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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
WAsHINGTON,s BIRTHDAY.

The anniversary of the birth of
George Washington has rolled around
again and is being fittingly commemor-
ated in all sections of the nation. This
is as It should be. Even such a busy
people as are those of the United
States should pause occasionally in the
hurry and hustle of life to pay their
respects to the men who have helped
so much to make this country what it
is, and in the front rank Of those men
stands George Washington.
His is one of the heroic figures in
the history of all ages and all peoples.
His genius as a military commander
was second to none that the world has
ever seen. With a mere handful of
men, often poorly clad, poorly pro-
visioned and poorly equipped. he was
able to defeat the armies of a mother
country which was the most powerful
nation of those days. His abilities as a
soldier were equalled by his capabilf-
ties as a statesman. 1t has been
stated, and not without good reason,
that the opinion of George Washington
was of such great weight that it alone
contributed more than any other meas
ure to the adoption of the constitution
able document of it's kind that has ever
been written, and one that has so we'll
stood the test of time as to be recog-
nized now as being nearly perfect in
most of it's details t. provide a method
of government which Is adequate even
in the face of the wonderful growth Of
the country in all ways and the
changed conditions that now exist as
compared with those at the time this
constitution was adopted.
Washingtons private life was quite
as illuminating as was his public ca
reer in it's several phases. 1t was all
that a mans should be. In fact, he
seems to have been one Of those few
human beings in which it is scarcely
possible to find flaw. He was, in
deed, a Christian gentleman. AS a
contemporary observer, William Ma
clay, senator from Pennsylvania in the
first congress. wrote: 1.-THE presidents
amiable department smooths and
sweetens everything" And when his
end came Washington remarked to the
friends around his bedside: 81 die
hard, but I am not afraid to CO." The
life and the work of such a man are
worth more than a moments attention
occasionally, and a careful perusal of
any of the many histories and books
which have been written about them
should be of benefit to every one.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
was the half-disgusted

nress-be Isl was the half disguised
You know him well. Of courseT' sEe
queried. fencing for time -
"Oh. after a fashi0ni Do YOU! ne
gave her a quick. keen look.
"Only in this legendary sort OF way,
and she indicated the pile of clippings
on her desk, her eyes travelling COM
er where were displayed the more or
less ludiorous prints. II suppose he's
perfect idol of the girls. Isn't her" she
asked demurely.
know that he doesn't care fig for but
one in the world-and she won't look
at him.
on exclaimed Sylvia, what
stupid she must be-"
of the room. then back again. He
stopped in front of Sylvia's chair; his
voice had changed when he spoke.
rs it possible. Sylvia. that this fel-
low has supplanted me in your estima-
tion-has taken the old. dear-piace
Pr
Sylvia laughed constrainedly. Il
you see,'' she said, "I had to have some
thing to keep up my interest-sone-
body. Tits a sort of fad. you know"
But if he should come here today.
and ask you to be his wife, would you
listen to him?'
-suppose-I-should," was the very
Chalmers bit his lip. Suddenly he sat
down on the arm of her chair and de-
| liberately drew her head against him.
Listen, DEAR" he began excitedly, Il
want to tell you a few things about
Lrown. He had q Serious accident last
year during one of the big games, and
| his people didn't want him to play foot
ball any more. He didn't make any
| rash promises, but rather than have
them worry. he took an assumed name
-
| Sylvia looked up tentatively. her eyes
now wistful, now dancing-red lips
/ parted.
DO you think he did wrong in this ?''
| Sylvia shook her head. her black
lashes shadowing the pink rim of her
/ cheek.
Sweetheart, II am Brown
| "Oh!"
! He caught her close to his heart.
will you cross the ocean with me to-
morrow, dear, or will 1t require a longer
time to get accustomed to Browns
| identity?''
IT knew it all along" she whispered.
| II haven't missed a game. And-and-
Billy, please let me talk, IL think i.
would be something of q distinction.
really. to be pointed out as Mrs.
Brown. 70 Copyrighted. 1910, by Assoc
ciated Literary Press.}
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
THE 1AYMEN's CONFERENCE.

