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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL OCTOBER . 28, 1912
'By FRANK P. MAC LENN AN.
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VOLUME XXXIV No. 258
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Governor Marshall has scored a. vic
tory worth while by knocking the horse
racing; gamblers out of Indiana.
A London specialist says that mod
em dress Is killing; women. Yet most
women desire their gowns to be kill
ing. Jack Johnson appears to be normal
In this respect. He is blaming his
troubles on the reporters and the news
papers. Isn't it about time for the goosebone
weather prophets to come out with
their predictions as to what kind of
a. winter we're going to enjoy?
From their present successful en
deavors in that direction, it is evident
that if the Turks had participated gen
erally in the Olympic games they
would have won all the running races.
Omaha's W. C. T. U. has given some
valuable advertising to a production,
being presented through the west by
a grand opera company. In passing res
olutions to the effect that it is demor
alizing. And where, by the way, is the dove
of universal peace? It is beginning to
look as though the bird had retired to
a life of ease and quietude ever since
Andrew Carnegie contributed a huge
fund for its maintenance.
It must be a trifle discouraging to
the Bull Moosers that President Emer
itus Eliot, of Harvard university, who
knows Colonel Roosevelt so well,
should be actively espousing the cause
of Woodrow Wilson.
Many wives must.be extremely envi
ous of that Chicago hotel which has a
single carpet of such proportions that
it weighs three tons; they would so
enjoy having their husbands sling it
over a clothesline and beat it, after
coming home from a day's work.
Among the contributors to the Demo
cratic national campaign fund for this
year the name of Thomas Fortune
Ryan is conspicuous for its absence.
Still. Mr. Ryan did pretty well by the
Democratic party with that mite of
J450.000 he contributed in 1904, and it is
the same old party.
As to why the girls wearing hobble
Fkirts were barred from participation
In the outdoor games of the Univer
sity of Minnesota is something of a
mystery. None so attired could have
won a running race or a jumping con
test. Neither would any of them have
shone in the high-kicking events.
Colonel Roosevelt is busy at work
again, and is preparing the speech he
hopes to be strong: enough to deliver
In New York city October 30. Undoubt
edly it will be his "swan song" in the
political arena until the time comes
for him to enter the lists again as a
presidential candidate. Perhaps,
though, he will emulate Mr. Debs and
campaign continuously for the presi
dency. Speakinpr of rare humor, how about
this? Collier's Weekly recently an
nounced the retirement of Norman
Hapgood as its editor and a flop from
Wilson to the support of Colonel
Roosevelt. On Thursday, Robert Col
lier, the owner of this publication, and
Mark Sullivan, who has been its as
sociate editor and chief political
writer, were among the visitors at
Oyster Bay who were permitted to see
Colonel Roosevelt. And the report of
their visit is to the effect that the
colonel "talked literature" with them.
Some folk seem to be laboring un
der the impression that the fine
weather that has prevailed of late
In Kansas is of the Indian summer
variety. As a matter of fact, the
real thing in the Indian summer line
does not some along, if it arrives at
all, until after there has been a
"squaw winter." A series of early
snow storms that soon melt away con
stitute such a winter. And the oldest
inhabitant says that if an Indian
summer continues for many days a
severe winter is sure to follow, while
If Indian summer is of short duration
in winter will be mild and open.
At the fourth annual conference of
the American Association of Tanners,
the prediction was made by experts in
the premises that there would be fur
ther advances in the price of shoes
owing to a scarcity of hides. Three
years ago it was argued that if bides
were placed on the free list in the tar
iff law there would be a material re
duction In the price of shoes. Hides
were put on the free list in the Payne
Aldrich tariff law and'have been in that
position since that law has been in ef
fect. Yet the prices of shoes have gone
up and up and are going higher. This
ought to be pretty conclusive proof that
the tariff law is not wholly responsible
for the price of things that are affected
by its provisions, regardless of the as
sertions of many political economists
to the contrary.
WOMAN'S SUniAGE.
Much of the opposition to woman's
suffrage is based on the premise that
it will seriously interfere with her ac
tivities In her normal and gijrious
sphere of life, that of wifehood and
motherhood. Its enemies call it the
great home-destroyer. Pathetic pic
tures are painted of neglected chil
dren, of unkempt houses and cf un
cooked meals, if women are given the
ballot.
But such an argument is exceeding
ly far-fetched. In fact, there is- little
if any substance to it. During the
many years that m?n have enjoytd the
right to vote in this land, it certainly
has not destroyed their usefulness in
their varying lields of labor. This is
generally speaking, of course. There
are some men in Kansas and all other
states in the union who devott most
of their time to the pursuit of politics.
