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4 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURHALTHUESDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1S07. TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL By FRANK P.- MAO LKJCNAX. (Entered July U 1S75. as aecoud-clasa matter at tha postoftloe at Topeka, Kan,. unaer idb act or congrea.j VOLUME XXXIV NO. 124 Official Paper City tof Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 centa a week to any part ot Topeka. or ueuroj, or at too same price in any x.n sas towns where the paper haa a carrier ytem. gr mall, one year .J3-WJ By mail, three months Saturday edition of dally, one year 1-00 TELKPHOKES. Business office Bejl JSZ Business office I"d. Id Reporters' Room F'J1 Reporters' Room Ind. 85 Frank P. MaeLennan IndTOO PERMANENT HOME. Topeka State Journal building. S evz Kansas Rvenue. corner or EiKntn. Kew York office: Flatlron building. Twenty-third street, corner Fifth avenue nrc roadway. jaul hiock. manager. , Chicago office: Hartford building. Paul Block, manager. FULL LEASED WIRE RETORT OF TIIK ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal Is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report of that great news or ganisation for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news Is received n The Btate Jom rial building over wires for this sols pur pose. Must be that San Francisco has gone Into the upheaval business. Let's see: Isn't Pittsburg mixed up lr any way in this Gould divorce suit? The dove of peace apparently has a hard time finding a roosting place In Ohio. If the weather bureau has any In stock, will it please send around a few showers and be quick about it. It is reported that the government Is about to build a fire under the powder trust. Look out for an explosion. Secretary Taft refused to neglect his work (o campaign In Ohio, but It did not take Ohio long to line up for him. "While the tribe of Pocahontas is ex tinct, It is reported that scalpers are numerous at the Jamestown exposition. It should be expected, of course, that that woman ujstice of the peace at Evanston, 111., will have the last word. Senator Piatt announces that he will retire at the end of his present term, but an admiring constituency is not begging him to stay. Now that the Thaw case and the Corey-Gilman wedding are over, what is the next sensation in which the Pitts burg millionaire will figure? It is no great wonder that Cuba sometimes gets rebellious. It was five years old last Monday, and children of that age are often rebellious. Abe Ruef pleaded guilty but insisted that he is innocent. He was evidently bound to make himself out a liar, no matter which statement one might be lieve. "Do something different every day. Get out of bed with a different leg first every morning," advises Julian Haw thorne. Does Julian think we're a cen tipede? . Another evidence of his popularity Is the fact that his friends call him "Bin" Taft, Just as another gentle man's admirers among the people call him ''Teddy." Rev. Dr. Aked, the new pastor of Rockefeller's New Tork church, advises business men to pray in connection with their business. Some financiers do, but the people spell it "prey." Thus far comparatively little has been heard of the innocent bystander in these San Francisco strikes. But, on second thought, perhaps there are no innocent bystanders in San Francisco. Every time wheat advances a cent a bushel and stays there it adds nearly a. million dollars to the prospective 'wealth of Kansas. The trouble is that when Kansas gets its wheat ready to sell the price won't stay there. President Woodrow Wilson, of Prince tort, is quoted as saying: "Chewing to bacco makes a man think." And yet old man Seneca seems to have worried along without it and still he did quite a Job of thinking about nineteen hundred years ago. Four years ago the close of the bankers' convention in Topeka brought the flood. If the bankers will try a little Btunt of the same kind this year they will win the gratitude of the state that is, if they will agree not to overdo it as they did In 1908. Can you read anything between the lines of this brief announcement that appears in the Emporia Gazette? "Fred Corbett, manager of the Whitley opera house, has received word that J. R. Burton will not speak in Emporia this evening. He has cancelled his engage ment." The list of persons for whom there are unclaimed letters at the Garden City postoffice fills half of a newspaper column, and this is pointed to as evidence of the town's Speedy growth. But might it not also indicate that many people had left there without remembering to leave the address to which they went. Up at Fort Dodge. Iowa, a girl re cently knocked down a footpad and held him until officers arrived. It is no wonder Fort Dodge girls sometime ago made sport of the ordinance pro poned In that town to compel bache lors to marfy them. A bachelor would evidently be powerless in the hands of a Fort Dodge girl, ordinance or no ordinance. Because J. L. Bristow advocates the admission of Chinese and Japanese la- bar to this country in order to relieve the labor famine, some of hia enemies see where he haa