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TOPEKA
DAILY STATE JOUENAIr-FEIDAT EVENING, MARCH. 14,1913.
By FRANK P. JHAO LENAX.
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nal brildlne over wires for this sola pur
pose. Turkey now seems to want some
body to help her let go.
e - -" .
Too many people are willing to let
others do the voting and then kick if
things are not right.
And among the other " "Washington
people grateful for the inauguration
ceremonies are the doctors.
The Turks have shot fifty mutinous
Arab soldiers as a lesson to the rest.
Evidently the Arab Is considered a dull
student. .
And now, right on top of the demand
from Europe that he bring Mexico to
order, comes the Easter bonnet season
for President Wilson.
The legislators will spend 14,000 in
telling the people what they have
done. And yet it la said that "actions
speak louder than words."
Turkey Is asked to raise a war In
demnity fund of $300.000,000.." A few
more Turkish rugs placed on the mark
et ought to take care of that.
And so the teachers In the suffrage
parade felt Insulted when the c,rowd
counted to ten! They sometimes count
higher than that at the ball park.
Harry Thaw as a meal ticket for
hungry lawyers and doctors ;s no more
an edifying spectacle thai ha was whan
he was burning money on Broadway.
"March came in gently enough," ob
serves the Albany Journal. But then
Albany is not on the map when the
New York legislature is taking a recess.
King Menellk. of Abyssinia again
arises to remark that he Is not dead
but still able to sit up and eat buck
wheat cakes and sausage for breakfast.
If the entrance of women in politics
will demonstrate that a political lead
er can be successful without wearing
a slouch hat and a long-tailed coat,
let's welcome them.
The president of a great mail order
house In Chicago has testified that he
considers $5 a week enough for a girl
to live on, "if she lives at home," and
$8 a week If she is wholly dependent
on herself. This particular house
earned $7,000,000 profits in 1911, paid
7 per cent on both its common and its
preferred stock, and had $12,000,000
surplus at the close of 1912.
The idea of a commission form' of
government for the state seems to be
taking root in Colorado, judging from
the following from the Denver Times:
"The nineteenth general assembly is
hastening the day when state com
mission government will be a burning
issue. There is but one obstacle,
which is in process of elimination
the formality of tabulating the legis
lative vote on United States senators
that stands in the way." ,
Shades of Peffer and Jerry Simpson,
what do you think of this from the
Lawrence Journal: "In discussing the
currency reform It Is beginning to be
seen that it is unfair for national
banks to issue currency at all. The
government virtually pays the na
tional banks interest on their capital
stock. . The banks have bonds and the
bonds' pay Interest. Upon these bonds
currency is issued and in this way the
government pays national banks Inter
est on their capital stock. This plan
was devised years ago and It. was nec
essary to sell government bonds, but
ft Is so unfair that it ought to be
discontinued.
Further - competiiton with the ex
press companies on the part of the
United States postal sen-ice is indi
cated in an order of the postmaster
general amending the parcel post
regulations of the United States which
makes possible the collection on de
livery of payment for goods sent by
parcel post. The provisions of the
new order, which is to take effect
July 1, 1913, are as follows:' "Section
66. The sender of a mailable parcel
on which the postage is fully prepaid
may have the price of the article and
the charges thereon collected from the
addressee on payment of a fee of 10
cents in parcel post stamps affixed,
provided the amount to be collected
does not exceed $100. Such a parcel
will be Insured against loss, without
additional charge, in an amount equiv
alent to its actual value but-not to
$xceed $60.
THEY WILL, NOT SEE.
The provincialism of the east and
especially of New Tork has- been re
marked frequently but probably it
never was more aptly displayed , than
in the following editorial paragraph in
the New York Tribune:"- . '
A Kansas Agricultural college - pro
fessor thinks that the farmers of that
state ought to play baseball, since the
game would teach them to think
quickly. But don't they catch enough
"hot liners" off the bat of the , Hon.
William Roscoe Stubbs to be always on
the jump mentally?
Whatever may be said or thought of
Governor Stubbs, he was generally
in the lime light during his service as
the chief executive of Kansas and
there -appears to be no reasonable ex
cuse for calling him "William,"
If the Tribune would come out of
Its shell long enough to take a little
look around it would learn also that
Mr. Stubbs is no longer governor of
Kansas as it seems to believe him to
be.
