THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTTHN"AIi OCTOBER 18, 1912
By FRANK P. MAOLENNAX.
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VOLUME XXXIV No. 243
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Another bumper crop in 1912 will be
made up of the campaign lies.
Neither does the ship of state carry
enough lifeboats and life preservers
far ail the politicians who would take
passage on it.
A scientist says that the average
American wastes fifteen years of his
life. But then there is a lot of fun
In a political campaign.
Wizard Burbank has produced some
Queer results In horticulture but he
Isn't responsible for what the women
are carrying around on their hats.
Summer travel on the western roads
Is reported to have been poor this
year. Well look at the crops the west
ern people had to take care of!
Wouldn't it have been a great relief
from the annoyance of the politicians
If the world's series could have been
continued right up until election day?
Now that baseball's sun has set for
a few months, the heroes of the
gridiron will be given some of the at'
tention to which they think they are
entitled.
A salvo of well-directed shots will
Drobably be the reply of the Balkan,
states to the demand of Turkey for
an apology for the alleged insolent
note they sent her.
William Jennings Bryan is not alone
In his surprise that some of the friends
of Colonel Roosevelt should attempt
to make use of his attempted assassi
nation to help the" political cause he
has fathered.
That Boston judge who announced
the score of one of the championship
games in court and then said ho didn't
know what it meant, should either
join the Ananias club or gain admis
sion to an old ladieB home.
And if the Balkan states are not
successful in their war against Tur
key the Christians in Macedonia will
pack up their goods and chattels and
move en masse to a more desirable
clime, if they know on which side their
tread is buttered.
No criticism will attach to Gover
nor Wilson if he reconsiders his de
cision not to campaign actively while
Colonel Roosevelt is hors de combat.
The colonel continues to fire political
Ibroadsides at the Democratic presi
dential candidate even from his cot In
the hospital.
Here's another forceful sermon
against excessive indulgence in alco
holic beverages. Some highwaymen
at Portland, Ore., would not take one
of their pals with them on one of
their sorties because he was intoxica
ted. Of a truth, no one in these days
rf grace has any use for the man who
gets drunk.
Notwithstanding the fact that Tur
key has met with reverses at the be
ginning of her trouble with the Balkan
states, many military experts are of
the opinion that she will give a good
account of herself later on. And if
numbers count for anything these con
tentions appear to be well founded.
Turkey has an army of approximately
1,000,000 men, while the combined military
etrength of the small states leagued
against her Is less than 700.000 men.
Topeka's public-spirited citizens who
are backing the baseball team are
entitled to the thanks of every one in
town for their determination to "stick
It out," and provide a better team
for next year. Surely that team will
be worthy of most generous support
from the fans. As a member of the
Western League Topeka has a con
spicuous place on the baseball map.
This is a fine advertisement for the
city, and the men who are carrying
the financial burdens of the club are
deserving of the heartiest congratula
tions and all possible encouragement.
When airship lines to the various
planets are established, it is likely that
the tourists who patronize' them Will
fight shy of a trip to Venus. A
French astronomer, writing anony
mously, but supposed to be none other
than Camille Flammarion, Insists that
(Venus is a veritable nightmare planet,
a nest of reptiles and a swarm of mon
sters. Big saurians do battle there,
and pachyderms may live at the poles
on the planet, as well as primitive
men. Incidentally this is another fine
chance for Dr. Cook to engage in a
little exploring that would be distinctive.
PROFESSION AIj EVAXGEIJSTS.
The other day there was a national
The first thing they did the prln-
cipal topic of their session. In fact
was the serious consideration of meth
ods. What they said and what they
intend to do, hereafter, will make
their work more agreeable to man-1-ind
and far more profitable to them
in saving souls.
Evangelical work doesn't count as
It should because of the smear of pro
fessionalism across It. The early
evangelists were men called to their
work; white-souled, red-blooded fel
lows who bore hardship, poverty, mis
trust, the opposition of the formalists
and the active hostility of the Binners.
But they "made good" In their own
Mves and so in their work.
Some of these men still exist more
than the world takes heed of, for
their modest pleas are smothered in
the brass band din cf the professional
evangelists. These latter go into evan
gelism as a business. Some are reli
glous grafters and virtually levy a poll
tax of so much a head on sinners tem
poiarily stirred Into a seeming con
viction of their own misdoings by the
theatrical appeals made to them.
These professionals run their affairs
like a show. They art: prsss-agented
Jikt- a three ring circus and when God
fearing and respectable elements of
the religious world, and men and
women outside the church who still
beiievo In the holiness end the dignity
of its work, make protest they delight
in the fight.