They make it their life-work, cither
for the emoluments that go with office-holding
or for the honors con
nected therewith, or else fcr the mere
pleasure that comes to them in playing
such a fascinating game. But com
pared with the bulk of the men in this
country, the number who devote their
attention exclusively to politics is ex
ceedingly small. Most men are mere
ly interested in politics to the extent
that the best possible of their number
be chosen to conduct the public affairs.
They keep in touch with the candi
dates for office and the plans for gov
ernmental betterment and develop
ment through their newspapers and
other publications, or by discussions at
odd times with their friends and neigh
bors. Occasionally during an impor
tant or spirited campaign they will at
tend in their leisure hours, a big po
litical rally. But politics is seldom if
ever permitted to interfere with their
daily work, and about the only time
they put themselves out in a.iy way
to participate in politics is when they
take a half hour or less on election
day to go to the polls and cast their
vote.
There is absolutely not the slightest
reason to suppose that the great bulk
of the women would interest them
selves any more extensively in politics
than have the great majority rf the
men. It is silly to urge that as soon
as women are given the right Lo vote
they will at once drop the threads of
life they have always held so dear;
that they will drop forthwith their
duties to their homes and their fami
lies and scurry, wild-eyed and frenzied.
into the active political arena to ha
rangue in the market-places with the
men and with each other.
The right to vote that has bjen en
joyed by the men has not interfered
with the pursuit of their ordinary avo
cations, and at the same time they
have always kept in sufficiently close
touch with the active politicians and
the changing policies of government to
discharge their civic duties through
the ballot with discernment and intel
ligence. Exactly the same conditions
will prevail with the great majority of
women if the franchise is given them.
Give women the right to vote, and
instead of it destroying their homes,
they will be likely to vote so intelli
gently for candidates and measures
that larger and better safe-guards will
be thrown around the social environ
ment, and the homes will loom up
even larger than they now do as the
beacons of safety and security along
life's highway.
If William Allen White thinks that
the voters of Kansas are the most in
telligent class of voters in the world,
as he has said on frequent occasions,
why does he deem it necessary to show
them how to mark their election bal
lots? As a matter of fact, Mr. White
insults the intelligence of the Kansas
voters by his marked activity in this
direction.
THE WORRY HABIT.
A worrying woman once made a
list of the possible unfortunate events
and happenings which she felt sure
would come to pass and be disastrous
to her happiness and welfare, writes
Orison Swett Marden in November
Nautilus. The list was lost, we are
told, and to her amazement, when she
recovered it, a long time afterwards,
she found that not a single unfortun
ate prediction in the whole catalogue
of disasters had been realized.
Is not this a good suggestion to
worriers? Write down everything
which you think is going to turn out
badly, and then put the list aside.
You will be surprised to see what a
small percentage of the doleful things
ever come to pass.
The most deplorable waste of en
ergy in human life is caused by the
fatal habit of anticipating evil, of
fearing what, the future has in store
for us, and under no circumstances
can the fear or worry be justified by
the situation, for it is always an im
aginary one, utterly groundless and
without foundation.
One of the worst forms of worry
is the brooding over failure. It
blights the ambition, deadens the pur
pose and defeats the' very object the
worrier has in view.
"Why fret thee, soul.
For things beyond thy small control?
Do but thy part, and thou Shalt see
Heaven will have charge of these and
thee.
Sow thou the seed, and wait in peace
The Lord s increase."
Fear and worry make us attract
the very things we dread.
An actress renowned for her great
beauty has said; "Anybody . w ho
wants to be good looking must never
worry. Worry means ruination, death
and destruction to every vestige of
beauty It means loss of flesh, sal
lowness, tell-tale lines in the face, and
no end of disasters. Never mind what
happens, an actress must not worry.
Once she understands this, she ha3
passed a milestone on the high road
to keeping her looks."
Worry not only makes a woman
look older, but also actually makes
her older. It is a chisel which cuts
the face. I have
seen a face so completely changed by
a few weeks of anxiety that the whole
countenance had a different expres
sion and the individual seemed like
another person.
Enough is as good as a feast but
most folk prefer the latter.
Every man thinks there's all kinds
of room for improvement in the Other
fellow.
There may be honor among thieves
but they seldom show it in dealing
with their victims.
About the only attention most peo
ple pay to the rules of a game is to
figure on some way to circumvent
them.
Many politicians undoubtedly welcome
the abuse they get in certain news
papers because of the free advertising
that goes with it.
