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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
PRoPp1NG OPEN THE DOOR.

After a long period of negotiation
the efforts of Secretary Knox to Sc
cure equal participation for America
in the Chinese railway loans and con-
tracts has been formally recognized,
the agreement dividing the Hankow-
Canton loan into four equal parts, one
each to America. England, France and
Germany, having been concluded at
Paris This means, according to the
terms, not only that this country will
share equally in the financial opera
ton. but that it will secure absolute
equality of treatment in the matter of
tenders for supplies. In other words,
the open door has been propped open
for the admission of American railroad
building material on an equal footing
with the supplies of any of the other
THE anxiety of the other powers to
secure their share in this loan is the
best of evidence of the Importance of
narticipation to this country. Eng
land. France and Germany see prac-
teal advantages in it, and America is
simply keeping abreast of the process
sion. It has been dubbed dollar diplo-
macy but it is noticeable that our
rivals are none the less eager to share
in it because it has tangible pur-
pose of promoting trade, and why
should we? The expansion of COM
merce has supplanted the expansion of
territory as the aim of modern diplo-
macy-Pittspurg Dispatch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

will, saved lot of money, at that.
What's in a name? That which we
call a rose
By any other name would smell as
sweet"
Observed the late Bill Shakespeare
However, the court which is looking
into the proposition, seems to hold that
any hour does not smell as sweet
when it is bleached
1t is frequently printed "a wave Of
crime" Case in Los Angeles, where j.
E. MARCEL. check-raiser, formerly of
Kansas City, turned a trick will prob
ably be known as a MARCEL wave"
Rep. De Rouen. of the Louisiana leg
1slature. has introduced a bill prohibit
ing bridge whist. There should be
of that, by referring to bridge whist in
the same paragraph with DE Rouen
of louisiana" Photographers with a
natural sense of humor and lots of
time should work on this.
Hail, sweet Spring. Also a little rain:
POSSIBLY a dash of snow or sleet And
hurry up about it. Summer is liable
to arrive by August Is.
Dr.. Cook is suing Peary for the price
of some bear skins. This is the first
time we have heard that Peary got
Cooks bears. We were cognizant of
the fact that he got Cooks goat
Japan will give the American Museum
of Natural History half a dozen whale
skeletons. This will fill a long-felt
want If there is anything this coun-
try needs more than something else, it
is half a dozen whale skeletons. Ban
zai-bazazza, ad lib.
DIR DAILY CLASSIC
"A footstep struck her ear."-Scott'5
Lad of the Lake"
A footstep struck her ear,
| And thus she knew her knight was
near.
| So near, in fact. he missed the place
| He aimed at, which was her sweet face.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
A SATURDAY SERMON.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore
get wisdom: and with all thy getting get
understanding. Provrbs w Z.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

The old lady who refused to marry
young guy, but left him $25, 900 in her
WILL saved lot of money, at that.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Hail, sweet Spring. Also little rain
l'ossibly a dash of snow or sleet. An
hurry up about it. Summer Is lab,
to arrive by August Is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

Dr.. Cook is suing Peary for the price
of some bear skins. This is the first
time we have heard that Peary got
Cooks bears. We were cognizant of
the fact that he got Cooks goat.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
PRAISE FOR ROAD DRAG.

Someone has asked why the new
Santa Fe trail is such a good highway
and why it is so much better than the
average road. The answer is that Kan
sas and Colorado people, Who are al
ways alive to everything for the good
of their communities, are putting in
some time toward making this thor
oughfare better than the average. And
then comes the story that the way
lot of this work is done IS to use
King road drag, an implement that may
be made on any farm and used by any
farmer after any rain, with good sue
cess.
The split log drag, while not the
trademark of this highway, is the -oai
tool that is doing more to draw widely
separated parts of this western country
together than any other thing.
A drag Is the cheapest road tool made.
1t is the most easily operated arrange
naent for making a near perfect dirt
highway. And the people of this west
ern, long distance road, are getting in
the split-log drag habit a great deal.
People are invited to take ride over
this great road along it's improved
stretches. When they see the effects of
drag work they. too. will be enthusi-
astic road drag people.-Hutchinson
News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11

