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4 THE TOPEKA PAIL'S STATE JOURNAL FEBRUARY ,23, 1912 By P. MACLEXSAS. Entered July 1, 1875, as second-class matter ac the postofflce at Topeka, Kan., under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXVIIII No. 51 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Daily edition, delivered by carrier, 10 cents a week to any part of Topeka. or tuburbe, or at the same price in any Kan sas town where the paper baa a carrier system. By mail one year $3.60 By mail, six months l.W By mail. 100 days, trial order 1K BELL. TELEPHONES. . Business Office .... Hapurters Room ..197 ..577 IKDEPEXDBNT TELEPHONES. Prlvte branch exchange. Call 107 and uk the State Journal operator Tor per son or department desired. Uopeica State Journal bul'dlng. SCO and 03 Kansas avenue, comer Kigh-th. New Tork Office: 250 Fifth avenue. Paul Block, manager. Chicago Office: Steger building. Paul Block, manager. Boston Office: Tremont Building. Paul Block, manager. FtXL MUSED WIRE REPORT OF1 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal Is a member of the associated Press and receive the full day i-.r.h -ero7-t of that irret news or- MTilr-Afion for the exclusive afternoon publication In Topeka. The news Is received in The State Jour nal building over wires for thi sole pur pose. Roosevelt is believed to have boy scout vote corralled. the The colonel lost little time in fol lowing his liat into the ring. The "lioun daws" may yet displace the mule as a political emblem. The colonel has a few governors but Tnft continues to capture the dele gate?. The Mexicans seem determined not to stand for one term, saying nothing of three. It looks as though the history of Texas might he repeated in Fonora end Chihuahua. The "conference of governors" idea originated by Colonel Roosevelt has borne fruit at last. Bryan's statement that he would not Again be a candidate may have had a string tied to It also. Tt never seems necessary for a vice president to declare that he will not s?aln be a candidate. The reputation of the gn.und hog for sagacity now may be considered as established beyond question. Conditions appear to be normal in Cuba. Reports from there are to the effect that a "ori.iis" Is at hand. The colonel may yet decide to anply the initiative and referendum as well as the recall, to judicial decisions. Colonel Roosevelt went all the way to Columbus, Ohio, to file his Charter of Iemocraey when New Jersey is just across the river. It has been suggested that the prop osition emanating from New Jersey, fo tax cats, is intended as a blow at the elderly maidens. The Detroit Free Press rrints a pic ture of Roosevelt wearing a silk hat, probably on the theory that he threw his slouch into the ring. The season for changing political affiliations is opening early. Congress man Gardner of Massachusetts ap pears among the first arrivals. In striving to escape from the ills that beset them under Diaz the Mexi cans have encountered others, which probably they did not anticipate. It is apparent that the colonel's announcement that he w ould -be a can didate for anither term was intended to be taken in a Pickwickian sense. The month of March will be short R few days in these parts at any rate. Everybody hereabouts is insisting sev eral perfect March days have already prevailed. Governor Wilson does' not care for Champ Clark's "dawg" song. Perhaps the governc.'s failure to appreciate it grows out of the fact that he never owr.ed a dog. Theoretically Colonel Roosevelt will wait for the nomination to be tendered to him. But he will leave nothing un done that will go toward insuring that the tender will be made. A 3-year-old child in Duluth, after being apparently dead for two days, was revived just as she was about to be buried. The treatment should be tried on the LaFollette boom. Why this alarm over the fact that SI per cent of the freshmen co-eds at the t'niversity of Wisconsin are knock kneed? Being knock-kneed doesn't in terfere in any way with a woman's capability as a cook. Madero s doom as president of Mex ico is undoubtedly sealed. Those rebell ing against him have idopted a slogan calling him a "gringo lover." If there is any one a Mexican hates worse thin himself it is an American. Italy's statesmen appear to be several laps ahead of her soldiers and sailors. In the . Italian chamber of deputies a resolution was passed with -rreat en thusiasm the other day annexing Trip od to Italy. And from the success ful stand that the Turks and their Arab allies have made, it looks as though the Italian tatcsmen had counted a chicken which never will &atcb- CHAPTER XCV. A Manager Wanted. The dispatches from Boston an nounce that Colonel Roosevelt wants a manager; that he is "in need of a. good man to take care of things." Well, this is interesting-. This seems to be the firs time in history in which T. R. has not felt himself abundantly able to manage his own affairs. In asmuch as he gave out his need, per haps he is open to suggestions. How would it do to try the "Want" col umns? The classified department of this paper produces results. The State Journal circulates in Emporia, Law rence, and, to