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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURNAL DECEMBER, 4, 1912
dirpeha ?latp Journal
By FRANK P. HAOLENNAN.
tEntered July 1. 1875. as seeond-clasa
matter at the postolTice at Topeka, Kan .
under the act of congress, j
VOLUME XXXIV No. 290
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jal btdJdlng over wires (er this sola par-
Why ptit off your Christmas shop
pins until next week or the week af
ter? Do it now.
An Arkansas woman . is the proud
possessor ct George Washington's
trunk. There's one, anyway, that the
baggage-smashers have missed.
Where the government weather
men shine is In. discussing weather
conditions in an Interesting fashion
after they have become a fact.1
Presumably every man who voted
for Governor-elect Hodges is of the
opinion that he cast one of the 29
votes that defeated Mr. Capper.
California never ceases booming its
Invalid Immigration business. A car
load of painted California oranges
has Just been seized in the East.
"What have we to do with abroad?"
shouted a Texas statesman not so
many years ago. Well, about four
billion dollars' worth of commerce,
this year, for one thing.
There is room for doubt that the
Governor of New Jersey said to the
Governor of Bermuda what the Gov
ernor of North Carolina said to the
Governor of South Carolina.
Following the footballers in the
world of sport, the cornhuskers are
now having their innings. Nels John
son, of near Salina, claims to have
turned in 2,825 bushels in 28 days.
Next!
More evidence that every rule has at
least one exception: Along comes a New
Torker who asks for a divorce because
he is tired of the silence of his wife.
She has not spoken to him for eleven
years.
Turkey has at last found an ally,
but, of course, not among men. It is
the approach of winter which is usu
ally most cruelly cold and severe in
the regions where the war is being
fought.
Many wrathy explosions are sure to
come from the old fashioned folk over
the pronouncement of Dr. Naismith, a
physical culture expert, that walking
is a tiresome exercise, not especially
beneficial.
Such strides has the universal peace
movement failed to take that the people
generally are becoming familiar with
"'pour parlers," "protocol" and other
unusual words, and phrases that the ex
perts use in connection with the wind
ing up of scraps between nations.
Without doubt, it will be impossible
to distinguish any of the 74 farmers in
the forthcoming legislature from the
"bankers or professional men just on
their personal appearance. The Kansas
farmer is anything but the "hayseed"
that is depicted by the jokesmiths.
Even though the present session of
congress is certain to be a short one,
it will be about as expensive to the
people of the nation as those of longer
duration that have gone on before. Ap
propriations aggregating more than one
billion dollars will be made during its
brief course.
In their plans to reduce the water
fates, the city commissioners are trav
elling along the right track. There is
no sufficient reason why the rates for
a municipally conducted water ser
vice should be- higher than are neces
sary to pay the expenses of the plant.
For a city to make a profit on such a
service is a practice that is entirely
wrong.
With the governorship and majori
ties in the senate and house In their
possession, the Democrats of Kansas
will have none but themselves to
blame If they fail to deliver the goods
at the forthcoming session of the leg
islature. Probably they'll get into
such a scrap amongst themselves that
they won't accomplish much. And
this will only be following Democratic
precedents.
All possible assistance should be given
by everyone " to the crusade which has
been begun by the railroads against the
present extensive slaughter of calves in
Kansas. That is one of the reasons
why the production of beef cattle is de
cidedly on the decrease in the Sunflower
state. Not only does this help to keep
up the price of meat, but cattle are
also among the most valuable adjuncts
that a farmer can have for the re
juvenation of him soli.
TOPEKA'S FACTORY FUND.
Excellent success has attended the
beginning of the effort of the Com
mercial club to raise a credit fund of
$250,000 that it is planned to use in
the development of Topeka as an In
d atrial and business center. And
surely little difficulty should be ex
perienced in obtaining the balance.
For this is one of the most substantial
moves that has ever been made to
place this city on an equal footing
with the many thriving cities in the
central west Topeka is blessed with
every advantage for progressing in
dustrially that is possessed by any of
these cities, and also enjoys come that
are superior to any held by these
friendly rivals which are devoting
such forceful energies nowadays for
pre-eminence in the industrial arena-
Here is a plan, tried with success
in other cities, where the subscribers
to the fund only pay In an exceedingly
small percentage of their subscrip
tions in cash. They merely pledge
their credit for the remainder of their
subscription. And the credit thus
pledged is to be used in the main for
extensions to existing industries in
the city so that they can develop to
larger proportions, or to outside con
cerns that are looking for new loca
tions, and which may need such credit
for working capital to place them
selves securely on their feet. So many
safeguards are thrown around the use
of this credit fund, that it is almost
inconceivable that any of the sub
scribers to it will ever lose a penny.
