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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
JAYHAWKER JOTy

The Salina Journal thinks it is very
| appropriate weather for the presenta-
| ton of 1.-The Melting Pot" in Kansas.
Married life is not all sunshine and
| roses in Brown county. There are %
divorce cases to be heard at the next
| term of the district court to be held
| at Hiawatha.
A pertinent query from the Hutch
| inson News: Now that the Cinnamon
have reached the point OF. going without
their pigtails, why can't the American
women do as much?
Atchison has the honors of being the
home of the most poverty-Stricken man
in Kansas. He insists he is so poor
that he couldn't buy a round Of am
munition for an air gun.
A town is judged by its newspapers
much as a salesman is sized up by his
clothes. The whole community is thus
a partner in its journalistic enterprises
If you want your city to put it's best
foot forward give the home paper the
support it needs to keep on expand
ing and growing more attractive
Belleville Telescope.
Another edition of "who's Who in
America has been issued. One hum
dred and 1fty-hve Kansans are men
toned, which means that the other
1,690,7 1874 of us Census 1910 saved just
IS, 453,97O, as each mention entails the
investment of S. in copy. Personal
~ we u De d E1OO-1OO ana OWN
a lumber yard than be a Who-Who and
own one OF those books-Iola Register.
Did you read about that one-legged
man in Wichita who ran into a street
the other day and stopped a runaway
horse that was carrying a woman and
her little girl to destruction, and when
the horse wouldn't stop, the one-legged
man grabbed him by the ear and threw
him to the pavement? asks the Null
vane News. We can't help but won
der what would have happened to that
horse had the hero had more legs, and
the same reporter had seen the Incl
dent.
81 thought" said A. P. Elder of OF
tawa to Jess Worley, 'sI had heard all
the political stories told on my father,
but a brand new one was put to me
in Topeka one day this week, by DR..
Lynn, an old resident of Topeka, who
was in his prime about the time that
father was lieutenant governor, 40 years
ago. The story was this: DR. Lynn
was in the senate when a bill was
introduced to increase the member
ship of the senate. 81 wanted to know
how to vote" DR.. Lynn says, land
went to P. P. Elder and asked him
about it, ''Oh, vote against it." the
head of the senate is quoted as say
ing, lit takes too much to buy the SEN
ate as 1T is % -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
THE HERDER,s sroKY.

strongarmed Pop was all we called him
didn't need no other name;
Used to herd sheep in Wyomin-fact 1t
allus was his game.
How he got the name I'll tell you
thought most everybody knew.
NO, 1t amt a dashed long story-thanks,
that there's good weed, too.
Oncet Pop herded on mesa-made camp
right clost to the edge;
Still he didn't have no trouble keepin'
them sheep from the ledge.
But one day a storm come Sudden-first
thing that there herder saw
Was three thousand sheep a-driftin' fer
that cliff, right down a draw
At the edge the draw was narrer-hardly
room fer one to pass.
Pop he runs ahead, but Lordy! naught
could stop that chargin mass:
SO he jumps right off the mesa-uster
play ball in his day
Catches every sheep that tumbles-never
muffed but one. they say.
That's how Pop is nicknamed Strongarm
sheep that drop three hundred feet
Amt no easy thing to handle, so Pops
record amt been beat
What's that? Castin' doubts upon it?
Stranger. that's a rude surprise.
Pop himself told me that story and a
sheep man never lies.
Denver Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
FROA 07EER PENS
GOLD BULLION FOR EXPORT.

GOLD BULLION FOR EXPORT.
If considerable portion of mer-
chants business were of the wholesale
sort, a part of his customers demand
ing his commodity IN barrels, yet he,
nevertheless, insisted, at considerable
expense, upon having all the barrels
as they came to him unpacked, keep
ing his supply on hand only in retail
lots, everybody would say that he
lacked ordinary business sense. Yet it
is something like that which this
country does with it's gold. Producing
more gold than it requires, it has some
for export. Yet, although the demand
for the exporters of gold is chiefly for
gold bars, the government is in the
habit of melting its gold bars and coin
ing them into dollars and supplying 10
the exporter who wants gold bars gold
dollars. The secretary Of the treasury
estimates that this habit costs 5000, 900
a year.
There is bill before congress having
the support of the secretary of the
treasury which permits the treasury to
keep on hand gold bars for export and
foreign coin also, treating it as bullion.
1t permits the issue of a reasonable
proportion of gold certificates against
bullion instead of as now all against
gold coin. If the bill passes, when an
exporter presents gold certificates he
may obtain in exchange for them gold
bars or foreign coin, as he Wishes
New York Tribune,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
GLOBE SIGHTS.
EFrom the Atchison Globe.l

