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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
GLOBE SIGHTS.
[From the Atchison Gle

GF'rom the Atchison Globe.I
The average man is too easily in
fiuenced by the encore.
As a general rule, the kiss between
women is the real hypoerite.
Baked chicken is as good as roast
turkey-if you haven't the turkey.
A farmer who lives on the bottoms
never has much of an opinion of hill
land.
Every lazy man thinks he would be
a noted hustler if he would let him
self out.
resort they can keep hotel or run a
newspaper.
When a woman sees a man off at
the train she thinks she is making a
real fuss over him.
Nearly everyone is more willing to
assume responsibility than he is TO
uphold it after he gets it.
fort TO catch a man who tries to get
away as the man would infer.
If there is something you want ask
for it;-letters to Santa Claus are near
ly always productive of results.
Aside from high prices and the
birds, none of the high flyers seem to
be able to get away with it for very
hong.
There are all kinds of people in the
world, including a few who don't i'm
agine they are good singers when
they get drunk.
AS a general rule, when a states
man fails to attract attention in any
other way. he succeeds by refusing
to wear a dress suit
One trouble with the race is that
too many people expect porous
plaster to take the place of active ex-
ercise in the open air.
Although all men are created
equal, they outgrow that a good deal
quicker than they do any of theiI
other youthful characteristics.
! You hear great deal about what
a hurry-up age this is, but there con-
tinues to be enough loafers to Ill
most of the comfortable seats.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
REVISED VERSION.

"A1l things come to him who waits,
Some one wrote thus long ago;
Quoted round in divers states
1t is counted surely sol
But if / could have my way,
1 should scorn this creed which numbs;
I should change it round and say,
"All things wait to him who comesi"
Waiting's not the thing for me;
1 would rather dig right ill.,,
/ would war with chance and see
If / cannot quickly win.
Waiting's easy, that's a fact
I1oafers like to twirl their thumbs;
But achievement thus Is backed
All things wait to him who comes!
Waiting's for the men who fail;
Winners try through storm and stress,
Stubborn striving must avail
In the struggle for success!
IT'S by effort strong and true
That the wheels of progress huns.
Therefore, friend, say to you,
All things wait to him who comes!
Chicago News.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

tions are under the management of one
advisory board. Were this the case the
various branches of education could be
divided up effectively between the three
institutions.
Such a system of control over state
educational institutions has been in
vogue for many years in New York
state. The members of the state board
of regents, the controlling body, are
elected on a joint ballot by both branch
es of the legislature. in the same fash
ion that the federal constitution pro-
vides for the election of United States
senators. The powers of the members
of this board are extensive. Not only
do they control the management of all
of the state educational institutions, the
state library, with it's school for libra
rians, but they also have a certain
supervision of all the public schools of
the state. the rural schools, the gram
mar schools in the cities and the high
schools as well. Under this plan uni
form system of education in the lower
schools has been developed. The same
examinations are given at stated per-
iods in the year in the same grades of
all the schools of the state. And in this
fashion each grammar or high school
pupil in any section of the state is re-
quired to come up to standards that are
common for the entire state.
This system seems to have worked in
an eninently satisfactory manner in
New York. There is no reason why it
should not work equally well in Kan
sas or any other state.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
ONE BOARD OF REGENTS