But the Ideal subscription list
would contain the names of many
men for small amounts rather than
the names of a few for large sums. In
fact, a maximum for subscriptions has
been set by the promoters of the plan.
But many subscribers for small sums
would create the desirable condition
that in the event of their ever having
to make good any of the credit ex
tended, the burden of loss would be
infinitesimal on each subscriber and
one that it would not pinch him to
sustain.
Then, too, in times past when any
funds have been raised in Topeka for
any sort of an undertaking the biggest
of their burden has always been car
ried by the Topekans in mercantile
pursuits and the bankers, together
with a small sprinkling of professional
men who have always been loyal and
generous in the boosting of the good
old town. But this plan to develop
Topeka as an industrial center is one
if successful and there Is no reason
why it should not be that will be of
material advantage to almost every
man or woman in the city. It means
a bigger Topeka, bigger in population
and therefore in every other way. This
means more business for every man
in town, whether he be a retail mer
chant, a wholesaler, a Jobber, a real
estate agent, an insurance agent of
either variety, a doctor, a lawyer, or
any other variety of a professional
man. There are also many property
owners in Topeka who are not engaged
in any active business or profession. A
growing Topeka means an enchance
ment of their property values, includ
ing remunerative rentals.
All such people of means in Topeka
should be subscribers to this credit
fund. And If all or most of them
fhould subscribe it could be raised
three times over by the end of the
week and in proportions that would
not be burdensome under any exigency
to any individual subscriber. '
THE NEW VITALISM.
There seems to have been of late
years a marked reaction, even among
men of science, from the mechanistic
conception of life as held by a certain
band of scientists to which I have re
ferred, writes John Burroughs, in the
December number of the North Amer
ican Review. Something like a new
vitalism is making headway both on
the continent and in Great Britain.
This neo-vitalism has found a forceful
expounder in Prof. Arthur Thompson
of Aberdeen university, who has re
cently written convincingly, in favor of
this view in the Hibbert Journal. Prof.
Bunge, Dr. Haldane, Dr. Driesch,
whom he quotes, urge that biological
problems "defy any attempt at a me
chanical explanation." These men
stand for the idea "of the creative In
dividuality of organisms" and that the
main factors in organic evolution can
hot be accounted for by the forces al
ready operative in the inorganic
world. What standing the new vital
ism has among the scientific men of
this country I have little means of
knowing.
When we regard all the phenomena
cf life and the spell it seems to put
upon inert matter, so that it behaves
so differently from the same matter
befo.e it is drawn Into the life circuit,
how it lifts up a world of dead par
ticles out of the soil against gravity
into trees and animals; how it
changes the face of the earth; how It
coi..;s and goes while matter stays;
how it defies chemistry and physics to
evoke it from the nonliving; how its
departure, or cessation, lets the mat
ter fall back to the inorganic when
we consider these and others like
them we seem compelled to think of
life as something, some force or prin
ciple in itself, as M. Bergson does, ex
isting apart from the matter it ani
mates. As Sir Oliver Lodge does also.
We may class Sir Oliver among the
neo-vitalists from a remark he is re
ported to have made recently about
"the thing which by interaction with
matter confers on it what we know as
vitality. ... It does not appear to
be a form of energy, but certainly is
a guiding principle, utilizing the
forces known to chemistry and phys
ics and all the ordinary laws of nature
for ends which appear to lie outside
tne known laws of the
world."
physical
"DEAR SIR" AND NECKTIES.
Scientific management that carries
efficiency to absurd lengths gets a
humorous but significant rap in "The
March of Events" in the World's Work
for December, as follows:
One of the organizations to promote
business efficiency is attacking the
waste of time and work caused by
using "Dear Sir" and "Yours truly" and
such phrases at the beginning and at
the end of letters; and it reports that
one business house estimates thaf It
spends $6,000 a year In requiring its
typewriters to use these conventional
phrases. Should we not all save hy
omtting themf
Of course, men would save time al30
by leaving off neckties and buttons on
the sleeves of their coats and many
other conventional things. Figure up !
the necktie bilL There are about fifty
million males in the United States
alone. Let us assume that half of them
wear neckties at least sometimes. If
every one of these twenty-five millions t
have only one necktie a year and tnat
cost only 25 cents there's a waste of
six and a quarter million dollars a year.
Waste? Of course, it's waste. For a
necktie does not keep a man warm.
Follow the matter further. Let us as
sume that every one of these twenty
five million wearers of neckties con
sumes a minute a day in tying his tie.
you have 385 minutes a year, or more .
than 6 hours. Twenty-five million times j
SiX IlUUrS LUIJ C& WHIZ 111 4.ULO.A -
150 million hours a year wasted tying
ties. You may figure it out for your
self how many lifetimes are thus con
sumed. Efficiency? Yes, by all means, but let
us temper It with common sense and
courtesy.
