of study that now prevail in most of
them, a subject which is being given
the deep attention that it deserves by
the educational authorities of the
state. suggestion has been made
that compulsory courses in agricul-
ture should be a part of the curri-
culum of the higher grades in the
common schools of the state. 1t
would seem to be a good one. Kan
sas is primarily an agricultural state
Her schools are filled with the chill
dren of agriculturists. A line of
education that would equip these
children to take up the work of their
parents and possibly better it ought
to be most desirable.
Kansas may well be proud of the
system of schools she has estab-
lished. She is to be congratulated
that her educators and the teachers in
the schools have intelligence enough
to see that this great school system
can be improved in many ways and
that they have the courage to adj
vocate the improvements needed.
When these are made Kansas will be
able to look with more pride than
ever on the opportunities she is
affording to her younger generations
to prepare themselves in the best pos
sible way for the stern realities of
their lives to come.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
QUAKER MEDITATIoNs.
From the Philadelphia Record.1

LFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
The bigot is something uretty little.
The dead sure thing is often so dead
that it can't be resuscitated
The man who borrows money on his
future never catches up with 1t.
The difference between a man and a
mule is that a mule kicks with his
feet.
Don't ask a candid man for his hon
est opinion unless you are prepared for
a iolt.
No, Maude, dear, We wouldn't say
that the people who live on tick are as
regular as clockwork.
When a mans wife begins to lecture
him about the sins of gambling it's
pretty sure sign he has been losing.
When a fellow has more money than
he knows what to do with he always
has lot of friends anxious to tell him.
First Actor-"Henry Hamphat has
hand a five cent cigar named after
him. Second Actor-'I hope 1t draws
better than Hamphat does"
Nell-"Jack asked him to marry him
last night" Bene-"Did he press you
for an answer?' NeIl-"Press me? He
nearly squeezed the life out Of me-"
When a man wears a swallowtail
coat and a woman wears a decollete
gown it proves that clothes don't make
the man OF lack of them the woman
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
THE TEACHERS, MEETING.

That great good to the schools and
the school children of the state will
result from the annual meeting of the
Kansas State Teachers association,
which has just been concluded, there
can be no doubt. An intelligent ex-
change of enlightened views on the
many important problems of educa-
ton which have developed in the COM
monwealth, such as has been INDUCED
in by the teachers and their friends
cannot fail to be of immeasurable
benefit. Probably the schools and
their pupils would be helped more in
most desirable ways if the teachers
could get together oftener or for a
longer period, but this hardly seems
feasible. Still the good results from
these annual conferences can hardly be
estimated.
There are many questions for the
betterment of the educational con-
ditions surrounding the children of
the state, especially those in the rural
communities. which are pressing at
this time. There is room for i'm
provement in these conditions and no
one seems to recognize this fact more
than the teachers themselves. How
ever they are powerless of their own
efforts to institute important reforms
in this line except to give them
strength by forceful agitation. That
is a matter which belongs to the
higher school authorities and the
legislature of the state. Surely there
is little doubt that this will be one of
the subjects that will be given most
careful consideration by the coming
legislature. state educational COM
mission has done a laborious work in
investigating the school conditions in
every locality. AS result of these
Investigations it has made many
recommendations for changes in the
administration of the schools, which
have been published from time to
time in the newspapers. For the most
part these recommendations have
been given the unqualified endorse
ment of the teachers at their annual
meeting. This should have great
weight when the legislators take up
these questions for decidedly the most
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If girl knew all about a man she'd
hesitate a long time before giving him
her hand.
4 X
A street orator can easily move an
apparently hare hearted crowd by pass
ing around his hat.
x
Some folks are so crude that the
hints they drop make as much noise
as the discharge of cannon.
X X X
The heroes of peace may outnumber
the heroes of war but they don't get a
chance to wear as many medals.
X
The man who boasts over the good
meal he has had for a quarter would,
if he were honest, admit that he's had
a better one for a dollar.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
AIRsHIPs AND TREsPAss.

LAS free as the air. is a saying SO
old that it scarcely seems to challenge
dispute. The old English common law,
however, is a wonderful thing, appar-
emily designed to come into play in
some way with all emergencies con-
nected with the undreamed of marveIs
of the future. A case in point arises
over the mooted question as to whether
the flight of airships over private pro
perty may be legally opposed.
An ancient maxim of the British COM
mon law is: He who owns the land
owns it up to the skies" and a learned
legal light has pointed out that the
venerable rule is as good today as ever
and full of menacing significance to the
airship builder.
In America the common law is the
English common law. Sooner or later
therefore, this new airship problem may
confront us. We have had our atten-
ton directed to the day when the free
air would be the unrestricted area of
travel and transpoFtation-at least of
travel for the adventurous. But a
different aspect now presents itself
Our city and state lawmakers of the
gray wolf variety who are farsighted
and have looked dejectedly on the ul-
innate loss of opportunity for graft
from railroads and street-using corpOr-
ations may take heart. There yet may
be something doing" in the form of
aerial franchises, condemnation pro-
ceedings and the granting of airship
rivileges.-Chicag Record-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Globe

