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'4 THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAK OCTOBER .29, 1912 STcpehs tate Journal By FRANK P. MACLESNAN. fEnt erred July 1. 1875. u second -c!as matter at the postofflce at Topeka, Kan., under the act of congress. VOLUME XXXIV No. 259 Official State Paper. Official Paper City of Topeka- TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Dally edition, delivered by carrier. cents a week to any part of Topeka. or suburbs, or at the same price m any Kan sas town where the paper baa a carrier svstem. By mall one year J3 60 By mall, six months 180 By mall. 100 days, trial order TELEPHONES. Private branch exchange. Call 10T and asfe the State Journal operator for per son or deDartment desired. xopeba State Journal building. 800 and 02 Kant avenue, corner uimi, New York Office: 20 Fifth avenue. Paul Block, manacsr. Chicago Office: Steger building. Paul Block, rrianao-er. Boston Office: Tremont Bulldin. Paul Block, manager. FULL LEASED WIRE REPORT OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. The State Journal is a member of the Associated Press and receives the full day telegraph report or teat great news or ganisation for the exclusive afternoon publication in Topeka. The news la received in The State Jour- BaJ building over wires for this sole pur- The open season for Maine hunting guides is now at hand. Cheer up! There will be only one more week of the political turmoil and confusion. Anyway, this country owes a vote of thanks to Felix Diaz. He didn t start his revolution at Juarez. Nor do the young Turks appear to be as fierce and successful In battle as did the old-fashioned variety. Speaking of moonlight nights, could there be any finer ones than those which have prevailed hereabouts of late. A nna rent! v the worst part of the campaign is about to come. Reading Pa turned out 3.500.000 clears last week. Even the baseball lemons come high The Philade'phia National League club is for sale and the price mark is one million dollars. It is true that the old-time dollar went a great deal farther than the modern dollar. It is also true that it was harder to get. Twelve per cent of the students at Princeton are working their way through college. The others, probably, are working their dads. Incidentally, Columbia university seems to be continuing a most suc cessful career without anything that savors of a football course. All of the wiseacres among the old est inhabitants are shaking their heads these days and mournfully sigh ing: "We'll pay dearly for this nne weather later on." Governor Wilson says he would pre fer to go to bed early on election night rather than to sit up and hear the re turns. But the betting is about W0 to 1 that he doesn't. On Tuesday, next, it will take the voters only a few hours to settle the matters that the candidates and their active friends have been laboring on most strenuously for many months. Presumably the Bull Moosers are not worrying much because their national committee already faces a deficit of aome J40,0rt0. Brother George Perkins has a check-book of inexhaustible pro portions. Not being able to catch the hold-up men, it seems that the Chicago police are striking at their base of supplies. A stranger was arrested in the windy city recently because he had $320 In his pockets. If Lieutenant Becker thinks his con viction of murder in the first degree Is "legal butchery." it would be in teresting to know how he would char acterize the cold-blooded killing of Gambler Rosenthal? President Taft is exactly right, as usual, in his declaration that there is no' reason to fear that the immigra tion of the better class of Europeans will result otherwise than beneficially to these United States. It Is interesting to note that the total of national campaign funds of the Republican, Democratic and Pro gressive parties is only about half the size of the fund used by the Republi can national committee in the Roose velt campaign of 1904. Among the jokesmiths there is cur rent a report that Schrank, the would be assassin of Colonel Roosevelt, is to be dealt with lightly by the Wiscon sin authorities, because under the laws of that state the imposition of a $50 fine is the extreme penalty for shoot ing a Bull Moose out of season. From the repeated calls that the Kansas Bull Moosers have made for campaign funds, it is apparent that the enthusiasm for that cause among the voters of the state is not sufficiently strong to open up their pocketbooks in a. liberal fashion. And the demands of Mr. WThite and his assistant lead ers have really been modest. They have only wanted a few thousand dollars all told. Governor Stubbs told an audience at Parsons that he Intended to vote for Colonel Roosevelt but he was not going to tell anyone else how to vote. It Is wholly unnecessary that the governor should do so. William Allen White is attending to that little matter for the Bull Moose leaders In Kansas. He Is assiduously circulating another hand picked ticket throughout the state, telling the voters just how they must discharge their duties at the polls. But it is likely that most of the voters in Kansas feel fully competent to mark their ballots according to their own ideas and without any