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The Holly chieftain., 1911-10-20
LAYING FOUNDATION.
our New Depot Unasrway.

O0S SsOW Depot On0orWay.
The stone trimmings for Hnlly's
S22,5OOdepot, selected PERSONALLY
in Denver by Contractor Alex Nc
LAs0l, together with several car
loads OF materials. arrived last Sat.
urday, and a gang of men under
Superintendent Charles Hedin, are
now Ut work on the foundation of
the structure.
Mr.. Hedin states that the plans
call Tor = building far above the
average, in fact hand-ome struc-
ture, which will make the average
citizen expand his chest and ex-
claim: This is Holly. / live here"
The Holly chieftain., 1911-10-20
Miss wiley at COLUMBIA.

The many friends of Miss Elsie
Wiley will be pleased to hear that
she has been appointed assistant
instructor in the physical science
department of the Teachers Col
lege. Columbia University, and
that the tender of the position was
something OF surprise.
The Holly chieftain., 1911-10-20

Let US get you up some sta
t,onery that will be credit to
your businessmen detriment.
The price will be practically the
same, and you'll have something
you'll be proud of. The Holly
-nieftain.
The Holly chieftain., 1911-10-20

The Chiettain is strictly a
home paper. Its advertisers are
home merchants. Do you ap-
arceiate the fact, MIR. Business
Nam
The Holly chieftain., 1911-10-20
GILBERT HAD GOOD MEMORY
He Never Forgot That at Harrow One
Of His Lines Was Considered
Improper.

This Gilbert story reaches me from
an old Harrovian, says writer in the
Manchester Guardian. In 1872 the peo-
pie of the town got up theatricals to
raise funds for q hospital. Doctor But
ler, the head master, said he would not
allow the school to go unless the
pieces were first submitted to him.
One was Gilbert's palace of Truth"
In 1t Is passage in which the hero
says to the heroine: Meet me At
nine o'clock tonight outside the gar
den gate" Doctor Butler vetoed this
and substituted: Meet me at three
o'clock this afternoon" This seemed
to him more decorous. About five
years ago Gilbert was invited to the
Harrow speeches. In reply to the
toast of his health he said: Il am
very much interested In visiting Har-
row, for as far ~ know 1t is the only
place in the world where line OF
mine has ever been condemned as Inn
proper. Great CONSIDERATION pre-
Tailed-ail the greater because no one
except the speaker and one other per-
son. who was just leaving Harrow in
1872 knew what he meant. 1t was not
Gilbert's way to forget these things.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
AUTOMOBILE RACES.

As was to have been expected the big
automobile races held yesterday were
not pulled off without creating a list
of dead and injured. That's been the
history of about every large automobile
race that has been held in this country.
1t is a ruthless slaughter because
there is no necessity for it. Nothing
is gained by any such races. They are
not needed for the further development
of automobiles. And they surely do not
provide anything good in the way of
sport, although thousands of people at
tend them. It must be a revolving and
a terrifying spectacle to see men hurled
to their death from those catapult-
like racing machines. And it is one
that should not be tolerated longer in
this country.
A great cry goes up from many peo-
pie over the young men who are
manned and killed occasionally on the
football field. Most localities in the
country have the safe and sane Fourth
of July habit. They forbid the sale of
powder-crackers and fireworks so as to
safeguard the children from injury.
And it is about time that such activi-
ties were extended to automobile rae
ing There is no need or practical use
for automobiles that can develop a
speed of rs or 100 miles an hour. The
manufacturers of motor cars learn
nothing to their advantage from auto
mobile races where great speed is the
only object. In fact several of the
largest automobile concerns have gone
out of the racing game.
So there is no need for these death
dealing automobile races, and the NOR
bid people who get any pleasure out
of attending them could easily md
some kind of substitute that would
be far more satisfying.
There is a decided difference to the
disasters of aviation. Mans conquest
of the air, which promises to be Of in
tense advantage to the human race is
barely under way, although marvellous
strides have been made in this field
during the past few years. The devel-
opment of aeroplanes and dirigible bal
looms cannot help but be dangerous.
The very nature of their flights
through the air make them so. And
there must be all kinds Of experiments
in aviation before stable air crafts are
brought into existence. Still much OF
this experimentation could be done
without the necessity of staging thrill
ing exhibitions for the multitudes, al
though there is a novelty ana interest,"
IL the fight of man made birds that Is
wonderfully attractive. But there is
nothing of the sort to these gruesome
automobile races, and they should not
be encouraged.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
A LULLABY.


