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ttt. TOPPTTA tt.v gTTE .TOTTONA.L SATURDAY EVENING- MARCH, 22, 1913- '
By FRANK P. MAC LENNAA
Entered July I. IS7S as second-class
matter at the postofflee at Topeka. Kan,
"er the act of congress.
VOLUME XXKV No. ' 66
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nal bi-lidlne over wires for this sols pur
pose The colonel says he Is glad he was
defeated. That seems to make It
nearly unanimous.
Since the colonel went out of office
the cry has become "better babies"
Instead of more babies.
Reforms instituted by the Wilsons
are coming thick and fast. The girls
wear no "rata" in their hair.
J. K. Sniffer has the garbage con
tract in Omaha. This seems to be the
right man in the right place.
No gold mounted weather forecaster
for President Wilson. He has return
ed a gilded razor strop to the donor.
They have a Bull-Mouse party over
In Kngland. This looks like an at
tempt at infringement on an American
copyright.
So far, it appears that President
Wilson has declined to receive any
presents except an annual pass to the
ball games.
Senator Dixon has been calling at
the White House. Was he seeking his
reward for the great aid he gave in
electing Wilson?
The Republican statesman who
went to Panama recently and wit
nessed two landslides must have felt
qv:te at home.
Chicago professoi announces that
the human race will soon be toothless.
At least that's one way of getting back
at the beef trust.
Much has been said about the
pitcher that goes too often to the well;
but how about the pitcher that goes
too often to the box?
"President Woodrow Wilson anoth- I
er Abraham Lincoln," is a headline in
the Salina Union. Sounds of jealous
rage from Oyster Bay.
Presumably Mr. Morgan is makin
farewell tour of Europe just to see
whether he has overlooked any - -Ily
desirable masterpieces.
If the revolutions for revenue only
are to be really barred, a lot of earnest
patriots will be able to give more time
to the raising of bananas.
They had to police the course of the ;
Oxford-Cambridge boat race for fear '
some suffragette would throw out a
marmalade tin and wreck a boat. "
The S. R. O. Skirts worn by women 1
are not without their advantages.
They allow a greater number of the
wearers to occupy the election booths
at one time.
A messenger boy dropped dead !
while delivering an Easter bonnet to
a woman in Spokane. Walt till you I
hear from the husband of that woman ;
when the bill comes in. j
A Wichita negro died as the result '
of eating too much fried liver. Prob-
ably the next legislature will pass a
law limiting the amount of liver that
may be eaten at one sitting.
Nebraska has decided to let the rail
road decide how many cars it shall
have In a freight train, and the rail
road ought to know. It had been pro- j
posed In a bill offered in the leglsla-!
ture to limit the number to fifty. j
Up at Portland. Maine, the county
commissioners have just paid $18,000
for 250 acres of land to be used as a
county farm for the shelter and pos
sible cure of habitual drunkards. '
There is no better cure for the drink I
habit than plenty of farm work.
The amount of corn in farmers'
hands, as computed by the department
of agriculture, is less than the trade
has anticipated, because the last crop
was enormous; but the amount is
greater than ever before except that it
was slightly exceeded in 1907, follow
ing the largest crop we ever had until
that of last year. The amount is esti
mated to be 41.3 per cent of last year's
crop. Corn was less affected by the
government report than other grains,
because the trade had looked for still
larger figures. The amount of wheat
in farmers' hands is large, but it was
exceeded two, three and six years ago.
It amounts to 21.4 per cent of the last
crop, and this percentage is rather low.
Oats were an unprecedented crop last
year and more than 41 per cent vt the
crop remains in farmers' hands.
' GETTING AT THE TRUTH.
The Illinois vice commission " has
rendered a great service to the coun
try by taking what seems to be a
wrong line in its investigation. Its
apparent assumption that the denizens
of the red light district are recruited
from working girls whose pay is in
adequate to support them has called
j forth a storm of protest from those
I who know more about the women of
the underworld than it does. The re
I suit is that a better insight into this
i sad and heavy problem is being ob
tained by the public than has ever
, been afforded it before.
I Miss Heard, superintendent of the
' temporary shelter for women in Phil
adelphia, adds her testimony to that
of others who know, in declaring that
most of. the fallen women have drifted
into their present position from con
ditions under which they lived com
fortably and decently.
As to the fundamental cause of the
downfall of girls, she says: "Mother
hood in this country is at a low ebb.
Parents pay too little attention to
the actions of their daughters, anu
many would be surprised to learn that
the daughter who has gone wrong
started her life of shame in her moth
er's parlor. We who work here in the
vice district and who come into con
tact with the women themselves, know
that what I have said is true."
