The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-11

me outer worlds forgotten quite,
20 book and pipe seem almost right,
For gray days sound tempting call
To wander through old Memory's hall
ana laugh and cry and dream-and all
Until the gray is bright.
And when the goblin shadows creep
From bush to bush, or slyly peep
In at our window, and then run
As If in, search of their lost sun,
And softly drift to sleep.
OF happy, care-free laughter-days,
While the rain patter ningles
On the old stained shingles
And leads the heart in Wander Ways
Leon Rutledge Whipple, in Leslie's.
Education in Africa.
The South African native races com
mittee is planning the establishment
of a native college in South America
The movement is Endorsed by Lord Sell
borne and Lord Miner, and supported
by such men as the bishops of Lincoln
and Birmingham, Sir Godfrey Lang
den, Prof. Sadler, and E. b. Sargent,
formerly adviser in education to the
| high commission of South Africa The
| college is intended to carry out the
| recommendation of the South African
native affairs commission appointed by
Lord Miner in 1908 that a central
native college or similar institution be
established, and aided by the various
states for training native teachers, and
| in, order to afford opportunities for
| higher education t. native Students
| The college courses are to be framed
with full regard to. the difference be-
tween the average native and Euro
pean student in language, in inherited
beliefs, prejudices, and instincts, in en-
vironment and early upbringing, and
| in future position in life The great
| aim of the institution will be to train
not lawyers and doctors seeking en-
ploy1ment from the whites, but men OF
| character fitted to do useful work for
| their own people requiring special edu
cation. During recent years there has
| arisen among the natives of South
Africa a strong and growing desire for
| education.
| 1t is proposed to build the college at
| Fort Hare, Cape Province, near the
| Lovedale Institution, where about 700
acres of land have been acquired 1t is
| intended that the full and undivided
control of the college shall be in the
hands Of its governing council, upon
which will sit representatives of the
government; also representatives of
| the trustees, European and native, of
| the money contributed toward the es-
| tablishment of the college, and repre-
sentatives of the university and of the
| churches cooperating in the college
and of schools preparing students for
it. 1t is intended to make the council
| so representative that it will have the
| confidence of people of both races.
The sum required for the establish
ment of the college, even on a mod
crate scale, is s250,oo0. There has been
already received or promised from
European sources $112.500, and from
native sources about $50, 000.-Spring-
field Republican.
Prayer for Aviators Proposed.
! There is a serious movement on foot
to add the words "by air. to the pray
u or IN fho
"That it may please Thee to preserve
all that travel by land or water"
The suggestion originated with the
Rev. Charles de Havilland a Hamp-
shire rector and father of Mr.. de Havii-
land an viator and now the matter
has been taken up by -Archdeacon SIN
clair.
''I think" said the archdeacon, "that
in view of the great advances in avia-
ton and the risks run by those en-
/ gagged therein, it would undoubtedly be
an excellent thing if opportunity were
afforded in the litany to offer prayers
for the safety of flying men.
''I know many people whose relatives
have taken up aviation, and they con-
stantly pray for their safety" he said.
1.-THE matter might well be considered
by the houses of convocation, which
are now going through the prayer book
page by page. If public opinion shows
that it is desirable to have the altera-
ton without delay, informal leave
might be granted by the archbishop of
Canterbury without the necessity of an
act of parliament
Asked whether there was any likeli-
hood of opposition, the archdeacon sail
he did not think there ought to be any
serious bjection.-London dispatch to
New York American.
Money Not Easy in Cuba.
In
been painted by some persons who
have visited Cuba that opportunities
II await every man who goes there, anc
that fortunes can be made in few
years, unfortunately, am afraid. are
colored too highly said C. A. johnson
Harding, an American who has been 6
resident of Havana for IA years, and
who is now at the Arlington. ST dc
not mean to say there are no oppor-
tunities in Cuba. but it is unfair tt
say that is SO easy to make fortunes
there.
There have been thousands Of
Americans that have gone to Cuba III
the hope of making money, but think
it true that not one in a thousand
who have embarked in individual en-
terprises has made success. 1t is
not any easier to succeed in Cuba thar
: it is in this or any other country. A
,, make money there, and he must pos
sesS business acumen and 1ndefatiga-
BILE industry.
CUBA has developed wonderfully
since the Spanish-American war, and
Havana today is one of the most SAM
tary cities I have lived in. Americans
have played a large part in this de-
velopment, and the Cuban people real
ize what they have done. But thai
they are selling their lands to Ameri-
!, cans at much less than their value il
: not a fact.''-Washington Post.
Widow Got 165 Proposals.
: The Sigma NJ college fraternity il
the Columbia university club house a