New Yorkers are able to see little
that is going on beyond the confines of
their little old town. But what can
be expected of a placa where they still
operate horse cars?
A TRAVELING HOSPITAL.
The modern tendency to carry the ad
vantages and conveniences of the city
into the country has Invaded the med
ical profession and a hospital train for
the rural district has been suggested.
Dr C. W. Stiles has made some ob
servations on this subject as a part of
his work with the Hookworm Commis
sion. He finds large numbers of chil
dren who are handicapped in their
physical and mental development by
large tonsils' and adenoids, and by de
fective eyes s-nd teeth. He says, more
over, that the average country woman
with whom he comes in contact has
exceedingly rudimentary ideas on cook
ing, housekeeping and care of children
and the sick, and to meet the needs of
this side of the problem the district
nurse would be invaluable.
The remedy which he proposes for
these evils is a traveling hospital,
equipped for the minor surgical work
on children. He believes that it would
be a comparatively simple matter to fit
out a epecial hospital train of from
three to six cars and take it to dis
tricts without hospitals. The diffi
culties to be overcome in establishing
these trains are not insurmountable.
and the expense need not be greater
than that connected with any other
hospital.
The traveling hospital could also be
utilized to bring about such results as
much-needed postgraduate medical In
struction to local physicians; ideas on
cooking, housekeeping, infant-feeding,
etc., to mothers; ideas on sanitation
to the fathers, and special instruction
along health lines to the schools. Stiles
believes that this work is more Im
portant than the teaching of the farm
ers- by special school trains how to in
crease their crops or how to take care
of their live stock. The Journal of the
American Medical Association, com
menting on Stiles' experience, says that
the suggestion is the more valuable
coming from Stiles, as he has had prac
tical experience on laboratory trains in
the rural districts in which research
and observations were conducted on
school children. This has shown him
the need, the practicability and the
possibilities of such a hospital train as
he suggests.
ROJIANOFF RULE.
Russia has just celebrated the com
pletlon of three centuries of Romah
off rule over the great Slavic empire;
It was three hundred years ago that
the first prince of the house became
the sovereign of the Russian people,
then a comparatively small and weak
as well as backward nation.
Even in America, ' this, period does
not seem impressively long. The first
settlements were made 'in Virginia a
little longer ago. New York is almost
as old as the Romanoff dynasty.
Massachusetts will complete three
centuries less than nine years from
now. Columbus had discovered Amer
ica 121 years when the reigning fam
ily of Russia gained royal power.
The truth is. that Russia is still, -in
many respects, young and crude. It
is largely a land of frontier conditions,
not only-in Asia but in some parts of
the European dominions of the czars.
It is a commonplace that Russian re
sources remain in large measure un
explored, not to say unimproved, and
there are vast possibilities of change
in the whole Russian empire.
But this is not the work of the Ro
manoffs. That family has given the
Muscovite nation several strong rulers,
and two or three have been remark
ably endowed with the great gift,
rarely vouchsafed to despots, of per
ceiving and acting upon the national
need of development along unusual
lines. On the other hand many of
the Romanoff princes have been
weak, dissolute, wasteful, tyrannical
and reactionary in the extreme. They
have written many black pages of
their country's history, and although
the blood of the reigning house is now
almost wholly German, through many
marriages, they have been typically
Russian in spirit and methods.. It is
a trite saying that Russia, in govern
ment as well as in numerous customs,
is half oriental.
The first of the Romanoff emperors
was elected by the nobles and chief
tains of his country. The last of the
line, whether the reigning czar or
some successor, will doubtless be
driven from power not by the nobility
and gentry of the empire, but by the
people. ' ;
A I -allure.
"My life," satd the good old man,
with a weary sigh, "has been a fail
ure." "Nonsense," replied the lawyer who
had Just drawn up a will for him.
"You are about the last men in the
world who should make such a re
mark as that. Far from being a fail
ure, your life should be an example
for every ambitious young man. You
have become rich without stooping to
questionable methods of money mak
ing. You are honored by all who
know you- . Your life has been a happy
one, unless I am greatly mistaken.
There are few people who can at your
age look back with as little to regret
as there is in your past to deplore.
Your -life has not been a failure. It
has been a splendid success. Here
you are, able to leave an honestly ac
quired fortune to your family, and at
the same time you are making public
bequests that will relieve hundreds of
people who' are' in distress."