Lady Moon, O Lady Moon,
Here's little sleepy grille that must go
to siunber soof1
Won't you glide across the window on
your shining silver wings,
Won't you spare 'twix noon and noon
Just one tiny tender minute to this cot
with baby in IL.
Though know you're oh, SO busy with
hundred million things?
Lady Moon, Q Lady Moon,
Let her see the polished buckles on your
cleaning silver shoon,
Let her touch your diamond rings and
the star dust on your wings;
And should you bend above her-ah! but
that would be a boonl
And kiss her little rosy lips, how kind,
o Lady Mooni
Lady Moon, o Lady Moon,
Tell her just one fairy story that you've
gathered as you go
From the pine woods or the snow,
From the gayly lighted cities or the stars
above them strewn;
There's a sleepy little grille that would
like SO much to know
Just one little fairy story, Lady Mooni
Lady Moon, o Lady Moon,
1t Is late; and you're so busy with so
many trysts to keep,
And our little wide-eyed babba-it Is
time she went to sleep!
Kiss those cheeks that mock December
With their roses picked in June;
Though she's sleepy she'll remember,
She'll remember, Lady Mooni
Westminster Gazette.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31

pensation or teachers is so low that the
profession no longer draws into its
ranks its due proportion of talent.
While such conditions prevail it is in
evitable that college and university
work throughout the country should be
marked as it is by lack of seriousness.
1t is for these reasons that at AM
herst, for example, the movement has
arisen which seeks in some respects to
return to the old purposes of education.
History can be taught better than ever
before. We have far amplcr means for
instruction in democracy and the prin-
ciples of government, while the need for
unyielding moral standards in public
opinion was never greater. 1t is pro-
posed, therefore, to make the moral
character of the student the first pur-
pose of the college; to teach concentra-
ton and application, making the college
work real as work in a business or pro-
fession is real; to give individual train
ing of the best character; and to create
an environment of vivid intellectual
life, current where yielding shall be
easy and resistance hard.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
QUAKER MEDTTATIoNs.

EFrom the Philadelphia Record.1
Some fellows only loosen up when they
get tight
Manayunk has a man named Noah
Count-and he isn't.
Some girls blush naturally. With others
It's all put on.
Some men will give 81 to charity and
spend SO advertising the fact.
Here's where take turn for the bet
ter" remarked the roulette wheel.
Some people are so exclusive that they
even refuse to meet their obligations.
Where the bill collector is concerned,
absence surely makes the heart grow
fonder.
Although not naturally pessimistic, the
motherly hen is apt to brood over her
family affairs
No, Maude dear; while the aviator is a
high flyer he doesn't necessarily wear q
swallow-tail coat.
Blobbs-"Bjones says he and the fiik-
tenhouse-Biddles live In the same square,
Slobbs-"Yes, but they don't move in the
same circle"
Congratulate me. am engaged" cried
the young bachelor II am Intoxicated
with love-" "Oh, well. you'll sober up
on marriage" replied the man who had
been all through 1t
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
AYHAWKER JOTS

