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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURITAC FRIDAY EVEHIffP, PEBEXTAEY 14, 1908.
T0PERL ST1TE JOUKML
By FRANK P. MAO LENT AX.
Entered July 1, 1575, as second-class
matter at the poetofilce at Topena, u.aa-.
VOLUME XXXV No. 40
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FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT
OP THE ASSOCJATJ?I PRESS.
. The State Journal Is a member of the
Associated Press Mid receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganization, tor the exclusive afternoon
publication in Topeka.
The news is reoelvea la The State Jour
nal building oyer wires for this sole pur
pose. Among the several welcomes that will
greet C. W. Morse, the New York bank
er, bn his return from his hurried trip
abroad will be a couple of indictments
charging him with grand larceny.
Chances are that if this gentleman had
not been located as soon as he was his
stay abroad would have been an indefi
nite one.
Four years ago thirteen young women
and thirteen young men organized a
club at Kalamazoo, Mich., and wonder
fully strange as It may seem this clab
now consists of thirteen husbands and
thirteen wives and they comprise the
original membership. The last single
couple in this rather remarkable or
ganization was married a week ago.
Col. Alexander S. Bacon of Brook
lyn, who never did say anything very
nice about Mr. Roosevelt has written
a letter to the Rev,, William J. Long,
thief of the "nature fakers," In which
he declares that the president is a
dual genius of the Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde type and that he Is a "dream
faker." This Is probably "false and
malicious." -. ,
'" Kansas university now has an enretl
jnent of 2,000 students and Chancellor
Strong predicts that ten years from
now it will have 4,000. Everyone hopes
that this prediction will be fulfilled.
Kansas university is a great Institution
and the people of the state are proud of
the progress it; has made. It's an in
vestment of theirs that is bringing in
"wonderful returns.
Railroads of Kansas caw always be
depended on to do the unexpected.
.They have decided to allow the
board of railroad commissioners to
put in effect the new schedule of
freight rates which reduces all of the
freight rates In the state on an aver
age of 18 or 20 per cent. The roads,
however, promise to fight the new
schedule In the courts.
'. In Rochester, N. T., all places of
amusement have been closed on Sunday
fcnd the ministerial association of that
city has undertaken plans for the es
tablishment of Innocent forms of recre
ation for the Sabbath. They propose
band concerts in the public parks dur
ing the summer and the throwing open
pf the school houses on Sunday after
noons In the winter as places for read
ing and conversation.
That the wave of business depression
iwhlch has been developed in various
parts of the country as a result of the
financial panic of a couple of months
ago did not strike Topeka is best evi
denced by the statistics showing that
this city led all the cities of the United
States during the month of January in
the percentage of building gains. This
is a record of which the people of the
City may well be proud.
. It . would seem that some people in
Kansas City, Mo., know more
: about the . Intentions of W. . B.
Ridgely, the comptroller of the
currency, than he does himself.
They have announced emphatical
ly that Mr. Ridgely is to re
sign his present position to accept the
presidency of the reorganized Bank of
Commerce. Mr. Ridgely denies that this
Is so. If the Kansas Cityans do not
care we will take Mr. Ridgely's word
for it and we are glad that It is so for
he is a good man for the place he now
holds.
Senator Philander C. Knox has
been touted as one of the "conserva
tive" candidates for the Republican
nomination for president and the one
to whom the railroads and the cor
porate interests would throw their
strength. Surely Mr. Knox has been
misjudged, wis Kalamazoo speech
makes this evident. In no uncertain
words he holds the railroads rnnnn.
sible for the popular uprising against
them and declares that much of the
stringent action against them has
been due to abases on their part.
Good for Knox. v
As interesting as it is sensational is
the statement made recently by E. L.
W. Minard. president of the Canadian
crab of Boston, when he said: "In the
vent of an American-Japanese war.
were i not for the American attitude
on tariff, Canada would sever her alleg
iance to Great Britain and would come
to the aid of the United States." Mr.
Minard probably felt safe in making
this statement because there Is little
danger of a war between the United
States and Japan and for the further
reason that if such a war should occur
the United States would not need the
help of Canada or any one else.
THE . LIGHTING QUESTION.,
The State Journal has some additional
information about the lighting proposi
tion that was not available yesterday.
Pending the establishment of the
municipal lighting plant which started
operations July 1st, .. 1888, there , was
much discussion in the council and
many propositions, submitted for the
erection of the plant and for the supply
of lights by private corporations. In
the council proceedings published in the
Topeka State Journal January 10th,
1888, is the following minute:
"F. P. Baker, in behalf of the local
Brush Electric Light company, submit.
ted a proposition to furnish the city
with 120 arc lights of 2,000 candle power
each for $10 per light per month for
eight hour lights, and $12 for all night
lights." . -
This Is the $120.00 proposition to which
reference was made yesterday. It will
be noted that while it was $120.00 for
only eight hour lights, it was $144.00 for
all night lights. This proposition of the
Brush Light company seems to have
been a sort of last resort, for previous
to that time, namely, on January 4th,
1888, the city clerk stated that the low
est figure submitted for electric lighting
was 75 cents per light per niht. This
was at the rate of $22.50 per month, or
$270.00 per year.