The majority of men ought also to
know it is true. They have come in
contact with the class of young men,
scattered through every calling of life,
who consider the leading of a girl
from the straight path something to
boast of among their fellows. And
they should know, from the- circum
stances as gleefully recounted, that
such a thing would have been impos
sible if there had been the proper
motherly care and vigilance.
No, the girl doesn't always go wrong'
because she has to work hard for little
pay. It is because she has not the
right kind of home training and pro
tection and because there are always
men ready to take advantage of the
fact.
A STINGY CONGRESS.
In the preparation of the census re
sults for the public the director of the
census had laid upon him the highly
unsatisfactory task of making bricks
without the requisite quantity of
straw. For the ruling powers, in a
praiseworthy but unenlightened desire
for economy, write Kate Holladay Clay
born in The Survey, have cut down the
appropriations for this great enterprise to
about half the amount stated by the
director to be imperatively needed and
to much less than half the amount re
quired to make a thoroughly full and
satisfactory presentation of the census
facts. Every lover of efficiency should
enter an urgent protest against such a
short-sighted policy. What should be
thought of the business manager whose
first act of economy was to discharge
the bookkeeper and throw away the
ledger? Tet that is precisely what is
done in so far as our government cur
tails its activities in keeping proper
account of that most important ele
ment of our national resources our
population.
It is unfortunate that supplies are al
ways begrudged to statistical work of
any description, due largei- to the
general prejudice against statistics. The
average man is repelled by long, dry
columns of figures, and will not try :
to understand them. Consequently, he
thinks them useless, and their prepara- !
tlon merely an excuse for drawing fat ;
salaries And it is the average man, I
to a great extent, who controls the :
purse-strings. j
But, after all, these dry "statistics"
of our census give the basal facts by 1
which a.ny effective direction of social
and political forces must be raided.
Indeed, there is hardly a scrap of in
formation in the many bulky volumes
of the twelfth census which has not
been used to practical purpose and ,
found invaluable by some worker along
some line of social advance, and there
has been crying need for more much
more information than that census af
forded.
SHIRTSLEEVE DIPLOMACY.
It is not always the unexpected that
happens. There has been a widespread
belief that Secretary Bryan would not
be content to be crowded out of the
lime light by his chief. His St. Patrick's
day speech has made that belief a cer
tainty. As editor of the Commoner he might
indulge In the harmless pastime of
twisting the British lion's tail without
attracting more than passing notice but
as secretary of state his utterances at
once become important.
The fact that nobody knows this bet
ter than does Mr. Bryan, must arouse
a suspicion that his words were not
intended solely to please the Irish. The
sentiments expressed on that occasion,
probably are quite unobjectionable In
the United States and would have come
in for only passing criticism abroad if
uttered by a plain citizen. But the
utterance of the secretary of state is
construed as the voice of the country.
When he referred to "the degradation
of the House of Lords" he stepped on
one of John Bull's pet corns and
when he declared:
"The fighters for Home Rule are
fighters of a world-wide-, battle, and
those who oppose it have sounded the
death knell of hereditary government.
Thus does truth aid truth ; thus does
wrong destroy wrong," he gave a slap
in the face to all the monarchies of
Europe.
His remarks seem especially ill ad
vised, coming as they do just at a time
when the Panama canal question is
pressing for settlement, and uncalled
for when viewed from any standpoint
except the one suggested at the begin
ning of these remarks.
Snow in Jerusalem!
As one would naturally Imagine in eo
generally genial a climate, snow in
Jerusalem Is as rare as a heat wave in
Iceland. Indeed, although the fleecy
flakes fall each winter on many of the
higher mountains in Palestine, for
Jerusalem itself to be covered by a
white mantle is regarded as quite a
notable event. This particular snow
storm visited the Holy City- in March
TnKluntimt an ontst weather had
been experienced for some days, when the calendar are about as unreliable, ?2uJd notJbf. appointed rom cviJ houses open, he went back to his be
suddenly snow began to fall heavily, Jn Kansas, as the Spring Robin and the J? TOP",?VnJtn Lt loved flower.
and continued to do so on and off for Spring crocus. The Spring robin is -i'iitf? . Toward evening a young man en-
l . uajs, iaj iuk Ltri lui iti L.-i.
tw.oT in,. that the en-
r,I f CZZr:i :V .V "
tire city was buried two or three feet
deep in soft snow. So anxious were,
the European inhabitants to take full ,
advantage of such an exceptional oc- ;
casion that primitive sleighs were re-
qulsitloned and the sport inauigea in on
the Mount of Olives. Wide World.
The retail clerks of Parsons have
organized a union.
Arkansas City has decided to spend
$6,000 in the erection of a tabernacle.
Newton will take a step toward the
metropolitan class by holding a horse
show.
Probably the assessor will come to
be knows as the dog killer hereafter
in Kansas.
