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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
A SCHOOL sUPERINTENDFNT

When Mrs Ella Flagg Young was
chosen superintendent of the public
school system in Chicago at a salary
of $4,000 a year, there were many
gasps of establishment in the educa-
tional world. For board of educa-
ton to give such a position to a wo-
man was styled as being a most revo-
lutionary procedure. It seemed to
be the opinion of many people that
an unwritten law of some sort had 1t
fixed that such important educational
positions belonged to the men. be-
cause, forsooth. a mere woman was
not supposed to be capable of dis
charging the multifarious and oner-
GUS duties of such a place.
But Mrs. Young is demonstrating
that she is the right person in the
right place. She is developing into
one of the best city superintendent
of schools in the country. She is
showing that a woman. as might nat
urally be expected. has a far better
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

tention to the pleasing incidents of his
trip" to an interview in the parlor
with, as he discovered after he enter
ed the room. Robert Armstrong. ne
looked at the young man frigidly.
II have q bit of your property that
you lost IN the little shower OF rev
days ago." said Robert, dropping
small packet upon the table and turn
ing CONSIDERABLY to look at the Pic
lures on the wall The silence was
of the variety whose thickness is
dense enough to cut: A laugh was
heard out in the hall. Robert turned
quickly: Mr.. Somerset met his eyes
appealingly.
She shall never know" said Rob-
ert assuringly. The door opened ana
Marion ran into the room.
Robert looked across at her reas-
suringly, but she turned from him TO
her father In startled amusement. His
face was bent and his hands behind
him.
Robert stepped toward Marion hold
ing his arms In the manner made re-
liable through long years Of advan-
tageous us by lovers the world over.
and Mr.. Somerset, swallowing hard
upon the chunk Of resistance that
pushed itself into his throat. patted
her gently upon the shoulder and push
ed her toward him.
He looked for an instant upon the
two, already oblivious of him, and
left the room softly, claspfng in his
hand a toupee Of auburn hair, which
had adorned the top of his head until
Saturdays rain had soaked 1t loose
and given it to the hands of the enc
my.-(Copyrighted. 1910. by Associated
Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
AYHAWKER JOTS

The Parsons Sun tells of "a young
couple" who recently celebrated their
sixtieth wedding anniversary.
It's Bert Walkers idea that lot
OF fellows would now own good farms
II they had put in as much energy on
a pitchfork as they have on a billiard
cue.
Vic Murdoch must be energetic"
said Bill Sincaller, "1 notice by his
pictures that he is everlastingly at
IL, always writing letters."-Vinland
Vine.
"One reason that 1 have never car
ried any life Insurance." said old 81
chestnut the other day, according to
the Sedgwick Paragraph, sis because
don't want people to say that I am
worth more to my family dead than
alive. Another is that I never had
money enough to pay the premium"
Whenever man from the country
gets back from town after q days
visit, all of his old friends that used
to take one with him ''in the days of
old lang syne;" meet him at the de-
pot in hopes that he will give them
the wink to step into a stall at the Iiv-
cry stable on the way up town. and
take a nip.'-Atch1Son Champion.
A man, slightly the worse for drink,
staggered into a church in a Kansas
town, during the progress of the ser
mon; having taken his seat near the
rear, he leaned forward to a gentleman
long has the preacher been preaching3"
The reply was: About thirty or forty
years" Whereupon our friend rejoined:
II will stay then, for he must soon be
Journal.
The Beloit Call has discovered the
meanest man extant. He wouldn't
buy an automobile for his son. That
certainly Is the limit of meanness
What blessed relief II is to turn
to the sporting page of your favorite
daily paper. and find no f1ap-doodle
about basketball! There are many
punk games in the world, including
golf and bank robbery, but basketball
has them all wilted.-Empor1a Ca
zette.
A Beloit young man called upon the
young lady of his choice the other
night and suffered out his proposal of
marriage, relates the Call. She let him
down easy, and gave him a whole lot
of gratuitous sisterly advice. But the
young man was not to be daunted.
Putting on his hat he rushed out of the
house and called on another girl who
likewise received a proposal. But a
telephone message had preceded the
proposer, and after he had enlightened
her as to the object of his visit, she cut
loose on him. She gave him to under
stand that she would not play second
fiddle to anyone, and If she wasn't
good enough to be proposed to first she
wasn't good enough for him.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
"OId North Church. Z"

