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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL FEBRUARY 15, 1912 Ctrpeka ?tate Journal By FRANK P. MAC LENXAX. fEntered July 1. 1S75. as second-class matter at the postofltice at Topeka. Kan, under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXVTIII.. ..No. SO Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. 10 cut a week to any part of Topeka, or suburbs, or at the same price in any Kan aas town where the paper has a carrier system. By mail one year $3.60 By mall, six months 1.S0 By mail. 100 days, trial order 1.00 BSLL TELEPHONES. Business Office 197 Reporters' Room 377 INDEPENDENT TELEPHONES. Private branch exohange. Call 107 and ask the State Journal operator for per son or department desired. Topeka State Journal building; 900 and S02 Kansas avenue, corner Eighth. New Tork Office: ZB0 Fifth avenue, Paul Block, manager. Chi cat o Office: Steaer building. Paul Block, manurar. Boston Office: Treroont Building, Paul Block, manager. FTJUi LKASKD WIRE REPORT OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The Stste Journal Is a member ef the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report or mat great news or ganisation for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news) Is received In The State Jour nal brrUdtng a-rer wires for this sole pur- poaaw Sam Radges' Idea, that the way to pay tha pipe organ debt is to pay it, la a perfectly sound and sure financial suggestion. That snow which- covered the Kan eas wheat fields the other day ia going to make It unusually difficult for the "crop-killers'" to ply their trade this apring. A motion is hereby made that all the medals for correct weather prognosti cating be pinned on the chest of that discerning little animal, familiarly known as the groundhog. Preparations should be made by the satellites of society to don the sack cloth with trimmings of ashes. Ash Wednesday, the first day of the Len ten' season, comes a loner next week. Indications are that the congres sional Investigation of the Florida everglades land matter will unearth a lot of mud. And that Is something for which the Florida everglades are famous. March 23 is the date set by the Lor lmer Investigating committee when it will decide on Its report to the senate. Maybe it will be a skidoo day for Lor imer In fact as well as in its charac teristics. ' Who is there now to rise and insist that college educations are not worth while? A junior at Ames college, Iowa, plans to leave that institution to become the valet of a Massachu setts cow. Natural gas is not nearly as popu lar in Topeka as it once was. This is evidenced by the haze of smoke which covers the city nowadays and which Is especially noticeable when the sun Isn't shining. If all the handsome women and girls In the world refused like Lillian Russell to toe the matrimonial mark until their Intendeds could give assurances that they assure them incomes of $60,000 a year, there would be a lot of fine-looking old maids hanging around. This has the earmarks of justice of Solomon-like proportions. A New Tork judge has ordered a husband to report home nightly by 9 o'clock and to accord fair treatment to his wife. If he doesn't do these things a term in the work house will be his portion. An Incident to a real Syrian wed ding is the bathing of the groom-to-be by his gentlemen friends assem bled. And from the looks of most Syrians it is fair to assume that just before their wedding is the only time they Indulge in a bath from the cradle to the grave. J. Pierpont Morgan's art treasures are being brought from London and Paris to this country, and there is great enthusiasm among the worship ers here at such shrines. However, the fabulous sum of money, good American coin, that Mr. Morgan spent for these trinkets, is circulating around In Europe. Wore money is invested in the pub lic schools in this country than was re Quired to maintain all the machinery of the federal government in 1910. This explains why such a high level cf civilization has been developed in these United States, and is also the best possible guarantee that the na tion's future is a brilliant one. President Taft's kindness of heart is probably responsible for his mildness of language when it comes to paying his respects to his unfair political op ponents. For instance he calls the sans culottes in his party "political neurotics." That's a pretty clever characterization. "Political dynamit ers" would have filled the bill better. An appeal for a new trial for John Deitz, of Cameron Dam fame, is about to be argued in the Wisconsin supreme court. During all the time that this appeal has been pending, Deitz has been confined in prison. Had he been a man of means, or had he been pos sessed of wealthy friends, he would likely have been out on bail and en joying his freedom during the interim. So much for the vaunted equality of 11 men before the law. President Madero has invited Sec retary of State Knox to visit Mexico during the course of his tour o'f the Latin-American nations. And if such a visit abould. corns to pass It would be just like Zapata, at one time a lieutenant of Madero's, but at present the bandit king of Mexico, to kidnap Mr. Knox and hold him for ransom. This would