, J. j. Veatch, who will represent Wash
ington county in the house of represen-
tatives at the coming session of the
legislature, believes that the control and
advisory management of all of the state
educational institutions. should be
placed in the hands of one board of re-
gents. And there would appear to be
much to commend this idea
Each of the state educational insti-
tutions in Kansas. the university, the
agricultural college. and the normal
school, are magnificent institutions and
have been generally conducted and de-
veloped in an admirable fashion. They
compare most favorabiy in their scope
and accomplishments with similar in
situations in other states, many of
which have been existence for much
longer periods.
They have been built up, however, as
individual institutions. There is not the
correlation between them that there
should be. The result is that in several
departments of educational work their
efforts are duplicated in a way It is
patent that such a condition of affairs
should not maintain. There is no good
reason why the state university, for
instance. should devote any of it's ener-
gies to Investigations and work that is
properly within the province of the ag-
ricultural college. and vice versa. The
same is true of the activities of the
normal school as related to the work
of the two other institutions. And it is
Uncomfortable how such a situation can
be rectified unless all of these institu-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Money also holds this distinction. The
supply is never equal to the demand.
X X y
Some men find it impossible to turn
over a new leaf-in check book.
X x ::
No matter how bad conditions may
be. there is always the chance that
they might have been worse.
x x y
Next to going to a funeral, waiting
two or three hours for a delayed train
is about the most rnournfu1 thing.
= x
There is something decidedly wrong
with a man whom a girl refuses 10
marry. And it's too bad more girls
fail to discover this important fact be-
fore it is too late.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
.HUAOR OF THE Day

Blabb-Why do large women so often
marry small men? Crabb-They can't in
timidate the big ones.-Boston Transcript
why do you wear aueue?" demanded
the Engiishman. 1T seems SO foolish
would you have me wear monocIe?''-
Kansas City Journal.
Judge. ''''' 0'''-''' '''''0'' u A'sses-
Mamma, is a honeymoon a vacation?"
1t may be. my dear; and it may be the
beginning of a long period of servitude.,
youngstown Telegram.
Tfghtwad-Dont you think that drink
ing impairs the memory? Guzzler-Sure
phia Record.
My poor. fellow, were you always a
tramp? No. mum. Onct I wuz known
as man about town."-Louisville Cour-
CAS-. ..W Z. your tchaflng dish party sue.
early in the evening and then went to a
regular restaurant. "-Washington star
you will be-. Congratulations but how low
i nuch Will It cost US to nve?" That's
you 9d aIsne Reade week to what
when are you going on your vacation
Il don't know. I've got to wait until the
nelghbors get through using my suitcase"
Detroit Free Press
Violette-I wish you would tell me how
to get this pitch off my dress 1 have
tried everything can think of. Reginald
You might try a song. You always get
off the pitch when you sing.-Judge.
There is doctor somewhere who de-
claTeS that a small nerve in the nose is
responsible for stage rights. But we have
seen stage rights whose entire noses APP
peared to be at fault.-CleveIand Plain
Dealer.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the chicago News. ]


Passing fame is apt to leave a man
smaller than ever.
A man on pleasure bent may find
himself on pleasure broke.
Some men try to make an are light
display with q can of kerosene.
Sometimes the mortgage on a house
is too heavy for the foundation.
A mans face is part of a BARRIERS
fortune-unless he shaves himself.
When money is tight is that another
argument in favor of prohibition?
It's easy for a girl to love a man
whom her relatives think she oughtn't.
The newspaper lists of those invited
to a wedding also include those who
do not come.
A girl likes to have man fatter her
SO that she can think it over and won
der if he really meant it.
About the safest thing for man to
do who is afraid of getting married is
to HE himself to cave and play her.
NIT. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
lFrom the New York Press

LF'Tom the New York Press
It's better to f1irt with your wife
than never to fiirt at all.
Grace before meat doesn't keep a
man from growing about the way it
is cooked.
When a man wins a lawsuit he
bursts with pride if he gets back only
one dollar for ten.
A woman feels just like saying her
prayers to get her husband to wear his
rubbers.
A woman is so generous she Won
ders why a man wants to marry her
before he does, and he is so ungener-
Gus he wonders why afterward.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
FROM OFFER PENS
PROvINCIALIsM.

