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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOTJENAXr NOVEMBER, 6, 1912
. By FRANK P. MAC LENNAN.
fEntered July 1. 1875. as second-class
matter at the postoffice at Topeka. Kn,
under the act of congress.
VOLUME XXXIV No. 266
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The State Journal Is a member of the
Associated Press and receives the full day
telegraph report of that great news or
ganisation for the exclusive afternoon
publication In Topeka.
The news Is received In The 8tate Jour
al building over wires for this sole pur-
From the viewpoint of the winners,
at least, the nation has again been
caved.
A woman, suing for divorce, says
she misses her dog more than her
husband. Perhaps that's the trouble.
Nothing; can be more true than that
modern invention has greatly Increased
the horrors of war. The Balkan states
are using automobiles against the
Turka.
Presumably, Colonel Roosevelt and
his friends are still standing at Ar
mageddon. And, incidentally, they are
etanding still.
If you don't like the noise. Jump ints
led and cover up your head. But the
Democratic donkey has a perfect right
to hee-haw and hee-haw as long as he
pleases.
There is no field of human activity
where the unusual does not happen
occasionally. Two railroad trains
which collided in Kansas City recently
were running slowly at the time.
More expert testimony is available
today that men do not vote as they
cheer and talk. If you're in doubt
about this, ask any of the defeated
candidates.
The ownars of a train chimpanzee
that died on a train asks the railroad
company to recompense him to the
extent of $200,000. Otherwise he may
have to go to work.
Now that the Balkan states have
Turkey on Its knees, they ought to
have no trouble in getting its head
on the chopping block and finishing
the Job in short order.
Inasmuch as all the experts In the
premises are agreed that the election
was decided by it, there will be no
grounds for protest if the "silent vote"
indulges in a crow or two.
Mr.' Roosevelt said he was going to
break up the Solid South. Politically
speaking, though, it looks like the
Mason and Dixon line had been moved
up all the way to Manitoba.
From the grain marts came the
news that wheat was "nervous" dur
ing the day before and on election
day. That, however, was no more
than a normal condition for that
period.
"What might have been," Is undoubt
edly a refrain that is ringing in the
ears of many gentlemen who were can
didates for office yesterday and whose
prospects of victory were most rosy in
their own eyes.
Present Indications are that the men
of Kansas did their full duty by their
better-halves, their sisters, their
cousins and their aunts. It only seems
to be a question of by how large a
majority has the woman's suffrage
amendment carried.
Provided Brother George Perkins hns
any funds that were not devureu by
the omlnverous Bull Moose, he will
probably pack up his goods and chattels
and move his family to some other land
where his children can be reared under
a. desirable environment.
If the Turkish authorities know when
they are well off they won't permit
the massacre of any Christians in Con
stantinople by some of their fanatical
subjects who desire to wreak some
sort of vengeance for the Turkish de
feats at the hands of the Balkan al
lies. Colonel Roosevelt told those en
thusiastic New Tork audiences of his,
that were held up by his friends as
lure tokens of the victory that would
be his in the Empire state and coun
try, that he would sooner have their
votes than their cheers. It appears,
however, that he only received their
cheers.
Turkey is crafty in asking the Eur
opean powers to assist her in bringing
about an armistice. If she can get
them to take out advisory chips in
the game, they, of course, will demand
a share of the booty, and this will
keep the Balkan states, Turkey's
cordially hated enemies, from enjoy
ing all the spoils of the war.
Just because Senator Dixon, one of
Mr. Roosevelt's campaign managers,
-s v. v. TlnTl tAnciRt Dartv has
supplanted the Republican party, that
doesn't make it so. Mr. Dixon said that
Mr. Roosevelt would be given the Re
publican nomination. More recently he
declared that Mr. Roosevelt's election
to the presidency was just as certain
as anything could be. In other words,
Mr. Dixon has a fondness for talking
through his hat.
AX INEVITABLE RESULT.
Woodrow Wilson's sweeping victory
was no less than could have been ex
pected. inasmuch as his opposition was
a house divided. Although the returns
are far from being complete, their
details are sufficient to show that Mr.
Wilson generally polled a somewhat
larger vote than did Bryan In 1908,
and that the vote given to President
Taft in that year was divided this
year between him and Colonel Roose
velt. To put the case a little dif
ferently, they split the normal Re
publican vote. Mr. Taft received two
thirds of It in some localities. In other
places Mr. Roosevelt obtained the
larger share.
No other outcome could have been
honestly anticipated by anyone, unless
he was blinded by prejudice or per
mitted the wish to be father to his
thoughts. There was nothing in the
Roosevelt movement or Its propaganda
to attract any material following from
the Democrtic party, and especially in
view of the fact that Governor Wilson
of New Jersey was its standard bearer.