Frank M. Newland, present water
works commissioner, was chairman of
a committee or tne council w-mcn
visited many electric light plants in
the east, and) came back in February,
1888 and made a favorable report for
municipal ownership. - The contract
for the plant was awarded February
9. 1888.
No bonds for electric light plant
seem to have been issued at any time,
not even when the plant was started,
until July 1, 1890, when by ordinance
No. 1165, passing the council June 23,
1890, $28,000 in bonds running twenty
years, and drawing" 6. per cent, were
issued "to pay in settlement for elec
tric light plant"
The State Journal trusts that the
mayor and) council will not permit
any very great delay in taking steps
to make the necessary Improvements
of the city electric light plant, in or
der to give the city the needed 500
lamps and produce the light with the
economy that new and modern ma
chinery Will permit.
The city has discussed the 'matter
now for nearly a year. Expert re
ports were' made last May. The
city can Investigate for four or
five weeks, namely, until March 28
and still the city would be able to
submit a -proposition . at that time
which could be acted upon at the
general city election in April.
Furthermore a lighting commission
rather than the mayor and council di
rect should handle the money and de
cide on the machinery and new plant.
using of course not abeve a certain
maximum. If the council can 'decide
on .that maximum and have it reas
onably close to requirements, the
commission ought to do the rest, if
given the chance. '" . '
No other opportunity to have a
general city election will be possible
until the following April. Of course
a special election could be called at
any time, but a special election would
not draw out a full expression of the
people, and of course, is not so de
sirable as a vote at a general election,
By the way, several councilmen, the
city engineer, and the superintendent
of the electric light plant - visited St.
Joe last May at the time the lighting
proposition was under discussion and
saw the magnificent municipal light
plant which had just been installed
there the year before. St. Joe had been
lighting its city under the municipal
plan for reventeen years. The city de
cided to rebuild the plant and extend it
and voted $75,000 for the purpose. They
put in an entirely new building, new
engines and everything new about the
building and put the plant in shape for
the five hundred lights. $75,000 proved
too much for what they needed in the
way of a plant and machinery and an
ordinary building so they expended the
surplus in making the' building more
complete in other respects. Including
conduits under the building, etc. St.
Joe is a city of over twice the size of
Topeka and this is what It did- We
have a suitable building and a suitable
engine and there is little doubt but that
$50,000 would be ample for Topeka's ad
ditional needs.
In this connection the following
editorial, written by the writer twen
ty years ago, and appearing in the
State Journal, January 4, 1888 will be
of interest:
"Our esteemed morning contem
porary, the Commonwealth, published
by the Brush Electric Light company,
takes exception to what the State
Journal said last evening about light.
Now we are not in the electric light
business ourselves and are free to ad
mit that we are not experts, that we
do not know as much as the Com
monwealth does about' electric light.
At the same time we cannot under
stand why careful estimates of the
cost of the arc light per hour is
about one-third of the lowest figure
the city has been able to procure from
the Brush company in this city. We
called at the city clerk's office this
morning and learned that 75 cents
per light per night, that Is $22.50 per
month, were the lowest figures sub
mitted. (270 a year.) The Journal
would like to see Topeka companies
get the contract for lighting the city,
but why Topeka should ' pay $22.50
and Wichita $8.00 is something not
yet explained.
"We think the mayor and Beveral of
the council favor the purchase of a
plant by the city. If the city of To
peka can get as good rates from pri
vate companies as other cities get we
believe it would be better for the city
to keep out of the business, but if the
city can not get favorable figures it had
better manufacture its own light if the
figures given at the council meeting the
other evening are reliable. The esti
mates we understand Include interest
on investment and all. The city clerk
imorms us tnat tne oner or the Brush
company to light the city for $10,000
included only thirty-two lights placed
on eight towers, four on each tower
We think even 120 lights suspended
somewhere near the earth would give
more and better light to the people on
the surface of this portion of it, than
ininy-two in tne aerial regions. Tn
peka wants to light the earth not the
heavens. Let us have more light Turn
on the figures."
This shows what a splendid invest
ment the city light plant proved to be.
AN ARMY OF RESERVES.
