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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
LAY MOVEMENT IN MISSIONS.

1.-The missionary movement of the fu-
ture must be the going forth to the
field. the home, the foreign field, not
of driblets of ordained priests, deacons,
| Presbyterians, Baptists. Roman Catho-
| lies, or Protestants, but of the Chris
tan manhood and wonanhood of the
Christian nations writes w. s. Rains
| ford, D. D., in an article entitled Get
! ting Together for Missions" in the
American Review of Reviews for June.
1T must mean the inspiring of all of
lis to higher, holier, more sef-sacrific-
ing endeavor. Men and women must
be found in tens of thousands who will
be willing to forego much of the COM
fort of life, many of those things we
value most. in order to uplift and edu-
cate tho weak and hopeless people of
the earth: while still larger multi
tuGe, equally inspired, shall grapple
with the evils that lie at our very doors.
To some from foreign lands sounds the
| call. To others, the problems presented
by the child at the door seem of first
| Importance. Both are equally mission
aries. The future maintenance Of civil
zation itself depends on Christian sue
| cess in both fields. But once for all,
taking heart at this movement which
has come to us, let us cast aside for
ever the idea that the specially educa-
ted groups of men and women, priests
or ministers, sisters or deaconesses, can
grapple with this thing. Nor, of course,
will money do it. If these layTnen could
command a million dollars for 500 that
| they have raised, the money would not
meet the occasion. A going forth of
| Christian civilization 10 the uncivilized
| is what is wanted. The men and women
on the ground have done nobly. They
are waiting for the large forces. pronnis
ed by such movements as these.
"EccIesiasticisn of one sort or an
other has ruled the councils of the
| church long enough. These lay1nen are
knocking at its council doors now; but
| they are entering on a campaign, the
result of which cannot fail to supply
them with so exact and intimate a
I knowledge of the condition to be met
| by Christian missionaries both at home
end abroad that. having it, they can
rot be excused from the church's coun-
ellis. This presence cannot fail to bring
rev courage on the battle line, new re
sources and wizdom in the council
! chambers. They will greatly add to
the churcheF' missionary resources
They will surely do away with much
of the chsrchly red tape"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
GOOD Tut UNrIsrELY DOCTRINE

1.-THE principles of good citizenship
ana good government stand above par
ty loyalty said Governor Stubs
among other things in his Memorial
0ay address at Chanute. This is hail
ed by the Kansas City Star as the kind
Of doctrine which should appeal to all
honest minded citizens who desire to
see a proper administration of their
affairs of state. And surely this is
true.
But it ought to strike most people
that the preaching of this sort of doc
trine is decidedly out of place in such
a campaign as is now in progress in
Kansas campaign for nominations
within the several parties. The con-
tests now going on in the political
arena in Kansas are not being waged
or should not be, by Republicans
against Democrats. They concern
struggles with Republicans contesting
against Republicans, and Democrats
against Democrats.
AS soon as the primaries are. out OF
the way and the nominations have
been made it will be perfectly proper
for the candidates of either party &c
try and convince the independent
voters of the state that their cause is
the most righteous, and no one can
object to any voter casting his ballot
for the candidate he believes stands
for the most desirable method of gov
eminent
On the other hand. it does not seem
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
GLOBE SIGHTS.
LFrom the Atchison Globe.J