Careful citizens clean no their
grounds at this time of year says the
Winfield Courier by moving the ash
harrel frnm the frnnt tn th hack
yard.
A Kansas editor wants the name of
the state agVlcultuTai T college town
rhiid t ..woh0ff0f," hw.1..o
chanced tn "Wnmsnhuttoft" hecaimn
thirteen of seventeen recently
born
babies in that town are girls.
In appointing Bert Walker to one
of the new boards created by the last
legislature Governor Horisres made i
another "ten strike" with the news -
paper men of the state, of whom none
is more noDular than Walker. Law-
rence Gazette.
j JAYUA WKER JOTS
The Iola Daily Journal, an Indepen- 1 sentence was sufficient punishment. ped closely in a large fur overcoat,
dent Progressive newspaper has made I ! opened the door, and stepped briskly
its appearance. The publisher is Will i Willum Alum White has found the inside.
H. King who went to Iola recently climate oT California very beneficial to I want, he told her in a very
from Nebraska. The Register, for- i his eye sight. He no longer views with Pleasant voice, "some American Beau
mer Praimcsmgn bntt'i no nor haa . " j c-vn ties sent over to the Alcazar theater
hitherto had the field to itself.
The Kansas air ships did not go
up but the company that was to build
them did. The Coffeyville Journal
thus tells the story: A meeting of
creditors of the "Aerial Navigation
company of America" of Girard, will
be held March 25 with a referee in
bankruptcy., Trustees will be appoint- i
ed to take charge of the assets of the
company. Then an effort will be
made to solve the financial puzzles of
the concern. It is not given out what
the approximate assets or liabilities
are. Henry Laurens Call, the inven- ,
tor and promotor, left Girard, where i
the plant and offices of the company j
are,-several montns ago. jau lanoea
in Girard six or seven years ago and
interested ; capitalists in his scheme
which briefly was to form a com
pany, issue stock and sell it. He built
several alleged airships. None of his
machines ever got very high in the
air.
Variety also helps to make excuses
more plausible.
Practice has a reputation of makl.ig
perfect but it can't prove it.
What has become of the o. f. woman
wh0 kePt the tea kettle filled?
Neither is anything as important as a
freshman thinks a Greek letter is.
Bill Bowen: "The way to quit smoking
is to discover a sore on your Hp."
There are so many books no one reads
we suspect some of them aren't worth It.
Jude Johnson: "This is the glorious
time of year when I wish I had an in
come." Link Preston: "I can't smoke without
becoming sick. Am I in luck or out of
luck?"
A man who doesn't care what he says
can't expect others to be greatly exer
cised about It. ,
No one word in our varied vocabulary
has such latitude of meaning as a woman
gives "cute."
It is sometimes said a mother looks as
young as her grown daughter, and there
is more or less other polite fiction.
Ezra Jay: "It's surprising how many
people throw tin cans on their nelghboi"'
premises after the sun has gone down."
Trying to be agreeable to him is one
way to aggravate a grouch, and there are
several others, of which an able-bodied
club is most satisfactory.
Link Preston: "Men who put their poli
tics ahead of their families and their God
are growing fewer all the time. Who says
the world isn't improving?"
QVAKEK MJaITATTON8.
From the Philadelphia Record.
A string of lies has tangled many a
man up.
Many a man who isn't exactly brunt
writes with a stub pen.
A husband in the hand is worth two in
a breach of promise suit.
Blobbs "Henpekke boasts of being a
man who has made his mark." Slobo'
"Yes. and Mrs. Henpekke, makes him
toe it."
Nine-tenths of the women who cry at
weddings have been married themselves.
The trouble with a glrl'B first love afTaii
18 that it is apt to develop into an epi
demic. If you want the world to take you at
your word, own up to having made a
mistake.
It doesn't always take a sweeping as
sertion to throw dust in the other fel
low's eyes,
Silllcus "What do you consider the first
requisite of a good husband? "Cynicus
"A good wife."
The difference between an optimist and
a pessimist is that one believes in mascots
and the other in hoodoos.
Just because you are -standing up for
yourself don't feel that you have to be
treading on somebody else's toes.
FOLNTi.. PVK.VtiK.VPHS.
From the Chicago News.J
The helping hand is seldom empty.
Be good, bu also be good for some
thing. We feel sorry for the hero who is out of
a job.
Nov man is born as free and equal as a
hired girl.
No, Alonzo, you can't always tell a belle
by her rings.
"It's no trouble at all," says a' bill col
lector, "to find people out."
Very few men axe so in love with their
Job that they would refuse a better one.
When saloonkeepers begin to talk tem
perance there is something brewing.
When a young widow gets On a bacn
elor s trail it's only a matter of time.