suggestions from Mr. White. WAR BOWS TO TRADE. That commercial and financial con siderations constitute the most potent force in the preservation of the peace of the world is again pointed out con clusively by Henry Clews, the New Yf.rk banker, in a discussion of the Balkan situation which appears in his current weekly financial review. After po'nting out that there has been some heavy European liquidation of Ameri can stocks, precipitated by the Balkan war, Mr. Clews writes: "For various reasons it would seem as if the. Balkan troubles had almost exerted their full effect on this market. There Is no well grounded reason to apprehend any grave disturbances be tween the great powers resulting from the Balkan outbreak. The recent re verses to Turkish arms have naturally had a detrimental effect, inasmuch as they weaken the latter's prestige and tend to lengthen the war. B it the time is rapidly approaching when hos tilities will have to be suspended owing to the approach of winter. It would not be surprising if peace were re stored by December, if not earlier, largely on account of climatic consid erations. Moreover, financial influences are inevitably coming to be the con trolling factor in this war. In these days war is chiefly a matter of finance, and the allies opposing Turkey cannot continue indefinitely a loss of a million dollars per day, the present estimated cost of the war. The Balkan states, it should be carefully noted, have limit ed credit. They cannot borrow exten sively in the European markets for war purposes, and their home re sources will be ouickly exhausted. Two weeks ago Servia's war chest held less than $15,000,000, and this has already been seriously depleted by the mobili zation of 200,000 men. Turkey, on the other hand, has much better credit than all the Balkan states combined. In case of necessity she might be able to float a foreign loan. But there are even more important considerations than these affecting the war. The in terests of Austria. Germany and Rus sia are all on the side of peace. These countries are each actively engaged in unusual industrial and commercial de- elopments, and their great banks are fully occupied in financing such opera tions. Their funds could not be di verted from the latter for war pur poses without precipitating grave financial and commercial disorder. England also, which through London controls the money bags of the world, Is unqualifiedly opposed to any seri ous international ' disturbance. Her great bankers could not be induced to end money to any great power for war purposes. Humanitarian consid erations would have little Influence compared with the great commercial considerations which center In Lon- on, and are more emphatically ranged against armed conflicts than at ny time in the world's history. In short, there is little prospect of a Eu ropean war. Peace will be maintained argely for commercial reasons; and hatever the final outcome of the struggle between the Balkan states and Turkey there is no longer any question but that the contest will be strictly localized. Not improbably an djustment will be reached between Turkey and her enemies in the form of compromise that will work out to ward an even more lasting peace in that part of the world." A FIXE FALL. There has been nothing serious to omplain of this fall In the way nature has dealt with the farmers and, through them, with the country. Enough rain has fallen to keep the astures green and the wells and cis terns from running dry. Sunshine and warmth have given the late crops fair chance to reach full maturity. Fruit has not been materially dam ped by frosts. Winter wheat has had good start. Fall work of all kinds has gone on with little interruption by nfavorable weather. This good fortune is bringing a fat year to a comfortable close. The great basic industry of agriculture is fin ning the season In a way which eaves 1912 high up among the years best known for big crops and favor able conditions'. There is no other factor in the general state of the coun try which means more to the Ameri can people. There is no sign of the mes which is a more trustworthy promise of great and continued pros perity. MR. TAFT OX THE TARIFF. "I am aware that the current be neath all political agitation is a voice riticizing me because I approved the Payne-Aldrich tariff," says President Taft in an interview in Harper's Week- and he continues: "The platform upon which I was elected president contained a revision plank, and I committed myself to it as intending ownward revision, as I stand thus ommitted to it now. But so long as ,-e carry me larm mm politics, or politics into the tariff, it cannot be hoped to solve this great economic question. I succeeded, so far as such things are possible in actual practice, in removing political influence from an economic subject. "Th statistics of the three years of the Payne law show that there was a substantial reduction in many sched ules. The law provided for future revision by giving authority to the president to create a nonpartisan board of experts to make a world wide Inquiry Into cost of production and to develop and systematize other tariff data. Under the operation of the Payne law, prosperity has been grad ually restored since