capitulated to the railroads, because the latter are also In favor of bringing In laborers to re Ileve the labor shortage. This is not Intended aa a joke, however ridiculous it may be. THE STTJBBS BOOM. "It Is my opinion that W. R. Stubbs is quite likely to be the next governor of Kansas." This Is a statement made yesterday by a Topeka business man, formerly connected with the railroads In a prominent capacity, whose business takes him over the state and brings Wm Into contact with other business men of all shades of belief. "There is this about It," he con tinued. "The people of Kansas have determined to turn down the crowd that ran the state senate last winter, ana an easy way to do it is to give tneir approval to Stubbs. Stubbs stands extremely well among the peo ple or Kansas who are little interested in politics except as voters, and from tne expressions of opinion I have heard, I look for the Stubbs boom to assume large proportions. One does not hear these expressions in a single locality, but In widely separated coun ties everywhere." The author of this statement is in no sense a politician. His only ac tivity in politics is to go to the polls and vote on election, day. But he is a keen observer and studies the trend of events. inis would indicate that there is more to the Stubbs gubernatorial boom than many people believe. It is quite probable that Mr. Stubbs him self would prefer a seat in the United States senate to one in the executive offices of the state of Kansas, for he undoubtedly has a strong ambition to go to the United States senate, but considering the attitude he has taken towards other people when "duty called them," he cannot throw cold water on his gubernatorial boom. air. stuDDs Has, however, many strong opponents among those who are active in politics, and this is why his boom has not been looked upon as having great strength by those who are "in politics." But if the gentle man quoted above is correct, the op ponents of Mr. Stubbs will do well to keep one eye on that boom possibly two. HOW IT WORKS. When the federal government start ed out to "regulate" the meat packing business by a system of strict govern ment inspection, a terrific howl went up from the packing Interests. They asserted- that the proposed measure would ruin the packing industry. But the packers have found quite the reverse to be true. Strict govern ment inspection is a great help to them, as it gives the public more con fidence in their products. The in spection law now is not only com mended by the people, but also by the Interests who are thus "regulated." Incidentally this inspection has brought to American meat packers a fine testimonial from abroad. In giv ing instructions for the weekly issue of one pound of preserved meat to the British army in lieu of fresh killed meat, the London war office has sent out the following letter to all the com mands in the home stations: "The establishments in which the brands of American tinned meat now being is sued to the troops are manufactured have been carefully inspected by offi cers sent especially to America for the purpose, and their reports have satis fied the army council that the quality of the tinned meat used and the con ditions under which It is prepared and canned by the firms now supplying the army, are in every way satisfac tory." It is quite likely that strict regula tion of railroads by the government real regulation will likewise be bene ficial to the railroad interests in the long run. Especially will it be so if all tho railroads Join the government in making its regulation effective and fair. The packers were finally con fronted with the alternative of govern ment inspection or losing a large por tion of their business. The railroads may be confronted with the alterna tive of government regulation or gov ernment ownership. SENATOR LONG'S "TOUR." Senator Chester I. Long 19 "visiting" in Kansas. He is going from town to town and gathering in "the people" to ascertain their views and Incidentally hand but a few Jollies to them. This Visitation on the part of the sen ator has been little advertised. An nouncements ate made in some of the local papers where he Is to visit that he may be there, but that is all. There is no public speech-making or anything of that sort. Tuesday the senator was at Clay Center. Yesterday he went up to Belleville. Today he is visiting at Jewell City. Senator Long has a warm hand-clasp and a genial smile. He will make some new friends on his trip, for he will talk the Kansas language Senator Long has been "brushing up" on that during recent months and he knows the art of making friends. Incidentally the sen ator may find out who is likely to run for election to the legislature next year, as that is a subject in which he Is personally interested quite as much as he is in what the people think about national legislation. This trip will do Senator Long good. It does any official good to get out among the people and to secure their views. Had Senator Long put his ear to the grassroots two years ago and acted in accordance with what he heard, he would today Stand in much higher favor with the people of Kan sas than he does. Of course, he hon estly does not believe this, but it is a fact. It is to be hoped that he will learn much wisdom from this trip. Women Auto Drummers. "There seems to be a rattling busi ness going on here in New York among the women in the way of private sales of automobiles," said the progressive girl. "Every little While I see some friend out In a brand-new gown. 