"Yes, that's all very true: but I
have never been called ; the Napoleon
or the Nestor or even the dean oi any
thing." Chicago Record-Herald.
JAYHAWKER JOTS
Salina is to ftave a new hospital
costing $100,000. Those Sahna people
must be some hustlers.
The man who beat the drum for a
Lincoln campaign rally before the war
has Just died out at Pratt.
Mankato claims a man who gets up
and starts the fire for his wife ana
then goes back to bed, to continue his
sleep.
Miss Margaret Moore has been elect
ed superintendent of the Salina schools
for two years at a salary of $2,000 per
annum.
A baseball league composed of towns
on the Siggins interurban is being pro
posed, Coffeyville, Independence, Cher
ryvale and Parsons being the towns.
One-fourth of. all the girls who are
learning to cook, sew and keep house
in the agricultural colleges of the uni
ted States, are enrolled in the Kan
sas school at Manhattan.
Women are reported to outnumber
the men six to one in the registration
at Salina. Probably the people out
there could not do better than to allow
the sisters to run the town.
Confession from Anna Carlson: "And
they say it is going to cost more to
marry, if a certain bill before the leg
islature becomes a law. Now we are
sorry we waited so long."
Kansas has no need to be distressed
because she wasn't called upon to fur
nish a secretary of agriculture, says
the Emporia Gazette. The man who is
good enough for that position is too
good to be spared from Kansas. -
The Sigma Delta sorority of Wash
burn college will entertain on March
17 with an "Irish stew," after which,
suggests the Coffeyville Journal, liver
and onions and boiled short ribs of
beef receptions will be in order.
The women of Wichita have hit upon
a new plan of campaign. They get to
gether in a public hall and then send
for the candidates to come and tell
them why they should be ' elected.
Charlie Scott approves of the plan on
the grounds that it saves the candi
date from paying hall rent and insures
a crowd.
A gardener near Hutchinson, sent this
note to the State Agricultural college:
"Inclosed card (a photograph) portrays
100 baskets of lettuce ready for market.
To reach the consumer 67 of these go
to the middleman for a little expendi
ture of Jawbone, and 33 to the pro
ducer for his three months' labor, a
quantity of coal and expensive equip
ment. Could I reach the consumer
direct I should get twice as much for
my produce and the consumer would
save one-third. We certainly are in
need of a market adviser.' -
GLOBE SIGHTS
BT THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
Quite a number of the Imported ci
gars shouldn't have been.
When a man goes out on the trail
of trouble, he is pretty apt to catch
up with it.
As a matter of fact, a cowboy in
real life devotes very little of his time
to rescuing fair maidens.
Then there are people who remind
you that the hog-buyer is neglecting
his shipments a good deal.
Some men have a fine faculty of
thinking of something which should
be celebrated In an appropriate man
ner. ' " Still, if it weren't for the debating
societies, more talk might be devoted
to selling bum books on the install
ment plan.
Pushing all romance and poetry
aside a man can best "serve" the wo
man he loves by keeping his nose to
the grindstone.
As a boy, you probably imagined
the other boys had a better time. And
the chances are you haven't outgrown
that point of view.
"I once knew a very bright Latin
student who engaged in the alfalfa
business, and couldn't see that hi3
education helped him much." Rufe
Hoskins.
There isn't anything to the theory
that farm work begins about March
1 ; farm work has never stopped, and
its beginning was somewhat ahead of
the opening game in ancient history.
A man enjoys a family row as long
as his wife hurls rolling pins and sad
irons, but when she begins to look
pensive and sheds tears it suddenly
dawns on him that he is a low-lived,
ornery dog.
Rope costs more this year than
usual, which means that Jude John
son, contrary to his threats, will not
commit suicide until there is a decline
in the market. High prices create
many unsatisfactory conditions.
QUAKER MEDl fATIOXS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
Perhaps the surest things tn life
are the expenses we hadn't counted
on.
The fellow who turns tail must ex
pect to be talked about behind his
back. . -
- Every tree needs an occasional
pruning, and even tho family tree is
not exempt.
When a girl 'is having her picture
taken it is unnatural for her to look
natural.
It sometimes takes a pretty wise
man to fully, realize what a- fool he
really is. . . '
All the world's a stage." and some
people are satisfie-i to be understudies
all their lives. t
The one thing in the world that !s
pretty sure to get on your nerves is
the nerve of other people. ,
It is quite possible for a man to
speculate in wheat without having a
grain of common sense.
