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THE TOPEKA DAILY STATE JOURHAC-MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 23, 1913-
3rprba $tnte Journal
By FRANK P. MAC LEXSAJf.
Etered July 1, 1S75. as secand-claas
natter at the post off ice at Topeka, Ka,
rder the act of congress.!
VOLUME3 XXXV No. 137
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to the Republican party when the na
tional committee resigns, calls a con
vention and adopts the Progressive
platform. This Is too easy a compro
mise. We favor this, but would de
mand that Barnes and Penrose also be
compelled to sing 'Onward Christian
Soldiers.' while Dave Mulvane comes
to the mourners' bench to make pub
lic confession of his sins. If that were
done there could be harmony."
HOME SEWJ WHILE AWAY.
Snbwrihers of the State Journal
away from home during the summer
mar have the paper mailed regularly
each day to any address at the rate
of ten eent a week or thirty cents
a month by mail only). Address
rhimmi often as desired, vhi.e
out of town the State Journal will be
to van like a daily letter from home.
Advance payment is requested on
these short time subscriptions, to save
bookkeeping expenses.
Advocates of a safe and sane Fourth,
thou Id take some action pn the
speeches.
It seems to be a difficult task to
convince those Moros that they have
been pacified.
Th aviation season in Wall street
doesn't seem to be starting off auspi
ciously, this season.
After 25 years spent in making
preparations for war, the Kaiser now
is prepared for peace.
A magazine writer estimates that
Colonel Roosevelt is worth $200,000.
But what about those six cents?
The English sparrow as a factor in
reducing the high cost of living has
been long and favorably known to cats.
"Sugar at a Glance," a tariff pam
phlet issued by the sugar trust, like all
fiftinn should be read between the
lines.
It isn't going to be an easy matter
for the sugar lobby, after admitting
that it spends $400,000 a year, to prove
that it doesn't exist.
A Chicago physician declares that
walking is not beneficial. Obviously
good practice, among automobilist
is something worth having.
The much talked about concert of
the powers is not particularly musical.
which may account for the fact that
the Balkan states are not asking for an
encore.
One good thing about the income tax
Is that it will keep in this country some
of the money that has been going
to the titled husbands of American
heiresses.
Rome day, some Judge Is going to
surprise the world and shock the legal
profession by giving a perfectly clear,
elf-interpreting decision in about
twenty words.
Tea King Morse has been made tho
president of a big New Tork corpora
tion. Tet there are ex-convicts who
claim that it is difficult to obtain
good Jobs after being released from
prison.
One by one, old institutions are
passing away. A picture' of Uncle Joe
Cannon has been published without
showing a long, black stogie in his
mouth and Senator Jim Ham Lewis is
talking about cutting off his whiskers.
The Railway Age Gazette concludes
that the supreme court's decision in
the Minnesota rate case has "advanced
the problem of regulation of rates
toward a solution which will not be de
structive of the rights and interests of
railways and which will at the same
time be satisfactory to the public."
While this was not the stock market
conclusion on the day following the de
cision, says the Springfield. Mass., Re
publican, the consensus of opinion In
the long run will sustain It.
THERE MUST BE A WAT.
There are many things doing in the
street railway world that Inspire the
hope that the 'day of better things for
Topeka may come some time. Cleve
land's three-cent fare is such a suc
cess that the company is making big
money and the patrons are saving
$4,000,000 a year.
Acquirement of the system by tha
city is said to be imminent, with two
cent fares and universal transfers
likely.
Detroit has voted by a large major
ity to take over Its lines, which have
been declared by the court a tres
passer on the streets, the private fran
chises having expired. Sn Francisco is
moving ahead steadily with the de
velopment of its municipal system,
and by the time of tha exposition will
have something worth while as a
municipal exhibit not under the main
tent. Chicago has started out ro k
If It can't be shown that it la botn
right and feasible that a fare should
entitle to a seat.
The people of this city have been
so thoroughly aroused by the failure
of the city and the street railway com
pany, to get together on tha matter of
extensions that It is not unlikely that
soma plan will be evolved by which
tha public can get what It wants
and the consideration to which it is
entitled.
The city should find a way or
maka it.
SAVING THE HOGS.