A shiftless mans favorite saying:
20, we'll get along somehow"
We wish we were Sam Davis; he is
having two months vacation.
The fact that you don't believe it,
isn't particularly convincing to others.
When your wife buys a new hat,
how much attention does she pay to
your taste?
The man who talks things over
frequently, is apt to waste a great deal
of time.
You can usually tell the difference
between a renting farmer and an own
ing farmer.
If paper has a good picture of a
man, there is always a temptation to
use it too often.
There is such a thing as luck. If
You are a small eater, and a slow eat
er, you are lucky.
The clothing manufacturers do some
clever advertising, but we wish they
would leave bull dogs out of their pic
lures.
eff 1 should buy dog, 1 would in
Si5t that it be either the largest dog
in town, or the smallest. '-Parson
Irvine.
Walk toward a big mirror, and ten
to one you will remark that you have
a more awkward walk than you i'm
agined-
If you are as unselfish as you ex-
pect others to be, you feel as badly
when it rains on someone else's picnic
as when it rains on yours.
There is one woman in Atchison
who is perfectly satisfied with her hus-
bind. If the museum managers ever
hear of her, they will want her.
When you call certain number
over the telephone, and central re-
plies that they are talking, don't you
feel as if the party you want has been
rude to you?
When a really genial farmer comes
to town on Saturday, after an absence
of a week, he shakes hands at least
$50 times before he completes his
trading, and starts home.
Youth is blessed with so much hope
that when a girl fills an incubator fol
the first time, she expects to make
enough to pay the mortgage on the
home, and isn't completely discour-
aged when she doesn't make enough
to pay for the coal oil.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
HYHAWKER JOTS

A good deal may be forgiven Hal
ley's comet, remarks the Emporia Ga
zette, because it played a first rate
joke on the astronomers.
AS Deacon Walker sizes it up: Re-
form is fiddle on which YOU can play
always have to pay the fiddler.
Mrs. Hyde Is now suing for her
share of the Swope estate. She must
have received a dun from her law
yers, thinks the Leavenworth Post
After looking over the first act of
the Rostand drama, "Chantecler." the
Emporia Gazette has formed the opin-
ion 1t would make an excellent. class
play for the Winfield asylum for i'm
beetle youth.
A stranger in Hutchinson would take
the people who drive their autos on
Main street for an extraordinarily
friendly bunch, explains the Hutchin-
son Gazette. They nod TO everybody
along the street. But then anybody
who rode over the ruts in Main street
and did not nod would have to lie
down.
What has become of the turkey buzz
yards? These great birds of such
graceful flight are SO very scarce this
year. The writer has seen but two of
them this spring. Up to a short time
ago in fair weather they could be seen
floating in upper air at almost any
time. Where have they gone Doug
lass Tribune
Yesterday morning, among other
things, Cy Knocker dumped the ashes
in the front yard and drove his COW
across his neighbours lawn; in the aft
ernoon, among other things, he sat on
a goods box and cussed the govern
ment Yesterday morning, among
other things, Bill Booster cleaned the
back yard and had the tin cans hauled
away from the alley; in the afternoon,
among other things, he sat in the
grandstand and yelled for the home
team.-Marion Record
The decrepit looking man with the
out of tune hand organ and the foolish
looking moneky was on the street to-
day, the organ playing the same old
tunes that it played several decades
ago, and the monkey going through
the same tricks. We used to enjoy
this music when we were unsophisti-
Gated children. and gave the man the
penny to keep on playing. But it's diff
ferent now We are plenty willing to
give him the penny, or quarter if
necessary, but it's with the under
standing that he'll move up the street
where we can't hear him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
AN ADNfIRABLE MOVE.

Considerable ground has assuredly
been gained in the campaign which
was started some months ago for max
! ing the school system of Topeka a
more serviceable one-a system
which would come nearer to meeting
the demands and the necessities of the
| children of the whole people of the
city.
1t has been decided by the mem
bers of the board of education to add
to high school curriculum a full four
years course along business and COM
mereial lines. The first year will be
devoted to business English, penman-
ship and spelling. Commercial arfth-
metic and bookkeeping will be taught
in the second year. Bookkeeping.
stenography and typewriting together
with commercial geography and COM
mereial law will be taken up in the
third year. stenegraphy and type
writing will be continued during the
fourth year and to them will be add
ed economics and industrial history.
This will be a course worth while
and one that will meet the wants of
those pupils who would like TO fit
themselves in the high school for bust
latter avenue is about the only one
that has been open to high school pu-
pills during the past few years and it Is
high time there was a change.
Certainly the members of the school
board as we'll as the city superinten-
dent of schools are to be congratu-
lated for reaching the decision to es
tablish such an admirable course. 1t
will make the high school a more
popular institution than it has ever
been before. 1t is to be hoped also
that this is just beginning on the
part of the board of education in re-
arranging the high school curricu-
lum and that of the grade schools
so that educations along more practi
cal lines can be provided. The intro
duction of the business and CONNER
ciaI course in the high school is an
excellent start in the right direction.
Let the good work go on.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
QUAKER NIEDITAuoNs.
[From the PhiIadelphfa RECORD.