It gives a chance to be more spec
tacular, more clamorous, more irrev
erent In their braggsrt.waya A news
paper roast means many more dollars
In their pockets.
It was against these professional
evangelists, as men and as religious
workers and against their blasphem
tius ways, that the evangelists In ses
sion In Chicago protested. One testi
fied that when he entered the work a
professional offered to teach him the
tricks of the trade. "I have got 'em
all skinned a mile in taking an offer
ing was the would be tutor's state
ment. It was methods like this which
were denounced and the meeting can
not help doing good.
NEW YORK'S "GUNMEN."
To the country the most amazing
and shocking feature of the revelations
which have come out of the metropolis
since the murder of the gambler, Ros
enthal, who "squealed," Is not the rotten
ness uncovered. It Is not the police cor
ruption charged and apparently proved.
Those shameful conditions were fairly
well understood. They have not seem
ed out of keeping with what has tKen,
known about New Tork. But the coun
try has learned in astonishment of the
existence of gangs of actual and poten
tial murderers, familiar to the under
world and feared as men who could
be hired for the butchery of any one
hated by persons In authority or those
with plenty of money to pay for the
ass-assinatlon of their enemies.
It has not been generally known that
the largest city of the country tolerated
the presence of bands of cutthroats who
killed for a price, or to placate some
public official as cruel and brutal as ho
was false to this trust. The nation has
never been taught to believe that the
ollce were powerless, even ir '.-r T:i;n-
niany, to heat' down and crush all vio
lent and bloody lawlessness.
The need of reform in the chief center
of population, wealth, commerce and i
ndustry in the New World Is evident
ly greater than the most pessimistic
Americans have supposed. It goes
farther down toward the savagery
which it was thought had at least been
made less bold and bestial on Manhat
tan Island than It is in the wildest
towns of the newest states and the
crudest mining camps.
HEALTH FOR SALE.
One of the most interesting and im
portant papers presented before the
Fourth National Conservation con
gress, which met last week In Indian
apolis, was written, not by a physi
cian or a sanitarian, but by a business
man, Mr. E. E. Rittenhouse of the
Equitable Life Assurance company.
Mr. Rittenhouse, in the opening para
graphs of this address, recognized the
crucial point in the present situation.
He said: "It takes money to carry on
great educational movement and it
takes money to conduct a public
ealth service. The war between pre-
entable disease and death Is there
fore a struggle between the dollar
and the death rate." These words
should be placed before every citizen,
for his instruction and as a warning.
With our present day knowledge of
disease, good health is a commodity
which can be bought, if our cities,
counties and states are willing to pay
the price. For $1.50 per capita per
year, any community can practically
banish those diseases which we now
have the means of preventing and can
greatly reduce the number tf deaths
from all causes. One dollar and a
half per year! Not quite half a cent a
day to save life from destruction hy
known causes! Three centa a week,
twelve and one-half cents a month,
to protect each man, woman and child
from disease, which we know how to
prevent and which we know will exact
a toll of many lives during the next
year and all succeeding years until
proper preventive methods are In
augurated! A pitiably small sum, one
thinks. Tet how much are our most
advanced commonwealths spending
for this purpose? Pennsylvania heads
the list with 48 cents per capita, per
annum; Arkansas at the bottom, does
not spend a cent; New Tork spends
1.7 cents; Massachusetts, 4.2 cents;
Indiana, 1.8 cents; and so on. In 1911,
fifty of the largest American cities
with a total preventable death list of
117,724, spent an average of 30 cents
per capita to prevent disease, and
$1.65 per capita to prevent fires. Ac
cording to The Journal of the Ameri
can Medical Association, if we could
have In every city as good a sanitary
service as we now have fire protec
tion, many lives that are now need
lessly sacrificed could be eiwed. The
neonle can have such protection If
they want It and if they will pay for
it. Safety from disease can be ob
tained just as we obtain safety from
fire and from thieves. Health can be
secured If society will foot tne bill.
JOURNAL ENTRIES
Few pocketbooks are in need of anti
fat treatment.
...
A friend in need is generally away
on a vacation.
, Most people are more skillful in pick
ing berries than they are in picking
winners.
How a horse must laugh when he
pulls a wagon by an automoble that
is stuck in the mud.
Not a few men are so easy they can
be fooled two and three times in the
same way. The widowers who marry
again, for instance.
JAYHAWKER JOTS
As might be expected they have a
Stone church at Rock, Butler county.
A great truth from Editor George
of the Jewell County Monitor: There
are really more men that wear hats
that are out of style than women.