be a fine chance for Zapa ta to demonstrate that he has things pretty much his own way. FORCEFUL JUSTICE. Armed with power to punish for contempt of court, and with the still more important preliminary power to determine just what may constitute such a contempt, wearers of the ermine have long had an admitted advantage over recalcitrant witnesses, and such lawyers and others as are prone to treat a court with disrespect. It is sel dom that judges have abused this power. More often has it been the case that they have submitted to rather out rageous conduct in their courtrooms without taking advantage of their op portunities to inflict punishment. Judges are men. Most of them have a high sense of honor. Maybe for this reason they are slow to use their au thority in jailing obstreporous lawyers and others. Their fine sense of feeling will not permit them to take advantage i of the deserved victims of their wrath because they have no show to defend themselves or fight back. However, a Texas judge has just set a precedent that ought to open the way for judges to defend the fair, name of their court and keep its escutcheons unsullied; and at the same time extend to their detractors or malign-sra as square a deal as any man could ask. During the progress of a case before this Texas judge the other day, one of the parties concerned in it took occa sion to call the judge a liar. Instead of fining this man $4.9S and sending him to jail for 13 days, the judge promptly decreed: "Court is adjourned until I whip that man who called me a liar." Bang went the gavel. From the bench jumped the judge. There was a mix up on the court room floor. When the smoke of battle cleared away, the judge's traducer was stretched out prostrate. Thereupon th2 judge re mounted the bench, and re-convened the court. He immediately fined him self for fighting, and the interrupted proceedings were resumed. Thut was the integrity of the court preserved and its honor satisfied. Of course, an occasion mignt arise wnen a judge would not be physically able to come out on top in such an encounter. n such an exigency, h-3 would still have the power to impose a fine, a jail sentence or both, and he could make the punishment doubly severe by king cognizance of the assault that had been made on the court, even if it was of judicial seeking. And just think how such a disposition of cases o.f contempt would add to the gaiety of the administration of justice. Under the present demands of dignity, there is nothing more monotonous. PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANISM. When the sans culottes of the Re publican party began their warfare for a notoriety that they hoped would land them in the higher places of government where more power and larger emoluments prevail, they were own as "insurgents." So are they yet for that matter. It is their pref erence that they be called "progres sives." Styling themselves as such, they brand every one who disagrees with them as "stand-patters" or stand-stillers." Because of their un fairness in this respect, they are real ly not entitled to the exclusive use of the title "progressives," if they are entitled to it at all. As a matter of fact most of their principles are woven around experiments in matters of government, many of which have been tried in times gone by and found wanting. No one will contend that the trial of an experiment is identi cal with the achievement of progress. Indeed, most experiments work out in just the opposite direction. And so, because a man has not lined up behind the doctrines of the LaFollettes, the Cumm'.nses, the Brls- tows, the Pinchots, etc., these gentle men, forsooth, would deny him the right to be known as a progressive, when as a matter of fact he stands for rogress in all things. President Taft has been this kind of a progressive. Because he was known to be such, ex-President Roosevelt picked him as his successor. Colonel Roosevelt is the same kind of a progressive. None f the gentlemen who are attempting to get him to declare that he will ac cept the next Republican nomination for the presidency, if it were tendered him, has had the temerity to suggest that Colonel Roosevelt has swallowed the preachings of LaFollette and his lan, hook, line and sinker. Express ing any such sentiment would prompt ly land its author in the ranks of the Ananias club. And the Republican party is filled with men who believe n progress in working out the prob lems confronting the government. Among them is Dan Anthony, repre senting the First congressional dis trict of Kansas in the house of repre sentatives, despite the efforts of his insurgent" friends in Kansas and elsewhere to rank him as a "stand patter," as a man opposed to any thing that will work for progress in .aking the government of the United States a better one in every essential. Mr. Anthony demonstrates this in a letter he has been sending recently to many of his constituents, from hich the following excerpts are taken: "The tariff and the trust question ill probably be the most important matters before this session of con gress. I shall continue to support all sound measures tor the downward revision of the tariff, with due regard to a proper measure of protection to American products and American labor, and congress will be enabled to proceed in these matters with full information as to the cost of produc tion at home and abroad, furnished by the tariff commission now at work, so that further revision of the tariff can bo based, as it should be, upon eco nomic and industrial ci-nditions and not upon considerations of political expediency. 