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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
RrRAt. SCHOOLS NEED HELP.

e. T. Fairchild has been state super
intendent of public instruction for sew
eraI years. He is gentleman OF
marked intelligence and keen discern
ment Therefore he assuredly knows
whereof he speaks when he discusses
the conditions that prevail in the ru-
raj schools of Kansas. And the picture
he painted recently of these schools is
not a pleasing one. This is especial
Nv true when it is remembered that
the people of Kansas spend about
S1O,OO0,OOO on public education, which
is a per capita tax of more than So
on every man, woman and child in
the state.
Mr.. Fairchild declares that the ru-
raj schools are not nearly so strong
and efficient as they were thirty
wears ago. This is rather astonishing
information but one that is no doubt
borne out by the facts. And Mr.
FairchiId places his finger on the sore
that is responsible to a large extent
for this discreditable condition of af-
fairs. Too much attention, he says
has been given to the development OF
the higher educational institutions OF
the state at the expense of the rural
schools In these columns of some
days ago this very point was made
when it was suggested that as far as
the public educational systems in the
cities were concerned, the cost of their
maintenance was not properly appor-
toned among the high schools and the
grammar schools; that too much mon
ey was spent on the high school
courses in comparison with the sum
that was spent on the grammar
FOR Of 10
grammar schools are of the more i'm
portance because the great bulk of
the children never go beyond them.
All the education they can get is that
with which the grammar schools pro-
vide them.
1t is Mr.. Fairchild's opinion, found
ed on absolute facts, beyond a doubt,
that the same indefensible conditions
prevail among the elementary rural
schools They have been sacrificed of
late years that the higher educational
institutions might be developed. These
higher educational Institutions should
be made as efficient as possible. Only
the crank decries their usefulness.
But they certainly should not be built
up at the expense of the elementary
schools either in the cities or the rural
districts.
Just that is being done, as Mr..
Fairchild contends. Every educa-
tionaI activity in Kansas Of any con-
sequence is directed to the furtherance
of the interests of higher educational
institutions. Mr.. Fairchild would like
to see a commission created to work
for a better development of the rural
which is so sorely needed. A
of this sort in the inter
ests of the higher educational insti-
buttons is already in existence Such a
commission to investigate the reasons
for the decay of the rural schools, and
to ascertain remedies that will put
them on their feet and make them
as efficient as they ought to be, would
work wonders for these schools in a
few years. This is the opinion of Mr..
F'airchild. 1t is certainly well worth
trying out. Let us have such COM
mission by all means
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
JOURNAL ENTRIES

Too many people expect rewards
on efforts that are not worth any.
n \
The latest in women's dresses ought
to be popular with the men. They
hook or button in front
X y =
There wouldn't be so much ap-
plause going the rounds If it were
only passed out when really de-
served.
No man has any idea of just how
mean he is until a thoroughly angry
woman takes the trouble to tell him.
X = x
With so many people looking for at
least a trifle the best of it, is it any
wonder that so many get a shade or
more the worst of it?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
QUAKER NEGOTIATIONS.
[From the Philadelphia Record.

From the Philadelphia Record.I
The man who looks for trouble seldom
needs microscope
Belle-''What shade of hair do you like
best?'' Delle-'I don't know 1 haven [
tried them all yet
Mrs. Quincy-.NIiss Dashs gowns fit
her like paper" Mr.. Quincy Um-yes.
noticed the lines myself
Gink-"He's a very fortunate physician.
isn't hep Dink-"Oh. my. yes Few of
his patients die suddenly
BIobbs-'.Do you think human souls are
transmigrated into the bodies of ami
maIs?' Slobbs-"Not by long shot.
There are too many nice dogs
Poet@-Did you ever hear the heavy
artillery of the skies boom and thunder
and roar with terrifying power?" Farmer
Nav, but I went to a suffragist meet
in once, s-s-s...
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
HUMOR OF THE DRY

