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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
ACCIDENT PREVENTION.

Illinois is well in the forefront of
r+ates which have passed good laws
for the health. safety and comfort or
erouloyees and for the prevention of
occupational diseases. While the ~old
method of fines is provided for in
these statutes, the officials have deter
mined to act on the principle that 1t
is better to lead than to drive: accord
ingly a school has been established In
Chicago for the education of both en-
ployees and employers in the prin-
ciples and methods of the prevention
of occupational diseases and accidents.
The school is in charge of the state
under the law to see that health and
safety devices are adopted. Beside a
laboratory for the study of the causes
of industrial accidents and diseases.
there is a chemical laboratory, a
model rest room, a model emergency
hospital, museum of pictures and ex-
hit,its showing safety devices and a
drafting room for the preparation of
plans and specifications for machinery
guards; these plans and specifications
will be furnished free to manufactur-
ers There is also a free reference
library of 1000 volumes on factory
inspection, occupational diseases and
welfare work. The facilities and
equipment of the school are to be sup
plemented by lectures to foremen,
superintendents and staff physicians of
industrial plants and to social workers
and others regarding occupational dis
eases and hazardous machinery. On
the teaching staff of the school is g.
physician who has made special study
of occupational diseases in this coun-
try and abroad, an engineer who is an
expert in the guarding of hazardous
machinery. and a corps of inspectors
who are specializing in the problems
involved in their work. Working
men and women are also encouraged
to visit the school and receive instruc-
lions in the way to protect themselves
or to have examinations made in case
they believe they are suffering from
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
MAINLY PERSONAL.

| County Superintendent King of Sa-
line county arrived in Topeka this
morning with one hundred OF his
teachers
Superintendent F. w. Simmens of
Mankato arrived in Topeka this morn
ing with his entire teaching force
Superintendent N. T. Veatch of
Atchison came in on t e Santa Fe spe-
cial from Atchison and Leavenworth
with his entire teaching corps, num-
bering sixty-one teachers.
Leavenworth arrived in Topeka this
morning with severn rthree teachers.
Sixty-one teache X came in this
morning from Parsons under the lead
ership of Superintendent F. L. Pinet.
Superintendent Guthridge of Galena
was shaking hands with his friends in
the capitol this morning.
Superintendent Frank Smith of
Lawrence came in on an early train
with all his teachers.
The Santa Fe special carrying four
hundred Kansas City teachers arrived
at $50 this morning.
Superintendent NJ. E. Pearson with
every one of his teachers came in on
the special
Superintendent w. S. Huesner of
Junction City is here this morning
with his entire teaching force.
Superintendent L. A. Lowther of
Emporia came in last night with a
large delegation of teachers from his
city.
superintendent Jonn w. SplndIer OF
Winfield arrived with thirty-six of his
teachers in a special Pullman coach
over the Santa Fe this morning.
Superintendent John F. Bender of
Arkansas City brought in thirty of his
teachers in special Pullman coach
owe rthe Santa Fe this morning
Superintendent L. w. Mayberry of
Wichita arrived at 10 o'clock this
morning on a Rock Island special con-
tanning two hundred of his teachers.
Superintendent J. E. Edgerton of
Manhattan came in on an early train
this morning with his entire teaching
force.
County Observation-Disclosures Eliza
beth Warner of Holton arrived on an
early train this morning. She carried
Jackson county by 1900 majority.
Superintendent John B. Heffelfnger
of ElDOrado came in yesterday as one
of the early arrivals. The ElDorado
schools are dismissed for the remain
der of the week and all his teachers
are here this morning.
superintendent A. F. Senter arrived
yesterday with his entire delegation.
Superintendent H. H. Van Fleet of
Holton arrived this morning with his
force of twenty-five teachers.
superintendent c. A. Clemmens of
Dodge City was one of the smiling
early arrivals this morning. At the
recent election the bond issue for a
new high school carried by a big ma
jority.
superintendent Hanna wetzig of
Manhattan, who is just reelected for
the fourth term, came in with a big
delegation of teachers this morning.
County superintendent Hattie E.
Wood of Garrett came in this morn
ing with fifty teachers from that
county.
Superintendent T. A. Edgerton of
Topeka yesterday where they spent
the day visiting the Topeka schools.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
SAYS UNCLE CAV