'I shall also ally myself with those who believe in governmental regulation of all corporations doing an interstate business and intend, during this ses sion, to oppose any attempt to weak- ! en the Sherman anti-trust act, be lieving that this law is the great bul wark of American commercial and in dustrial liberty and that it should be strengthened by defining more clearly those things which constitute its vio lation, instead of being weakened as proposed by some." If this isn't a progressive stand on two of the largest questions pressing for solution these days, what could be one? JOURNAL ENTRIES Few men are as smart and clever as they think they are. Considerable of the variety that makes up the spice of life is not pleasing to the taste. A friend expects you to laugh at the jokes he tells no matter how often you may have heard them. That part of the money invested in the whip generally has the most to do with making the mare go. m Nor will you get much applause on your second appearance if you did not deliver the goods the first time. JAYHAWKER JOTS The Elk City correspondent of the Wilson County Citizen calls his news notes "Eyetems. As the Blue Mound Sun points out: Many a promising young man never does anything else. It is a matter of regret to Charley Barnes of the Osage City Free Press that the groundhog did not stay out longer and freeze to death. The Cawker City Ledger never heard of a bird called a "defective," but it quotes from the Scottsville Ad vance as follows: "A defective flew in the house occupied by R. R. Reed and family," and caused a fire to break out. A high school note In the Beloit Gazette: "I used to go to high school." What branches did you study?" "Most all of them. Hickory, ash and walnut." . . . "Do you want to see something swell?" "Yes." "Drop a sponge in water." Here's something of a difference pointed out by the Scottsville Ad vance: A town girl wants to go to the country to teach school so she can rest and save her money. The coun try girl wants to come to town so she can have a good time and spend her money. Kansas university students are practicing rifle shooting and will soon take up the study of throwing the javelin instead of putting the shot. Shooting weeds in the corn rows with a hoe and throwing hay with a fork are to be thus relegated. Osage City Free Press. Ha, ha! Here's some definite evi dence that all of the groundhogs, at least, did not return to their notes on that fatal Friday, February 2. W. W. Campbell, who lives near Warden, re ported to the Overbrook Citizen that his dog "treed" one en top of his corncrib on the following Monday morning. In the high school notes in the Over brook Citizen ihere are not the usual number of ' roast3" on the students and teachers that are common in many similar columns ir. other Kansas news papers. The reason is not difficult to find. The.ni.mes of the "editor" and "assistant editor" of these notes ap pear at their head. Maybe the following " from the Mankato Advance is merely a case of sour grapes: We wonder each week why some of these papers with type setting machines don't run their ar ticles under the puzzle department head? By the time an amateur and a typesetting machine get through with a long article it is usually in shape for that department. GLOBE SIGHTS BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. It takes a ten cent man to make an expensive row. A man who doesn't control his temper is apt to say he can't. Patriotism isn't often the principal pro moter of the campaign fund. . On the farm, sunflowers continue to be weeds instead of state emblems. Down south, the militia Is used to ar rive too late to prevent lynchlngs. Sometimes a man imagines he is popu lar when he is only a convenience. -he early bird may catch the worm but occasionally the worm is frost-bitten. An Atchison woman is In such constant turmoil that she is called "The Army." It often happens, when people wonder how a man makes a living, that he doesn't. A consultation of physicians is apt to be among the last items on your expense account. This is sure a rough world for a pam pered child who loses his parents and their money. Possibly you have observed that the man who wears a string tie is often negligent about tying it. No one else has the cinch on recovering from a surgical operation that a novel heroine has. Quarrels of calf love seem amusing to o.der folks, who lorget the days they bawled over similar business. It is hard for a man to' outgrow the suspicion that his Havana cigar grew in Kentucky and was made in Cincinnati. POINTED PARAGRAPHS.. From the Chicago News. It's easier to make love than it Is al ways to mean it. A woman who can speak seven lan guages generally does. Every man's credit Is good when it comes to borrowed trouble. It is well to exercise your rights, but don't work them to death. Some people who tell everything they know don't have much to say. Few men will register