The wife of foreign diplomat at
Washington is being criticised for her
criticisms of society at the national
capital. Among other things, she has
been quoted as complaining of the
presence of so many "provincials. -
That, truly, is looking at the matter
from an old-world point of view. Pro-
vincialism, as a term of reproach and
ridicule, has little force in this country.
In the European countries it possesses
a certain traditional meaning, dating
from the days whehsin the kings CAPT
tai was conferred most of the life and
color and even the brains of the ma
ton. Even today certain rural parts
of England do not deny the suprem-
acy of London. But this rule does not
hold good in this country, and Kala-
mazoo declines peremptorily to take
a back seat for New York.
There is reason for this. Every
American city is provincial in the sense
that it has been largely made by PRO
vincials." The gates are always open
from the small towns to the big ones,
and for that reason American society
must always be in one sense provin-
cial. If it happens to be more pro-
vincial in Washington than elsewhere,
that is not to the discredit of WASH
ington society. The national capital
attracts many persons of all sorts and
conditions from all parts of the coun-
try.-Cincinnati Tim es-Star.
KEEP THE WORLDS PEACE.
The United States free of entangling
alliances with other great powers,
powerful in point of population and
natural resources, protected from sue
cessful foreign invasion by distance
and great intervening seas, and at
peace with all nations. are in pecul-
iarly favorable situation TO take diplo-
matte lead in the effort to make the
firm establishment of international
peace a great International undertake
ing. The success of The Hague tri-
bunal in the arbitram ent and final set
Element of long standing, irritating
disputes, that had outlived years of
Iineffectua1 diplomatic attempts for
compromise, opens the way to the
adoption Of still more effectual means
of abolishing future wars.
The steps which have been taken by
our government in urging other powers
to- unite in endowing The Hague tri-
bunal with functions of an arbitral
court of justice, and the further pro-
posal. approved by. congress, to as
semble an international peace COM
mission to consider the advisability of
using existing diplomatic means for
bringing about an international limita-
ton of ornaments and for turning the
combined fleets of the world into an
international force for the preservation
of universal peace, put this country In
the lead in peace cham pionship.-Phll-
adelphia Record.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Bank Commissioners DoIley is of the
opinion that the bank robbers who are
operating in Kansas are organized
along the lines of those inimical trusts
why not apply the Sherman law d?
These safe crackers travel from other
states to Kansas to make their raids,
carry their loot back and spend it else
where. That certainly savors of inter
state business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Andrew Carnegie has just given
away another million and a quarter of
dollars for the establishment of a hero
fund in Germany. Giving away a mil
lion doesn't amount to so much with
Carnegie as would the giving away of
a $40 bill by a man in any o. the many
ordinary situations in life
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
LIMERICKs:
Incident VII.