some extent, in Kansas City, Washington, and New York. William Allen White might be at tracted by- such an advertisement: so might Governor .Stubbs of Lawrence, or Colonel W. K. . Nelson of Kansas City. Since writing the above, another dispatch comes along, saying that Colonel Roosevelt would like to have Governor Stubbs manage his cam paign. Why not Governor Stubbs? His board of managers which has been running and managing the ex president for several weeks might be continued in the management with -Stubbs as chairman of the board. Our governor is doing a great deal of this work now. In his speeenes ne &a "dollars worth ot work eriuuiu e,. ( c f.T- a dollar's worth of pay. and surely Colonel lioosevelt would get more than his money's worth from W. R. S. Wo could get along very well for a while without him here in Kansas. This is fortunate. We have been without the governors presence often, while he has been at Oyster Kay. and other eastern points trying to persuade the colonel that the prairies were afire for his third term candidacy. In Our Governor's absence a very good man has been Induing down the lid. Dave Leahy can just as well act for Governor of Kansas for a few months as well as for a few weeks;' the state would probably not suffer, and the notary publics" commissions could be issued just the same as if the gov ernor himself were present in person. Colonel Nelson might be made gen eral manager, or William Allen White, both of whom arc excellent gentlemen, and now handy in the cast, doing ser vice for Roosevelt, and will be joined in a few days by Governor Stubbs. With the absence of these three dis tinguished gentlemen who were run ning the politics of Kansas with a high hand, it is observed that things are trending strongly in another direc tion. There is a heavy tide for Ta f t spitinsr in. which may require the presence of the triumvirate before any successful efforts can be made to stem it. Instead of being any sort of a stampede since T. R. threw Ills hat into the ring, there seems to be a more nronounced sentiment for Kansas people to stay on the reser vation, and see that our president gets a square deal in the branding. The eastern papers are surely pour ing hot shot into the Colonel's ranks just now. Before he waa a candi date, things seemed to be going his way. Now they are coming his way in the shape of unkind missiles of a political character. In fact, the com ments thus far noted are rarely com plimentary; generally condemnatory. One newspaper says: "The mask is off, Theodore Roosevelt has betrayed himself, his friends and bis party." Do you know that seems to be a very wide prevailing sentiment in Kansas and elsewhere. The latest action of Theodore Roosevelt in announcing himself for a candidate for a third term against his friend and particular patron, Pres ident Taft, and in throwing his party into factional eruption, is quite gener ally looked upon with disappointment. The action is not in harmony with the old time leader of the Republicans; with the testimonal he has given President Taft, or with the fine preachments made over a square, fair deal and justice to all. The sober second thought of the public will not only bring the realiza tion that Taft is making a fine presi dent now, but that he was a very im portant factor, and admittedly so by Roosevelt himself, in making the last administration effective. One paper pertinently says: "Many old time Republican admirers of Co'. Roosevelt will look upon his action as unfair to an old friend and as some thing closely resembling bad faith to his party. The third term tradition will be brought up against him and im pede the party. The Republican party has great admiration for Colonel Roose velt, but his truest friends will be in clined to believe that his entrance into the canvass gives more comfort to his Democratic enemies than it does tc his Republican compatriots. There is no excuse for Mr. Roosevelt's can didacy. There is no failure of the Taft administration that justifies it. That administration, sanely progres sive and consistently so, has been characterized by great good sense resolute courage, infinite patience and substantial achievement. That Roose velt believes a general call exists for him, we do not doubt, nor can wt question his courage when we con sider all he has to lose. The imme diate and growing effect of Mr. Roose velt's unwise candidacy will be to strengthen Mr. Taft's position and the regard in which he is held by the vast majority of his countrymen." And so continued quotations might be made of current comments. Governor Hoch has an interview in today's paper in which he predicts that Taft will win. The interview was given to a Tacoma, Washington, paper, the Ledger. The reporter has shown not only that Gov. Hoch keeps in close touch with the affairs of the nation, but that he is also one of the best ad vertisers for Kansas. The reporter hag also brought out the fact that Hoch I was a good deal of a Progressive when progressiveness counted, and that ; many of the things for which the pres ent state administration ia taking credit originated with Governor Hoch. "What was Teddy's reply to the Seven Governors?" came