IFrom the Atchison Globe.l
It takes a pretty fair mechanic to
keep a pipe in running order.
About the only thing some men are
ever responsible for is delay.
In real life people don't battle as
often as they do in the Saturday Post
serials.
by the simple process of neglecting the
barber.
When one Town Drunkard dies or
reforms there is always another to
take his place.
Whenever there is a beggar on
corner people remark: It'll bet he has
more money than have"
Speaking of excuses, there is some
curiosity to know what kind of a one
the guinea hen has to offer.
Talk to the average woman five
minutes and she'll make some remark
that will arouse your curiosity.
@'I have observed that the man who
is poor but proud is frequently too
proud to work."-Count MCGOWAN.
Every sixteen-year- girl prob
ably congratulates herself every night
because she wasn't kidnapped that
day.
Our notion of ignominious death
would be to choke to death with the
bone of German carp in ones throat.
As general proposition, the Ter
rible Toothache has the Terrible Turk
outclassed as an honest, hard-work-
ing terror.
Not only must the dancers pay the
fiddler, but they will find that he
raises his wages from time to time as
the dance goes on.
Men have been sued for breach of
promise when the plaintiffs really
should have offered a bonus instead
of asking for damages.
A grudge will grow, all right, If you
cultivate 1t, but it saps the soil which
nurtures It more than the despised
cottonwood tree does.
What has become Of the old-fash-
Toned man, who, when young, could
cut more wheat with a cradle than
any other man in the township?
A young fellow who begins every
other sentence with Believe me-" is
about as tiresome as the girl who is
always saying. Don't you know"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
JOURNAL ENTRIES

A loss of memory would be a great
boon to many folk.
X X y
If divorces were not so easy, maybe
there wouldn't be so many marriages.
y =
Many families attempt to put on airs
without much cause and with less sue
cess.
X
Not having the slightest idea what
It is, many people, in their hunt for
happiness, pass it by.
x \
It doesn't take much in the way of
a storm to wreck some of the craft
that sail on the sea of life.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

room, and to the establishment Of
Morgan, her fair head suddenly Dent
over his shoulder. Nor did l De-
lieve you would. you big boy, she
cried exu1tingly. Father Is so skep-
teal in reference to political honesty
that II wanted to show him tnat
you couldn't be- bribed, and-ano-
you couldn't
Two arms were suddenly thrown
around the youths neck and a flushed
face hid itself from his happy eyes,
copyrighted 1911 by Associated Lit
erary Press.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
HUAoR or THE Day

Ruffon Wratz-Is they anything in thlS
yere Socialism, dye reckon? Saymoies
handont5-Not FUR us. ole scout Were
t work fur it.-Chicago Tribune.
A taxicab chauffeur was discharged for
reckless driving, and so he became
motorman on a trolley line. As he was
friend said: "Oh, what's the matter with
youy Can't you run oyer people Just as
replied, but formerly could pick and
choose."-Argonaut.
How did you make your neighbor keep
his chickens in his own yard?" IT went
out every night and hid q bunch of eggs
on my lawn Then let him see me gath,
er1ng them in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Leader.
TN going to wake 'em up when I get
politician. Wen, SON" renlieS ssnato T
Sorghum. IAN alarm clock may be useful
Star.
What is the difference between firm
ness and obstinacy?" asked young lady
of her fiance: ..Ffrmness." was his gal
liant reply, lis a noble characteristic of
in men.''--stray Stories.
Perhaps the wittiest and most. graceful
was said by Joseph Il. Ghoate some d1S w one
asked him: Mr. Choate, if you could not
be yourself, who would YOU rather be?'
second husband. Life.
tious man. Ashley-He is cautious He's
SO cautious that he wouldn't ask the
prettiest girl in all the world to let him
see her home unless he had learned how
far away she lived.-Chicago News.
4, Australia is trying to stop betting on
aver
volved. A girl consulted bookmaker
If put on a sovereign at to l." she
Nine pounds b snGulc said g the booxmser
And 10 to 1?' The bookmaker explained
that this might mean Ell. Yes. now
happen if l put sovereign on exactly at
1 ock?"-Argonaut.
day on the moors and the compensation
after dinner turned naturally on bags and
'Wa-al,'' said the American visitor II
reckon amt done myself justice today.
Why was out cunning once. at home,
and brought back ninety-nine birds with
his host good5.;asaturedly; why not make
George Washington II, do you think I'd
perjure my soul for one bird ?'-London
Onlooker.
A letter came from the clothing firm
saying that the cloth that had been sent
them was full of moths. Was the whole
sale house taken aback? Not it. By re-
turn post went missive to this effect:
''On looking over your order we find that
you did not order any moths. 1t was our
error, and you will please return them at
once at our xpense."-Argoraut.
- 49, f--7 z-!-
One morning last summer President
Taft, wearing the largest bathing suit
known to modern times, threw his sub
stantial and ponderous form into the cool
ing waves of Beverly Bay. That after
noon newspaper correspondent sent the
ty little swimming along the north shore
today. The president was using the
ocean."-Exchange.
Mr.. Styles-I see that, on an average,
over sixty reputed centenarians die each
year, in England and Wales. Mrs. Styles
oh, that's too bad! Do you suppose
those heavy fogs they have over there
have anything to do with it?-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
THE sCHoon SUPERINTENDENT


