The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-21
THOSE WHO WALK ALONE.

die, ~
Loving it only.
And SO they never see beside them
Children. whose coming is like breath
of flowers:
Consoled by subtler loves the angels
Through childless hours.
| Good deeds they do; they comfort and
In duties others put off till the NOR
Their look is balm, their touch is ten
derness
To all i'll sorrow.
twere shame,
This maiden guise. long after youths
But in Gods book they bear another
name
The faithful-hearted.
Faithful in life. and faithful until death.
Such souls, in sooth, illumine with luster
splendid
That glimpsed. glad land wherein, the
vision saith,
Earth's wrongs are ended.
Richard Burton, in Literary Digest.
College Presidents.
The day has passed when a coll
lege president was chosen for his shin
ing example of cody living rather
modern president is an administrator
rather than a teacher. and. as a rule,
he does not appear in the class room,
but keeps office hours like any ether
man of business. In great univer-
sity he comes but rarely into close per-
Sonal contact with the students. The
only occasions upon which he adj
dresses them at any length are, per-
haps, at the beginning of the aca-
4 dennis when the freshmen orr
welcomed, or at its close. when, on
commencement day the degrees are
conferred. Most of his time and en-
ergy must necessarily be devoted to
wherewithal for the maintenance of
the divers beneficent activities of
the university. The head of one of
our great institutions of learning,
which receives fairly large annual
appropriation from the state, has
said:
"For every day of my life I am
bound to raise $1,000 for this insti-
tuition. If I fall behind at one per-
iod, 1 must raise more at another
time to maintain the average
II the average college professor
were free to make confession. he
would admit that abstruse philosoph-
ical issues co not generally give him
so much concern as the concrete prob
lem of how he is to make a living
for his university.
The productive funds at Harvard
university amount to $4,000. 900;
Columbia has $23, 100000: Yale has
$9,500,000, and the University of
Pennsylvnia $5.30O,ooo. The profit
able investment of these great trust
funds, which are always inadequate
to the neds of these expanding insti-
buttons, requires financial and bust
ness acumen of the highest order.
The treasurer must be man who
T.,
teenth century bursar OF steward
knew his Bible. The conservation of
the resources of the modern univer-
sity has become the business of a man
, of highly specialized training, and the
ideal life of the academic commun-
ity comprehends but dimly. if at all,
the magnitude of the fiscal transac-
, lions incident to the existence and nee
essary to the welfare of the institu-
Ition.-Philadelphi Public Ledger.
Spain's Rich City.
1t is not surprising that, if Spain,
always more or less agitated by in
ternal dissensions, should have serious
troubles. they should center in Bar
ton is here, the greatest industries
are here, and here congregate in
great numbers those grades of soci-
| cites which are generally opposed to
/ any organized government. Here one
| finds the richest and the poorest
both disturbing elements. bpt for diff
ferent reaSonS-one complaining OF
| unequal taxation and the other of the
restraints which the government places
| upon license.
Few people in America .realize the
| industrial wealth of Barcelona or how
much she patronizes US for raw ma
| terial. Over $4,000 people are en-
p1oyed there in the cotton industry
alone, and the exports of this work
amount to at least $75,000,000 an
nually. A large amount of the raw
cotton used is purchased in the United
-tates and shipped from Galveston
Tex. So, after all, aIn-. Is more OF
less interested in this section of Spain
living is cheaper there than in any
| other city in Spain. Rents are mar
velously low, and I saw flat of fiji
teen rooms, with all modern appli-
/ ances, on the Fifth avenue of the city
for which the occupant paid $45 pei
month Indeed, very excellent
tanned for $25. Labor, however. il
CORRESPONDENCE low, and the working
i class enjoys few luxuries. The Cata-
IAN works with an unceasing energy
| which rather startles the labOrer Of
| other parts of Alfonso's country. Al
though he listens to agitators. he is
| often quick to think for himself, anC
he fights for what he considers hi:
rights with the same energy, and tht
| government at Madrid will do well Il
hheed the cry of this restless child be
fore it is too late, for that cry is al
ready finding an echo in Northern
Spain.-Mrs. c. r. Miller, in Leslie;
Weekly.
Open Season for Editors.
The governor of Kentucky seems t.
have proclaimed an open season fo
editors in the game preserves o
! Kentucky He grants a pardon be
fore trial to a national guard Off
GER who displayed his valor by break
ing his cane on the head of a Louis
vile journalist before the victim