over the long distance telephone in Iowa last night. "I have been snowbound for three days without a letter or newspaper. We hope for relief soon." Well, the people who have been snowbound for several days, and who have been in suspense for several weeks have now been given Roosevelt's Ready Relief. Most of the excitement seems to be over. The politicians are recovering, and there is a general tendency of the trend toward Taft, which will now apparently pursue its way to the goal of the renomination of our president. When you think of it carefully, it is not so strange after all that many LaFollette men are turning toward Taft instead of toward Roosevelt, for LaFollette was certainly betrayed in the house of his friends. He was a typical Insurgent, and if the Insur gent principles were to be fought and bled for, as certain Insurgents claim ed they were to be, LaFollette was the natural man around whom the rally should have been made. It naturally seems to the LaFollette people that principles have been sacrificed for persons and that Roosevelt's popu larity was being used to pull chestnuts out of the fire for politicians seeking office and preferment. One of the most interesting situa tions at present is that in which Nicholas Longworth finds himself. He has been for Taft. His congressional district is for Taft; and apparently he will not now work against Taft. He is in a dilemma. He naturally does not like to oppose his own father-in-law, particularly, when that relation is the big man in this country and a man held in high esteem over the world in general. Representative Longworth has the opportunity of his life. By getting down off the fence, continuing his al legiance to President Taft, he can show the country that he is something more than the son-in-law of ex-President Rooseevlt: that he is Nicholas Longworth with a mind of his own, who will fight it out on the line which I he marked out if it takes all summer, or at least until the beginning of it, ' say about June 18th. Let one tolennone flonrlsb vigor ously in Toneka where onlv two crew 1 weakly before. That is not a bad slo gan for Topeka just now. This is a case where one is better than two. The Public Ctilities Commission how ever, has a task before it. Let it not betray the faith placed in it by the people, and let it not miss its oppor tunity to see that if we have one tele phone where we have had two, that we pay only a fair price for the ser vice. (Chapter XCVI tomorrow.) JAYHAWKER JOTS Even the clocks were tied up by this week's storm. "Keep square with the printer," Is the advice of the Haddam Leader. Fort Scott must be feeling old. The Tribune is running a forty years ago column. Tribune has a society of Sunday school workers called the "Cheerful Wrigglers." An advertiser in the Junction City Uniou is calling for empty beer and whisky bottles. Harper is taking on metropolitan airs. In society in taht town dinner is served at 6 o'clock. The two Lindsborg papers have been consolidated and Miss Carlson remains as editor of the new paper. A sign of spring is noted in the Junc tion City Union. It is publishing a Chautauqua announcement. Sporting note in the Coyville column of the Wilson County Citizen: "Claud Mullikin is wrestling with la grippe." The columns of political announce ments in th'- Kansr-s newspapers are growing longer with almost every issue. A milliner at Plains advertises to take country produce to the extent of 2 5 per cent of the purchase price of her wares. It is reported by the Holton Signal that one young ,ady within its purview who took a ieap year plunge was told that he would always be a brother to her. The mayor of La Harpe is named Jury, which fact leads the Indepen dence Reporter to make the suggestion that everybody in that town gets a square deal. The Chanute Tribune tells of a citizen who always had a bad attack of rheu- tism on the Sundays when there Is I ma going to be a special collection taken at his church. The Anthony Republican prints the following notice: All announcements in the Republican, except those of the regular Sunday services in the church es, must be paid for at regular adver tising rates. This applies to lodges, all kinds of socials, Sunday school meetings held during the week, liter ary and sewing and all other varieties of clubs, and any other meetings not herein enumerated. Don't ask us to run them "dead head." That won't pay the printers. There's a good deal of bosh about the popular saying that "a smart man changes his mind, a fool never." The insurgents are using it a good deal this year, and Gib Childers, who has changed his mind in a hundred cam paigns for a consideration Is now being patted on the back by. the lo cal progressives for announcing that he is tired of Taft and will hereafter work for Col. Teddy. Gib ought to rank as one of the smartest of the smart. Howard Courant. Real Hard Luck. "Speaking of hard luck," remarked Senator Klutch, "I had some hard luck once during my early days." "Elucidate," said Senator Graball. "I had just invested my last $5 in a meal ticket." "Yes, yes." "As I started down the street a gust of wind tore the ticket from my hand. A lumberjack was passing, wearing heavy hobnailed boots." "Yes; go on." "And he stepped on my ticket and punched out $4. S3." Kansas City Journal. 