For the evangelization of the world
in one generation" This is the purpose
Of the great layn1en's missionary move
ment, statewide conference concern
ing which begins in this city tonight.
No quite so monumental a task, nor
one which aims to do so much good
among all peoples on earth. has ever
been undertaken by men. But with
spontaneous fervor. which has never
been equalled before. men of all classes
and conditions are bending their backs
to this wonderful wheel of progress
that has been started on it's way. With
such strong and active shoulders are
they urging it along. it seems almost
impossible that anything but a large
measure of success will be the reward.
At the end of this month of F'ebru-
airy there will have been held through
cut the United States. including the
enc which is about to begin in Topeka,
1S mammoth conferences in connection
with the movement. They have been
projected for the purpose of further
stimulating the interest of the men in
different sections of the country in the
undertaking. The success in this par
ticular of the conferences that have
and beyond the expectations of even the
most sanguine Of the promoters of the
wonderful enterprise. That the Topeka
conference will be as successful as any
of the others which have been held is
assured The registration of delegates
from outside OF Topeka is unusually
large. and from numerical standpoint
this conference will be a great achieve
much more than mere numbers are the
things that are counting for most in
this movement. And that such things
will be developed at the conference
there is not room for the shadow of a
doubt. 1t is safe to say that no move
nent has ever been started in Kansas
which has met with a more enthusiast
tic response from her most substantial
sons than this laymen's missionary
movement. And as it grows In
strength and size. as the lines along
which it is to be prosecuted are de-
veloped ard more sharply drawn. it is
safe to predict that Kansans will be
found in the forefront fighting line US
ing their fine energies and their means
to bring this greatest battle of peace
TO a successful conclusion.
| Until this conference has been held
and the missionaries from the four ends
of the earth and at home here have
personally told the stories of their
work and the needs for it's extension,
| it will scarcely be possible to realize the
| power of the movement. Perhaps the
! feature o. the undertaking which
| should appeal most strongly to every
body is the fact that while it contem-
| plates the evangelization and civiliza-
| ton of the heathens in foreign lands
such work is to be but part of the labor.
| This "evangehzation'' is to be world
vide in it's scope and that includes the
| great attention that is needed in al
most every section of even these Uni
! ted States. where the fear of Cod is
held by multitudes in all too slight re-
| gard
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
STEEL AND COMMODITY PRICES

seldom has single topic been
more widely discussed than the one
which has been taken up throughout
the length and breadth of the land in
the past few weeks--the cost of liv-
ing says the current issue of the
Iron Trade Review, editorially. 1.-THE
discussion itself has led nowhere: in
deed. it could not when the very sub
ject is not susceptible of anything APP
preaching precise definition. Not only
has there been confusion. as James J.
Hill pointed out. between the high cost
of living and the cost of high living;
there has also been a great omission
in that the discussion has dealt chief
~ with the cost of commodities. when
the cost of living embraces other sub
1ects. such as the cost of labor for do
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
GLOBE SIGHTS.
rFrom the Atchison Globe.l

CFrom the AtchiSon Globe.1
Job never had telephone hung up
on one side OF his tent.
We would rather be sixteen years
old than be President Taft.
AS bad as the trusts are, they prob
ably hurt you less than you hurt your
self.
Young people dread old age, but
most of them live in hopes of reach
ing it. just the same.
There are q good many varieties of
household pets, but we notice father
is rarely elected to that position
If a boy is as refined as his Spin
kin think he should be, he is always
as quiet as the corpse at a funeral
1t is a good thing for every woman
to have sons: She appreciates her
daughters more because of them.
The process of getting rich would
be greatly simpliiied if you would save
money this year like you intend to
next.
There is one dutiful son in Atchi-
son, but people almost universally
make fun of him, and say he has no
spirit
.She has good hammock sense we
heard an Atchison woman say in
speaking of a girl. We wonder what
she meant
In town this size there is always
some woman of whom it is said: "She
has beautiful clothes, but she never
wears them here
Our idea of a real expert is the man
who can find out what are the con-
tents of a woman's stomach the day
after she ate salad at party.
Some children's clothes look as
though their mother had dreamed
them, and when she woke UP next
morning cut their pattern
An Atchison man who has buried
three wives, has kept an expense ac-
| fI7af mr. p
ship costs only tvo-thirds as much as
| the funeral
The people have a way of referring
to the "laboring class" as though ii
meant the farmers, and the people
who work by the day. What is the
matter with the people who sit on a
hard chair in an office all day? What
] are they doing. playinR2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

Somebody wants to get the permits
sion of the federal government to
build scenic railway along the rim
OF the Grand Canyon of Arizona If
this concession is granted others will
follow, and it won't be long before one
of the most marvellous works of nature
in the world will be despoiled of much
of its pristine beauty by the greedy
hands Of commercial enterprise. A
halt on such projects as these should
be called before any of them get we'll
started.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Money saved in one way is generally
frittered away in another.
= = y
If there wasn't so much love at first
sight there would be more old maids
and bachelors.
Y X x
The conceited man would not be SO
Objectionable if he did not also thing
that every one else is a know-nothing.
=
Orders on grocery stores and butcher
shops would be most acceptable pres
ents for the brides and grooms of to-
day.
y x y
AS a comedian. who fitted this way
recently, expressed it. if it is going to
be fashionable for men to wear clothes
the color of their hair the bald-headed
chaps will be in a serious predicament
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
Not Too Old at Forty