JOURNAL ENTRIES
When a woman's hat is on straight
these days it's generally on wrong.
A person who talks incessantly is
not necessarily a good conversation
alist. Every old bachelor Is cock sure he
can rightly advise a man how to man
age a wife.
Neither is there much cheering nor
excitement in college when its team
wins a debate.
What has become of the old fash
ioned man who thought the minister
at his church the best preacher on
earth?
JAYHAWKER JOTS
People .ho get mad and won't speak
to their eliemies may be rather accom
modating than revengeful, thinks the
Ellinwood Leader.
It Is only fair to presume, thinks the
Downs Times, that the first time a
young man is intoxicated with love, he
means what he says.
Louis Valentine, of the Clay Center
Times, who recently renounced the Joys
of bachelorhood, is still so enthusiastic
over the move he made that he cheer
fully insists: "It isn't much of a job
to build a fire in a cook stove in the
morning."
Political philosophy from the Nor
ton County News: When a man leaves
one political party for another the
party to which he goes acclaims him
as having always been a leader and a
shining light, while the party he leaves
just as stoutly asserts that he "never
amounted to much, anyway."
Observations by GHck Fockele in
the Le Roy Reporter: To see yourself
as others see you, don't look in a
mirror. Run for office. Many
a man has solved the problem of liv
ing by turning his check over to his
wife. An honest confession
may be good for the soul but It is
mighty hard on the reputation some
times. Another trouble with
the closet in which the family skeleton
reposes the door Just naturally won't
stay shut.
GLOBE SIGHTS
BT THB ATCHISON GLOBE.
Some of our sympathy goes to those
who live in a country where a fur
overcoat Is a household necessity.
You are pretty smart, but, if you
stay at home a good deal, the chances
are your oldest boy can lose you in
geography.
A man who can conceal the fact
that he chews tobacco shouldn't wor
ry about any of the secrets in his Dark
Past.
There are so many different kinds
of homes that the hired girl doesn't
always wish to be treated as one of the
family.
As one grows older, the Greatest
Show on Earth doesn't seem nearly
so great as it did years ago when it
was smaller.
Take it from the shoe ads., there are
many shoes which fit the feet, regard
less of the testimony of your corn on
the case.
Few reporters are students of hiero
glyphics, although one might think
otherwise from viewing their note
books. Almost everyone is opposed to child
labor, besides feeling that loafing for
older folks should be more encour
aged. Jude Johnson is so lazy he would
rather meet death In the electric chair
than by hanging, as he doesn't care to
do anything unless he can sit down
to It.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
Mules seldom kick without cause.
Tariff legislation cannot effect the
wages of sin.
To the victim belongs the privilege
of paying the freight.
There are more lemons than plums
in the political orchard.
It's downright difficult for, some
men to live an upright life nowadays.
Brown October for the poets; blue
November for the defeated candidates.
When a girl knows that a young
man loves her she always pretends to
doubt it
Considering the kind of man she
marries, it is no wonder the average
bride blushes.
Many a man who has more money
than brains is on the ragged edge of
bankruptcy.
A woman does not question her
husband's judgment after she breaks
into the widow class.
There are more crazy men than
crazy women probably because the
latter change their minds so often.
DAFFYDILS
BT TJ. WOALL.
Can an Englishman do everything
that an American?
(Ouch, Doc! That hit the nerve.)
If a letter gets angry does the postage-stamp?
(Take that guy to the crazy house.
He's the boob that put the nut In nut
meg.) If an automobile is a complex piece
of machinery is an aeroplane ? . -(XU-lly
"round the flag, boys.)
RY THE WAY
BT HARTET PARSONS.
The Family tree is the most peculiar
vegetable on the job. Prunes, nuts,
lemons and hubbard squashes some
times grow on the same branch.
At least one gent who is perfectly
willing to "look 'em over" has been
heard from. He wants a complete list
of all appointive state and national
Jobs. The fact that these jobs will be
distributed by low-browed Democrats
does not seem to frighten him in .the
least.
"If I had ten-thousand scads to
sped, I blow the wad on you" would
be more effective, in the present, than
the moth-eaten original "ten-thousand
lives." No girl wants a man to live
ten thousand lives for her. He would
be too darned old before he finished
the first half a life.
About one hundred hunters, guides
and innocent bystanders were bagged
during the north woods game season.
Incidentally, a few deer were nipped
by bullets that went wild.