2Y THE WAY BY HARVEY PARSONS. Webster revised: "Consecutive;" a superfluous word that goes without say ing. Example; as when one says; "un der no circumstances will I take a third drink," it means that he will not take a third CONSECUTIVE drink, but that if the guy at the other end of the bar happens to lap up one in the meantime, that lets him out. Kansas has another advantage over the eastern states; it can condone -i rotten old snowstorm by claiming that it is good for the wheat. Conflictions in law are so handy that it will not be long before the average citizen will be carrying a pocket sized technicality in case he falls into a well and needs pulling out. Rural routes are badly blocked by the snow, but at that, comma, the ru ralist will get his catalogues from the seed houses and his seeds from his congressman before it is too late to do his spring gardening early. The favorite exercise of insurgent politicians and other unemployed per sons, is knocking the corporations; but the employed persons, who have to get to the office ahead of the snowbound cars, may observe that the walks ad jacent to the Santa Fe offices and the Street Car barns are cleared of snow before others are touched. Some dis believer in corporations will try to kick the slats out of this observation by calling attention to the drifts in front of the gas office. In Washington, a French dancing girl, dressed in red garters, entertained a swell society gathering bv doing a little dancing and a whole lot of sit ting on married men's laps. The next day the face-fixers were Vury busy. The society matrons cracked their make-ups in a futile effort to look amused. And as for the army officer who is serving a sentence for grabbing public funds in Alaska, the baffling question is: what could he find to spend it for in Alaska? Benson, Arizona, is enjoying its first Sleighing, although "slaying" is one of the favorite out-and-in-door sports of Arizona. To accommodate all the gooks who desire to ride in on his coat tails, Roosevelt will have to wc?ar an old fashioned saddle slicker. SAYS UNCLE GAV If you are looking for fun, working out your own career is the best game in the world. I have no love for those bloodless, steel trap fellows, but when you have reached the point where you can regard the men about you as so many pawns, you have achieved wis dom, and you don't need to curdle the milk of human kindness within you in order to be wise. c.v ouio ..i n; one fSaf ,eS ?ou"Vc Bot.to kfeS the field and all its pieces m mind every minute and you've got to develop your mind until it ha the breadth and grasp 10 Know rne signincauce or ea.cn, and keep it under Control. Most men let things about them fly to sixes and sevens. You can never be absolute master of all you survey. Much will escape you despite your best efforts. But you can, by a touch here and there, by pushing this, restraining that, bend to your purpose the men and cir cumstances neglected of others, and, whilo the less watchful sleep or feast, reap the reward of your temporary mastery. Let your sentiment be the love of the game. Let all else be impersonal regard men as so many instruments and you have attained mastery. And most men. consciously or unconscious ly, gladly bow their necks to mastery. Do you work beside an aimless fel low clerk? A suggestion here and there will make him your, unpaid ser vant. Does this untoward circumstance or that threaten your present situa ion. There is another side to it and the wind that will wreck the unwary ' will carry the watchful mariner to his haven. Trim your sails to take advantage of it. A clear head will turn of its own use even the machinations of Its foes. The attack that was meant to duin you, can. if you are wise enough and quick enough, be made to yield you rrofits. Make a game of your business. Be ware the habit of permitting it to be come a burden. That way lies the lot of the packhorse, and most men are paekhorses. (Copyright, 1912, by W. E. Williams.) GLOBE SIGHTS BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. It doesn't strain our optimism an iota to predict a good dandelion crop. If a loafer wouldn't talk so much) folks might think he was a philosopher. While an automobile Is an expensive luxury, horse feed isn't so blame cheap. - Then there are men who spend nothing "ch on bad habits' who also IaiI to et There is no doubt the man who wears pajamas feels slightly superior to the night shirt brigade. If a man's photograph doesn't flatter him a little, he won't buy many of them to give his friends. No one can read all the new books, but many are willing to neglect a lot of good old ones to try it. Economical children should have a bank Mother can't break into when she wants to make change. If you crave newspaper notoriety don't select the police reporter as your favorite publicity agent. Man is so conceited it is hard for hini to play the losing end without feeling he Is the victim of conspiracy. t inger prints are a great success for identifying criminals, but they aren't worth while in decorating