The question of what age man is
best fitted for close mental and physi-
cal work has been raised by the won
derful endurance of Commander Peary,
the north pole.
Some interesting opinions have been
advanced by the heads of large bust
ness firms. medical men. and others
on the subject.
Commander Peary's achievement
has exploded the too old at 40' bub-
ble,'' the manager of a famous en-
cheering firm told representative of
the Daily Mail.
"It has been my experience that
mechanical engineers, so long as they
keep in good health, are much better
and more useful workers at so than
are young men of 20.
I'm our employ we have many engi-
neers doing hard manual work whose
ages are between 60 and 20. They are
thoroughly experienced workmen, who
do not make mistakes, like young men.
"Of course, with consulting engi-
neers their value increases as they get
older. provided, of course, they retain
their health aid mental powers
The manager of big business said
that in his opinion man was fitted
for mental work from the age of 80
to A. 'At the age of As he should
have acquired sufficient experience to
|superinaend his juniors, and be val
liable asset to his employers he said.
An experienced Harley street physf-
clan said that the average man was
the fittest, mentally and physically, be-
tween the ages of 35 and As.
by that age a man should thorough
y understand himself-not only his
mind, but his body he said. He
knows, or should know, how to diet
himself how to keep an even level of
good health and well being. With a
sound constitution man can retain
his vigor and mental powers until he
] is 65 or 70."-London Mail
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR,

IFrom the New York Press.
Half a love AFFAIR is better than
none.
When a good temper jumps the
track it has the worst smash-ur Of All.
A dollar saved is dollar to be vast.
ed when YOU are in q different mood.
The devil is altogether too smart to
let sinners get caught till it becomes a
habit with them "
mans idea of comfort is smoking
pipe. with newspapers scattered over
the f1oor around him ana a~bas 81,
down the front of his coat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

Judge Pollock OF the federal court for
this jurisdiction will be called upon be-
fore long to decide the fate of that por-
ton Of the Kansas prohibitory law
which forbids the sale of liquor by drug
gists for medicinal. mechanical and
scientific purposes, in other words, for
any purpose whatsoever 1t was at
first the intention here to make a pre-
dIction as to what that decision would
be, but such enterprise might be con-
tempt OF court or lese majestic or some
thing equally heinous. Anyhow. every
body in the state probably has his own
and the same idea as TO what this de-
cision viii be and so there is no need
Ear a1av suggestions along that line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

Colonel Tomlinson of Alabama thinks
Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio will
be the next Democratic nominee for
the presidency. He does not think that
Mr.. Bryan will be candidate for the
nomination although he is careful
enough to concede that the Nebraskan
has to be taken into account. But if
Mr.. Bryan is as ninnb1e witted as he
has been in the past there will be no
one else except him in the race. He
won't have much trouble in figuring 4
out that conditions have developed
again which will demand his running
for the presidency.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

r. ]. Hopkins, the Garden City law
Yer who is a candidate for the Repub-
lican nomination for lieutenant gov
ernor, has a plank in his platform that
every man. woman and child in Kansas
IS fin sympathy with. He favors a con-
tinu:nce of two cent passenger fares on
the railroads. But it seems that the
federal courts have the final say IN
this matter and not state legislatures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
FRON OTHER PENS
ROOSEVELT A FEMININE CHAR
ACuTER?