Hog cholera has for many years
been a scourge of the hog raising In
dustry, causing heavier direct losses
than any other animal disease In this
country. The losses tor last year mi
estimated at $60,000,000. In the face pf
a short supply and high prices pf meat
it Is becoming imperative that some'
thine- should be done to check the
ravages of this disease. Armed with
an effective preventive treatment, the
department of agriculture hopes by
means of these experiments to dem
onstrate a method whieh can later be
applied on a large scale throughout the
infected regions, so as to control and
eventually to eradicate hog' cholera and
thus stop the heavy losses and hP
to increase the country's meat sup
ply. Under a special appropriation of
$75,000 made by congress "for demon
strating the best method of prevent
ing and eradicating hog cholera," the
department of agriculture has. under
taken practical experiments In . com
bating this disease. The appropriation
becomes available July 1, and work
will be begun first in Iowa, and will
be taken up later in Indiana, and in one
or two other states. In Iowa the work
will be done in co-operation with the
state veterinarian and the Iowa state
college.
A few years ago the bureau of animal
industry of the department, after years
of experimentation, developed a serum
which has been demonstrated by re
peated tests to be very effective to
preventing hog cholera. . Jn many
states this serum has been prepared
and distributed to farmers with the
result that large sums of money have
been saved to the farmers, but thus
far no systematic effort has been made
to eradicate hog cholera. In the work
which Is now begun the control and
eradication of the disease will be the
main object, the serum being used in
connection with the necessary quaran
tine and educational measures.
nel for vessels will lie within the lake
area, and about nine miles will be
through Culebra cut, and these nine
miles constitute all that can properly
be called a canal, unless the sea ap
proaches at either end be included In
that designation.'
JA YHA WKER JOTS
The county assessor of Norton coun
ty has found out that the people of
his county are worth $318 per capita.
The police arrested the sheriff
down at Hutchinson. Now who will
arrest the coppers should occasion
arise.
Citizens of Robinson captured the
night watchman and then pulled up
all tha hitch racks along the main
street.
Fred on la is about to establish
country club. People living in crowded
cities must have some place to get
fresh air.
They take It hard at Herington
Listen to these two items from the
Times- "Mr. and Mrs. Carl Stenger
are tha parents of a girl." "Mr. Carl
Stenger was on the sick list Satur
day,'
Applying for a position as a re
porter on The Globe a young man
states that he has taken the degree
of B. S. In Journalism, What's that
Atchison Globe. Ask one of your
printers.
When a man tells you that he has
never paid a cent for repairs on his
automobile, don't dispute him. He
may be telling the truth and be able
to prove it by the man that did the
repairing. -Barnard Bee.
A two column article in the Em
porta Gazette pn the passing of the
old Whitley opera house la one of the
finest things appearing recently in
Kansas newspaper, and will appeal to
many an old time resident of the
state, ...
Note, If you please, the wisdom of
our own. William Tost Morgan In re
'raining from making his trip to Bui
garla until the war Is over. William
was not afraid to go while tha war
was on, but desired to show his dis
approval of war by his absence. Mr.
Morgan is particularly strong as
man of peace, a fact he has proved
by waging many a fierce war in order
to secure it. Lawrence Gazette.
&Y THE WAY
BY RARTET PARSONS.
GLOBE SIGHTS
BT THE ATCHISON GLOBE.
pn
The power of judicious advertising
In bringing results again has been ex
emplified. Baltimore offered a loan of
$5,500,000 and had no takers; tightness
of the money market, it was explained
It cut the price to 90 without materially
stimulating the demand. Then Mr.
Grasty, publisher of the Sun, offered to
sell $10,000 worth of the bonds at the
newspaper office, and people poured In
and bought that block and other blocks
until The Sun had sold almost a million
dollars' worth and the city has cut off
the 10 per cent discount.
No longer can there be any doubt
that William Allen White is headed for
the Democrat camp. He declines to
be bound by his chiefs plan for har
mony. Under the caption "Asks Too
Little" he says In his Emporia Gazette:
"Our old army friend. Colonel T.
Roosevelt, with whom we stood so
valiantly a year ago at Armageddon,
has declared that he will go back in-
A BRIDGE OF WATER.
What the engineers of the United
States government are constructing at
Panama is not a canal through the
Isthmus, says a writer In the July
Scribner, but a bridge of water across
and above it. The socalled canal is a
huge water bridge, the first in the
world's history. It is about 34 miles
in length, 87 feet high, with a chan
nel of water through its center varying
in depth from 4 5 to 87 feet and in
width at the bottom from 300 to 1,000
feet. The bridge is divided into two
sections, Qatun lake and Culebra cut.
the latter being an arm of the former.
