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TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOUENAIr-FEIDAT EVENING, MARCH. 14,1913. By FRANK P. JHAO LENAX. fKntered July I, 1876, as second-class .am j. a a m i rTnnsiIra VC A.O iVOLUM XXXV. .No. 0 viiitjiAa dibio rapes Official Papr City of Topelta. Dally edition, delivered by ""IfJ- ... . v.. ,. hu s carrier By wiall one year ... """i'yj Pr mall, stx months...!.. " 1 no Ttr mult Iflrt iV.. t.1 vrrf ex. " in i twin i nwT Private branch exchange. CaTl SS30 and sic the State journal - on or oepartment o.rC..; loiwia mate jouriim New York Office: 250 Flttl 1,e " Paul Block, manager. ' Paul Chl-ago Office: Mailers mm""- xsiock. manager. p,ui Boston Office: Tremont Building. Pi' sk. manager. FULL LEASED WIRE KKPOKT . OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, The (State Journal is a member of th e Associated Press and receives the full oay telerranh report of that great news or ganlsation for the exclusive; afternoon publication In Topeka. - - - The news Is received In The State Jour 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