'I've just sold an automobile,' she explains simply. I have met half a dozen in new gowns this week, and with each it has becnmA t Vi rq m e ' T bnvA In ct sold an automobile.' ' "It seems to be a good scheme. A woman gets to know some member of an automobile firm. ' She makes a con tract with him for a good percentage. Then she recommends his automobiles to her rich friends who are able to buy them, and if the sale comes off she gets the new dress. New York Press. JOURNAL ENTRIES Spring is making quite a stop with us this time. m m at It takes a mighty small item to make big news sometimes. There is little Alfonso, for instance. m m If they ever organize a Daughters of the Revolution in Cuba they ought to specify which revolution. A dark horse ought not to be a fast black, for a fast black cannot run. m m m This is the time of year when a lot of men place too much responsibility on a belt and suffer from misplaced confi dence as a result. . . JAYHAWKER JOTS The Burton engagement at Emporia was cancelled. Atchison has 3,000 dogs, on 270 of which taxes have been paid. An Ohio man has been fined $100 for hugging a girl. "Living expenses," com ments the Greenleaf Sentinel, are con stantly advancing. ' The price of eggs is the lowest it has been in two years. In some places the farmers' wives are getting only ten cents a dozen for eggs. Cause: Overwork by the hens. Recipe of the Norton Champion: "The way to go to sleep," says a scientist, "is to think of nothing." but this is a mis take. The way to go to sleep is to think it is time to get up. Jewell Republican: A man lectured here on India; and what made our wo men most indignant was to hear that a woman in India never gets a hew style hat, and that she always has to walk 20 paces behind her husband and do Just as he says. The expression on every face said as plainly as words, "If I were over there, I'd show him." "Not many years ago Wnefl we were 'the owner in fee-smlple' of a shirt-tall full of type and an old hand press and with the assistance of a dirty-faced boy were getting out a weekly newspaper," says Bent Murdock. "our old friend George Nelman was keeping 'bach' on a homestead in Milton townsmp, nis principal diet being cornbread, pump kins and sorghum. And while we are still moseying along in the newspaper business, George is the main guy of a bank In Whitewater that has $200,000 on deposit. Well, it's all right, but at the same time we would like to go to Eu rope and be a plute, and otherwise en joy life. This thing of having to work ten or fifteen hours a day is wearing on us making us old and bald and wrink led and toothless but then our ship may come in. when we will join the plutes and have a good time along with George Neiman and the others." Arkansas City Traveler: We are get ting- to be somewhat suspicious of Will Johnson, better known in baseball cir cles as Home Run Johnson. Around the Traveler office he is known as Bill John son. Bill came into this office over a dozen years ago as his "Satanic Majes ty," and by Industry and faithfulness has managed to climb up to the posi tion of foreman. If he hangs around the office another dozen years and con tinues to save his money, it would not be surprising if he discharged the pres ent owners. But to get back to the orig inal proposition of getting suspicious Of William. It was only yesterday that he appeared at the office, all togged out in his "Sunday Best" and a clean face. He wanted an hour off in the afternoon and got it. Afterwards it was learned that Bill went and had his picture ta ken. Reports received at this office to day say that all machines in town are still able to do work. This morning Bill appeared at the office again in that new suit of clothes and the same clean face that he wore yesterday. He gave notice that he wanted off at noon. However, when 9 o'clock came. Bill was gone, and It was asserted that he had gone to Winfleld. Bill also notified the office that he Would not show up for work un til Thursday morning. This erratic con dition and nervous state was never be fore exhibited in this office by Johnson, and for that reason considerable suspic ion has been aroused as to what was go ing to happen to Bill. No one believes he laid off to bug his potatoes or 'to go fishing. QUAKER REFLECTIONS. tFrom the Philadelphia Record.! Love is a lesson we always learn by heart. The younger a man is the more he thinks he knows about women. The Successful poet is one who is able to earn a living at something else. When we take a man's word for a thing, can we expect him to keep it, too? Many a chicken lives to regret that it hadn't been hard boiled before it was born. Love sometimes files out of the win dow without waiting for poverty to come in at the door. It takes a lot of experience to be able to propose to a girl without danger of being accepted. It