1t is frequently printed "a wave IF
crime" Case in Los Angeles, where j.
=. MARCEL, check-raiser, formerly of
Kansas City, turned a trick. will prob
ably be known as a MARCEL wave"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-11
KANSAS COAAENT
WHAT'S THE ANswER9

WHAT'S THE ANSWER?
census figures show that one-seventn
of the increase in population has been
In the big cities. Many of the best
noiS, Ohio and other states actually
show decrease in population.
The cost of living grows higher as the
population grows larger. 1t becomes
increasingly difficult to pay the cost.
What's the answer?
We are enticing about a million i'm
migrants a year to the United States.
The big interests" want them. These
immigrants keep down the cost of I'M
they begin to learn things and revolt
against intolerable conditions, there is
always a fresh supply. They congre-
gate in the slums. the tenements. the
coal mining districts, the steel trust
villages, the factories of the already
over populated districts.
What's the answer?
1t is this:
A government bureau. or department.
or whatever we desire to call it. A
place where, when these foreigners
land, they are compelled to go first. A
place where statistics are kept showing
where farm hands are needed, where
opportunity and the chance for a man
to gain a patch of ground of his own
awaits. Next, a plan whereby these
workers are sent to those places, IN
stead of being allowed, or compelled,
by necessity, to flock to the centers OF
population. With all our boosted pro-
gress there are millions upon millions
of acres in the United States awaiting
the pillow. The plan is not dream 1t
is feasible, according to some Of the
shrewdest students of the problem
Wichita Beacon.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08
CONSISTORY WILL
BE HELD IN JUNE

Rome, May 7.-(Special.)- next con-
1story will be held in June and round
dozen of prelates, it is said, will be raised
20 the princely rank of Cardinal. Will
there be any Americans among these
new princes of the church? That ques-
lion is asked not only among the Amer
leans here but those among other ma
ionalites as well. And you may get any
answer that bests suits you.
1t is said in some quarters that there
will certainly be two new American car
dinals named and some of the enthusiastic
American churchmen go so far as to
say that Archbishop Ireland of ST. Paul
and Archbishop Farley of New York are
the men upon whom the red hat will be
conferred.
In other quarters it is declared that it
aas been definitely decided TO make no
new American cardinals.
In speaking with an American church.
man recently he said: There is every
eason why there should be at least two
more cardinals in the United States AS
D matter of fact the American church
should by reason of its activity and num-
bers have at least half a dozen cardinals.
will be substantially recognized at the next
consistory, not only as a matter Of justice
but to allay the3feeling aroused over the
Unfortunate Roosevelt affair. 1t is adj
,nitted, though of course not publicly,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08
GOOD RESULTS OF
MUSIC AND RHYTHM

London, May 7.-(Special.)-The won
derful results which can be obtained from
the scientific use of music and rhythm
have been demonstrated at the Tiny Tin
Guild, charitable institution in City
road, where incurable children are taken
after hope has been abandoned at the
hospitals.
One remarkable instance was boy Of
6, whose right arm had been totally par
alyzed following an attack of acute in
fantie paralysis. A drum and his zeal
for beating it in time so as to become
professional drummer when he grows up
/ have been his salvation. What massage
and electrical treatment alone could not
do, constant working at his drumming
has accomplished, and now the paralyzed
arm is almost as useful as the other.
Another case was a child of g. who six
months ago was totally paralyzed in both
legs. Her treatment consisted of march,
ing to an inspriting tune played on the
piano while seated on the edge of low
wooden chair. e. aa .i.Yi
1.-THE secret of the treatment" Miss
Hawthorne, the founder of the guild ex-
planned, lis to make them build up the
| strength of the paralyzed muscles and
nerves by encouraging them to use their
limbs in the way each individual likes
best. The music keeps their interest up
and prevents their becoming bored and
tired y
The most interesting ease was a girl of
10. who three years ago was refused adj
mission at one of the great London hos
pitfalls as being hopelessly ncurable. On
being brought to the guild, SO her mother
explained yesterday the right leg and
arm were almost useless, while paralysis
of certain of the throat and tongue
muscles rendered the child's speech al
most incoherent.
Dull and mentally deficient in many
ways, her interest in musical sounds gave
the clue to the treatment. Singing exer-
cises were devised in which to pronounce
the vowels correctly the semi-paralyzed
muscles had to be used, while wooden
clapper and bell to be sounded by the
paralyzed foot and arm respectively
completed the apparatus After three
wears treatment of this sort the little girl,
now a normal looking child of 10. sings
songs, pronouncng the words faultlessly,
and skips rope like any healthy child.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08