A man of unimpeachable integrity, of
wide culture and learning, of dis
tinguished achievements in private
and public life, he stands for govern
mental progress of the right sort and
within the bounds of the permanent
institutions of the nation. Any charge
that he does not was and would be
ridiculous. - On the other hand, the
labeling of the radical Roosevelt doc
trines looking towards a change in
the basic principles of our system of
government as "progressive" policies
was a mere political device to catch
the attention of the unwary, and those
who are simple-minded enough to be
lieve that the millennium . can be
worked out through legislation under
the proddings of a militant leader. A
mere change is not necessarily prog
ress. And the vote or. Tuesday shows
that there was no rush on the part of
the Democrats, who believe in prog
ress, to the Bull Moose party. Why
should there have been, with Woodrow
Wilson in their van?
To urge that President Taft would
have been re-elected had Mr. Roosevelt
not have become angered at the re
fusal of the Republican party to give
him another presidential . nomination
and bolted into a new party of his own
making, would probably do an injustice
to Mr. Wilson, In view of the mag
nificent vote that was given to him in
all sections of the country. But cer
tain It Is that Mr. Roosevelt's theatri
cal entry into the presidential arena
destroyed any possible chance that Mr.
Taft had of winning the second term
that he really deserved because of the
excellent record he has made. And
because of the relatively poor showing
made by the Roosevelt forces in view
of their vigorous declarations that they
would sweep the country with an
amazing landslide, it must be that in
their hearts they knew their cause
was hopeless from the first, and were
merely claiming a victory for the po
litical effect such an attiude might
have. This being the case, there Is
little reason for wonder that some
students of politics believe that one of
Mr. Roosevelt's chief motives for be
coming an Independent candidate for
the presidency was to make impossi
ble the re-election of President Taft
against whom he suddenly became ex
ceedingly embittered. At any rate that
is surely what the Roosevelt candidacy
accomplished.
There need be no fear that the
country will go to the bow-wows un
der the rule of Wilson. There may
be economic disturbances if he and
congress plunge the country Into free
trade. But that is something which
the sturdy business interests of the
nation will be able to outlive, and
there is no certainty that free trade
will come, because Democratic con
gressmen have not shown much pre
dilections along that line In recent
years. But this much la assured:
Woodrow Wilso'h, whatever may be
the program of economic changes that
he is able to work out, will preserve
the fabric of the system of govern
ment on which this glorious nation
was founded and by which It has
grown great.
Some of the French reformers seem
to have slipped one over on their pro
totypes in this and other countries
by beginning a crusade for short finger
nails. It appears that the long nails
are harbors for such germs as stal
phylococcus, micrococcus, radiatus,
streptococcus and a variety of others
that have not yet been identified. And
cooks, waiters. grocery clerks and
butchers, the French reformers insist,
naturally scatter this bacteria around
promiscuously in the food they han
dle. If these germs are as dangerous
as their names are fierce, the fight for
fchort finger nails should become world
wide. STRAIGHT SHOOTING.
Bulgarian and Turkish accounts
agree that there has been an extraor
dinary percentage of casualties among
officers of the Turkish army In the
fighting near Adrlanople. From Con
stantinople comes reports that in one
severe action fully 80 per cent of the
Turkish officers were killed or wound
ed. This means straight shooting by the
Bulgarians. It reveals other things
also, notably the necessity perceived
Toy" the " sultan's officers of steadying
and sustaining their men to the ut
most limit of their own resources, even
to sacrificing themselves freely in the
effort to hold their lines firm. But
chiefly it sliows that the Bulgars.
knowing how lacking Turkish soldiers
are in intelligent initiative and ability
to take care of themselves when de-
priVed of officer, h&v i8 apecial
efforts to pick off the men in com
mand of the Ottoman troops and have
been remarkably successful.
For years, since Bulgaria has been
building up Its army for Just such an
ordeal as the one through which it is
now passing, experts have said that
the Bulgars made splendid soldiers and
that they were particularly good
marksmen. The preparation of the
Bulgarian nation for war against the
Turks has been laregly directed along
the line of skill in shooting.
The results Justify the
opinion of
those military men who have argued
that marksmanship Is 75 per cent of
the soldier. They also remind Ameri
cans, iind with no little satisfaction,
that the men of this country have
always had great aptitude for sight
ing accurately along the level rifle
barrel and sending the bullet to its
mark.
JOURNAL ENTRIES
Opportunity's knock
tion to work.
is an invita-
It is very unusual for a man to
forego a chance to make a speech.