There appears to be much merit in
the suggestion, of General Bell that a
reserve army be established consist
ing of 50,000 men who have already
served. in the regular army and re
tired to private life, yet the details of
the plan do not commend its prac
ticability. General Bell would have
this reserve foroe, or first line of de
fense, made up of men under forty, to
be paid a few dollars a month, to hold
themselves subject to a call to arms at
any moment and to spend ten days
each year in dirlll at , regular army
pay- '
It is to be regretted that under pres
ent arrangements the valuable exper
ience gained by thousands of men dur
ing one or more enlistment terms is
wholly lost to the government in time
of sudden need. , Tet it is doubtful if
the ordinary man, retiring from the
army to engage in some civilian pur
suit, would consider any monetary in
ducement the " government, would be
likely to offer sufficient to bind him
self to drop that pursuit and take up
arms at any time the nation called.
Service in the ranks of the re
serves could of course be made a con
dition at the time for enlistment in
the regular army, but present condi
tions do not encourage such a proce
dure. The government is now finding
It impossible to get the number and
the type of men it wants to serve in
the army, and the added hardship of
being required to serve a term in the
ranks of reserves after active enlist
ment ends would be likely to still fur
ther discourage recruits. The govern
ment's task Is to make military duty
alluring rather than forbidding.
Leavenworth has taken the lead
among the cities of Kansas by deciding
to try the commission form of govern
ment. Her experiment along this line
will be carefully watched with interest
by the other municipalities of the state.
JOURNAL ENTRIES
People are easily forgotten when
they have lost all their money.
Ability to get it away from the oth
er fellow is what makes most men
rich.
e
An Inconsistent temperance man is
one who kicks on the amount of his
water tax.
One poor way for a man to provide
for the future Is to get married unless
the girl has plenty of money.
There's one time when a man leads
his wife. That's on the way to the
altar and there the leadership gener
ally ends. -
JAYHAWKER JOTS
McPherson still thinks it is entitled
to a new Santa Fe depot.
A booze iointist in Pratt warns
bootleggers to keep off his premises.
Dodge City now boasts of the oppor
tunity of eating flour from home
ground wheat.
There is so much prosperity in
Dodge City that the people paid liber
ally - to see a home talent minstrel
show.
Some person without a particle of
feeling for his thirsty neighbors stole
five quarts of whisky from a buggy at
Hazelton. The owner refers to tha
theft as a terrible calamity.
A dwarf orange tree with forty-two
oranges on it Is attracting considerable
attention at Yates Center. It belongs
to Elmer Hayes and at one time this
season it had 75 oranges on it
The public schools - at Medicine
Lodge were closed for an indefinite
period on account of a smallpox scare.
The smallpox frights in the winter
equal the mad dog terrors in summer.
ReDorts have been Bent out ..from
Reno county to the effect that the
Hessian fly is damaging the wheat
The press agent of the Hessian fly ha
got in ahead of the green bug's news
agent
It is said by some farmers that
crows spread cholera among hogs, and
the farmers of Wilson county are get
ting rid of the crows by putting strych
nine in a raDDit, wnicn is nung in a
tree where the crows roost.
The sheriff of - Crawford county is
getting busy and put the lid on thirty
six saloons - last week. It is evident
from the list of the names of the own
ers that the foreign element predomi
nates among saloonkeepers in that
county. Such names as Pallettl and
Tschitilstch appear. It is not stated
how the prosecuting attorney got out
the warrants without breaking the
alphabet
GLOBE SIGHTS.
From the Atchison Globe.
There is not on earth a church Jan
itor who can please a woman.
A rood many men think every other
business, but theirs, is graft
Somehow, an unmarried man seems
younger than one who Is married.
A man may escape being a fool, but
he cannot hope to escape being called
one.
A woman says meaner things than
she dees: a man does meaner things
than he says.
The hawk eats the dove, but the hawk
seems to be surrounded by as many
dangers as the dove. ...
. The man who uses whisky as a cold
cure Is very susceptible to "drafts"
and changes in the weather.
If you must be a loafer, be a quiet
one. The man who is a loafer is
enough of a nuisance without adding
noise to it
If by noon you are an hour ahead
of your work, some loafer will find
it out and come in and put you two
hours behind.
The wrath of the woman who pouts
may be unpleasant, but it is sunshine
compared to the woman who watches,
and says nothing.
Borne men have the same kind of
sense as tne aog wnicn runs after a
wagon for the sake of lying in the
shade when it stops.
The relief a man feels when he suc
ceeds in getting the world oft his
shoulders, does not prevent his get
ting the load back - again within a
month, or two.
It is perhaps the greatest misfortune
in life that the angel of a young man's
dreams later becomes the one whom he
holds to account when the potatoes are
burned.
KANSAS, COMMENT
DEVELOPERS IN KANSAS.
The development of far-western
Kansas, from an agricultural stand
point, is now assured. The Mennon
tes are settling there, and they are
developers. Near Syracuse last year
a few of them settled and the colony
nas since grown to about two hundred
families. The other day, according to
dispatches, some thirty families set
tled near Deerfleld, in Finney county,
and the indications are that more will
follow soon.