1t is quite probable that the multi
tude will agree with the editor of the
Logan County News in this suggestion
that he made recently: Editors are
Just like their fellowmen. They have
faults, forget and make mistakes.
If the Cimarron Jacksonian voices
the sentiments of its community Cim-
arron is most unusual town to be To-
Gated in Kansas. Said the Jacksonian:
Cimarron is in favor of locating the
new insane hospital at Spearville. In
fact 1t Is in favor of locating 1t any
where except at Cimarron.
Something new in the way of a
"globe-trotting trip as announced by
the Anthony Republican: Jim Jones,
the well-known cement worker, is back
from globe-trotting trip that took
him into Arkansas, Oklahoma, Mis-
souri,, Iowa and Kentucky, looking up
his fifth interest in a fine farm in
southern Arkansas.
Procrastination pays once in a great
while as is evidenced by the following
confession from Editor Almgren of the
MCPHERSON Freeman: We admit that
we are very slow getting things done
sometimes, but 1t was quite a consola-
ton the last few days to sit around a
good fire in the heater which the lady
of the house had been Fostering US to
move the last three days.
In the matter of high school ye1ls,
leather medal belongs on the breast of
the near-genius who originated this
one for the Oakley high school:
Hot Potato. Hot Potato
Half baked Alligator
Ram-Bam-Boolia
Chicka-Raw-Saw
Oakley High School
Rah Rah! Rahi
A parable from the Hiawatha World.
Once farmer had 1900 bushels of
wheat which he sold not to a grain
merchant, but to 1900 dealers a bushel
each. A few of them paid in cash,
but far the greater number said, as it
was not convenient then +hey would
pay later. A few months passed and
the mans bank account ran low.
How is this he said. My 1900 bush
els or grain should have kept me in
afhuence until another crop is raised
but have parted with the grain and
instead have q vast number of ac-
counts SO small and scattered that /
cannot get around and collect fast
enough to pay expenses So he posted
up a public notice and asked all those
who owed him to pay quickly. But few
came. The rest said, Mine is only a
small matter and will pay some other
day. forgetting that though each &C
count was very small when all were
put together they meant a large sum
to some man. Things went on thus.
The man got to feeling SO bad that he
to his granary found his 1900 bushels
of wheat still there. He had only been
dreaming. Moral: The next day the
man went to the publisher of his paper
and said: Here, sir, is the pay for
your paper, and when next years sub
scription is due you can depend on
me to pay promptly. I stood in the
position of an editor last night, and !
know how he feels to have ones hon.
estly earned money scattered all over
the county in small amounts
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31

and now. now, he bent down behind
her, and folded both arms closely about
her, and as she tried to struggle he
laid his lips on hers. When she lay
still in his arms, he spoke, looking into
the eyes that faltered at his glance.
did you come out here on my ac-
count?"
YES" she said; 'I wanted to show
you that / was not the useless sort of
brainless toy you thought me knew
could fight this life here with you. II
you"
"And I dared not ask you, sweet
hearth
why not?"
How could ask a girl who was used
But, I never was, you dear, dear
goose" she laughed. at was not an
honored guest at Ajados at all. had
been visiting wealthy schoolmate, ana
was asked by courtesy, nothing more.
1 thought at first that you went be-
CO use, we'll, because Cophetua could not
see his way to marrying the beggar
maid this time; and then Billie told me
the truth about you, and how you were
coming to this section to take up a
homestead claim, and so came too"
We'll use this for summer house.
dear" said Lewis. The ranch Is larger,
and more fitted to a honeymoon"
They strolled back to the shack to-
gether, and Barty, watching them as
they came slowly up the path, turned
away and went to get his pony.
Thanks, old man." Lewis told him,
as he put out his hand.
Thanks? Man, didn't do It for you.
It was for her, God bless her." And he
went whistling down the trail to
Ajados. -(Copyrighted, 1911, by Asso-
ciated Literary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
GLOBE SIGHTS.

[From the Atchison GIobe1
How a loafer hates to be called a
loafer.
The trouble with a poor speiIer is
that he doesn't know it.
If you imagine the world owes you
living you will find 1t a poor pay
master.
only to be in better condition to abuse
themselves.
The boy on a farm will usually be
found anxious to tackle some lob that
only man can do.
Count MCGOWAN says when he was
ill recently that the doctor gave him
an epidemic of morphine.
1t doesn't often happen that people
are so anxious to send you money that
they will telegraph it.
A woman is never so hlindly in love
with man that he fools her as much
as &c thinks he can.
With the exception of the fool who
playfully rocks the boat, everyone
else should know how to swim.
A hen is a great little detective
when it comes to finding place to get
through the netting on the PEN
Even, If you went to bed as early
as the birds dc. you might not feel SO
much like singing early in the morn
ing.
Long distance aeroplane flights have
demonstrated one thing: IL you arc in
hurry, it will pay you to take a
train.
The fact Of tie matter is that farm
ers are not so blamed independent as
the town men like to tell them they
are.
A woman thinks a man should have
working knowledge of the carpenter
trade whatever happens to be his reg
ular business
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
Human Tvphoid Carrier.

