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THE TO-PEKA DAILY STATE J"TIlTTAIi OCTOBER 17, 1912
' By FRANK P. MAC LENNAN.
CEntered July 1. 1875, a fcecond-claaa
matter at the poetofrice at Topeka, Kaiu.
tinder the act o congress.
VOLUME XXXIV.
.No. 250
Official State Paper.
Official Paper City of Topeka.
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FULL LKASFTD WIXE REPORT
OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
The State Journal Is a member of the
Associated Press- and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganisation for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news Is received In The State Jour
r .1 building over wires for this sols pur-
Certainly there is nothing that
savors of a shrinking personality about
John Schrank.
Anyhow there were sufficient hon
ors in the games for the baseball
championship for each member of the
defeated team to have a share.
Mayor Gaynor of New York is one
of the few men on -arth who is in the
best possible position to extend sympa
thy to Colonel Roosevelt. He knows
exactly how it feels to be shot by a
crank.
The Kaw valley potato crop aver
aged 130 bushels to the acra this year.
Even pX such, a low price a-s 50 cents
a bushel this brought a gross return
of $S5 per acre which is considerably
hetter than wheat does in Kansas.
That was some touchdown that was
made by Al Martin., a one-time foot
ball player of note, when he bore to
the earth the would-be slayer of
Colonel Roosevelt ana thereby pre
vented him from firing another shot.
Don't forget, Mr. Voter, that if you
desire to participate in one of the
most important elections that has
been held in this country in years and
are no- properly registered, you have
only eight more days In which you
can do so.
Here's another fine opportunity for
somebody to dilate on the unreason
ableness of women. One in central
Kansas has sued for divorce because
her husband has allowed her but $7
Tor clothing during the course of four
yep rs
Surely there is no rose without its
thorn. The Montenegrins won a dis
tinctive victory over the Turks re
cently, and incidentally captured no
less than 10,000 of the enemy. Could
there be a more unpleasant task than
being compelled to look after 10,000
Turks?
As was to have been expected, peace
between Italy and Turkey has been
brought about by tht Turks submitting
to the demands of the Italians. But
the chances are that Turkey will not
stand hitched for long to the promises
Fhi has made to Italy. That Isn't the
Turkish way of doing business.
Apple jelly is likely to become won
derfully popular with the lads who
ire figuring on shining in the baseball
arena Rube Marquard insists that he
was able to pitch his second winning
iitnit against the Red Sox becauso of
some of this delectable stuff that he
received on the morning of the game
from his grandmother.
Governor "Wilson had ro scruples
about accepting a campaign contribu
tion from Cyrus McCormick just be
cause he happened to be the head of
the Harvester trust This is in line
with the attitude In this respect of all
other candidates for officr. It's the
sources of the other fel'.owV campaign
lunds to which they take such critical
exception.
Many politicians have talked them
selves black in the lace over the need
of steps being taken to eliminate the
federal patronage evil from politics.
President Taft has made a big begin
ning In this direction by signing the
order putting 35.000 fourth class post
masters under the classified civil ser
vice. President Taft is noi. so strong
on talk. But he does things worth
while. And that is what counts.
Governor "Wilson assuredly arose to
the occasion In magnificent fashion
when he cancelled all his speaking
da'.es until Colonel Roosevelt is able
to take an active jart again in the
presidential campaign. As he says it
wo aid scarcely be fitting that there
should be a single candidate on the
presidential stump engaged against no
active antagonist. President Taft has
not been active in the campaign. He
"rp t laurels a-plenty on which to rest
his case.
Those Bull Moose editors who are
insisting that Schrank was aroused to
his terrible deed by the newspaper
criticism of Colonel Roosevelt's pres
ent political pretensions, surely do not
charge that any newspaper has ever
suggested thj.t Colonel Roosevelt was
the real murderer of William. McKin
ley because he wished to succeed him
In the presidency. And this is one of
the chief reasons that Schrank has
givrn for his attempt oft the colonel's
life.
A number of telegraph linemen had
rathered Wednesday morning at. a
street corner where they were to begin
their day's work as soon as the clock
struck eight. They had a few min
utes leeway. Were they discussing
politics or the attempted assassination
of Theodore Roosevelt? No," indeed.
Ticy were all talking at once with!ani small, from the big cities of the:
good natured. gusto and with differing country to smaller ones where the en
opinions as to whether the New York j vironment ls better for their , em-I
Giant, or the Boston Red Sox would, where r rty and rentals !
win the deciding game of the worlds , ,OTOM. i
series.
THE INDUSTRIAL. BUREAU.
Topeka Is, Indeed, a city beautiful.