Nor need many people worry over
the fact that a little wisdom is dan
gerous.
Past performances count for a good
deal more than promises for the fu
ture.
Getting on the right side of a per
son is easy enough, but the rub
comes in staying there.
JAYHAWKER JOTS
A Wichita bootlegger is receiving
loyal support. A bunch of drunks, ar
raigned before the police judge of that
place, claimed they were intoxicated
on hard cider.
Walter Johnson, the great pitcher of
the American League, is picking up a
little money In southern Kansas towns
pitching -exhibition games. Ud to
date only four towns have claimed him
for a native son.
As the Fowler Gazette has figured
t out: If we thanked our friends for
their favors as often as we say mean
things about our enemies for their dis
favors, we would have far more
friends and fewer enemies.
Mrs. Frank Virus of Heidleburg,
Smith county, is trying her hand at
shucking corn, and is bringing in 70
bushels a day. And the Athol Record
rightly inquires: "Would not that put
a bunch of town bench-warmers to
shame?"
A Horton man claims to have raised
the champion beet of Kansas this year.
It was two and one-half feet tall and
weighed ten pounds. Some enterpris
ing Kansas editor should now tell
about the champion dead beat and go
mm one better.
, Q . , . !
1 oSk s !
Here'
on the!
nal: A Holton woman who ordinarilv
has r appV "ia Wr'S
went nainnttin, th firf ,i,
and has kept evervthine In th hons
eaten up ever since.
The charivari fool with the gun that
Is supposed to be loaded with a blank
popped up again last week at Willis.
One of the bride's brothers shot her
ln the knee. If it had been the groom
instead of the bride he might have
had a hard time explaining that he
didn't do It on purpose.
Related by the Great Bend Tribune:
A local physician who is inclined at
times to be something of a "Jollier"
ran up against the real thing the oth
er day in repartee and admits that he
was decidedly outclassed. He had ask
ed an acquaintance how he felt and
then added the Information, for the
benefit of the bystanders, that he had
forgotten that a man had to have
something under his hat before he
could be affected. It drew a laugh all
right, but it was not in it with the
laugh that followed when the other
man replied to the physician, "Well, I
don't remember seeing your name on
any of the books in the library but
I've seen the results of a lot of your
treatment out in the cemetery."
IF"
GLOBE SIGHTS
BT THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
Most political arguments are Just asser
tions, accompanied by wise looks.
A man is also aging a little when he
would rather buy his walnuts than gather
them.
Neither does one need to have rheuma
tism to find some excuse for kicking on
the weather.
One would think Mother had trouble
(nough without worrying for fear the
children would be kidnaped.
Why does a high priced restaurant want
a patron to wait for his meal long enough
to lose his appetite?
A town Is becoming a city when a man
living there feels he can consistently cany
a cane without being lame.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who believed a cigar began to de
teriorate as soon as there was a good de
mand for it?
Don't complain and complain and com
plain against a man, and then fail to ap
pear in police court as complaining wit
ness after he has been arrested. -
"I haven't learned a great deal with the
passing of the years, but I no longer en
tertain any fond desire to be severely In
jured in a football game." Rufe Hoskms.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
A busy tongue is responsible for much
idle talk.
Faith in your own ability is two-thirus
of the battle.
Most of the doormats with "Welcome"
on are dirty liars.
The only noiseless typewriter yet discov
ered is a deaf mute.
Never put off till tomorrow the favor
you can do us today.
When a girl screams on getting kissed it
is usually in a whisper.
Anyway trouble never dodges up an
alley when a man is looking for it.
Do a friend a favor and he will think
he is doing you a favor in letting you
do it.
An egotist is a man who believes that If
he were to hide his light under a bushel
the whole world would be in darkness.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
All men want to get money; mighty few
want to earn it.
The richest father failed to do his duty
to his family by not being richer.
The reason girls want to see men hurt
in football is they can be sorry for them.
What makes a girl so Independent Is
how safe it is for her to be bow-legged in
stead of stoop-shouldered.
It takes a woman to despise her hus
band's opinion of the clothes of her sex.
but always to ask him for his about hers.
RY THE &AY
BT HARYiCT PARaOKB. H
Indications are that a lot of per
fectly good voters followed the ex
ample set by the Helpful Hen.
Standing at Armageddon is not a
successful way to get anywhere.
BEGINS to look like the Balkans
would celebrate an American holiday.
And thftv will have t h ti Advantace of
I Americans in the fact that they don't
, have to take cranberries with it.
To the candidates, election is like
having a sore tooth pulled feels bet
ter when it's over.
The third term bunch had three
tickets in Pennsylvania one for each
term. But, outside of that and the
fact that it Is the abiding place of
Boss Flinn, Pennsylvania is all right.