A' suffragette is a female who is willlnt
to stand up for her rights anywhere, even
in a crowded car.
It sometimes happens that a deaf mute
is not highly educated, but what he knows ,
he has at his fingers ends.
A writer says there are more than 2O.OC0
women in New Tork who are past .5
years of age. No wonder. It is the chorus
girl headquarters.
The Inventor "That machine can do the
work of ten men." Visitor "Gee whiz.
My wife ought to have married it." -Puck.
1" GLOBE SIGHTS
BT THK ATCHISON OLOBB.
UY 1HE WAY
BT HARVEY PARSONS.
Spring- arrived, officially, sometime
vcctfl.datr V.. n..v.!n..l-l nf
lliuuiu III Lilt! M RT1 HOUSe. ana
sn. "
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bank.
But to some the advent of Spring
iB not decided by the robin, the crocus
nor tne caiendar. and in this country,
where bock beer is comparatively un-
i . 1 . . j : 1 ..nc
uZSSSSt the su're'st .igr"
Mm ior,r o- t,j r,artment heard
the story of a "funny" drunk. The
he t f o .'f,m" rimnk The
story, was funny, as told by the sober
narrator, but exaggeration is suspect
ed. So far as we could testify upon
oath, there is no such animal as a
"funny" drunk. If there is, he should
be captured and put on exhibition.
A 15-year-old New Tork kiddo can't
dress on the $12,000 per year of her
allowance, so it has been raised to u,-
000. And with that sum at her com-
mand she may be able to dress in the
1 proper style to captivate some dry-
goods clerk or chauffeur.
The Paris chief of rjolice who served
20 years before he resigned, should
not be so stingy. Thousands or peace
officers in this country would like his
recine fo-staving on the Job more than
reciDe for stavine on the job more than
two years at a time, and he snouia
put it in book form for distribution.
Amos Piffleberger telephoned this
morning to ask whether it was right,
; to hang a Jury. He was instructed
i that while it might be right, it was
tint customary, and that -it was the
I consensus of opinion that a light jail
points' of a Democratic administration
and the good work of a Democratic
legislature. A trip to California might
benefit other Kansas politicians.
When the Biblical patriarch observed
that "all men are liars," he probably
had in mind the fact that the most
truthful of men will lie about the good
time they had on their vacations.
The younger a man, the more he
thinks he knows about women, and it
is just before he reaches man's estate
that he knows it all.
EVENING CHAT
BT RUTS OAKBRO!.
L
Does tl Pay?
LZust I consume my life this little
life,
In guarding against all may make
it less?
It is not worth so much.! it were to
die
Before my hour, to live in dread of
death." Byron.
We were discussing traveling and
the dangers incident thereto the other
evening. . "
"There's one thing I hate to do,"
said the Author-Man, "and that's to
sit on the side of the train toward the
other track. I always go through the
train till I find a seat on the other
side."
"I never thought of that," said the
Wants-to-be-cynic "but I must say I
hate to sleep eight or nine stories up Witn him had ripened into friendship,
in a hotel. I won't go above the j stin she could not say that she was
fourth story if there's another hotel in i happy. This quiet, easy-mannered
town. One night I went to five hotels young man had come into her life like
before I could find a room I'd take." ! the slow budding of old Henri's flow
"I never stayed in a hotel but twice : ers, and she felt that she could never
in my life," said Molly-the-little-sten- forget.
ographer-lady, "and then I was too At times, she could detect a certain
pleased to be there at all to mind tone in his voice, a certain tenderness
what story I was in. But there's one in his eyes, but in a moment it would
thing that always frightens me, and vanish. Always he talked of her, of
that is an elevator. I never get into what she liked, of her ambitions, in
one of those things without expecting his gentle way; never of himself; and
to be killed. When l nave oniy two
or tnree siuuea iu k". a a i . o
"How about you ?" said someone,
turning to the Man-who-thinks, "you
travel a lot, what's your special pre-
cautions ?
"Me?" said the Man-who-thinks, "I
don't believe I have any."
"Aren't you ever afraid of any.
thing?" asked Molly.
"Oh, yes," said the Man-who think.
"I suppose eo, and I -used to have
quite a lot of precautions to follow. In
fact. I used to carry a private lire
nreserver for shiD travel, because id
; , . -, . , . . lit,.
heard that the ordinary kind are like-
IVtTarTof avinv0ou But I fin"
lul rtecfrferl it didn't nav"
ally decided it didn t pay.
o oVd Mnllv
Well. I figured it out this way,"
said the Man-who-thinks. "By fussing
and fretting over these things I was
using up a certain amount of time and
energy that I could never get back.