..J16 flt thing these Mennonites
did. in their respective settlements
was to build a church; the next was
to build a school house. No colony
In the world's history began with bet
ter, foundations or with, better reasons
for success. The people who build on
religious and educational foundations
the true pillars of order in any hu
man settlement will succeed, and
ought to succeed, ,
The colony at Deerfleld is located
outside the sugar beet belt. They lo
cated there purposely. They are not
specialists in farming and do not care
to be. They want to till the soil as
their fathers tilled it, and they desire
to raise general agricultural products.
In other words, they have gone there
to make homes that ' will not be en
tirely dependent on a monopoly,
whether It be a sugar monopoly or
anything else. - This is the very best
evidence of their intentions to develop
western Kansas. .
.Each member of the colony has
purchased from 160 to 820 acres of
land and has paid for it. They will
build substantial home s and farm
build substantial homes and farm
trees and within ten years the travel
er over western Kaj-ixaa todav will not
"know the country when he revisits it.
Wichita Eagle.
THE WATER0 DRUNKARD.
Water is an 'excellent beverage
when taken . in moderation, but the
man who can't govern his appetite
for it takes great risks.
An Illinois man woke the other
morning with a consuming thirst.
He had eaten codfish balls and othe
angel food the previous evening.
Casting moderation to the winds, he
drank eighteen pints of the sparkling
fluid, after carefully blowing the
foam off it, and straightway died.
The eminent surgeon who held the
autopsy said that the water unques- ,
tionabiy killed him. ' Thus another
home is laid desolate by a man's
passionate fondness for water. Drink
buttermilk. Emporia Gazette. '
ANENT THE PRIMARY LAW.
The new primary law, which is now
in effect, not only requires a nominat
ing election, but petitions must be cir
culated before a candidate can get his
name on the nominating ballots. A can
didate for a state office must secure
signed requests from at least 2 per cent
of the voters of his party in the state,
asking him to become a candidate, and
these signatures must be secured in at
least ten counties. But the candidate
must not circulate these petitions, nor
may he hire men to circulate them: j
disinterested citizens must circulate
them, as a matter of patriotism. Who
doubts that this provision will be ev-
erywhere violated? More law-breakers
for Kansas. Atchison Globe.
1 BALIE WAGGENER'S FEARS.
Senator Balie Waggener, who is
general attorney -torthe Missouri Pa
cific, is afraid the new tax law will
work a hardship on the farmers to
the benefit, of the f-ailroads. , It Is too j
bad that the farmers will have to
rely on the state tax commission in
stead of Balie for protection ; under
this law. And how thoughtless it
was of such a friend of the farmers
as Balie is to fall to see the injustice I
of this law until the legislature had i
adjourned.: Hutchinson News.
FROM OTHER PENS
: AMERICANS IN ENGLAND.
An English woman writer and' an
American woman writer have chanced
recently to emphasize the fact that,
largely owing to American influ
ence, the old-fashioned relations be
tween tenants and landed proprietors
in England' are deteriorating. The
charm of the feudal spirit which Amer
icans recognize readily enough in
books Is unknown to them in real life.
And while not all the newly rich own
ers of old estates are Americans, while
not' all proprietors who have ceased
to exercise the old paternal care for all
on their land have American wives, it
seems evident that, to a certain extent
Americans of both sexes are responsi
ble for a deploraiblj change. Sentiment
has no part in the mental equipment
or financial disbursement of these
'new" lords or ladles. The old serv
ants and all those who in the old days
would have had some claim on the
master's Indulgence are regarded no
lons-er. Instead of being pensioned off
comfortably they are left to get along
as best they may.
The consequence oi an tnis is mat
the condition of the laboring man on an
estate subjected to sucn cnanges has
sadly deteriorated. The greater wealth
brought into the community benefits
no one except the owner of it These
untrained proprietors have no sense of
responsibility; they have no realization
of the moral obligation entailed upon
them by the assumption of a title and
an estate; and the class to which they
professedly belong is weakened by their
undesirable allegiance. Whether Amer
icans or English are responsible for
the passing of the old landed proprie
tor, the cnange is regreiiaDio. xsaiu
more American.
ENGLISH ELECTION ROWDYISM.
Occasionally it is given to American
voters to realize how anaemio their
politloal methods are. When a bit of
cabled political news from England af
fords the basis for a comparison this
realization . becomes acute. Higher
thought has not destroyed the sound
orthodoxy of, parliamentary elections
which have contributed so many de
lightful pages to English fiction. An
appeal to reason still carries with it
an appeal to the fist, and the English
voter still retains the right in his sim
ple, honest untutored fashion to
"bash" the head of the other fellow.