a kick if they get more than their money's worth. You may become quite popular with some people by keeping out of their way. It's easy to get something for nothing If you are satisfied with worthless ad vice. A hotel patron is justified in kicking when he has to pay good dollars for poor quarters. The man who is always on time wastes many valuable hours waiting for the oth er fellow. Many a man has been accused of steal ing kisses when In reality they wera forced upon him. As a fun producer a comedian isn't in it with a henpecked man when he starts out to assert himself. It is difficult to acquire & satisfactory reputation on the strength of what you are going to do some day. An old bachelor may not know what h5 missed by not marrying but peace haUi her victories just the same. BY THE WAY BY HARVEY PARSONS. Soft-boiled humanitarians are trying to avert the execution of five young Chicago gentlemen. Up to a late hour this afternoon, the Movement was con fined to the Chicago branch of the Un iversal Simp's Association, but the local auxiliary may get in before the "bull dog" goes to press. Young gents in question are not Real Criminals, and are subjects of Reform. All they did was to stab and beat a young farmer to death, and then jam a club down his throat. Of course they put cn that last stunt on account of the Exhaberance of Youth. As a further proof that they are not real criminals, and should be turned over to some reform society, rather than hanged, records of the case show that they only found a few dollars in the pockets of the man they killed. These young gentlemen never in their lives sold a drop of red liquor, and no testimony was introduced to show that they smoked cigarettes. Some people claim that the person ality of the old writers is written be tween the lines of their classics, but you can't even :nake a guess at the per sonality of a newspaper writer. The person who writes Hon Lil Russell's syndicate stuff while she is in New York attending a theatrical benefit and denying financial rumors, may be a middle-aged woman who is supporting a sick husband and keeping three daughters in boarding school, but the chances are that it is an old batch who wears an eje shade and a cob pipe. And, speaking of Hon I.il; she holds. its we understand it, that she doesn't love long green less but Moore more. The story, under New York date line of the woman who was Simply Crazy to go up in an aeroplane, and then changed her mind while 1,000 feet from the earth, may be good material for some paragraphers, but, having at one time taken a balloon trip with a cold footed German, this department is un able to enjoy the fine points of the joke on that aviator. After a careful investigation, the fed eral bureau has named several "permis sible" explosives. We hold that too much time is wasted on the examina tion of explosives, and too little upon the mental capacity of the user of ex plosives. No explosive even a jug full of unslacked lime, is safe in the hands of a fool. Gus Ruhlin didn't wait for defeat at the hands of some smoke. He passed out of the game quickly and decently. The man who is eternally hammered by his famliy because of his poverty, may as well give up hope of ever find ing peace. If he makes his pile they will begin to hammer him about his grammar and table manners. Some people may borrow trouble, but a, number cf us have it to lend. A soft answer may turn away wrath, but it won't touch a book agent. : Every time Lincoln's birthday comes around, the newspaper syndicates pro duce a picture that was never before published. This effort to convince the public that Lincoln spent all his time posing for pictures should be discour aged. Fie spent some of his time split tins rails. SAYS UNCLE GAV A loser Is always a loser, but cheer fulness helps. It is not good to minimize our losses. The important thing is rather to give them their true valuation, but to refuse to permit them to dis courage us. He who habitually "looks" on the bright side" to the extent of under estimating his losses can no more prosper than a merchant who ignores in his business calculations the uncol lectable bills or fire damage. The one s just as sensible and just as insane as the other. On the merchant s prt ! such a course would cause his creditors to force him into bankruptcy. Ana the "bright sider"' is actually, if not obviously, a moral bankrupt. Cheerful idiocy is not tne Kina oi -i in4. v.alc fVioerfol RBmtv IS: what counts the kind of cheer that ! faces the situation with a clear brain, and unclouded eye and a steady hand, j undismayed and courageous for the ( struggle to regain lost ground. This j u the cheerfulness that keeps the heart beating regularly and lends i strength to the thews. It is the kind n.rfi,inoi that drives the Doison r of despair from the veins and purges the brain of fear. It is the kind or cheerfulness which knowing the worst, and knowing its own possibilities, plunges joyously into the fight to win. And between this cheerfulness and that which is born of ignored disasters there is fixed a gulf as wide as that between success and failure. (Copy right, 1912 by W. E. Williams.) Seven Thousand; Miles a Second. Mr. Arthur Gleason in the World's Work for February tells this story to illustrate