Topeka is also an ideal home center,
especially tor tne rearing and eau-
cation of children. And Topeka is
as advantageous a place for the lo
cation of all sorts of industries and
manufacturing concerns as is any city
In the great middle west. But To-
pekang will never attract new Indus-
tries to their midst, or develop Indus- ;
tries already here, by merely singing j
the praises of the town for, its beauty
anu as an lueai uuxne uenier. jviiu
of what particular value is the lat
ter asset, If there are not ample and
sufficiently diverse industries in town
to provide all kinds of suitable em
ployment and opportunities for the
Topeka youngsters after they have
been reared and educated here. If
they are forced to leave the city on
reaching man's estate to find their ;
niche in the field of labor, the city
is not much of -a-gainer simply be
cause they were brought up here. An
increasing population of the perma
nent variety is what a city needs if it
is to grow and prosper In the right
way.
As has just been suggested, Tor:
pekans are not going to make this
town an industrial center commensur
ate with its advantages and possibili
ties by telling their friends and
strangers abroad through well writ
ten articles and elaborately illustrated
booklets that the town is a beautiful
one and has an environment that
makes it a most desirable place in
which to live; although, of course,
such attributes are of great value to
any city.
If Topekans Intend to develop their
town as an industrial center they
must get but in the field and hustle
with their wits and cash, or its equiv-
alent. There is as much competition
nowadays among the cities of the size
of Topeka, and similarly situated, to
increase their industrial prominence
by bringing new plants to their doors ,
and developing the ones already in I
existence, as there is among the mer- I
chants in them who cater to all kinds j
traae-
It has been the experience of the '
business and professional men in most 1
of the cities in the central west, who j
have realized that it would be to their !
great, personal advantage if their
home towns were developed as indus
trial centers, that they could only
bring about such desirable changes
by working in substantial ways to get
new industries to locate among them.
This has resulted in the organization
of all kinds of civic bureaus for the
extension of aid to Industries thatl
might be looking for new locations.
Many of these plans have worked out
with great success. In some cities
where there is real enthusiasm on the
part of the public-spirited citizens to
make their towns grow and prosper,
large sums of money have been !
raised to give cash bonuses to all
sorts of industrial concerns if they
would locate in them. Adequate sites
have been purchased by such bureaus
and presented outright to such con
cerns. In other instances, consider
able sums have been used to provide
necessary working capital for such
concerns. And this method of cash
investment in one way or another is
the most successful plan of develop
ing a city as an industrial center.
However, as the druggist is wont to
say on frequent occasions, there is
something that is "just as good."
And it is the plan that will be used
in the operation of the Topeka Indus
trial bureau, the establishment of
which has been proposed by J. "Will
Kelley, secretary of the Commercial
Club, and the promotion club of which
C. S. Elliott is chairman. Evervbody
in the city should be familiar with the
details of this plan, that has been tried
out in Sioux City with such success.
In brief, and in the main it concerns
the extension of credit to worthy in
dustries already in town that have
good prospects for expansion; and
also to Industries that might locate
here if sufficient inducements were
offered. Subscribers to the fund that
this bureau will need will signify the
extent to which they will stand behind
the credit thus issued. Of the amount
that they name, each will have to
contribute in cash only 10 per cent.
So no excessive financial burdens are
imposed on those who would join the
excellent movement to make Topeka
grow and prosper in a variety of di
rections. Under . these circumstances there
should be little trouble in getting the
necessary subscriptions to the fund.
The Ideal Subscription list would con
tain the names of many men for rea
sonable amounts, so In case they
should ever be called upon to make
good a loan or credit that has been
extended to any concern, the burden
would not be heavy on any one of
them.
But this is a remote possibil- j
ity, as most ample safeguards are
thrown around the operations of this
bureau.
And in addition to the business
and professional men of the ciy who
have always borne the . bulk of the
financial burdens of every project that
has ever been launched here, the
many wealthy property owners in
town, who are not actively engaged
In business, might well be subscribers
to this fund and active participants In
the conduct of the Industrial bureau.
A larger Topeka, w.ith many more
people employed here In remunerative
enterprises, will be of just as much
benefit to property owners as it will
be to retail business and professional
men. This is a project in which every-
body in the city who is blessed with
sufficient means should take part.
There is an exodus these days of
solvent manufacturing concerns, large
are cheaper.
t- 1 -i ii w n o nnnitinn to tret
her share .of these Industries mat are
moving from metropolitan centers.
With the proposed Industrial Bureau
in good working order tne necessary
; &geacy be at hand
,
JOURNAL ENTRIES
jje j3 aiso an unusual man who
gets out of a rut.
One man's failure is generally an-
ot- Opportunity.
Some men are even unable to fool
the people any of the time. .
All is fair in love and war only
from the viewpoint of the victors.
,
Every woman makes a solemn vow
never to buy another thing from an
agent, and she usually keeps It until
lne asenl Bl"va "cl """"
J AY HAWKER JOTS
Excellent advice, from the Haskell
County Republican: Attend church, it
might do you some good.