has been remarked that cheap whisky is a dilution and a snare. And it might be added that many a man is snared by the dilution. "Poor man!" exclaimed the benevo lent old lady. "And you say you have no friends?" "No, madam." replied the weary wayfarer; "I used to be a base ball umpire." This conversation will probably hap pen in the year 1957: "Pop, why did the cow jump over the moon?" "Because, my soti, in those days there was no aerial navigation." POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Fault finders are never out of a Job. Bread is the staff of life; sugar is the cane. The early fish hook will soon be going down the pike. Most people who claim to be content ed are merely resigned. There is more than a peck of trouble in some pint bottles. An officeholder soon forgets that he was once an office seeker. People who think they are too good to live ought to patronize the undertaker. In the case of a photographer success depends on his ability to take things as they come. After the a-erage young man forgets what he learned at college he manages to become a useful citizen. KANSAS COMMENT , THEN AND NOW. HOW the Whppl i-. fito raunli'Ad JTif teen years ago Joseph Ralph Burton stood before an , audience that filled vey seat in the Grand opera house -i iuuena, and held Joint debate with W-.A- Peffer, seeking to convince the audience that Peffer's diatribes against the condition of the times were vislon afyi' tnat tne evils of which he com plained were only the imaginary wrongs v.uujurea up Dy demagogues who sought to elevate themselves. Last Monday night Mr. Burton stood In the same place and denounced the 'TrtUll .. ... . i.ii.jvai tummuraty or interests. Jumped upon the great golden dragon, talked of the "iron heel of oppression," skinned Wall street, and said things about the federal judiciary that would have made the utterances of Peffer and Jerry Simpson and Mary E. Lease years ago sound tame 'and flat. Fif teen years aa-n the audience whs ex cited and tense, and the partisans of i-ener ana Burton glared at each oth er. Monday night only 150 people came out to hear Burton, and they yawned some. The lesson of the incident is that everybody now knows that something is wrong. No political party can now claim any rights of original discovery as to the facts. The "Ikelheimers" and the others have been convicted in the public mind and the great red dragon is on the run. The federal judiciary is under grave and somewhat intelligent suspicion. The period is full of the same literature, a trifle better written, than confronted us during the days of Populism, the only difference Deing tnat in 1890 it was Populism rampant and in rags, today it is Pop ulism dressed up and speaking politely. If the present period of clamor against tne existing evils Were accompanied Dy hard times we would have an exact repetition cf 15' Tears ago in Kansas. The wrongs are still here, and the per iod is full of ambitious men who would like to ride these wrongs into public office. But it is hard to get a citizen stirred up about political or civic wrongs when he is trying to find some way to eet his business orders niiea. It is difficult to get a man to stop and talk about the. slavery of the money power when he can't get men for love or money to take some of the vacancies in his factory or store or on his farm. FeoDle are intenselv Interested in the conditions, but they haven't time to get up a parade, or organize a school house meeting. The air is filled full of Populism, out the times have . made the people im mune. They are going to vote with intelli gence and effectiveness; they are going to hold less closely to party lines; they are going to mix more deliberation and purpose with their ballots than ever De fore, but they are too busy to get ex cited and hold Joint debates. Wichita Eagle. AN ENDORSEMENT. The referendum is right and central ized power is right. This may sound contradictory but it is not. The people have the final say but the government that acts for the people must have tne power to maintain itself and force Its decrees. There is too much liberty in this country in that respect. We abuse our officials to the point of anarchy. It is not fair, it is not patriotic Lawrence Jounral. ' o I THE GAME. The Republicans ;of Oklahoma will not get much sympathy in their howl against gerrymander. That is the game of politics. Had . the Republicans car ried the constitutional convention the legislative districts would have been safely Republican. If Oklahoma cares more for offices than for statenooa men there is no use in bringing it into the Union. Lawrence Journal. THE GENERAL. General W. H. Thrift, general in spector of the Iowa National guards, is visiting in Kansas. If he is in any way related to General Prosperity he has found the proper state to stop In. Salina Journal. FROM OTHER PENS A NATIONAL EXAMPLE. Corey occupies a Commanding place in the industrial and financial life of the United States and of the whole world. He is a marked man; the em bodiment and visible concrete sign of human success; the model for strug gling American business youth; a great captain of industry wno is a force in the world, charged with