Access to the bridge by vessels will be
by means of water-elevators, six in
duplicate at either end, each 1,000 feet
long, 110 feet wide, and with a com
bined lift of 87 feet. At the Atlantic
end the elevators are grouped one
above another, like a flight of three
steps. At the Pacific end two pairs of
elevators are grouped at the bottom,
and are separated from the third pair
above by a platform of water in the
form of a lake about a mile and a
half in length. The piers or walls
which hold the bridge in place are the
Gatun dam and elevator gates at the
Atlantic end end the dam and eleva
tor gates at Pedro Miguel at the Pa
cific end.
In constructing the bridge and se
curing a level for its channel it was
necessary to cut a passage through a
mountain range near the Pacific end
and to erect a lower mountain range
or ridge at the Atlantic end. The first
is known as the Culebra cut, and the
second, composed in large part of the
earth and rock taken from the cut and
transported about thirty miles. Is
known as the Gatun dam. A moun
tain had to be moved, not by faith, but
by dynamite, steam-shovels, and rail
way trains, and set up anew thirty
miles away. It was placed across the
lower end of a valley or watershed
comprising 1,320 square miles and will
form in that valley a lake with an
area of 164 square miles, with a depth
varying from 45 to 87 feet, and con
taining 183,000,000,000 cubic
No route is as short as it looks
railroad map.
Think only of yourself and people will
call you thoughtless.
A drunkard's excuse usually Is that
every man lias one or two faults,
It s our theory that the sardine Is bad
enough without putting oil op it.
A hammock Isn't much of a seat unless
there is a gifl in it to sit besides.
Comparatively few women smoke, but
they do more vlsling than the men do.
It must be trying for the haughty caul!
flower to admit kinship to the common
cabbage.
In embarking on the sea of matrimony
a man should expect to row the boat, and
rowing a boat is hard work.
It Is a dull day when the Sports Com
mittee can't think up anything more en
tertaining- than a balloon race. ,
There are several ways of proving that
you are Broad-Minded, but getting soused
or picKiea isn t one or tnem.
When a man arrives home and his wife
screams out, "Peppermints again," a long
argument is going to follow.
One old sport offers odds of eight to
three treat a surprising percentage or
these transparent silk hose have holes In
the toes.
Don't feel too bad If people call you
stingy; the gent who wants a ten cent
free lunch with a single beer rarely be
comes an inebriate.
Possibly the asylums are crowded, which
rnay account for the fact that there are
some on the outside willing to let the
motorcycle go its nest.
To a man plodding alone: the sidewalk
no other void seems so vacant as the un
occupied tonneau of a passlnx motor car.
and, If he is tired it may make him think
bitter thoughts and join the Socialist
party. There are so many other forms of
semsnness that it is an unusual person
who hasn't a few in capltivlty. But the
fact that they may be less conspicuous
man tne one just mentioned shields from
criticism, and may even permit high
standing as a Lovely Character in your
community. But there is no alibi for the
monomotorlst (a word of recent coinage)
which will be generally accepted. He may
have plenty of excuses beyond the one
furnished by the late Mr. Vanderbilt, but
the plebeian pedestrians don't know, and
feel peeved.
QUAKER MEDITATIONS.
From the Philadelphia Record.
It seems that no matter how high he
climbs a man Is never above suspicion.
Many a man gives the devil his due
when he isn't so considerate of his neigh
bors. No man throughly believes In himself
unless he has absolute confidence In his
liver.
A bank account isn't always the best
yardstick with which to measure a man's
value.
A man can do almost as much damage
with a corkscrew as a woman can with a
hatpin.
Nell "Say what you will about Jack,
he's as quick as lightning." Belle- "And
Just about as flashy."
Sillicus "Yes, his sweetheart jilted him
and married another fellow." Cynicus
"1 11 bet he'll be the first to get over It."
Good goods come in small packages, in
spite ot the tact tnat people wno are an
wrapped up in themselves may be pretty
small.
Billy "I suppose it's a good plan for a
girl to keep on the right side of her
chaperon." MUIy "Yes, especially If the
h&peron it deaf In that ear."
"There Is nothing like stacking up
against the world to bring out all there is
in a man," remarked the old traveler.
"Yes especially an ocean voyage," sadly
replied the passenger who was leaning
over the rail.
Did you notice that Saturday was
any longer than any other day?
Neither did we, neither did we.
The Belleville youth who collected
$5 from his best girl's pocket book,
should not be prosecuted for theft.
The charge should be "accepting a i
rebate."
In the divorce suit of Mrs. John
Barry Sears, of Chicago, she charges
her delinquent other half with mak
ing a noise like a piece of blotting
paper. The exact number of drinks
he has taken during the past five
years is 12,000, according to her book
keeping, but she may have trouble in
convincing a Chicago jury that six
armies a day is too many.