It's all right to be bullheaded If
you're bullheaded over something
worth while. The man who is set i'll
his notions may not be the pleasant
est neighbor imaginable, but II he be-
comes set only when there is good
reason, he's got a bigger pull with
fame and fortune than all the kings
horses and all the kings men. He's
favored of the gods, and the best that
the less persistent mortal who OPP
poses him will get for his pains is a
bumped head.
The buIlheaded man has a way of
assuming that everybody else is wrong
and feeling sorry for the fellow VINO
differs from him. There's a big moral
advantage in that attitude, always
providing that the person with the pro-
verbal bovine Indifference to goads
and gee ropes has maintained an open
mind until he has found real reason
for the faith that is in him. The man
who undertakes any task wondering If
he isn't more than half wrong is going
to spend a lot of valuable time and
energy worrying over the situation. No
man can strike so strong a blow for
a doubtful cause as for one he knows to
be beyond censure. The fellow who is
constantly prepared to apologize for
his course is already on the run. The
defeat has taken place within him be-
fore the apparently decisive blow
has been struck He is down before
he has been hft-fe has been conquer
ed by an immoral attitude.
Blessed is the man who is so bull
headed that he can't get the concep-
ton OF defeat into his brain. He's a
long favorite in the handicap for he
has neither to outrun nor to fight
fear. His eye and hand and brain
are single to the task before them,
and neither cowardice, backache nor
stage fright shall turn his blood to
water. He doesn't vince until he has
been struck, ana he doesn't go down
until he is knocked out. And because
there are comparatively few intelligent
bullheaded men in the world, his fear
lessness conquers MS foe before brain
or braw1 sets a chance.
Blessed are the bullheaded whose
cause is just.-(Copyright 1912, by the
Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate:)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.I

From the Chicago News.
It takes a good dinner to dissolve an
ordinary Crouch.
But a honely man doesn't look 1t after
you get used to him
The man with subscription paper also
loves cheerful gtver.
Excuses don't amount to much as peo-
pie seldom believe them.
It's the same old story, leap year never
did live up to its prospectus.
You can help a man wonderfully some
times by not giving him advice
Many ministers want to labor in the
vineyard where the pay is best
About the shabbiest thing we know of is
an oId moth-eaten ostrich feather.
The man who gets the best results Is the
enc who goes after them himself.
1t Is awfu1ly hard for man to sleep In
church if the pews are uncomfortable.
Liquor improves with age. The longer
YOU keep it corked the better it is for you
He is a poor political manager who at
this stage of the game fails to see victory
ahead.
If you always think twice before you
speak nine times out of a possible ten you
will have no occasion to say word.
When you are not feeling we'll everybody
you meet will recommend some remedy
they wouldn't think of trying themselves.
The woman who lives up to the expecta-
tions of her hired girl should be admitted
without question when she knocks at the
pearly gates.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
.AYHAWKER JOTS

1t must be a grave offense to flirt
in 81 cemetery, thinks the Scranton
Gazette
According to the Osawatomie Crap
ic it's a lot of little men hustling like
sixty that makes big business.
Isn't it strange. asks the Haven
Journal, that with all the late horse
disease. nobody thought to try Pc
runa?
1t is fortunate, thinks the Holton
Signal, that the successful candidate
for the presidency Is not required to
pay the expenses of his campaign out
of the receipts of his office.
An Indian prisoner at the federal
penitentiary at Leavenworth died the
other day. He claimed he was the
of an Indian who wasn't the son of
chief?
After a man is run over by a troll
ley car, points out the South Kansas
Tribune his wife realizes his true VAL
ue; and, as a rule, the company at
for cent less.
It's now the season when apple
pickers notice that the incest fruit is
in the top of the tree, remarks Click
Fockele, and he adds: And the good
things of life are those reached with
the most effort.
Considering how big a dividend the
dispensing of honey on life's pathway
pays, isn't it surprising, asks Anna
Carlson of the Lindsborg News. that
so many folks prefer to sprinkle vine
gar everywhere they go.
Attention is called by the Salina
Journal to the fact that after studying
recent murder case three weeks, a
ceroner's jury in Wellington brought
in a verdict in which it was found
that one of the victims had been kill
ed.
Two country students of the Downs
high school who bring their dinners
to school were discussing their food.
Don't you think these doughnuts are
better than those 1 had last week ~
asked one. Yes" replied her COM
panion, the holes are larger"
Some sayings by Uncle ST of the OF
tawa Republic: A woman's second
thoughts generally mount up into tn
teens It amt much trouble
to catch a girl when she's runnin'
away from a kiss: It takes
a lot of Imagination on the part of
the public to make poets out of some
versifiere.
A man asked 81 Chestnut the other
day, relates the Sedgwick Paragraph,
If he would go to church on Sunday
If somebody should tell him where he
could catch a good string of bass and
Sunday was the only time he could go
fishing. .'WeI1, that's a pretty stiff
question to answer" replied 81. ct ex-
pect it would depend a good deal on
VIII ether I thought the somebody who
told me about it was a liar
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
GLOBE SIGHTS
gY THE ATCHIsOHs GLOBE.