im mense responsibilities, and intrusted with power and wealth and position. If the greatest business in the world maintains as its chief the man wno lightly breaks up the American home, and disregards the sentiments and the conduct which are inculcated in an moral teachings for young men and women, what will be the effect on the youth of America? Will they follow the cold precept, and disregard the illustrious example? Philadelphia Public Ledger. BELLOWS OF THE BULLS. If it is true that the wheat crop is going to be as short as the bulls claim, it will bo a great relief to the rail ways that are so short of cars. Chi cago Inter-Ocean. IMMIGRATION. Our immigration laws should be framed to admit clean, sound, honest and industrious individuals of any na tionality who seek a permanent home and are willing to accept new world government as their own. Indian apolis News. A DIVIDED HOUSEHOLD. We believe that Mr. Taft cannot ex pect more than to divide the newspa per vote of this land. It is pointed out on the one hand that he used to be a reporter, but. unfortunately, it is also pointed out that he once thrash ed an editor. Washington tteraia. GETTING ACTIVE. Market reports say hog products are dull. This doesn't include the street car variety. Indianapolis Sun. NO HOODOO ABOUT IT. How these presidential secretaries do get on! Lamont was Cleveland's, became a railroad magnate and died a millionaire; Cortelyou was McKin ley's, and he is now secretary of the treasury; Loeb Is Roosevelt's, and is to feather out in finance as a trolley ad ministrator. Philadelphia Telegraph. MONUMENT TO GRAFT. It is now a matter of doubt whether the capitol building at Harrisburg is more of a state headquarters or a monument to graft. In the latter as pect, it is one of the successes, appar ently, of the century. Baltimore American. CLOWNS AND STATESMEN. A Washington paper says the people of that city generally patronize cir cuses. Evidently the congressional menagerie which Is running about half the time doesn't supply the popular i demand there. Birmingham News. A VILLAGE EPITAPH. Sort o Jollied along In th' friendliest way. With a. smile or a sons: And a kind thing to say: Never had a harsh word If a fellow went wrong. All th' good in you stirred As he Jollied along. Sort o' easy and free With a word o' good cheer, Kind o' helpful to me And inszirln' to hear; Didn't take It to heart If a thing should go wrong. Said he made it an art Just to jolly along. Put a flea in your ear As he chanced to go by With a voice full o' cheer And a wink o' his eye: If he reckoned you went At a pace quite too strong. But you knew what he meant As he jollied along. And th' clouds might be drear Or th' sky might be gray. But he brought you good cheer ' , If he happened your way; For he gave you a laugh Or a snatch of a sons, And your woes went like chaff As he Jollied along. And I've missed him today Somethin' friendly an' sweet Like a flower gone away From our side of th' street; And they told me his smile Was so sweet and a song On his lips all th' while When he jollied alone. New York Times. Twenty Winks a Minute. . The average person winks ' his eyes every three seconds that Is to say. twenty times a minute, or 1,200 times in an hour. This means that an ordinary day's work for a pair of eyelids is from 13,000 to 20,000 winks. A wink is accomplished in about one- fiftieth of a second so quickly that, as anybody may observe for himself, it does not in the slightest degree inter rupt continuous vision. But the notion that winking is intended by nature to give repose to the eyes is a mistake, the object of It being merely to keep the surface of the sensitive little organs constantly moist. The moisture, which is necessarv for the health of the eyes, is supplied, of course, by the tears. .f or tnis purpose that is to say, to keep the eyes continually bathed con siderable quantities of salty water are secreted. The water is flowing all the time, and would pour out over the edges of the eyelids were it not for an oil which is furnished to prevent this. This oil is secreted and supplied by little glands along the rims of the lids. There is also a tear-duct, which carries off the superfluous water and gets rid of it. The mouth of tho tear-duct is plainly visible on the edge of the lower eyelid near the inner corner of the eye. It is a small pipe, which leads down into the throat, so that, when one puts Into the eyes anything with a pronounced taste, like cocaine, the flavor of it is presently distinguishable in the mouth. The eyelids, if closed, are absolutely water-tight. They do not exclude light, however, nearly so well as most people suppose. Saturday Evening Post. Noah Under Suspicion. The last copy of the Ararat Jouhnal, published three days before the flood, has. recently been excavated from the top 'drawer of an Oriental magnate's desk. It says editorially: "The radical utterances of old man Noah are to be strongly deprecated by all conservative citizens. Especially do we deplore his unwarranted attacks on the Sin trust and its worthy board of directors. 