The copy boy, who is a close stud
ent of geography and a fine little pro
nouncer says that in Fort Tchataldja
the "J" is silent, as in "cheese" or
"squirrel."
And, after delivering that ultima
tum, he got his chemicals and monkey
wrench and began an investigation of
the word "Tchorlu."
Anxious Inquirer: Our private opin
ion is that it grew there and further
more that the crust around it is
mighty thin.
According to historians, the first
American suffragette occurred about
three hundred years ago. We know
not whether or nix she ante-dates
Miss Pocahontas, who will bo remem
jvtiss rocanonias, wno win do remem-
bered as having cast the vote that
elected Jawn Smith.
, The gentlemen who have been
measured for Jobs will sleep better to
night and the also-rans might as
well.
TMb boob statistician who alleges
that 25 per cent of the divorces are
caused by mothers-in law, is away off.
It is a known fact that no woman
would ever get a divorce if it weren't
for the men.
Man is always willing to obey his
wife's slightest wish If she makes it
slight enough.
Governor Wilson referred to the
election as "leaving the case In the
hands of the Jury." The difference is
that the Jury always finds somebody
guilty, but doesn't name the unfor
tunate defendant until the testimony
is all in.
SAYS UNCLE GAV
Now that the election la over and
your man has been triumphantly elect-
ed or whalloped to a good old fashioned
American standstill, now that the bay
of the politician is stilled and the faith-
- -J?"-"T e The
ther neighbors to go out and sit down
on the woodpile and
squarely ln the face.
As a matter of fact, there's no place
like the woodpile for getting at . the
truth of matters,- As Ez Springer used
to say back in Puckybuddle, if you'll
sit on a pile of hickory and smoke long
enough, somebody's going to forget and
tell the plain undressed truth. And the
naked truth about us is that we get ex
cited every four years trying to apply
political nostrums to a lot of aggravat
ed civic symptoms that don't respond to
political treatment. You can't cure a
broken lag with liniment, as old Doc
Souders said when he yanked the off
hind member of Deacon Simmons back
into shape with a pop that could be
heard clear to the postoffice, and If
there's one thing we Americans are long
on it's liniments for fractures.
Not long ago we were making a noise
that sounded like a catamount's love
song about the high cost of living.
Beefsteak for instance it costs me
three times as much for beefsteak as
it did thirty years ago. And since my
appetite has been educated up to a
sirloin cut from the ample frame of
fat-dripping pure bred, I wouldn't eat
a cross section of leathery longhorn at
any price. Neither would you, nor the
an jr iji ii-c. ci inci nuuiu uu, liur LlltJ I
washerwoman. Rubber steak has gone ,
out of fashion
even in the comic
weeklies.
It costs more for house rent nowa
days than it did twenty years ago.
But there's a street car line a block
away, the family wash tub no longer
does duty for the family bath, the
furnace has eclipsed the old wood
stove and the smoking coal oil lamp
has given way to the incandescent.
The clothes you wore when the eldest
was a babe you wouldn't give to the
ashman now. ThcV kept out the cold '
and you thought them good enough in
those days; but now you've got to have
the latest cut and the popular color
in the correct weave, and you kick be
cause you can't get it for $10. And so
it goes.-
It's all right to bust the trusts If
you can. Don't pay any more than you
have to, and keep a club laid up for
the man who wants more than his
share. But while you are getting ready
to whack the dividends out of the cor
poration remember for the peace of
your soul that if it costs you more to
live now, you're living better, and you
wouldn't go baeK to the rubber steak,
washtub- in- kitchen - on - Saturday-nights-shoddy-Sunday-clothes
stage of
existence If you could get it for noth
ing, with a free passage to heaven as a
premium coupon. (Copyright. 1912, by
the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Miss Yellowleaf Yes, ours is a very old
family. You know, we came over in the
MaVfldWPr. UTiaa raiiRtinn. T 3 I 1
did you er have a pleasant voyage? !
Customer What have you ln the way
of summer fiction? Newsdealer We
have the platform of all the parties and
the candidates' speeches. Life.
DAFEYDILS
BT TJ. NOALL.
If Jack, the sailor, used a mega
phone what would the sailor's horn
pipe? (Arrest that man for recklessness).
He's the boob that put the speed In
speedway.)
If the average American totes
around a thirst are the natives of
Austria Hungary ?
(As Oat Abar says: A set of false
teeth is an emblem of time.)
Would you call a bed made out of
fruit an apricot?
(I don't care. Call a cop.)
; MY BOX. ..
Gone is the loud din and noise,
Put away are all the toys.
All youthful things are out of sight.