We have discovered a new poet. He
is Mr. Kelley, of the justly celebrated
Toronto Republican. His verse has a
swing to it, and could be played on a
pianola. There is also a kick to it,
and he has Rudyard Kipling out on the
end of a limb.
To Leon McArthur: Bark not when
the line-o man corrects your copy.
Guessing what the line-o man will do
to your pet paragraph is about the
most exciting sport a newspaper gink
enjoys.
Were it not for the line-o man, we
would be at loss for those words
"shrdlu" and "etaoin," to rhyme with
the names of some of the towns men
tioned in Balkan war news.
The Ohio gentleman who wants to
make a collection of Kansas lies,
should experience little trouble in mak
ing a selection, unless he hesitates
between a choice of Tom McNeal and
Dave Leahy. But that is merely a
choice of author. Both series are
good.
New York man who asked for a di
vorce just because his wife hadn't
spoken to him for 11 years. Is hereby
suggested for the first prize as "most
unreasonable gook in the world."
A man who is as unreasonable as
that doesn't deserve such luck.
A simp who couldn't go out and ped
dle $5 gold pieces at $3.79 per copy, has
no business trying to sell a book and
that goes double when the book is of
his own manufacture from front cover
to Exodus. But It begins to look like
we would make enough out of "By
The Way" to square It with the en
graver and the publisher, and maybe
get a pair of new shoes to boot. (Rot
ten pun, nace paw?) The secret is:
Have on hand a bunch of perfectly
good friends, who, with no hopes of
reward, will spend time and brains in
an effort to boost you along. If their
friendship is strong enough, they see
your feeble efforts through a magnify
ing glass. A boob . gets along just
about as well as a , wise man, if he
has the right bunch of guardians.
Having exhausted his supply of col
lar bones. Barney Old field has gone
back to breaking records.
And, as a further sport item, we
hasten to add that it is reported that
Doc Andrews is about to meet his
Waterloo.
r
EVENING CHAT
BT KDTH CAKHROIf.
J
"When you get Into a tight place and
everything goes against you until it seems
you cannot hold on a minute longer, never
give up then, for that is just the place
and time that the tide will turn." Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
"Sometimes hit's a mighty good thing to
be de lowes" spoke In de Wheel uv EVr
tune; you jes' bleedged to come up, no
matter which away de wheel turns."
Of all the proverbs that pack our lan
guage it seems to me there Is none with
more real meaning in It than this:
"It's always darkest just before dawn."
uay before yesterday I had one of those
days when nothing happens as it shouid,
when one calamity follows hotly upon the
heels of another, in short, "when every
thing ggoes dead wrong."
The employment bureau which had
promised to send me a first class maid
sent out a slatternly and brazen creature
who smelled unmistakably of brandy; the
maid who was departing avenged her
self by breaking -my favorite vase; she
also left the ice box door open and th3
cat stole the dinner; I went shopping an-1
found I was Just too late to avail myself
of a rare bargain in a long-coveted article
for which I cannot afford to pay the full
nrlee- the Dostman brought me a bill
which was about twice what I expected.
and a letter irom a aear lricnu ius
she would have to give up the visit we
had planned; the drainage got stopped up;
I walked two miles to Interview a maid
about whom I had heard only to find she
had taken a position an hour ago; and
bitterest drop of all. I came home so tired
and exasperated that I lost my temper
completely and finished the day by saying
disagreeable things to those I love best in
the world. . . ,
I went to bed absolutely disheartened
and wondering what there was in the
world worth living for.
That was day before yesterday, and ye3
trday was a golden day. For, as it alwayn
does, the tide having reached Its lowest
ebb, turned and came flooding in, bearing
ail sorts of blessings.
I have chronicled these two days so
fully because I think they are typical !n
the lives of all of us. Into every life
there comes Just about once in so often
nn rf thosn uttnrln- disheartening days:
but isn't it Just as' sure that a day like
this is almost always followed by a day of
successes and blessings, of peace and hap
piness? .
When the tide has reached Its lowest
ebb it simply must turn; "it's always
darkest Just before dawn."
Nor is this true merely of separate days
and of trifling annoyances. It is also true
of long periods in our lives and of great
sorrows.
The happiest time of my life came to u.e
just after I had emerged from my greatest
grief. My most successful year followed
one of complete discouragement.
Is today one of those days of trial and
annoyance for you?
Is this year one of your years of grief
and discouragement?
Courage, comrade, try to remember "It's
always darkest Just before dawn."
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
When a fat woman cuts out pota
toes she calls it eating no more than a
bird.
What makes a girl afraid to be in
the dark with a man is if he's the
wrong one.
When a man can write big checks it
never worries him not to be able to
write poetry.