GFrom the Philadelphia Record
Most fellows only believe in love
at first sight when they encounter an
heiress.
When. a girl has speaking eyes"
all she has to do is to stare at you in
conversation.
1t may be true that none but the
brave deserve the fair, but do they
always get it?
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but
the butcher, the baker and CANDLE
stick maker arouse no mirth.
No. Maude, dear; ash trees don't
make the best wood to burn. You
know they are already ashes.
The most popular girls are those
who can make a young fellow think
everything he says is funny.
Scribbler-"She writes verses in the
romantic school" Scrawler-"A stu
dent at Byrn Mawr, or Vassar?"
The clerk in a Walnut street drug
store is authority for the statement
that a woman never bushes when she
asks for rouge.
The Cynical Bachelor rises to re-
mark that making love is easier than
making fortune. but it involves
greater chances
BIobbs-"What is Skinnum doing
r,ow?" SIobbs-"He has started train
ing school for pugilists." Blobbs-"But
he doesn't know anything about fight
ing" Slobbs-"I know 1t, but he has
a dandy moving picture machine"
Observation-Disclosures have such queer
ways of expressing themselves" Bug
gins-.tSuch as?" Muggins- well. my
wife was telling me about Miss yell
lowleaf, and said she was sight to
behold, and in the very next breath
said she wasn't 1T to be seem"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
HUMOR OF THE Day

80 YOU think the Buffers are taking
about their extended European tour?' II
should say So They said there were so
many Americans in Venice that many had
to walk in the middle of the street"
''Well?' why, the streets of Venice are
canals. "-Springfield Union.
Mrs. Crimsonbeak-It is said that the
five great original forests of the United
States covered 5S0,000O00 acres and con-
tanned $1,000. 100000 feet of lumber. Mr..
Crimsonbeak-In those days, you see,
there was some place for a man to go
when his wife cleaned house.-Yon1ers
Statesman.
t'Why do you make that patient wait
three hours every day in your ante-room?"
He needs rest" explained the doctor,
land that is the only way / can compel
him to take it."-Courier-Journal.
Squire Durnitt (of Lonelyville)-Our
towns got the four biggest liars in the
state. Uncle Welby Gosh (of Drearyhurst)
i guess that's right. You're three of 'em
Who's the fourth-Chicago Tribune
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
POINTED PAIsAGItArHs.
tFrom the Chicago News.J

lFrom the Chicago News.J
Too many idealists are shy of ideas.
There's no fool like the one who
thinks he is wise.
The old bachelor is naturally a man
with single idea.
How seldom beauty and common
sense are ladled out together.
A sick man need not expect a cure
at the hands of manicure.
Convicts are the only people who
do. not believe in their convictions.
Many a man imagines he makes n
hit every time he strikes an attitude
How a small man does enjoy going
around with big chip on his Should
err!
man may be justified in wearin.
long whiskers if his wife buys bis
neckties.
young widow has cute wav ~
pretending she believes that ali men
are angels.
A moralist may be a person nh
goes around with a searchliehf looI.
ing for things to be shocked AT
IT another woman's husband
wrong woman says he's a .fhr,,ta ;, 81
it's her own husband she says he !.
"only human" no II
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Not many people appreciate the value
Of money except when they haven't
any.
A paradise for baseball fans would
be a town where the home team always
wins.
X
The more considerate a man is for
others the more likely he is to be i'm
posed upon.
This is also the season OF the year
when the majestic cottonwoods come in
for a cassing.
\ =
Numberless individuals seem to fall
short of realizing the fact that there's
no place like home.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

to be fair or just for a candidate who
is now engaged in a contest for po-
litical preferment against a fellow
candidate of the same party, to make
a bid for the support of voters in the
opposite party. This is certainly con-
trary to the spirit and the letter of
the primary law which prohibits the
voters Of one party from participating
in the primaries of another party. But
the method of preventing such actions
is not very efficient one under the
provisions of the law which can be
easily evaded If there is any DISPOSE
ton so to do.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
Colonel Jack Chinn I'm New Role.