,
roresslonal optimists assure us
that there is a place awaiting every
man somewhere, if he can but find it.
And the man who says he gives his
wife all the spending money she wants
should look for his at the head of
the class of local and long-distance
liars.
The .trouble is not so much that
men get hair cuts on Saturday, but
that they take the whole works, from
not towels to hair tonic.
An M. P. railroad advertisement
says the bass are striking on the
White River. First time we knew the
bass had a union.
The attorney general says the Webb
law Is toothless. Maybe it hasn't cut
Its teeth yet; it isn't very old.
As usual, a number of the boobs
who infest the harvest fields, do not
"make a hand." Some of them will
not make two fingers.
"Unsettled" is the most welcome of
weather bulletins these days. It gives
you a chance to hope that the ex
pected change will be an improvement.
Chicago Post has adopted simpli
fied spelling, but begins, modestly,
with but 12 words of it. After the
simplified system has aged suffi
ciently to lose tho tang of fusil oil
and pease reminding one of the Bing
ville Bugle, it may be all right for
newspaper work. But we hope that
the simplification will be governed by
some sort of rules. A number of re
porters have attempted to start the
fad on this sheet, but they refused
to abide by T. R.'s or anybody else's
rules. -
"I have discovered," says Hondo
Murphy, "the best system for remind
ing a stray dog of an important en
gagement in seme other part of town.
My system is highly recommended as
a humane method. It Is- this: take
an ordinary air gun, and fill the bar
rel about half full of shot, topped
with a piece of tissue paper to keep
the load from falling out. Then ap
ply same to Mr. Dog. The overload
prevents the gun from shooting hard
enough to make a dent in the dog,
but to a canine who is accustomed to
being popped wit ha single shot, the
dose is a starter. When the first shot
touches him, he takes, it as a matter
of course, but when about a dozen
others rattle on or around him, he
will merely leak out of that neigh
borhood to think-It oyer." ;
SAYS UNCLE. GA V
POINTED. PARAGRAPHS.
From the Chicago News.
True love talks little and acts foolish.
What the end seat hog lacks Is bristles.
Tak.ng advice is sometimes worse than
giving it.
gh living never qualifies one for the
higher life.
Either take things as they come or turn
your back and let them go.
The meat trust makes the lover of pork
chops bristle with indignation.
Did you ever get nervous prostration
from trying to make others happy? No?
Tii lonesomest woman In the world Is
she who hasn't any old memories to brood
over.
Pity a man who thinks he is doing well
if ho stays on the water wagon between
drinks!
The ancients believed that the world
was square but that was before politics
was ciscovered.
Be kind to the iceman. The ancients
did not natronlze him in the food olri um-
reet ol , mer time, and just look at them today.
awter. This lake, with its Culebra cut! Some people think it queer that we have
arm, is the water bridge of the Isth- IVZZ VEZLS? i FZ&
mus. Twenty-four miles of the Chan- they know before dinner Is half over.
I saw the ghost-man again today
and as usual he left me torn between
disgust and pity. He's a pitiable little
wraith of a fellow who comes and
goes without attracting a great deal
of attention. You never know when
he is at your elbow nor what he
wants there. He has seemingly
brought the art of self effacement
down to a fine point. He was never
known to make a noise or to have an
opinion. He has neither occupation
to take his time nor friends to think
about. He's just a little gray ghost
of a man who flits in from nowhere,
does nothing and goes nowhere.
I believe that I should rather be
beggar or a thief or even a mur
derer than he. There is nothing so
abhorrent as to be nothing. I can
conceive of no being so repellant as
he whose, comings are so silent as not
to be noticed and whose goings are
so unimportant that he is not missed
There is something uncanny and un
natural about those who attain to ap
proximate nonentity.
The biggest part or tne normal man
is his sympathetic relation with his
fellows. That relation necessarily in
volves usefulness and healthy activi
ties. It presupposes a certain amount
f bodily vigor developed by the
proper employment of the functions
f the body. It includes a lively in
terest in the affairs of other men. No
man with these manly characteristics
is ever nonentity. He can't enter a
room without taking some sort of nat
ural notice of him and he can't leave
it without your being aware of the
fact. When he is missing from his
accustomed place, you remark upon
the fact and more than likely you la
ment it. When he comes upon you
uddenly he surprises you, but he
doesn't "give you a turn." But the
ghost men come and go and you take
note of them only when your nerves
tingle or your hair stands upon end
You feel like telling them in all seri
ousness that the graveyard is thirty
five squares beyond and asking them
to be getting along back home.