! children frown as those who are angry.
But the king made as If heard not.
and he answered and said: Do thou
come and see the great pile of boards
that lie beside the river, even beside the
Fs ther of Waters, and also the great
mills wherein | grind meal for the feed
ing of the nations.
And the queen looked, and behold,
dows. And the beds of those who came
ard went stood in tiers one above an
other. And in one bed lay a man sick
OF a fever and in another lay a man
with consumption. And the man sick of
the fever and the consumptive arose and
went forth into the strets and other men
did occupy their beds until they began
to shiver and cough and he that owned
the house babe them be gone. So they,
too. went forth. and, behold. they met
ether men who thrust the tongue into the
cheek and said one to another: Go to.
here Is easy game. Let us take the gold
and the silver from men who are stupid
and sick, then shall we not have to work
for it they did Let us now go into
the place of strong drink There 1t will
be easy to rob the sot. And 1t was so.
But the man who was robbed did they
drag away for that he was beastiy
drunk and his face was as the
face of a furious animal, and he threat
ened the charioteers in the street with
his fist, saying, because ] am poor and
thou art rich has this happened to me.
And he bided his time to get even by
violence.
Then was the queen moved to COM
passion and said: Oh. king, oughtest
thou not give sunshine and Clearly beds
to these men who bring thee money?
And oughtest thou not to save him that
is well that he sleeps not in the bed oe
him that was sick, lest both fall into
the sickness?
Then answered the king and said:
Am I my brothers keeper?
And the queen said: Thou art thy
brothers keeper when he is sick and
thou sendest him to the place of healing,
yea, and when he sins and thou sendest
him to Jail. Whether Is better oh, king.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08

that Cardinal Del Val made blnnder in
preventing the audience to Mr.. Roosevelt.
1t has become known that this opinion
is very generally held by both clergy and
laity in America and the dissatisfaction
aroused by the cardinal secretary of
states action has become known. This
feel, / am sure, has very greatly In
creased the chances for the naming of
Americans for the highest honor In the
church under the Pope. l am confident
when the list of new cardinals Is an
nouneed the names of Monslgnor Ire
land and Farley will be found.
The death of Don Rua. successor of
Don Bosco, founder and general of the
Salesans, stirred all Italy. and his fu-
neral in Turin was followed by 100000
persons. Project general of the Salesian
society since 1874 Don Rua lived in closest
intimacy with one of the greatest lights
of the church in the nineteenth century.
On the death of the founder in 1888 the
Salesians numbered 500. today they are
over 1000; they had then about 100 houses
Of education for boys, they have now 300.
Rome is preparing to receive with
honor another distinguished American In
tHe peieOH VI Ndpt. II. E. oais Vic
coverer of the north pole. Captain Peary's
reception, while not as spectacular as that
to President Roosevelt, will be cordial
and hearty. Captain Peary is to give
his lecture on the dash for the pole Tues
day before the Geographical society and
will be decorated with the gold medal of
the society at the same time. He will
be the guest of Marquis Capelli, pres
ident of the Geographical society while
in Rome and will be granted an audience
by the King. The Duke of Abruzzi him
self an arctic explorer of renown, will
greet the famous American.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08
to smash the vase and then mend 1t, OF
TO keep it from being smashed?