the perfection of the present cable service. The people of the Argentine re public were so interested in the launching of their great battleship Morena, at the yards of the New York Shipbuilding company In Camden. N. J., on Saturday, September 23, 1911, that the Central and South American Telegraph company asked the West ern Union to arrange a special wire to flash the announcement. The Mo reno glided into the water at 2:33 p. m.; instantly Camden flashed "2:33" to New York, New York cabled to Colon in the same instant. Colon flashed it to "Valparaiso and Val paraiso to Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires acknowledged its receipt and bulletined the information at 2:33 p. m. In other words, the news arrived in Buenos Aires in the fraction of a minute, even before the ripples caused by the battleship's entrance into the water had subsided. VAFFYMLS BY TJ. NOALL. If a beet keeps in winter would a carrot? (Take your feet off that table, Wil liam! What do you think this Is, a barroom?) Would a grass widow necessarily be a vegetarian? (Yes, he was a great general. The only time he ever drew a sword was in a raffle.) Does the possession of a new auto make Dr. G. .J. Mulvane? (Don't lock that man up. He only committed a murder.) A UTERARY SCHEME. There was a fair young editor Of barely sweet sixteen, Who purchased with her ready cash. A fashion magazine. A yv-.th who thought that he was Burns Ana Tennyson combined Sent in some sonnets sad, which she Respectfully declined. He got an introduction then. They talked of plays and books, He paid her florid compliments. She gave him tender looks; He next proposed, and found himself Accepted with elation. And aii his poems now appear Within her publication. Satire. THE EVENING STORY Cnpid's Lucky Move. By Olive Roberts Barton. Senator Elias Lansing wanted to get married again. So did Mrs. Marsh. That is. Senator Lansing had not dreamed of marrying until he saw Mrs. Marsh, and Mrs. Marsh had no desire to assume matrimonial vows for the second time until she met the senator. They had met at a reception at the ItaHan legation one afternoon and as soon as the senator had made his best bow to the bright littls woman in the stunning gown and hat of king's blue Cupid began to get in his work. The blue velvet hat on the soft golden hair made her look very girlish, and the sen ator, looking from her to the slender girl beside her, wondered if he had heard aright when presented to her daughter. Mrs. Marsh and Isabel met the sen ator often at teas, dinners, theaters and balls. Washington began to look wiES and nod its head when the senator took to dropping into Mrs. Marsh's box after the first act. or walking home from church with the widow and her daughter. And Mrs. Marsh was always wearing violets these days huge bunches with the usual orchid. The man was in love with the widow; But the trouble was this; He was poor poor, as senators go. Having no one to support but himself, he was able to afford the show tho world demands of a senator. He had an apartment that was all that an apartment should be. And his clothes, his servants and h'J car came up to the public demand. Until now ho had resisted marriageable diughtc's. debutantes and vido.vs. On the ot'ier hand Mrs. Marsh, after ten years' absence, had come back to Washington, taken a small house with a huge rent, and she and her daughter wore gowns which were the envy of every woman in the capital. It was true the gardener did run the electric car for them and the same maid was always in evidence, but what of that! Such gowns and such a well-kept house seemed to signify an ample supply of money to the senator's simple mind. "I won't marry any woman who can't live on my income," he said over and over again to himself. "Even if she has her own money I've got to feel I can keep her. No, it's no use; so I guess it's home to Wexford coun ty for Elias when the session's over. Anyhow, it'll be good to get back to the old house and Jeremy will be glad to see me good old dog and Allen and his wife and the horses. Oh, the simple life for me; and yet things somehow won't seem just as they did before. Allen and Sarah do make me comfortable, that's sure; and Jeremy dog is a good old scout enough, morn ings hunting and nights by the fire, but if there was just somebody to " The somebody wasn't so vague as it sounds. There was a clearly defined vision always before his eyes. But, strangely enough, instead of wearing blue velvet she was always clad in blue ginghams sometimes with a dainty white apron and smiling at him across the breakfast table. Some how he liked her in the gingham. He grew absent minded and morose. One night to get away from every thing at a debutante's ball he hid behind eome palms in the conserva tory. The dance music, soft and dreamy so far away, and the faint splash of a fountain were soothing. He had his dreams to himself. Mrs. Marsh and Isabel were both at the dance, but both were in demand. He had danced two with the former, and there was a long interval until the next with her. He had none between. But if he couldn't have his lady love, or at least be with her, he was becom ing contented with this vision of her the lady in blue gingham. The music and fountain became fainter and slowly