Of course I might possibly save my life
that way, but the chance was so small
that I thought it didn't pay. It's like
insuring your life at so high a pre
mium that by the laws of probability
you'd pay in twice as much as you'd
ever get out. There's something in
Julius Caesar about it's being better
to die once than every day, and that's
the way I feel about it."
"Oh, I learned that in school," said
Molly. "Isn't this it?
'Cowards die many times before their
deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but
once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have
heard.
It seems to me most strange that men
should fearj
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come, when it will come!" .
"And yet If Caesar had. only been
willing to heed the warning, and take
a precaution or two, he could have
lived twenty years more
Wants-to-be-cynic.
"But he couldn't have been Caesar,'
said the Man-who-thinks.
Bowlegs ana Equatorial Surplus.
At the instance of Senator William
Alden Smith, the president now has
under consideration the question of
whether bowlegs should keep a man
out of the marine corps. Accompanied
by a constituent whose legs will not
conform to the arms of a compass, the
Michigan senator went to the White
House and asked Mr. Taft to make a
p!r" .i JZtm'.l," "1 ,Z.vVt
, . . . . . , .
UUUO VluutAtn v A. uio v-wii m viviik. .-tut.
Ak. A. -. . it- tt urn rlofetnArl Ctanarrtu
he did not wieve his con
stituent should be kept Tit of the ma
rine corps just because of this phys
ical defect. Yet. sorrowfully explained
the senator and hopelessly acquiesced
the constituent, the latter's applica
tion had been turned down. The story
goes that President Taft caused Sena
tor Smith's protege to back up against
the wall in the president's office. Mr.
Taft meanwhile making a mental note
; of the peculiar brand of bowlegs pos-
: sessed by the Michigan applicant. Mr.
Taft, it is reported, also asked several
questions. senator mim consiu.u-
ent said his condition was good: that
he hadn't an Ache or. pain, and that
there Was nO TeaSOn On earth Why he
i Z7 - .
amination was
cs assured that
m.HT- Unnot iL." : . I,
ior omiiu ws assurea
me presiaent wouia take tne matter
under advisement and determine
whether the examining board should
be overruled. Senator Smith ac-
knowledged that he had another con-
stituent who was-in trouble. The lat-
ter naa been given a temporary ap-
nnintment as an aooiatsnt anrrAAn in
the ny. Th undtanmng being
wiLiiin tne next inoiim ne wouiu
reduce his equator one inch. The
President, however, was not appealed
to in the case. New York Tribune.
!
Beryl and the American Beauties.
(By Ronald T. Hughes.)
iNot far from Broadway stood a
quaint little florist's shop. Here,
among a thousand rare flowers from
old Henri's greenhouses, one could
. find Beryl.
Her father, old Henri, in the little
I glass-covered greenhouses at the rear
or the shop, dug, planted, snipped,
and experimented with his flowers
""jw. xne stern laws u
PPtir and demand did not g Interest
nim at all. a bat he left to .Beryl. But,
somehow, no matter what the supply
happened to be. Beryl always found
tne demand,
One evening, in early winter, a thin
mantle of white covered everything,
and a feathery flurry of
snow was
8tm failing. Beryl had just turned
on the lights in the little shop, and
was filling some i&rs with lnns--stem-
; med roses, when a young man, wrap-
Jwf oz en every day until the end of
rr', , - ...
. a Vn T the marble
counter.
I "The name," he added, "is Miss
Joyce Gibson."
Beryl, .behind the counter, jotted
down the order, and gave him a re
celpt and the change.
"Yes, sir," she smiled, "and thank
you."
He was gone. Beryl looked out
after him. "Miss Joyce Gibson," she
repeated. That name is familiar. It
stared at her from every litho
graphed billboard in town. Miss
Joyce Gibson the bright star of the
musical comedy stage. And he was
sending her flowers. With a sigh she
turned back to her work.
On each Monday that followed, he
came with an order for seven boxes
of American Beauties, each box to
contain two dozen, each day a box to
be delivered to Miss Joyce Gibson,
Alcazar theater. Beryl came to look
forward to these calls with a certain
expectancy, of hope mingled with
dread.
At first, he seldom said much. Once
he made some remark about the flow
ers and another time he asked her
what her name was. When she an
swered, "Beryl," he repeated, softly.
"Beryl. How very pretty." All that
week she murmured these words over
and over to herself.
Through the winter Joyce Gibson
held sway at the Alcazar. Broadway
came, saw, marveled. Beryl went to
see her and wondered not that he
should send this dainty creature
American Beauties every day.
Beryl pondered, also, on manv oth
er things. Although her accuaintance
sne couia not Dring nerseil to ques
tion him concerning his world, much
as she would like to.
