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Isn't it about time for somebody to
eccuse Roosevelt of wanting to run
egain .
It. will at least be Interesting- to note
if the Russian autocracy can sidestep
again.
But how did that Royal Arcanum
pewter plate come to be buried ten feet
under ground?
Anyway, we probably won't be trou
bled by the original Bryan man during
the next campaign.
How horrified Uncle Russell Sage
would have been at the thought of be
ing buried In a $23,000 coffin!
Senator Piatt advises people to keep
out of politics. You know advice is al
ways made to give and not to take.
Wichita that is, some of Wichita
highly approves Governor Hoch's pub
lished address, especially that part of
It which refers to prohibition.
"Tammany may' be for Hearst for
governor of New "Fork," says a dis
patch. But maybe Hearst will think
of it first and quarantine against Tam
many. There will also be a reception com
mittee to meet Mr. Rockefeller when
he gets home from Europe, but It will
be of a trifle different sort from that
which will greet Mr. Bryan.
By the way, have Senator Brewer
pnd Representative Creech yet re
turned those railroad passes, as they
were requested to do by the Dickinson
county Republican convention?
It Is to be hoped that that anti
foreign trouble in Sonora, Mexico, will
not prove serious. This country is In
terested in that region, and it is a good
thing for Mexico that we should be.
The country really won't demand
that Mr. Bryan sit on a stool and look
pretty for two years. It is willing for
him to move out on to his farm and
plow and milk the cows all he wants
to.
E. R. Ridgely, who once represented
the Third district in congress as a Pop
ulist, will begin in politics all over
asain. The Democrats will nominate
him for representative In Neosho
county.
W. R. Stubbs says he didn't know
anything about politics when he went
into it, but. it Is evident that he is
learning all right. For instance, he
has discovered that it Is much safer to
ask questions than to answer them.
Here are :iome more of those
"changed conditions" recorded by the
Kansas City Star: "Ten or 12 years
ago you could not have, convinced the
Honorable David Rowland Francis that
he would some time cross the ocean
merely to walk down the gangplank
arm In arm with Mr. William Jennings
Bryan."
Senator LaFollette spoke for three
hours at the Salina Chautauqua, and
although It was 7 o'clock when he fin
ished there were cries of "Go on!" from
the audience. If the people of Kansas
ever get a chance to vote for him for
anything, LaFollette can look for a big
majority when the returns from this
ti&f come In.
?t was too bad to puncture the mys
tery surrounding a romantic find like
that of the pewter plate that was found
buried ten feet under ground near New
ton. Why shouldn't the finder thereof
and various lovers of legends have been
allowed to speculate awhile as to the
tsse Coronado made of 1t? How cruel
ct a materialistic truth-teller to step in
and point out that It belongs to this
day and age instead of "1105," thus
spoiling all the. romance!
While, Senator LaFollette was speak
ing at the Salina Chautauqua, there
u. -. s a buzz and ringing somewhere like
Ii f.re alarm. The senator stopped and
Shook his head and aald: "No, that Is
not a telephone. That's my alarm
w.s?eh. My wife gave me that and I
p-ornii-ed her that I would set it for
'"x hours at every speech. I was speak-
ing in Iowa and the alarm rang at the
two hoor limit. But the people allow
ed me to continue for a while longer.
After I got through an old lady came
up and asked me to take a message to
my wife. I said I would. 'Well,' she
said, 'just tell her that she wasted her
money when she invested it in that
watch.' " Then the senator went on
talking.
M R. BRYAN'S ATTITllE.
Following Mr. Bryan's declaration a
short time ago that he stood Just where
he had always stood on the financial
question, and that he is still Just as
radical as ever, the New York World
bewailed the Nebraska statesman's poor
judgment in this speaking out. The
World could see no necessity for It,
and It said so to the extent of a column
and a half. Everything was going Mr.
Bryan's way and all he had to do was
to keep still and lead the Democratic
hosts to victory without a sound. But
Mr. Bryan spoke his mind, and the
World believes that the success which
was waiting Democracy just down the
road apiece has been frightened away.
Which leads the Washington Star, the
Republican paper of the national cap
ital, to say:
"The World forgets. There is instruc
tion in a bit of history which the World
helped to make.
"In the Democratic party thun
dered against the trusts, and, partly on
the strength of Its deliverances on that
subject, won the race. But when Mr.
Cleveland selected for attorney general
the leading corporation lawyer of New
England the hopes of the anti-trust
people were dashed. The World In par
ticular felt outraged, and called for Mr.
Olney's retirement. It did not hesitate
to gay, indeed, that had the country
known in advance what Mr. Cleveland's
action would.be in so important a mat
ter his election would have been quite
Impossible. The World lectured, but Mr.