"Serious rioting," as the cable dis
patches describe it has the light to
follow or accompany the polling. All
that is asked is that the police "arrive
opportunely."
The poll in mid-Devonshire to fill
a vacancy in the house of commons is
the latest Illustration of the fact that
the right to "bash" the head of the
electorate Is still dear to the heart of
the electorate. Although the equal
suffrage movement has not achieved
the ultimate goal of the ballot, the
mid-Devonshire poll shows that it has
been admitted to equality in the
"bash." The equal suff racists prob
ably appreciate the liberality of
thought which confers on them the
right to be "bashed pelted, hustled,
stoned and kicked, on equal terms with
the enfranchised population. They
probably regard it as a recognition of
the Inherent equality which they seek
to cava recojrnlzed.- Chicago Tribune.
HYMENEAL POOLS. -Just
now the bachelor must know ,
T3 ? the rlsk quadrennial.
8t,'.uhe teela no Knockout blowx
Ji all his hopes perennial.
He, figures on the laws of chance '
Though he Is living riskily -?,a.Uy
danger that romance
Will be shoved at him friskily
A?d ind" th ong end of the odds .
nf? his, as you can see to one
wh? dodges arrows, as he plods
inere s not much scare in three to one.
F?r-,t5ree years he can live in peace.
With maid nor widow daring to
ouggest his 'burdens he Increase; '
For one, say he's not caring to.
Indianapolis News.,
The Troubles of a Mother Bird.
In Harper's for February. Jennie
Brooks writes her observations of the
family life of a killdeer bird. Her
description of the first day when the
young birds left the nest and the
alarm of the parent birds is par
ticuarly Interesting:
"The male distorts himself and
brags' of his wounds directly in front
of me; but the instinct of the female is
too strong1 It cannot brook suppres
sion; she daintily picks . an insect
here and there, from among the
grasses "at the nest's edge. Aha!
young birds are about somewhere!
(for thougli she does not feed mm.
she does capture the food and shakes
it apart or tears it up for him, or
scratches it out of the ground), and
gladness suceeds despair. - Putting
out my hand to help myself rise, Io!
I lay it almost on a small brown ob
ject lying flatly on the ground! Fancy
my dellghtl One of the young kill
deer! Hardly out of the shell and
warmly feathered. Near by is the sec
ond bird-baby, . and both, though
apart, are exactly ten inches from the
nest. Perfectly inert they lie two
mottled brown splotches scarcely lar
ger than a silver dollar, and on one
side protrudes a funny little- brown
head for all the world like the head
of a turtle.
"In wonder I lift first one, then
another, and lay it in the palm of my
hand. The bright black eyes are wide
open so different from tree-born
babies! Scarcely out of the shelL and
able to walk! To run, I should have
said; for as I put down the first one
he staggered up on a very drunken
pair of legs, and tottered, like a
palsied old man. off amoner the weeds.
Taking the remaining morsel of bird
in my nana, I held it out to the
mother, who with much talking, had
come and stood almost within my
reach. I said: 'I have it here It is,
see? Your little bird see? Though.
not a linguist, I think she knew kind
ness when she saw it, ana she also
knew me, for she 'bobbed and curt
sied and circled about me, though she
kept out of reach, in evident maternal
pride, and I felt that we were each
congratulating the other on the sue-.
cessful issue of her nursery affairs!
Then the faint calls of the baby who
had lost himself in the weeds sent the
mother running, though her backward
glances showed a divided heart, fear
ing to leave me wholly alone with the
one, and to lose the other in the tan
gleweed! ' Back to the nest straggled the
venturesome one, an anxious mother
jerking along behind him. When I
laid down the one I held she hastily
stepped abroad and brooded them.
But the world was too new and in
teresting to be so soon forsaken. An
inquisitive head pushed Itself out
from her feathers and) stayed out de
spite her evident disappointment.
'Twas her only chance to cud'dle them,
for such canny younsters would soon
be independent of their parents!"
Fresh Air for Pneumonia.
We treat pneumonia differently now
than they did as little as ten years ago.
Now, very largely, we let the patient
fight his own battle, and the most ef
fective weapon we give him is fresh
air, real fresh air, and lots of it.
The fact that pneumonia might be
called simply a shutting- off of oxygen
shows how important this is to give the
patient plenty or air. in one larga
New York hospital, says the February
Delineator, sufferers from the disease
are carried to the roof and kept there
day and night When - your child
grows ill move it to the largest and
sunniest room In the house, and open
the windows. If it is too cold for that,
have another room near by into which
the patient may be moved at least
three times a day. to permit a thorough
ventilation oi tne sick room. All un
necessary furniture and all pictures,
hangings and other impediments
should be taken out of both rooms.