china. There seems to be a general rule that a typewriter (neuter gender) will behave properly only about six weeks at a time. "What did you buy your little son that expensive mechanical toy for? He isn't old enough to appreciate it yet." ' I know, but I'll get a lot of fun showing him how it works." Detroit Free Press. Mr. Exe What! Another new dress. Perhaps you will tell me, madam, how I shall get'the money to pay for it. Mrs. Exe iou must excuse me. I am your wife, not your financial adviser. Boston Transcript. "I'm quite willing to propose to him this year," she said, "but I dread one thing." "And that Is?" "Asking his mother If she'll let him marry me." De troit Free Press. ! HVMOR OF THE DAY i OF THE SPIRIT. It is not the sunshine bright Upon the burning sand. It is not the tempest's might On the unresisting strand; But it is an action tender As if a grace it would render Removes the veil from our mortal sight. And then we find that we stand In the glory of heaven's splendor. It is not the music heard Outringing loud and clear. It is not the spoken word That we are glad to hear: But it is that tone of feeling Into our own hearts stealing From hearts that by our grief are stirred To the trembling of a tear Their tenderness revealing. Isaac Bassett Choate, in the Boston Transcript. 1 HE EVENING STORY My Lady's Limousine. (By Harmony Weller.) Tne taxi in which Jimmy Rogers was being rushed uptown from the Pennsylvania station came to an abrupt stop. It was only Fifty-ninth street and when the chauffeur re turned from a quick examination to tell Rogers that he could take him no farther Jimmy swore softly under his breath. "Great Scott, man! T have to be up at Seventy-eighth street in five minutes"' "Sorry, boss, but this here machine won t run another block tonight. Jimmy looked from the chauffeur's imperturbable face to his own large suitcase and the three-foot box of American Beauties that he was tak ing to his hostess. No! The thng was impossible: He simply must have a taxi. "Beat it!!" he said to the chauffeur, and get me another machine! Don t waste any time, either!" I he man went off and Jimmy lumea at nis predicament and the flight of time. He had come on from n- wesu i" attend tne Jowa society 1'f.nquet and be the guest of th wades.- Jimmy had to shav?, et ii:to his dress clothes and finish the distance to Seventy-eighth street all Wit.;in r:fv,-en minutes. rv- ,i m. it ent re I'viutht of saving i!rri In changing his clothes there in tne stalled taxi. Then his fear of arrest stopped mm. J ri desperation Jimmy put bi bead out rnc window end hailed t e firs ' , i j i e mat pasea. It w.!.f s. great jum u--:i!e ana it came to side i he f,yi. stop r.t- i 11 give you a fiver if yon take me up to beventy-eighth streeV Jimmy promised the chauffeur. .lump in qui-.-L!" came the ready response. sogers lOit no time. Within the luxurious car Jimmy stretched his oog icgs ami Minted the scented air. "My lady's limousine," thought Rogers and glanced at the fur-lined carriage slippers on the floor ana the w ilt t' - pink roses that drooped from the vase by the mirror. "My !ad's chauffeur !s a very wise man me thinks he is in the habit of making r.oney while he waits for his mis tress to cone from the opera." Suddenly an idea struck Jimmv. wny not show a little appreciation for me timely use of her c-af He would leave one great American Beauty n i the vase by the mirror ' The rose was scarcely in its nlaee ! before the machine came to a "ton Jimmy snrane out lirttK- h '" inauiieurs sake, quickly reere you are. old man " v. the man his money; "you've done me a good service." "Mum's the word." grinned the chauffeur, and went swiftly off to call for his mistress at the opera. If Amy Wade counted only eleven American Beauties in the box Jimmy gave her she did not mention the fact We thought you were lost," she told him later, when, immaculate in even ing clothes, he entered the drawing room. "I hope nothing happened'" 'Nothing but a broken-down taxi." laughed Jimmy. "Well, see that you don't lose your heart to any of the pretty Iowa girls tonight and break that." Dick Wade added: "There'll be a bunch of them there." "AVade did not exaggerate," decided Jimmy, when an hour later his eyes traveled from nrta KM,,4.-..i c ' another. Blondes, brunettes and even uudu-rroiuieo neads were there among that thronp of the Iowa society Jimmy drew a sham breath Mrs. Wade was approaching him, and with her was a vision in yellow. At least Jimmy thought she was a vision until he found that he was hold ing a very warm tingling hand within his own. "T Vi -i .-. , ? 3 .. ,, . . . . t V; VI. 1 aDut Jimmy sc, ran,,, so De good to him he Is all alone In this big city." Amy ade cast a laughing glance at her menus ana went in search of h husband. "So I must be good to you," Faith ""er ioKea at Rogers from under her IT i-IL ueciaea tne task would not UIJilLUIL. Certainly. ' Jimmy Rogers's tone . UL,'as lo onng a slight flush into Faiths cheeks. "Anri - v, orrter tn K j .