stopped. The senator's head nodded and he slipped just over the edge of day-dreamland into real dreamland with the same sweet golden lady leading him on. He did not know the difference until he heard her voice behind him on the other side of the palms. "Mercy, Isabel! I should have died if T hadn't had this chance to rest. just think, Annie and I finished all that huge ironing and here I am dancing. Tell me, dearie, you don't think momsy is an old goosie, do you, for really liking a good time so well?" Senator Lansing gripped the arm of his bench and started to rise. No he couldn't! One step and they would see him, and he would not dare let them know he had heard. The situ ation was frightful for him, but there was no help for it. He must stay. He did not hear Isabel's low answer- it might have been a mere kiss. Then Mrs. Marsh went on "Well anyway, dearie, it's about all ended, isn't it? Are you quite sure we will have enough money left to pay O Hara and Annie and get back de cently to Claytonia after we sell the car?" Again Isabels low tones an swered inaudibly, but Mrs. Marsh's distinct voice could not be ignored "Anyway, dearest, I'm glad we came and so, so sorry to go, but the money is all gone and we've got to. I am glad Charley knows about our pov erty. Oh, Isabel, you ought to be the happiest girl in the world. I am so glad for you and to have you so happy is worth coming Tor. Then Isabel answered more plainly and with a happy laugh. "And I do not believe any one knows we make nearly all our gowns and every hat we wear. No one .would blame us. dear, for wanting to have a good time even if it did take our last cent to do it. I really think people like us. They seem to." But what was that! Mrs. Marsh sobbing, by the gods! The senator gasped. Then Isabel's voice: "There, momsy, don't, oh please, please don't. Yes, I guessed it. I know all about it. and he is an old dear, too. But why he doesn't say something I can't un derstand. There, there, dear, that is better. That's it. Put your head down here. It is too bad we can't just live here, on your account, momsy dear. But maybe we can come again some time, and maybe he will he here then, too." A few more broken words: "Much hurry this dance with so and so he'll be hunting the town for me there momsy no your nose isn't red the idea!" Their voices moved away. Senator Lansing was trembling with joy. Surely there was no mistake. They could only have meant one per- son himself. And their secret now his should die with him. It seemed hours before time for his dance. Mrs. Marsh, radiant in pale blue satin and not in the least looking tired, was willing to sit out the dance in the conservatory. The senator wasted no time. "I want to ask you a funny question, Mrs. Marsh, if you don't mind. Do you ever wear blue gingham dresses?" "Why, yes, you funny man. I live in them at home, and what is more, there la nothing I like better." "I know it. Laura. Laura dear. I love you. Will you marry me tomor row? You must." And Laura 6aid simplv, "Yes. Elias, dear, I will." And although she did not say, "This is so sudden," she thought so. (Copyright. 1912, by As sociated Literary Press.) EVENING CHAT BT RUTH CAHSROM. They say that if you are willing to buy outright, to wait long enough and to take reasonable gains, you can be prac tically sure of making money on the stock exchange. I don't know much about that. My one and only experience certainly hasn't given me reason for such an opinion. But I do know of one direction in which, if you wait long enough, are willing to take reasonable gains, use discretion and common sense, and know what you want far enough ahead, you are absolutely sure - making money or rather saving It, which Is exactly the same thing. And that is in bargain hunting. The bargain-crasy woman who will buy anything at all, whether she has any use for it or not, if only it is advertised as a great bargain, is often ridiculed, and I think she deserves all she gets. But there is a sane and legitimate kind of bar gain hunting, of which I think every wo man of limited income absolutely ought to be mistress. A neighbor of mine who lias need to make every cent of her household monev tell, practices this to perfection. Let me briefly describe her methods to you. This woman devotes a day at the be ginning of each season to taking stock of everything In her house, of her husband's clothing, her own. the children's, the bed ding, the linen, the furniture, the kitchen utensils, etc. And at the end of this stock taking, she plans out the family wardrobes for the coining year, and then makes carerui lists of all the articles that must be bought during the next few months. These lists she keeps in her top bureau drawer, and also, to a certain extent, in her head, and with them in view she makes a systematic study of every ad vertisement that comes within her reach. During bargain seasons, such as January and August, she takes two or three news papers in order to keep In touch with all the shops. If any shop has a list of cus tomers to which it sends advertising circulars, she makes sure that her name is on the list. As a consequence of this systematic bargain building, she is able to buy al most everything she uses, at from twenty to thirty per cent under