the panic of 1907. There have been no disastrous failures and no disastrous strikes. The per- centage of reduction below the Dingley till is shown in the larger free list and in the lower percentage of the tariff collected on the total value of the goods Imported. The figures show that under the Dingley bill, which was in force 144 months, the average per cent of the Imports that came in free was in value 44.3 per cent of the total importations, and that under the Payne bill, which has Been In force 35 months, the average per cent In value of the imports which have come in free amounts to 51.2 per cent of the total; that the average ad valorem of the duties on all importations under the 12 years of the Dingley bill was 4 5.8 per cent, while under the 3 months of the Payne bill this was 41.2 per cent, and that the average ad valorem of the dutiable Imports un der the Dingley bill was 25.5 per cent, while under the Payne bill it was 20.1 per cent. In other words, considering only reductions on dutiable goods, the reduction in duties from the Dingley bill to the Payne bill was 10 per cent, and considering both free and dutiable reductions, it amounted to 21 per cent." JOURNAL ENTRIES Nor are there so many folk who bow gracefully to the inevuaDie. Tf worrv helDed In any way there might be some excuse for indulging in it. sm nonnle are BO constituted they'd refuse to be happy if they had the opportunity. Among the expensive diplomas in the school of experience is the mar riage certificate. Few persons are willing to take blame for anything if there's tne slightest chance of shifting it to other shoulders. JAYHA WKER JOTS The "battle" at Vera Cruz was very crude thinks the Ottawa Republic. A man doesn't have to aim very high to hit the dollar mark, points out the Fort Scott Republican. TCnnsas. reDorts the Ottawa Herald, has raised a little of everything this year including a nanasome nurouei of mortgages. Now there is a demand, points out the Leavenworth Post, for the man who can make four ears of corn grow on a cornstalk. 'This is the time of the year," points out the associate editor of the Engle wood Leader-Tribune, "when candi dates for office begin talking to death what little chance they may have had." The greatest tragedy of married life is not divorce, as you may have im agined, says the Ottawa Herald. It is when Pa breaks his suspenders, the baby wakes up crying and the biscuits fall all on the same morning. Many years ago, when Senator In ealls was in the senate, oleomargarine was a bone of contention, recalls the ! Wichita Eagle. The debate led In galls to utter one of the those epi grammatic sentences which made him famous. "I have never, to my knowl edge, tasted oleomargarine, said In galls, "but I have stood in the pres ence of genuine butter with awe for its strength and reverence for its antiquity." This story, from the Hiawatha World, has been construed in a num ber of quarters as detailing the suicide of a mule: There was a Sunday school picnic held some time ago out at the old Betz farm on the road to Fairview. There was a swing in use that day and the rope was never taken down, which omission proved fatal to the life of a $150 mule belonging to Mr. Regier. The mule got its head and neck tangled and going round and round tightened the rope until It was choked to death. GLOBE SIGHTS BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE. Why is a bowling tourney? Who Invented the idea that horse radish is good to eat. There is so much forensic oratory that a good deal of it is wasted. A long distance investment In real estato is one way to discover the waste places. Honestly now if you are on the losing side aren't you against freedom of ths press? There is a large variety of fools, but the boy tough probably is the most dis agreeable. Some of those who cannot sing the old songs should also refrain from trying the new ones. In a little town, It Is fairly easy for any stranger to work himself over into a Man of Mystery. No man can add much lustre to his name or fame by sitting beside a great man on the lecture platform. While the woman may not be blamed as much as the man, she has to wait a good deal longer for forgiveness. Jude Johnson has resigned his job to look at the falling leaves. Jude is so sen timental his family is starving to death. A little girl Just naturally knows what is the right thing to wear, but a boy has to learn it after he begins noticing the girls. POINTED PARAGRAPHS. From the Chicago News. Many an old settler refuses to settle. Industry Is the magnet that draws things our way. Anyway, a first class baker Isn't a com mon loafer. A student of languages should never patronize speak-easies. Some people can look so far into the future that they can't see the past. A man is tolerant of another man's bad habits if they are similar to Ms own. It is so much easier to tell others how to do a thing that it is to do it yourself. aa black th are palnt. ed or as white as their tombstones would indicate. If DeoDle were credited with their good intentions the recording angel would have to work overtime. Some people couldn't hear the shrill, small voice of conscience even if it were shouted through a megaphone. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. From the New York Press. The only cook that will stay is tbe cook that can't cook. Working for a living Is much easier money than marrying it. A baldheaded man can be specially proud he has such a fine mustache. Nothing makes a millionaire feel so poor as to know somebody he could help with a few dollars. Every time a woman sees a crowd run ning her way to a fire she's scared it's her petticoat showing. ON THE SPVR OF THE MOMENT BY ROT K. MOULTON. When Grandma Was a Girl. They had no rats and Marcel waves or wasplike figures then. No high heeled shoes or patent rouge made to deceive the men. No purring language, mincing walk, or gay peroxide curl. No chafing dish flubdubbery when grandma was a girl. No bachelor maids, no culture clubs, no time spent in the gym. No thought of torture physical to make them lithe and slim. No low-neck gowns to give them grip when In the social whirl; No bridge whist made them nervou3 wrecks when grandma was a girl No sufrragets. no cigarettes, no cooking '.hat was vile. No bonnets trimmed with cocoannts and lettuce were in style. No brainstorm shooting by a weak and , sentimental churl. No talk of soul affinities when grandma was a girl. No incompatibility of temper told in court; No cases of desertion and no suits for nonsupport; No family skeletons exposed, no rec ords to unfurl: In fact, folks were quite sensible when grandma was a girl. From the Hlckevville Clarion. Deacon Pringle, one of the pillows of our church, was over to Chicago last week and was took in by a long lost cousin who sold him a gold brick. William Tibbits, who had bought many of them, says it must have been some slicker who wasn't any relation to the deacon at all. Deacon fotubbs will probably get even by sell ing it to the church for twice what he gave for it, like he did the coal stove with the big crack in the bottom. It is pretty hard to get ahead of a dea con or a railroad agent. A bugologist or taxidermist or some other scientific feller of that sort told Hod Peters he had found a rare old relic on Hod's farm. Hod said he didn't know what it could be unless it was the mortgage. The Hotel Hickeyville now has run ning water in every room. The roof sprunk a leak last Thursday night. A feller who has got a pate de foi grass appetite with a codfish in come has one foot in the penitentiary. the other in the poorhous.?, and hi3 face is turned toward the setting sun. Elmer Jones is the most comical young man in this town. He crop ped a cat in the town pump a month or so ago and now they a' talking of starting mineral baths in our midst and making us a health resort. Uncle Ezra Harkins says he lets hfs whiskers grow so as to get them out of his system. There ain't much use bein' a nat ural blond if you are an actress, be cause nobody will believe it. Miss Euphemia Perkins, our poetess of passion, is writin' a play for Charle3 Frohman. By jing! I wonder what Frohman will say when he finds It out. SAYS UNCLE GAV He hath attained great wisdom who hath much goods and is not a slave to his servants. The captain of industry who can gaze unflinchingly into the maw of an investigating committee stands in fear and trembles before the "terrible Tux." For what shall it pro fit a man that he hath gained bonds in bundles and clips his coupons with a ripsaw if the women of the house hold are constantly reminding him that a Geneva waiter in a despiked spiketail always raises his eyes when the head of the family calls for ham and eggs. One of these days there is going to be a revolution in this country and the streets of our cities are going to run red with the blood of the Geneva oligarchy. The brawny fisted Ameri can who goes forth to get his good hard dollars by the burning of brain and the busting of anti-trust laws is going to sign a new declaration of in dependence and rid the landscape of a few supercilious gentlemen who never tasted a square meal until they came to this land of the brave and erst while home of the free to stand be hind chairs and tame its tamers. Meanwhile, their necks are under the yoke and mother and daughter sit on either end. All this comes of the worship of the great god Ostentation. It's no use to have money unless one does "quite the prdper thing." To pro pitiate this bugaboo, one must act as if one has had money always, and to act as if one has . had money always one must dine as the waiter sees fit. The worst downtrodden city in the world is New York, and the heel of the oppressor is the heel of the waiter. For how are the new rich and most of us who are rich are new rich to know what to do and how to do it without accepting the guidance of those who have served the elite? And who, pray, does not fear the sneer of his mentor Better an indictment by the federal grand jury for smuggling than a flicker of the eyebrow of Paul the irreproachable, because one desires coffee with one's salad. Paul was a hostler in Paris before he learned of the promised land of easy marks and magnificent tips, but mother and the girls don't know that, and dad, who whipped the trade to a standstill on homely diet, can't have his ham and eggs. One of these days dad is going to get mad. When he does, he'll heave an old-fashioned bootjack at the smug image of the great god Ostentation, turn its high priests and priestesses, miscalled imported butlers, maids and waiters, out to make room for a less formidable breed, put his foot through the modern American motto, "Thou shalt not shock thy servant," and re store to its ancient place of honor that musty yarn and cardboard sentiment. God Bless Our Home. And there 11 be a noticeable accent on the "our." Copyright. 