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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-19
TO FOLLOW COOK ROUTE
Columbia Professor to Start for Top
of Mount Mckinley

New York. April 19.-Prof. Herschel
c. Parker of Columbia university will
leave on Sunday next for Seattle on the
first leg of the trip to the top of Mount
Mckinley. WaldemaT Grassi, a Co
lumbia universitv junior, and H. l..
Tucker of the Appalachian club will
accompany him. 1t is Professor Par
ker's intention to follow the route de-
scribed by DR. Frederick A. Cook
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-19

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Horn, Miss Lottie
Horn, Mr.. and Mrs. W. L. Horn and
daughter Virginia of Kansas City, Mo.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-19
"COME ONTO THE GRASS"
Old Signs in New York Parks to Be
Changed.

New York. pril 19-The keep off
the grass signs in thirty New York
sign posts reading, "Come on to the
grass This Is in accordance with an
order issued Nv Mayor Gaynor's park
romp on certain lawns and grassy hill
sides.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-19
least TOPEKANOES|
1aaanlL,4li, 80 Ist

LA.eIlIs iOz The East TCp.l.a column may
be telephoned to Ind. Ehcne 1751.J
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
L1PToN's PUBLICITY METHODS.

Says There Is Much Virtue in Adver-
 tfsfnS and Quick Action.
 'T dare say I owe a great deal of my success to advertising" says Sir Thomas Lipton in the Strand. 'I al ways tried to get hold of some new method. To attract attention I used to post cartoons in my shop window. In later years, when my business had spread on one occasion engaged an aeronaut to throw out from his car 10000 telegraph messages addressed to one of my shops. I offered prizes to the first twenty people who arrived with a message, and, the finders com ing from all parts of the city, much popular interest resulted.
 Advertisement sometimes. as I have found, results most unexpectedly and from untoward conditions. About 6 I was awakened by the telephone bell ringing in my bedroom. Springing out of bed, I soon learned that a fire had broken out at my Newry branch. On arrival at the scene of the fire I found nothing could be saved, so I immedi- aIely leleSrdpneu lo ny OuD4lH anu Belfast stores and ordered fresh stock of provisions to be sent by pas senger trains. Meanwhile I found an- other shop close by, and at the usual hour the following morning I had the new premises in full working order. And there was more business done at the second shop than at the first. The fire, it appeared. had drawn public at- tention to us. and our smartness in opening another shop so quickly was practically appreciated.'
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
American Colleges.

The American college is in every way unique IL may be defined in a word as a school for imparting more general and advanced instruction than can be obtained in the various acade- mics and private schools. The univer- sity, however, more particularly com prises a number of technical schools
 imparting instruction in all depart ments of knowledge, including classic al literature, the arts and sciences, as biology, medicine, surgery, law, theol- ogy, mechanics and so on. The issue as to which is the most desirable. the most useful, has been discussed at ed ucational congresses, in the public press and notably in the leading re- views There has been evident in these discussions a tendency to look upon the college as a kind of inferior school which must be given its place only when there is not enough money to establish the more expensive uni versity On the other hand, the col lege has not wanted its stout cham pions, in whose view the American col lege. with its concentrated curriculum, the closeness of touch between pupil and professor, is not only an institu- ton that is to be conserved, but is one that often. if not always, offers a bet ter kind of education than is available in the niversity.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

and when they can do neither they suffer disastrous change of nature. Mems ideals are unaffected by the pro found conviction that woman is the in- ferior animal, but when women see only the inferior animal in man, it acts upon them as the loss of faith acts up- on certain temperaments. It destroys their sense of duty, cuts them adrift from old ideals without setting up new ones, deprives them of all feeling Of security, and leaves a yearning ache craving for some sort of satisfaction, and. finding none in the pursuits once dear, but now considered intellectual for any good. and therefore not worth while. drives them to reckless extrav- agances of thought and conduct
 From of old there have been opin- ions of men afloat among women the reverse of flattering. but not of men in general, only of odd specimens, and never expressed above a whisper The woman of to-day judges men in the mass, and does not whisper. She jeers at them aloud, or laughs, or mourns for the pity of it, according to her
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
cHILDREN's HEALTH INSURED.
When They Work for Wages Precau-
 tiOnary Measures Begin.