Gibbs-One gets no diplomas in the
School OF Experience. Dibbs-I don't
know; the marriage certificate comes
pretty near being one.-Boston TRANSCRIPT
Paw Knows Everything.-George
what Is springbok2 Paw-A springbok
is dark beer. my son--Cincinnau In
quirer-
Ready for Business.-"Are the pink cur
tains up in the booths?'' Yes sir - ..T3iua
ribbons on the stencils?'' yes. SIR -s,rea
fixings ready to server Yes. sir .
Then the polls are now open."-Satire.
Detained Where have you been my
dear2 / called you some time ago. II
was coming. mummy, only 1 met a
worm Punch
His Occupation. r Farmer Hornteak
what's your nephew, that Graduated
from college q spell ago doin' nou,s
Farmer Bentover-StiD cnIorin' meer-
schaum pipe--Judge
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
WOMAN.


She may not do the things that man
May do and stin enjoy esteem;
But for her sake we proudly plan,
For her we dream the golden dream.
we draw circle round her where
By virtue beautified, she stands,
And If she steps across we tear
Her mantle with impatient hands.
To her we confidently turn
For courage in our sore distress:
from her and for her sake we learn
The saving grace of gentIeness.
To her we yield the splendid right
Of freedom from the warriors care;
she nils the present with delight
And sweetly makes the future fair.
we make the ground on which she stands
glorIfied and sacred place;
we press our lips upon her hands
And are enraptured by her grace.
We raise her to sublinity
And then with all our arts we strive
To tempt her to descend to be
The most abhorrent thing alive
S. E. Kiser in the Chicago Record
Herald.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
by TIE WY
1Y HARvEY PARsoNs.

you may get US in the end" said
the Allen outlaws. But in the mean
time the posse is still trying to get
them in the mountains Looks like
they would take the hint and make a
thorough search of the end
It may be, of course, that it will
take two posses, as the Aliens neg
lected to specify which end.
A ST. Louis woman is in favor of
throwing all the rag time music into
the sea- She may not know it, but
she has unconsciously laid the founda-
ton for another rag time production.
In few days we may expect Isadore
Wopsky or julius Nickelstein to come
across with 1.-The Wet Rag"
Those unfortunates who depend
upon gas for cooking purposes con-
suit the weather forecast before fore
casting the menu of the next meal.
Whether it is hot biscuits or canned
goods depends upon the weather.
Last Saturday was not a cold day,
but the gas supply considered the
snowfall sufficient excuse for taking
day off The provocation necessary
to induce the gas to quit work be-
comes less and less.
Experts hold that the gas will not
last much longer, but so far as we are
concerned, we don't care a tinker's
adjective. Next winter we intend to
substitute the coal stove for the cold
stove.
"Of course you know that names
run in cycles,'' says Hondo Murphy,
of men between forty and fifty years
of age have "A. L. for initials, and
thousands who are but few years
sign u. s. or u. G. C. G..
Il n III I'll
by boys in their teens, and lot of
little tadS answer to the call of Will
liam Howard" Yep, and come to
think of it, there are a lot of bull
dogs and race horses named Teddy
r.
Cleveland lake bathers Will be. re-
quired to wear skirts with their bath
ing costumes this summer. Looks like
the bath tub trust was behind it all.
With that rule, few of the Apo1oS Will
haunt the lake front.
We are in receipt of a complaint
from an Oakland gentleman who OBJ
iects because he can't find 'shivaree"
'drownded' and other ordinary words
reached the wrong Office We take it
hat he got the dictionary as a morn
ing paper premium, and further take
t that he reads Bert Taylor's colin in
he Chi Tribune. That is where we
1rst piped the missing word" wall
A dispatch from Boston apprises US
hat Roosevelt made a noisy rush
through that village. Such extrava- |
sance in the use of adjectives should |
De discouraged. The sentence, in it's |
ull significance, was complete with |
,ut the word NOISY
Noisy in that sentence, is like |
in some other sentences |
We have read.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
DAFFYDHS
BYU. NOALL

Can you mend the break of day2
(Nor can you drive a naf with =
sponge no matter how hard you SOAK
When the dinner bell clangs does the
napkin ring? 80
cThree strikes.!. You're out)
If a carpenter had a cold and thought
he was going to croak would he start
a coffin2
(Cheer up. Mr.. Undertaken. This in
clement weather is likely to continue
for some timed
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
SPRING, GENTLE SPRING.