Rollingstone Nomoss "Dey say dat
labor is ennobling." Ljlyfield Toilnot
"Mebbee, but I'm agin de nobility."
"Silence is golden," quoted the Wise
Guy. "Yes, but the trouble is you
can so seldom convert it into cash,"
objected the Simple Mug.
Sillicus "Just think what we might
do with all the money we have spent
foolishly in our lives." Cynicus "Yes,
T dare say we could find even more
foolish ways of spending it." j
I i i i v .
KANSAS COMMENT
I J
THE MARRIAGE BILL.
The bill passed by the lower house
of the legislature requiring health cer
tificates before marriage ceremonies
can be performed legally is c. righteous
measure and is in the interest of future
generations. It probably will be im
possible to prevent the marriage of the
unfit so long as, there are states in
which there is no, such requirement, as
these who wish to , marry will only
have to slip over into another state
and marry there. But because other
states do not do what is right is no
reason why Kansas should continue to
permit wrong, and because some, if not
permitted to marry, will fall into the
ways of debauchery is no reason why
the state I should - legalize improper
marriages. The state should do the
best it can to- bring about right condi
tions, it should set a good example and
then perhaps other states will follow.
Kansas is used to taking the lead in
matters of reform. Representative Gil
man is to be commended for the stand
he took in favoring this bill. Leaven
worth Times.
FROM OTHER PENS
RATHER LOCAL.
Speaking of the manufacturers and
others who have- appeared at the tar
iff hearing,. Gilsoh Gardner says: "All
these people are protectionists '. for
their home industries and free trade
for other, people's industries."
Certainly, and thus we have the
bare skeleton of the theory of high
protection. There .area now no liars
claiming -that the foreigner pays the
tax. Mark Hanna himself wouldn't
now claim that under protection' there
are no trusts. The production of wages
which the workingman was prom
ised went into its hole and pulled the
hole in after It, long ago. The bony
remains of the theory, we repeat, are
just this that it is mutually bene
ficial for John Smith to rob Jim
Jones when selling him onions because
Jib robs John when selling him har
vesters. Your southern Californian
goes to Washington weeping over the
low schedule against Italian lemons
and roaring at the high price of wool
socks. On an incoming train from
another direction comes another fel
low who is groaning about the com
petition of . Argentina sheep and
damning forty-cent lemons.
Poor Winfield Scott Hancock! He
was almost ridiculed .out of the
presidency for stating that protection
was a local issue,' and now we see forty-nine
different interests at Wash
ington each swearing that its partic
ular brand of extortion is the only
genuine thing in the way of protec
tion worth fostering. How little time
it really takes for experience to punc
ture some of our tremendous national
policies full of holes! Des Moines
News. . ' ,
GENTLEMEN OF LEISURE.
The other day some workmen were
engaged in transferring a safe from the
second story of a . window tn Penn
sylvania avenue: to a Wagon upon the
street. The operation was not espe
cially difficult nor interesting, and yet
for more than an hour it was atten
tively observed by more than a hun
dred men. - They, were apparently gen
tlemen of leisure, of all ..classes and
conditions, with nothing else to do than
to stand with their hands in their
pockets and watch other men labor.
The incident was not unusual. Let
a street car come to grief and a small
army of the idle and curious instantly
gathers. .The operation of excavating
the foundation for the new Arlington
hotel was a magnet which attracted
hundreds, until a fence was erected to
screen the workmen from observation.
Where do these gentlemen of leisure
come from? How do they otherwise
manage to occupy their time when
there Is nothing of semi-public impor
tance to engage their attention?
These crowds are an interesting study
in human nature. They are able-bodied
men, all of them, and it would seem
as if they might find more profitable
occupation than idle gazing. One won
ders where they spring from, and'where
they go. We envy their leisure and
their, apparent ability to find enjoy
ment in the simple act of merely look
ing on. Washington Herald.
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.J
Only the man ' who is ' a failure
sneers at success.
Playing the fool is not likely to be
come a lost art. .
The palmist is ever ready to grasp
the hand of fortune.
A chronic borrower usually keeps
everything but his word.
After falling in love the average
young man drops into poetry.
- All women are stuck upJudging
by the number of pins they use.
More investigation at the start will
mean less disappointment at the end.