191 2-. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) VAFFYDILS BT V. KOAli. If Jack Johnson had a cigar named after him would the cigar box? (Take this seat, old lady!) If a driver drove his team up In front of a store and left it standing 'til he came out would the steamster? (Pass around the lid, boys, here comes the cop.) r When a horse turns around does the wagon wheel? (Let's shoot him at sunrise. He's the boob that put the chest in chestnut.) THE LEAVES GIVE THANKS. All the cheerful little leaves Were lying mute and slain, l neir tender summer faces Marred with age and pain. Through the threadbare forest Strode the windand rain. I wept because the sky was gray, Because the leaves were dead, Be.ca"se the winter came so fast. And summer's sweet was sped; And because I, too, was mortal All flesh is grass," I said. E"t while I was lamenting The woods began to sing. The voice of all dead leaves came up As when they sang in Spring: FraiBe God." they sang, "for Winter And stormy harvesting: "Praise God, who uses old things To serve the new things' need And turns us into earth again That next year's roots may feed; Roots but for us and our decay Would shrivel in the seed. "To the thousand thousand summers Our summer has been thrust, But the snow is very gentle Above its rags and rust. Lie down, lie down, oh, brothers, With the thousand summers' dust." Georgia Wood pangborn, in the October Scribner. 2 THE EVENING STORY To Bo Decided. (By Joanna Single.) Despite the holiday flutter of anti cipation in the office, dusk and de pression came together for Mavis Cor ley aa she closed her desk and pre pared to leave with that quick order ly intelligence that made her a. val uable secretary. She dreaded holi days. Still more she dreaded being questioned by her workmates on tae matter of celebrating the day. In the dressing room she slid swift ly into her dark blue coat and hat, tucked her curling dark hair into place beneath a trim veil, and slipped down the side stairway. She had a pre monition founded on experience that Keith Lowry would be not far from the front entrance. With a little feeling of escape she went a block or two out of her wav, and instead of taking a car set out at a swift walk for the very comfortable boarding house which had shelterea her for a year. She was nearly there when a man's swift step came behind hef. "Well!" exclaimed the big, bland young fellow, "how did you manage to get past me? I wasn't guilty of waiting at the door, you know, but I had a point of vantage where I was sure I could see! Well, I have you now for a minute. Will you go to the game with me tomorrow, and then to supper and the theater? Take any .ne else you like along but I'd rather have Just you!" He thrust a Ions flower-box safely under his arm. "I have a few buds here. Are you going with me?" He had not given her time to reply yet. Oh,' she said. "don't give ma things! Tou know I can't keep fair ing even flowers all the time! I don't give you anything In return " eho spoke almost vehemently, "not even ' Not even liking? Not even a hope. Mavis?" "Oh, I do like you: but that's all. You promised not to talk about any thing else, you know." Turning a corner a chill wind stiuck them, ai i in tne crowd he cam rrotectinglv close and took her arm a moment. "I won't, then, but it's hard work. Look here's a. moment, r must break my promise this onct. H-re you are working homeless. Here I am work ing, and with a home all ready for you, but homeless myself becauss you won t come to it: Tnitu: about it. Is it fair?" "It is fair I told you I could never do it. It is you who are unfair not to accept my decision." He tightened his hold on her, and something within her began to let go, to cease resisting him. "I am not going to so anywhere with you tomorrow, Keith. I am go ing to stay at home alone all day. and do as you ask think about it. Then I will give you an answer you shall accept as final. Don't ask me to go out. Don't do anything but let me alone." "Well," he said in th dark of the gate, "I have one thing more to sav I love you, and love you Mavis! Re member that real love is a warm cloak against the big world's cold. And I've no right to, but I am going to ask if you care, or have cared, for some one else? Is it some one who will make you happy?" She hesitated. "I don't mind telling vou. T am I trying to forget him. I thought he I cared as much as I but he doesn't. He could make me happy. He belongs to the old lite when I had father. I can't talk about it. Let me go in." "Remember that I do care, and always wil'. I'-n a reality d'n't give me up for a shadow, Mavis." She broke from him and ran Into the house. The next day Mavis deliberately mourned foi Henry Morton, makir.g no pretense r f pride to herself, ne re-read his lctterc, iet his photographs up before her, wondered how ha cotild have failed to