She could not help but wonder why
he did not order the flowers for more
than one week in advance. She could
associate no other reason for these
visits other - than and yet, - she re
proved herself for hervanity. Still,
couldn't he just as well order them
by telephone, or send some one else?
Beryl was very happy. Her weeks
began and ended with his visits..
Old Henri noted her preoccupied
Ti - ,
i.vuocc, anu ma iiuwtis, ne Anew
fiowers not women.
Then, the dread she felt, the thing
she anticipated, happened. One night
cam- inr than ,.., oi anA
' an order for flowers for three weeks
i " r"
in advance. Beryl looked up at him
quickly.
"Three weeks?" she repeated.
"Yes, three weeks. I am leaving
town tonight, he said,
may not see you again
slowly. "I
for a lone
time BeryL" A flood or color tinged
her neck and cheeks at the soft men-
tio nof her name. She did not an-
ewer. She did not look up.
, ...... jt. v. ..... v .v tv . " J U 1 IV ,
he continued, "I want to see you
again. I hope you will not forget
i me soon." He held out his ungloved
nana. tjooa-oye jseryi, ne said, as.
her timid nalm lingered in his. I
Gna Irnaat tint llAW 1 r n IT aha artnsirl
there looking at the glass door
. . t. v. j T-...i
iiiruug.i WHK.U. u u -out
was all very plain. lo more, for a
long time, he said, would she see him.
No more would she count the days,
one by one, for Monday to come.
Time held no further charm for her.
The days dragged. The routine of
her life, once so full of hope and
1 V.nln Kacomo mnnntnnn.,-
a kn-IV?
a nuoareu
to ner so monotonous.- a nunarea
times she wanted to go to the Al-
cazar theater to see Joyce Gibson, but
THE EVENING S10UY
id thS!"hA.
Que wuju "in . ... . . . . . . - .w w . i
, V. - V. ,
tlllS gill, W 11VJ1I1 1WU UUIC IV M.v
intensely.
Suddenly there came the announce
ment that "America's favorite star"
and her entire company would go on
the road. Beryl watched the papers,
hungrily, for every bit of Information,
hoping to find some reference that
might lead to him. But she found
nothing, until one morning the papers
were filled with the news of Joyce Gib
son's sudden marriage to Mr. Ray
Mitchell, the young Memphis million
aire, who had been following the show
aire, wuv iian j
around the country. It was also
re
ported that, on account of the warm
weather, it being July, the company (
had disbanded. Mr. and Mrs. Ray :
Mitchell were going to spend their
honeymoon in Europe, and wouia stop
ff at New York for a few days before
their departure.
The paper fell from Beryl's nerve
less fingers. When her father came
in she was standing, leaning against
the marble counter, her eyes staring
into space. Her father touched her ,
gently on the shoulder. She looked
at him, then suddenly burst into tears.
old Henri,- unused to the ways of the
weaker sex. sent her unstairs and told
her if h wanton inmhin tn
him. Then, leaving the partition
rlnrtr Mirun thn. .hnn n4 fhA rwrnan
lowara evening a young man en-
, tered the darfceBd sh ft wa8 only
after DOUn(Jjn loudlv tne
aft DOUndln, laiHl1v ' the counter
tnftt n- ,
- "t.ri " V . i " " " T
in tne greennouse. xne old man came , the ca m j 7 : 1
running out in the dark very apolo-, er for them Jvei nvesKte the mat-e-etic
in manner - . themselves. At present there
"Excus? me sir mv mv " he ntat- 1 wide-spread belief that the gas
.x-c"se m.e s,r my my i."? Pfa; I company can. at no unreaar.nar.lo x-
ueu, ua ne turned on tne ugnts, J -
clean forgot to turn on the light. - My
Hle girl Beryl generally attend, to
this , but she is not feeling well to
day, sir " He stopped short.
The young man was sniffing the
air suspiciously.
"Pardon me," he interrupted, a
troubled look on his face, "but isn't
there a ' strong odor of escaping gas
somewhere?" ,
Old Henri's eyes dilated. His face
became a picture of terror. He
bounded un the steps two and three
at a time, across the hall, , and into
Beryl's room, the young man follow -
ing him closely. As the door swung
open, the odor-, of gas became over
powering. Beryl lay on the' bed, as if sleeping,
an envelope clutched tightly in her
hand. The young man quickly threw
open the window and, picked the girl
up in his arms, and - carried her
downstairs.
"Phone for an ambulance, quick,"
he shouted to Henri.
Beryl was taken to the hospital.
All night long old Henri and the
young man waited. Hope, within
them, lingered and died; then flared
up, and lingered again. Finally the
doctors came out.