J A YHA WKER JOTS
Success should crown the effort be
In? made to organize an Editorial as
sociation in the Sixth congressional
district. Such associations are of in
estimable benefit to the newspaper
craft.
A political observation from the
South Kansas Tribune: Demanding
"progressive government" at a time
when the government is progressing
tremendously is about as sensible as
nravlna- for rain in the midst of a
flood.
Music has charms to do even more
than sooth a savage breast in Norton
county. In telling about a social af
fair in its vicinity the Lenora News
reports that a fine musical program
gave the guests a fine appetite that
was satiated by an excellent repast.
Encouraging words from Jess Na
pier ot the Newton Kansan-Republi-
can: The man wno persistently aoes
what he thinks is right, will ultimate
ly receive the credit coming to him,
though he may have to wait some
times, until he has been dead a long
time.
Some Atchison Champion "chips:"
If modern surgery keeps on it soon will
be operating for homesickness
"Good health is man's best friend, yet
he treats it like a yellow pup,"
Jonathan Whang says Too many
candidates are devoted to the people's
cause only until the people have voted.
.As long as calves sell on the market
for more than their mothers, and at a
higher price per pound than their big
brothers, there is going to be an in
creasing scarcity of beef, argues the
Marquette Tribune, and it continues: If
those pampered city veal eaters do not
look out there will be laws passed for
bidding the slaughter of calves for the
market. Our game laws will be made to
include veal. Self preservation, de
mands a conservation of the meat sup
ply for the race.
Prose poems by the Ogallah corre
spondent of the Trego County Repor
ter: There was a cute young suf
fragette tried for all the voters she
could get; she wanted to vote and
she's wearing a coat, but she ain't
tried them other things yet Yan
kee Doodle went to town upon a
motorcycle; he stuck a nail into his
tire and he was in a pickle. He made
good time with U. S. mail as ,vou have
often seen; except a few times when
he walked six miles for gasoline
We climb the hills and bump the
bumps and wade the mud and crawl
the humps, and dodge the holes and
cuss the roads and spill the wheat
from off our loads. Let's make a road
law good and sound with common sense
down to the ground; our taxes spent
with sense and skill but I'm afraid
we never will.
r
GLOBE SIGHTS
BY THE ATCHISON 0 LOB'S.
Most any newspaper knows how to ruu
the government.
Being great in defeat, however, isn't a
particularly profitable pastime.
Economy helps some, but it isn't a sat
isfactory substitute for ready money.
A reputation for good judgment is fre
quently based on a list of lucky guesses.
In trying to get something for nothing
people often get nothing for something
When a man wears a flower in his but
tonhole, it indicates some woman is proud
of him.
Nearly every man who has prospered
believes others should be able to go and
do likewise.-
Perhaps the man who tries to be better
than other people has some license to leel
that way.
This is a funny world, in which one
sometimes finds a candidate with as much
confidence as his utterance indicates.
Next to the circular letter, the most un
important communication Is the notes
children write each other in school.
As a matter of proper proportions, we
should say no man should wear a mous
tache of greater latitude than his ample
or attenuated shoulders.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Many a man gets up steam without
spouting any hot air.
When a woman does resort to cosmetics
she generally makes up for lost time.
Some fellows never go to work till they
are convinced they can't make a living
any other way.
Blobbs "How did Singleton catch such
a cold?" Slobbs "He has just become en.
gaged to a girl from Boston."
Tommy "Pop, what is an optimist?"
Tommy's Pop "An optimist, my son, :s
a man who is married and glad of it."
No, Maude, dear; socially speaking
there is no reason why you shouldn't con
sider the basso quite as high-toned as the
tenor.
Tottie Twinkletoes "An audience o"
deadheads is always cold." Polly Pink
tights "Yes. but think how hot the dead
heads would be if they had to pay."
Hoax "Young Dashaway seems to, be
infatuated with that manicure girl." Joax
"He ought to be taken in hand." Hoax
"That's evidently what the manicure
girl thinks."
" he paper says we may now expect
some sticky weather." quoth the Court
Jester. "What paper?" demanded the
King. "Fly paper," replied the jester,
quickly donning his armor.
JO URNAL Eli TRIES
BY THE WAY
BT HAKTBT PARSON.
The name of the Ishpeming, Mich.,
editor who said Col. Roosevelt was a
booze-fighter, is Newett. But it ap
pears that he didn't, he simply sus
pected it.
From recent dispatches we gather
that the Bulgarians have captured sev
eral Cioman cities and are inviting
the Turks to Kumonova.
Germany is bragging about a dog
that can speak the human language.