The ghost men carry effacement to
Its logical conclusion. They succeed
in getting so far away from the nat
ural activities of their fellows as to
suggest that the graves have yawned
There is something weird about them
that doesn't set well with the nerves
of folk who are thoroughly alive and
aggressive. There is something human
still about the battered down-and-out
who has fought his fight and is tak
ing his medicine as best ho may. But
the man who has never mustered
courage to pluck the world by the
sleeve and demand his own, but walks
timidly and apologetically among real
men, belongs to the shadow world,
not to this. He is a wanderer from
the realms of the unreal and should
either buck up and play a man's part
or get back to the shades. Here he
is too much or - the nerves of men
who have things to do. (Copyright.
1913. by the McClure Newspaper Syn
dicate.) -,i lo
in Militant-Ridden London. The Master
of the house: "See here, Mary Ann,
where s my dinner?" The Slavey: "There
ain't a-goln' to be no dinner, if you please,
sir." "What's that! No dinner?" "No,
sir. The missus came 'ome from jail this
afternoon, an' ate up heverything in th
"ouse!" Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
Melvln "Dear, am I the only one you
have sat with in this hammock?" Melvina
"Yea. This ia a new hammock." Judge,
THE FOOTLIGHT STOLE.
How brave, how strong you are.
You children of the stage.
To meet the crisis tense.
To grasp the grilling gauge
Of eager hungry eyes
That look to you for life.
With fairy-touch to gild
The sordineas of strife.
To cover from the sight.
If only for an hour.
The thicket and the thorn.
And show tha roseate flower.
The fairest and the best.
To charm, to win, beguile.
To lift the waiting throng,
And always with a smile!
And yet you fight for life!
For ease, for love, for Joy,
With toil and honest sweat.
To make yourself a toy.
To please, to coax a smile
With homely, honest cheer,
Perchance to stir the heart.
Mayhap to start a tear!
And you, perhaps, tonight.
(Aye, many nights of dread!)
Tou face the pulsing glare
With aching heart and head.
Without a sign of pain.
All radiant the while.
The children of the stage.
Who work, and grieve and smile!
Charles Irvin Junkln in National Mag
azine.
THE EVENING STORY
Playing Lady.
(By Dorothy Douglas.)
Mary Ellen sat upon the knoll at
the foot of her father's tiny garden
and gazed wistfully at the big house
at the top of the hilL Silent and
deserted it stood month after month
In lonely beauty. It was beautiful,
both within and without Mary Ellen
knew that because her parents were
the caretaker and on one never-to-
be-forgotten occasion she had spent
a long day roaming about the stately
Interior.
With Mary's home coming from
boarding school had come the wild
flowers and the scent of spring. She
fell to wondering, with her rounded
chin buried in the palm of her hand.
how any one could keep away so
long from the beautiful home on the
hill.
Mary Ellen was a child of fancy
and out in tha wilds of the country
her dreams held full sway. She was
beautiful, and her hair still hung in
a great copper mass confined only by
a bow of orange ribbon; her eyes were
the flowers, the footlights and the
homage done a great artist were all
embodied there and they were going to
And a new habitation in the person of
Mary Ellen. She only knew that she
was happier than she had ever been
before and that some new strange
power was taking complete possession
oi ner.
She twisted her mass of coppery
hair into a knot and with the aid of
a couple of exquisite amber pins se
cured it at the nape of her neck. Un
consciously her nostrils expanded to
the pungent id or of cosmetics and the
lingering scent of perfumes that the
costumes exhaled.
A few moments later Mary Ellen
sank with a little flutter of breathless
contentment into the big davenport in
the drawing room.
The book she had taken from the
case was a volume of Shakespeare.
While she read that presence again
hovered over her and Mary Ellen's
a reams became pregnant with the in
spirations, the longings and the pow
ers of a great actress. She seemed
vested with the spirit of an artist.
Mary Ellen became lost in the charac
ters of Rosalind, Portia, Ophelia and
Juliet.
After that one perfect hour the srlrl
lived only when she was In the big
house. She stole away quietly even
at dark hours of the night and be
came the ladies of Shakespeare re
hearsing the parts aloud and growing
each day in her power of expression.
Even then Mary Ellen scarcely realiz
ed where her love of fancy was lead
ing her. She did not know that events
were shaping themselves for the ap
pearing of another great actress nor
that the sudden opening of a window
on the ground floor meant the entering
into her life of her great hero.
one was Ophelia that even in a- and
her copper hair hung below her waist
and a tangle of flowers crowned it.