An attack of pneumonia begins in a
manner which suggests a very bad
cold. The patient has a chill and a
fever and suffers from pains in the
side. A cough soon appears, and the
breath becomes short and quick. The
valiant battle of the overworked heart
Is Indicated by a quick pulse and flush
ed cheeks. Soon there are- signs of
great exhaustion, with headache, sleep
lessness ana (.sometimes j aeiirium.
During all of this period the blood
is waging a tremendous war upon the
Invading germs. If it is destined to
lose, the exhaustion will grow more
and more marked and the patient will
die. But If it is destined to win there
will come a time it will be between
the fifth and the tenth day when the
patient will suddenly seem brighter.
The temperature will fall, the breath
ing 'will be more regular, and the vio
lent jumping of the pulse will cease.
When this happens it is aslgn that the
battle Is won.
The Greatest Secret of the Times.
Two American inventors, the Wright
Brothers, are negotiating with the gov
ernment for the sale of an aerial war
ship. In an article, "The Men Who
Learned to Fly," In the February Mc
Clure's, George Kibbe Turner tells the
history of the experiments which have
resulted in this remarkable flying ma
chine. The inventors say for them
selves: "We feel that it is absolutely essen
tial for us to keep our method of con
trol a secret. We could patent many
points in the machine, and it is possi
ble that we could make a sucoess of
the invention commercially. We have
been approached by many promoters
on the matter, - ut we believe that our
best market is to sell the machine to
some government for use in war. To
do this, It is necessary for us to keep
its construction an absolute secret. We
do not believe that this secret can be
kept indefinitely by a government, but
we believe that the government which
has the secret can hold the lead in
the use of the invention for years. It
will be able constantly to keep ahead
of other nations by developing the spec
ial knowledge in its possession.
. "So far as we can learn, we are able
now to give a 'government a five years'
lead in the development of . the flying
machine. The recent trials of Santos
Duraont's aeroplane in Franca confirm
M Ita this belief. Take one point only.
He is trying to sustain a no-pound
machine in the air for short flights
with a 50-horse power engine that Is,
sustaining ten pounds to the horse
power. We are flying and carrying, at
a rate of 30 miles an hour, 925 pounds
with 16 horse-power that is, practically
60 pounds to the horse-power. The
comparison speaks for itself concerning
the relative efficiency of the two ma
chines.'' - - . -:
TNE EVENING STORY
"Roses Red and Violets Blue.""
IBy Temple Bailey.
The waiting room in the big depart
ment store was In a balcony that form
ed a sort of halfway house between the
nrst and second floors. From a seat in
one of the bulging corners one com
manded the whole sweep of busy count
ers all the sparkle and gutter and color
0Vttract,ve,y displayed goods.
.1. e,8.slca' 19 Pretty. and visiting the
great city for the first time, it seemed
like fairyland.
' IAWantJ;0 DUT everything," she said
to Aunt Theodora Hancock, who had
brought her there.
"fi ,Thedora smiled Indulgently,
saii - n0t 8r,d that utters'" 8he
,Jesslca smiled back. "But I like the
glitter, she said. "I never use scent
ed soap, but I shall surely buy some
because , of the pretty boxes, and that
pale green note paper is a dream, al
"""J81 I never write on anything but
white, and I am awfully drawn to
those strings of glass beads, even
though I am sure that I should never
dare wear them in public."
But Aunt Theodora, after years of
city residence, was an experienced
shopper. "Beware of temptation," she
warned. "Come on upstairs and look
at the sensible things." '
"I don't want to be sensible," Jes
sica pleaded. "I want to stay here and
see people buying things that they don't
want for the mere pleasure of buying."
Aunt Theodora hesitated.
"Do you really want to sit here for a
while?" she asked, with an air of re
lief. "I could leave you and slip up to
the grocery department and give an or
der. But you mustn't stir from this
corner or I should never find you."
"Oh, I'll stay," Jessica promised.
Tou run along. Aunt Theo, I am per
fectly happy right here."
So Aunt Theodora took her stately
way through the crowds, and Just as
she disappeared Jessica's eyes fell on
the valentines.
There was a marvelous display, right
In the middle of the store, and strung
from post to post, were plump red
hearts transfixed with golden darts,
while fascinating pink cuDids bobbed
and bowed with every tiny current of
air that swept through the store.
Jessica's heart gave a little throb of
delight She would buy one for Cousin
Bob. He would never know who sent
it and she would like to see his eyes
on St Valentine's morning, when he
opened his mail at the breakfast table.
Without a thought of Aunt Theodora
she hurried downstairs to the crowded
counter.
It was not easy to make a choice.
There were so many beauties exquis
ite, modern, hand-painted cards, with
verses from all the love poets and old
fashioned valentines with old-fashioned
rhymes.