The Haddam Clipper-Leader's idea
of a successful small town business
man is one. who can incur an over
draft at his bank without being called
up on the carpet.
After a woman has been married a
few years, says the Ellinwood Leader,
she quits trying the plans she cut out
of the newspapers to make home hap
py for her husband.
Charlie Blakesley, of the Kansas
City Star, calls attention to the fact
that in a few weeks it will be neces
sary to break the ice on that slogan
"Come on in; Coldwater's fine."
Fred Kenner, the Madison Spirit
man. has figured it out this way. A
man may get crooked enough to hide
behind a corkscrew, but the crookea
est man on earth wouldn't have any
luck behind a pretzel.
Related by the Fort Scott Tribune:
A small boy returned from a party
not long ago. His clothing was torn
and tattered and great blotches of
mud were smeared on his face. His
mother asked him if he had a good
time and he exclaimed: "Mother, I
just had the grandest time. Somebody
said something about somebody else
and he didn't like it, so they started
fighting. Another somebody, I for
got who, took the first somebody's side
and I helped the other fellow some.
Mother, it was the grandest fight I
have ever seen, and all the girls ran
in the house and hid until it was over.
then when they started to leave we
ran them home. Mother, it was a fine
party."
Some observations by Tom Thomp
son of the Howard Courant: If a girl
believes all you say, she is under nine
teen. ... It la creditable to De a
"trusty," but why couldn t he nave
put his good conduct in operation
sooner? ... A little girl can leei
entirely comfortable when she is
rlrpKsert nn. but a boy never can. . . .
Why do so many folk raise the devil
when they don't know what to do with
him after ho is raised? . . . The
ouestion of the day" might generally
be better known as the quarrel of the
day. . . . There are always two sides
to every question one right and one
wrone side. Your side is never tne
wrong side, of course.
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THU ATCHISOK OLOBB.
It is so hard to find an eye witness.
Most people who shoot off their mouths
have poor aim.
Perhaps, if good advice cost more, more
of It would be used.
Sometimes a traveling man overesti
mates the value of a new story.
A good example Is sometimes so blamed
good it makes you quit trying.
If a girl has her society on firmly it
works downtown as well as In a draw
ing room.
One trouble is that the women who
could aid suffrage most aren't working
for it.
An auctioneer isn't paid or promoted
to colonel for giving bargains to the gen
eral public.
Women, after they win in their contest
for the privilege of voting, probably will
take up football.
You may have observed that there are
several exceptions to the rule that tal
folks are good natured.
And the wicked who flee when no man
pursueth may pose as paragons of purl'.y
when they find they aren't chased.
A mean man usually is convinced that
a number of good ones are that way be
cause of lack of nerve or opportunity.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It doesn't pay to grow sadder without
growing wiser.
Many a man has found himself undone
from trying to do others.
Lots of people waive their rights, but
pugilists also wave their lefts.
The mind Is a storehouse, but it needn't
necessarily be a junk shop.
The stingy man may be open to sus
picion, in spite of the fact that he is
close.
Nell "Mrs. Talkalot tells everything she
knows." Belle "And a lot more besides."
When a woman makes a hairpin answer
as a buttonhook, she goes to extremes.
Sililcus "Give me a synonym for repent
ance." Cynicus "How would being found
out do?"
"Listeners seldom hear good of them
selves." quoted the Wise Guy. "Or any
body else," added the Simple Mug.
The fellow who feels that he hasn't a
friend in the world might just as well be
a baseball umpire or a book agent.
There are times when, even to the poet,
a head of cabbage boiling in the pot has
a aweeter odor than a bunch of violets.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
Car fare is all a woman needs for a day
of shopping.
A woman can pray hardest to get rid of
a cold that makes her nose red.
It scares any wife to think what if a
prince should fall In love with her.
The money that has run through t"-e
taxi meter will never splurge again.
Nobody knows the road to heaven, but
anybody can follow the one to the other
place with his eyes ihn.
&Y THE WAY
BY HARVET PARSONaV
The Woman Question cannot be lo
cated, much less answered, in a para
graph, but the first and second choices
are undoubtedly: "Does my skirt
show?" and "Where were you last
night?"
It may be, of course, that the season
has something to do with the recent
outbreak of cussed fools who have
tried to kill someone. Nuts ripen
rapidly in October.
It is reported by game conservation
ists that the visible supply of elk is
in Jackson's Hole. And it is reportea
by others that the Bull Moose are in
a bigger, deeper one.
Principal trouble with the Giants
seems to have been that they neglect
ed to knock Wood in the tenth.
When a man is requested to hold a
special session at home, it is usually
for the purpose of passing an appro
priation bill.