Having decided to make change in
the city superintendent of schools,
the members of the board of educa-
ton, or a large majority of them, seem
to have made a wise choice in select
ing Mr.. C. C. Starr for this position.
The Observation-Disclosures is equipped
with an excellent education. He has
had much experience in the manage
ment Of schools. And as assistant
state superintendent of public instruc-
ton for the past few years he has rem
dered valuable service to the cause Of
public education in Kansas. He proved
to be a vigorous and progressive ad-
ministrator. That is just what the
schools of Topeka need in the individ-
ual at their head.
But the best equipped educator and
school administrator in the world
would not be able to make much of a
success in the management of the To-
peka schools, or the schools of any
other city for that matter. unless he
received the right kind of support and
announcement from the members of
the board of education, from the
teachers in the schools and from the
community in general. OF such sup
port and encouragement is Mr.. Starr
deserving. 1t should be extended to
him in hearty fashion. He should be
given every opportunity to work Quito
the full extent of his abilities, and he
should be assisted in every way posi-
BILE to make his tenure of office a sue
cess and worth while.
It may be that he will not measure
up to the requirements Of the posi-
ton, even if the necessary support and
encouragement are given him. That is
for the future to determine But he
certainly will not measure up to it, or
rather have a chance to do SO, If he
does not get the assistance and the
help he deserves. No man could. If
anything of bitterness developed in
any quarters over the retirement of
Professor Whittemore, it should be
forgotten forthwith. Not small ma
jority, but a large majority of the
members of the board of education de-
cided that change in the city super
intendency was for the best. 1t is
ridiculous for two or three members
of the board of education to assume
that all of the intelligence in the en-
tire municipality concerning the
proper conduct of the schools has been
absorbed by them. At the last school
election in the city, the voters let it be
known in no uncertain terms that they
desired a material change in the man
agement of the educational affairs of
the city. The new members of the
board who were elected at that time
evidently arrived at the conclusion
that in order to bring about change
a new superintendent of schools would
have to be chosen. There were enough
old members on the board who
thought likewise to make such
change by an overwhelming vote. That
change has been ordered, and every
one in the city. the members of the
board of education, the teachers, and
the parents who are interested in the
development of the schools, should
cheerfully accept the new situation
that has been created They should
do everything in their power to help
Mr.. Starr on his way when he assumes
the duties of the important Office that
has been entrusted to his hands.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
LEGAL PERFORMERS.

Senator Root is one of the ablest
lawyers and sanest thinkers in the
country, and when he declares himself
a radical on the question of court
procedure and practice the average
lawyer and legislator may well sit up
and take notice.
Senator Root is for simplification
all along the line. He would retain
few statutory rules to govern the ap-
plication of law to concrete situations.
He demands more freedom for the
judges, more opportunity for common
sense, and equity He points, with
telling effect, to the simple procedure
of the international court at The
Hague, a court that deals with the
most complicated disputes imaginable.
Safeguards, soca1Ied technicalities,
1ctions delays serve no legitimate in
terest. Inefficient and costly Justice
is not justice at all. Senator Root
would also do away with abuses of ap-
peal and with reversals for immaterial
errors on the part of the trial judge.
Here, too, he is as<.radical.'' But the
trend of sentiment is with him. Even
high courts are beginning to reject the
old notions of "error.'-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

If the weather of the last few days
can be taken as criterion of what it
IS going to be for the next few weeks,
the grounding will once again be-
come a prophet without honor in his
own country. Still the people will not
be disposed to throw any bricks at the
little beast. The kind of weather
which has been prevailing of late is ex-
ceedingly satisfactory.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
IFrom the New York Press.J

Some men are so ungrateful they
don't appreciate only a few relatives.
II an artistic temperament can't
make living it has no doubts about
itself.
A man who can walk fifty miles for
fun without feeling tired will faint If
it's only three for business.
A woman feels that it is specially
her duty to believe her husband has
brains when she knows he hasn't
Women have the sublime courage
in being able to go on fighting their
battle for an ideal marriage after
they know 1t is lost.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
CoNcERNING REPORTERS.