-J"" - "1-xvc t c &uuu lo me i am going to nespass ana ask you an impertinent Faith s startled eyes met his "Why have you absolutely ruined a most beautiful costume and color ef fect by wearing that American Beauty rose . I watched you coming toward me and thought you perfect, save for that one jarring note." Faith Carter laughed a quick, ner vous little laugh and glanced down at the one thick stemmed rose that she had thrust among the soft tea roses of her corsage bouquet. Rogers realized that he was waiting with great expectancy for her answer. The rose seemed suddenly to have as sumed enormous proportions in his eye?. Faith touched the rose with deli cate fingers. "Since my flower has disturbed your peace of harmony per haps I had better tell you its history." Jimmy Rogers had definite hopes now and he led his yellow Hsion into a secluded corner that other masculine Iowans might not take her from him. "This rose," said Faith when he had seated himself beside her on the wide divan, "found its way very mys teriously into my limousine while I was listening to Caruso in Rigoletto this afternoon. When Jules called for me after the opera I found this rose, fresh from the florist's, in the vase in my car." She glanced again at. the bud lying against the chiffon at her breast and laughed an embarrassed little laugh. "I don't know whether a sense of romance made me wear it or a faint hope that I might unravel the mystery." "What what did Jules have to say?" Jimmy was torn between a de sire to shield Jules from possible dis charge and a longing to iell this glor ious creature that the rose had been put there by his own hand. Faith looked up at Jimmy and found the dull red that had come into his face to be rather becoming. She also wondered at his halting speech. "I must confess," she continued, "that Jules acted a bit strange. He at first denied any knowledge of the flower, and then remembered sudden ly that a man who was either insane or a florist's advertiser came along and put an American Beauty In ail the cars waiting at the curb. . The story rather dampened my sense of romance, but since it was not unlike ly I looked at the stem of the rose to see if there was a florist's card at tached but there was none. You see," Faith laughed, mockingly, "there is still hope that I have an unknown ad mirer." "I doubt if he remains long un known," Jimmy Rogers said, witn sr wonderful a ring In his voice that Faith trembled and dragged the rose from its resting place that she might cool her face in its soft petals. Jimmy watched the flower with In creasing jealousv. "Oh! Here votT two are!" Amy Wade and her husband came up to break the silencej "I have looked everywhere tor you." Sr.e cast a triumphant glance at her husband which said plainly, "I told you so." "I say, Jimmy," put in Dick Wale by way of making conversation, "the next time you buy roses for my wife see that you get full measure. There was one shy in the box and American Beauties count. 'That one Faith is toying with Just reminded me." Faith turned her eyes so suddenly and forcefully on Jimmy Rogers that he felt like a small and very guilty schoolboy. Then he heard her draw in a quick breath, and he waited for her next words. But she remained silent, while the glance she sent straight into Jimmy's eyes was fraught witn understanding. Then, because Amy Wade and her husband were near. Faith laughed mockingly at him. "You look guilty. Mr. Rogers; I believe the twelfth rose has gone astray." "I will confess," Jimmy told her un der his breath, "that I myself would stray a thousand times, if In the end, I might find so wondrous a nest." Faith glanced at him from beneath her lashes. "Perhaps one straying, in your case, would do," she remarked. (Copyright, 1912, by Associated Literary Press.) EVENING CHAT BT RUTH CAMERON. Rome friends of nurs who live in a nouse built in the days when sunshine and ventilation were not so much Rougnt alter in house building- as they are now adays, have recently had an extra win dow cut in one of their rooms. Tais window faces toward the east. Hitherto that side of th? room had been a blank wall, and consequently the room haU never had any morning- sun. Unless you have ever known a similar case you can scarcely imagine the difference which thy window made irt that room. I went in there tho other morning and it was difficult to believe that that cheery, light-flooded, sun -warmed room was the same cheerless place, in which 1 had so often sat with my friends. And as T sat there, bathed in the good sunlight, the thought came to me how many of us are llviner in rooms witn blank walls where windows might be. For instance, there is that rich old maid whom I know perhaps you know her too. She has two cats, a maid, a fine home, and her money. These are the well-buiit and always well-washed windows on the southern exposure of hr heart home, jsne also has half a dozen jolly nephews and nieces wor whom she had no use and whom she almost never sees. The inter est and happiness these young- people mig-ht bring into her life are the sun shine which beats vainly on the southern and eastern sides of iier heart home, for. you see, sh has no windows on these exposures. And then there is Mrs. C Mrs. f is forty-five. Her one daughter has mar ried and gone to live i?i a home of her own, a thousand miles away. So thit window