The soft whiteness of her town
brought out the brilliant luster of her
eyes and when young Wlllet Kaye
opened the door of the drawing room
suddenly he fell back.
Mary Ellen did the proper thin
and fell headlong to the floor.
With a bound Kavne was knentlns-
beside her and holding her in his arms.
ie Drushed back the heavy mass of
hair.
You are not a srhost. then?" he said
when she opened her eyes.
iuary Jilien smiled and drew herself
away from the intruder. "No," she
said wistfully, "I was only playing lady
will i nave to ston? I suDDoee vou
are the master."
You will not have to ston anvthina
tnat gives you a moment's pleasure.
KANSAS COMMENT
THE PEOPLE'S SHARES.
Down from the north comes the
news that the supreme court Is up
holding the low rate case. This news,
while it doesn't -mean that the rail
roads have been or are desirous of
hogging the people, comes as good
news to the people, Just the same. The
people are the consumers and time
was when the railroads were special
interests. The roads have not ma
terially suffered from the lower rate
rulings which gave the people a better
living rate.
A great many railway officials said
at the time the lower rates went Into
effect that the railroads would have
to quit business. On the contrary the
railroads have prospered because they
have had more travel.
The country that is, the common
citizens believes that the railways
are perfectly able to make good money
under the lower rates if the roads are
under the proper management. It is
true, the roads have developed a great
amount of country and have been an
untold benefit to civilization. But
they have been paid for it. It was a
remunerative business or the railways
would not have undertaken it. Con
sequently there is no sentiment enter
ing into the case: merely a matter of
reasonableness. The people have gen
erally felt that lower rates were not
coming to them as a Christmas pres
ent but as a Just share of their con
tributions to the business. Ottawa
Herald.
FROM OTHER PENS
wiae ana neavy iiaota ana ner upo Kaye toId her Krrn,v i,n iri wh ' .
were usually curved in a VWJtAnfi
wistful smile.
Why can I not dwell In the big
house?" she questioned herself. "I
would be as quiet as a mouse and
love everything in it."
For a long moment Mary Ellen
pondered
A flush stole into her cheeks and
her eyes became great stars. In the
recess of her faneyfUled brain a
thought, prompted by her love of the
beautiful, grew into mamraotn pro
portion.
Why should I not? ' she whispered
to the wilderness, "No one would
ever know and I can slip away every
day for a few hours.
No sooner was her thought com
plete than Mary Ellen was off
through the woodland path like a
deer. Her light footfall seemed
scarcely to disturb the mossy grass
the Shakespearean actor, and this is
my grandmother's home yes, perhaps
a rn uie master, DUt you
I I am just Mary Ellen." She
paused for a breathless moment while
under the ardent gaze of Kaye; her
neavy nas fluttered down lest he wit
ness the coming of dreams into their
depths (Copyright, 1913, by the Mc
Clure Newspaper Syndicate.)
f
L
EVENING CHAT
Wt ROTA ;akron.
Breaking Down the Barriers.
Each age looks upon the last age's
protest against change as mere sur
face prejudice, but thinks its own pro
tests ftt-A rnntoH :H.n -in tho ii..,r
and when she finished her swift ran I foundations; of thingsi - .1
she stood beneath the balcony win- I Tn tn .. .,f -
dows of the great house on the hill, married woman has managed to break
The rich clusters of honeysuckle down the barriers of prejudice and
seemed to reach down In all their rra- make trnod her rm tr. v.. .nn
grance and draw ner up into tneir to earn her own living in almost every
tiuw eiuwin.1!. i neia or activity.
"Poor, lonely, dear house,' she Rut aithmie-h tvi ,.,ri.,
whispered into the vines and scram- for they are stm up for her mar.
bled into the midst of them. Her ried Bister. The married woman who
footing was firm and when she )s ot satisfied with housework as a
reacnea tne low winaow sno wane f. nn nrnfosalnn , .h.,H..j
her entrance head-first through the today with all the vigor with which
casement. I the unmarried woman who wisher! tn
"Oh-h," gasped Mary Ellen out of enter a profession twntv-fiv vn
pure joy, now uiaiimui a ago ana the girl who wanted to go
papa forgets to lock windows!' She to college twenty-Ave years before
drew a long Dream oi contentment i that were attacked.
while her eyes lingered on the luxuri- a friend of mine, a married woman
ously furnished drawing room which cf about forty-five, who has always
she had entered. Very lightly she detested housework, has recently tak-
trippea across trie veiveiy tarpeu auu en a position as a proofreader and
peered into the halls. I hired a woman to do the housework.