,
Big crops solve more problems
tiian an tne iouu uiaioro, j"""b ""Mnas been unable to get back in the case.
the Mound Valley Herald
Any man, rightly declares the Mun
den People's Advocate, who won't de- whe.n " wor,th ake .J,1 apart, and
clarc .where he stands has no business It ttu,
in office. iast Friday never to return without a
If the Darwin theory is correct, fortune, has his feet under his fat ner' s
says the Jamestown Optimist, a lot of table again When he tried to sell the
monkevs must feel mighty queer when Patent rights for his perpetual motion ma
thev see ,oma of their descendants. ch'ne upon which he had been working
tliey see oome oi men ues " all winter they discovered that it had to
Pip Daniels of the Howard Courant be wound up tjj a key
remarks that "some men seem to ig- There ls a pustal card at the pustoftice
nore all the Ten Commandments, and for Uncle Ezra Harkins which arrived
observe only the Eleventh, 'Thou shalt , three weeks ago inviting him to uls
not be found out.' " cousin's funeral out in Newbraskey. It ls
. -TT , .ma .,.( trK!rit thought now that he can get there in
A Wakeeney woman, reports the , time eyen jf fae caUg fQr the carJ
Wakeeney News, says that big men which at tne present time seems rather
make better husbands than us skinny doubtful, as he is in jail over at ti;; coun-
lellers. it s naraer ior mem iu ki.
into the house later at night without
being heard.
Peter Sehofield, a farmer in "oag-
-C-Va t ,,ntrv store
and schooi at Losser: "The Lord has
spared my stock. My horses have
gone through the epidemic without
loss. I have twenty head of horses
bors, without charge, for plowing.
Those who need are welcome to
them."
Related by the Fort Scott Tribune:
A young man with a severe stigma-
t sm in one or nis eyes, weni 10 cc
his doctor. Of course the Doy Deueveu
that one dose of medicine should cure
him so he kept telling the doctor he
was in a hurry. 1 The doctor took his
time and deliberately poured one kind
of medicine into another, shaking each
well. At last as he handed the bottle
to the young man he said: "Put some
of this "in your eye three times a day."
"Yes, doctor," returned the boy, "but
shall I put this In my exe' before or
after dinner?" . ' J
It is estimated on good authority
that next to a monkey wrench, a hair
pin is the most used invention. A
woman can open a time lock, burglar
proof safe with a measly hair pin.
They use them to scratch their heads,
vmrtnn their shoes, pick . their teeth
punch bed bugs out of cracKs, run into
cakes to see if they are sufficiently
baked, clean finger nails, fasten up
stray bangs, pick out nuts, lift stove
lids clean their ears and do many
other things. Lebanon Times. To
this. Editor White of the Phillipsburg
Dispatch adds: "It is all true, or the
boys down there would not have print
ed it. The -ther morning In reaching
for a match to discover the time, the
writer happened to get hold of one of
these pins on the dresser and gave it
a swish across the upraised limb you
can guess what happened. A hair pin
is useful in many ways, hut our ad
vice is don't attempt using one as a
match the difference is keenly pain
fully felt."
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON OLOBE.
So many things are possible but not
probable.
If a man is prosperous, his clothes
should show it.
Somehow we always think of a man
milliner as a perfect lady.
A secret ceases to be a secret when it
becomes a partnership affair.
When a bov can't eat a little more, it
is time to dash for the doctor.
It is so easy to subscribe to a worthy
cause, and so hard to pay up.
About this time of year dirty elbows
begin to disappear from view.
Ever occur to you that you aren't as
polite to the merchants as the traveling
men are?
One trouble with the human race Is that
so many minds don't grow up as the
bodies do.
A man who contracts Ivy poison wnile
seeking the pawpaw deserves little or
no sympathy.
Why doesn't some original magazine
publisher run a girl's picture as a cover
page Illustration.
A man who boasts of his wealth berore
trying to borrow money, might arouse a
little suspicion.
QUAKER MI3DITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Many theories refuse to work; also
many theorists.
It is one thing to gain experience, and
another thing to profit by it.
Put a man on his feet and he will some
times turn around and kick you.
The fellow who follows his own lnclin-
tlons doesn't always have a good pace
maker.
A man regards his clothes as something
to put on, a woman regards hers as some
thing to show oft.
Our respect for old age and gray hans
is apt to wane when we find them merge!
in the boarding house butter.
Some people are so fond of hearing them
selves talk tttat they don't know the dif
ference between a conversation and a
monologue.
We are told that economy Is wealth, but
have you ever noticed that the people
who practice it all their lives are not tie
ones who die rich?