When They Work for Wages Precau-
 tiOnary Measures Begin.
 The insurance has become in less than thirty years part of the warp of German life, Madge Jennings says in Harper's Magazine. It affects the life of the masses like common school edu- cation with endless meaning and issue. Twelve million people have sickness insurance; 14,000,000 are insured against invalidism and old age; 19,- 000,000 against accident. When a boy begins his apprenticeship at Is he be- gins his insurance. Even children under age who work for wages out of school hours are required to insure for invalidism and old age. The men in labor colonies must be insured, and prisoners hired out by the state. In every factory one meets it; in every tenement It has been estimated that, counting with the insured their fam lilies, who are also protected by the in- surance, one-half the population of the empire is reached by this vast imper- ial backing of peace
 Germany is developing very fast in dustrially. The average wage of a laborer was 30 cents a day twenty years ago; it is now 60 or 75 cents. and the cost of living has risen cor respondingly-in reality far more. Sickness pensions are reckoned in gen eral at one-half the wages of the class of labor under consideration, and the pension in the lowest class is thus set under the present law at 15 cents a day-an income upon which to live in any industrial town in modern Ger. many, however small. is only words. words, words. One could laugh some times at the involutions of this vast official comedy; one could laugh if that were not so near which chills laughter. The acts are promptly and surely exc cuted when a pensioners claim is es- tablished. but the official supposition in Germany is always that you are wrong; you must prove that you are right; innumerable precautions are taken to guard against the practice of fraud; sick man may spend months completing the formalities of his claim
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
BETTER CANNED MUSIC.
1 New Automatic Piano Player ike
 Invention of an Australian.

Sew Automatic Piano Player ike
 Invention of an Australian.
 Consul George B. Killmaster of New castle. Australia. furnishes the follow ing information relative to the in- vention of a new piano player by an engineer of that city:
 The plans for the mechanism were drawn by the inventor, large DOT tion of the front of the piano used having been taken out and remade in order to fit the player. The instru- ment consists of piano player mech anism on novel lines. fitted into the interior of a German piano. There Is the usual opening in the front of the upper part of the case, where the mu- sic roll is inserted.
 Tn front of the keyboard space has been found for the controlling mechan- ism. This is arranged on a unique system. which enables the operator to instantly emphasize any note or chord, no matter in what part of the music roll it occurs. This is effected by four little pistons or buttons under the fingers of the left hand, while the right hand controls the tempo and sustaining pedal, the latter being op- erated pneumatically. Any graduation of tone. from the lightest pianissimo to the loudest forte, can be obtained from any part Of the roll independent ly of any other part, by simply press ing, more or less. the particular but ton corresponding to that part of the music roll.
 It is said that more expression can be obtained than with many other of the mechanical players. The tempo is under complete control and the tone is soft and tureful
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
heavens we gather the plumage for our