A glance at the calendar indicates
that remarks on this subject are strict
ly in order. Perhaps, though, in view
of the unusual atmospheric conditions
which prevail, it might be well to have
others OF more established reputation
make them. And here they are;
Warns the mild air, and crowns the
youthful year.
Sir Samuel Garth.
The beauteous eyes of springs fair night
With comfort are downward gazing.
-Heine
Came the spring with all its splendor,
All its birds and all its blossoms,
All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses
-Longfellow.
1t is the season now to go
About the country high and low,
Among the hlacs hand in hand,
And two by two in fairyland.
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Now nature hangs her mantle green
On every blooming tree,
And spreads her sheets o daisies white
Robert Burns.
Gentle Spring.-in sunshine clad.
Well dost thou thy power display
For Winter maketh the light heart SAD,
Charles d'orleans, translation by Long
fellow.
1 come, l come. We have called me long.
L come DER the mountain with light and
song;
BY the Winds which tell of the violet's
birth,
By the primrose-stars in the shadowy
grass,
By the green leaves, opening as I pass.
Mrs. Hemans-
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on
the burnishd dove;
In the Spring young mans fancy lightly
turns to thoughts of love.
Thus do the poets sing their rounde-
lays of Spring as it is when it is that
way. But occasionally there arises a
poet who subordinates his fancies to
facts, even in a chortle about Spring.
One such is Christopher P. Cranch
who was painter as we'll as a poet.
Here's the chord on Spring that he
struck:
If there comes a little thaw,
Still the air is chill and raw
Here and there a patch of snow,
Dirtier than the ground below
DribbIes down marshy flood;
Ankle-deep you stick in mud
In the meadows while you SINS
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
REFLECTIONS or A BACHRLoR

IFrom the New York PressI
Experience is the thief that steals your
faith
kissing is about the dullest thing when
it's a family affair.
Workers make history and then ail-
thors write it all over the way it wasn't
made.
The only handkerchief a woman VIII
pay a lot of money for is one that cant
be used for what 1t is supposed to be tor
There's nothing nobIer to exercise tia n
self-sacrifice. SO everybody is generous
enough to let somebody else exercise IT,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

There is this much in common. at
any rate, between Woodrow Wilson
and Theodore Roosevelt They have
similar ideas as to what constitutes a
rest. Governor Wilson left New Jer-
sey Friday to take one until today.
In the interim he has Travelled all the
way to Wisconsin and back to his
home Incidentally, he made a couple
of political speeches in Milwaukee.
Mr.. wilson's idea of busy time
would be interesting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

the tariff law that is in accordance
with the report of the tariff board.
This bill would reduce the duties on
wool and manufactures of wool by
about 40 per cent. That surely is
tariff revision downward. 1t is based
on facts, not fancies. And such is the
kind of tariff revision for which
President Taft stands. It's the only
right kind too
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
Mexico's first

New Mexico's first legislature
opened with bribery scandal in con-
nection with the selection of a United
States senator. In the first Arizona
legislature a bill is being pressed that
would make that state a rival divorce
mecca to Nevada. And it wasn't so
long ago that it was as much as your
life was worth to suggest that neither
Arizona nor New Mexico were COM
petent to discharge states rights.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

For "favorite son. Senator Cum
minis is making a lamentable showing
in Iowa Outside of that state, not
the slightest attention is being paid
TO his candidacy for the Republican
presidential nomination Who told
Cumnins. anyhow, that he was of the
caliber of presidential timber? He
must have held a caucus on the prop
osition with himself.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Most folks hereabouts have prob
ably arrived at the conclusion that
there is no such thing as spring. Or,
at least, one was not provided for
1912 when its plans and specifications
were adopted
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Enthusiasm on the part of the suf-
fragists over the action of the new
republican government of China in
extending equal suffrage to the
women of that land has the earmarks
of being premature. Most of the
Chinese women are so crippled with
little feet that they will be unable to
make their way to the polls.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