I won't dare have a fire in any of She has two children, a irirl at col-
the grates," sighed Mary Ellen, "be- lege and a boy who works, r It is not
cause papa would see the smoke." necessary for the welfare of either
She went up the wide oak stairway that she should be at home all the
and stood for a moment wondering time. The woman whom she has hired
which of the many boudoirs she to do her housework is a better house-
would visit first. I keeper than she was herself, and costs
Mary Ellen sighed ecstatically and distinctly less than her employer can
clasped her hand in complete happl-1 earn at proofreading. And yet this
ness. Her beauty loving soul was woman has aroused a storm of ad-
satisfied and her fanciful nature ex- verse criticism by her act. I was
panded and found itself longing to talking with one of her critics about
express in some way the wonderful it the other day. "It isn't natural,"
things in life. he said.
Perhaps something within told "Why?" I asked. "She dislikes
Mary Eleln that with her stepping housework and likes proofreading."
over the threshold of those many I "But she ought not to dislike
doors she was also stepping into a 1 housework," he said. "It's woman's
world where her undeveloped dreams
might find expression, consummation.
She was retiring from the material j
vagueness of childhood to the reality
and wonderment of womanhood.
With little snatches of lilting
melody bubbling from her lips, she
natural work. Ever since the world
began man has been the food getter
and woman the food cooker.
"Man must be the food getter and
woman the food cooker." Whenever
I hear that argument, as I often do,
I Just boil; I can't help it, it is so
A BUSK OF FRANKING PRIVILEGE.
The franking privilege is strained to its
utmost when It is used to carry campaign
literature through the mails. When
speeches made in congress are sent free
by post for the Information of voters no
serious objection need be offerer!. Th.
orator represents a part of the community,
and what he says i potentially of interest
hit; tuumry.
But when documents other than mn.
gressional speeches are read in congress,
or their printing at the cost of the govern
ment is ordered with a view to their usa
as campaign literature, it is hardly a
f '"!1" " vi in government printing of
fice or the mails. It may be tolerated,
however, as a nart nf tha ian.t 1; . i i
discussion which is essential to a popular
Even this liberal construction will not
justify the franking of matter prepared
by Interested parties for the purpose of
influencing congressional action through
the creation of public opinion. The frank
ing privilege ought not to be used in the
interest of any person or industry that Is
own benefit 6CUre ,eUlatlon for his or its
The people who are trying ta prevent
T"04?1 of tho dut on suear because
the duty is a source of wealth to them
thnnrient f? "' transmission
iSTugj! the nalls ot lnelr special pleas,
their biased statements and their Jnterl
ft d foments. Senator Lodge saved
them 28 000 by franking the document"
they desired to circulate in the hope .?
hTnnen? sentlmt at home that wSuM
influence congressmen to vote for a duty
on sugar. The people who are trying in
their own pecuniary interest to fasten a
:H V.pon th community have no right to
use the proceeds of taxation for the free
circulation of their literature!. If they are
making money out of the sugar duties,
let them use a part of It In paying postage
on th arguments they wish, to get before
ongressmnand the voters.. , ...
Yeter?n ,n cweRS like Mr. Lodge
ought to have too correct a sense of pro
priety to abuse his franking privilege to
save expense to them. The malls are sup
ported by the people, and the fight for a
' on su,a!' ,s inspired by a private and
not a public Interest. Philadelphia Record
ON THE SPUR
OF THE MOMENT
BT ROY K. MOULTON.
ran lightly from room to room too I childishly one-sided. At the beginning
man went out and killed wild animals
for food. Later he cultivated the
earth. Does the average man do
either today? And would he take
kindly to the thought that he isn't do
ing his duty unless he Is either a
butcher or a farmer? Well, then, if
joyou and excited to remain station
ary for more than a second. Not for
a moment did she fear that entering
another's house might bring punish
ment in its wake. The lonely old
house had for many years beckoned
to her and now she had come, as it
were, into Its waiting arms, in tne the modern division or labor makes it
vividness of her imagination Mary right for a man to earn the money
Ellen believed that the very walls I to pay others to do the actual food
and ceilings were echoing her song. getting, why doesn't it make it right
She peered up the narrow stairway for a woman to earn money to pay
that led to the attic and soon found others to do the actual food - cook-
herself In the tiny turret room that ings?
commanded a view that made even Perhaps you notice I am side-step-Mary
Ellen, child of nature that she ping one phase of the question the
was, draw a breath or admiration. fact that a woman s work as a mother
Great rolling hills stretched far cannot be so easily shifted. That is
away into the .mists of distance and
on every side stately cedars were
garrisoned with their bayonet tips
gleaming in the fresh sunlight. A
pool was dotted here and there.