Should an original idea strike some
men it would give them headache.
A lazy man's feet leave their Im
print on the path of least resistance.
You can live comfortably without
being extravagant. Extravagance is
not comfort. . .
Don't worry about what the other
fellow is going to do. Let your su
perior activities worry him.
A woman says the way to reach a
man's heart may be through his stom
ach, but it may take cunning or brute
strength to reach his pocketbook.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.
: A man speculates, with his money, a
woman with her heart. '
Santa Claus is . a woman, with the
credit as usual going to a man.'
A great moral trait in a man is for
him to be able Jo like sausages; for
breakfast.
Excuses on a Job never finish it as
soon as they do the man trying- to hold
it down.
A girl is so sly she can nearly always
put off being very fat till after she is
married.
Museum of Voices.
' Prof. Ferdinand Brunot, of Paris, Is
establishing a "museum of voices,"' on
graphophone disks, wfth a view to pre
serving for future generations the
languages of today. Now he is making
a collection of 800 disks on, a tour of
the world, including the Sioux Indian
legends. The collection, he means, shall
embrace every spoken language in the
world. Every dialect, representing
every national character statesman,
preacher, actor or orator is to be col
lected in this vast phonographic mu
seum. Pathfinder.
BASIS OF TOLERANCE.. .
Old "Obadian Grupp is dead.
Yes, dead, and buried yesterday; -As
mean a man as ever walked
Upon, or rests beneath, the clay,
His evil fame spread far and wide,
So churlish was his daily life;
But, though he lived to eighty years.
With him I never was at strife.
He vented on my politics
The wordy venom of his tongue;
And at the doctrines of my church
His choicest maledictions flung.
But, still, where some grew wild enough
To tear him madly limb from limb, -I
kept serenely to my way.
And never had a word with him.
Yes, some would quite insanely rave
At Just the mention of his name;
They fought back hard; but I would say,
"Come, let his conscience cry him
shame!"
I claim no virtue through the act.
To praise my course there is no call; .
He lived at such a distance that
I never knew the man at all!
Denver Times.
THE EVENING STORY
Rivals In Roses.
(By Dorothy Douglas.)
John Granger gazed speculatively at
his daughter. There was skepticism
in his smile and affection in his eyes.
"So you want me to buy a rose
farm for you that you may hide
among tho flowers from the swains
who refuse to .take no for an an
swer?" He laughed frankly at the
hot blush that swept Sylvia's cheeks.
"Is it not so?"
"I am tired of being courted by
men whom I cannot like," she ad
mitted quickly; "they care for noth
ing but Broadway and motoring I
am utterly weary of their attentions.
Besides," she continued in a voice that
was coaxing, "I have a great longing
to Jive among flowers and cultivate a
prize rose you know how successful
1 am with roses.
John Granger still smiled a bit
skeptically.
"What will the thorns and pruning
ao to these?" He took Sylvia's slim.
white fingers between his own. "They
don't look to me like lingers that could
cultivate a prize rose."
Sylvia laughed brightly and dropped
a kiss on her rather s hair.
"If you buy Rosevale for me, I will
wager the price of the farm that I
will take the first prize at the roBe
snow what do you say?"
"It is a go! If you can take the first
prize from that old Gimkins, who has
had it for the last three years, I will
buy you three farms." Granger
smiled. In secret he was delighted
with his daughter's new found hobby.
"One is quite sufficient!" cried Syl
via. "You are a perfect dear daddy,
and from now on I will be a slave to
the roses."
Within an hour John Granger had
arranged for the purchase of Rose
vale, the tiny farm where roses rioted
and gladdened the heart of the pass
erby. Tho house itself seemed but
a miniature dwelling that nestled un
der a great crimson rambler and the
garden and greenhouses held the
promise, of roses, red, yellow, pink
and white.
Two weeks more and Sylvia herself
was there pruning, petting and lov
ing each and every plant. She had
brought only one gardener, and that
one she had coaxed from the Long
Island home of her father.-- ,-.
, "You and are going to take first
prize at the June rose show," she
told Danny. "Old Gimkins has had it
long enough. We will show him that
some one else knows a little about the
growing of roses."
"We've got to grow some rose to
beat him. miss," Danny informed her.
"I refuse to be discouraged at the
very first start," laughed Sylvia, "and
I am going to the Gimkins property
this afternoon perhaps I can get a
hint or two from his gardener.