Jessica s eyes rested lovingly on a
quaint affair of lace paper, with a nose
gay of fat pink roses and huge violets
in the center. It was very like one
that Cousin Bob had sent her when
she was a little girl, and she had kept
it among the most precious of her
treasures. The verse, too, was the
same :
"Rosas red and violets blue.
My heart to you is ever true."
She smiled a little wistfully as she
read. Probably Cousin Bob had for
gotten that other valentine had for-
gotten the later days when at 22 he
had visited the old farm and had made
a new world for. little Jessica of.i
He had seemed wonderful, to her then,
and he was still wonderful with his
frank, kind ways, and his pleasant
manner. But now he was a man of the
world, and he might marry almost any
of the beautiful women of his set
Again she fingered the valentine. Why
not send it?
And even while she hesitated, into
the balcony waiting room came Aunt
Theodora, escorted by a tall young
with a frank smile.
"Where has that child gone?" Aunt
Theodora said blankly to her stepson.
"I told her not to stir. You'll have to
go and look for her. Bob. I'm dead
tired. It's lucky I met you."
"We'll wait a minute," he advised.
"She can't have gone far."
And even as he spoke Jessica hove in
sight, eyes shining, her cheeks as red
as roses, and in ner nana a paper pack
age. "By Jove, she's a charming little
thing," said Cousin Bob, noting with
appreciation the ripple of her hair, the
delicate oval oi ner race a Dove ner sort
gray furs, the becomingness of the vi
olets in her hat.
Aunt Theodora looked at him, re
proachfully. . "Well, have you Just discovered her
attractions?" she asked. "I brought
her down here because she is the
sweetest little gentlewoman I have ever
met, and I wanted to show you anoth
er type from the gay young ladies
that you meet in society. And you
have hardly noticed her."
Cousin Bob laughed.
"You're a matchmaker,, he teas
ed. "Do you really want me to marry
Jessica?"
Aunt Theodora looked at him
scornfully. "I love you both," she
said, "and I'd like to leave my mon
ey to both of you. But you've been
so slow making up your mind, that
some one may have gotten in ahead
of you."
"Oh." began, Cousin Bob and
Just then Jessica Joined them, and
Cousin Bob insisted on taking them
to a wonderful restaurant where they
had lunch to the sound of music play
ed amid the palms, and he was so de
voted that Jessica's heart beat high.
The week that followed was full of
delights and of attentions from Cou
sin Bob, and it was on St Valentine's
Eve that Aunt Theodora came into
Jessica's room, and found that young
lady in a pink dressing gown braid
ing her shining hair.
Aunt Theodora was In gray flannel,
and her hair was in crimping pins.
"Jessica," she said, solemnly, as
she sank into a big chair, ''If Bob
proposes to you, dont accept him the
first time he asks."
Jessica stared at her. -
"Oh, Aunt Theodora," she stam
mered, "Cousin Bob isn't a - bit in
love with me."
Aunt Theodora sniffed. -
"Well, he has reached a condition
very much like it," she informed her
niece. "It doesn't take Bob very long
to make up his mind, and he has
known you for years. But I know
him, and he'll value your love, if yon
don't let him see it too easily."
And then she went away while
Jessica sat like a crumpled roseleaf
on the foot of the bed, and wept
For that afternoon she had mailed
the lace valentine to Counsln Bob!
And now If he should discover that
she had sent it and should despise
her for showing her real feeling!
She made up her mind that he
should not find out, and then she
went to bed to sleep fitfully, but
through her troubled dreams ran the
comforting hope that Cousin Bob
really loved her.
It was a pale little Jessica who
came down to the breakfast table the
next morning. Aunt Theodora was
not there, but Cousin Bob was. He
was opening bis mail, and to hide her
agitation, Jessica began to open hers.
on top was a great box, and wltnin
was a bunch of violets and two fra
grant American beauties, and on a
card was written in Cousin Bob's fa
miliar writing:
"Roses red and violets blue,
My heart to you is ever true."
She looked up and her eyes met his.
In his hand he held the valentine she
had sent. But his eyes were not danc-
ln. There was in them Instead a very ,
tender light
"Jessica," he said softly, "Jessica,
did you send me this?"
Remembering- Aunt Theodora's
warning, she tried to say "No," but
she was a truthful little thing.
"res," she whispered and bent over
her flowers. Then she explained ela
borately. "But. of course, valentines
don't mean anything. Everybody sends
lots of them." . i
The brightness went out of his face.
"I sent only one," he stated sternly.
"The roses and the violets sDoks to
me of you, Jessica, and took me back
to the verses I sent you when I was
a little lad. And I meant every word
of it Will you marry me, Jessica T"
xne proposal came so suddenly that
It found her all unprepared. Her
heart pounded madly. She forgot
Aunt Theodora, she forgot everything
Dut tnat he loved her
- "Yes," she whisoered. as she heard
her aunt's step upon the stairs.'