Once again Mary Ellen felt that
true, but sometimes when I see our
ill-bred American children I wonder
if the English way Is not just as
good. And in any case, that does not
affect the innumerable instances like
the one I have cited. In which the
vague stirring within her. "I want I children's claim does not make work
to sing and dance and cry, all at the I outside the home impossible.
same time," she told that wonderful I think the next age will be an ace
view and turned from it to inspect the j of greater occupational freedom for
big cedar cnest neneatn tne vista m-the married woman, and I don't think
dow-. our home life will seriously suffer.
Whoever leaves mis nouse ior so
long at a time," thought Mary, "has
a most unsuspicious mina. isoiningi
is locked."
She knelt and drew a breath of de
light as she opened the chest. It wasl
filled to the brim with exquisite cos
tumes. Fabrics as dainty as a cob
web were there and Mary Ellen han-
HUMOR OF THE DAY
'I came within an ace of winninsr the
game." "Then why didn't you?" "Be-
caue the other fellow had the ae '
died them all with caressing fingers. I .Baltimore American.
She glanced up quickly from her
new found treasure then back again.
With a quick little gesture of freedom
she flung off the print gown she wore
and delved into the chest for the gown
of sunset gold that she had seen.
Suddenly it seemed to Mary bllen
that the attic room was occupied by
another. She did not know that she
was even then arrayed in the costume
of. a great actress; that the cosmetics,
Teller "I see that Hennepeck has de
veloped Into a free-thinker of late." Grlm
shaw "Yes; his wife has been away from
home for a week." Puck.
It is difficult to run down a lie In either
direction. Judge.
After Kipling.
The man who starts to argue with a wo
man is a fool;
Though he may be right about It; Is al
ways sure to fail.
The man who goes a-shopplng on a festive
bargain day
Carries home what he calls bargains and
for which he's spent much kale.
Then his wife she ridicules him and the
sum he's had to pay.
For the female of the species can buy
cheaper than the male.
The man who drives his meter takes no
chances on the thine
And he doesn't pull off dizzy stunts that
make police turn pale;
But the woman zig-zags here and there
and doesn't care a rilnv. ,
For the female of the species Is more
rei-Kiess man tne male.
How to Live Cheaply.
Dandelion areens are v.rv nntriit.,,.
and sustaining.
One way to reduce the rnt nf !lvln
is to cut out breakfast, also dinner and
supper. Then what you have saved you
can pay to the doctor to build you up
The codfish is not a high-toned bird, but
Its meat will prolong life to a consider
able extent if you can't get anything else.
Let your hair and whiskers grow as
long as they want to; Join the Flying
Rollers and beat the barber shop.
Note a Belated Summer.
The trouble with this section of the
country and the only trouble is that
there Is too much weather and not
enough climate.
When in doubt as to whether to
summon the ice man or the coal man
call both of them.
If you want cold weather to stick
around a long time let the furnace
go out and put up all your screens.
Keep an overcoat at each end of
the line, one at the house and one at
the office.
Signs of the Times. '
Governor William Sulzer of New York
will be the next Democratic nominee for
the presidency-lf they let him do the
nominating.
There Is only one hnchjelnj- !n tha wn.
cabinet and there are three marriageable
"..,.,.1 uiC Vinson lamny.
How fleeting Is Fame. Nobody ever
hears a word about Pauline Wayne the
ex-White House cow, any more.
Colonel Hank Watterson still represents
the untrammeled and uninvited section of
the Democracy.
The reader, we feel sure, will pardon us
It we appear to be slightly pessimistic at
times regarding the general outlook. We
are paying fot a lawn mower on the n
stallment plan, a dollar down and a dol
lar every time the collector catches us.
Pulling dandelions Is, to our notion, no
sort of occupation for a man who tries to
keep all of the ten commandments. Pun
one and the next day you find three in lta
place. Something like swatting flies.
Commencement presents and weddlnir
presents come in the same month. Julius
Caeser didn't know his business. Julius
was the party who invented the calendar
Dr. Cook should get down out of the hall
of fame and give his place to Dr. Fiied
mann. St. Louis Judge had decided that the Ho
ping a poiter is a voluntary act Ihe
Judge evidently has not had much ex
perience with porters.
But the administration will not have ac-
"You look sleepy. Jones. You must have I compllshed its greatest victory until
sen up witn tne sun mis morning. - xes; I makes Col. Watterson take a drink at
been
I was up with him all Bight." Judge,
I gxape juice.