A DIAGNOSIS
i . . . .
uT'"ow naa tin a little wmie
I haven't hn . i.v., .
x naven t been sure of It till within a day
or SO.
I'd felt some symptoms of it, in a dim,
I uncertain way.
Since first I read the ad about the medi
; cine one dav.
Last week, however, I struck on the most
convincing ad
And now 1 know I've got it, and I know
I've got4it bad.
At first I thought I saw some floating
I specs before my eyes,
j And then I'd feel that lassitude each
morning when I'd rise;
auu i i Kept on reading aas aooui man s
awful ills
Until I found I suffered from dumb fever,
aches and chills;
I noticed that full feeling for an hour
succeeding meals
I felt the way a man in gravest Illness
always feels.
Why, I've had the symptoms; I've had
buzzing in the head.
And sudden loss of temper; can't remem
ber what I've read;
My feet will often "go to sleep"; my fin
gertips get numb
I shouldn't doubt if I should be both
paralyzed and dumb.
And, as I say, last week I struck the most
convincing ad
I don't know what may all me, but I
know I've got it bad.
I've written to the doctor for that medi
cine of his
I'm ready to acknowledge that it's what
he says it is.
I've got my letter written, telling what
I have endured;
My picture has been taken, and I'm ready
to be cured.
I've suffered all the symptoms that the
other patients had
I only know I've got it, and I know I've
got it bad.
Chicago Post.
THE EVENING STORY
A Widow for Love.
(By Marian Pel ham Waters.)
"You insufferable " Ellaline began,
emphasizing scorn with a stamp of the
foot, a small foot, and light stepping.
Agnew noted it approvingly. "As good
a way to show it as any," he commented
letting his eyes rest upon it.
Ellaline snatched back the dainty mem ber,
saying with a tremor she tried to
hide: "Go on! Insult me as much as you
like you know I have nobody "
"But me your betrothed," Agnew lnter
reputed lazily, then his eyes growing grave:
"Suppose we stop clawing each other and
talk sense for well, say three minutes? it
might be profitable,
"i nate anytning prontaoie," Ellaline strong and virile. Therein lies the safe
cried passionately guard of the race's future, and all ef
queried1" suppose?" Agnew forta to educate admiration for strength
She shook her head, panting out between 1 and self-reliance and vigorous self-asset
teeth: "No my name! My wretched, sertion out of children result in perver
wretched name! It was wickedly cruel to 1 sion.
call any poor infant after an Aunt Ella . The so-called money-madness with
and an Aunt Adaline." I which we are told Americans are af-
Agreed, unanimously," Agnew an- fl,tpd tn djrect result of the mis
swered, nodding. "But have you thought ,e,' 13 t , V,t ,
since we can't change baptismal regis- guided attempts to force upon the
ters, there may be compensation in chang- young of the last generation a molly
ing the other end?" I coddle view of ethics and morals. Our
: waiiea .nuiaiine. x nave hoc necn
allowed to think of anything else. Mother
is at me morning, noon and night; says I
shall fly in the face of Providence, and
deserve all the bad luck in the world if I
dare to think of upsetting the plan of my
poor dead kinfolk "
"it was odd, both those dear women
loving and losing my father, and trying in
this way to give me their money," Agnew
said thoughtfully. "Never heard of juat
such another case. Say, though do you
hate me on eeneral nrinclDles. or lust as
I we hate the things that are 'so good for
us?"
"I believe I hate you fifty thousand
dollars' worth," Ellaline sobbed. "You
don't know how the money has weighed
on me how it has put me outside. Moth
er has said so many times: "El'line is go
ing to have so much hereafter, she can do
without now.' That has made Tom and
Bess, and even little Florry, envy me. In
deed they almost hate me because of the
wretched money. I'd give it to them
gladly If only I had the power."
"Sure?" Agnew asked.
She nodded. He turned away, silent.
Next minute she heard him riding away.
Unaccountably her heart sank as sue
listened. If he never came again good-by
to all hope of ease. By refusing to marry
him she would forfeit all claim to their
joint inheritance. He had come for a
final decision and gone away heaped with
her scorn.
Sne did not see him for three days.
Then his face was very grave. "I've been
looking deep," he said. "There is no get
ting around that will. It was made joint
ly, you know. Whoever drew it left no
loopholes. Unless we marry each other
we get nothing. I thought, by refusing I
could give you all of it "
"You don't think I would have let you?"
Ellaline burst in.
He smiled. "Even you are not proof
against the logic of accomplished facts. '
he said. "Neither is that bother of a will.
My proposition is this: Let's get married
right away and draw straws as to who
shall have the money. It vests in us in
stantly. The knot tied, we can do as we
like divide, toss up, what we will and of
course play quits. Divorce is cheap and
easy in the right state."