lnClQen6 VII.
As headliner for this lesson, we
orer the following contribution. As
the subject of this verse is a personal
friend, we refuse to comment, either
upon the verse or the alleged food fish
which the writer rings in as secondary
subject. Play ball:
A hsh and game warden named Dyche
The big German carp doth much lyche
But the people all roar
I'VE desire him no moar;
wed rather have black bass and
pyche." T.B.
In submitting anything like the fol-
lowing, never neglect to start it There
once was" Failure to take this pre-
caution might result in some reader
getting the impression that possibly
there twice was. Twice was in such
an instance. would amount to delirium
tremens= Watch the back door while
we release this one from the cage:
There once was a pink Dinosaurs
Who lived many ages befaurus;
He had sore eye
But it matters not why
So just come in strong on the chaurus:
Chaurus: Fol-de-roi-dol, fol-de-rol-
dol--'a- -fops-and-repeat-ad
lib.
Fearing that this one will be FROST
bitten If We keep it on hand, we hast
en- to add:
Chinaman dotted on Book,
But the door on his shack had no
lock;
And when the poor Chink
Drifted out for drink
Some one came in and pinched his
yen-hoki
(sad, wasn't it?)
Permit this to suffice for the pres
ent.
1t is les majestic, of course, but
still we feel that one who pays for gas
should not be compelled TO sit up all
night, tra-la, and toss cordwood. fur
niture and other incidentals into the
gas furnace. NJ ces pas?
Once, while strolling along the
shore-line Of Cayo Costa.-which same
| is noted on certain charts as being
only 26 degrees and 81 minutes north
of the Equator, we observed to a log
| ger-head turtle whom we had Just
welted over the sconcc with the
butt end of an oar: take that for
l-climate!' This afternoon we would
gladly pay 35 cents in real clearing
house certificates for a bucket of that
same climate.
| Burglars and policemen pulled off
a Wild West show and Wild Waste
| of ammunition in Lunnon recently.
The burglars were finally subdued af-
ter shooting three aiches and n.y.
phen out of a bobby" don't you
know.
Our idea of four dollars worth of
nothing to see, would be the limbs of
thes famous Russian dancers. a dol
lar-two-bits would be excessive. even
IL the girls-ski who do the danceovich
looked like the advance pictures, but
the chances are to that when
they show in Topeka, they will not
only wear wooden union suits but rub
Der boots. A limb show never comes
up to advertisements in Topeka.
The principal thing about this
1911 year is that it has Sc Sundays,
thus giving the children. more chances
to pick up measles and other junk at
Sunday school
Thieves, says Hon DoIley, are liv-
ing in Nebraska, Wichita and other
foreign ports, and preying upon Kan
sas banks If you have nothing else
on hand, it might be well to look into
this.
Hep
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Here's a rare joke. William F.. Shee-
han has announced his candidacy for
the New York United States senator
ialship on an antitrust platform. For
years Mr.. Sheehan has been one of
the prominent attorneys for the big
interurban traction trusts in and.about
New York, and, also, for the large
electrical interests in that locality
which are the backbone of the cleo
trical trust that the federal govern
ment has just proceeded against
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

That the firemen of Topeka do their
work well is evidenced by the fire loss
in Topeka during the past year. 1t
totalled only $4,000 worth of property.
This is a remarkable showing for n
city of the size of Topeka. Chief Will
marth and his men are entitled to the
hearty congratulations of every one in
a.. city
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

And those oldest inhabitants, who
were wagging their heads a few days
ago and remarking, well pay dearly
for this fine weather later on" were
quite right in their prophecies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Not so very much is heard about
that branch Of the federal govern
ment which is called the United States
life saving service. But it is a won
derfuI institution and does a marvel
lous work. Out of total of 1861
persons involved in 1,463 marine dis
asters that came within the scope of
this service during the past year, only
53 lives were lost In addition to this
the service saved 1877 other persons
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Kansas City, Mo. now looms up with
the distinction of holding the divorce
records. 1t seems that there is a di-
vorce in that town for every four
marriages. This is hardly a record,
however, to which Kansas City can
point with pride
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

That pressure in the gas pipes. which
was reported to be good" during the
past couple of days, S1nust have been
provided by air. Nor is it necessary to
state that 1t was not of the 'hot'
variety. In fact it could not even be
burned, but from the riotous clickins
they INDUCED in. it seems to have been
powerful enough to keep the meters as
busy as the proverbial bees.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

AS long as that western Kansas wind
had to blow away a part of a Rock
Island passenger car, it was very con-
siderate to take away the roof. Sup
pose it had blown out the middlessor
the bottom of the car?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

If this cold weather keeps up it would
not be -urprising if many a Kansan
became filled with the same sort of
Authorizations that cbsessed Doc. Cook
and imagined that he had discovered
the North Pole.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

The State Journal is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole pur-
pose. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

from drowning. And the chances are
that the men attached to this service
get rather meager pay in Comparison
with that received by most of the
more or less distinguished chair
warmers at Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Surely there is nothing so very sur
prising that some fancy hens at the
poultry show lay eggs which are worth
$40 each. That's about the prevailing
figure for eggs from ordinary hens,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Still there is a little consolation for
Topekans in the fact that Dame Nature
did not single out their town for all of
the cold weather that she had up her
I'll
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Here's another Indication of the
superior prosperity of Kansas: The
bank robbers, who make their home in
Nebraska, make hurried trips to Kan
sas to ply their trade
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

This is also the particular season of
the year when the plumber makes a
noise like king. He's the Whole
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Once again has the fact been pressed
home forcibly that natural gas is an
ideal fuel-fer warm weather.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

One of the worst features about dis
agreeable weather is that it cannot be
lodged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
a BIacksmith Statesman.