'Aside from the fact that these gentle men Stand very high in the community such wild, denunciation and predictions as our people listened to last evening are likely to produce an unsettled con dition of affairs and damage business. "It is generally believed that his mo tives are not above suspicion. In fact, those who are well informed hint that the old man has some watered and un digested stock of his own which he ex pects to float as soon as the Sin trust is swamped." Puck. Gulls fcs Life Savers. "I wouldn't no more kill a gull than I would a baby," said the sailor. "Why not?" "Why not? Because gulls has saved mv life, that's why not. Gulls Is life savers. They've saved the lives of thousands of seamen. . They ought to all wear round their sleek neck a pink silk ribbon with one of them there Andy Carnegie medals tied to if. "Wunst, off the Orkneys, in a fog, we lost our bearin's, and we'd ha' run aground and drowned, sure, if the loud screamin' of the gulls on the cliffs hadn't give us timely warnin", "So it goes. Time after time, in black, stormy nights, in mists and fogs, gulls' cries, as good as any fog-horn, warns sailors what has lost their way off deadly coasts." The Scotch Juror. In Scotland in a civil case jurymen get ten shillings a day for their ser vices, and the litigants must in addi tion provide them with lunch. If two cases are tried consecutively on one day and the same Jurymen officiate they get ten shillings for each case. But the most important difference between an English and a Scottish jury is this: An English jury when return ing their verdict must be unanimous, and if they fail to agree after a certain length of time they are dismissed and the whole proceedings are begun again de novo before a fresh jury. In civil cases, in order to avoid this result, the litigants sometimes agree to accept the verdict of a majority. In Scotland the jury can always give a verdict by a majority. In civil cases after the lapse of three hours. Chambers's Journal. What Dick Tiirpin Really Did. Dick Turpin was really a most unro mantic ruffian, who first appears In his tory about 1735 at Loughton, where he threatened to put an old Mrs. Shelley on the fire unless she gave him her money. Turpin's "sphere of influence" was hot Hounslow Heath but Epplng Forest; and the only true part of the popular myth is that he really did shoot his comrade, Tom King. The legendary ride to York on Black Bess was performed, if at all, by "Swift Nick" Nevison, who in 1676 robbed a sailor on Gads Hill at 4 a. m., and estab lished an alibi by appearing the same evening on the bowling green at York Westminster Gazette. Where Folly Beats Wisdom. Dr. Emil Reich, the famous lecturer and historian, was once discussing mar riage at a dinner in New York. "That was a wise saying of the old Greek philosopher," murmured an elec trician " 'Whether you marry her or not. you will regret it.' "I knew an old maid in my native Eperjes," said Dr. Reich, "who once got eff a saying almost as good as the immortal Greek one. " "Auntie." said her little niece to her. what yould you dp if you had your life to live over again?' "'The lonely spinster with a sour smile anpwered: " 'Get married before I had sense enough to be an old maid. " Exchange. THE EVENING STORY Rklgley's Reprisal. " -(By Edna Kerr.) . Herbert Morrow, bent and - care worn, passed the parlor door. His daughter Daisy smiled up at him as he glanced at her ia passing, but the smile turned into a sigh as the bowed figure vanished. "Is the run on the bank serious?" asked Degnon. "Tour father looks very badly." . "I am afraid that it is serious," she answered. She was engaged to Deg non and trusted his discretion. "I saw the evening papers," he said, "but I thought that it was Just a sen sational playing up of an incident. May I go in and see Mr. Morrow?" "I wish you would," she said. "I seem so helpless. I think he would like to talk it over with a man." The banker looked up wearily as Degnon entered the library. He liked this clean-cut young chap, who had come to Mldvale to take charge of the electric plant. Degnon went directly to the matter at Issue. "I have come to see if I Can be of any service," he began. "I have some $20,000 that I can get hold of by to morrow." "Too little, but I thank you, my boy,' said the president of the union bank. "Is there no way out?" persisted Degnon. "Just how does the matter Btand?" "It is a plot of Ridgley's," began the banker. "It cannot be proven, out ne practically owns the Provident Bav ings bank as well as the First Na tional. "That is news to me," said Degnon "And to most others. For some rea son Ridjfley does not want his con nection with the Provident bank known. Now, just at present there is a heavy demand for money on short time loans. The hierh rates of inter est have led both the Provident and my own bank, the Union, to send all of our surplus to the city banks. Ridgley sees his chance to put me out of business by starting a run. He knows that there is not enough money in either bank to me?t a run, but the First National will help the Provident. I shall have to suspend until I can re call the money on deposit in the city. "I think I see," mused Degnon "Both banks need money.