To a crook, every game looks crooked
We don't know why delays occur, but
they do.
As a matter OF fact gratitude is never
an abundant crop.
Helping yourself is one reasonably sure
way to help others
Neither should one devote full time to
giving the devil his dues.
Good workmanship will outclass the
other kinds Of pulls in the long run.
Politicians are not the only husbands
who make promises they have no inten-
ton of filling.
A country where rain doesn't interfere
with the picnics won't amount to much in
other respects.
Optimism is great institution, but tho
Sunshine club can't expect to do much
work at a funeral.
Don't feel bad because the crouch can
have a coed time; it would make him feel
bad IL he could
Don't show your self-confidence III
necessarily, lest the people label it con-
ceit as they apt to do.
One should not carry the desire to get
his moneys worth to the point of having
his clothes made too large.
1t isn't a good idea to have the kind OF
enthusiasm that runs of on a side line
and makes one neglect his rgular business.
A king doesn't have to be reelected to
hold his job, but the danger Of being re-
called by an anarchist lends some interest
to the royal Job.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07

diseases due to their occupation, in
which case conditions responsible for
their troubles will be inquired into
and corrected. The bulletins of the
department of state factory inspection
will be issued from this school and
distribu ed to manufacturers, workers
and others. Under this plan. says the
Journal of the American Medical AS
ISOLATION, the state factory inspector,
instead of acting in the role of po-
nceman to compel compliance with
the laws, will act as an expert in an
advisory capacity. With manufactur-
ers and laborers working in co-opera-
ton it is expected that Illinois will
soon occupy a leading position in the
condition of those employed in its
Industrial plants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
PARKER HOME ROBBED
aged Man Loses Money Saved to Pay
Rent.

the me home of J. w. Parker, at s24 North
1890 1pTna aVeF en- sa. was robbed Wednesday
OF silver knives and forks. The burglary
was committed between $50 and 7:3O
o CLOCK, while the family was up town
shopping The money was the remainder
OF the quarterly pension of Mr.. Parker.
Mr.. Parker is a veteran of the civil war
ana IS about 20 years old. His wife is
but few years younger. The old couple,
with their 14-year-old son, left home at
$50 o'clock and returned two hours later,
me furniture and other things in the
house were in disorder Three $40 hills
and one S. bill were taken
The money had been secreted in grip
winch had been hidden in closet and the
s1lverware was in a drawer in a bureau,
The burglars entered the house by fore
ing the front door The house was con-
s1derably damaged during the flood in
that section of the city. It is three
room shack affair and is in a miserabl
condition. The money was being held
to pay three months rent on the place
which is due.
Members of. a gang of boys who loiter
around in that section of the city are
suspected of committing the robbery but
the police have not received sufficient in
formation to warrant an arrest
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
by THE WAY
1T HARVEY PARso4s4

Looking over the newspaper por-
traits. one might be pardoned fol
wondering what Hon. Thomas Mar
shall looks so sad about.
Now is a good time for the IL Coz
was it 17?) enemies of Bale Wag-
gener to begin looking for a goat tc
run against him four years hence.
For, as we have previously observed
IL pays to do your senatorial shopping
early.
The ng-Forward-cIub is now
at liberty to look forward to Christ
mas.
And, as we toboggan to the typo
graphical department, there is wide
spread suspicion that Wilson has car
ried New York.
In fact. the suspicion is backed by
testimony. In Pennsylvania, where
Hon. Roosevelt had four parties in the
field-three beside Hon. Bill Finn
the evidence is not conclusive at this
time.
THAT ALLEGED BOOK. by the
Way will be off the anvil presently
Advance orders are not barred. Ad-
thought, forgetting not to inclose six
bits in perfectly good coin.
Or, steel engravings of the late Mr..
George Washington, in sufficient num-
bers will be accepted.
And a postal or express money order
might get by the door keeper, If prop
erly chaperoned.
We stand at acknowledgements con-
duct an inquest.
And a lot of local candidates who
stood at Armageddon are there yet.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
QUAKER INDICATIONS.
FROM the Philadelphia Rec