If the weather does not strike a
normal gait soon, and the opening of
the baseball season is not postponed
the players will have to be veritable
1nud-horses to make any kind of a
showing
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Denials are made by it's leaders
that the Men and Religion Forward
Movement is being financed by Wall
street But suppose that it was?
That would furnish reasons a-plenty
for a general rejoicing that Wall
street was beginning to get right
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Those government officials who are
on the hunt for a coal trust of ma
ton wide qualifications need not hope
to find at this time any exhibits for
their case in the coal bins of the
common DeopIe
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

1t is hoped that those Salt Lake
City railroad men who are planning
TO send a grounding on trip
around the world will also do their
best to send with the little beast the
weather for which it is famous
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Chinese rebels are reported to have
damaged much American property at
Swallow. What else might be expect
ed by Americans who would be so
careless as to locate in a place with
such a name?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

A speaker at the National Congress
sf Mothers expressed the opinion that
all rag time music should be thrown
into the sea. Evidently she is not
friendly to the fish.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Other politicians given to much
talk should take warning. It has
been necessary for Carter Harrison
Chicagos mayor, to undergo a surgi-
cal operation for the removal of a
growth on his tongue.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Reports are to the effect that the
Roosevelt headquarters in this state
are to be a busy place from now on.
The Roosevelt workers were also par
ficularly busy in North Dakota.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

for tremendous increases in the
strength of the army and navy. Pret-
ty soon, and there won't be any
thing to Germany but its army and
navy.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Isn't it trifle strange that the ar
fistically inclined in Topeka have not
made serious protest against the play
ing of rag-time tunes on the Pipe
Organ?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Charges and counter-charges seem
to be more numerous in the political
arena these days than ever before.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

sentatives have presented a bill for
the revision of the wool schedule in
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

Germany's answer to the recent
warlike speech of Winston Spencer
Churchill. first lord of the British ad-
miralty. is the PRONUNCIATION of plans
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES

The State Journal is a member OF the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report OF that great news or
Zanization for the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka
The news Is received in The State Jour
nal building over wires for this sole puT-
pose.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

If there comes a little thaw,
Still the air is chill and raw.
Here and there a patch of snow,
Dirtier than the ground below,
DribbIes down a marshy flood;
Ankle-deep you stick in mud
In the meadows While you sing,
This is Spring"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

you may get us in the end said
the Allen outlaws. But in the mean
time the posse is still trying to get
them in the mountains. Looks like
they would take the hint and make a
thorough search of the end.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25

It may be, of course, that it will
take two posses, as the Aliens neg
lected to specify which end
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-01
WANT DR.. MACARTHUR
TO RETURN TO CALVARY.
Baptist Church May Persuade For.
mer Pastor to Come Back
to Old Charge.

Calvary Baptist Church. It became
known yesterday. - trying to get the
Rev. Or. Robert 8. Macarthur to come
back to the pastorate. He resigned some
months ago to become head of the Bap-
list world Alliance. and more recently
he became pastor Of the Baptist Temple
at Atlanta, Ga.
A meeting OF Calvary Church mem
bers has beon arranged for some nigh,
this week. when the question of DR..
MacArthurs return may DC definitely
settled. DR.. Macarthur preached at the
church yesterday and denied In his SER
mon that he had had any trouble with
his Atlanta congregation.
4 large congregation babe farewell!
yesterday morning to the Rev. DR.. Gle
land B. MoAfee In the Lafayette Avenue
Presbyterian Church. Brooklyn. and was
by DR.. McAfee In his sermon told tina,
theological students Of to-day are vague
IN their scholarships and unsound in
their doctrines. He said that In his
now sphere at Mccormick Seminary he
intends to train young men to be better
grounded. and he put high spirituality
and clear thinking above high educa-
ton.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-01
IF YOUR CHILD
NEEDS 4 PHYS|C,
If Cross, Feverish, Tongue
Coated, Give Syrup Of
Figs" to Clean the
Stomach, Liver and
Bowels.