"A grass widow! Never! Why, I think
they are horrible," Ellaline began.
Agnew shrugged ' slightly. "I can't do
any better." he murmured apologetically,
"of course if I were mad I would make
you a real widow for love."
- "Don't say such dreadful things. As
though I would let you kill yourself. Why,
I would rather " stopping there, Ella
line blushed a bright poppy-scarlet she
was so amazed to find there was an altr
native more horrible than marriage with
Agnew.
He glanced at her, narrowly but cove-t-
ly, and hurried on: "Suppose we toss for
It if I win. it is marry me, and divorce
me. If you well, tho money win go i
straight to the missionaries. At least t
suppose so you could never bring your
self to tolerate tne otner tningr
Let me think! Hard!" Ellaline entreat
ed, putting her hands over her eyes. .She
sat so for five minutes, then the handd
ieu and sne tooKea at Agnew. ie was
staring Into the fire, his face very white.
"We we need not toss," she began in a
small voice rather tremulous. "I agree-
to your plan. We can tell everybody we
quarreled on the wedding trip so found
out our mistake."
"So we can." Agnew assented; then rls
lne. "We had better make haste. Only
three weeks of grace remain the thing
uas to be settled by the time you are
twenty-one."
"Let's get It over tomorrow," Ellaline
said. In still that small, wavery voice.
Agnew nodded, and lert her. curiously,
for the first time since she had known
the destiny she so rebelled against Ella
line ran to the window and watched him
out of sight.
Three days wedded they were speeding
toward the goal the western haven of
shipwrecked matrimony. Since they were
coming thus to the end of trouble, of mis
understanding, of a dragging tie. each had
felt it the part of good breeding to be as
gay, as entertaining, as charming as pos
sible. Not once had there been the least
Jar. Agnew had shown himself a prince
of cavaliers, Ellaline, the most obedient,
contented and sweet tempered of dames.
Now and then they had touched, lightly.
In ent-re amity upon what lay ahead. S-e
was firm for dividing the money equally,
he as firm on giving her the lion's shaie.
l ive thousand by way of a starter, wa
all he was willing to accept. He had a
little outside she absolutely nothing.
After a while, if he prospered, he would
like to return the five thousand ther?,
she had always stopped Mm and turned
the conversation.
Another day would bring the end of the
journey. Then when he had seen to it
that she was comfortably established h
would go on over the Journey they had
pretended to plan. Nobody need learn
that he had finished it alone nor that it
ha. been begun for a purpose so fan
tastic. Ellaline Bat at ease, her head a little
back, her eyes fast upon the fleeting and-
I sca.De. It wh.o Tnnstlv KftT-f and brown.
1 Ull
of ayB and velmws and tawny duns.
i Suddenly their train rounded a huge --ill-
I BboM(.f int valley, wheie
I wj iT. 1 thO
riARert into ji cmi-Hen rn athtt hand there
una itiuugui a. i iiai ' -- "
wa.a rrnwth eTMn thlnwH flowers, white
Uiouses with red roofs peeping up througti
inniiy young trees, ana uiuo
shouting happily as they ran along tne
ditches, now and then stopping to wave
their hands.
Ellaline saw It all with a sudden flood
ing comprehension. Her eyes misted hr
cheeks got white. Water was life to tna
earth, love was life to the soul. She was
shutting herself away from love she
knew it, she. felt It. Too late, perhaps
ignew must despise her. But she hd
never seen him rightly until this journey
If she had, she would have been his
willing servant.
He, too, was watching the transforma
tion, his mouth set, his eyes full or
dreams, full of something else something
that gave her a wonderful courage. Bena
toward him she laid her band in his.
whispering:
"Can't we turn back?"
"Not unless," Agnew began, then catch
ing sight of her face, "I was ready to
make you a widow for love but I would
rather have you a wife."
t " miaiina whinnered lust
I as the scent oforange blossoms came in a
1 .i m i i. . m-tn w,. hm 4 1 : r.
iiuuu. VUpyiiKiii, x.'J j, u j 4.4443
Newspaper Syndicate.)
SAYS UNCLE GAV
After all, the old Sunday school
leaflets, with their milk-and-water
moralities, were more than half right.
It's the little things that count for a
happy world, and he that goes about
doing good is -the fine flower of the
ages. That's a fact that we have
known, but haven't felt. The trouble
has been that it has been preached by
thin-blooded impracticals, who have
taken the sanctified view of the situa
tion rather than the red-blooded one.
The sturdy knights of chivalry got at
the situation from the proper angle,
and the world lost something when the
last of them laid aside his hardware
and went Into the business of exploiting
the serfs he had formerly protected.