Here's betting the Dutch dog has noth
ing on our own Bull Moose as an ani
mal linguist. The moose is yelling
"help" and "assistantce" so plainly
that anyone could understand it.
Every time-a woman moves, she
states that she cleaned the house she
left, but had an Awful Time digging
the dirt out of the house she moved
into.
Our idea of a good practical joke
would be to enroll a well-instructed
light-weight pug in a high-school
class presided over by one 'of those he
teachers who asks a question, and
then, if the pupil attempts to answer,
yells: "Don't answer back I want
none of your impertinence." -
It has been our experience that as
soon as a man has to quit drinking or
smoking on account of his health, he
becomes a reformer.
The successful politician is not the
one who follows the crowd, but the
one who figures out the line of march,
finds a short cut, shows up at the
head of the procession and out-yells
all of them.
After a man is run over by a trolley
car, his wife realizes his true value;
and, as a rule, the company attorney
cannot compromise with her for a cent
less.
"Prejudice" Is what the other fel
low thinks is his "opinion."
SAYS UNCLE GAV
He that boasts that he has no en
thusiasms is very near to the idiot
who takes pride in his affliction.
There are both kinds of folks in the
world, more's the pity, and it is hard
to tell which is the more unfortunate.
It is one thing to be voicing one's en
thusiasms continually and another to
entertain them. But, disagreeable as
h is, the half-baked enthusiast is of
more use on the earth than the over
baked intellectual. For the one still
has that divine motive power in him
that puts him ahead and gets results.
The other may be highly cultured,
but he is also, for all practical pur
poses, completely and intensely dead.
The pitifully imperfect ideas of the
noisy prattler may lead to a huge
waste of energy, but in the end some
good is accomplished. The man be
yond the reach of enthusiasm is a
nonconductor of cosmic current and
is incapable of generating energy un
der any circumstances.
For enthusiasm i i3 the bloom of
pulsing, throbbing, dynamic, result
getting life. Without such life there
is no enthusiasm, and such life exists
where enthusiasm is. The two are
inseparable as cause and effect,
which relation they bear.
Furthermore, enthusiasm is an in
tensifier and a conserver of energy.
He that goes joyfully to work, with
a longing taste in his mouth for his
task, has performed half his -labor.
There is no stimulator of mind and
muscle like that particular kind of
joy which we call enthusiasm. With
a shockingly large proportion of the those straight little dresses," she ex
race the hardest part of labor is Plained to Cynthia, "and my seam-
creating an appetite for it and an in
terest in it. He that hath enthusiasm
for a yoke fellow knows naught of
the nerve-sapping inertia which the
unenthuslastic worker must over
come. He that drags himself to toil
is weary and spent before he lays his
hand to it. He that is drawn by his
enthusiasm carries to the task a mo
mentum that breaks down all obsta
cles and makes a plaything of that
which his sluggish neighbor finds a
back-breaking burden.
He that boasts that he has no en
thusiasm is a voice crying from the
tomb of manhood. (Copyright, 1912,
by the McClure Newspaper Syndi
cate.) POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
Gossip soon burns holes in a good name.
Tombstones mark the dead line between
now and then.
A woman seldom shows her age until
she tries to hide it.
Money talks, and even hush money
makes more or less noise.
A man's idea of an enjoyable time 13
the kind he can't afford.
A woman is awfully -lisappointed if h;r
suspicions fail to come true.
People may move in the highest circles
and yet not get very far ahead.
A man never knows where he will land
when he stumbles over his own bluff.
Almost anv man is willing to pose as a
political patriot if he gets paid for it.
Nearly every woman is so accustomed
to acting that she thinks she would make
a hit on the stage.
Many a man has discovered that he mis
judged his enemy especially after he
wakes up in a hospital.
A dutiful husband is one who can be
made to do tricks for the purpose of en
tertaining his wife's poor relations.
One of the things a woman can never
understand is why her hard working hus
band is not enthusiastic about spending
his vacation with her folks.
Freedom, represented by a beautiful girl
attired in classic draperies, shrieked when
Kosciusko fell. "Pon t strain your lungs, ;
said the man operating the picture ma
chine. "If you simply move your lips
we'll get all the eriect we netu. wasn
ington Herald.
'DAFFYDILS
BY TI. JfOALL.
When Napoleon was asked if he
could conquer Europe did he say
"Corsican?"
(Let's stew this fellow in oil. He's
the boob that put the boil in boiler.)
They don't use Cole in Pittsburg any
more after hearing of the wonders they
got out of Wood in Boston.