MY old friend and fellow-country-
man. Col. Jack Chinn, has introduced a
somewhat singular, but meritorious, bill
in the Kentucky legislature of which
he is an illustrious member" said
Judge Nat Crutehfield, Of Louisville,
KY, at the Rennert
Col. Chinn. in times past, has been
regarded as too-ready scrapper I'm
petuous by nature and prone to substi-
tute blows for argument, he has been
the hero of many an exciting mix-up.
In the lobby of a Chicago hotel, at a
national Democratic convention he got
into dispute with some Tammany
Hall braves. and it required six of the
huskiest men from the wigwam to con-
vince him that he was in error, and
even then he put three of his foes hrs de
combat. The others beat up the
doughty colonel considerably, but they
couldn't make him boiler.
Now, in the evening of his active
and adventurous existence. Col. Chinn
Is wholly for peace. His big bowie
knife reposes at the bottom of his we'll,
and long since he gave away his darl-
ing ivory-handled six-shooter
Realizing the unnumbered tragedies
and widespread woe that the pistol
habit has caused in his state and all
over the south, Col Chfnn has framed
and introduced bill which adiudges
any man caught with a revolver on his
person to be a lunatic, and prescribes a
penalty of one years confinement in a.
lunatic asylum. The sentence must
stand for a year. as the bill expressly
states that no doctor can be called in
during that period for the purpose of
saying that the prisoner is sane
Probably the measure will never be-
come law, but it is certainly a move
in the right direction, and If it were
enacted might go a long way toward
breaking UP the most vicious and de-
testable custom of the age."-Balti-
more American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
KANSAS COMNENT
A PRACTIcAI. EDITCATION


IN order to be efficient, a system of
education must equip boys and girls
ior NE, Tor the whole period of exist
enee If it merely engages their mental
actlVlIles while they are attending
Schooi, Grams their minds with useless
iacts and follies, and perplexes them
instead OF training them to develop
mentally, 1t is failure. Every child
Inat Tails hurts the community. Every
IalIure means a waste Of money ex-
pended for education.
An Ignorant, untutored man. develop
ca ihstlnctlvely. product of environ
nent and circumstances, may be a bet
Ter man, physically and mentally, than
one put through an inefficient educa-
tlonal system, just as a laborer may be
better specimen Of physical develop
ment than an overturned athlete.
A school education must do for the
child what proper physical training
does for the athlete-it must develop
equip him for the future by giving him
the ability to grow. A boy overtrained
for an athletic event not only fails in
the contest. but he is incapacitated for
life. A child improperly trained, men
tally cannot be well educated and de-
veloped.
What is needed in the schools is a
system which will provide a practical
education, disable knowledge of funda-
mental principles and facts.-Wichita
Eagle.
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HYDRS OPPORTUNITY.
If DIR. Hyde, who has. taken bunch
of his medical text books to Jail with
him, really wants to do something
worth while in his profession, he might
study the cooke fiends," dope rollers"
and ''hop heads,'' in Jail with him asd
devise some remedy for the disgraceful
and awful drug habit that is becoming
one of the very worst vices on the cal
endar. He has ample time and oppor-
tunity both for study of books and the
study of drug fiends.
The drug habit is easily the most
rapidly growing bad habit in a big city
and unless it is checked now 1t Will
provide problems for the officials of
fifty years from now to wrestle with
in the public schools. There are enough
problems in the public schools without
those which heredity may bring there.
DR.. Hyde has an excellent opportunity
before him to become really useful
Leavenworth Times.
SHOULD HAVE BEST ROADS.
Kansas, having the Invest people on
earth, should have also the best pub
lie roads. But she has not-at least
Tot in all cases. There is room for
Improvement and this Improvement
should be made, especially when 1T can
be done cheaper here than in almost
any other state you might mention.
1t Is easy to build good roads out
of the soil found in Kansas. The ch-
matte conditions exist that are favor
able to good road maintenance and
there is a desire for good highways
drives that are good for big loads at
any time of the year.
But communities should try some
plans that will put people to work on
roads that know how to build roads,
and not allow every person who might
desire to try his hand at road con-
struction.
Kansas good roads are talked atcut,
far and near. But better roads would
b. talked about still more. And good
roads draw good people.-Hutchinson
News. -si W
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02
REFLECTIONS OF a BACHELOR
From the New YORK Press.l