Boston's historic cold North
church" has been at least temporarily
spared the indignity of becoming q
state institution. Its rescue from that
after a rather absurd squabble at
meeting the other day of the state leg
islature's ways and means committee,
which had under consideration a bill
providing for the acquisition of the
church by the commonwealth. A rep
resentative of four patriotic. societies
told the committee that they had voted
to be noncommittal on the bill. but
that did not prevent expressions from
two patriotic women who were pres
ent, but otherwise far apart. One of
these ladies wanted to have "Old
North owned by the state. so that ut
would be open and free to everybody"
whereupon the other sweetly directed
her attention to the fact that she (the
first LADY, was periodically interested
in the Paul Revere house, at which an
admission fee is charged. The sexton
pleaded for a hearing. and when he
got it announced that he received 5000
$500 from admission fees. paid by
sightseers, but he had to pay out a
good deal of this money to keep the
church clean. Then an Episcopalian
city missionary told how his society
had tried. about 80 years ago. to get
control of the church by buying up its
pews-"cornering'' them. in short-an
operation which. he remarked, "caused
certain feeling" And SO it went. But
the committee finally saw fit to ac-
cept Archdeacon Babcock's assurances
that the church would be preserved by
the diocese, thereby saving it from the
def1ling touch Of the state. and Incl
dentally leaving it to totter along on
the income from its endowment of
$34,OO0,-NeW York Evening Post
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the chicago News. !

LFrom the Chicago News.1
Patience Is a great virtue--in 9th
ers.
A near-great man thinks he is the
greatest ever.
Actions of a conceited person al
ways offend sensible people.
Even soft gloves are apt to hurt q
blind mans feelings
After a man makes good. a lot of
envious people hate him
The more talk It takes to run q
business the slower 1t moves.
When rheumatism gets busy with
a man he is apt to forget his other
troubles.
1t takes an expert salesman to make
customers want what he wants them
to want.
If we ever entertained any angels
unawares they have not as yet dis
closed their identity.
Many a girl would die of enlarge
ment of the heart IL she really loved
every young man she thinks she does.
There are two sides to every cues
ton, but the discovery wasn't made
by any of the parties directly interest,"
ed.
AS q last resort, when a woman
wants her husband to do something
he doesn't want to do, she tells him
he ought to do IL for the chfIdren's
sake.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

idea of the needs of school children
| than man possibly could have. And
1t is not unreasonable to expect that
before long other cities of the coun-
try will follow the example of Chicago
and place the conduct of their schools
In the hands of capable women.
There are plenty of woman educators
In the cities of the country who can
do just as good work in their spheres
as Mrs. Young is doing in hers. And
more of them should be given an op-
portunity to prove their worth in such
capacities.
An instance of the manner in
which Mrs. Young looks after the
needs of the school children of Chi
cago came to light in the press dis
patches of the, other day. At her So
licitation the Chicago school board is
sued directions for the removal of all
the brick pavements in the school
yards and the substitution in place of
them of pavement OF pulverized
cinders. What was the reason for
this change? It hadn't taken Mrs.
Young long to discover that the boys
could not play marbles very we'll on
the rough and uneven brick pave
ments in the school yards. And no
their adjustment. All work and no
play makes Jack a dull boy and If a
boy has not an opportunity to play he
is going to get into mischief of one
sort or another. Nor does Mrs. Young
forget the girls. At her instance the
lockers in some of the high schools have
been enlarged because they were not
big enough for the girls hats. A man
would probably have handled such a
situation by issuing an edict forbidding
the girls to wear hats too large to go
in the lockers. But presumably school
girls have the right to wear as large
hats as their parents wish to buy for
them.
It Is Just such things as these that
so a long way to make school life at
tractive. And they are things that
man would not be apt to think of or
handle properly because he isn't built
right.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