One can't find a ball or kite.
No cap lays on the parlor chair.
No jacket on. the front hall stair.
No one slams the kitchen door.
No one spots the hallway floor.
I strain my ears to catch the sound
Of footsteps down the stairway bound.
But all is quiet overhead;
I cannot hear the slightest tread.
I miss my boy's loud, cheery call.
His whistle, merriment and all.
I miss the boyish face so dear.
The big gray eyes, serene and clear.
Tou wonder that I am not sad
And that my heart Is very glad?
You think 1 should regretful be,
Anl in my loss no goodness see?
To you the secret I will tell.
Assuring; you with me all's well:
My boy has grown to manhood tall,
So I am happy after all,
Olive Martin, in National Magazine for
October.
THE EVENING STORY
The Wild Irishman."
(By Maude J. Perkins.)
If Peggy had had proper pride she
would not have been dancing. She
had heard the hostess, Mrs. Lane.
whisper loudly to her cubbish nephew
Frank; "You have got to take out
Peggy, Martin that pink dowd, over
by the window she must have one
dance the next is a quadrille, no
doubt you can drag her through it
somehow."
She had flushed vividly, setting her
small teeth hard then improper pride
-" - - -------- r ,
I had come to her help. She had look-
eu rxank x-ane over nesitanuy ttuu
said at last: "O! I remember, you are
the Lane boy that is going to college.
You need practice, perhaps that M
why you are asking me. But I don't
mind the sacrifice being very good
natured."
Frank had gasped, half turning away.
But she had risen while speaking, to
stand lithe and slim, beside him, over
topping him half a head and feeling
herself insultingly tall. So he had had
nerw"n,
-, 2Z Z . w,ln B eriectiy wood Husband and
ail the other couples were chattering Three Remarkable Children met a
like mad. It did not need that studied Long Lost Friend of her Girlhood in a
affront , to put Peggy on her mettle, J tea room.
and in turn upon her very lightest,' Now the Friend of her Girlhood
trickiest feet. She loved to dance, was still a Spinster, or, as she pre
therefore she danced divinelv when the ' ferred to call It. a Bachelor Girl. In-
mood fell on her. Tonight after play-
ing wallflower until nearly midnight,
she was quite mad to be tripping it
wlth the rest. .
She did not dance-rather she floated.
This, according to one spectator, who
stood beside the musicians smiling
faintly. He bent toward them, mur-
muring something. Instantly the beat
changed. To the new rhythm the call-
er shrilled: "Wild Irishman! In!'' In-
stantlv the spectator had become an
ar-tni- tt tosh, in with a vonEanre.
snatching a swing here, balancing to
somebody's partner there, crowding
owav the lawful mate, darting wildly
lnto Diace ln tne grand chain, his eyes
11 lelv-
j feelin' himseIf ?ollowed by IingerI
ing glances. They were indeed his con
stant portion. Since he was one-and-
twenty, and came into his fortune, ev
ery girl in Mtnton, either home-bred o
outlander. had done her best to catch
him. Who would not when besides
the money, he had a fine old name, a
handsome person, and was withal, a
man of parts?
Back in the days of pigtails Peggy
had known his rather well. Fate had
cent him now, she felt, to avenge her
upon her slighters. She had been slight-
ed there, was no getting around it-
iietier not to nave asuea ner uimu
let her come and sit unnoticed till al-
most the end. She had realized bit- ! never heard of her. Speaking of pic
terly what was behind the asking it tures, I think Gretchen Is going to
was nav for the time and trouble she , nave artistic talent. She draws the
had spent on the supper and the dec
orations a week at the least. If she
had spent it for herself perhaps she
might not look the dowd she unques-
tionably did. Her pink frock, though J
fine enough, was at least four year-' j
behind the fashion. Her hands were j
so 'stained she had perforce to wear
thick gloves, and at the last minute j
she found her only good pair of white
ones quite too soiled. She had bee'i
hnrrow hpr borrowings fit-
ted badly and were openly cheap. Fur-
tner, sne naa not lasen ume io uj
uo her hair properly-lt was stringy!
...v. v,ii wnw hi,t
. : I - . .-j-j m w
sne naa not minueu unni sne iau
out. the difference It all made.
If she was almost abjectly poor, ,
and worked for a living, hitherto no- j
body ln Minton had made her feel i. .
keenly, not even thrifty Mrs. Lane,
who led society in virtue of her thrift.
She made three times the show ol
other folks who had four times her '
money. Witness her dinner cards cost I
her nothing. Peggy did them out o
pure gratitude, yet Mrs. Lane knew
. .1 .1 t.AW li.rlnw Kit cunh nrflflr
Mrs. line told her conscience Peggy j
.,t.i-v,iv, , nntor. !