Tommy "Pop. a synonym means another
term, doesn't It?" Tommy's Pop "Yes,
my son." Tommy "Do you think either
laft or Roosevelt will get a synonym j"
Wlgg "Women think too much or
clothes." Wagg "L don't know about
that. If Mother Eve had had mo-t
clothes to think about she probaoly
wouldn't have cared so much for apples
ON THE SPVR
Ot THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON.
The Summer Resort.
Same old beach.
Same old peach
With the, same old winsome smile.
a 'd stare,
KnrnA rtnr nil-
And the same flirtatious style,
Same old view,
sameoUlTkeeters there to sting.
same old sand, .
same Old Dana,.
Same cash, register to ring.
Same old drones,
Chaperones
Sitting in the -rocking chairs.
Same old walks,
Same old talks.
Same old spooning on the stairi
Same canned food,
Boiled and stewed,
Same transparent slice of meat.
Same old girls, ,
Same old curls.
Same old slot machine to beat.
Same old junk,
Same old bunk.
Same old stunt and nothing more.
Same price list.
Same bridge whist.
Same old never-ending bore.
MORAL: Stay at home and raise dill
pickles in the kitchen garden.
From tlie Hlckeyville Clarion.
Mr. Jed Frink has inaugurated an ice
cream parlor in connection with his horse
shoeing and blacksmith shop and is now
prepared to serve the frozen Jainty at
any hour of the night. Mr. Friuk also
write calling cards and has the agency
in this township for a sure cure for blind
staggers. Mr. Frink, who is also a jus
tice, performs wedding ceremonies.
Mrs. Hank Purdy is saving her butter
and the money to go to Reno, JNev.
Elihu Bibbins, our gentlemanly and ver
satile jeweler, took a dollar watchi apart
for Mr. Hod Peters one day last week and
1 "l '"' i - nuu retCTs one aay last w - ana
nas a quart measure fuU of work, -hnt ne
Elihu says he doesn't perceive now they
can make a watch like that for a dollar
iy jail tor mterrering with a renglouc
meeting by going to sleep and falling out'n
the gallery at the Hardshell ;h;irch a
month ago and smashing three hats for
prominent ladies in our midst.
Mr. Ame Hilliker has Invented a horse
collar that the horse puts on nnd takes
off himself without the aid of human
hands. There is a place to hook a neck
tie on in front and Ame thinks they
ought to go like hot cakes.
A lackey standing o'er me swatting files
From early mom until the daylight dies.
Another through th night to slap tne
skeet .
Ah, that, methinks, were- Paradise, com
plete.
A shady spot income sequestered glade.
And thou beside me brewing lemonade.
That tinkles in a pitcher of cracked ice
That's what I call an August Paradise.
Some Valuable Hints on Canning.
Always screw the lids of the glass
fruit jars on so tightly that it -will
be necessary to break the cans open
with a hammer ; next winter. This Is
one of the first principles -.--of can
ning and It should never be violated.
Can everything you find excepting
your husband. You may heed him
from time to time.
It is better to remove the pits
from peaches before canning them,
for the . pits are hard to digest "and
form a very heavy diet when' eaten
In the winter. . : Canned peaches are
more to be pitte'd than censured.
Washington a Model City.
There is much force In the conten
tion that a nation's capital city should
be a model in its plan, administratioi.
and civic results. Necessity-makes it
a center to which influential citizens
must go at intervals in efforts to pro
cure legislation, modify administra
tive rulings, and await rulings of the
judiciary. If such representatives of
sectional and local interests find the
capital to be not only a seat of politi
cal power, nationally considered, but
also attractive from the esthetic
standpoint, wholesome as a place of
residence, and enjoying a maximum of
service from urban officials for wages
and salaries received, then the vis-
its become educational, and what the
visitors see at the heart of the nation
they carry back to its extremities.
This being so, who can begin to es
timate the influence upon provincial
France of the emphasis placed by the
nation on adornment of Paris? But
there are limitations to this task when
a capital city is venerable, congested,
and notable for its "submerged tenth."
New ideals are with difficulty imposed
on such aggregations of humanity and
vested interests. The best conceivable
chance is when a commonwealth like
Australia starts a city de novo on a
selected tract, chooses a city plan by
international competition, and pio
vides that, so far as outward aspects
of life go, there shall be rational
order of development. Washington,
with L'Enfant's plan, began with a
fine scheme so far as topographical
evolution was concerned; and It bids
fair, under the more recently conceiv
ed plan of development by esthetic
experts, to continue its growth as ono
of the most beautiful of capital cities.
But only of late have other aspects
of model city life been squarely faced
by its residents, aspects that have to
do with housing of the common peo
ple, elimination of slums, development
of suburban residence sections, and
equity in taxation. Efforts to make
the national capital a model city only
reflect a rising demand within and
without the District of Columbia.