From the Philadelphia Record.
A man should be credit to himself but
he wants a little cash thrown in.
Love may make the world go round but
sometimes 1t takes marriage to square IL.
Even when no one win lend him any
thing else, man can always borrow
trouble.
1t is perhaps possible for a man to ape
the nobility without getting as drunk as q
lord.
No Maude, dear: a chorus of n1ilk-maIds
Isn't essential to musical comedy in or
der to exhibit the calves.
Wigg-'Harduppe says he lost his peck
etbook and 1t was full of bills" Wagg-
'I'II bet they were unTeceipted.''
When q fellow proposes and the girl
turns him down. she ought to have the
door locked He might take her at her
word.
NeIl-''He's q man after my own heart. -
Rele-"Niy experience has been that he's
a man after the heart of every girl he
meets.
Mr. Gnaggs-"You'n be the death of ne
yet" Mrs. Gnaggs-''Well. before we
were married you usfAl to say you would
gladly die for me-
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
WILSON'S JOB BIC
New President Will Have to
Fill $4,000 Places.
Patronage Worth 80 Millions
in His Hands.

Washington, Nov. Upwards of 80
millions of dollars will Ve the money
value of the patronage that will be at
the disposal of President-elect Wilson
when he comes into the White House.
This represents an army of office seek
ers that will aggregate about $4,000.
These two facts more than any one
other thing indicate the terrific pressure
| that will be brought to bear upon the
White House and the unceasing hours
of toll and labor that are now before
the new chief executive without regard
to questions of public policy and 1egis-
lation along the lines of the party
pledges and the public utterances of the
candidate.
The offices named in the accompany
ing table are not protected by the civil
service. They are at the bestowaI of
the president, and the demand for their
immediate transfer from Republican
incumbents to Democratic aspirants
may be insistent. BY a stroke of the
pen many more could be removed from
shelter of the civil service.
President Mckinley, who succeeded
Cleveland, found so many Republicans
clamoring for the offices from which for
four years they had be elected, that he
made many exceptions and, in great
measure, negatived the force of the
civil service law. When Cleveland sue
ceeded Harrison he went to the other
extreme and declined to violate either
the letter or spirit of that law, and few
Democratic officials were appointed ex-
cept administrative heads who were. re-
sponsible either as chief or subordinate
officials for the policy of the admins
tration. How Mr.. Wilson will act upon
the return to power of his party and the
long absence from the public crib is a
question that remains to be answered
The patronage list is as follows:
Nine cabinet officers at $4,000 each,
sos, 900,
State department, sixteen persons,
So, 900.
Treasury department, 1872 persons,
Collectors of customs and assistants,
800 200.
War department, four persons, SIC, $500.
Navy department, four persons, $14,-
Interior department, 81 persons. 1882
Agricultural department, 2S persons,
$50, 900.
Library of Congress, one person, &c.
500.
Literary employees, not under civil
service, $348, 160
Civil service commission. three ner-
sons, $13, 500
White House staff, four persons. s1s.-
500 10
$48,25
Department of Justice, 50 persons
$19S. 400. -0'
Commerce of Labor, 81 persons, 1922.
400 '--'' ~-'-'
Ambassadors and ministers, 43 per-
sons, $50, 500
eecretarles and embassies and lega-
tons, "a persons, $139,175.
Consuls and consular officials 81
037, 600 ~
Interstate Commerce Commission. z
persons, $4,000
Government printing office, one, S.. 900.
commissioner of District of Column
b1a, two persons, $4,000.
FederaI officials numbering 9.066 out
SIDE of Washington, including post
masters, all grades, marshaIs and attor-
neys, ETC., 7,018, 900.
Total $50 227 S25
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Art is usually short on long green.
Prominent among the necessary
nuisances are alarm clocks.
4 X
She's the rare woman who thinks
any man is good enough for her.
Neither do so many males of the
species smile merely to show their
teeth.
The hopes realized compared with
those shattered are few and far be-
tween.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
GRAND OPERA TONIGHT
Noted Singers at Auditorium for the
Visiting Teachers.