"She will pull through," one doctor
said
Old Henri and the other wrung the
hands of these two young doctors and . w Xntin p,.ih I V k .
wf!hfg.he 'fiSTSS eveof-h'kln
will have to wait until she awakens - must heartily wish that something
Nurses darted in and out during miKht be done to compel the employ
the long night, and it was not until ers of women whose incomes warrant
the slanting streaks of gray morning it to pay them more libet.illy.
dimmed the electric lights that Beryl t jugt now an investigation is being
awakened. conducted by a committee of the 1111-
Old Henri, in his chair, had dozed nois legislature looking toward the
off, but the young man sat there, betterment of women workers and
waiting, watching. With a bewil- they are getting some interesting ten
dered intake of her breath. Beryl timony. One man, for instance, whose
looked around and saw him. She house earned $7,000,000 profit in 1911,
half arose; and then his arms were testified that $5 a week was enough
around her. Her mind suddenly be- for a girl who lives at home and $8
came
thing.
clear.
She remembered every-
"You
read the letter?" she ques-
tioned.
Every word. Beryl." he breathed,
"and I love vou too. Only you
made one mistake. .1 am not Ray
Mitchell. I was . only Miss Gibson's
manager. The roses were required in
the show." (Copyright, 1913, by the
McClure Newspaper Syndicate.
"PASS IT OX."
If you have an old lead dime, ' '
Pass it on.
Do not' fuss and waste good time.
Pass it on.
You may feel real mean. It 's true.
But in just a week or two
It will come right back to you.
Pass it on.
Cincinnati Inquirer.
If you have a cure for grip,
Pass it on.
Do not let your chances slip,
Pass it on.
Never fear that you '11 forget
The prescription that's your pet;
'Twill drift back to you, you bet!
Pass It on.
Denver Republican.
If your kid says something bright.
Pass it on.
Tell your friends by day and night.
Pass it on.
Tell It loudly on the street
And some day a dad you'll meet
Who the same thing will repeat.
Pass it on.
Allentown Democrat.
If you've got a smile to spare, ,
Pass it on.
It will lighten some one's care,
Pass It on.
It will make the skies more blue,
It will make hearts seem more true,
And it will come back to you.
Pass It on.
Houston Post
Do you know some scandal, friend.
Pass it on.
All creation will attend.
Pass It on.
Whether false or whether true,
'Twill be multiplied by two
When the tale comes back you.
Pass it on.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
HUMOR OF THE DAY
T-o vnlntr r. i o hard winter."
t t f" -r. th ni7a of
the salary I'm getting;" Boston
Transcript.
"What's that you say?" "I say our
ancestors didn't know beans." "Well,
if nrices keep going up, our descend-
ants will become very well acquainted
with them." Louisville Courier-Jour-
; rial. '
j
"Why does Miss Schreecher close
v '
Perhaps,
I don t
uci CjCB in il n " i V- . j . . . p. .j .
she has a tender heart."
quite understand." "Maybe she can't
bear to see how we suffer. Birming-
nam Age-neraiu.
.
Mrs. Willis 1 m arraia tne yuuug
man who married our Emma is very
nam mnn nus." Mr. Willis "HOW SO?
--------- -..Sn writM that their
honeymoon is scarcely costing over
his first ten years' salary." Life. -.
"What I object to," said Mr. Dustin
Stax, "is the fact that you campaign
ffn"f.Tc" U.U , ' tTtrr
emu UH1UBIII J
fund." "How can you say- so." re-
. . , tr.. nmpijar "Von en-
. . . ... -r.retlc worker. "You en
Vse our policies, don't you?" "I
" ..a., w in turn are
any number of
"'1" l....... jw- J
. i , v.af .-r- i , mao nraw in nur in
vor." Washington Star.
"A man may have great conversa
tional abilities, and still have very few
conversational opportunities." "I
know; I'm married myself." Houston
Post.
"I'm a little suspicious of this, it
may be spurious." "What is it?" "A
dealer offers me a portrait of Rem
brandt by Titian." Louisville Courier
JournaL "Ma," said Ethelinda, "is my hat on
straient? roueuui,
"Then It's wrong. It ought to De on
one side of my head and down over
my left eye." Washington Star.
One' of the rules issued by a certain
Balkan power for the guidance or war
nn..a.nnr.i,r,ta Ml-a that SUCh Ter-
' -.:,, -7.7, i-. I labor wouia not do .tne cmii ui or.
'Jrlamm-mnrtl and difficult
" " - l
Punch.
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KANSAS COMMENT
. her. iRSONAL" INVESTIGATION
x nere is so mnrh .itniiuinn in
the. gas testimony coming before the
state utilities commission, so great dif
ference Of Onininn no . ... V. . v.
i vn. m ,;." , "... .ci w.
i?SfNaiu'aJ Ga company can get
f"f5!cieni ?as. PPly the cities it
t "a? lo BUI
mat it would appear wise for
lne commissioners to take & trir to
.pense. secure niniv ... h. i.
i goodVound tlr "thVLf'S
good ground for thin hiif th
people will never be satisfied to pay
an advanced rate unless the commis
sioners do make a thorough investi
gation before ordering the advance.