ACTER?
The February issue of the Forum
has made the statement that eX-Presi-
dent Roosevelt Is a feminine manor,
to use the words Of the writer, has a
feminine type of mind But it is
carefully brought out that the word
feminine does not mean effeminate.
The author goes on to describe the
feminine type Of mind" as the ability
to see only one thing at time and TO
be predominated by one all prevailing
motive. He says that women do not
take into consideration all con-
sequences, but just see the desired
thing to be accomplished. Wearing
mental binders" so to speak. and
never shying at a single thing by the
way, but going straight as a line to-
ward the single goal.
Now, supposing that said writer real
ly thinks that hes really knows how
anyone thinks, what has he proved?
The habit of seeing one thing at a time
and one goal at a time is so common
that in reality it can be ascribed to
most people of both sexes who make a
success Of profession or business. The
history of popular government proves
that its leaders are men of single prin-
ciples and bend everything toward the
accomplishment Of such.-Omaha Bee.
THE SPANISH ADVANCE.
The new Spanish ministry shows
forms inevitable in Spain. Senior
Caneljas. the new prime minister,
stands for the increasing demand for
economic and fiscal reform in Spain.
Great estates escape taxation. The
property of the monastic institutions,
while they have their uses. withdraws
both capital and labor from the or
binary channels of industry. The
state supports all recognized churches
in Spain and this needs adjustment to
modern conditions. Central and local
government needs to be cleared of
needless functionaries. Taxes on oc-
equations are sapping the profits of
trade. Personal privileges call for re-
trenchment.
This has been delayed in Spain as
in no other European country. Bar
celona and the Madrid riots show that
either reform or revolution must
come. The Liberals have been con-
sentative on all these issues. The
party has by the last change lost
those allied with the Conservatives, as
the English Liberals did 20 years ago,
when Chamberlain and Harrington
left The new Spanish Liberal party
is radical. So is its premier.-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

There must be a mistake about the
Identification of the mysterious stranger
at Santiago, Chile, as DR.. Frederick A.
Cook. He has refused to be interview
ed. The real DIR. Cook never acted that
way before when any newspaper men
managed to catch up with him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

According to the report OF Charles
Barnes. state superintendent of insur-
apce. the new fire insurance law dur
ing the frst year Of its life, has worked
out in a way that ought to make it
eminently satisfactory to the people
who pay the bills. There should be
general and great rejoicing. In these
days Of grace the occasions are very
rare where the "hoi POLLOK has received
anything at the hands of legislation
that has worked to their pecuniary adj
vantage.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

Japan is just as civilized as the
United States, argues Mayor Gaynor of
New York city, because her gunpowder
is just as good and her cannon are just
as powerful as ours. This is a new way
Of measuring up civilization. But on
that theory it would appear that Jim
Jeffries and Jack Johnson are the two
most civilized specimens of the human
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

The city of Pueblo considers itself a
goat" in the matter of railroad rates
and insists it is sorely Disseminated
against in favor of Denver. And Pueblo
is not alone in it's misery in this par
ticular. There are many other cities in
similar boats and a few of them are in
Kansas
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

Some fellows have to shoulder q
heavy gun and tramp over hills and
wales for several hours to get quail or
two or partridge when the open sea-
sons are on. But with John D. Rookie
Teller. of course, it is different. He has
just received consignment of 1000 live
partridges from Europe.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

The grounding appears to be entitled
to a seat on the same pedestal where
most people have placed DR.. Cook. But
if the truth were known. it would prob
ably indicate that the grounding never
asked any one to place any reliance on
his anfics
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22

How appropriate! The man who is
going to coach the Haskell Indians
football team next season is Familiarity
known as Fighting BILL
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
7T--~ "~ASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

''Fingy'' Connors may be relieved of
his position as chairman OF the New
York Democratic state committee. And
if this is brought about, he surely
ought not 10 be missed.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-22
Yvette DisilIusioned.

Yvette Guilbert has announced to
Paris that she is disappointed in US.
1.-The managers of America she said,
t'are too commercial, and the public
than they do the songs of the eight
zenith century" Although the "gross
public as she calls it, has taste en-
tirely coarse, she does see some good
in New York society (which much
appreciated the delicious songs 1 sang
to them.''
Yvette is clever artist, very subtle,
full of ironical shadings. full of low
toned, almost imperceptible meaning,
delicate, civilized in the most ultra
French way. That her quality should
go over or beyond the heads of most
good citizens is inevitable. 1t is at
once too special and too small to hit
hard the human heart of things. 1t
has not the broad touch. If she pos
sessed that, she might be as artistic
as she is, ard yet interest the gross
public"
One would expect Yvette to be in
telligent enough to understand the real
charm of negro minstrels and coon
negro histrioric character in general.
Yet she speaks as if it were disgrace
to the public to like negro Ministries.
It would, on the contrary, be dis
grace, or rather limitation, for the
public not to feel the genuine quality
of the negro histrion. Perhaps the
one of the most delicious, qualities that
we have in expression in America is
the negro quality in temperament,
song, dro1l comedy, amusing psychol-
ogy and inspiring good humor. And
what a sense of decoration these shin
ing faced and gorgeously dressed peo-
pie have! And, moreover, these quail
tiles sometimes appear to good advan-
tage on the stage. If Yvette Guilbert
has come in contact with them with
out approaching them her artistic
sensibility is sadly limited.-New York
Press.