Cleveland was obdtirate. Mr. Olney re
mained In office, and the trusts went
their way undisturbed. We had four
years of wrangling as to what the Dem
ocratic party had been commissioned
to do, ana the party, on the trust ques
tion, on the money question, and on the
tariff question, went to pieces.
"Guiding by that lesson alone and
IvZv Bryan must remember it Is not
the Nebraska leader justified in making
his attitude entirely plain at this time
on all questions? He does not want
merely to be president. He knows that
to obtain the office by silence, or by
evasion, or by paltering with principles,
would be tp destroy himself, and send
his party again discredited into the
wilderness. As he has not changed his
views on the money question, why per
mit anybody, and particularly a person
thinking of giving him support for the
first time, to believe he has? As he is
more radical now than in 1896, when he
acquired the reputation of a radical,
why not confess it?
"Mr. Bryan has never as a man ap
peared to better advantage than within
the past few weeks. He has met a flood
tide of enthusiasm composed largely
of false hopes and vain longings with
a frankness and composure altogether
admirable. Remembering Mr. Cleveland
and his heterogeneous following, he
shuns bunko with all his heart."
A GOOD CAVSE.
A move is on foot to secure for the
Mother Florence memorial the funds
that were subscribed to aid in pur
chasing land for the new Santa Fe
shops, but which was not needed for
that purpose. These funds, amounting
to $2,250, are in the hands of the Com
mercial club and will, of course, be re
turned to the persons who subscribed
them, unless these persons order other
wise. A number have already given
instructions that their money be turned
over to the Mother Florence fund.
It Is certainly fitting that Topeka
should erect a memorial to the Sal
vation army "angel" who, though very
poor herself, spent years of her life In
ameliorating the condition of the poor
of this city, and in pointing outcasts
to a better life. Topeka owes much to
the work that she did, and there could
be no more fitting tribute to her
memory than the erection of a building
to carry on the work to which she
gave her life.
A start has been made for such a
building and lots have been purchased
at Fifth and Quincy streets. Funds
are now needed to complete the pay
ments on the lots and put up the build
ing. The subscriptions made to the Santa
Fe land fund would complete the pay
ments on the site, with several hun
dred dollars left towards the memorial
itself. It is an exceedingly worthy ob
ject, but if this disposition is to be
made of the funds it must, of course,
be authorized by the subscribers them
selves. TIIF AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Nearly 1,700 students were enrolled
by the Kansas State Agricultural col
lege last year, according to the annual
catalogue just issued. And of this
great number only 32 came from out
side the boundaries of Kansas. Of the
32 outside students, six came from the
Philippines and one from Porto Rico.
The Agricultural college seems to be
primarily an institution for Kansas
students.
That college up the Kaw at Manhat
tan is one of the Sunflower state's
most valuable assets. It is for the
education of Kansas farmers; and the
more Kansas farmers who avail them
selves of the scientific training which
it gives, the better for the state.
It is undoubtedly true that the most
successful farmer In the future must be
an educated man. He must farm with
his head as well as with his hands.
Farming is fast developing into a
science, and the farmer of the future
must be versed in it. The agricultural
college catalogue says on this subject:
"The time has passed, my young
farmer friend, when an uneducated
and unskilled man can become a suc
cessful farmer and a man amens men.
It is not so easy to make a good living
at farming today as It was forty or
even twenty jirs ago. The soil is
poorer: eompltion Is greater. There
are many educated, hustling men, en
gaged in the various lines of farming
today, and if you want successfully to
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compete with them you must be edu
cated, too. You must understand the
soil and the great principles of cultiva
tion, aeration, and soil-moisture con
servatlon. You must know the science
of plant growth and propagation; you
must know the chemistry of the-plant
and of the soil. You must learn the
principles of animal" nutrition and bal
anced rations in stock feeding. You
must study the animal and be prac
ticed in stock judging, in order to se
lect your breeding stock. You must
know a thousand things about agricul
ture which you do not know now, if
you hope successfully to compete with
those who have knowledge and train
ing In these things."
The State Journal is doubtful about
the correctness of the statement that
"it is not so easy to make a good living
at farming today as it was forty or
even twenty years ago," for ' more
money Is being made by the farmer
today than ever before. But it is be
ing made by men who have picked up
the rudiments of scientific farming.
Another thing that helps is the fact
that railroads and other means of
speedy transportation have opened the
markets of the world to the farmer.
But the farmer of tomorrow must
do better than the farmer of today.
Fifteen-bushel wheat and thirty
bushel corn is all right for land worth
only $30 an acre, but in a few years
this $30 land will be worth $60 an
acre, and then it must raise thirty
bushel wheat and sixty-bushel corn.