heavens we gather the plumage for our heads"
 Miss AIorosini has been called the chameleon girl because of her habit of changing gowns many times year. She Is a great lover of horses and a leader in society. Her fathers death disclosed that she was as picturesque in her way as she was in his. She re- entered society after her period of mourning for her father. The chief heiress to Elmhurst and to the pictur- esque old bankers millions is about 35. tall. slender and athletic. To his daughter who eloped with a coachman Banker Morosini left S75.OOO.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Theorists have often proposed e1krA taxation on the bachelor, and legislar lures have even considered, more or less seriously, bills imposing heavier burdens on the unmarried men. But, thus far, the hard-hearts have escaped such a fate. Yet, in England, where the search for new sorts of taxes iS un- remitting, the plan is once more seri- ously preached. The argument in fa- vor of a bachelor tax is irreproacha- ble. Here is a man who Is lodging his duties to the state; who Is living in happy but selfish singleness. The life and health of a nation depends in greater degree upon its birthrate than upon any other one thing. If the birth rate is declining, the nation is looked upon as decadent and dying. The mar rled man is the solid citizen. He is settled In life and has serious stake in the community He has family for which to labor, and is imbued with ambitions that are of the greatest im- portance, in the aggregate, to the state and to the nation. But the bachelor Is a shirk, a mere lodger. He gives to the state no progeny; he develops no home; he does not become a tax payer He Is the man-about-town. Of course, there are individual exceptions the bachelor who Is supporting moth CT or sisters, the bachelor who Is phy- sically unfitted to marry, and the bach elor who cannot find a woman who will wed him. But in the mass, the bachelor Is not productive, taxpaying citizen. He is shirking part of the whole duty of man. An obvious device to drive the bachelor into matrimony is to make him pay for the privilege of shirking But there are difficulties in the way Would 1t be constitutional to tax him because he did not care to commit matrimony? How could the exceptional cases be taken care Of? Perhaps Q better way of encouraging matrimonial enterprise would be to fa- vor the married man in various ways. This Is already done in many cases. If work is scarce, the city gives the preference to the married man. Many business establishments give similar preference. In France. there are some privileges enjoyed by the man who has large family. If men of family were favored by the remission of cer- tain taxes, or given privileges, it would be tantamount to taxation of those without family, but the taxation would be indirect and, therefore, easy.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
TOO MUCH MAGNETISM.


Folks talk lot about personal mag netism, as if twas something to be proud of" remarked Wilson Salter, meditatively. but I view 1t right the other way. It appears to me there isn't anything much more oncomfort- able, not to say dangerous. to carry round with you.'
 Have you got any of it, Wilson," piped Captain Peevy. in his shrill. quavering treble.
 No. I should hope not" responded MT. Salter. with vigor If I had should make straight for a doctor, and see if so be he couldn't remove 1t. someways"
 Why. I want t know" piped Cap tain Peevy, in great amazement
 Well cast anchor for minute, and I'll set 1t forth to ye what my reasons are" said MT. Salter. generously.
 Its my brother Edward, over to Tonscet Point. that's the main cause of 'em. He's always been said to have a sight of personal magnetism; folks have remarked it of him from a boy And up to yesterday forenoon he'd set considerable by it. himself. I reck'n. Did you happen to take notice of that shower that went around to the south bout 'leven o'clock?"
 Yes. sir. I did" quavered Captain Peevy. "She veered round jest when she got in a line with Bic Toilets mash piece. I was setting right where be now.'
 And where you be the whole endur- ing time. except when you're feeding" said MT. Slater. in an undertone, and then proceeded clearly:
 Well, Edward, he was out in that shower. and they got the full heft of it, over to the Point. And Edward. he was standing in his barn door, and first he knew, he didn't know anything. When he came to. there was all the buttons ripped off his vest. and laying round here and there. and his right shoe was split from stem to stern. and there was something the matter with his right arm and leg
 When I was over there this morn ing the doctor-he's nothin' but a yearling boy, and ain't half learned how to spell medicine yet. according to my ideas-the doctor, he was try ing to explain to me about Edward, and magnetic. electric current, and so on.
 T don't want anything to do with currents, excepting the kind that grow on bushes,' said I, and as for magnet ism, if so be you can take Edwards personal magnetism out of him now, and no harm done says I, why, I'm his brother. and I'll foot the bill, said l.
 And I stand willing to abide by my word" concluded Mr Salter, as he rose laboriously from the bench in front of Captain Peevy's door, flor the sooner piece of goods like that is got rid of. the better for all par ties concerned, and a mans brother ought to stand ready. when he's got money In the bank. But thought the doctor seemed some doubtful whether it could be done. He ain't anything but yearling boy, ye see. anyhow."- Youths Companion.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