(That may be true. But I heard
different.) ''
; If a tigress is wild could a lion
tamer? (Ladies and gentlemen: The tickets
for the concert are only a dime, ten
cents each.)
WHEN NELLIE DRESSES.
' When Nellie goes upstairs to dress,
a 1 tabe a magazine,
And read abnnr th. wnnar-a nt
I Some far-off foreign scene;
: An article rvn mnr, v.
Tk. Wo ii ti ..
Also the editor's remarks
On what next month he'll do.
I light my pipe and puff away
The while the page I scan.
And read a Robert Chambers tale
About some love-sick man.
A muck-rake expert leads me through
A bale of torrid stuff
Explaining how a lot of men
Got rich upon a bluff.
I read the advertisements next.
Of collars kodaks, cars.
And breakfast foods and underwear.
Tobacco and cigars.
A liberal education I
Obtain. I must confess.
The evening we are going out
And Nellie starts to dress.
Detroit Free Press.
THE EVENING STORY
With Cyril as Substitute.
(By Temple Bailey.)
When Agatha Boone came home
from Europe and found the man she
loved engaged to another girl, she
went to work to find a way to happi
ness. "It isn't as if Bruce loved her," she
said to her most intimate friend; "it's
one of those sad mixups, where the
future of three people is threatened
because no one has enough common
sense to solve the problem."
"How did it happen?" demanded
Cynthia.
"It was my own fault," said Agatha,
slowly. She was brushing out her
wonderful fair hair in the moonlight,
and it clung about her white figure
like a golden web. "I thought Bruce
was mine; yet I didn't realize that I
loved him, and I went abroad, and
while I was over there some one re
ported the fact of my engagement to
a German baron. Bruce had this lit
tle girl for a patient she is only
seventeen, half his age and she was
alone and discouraged. He thought
me could play protector that's the
whole story. She's a darling, Cynthia,
if I do say it. She isn't a bit in love
with him, but she thinks she is; be
cause she is so grateful that she mis
takes it for a deeper feeling."
"What are you going to do?"
For a moment Agatha's brush was
still. "I'll have to think it out," she
j said, slowly, "but there's surely a
I way."
A week later, Agatha announced
that Bruce s fiancee would visit her.
"She's coming for a month and I'm go
ing to give her the time of her life,
Cynthia.
That night Bruce Brown called. "It
was dear of you to ask Flo," he said,
she has had such a lonely life.
Agatha, in palest green, was ar
ranging white roses in a big silver
bowl. "Bruce," she said, softly, "do
' you love her?
You musn't ask that," he said
steadily, "I I can't talk about her
even to you."
Agatha. bending over her roses
questioned, "Who told you that I was
going to marry Von Puttkamer?"
"It was in the papers."
Well, the papers told a false-
nocd."
He was like a man turned to stone
xnen mere mignt nave been a
chance for me?"
"We musn't talk of that." she said
"but I wanted you to know that I had
not been fickle.
He went away after that, and
Agatha sought Cynthia. "He loves
me," she said, and suddenly she knelt
oesicte her irlend, her arms about her.
He loves me." she cried, brokenlv
"Cynthia, Cynthia, suppose that after
an. l should lose him!
Florence came, a auaint little child.
with a little trunk packed with stiff
little gowns and queer little hats
Agatha, tactful, gracious, remedied the
detects in the simple wardrobe. "I
have had chiffon overslips made to
stress is going to cut over some of mv
old evening gowns. I told Flo that it
would be kindness to me if she would
take them. She's an independent little
thing and it was hard to get her to
accept; but when I said that Bruce
would like it, she gave in."
Florence, appearing at dinner m a
filmy robe of pale amethyst, was like
a dream-maiden.
"Who is she?" demanded Cyril
Brooks, whose yacht was in the har
bor, and who followed, as always, In
Agatha's train. He was ten years her
Junior, and their friendship was purely
Platonic. "When I find the right girl for
you, Cyril," Agatha had told him, "I'll
let you marry her; but in the mean
time, you can be nice to me."
Contact with Agatha's fineness had
made a man of Cyril. Her ideas had
spurred him to efforts which were not
demanded by those who felt that his
wealth and social position constituted
sufficient assets.
"Agatha has made me think about the
responsibility that my monev brinea "
Cyril confided to Florence, as she sat
with him on the deck of his yacht in
the moonlight that night, while Bruce
and Cynthia and Agatha and Cynthia's
mother played bridge in the cabin.
"She's a dear."
It had been understood that nothing
was to be said of the engagement.