'It looks as though Kansas had an am
bition to lead in artistic things" said
Mrs Herman Lewis, manager for Laura
Graves, the English contralto, who is one
of the artists of the quartet that will
sing selections from Grand opera at the
auditorium tonight. The Commercial
club committee under Mr.. Elon Clark has
been fortunate in getting together such a
remarkable quartet. But heaven and
earth was almost moved to give the Kan
sas teachers the best in music. The Chi
cago-Philadelphia Opera company had to
change it's plans to let Mr.. Warnery, the
tenor, come to Topeka. NJ. H. Hanson,
the concert director under whom 1 am
working, brought Miss Graves, the con-
tralto, from Fargo, North Dakota
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
DAFFYDMS
BY q. NOALL4

If a hen produced a poem would it
be a roundeIay?
(Cut, Cutl! Cut!l. Get your hc..==
cut!HD
Talking about baseball, isn't the
bill posters stickwork pretty good2
(Step right in, ladies and gentle
men! We are just about to feed
them.)
If a fat gent stepped on your tccs
would it make your foot bawl?
(Turn him over to the tender mer-
cies of the Bulgarians. He's the BOOB
that pIsI sfle Turk in Turkey.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07

county was elected-G. G.. Adams,
clerk: J. R. Powell, treasurer; G. r.
Douglas, register of deeds; G. NJ. Reid,
county attorney; Robert Rockwell,
probate judge; Frank Bolinger, sher-
in; A. r. Simpson, county superin-
tendent; DR.. S. S. McGinnis, coroner;
A. s. Hurt, county surveyor; J. H.
sheppard clerk of court. Amendment
carried by 1 8 votes
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
The STATE OFFICERS.
All Safe But Akers, Who Has a Close
Race.

The Republicans elected all their minor
oHicers on the state ticket with the ex-
ception of Earl Akers for state treasurer
by pluralities of from 200 to 1000. Akers
and Laughlin, Democrat, are running a
close race and the result is in doubt.
With the returns from 100 counties COM
plete and the other five estimated, both
Democratic and Republican state chair
men agree that Wilson will have from
1900 to 1900 plurality over Roosevelt and
that Thompson, Democrat, for senator,
viii have a plurality of 1900 over Stubs,
Republican.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
JOHN DAWSON WINS.
Attorney General Reelected by $4,000
Majority.

Attorney General John S. Dawson is
apparently reelected by about $4,000,
defeating c. B. Little of Olathe, the
Democratic nominee. Dawson has
carried So of the 65- counties from
which he has received reports and
places his majority at about $4,000.
Complete returns have been re-
ceived by Dawson from "A counties,
OF which he carried 80 and Little six.
These counties give Dawson a plurality
of STAG from which he basis his opin-
ion that $4,000 is a conservative esti-
mate of MS majority
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
WORKS WITHOUT PAY.
Doctor Demanding $500 Refuses to
Accept $1,000.

Newton, Mass, Nov. For the TWEEN
tieth consecutive year DR.. Francis Curtis
has refused to accept the salary of s1,UO0
offered by the city for his work as super
intendent of the board of health. DIR. Cur
tbs always placed $1,500 the proper re-
Enumeration for his services, and rather
than accept the $1,000 offered, has given
his services free for the last twenty years.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELcc

TFrom the New York Press.1
Cocktail wit is a long way from rcS1-
beef wisdom.
A very small family can always size W
to a big income.
Women never have to wait for the cid
of a funny story to miss the point.
A man who doesn't trust women de-
serves to be fooled by them just the way
he will be-
All girl knows about men she has a
happy faculty of forgetting the minute
her mother asks her about it.
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Kennedy TO ORIENT.
Former Rock Island Man Made Gen.
eraI Manager at Wichita

Kansas City, Nov. THE receivers
of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient
railway today announced the appoint
ment of NJ. J. Kennedy as acting gen.
eraI manager, headquarters at Wichita,
Kan.
Mr. Kennedy formerly was division
superintendent of the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific at Davenport.