BUU auc.....B
lOUSiy costly. Aisu max one ucurc'
was lustified in such economies. Was
she not putting her brother's boys
through college?
It had cut her deeply when their
sister had eloped at seventeen with an
actor who had mistaken her for an
heiress. Divorce had smoothed out the
mistake after a sort now, after a
decent interval, Helen had re-entered
society in the stricest confidence be it
said with the set purpose of marrying
again. This time she had set her heart
on Logan Wyeth the tall fellow now
playing Wild Irishman.
He had danced with her three times.
She had elected to sit out the quadrille
and had done her best to keep him be
side her. He had escaped with all suav
ity; experience here is a friend indeed.
He nad Bllmpsed Peggy, sitting alone,
once or twice; and was starting In
search of her, when he saw her floating
and flittering despite her lumpish part
ner. "I resign! Frank you are a wild
Irishman!" he said, when he had Peg
gy by both hands, swinging her on tip
toe. It was a child's trick one he had
taught her.
Frank tried to protest. Wyeth waved
him contemptuously away, and swept
Peggy Into the next figure.
Peggy looked up at him saying plain
tively: "You are wicked to spoil my
only dance. That ocf" nodding towards
her late partner "has neither' head
nor feet. All he can do 1 sto bun
gle and ruin everything."
"Poor little honey-drop! It Is turning
all to vinegar! But I don't wonder,
Wyeth answered laughing softly.
Frank, indeed, was showing a lack of
head and feet he had rushed like a
bull at the very next pair of dancers,
snatched thi young woman violently
from her partner, and pushed him to
ward the middle of the floor. Then
the ejected one came back so stoutly
that the dance might have ended In
fisticuffs, but that Wyeth intervened.
At his whisper, the depossessed one
smiled, nodded and took up the con
tested role. And thus it fell out that
Peggy finished the quadrille with such
grace and fire and spirit, onlookers for
got the era of her frock, the wrinkles
in her gloves everything but that here
was a sprite who danced like thistle
down. Partners crowded about her. Wyeth
did not give way for them. Rather,
he stood a little back of her, saying
authoritatively to the applicant, "Go
to grass! Think I've raised Pegsy to
let her waste herself on you lummoxes?
Wait! Until after supper! I have to ,ee
that she is properly fed. Tou didn't
know that I owned her? Neither did I
until I saw her dancing. She had
got so grand and grown up thought
my girl was clean lost. Now " A
laugh and a nod emphasized the change
of attitude.
Peggy was properly fed and shame
to relate, ate as well as she danced.
This though her heart was out-dancing
her feet, her whole world swimming in
a rosy-golden mist. She knew whereof
Bhe ate having had such a hand in
ttVOPV t Yl 1 T1 0 XH7-wm4- I , 1 , V.
. . j v...... jcui oilmen lo.i.Liij' o.a i.u
followed her leadings in his choice of
things. He also had an appetite, truly
disgraceful for a man who had sudden
ly found himself fathoms deep in love.
As they strolled out on the lawn away
from the supper crowd, he patted Peg-
j gy's arm softly, saying in her ear.
Now
I don't mind you growing up! Not the
j least. If you had not grown up you
j wouldn't be able to cook such adorable
things
"Indeed!" Peggy interrupted with the
least lift of the eyebrows.
He nodded, bent and kissed her,- say
ing with a little tremor, "If you will be
very good why! you may cook for me
all the rest of my life.
rwa- met T'n " ,, ..
, ?f ! ?r ve up to the
( . aoJ cicuuiub
sigh.
Mrs. Helen Lane-Vere, after a look
in their faces, also sighed but deeply
and without pretense. (Copyright 1912
by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
i .? . Mamed iy
i stead of a Perfectly Good Husband
: and Three Remarkable Children she
j f.fjL8- Vocation. She painted Minia-
! ' -?JlveZ. ,m
; Angora Cats. UKlur lrl ana
Now ftep these TwQ h a
fanen upon each other.g necks ln true
Frlend-of-one's-Glrlhood style, they
drew off and began to talk as fast as
: they could.
1 For awhile each one asked questions
' about the other's Special Interests and
Pretended to listen to the answer, hut
before very long they began to act
"ore Natural, and this is the way the
i dialogue ran:
I Ane Marrl Lady: My dear, you
j SfftWoSS STb? reeVhIt
nl Ule yardfor' "the
babies to play in!'
Girlhood Friend: "Is that- so? I
wish I had a yard for my cats, but I
have to give them, their airing on the
roor."
The Married Lady: "Is that so?