"It will be best for me to introduce her
to our friends first," Agatha had ex
plained. When they came home that night,
Cynthia and Agatha talked late. I
wonder I wonder " Agatha said,
"if I am doing right. Supose I
should make a mistake I am half
afraid, Cynthia."
"I begin to see light." said Cynthia,
slowly; "you are trying to work in
Cyril as substitute."
Agatha lighted a "candle. The faint
illumination made deeper the shadows
in her worried face. "Could anything
De oetterr sne criea. tfrue and I
love each other, Flo doesn't know yet
the meaning of love Cyril needs just
such
a tender, devoted thing as his
wife. He has money and youth. She
won't be happy with Bruce. She isn't
fitted to be a doctor's wife. She would
mope and pine when he stayed away
from her, while I would glory in the
fact that I could help him to be of ser
vice to hum:
"It's a difficule thing," said Cynthia,
"to play fate."
The next night Agatha carried rhe
friend up to Florence's room. "I want
you to see her," she said. "Go softly,
she's asleep."
Florence lay with all her brown
curled hair straying over the pillow.
Her flushed cheeks showed rose-pink
against the sheet's whiteness. One
small hand held a red. rose.
"Cyril gave her that," whispered
Agatha, then her voice wavered, "but
how can bruse help loving her? She's
so dear and young. Oh, youth, youth,
is there anything like it in the whole
wide world?"
A week's cruise on Cyril's yacht
brought the young people close to
gether, and one night Bruce came to
Agatha, a great light shining in his
face.
"Dear friend, he said, "is fate really
going to release me from despair?"
They were alone on deck. Cyril and
Florence had gone ashore with Cyn
thia as chaperon to a dance at the
club house. Cynthia's mother was nap-
club nouse. Cynthia's mother was i -y fact tnat thero , a Wils..n
ping in the cabin. "Is fate going to oe p re"8ve -Republican league in Can
good to me?" Bruce said again. fornia. a Progressive party all over the
AeBtha fnrncH nnl looked at him
Why?" she demanded, and knew the
answer.
"Is Cyril falling in love -with Flo
is Flo turning to Cyril? Wouldn't
it be a solution of this miserable
tangle in which I have tied myself ?"
Agatha's eyes were again on the
star-powdered sky. "I don't dare be
lieve it I don't dare." her voice
trembled, "don't let's be sure until
the moment comes, Bruce."
Out of a long silence he spoke.
"This one thing I ask of the gods,
that they will let Florence see that
in the youth and the strength of
Cyril's manhood she may find love.
Only thus can the web be broken,
Agatha."
I know," she said, "but if she
does not love Cyril, you must marry
her, Bruce."
"Yet, you know dear heart," he
whispered.
"I know," she whispered back.
Then she stood up. "Let's take the
motor boat and go to meet them.
It's a perfect night on the water,
Bruce."
Coming across the country house
lawn toward the pier, little Flo in
silver-spangled net looked like a
fairy sprite. Cyril, strong as a young
god, stepped lightly beside her.
"Oh, you beauties, you beauties,"
murmured Agatha, "wouldn't it be an
ideal thing, Bruce?"
Cynthia, a little in advance of the
others, was helped into the boat by
Bruce. When Florence came she
clung to Agatha. "Please," she said,
"may I talk to you when we get back
on the big boat?"
Agatha kissed her. "Come into
my cabin," she said, "after the others
are settled for the night."
In Agatha's loving arms Florence
lay and sobbed out her story. "Cyril
says he loves me. and that there's
never been any other woman for him.
That you've been like a dear sister,
and that youth responds to youth.
But I can't bear to hurt Bruce he's
so good so good."
"And you love Cyril?" Agatha's
heart was pounding.
""Oh, yes yes."
"Tien suppose I should tell you,"
Agatha's voice shook a little, "sup
pose I should tell you that once upon
a time Bruce loved a woman who
thought she didn't love him, and that
through a dreadful mistake he be
came engaged to you, but now the
other woman cares, and he feels in
honor bound to you?"
"Oh," Florence sat up, a radiant
figure in the shining moonlight, "s
it really true and who is the other
woman?"
Behind the screen of her own fair
hair, Agatha murmured, "Can't you
guess?"
"You?" Florence's laugh rippled
like music. "Oh, you darling, you
darling it's you and we'll live hap
py ever after."
But Bruce said deeper things than
this when Agatha told him. "Those
two young things think they know
nappiness, he said, and drew a long
oreatn,. dui you and 1, why the suf
fering, the agony because of these
tnings we shall appreciate the full
ness-of our-richer joys, sweetheart.'