So the college up at Manhattan Is a
splendid asset, and the more young
Kansans who go there and learn the
scientific side of the farming business,
the better It will be for the state In
general.
The way of the transgressor is hard,
especially on his family.
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Looks as though the Russian revolu
tion proposes to crowd the Thaws off
of the front page again.
Naturally the "Postcrlpts" in the
Leavenworth Post are written by a wo
man. fr
"Swimming," says Collier's Weekly,
"is fine exercise." Yes, nearly everyone
likes to be in the swim.
If you will notice closely you will
observe that some of the people who
are yelling loudest for a square deal,
are trying to stack the deck on the
other fellows.
I J AY HA VKEK JOTS j
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Henry Allen notes that the czar has
picked up the candle and gone out
looking for the gas leak again.
Ellis Garten notes that the Arkan
saw delayed getting full three weeks
past its usual time this year. Was
Trickett out there anywhere?
Out at Cimarron they call the Santa
Fe's new local train between Dodge
City and La Junta, "The Alfalfa Limit
ed," and "The Short Grass Flyer."
Dodge City is counting on having
Vice President Fairbanks at its sol
diers' reunion next month, and people
are warned to Bring tneir overcoats.
The newspaper war in Concordia
breaks out again at the same time as
the Russian revolution: This time be
cause one paper got the right to print
the county fair premium list exclu
sively. "It is easy," says the observer on the
Leavenworth Post, "to see why daugh
ter doesn't mind so much going down
town on an errand for mother, if she
has a clean duck skirt and a pretty
white parasol."
Leavenworth is feeling pretty good,
thank you. since it has been decided
to make the fort there a brigade post,
even if congress didn't provide for all
the improvements that Leavenworth
thought were necessary
There was recently published In
these columns the statement that com
mon kerosene is an excellent remedy
for a snake bite. The Santa Fe Mon
itor says R. G. Newby of that place
recently tried the remedy on a horse
that had just been bitten by a rattle
snake, and it worked like a charm.
Historical reminiscence by John Gil
more: The old stone school house at
Mound City, the historic county seat
of Linn county, is to be razed and the
materials in its walls used to improve
the public highways. The building
was erected about the beginning of the
rebellion, probably in 1861. The only
conflict between regular Federal and
Confederate troops fought on Kansas
soil and called a battle, occurred on
Mine creek, near Mound City, October
25, 1864. The school house to be dis
mantled was used as a hospital at the
time of the battle, ambulances from
Mine creek carrying both Union and
Confederate soldiers to the shelter of
Its walls for care and treatment, a
number of them dying in the building.
GLOBE SIGHTS.
tFrom the Atchison Globe.
About the only subject upon which
kin can talk with kin is other kin.
A pig doesn't feel that there is
plenty of food unless there Is enough
to lie down in.
A girl who has a courteous, dig
nified manner does not need to wish
for a pretty face; she will be admired
all right.
If a man doesn't learn anything
else as he grows older, he learns that
it is more than a waste of time to
have fool friends.
There is this much to be said about
the faithfulness of man: Every time
he builds a castle in the air he puts
a different woman in it.
When children love their step
mother, their father gets a good deal
of credit from the neighbors for his
judgment in picking her cut.
An Atchison woman claims to have
well controlled nerves because she
can open a telegram with no more
emotion than she would show in
opening a can of corn.
A man doesn't know any more about
the lines in the hand than he know
how much lard goes into pie crust,
but he can get a girl to let him hold
her hand any time while he pretends
to know all about it.
-If an admirer says you are so in
telligent and useful the world can't
spare you. and that you will live for
ever, don't feel too good about it;
consumption, or Brlght's disease, or
liver complaint, will get you just the
same.
Among the many things one sighs
for and finds disappointing when
gained, is included getting your bacs
scratched. When you finally get
hold of some one willing to do It, the
scratching is never in the right place
and it is either too heavy or too light.
JO VRIt AL E1ITRIES
Q XJEXIALf TIf TJItSB AY ': EVE2IING, JULY 28,
ZAIISAS COMMENT
NO FITN IN GOING WRONG.
Suppose Harry Thaw had determined,
as a young man, to he a credit to his
family. Suppose he had been a good
student at school, and, after leaving
school, had taken up some profession or
business. Would not the pleasure of
being a good son have outweighed the
pleasure he found in wine and women?
Had Harry Thaw been a decent man,
he would have found more pleasure In
life than he ever found as a rounder.