In retiring from the head of the
police department, r. w. Eaton has a
right to be proud of the record he has
made. He has served continuously as
chief of police for a longer period than
an other man in recent years. His eff
forts in the enforcement of all laws
have been honest and likewise sue
cessful- Topeka has been better policed
during the past couple of years than
ever before in its history. Mr.. Eaton
has made mistakes. He has lacked
judgment and diplomacy. He has
made enemies when he should have
made friends and he contributed to
Mayor Green's downfall, but he did the
best he knew and that is great deal
to say OF public offlcial.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
Not much applause Is being heard in

Not much applause IS being heard in
Topeka these days over the activities
of q state food inspector In causing the
arrest of some hucksters who were
guilty of technically violating the law
which demands the sale of their wares
by weight instead of measure. A num-
Der Of hucksters whose measures were
found to overweight were not arrested
and they were quite as guilty of vio-
lating the law as were the few whose
measures were found to be a trif1e
short in weight. If a law IS going to
be enforced, as all laws should, for
that matter, it should be administered
impartially
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
JOURNAL ENTRIES

If 1t were as diff1cuIt to say as it
is to do talk would not be SO volum-
nous.
n y
Some men are obsessed with the
idea that a part can be bigger than
the whole.
" n r.
Lots Of people waste all kinds OF
energy in fussing over things they
can't help.
Y X
Are kicks included in the admoni-
ton that it's more blessed to give than
to receive?
y
A vermiform appendix may be of no
value to Its possessor. but it's worth q
whole lot to his doctor.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Wroten ad Looie Linkenfusser. Gink-
burg. Missoury.
Many yappy returns ue der season,
Looie: Skince writing to you Ut recent
date und oder personal matters, der
follering audience haf ocourrenced:
Mister Billiard, formerly uf North To-
peka, but now uf der whole town, hat
Hung IL On Dem. Ably assistanced by
der Morning Squash. our esteemed con-
temporary, he ran der juggernuts ofer
der opposition, said opposition consist
ing OF our late Mayor und seferal
tousandt uf hiss friends. 1t vas a sat
day,-for dem vich vas ran ofer. Mis-
ter Billiard, our latest Mayor. iss a
chendleman NIT good manners und a
bank roll. He vas neffer troubled NIT
cold feets, uni no Won in dis viIlache
efer succeed in chasing him AROUND
der block. Dere ISIS a fearful suspicion
among some uf der also-rans dot he will
run der office uf Mayor mitoudt asking
dem how to did it. Vich would be both
sad und uncommon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
Hinder the terms of hnl nasaed b,

Under the terms of bill passed by
the house of representatives the other
day the privilege Of franking mail is
extended to ex-presidents or their
widows. If Colonel Roosevelt the
most voluminous letter writer in the
history Of all time, takes advantage
of 1t, the postal deficit will continue
TO increase rather than diminish, I'M
less, of course, Mr.. Hitchcock, the
postmaster general, can convince con-
gress that the magazines ought to be
compelled to foot this additional pos
tai EXPENSE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Colonel Roosevelt's luck has not de-
serted him He quit Rome with his
co1ors flying high. Just before he left
both the attitude of the vatican toward
him and the statement of the Metho-
dists which he had condemned were
repudiated by leading adherents of
those two institutions. Apparently it
Is as easy for Mr.. Roosevelt to get out
of difnculties as 1t is for him to get
into them.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
An Efficient Mistress.