come back to her after the foolish Kttio quarie! when she had sent him away. She had even written a ;iot!: saving she was sorry. He had not answered. Pride rankled at tho inoviorv. su. 1 ' was great- thin pride. It was a wretched way to spend a holiday. By dinner time she was half sick and did not go down, accepting the tray which the really concerned landlady sent up. By 3 she had cried herself asleep and did not wake until dusk was falling. Then she sat up for lornly among the pillows and decided that she could not offer Keith Low-y half a heart he was too fine, too gen uine and sweet and loving. Her heart warmed at thought of him. But she would refuse him. Then the landladx knocked at the door and thrust in her head. "Mr. Lowry to see you. Rays take your time, but he'll stay till he sees you. Wants you to dress to go cut.'' She slammed the door and lumberei' away. Mavis thought a moment, and thn rose to bathe and dress. She was young, and even tears could not make her less than lovely, though her eves were a little swollen and tired. Shi might as well have the matter of Keith over with, and she would honor him by looking her best. Down in the parlor he waited, and when she came in he rose to meet her, lowering his voice. "Look here. Mavis, I've been a great brute! We won't think of anything but being happy tonight. We'll go out to supper and then to the theater, and you can have a whole year to think in. I don't want you tj de cide. How do you like these violets' Where shall we eat " He bombarded her with gay, commonplace questions until she was laughing herself. When they had decided on Morriii's for supper, she ran upstairs for a gay er hat and better gloves, and they were off. Mavis was a bit feverish, a great deal relieved and very lovely at tne candle-shaded table, with Keith lean- Ing across to admire her. But as he talked she knew she must tell him to night in fairness to him. She won id never be guilty of dangling then her eye caught the people at a table just behind Keith, and her face werv. white. "What is it, dear?" whispered Keith. She shook her head at him. and though her lips moved, no sound came from them. Her eyes were stiU held by Henry Morton's. He half rose in his seat and the two rather over dressed girls with him asked him ui coscu fill IS Wlljl tu)n.cu ...... shrilly (if he was "seening things-al- WW-vs J Keith turned his head a littl and Henrv Morton rose and came toward them. Tall, good-looking, careless, he came straight to Mavis, who seemea not to see his outstretched hand, mid gave him a queer little smile and a bow. "You're looking fine. Mavis," he said, not familiarly, for he still had the manner of a gentleman, but w'th a half-possessive tone of astonisnea admiration. Keith's eye blazed blue fire, and the girl sDoke in a little flurrv. "Keith," she said, "this Is an old friend, Mr. Morton. I knew htm ages ago at home. Henry, this is Mr, Keith Lowry my fiance." Tha men shook hands and then a stiff little pause ensued, but Mavis, womanlike, bridged it over. "I am very giad to see vou again." she said. "You are looking well. Have you heard from the Williamses lately? No? Keith, give me a little more salad. Perhaps we u meet again since you're in town." Somehow Henry Morton knew he was dismissed. Keith Lowry was very still and con ventional a moment as he served the salad. Then he spoke In a tone which might have discussed the weather. "Mavis, is that the man? Were you saving your pride, or do you mean "Keith!" she said tensely, motion ing away the waiter with his Ice vater he never was the man! Just one glance at him undid all the old hypno tism I " her eyes met his, plead ing, confessing, loving. "Beloved!" he breathed the word fervently, but in a voice so low that the waiter might have suspected him of praising the salad! (Copyrighted 1912, by McClure s Newspaper ondi cate.) EVENING CHAT BY BOTH CAKBROH. "It is true that I am an alien. But my son my son Is Themistocles." Euterpe. A mother came to me the other day complaining bitterly about her eighteen-year-old daughter. It seems that when the mother was a little girl she loved books and study a. id dreamed as her most precious dream thut some day she would go to college. Some day never came. Instead she had to give up even finishing her high school course It was a very bitter disappointment and naturally made her prize education even more highly, as we always do the good things we miss. And so it was that when this woman went into a home of her own and one day they laid her baby girl in her arms, her first thought was, "she shall have the finest education in the land." And o the mother began to dream her dream of college all over again, for this precious new incarnation of herself. Of course you know the rest. After eighteen years of saving and planning and dreaming on the mother's part, tne girl does not want to go to college. To her it Is unjust and unreasonable that her mother s-hould insist on tying her down to four more years of the study sl:e hates. To the mother it is the most b.1 ter trial of her life: she sees her daughter throwing away what to her is an un speakable precious opportunity, and sne endures the disappointment of her dreams, a second time. Only those who have had some such