It is a mistaken notion that there is
pleasure in going to the devil. The man
who is respected, and amounts to some
thing, finds more pleasures in life than
the rake and profligate. And the end
of the profligate and rounder is so ter
rible. Harry Thaw is in the Tombs
prison during the hot weather, and will
probably be electrocuted in the winter
for murder. All experience shows that
the better a man behaves himself, the
better he enjoys life. There is more
pleasure in being the best workman in
the shop than in being the heaviest
drinker in town. Atchison Globe.
REFORM FOR OTHERS.
The banks of the state have a total
of deposits of about $133,000,000. The
assessors found some $7,000,000 in their
rounds. It is fashionable and pleasing
to roast the railroad evil In Kansas just
now and the railroad evil deserves a
good deal of roasting. But it is ap
parent that the army of reform in
cludes many recruits who have been
so busy talking the square deal that
they have not had time lo tell the truth
to the assessor. This recalls the story
of one righteous old citizen of Ottawa
who used to live out in the country,
who, when he found that his wife had
told the assessor the real facts about
his finances used language that shocked
the hired men on the next three farms.
Reform is one of the several things that
it is greatly to be desired to prescribe
for our neighbors. Ottawa Herald,
WAS HIS NAME MAUD?
A bunch of mules belonging to Mor
ris Pyle were beinsr driven along Sixth
avenue Saturday when one of the ani
mals broke away from the drove anu
started up Commercial street. One of.
the drivers started after him and turn
ed him back and as the mule turned he
stuck his head in a farmer's wagon and
lifted a sack of apples from it. He car
ried the sack in his teeth by the bot
tom and the apples spilled out along
the street. Emporia Gazette.
IN KANSAS.
Half the people in Kansas do not
seem to work nt all. The other half do
not seem to work half the time and
Kansas is adding more rapidly to its
wealth than any state in the Union. If
all the people quit work altogether he
would be a hummer. Belleville Tele
scope. REVISE THE TARIFF.
Revision of the tariff must be had on
the lines of protection and not of rob
bery. The people who are robbing the
country must be put out of business.
ElDorado Republican.
HIS RELATIONSHIP.
An exchange refers to Roosevelt as
"New York's favorite son." Then
there is a lot of sister states who will
regard him as a favorite nephew. Law
rence World.
FROM OTHER PEirS
POWER OF THE PRESS FOR GOOD
No man wht) will consider the mat
ter with an open mind will refuse to
cor fess that this is the most potent
agency in the world for the promotion
of righteousness. The pulpit, with all
its power, is necessarily less effective
than the honest newspaper. The great
men who won freedom for us and for
our children and who laid the strong
foundations of our government saw
clearly when they persuaded them
selves that the untrammeled press is
the mightiest engine both of virtue and
of freedom. Philadelphia North
American.
A MATTER OF FINGERS.
A Kentucky man got deathly sick
upon reading that a packery employe
lost four fingers in the machinery and
that they went Into veal loaf for some
body to eat. If it had been four fin
gers for somebody to drink, the Ken
tucky gentleman would have been
johnny on the spot. Houston Post.
VICTIM TO FASHION.
General Kolzov, of the Russian
army, was shot by an assassin who
mistook him Tor General Trepoff. This
looks like one of the penalties of every
man wearing the same style of
whiskers. St. Louis Republic.
HAVE THE FARE.
"It Is said that there are thirty men
In Houston worth half a million dol
lars or more," says the Houston (Tex.)
Post. Then why do they not leave for
home? Charleston News and Courier.
BACK TOFRISCO.
Two hundred thousand of the 335,000
residents of San Francisco who fled
have returned, and it is a safe guess
that the others have never even thought
of going outside the borders of thestate.
Los Angeles Express.
. PURE.
The people of Scotland need not grieve
over the destruction of that million dol
lars worth of Scotch whisky at Dundee.
They can get all the Scotch whisky
they want from the Bowery made of
cologne spirits and creosote and guar
anteed to be absolutely pure. Houston
Post.
ALWAYS BUSY.
The artist who Is to make a "picture
of the president in repose" will have to
draw from his imagination, for that, as
the song hs3 It. Is a "picture no artist
can paint." New York Herald.
ADDICKS.
Addicks threatens to try again next
year. Better Five both his money and
his gas. Philadelphia Press.
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GET ON BOAvRD.
Esopus. N. Y-, and Princeton, N. J.,
have not yet declared for the Bryan
boom. While the light holds out tf
burn the vilest sinner may return.
Memphis News.
SEQUEL? THEY'RE ALL DEAD.
A scientist says that 100 years ago
folks just lived on pork and doughnuts
and ate mince pie every evening before
retiring. That might he so, but what
was the sequel? Pittsburg Sun.
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THE BLIND TIGER.
It is taking Tom Taggart a long time
to see that his usefulness to the Demo
cratic party is at an end. Chicago
News.