- The Provi. dent can get it from its sister bank your Union will have to admit Its In ability to pay depositors. They turn shaky about your bank and go to the rival institution." "That's part of the scheme. The rest is this: Next week the interest ac crues. If there is a run and the money Is withdrawn this interest is lost to the depositor. The First National will get the use of the money until the scare is over. They announced tonight tnat their interest would be paid. When the scare is over they will cut off the Interest and send the money back to their savings bank, while, in the meantime, the standing of my bank is lost. "There is just one thing to be done,' said Degnon, producing a blank form. Put electricity Into your bank." "How will that help?" asked the Danker. It is a sign of enterprise. but I am afraid in a few days I shall have no bank to light." Degnon smiled. "I have an idea," he explained. "I think it is a good one." With trembling hand. Morrow sign ed tne contract .and JDegcon rose to go. in tne nan ne stopped' to say trood night to Daisy and explain that he had to see some one on business on his way home, hence his haste. ine some one was tne mayor s secretary, ana as a result of the visit a permit was issued the following morning as soon as the office opened to tear up the street for the purpose of installing tne light service in the Union bank. Already a little knot of depositors naa gatnerea in front of the two sav ings banks when the construction gang put in an appearance. The First National, in which Ridgley was silent ly interested, occupied a corner build ing, and the Union. Morrow's bank. adjoined it. Ridgley's savings bank, the Provident, stood diagonally op posite, and it was in front of the Provident that the men began to die to tap tne main feeder. The men worked stolidly on, unmindful of the excitement around them. At the Union, Morrow was paying off slowly to defer the announcement of suspen sion, in the hope that help might come. At the Provident, on the other hand, an extra force kept the line moving briskly, paying off as rapidly as the money could be counted out. Clerks were busy bringing up money from the vaults downstairs and over in the First National, other clerks were receiving the money and opening new accounts. Ridgley had devised the scheme as reprisal against Morrow. His son had been Daisy's favored suitor until Degnon had step ped in and cut him out. Ridgley had not forgiven the banker for the fancied slight, and with his usual business instinct was making his re venge profitable. It was nearly noon when a clerk daphed out of the Provident and hur ried into the First National. In a moment he came out again accom panied by Ridgley himself. They were making their way to the Provi dent through the crowd when sud now gaping wide to show its load of the excavation. One of the laborers, an Italian, was working with a crowbar at the bottom of the pit seeking to dislodge the bar from some obstruction It had encoun tered. Ridgley shouted excitedly to the man, who smiled pleasantly Into his face and began to climb out of the pit. The crowd left the line and crowd ed around the opening. The Italian was waving his permit, blandly con fident of his rights; and in his excite ment Ridgley could not make himself understood. At last the Italian seem ed to comprehend and dropping back into the pit seized the pickaxe and smashed through the obstruction, proudly handed out a bulky cylinder, now gaping wide to sow its load of crisp bills. "No taka da mon'," explained the Italian. "Hones' man. Ver' hones' man. No taka da mon'." In a flash, the crowd understood. The Provident was meeting the run by paying out money sent under the street from the First National. The money was making an endless chain, being paid out over and over again. Half a dozen men in the crowd began to explain how the bank was profiting by the evasion of interests, and Ridg ley retired hurriedly. With the crowd in Its present temper, he was not anxious to be within its reach. A lit tle talk would precipitate a riot. But Degnon had planned skillfully, and his orators talked Just enough to check the run in the Union. There were muttered threats, but the drain wao stopped and a back flow of de positors was started toward the Union. Ridgley's reprisal had proven a boomerang. That evening Degnon explained to Daisy and her father his inspiration. "I was looking over the installation In the First National." he told them, "and I saw that there was a pipe of the pneumatic system that led out a the building. "I thought it odd at the time am when you spoke of tne relations be tween the two banks, I realized th game. They could shift the monej back and forth as it was needed and no one was the wiser. I got a permit to open tha street and drove a crow bar through the pipe. That was all." "I should like to give something to that Italian foreman," said Daisy. "You might give him a kiss," sug gested Degnon. "At college I was ont of the stars of the dramatic club." "You were the foreman?" cried Daisy. "You shall have a dozen kisses," and she made no protest at Degnon's prompt collection. (Copy righted, 1907, by M. M. Cunningham.) HUMOR OF THE DAY "Is young Softy going a fast pace?" "Is he? You Just ought