ex perience in their ilves can know how much tragedy is wrapped up m that sim ple story. The extent to wMchfather and moth ers enter into their children's lives is both beautiful and terrible. It Is truly wonderful to see how much personal pride, how much renewed am bition they feel in these reincarnations of themselves. There is a woman who lives near me whose little daughter has a very fire musical talent. I enjoy hearing the lit tle girl play, but I enjoy even more watching the mother's face fairly glow with happiness as she sits and rocks and listens. The mother has had many losses and disappointments. She was bred to a life of culture. luxury and ease. She is living a painfully narrow and toilsome existence. And yet, as she sits there rocking and listening to the second gen eration fulfilling her own dreams of musical accomplishment, she looks per. fectly happy. I would give much to be able to paint her portrait then. Young people, you cannot realize too keenly how much it means to the older folks to have you fulfill their dreams. But you older folks, you also cannot realize too well tnat young people have their own ltves to live. Tney are a pan of you, you say. Aht yes. but rememDer that they are partly and the bigger pai-t, themselves. Grant that they mav be willing and able to fulfill those unfulfilled dreams and ambitions of yours. But grant also that you may have for bearance and patience and understand ing when that is not possible. A Fable of Fate. Fate cannot be evaded. A grand vizier asked his master, the sultan, for permission to depart at once for Smvrna. "You may go, vizier." the sultan answered. "But why this sudden de parture?" "Alas! sire," said the grand vizier. "I have just seen the angel of death among the throng befcre your throne, and he looked at me so long and strangely that I am sure he must have come for me." "Go, then: go at once," the sultan said, and after the vizier's departure he beckoned the angel of death to him and asked: "Why did you gaze so strangely at my grand vizier? "I was only wondering," the angel answered, "why the man was here, for I have orders to kill him late this afternoon in Smyrna." London Opin ion. QUAKER MinUTATTOXS. From the Philadelphia Record. The best brand of happiness Is the home made kind. The only way to be perfect Is to follow the advice you give others. The people who jump at conclusions must regard life as a hurdle race. Many a man who has no use for cats will feed the kitty In a poker game. No, Maude, dear; when you bid a seam stress good-bye it isn t necessary to say "So long." It's the easiest thing In the world to be good natured if you haven't anything else to do. A man begins to worry when he realizes that he hasn't enough hair to take its own part. It doesn't take a dressmaker to tell you that a wedding gown never costs as much as a divorce suit. Ever notice that the fellow who tells a girl he would die for her wants to take his own time about doing ft? Blohbs "Closefist Is the sort of man who Is always looking for a needle In a haystack." Slobbs "Too mean to buy ono, eh?" "There Is no effect without a cause," quoted the Wise Guy. "How about when a woman changes her mind?" asked t.e Simple Mug. j J KANSAS COMMENT VOTING A WAT FROM HOME. According to a law passed at the last session of the legislature, any quail":-! elector may vote away from home should he be necessarily detained away from hi home precinct. The old law provided way for railroad men to vote away iron home, and the legislators two ver sro evidently held that while railroad men . . j , 0c matter of rights In regard to voting. The ia.w reaas: -it snau De lawrul for anv qualified voter of the state of Kansa having complied with the law In regard to registration where such is required, who may, on the occurrence of any gen eral election, be unavoidably absent from his township or ward because his duties or occupation or business require him to be elsewhere in the state, outside the county in which he resides, to vote fr county, district or state officers, membw of congress and electors of pret,ident ani vice president of the United States in anv voting precinct where he may prest-nt himself for that purpose on the day of such general election, under the regulj tion prescribed in chapter 180 of the laws of 1901; provided he shan not have voti at any other voting precinct on the same day. As a part of the same chapter, sec tion 3S14, laws of 1909 is amended to reaJ as follows: "All such envelopes shall t" the Judges of election, be filed with t.