What the world needs is sunshine, not
candle light. It needs a red-blooded,
beef eating Idealism, rather than a
bread-and-mllk, Rollo-roll-your-hoop-don't-get-your-clothes-dirty
notion of
what Is proper conduct. Youth is es
sentially sane, though It glorify its
sanity with golden dreams beyond the
ken of disappointed manhood. Its ideas
naturally gravitate to that which is
t e-ond mothers and Sunday scnool teacn-
ers, failing to grasp the essential prin
ciples of the ideals they attempted to
Inculcate, headed their charges toward j terest in the construction of such a.
a state of flabby, characterless useless- j line of railroad. It would make pos
ness. The fault was not with what i sible the operation of passenger train
they tried to teach, but the way in j service from Hastings. Neb., through
which it was perverted. all of these towns, to Wichita, Conway
The Justice of the strong man armed I Springs, Winfleld and Coffeyville. It
is the only Justice in which the world j ' ould find a large population in the
of men who do things can be interested. ! string of good towns already built and
The kindness of the physically and al' amllnK nec"1n wWij IE-
. . rt . . other and the nearby parts of the
mentally fit Is the on y kindness that gt broUght lnto closer touch with,
was ever worth a continental. He that other by thi8 construction.- The
turns the left cheek after the right Jowl MlsBOurl pacific road has its lines lo-
has been smitten must have that poise cated in the finest part of Kansas,
and character that have met and coped : .11 of its lc-ngih it is supported by a
with opposition; otherwise he is merely
a victim, and his example Is lost. The
meakness of weakness is a crime and
an abomination. Youth intuitively
realizes these things, and the boys of
yesterday, having had the natural
Ideals of strong, healthy youth edu
cated out of them, experienced a revul
sion and a large proportion of the boys
who had the making of big, well-bal
anced men in them, found an outlet for
their repressed powers In mere money
making.
We are outgrowing that condition. In
spite of the well-meant mischief of mis.
guided mothers. Miss Nancy, of the
smelling salts, and the goody goody
stories. Today we are training our chil
dren to be strong physically, to meet
the conditions as they exist, and not
as we believe they should exist. We
are getting down to the red-blooded,
sane and healthy principles of morals,
ethics and religion, and are producing,
in spite-of a score or two of danger
ous habits, a race that is making the '
strong men of other years look like
pygmies. Tomorrow, even our Sunday I
school leaflets are going to have In
them a little of that variety that ap
peals to youth. (Copyright. 1912, by
the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
Canada's Food Problem.
Canada is facing a problem of the
same character as that which troubles
the people of the United States, al
though the situation In the Dominion
is in .various respects worse than here.
For years Canada, through the govern
ment, by means of railroad advertising
and in other ways, has sought to at-
tract immigration and develop the ag-
ricultural lands of the Northwest. Ef-
fort seems to have been directed at
most exclusively to one purpose-to '
wheat. Other branches of agricultural
industry were comparatively neglected
Canada has determined to become a
great wheat raiser. Now it looks as
though the matter has been overdone
or at least it would seem that too
little attention has been paid to other
kinds of farming.
One result is a scarcity of beef, ow
ing to the restriction of the areas
available for grazing purposes. The
wheat growers have appropriated so
much land that the cattle ranges have
been greatly reduced in extent. Troy
Times.
QCAKKI5 MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It's only a step from the plunger to
the sponger.
Life Is full of trials, and the verdict
is generally against us.
The man who calls himself a fool
expects us to disagree with him.
It's the successful man who argues
that there Is no euch thing as luck.
Money talks, but It is never such a
chatterbox as the people who talk
about it.
When the wolf is at the door we
can at any rate dispense with a watch
dog.
A pessimist is a man who never
hopes for the best because he hates
to be fooled.
Hoax "How do you like my friend
the aviator?" Joax "Oh, he's too
flighty for me."
There may be plenty of room at the
top, Tsut a man must be pretty well
balanced to remain there.
Distance, as a rule, doesn't magnify,
but the closer we get to some people,
the smaller we find them to be.
KANSAS COMMENT
THE COUNTRY CHURCH.
Denominationalism Is the incubus
under which the country church a
laboring. Each denomination tries to
maintain a church in a field not too
large to be nicely handled by one union
church. As a result, all of the churches
are weak, are unable to secure strong
pastors, the Word of God Is presented
by those who may be lacking In both
earnestness and ability and the burden
falls on the woman. The women of
the country church are its martyrs.