Straw votes may be good stuff to
feed dark horses, but they are not
worth much for anything else.
The revolution in Mexico begins to
look like business now. One of the
Diaz boys has started out to see about
recovering a portion of the family
property.
Schrank says he belongs to no po
litical party. The chances are good
that none of them will attempt to
prove him a-liar on that statement.
The ball used' in the last game of
the series should be put in a glass
case: It is undoubtedly the most ex
pensive ball ever dropped. Snodgrass
dropped more in less time than any
speculator during recent years.
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOULTON.
An Epitaph.
(Contributed.)
"Here lies a poor woman who always was
tired.
She lived in a house where the help was
not hired.
Her last words on earth were: 'Dear
friends, I am going
To where there's no cooking, no washing
or sewing;
But everything there Is exact to my
wishes,
For where they don't eat, there's -io
washing dishes.
I'll be where loud anthems will always
be ringing.
But having no voice, I'll get out of the
singing.
Don't mourn for me now. Don't mourn
for me, never,
I'm going to do nothing forever and
ever."
Hot Weather Ideas.
One should always beware of falling
Icicles when walking along a business
street where the buildings are high. Some
of them are heavy and fall with terrific
force, sufficient in fact to smash a derby
hat.
So far as it Is known there is no form
of life In the vicinity of the south pole,
the temperature there being much lower
than at the north pole.
In many sections of Siberia the natives
construct their houses of blocks of ice
which afford good protection from the
biting winds and the very low tempera
ture outside.
Many persons have lost their lives in
snow slides on the mountains of Alaska.
According to Uncle Aimer.
There ain't no way of tellin' just how
old a woman is and it's safer not to, any
how.
I always feel sort of suspicious-like of a
feller who don't take the slightest interest
in either baseball or politics.
Amry Tibbs is gettln' to be quite a dude.
He has got two shirts now one on and
one in the laundry.
The main trouble Is that, wnen a lener
is able to take a rest, he don't feel very
tired and when he is all tired out he nas
to keep right on sawln' wood.
A feller that uses pink note paper is
only another proof that nature makes a
mistake once In awhile.
Lem Higgins is in a fine hole. He his
sold his farm and bought an oatmobile
and now he hasn't got enough money to
run It.
Hank Purdy has found a place where lie
kin sell dead' flies for 5 cents a pint and
he has been swatting every day since
May 1st. He has saved up seven dead
flies already and ought to get ricbi at it,
providin' he makes money.
There are two things in this world that
are entirely unnecessary and they are a
pair of ear-muffs.
Pustmaster Tlbbitts says he hopes Tart
Is re-elected and nobody kin blame htm
so very much at that.
There is goin' to be a lot of simplified
spellin' In this country if the stenog
raphers ever go on a strike.
The only thing natural about the pres
ent campaign is that Debs is runnin'.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
There are a lot of family trees that
need spraying.
You'll never get to the front by follow
ing the crowd.
Singing songs of praise often scares the
wolf from the door.
He is a brave man who has never been
at war with his wife.
Some men enjoy poor health probably
because they are physicians.
A woman can't see the good of having
a secret if She can't tell it.
The way to get your expectations to
come out right is not to have any.
The man who stutters has one advan
tage; he never speaks before he thinks.
Only a girl in love with a poor man can
appreciate the folly of being rich.
Many a man who begins with an occas
ional "smile" allows it to develop into a
perpetual grin.
Every man is the architect of his own
fortune and it's up to him to keep solid
with the building Inspectors.
No doubt some clubs have all the com
forts of a home, but a hove with all the'
comforts of a club would prove more at
tractive to some men.
Some women are conceited enough to
think their husbands love them so much
that they can go around the house with
their hair off and their teeth out.
DAFFYDILS
BY V. NO ALL.
If New Tork has quite a few girls
has New Orleans molasses?
(She may have lost her charm and
beauty but she still retains her girl
ish laughter. Ha ha! Ha ha!! Ha
ha!!!i
If you found an old shoe in the lane
would you call it an alley gaiter?
(Throw him out the window. He's
the boob that put the turn in turnips.)
When the Turks are defeated does
the Montenegrin?
(And the professor will now sing
that pathetic little ballad, entitled,
"Darling, I am growing whiskers. ")
THE HIRED GIRL'S WAY.
The nights our hired girl stays home,
An' don't expect her beau t' call,
She's jes' as nice as she can be.
An' doesn't hustle round at all.
Sometimes she takes me on her knee
And tells me tales of pirates bold
That used t' sail upon the sea
In search of silver and of gold.
An' she don't pack me oft f bed
As soon as supper time is through.