The king answered.: No man can dc
everything. But many things l do Come
now and behold my great shops and my
| warehouses and harken to the roaring
of my trade that thou mayest remember
| it and advertise me when thou art afal
off
And they went forth, and the woman
slipped on the sidewalk, for no mau
shoveled it, and 10. a man sweeping
from an alley behind a fruit store, and
the things that he swept were bananas
and oranges and rotten apples and they
lay In the street and the stencil thereof
went up to heaven.
And the queen answered and said: II
this people would see with their eyes
and smell with their noses they would
see germs and smell breeding fevers.
But behold they are blind. And she
lifted up her eyes and beheld a plague,
| for there came a dense rain. of blackness
| from heaven, and the faces on the street
looked gray, and the rain of black fell
on the just and unjust and all the city
was black. Then was the king nightly
| pleased and he said Dost thou see the
| smoke from my thousand chimneys?
| am mighty man and a great king, and
| behold | make this rain of black that
both the just and the unjust shall have
their lungs filled thereof.
And the queen answered: Verify thou
art a great king, and thy prosperity is
greater than | have been told. but this
civilization of thine Is too much for me.
1t is high. / cannot understand it. Thou
picst up riches, and rushest through the
streets, yet you protectest not the young
child that he sin ncA, neither the weak
that he fall not into greater weakness.
Is not the life more than riches?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08

Excepting their passion for Dread
objection more strongly developed than
their Unsuitable love of titles. The very
latest phenomenon In this line is the pro-.
posal that male patients in the Berlin
municipal hospitals shall hereafter be
addressed with the prefix Herr (Mr)
Attending physicians and nurses are no
longer to address their male charges by
their surnames or merely as patients"
but are to go through the form of say
ing Mr.. Patient in all cases. The mo-
mentus question of making the new title
compulsory is down as a special order
of business at an early meeting of the
town council.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08
GREAT PROGRESS
IN AVIATION
Seven Separate Flying Weeks
Have Been Arranged
IN THE GERMAN CITIES
Germans Develop Unsuitable Desire for
Titles as Well as Great Love
for DreadnouGhts-Light
ON Old Mystery
IN THE GERMAN CITIES

Berlin, May Especial. )-Nothing could
more strkingly indicate the enormous
progress of aviation In Germany than the
fact that no fewer than seven separate
flying weeks have already been organ
lied for the spring and summer of 1910.
The programme is as follows:
Berlin, May 10 to Is internationally.
Munich, June to II nationaD.
Danzig, June Is to IS nationaD.
Leipzig, July 10 to II (nationaD.
Berlin August to 10 (nationaD.
Munich, September to 10 (nationaD.
Berlin, October to 10 (nationaD.
The predominanee of weeks in which
competition is limited to German aero
planists is significant of the rapidity with
which the Teutons have taken up flying
as science and a pastime. The new
flying grounds at Johannisthal, near Ber-
lin, are the scenes of almost daily flights,
and a regular programme is offered on
Sunday afternoons. The Kaisers hint
that he wants more flying men in the
army is being enthusiastically taken by
young military men.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-08

Wanted-A young business
man about Is with some sales
manship ability. Good pay and
rapid promotion to a hustler.
Apply after 10 a. m. Monday.
R. D. Moore, 103 N. Goth street.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-12
ELvA'S FOURTH LETTER.

Editor Junior:
This will make the fourth time thar
I have written to you. Our school is
out now for two months and l will be
glad when it commences because then
| will go in the sixth reader. One Of
my school mates is Jeanette Coyne.
Was very glad to hear that Lois Crit
fin is getting better. I know that we
will all be glad when she gets well
Then she can be a Junior girl again
I sent Juliette Eisenbeis card and |
would like to exchange post cards
with some of the other Juniors. | wish
all of the Juniors would send Lois
Griffin a post card or a Valentine. We
all know that she so sick that she can
not write to us, SO we all ought to
send her card. Well, I will close
because want to send card to Lois.
Elva Huffman, age IS,
R. F. D. No. /, Chillicothe, la.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-12
ST. VALENTINES DAY.