Even in the dark pretty girls lips
are sweeter than if she isn't.
A lot of our trouble comes from our
beginning by thinking it was fun. &.
After a woman a dog can go on the
longest loving what isn't worth it.
There's one thing can be said about
a politician-he's never ashamed OF
his trade the way so many honest men
are.
You can wake up from disagreeabie
things you dream in your sleep, but
you can't get away from those you
live when awake even by going tic
sleep.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

From the speed made by certain To-
peka automobilists on the city streets,
IL has been contended frequently in
these columns that brick pavements
must be superior to any other kind fsr
the attainment of tTzm .ndorrs sreed
with motor cars. These contentious
appear to be borne oat by the numer-
Gus records which we're broken at the
recent automobile meet at Indianapolis.
A new brick tTlClx was used there for
the first time in the history of automo-
bile racing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

will give him only Is more years in
which to round out his notable public
career. That's quite a spell, to be sure,
but Champ acts so young and vigorous
that if he had announced he was going
to remain in the public arena for rs OF
30 more years almost everybody would
have been convinced that he could
easily have done so and then retired
before reaching anything like old age.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

Some Of the newspapers appear to be
pretty flush with the coin Of the realm
these days. The New York World and
the st. Louis st-Dispatch have offered
a prize of $4,000 to the first aviator
who makes a trip between New York
and st. Louis. The New York Times
and the Chicago Evening Post have
also offered a prize of $25, 900 for en-
aeroplane race between New York and
Chfca go
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

People should be a trifle more care
full in responding to the jokes of
their friends with hearty laughs. A
Baltimorean died the other day just
one minute after he got through
laughing at a funny joke as related
by one of his companions
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

Considering the fact that the show
put on by Halleys comet was entire
ly free, such as it was, there has been
altogether too much knocking on it.
However, it is generally the case that
those who attend shows, baseball
games and other forms of entertain
ment on passes are the ones who are
most severe with their criticisms.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

An export motor-cyclist has succeed
ed in going ten miles on a track in 9
minutes and 16 AS seconds. This is
pretty fast travelling but the man who
accomplished it would have to do better
than that to keep up with several of
the motor-cyclists who use the streets
of Topeka VI sneedWaYs
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

One hundred Scotch lassies arrived
in New York city the other day from
Glasgow. Each of them was already
betrothed to men who had made their
homes here. But wasn't this whole
sale Importation of wives-to-be some
thing of violation of the alien con
tract labor IaW2
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

The advent of flying machines has
also developed more work for the diplo-
mats. Aviation treaties between neigh
boring nations are now in order But
the officials who will be charged with
their enforcement will have to make a
noise like birds II any of their awaiting
subjects become recalcitrant.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

Finally it hos been admitted by the
Topeka Daily Capital that it is well
nigh impossible to reconcile the atti-
tude of the congressional insurgents
and their friends as being in sympathy
with the Taft administration. 1t is the
opinion of the Capital that Colonel
Roosevelt will stand by Taft and also
stand by the Insurgents and it remarks
that: ''NoboIy but Roosevelt could 10
this" Still the Capital and other in
surgent aewsL apers in Kansas have
been labt ing hard to do this very
thing for Quite a continued period.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

After reading of his speech at the
historic Guild hall. there cannot be any
doubt hat colonel Roosevelt took full
advantage Of the freedom of London
which was so graciously accorded him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-02

These seismographs which are so
busy nowadays in recording earth
,quakes will never amount to much in
popular opinion until they are perfect
ed to the point where they will desig-
nate the location of the earth shocks.