(Copyright. 1912, by McClure's
newspaper syndicate.)
rtVFnrrirt r ft jit
ST RUTH CAKBROK. Ij
"There, that's just about as near as a
newspaper gets to anything."
The author-man's wife threw down tie
pape petulantly as she made that bro
midic criticism of the accuracy of newe-
pupers.
The author-man's wife had been Inter-
newea and she did not think the Inter-
lewer nad quoted her correctly. It
Eccms that he, the reporter, had asked
if she did not think a certain thing was
so, and when she had given a lukewarm
assent, had quoted her ns having of her
own accord made emphatic statement to
mat enect.
And the author-man's wife was most m-
uigrnant.
Justly, you say?
And yet think how manv npnnln Hn
that same thing.
'Gertrude says she doesn't think you
have any right to do that, and that you
are unreasonable even to think of it " h..
one friend of mine once quoted another.
It certainly sounded as if Gertrude
very much opposed, but I had good rea
son for thinking she had no such stron
feeling, and questioning proved that just
what I thought was true. Our mutual
friend, after saying very warmly that ne
felt thus and so about my pronosed move,
had asked Gertrude If she did not agreS
and she being one of those DeODle wr.o
alwavs agree with present company, had
said she did.
Undoubtedly a great many things that
one person quotes another as saying, are
said in just about that way, and yet we
mame me newspapers oecause they jo
the same.
It Is quite the fashion among cultured
people to cry down the newspapers every
now and then, which, quite aside from tru
justice of the accusation, seems almost as
absurd as crying down what we see in
our mirrors. For after all, your news
paper is nothing more nor less than a
reflection of your tastes and your Inter
ests. But to return to the Justness of the ac
cusation. As a rule I think the newspa
pers are not a bit worse than the people
who criticise them.
We object to the newspapers' Inac
curacy in quoting. I have already pointed
out how often we also are guilty.
We inveigh against the scandal that
the newspaper parades. If we never tell
a juicy bit of gossip to our neighbor w'c
have a right to complain. Otherwise n N
And by the by, let me tell you that the
newspaper Is a good sight more carefiil
about what scandal it repeats than mo-t
private Individuals. It has to be the llbei
law hangs over it.
We talk about exaggeration! If the
average newspaper is any more Inclined
to exaggerate than the average individ
ual I miss my guess. Besides, the news
paper exaggeration Is often based on mis
information which) the readers themselvc
give the newspaper reporters.
Take it by and large it seems to me
that our newspapers are one of the most
wbnderful products of our whole civiliza
tion and deserve our admiration a grnt
deal more than our criticism.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
It takes a woman to know a thing !.
going to happen because there is no rea
son for it.
The thing a woman can be surest of is
that if her husband would buy her a
house they wouldn't be paying any rent.
A woman who has been out to an even
ing reception, undressed, has to dress ail
up. when she gets home, to go to bed.
There's nothing that hurts a man's feel
ings so much as for his wife to dig up an
old photograph cf him in a queer collar
and tie.
What made a woman know beforehand
a thing was going to happen Is she would
have known if it hadn't been going to.
KANSAS COMMENT
PARTY POLITICS.
We started to write something about
party politics the otner aay out aner
country, a big bunch of Roosevelt Repuo-
Means ditto, a Duncn oi tiiuii
R( public ans in BpotS a larger showing o.
Taft Democrats in New York, some lart
Wilson Republican Democrats here an 1
thfre. a big albeit silent portion ot Roose
velt Democrats in the west, a slice of Taft
Progressives now and then with nothing
lacking except Roosevelt standpatters, and
that In places the test of party regu.arity
Is scratching the ticket, wo have come to
the stern but inevitable conclusion that,
for this year at least party politics havS
gone to the everlasting smash.. Cimarron
Jacksonlan.
TAKE SOMeTrECREATION.
The business man who makes time to
go out with his gun and dog of with his
rod and creel, mav be looked upon bv
tome as a profligate, but it will be found
that during the time he I behind his desk,
he is worth two of the men who never
leave their offices. It pays any man to
get a little healthy recreation occnsumallv.
Go out and rake the leaves off the lawn
or go nutting with the children some fea'.
urday. Don't let business divorce you
from your children when they are at the
most interesting and important period ft
their lives. A day in the woods with hi
father wilt stand out 1n a boy's memory
nil the rest of ilr. life as one of the great
est evrnts of his career. If you are In
any business but the newspaper buslnesr..
just forget It for one day and get ac
quainted with nature and your own fam
ily. Leavenworth Post.
PRISON REFORM NEEDED.