In a report sent to the New York milk
committee DR.. Charles E. North, bac-
teriologist for that organizations fur
nishes a remarkable account of how to
track down a typhoid epidemic which
had spread over a period of five years,
and which last fall resulted in closing
a fashionable summer colony in the
Adirondacks.
For years members of this camp"
composed of wealthy New Workers, had
been puzzled by the frequent outbreaks
of typhoid. Last September IL golf
caddies, laundress. and two maids
were stricken with the fever. Those
who were able to travel were sent to
New York and and placed In hospitals
and the camp closed, the rich owners
declaring they would never return until
the mysterious source of the disease
was absolutely traced and disposed of.
DR.. North, after two months of detec-
tive work, finally traced the epidemic
to a former well known Adirondack
guide, who was then employed as night
Waterman at the club house, and whose
duties included handling the milk sup
ply of the camp. He was found to be
a typhoid carrier" DR.. North, at the
instance of the New York milk commit
mittee, brought the man to New York
for observation and treatment, as the
milk committee is interested in stamp
ing out all communicating elements in
the distribution of milk.
The doctors says that when the man
returned to his home a few weeks ago
blood examinations showed him to be
far less infected than he was a few
months before.
1.-THE proper disposition of such a ty-
phoid carrier is not determined" says
DR.. North in his report. THE state de-
partment of health was appealed to,
but the commissioner declared he was
without authority to restrict the move
ments Of such persons. 1 therefore re-
leased this man with admonitfons re-
garding personal care. He is unable to
obtain work, and has, of course, lost
the position he formerly held. The
members of the club, however, are well
disposed toward him. and probably will
give him a pension on which to live"
New York American
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
as TO COLLEGES.

The tendency of modern institutions
then-if We disregard their distractions
is to make breadwinners, to tit men
20 earn money, writes E. Parmalee
prentice in Harper's Magazine for June.
S+a+a universities are necessarily OF
+bts character, and the influence upon
oil institutions which compete with
them is strong. Size itself almost IT.
resistibly drives this away. Tne reVo-
luton, indeed, seems to have gone from
one extreme to the other. and as the
old system had little place for men VINO
sought technical training, the new sys-
tenn has but scant place for those who
desire learning for its own sake. In
fact, the old system outlasted the
period of its greatest usefulness, and
when the change came offered but
slight resistance to new methods.
1t is becoming evident, however, that
the change has gone too far. and that
there were some features Of former
methods worth preserving. The coun-
try is too large and the demands Of
society are too complicated to be served
by any single system. One Of the
greatest misfortunes in the education of
a nation, John Stuart Mill said, would
be the establishment of uniformity un-
der the name of unity. There is room
in this great country for institutions of
every kind, and an increasing need that
different colleges turn their attention
| in different directions. Moreover, the
new system is beginning to disclose
some defects. Glasses are so large that
there is comparatively little individual
training. and at the same time the COM
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
IFrom the Chicago News

IFrom the Chicago News.l
Most sharp retorts are made in blunt
language.
A lot of the money people marry for is
counterfeit.
Two may be company-unIess they are
husband and wife.
Life without love is like a good dinner
without an appetite.
If a man has nothing to do he is al
ways equal to the task.
After once discovering that he is smart
man can't forget 1t.
Capital punishment ought to be satisfac-
tory to legislative grafters.
An old flame has stirred up many a
heated argument between husband and
wife.
Distance doesn't lend enchantment when
q man misses the last car and has to
walk home.
A cat may have nine lives, but when
II comes to Kicking the bucket" an old
COW has the cat beaten to FRAGILE.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
KANSAS COMMENT
HEALTH HEADQUARTERS.