Americans want Washington to be
beautiful and more besides.
Not w-ithout some significance is the
growing sentiment within the. city for
a larger measure of home rule. It is
possible to retain both federal control
and federal assumption of a major
part of expenditure, and at the same
time to concede to the people freer
use of ordinary rights of citizenship.
Christian Science Monitor.
DjIFFYDILS
BY V. NOALL.
If Cousin Jane was coming from
Oshkosh on the 9:15 train would the
taximeter?
(Call a court martial. ' This man ls
the boob that put the arm in army.)
If you have feet have mosquitoes?
(We're perfectly safe, paL They've
put bloodhounds on our trail.)
Can you use a door to put up pre
serves In when it's a ajar?
(Out of my dooryard! No duck can
quack at me.)
THE PAWNSHOP WINDOW.
Rings and things of diamond, ruby and
: pallid pearl
"Hang in the tawdry window marked at
a price to sell;
Jewels that bedecked a princess or merely
a chorus girl
(Rosenbaum knows the story each lit
tle gaud can tell)
"This," says the broker, "was Hunger,"
touching a costly pin;
"This" a sparkling tiara Vthis was a
price of sin.
Here a diamond betrothal, worn by a
blushing bride
Yonder a pistol that tells a tale of mur
der and suicide!"
Rosenbaum knows each story the baubles
banked to the wall;
Feeble beneath the sickly light, wonder
ful once they gleamed;
Memories of people passing, of many a
rise and fall
Honor and Hope and sometimes Faith
are pledges marked "Unredeemed-!'
"This was a tribute to Liquor" touching
a wedding band;
"This," a circlet of gorgeous flame, "came
from an actress' hand.
Bracelets of jade and jasper, worn with
a woman's pride
Yonder a pistol that tells a tale of mur
der and suicide!"
Rings and things of diamond, relics of
days of long gone.
Tagged in the tawdry window half the
original cost;
Rosenbaum knows the story of each trin
ket marked "Out of Pawn"
Playthings of Fate and Fortune pledged
and the tickets lost.
"This," says the broker, "was Envy
showing an emerald green;
"This" a collar of priceless pearls "was
a one-day Broadway queen. -Here
some trifles of little worth with
stories of Love," he sighed
"Yonder a pistol which tells a tale of
murder and suicide!"
Damon Runyon, in the New York
American.
X
THE EVENING STORY
OTer the Fence.
(By Dorothy Blackmore.)
Had Doreen not been sightseeing
the entire day, the thing might not
have happened. She had been seeing
London from early morning until
dinner time. It was a very tired lit
tle American girl who arose from the
dinner table and looked out over the
garden in front of the house.
The garden at which Doreen gaaed
was one of those squares of which
London boasts, and was surrounded
by the usual fence with the four gates,
one on each side of the square.
"I cannot go to my room with so
perfect a twilight flooding the gar
den." Doreen admitted to herself
while her weary muscles carried her
willingly over to the steamer chair
that opened Its arms to her beneath
the great copper beech tree.
"Oh," she sighed contentedly, as
she sank into it, "I am si tired."
There were not many persons in the
garden and Doreen had time to think
over the many wonderful towers and
galleries she had visited. Her eye
lidn fluttered and lay still.
It was perhaps two hours befored
they fluttered again. Doreen naa
slept and during her sleep darkness
and a mist had faljen about her.
After a moment of semi-conscious
wondering as to where she was Do
reen awakened fully to her position.
"I am in pitch dark garden and "
an involuntary shiver swept over
her. "I am most probably locked in."
She caught a swift breath and jumped
to her feet.
It seemed as If the night had sud
denly grown appallingly black. Do
reen was forced to feel her way from
one gate to the other in. ner attempt
to get out of the garden.
"Every one is locked," she said half
aloud in her fright. She put a hand
up to feel the height of the pickets
above the fence and drew back dis
couraged. "I couldn't possibly climb
over," she decided.
Doreen was both tiret" and fright
ened. Something that sounded like a
sob reached the ears of the man who
was tramping steadily around the
square. He drew nearer the gate
whence the sound came and stood
still.
"Who is there?" he called.
"I am," came back in a very small
voice.
The man laughed, and Doreen
found courage in the heartiness of it.
"And who are you?" he questioned.
"I went to sleep and that gardener
locked , mo in here." Doreen had
come close to the gate. Sht- could not
distinguish more than a big masculine
frame, the face was entirely hidden
in the darkness. "Have you a key to
the garden?" she inquired.
"Yes," the man told her, and Do
reen breathed freely. "But great
Scott!" he muttered, "there is a chain
padlock about the gate!"
"Oh-h," gasped the girl, "then I
will have to stay here all night."
"Xot if I know It," the man expostu
lated and for a moment he was silent.