Or tell me that I'm In her way
Becoz she's got her work t' do.
But In the kitchen I can stay
An' she jes' tells the finest things
Of soldiers fightin' every day
An' princes bold, an' evil kings.
But when her beau is comln" up
T take her out t' see a show.
She makes us hustle through our tea
So's she can get dressed up to go.
An' you jes' orter see her frown
If Paw sits talking very long,
An' you should hear her bang around
T let him know he's doin' wrong.
An' Maw don't dast t' say a word,
An' paw jes' swallers down his tea,
An' then she grabs the djshes up,
An' says she ain't got tme fer me.
Tou orter hear her rattle plates
An' see her grab each dish and cup.
An' wash 'em clean as quick as that
The nights her beau is comln' up.
She don't have time for stories then,
Or nothin' else I want t' do.
Paw says there is no stoppin' her
When she is eager t' git through.
An' I git hustled off t' bed,
An' . I don't like It, not at all,
I can't see why she acts that way
Jes' coz her beau is goin' t' call.
Detroit Free Press.
THE EVENING STORY
Peter's Poor Policy.
(By Alice M. Curtis.)
"You're too considerate of all the
girls here, Peter. That's why Anne Is
not impressed with your wooing. She
Deiieves nerseir to be one of many
who receive the same attention.'
"That's funny," said big, wholesome
Peter, who was the life of the house
party at hi3 pretty little stone lodge
tucked away on the side of the Cum
berland mountains. "When a man In
vites a dozan or more people to his
house, he has to be decent to all of
them, doesn't he? That's always been
my policy."
"That's poor policy when you want
to marry a girl. She has a right to
expect to be singled out of a crowd.
His sister Kate regarded him with
mournful air. "I wouldn't believe in
your sincerity myself, Peter, If I didn't
know you so well. Tou seem to be as
happy with one girl as another."
"You're ccnsoling. Anne's been
gone, riding along Moccasin Trail for
three hours with Bob Carter. Think
of the opportunity! It's fairyland, all
red and gold at this time of year,
with the river like a thread of silver
down in the valley. It's the prettiest
place m these mountains.
"Peter, I do believe you are in love
Think of you, prosaic you, seeing
anything except wild turkey and oth
er delectable game in this place. By
way of encouragement, I may add that
I am sorry for you because I think
Anne is engaged to Bob."
wny do you think so? It was
not Peter, the kind host, who made
the demand, but Peter, the shrewd
calculating lawyer. "What makes you
think that she Is going to marry Bob,
K.ate?"
"Her attitude and his. Love some
body else. Peter. There are several
prettier girls here."
There is nobody like Anne, girl.
You know that."
From the way you men rave over
her, I suppose you are right about it
She has a wonderful charm. I wish
Bob would bring her in before night.
Moccasin Trail is lovely but danger
ous." "There's Bob now! He Is riding
in alone. Lord, I wonder what's
happened!"
Peter hurried out of the lodge to
meet the horseman. Bob's face was
ghastly white.
"Has Anne come in?" he gasped.
"No; what's the matter?"
"She suggested that we take dlf
ferent roads at Fern Spring. You
know the trail forks there. We were
to meet at that bald place on the
mountain, Look Rock I waited up
tnere an Hour, Wen started down th
way she was to go. I haven't seen
her."
Before he finished talking, Peter
was giving orders quietly to the ser
vants who had been attracted by the
excitement. Everybody except Peter
seemed to lose his head.
"Saddle dome horses. Be quick
about it! Gel lanterns and wood for
torches. Find a heavy cloak. She'll
be cold when we find her."
He threw himself on the first horse
that was brought around and dashed
off, the others following. A little
way down the road he met the mare
Anne had been riding. She was walk
ing slowly, her bridle trailing. Peter
urged his horse on.
Anne, hurt, alone and night rush
ing on swiftly as it does in the moun
tains! Peter set his teeth and looked
over a precipice beside the road above
the spring. Anne, the tender, fragile
girl of his dreams, was not there. He
peered into the shadowy places, half
afraid to look for fear of what he
might see.
The evening star suddenly burned, clear
and beautiful, and a prayer waked In
Peter's heart. If only It were given to
him to find her!
There sounded a faint cry. peter listen
ed. It was only the wind sighing through
the pine trees, and its sadness found an
echo in his heart. A brown thrush called
plaintively.
Peter never knew why it was, but he
flung himself off his horse and raced up
a tiny path where he and Anne had
wandered one day. A flaming maple was
there where he had boyishly carved their
names. He looked around and there he
found her, crumpled up in a little heap
of riding habit and three-cornered beaver.