With a total lack of Interest on the
part of the men, they hold suppers,
serve dinners at sales, piece quilts, and
In a hundred ways endeavor to turn
their labor Into cash that the church
may be kept open. Without these wom
en the churches would cease to exist in
the country fields and thousands of
children would grow to maturity with
out ever hearing a sermon or attend
ing a Sunday school. A Lawrence
woman has recently visited a number
of country churches for the missionary
society she represents, and she is heart
sick at the weight of responsibility car
ried by the women. In one town visited,
a well-to-do little community, there
was but one business man in the town
who was a church member. The others
were indifferent and while patrpmizing
the entertainments and suppers given
by the women, give nothing directly to
the support of the church. The work
of each denomination has been great
ly advanced by having associations and
boards to give general supervision to
the work of the church In districts and
states. Why would is not be possible
for all of the protestant churches to
enter Into union for work In country
communities? Such a board could close
a church here and open one there, ac
cording to the demands, or could rec
ommend the obliteration of sectarian
lines in certain localities in favor of
a union church. Each denomination
could be asked for a certain amount to
be used in home missions, and all could
be used to the best possible advantage.
If love conquereth all things, why
not let it break down our church
prejudices ? Lawrence Journal-World.
FIFTY MILES OF RAILROAD.
The building of less than fifty miles
of railroad by the Missouri Pacific
company would make a fairly direct
line of railroad through Kansas, from
the northern to the southern boundary
of the state. It would make the long
desired north-and-south line a cer
tainty. It would be a line of road to
connect every east and west line
through this state and a portion of
Nebraska and it would also connect up
some loose ends of Missouri Pacific. Not
only would the country through which
the road would pass be Interested in
the building of such a line but all of
the towns on this route across the state
would be benefited by It as well.
Wichita and Hutchinson, Sterling,
Nickerson, Lyons, Geneseo, Lincoln,
Beloit, Concordia, Kan., and Superior
and Hastings, Neb., would all have In-
country that produces dividends for
the company. The addition of the
new line would also be in Just as good
country and would be of value to the
railroad line by the convenience it
would be to the entire system in Kan
sas. All of the towns interested In
the building of this line should form
J ana ftVi? "I L IZZ! ihS
end that will finally bring this needed
Missouri Pacific extension. Hutchin
son News.
IROM OTHER PENS
INVENTION AND CRIME.
There is a general belief, which seems to
be sustained by the sensational events re ported
from day to day, that murders and
other crimes of violence are more common
ana committd on a more wholesale scale
than ever hfnr A .unmin. . v. - .
ness of this belief, what is the probable
cause, the laxity of the law or an in-
" c , , 1 ""generate impulses? We are
Ji"?! "ns to think that society Is worse
in its acts and motives than it was in a
previous generation. On the contrary, wa
believe there has been an improvement in
our standards. A very plausible explana
tion of these extreme crimes is the great
advance that has been made in the facili
ties for destroying life. The International
crook. Henry Vogel, who was killed with
a. girl companion in New York this week,
la said to have spent a portion of last
Summer In Pittsfleld. While there he ex
hibited considerable wealth and a maga
zine revolver which he claimed could dis
charge thirty-three shots a minute. With
such a concentrated arsenal upon his per
son it was hardly surprising that lie
should have been able to kill five persons
before he was himself done for nsnr-
adoes thus equipped can defy for season
me "L,'8!
dynamite bombs make the wnrV nr nn-
sination easier and more fruitful than It
was in the old days, so in a certain senje
the Increase of crime keeps pace with the
march of invention Boston Transcript.
Yes, he Is regarded
ing colorists." "Better than Gamboge
Smear?" "Yes, indeed. Why. there's one
of his bits of still life, a study of a raw
beefsteak, that looks like a Sicilian sun
set." Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Saw It. "Did you see my painting at
the exhibition?" "I did. It was the only
picture I examined with care." "Splendid'
Why was that?" "Because nobody eise
was looking at it." Meggendorfer Blaet
ter. A Dramatic Finish. She (after the pro
posal) What! Marry you a drunkard
gambler and impostor? Ha, ha! Begone!
sir, before I ring and have you ejected'
He Isabella, am I to take this as a re-1
fusal? London Opinion.
Such" a Mad Wag. Tailor You want
your trouser pockets to run up and down
I suppose. Facetious Customer If you
can make them do so. And, say, have
them run up and down so fast that mv
wife can't get into them, will you' E-
change. '
Mrs. Klubman-"If I'd known that you
would leave me alone so much, I'd never
have married you." Klubman-"But In
that case, you would have been alone a
good deal more."-Boston Transcript.
"Never see any
around here'" "W .. - 1 ..l"nis
m nre aAO - .
44 . cicr.
"What ,1 .. 1. ""t
'em off?
t" Li suppose k lied
1 dunno. But I have m
suspicion
ii. was local oDtlon w.i
J HUMOR OF THE DAY
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