Finally he asked, "Do you weigh
more than "
"I am not very big," Doreen put In
quickly.
"Then you will have to submit to
being lifted over the fence," the man
informed her. "Is there anything In
there you could stand on?"
"My steamer chair." Doreen sug
gested. She carried it close to the
gate and stepped up on it.
The task was not easy to contem
plate, even though the girl proved to
De a leatnerweignt. George Durant
pulled together all of his well trained
muscles.
"Put your hands on my shoulders,"
he commanded.
Strained and tense as was the awkward
position Durant brought the girl slowly
up and over the jagged pickets and down
on the other side of the fence.
For a brief moment Doreen remained a
prisoner within those' powerful arms tha
refused to let her escape until she had
found her proper balance.
"It was very good of you," she said, a
trifle breathlessly. "Thank you, very,
much." Without waiting for his deep
voiced "I am glad to have helped you,"
Doreen sped away and was lost in the
mist.
" Durant strained through the darkness
for a glimpse of her, but nothing was
ieii mm save me wi iu iragrance of r.er
hair and the knowledge that he wanted
to know who she was. He had felt her
breath on his cheek and the memory of
it fent a quiver over him.
"How and where and when shall I see
her? because I must find that girl," he
realized as he went across the street a.id
into the house.
And Doreen? When she reached her
room there were two roses gleaming In
her cheeks which neither the mist ner
the exertion were responsible for.
"And not once could I see his face."
she reflecteB regretfully, with a blush for
the color in her cheeks. "I wouldn't
know him even if I danced with him and
yet" Doreen did not finish the tnousnt.
Perhaps she knew, down deep in her
heart, that the man who had held her In
his arms while he lifted her over tho
fence would not escape recognition. -
During th. summer in London Doreen
scanned every passing person and if
George Durant scanned the .feminine
passerby no one was the wiser.- -
Yet, when they met at the big annual
dance given by the Iowa Society In New
York neither was conscious of- having
met before.
George Durant knew only that he wat t
ed as many dancee with the dainty
creature in pink chiffon as he could con
ventionally take upon first acquaintance.
Doreen found herself blushing at the
number of times she found his name on
her program and was conscious of beins
glad. Something about the big six-foot
westerner attracted her. She even pouted
that two dances came
waltz with Durant.
before ner iirat j
A sudden fierce Jealousy swept over
Doreen when she saw Durant dancing
with another girl. Yet when he stood
beside her waiting for the first bar o.
music for their dance she realized that
he had not looked at the other girl as he
was looking at her. She blushed, anC
smiled up into Ms eyes.
The music began and Durant put his
arm about Doreen. She caught a swi.t
breath and felt strangely contented.
"You are a very small person," he said
with a boyish laugh, and Doreen looked
up startled. His laugh was familiar i
some vague, sweet way.
Suddenly Durant was conscious of a
haunting fragrance. He drew a deep
breath and his arm tightened about th2
girl whose hair was wild with the scent
that gladened his heart.
"Do you know," he whispered down
into her ear "that I held you in my arms
one evening in London?" Durant's voice
was not quite steady, so great was tne
sudden appearing of his dream girl.
"I knew when you laughed." Doreen
whispered back, as If she were fearful
lest the very wonderment of the momeni.
be disturbed by aught save oft voices.
(Copyright 1912 by McClure's Newspaper
Syndicate.)
EVENING CHAT
BY ROTH CAMKRON.
Is there anything In all this wide
world any sadder than old age without
any of the dignity, the sweetness, the
philosophy and the unselfishness whicn
ought to be old age's compensation for
the loss of the infinite riches of youth?
If there is, I have yet to see it.
A little old lady has come into my
orbit lately. When I first came Into
contact with her, I had the natural feel
ing of friendship, pity and kindliness
which one is likely to entertain towards
a fragile, white-haired, little woman.
especially ir sne is aion. w le.i x ...
that she deserved such sympathy and J
friendship far less than many younger
people, for she was nothing but a crab
bed, self-centered, sour little creature,
more selfish and more oblivious of other
people's interests than any thoughtless
young person I ever knew.
What a tragedy
For where will that woman find
friends? Youth wins friends In spite of
selfishness because of the eternal and
inescapable charm of youth.
But old age must offer some meas
ure at least of sweetness and unselfish
ness to attract friends.
I suspect some one of my readers ls
saying indignantly, "That is wrong.
Youth ought to respect and be kind
to old age no matter how crabbed or
unlovable It is."
Quite so, my friend, that is all true,
but I can tell you something still truer.
Youth ought to respect and be kind to
old age no matter how crabbed or un
lovable it is, but youth will not. I am
writing, you know, about life, not about
theories.
Now you and I and all of us are grow
ing old. Unless an all-powerful Some
thnig intervenes an intervention whicn
most of us do not like to contemplate
we are going to be old in a compara
tively few years.