He was always thankful afterward that
he had filled a silver flask that morning
and dropped It In his pocket. He caught
her up in his arms and forced some
whisky between her teeth.
"Anne, dear, are you hurt? It's Peter,
Anne. Open your eyes. Anne, speak
to me. I love you."
Her eyelids fluttered and opened. She
smiled at Peter. "I knew that you would
come." she said with childish faith. "It's
my ankle, Peter."
Her face was as white as some moon-
flower there in the dusk when Peter strip
ped off his coat and folded it about her
tenderly. He lifted her on his own horse
and walked beside her down the trail,.
holding her up as best he could. A
servant came with torches and lighted
the way. Peter scorned his offer to ride.
Nobody should hold Anne but himself.
They met some of the searchers and
their glad shouts on seeing Anne rang
along the mountain side.
They had planned a possum hunt for
that night and after Anne's ankle had
been bandaged and she sat before the
big log fire, a charming Invalid, she In
sisted that they go on with their sport
and bring back the spoils for her to see. j
"Don't make me feel that I am hinder- I
ing your fun," she begged. "You'll stay
with me, won't you, Peter?" and Peter's
heart sang for joy because she had grant
ed him the privilege. j
When they had gone and the yelping
of the dogs sounded far away, Peter
threw a big hickory log and some pine
knots on the fire. Then he sat down
close beside Anne's chair and lifted one
of her hands to his lips.
"Anne, if anything had happened to
you today I wouldn't have cared to go
on trying to live without you."
Anne stole a glance at him. It was a
strange Peter she saw there in the fire
light. There was no laughter in his
brown eyes, and he looked tired and worn
for the first time in his life.
"Peter, you've made yourself ill walk
ing all that way and holding me on the
horse," she cried. "What will I do?"
"Do you care?" he questioned, made hold
by her solicitude. "I love you so, Anne."
He took her other hand ana, leaning
over her, saw her mouth trembling and
the misty dream in her eyes.
"I would never grow tired with you,
Anne. Do you care? Is it possible that
you care?"
"More than I can ever tell you," whis
pered Anne, the color flooding her face.
peter held her close. "Haven't you seen
my misery, Anne? I thought you loved
Bob Carter. Why didn't you find some
way of letting me know that I had a
chance?"
"Oh, Peter," laughed Anne happily,
her hands on each side of his face, "didn't
you see my misery? I thought that you
loved Jane and Alice and Mary. I went
up that rough trail today and fell from
my horse because I was leaning to looka.t
our names carved on that maple tree."
"No plural when we get home, Anne, my
girl!" and Peter kissed her rupturously.
"We will have just one name. I wonder
how a man can be so stupid!, I had to
wait for Fate "
"And Anne," came a laughing voice
from his shoulder. Copyrighted, 1912 by
MeClure'a Newspaper Syndicate.)
EVENING CHAT
BY RCTH CAJSKROIf.
There are several kinds of grown
lip children in this world.
There's the kind that everybody
loves, the folks whose hearts have re
fused to grow old with their body.
who have somehow miraculously
avoided the cynicism and disenchant
ment which usually come witn tne
years, and have kept all the fine en-
tnusiasm and optimism or youtn.
And there is the kind of people who
really have grown old but refuse to
admit it by their manners or their
clothes. Too often we laugh at them
when we really ought to pity them.
And then again, there is the kind of
grown up children, who, while they
have lost all the fine qualities of
youth, have still kept its pettiness
and as for these, well, to me, at least,
It'3 pretty hard to remember that
they aren't big enough to deserve dis
like. .
In our neighborhood there is a per
son with the outward semblance of a
man. People who see him on the
street or know him casually think he
deserves to be called one. People
who know him better usually come to
realize that he is simply a grown up
child of the least desirable class. Here
is a little example of the tricks by
which he has earned this reputation.
In company with several other young
couples he and his wife used to play
cards two or three evenings every
week. One very lovely summer even
ing the rest of the company felt dis
inclined to card playing and voted for
a walk. He preferred the card play
ins and said so with all the lmperl
ousness of a spoiled child. The rest
of the party naturally saw no reason
why they should all give in to please
one member, and pleasantly respond
ed that they would walk and he might
play cards if he preferred. So angry
was he at this refusal to yield to his
preference that he not only stayed at
home and played cards, but he actual
ly "got mad" and refused even to
speak to the offenders any more.
What do you think of that? He
saw them constantly, cn the street, at
social gatherings and at the restau
rant they all frequented, but the
passed them by in stony silence. The
other day he found himself on the
street car sitting next to one of the
women, and although she was quite
ready to say good morning and pass
the time of day, he hid behind his
paper and hugged his "mad." And
all because they wouldn't plav what
ne wanted to!