respect for man her faith in God may not be lost, but it changes in charac- ter. Gods decrees as they have been transmitted to her by man then be- come open to question. and she begins to substitute her own interpretations. Except in degenerate people there can be no such thing as sex antagonism." :" Men have always frankly despised women without in the least disliking them. One woman here and there a man may respect. but toward women in general his attitude will remain for the most part kindly contemptuous.
 Nowadays the attitude of woman to- ward men is very much the same, says Sarah Grand in the London Chronicle, but in their contempt there is more bitterness and less tolerance. and the effect upon themselves of the loss of respect for men is altogether different It has been the habit of their minds to look up to men and to rely upon them,
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
diuIia Morosini, Best Gowned New Yorker, Said to Be in Dilemma
 Over Estate Shrinkage.
SHE HAS NOW ONLY S1,6ss.427
Society Fears She'll Have to Cut $3o,ooo Wardrobe Allowance in
 Two to Keep Wolf Away.

How on earth will New Yorks best dressed woman maintain her wardrobe on S15,000 year?" This was the .ques- ton New York society asked when 1t heard that Miss Giulia Morosini would have to cut in two her annual allow ance of $30,000 for dress because her fathers estate had been found to be only s2,66O,5O9, instead of more than s7,000,000, as supposed before the Sur rogate courts records.
 Miss Giulia was the favorite daugh- ter of Giovanni P. Morosini, banker, who left her the greater part of his wealth. Her inheritance is placed at 1,633.427. the interest on which at 4 per cent would be only $65, ,000 a year. To maintain the Morosini home in it's accustomed style will cost, it is said, S50,090 year, leaving only S15,000 for the heiress' clothing account
 The young woman has been criticis- ed for spending so much money on her wardrobe. but she always defends her helped many classes.
 "I believe in making myself as at tractive through dress as l can. It is every woman's duty if not her pleas ure. I consider good taste in dress a matter of science.
 Clothes draw on all of the works of nature for support. It Is really won derful to consider. From the depths of the earth we gather our jewels to adorn, from the forest and field we get our fabric and color and from the very
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Who says that the ordinary English nan is not sentimental? In August the last cable street line was discontinued and the electric tram of the London County Council took its place. The able line was also the first in Europe
 Tor 1t was opened in 1884, over aighgate Hill, in the extreme north erly suburbs of London. The occa- sion of the discontinuance of the line was marked by an astonishing dem onstration. Great crowds assembled along the line on the evening when the last cars were run, and each car was cheered as it left the foot of the hill no its journey. Toward the end of the evening every car was so crowd ed that it was impossible to collect fares. Each car as it went off serv- Ice was greeted with "Auld Lang Syne," sung by the bystanders, led by a man playing a cornet Men and women fought to get on the last car, and most oe them were provided with colored lights, firecrackers and sticks, which they used to increase the bois- terousness of the demonstration. It seems to have been an occasion not so much of rejoicing that better system
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Notwithstanding the fact that he has succeeded in making several mill lion dollars during the few months that have elapsed since he was releas- ed on bail from prison, ex-Banker Morse may have to serve the term to which he was sentenced when he was found guilty of violating the banking laws. There are ever increasing signs that the ability to make money is not to be permitted to serve as an excuse 'n this country for being a swindler.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

The pole is nothing. It Is a mega tion. It is a geographical paradox and absurdity. Whether it be land buried under perpetual snow or water covered deep with never-melting ice, 1t Is the one place on earth where there Is no north or east or west, but all di- rections alike are south. It is the place where one day is a year long, and the year is day. The familiar cancellations of the stars of our hem lsphere sweep round 1t in altered guises and relations, never varying in height above the horizon. Nothing in nature marks the passage of time ex- cept the slow coming and withdrawal of the sun. The compass needle still points to north, which there is south ito long-ago discovered point in our hemisphere which moves westward at a known and practicable pace.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
Ants Will Eat non weevf1.