Ruth has a little kitten. I wish you
could see her play with it. She's too
cunning for anything."
Girlhood Friend: "Yes. dear. I
know she must be. I've been painting
some pictures of children lately. They
are ratner bard subjects, but Mrs. L.
, thought I did wonders with her little
j girl. You probably know Mrs. L., the
, surrrage leaaer ?
The Married Lady: "No, dear, I
nicest pictures on her slate. You can
almost guess what they are meant for
without her telling you."
Girlhood Friend: "How nice! My
othei. day. the type you used to
iove ,jark hair and gTey eyeg and
thin. And so Interesting!"
The Married Lady: "How nice! Do
you know my husband has grown
quite fat. I tell him I shall have to
get another cook if this one has that
effect on him. We have the best cook
dear. I met the stunnlngest man the
. j . . ,
I" town I do be lieve We got her at
- ------- ---- ,
Girlhood Friends: "Did you really?
-As I ws saying, that man is one of
the most Interesting: DeoDle I ever met.
He Is a journalist and he knows the
nicest people. He promised to have
a tea ln hlg studio and lnvlte some of
them to meet me."
The Married Lady: "Did he really?
r used to go to a lot of teas, myself,
but I can't now I have the babies.
You know Gretchen is rather sickly.
She is only five and has had the
measles, the mumps, whooping cough
and scarlet fever already.'
At this juncture the Girlhood Friend
remembered an appointment, and
'"Ply and promised to meet
Ador
again Soon.
That night the Married Ladv told
her Perfectly Good Husband that she
had met her Girlhood Friend. "And
she paints pictures and goes around
with Bohemian people," she said. "And
she can't talk of anything else. I nev
er saw anyone so self centered."
That night the Bachelor Girl told
the Other Bachelor Girl that she had
met her Married Lady Friend. "And
all she could talk about was her hus
band a"d the babies, just like all the
rest, btrange how narrow
married
women get!"
And do you know.
.na uo jou Know, neitner met
the
csacneior uin nor tne jyiarnea iaay
ever suspected that she was the least
bit funny
QUAKER MimTTATIOXS.
rFrom the Philadelphia Record.
A hleh-handed proceeding Winning a
jackpot.
It's the man of many parts who some
times goes all to pieces.
The holy bonds of matrimony some
times merely Indicate a merger.
Having a raft of friends is the only thing
that keeps somo people afloat.
Many a woman who otherwise has ex
cellent sight can't see through her own
husband.
When a girl Is as pretty as a picture it
may be because she does her own develop
ing. He had kissed her hand. "Sir, your ac
tion Is entirely out of place," she com
plained, petulantly.
When a musician takes a rest at the end
of a bar he feels like putting his foot on
the brass rail.
Many a fellow boasts that he never
drinks alone, because he always waits for
Fomebody to a3k him.
Blobbs "Guzzler is rather shallow; don't
you ...link so?" Slobbs "Well, it's mighty
hard to get him full."
Wigg "She looks like a woman with a
history." Wagg "No, it's an encyclo
paedia.. I happen to know she's a boo
agent." '
EVENING CHAT I
j BT 813TH CiM-KOX
KANSAS COMMENT
MISDIRECTED RESEARCH.
There have been various methods
employed by humanity in dealing with
wickedness and crime. But an Okla
homa woman has come into promi
nence by adopting what is perhaps
the most unique method of preventing
crime that is on record in the world's
history. She shot and killed her 10-year-old
son in order "to protect him
from the wicked world." Some of
these educational sharks who are;
making careful research for bones of
lost animals that will never harm
anyone in this world or any other, are
making the greatest mistake of their
11 auuatuH metr lime. i ney
should be establishing a laboratory
with research facilities to rlnri
why it is that red blooded human be-.
..... v. l.BC V. V..-., J ,a
they believe they can prevent crime
bV Committing frfrn.. Cnr1.1. 4. M
to be one brand of Insanity. It may
j be true. But apparently sane men
, and women have been known to com-
! .. ....JJ, 3 m. - -
eu.iiu.ts. i ne iervor i or aeit-ue-
siruction as a means to prevent an
end has never been fully explained.
This woman's crime waa far worse
man suicide. Things like these show
the urgent need of more sanity com
missions and a compulsory care of
such patients. Ottawa Herald.
ABOUT TRUANCY.
Nothing Is more honorable than for a
boy or girl to remain out of school for a
day to help about the home If really
needed, but there are too nutny boys and
girls missing a day out of school now and
then when they should be ln school. The
truancy officer is receiving too many calls.