Mary. the only child of Mr.. Grey
one of the wealthiest men of Clayton
was twelve years old. Everybody
loved her, as she was SO kind and gen
tie. She was always thinking of some
thing to make others happy.
She, with her mothers help, planned
g party for the poor on ST. Valentines
day. 1t was to be long party, begin
ming at $3.50 in the afternoon and end
ing at $50 o'clock. The children she
invited were too poor to buy her val
entine, but those who could, made her
one, and Mary appreciated it very
much They played games all after
noon and were called to supper at 6
o'clock.
When they got in the long dining
room they saw the long table spread
with many nice things, such as rur-
key, oyster dressing, celery, cram
berry saI:ce and cake.
After supper, the valentine hunt be-
gan. Mary gave them each a string
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-12
MAUD LIKES SIOUX CITY

Dear Editor:
1t has been nearly year since we
moved to our new home in Sioux City
This city has pretty buildings, several
packing houses, too, and lots of manu-
facturers. and the things they manu-
facture are to numerous to mention
here; being from $50 to 200 articles Of
every description.
There are lots of good schools and
colleges, and several parks and lay
grounds for children
AT Christmas time the stores here
look like fairyland, and we saw Santa
Claus, DR.. Cook and several Eskimos,
and they gave each child a souvenir.
l was promoted into Miss Twins
room, junior Srd grade, and i like my
teacher.
| would like 20 see my teachers and
school mates at Hedrick school. al
though, we do not want t come back
to Ottumwa to live.
We take the Daily Cour.er and when
the Thursdays daily comes Justine
and | booth yell, Give me the Junior
Courier"
AS I have written all can think Of,
I will close.
Maud Mansfield, age 9.
Sioux City, Ia
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-12

teacher liked her drawings and tried
to encourage her. The day before the
holiday there was hard snow storm
and everything was white.
Amy wondered if she would get any
Valentines next day. She was invited
to join the sleighing party. The day
went all too fast and the next day
came. Amy jumped out of bed, comb
ed her hair and washed herself, fixed
breakfast and washed the dishes.
Pretty soon the door bell rang and one
of her friends was standing there.
Amy was all ready so she kissed her
mother and went out into the frosty
air.
The children were to meet at the
corner of Eleventh and Marshall ave
nues. Bessie, Mabel and Ethel were
there with their father Their mother
could not come because the baby was
sick. They went jingling merrily
along. (The teacher and the other
children were already there when
Amy and her friend came. About 5
O'Clock they went home. When Amy
went into her home she found a very
large package addressed to her. She
opened ii and what do you think she
saw. Every child at school and her
teacher had sent Valentine to her,
and also some from other friends. So
ended this happy holiday for Amy.
Vida Wahle, age IL,
10 East Court St.. Ottumwa Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-02-12
THE FLAG GOES BY

Hats off!
Along the street there comes
A blare of bugles, ruffle Of drums,
A flash of color beneath the sky:
Hats off!
The flag Is passing by!
Blue and crimson and white in shines
Over the steeltipped ordered lines.
Hats of!
The colors before us fly;
But more than the flag is passing by.
Sea fights and land fights, grim and
great,
Fought to make and to save the state:
Weary marches and sinking ships;
Cheers of victory on dying lips;
Days Of plenty and years of peace;
March Of strong lands swift increase
Equal Justice, right and law,
Stately honor and reverend awe:
Sign Of nation, great and strong,
ITO ward her people from foreign
| wrong:
Pride and glory and honor,-all
II. I've in the colors to stand or fall
Along the street there comes
A blare OF bugles a ruffle Of drums;
land loyal hearts are beating high:
Hats off!
The flag is passing by!
Henry Holcomb Bennett.