The Federal government will expert ment in cotton fields near Durant, Okla, with black ants to exterminate ton pests, says the St. Louis Globe Democrat. The discovery was recently made by Special Agent S. w. Murphy, of the Department of Agriculture, who is located in Durant. that the ants will devour the young weevil. The discov- cry was made entirely by accident in the following manner:
 Murphy had visited a cotton patch near Durant and secured several wee vii which were about to hatch They were taken to his office for observa- tion under a magnifying glass to de termine what effect, if any, the recent hot weather had had upon them They were placed upon newspaper and left upon a table while Murphy went to dinner
 When he returned scores of little black ants were devouring the weevil. He wrote a full report of his discovery to Dr. Knapp, head of the Bureau of Plant Life Industry. under whose di- rection Murphy is now working. Mur- phy is confident that he has found in them an insect which will destroy the boil weevil without injuring the crop, and he intends to colonize as many ants as possible in a cotton field near Durant next year, and to assist him in his efforts he has asked that a government eXnert he detailed
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

A new postal card. lighter in weight, smoother of surface, more tasteful in design, is promised by the Postoffice Department. Incidentally, 1t is added that the new cards can be furnished to the government for less money than It has paid for those now in use. Ev- erybody ought to be pleased-except, perhaps, the people who have been manufacturing the old cards.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

character and point of view Taking the attainment of happiness as the one thing worth living for-she scoffs at men for their failure to make the world pleasant place to live in. for their Chinese conservation, their lack or enterprise in social reform, their hypocrisy. their stick-in-the-mud un- progressive tendencies generally
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
Easily ExnIained.

Glasgow cabby once had as fare an Inverness minister and his wife. He had to drive them through the poorer districts of the city, and on reaching their destination the minis ter, at the same time handing cabby his legal fare. asked:
 Why are there so many poor people in this city, cabman?"
 Jehu looked hard at the parson for a minute before he replied:
 Well, sir, I'm no. vera sure; but. ye see, maist O the poor folk drive cabs. and tips are scarce here."-Dundee Ad- vertiser.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Wives would not be suspicious" !" says one of tha philosophettes. "if their husbands would always tell them the truth" They might not be suspi- sious, but would they be happy?
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Miss Marjorie Gould blushingly ad- hits that sha has a Russian grand duke for sweetheart. It has hereto fore been supposed that the Russian grand dukes were all very rich.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

There has been a reunion of the ad- nirers of James Whitcomb Riley, the poet, in his old home county down in Indiana. One of the remarkable things about it was that the poets friends were all able to crowd inside of the county limits.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
WHY WOMEN REVOLT TO-DAY.

Well Known Writer Says ''Wealker"
 Sex Has Begun to Think.
 At present thoughtful women are go- Ing through period of profound dis heartenment: but disheartenment in their case Is no check upon mental ac- tivity. A normal woman's faith in God Is more largely based on respect for man than she suspects; when she loses
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Japan's friendly feeling toward this country Is officially and poetically ex- pressed in the gift by the Mikado of Several thousand Japanese cherry-trees Tor the public parks of Washington md New York
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Will Mrs. Besant kindly clear up another mystery by telling the world who Kaspar Hauser was. what he was, and why he was?
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Many football player outgrows it.. A former star of the gridiron has been appointed treasurer of the United States.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Lives of aviators show us,
 On one thing. if we're intent, We can do 1t, even flying,
 And in failing make a dent.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Booth Harrington announces that he Is going to quit writing novels. As a man gets older, he longs to do some thing useful with his hands.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
change.

Married women are bracing up; they are looking more like girls than ever before. They are getting rid of that tired. weary, disgusted look.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07
cnncixe short storx.

Angelina loved Edwin Jones. Edwin Jones was poor. Angelina Is Mrs. Robinson.--Ex- change.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

It is estimated that the meeting of Presidents Taft and Diaz will cost S70,- 900. May King Edward and Emperor William never meet at greater ex- pense than thati
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Spain wants the Moors to pay a war indemnity of S2O,O0O.Oo0. It seems to cost money to be Rifflan.
The Holbrook news., 1910-01-07

Our idea of a sensible woman is one who doesn't consider it any sign of social distinction to have a trained nurse sitting on her front porch