"And the beauty of it" was the way
Cousin Bob upset Aunt Theodora's
tine theories when that night he told
her of their engagement, "was her
girlish ness. A woman of the world
would have held me off, but it was her
sweet surrender that won me. I was
sure she loved me from the first."
(Copyrighted 1908 by . C. H. Sut
cliffe.) HUMOR OF TNE DAY
Mr. Jawb&ck That boy gets his brains
from roe.
Mrs. Jawback Somebody got 'em from
from you, if you ever had any that's a
cinch. Cleveland Leader. .
Mrs. Newrocks Really, I'm sorry we
didn't accumulate more souvenirs of our
European trip.
Mr. Newrocks Oh, we can get all we
want In New York. Town and Country.
"Did prohibition work In your town?"
"To a certain extent" answered the ir
responsible character.
"What do, you mean?"
"Them af got drinks was prohibited
from sayin' - anything about it" Wash
ington Star.
, "Doctor," said the convalescent smiling
weakly, "you may send in your bill any
day, now.
"Tut, tut," replied the M. D., silencing
his patient with a wave of his hand.
"You're not strong enough yet" Judge.
"Well, little one," said the kindly old
man, "what are you going to do when
you grow to be a man?"
"I guess I'll be a freak," replied the
bright child.
"A freak? Why?"
" 'Cause I'm a little girL" Philadelphia
Press.
Borem I think I hear your father's step
on the stairs, so perhaps I had better bid
you good night
Miss Hitts (yawning) Oh, It can't be
father; he's a late sleeper. Perhaps It's
the hired girl coming down to prepare
breakfast. Chicago Daily News.
"Do you really love me, John?"
"Oh. no ! I wear theBe summer pants and
this tramp overcoat merely to appear ec
centric, that's all." Washington Herald.
- Reporter Senator, . I have heard that
you got your start in life by selling news
papers. Senator Lotsmun Not quite correct my
boy. The fact is but this is confidential,
you know that I got my start by buying
one or two newspapers. Chicago Tribune.
The Guest Here, I am tired of such rot
ten service!
The Head Waiter What's wrong, sir?
The Guest I ordered black bass, and the
waiter brought me bluef ish.
The Head Walter You must excuse
George, sir. He's color-blind. Cleveland
Leader.
"My friend Harker Is engaged to a the
atrical woman," said Singleton.
"Theatrical woman!" exclaimed Wed
derly. "Say, did you ever see one that
wasn't?" Chicago News.
QUAKER REFLECTIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.!
Thermometers may rise even in the
fall.
A man may wax impatient even when
the barber is waxing his mustache.
Make your own mark if you don't
want some other fellow to make a
mark of you.
"It's a good thing to keep your plans
to yourself, unless you happen to be an
architect.
Don't be a bigamist Too many cooks
spoil the broth, so only marry one
at a time.
Truth crushed to earth will rise
again, and It is kept pretty busy with
its ups and downs.
Wouldn't it be fine if we could dis
charge our obligations with the usual
two weeks' notice?
It wouldn't take a fruit dealer to
convince us that bridal pairs are soft
est when they are green.
The reason there are no women after
dinner speakers is because women tell
all they know before dinner.
A man may have an impediment in
his speech, but that doesn't matter so
much if there is none in his nerve.
The newspapers are full of lies,"
complained the chronic kicker. "Ah,
been reading the obituary notices, I
suppose," suggested the editor.
Nell "The widow BJones doesn't
seem to do any more talking about her
late husband." Belle "Oh, you know
she's married again. She now talks
abut her latest husband." -
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News. -F.vnn
a good physician may wt rVmv.
bad to . worse,, .
He's a poor detective who is afraid
of his own shadow.
But of course you never took a mean
advantage of any one. . i
TTC-. n tarAmnn at n 9 . a . .
, iivji vi ucr ruooer
plant she is apt to stretch it.
, . j j , -
Any ftinu ui tiiiTiue ia gooa as long
as you don't attempt to follow it.
If you haven't the right of way you
have a right to tret out of the way.
lou can t arways get tne true meas
ure of a man by consulting his tailor.
Mind your own business and let other
people mismanage . theirs if they want
to.
n.Aa (a aval A a Ka o--vlyl tv.-j. ...
oiic"- v"c uui mere
lire no mute millionaires on our visiting
A WWiimu wav"ww uw VIJilUlCQ Will JOOK
like her and she hopes her photographs
A wtAn fa ftnllat, r . . .-
. w uuiuw irouoie
if he can find another 'man foolish
enough to lend him money.
Naturally a young man's best girl Is
all the world to him which explains
why all the world loves a lover -
; wniy giri wno is wining to take,tn
wash nl to mnnnrt th.
ffyrri tn tv a n man
. -. wuv wears a loc
of rings on his fingers.