If some one had to pay a fine It might be
a lesson to some parents who are per
mitting their children to remain out of
school for almost no reason. If parents
wouid only stop and consider, they would
realize that it is not what the boy earns
before he is 20 that counts in life. Up to
that time he can well afford to give his
time to preparation. Let him get ready
for the work that the world will deman t
of him. He can afford to be pinched for
spending money, for clothing, for lux
uries, and for good times while ln hu
teens, in order to make preparation for the
battle that Is sure to come. He would
better shipwreck some of the youth's good
times rather than shipwreck a life Many
a young person Is hindered rather thau
helped by too much spending money. The
time Is here when the young man who
goes Into the world without at least a
good common school education, we. I
soaked in, is going to be handicapped all
the rest of his life. He may become wls
in the ways of the world but no amount
of such wisdom can ever equal a good
practical education that can be had by
all. "Ignorance is one of the mainsprings
of poverty and crime." Newton Kansan
Republican. AGRICULTURAL sr-HonT.9
The agricultural schools of America are
receiving the attention of foreigners. We
are informed by a party of Englishmen
who have been in this country for some
time, that there are no such schools
anywhere else in the world; that our
agricultural colleges are addlne- million
and millions of dollars to the wealth of
the United States, and that they are so
thoroughly practical that they are to be
duplicated in England. In reporting the
conditions found in this country, the Eng
lish commission states that "The unrival
ed position of Wisconsin In the produc
tion of cheese and butter is the direct re
sult of the scientific teaching happily
wedded to prudent legislation." Then it
calls attention to the fact that the agri
cultural college of Wisconsin has added
many millions of dollars to the wealth
of the state ln other lines as well as by
creating the increased output of cheese
and butter. Like everything else that is
a true reform, the agricultural schools of
this country have not been established
without opposition. There are still many
who ask ,"Can agriculture be taught?"
ttriu every appropriation tor every agri
cultural school in the land is contested.
And yet it takes a foreigner but a
few weeks to understand that we have
no institution in this country paying its
way to a greater extent than are our
schools of agriculture. Jollet Herald.
NOT THELAST WORD.
The New York, which for a short time
Is to be the nation's greatest battleship,
has been launched and the people of the
United States are Justly proud. The New
York will have a displacement of 28,367
tons and will carry ten 14-lnch guns as
her principal armament. She will cost
$10,000,000. It is possible that when com
pleted she will be the most powerful
battleship afloat. This Is a matter for
experts, and it depends on many things.
on the quality of the guns she carries
and the American standard is not yet up
to the German on the efficiency of her
gunners, on the Judsment used In de
signing her. But she will not be the
largest battleship afloat, at least not
for long. Brazil has today under con
struction a battleship which Is to oe or
32,000 tons displacement carry a dozen
14-inch guns, and cost $14,600,000. Chile Is
building two 30,000-ton ships each to carry
ten 14-lnch guns. This is not in the way
of disparagement of the American
achievement in naval construction, but
simply to call attention to t:-.e futility of
the plans or those wno prate aDout tne
last word in battleship building. Detroit
Free press.
HUMOR OF THE DAY
Tailor's Retort. "Clothes don't make
the man," said the careless customer.
No," replied the tailor, ruefully. "But
some men have a queer look about em
that makes 'em the ruination of a suit
of clothes." Washington Star.
Pallet tells me his work has been hung
on the line." "So has his wife's." "iJoes
she paint, too?" "No; she takes in wash
ing." Baltimore American.
Tonne Tjidv What Is the secret of your
hannv Ufa with both vout husbands two
men? Old Lady-Why I
guess I wasn't fussy over trifles.
....
then I let them nave tneir own w,
sometimes. They thought they alwavs
did. Cleveland Plain. Dealer.
Uncle Ezra These women are always
wanting something. Uncle Eben That s
right. My wife's pestering me to death
to buy more land. She says the ten-acre
field ain't big enough to hang out the
washing ln during the harvest season.
Puck.
"I'd like to be a candidate for your
hand " "You would?" "Yes; If I thought
there was any chance Id shy my hat
into the ring." "Let me see the ring,
saw thl .-Washington Herald.
"How did you come to bid so extrava
gantly on so poor a hand?" asked the
patient partner. "Humph!" returned
Mrs Flimgilt. "You didn't suppose I was
eoin'g to let that woman on my right
have the last word, did you ?"-Washington
Star.
Didn't Stay Put. Irate Woman (to bird
dealer) As for you, you're a thief! All
those canaries you sold me yesterday flew
away this morning." Sourire.
"So you don't believe that truth is at
the bottom of a well?" asked the ready
made philosopher. "No," replied Senator
Sorghum; "if It were so many of us
wouldn't have to climb a tree to get out
of its reach." Washington Star.
FROM OTHER PENS