Now what kind of people are we go
ing to be? I surely hope we will all be
the kind whom the young people love
to include among their friends, but
how can we make sure cf that?
Well, for-one thing, we can cultivate
cur interest in other people; we can try
to grow more sympathetic and under
standing as the years go by; we can
try to broaden our intellectual Interests,
and above all, we can try to look on
the bright side of things.
The little old lady of whom I write
was huddled up in her house one bright
spring morning brooding over her
troubles, when one of her neighbors
called to her. "Come out to walk with
me and forget your troubles." i"i don't
want to forget them," said the unhappy
little creature. "I love to brood over my
troubles."
And yet that woman- probably won
ders why she doesn't have more friends!
Let's not prepare for that kind of an
old age.
Big Husbands Best.
Big men make the best husbands
and little men with sharp, thin noses
are especially to be avoided, according
to Mrs. Anna Murphy, chief police
matron, in her official report to Chief
of Police McWeeny.
Mrs. Marie Leavitt. clerk of the
court of domestic relations, also for
warded a report in which she jolted
the little men.
"Big men, whether it is in business
or in matrimony, are easiest to get
along with," wrote Matron Murphy.
"They are more likely to be easy go
ing and less irritable and more gener
ous. The little man ls more likely to
be nervous and fidgety.
"A man with a sharp, thin nose is
apt to be a scold. Wyhere a man of
small stature is endowed with a nasal
organ of this sort vou have a bad com
bination. There you have a prize
fault-finder. He will rail at every-
thing from the way the steak is cook-
ed to the wav his sneks are darned."
Mrs. Leavitt added this:
"The small men greatly outnumber
the big men in the cases that come
before this court. Most of our cases
are for nonsupport, and on this com
plaint the little, unskilled man is the
worst offender by far." Chicago dis
patch to New York World.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
He who hits the pipe must pay
tie
piper.
Impressions made by beauty are
than skin deep.
People never credit a man's virtues as
long as he has a vice.
Peanut politicians should not complain if
they get well roasted. , '
A beggar naturally has a pinched look
If he is arrested for vagrancy. ,
Occasionally a detective forgets to dis
guise his breath with a clove.
The winter of our discontent is as like- 1
Iv to show nn in summer as anv nthr !
time summer as any other
The epicure hates to waste his appetlta
on cheap food, and no wonder!.
You can't Judge the importance of a
thing by the fuss a woman makes over it.
A man seldom realizes that he's a fool
until other people have known It tor
years.
But the man who masters a hard life Is
of more importance than the man who ls
mastered by an easy one.
It doesn't follow that a frenzied finan
cier would make a successful farmer be
cause he knows how to water stock.
As a matter of fact, there Isn't enough
truth in the world to keep the tongues
of gossip wagging therefore, you can
draw your own conclusion.
REFLECTION'S OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press. . '.
The art of lying is to know just how
much of,lt-ls enough,
A man ls more solemn about shaving
than a woman is saying her prayers.
The way for a girl to have a fine com
plexion is to get all tangled up climbing
a fence.
The more of his own money a man
spends the less of it he would it bis fam
ily could get hold of It first.
KANSAS COMMENT
TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
I W. R. Smith of Topeka, general at
' torney for the Santa Fe, has written
a very sensible letter to -ne of the
Topeka papers commenting on a news
, paper article in which several Kansas
! statesmen were classed as undesirable
citizens because they happened to be
' local railroad attorneys. Judge Smith
calls attention to the fact that some
of the best and most rep.ttable law
i yers in Kansas are attorneys for
, some of the various railways that
traverse the state; that at least one of
the Roosevelt electors is employed by
the Santa Fe In that capacity and that
other lawyers, high in the councils of
! the several political parties, have simi-
lar connections. The Her-ild agrees
I wi'h Judge Smith that, the day has
j long since passed when It could be
I considered a mark of reprobation to
' be classed as a railroad attorney.
There was a time when the duties of
the local attorney were largely po
litical and his principal usefulness to
his employer was to bring In a dele
gation to the state convei.tion. The
railroads were then strong political
factors and felt that their continued
well doing depended on their political
Influence and activity. They have long
since retired entirely from the po
litical field and have learned that the
anti-pass law, good service and a fair
businerslike attitude toward their
patrons ls far more satisfactory than
the oli way. The present local rail
road attorney attends only to the or
dinary legal affairs of nis company
an.l his connection therewith is es
teemed as an hono? both by himself
and the people of his community.
Ottawa Herald.
BETTER QUIT THE MEANNESS.