1
For every nice old man, there are
two or three nice old women.
A woman is enthusiastic over being
married; not over the man she is to
marry.
You have possibly observed the
close relations between bad luck and
blunders.
Every time a lie is told, a lot of
people would rather believe it than
the truth.
There are men who can never learn
to be better except when taught by
policeman.
If a woman of 40 marries a man of
so, people say she is eighteen, and her
husband nearly 20.
1t is impossible for women to select
topic of conversation to please the
men, so no wonder they have quit try
ing.
If in the winter time a man happens
to go about the house a few seconds
without any shoes on his feet, how his
wife scoIds him!
The man who argues politics is bad
enough, but he adds to his offense if
he tells afterwards how he triumphed
in the argument.
When some men do wrong, people
gossip about it in whispers. but when
other people do wrong. the people
talk about it in yells.
One of the greatest outrages in the
world is for a wel1-behaved, worthy
woman to be talked about by
vicious, untruthful people.
It makes no difference how much
a woman trusts her husband, she ex-
poets an explanation when he is called
to the telephone by a woman's voice
After a man gets along in years,
the rapidity with which a funeral pro
cession passes through the streets of a
big city, in2presses him more than
the high buildings.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

Following the lead taken by the Chi
cago News in presenting vivid fore
glance of Mr.. Roosevelt's African hunt
a firm of photographers with a world
wide reputation has produced a picture
showing a probable scene in the Afri-
can wilds in the near future. Mr..
Roosevelt is pictured as gazing with
extreme satisfaction on slain rhino-
ceros on the ground before him. Sure
~ this great hunt is being discounted
in every possible way. The magazine
managers who arranged with Mr..
Roosevelt for the stories of his strug-
giles with the wild beast of Africa at
So per word will soon come to a reali-
cation that they have contracted for
something of gold brick.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

Something decidedly new and inter
esting In the way of a machine has
been rugged up by the experts Of the
federal department of agriculture. 1t
is known as a respiration caloeimeter''
and will measure human energy in all
of it's phases. AS soon as the machine
is completed several of the depart
ment's expert physiological chemists
will conduct a series of experiments
These will entail the condEing of men
and women in an ingeniously contrived
box or cabinet for days or weeks at a
time during which period will be regis
tered to a degree not only human pulse
beat, respiration and the temperature,
but also the forms of energy that are
active within the body, whether the
subject be awake or asleep. The
amount of energy furnished the human
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

system by a pound Of beefsteak, an
omelet or vegetable soup, can be de-
termined to an absolute figure by the
machine 1t is respectfully suggested
that these experiments be tried on ho-
boes, those fellows with whom work
and activity of any sort disagree.
Think of the delights it would confer
on one of this class to be comfortably
housed in a box for a few weeks time
with a whole pound of beefsteak for a
meal and other food passed to him in
equally generous PROPORTIONS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
FRON OTHER PENS
PREVENTION OF FOREST FIRES.

r -.
Laws requiring railway companies
to be provided with front end and ash
pan nettings to prevent the dropping
of sparks where conditions are favor
able for forest fires are excellent and
enough to confine precautionary meas
ures to railway locations. Disastrous
fires often are started miles from a
track. Settlers who are clearing land
are responsible for much of the de-
Struction of timber, and hunters and
campers are proverbially careless in
the use of matches. The report of
the state forester of Wisconsin is val
liable in that it shows the necessity
of resorting to severe measures for
impressing upon careless and irrespon-
Sible individuals the fact that the state
will spare no effort to punish every
person concerned in the starting of
fires.
The Wisconsin forester also contra
diets the generally accepted statement
that pine always is followed by in
ferior growths of timber. He asserts
that fires inpoverish the ground and
destroy seeds and young pines which
in time would become marketable.
when fires are not allowed to rum"
he says, "pine always will follow pine;
and those who take the trouble to
walk through cutover land will find
thousands of young white and Norway
pines coming up That these will
form new pine forests. if fire can be
Thus the enforcement of good fire laws
will accomplish two desirable ends
the preservation of existing timber and
the growth of rev trees on the lands
cleared by lumber ompanies-Provi-
dence Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