through which much of her life 3 sunshine came is of necessity -darkened, and Mrs. C. is verv lonesome and thinks life a cheerless place, but how many oth- er windows Mrs. C- might cut through to make her heart home more cheerful, There is the charity work for the poor of the town, in wnich her friends have vain- 1 v tried to interest her. There is the Sunshine society which Bhe has often been urged to join. There is the crippled lady across the way. There is Mrs. ('s husband who, to tell the truth, seems to be decidedly an uncut window so far as she is concerned. I know that any of these interests would bring a flood of sunshine into Mrs. C.'s life, if she would but cut through some of these eastern prd southern windows and "let the blessed sunshine in." Congenial friendships spoiled bv misun derstanding, opportunities for social ser vice neglected, chances for culture and self-education disregarded, the sweetest relations of life left undeveloped these are a few of the blank walls that keep out sunshine from our lives. Are there any In your home? QUAKER MEDITATION'S. From the Philadelphia Record. Lots of people look down on others from a mighty slight elevation. Don't nut y6ur pleasure before your business unless you want to lose both. Perhaps it is quite natural, after ali, that an actress should try to make a show of herself. That old adage. "Make hay while the sun shines." must have been aimed at the weather man. It's a human failing, but don't pat your self on the back Just because you happen to do your duty. The office that seeks the man Is a mil-lion-to-one shot compared with the cred itor on the same mission. Tommy "Pop. what are the highways and byways?" Tommy's Pop "The shop ping district, my son." Sillicus "I wonder why, at a wedding, the fellow who attends the groom is called the best man?" Cynicuss "Be cause he isn't getting married." Blobbs "Guzzier is always talking about his lofty ideals." Slobbs "Yes, but unfortunately Guzzler's lofty ideals never seem to get. any loftier than a high ball." Muggins "When I started out last night I had $100, and this morning I woke up with less than $10." Buggins "You must have had a hot time." Muggins "Yes- it must have neen pretty not to have burned pocket." hole like that in my POIN'TEI PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Folly is as plentiful as wisdom Isn't. Industry is the magnet that starts things our way. History is full of near-great men who failed to" " come back." He laughs at scars who has never been struck- for a loan. A man is foolish to stand in his own light or hide it under a bushel. The things that do not concern a wom an often give her the most concern. Many a woman's good Judgment shows up when she leaves it to her husband. If a man's conscience never troubles him. it's a sign that he has It well trained. Some men are like postage stamps; vou've got to lick them before they will do their duty. Faint heart ne'er won fair lady, we are told and the same might be said of a faint bank balance. It is called flattery when other people tell us the nice things we have always thought about ourselves. Some one has defined a gentleman as a man who kicks the cat instead of swear ing at his wife, when things go wrong. KANSAS COMMENT FARMERS GETTING THERE. His city brother hasn't much the better of the man on the Kansas farm thew days. The town of Morrill In Brown county recently made arrangements to b supplied with electric current Lrorn tl light plant at Sabetlia. Owners of coun ty homes along the line are having th main wire tapped and their houses light ed with imandescents. And there in a whole lot of this sort of business in the country precincts of Kansas; which Is u It should be, for tiie Kansas farmer ts entitled to every comfort and con venience there is. No flattery. Leaven worth Times. PLACES RESPONSIBILITY. On the morning of February I all ths passengers were out early. Iand was In sight. Some were glad the trip was so near the end others were sorry. To leave the Cleveland will seem like leaving an old home. It has been a wonderful trip. But oh, you Golden Gate! Oh, you United States! The Atchison man has had the time of his life, but he fears that he has been spoiled that he'll never be able to work again. For more than three months he has been in the hands of a Kreat steamship company and had otewards t.. wait on him at every turn, and nothing to do but have a good time. So If he t -comes a confirmed loafer it Isn't really his fault. The man who spends his win ters at 1117 North Third street. Atchison and his summers on Potato Hill Is to blame for everything, last summer th retired editor wrote: "All you have to dr. is to go aboard the Cleveland the day she leaves New York. I ll do the rest " And he did.-J. P. Howe, In the Atchison Globe. FROM OTHER PENS WILD INVKSTMEXTS. There is a preat loss among the peo.l because of their investing in pUumS. schemes to make money. It so often hap pens that people will Invest their mono" In some Fo-calied enterprise ihat S'mw glib Hjjenl will make app-ir atruliiir'v safe, and sure to return lnr:e incomes, and in the end loseit all. It is possible the agents ih'mUr h heve what they say. but the experience ii that they are mistaken many time pp. re than they Hie correct. The true rul- in all these matters is, not to invest in a thing you don't k now is a "I righ. H content with a 3 or 4 per cam: :ild-nd rather than go floundering through 1 he swamps for a 10 or iv per rent dlvid tel. Su.