the staple prices. For instance, at the beginning of this winter, she noted down that she would need half a dozen sheets and a dozen towels In the course of the next year. One day in January, she saw an advertise ment of the sheets she always uses at twenty per cent less than the ordinary price, and promptly bought half itnim In February, she found an opportunity to buy thirty-seven and a half cent towels for twenty-five cents apiece. Had she waited until her sheets and towels act ually wore out In the spring, she would probably have had to pay staple prices. She had the children's next summer wardrobes mostly planned In the fall, and by careful watching, found a chance to buy the gingham for their gingham dresses at fifteen cents instead of twenty- nve. Of course, to do all this requires a small surplus in the bank, eternal vigilance and a good deal of time. But twenty-five or thirty dollars covers the first of these requirements, and as for tne second two well this woman says, "That is my trade. It is my husband's business to earn as much money as pos sible, and mine to get as much value as possible out of it. By this meiiiod I make five hundred dollars do the work of six or seven. Isn't that worth while to one who has to count her pennies?" Of course, any woman would find It simpler, pleasanter and more dignified to go shopping just when she felt like it and pay staple prices. But then, as for that, might not any man find It simpler, pleasanter and more dignified to work when he felt like it and accept a low salary, Instead of work ing hard for a higher one? I believe, with my neighbor, that a part of every wife's business is to use her husband's money to the best possible ad vantage, and surely this systematic bar gain hunting is one excellent way of do- ' Ing that. ADVERTISING TALKS BY WILLIAM C. FREEMAN Do you read the advertisements in this newspaper? You. as a reader, one of a big family, owe it to yourself and to oth er readers to read the advertisements becau3e If you read carefully and criti cally and If some advertisements dis please you, you will write to the pub lisher about them. That is Just what the publisher wishes you to do. The publisher of a newspaper furnish ing to his family of readers news and advertisements realizes his responsibil ity. He knows he is human and liable to make mistakes like all other human be ings so nothing spurs him on to greater endeavor than frank and friendly criti cism from his readers. If readers will take an Interest in the advertisements if they will help to pick out those that don't ring true (if there be any) they will find the publisher only too willing to co-operate to exclude the un true printed words of advertisers. The publisher of a newspaper don't ever forget It does more for his commun ity than any thousand individuals, be tney ever so important. As a "rule, he gets less financial return than any busi ness enterprise in his community con sidering the money invested and the tre mendous cost of producing a satisfactory dailv newspaper. The need of money is always great, but even Its need will not influence a pub lisher to print that which will defraud or deceive his readers. Believe me when I say that the aver age publisher wishes, first of all to be souare with his readers. The readej. after all. own the newspaper. They can make it an influence for good or evil. Read the advertisements. Most of them will prove to be of direct benefit to you. Those that axe not, write to the publish er about. If we are to make our advertising col umns dependable, there must be genuine interest and co-operation from the reader. (To be continued.) REFECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. Hope maketh the bill collector call ?ain. Escaping poverty is just as hard as capturing riches. A woman has the children so a man thinks he knows how to raise them. What makes a man so proud of him self is he wouldn't be if he were any sort of judge. The man who succeeds is never able to tell how he does it. and the man who can always tell how be does it is never able to succeed. KANSAS COMMENT DAUGHTERS ARE EXPENSIVE. A woman at Long Island. N. Y.. applied for divorce and declared that her 16-year-old daughter must have proper attention She asked for JiW.OOu a year for the gU'i and declared that the amount was reason able. Here are the Items: A maid at -D a month; a governess at Jfirt; clothing at 1.S0O a year; an auto at t.'.OOO a year; a couple of horses at .'A montnly; a groom at &T0 a month; dancing lessons and other tuition at tl.lTio a year; dental treatment at J1.000 a year; theaters and other amuse ments, tSA a year; a European trip &L t6 .'JiO; a country place, maintained at o.