Thus Sylvia found herself strolling
through the mile of country road that
separated her small acreage from the
immense stretch belonging to the rival
Gimkins.
Sylvia's yellow sun bonnet had
slipped back from her auburn hair
and her cheeks were vivid like a
blush rose when she entered the gar
dens.
The man working there in sun
light looked up and blinked. Always
before he had doubted that anything
in creation could rival a rose In the
bud. So suddenly, with the advent of
Sylvia, was his cherished belief shat
tered that John Lane could only bow
in acknowledgment thereof.
Sylvia smiled and her conquest was
complete.
"I came over to inspect my rival's
roses." she said frankly. "1 am try
ing to wrest the prize from Mr. Gim
kins this year.
A peculiar smile flitted across
Lane's face.
"The Gimkins gardeners seem to have
magic fingers," he said.
"Couldn't mine please borrow a lit
tle?" questioned Sylvia, and held out
ten snow white fingers. She blushed at
the expression within the eyes that re
garded her hands. "Are you a gard
ener?' she asked quickly.
Lane let her question remain unan
swered and. led. the way into the hot
houses. - -
"I will let you look for a moment
upon the magic flower." . he told her
laughingly; -"but -yoii-must; not so much
as breathe, a draught of its fragrance."
Sylvia pouted.'. . .
"I let people sniff and. sniff in my
hothouses," she remarked, "until they
are fairly intoxicated with the frag
rance." "You are not growing a prize rose,"
he reminded her.
The color flamed into Sylvia's cheeks.
"I have wagered with my father that
I will take the prize. Rosevale is the
stake and I do want to win!" she end
ed appealingly.
Lane laughed outright.
"And I have wagered old Gimkins
that I can rear as fine a specimen as
he did. He has offered me the gardens
as they stand, if I carry off the prize.
He is tired of the game.'' He gazed back
at Sylvia and felt friendship hovering
over them. "I got tired of Broadway
and motoring, so came back to nature
and my hobby for a change."
"I feel that we are going to be
friends." laughed Sylvia, "even though
we are rivals. .My reasons for being
here are similar to your own."
"I see that I am going to find my
self in a rather difficult position,"
John Lane told himself. To Sylvia he
said, "The rivalry will cease to exist
the day after the rose show then we
will have a clear road to friendship."
"And in the meantime you will come
and see my roses?" questioned Sylvia.
"I will come to see you, ' and the
roses," Lane told her, and a moment
later the girl with the yellow sunbonnet
was fleeing toward her own little white
washed dwelling. "I am going to love
him." she was singing. "I am going
to love him desperately."
A few weeks later and a day or two j
before the opening of the rose showl
Sylvia stood gazing at her beautiful
specimen. It was large and pink and
fragrant.
"Thero is . only one other more per
fect than you," she whispered - to the
rose, "you will get second prize and
I will lose Rosevale." She turned sad
ly from the exquisite bloom over which
she and- Danny had spent many hours.
John Lane stood beside her. He had
watched her unobserved.
"You care so much?" he questioned
Sylvia. i
"More than- you 'have, any Idea of."
she told him with a smile that tried to
hide her emotion. "My horticultural
pride has suffered. Your rose - would
take a dozen prizes."
"Yours would take first if It were not
for mine, and yet I tried to infuse some
of my gardener's magic into these,'" he
took her slim fingers within his own
and waited for her to look up at him.
"Sylvia, he said, "there is only one
person to whom I will give my rose,
but I must ask for a great big return."
Sylvia's blush answered him and the
light Swept into John Lane's eyes.
"If you promise to marry me . soon
very soon you may exhibit my rose
and win the wager with your father.
How do you feel about It?" He spoke
lightly but words Tere not necessary
to tell Sylvia how greatly he loved her.
"We could live among the roses al
ways," he persuaded.
"If it were soon very., very 'soon,"
the girl said shyly, "you could win your
wager with Gimkins and I would still
be taking first prize." She looked Into
his eyes.; "Yom wife would really be
you and my husband would really be
me isn't that right?" - - - ;-
John Lane could only take her in his
arms. After a moment he said:
"We will go for a special license,
bring back a minister and be mar
ried here with roses for witnesses,"
he told her. ' '
Was it the petals of a rose that
brushed against his lips ? (Copyright,
1913, by the McClure Newspaper i-yn-dicate.)