A Massachusetts, man with q head for
that sort Of thing has been wading
through several tons Of statistics, and
contributes to a Springfield paper an
mortality in state penitentiaries is low
er than anywhere else. Convicts sell
dom die unless old age takes them, or
they have incurable diseases contract
ed before going to prison The ma
jority of them, when their terms expire.
leave the penitentiary in magnificent
health.
All this seems reasonable, when you
come to think of it. The life Of the
convict is like clockwork. Absolute reg
ularfty prevails from the day he enters
the prison to the day he leaves. He is
not permitted to smoke or drink or fol-
low other bad habits which are de-
structive to health. He does enough
work to keep his muscles in trim, and
his appetite on edge, but not enough to
exhaust him. He has a sufficiency of
wholesome food, without any of the
s1a- He retires to his downy couch at
a certain hour in the evening, and
rises at certain hour in the morning,
and sleeps soundly in the interval
People outside of prisons violate the
rules of health, through carelessness or
ignorance, every day, but the convict
isn't permitted to. He lives safely and
sanely, whether he wants to or not, and
good health is inevitable If he has u
sound constitution in the first place.
Nowadays people spend great deal
of time worrying over their health, and
lot of faddists make a fat living in
venting new systems" which cost
money and do little good. The sana-
tariums of the country are crowded
with invalids who pay fancy prices for
fancy treatment, and the real secret OF
health is offered by the penitentiaries.
When a man is sick, lock him up, and
see that he leads a sane and wholesome
life. and after a while he'll be feeling
like a conVict.-Emporia Gazette.
WHERE MUCH U. S. MONEY GOES.
Somewhere near half a billion Amer
lean dollars go to Europe every year.
This amount is permanently substract-
| ed from the productive capital of the
United States and added to that of
various European countries. Tourists
and returning immigrants take a part
| of 1t, and the balance goes in the form
| Of remittances to the "old folks at
home" This drain of money just about
| offsets the balance of trade in our
favor and leaves nothing to apply on
| the great interest account which is reg
ularly paid to holders of American Sc
curities. 1t may be rough on the United
States, but we are told by those who
| have investigated the subject that this
| stream of American dollars is brighten
| ing things wonderfully in Italy, Aus
| tria, Holland, Norway, Sweden and
| other places where it is needed. What
| can we do about it? Just grin and bear
it-that's all.-Wichita Beacon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
Famous Confederate FYag.

Gen. George W. Gordon, commander
of Confederate veterans for Tennessee,
and representative from the Tenth dis
trict, VIII give to the Volunteer State
his choicest legacy, the famous battle
flag of the Eleventh Tennessee in
fantry. 1t is so decreed in the will the
gallant former Confederate general
has written that upon his death this
tattered, blood-stained, bullet-riven old
flag goes to the Tennessee Historical
Society.
Gen. George w. Gordon commanded
Gordon's famous brigade in Cheat
hams division, and he followed this
flag through 22 of the fercest battles
of the civil war.
At the carnage at Franklin, Color
Sergt. Drew leaped upon the breast
works, waving 1t a1oft, only to fall
headlong into the breach q moment
later, riddled with Federal bullets. The
flag was found wrapped about his body
and stained with his blood. 1t waved
at Chickamauga's bloody field; at Mis-
with it, and the fifth that bore it was
carried wounded from the field. 1t
was in the many battles of the Georgia
campaign; at Nashville, at Bentonvtlie,
and finally was surrendered at Green's
| boro, N. G. While Confederate arms
were stacked there Capt. Clark, of
Nashville, of Company B, Eleventh
Tennessee, quietly cut the old flag
from the staff, put it around his body,
and brought it to Tennessee. The years
of turmoil that followed close on the
heels of the civil war senf the old flag
to the east Tennessee mountains: II
was kept hidden there by friend until
1867, when Capt. Clark presented it to
General Gordon. Later the STAFF was
recovered, SO that General Gordon now
has the old flag complete-that is
what remains of it.-Washington dis
patch to Nashville Tennesseean.