Mrs A, who had shiftless colored
maid, was hurrying through her morn
ing's work in order to go out with a
friend in the afternoon. AS she flew about
from room to room, she heard the color
ed woman chuckling to herself as If very
much enjoying something. Inipatiently.
she said:
'What in the world is it that amuses
you so, Isabel?"
well, Mis- Bessie, when I heard you
gallopin' aroun' upstairs L jes' fought
If you'd been de Lawd 1t wouldn't "a
took you six days to make de hebbens
an de yearthl''-S. A. Rice, in Woman's
Home Companion.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
[From the New York Press.1

[From the New York Press.
Women make truces with one an
other; seldom real friendships.
The more money a man can steal
the less 1t seems like a crime.
Failing in love. like going in debt,
means a hard score to settle afterward
The riskiest thing about mans
proposal to a girl is how sure she is
to accept him.
mans idea OF q wife with a good
head for money matters is where she
will save her allowance till he borrows
It, and then not expect him to pay It
back again.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Some day the hens may strike at the
way the ages of their eggs are ques-
toned, thinks the Washington Post.
That would be better reason for their
striking than some which they occa-
gionaIly take advantage of.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

read someding like dis: "Ven in Rome,
make Rome howl" Also: Always leaf
dem bowling ven you say goot-by.'
INSTEAD of voting vet er dry, dose Mich
igs n counties could safe election ex-
penses by chust swapping populations.
Dose NIT a thirst could dake II ofer
Und soak oop it's drv slaves across der
county line. Anoder goot way would be
to hat der saloons on nat cars vich
could be dropped out at a siding until
der county went dry und den hauled
into a wet district on der same line.
: Echo from last week: It expect 70
be elected by a majority OF 1000" said
Mayor Green today.
We may, howeffer. mitout starting a
libel suit. state dot Mrs. d. E. Evans
ISIS still dead.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Times are certainly changing. An
nouncement comes from the Western
Union Telegraph company that i'm
provements and increased wages for
employees rather than melons for stock
holders is to be the attitude of the
company in the future.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
FAR-wEsTERN BANKING.

The great western states. which lie
just west of the Mississippi and are
now in the full tide of development.
have a separate bank or trust COM
pany for every 800 families. Every
little village has it's bank. often with
only $4,000 of capital The struggle
for new business Is bitter. newcomers
are solicited. loans are offered and the
struggle for existence IS severe.
These banks cover the region in
which a great realty boom has set In
with square miles laid out in lots and
the prices of farms steadily rising,
while the farm mortgage is a staple
crop. Carried farther in these great
western states than in the states east
of the Mississippi, there has also been
q great banking expansion in the states
west of the Alleghenies and south OF
the Lakes.
over all the area east of Pittsburg
and south of the Potomac. last year
saw a great expansion in bank loans
and increase in the number of banks.
Many are perfectly safe. but no such
bank boom aiding a realty boom can
take place without making caution
necessary Press.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Whistler a man has food stuff to
sell or he has to buy 1t will be the
controlling factor In making him look
as an optimist or a pessimist on the
statement OF Congressman Charles f.
Scott to the effect that food is never
going to be any cheaper in this
country
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
Carnegie arrived


Andrew Carnegie arrived at his
home in New York ailing. Maybe
those tears he shed at Pittsburg, Pa,
over the corruption that has been IN
earthed there among the municipal
ef1cia1s, had a tendency to weaken his
usual robust constitution.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

There is no doubt about it. Andrew
Carnegie has money to burn and he
doesn't hesitate about burning some Of
1t. Among his annual expenditures is
$4,000 when he contributes to the
support of the simplihed spelling
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

So Harry Thaw was not rich at the
time he murdered Stanford White No,
indeed. He only was possessed of such
a small matter as 100000, mere
baxafelle, as it were.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

More evidence that there Is nothing
In q name appears to be indicated by
the fact that Cardinal Merry DelsVal
las affiicted with chronic Crouch.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Strange things are always happening
On Pittsburg, Pa. And among the
@trangest Of them is the success of
prosecuting authorities there in get
ting their hooks in the imam higher
up" in the municipal graft scandals.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

With T. Roosevelt stirring UP the
sanimals'' in Europe, Africa has al
ready begun to slip back into its &C
customed obscurity
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Mayor Gaynor of New York also has
the good idea that church property
should not be free from assessment for
local improvements
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
Personal AND PUBLIC EXPENSE