EVENING CHAT
BT ROTH. OAMKROM. -
On Arguing.
I love an argument. Like the un
forgettable Sarah Battle, I can wish for
nothing better of a winter evening that
"a clean fire, a clean heart, and the
rigor of the game." Only in my wish
the game should not be cards, but that
infinitely more fascinating game of wits
known as argument.
I think children should be taught to
argue, and classes of logic should be
held in our grammar schools instead of
being confined to the last two years of
a college course. For there is no de
fect more strikingly common among
people of moderate education than the
lack of ability to reason clearly and to
keep to the point.
All of which, by the way, .'s beside
the point I started to make, so I am
hoist with my own petard.
What I started to say was that I love
an argument as well as any man or
woman, but I think that a great many
of the arguments in which we indulge
are absurd and useless.
For instance, a great many, of the
arguments in which we Indulge are ab
surd and useless.
For instance, a great many argu
ments arise simply- because the two
parties do not define in th0 same way
the words and phrases which they use.
Recourse to the dictionary would nip
a large proportion of arguments right
in the bud. -Take
for example the celebrated argu
ment upon which most of us have
wrangled if a tree falls in the center
of a forest, miles away from any hu
man being, does it make a eound or
not? I have heard two people argue
a half hour on that, and yet it is not
a matter to be settled by expressions
of opinions and arguments at all. It
Is simply a question as to the definition
of sound. Apply to old Noah Webster
and he will settle it in thirty seconds.
Again, arguments between people of
oDoosite temperaments on matters
which are simply questions of opinion
are decidedly futile.
For a passionate, radical and dyed
in-the-wool conservative to argue upon
some question which is simply a matter
of opinion, is futile on the face of It,
and yet how many people waste time
and temper that way. Make-up your
mind before engaging in an argument
whether your opponent is of an antago
nistic temperament. If he is, you may
argue auestions of fact, but not of
opinion and theory.
Again. I hate an argument where
either one argues just for the sake of
talking, has no convictions, doesn't
really know his facts, would say any
thing, however, raise ne Knew it to oe,
for the sake of helping his argument.
and would Just as lief have taken the
other side as not. I think now that I
regret calling argument a game, for
that implies that one should argue to
win. On the contrary, any rair-mlnaea
man argues for the sake of getting at
the truth, and the man who argues
simply to win is showing a good broad
streak of yellow.
It is good to know how to argue, it is
better to know when to argue. It 13
good to know how to win an argument,
it is far better to know how to lose one.
HUMOR OF THE IX AY
Webb The doctors say whisky kills
more men than wars. Foote Away
with that eaff! I'd rather be full of
whisky any time than bullets. Louis
ville Times.
"Yes, smoking is an expensive habit.
When one gives his friends cigars all
the year round his loss is no little one."
"Do you mean in cigars or in friends?"
Ulte -
"I understand you went over to
Crimson Gulch and lynched the wrong
man!' "No," replied Three-finger
Sam. "You can't lynch the wrong man
in Crimson Gulch. We Jest got Piute
Pete a little bit ahead of his turn."
Washington Star.
Hub (with newspaper) Listen to this.
wifey: "For every missionary sent
abroad last year. Christian America
sent 1,495 gallons of liquor." Wifey
Merciful goodness! Who'd ever think
missionaries were such drinkers? Bos
ton Transcript. ,
"When T trv tn tnllr rt vnti XT a
faltered Algy, "my heart comes up into
my mouth!" "That shows how little
you know of anatomy." said the love
ly girl. "It isn't your heart, Algy;
it's your diaphragm." Chicago Tri
bune.
"What did your cousin put into the
capital stock of his new firm?" "Noth
ing." "Nothing!" "Didn't have to.
It's a vacuum business." Baltimore
American.
MORSE TO LEAVE
Chief Engineer of Santa Te
Goes to Bock Island.
Announcement Leaked Ont la
Topeka Today.
C. A. Morse, chief engineer of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway,
and one of the leading authorities in
railway engineering work of the Uni
ted States, has resigned" his position In
Topeka and has accepted the head of
the engineering activities of the Rock
Island Lines with headquarters In
Chicago. Effective the first of April.
Mr. Morse will be chief engineer of
the Rock Island Lines, vice J. B. Perry
who has been given other duties.