When hundreds of prisoners mutiny
as they have done at the penitentiary
at Rawlins, Wyo., the failure of th
prison system as a reformative agency
becomes tragically apparent. In- a
theoretical sense, the prisons are ex
pected to provide a means of teaching
lawless men and women a respect for
the law and a knowledge by which
they may make themselves better
fitted to occupy a position of respect
in their community. Frequent reports
of uprisings in different prisons indi
cate that the scheme of reformation is
either a failure or that tyrannous
methods have been used to subdue
rather than improve the condition of
the prisoners. Opponents of th
present system of incarceration mT
point to the prison as a failure, but
they have failed to suggest a remedy.
At the same time it must bo admitted
that the determination of practically
every one of hundreds of prisoners to
secure thoir liberty even at the price
of murder shows a lamentable failure
to achieve the primary object of Im
prisonment. A rigid investigation Into
the cause of the mutiny with the pos
sible installation of humane method
of punishment for minor offenders
within prison walls might result in less
disturbances of the nature engendered
at the Rawlins penitentiary. Pitts
burg Post.
HIGH LIVING.
Gov. Colquitt, in his reply to the New
York Times, attributes the higher cost
of living largely to the general indul
gence in high living. Undoubtedly then?
is something in his contention, and It is
by no means new. However, the fact
of high living does not entirely explain
the high cost of living, for it is obvious
that the consumer pays muc h more
than the producer receives, and that
the toll of middlemen, whether or not
they be trusts, is enormous. But to the
extent that high living is responsible
for the higher cost of living, the ques
tion still remains unanswered. "What
can be done about it?" Most people who
are indulging in high living fully admit
the charge. They deny that thev are
living according to their own wishes,
but insist that because everybody's do
ing it they must do likewise. "So'-lul
competition and a multitude of induce
ments, artificial orotherwise, drag them
on to a standard of livirg which their
own Judgment condemns, and It is dif
ficult to believe that there will be a
change in this order of things, except
some one shall be smart enough to or
ganize a public trust committed to the
boycotting of those things which go
to make up higher living. Dallas News.
Tlio Englishman's Tub.
It has long been whispered that the
alleged devotion of the Briton to his
morning tub is a myth.' Dr. it n
Quine has had the temerity to proclaim
the fatal truth from the housetops. In
quiry among hotelkeepers has, it seems,
disclosed the fact that a pror-ortlon
varying from 1 to 10 per cent of their
visitors alone use the bathroom. "Com
mercial gents" are noticeable for their
absent-mindedness in this respect, and
the average of clergymen is not hieh.
In tneir case, we suppose, godliness is
regarded as a substitute for cleanli
ness, though Dr. Quine charitab.'v nt.
tributes the failure to poverty, th.is
supporting the plea of the bishop who.
when complaint was made to him that
his clergy were dirty, replied: "Poor
fellows! They've all got their glebe on
their hands."
In point of fact, the Briton's morn
ing tub is a comparatively recent and
very partial institution. Elizabeth
Englishmen were great, but dirty, and
we doubt if the bucks of the regency
Were much better. Public opinion in
the schools and the messes enjoins ab
lution under penalty of "sheep-washing;"
but that we do not ourselves
believe that the habit has gone very
deep is shown by the fact that w
sometimes permit ourselves to speak or
the mass of our fellow-countrymen
as "the great unwashed."
Sir Almroth Wright, who considers
ablution pernicious, may rejoice; but to
those who have advocated public baths
and wash-houses, or striven to make
the bath-room a necessary adjunct of
the workman's tenement, the experienc
has been disheartening. He may use
the bath to keep ducks in; otherwise.
it is probably "the driest spot in Lon
don." He is content with the "goods
old annual." and, perhaps, he takes
even this by proxy, like the Cockney
who was heard to exclaim to the friend
he was seeing off to the seaside: "f-'hall
y'ave a bawth when yer gets there,
Alf? 'Ave one fer me, will yer!" Paii
Mall Gazette.
HVMOR OF THE DAY
'Pa, what's an Inscrutable smil'" -t...
the kind, my son, your mother had on
her face this morning when T tiH
business might keep me out late tonight."
Baltimore American.
Mrs. Jinks Blngor says their baby 1
the smartest in the United States Jir k!
Why doesn't he claim the Ku-nrw.T
rights. too?-The Outlook. -"opean
1lkp.rn tnc De Itoads get alon
vp SrHo trinA tl. - . along
. . , x ne cclt
in htr
name ana ne buys the
Roosevelt Lyra-Bird,
gasoline. Ti,a
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