It Is to be hoped that the probes
now in progress will bring forcibly to
the peoples minds the question of
what is personal expense and what is
public expense. There seems to be an
idea abroad that an officer is on public
duty wherever he is or wherever he
goes The lack of discrimination upon
this point has resulted in much unjust
expense. 1t won't do for an officer
to hold to very liberal views of what
tho law is as to this expense. Nor
will it do to throw the doubts in ones
favor, which seems to have been the
rule much OF the time.
There is no place where a person
should be so particular as in the pub
lie service. where one is supposed to
watch himself and to be guided by
strict sense of honor. The line of duty
should be as straight and clear as a
ray of light. And this remark is APP
pIicable particularly to legislators, for
If they go wrong everybody goes
wrong; If they do a selfish thing, so
it goes down the line. If there is a
stain in the fountain it is down in the
stream.-Ohio state Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
FpON OTHER PENS
CoMING FROM CANADA


Statistics gathered in Quebec indi-
cate that more than 10000 persons
left that province last year to live in
the United States. The Montreal
Gazette, commenting on the matter,
says: ITO those who take note of re-
ports in regard to immigration and
emigration the figures will cause no
surprise. The exodus has only been
stopped in the speeches Of men who
in the House OF Commons at Ottawa
say more than they know. It Is possible
also that 1t is only in such speeches
that 1t will be stopped. In the move
ment of people for employment the
national boundary line is not an i'm
pediment.
A double movement is going on
across the Canadian border. Many
Americans have crossed the line, chief
ly from our own West. to take up
new lands in the Canadian West On
the other hand. there Is a migration
from Eastern Canada into the United
States In search of employment. west
ern Canada insists that 1t has the best
Of it in this exchange. This need not
be considered now. But it is to be
noted that while such a leavening is
steadily going on, and such a fellow
ship of feeling exists as is shown in
this easy exchange of homes. a tariff
war would be a sad Inconsistency
Buffalo Express.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

We hat borrowed a damp e1-um club
fer der occasion. We egspect some uf
der cub reporters to refer to der dog
show es a "howling success"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Der safest ting about dis election, ISIS
der post-mortem statements und tear
full farewells. A larche and unthoos-
iastic mob uf slxittens vich vas looking
forward NIT pleasure to der time ven
Mister Eating. our un1ustly unpopular
chief uf policies, should be COUPLED onto
a tin tomattus wrapper, receifed Il
awful shook ven he beat dem to it.
INSTEAD uf Waiting fer der tinware und
der Roman holiday, he passes in hiss
swan-song to our late mayor, vich ISIS
now in der grocery bitzness. Dis crool
blow to der vould-be celebrationists Will
neffer be forgiffen.
Der new commission, consisting uf
Mister Billiard und four able assistants,
vent on der chob dis morning. but oop
to a late hour dis afternoon, der prom
ises uf der antf-Billardists hat failed to
come true. Els late es 2:30 o'clocl1s to-
day / drew on der city vasser depart
ment fer a drink,-und 1t vas chust
plain VASSBR vot 1 got. Hoping dis
will find you der same, Looie, 1 remain
es effer HANS.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Far be 1t from us to crack any al
legged jokes about Mayor Green. Vot
habbened to him vas no Joke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Some misguided gink sent a tele-
gram from Kansasitty stating dot Mis-
ter Stubbs vas also Grieved ofer der
defeat uf Mayor Green. Hereafter der
Kansasitty correspondent will bleas
confine himself to News. We Knew
iMistar Stuhhs vas grieNed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Vic Murdoch would be safe in vot-
ing Mister Rosinfelt a purple robe. He
wouldn't year it unless 1t vas equipped
NIT pistol poggets.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09

Cornell Rosinfelt haf mussed oop
seferal respectable oldt maxims since he
left dis country. Hiss worst und latest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-09
a sATURDAy Scranton.

And forgive us our debts, as we forgive
our debtors. st. Matthew VI II.