NOT TO BLAME.
After thinking it. all over we do not
blame Allegheny for not wanting to be
annexed to Pittsburg. Rochester Post
Express.' A DEMOCRATIC WISH.
If we are to have a Republican pres
ident, by all means we want Mr. Taft.
Birmingham Ledger,
' WOSIAX'S WAYS.
The young man kissed the maiden fair,
And she did not resist.
Nor any protest offer as
She twice and thrice was kissed.
But when he smacked her once again
With a resounding Don,
She stamped her pretty foot and cried:
"Don't!" "Stop!"
The young man was chagrined to be
So frigidly repelled;
He mutely drew his head away
And freed the hand he held.
Leep silence reigned one might have heard
A tiny hairpin drop
Until at last the maiden lisped:
Don't stop!" -
Dwig-ht Spencer Anderson in The Bo
hemian for July.
Harnessing tho Mississippi.
Work will be begun before the year
is out on a dam across the Mississippi
river, at the foot of the Des Moines
rapids, for the development of water
power. It will be the greatest project
of the kind except the combined
works at Niagara, the dam the ?rpn t-
est rn the world except those built by
the British in the Nile. A minimum
of sixty thousand horsepower Is to be
obtained and transmitted to factories
in the heart of the agricultural center
of the nation. The dam will be In
eight of the three states of Iowa, Illi
nois and Missouri, the legislatures of
eacn state naving adopted resolutions
approving the work and promising all
possible assistance. The estimated
cost of the work will be $6,000,000.
which is $100 per horsepower on the
minimum power capacity of sixty
thousand horsepower. The cost ot
supplying power, including all fixed
charges, maintenance, operation and
all expenses, is closely estimated at- $s
per horsepower-year, the cost of steam
power in the territory within 200 miles
now being from $40 to $65 per horsepower-year,
with $55 as a conserva
tive average.
Within a radius of forty miles ot
the central ' power house He twenty
towns with a population of one thou
sand or over, the population in this
area aggregating 242,161. The aver
age distance by railroad to the twenty
towns is twenty-four miles. Their
population. In 1900, was 112.122. In
cluded in the same 6.293 square miles
of territory are also forty villages with
a population of 17.661 and a rural
population of 11 2,378. Within a ra
dius of 100 miles there was a popu
lation in 1900 of 1,146,946, including
hundreds of towns and cities. Within
a radius of 150 miles there was In
1900 a population of 3,917,046. F. G.
Moorhead, in The World Today, for
July.
Ncedlcworker's Wages.
, The apprentice in dressmaking has
to work six months for nothing or per
haps a mere pittance as errand girl.
Then she starts on linings at $4 per
week. Next, she does over-sewing and
finishing at $6. Trimmers on skirts or
waists receive $12 to $14 per w eek, and
fitters from $15 to $18. A small estab
lishment is considered better than a
large one for learning the trade, as
more personal attention is given ap
prentices and there is quicker advance
ment. Any woman who sews neatly
by hand or does fine embroidery along
popular lines can secure a position in
a shop without difficulty, and the fa1!
rush in dressmaking opens up Septem
ber 1.
A girl with the shopping gift can
usually secure a position with a dress
maker as shopper. Her first duties
consist of matching thread, buttons,
linings, etc.. and later she is entrusted
with trimmings, laces, etc. She starts
at $4 per wek, spends most of her time
in stores and usually becomes a profes
sional shopper. v '
Operators 4n suit and waist factories
do piece work principally, and as a'
rule make $12 per week. Finishers,
who sew on buttons, etc., receive no
more than $7 per week.
In underwear factories, girls start
the trade by running ribbon through
beading, ironing, running buttonhole
machines, and gradually learn to sew
on insertion, tucking, etc. They quick
ly work up to $6 per week. An expert
in underwear makes $12 or $14 per
week. Anna Steese Richardson in
Woman's Home Companion.
Mamma anrt Astronomy.
Prof. G. A. Hill, of the National ob
servatory, was describing the duties of
an astronomical corps during an eclipse,
says the New Y'ork Tribune.
"The eclipse," he said, "may last only
five minutes. Each man in the party
has a certain line of work mapped out
for him during those precious minutes.
One man makes hurried pencil sketches,
another man photographs, a third takes
observations, while a fourth Jots down
his remarks.
"And so it goes. An astronomical
corps during an eclipse is a very busy
body. An interruption would-be as un
welcome to it as as "
Prof. Hill smiled.
"An interuption would be as unwel
come to it as it once was to a young
friend of mine in Elizabeth.
"My friend, according to the story,
was calling on his sweetheart who lived
on Elizabeth's outskirts.