- a year; an apartment for two months, after ten months in Europe. and ex tra horses, grooms, music and Incidentals, bringing her yearly living charges up to J0,uut. Some people may think this too much but not so with one who ha daughter. In fact the amount Is nor-J than reasonable. It looks penurlou. Lawrence Journal-World. ATCHISON A CUE AN TOWN. Two significant items were printed in last Saturday's Issue of The Globe. One concerned the contemplated disposi tion of two prisoners today would leave the county jail empty. The other was the report of W. I'. Montgomery, assistant attornev general. After Investigation he said Atchison city and county officials were very active in the suppression of vice. In those two Items a condition Is set forth that should be widely advertised, and from which Atchison should profit immeasurably. The day when the "good" town Is .v wide open town is passing; It has already been left behind. In the future the good towns will be those that enforce the laws and weed out the lawless element. Atchison fought long and hard to stav in the class of the wide-open towns, but fought a losing game. Bucking the prohibitory liquor law never got Atchison anything. It has been closed tight as a drum for a couple of years now and is a better town than ever be fore. Look at the building done last vear. the building plans for this year, and the advancing real estate values. When you consider that Atchison coun ty, with L'8.000 people land Including this city with nearly 17,000) has its Jail doors thrown open, the fact is somclhlng to be proud of. It is a condition hard to duplicate in4 the entire country. It Is a compliment to the high quality of Atchison's citizenship. Mnd to the offi cers entrusted with the enforcement of the laws. Every now and then some "holier than thou" radical will magnify imperfection into crime, and declare the town Is reek ing with vice. But that doesn't make It true. Records show that Atchison Is an ex ceptiona.iy clean tow n, and an exception ally good town. Talk that kind of talk. Atchison Globe. r FROM OTHER PEIIS SHIPPING AND THE CANAL. An obvious way for congress to act fairly and within our treaty obliga tions in dealing with the problem of tolls for passage through the Panama canal will be seen by those who givo even scant consideration to the uh lect. The American people having nm pleted this great undertaking alter an enormous expenditure of wealth which they have given cheerfully, are in no mood to violate that treaty which pledges us to accord equal treatment to all ships using the waterway. But there is no reason why congress xhould not make the canal free to American ships engaged in the coastwise trade. Foreign ships are not in this trade, and under our laws cannot get it. It would be, therefore, no discrimination against any flag if the canal were to be made free to all vessels in our coastwise trade. The opening of the canal should stimulate the coastwise business, and relief from the burden of tolls would clearly be beneficial not only to the trade "itself, but to the shipbuilding industry in this country. There should be with the throwing open of the canal an increased com merce between Atlantic and Gulf portn and those on the Pacific. Such a con summation is devoutly to be wished, and it is to be hoped that congress In fixing the tolls will exempt ahips en gaged in the coastwise trade. Wash ington Post. TRAINING CHILDREN. Some facts brought out In the Year Book of the Playground and Recreation Association of America are of much more than passing Interest. Iiuring lidl, 12,710.- 000 were expended in this country for establishment and fitting up of public playgrounds. More than 1,600 such grounds re maintained. Nineteen cities have authorized the Issuing of bonds to the extent of $4,500,000 for playground purposes; and in 12 cities acreage to the value of 1118,000 has been given in aid of the cause. So systematized has become this "play ground work'' and so great and rapid Its extension that special schools or classes have been instituted in upward of 60 cities for training of competent Instructors and managers. "As the twig is bent the lre Is inclined." The practical spirit of tha times seeks to prevent the bending of the twig of childhood, so that the tree of citizenship may grow rh straight and strong as possible. Chicago Journal. QUAKER MEDITATIONS. From ine Philadelphia Record ! An ounce of hustle la worth a pound of luck. Presidentially speaking, things seem to be TRable. Even after a girl Is married things m.jr go a-Mias with her. Even the man who loves his stomach may love not wisely, but too well. No. Maude, dear, every girl who comes out on top isn't & dizzy blonde. It isn't wIkc to be carried away by en thusiasm unless you have a return ticket. The most surprising thing In life Is the fact that the thlncs that don't seem pos sible happen ro often. The beauty about writing a play is that you can crowd more love Into three hours than you can otherwise experience in a whole lifetime. Blobbs "I was out itkatlng the othr day: hadn't been on the Ice for 20 years." fe.obbs "How did it go?" Blubbs "Oh I fell In with it right away." Muggins "I never knew a fellow so fond of borrowing trouble as Dashawav " Buggins "What has he done now?" Mi:j ginn "Eloped with another man's wife." Silllcus "Who was It that said 'Deliver me from my friends?" Cynicus "1 don t just remember, but I suppose it was some fellow who knew he could take csre oC his enemies." HVM0R OP THE DAY "All the world loves a lover." cept the gas companies." Life. "Tes, ei- "Laugh and grow Tat." "Yes. and then get laughed at." Boston Transcript. ..A'?',1 I.am ,0"k,n' tor a little cussor " "Well, do I look like nn.''. i, Courier-Journal. ' "Mabel has refused H.,u- ..t--. .. . girl." -Yes; her ambition i t' ' HerIldPUlar matlne w "-Washington