-e county clerk of the county where surU vote was cast not later than the day fol lowing such general election, and aia county clerk shall immediately mall them, postage prepaid, to the county clerk o? the respective county where such votes belong." Newton Kansan-Republlcan. IS IT "DU CYGNET" The controversy now being Indulged In among Kansas editors In regard to the correct spelling of the Marais des Cynges or "Marais Du Cygne" as some content, appears to revert to the question of whether there was only one swan or sev eral swans on the marsh when the Frenchman named the river. Tbe old timers Insist that the proper wav "Marais du Cygne." copying probably from the poem of Whlitier on the massa cre in Linn county in which he poetlcallv speaks of "The low reedy ferlands, the marsh and the swan." The O. T.'s, If thty follow Whittler, are correct for the sin gular is the old way of spelling it. if however, there were more than one swari on the marsh when the stream as named,, "des Cygnes" would be the prop er name. But in all probability a sw.sn never saw the river that runs through Ot tawa. Whoever gave the stream Its name was probably looking at a flock of fa i ada geese or sand hill cranes when no named it. Now what will you do in a case of that kind? The Frenchman who decided upon the name didn't know sand hill cranes from swans and most of the people who use the name of the rler don't know whether It spells "swan" or 'swans" so history will not suffer what ever style of spelling is used. The state maps and books almost exclusively une the spelling "des Cygnes" and unless you want to be a stickler for form and ad here to the singular number, it would be a whole lot less trouble to let the cast rest. Ottawa Herald. IF FROM OTHER PENS GIRLS. The hero of Albert Edward's novel, "A Man's World," tells of a new and inter esting use whinh he has found for tne telephone. He had been straining his eves for a long period of time and one ua they suddenly gave out. He seemed to tally blind. He was alone in the room and, full of horror at his plight, he eronej and stumbled to the telephone to call a physician. 7 lie story proceeds: "Cen tral," I said, and I remember that my voice was calm and commplace. "Will you give me the Eye and Kar hospital.' I can't look up the number. I'm blind." bure ' came bark the answer. -It mur be hard to be blind." A clutch came t- my throat. It comes to me now as 1 wrl'e about it, comes every time I hear people complaining that modern industry na robbed our life of all humanity, has turn ed us into mechanisms. Such talk makes me think of the sudden sympathy whlc.1 came to me out of the machine. When ever I am utterly blue and discourage, i I go into a telephone booth. Hello. Cen tral," I say. "tell me something cheer ful. I'm down on my luck." It has nevr failed. Always some Joking sympathy bs come out oi the machine and helped r..e to get right again. We have no douht that the little device would work, what ever the rules and regulations of the t-tts-phone company. Nothing has ever bee.i devised, praise be, which will turn a g;rl wholly and entirely into a machine. Hlii Is a girl first of all. If an appeal for help comes, she shows it that way. I':i der other circumstances, she shows it ir other ways as when, in packing crackers into a box, sh romantically .sorlhtiles h i name and address upon a slip of papr and sends it off into the world, with a secret interest In her heart In the pos sible outcome. Chicago Post. ADVIPING COLLEGE "INFANTS." With almost heartless Indifference ff.r the feelings of those most Important iu divlduals. college freshmen and sopho mores. President James, of Illinois uni versity, speaks of them as "Infants." Ant he continues: "Many failures in college work of the first two years can ge direct ly traced to alcohol and tobacco. Seniors and juniors might build up an excellent tradition if they would prohibit freshmen and sophomores from smoking and drink ing." President James believes there Is a time and place for all things, and he warns his charges that they can leaxn to play poker at any crossroads, whereas what they can do better at college thn anywhere else Is to develop their intel lects. This will probably seem hard to ffl "infants," whose ideas of Importance a'e concentrated in a pipe, a glaring hat ban ! and a knoweldge. of "draw," but it Is good, soud doctrine. Just the same. New York American. HVMOR OF THE DAY "Husband I feel that we ought to give the people next door a dinner or some thing." "Why so? They have never done anything for us in a social way." "Yes. they have. I learn that they fed our cat whils we were away." Louisville Courier- Journal. "There Isn't one man in a million who would be so mean to his wife and chil dren as you are." remarked the wife, bitterly. "Now that's what I admire In you, dear," ventured the husband, slow ly "you have such a head for figures." Harper's Magazine. Tramp Can you advance me the amount of a drink? Gent Certainly, here's a dime. Tramp (with dignity I I beg your pardon, sir, this Is only a dime. 1 never drink 10-cent whisky. Washington Post. Mr. Franklelgh I have a nervous head ache tonight. Miss Queeler I've heard that r.iusic will cure anything of a ner vous origin. Shall I sing for you? Mr. Franklelgh Oh, It doesn't ache as bad as that Musical Courier. "Mordeeai Judson," roared Colonel White, who had been aroused In the mid dle of the night by a suspicious noise In his poultry house "Is that you In there, you black thief?" "No, sah!" humbly re plied a frightened voice. "DIs is muh cousin. Ink Judson, dat looks so much like me and steals everything he kin lay his dog-gawn hands on. Ah's at home dis minute, sah, uh-sleeping de sleep o' de Jest." Puck. "Do you think standards ore mtit.i, more rigorous in politics?" "Undoubted ly," replied Senator Sorghum. "It la no longer possible for a man to get a local reputation as a statesman simply by wearing a Prince Albert coat and chin