"As the young man was taking leave
for the night his voice, as he stood on
the piazza, rose passionately In the
still air.
" Just one.' he said. 'Just one.'
"Then the young girl's mother in
terrupted, calling from the bedroom
window:
" 'Just 1? No it ain't quite that yet
But it's close on to 12. -o I think ye'd
better be goin' jUFt tha rarr.e.' "
Was the Whole World Destroyed?
The rumors of destruction exterior to
San Francisco furnished another
strange phase. The wires were, of
course, at once cut of service; among
the people there was no means of com
munication. At 10 or 11 o'clock Wed
nesday, a Salvation Army lieutenant
told me that she had heard that Los
Angeles had been totally destroyed;
that Portland and Seattle had been
wiped out by a tidal wave; that Chi
cago "was under water." I know now
that these things are not true. Yet
thousands upon thousands still do not
know that they are but rumors. Not
ten minutes ago a man in uniform ap
proached me where I sit writing and
asked me about the safety of Los An
geles. Not a person with whom I have
spoken duiing the past three days who
had not heard that "Chicago was under
water." Originating in some curious,
unexplainable way, the rumor must
have fled from lip to lip, with speed
incredible, till, within the space of a
day, it bad startled the ears of hundreds
of "thousands of the people of the city.
These rumors, impossible of proof or
disproof for 48 hours, added enormously
to the sense of the vastness of the
disaster. For all we knew, San Fran
cisco's might have been the last flick
ering pulse of a mighty shock that had
made Europe a sea, made the bed of
the Atlantic ocean dry land, and de
stroyed all the cities of the world.
Henry Anderson Lafler, in McClure's.
Only Waiting.
"What is your name, little girl?" ques
tioned the teacher. '
"Itiliia Kalamagoulapagos," answered
the rew pupil.
"My stars, child!" exclaimed the teach
eer. "Nobody needs to carry such a name
as that around in this country. You
ousrht to h?.ve It. changed,"
"I'm going to, ma'am," said the new pu
pil with perfect self-possession, "when
me and Demetrius La.skB.soupaiolIlpopc.los
rets a few years w4er." Chicago Trib
une, i
1903.
1
TUE EVEKIIIG STORY j
Three Baggage Checks.
By Donald Allen.)
Whatever caused Harry Lee, bache
lar, clubman and a good deal of a
cynic to saunter into the Central depot
that afternoon he never has been able
to explain except by laying it to Fate.
He wasn't going anywhere, didn't want
to see anybody in particular, and he al
ways kept clear of passenger depots
on account of tearful old women and
crying children. On this occasion he
had scarcely caught sight of one tear
ful old woman when somebody caught
sight of him.
"And who on earth told you that I
was going to Buffalo?" exclaimed a
voice at his elbow, as he turned to go
out.
It was Miss Remington, whom he
had known fairly well for a year past.
and who had sometimes struck him as
being rather good looking and of en
gaging manners. Just now she was
looking unusually well In her traveling
suit, and her eyes shining with excite
ment. "I I came to say farewell," replied
Lee with ready wit.
"How nice of you. My trunk was
sent on half an hour ago ahead of me,
and must be In the baggage room. I
know you will take my ticket and get
it checked for me. Brother Will said
he would surely be here, but some
thing has happened to detain him."
"It will be something to remember
all my life."
A child of ten, a bachelor of forty,
or an old woman of ninety can check
a trunk when once the feat of getting
it to the depot has been accomplished.
Ail you have to do is to point it 6ut
with one hand while you show yout
ticket with the other and tell the bag
gagemaster that he must make no mis
take and check it for Oshkosh Instead
of Kalamazoo.
Harry Lee had that trunk identified
and checked In seven minutes, and he
was feeling rather proud over the fact
when a plain looking woman of forty
appealed to him. She was looking for
a trunk with a broken handle, but thus
far it had eluded her. It tried to dodge
Mr. Harry Lee, but in vain. He had
his eyes on it in no time,
zjust at this juncture a girl of 18, dress
ed in mourning and looking tearful and
anxious, wanted help. Her trunk was
all right as to handles, but she was
afraid it had been checked to Rochester
instead of Syracuse. She gave the
bachelor her check to see about it. and
thus it came about that he had three
checks for three trunks in his posses
sion. Moreover, he put them Into the
same pocket. Moreover, again, he'd
have walked back to Miss R.emington
with them had not the plain looking
woman and the girl In mourning hesi
tatingly reminded him of his careless
ness. "Ten thousand pardons, ladies," he
apologized in confusion, and with that
he gallantly pulled out the three checks
and made a fair divide. There was just
one apiece and nothing left over. It
was train time now, and everybody in
a hurry, and Miss Remington's brother
came rushing in, and so with it all no
one made any discoveries, and the three
women were hurried away with scores
of other passengers.