Do you remember what Portia savs
of one of her lovers? "God made
him and, therefore, let him pass for
a man. That is a very expressive
uescnpuon oi some people, isn't it?
Again, I know a hostess of a board
ing house who says she has to be very
careiui to nave ail ner helpings ex
actly alike, because there are some of
her guests who would be much upset
li tney thought anyone else was get
ting an ounce more of Duddine- or
vr more piums in tneir sauce than
tnev.
To have grown ud and lost nil iha
glories of childhood, and not to have
compensated ones self hv iottin i-m
of its pettiness and net.iiin.nca ,iv
. V. 1 . . . "
imu 13 iiio oi me tragedies of lire.
Czarina Is Happy Again.
She whom all Europe knew as the
Queen of Sorrows" has become the
Queen of Beauty" again.
The czarina has recovered her health.
has emerged from her melancholy, has
shaken off the nervous affection which
three years ago, If all reports were true,
threatened her mental balance If not her
life. Her figure, once depressed and thin,
has regained its plumpness. Her cheeks,
once wan and Dale, aealn disnlav th n,t.
dy tinge which is the heritage of the
English-German royal family she was
Princess Alice of Hesse, Queen "Victoria's
granddaughter.
The French have called the czarina the
ivory empress." No loneer la the rl,i sa
nation a compliment. Her thoughtful eyes
look steadily out from under dark lashes,
her nose of exquisite delicacy, her high
bred mouth her every feature bespeaks
affectionate womanliness, as well as
patrician blood.
The czarina is herself again, because she
has ceased to worry: her tears for th
safety of her husband and their son, young
Aiexis, tne czarovitcn, are allayed, lor the
terrorists are quiescent.
As all the world knows the czar's father,
Alexander III, was foully assassinated:
o was Grand Duke Sergius In Moscow in
1905, when he was governor general of
Russia's old capital. The czarina's Bister,
Princess Elizabeth of Hesse, married
Grand Duke Sergius; the sisters are of the
same sensitive disposition. The Grand
Duchess Elizabeth heard the fatal bomb
explode in the Moscow palace; she rushed
in to find her husband's mutilated body.
She withdrew from the world, and Is now
the abbess of the Convent of Martha and
Mary, of the Sisters of Mercy, In Moscow.
Such, too. Is the czarina's temperament.
Always surrounded by guards, fearing
even that her husband's food was poison
ed, the czarina's tense nervous mechan
ism was overstrained ; she was plunged
Into melancholy.
It goes without sayln that every hu
man endeavor was made to cure her. The
greatest specialists on nervous affections
In all Europe were called to attend her;
she went to this Spa, to that Bad, to half
a dozen summer resorts. She removed
from one to another palace, as her fancy
or the season dictated.
Even the superhuman was Invoked, for
the czar delights In the mystic and the
marvelous. That weird priest, John of
Kronstadt, administered to her religious
ly. Such charlatans as the French oc
cultist, Philippe Iandard, urged her to
invoke the mysterious, unearthly powers.
Even a hypnotist threw her into sleep,
assured her she was the happiest woman
In the world, then awaked her to find her
still one of the saddest.
Now, she Is self-cured, simply because
she has ceased to worry. The rehabilita
tion of her health should at once warm
and cheer all women. Special Cable to
The Washington Post.
KANSAS COMMENT
KEEPING THE BOYS ON THE FARM
One Leavenworth county farmer who
has succeeded in keeping his boys with
him and making successful farmers of
them, has accomplished it by givtg the
boys something to work for. When ha
- . . . " cjjuii m ujncsi at work ne
called the boys about him and had a
heart to heart talk with them. As a
result a little corporation was organized
to conauct tne Dig larm tney occupied
Oue boy leased all the fetor!: and farm
ing Implements and another took the
orchard and another tie swine and
another the cattle. From the fath-r
they leased parts of the farm. One boy
rrised all the corn that would be need
ed and the swine raiser and the ca.tla
raiser bought from him at market
prices The boy with the teams con
tracted to do all the plowing and cut
ting and hauling. The father rode about
al' day smiling and waxing fat while
his husky sons, contented and happy
because they were working for them
selves, made money for him and for
themselves. Each kept a set of books
and conducted his department as any
business concern would do. All made
money, all were happy and now all of
them have far.ns of their own and the
!rnetIr! next ,ar- He has
made a fortune but his money doesn't
tnTr-i? Ve J1" "finds In
tSJPl " haa ma(ie -uccessful
men of his boys by teaching them
denKeDCe- T's 13 a truo ory th
should be an object lesson to other
farmers with sons who re getting the
city fever." Leavenworth Post.