to ee him run up a bill." Baltimore American. Teacher What is meant by the wave of. popularity? Jane The Marcel wave ain't It, teacher! Cleveland Plain. Dealer. "Buttrin has been a good deal in the public eye, hasn't he?" "Yes. In the sense that he gets himself blown into it once in awhile," Chicago Tribune. "What do you consider the chief danger of wealth?" asked the solemn man. "That the other fellow will have it," re sponded a hearer inclined to flippancy. f nuaaeipnia imager. oreih- "You reckon these fault-finding br ren go to Heaven? "Some of 'em will have to. The other place i3 too full of 'em." Atlanta Consti tution. Mrs. Knicker Has she clothes for all climates? Mrs. Bocker Yes, except the one hef husband mentions when he gets the blll.i New York Sun, v "Now here," said the enthusiastic real estate agent to the prominent politician, "is one of the most desirable houses in the capital. It . has exposure all around " "Good heavens!" cried the prominent politician, with a start of dismay, "that's Just what I'm trying to get away from."- Philadelphia Press. Late Arrival iWho is that man over there, Mrs. Upmore, that everybody ap pears to be so eager to meet? Hostess Is It possible you don't know? That Is Mr. Percollum, . the man who wrote a short story for a magazine with out putting an automobile In it. -Chicago Tribune. There are nervous women; there are hyper-nervous women. But women so nervous the continual rustle of a silk skirt makea them nervous no, there are no women so nervous as that! Fliegende Blatter. "Am I the first girl you ever loved?" "Of course, dear. But it's strange how every girl has asked me that same Ques tion." Illustrated Bits. "I want a pair o' the most expensive ? loves you've got," said Mrs. Nuritch at he glove counter. "Yes, ma'am," replied the polite sales person. "How long do you want them?" "Don't git insultin', young man! I want to buy 'em, not hire 'em." Philadelphia Press. She Our friend over there claims to be a woman-hater. He Yes, but the lucky devil lacks ex perience. He has never been married. Smart Set. "Papa, are we all worms of the dust as the preacher said?" "Well son. perhaps we're all worms. but some of us -are shy on the dust." Phila delphia Ledger. Mrs. Dickenharry For goodness sake, Mary, how long did you boil these eggs? The New Cook Half an hour, mum. TVIt- ninkunhnrrv Rut didn't I tell VOU that three minutes was enough for an egg? The New Cook Yessum. But l Donea ten of em. Cleveland Leader. "He complains that his wife refuses to listen to him." "He should cultivate the habit of talk ing in his sleep." Houston Post. "Jimson'S widow threatens to break his will." "I thought she approved of it? "Yes, but she can't forgive him for fly ing during housecleaning time." Cleve land Dealer. Floorwalker I'd be ashamed to let my trousers bag as yours do. You ought to have them creased once In a while. Bookkeeper If my shins were as sharp as yours I wouldn't have any more trou ble in keeping my trousers creased than you do. Chicago Tribune. GLOBE SI GJI ITS. From the Atchison Globe. "Grafter" may not sound as bad as "thief," but it is. Girls and ball players get older fast er than other people. A bull dog never gets much sympa thy, and he rarely needs It. Dandelions are about the only thing a hungry boy will not eat raw. Money may talk, but In politics it is chiefly useful as a silent partner. The chances are if people distrust you, the fault lies largely with your self. How differently our side of a fuss sounds, when presented by our ene mies. The demand for suggestions is nev er so great as some people seem to be lieve. Some men are so weak willed you never think of them having a will un til you near of It In the probate court. The idea that there are two sides to every question didn't originate with any of the parties directly interested. A man doesn't often tell a woman she is Intellectual, if he can fit her with any of the rest of his stock of compliments. When a lodge man buys a new suit of clothes, he is busy five minutes In transferring his emblems from the old to tne new suit. When kin write a good many let ters back and forth It is a pretty sure sign there is a kin row going on: Each one wants the last word It Is always a Rood idea to remem ber that a professional demonstrator can probably do more with the article he sells than anyone else can. There is a big piece of monev await. ing some high brow who can invent a method of taming a cyclone and sell ing its power by the kilowat. When a girl is about to be mnrriori and leave home she thinks everything in the house, from the piano to the after dinner coffee cups, belongs to ner, Dut alter she is married and other sisters claim what is left, she is very indignant that the "p-iri.- should want to rob her poor old pa- IiEFIiECTIOXS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. Jewels is a hlsrh-tonert for trinkets. The nicest thins- abnnt a . that she isn't a man. 18 uic iiLie or vl man who won In mm tn -tan j , .. same things without it ' "S tne A woman aruessea at a ki , m o- ,t ""ere a C . uu in me long run she's wronf onlv evfcrv nh- .i : 7 . . - uLurt i ime.wiii a he can miss It nine times out of ten.