-h dividends nre usually "wdi-o'-i ie wisps' that tempt one to the edge of the precipice and over he goes, mmtev, Jaith, happiness and all. .So common have been '.h-vf rlirM-T that Kansas has enacted wha is kniwn as the "blue sky law." ,r -r,i 1 been ie most of t hese schemes ;i r' Iim le j a irii s of blue sky brought down to hedizc-i tJ.e innocent. The law makes it a penal fense for a person to offer shar s in a'.v company that Is not approved by 1 ul-'i authority a very good la w. Onio stn r Journal. SEXT1MKNT F' Tl TAFT. All the delegates thus far ho-on the 12 Republican convention have been j n struct ed to vote for the renomi na ri"Ti of President Taft, and throughout the country there are unmistakable evident that the loyal support ers of the prrw-n t chief exeeutive are getting Into action in his behalf. The collapse of the 1, r,,i lette movement and the strenuous effort of the Wall Street crowd and the irreenn cilables to draw former President R'k.s velt into the content have M rengt h'ne1 determination ra t her than brous: ht dis may Into the ranks of the regular Repub lica n. The rank and file of the patty aoc-ptd In good faith Colonel Roosevelt's volun tary and unequivocal declaration that h would not again be a candidate for th presidency, and whatever may be the pe culiar meandering of his mind they no reason why they should change theirs, especially when such action would In volve repudiation of an ho ties t. u pri k ht executive, who has given greater indie- tfons of practical statesmanship than any i occupant of the White House since the j days of Abraham l-lnrom. ' To be sure, the fight Ih not yet won. n iniiru iu hmi mu nmy not be bought or bullied to swerve a hair's breath from the plain path of offi cial duty will continue tlwir subtle tight; but the people are aware of the Ifesiie involved, and a wise and patriotic settle ment of them may safely be left in their hands. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. ADVERTISING TALKS BY WIUJAM C. FREKMAM A friend of mine told me recently that many (too many, he thinks) of these tulks are preachments. He said: "iet the.ni down to pure business; tell advertisers how to become successful; never mind the moral side of business: let that work itself out; be practical and don't everlast ingly point out the weaknesses of business procedure." The only way I know to emphasize ths good in advertising is to tell how busi ness houses that practice truth-telllns; suoceetl. The only way 1 Imiow how to emphasize the bad in advertising is to tell about the disasters that overtake ths fakirs the tellows that lie In preference to telling the truth. This friend of mine Is down In the Wall street district. H has many a time told me of the high sense of honor that men in big institutions have. Only the other day several New York newspapers commented on the possible return of Banker Morse to the fiminlal district In the hope of recouping his for tunes. They published Interviews with bankers. One of the interviews Is as fol lows: "Any man in the banking field who loses his reputation for honesty and fair dealing can never come back. Morse can never return and do business success fully. "We had an example of a remarkably able man who engaged in some specula tive banking in a neighboring city. H's speculations would have proved successful If they had been carried through, but Lha institution failed. "He was convicted for nothing mora than over certifying checks; yet. despite all his ability and the efforts o stanch friends, he absolutely could not get back either in his home city or here. One man, president of a bank that failed and afterward paid Its depositor dollar for dollar, could never buy a s-at In the stock exchange or an interest tn any stock exchange house. Of course, he could find brokers to carry a speculative account for him, and Morse will have t.o trouble doing that. "But Morse will find if he attempts to go Into affairs In a large way that his connection with any concern will hope lessly discredit it." What we are trying to accomplish In the field of advertising Is the very thing that the above Interview defines in regard to the banking business we don t want the dishonest advertiser to exist even, but when he does, and Is exposed, then we don't want him to be able "to come back." We don't want even "the brokers" In the advertising business to let him operate. And the work that all of us can do in exterminating the frauds will help all en terprises tnac are auveriising honestJv T . . - (To be KEFXKCTIOXS OF A BACHELOR. CFrom the New York Pre-s J S-nlle, and get half a one back- grow! and get back a hundred. ' Wine wit Is chiefly funnv to others who are hitting the same bottle It's easy enough to teach an olll d new tricks if they're bad ones A great relief about w)ie lh comes for some men to talk politics 1. they can drop the weather.