For the first time in a year, so far as
he could remember, the club bachelor
had made himself useful for a few min
utes, and there was something like ela
tion in his eye as he left the depot to
continue his saunter. Twenty-four
hours later he received a call from
young Winchester, who had an open tel
egiarn in his hand, and who bluntly
inquired:
"See here, Lee, what have you done
with my sister's trunk?"
"Why I checked it for Buffalo yes
terday." "She has telegraphed that she has
another in the place of it."
"But. man, I surely checked It, and
you saw me hand her the brass. Those
confounded railroad folks must have
made another of their stupid mis
takes." "Well, we'll let it rest for a day, and
perhaps they'll rectify it."
During the next twenty-four hours
Miss Remington sent two more tele
grams from Buffalo, and the ease-loving
and complacent bachelor got a
move on him and went to the depot to
Interview the president, vice president
and genera! manager of the road. Be
ing told that they had gone off on a
Sunday school picnic, he decided to
interview the baggagemaster instead.
There was dignity in his bearing as he
set out to crush the worm under his
feet. The worm wasn't very busy just
then, and heard him through, and then
retaliated with:
"We have two telegrams from "two
other women about trunks having
gone wrong, and it's all owing to your
having butted in here the other day.
I remember you ,very well. You had
three trunks checked at the same
time."
"Yes, sir, I did, and if the baggage
department can't take care of the
trunks all at once it had better go
hang."
"Did you hand the three checks to
three different women?"
"Of course I did."
"Are you sure you kept them sepa
rate'" "Of course that is that is, you
know "
"Yes, I know," smiled the baggage
master. "You .handed out any old
check, and as a consequence there Is a
mix. It's up to you to do some tele
graphing and straighten things out."
Mr. Lee spent the whole day tele
graphing and receiving "collect" mes
sages from Buffalo, Rochester and
Syracuse, but he made little headway.
His messages were inquiring and pa
cific; his "collects" were vigorous and
rather threatening. At the end of the
day he decided on making a personal
trip to straighten out the tangle. He
could remember the trunks and their
respective owners.
His first stop was at Syracuse. He
was sure that the girl in mourning
with a humble looking trunk had had
It checked there. Two telegrams had
passed and he had her address. In the
course cf an hour he found her. She
hadn't quite so much mourning on
now-, and was better looking than he
had thought. She had received the
plain woman's trunk with a broken
handle. She was a refined, ladylike
girl, and in mourning for an aunt who
had left her $50,000. but yet ahe used
language tinged with acid. Next time
she went traveling and had to appeal
to a man for help she would make sure
that he knew enough to check his own
trunk, and so forth, and so forth. A
woman may lose her sweetheart and
say nothing, but let her lose her trunk
while traveling and it takes years to
exhaust the subject.
Mr. Lee got away with his ears
burning, and yet he admired Miss
Strothers. He arranged to have the
trunk sent on to Rochester, and then
took the train for that city. The plain
woman was expecting him. She had
the trunk all ready to point at. but It
didn't happen to be Miss Sirother's
trunk. It belonged to Mies Reming
ton. Here was another mixup.
The bachelor drew a long breath and
started to explain, but was cut short
after a minute. He was asked to
Identify himself as an honest man; he
was asked to prove that he was not a
baggage thief: he was asked to con
vince the plain looking woman, who
looked plainer than ever in her own
W.IIWI aiim mm iwii.iiiiiiiiiniajLwMwMg'awimjwggiii 'W'lii I mil
house and with her anger up, that hi
grandfather had never been hung for a
capital crime.
At the end of half an hour the piain
woman softened on him a bit. She soft
ened enough to say that perhaps after
all it was his first crime, and that If he
hustled around and got that one-handled
trunk in Rochester Inside of two
hours she would not call in the police.
Bachelor Lee longed to return to New
York and find rest and peace, but in
exorable Fate drove him on to Buffalo.
There he found Miss Remington.
"I am not going to blame you at all,"
she said, as she met him. "It was al!
my fault in thinking that you knew
anything about the operation of rail
roads. You could have loaded that
trunk into an auto and had it Into the
Staten Island ferry in. half an hour.
Mr. Lee proceeded to explain, but It
was not much of an explanation. How
ever, the more he explained and the
more he. failed to explain, the more he
became interested in Miss Rmington.
It was a matter of four days before
the big trunk, the little trunk and the
one-handled trunk reached their respec
tive owners.