A small Drained man is often known
by the breaks he makes. Give him a
public office and BIS mental incapacity
is likely to be emphasized.
Newspaper reporters. says the fourth
deputy police commissioner of New
York, are thick skufled. thick
skinned. thick headed, or else they
would not be reporters For a fourth
deputy, with more superior officers
than an average once boy. this is
rather a sweeping genera lization. -.
The highest executive position in the
world is occupied by former re-
porter. He is William H. Taft. The
most important municipal Office in
the world is held by a former report
er. He is William J. Gaynor-
No profession on earth has higher
ideals nor maintains better average
of honor among its followers than does
the newspaper profession And the
majority of newspaper men the world
over are porters.-Cleveland Plain
Dealer
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

Some Of that 100000 peace fund,
provided by Andrew Carnegie. might
be used advantageously in quelling the
revolutions and the wars they engen-
der in the smaller nations particularly
those in South and Central America,
by buying off the revolutionary lead
ers. Most of them are in the revoIu-
tionary business merely for the per-
sOnal gain they hope to get out of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

They still use the whipping post for
wife-beaters in Baltimore. Md. And
while some people may hold that TINS
institution is q. relic of barbarous ages
it provides just the kind of punishment
that wife-beaters deserve. There ought
to be a whipping post in every com
nlunity. It's mere presence would have
a sanitary effect
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08
Whooping Cough Mascot

Twill you please give mother a nut
to put a spider in? Baby's got wffoop-
ing cough" That was the request of a
small child to a Tiverton tradesman.
For in the west country they have
whooping cough. and know the cure.
You get a live spider and nut. Into
the nutshell you put the spider. Tie
the charm around baby's neck. And
when the spider dies-as he must very
soon-the whooping cough goes 1t is
the belief in the c11arm-the mascot
And one would like to find any one
without that undertow of belief in the
charm.-London Chronicle
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

The news of a day in Kansas would
be far from being complete unless it
contained a story abe t a successful
bank robbery. If this thing keeps up,
the companies which insure banks
against robbery will not be very
keen t. do business in the Sunflower
state. Nor is passing a law subject
ing bank robbers to penitentiary terms
of from ten to thirty years going to
stop it, either.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

..xaws." is, indeed. a fine name for
the new Topeka ball team. Undoupt-
edly. though, there Will be super
stitious folk who will insist that 1t
makes a noise like a hoodoo, because 1t
is almost an accepted truth that the
onl1 good Indians are dead Indians.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

Good things assuredly come SLOW
kansas City, Kan, has finally peen
given a place on the railroad map OF
the state. Heretofore it has been little
more than a whistling station.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

Washburn college may be forty-six
years old, but it doesn't act that way.
It has all the earmarks of vigorous
youth, and has grown and developed
more during the ripper years of its life
than ever before. And there is no in
dication that it is anywheres near the
limit OF its development Its rank
among the educational institutions of
the country is high and its worth to
Topeka is inestimable- May Washburn
ever continue to flourish and prosper.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

iruarez was saved at the eleventh
hour from an attack by the Mexican
revolutionists. And wouldn't it have
been a shame to have permitted the in
Fiction of any additional pain on
town with such a name?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

That 100000 which San Francisco
spent in the conduct of it's successful
campaign for the location of the
Panama Canal exposition looks Ike a
large sum of money, but in all proba-
binty it will be decidedly insignificant
In comparison with the debt that San
Franc 60 will have to wipe out after
this exposition has closed its gates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

marked that Mr.. Lodge came uncom-
fortably near taking step backward
a few weeks ago under the present
method of electing senators.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

wherever there is a baseball team
in a professional league the prospects
these days for that team during the
coming season are exceptionally bril-
liant, or are so reported.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

This much is certain 1t will be i'm
possible for Colonel Roosevelt to ele-
waite Mark Twain to an active MEM
bership in the Ananias club.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-08

'"creen" was a peculiarly appro-
pirate color to be used in the deeora-
tfons incident to the wedding OF the
infant daughter OF George J. Gould to
that elderly English baron.