This announcement came as a com
plete surprise in railway circles in
Topeka today. Chief Engineer Morse
has been with the Santa F for th
last 27 years and has achieved a na
tional reputation in his line of duty.
In the last two years he has received
flattering offers from large engineering
concerns in this and other countries
and it has been feared for some tlmo
that he would be lost to the Santa Fe.
It is understood that the offer of tha
Rock Island was far in excess of ths.
inducements of the Santa Fe.
C. A. Morse entered the service of
the Santa Fe in 1886 in tho construc
tion department. In 1890 he was
made assistant engineer. Later he
was appointed principal assistant en
gineer. From this position he was
appointed principal engineer and in
1903 was sent to Topeka as engineer
of the eastern lines of the Santa Fe.
Three years later he was appointed
chief engineer of the A. T. & S. F.
proper and later was made acting
chief engineer of the coast lines with
headquarters in Los Angeles.
A few months later he returned to
Topeka as assistant chief engineer of
the system and in 1909 was appointed
to the head of the engineering depart
ment as chief engineer of the entirfl
Santa Fe lines.
36f. Morse will be a loss to the en
gineering department of the Santa Fe.
He is known in every section of tho
country and has been a factor in the
upbuilding of the Santa Fe in this
western country.
STILLON WARPATH.
Depredations of London Suffragist
Continue to Harass Police.
London, March 14. The latest exploit
of the militant suffragettes- In London is
the obliteration of the names on the gate
posts of houses in the residential streets.
Armed with pots of tar and brushes, they
raided the Richmond district early today,
disfiguring many houses.
London houses are distinguished solely
by names, numbers not being used. The
suffragettes' acts makes the Identification
of a particular house Impossible and is
sure to cause extensive annoyance.
The window-smashing campaign was re
sumed in the jeweler's district In Bond
street and In Holesborn. The police ar
rested several women. Miss Qllvo
Hokcen, arrested yesterday for attempt
ing to set fire to a pavilion In Rochhamp
ton golf links, was released today on ball.
She signed an agreement to abstain from
militancy pending her trial.
TARIFF GOMES FIRST.
Will Not Allow Other Legislation to
Interfere.
Washington, March 14. No currency
legislation or any other subject will be
taken up by the extra session until con
gress disposes of the tariff. This Is the
position which President Wilson practi
cally agreed upon, according to Repre
sentative A. Mitchell Palmer, of Penn
sylvania, chairman of the Democratic
caucus, who discussed legislation with
him today.. -
Child Is Recovering.
Wichita, Kan., - March 14. Leah
Tubin, three years old, of this city, is
able to walk and is recovering follow
ing a bone grafting operation at a hos
pital in this city in which a section of
three vertebrae was removed. A piece
of bone five inches long cut from the
child's shin, was substituted for the
diseased bone. The child suffered from
curvature of the spine.
Governor Burke Leads.
Washington,. March 14. Former Gov
ernor John Burke, of North Dakota, is
among the foremost in President Wil
son's consideration for appointment
to the position of treasurer of the
United States. Some of-the governor's
friends expect that his nomination will
be sent to the senate tomorrow. -
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BY ROY K. MOU1IOM.
Arcadia.
I don't want to live In Arcadia,
Quite willingly I confess;
The realm that the poets rave about.
The kingdom of happiness;
Where all is serene as a morn In
. Spring,
Birds singing In every tre.
There must be a catch in the thing
somewhere.
It doesn't look good to mo.
The work in Arcadia is a c!nch;
They watch the sheep all day.
And when they need music to while
the time
They hunt up their flutes and play.
They work on a very peculiar plan.
The salaries there are nil.
No one ever saw an Arcadian
Who had a two dollar bill.
They wear sheepskin toga so very
brief
They reach only to the knees.
And caper about In a care-free way
No matter how chin the breeze.
There's nothing but happiness in that
land
With - the proletariat,
But I couldn't ever be happy enough
To dress in a rig like that.
The life in Arcadia lhrtens .tame
With no moving picture show.
And never a single league bowlini
game.
And never a chance to go
And see -a good circus and eat pea
nuts Or laugh at the chimpanzee.
There may be pure Joy in Arcadia,
But this town looks good to me.
Caller So you have decided to get
another physician? Mrs. Neugold In
deed I have. The idea of prescribinf
flaxseed tea and mustard plasters tot
people as rich as we are. J uda