DON'T BLAME THE EDITOR.
Don't blame the newspaper man for
what happens In the community If
there Is anything In ' the life of the
place that you do not wish to go
abroad in the world, blame yourself
that it exists not the newspaper for
saying something about it. It Is the
editor's duty to make a typographical
photograph of the town each week
Snd. lC, . y,0yi take a homely picture
don t kick the instrument, but try to
get a better expression on your face
the next time. Everest Enterprise.
FROM OTHER PENS
THE INCREASE IN MURDER.
Statistics Just published show that
the death-rate from homicides in this
country increased from an average of
e.O for every 100,000 inhabitants dur
ing the decade ending with 1891 to 7.2
for the decade ending with 1911. The
increase cannot be attributed to any
immigration, for it was most marked
in those parts of the country where Im
migration is least. It was hipher in
the south than In the north. In the
west than in the east. In this city
It was 5.0 for every 100,000. We have,
however, on that showing no right to
ooasc over tne rest of the country.
We have rather to reflect upon the sig
nificance of the further fact that the
corresponding record of homicides in
England and Wales was less than 09
for every 100,000. It will require but lit
tle study to disclose the cause of tha
differences in the rates. Laws for the
punishment of murder are much the
same in Great Britain and In all parts
of the United States. So too are the
processes established for trial of per
sons accused of murder and for the
punished of those convicted. The one
essential difference Is that in Great
Britain the laws are enforced, the
courts act promptly, trials follow swift
ly upon arrest, and punishment upon
conviction. In this country the rec
ords show that exactly In proportion
as law Is lax and courts are elow, so
homicides increase in frequency. The
lesson being plain, the moral is plain
er. We can check the incrense of mur
der Just as soon as we make would
be murderers know that punishment
will be sure and swift. We can check
it in no other way. New York World.
AN IMPORTANT EXPERIMENT.
An experiment thnt win ho r .
importance -to the grain industry of
the country Is now being carried on
by the department of agriculture. It
is to ascertain through tni.i, n
experiments the actual value of heated
corn and sulphured oats for stock
food. There will be groups of four or
five horses fed with tha damH .
and observed and weighed from time
to time. The grain will b of several
grades, ranging from slightly to badly
damaged corn. At the same time a
group of work horses In the depart-
of thoroughly good mm . .i
fhU,WiU,be.,yatched M check on
the other feed nir c-r-i . . .
phured oats are bleached with sul
phur 'umes to give them a lighter and
brighter color snH tn n .. ?, ' .
bring more on the maVkerThe gram
dealers and shippers all over the
teres ed V?Bbeen aJ,mo" h In!
terestea in the nrnhlom .
oats as have n" ""uu
bleached" flour rnnt,,.. V.
make an lmmen 2.
dealers, the farmer, and the shippers
if the use either of sulphured oats 11
dfjnaed corn for stock feed Is nro
hlblted under the pure food law
Nsw Orleans Picayune. law.
She (proudly) You o ,i
rf0'LmaJ"r,ed me- He (meekIy)Not all of
It, tny dear. You know vnur i i?.r
was dead.-Baltimore American.
Why did you let him Vic. ..
your making a struggle?" "Well, mother
he s too lazy to nut r . ?"' ,i"e.;
-Washington Herald. '
The Actor Wh i. ..
fromr, that's IlwayT going
CoTpa'ni'onf t0 ""-Woman's Home
Knlcker How l a j,.
?,IVe?-Bocl?erTVery "imple; It gets a dU
it. iisen ana resumes Its maiden
juage s .Library.
Patient But, doctor, you are not anklng
15 for merely taking a cinder out of my
eye? Specialist Oh, no. My charge Is for
removing a foreign subntanca from the
cornea. Boston Transcript.
"A young man should learn to do one
thing well. This Is an age of specialists
Is your son conforming to that rule?" "in
a way. His specialty Is rolling cigarettes "
Louisville Courier Journal.
"Your friend looks athletic. Ts he a run
ner?" "Yes." Marathon?" "No; bank "
Baltimore American.
J HUMOR OF THE DAY
This betting business is an ethnological
question." "Ethical, you mean." "I don't
I mean ethnological. Isn't It a queston of
the races." Baltmore America.
Jollying the Native. "I'm tired of stick
Ing to the farm," complained the country
y?tUtiL "V- 18 rather "t'V." returned the
"4?b;r,1?f' a,n the other s shot"
Why don t you get the old man to hava
the farm pavedr'-Boston Transcript,