Look at the tongue. Mother! II coat
ed, il is a sure sign that your little ones
insides. the stomach, liver and 80 feet Of
bowels are clogged up with putrefying
waste matter, and need . gentle. thor
ough cleansing at once.
When your child Is listless, dropping,
pale. doesn't SLEEP soundly or eat heartily
or is cross, irritable, feverish, stomach
sour, breath bad; has stoma ch-sche,
diarrhoca, sore throat. or is full Of cold,
give teaspoonful Of Syrup Of Figs. and
in few hours all the foul, ccnstipated
waste, undigested food and sour bile win
gently move on and out Of It's little bow
els without nausea, gripping or weakness,
and you surely will have . well, happy
aud smiling child again shortly.
With Syrup Of Figs you are not drug
ging your children; being composed en-
tircly Of luscious figs, SIENNA and aro-
MATES IL cannot be harmful--besides,
they dearly love its delicious taste.
Mothers should always keep Syrup
Of Figs handy. II is the only stomach.
liver and bowel cleanser and regulator
needed. A little given to-day will save
a sick child tomorrow.
Full directions for children Of all ages
and for grown-ups plainly printed on the
package.
Ask your druggist for the full name,
Syrup of Figs and Elixir Of SIENNA, y
prepared by the California Fig Syrup
Co. This is the delicious tasting, genuine
old reliable. Refuse anything else Of
fered.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-01
GIRL LURES POLICEMAN
TO oANGSTERS' AMBUSH.

Lured to quiet corner by q girl VINO.
and excitement. told him two men we're
trying to kill each other. Patrolman
Joseph Haley Of the West Sixty-seventh
street station was badly oeaten early
to-day by ganssters at Eightieth street
and Second avenue. He 10 In the Re
ceptlon Hospital with many cuts and
bruises about the face and head. His
home 10 at No. iN& Madison avenue.
Policemen Clancy and Murony found
Gus spsriino. t~enty-one. OF No. 2l9
East Eightieth street.. hiding under a
water tank on the roof OF No. 2lb and
Haley Identified him as one OF his as
sailants.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-01
Hdvortisomort%
JOHN DAVID
1s,'.azy M.s..e&

TlMPLY to say, "Stein-Bloch," is to say
simply "Best-Tailored" When the circle
~ is squarcd-when water runs uphill-when
70 seconds compose minute-then you may
be able to buy better clothes than Sten-Bloch.
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-01
AND so AWAKENED LANGUAGE
RESTORES NATIONALITY.

And so It Is that these elements OF re-
awakened language and rebuilt industry
have made even Queenstown an Irish
city once more. Q city where Irish II
heard on the street. In the churches and
taught In the schools.
And on tho cathedral terrace beside
the Celtic cross the reading OF Ethna
Carberry's lines from "a Gaelic Sons"
1T was the soul Of Fire
Awaking In speech she knew.
When the clans held the giens and the
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-01

from the 500 almost bof0re the LOOKOUT In the croWs
nest gave the signal. The dusk drifting seward
and Tor loag time the old man eazed tensely
the whipping waves Of the Atlantic straining his Wis
non toward the dim. mistsd coast Then he turned
group Of his fellow travellers. cosmopolitan eddy Of
men and women-an Australian actress. a Greek bro
ker an Englishman who had been game hunting In the
Canadian Northwest. a Turkish consul. an American
physician and two American girls three generations re-
moved from their Irish ancestry
There's Ireland" he told them, and there were
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-07-01
IRELAND IS AGAIN IRISH,
HER FUTURE FOUND BY
REMEMBERING HER PAST
Evening Worlds Commissioner Tells
How Revival of Ancient Lam
guage Has Rebuilt Industry
and Made New Nation.

Is articles Transformation
progress ihich fast taking Isle out
of misery dsessut
eoustry Other printed
describing industrial patriotic artistic educational
eAonees n the four provinces Of the country