After the polls close in November
we should forget the bitterness and
personalities that have entered into
,thig campaign and aU be brothers and
friends again. It ls lamentable the
mean things a fellow can say about
the other fellow,' but It is good to feel
that after the political war is over
we can be nice bedfellows again. We
often wonder if the women folks, when
they come into their own will be as
grouchy and cross to each other and
tongue-lash and lambast each other
as the men folks? If so. we are for
ever "ferninst" suffrage. We hope
the saying of a brilliant man, longr
since passed to the beyond, that "the
purflication of politics is an Irides
cent dream" will be the reverse when
women get the right of suffrage. Sil
ver Lake Mirror.
FROM OTHER PENS
NO MORE CHESTNUTS.
What shall we do for chestnuts? Ther
ls a fear that by and by we shall have
no more to roast. Everywhere the treea
are dying, and our wise men do not know
what to do about It. The very thought
of a Thanksgiving without chestnuts,
and from our own wooas, on our own
farm, would rob the festival of a rug
part of its Joys. The very sight of th
chestnut tree, on a glorious Saturday
afternoon in October, filled our boyi .U
hearts with gladness. Those glorious
fronds had been in our schedule fox
weeks. We knew every chestnut tree
within five miles. We met all the boys in
town beneath their branches. Such free
fights With the farmers' lads, on whoe
preserve we trespassed! Such vigils, on
frosty nignts under the harvest moon,
that we might be the first on the ground!
The memory is still keen of the burr
that yielded slowly to our blows with a.
stone, and the pounded fingers and the
ever heavy bag bursting full by the time
the sunbeams came aslant out of tni
west. In those days the boy scout was
not. But we built our fires of faggot.
and cooked repasts of the real, roasted
article years ago. It was an industry
that paid, for we got the chestnuts off a
man's own trees and took them to ine
village for sale, where the man bougl-.t
his own chestnuts of the dealer. However,
the boys belonged in the system, for ve
had thrashed the man's trees, tumblej
out of the branches, fought off his dog..,
and put the goods on the market. It was
not a hostile government that interfered
with chestnutflng. It was some occult
law. The practice ls about broken up.
for while there are still grand October
fields, and enterprising boys, there rnnv
soon be no more chestnut trees. New
York Mall.
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MORE MADNESS.
It Is difficult to write with patience cf
the performances of Rome aviators, and
still more so of the conduct of those who
for the sake of gain urge them to deeds
of recklessness. Walwh, who was killt-d
on Thursday at Trenton while performing
at the state fair, was known as "one f
the greatest trick aviators In the world."
It was said that "there was not a atiit-t
In the game that he would not trv." ai.d
he was killed while essaying a piece t
folly scnsationall advertised as the
"dip of death." A few days before an
other aviator, Astley, was klllr-d whue
performing at another fair, in England.
Before lie became an aviator he was an
automobile racer, noted for hi reck?..
; daring. In his last and fatal flight "!.
! executed a number of maneuvers in the
'r "e most oaring manner." Thvn
V ". machine went wrong, and he w.s
, VJ, ' "gnt to be obvious to a most
rudimentary intellect that even the most
i-auuuus nignis are perilous, ir a m-n
ascends on an aeroplane and essays noth
ing but the t-imple and direct flight which
alone is likely to be of use in practical
aviation he runs serious risks. Deliber
ately to increase those risks by "doinK
stunts" Is simply to make overtures to
suicide. Perhaps we cannot enforce laws
against such folly. But we could make
and enforce laws against the public ex
ploitation of it for gain. The fact tha a
fair or other concern advertises that an
aviator will perform a "dip to deatl."
should be sufficient to bring upon it
legal prohibition. It in rnnirarv tn nnh.
He morals to make money out of the pub-
w v.... i a. luciii i,i v i ji n nrc now
near he can come, to killing himself
New York Tribune.
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iply fine!
Fliegende Blaetter.
Willie's View. The Tired Business Mat
(sorrowfully) Say, Willie, my wife died
this morning. I won't be down this aftet
noon. Be sure that the mail gets to the
postofTice. Willie (wistfully) Yesslr. Say,
boss. If yer gits der chanst phone some jf
aer score in. Chicago Record-Herald.
"That boy of mine has a great future aa
a politician," proudly boasted the father.
"How is that?" "'When a dispute arises
during a ball game his companions caj
him every name that they can think of
and it never disturbs him in the least."
Buffalo Express. f
Easily Arranged. " 'By the Sea' is a'
very pretty title for your picture," said
the Interested onlooker. "But the ea ls
too green and the waves are too fluffy "
"That's so." replied the artist. "I'll paint
some branches and twigs into It and call
it 'The Woodland Way.' "Washington
Star. ..
In Customary Parlance. "There's orly
one fault I have to find with that finan
cial backer," said the candidate In a tone
of annoyance. "What is that'" "He
keeps referring to our partv platform aa
a prospectus." Washington "Star.
HUMOR Of THE DAY