The chapter was closed then and
there with the plain looking -woman,
but not so with one of the others. Ever
since that date, and particularly during
the - last three months, the bachelor
clubman has found it necessary to go
up the road to talk trunk business, and
he finds that the most effective way to
remind Miss Remington of her duty to
ward the diamond ring she wears is to
suggest that he take a trip to Syracuse
to see the other young woman about
her trunk.
(Copyright, 1906, by M. M. Cunnlegham)
Bacon She says she is twenty-eight
years old.
Egbert Well, she looks as If she would
say she was about that old. Yonkera
Statesman.
"B man dat nurses unreasonable
hopes," said Uncle Eben, "may be fool
ish, but he ain't as foolish aa de one dat
nurses vain resrets." Washington Star.
Interviewer And do you always wait
for inspiration before beginning a poem?'"
Great Poet Oh, no. Sometimes I need
the money. Chicago News.
"I suppose a professional pugilist," said
Jokesley, "may properly be called a oox
party."
"Yes," replied Wiseman, "pugilists don't
do much but talk." Philadelphia Ledger.
"How does It happen," asked the portly
dowager on the overland express, "thnt
you have managed to keep the same cook
for 30 years?"
"I married one," answered the chance
acquaintance, shrugging her ample shoul
ders. Chicago Tribune.
"You compel an armv of men to work
for you." exclaimed the reformer. " in
order that you may roll in luxury!"
"You are right," said the conacience
strlcken captain of industry. "I will let
ail of them go and procure machines to
do their work."
"You inhuman monster!" Chicago Tri
bune. "Had a good time on the Fourth, I
suppose?"
Yith his one sound hand Johnny push
ed his banda&es aside.
"You bet I did," he answered.
"But how about your burns?"
"Huh! I don't care. It was the very last
cannon cracker I had that blowed me up.''
Philadelphia Ledger.
"Mrs. Gaodform is always prepared for
any occasion, isn't she?"
"Yes. indeed. She even keeps a. pink
silk kimono hanging by the window so
that in case of fire in the night she pan
slip it on while" she's getting into the fire
escape." Detroit Free Press.
"Do you think I'll stand any chance for
promotion here, sir?"
"Young man, do you drink?"
"No, sir."
"Then you'll stand an excellent chanre
for promotion. This office is full of peri
odical boozers." Philadelphia Press.
Knicker An English writer says she
thinks in the country and writes in
town.
Booker Same wa v with us; my wife
thinks at the sea and I write a cheek in
the city. New York Sun.
"She's not happy, you say? That's
strange! The last time I saw her she told
me she had found her ideal."
"Yes, but unfortunately she married It."
Indianapolis News.
"Pop," inquired Tommy, "is a Colt re
volver a little horse pistol?",
"Of course not."
"Well, pop, is the garbage man mad
When he gets in the dumps?"
"Don't ask such foolish questions. child."
"Just tell roe this, pop, and I'll stop. Is
the cradle of the deep e ocean's rocky
bed?" Baltimore American.
"So you think yachting is a dangerous
game?"
"Dreadfully so. Why, no less than five
of our commodores have died of delirium
tremens." Life.
Young Innocent I beg your pardon, did
I tread on your foot that time?
Sweet Girl (very sweetly) Oh, no; not
that time. Punch.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
tFrom the Philadelphia Record. J
No girl can look swell with the
mumps. '
The way of the transgressor is hard
on other people.
Many & man who marries a widow
lives to envy his wife's former hus
band. A true artist is one who would love
art for its own sake if he could af
ford it.
The cannibal who eats a millionaire
may find the meal entirely too rich for
him.
In married life the result of the
first quarrel shows who is going to be
boss.
Hoax "Do you eat oat meal as a
rule?" Joax "No; as a breakfast
food."
Some men are too lazy even to pur
sue happiness. They expect happiiieaa
to chase them.
Love in a cottage doesn't always
demonstrate that there isn't room for
a difference of opinion.
Blobbs "I am a fatalist. I believe
that what is to be will be." Slobbs
"Yes: and a great deal of It wiil be our
own fault."
Wigg "Do you believe that the Ark
actually carried every known form of
animal life?" Wagg "Well, if it Is
true bacteriology makes it plain that
Noah had a few stowaways."
POIX 1 1 I PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.J
The discomfort of having a son with
a good disposition is you wiil always
have to support him.
Going camping is a very nice thing
for all the ants and bugs that like to
crawl under your clothes.
It ought to be about as comfortable
to have diseases as these science beliefs
that say there aren't any.
There are two ways to praise a wo
man one to applaud her children, the
other to damn her next door neigh
bor's. A girl would have to have very
blond hair not to -wonder if shs
couidn't make it seem more real bjf
touching? It up a little.
) "I'
HUMOR OF THE VAY
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