Col. Richard w. Austin. representa-
tive from the Second Tennessee dis
trict, the heart of the mountains in
that state, comes back to congress vic
torious in q hard fight with Col.
Nathaniel Heale, Republican AMI
former representative. The Demo-
Gratis make no fight in this district.
Col. Austin went over the mountain
country on horseback. One day, after
a six hours walk over a trail, he found
a Tennessee magistrate, who is the
county blacksmith, and introduced
himself Squire said the representa-
tive, ST am mighty pleased to know
you. I have been sending you my lit
erature Have you been getting and
reading it?''
The squire looked Mr.. Austin over
for a minute in a stern. judicial sort OF
way, and then he spoke: yes, have
been gittin' your stuff, and you are cer-
tainly a noisy p''-Washington dis
patch to the New York American.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04
KANSAS oANENT
NOT FOR rs.

I
| Two things have been demonstrated
/ in the Mexican insurrection. One is
that the DiaZ government rules by
rear and force. and the other is that
as Americans we want to refrain from
any desire to annex Mexico and the
Mexicans.
| The warfare in progress at Chihua-
hua mas been marked by cruelties and
outrage. The government army, which
can not give the excuse of lack of re-
spons1bility and discipline, has fire.
quently butchered prisoners and exc
cuted private citizens unfriendly to
DiaZ. The revolutionists have hung
supporters of the. government to the
trees and nave murdered prisoners
who fell in-o their hands The great
est blame for such proceedings at
tacheS to the Mexican government, be-
cause its army is supposed to be un-
der the rules of war, but the real in
d1ctment is against. the Mexican peo-
pie whose sentiment must be vicious
to permit of such crimes taking place.
There is something in the Spanish
character and Spanish training which
does not chord right with American
and English ideas of justice and man
| Illness. The standard is different.
Perhaps this came from the old In
QUESTION, or from the public sentiment
which produced the Inquisition, and
perhaps it comes from generations of
| experience and education But no
i
earned his title, 1T is true fAof him
wherever he goes, and in country
like ours, governed loosely and on the
principle of everybody being given a
fair show. the Spanish inbred idea
would nevr do.
The Mexicans should learn self-gov-
eminent before they are taken in as
citizens Of the United States, and
when they learn that lesson they will
probably not want to be taken
Hutchinson News.
WHAT IS BACK OF, IT.
| What is back of the big magazines
fight on prohibition? In the past three
| months half dozen articles have ap-
peared in leading magazines to the eff
feet that prohibition is failure. The
Ladies' Home Journal declares that
| more liquor is sold in the United States
now than ever in it's history, yet about
half the territory is nominally dry"
| The sales fell off in 1908 and 1909 but
increased in 1910 and the inference is
| drawn that the dry territory has learn
ed to avoid the law. The American
this month has an article in which the
writer declares he has bought liquor
easily in every state in the Union, Kan
| sas included, and argues that prohibit
ton Is farce. The American is espe-
cially a worker for good things and
uplifting things and it's knock on pro-
hibition is rather Observation-Disclosures
| Reflector.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Burglars and policemen pulled off
a Wild West show and a Wild Waste
of ammunition in Lunnon recently
The burglars were finally subdued af-
ter shooting three aiches and a n.y.
phen out of a bobby" don't you
know
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-04

Thieves, says Hon DolIey, are liv
ing in Nebraska, Wichita and othel
foreign ports, and preying upon Kan
sas banks. If you have nothing els,
on hand, it might be we'll to look int
this.