And 'hHe investigating this matter
It might be well to look into the per
sonnel of the different local gas com
panies. Why is it that the attorneys
of some of these companies are fight
ing the raise and the attorneys of
otners are asking the privilege of ab-
I rogating their contract. ith th. nn
j pie of their cities and raising the
1 rates? Why does .the Leavenworth
?" mP "y ask to raise the rates and
the Topeka company ask that they
remain the same? Why does the at
torney for the Olathe company ask
that the rates be raised and the at
torney for the Atchison company ask
that the request of the Kansas Nat
ural Gas company be refused. Why
does the Wyandotte company demand
the right to pay an increased amount
to the Kansas Natural? There is
something queer about this, something
that needs investigation. Leaven
worth Times.
THE WAGE BILL.
The legislature failed to pass the
minimum wage bill and perhaps it is
as well that it did. Such a law would
"'2" re na?!? "" "
a week for a girl who is entirely de
pendent upon herself.
It is hard to understand why these
women should have such beggarly
1 pay n their employers such princely
"iuuhim. n arouses tne inaignaiion
l those who believe In a aquare deal
But how to apply the remedy? that
is the question. Leavenworth Times
THE HIGH SCHOOL DAY.
There are still a few high schools in
smaller cities that cling to the utterly
discredited single session organization.
Classes assemble at 8 o'clock or a half
hour later and all the pupils are dis
missed at half past 12 or 1. There
never was a greater mistake made by
our school authorities. The single
session high school day is a scheme
that not only wastes half the pupil's
opportunities for learning things
that are useful, but doubles all his
opportunities for acquiring knowl
edge and skill that are detrimental.
High school boys and girls are dis
missed shortly after noon on the the
ory that they will prepare their lessotis
at home. Not 6 per cent of such stu
dents ever do any really serious study
outside of the school room. The aver
age home is not a very good place for
a student to prepare the next day's
work. There is always something for
the girls to do In assisting with the
work. The boys spend on the streets
or in worse places the time that should
be given up to tudy.
The new school administration
hould 3ee to it that a!l students in
the high school stay on the Job until
4 o'clo-ik each school day and the new
city administration should close up
every pool room that allows any school
boy to use a cue before 4: SO or 5.
o'clock. Salina Union.
I ROM OTHER PENS
PENALIZING MOTHERHOOD.
Women teachers in this city may be
wives but not mothers. That is what
the vote of the "progressive" board of
education, refusing to Mrs. Edgell. a
high school teacher, a leave of absence
for the purpose of giving birth to and
caring for a child in its earliest in
fancv. means. This vote does nothing
! for the schools, even if it be conceded
j that a woman who has children of her
own is any less fitted to teach the
children of others.
Married women
teachers-will continue to do the r duty
by their husbands and by society in
SDite of the singular attitude of the
board of education. They will simply
be less honest about the reason for
their absences than Mrs. Edgell has
ripen. The board of education has
,0reiv nut a premium upon deception
and encouraged the partial neglect of
tne Dabies of teachers, who, concealing
t cauBe of their absence, will have
ttie Cause OI tneir a.uem:c, nm un'".
tQ rcturn to their work in the schools
ft bearing children sooner than they
after bearing
nrnuM If the
adopted a more humane policy. The
attitude of the board of education 1
without excuse. If women who are
mothers become inefficient as teachers
they should be dismissed because tney
are Inefficient and not because they are
mothers. There must be no penalty for
motherhood. The law has denied to
the board of education the right to
dismiss women teachers for marrying.
It is time the law denied to it the right
? lB""ZZ'"
alter marriage iur
naVing f"""""' -
tunuy for the legislature. XMew 10m
.
Tribune.
SECRETARY OF LABOR.
Since there is to be a department of
labor and a secretary of labor, a cer
tain -curiosity -arises in the mind as to
the sense in which the congress in
creating the department used or meant
the word "labor." In the usage of
politicians and "labor" leaders "labor ",
means organized labor and no other.
It happens that much the larger part
of the labor of the United States is
unorganized. Will the department of
labor be under the control of and
largely devoted to the interests of or
ganized labor or will it be faithful to
all labor? This question is asked in no
unsympathetic spirit and without pre
judice. The matter is difficult, nearly
as difficult perhaps as if there were a
department of theology to be filled. Mr.
Gompers and his friends will gobble
the department of labor li they can;
cnrl no blame to them. We should say
appointment of a secretary of
tIliL "Hf
New York tiun.
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