From the actions of the Oklahoma
members Of the prison investigating
commission in urging that the matter
be delayed and then refusing to play,
as it were, because this request was
not acquiesced in, it is most reasonable
to conjecture that they are not really
sincere in their desires for an investi-
CATION. However, the Kansas end of
the commission can be depended upon
to do the work before it thoroughly
and honestly, even if the Oklahoma
gentlemen take no part in it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

Men worry more than women" Yes;
they not only have syerythhi I,t 10 worrT PITY
have the women to worry about, too
Smart Set
First Servant Girl with just pride)-We
have mattings at our church. Second
we've a fine strip of linoIeum up the aisle
and the vicar burns insects every Sunday.
The Taller.
Knicker-This is the day of the specialist.
Bocker-Yes. soon we shall have oculists
who will treat only one eye.-New York
Sun.
I'm troubled great deal with head
need stronger glasses?'' NO" replied DR..
Stronger giasses, but "ee1 bic
Standard and Times
Mrs. Justwed-Oh. dear. dearl Mary,
since you've been here-only one month
you've broken more china than your
to prevent this sort of thing? Mary-well.
mum. l moight have me wages raised
Philadelphia Press.
--Ah. Elsie. it is fine to be married to an
anS and 6sEde ana So
he'll have band at his funeral."-Wahre
Jacob.
His salary is smaller than your pin
money allowance" II love him. dad"
lQcOTnpdLlDlllIY
come. often produces friction in later
year."-Pittsburg Post.
lot system Fea 81 ahH ffT s6 5a
him a great chance to say afterward that
he voted for all the winners. Detroit
Free Press.
Small Wallace accepted an invit. ton to
come to your party if it don't rain" (then
thinking that he might have to stay home
in hat "a ~ dOo= T01IF
Grandfather-Hey Stop minute. boy.
waiting to give me a thrashing Grand
father-Bless me! Fancy boy running for
it! Tommy-Well, if don't father'iI get
home before it's Over.-Tit-Bits.
He-when we are married I will put all
You know there is no fun spending ones
own money.-Judge-
Elderly Gentleman-Ah. my little man.
Going to school, Ell? And what do you
like most about school? Little Mantle
days when there amt none.-Philadelphia
Record.
thing to out of that magazine John
GstrHggi1ng through pages OF advertise
ter. my dear.-Life.
Teacher &c cla asfl what makes
Punch.
''Yeh'' said Tommy. pa gave me
watch to carry when started in at school
this fall My" exclaimed Aunt Jane.
soon as I git in school in the mornin's
kin look at it and see how many minutes
I'm late.'-The Catholic Standard and
Times.
There's one good thing about Louise
she never makes any Of the girls jealous
of her" I'm on. Clever. but ugly. eh7'-
Cleveland Leader.
Ella-A poet wrote a sonnet on my face
the other day. Stella-Did ne write it on
the lines ?-The Bohemian.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

Attention is called to the fact that
Count Boni de Castellane has lost his
suit for the custody of his children
who will continue to remain under the
control of their mother, the former
Anna Gould, for the mere purpose of
expressing the hope this is the last
the public will hear of these people
for many a long day. The notoriety
that this one time American girl has
attained is of the nauseating variety.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

That's a beautiful, grand thought
that has been propounded by DR.. Ly-
man Abbott to the effect that the soul
often gets too big to express itself
properly. It will also come in handy
in explaining away any breaks that Mr.
Roosevelt may make when he gets
busy assisting DR.. Abbott with the
editorial work of the Outlook.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

A prize fight which is permitted
for a small number of rounds is quite
bad enough but when one is allowed
to extend to thirty-nine rounds, or
one hour and f1fty-seven minutes of
actual fighting, not counting the min
ute's rest between each round an
exhibition of brutality is provided
that even the state of California might
be expected to prohibit.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

A good suggestion was made to the
ways and means committee of the
house of representatives during the
tariff hearings. 1t was that one way
out of the tariff difficulties could be
found by copying the law recently en-
acted in Great Britain which provides
that all patented articles for consump-
ton there must be manufactured in
that country.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

Some people will be inclined to be-
lieve that Richmond Pearson Hobson
is behind the story that S222,500, 900
in gold coin has been shipped from the
mint at San Francisco to Denver since
August last as measure of precau-
tion against a, possible invasion of the
PACIFIC coast hN q hostile power.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01

The Chicago News notes that Mr..
Carnegie not only gives away library
buildings but he also writes books to ill
them. AS the News suggests. this Is
a hard system to beat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-01
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IFrom the New York Press.l

from the New York Press.l
A girl is awful smart to pretend not
to be.
Mans worst habit is life, but he al
ways gets over 1t.
Where women are superior to men Is
they don't get their pockets picked.
The reason girl can think a man is
eligible is she wouldn't If he was
It's queer how being ashamed about
something you did can make you fee
what fun you had.